Paper ID #14213Enhance Computing Curricula with High Performance Computing Teachingand ResearchDr. Suxia Cui, Prairie View A&M University Suxia Cui is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU). She joined PVAMU right after she obtained her Ph.D. degree in Com- puter Engineering from Mississippi State University in 2003. Her research interests include image and video processing, data compression, wavelets, computer vision, remote sensing, and computing educa- tion. Her projects are currently funded by NSF, United States Department of
theworkshop.B-Fab begins with basic instruction in computer-aided design (CAD), and then moves quicklythrough a range fabrication projects involving woodworking, soldering, composites, 3D printing,and laser cutting. The workshop was intentionally designed to focus instruction on processesand techniques with a low barrier to entry, i.e. those that don’t required years of practice to gainproficiency, to enable students to complete relatively high-quality work without extensivetraining or prior experience. Toward the end of the workshop we introduce topics related toproduct development including opportunity recognition, conceptual design, sourcing materialsand hardware, and the characteristics of an effective prototype.The workshop concludes with student
Paper ID #16484Fostering an Entrepreneurial Mindset through a Sophomore-Level, Multi-Disciplinary, Engineering Design Studio ExperienceDr. Cristi L Bell-Huff, Lawrence Technological University Cristi L. Bell-Huff, PhD is the Director of the Studio for Entrepreneurial Engineering Design (SEED) at Lawrence Technological University where she teaches courses on fundamentals of engineering design projects and entrepreneurial engineering design. In addition to her PhD in Chemical Engineering, she also has an MA in Educational Studies and is a certified teacher in Michigan. She has industrial experience in pharmaceutical product
safety, construction innovation, and project management since joining the Bucknell faculty in 1999. Dr. Toole is a professional civil engineer registered in Pennsylvania and a member of the Order of the Engineer. He initiated and maintains www.designforconstructionsafety.org. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 The Need for Prevention through Design in Civil Engineering CurriculaAbstractPrevention through Design (PtD) is an innovative safety management technique in which designprofessionals explicitly consider the safety of construction and maintenance workers during thedesign process. PtD (also called Design for Construction Safety) is a
future. The Air Force needs an ever increasing number of ourgraduates to serve as RPA (Remotely Piloted Aircraft) pilots, and for graduates in general, tounderstand how UAS systems support combat operations. To help students understand thecapabilities and limitations of UAS systems and to help motivate them toward the RPA careerfield, we have developed a comprehensive UAS program ranging from training RPA pilots toperforming research and development for new UAS systems. This paper will highlight both theRPA Airmanship training program and the UAS research program at the U.S. Air ForceAcademy (USAFA), and assess how this comprehensive approach is preparing future RPAleaders. As an example of a cadet senior capstone design project, we discuss the
active member of ASEE and ASME and reviewer for several ASME, IEEE and ASEE, FIE conferences and journals.Dr. William E. Howard, East Carolina University William E (Ed) Howard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. He was previously a faculty member at Milwaukee School of Engineering and a design and project engineer with Thiokol Corporation, Spaulding Composites Company, and Sta-Rite Industries.Dr. Brian Sylcott, East Carolina University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Machine Design: Different Pedagogical Approaches to Achieve Targeted OutcomesAbstractMachine design is one of the core courses
University. She excels at leading cross-functional projects, and on MEERCat, she drives the Center’s overall strategy, operations, and research-to-practice initiatives. At Purdue, Angela’s passionate about driving change in the School of Mechanical Engineering and making the experience even better for future students.David Allen Evenhouse, Purdue University, West Lafayette David Evenhouse is a Graduate Student and Research Assistant in the Purdue School of Engineering Education. He graduated from Calvin College in the Spring of 2015 with a B.S.E. concentrating in Mechanical Engineering. Experiences during his undergraduate years included a semester in Spain, taking classes at the Universidad de Oviedo and the Escuela
Project Year 4. Method: Quasi-experimental design comparing number of publications of TTURC initiative with matched R01 projects from the tobacco field over 10-year periodHall, K.L., Stokols, D., Stipelman, B.A., Vogel, A.L., Feng, A., et al (2012). Assessing tyhe Value of Team Science: A Study Comparing Center- and Investigator-Initiated Grants. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 42, 157-163. Multi-disciplinary & Multi-Institutional Team Science Productivity
ofengineering. Details of the minor program are discussed. Various equipment related to thediscipline are gradually acquired through internal and external funding, endowments and gifts.Additionally, other related equipment already present on campus is gathered at one centralizedlocation. As a result of the establishment of the lab several research, academic and related projectshave started and are currently in progress. Some of these projects and their implications arediscussed. Vast majority of these projects involve students. Student perspectives on the advantagesof the lab and future potentials are also discussed.Key Words: Minor, Laboratory, Equipment, Projects, Research, Education, Students 1. IntroductionA new AERO (Aerospace Engineering and
University. He has developed and implemented mobile learning solution with iPad, eBooks and educational apps for the MID program – first of its kind at Texas A&M University for working professionals in distance education graduate program. He has more than 20 years of experience in teaching, applied research, academic program management and business development. For more than 15 years he has worked with the Global Supply Chain Lab- oratory at Texas A&M University on applied industry consulting projects, consortia and professional development programs for more than 100 industrial manufacturers and distributors. He has published in academic journals and industry publications. His research areas include distribution
used at more than a dozen higher education institutions and in severalcorporate settings nationally and internationally.7This study investigates the use of LML in engineering education in the context of the SophomoreEngineering Clinic, a course at Rowan University that covers technical writing and engineeringdesign and is team-taught by communication and engineering faculty. The course consists oftwo 75-minute lecture periods devoted to technical writing instruction and one three-hour labperiod per week. Most of the graded assignments in the course are written reports about thedesign projects completed in lab. The design and communication components of SophomoreClinic have been reported elsewhere8, 9, as has the application of LML to
of the different engineering disciplines necessary to select a major and, eventually, acareer. Courses at universities such as Vanderbilt2 and Purdue3 provide such backgroundknowledge, helping their students to make an informed decision about their choice of major.Frequently, such courses are designed in a modular structure, such that students can completedifferent modules and different hands-on projects based on their particular interests. Enablingstudents to make an informed choice of major was one of the most important learning objectivesof the first-semester engineering course at Valparaiso University until 2004, and it is still asecondary purpose of the course
needed for a new type of professionally oriented engineeringgraduate education that is combined with engineering practice and is designed for practicingengineers in industry and government service to spur innovation at the professional master ofengineering level, the professional doctoral level, and beyond to the highest levels of engineeringpractice. But these changes won’t occur by themselves without vision, commitment, leadership,and resolve.Today, professional engineering education for working professionals must correlate with themodern practice of engineering including growth from project levels, technical program levels,through policy levels. As such, professional education for the practice of engineering is quitedifferent from traditional
provide an example of data collected, archiving mechanism and retrieval procedures ofeach agency involved in this project. Therefore, the content of this paper could be used as aneducational experience for students and junior professionals that are trying to create thefoundation for similar studies.Introduction to Construction ZonesMaintaining and upgrading the United State’s aging highway system requires a number ofconstruction zones at any given time. These construction zones temporarily negatively impacttraffic flow and deteriorate safety conditions impacting both road users and constructionworkers. Construction zone accidents involving motorists account for 70% of the total highwayaccidents. Motorists suffer approximately 700 fatalities
holding successively responsible positions, he was selected as chief of the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division in the Engineering Directorate at the Johnson Space Center in January 2001 and served in that position until retirement on December 31, 2010. A month after his arrival at NASA, the last Apollo mission, Apollo 17, was launched. Obviously, that was exciting, but in terms of his career, the commencement of the Space Shuttle Program in November 1972 was to have far more impact. As a result, Kanipe was able to begin his career working on what he says was the most interesting and exciting project he could possibly imagine: the Space Shuttle. Kanipe moved into management in May 1990 when he became the Deputy
an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rowan Univer- sity. Her research interests include virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and modeling and scheduling of computer-integrated systems. Dr. Tang has led or participated in several research and education projects funded by National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Navy, the Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation, the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation, and indus- try firms. Her work has resulted in more than 80 journal and conference papers and book chapters. Dr. Tang is very active in adapting and developing pedagogical methods and materials to enhance engineering education. Her most
civic partnership [7].To build such a partnership, the AMS facultyapproached the City of Bowling Green to explore potential opportunities for involving studentsin projects that would be mutually beneficial.According to Schuman the history of service-learning in schools of architecture and planning canbe found in the late 1960s where schools emphasized engaging students in the social issues andsupplementing classroom learning with community contact. Due to different circumstancesthrough the years’ service-learning has been more broadly accepted in planning programs than inarchitecture departments. A resurgence of interest in social engagement in professional practiceof architecture and schools can be seen in the late 1990s early 2000. [8
students have gained duringtheir tenure at PSU. In 1996 the two professors in charge of the class decided to use the NASAsponsored human powered moon buggy competition (http://moonbuggy.msfc.nasa.gov/) as acommon project for the students to accomplish the goals and objectives of this class. In 2002some of the students from the Electronics Engineering Technology Program’s “Capstone” coursedecided to design and build a system to gather telemetry from a student built moon buggy.IntroductionPittsburg State University in 2003 will celebrate 100 years of providing learning opportunities tostudents. Pittsburg is located in the southeastern corner of Kansas and is centrally positioned nearlarger cities such as Wichita, KS, Kansas City, MO and Tulsa, OK
Implementing a Web-Based Knowledge Base for a construction company: Industry-Academia Collaboration George Suckarieh, Annu Prabhakar, Tim Walker University of CincinnatiAbstractKnowledge Bases (KB) that capture and leverage the knowledge and experiences ofemployees are popular in many industries. However, in the construction industry,knowledge base implementation has been limited to some applications at the design stageor to project databases during the construction stage. This paper describes a project forimplementing a web based knowledge base to help a company transfer constructionknowledge from experienced professionals in the field to
MSOE’s TRIO Student Support Services program. He is developing a liquid-nitrogen-fueled vehicle with a group of fellow undergraduates for his capstone senior design project, and he is co-founder of Milwaukee Cryonetic Motors, Inc. a sustainable transportation start-up company working to commercialize this novel vehicle technology.Mr. Justin Matthew Collins, Milwaukee School of Engineering Justin Collins is a junior in the mechanical engineering program at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He has distinguished himself both as a scholar and as a member of the student community through his classroom performance and involvement in extracurricular activities. Justin has been on the Dean’s List with High Honors
Paper ID #9712Integration of ePortfolios in a First Year Engineering Course for MeasuringStudent EngagementDr. Victoria E Goodrich, University of Notre DameMr. Everaldo Marques de Aguiar Jr., University of Notre DameDr. G. Alex Ambrose, University of Notre Dame G. Alex Ambrose, the Interim Coordinator of the Notre Dame E-Portfolio Engagement Project (nDEEP), currently serves as an Academic Advisor and Co-director of the Balfour Hesburgh Scholars Program in The First Year of Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Alex is a Google Certified Teacher, Google Apps in Education Certified Trainer, and founder of Googlios.com. He is
and a tribal collegehave been formed to address issues that challenge their respective communities. The objectiveof this exchange is two fold: 1) educate engineering students on concepts of sustainability andthe practices and tradition of native cultures and 2) to partner with individuals in the communityon the deployment of energy efficient and sustainable technologies. These objectives bothpromote lifecycle thinking with respect to the investment in better efficient facilities. This paperpresents early lessons learned in the partnership through team work, leadership, problem solving,project planning and delivery combined with global awareness, cultural sensitivity, andversatility through this cross-disciplined, cross- cultural exchange of
, and pilot their shoes across a25-meter pool. WOW is organized by the engineering student societies at USD and sponsoredby industry and businesses within the local community.The WOW event is also used as a fun design project for teams of first-year engineering studentsat USD. Utilizing the engineering design process introduced in the classroom, student teamsmust consider three important design considerations: buoyancy, stability, and propulsion. In Fall2002, the engineering students visited local high schools to present how they applied theengineering design process to design Walk On Water shoes. This service-learning projectreinforces the USD students’ comprehension of the design process and helps them develop theircommunication skills while
Engineering Education”gender composition and team interactions began. Reported here is a summary of the results ofthe first stage of our research project, conducted in the fall of 2000, along with detailed results ofthe second stage that was completed in spring 2001.Background The Design EPICS Program introduces students to an authentic design process addressingtechnical, open- ended, client-based projects. Mentors (experienced teachers) guide teams ofstudents through the creative, interactive, and complex decision-making process. Teams absorbdesign process through practice, as they synthesize information, skills, and values. Projectsolutions are showcased at the end of the semester in written reports, oral presentations, and agraphics
AC 2012-5475: DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATIVE BIOMECHAN-ICS COURSE FOR STEM MAJORSDr. Yogendra M. Panta, Youngstown State University Yogen Panta is an Assistant Professor of mechanical rngineering at Youngstown State University, Ohio. He has been teaching and developing courses and research projects in the fluid thermal area. He is cur- rently conducting applied research in thermo-fluids and computational fluid dynamics with local indus- tries and federal agencies. Panta received a B.E. degree from Tribhuvan University, an M.S. degree from Youngstown State University, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Panta’s re- search interests are in fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD
WritingThis paper describes how ENGI 2304: Technical Communications for Engineers uses best-selling novels to provide course content and to introduce students to the conventions ofengineering genres by building on their familiarity with humanities readings. Students read thenovels Pompeii by Robert Harris and Prey by Michael Crichton and complete projects based onor inspired by the novels. This paper explains some standard research projects used in technicalwriting classes and outlines several problems with these projects before introducing the conceptof using literature in a technical writing class. While previous studies by Jo Allen and othershave argued against the practice of mixing literature with technical writing, this paper explains anew
emerging trend. Computing projects that are usedto control physical hardware were added to the Engineering Problem Solving and Computation course inorder to make strong connections to the many embedded computing applications used in students’everyday experience and in society in general. Moreover, witnessing computer instructions produce light,sound, and motion engages the students’ senses and provides the sort of immediate feedback essential forconstructive and memorable learning.In order to accomplish the goal of introducing hands-on laboratory experiences to over 600 students,Northeastern University teamed with the not-for-profit company Machine Science Incorporated toconduct a pilot study using a custom kit of electronic components in the
following criteria: a) the mechanism needs to assess the student experiences inthe light of course specific educational objectives, b) it needs to be easy to implement, since itwould be used several times a term, and c) it needs to guarantee student anonymity.The mechanism used consisted of three in class surveys and one in class peer review. The peerreview was an oral class evaluation conducted by an outside professor without the teachingprofessor present. A flow chart of the assessment mechanism is shown in Figure 1 and discussedbelow.Step one in the assessment process is to formalize the educational objectives for the course.Educational objectives include: a) learning objectives for the course, b) learning objectives forthe class projects, and c
: • It goes beyond ‘green engineering’ to discuss ethics, diverse cultural critiques of technology, and the politics of technology. • It is a technical elective and requires a significant group design project. • It qualifies as a ‘Diversity-Focused’ course and considers three specific cultural groups and their attitudes toward technology: feminists, the Amish, and Native Americans. • It makes use of collaborative groups throughout the course and requires considerable writing and speaking assignments.BACKGROUNDThe course evolved from several other courses taught by the author since 1984, including anIntroduction to Energy Technology course which made use of Jeremy Rifkin’s
analyzing theconcept and design of an engineering device or system. Likewise, students may expand theirIndustrial Readiness by visiting engineering and manufacturing companies or by assessing the Page 2.333.2potential impacts of a novel device's cost, reliability, and safety. And students may sharpen theirCommunication Skills by researching a technical subject and compiling a professional annotatedbibliography or by explaining a complex technological topic in terms that non engineers mightunderstand. The intention is to support each attribute with a variety of experiences as well as tohave students work on projects that provide multi-attribute