learning is thetopic of this study. A number of journal articles are available that address teaching core engineering courses,and this situation is true for the teaching of Process Control and Automatic Control. Mostpublished papers (e.g., Edgar et. al., 2006; Khier, et. al., 1996; and Seborg et.al, 2003) addressthe course content and issues like whether frequency response should be included in the course,the proper role of dynamic simulation, and design of physical laboratories. Recently, a fewstudies have addressed teaching and learning methods that could be applied to any appropriatecontrol course content. Rossiter (2014) describes blended learning using YouTube videosdeveloped for students to prepare before class. The class was large
plasma assisted combustion. She has prior industrial experience in aerospace engineering that encompasses both theoretical analysis and experimental investigations such as designing and testing of propulsion systems including design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past 10 years she gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended
Paper ID #18226Correlation of Admission Data to Undergraduate Student Success in Electri-cal EngineeringDr. Harry O. Aintablian, University of Washington, Bothell Harry Aintablian is a Lecturer of Electrical Engineering. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engi- neering from Ohio University. He has eighteen years of experience in aerospace power electronics/power systems at Jet Propulsion Laboratory and at Boeing Space Systems. He has five years of full-time teaching experience in electrical engineering. His research interests include the application of power electronics to space systems and to alternative energy
including design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past 10 years she gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development. Dr Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement and Instrumentation course as well as for quality control undergraduate and graduate courses in ET Masters program. Also
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science3 Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing, China41. IntroductionIn most educational settings, including higher education, all our effort is centered on educating ortraining our students to be ready for their selected professions, which are concretized as variouslearning outcomes in our curriculum. To achieve these learning outcomes in engineeringeducation (i.e. ABET), various pedagogical considerations have been experimented andimplemented.Project-based teaching and learning has been a major line of research and practice in engineeringeducation due to engineering profession’s particular
Paper ID #20089Improving Communication in Industrial Engineering Courses by Implement-ing a ”Zero Email” Policy and Optimizing the Use of a Course ManagementSystemDr. Paul C. Lynch, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Paul C. Lynch received his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Lynch is a member of AFS, SME, IISE, and ASEE. Dr. Lynch’s primary research interests are in metal casting, manufacturing systems, and engineering education. Dr. Lynch has been recognized by Alpha Pi Mu, IISE, and the Pennsylvania State University for his scholarship, teaching, and
Paper ID #17648Work in Progress: Oh ... The Irony (A Six-Section Rube Goldberg Machinefor Freshman Engineering Design)Dr. Julian Ly Davis, University of Southern Indiana Jul is an Associate Professor of Engineering at the University of Southern Indiana (USI). He received his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in Engineering Mechanics in 2007. He spent a semester teaching at community college in the area and then spent two years at University of Massachusetts continuing his research in finite element modeling and biomechanics and continuing to teach. He has been at USI since 2010.Dr. Arthur L. Chlebowski, University of Southern Indiana
as designing and testing of propulsion systems including design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past 10 years she gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development. Dr Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement and Instrumentation course as well as for quality control undergraduate
Paper ID #18643Managing Interdisciplinary Senior Design with Nuclear ApplicationsDr. Tristan Utschig, Kennesaw State University Dr. Tristan T. Utschig is Associate Director for Learning Sciences in the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) and is Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Kennesaw State University. Formerly, he was Assistant Director for CETL and the Office of Assessment at Georgia Tech, and prior that was a tenured Associate Professor of Engineering Physics at Lewis-Clark State College. Dr. Utschig consults with faculty across the university about bringing scholarly teaching and
, online education, metacognitive teaching and learning strategies, reading apprenticeship in STEM, and the development of novel instructional equipment and curricula for enhancing academic suc- cess in science and engineering.Dr. Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College Amelito Enriquez is a professor of Engineering and Mathematics at Ca˜nada College in Redwood City, CA. He received a BS in Geodetic Engineering from the University of the Philippines, his MS in Geode- tic Science from the Ohio State University, and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include technology-enhanced instruction and increasing the representation of female, minority and other
provide the students with application specifictraining.The lab experiment described here focuses on working knowledge such as vocabulary, blockdiagrams, startup, and tuning. The lab experiment seeks to teach the students what a controlsystem is, how it works, and how to use it. The students write code in the Arduino to implementa PID controller. The focus is on heuristics rather than theory.This lab was inspired by Ray’s paper [2] “An Inexpensive Control System Experiment:Modeling, Simulation, and Laboratory Implementation of a PID Controller-Based System”. Thisone to two week lab uses an electronic model of a mass spring damper system as the plant, and aPID controller to teach controls. Both the plant and the PID are constructed on a bread
Alabama. Dr. Burian’s professional career spans more than 20 years during which he has worked as a de- sign engineer, as a Visiting Professor at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as a Professor at the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah, and as the Chief Water Consultant of an international engineer- ing and sustainability consulting firm he co-founded. He served as the first co-Director of Sustainability Curriculum Development at the University of Utah where he created pan-campus degree programs and stimulated infusion of sustainability principles and practices in teaching and learning activities across campus. Dr. Burian currently is the Project Director of the USAID-funded U.S.-Pakistan Center for
inspections as well as to teach them on the nature of faults committed duringthe development of software artifacts at Microsoft. While educators [7], [8] have tried to emulatethe inspection trainings; students report large number of false positives and the efforts tounderstand the factors (e.g., educational background, experience, comprehension skills) thatimpact their inspection output have met with limited success.Our research is novel as it tries to improve students’ inspection performance by understandingthe way an individual perceive and process the information. This preference of individuals toprocess, retain, and recall information is known as Learning Styles (LS) [9]. Research [10] inpsychology showed that each individual vary in their LS and
, and engineering ethics..Dr. Maher E. Rizkalla P.E., Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Dr. Maher E. Rizkalla: received his PhD from Case Western Reserve University in January 1985 in electrical engineering. From January 1985 until August 1986 was a research scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL while he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University Calumet. In August 1986 he joined the department of electrical and computer engineering at IUPUI where he is now professor and Associate Chair of the department. His research interests include solid state devices, applied superconducting, electromagnetics, VLSI design, and engineering education. He published more than 175 papers
University Valerie Stehling is a research group leader of the research group ”Academic Teaching and Learning” at the Institute of Information Management in Mechanical Engineering and Center for Learning and Knowledge Management.Prof. Anja Richert, RWTH Aachen University Prof. Dr. phil. Anja Richert Managing Director of the Center for Learning and Knowledge Management (ZLW), RWTH Aachen Uni- versity; Junior Professorship for Agile Management in Organization and Technology in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University Anja Richert took up the position of managing director of the Center for Learning and Knowledge Man- agement of the RWTH Aachen University in February 2011. With a doctorate in
Paper ID #19320Use of an Automated Grading Circuit for a Lab-based CourseDr. Christopher Miller, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Chris is an Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech- nology. His interests include engineering education, embedded systems, and ubiquitous computing. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 WIP: Use of an Automated Grading Circuit for a Lab-Based CourseAbstract: Laboratories and hands-on projects are an important part of courses in embeddedsystems and microcontrollers
. She has been teaching robotics with Lego Mindstorm to ME freshmen for several years. She is actively involved in community services of offering robotics workshops to middle- and high-school girls. Her research interests are dynamics and system modeling, geometry modeling, project based engineering design, and robotics in manufacturing. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Different Lab Formats in Introduction to Engineering CourseAbstractMany incoming freshmen are ambiguous about which engineering major they are interested in.Exposing them to different engineering labs in freshman year will help them have a clearunderstanding about different majors.The objective of this
Miller Excellence in Teaching Award in 2016, the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2011, and the Dennis Woodford prize for his M.Sc. thesis in 2007. He was a Connaught Scholar at the University of Toronto.Dr. Robert G. Olsen, Washington State University Prof. Olsen received the BS degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ in 1968 and the MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO in 1970 and 1974 respectively. While in Boulder, he worked for Westinghouse Georesearch Laboratory. He has been a member of the electrical engineering faculty at Washington State University since 1973 and holds the rank of professor. Between 2003 and 2013, he
and change over time. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 BYOE: A Low-cost Material Testing Machine to Increase Engagement in a Materials Science Lab CourseAbstractAs a field, engineering is a profession with rich and deep theoretical foundations in each of itsnumerous subject areas. Helping students understand these foundational theoretical conceptscan sometimes be difficult, and it is not uncommon for students to "get lost" in the details andfail to understand the main concepts. One way to help overcome this problem is to use labora-tory classes. Laboratory classes provide students with hands-on learning experiences that helpthem connect theory and practice. One way
Engineering, NY, USA. His research and teaching interests include robotics, mechatronics, control systems, electro-mechanical design, human factors/ergonomics, engineer- ing psychology, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, computer vision, biomimetics and biomechanics with applications to industrial manipulation and manufacturing, healthcare and rehabilitation, social services, autonomous unmanned services and STEM education.Dr. Vikram Kapila, New York University Vikram Kapila is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU Tandon), where he directs a Mechatronics, Controls, and Robotics Laboratory, a Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics and Entrepreneurship, a DR K
, 6:187-194, 1999. http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?wasp=1b22a8h1wkcrvhd16dtx&referrer=pare 9. Nichol, C.A., Kim, E. Molecular imaging and gene therapy, J. Nucl. Med. 2001 42: 1368-1374 http://jnm.snmjournals.org/cgi/content/full/42/9/1368 10. Bagaria, H., Dean, M., Wong, M., Nichol, C.A., Self-assembly and nanotechnology: real-time, hands-on, and safe experiments for K-12 students, J. Chem. Ed., 2011 88 (5): 609-614. 11. Cloonan, C. A., Andrews, J.A., Nichol, C.A., Hutchinson, J.S., A Simple System for Observing Dynamic Equilibrium via an Inquiry Based Laboratory or Demonstration, J. Chem. Ed., 2011 88 (7), 975-978. 12. Cloonan, C.A., Nichol, C. A., Hutchinson, J.S., Understanding
while teaching them about foreign cultures. Suchexperiences expose students to the international research community at a critical early stage intheir careers.Through an NSF-IRES grant, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has developedan international research experience focused on the theme of sustainable green building designand construction. Two program offerings took place during the summers of 2015 and 2016,supporting eight undergraduate and graduate students each time. A third offering will take placein summer 2017. The 2015 program included two weeks in the Netherlands and two weeks inEgypt while the 2016 program provided two weeks in the United Kingdom and two weeks inEgypt. The students benefited from studying and experiencing
precast concrete slabs. The proposed research will involve both experimental and numerical components. Scaled test specimens will be fabricated and loaded cycli- cally to assess the fatigue life and performance of the shear connectors and a finite element model of the specimens will be generated to evaluate the performance numerically. This research is expected substan- tiate the reliability of using fewer required shear connectors, rendering a more efficient design.Mr. Benjamin Dow, University of Waterloo Benjamin has a Masters of Applied Science degree from the University of Waterloo. While completing his Masters, he was a teaching assistant for several undergraduate courses, focusing primarily on structural analysis
, interdisciplinary teaching and learning, reflective eportfolios and professional development of graduate students related to teaching.Prof. David E. Claridge P.E., Texas A&M University David Claridge is the Director of the Energy Systems Laboratory and the Leland Jordan Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University and a Professional Engineer. He holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Walla Walla College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Stanford University. He is internationally known for his work on energy efficiency. He pioneered development of the process of existing building commissioning which is today generally recognized as THE most cost-effective way to reduce energy use in buildings
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Paper ID #18311Work in Progress: A Study of Augmented Reality for the Development ofSpatial Reasoning AbilityDr. John E. Bell, Michigan State University JOHN BELL Professor, Educational Technology, College of Education. John Bell earned his B.S. in Computer Science from Michigan State University, and then his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. His research considered various user interfaces for human- computer interaction among users with a wide range of technology skills. Bell later completed a post doc at UC Berkeley focused on teaching programming to non-computer science
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 and experimental convective heat transfer as applied to HVAC and gas turbine systems.Ms. Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University Cynthia C. Fry is a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science and Director of the Computer Science Fellows program at Baylor University. She teaches a wide variety of engineering and computer science courses, co-leads the Engineering & Computer Science Faculty Development Seminars, and is a KEEN Fellow.Dr. William M. Jordan, Baylor University William
Introductory Engineering Courses”. Journal of STEM Education, 16(4):6-12.9. Girgis, M. (2015). “A Scaffolding Case Study for Teaching Engineering Problem Solving to Underrepresented Minorities”. Proceedings. American Society of Engineering Education Conference.10. Kellogg, S. (2007). “Technology Enabled Support Modules for Engineering Management”. Proceedings. American Society of Engineering Education Conference.11. Scriven, M., and Paul, R., (1987). “Critical Thinking as Defined by the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking”. Retrieved from http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/76612. Jaksic, C. and Spencer, D. (2009). “A Manufacturing Processes Laboratory: What Book- Making and Sheet
Paper ID #17886The Development of a Framework for 3D Printing, Casting, and Entrepreneur-shipJay Watson, Putnam County School System Jay Watson teaches technology, web development, and coding at Cookeville High School. He received a B.S degree in Secondary Education from TTU, has over five years of IT experience, and holds a multitude of industry technology certifications. Additionally, Watson was selected as the Best of the Best of Upper Cumberland educators and served on the focus group that selected Tennessee’s new web design standards, as well as the Web Design and Coding Textbook Advisory Panel. He currently is a
brought practical applications from con- sulting design and construction to the classroom that students’ have found invaluable upon graduating. Serving as Experiential Learning Option advisor for multiple students’ portfolios, Dr. Lester has success- fully evaluated proposals from past work experience to grant course credit for distance students. He has served as the Civil-Site design option evaluator for Senior Design projects each semester as part of his normal teaching responsibilities. Dr. Lester has developed new courses in Civil Engineering Technology to better distribute the student load in Fluid Mechanics and the accompanying laboratory. Dr. Lester has also taught the Professional Engineering preparation