fundamental to its creation, the teaching anddelivery of the course will determine the ultimate success. This is one of the first engineeringcourses that students take during their college careers, so it is important to engage the students inlearning about their discipline. However this engagement must be done in a way that permitsmultiple instructors and multiple sections to be taught to offer uniformity in computingexperiences. One way to engage the student is using in-class assignments and exercises. We refer Page 13.772.3to these as “in-class labs” to convey the laboratory nature of these exercises.Essentially, the course (TE/ISE 110) revolves
AC 2008-1075: USING INEXPENSIVE A.C. MOTOR DRIVES IN ANINTRODUCTORY POWER AND CONTROLS COURSETimothy Skvarenina, Purdue University Tim Skvarenina was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received the BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Illinois Institute of Technology and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue University. During his college career he worked four summers at U.S. Steel as an assistant electrician, rewinding motors and installing electrical equipment. He served 21 years in the U.S. Air Force, including six years designing, constructing, and inspecting electric power distribution projects for a variety of facilities. He spent five years teaching and researching pulsed power systems
courseworkAn undergraduate course offered to Construction Management students was introduced into thecurriculum in the fall semester 2007 in a bid to keep up with emerging industry trends and toequip students with practical problem solving skills that will make them not only competitive buteffective project leaders in their future careers. The class utilized the BIM curriculum providedby Graphisoft and is composed of both theory and studio components. Industry experts werealso invited to share their experiences on BIM with the students and provide insight into industrytrends.The class was taught using Vico construction solutions software including: GS Constructor 2007,GS Estimator 2007, and GS Control 2007. The Constructor 2007 is used to teach the
years has led to changes in theformat of the semester long design project. While the overall outcome of having the studentsmore competent in the design methodology, program management, communication skills, andunderstanding the ethical considerations of their design have been met, it is important that thestudents are excited about selecting engineering as their professional career. The design coursesequence provides this opportunity if the courses are planned and implemented in a way toharness the students creativity and passion.Bibliography1. NSF Grant Award Number 9872433, “Integrating Engineering Design with the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences and Mathematics,” 1998.2. Shetty, D., D. Leone, H. Alnajjar, S. Keshawarz, L. Nagurney and
. Page 13.992.2Further, by organizing the content and presenting it in a way that reflects the structure ofknowledge in the software engineering discipline, we expect that the students will more readilygrasp discipline-specific concepts and concept relationships, thereby better organizing andintegrating their learning from course to course over their academic and professional career. Theintended result is a repository of readily accessible and understandable learning content and alocation (a “studio”) for team collaboration.We have implemented a testbed, called Knowdio (a contraction of Knowledge Studio), thatimplements a portion of our system vision. The testbed allows experimental assessment of theeffectiveness of this learning and knowledge
. The goal is to contact these students a couple of years after graduation to assessthe impact of international design experience on their professional career and growth.ConclusionsIn order to provide students with some international experience with regards to the globalworking environment and how to deal with the different cultural and educational environments,the OSUDEC project brought together student teams from the CE Department and EWB-RHIT,a professor, a client, and a local engineer from the project-source country. Some lessons learnedfrom this experience are: • The project provided the students the opportunity to consider economic, social and societal impact, application of appropriate technology, and the limitations of the
make lifelong learning a natural pursuit for thesuccessful engineering student throughout his or her career. 1. Development of assessment tools:Many assessment tools have been developed for undergraduate engineering courses andprograms, many of them in response to the assessment and feedback loop requirements of theABET guidelines for accreditation of engineering degree programs. The 2008-2009 ABETAccreditation Policy and Procedure Manual states that “Assessment is one or more processesthat identify, collect, and prepare data to evaluate the achievement of program outcomes andprogram educational objectives.”7 Assessment should be designed to provide actionablefeedback; in other words, the feedback provided should help program
Programming (pgs. 72-82)06/04/2007 (MONDAY)Log Hours (3.0HR)12:30-1:30pmCompiled possible conference listEmailed Frank (co-Author) conference list1:30-3:30pmReviewed Overall Modeling Approach for Software Toolbox Page 13.1173.20Appendix E: 2007 Pre-Program Survey Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering/Science (SURE) Selected Findings Pre – Program SurveyAt this point in your academic career, which one statement best describes your thoughtsabout attending graduate school?I plan to attend graduate school in the next year or twoI probably will attend graduate school, but not 100% sureI have not made any decisions about graduate schoolI probably will not attend
partnership with the university’s Facilities Management, developed a highly instructiveand useful Alternative Fuel Vehicle Lab. Using existing university resources and a broad base of Page 13.509.2cross-disciplinary knowledge, we have been able to provide students with diverse, hands-oneducational experience that is often inaccessible to students outside of traditional engineeringprograms. Furthermore, the resulting K-12/STEM educational outreach program demonstrateshow these student-generated projects can inform the general public and inspire K-12 students topursue careers in science and engineering.Introduction & HistoryAs educators struggle to
program can be considered a resounding success if observed day-to-day. Much of this success is due to the tireless dedication of the current capstone director.Implementing a capstone course can give students a truly unique experience that can solidifytheir engineering education and propel them into the next stage of their careers. The costs to thecollege are as high as the rewards. Sustainability of the program is probably the biggestchallenge we face going forward. We have started to recognize that while a dedicated individualcan be primarily responsible for the success in recruiting sponsors, more needs to be done to set apositive track record that will help us continue to recruit sponsors in the future. We remaincautiously optimistic that the
careers, this late emphasis on writing competency was lessbeneficial to the college: the lessons learned were not likely to trickle down to lower-levelcourses. In order for writing instruction to be truly beneficial, a better approach is needed: onethat stresses and prioritizes the role of writing throughout a student’s education and across alldisciplinary boundaries.More notably, research suggests that, commonly in the field of engineering, students were notmaking the connections among their writing and engineering courses, and thus did not regardwriting in their engineering courses as “important.”4 In order to underscore these connectionsfor the students, a junior-level capstone course was introduced in the Electrical and ComputerEngineering
13.713.8equal opportunities for leadership and career advancement, and since the college level is one ofthe first avenues for leadership, significant action should be focused on this area.Moreover, targeted analysis of the S&E faculty responses to these issues reveals that leadershipto achieve equity is more complex than department/college/upper administration hierarchies.Faculty members from different underrepresented groups expressed confidence in differentlevels of administration to provide leadership toward an equitable climate. For example, womenacross the university and S&E women faculty expressed a much greater degree of confidence intheir college leaderships’ commitment to inclusivity (53% and 62%) than did the facultythroughout the
American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #35701 Community Science Board Cybersecurity Committee. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including He is the recipient of multiple awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, IBM Faculty Partnership Award, National Semiconductor Faculty Development Award, and the General Motors Faculty Fellowship Award. He is currently a senior member of the IEEE and a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi engineering honor societies.Miss Caroline Kinyanjui, Morgan State University Caroline Kinyanjui is a Ph.D. student with a concentration in
entire test beam case and for preprocessorsof three steel connections: (1) double web angle connection; (2) top and seat angle connection;and (3) two-bolt flush end plate connection. IntroductionA research study titled “Women and Men of Engineering Path”, sponsored by an interagencyagreement (No. 9453866) between The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the UnitedStates Department of Education, and by a cooperative agreement between the NSF and theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison (No. RED-9452971), introduced a model for analyses ofundergraduate careers in engineering. This monograph was prepared based on 11-year collegetranscript history (1982-1993) of High School and Beyond/Sophomore Cohort
form since 1981. At that time it was taken by allmechanical engineering undergraduates and has served the Department well over theyears, as the culminating experience in a four-course design sequence in the BSMEdegree. In the mid-80’s the Department of Industrial Engineering (IE) joined the courseso that project teams were composed of both ME and IE students, but the relative sizes ofthe Departments (annual graduations rates of 80 to100 BSME and 10 to15 BSIE) and thenature of the projects (mostly ME in nature with only a few in IE) prevented aninterdisciplinary experience for all design teams. In 1991 after retiring from Shell Oil Co.(and a 40+ year career as a drilling engineer and with many years experience working inShell’s internal
engineering tools necessary for engineering practice (g) an ability to communicate effectivelyD “diverse career skills” (d) an ability to function on multi-prepare students with the diverse skills needed disciplinary teamsto be successful engineers (h) broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context (i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to
development and implementation of a classical lead-lag digital controllerand the available tools. Features and highlights of this rapid prototyping environment will bepresented through experimental results. Finally, educational aspects of the experiments to beperformed will be introduced. System tracking responses utilizing the developed classicalcontroller along with responses from neural network controllers identifying the inverse of theplant will be presented.Literature SurveyThe software suite by MathWorks Inc. is a well-established and proven platform formodeling and simulation. Engineering students usually get introduced to MATLAB at anearly stage of their college career, and MATLAB is becoming the ubiquitous analysis tool forengineers. Thus
supportive leadership for change and have an openness to improvement because itis required, especially if schools are not meeting Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) required byNCLB. How that support and openness are manifested vary. However, for genuine improvementand success at reformation, schools have to have a continuous “learning” stance [11] regardless ofoutside mandates to meet the needs of the ever-changing knowledge and skills needed to maketoday’s youth not only successful in academics, but successful in their careers and as citizens.Trust and respect are the foundations of creating any community. Yet, these conditions do notsimply manifest themselves. They have to be consciously cultivated. Additionally, expertise hasto be cultivated
students, no matter what their gender, cultural, or demographicbackgrounds, can learn! In a recent report on its review of undergraduate education, theAdvisory Committee to the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Education and HumanResources concluded that “… while K – 12 programming can expand the pool of those interestedin pursing careers in SME&T [Science, Mathematics, Engineering, & Technology], it is at theundergraduate level where attrition and burnout can be most effectively prevented. What we inSME&T education must do is to concern ourselves with all students, not just those whohistorically have been represented in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology. Such abreadth of concern has important educational
amount of material that can be taught and that the students’ interest in the material isenhanced.IntroductionTo maintain and enhance our nation’s ability to be on the forefront of technology development,colleges and universities have been called to adopt the most effective teaching practices of Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) courses as well as to provide undergraduateswith opportunities to study STEM “as practiced by scientists and engineers as early in theiracademic careers as possible”.1 In fact, the practice of engineering today requires that graduatesbe prepared in a large variety of ways, which are reflected in ABET criteria as well as other recentstudies.2, 3 In addition, as supported by a wide body of literature
. Hopefully, this will result in them having much more effective careers in the AECindustry in the future.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank all of the industry speakers who participated in the course duringthe spring 2007 and fall 2007 offerings. In addition, the support provided by the University ofWisconsin Facilities Planning and Management Department and Autodesk Inc was greatlyappreciated. Thanks also go to Professor Jeffrey Russell, Chair of the Department of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering, for enthusiastically supporting the introduction of the BIM course. Page 13.589.17References[1] Holness, G. V. R. (2006). “Future Direction
universities provide pre-college students an opportunity toexplore careers in science and engineering. For high-achieving students who already have aninterest in these areas, these types of programs can introduce students to advanced concepts,develop their understanding of scientific methodologies, and expose them to science andengineering research. One such program, the Young Engineering and Science Scholars (YESS)Program, is a three-week summer residential program created to bring exceptional high schooljuniors and seniors from underrepresented minority groups to study at the California Institute ofTechnology (Caltech). The program is intended for motivated students who wish to broadentheir knowledge of science and engineering beyond that offered by
, intercultural team interactions thatcharacterize engineering careers in the 21st century. While there have been many program-levelefforts across the nation to develop these “soft” skills, such as capstone projects that incorporatestudy abroad and service learning, no direct method of measuring all six skills simultaneouslyexists in the literature. This project proposes an innovative and direct method of developing andassessing ABET professional skills simultaneously that can be used at the course-level forassessing student performance and at the program-level for assessing efficacy of the curricula.In 2007, the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) at Washington StateUniversity (WSU) collaborated with the College of Engineering and
own interest in studying textbooks parallels my commitment to teaching studentshow to reason systematically and helping them to develop procedural knowledge. I amgenerally dismayed by corner-cutting that appears in so many standard textbooks, both inthe text and in worked sample problems. Early in my teaching career I developed theattitude that I needed to “teach around the text” by providing additional explanations,insights, approaches, and probing questions. I imagine that many instructors do likewise.In an attempt to quantify the reasons for these attitudes, Rahman, Bostwick, and Ireviewed several standard textbooks, first against the same topics as we reviewed studentwork (VCS, FBD, UNITS)22 and then against other techniques that we
, 2005.10. Noerenberg, J.W., II Bridging wireless protocols. Communications Magazine, IEEE, 39 (11). 90-97.11. Planet3 Wireless. Introduction - CWNP career certifications, 2006.12. Richards, B. and Stull, B. Teaching wireless networking with limited resources Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, ACM Press, Norfolk, Virginia, USA, 2004.13. Sarkar, N.I. Teaching computer networking fundamentals using practical laboratory exercises. IEEE Transactions on Education, 49 (2). 285-291.14. Shin, M., Ma, J., Mishra, A. and Arbaugh, W.A. Wireless network security and interworking. Proceedings of IEEE, 94 (2). 455-466.15. Snyder, J. Down and dirty with Wireless LAN security NetworkWorld
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Mississippi State University. She received her PhD and M.S. from the University of Notre Dame and B.S. from Michigan Technological University. Since joining MSU, Dr. Minerick has taught the graduate Chemical Engineering Math, Process Controls, Introduction to Chemical Engineering Freshman Seminar, and Heat Transfer Courses. In addition, she is an NSF CAREER Awaredee, has served as co-PI on an NSF REU site, PI on grants from NSF and DOE, and is the faculty advisor for MSU’s chapter of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE). Her research is in medical microdevice
intuitive grasp of the concepts and the motivation for relevance. As the students becomemore independent, the labs provide opportunities to apply the theory they learn in increasinglyopen-ended ways.One of our motivations for the top down framework is the introduction of engineering conceptsearly in a student career. The early college years are usually composed mainly of math andnatural science courses; thus, engineering students often question why they are involved inengineering (with the unfortunate effect that some students transfer to a different engineeringmajor or abandon engineering altogether). We believe that introducing engineering duringfreshman year helps inspire students and thus retain them in engineering.Practice–Integrated
Lu is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Purdue University and (by courtesy) the Department of Computer Science. In 2004, he obtained an NSF Career Award for studying energy conservation by operating systems. He obtained Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 2002.David Meyer, Purdue University David G. Meyer has been very active in curriculum development, learning outcome assessment, design education, and use of instructional technology. He is currently responsible for creating, maintaining, and teaching the core ECE digital systems course sequence. He has written numerous papers on innovative uses of
culture couples the abilityto learn with the ability to use knowledge in a practical context. Through this activity, they arealso presented with the opportunity to consider engineering as a future career. They often Page 14.539.3become more motivated as they feel the work they do makes a difference or has applicability inthe real world. These aspects are especially effective for students with non-conventional learningstyles.Virtual CVD LaboratoryThe instructional design of the Virtual CVD Laboratory is based on a cognitive apprenticeshipmodel where students are provided a problem in the similar context to an engineer in industry.Specifically