Sparkfun Inventor Kits and peripheral sensors.The Cage is home to all of our hand tools (e.g., portable drills, Dremels, sanding equipment,wrenches) and several benchtop tools (e.g. belt sander, drill press), as well as prototyping space.The Universal VLS4.60 laser cutter lives in the Hack-A-Torium next to a fume hood, severallarge work tables, and a lot of project storage bins. The Pit has room for group work and a walllined with desktop computers, as well as two lounge areas for more casual collaborations. TheTest Lab houses our sensor inventory and two large tension testing rigs, and the MechanicalSystems Lab is home to three out of four of our laboratory courses. Finally, the Hive is primarilyused for teaching assistant (TA) office hours and
Paper ID #15358Leveraging Online Lab Development: A New Paradigm to Offer EducationalLab Infrastructure as a Cloud ServiceDanilo Garbi Zutin, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences Danilo G. Zutin is currently a Senior Researcher and team member of the Center of Competence in Online Laboratories and Open Learning (CCOL) at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (CUAS), Vil- lach, Austria, where he has been engaged in projects for the development of online laboratories, softtware architectures for online laboratories and online engineering in general. Danilo is author or co-author of more than 30 scientific papers
engineer who retired from IBM after serving for 30 years. He is a development engineering and manufacturing content expert. He develops and teaches all related engineering courses. His responsibility as a director of Center on Access Technology Innovation Laboratory include the plan- ning, implementation and dissemination of research projects that are related to the need of accessibility. He received his BS from RIT and his MS from Lehigh University. His last assignment with IBM was an Advanced Process Control project manager. He managed team members in delivering the next generation Advanced Process Control solution which replaced the legacy APC system in the 300 mm semiconductor fabricator. Behm has fifteen patents
software will be implemented in MATLAB and in addition, the image andsignal processing toolboxes available in MATLAB were used as functions in the software. Theco-ordinate position of the object in the image and the actual distance of the object from thecamera are to be determined. A camera calibration technique was developed to convert objectpixels to real co-ordinations. Finally, the robotics arm attached to the mobile robot picks theobject(s) of interest that is/are present in the vicinity. A set of robotics behaviors was developedto help the mobile robot navigate in a crowded environment to avoid detected obstacles. Themobile robot used in this project is Pioneer 3-DX which is a small but very durable and robustrobot. Pioneer 3-DX comes with a
then, many of them have already left the field. It is hypothesized that thislack of clarity of the field at an early point in students’ academic career, coupled with theperception that the curriculum is largely irrelevant to their lives, has impacted the retention ratesof computer science majors in the first two years of their academic study programs. This paperwill report on a preliminary stage of a comprehensive project effort that aims to improveretention rates for computer science students in their entry-level courses through thedevelopment of course modules intended for inclusion in their entry-level curriculum. Thetheoretical basis for these modules will be reviewed and the design framework for thedevelopment of these models is discussed
how families in NewEngland would first construct what is known as a half-Cape, and as the family grew, the housewould be enlarged into a Full Cape, and then enlarged further with dormers and shed additions.One of the basic principles used in the project was that the entire house does not need to beconstructed at once: additional room modules could be added to the house over time.Norwich University’s “Starter” Micro-house Design PhilosophyWhile the Solar Decathlon Competition is about solar technology, its focus on affordability alsospeaks to practical marketability of the completed structure. An overwhelming number ofVermonter’s cannot afford a house that meets the target construction costs of any but one of theof the 2015 Solar Decathlon’s
indecision making. The Teagle Foundation plans to address this problem through their “LiberalArts in the Professions” program [1], in which liberal arts education will be embedded into thecurriculum of undergraduates preparing for the professions. Under this project faculty will beable to develop a suite of measures to integrate liberal arts teaching into the undergraduateengineering curriculum.Over summer 2015, during the planning phase of this project, faculty teams from the fourcampuses (California State University Northridge, Los Angeles, Chico, and California StatePolytechnic University Pomona) have met with each other and held discussions and meetings ontheir own campuses to evaluate the feasibility, utility and efficacy of a variety of
both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Com- puter Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?” He has also been part of the teaching team for NSF’s Innovation Corps for Learning, and was named one of ASEE PRISM’s ”20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014. Dr. Jordan also founded and led teams to two collegiate National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest cham- pionships, and has co-developed the
obtain research experience and become confident and motivated to pursue their graduatestudy: Research activities: Combined with students’ interest and background, each WIECE student was associated with a specific research project and she performed research directly supervised by the author. One student worked on low-power logic circuit design and the other one worked on reliable SRAM schematics and layout optimization. The students attended weekly research meetings with author’s graduate students and attended research discussions and presentations. Professional development activities: the WIECE students were engaged in many aspects of professional development, including preparing
), heat and mass transfer rates, contact friction,mechanical strength and susceptibility to fracture from microcracks, amenabilityto bonding, chemical reactivity and susceptibility to corrosion, and propensity forcontamination and effectiveness of cleaning procedures for a particular surface.Further, the surface often reveals information about the underlying materialincluding grain boundaries and defects. As part of a larger project, we aredeveloping a suite of surface characterization methods appropriate for STEMeducational purposes. Surface characterization of materials ordevices/components in various stages of production is a useful and instructiveeducational project for engineering students because of its importance to a widevariety of
have become visible, successful female members of male-dominated departments. This is having a positive effect on the cultures of the departments which is in turn encouraging other female students. Herein, we provide an overview of the CS/M Scholars program and highlight features that may be adaptable to other institutions without external funding. We report on statistics for recruitment, retention and graduation; share our ideas and experiences for impact- ful monthly events; explain how conference participation has been transformative for both students and their departments; and discuss funding conference participation with few institutional resources. We view our work so far as a pilot project in part because the program
, Berkeley in 2013. She has a B.S. in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.Dr. Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech Dr. Amelink is Director of Graduate Programs and Assessment in the College of Engineering, Virginia Tech. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the Departments of Engineering Education and Educa- tional Leadership and Policy Studies at Virginia Tech. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 The Impact of Summer Research Experiences on Community College Students Self EfficacyThe Transfer-to-Excellence Research Experience for Undergraduates program (TTE REU) offersmulti-disciplinary research projects to community college
engineering applications. No Talks about how Talks about how Talks more about the Talks about engineering Hands down, Evidence engineering cannot engineering helps potential for engineering to as a crucial element engineering is theProfessional Ability help those who are generally just by the help solve social/ towards finding solutions central source of in need projects that we do. environmental problems that to social problems. May solutions for social Uses examples of roads face society. This is
grow over the years, both technically as well as pedagogically. Currently he works in one of the most technically outstanding buildings in the region where he provides support to students, faculty, and staff in implementing technology inside and outside the classroom, researching new engineering education strategies as well as the technologies to support the 21st century classroom (online and face to face). He also has assisted both the campus as well as the local community in developing technology programs that highlight student skills development in ways that engage and attract individuals towards STEAM and STEM fields by showcasing how those skills impact the current project in real-world ways that people can
makers.In a paper touting the promise of maker spaces for education, Martin5 identifies three elements ofthe maker movement that are essential to consider in determining potential possible affordancesfor education: 1) digital tools, including rapid prototyping tools and low-cost microcontrollerplatforms, that characterize many making projects; 2) community infrastructure, including onlineresources and in-person spaces and events; and 3) maker mindset, aesthetic principles, a failure-positive approach, collaboration, and habits of mind that are commonplace within thecommunity. Similar to Martin’s “the maker mindset,” Kurti et al.,6 the authors of ThePhilosophy of Educational Makerspaces: Part 1 of Making an Educational Makerspace, identifythree
Paper ID #15901Android-Based Remote Robot Control SystemDr. Yujian Fu P.E., Alabama A&M University Dr. Yujian Fu is an associate professor of computer science department at Alabama A&M University. Her research interests fall in formal verification of cyber physical systems, behavioral analysis of mobile security, software architecture and design analysis of safety-critical and mission-critical systems. Her projects are supported by NSF, Air Force and DoD. She have several publications regarding to the research and educational projects.Mr. Md Hossain Shuvo, Alabama A&M University Graduate Student, Dept. of
only, Positive Flexure – Compression Zone in Flange and WebThe flanged beam models presented in Figure 4 appeared to be an effective teaching tool. By theend of the semester a majority of RC1 students were able to demonstrate a strong conceptualunderstanding of flexural analysis of flanged sections, beyond T-beams. This assessment is basedon reviewing students’ hand calculations for L-shaped and hollow-core square sections (in theterm project and final exam, respectively) that show their use of stress blocks developexpressions for concrete compression and steel tension forces. Figure 4. Physical Models for T-Beams at Nominal Flexure: (Prev. Pg.) Negative Moment, (Bot. Left) Positive Flexure – Compression Zone
program with minimal prerequisites so as to enablesophomore-level engineering technology students to participate early in the internships, exploretheir majors, and undergo experiential learning in the world of practice in their chosendisciplines. The motivation for this project came from onsite internship industry interviews andthe department’s three industrial advisory boards, which strongly suggested that early,immersion-type industrial experiences would prepare students to become better learners. Thisconversion coincided with the strategic imperatives that stemmed from a university-wide secondyear STEM major retention effort. This latter effort culminated in a four-year NSF fundedproject, of which the early internships are a module. This paper
through a process of sharing challenges and reciprocally tapping into the collective wisdom of the group. Team leaders are strongly encouraged to attend and invite team members that might find the meetings useful.• Strategic Doing check-in calls take place monthly for the first 6 months and every four to six months thereafter. Check-in calls provide teams with an opportunity to update staff on the status of their project, and report on progress made toward their stated goals. Teams meet in peer groups of 3 to 5 schools with a Pathways representative, and review monthly strategic doing maps, used to track team plans and progress. Leaders are required to attend Strategic Doing check-in calls.• Topical Workgroups are comprised
Paper ID #17281Unique Potential and Challenges of Students with ADHD in Engineering Pro-gramsDr. Arash Esmaili Zaghi P.E., University of Connecticut Dr. Arash E. Zaghi received his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno, where he worked on the seismic behavior of novel bridge column and connection details. After graduating, he stayed with UNR as a Research Scientist to overlook two major research projects involving system-level shake table experiments. In 2011, Dr. Zaghi joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engi- neering at University of Connecticut as an Assistant Professor. His research
was initiated. These undergraduate peer learningleaders played two roles in the course, (I) they were in the classroom helping students’ with theirwork, and, (II) they led optional two hour helps sessions outside of the class time. The secondform of peer learning was implemented through the inclusion of a peer discussion periodfollowing in class clicker quizzes3. The third form of peer learning had the students creatingvideo project assignments and posting them on YouTube to explain course topics to their peers.Several other more informal techniques were used to encourage peer learning, which will also bediscussed in this paper.This paper will explain some of the details of how these peer learning techniques wereimplemented. Examples and
learning and personaldevelopment7. Students get motivated when their basic psychological needs for engaged learningare fulfilled8,9 Over the past three decades, researchers have identified many factors thatinfluence student engagement in classrooms including attributions10, self-efficacy11, perceivedability12, motivation13,14, learning strategy15 and goal orientations16,17. In order to obtain a clearerpicture on some of these influencing factors, a project titled National Survey for StudentEngagement (NSSE)18 has been conducted and they identified five important benchmarks forstudent engagement. These benchmarks are: level of academic challenge, enriching educationalexperiences, student-faculty interaction, active learning and a supportive campus
a humanities course, and the archivist fromNYU Libraries. This activity shows how liberal education can have a natural fit within theengineering curriculum. In particular, we wish to demonstrate how even a small-scale project,using available resources, will help to accomplish ABET Criterion 3: Student Outcomes.ABET’s Student Outcomes encourage engineering education to follow an active learning model,to discuss the social context and ethics of engineering solutions, and to develop skills of analysis,teamwork, and communication. Our archival interventions, though admittedly limited in scope,embody the principles ABET’s Student Outcomes. By working in groups with primary sourcematerials related to science and engineering, we encouraged
project functions.Students were challenged to assess the dam with the established infrastructure model, developcreative mitigating measures, and outline the inter-related technical and non-technical concerns.The result of the student’s experience in wrestling with the Mosul Dam addressed several of theprogram’s ABET student outcomes which require students to incorporate knowledge ofcontemporary issues into the solution of engineering problems, anticipate the impact ofengineering solutions in a global and societal context, and explain the basic concepts of businessand public policy. The assessment of these specific ABET student outcomes included direct andindirect embedded indicators. Additionally, the impact on the cognitive and
potentialareas for future research.IntroductionThe use of multiple images simultaneously on one or more screens in presentations is referred toas multi-image (multiple image) presentations [1]. Biere defined it as “an audio-visualpresentation utilizing a synchronized soundtrack and multiple projection devices that displayimages over one or more screens” [2]. This means there may be more projectors than screens,with multiple projectors per screen where there may be images dissolving in and out orprojectors focused only on a particular section of a screen [3]. Some define multiple imagespecifically to mean multiple projectors [4]. Using multiple screens was popular some time agobut does not appear to be as popular today, except in large rooms where
Academic Resume 8 Seminar: Student Research Presentations Research Report #7 Final Research Poster 9 Seminar: Leveraging Undergrad Research Experiences Research Report #8 Research Poster Symposium Final Research Paper 10 Closing Picnic Research Report #9, #10Figure 2: Slide projected to introduce students to research competition. Figure 3: Research question slide displayed to start the
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 How PBL Graduates Experience Self-Directed Learning: A Phenomenographic StudyAbstractThis research paper describes the study of the impact of a project-based learning (PBL)curriculum on the learners’ development of self-directed learning abilities. Themotivation for this study is that self-directed learning (SDL) ability is positioned as oneof the essential outcomes of engineering education. This can be seen in the followingquote from the International Engineering Alliance1 “The fundamental purpose ofengineering education is to build a knowledge base and attributes to enable the graduateto continue learning and to proceed to formative development
moti- vation and their learning experiences. Her projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, and their problem solving processes. Other projects in the Benson group include effects of student-centered active learning, self-regulated learning, and incor- porating engineering into secondary science and mathematics classrooms. Her education includes a B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of Vermont, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Clemson University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Future Time Perspective and Self-Regulated Learning: Multiple Case Studies in
animal models 24. Curriculum efficacy studies of theEngineering Is Elementary program also look for students to make progress in science contentknowledge 25. Earlier work featured in-depth case studies of scientific sense-making in designcontexts, such as Roth’s investigation of fourth and fifth graders’ reasoning about mechanicaladvantage as they created lifting machines and Penner et al’s study of reasoning about force andmotion in an elementary school biomechanics design project 26, 27.At the college level, engineering education researchers have argued for instructors to pay closeattention to students’ conceptual knowledge in areas that are fundamental, yet surprisinglychallenging for college student reasoning, such as relationships between
the University of Colorado Denver and Anschutz MedicalCampus that draws together faculty, staff and students from across the two campuses, as well asentrepreneurs and leaders from industry, government, education and the community to addressproblems of importance to human society. The primary purpose of Inworks is to createinnovative solutions to some of the world’s most challenging problems while, in the process,creating lifelong innovators. We do this by scaffolding collaborative innovation and providingextensive facilities for rapid prototyping. Through hands-on, human-centered, team-based projects, students at Inworks learn to thinkcritically, creatively, integratively and transformatively; to develop solutions when the