care in particular.Biomedical engineering applied with an early large emphasis on the maintenance, electricalsafety, and electronics aspects of medical equipment. This encouraged the consideration ofbroader safety aspects in health care.Biomedical Engineering Professionals who divides into two main categories: the ClinicalEngineers (CE) or Biomedical Engineers and the Biomedical Engineering (Equipment)Technicians (BMET) required a special training to be qualified to be very trusted technicians.In Saudi Arabia, as a developed country, the Government spends billions dollars annuallyexpenditure on the health sector. The Ministry of Health has finalized plans to establish newhospitals and renovate and expand 324 existing hospitals and 1750 primary
, Page 12.191.5skating robots, building sand diggers for children with disabilities and medical equipment. Themost recent project involved designing multi-functional platforms for small rural communities inGhana. These implements were run from exercise bikes to simulate a ten horse power dieselengine found in Ghanaian villages. This project was moderately successful but the distance ofGhana and the lack of resources for the student researchers making the multi-functional platforma difficult design project. Students felt that their designs would make little difference in a countryso foreign and far away from them and no plans went past the prototype stages. The lack offeedback from the Ghanaian community made measuring the success of student
and student outcomes. Also of interest wasthe degree to which various learning tools are used and their relative use based on learningstyles. The ultimate goal was continuous improvement with plans to share findings of interest tothe engineering economy and hybrid on-line class communities. Another desire was to be able torecommend learning tool strategies based on actual student experience.An initial study was conducted using data collected Spring 2002, Fall 2002, and Winter 2003.Spring 2002 was taught using the traditional face-to-face format. Fall 2002 was a transitionquarter, and Winter 2003 was taught in a hybrid on-line format. Throughout the paper this isreferred to as the 2003 study period8. Subsequently, data was collected for nine
defined by a setof attributes that characterize study abroad programs. We use these attributes to strategicallydevelop additional opportunities for our students. We believe the broader and more diverse theportfolio, the better chance we have of getting students to participate.In planning our expansion of programs available to students in the BCoE, we consider thefollowing program attributes from a college of engineering perspective. These attributes becameapparent as we researched other programs to look for ideas and partners. 1. ownership: who has direct responsibility for the program in terms of content, recruiting, logistics, etc. a. internal: college of engineering or department b. external: another unit on campus
criteria were developed for this outcome.For each performance criteria, detailed guide for assessing the performance criteria were alsoprovided. The five performance criteria developed for this outcome, are based on1. Ability to define the problem This performance criterion is assessed by determining if students are able to (i) identify the customer and the needs, (ii) identify and list the design objectives, and (iii) identify the design constraints.2. Ability to plan the project This performance criterion is also assessed by determining if students are able to (i) define the design strategy and methodology, (ii) identify and break down work into tasks and subtasks, and identify the personnel and deliverables for each, (iii) develop a
with “The Engineer of 2020”vision. In our proposed recruitment plan, at least 60% of the REU participants will bestudents who belong to under-represented groups in the academia and those from smallercolleges/universities with who have few research opportunities at their home institutions.We were successful in meeting this target in our first year of implementation.2. Proposal Submission and ReviewsThe authors submitted the original proposal in 2004 and resubmitted in 2005 and 2006.The 2006 submission was successful. This section documents panel summary andindividual reviewer’s comments on our successful (final submission) and unsuccessfulproposals. Major evaluation criteria include proposal intellectual merits and broaderimpacts. Unedited
development wasgrounded in a common set of standards and showed teachers how to connect their work tothe specific standards for student performance. Sixth, reform strategies for schoolimprovement must be connected to other aspects of school change.Loucks-Horsley, Love, Stiles, Mundry and Hewson13 present a professional developmentmodel specifically designed for mathematics and science. The core of the model consists of aseries of components including commitment to a vision and standards, analysis of studentlearning and other data, goal setting, planning, implementation and evaluation. Secondedition augmentations include major sections on knowledge and belief systems (e.g., learnersand learning, teachers and teaching, the nature of the disciplines
in university BME laboratories, with teachers directly immersedin NSF-sponsored research activities, collaborating with faculty members and Ph.D.students on appropriate aspects of their investigations. The teachers, faculty and Ph.D.student mentors met weekly to review, network, compare experiences, address issues,and plan. The lab experiences that the teachers experienced included the followingresearch areas:Lab # 1-Fundamental Research in Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) gradually destroys the macula, the part of theretina most important for central vision. In advanced stages AMD can result in theinability to read all but very large print, legal blindness with the consequent loss ofdriving
transfers, and plans to attend graduate school.Before we look at the results of the study, we look at literature to understand what types ofresearch have been done on community college transfer students.II. Literature Review on Engineering and Computer Science Community College TransferStudentsIn this section we look at the literature on the case for community colleges, curriculum,articulation, resource sharing, special programming for new transfer students, challenges, andmany-faceted programs with community colleges. We then look at studies on gender issues andthe community college.The Case for Community Colleges: There are many reasons that 45% of all first-time freshmenchoose to begin their college education at a community college.1 Students
related to the failure of New Orleans levees in hurricane Katrina. As Associate Dean, he oversees curriculum, advising, career planning, study abroad, early engineering and other related initiatives.Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University NEERAJ BUCH is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan State University. He is also the Director of Cornerstone Engineering and Residential Experience program at Michigan State University. He earned his M.S. degree in pavement engineering in 1988 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and his Ph.D. in pavement and materials engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, in 1995. Dr. Buch began his
on the design of a proposed program. From this we describe and evaluatepotential proposals for an EM program at NCSU.1. Engineering Management TodayDefining Engineering Management: Engineering Management as a discipline is not tightlydefined, as demonstrated by a relatively wide variance among academic EM programs. Thediscipline is often grouped with Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Management ofTechnology. Although very few EM definitions exist, current discipline trends are representedby the following: Engineering Management is the art and science of planning, organizing, allocating resources, and directing and controlling activities which have a technological component.2 Engineering Management is
Students, Time Management for Engineering andApplied Science Students, Accessing the Library and CEAS Student Leaders and Involvement. These topicsnot only met the deficiencies expressed by our students, but also had been taught, tested and found helpful tostudents in a two semester-hour course, “ASE 100 College Adjustment and Survival,” which is taken by at-riskstudents. As we were planning this expanded orientation program, it came to our attention that the FallOrientation Program conducted at the university level was being reevaluated and expanded. In discussionswith the University personnel planning the expanded program, it became clear that we had similar goals andthat our CEAS Orientation could become part of the University
asked for) support in the form ofready to use lessons and documents (e.g. additional activities) along with leader presence tosupport them in trying their self-created plans situated within the NGSS standards. The actualityof working with NetLogo (and changing functions and code) to present STEM concepts/topicswas both invigorating (it was new for the K12 teachers) and frustrating (it was often hard for theK12 teachers to see connections to content) as teachers moved through expectations andactuality. Implications include planning for structured K12 teacher academic year support inimplementing CS topics for sustainability in classrooms. Keywords: Computer Science Education, Computer Science, STEM, K12 Teachers, Pre-Service Teacher Education
plan toeducate scientists and engineers with a strong and vital humanities and arts component.The WPI Plan reasoned that the humanities and arts would place engineering in an ethicaland humane context, graduating young men and women to develop technology with aneye toward the greater good. More than forty years later, the humanistic values that haveremained so important to WPI’s general education of engineers have been embraced byschools of business and by engineering programs seeking to develop entrepreneurialengineers. Two of the attributes of an entrepreneurial engineer, as defined by the KernFamily Foundation’s Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), are essentiallythe qualities found in a well-educated humanist: First, curiosity
detailed figure; second, provide assumptions, a plan and an estimateand, finally, submit step-by-step solution of the problem with a brief discussion at the end. Withthis layout students identify the problem, create a methodology to solve the problem, apply themethodology to the problem and evaluate the result by considering its limitations, howreasonable it is, and the dimensions and units of the answer. The engineering physics courses are 5-credit and the E&M course has lecture and labhours separated. There were two sections of this course in the Fall 2016 with about 35 students ineach section. Since the number of students are high relative to other classes (18-20 students), twoinstructors were present during lectures. While one
Paper ID #19492Design of Classlab and Supporting Spaces to Enable a Multidisciplinary Hands-on First-Year Engineering Design CurriculumDr. Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University Dr. Carpenter is Founding Dean of Engineering at Campbell University. She is Chair of the ASEE Long-Rangge Planning Committee and the ASEE Strategic Doing Governance Team. She is a past Vice President of Professional Interest Councils for ASEE and past President of WEPAN. Currently Chair of the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenge Scholars Program Steering Committee and an ASEE PEV for General Engineering, Dr. Carpenter regularly speaks
inentrepreneurial endeavors. First, this article presents a theoretical framework about competenciesin engineering education, followed by a description of the study objectives, the sample, the datagathering technique and the data analysis plan. We adopted a qualitative design to interviewentrepreneurship stakeholders from Chile, Colombia, Spain, the U.S. and the U.K. Theinterviewees were entrepreneurship instructors, researchers on entrepreneurship education, andleaders from startup accelerators and business incubators. From their perspectives, we shared adefinition of entrepreneurship, we explored the roles that engineers play in startups andentrepreneurial companies, and we identified critical competencies. Finally, we discuss theimplications of these
Analysis requires that a usable with comprehensive appraisal of internal and external situations qualitative be undertaken before suitable strategic options can be data, determined. interactivePDCA Cycle The PDCA cycle is a problem solving technique that is Successful: graphical and logical in most situations and is an open loop. visual, P stands for plan, D for do, C or Check, and A for act. qualitative
behaviors on a mobile robot, • describing the difference between artificial intelligence and engineering approaches to robotics, • functioning on a multidisciplinary team to complete mobile robotics projects on a hardware platform, • comparing and contrasting the various robot paradigms including hierarchical, reactive, deliberative, hybrid, and behavior-based, • analyzing and implementing metric and topological path planning on a mobile robot, • analyzing and implementing subsumption architecture and potential field summation to implement obstacle avoidance on a mobile robot, • describing the methods for localization and implementing the Kalman filter algorithm on a mobile robot, and
research design [15]. Based on ourinterest in examining how this department constructs engineering identity in its documentaryartifacts, we focused on two specific types of documents: internal documents and public-facingdocuments. Public-facing documents analyzed included outreach information on the universitywebsite about the department and the three majors, transfer plans from state community colleges,graduation/curricular requirements, and plans of study. Internal documents included ABET self-study reports for each of the three programs. Some documents we included blurred the linesbetween public and internal, such as the college and department strategic plans. Additionally, welimited our analysis to current documents produced within the last
Careers Course was a Career Module created by three groups of teachers basedon the 2014 National Nanotechnology Initiative Strategic Plan and data from national, state andlocal workforce development entities to help depict the career opportunities in nanotechnologyand the academic and skills attainment that their own students would need in preparation forthose careers. The main deliverable for the pedagogy and lesson plan development course wasfor students to produce five lesson plans centered on their various teaching content areas(biology, earth/space science, chemistry, physics, engineering technology, etc.) whichincorporated a nanotechnology-based theme.Study OverviewIn this multi-methods research evaluation, we sought to understand the
Paper ID #21415Rewards of an Engineering Prerequisite AssignmentDr. Cynthia Jane Wilson Orndoff Esq., Florida Southwestern State College Dr. Cynthia Orndoff received a J.D in 2014 from Ave Maria Law School and a B.S. in 1984, an M.S. in 1997 and a Ph.D. in 2001, all in Civil Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Prior to Florida SouthWestern College, she was an Associate Professor at Florida Gulf Coast University and an Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She has taught courses in infrastructure management, planning, transportation and
writings have been on concrete repairs, structural plastics and flash track project management were funded by the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Construction Industry Institute. Dr. Austin’s teaching and research interests cross the spectrum of the construction management, with a current focus on project management, construction equipment, planning and scheduling and research and teaching methodologies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Tailoring Construction Management Instruction to the Emerging Adult LearnerIntroductionAccording to the National Survey of Student Engagement [29], Bowling Green State University(BGSU) is a
Historical Research-Sources 4.36 1.08 3.88 1.33 Research Questions 4.36 0.94 4.36 0.85 Experimental/Technical Work 4.60 0.82 4.60 0.66 Analysis 4.15 1.23 4.23 0.75Figures 1 and 2 illustrate results using the developed rubric and reveals some interesting findingsregarding EML in our Product Archaeology project. Experimental/Technical Work(Connections) was found to be the high scoring rubric item and one that had the least amount ofvariation between student teams. This relates to the team’s ability to create (and report) on anexperimental plan
competitions. In recent years, competitions have found favor among schools anduniversities especially because competitions provide hands-on experience. Engineeringcompetitions provide students with the opportunities to participate in authentic tasks, tobecome engaged in planning and design, to solve complex problems, and to work with teams(Carberry, Lee, & Swan, 2013). In a previous study, Kusano and Johri (2014) found thatengineering competitions supported the development of student autonomy, and thedeveloping autonomy provided students a sense of empowerment over their own learningtrajectories. The Kusano and Johri (2014) findings support examination of the broader scopeof professional responsibilities and the acquisition of professional skills
Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering (CBEE) at Oregon StateUniversity (OSU). While we currently provide students many innovative learning opportunities,we are concerned that the extent to which these efforts are marginalized and isolated may deterfrom their influence. To address this issue, we plan to create a holistic, inclusive, professionally-based learning environment woven through both curricular requirements and co-curricularopportunities for students. We specifically target social inequality by seeking to createengineering educational systems and interpersonal interactions that are professionally andpersonally life-affirming for all people across their differences. We seek to catalyze changethrough construction of a culture
) Develop a plan of action, along with identifying potential consequences (“Plan” phase) (5) Implement the plan (“Implement” or Prototype phase) (6) Verify that the solution is working, with no unintended adverse consequences, and update as needed (“Improve” phase which may link back to the Ask, Imagine, or Plan phases) (7) Document solution to inform/train users [suggest adding a “Tell” phase for sharing results following self- or group-reflection]Additionally, the methodology for analyzing thinking proposed by Paul and Elder29 is used atthe foundational level of the capstone course, specifically with regard to the students’ finalproduct report and presentation guidelines. These eight “Elements of Thought” are
down selected teams integrate into the selected team orteams. As a consequence the teams get larger which requires that student team leadershipdevelop good task planning and management skills. A fall-out of the approach is to simplifyclass administration and grading. Second semester lectures focus on more advanced design andanalysis topics required to support over twenty (20) technically rigorous milestone reviews.Student teams are responsible for task planning required to prepare for and satisfy milestonereview entry criteria. The instructional staff role is to evaluate whether entry criteria arecompliant and exit criteria satisfied (a minimum grade of 7 for every criterion on a 0-10 ratingscale).Our 2nd semester A&D development model
the end of their freshman yearon the various aspects of the program and strongly agreed overall that the program made themmore confident in their abilities (3.80/4.00) and that participation improved their freshman yearperformance (3.60/4.00). The aspect of the program ranked highest by students (3.82/4.00) waspeer mentoring, which was provided through an established university program. Trained peermentors provided social support as well as resume and research plan development support. Alsohighly rated programs by the students were community engagement (3.57/4.00), and a variety ofresearch skills workshops and seminars (3.43/4.00). Research skills seminars included: technicalwriting, public speaking, and poster making, and seminars included
females and 4 males) developed and shared strategies forincorporating academic integrity into classroom activities and course assignments.The workshop, designed and facilitated by an expert in ethics education at a large public researchuniversity, aims to prepare faculty for infusing academic integrity and professional ethics intoundergraduate engineering courses. The workshop featured three aspects: 1) enhancingparticipants’ self-efficacy in teaching academic integrity and professional ethics; 2) facilitatingtheir development of instructional strategies for teaching integrity and ethics; and 3) supportingtheir classroom implementation of instructional plans. Table 1 presents the content of theworkshop. One month after the workshop, the