cost in terms of breaking penalties, reducing risks etc. IP will then segment the road into smaller parts so that a trajectory analysis can be done. Suchsegments are as small as <1m and can be as large as 10m depending on the velocity of the vehicle and thestate (merge or straight) of the road. Each of these small segments is analyzed for possible trajectories thatcan be taken based on vehicular kinematics and dynamics (safe turning radius, current direction andspeed). As IP can generate multiple trajectories that satisfy the above conditions, the following criteria areused to select the best trajectory: 1. Obstacle avoidance: Obstacle avoidance is accomplished by ensuring that the minimum width of the car on a trajectory
Engineering Entrepreneurship.Maimuna Begum Kali, Florida International University Maimuna Begum Kali is a Ph.D. candidate in the Engineering and Computing Education program at the School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education (SUCCEED) at Florida International University (FIU). She earned her B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Kali’s research interests center on exploring the experiences of marginalized engineering students, with a particular focus on their hidden identity, mental health, and wellbeing. Her work aims to enhance inclusivity and diversity in engineering education, contributing to the larger body of research in
Paper ID #37566HORIZONTAL PROPULSION USING MODEL ROCKETENGINES (PART B)Huseyin Sarper (Master Lecturer) HUSEYIN SARPER, P.E. is a master lecturer with a joint appointment in the Engineering Fundamentals Division and the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Old Dominion University. Earlier, he was a professor of engineering and the graduate program director at Colorado State University – Pueblo between 1988 and 2014. He was also a regional director of Colorado’s NASA Space Grant Consortium. His degrees, all in industrial engineering and operations research, are from the Pennsylvania State University (BS
historic accreditation-related event occurred during this period. After an intensiveASCE lobbying effort, the ABET Board of Directors voted to remove the prohibition on duallevel accreditation of engineering programs in March 2008. As a result of this policy change andthe implementation of new master’s-level general accreditation criteria, effective in the fall of2008, the alternate path (B + M-ABET & E) has become a viable route to BOK attainment.While new BOK1-compliant accreditation criteria were being finalized and implemented, itbecame apparent that significant updates to BOK1 itself would be required. These revisionswere driven by (1) aspects of the 1st Edition that did not lend themselves to effectivemeasurement and assessment; and (2
homework sets, virtual office hours, Zoom breakout rooms for student project teams,weekly worksheets, open book take-home exams, and real-time problem solving on PDFworksheets or practice exams using the Notability app. Based on student feedback and instructorreflections, the main four recommendations to improve this course going forward would be totransition to (1) synchronous online large group lectures with video recordings made availablefor later review, (2) in-person (when safe) small group recitations / labs, (3) a reduced number ofdifferent types of assignments, and (4) open-book take-home exams. Based on a recent nationalsurvey [23], two other practices that resulted in the most positive impact on student satisfactionnationwide were the
Paper ID #29142Using an Education Ideas Forum to Foster Institutional InnovationStaring from the Grassroots LevelDr. Adeel Khalid, Kennesaw State University Adeel Khalid, Ph.D. Professor Industrial & Systems Engineering Office: 470-578-7241Dr. Tris Utschig, Kennesaw State University Dr. Tristan T. Utschig is Director for Scholarly Teaching in the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) and is Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Kennesaw State University. For- merly, he was Assistant Director for CETL and the Office of Assessment at Georgia Tech, and prior to that was a tenured Associate
provides the engineers. Inof this tool is to assess a measurement instrument and the the provided Fig 5, a L9 format where 3 factors with 3variance that the machine or user produce. This analysis made different levels of those factors were used for analysis.sure that the baseline tests were acceptable prior to conducting Included in the L9 design were also the noise factors, or thosethem. Once the 3D printing team had an acceptable factors that may affect the results but are not the primary focusmeasurement system, the baseline tests could begin. of the study. It can be observed that the 3D printing team For the baseline testing a small sample such as 10 parts believed that the
collection include asking students to self-identify their socioeconomicstatus, or their perception of socioeconomic status7. These self-assessments are prevalent, invarying forms, in research as a contributing measure to an SES composite or as a pure SESmeasure. Researchers often use proxies because students are rarely able to report their householdincome accurately. One approach involves asking students to self-report familial income andthen using that self-report to calculate an approximation of SES40. Other metrics for measuringSES include home zip code, high school, parent or guardian education, neighborhood SES, andstudents’ eligibility for programs such as free or reduced-price school meals7. Parental education,especially the mother's
. Through this workshop, and the continued benchmarking and design analysis effortsof the R&D team, a preliminary design specification sheet has been created and is attached asAppendix A. The Vehicle Research Institute (VRI) exists within the WWU Engineering TechnologyDepartment. Established in 1975 by Dr. Michael Seal, this institution serves as the research arm of theIndustrial Technology - Vehicle Design (IT-VD) program, and provides the base facilities for many ofthe research projects and curricular based activities. At the present time, there are more than (45)vehicles that have been designed and built through this facility, which take on the successive Vikingcar numbers, including the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Baja and
engineering course. The workshop was created at the instructor’s request andwas 1.5 hours long. In addition to specifically demonstrating the engineering databases, theworkshop explained search strategies, and information skills. The students were given 30minutes for the hands-on exercises to use the engineering resources. Tucci’s paper7 discusses theseminar program that all undergraduate chemistry students take from freshman to the senior year.The yearly seminars consist of two, one-hour sessions that cover information literacy, databasesearching, and mentoring. Again this program was initiated by the chemistry professors and thelibrarian was invited to participate. The mentoring for the freshman and sophomore years areconducted by the librarian and
and simultaneously pursued funding to develop lab space thatwould allow students to prototype their designs. In 2017, the Baxter International Foundationfunded a renovation of existing lab space to allow the development of the Baxter Innovation Labon CLC’s Grayslake, Illinois campus.The lab is modeled on MIT's Fab Foundation charter. It provides the space and equipment forindividuals and groups to design and fabricate prototypes (not production) with a variety ofsoftware, tools and equipment including equipment for 2D and 3D CAD design, woodworking,metalworking, electronics, desktop digital fabrication, programming and other skill sets requiredby the modern STEM workforce.A unique aspect of the Baxter Innovation Lab is that it is an open lab
been widely adopted in large STEM courses in recentyears 3 , due to the benefits for both students and instructors, including immediate feedback, onlinecontent integration, as well as reduced grading workloads. The development of computer-basedassignments with automatic grading allows instructors to carry out more frequent testing in theircourses. Educational research indicates that frequent testing leads to better retention thanrehearsal methods like rereading notes or previously solved problems 4;5 . In addition to theretention gained, students require repeated practice in order to achieve skill mastery 1 .At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, we have employed these computer-basedassessments for summative assessment by
they fluctuate? What are the locations of concern (pick at least 2)? o What are the stresses at these locations? What does Mohr’s Circle look like for these locations? What about the σ 1-σ2 plot? o Create a spreadsheet in Excel or program in MATLAB to organize your calculations. All values in the spreadsheet or program must be clearly labeled/commented. Display intermediate results, as well as the final output. o What is the Safety Factor at these locations? Is it being overloaded? o How small could the artifact be if a Safety Factor of 1 was used? • Step 4: (due at end of assignment) Develop conclusions and recommendations
, andtheir assessments of the extent and seriousness of the problem in the computer science discipline.One respondent wrote, “I got a paper to review, looked up some references and found that thepaper in hand was more than half a copy of one of the author’s own references. I wrote this inmy review. There was no PC [program committee] meeting, and I was astonished when thepaper was accepted.”22Another respondent remarked, “I think it’s a problem, yes, but mainly as a symptom of a deeperproblem: the superficiality of the methods used to evaluate academic contribution.” The authorsconcluded with this recommendation: “[W]e should hold ourselves to the same high standards aswe do our students.”22Bretag and Carapiet (2007) examined the frequency of self
project delivery. Recognizing this fact, many public sector organizations offeropportunities for continuing education courses to practicing professionals to expand theirmanagement skills and assist in their development as project managers. This work presents theresults of one agency’s efforts in this regard.This work documents the project management training and the post project management trainingexamination/certification process used by the City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Engineering, avery large Southern California public sector engineering agency. This paper will assess theeffectiveness of the group’s entire training program and the effectiveness of specific trainingmodules and instructors. Conclusions summarize the lessons learned through the
, chemical engineering, electrical engineering,mechanical engineering, and biomedical engineering. Additionally, one participant previouslyearned a master’s degree and another is in a PhD program. These details are not reportedindividually because of the small size of the institution and risk of participants becomingidentifiable. More information about the demographics of the sample can be found in Table 1.Table 1 Pseudonyms with gender identity, racial/ethnic identity, undergraduate graduation year,and years of experience Reported Reported Graduation Years of Pseudonym Gender Race/Ethnicity Year Experience Charlie Man
type of linearleast-squares method to estimate unknown parameters, coefficient vector, of linear regressionequation in Eq. 1, which minimizes the cost function, J(θ ), in Eq. 2. In multiple variableproblems in LR, multicollinearity has to be considered, which indicates the existence of near-linear relationships among the independent variables. When multicollinearity exists among theindependent variable dataset, the prediction of OLS LR may be unbiased, but prediction variancewould be large, and the predicted value would not be a true value. To reduce this type of error, adegree of bias should be added to the regression estimates. Ridge and Lasso are two commonregularized LR by adding a penalty to the cost function. Ridge LR adds penalty
Paper ID #6444First Results with a Virtual Platform for the Renewable Energy TechnologyCoursesDr. Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.) Dr. Radian Belu is Assistant Professor within the Engineering Technology (ET) program - Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA. He is holding the second position as Research Assistant Professor at Desert Research Institute – Renewable Energy Center, Reno, Nevada. Before joining to the Drexel University Dr. Belu hold faculty and research positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada and United States. He also worked for several years in industry as a project manager
implementation are presented. Laboratorymodules, their associated learning outcomes, and the use of MATLAB/Simulink and SDRhardware are described. The paper concludes with lessons learned and future improvementsbased on the initial offering of the course. The complete course materials, including allMATLAB and Simulink software and laboratory guides, are freely available.I. IntroductionAdvances in software-defined radio (SDR) systems has made this technology widely available tothe engineering community. Electrical and computer engineering programs have been thebeneficiary of reduced hardware costs and rapidly maturing software support tools, thus greatlyreducing barriers to using SDR in the undergraduate classroom. Several textbooks aimed atteaching and
Paper ID #42343Teaching Students about Social Entrepreneurship within the Context of SustainabilityDr. Irene B. Mena, University of Pittsburgh Irene B. Mena has a B.S. and M.S. in industrial engineering, and a Ph.D. in engineering education. She has experience teaching programming, design, entrepreneurship, and sustainability topics, and is the Director of the First-Year Engineering Program at the University of Pittsburgh. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Teaching students about social entrepreneurship within the context of sustainabilityThis paper
currently a graduate student in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program at St. Catherine University. Page 22.416.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Daring Young Engineers on the Flying Trapeze: Using Circus Arts to Teach DynamicsIntroductionAnyone who has had the experience of watching a circus, after having studied dynamics, mayhave been struck by the thought that much of the equipment used is, in some ways, very similarto that used in an introductory dynamics class. One can view a flying trapeze as a largependulum, a bungee trapeze as a mass and a
the slide’s body. Illustrating thisadvantage is Figure 3, which contrasts a soon to be forgotten bullet list in the traditional slide onthe left with a much more memorable visual representation on the right (Schreiber 2004). Thetest scores in a large class on the information from this slide support this assertion. Students whosaw the left slide answered a question about that slide correctly only 62 percent of the time asopposed to 91 percent for the students who viewed the right slide (Alley, Schreiber, and Muffo2005). Computations show that the fillet prevents the Results leading edge vortex and delays the passage
own volition then when usingoutside rewards such as grades.8 Many students who worked on the AUV assignment describedin Section 3 commented that they had fun working on the assignment, although they wereactually learning control concepts and looking at simulations as they changed the parameters andvehicles under test.1.2. Proposed MethodThis paper describes an assignment that the students were expected to complete in one to two Page 23.983.3hours in small groups. The assignment illustrates different controls concepts such as waypointnavigation commonly used in unmanned vehicle navigation. The students are more engaged inthe assignment, since
education include the role of gender and immigration status on student progress in engineering education. Her scientific research interest focus on skeletal biology and mechanics, as well as biological and bioderived materials.Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines HEIDI G. LOSHBAUGH is an Assistant Research Professor in the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education at Colorado School of Mines. She is also the Associate Director for CSM's Center for Engineering Education. Dr. Loshbaugh taught in CSM's EPICS program, for which she developed extensive course and faculty-support materials, and designed and implemented a leadership course and overseas summer field session. She
(2008), and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (2011) from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). She currently serves as the Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Program Chair and Collegiate Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics at Virginia Tech. Sara’s research within engineering education has focused on active learning strategies within foundational undergraduate courses, including cooperative, collaborative learning, and problem-based learning. Sara additionally focuses on assessment methods related to accreditation. Outside of pedagogical research, Sara is also active in research related to the biomechanics of human movement, serving as the
continue to increase, and their purchaseprices dramatically decrease, companies and organizations that were early adopters of PV energysources are now often upgrading their sometimes decades-old PV arrays to the newer, higherefficiency PV systems. The installation of these upgraded PV systems often, unfortunately, resultin the older and fully depreciated, but still reasonably functional, PV modules being hastilydisassembled (sometimes destructively), scraped and sent to a landfill. Recently, the AlternativeEnergy Engineering program at Lawrence Technological University (LTU) received donated,scrapped, and older Isofoton I-94/24 PV modules from Masco Corporation, a local industrialpartner of the LTU College of Engineering. In this paper, the
operation and configuration. Simulation modeenables users to view network traffic in a stepped fashion with control over playback. This modealso provides for inspection of the types of data that would be included within packets andframes traversing the network.2.2. Memory requirementOne of the major benefits of PT is that it’s a relatively small program that uses a low amount ofresources. For running PT 6.2, the minimum Random-access memory (RAM) requirement isonly 512 MB, and it is 1 GB for optimal performance [4]. On the contrary, GNS3 requires alarger memory usage since all network components are being emulated and there must be enoughresources to run the program. At least 1 GB RAM will be required to operate the base program[5]. However, this
technical courses provide students with tools to tackletechnical problems. Engineering Ethics students also practice, through individual writtenresponses and small- and large-group discussions, using the GVV tools to speak up appropriatelyand effectively. As students embark on internships and research opportunities, they will thus bebetter prepared to effectively communicate their values.The Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia is so far encouraged bythe initial response to the newly developed ethics course and plans to expand the course offering.Future work includes a more rigorous study of how well the new course prepares students fortheir senior-level ethics courses and their time in the workforce.The GVV modules
area networks (LAN), wide area net- works (WAN), virtual private networks (VPN), routers, firewalls, proxy and related network devices. He is skilled in security assessments of applications and systems using vulnerability testing and risk analysis by not only implementing software fixes (patches) to remve system vulnerabilities, but also provide cyber security-related incident responses through post-event analysis. He is practically oriented and loves to troubleshoot issues and provide neccessary solutions at all times.Dr. Penrose Cofie, Prairie View A&M University Dr. Penrose Cofie is a professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Prairie View A&M University, College of Engineering, Texas. His
methodologies. Upper-level coursespresent unique challenges when introducing new pedagogical strategies, especially when it is thefirst flipped classroom experience for students, which was the case in the first course offeringincluded in this study. Subsequent course offerings occurred after all students had experienced aswitch to online learning due to the pandemic.In this paper, the author shares their approach, experiences, and recommendations for flipping aheat transfer course for seniors in a mechanical engineering program at the University ofEvansville, a regional private university. The initial course offering was the instructor's firstexperience in designing a flipped classroom. It was also the first flipped classroom experience inan