Paper ID #33561How COVID-19 Led to Improvements and Adaptations to ExperientialLearning Opportunities for an Increasingly Remote EnvironmentMs. Jessica Britt, Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory Jessica Britt is a systems modeling and controls engineer at Argonne National Laboratory; in this role, Jessica oversees many aspects of the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge – a premier automotive collegiate com- petition. Jessica organizes competition activities related to modeling, controls, human-machine-interface, and user experience. Jessica holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in electrical engineering with a focus
Paper ID #34469Importance of Laboratory Examination in Introductory Engineering CoursesDr. Maria Javaid, Indiana State University Dr. Maria Javaid joined Indiana State University in August 2019 as Assistant Professor. Before coming to ISU she was Assistant Professor at Jacksonville University. She received her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Chicago in 2014, where she was nominated as an exemplary teaching assistant by her department for three consecutive years. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021
Paper ID #33696Undergraduate Engineering Laboratories During COVID-19 PandemicDr. Maria Javaid, Indiana State University Dr. Maria Javaid joined Indiana State University in August 2019 as Assistant Professor. Before coming to ISU she was Assistant Professor at Jacksonville University. She received her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Chicago in 2014, where she was nominated as an exemplary teaching assistant by her department for three consecutive years.Mrs. Edie L. Wittenmyer, Indiana State University Over 23 years, employed as an IT/Automation Engineer in the pharmaceutical industry
Paper ID #34297Virtual Reality Laboratory Experiences for Electricity and MagnetismCoursesProf. Raluca Ilie, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Prof. Ilie is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her primary research is the development and application of high-performance, first principles computational models to describe and predict the conditions in near- Earth space leading to geomagnetic storms. Prof. Ilie’s focus is on developing new approaches to study the dynamics of plasmas and electromagnetic fields in the geospace
Laboratories. He earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Purdue University and his B.S. in Materials Engineering from San Jose State University.Ms. Tiffani Anderson, California State University, Chico Tiffani Anderson is a lecturer at CSU, Chico teaching organic chemistry. She received her M.S. degree in Organic Chemistry from Purdue University and her B.S. from CSU, Chico. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 An Interdisciplinary Glimpse into the Best Practices for Effective Student Engagement in the Virtual Laboratory Nathan L. Anderson* and Tiffani N. Anderson** * Department of
builds (loosewiring, bad sensors or actuator components, etc.) For the semester of this research study,Engineering Design & Society, a hands-on makerspace course, was switched to a fully onlinecourse due to COVID. In this temporality online form the course modality was structured as anonline synchronous course with individual at-home Arduino laboratory kits plus the parallelTinkercad Circuits virtual tool.Researchers have investigated comparisons between student performance using either virtual orphysical laboratories [1] [2]. Some studies have also investigated virtual tools that are acompliment to the physical laboratory activities [3]. In this course and research study the goalwas to investigate a more cohesive utilization of both the
instructional support programs for faculty, providing evaluation support for educational proposals and projects, and working with faculty to publish educational research. Her research interests primarily involve creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Leveraging Inquiry-Based Simulated Laboratory Exercises in a Virtual Classroom EnvironmentTrack Selection: Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies DivisionAbstractWe report on the implementation and impact of virtual laboratory modules in a specializedengineering course titled ‘Nondestructive Evaluation of Flaws’ offered virtually in
in the same department of the same school. Zaghloul is a recipient of multiple research and teaching awards, and since 2016 he has been appointed to the Postgraduate Research Program at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) administered through Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE).Prof. Amr Hassan, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Amr Hassan (also know as Amr Mahmoud) received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering and the M.Sc degree in Engineering Physics from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2011 and 2015, respectively. He earned his PhD in Computer Engineering from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh, USA
Paper ID #34725Teamwork Development and Evaluation for Hybrid Thermal Fluids Labora-toryCourseDr. Natasha Smith P.E., University of Virginia Dr. Smith is an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Teamwork Development and Evaluation for Hybrid Thermal Fluids Laboratory CourseAbstractLaboratory courses provide an opportunity for students to practice engineering skills in ways notpossible in a traditional classroom environment. Hands-on activities challenge their creativity,problem-solving, and
experience when compared to a laboratory course, as well as gaveinstructors an opportunity to cater to the various levels of pre-requisite knowledge the studentsbring each semester.While the labture experience took liberties with the PSS model, the key fundamental aspects ofPSS were maintained. First, students work in the same teams of two during the semester tocomplete labture tasks, working at a pod of tables with another team of two. Second, the teamsall work in a public, shared labture space that includes equipment, whiteboards, projectionscreens, and peripheral supplies (such as solder station, equipment station etc.). Instructors andTAs circulate the room during the working session of the labture, providing students with real-time feedback
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Stanford University, Caltech, the SETI Institute, and Raytheon Intelligence & Space. Topics of his work include robotics, space exploration, and mechanical engineering research.Mr. Hector Damian Lopez Jr, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Hector D. Lopez is an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering student with a minor in Mathematics at Cal Poly Pomona who will graduate in May 2021. Throughout his undergraduate career, he had the opportunity to take roles as a researcher, design engineer, manufacturer engineer, electrical engineer, and supervisor engineer. Hector’s work includes robotics, animatronics, mechatronics, mechanical systems, and electrical circuits.Dr. Nolan
Paper ID #32353Pair-to-Pair Peer Learning: Comparative Analysis of Face-to-Face andOnline Laboratory ExperiencesDr. Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo NEBOJSA I. JAKSIC earned the Dipl. Ing. (M.S.) degree in electrical engineering from Belgrade Uni- versity (1984), the M.S. in electrical engineering (1988), the M.S. in industrial engineering (1992), and the Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the Ohio State University (2000). He currently serves as a Pro- fessor at Colorado State University Pueblo teaching robotics and automation courses. Dr. Jaksic has over 90 publications and holds two patents. His
During a PandemicAbstractExperiments form the backbone of much of engineering education, but because it is not alwayspossible to do them in person, simulations can provide a powerful alternative to assist studentlearning. We present data from two versions of two chemical engineering courses where in-person labs pivoted to virtual simulated experiments. In the first-year introduction to chemicalengineering course we designed a simulation for students to design and then test a bench-scaleprototype of a remediation column for acid mine drainage. In the junior-level chemicalengineering laboratory—students typically carry out a bomb calorimetry experiment of sucroseand then analyze their data. We created a simulation based on a combination of
served as a controls engineer in China from 1995 to 2000. His current research interests include wearable medical devices, telehealthcare, bioinstrumentation, biosignal processing, and control systems. His educational research interests are laboratory/project-driven learning and integration of research into undergraduate education. Dr. Yao is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education and a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), to which he has been an active volunteer.Dr. Ricky T. Castles, East Carolina University Dr. Ricky Castles is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. He is primarily affiliated with the ECU
2015, he has been employed at the University of Southern Indiana as an Assistant Professor of Manufacturing Engineering Technology. He holds three patents, has served as an IEEE section officer since 2004, and has been a Licensed Profes- sional Engineer in the State of Indiana since 2005. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Work in Progress: Assessment of Automation Labs to Facilitate Continuous ImprovementAbstractWith the implementation of new equipment and laboratory activities in an automation course, itis desired to assess the effectiveness of the equipment and labs so that improvements may bemade. This
the US has been impacted by the 2020 COVID epidemic, resulting in amassive shift to online instruction. Although some universities have managed to keep somenumber of students on campus on a rotating basis, many courses had to switch with little noticeto a virtual format. While this is reasonably easy to do for a lecture-only course, laboratorycourses by their nature are difficult to switch to an online only version. Past research has manyexamples of attempts to deliver laboratory experiences in a remote or virtual format, but theselabs may fall short of providing a thorough laboratory experience and are not designed to allowremote and non-remote students to collaborate.Feisel and Rosa established the fundamental goals of engineering teaching
history ofencouraging student-directed learning. Historically, to support this self-paced independentlearning approach, the institution provided learning materials coupled with proctored quizzes andexams. In the early decades faculty lectures were provided as lecture notes and VHS cassettes.As educational technology advanced, course content moved to online, on-demand videos andauto-graded review quizzes. However, even as these delivery mechanisms moved from speciallydesignated spaces in the library to a student’s computer or phone, the hands-on project portionhas remained tied to a physical laboratory. The continuous advances in educational technology have led to significant advances inonline education to the point where for many students
: Robotics Technology in the department of Computer Engineering Technology atCUNY-New York City College of Technology is offered as a technical elective to its senior students. Inaddition to introducing fundamental subjects in both Autonomous Mobile Robot [1] and RoboticManipulator [2], another goal is to prepare students with necessary knowledge and skills for roboticprogramming and design. The course is structured to have a 2.5-hour lecture session and a 2.5-hour labsession each week. When teaching onsite the school (i.e., in-person), students were given physical robotsfor implementation of the algorithms discussed during lectures. When access to laboratory facilities wasimpossible under e-learning (for example, during the COVID-19 pandemic
Paper ID #34061Best Practices for the Implementation of Home-based, Hands-on LabActivities to Effectively Engage STEM Students During a PandemicDr. Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University Dr. Oludare Owolabi, a professional engineer in Maryland, joined the Morgan State University fac- ulty in 2010. He is the assistant director of the Center for Advanced Transportation and Infrastructure Engineering Research (CATIER) at Morgan State University and the director of the Civil Engineering Undergraduate Laboratory. He has over eighteen years of experience in practicing, teaching and research in civil engineering
developed throughlecture based instruction [1], [2]. This particular experiment was based on similar modulesdeveloped when CU Smead Aerospace dramatically changed to include extensive hands-onlearning and teaching in the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory [3]. The pedagogicalpurpose is to enhance students overall understanding of fundamental engineering conceptsthrough experiential learning while using up to date hardware and software in order to maintainpace with current technology. The use of this particular experiential learning apparatus in alecture/lab connected environment builds upon an extensive amount of literature in activeexperiential learning [4], [5] and has repeatedly been shown as an effective strategy to enhancelearning
Karachi, Pakistan, in April 1986. He received a B.S. degree in Elec- tronic Engineering in 2008 from Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, and the M.S. degrees in Engineering Management and Environmental Sciences in 2010 and 2014 from Arkansas State University (A-State), Jonesboro. He then received his Ph.D. degree in Environmental Sciences at A-State Optoelectronic Materials Research Laboratory (OMRL)-College of Engineering with doctoral re- search focusing upon synthesis of thin film semiconductor materials for photovoltaic applications. His research interests revolves around investigating next-generation materials (sulfides, chalcogenides, metal oxides) for use as solar cell materials to reduce
Paper ID #33087BYOE: Fabrication, Implementation, and Design of a Remote Lab Setup fora Sensors and Transducers CourseDr. Mark Trudgen, University of Georgia Is a lecturer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering. He has published in the area of automatic control systems. His research interests include undergraduate laboratory experience, remote labs, and advancing control theory in undergraduates.Dr. Dominik May, University of Georgia Dr. May is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Education Transformations Institute. He researches online and intercultural engineering
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Paper ID #33232Designing At-home Laboratory Experiments Using Smart Phones and BasicTest Equipment for Senior Mechanical Engineering StudentsProf. John Whitefoot, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Whitefoot’s research interests include engineering education, energy system optimization, transporta- tion policy, and transportation/energy integration. As a teaching professor within the MEMS department, his roles include course development, classroom instruction, and research on engineering education, with a focus on thermofluidic and experimental methods courses. Dr. Whitefoot has worked extensively in the automotive industry
Paper ID #34627Development of an Additive Manufacturing Laboratory Course with theAbility to Accommodate Asynchronous StudentsProf. Jill Johnson P.E., Pennsylvania State University Jill Johnson is an instructor in Mechanical Engineering at Penn State Behrend. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Penn State Behrend in 2003 and her master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering from Penn State University in 2009. Jill is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Jill joined the Behrend faculty full time in 2015, but she has been an adjunct at Penn State Behrend in the past. She
-op experience for Aaron-Joseph Jones.References[1] https://www.quanser.com/products/qube-servo-2/ accessed 1/15/2021[2] J. S. Dalton, D. S. Stutts, and R. L. Montgomery, “Mini-lab projects in the undergraduate controls course,” in Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, June 2003.[3] Z. Alavi and K. Meehan, “Enhancing a control systems design course by using experiential learning model,” in Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Tampa, FL, June 2019.[4] M. A. Hopkins and A. M. Kibbe, “Open-source hardware in controls education,” ASEE Computers in Education (CoED) Journal, vol. 5 (4), pp. 62 – 70, December 2014.[5] P. K. Karra, “A cost-effective laboratory setup for teaching
Paper ID #33056Development, Implementation and Assessment of Thermodynamics Lab Kitsfor Remote Lab InstructionLamyaa El-Gabry, Princeton University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Development, implementation and assessment of Thermodynamics Lab Kits for remote lab instructionAbstractThe pandemic presented challenges across the curriculum and laboratory exercises were especiallyvulnerable. This paper shows how a Thermodynamics lab that is a core requirement of theMechanical and Aerospace Engineering curriculum was transformed to be carried out
Paper ID #33345Remote Versus In-hand Hardware Laboratory in Digital Circuits CoursesDr. Rania Hussein, University of Washington Dr. Rania Hussein is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the department of electrical and computer en- gineering (ECE) at the University of Washington (UW). Throughout her career, she has developed and taught courses at all levels in electrical, computer engineering, and computer science at different insti- tutions. In response to the emergency transition to online teaching due to COVID-19, she founded the remote hardware lab at UW ECE to promote a cost-efficient and equitable access to hardware
Design Experiences for Future Engineers in Chemistry Laboratory AbstractOur approach to general chemistry laboratory for engineers in our NSF-funded IUSE project(DUE-1625378) involves the use of design challenges (DCs), an innovation that uses authenticcontext and practice to transform traditional tasks. These challenges are scaled-down engineeringproblems related to the NAE Grand Challenges that engage students in collaborative, team-basedproblem solving via the modeling process. With features aligned with professional engineeringpractice, DCs are hypothesized to support student motivation for the task as well as for theprofession. As an evaluation of our curriculum design, we use Expectancy Value
Paper ID #34414Qualitative Analysis of Skills in a CHE Laboratory CourseDr. Heather C. S. Chenette, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Heather Chenette is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech- nology. Her professional interests include enhancing student learning in the classroom and creating op- portunities for students to learn about membrane materials and bioseparation processes through research experiences.Dr. Daniel D. Anastasio, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Daniel Anastasio is an assistant professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He received a B.S. and