ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual ConferenceThe main sources of electricity generation in Nigeria are hydropower and thermal with fossilfuels such as natural gas and coal being the feed fuel for the thermal plants. Aliyu7 noted thathydropower plants could not be relied upon. He stated that the oscillatory nature of energy outputfrom hydropower plants (mainly due to seasonal changes) and the negative impacts experienceddue to climate change are decreasing the water levels required to run the hydropower plants. Thedilapidated state of the hydropower infrastructure also reduces significantly their energy outputwhen compared to their projected capacity. The thermal plants utilize mostly natural gas as feedfuel and the lack of adequate natural gas
. During Fall 2013 he created IDEAS (Interdisciplinary Display for Engineering Analysis Statics) which is a project based learning activity designed specifically for promoting creativity, team-work, and presentation skills for undergraduate sophomore and junior students, as well as by exposing the students to the fascinating world of scientific/technological research based engineering. IDEAS is becoming the cor- nerstone event for the sophomore engineering students at UCF: from fall 2013 to fall 2018 approximately 3000 students have created, designed, presented, and defended around 900 projects and papers.Sudipta Dey Tirtha, University of Central Florida Sudipta Dey Tirtha is a doctoral student in the Department of Civil
. The Accreditation Specialist, together with the Head of the Department, define the “Semester Evaluation Plan” and identify the courses in which Faculty will be evaluating the student outcomes declared in SAEP. In the next section SAEP will be described in detail. 2. Planning and design of activities to be used to evaluate student outcomes. The Accreditation Specialist and the Head of Department ask Faculty, who will evaluate student outcomes, to carry out the following activities prior to the evaluation process in SAEP: To be acquainted with the student outcomes to be evaluated in the course and to design and/or to update the activity (homework, exam, project, laboratory report, etc.) in which the
• Include interactive self-check questions to keep students engaged and to segment the video • Provide an example problem but in order to keep the video short, the solution steps were not explained in detailThese studies each focused on prerequisite review videos for one course in their curriculum.Following their successes, the goal of this project is to create online review videos to improvestudent’s mastery and recall of prerequisite material across all mechanical engineering (ME)courses. The Review Video Library (or RVL) created is an ongoing project with videos beingcontinuously created and updated. It has been used in select courses in Spring 2019, Fall 2019,and currently in Spring 2020. The initial timeline and preliminary
and adapt what we know in diverse contexts. • have perspective: see and hear points of view through critical eyes and ears; see the big picture. • can empathize: find value in what others might find odd, alien, or implausible; perceive sensitively on the basis of prior direct experience. • have self-knowledge: perceive the personal style, prejudices, projections, and habits of mind that both shape and impede our own understanding; we are aware of what we do not understand and why understanding is so hard.12Questions 7-14 in Figure 1 were designed so that each facet is assessed. The facets primarilyaddressed by each question are indicated in brackets after each question in the
students in general and underrepresented groups in particular. Project RISE(Retention Initiative in Science and Engineering) initiated campus Learning Centers in gatewaycourses. Through this program, various centers have been developed and staffed since the 1990s.There are viable learning centers in Chemistry, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering,Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering (Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics of Materials). In addition,the university supports the MTU Writing Center, Modern Language Learning Lab, Center forComputer-Assisted Language Instruction, and tutoring services. The Learning Centers areutilized in two ways. First, students who need help with homework or course concepts can obtainassistance on an as-needed basis from
research at Stevens in systems engineering and intelligent / adaptive online learning systems. As the primary author of this paper, please address all related communications to her at: asquires@stevens.edu. Early in her career Alice focused on engineering hardware design and related software development, followed by technical management and operations management, with a more recent focus on systems engineering and online education and training. She has over twenty years of experience in engineering project management and technical management primarily in the defense sector. She has worked directly for several large defense companies including General Dynamics
ofthese materials may be affected by the biodiesel or the process chemicals. A materials lab projectcould investigate the effects of biodiesel and its process compounds on various plastics.7. Viscosity Measurements: Fluids labs with access to viscometers could test the viscosity of thereactants and reaction products as a lab exercise. The fluids involved include methanol, FAME,vegetable oil, and glycerin, giving a wide range of fluid viscosity to test with significanttemperature variation effects.8. Effect of Varying Viscosity on Process Equipment Design: The viscosity of the reactantschanges significantly during the initial phase of the reaction. A fluids lab project could calculatethe pipe size required for a consistent Reynolds number (pick a
problem with a socially relevant theme and is designed to increasethe students’ awareness of current affairs and possible engineering solutions. Each student teamis required to build a robot that can perform 8-10 tasks that relate to the overarching theme, andto research the theme and develop a product or strategy to address the social issue. Thetournament consists of the robot competition, presentation of the research projects, and ananalysis of the technical and creative merits of the robot design. Historically, FLL has addressedissues such as alternative power sources and use of resources (2007), an exploration into thepossibilities of nanotechnology (2006), the ocean resources and how we interact with them(2005) and making the world more
crisis.The FactsBased on the National Science Foundation (NSF) 2003 data source presented in Table 3, Whites representat least 75% of the scientists and engineers in the United States [9]. “STEM [science, technology,engineering, and mathematics] workers are overwhelmingly white, male, and disability-free, while theavailable pool of talented women, minorities, and persons with disabilities remains significantlyunderutilized. In contrast, these groups together constitute a little more than two-thirds of today’s U.S.workforce. The current and projected need for STEM skills compels policies, programs, and resources thatsupport greater participation by these groups in STEM education and careers” [2]. Table 1. Scientists/Engineers
Chevron Corp in Richmond, California and Salt Lake City, Utah. Currently Kara is taking post-baccalaureate classes at MSU to prepare for graduate school.Heidi Sherick, Montana State University Heidi M. Sherick, M.Ed., is Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Diversity in the College of Engineering at Montana State University. She is in charge of efforts to increase diversity in the College of Engineering by recruiting, advising and supporting minorities. She is the Director of EMPower and the Project Director of the DOC program. She has over 5 years of experience in teaching middle school science
that could besort of anywhere along the line of building it. Did it have animpact on how you understand or look at anything in yourdiscipline?A. It's given me confidence…By going back I'm able to see whatworked, what didn't, where I spent lots of time treading mywheels, and what methods or techniques that just clicked andworked really well, and hopefully by the time I graduate I'llhave so many more projects that I'll have a very broad base toor background to pull off of.Here, the student talks about looking back at what his past provides him in terms of making anargument that he is prepared to function as an engineer. Further, the student does not limit histhinking to the present, but rather
facilitate practical and rational design methods. Theclassroom is also equipped with various types of lighting systems and exposed mechanicalequipment to provide further insight and system wide coordination. State of the art visual andaudio projection systems are utilized in the classroom for both lecture and laboratory instruction.Course interdisciplinary design projects lead to a better understanding of the equipment used inthe industry.During classroom lectures, professors have the advantage of using multi-media setting to displayimages, diagrams, and other documents. Exposed equipment in the classroom can be dismantledand the function of the individual pieces can be explained on a theoretical level. Figure 5 is anexample of this equipment
] describe a project initiated by Texas A&MUniversity to address issues in manufacturing at the nanoscale. The project will introducenanotechnology concepts throughout the undergraduate engineering curriculum. The curricularchange introduced by this project has four components corresponding to the four years ofundergraduate engineering curricula. At each level, concepts related to manufacturing at thenanoscale are introduced at the appropriate technical level.Alpert, Isaacs, Barry, Miller, and Busnaina [4] describe various nanotechnology educationinitiatives undertaken by University of Massachusetts, Lowell. One of the initiatives consists ofstarting a cross disciplinary graduate certificate in nanotechnology and nanoscience in Fall 2005.This
minoritystudents than is average for engineering. Page 11.1052.2URI takes a linguistically-integrated approach to the international experience, but manyinternational experiences, usually with a smaller linguistic component, are offered by institutionsacross the country. Some of these include exchange trips to visit industries, tour academicfacilities and hear lectures by local faculty [3][4]; design projects involving students workingtogether from the U.S. and abroad [5]; study-abroad programs that focus on engineering studentstaking classes through international institutions [6][7][8]; and internships for engineers to workfor an extended period of time
AC 2007-93: THE INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN AND REDESIGN OF ANUNDERGRADUATE-LEVEL, SIMULATOR-BASED COURSE ON 'FLIGHT TESTTECHNIQUES'M. Christopher Cotting, Virginia Tech Chris Cotting is currently a graduate student working on his PhD in Aerospace Engineering at Virginia Tech. Prior to his return to school, he worked for four years at NASA Dryden Flight Research Lab where he was a project chief engineer and flight test lead for several projects. Prior to working for NASA he was employed for four years at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Palmdale, California. He has worked on numerous experimental aircraft projects including the X-43A and X-43C, X-35, and X-33. He has an undergraduate and Master’s
inexpensive webcam out of herbackpack and plugs it into the machine. She clicks on the icon for her design team member whois working the dead afternoon shift at the student union and is on wirelessly. They chat briefly,with live video, about the objectives for that evening’s design, exchanging ideas verbally,nonverbally and with sketches. They shut down the video but not the text chat window and workon two aspects of the project, text chatting when needed and otherwise ignoring that the chatfunction is even open. A snag occurs and they are not sure how to proceed. Checking, they seethat the instructor is logged in (he is not always on, but they are in luck) and they ask a quickquestion. Using video, the professor explains to both students at the same
theInternational Technology Education Association (ITEA) and the National Science Foundationpublished the Technology for All Americans Project, A Rationale and Structure for the Study ofTechnology 1. Specific recommendations about the content of technology education were made in Page 11.224.22000, when the National Research Council joined with the ITEA to establish national standardsfor technological literacy 2. Two years later, the National Research Council published two studiesthat convincingly make the argument for K-12 engineering education. These studies are RaisingPublic Awareness of Engineering, and Technically Speaking: Why All Americans Need to
Carolina Commission onHigher Education defines service learning as follows: Service learning is college student learning at any level and in any situation that is linked in a direct, hands-on fashion to the resolution of a problem or concern in a target community outside the institution.During this trip, the students of the University of South Carolina fulfilled this definition throughthe use of their hands and their hearts to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coastregion. With the aid and logistical support of the Salvation Army, this project was a true servicelearning collaboration with a non-profit organization and a major research university. Workingwith Salvation Army volunteers, students provided on-the
. Page 11.1060.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Rapid Prototyping of Printed-Circuit Boards with an Engraving LaserAbstractLack of a good system for rapid prototyping of printed circuit boards has been a major bottleneckin Senior Design at the University of Texas at Tyler. A simple method using artwork printed ontoner-transfer paper and transferred through heat and pressure to copper-clad circuit-board stockhad been successfully applied to simple designs but showed itself to be unsuited to thecomplexity of printed circuit boards developed for senior design projects. This unsuitability wasdue to two factors; low density (due to inability to accurately control line widths) and
, taken primarily by industrial Page 11.783.2engineering majors. This study is a prototype for a larger project addressing ERP-baseddecision-making, which involves creating learning modules for a variety of undergraduateengineering and management courses. Each module focuses on a decision-making problem thatis traditionally part of a functional course (e.g., production planning), and presents it in thecontext of a major business process, e.g., product development or supply chain and orderfulfillment. The process focus allows students to explore the impact of their decision on otherparts of the organization as well as its customers, suppliers, and
at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has spent the past thirty years designing and implementing professional development programs and curricula for K-12 teachers in science and technology. At the college level, he collaborates on projects exploring teaching methodologies and assessment strategies in first-year college courses in the sciences, engineering, and computer science.Ronald Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology RONALD H. ROCKLAND is Associate Dean of the Newark College of Engineering, and an Associate Professor of Engineering Technology and Biomedical Engineering. He received a B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. in bioengineering and electrical engineering from New York
Page 12.58.2 as a parameter). • A 3-d plot of the solution as a function of location and time. • An animation of the solution as a function of the spatial variable as time evolves. This is a closely spaced (in time) version of the second method.Although when the project was initiated it was thought that a 3-d image of the solution might besuperior, the authors have discovered that by far the most effective of the above-mentionedpresentation schemes is the one involving animation.MATLAB scripts for a variety of physical problems involving one spatial variable and time havebeen written. The exception involves the steady flow streamlines for a fluid dynamics problems.In that which follows the problems are categorized by the
as a separate handout.WebCT materials prepared for the MIT3301 course also have its pre-requisite materials so thatstudents refresh their past learning. Although the majority of the course is based on theindividual practices, it is a requirement for the students to prepare and submit their finalindustrial design projects with a team. Teams are formed with two-to-four students.Course students practice various communication mechanisms during the semester. There aremany discussions made on the final projects although there is a very minimal discussion on theclass assignments. E-mail and chat tools are also popularly practiced communication tools duringthe semester.In order to announce the course schedule, the course calendar is fully filled for
, faculty time, and support staff labor. With tuition costs risingfaster than inflation, the trends have undesirable results for both universities and students.This paper reviews the relevant literature in order to begin developing a study design to modelstudent progression through engineering degree acquisition as a complex system. Elements areexpected to include transition probabilities, identifying critical factors, predicting time tograduation, estimating costs and benefits of potential interventions, and projected throughput ofengineers earning bachelors’ degrees. The main goal of the research is to achieve an actionable,applicable, and accurate decision modeling method for a student’s progress to an engineeringdegree and a university’s
five questions (questions 6-10) assessed specific course components. For question 6,which assessed whether the lectures improved their understanding of the course material, themajority of the respondents indicated that they “extremely” agreed with the statement in thisquestion. Questions 7, 8, and 9 assessed the classroom discussions, group work, and Page 23.699.5assignments, projects, tests, and/or papers, respectively. For these questions, the majority of therespondents indicated that they “mostly” agreed with the statements in these questions. Forquestion 10, which assessed the course textbooks and readings, the greatest number
. Received several awards for the actuation in education including INTERTECH, ICECE and IGIP. Director of a project in Digital preservation of heritage and member of projects in Automation. Member of a program for enhancement of computer literacy at the University of Buenos AiresProf. Maria Feldgen, University of Buenos Aires Maria Feldgen is an associate professor and researcher in computer science at the University of Buenos Aires (School of Engineering). Her research interests include Engineering Education, Distributed Sys- tems, and Ubiquitous Computing. Her main research interests are around classroom assessment tech- niques for design capstone courses, heritage digital libraries and sensor networks. She was the
a sec- ond place award in the 2009 NCEES Engineering Competition for Connecting Professional Practice and Education. His latest award is the 2010 National James M. Robbins Excellence in Teaching Award from Chi Epsilon.Dr. Vinod K Lohani, Virginia Tech Dr. Vinod K Lohani is a professor in the Engineering Education Department and an adjunct faculty in the Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. His research interests are in the areas of sustainability, computer-supported research and learning systems, hydrology, and water resources. In a major ($1M+, NSF) curriculum reform and engineering education research project from 2004 to 2009, he led a team of engineering and education faculty to reform
marketing experience. He has worked for sixteen years in the industrial sector in a variety of sales, marketing, and business development roles, ten of which were with Corning Glass Works in their Science and Medical Products Divisions. He has over 20 years of academic licensing experience and is the former vice president of Ventures of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and formed the technology commercialization office at the University of Vermont. While at UVM, he formed UVM Ventures, an internal gap fund intended to create a ”valley of birth” by funding projects that had commercial promise but were too early for initial outside investment. He is in the process of doing the same at WPI. Keiller has founded or
Quality by Design (QbD)methodologies in ways that engage and enhance learning. This work is the basis for a workshoppresented at the 2012 ASEE – Chemical Engineering Division (CHED) Summer School. Theinteractive and self-contained workshop modules are highlighted. These modules can be easilyintegrated into the traditional undergraduate chemical engineering curriculum throughlaboratories/demonstrations. This project is part of the educational/outreach activities of theNSF-ERC on Structured Organic Particulate Systems.introductionOver the past several years, X University faculty members have been engaged as EducationalOutreach Partners with the NSF-sponsored ERC on Structured Organic Particulate Systemshosted by Rutgers University (with member