Paper ID #36681Experiences Of Faculty Mentoring Engineering TransferStudentsDeniz Nikkhah BME Grad student at UCIDavid A. Copp (Assistant Professor of Teaching) David A. Copp received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Teaching at the University of California, Irvine in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Prior to joining UCI, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories and
environmental hazards.The remaining four weeks of the program took place at the RELC located in Niskayuna, NewYork. This state-of-the-art training facility provided a classroom setting for handling theoreticalmodules and discussions and laboratory spaces for performing hands-on simulations. Laboratoryspaces contained industry-sized turbine equipment, such as decommissioned nacelles anddrivetrains. Faculty with experience as wind turbine technicians instructed both the theoretical andtechnical portions of the program, providing the participants with the opportunity to inquire aboutpotential hazards and dangers in the field.Technical EssentialsThe second week of the pilot program focused on understanding the technical knowledge, safetyprocedures, and
(previously known asPro/ENGINEER), ANSYS, etc., are used for design and analysis. The Mechanical EngineeringProgram at Wichita State University offers a design course as a technical elective. This course,titled Computer-Aided Engineering is an undergraduate/graduate level three credit hours course.The Mechanical Engineering Program at Wichita State University is accredited by theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). The computer-aided engineering course has a design project as part of the course. The courseincorporates a laboratory where CATIA part design, assembly modeling, and machining is taughtto students. The students are required to utilize CATIA for successfully completing the designproject. For this project, the
School of Mines. He served as Chair, Disciplinary Literacy in Science and as Associate Director, Engineering Education Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh; Director of Research & Development for a multimedia company; and as founding Director of the Center for Integrating Research & Learning (CIRL) at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. His current efforts focus on innovation of teaching practices in STEM fields and systemic change within higher education.Deb Jordan Director of the Trefny Innovative Instruction Center at Colorado School of Mines; leading the team in their work with faculty and staff to continuously expand high-quality, research-based, and innovative learning experiences for
as to the limits of engineering naturalsystems. To address our future intertwined with biotechnology and its ethical, legal,and social implications, we must develop curricula that addresses the role ofacademic, research, and industrial scientists in these debates and how to addresssocietal concerns with emergent technologies. In BME 590L/490L: BiotechnologyDesign I/II, a two-semester senior/master’s capstone design course at DukeUniversity, students prepare for academic and commercial development ofbiological products with topics in synthetic biology, fermentation, intellectualproperty, and regulatory controls. Lectures, discussions, and laboratory exercisesprepare students for independent design projects that are presented in the fall
physics. His dissertation research was on charged-particle spectroscopy for measuring astrophysically important properties of radioactive nuclei. Following his Ph.D., he was a Post-Doctoral Scholar with the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and was later part of the founding faculty of the Khalifa University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates, from 2009 to 2016, as a member of their Department of Nuclear Engineering. His teaching interests include engineering design education, engineering mechanics, and nuclear and radiation physics. His research interests focus on problems in radiation transport through matter, with applications to nuclear non-proliferation, detector design, and radiation dosimetry
toindustry leaders and research facilities such as Apple, Tesla, Zoox, SA Photonics, Lam Research,Sanmina Corp, NASA Ames, and Department of Education Laboratories, including StanfordLinear Accelerator, Lawrence Berkeley, and Lawrence Livermore. Despite housing many of thelargest manufacturing and electronics companies, there has been a significant shortage andcritical need of skilled entry-level and mid-level electronics technicians in the Bay Area. In thisregion alone, there are a total of 10,200 electronics and electrical technician and related jobs witha projected growth of 21% in San Francisco and San Mateo County, and 19% in AlamedaCounty in the next ten years [1]. An industry assessment surveying 44 industry partners acrossthe nation
are sent to South Korea for8 weeks to work on their own research project at their assigned laboratories. In Summer 2019,the first cohort of five students completed their 8-week immersive research internship at a top-ranked Korean university.COVID-19 affected most, if not all, in-bound and out-bound international programs. IRiKA wasno exception. In late February 2020, the program was canceled altogether because no viablealternative could be offered for Summer 2020, as institutions world-wide were grappling withdisruptive challenges the pandemic brought on. In Fall 2020, with contingency plans in place andan additional Korean host site aboard, the project team solicited applications. However, in early2021, before the final selection of the 2021
distance of the scan was theleast difficult to accomplish, as different positions can be tested on demand. Initial testing wasconducted in laboratory environment where the ambient conditions were stable and controlled. Other variables, such as the effect of sunlight on skin temperature, or the effect of thewind blowing cannot be tested easily due to the lack of independent variables [1]. Testing for theeffects of sunlight, wind, or other factors depends on weather conditions and time did not permittesting under all possible conditions. The temperature decrease as distance increases is nearly a linear line, with the averagedrop in temperature being around four degrees Fahrenheit per foot. The figure below illustratesthis drop
problems andhands-on lab activities illustrate new approaches to introduce students to graphical techniquesand robotics through excel software and scope of laboratory experiences, respectively. Thecourse trains students how to use excel tool to graph and interpret the data through visualizationand introduce them to simple computer programming for path planning and navigation of robots.The initial observations and results are in favor of promoting visualizations and concepts ofrobotics.IntroductionVisualization and robotics are rapidly developing disciplines in engineering and science. The useof visual aids in learning process has been recognized by many educators and researchers [1-3].Various studies report that 75 percent of all information
course on Tribology, I presentedcans of contamination-controlled industrial coolants and lubricants, as well as examples of chemicallycorroded manufactured products for the lack of proper pollution-free storage environment. While by nomeans these are laboratory courses, such on-the-table demonstrations help the students developconsciousness on sustainable, pollution-controlled development in such courses where the mechanics ofmaterials and its proper use are of utmost importance. In an online lecture such a direct presentation ofthe artefacts, as in archaeology, in front of the students is missing! Undoubtedly, there are many promises of online lectures in the future of distance learning. A fewyears ago in a TIME magazine article, Dr
the research community have reported on the disruptionstheir classrooms faced [1, 2, 3] and the strategies they adopted to improve the effectiveness ofonline learning [4, 5, 6]. A popular research avenue has been to investigate the impacts of ERLin the context of laboratory and project work—aspects of engineering education which havetraditionally involved hands-on experiences unique to the in-person setting. In [1], the authorsexplain that a key issue arising when conducting labs online is the lack of access to conventionallaboratory equipment, and therefore the reliance on simulation. Interestingly, the authors in [5]show that lab simulations can provide students with a novel "opportunity structure", offeringthem more ownership over the lab
results for Q3 regarding student confidence with programming (inside circle is 2019 data, outside circle is 2021 data).These results indicate that student confidence in programming has improved overall. There issignificant decline in the “Not Confident” selection (a 57% decrease) as well as large gains inboth the “Very Confident” (26% increase) and “Extremely Confident” (29% increase) selection.5. ConclusionThe ENGR 111 course at the J. B. Speed School of Engineering (SSoE) at the University ofLouisville is typically a laboratory-based, hands-on course taught in a makerspace setting. Due tothe COVID-19 pandemic, the course was modified to remote instruction for the Spring 2021semester. The instructors maintained the inclusion
: Entrepreneurship education in engineering. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com The Characteristics of Engineering Learning in Communities of Practice: An Exploratory Multi-case StudyAbstract: The Emerging Engineering Education (3E) transformation has been implemented in China tomeet the society’s needs of high-quality talents in science, technology, engineering and mathematics(STEM) fields. The transformation has stimulated some new forms of engineering learning which wereorganized in communities of practice such as engineering studio, engineering laboratory in someuniversities. However, little is known about
relevant to their inquiry. The following is the list ofthe organizations: • The American Farmland Trust (AFT) • Environ Da Berry (EDB) • Food, Energy, Water (FEW) Nexus • The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)The virtual meetings with the organizations provided a framework for the design solutions. Theconversation with the AFT and EDB stimulated the discourse around the existential threat,particularly climate change from the environmental impact of industrialized agriculture. It alsohighlighted the significance of the local food production and distribution as well as the need forempowering the labor force, protecting food sovereignty, supporting conservation practices, andraising awareness of the consumer. The conversation
Lecturer in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Her PhD is in chemical engineering from Purdue University. Research focus areas include laboratory courses, process safety, and chemical engineering pedagogy.Jennifer Cole Dr. Cole is the Assistant Chair in Chemical Engineering at Northwestern and the Associate Director of the Northwestern Center for Engineering Education Research. Dr. Cole's teaching and research interests lie in engineering design, both first year and capstone. She is particularly interested in bringing anti-racism and social and environmental justice contexts to engineering problem solving in her courses.Kevin D. Dahm (Professor of Chemical Engineering
wetransitioned to the sense-making cycles of the analysis [6].ResultsAvoidance and digital learning toolsBroadly, educational institutions across the United States were ill-prepared for a long-termdisruption to learning because they lacked avoidance mechanisms to maintain academiccontinuity. Our research found some exceptions, where schools had mechanisms before thepandemic, such as digital infrastructure and support systems. The administrator at one AMTSdesigned a program to have all lectures and some introductory laboratory projects completed viadistance learning. As a result, Participant 5's curriculum quickly transitioned to remote educationsince the students were already accustomed to learning at home employing various
education as it can limit the engagement orinvolvement of an educator with the students [11]. The COVID-19 pandemic pushed educators to conduct emergency remote teaching, withhands-on laboratory and skills-based workshops disrupted. The inability among educators toshift to online learning and create meaningful learning in their courses, along with the lack ofavailable remote or online laboratories and simulated technology-based skills training, exposedthe stark gap between engineering education requirements in the 21st century and what HEIscurrently have. Therefore, well-designed and planned pathways to transformation must beadequately studied to bridge the gap in engineering education to transform educatorseffectively in a sustainable
Elements was used, since the company provided licenses for home use for all instructors and professors. This was critical during pandemic conditions as no access to campuses or laboratories was allowed. The use of commercial software also allowed different loading conditions to be set in their models, especially for the wind loading combinations. During the first three phases, students were taken step by step by their professors and instructors into the different topics of a structural analysis, as this was their first course on hyperstatic structures. During this stage, students were given some problems oriented or related to the problems they would solve during the solution of the challenge, as a way of training. In phase 4, as indicated in Fig
programming skills in later courses, such asthe capstone design project, but these were not required to complete assignments before thepandemic. Unfortunately, a portion of the study cohort had their undergraduate educational plansdisrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Students enrolled in the two-quarter capstone designproject in Spring 2020 were not permitted to access laboratory equipment on campus or travel tosponsor companies. Thus, they relied on computational tools to complete their projects.MethodsThis study surveyed students enrolled in a Materials Kinetics course in either Winter 2018 or2019. The new survey was distributed to the cohort in Spring 2021, nine to twenty-one monthsfollowing the expected graduation date (based on course timing
course of a program, students will benefit from exposure to a varietyof both.Without time and resource constraints, instructors may naturally collaborate and engage with stu-dents as individuals, tailoring assignments and timelines to their individual interests, priorities, andcontexts. In order to scale a learning environment to accommodate tens or hundreds of students,more general protocols are needed to keep track of progress through learning outcomes. The spacebetween scale and individualization of education is ripe for creative solutions.6 ConclusionIn this paper, we have reported on the effect of different late policies on student outcomes andattitudes for a computer programming laboratory course. Within the same course offering, instruc
courses with this new modality. Instructorsreported some resistance to change methods and as predicted, it happened.Despite having some resistance to change, in this case the instructors were opened to learningabout new teaching methods adapted to the reality and time at which the world is advancing.Whenever a new educational framework is designed, there will always be a new challenge tomeet, in this case how to adapt the laboratories to this modality. Today it is believed that the onlyway to teach the laboratory class is 100% face-to-face, but there will be a way to plan certainactivities to be done synchronously and others asynchronously.In closing, using the class as an example of the topic was pleasantly surprising. Since it was
Paper ID #36896Impact of In-Class Demonstration on Student Performance inan Introductory Thermodynamics CourseHaejune Kim (Assistant Professor of Instruction)Phapanin Charoenphol Phapanin Charoenphol is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the J. Mike Walker ‘66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. She earned her M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She teaches thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, engineering laboratory, and senior design studio courses. Her research interests include engineering education and targeted drug delivery. In 2022, she was awarded the
, L., Sturtevant, H., & Mumba, F. (2019). Exploratory Study of the Impact of a Teaching Methods Course for International Teaching Assistants in an Inquiry-Based General Chemistry Laboratory. Journal of Chemical Education, 96(11), 2393–2402. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b002394. Wheeler, L. B., Maeng, J. L., Chiu, J. L., & Bell, R. L. (2017). Do teaching assistants matter? Investigating relationships between teaching assistants and student outcomes in undergraduate science laboratory classes. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 54(4), 463–492. https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.213734. Guadagni, G., Ma, H. and Wheeler, L., (2018), June. The Benefit of Training Undergraduate Teaching Assistants. In
radiation, extremetemperatures, and more). Several examples of such efforts include the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense(OUSD) Acquisition & Sustainment Industrial Base (IBAS) program, which now leads theNational Imperative for Industrial Skills program and the Research & Engineering Trusted &Assured Microelectronics program. These initiative support several University-run programsincluding SCALE as part of a Public, Private, and Academic Partnership (PPAP), and theSTART-HBCU program to increase research collaborations between Sandia NationalLaboratories and several major HBCUs nationwide (U.S. Department of Defense, 2020; SandiaNational Laboratories, n.d.). Important aspects of such models include defining a common
motivation and engagement. Projects were developed by academics (research facultymembers or doctoral students) in their research laboratories. The purpose of this exploratorystudy is to understand the motivation the academics had to engage with students and invest timeand resources in creating research projects not attached to students' grades or credits. Weconducted interviews with academics to understand why they decided to engage with theresearch projects. Our results suggest that the most important thing was to develop student-teacher engagement, which had an implication later on in their classrooms. Similarly, they saw itas a mentoring opportunity and as a way to improve their time-management skills.IntroductionStudent motivation and engagement
timeallotted to the project during the semester (approximately 6 weeks), the instructor gave thespecific problem definition to the students rather than having them perform their own problemdefinition based upon a more generic needs statement.The instructor provided each student team with low-cost materials with which they could form asimple treatment device, namely a container using two-inch PVC pipe and endcaps, andtreatment materials including filter paper, sand, gravel, and activated carbon. Additionalequipment, such as a peristaltic pump and a digital refractometer, were available for the studentsto use. The teams constructed and tested their treatment devices in the chemical engineering unitoperations laboratory. Typical student constructed
initial tensor componentsand the rotation to be applied, and the program displays the final results without any intermediatehistory) or not widely available (e.g., [20]). In response, the present authors have developedapplications that illustrate three-dimensional tensor transformations dynamically, in real time.This paper documents the development of these applications and serves as their public debut.Of particular relevance to the present work, we note that Pirker [21] has used virtual reality (VR)to create a virtual “educational physics laboratory” and has compared the efficacy of the VRexperience on mobile devices versus in the classroom. The results of Pirker’s study [21] indicatethat the mobile experience profits from more flexibility and
analysis quadcopter platformincludes various sensors used to analyze the water composition and properties. These includepH, saturated oxygen, and temperature. They are connected to a custom PCB, and the data can becollected and stored to the device. The data can be retrieved once the measurement mission iscomplete. The rate of reading sensors can be chosen. Moreover, this water analysis quadcopterplatform is capable of collecting water samples for further analysis in a laboratory. This is basedon the use of a custom designed peristaltic pump. The pump speed can be controlled, and it willcontrol the amount of the water sample and the speed of the collection. Furthermore, this wateranalysis quadcopter platform has an underwater camera, and it can
need (kWh), students determined the number of solar panelsrequired to offset the load. They used PVWatts® Calculator tool [20] developed by NationalRenewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and other online resources provided (e.g., commerciallyavailable solar panels). They calculated the battery bank capacity needed to store enough energyfor a day. They sized and selected the solar charge controller, inverter, circuit breakers, junctionbox, and other components and developed a one-line electrical diagram for the solar PV System.Phase 2: In phase two, students included the energy load for conditioning the house provided bymechanical engineering students. ME students provided two different energy loads; one based ona building envelope compliant with