. One possibility is to have multiple stations. Another is to write or display results in real time and make it a competition.Readers are encouraged to contact the authors if they would like further details about the project,including assignments, PCB files, and bill of materials.References [1] J. W. Dally and G. M. Zhang, “A freshman engineering design course,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 82, Apr. 1993. [2] J. Kellar, W. Hovey, M. Langerman, S. Howard, L. Simonson, L. Kjerengtroen, L. Sttler, H. Heilhecker, L. Ameson-Meyer, and S. Kellogg, “A problem based learning approach for freshman engineering,” in 30th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Feb. 2000. [3] H. Lei, F. Ganjeizadeh, D. Nordmeyer, and J
AC 2007-2855: PSCAD SIMULATION IN A POWER ELECTRONICSAPPLICATION COURSELiping Guo, University of Northern Iowa Liping Guo received the B. E. degree in Automatic Control from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China in 1997, the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Auburn University, AL, USA in 2001 and 2006 respectively. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical & Information Engineering Technology Program at the Department of Industrial Technology at the University of Northern Iowa. Her research and teaching interests are mainly in the area of power electronics, embedded systems and automatic control.Recayi "Reg" Pecen, University
multipledepartments. Currently, the author is working to include a final project for the course.Students will be given a final project in the middle of the semester to model a mechatronicsystem and develop a controller to meet several performance specifications. The designs will beimplemented in Simulink with MATLAB’s Real Time Workshop. The final project will betaught as a competition between student teams with an incentive for the winning design team.The students will write a project report and present their final group design to the class.References[1] P. Antsaklis, T. Basar, R. Decarlo, N.H. McClamroch, M. Spong, and S. Yurkovich, “ Report on the NSF/CSS Workshop on New Directions in Control Engineering Education,” IEEE Control Syst. Mag., vol. 19
arena.Partial support for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation's Course,Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement program under grant 0411200.Bibliography1. S. Applin, T. Kaiser, “Design of a Microelectronic Manufacturing Laboratory,” Proceedings of the ASEEAnnual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, 2006.2. L. Frechette, V. Modi, F. Miller, K. R. Farmer, “Hands-On MEMS,” Proceedings of the 15th BiennialUnversity/Government/Industry Microelectronics Symposium, Boise, Idaho, June 2003.3. J. W. Judy, P. S. Motta, “A Lecture and Hands-on Laboratory Course: Introduction to Micromachining andMEMS,” Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Unversity/Government/Industry Microelectronics Symposium, Boise,Idaho, June 2003.4. L. G. Frechette, C. W. Wong, K
AC 2008-1308: A VENTILATION SYSTEM CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECTCharles Forsberg, Hofstra University Charles H. Forsberg is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Hofstra University, where he primarily teaches courses in the thermal/fluids area. He received a B. S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now Polytechnic University), and an M. S. in Mechanical Engineering and Ph. D. from Columbia University. He is a Licensesd Professional Engineer in New York State. Page 13.129.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Ventilation System
precise spatial and temporal delivery of neuromodulators in organotypic brain slice culture.Ali Asgar Bhagat, University of Cincinnati Ali Asgar S. Bhagat earned his M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 2006, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include microfluidics and MEMS devices for chemical and biological assays. He was the teaching assistant at UC for the microfluidics laboratory course discussed in this paper.Hugo Caicedo, University of Illinois at Chicago Hugo Caicedo Angulo earned his B.S. in electrical engineering from the Univesidad del Valle,Cali-Colombia in 2005
) professionals is significantly disproportionate to minority representation inthe U.S. general population and workforce, thereby impacting the current pool of primarilyWhite male STEM professionals’ ability to meet the rapidly changing demands facing theengineering industry. Instead, the U.S. must increase the numbers of women and minorities(defined for the purpose of this study as African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans)that earn degrees in STEM fields not just at the baccalaureate level, but at all levels1.Minorities, particularly African Americans, are showing an increase in enrollment andsubsequent degree attainment in science and engineering (S&E)1. Data from 1987 and 2000show an increase in the percentage of S&E degrees awarded
within theconstraints of a graded university course. Our work to evaluate these games is ongoing and includes questions abouttypical moral reasoning measures (DIT2 and EERI) as well as the impact on the quality of student think aloudreasoning, their conceptual development as indicated by concept maps, and their overall interest and engagementwith game play as experienced as playful and thought provoking. The workshop, in addition to describing andproviding instructional guides to the games, will provide some preliminary results from this evaluativeresearch.References[1] J. S. Brown, A. Collins, & P. Duguid, “Situated cognition and the culture of learning”, Educational Researcher,Jan-Feb, 1989, pp. 32-42.[2] J. Lave, & E. Wenger
are often intuitors, though,and occasionally do not see why just presenting the mathematical result is not sufficient. Thismay be particularly true at MSOE, where our students are accustomed to courses that comprise Page 14.1131.6both lecture and lab experiences.Finally, thorough communications between the faculty teaching the two courses is necessary, sothat those concepts that students found difficult in the DSP course can be further addressed in theanalog course.Bibliography1. S. Williams, J. Mossbrucker, S. Reyer and O. Petersen, “A Forward Looking Electrical Engineering Curriculum,”ASEE North Midwest Section Meeting, Univ. of Wisconsin
,” SIGBED Rev., vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 1-4, 2005.2. J. O. Hamblen, "Using a Low-Cost SoC Computer and a Commercial RTOS in an Embedded Systems Design Course," IEEE Trans. Education, vol. 51, no. 3, Aug. 2008.3. K. G. Ricks, D. J. Jackson, W. A. Stapleton, “An embedded systems curriculum based on the IEEE/ACM model curriculum,” IEEE Trans. Education, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 262-270, May 2008.4. A. Hoover, "Computer Vision in Undergraduate Education: Modern Embedded Computing," IEEE Trans. On Education, vol. 46, No. 2, May 2003.5. A. Bindal, S. Mann, B. N. Ahmed, and L.A. Raimundo, “An undergraduate system-on-chip (SoC) course for Computer Engineering students,” IEEE Trans. Education, vol. 48, no. 2, May 2005.6. G. Martin
4 individual tasks. Thetasks and the student(s) who was in charge of each task is shown in Table 1. Students worked ontheir assigned tasks individually and met at least once a week to present their work to the wholeteam for discussions and suggestions. Table 1: The task distribution Task # Task description Student(s) 1 Microcontroller selection, interfacing, and software 1 CmpE/EE 2 Solenoid driving circuit 1 EE 3 Sensor interfacing 1 EE 4 Kicking mechanism and driving system
focus area, or pursue a tailored program of study as permitted by the policies of the major program.In the final curriculum guidelines adopted by the Faculty in June 2001, the above generaldescriptions of ways to package the 21 s. h. of flexible electives were adopted asrecommendations, rather than requirements. Each program was given the freedom andresponsibility to develop its own “Elective Focus Area” procedures and specificguidelines, according to their own disciplinary requirements and constraints.Between May 1999 and June 2001, the College Curriculum Committee worked on thedetails of the proposed new core curriculum, in close consultation with the Departmentsof Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, and Chemistry and prepared a
transfer class;concurrent with thermodynamics. In this paper, we present a non-iterative method students canuse to solve multiple effect evaporator problems using a free add-in for Microsoft Excel.In a typical multiple effect evaporator homework problem (Figure 1) the feed conditions andflow rate (F) are given. The overall heat transfer coefficients (Ui) are assumed to be known. Thedesired final concentration (x1) is specified as well as the pressure (or equivalently, thetemperature) of the saturated steam used as the heat source (Ps). Additionally, the pressure inone effect (usually the last) is specified (P3). The task of the students is to find the amount ofsteam that must be fed to the first effect (S), the unknown liquid and vapor flow rates
. Energy, D MOD 5 : Music ASU Local Assessment A ≠ collaborations among students using scripts. Synthesis, MOD 4 Software S MOD 6 : Arts and Media, Modules/Demo Evaluation S ≠ instructors to monitor student simulation steps. MOD 7 : DSP/FPGA, E MOD 8a: Ion
survey link were asked, in addition to completing the surveythemselves, to send a link with the survey to their students encouraging them to take the studentsurvey too. Hence, respondent pairings of faculty and students were expected. Figure 6 showsthe numbers of students associated with a given faculty member or a group of faculty from thesame department, for those faculty and students who clearly reported their discipline; each circleon the chart represents one set of students with its respective faculty member(s). As is clear fromthe figure, the majority of faculty responses are connected with 0-4 student responses, though afew faculty members had 19 or more students from their class(es) respond
spacebarriers. Since our goal was to deploy about 100 identical LAMP servers, we didn’t need theflexibility of a full Virtual Machine Monitor that emulated the hardware. We turned to a morescalable solution that we discovered was being used by a local web hosting company: OS-Virtualization using Virtuozzo by SW-Soft (now Parallels).In this paper we will first give a brief history of the use of the term “virtual machine” from theearly 70’s until the present. We explain the different models that have been implemented underthe term and how usage of the terms seems to have stabilized recently. We then look at oneapproach in greater detail, OS-Virtualization (sometimes called OS containers), or creating avirtual operating system interface rather that a
pressure head at 1 b) velocity head at 2 is much greater than velocity head at 1, and pressure head at 1 is much greater than pressure head at 2 c) y1 should be equal to y2, because pressure at 1 is equal to pressure at 2, and velocity heads are equal d) E1 is not equal to E2, because velocity head and pressure head at 1 are greater than velocity head and pressure head at 2 Page 14.58.7Appendix B. The worksheets given to the students.CE 351 Water Resources Engineering Fall 2008Worksheet #1: Hydraulic JumpName(s
Legislature in 1912, was originally known as the New York State School ofAgriculture. Initially, the College offered afour-year agricultural program. In thedecade following its founding, additional courses and programs were added in agricultureand ornamental horticulture. In 1920, the regular four-year offering was limited to athree-year program. During the depression years, the curriculum was reduced to twoyears. In 1946, to fulfill the increasing need for technically trained men and womenduring the post-war period, industrial-technical programs were added. In 1948, thecollege became a unit or the newly established State University of New York. In the1950’s the curricula of the Industrial-Technical Division emphasized practical aspects ofthe various
design team. Although initiated before therelease of a 1994 ASEE report 2, the new program parallels the recommendations contained in the report. 3 4Ideas fi-om Keen and a March 1995 workshop are being incorporated into a two-course freshmansequence initially offered in the 1995-96 academic year. These courses are the first of several that incorporatedesign projects, reports, and presentations in an effort to produce better prepared graduates. An oflen heard complaint fi-om fist and second year engineering students is “I’m studying all of thismath and science-when will I get to do some engineering?” ~s comment maybe a clue to the cause of thehigh attrition rate of entering engineering students
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includes two 486PC, anotherincludes a Sun 3/110C workstation, a 386PC and a 486PC, and the third contains several 386 and 28C PCs. A network’s physical layer defines the physical link between computers and networks. This is primarilythe network interface card (NIC) required in each connected computer and the cables needed to interconnectthe NICs. The computer may then function as a file server, workstation, or gateway to a network or othercommunication device. In this network, four types of Ethernet NICs are used: • A S-bus Ethernet card for the Sun 3-110 workstation. • An SMC Elite 16 Ethernet card for a 486 running BSD4.3Net2 UNIX. • NE2000 network cards for a 486 PC running LINUX and 286 PCs running DOS. • Two
identified that contribute to thisunderrepresentation. These include: 1) Lack of role models for students with disabilities, 2) High schoolteachers’ inadequate knowledge of accommodations readily available at the college level; 3) Poor to little highschool to college transition planning for students with disabilities; and 4) univers~y faculty;s lack ofexperience in recruiting of and providing accommodations to students with disabilities. Introduction In the 1960’s and 1970’s federal legislation was enacted that drastically changed the educationalopportunities for children with disabilities. Prior to this, it was common for children with disabilities to begrouped together in segregated
Score (S. Dev.) (S. Dev.) (S. Dev.) 10.00 Males I 15.45 25.45 (4.00) (3.38) Table 1 Students were also asked to fill out a formative questionnaire at the end of the course. Overall, the studentevaluations were favorable. The textbook itself had a rating of 4 on a 5-point scale. For the instructional aidsused in the course, the students overwhelmingly approved of the use of
occurred. Step 3. Develop performance criterion(s) for each objective. The performance criterion(a) defines the level of performance required to meet the objective. Since performance, such as critical thinking or valuing life-long learning, is often not directly assessable, indicators of performance must be sought. If we can find evidence or indicators that the desired activity is taking place at the expected level, we can say we have met our performance criterion and thus, achieved our desired outcomes. Step 4. Specify assessment methods to be used for data collection for each of the objectives/criterion. It is important to note that this is a simplification of the
minimum with proper control being exercised by the meeting leader. Interruptions to meetings should be minimized by prior planning and by instructions to participantsand associates regarding the importance of the non-interrupted flow of the meeting. Wherever possible,allow no interruptions except for a clear emergency. Hold messages for delivery at coffee breaks and lunchtime. Holding the meeting outside of and away from normal operating facilities will help minimize externalinterruptions. The meeting leader controls the meeting. He/she should state early on the objective(s) of themeeting. The meeting leader should keep the meeting on track with the agenda. He/she should resist“hidden agenda” ploys. The meeting leader should keep
until senior design and capstone courses to show them. By nottapping -ihto the students motivational core at the beginning of their university educatio~ we have missed one ofour best educational opportunities. Using our architectural engineering program at Kansas State University, we have developed,implemented and tested a new model of an integrate~ application-oriented curriculum. Our department focussesprimarily on undergraduate educatio~ with two large B. S. programs (330 students in architectural engineeringand 240 students in construction science and management). We have a large number of faculty who havereturned to the classroom afler working in the engineering and construction industries(1). We are in our finalyear of a three year
displays and LEDs to display the contents all of the buses and registers. Weintroduced VISICOMP to our students in the Fall of ‘95 with very favorable results. INST. BINARY HEX OPERATION ONE WORD INSTRUCTIONS NOP 0000 0 NO OPERATION NEG 0001 1 NEGATE THE ACCUMULATOR (2'S COMPLEMENT) NOT 0010 2 COMPLEMENT THE ACCUMULATOR (1'S COMPLEMENT) RAR 0011 3 ROTATE ACCUMULATOR RIGHT TWO WORD INST. - SECOND WORD IS I/O PORT OR IMMEDIATE VALUE OUT 0100 4 OUTPUT ACCUMULATOR TO ADDRESSED P ORT IN 0101 5
). Page 14.1368.31 Drs. Elizabeth G. Creamer, Peggy S. Meszaros, and Carol J. Burger, all of Virginia Tech, served asprincipal investigators on the grant.While the original sample was more balanced, loss of institutions agreeing to participate in thestudy between the time the grant proposal was written and the year of implementation of thedata collection, resulted in 5 high and 3 low enrolling institutions in the final sample.Data collection procedures occurred in two phases within a six-month window. During the firstphase, an institutional liaison identified by the dean of the college/school of engineering at eachsite worked with one of the principal investigators to negotiate human subjects clearance and toprovide contact information for all
. Additionally, campus administrators andfaculty members might use these findings to demonstrate the value added of [summer]undergraduate research experiences.ConclusionAccording to results presented here, students are not only exposed to a faculty mentor and theresearch process, but well-designed experiences that engage students in the doing of researchyield additional outcomes such as increased research self-efficacy.Bibliography1. National Science Board. (2006). Science and engineering indicators 2006 (Two volumes). Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation.2. George, Y. S., Malcom, S., Campbell, P. B., Kibler, T., & Weisman, J. L. (2008). Changes in the annual number of underrepresented minorities: New enrollees in STEM graduate
be administered again at the conclusion of thecourse, to see if spatial skills are improved through other course activities, making the additionaltreatment modules unnecessary for this class. Finally, it is recommended that the study bereplicated with more balance in participant numbers in the treatment and control groups, andmore balance in pretest measured spatial ability between the control and treatment groups. Page 14.868.8 Bibliographic Information1. Sorby, S., Wysocki, A. F., & Baartmans, B. (2003). Introduction to 3D Visualization: An Active Approach. CD- ROM with workbook. Clifton