All engineering students in Canada must take an Engineering Economics course as …
All engineering students in Canada must take an Engineering Economics course as part of program accreditation requirements. These courses mainly focus on the evaluation of monetary profits and direct financial costs incurred during the design, operation and decommissioning phases of projects. Instructors commonly use textbooks as the primary tool to guide the students through the content of this course, which tend cost around $100 each student. Like many courses, the materials in this course does not change much over time resulting in many students opting to not buy the required textbook and instead rely on free sources of information found online, in older editions of textbooks or simply rely on course notes. The patchwork of sources creates problems in this course in particular, because of the variation of notation used across sources, which can easily cause confusion. It was this problem that inspired the creation of a set of open-source materials that students and instructors can use for free, enabling the instructor to have control over notation and concepts to focus on while saving the students money. As such, these materials were created with the support of the Open Educational Resource Fund through an OER Implementaion Grant. A faculty member led the creation of the materials with the help of a team of undergraduate engineering and commerce students (all named as authors). The early planning stages of the project included rethinking the traditional textbook format, and opting instead to produce annotated and comprehensive slides designed to function as both study aids for students and instructional tools for educators. The foundational concepts of engineering economics were systematically organized into twelve distinct chapters, each represented by a PowerPoint slide deck. Each deck includes a title page and a table of contents slide (for organizational purposes), with the remaining slides relatively content heavy. While prioritizing accessibility through readable formatting (able to be read by software for those who are visually impaired), minimal emphasis was placed on a particular presentation style. This straightforward format intentionally allows instructors flexibility to tailor the material to their preferences. Instructors are afforded the latitude to infuse their distinctive approach, incorporating personal touches, stylistic elements, anecdotes, pertinent visuals, or discipline-specific case studies as deemed appropriate. The intent was to empower instructors with a malleable framework that accommodates diverse teaching styles and facilitates the integration of contextually relevant content. Additionally, a set of practice problems (including solutions), were created for every chapter for self-paced student engagement. The formulation of questions, encompassing both in-class examples and practice problems, adhered to a gender-neutral phrasing approach to ensure inclusivity. Additionally, all questions were designed to be discipline-neutral, accommodating diverse engineering departments and enhancing the materials' applicability for dissemination purposes. To ensure uniformity of notation across the slides and practice problems during development, a list of variables and a formula sheet were also created and included as integral components of the materials package.
The course presents an in-depth interdisciplinary perspective of electric power systems, with …
The course presents an in-depth interdisciplinary perspective of electric power systems, with regulation providing the link among the engineering, economic, legal and environmental viewpoints. Generation dispatch, demand response, optimal network flows, risk allocation, reliability of service, renewable energy sources, ancillary services, tariff design, distributed generation, rural electrification, environmental impacts and strategic sustainability issues will be among the topics addressed under both traditional and competitive regulatory frameworks.
This intensive micro-subject provides the necessary skills in Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet modeling …
This intensive micro-subject provides the necessary skills in Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet modeling for ESD.71 Engineering Systems Analysis for Design. Its purpose is to bring entering students up to speed on some of the advanced techniques that we routinely use in analysis. It is motivated by our experience that many students only have an introductory knowledge of Excel, and thus waste a lot of time thrashing about unproductively. Many people think they know Excel, but overlook many efficient tools, such as Data Table and Goal Seek. It is also useful for a variety of other subjects.
Course Description: Topics covered in this course include: AC and 2nd order transient analysis, sinusoids and phasors, sinusoidal steady-state analysis, nodal analysis, branch analysis, source transformations, Thevenin's and Norton's equivalent circuits, sinusoidal steady-state power calculation, and balanced three-phase circuits.
Course Outcomes Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Be able to apply Kirchoff's Laws to successfully analyze an AC circuit with both independent and dependent sources. Be able to check your results for self-consistency. 2. Be able to apply Node-Voltage and Mesh-Current techniques to successfully analyze an AC circuit with both independent and dependent sources. Op amp and equivalent circuits are a natural extension of this understanding. 3. Be able to use appropriate tools to describe power use in an AC circuit and distinguish between real and reactive power. 4. Be able to determine line and phase currents and voltages for any balanced configuration of 3 phase power. 5. Be able to predict the frequency dependent behavior of simple filter through the use of Bode plots. Demonstrate an understanding of the implications of the Bode plot for the actual behavior of the circuit
This course introduces the theory and the practice of engineering ethics using …
This course introduces the theory and the practice of engineering ethics using a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural approach. Theory includes ethics and philosophy of engineering. Historical cases are taken primarily from the scholarly literatures on engineering ethics, and hypothetical cases are written by students. Each student will write a story by selecting an ancestor or mythic hero as a substitute for a character in a historical case. Students will compare these cases and recommend action.
We’ve talked about many important concepts for engineers, but today we’re going …
We’ve talked about many important concepts for engineers, but today we’re going to discuss a hugely important one that you might not even realize is an engineering concept: ethics. We’ll talk about what a Code of Ethics is. We’ll explore engineering ethics and the ethical theories of utilitarianism, rights ethics, and duty ethics. We’ll also take a look at a few different real life examples of ethical problems in engineering.
Date of this Version Spring 2019 Document Type Portfolio Citation Sharpnack, Mia …
Date of this Version Spring 2019
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Citation Sharpnack, Mia and Adam Schneider. "Engineering Explorers." After school club lesson plans. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2019.
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Abstract After school club that introduces students to the basics of engineering while giving them practice with teamwork and problem solving.
Students will learn to fabricate, remix, and design detection and monitoring devices …
Students will learn to fabricate, remix, and design detection and monitoring devices for health following the core focus of the Tricorder: a portable, handheld diagnostic device which can brings health solutions to consumers at home or in remote parts of the world. Inspired by the Tricorder X-Prize (with a purse of $10 million), students will aim to create specific component technologies that integrate into a comprehensive Tricorder mechanism capable of reading vital signs and specific disease biomarker detection. Component areas will include optical, electric, biochemical, and molecular diagnostics.
Learn to produce great designs, be a more effective engineer, and communicate …
Learn to produce great designs, be a more effective engineer, and communicate with high emotional and intellectual impact. This project based course gives students the ability to understand, contextualize, and analyze engineering designs and systems. By learning and applying design thinking, students will more effectively solve problems in any domain. Lectures focus on teaching a tested, iterative design process as well as techniques to sharpen creative analysis. Guest lectures from all disciplines illustrate different approaches to design thinking. This course develops students’ skills to conceive, organize, lead, implement, and evaluate successful projects in any engineering discipline. Additionally, students learn how to give compelling in-person presentations. Open to all majors, all years.
This lesson presents characteristics of spacecraft models on mars to see how …
This lesson presents characteristics of spacecraft models on mars to see how well they meet design requirements and then presents a design challenge for students.
This course is about the mathematics that is most widely used in …
This course is about the mathematics that is most widely used in the mechanical engineering core subjects: An introduction to linear algebra and ordinary differential equations (ODEs), including general numerical approaches to solving systems of equations.
This e-book is intended to be used as a complementary resource for …
This e-book is intended to be used as a complementary resource for engineering measurements and instrumentation courses, at a junior engineering level. If you have any comments or suggestions, please reach out to the author via email: reza@iastate.edu
This subject provides an introduction to the mechanics of materials and structures. …
This subject provides an introduction to the mechanics of materials and structures. You will be introduced to and become familiar with all relevant physical properties and fundamental laws governing the behavior of materials and structures and you will learn how to solve a variety of problems of interest to civil and environmental engineers. While there will be a chance for you to put your mathematical skills obtained in 18.01, 18.02, and eventually 18.03 to use in this subject, the emphasis is on the physical understanding of why a material or structure behaves the way it does in the engineering design of materials and structures.
This subject provides an introduction to fluid mechanics. Students are introduced to …
This subject provides an introduction to fluid mechanics. Students are introduced to and become familiar with all relevant physical properties and fundamental laws governing the behavior of fluids and learn how to solve a variety of problems of interest to civil and environmental engineers. While there is a chance to put skills from calculus and differential equations to use in this subject, the emphasis is on physical understanding of why a fluid behaves the way it does. The aim is to make the students think as a fluid. In addition to relating a working knowledge of fluid mechanics, the subject prepares students for higher-level subjects in fluid dynamics.
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Introduction to engineering mechanics: statics, for those who love to learn. Concepts …
Introduction to engineering mechanics: statics, for those who love to learn. Concepts include: particles and rigid body equilibrium equations, distributed loads, shear and moment diagrams, trusses, method of joints and sections, & inertia.
Students are introduced to genetic techniques such as DNA electrophoresis and imaging …
Students are introduced to genetic techniques such as DNA electrophoresis and imaging technologies used for molecular and DNA structure visualization. In the field of molecular biology and genetics, biomedical engineering plays an increasing role in the development of new medical treatments and discoveries. Engineering applications of nanotechnology such as lab-on-a-chip and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) microarrays are used to study the human genome and decode the complex interactions involved in genetic processes.
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