, target members because of gender,race, or ethnicity. This work-in-progress paper introduces an organization that recruitsengineering undergraduates based in large part on how well they communicateengineering. Such an organization has inherent value for the discipline of engineering becausethe set of skills needed to excel in writing a technical report or making a technicalpresentation are skills important for succeeding as a graduate student in engineering or asa professional engineer. For instance, creating an excellent technical report orpresentation requires the ability to perform library research, to organize information in alogical manner, and to target an audience. The organization UTREE (Undergraduate Teaching and Research
Session 3560 TC2K Accreditation: An EET Success Story James A. Lookadoo, Steve M. Hefley, Randy Winzer Pittsburg State University Pittsburg, KansasAbstractThis paper outlines the philosophic, policy, and management adjustments of an ElectronicsEngineering Technology (EET) program as it prepared to participate in TAC of ABET’s pilotstudy for outcomes-based assessment (TC2K). These changes included developing a set ofpolicies supporting
ofAerospace Engineering from a design perspective in addition to building skills necessary forsuccess in later required courses. The course met for two 50-minute lectures sessions as well as a110 minute laboratory session each week. Students in the laboratory session were split betweenexperimental facilities using for performing the experiments and computational classrooms tofacilitate data analysis and report writing. In order to enable this simultaneous approach to thelaboratory aspects of the course, four fourth-year students were employed as teaching assistantsfor the course, supported by the Lafayette College Division of Engineering. These instructionalassistant students were instrumental in being available for students seeking
Session 1077 Development of an Integrated System for Design Evaluation Mark R. Rajai, Keith V. Johnson, Robert Matthews East Tennessee State University/ University of LouisvilleAbstractIn this paper, two software packages (AutoCAD and Mannequin) are integrated to create anergonomic CAD system. This developed system will provide designers with a powerful graphicaltool to evaluate their design for human factors and safety criteria. An absence of a truly integratedergonomic CAD system that has been desired by many researchers and designers was themotivating factor behind our efforts. Steps taken to
latesttechnology. The EET program faculty has developed a laboratory called Computer Based VirtualEngineering Laboratory (CBVEL) with funding from the Department of Defense (DOD) whereVI modules for various EET laboratory courses are being developed and tested.SCSU has ongoing evening off-campus course offerings of upper-division courses leading to aBachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering Technology at selected South Carolinatechnical colleges. This program is designed for the employed technical college graduates whopossess an associate degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering Technology and who wish toobtain a four-year degree in the evenings. The EET program faculty is also developing Internetbased VI modules to be used by our off
Session 1526 Ceramic Composites: Integrated Materials and Mechanics Curriculum P. K. Liaw 1 and N. Yu 2 1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-2200, and 2 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-2030The research in ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) is of industrial and national importance. Forexample, continuous fiber reinforced ceramic composites (CFCCs) have been successfullyfabricated by chemical
Session 10-3 The Integration of Hands-On Manufacturing Processes and Applications within Engineering Disciplines George D. Gray Engineering Technology Department Texas Tech University AbstractCurrent engineering graduates are highly knowledgeable within their specific academicdisciplines regarding the application of finite element analysis and parametric solidmodeling software in pursuit of prototyping and simulating theoretical product designs.However, it would appear that many engineering students are not
, Valentin Raz- mov, and Beth Simon. Classroom presenter: a classroom interaction system for active and collaborative learning, 2006. [3] Howard S Barrows. Problem-based learning: An approach to medical education. Springer Publishing Company, 1980. [4] Lemuel Berry Jr. Collaborative learning: A program for improving the retention of minority students., 1991. [5] Alan P. Bowling. Vector Mechanics: A Systematic Approach. Aqualan Press, LLC, first edition, 2015. [6] Kenneth A Bruffee. Sharing our toys: Cooperative learning versus collaborative learning. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 27(1):12–18, 1995. [7] Pierre Dillenbourg et al. Collaborative-learning: Cognitive and computational approaches. Technical report
opportunities to pre-major students. These efforts werespurred by an internal research study that found the following: 1. The percent of women-identifying, first-generation, Pell-eligible, and underserved students declines from pre-major to the major more significantly than their counterparts. 2. There has been a significant decrease in diversity as the programs have become more competitive. 3. Pre-majors, women-identifying, and underserved students report a statistically significant lower sense of belonging than their counterparts [17].Unfortunately, it has recently come to light that students’ experiences in the Engineering &Design department include feelings of exclusion, dismissal, and unease. There is a culture thatdoesn’t
, “Automated Synthesis of Data Paths in Digital Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. CAD-5, No. 3, pp. 379-395, July 1986.8. C. J. Tseng, Behavioral Transformation for Pipeline Synthesis, Proceedings of the Custom Integrated Circuit Conference, June 1991.9. C. J. Tseng, “Clocking Schedule and Writing VHDL Programs for Synthesis,” Proceedings of The 2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Session 1532, June 2004.10. C. J. Tseng and M. F. Aburdene, “Digital Signal Processing and Digital System Design Using Discrete Cosine Transform,” Proceedings of The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, March 2005.11. J. F
technologies. International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, 38(10), 1257-1287. 3. Kruth, J., Leu, M., & Nakagawa, T. (1998). Progress in additive manufacturing and rapid prototyping. CIRP Annals-Manufacturing Technology, 47(2), 525-540. 4. Kothawade, V. E., & Kakade, S. P. (2015). An Overview of Rapid Prototyping Methods. International Journal of Engineering Sciences & Technology, 2(4), 1-4. 5. Petzold, R., Zeilhofer, H., & Kalender, W. (1999). Rapid prototyping technology in medicine—basics and applications. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 23(5), 277-284. 6. Ashley, S. (1995). Rapid prototyping is coming of age. Mechanical Engineering, 117(7), 62. 7. Bryden, D. (2014). CAD and
Session 1309 Biomedical Engineering Redux: Emerging Career Opportunities and Their Implications for Educational Programs Gordon Silverman, Professor and Chair Electrical and Computer Engineering, Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York, U.S.A.I. Background.Biomedical engineering combines engineering expertise with the needs of the medicalcommunity for the enhancement of health care. (1) (2) Working cooperatively with scientists,chemists, and medical professionals, biomedical engineers design and develop devices associatedwith the biological systems of
Session 2147 Increasing Student Interest Through Hardware Ownership Samuel Colwell and Rich Warren Vermont Technical College, Randolph Center, VermontAbstractWith the significant drop in cost of embedded microcontrollers,1, 3 there now exists anopportunity to give every student a trainer that they can take home to work on and can keep at theend of the semester. At Vermont Technical College, one of the courses has been modified toinclude a Microchip PIC16F877 based trainer board. The trainer board comes in kit form (a PCBand components) and the students assemble the board and then use it in
the Past and Present of General Engineering and Engineering Science Programs,” Journal of Engineering Education, 92(3), 217-226 (2003).8. Katehi, L., Banks, K., Diefes-Dux, H., Follman, D., Gaunt, J., Haghighi, K., Imbrie, P. K., Jamieson, L., Montgomery, R., Oakes, W., and Wankat, P., Development of Graduate Programs in Engineering Education, 2004 ASEE National Conference Proceedings, Salt Lake City, UT. (2004).Biographical InformationLINDA P.B. KATEHILinda P.B. Katehi is the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and ComputerEngineering at Purdue University. She earned a BSEE degree from the Technical University of Athens, Greece andMSEE and PhD degrees from the University of California. She is an expert in
, October 1997. http://www.sciam.com/specialissues/1097solidstate/1097hutch.html#authors 2. The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) is fully described in an extensive web site at http://public.itrs.net. 3. L Munukutla, J Robertson & A McHenry, “A Contextual experience model to prepare a high-tech workforce”, International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE), Oslo, Norway, 6-10 August 2001, 7D6/14-17 4. Details of the Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC) can be found at: http://www.matec.org 5. Y Nishi and R Doering, “Handbook of Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology”, Marcel Dekker Inc, NY, 2000
for a consulting firm in Prescott, Arizona specializing in sub-division and commercial site development. Following his graduate studies in 2011, he decided to transition into a construction management role with a Flagstaff, Arizona based general contractor. With a focus in higher education construction, Kai helped deliver several campus projects around northern Arizona as project engineer, estimator and project manager. Most recently, he acted as the CMAR project manager on NAU’s first Net Zero Energy building, the NAU International Pavilion. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Implementing a Virtual
the design and placement of the rear gasfiller cap, filler tube, and fuel tank connections. Such a design was defective because ofwhat would be expected to occur in low speed rear impacts. Page 5.675.4 The test of defectiveness has expanded over the last thirty years, and it is a little moredifficult for a trial lawyer to call a product defective and make the allegation stick. Todaymost trial lawyers analyze a product design from the following viewpoint.1. At the time of the defective design, was an alternative design technically feasible?2. If an alternative design was technically feasible, would it have been economically viable?3. If such an
even thedriest, most quantified technical specifications will nonetheless require subjective judgment inapplication, which suggests that specificity is by no means endemic to the “technicalspecification point of view” in any simple sense. 3 In addition, technical specs, like codes, implythe achievement of consensus around collective interests, interests which we have already shownin this paper to be far from universal in their positive societal effects. But this poster seems alsoto be using the idealized function of the technical protocol as a reason to step back from anyanalysis of fairness or power around sexuality. The social instrumentality of technical protocolsis in all instance nearly impossible to talk about, since the primary aim of
and environmental responsibility, and lifelong learning. 2. Team Players - communicating, planning, coordinating, and managing projects and personnel with efficiency and effectiveness. 3. Problem solvers - learning new concepts, techniques, skills, and tools to aid in analyzing and designing electrical engineering systems. 4. Professionals - trained and competent in the fundamentals of engineering science, applied mathematics, laboratory practice, and principles of electrical engineering.”6 The ATU Engineering courses that specifically address ethics in their technical objectivesare ELEG/MCEG 1012 – Introduction to Engineering, MCEG 2023 – Engineering Materials,MCEG
gain deeperinsight into some of the observations made in earlier studies. Here we summarize our keyobservations from the CBID location.Study MethodObservations took place in three contexts: 1) local collaborative design of CBID designers, 2)remote collaborative design calls, and 3) observation of documents distributed throughbasecamp, described in the next section. Both Helms and Yen participated in all three contextsand were present for all of the local design sessions and more than 90% of the remotecollaborative design calls. Yen actively participated as a designer and as the primary biologist.Helms participated as an observer and to facilitate certain high-level design processes.Local collaborative design for CBID took place on the Georgia
Policy Initiative (NSSPI), Texas A&M University o Research interests include: Nuclear Counter-Terrorism, Nuclear Instrumentation Development, Exercise Development, Radiological Consequence Management, Environmental Health Physics • Defense sector: Roy Elmore, Deputy Division Leader, Department of Defense o Research interests include: Nuclear Nonproliferation, International Safeguards, Nuclear Forensics, Technology, and Policy Integration • NASA: Astronaut Stephen G. Bowen, o First nuclear submarine officer to be selected as an astronaut, veteran of STS- 126,132,133, and logged more than 40 days in seven spacewalksThe students were engaged with our guest
electric light bulb. Design and implement an experiment Lab 3 Absolute zero x A during lab session to predict value of absolute zero. Design and implement an experiment Lab 4 Ideal Gas Law A during lab session to verify Ideal Gas Law. Then use experiment to collect data. Follow procedure and take measurements Lab 5 Refrigeration on
-funded engineering education projects are highlighted in this paper toillustrate the variety of reform-oriented projects supported by NSF as well as evaluation issuesthat challenge the success of these efforts. The projects include: (1) an engineering designcurriculum development project that specified the design expectations for the first two years ofengineering education, (2) a new master’s program in opto-electronics, and (3) an IGERT projectin environmental engineering. Evaluation issues faced by these projects are both technical andnon-technical in nature and are central to useful evaluation work. These issues are not onlypresent in NSF-funded projects but also within engineering programs more generally and thus,the NSF-funded projects
the USB 2.0interface by a variety of software packages such as MATLAB/Simulink. Although initiallyconfigured to work with Windows applications, ADALM-PLUTO also supports OS X andLinux. This allows students to exploit the capabilities of the ADALM-PLUTO on a variety ofhost platforms. Additionally, custom Hardware Description Language (HDL) software may beloaded onto the Xilinx Zynq SoC device. Figure 3 shows the block diagram of the SDRdevelopment environment and an ADALM-PLUTO SDR platform.Since MATLAB is a commonly used tool taught and used since freshman in many electricalengineering curriculum, programming with ADALM-PLUTO is relatively easy. Moreover, thewell-maintained documentation and good technical support community shorten the
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 A Panel Discussion on Off the Record: Untold Stories of Women, Science and EngineeringAbstractWomen throughout history have made groundbreaking contributions to the advancement ofscience and technology, yet many of their stories remain unknown outside of some academiccircles. This session comprises a reading of a work-in-progress and subsequent panel discussionas part of an innovative project to bring some of these amazing stories to the stage. We willpresent dramatic readings of selected draft monologues which will be followed by a paneldiscussion spurred by questions from audience members. This will allow for a true give and takebetween the readers
engineering." Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering. ACM, 2008. (3) Roberts, Jonathan C., et al. "The Explanatory Visualization Framework: An active learning framework for teaching creative computing using explanatory visualizations." IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 24.1 (2018): 791-801. (4) Princy, L., et al. "Effectiveness of Classroom Interactions in Engineering Colleges." Ergonomic Design of Products and Worksystems-21st Century Perspectives of Asia. Springer, Singapore, 2018. 163-175. (5) Arakaki, D. (2017, April), Lecture Videos to Supplement Electromagnetic Classes at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Paper presented at 2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting
of the modern technological society.IntroductionEvidently, the globalizations of the economy, Internet connectivity, and exploding informationtechnology have had a profound impact on modern societies.1, 2 The modern society, and oureveryday lives, are increasingly dependent on scientific and technical innovation.3 Engineering,central to innovation, is dramatically influenced by the rapid changes that are taking place on aglobal scale. There has been much debate in recent years that traditional engineering education,however, does not adequately prepare the new graduates to face the ever-changing demands oftechnological societies. In a survey of engineering employers, conducted by Todd et al.4, thefollowing frequently-cited perceptions of
Tablet PCs as well. In addition, communicating to students how technical skills andusing new technologies are important for jobs or how the Tablet PC is specifically beingemployed in careers they may want to pursue may motivate students to use new and differentfeatures associated with the Tablet PC. Finally, the college plans to increase the training andinformation sessions that are offered to students. Providing training and information sessions toincoming students and their parents might prove useful as students would enter prepared to usethe Tablet PC and parents would also be informed as to the benefits of using such technology toenhance student learning. Improving the infrastructure of the environment to support Tablet PCadoption is also
weeks notice before classes resumed online.Accordingly, most instructors settled for a “quick and dirty” delivery, as they did not have therequired expertise or the time to do otherwise.Three of the authors were responsible for teaching two of our CS courses in Spring 2020: aprogramming intensive CS2-course (with multiple sections and instructors), and anupper-division theory course in formal languages. Course components were updated to support afully online delivery with no F2F activities. Instructors received a training session offered by ourinstitution on how to rapidly convert a course with some F2F components to a fully online mode.All have a CS degree and with an extensive previous teaching experience.We were interested to see how
University. He has also an MBA in Business Administration from Hampton University. He belongs to many professional organizations such as IEEE (Life Senior Member), Chair of the IEEE Life Member Group, Houston, Texas. He is a Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (F.I.A.A.M.). He is ISA (Senior Member), Member of ASEE, SPIE, and Sigma XI, the Scientific Research Society. He has over 38 years’ experience in engineering education, research and development. Dr. Akujuobi has taught as a university faculty and researcher in numerous private and state universities. He was a participant and collaborative member of ANSI T1E1.4 Working Group which has the technical responsibility during the development of T1.413