introductionof linked and team-taught courses, with an HU/COM instructor added to the College ofEngineering (COE) faculty who would typically teach the course. The HU/COM instructorprovides students with additional guidance in technical writing, group presentations, andteamwork. The senior design courses were chosen for this project in order to provide studentswith supplemental HU/COM instruction just prior to their entering the workforce, therebyaffording them timely training.This paper begins by explaining the context that led to the introduction of linked and team-taughtcourses. The evolution of three such courses is described in detail, followed by a discussion ofthe successes and challenges encountered in developing revised course content. The
AC 2010-24: A VIRTUAL FACTORY APPROACH FOR DESIGN ANDIMPLEMENTATION OF AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMSHamed Farahani Manesh, Eastern Mediterranean University Hamed F. Manesh received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Eastern Mediterranean University, N. Cyprus. He was a Research Assistant and Lecturer in this university from 2003 to 2010. He received his first Master’s Degree in Information Systems and the second in Mechanical Engineering also from Eastern Mediterranean University. Currently, he is involved in a research group, which carries out research and development activities for industry-oriented projects of intelligent manufacturing systems, automation, virtual manufacturing as well as
AC 2010-34: CHALLENGES AND RESPONSES OVER A QUARTER-CENTURYOF MANUFACTURING EDUCATIONDavid Wells, North Dakota State University David L. Wells has been Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at North Dakota State University since January 2000. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in process engineering and production engineering systems design and in product innovation and entrepreneurialism. His instruction is characterized by heavy reliance upon project-based, design-centric learning. Course projects are drawn from real industrial applications with real industrial constraints, often interactive with a corporate sponsor. Students are challenged to design effective
areas and have different learning styles. Curtisand Lawson [27] have suggested that it is important to provide distance learners with multiplechannels, both synchronous and asynchronous, in order to accommodate their preference fordifferent communication styles. In particular, the availability of synchronous communicationtools appeared to be critical in the process of collaborative learning [21]. Assigning learners towork on a group project does not necessarily mean that they will work collaboratively. Learnerstend to use a task specialization approach where tasks are divided among group members andthere are fewer opportunities to develop mutual engagement, knowledge and skill exchange, andinterpersonal communication skills [28].There are three
. Page 15.817.9References1. Iowa State University Fact Book, 2008-2009, Office of Institutional Research, Iowa State University, http://www.ir.iastate.edu/factbk.html2. Iowa State University Office of the Provost. 2003. Taskforce on the Recruitment and Retention of Women and Minority Faculty Report. http://www.provost.iastate.edu/faculty/diversity/Iowa State University Website3. Rankin, Susan. (2004) ISU Campus Climate Assessment Project Final Report. Rankin and Associates. http://www.hrs.iastate.edu/AAO/eod/finalreport.pdf4. Constant, K. P., Bird, Sharon, Hamrick, Florence (2008). "Advancing Women Faculty in Engineering through Institutional Transformation: the Iowa State University ADVANCE Program in the College of
inventory should help those studying the nature of research integrityand those designing education programs in the responsible conduct of research. STEMresearchers are held to ethical standards by funding agencies, the institutions they work for,professional societies and many of the journals in which they publish. This means that therecould be severe consequences in an individual violates the principles of RCR. Our tool could beused to identify the relationship between one’s research role concept and patterns of researchmisconduct for the purposes of preventing such misconduct through educational initiatives.As part of an NSF sponsored project we have designed and tested such an instrument. Indesigning our instrument, we adapted the constructs of
have already been taken to integratetechnological literacy into school curriculums in some areas. For example, the state ofMassachusetts has developed PreK – 12 Instructional Technology Standards24 which schooldistricts are expected to adopt. A second example comes from the state of Utah, where twogeneral approaches to teaching engineering and technology have been adopted. One has been toincorporate a nationwide program called Project Lead the Way (PLTW).26 PLTW involves afour-year sequence of technology education courses that are designed to help high schoolstudents prepare for engineering and technology higher education disciplines. One problem thatsome school systems have had in implementing this program is the cost associated
' ability to use critical thinking skills to tackle engineering problems, as well as theirability to research and discuss current technologies. There were two goals of this project: 1)implement a challenge-based learning module (based on the Legacy Cycle framework) todiagnose skin cancer with optical spectroscopy in a junior to senior-level undergraduate courseon biomedical optics and 2) assess the value of this module compared to previous years' lecture-only method of teaching optical spectroscopy. The experimental design was introduced over onesemester. The module was assessed using 3 indicators: comparing test answers between 5semesters worth of classes, a 1 page study guide on an emerging technology of skin cancerdiagnosis created by the
technical and project reports and monographs. He specializes in Electrical Power Systems, design optimization of electromagnetic devices, Artificial Intelligence Applications to Energy Systems as well as Electromagnetic Field Computations in NonlinearSystems. He has current interest in Shipboard power systems and Integrated motor drive systems. Dr.Mohammed has been successful in obtaining a number of research contracts and grants from industriesand Federal government agencies. He is also interested in Developing Asynchronous LearningEnvironments and educational techniques for Internet based delivery and virtual laboratories
. ReedHycalog: Company Project Files/Data sheets 12. ReedHycalog Company Website: http://www.ReedHycalog.com/ 13. ReedHycalog Company Website: http://www.ReedHycalog.com/rollercone/cuttingstructures/csfeaturesnew.htm 14. Bit and well sizes: US DOE: http://www.fe.doe.gov/programs/oilgas/microhole/microholemarketeval.pdf 15. Rathod, Jignesh (2003), Effects of Batch Size on Safety Stock Levels in a Market-Oriented Manufacturing System, M.S. Thesis, University of Houston, College of Technology. 16. Arena Website: http://www.arenasimulation.com/Biographical Information:FAROUK ATTIA, Ph.D.Farouk Attia is an Associate Professor and the Coordinator of the Graduate and the Undergraduate programs inMechanical
year Metric: Number of faculty participated, workshop evaluations, mission reports Action 2: Encourage and facilitate multi-disciplinary teaching Responsibility: Dean, Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs Milestones: Framework established, by-laws/policies issued by Spring 2005 Metric: Number of faculty participating in co-teaching Action 3: Encourage and facilitate industry-sponsored projects Responsibility: Dept. Chairs Timeline: Ongoing Metric: Number of industry-sponsored projects Action 4: Encourage and facilitate co-teaching by practicing engineers Responsibility: Dept. Chairs Timeline: Ongoing Metric: Number of seconded instructors
completion. Onlinestudents who defer a lecture generally play it back within a week in order to prepare forhomework or project submission. This again underscores the value to working students of Page 9.876.8simulteaching with recording. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004 American Society for Engineering EducationEven progressive faculty members resist new media. In the GMU School of InformationTechnology and Engineering we pride ourselves on progressive approaches. We are part ofVirginia’s newest state university and are located in a
class and indicated that students who were getting many answers incorrect needed to increase their time studying class material or clarify the material with the instructor.6) The variety of results, particularly on opinion questions about the class, showed students the diversity of their peer’s opinions and the variety of learning desires.One of the major benefits of CPS is that it allows the instructor to preplan questions to addressseveral different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. The process of generating and categorizingquestions for ARE346N, although time-consuming, illuminated the scarcity of questions at thehighest levels. The instructor compensated for this by designing homework assignments andgroup projects to address the synthesis
Variable Name Academic Dishonesty Professional Dishonesty (Question 7.2) (Question 11.3) Insufficient resources Not enough time (36) Lack of resources to complete job (7) Importance of success Grade pressure (15) Wanted to seem better than I was (5) Projection of blame Professor deserved it (14) Company deserved it (7) Perceived chance of success Material was too hard (13) Not
ofleadership in the reading to a discussion of how to implement it. A complete list of the readingscan be found in the references.8-17 IDEAL scholars put into practice leadership and professionalskills through presentations to the group and service projects. Presentations from IDEALscholars included strategies for attending a career fair and obtaining an internship or job offer,techniques for successful digital design of posters and presentations, and practicing presentationsfor a class project. Service opportunities included visiting a local elementary school andworking with younger students who were part of an after-school engineering explorers program.Each semester, informal dinners and holiday parties provided opportunities for informalinteraction
, research and industry. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from Panjab University in 1971, and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi in 1986.Prof. Clark Henson Vangilder, Central Arizona College Prior to obtaining a BS in Mathematics in 1995, I served in the US Navy as a Submarine Nuclear Propul- sion Plant Operator from 1985 – 1991. Subsequent to the BS degree, I obtained employment with DeVry University from 1998 – 2008; during which, I completed a Master’s degree in Physics, with an empha- sis on Physics Education. Since 2008, I have been the Professor of Physics at Central Arizona College. Current projects include the development of engineering AS degree
differences in the pre vs. post-game cluster solutions, therewas a pre to post-game change in the typology, or student groupings, relative to reasons forwanting to start a business, suggesting an impact by the game on this aspect of theentrepreneurial mindset. It is hypothesized that Nephrotex may have influenced this change dueto its focus on multiple perspectives invested in the design of a hemodialysis device. Unlikesome engineering design projects, Nephrotex has students balancing the input of internalstakeholders who all have different priorities and requirements of the final design. This mayinfluence students to see beyond the traditional engineering requirements of a design towards thepotential social implications of the work that they are
-based project delivery. The main areas of her research lie in: instructional design, online learning, measurement, professional education, higher education, the built environment, and facilities management. She is also interested in: instructional technology, learning analytics, connected learning, and project-based learning.Prof. Dean Takeo KashiwagiProf. Kenneth Timothy Sullivan, Arizona State University Page 24.151.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 An Assessment Tool for Using Videos and Rich Media in Construction Management Curriculum – A
attend this event which occursin the spring coinciding with the time that high school seniors are making their choices aboutcollege. The focus of the night is to introduce prospective students and their parents to conceptsrelating to bringing ideas to reality through engineering design and invention. The night beginswith a guest lecturer who presents information on their research and development and strives toinspire students to think outside of the box. The speaker is followed by breakout sessions thatinclude hands-on activities where students work on a small-scale design project, test their design,and make modifications as needed. This gives students exposure to prototyping. Anotherbreakout session option is to attend a panel discussion that
design issues using nanoscale devices and systems, and communicate team project or team research term paper work through oral presentation, and technical report. [b, c, d]III. Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Multidisciplinary Research ProgramSeries of three research courses introduce students to the research methodologies. Students areassigned in teams to work with faculty mentors who will assign them to do literature search ongiven nanotechnology research topics including the development of research plan and time tablefor the given activities. Three individual research courses are also available for undergraduatestudents to conduct research throughout three semesters (one credit per semester). The threecredit research modules are considered as
Projects course that is required for all freshman in the College of Engineering at LTU. He has published 31 peer-reviewed journal articles. At LTU, Meyer offers a number of outreach programs for high school students and advises many projects for undergraduate students. Page 24.809.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Introducing High School Students to Biomedical Engineering through Summer CampsAbstractSummer camps provide many high school students their first opportunity to learn about
Engineering atthe University of South Alabama is currently listed as a team member of an NSF fundedExtension Services project entitled ENGAGE (Engaging Students in Engineering)[1]. Theprimary goal of ENGAGE is to improve the retention of undergraduates in engineering programsby encouraging the implementation of research-proven techniques. One of the three strategies forimproving retention is to assess and improve the spatial visualization skills of the students.Spatial visualization skill is essential for understanding and solving a majority of engineeringproblems. Spatial visualization is the ability to correctly visualize three dimensional objectswhen they are represented in two dimensions (such as in a construction plan or in a detailed
broad prospective of the fundamental of physics. The course consists of lectures, weekly graded homework, several small scale projects, weekly quizzes and a series of laboratory exercises. Homework, quizzes, small scale projects are carried out individually, while lab exercises are conducted in teams. Also, the course involves a midterm exam and a Final exam. Page 23.229.6 Figure 3 : Explanation of concept in Virtual Physics LabCourse topics include the following. 1 - Introduction to physics: This chapter mainly concentrates on the basic concepts of physics such as definitions, units
in 2012), electrical signalsproduced by the simple guitar string platform were displayed with the Mobile Studio dataacquisition board, which also allowed participants to hear the sounds produced using ear budsdriven by the audio amplifier on the board. Inquisitive children of all ages were able to pluck thestring, see and hear the signal under a variety of conditions (string tightness, strength of pluck,etc.) and discuss what they experienced with their family and the college and high schoolstudents who assisted at the booth. Outreach also provides a good test of the physical robustnessof the apparatus.In an introductory Electric Circuits class for EE majors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, thestudents were given a project to design a
Paper ID #7233A Comparison of Manual vs. Online Grading for Solid ModelsHolly K. Ault Ph.D., Worcester Polytechnic Institute Holly K. Ault received her BS, MSME and Ph.D. degrees from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1974, 1983 and 1988 respectively. She has worked as a Manufacturing Engineer for the Norton Company and Product Development Engineer for the Olin Corporation. She is currently Associate Professor of Me- chanical Engineering atWorcester Polytechnic Institute, co-director of the Assistive Technology Resource Center, and director of the Melbourne Global Project Center. In the fall of 2001, she was invited as the
research lab with the purpose of gainingexperience in the research and development process. The Hinman program supportsinternships with startup companies to help students become familiar withentrepreneurship processes and in selected faculty laboratories to help the students gainexperience in the R&D process. One particular student, Blake Robertson, is profiled hereas an example of the potential for creating an environment that opens the door to productdevelopment in the CEOs community.Blake began his journey into product development during a summer internship in 2002.After the internship was over, the faculty member hired Blake to continue working onprojects in his VLSI lab. Since then, Blake has worked on a number of projects. Amongthem, he
emergencyrepair of ruptured natural gas pipelines. University application of this interest includes instruction in thefollowing courses: Machine Design, Statics and Dynamics, Intro. to Design and Intro. to Product Design aswell as student Capstone Design Projects. He is also the Faculty Advisor for the Student’s Mini-Bajavehicle competition. He and his colleagues have instituted a Capstone Senior Design Project course forengineering technology students that includes an integrated group of Computer, Electrical and MechanicalEngineering Technology students. He has also structured an Intro. to Product Design course for non-engineering majors as part of the University’s new School of Technological Entrepreneurship .In 2002 Prof. Di Bella was awarded the
just before it willbe used, for example in a laboratory exercise or an assigned project. JiTT, on the other hand, is atechnique used to enhance the interactivity of a lecture period by creating a feedback loopbetween the instructor and the student.The JiTT strategy reflects recent efforts in cognitive psychology, developmental psychology,social psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, as well as education research in general and inspecific disciplines, such to understand how people learn. A recent report by Bransford(4)discusses what principles of knowledge organization underlie people’s problem solvingcapabilities, how people transfer learning in one setting to another, and how these results can beused to design new and better learning
number of other (heavier) angles on the project have been selected and thedesigner wishes to minimize the variation in angle size used on the project. In any case, the pre-processor can permit the student to proceed with a less than optimal choice, but it should explainthe ramifications of doing so. For example, if the student chooses to connect the short leg of theangle, a window such as shown in Figure 5 should popup, and the student could decide to changehis / her choice based on the information provided.Grader Extensions Plans for extensions of the grading systems include the following: • For design problems, add the capability to consider sections that might not be the lightest acceptable section, but could
Conf., Salt Lake City.2. MUPEC 2004 conference website, www.rose-hulman.edu/MUPEC2004/RICHARD A. LAYTONRichard Layton received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1995 and is currently an AssistantProfessor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His interests include student teambuilding and laboratory curriculum development. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Layton worked for twelve years Page 10.1373.10in consulting engineering, culminating as a group head and a project manager. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition