understand Millennial and Generation Z student manufacturing perception whileworking to get students interested in manufacturing careers through coursework, internships, andco-op experiences. The generation divisions are often argued about, but Millennials aregenerally thought of as being born from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s with Generation Zfollowing. Millennials can be defined as those born from 1981 to 1996, with Generation Zfollowing from 1997 on. The results of over five years of questionnaire data shows that a well-designed manufacturing processes course equipped with hands-on labs, plant visits, andmanufacturing job fairs can be effective in changing student’s perception of manufacturing. It isalso shown that campus location may play a
is a professor and associate head in Materials Science and Engineering at Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Ohio State University in 2003. Follow- ing his time as a National Research Council postdoctoral researcher at the Air Force Research Labo- ratory, he joined the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2006. He was a TMS Young Leader International Scholar in 2008, received the NSF/CAREER award in 2009, the Xerox Award for Faculty Research at Illinois in 2011, the AIME Robert Lansing Hardy Award in 2014, co-chaired the 2011 Physical Metallurgy Gordon Research confer- ence, and became a Willett Faculty Scholar at
curricula effectively. Mentorship programs can rely on this basestructure to give students the options and resources to find a mentor that is best suited for theiracademic and research needs.References[1] D. Lopatto, “The Essential Features of Undergraduate Research Faculty Responses,” Counc. Undergrad. Res. Q., no. March, pp. 139–142, 2003.[2] “Mentoring Workshop Series - CEAT - Session 2 - Reading_1996.” .[3] L. Benson et al., “Assessing students’ researcher identity and epistemic cognition,” ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo. Conf. Proc., vol. 2017-June, 2017.[4] J. K. Petrella and A. P. Jung, “2_Research 2008_Benefits,” vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 91–95.[5] T. D. Allen, L. T. Eby, and E. Lentz, “Mentorship behaviors and mentorship quality
400 Newtons of force, have a minimumextension of 2.2 mm, have uniform dimensions, and maximize strength per cost. Students had sixhours spread over two three-hour lab sessions to come up with their final design. Studentsevaluated their prototypes by analyzing the load vs elongation curve obtained from a ASTMD790 three-point bend test.Student handouts for the lab are given in Appendix 2.A sample design produced from this project and its mechanical test results is shown below inFigure 3. a) b)Figure 3: Sample design with a) sketches that were made into prototypes and b) mechanical testresults for each prototype from the materials for a plaster-based composite projectData collection and analysisParticipants were recruited from the first
enrollmenttook place. This is not ideal. As Mathematical Association of America (2010) recommends, it isbest to provide the placement before students enroll in courses. We hope to make thisimprovement in future years.Students were requested to register for the test via a Qualtrics Survey which collectedbackground information, including self-reported AP scores and dual enrollment credits. Studentscould select from 3 testing sessions per day, 5 days per week. They were requested to register fora test time during a particular week following their summer orientation session, but alternativeswere offered to those who needed or preferred to take the test during a different week.WeBWorK [5] was used for the actual online placement test. WeBWorK is an open
College Stephen Strom is a lecturer in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology department of Penn State Behrend, and holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. His career includes over thirty years experience in designing and programming embedded systems and has multiple patents for both hardware designs and software algorithms c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Innovative Laboratory Projects for a Measurements and Instrumentation CourseAbstractA typical Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology program includes a 3-credit upper-division Measurements & Instrumentation course with an embedded
operation... • When an action is repeated and the individual reflects upon it, he or she can make an internal mental construction called a process which the individual can think of as performing the same kind of action, but no longer with the need of external stimuli... • An object is constructed from a process when the individual becomes aware of the process as a totality and realizes that transformations can act on it... • A schema is a ... individuals’ collection of actions, processes, objects, and other schemas which are linked by some general principles to form a framework in individual’s mind...In this theory, every concept can be constructed on different concepts and schemas. For example,if a researcher
Reality: Quantification and Western Society 1250 – 1600. Cambridge University Press, 1997. 2. Dantzig, T. and Mazur, J. Number: The Language of Science. Plume Books, January 30, 2007. 3. Donohue, S.K. and Richards, L.G. A Parent/Teacher ’s Guide to That’s How We Roll: Learning About Linear Motion and Underlying Concepts Using Engineering Design Activities, Virginia Middle School Engineering Education Initiative, University of Virginia, 2014. 4. Donohue, S.K. and Richards, L.G., “FIE 2015 Special Session – Movin’ Along: Investigating Motion and Mechanisms Using Engineering Design Activities,” Proceedings of the 2015 Frontiers in Engineering Conference. 5. Ferguson, E. S. Engineering and the Mind's Eye. MIT
, Savannah State University, “Introducing Kinematics into Robotic Operating Systems”, pg. 39-47, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND INNOVATION | V7, N2, FALL/WINTER 2015[4] Gyroscope M odule 3-Axis L3G4200D (#27911) (n.d.). from https://www.parallax.com/sites/default/files/downloads/27911-Gyroscope-3-Axis-L3G4200D-Guide-v1.1.pdf.[5] rviz (n.d.). Retrieved January 30, 2016, from http://wiki.ros.org/rviz[6] ROS Computation Graph Level (n.d.). Retrieved January 30, 2016, from http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Concepts[7] joint_state_publisher (n.d.). Retrieved January 30, 2016, from http://wiki.ros.org/joint_state_publisher[8] System Architecture (n.d.). Retrieved January 30, 2016, from http://moveit.ros.org/documentation/concepts
folding circumvents the alignment challenges of the pioneeringmicrofluidic battery design by Thom et al. (2012, 2013). This origami battery provides sufficientpower to light a small, surface-mounted light emitting diode. This activity can be completed inunder three hours from an existing origami layout file.The learning objectives of such an activity are to: 1. Explore the connection between molecular structure of paraffin and cellulose paper and their properties of hydrophobicity and capillarity; 2. Use the difference in the chemical potential of metals in galvanic cells to produce electric power; 3. Learn how ionic conduction through electrolytes and a salt bridge can produce an electric current; 4. Discover how wax
Methodology and Statistics from the University of Virginia and is currently the Humana-Sherman-Germany Distinguished Professor at AU. He teachers courses in research methods and program evaluation. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Infusion of Big Data Concepts Across the Undergraduate Computer Science Mathematics and Statistics Curriculum1. IntroductionStored digital data volume is growing exponentially [1]. Today, there are about 4.4 zettabytes (1zettabyte is equivalent to 1021 bytes) of data in the World and it is expected to be about 44zettabytes by 2020 [2, 3]. Society increasingly relies on such data to tell us things about theworld [1]. Recent advances in technology, such
Academy of Engineering (NAE) for ”For innovations in nanomanufacturing with impact in multiple industry sectors”; Society of Manufactur- ing (SME)’s David Dornfeld Blue Sky Manufacturing Idea Award for ”Factories-In-Space”; SME-S.M. Wu Research Implementation Award; three Edison Awards for Innovation; Tibbett Award by the US Small Business Association sponsored by EPA for successful technology transfer; R&D 100 Award, (the ”Os- car” of innovation); Fellowships to the International 1. Academy of Production Engineering (CIRP), 2. the American Society of Materials (ASM), 3. the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), and 4. the Institute of Physics (IoP), London, England; multiple best paper awards
support tool hosted by our institution and is approvedby our Institutional Review Board (IRB) [HUM# 00135376]. The data set is from two semestersof a team-based, project-based introductory engineering course with a total of 118 studentresponses analyzed (N = 118).Introduction and MotivationThere are many examples in the engineering education literature of teamwork being particularlyfraught for women. Specifically, women sometimes end up completing less technical work andmore project management work [1, 2, 3]; they are sometimes spoken over in conversations [4, 5];and they are sometimes evaluated by themselves and their peers according to different standardsthan their peers who are men [6, 7, 8, 9]. All these examples led us to examine how
majors and these include: 1. “cramsorption learning”, where students listen to professors lecturing and then regurgitate the formulas to solve problems in a test, 2. concepts that are not learned through experience but by sitting in a lecture hall, 3. lower grades because of hard courses and hence not qualifying to enter the engineering major, 4. entry level salaries in engineering being lower than other majors such as business, and 5. coursework has a higher difficultly level compared to other majors.So, coupled with the above reasons for dropping out or switching majors and having a small poolof potential students to begin with, it is imperative that state universities increase their retentionrate for greater use
each session, theUnlearning Series student team compiled a list of DEI topics relevant to the built environment bydrawing on their own prior knowledge and participant surveys from past SDEI events. Next, theteam researched each topic through the lens of planners, designers, and builders by seeking outproject case studies and stories of notable individuals in the repositories of professionalorganizations, other academic institutions, firms, and individual practitioners or researchers.Ultimately, the student team selected a minimum of three resources on each DEI topic rangingfrom introductory material to case studies. The time to investigate and thoughtfully select pre-workshop materials for each session was around 3 hours. These resources were
tensors? Or, in mathematical language, how are tensors defined? 2 On this matter,the scientific community is divided into two camps. Many 3–8 understand tensors as things with acertain number of components (measured with respect to a given coordinate basis), whichtransform in a given way under certain coordinate transformations. We will refer to this as thecomponent approach. Others 1,9,10 understand tensors not as sets of components, but as singularobjects with certain geometric properties. This is known as the geometric approach, because itimbues tensors with inherent geometric meaning via the concepts of “space” and “direction.”Historically, these two viewpoints went head-to-head during the mathematical formulation ofrelativity theory, and
externalinstructions. Cognitive development starts with the elementary “applications” as the actions that turn intoprocesses when the learner manages to operate correlated variations. Process turns into object when new actionscan be applied with the existing process. Schema is “more or less coherent collection of objects along with actionswhich the subject can perform on them” ([3]).Pedagogical research on APOS theory applications of functions’ series expansion is limited in the literature([1]). The only research overlap on APOS theory and infinite series concepts’ is the report that describes athree-semester calculus course developed at Purdue University with support from the U.S. National ScienceFoundation. The design of the course was based on APOS theory
topics covered ingrades 5-10, and most, but not all, students were expected to have some level of familiaritywith the topics covered in grades 11-13. Vectors is introduced in the introductory physicscourse, but is not covered in Norwegian high schools, so the students were not expected to befamiliar with these four problems prior to Science I.Table 2: Overview of problems in the mathematics test. Category Type of problem Number of Grade level problems introduced Basic mathematics Numeracy 3 5-10 (15 problems) Measuring 2 Reading tables 2
feasibility of using surveillance video from UAVsfor traffic control and management 3.Project GoalsFor a team of students working on a real life applied project, it is important to clearly define thelong term goals. Following goals are laid out at the beginning of the project. All students thatstart the project are made familiar with these high level goals and objectives of the project. Thereare a number of features that the team wishes the APSS to have.First, the system must be capable of fully autonomous flight. The goal is develop a system wherean SPSU police officer is able to point to a location on a digital SPSU-campus map on a portableelectronic device e.g. laptop or Ipad, and have the rotorcraft based vehicle travel to that physicallocation
on an engineering education project and pre- senting that work and student chapter activities at annual conference. As a faculty member, she regularly publishes and presents at the ASEE Annual Conference. Her interests are in design education and assess- ment in mechanical and biomedical engineering. She previously served ASEE in leadership roles in the ERM and Mechanics Divisions and as a PIC-III Chair. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Observations on student performance and learning outcomes in a class project for materials and manufacturing course1. AbstractCourse related projects have long been widely regarded as critical component of
Cohorts program and other strategies can be implementedat relatively low cost to support the success of the Algebra II students.A Different Approach to Enhance the Success of the Algebra II StudentsTraditionally, students with ACT-MATH sub-score of 19 to 23 and who are placed into AlgebraII in their first semester in college are considered to be under-prepared in science, technology,engineering and mathematics (STEM) studies, and their success as measured by second-yearretention to STEM has been low. [In fall 2015, the ACT-MATH sub-score was revised to 20 to24 for Algebra II.] Summer Bridge2, 3, 4 and Peer5, 6, 7 and Alumni Mentor8 programs have beenimplemented by many engineering schools to support the success of this student population.These
was director of the (Engineers in Technical Humanitarian Opportunities of Service-Learning) for approximately ten years. She has incorporated service-learning projects into her classes and laboratories since she started teaching in 2000. Her research interests include community engaged learning and pedagogy, K-12 outreach, biomaterials and materials testing and analysis. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016Special Interest Section of a Core Mechanical Engineering Course – Biomaterial Emphasis of an Introduction to Materials CourseABSTRACTThe University of Dayton (UD) is part of the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN)which aims to instill the entrepreneurial mindset in
given to the students in the form of a worksheet to be completed during thelaboratory period. The students keep their individual completed worksheets for future referenceand submit a group lab report six days after the lab session. Working in groups to complete themajority of the lab submission encourages students to communicate with their peers and alsoallows them to complete the report in a reasonable amount of time.Figure 2: An example of one of the discussion questions related to Learning Objective 4 that thestudents answer while working in small groups.Figure 3: An example of one of the discussion questions related to Learning Objective 5.Students are also asked to consider the [110] and [111] testing orientations (not shown).To further
discipline. The presentation was designed to highlight therelevant goals of the topic by putting forth the technical information that arose from the research.It employed the use of a power point to highlight the construction process of Devon House using Q c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 PAPER ID: 18690rendered photographs of the 3-D model. The entire session will last for one hour: approximately20 minutes for the presentation, which will also allow for the explanation of what the research isabout and allows any questions on the waiver; 20 minutes for questions, which will be
EngineeringAbstractEngineering students are often given quantitative problems as homework. Problem solvingprovides students opportunities to retrieve knowledge, apply and adjust conceptualunderstanding, and build analytical skills. Because increased motivation has been shown toproduce better learning outcomes [1] - [3], it makes sense to tailor problems to motivate students.Intuitively, adding contextual elements, such as background information, narrative, images, andlocal references, to problems may be one way of motivating students, but investigation in thisarea has been limited [8] - [10]. Therefore, this study surveyed students to gauge theirperceptions of fundamentally identical problems presented either with or without significantcontextual elements. The primary
. We analyzed the transcripts from the focus groups using an inductive approach to codingthe data to the discovered themes.ContextThe project studied students in several engineering courses at a large Midwestern University in theUnited States in the spring of 2023. Courses are designed to have either a No-COIL, COIL, orCOIL+ component. No-COIL classes are structured only to have a short-term faculty-led programwith most of the interactions taking place during the travel program. A COIL course involves afully virtual classroom that collaborates with international partners (in the courses studied, theseare start-up companies). COIL+ courses include technical or service projects throughout the courseprior followed by a short-term faculty-led
(NSF). Nick’s research areas of interest have been Solid Mechanics & Fluid Flow coupling, 3-D Multiphase Flow in an Unsaturated / Saturated Deforming Porous Medium, Wave Propagation & Stress Concentration, and Filamentary Composite Materials. Dr. Safai is a member of several international and national Professional Engineering Organizations such as: American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He has served in various capacities in these societies. He has served for ASEE; as a session chair, reviewer, and as the Division’s Vice Chair for Annual Conference Programs
Session W1Aelectric engine or internal combustion engine, rules about TABLE III VALUES FOR MULTIPLICATION FACTOR ZMtakeoff and landing, and the most notably is about the Zone Minimum distance Maximum distance Factormissions that the model need to complete [11]. to Target to Target value The competition has three stages: Technical Written 1 0 ft 15 ft 1.00Report on the design and construction of the model, Oral 2 15 ft
/graduate courses in Computer Security, Data Mining, VLSI and pedagogy in STEM. Mike is an executive committee member of the IEEE Com- puter Society’s Technical Committee on VLSI, as well as an active member of the IEEE, ASEE, ASTE, among others. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Session W1A Hardening Freshman Engineering Student Soft Skills Andrea C. Burrows and Mike Borowczak The University of Wyoming, andrea.burrows@uwyo.edu, mike.borowczak@uwyo.eduAbstract - This paper, based on pre/post
sophomore level two-coursesequence (required for engineering students in all disciplines) in which the primary learningoutcomes are engineering design and technical communication. These courses are team-taughtby faculty from Engineering and from Communications; specifically, Writing Arts in the fall andPublic Speaking in the spring. Historically, the fall course has featured three major coursedeliverables: (1) a “research sequence” consisting of a rhetorical analysis, an annotatedbibliography, and a literature review, (2) a humanities assignment in which students explore theimpact of technology on societal needs, and (3) laboratory and design reports stemming fromhands-on engineering projects completed in lab.During the summer of 2019, the faculty