AC 2011-148: PROGRAM FOR STUDENT RETENTION AND SUCCESSIN ENGINEERINGRafic Bachnak, Texas A&M International University Dr. Bachnak is a Professor at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU). He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical from Ohio University in 1983, 1984, and 1989, respectively. Prior to joining TAMIU in 2007, Dr. Bachnak was on the faculty of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Northwestern State University, and Franklin University. His experience includes several fellowships with NASA and the US Navy Laboratories and employment with Koch Industries. Dr. Bachnak is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, a senior member of IEEE and ISA, and a member of ASEE
AC 2011-977: BENEFITS OF SMALL COLLEGE-INDUSTRY PARTNER-SHIPS FOR TRAINING PROGRAM DEVELOPMENTBruce V. Mutter, Bluefield State College Bruce V. Mutter is the founder and CEO of the Center for Applied Research & Technology, Inc. (CART) and teaches project management and engineering economics at Bluefield State College as an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Technology.Roy Pruett, Bluefield State College Roy E. Pruett is a Registered Professional Engineer and a Professor and Department Head of the Electrical Engineering and Technology Department at Bluefield State College. He is the owner of Pruett Engineering and serves as consultant to several local businesses. Roy received his B. S. degree in
AC 2011-1353: CREATING GREEN THINKING ENGINEERS THROUGHTHE CREATION AND USE OF AN INDUSTRIAL ENERGY MANAGE-MENT COURSEDonald C. Richter, Eastern Washington University DONALD C. RICHTER obtained his B. Sc. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from The Ohio State University, M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Arkansas. He holds a Pro- fessional Engineer certification and worked as an Engineer and Engineering Manger in industry for 20 years before teaching. His interests include project management, robotics /automation, Energy Manage- ment and air pollution dispersion modeling Page 22.394.1
potential to provide an ideal venue forapplying previously proven collaborative teaching and learning techniques commonly used insmaller engineering laboratory and discussion sessions to a larger, more traditional lecturesetting. Currently, the range of use of Tablet PCs in the classroom includes enhancing lecturepresentations,13,14 digital ink and note taking,15 E-Books (books in electronic format) that allowhyperlinks and annotations,16 Tablet-PC-based in-class assessments,13,14 and Tablet-PC-basedclassroom collaboration systems such as Classroom Presenter,17 Ubiquitous Presenter,18NetSupport School,19,20,21,22 and DyKnow.23As part of the ONE-STEP program a Summer Engineering Teaching Institute (SETI) will beheld to help California community
Hassan, Universiti Teknologi MalaysiaMohammad Zamry Jamaludin, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Mohammad Zamry is a tutor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Chemical Engineer- ing,Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), since 2007. He is one of the class facilitators for a third-year chemical engineering course, Process Control and Dynamics, that employs cooperative problem-based learning (CPBL) as the teaching and learning methodology. He also implements CPBL lab for Process Control Laboratory, a lab course for the final year students. Mohammad Zamry is an active member of engineering education research team in UTM. The team is now very progressive in doing research re- lated to cooperative
. Fini, North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Ellie Fini is an assistant professor of Civil Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. Her expertise is in Transportation and Construction Engineering. She conducts research in pedagogy assessment and instructional laboratory equipment. She also conducts research in the area of sustainable construction materials, pavement design and rehabilitation. She received her Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the Director of Sustainable Infrastructure Materials Laboratory at NC A&T State University. She is currently the principle investigator of four active NSF grants on sustainable construction materials. She has been involved in a
. Montreal, Canada.8. Bhargava, P., et al. Virtual labs, real data for statics and Mechanics of Materials. in ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. 2003. Nashville, TN.9. Roylance, D., C.H. Jenkins, and S.K. Khanna. Innovations in teaching mechanics of materials in materials science and engineering departments. in ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. 2001. Albuquerque, NM.10. Steif, P.S. and A. Dollar, Integrating effective general classroom techniques with domain-specific conceptual needs, in ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. 2004: Salt Lake City, UT.11. Goulet, R.U. and J. Owino. Experiential problem based learning in the mechanics of materials laboratory. in ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. 2002
design, and biomechanics. Dr. Saad received his high school education in Lebanon. His BS and MS were received from Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. The emphasis of his master’s dissertation was on a finite element analysis of a solder joint under thermal loading. Dr. Saad received his PhD from Washington State University in Pullman, WA. His research focused on the energy dissipation function of an abrasive water jet cutting through steel. In addition to this, Dr. Saad has taught a vast number of engineering classes at many institutions and is currently teaching, among other classes, Statics, Strength of Materials, Dynamics and Senior Capstone at Eastern Washington University. Professor Durfee received his BS
University in December 2002. His research has been funded by the NSF, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the US Army. He has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award, the American Society of Engineer- ing Education (ASEE) Mechanics Division Ferdinand P. Beer and E. Russell Johnson Jr. Outstanding New Educator Award, the 2009 Outstanding Teacher Award from the Stevens Alumni Association, and the 2006 Harvey N. Davis Distinguished Teaching Assistant Professor Award from Stevens.Hong Man, Stevens Institute of Technology Dr. Hong Man joined the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens in January 2000. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia
AC 2011-517: PROJECT-BASED RESIDENCY COURSE FOR ONLINEGRADUATE PROGRAMBimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M UniversityDr. F. Barry Lawrence, Texas A&M University Dr. Barry Lawrence holds the Leonard and Valerie Bruce Leadership Chair, the Program Director of the Industrial Distribution Program, Director of the Thomas and Joan Read Center, and Director of the Global Supply Chain Laboratory at Texas A&M University. As a faculty member of the Industrial Distribution Program he is involved in graduate, undergraduate, and professional continuing education teaching activities, funded research projects, publications and in- dustry presentations. His teaching activities surround classes in manufacturer/distributor
AC 2011-959: DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF ENERGY MOD-ULES IN THE CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUMJason M. Keith, Michigan Technological University Jason Keith is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University. He received his B.S.ChE from the University of Akron in 1995, and his Ph.D from the University of Notre Dame in 2001. He is the 2008 recipient of the Raymond W. Fahien Award for Outstanding Teaching Effectiveness and Educational Scholarship as well as a 2010 inductee into the Michigan Technological University Academy of Teaching Excellence. His current research interests include reactor stability, al- ternative energy, and engineering education. He is active within
AC 2011-2039: MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF MOBILESTUDIO BASED EDUCATION AND OUTREACHKenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dr. Connor is a Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering where he teaches courses on plasma physics, electromagnetics, electronics and instrumentation, electric power, and general Engineering. His research involves plasma physics, electromagnetics, photonics, engineering education, diversity in the engineering workforce, and technology enhanced learning. Since joining the Rensselaer faculty in 1974, he has been continuously involved in research programs at such places as Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Universities of Texas and
, http://www.opnet.com[3] Martin Casado and Nick McKeown, “The virtual network system,” SIGCSE’05, Feb 23-27, 2005.[4] R. D. Enrico Carniani, “The netwire emulator: a tool for teaching and understanding networks,” ACMSIGCSE Bulletin, 33(3):153-156, 2001.[5] J. Dehart, F. Kuhns, J. Parwatikar at el, “The open network laboratory”, SIGCSE’06, March 1-5,2006, Houston, Texas.[6] Brian White, Jay Lepreau, Leigh Stoller, et. al., “An Integrated Experimental Environment forDistributed Systems and Networks,” Proc. 5th Symp. on Op. Sys. Design & Implementation, Dec. 2002,pp. 255-270.[7] Brent Chun, David Culler, Timothy Roscoe, Andy Bavier, Larry Peterson, et.al., “Planetlab: Anoverlay Testbed for Broad-Coverage Services,” ACM Computer Communications
22.1255.4Timoshenko allows us access into a detailed and rich history of engineering education’sdevelopment during the first half of the tumultuous twentieth century. Universities, researchinstitutes, laboratories, scientists, faculty members and students have the most relevant place inthe Timoshenko’s autobiography As I Remember. In his narration, the Bolshevik Revolution,World War I, and the rise of Nazis in Germany are the context through which engineering andthe sciences go forward into a new technological era. Timoshenko also devotes many episodes toexplain his teaching and learning experiences and his vision about comparisons amongengineering curricula in different countries. He taught in Russia, Yugoslavia, and in theAmerican East, Midwest, and West
AC 2011-1904: NSF CCLI: AN APPLIED QUANTUM MECHANICS COURSEALIGNED WITH THE ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGCURRICULUMStella A Quinones, University of Texas, El Paso Dr. Stella Quiones is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) where she has been a faculty member for the past 13 years. She is the Forest O. and Henrietta Lewis Professor in Electrical Engineering and is a 2010 UT Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award recipient. Dr. Quinones was also selected as an innovative early-career engineering faculty to participate in the Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) symposium in Dec. 2010. Her current research areas include planar and nano-scale
professor of chemical engineering and Director of the Center for Engineering Ed- ucation at the Colorado School of Mines where he has taught chemical engineering and interdisciplinary courses and conducted engineering education research for the past 25 years. Dr. Miller has received three university-wide teaching awards and has held a Jenni teaching fellowship at CSM. He has received grant awards for education research from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education FIPSE program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education and has published widely in the engineering education literature. His research interests include measuring and repairing
AC 2011-2511: PROPOSED RENORMALIZED GRADE POINT AVERAGEACCOUNTING FOR CLASS GPARandall D. Manteufel, University of Texas, San Antonio Dr. Manteufel currently serves as an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio where he has been on the faculty since 1997. His teaching and research interests are in the thermal sciences. He is currently the faculty advisor ASHRAE at UTSA.Amir Karimi, University of Texas, San Antonio Amir Karimi is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineer- ing from the University of Kentucky in 1982. His
skills and practice communication and presentation skills.Classroom teaching is combined with laboratory exercises. Heavy emphasis is placed onteamwork. At the end of the semester, the students must present a team project. The project is ofsufficient complexity and workload that it is very difficult for one student to complete it alone ina semester’s time frame.To illustrate the teaching approach, the topic of distillation will be presented. In this typicalsession on distillation process design and operation, the students learn about the concept ofdistillation, how to design a distillation to achieve desired product specifications, simulate adistillation process and consider the impact of certain operating variables on its operation.By
on the screen: Identity in the age of the internet, (1995), NY: Simon & Shuster.[30]. M. Ashoori, Z. Shen and C. Miao, Pedagogical Agents for Personalized Multi-user Virtual Environments, International Journal of Engineering Education, 25(4),(2009), pp. 772-776.[31]. F. Torres, F. A. Candelas, S. T. Puente, J. P. Gil, and F. G. Ortiz, Experiences with Virtual Environment and Remote Laboratory for Teaching and Learning Robotics at the University of Alicante, International Journal of Engineering Education,22(4), (2006), pp. 766-776.[32]. S. S. Smith, K. P. Saunders, P. Antonenko, T. Green,N. Peterson, A. D. Thompson, Experiences In Using Virtual Reality In Design And Graphics Classrooms, International Journal of
AC 2011-1861: ENRICHING K-12 SCIENCE EDUCATION USING LEGOSKeeshan Williams, The Polytechnic Institute of NYU KEESHAN WILLIAMS received a B.A. degree in Chemistry from Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), Flushing, NY, in 2005. Upon graduation, he worked as a Chemist for a materials testing laboratory in College Point, NY, and most recently as a Materials Engineer for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. After obtaining his M.S. degree in Chemical and Biological Engineering at NYU-Poly in 2008, he started pursuing a Ph.D. degree also in Chemical and Biological Engineering at NYU-Poly in the same year. He is currently serving as a teaching Fellow at the Crispus Attucks Elementary School
educators to work with professional practitioners in practice-based fields suchas engineering. Similar sentiments are expressed by the National Academy of Engineering intheir recent report Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century17.Yet there are three interrelated challenges in bringing professional practice more fully into theclassroom. First, while college professors have expertise in teaching, they often lack the modernpractices required in fields that are constantly changing. The workaday demands of the full-timeacademic make it difficult for college teachers to keep up with state-of-art practices, even forthose with a strong background in industry. Second, while professional practitioners possessstate-of-art technical skills
Intellectual Development of Students:Advantages and Disadvantages", 2002 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, June 2002.3. Perry, W. G., Forms of intellectual and ethical development in the college years: A scheme. New York: Holt,Rinehart and Winston, 1970.4. Aycock, A., Garnham, C., and Kaleta, R., “Lessons Learned from the Hybrid Course Project”, Teaching WithTechnology Today, Vol. 8, No. 6, March 2002.5. McFarlin, B., “Hybrid Lecture-Online Format Increases Student Grades in an Undergraduate ExercisePhysiology Course at a Large Urban University”, Advan. Physiol. Educ., Vol. 32, p. 86-91, 2008.6. Riffell, S. and Merrill, J, “Do Hybrid Lecture Formats Influence Laboratory Performance in Large, Pre-Professional Biology Courses?”, J. Nat. Resour. Life
AC 2011-647: NINE YEARS OF CALIBRATED PEER REVIEW IN RHETORICAND ENGINEERING DESIGNPatricia A. Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patricia A. Carlson received the BA from the College of William and Mary and the MA and PhD from Duke University. She came to Rose-Hulman early in her teaching career and has taught a wide variety of courses. She is currently pursuing research interests in educational applications for Commmunication and Information Technology (CIT) Pat has held a number of American Society for Engineering Edu- cation summer fellowships that have taken her to NASA-Goddard, NASA-Langley, the Army Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland, and NASA’s Classroom of the Future in Wheeling, WV. She was
system - a desktop punch press suitable foruse in a laboratory environment. First, a preliminary flawed design is analyzed to identifyphysical contradiction. An S-field analysis is performed so that a new design having the physicalcontradiction resolved can be proposed and implemented.Introduction The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has predicted that this year the U.S. willlose its world leadership standing in manufacturing. While this fact does not seem to beimportant today, the consequences are far reaching and may be catastrophic to our nation.Michael Wessel, a member of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commissionclaimed that “we no longer have the domestic capacity to produce enough ammunition to supplyour troops
mistakenly assume boredom or alack of engagement from the seemingly passive listening displayed as a mode of preferredlearning for an Auditory student. Likewise, the learning materials and activities that an instructormight generally utilize with success, such as projected presentation materials, handouts of lecturenotes, hands-on demonstrations or laboratory experiments, and assigned readings of textbookchapters, can be less meaningful for students who exhibit a monomodal preference for Auditorylearning.When faced with an increased proportion of students who exhibit a preference for Auditorylearning, instructors may find increased success in their teaching by ensuring that main conceptsfrom the course are specifically described verbally in detail
optimization. He worked as a production control engineer in Taiwan, and has taught laboratory classes in manufacturing engineering and freshmen engi- neering in the U.S. He earned his Bachelor and Master degrees in Industrial Engineering from National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) and Purdue University (U.S.A). His ultimate career goal is to help cul- tivate world-class engineering graduates that can compete globally, as well as collaborate with the best engineers across different cultures.Ms. Juila D Thompson, Purdue University, West LafayetteYi Shen, Purdue University Yi Shen is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Information Studies from the University of
significance are the field trips and site visits which allow students to experienceand correlate lecture topics within real-world applications. The interdisciplinary nature of theCOSMOS program through its science communication element allows students to discussexperiences within the context of a variety of scientific fields. Implementation of technology inthe teaching laboratory, while not exhaustive, is also proven to be helpful in effectivelycommunicating and applying lecture topics. The math and science components of the programmeet numerous qualifications for national standards for education in grades 9 through 12, whichpromotes the notion that the curriculum could be effectively applied in the traditional classroomsetting as well. Overall, the
projector. There were visitsto other campus locations during the SLI, including an orientation to the use of Googledocs atone of the technology laboratories on the main campus. All participants had access tohardware/software that was used, and the main meeting space was set up for wirelessnetworking. Content specific instruction was delivered by lecture format, modeling anddemonstrating, and through collaborative learning. Teaching styles that were observed includedstructured instruction, inclusion style, guided discovery, and convergent discovery. Instructionalstrategies that were used extensively were collaborative learning and hands-on learning.Occasionally independent work, lecture, simulations/demonstrations, and integration oftechnology were
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, in 2003. In 2003, Dr. Lima became a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA, where he is currently an Associate Professor with tenure. Dr. Lima is a senior member of the IEEE Photonics Society and of the IEEE EMBS society. In 2006, Dr. Lima was as a Faculty Fellow in the 2006 U.S. Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program in the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, OH. Dr. Lima research interests have been devoted to optical communications, optical coherence tomography, volumetric displays, and biomedical engineering
unable to readily provide detailed course information. information The studyprovided the results summarized in Figure 5 below, which indicated some level of hands-onhandswelding and fabrication courses offered at the overwhelming majority of institutions, howeverthey varied in content from lecture only, or survey type, to in in-depth depth laboratory activities,including one institution that offered certification in welding technology. A discussion of theresults follows. No. of Eng. Science 50