Journal cover (2008). She is an ac- tive mentor of undergraduate researchers and served as co-PI on an NSF REU site. Research within her Medical micro-Device Engineering Research Laboratory (M.D. – ERL) also inspires the development of Desktop Experiment Modules (DEMos) for use in chemical engineering classrooms or as outreach activi- ties in area schools (see www.mderl.org). Adrienne has been an active member of ASEE’s WIED, ChED, and NEE leadership teams since 2003 and during this time has contributed to numerous ASEE conference proceedings articles and educational journal publications.Babs Carryer, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) Babs Carryer is director of faculty development and
engineering textbooks without further research.With regards to electronic mediums in general, some studies using psychology e-textbookssuggest that e-textbooks do not impact student learning relative to printed textbooks (Shepperd etal., 2008, Taylor, 2011). Daniel and Woody (2013) recently investigated students’ use andperformance on a variety of print and electronic formats in both laboratory and at homeconditions. They randomly assigned students to use a chapter of an introductory psychologytextbook in one of five formats: print textbook, printed text pages, printed manuscript inMicrosoft Word, electronic pdf, or electronic textbook. The results from the study indicated thatthe various formats had no significant impact on student learning
21st century of digital learning, and technology integration. Yang’s latest research focuses on employing an innovative synergis- tic approach to prevent/eliminate misconceptions from forming with first-year engineering students, and teaching STEM disciplines in online environments.Dr. Inanc Senocak, Boise State University Dr. Inanc Senocak is an associate professor with the Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineer- ing at Boise State University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Florida in 2002. Dr. Senocak served as a postdoctoral research associate at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Stanford University prior to joining Boise State in 2007. Dr. Senocak
to successfully accomplish project goals. 4 Demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate in writing through the development of an engineering laboratory report. 5 Demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate orally through the development and delivery of a presentation. 6 Demonstrate a basic understanding of the need to engage in life-long learning. 7 Demonstrate a basic understanding of the need to address global, societal, contemporary, environmental and economic issues in the design process. Students learn and apply the engineering design process. Students design, build, test, andcomplete specific project designs. Grades are based
of topics coveredduring the lectures are: introduction to physiotherapy, stroke and spinal cord injury and therelated rehabilitation equipments. For the purpose of patient interviews, patients were pre-selected and their consent was sought by the doctors through the hospital’s procedure of consentseeking, such as explaining to the patients the objectives of the students’ interviews, and thesigning of consent forms by the patients who agreed to be interviewed. Students were allowed tointerview the patients in groups of five, for 15-20 minutes per session. Page 23.527.11To facilitate the administration, arrangement of laboratory tours and
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES COURSEAbstractAt the University of California at Santa Cruz, a quarter long course on renewable energy sources wascomplemented with a realworld team project. The course was designed for engineering andnonengineering students and did not require any advanced mathematics or physics backgrounds. Thecourse was open to freshmen, sophomore, junior and senior undergraduate students. The courseconsisted of fifteen biweekly lectures, eight weekly laboratory sections, a midterm, and a final exam.The lecture material consisted of an introduction to renewable energy sources, energy harvesting, energyconversion, system efficiency, and energy storage solutions. The lectures consisted of instructorpresentations, discussions, and
) which universities perform.i Government funds research for knowledge, not profit.In exchange, government typically receives a license to use the product of the research but theuniversity is free to commercialize the research and license it to industry. Industry though, isnow also looking to Universities for research. “As companies decrease the size and scope of theirinternal research laboratories, companies are increasingly turning to universities for basicresearch. Federal and state governments are developing funding programs that emphasizecollaboration between universities and companies that will enhance translational research andsupport economic development.” iiThe 1980 passage of the Bayh-Dole Act iii accelerated industry-university
camp, and suggestions forimprovement. Providing the students exposure to unique world-class research laboratories wasdeemed important in the initial planning of the camp. Laboratory tours with high interaction andless repetition were easily the most popular tours. While the feedback received on some labswas negative, it was not interpreted as a sign that the particular lab tour should be discontinuedbut rather that it needed to be retooled. An example would be having the students observe robotsmoving in one of the labs versus the excitement generated when students were able to control therobots. On the other hand, the lab where students were allowed to handle research materialsseemed to make more of an impression. Visiting wind tunnels was
microcontrollers. There are also programs where the emphasis of thecourse is on the study of instrumentation and programmable logic controllers.One difficulty in teaching control systems is to provide a good balance between theory and practice. Byincorporating a laboratory component, it could help to provide some connection between the abstractcontrol theory and the real world applications.In the present paper we describe the educational experience gained by including team-based projects intothe control systems course. In these projects students design and implement different controllers forautonomous navigation in a mobile robot. In particular, the design and implementation of three maintypes of controllers are assigned to teams of students, namely: 1) a
work with academic assessment, particularly relating to ABET. She can be reached at jmcferran@uaa.alaska.edu.Dr. Steffen Peuker, University of Alaska Anchorage Dr. Steffen Peuker is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Thermal System Design Laboratory at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is teaching the Thermal System De- sign, Thermal System Design Laboratory, HVAC Systems Optimization and Introduction to Engineering courses. His work in engineering education focuses on hands-on undergraduate engineering education in the HVAC&R area, student-industry cooperation, and developing innovative ways of merging engineering fundamentals and engineering in practice and research
Laboratory at Shanghai Jiaotong Week 5 June 14 1:00pm-4:00pm University Graduate Student Symposium: Tianjing University of Business and June 18 Finance Week 6 June 25 10:00am-12:00pm Group Meeting Attended Presentation Competition for Young Investigator in North 1:00pm-4:00pm China Electrical Power University June 29 10:00am-12:00pm Seminar: How to give a professional presentation? Week 7 16:00pm-17:00pm Meet with the Chair of the Department
Paper ID #7851A Senior Design Project in Environmentally Friendly Glass ManufacturingDr. Richard Chiou, Drexel UniversityDr. Michael G Mauk P.E., Drexel UniversityMr. M. Eric Carr, Drexel University Mr. Eric Carr is currently the Laboratory Technician for Drexel University’s Engineering Technology program. Carr assists faculty members with the development and implementation of various Engineering Technology courses, and enjoys finding innovative ways to use microcontrollers and other technologies to enhance Drexel’s Engineering Technology course offerings. Carr holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Drexel University
and safe operation of laboratory equipment, and More efficient and effective literature searches.Since about 88% of the 25 students in this graduate student group are interested industry careers,the new thrust in the 2011-2012 program focused on developing researchers with well-roundedskillsets (i.e., professional, literary, communication skills) that are needed in industry. Sincemany domestic and international students enter into the American workforce without such skills,these new graduates require a certain amount of time for "professional acclimation," whichresults in reduced production for the individual and affects the young researcher’s psyche as wellas the hiring company’s bottom line. The graduate students themselves
Paper ID #7433Adapted Physical Activity Design Projects: A Collaboration Between Kinesi-ology and EngineeringDr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University Dr Self has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. Prior to that, he worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. During the 2011-2012 academic year he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education activities include collaborating on the Dynamics Concept Inventory
Centre for Design Re- search. Dr. Bennett obtained his B.A.I. Mechanical Engineering Degree in 1994 and his M.Sc. degree through research in 1996, both from the University of Dublin, T.C.D. In 1994 Dr. Bennett obtained a research fellowship to work in the national Nuclear and Technological Research Institute (I.T.N.) in Lis- bon, Portugal to carry out work in fluid elastic instability, vibration analysis and signal processing. After completion of his M.Sc., degree Dr. Bennett worked for a year in a national fluid mechanics research laboratory (L.E.G.I.) in Grenoble, France performing research in the area of Computerised Fluid Dy- namics (CFD) as applied to cavitational flows of turbine blades. On returning to Ireland
Movemaster RV-M1 User's Manual.[17] Hakan Gurocak "e-Lab: Technology-assisted Delivery of a Laboratory Course at a Distance"[18] Hugh Jack "A Virtual Manufacturing Laboratory"[19] Kevin Devine "Integrating Robot Simulation and Off-line Programming into an Industrial Robotics Course" ASEE Annual conference[20] Yang Cao "Learning Robotics through Developing a Virtual Robot Simulator in MATLAB" Page 23.159.14
3 4 BMET Elective 8 3 3 4 BMET Capstone Project/Internship 8 3 3 4Weekly lecture hours, laboratory hours, and total credit hours are also provided. Laboratoryexercises will be conducted for 12 out of the 16 weeks in each semester. The program will bestructured within the 130 credit-hour limit set by the Georgia Board of Regents (BOR). Theproposed curriculum will have Sixty (60) hours of Mathematics, Science, English, and SocialScience core courses along with Seventy (70) hours of Technical courses. Of the 70 Technicalcredits, Thirty Four (34) will constitute a core of ECET courses; Twenty Nine (29) hours will beBMET
increase retention of students by enabling them to build a community of learners(the opposite of a “weed out” course). Biological Engineering (BE) 1252: Biology inEngineering is a 2-credit hour (1 hour lecture, 3 hours laboratory per week) second semesterfreshmen core course. The description is as follows: effect of variability and constraints ofbiological systems on engineering problem solving and design; engineering units; engineeringreport writing; oral report presentation; laboratory demonstration of biological engineeringanalysis. The mean enrollment in this course is 50 students (enrollment has exceeded 60 studentsin the past four years).Because biological engineering students are interested in many different problems at theintersection of
excitinghands-on design challenges to analyze artificial organs. In more advanced core engineering courses andlaboratories, students will explore the function of artificial organs in the laboratory and investigate thevariables affecting their performance. The engineering goals of this project are: (1) to explore the function of human and artificial organs; (2)to apply current research methodology state-of-the-art medical devices for a hands-on investigation ofartificial organs; and (3) to introduce fundamental engineering principles through experiments with artifi-cial organs; (4) to investigate the factors affecting artificial organ performance and design criteria; and (5)to explore the complicated ethical issues regarding the technological
B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Statistics from the University of Cape Town at South Africa, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been a faculty member at Loyola University Maryland since 1986. He also works at the National Institute on Aging with researchers in the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Sciences. In 2010 he was elected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association. His area of interest in statistics is the linear mixed-effects model that is used to model longitudinal data. Page 23.1014.1 c American
was at the Computed Tomography Laboratory at GE’s Global Research Center for 8 years. She worked on several technology development projects in the area of X-ray CT for medical and industrial imaging. She is a named inventor on 9 patents. She has been active in the recruitment and retention of women and minorities in engineering and currently PI for an NSF-STEM grant to improve diversity at Rose-Hulman.Dr. Edward Wheeler, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Edward Wheeler is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman In- stitute of Technology. His teaching and research interests include electromagnetics, signal integrity, mi- crowave devices, MEMS and the electrical and magnetic
in a pair of looselyconnected undergraduate Aerospace Engineering courses that integrate teaching and research.The first one-third of each course is devoted to conventional lectures and/or laboratory exerciseswith computer interfaced data acquisition systems. The latter two-thirds focus on design andresearch projects in Aerospace Engineering with a few lectures interspersed. The teachingmethod has some unique characteristics: i) Undergraduates gain a research experience byworking in small groups of two or three students supervised by a volunteer graduate studentresearch mentor, ii) The particular research project is developed by the course instructors and thevolunteer graduate student research mentor in advance of the course as one related
Paper ID #8119Research Experiences for Undergraduate Engineering StudentsDr. Sheng-Jen ”Tony” Hsieh, Texas A&M University Sheng-Jen (”Tony”) Hsieh is a professor in the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Engineering Technology and the De- partment of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include engineering education, cognitive task analysis, automation, robotics and control, intelligent manufacturing system design, and micro/nano man- ufacturing. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation Laboratory at Texas A&M
students, especially women and underrepresented minority students, and her research in the areas of recruitment and retention. A SWE and ASEE Fellow, she is a frequent speaker on career opportunities and diversity in engineering.Dr. Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University Prior to joining the ASU Electrical Engineering faculty in 1990, Dr. Armando A. Rodriguez worked at MIT, IBM, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Raytheon Missile Systems. He has also consulted for Eglin Air Force Base, Boeing Defense and Space Systems, Honeywell and NASA. He has published over 200 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings–over 60 with students. He has authored three engineering texts on classical controls
the biodegradable polymers as a mechanism to deliver chemical oxidants to remediate chemical and bio- logical contaminants in wastewater and soil. She conducts educational research where she has creatively works to change educational instruction in laboratory courses by introducing topics in sustainability us- ing case studies. In 2010 she led the NCA&T team that developed the National 4-H Science Youth Day experiment which was used to teach millions of K-8 students about water quality, energy use, and global warming. Her work and research involvement includes over $2,000,000 of research funding. To date she has received a number of teaching and research awards including the 2005 National Women of Color in
. Page 23.1155.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Teaching Your First Large Lecture: Surviving with Attentive and Engaged StudentsAbstractThe usual and customary appointment for a graduate teaching assistant or even new instructor inengineering is a recitation, workshop, laboratory or small classroom of typically 30 students orless. Hence, most practical advice for promoting attentiveness and engagement centers on thattype of environment. In those environments, individual student-instructor interaction is easilypossible in order to keep students attentive and engaged. Although less common, some newinstructors are assigned to teach large lectures (>75
. John Barry DuVall, East Carolina University Dr. DuVall is a Full Professor and facilitator of TECS-TRAIN in the Department of Technology Sys- tems at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. DuVall currently teaches online classes to practicing professionals at the undergraduate, Master’s and PhD levels in areas such as strategies for technology management and communication and industrial supervision. He served as Director of a NSF/ARPA/TRP research project called The Factory as a Learning Laboratory – A Practice-Based M.S. Degree Program for Black and Decker (U.S.) associates and defense industry scientists and engineers. In 1994 this led to the development of the first Internet programs for East
design, open-ended problem solving, laboratory work, etc. As the learning styles ofstudents can vary considerably [1-7], achieving this goal can be very challenging even whenother variables which impact student learning are taken into account. Various teaching methodssuch as case studies, projects based learning, contexts based learning, computer based learning,etc, address the learning styles of different student populations [2], [8-11]. In this paper, weconcentrate on student populations who favor “learning by doing” [3], [6]. We will use the term“learning by doing” to refer to the approach of learning by solving many individual problems orthrough practice as opposed to studying the theory with which the problems are solved.The instructor of a
advection flows induced by surface waves or bed forms M.S. Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2004 M.S.S. Software Engineering, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, 2003 B.S. Hydrogeology & Engineering Geology, Nanjing University, China, 1994 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE • Assistant Professor, (06/2008 – Current), Lamar University, Civil Engineering, Beaumont, TX • Research Associate (01/2008 – 05/2008), University of Minnesota, Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL) • Civil Engineer (08/2007 – 01/2008), HZ United, LLC, Plymouth, MN • Research/Teaching Assistant (01/2003 – 01/2008), University of Minnesota, Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL), Department of Civil Engineering • Lab Assistant (02
Paper ID #7904Work-in-Progress: Design of an Online Learning CoachDr. Fred W DePiero, California Polytechnic State University Dr. Fred DePiero received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State Uni- versity in 1985 and 1987. He then worked as a Development Associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory until 1993. While there he was involved in a variety of real-time image processing projects and several laser-based ranging systems. Dr. DePiero began working on his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee while still at ORNL, and completed it in May 1996. His research interests include