,working as math, science or engineering tutors, laboratory assistants, or student assistants. Dueto the addition of 20 new scholars in fall 2010, the average number of hours of work increased to9.7. It is anticipated that this number will decrease by spring 2011 as students are able to workfewer hours. Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education 220 Fall 2009 Spring 2010 Fall 2010 GPA 3.30 3.29
) 00.00 (n=0) CPSC 121 Programming Concepts 77.78 (n=9) 33.33 (n=3) EGCE 206 Computer Aided Drafting 100.00 (n=4) 100.00 (n=9) EGEE 245 Com. Logic and Architecture 100.00 (n=2) 00.00 (n=0) EGME 245 Laboratory 100.00 (n=2) 00.00 (n=0)Conclusion The ECS Scholars program contains the integral parts of a structured LC: 1) blockscheduling, 2) incorporation of Freshmen Seminar Groups, 3) Service Learning Component and4) collaboration between faculty and student affairs professionals.8 The program allows studentsto take advantage
laboratory work). Website or other electronic locations for the course (i.e., Blackboard) may be listed here. • Units/time dedicated per week (i.e., meets on T, Th at 4:00 – 5:15 PM) • Prerequisites/co-requisites – should include course names and numbers according to institution catalog so that they can be easily identified. B. Instructor information • Instructors’ names and preferred name – name or names and their function in relation to the course, along with degrees and credentials (i.e., Dr. John Doe, P.E., instructor; and Smith, L., Ph.D candidate, teaching assistant (TA)). The instructor prefer to be called Professor Doe, and the TA prefer to be called Mr. Smith) • Office hour – indicate where and how students should
academic advising tools. However, we argue that theCentre of Excellence Program. continued development of online advising tools has not kept N. Mattei affiliated with NICTA, University of New South Wales, Neville pace with development of course delivery, educational theoryRoach Laboratory, Level 4, 223 Anzac Pde., Kensington NSW 2052 about online education, or education evaluation systems. InAustralia. (Nicholas.mattei@nicta.com.au; +61 2 8306 0464). T. Dodson affiliated with Department of Physics and Astronomy, the process of designing an advising support system, we haveUniversity of
make them transforming the transitional problems into reduced-specificitysuch. Context rich problems have real-world context settings. problems.To increase motivation, one can start problems with “Youare…/you have been…” and then describe situations in such IV. DESCRIPTION AND RESULTS OF THE STUDYcontexts that can motivate the solver to find an answer (e.g., Course Descriptionstart the problems with statements like: you have been hired as The General Physics I (PH-201) course at QCC is an… and your job is…; you are watching TV about… and algebra-based 3 class hours and 2 laboratory hours course (4wonder…; etc). More suggestions on making problems credits). It is a
Engineering (ICSE), Executive Director for Gulf Coast Environmental Equity Center (GCEEC), Director for the Solid Waste Sustainability Hub, Director for the Gulf Coast Center for Addressing Microplastics Pollution (GC-CAMP), and Director for the Sustainable Asphalt Materials Laboratory, as well as the founding faculty advisor for the Society of Sustainable Engineering. He teaches a mixture of undergraduate and graduate engineering courses. Dr. Wu is a committee member for Transportation Research Board (TRB) AJE35 and AKM 90, a member of American Society of Civil Engineer (ASCE), American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), and Academy of Pavement Science and Engineering (APSE), as well as an editorial member for
. Higher thresholds reduce the search space ofnode outages, workload logs and error logs in Los Alamos prediction process. Because the prediction process is triggeredNational Laboratory. The data spans 22 high-performance by the threshold, higher threshold setting triggers fewercomputing systems that have been in production use at Los prediction processes.Alamos National Lab (LANL) between 1996 and November2005. The data contains an entry for any failure leading to anode outage that occurred during the 9-year time period andthat required the attention of a system administrator. For eachfailure, the data includes start time and end time, the systemand node affected, as well as categorized root causeinformation
computing. The delivery of computing resources or services over the Internet.Collaboratory. Coined by the National Science Foundation to identify a laboratory consisting of collaborating colleagues.Cyber security. The discipline of securing computer resources and information.Hypervisor. Computer software or hardware that manages and executes virtual machines.IaaS. Infrastructure as a Service cloud resource. Azure is an example of an IaaS. The provisioning of virtual machines with Microsoft operating systems, as its first priority, is one of its services.Infrastructure. Physical computing hardware and resources that are part of a network, a cloud, or the Internet.Maestro. A SaaS cloud service provider that provisions SQL-related software
. In particular, the sustainability of earthen materials was highlighted (e.g., low CO 2emission, better thermal properties, low energy demand, etc.). An experimental testing lab session,“compression testing of compressed earth blocks,” was introduced to the students. Theresearchers/instructors collaborated with ECI for the acquisition of earth blocks and the design of thetesting procedure. The experimental testing of specimens was conducted by the students and theywere required to analyze the results and prepare a technical laboratory report. The inclusion of thisexperimental testing offers students hands-on (experiential) learning opportunities to enhance theirunderstanding of sustainable construction materials and how they can be
identify real-world problems and survey their broader impacts. The data collected from document reviews, observations, 2. To brainstorm possible solutions to real-world meeting discussions, interviews, and surveys were triangulated research problems. to determine the degree to which the program has met its 3. To apply the scientific method while solving a real- overall goal and objectives. Data analysis is based on the world research problem. appropriate assumptions for analyzing the type of data 4. To develop basic laboratory skills and safety collected, the
, while puzzle games primarily enhancemotivation and critical thinking skills [27].Physics EducationGamification for physics education is commonly implemented in the form of non-serious playwhereby lectures are supplemented by online laboratories. Physics Education Technology(PhET) is one of the most used examples of this [28] [29]. PhET consists of a set of manyindividual simulations that allow the user to modify various elements, such as the coefficients asystem operates on or the elements included in the simulation. One example, of many [30], ispresented in Figure 3 whereby experimentation of capacitor variables can be explored. Thesesimulations represent a method for educators to easily allow students to experiment safely [29
one course in “Air, Solid, & Hazardous Waste”, only UWPlatteville explicitly required their Air and Waste Management course.For the remaining EnvE subdisciplines (soil, energy, sustainable design, and environmentalhealth and policy), only Cal Poly Humboldt and UW Platteville offer courses. Cal PolyHumboldt requires students take “Environmental Health and Impact Assessment” while UW-Platteville requires “Geotechnical Engineering” and the balance of courses are electives. SaintFrancis requires an EnvE seminar each semester (total eight courses) which may discuss some ofthese other subdisciplines but that is not clear from the course descriptions. This program doesexplicitly have coursework to train EnvE students in applied laboratory
and electromagnetics. Robert has worked as a mathematical modeler for Emerson Process Management, working on electric power applications for Emerson’s Ovation Embedded Simulator. Robert also served in the United States Navy as an interior communications electrician from 1998-2002 on active duty and from 2002-2006 in the US Naval Reserves.Prof. Brandon M. Grainger, University of Pittsburgh Brandon Grainger, PhD is currently an assistant professor and associate director of the Electric Power Engineering Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), Swanson School of Engineering. He is also the associate director of the Energy GRID Institute. He holds a PhD
Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World, the artist, design researcher, and OlinCollege professor Sara Hendren writes, “Engineering is not the science of the laboratory alone…It is fundamentally applied, which means its results live in the world. It belongs to people, notjust as ‘users’ but as protagonists of their dimensional lives” [1, p. 23]. Hendren’s invocation of avision of engineering as radically human-centered provided the philosophical and humanisticcore to our interdisciplinary teaching team as we embarked on designing a new course forfirst-year students at Boston College (BC). Our course, Making the Modern World: Design,Ethics, and Engineering (MMW), situated engineering practice and knowledge within its social,political, and
focus beyond the skillsand theory needed for laboratory work detracts from the focused nature of the program. In thiscontext, our ABET visit was used as a catalyst for change. Beyond the reflection engendered bythe process, following the visit one concern was that curricular limitations did not allow studentsto take a sufficient number of electives. This finding resulted in faculty more broadly looking atthe curriculum rather than just specific, focused changes in existing courses.The second and third factors—a new chair and young faculty—were simply coincidental since anew, external department chair had been hired less than two years before the ABET visit at atime when 70% of the faculty in the department had been at PALACE for less than a
practiced as a structural engineer and building envelope engineer in Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh. She previously served as a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Sarah teaches courses in Structural Engineering, Materials, Soil Mechanics, and Design. Sarah is passionate about curricular re- design to prepare students to be successful in the changing field and developing new design and laboratory courses intended to improve critical thinking and problem solving skills through experiential learning. As a 2021-2022 Provost’s Inclusive Teaching Fellow, Sarah will be working to improve social-consciousness of engineering students through changes to the CEE capstone design course.Ms. Andrea Francioni Rooney
, Dr. Slaughter was named to the American Society for Engineering Education Hall of Fame and was the recipient of the society’s Centennial Medal. He received the UCLA Medal of Excellence in 1989, was elected to the Kansas State University Engineering Hall of Fame in 1990, received the Roger Revelle Award from the University of California, San Diego in 1991 and was named that institution’s Alumnus of the Year in 1982. Dr. Slaughter, a licensed professional engineer, began his career as an electronics engineer at General Dynamics and, later, served for 15 years at the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory in San Diego, where he became head of the Information Systems Technol- ogy Department. He has also been director of the
thevariety of potential learning activities and structures for delivering and assessing the coursecontent. Forty percent of the remarks included some discussion of particular in-class activitiesand assessments, including, but not limited to in-class demonstrations, projects, presentations,labs, competitions, and example problems.Grace’s Mechanics of Materials course, for instance, “had a laboratory component, where [she] explored phenomena discussed in class in the physical world - this helped [her] link equations and concepts learned in lectures to how materials physically deform.”Victor, on the other hand, was impacted by the problem-based learning experience he had inSystem Dynamics & Control: “I believe that I devoted
offered in Part 1. The restructuredPart I, by unanimous Faculty decision, remains a common program of eight x 15-pointcourses for all first-year students, one of which was required by University mandate to be aGeneral Education course. Each of the new 15 point courses would involve 10 hours ofstudent time per week with four hours formal contact time via lectures and tutorials,laboratory time where relevant, while the remaining time was self learning time for studentsto complete problem exercises, assignments and independent study.Four courses remained essentially unchanged, albeit with content reduction. These were thetwo-point courses Mathematical Modelling, Engineering Mechanics, Materials Science andElectrical and Digital Systems. The Design
. Medicalleave ensures that a new mother has time to recover from her pregnancy and care for her newchild and, at the same time, protects her from other disadvantages she might suffer if pregnancywere treated differently. As the 2004 GAO Report notes, for example, “relief from teachingduties [to deal with family issues such as the birth of a child] may benefit male faculty more thanfemale faculty. In connection with the arrival of a child, to the extent that male faculty may haveless involvement in caring for newborns, male faculty may use the extra time to do additional Page 11.1066.13research or laboratory work.”12 Thus, while either family or
engineers. In fact, many engineers in a design shop relyon the newer graduates to show them how to use the newest software. The USMA graduateexceeds what is expected from the undergraduate experience in the BOK in the areas ofcommunication and leadership, largely due to the additional opportunities they have to practiceboth in realistic settings.The areas where USMA students fall short according to the initial assessment are in Outcomes 2(Experiments, Analyze and Interpret), 5 (Solve Engineering Problems), 12 (Specialized Area),and 9 (Lifelong Learning). The BOK expects that the undergraduate education will provideattainment of ability for outcomes 2 and 5. Most of the experiments that USMA studentsconduct are in a controlled laboratory environment
, manufacture, assembly, and evaluation of a fairly complexproduct. The project also requires students to work in teams, plan a long-term project, andcommunicate their product development plan, preliminary design, and final designs through aseries of presentations and reports. The course has a final competition where teams demonstratetheir designed products. In an earlier paper, Calabro, Gupta, and Lopez Roschwalb23 discussedmore details about the design and implementation of this Design Course.Each section is staffed by an instructor and an undergraduate teaching assistant (UTA).Additionally, there are laboratory teaching fellows who manage the laboratory/fabrication spaceand assist teams in fabrication and/or programming as needed. The staffing for
. Theguided notes provided a way for the students to accurately document the derivations as well. Thismethod can be applied even for a larger class. The instructor should walk around the class andmake sure that students are working on the guided notes without being distracted.5. Passion Projects This teaching module was not successfully implemented in the compressible flow classbecause of the lack of supersonic wind tunnels and laboratory facilities at the University of Daytonto generate compressible flows. But this module is currently being incorporated in the fundamentalaerodynamics class taught by the author. The idea of passion projects was inspired from a projectbased research class for undergraduate students at Massachusetts Institute of
Chair ofthe Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech – Savannah. He was also the FoundingDirector of the Systems Realization Laboratory at Georgia Tech.Farrokh’s current research focus is the model-based realization of complex systems by managing uncer-tainty and complexity. The key question he is investigating is what are the principles underlying rapid androbust concept exploration when the analysis models are incomplete and possibly inaccurate? His questfor answers to the key question is anchored in three projects, namely,Integrated Realization of Robust, Resilient and Flexible NetworksIntegrated Realization of Engineered Materials and ProductsManaging Organized and Disorganized Complexity: Exploration of the Solution
spiritually, and enjoying her family and friends. Moreover, Dr. Borges is treasurer and co-chair of the Northeastern Association for Science Teacher Education (NE-ASTE) where faculty, researchers, and educators inform STEM teaching and learning and inform policy.Dr. Vikram Kapila, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Vikram Kapila is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU Tandon), where he directs a Mechatronics, Controls, and Robotics Laboratory, a Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics and Entrepreneurship, a DR K-12 research project, and an ITEST re- search project, all funded by NSF. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH
Research Organization Energy Centre (similar to theU.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory). An overview of the Australian itinerary is shownin table 1; for more detailed descriptions of sites visited, please see Appendix B.Table 1 - Itinerary for the Australia International Renewable Energy Learning Exchange, 2013 Date Institution Visited 3/12 TAFE Directors Meeting, Sydney 3/12 Northern Sydney Institute of TAFE 3/13 Western Sydney Institute of TAFE, Nirimba Campus 3/13 Western Sydney Institute of TAFE, Richmond Campus 3/13 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Energy Centre 3/14 Canberra Institute of Technology 3/16 Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE 3/18 Chisholm