Paper ID #6966Development of a Civil Engineering Capstone Design Course for a New Pro-gramDr. David A Saftner, University of Minnesota DuluthMs. Sara D. Ojard, University of Minnesota DuluthDr. Eshan V. Dave, University of Minnesota, DuluthDr. Nathan William Johnson, University of Minnesota DuluthProf. Eil KwonDr. Rebecca Teasley, Civil Engineering University of Minnesota Duluth Page 23.411.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Development of a Civil Engineering Capstone Design Course for
. This is a new, highly focused way of selling (thinkrifle hunting versus shotgun hunting) that has plenty of room for optimization and furthercollaboration. What criteria should manufacturers and distributors use to select segments thatcould be focused on jointly, and how can the two sides best work together to leverage eachother’s investment in this activity to improve their mutual results?Topic 2 - The Usefulness of Business-to-Consumer (B-to C) Techniques in what is AlmostExclusively a Business-to-Business (B-to-B) EnvironmentProject Champions: Senior VP Americas and Director of MarketingTraditionally, distributors and manufacturers have practiced B-to-B marketing techniques tobuild and maintain their brands, introduce new products and
positive correlations) • Total concepts and map density (moderate to strong negative correlations) • Total links and map complexity (moderate to strong positive correlations)In each of these cases, the direction/sign of the correlation is as expected; for example, as thenumber of total concepts increases, we expect map density (L ÷ [C × (C − 1)]) to decrease, asconfirmed by the negative correlation we observed.Several interesting correlations can also be seen in Table 2, including (a) the moderate positivecorrelations between map complexity and the total number of cross-links, and (b) the strongpositive correlation between the total number of concepts and the concepts used from the list. Inthe latter case, it is clear that most
Principles to Middle and High School Students Through the Design, Construction, and Deployment of water quality sensors,” Advances in Engineering Education, Summer 2012, pp. 1-34.9. Glasgow, H., Burkholder, J., Reed, R., Lewitus, A., and Kleinman, J., 2004. “Real-time remote monitoring of water quality: a review of current applications, and advancements in sensor, telemetry, and computing technologies,” Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Vol. 300, No. 1-2 (Mar 2004): 409-448.10. Toran, F., Ramirez, D., Navarro, A., Casans, S., Pelegri, J., et al., 2001. “Design of a virtual instrument for water quality monitoring across the Internet,” Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Vol. 76, No. 1-3 (Jun 1, 2001
teach ethics. Journal of Business Ethics, 67(4), 421-433. 13. Newberry, B. (2004) The dilemma of ethics in engineering education. Science and Engineering Ethics. Vol.10, pp. 343-351. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-004-0030-8 14. Pilant, J. (2010, August 17). [Using film to teach business ethics]. Retrieved from http://southwerk.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/using-film-to-teach-business-ethics/ Page 23.1193.1115. Riley, D., Ellis, G., & Howe, S. (2004). “To move people from apathy: A multi-perspective approach to ethics across the engineering curriculum. In Proc., American Society for Engineering
demanding, to achieve it all in one single three credit course. Thisbecomes clearer when described in the context of the taxonomy for educational objectivesprepared by Anderson et al.7. They use a 2 dimensional noun-verb matrix to identify the level ofa given objective, in terms of the required knowledge (A. Factual; B. Conceptual; C. Procedural;and D. Meta-Cognitive) and cognitive process (1. Remember; 2. Understand; 3. Apply; 4.Analyze; 5. Evaluate; and 6. Create). The higher alphanumeric value represents a higher level ofcomplexity7. The mapping for our course is as follows: High School course to levels (A and B,6); Undergraduate course to levels (B and C, 5 and 6); and Graduate course to levels (C and D,3). A business team to be successful, our
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1st Class 8th Class 3 2 1 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V StudentFigure 7. Reviewer 1 scores of the sketches of the pipe fitting drawn in the first and eighthclasses (1= poor, 7=excellent). Scores for 15 students improved (green), 3 decreased (red), and 4stayed the same. 7 6 5 1st Class Score 4 8th
of any, the only detailed solution would be μi = 0 ∀i,which violates conservation of mass, thus it is discarded.Stoichiometry constraints on equation (1) are typically expressed in terms of the stoichiometricmatrix An b A dn 0, (2)where the matrix A is of size nelement × nspecies, and expresses the number of each atomic elementin each species molecule. Therefore, the product An counts the total number of elements in thesystems, which is set to a constant by imposing equation (2). The evaluation of A can beimplemented in MATLAB in terms of the array of strings for the species and elements, asdemonstrated in the code fragment reported in Fig. 1.elements={’c’,’h
ASEE Annual Conference, AC2011-22529. A. Orange, W. Heinecke, E. Berger, C. Krousgrill, B. Mikic, and D. Quinn, An Evaluation of HigherEd 2.0 Technologies in Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Courses, ASEE Advances in Engineering Education, Winter 201210. J. Herold, T. Stahovich, H. Lin, and R. C. Calfee, The Effectiveness of “Pencasts” as an Instructional Medium, Proceeding of the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference, AC2011-2253 Page 23.1115.5
to lack of a control group, this belief cannot be confirmed by the current study.Bibliography1. B. Ferri and J. Auerbach, Work in Progress - A Program to Incorporate Portable Labs Into Lecture- Based Electrical and Computer Engineering Courses, 40th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, October 27 - 30, 2010, Washington, DC.2. A. Niemi, In-Class Circuits: Using Passive Components to Create Active Learning, Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Annual Conference, June 22-25, 2008, Pittsburgh, PA.3. C. H. Forsberg, A Demonstration Unit to Enhance Heat Transfer Lectures on Natural and Forced Convection, Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference, June 22-25, 2003, Nashville, TN.4. A. Gilat, Matlab - An
Paper ID #6235Industry engagement in a manufacturing simulation courseDr. Ali Alavizadeh, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne Dr. Ali Alavizadeh is an Assistant Professor in the MCET Department at Indiana University-Purdue Uni- versity (Fort Wayne, Indiana). He has taught at the George Washington University (Washington, DC), and Morehead State University (Morehead, KY) in the fields of Engineering Management and Systems En- gineering and in Industrial and Engineering Technology, respectively. His industrial experiences include enterprise architecture, systems analysis, and software engineering for private
shown in Figure 4; thisis a key holder made of several assembled parts that would be screwed into a wall. Teams forthis course typically consisted of four members. In the fall 2012 semester, one team (out of nine)documented the use of the Mold Design tool to assist in the manufacturability of their product. Afill analysis of a part from that group’s project is shown in Figure 5. Over the course of threesemesters, no students have taken the opportunity to create tooling in lieu of their standardENTC 380 project. Page 23.38.5 Figure 2. Autodesk Mold Design Tool Fill Simulation of Phone Cover a. b
., 1996, Systems Engineering: An Approach to Information-Based Design, Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. Page 23.194.109 Sage, A. P., and Armstrong Jr., J. E., 2000, Introduction to Systems Engineering, Wiley and Sons.10 Nicholls, M. G., Cargill, B. J., & Dhir, K. S. (2004). Using OR for diagnosis and facilitation in change programmes: a university application. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 55(5), 440-452.11 de Figueiredo, J. N., Barrientos, M., & Angel, M. (2011). A decision support methodology for increasing school efficiency in Bolivia's low‐income communities. International Transactions in
descriptions, tentative schedule andcamp execution steps. The major parts of the camp were a) the recruitment and enrollmentprocess, b) STEM subjects, c) the camp schedule, d) STEM presentations, e) notebook/posterpreparation and competition, f) a field trip, and g) supporting educational camp components. Recruitment and Enrollment: The camp advertisement used traditional and onlinesources, upon finalizing the program contract with the sponsoring agency in April 2012.Extensive recruitment activities included camp flyer and email notice distribution to parents,school officials, and Educational Service Centers (Regions 1 and 2), local school presentations,customized descriptions of camp details to parents/students/school officials via emails and
Page 13 © Dr. B. Chudoba / AVD LaboratoryFigure 1. Aerospace Data-Base Capability AssessmentIn addition to only covering a portion of past engineering efforts, traditional DB systems areoften built as stand-alone data sources that solely focus on data collection. Information can Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering Educationusually be searched and queried, but the user is required to extract data ad-hoc if any form ofknowledge buildup or analysis is required. This
design project determined by the faculty or students. The faculty expects a high levelof student performances as project managers, engineering designers, and technical professionals.3.2. Desired learning outcomesDesired learning outcome are defined based on ABET student outcomes. There are a number ofABET outcomes associated with the design course sequence as follows:The IRE students are required to apply engineering principals to achieve the best solutions thatmeet desire needs of their project (Outcome A). The students must design and conductexperiments to gain required knowledge of their project or to prove that their solution meet theneeds of project. (Outcome B). These experiments usually involve using modern engineeringtools and techniques
] −V (2)where V̂1, V ̂2 and V ̂3 are the unit vectors for the preceding z-axis, the current x-axis, and the nextz-axis respectively. Next, the scalar c is found in (3). Page 23.97.8 a [b] = [V]−1 [P3 − P1 ] (3) cThe point that describes the x axis is then computed in (4) ̂3 P2 = P3 + cV (4)where P3is the
freshman German Mechanical Engineers with an exposure to the concept ofengineering design, and sometimes the necessity to work with other disciplines. Exampleprojects included: “Heavy Transport with a Flexible Airship Transportation System”;“Construction of a Modular Coffee Machine System for Restaurants of Various Sizes”; Design Page 23.826.3of a Very Large Bar-B-Que Grill (the winning design was actually constructed and usedsuccessfully); “The Use of Water Absorption on Zeolites for Cooling”; “An Automatic HairCleaning Apparatus”; “Continuous Preparation of French Fries”; and “An Un-Manned Systemfor Destruction of Illegal Poppy Plants”.Based on the
2. Energy in the United States, Wikipedia,, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States 3. Engineering Future Chemical Engineers: Incorporation of Process Intensification Concepts into the Undergraduate Curriculum http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0837409 4. Wu, B., et. al. Promoting Awareness of Industrial Energy Efficiency and Waste reduction in University Students Population, Proceedings of ASEE Annual conference and Exhibition, 2007. 5. Foundation for Global Sustainability, Do You Know What Sustainability Mean?, http://www.korrnet.org/fgs/edu/index.html 6. Robert A. Frosch, “Sustainability Engineering (editorial)”, The Bridge 29:1, Spring 1999 7. UN
Engineering.Cambridge, MA: Academic Press Professional.10. Quintana, C., Krajcik, J., & Soloway, E. (2003). A Framework for Understanding the Development of Educational Software. In Jacko, J.A., & Sears, A. (Eds.), The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, (823- 834). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.11. Nielsen, J. (1992). Finding Usability Problems through Heursitic Evaluation. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 373-380.12. Nielsen, J. (1993). Usability Engineering.Cambridge, MA: Academic Press Professional.13. Bernstein, B. L. (2011). Managing barriers and building supports in science and engineering doctoral programs: Conceptual underpinnings for a new online training program for women
introduction to programming with C++. Theimplemented strategy blended pre-recorded online lectures and homework assignments, with oneweekly optional face-to-face meeting. The same instructor taught both the blended instructionand the traditional face-to-face lecture. The focus of this study was twofold: a) determinepotential negative impact of the blended format, and b) identify the major predictors of finalperformance in this course. A one-way ANOVA analysis indicated no statistically significantdifferences in final course score between the control and the treatment groups. The analysis of aproposed path analysis model showed that self-efficacy, perceived engagement and perceiveddifficulty are significant predictors of students’ final performance in
Fellowship Program on Teachers’ Conceptions and Use of Inquiry Science,” Proceedings of the 2003 National Association for Research in Science Teaching Annual Meeting.11. Pelleg, B, Urias, D, Fontecchio, A. and Fromm, E. (2011) “A Report on a GK-12 Program: Engineering as a Contextual Vehicle for Math and Science Education.” Proceedings of the 2011 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Page 23.117.1312. Lyons, J., Addison, V. and Thompson, S. (2007). “GK-12 Engineering Workshop for Science and Math Teachers,” Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual
activity/action done during the fieldwork session (students were required to focus on one particular/small activity/action) b) Identify Problem(s)/shortcoming(s) in the way the activity/action was done c) Suggestion(s) as to how the activity/action could be improved for the futureAnalytical ReasoningFor students of the PEEC camp, as well as those in the surveying course offered in a regularsemester at the university, the greatest challenge was the trigonometry calculations. In a regularsemester course also a huge effort had to be made by the faculty member and the teachingassistants to guide the students through such calculations. At the PEEC camp also, the graduatestudents and the faculty member made such huge effort. Without
Paper ID #8374AAEE Plenary - Engineering Education: A National Integrated ApproachMs. Lyn Brodie, University of Southern Queensland Lyn Brodie is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Surveying at the University of Southern Queensland. Her research interests include engineering education, Problem Based Learning, assessment and the first year experience. She is a board and founding member of the USQ Teaching Academy and Director of the Faculty Engineering Education Research Group. Lyn was the academic team leader for the teaching team which successfully designed a strand of PBL courses for the faculty
main components: a) thestudent’s computing-related major program; b) the entrepreneurship minor; and c) the culminatingentrepreneurship practicum. The requirements of the student’s major program, of course, varydepending on the particular major. For example, the CSE major consists of required and electivecourses in a range of topics from software design principles and practices to algorithms, fromcomputer systems and architectures to computer networking, from AI to computer graphics andvideo game design; and a culminating capstone project course which may, for example, consist ofdesigning and implementing a set of web services to meet the requirements of a real client.The entrepreneurship minor, offered in the business school, specialized for
support of the governing body of the institution • The application of an educated change management • The change dynamics of the institution • The spreading of SoE awareness institution-wide • The ensuring of institutional effectiveness • The creation of a culture of assessment • The cultivation of relationships with external constituents • The availability of an adequate infrastructure • The creation of a positive organizational climateIn this project, the theoretical proposition is that the presented measurement tool accurately a)describes the content and constructs that comprise sustainability of technical education in ahigher education setting, and b) measures the sustainability. Work in progress aims to execute amultistage
purpose of our next interview to elicit responses to questions that we have and navigate through the interview. For this next interview 1. Please find 4 pictures (although you may use as many as 6): a. One that represents something about you as a person b. One that represents something about you as a professional c. One that represents your (primary) discipline d. One that represents your cross-disciplinary work 2. Make sure the pictures are in JPEG format. 3. Email your pictures to – [project email] no later than [date]. In the subject line include your name (Last name, First name) and date (mm/dd/yy). (Note: the photos will be on a password protected system) Figure 1. Instructions provided to
park model, Technovation, 12: 161-175.4. Acs, Z. J., Audretsch, D. B. and Feldman, M.P. (1994) R&D spillovers and innovative activity, Managerial and Decision Economics, 15: 131-138.5. Anselin, L., Varga, A. and Acs, Z. (1996) Local geographic spillovers between university research and high technology innovations. Paper presented at the Forty-Third North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association International, Washington DC, November.6. Eicher, T. S. (1996) Interaction between endogenous human capital and technological change, Review of Economic Studies, 63: 127-144.7. Feldman, M.P. and Florida, R. (1994) The geographical sources of innovation: technological infrastructure and
. He has been designing circuits and building prototypes since he was nine years old. His first software program was written when he was fifteen and has been selling worldwide ever since. Carmen is also very passionate about intelligent lighting and has been a Lighting Designer for eleven years. He has been the LD for countless productions ranging from theater to national rock concerts. Carmen has worked for Synaptics Incorporated and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing so far and cannot wait to start a career in embedded systems! He can be contacted at cab2753@rit.edu. Page 23.1195.1Michael B