Paper ID #7324Developing Direct Measures of Global CompetenceDr. Jennifer DeBoer, MIT Jennifer DeBoer is currently a postdoctoral associate for education research at MIT’s Teaching and Learn- ing Laboratory. She completed her doctoral work at Vanderbilt University in international education pol- icy studies, focusing on engineering student access, equity, and success, and she completed her bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering and foreign languages and literatures at MIT. Her research interests in- clude the use of technology in education in low-income contexts and the structure of engineering training for
knowledge of a large number of diverseundergraduate students in the area of PLC usage and robotics. Also it promotes the use of remotecontrol laboratory and maximizes utilization of equipment and facilities.Online enrollment in higher education classes has been increasing at a substantially higher ratethan overall enrollment for several years. More than 3.5 million students took at least one onlineclass in 2006 an increase of almost 10% from the previous year1. However, the teaching oftechnical disciplines often requires the use of costly laboratory materials which are frequentlybeyond the reach of some universities. Particularly, under developed countries, with insufficientbudgets have the major challenge of absorbing the cost of remaining
graduate studentsenrolled in mathematics and computer science were international students [1]. Moreover, thenumber of international students, both at graduate and undergraduate levels, has been increasingannually since 1950 with few exceptions [2]. Besides contributing to the ongoing research and development work at the universities,adding to the cultural diversity on campuses, and contributing to university’s finances throughtuition and other fees, international graduate students play an important role in the undergraduateeducation at US universities by serving as teaching assistants (TAs), especially in STEMdisciplines [3]. These international teaching assistants (ITAs) serve as laboratory assistants,graders for assignments, and
Fidan, Tennessee Tech University Dr. Ismail Fidan is an Associate Professor in the Manufacturing and Industrial Technology Department, College of Engineering, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN. Dr. Fidan received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1996. His teaching and research interests are in computer-integrated design and manufacturing, electronics manufacturing, rapid prototyping, e-manufacturing, online teaching, and manufacturing processes. Page 11.209.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Overview of an
development of virtual and remote labs thatintegrate engineering data into the classroom through interactive online laboratory environments(Glasgow et al., 2004, Orduna et al., 2011). These labs can provide interactive experiences for studentsthrough multimedia including graphs, images, and geospatial visualizations. An example is the OnlineWatershed Learning System (OWLS), which is an environmental exploration tool that grants users accessto historical and live watershed monitoring data and educational case studies7,8,9. It acts as the front endfor the Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System (LEWAS), which is a real-time continuouswatershed monitoring station that collects stormflow, water quality (pH, dissolved oxygen, oxidationreduction
reformation in general, and to the use of modern pedagogicalskills in particular. The paper also argues that any meaningful change in Region’s classroompractices today (dominated by traditional lecture-based methods) must be mandated andsupported by the university administration. What is necessary to create a change, is for thedepartment or college, to have a comprehensive and integrated set of components: clearlyarticulated expectations, opportunities for faculty to learn about new pedagogies, and anequitable reward system.Introduction“To teach is to engage students in learning.” This quote, from Education for Judgment byChristenson et al, (1) captures the meaning of the art and practice of pedagogies ofengagement. The theme advocated here is that
biomedical engineering and computer vision. He is currently working on video production with Peter Burton.Dinesh Kumar, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Page 11.1058.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Quasi Interactive Video: An Innovative Approach to the Delivery of Laboratory CoursesAbstractQuasi interactive video material has proved to be a very effective teaching tool for first yearelectronic classes at RMIT University and has been the subject of a previous ASEE paper andpresentation[1].Quasi interactive video material at RMIT is offered as an addition to and not instead
, utilizing and integrating computers within loop isessential. Electrical power engineering has for many years been taught in a rather traditionalmanner. Laboratory equipment is based on large test sets using analogue instrumentation.Computerization of these teaching laboratories that allows data acquisition and display of datahas not been widely used. It should be noted that developing a fully functional high voltagePower Systems Lab that would cover all the various areas of power and their control systemswould require a large facility and hundreds of thousands of dollars and possibly into the millionsdollars1. A number of Universities work in conjunction with large power companies to subsidizethe cost of these larger laboratories2. An
various industrial Page 11.1233.2fields with opportunities to learn advanced teaching methodologies and new technologies.Historical development of HRDI is summarized in Table 1 and the various training programsundertaken by HRDI from 1998 to 2003 and the number of participants in these activities arelisted in Table 2. HRDI provides state-of-the-art classroom and laboratory facilities as shown inFigs 1 and 2. Table 1 Historical Development of HRDI Date Activity According to the government's New Five-Year
University in 1985 and is a registered PE in Wisconsin. He teaches courses in circuits and communications.Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Petersen is Department Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He is a former Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and received his Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an ABET EAC program evaluator in Electrical Engineering.Holger Dahms, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences Dr. Dahms is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences since 1991. He
ahigher level of learning than that of students in traditional classes. Meyers and Jones2 argued thatactive learning encourages students to participate in activities that promote cognitive Page 23.133.2modification or acquisition of knowledge. This paper presents a classroom in which learning isactive every day, technology is used in the service of teaching, and the teacher is a guide thatfacilitates student learning. Figure 1. The ACE classroom combines research, curricular design, teaching strategies and laboratory in the same environment.The design of the ACE classroom is based on research initiated by Robert
Paper ID #11571Challenges and Potential of Teaching Engineering Students in DevelopingCountries Using New Trends and MethodologiesDr. Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering & Engineering Technology Adeel Khalid, Ph.D. Associate Professor Systems Engineering Office: 678-915-7241Dr. Salahuddin Qazi, State University of New York, Institute of Tech. Sala Qazi holds a Ph.D., degree in electrical engineering and is a Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York Institute of Technology (SUNYIT), Utica, New York. Prior to becoming an emeritus, he spent a year completing a project on developing
support personnel); physical resources (classrooms, library, laboratory, and workshops); material resources (teaching material, audiovisual materials and others) financial materials (operational allowances, scholarships, training grants and others); and the political and social context (democracy versus dictatorship, peace versus war).A process circle in Figure 2 tries to make full use of all the resources available whileimplementing teaching process and procedure. The enhanced model forces this process toeliminate any possible confusion in knowledge transfer, creating more chances to acquireadditional knowledge, and store digested knowledge permanently in long term memory.This new repetitive learning model is specifically
Paper ID #6402Incorporating New Trends and Teaching Methodologies: Improving State ofEngineering Education In PakistannDr. Salahuddin Qazi, State University of New York, Institute of Tech. Salahuddin (Sala) Qazi holds a Ph.D., degree in electrical engineering from the University of Technology, Loughborough, U.K. He is a full Professor (Emeritus) and past chair in the School of Information Systems and Engineering Technology at the State University of New York Institute of Technology, Utica. Dr. Qazi has published several articles, book chapters in the area of fiber doped amplifiers, wireless security, MEMS based wireless
AC 2010-309: IMPLEMENTING BOLOGNA: AN ASSESSMENT OF A UNIFIEDMODERN APPROACH TO TEACH THERMODYNAMICS AND HEAT TRANSFERJoao Paiva, Politecnico de Viseu Page 15.681.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Implementing Bologna: an assessment of a unified modern approach to teach Thermodynamics and Heat TransferAbstractTen years have passed since European higher education systems' Ministers formally agreed tosign the Bologna Declaration, thus establishing a strong commitment between EUgovernments to build a large educational area, improve transparency and, especially,compatibility between national systems. There is, however, an apparently minor aspect of
Hartford, Connecticut, USA,and Herat University (HU) in Herat City, Afghanistan was initiated in August 2007 to developand implement a modern program to strengthen and modernize engineering education at HU.The program includes a number of activities such as curriculum review and revision, facultydevelopment, and laboratory upgrading.Under the partnership, junior HU faculty members, who currently have only a bachelor’s degree,applied to enroll in the master’s degree program at the UH and are working toward obtainingtheir master’s degree. Earning this graduate degree will enable Herat faculty to be better teachersas well as better prepared to implement curriculum revisions. More qualified faculty also willattract better students and will provide the
culminating class, involving a major designexperience. Students participating in the 1+2+1 program are assumed to arrive with thefollowing coursework already completed in their home universities: • 1 year of Calculus • 1 year of Calculus-based Physics, including laboratories • 1 quarter of Chemistry, including laboratory • Page 15.60.6 1 quarter of computer programmingWith those prerequisites, students are in line with Sophomore level students at the University,allowing them to delve directly into the technical portion of the curriculum. A sample course ofstudy is shown in Table 1. Note that students take their
. Participants (see Table 1 and Figure 1) were selected to represent: (1) a diverse rangeof educational models; (2) a wide geographical distribution within both North America andAfrica; (3) diversity in the career point of the participants and a diversity in the gender and ethnicbackground of the participants. African participants were from Benin, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania,Uganda, and South Africa. Participants from academia range from Students, Assistant Professorsto Full Professors, Department Heads and Associate Deans. There were also participants from ahigh school, industry, the Cape Town Municipality, and the National Research Foundation inSouth Africa. The participants have impressive research and teaching track records and manyindicators of
: Alternate energies of the United States with respect to the developing world.Teaching ScheduleThe teaching schedule for the 12 weeks online delivery is as follows. All course materials(except the text book) are available online.Week Topic#1 Introduction to alternative energy sources.#2 Wind energy: Fundamentals of wind energy, alternate wind turbines, using wind data to evaluate a potential location, estimating output from a specific turbine#3 Economics of wind power, environmental impacts, wind energy application, and Exam #1.#4 Solar energy: Availability of energy from the sun and geographic availability, fundamentals of PV Cell
on engineering in a global context.The challenges of forming global engineers, the professors that teach them and a system thatcontinues to build their capacity and adapt to the changes throughout their lifetime, requirescollaboration, sharing resources, expertise and perspectives to build effective and sustainableinitiatives. A first step in building these initiatives is to know the perspectives of existingengineering education organizations and how to interact with them. This paper describes theLatin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions, LACCEI. Its mission,vision, objectives, initiatives and resources are described, as well as future initiatives in whichtheir constituents are seeking strategic partners for
andteaching to better prepare engineers for the global economy. The planning phase involvedalmost 200 academic and business leaders from both countries and resulted in raising close toUS$1M to fund the first Summer Faculty Leadership Institute. The Institute was designed as aseries of 23 one-week Train-the-Trainer workshops taught by US faculty members and corporaterepresentatives known for their pedagogical skills. The topics covered general effective teachingtechniques as well as best practices teaching in specific engineering disciplines. The workshopswere held during a six week period during the Summer 2008 at the InfoSys Technologies’Global Education Center in Mysore India. The 585 Indian faculty participants were selected froma pool of 1400
specialize through their choice of technical electives in Year 2, earlier intheir studies as compared to the programs in the US with which the author is most familiar. Therequired hands-on experience in Years 1-3 is gained through companion laboratory courses; thecompanion lab course is typically taught by a different instructor than the faculty member who Page 26.153.4is teaching the lecture course. In addition, projects may be assigned in lecture courses that donot have a companion lab course. In Year 4, students are required to enroll in a capstone designcourse, which is an individual rather than a team project. The laboratory courses and
AC 2010-1800: A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT TO TEACH TECHNOLOGY ANDENGINEERING CONCEPTS TO MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOLSTUDENTS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLICSteve Shumway, Brigham Young University Dr. Shumway is an associate professor of Technology & Engineering Education program at Brigham Young University. Prior to completing a doctorate degree he taught high school electronics/technology education classes for six years. His primary responsibilities at BYU include teaching graduate and undergraduate classes, supervising student teaching, and he is currently the Technology Teacher Education program chair.SClaudina Vargas, Complex Systems Optimization Lab SClaudina Vargas is Founder and Director of
to provide training and guest lectures related to the use of the mobile laboratory technology and pedagogy to enhance the ECE curriculum at five different universities.Dr. Craig J. Scott, Morgan State UniversityDr. Jumoke Oluwakemi Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University Dr. Jumoke Ladeji-Osias is Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the Depart- ment of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Morgan State University. She earned in B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She coordinates the departmental graduate program and teaches both undergraduate and graduate
decade; the use of simulation games hasbeing growing for teaching several courses4-6, 15, 16.The main goal of the FAS is that students can "perform" several analytical techniques applied tofoods and have the “feeling” of being in a real laboratory, making their learning more attractiveand less tedious for them. The perspective of the FAS is “first person” like many modern FirstPerson Shooter games as Call of Duty 3. The interaction with the student is performed bypointing an object and make click on it, it's connected to a MySQL database in order to log eachstudent activity, which can be used to assess the materials chosen by the students for laboratorywork. The hardest part in the development of the FAS was to create the 3D models in order
, methods of coal preparation experimental research, design and management ofcoal preparation plant, mechanism of mineral processing. And a teaching group withhigh-level teaching faculty gradually forms by the teaching reform and specialty constructionof discipline of mineral processing engineering, so as to perfects the course development ofother disciplines, and improves qualities of teaching faculty. The faculty, laboratory andscientific research conditions of the discipline are introduced, and the personnel trainingscheme of the subject, and the courses system are also discussed in the paper. Recently, thediscipline of CUMT focuses on the practice of innovation teaching of the college students andconstruction of engineering application
, information technology, and libraryresources) as well as enhanced faculty skills and competencies. Specific goals include: A. Rehabilitate the physical infrastructure B. Equip laboratories, offices, libraries, and classrooms C. Raise the quality of the faculty D. Reform the curriculum E. Improve teaching F. Increase access to information technology and library resources G. Raise the level of English proficiency H. Improve management I. Establish relationships with external constituenciesResources for pursuing these goals come from three sources: The Partnership funds, the SHEPBlock Grant Funds, and other resources and funds from other donors and agencies. ThePartnership administration seeks to
forinternational students receiving a TA appointment [1].Financial SupportAt the CCE at UF, a TA receives a tuition waiver as well as financial support in terms ofsalary based on 10 or 20 hour per week. The salary varies from $14/hour to $15/hour.Depending on the type of subject and the number of students being taught, the TA ishired for 10 or 20 hours per week [2].At the CE at UCN, TAs do not receive any tuition waiver. However, they teach twice perweek and their hourly rate varies from $9 to $12, depending on TA’s experience and thetype of course they teach. For example if the TA activity is to teach a laboratory, then thehours assigned to the activity is increased based on TA’s required time to preparematerial and equipment used in the
anyone teaching science or technical courses today. Inthe late 19th century, however, engineering educators in the U.S. and elsewhere werecompelled to justify to university administrators the additional equipment cost, upkeepand personnel necessary for the laboratories themselves and justify the greater good inthe relatively inefficient student-teacher ratios such instruction necessitated.4Robert H. Thurston and Laboratory InstructionThe father of instructional laboratories for engineering students was Robert H. Thurston,the first chair of mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken,New Jersey. Thurston was an instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis whenthe first president of Stevens, Henry Morton persuaded him
AC 2012-4620: CIVIL ENGINEERING EDUCATION AT THE ANNA UNI-VERSITY, INDIA, AND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDADr. Rajarajan Subramanian, Maryland State Highway Administration Rajarajan Subramanian is currently working as a Transportation Engineer at Maryland State Highway Administration. He earned his Ph.D. and master’s degree in engineering from the Department of Civil & Costal Engineering, University of Florida. He has 20 years of experience with government, academia and industry. He was a Senior Lecturer at Annamalai University, India, teaching civil engineering for nine years. He also worked in Linton Institute of Technology as a Senior Lecturer in Ipoh, Malaysia, for three years. In Watertown, Mass., he