teaching and learning. Storm began his career as a Mathematics Teacher at Tanglewood Middle School in Greenville, South Carolina. He was awarded Teacher of the Year after his second year in the classroom. Also at this time he was selected to serve on the Curriculum Leadership Institute for the Greenville County Schools District. After teaching middle school for five years, Storm moved to Riverside High School and instructed integrated mathematics classes for 2 years. With a solid foundation of teaching experience formed, Storm accepted a position as an Aerospace Edu- cation Specialist for NASA’s Aerospace Education Services Project. For 7 years Storm designed, imple- mented and facilitated various STEM programs to
, Boston, Modesto (CA), and Melbourne. In the fall of 2001, she was invited as the Lise Meitner Visiting Professor, Department of Design Sciences, Lund Technical University, Lund, Sweden. Prior to teaching at WPI, she worked as a Manufacturing Engineer for the Norton Company in Worcester, MA, and Product Development Engineer for the Olin Corporation in East Alton, IL. Professor Ault’s primary teaching responsibilities include undergraduate and graduate level courses in computer-aided design, mechanical design and rehabilitation engineering. Her research interests include computer aided mechanical design, geometric modeling, kinematics, machine design, rehabilitation engi- neering and assistive technology. She is a
- ever, he has evidently improved the luck of institutions by teaching undergraduate courses in design and mechanical engineering. Dr. Trivett is an Associate Professor at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. In 2014, he was appointed director of the Engineering Clinic in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Thankfully, these institutions continue to thrive, and support innovative programs in engineering. Page 24.152.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 An Attempt to Gamify a First Course in
program has received over $2M in funding and utilizes close to 40faculty members that teach students Cyber Defense, Cyber Warfare, and Cyber Operations thatthey will implement in jobs that are greatly helpful to our country's national defense. Since itsinception, the Scholarship for Service program has had a near perfect job placement rate atagencies including the CIA, NSA, NASIC, and MIT Lincoln Laboratories. In addition, severalstudents have enrolled in PhD programs at different universities around the United States tocontinue their graduate studies.Introduction of Component #2: Student Cohorts through Social Activities and STEM-based gamesThe second component that we introduced in the 2013 Summer Research Program is Student Cohorts.This
introductionto the field of computer systems, CS0) and English Composition (EG1).In this paper we describe an innovative approach to the teaching of computing and writing tofirst-year students majoring in a Computer Systems degree at a college of technology. The themeof the learning community is the development of narratives (a plot or schematic structuring oftemporal actions) and their implementation as a video game prototype. Common student learningobjectives and general education student learning outcomes for our courses include: usecreativity to solve problems; understand and navigate systems; work productively within andacross disciplines; use the tools needed for communication, inquiry, creativity, and analysis;gather, interpret, evaluate, and
neededbetter access to career opportunities. Therefore, we changed the focus of the “Career Paths”seminar by asking the visiting speakers to not only describe their experiences in their respectivepositions, but to also discuss how students should prepare for such positions. These topicsincluded discussing needs for various certifications (above and beyond the M.S. or doctoraldegree), external research or teaching experiences, security clearances, and other informationthat might not be shared by the academic department or faculty. We also asked the visitingspeakers to discuss how the students could prepare for, access, and take advantage of thespeakers’ presence at the seminar to have CVs previewed and reviewed for current openings andfuture hiring
experience away Field Work from the classroom. Field work experiences bridge educational experiences with an outside community which Experiences can range from neighborhoods and schools to anthropological dig sites and laboratory settings. Internship Are job-related and provide students and job changers with an opportunity to test the waters in a career field Experiences
with Dr. Brian Adams, a well-known hand surgeon. In the summer of 2006, he began a post-doctoral fellowship at Mayo Clinic, working on orthopaedic biomechanics and physiology cellular imaging laboratories. This provided the opportunity to work with outstanding clinical and research mentors like Drs. Kai-Nan An, Kenton Kauf- man, Gary Sieck, Ann Reed, Harold Kitaoka, as well as others. His research at that time focused on non-invasive imaging of muscle tissue as well as cadaveric studies of the foot and ankle. Dr. McCullough is a faculty member of the first bioengineering program independently housed at a Historically Black College or University and is a part of the NSF ERC-RMB which includes research on the
Management from Missouri Science & Technology (2008) and his Master of Sci- ence in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Washington (2012). His teaching focus is thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and aerodynamics.Major Brent J. Pafford, U.S. Military Academy Major Brent Pafford serves as an Instructor of Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He graduated from West Point in 2004 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Brent also holds a Master’s of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Commissioned as an Aviation Officer, his former assignments include Air Cavalry Platoon Leader
Paper ID #9330Assessment of Systems Learning in an Undergraduate Civil Engineering Courseusing Concept MapsDr. Matthew W Roberts, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Matthew Roberts has been teaching at UW-Platteville since 2002. He is originally from Denver, Colorado and attended Brigham Young University for his B.S. in Civil Engineering. He then spent four years as a civil engineering officer in the U.S. Air Force. After his military service, he completed graduate work at Texas A&M University. He teaches classes on reinforced concrete design, structural steel design, and other structural engineering
Turbulence Research (jointly operated by NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University) and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he worked on large eddy simulation of atmospheric boundary layer flows and source inversion of atmospheric dispersion events, respectively. His research interests include computational fluid dynamics (CFD), wind energy forecasting, parallel computing with GPUs, cavitation and multiphase flows, turbu- lence modeling, atmospheric transport and dispersion, and inverse problems.Dr. Dazhi Yang, Boise State University Dazhi Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Educational Technology Department at Boise State University. Prior to coming to Boise State, she was a postdoctoral researcher and
-Director of the Experimental and Computational Mechanics Laboratory at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T). Before joining SDSM&T, he was an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Iowa State University in 1992. His main interest areas include Computational Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, and Product Design and Development. He has taught several different courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, has over 50 publications, is co-author of one book, and has done consulting for industry in Mexico and the US. He can be reached at Karim.Muci@sdsmt.edu
Schomaker is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Professional Practice and Experiential Learning (ProPEL) at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Ohio. Professor Schomaker holds a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on Instructional Design and Technology and has been teaching in higher education since 1999. Professor Schomaker has been advising cooperative education students since 2008 and currently advises Civil Engineering co-op students at the University of Cincinnati. Professor Schomaker is an official site reviewer for the Accreditation Council for Cooperative Education. In addition Maureen is Co- Chair of ProPEL’s Program Assessment Committee and a member of the Curriculum
has secured funding over $3 million from NSF, AFOSR, DOE, DHS, TBR and local industry for research and educational innovations. He has authored and coauthored over 30 technical refereed and non-refereed papers in various conferences, international journal articles, book chapters in research and pedagogical techniques. He is the director of the Cyber Defense and Security Visualization Laboratory (http://cyberviz.tnstate.edu/)Mr. Christopher Joseph Franzwa Page 24.1092.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Solaris One – A Serious Game for
ormarketing students3,4 and some interdisciplinary courses are focused on the design andconstruction disciplines and include architecture and construction management students as wellas engineering students5,6,7. However the literature on these courses is of limited relevance andprovides limited guidance. Although the courses described in this paper have aninterdisciplinary component, they are not really interdisciplinary. They teach structuralengineering skills and principals to non-engineering (ARCH and CM) students but do notcontain the content of multiple disciplines and do not function as interdisciplinary courses.Saliklis, et al describe the different curriculum approaches typically employed for architecturaland engineering programs8. They
Paper ID #8997The Use of an Iterative Industry Project in a One Semester Capstone CourseDr. Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University Dr. Michael D. Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and In- dustrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product development engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Johnson’s research focuses on
Paper ID #10089Thermodynamics in the ArtsDr. Heather E Dillon, University of Portland Dr. Heather Dillon is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Portland. Her teaching focuses on thermodynamics, heat transfer, renewable energy, and optimization of energy systems. She currently leads a research team working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and fundamental heat transfer. Before joining the university, Heather Dillon worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research engineer. Dr. Dillon’s research at PNNL supported the US Department of Energy and
laboratory exercises. After teaching the course twice, the authorbelieves it is very important to have spectrum analyzers in the lab. Ideally, it is good to havespectrum analyzers with built-in tracking generators to facilitate filter characterization. Usingthe spectrum analyzers is important for familiarizing the students with the instruments’ use.A second issue also relates to labs: a method of measuring propagation loss. Although ananechoic chamber would be nice, many schools do not have or have access to such a facility.The author found that free range measurements were an acceptable alternative. Although a large,empty parking lot was used, a grassy field would also be an acceptable location. Either way, atleast one of the spectrum analyzers
class and discussed the incident with the Dean of engineering. The Dean ofStudents and director of disability services were then contacted and proceeded to deal with Matt.Matt had registered his disorder with the university but the instructor had been unaware of it.The lesson taken away from the instructor in this case was to pay closer attention when a studentseems “slightly off” and to check in with them with a greater frequency.Student RequestsA faculty member’s time is split in many directions; between teaching lectures and laboratories,service to the department and university not to mention research and professional development,time is a very limited quantity for a faculty member. New faculty members feel this time cruncheven more because
), Page 24.128.20 1-1012. Harding, T., Carpenter, D., Montgomery, S. and Steneck,N.H. (2001) The Current State of Research on Academic Dishonesty Among Engineering Students. 31st ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Reno, NV13. Jensen, L.A., Arnett, J.J., Feldman, S.S. and Cauffman, E. (2002) It’s Wrong, But Everybody Does It: Academic Dishonesty among High School and College Students. Contemporary Educational Psychology 27, 209-22814. Del Carlo, D.I., Bodner, G.M. (2004) Students’ Perceptions of Academic Dishonesty in the Chemistry Classroom Laboratory. Journal of Research in Science Teaching Vo. 41, No. 1, 47-6415. Lambert, E.G., Hogan, N.L. and Barton, S.M. (2003), ‘Collegiate Academic Dishonesty Revisited: What
Education with several teaching awards such as the 2004 National Outstanding Teaching Medal and the 2005 Quinn Award for experiential learning.Dr. Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan UniversityDr. Johannes Strobel, Texas A&M University Dr. Johannes Strobel is Director, Educational Outreach Programs and Associate Professor, Engineering and Education at Texas A&M. After studying philosophy and information science at three universities in Germany, he received his M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Learning Technologies from the University of Missouri- Columbia. He worked at Concordia University, Montreal and has been the director of the Institute of P-12 Engineering Research and Learning at Purdue University. NSF and several private foundations
Paper ID #9767Aerospace Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative EngineeringDr. Steve Gorrell, Brigham Young University Dr. Steve Gorrell joined the BYU Mechanical Engineering Department in 2007 following an eighteen year career as an Aerospace Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory Propulsion Directorate. There Dr. Gorrell pioneered the use of high performance computing (HPC), hi-fidelity time-accurate CFD, and Particle Image Velocimetry to investigate and understand unsteady flow physics in high performance gas turbine engine fans and compressors. Dr. Gorrell has published 64 technical papers on unsteady
-based learning experience,students learn not just by doing, but also by receiving critiques on their work from both studentsand experts, as well as providing critiques to other students. Engineering students often do thisin informal settings (e.g., study groups) but rarely do so in a formal classroom setting. Thecritiquing activity is the strength of the studio-based learning process, as it requires students toevaluate and explain (teach) the material to others, thus strengthening their own understanding ofthe concepts.To implement this approach, a team from the chemical engineering program and the computerscience program have been working on developing two software packages to aid students indeveloping their skills in the material and energy
innovations:11 • The most prevalent type of factor was resources (e.g., funding, computers, classroom and laboratory space, etc.). • Faculty member related issues occurred as the second most common type of factor, and included: time for preparation, management of labor-intensive innovations, culture of the faculty members’ environment, “resistance to change, marginalization of teaching in promotion and tenure, and skepticism regarding evidence of improved student learning. [p. 199]”11 • The third type of factor, student-related aspects, included advantages of innovations, such as improved student learning and improved student satisfaction and barriers such as student resistance.In addition
Science on their engineering exhibits and works to improve the facilitation and design of the exhibits. Her research focuses on how science center visitors engage and tinker at engineering activities and the impacts of these open-ended tinkering activities in terms of STEM learning and engineering understanding.Dr. Alice Merner Agogino, University of California, Berkeley Alice M. Agogino is the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering and affli- ated faculty at the Haas School of Business in their Operations and Information Technology Management Group. She directs the Berkeley Expert Systems Technology /Berkeley Energy and Sustainable Technolo- gies (BEST) Laboratories and is a member of the
Paper ID #10732Exploring the disconnect between Self Determination Theory (SDT) and theEngineering Classroom EnvironmentDr. Khaled Sobhan, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Khaled Sobhan is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Florida Atlantic University. He is the Principal Investigator of a NSF RIGEE grant on student motivation and learning in the classroom environment. He has also led and participated in several Faculty Learning Communities dealing with Inquiry-based and Project-based learning in engineering disciplines. He is the recipient of the award for ”Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching” and the
launches.Dr. Cameron J Turner P.E., Colorado School of Mines Dr. Cameron Turner is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering with a research interest in the foundations of design across multiple disciplines. Dr. Turner earned his Ph.D. at the University at Texas in 2005, focusing on Surrogate Model Optimization for Engineering Design. He also holds an MSE from the University of Texas at Austin, with a focus on robotics, and a BSME from the University of Wyoming. He has more than 13 years of experience at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and in 2009 accepted a position at the Colorado School of Mines. From 2009-13, he directed the Engineering Design Program at CSM, covering the departments of Civil and Environmental
mark.ardis@stevens.edu.Dr. Christina L. Carmen, University of Alabama in Huntsville Dr. Carmen obtained a Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering degree as well as a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. While at Ga. Tech she worked with Dr. Warren Strahle, researching solid propellants. She obtained a Doctor of Philos- ophy in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) with a focus upon turbulent combustion modeling. Dr. Carmen is the capstone design class coordinator in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) department at UAH. She primarily teaches MAE senior design classes with a focus upon product realization and STEM
elements of the course that have fosteredhigher levels of intellectual development and thereby critical thinking skills.Felder and Brent6 suggest that there are five teaching conditions that correlate with students tak-ing a deep approach to learning. The first condition, “Student-perceived relevance of the subjectmatter” is obtained by the industrial involvement and real-world problem solving. Since thiscourse was co-developed by industry, it has received the “industry stamp of approval” whichgives the students incentive and enthusiasm to learn the course material. The second condition,“Clear expectations, practice, and feedback” is obtained in the laboratory exercises (labs). Thecritical thinking process is modeled by the professor in the early
Paper ID #10014Flipped Biomedical Engineering Classroom using Pencasts and Muddiest PointWeb-enabled ToolsCasey Jane Ankeny PhD, Arizona State University Casey Ankeny is currently an instructor in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on evaluating student-centered instruction with respect to attitude, achievement, and persistence.Prof. Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University Stephen J. Krause is professor in the Materials Program in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of bridging engineering and