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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Pedagogy of Lab-Oriented Courses

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rupa Purasinghe, California State University, Los Angeles; John E. Shamma; Brian Phan, California State University of Los Angeles ; Howard Lum, California State University Los Angeles

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asproject mentors. This project was conducted in close contact with several civil engineeringpractitioners who shared a professional perspective with the students. This integration andexposure to practitioners will help the students in their career planning process as well as later intheir professional life.Classroom Organization Students from a Freshman Civil Engineering Design course (CE195 – Freshman Design),a Junior Structures Laboratory class (CE 382 – Computer Aided Structural Analysis/Design andExperimentation ), and a Graduate Structures class (CE 564 - Numerical Methods in StructuralAnalysis) participated by vertically integrating the subject matter among these classes.Following are the highlights of the way the program was

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Bring-Your-Own-Experiments 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca Marie Reck, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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. Page 26.314.2Pedagogical ContextA controls laboratory experience should prepare students for a career in control systems 4 byperforming the following steps: building the system, 5 modeling and analyzing the system,developing a controller to meet performance requirements, simulating the controller and system,observing the physical system, collecting the data, and using the data to improve the systemmodel or control tuning. 6,7 Experiments based on DC motors 1,2 and inverted pendulums 6,8 havebeen identified to meet these goals for controls laboratory experiences.To date, five experiments have been designed for our new kit: introduction to the sensors,introduction to the equipment, first principles system identification, black box

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Division Experimentation & Lab-oriented Studies: Electrical and Computer Engineering Labs

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phillip Wong, Portland State University; Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University

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possible career opportunities. The analysis material was transferred Page 26.1480.2to ECE 102, with most non-EE topics removed to make time for more EE focused material. ECE103 took on the role of teaching intermediate-level programming in C. Surveys from industryand former students made it clear that the single programming course required of EE studentswas not meeting the expectations of prospective employers. So, it was decided that ECE 102would expand the MATLAB portion of the course to include general programming in addition tocovering its calculation and graphing tools. Effectively, in our courses MATLAB has become aprimer for C due to

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Division Experimentation & Lab-oriented Studies: Mechanical Engineering and Control

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julianne Vernon, University of Michigan, College of Engineering; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Noel C. Perkins, University of Michigan; Bradford G Orr, University of Michigan

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Evaluation of Self-Efficacy Treatment on Technical Scientific Career Outcomes. ERIC Clearinghouse, 1997. Page 26.1228.716 H. Fencl and K. Scheel, “Engaging Students: An Examination of the Effects of Teaching Strategies on Self-Efficacy and Course Climate in a Nonmajors Physics Course.” Journal of College Science Teaching, vol. 35, no. 1, p. 20, 2005.17 D. H. Schunk and C. A. Mullen, “Self-Efficacy as an Engaged Learner,” in dl2af5jf3e.search.serialssolutions.com, no. 10, Boston, MA: Springer US, 2012, pp. 219–235.18 R. M. Marra and B. Bogue, “Women Engineering Students’ Self Efficacy – A

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Best Paper Presentations

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University; Kaitlin Engle Mallouk, Rowan University; Krishan Kumar Bhatia, Rowan University

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. Page 26.400.5Project OutcomesAmong the various benefits of implementing a student-driven project like CRP, below are fewthat highlight overall freshmen engineering learning objectives that CRP addresses. These are inaddition to the general focus of introducing freshman students to the engineering profession.1. Measurement and Data Analysis. For CRP, students measure, collect, analyze and interpret data from their tests. Students become inherently familiar with the important role of measurement and data analysis in their tasks. Furthermore, the students have the opportunity to recognize sources of errors in their experiments, which serves as an excellent foundation for their engineering career.2. Teamwork. Students must work within

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Pedagogy of Lab-Oriented Courses

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Natacha Depaola, Illinois Institute of Technology; Roberto Cammino, Illinois Institute of Technology; Bonnie Haferkamp, Illinois Institute of Technology; Paul R. Anderson, Illinois Institute of Technology; Eric M Brey, Illinois Institute of Technology; Jamshid Mohammadi, Illinois Institute of Technology; Fouad Teymour, Illinois Institute of Technology

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research at our university. Thiscourse is intended to stimulate creative engineering thinking in students while leading themthrough the process of conceptualizing and performing hands-on engineering research in aclassroom setting. The course is open to all engineering undergraduate students and it is aimed atthe development of student research skills and student preparation to perform mentoredundergraduate research, therefore setting the stage for a more competitive and successful path topostgraduate studies or R&D industry career. In addition, this course helps close the gapbetween student demand for an undergraduate research experience and the often limited numberof faculty-mentored research projects available to undergraduate students in