-spacecraft project, (b)mini-lectures on real (outer-) spacecraft, and (c) sharing ideas and practicing skills (writing,time-management, etc.) useful for succeeding in college. Grading is evenly weighted betweenindividual-work (homework, quizzes, etc.) and team-work (building, testing, flying, andanalyzing data from a near-spacecraft). Teams deliver a series oral presentations (AKA DesignReviews), as well as multiple-submission, team-written report on the construction, testing, flight,and data analysis from their payload. Some sample course documents and student presentations/reports are posted.5Here are class topics in the approximate order they occurred in the fall 2011 seminar. Briefsucceeding-in-college discussions and activities were
instruction is to point outthat teachers already use engineering. Teachers use integration, they use problem solving, andthey use relevant examples. The difference lies in deliberately claiming all of these things andapplying a systematic approach to their teaching. The following lists contain some examples forvarious grade levels of what integrated STEM, including engineering, looks like in theclassroom. They are not a complete set by any means, but serve to illustrate further how thesestandards can affect instruction.Grade Band K-2 Activity ExampleStudents will work in teams to design a neighborhood a. List the places that belong in a neighborhood. b. Using a large poster board lay out all the places that are in your
scheme required anoperating power higher than what the parallel port of computer could provide. Thus, a bufferbetween the computer and the control circuit was necessary to isolate the parallel port from highcurrent. A commercially available high voltage, high current, Darlington Array Buffer(ULN2003A) was used for this purpose. The buffer connected parallel port to the electroniccircuit and acted as an electronic switch. Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering Education (a) (b) Figure 3
Virtual Condition (VC).2. Datum ReferencesDatum references, such as a datum axis or center plane, play a key role in achieving the Page 23.289.2advantages of the GD&T methodology. A datum reference is defined as a theoretically exactplane, edge, point, or axis from which a dimensional measurement is made (Krulikowski, 1998,2012). Figure 1 shows a GD&T drawing using three planar features as datum references: A, B,and C. Here Datums A, B, and C are known as the primary datum, secondary datum, and tertiarydatum respectively. Figure 1: Three Planar DatumsFigure 2 shows another drawing using a feature of size
-469, doi:10.3102/0034654310370163 (2010).4 Long, B. T. a. K., Michal Do Community Colleges Provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree? Educational evaluation and policy analysis, 30-53, doi:10.3102/0162373708327756 (2009).5 Fletcher, L. A. & Carter, V. C. The important role of community colleges in undergraduate biology education. CBE life sciences education 9, 382-383, doi:10.1187/cbe.10-09-0112 (2010).6 Kinkead, J. Learning through inquiry: An overview of undergraduate research. New Directions for Teaching and Learning 2003, 5-18, doi:10.1002/tl.85 (2003).7 Hu, S., Kuh, G. D. & Gayles, J. G. Engaging undergraduate students in research activities: Are research
focus on discussing the results of the analysis and creatingshared learning outcomes for student research throughout the Introduction to Engineering course.The engineering librarian will create a scoring rubric for analyzing citations as submitted bystudents in the selected sections of Introduction to Engineering, and will train the graduatestudent on the accurate use of the rubric. The graduate student will score the reference lists ofevaluated papers, and create sets of data to examine variation between the students who attendeda workshop with those who did not. References 1 Brown, C., & Kingsley-Wilson, B. (2010). Assessing organically: turning an assignment into an assessment. Reference Services Review, 38(4
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component of this analysis. Students were asked to individually reflecton the first coaching session by responding to the following questions: 1. What are the top three things you are taking away from this meeting? 2. What interaction with your supervisor do you remember most and why? 3. Is there anything that happened during the meeting that a. especially helped you understand something? and/or b. was especially confusing and you wanted to discuss more?Student answers to these reflection questions were hand written and returned to the instructor.Responses were received from 104 students. Student responses to the above questions provideinsights
very successful tool for load forecastingapplications and it was adopted widely in such applications during last two decades. Thebuilding block of the neural network is the neuron, the mathematical model of the neuron isgiven in Fig.2 (a). The mathematical expression of each single neuron can be given by: m yk [Wkj X j bk ] (1) j 1The structure of an artificial neural network (ANN) consisting of 13 neurons is shown in Fig.2(b). As shown in the figure, the ANN has four layers; one is the input layer, two hidden layersand one
the development of both practice-based experience and critical thinking.In order to prepare undergraduate engineering students for the ill-defined, unfamiliar types ofproblems they will face after graduating, service-learning projects can be utilized to fosterstudents’ critical thinking through providing (a) a real-world context in which to solveengineering problems, (b) realistic data sources (including information that may be ambiguous,irrelevant, or incorrect), and (c) the industry-standard analytical and design software tools withwhich to integrate realistic information in solving the real-world problem. This paper presentsthe benefits of service-learning projects for emulating real-world engineering practice and itprovides a profile of a
rating criteria,related to concept definitions, etc. Based on Amabile’s advice11, projects were spread acrosstables in a different order for every rating session and raters were given the followinginstructions for rating:1. Please view all products before making any ratings2. Please rate products relative to each other, rather than to some absolute standard.3. Place an X anywhere on the scale from low to high.ResultsMean creativity, technical strength, and aesthetic appeal scores were calculated for (a) all adultraters, (b) group consensus by peers, and (c) self evaluations. Means were also calculated foreach of the nine items that were only rated by adults: overall organization, neatness, effortevident, pleasing use of shape/form
reflections, and observations by the instructor while they work in class as well as students’ responses to a survey related to the assignment. Formative assessments are in the form of discussions with the members of the individual groups .14II. Emerging technologies for virtual active learning Pilot results were impacted by variability in students’ competency and self-‐efficacy with the new tools presented to them under tight time constraints. In order to establish baseline student competency with, and thereby measure the effectiveness of, A) the digital tablet and stylus and B) the Moodle Discussion Forum as collaborative ideation tools, units of
necessitates smaller depths of cut and feed rates (i.e., chip-load values) on the tool and atomized delivery of the cutting fluid, so as to prevent tool breakage[10, 11] . Figure 3 shows a typical micro-scale machine tool (mMT) and spindle set-up along withsome of the unique geometries that are feasible with this process. (b) A 100 micron-milling tool showing an edge radius of 2 m(a) Three-axis micro-scale machine tool (mMT)[7] [5] (c) Micro-parts made using micro-milling Figure 3: Micro-milling
in a text. questioning NSES Teaching Standards (NRC)25 - Standard B: Teachers of science guide and facilitate learning Animals, habitats and Science basic needs, designed NSES Content Standards (NRC)25 – Grade K-4, and natural systems Standard C: Life Science, Organisms and Environments; Standard E: Science and Technology National Standards (ITEEA)6 – Engineering design Standard 3: Students will develop an understanding
., “Social identity and intergroup behavior.” Social Science Information Vol. 13(1974) pp. 65-93.[7] Smith, K. et al., Connecting and expanding the engineering education research andinnovation special session. FIE, Oct. 14, 2011.[8] Wankat, P., Felder, R., & Smith, K., The scholarship of Teaching and Learning inEngineering. 2002.[9] Saxenian, A. L., The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy. HarvardUniversity Press. 2006 Page 23.13.16[10] Stefik, M. & Stefik, B., Breakthrough: Stories and Strategies of Radical Innovation: MITpress, 2004.[11] Brown, B., Dare to be Great: How the Courage to be Vulnerable transforms the Way
the workforce; more intellectual diversity inengineering teams; a workforce that can be productive right-away; a workforce that is bettersuited to dealing with the challenges of globalization; and most importantly a workforce that ismotivated to provide valuable input.Bibliography1. Ronald E. Land, “Engineering Technologists are Engineers,” Journal of Engineering Technology, Spring 2012, pp 32-392. S. Khan and B. Kissick, “Beating the Competition down with the Stick of Education: A Winning strategy for a global world,” Proceedings of American society of Engineering Education (ASEE) 2008 Annual Conference, June 2008, 9 pages3. S. Courter, M. Mariasingam, G. Moses and T. Smith. "Globalization and engineering education for 2020
or could easily be collected in a university setting. Though there is not widegender diversity, representative of the discipline as a whole, there is diversity across participants’backgrounds especially their previous education, ranging from first-time college students tothose working on their second bachelor’s degrees. There is also diversity in participants’personal epistemologies resulting from many combinations of beliefs about simple and certainknowledge and personal justification of knowledge. These dimensions came from Greene et al.5and represent a range from (a) students agreeing that knowledge was simple and certain and didnot feel they played an important role in justifying their knowledge (weak personal justification)to (b) those
] says as the person goes up, [Group B] said that PE is going to increase and that the KE will decrease. [Writes PE increases and KE decreases on the left side of the half pipe in the middle.] So [Group B] said the opposite. I think they're the same up here [points at top of the half pipe], but this, they said the opposite up here [points at bottom and left side of half pipe]. One group said PE decreases as they go up; the other says PE will increase. Okay, so that’s a conflict we’ve got to work out.” Figure 4: A re-creation of Kraig’s sketch of Group F and Group B’s answers.Group F’s contribution is written in black; Group B’s, red.Kraig then had the
optics are well known and fiber is the standard for back hauloperations of almost all telecommunications networks. The deployment question concerns itslack of mass adoption by network providers for the last mile of their networks. The answer hasmuch more to do with economics of network operations than it does in the effectiveness of it. Itis simply not cost effective to deploy a Fiber to the Home/Business (FttH/B) end to end fiberoptic network. As an example, CATV companies currently prefer a Hybrid Fiber-Coax (HFC) network wherefiber is used in the backbone and Coax is used for the distance from the fiber termination point tothe home. This provides enough bandwidth to allow the CATV companies to offer a plethora ofservices including traditional
as they discuss their experiences, interests,and research to develop possible essay topics. The remainder of this paper is dedicated toexplaining our methods. We also evaluate the workshop and its contribution to several factors forstudent success such as empowering students to a) acquire financial aid, b) feel connected to acommunity that is pursuing the same goal, and c) increase their belief that they can raise moneyto fund their graduate education. This kind of peer mentoring would not have been possible if notfor our faculty mentor, the third author, who thought about ways in which we could share oursuccess with our peers, and thereby empowering and encouraging us through her facultymentoring to create the workshop in the first place.In
determining biologicalsolutions for technological advancement, they provide the following helpful “Steps for ReverseEngineering Biological Systems.” 1. Identify and detail sub-function of interest 2. Identify candidate biological systems 3. Decompose architecture of biological system of interest a. Decompose physical architecture b. Decompose functional architecture 4. Identify state and function cycles 5. Develop behavioral model and truth table for functionality Page 23.693.7 6. Extract biological strategy in abstract form 7. Idea generation (for engineering technologies to mimic this strategy)An illustrative example of
candidates taking these two routes to Membership, they must: (a) have obtained anaccredited honors degree or an acceptable equivalent in a recognized engineering ortechnological discipline; (b) have received adequate training; (c) have received sufficientresponsible experience; and (d) have attained the age of 25. However, most professionalinstitutions in the United Kingdom have waived the age requirement.Under the Formal Training Route, candidates are required to have two years of pre-approvedformal training followed by two years of responsible experience for all disciplines except civil,environmental, geotechnical, and structural disciplines. These four disciplines require three yearsof pre-approved formal training followed by one year of
conceptually and epistemologically during the course of their first 2 years of practice? a. How do the changes inspired in undergraduate engineering programs help or hinder engineers through their first 2 years of practice? b. How do engineers use the engineering content (laws, equations, computational skills, understanding of fundamental phenomena) they remember? 3. What conceptual and epistemological differences are there between the sociocultural contexts represented in our sample?Activities Page 23.1365.2Participant population There are two cohorts of participants. Cohort 1 has a total of
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Paper ID #5882Development and Application of a Sustainable Design Rubric to Evaluate Stu-dent Abilities to Incorporate Sustainability into Capstone Design ProjectsMary Katherine Watson, Georgia Institute of Technology Mary Katherine Watson is a Ph.D. candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Georgia Tech (GT). Through support from a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, she has been working to improve the quality of sustainability education in CEE at GT through development and application of a variety of assessment tools and educational interventions. In addition to research in the field
greatly familiar with the many technical aspects. Utilizing renewableenergy sources not only provides an excellent opportunity for students to have a deep andrealistic understanding on this subject, but also prepares and train them to test their ideas in ahighly technical research and development atmosphere. The implementation of operationalregimes and conducting verification experiments will be necessary for future students to get intothis area: a) Introduction to hybrid power grids b) Emulation and development of renewable energy sources (in particular wind and solar) c) Integrating techniques and approaches for optimally control and operation of PV and wind emulators along with energy storage system d) Real time energy transfer
the course.Methods 1-3Our research of student learning blends quantitative and qualitative methods . Our mainfocus is on the students currently enrolled in the course. For them we design surveysusing a professional version of SurveyMonkey ®, which allows us to: a) Obtain statistics on multiple-choice questions, b) Collect open-ended, essay-type answers, and c) Use two separate web sites – one for submission of students’ answers and the other for submission of students’ names. This feature is extremely important, because it ensures anonymity of student responses and – at the same time – allows the instructor to reward each participant
Paper ID #7539An Update: The Engagement and Retention of Electrical Engineering Stu-dents with a First Semester Freshman Experience CourseDr. Hector A. Ochoa, The University of Texas at Tyler Dr. Ochoa received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in 2007, his M.S. degree in physics from UTEP in 2003, and his B.S. in physics from the University of Guadalajara (U de G), Mexico in 2001. He is a member of the IEEE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and the order of the engineer. He
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