., Scales, K., Elzinga, J.D., Planning for Curriculum Renewal and Accreditation Under ABET Engineering Criteria 2000, Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA, June 1998.6. SUCCEED Coalition, Elzinga, J. consultant, Curriculum Innovation and Renewal Manual: Stage Three Analyzing the Existing Curriculum Augmented Syllabus Method, Retrieved from, www.succeed.ufl.edu/content/oa-wkshp/products/curriculum/index.html7. ABET, Criteria for Evaluating Engineering Programs: Effective for Evaluations During the 2008-2009 Accreditation Cycle. Retrieved from http://www.abet.org/Linked%20Documents- UPDATE/Criteria%20and%20PP/E001%2008-09%20EAC%20Criteria%2012-04-07.pdf8
outlived Pontiac, SAAB, Saturn, and Oldsmobile all within a twentyfive year span. But it was by no means ideal and necessitated flexibility, continuousimprovement and planned innovation in areas vital to sustaining strength in its core valuepositioning. Still, it possessed strong and admirable attributes that help comprise the TCEPmodel presented here.The second source is a compilation and synthesis of the strengths of over 650 technicalcontinuing education programs operated by other national and international organizations. Theseare articulated by nine universities with successful, high-quality distance learning continuingeducation program experiences with these same organizations.The criterion for selection for strengths within the TCEP model
not have a prior knowledge in the field of mechanical design and it’s applications); • Determine faculty role in the learning process; • Develop an instructional plan; Page 23.5.3 • Design activities, assignments, and assessments that are congruent with the four desired student outcomes: (a) improved critical thinking skills, (b) greater capacity for independent work, (c) taking more responsibility for one’s own learning, (d) intellectual growth, congruent with the above mentioned goals and objectives.In what follows, we briefly discuss the two projects, Device Analysis and
needed to guide the search through thestate standards. Our initial search borrowed from ideas found through literature review. The Page 22.1095.12NATIONAL SURVEY OF STATES’ P-‐12 ENGINEERING STANDARDS initial criteria stemmed from the Committee on K-12 Engineering Education 2008 report, whichprovided the following: • "Engineering — a process for creating the human-made world, the artifacts and processes that never existed before.” (p.9) “Most often engineers do not literally construct the artifacts, they provide plans and directions for how the artifacts are to be constructed.” (p.9) • “They also
engineering solutions in aglobal societal context(10): a knowledge of contemporary issues(11): an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary forengineering practiceManufacturing Engineering track-specific ABET outcome applicable for this course is suggestedto be:(M3): graduates appreciate the necessity for manufacturing competitiveness and understand howto create competitive advantage through manufacturing planning, strategy and controlThe outcomes may be assessed via homework assignments, term project and exams. It isexpected that the applicable outcomes list would be revised based on the outcomes assessment.5. Course Assessment5.1 Student PerformanceThe student performances in the courses with traditional
more flexibility in determining whereand when the ramp build can occur.Along the way students are exposed to the realities of engineering – site limitations, tightdeadlines, limited budgets, changing plans, and inclement weather. Students experience how thedesign and the final product do not always turn out as expected and how important it is to be ableto make changes in the field that will not adversely affect the structural integrity. An opportunityto consider these issues is provided in a structured reflection. Students complete the reflectionafter the ramp is built and prior to the final exam in class. This structured reflection also servesas the mechanism for continuous project improvementThe paper is organized beginning with the project
-solving strategies by theirown, and learn through inquiries into ill-structured problem situation3,4,5. It is especiallysuitable for computer education in 21st century, as well as engineering education in generalbecause of the complexity in the knowledge domain which often involves multipledisciplines6,7,8. This paper describes the design and implementation of IBL lessons in arefreshment course offered by an engineering department at a university in Hong Kong inSeptember to December 2010. Related educational theories are reviewed, including (1)constructivism, (2) inquiry-based learning, (3) collaborative learning, and (4) scaffolding.The lessons were implemented as a part of the course, the lesson plans, class schedule andlogistic of the course
graduation, Sanati-Mehrizy plans to attend medical school.Dr. Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University Reza Sanati-Mehrizy is a professor of the Computing Sciences Department at Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla. His research focuses on diverse areas, such as database design, data structures, artificial intelligence, robotics, computer integrated manufacturing, data mining, data warehousing, and machine learning. Page 25.338.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012
issupported through the University System of Georgia Office. Many of the EET and MET courseshave already been developed and are being offered to existing student so that any bugs will beworked out prior to the full roll-out in 2013. All of the IET courses have been developed to date.In order to ensure that all course offered through distance learning are of uniform quality, eachfaculty member developing a course has to go through the a training program offered through theTeaching Academy for Distance Learning (TADL) in the Office of Faculty Support andDevelopment.Since the signing of the articulation agreement, a number of the TCSG schools have indicatedtheir interest in participating in the agreement. Table 5 provides a list of colleges who plan
science educators’ teaching effectiveness.Over the next four years, the authors plan to implement this strategy with more new educators.The method presented in this study may be used at other institutions with appropriatemodifications in order to help new educators improve their teaching effectiveness. Page 25.370.9Bibliography 1. Sumner, William (1906). Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals. New York: Ginn and Co.. p. 633. 2. Raiskums, B.W., An Analysis of the Concept Criticality in Adult Education (2008) 3. Ennis, R.H., "Critical Thinking Assessment" in Fasko, Critical
examples of each. The student learns thesequantitative procedures in the next sequence of courses. The purpose of this course is to teachthe student to complete a formatted assessment of a commercial building and/or an industrialfacility and list the energy saving opportunities with some knowledge as the amount of energyand dollar savings potential.The course begins covering global energy production and global energy use and known reservesof natural resources. Hubbert peak oil is covered in detail and related to today’s reserves andproduction rates. The solar constant is introduced and compared to the global energy use. Thepotential for renewable energy is studied. Any energy conservation program begins with aneffective energy management plan
available tostudents (Table 1). Within each chapter, a list of additional specialized equipment, reagents, andsupplies necessary for that particular experiment is provided. Care was taken to minimize thecost of reagents and consumable supplies. Suggested suppliers and product numbers forequipment and materials are provided in the instructor’s manual along with other resources tohelp plan a new course.General-Purpose Equipment & Supplies General-Purpose ConsumablesAnalytical Balance Serological Pipettes*Glassware* Pasteur Pipettes*Small Instruments* (Forceps, Scalpels, Spatulas, etc.) Pipette Tips*Vortex Mixer
,advancement of energy storage devices and applications in power systems, wide-areamonitoring, protection and control of future electric power networks, smart grid restorationconcepts, and a robust control scheme for grid-connected voltage-source inverters.Project 5: Reactive Power Optimization (for graduate students only)Students are to numerically solve the problem of optimizing capacitor placement and voltageregulator settings in a distribution system.In the future offering of this course, we plan to modify project 3 and 4 so that students will notonly read and understand the selected technology presented in a paper, but also need to performrequired modeling and simulation studies to verify the results.It is worth mentioning that another new course
provide “evidence for the value of rapid feedbackand the currently popular clickers”18 in foundation engineering courses, they did note that theycould not make generalizations about the effectiveness in other learning environments andsuggested that further study was worthwhile.Finally, although it may be clear to any seasoned instructor, it is worth noting that implementingclickers in the classroom is time consuming. The instructor needs to spend time learning thetechnology and preparing appropriate questions, then planning how to go about incorporatingthem into the class plan or lecture. The engineering economy course described here requiredfrom a ½ to 1 hour per lecture to incorporate the “clicker questions” into previously developedPowerPoint
Education programs for in- service teachers. Prior to joining UTeachEngineering, Dobbs worked at the UT’s Center for Lifelong Engineering Education (CLEE) within the Cockrell School of Engineering. In her role as Senior Program Manager, she was responsible for the implementation of 100+ short courses, conferences, and certificate programs, with program topics covering a variety of engineering disciplines. Before joining the University of Texas, Austin, Dobbs worked for the National Alliance for Insurance Education and Research as a Pro- gram Coordinator. In all, Dobbs has more than 15 years management and meeting planning experience. Her education includes a B.B.A. in marketing from Texas A&M University.Ms
asuccessful mission. Post-mission analyses of telemetry data uncovered multiple errors in design,testing, and planning which contributed to a “Type A” mishap which called for a MishapInvestigation Board (MIB) review. Alternative solutions and recommendations for futuremission improvements have also been considered”.Case Study 2: Apollo 13 MissionThis case study summarizes and analyzes the infamous Apollo 13 mission failure and safe returnof the flight crew consisting of NASA astronauts James A. Lovell, Command Module pilot Jack L.Swigert, and Lunar Module pilot Fred W. Haise. The failure is analyzed from take-off to reentryand all that happened in between. The study also includes the findings from the Apollo 13Review Board chartered by NASA to find
. Subsequently, a we purchased alarge supply of 20Ω resistors (Newark: 26R3976 $0.026) and planned to have students configurethese to provide an appropriate voltage drop. This turned out to complicate the construction ofthe simulator without adding much educational value. The combination of series and parallelresistors turned out to be very awkward to incorporate in the structure, and in fact, all of thediodes could operate with the full 3V forward drop. In the future we plan to have studentsmeasure these operating parameters and determine the appropriate circuits to drop the excessvoltage, but to use LEDs that operate at 3V and not put the resistors in the circuits. This is alsoin response to a question given to students at the end of the activity
willlikely result in: 1. Confusion that could lead to uncertainty in knowledge gained from the lectures and formal lab exercises. 2. An inability to work with complex systems that cross disciplines. If the initial hands-on challenge is too hard, then skills like project planning and troubleshooting will not be properly developed. 3. Lack of confidence, especially in a student’s ability to understand areas that are not in the students' major. For example, a mechanical engineering student’s understanding of programming and/or electronics. 4. Discouraging students from either careers in mechatronics or applying for jobs with a mechatronic component. In other words, narrowing a student’s perceived career options.The
. The 20 characteristics chosen bythe author was based on Deming’s 14 points that pertained to TQM. This was recorded in a spreadsheet form as shown in Appendix B. Theseportfolios can also be graded, evaluated and assessed using a variety of rubrics andassessment tools. The author has previously presented some of these results in a form atthe 114th ASEE Annual Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii (Narayanan 2007). Theauthor plans to generate and utilize a rubric for purposes of holistic assessment. Thisrubric is based on Washington State University’s Critical Thinking Project. This isshown in Appendix D. The 20 characteristics chosen by the author are recorded and incorporated intoan excel spreadsheet for documenting collected data
Detail Design Training Energy Analysis Marketing Construction Site Planning and Logistics Schedule/Work Sequence Simulation Quantity Take Off Clash Detection Marketing Shop Drawing Project Control
alter the preliminary volumetric designthat is given to them, but they are encouraged to spend minimal time on that aspect of theproject. They must adhere to the free span lengths given in the project brief. They are alsoencouraged to take on one additional design constraint such as a green roof or a glassfaçade to enliven the design. They must chose an appropriate structural system andpropose a framing plan. The project statement requires them to calculate the member sizefor a small but representative number of the structural elements, typically two shorter Page 25.270.3spanning elements (beam, slab, folded plate, etc), one longer spanning element
creativity in engineering student problem solving. Specifically itwas hoped that the students would become: more comfortable taking on unfamiliarproblems and working on open-ended problems; more confident in their ability to take onunfamiliar problems; and more knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the role ofinnovation and creativity in engineering design. There were forty students in thisexperimental course, and the remaining sixty students in the cohort experienced atraditional lecture format with another instructor.An evaluation plan for the course has been prepared and implemented by a team led byDr. Scott Shablak who directs the Office of Professional Research and Development atthe Syracuse University School of Education. As part of the
withcurrent teaching approaches in these classes, none of which use SBL or ChemProV.The plan for the assessment of the OBSLE/ChemProV combination involved recruiting sevenother universities to participate in the study. At each of the schools the participating facultyagreed to teach their material/energy balance class in their normal fashion during the 2011-2012academic year. Also during this time ChemProV was being upgraded to include the capability ofaccommodating both material balances and energy balances. In addition, ChemProV is beingintegrated into the OSBLE structure to allow for an asynchronous SBL implementation. In the2012-2013 academic year each of the participating universities then will teach thematerial/energy balance class but now using
. Collaboration would allow students to work together to explain complex problemsmore easily. Individualized tutoring and assessment and drill-down capability allow a student towork one step at a time. By doing this, a student can master the simpler concepts beforeproceeding to more difficult concepts in a way that will allow quicker and fuller learning andunderstanding.The Kno tablet was a planned device with the idea of replacing paper textbooks central to thedesign. The two different versions included one or two large 14.1 inch touch and stylus enabledscreens which were hinged together to look similar to a book. The Kno would have allowedconnection to a Bluetooth keyboard for quick typed note-taking. There are a significant numberof textbooks
forcesand how they react to one another. This can align with geometry and physics.Construction Estimating: A simple house plan can be used to show how to use geometry tocalculate the amount of materials needed by calculating surface area and volume for differentproducts. Materials can be developed that the teachers are given in which the students build whatthey calculate to visualize. This can aligns with many areas of mathSurveying: Measuring the height of a a tree using a tape measure and the sun with 90 degreesmakes use the Pythagorean theorem and introduces students to civil engineering, city planning,and surveying. This is a very hands-on approach to geometryConclusionThe belief is the P-12 STEM teachers can be highly effective if connected
. Page 25.1377.2It is expected that the students, in carrying out the capstone project, follow some proven steps ina systematic and timely manner. They need to plan ahead for each of the tasks and allocateappropriate amount of time for each. They often need to set some milestones and check theirprogress against them. This way they can remain on-track for completion of the project.Even following the above steps, the outcome of the project may vary from what was originallyintended for due to some reasons or other. This variation may be favorable or otherwise. Assuch, there is always a need for analysis that identifies any specific strength or weakness as wellas factors that are beyond control. This leads to formulate more specific guidelines
glycerin has been used toproduce soap successfully by the students. Students have also tested „gelling‟ tendency of different blendsof biodiesel and are currently working with the UMES farm manager to identify and appropriately modifyfarm equipment for biodiesel use. Students are also working with the university safety office to refinesafety considerations to comply with OSHA and municipality requirements. Students will be involved inmanaging broader logistics of scheduling the processor operation for biodiesel production and utilization,based on needs of the farm equipment. The project team plans to refine the processing of glycerin by-product to improve the aesthetics, fragrance, and other qualitative parameters of the soap so that they maysell
processing.The rest of the paper is organized as follows. We review related work in Section 2 and presentthe architecture of the proposed application in Section 3. In Section 4 we describe some of thefunctionalities of the software. We describe planned assessment strategies for the proposedapplication in Section 5. The concluding remarks and possible directions of extending this workare discussed in Section 6.Related WorkCommercial packages such as MATLAB16 and LabVIEW17 are commonly used in signalprocessing research and application development. J-DSP, a web-based graphical DSP simulationpackage, was proposed as a non-commercial alternative for performing laboratories inundergraduate courses 3. Though J-DSP is a light-weight application, running J-DSP
. (6) W ( s ) mL s cs 2 2Using Simulink RTW environment, it is straightforward to implement the suggested feedbacklaws (3) and (4) as illustrated in Figure 4. Page 25.1406.7 Figure 4. Impleementation of Non-Linear N Feeeback Linearizaation LawsIn the th hird installm ment, studentts are asked d to identifyy the dynammic characteeristics of a unit-feedbackk system formed from around thee plan (6). This task iis designed to illustratee theapplicatio
license K-12 #910. Hey is also a certified Health Education Specialist (CHES), CHES license #14359, through the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing Organiza- tion. (http://www.nchec.org/). Since joining Cal Poly, he has been teaching numerous courses includ- ing: Healthy Living, Multi-Cultural Health, Drug Education, Health Behavior Change, School Health for Teachers, and Health Promotion Planning and Theory. His involvement with this paper was to qualita- tively evaluate the Senior Engineering Design Projects (specifically student’s ability to ”learn design”). Hey’s passion is sailing and long distance running