enrolled in first-year engineering design; and (ii) 52 graduate engineers enrolled in amaster’s level systems engineering course. Our results showed 41 common correlated pairsbetween these two samples, all at the p<0.05 level of significance. The implications of thesecorrelations for engineering educators are discussed, along with potential directions for futureresearch to expand this area of study.1. IntroductionThe use of concept maps in engineering education research is growing, with applications in theassessment of knowledge mastery and integration within courses, programs, and across multipledisciplines2,7,12,13,14,19,21. Concept maps are also being used to assess the effectiveness of theearly stages of engineering problem solving and
system. Some labs may have to be cancelled in the Springsemester for the bad weather. 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference In order to facilitate the power electronics development and solar energy education, asystem is needed to simulate the output from a PV module and the output from this systemshould follow the typical current-voltage curves of a PV module. In this paper, a simulator isdeveloped with a programmable DC power source, which is controlled by the programs. Theinputs to the simulator are zip code, date, and time. The
, Fundamentals of Space Flight Systems, Astronomy, and Sr. Capstone Sequence. He enjoys mentoring undergraduate students in aerospace, sensors, and energy-related research projects. Some of the research areas include spacecraft nano-satellite technologies, satellite payload instrumenta- tion, High Altitude research Platform (HARP) experiments, wave particle interactions in space, space- flight X-ray imagers, construction and renewable energy engineering and architecture, and philosophy of science. Dr. Voss has worked as PI on many NASA, Air Force, Navy, NSF, and DOE research grants and has published over 120 scientific papers. hnvoss@taylor.edu, Phone 765 998 4843 or 765 618 3813Prof. Jeff F Dailey Mr. Jeff Dailey
the NCIIA. Besterfield-Sacre’s current research focuses on three distinct but highly correlated areas pf innovative design, entrepreneurship, and modeling. She is an Associate Editor for the AEE Journal.Dr. Natasa S. Vidic, University of PittsburghDr. Karen M. Bursic, University of Pittsburgh Karen M. Bursic is an Assistant Professor and the Undergraduate Program Director for industrial en- gineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in industrial engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining the department, she worked as a Senior Consultant for Ernst and Young and as an Industrial Engineer for General Motors Corporation. She teaches undergraduate
learning the procedural approach to C. The wisdom of thisapproach applies equally well to persons wishing to develop code for embedded systems.Electrical engineering students traditionally have a C++? or Java course, plus a microprocessorscourse covering an assembler language. None of these languages are ideal for small embeddedsystems, which require the reliability provided by object-oriented programming without theoverhead of a high-level language (such as Java). A more universal, relatively low-level,portable language such as C is more useful for small embedded system applications.The crash course is designed to cover small embedded systems (devices without an operatingsystem) plus programming techniques applicable to these systems, for both
mission within the Electrical Engineering Department atthe United States Air Force Academy is to educate cadets on the fundamentals of digital systems.The division provides a digital systems curriculum to computer science and electrical engineeringmajors. Additionally, we teach the fundamentals of microcomputer programming to all electricalengineering majors. Over the last four years we have implemented a variety of in-househardware and software teaching tools to enhance our educational mission while emphasizing anexciting, hands-on approach to computer education. In this paper we will detail theseinnovations and describe how they fit together for a cohesive educational experience.BACKGROUND The digital systems curriculum at the United
NationalScience Foundation to create an “Information Assurance Educational Support Program.” Facultymembers from universities in the Midwest participate in an intensive workshop on informationassurance and security education, with the goal of introducing security concepts into courses intheir academic departments. Participants were given access to streaming media version of thelectures from four of our core security classes. They also received support material to helpintegrate the subject material into their existing courses. Our target audience includes facultymembers who are teaching computer science, computer engineering, information systems, orrelated fields, and are committed to initiating education or research efforts in security in theirown
Paper ID #11236Application of Life Cycle Analysis with Systems in an Introductory MaterialsCourseDr. Craig Johnson P.E., Central Washington University Dr. Johnson is the coordinator of the MET Program at Central Washington University. He is also the Foundry Educational Foundation Key Professor and coordinates the Cast Metals Program. This will be is second year as the Chair of the Pacific Northwest Section.Prof. Charles Pringle, Central Washington University Charles Pringle is a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Technology program at Central Washington University. Charles teaches upper division courses including the
useful tools for new (and old) engineering educators. First,MERLOT provides links to free, public domain, online learning objects for engineeringcoursework in a variety of disciplines. These learning objects include course notes, diagrams,tutorial programs, demonstration and interactive applets, and even online mini-courses. Alongwith the link to the learning object, MERLOT provides a description of the content and, often,sample assignments demonstrating methods for incorporating it into courses. Second, MERLOTprovides links to free, public domain, online pedagogical tools such as learning preferencessurveys and guidance on constructing rubrics, writing course outcomes, and planning learningactivities at all levels from Knowledge and Application
actions. “Students mostly associated reflection withpositive actions rather than focusing on mistakes and failures” [3]. It is recommended to startreflecting early in the engineering program to better the students’ perceptions of the courses andthemselves, but this can only be the case if faculty are involved. The purpose of this study was tohelp the teachers create reflection activities to help with their students’ learning styles [3].Another study was conducted on three large institutions in the midwest to address how 2-yearstudents in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses perceivethemselves as learners. Each of the 31 students were interviewed to analyze how they reflect ontheir experiences. The purpose of this study
, there are multiple Forums run concurrently. Studentseither self select or are allocated to one of these Forums. The issues explored within theForum have focused on controversial public issues related to science and technology. These Page 9.353.2have included genetically modified foods, the provision of telecommunication infrastructure Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationto meet regional needs, privatisation of telecommunication providers, the role of e-Librariesand the damming of international
. This Department has interests on Electrical and Computer Engineering, andis responsible for a degree on Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, as well as aMaster´s degree on the same area. The faculty of the Department is composed by over sixty professors and lecturers (23 withPh.D. degrees). Annually, the Department receives around 150 undergraduate students, and over50 graduate students. The total number of students in the Department is over one thousand. Recently, we have reformulated the curriculum of the Engineering degree, which is fiveyears long (ten semesters) and has the following structure: Area Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Mathematics
AC 2011-1261: A HEURISTIC TO AID TEACHING, LEARNING, ANDPROBLEM-SOLVING FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALSC.J. Egelhoff, U.S. Coast Guard Academy C.J. Egelhoff is currently Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the United States Coast Guard Academy, where she has taught since 1997. She is a former practicing engineer in industry and a former Public School Educator. Her research focuses on: modeling blood flow in humans, developing computing tools for the design/manufacturing of semi-trailer frame rails, kinematics and dynamics of mechanisms and machines, learning from engineering disasters, and recruiting/retention of women and minorities into en- gineering. She earned a B.A. in Education from the University of Northern
and previous knowledge,o visiting local industries/businesses that makes practical use of the particular area of tech- nology studied in the individual class,o having project managers who are themselves primary school teachers but with special interest in technology and engineering (no academics please!),o using IT as an aid in teaching; as a tool for communication, programming of gadgets, problem solving etc.,o gender and equality issues e.g. by working, in most cases, with separate groups for girls and boys and let them try to solve problems with different angles of approach,o building networks among the teachers locally and regionally, ando conducting seminars and workshops with the teachers to increase confidence and know- ledge
, is with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the birds fly, and fire burns. We take for granted our humanDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University Of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, knowledge about the world and causal relations (doing X,CT 06604, USA. (e-mail: ppatra@my.bridgeport.edu). K. M. Elleithy is with the Department of Computer Science and results in Y). But a machine has no understanding of wordEngineering, University Of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT 06604, USA. (e-mail: concepts within any specific context. Therefore, many earlyelleithy@my.bridgeport.edu). story/narrative generation systems had difficulty handling978-1-4799-5233-5/14/$31.00 ©2014 IEEEeven
Session 3263 Experiential Learning in Computer Integrated Manufacturing Through Team Projects Winston F. Erevelles GMI Engineering& Management InstituteAbstract The paper describes projects undertaken by student teams in a senior level course in ComputerIntegrated Manufacturing. Students generate concepts for a product, synthesize this concept into multipledesign alternatives, select the most feasible design based on manufacturability and assemblabilityconsiderations, manufacture the product on CNC machines in the CIM Laboratory, develop solutions
continue to beamongst the most important fundamental courses of the electrical engineering curriculum.Recently, I have attended an NSF-sponsored workshop on the teaching of power engineeringcourses. The workshop has hosted more than 140 power engineering educators. It wasmentioned that 75% of the electrical engineering programs across the United States require acombined course in energy conversion (electric machines) and power systems. As a result of theworkshop, it has been recommended that every electrical engineering program should have acombined course in electric machines and power systems to optimize the curriculum. TheElectrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science (ECCS) Department at OhioNorthern University has approved the
funding. He has produced eight Ph.D. recipients—four in electrical engineering, three in computer engineering, and one in computer science. Dr. Wunsch has received the Halliburton Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research, and the National Science Foundation CAREERAward. He served as a Voting Member of the IEEE Neural Networks Council, Technical Program Co-Chair for IJCNN’02, General Chair for IJCNN’03, International Neural Networks Society Board of Governors Member, and is now President of the International Neural Networks Society. Page 14.808.1© American Society for Engineering Education
Department at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. His research interests include hardware assurance, reverse engineering, secure embedded systems, and smart home/building security. Dr. Kornegay serves or has served on the technical program committees of several international conferences, including the IEEE Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), IEEE Secure Development Conference (SECDEV), USENIX Security 2020, the IEEE Physical Assurance and Inspection of Electronics (PAINE), and the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI). He serves on the State of Maryland Cybersecurity Council and the National Academy of Sciences Intelligence Community Science Board Cybersecurity Committee. He is the
/marinetechnicians (including ROV technicians); engineers (electrical, mechanical, civil/structural); andcomputer scientists (software application developers, computer programmers, hardwaredevelopers). However, these are not “just” engineers, technicians, and computer scientists; theseare professionals that understand ocean applications within their field.It was this information that encouraged the MATE Center and the MTS ROV Committee todevelop a program that combined STEM education with ocean applications in order to 1)increase awareness of ocean STEM fields; 2) highlight ocean-related activities and careeropportunities; 3) promote the development of technical, problem-solving, critical thinking,communication, and teamwork skills; 4) provide students and
Elgin Wickenden Award by the American Society for Engineering Education. Dr. Menekse also received three Seed-for-Success Awards (in 2017, 2018, and 2019) from Purdue University’s Excellence in Re- search Awards programs in recognition of obtaining three external grants of $1 million or more during each year. His research has been generously funded by grants from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), Purdue Research Foundation (PRF), and National Science Foundation (NSF). American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 WIP: Challenges and Mitigation Strategies in STEM Courses – Students' PerspectiveBackground and Motivation With various
. from Cornell University and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Coordinator of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year engineering courses, feminist and liberative pedagogies, and student autonomy. Dr. Lord served as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education Conference. She has been awarded NSF CAREER and ILI grants. She is currently working on a collaborative NSF-funded Gender in Science and Engineering project investigating persistence of women in engineering undergraduate programs. Dr. Lord’s industrial experience includes AT
presentation 13 Phase-II laboratory session Phase-II 14 Phase-II 15 Phase-II 16 Final week Final presentation and term paperLaboratory practices and outcomesI. Microoptic devices courseThe enrollment in this class was eight students, seven from electrical engineering and one frommechanical engineering. As an experimental course, the prerequisite of the first offering wasgraduate standing and consent of instructor. Four students had already taken classes related tomicrofabrication technology, two students had prior
that include product concept development are currently taught through the School ofEngineering: Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Issues; Design and Innovation; Product Management,Innovation, and Commercialization; Technology New Venture Creation; and Technical Capstone. The first isrequired for the M.S. in Technology Management degree program and the second is an elective for the M.S. inMechanical Engineering. The other courses are electives or options for Technology Management students in theirfinal year. While these courses are adequate for the first phase of the development process, the courses do not gobeyond this step.In addition, each department within the School of Engineering offers a similar set of courses for their students
haveimproved the quality of life of over 24.4 million people.1 In order to expose students to thisimportant field, the Department of Bioengineering at the Pennsylvania State University offers acourse entitled “Artificial Organs Design.”The Department of Bioengineering at the Pennsylvania State University has its roots in theartificial heart program. This program began as a collaborative effort in 1970 between facultymembers of the Colleges of Engineering and Medicine. This initial effort resulted in apneumatic ventricular assist device that was first implanted in 1976 and was later purchased byThoratec® Corporation (Pleasanton, CA).2 Over 2,850 implants of this device have occurredworldwide, with the longest duration of 566 days.3 Later collaborative
design and conduct ex-periments, design systems and components, and function effectively in teams.5,6 In order to Page 8.375.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition c 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”enhance understanding of the theory and provide more in depth knowledge of the mecha-nisms related to quasi-brittle fracture, it is important for the students to apply the theoryto physical experiments. This method of presenting the material has numerous advantagesover a strictly lecture style of teaching. Instead of just listening to the instructor, watchingthe chalkboard and
University is integrating cross-disciplinary engineering courses through integratedcommon projects to ensure that our graduates are equipped with problem solving skills to handlereal world projects.The AQA course offered by the IE program covers Design of Experiments (DOE), ResponseSurface Methodology (RSM), and Quality Control Charts. While the Polymer Processing coursetaught by the ME faculty studies how polymeric materials are affected by processing parameters.One of the major topics in the course is the study of injection molding, its optimization, andtrouble shooting. The integration of AQA and Polymer Processing using DOE as the commonlaboratory project is the perfect vehicle for both courses.The objectives of this pilot study are to:1
Paper ID #42153Social Capital and Persistence in Computer Science of Google’s ComputerScience Summer Institute (CSSI) StudentsMs. Marjan Naghshbandi, University of Toronto Marjan is a graduating BASc student in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto with a focus on AI and business studies. Her research interests include students’ persistence in computer science and related fields. She also has professional experience in software development and project management.Sharon Ferguson, University of Toronto Sharon is a PhD student in the department of Mechanical and Industrial
articles related to the subject matter, b) rotating the expert lecturers so as to bringin a fresh perspective, and c) the instructor’s research program identifying important advancesworthy of inclusion. A benefit of this web-based course delivery is that students at differentlocations will have the opportunity to interact with one another. The national dissemination of these courses will be done through I2 and a purely electronic,fully linked, multi-media version of the courses on CD-ROM recordings and via the coursewebsite. The archival of these courses will provide students the opportunity to view coursematerial repeatedly and at their convenience. It is becoming more common to have engineeringteams spread across the country (and world) that
engineering degree programs, includes combined with an embedded computer on mobileproviding a two-semester capstone project designexperience. In a few cases, undergraduate electrical 1platforms to demonstrate automatic following Details of these technologies were received asscenarios in indoor environments.Figure 1.0 Illustration of stop-and-go and adaptive cruisecontrol (ACC) technologies. Figure 2.0 Raspberry Pi 2B Single Board Computer intriguing by