individual writing scores count for 10%, for a total of Page 22.843.425% of the final grade devoted to writing (up from 20% in previous years). This is comparableto the importance of the final project, which counts for 30% of the final course grade. B. RubricWe developed a rubric (Table 2) to evaluate students’ writing, based on the BioTAP (BiologyThesis Assessment Protocol) rubric used for evaluating the writing of honors theses in biology 8.The rubric was intended to help the students to better understand what was expected of them, andto help the faculty provide effective and timely feedback. The rubric was also used to facilitatepeer review
parallel processes of developing soft skills while learning asystems approach to vehicle design resulted in a course which exercised nearly all of thecapabilities outlined in Criterion 3 of the ABET-TAC 2011-2012 Criteria for AccreditingEngineering Technology Programs, listed below2. The technical nature of the course and theMBSD tool provided experience with a, b, d and f while the reflective exercises in the course(pre-course essay, reflective journal, and post-course reflection) developed e, g, i and jcapabilities. a. an ability to select and apply the knowledge, techniques, skills, and modern tools of the discipline to broadly-defined engineering technology activities; b. an ability to select and apply a knowledge of
often do not perform as many exercises as needed and/or they do not achieve the proper force levels for satisfactory progress. We want to differentiate our products from others on the market by having them (a) beep when the desired force amount is reached and (b) count the number of cycles that the patient completes. Our equipment ranges from wrist and finger exercises up to squat types of exercises, so we probably need different sized devices to get the accuracy that we desire. One of the players on my softball team went to Cal Poly and says that small companies like yours can help us develop our product. He suggested using a ring-type transducer (whatever that is), but I don’t really care what you design as long as it
AC 2011-646: USING A MOCK HEARING TO ENGAGE STUDENTS INCRITICAL THINKINGJames E. Lewis, University of Louisville James E. Lewis, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals in the J. B. Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville. His research interests include paral- lel and distributed computer systems, cryptography, engineering education, undergraduate retention and technology (Tablet PCs) used in the classroom.David Wheatley Page 22.1602.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Using a Mock Hearing to Engage
to the Career Fair? What must a student present to beadmitted to the Career Fair?3. What is the dress for the Career Fair? What are some examples of this type of dress?4. List at least 20 companies that hire AERO majors that will be attending the Career Fair. Hint: Use the Company Search on the Career Fair website. a. Choose 3 of these companies. b. Search online for the website of each company and note the URL of the site. c. Browse the company websites to find the following information for each of the three companies: i. At what locations might you live if you worked for this company? ii. In what AERO disciplines does this company specialize? iii. What types of
not need to be burdensome and with careful planning can provide insight into howto develop the program for future students.Bibliography1. Bogue, B. “Assessment Driven Change: How Systemic Evaluation Can Lead to More Productive Outreach.”Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education and Annual Conference & Exposition.2. Bogue, B., Marra, R.M. (January, 2007) “Did it really work? Assessing the Impact of Outreach Programs.” SWEMagazine.3. Matthews, D. H., T. R. Hawkins, P. Jaramillo, J. Marriott, and A. Sharrard. “The Green Design Apprenticeship:How An Outreach Program Strengthens Graduate Research.” Journal of Industrial Ecology, vol 13 no. 3 June 2009p 467-476
/Documents/act593act753.pdf, accessed 7/10/11 13. https://louisville.edu/undergraduatecatalog/previous-years-catalogs/f08_u09/unitinfo/j-b-speed-school-of- engineering/general-information/engineering-profession.html, accessed 7/12/2011 14. Maslow, A.H. (1943), ―A theory of human motivation‖, Psychological Review, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 370-396 15. Soper, B., Milford, G., and Rosenthal, G. (1995). ―Belief when evidence does not support theory.‖ Psychology & Marketing, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 415-422 16. Chambers, R. (1997). Whose Reality Counts? Putting the First Last. Bath, UK: Intermediate Technology Publications. 17. Johnson, S. and Ludema, J. (1997). Partnering to Build and Measure Organizational
of mechanical engineering graduates? a. Is global competence an important consideration for employment in multinational companies? b. To what extent are multinational companies willing to train engineers in global competence? c. To what extent do multinational companies expect higher education engineering departments and programs to prepare engineers for working in a global environment?Each research question was addressed individually. The study included an evaluation of standardtechnical engineering competencies as well as a list of global competencies for engineeringdeveloped from the literature. Global competence has become a topic often cited in literature andis an area of focus for many engineering programs.To
AC 2011-231: DETERMINING IMPACT OF A COURSE ON TEACHINGIN ENGINEERINGRobert J. Gustafson, Ohio State University Robert J. Gustafson, P.E., PhD, is Honda Professor for Engineering Education and Director of the Engi- neering Education Innovation Center in the College of Engineering and a Professor of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering at The Ohio State University. He has previously served at Ohio State as As- sociate Dean for Undergraduate Education and Student Services (1999-2008) and Department Chair of Food Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department (1987-1999). After being awarded his PhD. Degree from Michigan State in 1974, he joined the faculty of the Agricultural Engineering Department at
Press, 2008.3. Enderle, J.D.; Ropella, K.M.; Kelsa, D.M.; Hallowell, B.; "Ensuring that biomedical engineers are ready for the real world," Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, IEEE , vol.21, no.2, pp. 59- 66, Mar/Apr 20024. Karli, Jim; Understanding Operational Amplifier Specifications: white paper; Texas Instruments 1998.5. Jung, Walter G. (Editor); OP AMP Applications Handbook. Analog Devices 2002. Avaliable online at: http://www.analog.com/library/analogdialogue/archives/39-05/op_amp_applications_handbook.html6. Kitchin C., Counts L.; A designer’s guide to instrumentation amplifiers; 3rd Edition; Analog Devices 2006. Available online at: http://www.analog.com/en/amplifiers-and-comparators/instrumentation- amplifiers
without specific classification. Finally a user can be given administrator Fig. 2: User rights by RLAB administrators, which then allow him to use models and experiments not yet available for the public. The only dynamic information in this entity, 'Active', indicating whether the Page 22.428.7 user is currently working with RLAB, has been introduced for implemen- tation reasons; it could have been retrieved from other entities as well. b) Model Entity Model The entity 'Model' describes a physical system available at the local site of ModelID
orexecution of Model Eliciting Activities (MEA); (b) student designed, conducted, andanalyzed experiments; or (c) construction of an advanced computer program, e.g., expertsystem or simulation program. Page 22.78.3The remaining 16 technical credits are advanced topics beyond the core that addressstudent interests or needs. If a student completes 12 credits in any area they can earn an“emphasis”. Typical emphases areas are mechanical systems, thermal fluid systems,electrical systems, or biomedical. When a student selects an advanced or technicalelective, their first task is to create the syllabus, which includes learning outcomes andobjectives, learning
Afternoon HVAC Subject Portion8 Page 22.523.8 Table 2: Topics for the LEED Green Associate Examination9I. Synergistic Opportunities and LEED Application Process A. Project Requirements (e.g., site; program; budget; schedule) B. Costs (e.g., hard costs; soft costs; life-cycle) C. Green Resources (e.g., USGBC; Environmental Building News) D. Standards that support LEED Credit (e.g., American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers [ASHRAE]; Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors National Association [SMACNA] guidelines; Green Seal) E. Credit Interactions (e.g., energy and IEQ; waste management
the exercises it is expected that the student, if paying even a moderatelevel of attention, will easily see how theory is applied in practice.References1. Making the Connection. Revelle, Jack B. [ed.] American Society for Quality. Milwaukee:William A. Tony, July 2010, Quality Progress, pp. 36-44.2. Drozd, Andy. EMC Experiments & Demonstrations: Demystifying EMC. EMC Society.[Online] Fall 2008 – Issue No. 219, 2008. [Cited: July 10, 2010.] Page 22.996.9http://www.emcs.org/acstrial/newsletters/fall08/70-71.pdf.3. Undergraduate Electromagnetics – Modified Content and Laboratory. Adamczyk, Bogdan.Fort Wayne: s.n., 2006. American Society for
research. The CS department has a two semester capstone inwhich the first semester earns 0-credits and is intended to be used for project selection. Thesecond semester earns 4-credits and is for implementation. This sequence was also sub-optimaldue to the credits being earned not reflecting the amount of work at each stage of the project.3. Design ApproachEach of the departmental teams were responsible for a sub-system of the final robot. Thesesubsystems corresponded to the deliverables for their respective department’s capstonerequirements. The three main sub-systems were: A) Mechanical System (Propulsion, Digging, Dumping) B) Electrical System (Propulsion, Power Delivery Motor control electronics) C) Control System (Wireless
engineer and(b) how epistemic frame development progresses over time. Data are collected during theseinterviews through:1. An epistemic frame inventory, to assess the extent to which players have developed the skills, knowledge, values, sense of identity, and epistemology (the epistemic frame) of the engineering profession6-9; Page 22.1567.52. An engineering intentions instrument, including items from the Test of Science Related Attitudes to assess the extent to which players intend to pursue further study of engineering and/or an engineering career10; and3. A game immersion instrument, to assess students’ qualitative experiences with the
AC 2011-26: STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING FOR INTERDISCIPLINARYCOURSES: A MULTIFACETED APPROACHNaiquan (Nigel) Zheng, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Dr. Nigel Zheng received his B. Eng from Zhejiang University, China, M.Sc. from College of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Univesity of Saskatchewan, Canada. Currently he is an assistant professor in the Center for Biomedical Engineering Systems, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research interests include orthopedic biomechanics, sports medicine and rehabilitation, and motion analysis
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information. Page 22.593.2Cross-cultural CollaborationWe identified collaborators who fulfilled three criteria: (a) they were native speakers of thelanguage they would examine: (b) they were familiar with the discipline of engineeringeducation; and (c) they had personal experience in the educational system that officially uses thelanguage under examination. These criteria were adopted based on our understanding that amongdifferent educational systems, and according to different educational/technological cultures,similar content might be presented using varied terminology. For example, if the English terms“PreK-12 Engineering Education Curricula” are
. Proceedings from the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Retrieved from http://soa.asee.org/paper/conference/paper-view.cfm?id=1091910. Carroll, J. (2007). A handbook for deterring plagiarism in higher education (2nd Ed). Oxford: Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development.11. McCabe, D. L., Trevino, L. K., & Butterfield, K. D. (2001). Cheating in academic institutions: A decade of research. Ethics & Behavior, 11(3), 219-232.12. Duff, A. H., Rogers, D. P., & Harris, M. B. (2006). International engineering students--avoiding plagiarism through understanding the western academic context of scholarship. European Journal of Engineering Education, 31(6), 673
because we spent time on it. b) Like the way the medical school author from School C designed slides for non-biology majors c) The TA’s helped a lot with the understanding of this section d) The material I this section I found to be of ease. I do understand the complications of connecting this info to following section from an educators’ point of view. The quiz and exams are based on this section and I don’t believe enough emphasis is present in the lectures. Maybe this could be tweaked, so that the oral connects more with the slides and what we should have to know for our edification. e) Great teacher! This is the most clear of all the lectures. After her explanation everything became clear, she made
Activities in a Capstone Design Course. Journal of Engineering Education, July, 2001: p. 413-21.4. Catalano, G.D.; Wray, P.; Cornelio, S., Compassion Practicum: A Capstone Design Experience at the United States Military Academy. Journal of Engineering Education, October, 2000: p. 471-4.5. Latcha, M.; Oakley, B., Toying with a Capstone Design Course. Journal of Engineering Education, October, 2001: p. 627-9.6. Dutson, A.J.; Todd, R.H.; Magleby, S.P.; Sorensen, C.D., A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Courses. Journal of Engineering Education, January, 1997: p. 17-28.7. Sitkin, S.B., 1996. Learning through failure: The strategy of small losses
Implementing Single-Scale Retinex on Hardware: A Pilot StudyIlan AlpertMorgan State UniversityDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering1700 East Cold Spring LaneBaltimore MD 21251 USAilalp1@morgan.eduILAN ALPERTMasters of Electrical and Computer Engineering. 24 Implementing Single-Scale Retinex on Hardware: A Pilot Study Abstract- The Retinex algorithm, a process that automatically improves visual realism inimages, has been successfully implemented in software but has not effectively been appliedto hardware. While both software and hardware essentially perform the same function,there are many advantages in using hardware to directly implement the algorithm.Hardware has a size
– students need to be currentlyenrolled in a German class to apply for the trip. The two accompanying faculty are eitherGerman professors or German speaking engineering faculty. ******Retention of engineering students is of national and international concern since a globalizingworld needs ever more culturally savvy and technically adept graduates to fulfill the work forcedemands of companies operating globally. The literature on retention of engineering studentswidely agrees that the freshmen year is of critical importance [4a,b]; that only about 40-50%[5,6] graduate with an engineering degree. Many students who excelled in high school in theSTEM disciplines do not have a good understanding of what
programs. The following list of examples demonstrates the nature of feedback we required to debug our programs: a. “The robot tracked the object for a little while then stopped..” b. “The program crashed when the first can crossed the broken-beam detector” c. “The operator pressed the interrupt button while the robot was tracking but nothing happened” 4. The remote student has nothing equivalent to a teach pendant, and this prevents the students from completing a small but important portion of the laboratory exercise. Even if the remote student had a teach pendant, the video image is not close enough for precise positioning. A remote teach pendant would also require careful
signs hang together 60% of students included a force in outside a doctor’s office. between the two parts within the Each sign is denoted by a overall system. 29% of students solved different letter. Each cable is for the value of the variable and put it labeled with a different on the FBD instead of leaving it in number. Which is the most terms of T for example for a cable. correct free-body diagram for the system containing signs B and D and the cable connecting them? (Figure 6 displays the sign configuration.)2 0.91 A person pulls a block across Most students answered the
assessments with respect to the 21-cell table shown in Table 1. For example, thestudent understanding of Learning Outcome 3: Stress, is assessed with respect to the three levelsof achievement: a) Can the student identify the concept or perform a simple calculation using it? b) Can the student look at a mechanical scenario and decide which concept to apply, and perform multiple related calculations to determine an answer? c) Can the student evaluate a given scenario, often open-ended, where the concept may be only one part of a complex system involving other concepts?At the completion of the semester, each outcome-level cell in the matrix contains a score thatrepresents the student‘s demonstrated
AC 2011-2315: TRANSFER FROM CAPSTONE DESIGN: A MODEL TOFACILITATE STUDENT REFLECTIONSusannah Howe, Smith College Susannah Howe is the Design Clinic Director in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College, where she coordinates and teaches the capstone engineering design course. Her current research focuses on innovations in engineering design education, particularly at the capstone level. She is also involved with efforts to foster design learning in middle school students and to support entrepreneurship at primarily undergraduate institutions. Her background is in civil engineering with a focus on structural materials; she holds a B.S.E. degree from Princeton, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell.Mary A
question related to understanding of repetition structures may take the followingform: Question: When you are creating a program which requires that a set of actions be repeated, but you do not know how many times, which answer below best represents your response? a) I only know how to use one type of loop, so I will use that and make it work. b) I don’t know which loop I would use, so I would try to use one and, if that didn’t work, try the other. c) It sounds like a situation where I would use one of the two types of loops, so that is the one I would use. d) I can use either type of loop to develop a solution to the problem, so I would pick
, Sylvie Woelfflé, For further information: Information Desk European Commission - Information Society and Media DG, Office: BU25 02/59 B-1049 Brussels, http://europa.eu/information_society, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2010, ISBN 978-92-79-15088-3, doi:10.2759/26127, © European Union, March 20104. internetofthings.org is an online publication for Internet of things field. Our slogan is “Everything on Internet of Things”. Latest news, research activities on Internet of things. We also provide consultancy for customers http://www.internetofthing.org/5. The Internet of Things Council, Council is a thinktank, consultancy, accelarator and forecasting group http://www.theinternetofthings.eu/6. A Pilot Course in