Contemporary Engineering Ethics Issues in anIntroductory Freshman Engineering Course,” Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition,Chicago, IL, June 18-21, 2006b.iii Mullin, J.S., Lohani, V.K., and Lo, J.L., “WIP: Introduction to Engineering Ethics through Student Skits in theFreshman Engineering Program at Virginia Tech,” to be published in the Proceedings of the 2006 Frontiers inEducation Conference, San Diego, CA, October 27- November 1, 2006b. Page 13.533.14iv Lohani, V., and Mullin, J. S., 2006. “International activities in a freshman engineering course,” Posterpresented at the International Education Fair
toseparate them. Future studies will be expanded to discern students’ motivations behind thesestudy habits.VI. References1. Beichner, R.J., J.M. Saul, R.J. Allain, D.L. Deardorff, D.S. Abbott, “Introduction to SCALE-UP:Student- Centered Activities for Large Enrollment University Physics,” Proceedings 2000 American Society for Engineering Education National Conference.2. Benson, L.C., S. B. Biggers, W. F. Moss, M. Ohland, M. K. Orr, and S. D. Schiff, “Adapting and Implementing the SCALE-UP Approach in Statics, Dynamics, and Multivariate Calculus.” Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. Honolulu, HI.3. Biggers, S.B. Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics & Statics, an
? Include the method used to resolve the differences of opinion and the level of agreement on your final assessment.” This question was preceded by the question, “Ethical issues in [multidisciplinary project teams] are of two types: those involving behaviors within the [team] and those involving the eventual application of [team] output to the larger society. Please outline the most important ethical problems the team has encountered over the entire semester. What was the issue and what was the outcome? From your experience(s) this semester please explain the best course of action the team could or should have taken to produce the optimal resolution to its ethical dilemma. How did you contribute? If
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Qthermal reservoirs it is easy to calculate their entropy changes using the relationship ∆S = . TStudents are guided to realize that although the net energy of the system is indeed conserved, thenet entropy must increase.Students are asked to consider the magnitudes and signs of heat transfers to the two blocks; they Page 13.812.8are led to recognize that these heat transfers are equal in magnitude and opposite in sign, and thatnet energy change is zero. Students are then asked to consider the relative magnitudes and signsfor the entropy changes of each
capability of a technology is usuallyeasier to define in terms of the products it can deliver so many parameters have product-related metrics.Most development work on the assessment tool has been applied to nano-electronicfunctions. The consumer market gives a good demonstration of how products movethrough their life cycle in a year or less showing the familiar bell-shaped revenue curve.However, the underlying components and technologies can last for many productgenerations. They show the classical S-curve but there is an additional feature that makesprediction difficult. As one technology matures, it is replaced by a more advancedversion. Thus there are many generations of maturity for the same basic technology.This is reflected in different
in cosmetics, protective coatings, drug delivery, and stain-resistant clothingOngoing research and development at a large number of educational institutions andresearch laboratories should enlarge the set of commercial applications of nonotechnologyin the near future. Two educational institutions engaged in these efforts are highlighted inthis presentation.Nanotechnology ApplicationsDespite the fact that the concept underlying nanotechnology was first discussed by RichardFeynman almost 50 years ago, it was not until 1980 that the term “nanotechnology” wasdefined in the context of its application by Dr. K.E. Dexter. (1) Two developments in1980’s, the formalization of cluster science, and the invention of the Scanning TunnelingMicroscope (STM
Charts for Different Estimates Page 13.416.3In the late 1950’s, the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) was developed 1 tosupport large military programs. The innovation included an expanded model using best, worst,and more likely times to complete each task. Therefore, PERT produces an estimated projectcompletion time within a Gamma probability distribution. Although the curriculum might havedifferent tracks (e.g. math and physics) that are designed to converge in a particular semester, theprobability that a student will take longer time in one particular
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’ perceived value of the sustainability projects peer-to-peer network3. faculty utilizing the peer-to-peer Faculty questionnaire network to integrate Direct measure of faculty’s perceived value of peer- sustainability concepts into their to-peer network curriculaHypothesis 2: Result in higher orders of significant learningevidenced by assessed through1. students’ application of Performance of partner universities students in sustainability design principles sustainability projects (“application” in Fink’s direct measure of ability to design significant learning taxonomy14) Score on modified Safoutin et al.’s design
average wind speeds on the order of 8 m/s which are sufficient for power production.Summarizing, Tanzania has considerable wind power potential. Page 13.60.11 (a) (b)Figure 4. (a) Topographical map of DTHD site. (b) Annual average wind-speed map of site. (1 cm = 500 meters) Page 13.60.12The cost of a solar photovoltaic system capable of supplying the hospital power requirementswas on the order of ten-to-fifteen times that of wind power while the cost of a fuel
engineering education research is provided by the EngineeringEducation Program. However, that source is limited to approximately $9 million which is alsoshared with the CAREER awards funded by NSF ‘s engineering directorate. A search of theNSF awards database (searching on program element 1340) shows fewer than 50 awards housedin the engineering directorate and devoted to engineering education research (80 other awardsare housed in other divisions and were co-funded). As the number of engineering educationresearchers grows, the strain on this limited supply of funds will become increasingly significant.The other major concern is how well the engineering education research community is able tonegotiate both establishing itself as a free-standing
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the 1960’s, [1] the industry has grown in leapsand bounds, similar to many other technology fields. According to statistics released by theRobotic Industry Associates (RIA), the robotics industries’ only trade group[2], the industry hasdoubled since 1996 [2]. When one reviews [3, 4, 5] the instructional materials currently available tothe robotics student she or he will find an assortment of old applied industrial robotics materialpublished in the mid to late 1990s with a plethora of robot design and kinematics texts that werepublished after 1999. This represents the traditional and current approach to the roboticseducation at many institutions. In the last four decades the student that took a robotics class wastypically a mechanical or
defining solutions involves learningcultural sensitivity.On top of these advantages, students find these projects to be very worthwhile and fulfilling. Asstated by Krishna S. Athreya, head of Engineers for a Sustainable World, “helping theimpoverished have a better life can, for students, be a life-changing experience.”12We will continue to support these types of programs and consider them to be just as valuable—perhaps more so—than traditional study abroad programs.SummaryIn this paper we have described our efforts in developing study abroad programs over the pasttwo years. We began by studying exemplary programs of others. For the 2006/2007 school year,we sponsored seven programs of various format types. We discussed the strengths andweaknesses
communities believe that an engineering focus,particularly design activities, provides valuable context, application opportunities, andmotivation for student learning as well as teacher engagement. 4 5 Design approaches to scienceteaching can focus student attention on solving specific problems, as in the Learning by Design(LBD) method developed by Kolodner et al.6 LBD purposefully links the design aspects ofproblem solving with an “investigate and explore” phase, which in significant ways resemblesand reinforces the process of science inquiry. Fortus et al.’s 7 design-based science units have asimilar orientation. Modeling and design activities can also be used very deliberately to illustrateand make concrete science concepts, such as mechanical
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discussions began and their format. The paper will also review the advantages ofthese lunches, including reduced workload for instructors and the integration of ethicsinto the curriculum without displacing discipline-specific engineering topics. Finally,possible applications of USCGA’s experience to other programs are discussed. Page 13.1161.3BackgroundThe USCGA is one of four federal service academies and as such is focused on theacademic, military and physical development of young men and women as leaders inservice to our nation. USCGA provides the U. S. Coast Guard (USCG) withapproximately 190 new Coast Guard officers each year. Upon graduation from
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this study. Also, we would like to thank CASEE for supporting Dr.Pierrakos as a NAE CASEE Postdoctoral Fellow, and graduate student Shankar Arul, whoassisted us with the analysis.References1. Seymour E., Hunter A.B., Laursen S.L., DeAntoni T., 2004, “Establishing the benefits of research experiences for undergraduates in the sciences: First findings from a three-year study,” Science Education, 88(4), pp. 493-534.2. Hunter A. B., S. L. Laursen, and E. Seymour, Jan. 2007, “Becoming a Scientist: The Role of Undergraduate Research in Students’ Cognitive, Personal and Professional Development,” Science Education, 91(1), pp. 36-74.3. Russell S.H., M.P. Hancock, J. McCullough, April 2007, “The Pipeline: Benefits of Undergraduate Research
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acceptability.There are two starting points to evaluate the parameters of any specified risk. Thedevelopment steps are shown in figure 4. P – S Matrix Hi History probability Lo How it evolves Quantified impact Lo Hi Stakeholder views Severity measure Early indicators Trigger point Action by Responsible Engineering Authority (REA
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create a strategic university/industry model thatwill not only benefit the universities and industries, but the students themselves and laythe foundation for a stronger workforce in the future. Note that this is the first phase ofthis project and it is intended that we will publish additional phases of this work over thenext couple of years as we complete our study. To this extent, we will be comparing anddiscussing our efforts with this project to others of the same field in the future.Bibliography1. Lamancusa, John S. et. al. The Learning Factory: Industry-Partnered Active Learning. Journal ofEngineering Education. January 2008.2. Jiusto, S. and DiBiasio. Experiential Learning Environments: Do They Prepare Our Students to be Self-Directed
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discussionis over what is to be included in the bar raising?“Raising the Bar” for Civil EngineeringThe stated objective of ASCE is to “raise the bar” for entry into the profession of civilengineering; the concern being that the BSCE degree awarded today does not prepare thegraduate to the level of education that was provided 55 or 40 years ago4. Many of us ‘old-timers’ agree that our under-graduate education of the 1960’s and early 1970’s was more intenseand technically demanding than currently required. In her recent book, Galloway compares thehigher level education needed in 1900 and in 2000 between civil engineering and medicine, andnotes that it still only takes four years of academic study to become a P.E. in civil engineering,whereas it now
clearly offer corresponding experiences in their chosenconcentration(s). The six week syllabus in Table 2 suggests parallel, but not integrated, efforts inFrench language instruction and chemistry/chemical engineering laboratory practice.While the French language instruction occurred at two levels (for students with low ormoderate prior French experience), the lab was integrative in the sense that instructionswere provided in French, and the US students translated these into English, then wrotetheir lab reports in standard form for our US engineering campus program. Our USstudents downloaded our typical lab manual from our US campus website prior todeparture for France, and followed its designated report format. These practices allowedeasy