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example of an idea for anew function in an existing open-source software, or, as we mentioned above, the idea ofa new article that needs writing in Wikipedia as classic examples of the conception. Thedevelopment of that new software feature or the actual writing of that new article mightthen be done by the person who proposed the idea; or it could be implemented by someother individual. The second peer production characteristic, “the harnessing of diverse motivations,”suggests that while some participants are motivated by pay, there are many others whoparticipate for other non-monetary reasons, such as user-centered need,4 enjoyment or“serious leisure”,5 the intrinsic desire to learn, and/or support for “freedom philosophies”that underlie
., & Kidd, J., “Implementing Peer-Review Activities forEngineering Writing Assignments”, in Proceedings of the 2017 American Society forEngineering Education Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio, 2017. Available:https://peer.asee.org/28483AppendixTable A. Lab 5 Report Assessment Rubric Your lab report score (130 max) = (AA score + CCT score + TC score)×5 + 70 Novice (1) Competent (2) Proficient (3) Exemplary (4) Audience The writer establishes The writer is The writer mentions The writer clearly outlines Awareness no purpose or clear somewhat effective objectives of the report the objectives of the report (AA
– essentially a time & motion study project during their first semester in the MFGE program, every student is on the same footing as none enter the program with prior experience. Whereas we used to assign groups randomly, we now use the rank in class method to motivate underperforming students and give them one final chance to demonstrate subject mastery. • Computer applications project – a project that requires students to develop an Excel spreadsheet to solve an assigned set of engineering problems, write a training & operations manual for the spreadsheet in Word, and present their efforts to their peers using PowerPoint. Because students in the computer applications class come from multiple
implementation project. Communication Skills Finally, after the completion of their project, the students are required to write a final high- quality design report and give a clear and informative oral presentation elaborating on the works they have done throughout the semester. They are also required to demonstrate the operation of their production line.Project ComponentsAfter specifying the target product through brainstorming by team members, considering allconstraints (time, budget, availability of tools and equipment), the activities follow the threeproject phases of definition, planning, and implementation.The project has the following two main components (refer to figure 2) 5: a) Defining and solving design problems, which includes
with many local community agencies.Dr. Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University Dr. Bimal Nepal is an Associate Professor in the Industrial Distribution Program at Texas A&M Univer- sity. His research interests include integration of supply chain management with new product development decisions, distributor service portfolio optimization, pricing optimization, supply chain risk analysis, lean and six sigma, and large scale optimization. He has authored 30 refereed articles in leading supply chain and operations management journals, and 40 peer reviewed conference proceedings articles in these areas. He has B.S. in ME, and both M.S. and Ph.D. in IE. He is a member of ASEE, INFORMS, and a senior member of IIE.Dr
toothbrush. Students will beexpected to write a report with detailed description of all steps taken during the development ofthe prosthetic limb.Once we perfect the prosthetic arm, the same process can be applied to development of otherlimbs such as arms or legs. This project will benefit patients with disabilities and improve theirday-to-day lives at a fraction of the cost of current solutions.MotivationThe purpose of this project is to help low-income families’ children who have a disabled handand to expand students’ awareness of societal needs. With this project, students demonstrate thelearning and knowledge gained from the different sources, such as using Arduino board to designa myoelectric prosthetic arm. It is therefore important to show the
substituted by a professional portfolio including reports and drawings that weresubmitted to the company - 25% of the final grade), final Power Point Presentation (PPT to bemade to the peers from the same section of ENGR 490x - 10% of the final grade), journal andlog (25% of the final grade). Supervisor feedback (35% of the final grade) is critical. Eachstudent is required to have a supervisor, direct or indirect supervisor, who is aware of student’sperformance. Supervisors are determined by the companies at which students are employed. Forthe internal research projects, supervisors are determined by the students as they choose theirproject and the owner of it. The supervisor is approached (most likely through phone contact ande-mail) for both
senior member of IEEE and is a member of ASME, SIAM, ASEE and AGU. He is actively involved in CELT activities and regularly participates and presents at the Lilly Conference. He has been the recipient of several Faculty Learning Community awards. He is also very active in assessment activities and has presented more than a dozen papers at various Assessment Institutes. His posters in the areas of Bloom’s Taxonomy and Socratic Inquisition have received widespread acclaim from several scholars in the area of Cognitive Science and Educational Methodologies. He has received the Assessment of Critical Thinking Award twice and is currently working towards incorporating writing assessments that
. With theconclusion of the project, each team needs to deliver a working product. Members also need toassess their peers’ work through peer review.Each progress reports are 12% of the project grade adding up to 60% of the overall project grade.Final report, presentation, and successful demonstration are worth 30%. Peer review is theremaining 10% of the grade. 10% extra credit is added to the grade if teams choose to use CADin the design process or utilize additional means not mentioned within the objective section ofthis assignment sheet. Page 22.558.4Student teams conduct relevant fixed-goal laboratories and homework assignments to
. Thetimely feedback also allowed instructors to adjust and find a more effective teaching method.Lantz 15 highlighted the benefit of Clickers when students have to generate an answer withoutbeing judged by peers, therefore, promoting memory though "generation effect." Keller et al 4survey more than 10,000 students in 94 lecture sessions. They suggested the maximum Clickerbenefit could be achieved if 3-4 questions were given per quiz in practically every lecture (90-100%). Both students and instructors agreed that it would be best to let students discuss during aquiz to foster interaction and improve learning. Kay and LeSage 3 summarized benefits andchallenges of using Clickers in Table 1 in which numerous advantages of how Clickers change apassive
, environmental, and societal impact of manufacturing.For this activity, students formed themselves into teams of 2-3 students. Part of the lecture timewas devoted in the beginning to explain students about the module, rubrics, assessments anddeliverables. A feedback on student progress was given in week 3 during in class lecture time.Module activities were performed out of class majority of the time. The project stages were asfollows: (i) Week 1-2- Types of Souvenirs-Manufacturing process decided and e-mailed.(ii) Week 3-4- the economic and environmental, impact of manufacturing –paper submission.(iii) Week 5- Report and Presentation. Guidelines about how to write a bid were also given [9].These are given in Appendix 1.To jump start student discussion
, andreliability. At the end of the course, student groups are required to demonstrate their designthrough a final formal presentation to the faculty, fellow students, peers and a jury of industryguests and faculty from other departments. Students also write a detailed design report as part ofthe course requirements.Students are assigned to select a project in the area of (a) Manufacturing Process System Designor (b) Product Design.The scope of the work in format (a) may be summarized as follows: 1. Design a simple product using available resources of our CIM facility. 2. Design and develop an automated manufacturing process using CIM facility. 3. Implement, debug, test the system, and run production with minimal human intervention. 4
. Discuss the results based on statistical theory;9. Write the final report with the team members and prepare the poster for final presentation in consultation with the academic training advisor. Submit the final report and make the oral and poster presentation.In addition, this project is designed to fully/partially satisfy some of the ABET's student learningoutcomes (a-k) and/or proposed new outcomes (1-7) that include:b. An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data (new outcome 3);c. An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as safety, manufacturability, and sustainability (new outcome 2);d. An ability to function on
sequence aims totrain the students in identifying projects of relevance to the society, in planning and scheduling asolution, and in entrepreneurial activities that may result from the project. The course is worththree credit hours per quarter offering. The course is also intended to cover an industrial projectstarting from the proposal writing and conceptual design to final prototype building and conceptrealization steps. The course is focused on proposal and project progress report writing,prototype fabrication as well as design improvement and optimization. Each quarter, studentteams must submit a progress report and demonstrate a physical working prototype at the end ofacademic year. During fall and spring quarters, they conduct an oral
abilities as an engineer. PBL increases student retentionrates and allow students to form useful connections between content of the course and problemsexpected to be encountered in their future careers in engineering.In MET1161, three design projects related to (i) molding, (ii) forming, and (iii) machiningprocesses were assigned. Students were also asked to write a technical paper and perform apresentation in the class. Students were free to choose their own product. They started theirproject with an existing product/part and they redesigned the part to improve it for the predefinedconditions. Students also decided for the manufacturing process and tools required tomanufacture the part. Sub steps were (i) describing the product/part, (ii) listing
importantly, they all have the same goal: to learn howto do research. Second, at “brown-bag” lunch meetings, each REU student would present abouttheir project, progress, and difficulties. Third, they were required to write a paper step-by-stepthroughout the summer, including the literature review, conducting the experiments, performingdata analysis, and writing the conclusions. Last, they were required to (1) create a poster tosummarize their work, (2) present their findings at a university-wide poster session, and (3)respond to their peers’ questions about their projects. In addition to working on a researchproject, participants would also attend workshops and field trips related to imaging technology,science and engineering research, and planning
system with lift and flattening capabilities for home use.Students’ Learning Outcomes Assessment:After the completion of their project, students are required to write a comprehensive final reportand give a clear and informative oral presentation elaborating on the work they have donethroughout the project.The students’ learning outcomes are measured by the MANE faculty using the followingperformance indicators. • Demonstrate ability to select appropriate tools in a design process • Demonstrate clear and sound reasoning preparing for a design solution • Demonstrate effective contribution in achieving the project/team goal(s) • Demonstrate effective collaboration by taking responsibility • Demonstrate
grading over the course of two weeks using CrowdLearnbefore submitting a reflection at the end of the activity. The reflection prompt was “Afterparticipating in the discussion forum, write up a short reflection (50 - 500 words) on what youlearned by answering the discussion questions and discussing with your peers. How were yourthoughts and ideas about manufacturing costs solidified, pivoted, and/or developed? How wasyour experience with the AR app?”.4.2 Analysis4.2.1 Codebook Development148 learners wrote reflections. Of this group, 84 learner reflections directly mentioned using theAR app. To perform an analysis of the reflections, we developed a codebook to tag andcategorize reflections through an iterative development process [21]. As each of
purchasing common household objects5.Additive Manufacturing Course (3-0-3)A new course on 3D Modeling and Rapid Prototyping has been developed and offered as asenior level elective course to all engineering students. The catalog description of the courseincludes the following:Product design, CAD and related software; basic principles, development,process chain of additive manufacturing; photopolymerization processes; powder based fusionprocesses; extrusion-based systems; printing processes; sheet lamination processes; beamdeposition processes; direct write technologies; design for additive manufacturing; guidelines forprocess selection; software issues and direct digital manufacturing; medical applications; postprocessing; use of multiple materials
planning, robotprogramming, and the coordinate grid. Since the students had not yet been introduced to the X-Y coordinate system, a grid utilizing the cardinal directions of north, south, east and west wasused (see Figure 1). The grid was comprised of 3” squares which made it easy for groups of 4 or5 students to work together. Using a simple robot programming language developed for thistask (see Figure 2), students were asked to work with their group members to write a programthat would cause an industrial robot to move five 2” square wooden blocks, each having oneletter written on them, to designated grid locations to spell “ROBOT”. Small font size lettersprinted on the grid helped the students place the blocks at the same grid location at the
of class in the sameroom, so mixing things up is good”. Also, here are some ideas about why the students dislike theSMLs: “I feel that individual student may learn more, but the class probably doesn’t.” You areasking students to be an “expert" on the subject and be able to "teach,"”. All positive and negativenotes show the importance of improving independent and lifelong learning skills through activelearning strategies through class participation and discussions. For the MLs related to the casting topics the peer evaluation survey for the castingprocesses listed in Table 1 show that more than 80% of the students in the class (24 students)learned or learned much from the micro-lectures. Again, the students were asked to write a
integratedactivities, the program has been brought back to 183 students. Figure 1 depicts the enrollmentdata for the manufacturing engineering program. It clearly shows a precipitous decline after theinitial startup spike and highlights a period of growth as a result of the recruiting strategies used.Since there has been a steady enrollment increase since 2004, it is unclear whether a true steady-state enrollment has been found. At the time of writing, the Fall 2007 applications are exceedingany prior year application rates. Historically, the manufacturing engineering program has aaccepted application fall show rate of roughly 70 percent, thus indicating Stout’s program is afirst choice program for students. This show rate is significantly higher than most
where there wassubstantial disagreement or controversy; and revoted they felt appropriate.Because each participant brought their own experience to the survey process, it is not possible tobase the results of the survey on any literature review. However, because of this systematicapproach we felt that the most highly rated topics and items represented a consensus view of theparticipants.Phase 2 - Review of Results and Creation of Continuous Improvement ReportAfter the survey was completed an internally peer-reviewed continuous improvement report wasprepared. The purpose of the report was to analyze the results of the survey and make arecommendation to the department for further action. The review criteria were:1) Is the interpretation of the
are requiredto design, build and validate all of the required manufacturing documentation and fixturingfor use during the production of their product. The student design teams execute a pilotproduction run to validate documentation and fixtures and then they refine the manufacturingand production process to efficiently produce the products. The capstone course ends with asix-hour production run, where the students lead a group of their peers to build between 15and 21 products. To incorporate the practice of integrated manufacturing systems into thiscourse, students are also required to design, simulate and analyze a fully automatedproduction line for their products which includes production stations, material handlingsystems, storage systems
machining and steel for welding. • The cost of the materials should not be significantly increased from the current year’s lab.Each team submitted a report describing the proposed product and the sequence of lab activitiesneeded to fabricate each component. Each team also presented a 5-minute “sales pitch” to theirclassmates. The students peer evaluated the projects in four categories: feasibility, cost,presentation quality, and appeal. The highest scoring project (Fig. 5) was created in thefabrication lab the following year (spring semester 2018). Overall, the reflection essays anddesign project established the grade for the hands-on component.Figure 5: The winning lab design project was a Christmas Tree consisting of a milled aluminum“tree” (1
, and 3D web player plug-in. The client, which runs ina web browser, provides a student interface that handles input and output (displaying results,simulation). The web server performs actions and computations based on student input by usingXML and JSP language. The application server reads and writes to the databases by JavaBeanand interfaces with external software packages. The content of the course is primarily presentedwith Web pages which are written in HTML. In order to move courses from one system toanother, and extract and/or perform automated processing on the documents, standardizeddefinitions for course structures are necessary. To meet requirements, Extensible MarkupLanguage (XML) is used to develop course structures. In order to
and create a presentation of the plan to peers and mentors by the end of first week.Weeks 2 – 6: Research Study Conduct the research study according to plans developed in Week 1. Meet once per week with the full group to review progress with peers. Meet twice per week within subgroups working on related research questions. Document changes in research plans as needed. Initiate and document plans for development of curriculum learning module in consultation with mentor and engineering research and development consultants. Page 22.1250.4Curriculum Learning Module Implementation:During the summer RET
not standard in classroom dynamics.One such advantage is working with people from different backgrounds. The data in question 1points to students realizing communication plays a key to solving societal issues. This projectchallenged both classes to step outside their comfort zone and communicate on a real issue. Inaddition, in two unrelated questions, 1 and 3, communication was a major theme in their answers.The data shown in question 1 and 3 reaffirms the belief that service learning is helpful to students ingaining certain skills not accomplished in writing a paper. Although communication was not thefocus during the project, the largest number of students mentioned it when asked what personalquality the students took away from the project
featureis modeled after popular social networking sites so that students, educators, and industryprofessionals already familiar with social media applications can quickly learn how to usethis application. The goal of the my.careerme space is to provide a separate web area soteachers and manufacturing organizations can be comfortable about networking withstudents. The students and teachers control who, what, where, when, etc. communicationbetween their classmates, peers at other schools, or other professionally sponsored groupsfor example. Just like manufacturing companies need to stay up to date with the latesttechnologies that impact their products and processes, this new media networking areaprovides an opportunity for company mentors to get