, 2018 A Review of Electronic Engineering Logbooks Throughout the Electrical Engineering Curriculum Abstract Successful engineers must be well versed in communication skills, particularly with respect to written documentation in engineering logbooks. Such logs provide technical records that facilitate the day-to-day work of individual engineers, as well as enable continuity when projects are transferred to other engineers. Due to changes in technology and patent law, as well as the promise of simple archiving and sharing of technical work, many practicing engineers have moved away from traditional bound paper engineering notebooks and
, trigonometry and analytic geometry, and finally CalculusI enhance learning objectives in this renewable energy class. In addition, a laboratory manual fromFESTO-Didactic provides detailed review information on related fundamentals before thelaboratory activities.This curriculum update serves as a major and minor class for multiple degree concentrations suchas Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET), construction management, safetymanagement, and engineering design and development in the department of engineeringtechnology. The university’s recent strong partnership with a major energy services company alsomakes electrical power and renewable energy curriculum central to the University and College’sstrategic planning that will produce
Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research interests include K-12 education and first year engineering in the light of the engineering design process, and inclusion of digital fabrication labs into classrooms. Her current work at the FACE lab is on the use of classroom Makerspaces for an interest-based framework of engineering design. She is also interested in cross-cultural work in engineering education to promote access and equity. She is an aerospace engineer, and is the present Vice President (Educational Content) of the Student Platform for Engineering Education Development (SPEED).Mrs. Kayla R. Maxey, Purdue University, West Lafayette Kayla is a doctoral student in the School of Engineering Education at
Paper ID #6817Incorporating Sustainability into the Civil Engineering curriculum via crosscourse collaborationsClaire L. Antaya, Arizona State UniversityDr. Melissa M. Bilec, University of PittsburghDr. Piervincenzo Rizzo, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Piervincenzo Rizzo earned his Laurea—M.S. equivalent—in Aeronautical Engineering at the Univer- sity of Palermo, Italy in 1998. After serving in the Italian Army Corps of Engineering, Dr. Rizzo moved to the U.S.A. where he earned a master’s degree in 2002 and a Ph.D. in 2004 in Structural Engineering at the University of California at San Diego. In September 2006 he became an
bachelor’s of arts in physics from Duquesne University and a bach- elor’s of science in mechanical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 2004. After graduating, Kerzmann enrolled in graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh, where he graduated with a mas- ter’s of science and a doctorate of philosophy in mechanical engineering in 2007 and 2010, respectively. Kerzmann is currently an Assistant Professor and Mechanical Engineering Coordinator at Robert Morris University, where he teaches mechanical engineering courses, as well as courses on alternative energy. His research interests include hybrid concentrating photovoltaic systems, energy system life cycle assessment, renewable energy product development
refinements to another capstone design from Spring 09. Thiscourse is a project-type course, with no lectures, homework, or exams. Student teams give threeoral presentations and submit three written reports. Each individual student also maintains adesign journal and accounts for the time they spend on various project activities.Evaluation and Formative AssessmentThe underlying educational purpose for this project is to develop the learning and teachingmaterials needed to support the systematic use of project-based learning experiences throughoutour curriculum. With this purpose in mind, the assessment activities were designed primarily forformative purposes, but they also have important summative uses. The evaluation andassessment activities are being
Engineer, theirsurveying knowledge may be limited to what was learned in their Civil Engineering undergraduatecurriculum. This paper describes a widely transferable and technically up-to-date course inGeomatics that expands on traditional surveying by incorporating modern methods of spatial datacollection, management, and analysis. The course can serve as a Civil Engineering undergraduaterequirement typically taken during the student's sophomore year. The paper presents lessonslearned in developing Geomatics courses taught at Clemson University, Georgia Tech, and TheCitadel. Findings and recommendations are summarized with respect to broader applicationissues impacting the civil engineering curriculum. Course topics primarily focus on spatial
software systems, RE is a required juniorlevel course in the undergraduate Software Engineering (SE) curriculum at the MilwaukeeSchool of Engineering (MSOE). SE-382: Software Requirements & Specification was developedand taught for the first time in our SE curriculum during the Winter Quarter 2000-2001. Thispaper summarizes the author’s experience in developing and teaching this course.2. Course Format for the First OfferingThe academic schedule at MSOE is based on a quarter system with three quarters in an academicyear. Each quarter involves ten weeks of instruction with the eleventh week devoted to finalexams. SE-382 met three times a week for fifty minutes each and did not have an associated labperiod.The course objectives (as required by
present the basics of implementing a pillars-style curriculum and report on ourongoing assessment of student learning and knowledge integration using this framework. Theassessment is “ongoing”, in part, because the new curriculum has been evolving with time.Also, and more importantly, as this curriculum is one of the first of its kind, our somewhatunique assessment requirements necessitate development of new tools as we go. Specifically,it is critical that our curriculum be evaluated not only for its effectiveness in enhancing theability of students to engage in systems thinking (knowledge integration), but also to specifi-cally assess the impact of this type of curriculum on students’ performance in conceptualizing(chemical) engineering
engineering and advised capstone design projects within the robotics and automation option. He received his PhD and M.S. degrees from Purdue University, both in electrical engineering. He received his BS in electrical and electronics engineering from Middle East Technical University. Dr. Padir currently teaches undergraduate robotics engineering courses at WPI, advises student projects and participates in curriculum development activities for WPI's robotics engineering BS degree. Page 14.428.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Designing an Undergraduate Robotics Engineering
presents the initial effort of undergraduate curriculum reform in the CEE departmentat UML. Several challenges and issues were identified while incorporating S-L into thecurriculum.Challenges faced: Through faculty and student surveys developed by Duffy et al. [12], the keychallenges identified by the faculty were: lack of time, lack of resources, and finding the rightproject. The key challenge identified by the students was: spent more time on service orientedprojects. With the additional three-year support from NSF, many challenges identified are beingaddressed. Such as a college wide S-L coordinator has been hired, each department has adedicated S-L coordinator. These coordinators will help find community partners and matchcommunity needs with
Michigan Technological University. This phase of the project grew out of a longstanding relationshsip between faculty at each University. These collegues have workedtogether for more than twenty years, developing educational material for seminars and short Page 11.722.2courses.Michigan Tech Dynamic Systems CoursesThe dynamic systems portion of the curriculum at Michigan Technological University consists ofthree required core courses in conventional dynamics, mechanical vibrations and control systems.In addition to these courses, there are several senior elective classes and a required mechanicalengineering laboratory course, which reinforces
; - gives the possibility of double diploma certificates.Normal exchange programmes have a much shorter study period abroad.The organisation of the curriculum development and its changes, as well as the exchangeprogramme itself is very much time consuming and not easy to handle. Each year all partneruniversities are coming together to have at least one meeting.The curriculum is part of the normal academic education programme of each involveduniversity and, thus, accredited by the respective accreditation boards. In the future – at leasttill 2008 - all study programmes in Europe have to be changed according to the two-tiersystem within the Bologna process. It is open whether and how a changed ECEM-course willbe accredited by the respective national
maintained to help search for and manage those objects. The Greenfield Coalition isimplementing a structure for metadata based on the IMS Learning Resource Meta-DataInformation Model Version 1.2.1 [5]. In Figure 4 we illustrate some of the screens available toenter Metadata. The first of these describes general information (language, keywords andcontent description) while the second illustrates technical specifications required to access thematerial (browser versions, installation remarks, etc.). Figure 4: Metadata—General Information and Technical InformationGreenfield CoursesUnder funding from the National Science Foundation, Greenfield has developed a series ofcourses to support a curriculum in manufacturing engineering. Current on
?”).Conclusions and further questions The experiments and related activities of SEW constitute a coherent curriculum instructural behavior that is overlaid on the traditional set of courses. Through exposure to differentaspects of the experiments – planning, fabrication, testing, analysis – several times during theirstudies, students are encouraged to develop their own understanding of structural behavior. The idea that the students’ learning from these activities is not uniform has led tointeresting discussions among faculty… Is it fair that all the students do not have an identicalexperience? In the construction methods course, for example, our intent is that each team ofstudents should work on at least one type of test specimen (some
to therespondents in their position in academia. Table 1 shows the results.strongly agree agree neutral disagree strongly respondent not disagree in academia 19.1% 23.4% 3.2% 2.1% 0.0% 52.1% Table 1. Teaching Practicum has been helpful in my position in academia.Most of the narrative comments were positive for this question and primarily addressed thehelpfulness in teaching. The practicum was cited as useful in developing teaching notes,preparing homework and exams, and the delivery of lecture material. One respondent found thepracticum a “small but illuminating window into the
example, electronicportfolios will soon be required of every undergraduate student in the department. Students willuse them to demonstrate and develop competencies related to the program student outcomes.Given that our students tend to be visual learners, we believe students should find the creationand reflection of electronic portfolios an excellent learning experience for them. CONCLUSIONSFrom this study, we concluded that:1. Consistent, salient learning style patterns exist in the students of two different curriculums in our department: our students tend to be strongly visual learners.2. Other assessments confirm learning style patterns and clarify how students think about their learning styles or
favor with A.New Zealand and Australia in particular have been known to use the MFN/GSP regime todemand high human rights standards of their trading partners. Are engineers trained to handletheir increased responsibility through these situations arising from Globalization 9?The CurriculumThe curriculum largely consisted of three components: i) International Human Rights Law10,11(as in the International Bill of Human Rights) International Humanitarian Law (the four GenevaConventions and the two additional Protocols thereto 12,13) and the ILO Conventions2; ii) Theirapplication to Engineers; and iii) Some interesting cases under the African Charter 14,developments in the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of HumanRights
. ENTC 359Electronics Systems Interfacing, a required course in the Engineering Technology curriculum, givesstudents the opportunity to participate in a laboratory project where groups compete against oneanother to design and develop a mobile platform, as shown in Figure 6. Most notably, this exerciserequires students to remotely control a motorized platform, which then relays real time video back to theuser. The wireless infrastructure allows students to test their mobile platform design as it is manipulatedthroughout the Thompson and Fermier hallways while being controlled from a central location via thewireless network. Figure 6. Mobile platformEngineering Technology senior design projects for the Spring
and modules will requiredevelopment and creation of new lab procedures, plastics samples, and course documents. Twostudents will be employed as PET Curriculum Development interns at $15 per hour for 40 hoursper week over the course of the twelve weeks to assist PET faculty in processing, testing, andanalytical lab development, procedure troubleshooting, sample production, and lab disseminationdocuments in new and existing coursework focused on lab learning activities.Proposed faculty and student travelFaculty members and undergraduate students will attend the Plastics Industry AssociationRe|Focus Sustainability & Recycling Summit Annual Conference. Conference topics includethree tracks: sustainable business, sustainable manufacturing, and
creating social-scientific experts outside ofengineering [1].Upon this foundation, the challenge of adding social justice to the engineering curriculum beganto be discussed. In 2008, the National Science Foundation sponsored a workshop on SocialJustice, Sustainable Community Development and Engineering at the National Academy ofEngineering, which included a session titled “Implications for Engineering Education” [2]. Inreflecting on the workshop, lead workshop organizer, Rachelle Hollander, noted that “thequestion of engineering and social justice was a hotly contested topic at the meeting, whilehumanitarianism and engineering or engineering and social responsibility was not. Someengineers did not think social justice (whatever it was) was an
theseapproaches are counterproductive. Both approaches only solidify in the minds of engineeringstudents the false notion that while engineering and history may be both good to study, thesedisciplines are independent from one another and not inseparably intertwined. The developmentof an integral historical component in the engineering curriculum requires more than just newcourse development or old course modification; it necessitates interdisciplinary communicationand thematic continuity across the boundaries of every course taken by engineering students.Carefully crafting a history of technology “hub” course that enables integral historical reflectionin all subsequent engineering courses is only a first step. As an example, I will briefly outline
expansion of the findings of the survey. Thefindings of this study are primarily intended for the educators involved in the development of thedesign of technical curriculum, the policymakers to collaborate and develop supportive policiesfor the implementation of AI tools, and the industry stakeholders who seek to upgrade their existingworkforce. These findings and their inferences were then discussed, along with possible paths forfurther research.Background and Literature ReviewThe applications of artificial intelligence have been growing and steadily getting integrated intothe global construction industry. These applications span multiple activities in construction. Someprominent construction activities that can be assisted by AI include real-time
Paper ID #11355Adding an International Senior Design Component into the Civil CurriculumDr. Dan Budny P.E., University of Pittsburgh Dr. Dan Budny joined the University of Pittsburgh faculty as Academic Director of the Freshman Pro- grams and an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering in January 2000. Prior to that time he served as Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Freshman Programs at Purdue University. He holds a B.S. and M.S. degree from Michigan Technological University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University. His research has focused on the development of programs that assist entering
Paper ID #28908Using Benchmarking Methods to Inform Curriculum Changes in MechanicalEngineering ProgramsProf. John Whitefoot, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Whitefoot’s research interests include engineering education, energy system optimization, transporta- tion policy, and transportation/energy integration. As a teaching professor within the MEMS department, his roles include course development, classroom instruction, and research on engineering education, with a focus on thermofluidic and experimental methods courses. Dr. Whitefoot has worked extensively in the automotive industry. Prior to his appointment in the
AC 2008-1287: EFFECTIVENESS OF VIRTUAL REALITY APPLICATIONS INTEACHING ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT CURRICULUMErtunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Ertunga C. Ozelkan, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Management and the Associate Director of the Center for Lean Logistics and Engineered Systems (CLLES) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte). Prior to UNC Charlotte, he was teaching as part of the School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. Before joining academia, Dr. Ozelkan worked for i2 Technologies, a leading supply chain software vendor in the capacity of a Customer Service and Curriculum Manager and a Consultant. At i2, he
Nuclear Engineering department from 1999 to 2015. He also worked at GE Corporate from 1987 to 1991, con- sulting and introducing world-class productivity practices throughout GE operations. In 1991 he joined GE Appliances and led product line structuring efforts resulting in $18 million annual cost savings to the refrigeration business. Later as a design team leader he led product development efforts and the initial 1995 market introduction of the Built-In Style line of GE Profile refrigerators. His last assignment at GE Appliances was in the Office of Chief Engineer in support of GE’s Design for Six Sigma initiative. Dr. Steiner has taught advanced design methods to hundreds of new and experienced engineers. His
design, task analysis, instructional design, computer-based learning, hypermedia, constructivist learning, cognitive tools, and technology in learning. He has consulted with businesses, universities, public schools, and other institutions around the world. His current research focuses on problem solving.Matthew Schmidt, University of Missouri Matthew Schmidt is a doctoral candidate in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri – Columbia. He is currently involved in a DOL-funded curriculum development project for an Associates of Applied Science Degree in Nuclear Technologies focusing on radiological safety.Matthew Easter, University of Missouri
team. Her interests include parallel processing, poetry, and swing dancing.RICHARD HUGHEY received the B.A. in Mathematics and B.S. in Engineering from Swarthmore College, and theSc.M. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University, and is Chair at the Department of ComputerEngineering. His interests include parallel processing, bioinformatics, and curriculum development. His KestrelParallel Processor project has included over 20 undergraduate researchers.DAVID MEEK is a Development Staff Engineer with the Engineering School. His primary job responsibility is tomaintain, support and help with all aspects of the undergraduate Engineering Laboratories. Prior to coming to UCSChe worked 10 years as a senior engineering technician for Apple
AC 2011-990: REVISED AERODYNAMICS CURRICULUM AND INSTRUC-TION FOR IMPROVED STUDENT OUTCOMESValana L Wells, Arizona State University Dr. Wells is Program Chair for Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Arizona State University. She teaches the first course in aerodynamics, as well as undergraduate and graduate courses in aircraft design, aircraft flight mechanics, numerical methods, acoustics and rotary-wing aerodynam- ics. In addition to engineering curriculum innovation and reform, her interests include rotorcraft noise suppression, rotorcraft aerodynamics and high-speed rotorcraft design.Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University Jenefer Husman received a doctoral degree in Educational Psychology from