In the United States, more than 10% of traditional electricalengineeringprograms have combined with computerscience into a single department \Historically computerscienceprograms emerged from mathematics or elect...
详细信息
Fluorocarbon plasma etching of Si/SiGe heterostructures is demonstrated as a method for fabrication of quantum devices with vertical sidewalls. The heterostructures consist of layers of Si and SiGe, and anisotropic et...
详细信息
We describe recruitment and selection procedures of the computerscience, engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship (CSEMS) program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that are designed to attract students who are...
详细信息
Faculty members from Georgia Tech's School of electrical and computerengineering (ECE) have worked jointly with engineers from National Instruments (NI) to develop a new freshman engineering course. This course i...
详细信息
The Information Age has revolutionized the way students learn in the classroom. The United States Military Academy (USMA) emphasizes the importance of Information Technology (IT) through an academy-wide IT specific go...
详细信息
The Information Age has revolutionized the way students learn in the classroom. The United States Military Academy (USMA) emphasizes the importance of Information Technology (IT) through an academy-wide IT specific goal. This goal supports the USMA's mission of producing Army Officers who can respond effectively to technological changes in the defense of our nation. Courses augmented with IT can be daunting for cadets who lack the experience and confidence level to succeed in the course. As a result, these types of courses are avoided by cadets if at all possible. This is not an option for an aspiring officer who will lead the soldiers of tomorrow on a digitized battlefield. Since 1990, cadets have been issued a computer which has played a central role in bringing the power of IT to all graduates of the Military Academy. Integration of IT in the curriculum begins early with every cadet receiving a laptop computer. An integrated software package is included to support any course of instruction. Cadets receive two courses in IT, one in their freshman year and one in their junior year. The freshman course teaches the cadet the basic functionality of the laptop, a basic programming language, and creating a basic website. The junior course builds on the freshman course by teaching the cadets to create an advanced website, design and build a network, manage a database, and create an information system. IT plays a central role in several overlap courses between engineering and the humanities in such areas as information warfare, terrorism, and the legal aspects of intellectual property rights. What makes this approach unique is the methodical diffusion of IT into course design which removes the barrier between learning and the implementation of IT as an academic multiplier. An academy-wide committee consisting of 12 members is responsible for examining collected data to see how well the Military Academy is meeting its LT goal. This data comes from a variety of sources such
Project management is the art and science of planning and controlling projects in their various aspects of time, cost, and scope. Scheduling focuses on the time aspect while considering the various needed resources. T...
详细信息
Project management is the art and science of planning and controlling projects in their various aspects of time, cost, and scope. Scheduling focuses on the time aspect while considering the various needed resources. The critical path method (CPM) is the most common scheduling technique, whereby the project is broken down into activities with specific durations and relationships among each other. Calculation occurs in two major steps. In the forward pass each activity is scheduled to occur as early as possible while obeying its dependency conditions. The backward pass examines the inverse case of delaying all activities as late as possible without impacting the project end. The flexibility of each activity, its float, is assessed by comparing these extreme cases. Activities with zero float are time critical, as postponing any of them would impact the project end. Any traditional computerprogram for the two-step CPM algorithm consists of defining variables for the time and dependency information of each activity from the schedule input, sorting them, making case distinctions whenever the dependency structure splits or merges between predecessors and successors, and saving the maximum early dates and minimum late dates to the output. An object-oriented programming (OOP) approach would use the appealing existing division into objects, the activities, which are related in a clearly defined sequence. It would follow a one-dimensional flow of individual commands including various loop statements to accommodate the case distinctions at forks in the dependency structure. Numerous standard textbooks on project management that have been reviewed fail to consider these case distinctions in their presentation of the CPM algorithm, which in the experience of the authors often leads to students initially having difficulties in how to apply the parallel evaluation of numerous activities under CPM to solve complex schedules. The authors developed an educational unit for teaching CP
Despite the maturing of the implementation of the EAC engineering Criteria (EC2000), there persists a misinterpretation and misunderstanding regarding the program educational objectives and program outcomes. Many an e...
详细信息
Globally, restrictions on emissions from fossil fuel fired power plants and internal combustions engines are becoming more stringent. Microscale (MEMS) gas sensing devices are being developed to help monitor emissions...
详细信息
Earthquakes frequently strike the neediest regions of the planet with devastating consequences for their inhabitants. Impacts of such disasters extend beyond the immediate casualties, which may reach several 10,000, i...
详细信息
Earthquakes frequently strike the neediest regions of the planet with devastating consequences for their inhabitants. Impacts of such disasters extend beyond the immediate casualties, which may reach several 10,000, including the destruction of residential and commercial property and infrastructure, which severely weakens the regional economy in the longer term. Simple residential dwellings from adobe, brick, or un-reinforced concrete blocks, which are the predominant structures in significant portions of the reviewed developing regions, are frequently damaged to structural failure and collapse by earthquakes, which may obliterate entire villages and their livelihood within minutes. Designing such small residential structures to be more resistant to earthquake loads, followed by physical testing of scaled models and implementing the design concepts in an actual prototype are the objectives of the program development for a two-semester course sequence that is currently being undertaken by the authors. This program began when guest presentations by Peace Corps alumni and the founder of Engineers Without Borders caused the students and their faculty mentors to realize that the traditional course of study in civil engineering did not sufficiently prepare them for addressing engineering problems within a global context. Since then, an introductory course on sustainability has been added to the curriculum and the students have founded a student chapter that has begun to participate in organizing the outreach to a partner community in a developing region. In a new course sequence on disaster-mitigating design and practice, the undergraduate civil engineering and architecture students are working together in entrepreneurially oriented teams. Faculty members and representatives from industry and from foreign aid organizations are collaborating in guiding the courses. The course activities address several accreditation outcomes, have been structured to expose students to all
暂无评论