people learn and apply a design process to their work. He is interested in the intersection of designerly epistemic identities and vocational pathways. Dr. Lande received his B.S in Engineering (Product Design), M.A. in Education (Learning, Design and Technology) and Ph.D. in Me- chanical Engineering (Design Thinking) from Stanford University. Dr. Lande is the PI on the NSF-funded project ”Should Makers Be the Engineers of the Future” and a co-PI on the NSF-funded project ”Might Young Makers Be the Engineers of the Future?”Dr. Shawn S Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus SHAWN JORDAN, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of En- gineering at Arizona State
Engineering Education, 2015 Evolution of the Instructional ProcessorAbstractMost modern commercial microprocessors are too complex to be used as introductory examples.Many digital design courses and texts use hardware description language models of theseprocessors, but they are often ad hoc. What is needed is a basic processor with sufficientcomplexity that can be modified, programmed, and tested.An instructional processor has been developed for use as a design example in an AdvancedDigital Systems course at The Citadel. The initial architecture provides sufficient complexity todemonstrate fundamental programming concepts, and the entire system is modeled and simulatedin VHDL. A collaborative project between the Department of
Apply Earthquakes, 8th grade students perform global earthquake engineering activities that addresscommunity needs. The Engineering Design Process (EDP) guides the students through the design and implementation of projects and concepts relatedto earthquake design. The end result is that students build a model structure using various materials such as balsa wood, cotton balls, and craft sticks towithstand earthquakes simulated by a shake table.Target Grade Level(s) Module PremiseApply - 8th grade Everyone in your group is a member of Engineers Without Borders USA
for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on NSF projects in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback with support from internet tools and resources affect conceptual change and associated impact on students’ attitude, achievement, and per- sistence. The other is on the factors that promote persistence and success in retention of undergraduate students in engineering. He was a coauthor for best paper award in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2013.Dr. Dale R Baker, Arizona State University Dale Baker is a science educator, Her research focuses on equity issues as well as teaching and
DescriptionThe EngrTEAMS project is an engineering, design-based approach to teacher professionaldevelopment that has 50 teachers per year designing curricular units for science topic areasrelated to the Next Generation Science Standards. The project includes summer professionaldevelopment and curriculum writing workshops, paired with coaching, to allow teams ofteachers to design engineering curricular units focused on science concepts, meaningful dataanalysis, and measurement. Each unit goes through an extensive design research cycle to ensureits quality and is published in an online format.Unit DescriptionThis unit is designed for students in grade 5 to learn about force and motion as well asengineering design. The unit is centered around a central
STEM topics. Inspired by kids and grounded in research, Novel Engineering is aninnovative approach to integrate engineering and literacy in elementary and middle school. As part ofNovel Engineering students develop projects based on texts they read in English Language Arts or othercontent classes, such as history. The characters become their clients and students pull information fromthe text to scope problems and set constraints as they engage in engineering design. The open-endeddesign context provides students with space to explore their ideas through engineering while workingtowards classroom goals. Teachers play an integral role in supporting student learning in engineering byproviding a supportive, responsive environment that will allow
psychology. She is active in a number of professional associations, and is a Consultant for Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology. Page 26.228.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Applying Second Language Acquisition to Facilitate a Blended Learning of Programming LanguagesAbstractThis paper describes a recent NSF funded project under the Research Initiation Grant inEngineering Education (RIGEE) program. It correlates the programming language study tosecond language acquisition theory. The work begun in Fall 2014, and project materials areunder
experience in organizing NSF/REU site for interdisciplinary water sciences and engineering and also in teaching freshman year in VT. She has also helped in developing and implementing a project with LEWAS data into a freshman level course in Virginia Tech.Mr. John Stanton Goldstein Purviance, Virginia Tech John S.G. Purviance is a B.S. student in Computer Science at Virginia Tech. He has been working at the Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System (LEWAS) Lab for the past two years as an undergrad- uate research intern. During summer 2014, he worked as an REU fellow at the LEWAS lab. This REU site is hosted at this lab. He has background in python programming.Darren K Maczka, Virginia Tech Darren Maczka is a M.S
beyond the scope of the typical graduate student training.Consider these excerpts from job postings in the Chronicle of Higher Education (all listed underengineering, January 2015): “The responsibilities of the [Engineering Capstone Design] Facilitator include: identifying and recruiting appropriate design projects (summer support available), supporting the project sponsors and technical mentors, monitoring student group budget management, coordinating engineering design course content, and identi- fying and facilitating opportunities and forums for publication/presentation of stu- dent project success.” The candidate must have the “ability to coordinate the engineering operations management
engineering design process and that theworkshops empowered them and their students to tackle projects previously perceived asbeyond their skill level. Insufficient preparation for troubleshooting hardware andsoftware issues was listed as the greatest barrier to fully realizing the technology’spotential in the classroom. Also highlighted was a lack of resources for development ofmeaningful lesson plans using this nascent technology.IntroductionDuring the summers of 2013 and 2014 four workshops were held for high school scienceand technology teachers. The workshop participants built and commissioned their ownRepRap 3D printers in order to take them back to their schools to use in classrooms.Workshops were intended to provide the tools and basic
Patents on Computer Science. He also serves as honorary professor and visiting professor for a number of institutions including Xiamen University, Dalian University of Technology, and Zhejiang University of Technology. Dr. Huang received the Robert A. Dougherty Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) in 2005. In addition to many industrial projects (supported by federal agencies including US Army Benet Laboratories and NASA, state agencies including Ohio Department of Development and Ohio Aerospace Institute, and companies including Procter & Gamble, Daimler- Chrysler, and Pilkington North America), he has been awarded five grants from the National Science
place is to create the physical and serviceenvironment that is resilient to accommodate the needs of seniors that areuniquely associated with the aging process. Design for aging is a professionalpractice dedicated to address this specific problem. As Building InformationModeling (BIM) is gaining industry-wide acceptance, its implementation in theresidential sector is relatively limited. This study summarizes the experience andlessons learned from a project that is directed to explore the use of BIM and gameengine to facilitate design for aging. The project is interested in assessing howvisualization and interaction achieved via the integration of BIM and game enginemay enhance student understanding of aging in place design criteria and
together to explore and develop their early-stageideas. The goal is to stimulate creative play outside the traditional academic environmentthrough a mix of formal and informal engagement. This space allows innovations to progressbeyond a single classroom project or exercise, but decouples innovation from a particular courseor department, making it a true separated space devoted to team based and individual ideation.Content is driven by participants and facilitated by Student Mentors who ensure that there is alow barrier to entry. The Mentors assist with simple fabrication, facilitate connections withfaculty and other campus resources, and provide mentoring/coaching and design input toprogram participants.Due to the technical nature of many of the
Paper ID #11218PROGRAMMING A SIX AXIS MOTOMAN HP3C ROBOT FOR INDUS-TRIAL SORTING APPLICATIONMr. Hamza Kadir, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology) Alumni Hamza Kadir, M.Sc., currently works as a Controls Engineer in the Packaging Machinery OEM indus- try. He completed his Masters from Purdue University Calumet, majoring in Mechatronics Engineering Technology. He conducted his M.Sc. Directed Project at the Nick and Nancy Wilson Mechatronics En- gineering Technology Laboratory. This project involves integration of modern automation tools for an intelligent part sorting system. He has previously worked with use of
considerations in our core courses. I reflect on lessons learned from twoassignments in two different core courses, each implemented in the larger context of engineeringat a liberal arts college. Here introducing a social justice dimension of sustainability was a smallpart of a larger effort to integrate liberal education into core courses.One module introduced students in a first year Mass and Energy Balances course to the tool ofLife Cycle Assessment (LCA) for developing and analyzing green products and processes, whilesimultaneously offering a critique of green consumerism which was incorporated into studentLCA projects. A key learning outcome was that students understood not only the promises of thetool but also its limitations and when it is and is
Paper ID #11219Designing of Bottle Washing Machine in Virtual Environment Using the En-hanced Mechatronics System Design MethodologyMr. Rizwanul Neyon, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology) Rizwanul Neyon, M.Sc, has completed his masters from Purdue University Calumet majoring in Mecha- tronics Engineering Technology. In his MS Directed project he worked in a Pick & Place machine where he has integrated a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) & Human Machine Interface (HMI). He was awarded a graduate assistantship from Purdue University Calumet in 2012. As a graduate assistant in engineering Technology
events ranging from conduct- ing demonstrations of scientific phenomena for K-12 students to participating on the XIII International Symposium of the ”Instituto Polit´ecnico Nacional”. On 2014 he was honored to participate on the ”Latin American Summer Research Program” at the University of Arizona under the mentoring of Michelle E. Jordan, PhD, exploring the experiences of learners engaged in collaborative engineering design projects. Page 26.1629.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Understanding Youth Collaboration: How Middle School Learners Experience the
combined with the Project Team Builder (PTB)1 Simulator is used in the field ofIndustrial Engineering.In 1987, Grieshop listed some of the benefits of games and simulations: 1. Emphasize questioning over answering on the part of players. 2. Provide opportunities to examine critically the assumptions and implications that underlie various decisions. 3. Expose the nature of problems and possible solution paths. 4. Create an environment for learning that generates discovery learning. 5. Promote skills in communicating, role-taking, problem solving, leading, and decision- making
an Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Computer Systems Technology Department at New York City College of Technology, CUNY. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics. Her focus are working with faculty constantly to keep curriculum updated to respond to the growth of computer technol- ogy; researching in project-based learning with digital generation; and promoting the retention of female students. Her research interests include artificial neural networks and applications in system identifica- tion and forecasting. She has worked on projects that have applied neural networks in highway rainfall drainage problems, the estimation of crude oil saturation and non-invasive glucose sensing problems
vSphere is that it lackssome of the basic functionality that is readily available on the standalone VMware Workstationsoftware. Also, it limits the ability for each student or group to have their own hardware networkinterfaces when they need to integrate external physical networks with the virtual machines undervSphere. The vSphere suite was not designed to have dynamic networking where each user wouldbe able to control and manipulate multiple VM’s and appliances internal and external to thevSphere Operating System (ESXi). As a result we embarked on an aggressive re-purposing of thevSphere suite to take advantage of its efficiency, while also increasing its robustness to match thatof what is available on a VMware Workstation, in a project known
analyzes the development of Wild Sound, a musical workcomposed by Glenn Kotche and performed by Third Coast Percussion, with custominstruments designed and built by engineering students at the University of Notre Dame,that has been performed for national audiences. Using theories of design from Simon’sSciences of the Artificial and current views of Design Thinking, the paper examines thecomplex multidisciplinary design process behind the development of this work. It alsoexamines the learning experiences of the design team and suggests ways that futureacademic design projects may benefit from this experience.Introduction“Wild Sound” has been described as challenging “the distinctions that exist betweenmusic and noise, instrument and everyday object
Paper ID #13572Increasing Success and Retention in Engineering and other STEM FieldsMs. Karen M. Groppi P.E., Cabrillo College Karen Groppi is an Engineering Instructor at Cabrillo College and California registered Civil Engineer whose work focuses on teaching and mentoring students through hands-on projects which benefit the campus community. She was co-PI on a five year NSF grant for recruiting and retaining students in STEM fields.Dr. Susan Tappero, Cabrillo College Susan Tappero obtained a Ph.D. in pure mathematics from University of California, Santa Cruz in 1992. She has been teaching mathematics and developing
assessment data collected so far.1 IntroductionThe goal of this project is to introduce a mechatronics experiential learning element intothe curriculum of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at theUniversity of Texas at Arlington (UTA). This type of hands-on experience is known to moti-vate students, particularly those from underrepresented groups, in their study of engineering.Dr. Bowling became aware of this when he was faculty advisor for a team of students whoentered the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Ex-ploration Robo-Ops competition. The students were required to build a Mars rover, whichwould be transported to the rock yard at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
research interests are engineering self-efficacy, creativity, and decision making.Dr. Kevin Andrew Richards, Northern Illinois University K. Andrew R. Richards is currently a visiting assistant professor at Northern Illinois University. Prior to his current post, Richards was a post-doctoral research associate with the Center for Instructional Ex- cellence at Purdue University, USA. His post-doctoral position focused on the evaluation of a large-scale course transformation project that sought to increase active learning and student-centered pedagogies in university-level teaching. Prior to post-doctoral studies, Richards completed his Master’s degree and PhD at Purdue University, and Bachelor’s degree at Springfield
andgraphical work done mostly in MATLAB. Primary course topics covered in this survey courseinclude: (1) vector integral Calculus, (2) an introduction to Fourier series, (3) an introduction topartial differential equations (PDEs), (4) an introduction to complex analysis, and (5) conformalmapping and applications. Also, examples of student project work are shown. Lastly, usefulstudent feedback and lessons learned is shared that others involved in engineering mathematicsinstruction may find useful or be able to relate to.Keywords: Vector integral Calculus, Fourier series, partial differential equations, complexanalysis, conformal mapping, engineering mathematics education1. IntroductionDue to increasing undergraduate enrollments in both electrical and
Acquisition and Processing course. In this course a smart design project forms thebasis of the EML experience which includes such skills as seeking opportunities usingbrainstorming, accessing market interest, accessing technical feasibility, designing formanufacturability, and providing a cost analysis of an eventual finalized product.The entrepreneurial impact of this comprehensive program is assessed through surveys whichgage the students' awareness of EML concepts.This paper will present an overview of the ACL, PBL and EML techniques used in the First YearEngineering Program at Western New England University. Page 26.969.2IntroductionThis paper
simulation and modeling. She has served as the principal investigator in 80 projects and authored/co-authored over a 160 technical papers. Dr. Sisiopiku has been recognized by many organizations for her professional achievements including the Institute of Transportation Engineers, the Federal Highway Administration, the Illinois Association of Highway Engineers, IEEE, and the Women’s Transportation Seminar. She is the recipient of the 2007 President’s Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2010 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentorship, and a Fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers.Dr. Robert W. Peters, University of Alabama at Birmingham Dr. Robert W. Peters is a Professor of Environmental Engineering at the
2 Function calls and arrays in embedded C with interfacing a liquid crystal display (LCD) module 8 2 PIC18 features and analog-to-digital (A/D) conversions 9 Course Review - Midterm Exam 10-12 6 Timer programming and interrupt programming 13-14 4 Capture-compare-PWM programming 15 Course Review - Final ExamTable 3 shows the laboratory projects in the laboratory exercise sections, where the content oflaboratory project #3 is included in Appendix A. For the laboratory exercises, MPLAB Integrat-ed Development Environment (IDE)8 as shown in Figure 1 is used to program the source code in
level, instructors are designing new teachingstrategies. At the second level, the researchers are designing a model for teaching developmentfor faculty. In addition, how does conceptualizing teaching as a design process inform a teachingdevelopment model for instructors? Literature Review We build in this project on other frameworks for research in education that examine howeducational products (e.g., curriculum) or processes are designed for the classroom. In many ofthese cases, there are models, resources or tools being designed to support teaching and learning.For example, in research about the design of curriculum, Clements describes multiple stages inthe life of the materials from the ideal curriculum to the planned curriculum to the
): Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender Dimension and Gender Differences in Science Careers: The Project Access Study. Page 26.328.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Career Priorities and the Challenge of Recruiting Women to Computing “I always hear stories about how we can’t find enough engineers, we can’t find enoughcomputer programmers… And that’s why we’re emphasizing math and science. That’s whywe’re emphasizing teaching girls math and science.” – President Barack Obama, May 20111AbstractMisconceptions, lack of awareness, and