content knowledge, consisting of prior experience, knowledge of heuristics, ability to work within tight constraints, ability to make trade-offs, ability to change design in the course of a project, ability to design for manufacturability, and ability to conform to the needs of a customer. (p. 44)It is important to note that although there is the zone of divergence, in many instancestechnology educators are already providing many important aspects of engineering designcontent in high schools. Technology education classrooms and laboratories provide studentswith opportunities to work on ill-structured problems in realms of energy, construction,manufacturing, communication and transportation.9 Lewis notes that “students
, Page 13.1043.6constructability, interaction with mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems, aestheticconsiderations, coordination with architectural layouts, and sustainability issues. ARCE 452,Concrete Structures Design and Constructability Laboratory, will be specifically examined laterin this paper.These systems design courses are typically taught in a project based studio format byprofessional practice tenure track faculty with extensive professional experience in the design ofsystems. Experience has shown that while not impossible, it is difficult for faculty to develop theexpertise required to teach a systems design course without the experience of actually designingnumerous systems in professional practice. Regarding practical
interested in the innovations of biomedical science. Recently a physicistfrom University of Alabama, Birmingham accidentally produced smooth diamond. The array ofdiamond created was smooth and adhered very easily to metal. Because diamond is durable, itmakes a very good candidate for coating artificial hip replacements. The current coatings weardown or loosen from constant use after about 10 years, which could mean more surgery for therecipient. The diamond coating is projected to last around 40 years which would improve thecomfort and health of the patient.Liguore Laboratories would like to expand our product line to include diamond coatings for hipjoints. The research laboratory is working on replicating the smooth diamonds. In order for
society. There has also been growing interest in programs such as Engineers Without Borders, which provide service learning via humanitarian projects Research Abroad Students travel to an abroad laboratory and conduct research under the guidance of a faculty member or post doc, etc.A number of exemplary programs were studied as part of Parkinson’s survey. A few arementioned here. Iowa State runs a broad suite of programs,23 with 170 engineering collegeparticipants in 200524. The college has summer programs for students in London, Germany andSpain, and also has approximately 30 exchange agreements with universities around the world25.MIT runs the
College designed and implemented a study-abroad program directly targeting mechanicalengineers. This program involved two courses taught concurrently by professors at Grove CityCollege, a laboratory experience making use of the facilities at the University of Nantes andadditional equipment brought from the United States, a course taught by one of the residentprofessors staying at the study center, and a foreign language course taught by a second residentprofessor. Students also were exposed to living and interacting in a foreign community,exploring industrial facilities in the country, and making invaluable contacts with foreignemployers.The typical concerns of studying abroad were eliminated with the new approach. These issuescentered on
while living in aresidence hall on campus or a field site, supervised by undergraduate student mentors.One of the goals of the programs is to encourage participating students to become academicallyprepared for careers in the STEM fields. Explorations are led by Michigan Tech faculty andgraduate students, and take place using Michigan Tech’s research and clinical laboratories andother facilities. Tech’s precollege programs began with the Summer Youth Program (SYP),initiated in 1973 to offer students the opportunity to investigate academic and career areas, and tospend time on a university campus. Today Youth Programs offers competitive scholarships -funded by state and corporate partners - for a variety of outreach workshops designed to
videoconferencing and online forums when the UNICAMP term began in lateFebruary. Each of the five teams created a preliminary design concept from these activities.Students kept design logs for all of their design activities. They also maintained electronicdesign logs of their electronic communications, drawings, and design ideas. These electronicartifacts were the main avenues of communication between UNICAMP and Pitt students. Inaddition, students conducted their design activities in a special design laboratory, which recordedthe design processes in video and audio format (with the students’ consent and according to IRBguidelines).The teams then refined their designs during a weeklong visit to Brazil in early March. Studentsshared detailed design plans
many more mapping software products that educators areexperimenting with. The ones mentioned here are the ones the authors have examined to date.The selection of one of these applications as the desired tool for a RBLE cannot be done byfaculty in isolation from information technology support staff. Infrastructure and competenttechnical staff to install, support and maintain the tool is mandatory if it is to be used in aclassroom laboratory environment. If the selected tool requires a new set of hardware andoperating system (OS), the cost could become prohibitive. It is even more difficult if a differentOS is used by different units within an educational system and the goal is to have all units usethe selected tool. Table 3 shows the system
AC 2008-2443: DISCOURSE-BASED COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE:DEVELOPING GRADUATE STUDENTS’ ABILITIES TO COMMUNICATETHEIR RESEARCH ACROSS DISPARATE DISCIPLINES AND EXPERIENCELEVELSLinda Anthony, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey LINDA J. ANTHONY is Program Manager for the NSF IGERT Program on Integratively Engineered Biointerfaces at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She joined Rutgers shortly after the IGERT grant was awarded, following over twenty years as a Member of Technical Staff in the Research Division of AT&T/Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Her research interests included capillary microcolumn separations, submicron particle sizing, and
to send data using a CAN bus.Brief Descriptions of LabsSo far we have developed five laboratory experiments. Brief descriptions of these five labs arepresented below. Detailed step by step activities of Lab1 is presented in the Appendix. Detailedstep by step activities for other labs are similar to that of Lab1. All these five labs together willhelp the students to accomplish the above learning objectives.Lab1: Introduction to Hardware, Software and Basics of CAN protocol.The goals of Lab1 are: 1) to become familiar with the usage of CAN-LIN 3 Development Boardwhile touching on some of the basics of CAN communication, 2) to become familiar with thehardware requirements for setting up the board for this and future CAN labs, 3) to
Chandler-Gilbert Community College atthe Williams campus has provided numerous opportunities to bring this partnership to a newlevel.10 Sharing resources is a tremendous advantage for the community college which normallyhas a difficult time providing state-of-the-art laboratories for its students. ASU East, twocommunity colleges, and an education center were awarded an NSF grant to build a seamlesslaboratory curriculum for lower division classes. Community college instructors utilize theMicroelectronics Teaching Factory and associate degree-seeking students enrolled at thecommunity colleges travel to the Factory to use the facility.11Challenges: Some programs are quite successful, but are very time and money-consuming, soare difficult to maintain
technologies was rated highly, the students were not as satisfiedwith the technology used to deliver the lab exercises. Students stated that the web-based trainingsoftware used to deliver the lab exercises was not particularly user friendly and that some of thecontent was too generic. Students emphasized that they would like to see lab exercises that weremore customized and closely aligned with Boeing practices. Students also expressed that theywould like to be able to continue working on laboratory exercises from home because they feltthat in some cases, two hours was not enough time to complete the laboratory exercises in lab.End of Course Instructor SurveysAt the conclusion of the course, the online instructor and the lab instructors were all
Page 13.751.4industry is scheduled for each week. The selection of the industry primarily depends upon a fewcritical factors such as schedule availability, INSPIRE access to practicing engineers at work,availability of transportation, interdependencies of other sessions, etc.The program participants utilize the classroom and laboratory facilities at University ofLouisville Speed School of Engineering for both engineering as well as non-engineeringsessions. Figure 4 provides a succinct synopsis of seven of the engineering, discipline related,sessions. Over the last decade, several engineering modules have been developed across theengineering discipline that can be used for pre-college students in 9th through 12th grades. Eachdisciplinary
serves as the College Coordinator for engineering education research, and is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, MSU. Dr. Sticklen has lead a laboratory in knowledge-based systems focused on task specific approaches to problem solving. More recently, Dr. Sticklen has pursued engineering education research focused on early engineering; his current research is supported by NSF/DUE and NSF/CISE.Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University Dr. MARK URBAN-LURAIN is the Director of Instructional Technology Research & Development in the Division of Science and Mathematics Education, College of Natural Science at Michigan State University. He is
constructivist theory and issues of equity. Her research focuses on issues of gendeAmaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University Amaneh Tasooji is an Associate Research Professor in the School of Materials at ASU and has been teaching and developing new content for materials science and engineering classes and laboratories. She has developed new content and contextual teaching methods from here experience as a researcher and General Manager at Honeywell Inc. She is currently working to develop new assessments to reveal and address student misconceptions in introductory materials engineering classes.Stephen Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause, Arizona
AC 2009-1899: ENGAGING EARLY ENGINEERING STUDENTS (EEES):BACKGROUND AND GOALS OF AN NSF STEP PROJECT TO INCREASERETENTION OF EARLY ENGINEERING STUDENTSJon Sticklen, Michigan State University Jon Sticklen is the Director of the Applied Engineering Sciences major, College of Engineering, Michigan State University. Dr. Sticklen also serves as the College Coordinator for engineering education research, and is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, MSU. Dr. Sticklen has lead a laboratory in knowledge-based systems focused on task specific approaches to problem solving. More recently, Dr. Sticklen has pursued engineering education research focused on early
research, particularly in the U.S. Wankat, for example, analyzed Journalof Engineering Education articles from 1993-1997 (n = 230) and 1993-2002 (n = 597).7-8 Sincethe journal did not use author-defined keywords during these periods, the author generated thefollowing list of categories and assigned up to four categories to each article:1. Teaching 7. ABET* 13. Distance Education* 19. Retention2. Computers 8. Learning 14. Communication/Writing 20. Programming*3. Design 9. First Year 15. Ethics 21. Aeronautical Eng**4. Assessment 10. Curriculum 16. Experiential/Hands On* 22. Quality,5. Groups/Teams 11. Laboratory 17
but merely to give representative examples. In requiredcourses with a specific technical focus, PBSL is typically incorporated at the discretion of theinstructor. For example, in Prof. Joel Burken’s Solid Waste Management course 18 studentsworked on project for the local community and Missouri University of Science and Technology Page 14.873.6(http://ugs.mst.edu/documents/FS_2008_ASL_Courses.pdf). As part of the SLICE program,students in the junior-level Environmental Engineering Laboratory analyzed road salt and otherchemicals in roadway runoff for the Town of Dunstable. The next semester in the WaterResources Engineering course, the same
students are female, 35% are non-White/Caucasian, 22% are special needs students, and about 14% have been designated as“gifted.” He spends about 25% of this teaching in lecture/demonstration, with the rest of itsupervising students working in the classroom or laboratory components of the TechnologyEducation course. He believes that 67.7% of his instruction “engages students in problem-solving activities” and believes that nearly half (48.7%) of that instruction “engages students inlearning mathematics or science.”We found significant differences between Middle School Technology Education and HighSchool Technology Education. Table 1 identifies some of these differences.Table 1: Differences between Middle School and High School Technology Education
AC 2009-1404: "REAL OUTREACH EXPERIENCES IN ENGINEERING":MERGING SERVICE LEARNING AND DESIGN IN A FIRST-YEARENGINEERING COURSEChristopher Williams, Virginia Tech Christopher Bryant Williams is an Assistant Professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University with a joint appointment in the Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Education departments. Professor Williams is the Director of the Design, Research, and Education for Additive Manufacturing Systems (DREAMS) Laboratory. His joint appointment reflects his diverse research interests which include design, methodology, layered manufacturing, and design education.Richard Goff, Virginia Tech Richard Goff is an
facultyprompting and part of the analysis done at home and discussed in class. Due to the studentmake up of the class, students are given quite a bit of leeway to learn at their own pace. Theexample products are items from around the house or laboratories, because only one productis recruited per life-cycle characteristic and because there is a lack of expected success in theinitial analysis/redesign trial with new tools and methodologies. Household items insurestudent familiarity. The items include children’s toys, hardware, appliances, car parts,computer parts, and sports equipment. In addition, students are often asked to bring in theirown items for analysis. Students’ items include items from their homes, their hobbies, andtheir student projects from
30 4.53 4.67 4.37 Page 14.1363.4 Up, Up, & Away 27 4.52 4.44 2.93 Airplane Design 28 4.50 4.54 4.64 Nestlé: Scale-Up Design 16 4.44 4.56 4.38 Cholera 27 4.30 4.30 3.74 Parallel Sorting 29 4.14 4.31 3.59 High Voltage Laboratory Tour 28 4.11 4.29 4.25 Engineering Drawing 29 4.10
AC 2009-162: INTRODUCING ROBOTSRyan Meuth, Missouri University of Science and Technology Ryan Meuth received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri –Rolla in 2005 and 2007 respectively. He is currently a Computer Engineering PhD student at Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly the University of Missouri – Rolla). He works as a research assistant in the Applied Computational Intelligence Laboratory, contributing to research projects on optimizing the behavior of robot swarms, large scale optimization problems such as computer Go, and high performance computing methods utilizing video game consoles and graphics processing units. His
the same time as providing motivation for the students byproviding this academic / “real” world link, the webquest also facilitates the primary languageobjective, which in this case is the composition of a written report in a suitable language register to bepresented to either an academic supervisor or a departmental superior.ImplementationThe webquest activity, unlike a normal English lesson, takes place in the departmental computer labs.Fortunately, the department is well resourced in the area of computer technology. In addition to twoCAD studios, the separate computer laboratory contains 22 separate Windows based PCs, eachnetworked and with internet access. During their first two semesters, students are required to undertakea course of 30
60 systems for communication, lighting, vaccine refrigeration, and water supply and purification in remote areas of the Peruvian Andes.David Wallace, Massachusetts Institute of Technology DAVID R. WALLACE is the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and is the co-director of the MIT Computer-aided Design Laboratory. He works actively to expand service learning work in engineering at MIT. Having a background in both industrial design and mechanical engineering, he teaches graduate and undergraduate product design courses, including 2.009 Product Engineering Processes, 2.744 Product Design, and 2.670 Mechanical Engineering Tools
Quantity Description/Clarification The old style bathroom scale works best. Standard Scale 1 laboratory scales can also be utilized with a book if necessary Ramp 1 Any improvised inclination worksHow It's Done: This is typically conducted on lesson one as a warm up. Simply pre-position the title “Amazing weight loss program” somewhere in the classroom with the scalenearby to get students curious. Have a student read off your weight while standing with thescale flat on the floor. Then, place the scale on the ramp, have the student read your weightagain, and
wellas input from faculty and the MET IAB.L “Competence in the use of the computer as a problem solving and communications tool” was added mostly due to faculty input with concurrence from the MET IAB because it is a program emphasis and is assumed to be a strength of graduates in the current industrial environment.M “The ability to apply project management techniques to the completion of laboratory and project assignments” was added based on the survey results.N “Knowledge of and the ability to apply codes and regulations, and produce proper documentation to comply with them” was added for two reasons. First, the faculty and IAB felt that knowledge of codes and regulations was important in industry today. The second part was added based
, ... general chemistry; B ...and at least one additional area of science, consistent with the program educational objectives; C proficiency in a minimum of four can apply knowledge of four technical recognized major civil engineering areas appropriate to civil engineering; areas; D the ability to conduct laboratory can conduct civil engineering experiments and to critically analyze experiments and analyze and interpret the and interpret data in more than one of resulting data
2006-1264: EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF INTERACTIVITY ON STUDENTPERFORMANCEDaria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado-Boulder DARIA KOTYS-SCHWARTZ is a doctoral candidate and instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering at The Ohio State University. Her research interests include polymer processing, development of student assessment measures, gender disparity in engineering and innovative instructional methodology.Lawrence Carlson, University of Colorado-Boulder LAWRENCE E. CARLSON is a founding co-director of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory and Program, as
formulated the problem statement (e.g., “We need to develop a more efficient fuel cell for zero-emission vehicles”)? 2. Who solved the problem (e.g., students and/or faculty who reduced the idea to practice in a university laboratory)? 3. Significant use of resources on the part of either the people formulating the problem or the people solving the problem (i.e., Human Resources, Facilities and/or Equipment, Financial Resources). Primary Goal: To capture the philosophies of respondents on issues related to joint intellectual property ownership based on university student-generated intellectual property. Secondary Goal: To capture the philosophies of respondents on issues related to joint intellectual property