between courses is to the students’ disadvantage, ourprogram has been working to overcome this split between technical writing and “content”proficiency. Our efforts are part of a larger, college-wide initiative that began in 2004 and 2005,when our College deans formed a Task Force of committed administrators and faculty whobegan holding listening sessions and urging all faculty to address the challenges facing engineersfor the future.6 These discussions at the College level included an emphasis on the importance ofimproving interdisciplinary work and improving engineering communication skills; these skillsreceived even more attention as we prepared for our ABET re-accreditation visit of 2006.Concurrently, enrollment in the College of Engineering
remotecollaborative lunch session, where they ate lunch while talking about various topics[16]. APowerPoint deck was used to establish a discussion theme each week, and the participants wereinstructed to put together appealing presentations that communicated their viewpoint on thesubject. Each participant was invited to give these slides during the Friday lunch sessions,understanding that the discourse could shift to any other topic as the talks progressed [16]. Thefollowing are some examples of discussion topics: 1) “how pandemic affected their life,” 2)“what I have learned about operating effectively in a team,” and 3) “What is a profoundexperience you have had with technology that sparked your curiosity of how it worked or how itcould impact people’s
a rock face. Concrete spillways on the left abutment discharge water when thereservoir is at its maximum level of 338-m (normal operation level is 330-m and crest level is341-m). The right abutment houses the power generation facilities.23The principal engineering challenge of the Mosul Dam lies in the complexity of the geology onwhich the dam was constructed. The dam sits on karstified gypsum and limestone beds which arewater soluble. This geological condition was known before construction began and sinkholes,caves, and cracks began appearing near the dam’s foundation during construction (seeFigure 1). To address this, grouting to fill the subsurface voids began during construction and hascontinued nearly uninterrupted for the life of the
nested in the stepping of gate voltagemultiple branches of drain I-V curves are generated, in real time as measurements progress, foreach value of gate voltage step. In Figure 1, the system is in idling mode, waiting for a start fromthe user. The drain I-V plots displayed are actually what was left from the previous run; it getserased when the new run is started and evolves into a new plot as the measurement progresses. Figure 2. The GUI Front Panel of LabVIEW Window (The program is running on idle, displaying the previous test’s setup values and the plotted results, and ready for the new values to be entered for the next I-V test run.)The LabVIEW code developed is illustrated in Figures 3a, 3b, and 3c where
, Indiana. As a result of these collaborations, some of her articles have been published in important journals of her field of ex- pertise and her article entitled ”1-N-alkyl-3 methykimidazolium ionic liquids as neat lubricant additives in steel-aluminum contacts” has been named one of the TOP TEN CITED articles published in the area in the last five years (2010). Since she started working at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Patricia has been actively involved in the field of deaf access technology and education. Page 23.832.1Ms. Kate N. Leipold, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)Mr
called micro-nets. The main purpose ofthe project is to monitor a mountainous ecosystem in three dimensions. To achieve this, themicro-nets are spatially distributed from top to bottom on the mountain, and from the top to thebottom of 25 meter trees. This identifies the ecosystem by major elevation and by layers offorest canopy.The project goals are as follows:1 1) To achieve real time wireless three dimensional monitoring of a mountainous ecosystem. 2) To comply with all the minimum impact requirements in the Wilderness Act of 1964. 3) To make the system autonomous, requiring maintenance at most once per year. 4) To physically install the system and have it functioning within one year. 5) To maintain sensors within industry
Immersion TripsOur International Programs Office offers various study abroad opportunities, including a 10-daycultural immersion trip offered during the summer between the junior and senior year. Eventhough these trips are short in duration, they offer a high-impact, motivational event in thestudent’s educational experience. We identified students that would be on the same seniorcapstone project teams and planned a cultural immersion trip that would be technically related totheir UAS capstone project. This had three benefits: (1) developing cultural awareness; (2)learning technical information which would aid in their UAS capstone project; and (3) a team-building experience for the capstone team. We tried two different formats for the trips. The
TOTAL—7.5% think critically PGL—12.5% 5. Students engage in lifelong (i) recognition of the need for, and WGCD 3.2 TOTAL—12.5% learning ability to engage in, lifelong learning*Academic Program Goal 1: Graduates communicate effectively with all audiences.Peer-Guided LearningStudents were grouped together (typically in pairs) to lead a review session. The assigned topicswere selected from the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam specification for environmentalengineering, but primarily those topics not familiar to the students or from courses covered muchearlier in their studies. Beyond delivering a lesson on a topic, the peer instructors for that lessonhad to research a relevant
efficacy they will conduct in the College of Engineering & InformationTechnology (CEIT) at Georgia Southern University (2016-2020) to assess the effectiveness of theSTEM mentoring effort.Major Issues Faced by Veteran StudentsThe most significant challenges faced by veteran students in their transition from military tocivilian life as well as those experienced in the transition to an academic environment are describedin three relatively recent and comprehensive surveys conducted between 2010 and 2015. The mostrecent study (2015), conducted by the Institute for Veterans & Military Families (IVMF), analyzedsurvey answers provided by over 4900 respondents (Active Duty, Reserves, National Guard,Veterans and Dependents)1. The IVMF survey noted
StructureThe graduate student PD program consisted of six discussion-based workshops offered in-personwith a synchronous online Zoom option to accommodate graduate students’ schedules. Eachworkshop focused on a different topic (e.g., establishing a growth mindset culture, inclusivelearning environments, identity safety, feedback; see Table 1 for the general PD schedule).Table 1. General program schedule Activity Description Pre-survey Pre-survey link administered; due by Workshop 1 Workshop 1 Introductions, goals, expectations, prior knowledge/experience Workshop 2 Establishing a Growth Mindset Culture Due: Reflection 1 Workshop 3 Understanding Your Students, course demographics activity
raciallyminoritized students requires more work than just providing technical background. It requires aholistic approach that addresses the unique social, economic, and cultural factors surrounding thelandscape of STEM entrepreneurship as it exists for racially minoritized students. The proposedprogram integrates aspects of community engagement and social responsibility into the curriculumand aims to empower participants to leverage their diverse perspectives and experiences asstrengths in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.This study is particularly timely and significant given the current landscape of STEMentrepreneurship: despite structural barriers, entrepreneurial aspirations in the Black/AfricanAmerican community remain high. Data from the Founder Institute
.csv format and imported into a MCExcel spreadsheet for further analysis.Delivery of CREATE SCADA Professional Development for EducatorsCREATE and NextEra Energy delivered two days of in-person professional development inJanuary 2020 for 28 faculty representing 17 U.S. states, with a composition of 15 male and 13female participants. The first day was hosted at NextEra, the world’s largest generator ofrenewable energy. The day included panel sessions with a range of executives and SMEs,renewable energy project development breakout sessions, and a tour of the RenewableOperations Control Center (ROCC), which serves as the monitoring and operations center ofNextEra Energy Resource’s wind, photovoltaic solar, and battery energy storage
educationinstitutions) and 1 Russian University. The main challenges addressed by this project are:1. Ensuring graduates are prepared to enable Europe to respond to the current global technical challenges in the Green Energy the Environment and Sustainability, Communications and IT, Health, and Modern Manufacturing Systems (including Robotics), that is, a “new skills for new jobs” approach. This will embrace conventional education, lifelong learning and training for entrepreneurship.2. Ensuring that programme and module governance is sufficiently well understood that issues of mobility, progression and employment are understandable by appropriate stakeholders including the accrediting bodies for professional engineers.3. Ensuring all
and 3D printing technology Development of Minimum Viable Product (MVP) using Lean StartupStudents participating in the VIP program can earn a maximum of 3 credits of in-major electivesand another 3 credits of free electives throughout 6 semesters (Table In-1). Thus the program isapproved as a general design course in engineering departments. In regard to student evaluation,the final grade is determined based on oral presentations, a research diary, peer evaluations bythe team, and a final demonstration. Since 2015, industrial enterprises related to each researchsubject have participated in the VIP program through mentoring support and student/projectevaluation. In Spring, 2017, two research subjects regarding Deep learning and Big-data
engineering students. Future work will investigate these productivebehaviors to understand better how they counteract less productive (i.e., surface modeling)behaviors.AcknowledgmentsWe thank the University of Illinois System for providing the funding for this research, as well asthe members of the mobileSHIELD team. We wish to also acknowledge the generous support ofthe UIUC Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering (ISE) Research Experience forUndergraduates (REU).References[1] U. Johansson-Sköldberg, J. Woodilla, and M. Çetinkaya, “Design thinking: past, present and possible futures,” Creativity and innovation management, pp. 121-146, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.12023[2] D. P. Crismond, and R. S. Adams, “The Informed
choices were narrowed down to three on the basis of (a) their relevance to estimation ofcapital construction projects, (b) their comprehensiveness in terms of covering all aspects of theconstruction estimation process (from conceptual/parametric estimation to construction phasecost adjustments), and (c) their utility in meeting the course objectives. The three choices are: 1. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Technical Letter No. 1110-2-573: Construction Cost Estimating Guide for Civil Works [34] 2. U.S. Marine Corps MCRP 3-40D.12: Construction Estimating [35] (actually a multi- service handbook for construction estimating) 3. Department of Defense United Facilities Criteria (UFC) Handbook: Construction Cost Estimating [36
labs from technical content to writing, and revising assignment promptsto scaffold writing processes. At the start of the semester, the Center for Writing Studies staff leda focused workshop on response practices for the instructional staff, introducing a rubric craftedfor one of the course assignments. Throughout the semester, the mentoring team met weekly tosketch out material (new rubrics, writing lab curriculum, assignment revisions) that would thenbe workshopped with the full instructional staff at their weekly meeting. The mentoring teamparticipated in and took field notes on these weekly staff meetings. On one occasion, Nikiobserved all writing lab sections and ran a follow-up session to debrief the TAs. The teamcarried out end-of
: An assets-based approach to persistence in engineering students of color,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 105, no. 1, pp. 93-117, 2016.[13] S.A. Dumais, “Cultural capital and education,” In the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, J.D. Wright, ed., 2nd ed, vol. 5, pp. 375-381, 2015.[14] S. Brown, “Student social Capital and Retention in the College of Engineering” in Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, OR, USA, June 12-15, 2005.[15] J.P. Martin, M.K. Miller, and D.R. Simmons, “Exploring the theoretical social capital ‘deficit’ of first generation college students: Implications for
theoutcomes of the AIM design activity itself, to ultimately guide and quantify the improvements to this andsimilar design activities. Previous efforts in literature have resulted in quantitative instruments forassessment of design classes useful in guiding future improvements, but these suffer from low scalabilitydue to requiring direct observations or interviews [2]. This contrasts with other literature focusedprimarily on assessing skills developed by participants [3], [4], or developing rubrics and methods forqualitative assessment of student work product generated in design focused activities [5] and classes [6].This paper shows that co-occurrence mapping of key design features, manufacturing approaches, anddesign is useful in assessing (1
demonstrate the ways that these fourthreads are interwoven and interdependent.Research Approach: Systematic, Qualitative AnalysisThe biggest challenge of the research design for this project was the size and diversity of theLEES program in 2018: 13 technical sessions, 46 papers, 5 workshops and panels, and 2distinguished lectures. The complete program appears in Appendix A. The technical sessionsserved as the primary unit of analysis, which made the work more manageable but also requiredreading all of the papers associated with each session to discern each session’s unifying themes. 1 To capture at least some of what transpired in the
statistics mathematics courses.Many ET graduates successfully complete the calculations in the FE exam, applyingprinciples of algebra and trigonometry rather than differential equations and linearalgebra.In 2009 ETC/ETD organized the ET National Forum (ETNF) to provide a voice inadvancing ET education. In 2020 ETNF conducted a survey of practicing mechanical,electrical, and civil engineers that identifies 13 specific math topics and asks practicingengineers two questions: (1) how frequently they use skills that are reflective of each ofthe 13 math topics, and (2) how important to the practice of engineering in general theyview each skill to be. The majority (251) of the 350 responses came from various officesof Bechtel, Inc., 46 came from various
the Co-founder and Lead Consultant for Exquiri Consulting, LLC. His primary focus is providing assistance to grant project teams in planning and development, through external evaluation, and as publication support. Most of his work is on STEM education and advancement projects and completed for Minority-Serving Institutions. He also conducts research regarding higher education focused on the needs and interests of underserved populations and advancing understanding of Minority-Serving Institutions.Matthew Lucian Alexander (Associate Professor) Dr. Matthew is an associate professor in Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University-KingsvilleRajashekar Reddy Mogiligidda (Lecturer 1)Mahesh Hosur
, prompted our research team to study theeffectiveness of the workshop offerings.The skill-building workshops offered at the University of Colorado can be completed outside ofclass. They are generally interactive lessons taught by qualified students or full-time instructors.Most workshops are 1 hour sessions that give students a step-by-step walkthrough of a skill orprocess like soldering or designing a part in a CAD software. Depending on the workshop, therecan be up to 30 students at one time, with most workshops having around 15 students each. Theworkshops are generally taught by a single instructor with supporting assistants in largerworkshops. If applicable, each student receives access to the machinery required for the type ofskill, such as
sentiment analysis Its value comes fromanalyzing large amounts of text data [2]. For example, its applications have been used to analyzesocial media posts to track public opinion and identify trends (e.g., O’Connor [8]). In the field ofeducation, it has been applied to the analysis of student essays to provide feedback, teamworkreview analysis, and students’ feedback loop [1], [3], [9]. Another application is in the generationof natural language text (e.g., machine translation systems use NLP to translate text from onelanguage to another) [10]. In addition, it has been used to generate feedback on student writing [11] and to createpersonalized study materials [12]. It also can facilitate more personalized and effectiveinstruction [13]. By
GreenState University, and a MSME from Michigan Technological University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 1 An Educational Framework to Promote Self-Authorship in Engineering UndergraduatesTo succeed in the twenty-first century workforce, technical knowledge alone is insufficient [1] -[5]. Today’s graduates must grapple with an uncertain future shaped by constant, rapid, anddisruptive change. This requires that our students build their own self-concept, learn to developmeaningful and rewarding relationships, and mature their capacity for deep learning. Thesecapacities are
wasn't very excited because I felt the material we were learning was really hard and was particularly important to my engineering degree in general. And so, my general feeling about closing altogether and taking those classes online was that I wasn't really going to learn the material very well and that it would affect me in my career.Students noted a potential knowledge gap in critical engineering courses and the potential needto “catch-up” on this missed information in the future. Missing out on learning is notedthroughout the literature as a consequence of the pivot to online learning as well [1, 5, 11]. Somestudents discussed progressing through courses simply to achieve a grade rather than truly tolearn the material
from generations past, created spontaneously by events, and fashioned in ourown heads. Regardless of their origin, stories illustrate meaning in our organizations andinteractions. Learning to read the stories around us helps us to uncover the underlying beliefsand assumptions holding back the positive organizational change needed to implement andsustain innovations in engineering education. Anyone who has ever been held back frommaking or sustaining an engineering education innovation because ‘we’ve never done it thatway before’ or ‘it will never get ABET accredited’ or another narrative has experienced storiesused to block progress. This paper builds on The Power of Story [1], where readers learned toidentify stories in their organizations
teacher professional development, Journal of Teacher Education,60(1), 8-19.vii Hirsh, S., & Killion, J. (2009). When educators learn, students learn: 8 principles of professional learning. Phi Delta Kappan, 90(7), 464-469.viii Brown, J. (2012). First in the world, community colleges and America’s future. United Kingdom: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.ix Oblinger, D., & Oblinger, J.L. (2005). Educating the net generation. EDUCAUSE.x Johnson, L., Adams Becker, S., Cummins, M., Estrada, V., Freeman, A., Ludgate, H. (2013). Technology Outlook for Community, Technical and Junior Colleges 2013-2018: An NMC
combination of the Navier–Stokes equations of fluid dynamics and Maxwell’sequations of electromagnetism.The concept of Magneto Hydrodynamics is usually studied with plasmas but can also include electrolytic fluidssuch as saline water. Using a magnetic field provided by a permanent magnet, an electric field via two Nickelelectrodes, and an electrolytic fluid (in this case saltwater), one can generate propulsion (displacement ofelectrolytic fluid) or, an electric current across electrodes. This is true with any generator, for example an electricmotor can generate either an electric current or kinetic rotational energy. 2Figure 1 shows right-hand rule for magnetic force and how induced current
Figure 1 Steam Production Diagramreleased in the process of throttling down the steam pressure.Cogeneration conceptUniversity Facilities wants to capture that wasted energy by placing MSTs developed by NLineEnergy in parallel with the existing Pressure Reducing Valves (PRVs), again as shown in Figure1. The turbines are each a revolutionary high-speed Euler turbine with a titanium compositionthat allows them to operate on saturated steam, unlike traditional turbines that are highlysusceptible to corrosion in these conditions. Each MST includes a turbine that is coupled by agear reduction box to a 480 Volt, three phase, generator that converts mechanical energy intoelectrical energy. That electrical energy is metered and tied into the nearest 480