Engineering Education, 2017 2017 ASEE Conferenceprinter (Fig. 3(c)) with PLA ESun filament. All related plates are connected to the hinges in thebackdoor system which can open and close automatically to enable the user put the suit on easily(Fig. 3(d)). (a) (c) (b) (d)Fig. 3. (a), (b) Examples of CAD suit piece designs, (c) 3D printing the design, and (d) appearance of the raw suit. 3.2. Central Control Unit A microcomputer Raspberry Pi 2 [6] is deployed to centrally control all functions of the suit,especially those advanced functions such as image processing
sympathy responses and help; express insecurity, personal confusion or depreciation of himself Special Cloak own prejudices in the stereotype for personal benefitUsing this typology as a framework, functional roles that female engineering studentstake on in group working can be effectively and efficiently detected.MethodParticipantsPurposeful sampling was employed in recruiting female engineering students asinterviewees. In order to guarantee the diversity of samples in different contexts, wechose two schools which offered the course of Introduction of Engineering in a leadingChinese university H. School A is composed of mainly Chinese students and faculty,while school B is a school that is cooperatively run by
-Electronics; (b) Engineering Technology-Safety Management; (c) ConstructionManagement; (d) Design and Development; (e) Electronics and Computer EngineeringTechnology; and (f) Industrial Education. All the students enrolled in one of these degreeprograms must take the same major core courses as well as the degree-specific courses as part ofcurriculum requirements. The common degree specific courses include Circuits, EngineeringGraphics, Leadership and Management, Industrial Safety, etc. With these degree-specificrequirements, students learn common content for ET degrees. Each of the six degrees requirestudents to declare a minor in order to reach 120/123 hours as part of the curriculum requirementfor graduation. In most cases, students select a minor
interdisciplinary approaches will not only develop competencies of the 21stcentury engineer but also enable undergraduate students to become change agents and promote asustainable future.Research ApproachOur plan to develop and test instructional resources for transferring knowledge between biologyand engineering is outlined in Table 1.Table 1: Plan for incorporating biomimicry into design innovation Create and disseminate evidence-based instructional resources: a. Design instructional resources that help students to identify characteristics of engineering design problems that enable bio-inspired design (making the leap from engineering to biology). Objective 1 b. Design instructional
datacompares negatively to Engineering Graphics Design (EGD), the previous engineering courserequired in their program of studies that has had a failure rate around 15% (refer to Figure 1). Figure 1. Failure percentage for A&P versus EGD17Research DesignProposed Teaching MethodologyAlgorithmic thinking is a collection of skills that are allied to conceptualize and comprehendalgorithms. According to Gerald Futsckek18 it includes “the ability to (a) analyze givenproblems, (b) specify a problem precisely, (c) find the basic actions that are adequate to the givenproblem, (d) construct a correct algorithm to a given problem using the basic actions, (e) thinkabout all possible special and normal cases of a problem, and (f) improve
) requiredObjects = [RAy , MA , wBC , VAB , VBC , VCD , MAB , MBC , MCD ] (b) optionalObjects = [RAx ] 2. Determine the following properties for all required and optional objects: • Upper bound (yUp), lower bound (yLower), right bound (xUp) and left bound (xLower). Note that these four properties together define the bounding boxes where the object should lie in order to be marked as correct (purple dashed lines in Fig. 4). • Name: identifies the name of the object. Figure 2 indicates the objects used in this study, and their corresponding names. Sometimes a required or optional object can be represented by more than one configuration, and therefore they should have more than one name
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function-Behaviour-Structure_ontology) was developed todistinguish what the design was from, how it worked and from what its intended purpose was.The FBS ontology (Gero, 1990; Gero & Kannengiesser, 2014) models designing in terms ofthree classes of ontological variables: function, behavior, and structure. The goal of designing isto transform a set of functions, driven by the client requirements (R), into a set of designdescriptions (D). The function (F) of a designed object is defined as its intended purpose orteleology; the behavior (B) of that object is either derived (Bs) or expected (Be) from thestructure, where structure (S) represents the components of an object and their relationships. Therequirements (R) and the
presentation for each project.During the presentation, the students are required to demonstrate understanding of the project,the needs, and the approach. If the instructor considers the proposal from a team as satisfactory, aproject is awarded and the students can start working on the project. All capstone projectsinvolve: (a) understanding the problem from a client’s perspective, (b) formulating, designing,and comparing alternatives, (c) applying engineering standards and modern computing tools, and(d) consideration of economics, aesthetics, sustainability, manufacturability, and impact to thenatural environment, ethics, social impact, political context, and public health and safety. - New Approach for Capstone Projects: The Grand Engineering
Exchange Quarterly, 16(4), 135-139.8. Flores, B. C., Swift, A., Brady, T., & Martinez, J. R. (2002). The effectiveness of an advisory board as a critical friend. 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, F1B11-15.9. Jones, J. W., & Fick, J. K.. (2016, November 3). Student Certification of a Campus Building through the USGBC LEED® Lab™ Program. Lecture presented at the 2016 ATMAE Conference, Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering, Orlando, FL.
collection was performed in Spring 2016. From the larger section (Section A), 30students (out of 32) responded to the survey. Only 10 students (out of 19) responded to thesurvey from the smaller section (Section B). Since the survey was part of the end-of-semesterStudent Assessment of Instruction (SAI), an Institutional Review Board (IRB) request forHuman Subjects Research was not necessary. The survey was conducted in the electronic formatonly and students had access to the survey during the last four weeks of the semester. Studentswere asked to respond to the following statements in the survey: 1. The instructor explains the subject matter clearly. 2. The instructor answers questions appropriately. 3. The instructor stimulates my
learning. During thatfive-year span, the course was taught exclusively by the author. The author also considered thefive-year period prior to 2010, for which the course was taught in the traditionallecture/lab/recitation format. (In 2009, the course elements were combined but only modestamounts of active learning were added). Table 2 summarizes the grade data over the completeten-year period. The table includes the number of students in the course each year, the averageGPA for the class (neglecting withdrawals), the percentage of the students that passed the course(requires a grade of “C” or better), and the percentage of the students that earned a “B” or better.The years shaded in green were taught using the new course structure with active
engineering-related position, e.g., in a summerjob or internship, have you ever encountered an engineering-related deed, practice, or policy thatyou considered morally questionable or wrong?” (If you have never had such a position, write“NA.”) (Y/N/NA)2. Sources – “Who or what has had the most significant influence on the ethical/moral values,attitudes, ideals, or approach to making ethical judgments that you call upon when faced with adifficult situation? Please circle one and only one: A. Religion B. Teachers C. Parents D. FriendsE. Other – please specify: _________________________________________”Assuming the cultivation and maintenance of an ethical frame is based on expectations of facingethical issues and the importance of being ethical, our
many courses regarding wired computernetworks, and Packet Tracer was widely used in those classes. This is the only course that usesRiverbed Modeler to simulate computer networks. Therefore, students were more familiar withPacket Tracer than Riverbed Modeler. a b 25 25 20 20 15 15 10 10 5 5 0 0 Strongly Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly
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Paper ID #19286Ohio Lean Building and Workforce Development Project Provides Studentswith Real-World ExperienceDr. Robert Gilbert, Sinclair Community College Robert B. Gilbert, Ph.D., LEED AP, BAP, is a Professor of Energy Management Technology, and the Director of the Center for Energy Education at Sinclair Community College, Dayton, Ohio. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Assistant Director of the Industrial Assessment Center at the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio. He has served on the Ohio Board of Building Standards filling the position Renewable Energy, and he is currently a director on
years aftergraduating.” Based on key themes from the Fall 2015 dataset, these responses were tabulatedaccording to the presence or absence of the following words: (a) “research”, (b) “design, (c)“solve” or “solving” (as in solving medical problems), (d) “help” (as in helping the world orhelping patients), (e) “don’t know”, “do not know”, or “no idea”, (f) “quality” (as in qualityassurance) or “product testing”, (g) “regulatory” or “FDA”, or (h) “sales”. Individual students’pre- and post-course survey were compared to track similarities or changes in their responses. Forced-choice survey questions included asking students whether they planned to conductresearch in their career (answers: yes, no, not sure) and whether they planned to pursue a
areas.AcknowledgementThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation EngineeringEducation Program under Grant No. 1150874. Any opinions, findings and conclusions orrecommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarilyreflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References1. Radcliffe, D. F. Innovation as a meta-attribute for graduate engineers. Int. J. Eng. Educ. 21, 194–199 (2005).2. Ferguson, D. M., Cawthorne, J. E., Ahn, B. & Ohland, M. W. Engineering innovativeness. J. Eng. Entrep. 4, 1–16 (2013).3. Duval-Couetil, N. & Dyrenfurth, M. Teaching students to be innovators: Examining competencies and approaches across disciplines. Int. J. Innov. Sci. 4, 143
toward IRB approval as early as possible. Thiswill make future capstone design projects more efficient and successful as well as giveengineering students a guide for ethical decisions regarding testing human subjects in their futuredesign projects.AcknowledgmentsThe authors wish to thank and acknowledge the generous contribution of initial literature reviewby Joshua B. Rager and Peter H. Schwartz through a TREX Consultation from the IndianaUniversity Center for Bioethics.ReferencesAntes, G., & Chalmers, I. (2003). Under-reporting of clinical trials is unethical. TheLancet, 361(9362), 978-979.Blustein, J. (2004). Should capstone course activities undergo human subjects review?. Journalof Policy Analysis and Management, 23(4), 921-927
a secondoffering is planned for 2017 albeit with a more accessible project.References1. Goldman, S., & Carroll, M., & Zielezinski, M. B., & Loh, A., & Ng, E. S., & Bachas- Daunert, S. (2014, June), Dive In! An Integrated Design Thinking/STEM Curriculum Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana.2. Biggers, M., & Haefner, L. A., & Bell, J. (2016, June), Engineering First: How Engineering Design Thinking Affects Science Learning Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana.3. Menold, J., & Jablokow, K. W., & Kisenwether, E. C., & Zappe, S. E. (2015, June), Exploring the Impact of Cognitive Preferences on
on Employment of Foreign Residents.Provisions on Networking Forms in University are being developed now.In addition to these documents, a set of job descriptions for the staff of International Affairswas developed and approved.These documents make it possible to provide the following solutions:a) the structured and logical system of local regulations and norms for university international activities;b) basic concepts describing the processes of university internationalization such as individual academic mobility, cooperation in education and research, external academic mobility, internal academic mobility, incoming academic mobility, outgoing academic mobility, individual educational path, academic exchange, joint academic
student perception of learning gains in thecourse and will continue to monitor the student surveys of instruction in the service learningclass as compared to the other introductory engineering courses taught across the institution.Feedback from this past semester indicates that students overall found the experience to bepositive.ReferencesHeinricher, A. C., & Quinn, P., & Vaz, R. F., & Rissmiller, K. J. (2013, June), Long-termImpacts of Project-Based Learning in Science and Engineering Paper presented at 2013 ASEEAnnual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia. https://peer.asee.org/19888Huff, J. L., Zoltowski, C. B. and Oakes, W. C. (2016), Preparing Engineers for the Workplacethrough Service Learning: Perceptions of EPICS
position as the subject walks (Fig. 7a). Theycan derive all necessary kinematic parameters, solve the kinetics problem, and extract forces andmoments at each joint while walking (Fig. 7b). In lieu of a force plate, the ground reaction forcescome from normal-gait force data [9]. Next year, when students from the redesigned MATLABlaboratory sequence perform the same experiment, we will have a more quantitative measure ofhow their programming skills have improved. Fig. 7: Gait analysis. (a) Joint positions during video. (b) Schematic representation of gait with qualitative force vectors at each joint.DiscussionThe relatively stagnant evaluation scores during the lab changeover between 2014 and 2015 weredue mostly to technical problems
engineering, theintroductory lecture session introduced students to the sub-fields of ECE and the versatility of IoT;this experience could have influenced their response in favor of the statement. Survey question #2asked respondents to indicate their level of agreement on whether the session introduced them tovarious aspects of building an IoT device, and the corresponding responses are shown in Figure1.b. Again, 100 percent of the respondents agreed with this statement, with a majority of them instrong agreeance. Designing hands-on activities for freshman students has its own constraints, animportant one being the need to shield them from complexities and intricacies ofhardware/software design. Perhaps, a combination of lecture and lab could give
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the conventional thinking that for engineering majors, at least,calculus and physics understanding underpins all other technical courses. Thus, failure to thrivein major-specific courses might be tied to failure to grasp the basics presented in calculus andphysics. This inference conforms to the results published in [6, 7], as reported in [1].The results of the analysis support the hypothesis. For the analysis, “low grade” is defined tomean “below B.” [Note: prior to fall 2013, Gannon did not issue “minus” grades toundergraduate students.] Of the six 4Y students who were separated from SEECS due to GPA,one had a low grade in the first calculus class, three had low grades in their first physics class, andtwo had low grades in both (refer to
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followingdirect quotations are appropriate representations of responses during the pre and post interviewprocess:Female A Pre: do stuff like science and make stuff together and put stuff together Post: is stuff where you make stuff so that people can useFemale B Pre: making cool things and being imaginative and creative and all that Post: isn’t just making stuff. It is how being with other people and working with otherpeople to reach your design and feedback and all thatThe female student responses above were used as examples as their responses were similar todescribing thing to understanding both thing and person orientation. In this context, bothfemales in the A&B samples were able to expand their interpretation of
composition or university context, that help explain team performance? • How do the factors explored here play out when teams are pursuing specific kinds of transformation – for example, curricular transformation vs. policy change? ReferencesAmabile, T. M., Schatzel, E. A., Moneta, G. B., & Kramer, S. J. (2004). Leader behaviors and the work environment for creativity: Perceived leader support. The Leadership Quarterly, 15(1), 5–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2003.12.003American Council on Education. (2015). Basic Facts About US Higher Education Today. Retrieved from http://higheredtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/he-spotlight- facts.pdfAshwin, P. (2015, May 8). 5 ways
and centers in 1989, and continues to this day. At present, theengineering move is about 75% complete.Library support at NC State is fairly centralized for a university of its size, with two majorresearch library buildings (one on the historic main campus and one on Centennial Campus) andthree small branch libraries. The library on Centennial Campus, the James B. Hunt Jr. Library, isa recent addition to the University, opening in 2013. Thus, for most of its existence, CentennialCampus had no central library and NC State has never had a dedicated library for engineeringstudents and faculty.Evolution of a Service ModelIn 1998, subject librarians for engineering and textiles began to work on a model for deliveringlibrary services to engineering