exercises. Eachexperiment is preceded by a computer tutorial written in Labview® which introduces thecandidate to the background material, provides an application usually in the manufacturingcontext, assigns reading and homework problems, and demonstrates the experiment viaanimation. The modular experiments fit on table tops and are located at the CAT. Grading forthese five modules is based on homework sets and group laboratory reports. There are alsoindividual (pencil-and-paper) tests at the end of each module.The remaining thirteen modules, developed by M. Schumack, M. Vaksman, S. Das, and K.Belfield at the University of Detroit Mercy, W.W. Schultz at the University of Michigan, and V.Sheyman at Wayne State University, cover the foundational
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mPSS project with other European universities, andat the moment of writing this work, our group has completed and tested two very different mPSScourses: ≠ “Introduction to ITIL® concepts and terminology”. The objective of the course is to be a tool for reviewing the main concepts and terminology of the third version of ITIL6 (Information Technology Infrastructure Library). It is based on the knowledge the students must have acquired after the normal process of learning in the ____’s postgraduate course of title “Curso de Experto Profesional en Gestión de Servicios TI basados en ITIL® e ISO 20000”, of 6 months of duration. This course has, as an optional objective, to prepare the students for an
Academic Year Course Term Enrollment Alternative Fuels Group Enterprise Fall 2009 27 Alternative Fuels Group Enterprise Spring 2010 25 Fuel Cell Fundamentals Fall 2009 41 Fuel Cell Technology Fall 2009 23 Fundamentals of Hydrogen as an Energy Carrier Fall 2009 27 Hydrogen Measurements Laboratory Spring 2010 12 Table 2. Course Enrollments During Prior Academic Years Course s Alternative Fuels Group Fuel Cell Fundamentals Fuel Cell Technology t
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Processing Industries. Williams holds an M. S. in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Purdue University and is certified as a Vibration Analyst Category III from the Vibration Institute.Joseph Kmec, Purdue University Joseph F. Kmec is currently Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. His teaching areas of concentration are energy-based and include Applied Thermodynamics, Internal Combustion Engines, Motorsports, and Power Plant Systems. His recent activities involving student projects include engine simulation, power plant performance analysis, and nuclear technology. He may be reached at: kmecjf@purdue.edu
will employqualitative data collection techniques to provide a richer understanding of the kind of teachingrequired of capstone faculty and the ways in which various teaching methods impact studentlearning and development.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.0846605. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation. Page 15.1217.12Bibliography1. ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs. 2005
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, teams are formed, with the number of students in each team being decided by thetechnical advisor(s), the course coordinator, and any sponsor(s) in function of the expectationsfor the project. Most of the teams have three students, and students’ preferences have shifted inthe past years from having more interest on internal projects (i.e., no industry involvement) tohaving projects where an industry sponsor is involved. Among the many benefits andresponsibilities that industry sponsored projects provide, one specific benefit is the opportunityto emphasize to the students that engineering design is more than just doing the calculations thatwere typically done in the classroom.Faculty members need to search and request projects from their network
Page 15.753.6department at MSU were represented in the course. While some of the students were highly encouraged by their advisor(s) to enroll in the course, others received minimal input regardingtheir participation. Overall, the student population diversity in this class was immenselybeneficial. The different experience levels and perspectives allowed for lively discussion and awide range of issues and potential solutions. By sharing their experiences with one another, thestudents learned from each other’s mistakes and triumphs not only as related to graduate schoolbut also to their personal life. Essentially, the students within the class served as mentors toeach other; students that were further along in the graduate program were able to
Technology) program atIndiana Purdue Fort Wayne (IPFW) has been in progress for many years. Manufacturing courseshave been offered as part of the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) and IndustrialEngineering Technology (IET) degrees at IPFW since the 1970’s. During the period of late1970’s to the early 1990’s the department of Manufacturing Technology offered a Manufacturingoption as part of the MET program. Because of declining enrollments in the MET programduring the early 1990’s the Manufacturing option was discontinued. However as a part of theMET curriculum many of the manufacturing option courses have been continuously offeredsince that time. With the increased demand for manufacturing specific courses as requested bycurrent students, the
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significant studies1,2 concerning senior engineering capstone experiences have beenconducted in North America since the 1990's. The study by Todd et al.1 was conducted in 1995and included a array of 360 responses from engineering departments. There are many interestingfindings in the report, including the small number of programs with interdepartmental seniordesign courses and that a significant number of capstone experiences were individual rather thanteam projects. The authors suggested two “areas of improvement in engineering education,”including and increased practice of teamwork and involving industry in order to give studentspreparation for “real-world engineering practice.” There is little doubt that this study impactedengineering programs to
described in more detail elsewhere.14AcknowledgementsThe authors are grateful for support provided by the Intel Faculty Fellowship Program and theNational Science Foundation’s Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement Program,under Proof-of-Concept grant DUE-0442832 and Phase 2 grant DUE-0717905. Any opinions,findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authorsand do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References1. Dutson, A., Todd, R., Magleby, S. & Sorensen, C. (1997). A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Courses. J. Eng. Ed., 86, 17-28.2. Koretsky, M.D., Amatore, D., Barnes, C., & Kimura, S
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to such changes.The algal masses consume the dissolved oxygen for respiration leading to anoxic conditions inthe waters which in turn could result in massive fish kills and related organisms.4 The algalblooms are a strong indication of the overall health of a body of water in any region, and throughmonitoring the water quality of a specific ecosystem it becomes much easier to devise a waterquality management plan towards reversing or preventing the changes that are negativelyaffecting the region.5The monitoring of water quality using remote sensing was initiated in the 1970’s using earthresources technology satellite, later renamed Landsat1 (ERTS-1). Since then, the digitalevaluation of remotely sensed data has been widely used to estimate
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placementRequested equipment within the proposed experiment: This laboratory experiment projectfocuses on the optimal placement of the nodes. The optimal power setting of the transmitter issuch that the Receiver Signal Strength (RSS) at the receiver is greater than the sensitivity at thereceiver while the bit error rate (BER) is able to remain in a given range during the desiredlifetime of the network. This research laboratory project also deals with the optimal basestation(s) placement (with its unlimited power supply) situated centrally in such a way as toreduce the power consumed by nodes during communication of sensors data.Results: The software package for the optimal placement of the nodes that can be delivered withthe Received Signal Strength
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Page 15.1309.5following work experiences and classes. The goal of the reflective discussion group was toassess students’ educational experiences to their overall professional formation9. This protocolfollowed a four step accidental competency discourse where students are asked to recall positiveor negative experiences which are then analyzed for learning outcomes10. The four step strategyconsists of the following four steps: Situation, Affect, Interpretation, and Decision (SAID). Thefirst step starts with providing prompts to the students to elicit the positive or negativeexperiences (Situation, S) and to get the students to elaborate on what actually happened. Thenext step was to ask the students how it affected (A) them personally. The
training” modules, whether they participated in aReflection exercise that emphasized ethics, etc. ) we can begin to identify the “best practices”that are linked to more positive outcomes.Bibliography 1. Ross, M., & Jones, E. (2002). Can team effectiveness be predicted? Team Performance Management, 14 (5), 248-268. 2. Bunderson, S., & Sutcliffe, K. M. (2002). Comparing alternative conceptualizations of functional diversity in management teams: process and performance effects. Academy of Management Journal, 45 (5), 875-893. 3. Gandara, D., May, J., & Gandhi, A. (2010). Cross-Functional Teamwork: Creating a measure for effectiveness. Paper presented at the 31st annual meeting of the Industrial