. Page 22.179.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 An Innovative Interdisciplinary Student Project: Engineering and NursingAbstract:Typical projects involving engineering students identified as „interdisciplinary‟ usually involvedifferent disciplines within engineering. Projects that are truly interdisciplinary can bediscovered when faculty from different areas of campus work together toward the developmentof a project involving students from outside their respective discipline. This paper presentsresults of one such arrangement.During a tour of a new nursing laboratory, engineering noticed possible design improvements invarious manikins (life-sized
, Curriculum, andLaboratory Improvement Phase II grant, awarded in 2008, have been accomplished. Theseinclude the publication of the 3rd edition of the laboratory manual in 2009,1 the development ofon-line multimedia learning materials to support student experimentation outside of theclassroom,2,3 vodcasts on measurement techniques used in individual experiments linked directlyto the lab report template,3 and the development of on-line classes for two circuits laboratorycourses.4 The first is a d.c. circuits course is designed for off-campus students and the second isa supplement to increase independent learning by students in the a.c. circuits course. Theassessment of the learning materials and evaluation of the project has been initiated.In addition
Applications Department of IEEE/IAS. He authored more than 25 refereed journal and conference publications. In 2009 he as PI received NSF-CCLI grant entitled A Mechatronics Curriculum and Packaging Automation Laboratory Facility. From 2003 through 2006, he was involved with Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL in developing direct computer control for hydrogen pow- ered automotives. He is also involved in several direct computer control and wireless process control related research projects. His interests are in the area of industrial transducer, industrial process con- trol, modeling and simulation of Mechatronics devices and systems, wireless controls, statistical process control, computer aided design and fabrication
AC 2011-1530: MODEL-ELICITING ACTIVITIES IN A MECHANICALENGINEERING EXPERIMENTAL METHODS COURSEJohn Ridgely, California Polytechnic State University John Ridgely is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at California Polytechnic State Univer- sity in San Luis Obispo.Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University Brian Self is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at California Polytechnic State Uni- versity in San Luis Obispo. Prior to joining the faculty at Cal Poly in 2006, he taught for seven years at the United States Air Force Academy and worked for four years in the Air Force Research Laboratories. Research interests include active learning and engineering education
. His research focus is on biology education including the use of inquiry and tech- nology in the teaching introductory biology lecture and laboratories. He has published articles on the impact of teaching in reformed courses on graduate students.YoonJung Cho, Oklahoma State University Assistant professor in the School of Applied Health and Educational Psychology at Oklahoma State Uni- versity. Her research is focused on students’ achievement motivation and self-regulated learning process as well as teachers’ motivation and its impact on instructional practices, both in traditional classroom setting and online instruction. She published articles on graduate teaching assistants’ professional devel- opment as well as
instructor to simulate real life product designactivities inside the classroom and laboratory. Not only were students exposed to the latest inmechatronics, they also learned the concurrent engineering design approach. Students were givena framework of fundamental design knowledge with hands-on cross-disciplinary activities thatallow them to develop an interdisciplinary understanding and integrated approach to productdesign. Through these hands-on activities, students will also learn the concept of productlifecycle management and sharpen their teamwork skills.Curriculums of the all three programs (mechanical engineering technology, electro-mechanicalengineering technology, and industrial design technology) will be modified to create cross
interests include the areas of reconfigurable computing, analog circuit design, and semiconductor testing.Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas at Tyler Dr. Mukul Shirvaikar is the Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Tyler, where he develops curriculum and laboratories in computer engineering. Prior to this he worked at Texas Instruments specializing in real time imaging systems. Dr. Shirvaikar graduated with his doc- torate from the University of Tennessee. He also has a M.S. degree from the University of Maine, and a B.Tech. from Banaras Hindu University, India. His current research interests include real time imaging and engineering education
instrumentation and measurement typically have two objectives: 1)introducing the students to essential and modern engineering instrumentation and 2) developingthe ability of students to plan, execute, and analyze engineering experiments. The projectdescribed in this paper encompasses all of these objectives and introduces students to practicalaspects of control systems. The multi-week laboratory exercise requires the students to interfacewith laboratory hardware and modern instrumentation with only limited guidance from theinstructor. The self-guided problem solving approach to instrumentation gives students a deeperunderstanding of the nuances and complexity of developing and implementing multi-componentinstrumentation systems. Additionally, the
Page 22.923.5 Figure 3: Electronic Load EL200 1 Figure 4: Voltage Converter VC100 1ExperimentsThree laboratory exercises were introduced at the end of the Electric Circuit course that requiredconnecting the fuel cell system as shown in Figure 5. All students were undergraduate majors inthe EET program. A graduate assistant supervised twenty students to perform the experiment.The students were assigned as teams to perform the experiment on ten sessions that took abouttwo days. Each team consisted of two to three students. Although this system was not introducedin detail in the lectures, particularly the chemistry of the Hydrogen fuel cell, the authors believeit is a potential educational tool to extend
,masonry, metals, wood, and other materials. With an enrollment of approximately 85 studentsfor Spring 2011, this course features two 75-minute lectures plus a weekly 3-hour laboratory.The laboratories explore material properties through design, placement, and testing and areconducted parallel with class topics to reinforce classroom instruction and enhance theprogression from one topic to the next. In fact, this parallel structure of the classroom andlaboratory program has proven essential to the course’s success in giving the students the abilityto link what is being taught to them during the weekly lectures to the laboratory work with thesame materials during the same week. Specific laboratory topics that are covered include: • Aggregate
Prerequisites for Capstone Design Abstract A NASA project to improve university design education curricula has resulted in the addition of an undergraduate introduction to systems engineering and a spacecraft subsystems modeling laboratory as prerequisites to the capstone spacecraft/mission design course in aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. The systems engineering course materials, created by the second author, are based on NASA systems engineering practices and available in the public domain on the internet (http://spacese.spacegrant.org). The current paper summarizes the content of the systems engineering course, as well as a companion lab on modeling spacecraft subsystems, and focuses on the positive
“boundary”metaphors that yield a rich lexicon of terms related to the complicated characterization andcategorization of ideas and values associated with engineering11, 14.Some of the faculty members’ language explicitly expresses the idea of boundaries: Two fulltime laboratory professors described they felt that their work was undervalued because theirclasses are not theoretical on their idea of boundaries within the school of engineering: “Here is a very strong tendency to consider lab classes as a lower degree or not as important as the theory ones, being a professor of laboratory does not mean we do not have the capacity to lecture a theory class, but we believe that we are not given the same opportunity that is given to the
which can briefly be described as a study of the fundamental concepts,devices, and applications of electronic components and controllers utilized on industrialequipment. Laboratory sessions focus on instrumentation, programming, downloading,and wiring discrete input / output devices.Specific Course Competencies of the course include the ability to: 1. Identify major applications of programmable logic controllers in industry, transportation, construction, and environmental control. 2. Identify, discuss, and describe the purpose and function of the primary components utilized in open and closed loop process control systems. To assist in this outcome, each student will develop an
AC 2011-644: A CASE STUDY ON PILL-SIZED ROBOT IN GASTRO-INTESTINAL TRACT TO TEACH ROBOT PROGRAMMING AND NAV-IGATIONYi Guo, Stevens Institute of Technology Yi Guo received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Xi’an University of Tech- nology, China, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. She obtained the Ph.D. degree from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 1999. From 2000 to 2002, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Central Florida from 2002 to 2005. Since 2005, she has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. Her main research
, offeredthrough First-year Engineering Program provides a multidisciplinary approach through lectureand laboratory experiences to the wide variety of engineering majors offered. The AEV design-build experience was developed specifically to facilitate innovation through energy managementconcepts within the multidisciplinary nature of design – complementing the acquisition of life-long learning skills offered through the First-year Engineering Program.Each student is introduced to fundamental energy conservation and loss measurement techniquesin designing energy efficient AEVs. Each team takes a hands-on approach in designing,building, and testing AEVs and AEV components with the use of desktop wind tunnels anddesktop and classroom monorail track systems
Programs in Electrical and Computer EngineeringIntroductionThis paper discusses how integrated electrical and computer engineering (ECE) projectswith science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) components can inspirethe K-12 students to pursue the undergraduate degree programs in ECE. These projectsare presented through Engineering day and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)Day events hosted at the undergraduate baccalaureate degree institution by the ECEdepartment with ABET accreditation.In the fall of 2009, the ECE department at our university organized two Engineering Dayevents in its system integration laboratory [1]. The laboratory accommodated nearly 105high school students in six
Tools: MS Word, Email, WWWJuniorYear ME 302 – Fluid Mechanics ME 371 – Machine Design I Laboratory Reports: (Approx. 9 @ 4-6 pages each) Short Technical Reporting Brief narrative of procedure, measured data, Design Analysis Reports (2 @ 4- deduced and analyzed data, plotted results with 6 pp. Individual); Technical discussion and conclusions. Analysis, Economic Analysis, Recommendation for Action Tools: EES.Powerpoint ME 391
AC 2011-46: SOLAR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT IN THE MIDWESTBill Hutzel, Purdue University, West Lafayette Bill Hutzel is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Technology Department at Purdue University. He manages the Applied Energy Laboratory that is used for teaching and applied research into High Performance Buildings.Tehri Parker, Midwest Renewable Energy Association Tehri Parker is the Executive Director of the Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA). Tehri has served as a member of the Focus on Energy renewable energy coordinating committee, an advisory group that developed Wisconsin’s statewide renewable energy incentive and training programs. She is also on the Milwaukee Shines Solar City
assessment, sustainable product de- velopment, and active learning. Page 22.137.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Active Learning through SAE Baja CompetitionIntroductionActive learning is described as finding ways of engaging students in the learning process toimprove the results of the process. Active learning has become popular as an organizedmethodology in engineering education in the last few years. It is an important approach toprepare better engineers. Competitions, course projects sponsored by industry, capstone projects,laboratory exercises simulating real-life
, accommodated andleveraged in real world problem solving and how we prepare students for this. The paper has Page 22.1583.2three sections that chronicle episodes in an eight-year investigation of interdisciplinary learningboth in engineering research laboratories and in an introductory biomedical engineering course.We begin by briefly reporting on a six-year study of the cognitive and learning practices in twotruly interdisciplinary communities and the design principles for classrooms that we extractedfrom these studies. Then the design and development of the classroom context and content arediscussed as they relate to the design principles. Finally the
2009 Conference on Microelectronics Systems Education (MSE’09) in San Francisco. At the University of New Hampshire, he is the found- ing Director of the Critical Infrastructure Dependability Laboratory, the Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Space Science Center. He was the Member of the US State Department/Fulbright National Screening Committee and he is the Fulbright Senior Specialist. Page 22.391.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Creating a Global Computer Engineering and Science Curriculum Based on Vital
laboratory in topics such as profile of the engineering profession andeducation, systems of units, data presentation and graphing, ethics, and problem solving usingcommon engineering concepts.A description of one of these challenges is presented next to demonstrate the challengedevelopment and implementation process, the developed instructive materials, assessment tools(pre-test and post test), and the preliminary results that were obtained in the implementation ofthe challenges. Similar instruction and assessment tools were developed for each of the otherchallenges in Figure 2. Page 22.471.6 Introduction to ME Objectives M1 M2
American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 An Active Learning Environment for Enriching Mathematical, Conceptual and Problem-Solving CompetenciesAbstractClass projects involving problem-solving case studies are an effective way to develop andimplement an active learning environment. A term class project was initiated as part of aStrength of Materials course. The project included the creation of a laboratory setup and session,lecture sessions, tests, problem-solving case studies, presentations, and reports. Active learningprojects that engage students in structured course activities benefit students more than traditionallecture-based approach because students learn to construct their own version of knowledge
0 23 3 1quarter3rd 9 3 3 0 0 0quarterQuantity of InstructionOf the sixty institutions reporting, fifty-five indicated they offered a single course in KRD. Theremaining 5 offered two courses. Of those institutions, 3 were on the quarter system. Those 60institutions reported 3.7 h/wk total devoted to the course, broken up into an average 2.9 h/wk onlecture, 0.6 h on problem solving, and 0.2 h/wk on experimental laboratory. When only thoseprograms reporting course specific laboratory activities are counted, an average of 2.2 h/wk isspent in laboratory.In 1971, 3.06 h/wk of lecture and problem laboratory were reported, with 0.40 h
seven year review and assessment of Lawrence Technological University’s Alternative Energy Engineering Program initially funded through grants from the State of MichiganAbstractLawrence Technological University applied for and received two funding grants from the Stateof Michigan in 2003 and 2004 to develop curriculum and to establish courses in the field ofAlternative Energy Engineering. Lawrence Tech in 2003 was one of five schools in Michigan toreceive these initial funds. This paper reviews the decision making process originally used toestablish the curriculum, the engineering courses developed through these grants, theestablishment of an Alternative Energy Engineering laboratory, and the subsequent evolution ofthe
. Lecture notesare posted on WebCT before class and students are required to come with paper copies of thelecture notes. Lectures are delivered interactively using PowerPoint during class. Meetings takeplace in a variety of locations including the home-base classroom, electrical engineeringlaboratory, and structural engineering teaching and research laboratory (SETRL). The classschedule and course overview as delivered in fall 2010 is provided in Fig. 3 Day Week Monday Wednesday (#) Location Lecture # T
2002-2007. Amy Shen’s research program concerns complex fluids and the processing of these fascinating materials to create morphologies and structures that can find application in the nanotechnology, biotechnology, and energy related materials. Within this broad area, her laboratory takes advantage of the coupling of complex fluid microstructures with the spatial confinement that is possible by using microfluidic flow methods, to offer exquisite morphological control of soft materials.Nathan Sniadecki, University of WashingtonJunlan Wang, University of Washington Junlan Wang has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Uni- versity of Washington since Dec. 2008. Before joining
Paper ID #574Hands-On Design Projects in a Sophomore Mechanical Engineering CourseYasser M. Al Hamidi, Texas A&M University, Qatar Yasser Al-Hamidi is currently working as a Technical Laboratory Coordinator in the Mechanical En- gineering Program at Texas A&M University, Qatar. He is specialized in instrumentation, control and automation. He worked as a Lab Engineer in the College of Engineering, University of Sharjah before joining TAMUQ. His other experiences include Laboratory Supervisor/Network Administrator at Ajman University of Science and Technology (Al Ain Campus), Maintenance Engineer at AGRINCO and
provides funding for a 3 year continuing award to support aResearch Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering Site program at the TennesseeTechnological University (TTU) entitled, “RET Site: Research Experience for Teachers inManufacturing for Competitiveness in the United States (RETainUS)”. One of the RET researchprojects accomplished by the project team and one high school math teacher was on thegeneration of knowledge-base for the 3D printing end-users. Analytical and experimental studieswere performed using the 3D printing software and equipment located at the RemotelyAccessible Rapid Prototyping Laboratory of Tennessee Tech University (TTU). The objective ofthis research was to generate a set of new information so that
Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. She is also the author of six books, and the most recent is The Power of eLearning: The Essential Guide for Teaching in the Digital Age, Allyn and Bacon Publishers, 2005. Page 22.645.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Evaluating Prerequisite Knowledge Using a Concept Inventory for an Engineering Failure CourseAbstractA unique laboratory-based course in engineering failure, entitled Aerospace EngineeringFailure, has been developed to prepare undergraduate students to design structures and materialsfor