and e-Learning.Ivan Sopin, Armstrong Atlantic State University Ivan V. Sopin has received a B. S. in Computer Science from Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, GA, where he continues his studies as a graduated student. Ivan’s research interests deal with investigating new interaction models for 3D Web interfaces in application to medical and engineering education.Carlos Sanchez, Armstrong Atlantic State University Carlos Sanchez is an undergraduate student at Armstrong Atlantic State University, and is working on obtaining his B.S. in mechanical engineering. His current areas of interest are robotics and aerospace applications. He hopes to pursue a graduate degree in mechanical
Jeanne Christman is an Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is currently the Program Chair for the Computer Engineering Technology Program. Christman received her B. S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clarkson University and her M. S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas. Christman is the coordinator for the Engineering Girl Scout Badge workshop at RIT. She also tracks retention data for the female students in the Engineering Technology departments.Teresa Wolcott, Rochester Institute of Technology Teresa Wolcott has a Bachelor of Science degree in
. Page 14.179.4 S 07 S 08 F 07 F 08 Figure 1. Percentage of students’ experience with AutoCAD prior to this course Test 1 Test 2 Test 3Figure 2. Average drawings per testI. Assessment of Project ApproachThe term project was presented to students at the end of the second phase of the course. At thispoint, the students were well experienced in reproducing any 2-Dimensional shape drawingswith details including text and dimensions. The school
obtaining two skill upgrades. At eachlocked door, the player is presented with a sum-of-products combinational circuit designproblem. Successfully designing a circuit that satisfies the problem unlocks a door. Skillupgrades are obtained in a similar fashion. A static overview map provides the player withinformation about where s/he is in the 3D world and where the doors, upgrades and exit arelocated. Figures 1 and 2 show screenshots of the 3D environment.The game switches to a 2D environment for the digital circuit design problems. The problems arepresented in the form of a truth table specifying the desired output for the given inputs usingproblem based learning18. The students are taught sum of products design concepts through aninitial problem
. Page 14.545.7Technological literacy focus courses will go into great depth within one or more technologytopic areas (see Figure 2b) with a higher fraction of C and D values in that column(s) whencompared to a survey course.Technological Literacy Design Courses and Critique, Assess, Reflect, or Connect (CARC)Courses will cover these respective rows in the matrix for one or more of the technology topicareas as shown in Figures 2c and 2d, respectively. It is expected that these courses will also havea higher percentage of C and D values in the corresponding rows – specifically for the detailedcross-cutting concepts within each group – compared to a survey course.To satisfy the diverse requirements of curriculum committees on varied campuses
.”using prior knowledge: Some students expressed that they did not look solely at the informationin the problem, but also looked to prior knowledge that might help them. Jose felt that your levelof prior knowledge affected how you might answer a question. “I know, because I have seen theword maybe a thousand times by now…But if we bring [in] someone that [does] not…know[s]anything about the problem, this would not be enough information.” For Alice, the ability to useknowledge is a key component of critical thinking: “I had to really like, reach in and kind of pullout something that maybe wasn’t right on the paper. And when you have to like go through yourfiling cabinet of stuff, then that would be a lot more critical.” Mike saw critical thinking
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cycle.A “graphic vocabulary wall”, synonymous with a word wall (commonly used in elementaryclassrooms) should be established to support student use of graphics. The facilitation in graphicproduction will further student spatial abilities by eliminating mental road blocks that hindertheir thought processes.AcknowledgementsThis work is supported by NSF (DRL # 0733217) as part of the Discovery Research K-12program. The project team would also like to extend its sincere thanks to our partner elementaryschools, including the administration, staff and teachers.References1. Appleton, K. (2007). Elementary science teaching. In S. Abell & N. Lederman (eds) Handbook of research on science education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
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benefited from several CUNY PSC grants.Appendix:An Excel program is used to calculate the force in a 4-charge configuration.Figure A-1: The R, S, T, U charges are located on two bars. R-S and T-U are differentpolarities for the case of magnets. The T-U bar scans horizontally. The two bars are of Page 11.1328.8equal length (15 cm). The vertical T-U bar is 1 cm above the horizontal R-S barThe Excel program is displayed below.The above Excel columns are used to compute the vertical forces on the horizontal bar as exertedby the vertical bar. The vertical bar scan across the horizontal bar and a plot of force versus scandistance can be generated. A log
student’s mindset. The use of Excel and LabVIEW in data analysisand simulation prepares students well for the paradigm shift and for keeping the transfer optionopen.VI. AcknowledgementsWe thank B. Taylor, T. Como, and A. Kisselev for their able assistance in the development oflaboratory apparatus. Some equipment and software items are purchased with NYS Perkingrants and NSF ATE grants. This project benefited from several CUNY PSC grants.VII. Appendix:An Excel program is used to calculate the force in a 4-charge configuration. Page 11.1268.8Figure A-1: The R, S, T, U charges are located on two bars. R-S and T-U are differentpolarities for the case of
method as their preferred technique. They typically estimate the uncertainty in theircount to be +/- 0.5 beats. In addition, students practice their timing technique and estimate theuncertainty of timing due to their response time using the stop watch. This is done using astopwatch to time ten second intervals displayed on an online timing device. With practice,students could typically measure within +/- 0.15 s of the “true” time. An insightful studentrecognizes that the timing device can give a misleading impression of accuracy -- limitations intiming technique introduce a significant uncertainty that exceeds both the published 0.01%accuracy of the device and the ILE of +/- 0.01 s.Students obtain the pulse rate first by measuring the time for
Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in 1973 from the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Lawson' s research centers on the nature and development of scientific reasoning patterns such as hypothetico-deductive, probabilistic, proportional, combinatorial, analogical and correlational reasoning. Major interests involve determination of factors that influence the development of these reasoning patterns during childhood and adolescence and determination of their relationship to each other and to scientific concept acquisition. Page 11.470.1© American Society
25 20 15 10 5 0 1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10 11-12 Scores catagories Student in GraphicsClass Engineering Students who did not take Graphics Fig. 5 Post-test graphics class, PSVT R and surface development testsReferences1. S. A. Sorby, and A. F. Wysocki, “Introduction to 3D Spatial Visualization an
EffortAbstractThis paper focuses on the development of a sustainable assessment plan for the ElectricalEngineering program at the University of Detroit Mercy. Other programs at theuniversity have adopted variations of this plan, which requires coordination amongdepartments. The paper will discuss the merits and shortcomings of this approach to thecontinuous assessment problem and explain why the adopted process was chosen.Background and Preparation for First EC2000 VisitIn the late 1990’s, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology’s (ABET)Engineering Accreditation Commission published new criteria for the accreditation ofengineering programs, Engineering Criteria 2000.1 Criterion 3 calls for programs todefine program outcomes and to measure
] Moor, S. S., Piergiovanni, P., and Keyser, D., “Design - Build - Test: Flexible process control kits for theclassroom,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2003, p 7361-7371.[16] Hsieh, S. and Hsieh, P.Y., “Web-based Programmable Logic Controller Learning System,” Frontiers inEducation Conference Proceedings, Boston, MA, November 6-9, 2002 (on CD-ROM).[17] Hsieh, S. and Hsieh, P.Y., “Animations and Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Programmable Logic ControllerEducation,” International Journal of Engineering Education, 19(2), 2003.[18] Hsieh, S., “Design of Web-Based Ladder Logic Tool Kit for Programmable Logic Controller Education,”Proceedings of 2005 ASEE Annual Conference, June 12-15, 2005, Portland, OR
-2005. She is currently Program Director for Mechanical Engineering Technology in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture.Natalie Segal, University of Hartford Prior to her appointment as a full-time teacher of technical communications at S. I. Ward College of Technology at the University of Hartford, Assistant Professor NATALIE SEGAL worked for more than 20 years as a technical writer and taught technical writing part-time at Ward College for eight years. She holds her Bachelor's Degree in English Education from the University of Connecticut, a Master's Degree in English from Trinity College and a Master of Fine Arts in
ideationsKeywords: Inquiry-base, student role, real-time feedback, dynamic classrooms, autonomyAbstractIn this work, we address the role(s) students play during their education. While the students’ mainrole is to learn, it is observed that in most classrooms, students approach learning through the lensof the instructor’s vision. The authors have experienced it in engineering as well as technologicalliteracy classes, with some differences. For this paper we focus on the engineering students. Inrecent years, newer pedagogical approaches and improvements in instruction techniques haveexpanded the student’s view from this lens [1,2]. Nonetheless, students who are taking more thana few classes with heavy syllabi tend to focus on finishing the classes with
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). Details of each of the design steps are presented in the following sections. Identify Establish Generate Select Test Set Final Customer Target Product Product Product Specifications Needs Specifications Concept Concept(s) ConcepFigure 1. Design Process, Adapted from Ulrich2. Page 11.1401.2Identify Customers NeedsOne of the reasons that a capstone design course is particularly well-suited for the application ofa structured design methodology is that the course typically serves several
Statics Homework Tools, Journal of Online Engineering Education 4.6. Bonham, S. W., Deardorff, D. L., and Beichner, R. J. (2003) Comparison of student performance using web and paper‐based homework in college‐level physics, Journal of Research in Science Teaching 40, 1050-1071.7. Cheng, K. K., Thacker, B. A., Cardenas, R. L., and Crouch, C. (2004) Using an online homework system enhances students’ learning of physics concepts in an introductory physics course, American Journal of Physics 72, 1447-1453.8. Dillard-Eggers, J., Wooten, T., Childs, B., and Coker, J. (2008) Evidence on the Effectiveness of On-Line Homework, College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal 4, 9-16.9. Al-Masoud, N. (2006
has been offered nine times since 2004, but this was the first time such an open-endedfinal project has been used. Anecdotally, the authors observed an obvious increase in excitementand enjoyment on the part of the students due to this project. We plan to continue to use suchprojects in the future.References [1] C. S. Burrus, “Teaching filter design using M ATLAB,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Con- ference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pp. 20–30, Apr. 1993. [2] R. F. Kubichek, “Using M ATLAB in a speech and signal processing class,” in Proceedings of the 1994 ASEE Annual Conference, pp. 1207–1210, June 1994. [3] R. G. Jacquot, J. C. Hamann, J. W. Pierre, and R. F. Kubichek, “Teaching digital filter design
comic must convey technical information) (3) printing of final comicsASAP, before the end of the semester and (4) rigorously assess student learning outcomes inrelation to student developed comics. Due to the positive feedback from students in this initialpilot, the instructor is encouraged to continue this effort in other courses and to perform morerigorous studies on various aspects of student learning in the future.References[1] H. J. Graff, Literacy and social development in the West: A reader. CUP Archive, 1981.[2] C. Gillenwater, “Lost literacy: How graphic novels can recover visual literacy in the literacy classroom,” Afterimage, vol. 37, no. 2, p. 33, 2009.[3] S. P. Connors, “Toward a shared vocabulary for visual analysis: An
of opportunity for transformation in the organization: What element(s) of the wheel has the most color? In our example, “Help Recruit and Retain Talent”, “Develop Professional Skills”, and “Improve Problem Solving” have the most color. These are the areas where our hypothetical organization is demonstrating the most strength and thus can be used to help buffer the areas which are weaker. It is important, however, not to diminish these elements while working on improving the other areas of the wheel. What element(s) of the wheel have the least color? These are the areas that make the wheel “flat”. In our example, “start new lines of operations” and “transfer best practices” are certainly
in Washington D.C.’s Petworth neighborhood consisting of twenty separateresidences. Two of these are multi-family residences, consisting of six apartments each, with asquare footage of 700 square feet with a variance of 50 square feet. The other 18 residences weresingle-family homes with a square footage of 1700 feet, with a variance of 400 feet. These valueswere obtained with the assistance of the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Housing Survey, whichcan be used as a basis for determining the nature of housing in a given area [10]. With GridLab-D, these variances allow for randomization in the model with 400 feet as the value for onestandard deviation. In addition, five separate power demand schedules were generated anddistributed amongst the
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, and Ella Ingram, Associate Professor of Biologyand Director of the Center for the Practice and Scholarship of Education, Rose-Hulman Instituteof Technology.Support for training, deployment, and assessment of the module was provided as a KEEN mini-grant to the University of Cincinnati faculty.9. References[1] Byers, T., Seelig, T., Sheppard, S. and P. Weilerstein, P., “Entrepreneurship: Its Role in Engineering Education,” The Bridge, Vol. 43, No. 2, 2013, pp.35-40.[2] University of New Haven, “KEEN: Fostering an entrepreneurial mindset through integrated e-learning modules,” http://www.newhaven.edu/engineering/kern-entrepreneurial- engineering-network/elearning-modules/, accessed 2/9/2017.[3] Prestero, T., “Design for People
further their own sustainability initiatives by having their buildings certifiedthrough the LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance process. This paperprovided a description of one institution’s implementation of LEED Lab, from initiation throughbuilding certification. Readers might find, as the authors did, that the LEED Lab programprovides a tremendous opportunity to incorporate sustainability education and action into asingle course that prepares students with the knowledge and experience to be the green buildersof the future.Bibliography1. Buente, S. (2016, February 10). LEED Lab: Sustainability in higher education goes global. Retrieved from http://www.usgbc.org/articles/leed-lab-sustainability-higher-education-goes
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