its two-course sequence. We compared the two to evaluate the efficacy of EM insupporting students’ ability to create connections from each project experience. The first projectis a design-build robotics project [14] and the other is a nanotechnology research project focusedon implementing a lab-on-a-chip (LOC) device [15].The robot project provides students a realistic and hands-on experience with a mechanical,electrical, and programming emphasis [14]. The project is conducted in groups of four whereteams design, build, and program an autonomous robot to complete tasks on a competitioncourse. The project requires teamwork, budgeting, project planning, oral and writtencommunication, documentation, microcontroller programming, prototype
learn about some of these phenomena and learn how to design within these limitations.D. Technology vs. Architecture As systems progress further toward integration, filtering mechanisms will change. Analog filtering may be optimal for discrete device based circuits such as printed circuit board assemblies. When integration is necessary, filters are more difficult to implement both with digital and analog techniques. Architecture changes can produce designs that limit the amount of filtering necessary.E. Technology Difficulties in Wireless Systems Noise Figure. One limitation in integrated circuit design is getting very low noise figures at low impedance levels with low power dissipation devices. As devices shrink, other types of
Engineering Education”The need to train engineers to collaborate with their colleagues around the world, workingeffectively in geographically distributed, multicultural teams was a motivation for UnionCollege’s creation of an International Virtual Design Studio (IVDS) in 1996. The IVDS initiallybrought together the mechanical engineering departments at Union College and MideastTechnical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey, with Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario)joining a year later. [21]. At Northern Arizona, language and engineering faculty are combiningto utilize virtual reality to develop a pilot “Global Engineering College.” When successfullyimplemented, it will inject international perspectives throughout the curriculum by
Paper ID #39628Cornerstone to Capstone Engineering Design: Evolving StudentPerspectives through the Academic Journey with Implementable CurricularImplicationsDr. Kris Jaeger-Helton, Northeastern University Professor Beverly Kris Jaeger-Helton (Kris), Ph.D. is on the full-time faculty in the Department of Me- chanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University (NU) teaching Simulation Modeling & Analysis, Human-Machine Systems, Facilities Planning & Material Handling, and Capstone. She has also been a faculty advisor for Capstone design projects in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineer- ing, and
Paper ID #29185Building a Comprehensive Collaborative Infrastructure to CreateInstrumentation Workforce PathwaysMs. Alicia Boudreaux Kiremire PE, PMP, FlowStream Management LLC Ms. Kiremire is a grant management consultant specializing in large, collaborative STEM education grants. She holds degrees in both engineering and education and has over 13 years of professional expe- rience.Dr. Michael K. Swanbom PE, Louisiana Tech University Dr. Swanbom is a Distinguished Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering. He is a developer of inno- vative, hands-on, practical content for both high school and university curricula. See his
Paper ID #34667Augmenting Activities in Engineering Courses with Tools, Technology, andKits for Remote Experiential LearningDr. Sonia Travaglini, Stanford University Dr. Sonia Travaglini specializes in the intersection of engineering and active learning. After becoming fascinated with engineering education during her PhD in Mechanical Engineering with the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Travaglini leads Skilling and Learning with the Aeronautics and Astronautics department at Stanford University, and is an educator passionate about new technologies and collabora- tion.Dr. Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University
; be enrolled full time in a program leading to an associate, baccalaureate, or graduate degree in one of the following disciplines for each term for which a student receives a scholarship: o biological sciences (except medicine and other clinical fields); o physical sciences, including physics, chemistry, astronomy, and materials science; o mathematical sciences; o computer and information sciences; o geosciences; o engineering; or o technology areas associated with the preceding fields (for example, biotechnology, chemical technology, engineering technology, information
often involves using traditional gender stereotypes inorder to capture girls’ interest. Sweet [11] found that toy marketing has fluctuated throughout the20th century in terms of using gender stereotypes to sell products to children. At certain points,stereotypes were prominently used in advertisements and marketing materials to drive sales andinfluence consumer behavior. Sweet notes that these actions "added to -- and helped toperpetuate -- evolving cultural narratives about gender" (p. 221). Feminine toys highlighteddomesticity, the adoption of nurturing qualities, and emphasis on attractiveness, while masculinetoys encouraged building, aggression, and action. Through continued play with gendered toysthat reflect societal stereotypes, girls
Paper ID #37614Redesigning Senior Capstone Sequence with Multidisciplinary,Industry-Sponsored ProjectsDr. Reza Rashidi, SUNY University, Buffalo Dr. Reza Rashidi is an Associate Professor at SUNY University at Buffalo. He was an Associate Professor at SUNY Alfred State when he redesigned the senior capstone sequence presented in this paper. He received his Ph.D degree in Mechanical Engineering (MEMS development) from the University of British Columbia in 2010 and completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship in Development of Biomedical Sensing Devices in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of
Paper ID #36612Shaping Good Old-Fashioned Students through Reading and Note-taking: AWork in ProgressDr. Timothy Aaron Wood P.E., The Citadel Timothy A Wood is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Citadel. He acquired a Bachelor’s in Engineering Physics Summa Cum Laude with Honors followed by Civil Engi- neering Master’s and Doctoral degrees from Texas Tech University. His technical research focuses on structural evaluation of buried bridges and culverts. He encourages students through an infectious enthu- siasm for engineering mechanics and self-directed, lifelong learning. He aims to
fear- and incentive-based controlmechanisms to achieve desired educational goals and outcomes. These control mechanisms canachieve results but may also undermine classroom cohesion, encourage an adversarialatmosphere, and be less effective than alternate approaches such as those based on leadershiptraining and research. This paper reconsiders engineering education through a leadershipperspective where teachers voluntarily relinquish control, seek influence over authority, nurturecooperation over compliance, pursue projects and activities in partnership rather than inisolation, and work to establish an environment of mutual trust. These characteristics ofleadership-based education are highly compatible with many current trends in
will need modification to includeinterdisciplinary material, but no new MBA courses are needed to meet the constituents’goals. Graduate engineering programs do not have to meet any accreditation requirements.To meet the needs of working industry employees, the SELP program will be part time withevening courses for student convenience – a practice consistent with the meeting times of thecurrent MBA and graduate engineering classes. Page 8.701.3 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”An Industry Advisory Board will be
Paper ID #18833Community Health Innovation through an Interprofessional CourseDr. Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University Dr. Jacquelyn K. Nagel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison Uni- versity. She has eight years of diversified engineering design experience, both in academia and industry, and has experienced engineering design in a range of contexts, including product design, bio-inspired de- sign, electrical and control system design, manufacturing system design, and design for the factory floor. Dr. Nagel earned her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Oregon State
2.106.2technology at the advanced level with codified material then filtering down to the undergraduatelevel. Electrical engineering departments in the early 1970's offered most of their computerengineering courses at the graduate level [14]. In the 1970's computer engineering was becoming sufficiently important that departmentsbegan including it in their title. By 1974 there were departments of computer engineering at CaseWestern Reserve and Syracuse universities, a department of electrical and computer engineeringat Oregon State, and a department of electrical engineering and computer science at theUniversity of California at Berkeley. In tracking departmental name changes, this paperconsiders departments that have the words "computer
, Old Dominion University Richard Jones has been teaching at ODU since 1994. He is a retired United States Navy Submarine Service Lt. Commander with sub-specialties in Ballistic Missile, Torpedo, Sonar, and Radio systems. Richard has previously taught Mechanical Engineering Design at the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., and Electrical Engineering at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. He holds an ASEET from Cameron University, a BSEET from Oklahoma State University, and a Master of Engineering in Electronics Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California.William Stanley, Old Dominion University William D. Stanley, Eminent
2006-2418: UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY: ASTUDENT’S EXPERIENCEChristina Osborn, IUPUI Christina Osborn is a senior Interior Design student at the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University – Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI). Christina participated in the first GO GREEN course in the summer of 2003. She spent 5 weeks in Germany summer 2005 working on her research project. She has a special focus in green products and materials. Christina has studied industrial uses of hemp while she was in Germany.Patricia Fox, IUPUI Patricia Fox is the Associate Dean for Administration and Finance and Assistant Professor of Organizational Leadership and
Paper ID #13259Real-time Real-life Oriented DSP Lab ModulesMr. Isaiah I. Ryan, Western Washington University Isaiah I. Ryan is currently a senior student in the Electronics Engineering Technology program at Western Washington University. His work focuses mainly on embedded system design, but he studies other topics as well such as digital signal processing. Isaiah enjoys applying theory from class and working together with his classmates to develop understanding of new material. Ultimately, he hopes to use his knowledge for the benefit of others.Aaron Cramer, Western Washington University Aaron Cramer holds the position
structure was built on top of the scooterplatform and fiberglass was used to build a cover for the vehicle. The design paper and Gonzalezet. al7. hiighlights Blaack Knight’ss electronic, mechanical, m computer, vvision and sooftware systeemsand inclu uded informaation on the design proceess, team andd vehicle orgganization. Fiigure 3: The Black Knigght vehicle Page 25.1231.7 Figure 4: Black knight's softwaare architectture
America fell by 10% [3]. This current research aims to increase female self-conceptthroughcollaborative classroom activities that may allow increasing their retention rates in the STEMdisciplines.Andres Bello University has 39,175 undergraduate students, of which 4,829 study at the EngineeringFaculty, with only 21% being women.The present document is organized as follows: Section II describes background and related works.Section III, methods and materials. Section, IV Analysis and discussion. Section V Conclusions andfuture work.Theoretical FrameworkSelf-concept and academic self-conceptSelf-concept can be defined as a measure of evaluation regarding how a person perceives him or herself[7] [8], these in turn are made up of several domains
research collaboration also leads toseveral related academic papers [4-12]. Specifically, the graduate students have participated in thefollowing applied research projects related to NASA’s missions: • Novel Uses of Multi-modal Design, Failure and On-Orbit Anomaly Data for Improving Reliability and Risk Analysis • Radome Availability and Maintainability Study – to study the degradation of Radome panel materials under the extreme weather conditions, such as McMurdo station in Antarctic or Guam • Reliability and maintainability study for McMurdo antenna system • Integration of systems engineering approach into software defined radio technology development • Categorizing the database of Spacecraft Orbital
overall design. It is during this phase that general instruction over computerarchitecture is provided in a lecture format. Teams are asked to learn about material relevant totheir part of the design, create block diagrams, fully define signals that impact other teams, anddocument all of their work on the course Wiki. At the end of the research phase, teams deliverformal presentations of their findings. Other students, as well as an assessment board made up ofthe instructor, other knowledgeable instructors, and key graduate students, are also present forthe presentation. The assessment board is responsible for assessing the team on the effectivenessand clarity of communication of their part of the design, as well as their understanding of
10 8 6 24 Civil, Construction 11 5 3 19 & Environmental Computer Science 3 9 5 (f) 17 (f) Electrical & Computer (e) 4 10 6 (f) 20 (f) Industrial 2 1 3 6 Materials Science 2 4 1 7 Mechanical & Aerospace 6 7 11 24 Nuclear 0 1 1 2 Paper Science 0 0 1 1 Textile 1 0 0 1 (a) Graduates (b) Graduates for cohorts 7-9; graduates and expected graduates for cohorts
systems curriculumfrom undergraduate to a graduate level program has to do with the many variables. The variables Page 14.19.2include the lack of standards across courses, the little flexibility to keep up with industrychanges, and the cost sensitivity for development tools.The variables begin with the lack of standards due to differences between educators that teachthe various courses. This includes differences in pedagogy and their preferences for hardware,software, and textbook material. For example, the selection of microcontroller core makes asubstantial difference in classroom material and learning kits. In many instances the student willhave
student’s experience point to institutionalpatterns [12].IntervieweesOf the 13 participants, 12 were engineering majors and one participant switched their major toanother STEM defined major, construction management, during the program. Of the 13 students,10 identified as from an underrepresented minority group and three identify as female.Interviewee Gender Race MajorInterviewee #1 & 3 Male Hispanic/Latinx Environmental EngineeringInterviewee #2 Male Asian Mechanical EngineeringInterviewee #4 Male Hispanic/Latinx Construction ManagementInterviewee #5 Female Hispanic/Latinx Manufacturing
Paper ID #21126Occupancy Detection Chair Sensor: An Energy Conservation ToolDr. Maher Shehadi, Purdue University Dr. Shehadi is an Assistant Professor of MET in the School of Engineering Technology at Purdue Univer- sity. His academic experience have focused on learning and discovery in areas related to HVAC, indoor air quality, human thermal comfort, and energy conservation. While working in industry, he oversaw main- tenance and management programs for various facilities including industrial plants, high rise residential and commercial buildings, energy audits and condition surveys for various mechanical and electrical
cooperative group method for problem solving, using problems inspired from realworld examples (CRP). The research presented herein shows that problem solving ability can befurther increased by employing the Socratic Dialogue questioning method.AcknowledgmentsI am especially grateful to Dr. Jeigh Shelly, professor of Mechanical Engineering at Fresno State,for her encouragement and her stimulating questions. I also would like to thank my colleagueand friend Dr. Jessica Harper, chemistry professor at Antelope Valley College; for listeningcritically to my ideas. My gratitude also extends to Dr. Les Uhazy, Dean of Mathematics,Science and Engineering, for supporting patiently my wild ideas over all these years. Lastly, Iwould like to thank Bill Rogers, the
Incorporating Leadership Training in a Sophomore Engineering Design Course Linda McCloskey Jane Reel Christine Allard Director Lecturer Lecturer Archer Center for Student Leadership Development Deborah A. Kaminski Associate Professor Department of Mechanical, Aeronautical, and Nuclear Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180-3590Abstract A novel course module to develop the interpersonal skills of engineering studentsis integrated into a sophomore design course. The module
inindustry.Typical roles for ETM graduates include operations, maintenance, sales, supervision, andquality. Each of these roles may include some involvement with control systems. Studentsemployed as operators will use equipment with feedback control mechanisms. Maintenanceemployees will be required to diagnose and repair control equipment. Supervisors will haveoperational, or maintenance duties over controls systems. Sales personnel will representautomated machinery, controls components, or control equipment. Quality engineers will usemanual control systems where quality data is used to modify the process in some way tomaintain quality. Not every student will be a controls engineer but all are likely to benefit fromthe experience.ETM students at our
Paper ID #17980Work In Progress: Methodological Considerations for Constructing Nontra-ditional Student Personas with Scenarios from Online Forum Usage Data inCalculusDr. Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University Angela Minichiello is an assistant professor the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State Uni- versity (USU) and a registered professional mechanical engineer. Angela earned a BSME degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a MSME degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a PhD in Engineering Education from USU. Her research examines issues of access, diversity, and
Paper ID #18514Ten Years Later: Where are they Now?Dr. Janet Callahan, Boise State University Janet Callahan is Chair and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Callahan received her Ph.D. in Materials Science, M.S. in Metallurgy, and B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut. Her educational research interests include leadership, institutional change, engineering and STEM recruitment and retention, and engineering, materials science and engineering, and mathematics education.Dr. Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University Donna Crystal Llewellyn received her BA (major in