AC 2010-1981: SUSTAINABLE ENERGY: A BRIDGE BETWEEN ENGINEERING,DEVELOPING NATIONS AND INNER-CITY YOUTHPaul Imbertson, University of Minnesota-ECE Paul Imbertson received the BS (83) MS (94) and PhD (97) in electrical engineering, all from the University of Minnesota. He has worked in power electronics for military avionics and is currently a Teaching Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Minnesota, where he has been voted Best Professor eight times. His current interests include the wide ranging topics of energy and deciphering the minds of electrical engineering students.Anders Sonnenburg, Xcel Energy Anders Sonnenburg holds a Bachelors Degree
AC 2010-2061: FINDING EFFECTIVE PATHWAYS FOR RECRUITMENT INTOENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMSaeed Khan, Kansas State University-Salina SAEED KHAN is an Associate Professor with the Electronic and Computer Engineering Technology program at Kansas State University at Salina. Dr. Khan received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Connecticut, in 1989 and 1994 respectively and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1984. Khan, who joined KSU in 1998, teaches courses in telecommunications and digital systems. His research interests and areas of expertise include antennas and
computer scientists and recognizing student receiving the certificate as KEEN Undergraduate TE Fellows.The purpose of the KEEN Innovators Program Initiative is to encourage the integration ofentrepreneurship concepts and skills into the engineering and computer science curricula byawarding a stipend to an Engineering & Computer Science (ECS) faculty member who developsan innovative plan for fostering the entrepreneurial mindset within the course(s) they teach. Inaddition to the stipend, the assistance of the KEEN grant team will be offered to enable use ofbest practices developed by others in the network who are building entrepreneurial skills andinsights into engineering and computer science courses. This is intended to be a
component of these initiatives is no doubt closing the gap between high schoolsand higher education institutions, and making higher education institutions more approachable.This study will provide an overview of the proposed program that is currently being developed,and discuss components of the curriculum and laboratory development. It is important to notethat this particular program is designed within the frame work of 7th-12th grade secondary scienceeducation in New York State.Introduction:High school students often have hesitations when it comes to decisions regarding collegeapplications and major selection. These hesitations are usually tied to misconceptions such ascollege not being affordable1 or the level of math and science skills needed
., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Richard Stamper is the Dean of the Faculty at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He has been teaching in the Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Departments for the past 14 years. Prior to that he was an engineer at General Electric. While at General Electric he spent one year at the Toshiba Appliance Engineering Laboratory in Yokohama Japan as part of an exchange program between Toshiba and General Electric. Page 21.13.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 An Interim Report of a Four-Year Joint Global
AC 2010-1808: STEPWISE METHOD FOR DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARINGSTEM STUDENTS IN SOLVING WORD PROBLEMSGary Behm, Rochester Institute of Technology Gary Behm is a Senior Project Associate and Director of the NTID Center on Access Technology Innovation Laboratory and a Visiting Lecturer at NTID. He is a deaf engineer at IBM who received his BS from RIT and his MS from Lehigh University. He currently serves as a loaned executive at NTID/RIT working in the Center on Access Technology and the department of Engineering Studies. At IBM, he is a delivery project manager in the Rapid Application Development Engineering System. Behm has six patents and has presented over 20 scientific and technical papers
investigating teenage girls’ participation in engineering and technology activities from multiple disciplinary frames, the impact of four-year hands-on design curriculum, and the effects of service learning in engineering education.Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder DANIEL W. KNIGHT is the engineering assessment specialist at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory (ITLL) and Program. He holds a BA in psychology from Louisiana State University, and an MS degree in industrial/organizational psychology and a PhD degree in counseling psychology, both from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Knight’s research interests are in the areas of retention, program evaluation and
performed by two teams of students. In fall 2004,there was only one project performed by a team of two mechanical engineeringtechnology students. Their project involved the design and development of an airabrasion machine, LabJet, that has an integrated working enclosure with two chambers Page 10.1079.7containing two micron of aluminum oxide abrasive media for dental laboratory usage. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”This project was sponsored by American Medical Technologies. It is anticipated that
used had to use for special variables did. The that they did not (like RAMP functions, or any documentation already know how functions that they had to teach explains what kind to use. themselves how to use) or if they of functions they used only the functions that they used and if any of already knew how to use. those functions Equations are explained so that were functions that someone unfamiliar with the they did not know original model would understand how to use already. it based on the SIMULINK
work on the software on there own schedule withoutrelying on laboratory access.The choice of the computer interface hardware is more challenging due to the plethora of dataacquisition and control devices, boards and systems available on the market. Available computerinterface components include those using the IEEE-488 bus, PCI/ISA plug-in cards, VXI/PXIcards, PCMCIA cards, USB, parallel port, and RS-232 (serial port). Each of these interfaces hasits particular application-specific benefits. However, most student projects require themeasurement and control of very few parameters that does not justify the purchase of anelaborate analog and digital I/O system. In these situations, the Dallas-Maxim 1-Wire devicesprovide an elegant solution.The 1
andanalyzed. It might also serve as an effective technique in other engineering courses.This assignment also addressed several of the attributes in the New Engineering EducationParadigm, particularly, using an inquiry-based learning approach, teaching a technique that canbe used for life-long learning, using a complex construction site to stress a ‘system’, andfocusing on health, safety and sustainable development issues 6.Bibliography1 Shapira, A. (1995) Bringing the SIte into the Classroom: A Construction Engineering Laboratory. Journal of Engineering Education 84 (1), 1-52 ABET. (2003) ABET website http://www.abet.org/.3 Felder, R.M. and Brent, R. (2003) Designing and Teaching Courses to Satisfy the ABET Engineering
engineering education, is the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) programat Purdue University (http://epics.ecn.purdue.edu) that partners undergraduate students and localcommunity not-for-profit organizations to solve engineering-based problems in the communityService-learning is a type of experiential education where the students learn through "real-world"experiences that meet a community’s needs4. In the engineering curriculum, other forms ofexperiential learning include projects, clinics, internships, laboratory classes, field trips.Moreover, service-learning promotes student understanding of the impact of engineeringsolutions in a global/societal context, a requirement in the Accreditation Board of Engineeringand Technology (ABET
adaptedfrom the text used in the lecture.3 Included is a requirement for oral and written reports. Projectsare selected by the faculty and are appropriate for freshman students of diverse and limitedbackground. They also do not rely on overly specialized skills, but utilize common elements ofproblem solving. Effective use is made of the students’ innate problem-solving skills and “streetsmarts” in creative problem solving.IntroductionWe have been team-teaching two EPSI project sections together for the past two years.Evaluation of the lecture and lab sections from previous years was based on instructor andstudent assessment as well as on student performance on course learning goals. Table 1 showsstudent comments about the design projects from 2003
limited availability of laboratory facilities, the enrollment is capped at eight students. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationessential for developing lifelong learning skills. Students chose topics ranging from organicLEDs to lasers in medicine to photonic crystals to free space communication systems. In thesyllabus distributed on the first day of class, the parameters of this project were described(presentation to class and written report: 6-10 pages typed, cover sheet, appropriatedocumentation of multiple references). To enhance the quality of the final product, interimdeadlines
7.247.1goals are: Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education1. To provide national leadership for the development and implementation of case-based instruction in technology and engineering education.2. To provide opportunities for continuous and appropriate professional development of participating faculty.3. To assess the effectiveness of the case study approach in teaching technology-related curriculum.4. To nationally disseminate information related to SEATEC activities, materials, and results, including outcomes of the use of case studies in field-test setting.The present paper focuses on the
necessary for a more fulfilling and exciting undergraduate engineeringexperience.IntroductionThis project is designed to improve the interactive learning environment that students have inlearning material science in their undergraduate studies. Various courses such as metalprocessing, strength of materials, machine design, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics,manufacturing processes, mechanical behavior of materials, principles of engineering materials,materials laboratory, senior lab, senior design, and metallic corrosion require a goodunderstanding of engineering science and materials for the success of the undergraduate students.The goal would be to enhance and improve the student's materials & engineering sciencebackground and knowledge and also
school curriculum. High school courses indesign drafting, machining, woodworking, automation, and automobile technology have oftensparked student interest and enticed them to pursue careers in technology. However, from ourpersonal observations, there has been an increasing trend on the part of the Northern Il linoisregional high schools to cut down on technology programs citing cost of equipment, lack ofteachers, and laboratory space requirements as reasons. This translates into more work forcolleges seeking to promote engineering and technology among school students.Interaction with Area Middle and High SchoolsThe NIU engineering technology programs are offered in two areas of specialization, ElectricalEngineering Technology (EET) and
currently conducting research in the thermal management of spacesystems at Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory. He recently completed a one semester sabbatical toThailand as a Fulbright Senior Scholar. He received the ScD degree in Mechanical Engineering from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969.MAYUREE THESPOL is Assistant Professor and Department Head of Mechanical Engineering at KasetsartUniversity in Bangkok, Thailand. She teaches undergraduate courses in thermodynamics and energy management.She received B. Eng in Mechanical Engineering from Kasetsart University and M. Eng in Industrial Engineering andManagement from Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand in 1980
founded in 1910 as a normal (teaching) university and joined the TAMU System in1990. Current enrollment at WTAMU in Fall 2023 was 9061 students, of which 796 wereundergraduate and master’s level students in the College of Engineering1. WTAMU has been aHispanic Serving institution since 2015 and 32.9% Hispanic as of the 2021-2022 Academic Year2.As of January 2024, the ABET EAC database lists 39 public and private universities in Texas thathave accredited engineering programs. Of these, nine universities are part of the TAMU systemincluding WTAMU. Geographically, WTAMU is the only university in the Texas Panhandle regionand one of just five universities (WTAMU, UTEP, UTPB, Angelo State, TTU) located in thewestern half of the state3.Industry
Paper ID #40921The Conversion of Capstone Senior Design to a Two-Semester FormatDr. Chau M. Tran, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC27695-7910 Chau Tran is an associate teaching professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at North Carolina State University. He is currently the course coordinator for capstone senior design and previously was the course coordinator for vibration, the director for undergraduate advising and the director for undergraduate laboratory. He teaches senior design and vibration annually. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical
board member participation in courses and laboratories,capstone courses, accreditation, student organizations, student competitive teams, and facultydevelopment. Through this examination of the program’s efforts, other engineering educatorswill be able to build upon their successes and avoid some of their difficulties while involvingtheir industry advisory board members in other ways.IntroductionEngineering programs from all disciplines rely on their industry advisory board (IAB) membersto help ground curricula in the current and future needs of the profession. This “real world”advice can be invaluable to balancing theory versus application in the classroom, help programsstay abreast of technological and other trending factors in the workplace
addressescomputer programming and the various numerical methods listed in Table 1. Higher levelcourses often rely on the use of numerical methods beyond those introduced in the freshmanEngineering Analysis course (Table 4). Consequently, the instructors must either cover thenumerical method as a course topic or require the students to teach themselves the method ontheir own. Each approach has negative impacts on the students’ progress in the course, mostnotably the additional time spent to learn the new method rather than concentrating on the coursetopics. Alternatively, the instructor can employ the use of ISS packages reducing the need forexplicit numerical analysis and programming topics to be covered. The replacement ofnumerical methods and computer
Technological University. Additionally, he has six years of industrial experience as a Senior Engineer and 17 years of academic experience as a professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor. Foroudastan’s academic experience includes teaching at Tennessee Technological University and Middle Tennessee State University in the areas of civil engineering, me- chanical engineering, and engineering technology. He has actively advised undergraduate and graduate students, alumni, and minority students in academics and career guidance. Foroudastan has also served as Faculty Advisor for SAE, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Pre-engineering, ASME, Experimental Vehicles Program (EVP), and Tau Alpha Pi Honors Society. In
Paper ID #9679University of XXX-Solar Radiation Clearness and Variability IndexDr. Jaime Ramos P.E., University of Texas, Pan American Dr Jaime Ramos teaches Power Engineering courses at the University of Texas Pan American since 2005. His current research interests are related to Renewable Energy and Engineering Education. He is an active Professional Engineer in the state of Texas. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Member of the ASEE.Mr. Jesus Alejandro Valladares, The University of Texas Pan American Page
Engineering (AOTULE). In addition, he teaches technical communications for graduate students, researches biomass liquification and biosensors, and analyzes Japan’s energy policy. In 2013, Jeffrey received the Tokyo Institute of Technology ”Best Teacher” award and the School of Engineering ”Teacher of the Year” award.Prof. Kikuo Kishimoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology Dr. Kikuo Kishimoto is currently a professor of the Department of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering and Dean of School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. degree in 1975, M.S. degree in 1977, and Doctor of Engineering degree in 1982 from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He worked as a Research Associate and Associate Professor
field.Dr. LeAnn E Faidley, Wartburg College LeAnn Faidley is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Science at Wartburg College in Waverly, IA. She teaches the freshman engineering sequence, the mechanics sequence, the design sequence, and materials. She is interested in a number of pedagogical research questions including how students can be helped to better formulate questions, the development of scenario based laboratories, and the use of service based learning in the engineering classroom. Page 23.984.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Problem Framing
, institutionsmust change in response to students’ needs and other developments. Many universities areresponding by implementing programs to improve retention of entering STEM students. Forexample, two campuses in the University of Wisconsin system, Madison (research-oriented) and Page 23.1001.2Platteville (teaching-oriented), have made attempts to improve the retention of students whoenter first-year engineering. Platteville’s project, entitled “Improving Student Success through a Model ‘Introduction Engineering Course,” consisted of designing a freshman orientation coursewhich addressed five objectives: community building, academic success strategies
obtained a B.S. in Mathematics from Spelman College, a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Primary research projects explore the preparation of engineering doctoral students for careers in academia and industry and the development of engineering education assessment tools. She is a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career (CA- REER) award winner and is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for
by enhancing students’logical and critical thinking through the use of visual programming tools such as RAPTOR inintroductory computing courses. RAPTOR is a visual programming development environment based onflowcharts. Students can build simple procedural programs without learning the details of a language.These features of RAPTOR has helped us in providing an Interdisciplinary Integrated Teaching andLearning experiences that integrates team-oriented, hands-on learning experiences throughout theengineering technology and sciences curriculum and engages students in the design and analysis processbeginning with their first year. The objective of this paper is to discuss our experiences with the use ofRAPTOR in various science and technology
interests are in the area of power electronics which includes advanced converters for power supplies, power quality issues, active power filter development, utility interface issues, power conditioning systems for fuel cells, wind and solar energy systems. She holds one US patent with industry collaboration. She is an IEEE Senior member and is actively involved in funded research projects while engaged in teaching, research and consulting in the area of power electronics, motor drives, power quality and clean power utility interface issues.Mr. Radhakrishna Kotti, University of Houston (CoE) Radhakrishna Kotti received his B.TECH degree from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (J.N.T.U), India in 2010. Currently he