a 21 item online survey. The survey items were taken from both validated instruments andthe ABET Criteria 3 course outcomes: a, b, and e. Survey data was collected from the testpopulation (students given the project) and compared to a control population (students not giventhe project) to assess the impact of the project on engineering self-efficacy. The results indicatethere is a statistically significant gain in student engineering skills self-efficacy, studentperception of their ability to analyze and interpret data, ability to solve engineering problems,and organize a presentation.IntroductionAccording to the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET), engineeringgraduates must have the ability to apply math and science to
an extensometer torecord strain so that accurate values of Young’s modulus can be calculated. dFigure 1: Images of a <110> oriented Cu nanowire in which slip occurs via a/6<112> Shockleypartial dislocations, resulting in a non-FCC atomic coordination for atoms around the slip plane,which are shown in yellow. Atoms with FCC coordination are shown in light blue and surfaceatoms are dark blue. 1(a) is the initial unloaded and defect-free single crystal. 1(b) is thenanowire just after yielding, and shows evidence of slip. 1(c) is the “defect view”, which showsonly the atoms that have non-FCC coordination. 1(d) is the corresponding stress-strain curve. Adetailed description of
inone of the following categories: concept, calculation/estimate, measurement or fabrication tool,device or structure, technology at the state of the art, history, and skill (e.g., technical writing,critical evaluation, etc.)1. Introduction and Scaling Laws a. Define the term “nanotechnology” and discuss potential impact, challenges, and risks. b. Recall the historical milestones in the development of nanotechnology, including contributions of key figures like Richard Feynman. c. Estimate how the characteristics of a system will change as its dimensions change using common scaling laws.2. Nanophysics a. Recall the key historical insights needed to reach our current understanding of atoms
course when controlled for course content and instructor? 2. What psychosocial dimensions were most impacted by the flipped pedagogy? 3. What do these results indicate about student motivation in a flipped classroom?One group of students (Group “A”) had just completed the flipped course. The second group (Group “B”)consisted of students who had just completed the same course, but taught in a traditional format. This wasto control for the effect of the course material on student’s motivation and interest. The third group(Group “C”) consisted of students who had just completed a different engineering course taught by thesame instructor in a traditional format. This was to control for a different instructor. The groups wereanalyzed
typical of aerospace use. Students are often surprised by the significant strength difference between these alloys and this experiment helps reinforce the importance of material selection. (a) dimensions (b) prior to instrumentation (c) following instrumentation Figure 2: Dimensions of stress concentration specimens used to evaluate the stress distribution near a concentration. Specimen is ¼ inch thick.Part 2: Stress Concentrations under Quasistatic LoadingThe second part of the experiment investigates stress concentration factors under quasistaticloading. • A large specimen containing a circular hole (Figure 2) is loaded in axial tension. Loads are kept low enough so that yielding does
); void putI2C1(uint8_t u8_val); uint8_t getI2C1(uint8_t u8_ack2Send); uint8_t putNoAckCheckI2C1(uint8_t u8_val); (a) (b)Figure 1: CodeChat, the literate programming implementation used to conduct research for this paper, transforms tradi-tional source code in (a) to the web page shown in (b) as shown by the arrow.The sad state of programming pedagogy may well be the result of the elimination of writing whenwriting a program. That is, textbooks present a program in well-crafted essays, instructors coachstudents in developing flow charts and design documents, but all this beautiful writing is sadlyabandoned when the actual program is written, resulting
on wheels. Another form of inverted pendulum system has the pendulum installed on a rotatingarm or disk. The driving rotating arm can rotate in the horizontal plane to balance the drivenpendulum that can rotate in the vertical plane. The equations of motion of these two forms ofinverted pendulum systems are different. This paper is concerned about the later form of invertedpendulum system (called rotary inverted pendulum system).Figure 1. a) Inreted pendulum system on a cart; b) Inverted pendulum system on a rotating arm (Courtesy of Quansser, Ontario, Canada) As popular examples of unstable systems, various inverted pendulum systems have been usedfor research and education in control design for
Education from Syracuse University, New York. Professor Dominguez is a member of the Researchers’ National System in Mexico (SNI) and currently she is the President of Red de Investigaci´on e Innovaci´on en Educaci´on del Noreste de M´exico (REDIIEN). Angeles has been a visiting researcher at Syracuse University, at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches undergraduate courses in Mathematics and graduate courses in Education. Professor Dominguez is a thesis advisor on the master and doctoral programs on education at the Tec- nologico de Monterrey. Her main research areas are: a) models and modeling, b) use of technology to improve learning and c) evaluation. In addition, Professor Dominguez is the coordinator of
directly hurting the bottom line, according to an SME survey9. Note that the Appendixshows a commercial pneumatics trainer used to demonstrate the use of electrical relays withpneumatics10.AppendixJobMaster Pneumatics Trainer (Commercial uses 120 V Relay Automation) used forbackground knowledge.References 1. 80/20 The Industrial Erector Set Catalog, http://www.8020.net 2. Engle, C. D., & Neff, G. P. (2013, June), MET Senior Projects as a Means of Developing Laboratory Experiments and Equipment for Course Labs Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. https://peer.asee.org/22285 3. Bimba Manufacturing Company, Full Line Catalog, http://www.bimba.com 4. B & R Automation, http://www.br
computer using LabView. This action could be as simple as illuminatingan LED (both a real LED in the circuit, and a virtual LED in LabView), or something morecomplex, such as triggering motors to spin and movies to play.The specific criteria of the project are: Detection of movements and timing • The circuit must detect at least 2 different events (i.e. movements or other measurements), i.e. events A and B. • Those events must be separated by a time delay T. • The circuit must only trigger if it detects the proper sequence of event A, followed by a time delay T, followed by event B. Reset button • The circuit must have a button to reset the circuitry so that it starts off again waiting to
scheduling meetingswith a representative from marketing, system architecture, supply chain and customer facingactivities such as service or sales and, if possible, a real customer. The final task is a contestamongst students to see who can set up a meeting with the highest-ranking person in theirorganization and interview them on leadership.Appendix B Background: Description of the ExercisesThe following sections describe the specific modules given out to students, roughly at 4-weekintervals.B.1 Introduction to NetworkingThis module is an overview of techniques for developing a networking profile and to improveawareness of existing networks in the student’s discipline and industry.“Intro to Networking • If you do not have a business card – get
approximation in the population. TheRMSEA value for the final model is .069 which indicates an acceptable range (Browne &Cudeck, 1993; MacCallum, Browne, & Sugawara, 1996). This value suggests that the fit of themodel is in a satisfactory level. Another very useful fit index is to use the AIC statistics (Akaike, 1973; 1987). The AICdetermines the hypothesized and final models’ thriftiness and fitting. As it is shown in Table 3AIC, the ACI value of default model (773.220) is higher than saturated model (506.000) whichindicates that the saturated model is a better fitting model than default model, and furtherstatistical results and standardized hypothesized model output are given in Appendix B and C,respectively.Table 3Direct and indirect
many areas still needed development (see Appendix A). In futureofferings, the author will modify the schedule so that there is one day for in-class peer review ofdraft reports. The author believes that this additional step will allow students to receive feedbackfrom student peers and will provide students with an opportunity to read reports from othergroups and to see how other teams present their results.Assessment of the course outcomes was done using the rubrics completed for the project reportsand presentations (see Appendixes A and B) and a comparison of student concept maps drawn atthe start and at the end of each module. There are many resources available that describe the useof concept maps as an assessment tool5 (e.g., Stoddart et al
disciplines, such asbiotechnology, however, their curriculum indicated that the program goals aligned withregulatory science. University B, for example, offers a Master’s in Biotechnology, and specificcourse offerings include: Development of Vaccines to Infectious Diseases, Pharmacokinetics andDrug Design, and Molecular Targets of Drug Discovery. The course titles suggest that thecontent may include some topics peripherally related to regulatory science. While these coursesare important, courses found within specific regulatory science degree programs were morefocused in regulatory science content and its applications. An example of this category andrepresentative course included, University C Clinical Research Management degree with aRegulatory
X Support of Faculty Prof Development XProgram Educational Objectives X PROGRAM CRITERIAConsistency PEOs w/ Mission X Compliance with X XProgram Constituencies X APPENDICESProcess for Review of PEOs X Appendix A – Course Syllabi XCRITERION 3. STUDENT OUTCOMES Appendix B – Faculty Vitae XStudent Outcomes X Appendix C – Equipment XRelationship Outcomes to PEOs X Appendix D – Institutional Summary XCRITERION 4. CONTINUOUS IMPROVE The Institution XProcess and Outcome Assesmnt
-STEM majors. Though these students move into the STEMdisciplines, many leave STEM prior to degree completion. Beggs, Bantham, and Taylor4suggested that there are basically four categories of factors that influence the career decisionmaking process. Included in these are the (a) influences of other individuals (family, friends,teachers) or media, (b) rewards of the job (extrinsic and intrinsic), (c) fit and interest in the fieldand (d) characteristics of the major/degree (ease of coursework, faculty reputation, exposure tointroductory material). The researchers implied that students made career decisions based not oneducation about the options and assessment of their personal values, interests and beliefs, but oninfluence and assumption
avoltage level shifting device, such as MAX232, which converts the signals to and from thedesignated voltage levels defined in physical medium, and the physical medium is the RS-232connector and cable. In the Bluetooth model shown in Figure 2(b), the medium control layerconverts the bit stream via the Bluetooth protocol stack and transmits them thought the RF signal.Thus, the Bluetooth SPP protocol can be treated as a wireless serial port. Figure 2. Original and Bluetooth serial ports Most Android devices have a built-in Bluetooth module and the Android platform supportsthe SPP protocol. It can be paired with another Bluetooth device. There are many inexpensiveBluetooth serial adaptors available, as shown Figure 2(c
during meetings and presentations of project results to customers or visitors. Anotheropportunity to practice both oral and written communication is during entrepreneurship orinnovation contests, where the students have to present their projects to a panel which willexamine their technical and economic feasibility. The judges on the panel are usuallyentrepreneurs, engineers, angel investors and venture capitalists. The training and experience ofmaking a presentation at such events are important because the analysis, criticism andsuggestions provided by these professionals are extremely valuable. The judges make use ofmethods and procedures used in their professional activities in the real world.Aladdin effectW. B. Arthur, in his book The Nature
delete each outcome. Lessons learned about the process – This round was a valuable in allowing some “give and take” dialogue about the outcomes. While full community participation was never expected, the sharply diminished participation in this round seems to either a) indicate fatigue with the process which had proceeded for about 2 months at this time, or b) highlight the difficulty in arranging high turnout for synchronous online meetings. Findings/Results – the findings are summarized in the following table. Outcome Wording A B C D Retain Reword Delete Abstain 1) Analyze and
and engineering education research through the developmentof complementary watershed monitoring stations and feedback loops between institutions. Ongoingcollaborative work includes the implementation and assessment of the first-year course at KLETechnological University, additional visits of U.S. faculty and students to strengthen collaboration, jointpresentations and publications, and proposals with faculty at each university to funding sources in theU.S. and India for continuing collaborative engineering education research activities.References1. Marra RM, Rodgers KA, Shen D, and Bogue B, 2012. Leaving Engineering: A Multi‐Year Single Institution Study. Journal of Engineering Education, 101(1):6-27.2. Matthews M, 2012. Keeping students
‘understanding the problem’ that are at the core of engineering design.This paper provides some indication that the way in which a curriculum is structured mayinadvertently and strongly affect the learning outcomes of a program. Careful attention needs tobe paid to ensure that students are able to transfer the lessons that are desired to their ongoingprofessional practice.References1. Saulnier, C. R., Ahn, B., Bagiati, A. & Brisson, J. G. Leadership Development through Design Based Wilderness Education. Int. J. Eng. Pedagog. 5, 47–56 (2015).2. Saulnier, C. R., Bagiati, A., Ahn, B. & Brisson, J. G. Changes in Design Thinking through Participation in Design Based Wilderness Education. in Proceedings of the REES 2015 Symposium
course objectives were asfollows: a. Understand the Co-op program, policies and expectations. b. Understand how to use the university website in order to access on-line information used in their job search process. c. Identify and describe their skills and work values and how they relate to their career choices. d. Learn how to write and critique a resume. e. Learn and practice proper interviewing skills and techniques. f. Communicate their interests, skills, needs and future plans to their Co-op Coordinator and future employers.The primary focus of this course was on finding a co-op job. Lessons included topics such as“ethics,” which featured case
thestudent outcomes. Furthermore, the high levels of research content broaden students’knowledge of creative and research work. Level of Exposition/Experience at ERIP Student Outcomes (SOs) Low Average High a. math/science/engineering… X b. conduct experiments… X c. engineering design… X d. multi-disciplinary teamwork... X e. problem solving… X f. professionalism & ethics… X g. communication skills
after %.0f iterations.',x,count) What values of x and count will be displayed by the fprintf statement? A. x = _______________ ANS: 16 B. count = ____________ ANS: 4 Objective: Create and interpret repetition structures No Evidence Partially Achieved Fully Achieved Score: 0 pts Score: 4 pts Score: 8 pts x neither 8 nor 16 Answers are for previous iteration (x=8, x = 16, count = 4 count neither 3 count=3) nor 4 Either x = 16 OR count = 4, but not bothOn the other end of the complexity spectrum, some questions involved a much greater degree ofeffort, both in
. In a test, I prefer problems with only one correct answer. [1] x B. Problems with multiple correct answers do not bother me. [5]Q2 A. I like to guess (educated guess) and check different potential x solutions. [1] B. I like to analyze problems to get exact solutions. [5]Q3 A. I prefer to use fixed procedures to solve problems. [1] x B. I like to use learned concepts to come up with solutions. [5]Q4 A. Choosing among various factors and use a procedure to x determine the viability of a solution is something I enjoy. [1] B. When solving a problem, I like to follow a methodical
Rhoads, Ohio State University Robert B. Rhoads currently functions as the Multidisciplinary Capstone Program Coordinator for the Engineering Education Innovation Center at Ohio State University. He has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio State University and Masters in Business Administration from Regis University. Prior to his involvement as the program coordinator, he had over 12 years of experience in industry with roles that varied from process engineering to sales engineering to design engineering. He has also functioned as an engineering technology faculty for three years at Zane State College in Zanesville, Ohio, where he developed and taught courses that included CAD, solid modeling
various engineering fields and the film andmedia industries. Members of the judging panel considered the following criteria in making theirselections: a) Creativity in the content selection and presentation; b) Anticipated breadth of public appeal and interest; and c) Effectiveness in highlighting how achieving one or more of the NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering will lead to a more sustainable, healthy, secure, and/or joyous world.7Classroom implementation The E4U2 video project was implemented in a BET class at Auburn University in spring2015. The class had a total of 29 students of which 18 were pursuing engineering and 11 werebusiness majors. In the beginning of the semester, the class was divided into six teams
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