Paper ID #37076Preliminary assessment of ”ECE Engineering Laboratory” course for aredesigned first-year engineering curriculumDr. Federica Aveta, Wentworth Institute of Technology Federica Aveta received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electronic Engineering from La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, in 2012 and 2016, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Oklahoma (OU), Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2020. Before joining Wentworth Institute of Technology, Federica worked as an Optical Engineer where she designed, built, and tested optical fiber lasers for medical applications
) share some of the best practicesadopted by the instructors to ensure rigor and consistency of the coursework at the regionalcampus.The curriculum for the two courses covers the fundamental concepts and provides an opportunityfor students to explore the applications of circuits in the real world. In a normal learningenvironment, these courses tend to be difficult due to higher expectations for problem-solving,math, and scientific concepts, and adding external factors such as the pandemic adds morecomplications. The focus of this research work is to study the first- and second-year engineeringcourses and present the challenges associated with the delivery of the course content, teachingengineering concepts and applications and laboratory
University to redefinethe way engineering mathematics is taught, with the goal of increasing student retention,motivation and success in engineering.First implemented in 2004, the Wright State Model involves the introduction of a first-yearengineering mathematics course, EGR 101 Introductory Mathematics for EngineeringApplications (now running under semester course number EGR 1010) [1]. Taught byengineering faculty, the EGR 101 course includes lecture, laboratory and recitationcomponents. Using an application-based, hands-on approach, the EGR 101 course addressesonly the salient math topics actually used in the core first and second-year engineering courses.These include the traditional physics, engineering mechanics, electric circuits and
, et al. [2]. The study examined models ofexperiential learning from six pioneering experiential engineering programs including theUniversity of Cincinnati Professional Practice Program; the Harvey Mudd College Clinic; theKansas State University Mechanical Engineering Design Laboratory; the Worcester PolytechnicInstitute PLAN; the West Virginia University PRIDE (Professional Reasoning Integrated withDesign Experience); and the University of Massachusetts ESIC (Engineering Services forIndustry and Community). Over the last forty years, the use of experiential learning inundergraduate engineering education has increased exponentially; concurrently a significantbody of pedagogical research has been presented in the literature. The present article
an engineering technology introductory foundations course. The course is requiredfor all students in the engineering technology department and is recommended for studentsexploring the engineering technology discipline, creating a unique culture within the classroom.The course includes two lectures, one recitation, and a two-hour hands-on laboratory summingup five hours of class time in a 4-credit course. The course has a total enrollment of over 300undergraduate students from more than twelve different majors. Students enrolled in the coursecompleted a set of surveys based on the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI) which is based onSelf Determination Theory and is designed to measure perceived interest, intrinsic motivation,and other
training, and athleticcompetition. Acceptance rates are low, around 12% [12], but graduation rates are high,approximately 80-85% [13]. Unlike many other academic institutions, incoming USAFAstudents are not accepted to a college or school associated with a major’s program (e.g., Collegeof Engineering). USAFA has nine institutional outcomes, and one is devoted to all graduatesbeing able to apply the engineering method. To meet this outcome, all students take fiveengineering courses as a part of the general education curriculum regardless of their major. Theearly general education engineering courses present an opportunity to recruit undeclared studentsinto engineering during their first year.Field Engineering and Readiness Laboratory ContextIn
of Connecticut conducted a PBSL experience where approximately 400first-year engineering students designed and built Corsi-Rosenthal (C-R) boxes (DIY AirPurifiers) that trap 56-91 % of respiratory aerosols and improve indoor air quality. The C-Rboxes were built for a nominal cost of $60 per box, using a 20” box fan, four 20”x20”x2”MERV-13 filters, the box from the fan, and duct tape. The project was carried out by smallgroups (3-4 students) working in the First-Year Design Laboratory over four weeks. At the endof the project, the C-R boxes were distributed to the local elementary schools. During the pandemic, these first-year engineering students had completed their final yearin high school remotely, under lockdown. Thus, this C-R box
. Gregory L. Long Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Gregory L. Long, PhD is currently the Lead Laboratory Instructor for NEET’s Autonomous Machines thread at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has a broad range of engineering design, prototype fabrication, woodworking, and manufacturing experiNathan Melenbrink, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDr. Amitava ’Babi’ Mitra, The Pennsylvania State University Amitava ’Babi’ Mitra linkedin.com/in/babimitra|+1-617-324-8131 | babi@mit.edu Dr. Amitava aˆ C˜Babiˆa C™ Mitra is the founding Executive Director of the New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) program at MIT ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023The
disciplines at the university level.Utilizing a visual medium such as picture books and graphic novels can make scientific conceptsmore accessible and memorable [1]. One example of this is the use of storytelling in nursingprograms [2,3], utilizing a method that mirrors the way the nursing students will receiveinformation from future patients. In a science course, Crocetti and Barr examine the use ofstorytelling and graphic novels to deliver science literacy concepts [4]. In the engineering field,digital storytelling has become a tool to use the digital medium to convey technical information ina more accessible way to non-technical audiences [5], to learn technical information in a civilengineering laboratory setting [6], and to develop engineering
paper will frame a typical CS1 problem – calculating the price of abusiness transaction and subsequently accepting payment and providing change to the customer –through the familiar scenario of buying donuts at a local donut shop. Students are provided withsuch artifacts as the donut shop’s menu, government publications for calculating sales tax, anddonut shop photos. Students are primed for success through preliminary laboratory assignmentsseparately focusing on the professional responsibilities for calculating sales tax, making change,and formatting monetary output while emphasizing the importance of breaking problems downinto their components. This approach has successfully been used as our first “major” CS1programming assignment, as
engineering,familiarize them with different areas of engineering and build foundational skills needed to besuccessful in college. There is a lecture and laboratory component for the course that are not co-requisite of each other and can be taken in any order. This unit of study is in the lecture portionof the class. Between lecture and laboratory, there are about 19 sections offered to serve the 956first-year students in the college. The course is part of a larger university-wide effort to enrollstudents in first-year experience courses in their college.Motivation- CurricularThe unit of study met various external demands on the curriculum: the university, college, anddesires to standardize practice. The course this unit is completed during is under
skills beyond a single use normally requires feedback, which in-person lectures oronline videos rarely deliver. 1The master-student demonstration framework for spreadsheet training is also employed in manyengineering courses [9]. For example, sessions held in computer labs involve a professor orteaching assistant demonstrating spreadsheet skills or techniques that can be mimicked bystudents. While instructors can give real time feedback in computer laboratories with smallnumbers of students, measuring students’ spreadsheet skills at scale is quite difficult.Alternatively, multiple choice tests can assess spreadsheet skills [10]. Now, web-based platformscan deliver interactive content delivery and
report that showcases the brainstormingprocess and end result.IntroductionThe course is a required 2-credit hour course for engineering and computing majors, typicallytaken by first year students in their first semester. The course meets twice weekly for a total of 4hours each week and is intended to be an active learning/laboratory course to introduce studentsto disciplines (by department) in our college, as well as engineering basics and orientation tocampus resources. An emphasis on group work pervades the course. Students are assigned toteams of 4 in the second week of the term and work with the same team throughout the semester.The first activity discussed below is intended to be a fun, team-building activity that introducesthe notion of
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University and her M.S. and Ph.D. at East Carolina University in Biological Sciences specializing in coastal ecology. Currently, Deborah is a Instructional Consultant in the Foundational Course Initiative in the Center for Research in Learning and Teaching. While completing her doctoral studies, she redesigned the second-semester introductory biology laboratory, integrating authentic research experiences using citizen science. After joining the University of Delaware in the Interdisciplinary Science Learning Laboratories, she continued developing authentic learning experiences for students in her integrated biology and chemistry course. Deborah has also created pedagogical training programs for graduate assistants
2006 JEE special reports ”The National Engineering Education Research Colloquies” and ”The Research Agenda for the New Discipline of Engineering Education.” He has a pas- sion for designing state-of-the-art learning spaces. While at Purdue University, Imbrie co-led the creation of the First-Year Engineering Program’s Ideas to Innovation (i2i) Learning Laboratory, a design-oriented facility that engages students in team-based, socially relevant projects. While at Texas A&M University Imbrie co-led the design of a 525,000 square foot state-of-the-art engineering education focused facility; the largest educational building in the state. Professor Imbrie’s expertise in educational pedagogy, student learning, and
makerspaces also offer greatpotential in serving broader goals of education [36, 40-42], such as the critical goal ofaugmenting first-year engineering retention. Some institutions utilize makerspaces as a means tooffer training and/or teaching new skills and/or knowledge [43]. For quite some time now, manycolleges have provided makerspace-analogous functionalities, including assembly/testing areas,machine shops, Computer Aided Design laboratories, and/or classrooms. What universities oftenlack is the inclusion of all of these elements in one location [44]. For campuses that doimplement such centralized accommodations, the majority of these makerspaces are utilizedpredominantly for informal settings rather than as a required program course.However, in
Fall 211 5 2023 Spring 156 5Course Goals and StructureThe course goals are for students to learn: (1) to analyze data in the context of engineeringproblems, (2) programming using MATLAB, (3) to work effectively in teams, (4) to prototypeusing hand tools, basic CAD, and 3D printing, and (5) to articulate differences and overlapsbetween engineering disciplines and practices. These course goals are stated on the syllabus.Students in ENGR 130 meet in two 75-minute laboratory sessions and a single, combined 75-minute lecture per week. In the lab, students complete two-week modules that combineMATLAB programming and hands-on design projects, working in teams of three or
toname two accomplishments after participating in a REU, the result was an increased level ofconfidence and an increased appreciation for research. These answers, as well as previouslycollected data, suggest a daily laboratory experience for undergraduate students is necessary fordevelopment of engineering identity and research self-efficacy [5]. Daily laboratory experience issomething the REU can provide since participants would be carrying out original research whileworking on their project each day. Since the REU gives engineering students experience in theircareer paths, it also gives them a taste of what graduate school would be like and has indirectlyled to an increase in positive attitude towards graduate school as well as graduate
persistence and retention of low-income engineering transfer students.Dr. David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine 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 an adjunct faculty member in Electrical and Computer Engi- neering at the University of New Mexico. His broad research interests include engineering
. T. Puente, and F. Torres, “Hands-on experiences of undergraduate students in Automatics and Robotics using a virtual and remote laboratory,” Comput. Educ., vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 2451–2461, 2011, doi: 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.07.003. [Accessed April 28, 2023].[3] C. S. Cheah, “Factors contributing to the difficulties in teaching and learning of computer programming: A literature review,” Contemp. Educ. Technol., vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 1–14, 2020, doi: 10.30935/cedtech/8247.[4] B. Bettin, M. Jarvie-Eggart, K. S. Steelman, and C. Wallace, “Preparing First-Year Engineering Students to Think About Code: A Guided Inquiry Approach,” IEEE Trans. Educ., vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 309–319, 2022, doi: 10.1109/TE.2021.3140051
. Also, students had the opportunity to clarifydoubts about different engineering programs offered at the CoE, learn about typical tasksperformed by different engineering branches, learn about research laboratories, manufacturing,and service facilities; and use math and science concepts in the solution of engineeringproblems.A. Course DeliveryThe course was offered as one weekly meeting of fifty minutes for fifteen weeks per semester(1 credit hour). The topics covered in the course included: Introduction to Engineering; TeamBuilding in Engineering; The Engineering Design Process; Ethics in Engineering Design; andseven lectures, one on each of the academic departments in the CoE. Departments offeringmore than one undergraduate academic program
using the Engineering Design Process (EDP)within the context of the accomplishments and mindset of Da Vinci. The course exploredengineering mechanics and design topics concurrent with applying physics topics in anengineering laboratory. A qualitative analysis was performed using a new reflective tool,PhotoVoice. The purpose of the assessment was to better understand the impact of the course onthe student vision, the operation of the course relative to what they have encountered in theireducational careers, and student-perceived learning outcomes. Analysis of student reflectionsrevealed themes of “Changed Perspectives,” “Engagement in the Classroom,” and“Brainstorming Benefits” when describing the impact of the course on their career visions
. Richards, “Curriculum Approaches in Language Teaching: Forward, Central, and Backward Design,” RELC J., vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 5–33, Apr. 2013, doi: 10.1177/0033688212473293.[10] J. Emory, “Understanding Backward Design to Strengthen Curricular Models,” Nurse Educ., vol. 39, no. 3, p. 122, Jun. 2014, doi: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000000034.[11] K. Y. Neiles and K. Arnett, “Backward Design of Chemistry Laboratories: A Primer,” J. Chem. Educ., vol. 98, no. 9, pp. 2829–2839, Sep. 2021, doi: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00443.[12] K. M. Cooper, P. A. G. Soneral, and S. E. Brownell, “Define Your Goals Before You Design a CURE: A Call to Use Backward Design in Planning Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences,” J. Microbiol
teams in the chemical and natural gas engineering section of GEEN 1201, whichinvolved topics in water purification, solar water pumping, salinity treatment by reverse osmosis,and liquid-liquid extraction. For each project, essential mechanical units were provided and thestudents were tasked with developing and testing a prototype unit or in a laboratory setting.Because of the limited time allotted to the project during the semester (approximately 6 weeks),the instructor gave the specific problem definition to the students, rather than having the studentsperform their own problem definition based upon a more generic needs statement.The objective of the water purification project was to develop a prototype device for on-demandpurification of
Laboratories. Since 1993 he has been with Bucknell University where he is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include antenna array system design, signal processing, and medical ultrasound imaging. Dr. Kozick received a 2006 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society and the Presidential Award for Teaching Excellence from Bucknell University in 1999.Christa Matlack, Bucknell University Christa Matlack serves as a Career Coach in the Center for Career Advancement at Bucknell University where her role is to empower undergraduate students to seek meaningful careers and to guide students through the career development process. In addition, Christa is a co-leader of