Paper ID #42983Board 94: Work in Progress: Development of Lab-Based Assessment Tools toGauge Undergraduates’ Circuit Debugging Skills and PerformanceAndrew J. Ash, Oklahoma State University Andrew J. Ash is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering in the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering at OSU and he is a research assistant in Dr. John Hu’s Analog VLSI Laboratory. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma Christian University. Andrew’s research interests include hardware security of data converters and engineering curriculum development.Dr. Jennifer Dawn Cribbs, Oklahoma State University
Engineering Education, 2024 Virtual Reality Simulation of Wind TurbineAbstractThis research study presents an innovative virtual reality (VR) laboratory module aimed atenhancing green manufacturing education, particularly focusing on the intricacies of wind turbineefficiency. This VR-based educational tool provides a hands-on learning experience that simulatesthe operation of a wind turbine, allowing students to explore the dynamics of wind energyconversion. Using VR controllers and headsets, participants can interact with a virtual environmentthat includes a vertical wind turbine and a fan blower, complete with start/stop buttons and controlsfor adjusting wind speed.The virtual lab is built on the Unity 3D platform
ofSTEM education. Moreover, it explores various dimensions of AM education, includinginnovative laboratories equipped with advanced 3D printers, remote laboratories to enable accessfrom distant locations, curriculum development encompassing on-ground, online, and hybridprograms. Furthermore, this study examines AM software tools and simulations, industrycertifications, and hardware and equipment used in educational settings. The paper also delvesinto educational pathways, collaborations between academia and industry, workforce demands,and the ethical and societal aspects of AM education, focusing on sustainability and equity.Overall, this study offers insights into the diverse and evolving landscape of AM education,emphasizing adaptability
Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Pull, Twist, and Break: Helping Engineering Students Visualize Material FailuresAbstractThe materials tested in basic engineering mechanics courses, such as steel and aluminum, havebeen well studied and have consistent material properties. Experimentally testing these materialsin a laboratory setting helps students visualize the difference between the failure behavior ofductile and brittle materials. However, there are thousands of other materials which arecommonly used in industry and academia which exhibit different behaviors or are moreinconsistent between samples. These materials may behave differently when subjected todifferent loading conditions such as tension
measure response, and their mobile phone turns out to be a very good tool for this.Finally, they need a way to solve for the dynamic response of the structure based on an arbitraryblast loading and you happen to have introduced a spreadsheet implementation of Newmark’smethod. All the pieces are in place; let’s see what the students do!This paper describes the implementation and results of a blast loading experiment using aircannons and the resulting student responses. Exam performance was comparable to students in aprevious offering without the laboratory. Laboratory reports provided insight consistent withprior studies of problem-based learning and that support theories that experimentation labs maybe more effective than verification
Paper ID #44351Introductory Circuits and Electronics Remote Labs: Design, Implementation,and Lessons LearnedDr. Mona ElHelbawy, University of Colorado Bouldereric bogatin, University of Colorado Boulder ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Introductory Circuits and Electronics Remote Labs: Design, Implementation, and Lessons LearnedAbstractIn this paper we describe our re-design and delivery of an Introduction to Circuits andElectronics core undergraduate course at the University of Colorado Boulder. The courseintegrates take-home laboratory experiments designed to foster deep learning
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. We examined course materials to identify where writing is explicitly or implicitly referenced, the genres that were assigned, and writing concepts that were represented. Analyzing course materials allowed us to identify a wide range of activities and assignments related to writing. We observed that implicit references to writing are prevalent, writing activities are weighted toward upper-level classes, and the most common genres are related to laboratory activities. Writing concepts that occurred frequently in upper-level laboratory courses correspond to disciplinary values of precision and clarity, while concepts of novelty and evidence were infrequent. This
Paper ID #43127Board 149: Pioneering Pathways for High School Students in STEM Education(Work in Progress)Mr. Adam W Davidson, Duke University Adam is a seasoned educator and Senior Laboratory Administrator for the Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) department at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. With a degree in Technology Education from NC State University, his journey in education began as a Technology Education teacher at Penn-Griffin School for the Arts and later as a PLTW Engineering Instructor and Fab Lab Manager at Riverside High School and Technology Equipment Coordinator for Durham Public
for in-class hands-on experimental activities. Flipped classroom techniques show thatstudents watching videos before laboratory experiences generally improves student confidence,knowledge, & attitude between sections on-line lectures & control sections [31, 32]. Typicallythese laboratory experiments are fairly generic science experiments (e.g. [31]), and yet, ECElaboratory knowledge improves as measured through quizes and prework improvement [33].These results would encourage development of flipped classroom techniques to encouragehands-on laboratory experiments. And yet, how does one build these kinds of ECE hands-onin-class experiments that are integrated with class objectives?This discussion presents our efforts to utilize open
complete tendirected laboratory projects and a final comprehensive project at the end of the semester.Students must maintain laboratory manuals for each activity. The program requires the use of thePython scripting language throughout upper division coursework. The department is changing itscurriculum to introduce coding in the 1st-year physics sequence. To reinforce these skills, theelectronics course will introduce the use of Jupyter Notebooks (JN) as the laboratory notebookformat. A JN is a web-based platform that allows students to create cells of code or text. Textcells provide a platform for students to describe the “what, why, and how” of theirmeasurements. Code cells can run Python (or many other programming languages) code. Thisallows
to support basic theorem, but they are rarelyencountered outside the laboratory setting. It is easy to create illusions for students that hands-onpractices in college will not be relevant in future real work, potentially leading to loss of interestor decreased attention to hands-on practices. As an integral part of professional trainings, hands-on practice with any weakness in college can limit not only students’ education performance butalso their future work abilities. According to the author’s observation, there has been asignificant change in student study habits nowadays, especially after the pandemic. Whileadvanced technologies have been employed to aid students in education, they also presentchallenges. This work aims to enhance
the pre- and post-assessments. Lessonslearned and future improvements for the course are also discussed.Keywordssustainable engineering, engineering education, course development, sustainable materials,engineering elective, chemical engineering, laboratory experimentsIntroductionPrograms in sustainability have been on the rise in U.S. universities over the last two decades.The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), foundedin 2004, states that there are now 756 institutions of higher education in 31 countries that havedeveloped 4,086 programs in sustainability [1]. Nearly 500 sustainability programs have beendeveloped worldwide in engineering alone. As might be expected, the programs differsignificantly
the utilization of hands-on pedagogy as a means toenhance peer learning collaboration and curiosity among chemistry undergraduate students. Theresearch seeks to instill confidence and competence in students' grasp of fundamental chemicalprinciples, collaborative skills, and problem-solving abilities, while also nurturing their curiositythrough the integration of active learning techniques, laboratory experiments, and interactiveteaching methodologies. The study discusses an examination of the impact of hands-onpedagogy on students' peer learning collaboration and curiosity. The study was carried outamong undergraduate students taking foundations in chemistry, which includes engineering andother STEM majors. The study adopted a pre-post-test
Engineering Education, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, Engineering DesignThinking, Global Context, UAEAbstract:Engineers have the ability and responsibility to design and develop solutions that can improvepeople's lives, solve pressing problems, and make the world a better place. Real-world challengesare becoming increasingly complex and global, and engineering projects often requirecollaboration between people from different cultures.Global engineering is a general engineering course required by all engineering students. Thecourse focuses on designing and developing engineering solutions to real-world problems in aglobal context. In spring 2024, the course was offered in an innovative way, with a lecture-basedpart and a hands-on laboratory part. The
, based on the concept of digital twins,to create an identical model of the physical object, which can communicate wirelessly.Findings from a comprehensive analysis of multiple studies suggest that the integration of digitaltwins has the potential to significantly enhance learning motivation and retention in engineeringeducation. Notably, leveraging strategies such as game-centered learning, personalized learning,and virtual prototyping can effectively promote these outcomes. Of particular significance is theobservation that digital twins can diversify the range of laboratory options within engineeringclasses without entailing additional equipment costs. Consequently, this expansion of resourcesmitigates barriers for students, providing them with
materials science courses.Dr. Elvin Beach, The Ohio State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Integrating Computational and Physical Lab Modules in MaterialsScience and EngineeringAbstractComputational tools play an ever-expanding role in the careers of practicing engineers. As such,in addition to physical labs, our program requires all undergraduate students to take a two-semester sequence in computational materials science called “modeling and simulation” (orModSim) focusing on practical programming skills and use of commercial CALPHAD and FEAsoftware. These courses are taught in the spring semesters of the sophomore and junior years andformatted as hands-on computational laboratory courses
Paper ID #42745Board 82: Work in Progress: Examination of Video Demonstrations as anAlternate Content-Delivery MethodMr. Kevin E Wandke, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Kevin Wandke received his B.S. degree in mechanical science and engineering and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, in 2019 and 2022, respectively, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering. He was a member of the SULI Program at Argonne National Laboratory, and an Intern of the Edison Engineering Program, General Electric’s Global Research Center
traditionalundergraduate mechanical engineering controls course that incorporates research withexperiential learning. The ten-week course provides students an opportunity to use moderncomputer tools to aid in the simulation and control of space mechanisms. In particular, the coursefocuses on the mathematical modeling, simulation, and control of an innovative planar pick andplace mechanism capable of dynamically changing its topology within its workspace. Thisimmersive educational experience allows students to connect fundamental mathematicalmodeling of a physical system to the real-time control of physical hardware. This paperdocuments the structure of this new course, its learning objectives, and outlines the uniqueproject and laboratory experiences that
inclusive, reflective teaching practices on problem solving proficiencyMotivationDevelopment and implementation of inclusive teaching practices is an important educationalmovement [1]. For four years, we worked to implement three inclusive practices: standards-based grading with reflection [2], [3], co-created assessment [3], [4], [5], and peer review [2] ofwritten deliverables in a sophomore-level experimental design laboratory and lecture course.This work focuses on peer review, though it utilizes the former two practices in doing so.Briefly, standards-based grading (SBG) is a formative assessment approach that allows fortracking of objective proficiency throughout the curriculum and allows for just-in-time
engineering collaboration have been proposed [18, 19].Previously, we reported on educational innovations to teach students of engineering aboutdevices with biomedical applications [20, 21, 22]. These teaching efforts included thedevelopment of devices in the laboratory [23], the deployment of these devices to the field (inthis case, the community environment) [24], and the ongoing improvement of devices to promotehuman health [25]. These efforts incorporated high school teachers as well as historicallyunderrepresented student populations to learn about and become involved in device development[26]. These prior efforts targeted long-standing problems of sustainable development includingsecure access to safe supplies of food and water [27, 28, 29, 30
, and UniversidadAustral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile, named as Institution 2. In each institution, students enrolled inMechanical Vibrations courses were tasked with conducting the virtual laboratory experiment aspart of their assignment. At Institution 1, 33 students participated, while 47 students participatedat Institution 2.The present paper is structured as follows. Firstly, the paper explores the educational advantagesof introducing virtual labs in engineering major classrooms. Secondly, the VRK Project isintroduced, please note that a previous publication describes the tool extensively [1], thereforeonly a brief overview will be provided in this document. Following this, a rotor balancingexperiment is demonstrated using a single-plane
four materials courses, EGR254 Materials Engineering,ME306/MSE20000 Materials Science, CE20400 Civil Engineering Materials – Laboratory,and MSE34400 Materials in Engineering (formerly CE/ME33001 Structure and Properties ofMaterials), and their applications to the courses on different subjects instructions.It is fair to assume that ABET accredited engineering programs have similar curriculums. AtPNW, the authors’ first teaching, learning, and instructing experiences were mostly in itsmechanical and civil engineering programs. It was decided to use said programs as the maintemplate to explain MSE’s teaching, learning, and instructions’ connections to differentengineering subjects’ courses. The core MSE and non-MSE courses and the relevant
Engineering Education, 2024 Lighting a Pathway to Energy Transitions: Collecting, interpreting and sharing engineering designs and research data across a school-based agrivoltaics citizen science network (Resource Exchange)Grade level: 1-12 Time: School year integration Standards Focus: NGSS 3-5 ETSThe Sonoran Photovoltaics Laboratory (SPV Lab) is a network of K-12 students and teachers,scientists, engineers, and community partners encouraging equitable, lasting, sustainableenergy transitions. Specifically, SPV Lab is developing an innovative model for school-basedcitizen science that supports a networked approach to building knowledge in agrivoltaics, a
Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Signals and Systems Complex and Variables 2nd Year Digital Circuits and Systems Semiconductor Physics Introduction to VLSI Design Integrated Circuit Design Laboratory Introduction to Analog Integrated Circuits 3rd Year Analog Integrated Circuits Lab Semiconductor Engineering Introduction to Crystallography and Diffraction Introduction to Compound Semiconductor Device and Process
Paper ID #41378Work in Progress: Implementation of a Curricular Development Project forExperiential Learning in a Senior Capstone Product-Design CourseDr. Chris Barr, University of Michigan Dr. Christopher Barr is the Instructional Laboratory Supervisor in the Chemical Engineering Department at University of Michigan. He obtained his Ph.D. at University of Toledo in 2013 and is a former Fellow in the N.S.F. GK-12 grant ”Graduate Teaching Fellows in STEM High School Education: An Environmental Science Learning Community at the Land-Lake Ecosystem Interface”. His main responsibilities are supervising and implementing
World War II. The need for militarydevelopment and space exploration during the Cold War era fueled a marked shift in the natureof engineering degrees with a heavy engineering science component [1], [2]. As the engineeringprograms became more science-heavy, ET programs started being established to prepareprofessionals who were trained in specific domains of technology and could fill the need for“skilled crafts and the highly scientific professions” (Smith and Lipsett, 1956, as cited in [1]).As a result, one significant aspect of the ET degree is its emphasis on practical and laboratory-based instruction and relatively less focus on advanced mathematics. As a report by the NationalAcademy of Engineering notes, “the pedigree of ET is rooted in
: 10.1007/s11229-008-9454-z.[8] A. Y. Kim, G. M. Sinatra, and V. Seyranian, “Developing a STEM Identity Among Young Women: A Social Identity Perspective,” Review of Educational Research, vol. 88, no. 4, pp. 589–625, Aug. 2018, doi: 10.3102/0034654318779957.[9] K. Horvat and J. Randi, “A Partnership Model for Integrating Technical Communication Habits Throughout Undergraduate Engineering Courses,” presented at the 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Jun. 2020. Accessed: Nov. 17, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/a-partnership-model-for-integrating-technical- communication-habits-throughout-undergraduate-engineering-courses[10] J. Bishop, “Designing the Laboratory Experience from the Ground Up
Paper ID #42760Engaging Community College Students in Artificial Intelligence Researchthrough an NSF-Funded Summer Research Internship ProgramDr. Zhuwei Qin, San Francisco State University Dr. Zhuwei Qin is currently an assistant professor in the School of Engineering at San Francisco State University (SFSU). His research interests are in the broad area of deep learning acceleration, interpretable deep learning, and edge computing. Dr. Qin serves as the director of the Mobile and Intelligent Computing Laboratory (MIC Lab) at SFSU. Dr. Qin’s research endeavors are dedicated to addressing the inherent challenges related
of a series of laboratory assignments and course projects. A total of two hundredfifty boards were procured and populated. These boards have served as major lab equipment forfive courses in the Electronic Systems Engineering Technology (ESET) program at Texas A&MUniversity (ESET 349 - Microcontroller Architecture and ESET 369 - Embedded SystemsSoftware course) as well as in the Electronic & Electronic, and Mechatronics EngineeringTechnology (EEET and MET) programs at Northern Kentucky University (NKU). This paperprimarily explores students' experiential learning in two microprocessor courses at NKU: EGT367 (Microprocessor) and EGT 467 (Advanced Microprocessor). Before enrolling in theseclasses, students are required to complete the
Engineering Department at University of Florida. He is the Director of the Unit Operations Laboratory, currently working on the development platforms to enhance the instruction of Unit Operations Laboratories ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work-in-progress: Elevating Chemical Engineering Outreach Through Collaborative Efforts Showcasing Fluid Flow ExperimentsABSTRACTThe Summer Enrichment Academy (SEA) is a summer program at the University of Maryland,Baltimore County (UMBC), which introduces pre-college students to science, engineering, arts,and humanities fields. Students participate in engaging, informative, and interactive week-longworkshops to gain a preview of the college