components these days arefar too small and complex to allow an inquisitive student to explore and satisfy their curiosityabout how these gadgets work. These students often take to exploring mechanical systemsinstead and are thus led away from Electrical and Computer Engineering. Similarly, withadvances in computer simulations of engineering circuits and models that produce realisticresults, engineering programs have transitioned away from physical hardware and hands-onexperimentation. This trend away from having students being able to "tinker" with real hardwareis detrimental to their development into well rounded engineers. In addition, as globalizationcontinues, engineers must broaden their team-work and technical skills.This paper describes a
Paper ID #15349Increasing Multi-Cultural Awareness in Engineering StudentsMs. Ning Xuan Yip, Purdue University, West Lafayette Ning Xuan Yip is a third year student pursuing Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. She is part of the Leadership Team in the Women In Engineering Mentor and Mentee Pair Program, where she organizes meetings and networking events with a focus on developing relationships between the mentors and mentees. As the Diversity Liaison for the program, she works to increase the multi-cultural awareness of the participants, and to increase the retention of international students within the program
over the past four years by the CareerWISEresearch team.Participants. Women enrolled in public and private research universities across the United Stateswere recruited from traditionally male-dominated departments, such as departments of chemicalengineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, material science, mechanical engineering,computer science, applied physics, applied mathematics, physics, astronomy, mathematics,chemistry, and geology. This qualitative, longitudinal study had two distinct data collectionprocedures: collecting incident reports and conducting open-ended interviews. Twenty-fourparticipants completed the weekly “incident reports,” and three women participated in the open-ended bi- weekly interviews over the course
development efforts that support students in their STEM education and career pathways pursuits. VanIngen-Dunn as built her career on years of experience as engineer and project manager in human crashworthiness and safety design, development and testing, working for contractors in commuter rail, aerospace and defense industries. VanIngen-Dunn has an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a BSE degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Iowa. She serves on the University of Iowa’s College of Engineering Advisory Board, and the YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix Board of Directors.Miss Maria A. Reyes, Phoenix College With over 25 years of higher education experience, Maria Reyes has devoted
transverse—CCS guides researchers to situate each “case” withinbroader networks of social, cultural, political, and economic influences [35], [36]. First, the horizontal axis in CCS examines how similar phenomena manifest differentlyacross socially produced locations, emphasizing the influence of local contexts, relationships,and material conditions on practices and policies [35], [36]. In this study, the horizontal axisexplores how departmental, institutional, and disciplinary contexts shape faculty experienceswith DEIJ, as well as faculty integration of DEIJ into curricular and pedagogical practices. Forexample, horizontal comparisons emphasize how faculty in different engineeringdisciplines—such as mechanical, civil, and chemical
considering a longerproject period that involves more preparation materials, such as review sessions of intro-level algebra, basic statistics, Python programming basics, and usage of some dependenciessuch as Matplotlib [20], pandas [21], and Numpy [22].6. AcknowledgementThis study was funded by the following grants:• USDA Evans-Allen program: Enhanced Crop Production Efficiency through Mechanized Integrated Pest Management Strategies, 2016 - Present.• USDA Capacity Building Grant: All-in-One Organic Weed and Crop Disease Management Using Directed Energy and Convolutional Neural Networks, 2019 - 2022.References: 1. F Jonathan and C Michael, The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Training Pruned Neural Networks, in ICLR conference, 2019 2
University in the Fall of 2018, where he worked as the Software Application Engineer for SEAL. He is currently employed by SPEA America in San Jose, California as an Application Test Engineer.Mr. Justin Raymond Comer Justin Comer graduated with a B.S degree in Electronic Systems Engineering Technology from Texas A&M University in the Fall of 2018, where he worked as the Hardware Engineer for SEAL. He is currently employed by Oncor Electric Delivery in Irving, Texas as a Protection and Control Technician.Ms. Brielle Roxanne De Anda Brielle De Anda graduated with a B.S degree in Electronic Systems Engineering Technology from Texas A&M University in the Fall of 2018, where she worked as the Mechanical Designer and Test
arrangement worked well, because it carried over the lecture material into thecockpit environment. It also allowed for three students to be carried in the 4-place airplane,which seemed to be the ideal crew size. One student could read the instruments, one could dotiming, if it was required in the experiment, and the third could record data. No specialinstrumentation was added to the aircraft. Page 6.945.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThe course was a senior elective, and proved to be quite popular
, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, and a B.S. degree in MechanicalEngineering from North Dakota State University. Dr. Westine teaches in the Engineering Science Control Systems optionand is the Project Leader of the Wind Energy Test Site, DOE-EPSCoR grant.GREG HILKERControl Systems Engineer for Ball Aerospace, Boulder, CO. and holds an M.S. degree in Engineering Science fromMontana Tech of The University of Montana, and a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Idaho.Mr. Hilker’s graduate study was supported in part by the DOE-EPSCoR grant.FRED JENKINSMechanical Engineer for Advanced Silicon Materials, Inc., Butte, MT and holds a B.S. degree in Engineering ScienceControl Systems option from Montana Tech of The
to their busyschedules. Leadership Circuit courses are short facilitated experiential learning workshopsranging from 2 to 4 hours and are available in two formats: live virtual experiences via Zoom aswell as in-person learning experiences in region. Courses are provided in US, Europe, and Asiafriendly times. Leadership Circuit was designed to be responsive to leader needs as they identifydevelopment opportunities via Upward feedback, Engage Survey results and other feedback andleadership development mechanisms. This information together with corporate leader prioritieshas helped guide the development of different Leadership Circuit courses. Currently there are 13courses available with other courses planned for future development (Figure 5
Page 26.1181.19this conference our students received first place for their satellite work.Also included in assessment is individual progress on the hardware subsystems, softwarearchitectures, CAD mechanical drawings, thermal and testing methodologies, and overall designprocess. Project management, Work Breakdown Structure, Bill of Materials, schedules, andoverall status were also assessed by faculty members in individual meetings throughout eachsemester.The Capstone class faculty assessment was consistent with the student assessment questionnaire.The student assessments to the question “Did the Capstone experience open your eyes andabilities to better implement the full design process and accomplish many of the ABETobjectives A through K
Paper ID #37787Collaborations Beyond the Library: Bibliometric Analyses to SupportEngineering Research, Innovation, and DiversityDr. Sarah Over, Virginia Tech Dr. Sarah Over is the Engineering Collections and Research Analyst at Virginia Tech, serving as their En- gineering Librarian. She is also part of a new team focused on research impact and intelligence to support the College of Engineering and Office of Research and Innovation at Virginia Tech. Dr. Over’s back- ground is in aerospace and nuclear engineering, with years of experience teaching engineering research methods and introductory coding.Ms. Connie Stovall
Stanford University in the Fall of 2023Mr. Benjamin C. Beiter, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Mechanical Engineering PhD Student at Virginia Tech. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Game Over: Reframing Ethical Decision Making through Failure for Engineering Education* Alice Fox1 and Benjamin Beiter2I. I NTRODUCTION “Arise now, ye Tarnished. Ye dead, who yet live. . . .”In this paper, we introduce failure as we define it and how it is currently approached in engi-neering. We present the current state of the art in teaching engineering
national urgency of better preparing our engineering graduates for globalpractice [6][7][8][2][9], it is surprising how little progress has towards this goal has been madeon a broad national level. Some institutions have introduced initiatives to incorporate basicexposure to global perspectives into a broad range of undergraduate programs, usually throughsome combination of on-campus international activities, special courses, or augmentation ofregular course materials to incorporate global themes. At Northern Arizona University, forexample, our campus-wide Global Learning Initiative [10] engages faculty from all disciplines toensure that all students have multiple, substantive encounters with global perspectives throughspecial curricular elements
National Reading Diagnostic Institute in the United Statesand who popularized her research on accelerated learning in How to Learn Anything Quickly.Basically, Linksman claims that students learn best when new material is presented in ways thatappeal to their favorite learning style (visual, auditory, tactile, or kinesthetic) and brainhemispheric preference (i.e., right-brain, left-brain, mixed, or integrated preference). Thecombination of learning style and hemispheric preference favored by an individual is known asthat person’s “super link,” according to Linksman, and appealing to someone’s super link is thefastest way for that person to learn.In the previous study of MATH 131, the authors deduced that the majority of the students wouldbe right
retransmission mechanism and the congestion control cause timedelay and delay jitter 10,13. On the other hand, UDP does not guarantee packets delivery and congestioncontrol unlike TCP, hence the data transfer using UDP can be fast without significant time delay andvariations10. It was found that the Wi-Fi Shield can provide a network (IP) stack capable of both TCP andUDP (user datagram protocol) 15. This means that UDP could be accessible with the Wi-Fi shield whichwould make the data transmission faster. This way allowed the communication to be changed into asimple, fast connection protocol for the server/client connection. All the codes for the server/client on theArduino 1 was removed, and they were moved into the UDP receiver code in the laptop
undergraduateclasses. New course materials integrating parallel and distributed computing concepts weredeveloped and offered to undergraduate students. Class surveys were collected to guide futuredevelopment. Based on the results, more courses will be revised to accommodate HPC contentsin the coming years. A project-based learning scheme will also be introduced to our new coursedesign and implementation including subjects like Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Thisarticle presents the current outcomes and findings of the project and a detailed plan of theongoing education and research activities.BackgroundHPC technology has moved beyond bulky multi-rack supercomputers1, making its way into eversmaller systems, in particular, embedded devices and
responsibilities when they graduate, andto support the engineering departments in meeting ABET interpersonal and communicationrequirements. Over the last 12 years, the course has grown and now is required or stronglyrecommended for fourth-year (senior) students in four majors: Mechanical Engineering, MaterialSciences & Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Systems Engineering. EML is taught during the fall semester of each academic year in small sections to fosterstudent engagement. The course provides meaningful exposure to real-world challenges thatengineers face – from ethical scenarios and project management situations to multidisciplinaryteaming. In alignment with ABET, this course is designed to allow students to "learn beyond thetheory in a
, local security mechanisms, and authentication) of clients.3.2 Identify the basic capabilities needed for client workstations to connect to and use network resources3.3 Identify the appropriate tool for a given wiring task3.4 Given a remote connectivity scenario comprised of a protocol, an authentication scheme, and physical connectivity, configures the connection3.5 Identify the purpose, benefits and characteristics of using a firewall.3.6 Identify the purpose, benefits and characteristics of using a proxy service.3.7 Given a connectivity scenario, determine the impact on network functionality of a particular security implementation3.8 Identify the main characteristics of VLANs (Virtual Local Area Networks).3.9 Identify the main
given access to the VR intervention materials, to allow for ethical distributionof the potential knowledge and benefit of the intervention. Each school recruited 11th grade students to participate, who were then randomlyassigned to treatment (n = 59) or control conditions (n = 32). Students in the study werepredominantly from School 1 (45%) and School 2 (39%), with School 3 having the smallestsample (16%). Students in this study were predominately White (64%), with 18% being Black orAfrican American, 8% Asian, 1% American Indian or Alaskan Native, with one student selectingNative Hawaiin or Pacific Islander, and 8% choosing to self-identify. Self-identified responsesincluded Hispanic or Latino (four students), Middle Eastern (one student
thermocouple to switch the heater on andoff with a solid state relay. The process variable is transmitted through a data acquisitionsystem to a PC for storage and further analysis. This project provides valuable hands-onexperience in control loop tuning and produces reasonably accurate results. The papershows the design schematic and presents results.IntroductionPID control allows a system to accurately adjust for load or setpoint changes.Implementing a PID controller, however, requires that it be ‘tuned” or adjusted for thesystem for which it is installed [1, 2]. This tuning process requires the user to understandthe type of algorithm utilized by the controller.The Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) curriculum at Texas A&M-CorpusChristi
current are used to convey behavioral aspects of circuit operation. The result is aninteractive computer program—CktViz—intended to lower the cognitive barrier tocomprehension of circuit operation by graphically representing voltage and currentrelationships. A small scale educational assessment has been performed using students taking anintroductory circuits course as subjects. The results show that CktViz has a positive andsignificant effect on students' qualitative understanding of circuit behavior.1. Motivation A major challenge in teaching circuit theory is that many of the students have no intuitiveunderstanding of the behavior of electrical circuits. While they have actual, hands-on experiencewith, for example, the mechanical properties
alone.Point 2: Master’s topicA nice feature in many engineering curriculums is a general engineering course where studentscan experience different engineering fields in their first year of study. Many students think theylike the idea of engineering, but don’t really know what an engineer does or what the differentdisciplines are. Many can identify Computer and Mechanical engineering don’t know aboutchemical, aerospace, industrial or Product Design and Manufacturing engineering. After thesecond year of study, students must commit to an area of engineering they prefer. Even afterthis, students change their mind as they learn more about each program.In the 3rd or 4th year, as graduation gets closer, is a student ready to select an area to master?What is
]. Theoreticalcontributions may be made as part of the experimental research, but the primary focus is onexposing the students to a positive experience and allowing them to apply new knowledge, whilepreparing them for their future. Another program focuses on having students be involved infunded research projects [3]. In this latter case, students work on unanswered questions that arecrucial elements of research investigations currently underway [3]. In several programs, it iscommon for the URP student to have a peer advisor. In some instances, the undergraduate maybe assisting a graduate student on research and the graduate student acts as the advisor [6].The publish materials on assessment and evaluation of URP experiences primarily focus on the
anything) prior to class. The firstday of class includes an introduction to the course syllabus – a detailed schedule of course topics,relevant textbook sections, and homework and exam dates – and expected prerequisitebackground per the Course Catalog. To maximize course retention, students are advised toreview topics before class. However, the only incentive is self-motivation. In the past, the authorhas witnessed only a few diligent students who carefully review material prior to class meetings.The newly-created lecture videos are intended to help prepare students before class. The authoris currently creating an online quiz for each video – administered through Cal Poly’s PolyLearn(Moodle) online system – to test for student comprehension and
approaches that have been practiced for 50 years are continued [1, 2]. It isnecessary to find an alternative teaching strategy in engineering courses, particularly forconveying scientific principles to real situations. To assess innovative methods for solving theproblems and limitations of the traditional teaching model in chemical engineering andbiomedical engineering, a half interactive hands-on learning experiment, half lecture-teachingmodel is being explored. In this process, having the aim of a better understanding and absorptionof key principles and difficult concepts in fluid mechanics and neuronal membrane physiology,we are combining multimedia technology with whiteboard and hands-on tabletop units.A Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer course
planning-implementation course sequence, student teams will transform theidea into a fully functional prototype that can be used for test and evaluation, marketing, anddocumentation purposes. Currently, the two-semester sequence focuses on the technical side ofproduct development. To augment the student’s education, each E4 student team will also haveone student member from the Mays Business School who will also have the opportunity toparticipate as an inventor. The engineering students are in charge of the technical aspects of theproduct development, and the business students will prepare preliminary business plans, performmarketing assessments, and create marketing materials for the new company. At the end of thesecond semester, the E4 student
into a senior level hydrology course at VT during the Fall2012 and Spring 2014 semesters. Hydrology is an elective course for senior and graduatestudents and is taught once per year in the fall semester with an enrollment between 30 and 70students, approximately 10% of whom are graduate students. The course covers thefundamentals of hydrology including basic issues and mechanisms of precipitation, infiltration,evapotranspiration, runoff, and subsurface flow, and accompanying computational methods.Special emphasis is placed on surface runoff quantity generation, including flood routing andforecasting and urban hydrology issues. LEWAS was used to support the course material as anactive learning experience for the students to grasp hydrologic
Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, and received his doctorate from The City Univer- sity of New York. He is a professor in the College of Integrated Science and Engineering (CISE) at James Madison University. He is a registered Professional Engineer and holds five patents in solar energy applications and irrigation system. He is the director of CISE Energy and Environmental Projects- an international summer program in Costa Rica. He is the Director of the Advanced Thermal-Fluids labora- tory. His primary interests are in renewable energy applications, fluid-thermal sciences, and international education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Data Acquisition System to Measure
success. I split the teaminto two main groups – biochemical and electromechanical – and then divided these groups into what theywould specialize in. As far as scheduling was concerned, I made sure to draft up a syllabus and have atask list prepared for each team every class period. Figure 3. Organization of the Elemeat Clinic.Elemeat is now in its second semester, this semester of which we have gained four new students,rounding us out to sixteen engineering students composed of: eight chemical engineers, five electrical andcomputer engineers, two mechanical engineers, and one entrepreneurial engineer. This variety ofdisciplines enables a well-rounded approach to the creation of Elemeat’s first product, and to