this paper have been successfully used by the authors in introducing IndustrialEngineering and Mechatronics to junior high and high school students.Bibliography1. Salminen, Tanskanen & Verho, "Mechatronics: Designing Intelligent Machines", Proceedings of IMechE, 1990.2. Yamazaki, K. and S. Miyazawa, "A Development of Courseware for mechatronics Education", International Journal ofEngineering Education, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp: 61-70, 1992.3. Alptekin, S. E., "Mechatronics Design Studio: Sample Student Projects", Proceedings of Mechatronics’96, San Francisco,June 13-15, 1996 (Alptekin 1996-1).4. Alptekin, S. E., and H. Jo Anne Freeman, “Mechatronics Education: Model and Implementation”, Proceedings ofMechatronics'96, San Francisco, June 13-15
environment, hold thepromise to revolutionize education delivery in the 21st century, as they have already begunto do.A recent report by the U. S. Department of Education’s National Center for EducationStatistics, detailed the explosive growth in distance learning in U.S. higher education. 1 Forthat study, distance education was defined as education or training courses delivered toremote (off-campus) locations via audio, video, or computer technologies. The reportfound that one-third of higher education institutions offered distance education courses inthe Fall of 1995. Of those, nearly 25% offered degree programs and 7% offered certificateprograms that could be earned by taking distance education courses exclusively. More than750,000 students were
users of formulas and of teacher-certified algorithms. Whenconfronted with a new type of problem, they tend to use a seemingly related algorithm withoutever wondering if their solution makes sense. So, for example, in a pretest the problemstatement, Write an equation using the variables S and P to represent the following statement: “There are six times as many students as professors at this university.” Use S for the Page 3.458.1 number of students and P for the number of professorselicits as an answer “P=6S” as often as “S=6P”.Another pretest problem, A can do a certain job in 3 days. The same job takes B 6 days to do
. AcknowledgmentsFunding for this project by the U. S. Dept. of Education’s Fund for the Improvement ofPostsecondary Education is gratefully acknowledged.1. Guskin, A. E., “Reducing student cost and enhancing student learning: The university challenge of the 1990’s. Part I: Restructuring the administration”, Change, (July/August), 23-29 (1994).2. Parrish, E. A., “A Work in Progress: WPI and the Future of Technological Higher Education”, WPI Journal, 3, Fall 1995.3. NSF Publication, “Report from the Presidential Young Investigator Colloquium on U.S. Engineering, Mathematics, and Science Education for the Year 2010 and Beyond”, (1991).4. Felder, R. M. and L. K. Silverman, “Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education”, Eng. Ed. 78
Session 2230With this familiar framework to build upon, a problem solving heuristic is not difficult tointroduce problem solving skills into the curriculum. In this presentation, I will give someexamples of successful ways to integrate the material and some ideas for exercises andassignments to motivate students to practice these skills.Bibliography1. "Strategies for Creative Problem Solving", H. S. Fogler and S.E. LeBlanc, Prentice Hall, 1995, 203pgs.Biographical InformationSteven LeBlanc is Professor and Chairman of Chemical & Environmental Engineering atthe University of Toledo. He is the coauthor of the Prentice Hall textbook "Strategies forCreative Problem Solving" with Professor H. Scott Fogler of the University of Michigan.The book
console panel is used to toggle thefan power and adjust the wind speed. The other gauges on the console panel are unused (they arefor a force balance from the manufacturer). A Dwyer Mark II Manometer is used to measure thewind speed by reading the pressure change due to the flow. Assuming a temperature of 25 ◦ C anda pressure of 1 atm, using the datasheet [13] gives the conversion to wind speed in m/s as p v = 20.4952 Pv (4)where v is the wind speed in m/s and Pv is the pressure reading in inches of water.5.1 Benchmarking Drag on a SphereThe drag on a sphere is a well-studied quantity in fluid mechanics, so we
science) are partnered with healthprofessionals (e.g., physicians, nurses, dentists, therapists, pharmacists) to solve unmet healthchallenges. In the first quarter, teams of 3–5 students work closely with the health professional(s)who originally proposed the unmet health challenge to develop a deep understanding of theunmet health need, including potential markets, stakeholder psychologies, prior solutions,intellectual property considerations, regulatory requirements, and reimbursement strategies. Inthe second and third quarters, the teams continue to refine and iterate upon their understanding ofthe unmet need and develop a series of functional prototypes (which are quantitatively evaluated)and an early-stage business plan.The program faculty
sports prosthetics. Prosthesis, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 13-34, 2023. 7. C. Gentile, F. Cordella, and L. Zollo, “Hierarchical human-inspired control strategies for prosthetic hands,” Sensors, vol. 22, no. 7, pp. 2521, 2022. 8. A. C. Etoundi, C. L. Semasinghe, S. Agrawal, A. Dobner, A. Jafari, “Bio-inspired knee joint: trends in the hardware systems development,” Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 8, no. 613574, 2021. 9. M. Asano, P. Rushton, W. C. Miller, and B. A. Deathe, “Predictors of quality of life among individuals who have a lower limb amputation. Prosthetics and Orthotics International, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 231-243, 2008. 10. M. C. Carozza, G. Cappiello, G. Stellin, F. Zaccone, F., Vecchi, S. Micera
read and approved by all named authors and that there160 are no other persons who satisfied the criteria for authorship but are not listed. We further confirm161 that the order of authors listed in the manuscript has been approved by all of us. Thanks for the162 support from the National Science Foundation (NSF S-STEM #2029907; NSF Implementation163 Project #2306341). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this164 material are those of the authors.165166 References167 [1] E. Rivers, “Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and168 engineering”, National Science Foundation, 2017.169 [2] S. Livingstone, & M. Bovill, “Children and their changing media environment: A170
for the technical interview(s)1 week or less before their interview [8].While ideally the industry would find alternative approaches to assessing candidates, currenthiring practices are so widespread that they are unlikely to be changed anytime soon. So what canbe done to help students excel in technical interviews and aid in their transition to the workforce?How can higher education institutions foster the knowledge, capabilities, skills, and dispositionsrequired for students to succeed in the workplace and enhance their employability?In this study, we sought to explore the opportunities to integrate such awareness and training intocurricula. To better understand where it may be feasible to do so within existing academic andprogrammatic
tovalidate and improve laboratory practices, contributing to the broader goal of sustainability in highereducation. The future work involves trying out modified enzymes for bioethanol production with increasedconversion rates for different feedstock and measuring its carbon footprint with the available setup in unitoperation labs.References1. Aroonsrimorakot S, Yuwaree C, Arunlertaree C, Hutajareorn R, Buadit T. Carbon footprint of facultyof environment and resource studies, mahidol university, salaya campus, thailand. APCBEE Procedia.2013;5:175. doi: 10.1016/j.apcbee.2013.05.031.2. Finkbeiner M, Inaba A, Tan RBH, Christiansen K, Klüppel H. The new international standards for lifecycle assessment: ISO 14040 and ISO 14044. Int J Life Cycle Assessment
second chance to provetheir knowledge increased their motivation to learn. This highlighted to them that the class wasabout increasing their knowledge rather than penalizing them for their mistakes.3.2 Do students find oral exams play a positive role in their learning? D. How did oral exams impact students' understanding of the subject matter?In the end-of-quarter survey, students were asked whether they believe the oral exams increasedtheir understanding of the subject matter. Overall, the majority of students found the oralassessment(s) increased their understanding of the subject matter. 72.1% of the valid responsesanswered “agree/strongly agree” to the prompt, while nearly 21.4% answered neutral, and only6.4% answered, “disagree/strongly
this materialare those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References[1] M. M. Chemers, E. L. Zurbriggen, M. Syed, B. K. Goza, and S. Bearman, "The role of efficacy and identity in science career commitment among underrepresented minority students," Journal of Social Issues, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 469-491, 2011, doi: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2011.01710.x.[2] D. I. Hanauer, M. J. Graham, and G. F. Hatfull, "A measure of college student persistence in the sciences (PITS)," CBE-Life Sciences Education, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 59- 82, 2016 2016, doi: 10.1187/cbe.15-09-0185.[3] T. Ju and J. Zhu, "Exploring senior engineering students’ engineering identity: the impact
of Engineering.Our study is guided by Allen et al.'s integrated framework for understanding sense of belonging,specifically focusing on opportunities to belong. Through in-depth qualitative interviews withfaculty and students, we aim to address two research questions: (RQ1) How are the differentfirst-year seminars at our institution understood and conducted? (RQ2) What aspects of theseseminars contribute to students' sense of belonging? As the university reshapes its engineeringcurriculum, this research provides insights into enhancing the transition experience and fosteringa supportive academic community for first-year undergraduate engineering students. The resultsmay also provide insights for other institutions in what works towards the
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Contact: What Can It Henry Debord: h-debord@onu.edu Do? Dr. Coffman-Wolph: CONTROL STUDENT s-coffman-wolph@onu.edu PROGRAMMED GAMES CONTROL DIGITAL TO Dr. Ammar: PHYSICAL DEVICES a-ammar@onu.edu PRACTICE SOLDERING
. L IMITATIONS OF THE S TUDY While the study’s approach offers innovative methods to analyze and provide health recommendations basedon HRV data, it was limited to a small number of participants within a selected dataset. Incorporating additional 2 https://github.com/datasci888/ASEE June 2024methodologies, especially the application of neural networks, holds promise for improving accuracy, particularlywhen dealing with larger datasets. Further expansion in demographics, such as including participants from diverseage groups, skin colors, and geographical locations, could provide a more comprehensive understanding of themodel’s effectiveness across various populations. F UTURE D
throughout the demonstration)produced desired product D (yellow), and the other where C formed undesired byproduct B(blue) (Figure 1). The demonstration allows users to manipulate up to five variables: the molarflow rate of reactant C, the single-pass fractional conversion of C, the fractional selectivity, theseparator temperature, and the recycle ratio.The block flow diagram labels streams and units. The purge Stream 6 (brown) and the recycleStream 7 (green) arrows grow and shrink in size to visualize the recycle ratio, e.g. with a lowrecycle ratio, Stream 6’s arrow would be large and Stream 7’s arrow would be small. Below theblock flow diagram are visual representations of the system variables that can be manipulated.Single-pass fractional
DC/F Degree of the functioning or working final designProject ConstraintsFunctional PC/F Functional or working model of presented designEconomic PC/E Project budget constraints; $20.00 limitAesthetic PC/A Overall appearance of the designSustainability PC/S Sustainable design; use of a renewable energy sourceCourse ConstraintsPrior Knowledge/ CC/PK Lack or deficiency of prior knowledge and experienceExperience regarding engineering designTiming CC/T Design artifact due dates and project deadlinesTechnological CC/T Technological concerns
difficult to simulate boundary conditions. Nevertheless, the general conceptsurvived and was improved during the early to mid 1900’s. One improvement that wasmade to this method during the mid 1900’s was to replace the metal sheet with a sheet ofconductive paper with a lower conductivity2. This method is still in use today. In fact,several educational companies, including Pasco3 sell equipment to run this kind ofexperiment. By using either metal or more recently paper, two-dimensional potentialfields can be plotted. Advantages of using conductive paper include lower conductivitythan metal and readily available supplies of the paper. A disadvantage is that theconductivity of the paper is often inconsistent causing errors in the field.Another device
AC 2011-447: DEVELOPMENT OF A LABORATORY MODULE IN HY-BRID BIODEGRADABLE CORNSTARCH MATERIALSSpencer Seung-hyun Kim, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Dr. Spencer Seung-hyun Kim is Associate Professor in Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Tech- nology/Packaging Science (MMETPS) Department at Rochester Institute of Technology. He works as Associate Director in American Packaging Corp. (APC) Center for Packaging Innovation at RIT. Dr. Kim’s research interests are in advanced materials synthesis and characterization. His research area fo- cuses on packaging science and technology. Dr. S. Kim graduated with B.S. in Ceramics Engineering from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea (1979) and obtained M.S. (1989) and
Session 1333 AN INTRODUCTORY POWER ELECTRONICS COURSE LABORATORY Donald S. Zinger Northern Illinois UniversityAbstractIntroductory power electronic courses often do not have a laboratory component included withthem. Student learning, however, tends to be enhanced by including a laboratory. A set oflaboratory experiments that are closely tied to the introductory course is developed. Necessarymodifications to the lecture components are discussed. Surveys have shown that the studentshave found the laboratory useful in their understanding of the course
Session 2259 Automated Semiconductor Device Measurement System for Temperature and Magnetic Field Characterization M.G. Guvench, M. Rollins, S. Guvench and M. Denton University of Southern MaineSummaryThis paper describes the design, operation and use of a PC controlled automated measurement systemfor I-V characterization of semiconductor devices. The system can do, in addition to full I-Vcharacterization of semiconductor devices like diodes, transistors and integrated circuits,characterization of their behavior under varying temperature, radiation and magnetic fields
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the PERT analysis technique tolayout the semester plan of action(s), accomplishments and learnings. They identified anddeveloped a network showing the key tasks, responsibilities and deadlines. The instructorprimarily acted as a facilitator and let the students struggle, as appropriate, so the normal teamand project difficulties would be experienced. This, too, increased both their content and team-process learning.The “Leadership Philosophy” senior level course also followed the learning contract PERTtechnique. Student teams determined the end and interim objectives and responsibilities. Theinstructor demonstrated several models the teams could follow but PERT plan coordination
) definition, 2) example, 3) review questions, and 4)quiz. Students can see their performance on review questions interactively and have theoption to repeat them, and receive on-line feedback on their score. Similarly, theirperformance on a quiz is evaluated on-line and feedback is provided to them. In addition,their score on each quiz as well as the time they spent taking the quiz are sent back to theinstructor and stored in a permanent file. The courseware provides an overall assessment, ingraphical format, of the average performance of all students who took a quiz, as well as eachindividual student’s performance. These modules are taught as supplementary part s of acourse in Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla
Cross-Cultural AdaptabilityInventory (CCAI) or Global Awareness Profile (GAP) test.7 Bielefeldt, on the other hand, hasused the Miville-Guzman Universality-Diversity Scale short form (MGUDS-S) to examinecultural competence in a variety of engineering student populations.8Downey et al., by contrast, have defined global competency as being able to work with otherswho define and solve problems differently, including across national and culture boundaries.9 Toevaluate attainment of this competency, they developed a scenario-based writing exercise togauge student awareness of how engineering cultures and identities differ across countries. Theirapproach is unique because of its emphasis on evaluating intercultural knowledge and skills inthe context
AC 2010-355: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A SOLAR BATTERYCHARGERLiping Guo, Northern Illinois University 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 Engineering Technology Program in the Department of Technology at the Northern Illinois University. Her research interests are mainly in the area of power electronics, renewable energy, embedded systems and control. Dr. Guo is a member of the ASEE, IEEE and a member of
base (courtesy of Global Specialties2)From a historical standpoint, the modern breadboard has it origins in the late 1960’s and early1970’s. The style shown was developed by Ronald J. Portugal of EI Instruments, Inc. and filedfor patent in December of 1971 (US Patent D.228,136). The transparent breadboard shown inFigure 2 was developed by Eric Blauvelt of Interplex Electronics, Inc. and filed for patent in Mayof 2002 (US Patent 6,685,483 B2).A current variation of the electronics test station centered about a breadboard is shown in Figure3. The example shown is typical of electronic trainers. The trainer consists of a DC power supply