cultural issue that can not succeed without the support of high management.The following questions can be helpful in analyzing the organization culture: a) How does the organization evaluate the position of e-Learning? b) How do we evaluate the role of e-learning in support of the long- and short-range organizational objectives? c) How does our organization define the process of training and development? d) Who is responsible for analyzing the human resource requirements? e) Does the organization support the individuals who are looking for non-conventional methods of development? f) Does the organization support the individuals who pursue learning beyond the conventional programs? g) Are the senior managers prepared to
., Enhancing Student Learning: Emphasizing Essential Competencies in Academic Programs. King’s College Press, Wilkes-Barr, PA, 1988.4. Winget, David G., CE492 Annual Design Assessment and Course Assessment Documents, Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, USMA, 2005.5. Keith, B., LeBoeuf, J., Meese, M., Malinowski, J., Gallagher, M., Efflandt, S., Hurley, J. and Green, C. “Assessing Students’ Understanding of Human Behavior: A Multi-Disciplinary Outcomes-based Approach for the Design and Assessment of an Academic Program Goal.” Teaching Sociology, Vol. 30, 2002, pp. 430-453. Page 11.1032.8
animations, which are parts of the described course, can also be usedindependently for various training subjects.Figure 5. The fragment of a steam Figure 6. The top right simulation helps a learner toplant system during the warm-up stage understand processes and potential problemsis shown above. Using this simulation associated with a pipeline expansion due to increasingthe learner is able to explore all its temperature. For instance, a breakdown ofprocesses occurring at that stage. expansion bearings can cause the cracks or evenParticularly, he/she can see what is rupture of the pipeline. The relations betweengoing on inside the turbine (b) and mechanical strains in the pipes and
well.Therefore, the project seeks to study the use of a multimedia case study in the classroomand assess its impact on student learning and relevance of the pedagogy. Though it hashad limited applications in the engineering curriculum, more schools are recognizing itsvalue to improving cognitive skills for students. This paper describe applications ofusing multi-media courseware in a engineering design course to (a) introduce students todecisions practicing engineers encounter; (b) promote teamwork and critical thinking;and (c) expose them to the profession while they are matriculating as engineeringstudents. The evaluation and assessment of the project shows that students did receiveeducational value in this unique approach to instructional delivery
produced by RP machines are usually composed ofdifferent materials than the final product versions, and hence do not share many of the desiredproperties. They are, however, able to provide the designer with an idea of physical, ergonomic,and other properties of a particular component before it is send for production. There currentlyexist four accepted methods of Rapid Prototyping: a) Stereolithography (SLA) b) Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) c) Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) d) 3D Printing. Page 11.220.2The Stereolithography (SLA) process begins with a vat of photopolymer resin. The resin, liquidin raw form
experiences, rated on a scale of 1(strongly agree) to 3 (neutral) to 5 (strongly disagree); average ± standard deviation shown.My experience improved my: lab research on non-AST lab independent study Filtrón and AST research on EWB project (n = 7) (n = 3) (n = 3)ability to apply knowledge of math, science, 1.6 ± 0.5 1.0 ± 0 1.7 ± 0.6and engineering (a)ability to design and conduct experiments 1.4 ± 0.5 2.3 ± 1.5 3.0 ± 1.7ability to analyze and interpret data (b) 1.4 ± 0.4 2.3 ± 1.5 1.7 ± 0.6ability to design a system or process
., Mayadas, F., 2005. “Online Engineering Education: Learning Anywhere, Anytime,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 94, No. 1. 5. Novak, G.M., Patterson, E.T., Garvin, A.D., and Christian, W., 1999. Just-In-Time Teaching: Blending Active Learning with Web Technology, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall. 6. Todd, R., Magleby, S., Sorensen, C., Swan, B., and Anthony, D. 1995. A Survey of Capstone Engineering Courses in North America. Engineering Education: 165-174. 7. McKenzie, L., Trevisan, M., Davis, D., and Beyerlein, S. 2004. Capstone Design Courses and Assessment: A National Study. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education, Salt Lake City. 8. Ulmann, D. 1992
planning, such as systematic layoutplanning, direct clustering algorithm, from-to-chart, relationship chart to design. Figure 4 is theexample of the project that improved the current work process of the machine shop on campus.The new plan introduced the cellular manufacturing concept, brought in a better material flow,improved the tool and material management, saved machine spaces, and provided much moreconvenience to the students’ machining projects. Page 11.1218.7 (a) Current layout. (b) Proposed layout. Page 11.1218.8Figure 4. Current and proposed
cyclic engine, and investigate cycle performance as a function of systemvariables. Fig 3. Gas heat engine modulePoint A: The calorimeter is placed in cold water and no weight applied on the platform.Point B: The calorimeter is in cold water and 100-200 gm mass is applied on the platform. Pressure increases and theplatform height decreases (below zero mark.)Point C: The calorimeter is plced in hot water and the mass is still on the platform. Pressure remains the same but platformheight increases (0 to Y), temperature increases.Point D: The calorimeter is in hot water and the applied mass is taken off the platform. Temperature remains the samepressure decreases, platform height increases (above Y.)The cycle is completed by
2006-2086: CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT FOR AN EET DEGREE OPTION INBIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGYAustin Asgill, Southern Polytechnic State University Dr Austin B. Asgill received his B.Eng.(hons) (E.E.) degree from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, his M.Sc. (E.E.) degree from the University of Aston in Birmingham and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Florida. He is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU). Prior to joining the faculty at SPSU, he was an Associate Professor of Electronic Engineering Technology at Florida A&M University (FAMU), where he served as
. Three strain gages are installed at equal intervals along the axis of the beam as shown in Figure 4. As the students learn in class, the stretching of an electrical conductor increases its resistance. The gages are designed to take advantage of this effect to measure the strain. The purpose of this experiment is to determine the shear force and the load from the strain measurements, to verify the linearity of the strain along the beam axis, and to confirm the shear force and moment relationships by comparing two different methods for determining the stresses. b) Beam with hole: The purpose of this experiment is to demonstrate the existence of stress and strain concentrations in the vicinity of a geometric
Page 11.270.13 University. Proceedings of the IEEE, 83(9):1246–1269, September 1995.[11] John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking, editors. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1999. Available from: http://www.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/ [cited March 5, 2005].[12] Mark Somerville, Debbie Chachra, Jonathan Chambers, Ellen Cooney, Kristen Dorsey, John B. Ged- des, Gill Pratt, Kathryn Rivard, Ann Schaffner, Lynn Andrea Stein, Jonathan Stolk, Stephen West- wood, and Yevgeniya Zastavker. Work in progress - a provisional competency assessment system. In 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, pages S1C–1–S1C–2, October 19–22 2005
://www.provost.uncc.edu/planning/lrp/institutional.pdf2 Gehrig, G. B., (2005). A Survey of the Status of Baccalaureate Degree Awarding Construction-Related Programs within the United States. International Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Associated Schools of Construction, April 7-9, 2005, Cincinnati, Ohio.3 American Council for Construction Education. (Retrieved 1/17/2006). Document 103 Standards and Criteria for Accreditation of Postsecondary Construction Degree Programs. URL http://www.acce- hq.org/PDF/form103.pdf4 Fegusson, K. J., (1993). Impact of Integration on Industrial Facility Quality. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Civil Engineering, Stanford University.5 Gehrig, G. B
2006-2042: REPRESENTATION ISSUES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION:ENGINEERING ISSUES AND PARALLELS FROM THE VISUAL &PERFORMING ARTSWilliam Lee, University of South Florida Bill Lee is a Professor of Chemical Engineering with a significant interest in the practical and philosophical aspects of the educational process. He currently has several projects with faculty in the Visual and Performing Arts, exploring issues in the educational process, problem solving, and creativity.Mernet Larson, University of South Florida Mernet Larson is a Professor of Art History who has written and taught in the areas of art history, art theory, art criticism, and educational aspects of art. She is also a professional
determinate beam is presented in Figure 2. Situation: The roof shown experiences snow load with drifting adjacent to the AC unit. The resulting distributed load on member AB is shown. 300 plf A B 100 plf 100 plf AC 50 plf Unit A B 10 ft 5 ft 10 ft 5 ft Plan View Find: Find, approximately, the peak
sixmonths of monitoring. Academic assistant and associate deans were targeted because they oftendirectly supervise the staff positions included in the survey. The paper version of this survey isincluded in Appendix B. Table 1 summarizes the engineering education program descriptionspresented to survey participants.The Ph.D., M.S., and certificate in engineering education were evaluated by survey respondents.The intent of the certificate program is to augment the training of Ph.D. students in traditionalengineering disciplines who wish to pursue tenure-track faculty positions. Since the job marketfor traditional Ph.D. engineering graduates is well-understood and unlikely to change as a resultof the new engineering education certificate, the focus of
the job of other experts, historiansand social scientists, and we should just trust that (a) students will get around to taking Page 11.1238.10courses with those experts and (b) that history and social science courses will actuallycover technology. Knowing that (a) and (b) are both not likely to happen, I would suggest10that those of us shaping technological literacy need to recognize now that the only way toteach this broader form of technological literacy is to work together to create materialsthat integrate how the machine works with how people use the machine. Engineers,historians of technology, and STS scholars must collaborate to create case
? Do we need different equipment or instrumentation facilities ? Do we need experts from Industry or commercial establishments ? 3. Conduct an extensive background search that focuses on salient features of the main project and address the key issues that may arise as the project unfolds. Always have a “PLAN B”. Be prepared to handle contingencies. You may be very diligent in your design, planning and implementation. Regardless, things may go wrong. (Example : Bridge Building Service Learning Project ---- Heavy Rains ! Students just could not work ! They could not pour mixed cement concrete !) 4. Develop a Decision Analysis Matrix that can justify the actions taken during the
more sustainable concepts, but they mustremain dynamic as global needs identify newer sustainable approaches to design. Somestudents’ assessments of learning sustainability may not be entirely positive, but with morecompanies and agencies emphasizing these concepts, the need for their inclusion in the curriculabecomes more evident.Bibliography1. Centre for Sustainable Engineering, (13 January 2006), [Online]. Available: http://www.cseng.org.uk/page.asp?id=3002. Sandekian, R., Amadei, B., and Pinnell, M., “A Summary of the Workshop on Integrating Appropriate- Sustainable Technology and Service-Learning in Engineering Education,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2005 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Portland, OR, pp
± standarddeviation (sample size). Cadets were asked to rank their response on a scale from 1 to 5,with 1 being the least favorable response and 5 being most favorable. Page 11.589.9Instructor / Question Instructor’s test Instructor’s standard hour hours A / 9a1 82.4 ± 39.3 (17) 55.6 ± 50.2 (54) B / 9a1 35.3 ± 49.3 (17) 23.6 ± 42.9 (55) C / 9a1 100.0 ± 0.0 (19) 100.0 ± 0.0 (20) A / 9b2 82.4 ± 39.3 (17) 70.4 ± 46.1 (54) B / 9b2 29.4 ± 47.0 (17) 29.1 ± 45.8 (55
industries outside of software? Are thereconnections between types of financing used and the business cycle of the firms? Is there a linkbetween information and business savvy of the entrepreneurs and the type of financing beingused? All of these questions and many more seem to be the next logical step for the study ofbootstrap financing and will be explored as the techniques become better understood and Page 11.1172.5recognized by researchers. Bibliography1. Carter, Richard B. “Bootstrap Financing and Owner’s Perceptions of Their Business Constraints and Opportunities.” Entrepreneurship and Regional
. Roselli, RJ, Howard LP, Cinnamon, B, Brophy, SP, Norris, PR, Rothney, MP and Eggers, D. Integration of an Interactive Free Body Diagram Assistant with a Courseware Authoring Package and an Experimental Learning Management System. ASEE Annual Conference, (CD-ROM DEStech Publications) Session 2793: 10 pages, 2003. Page 11.630.9
-performing minority students after completionof their undergraduate degrees to “bridge” them into doctoral programs. Unlike AGEP, the AMPBridge to the Doctorate Program (hereafter, simply the Bridge Program) emphasizes success atthe masters level and while preparation as future faculty members is stressed, it is not theprincipal program goal.The Alliance for Minority Participation Bridge to the Doctorate Program at New Mexico StateUniversity (NMSU) recruited 11 under represented minority (URM) students into mastersprograms in engineering in 2003 with the intent of moving these students onto doctoral programsat the completion of the masters degree. Each student was paired with a mentor, received agenerous stipend to fully support their graduate
UPoN, beginning with the honorssequence, to measure student development in the areas of a) epistemological beliefsregarding the nature of knowledge construction and learning, b) critical reasoning asexpressed in oral and written communication, and c) sense of purpose and self-efficacyregarding academic choices and career aspirations. These three areas of studentdevelopment are interrelated in complex ways and measurable change occurs slowly, thus Page 11.717.10we are implementing an extended case study model of evaluation that will follow thestudents through their college careers.Acknowledgements: This foundational course and the Honors sequence
TC2K4,in which the criterion 2 – program outcomes specify eleven attributes graduates of engineeringtechnology programs are expected to have: a. an appropriate mastery of the knowledge, techniques, skills and modern tools of their disciplines, b. an ability to apply current knowledge and adapt to emerging applications of mathematics, science, engineering and technology, c. an ability to conduct, analyze and interpret experiments and apply experimental results to Page 11.1237.2 improve processes, d. an ability to apply creativity in the design of systems, components or processes appropriate to program
Multiple-Queue Look-ahead Figure 3: The class hierarchy of the simulators4.1 Methods of Multiple QueuesOur implementation uses two methods for multiple queues: schedule and run. a. schedule() This method schedules the incoming jobs arriving at different times. Depending on the estimated execution time, the schedule method sends the jobs into queue P1, P2, P3 or P4 as described in Section 2. These are the waiting queues of the multiprocessor system, where the jobs are awaiting for the execution. b. run() When the scheduler determines that resources are available for the first job in a ready queue, it moves the job to the Execute Queue. The method run executes all the incoming jobs in
require tight control of execution timing.Figure 7 shows a simplified flowchart of the rocket mission software. A detailed listing of thePICBASIC Pro code is included in Appendix B. The mission can be broken into five mainphases: The pre-launch phase, the countdown phase, the launch-ascent phase, the descent phaseand the data recovery phase. The block diagram and code listing are color coordinated toindicate these phases.The pre-launch phase begins when the battery is connected to the main PCB. The MCU powersup and configures the analog and digital inputs and outputs. The MCU then enters sleep mode toconserve battery energy. This gives the operator time to stow the sensors and the main PCB,install the nose cone section, and place the rocket on
Research in Computing and Communications. His research interests include the performance analysis of computer and sensor networks, signal and image processing, and engineering education. He was a co-recipient of both the Myril B. Reed Best Paper Award from the 32nd Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems and the 1986 Best Paper Award for Authors under 30 from the Signal Processing Society of the IEEE. He has served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems and was an elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He was the general chair of the 1997 IEEE/EURASIP Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing
simulations performed for this class, a chain end was allowed to bondwith a reactive agent only once while reactive agents could join with up to four chain ends. Thissimulation contains difunctional polymer chains and tetrafunctional reactive agents. Simulationof polymerization, the actual linking of the molecules and the crosslinking agents, is carried outin a nearest neighbor fashion. The nearest neighbor approach seeks to find the closest crosslink,a, to chain end, b, that is itself not closer to any other crosslink.Students are first given a set of random x-y points representing crosslink and chain end positions.Next they are given the problem of determining the crosslinks which are nearest neighbors ofeach chain end. Students quickly see that
. Just as laboratories achieve different goals than lectures or tutorials, remote andvirtual laboratories are different again – they must be considered as pedagogical alternatives,rather than merely logistical conveniences.Bibliography1. Antsaklis, P., Basar, T., deCarlo, R., McClamroch, N. H., Spong, M. W., & Yurkovich, S. (1999). Report on the NSF/CSS Workshop on New Directions in Control Engineering Education. IEEE Control Systems, 19(5), 53-58.2. Aktan, B., Bohus, C. A., Crowl, L. A., & Shor, M. H. (1996). Distance Learning Applied to Control Engineering Laboratories. IEEE Transactions on Education, 39(3), 320-326.3. Trevelyan, J. (2003). Experience with Remote Laboratories in Engineering Education