and Haridas Kumarakuru1 1 Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115 2 Department of Music, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115 3 Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 AbstractTraditional musical instruments are often passed down and taught from generation to generationwithout essential information ever being documented. These instruments may have been in use forhundreds of years, yet if one desired to gain a better understanding of their acoustic properties, theywould be left without crucial resources
was composed of 5undergraduate students and 31 graduate students. No specific demographic information about theparticipants was collected as this study was designated as “Not Regulated” by the institutional reviewboard given its focus is on the broader aspects of the program. Based on general participant feedbackduring sessions, the following themes emerged.Theme #1: Clear, Consistent ExpectationsWith program participants being mostly graduate students and faculty, the program needed to beconducive in fostering high-level thinking. We began the first session by sharing the program’sestablished purpose, desired level of engagement, and the expected outcomes. This gives participants aclear understanding of what was being asked of them and
30.000 5.000 0.645 60 Post-Test 70.000 12.500 1.614 60Figure-1: t-Test Results for Student Knowledge 54.2. Confidence in Using Advaned Manufacuring Modules in ClassIn spring 2021, roughly 95% of the overall survey respondents from Phase I were either juniorsor seniors. Of all the students 45% were enrolled in the BME110 Introduction to Engineering and55% were enrolled in the Phase II course, PHY211 General Physics II, while the intersection ofthe two courses were found to be empty. Overall, Phase I contained a large number of studentswho self-identified as male (62.5%), and offered little diversity in terms of race, ethnicity, ordisability. All students in
theSCOPUS database using the query [“artificial intelligence” OR AI] indicates that annualpublications on AI have increased by almost an order of magnitude from 2004 to 2023. Therelease of ChatGPT by OpenAI in November 2022 and then Google’s release of Bard in March2023, along with other similar chatbots, has resulted in more direct access to AI tools. Despitethe accessibility of tools such as ChatGPT, the use of generative AI is variable among differentpopulations and industries [1, 2].The influence of AI has extended to civil engineering although adoption into professionalpractice appears cautiously slow [3, 4]. Available AI models are well-suited for civil engineeringapplications [3]. In scientific literature, there are many examples of AI and
scholarly application; overall course pass rate must be 80%.” [7]As this process describes, credit is based upon the scope and rigor of the course consideringBloom’s Taxonomy created in 1956 and revised in 2001 [11].For example, the learning objectives of “remembering” or “understanding” generally implyvocational or lower division credit associated with course breadth, whereas “create” or“evaluate” may be more appropriate to upper division courses implying depth in coursecontent. The figure below provides an example of a course review and shows the course topics,content description and credit recommendations.Figure 1: Bloom’s Taxonomy, Vanderbilt University Center for TeachingSource:https://www.google.com/search?q=blooms+taxonomy&rlz
typically discipline-focused,this book provided everyday examples of engineering and business challenges faced when startinga company. It presents excellent lessons about the product realization process, business acumen,and general personnel management practices related to innovation and entrepreneurship. Inaddition to weekly reading assignments, the students completed weekly quizzes (about tenquestions per quiz) per chapter. Also, the students participated in a forum discussion to share whatthey found engrossing in each chapter. When time permitted, the director facilitated readingreflection sessions. However, most of the reflection and discussions occurred at the forum, whereeach student was required to start a thread and comment on (at least
!1processes. This information is becoming more important to consumers and decision-makers in industry, society, and government worldwide. These performancemeasurements have been achieved through development of metrics and methods toconsider use of energy and other material and resource inputs, as well as outputs such asair and water emissions and releases like wastes. A relatively recent component of thisperformance assessment has included consideration of sustainability, which is oftenbroadly defined as the ability of current generations to meet their needs withoutcompromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs [1]. Sustainability hasmore colloquially been defined as the interaction of economic, environmental, and socialfactors
licensure, only 1 of 36 respondent disagreed. Future studies should explore theimpact certification programs are having on engineering professional license.While this work focuses solely on the value of the SOLIDWORKS certification program, similarresearch is needed on other vendor-controlled CAD certifications. Another area to investigatecould include how industry values an applicant who holds a specific CAD certification(s) from aspecific vendor (e.g., SOLIDWORKS) but is applying for a position that uses a different CADsystem (e.g., CREO).LimitationsThe definitions for value and benefit are generally easy to comprehend (see Definitions Section);however, when explored in the context of this study, incorrect assumptions can easily be made.For
to the participants. The center has an established relationship with regional high-techindustry such as GE and Eaton corporation. Because the center is a university-based productdevelopment center that helps industry clients refine existing products, develop new products,and improve business practices, they were able to provide project leads and support for thePBLP4NWD participant teams. The projects sponsored by the regional industry were addressedby the participants while they gain hands-on engineering experience during the two-semestersenior capstone project.To further increase the participant technical knowledge, they were required to study our NuclearPower emphasis, which includes the following courses: 1) ENGR493-01 Special Topics
,the rubrics have been designed to check the “general appearance and shape.” Significantdeviations from the correct answer model are typically found by the TA graders, however, smallmistakes were often overlooked.Maximizing consistency and accuracy is desired to ensure a quality learning experience andfairness across students. Simply having a “correct” volume or mass does not definitively prove apart has the correct shape. For example, Figure 12 shows that for the three advanced modelingparts in assignment four, the volume of the object was often within 1% of the correct answer yetthe shape was still incorrect; volume is only a fair proxy for accuracy. The CSWA examadministered by SOLIDWORKS uses the mass (which is a function of assigning the
differentapproaches to algorithmic evaluation display trends comparable to by-hand assessment by aninstructor. Given that the software used in this work utilized unmodified versions of the basicalgorithms, it might be expected that agreement will improve as the algorithms are modified tobetter detect features most prevalent in diagrams of technological systems. Additional testing isplanned with both engineering students enrolled in an introduction to engineering and non-engineers in a general education engineering literacy course.References: 1. B. Richmond, The ‘Thinking’ in Systems Thinking: Seven Essential Skills. Waltham, MA: Pegasus Communications, 2000. 2. L. B. Sweeney and D. Meadows, The Systems Thinking Playbook. White River Junction
isconsistent with OMB Circular A-110 (OMB Circular, A110). We point out that this definitionprecludes: laboratory notebooks, preliminary analyses, drafts of papers, peer review reports,email communications, and, usually, physical objects and lab specimens.Our presentations also typically include several data management horror-story and retrievalfailure scenarios to illustrate the consequences of poor data management.The instructional sessions begin with a general discussion of the faculty or group’s publicationpatterns and research focus. General principles of knowledge creation, the data lifecycle,publication venue choices, and scholarly metrics are introduced as a means to better integratingdata management and the research workflow. The data
ramifications for continuing professional development for three important reasons.The first is that more rapid employee turnover means organizations need to do more training.The second is that many of the replacement employees have less knowledge and experience thanthe workers they are replacing. This is one of the effects of a tight labor market whereorganizations are finding it increasingly difficult to find qualified workers and are often forced tohire less qualified workers. A third factor is that most organizations do not do a good job ofcapturing the knowledge of employees who are leaving. This is particularly important whenreplacing engineering positions which are often highly technical and generally take longer tobring new hires up to full
University Sustainability Committee charter[2]. 1. United Nations Brundtland Commission recognizes sustainability as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” [1]. 2. University of California Los Angeles recognizes sustainability as “the integration of environmental health, social equity, and economic vitality to create thriving, healthy, diverse, and resilient communities for this generation and generations to come. The practice of sustainability recognizes how these issues are interconnected and requires a systems approach and an acknowledgement of complexity” [2]. 3. The crafted definition of sustainability utilized for the sake of this
engineering programs in part due to high capital investments in facilities couldfurther exacerbate this problem of non-competitive markets in a particular region. Accreditationalso presents another barrier to entry for new engineering programs into the region. Potential research into the area of non-competitive markets in engineering educationcould ask the following questions: 1. How do students think about an absence of competition for where they attend university? Does this affect what they study or which engineering discipline they pursue? 2. How do textbook companies exercise market power in their pricing decisions, and how do potentially high learning resource prices affect student decision-making? 3. Generically, how
implementation project, complete with adetailed UML class diagram, domain model, and corresponding code. Crucial elements such asthe number of classes and types of relationships—be it inheritance, aggregation, or association—can be specified within the prompt, showcasing the versatility of ChatGPT in aiding CS instructors.As an example, consider the following simple prompt:Create a Java project with five classes in a restaurant environment to demonstrate Object OrientedDesign with explicit use of inheritance, aggregation, and dependance. 1) Describe the UML classdiagram. 2) Give the implementation. In response to this prompt, ChatGPT adeptly generates a set of five classes within thecontext of a restaurant, complete with appropriate attributes
, field trips are crucial to fostering the linkbetween classroom learning and practical application. The hands-on experience boosted thelearning process, stimulating interest and leading to questions and answers. However, it could bechallenging to bring petroleum engineering students to the field operations due to logistical andsafety reasons.A computer simulation-generated interactive and immersive experience, virtual reality (VR), hasbecome a breakthrough in STEM [1]. Giving the impression of being physically present in thenon-physical world is made possible through it. The creation of a mechanical device called theSensorama, which offered a multisensory sensation of riding a motorcycle in a three-dimensionalworld, was one of the first
can cost around one million dollars. That said, it isnotorious that only a few commercial applications rely on this mapping strategy.Regarding educational purposes, these commercial TMMS are introduced to students with pointcloud data provided by mapping companies. However, these commercial TMMS are cost-prohibitive for most universities, preventing students from fully exploring this technology interms of configuration, data collection, data processing, and product generation. Based on this,this project presents a service-oriented project-based learning approach to bring the sense ofusing TMMS to the university with low-cost devices.The proposed strategy contemplates developing a cost-sensitive terrestrial mobile mappingsystem (CS-TMMS) to
always been taught in a traditional lecture-based format in our department. The course meets twice aweek, each with a duration of two 50- minutes classes. The class is structured in such a way that typically the first half of each sessionis lecture, and the second half is worktime. Table 1 shows the details of theory topics, practice session and workload associated witheach topic. For every class, students have access to the lecture slides and are provided with a hard copy of the handout. A typical GISclass would start with a theory lecture followed by working on the sample problem along with the instructor. Then the students wouldwork on classwork problems on their own. They also have to complete the homework problems based on the discussion in
amplification of the voices of mi- noritized populations in STEM with the goal of informing disruption of the pervasive systemic inequities found in racialized organizations such as institutions of higher learning. Leveraging the outcomes of this work, Dr. Coley will continue to create exemplars of equity in action across realms of the academic enterprise—lived experience and restorative justice, scholarship generation and metrics, and rewards sys- tems and structures. Dr. Coley recently received the 2021 Diversity and Inclusion Award from the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering for her commitment to creating and fostering a diverse and inclusive en- vironment. Dr. Coley earned her Doctor of Philosophy degree in
: Recap of the Previous Session, Videos. Welcome to the Module which can be answered using the Lesson recording for students Brief Biography of the chat, the microphone, the virtual with connection problems or Facilitator whiteboard, or BB surveys to others. PowerPoint presentation Syllabus verify attention and degree of with concept maps. Bibliography engagement. The development contemplates experience. Generally, a group challenge is carried out synchronously, reflection and application
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spending currently absorbs over17% of GDP, nearly twice the average of the 34 OECD member nations and nearly 1.5 times thenext highest country. While prior research has generated meaningful improvements in healthcare delivery, the vast majority of this activity focuses on improvements in large urban centers,which has placed “rural communities . . . at the margins of the health care quality movement[with] most quality initiatives . . . not directly applicable to rural health care settings.” This workexplores the design of the internship program, the challenges of interprofessional education andapproaching improvement projects in rural healthcare settings, and the benefits the partnerorganizations and students received from the
General Topics Software Requirements – this is concerned with the elicitation, analysis, specification and validation of software requirements. This includes understanding of : The requirements process – How are the activities a. associated with software requirements are organized for 1 different projects and constraints. 8 1 1 b. Methods for eliciting requirements 1 5 4 1 c. Analysis of requirements 1 1 1 2 d. Specifying requirements clearly
andevaluate how these projects provided opportunities for the students to control their own learning.Specifically, these three projects were designed to address the e-KSOs described in Table 1. Table 1: Expanded KEEN Student Outcomes [2] addressed by the three mini-projects. Category Expanded KEEN Student Outcome Project 1l. Take ownership of, and express interest in Curiosity topic/expertise/project 1, 2, 3 2a. Understand the ramifications (technical and non-technical) of design decisions 2 Connections 2b. Identify and evaluate
uppost-processing (Figure 2A). Google Forms also does not generally recognize deleted rows andso would leave a gap with the next entry. Best practice is to not make any edits to the linkedsheet itself, and instead setting up calculations and additional post-processing in separate sheetsor tabs (Figure 2B). For convenience, portions of the responses can be inserted in the new sheetby pasting the needed question titles as column headers, and, for example, using a combinationof formulas such as “offset,” “indirect,” and “match.” Any formatting, such as adjusting fontsize, background colors, or even use of conditional formatting, is best done within the worksheet(Figure 2C).Figure 1: Example from this activity of a Google Form question set up with a
accessibility and inclusivity for DHH students in educational settings with multiplespeakers, such as group discussions or panel presentations. It can also reduce social andcommunication barriers for DHH students in their interactions with classmates and course staff.Our speaker diarization system consists of two components: 1. An embedding component that uses the generalized end-to-end (GE2E) loss [6] to segment the speech data and create a compact representation for each segment. 2. A clustering component called Links, introduced in [7]. This algorithm assigns a speaker label to each speech segment based on its similarity to previous utterances. The label can be either a new one or an existing one. The labels can be either
therole...’’. Their practical advice and input are vital to enhancing the quality of the decisions madeat the different levels of the government, to set efficient public policies. Unfortunately, there arevirtually no engineers or scientists participating in policies and decisions related to thesephenomena. Only non-technical-oriented individuals, who do not possess the required expertiseand knowledge, carry out these tasks [1]. Even though some engineer’s members of organization,such as ASCE, work for government organizations and provide advices to policy makers, they arenot involved in policy related decisions [3]. Accordingly, in the seminal report, ‘’Engineering for a Changing World: A Roadmap forthe Future of Engineering Practice
in contemporary softwareengineering principles, the experimental version of the course incorporated the followingvariations:1. The laboratory project now involves open-source mobile application development;2. The hybrid design methodology (waterfall and XP) is further explored by incorporating two or more development cycles into the project, while additional classroom activities further understanding of connections between the development process and application needs;3. Five active-learning sessions are included to enable reflection on past co-operative education or internship experiences and relate them to classroom learning. The objective of this novel pedagogical strategy, which we call UnLecture, is to bridge the gap between
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