provided here for ready reference.35% of the grade was based on project, class participation and homework and quizzes; and 20%each on two class tests; and 25% on finals. 85-100 was A, 75-85% - B, 65-75 % -C, 55-65% - Dand below 55% was F with suitable adjustments based on over all class performance and gradedistribution. Page 23.1075.3Course DescriptionAddition, subtraction, and multiplication of force and moment vectors; equilibrium of particles, planar,and 3-dimensional rigid bodies under the action of forces and moments; applications of equilibriumprinciples to simple trusses, frames, and machines; introduction to stress, strain and
Paper ID #7171Inverting (Flipping) Classrooms – Advantages and ChallengesDr. Gregory Mason, Seattle University Dr. Greg Mason is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Seattle Uni- versity. His interests include control systems, data acquisition, and the use of technology to support the non-traditional classroom.Prof. Teodora Rutar Shuman, Seattle University Teodora Rutar Shuman is an Associate Professor and Chair at Seattle University, Department of Me- chanical Engineering. She received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in
Paper ID #7758Variety of Community Partnerships in Related ProgramsMiss Sarah Marie Brown, Northeastern University Sarah Brown is a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at Northeastern University, Draper Laboratory Fellow and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. She completed her B.S. in Elec- trical Engineering at Northeastern University in May 2011. In addition to her studies, Sarah has been an active member of the National Society of Black Engineers, having previously served as a chapter leader at Northeastern’s Black Engineering Student Society and as the National Technical Outreach Community
Understanding that change and variation rule everything in naturecNote. a Adapted from Biomimetics: Technology imitates nature, by H. Yahya, 2006, Istanbul: Global Publishing. b Adapted fromAn epistemological problem-centric approach to solving complex global problems, paper presented by J. Barnes, S. Barnes, andM. Dyrenturth at the Forum on Philosophy, Engineering & Technology (fPET-2012), The Graduate University of the ChineseAcademy of Sciences (GUCAS), Beijing, People’s Republic of China. Manuscript submitted for publication. c Adapted fromLearning from the octopus: How secrets from nature can help us fight terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and disease by R
include: generation of electronic documents of lecture notes that are available for later distribution, ability to use enhanced graphics and annotation capabilities, and more efficient coverage of course material with time-consuming steps preloaded in the class presentation. The single Tablet PC can also be passed around the classroom to allow students to show their work without having to “come up to the board.”b. Several-Tablet-PCs model wherein several Tablet PCs are available for student use in groups of three or four. This model is effective in collaborative problem-solving sessions because it forces students to work together using a Tablet PC to analyze problems and generate solutions. Each group can then be asked to present
designs that advance educational theories byoffering more specific statements about the factors involved in implementation and theirimplications for generalizability8,10,11,12.Our methodology and approach is similar to design experiments, most notably in that (a) ourdesigns are tested in the operational environment and we readily acknowledge that enactments ofcurriculum are driven by contextual factors that cannot be eliminated and should, instead, beunderstood in order to provide meaningful data, and (b) we use multiple sources of data to iterateour design changes over multiple implementations.In SLIDER and the RT3 REC projects, successive curriculum redesigns are based on multiplesources of data and feedback: task analysis and research on
– meeting the WKU mission. As the WKU MEfaculty has guided the students through the projects, the general concept of “engineeringdesign” has become more accurately “prototype realization”. While not the complete scopeof all design projects, pedagogically and practically, it makes sense to focus on this aspect ofdesign during the undergraduate education process.Figure 1: a – top left) Freshman Air-Powered Steam Engines, b– top right) SophomoreEngine Efficiency Tester, c–bottom left) Junior ASME Student Design Competition and d–bottom right) Junior external design-only projectSo how have we done? To cite an old joke: “the operation was a success, but the patientdied!” The WKU ME program did an excellent job of providing design experiences, and
YOUR TEACHING ASSISTANT!The requirements are as follows:Title Page1. Title of paper2. Course3. Date due4. Section time5. NameAbstract6. Why was the lab performed?7. How was the lab performed?8. What was discovered, achieved, or concluded9. Past tense used10. Reference to experiment not paper11. No personal reference (I, We)Nomenclature12. In alphabetical order13. Upper case then lower case (A a B b c G g1 g1a)14. Arabic and Greek separated15. Only symbols appearTable of Contents16. All sections represented17. Abstract and Table of Contents not listed18. Lab Observations as a heading Analysis, Equipment, Procedure - sub headings19. All columns lined up
Paper ID #6515Bringing Soil Mechanics to Elementary SchoolsMr. Eduardo Alfonso Suescun-Florez, Polytechnic Institute of New York University Eduardo Suescun-Florez received a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from La Salle University, Bogota, Colombia in 2000. Upon graduation, he co-founded Geotecnia de Colombia LLC., and worked as an engineering consultant for public and private agencies in Colombia and South America. Most recently he worked as external engineering consultant for the World Bank in Washington, D.C. After obtaining his M.S. degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington in 2010, he
connections and A B C D E FFigure 2: Impact of Co-Localization of Support Resources with Residential Program. Forstudents who remained in engineering, they responded whether they did (A, C, E) or did not(B, D, F) live in the residential program and how frequently they attended tutoring (A, B),academic advising (C, D), or evening presentations (E, F). In all three cases, the attendancefrequency for residents was significantly higher. Attendance at least once per semester:tutoring - 50% for residents vs. 20% for non-residents; academic advising – 75% for residentsvs. 40% for non-residents, evening presentations
Graphics (Graphicon 2001). Nyzhny Novgorod, Russia 292–300.20. Connolly, P., & Maicher, K. (2005). The Developing and Testing of an Interactive Web-based Tutorial for Ortographic Drawing Instruction and Visualization Enhancement. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Annual conference & Exposition. Portland, Oregon.21. Barr, R. (1999). Planning the EDG Curriculum for the 21st Century: A Proposed Team Effort. Engineering Design Journal, 63(2), 4-12.22. Sorby, S., Wysocki, A., & Baartmans, B. (2003). Introduction to 3D Spatial Visualization: an active approach. Clifton Park, NY: Thomson Delmar Learning.23. Rafi, A., Samsudin, K., & Ismail, A. (2006). On improving spatial ability through computer-mediated Engineering Drawing
with ME 419 experience (non-ME 419). However, for ABET learning objectives a and b, engineering analysis, testing, andverification, the results from ME 419 and non-ME 419 members were comparable. For 2011-12senior design, about half of the projects (7/14) were competition projects, which emphasize rapidprototyping and fabrication of a vehicle to meet the competition schedule and less on research,analysis, and testing (ABET a and b).Notably, ME 419 student teams performed overwhelmingly better on communication (ABET g),design (ABET c), societal issues (ABET h), teamwork (ABET e), professionalism (ABET f), andknowledge of contemporary issues (ABET j). These learning objectives were emphasized in theME 419 course, especially teamwork
Engaging Undergraduate Students into Advanced Earthquake Engineering Research Cheng Chen, Jose Valdovinos, Frank Sanchez, Nelly Avramova, Hector Santillano and Robert Hartsock School of Engineering, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CAAbstractPreparing undergraduate students for advanced studies is critical to enhance engineeringeducation for future American workforce. This paper presents the engagement of undergraduatestudents into a two-year BRIGE project funded by National Science Foundation. The researchproject aims to establish a reliability assessment approach for real-time hybrid simulation withthe presence of actuator delay during
textbook are as follows: (a) The contents of the courseware can be updated by the instructor periodically to keep up with the rapid development of the field of data warehousing and data mining. (b) The incremental developing courseware provides an ideal platform for the instructor to share latest research development results with students so that we can make the technology transfer a little faster to our students. (c) This project provides a self-paced interactive learning tool not only to the students taking a course on data warehousing but also to any engineer in the world who have to build a data warehouse from scratch and needs to learn fundamental concepts quickly. From schema design to OLAP
Paper ID #5726Utilization of MATLAB Simulink Exercises for an Undergraduate Commu-nications CourseMr. Brice Aaron Hirst, Missouri University of Science & Technology Brice Aaron Hirst was born in the town of St. Louis, Missouri on the date of June 16, 1988. He graduated from Sacred Heart High School in Sedalia, Missouri in the year 2006, and received an Associate of Arts with Highest Honors from State Fair Community College in Sedalia in 2008. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Missouri University of Science & Technology in the year 2011, and is a student
Technology, Sensing, and Simulation (CE)Stanford CS221: ArtificialUniversity28 Intelligence: CS Principles and Techniques CS229- Machine Learning EE 294 A – AI EE 294 B – Probabilistic Models in AI EE 294C – Machine LearningUniversity of Genetic CE889-7-AU: Offering an MSc inEssex29(U.K.) Programming and ARTIFICIAL Computational
frontiers of research and innovation. EFRI Office provides opportunities in interdisciplinary areas at the emerging frontiers of research and innovation that (a) are transformative, (b) address national needs/grand challenges, and (c) will make ENG unrivaled in its global leadership. EFRI- In One Slide• MANDATE - Serve a critical role in helping the Directorate for Engineering focus on important emerging areas in a timely manner. – COMMUNITY DRIVEN - Engages the research community (through DCL) and ENG/NSF PDs to identify and fund a portfolio of projects in strategic emerging interdisciplinary areas that may not be supported with current NSF programs and in which ENG researchers
needs, we developed a water acquisition,distribution, and disposal challenge for the second team of students. We shared it with thecurrent team leader and civil engineer so that they could present the solution to the school boardof the orphanage if they believed that the solution warranted further discussion andconsideration. See Appendix B for the Water System Design Challenge.Although we had interviewed four additional students, their interests and backgroundexperiences were not comparable to the other group members’ interests and backgroundexperiences. Because it was more difficult to develop a design challenge that met criteria for‘authenticity,’ in which the participants’ interests were considered in constructing the challenge,we did not
Paper ID #8062Application Case Study of Mobile Computing to Decrease Paperwork at ”Neigh-borhood Stabilization Program (NSP)” Construction SiteDr. Tulio Sulbaran, University of Southern Mississippi He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineer from Georgia Institute of Technology with concentration in Con- struction Management with a minor in Computer Engineering and strong statistical background. He has over 8 years of work experience in the A/E/C (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) industry with office and field experience in scheduling, estimating and project management in the United States and several
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terms assessed used by group members A 4 5 3 B 7 7 2 C 3 1 6 D 5 4 7 E 6 6 5 F 1 2 4 G 2 3 1Figure 11. Ranking of project teams in three factorsFor example, project group G ranked 2nd in Student Outcomes ratings, and 1st in average numberof terms used in the essay. But this analysis could not be
types of biasesthat they observed in the texts in their study; one that was used to analyze introductorypsychology texts and the other that was used to analyze human development texts. The authors’research goals were to (a) develop a measurement tool for evaluating gender bias in textbooks,(b) to determine how much change had occurred since the American Psychological Association’sguidelines for non-bias text had been issued, and (c) to evaluate the current level of equity ofgender representation in texts. The researchers found gross inequity in gender representation inthe textbooks that they analyzed. Women were often portrayed as “passive participants” ratherthan “active agents” in the texts. Peterson and Kroner also suggest several useful
service course in Electrical Engineering (EE) fornon-EE engineering majors relate the abstract concepts of Fourier spectra and transfer functionsof filters to the students’ favorite applications – creating and listening to the sounds of music.The projects include: (a) use of technology/software available on the Internet for the productionof sounds and editing of audio files; (b) lab measurements of the waveforms and spectra ofmusic, along with listening to the sounds; (c) soldering a multi-functional passive filter circuitand measurements of its transfer functions; (d) listening to the sounds of music without filters,through the software filters and through the real, soldered filters, and (e) comparison of theeffects of these two types of filters
Page 23.1083.8schools. There were 14 middle schools participating in the event. Half of those schools areimplementing the STEM Apps curriculum. The STEM Apps schools accounted for 68% of themiddle school teams. Table 3 outlines the number of teams sent form the various middle schools.Note the STEM Apps middle schools are emphasized using red font. The schools sending moreteams tend to come from the STEM Apps schools with the exception of two non-STEM Appsschools. Table 3. Number of middle school teams sent by each middle school. Middle School Number of Teams STEM Apps School A 15 STEM Apps School B
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