AC 2012-5480: USING ROBOTICS TO PROMOTE LEARNING IN ELE-MENTARY GRADESMr. Akim Faisal, Polytechnic Institute of New York University Akim Faisal is currently pursuing a master’s of science in mechanical engineering.Dr. Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University Vikram Kapila is a professor of mechanical engineering at NYU-Poly, where he directs an NSF-funded Web-enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Remote Laboratory, an NSF-funded Research Experi- ence for Teachers Site in Mechatronics, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, Ohio. His research interests are in cooper- ative control, distributed spacecraft
AC 2012-4139: PHOTON MASSDr. Bert Pariser, Technical Career Institutes Bert Pariser is a faculty member in the Electronic Engineering Technology and the Computer Science Technology departments at Technical Career Institutes. His primary responsibility is developing curricu- lum and teaching methodology for physics, thermodynamics, electromagnetic field theory, computers, and databases. Pariser has prepared grant proposals to the National Science Foundation, which produced the funding for a Fiber Optics Laboratory. He served as Faculty Advisor to the IEEE and Tau Alpha Pi National Honor Society. Pariser was instrumental in merging Tau Alpha Pi National Honor Society into the ASEE. In addition, Pariser co-founded
AC 2012-3668: REFLECTIONS ON INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE OFSTUDENTS AND PROFESSORS IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGDr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University Brian P. Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering mechanics from Virginia Tech and his Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Self has taught in the Mechanical En- gineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, since 2006. During the 2011-2012 academic year, he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education interests include collaborating
, technical challenges that crop up in I&T can extend the phase well beyond 5years.In Fall 2011, we offered the first course: Integration & Test of Space Systems with an enrollmentof nine undergraduates. In this paper, we will provide an overview of the objectives, syllabus andassessment of this course in spacecraft integration & test. We will place this course in the contextof aerospace engineering at our university and our other systems-engineering courses andintroduce the hands-on work done through the Research Laboratory and the COPPER satellite.We will assess the results of the first course and provide lessons learned and future work.Our first offering had mixed results; in addition to the typical mid-course corrections that
rural Kenya (PhysicsMatatu map). These maps are designed as vessels for conveying the cross-correlation betweenthe two topics. Each subway/matatu line (color) features one of the NAE Engineering GrandChallenges. As a subway/matatu line passes through an individual station (each station stands fora different curriculum unit), an explicit connection is implied. This work brings together tworealities familiar to subway and matatu riders in the city-wide area: tokens/fares and graffiti. Wecapitalize on these in the development of this valuable assessment tool.Throughout the year, students acquire “tokens of knowledge.” These tokens are lessons,laboratory activity modules or full units that correlate with one specific intersection of a
AC 2012-4343: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING EDUCATION THROUGH PAR-TICIPATION IN ENGINEERING COMPETITIONSDr. Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Texas A&M International University Fernando Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor of engineering at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas. Previously, he was a technical staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory and an Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla. Gonzalez holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include intelligent control of autonomous systems, robotics, and modeling and simulation
degree program. These two courses consist of both theoryand laboratory work with a heavy reliance on student projects (typically, of an interdisciplinarynature) that involve the implementation of functional, proto-type, sensor/control networks. Usingpopular low-cost PIC® microcontroller development boards and a small, self-contained, non-IT,TCP/IP data network, students are able to construct sensor/control networks that can be accessedlocally either through standard wired network connections (Ethernet) or wirelessly using eitherthe IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) or IEEE 802.15.4 (ZigBee) wireless standards or remotely throughavailable mobile device apps. The successes and failures of the courses will be high-lighted,along with student reaction, examples of
AC 2012-4138: TEACHING PYTHAGORAS’S THEOREM USING SOFT-WAREDr. Bert Pariser, Technical Career Institutes Bert Pariser is a faculty member in the Electronic Engineering Technology and Computer Science Tech- nology departments at Technical Career Institutes. His primary responsibility is developing curriculum and teaching methodology for physics, thermodynamics, electromagnetic field theory, computers, and databases. Pariser has prepared grant proposals to the National Science Foundation, which produced the funding for a Fiber Optics Laboratory. He served as Faculty Advisor to the IEEE and Tau Alpha Pi National Honor Society. Pariser was instrumental in merging Tau Alpha Pi National Honor Society into the ASEE. In
, participation in professional societies,and licensure as Professional Engineers. What constitutes an acceptable level in any of thoseareas is left almost exclusively to the judgment of the evaluator and team chief and there hasbeen nowhere near the level of discussion on these items as there has been on outcome and Page 25.1271.6objective assessment. Even the ABET evaluator training provides little guidance in this area.Similarly, the Criterion 7 on Facilities states, “Classrooms, offices, laboratories, and associatedequipment must be adequate to support attainment of the student outcomes and to provide anatmosphere conducive to learning.” There has
major changes – initiated and advanced by the advisory board –have been made in the MSWC program: 1. Two major recommendations of the Advisory Committee were to establish a course on wireless economics and to establish a wireless communications laboratory. In 2007, the School of Engineering and Technology received a significant grant from the San Diego-headquartered wireless network operator, Cricket Communications, (arranged by an advisory board member) for establishing a Wireless Communications Laboratory. In 2008, a new course Page 25.739.5 (WCM 612) entitled Current Topics in Wireless Economics was added, The
engineering education practices and then argued in support ofan educational model where components of engineering science, laboratory work, and designactivities interact with one another in an approximation of professional practice. Happily, thereare examples of engineering education programs that have created or modified their programobjectives and curricula to meet such curricular calls5, 6, 7. More recently, the ASME Vision2030 Task Force has joined others in endorsing the utilization of a design spine across thecurriculum. Ideally, this design spine is multidisciplinary in nature, providing the students withmultiple experiences working with people from other disciplines as they progress through theircurriculum culminating in a yearlong senior
College of Denver Aaron Brown is Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology, at Metro State College of Denver since 2008. He has a M.S. in mechanical engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2004, and a B.S. in mechanical engineering, California State University, Chico, 2001. He has industry ex- perience from SpaceDev, 2007-2008, where he worked on mechanical design of space systems, including the Mars Science Laboratory (AKA ”Curious”) landing mechanism. He worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2006-2007, where he was a Design/Test Engineer in the Super Conductor Research Laboratory; the University of Colorado at Boulder department of Physics, 2006-2007, as a re
WSN Course at Portland State UniversityIn the Computer Science Department at Portland State University, they introduced an in-classlaboratory component to their undergraduate sensor networks course that had previously beenentirely lecture-based. For the laboratory exercises, they used Sun’s Java-programmable SunSPOT sensor network technology. They found that their first hands-on laboratory-basedundergraduate-accessible wireless sensor networks course to be a success. They feel that thegentler learning curve of the SPOTs was a necessity for developing labs that reinforce important Page 25.823.3concepts from the lecture, and this would have been
one credit courses that are not necessarily focused onethics, but have some ethical content. One was taught in spring 2009 on “Energy Policy.” Thesecond, entitled “Science, Technology & Developing Areas,” was taught in fall 2009. There arecurrently discussions to expand this program into the School of Sustainability in the future.Lab-Engagement ModelThis model is based on the idea that scientists and engineers sometimes disregard traditionalethics training in the classroom because they don’t see how the lessons could pertain to theirdaily work or how the ethics instructor could understand their situation. Holding these sessionsin laboratories where the students are comfortable helps convey the message that the ethicsinstructors
of accelerometers. We were unable to develop any laboratory experiments with thesedonated items as the shaker was too bulky to move to and from storage and the accelerometersdid not function properly. The author was able to identify Daryl White, an MET senior/adviseewho owned a vibration measurement related business. White wanted to pursue his MET studiesfull time and therefore, donated several items to the University including a sound and vibrationanalyzer, a digital sound level meter, a microphone preamp, two microphones, an accelerometer,cables and connectors for use in our Vibration course. The author wanted to best utilize theWhite’s work experience and therefore, persuaded him to develop several table top experimentsfor the Vibration
infeasible for agraduate course. System administrators can install clusters without the use of automated tools(manually), which is a very tedious task even when other tools are used to help automate theprocess. As an alternative, system administrators can use a cluster kit to assist in hostoperating system installation via PXE booting to configuring the package selection andnetworking for the cluster hosts. The three most notable cluster kits are: OSCAR (Open SourceCluster Application Resources) 5 , the Rocks Cluster Distribution ("Rocks") 11 , and thenow-defunct openMosix project 13 .OSCAR is a cluster kit developed primarily by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and isa community-driven open-source software project. OSCAR version 1.0 was
participation in laboratory or demonstration exercises in conjunction with a lecture produces a more positive learning outcome. (3) Although these demonstrations are useful, critical thinking skills are necessary to transform classroom knowledge into practical application. Students who are asked to explain what they experienced are better able to think critically. Unfortunately, if a student is not required to explain their experience, answers based on partial or incorrect understanding are more likely to occur. (3) In summary, students who are engaged with various forms of learning have a richer educational experience. A combination of lectures, discussions, interactive learning and demonstrations create a learning environment which
skill and knowledgefor the students to perform these tasks.Figure 3: Graphical representation indicating the skill-knowledge mix required to perform two different tasks.The vertical axis of this graphical model represents the degree of “skill” and “knowledge”necessary to do the task. This does not seek to force knowledge and skill into opposition, butrather to help classify two distinct but complementary parts of acquiring competency. Units forthis axis could be in hours dedicated in lecture-type instruction and laboratory-demonstrationactivities. The horizontal axis of this graph represents different areas addressed duringinstruction, namely the breadth of study areas.The graphical model can be extended to
employability of graduates.With regard to the perceived strengths of their Bachelor of Science in Mechanical EngineeringTechnology (BSMET) programs, MET program leaders indicated the following three items:design skills, strong basic (core) courses using engineering texts and good facilities/equipmentfor hands-on student experiences. Perceived weaknesses of their BSMET programs were citedas in three areas: specific curricular weaknesses, e.g., thermal/fluids engineering or projectmanagement, use of too many part-time faculty members and lack of resources, especially forlaboratories and maintaining laboratories with modern equipment.To meet anticipated future changes in engineering and engineering technology practice, METdepartment heads predicted a
panels, and tires. She has also worked on numerous projects to create advanced engineering design and learning environments, which include mul- timodal user interfaces for space systems. As Vice President of Information Technology, Peters directs the development of advanced virtual reality applications, including scientific visualization applications and web-based multimedia education/training applications.Dr. Hazim A. El-Mounayri, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Hazim El-Mounayri is an Associate Professor of M.E. and the Co-director of the Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing Laboratory (AEML) at IUPUI. The AEML is currently conducting research in virtual manufacturing and intelligent (multiscale
. Page 25.247.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012Automation Laboratory Development Focusing on Industrial Hands-on Experience, Simulation Software, and Application Research ProjectsAbstractThis paper describes the development of an Automation Control Lab in the Departmentof Engineering Technology at the University. The lab facility includes pneumaticactuators/sensors, electrical relays/switches, and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC).The major goal of the development is to help students gain hands-on industrialexperience by conducting simple projects during the lecture hours and more advancedprojects during the lab hours. Simulation software is also applied to reduceimplementation time when
willprovide them with basic skills needed for immediate response in the aftermath of disasters. Byworking together, CERT members can assist in saving lives and protecting property by using thebasic techniques learned from this course.ITEM 304 Internships: The internship is designed primarily for students who have had littleexposure to the field of emergency management. Students can find their placement (with theassistance and approval of the instructor) at national laboratories or DHS’s funded Center ofExcellence (COE) laboratories to gain hands-on practical experience with a public, private, ornon-profit organization that has significant emergency management responsibilities.ITEM 401 Application of Emergency Management Computer Technology: The
addresses all six cognitive levels of Bloom’s taxonomy.6 Of particularimportance is the critique phase of SBL wherein the Evaluation level of the taxonomy is clearlyinvoked. This aspect of learning is not incorporated in many active learning procedures butclearly is an essential part of SBL.A drawback to the implementation of SBL in a traditional class is the time constraint. As thetitle suggests, this technique has most frequently been used in studio-based classes. Thus theclass time allotted for the class is more typical of that for a laboratory class in engineering, twoto three hours. So while the SBL approach might work in a class for which an extendedrecitation section is part of the class, the time constraints inherent in a typical one-hour
,and CVE 422 form a sequence.The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC)ETCE 3163L. Structures and Materials Laboratory. Laboratory designed to evaluate structuralmaterials commonly encountered in the civil and construction environments. Basic beam, trussand frame experiments will be conducted. Standard laboratory and field tests for typicalmaterials such as block, brick, asphalt, concrete, steel and timber will be performed. Threelaboratory hours per week. (Fall)This course is required for the Civil Engineering Technology degree.Colorado State UniversityCIVE 466 – Design and Behavior of Steel Structures. Loads acting on a structure; behavior anddesign of steel members, connections, and systems.This course is required for the Civil
lecturesettings, the laboratory environment has long been recognized as an effective way for students todevelop disciplinary knowledge through active learning; many engineers learned how theoreticalideas are translated into real-world practices through hands-on work with the equipment,techniques and testing used in their disciplines. Incorporating a design-build-test model can beviewed as an extension of these laboratory experiences. Through projects courses, students learnto channel their creative ideas by building projects that actually function. These projects coursescombine many different active learning strategies including open-ended, problem-based learning.[6]The FYEP course at the University of Colorado Boulder makes use of a team-based, design
AC 2012-3298: WORKSHOP MODULES ON PHARMACEUTICAL ENGI-NEERING FOR UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATIONDr. Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University Stephanie Farrell is an Associate Professor in chemical engineering at Rowan University. Prior to joining Rowan in 1998, she was an Assistant Professor in chemical engineering and Adjunct Professor in biomed- ical engineering at Louisiana Tech University. She received her bachelor’s, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Stevens Institute of Technology, and New Jer- sey Institute of Technology, respectively. Farrell’s educational interests are in laboratory development and experiential learning, particularly in the areas of biomedical and
- vancement, Tucson, Ariz.; ”Faculty Research Award,” Southeast Missouri State University, COSM, 2010; ”Tony B. Award,” Association of laboratory Automation, 2010, 2011; Center of Nanoscale Science and Technology-University of Maryland, College Park (CNST-UMD) Scholarship, 2009-2011; and Marquis ”Who’s Who in America,” 2009. He has involved both undergraduates (22 to date) and graduates (five) in his research projects. He has established a laboratory for Nano-biotechnology and micro- and nanoflu- idics at Southeast and created and developed interest at the pre-college level by incorporation of science in K-12 classroom.Dr. Ken Surendran, Southeast Missouri State University Ken Surendran is a professor in the Department of
throughout the region. This has led to a several industry partnerships, inclusion onadditional relevant listservs, industry members offering to provide guest lectures or training inour laboratory courses, and grant opportunities with other faculty.Our next effort was to join (or rejoin) state and national professional organizations and join asmany listservs as possible. At the state level we joined the New York State EngineeringTechnology Association (NYSETA), and at the national level the Institute of Electrical andElectronics Engineers (IEEE), American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), and theInternational Association of Journals and Conferences (IAJC). There is a local IEEE chapter thathas monthly dinner meetings for $20, and once per year
limited to the itemized list in Table C. Page 25.833.7 Equipment Location Ablation machine Operation Room Defibrillator Emergency Department Heart Monitor Emergency Department Pacemaker Emergency Department 3 Analog weight scales Pharmacy 4 Electronic Weight scales Pharmacy 2 Suction Pumps Medical Ward 4 Oxygen Concentrators Medical Ward 2 Microcentrifuges Laboratory Otoscope Outpatient DepartmentTable C: List of equipment serviced and their location within