class had both audio and video options. The instructor’s HP tablet had a built in speaker,microphone, webcam, and free-hand drawing/writing capability. The eCompanion is exactly the samecourse shell in eCollege that is used for the online class. See Figure 2 for a snapshot of the main page ofthe eCollege course shell for the database course.The eCompanion of the database class has course material developed by a subject matter expert (SME)for the online DAT604 database class. Tabs shown in the left pane include course outline, instructor’sbio, contact information, university general policies, weekly PowerPoint presentation slides, readingmaterials, assignments, quizzes, midterm exam, final exam, threaded discussions, chat sessions
educational objectives also relates to ABET's Criterion 3 a-k “Program Outcomeand Assessment"1. The relationships are summarized in Table 1. Outcomes Assessment ProcessThe learning objective outcomes are achieved, mainly, through the curriculum. Student activitiesin student professional organizations will augment the curriculum in achieving the statedoutcome. The Accreditation Committee has identified a set of tools to monitor student progressin achieving the outcomes. The assessment instruments fall into three general categories: audits,surveys, and student performance results. Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at
Best Practices of Honor Societies Steve E. Watkins1 and Nancy M. Ostin2 1 Missouri University of Science and Technology Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Rolla, Missouri 65409 USA 2 IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854 USA E-mail: steve.e.watkins@ieee.org and n.ostin@ieee.org Abstract service learning initiatives, and general engagement for Academic honor societies are widely
Session 063 The Challenges Facing Engineering Management Education: The Clash between Training, Education, and Research Mario G. Beruvides, Ph.D., P.E., Terry R. Collins, Ph.D., P.E., Elliot J. Montes, PhD. Industrial Engineering Department Texas Tech University AbstractAll educators involved in technical or scientific education are faced with the age old dilemmabetween simply training students and educating students. This
0.042 0.040 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Treatment 1 Treatment 2 Treatment 3 Treatment 4 Treatment 5 Fiber Surface Treatments Figure 3 Effect of Surface Treatments on Damping of VGCF Nanocomposites Teaching and education activitiesThis project introduced in my teaching activities a lot of technical information and at thesame time enthusiasm to students enrolled in
relevance to theirlives (Brown, 2001). For several years, educators have been worried about the relatively smallnumber of students in general, and girls in particular, who choose science and technology inhigh school and undergraduate programs (Holmegaard et al. in Bamberger 2014). According tothe Georgetown University Center for Education and the Workforce, “For every100 womenwho enter college, 12 will graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in a STEM major, 5 of them will beworking in STEM after 2 years, only 3 of them will still be working in STEM after 10 years(Carnevale, Smith, & Melton, 2014). As the need for females in STEM careers continues therehas been many studies designed to try to pinpoint the reason for the low representation offemales
assignments andexposed them to the economic factors surrounding the assignments, especially factors related tothe governmental permitting process.Introduction“Unlikely Partners” is the name given to a series of experimental faculty collaborations started atRochester Institute of Technology to bring faculty from different disciplines together in theclassroom and see what linkages or insights might arise from the pairings.The collaborations arose from grassroots campus organization, the Creativity and InnovationWorking Group, that included faculty, staff and student representatives from across the Institute(http://www.rit.edu/~ciwg/).1 The Working Group was spear-headed by a faculty member fromthe College of Liberal Arts and started in the Spring of
allotted time and that all comments were captured onto stickynotes and clustered on the corresponding whiteboard (pertaining to discussion question 1, 2, or3). Across the five breakout sessions, we engaged with one staff member and 22 facultymembers (representing roughly one-third of faculty in the department), including teachingfaculty, research faculty, and tenure-track faculty across all existing focus areas as defined by thedepartment (Table 1).4.2 Findings from focus groups In the focus groups, we asked the question: “What are the perceived benefits andconcerns for adding a design PhD research focus area?” Overall, we received strong supportfrom faculty members across the department to develop a specific design focus area, with onlyone
printed on single sheets of paper, that when cut out andassembled, would create of a simple solid. After each teacher constructed his or her net, each drew thesolid in Pro-E. A screen shot of the solid is show in the figure below.Verbal feedback of the tutorial session was generally positive, although some teachers struggled with themechanics of the software as more advanced features such as rendering were introduced. Still theexercise provided an excellent connection between grade level and grade span expectations for theteachers and was completely adaptable to an individual teacher’s lesson plan.Although conceived of as an exercise for use in their classrooms, the major result of presenting thetutorials proved to be a means for establishing a
printed on single sheets of paper, that when cut out andassembled, would create of a simple solid. After each teacher constructed his or her net, each drew thesolid in Pro-E. A screen shot of the solid is show in the figure below.Verbal feedback of the tutorial session was generally positive, although some teachers struggled with themechanics of the software as more advanced features such as rendering were introduced. Still theexercise provided an excellent connection between grade level and grade span expectations for theteachers and was completely adaptable to an individual teacher’s lesson plan.Although conceived of as an exercise for use in their classrooms, the major result of presenting thetutorials proved to be a means for establishing a
printed on single sheets of paper, that when cut out andassembled, would create of a simple solid. After each teacher constructed his or her net, each drew thesolid in Pro-E. A screen shot of the solid is show in the figure below.Verbal feedback of the tutorial session was generally positive, although some teachers struggled with themechanics of the software as more advanced features such as rendering were introduced. Still theexercise provided an excellent connection between grade level and grade span expectations for theteachers and was completely adaptable to an individual teacher’s lesson plan.Although conceived of as an exercise for use in their classrooms, the major result of presenting thetutorials proved to be a means for establishing a
, Backward design, STEM, Construction, Pedagogy.IntroductionUndergraduate courses in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) are mostly taughtusing traditional teaching methods (teacher-centered). Despite traditional teaching methodsexcelling in tackling large bodies of content, undergraduate students graduate with a lack intechnical skills needed for professional growth and success [1]. This gap in technical skills can bereduced by altering the pedagogical approach. Active learning pedagogy has been proven toincrease student performance [2], [3], [4].Active learning refers to the employment of techniques that give the students the opportunity towork together in a small group setting using class activities that are relevant to the course
including theASEE, ANS, ASME, IEEE, ACM, AAAI, and SIAM. He has been active in professional society 8activities as technical session organizer, conference co-organizer, and reviewer. His professionalexperience also includes consulting services for industrial and government agencies. He holds a Ph.D. inNuclear Engineering and a B.S. in Mathematics both from the Oregon State University.Dr. Nassersharif has been an active participant in NSF Advance program both at New Mexico StateUniversity and at the University of Rhode Island. He is the recipient of an NSF Advance recognitionaward from New Mexico State University and currently serves on the NSF Advance Internal AdvisoryCouncil at the University of
including theASEE, ANS, ASME, IEEE, ACM, AAAI, and SIAM. He has been active in professional society 8activities as technical session organizer, conference co-organizer, and reviewer. His professionalexperience also includes consulting services for industrial and government agencies. He holds a Ph.D. inNuclear Engineering and a B.S. in Mathematics both from the Oregon State University.Dr. Nassersharif has been an active participant in NSF Advance program both at New Mexico StateUniversity and at the University of Rhode Island. He is the recipient of an NSF Advance recognitionaward from New Mexico State University and currently serves on the NSF Advance Internal AdvisoryCouncil at the University of
including theASEE, ANS, ASME, IEEE, ACM, AAAI, and SIAM. He has been active in professional society 8activities as technical session organizer, conference co-organizer, and reviewer. His professionalexperience also includes consulting services for industrial and government agencies. He holds a Ph.D. inNuclear Engineering and a B.S. in Mathematics both from the Oregon State University.Dr. Nassersharif has been an active participant in NSF Advance program both at New Mexico StateUniversity and at the University of Rhode Island. He is the recipient of an NSF Advance recognitionaward from New Mexico State University and currently serves on the NSF Advance Internal AdvisoryCouncil at the University of
led by a teaching assistant. Due to the relatively small size of the summer offering, lessthan 50, the discussion session was combined with the regular lectures. Given the nature oflecture time in the flipped format (which is closer to a discussion hour than a traditional lecture),this simply added to the instructor contact hour and thus may have reinforced the notion of `extrawork’ often associated with the flipped class room (extra work for students and instructor).The key component of the flipped format is that the class time is turned into 1/3 review of themost difficult to comprehend lecture segments, 1/3 question and answer, and 1/3 setting up andbreaking down of the homework assignments. While the online material was common betweenthe
% MatE Civil 22% 14% EE Computer ISE 17% 3% 2% General 10%Figure 1: Majors of 59 San José State University students enrolled in Engr 102 from Fall 2008to Fall 2010. Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education
processes whose form and function achieve clients’ objectivesor users’ needs while satisfying a specified set of constraints.” 1 Computer-aided engineering (CAE)software packages such as Pro/Engineer (Pro/E) 2 are among the modern engineering tools available toassist engineers to generate and evaluate their designs.In this paper, we begin in the Introduction with a description of the mechanical engineering curriculumat Binghamton University. The process that we have developed in the department for continuousimprovement (Departmental Course Review Process and ABET Accreditation) will be presented next.Following this will be a description of the CAE course and how it fits into the overall departmentalreview process.In the second section, the
processes whose form and function achieve clients’ objectivesor users’ needs while satisfying a specified set of constraints.” 1 Computer-aided engineering (CAE)software packages such as Pro/Engineer (Pro/E) 2 are among the modern engineering tools available toassist engineers to generate and evaluate their designs.In this paper, we begin in the Introduction with a description of the mechanical engineering curriculumat Binghamton University. The process that we have developed in the department for continuousimprovement (Departmental Course Review Process and ABET Accreditation) will be presented next.Following this will be a description of the CAE course and how it fits into the overall departmentalreview process.In the second section, the
hunger, safety, shelter, with future indications of conditions becoming sustainable then spare energiesmay be devoted to exploration, art, and development of greater survival skills and prosperity. In parallel with theorganizational evolution of families, tribes and social structures there will be training and transmission of customs.Learning and skills development would be accompanied by varieties of ‘rites of passage.’ There would behierarchies of priests, shaman and other levels of highly regarded instructors [1]. Learning was achieved byfollowing examples and likely repeated replication.In particular, whether we follow the examples illustrated by the discoveries in the tombs of Egypt, or in the librariesof the Vatican, the monasteries across
or failure of a project will impact the engineer’s future joband projects. These trajectories can be seen in Figure 3. In undergraduate engineeringcoursework, many technical courses are linked together sequentially throughout consecutivesemesters. For example, it is common for a student to take a linear progression of mathematicalcourses starting with Calculus 1, followed by Calculus 2, then Calculus 3, next Linear Algebra,and lastly Differential Equations. This example is shown in Figure 3 as well. These sequentialcourses build upon one another conceptually, and students can smoothly transition from onecourse to the next throughout their degree. This sequence of courses is very common for thetechnical-based courses, but not for the design
. Sustainable Energy Choosing Among Options. MIT Press, 2006. [3] A. Pongtornkulpanich, S. Thepa, M. Amornkitbamrung, and C.Butcher. Experience with fully operational solar-driven 10-ton libr/h20 single-effect absorption cooling system in thailand. Renewable Energy, 33(5):943–949, May 2008. [4] M. W. Wildin. Results from use of thermally stratified water tanks to heat and cool the mechanical engineering building at the university of new mexico. Technical Report ORNL/Sub-80-7967/1, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (USA) Mechanical Engineering, June 1983. [5] I. Atmaca and A. Yigit. Simulation of solar-powered absorption cooling system. Renewable Energy, 28(8):1277–1293, July 2003. [6] Z. F. Li and K. Sumathy. Performance
).Project #1: Green HomesOne group of four students came to that brainstorming/recruiting session prepared to be a teamwith a relatively well-formulated project idea. This group calculated payback periods for thevarious construction and refurbishing options that are currently available to Massachusetts -6-homeowners. Their original proposal in late September had been to research and write about how“green” building standards have been developed and implemented. Gentle guidance andconsistent challenges to do serious work led to a remarkably robust and useful final product.Project #2: The Cost of Green Roofs versus Conventional RoofsThis was the first of two “green roof groups.” This group focused on four
).Project #1: Green HomesOne group of four students came to that brainstorming/recruiting session prepared to be a teamwith a relatively well-formulated project idea. This group calculated payback periods for thevarious construction and refurbishing options that are currently available to Massachusetts -6-homeowners. Their original proposal in late September had been to research and write about how“green” building standards have been developed and implemented. Gentle guidance andconsistent challenges to do serious work led to a remarkably robust and useful final product.Project #2: The Cost of Green Roofs versus Conventional RoofsThis was the first of two “green roof groups.” This group focused on four
).Project #1: Green HomesOne group of four students came to that brainstorming/recruiting session prepared to be a teamwith a relatively well-formulated project idea. This group calculated payback periods for thevarious construction and refurbishing options that are currently available to Massachusetts -6-homeowners. Their original proposal in late September had been to research and write about how“green” building standards have been developed and implemented. Gentle guidance andconsistent challenges to do serious work led to a remarkably robust and useful final product.Project #2: The Cost of Green Roofs versus Conventional RoofsThis was the first of two “green roof groups.” This group focused on four
Board.This course is used as a tool to measure the attainment on two major student outcomes of theprogram. These outcomes are Outcome 9, which reads follow up product design, tooling &assembly processes, and Outcome 11, which reads communicate technically and efficiently inengineering presentations and reports. Capstone is one of the very important assessment tools ofthe curriculum.The final submitted senior project “book” should include 1. Assumed division name, logo, or trademark, etc. 2. List of team members with their title and responsibilities. 3. Autobiography of each member of the team. 4. Brainstorming notes, sketches, product ideas, etc. 5. Product/project timing using MS Project TM 6. Mission statement 7
mechanical engineering within the "Design of Machinery" course. In the study,students were engaged in projects that involve designing and prototyping mechanisms to becompleted within a single classroom session or an hour. The paper introduces the methodologyand showcases students' feedback regarding this engaging and impactful learning experience,enhancing both technical knowledge and student connection.KeywordsEntrepreneurial mindset (EM), Mechanism Design, Project-based learning, Team-based learning,PrototypingIntroductionEngineering education is transforming to provide students with the skills that are applicable anduseful in the real world. However, there is often a disconnect between the theoretical knowledgetaught in classrooms and the
Analysis Passive Solar in HOMER 6 Photovoltaic Chapter 9 (AES) PV panels in Groups defined, Systems pp. 39-42 (SE) HOMER projects distributed 7 Batteries and Lecture videos Batteries in Project Week 1 Generators HOMER 8 Geothermal Chapter 13 (AES) Generators in Project Week 2 Energy pp. 96-99 (SE) HOMER 9 Hydropower Chapter 3 (AES) Project Work
products andprocesses is increasingly recognized as necessary in design, and this is directly addressed by the systemsapproach.Systems engineers consider the needs of all stakeholders, both technical and non-technical, as well as thefull life-cycle of the system, when designing a solution. A detailed overview of the systems engineeringdesign process is shown in Fig. 1. The model shown is one known as Total Design after Pugh1. Thefigure illustrates a system life cycle starting from the left of the chart to the right. The first phase is that ofunderstanding the need that has to be fulfilled or addressed by the design under consideration. The cyclegets completed with the last phase of testing and integration and final deployment. Each phase in the
products andprocesses is increasingly recognized as necessary in design, and this is directly addressed by the systemsapproach.Systems engineers consider the needs of all stakeholders, both technical and non-technical, as well as thefull life-cycle of the system, when designing a solution. A detailed overview of the systems engineeringdesign process is shown in Fig. 1. The model shown is one known as Total Design after Pugh1. Thefigure illustrates a system life cycle starting from the left of the chart to the right. The first phase is that ofunderstanding the need that has to be fulfilled or addressed by the design under consideration. The cyclegets completed with the last phase of testing and integration and final deployment. Each phase in the