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undergraduates’ abilities brought to the activitywith regards to technical proficiency, communication, or interacting with kids. Themes couldoccur more than once in each reflection. The percentage occurrence of these themes was thencomputed for women and men (summing to 100%), and compared to the overall percentage ofwomen and men respondents (26% women) to determine areas where genders wereoverrepresented or underrepresented. Since we were particularly interested in the gendered motivation related to genderdiversity, we conducted a survey prior to the outreach project (included in Appendix B) tounderstand how well the undergraduates recognize the need for more gender diversity inengineering, and to understand their perceptions of the obstacles
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not have a prior knowledge in the field of mechanical design and it’s applications); • Determine faculty role in the learning process; • Develop an instructional plan; Page 23.5.3 • Design activities, assignments, and assessments that are congruent with the four desired student outcomes: (a) improved critical thinking skills, (b) greater capacity for independent work, (c) taking more responsibility for one’s own learning, (d) intellectual growth, congruent with the above mentioned goals and objectives.In what follows, we briefly discuss the two projects, Device Analysis and
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Paper ID #7248A Documentary Project in a Civil Engineering CourseDr. Seamus F Freyne P.E., Mississippi State University On the civil engineering faculty at Mississippi State University, Dr. Seamus Freyne teaches structures courses and his research interests include engineering education. Page 23.40.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 A DOCUMENTARY PROJECT IN A CIVIL ENGINEERING COURSEOverviewAn innovative documentary project in an
Paper ID #6376Introducing 6-12 Grade Teachers and Students to Computational ThinkingDr. A. Dean Fontenot, Texas Tech University Dr. Fontenot is the Sr. Director of the Texas Tech T-STEM which provides professional development for K-12 teachers as part of the Texas STEM (T-STEM) initiative. The Texas Tech T-STEM Center focuses on project-based learning with the integration of the engineering design process. The Center provides professional development training for T-STEM Academies, T-STEM Early College High Schools, and all Texas school districts, public and private. She collaborates with Whitacre College of Engineering
New Dean MentoringAdministration, Finances, andStrategic PlanningSarah RajalaDean, College of EngineeringJames and Katherine Melsa Professor in EngineeringNew Dean Mentoring Essential Organizational Activities that keep your college healthy ◦ Administrative leadership ◦ Finances ◦ Strategic planningAdministrative Leadership Who are you? o Facilitator within the college o Person responsible for the college o Advocate for the college within the university • Important to recognize the college is part of a larger organization • Obligation to contribute to the university leadership team • Ambassador outside the universityAdministrative Leadership Establish clear expectations o Define path for
Friday Morning Session 2 - Faculty U.S. ENGINEERING EDUCATION: A GLOBAL PRESPECTIVE Camille A. Issa, PhD, PE, F. ASCE Department of Civil Engineering School of Engineering Lebanese American University Byblos, Lebanon AbstractOver the last several years a number of reports have raised concern about the growing challengeto U.S. science and technology (S&T) leadership – and long-term economic competitiveness –from both rapidly developing Asian nations and
252 A HARD JOB: ASSESSING “SOFT” OUTCOMES David A. Vaccari, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE dvaccari@stevens.edu Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ 07030Abstract: Under criterion 3 of the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET,engineering programs are required to have eleven documented student outcomes1, commonlyreferred to as “a through k.” Five of these student outcomes represent technical attributes thatengineering educators are familiar with teaching and assessing. However, six of these studentoutcomes are, for many faculty members
Paper ID #6254Interdisciplinary, real-world, client-based term projects in an introductoryenvironmental engineering and science courseMajor Andrew Ross Pfluger, P.E., United States Military Academy Major Andrew Pfluger is an officer in the United States Army and an Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy (USMA) in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering. He holds two graduate degrees from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University and is a Professional Engineer in the State of Delaware. He current teaches Environmental Science, Environmental
to teach the four classes without the iPad for the first sixweeks of the course and then compare their performance. This was done to generate a baseline forthe differences in comprehension of content between the classes. At this point, for simplicity, the2010 class where the iPad was not used will be referred to as “class A”, the class where the iPadwas used during 2010 will be referred to as “class B”, the class where the iPad was used during2011 will be referred to as “class C” and the class where the iPad was used during 2012 will bereferred to as “class D”. The same test was given to all the classes. As a precautionary measure toprevent students from passing-on exams from one year to the next, students were not allowed tokeep their exams
undergraduate, 104 post-graduate programs andthe remaining are diploma and certificate programs. The University has introduced severalemerging degree programs such as a B. Tech. in Biomedical, an M. Pharm. in Biotechnology anda Masters in Optometry. The continuous success of quality of the BVDU programs resulted inreaccreditation with a prestigious 'A' grade by the National Assessment and AccreditationCouncil (NAAC) in September 2011. The BVDU – JSNN partnership in nanotechnology is through its College of Engineering.Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University‟s College of Engineering, Pune (BVDUCOE) wasestablished in 1983. It is one of the oldest colleges in the Pune area and has the highestenrollment for freshman engineering in the state of
., "Development of an educational environment for online control of a biped robot using MATLAB and Arduino," Mechatronics (MECATRONICS) , 2012 9th France- Japan & 7th Europe-Asia Congress on and Research and Education in Mechatronics (REM), 2012 13th Int'l Workshop on , vol., no., pp.337,344, 21-23 Nov. 2012 [3] Neto, J. M.; Paladini, S.; Pereira, C.E.; Marcelino, R., "Remote educational experiment applied to electrical engineering," Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV), 2012 9th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1,5, 4-6 July 2012 [4] Ogawa, H.; Oguntoyinbo, B.; Tochi, K.; Naoe, N., "Electric vehicle project for introduction to engineering Creation Experiment
0 A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D+ D D- F Course GradeFigure 1: Percentage of each course grade earned by students who participated in thePLTL groups and those who did not participate in the PLTL groups for Math 116 in theFall 2010 semester. 25 PLTL Groups No PLTL Groups 20 15 Percentage 10 5 0 A A- B+ B
Paper ID #8101Engineering Educators in Industry: a Case Study of a Doctoral InternshipMs. Meagan C Pollock, Purdue University Meagan Pollock is a doctoral candidate at the School of Engineering Education, Purdue University and is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She received a B.S. in Computer Science from Texas Woman’s University, and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, she worked as a microelectromechanical-systems (MEMS) engineer for Texas Instruments
Paper ID #6050The Goethals Infrastructure Challenge: A Proposal for a New Student Com-petitionLt. Col. Steven D Hart, U.S. Military Academy LTC Steve Hart is currently assigned as the ERDC Engineering Fellow and Director of Infrastructure Studies at West Point. He has taught numerous civil engineering courses including innovative courses on Infrastructure Engineering and Critical Infrastructure Protection and has authored numerous articles and a book chapter on these subjects. He is the developer and lead proponent of The Critical Infrastructure Symposium, now in its third year. He is active in The Infrastructure Security
Force Produced by Impingement of a Fluid Jet on a Deflector Daniel R. Miskin, W. Roy Penney and Edgar C. Clausen Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering University of ArkansasAbstractAn understanding of fluid jets and the forces they can produce are important to engineers in thedesign of turbines and in fluids flowing through pipelines at elevated pressure. The purpose ofthis paper is to describe the experimental equipment and its use for measuring the flow rate atwhich an impinging fluid jet will lift a weighted deflector. The experimental results showed thatthe calculated jet force (𝐹𝑗 = 𝜌𝑄𝑣) ranged from 2.4-3.7 N (0.54-0.83 lbf) for flow rates
two chapters on mathematical topics is given at the beginningof the semester. The situation is even worse if the teachers rely on students’ knowledge frommath courses.2. There is disconnect between the theory discussed in the lectures and the experiments carriedout in the accompanying lab. This disconnect is made more severe by two factors: (a) sometimesthe lab either precedes or lags behind the lecture material and (b) the theory and the lab aretaught by two separate instructors who profess different teaching philosophies and havedifferent ideas about what is important and what is not.3. In the present teaching system the assessment of students’ understanding of the subject isinfrequent. Typically it consists of a final exam with one or two
analysis were delivered by traditional lectures. b. Basic instructions and skills on how to run load flow cases on PowerWorld were introduced. Teaching assistants sometimes helped students learn and train the PowerWorld simulation. c. Students were required to complete a take-home exam on such simulation using their own personal computers Page 21.11.5 d. Students were required to demonstrate their simulation skills and results with a sample load flow case. e. Students were put into small groups and shared their experience with classmates and discussed about the results. Such group activities really worked. They
Page 23.65.2base of the device, allowing the handle to be fabricated without lamination, unlike the kits atStanford University, which relied on gluing in their assembly process. This created theopportunity to reuse kits each semester, as they could be assembled and disassembled eachsemester. The Rice Haptic Paddle also achieved higher handle forces up to 10N with a 10:1 gearratio6. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e)Figure 1. (a) The Stanford and John’s Hopkins Haptic Paddle. (b) The Rice University HapticPaddle. (c) The University of Michigan Haptic Paddle. (d) The Vanderbilt University HapticPaddle . (e) The University of Utah Haptic Paddle.Michigan University developed their own haptic device
Paper ID #5792Live Energy: An Initiative for Teaching Energy and Sustainability Topicswith the most Up-to-date and Relevant ContentDr. Christine Ehlig-Economides, Texas A&M University Dr. Ehlig-Economides has been full professor of petroleum engineering at Texas A&M University in the Albert B. Stevens endowed chair since 2004. Before that she worked for Schlumberger for 20 years in well test design and interpretation, integrated reservoir characterization, modern well construction design, and well stimulation. She has worked in more than 30 countries and authored more than 60 papers. Dr. Ehlig- Economides has
collecting data. Good parts/specimensare defined as those that did not have sink marks, short shot, splays, flash, or contaminants. Datawere collected for 300 consecutive parts. These parts divided into 30 subgroups consisting of tenparts. However, data of five consecutive parts with a subgroup were used to represent thecharacteristics of the subgroup as shown in Table 1 for injection cushion final position. AT&Tstatistical quality control standards for x-bar and R charts where the subgroup size is at least fourwere used to determine if the process parameters were statistically in-control (stable) or out-of-control (unstable). The rules2 areA) 1 point above Zone A (1-sigma from the centerline)B) 1 point below Zone AC) 2 of 3 successive points in
regions: an ionization, amplification, and collection regions placed one on top of the otherseparated by the Plexiglas flanges as in Figure1(a, b). All parts of the detector are held togetherusing O-rings to provide gas leak free detector. Argon gas mixed with Carbon Dioxide in theratio of 80/20, used as a detecting medium, is allowed to flow through the detector at a slowflowing rate. Three electric fields are created in each region of the detector, the highest electricfield exits in the amplification region where the GEM is located. When a fluorescence X-rayfrom a test sample interacts with the flowing gas, ionization of the gas takes place. The primaryionized electrons from the ionization region are drifted by a small electric field into the
realized that some participants were looking formore structure, so I developed a variety of prompts to use as indicated as needed by theparticipant. The complete protocol is included in Table 3. Table 3: Interview protocol: questions only. 1. How did you get to be where you are? 2. Prompts as needed: a. Tell me a little about yourself. b. Tell me a bit about your family. c. Tell me about where you’re going to college. Tell me how you got there. d. What about the structure of college helped or made things difficult? e. What about [SWE, NSBE, AISES, SHPE] helps or makes things difficult? f. What are your plans for the future? g. Anything else
bytes;identifying the source/destination IP addresses; and determining the size of the application layermessage.In the second laboratory, each student is required to use Wireshark to investigate the operation ofthe Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) and to investigate the format of Ethernet frames. Theobjectives associated with this laboratory are as follows: a) Describe the operation of ARP in facilitating data link layer communication by using ARP request and ARP reply packets. b) Identify the different sections of an ARP packet. c) Identify the different fields of a data link layer (Ethernet) frame. d) Describe how the TCP/IP protocol suite utilizes physical, logical and port addresses to send/receive data.The first
. 1), as well as using a near-wall velocity gradient approximation.A sample velocity profile is given in Figure 1a.The second approach employed by students is an experimental one. Here, students are suppliedwith a variety of equipment, most of which they had used in a prior lab module, including aroller pump and pulse dampener (Cole-Parmer, Vernon Hills, IL), a rotary liquid flow sensor Page 23.1378.3(Cole-Parmer) and digital multimeter, a differential pressure transducer and strain gage meter(Omega Engineering, Inc., Stamford, CT), a catheter introducer sheath set (B. Braun MedicalInc., Bethlehem, PA), and a variety of tubing supply
4outcomes for their focus area (Appendix A-A). The aim was to motivate student teams to thinkabout design and proper execution of an experimental plan. Upon assigning students in teams,each team member was encouraged to contribute in identifying different experimentalparameters for their team project; a preliminary list of suggestions was provided by thelaboratory technician to help students narrow-down their options (Appendix A-B). Each studentwas asked to provide rationales for their ideas and to include logs of their thought progressionduring the semester using the e-portfolio, Innovation Portal13, an assessment rubric programdesigned to help students navigate through the engineering design process. This allowed us toidentify individual growth
+ + 11 2011 + +++ 12 2009 + + 12 2011 ++++ 13 2009 + 13 2011 + 14 2009 ++ ++ 14 2011 +++Results and DiscussionThe 2009 and 2011 CLOSE data were summarized and are illustrated below (Figure 1 A and B)for 57 students in 2009 and 53 students in 2011. In 2009, for the majority of CLOs a clearincrease can be seen between the