and minorities continue to be underrepresented in engineering, both nationally and atRoger Williams University. In 2012, women constituted just 12% of engineering graduates at theuniversity, while minorities constituted just 4%. In an effort to boost the enrollment, performance,and persistence of underrepresented students, the university applied for and received an NSF S-STEM grant to integrate engineering, biology, and marine biology students into an existingprogram supporting underrepresented students on campus. The combined program, known asSTILAS, provides participants with a $10,000 NSF scholarship, supplemented by the university,as well as dedicated tutoring and advising, and co-curricular activities such as field trips and
and multipleoutcomes including economic, environmental and social issues surrounding sustainability.Students are expected to show effort in researching, demonstrating an awareness of all avenuesof sustainability. The assessments are derived from exercises, problems, and project addressingsustainability issues, including greenhouse gas footprint, energy use, and water use.Table 6. Sustainability in Engineering course assessment Course objective/s Assessment Results Sustainable practices needed in environmental and Students were able to find, comprehend, analyze, civil engineering find needed information for quantify, synthesize information about the future solving open ended problems
metallurgical engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SD Mines). Between 2008-2013, he served as site director of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Friction Stir Processing (CFSP). Since then, he has been involved in a range of projects involving friction stir joining and alloy processing in a variety of metal alloys including aluminum alloys, ODS steels, titanium alloys, cast irons, and dissimilar metal alloys. He is also actively engaged in STEM-Ed projects and serves as the director for the NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) ”Back to the Future”, coordinator for the Army Educational Outreach REAP program for High school students at SD Mines, and PI for the S-STEM Culture and Attitude program
duein class the following week. Two midterm exams and one final exam were given, and studentscompleted two Matlab projects in groups of three.ParticipantsThe course was taught by the same instructor in both terms considered in this study. Theinstructor was a full-time faculty member at the university with over 10 years of teachingexperience. S/he had taught the DTSS course discussed here several times prior to the two termsin question. Student participants in the study were predominantly male, junior or senior students,majoring in electrical engineering. The majority of students were also domestic and in-state.However, they varied greatly in GPA. The students were also diverse in race/ethnicity with overhalf being either White or Asian. The
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of liquid at the nozzle port is calculated asfollows: 𝑝 𝜌𝑔ℎ (2) where ph = hydrostatic pressure (Pa, N/m2, or kg/m-s2) ρ = liquid density (kg/m3) g = acceleration of gravity = 9.81 m/s2 h = height of the liquid column (m)For this lab, multiple fluid heights are tested. The liquid flow rate through an orifice can becalculated as follows: 𝑞actual 𝐶 𝐴 𝑝 𝑝 (3) where qactual = actual liquid flow rate (m3/s) A2 = area of the port (m3) gc = conversion factor = 1.0 kg-m/N-s2
Temperature Shape Factor for Plane Shape Factor for Pressure 𝐹𝑑 - 𝐹𝑝 - Couette Flow Flow H Channel Depth m k Thermal Conductivity W/m2K Thermal Conductivity of Thermal Conductivity of 𝑘𝑃𝐸𝑇 W/m2K 𝑘𝑆𝑇 W/m2K PET Steel L Length m 𝐿𝑓 Latent Heat of Fusion kJ/kg 𝑚̇ Mass Flow Rate kg/s N Revolution Rate
: 1. Include descriptions of the cultural context 2. “[A]ttend to the embodied nature of the protagonist” [39, p.17] 3. Consider how other people affect the central character 4. Identity choices and actions of the central character 5. Attend to past experiences and how they impact the choices and actions 6. Create a story with a beginning, middle, and end 7. The plot should bring all the data together into a meaningful story that explains why the central character acted the way s/he didQuality ConsiderationsThis project will be monitored by an external review board and an internal framework.Internally, we will use the Q3 framework outlined by Walther et al. [41] and Walther
Psychology, 101(4), 817-835.2 Kell, H. J., & Lubinski, D. (2013). Spatial ability: A neglected talent in educational and occupational settings. Roeper Review, 35(4), 219-230.3 Newcombe, N. S., Uttal, D. H., & Sauter, M. (2013). Spatial development. Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology, 1, 564-590.4 National Research Council (NRC). (2006). Learning to think spatially: GIS as a support system in the K-12 curriculum. Committee on the Support for the Thinking Spatially, National Research Council, Publisher: The National Academies Press, URL: http://books. nap. edu/catalog. php.5 Sorby, S. A. (2009). Educational research in developing 3‐D spatial skills for engineering students. International Journal
J K L M N O P Q R S T U 21 11 3 3 9 11 3Table 2 lists the research topics and physics associated with the 21 most successful models todate. Four topics
research questions, we decided to examine defining characteristics ofindividuals identified by our participants as exemplary engineering leaders. It was at this point Page 26.815.2that we noticed a significant over-representation of men in the pool of highly esteemed leaders.In this paper, we use a factor analysis and Chi-Square Goodness of Fit test to examine onepossible reason for this disparity—a gender difference in engineers’ leadership aspirations. Wethen use a focused literature review to hypothesize two alternative explanations for our finding. T ABLE 1 : S AMPLE C HARACTERISTICS Category Sub-Categories
States Coast Guard Academy. He received his Ph.D. from New Mexico State University, his M. S. and B.S. degrees at Rensselaer Poly- technic Institute, all in Electrical Engineering. He was previously an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Tennessee and was a Development Engineer at the Hewlett Packard Company. His areas of interest include laboratory development, antennas, wireless communica- tions, signal processing, and instrumentation. Page 26.116.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 A Successful “Applications
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differentengineering disciplines to solve many important manufacturing automaton problems. As a finalproject, students are expected to model and simulate a work cell for the selected application andto perform the same with the physical robots in the lab. They will compare both outcomes forevaluation of the calculated results. Students submit a comprehensive engineering report todocument all requirements. Experiments and projects are designed and implemented in asequence that would allow the students to acquire a complete manufacturing automationexperience. This included on-line and off-line robot programming (uploading and downloadingprograms between robots controllers and simulation software), robot integration (addingperipherals to a robot(s) to create a
the student adaptability to the equipment and easiness to use it toproduce results 6, or to introduce hands-on approach to teach wireless sensor networks atundergraduate level 7. For sensor networks the Scatterweb’s MSB430 sensor platform waspreferred 7, 10. From computer engineering perspective, teaching embedded systems for wirelessnetworking was considered, with the use of the microcontrollers MSP430 from TexasInstruments and ARM7-TDMI-S from ARM 9. SDR platforms were also considered for radarapplications 11.While the volume of literature on the use of SDR in teaching and research is growing at a fastrate, there is very little coverage on the lab set-up that uses SDR to illustrate the specialcharacteristic of wireless communications
definition of mission engineering is the deliberate planning, analyzing,organizing, and integrating of current and emerging operational and system capabilities toachieve desired mission effects.Mission engineering applies the mission context to complicated and complex system(s) ofsystems [2]. Most current systems engineering practices do not fully address the uniquecharacteristics of mission engineering, addressing the end-to-end mission as the ‘system’ andextending further beyond data exchange between the individual systems for cross-cuttingfunctions, controls, and trades across the systems.Mission engineering differs from the established term of mission analysis in that the latter onlyaddresses examination of current operational and system
#1936through NSF/CNS grant. The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authorsand should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed orimplied of NSF.References[1] Berman, M., Chase, J. S., Landweber, L., Nakao, A., Ott, M., Raychaudhuri, D., Ricci, R., and Seskar, I. (2014). GENI: A federated testbed for innovative network experiments. Computer Networks, 61:5–23.[2] Riga, N., Edwards, S., and Thomas, V. (2016). The Experimenter’s View of GENI, pages 349–379. In: McGeer R., Berman M., Elliott C., Ricci R. (eds) The GENI Book. Springer, Cham .[3] Thomas, V., Riga, N., Edwards, S., Fund, F., and Korakis, T. (2016). GENI in the classroom. In the GENI Book, pages 433–449. Springer.[4
: “[t]here has not been any official training or demonstration of laboratory protocols atthis point.” However, as time progressed, BEST Fellows increasingly agreed that their learning wasbeing adequately supported by their lab experience. For example, the same individual with thenegative experience in the second week reported that there was nothing that hindered his/herlearning in the sixth week. BEST Fellows also rated their experience in the Friday workshop positively. Moreover,Fellows were in agreement that working together during these workshops was helpful. Whenasked what aspects of the workshop promoted their learning, Fellows responded: “[s]haring outexperiences and open group discussions”, “[t]he readings and paired
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expressed in this work are those of the author and do not necessarily representthose of the National Science Foundation.References[1] V. Hunt, S. Prince, S. Dixon-Fyle, and L. Yee, "Delivering through diversity," McKinsey & Company Report. Retrieved April, vol. 3, p. 2018, 2018.[2] ASEE, "Transforming Undergraduate Education in Engineering, Phase I: Synthesizing and Integration Industry Perspectives.," 2013.[3] J. L. Arminio et al., "Leadership experiences of students of color," NASPA journal, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 496-510, 2000.[4] C. R. Romano, "A qualitative study of women student leaders," Journal of College Student Development, 1996.[5] A. Kezar and D. Moriarty, "Expanding our understanding of
12.895.5velocity, Ujet, of 1 m/s. Jet details: Jet Qjet = 3.33x10-5 m3/s H Ujet = 1 m/s Reynolds number = 6612 Measurement field (a) Flow field region under analysis. 0 0.1 m/s
Figure 6 – Air-X power output graph [13] The national oceanic and atmospheric administration (NOAA) collects andmonitors the wind speed every six minutes throughout the year in Money Point [2]. Inorder to properly analyze the wind speed, we determined the portion of the month windspeeds were above 3.2 meters per second (the lower speeds do not contribute any output)and the average of those speeds (see Table 2), we determined an average speed of 4.5m/soccurring 35% of the time (10.5 days/month). From Figure 1, an Air-X 400 Watt windturbine would generate 20 watts of instantaneous power with a 4.5 m/s wind, providingan average daily energy output of 168 watt-hr. YearMonth 2006
2 Male FemaleBasic digital systemsWomen with research experience background rated both Combinatorial Logic and SynchronousLogic marginally higher than those who did not except for women faculty who rated the topics lower. Page 11.664.9The results for males were the opposite, that is, research experience was associated with lower ratingsfor males (see Figure 5). F ig u re 5 : R e sp o n d e n ts w ith re se a rc h e x p e rie n c e : S y n ch ro n o u s L o g ic 2 .5
graduate a student is required tocomplete each aspect of the design process. Table 1 describes design components and projectassignments to be completed in a student’s junior or senior year. Each student must complete theindividual score card prior to the graduation. Page 23.397.4Table1. Individual Design Score Card (S: Senior, J: Junior) Design Components Year First Second Third Fourth Semester Semester Semester Semester Scoping I J Scoping II S Background Survey I J Background Survey
. Thispredictive modeling exercise was a useful experience for the undergraduate designers.Future work with the user interface will include presenting the thermodynamic properties,processes, and cycles in the form of P-v, T-v, and T-s diagrams. This will visually allowthe students to recognize works being performed, heats being transferred, and other vitalfunctions of the refrigeration system.5. Conclusions:The air conditioner laboratory system described in this paper is a simple, real lifeapplication for demonstrating basic thermodynamics processes and principles. The dataand GUI is accessible over the web, which allows the system to be used for at homelaboratory experiments and classroom demonstrations. It was fairly inexpensive, ascompared to $25,000
ScheduleMeeting Format Objective(s) SubjectNumber of class Addressed 1 Lecture 3, 7 Introduction to the Course; Introduction to LabVIEW, Loading software, Your First VIThe course begins by outlining the advantages and disadvantages of various levels ofprogramming languages are discussed beginning with assembly/machine language, to high-level languages, to graphical languages. LabVIEW is introduced, a simple VI is createdfor the class, then the advantages of the LabVIEW (graphical) language are discussed.The LabVIEW example is used to introduce its two windows: The Front Panel, which isthe human interface to controlling LabVIEW and the Diagram
, New Zealand. Itfaces challenges in attracting engineering students given the specialized nature of itsengineering offering (and poor student understanding of these specializations) and extremelystrong competition from New Zealand‟s two most established engineering universities, TheUniversity of Auckland and Canterbury University. Indeed, local secondary schoolengineering students have many decades of tradition of leaving the city, primarily forCanterbury in order to pursue their studies. This tradition is firmly in the mindset of parents,secondary school teachers and careers advisors.To help retain engineering students in the Wellington region, a partnership has been formedbetween VUW and the Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec), the
, in2000’s decade, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a program tomotivate female high school students to pursue engineering [28]. However, these programs,although achieving relative success, involved students with a pre-existing interest in engineering-related careers. Also, these programs contained a very low part of female population of highschool in the U.S. [28].Similarly, the governments of other countries have recognized the importance of increasinginterest in the field of engineering and have developed policies to motivate women to work in thefield. For example, in March 2002, the Norwegian government passed legislation requiring that40 percent of the executive board of director members should be women by the year
Setra pressure transducers. All flow loops wereconstructed using 2” PVC with the ability to connect pressure transducers and flow meters toLabview modules or multimeters. This setup is capable of producing stable volumetric flow ratesbetween 5-130 GPM with a maximum pressure of 45 PSI.The external flow equipment was primarily composed of an Engineering Laboratory Designwind tunnel with a working test section of 0.3x0.3x0.6m and a maximum linear free streamvelocity of approximately 7.2 m/s. For the purpose of the external flow experiment a cylinderwith a pressure tap on one face was mounted to a rotating damper actuator and allowed to rotatearound its axis. This allowed the pressure at any point along the surface of the cylinder to bemeasured
development of achat-bot built on student’s questions and understandings and perceptions of course contentprovides the instructor with a unique look onto the minds of students. With the oversight anddirection of the instructor and with the aid of students a true content specific engineeringartificial intelligence may be created. Through this process we may better understand thecomplex learning process of our students. Page 15.181.12Bibliography1. S. Crown, "Using Web-Based Games to Enhance the Teaching of Engineering Graphics" Proceedings of theIASTED International Conference, Computers and Advanced Technology in Education. Philadelphia, PA. May1999