Ni, L., & Jung, H. Y., & Zhou, Z. (2015, June), Enhancing First-year Engineering Students' Trigonometry Learning Experience  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.23997

\bibitem{asee_peer_23997}
  Ni, L., \& Jung, H. Y., \& Zhou, Z. (2015, June), \emph{Enhancing First-year Engineering Students' Trigonometry Learning Experience}
  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington.
  10.18260/p.23997

Liya Ni, Helen Yoonhee Jung P.E., and Ziliang Zhou.  "Enhancing First-year Engineering Students' Trigonometry Learning Experience".  2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2015.  https://peer.asee.org/23997 Internet.  24 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_23997}
  Liya Ni, Helen Yoonhee Jung P.E., and Ziliang Zhou.
  "Enhancing First-year Engineering Students' Trigonometry Learning Experience".
  \emph{2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2015.
  https://peer.asee.org/23997 Internet.  24 Apr, 2024

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AB  -       Enhancing First Year Engineering Students Trigonometry Learning                                ExperienceThe College of Engineering at our institute has been part of the NSF sponsored consortium of ANational Model for Engineering Mathematics Education for the last 6 years and saw significantretention improvement in all three majors: Civil, Electric & Computer, and MechanicalEngineering programs. Students of those three majors came from a diversified high school mathtraining background, ranging from AP calculus to basic Algebra. Students with weak mathbackground have one thing in common: they all struggle with trigonometry, a key engineeringskill for success in all three majors. To equip students with necessary trig skills in our firstengineering math course taught by engineering professors, we implemented a three stepapproach during the first three weeks of the class:   (1) Made a connection between the classroom trigonometry calculations with the robotic       welding operations on the automobile assembly line so that they can actually see how the       two-link robot classroom math model in real life applications. This is largely done by       showing class the automobile assembly process video followed by math model analysis       of the robot arm movement. This approach draws attention from all students, particularly       the mechanical inclined students.   (2) Added a new NAO robot based trigonometry experiment to provide students hands-on       experience of interaction with a humanoid robot. During the experiment, students specify       joint angles (or hand location coordinates for inverse kinematics) via a user-friendly       computer interface, watch the robot move its arm accordingly, and then hear the robot       report verbally the final location coordinates of its hand (or joint angles for inverse       kinematics). Students also create MATLAB function and script files to cross-check and       validate the measurements. All students loved to play with the NAO robot, especially the       electric and computer engineering inclined students.   (3) Developed a new surveying experiment to further enhance the trigonometry learning       experience. This particular experiment is to understand how trigonometry used in civil       engineering and construction management field. The students use two equipment set-ups:       Leveling and Theodolite. The students use leveler to measure slopes and use theodolite to       measure angles in the horizontal and vertical planes to calculate the building height.Students enthusiastically embraced the new approach with active classroom participation. Thestudent performance data also showed remarkable improvement related to trigonometry skills.Our next step is to expand this approach to the other areas where students showed weakness.
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