situations.From previous experience with the Engineering of Everyday Things project [6], the hardwareportion is the easy part. Identifying the concept and creating appropriate worksheets is thedifficult part, and will probably take several iterations. It is important that the worksheets areclear and enhance the students learning instead of causing confusion. Poor worksheet design caneasily result in the students spending more time trying to figure out what is being asked than inactually thinking about the concept.One of the key features of the worksheets will be one or more questions to determine if thestudents can transfer the knowledge they should be gaining from the exercises to other situationswhich do not necessarily look like the exercise. This
on top of the regular lab assignments. Both thestudents’ and instructor’s work load went up as compared to previous years. Additional tasksrequired of the instructor were license arrangements, practicing with the software, in-classdemonstrations, supplementing lab handouts, and grading assignments. Altogether the use ofFlowLab adds about 2-3 hours of work per week during the first year.The course is largely structured by two course projects. Hydrostatics, buoyancy, Bernoulli’sequation theory, and control volume analysis are followed by similitude analysis. The latterbecomes the basis of the first project, where students design and build model sail boats. Hulltests on the models are performed closer to the end of the semester, and predictions
/mechanical systems, and construction. Finally, architecture isincluded into each curriculum with the minimal requirement for “understanding of architecturaldesign and history leading to architectural design that will permit communication, andinteraction, with the other design professionals in the execution of building projects.”For each of the programs, the curriculum was analyzed and each course was classified into oneof the following categories: • A: Communications –includes any course with the purpose of writing, public speaking, technical presentation, or a required English elective. This category was separated from general humanities electives because of the increased industry emphasis on producing graduates with
hiring women in certain positions where deadlines and daily basis follow-ups are crucial to sustain a smooth work flow. This is Page 13.461.3 the case in many engineering projects and positions.Diagnosis and AnalysisEngineering is still often seen as a “dirty,” “heavy,” and “manual” occupation for “strong” menand unsuitable for women and it has generally lagged behind other professions2. Some studiessuggest that the dominance of men and the attitudes and behavior of teachers tend to reinforcethis view 3.However, there has been a general trend of expansion of women into these professions. This isdue to a number of factors such as the
students are very analytically capable, theMES students are much better skilled in verbal and reading and writing skills. Our first attemptsin these classes show very successful results. Which means the idea that the MES student wouldbe able to work, communicate and team up with the engineers is valid.In addition, in our ES260 (where there are no engineering students) the students from business,economics, architecture, and design colleges are interested to work with engineering students intheir projects. This has been the most interesting and unexpected result of our implementation.Students in the minor program would like to work with engineering students, on engineeringprojects, and also would like to see some back of the envelope engineering
AC 2008-768: SAME COURSES, DIFFERENT OUTCOMES? VARIATIONS INCONFIDENCE, EXPERIENCE, AND PREPARATION IN ENGINEERING DESIGNAndrew Morozov, University of Washington ANDREW MOROZOV is a graduate student in Educational Psychology, College of Education, University of Washington. Andrew is working on research projects within the Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT) and the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE).Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington DEBORAH KILGORE is a Research Scientist in the Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT) and the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE), University of Washington. Her areas of specific
technical electives. In their junior year, they would replace“Natural/Physical Science w/Lab” with “Microbiology” (Bio 330 & Bio 330L). Also, they wouldtake “Fundamentals of Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning” (MET 407) as their EETelective. During their senior year, students would be required to take elective course 2(Biotechnology) and elective course 4 (Biotechnology Manufacturing Laboratory) as their EETelectives. In their “Capstone Design Phase I and II” (EET 428 & EET 429), students would berequired to do their project in the area of Biotechnology Manufacturing or find an internship witha local biotechnology company in order to gain practical experience. Students selecting theproject will be evaluated by a professional
AC 2007-3069: ADAPTING A POST-SECONDARY STEM INSTRUCTIONALMODEL TO K-5 MATHEMATICS INSTRUCTIONDonna Diaz, Clemson University Dr. Donna Diaz is Research Assistant Professor at Clemson University in the Department of Mathematical Sciences. Her responsibilities include designing and delivering professional development for K-5 teachers in the content area of mathematics. She is a member of the Math Out of the Box curriculum development team, assisting in the design and delivery of teacher development and student curriculum materials. In addition she serves as Principal Investigator for teacher development projects funded by the National Science Foundation, Appalachian Regional Commission, and
Engineering Management exist which include supply chainmanagement related content9-12. The very first of these programs began to be offered in the early Page 13.1118.21990s and in some cases have been revised since then. Some Engineering ManagementPrograms were designed as interdisciplinary degrees between business and engineering schools13. As manufacturing has continued to move off-shore since the beginning of these programs therequirements and content emphasis has shifted and in several cases included more on supplychain management. A few programs have moved in the direction of offering modules withspecializations in such areas as project and
libraries. Mainstream languages like C, Java,etc. come only with some low-level graphical capabilities. The side effect is that Elica requiresless time to implement virtual models. 2. Elica has a dynamic support. This means that when there is need to change Elica to providenew functionality for the SoftLab project it is possible to make this change. And several timesElica was changed to accommodate it to SoftLab. The developers of other languages will nevermake such changes in their implementations unless this change will be beneficial for a largenumber of users. 3. Elica is free. Page 12.1284.6 SoftLab is not yet ready for distribution. Its
studies linked to the ongoingscholarship in CAEE, created resources for dissemination, and refined leadership skills.The 2006 ISEE participants, or Scholars, were relatively new to engineering education researchwhen they began their ISEE year. Eighteen Scholars were selected from a competitive, nationalpool of candidates based on the strength of each Scholar’s application – including a proposedresearch project focusing on diversity issues – and the capacity of the proposed project to meetthe ISEE goals of 1) contributing to engineering education scholarship, 2) enhancing learningand local change, 3) facilitating coherence and expansion of the existing community, and 4)demonstrating engineering education scholarship as a professional endeavor
AC 2007-2102: USING FLUID MECHANICS RESEARCH EXAMPLES TOENHANCE AND STIMULATE UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERINGEDUCATION: PART IIOlga Pierrakos, Virginia Tech Olga Pierrakos is currently a National Academy of Engineering CASEE AGEP Postdoctoral Engineering Education Researcher (PEER) at Virginia Tech in the Department of Engineering Education. Dr. Pierrakos holds an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Her Ph.D. work pertained to vortex dynamics in left ventricular flows. She has served as faculty advisor to over thirty mechanical engineering seniors involved in biomedical engineering design projects and taught several mechanical engineering fluid
CAD pedagogy, sustainable design and engineering, which include environmental sustainability in schools and colleges. He is a research partner with the EU INTERREG IIIC/DQE project (Towards a Sustainable Region), and contributes to developing strategies, which inform environmental sustainability policy in EU states. He has undertaken substantial research projects in technologies education, including engineering design graphics, for the Irish National Department of Education and Science. He lectures in design for sustainability, and design and communication graphics across a number of courses in UL, and endeavours to link academic research with industry, through seminars and onsite
complex system with a number offormal constraints. This is embedded in the social context of the particular university systemand gives the student the chance to succeed by building personal relations and gatherinformation through others. However, it should be noted that other effects, such as traditionallearning, might have contributed to the acquisition of the stated competencies. Due to thelimitations of the data the proportions of the respective contributions can not be evaluated atthis stage.Quote 2 (from the transcript of the discussion of focus group No. 2) “During my degree I gave up asking questions. It just was not encouraged. Today when I work on interdisciplinary projects I encountered situations where it would have
Professor of Educational Research at the University of North Carolina - Charlotte. Dr. Wang teaches educational research and statistics courses. Dr. Wang received a master of applied statistics degree and a PhD degree in educational research from The Ohio State University. Page 12.1083.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 MULTI-CAMPUS DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PROBLEM-BASED-LEARNING COURSES IN ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY WITH INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNINGIntroductionThe project described here began with a civil engineering and biology laboratory
Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He is the author of The Craft of Scientific Presentations (Springer-Verlag, 2003). Page 11.778.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Integrating a Sentence-Headline Design of Teaching Slides With Active-Learning Measures in a Large ClassAbstract In large classes, instructors often project and then post presentation slides tocommunicate important information. As recently shown, using teaching slides that have asuccinct sentence headline supported by visual evidence, rather than the traditional phraseheadline supported by a bullet list, has led to
Shewhart [73, 74], which have founduniversal appeal in traditional global manufacturing. Due to the inherent nature of the presenceof a number of variables and possible varied levels of their existence involved in bio-basedmanufacturing, quality techniques such as the design of experiments and Taguchi studies [75]become highly relevant for process innovation and improvement. Knowledge in these and otherbasic quality principles is a prerequisite in most engineering and technology degree programs, soextending these concepts to include bio-based manufacturing can be accomplished with relativeease.Management/business concepts such as strategic project planning, project scheduling, andproject management are indispensable in the operation of successful
, i.e. specific homework problem or specific lab project. (Figure 1.) The evidence section is most critical to effective assessment, as it controls against a “Lake Woebegone” effect in which all of the students are seen as “above average”. Faculty are required to provide justification for their ratings.Figure 1. Faculty Assessment of Student Performance 2. Faculty Perception. Faculty are presented with a list of the course-level outcomes for their course, and asked to rate the overall effectiveness of the course in helping the students to meet the outcomes. They are given the opportunity to reflect on successes and shortcomings, identify equipment needs and constraints, and otherwise record their
requires students to make oral presentations as well as towrite laboratory reports, business letters, résumés, and technical research papers. Written reportsand oral presentations are required in mid-level courses, and the senior-level two-semestercapstone design sequence, a joint effort of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering,requires students to write project proposals, progress reports, updates, and final reports as well asmake an oral presentation in each semester. Dr. Niiler, founding director of UT-Tyler’s WritingCenter, has extensive experience working with students from across the disciplines on subject-specific writing projects. He has contributed to the Electrical Engineering Laboratory Reportstyle guide, and regularly
work. On this page, PHP scripts duplicate the students'calculations to help graders find the student's errors and give customized feedback. Thereare form fields on this page so graders can grade the assignment and make comments. Assoon as this occurs, students can see their grades and comments online.All the graded items in the class, not just the online assignments, are included on thestudent's 'grades page.' Their final course grade is also automatically projected, with anaccompanying letter grade.For some graded items, quizzes for example, the lowest two scores of ten may bedropped when the final course grade is calculated. The 'grades page' counts all of thequizzes until nine are graded, then the lowest grades are dropped. For example, one
Cincinnati, with specialization in human factors engineering. Dr. Pennathur's interests are in the science of learning in engineering education. Dr. Pennathur has considerable expertise in human behavioral research methods. He has developed human behavior and performance models in personnel skills and training for advanced electromechanical troubleshooting and fault-finding tasks, disability models in older adults (work funded by NIH), and modeling physical and mental workload for soldier safety and performance (work funded by the US Army Research Laboratory jointly with Fort Bliss and William Beaumont Army Medical Center). These projects have all included extensive instrumentation, calibration, and
AC 2007-245: SIX YEARS AND THOUSANDS OF ASSIGNMENTS LATER: WHATHAVE THEY LEARNED, AND WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?J. Shawn Addington, Virginia Military Institute J. Shawn Addington is the Jamison-Payne Institute Professor and Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Virginia Military Institute. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He teaches courses, laboratories, and undergraduate research projects in the microelectronics and semiconductor fabrication areas; and, he remains active in curriculum development and engineering assessment. He is a registered professional engineer in the
Programs” 2 for the 2007-08accreditation cycle stipulating that an engineering master’s degree graduate should satisfybaccalaureate curriculum criteria and demonstrate mastery of a particular subject and a high levelof communication through completion of an engineering project or a research activity.(Common ABET baccalaureate curriculum criteria include proficiencies in performing statistics,conducting experiments, and critically analyzing data.) It is implied that an engineering doctoraldegree graduate should satisfy the master’s-level criteria and demonstrate expertise in a subjectthrough an advanced research activity. Considering the growing necessity of graduate-levelengineering education and, subsequently, the research aspect of graduate
TOTAL 30 20 10 Page 12.1210.2 0 1970-1979 1980-1989 1990-1999 2000-2006 2000-2009 Projected Table 1: Recently Accredited Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering Programs2 Next General Year Review (NGR) Accredited University
, engineering Page 12.534.3seminars, engineering field trips, student presentation and final written report and exam.All lectures, seminar, field trips, presentations and exam should be carried out at thehosting universities. A course Pack focused on the culture and language was developedand required reading by participants during pre-visit orientation.20 students participated in the program last year and we are planning to attract 20 WMU studentsto participate in this program in 2007.The program itinerary is given below.ImpactThis project will certainly enhance the international reputation of WMU in engineering teaching,learning and research. WMU
functionally replace the traditional fixed lab workstation and also establishentirely new modes of educational delivery10. Systematic evaluation of the impact on learningand the learner indicated that there were many opportunities to extend the student experience indesign/synthesis, experimental homework and curiosity-driven learning11. The availability of thenew Analog Discovery hardware is timely because it opens up opportunities for the wholeacademic community to build on the exploratory work described above.Over the last 20 years, all Engineering programs have steadily strengthened their project andcapstone courses to develop team-working and cross-disciplinary problem solving skills. Theoutcomes can be seen in many ASEE presentations and in the
Computer Science UTPL. He is a member of Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Web and Knowledge Based Systems of UTPL, and director of thesis projects third level (related to Semantic Web Services, Web 2.0 and Social Network Analysis). He has conducted research in Open Educational Resources Online, Knowledge Representation Models and Social Network Analysis. Lopez-Vargas is a scholarship holder of the National Secretariat of Sci- ence and Technology (SENESCYT). In the Projects Unit and Systems UPSI - UTPL, he was an Analyst / Programmer Academic Management System, until 2004.Mr. Nelson O Piedra, Universidad Tecnica Particular de LojaProf. Janneth Alexandra Chicaiza, Universidad T´ecnica Particular de Loja
the “big picture” of engineering.6 One such effort integrates theintroduction to engineering course and the engineering graphics course around a reverseengineering project, making use of 3-D computer modeling and rapid prototyping of thedisassembled parts for reengineering considerations.7 Another study compares eight differentmethods for teaching design to first-year students and concludes that a reverse engineeringmodel is preferred.8An attempt to increase student interest is made by creating a game whereby students are awardedachievement levels for gaining particular insights during reverse engineering activities.9 Oneengineering educator went so far as to report that reverse engineering has “proven to be theinstructor’s fire keg that
knowledge in the areas regulatory affairs, and safety which are becomingmainstream capabilities for engineers. To meet the demands for a rapidly changing, technology-driven workforce, the industry and educational advisory bodies have recommended thatacademic instruction should include industry practice training2. Many programs and universitieshave accomplished industry practice training through co-operative education, industry fellowsprograms, guest lectures, capstone projects, courses co-taught with the industry, and field trips3,4. This poster describes an effort to translate some industry practices into classroomeducation. Experiential laboratory, design projects, classroom lectures or seminars can be used toinclude industry practice
analysis for ongoing CETL projects. His master’s thesis is an analysis of choice and player narratives in video game storytelling.Dr. Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Judith Shaul Norback, Ph.D. is faculty and the Director of Workplace and Academic Communication in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has developed and provided instruction for students in industrial engineering and biomedical engineering and has advised on oral communication instruction at many other universities. The Workplace Communica- tion Lab she founded in 2003 has had over 19,000 student visits. As of Spring 2013, she has shared her instructional materials with