digital counter laboratory resulted in a(college) freshmen design project. In this case, two high school teachers played the role of “customer” inmaking the design specifications. Without performing a longitudinal study assessing the results of this program, is difficult. However,several of the teachers involved have performed pre- and post-testing of the students with positive results.Future Plans We feel the project is well developed after this second successful year. The primary concern iscontinuing to fund VISION. It is anticipated that the Eisenhower grant obtained for VISION 95 will not berenewed since it was previously funded. Current plans are to solicit funds from businesses who do not wish tobe hosts. At present, the plan
AC 2009-265: MASTER OF ENGINEERING PROGRAM AS A MECHANISM TOPROVIDE RELEVANT GRADUATE EDUCATION TO WORKINGPROFESSIONALSEugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati Eugene Rutz is an Academic Director in the College of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He manages the College's accelerated bachelor's / master's programs, coordinates distance learning activities, manages the Master of Engineering Program, and works with local high schools on collaborative pre-engineering programs. Eugene is a licensed professional engineer and also teaches as an adjunct instructor.Timothy Keener, University of Cincinnati Tim Keener is a Professor of Environmental Engineering and the Associate Dean for Research
(EIL) Rubric to evaluate whether existing sciencelesson plans available in online archival banks contained engineering concepts and problem-solving approaches. They argued that science teachers may not be equipped to identify or carryout engineering-based curricula on their own given lack of engineering exposure. So, the EILRubric provides teachers with a lesson assessment tool to evaluate the strengths and missedopportunities for teaching engineering in existing lessons [11].MethodsPedagogical FoundationBorrowing from Foster and from Peterman, et al. the idea to deliberately insert engineeringthinking into required high school science courses, a pedagogical and experiential foundation isneeded. We draw upon the Energy Engineering Laboratory
University, Kingsville. Dr. Heidari has 26 years of experience in manufacturing and CAD/CAM/CNC courses. He is currently serving as the Graduate Coordinator for the Industrial Management program.Dr. Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University Faruk Yildiz is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering Technology at Sam Houston State Uni- versity. His primary teaching areas are in Electronics, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and Alternative Energy Systems. Research interests include: low power energy harvesting systems, renewable energy technologies and education.Ms. Marija Dimitrovska, Texas A&M University, Kingsville My name is Marija Dimitrovska and I am from Skopje, Macedonia. I am a 20 year old graduate student at
participants indicated their initial impres-at 75.1 gallons. Over 70% of student water conservation sions of chemical engineering involved excessive work inefforts involved reducing the amount of time showering, which experimental laboratories, and were not aware of the subjectsaccounted for an average of 50.4% of their daily water use environmental applications. A number of responses indicatedwithout conservation. Water use from showering also showed that reservoir design was a task students did not associate withFig. 3. Common student activities that required use of water, and theiraverage daily use both with and without water consumption. All units are inUS Gallons
Paper ID #12042Two Phase Flow Water Gas Separation in Biomass Energy ProductionProf. Yeong Ryu, State University of New York, Farmingdale YEONG S. RYU graduated from Columbia University with a Ph.D. and Master of Philosophy in Mechan- ical Engineering in 1994. He has served as an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Farmingdale State College (SUNY) since 2006. In addition, he has conducted various research projects at Xerox Corporation (1994-1995), Hyundai Motor Corporation (1995-1997), and New Jersey Institute of Technology (2001-2003). He has been teaching and conducting research in a broad range
15 years. His PhD and MS studies in ChE were completed at Vanderbilt University, and his BSChE at the University of Alabama. Silverstein’s research interests include conceptual learning tools and training, and he has particular interests in faculty development. He is the recipient of several ASEE awards, including the Fahein award for young faculty teaching and educational scholarship, the Corcoran award for best article in the journal Chemical Engineering Education (twice), and the Martin award for best paper in the ChE Division at the ASEE Annual Meeting.Dr. Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State UniversityDr. Debra May Gilbuena, Oregon State UniversityMs. Christina Smith, Oregon State University Christina Smith is a
of Profes- sional Engineers and Member of IEEE since 1990. Also he is a fellow of Tennessee Academy of Science. He served as Department Chair from 2005 to 2015. He and the department faculty had extensive curricu- lum revisions for the Engineering Technology Department which has led to TAC of ABET accreditation 2008 and to ETAC of ABET 2014.Dr. Chin-Zue Chen, Austin Peay State University Dr. Chin-Zue Chen is a Professor in the Engineering Technology Department at Austin Peay State Uni- versity in Clarksville, Tennessee, where he has taught and has been in charge of the robotics program since 1985. He initiated PLC, CAM, CIM, and Sensors & Vision Systems courses in earlier years of his teaching tenure. He
honorary for professions in technology. He has been recognized as Outstanding Professor of Industrial Technology by the National Association of Industrial Technology, Teacher of the Year by Arizona State University’s Polytechnic Campus, and Distinguished Technology Alumni by Purdue University. Professor Duff joined the faculty at Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus in 1997 and currently teaches a variety of courses including modeling, animation, illustration, and technical publishing. He has received the Oppenheimer Award and The Distinguished Service Award from the Engineering Design Graphics Division of the American Society for Engineering Education for his technical and
is an Academy Professor with the Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering. He graduated from USMA in 1993 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering. He is an aviation officer who served in B Co., 3-23 Av Hunter Army Airfield, GA as a UH-60 helicopter flight platoon leader and an assistant battalion operations officer. LTC Allen served as a Company Commander for A Co. 78th Aviation Bn, Camp Zama, Japan. He earned a Master of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering from The University of Florida in 2003. He was an assistant professor in the West Point Department of Physics from 2003 – 2006 teaching core physics and nuclear engineering. After leaving the department, he served two years as a reactor
. These include: 1) The quality of the problems given to the students has increased significantly, thus enhancing the learning experience. Companies are no longer providing projects that are “busy work” type problems, but are now providing real problems to which they expect real solutions. 2) The almost $1 million derived from these projects has funded space and equipment for the senior design students and pass-down equipment for the department. During the last three years, the department has been able to invest more than $130,000 in the capstone design facility. Much of this has gone to new technology. One-third of the computers in the capstone design laboratory are replaced every 6 months. The replaced units are moved to
studentsarrive in Karlsruhe between January and March, and start with a research project that has beenformulated by faculty at both institutions. Whenever possible, the US student is paired with aGerman student who will participate in the reciprocal phase of the exchange program. When thesemester begins in Karlsruhe in April, students transition to coursework and either finish theirresearch or decrease their laboratory workload.The engineering students from Karlsruhe, Germany, come to the University of Kentucky inAugust to take regular classes in the fall semester. Karlsruhe’s engineering students, who arerequired to complete a 500-hour research project for their degree, perform some of this researchin the fall semester, while also taking classes, and
to communicate effectively through reports, engineering drawing, oral presentations supported by PowerPoint and through poster presentations.The course is divided into a lecture session and a laboratory session. In the spring semester of2011 the lecture session covered an introduction to fuel cells, CNC programming, roboticstechnology, robot programming and notions of engineering communication including progressreports, oral presentations supported by PowerPoint slides and poster presentations. The classnotes which are supported by PowerPoint slides were made available to students on BlackboardVista. During the laboratory session, students familiarized with PEMFC manufacturingprocesses, developed G-codes for machining fuel cell
precision measurement technique in sucha way that it may be taught to an interested group of undergraduate students. Thesoftware development provides an opportunity to teach the calibration process: fromtaking measurements to producing a calibration report. Capacitance Scaling MethodModern instrumentation is designed for automated control in order to create customcalibration procedures. In the case when very precise and specialized tests are necessarywithin the metrology community, it is particularly challenging to establish computercontrol of an entire procedure. Accurate calibration of capacitors that range from 1nF to100 µF over a wide frequency range (100 Hz to 100 kHz) is a demanding task.There are several
the ABET team site inspection visit.As indicated above, questions about the program, particularly any potential areas of concernwere anticipated, discussed among program faculty and appropriate actions were initiatedimmediately to correct the small number of potential problems identified. The BME programoffice and laboratory facilities were cleaned and organized as needed. A BME laboratory underrenovation was selected to be showcased as a prime example of continuous program updatingand a high level of commitment of College of Engineering to the funding of the BME program.Additional recent improvements to the teaching classrooms including the installation of "SmartBoard" computer-operated interactive display monitors were selected to be
additional expenses except for travel and living costs. • The students be at least at sophomore and preferably at junior level • The schedule at international institutions be compatible with UM-D schedule. • There be a reciprocal student exchange arrangement with the selected institutions abroad (this was needed to address issues related to tuition and fees of international students.)Program GoalsThe major thrust of the international program was to expose our undergraduates to academic andstudent environment at an international institution. In addition, it was expected that 1. UM-D students would work in a team environment in a laboratory setting or on design projects with students from the host institution and students from other
students each assemble an electrical circuit analog of the same system. With the models,they make measurements of pressure and flow for both healthy cardiovascular parameters andfor several common diseases.Introduction – We developed our two freshman biomedical engineering courses around three goals: 1) tointroduce beginning students to our Department and the field in general; 2) to teach basicconcepts and principles that underlie several specialties in biomedical engineering; and 3) tochallenge the students with real-world problems, giving them a chance to assess their interest andskill level early in their academic careers. The purpose of this paper is to describe how weaddressed these goals in the first-semester's class by incorporating
cluster identified knowledge and skills need for all levels of manufacturing from planning to final products and related support activities. 14. Marketing, Sales, and Service- Guidelines were developed for the planning and managing of marketing activities to reach organizational objectives. 15. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics- The cluster developed guidelines to be used for curricula development in the four areas including laboratory research and development services. 16. Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics- This cluster defined careers from the planning and management of movement of people and goods, to support and logistic services related to
course, curriculum,program, department and college planning. Although some faculty may receive additionalresources to handle the extra workload required to implement the assessment of studentoutcomes, all must meet the requirements without compromising their contributions in teaching,scholarship and service. An ASEE position paper1 addresses the concept of economical use offaculty resources by stating "The cost of assessment should be outweighed by the benefits to the educational program being assessed."Many engineering professors welcome any method that can be used to provide meaningfulfeedback while requiring only minimal resources.This paper reports on an investigation into the use of Visual Basic applications and computernetworking
education. In particular the major concentrates oncontrol of electrical, computer and mechanical systems. In addition to several tracks, students havethe opportunity to independently research a field of interest. This is a great opportunity for teachersand students to pursue more in-depth analyses. This paper will describe one such experiment in thefield of metrology.Very often engineering laboratories at undergraduate schools are well equipped with power supplies,signal generators, oscilloscopes and general-purpose multimeters. This set allows teachers andstudents to set up test-beds for most of the basic electronics circuits studied in different engineeringtracks. Modern instrumentation is in general user-friendly and students like using the
campus and meetweekly with their faculty advisors and most often use WPI laboratories and shops unless theproject requires use of special facilities at the sponsoring company. Company liaisons are availableto answer questions and guide the project, but do not typically work closely with the students on aday-to-day basis. Students present quarterly progress reports to their sponsoring companies.When students conduct projects at the sponsor’s site, technical advice is provided by the companyliaison. Thus, the liaison must not only have the requisite technical knowledge to guide theproject, but must also have an understanding of the educational objectives of the project program.Students must be allowed to work on the project as professionals, but
wasadministered as specified in the accompanying directions. The proctor returns the completedexam to CDL by fax or mail.Laboratory courses must also be taken by distance learning students. The laboratory portion ofthe class is handled in one of two ways: the students travel to the campus to perform labs on twoor three intense weekends or, if they live near appropriate facilities, they may be able to completeall the experiments at their home location.Although the CDL plays a pivotal role in the video MSHP program, the course instructor isaccessible to the student. Contact may be made directly with the instructor or other facultymembers by telephone, e-mail, and fax.II. MSHP SpecificsAt Georgia Tech, the NRE/HP program is housed within the George W
industry. Texas Instruments and other cooperating semiconductor companies,such as Applied Materials, have supported the development of a successful program insemiconductor product engineering at Texas Tech University. This master’s degree programincludes several specialized courses and laboratories that are not easily reproduced in theirentirety. For each student, it also includes a generous fellowship and an internship in thesemiconductor industry during which the student, faculty, and engineers in industry worktogether to identify an appropriate MS thesis topic and an appropriate person in industry to helpsupervise the thesis work.The dual-degree agreement between Prairie View A&M University and Texas Tech Universitypermits students to earn
reasonableamount of high-level software engineering that is engineering based. However, there is no waythat an undergraduate CE program can require each of these courses in an already crowdedcurriculum. The solution to this problem that has been implemented at Western MichiganUniversity (WMU) is to create a junior level course that teaches high-level software engineeringusing Visual Basic that is applied to data acquisition, signal processing and networkcommunication. This experiment has, in the opinion of the authors, been highly successful in thatstudents not only learn a great deal of information but also gain experience in applications thatare will be useful in further course work and senior projects as well as their future careers.The ProblemComputer
2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationConventional Statics instruction has been successful in teaching students to write and solveequilibrium equations based on a known free body diagram, and to construct free body diagramsfor textbook problems in which the forces and moments at supports and connections are largelyimplied by standard symbols in the problem diagrams. However, where Statics is finallyrelevant to engineering practice in the analysis and design of mechanical systems, instruction hasbeen notably unsuccessful. Students cannot go beyond textbook problems to apply Statics topractical situations, and they
Session Number 1315 Experiential Learning Exercised Through Project Based Instruction Norman D. Dennis, University of ArkansasAbstract This paper describes the use of students with work experience as team leaders to promotepeer-to peer teaching and learning. This concept is employed in a senior-level design coursetitled Foundation Engineering. The course utilizes a scenario based semester-long designproblem as the major learning vehicle. The design problem requires the development of afacility; typically a shopping mall, office complex or hospital, that is set on a real 100-acreagricultural site owned by the University
. Students are exposed to other research available on campusthrough weekly meetings and faculty seminars, and have opportunities to visit industry andnational laboratories. Planned social activities are available to all participants. At the end of theprogram, students present their work in an open forum Participating students seemed to have benefited greatly from the program. Eighty fivepercent of the students felt the conference answered their questions about graduate school. Moststudents commented that the program solidified their decision on pursing graduate studies and thatthe experience gave them practical and real world experience. Eighty three percent of studentsreported that they were more interested in attending graduate school after
difficulties in terms of resources such as classrooms,laboratories, and teaching staff. The technology program, however, with its smaller enrollment(~34-40 students/year) is affected by small changes. Page 25.301.2Although we are addressing all three area affecting student enrollments, our primary focus is inrecruitment. Year-to-year fluctuations of students entering our technology programs have hadthe largest effect on the health of the programs and they test the resilience of our resources.Another element of this effort was to help students’ awareness of the differences betweenengineering and engineering technology. Most first-year engineering
Professor at Drexel University, where he is responsible for developing and teaching courses in microprocessors, microcontrollers, and FPGAs. Rosen has carried out research sponsored by the National Security Agency, the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, DARPA, the Office of Naval Research, and the Missile Defense Agency. Rosen is the author or coauthor of more than 70 publications and conference proceedings and the holder of six U.S. patents in computer networking and signal processing.Mr. M. Eric Carr, Drexel University Eric Carr is currently the Laboratory Technician for Drexel University’s Engineering Technology pro- gram. Carr assists faculty members with the
DSP, and An Interactive Approach. He served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and as General Co-chair of IEEE ICASSP-99. He also served as the IEEE Signal Processing Vice Presi- dent for Conferences. Spanias is co-recipient of the 2002 IEEE Donald G. Fink paper prize award and was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2003. He served as Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2004.Dr. Photini Spanias Photini Spanias is Senior Lecturer at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State Univer- sity. She is teaching math methods classes. Her research interests are in math methods and in teacher preparation. She is also interested in online education