). Effects of elementary- and middle school-based GK-12 programs on graduate student teaching and communication skills. Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 19-24, 2004.19. Cunningham, C., Gavel, B., Knight, M., and Faux, R. (2005). Learning through teaching: a longitudinal study on the effects of GK-12 programs on teaching fellows. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Portland, Oregon, June 12-15, 2005.20. Lyons, J., Thompson, S., and Fisher, S. (2005). Effects of participating in a GK-12 program on the graduate students’ programs of study. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Portland, Oregon, June 12-15, 2005.21. Buck, G. A
communication goal. • No direct instruction on public communication was provided, rather feedback from the graded assignments was used to facilitate students’ learning about public communication of technical information.References1. Khisty, C.J., “Education and Training of Transportation Engineers and Planners Vis-A-Vis Public Involvement”, Transportation Research Record, no. 1552, p 171-176, Nov. 1996.2. Miller, John B., “The Civil Engineer in Society - Public Policy, Public Office, and Community Service”, Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, vol. 128, no. 4, p 161-163, October 2002.3. Baker, B.R., “Importance of Communication and Public Relations to the Work of the Municipal Engineer”, Municipal
22.1704.5Bibliographic Information1 Susi, T., Johannesson, M., Backland, P. 2007. Serious Games – An Overview.2 Heeter, C., Chu, C., Maniar, A., Winn, B., Mishra, P., Egidio, R., Portwood-Stacer, L. 2003. Comparing 14 Plus 2Forms of Fun (and Learning and Gender Issues) In Commercial Versus Educational Space Exploration DigitalGames.3 Siwek, Stephen E. 2007. Video Games in the 21st Century: Economic Contributions of the U.S. EntertainmentSoftware Industry, Entertainment Software Association (2007).4 Read, J.C., MacFarane, S. 2006. Using the Fun Toolkit and Other Survey Methods to Gather Opinions in ChildComputer Interaction. IDC ’06, June 7 – 9, 2006.5 Kahn, K. 1999. A Computer Game to Teach Programming. National Educational Computing Conference 1999.6 El-Nasr
/premios_index.htm[13] Acevedo, Leonardo A. and Gonzalo S. Rengel. “Relevamiento Geométrico y Análisis Aerodinámico del HortenHo-Xb”. Trabajo Final. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba,2005.[14] Koch, Christopher. “Lance Armstrong: Cycling Power”. CIO Magazine. 15 Jun 2004.http://www.cio.com/article/29173/Lance_Armstrong_Cycling_Power[15] Formula SAE Student Design Competition: http://students.sae.org/competitions/formulaseries/about.htmBibliographyJenkins, Christopher H. M. .Recent Advances in Gossamer Spacecraft (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics).Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics January 30, 2006.Oñate, Eugenio and B. Kröplin. Textile Composites and Inflatable
areas may include: a) Integrating microcontrollers (Basic Stamp®) into the ROV control system b) Interlacing text and sensor information into the video output display c) Developing microcontroller based sensors that can relay information back to the surface 2) Design, engineer, build and evaluate a ROV that uses a “wireless control system”. The ROV may include the following: a) Internal power supply b) Wireless motion control c) Vectoring motor configuration to allow sideways translation d) Wireless transition of video and audio 3) Design, engineer, build and evaluate a ROV that is capable of reaching 200’ of depth. The ROV may include the following: a) Internal power supply
applying quantitative engineering analysis. You will need to 1) Createa mathematical model (perhaps by modifying or building on one or more existing models) that simulates the use ofTIPs to address the spread of disease in a population. 2) Use the model to quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness ofTIPs in addressing the spread of HIV-1 infection in a population by executing computational simulations of theinteraction of TIPs and HIV under different model setting Page 22.1583.9 APPENDIX B: 1300 PBL ASSESSMENT RUBRIC
125 Effectiveness of Using Visualization in Construction Education Jin-Lee Kima and Tang-Hung Nguyenb a Department of Civil Engineering & Construction Engineering Management, California State University at Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840 - U.S.A Email: jkim52@csulb.edu b Department of Civil Engineering & Construction Engineering Management, California State University at Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA
was the ability to have a low cost, high performance real-timecontroller that was compatible with the existing electrical components of the lathe. The EnhancedMachine Controller (EMC) Project software installed on a personal computer running a LinuxOperating System was the basis of the new controller design. Artifacts were created using G-codesfrom existing models. The retrofitted lathe is currently being used in the Intelligent ManufacturingSystems Lab at Mercer University for teaching computer aided manufacturing and providing hands-on experience to students taking manufacturing courses (Figure 1). (a) (b) Figure 1. Tabletop CNC lathe: (a) Retrofitted and functional; (b
Improvement Objectives for Mechanical Engineering 1) Improve Delivery ‐ To encourage deeper student learning by: a. Integrating theory with practice b. Integrating concepts across courses c. Requiring fewer courses/semester to increase depth d. Enhancing lifelong learning skills 2) Enhance Content ‐ Increased student exposure to: a. New and emerging technologies b. Professional skills (societal impact, ethics, team skills, project management, global issues, economic justification) c. Computer and numerical skills d. Design methodologies and tools Following intensive discussions and two faculty retreats, a major revision of the MechanicalEngineering curriculum was approved in October
structure, thelocation of atoms in planes, and the close packing crystal structure directions where atoms touchfor Face Centered Cubic (FCC) cell, Body Centered Cubic (BCC) cell, and Simple Cubic (SC)(See Appendix B for a sample concept test). The polymers concept test measured students’knowledge of internal structures of polymer objects and their atomic structures. Identical testswere used as pre and post concept tests for each topic. Both concept tests and unit tests weregraded by the class instructor or teaching assistants and those scores were used for our analysis.Data AnalysisStudents’ daily reflections on their “muddiest points” were coded based on the deepness of theirexplanations. Figure 1 shows the flowchart that summarizes our coding
because the Mica2 mote requires low frequency signals for adequate sampling and reconstruction. B. Equipment: (1) Two agilent function generators with one probe per generator (2) One tektronix oscilloscope with three channels and one probe per channel (3) One Analog Sensor PCB (4) One Mica2 mote with attached DAQ (5) Breadboard and assorted wires Fig.5 Students’ lab report (sample) 4. Teaching Approach: Multi-Dimensional Style Another novelty of our development is to use a 3-dimentional pedagogy to achieve two goals: (1
-university.html3. Reynolds, B., M.M. Mehalik, M.R. Lovell, and C.D. Schunn. 2009. “Increasing student awareness of and interestin engineering as a career option through design-based learning.” International Journal of Engineering Education. Page 22.758.7
21 22 CoE offers two FYE courses to teach basicstudy skills and introduce students to various disciplines within the college: Engineering 8(Engineering Success) and Engineering 10 (Introduction to Engineering).The first course, ENGR 8, facilitates changes in students’ behaviors and attitudes to improvestudent success and retention. This course was adapted from a textbook by R. B. Landis23 andwas first offered in Fall 2009. The course is designed around the following course learningobjectives: (1) Discuss the value of higher education to individuals and society; (2) Locateacademic and co-curricular experiences and resources at ABCU that will help them achieve theireducational goals; (3) Identify the skills and attitudes that contribute to
American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Sustainable Development Capstone Project: Collaboration between Architecture and Engineering StudentsIntroductionThe Sustainable Development Capstone Project (ING4901) is a multidisciplinary, fifteen-week, six-credit project course that has been offered to engineering students in anydiscipline in their final undergraduate year since 2008.1 For the fall 2009 term, whichmarked the third time the course was given, an agreement with the School of Architecturewas established. Accordingly, architecture students who had registered for final-yearundergraduate workshop (ARC3012-B) were integrated into the multidisciplinary teamsof engineering students. A teacher from the School of
graduate level education. ABET, formerly the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology, Criterion 3 outcomes a-k recommend that engineering Page 22.454.2programs must demonstrate that their graduates have: (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering, (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data, (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs, (d) an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams, (e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems, (f) an understanding of professional and ethical
, Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology.3. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., and Cocking, R. (2000). How People Learn, National Academy Press,Washington, DC.4. Jonassen, D., Strobel, J., & Lee, C. B. (2006). Everyday Problem Solving in Engineering: Lessons forEngineering Educators, Journal of Engineering Education, 95, 2, 139-150.5. Cross, N. (1990). The nature and nurture of design ability, Design Studies, 11, 3,127–140.6. Cross, N. (1995). Discovering Design Ability. Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies. R.Buchanan and V. Margolin. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press: 105-120. Page 22.1179.117. Atman, C. J., &
concentrate on one course atBucknell University in great detail first. (Course A.) The second course in California StateUniversity at Los Angels will be briefly described so the similar information will not beredundant. We will first describe the background, content, and structure for Course A. We thenwill discuss the pre and post course expectations. The assessment of the course will be discussednext, followed by a discussion of challenges and how we addressed them. We then will discussthe course at California State University – Los Angels (Course B), in which we will point outsome similarities and differences between the two courses. Last we will conclude our discussion,drawing some lessons from our experiences and proposing future course of
required to complete the homework is possible (and maybe even likely) because there is at least a perception that future Page 22.323.10 homework could be reduced in length if past homework assignments required significant time. This concern was addressed by (a) asking the students to only write down their starting/stopping times and dates and (b) telling them that the times reported would not impact their grades or future homework assignments. The consistency of reported times is evidence that there was not significant, isolated over-reporting. 3. The data represents only one upper-level (third year
to better contextualize and integrate the core mathematicalconcepts. Lastly, the assessment plan will be modified so that the quizzes are more fair, throughadditional supervision, and transparent so that they can aid in their learning as opposed to strictlyacting as a summative assessment.Bibliography1. Kukreti, A., Klingbeil, N. , Mercer, R., Rattan, K., Raymer, M. , Reynolds, D., and Randolph, B., “A National Model for Engineering Mathematics Education,” Proceedings 2007 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Honolulu, HI, June 2007.2. Schneider, L., “Integrating Engineering Applications into First-Year Calculus in Active, Collaborative, Problem-Solving Sections”, Presented at ASEE Engineering Teaching and Learning
, higher education certification courses, and sponsorship of engineering team competitions. Schmueser joined Altair in 2007, after working for the Research Laboratories and Advanced Product De- velopment Divisions of General Motors and at the Battelle Columbus Laboratories. He has published numerous papers on CAE applications to lightweight structures, composite materials, and vehicle joint design. Dr. Schmueser has been an Adjunct Graduate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Depart- ment at Wayne State University since 1993. Schmueser holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Applied Mechanics from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and a doctorate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the
the output is logiclow (Table 1). If the input signal (Vin) and the VCO signal (Vvco) are in phase the output willalways be a logic low. On the other hand if the signals are 180 out of phase, the output willalways be a logic high. Table 1. XOR Truth Table A B Q 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0Figure 7 shows the simple operation of the XOR gate as a phase comparator. Note that the pulsewidth of the output signal depends on the phase difference between Vvco and Vin
time to analyze the slider crank 2) Calculate the following for each different motor speed at that instant in time: a. Angular velocity of the crank linkage b. Angular velocity of the connecting link c. Linear velocity of the sliderDiscussion Questions: 1) What was the percent error between the experimental data and the analytical solutions? 2) Name 3 reasons that may have caused this error? 3) How is the angular acceleration of the crank linkage affected when you increase or decrease the speed? 4) At which locations does the crank linkage experience the highest angular acceleration? 5) At which locations does the slider experience the highest acceleration
University of Hartford Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education (a) (b) (c)Fig. 1. Photographs from the teacher workshop: (a) participants building their structures; (b)completed structure; (c) structure during testing on shake-table. Results and DiscussionIn order to evaluate the impact of the workshop on the teachers and students, the participantswere provided with a pre-activity survey and a post-activity survey. The intent was to obtainobjective comparisons of the participants’ pre- and post-workshop self-reported knowledge, levelof interest, and comfort level in
AC 2011-68: SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING LIBRARY - ACCESSIBLETO INNER-CITY COMMUNITIES THROUGH SCIENCE 101Aleteia Greenwood, University of British Columbia Aleteia Greenwood is Head Librarian, Science & Engineering Library at the University of British Columbia. She is also student, faculty and collections development liaison to the Civil and Mechanical Engineering Departments.Eugene Barsky, University of British Columbia Eugene Barsky is a Science and Engineering Librarian at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Pub- lished extensively in the library science literature, he also is the winner of 2007 Canadian Health Library Association ’Emerging Leader’ award and 2007 Partnership award from the Canadian
V u H G y (c) Charge Control PiezoscannerFig. 7. Three different approaches to linearize hysteresis nonlinearity in piezoscanners. (a) model-inversion-basedapproach [15]-[20]; (b) high-gain feedback linearization [21], [22]; and (c) use of charge-amplifier rather than voltageamplifier [23]-[26]. Page 22.1112.11 Traditionally, piezoactuators (piezos) have been used to achieve nanopositioning in typicalSPMs. However, the
for testing aerodynamics of cars, trains,ships, aircraft and buildings have been done; (b) general research: where velocity measurementsin water flows for ship hull design, rotating machinery, pipe flows, channel flows, blood flow,hydrodynamics, spray research, combustion research, wave dynamics, coastal engineering andriver hydrology have been implemented; and (c) experimental verification of CFD models.CFD (Tannehill et al., 1997) is a sub-field in fluid mechanics which attempts to solve thedetailed governing equations associated with the interaction between the fluid and the body(system), and its corresponding forces via numerical methods. Though the fluid flow can bedescribed mathematically by a set of nonlinear partial differential
presentation.Educational laboratory modules and outreach experiencesParticle properties and powder mixing experiments throughout the curriculum:A V-mixing laboratory experience4, 5 was designed last year for students to investigate the effectof mixing time, particle size and loading configuration in a statistical design. The experimentsand data analysis can be conducted over multiple class periods, and students were exposed toexperimental design strategies. A 5 L constant frequency V-mixer was used for laboratoryexperiences in courses, projects and research. Figures 1a and b show the mixer and the loadingoperation for a mixing experiment. Page 22.931.3Figures 1 a
%) 16 (48%) Critical Components of the Technology Leaders Program The success of a program such as the TLP hinges on A) developing a program structure that will attract and retain students, B) implementing said program structure, and C) adapting the program structure as you learn more about what works and what does not. In this section, we report on the first two dimensions. In the following section, we report on the third dimension. Attracting and Retaining Students in the Technology Leaders Program Two principles have guided the TLP in its efforts to attract and retain students. First, students clearly must benefit from the program and perceive that they are benefitting it. These benefits could be tangible (e.g., internship offers to TLP
which then can be stored onexternal memory. The maximum output voltage of the LM20 is 2.5 V, which corresponds toabout -55Cº. The output can be converted to ºC by applying equation (1). 1.8639 1481.96 2.1962 10 1 3.88 10HS1100LF by Measurement Specialties4 is a relative humidity sensor. This is also an analogsensor; the change in capacitance is proportional to the change in humidity. One way to measurethe frequency is to use the sensor as a variable capacitor with a 555 timer operating in astablemode. In this project, Timer A and Timer B were used for the frequency counting. Timer A
measurementframeworks: Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT); and (b) toinvestigate its relationship with academic-related variables to provide validity evidence.Approximately 600 freshmen enrolled in the fall 2010 FYE Program in a large Midwesternpublic university completed the Revised PSVT:R. Students’ academic performance, such asSAT/ACT subject scores and high school core GPA, were retrieved from the university archivesalong with students’ demographic backgrounds. The results indicated that the revised PSVT:Rmeasures a unidimentional subcomponent of spatial ability and the scores are reliable formeasuring spatial visualization ability of FYE students. They also indicated that the test isrelatively easy for this population.1