well-rounded process ofadjusting concepts so that they can be efficiently applied to real world situations. The use of modelsas a form of experience to teach ideas, whether theoretical or design, can serve as a conceptualbridge between life situations which aids creativity, problem solving, decision making, andscientific research (11).The theory put forward by Kolb has been implemented in various ways, with varying degrees ofsuccess. Laboratory education has been found to benefit significantly from the application ofKolb’s cycle, including hands-on activities and pre- and post-lab tests to prepare and consolidatethe knowledge of the students (12). These theories were implemented within this activity byintroducing the models, providing theory
been here since 2006. Prior employment experience includes: Oceanographer for US Naval Research Laboratory (1995-2006), Post- Doctoral Fellow at US Naval Research Laboratory (1994-1995), Hydraulic Engineer at US Waterways Experiment Station, US Army Corps of Engineers (1987-1989). Ph.D. from University of Delaware (1994), M.S. from University of California, Berkeley (1987), B.S. from California State Polytechnic University (1986), all in Civil Engineering. Research interests include theory and modeling of ocean wave dynamics, beach erosion, coastal engineering, nearshore circulation, and ocean wave generation by wind.Ms. Chelsea A. H. Bakenhus, Texas A&M University Ms. Chelsea Bakenhus is currently a second
the present LEWAS lab. In 2007, the first REU student tojoin the lab developed a simple prototype for a wireless data collection system, aiming to designan on-campus watershed sciences and engineering laboratory. This prototype iteratively evolvedwith the help of other REU students to the present LEWAS, which has the following four stages:1) data inputs that consist of environmental instruments including an acoustic Doppler currentprofiler, a water quality sonde and a weather station each taking measurements every 1-3 min.,2) data processing occurring locally on a Raspberry Pi, 3) data storage on a remote server and 4)data visualization through an Online Watershed Learning System (OWLS)(www.lewas.centers.vt.edu/dataviewer) through which end
assess predictorrelationships for student success.The Shewhart Cycle, developed by WalterShewhart at Bell Laboratories during the 1930s,provides the basis for a statistical quality controlapproach to administering the higher educationsystem. The objective is to ensure that studentsare able to, with minimal disruption, migrate Figure 1: CCTA Systems Viewbetween TTU and community colleges. For the bi-directional Student Transition Paths shown in Figure 1, agreements must eliminate academicprogram discontinuities by including well-defined community college course outcomes andrelated performance criteria that ensure academic success for transfer students. Similarly, toreflect a global higher education optimization strategy, TTU-COE
design. The professor also providesrelevant reference material and, when possible, invites subject-matter experts to be guestlecturers in class and answer student questions. Fortunately, most students eagerlyembrace the challenge of investigating a new technology and learning to apply thatknowledge to the project. As a result, this activity provides a tangible example of thenecessity for life-long learning as required by the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET): General Criterion 3(i).In the process of accreditation, ABET assesses the degree to which a universitycurriculum satisfies its published outcomes. As mentioned above, Capstone Designclasses provide an excellent laboratory for learning to use the principles and tools
students and collecting survey data from multiple institutions.IntroductionWriting is an important skill for engineers, but it is not necessarily thought about or taught as an“engineering skill.” Because of this, and despite ABET accreditation criteria directly related towriting,1 the inclusion of writing in engineering programs varies widely from program toprogram and course to course. While writing in engineering practice varies in scope frominformal emails and memos to large scope reports and proposals, writing in engineering coursesis often limited to formal laboratory or project reports, if it is included at all. This often causes adisconnect, leaving engineering graduates lacking in writing knowledge and skills, including asrelated to
program, students are intentionally exposedto a variety of engineering majors through hands-on laboratory experiences that arecontextualized to various majors. While the labs do not cover all 14 engineering majors availableto the students, they do cover a majority of them to varying degrees. Electrical and ComputerEngineering has the most lab experiences dedicated to them while not all first-year students(depending on track) would have lab experiences in the following majors: aviation, biomedical,chemical, engineering physics, food, agriculture and biological, and welding engineering.Students are also exposed to the various majors through their survey course which is a generalintroduction to the university and engineering if they decide to not
also provided students with the opportunity to learn moreabout TTU and served as a recruitment opportunity. Laboratory courses are a part of offereddegree programs, making an introduction to lab safety another opportunity for participants toexperience components of an engineering major.Recreational time Participants were provided time to explore recreational facilities and themed social events tobalance out technical and information sessions. Time in the evenings was important forhighlighting the social aspect of university life. Recreational time also provided a casual settingfor participants to ask counselors questions about their experiences in an undergraduateengineering program. Overall, the relationships developed during recreational
his Ph.D. degree in Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineer- ing at Auburn University, AL, USA in 2007. He obtained his master’s degree in Structural Engineering from Korea University, South Korea, in 2000 and his Bachelor’s degree was in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Korea University, South Korea, in 1998. Prior to entering PhD study, Dr. Kang worked as a Senior Civil Engineer in Hong Kong site and Seoul Headquarter of Hyundai Engineering and Con- struction Co., Ltd. during 2000- 2002. After his PhD study, he had taken many projects supported by ALDOT and Air Force Research Laboratory as a research associate at Auburn University during 2007 – 2011. Dr. Junsuk Kang has taught
design projects has been documented in the literature, in manydifferent contexts, including: - In the context of a K-12 extracurricular program1 and a K-12 distance learning experience2 - In the context of extracurricular Rube Goldberg competitions3 - In the context of a pilot Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Design course with 16 students the first year4 and 21 students the second year5 - In the context of a junior-level electrical laboratory class with number of students ranging from 8 to 26 over the years6 - In the context of an engineering dynamics course with 47 students7The literature documents the many benefits of using Rube Goldberg projects. For example, theuse of these projects requires that
12throughout a student’s pursuit of a degree. Research assistantships, internships, or involvingstudents in the work of professors across various departments will also prepare students to take along-term view in their work. Professors rarely explain their research to students who are notinvolved in their research laboratories, but all students could benefit from observing the long-term process required for real-world innovation, including both technical and leadership skillsused. It would also be useful for students to have exposure to the types of large scaleinterdisciplinary efforts popping up all over the country and world. For example, with a billpassed in 2015, Congress funded several new manufacturing centers, which should increase therate of
been responsible for monitoring industry trends and developing technology solutions that serve to enhance both teaching and learning. Prior to her appointment at Florida Gulf Coast University, Mrs. O’Connor-Benson managed end-user technology systems and services at Brookhaven National Laboratory, a multipurpose research institution funded primarily by the U.S. De- partment of Energy’s Office of Science. Located on the center of Long Island, New York, BNL is a cutting-edge large-scale facility for studies in physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, applied science, and a wide range of advanced technologies. The Laboratory’s almost 3,000 scientists, engineers, and support staff are joined each year by more than 4,000
encompass different disciplines. In this workwe identify and expound upon some of the technical challenges facing those who wish toimplement or extend existing practical and laboratory tasks, at both the undergraduate andpostgraduate level, to incorporate challenging, state-of-the-art drone use-cases and deploymentscenarios. We focus on the challenges faced by students and document representative solutionsproduced in integrated dynamic control, image processing, machine vision, volumetric modelling,remote sensing and machine learning. It is important to note that the work, as described in thisarticle, can be largely performed and validated in academic settings independently of UAVavailability and deployment. This has proven increasingly important
pedagogy of hand-onbased instruction in engineering (see reference attached), A very successful mobile laboratoryenvironment was developed in 2005 based on engineering studio pedagogy for electronics andcircuits (Millard, D., & Chouikha, M. (2005, June), Toward The Development Of A MobileStudio Environment Paper presented at 2005 Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon.https://peer.asee.org/14984) Similarly, in 2009 University of Puerto Rico implemented a hands-on laboratory in power electronics and renewable energy. (Eduardo I. Ortiz-Rivera and Marcel J.Castro-Sitiriche, MIE-2 39th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, October 18 - 21,2009, San Antonio, TX.). Such innovations have indeed helped improve the hands-on experienceof electronics
in a materials science laboratory on campus. She also has held an engineering co-op position with Rogers Corporation’s Inno- vation Center, and will pursue her second position with the DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory this coming spring (2016).Mr. Tyler Byrne Cole, Northeastern University Tyler Cole is a third year undergraduate student studying chemical engineering at Northeastern University. He has been involved in the Connections Chemistry Review program and first year engineering tutoring for two years. Tyler has held a co-op position at Genzyme, and is currently completing his second co-op with Amgen.Prof. Paul A. DiMilla, Northeastern University Paul A. DiMilla is an Associate Teaching Professor
Morton Krousgrill, Purdue University, West Lafayette Charles M. Krousgrill is a Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University and is affiliated with the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories at the same institution. He received his B.S.M.E. from Purdue University and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mechanics from Caltech. Dr. Krousgrill’s current research interests include the vibration, nonlinear dynamics, friction-induced oscillations, gear rattle vibrations, dynamics of clutch and brake systems and damage detection in rotor systems. Dr. Krousgrill is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He has received the H.L. Solberg Teaching Award (Purdue ME) seven
profesional de la información , 21 (2), 136-145.[5] Kalz, M., Kreijns, K., Wahlout, J., Castaño-Muñoz, J., Espasa, A., & Tovar, E. (2015). Setting-up aEuropean Cross-Provider Data Collection on Open Online Courses. International Review of Research in Openand Distributed Learning , 16 (6), 62-77.[6] Farias, R., Durán, E.B., & Figueroa, S.G. (2008). Las Técnicas de Clustering en la Personalización deSistemas de e-Learning. In XIV Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación (CACIC).[7] Lloyd, S.P. (1957). Least squares quantization in PCM. Technical Note, Bell Laboratories. Published in 1982in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 28, 128–137.[8] Forgy, E.W. (1965). Clustering analysis of multivariate data: efficiency versus
University of Illinois at Chicago in the fall of 2016.Dr. Peter C Nelson, University of Illinois, Chicago Peter Nelson was appointed Dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) College of Engineer- ing in July of 2008. Prior to assuming his deanship, Professor Nelson was head of the UIC Depart- ment of Computer Science. In 1991, Professor Nelson founded UIC’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which specializes in applied intelligence systems projects in fields such as transportation, manufacturing, c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Paper ID #17077 bioinformatics and
ensuring achievement of these competencies. In order to facilitate transfer oflearning from the classroom to the workforce, Bransford, Brown, and Cocking8 suggest thatstudents initially be provided with opportunities for working on scaled-down versions ofproblems. These practical ideas can be used in the design of technology capstone projects.The capstone project at Eastern Kentucky University is a synthesis experience, whereinstudents are required to select a topic for independent research and implementation. This one-semester course provides students with an opportunity to design, develop, test, troubleshoot,and manage an integrated research- and laboratory-based project in an area of their interest.Students deploy their projects in homes, work
students and U.S. citizen andpermanent resident students. Data presented in the previously mentioned study 13 paint a grimpicture for the current state of URM students graduating with advanced degrees, and goes on toshow that in 2014 over 55% of doctoral degrees in the U.S. were awarded to foreign nationals.The FSSP acts to counter these trends by exposing the participants to extracurricular activitiesrelating to research and connecting them directly with both peers and faculty who can provideinformation and potentially even facilitate and support a future laboratory or research experience.RecruitmentStudents selected to participate in the FSSP program were required to be incoming URMfreshman who were accepted directly into a program in the
and his M. S. in Engineering from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. After serving as USAF pilot in KC-135 and KC-10 aircraft, he completed his DPhil in Engineering Sciences at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom and returned to the USAF Academy to teach heat transfer and propulsion systems. At Baylor University, he teaches courses in laboratory techniques, fluid mechanics, energy systems, and propulsion systems, as well as freshman engineering. Research interests include renewable energy to include small wind turbine aerodynamics, UAS propeller design and experimental convective heat transfer as applied to HVAC and gas turbine systems. c American Society for Engineering
designexperiences. Starting in their freshman year, the students participate in a program called the Artof Engineering. The course is designed to help students transition from a science-oriented highschool way of thinking to an engineering point of view. In particular, students that participate inthe BME section in this course are introduced to and charged with utilizing the engineeringdesign process to solve open-ended problems. Following this course, opportunities for exploringdesign can be found both within BME laboratory courses and in the parallel lecture courses. Theculmination of the laboratory sequence and the design experiences introduced throughout earliercourses is the required senior “capstone” design course, which includes a significant
% completed the comments section of thesurvey. The following is a sample of selected comments. The “new demands” of the marketplace are simply the continual accelerated changes in the complexity and scope of technological change. As technologies evolve, so must those whose chosen profession is to prepare the STEM-related workforce of the future. Or risk premature irrelevance. It would be nice if our top- level administration would concentrate on increasing faculty and laboratory support as much as increasing institutional “branding” and revamping the campus to be more engaging to the social desires of undergraduate students. And football… the institution is seeking to raise $26+ million to build a new stadium—a limited use
: • In-person engagement with academic lecturers, • Practical and laboratory learning activities, • Presentations and interaction with guest speakers from industry, • Industry-based site visits, • Engagement in sole and group-based learning and assessment activities on campus, and • Social interaction with other students.After running pilot residential schools for two years, it was found that a workable formatconsisted in a two-week residential experience in the first semester, linked to two key freshmancourses, Fundamentals of Technology Management, and Engineering Physics. On-campus andonline students’ academic grades were compared for both courses over the years 2005 to 2012.We found that for physics lab
Laboratory at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Fontecchio received his Ph.D. in Physics from Brown University in 2002. He has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed publications. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016The Recipe for a Gourmet Snack: NGSS, NAE, and STEaMAbstract At an urban high school in Philadelphia, a teacher-engineer team questioned if a project-based learning unit using Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), National Academy ofEngineering (NAE), and Understanding By Design (UBD) frameworks could be designed andexecuted to successfully teach students about macromolecules. Molecular gastronomy (MG) is abranch of food science that studies the physical and chemical
Competition for the team’s innovation: Assurefit- a chest tube stabilization device. Breanne found her drive for innovation and fascination with design during the development of this technology and seeks to equip students with this same drive through experiential learning.Dr. John D DesJardins, Clemson University Dr. John DesJardins is the Robert B. and Susan B. Hambright Leadership Associate professor in Bioengi- neering at Clemson University and the director of the Frank H. Stelling and C. Dayton Riddle Orthopaedic Education and Research Laboratory at CUBEInC. He received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, his MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and his Ph.D. in
; Mascaro et al. atUniversity of Utah implemented new laboratories which involve hands-on design in the first andsecond years of the mechanical engineering program7-8; Hodges and Sullivan discussed severalprojects in the Design or Mechanical Systems course, such as natural frequency analysis of acantilever beam and a buckling analysis, for which students designs were fabricated in themachine shop9; there has not been a consistent effort to provide opportunities for students totackle open-ended hands-on design problems throughout the mechanical engineering curriculum.At Arizona State University, three open-ended hands-on design projects, one in each of the threemechanical engineering courses taught during the Spring 2015 semester have been
, manufacturing, and assembly processes. Since 2010, Lo- gan has worked as a private tutor; most recently he has moved from small in-person tutoring into electronic classroom learning as a consultant for an online tutoring service. In previous semesters, he has aided the teaching of introductory design and modeling classes at Florida Polytechnic University. As the operator of the Florida Polytechnic University Robotics Laboratory, he trains students to use fabrication machin- ery, 2D and 3D design software, and analytic methods to aid in student and research projects. Logan also provides 3D modeling, prototyping, and 2D design services to various local companies, and hopes to earn certifications for 3D design in the coming
“university-enterprisejoint laboratory” and the last is “university-enterprise union.” The first type is animportant innovative practice of PETOE. These elaborate practice platforms will notonly provide high-quality internship opportunities for students, but also ensure a longcontinuous internship for students. As pointed out in the official document “Several Opinions from of the Ministry ofEducation on the Implementation of a Plan for Education and Training OutstandingEngineers” (Teaching High Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education[2011] No. 1), universities and enterprises should build engineering practice educationcenters which should be charged by the key managers of enterprises.Engineering practice