AC 2009-239: A MODEL FOR TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIALIZATION:MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITYGerald Nelson, Mississippi State University Gerald Nelson, an industrial engineering graduate (1974) with an MBA (1985) from Mississippi State University, began his career with a co-op experience at Rockwell International. Nelson worked five semesters with Rockwell before joining them full time after graduation as a Project Engineer and Program Manager. Nelson’s career includes former positions as Plant Manager, Trinity Industries; President and Chief Operating Officer of the Wear Resistance Group of Thermadyne Industries, Inc.; Executive Vice President of Operations, Viasystems Group, Inc.; and Chief
N 52 100 (A) the surface area of the indentation A 38 73 (B) the projected area of the indentation B 13 25 (C) the depth of the indentation C 1 2L3/Q5 In a K-alpha doublet diffraction peak of a metallic phase, the K-alpha-2 line N 52 100 (A) is always at a higher angle than the K-alpha-1 line A 33 63 (B) is always at a lower angle than the K-alpha-1 line B 14 27 (C) may be at a higher or lower angle than the K-alpha-1 line C 5 10L4/Q8 In plain carbon steels
Michigan University. Dr. Wang has received his Ph.D. of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1994. He has BS and MS from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China in 1985. Dr. Wang has worked in industry with CAD/CAE/CAM for more than 10 years. Dr. Wang has extensive research on variational geometry and parametric and constrained design. Recently, he has been involved with numerous automotive interior design projects and has held several patents on the auto interior components, which are extensively used in current models. Dr. Wang has extended the design and engineering of automotive parts to the logistics and supply chain
design that will supplement the quantitative methodsavailable. We are embarking on the next phase of this tool to address methodological limitationsand to substantiate the promise of lighting simulation for educational and professional benefit.Bibliography 1. Flynn, J. E., Hendrick, C., Spencer, T.J., & Martyniuk,O. (1973). Interim study of procedures for investigating the effect of light on impression and behavior. (Research Project Report of the Illuminating Engineering Research Institute). 2. Flynn, J. E., Hendrick,C., Spencer, T.J., & Martyniuk, O. (1979). A guide to methodology procedures for measuring subjective impressions in lighting. (Research Project Report of the Illuminating Engineering
2006-256: THE ETHICS BLOG: STUDENTS MAKING CONNECTIONS AMONGETHICS, THERMODYNAMICS, AND LIFEDonna Riley, Smith College Donna Riley is Assistant Professor in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. Her work focuses on implementing liberative pedagogies in engineering education.Ida Ngambeki, Smith College Ida Ngambeki is a student at Smith College.Lionel Claris, Smith College Lionel Claris holds a master's degree in education from Smith College and currently teaches Spanish and French to elementary school students in Springfield, MA. He is a passionate advocate for new ways of thinking about learning, involved locally in the Holistic School Project of Amherst and the Re
Science Education from Cornell University.Cathy Lachapelle, Museum of Science, Boston Dr. Cathy Lachapelle has worked on a number of research and evaluation projects related to K-16 science and engineering education. Cathy received her S.B. in cognitive science from MIT, and her Ph.D. in Psychological Studies in Education from Stanford.Anna Lindgren-Streicher, Museum of Science, Boston Anna Lindgren-Streicher is a Senior Curriculum and Research Assistant at the Museum of Science, Boston. Anna received a B.A. in Psychology from Tufts University and has worked for two years with K-12 teacher professional development programs related to engineering
: • EGR 101–Introduction to Engineering (offered as EGR 194) • EGR 103–Technology and Society (offered as EGR 194) • EGR 294–Applied Project (A one credit-hour class to support a renewable energy project conducted with the Hopi Nation) Page 11.270.9The outcomes were used most extensively in EGR 101; they structured much of the student work,and some data on their effectiveness was collected. tion Rubric Written Communication: Employs the writing process
from University of Illinois, Urbana. Her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are in Materials Science and Engineering from University of California at Berkeley in 1992 and 1994. Following graduate school, Amy worked for Hewlett Packard in San Jose, CA and in Colorado Springs, CO. Amy’s research interests include microelectronic packaging, particularly 3-D integration and ceramic MEMS devices.Pat Pyke, Boise State University Patricia Pyke is Director of Special Programs for the College of Engineering at Boise State University. She oversees projects in freshman curriculum development, retention, math support, mentoring, and women’s programs. She earned a B.S.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from
in the project as investigators. They could be paid with money out of the project (if it is externally funded). They could also be paid with a grade in a special topics or independent study type class.• Have some of your research be educational, where the research project is the creation, teaching, and assessment of the class.The first two authors followed this up in 2003 with a paper that dealt with the broader issue ofhow to balance personal and professional life1. A number of strategies were developed. As withany effort to balance the many activities in life, it is important to differentiate between needs andwants. Of course, this will vary from person to person. The key is to understand thisdifferentiation and to ensure that
suggested a number of suchmechanisms that could potentially be applied to non-biological control problems [1].For the course we introduced two case studies related to biological systems: bloodglucose control and bacterial chemotaxis. Throughout the semester we introduced theproblem of glucose control via insulin in the human body. Initially, we introduced thephysiology of the problem and used a simple pharmacokinetic model of insulin as analternative example for a logical controller. This model was extended to the BergmanMinimal Model [2, 3], to provide a more accurate differential equation model for glucoseregulation. Students were assigned a team project to design an insulin injection schedulefor a diabetic patient. For this project, students
implementeddigitally. Although the typical undergraduate curriculum is crowded enough as it is, and studentshave the ability to learn how to deal with these difficulties through elective courses and graduatestudy, it is important that the students come away knowing that these subtleties exist and thatthere are techniques out there for dealing with them. Much of the advancement taking place incontrols education seeks to address these deficiencies through laboratory work and project-basedlearning.1 2 A specific area of control system design and analysis that even many advanced graduatestudents are unaware of is that of discrete event system (DES) control. Discrete event control isoften confused with digital control. Whereas digital control systems
demanded results that required usage of the information, then thestudent had to take control of their learning in order to perform the tasks that were required ofthem. Finally, it was recognized that urgency of real-world needs could be quickly addressedby proper assignment of homework, presentations, designs, and tests. The career world createsstructure to task performance through project schedules and contractual requirements andmilestones. The learning interventions within those task structures occur in a less structuredprocess. For our students, we were not willing to give up on some of our structure. Forexample, in our Electrical Systems course, Ohm’s Law must be understood prior to Kirchhoff’sLaws, then Thevenin and Norton equivalent
Paper ID #19539The Roots of Entrepreneurial Career Goals among Today’s Engineering Un-dergraduate StudentsMr. Gunther Rameseder, Stanford University Gunther Rameseder, MSc., studied Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Universidad de Barcelona (UB). His majors were Mathematical Finance, Statistics and Operations Re- search with a minor in Economics. During his studies, Gunther gained loads of industry experience at Allianz, Roland Berger, UnternehmerTUM and Finleap where he was involved in projects regarding the digital transformation of organizations as well as corporate venturing. Gunther
Paper ID #18657THE USE OF DECISION MAKING MULTI-MEDIA COMPONENTS INELUCIDATING THE CONSTRUCTION METHODS OF THE ST. GEORGECHURCH IN LALIBELA, ETHIOPIAMr. Bart Malone Ridgill, The Ohio State University Bart M. Ridgill is a graduate student in Civil Engineering at The Ohio State University. He holds an A.S. in Engineering Graphics from Piedmont Technical College and a B.S. in Construction Engineering Technology from The University of Akron. At the time of this writing, he is a Project Manager for Facilities Design and Construction at The Ohio State University.Dr. Adrian Hadipriono Tan, The Ohio State University Adrian H. Tan
. From 2003 through 2006, he was involved with Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL in developing direct computer control for hydrogen powered automotives. He is also involved in several direct computer control and wireless process control related research projects. His current interests are in the area of packaging machinery system design & control, industrial transducers, industrial process control systems, modeling and simulation of Mechatronics devices and systems in virtual environment, programmable logic controllers, programmable logic devices, renewable energy related projects, wireless controls, statistical process control, computer aided design and fabrication of printed circuit board
, his doctorate in industrial engineering from Stanford University in 1975, and his masters in civil engineering from UAA in 1999.Dr. Jerome P. Lavelle, North Carolina State University Jerome P. Lavelle is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of engineering economic analysis, decision analysis, project management, leadership, engineering management and engineering education.Dr. Neal Lewis, University of New Haven Neal Lewis received his Ph.D. in engineering management in 2004 and B.S. in chemical engineering in 1974 from the University of Missouri – Rolla (now the Missouri University of Science and
learning • Students work in teams • Learning is self-directed and student-centered • Faculty serves as a mentor or guideThe module asks students to choose from a set of components (pump, turbine, boiler and con-denser) for which example performance data are provided. The example data tables included inAppendix A were created for the project using realistic numbers, but were not derived from actualcomponents. In fact, we permit a number of simplifying assumptions to facilitate the process (likeindependence of efficiency on shaft speed, flow, etc. . . ). For instructors who are so inclined, thiscan afford a good opportunity for a discussion about how the students might “go the next step” tomodel real components.At the end of their work
Paper ID #18000Redesigning Housing and Rethinking Programs through Design-BuildMr. Scott Gerald Shall, Lawrence Technological University Scott Gerald Shall, AIA, is an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean of the College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University (LTU) and the founding director of the International Design Clinic (IDC, www.internationaldesignclinic.org), a registered non-profit that realizes socially- responsive creative action with communities in need around the world. Since founding the IDC in 2006, Shall has worked through this organization to complete over a dozen projects on
frequency spectrum of 120 Hz to 12 MHz Four kilobyte data sample depthAt a list price of $295 each (quantity and educational discounts were available), this appeared to bean attractive solution. The PCSGU250 and a screen image are shown below in Figure 1.11 It has been pointed out that newer instruments provide similar or better features at a lower cost. The instruments wechose to use were based on what was available in 2009 and were available for use for this project after they were nolonger needed as equipment for our on-site undergraduate labs.Figure1. Velleman PCSGU250 dual-channel oscilloscope and function generator. The picture on the right is a screenshot of the user interface. Photos courtesy of Velleman, Inc©Next, we purchased a
for over 28 years as a commissioned officer in the U.S Army Field Artillery in a variety of leadership positions in the U.S., Europe, and East Asia. He retired at the rank of Colonel. During his military career, Dr. Lenox spent 15 years on the engineering faculty of USMA – including five years as the Director of the Civil Engineering Division. Upon his retirement from the U.S. Army in 1998, he joined the staff of the American Soci- ety of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In his position as educational staff leader of ASCE, he managed several new educational initiatives – collectively labeled as Project ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education). As ASCE’s Executive Vice President, Dr. Lenox led several educational
University 2014-present: Assistant Director of Diversity and Inclusion: Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic Univer- sity 2010-2012 Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Research: Workforce Central Florida/USDOL 2008-2010 Director or STEM and New and Emerging Industries Special Projects: Workforce Central Florida/USDOL 2007-2008 Education Special Project Manager: Workforce Central Florida/USDOL 2005- 2007 Science Department Chairperson: Orange County Public Schools; Orlando Florida 2002-2007 Physics and Biology Teacher: Orange County Public Schools; Orlando Florida Selected Publications 2013 American Society of Engineering Education. Dagley, M., Ramlakhan,N., Georgiopoulos, M., Young, C
InitialPublic Offering (IPO): In the 10th year of the company, you are doing $70 million in sales and project that you will reach $100 million within a year. At this time, you see 2 possible directions for the company: 1) Take the company public. Your accountants suggest that you should offer 2 million (of your total 12 million shares) at $30 per share. 2) Disney, which has been trying to get into the educational software market, offers you $420 million for your entire company.Students often gave clear answers that analyzed their personal interests, long term career goals,and assessments of value. However, close to half of the students (16 of 40) also struggled withthe exact mechanisms at play when
Paper ID #17743Exploring nontraditional characteristics of students in a freshman engineer-ing courseMr. William B. Corley, University of Louisville William B. Corley, M.S., is the graduate research assistant on this project. He is an experimental psychol- ogy graduate student with the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at University of Louisville. He has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in experimental psychology with a cogni- tive psychology concentration. His background includes several educational research projects and training in statistical methods.Dr. J C McNeil, University of
Paper ID #19771First-Year Engineering Students’ Perceptions of their Abilities to SucceedDr. Tanya Dugat Wickliff, Texas A&M University Delivering significant results in pivotal roles such as Sr. Consultant to high-profile clients, Sr. Project Manager directing teams, and Executive Leader of initiatives and programs that boost organizational effectiveness and optimize operations have been hallmarks of Dr. Wickliff’s career spanning more than 24 years with leaders in the oil & gas and semiconductor industries. As an expert in the areas of Executive Leadership and Team Development, Strategy Design & Execution
]. Peer-assessmentenvironments have also been designed for pedagogical code reviews [7] and exampractice questions [8]. A frequent use of peer assessment is for design projects [9],including user-interface design [9]. In group projects, peer assessment is often used torate contributions of team members to the artifacts produced by the team [11].The main objective of peer feedback is to provide specific and timely feedback to authorson how to improve their work. Unfortunately, most students, left to their own devices,provide a paucity of feedback that is not focused on helping the student author to improve.Most instructors have limited experience in teaching students how to review. It is one ofthe critical-thinking skills that is important for all
projects for researchers to explore with K-12 teachers and students.Third, there are extensive references to K-12 teachers encouraging use of CS in curriculum andinstruction (Basu, Dickes, Kinnebrew, Sengupta, & Biswas, 2013; Blikstein, 2013; Borgman,Abelson, Dirks, Johnson, Koedinger, Linn, … & Smith, 2008; Chiu & Wu, 2009; Clark, Nelson,Sengupta, & D’Angelo, 2009; Dalke, Cassidy, Grobstein, & Blank, 2007; Donnelly, Linn, &Ludvigsen, 2014; Grover & Pea, 2013; Hashem & Mioduser, 2011; Jacobson & Wilensky, 2006;Klašnja-Milićević, Vesin, Ivanovic, & Budimac, 2011; Levy & Wilensky, 2009; Maroulis,Guimera, Petry, Stringer, Gomez, Amaral, & Wilensky, 2010; Pea & Collins, 2008; Pathak, Kim,Jacobson
, FedEx, KPMG, AT Kearney, Motorola, Wrigley, IBM, GrubHub, Comarch, Minnetronix, Cleversafe, Automation Alley and the World Economic Forum among many others. Currently Dr. Pistrui is leading a consortium of ten Michigan universities and colleges (and their in- dustry partners) in a multi-year applied research project focusing on Industry 4.0 (the fourth industrial revolution). Dr. Pistrui has served as an economic advisor to the states of Michigan, North Carolina and Illinois, Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, AutoCluster Styira (Austria), Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance, Middle East Economic Digest, and the Family Firm Institute. As an educator, he has held faculty appointments at the University of
ABET evaluator.Dr. Gavin Duffy, Dublin Institute of Technology I am a lecturer and researcher in the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Dublin Institute of Technology. The subjects I teach include instrumentation, control & automation and chemical process technology. I mostly use problem and project-based learning and am an advocate of all student-centred learning techniques. My research area is spatial cognition and its role in STEM learning. I have in- vestigated the role of spatial ability in problem solving, electric circuit analysis and other tasks among engineering students. I am also interested in studying the role of spatial cognition in other disciplines and in younger age groups.Dr
their strength as self-directed learners [6], [8], [9]. Designing a project which is appropriate for the concepts presentedto the learners is an example of a course design element which empowers the adults to be activeparticipants in the course.Adult learners derive their self-identity largely from their great depth of experience [6], [8], [9].Because of this pre-existing knowledge, the participants learn from each other and have a richerfoundation of experience to which to relate new experiences [6], [8]–[12]. In contrast, adults canalso be less open minded due to fixed habits and an unwillingness to change. A constructivistapproach enables the learners to be in control of their own learning, takes advantage of priorknowledge, and aims for
committee [3], [4].Air quality is increasing in importance, as more people reside in urban than rural areas. The UnitedNations [5] projects that “urbanization, the gradual shift in residence of the human population fromrural to urban areas, combined with the overall growth of the world’s population could add another2.5 billion people to urban areas by 2050.” In a recent analysis, the World Health Organization(WHO) projects that 91% of the planet’s population lives in cities that do not meet standards foracceptable air quality [6]. Combining the projections from the UN and the WHO, air pollution isa challenge that not only threatens basic human welfare, but also damages natural and physicalcapital, and constrains economic growth [7].Air pollution is