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engineeringprogram is not new1,2. Prince and Felder3 reviewed over a hundred studies addressing theassessment of various teaching strategies and concluded that “inquiry learning” and“problem-based learning” were generally more effective than others. The engineeringeducation literature provides many examples of this type of learning through “hands-on”or “learning-by-doing” projects. In fact many schools have introduced innovative“hands-on” activities and hardware into their freshman courses4-11, their sophomorecourses in mechanics12-20 and thermodynamics21-27 as well as in other engineeringcourses28-35, “non-majors” courses36, 37 and high school courses38-40.We introduced a sophomore design course, including a semester-long, team design, buildand test
Pennsylvania’s Future1 stated that ‘manufacturing remains anessential element of PA’s economy, contributing $64 billion annually to the Gross State Product. Thisis by far the largest share of any sector.’ Governor Rendell’s Manufacturing Work Group publishedadditional findings in which business leaders reported that innovation and workforce investment wereamong the seven most important challenges facing PA manufacturing. The findings of a 2005 NAMSkills Gap2 reinforced previous manufacturing labor shortage reports by stating … ‘90 percent ofrespondents indicated a moderate to severe shortage of qualified skilled production employees. Theseskills shortages are having a widespread impact on manufacturers’ abilities to achieve productionlevels, increase
course, Emerging Trends inECE, which provides general advice about the options available in ECE. Sophomores are alsoassigned a faculty advisor who helps them identify the direction they want to take in theircurriculum. At the end of their sophomore year, they are assigned a faculty mentor in their field Figure 3. A Wiki page for undergraduates to learn about an area of ECE.of interest to give them more specific guidance about course selection and career planning.We are currently implementing a new innovation in student advising, a web-based Wiki area inwhich students will find information about all kinds of options in ECE. Faculty provideinformation about career options as well as what courses students should take if they want
Jersey, 07030 Work telephone: 201-216-5504; E-mail: dmerino@ stevens.edu.Jakob Carnemark, SKANSKA Jakob Carenmark is the head of SKANSKA's Mission Critical Center of Excellance (COE). Jakob developed this team to showcase SKANSKA's expertise in constructing Mission Critical facilities and to share best practices among various regions. Within this CEO team, Jacob leads some of the most creative and innovative minds in the data center construction industry. Mr. Carnemark has a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Virginia, as well as 25 years of experience. His expertise covers all aspects of construction and enables him to provide meaningful and accurate insight to a project. His
, elementary teachers inNew Jersey are receiving professional development in innovative, research-based, science andengineering curricula; classroom-based technical and pedagogical support; and ongoing coachingand mentoring. Two universities, a science center, and a teacher education institution arecollaborating on delivering project services to schools. The program is strengthening the sciencecontent knowledge of 56 Grade 3-5 teachers in six urban districts in northern New Jersey.Preliminary findings from the pre and post tests of experimental group teachers indicate thatparticipants significantly increased their content knowledge in specific life science topics andconcepts involving the engineering design process. A study between the experimental
and the lack of transparency and simplicity were real concerns. 2. Real options is a new economy tool. It did not help the cause that Enron was considered an innovative user of real options. 3. Real options only work for tradable assets. A common objection to options analysis was that it does not work when the underlying asset is not a tradable commodity. 4. Real options discount management realities. Critics said that because real options do not expire like financial options do, managers can not be counted on to abandon a project when they should.Block27 surveyed 1,000 companies to see if they had adopted real options. Of the 279respondents, only 14% were currently using real options. Of the 40 users of real
might include the degree requirement of a project, ‚ the assurance of sufficient enrollment in courses on a regular basis, ‚ the establishment of an equitable reward system for faculty members who advise students or serve on graduate committees, and ‚ the development of certificate option in systems engineering.References 1. Council of Graduate Schools, “NDEA 21: A Renewed Commitment to Graduate Education.” Washington DC, November 2005. 2. Council of Graduate Schools, “Graduate Education: The Backbone of American Competitiveness and Innovation,” Washington DC, April 2007. 3. W. Whiteman and B. Mathews, “Is It Real or Is It Memorex: A Distance Learning Experience,” Proceedings of the
to create computer definition that was fed into the CAD/CAMsystem has been described in the 1989 SME publication2.A more recent technological innovation has made it possible for obtaining the geometrical datadirectly from a real life object by scanning it with a laser beam. Though there are fundamentaldifferences among the 3-D scanners made by different manufacturers, all of them first make Page 13.991.2multiple scans (up to 10 or more) of the solid object from different angles and align them withthe help of a software to produce three dimensional object definition in the computer in a varietyof file formats. One of the most widely acceptable
AC 2008-998: A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ENGINEERING “ECONOMICS”Steve Walter, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne (Eng) Steve earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Physics at the University of Maryland and his Masters and Doctorate in Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder. After graduating, he was hired by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) where he developed new and innovative microwave, millimeter-wave and submillimeter-wave remote sensing systems. In 2000, he joined Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems where he served in a variety of systems engineering and program management roles. In 2006 he moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana to accept the position as the
ISU was awarded a 5 year NSF ADVANCEgrant after three years of planning and preparation. The goal of the NSF ADVANCE program isto increase the participation and advancement of women in academic science and engineeringcareers. This aim of this goal is to contribute to the larger strategic goal of cultivating a world-class, broadly inclusive science and engineering workforce.7 The ADVANCE award to ISU is an“Institutional Transformation” award, rather than a PAID (Partnership for Adaptation,Implementation and Dissemination) award and as such demands an innovative andcomprehensive program for institution-wide change. NSF has awarded ADVANCE grants to 32institutions in three “rounds”, beginning with the first 9 in 2001. An NSF ADVANCE
participation, and project work are summarized in Table 1.Aqua Terra Tech (ATT) is one of several groups in University X’s innovative Enterprise Program(www.enterprise.mtu.edu). ATT works on water projects, simulates a small engineering consultingfirm and provides three years of experience to students, from their sophomore to senior years.The International Sustainable Development Engineering Certificate is a new academic program,which officially started in September 2007. This program requires a flexible set of twenty-twosemester hours of coursework focusing on social, economic, and environmental sustainability andculminating in an international senior design project.International Senior Design (ISD) is a six semester hour sequence that requires design
innovations andapplications of fuel cells in transportation vehicles, biomedicine, and industrial and domesticpower generation. It discusses technologic issues of fuel cells, and presents trends, forecasts andimpact of this technology in areas of energy generation, conservation and the environment.Students are required to complete a design projectHybrid Vehicles Technology and Design: This course imparts the science and technology ofElectric Vehicles (EV) and Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV). It covers the mechanics, power and Page 13.1211.6propulsion of vehicles for terrestrial transportation. It discusses fundamentals and design ofbatteries, fuel
and baccalaureate degree programs. It further makes use ofthe format currently used by ASAC and includes the language from the Sydney and Dublinaccords. The proposal would, as above, modify Criterion 3 and Criterion 5 as follows:Criterion 3. Program OutcomesFor purposes of this section, broadly-defined activities are those that involve a variety ofresources, that could require resolution between competing entities, that involve the use of newprocesses, materials, or techniques in innovative ways, and that require knowledge of standardoperating procedures. Well-defined activities are those that involve limited resources, that couldpossibly require limited resolution, that involve the use of existing processes and materials innew ways, and that
they our best bet, CO-OP opportunities, Employment opportunities, Experiential Learning Programs (ELP), Jobs are still available; High School Initiatives, Recruitment of students - How do we recruit?, How do we get them interested in Technology?, High School Articulations, Hugh users of electronic devices, Career Academy –Career Paths, will they work?10:30 AM - Enrollment and Recruitment Strategies Terry Bartel, Fox Valley Technical College11:15 AM - Engineering Technology and Electronic Programs and courses (Successful Program Initiatives, Alternative Delivery - Hybrid, Blended, On-Line, Innovative Classroom Practice and Teaching Methods, New subjects, new technology, Expansion of Topics, modification
effort by recognizing that“Innovative courses are not easily transportable or transferable. When new faculty are asked totake on these courses, they are more likely to create their own than to pick up on the coursecreated by the pioneers” (Steen, 1999, p. 5). Instead of seeking to create a series of coursesdesigned to be exported to other faculty institutions, our approach focuses on enhancingsubstantive interdisciplinary interaction among faculty and tapping into faculty professional andscholarly interests—areas in which the New Liberal Arts projects often succeeded (Steen, 1999,p. 5).Specifying the Knowledge and Abilities Required to Achieve TL OutcomesThinking about course designs requires specifying the things that a person who has
one each on communications, ethical awareness and teamwork.Additional criteria evaluate the team’s design skills, innovations and overall project results.A set of rubrics for each criteria, identifying how to classify teams on the 5 point Likertscale used, is provided to the judges and discussed with them. Each team is judged by 3-5unique judges for both their presentation and their exhibit, a total of 6-10 judges overall.Each judging group is also lead by a chief judge and asked to confer on their ratings toattempt to reduce inter-rater variances. Finally all judges are asked to attend either a onehour judges orientation briefing and/or use the online judges training system. About 50% ofthe judges each semester have previously judged IPRO
teaching modules for AutoIDtechnologies and their application areas. The result of such an implementation is a powerfuleducational tool that is utilized to support innovative curriculum activities and provide hands-onlaboratory experiments to on-campus and off-campus students. This project not only increasesthe understanding of AutoID technologies and their applications, but also improves students’attitudes about engineering education and enhances their confidence towards the targetedtechnologies. Partial support for this work was provided by the NSF CCLI program.IntroductionThe Auto-ID and RFID technologies are becoming more popular than ever while being led byindustry rather than academia. As a result, a gap between the corporate practices and
: The need for evolution of the recruitment model for women in engineering,” Proc. ASEE Conf., pp. 7003-7013, 2005.4. M. Pickering, E. Ryan, K. Conroy, B. Gravel, and M. Portsmore, “The Benefit of Outreach to Engineering Students,” Proc. ASEE Conf., pp. 1119-1130, 2004.5. S. S. Wilson and E. L. Shoenfelt, “Using Western Kentucky University SWE members in the Recruitment of Middle School Girls,” Proc. ASEE Conf., pp. 15533-15538, 2005.6. J. R. Glover, J. L. Ruchhoeft, J. M. Trenor, S. A. Long, and F. J. Claydon, “Girls Reaching and Demonstrating Excellence (GRADE) Camps: An innovative Recruiting Strategy at the University of Houston to Increase Female Representation in Engineering,” Proc. ASEE Conf., pp. 6889-6897, 2005.7. L
Mellon Science and Georgetown, SC University Engineering 1995 Allegheny Psychology Innovation Director of Inside Manufactures College Major Sales, automated equipment Johnson City, NY to count and fill prescriptions 1995 Cornell Architecture
the air. The machine’s last move is to backaway from the bottle.This idea was again used recently by RadioShack for a media event to market the VexLabs - VexRobotics parts were used to build the original robot. The robot challenge given was: "design arobot which can grab a beverage off a table, open it, and pour it into a glass." The originalconcept for the BottleBot, Built by John V-Neun and Chris Carnevale at Innovation First, Inc.,was a robot which would pick up a can of soda, puncture the side of the can, then funnel the sodainto a waiting glass. This was deemed "not cool enough" and the designers’ final concept wouldgrab a long-neck bottle, pop the top off with an opener, then pour over the top into a glass. Apicture of the improved
, but I dowonder how many good analyses of Martian flight got trashed as “losers” in the process.Engineering professors should reflect on the wisdom of outsourcing student evaluation to theleast thoughtful / most managerially-mobile in industry. Another comment that left a deepimpression on me years ago came from a senior NASA manager, about the AIAA Student PaperCompetition that he had just judged: “Did you see the winner’s presentation? Wow! He lookedJUST LIKE Tom Cruise!” However, the fact remains that national competitions have a veryimportant place in concept development curricula, as long as they are not taken too seriously.A resource for cross-disciplinary thinking and daring innovation in the past decade was theNASA Institute of
, ‚ software architecture and the impact of design decisions, ‚ writing efficient object-oriented code, and ‚ basic algorithm analysis.The course also affords an opportunity to introduce students to the relevant computer scienceliterature, both seminal works and recent innovations, throughout the semester.In this paper, we provide a brief overview of the visibility problem and two competingalgorithms that are commonly used to solve the problem, we detail the course topics andmethodology we have used, and we describe our experience in a pilot course with a small groupof undergraduate students.2. Background Page 13.1019.2Despite the
willrequire a holistic understanding of economic growth and development in terms of the principlesof sustainability. The solutions to societal problems will require that technologies be applied notonly in innovative ways but with consideration of cultural differences, historical perspectives, aswell as legal and economical constraints [1]. Preparing today’s students for the qualities that thefuture engineering professionals will need to possess, further emphasizes the need for multi-disciplinary design experience in undergraduate education. Students completing an engineering technology degree in Youngstown State University’sCollege Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (CSTEM) in Civil & ConstructionEngineering Technology (CCET
just illustrating the mechanics of the solution for a specificoperating point, a number of operating points can be calculated and results displayed in anorganized fashion. Tools such as this can make the instructional process investigative in nature,by addressing what-if scenarios. Visual Basic was chosen as the software to do this developmentwork.Visual learning“Visual learning is an important method for exploiting students’ visual senses to enhancelearning and engage their interest.” 1 Though this reference focuses on underrepresented studentsin the technical fields, the concepts are applicable across the range of the student population.Ref. 1 was part of a special issue of the IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications society on“innovative
. Page 13.166.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Aligning Student Learning, Faculty Development and Engineering Content: A Framework for Strategic Planning of Engineering Instruction and AssessmentAbstractThis paper outlines an innovative framework for modeling and planning engineering educationassessment interventions. The theoretical bases for the framework are primarily derived andintegrated from research methods and findings in several different disciplines - humanengineering, engineering education, human communication sciences and, mathematicalmodeling using statistical and neural network approaches. The framework consists of four keyelements – the task of instruction, the players
its Effect on the Quality of Student Learning”, Innovations in Education and Training International, Vol. 37, no. 4, 2000, pp. 381-389.12. Streveler, R., Geist, M., Ammerman, R., Sulzbach, C., Miller, R., Olds, B., and Nelson, M., “Identifying and Investigating Difficult Concepts in Engineering Mechanics and Electric Circuits”, Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE National Conference, June, 2006.13. Bromage, B.K. and Mayer, R.E., “Quantitative and Qualitative Effects of Repetition on Learning from Technical Text”, Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 78, no. 4, Aug. 1986, pp. 271-78. Page 13.332.8
community.This 6th grade SimCity project was one of a series of engineering lesson modules implementedby a team of two graduate students working in the 5th and 6th grade classrooms at MarthaWashington Elementary School, in west Philadelphia. These GK-12 modules were designed togenerate excitement about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. Theparticipating teachers developed new perspectives on innovative ways of teaching science andmathematics. The graduate student teaching fellows, in turn, learned to meet the challenges of amiddle school classroom and gleaned valuable insight and teaching experience, particularly asthey worked with a student audience much different than their traditional graduate peers. Themiddle school students
necessity. We sought touse these technologies in a new and innovative way such that their necessities could beharvested. This project incorporates a voice recognition system that can control themovements of a battery-powered wheelchair as well as command a GPS unit to map out apath such that the wheelchair may perhaps autonomously navigate itself to a givendestination. This could provide a safe and efficient way for people with excessivedisabilities to navigate with ease.This project consisted of several objectives including designing the voice recognitioncontroller, implementing GPS navigation, as well as incorporating safety features such ascollision detection. All the systems were integrated into one, such that the voicerecognition would control
concept inventory: Development and psychometric analysis,” Journal ofEngineering Education, Oct., 2005, pp. 363-371.3. Kuznetsov, H., 2002, “Technology-based Innovative Teaching Methods”, Proceedings of the 2002 AmericanSociety for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.4. Pollack, M., 2005, “Basic Mechanics: Learning by Teaching – an increase in student motivation (a small scalestudy with Technology Education students), 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference.5. Steif, P.S. and Dantzler, J.A., “A statics concept inventory: Development and psychometric analysis,” Journal of Page