classes, I developed special sessions about the role of chemical engineering in our life under the slogan that “the Chemical Engineering has wider career choices than virtually any other major”. We have also invited experts from industry and government institutions to participate in these classes. 2. The Chemical Engineering program has also made an attempt to organize with the Chemistry professors the teaching of the basic Chemistry courses, specifically on the freshman chemistry courses. Many of the students who changed major from Chemical Engineering attributed their decision to the difficulty of the freshmen Chemistry courses and their worries of the Chemical field to be the same. 3. With the Students
; and (3) aconcluding discussion among all participants. APS researchers will lead the guided activities andanswer audience questions about the study as needed.Part 1 (20 minutes): Overview of results and local inquiry questions.APS researchers will introduce a selection of local inquiry questions and present key researchresults that form the foundation for these questions. For more detailed, comprehensive coverageof APS, attendees will be referred to the CAEE final report, as published on the CAEE web site.Part 2 (40 minutes): Considering priorities and formulating answers.The session attendees will break into four groups based on each of the APS findings presented bythe team. In small-group discussions and guided activities, participants will
been an interest inresearch about metaphors, idioms and proverbs within different frameworks, but studies on animal expressions arefew. Animal expressions are part of a language which contain at least one animal name and refer to the animalitself or human being, and will develop along with the time with the society. Some of the collected metaphors areseldom used nowadays and instead some new metaphors are invented and added to a language because of thesocial and technical developments. Since beginning of the history, human beings live close to animals and thismake people know animals (especially domestic animals) well, and attribute negative, inferior human charactersto animals, and through animal expressions we can see how people of every
University of Wisconsin-Madison to teach in the College of Engineering’s Technical Communica- tion program, the MEPP program, and the MEES program. She instructs a variety of topics, including technical communication (graduate and undergraduate), technical presentations (graduate and undergrad- uate), technical editing, writing user manuals, and other courses. She is active in the Society for Technical Communication (STC) as Senior Member, where she is the Manager for International Technical Commu- nication Special Interest Group, she is a member of the Committee on Global Strategies, and she judges at the international level for the STC Publications contests for scholarly journals, scholarly articles, and information
, Chile, France, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia,Taiwan, Turkey in addition to the five host countries making it a truly international forum forcollaboration. This has resulted in a number of joint projects, exchange of faculty and students,publications of scientific papers and a book by the mutual collaboration of the participants. It hasalso benefitted the industry personnel in getting new ideas and forming linkage with others to Page 22.1264.4improve their businesses.Having introduced the topic in section 1, section 2 discusses the focus of the symposium anddetails of technical presentations. Section 3 gives details
developed at USD. These CIE course have taken many aspectsof other formats into account and blended them together.Compact International Experience courses are short-term, faculty-led, study-abroad courses withthe goal to combine technical engineering content with an international experience. The two CIEcourses described here are upper-division undergraduate engineering courses offered to USDstudents in mechanical and electrical engineering majors, covering technical material in fluidmechanics and electronics at locations in France and Australia, respectively. The coursetechnical content is delivered through daily lectures within a three-week time period. Additionallectures or presentations cover cultural or global engineering topics. The
of the program was on the completion of a technological project, a second focalpoint was the dynamics of working in a small group that involves diverse members. Eachstudent was awarded four credits for the technical portion of the course and another threecredits for the multicultural aspects of the course. To receive credit for the multiculturalportion of the course each student was required to maintain a journal of all theirexperiences during the program and submit that along with a formal report on Malaysianculture. This paper provides the preliminary investigation of challenges and achievementsin introducing such a technology study abroad program.IntroductionThe expansion of university programs to include international experience has been
- nessee State University. He earned his doctoral degree from NC State University. His teaching specialty is in engineering drawing, with emphasis in 3-D modeling and animation. Research areas include vi- sualization, graphics education and scientific/technical visualization. He presents and publishes in both vocational/technology education and engineering education. Page 22.1381.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Teaching Design and Technical Graphics in a Green EnvironmentAbstractGreen Research for Incorporating Data in the Classroom (GRIDC) is a National
AC 2011-1558: THE WRIGHT STATE MODEL FOR ENGINEERING MATH-EMATICS EDUCATION: HIGHLIGHTS FROM A CCLI PHASE 3 INI-TIATIVE, VOLUME 2Nathan W. Klingbeil, Wright State University Nathan Klingbeil is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Wright State University. He is the lead PI for Wright State’s National Model for Engineering Mathematics Education. He has been the recipient of numerous awards for his work in engineering education, including the ASEE North Central Section Outstanding Teacher Award (2004) and the CASE Ohio Professor of the Year Award (2005). He also held the university title of Robert J. Kegerreis Distinguished
contribution from International Conference on Automation in 1995, UNESCO Short-term Fellowship in 1996, and three faculty merit awards from the State University of New York. He is a senior member of IEEE and SME, and a member of ASEE. He is currently serving as Secretary/Treasurer of the ECE Division of ASEE and has served as a regional and chapter chairman of ASEE, SME, and IEEE, as an ASEE Campus Representative, as a Faculty Advisor for National Society of Black Engineers Chapter, as a Counselor for IEEE Student Branch, and as a session chair and a member of scientific and international committees for many international conferences. Dr. Eydgahi has been an active reviewer for a number of IEEE and ASEE and other reputedly
vocational education as a Master Teacher in the Plastics Technology program at Minuteman Regional Technical High School. He is also an adjunct professor for the Plastics Engineering Program at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He has been a consultant to Ford Motor Company, Polaroid Inc., Timken Aerospace, and SMITHS Industries. He was also a guest scientist at the Army Materials Research in the Composite Development Division. He continues to co-teach Technology Studies courses with the technology faculty at Keene State College. He has published numerous articles over the years in engineering technology and materials research. He is a consultant on the Virtual Ideation Platform (VIP) project for Central Maine
enhancing the global competency of future engineering professionals.8 It provides U.S.engineering students and/or faculty with opportunities to experience the life and culture ofanother country, while gaining international research experience and perspectives. The IREEprogram also seeks to enhance U.S. innovation in global research and education, and promoteconnections between the research programs of NSF's divisions with the education of students.During its first years, the IREE program provided supplemental grants to support international Page 22.950.3activities undertaken by individual faculty members and/or their students. For the 2007 and
England Board of Higher Education at http://pblprojects.org.Each STEM PBL Challenge contains five main sections: 1. Introduction - An overview of the topic to be explored 2. Company/University Overview - An overview of the organization that solved the problem to set the context of the problem 3. Problem Statement - A re-enactment of an authentic real-world problem as originally presented to the organization’s technical team 4. Problem-Discussion - A password-protected re-enactment of the brainstorming session engaged in by the partner organization’s technical team 5. Problem Solution - A password-protected description of the organization’s solution to the problem Figure 2 – Selected frames from a
potentialimpact of the learning-centered pedagogies on students’ developing interests, life-long learningskills, and retention in engineering.Engineering students need more practical, first-hand experiences in their undergraduate years.Interning in industry is one way to give this first-hand experience to the students. However forthe engineering students to intern, they often need to be upper division students in their programof studies. The timing of the professional experience students receive as they intern iscounterproductive to the efforts to retain engineering students in their early college years. Themajority of the college students transfer from one major to another during the first years of theircollege education and students who leave
] Komerath, N.M., "Flow Imaging and Control Laboratory: An Experiment in IterativeLearning". Journal of Engineering Education, 1994, Vol. 1, p. 737-743.[6] Komerath, N.M., "Progress Towards Iterative Learning". Annual Conference Proceedings ofthe American Society of Engineering Education, Session 3536, paper No. 2, June 1995[7] Smith, M.J., Komerath, N.M., Aerospace Engineering: Integrator for Cross-DisciplinaryLearning”. Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, June 2001.[8] Komerath, N.M., Smith, M.J., “Integrated Knowledge Resources for Cross-DisciplinaryLearning”. Session D-7, Proceedings of ICEE 2001, the International Conference on EngineeringEducation, Trondheim, Norway, August 2001. International Network on Engineering
AC 2011-553: EXPERIENCE TEACHING A MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT-BASED ROBOTICS COURSE BUILDING AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTSWayne W. Walter, PhD, P.E. , Rochester Institute of Technology (KGCOE) Wayne Walter is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He received his BS in Marine Engineering from SUNY Maritime College, his MS in Mechanical En- gineering from Clarkson University, and his Ph.D. in Mechanics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Walter has worked for the U.S. Army, Rochester Products and Delco Products Divisions of General Motors, and Xerox, and is a registered professional engineer (P.E.) in New York State. He has thirty five years experience teaching design
technical reports,poster displays, and engineering presentations that are evaluated by working professionals fromSTEM fields. Through the process of preparing for the events, the students gain technical aswell as troubleshooting, teamwork, project management, and communication skills. Theprogram is a comprehensive “package” of learning that has the added benefit of exposingstudents to ocean-related career opportunities and showing them the pathways to those careers –a critical step to meeting ocean STEM workforce needs.BackgroundA number of prior reports have identified significant problems in educating, recruiting, andretaining U.S. workers for scientific, technological, and operational careers.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Thelack of appropriately
educational programs (National Academy ofEngineering, 20044; U.S. Department of Education, 20065); interdisciplinarity in both researchand education is presumed to promote global competitiveness, national security, and economicprosperity (National Science Board, 20106; U.S. Department of Education, 20065).As early as 1982, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development argued that theneed to solve interdisciplinary societal problems had taken priority over internally drivenapproaches that focused on advancing knowledge without clear concern for its societalimplications. By 1986, the National Research Council reported that most of the growth inknowledge production was interdisciplinary in nature in emerging scientific and technical
Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility Process flow charting Regression analysis Quality Function Deployment (QFD) Response Surface Methodology Failure Modes and Effects Analysis Taguchi Methods (FMEA)Demographic Items included: 1. Area of responsibility 2. Background 3. Highest degree 4. How knowledge was acquired 5. Stage of Quality System Implementation 6. Size of company 7. Number of subordinates 8. Level of involvementQuality Measure Items: 1. Quality (division or group) 2. Customer Satisfaction 3. Value of quality tools and statistical methodologies Page 22.1544.3Sampling
Optimal Design of a Pump and Piping SystemAbstract The primary objective of this design project is to provide an opportunityfor undergraduate students to integrate engineering measurements and modelingtechniques to accurately predict a priori the optimum pump size, pipe diameters,and wall thicknesses of a pump and pipe system given specified flow rates andlengths of piping. A secondary objective of this design project is to providestudents with an opportunity to improve team and technical skills while groupedinto small teams. The teams are challenged to predict the pipe diameters andpump size used to serve two parallel branches of a piping system. The experimental apparatus is a pre-developed system that includes threedifferent size
applying lean techniques in real-world settings.Part of the challenge is due to the fact that applying lean tools requires tailoring to differentproduction contexts (34) and also affects the social as well as technical systems of theorganization. For example, one organization, Textron Defense Systems (TDS) abolishedfunctional groups and restructured around core processes to support lean implementation (35).Similarly, Warner Robbins Air Logistics Center (WRALC) understood the importance ofchanges in many of its internal systems, such as the technical system, the behavioral system, andthe management system, to support lean implementation (36). Other organizations have also foundit necessary to restructure social as well as technical systems
management, and engineering education. Prior to her academic position, she spent seven years working in industry including two years at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.Elizabeth A. Cudney, Missouri University of Science & Technology Dr. Elizabeth Cudney is an Assistant Professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology. She received her B.S. in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University, Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering and Master of Business Administration from the University of Hartford, and her doctorate in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri Rolla. In 2010, Dr. Cudney was inducted into the ASQ International Academy for Quality. She received the 2008 ASQ A.V
.) • Ease of launch and recovery • Clear water in arena • Good acoustics in the 20-30 kHz band • Feature-rich bathymetry • Closed body of water • Logistics of Locale: Close to airport with regular passenger flights; Nearby hotels for judges, staff, the teams, and their families; reliable express delivery to site and/or hotels • Access to testing tank (e.g., 3-foot-deep inflatable swimming pool) Page 22.440.2Mission Requirements • Interesting, challenging task for teams • Build relevant technical skills • Portions of the mission must be tractable for students new to the field and competition • Tiered
, Darmstadt. There he started his work in the fuell cell and hydrogen technics area beside power electronics.Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, College of Technology, West Lafayette Michael Dyrenfurth is professor in the Department of Industrial Technology at Purdue University. He is co-PI of the DETECT and Atlantis Concurrent MS degree projects. Active in international aspects of the profession, he teaches and researches in the areas of technological innovation, technological literacy, and international dimensions of technological education.James L. Barnes, James Madison University Dr. Barnes is a professor of Integrated Science and Technology at James Madison University. He has worked in the science and technology
Hestenes, Malcolm Wells and Greg Swackhamer, “Force Concept Inventory”, The Physiscs Teacher, vol. 30 (3), pp. 141-151, 1992.[8] Kathleen Wage et. al. "Signal and Systems Concept Inventory", IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 448-461, August 2005[9] Branislav M. Notaros, “Concept Inventory Assessment Instruments for Electromagnetics Education”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, 2002.[10] D. L. Evans and David Hestenes, “The Concept of the Concept Inventory Assessment Instrument”, Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, Reno, Nevada, Oct. 10-13, 2001
AC 2011-673: WORK IN PROGRESS: RECRUITING COMPUTING STU-DENTS THROUGH IN-COMMAND CS-0: AN INTRODUCTION TO COM-PUTING THROUGH MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENTMiguel Alonso Jr., Miami Dade College Dr. Miguel Alonso Jr. has been a faculty member in the Department of Engineering and Engineering Technology at the Miami Dade College School of Computer and Engineering Technologies since August of 2007. He is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering and prior to his appointment at MDC, Dr. Alonso worked as a Researcher at the Digital Signal Processing Lab at Florida International Uni- versity, a Software Engineer in Algorithm Research and Development for Beckman Coulter, Inc., and as a the lead Computer Engineer at CPS
. Page 22.1386.5References [1] Abraham, J.A.; Saad, D.G.; “Tutorial T4A: Formal Verification Techniques and Tools for Complex Designs,” International Conference on VLSI Design (2007). [2] “SystemVerilog 31a. Language Reference Manual (LRM),” Accellera (2004). [3] “Open Verification Methodology (OVM) Reference Manual,” Ver. 2.1, Mentor Graphics (2008). [4] Bergeron, J.; Cerny, E.; Hunter, A.; Nightingale, A; “Verification Methodology Manual for SystemVerilog,” Springer (2006). [5] Spear, Chris; “SystemVerilog for Verification: A Guide to Learning the Tetstbench Language Features,” Second Edition, Springer Publishin (2008). [6] Vijayaraghavan, Srikanth; Ramanthan, Meyyappan ; “SystemVerilog Assertions: A Practical
. Educational Researcher, Vol. 35, No. 8, pp. 19-29.[6] Freitas, S. D. (2006). Learning in immersive worlds: A review of game-based learning. Online report, prepared for the JISC e-Learning Program.[7] Wang, G. G. (2006). Bringing games into the classroom in teaching quality control. The International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 678-689.[8] Ebner, M. & Holzinger, A. (2007). Successful implementation of user-centered game based learning in higher education: An example from civil engineering. Computers and Education Journal, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 873-890. Page 22.43.12
be 241 kPa; hence the flow will still be choked when the back pressure is 100 kPa, and themass flow rate will remain unchanged. Page 22.665.14Figure 10. Excel solution for Example 3. Page 22.665.15Figure 11. Excel solution for Example 4. Page 22.665.16Classroom ExperiencesThese Excel Add-in functions have been introduced in an upper division undergraduate-beginning graduate level course in gas dynamics at The University of Alabama in both the Fallof 2008 and the Fall of 2010. In 2008, about 20 students enrolled
area of aviation/aerospace research.Additionally, we are indebted to Mr. Geoff Bland and Mr. Ted Miles from NASA Wallops FlightFacility, Virginia who continues to support our activities related to remote sensing and aerospaceeducation integration.References[1] Dabipi, I.K, Arumala, J.O., Burrows-McElwain, J.B., “Advancing Aviation Sciences Education Through Industry Partnerships”, 9th International Conference on Engineering Education, Session R-1A, 2006.[2] Dabipi, I.K., Hartman, C.E., Burrows-McElwain, J.B., Mohseni, S., " Design and Construction of A Stereoscopic Aerial Imaging Platform: A Project-Based Platform for Teaching Freshman Engineering Students ", 38th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Session F4C, 2008.[3