Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department at Kansas State Uni- versity. He has been a part of the university for over 8 years. Previously he worked at Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson Arizona and was a High School teacher in Topeka, Kansas.Dr. Emily Dringenberg, Kansas State University Dr. Dringenberg is a teaching assistant professor of general engineering at Kansas State University. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering (Kansas State ’08), a MS in Industrial Engineering (Purdue ’14) and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education (Purdue ’15). Her doctoral work focused on using qualitative methods to explore the experiences of students engaging with engineering design problems, and she is currently working to develop
Paper ID #18300Five-Minute Demonstrations:MinimalFaculty InvestmentforMaximumLearn-ing ImpactDr. Pamela L Dickrell, University of Florida Dr. Pamela Dickrell is the Associate Director of the Institute for Excellence in Engineering Education (IE3) at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida. She designs and teaches large enrollment service courses, and researches innovative educational methods for the delivery of curriculum to students across multiple engineering majors. Her prior appointment at UF was director of the engineering distance learning program, UF EDGE (Electronic Delivery of
theend of this article). It is the inaugural experiment undertaken for this course, and it is typicallyperformed during the second week of an academic term since the necessary background materialis reviewed during the laboratory session of the first week. This activity lends itself well to thisplacement within the laboratory schedule because it involves the unforced (or ‘free’) vibration ofa single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) system that is almost undamped, so it essentially illustratessimple harmonic motion. Also, it does not depend upon advanced concepts or principles whichare covered at later stages in the course, yet it is easy to perform and does not require expensiveequipment or elaborate instruments.Before they perform the experiment, the
;M University Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory Scott Tran is an undergraduate research assistant at the Texas A&M University Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory. Expected to graduate with a Bachelor of Science in May 2018.Dr. John Valasek, Texas A&M University John Valasek is the Thaman Professor of Undergraduate Teaching Excellence, and Director, Center for Autonomous Vehicles and Sensor Systems (CANVASS), Director, Vehicle Systems & Control Labora- tory, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, and member of the Honors Faculty at Texas A&M University. He teaches courses in Aircraft Design, Atmospheric Flight Mechanics, Modern Control of Aerospace Sys- tems, Vehicle Management Systems, and
development of virtual and remote labs thatintegrate engineering data into the classroom through interactive online laboratory environments(Glasgow et al., 2004, Orduna et al., 2011). These labs can provide interactive experiences for studentsthrough multimedia including graphs, images, and geospatial visualizations. An example is the OnlineWatershed Learning System (OWLS), which is an environmental exploration tool that grants users accessto historical and live watershed monitoring data and educational case studies7,8,9. It acts as the front endfor the Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System (LEWAS), which is a real-time continuouswatershed monitoring station that collects stormflow, water quality (pH, dissolved oxygen, oxidationreduction
reformation in general, and to the use of modern pedagogicalskills in particular. The paper also argues that any meaningful change in Region’s classroompractices today (dominated by traditional lecture-based methods) must be mandated andsupported by the university administration. What is necessary to create a change, is for thedepartment or college, to have a comprehensive and integrated set of components: clearlyarticulated expectations, opportunities for faculty to learn about new pedagogies, and anequitable reward system.Introduction“To teach is to engage students in learning.” This quote, from Education for Judgment byChristenson et al, (1) captures the meaning of the art and practice of pedagogies ofengagement. The theme advocated here is that
Paper ID #19973The Student Educational Experience with Electronic Laboratory Notebooks(Work in Progress)Ms. Monica Dominique Okon, The Ohio State University Monica Okon, a current graduate student in biomedical engineering at Ohio State University, became in- terested in engineering education when starting as a graduate teaching associate (GTA) for the Engineering Education Department at Ohio State University. She has had the opportunity to teach the Fundamentals in Engineering laboratory component for the standard courses as well as served as a lead GTA for this department for two years. She is currently a lead GTA in the
Paper ID #19189Optimizing Efficiency and Effectiveness in a Mechanical Engineering Labo-ratory using Focused ModulesDr. Jeffrey A. Donnell, Georgia Institute of Technology Jeffrey Donnell is the Frank K. Webb Chair in Professional Communication at Georgia Tech’s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical EngineeringMr. Philip Varney, Georgia Institute of Technology Phil Varney is currently a teaching instructor at Georgia Tech, where he is also completing his PhD degree in rotor fault diagnostics.Dr. David MacNair, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. MacNair serves as Director of Laboratory Development in the Woodruff School
Paper ID #18723Interactive Digital Logic Laboratory for K-12 Students (Work in Progress)Dr. Rohit Dua, Missouri University of Science & Technology ROHIT DUA, Ph.D is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer En- gineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology and Missouri State University’s Coopera- tive Engineering Program. His research interests include engineering education. (http://web.mst.edu/˜rdua/) c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Interactive Digital Logic Laboratory for K-12 Students (Work in
Paper ID #19397Incorporating the Raspberry Pi into laboratory experiments in an introduc-tory MATLAB courseDr. Naji S Husseini, Biomedical Engineering at NCSU and UNC-CH Naji Husseini is a lecturer in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. He received his B.S. and M.Eng. in En- gineering Physics from Cornell University and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He teaches classes in materials science, biomate- rials, MATLAB programming, and biomechanics for
Paper ID #18403Mobile Learning for Undergraduate Course through Interactive Apps and aNovel Mobile Remote Shake Table LaboratoryAlec Maxwell, San Francisco State University Alec Maxwell is currently an undergraduate student in the School of Engineering at San Francisco State University (SFSU). Besides actively conducting research on innovative tools for engineering education in the Intelligent Structural Hazards Mitigation Laboratory at SFSU with Prof. Zhaoshuo Jiang, he also is interested in acquiring his Masters degree in structural engineering.Dr. Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University Prof. Jiang
of Surgical Education, Vol 72, No. 5., 2015, 868-874[13] Parrino, T.A. “The Acqusition of Practical Skills by U.S. Medical Students”, The American Journal of theMedical Science, Vol. 307, No. 3, 1994, 163-166[14] Boulet, J.R., Murray D., Kras, J. Woodhouse, J., McAllister J. and Ziv, A. “Reliability and Validity of aSimulation-based Acute Skills Assessment for Medical Students and Residents” Anesthesiology, Vol. 99, No. 6,2003, 1270 - 1280[15] Epstein R.M. “Assessment in Medical Education” The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 356, No. 4,2007, 387-396[16] Jones, S.J., Staib, S.A., and Fusner, A. “Expanding Classroom Time: Teaching Clinical Intravenous Skills inCampus Laboratory”, Teaching and Learning on Nursing, Vol. 4, 2009, 94-97[17
a very high level. The @HOLM™ approach istherefore demonstrated as a viable alternative to conventional brick-and-mortar teaching labtechniques now used by all accredited mechanical engineering Bachelor of Science programs.This new approach provides the opportunity for mechanical engineering B.S. programs to offertheir students rigorous hands-on fluid mechanics lab experiences without need or expense ofmaintaining physical laboratory spaces and equipment. Additional benefits of on-line instruction;including massively parallel instruction, asynchronous content delivery, and multimediapresentation to address a variety of learning styles; are also enabled by this new approach.IntroductionDespite the rise of remote education delivered online
Laboratory Exercise for Engineering Technology Students T. Sean Tavares, Ph.D. University of New Hampshire at Manchester Applied Engineering and Sciences Department, Engineering Technology ProgramAbstractA laboratory exercise based on the performance testing of small consumer-grade water pumpsprovides a versatile and economical platform for teaching engineering technology students thebasics of industrial experimental testing practices. This exercise also provides a practical meansfor students to learn firsthand about the basic operating characteristics of centrifugal pumps andclosely related devices such as centrifugal compressors and fans. This experimental platformprovides ample
faculty in their transition to using evidence-based teaching strategies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Impact of Course Structure on Learning and Self-Efficacy in a Unit Operations LaboratoryIntroductionIn the chemical engineering curriculum, the unit operations laboratory course traditionally servesseveral key roles in the development of students as professional engineers. The primary goal ofthe course is to apply chemical engineering theory learned in core courses to the operation ofequipment. As part of this process, however, numerous additional skills are often also learnedand/or emphasized: experimental design, instrumentation, technical communication
-teaching between engineers and writers is not new, fewinstances involve bringing the communication curriculum and writing instructor into theengineering classroom, as was done in this study. For example, Harvey et al. describedengineering students’ attitudes toward writing in a communication course in which engineeringfaculty attended two of four sections of the communication course (Harvey 2000). Qualitativeresponses to items assessing attitudes toward writing and anecdotal data showed that the studentsperceived a disconnect between writing assignments in communication classes and their work asengineers.Context for the study:The present study was conducted in a chemical engineering laboratory course. The courseconsists of a weekly lecture session
fundamental logic blocks in a manner accessible to students.Rigorous instruction is especially needed to teach U.S. Air Force members, both military andcivilian, to design, specify, and procure the highest possible VLSI capabilities. Industry-standardstate-of-the-art Cadence Design Systems software has been selected by the instructor because itis used widely by professional engineers and scientists in industry, government contractors, andgovernment laboratories including the Mixed Signal Design Center at the Air Force ResearchLaboratory Sensors Directorate. The Mixed Signal Design Center is co-located with AFIT.Figure 1 shows the structure of the U.S. Air Force capabilities and relationship to the VLSIcourse sequence for engineers.6 Figure 1. Key
actual events or situations. This work explores the impact ofthe use of case studies in an environmental engineering laboratory, introductory engineeringcourse, introductory biology seminar course, and upper level biology course. Motivations forimplementing the cases include determining how case studies teaching impacts students’ abilityto carry out a scientific investigation (from hypothesis to data analysis to discussion of results)and if the results correlate to students’ learning style preferences. This work is part of acontinuing funded investigation of the use of case studies with the potential to contribute to thebody of knowledge related to the use of learning styles assessments in educational practiceacross a variety of disciplines. The
Paper ID #18511An Innovative Way to Teach Sustainability Concepts in Construction Mate-rials CourseDr. Pranshoo Solanki P.E., Illinois State University Dr. Pranshoo Solanki is an Assistant Professor at Illinois State University with over 10 years of academic and professional experience in the field of construction materials and geotechnical/pavement engineering. He received his doctorate in civil engineering from the University of Oklahoma and master’s degree in civil engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He has professional and research experience in dealing with difficult soils/rocks, beneficial
University San Luis Obipso. Her research interests span engineering education, internationalization and embedded systems.Dr. Fred W. DePiero, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Dr. Fred DePiero received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State Uni- versity in 1985 and 1987. He then worked as a Development Associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory until 1993. While there he was involved in a variety of real-time image processing projects and several laser-based ranging systems. Fred began working on his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee while still at ORNL, and completed it in May 1996. Fred joined the faculty at CalPoly in September of 1996. He is presently serving
,statics) would require the course to cover all of that course’s content, severely restricting the natureof the research projects and the time available to work on them. Also, the program is tailored toengineering research objectives that include elements of innovation and technology development,as opposed to discovery (in the natural sciences). Rather than spending extensive periods in aformal teaching laboratory, the students often spend time in the engineering makerspace and/or inthe research labs of their faculty mentors. Research projects are conducted in small teams,generally 2-4 students per team, and students are expected to spend approximately 5 hours/weekon their research—enough time to make steady progress on their project but not
Paper ID #18766Applying Scratch Programming to Facilitate Teaching in k-12 ClassroomsDr. Afrin Naz, West Virginia University Institute of Technology Dr. Afrin Naz is an assistant professor at the Computer Science and Information Systems department at West Virginia University Institute of Technology. She is working with high school teachers to inspire the K-12 students to the STEM fields. In last four years Dr. Naz and her team launched six workshops for high school teachers. Currently her team is training the high school teachers to offer online materials to supplement their face-to-face classroom.Dr. Mingyu Lu, West
Paper ID #17737Teaching/Learning Soil Mechanics with Mnemonics, Intuition, Insight andInspirationProf. Jiliang Li P.E., Purdue University Northwest, Westville Campus, INDIANA, USA Dr. Jiliang Li, D.Eng (Mining Engineering, USTB), Ph.D. (Civil Engineering, UA), P.E., M.ASCE, M.ASEE, is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University Northwest at Westville campus, Indiana. Before returning to teach at University, he had industrial experience in several States with consulting projects ranging from small residential, commercial and subdivision projects to large scale State DOT and federal projects after
Paper ID #20101Designing Electric Guitars to Teach Mechatronics and Advanced Manufac-turing TechniquesDr. Gavin Garner, University of Virginia Gavin Garner holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Colby College and Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia. His primary area of expertise lies in the burgeoning field of Mechatronics (aka robotics). Over the past decade, he has built UVA’s Mechatronics program from scratch, developing over 50 hours of unique laboratory experiments as well as dozens of open-ended design projects. Through this experience, he has gained
lifting hooks and then they loaded their lifting hooks until failure. The students comparedthe actual load during failure and the estimated failure load. This hands-on activity proved to bea positive learning experience for students.5. AcknowledgementThis research was supported by Northwest Nazarene University.6. Bibliography1. Lai-Yuen, S. (2008, June), Using Lego To Teach And Learn Micromanufacturing AndIndustrial Automation Paper presented at 2008 Annual Conference & Exposition, Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. https://peer.asee.org/31242. Ferry, W., & Otieno, A. (2004, June), Development Of A Low Cost Laboratory System For TeachingAutomation System Integration In The Manufacturing Engineering Technology Curriculum Paper presented at2004
Paper ID #18542How Solar Boating Teaches the Lessons of Energy Conversion and Conserva-tionDr. Saeed D. Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University Dr. Saeed Foroudastan is the Associate Dean for the College of Basic and Applied Sciences (CBAS). The CBAS oversees 11 departments at Middle Tennessee State University. He is also the current Director for the Masters of Science in Professional Science program and a professor of engineering and engineering technology at MTSU. Foroudastan received his B.S. in civil engineering, his M.S. in civil engineering, and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Tennessee Technological
Paper ID #19278Teaching Engineering Design Through a Wearable Device Design Competi-tion (Evaluation)Dr. Elena Nicolescu Veety, North Carolina State University Elena Veety received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, in 2011. Her research focused on liquid crystal polarization gratings for tunable optical filters and telecommunications applications. Since 2011, she has been a Teaching Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. Currently, she is the Education Director for the NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research
Paper ID #18562Teaching Entrepreneurial Mindset in a First-Year Introduction to Engineer-ing CourseDr. Chao Wang, Arizona State University Chao Wang received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is currently a senior lecturer in Ira. A Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Teaching Entrepreneurial Mindset in a First Year Introduction to Engineering CourseAbstractWith a mission to graduate engineers who can create personal, economic, and societal valuethrough a lifetime
Paper ID #18230Using Nursing Theory to Improve the Teaching of Engineering PracticeDr. Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology Professor Daniel B. Oerther, PhD, PE, BCEE, CEng, F.AAN joined the faculty of the Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2010 after ten years on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati where he served as Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Since 2014, he has concur- rently served as a Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State in the areas of environment, science, technology, and health (ESTH). Oerther earned his B.A
Paper ID #17812Blended vs. Flipped Teaching: One Course - Three Engineering SchoolsDr. Renee M Clark, University of Pittsburgh Renee M. Clark serves as research assistant professor focusing on assessment and evaluation within the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering and its Engineering Education Research Center (EERC), where her interests focus on active and experiential learning. She has 25 years of experience as an engineer and analyst, having worked most recently for Walgreens and General Motors/Delphi Automotive in the areas of data analysis, IT, and manufacturing. She received her PhD in