Roscoe, R.D., 2002, The Processes and Challenges of Conceptual Change. In M. Limon and L. Mason (Eds.), Reconsidering Conceptual Change. Issues in Theory and Practice. Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 3-27.3) National Research Council, 1997, Science Teaching Reconsidered, A handbook. Committee on Undergraduate Science Education. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 88 p.4) Chi, M.T.H., 2005, Commonsense Conceptions of Emergent Processes: Why Some Misconceptions are Robust. Journal of the Learning Sciences, Vol. 14 No. 2, pp. 161-199.5) Evans, D.L. (moderator), Midkiff, C., Miller, R.L., Morgan, J., Krause, S., Martin, et al., 2002, Tools for Assessing Conceptual Understanding in the
are chosen to be relevant and interesting tostudents, along with careful step-by-step instructions on the use of the DS and DA modules as adesign aid. The tutorial is comprehensive and easy to navigate, and it can be used as asupplementary teaching aid in an introductory mechanism design course, but also as a tool tolearn to use advanced design modules available from Autodesk Inventor.The main challenges in developing these types of tutorial packages are: 1) frequent releases ofupdated versions of the featured program (in this instance, Autodesk Inventor Professional) makeit challenging to keep the tutorial current, and 2) the development of a high-quality custom-designed instructional tutorial requires that the developer(s) be both
,2003). Furthermore, Preparing Our Children (NSB, 1999) urges partnerships betweenuniversities and local schools to increase the mathematics and science abilities of high schoolgraduates. TechSTEP directly addresses these concerns.“the University”’s STEM Talent Expansion Program (TechSTEP) has two major componentsthat will yield increased numbers of graduates in engineering, mathematics, and science. Onecomponent is a high school partnership program focused on recruiting new students into ourSTEM programs, while the other component is a summer enrichment and mentoring programfocused on increased retention of first-year college students. The recruiting component is an expansion of pilot
, 3. Verify numerical results (lab week 10 of the semester) a. Design AMP center FSW experiment, b. Conduct experiment, c. Document data, 4. Report (hand in last week of semester). Figure 2. Depiction of FSWThe project encompasses several elements of heat transfer covered early in the semesterincluding: 1. Steady and transient conduction, 2. Boundary conditions, 3. Convection, 4. Heat generation.AMP Deliverables – A final report(s) will be delivered to the director of AMP. Includedin the report will be a documentation of the energy transferred from the FSW pin to thework piece and the accompanying machine thermal efficiency (based upon the measuredtorque and pin speed
) that responded neutral. This might have influenced the students not to work with MOSFETs in their projects.ConclusionsThe traditional pre-defined diode labs are achieving their goal of providing a greater learningexperience of diodes and their applications, as opposed to the pre-defined transistor-circuit labswhich simply provide the basic foundation. The results of the survey suggest that the learningprocess is greatly enhanced by real life applications such as the student’s projects. Page 12.1081.8The predefined MOSFET labs must be revised to provide a greater learning experience of theconcepts and applications of MOSFET s. Having the
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. • More universities offering respected advanced degrees in the students’ home countries. • The U.S.A.’s stricter visa rules (post 9/11).In addition, the financial burden for an international student to study in the U.S. makes it lessattractive for international students to travel to the U.S. for graduate study. As an example, the Page 12.397.2amount of financial resources that an international student must be able to document in order toobtain an I-20 to study at K-State has more than doubled over the past 10 years. For example, aninternational student must show that they have financial resources exceeding more than$20K/year in order to attend
-monetary aspects of ainterview process (If you have not had a job compensation package after a job offer hasinterview yet, put yourself in a situation been extended to you? (We refer to healthimagining one in the near future). benefits, retirement plans, 401(k)’s, etc…)3.- Describe the aspect(s) of the job interview 8.- Describe how comfortable you are inthat made you feel the most uncomfortable. understanding your fiscal liability (taxes you have to pay depending on your monetary compensation and various personal situations)?4.- After the job interview
, M., Zwitserloot, Active Learning of Introductory Machine Learning, 36th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Oct. 2006.16. Mason, D. S., Students remember what they do, Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 83, Issue 4, pp. 521, 200617. Juedes, D., Fleeman, D., Marling, C., & Chelberg, D., Work in progress - Anytime, anywhere active learning in computer science, 37th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Oct. 2007.18. Everett, L., Pennathur, A., Jones, V., Kephart, K., & Villa, E., Workshop - creating learning opportunities: Building active learning problems to create conceptual conflict for enduring understanding, 37th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Oct. 2007.19. Hauck, S
also would be a valuable topic for adepartmental mentoring program in the sciences and engineering. References1 Fox, M. F., & Mohapatra, S. (2007). Social-organization characteristics of work and publication productivity among academic scientists in doctoral-granting departments. The Journal of Higher Education, 78 (5), 542-571.2 Tenure-track job satisfaction survey: COACHE report highlights. (2007, August). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Education.3 Olsen, D., Creamer, E., & Layne, M. A. (2005). AdvanceVT faculty job satisfaction model. Poster presented at the 2005 Advance PI Meeting. Washington, DC. (http://www.advance.vt.edu
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over a million dollar economic impact per employee.Accreditation ImpactsThe EET program was facing a TAC of ABET program review in the fall of 2007. Thatprospect allowed a heightened focus on several key accreditation factors. Specifically, thefaculty member of the team recognized an opportunity to note specifics on how EETalumni were utilizing the required attribute components of program objectives (the “a-k”list) on the job. Additionally, job responsibilities for alumni make strong arguments thatthe program’s longer term educational objectives are being met. Finally, the encounterswith alumni offered a way to assess how the professional society mandated outcomes (inour case, the IEEE’s outcomes for Electrical/Electronic(s) Engineering
range of scientific applications. ‚ Epistemological development that provides the cognitive infrastructure for longer-term gains in scientific reasoning and correlates with more general advances in critical thinking. ‚ Critical thinking as demonstrated by increasingly sophisticated analysis, evaluation, application and synthesis as indicated, in part, by the ability to discover patterns of information in data across fields, interpret the meaning(s) of those patterns, and argue convincingly for significance of the interpretation. ‚ Greater engagement of students in learning.ResultsA comprehensive set of both quantitative and qualitative development measures have beenassessed throughout the ES
, Thermodynamics, Dynamics • Electrical Engineering – Introductory Circuits (non EE majors), Advanced Circuits (for EE majors), Intro to Digital Systems • Other Engineering – Numerical Methods, Technical WritingInstructors at Pima have advanced degrees in engineering fields (MS and PhD), generally haveextensive industry experience, and focus largely on teaching. Class size for engineering classesare typically in the 10’s and 20’s. There are 4 campus locations, but most engineering classesare offered only at the West Campus location.There is a formal articulation agreement that is posted on the Arizona Community College StateSystem website. The Community Colleges submit syllabus and course materials to the systemand the equivalency is
beginning of • Faculty participation/ and develop solu- support and counsel- the school year presentation and tions to enhance the ing. acquaint students interview workshops existing method(s). • Provide scholarships, with departmental, for UG & G• Provide leadership fellowships (offer in college and univer- BHIOM programs in to coordinate Dec/Jan), and grants. sity guidelines. other relevant states. BHIOM of UG & • Tuition waivers. • Acquaint students • Computer orientation G of all depart- • Improve stipends and with
animationshows the assignment of the individual source terms for neutrons traveling in the directionassociated with each ordinate from the collision density and scattering kernel. Intensity ΩN/2 Ordinate Set I0 … On mesh ΩN/2 Ω1 interval i… … Ω1 S1(xi)=ΣsI(xi) Assign s1i,n Neutron given Σs(Ω•Ω’) Beam I(x)=I0e-ΣΣx ≡S1i [n/cm3/s] Figure 2. Animated Illustration
perform? Describe this function. What does it mean? How important is it that your design do this? How do you know? What evidence supports your evaluation of the importance? How will you measure how well your design does this function? How is this function related to other functions? What is an existing means for implementing this function? How do you know? Is this means feasible? Is this means incompatible with identified means for other functions? Which one(s)? What other means might you use to implement this function in your design? Is this means feasible? Is this means incompatible with other
, critical design review,final report, and a formal presentation. Student presentations and final reports are archived foruse as part of the display materials for future accreditation visits.Laboratory setupEach station is equipped with a PC, and GPIB/RS-232 interfaced instruments such as digitalmultimeter, triple output laboratory power supply, arbitrary function generator, and two-channelcolor digital oscilloscope. The instrumentation and data acquisition specific software andhardware are briefly described below.Software: LabVIEW 8.5 from National Instruments7Data acquisition (DAQ) board: Model 6024E from National Instruments8 ‚ 16 single-ended or 8 differential analog input channels, 12 bit resolution, 200 kS/s ‚ 2 analog voltage output
somemeasure of resource modeling in this situation?Via our focus on the individual, we have come to know our students much better than we haveever done before. While this provides us with the knowledge to be better mentors, it alsorequires that we learn to be good mentors. It also amplifies each student’s setbacks andsuccesses.We continue to look forward to these challenges.Bibliography[1] C. Roberts, D. Morrell, R. Grondin, C.-Y. Kuo, R. Hinks, S. Danielson, and M. Henderson, Developing a Multidisciplinary Engineering Program at Arizona State University’s East Campus,” 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Potland, June 2005.[2] William G. Perry, Jr. Forms of Intellectual and Ethical
a similar program. Page 12.893.9 Figure 2: Typical Lesson Plan – Shekar ViswanathanSubject: EHS 301-Air PollutionSubject(s): Effects of Air PollutionDuration: 2 hoursObjectives: 1. Learn Composition and Structure of the Atmosphere 2. Cause of Primary and secondary pollutants 3. Cause and effect of photochemical smogMaterials: • Power Points • Video on Oct 2003 fire and transportation pollution • handwritten notes and web sites (CAL EPA and US EPA)Procedure: • Define the atmosphere in terms of a major chemical reactor (soup) – contents, compositions • Ask the students how the ozone is generated at the
inscience and technology (S&T), innovation, and productivity enhancements. In fields as diverseas education, infrastructure, and information technology, development funds are flowing toengineering expertise that can work with players in developing countries not only to supportconcrete projects, but ultimately to build the local capacity of policy-makers, educators, and theprivate sector, without which the sustainability of any progress is compromised. It is this lattereffort – the process of capacity building and the role of the engineering education sector – that isparticularly exciting for the American engineering education community.This paper will outline the confluence of economic drivers and development challenges thattoday foster
usually limited by theacquisition rate of the data acquisition card and the computing power of the PC, the basicfunctionality can compare with that of more expensive equipment. This lower speed ofoperation and basic functionality is adequate for educational laboratory exercises.In this case, the novel VSA system provides a user interface that has much of the basicfunctionality of standard hardware VSA’s, but with the limitation that bandwidth is constrainedby the 1.25 MSa/s sampling rate of the DAQ. The system provides real-time plots of I/Qconstellation as well as signal spectrum displays. The user interface is described as well asexample laboratory experiments, where students get hands-on experience with a variety ofsignals including BPSK, QPSK
changed work, 4)The way changeorder is compensated, and 5) Extension.As for the interaction variables, the most significant interaction of variables that contribute to theincrease in the contract price due to the change order: 1) Time and (reason of the change (A),approved change order, restricted access, the way the change order is expended, and how thechange order is compensated), 2) Reason (B) and (change order is expended as credit, changeorder is compensated as time and material basis, extension is granted). 3) Reason (D) and (party,way the change order is expended, when the change order is compensated as lump sum).The number of data points used to create this model is 137 data points. The standard deviation(S) achieved is 0.0253270% , R-Sq
entire switchboard in an image and maintain readability of every devicemounted in the switchboard itself. Using this technique, it will be possible to fullycapture an entire switchboard and retain small details with respect to the overall imagedimensions. While exhaustive comparison with other more complex algorithms2,3,4 hasnot been performed, we suspect that, given the simplicity of the algorithm, it uses lessCPU time than its counterparts.Bibliography[1] E. Wasatonic, S. Agili and A. Morales, “Range Determination Algorithm Performed on Mars Exploration Rover Stereo Images,” Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Portland, Oregon. June 2005.[2] A. German, M.H. Jenkin, and
designed and incorporated into the existing prints. Because installation of a fullyfunctional temperature monitor device and completion of Unit 3’s annunciator system will mostlikely not occur until mid-2008, a scaled down example of a temperature monitor is used in thisproject for demonstration purposes. The scaled down example successfully demonstrates theoperation of the temperature monitoring process and activation of the alarm and unit trip at settemperature points.Theoretical BackgroundCalifornia’s State Water Project is the largest state-built multipurpose water project in thecountry. With construction beginning in 1957 and continuing indefinitely, it is comprised of 29storage facilities, 18 pumping plants, four pumping-generating plants
project to facilitate student learning of the newsoftware.AcknowledgementsThe author would like to thank the Center for 21st Century Teaching Excellence for their supportof this project through the Innovative Teaching Grant.Bibliography1. DARPA http://www.darpa.mil/mto/mems/presentations/memsatdarpa3.pdf2. Felder, R. M., and Brent, R., “Learning by doing”, Chemical Engineering Education, Vol. 37(4), 2003, pp. 282- 283.3. Hall, S. R., Waitz, I., Brodeur, D. R., Soderholm, D. H., and Nasr, R., “Adoption of Active Learning in a Lecture-Based Engineering Class,” 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston, MA, 2002.4. Impelluso, T. and Metoyer-Guidry, T., “Virtual reality and learning by design: Tools for integrating
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