different in different fields of engineering (information technology vs. others).The paper is not a scientific study but a starting point for deliberations on these differences that couldlead to a better understanding of the situation. It could help identify and resolve issues related toengineering manpower faced by employers including faculty in the US. BackgroundIn late 2007 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation vice president Michael S. Teitelbaum told the House ofRepresentatives Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation that “ contrary to conventional 2wisdom, [the U.S.] has more than enough scientists and engineers” . His position on behalf
theDepartment of Engineering Technology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock is noexception. Programmable logic was first introduced to this course in the late 1990’s, with thehardware consisting of simple Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs) and Complex PLDs(CPLDs). VHDL (Very high speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language) wasselected as the programming language. This worked well, with students programming theirchips and incorporating them in circuits. The course was upgraded several years ago to useAltera chips and the Quartus II development platform, because the software from Cypresssemiconductor, which was used previously, no longer had the desired level of support.Microcontrollers are typically not included in a digital systems
-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/thermo/heatra.html8. URL: http://sol.sci.uop.edu/~jfalward/heattransfer/heattransfer.html9. URL: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/rescon.html#c110. URL: http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/acoustics11. URL: http://physics.bd.psu.edu/faculty/baxter/papers/windchimes98.pdf12. Moor, S. Scott, “Engineering Design in Five Weeks – Designing a Wind Chime,” Proceedings of the 2005American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.13. URL: http://mysite.verizon.net/cllsj/windchimes/home.htm14. URL: http://home.fuse.net/engineering/Chimes.htm15. URL: http://www.sigview.comSTEVE WEISDr. Weis currently serves as a Professor of Engineering at the Texas Christian University. His research
the code-output connection, have the student(s) suggest and make a change to the code with a prediction of how it will change the output. 7. Have the student re-run the code to determine whether their predicted change in the output is observed. 8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 for other aspects of the code to aid the student in developing a model of the structure and behavior of a loop within the model of computer programming that they are developing in their mind.Once the students have developed a gestalt understanding of the loop structure, it ispossible to move on an explanation of the loop structure using identification techniquesdeveloped by Peterson.The result of the techniques outlined above is that the students are
were writing. Additionalinstructions on how to conduct peer review sessions were also provided on the TA website.Giving guided feedback was found to be a major aspect of importance in peer reviews (againthrough the use of a rubric) so that students knew what they were looking for. For instance, ifstudents were asked to include information on how the individual lab related to the overallproject, the peers were asked to circle or number the sentence(s) that included that information.Students were often surprised when their peers could not find information they thought they hadincluded, which meant their writing was not as clear as they thought it was. The process ofreviewing someone else’s paper also caused students to question how clearly they
on theprogress of the work. It is important that faculty and Graduate mentor attend studentpresentations and make important positive comments.Bibliography1. Boyer Commission on Education of Undergraduates in the Research University. 1998. Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America’s Research Universities. New York, New York2. K. B. Schowen, K.B. 1998. Research as a critical component of the undergraduate educational experience. Assessing the Value of Research in the Chemical Sciences. National Research Council Report, National Academy Press: 73–81.3. A. L. Zydney, J. S. Bennett, A. Shahid, K. W. Bauer Impact of Undergraduate Research Experience in Engineering Journal of Engineering Education 151-157
quality of the added pages and categorizing thesepages in the proper place. A user may write a page or even a number of pages which he wants tocontribute. To give the links to this page/s is a decision only at the discretion of the administrator.In addition, the administrator can provide moderator privileges to certain users. Thus, this sitecan be viewed as being controlled by the selected group containing the administrator and themoderators. The ultimate privilege rests with the administrator. This gives certain protection tothe site from users with ill intentions. Even when any improper data is created and added to thesite, periodic scanning of recent changes by the administrator and moderators can result infiltering out of such data. The
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. Page 14.315.2IntroductionAttracting students from underrepresented groups to engineering and retaining them hasbeen a struggle for engineering schools for many decades. Often what schools do to meetthis challenge is to develop special programs. These programs target at-risk students andare developed around one or more of three major themes such as: mentoring/advisement,financial support, academic acceleration/remediation or some combination of all three.The primary objective of such programs is to give the at-risk student what every s/heneeds in order to succeed in the engineering program of their choice. A number of theseprograms have shown considerable success at attracting, retaining and graduatingstudents from underrepresented groups with
received in both a “Signaland Systems” course where only a very limited amount of course time was devoted to DT topicsand in the “DSP” course which was devoted entirely to discrete time and DSP topics. We havetried using both the moving average model and the savings account model in the classroom and,while the vast majority of the discussions are identical, there is considerably more student interestin the savings account discussions.We encourage educators to try this somewhat unconventional example as a first introduction in acourse such as discrete-time signals and systems (DTSS) or digital signal processing (DSP).References[1] S. K. Mitra, Digital Signal Processing: A Computer-Based Approach, McGraw-Hill, 3rd edition, 2006.[2] Daniel McGinn and
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implicit critical thinking components. The criticalthinking portion of the assignment will help reinforce the importance of engineering reasoning tothe students. By making critical thinking an explicit outcome of the course, students should bebetter prepared to strengthen and enrich their critical thinking skills in future (upper level)courses.Also, planned in the revisions of the course is the creation of a standard case study evaluationrubric that will be used to evaluate parts of the case study assignments. This rubric will allowthe course instructor(s) as well as any TAs to consistently grade these assignments. Thisconsistency will allow the students to better understand where improvement is needed in theirassignments and more importantly
technician, Ray Rust, for hisdemonstration and insights offered while running the jet engine with biodiesel. Thismaterial is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNo. 0511322. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressedin this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNSF. For further information please visit http://green.kettering.edu.Bibliography1. National Academy of Engineering (NAE). “Grand Challenges for Engineering.” Washington, D.C., February 15, 2008.2. “Kettering Industrial Ecology Team.” http://green.kettering.edu (accessed November 1, 2008)3. Lynch-Caris, Terri, Jennifer Aurandt, Craig Hoff, Andy Borchers, Jackie El-Sayed, Ben
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and Redesign the Business case for sustainabilityFigure 2: Different Methods of Instruction and Creative Activities Adopted within the CourseStructureConclusionThis paper demonstrated the re-design of a course on sustainability. The course will be offered toall students across campus. It seeks to build on this singular strength: diversity of educationalbackgrounds. This is done to try and enhance creativity of students insofar as the decisionmaking process is concerned. The authors intend to share the results of this unique experimentin future publications at this forum.References1. S. L. Hart, Beyond Greening: Strategies for a sustainable world
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sigma: Statistical quality control and design ofexperiments and systems. Springer-Verlag, London.[2] Creveling, C. M., Slutsky, J. L., & Antis, D. (2003). Design for six sigma in technology and product development.Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle, NJ.[3] Gryna, F. M. (2001). Quality planning & analysis (4th Edition). McGraw-Hill Irwin, Boston, MA.[4] Gryna, F. M., Chua, R. C. H., & Defeo, J.A. (2007). Juran’s quality planning and analysis for enterprise quality.McGraw-Hill, Boston, MA.[5] Summers, D. C. S. (2006). Quality (4th Edition). Pearson Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.[6] The Six Sigma Green Belt Primer. (April 3, 2006). Quality Council of Indiana. West Terre Haute, IN
LabVIEW and its use in signals and systems and they can develop theirown LabVIEW programs. Student responses reveal that the visualization tools helped studentsimprove understanding of fundamental concepts such as aliasing and upsampling (95% ofstudents). In addition to the basic LabVIEW functions, the students responded that the functionsprovided in the Digital Filter Design and Control Design toolkits enabled them to design simplersystem representations.Bibliography1. Beyon, J. Y., “LabVIEW Programming, Data Acquisition and Analysis”, Prentice Hall PTR (Upper Saddle River,NJ), 2001.2. Oppenheim, A.V., Willsky, A.S. and Hamid, S., “Signals & Systems,” Prentice Hall Signal Processing Series,Hall PTR, (Upper Saddle River, NJ).3. Spanias, A
advance of internet technologytools developed in the1990’s has made it possible to access a facility or laboratory at distance.For example, some universities have changed traditional laboratory to the virtual one that take Page 14.97.2place in a traditional laboratory where some students can use the local lab workbenches andothers can perform the experiments remotely 2-3. Also, an internet accessed robotic system canradically enlarge the number of students that can participate in practical robotics projects and itimproves the quality of the learning environment provided by educators for these topics 4.Another example of an online laboratory course
Digital Age: Reconciling the Roles of Pedagogy,Technology, and the Business of Learning, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, November 2003.[4] Woit, D and D. Mason, “Effectiveness of Online Assessment”, SIGCSE ’03, February 2003.[5] Shen, J., K-E. Cheng, M. Bieber, and S. R. Hiltz, “Traditional In-class Examination vs. Collaborative OnlineExamination in Asynchronous Learning Networks: Field Evaluation Results, Conference on Information Systems,August 2004.[6] English, J., “Experience with a Computer-Assisted Formal Programming Examination”, ITiCSE ’02, June 2002. Page 14.925.8
Initiative, March 2006. Available on-line at http://www.educause.edu/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutSeries/7495, accessed Feb. 5, 2009. .2 EDUCAUSE, “7 Things You Should Know About… Lecture Capture,” EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, December 2008. Available on-line at http://www.educause.edu/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutSeries/7495, accessed Feb. 5, 2009.3 http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning/, accessed Feb. 5, 2009.4 Hrastinski, S., “Asynchronous and Synchronous E-Learning,” EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 31(4), 2008.5 Russell, T.L., The No significant Difference Phenomenon, 5th ed. (Montgomery, AL: International Distance Education Certification Center), 2001.6 Felder, R.M., “A Longitudinal Study of Engineering Student Performance and
AC 2009-1627: FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL CURRENCY: ASELF-ASSESSMENT MODEL FOR DEVELOPING AN EFFECTIVEPROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANAhmed Khan, DeVry University AHMED S. KHAN, Ph.D., is a senior Professor in the EET dept. at DeVry University, Addison, Illinois. He received his M.Sc (applied physics) from University of Karachi, an MSEE from Michigan Technological University, an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management., and his Ph.D. from Colorado State University. His research interests are in the areas of Fiber Optic Communications, Faculty Development, Nanotechnology, Application of Telecommunications Technologies in Distance Education, and impact of Technology on Society. He teaches
toward multi-core and parallel processingarchitectures, tomorrow’s computer scientists must be educated on the tools and methodologiesfor parallel computing. As educators, teaching parallel hardware and software today is vital togiving our students the tools they need to build tomorrow’s hardware and software. It is crucialthat parallel and distributed computing topics be integrated into computer science curricula.References:[1] Lin, Calvin and Lawrence Snyder, “Principles of Parallel Programming”. Pearson Publishing Company, 2008.[2] Moore, G.,” Cramming more Components onto Integrated Circuits”. Electronics 38, 8, 1995.[3] Brin, S., and L. Page, “The Anaotomy of a Large Scale Hypertexual Web Search Engine”. Technical Report, Stanford
to debug, seek and find information they need, andthe ability to understand and reverse-engineer poorly written documentation. The students’feedback and their final project presentation indicate that they have pride in their projectaccomplishments and have gained confidence in their engineering abilities.References:[1] ABET, www.abet.org, retrieved January 10, 2009.[2] Tichon, M., Seat, S., “Team toolbox: Activities and suggestions for facilitation project teams”, Frontiers in Engineering Education Conference, 2004, 34th Annual, session.[3] IEEE Computer Society/ACM Computing Curriculum - Computer Engineering, www.eng.auburn.edu/ece/CCCE/ , Retrieved on January 15, 2009.[4] IEEE Computer Society, www.computer.org/education/cc2001