Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com CONTROLLING A ROBOTIC ARM WITH AN ELVIS IIAbstractThe Design Technology II course is intended to give the students a real-world approach to designprojects. The students are expected to design projects that are innovative, interesting, and uniqueby using the techniques, skills, knowledge, and experiences they have gained in the numerousdisciplines that are offered in the Electrical/Electronics Engineering Technology Program. Theobjective of this undergraduate project was to control the five movements of a robotic arm usingthe National Instrument ELVIS II Board. The ELVIS II was chosen to act as a microcontroller inthis project.The ELVIS II is a National
multidisciplinarycollaboration between engineering and business majors through experiential learning.Consequently, the Stitt Scholars Program (SSP) was instituted to allow students to engage inmultidisciplinary collaborations. The focus was to acquire and enhance their entrepreneurial andinnovation skills. Through the Stitt Scholars Program, startup companies provide projects formultidisciplinary teams of students to execute. Each student puts in ten hours of work each week.The startup companies have no financial obligation as the students are paid from the Stitt ScholarsProgram fund. The students also take a 2-credit hour course which incorporates lecture series andother weekly academic engagements. This course's goal is to help the students understand theengineering
Paper ID #36536Using High Impact Practices to Broaden UndergraduateParticipation in Computer Systems ResearchMargaret O'neil Ellis Margaret currently serves as an Associate Professor of Practice of Computer Science in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. She is focused on instructing and designing curriculum for CS2104 Problem Solving in Computer Science and CS2114 Software Design and Data Structures and works with undergraduate research students on the Computer Systems Genome project(https://csgenome.org/). Margaret began teaching at Virginia Tech in 2013 and enjoys integrating her various professional
University in Baltimore, Maryland, is the lead institution for this program. TheSCR2 program is designed to engage underperforming REU students in research opportunitiesdemonstrated to improve students’ retention and graduation rates. In addition, teachers fromlocal community colleges and high schools are recruited in this program as RET participants.The experience of RET participants in hands-on engineering research projects helps themencourage their students to pursue engineering as a career. The SCR2 program offers summerresearch experience (eight weeks for students and six weeks for teachers) focusing on smart andconnected cities. In this paper, we present our learnings from the last three years of the SCR2program, which will inform the progress
is highly sought after. Currentwait lists reflect this backed-up demand.What Thoughts Were Given to Job Role Differentiation and Rewards?In business/industry titles and roles map to product life cycle phases. As a project evolves fromConcept Exploration to Operations and Support, different skill sets are required. In the earlyphases of the product life cycle, research and systems thinking/engineering are dominant. As theproduct life cycle moves to the right toward full scale development, systems operation andengineering gives way to product design, development, and systems integration. This left toright transition in the product life cycle requires a transitioning from a higher level of systemsunderstanding to a tactical level of team and
interests are in computer architecture, compiler, real-time computing, and hardware security. Dr. Zhang has led 9 NSF projects as the PI and has published 160+ papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He received the 2016 Engineer of the Year Award from the Richmond Joint Engineer Council, the 2009 SIUC Excellence through Commitment Outstanding Scholar Award for the College of Engineering, and the 2007 IBM Real-time Innovation Award. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Running a Virtual Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) Site in Computing SystemsAbstract:This paper
Paper ID #37894Dynamic 3D- Printed Statics Modeling Kit and In-ClassActivitiesSeyed Mohammad Seyed Ardakani Dr. Ardakani is an assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and the Coordinator of Statics for the T.J. Smull College of Engineering at Ohio Northern University. He has previously served as Project Engineer at Englekirk Structural Engineers and Lecturer at South Dakota State University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno. His research interests include seismic performance and design of reinforced concrete structures, computational
Paper ID #37526Work In Progress: Reversi: A Platform for TeachingProgramming LanguagesSiwei He (Student) Siwei is a fourth-year undergraduate student at University of Toronto. He works on research projects in file system, debugger, and machine learning application. Before that, he had experience in projects related to FPGA and worked as an FPGA software engineer intern at Intel. Siwei is an active contributor in the GNU GDB project. Github: @Louis-HeHamid S Timorabadi (Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream) Hamid Timorabadi received his BSc, MASc, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Africa, Asia, and Central America to provide much needed educational content to entire classrooms using picoprojectors. In 2008, he established Class on a Chip, Inc. to commercialize an array of micro-experimental devices for use in engineering, physics, and MEMS classes. In 2014, he established a new class in the Whitacre College of Engineering, Technology Start-up Lab, which takes students through a process to develop their own technology projects for commercialization. Each summer, he teaches a class entitled Solar Energy, which includes a hands-on solar energy design project. Dr. Dallas has served as the principal investigator for two National Science Foundation sponsored Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) projects, a
Society of Professional Engineers, Cobb Chapter, a Member of the American Society of Engineering Educators ASEE, and a Member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, USA. Dr. Okhio has carried out experimental and numerical investigations of, and developed statistical analysis tools and computer codes, for the numerical simulation/calculation of complex flows. He has been co-PI in a few successful research efforts including those related to NASA, WPAB, GE, NSF, NRO, ARO, ORNL, Honeywell, KCP, to name a few. He has also been the co-PI on Department of Energy sponsored Project called Minority Serving Institution Partnership Project MSIPP on Advance Manufacturing which involved the (1) use of research activities to
for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comTeaching Materials Science and Engineering in the K12 Classroom: Food as aBuilding Material (Work in Progress)AbstractBaking and cooking in K12 classrooms provide opportunities for teachers to form practicalconnections for students in chemistry and physics. Experiments can be conducted safely at home,school, or camp. Additionally, materials are readily available, and low cost. Culinary advances inmolecular gastronomy allow us to think even further about how we can engage students in theengineering design process using food as a building material. This paper details theimplementation of a science and cooking project into a K12 STEM classroom. To
taught in a semester double-period blockschedule.Standards & Guiding Principles: • Next Generation Science Standards • Career and Technical Standards • National Research Council’s Framework for K-12 Science Education, Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas • Common Core Math and English Language Arts StandardsActivities/Tutorials: Activities/tutorials are methods by which students are provided with the“just in time” knowledge, procedures and/or skills that are required to complete a project orproblem. The concept of just in time means that the activity/tutorial is provided right when thestudent needs it; the optimal teaching and learning moment. An activity/tutorial is a means to anend, not an end in itself. Properly
examples of how data analytics has beenapplied in the field of mechanical engineering. The course content arrangement is based on the dataanalytics lifecycle: problem discovery – data understanding – data preparation – data visualization –model building – conclusion/decision making. Statistical concepts related to each stage are introducedto the students along with the corresponding programming basics in R-studio. Parallelly, the semester-long project is assigned to the student groups from the first day of lecture. Each group is required toselect a real-world dataset and complete the data analysis using data cleaning, data preparation, datavisualization, regressions, and several machine learning algorithms. To help the student bettercomplete the
. Consequently, this paper presents a study of an innovative project-based approach for teachingconstruction scheduling using Reality Capture technology. As part of this study, students used technologiessuch as 360 cameras and 360 walkthrough software to collect reality capture data from an operatingconstruction site and used it to create project progress reports. This study used a designed quasi-experimentto assess the effectiveness of this approach regarding students’ learning performance and satisfaction withtwo groups of students in the Construction Scheduling course who collected the data from the site and whoused the data to fulfill the class activity. As part of the experiment, a survey was completed by studentswho completed the reality capture
(technological capabilities), viability (profitable), and desirability (dopeople want it). In any basic conversation one may begin to link the design concepts (designtriad) and iron triangle.This exploratory research project introduces a class implementation of a future-oriented redesignproject in a design for manufacturing (DFM) course. The ideas of the triple constraint and designtriad are used to review how junior level engineering students design and think about futureproducts. Research was geared toward the outcomes students produced using basic design formanufacture concepts and how they thought about future products based in a coupling of designand business ideas. The artifacts allowed for a dive into how engineering students conceive thefuture
research interests include assessment of non-content learning in research projects, increasing student familiarity with and understanding of green chemistry, Sociocultural faculty development for diversity-responsive teaching, and heterocyclic synthesis, particularly indole based systems.Scott Barge Scott Barge, EdD, VP for Institutional Strategy and CIO for EMU earned a bachelor’s degree at Goshen College and both master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard University with an emphasis on quantitative methods for assessment and evaluation in higher education. During his graduate studies, he gained firsthand experience as a research analyst in the Institutional Research Office at MIT and through various domestic and
Paper ID #37841Investigating the role of compassion in engineering service-learningNathan Howell I am an environmental engineer specializing in many aspects of water resources and environmental fate-and-transport. His initial training was in chemical engineering (BS) at the University of Texas. I worked in environmental consulting in groundwater remediation. After consulting, I spent time at the University of Houston earning an environmental engineering PhD. My research there was in water quality modeling of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and large-scale field sampling projects in the Houston Ship
federal government to support projects focused on technical skillsdevelopment. Significant emphasis is placed on academic transfer pathways and education-to-career pathways for students from K-12 to community college and beyond. Utilizing fundingfrom multiple sources, faculty have intertwined grant project activities to increase awareness ofcybersecurity careers and academic pathways, emphasizing digital forensics and incidentresponse. The two grant projects, Cyber Up! and GenCyber Girls, aimed to develop college-levelcurriculum and cybersecurity workshops for female high school students. Project activities weresynthesized to create a summer camp for high school students based on the curriculum developedfor the college programs in digital
led a team of engineers in continuously improving and supporting the supply chain and process flow of pressure sensor manufacturing lines. At the University of St Thomas, she teaches Introduction to Engineering and Senior Design. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Enduring Pandemic Impacts on Capstone CourseAbstractThe capstone experience at the University of St Thomas (UST) is a two-semester courseintegrated across four disciplines: mechanical, electrical, computer, and civil engineering. Withinthe course students design, analyze, finalize, and verify a company sponsored project. The resultsof projects are
students as part of a sophomore-level systems analysis and design course. In this evidence-based practice paper, we report on students’ reflections regarding their perceptions of teamwork.This study approaches the following research questions: What are students' reflections about therole of communication while working in teams in a cooperative project-based learningenvironment?The guiding pedagogical framework for this course is cooperative learning. The course requiresthe students to work in teams in a semester-long software development project. To elicit reflectionon action about their teamwork experience. Specifically, we exposed students to concreteexperiences as part of their teamwork interactions, which became the basis for observations
Paper ID #38418Leadership Development and STEM Student Success Usingthe Social Interdependence ModelBruce DeRuntz (Director of Leadership Development) Bruce DeRuntz, is a Professor in the College of Engineering and Director of SIUC’s Engineering Leadership Development Program. He brings 10 years of industrial and 20 years of teaching experience to his classes on project management and leadership in the CoE, and advanced leadership in the MBA program. He consults with universities and companies on their organizational and leadership development. He hold a PhD in Workforce Education and Development. He is the former
)) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Using Blended Modalities for Engineering Education Professional Development: Supporting Elementary Teachers’ Development of Community-Focused Engineering Curricula (NSF Grantees)Abstract This paper presents an overview of teacher professional development work conducted aspart of a National Science Foundation Research in the Formation of Engineers project. Theoverall goal of the project is to increase awareness and preparedness of rural and indigenousyouth to consider and pursue engineering and engineering related careers. To reach this goal, weare working with elementary pre and in-service teachers in
demonstrate mastery, significantly lowering the stakes ofany individual attempt. Efforts have manifested at every level, up to and including entire mastery-basedprograms.In this work, the five-year-long reinvention of a mechanical engineering computer applications course isexamined as it was transformed from traditional to flipped to competency-based, navigating the onsetof COVID along the way. In the most recent iteration, the course involves a framework of repeatableassessments across an array of outcomes, including both traditional exam format assessment as well asmore involved project-based assessments, a set of video modules, and a group project. The rationalesfor and lessons learned from this journey are explored, along with student comments
Powered by www.slayte.comDoing Design Differently: hybrid teaching in the age of COVID-19Somewhat uniquely, in our department, we teach a version of engineering design to each of 4year groups registered for the M.Eng (masters in engineering) in chemical engineering. Thesedesign projects culminate with a final-year group design, but students are introduced to groupdesign in their second week of their first year of study. The first-year design project deliverablesare assessed, but equally the design project serves as an opportunity for students to get to knowone another through organised group work and serves as an introduction to the concept ofdesign in a chemical engineering context. The first-year design project has traditionally beentaught face
stories about virtualcollaboration during classes with an entrepreneurial collaboration component. Using a novelcombination of validated projective story-cue methodology and a survey, participants wereprompted during both the pandemic restricted remote classes and in-person to imagine theirexpectations for collaborating in an entrepreneurial classroom by projecting two ways: as ifit was in an in-person setting or as if it was a virtual setting. A goal of the continued study isto extend the analysis to compare and contrast the original findings comparing Winter 2021student responses (during a virtual educational mode) to Fall 2021 (during an in-personeducational mode) using a cohort of engineering students at the same public university.Findings
increase thenumber and diversity of STEM students and improve STEM learning and teaching by bringingcoding and project-based learning to statistics students. Instead of Introduction to Statisticsbeing the last math class for students, it is serving as an onramp to data science, computerscience, engineering, and other STEM disciplines.2. Overview of Data Path ProgramIn Fall 2020, Skyline College was awarded an NSF IUSE grant to establish a new pathway intoSTEM through statistics and data science. The Data Path Program was initially launched inSpring 2021 with four math faculty members across five sections of Introduction to Statistics.The math department began paving the way for the Data Path in Spring 2019 by identifying localstate universities
performance using computational software.The first generation of CHRD has been designed, fabricated, and tested successfully. A small rocketmotor approximately two inches in diameter and ten inches long was fired multiple times during thespring of 2021, with preliminary results of rocket performance being documented. The current rocketprototype was the product of two consecutive academic years of senior capstone teams’ efforts. Thedesign, fabrication, and testing were supervised by a Mechanical Engineering faculty, who assumed therole of project manager and chief investigator.2 IntroductionNumerous examples of student projects focused on hybrid fuel rocket motors and hybrid rocket motorpowered flight vehicles are identified in the literature. The
-related Lab Experiments to Train Future K-12 Educators in Renewable Energy (Work in Progress)Abstract In an effort to motivate more youths from the USA to pursue a career in engineering,education accreditation agencies have recently emphasized the need to bring more engineering-related content into the K-12 classroom. The School of Engineering and the College ofEducation at Oral Roberts University are collaborating on a project to assist in meeting this goal.A general education course (taken by education majors) consisting of earth science laboratoryexperiments is being modified to include new experiments on how engineers attempt to makegood use of earth resources. Engineering students
narrowfocus causes students to miss out on how other facets of an engineering project influence their work,and vice versa. To provide a broader and more realistic engineering experience we defined this 3Dprinted waveguide project with the requirement of diverse development tasks integral to the projectthat had to be addressed early in the course. Two project teams of four students each were tasked withdesigning, producing, and characterizing a minimum of six 3D printed functional waveguide components(coax adapter, waveguide, horn antenna) with an overall cost no greater than 20% of an off the shelfcomponent. WR90 waveguides (8.2 – 12.4GHz) were selected because we had components on hand inour research labs for purposes of quantitative performance
DimensioningGeometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) is a powerful tool for designing andmanufacturing products. If used correctly, GD&T can streamline and optimize the manufacturingof products, saving companies a tremendous amount of time and money. In trade schools, GD&Tis traditionally taught in the machine shop in parallel to learning equipment in the machine shop.At the university level, traditional engineering curriculum conventionally teaches GD&T indesign courses, many times without the use of the machine shop or understanding of the machineshop equipment capabilities. Students at universities tend to struggle with grasping GD&Tconcepts if ‘hands-on’ assignments or projects are not designed to reinforce concepts learned inthe