School, where he was a principal intern. His scientific research focused on the immunology of M. tu- berculosis, the bacterial pathogen that causes tuberculosis. He currently works with undergraduate and graduate researchers to investigate the evolution of microbes, and to improve how undergraduate students learn science at the university. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Exploring Experiences of Graduate Teaching Assistants in Teaching Professional Development GroupsIntroductionMany universities rely on graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) to teach college courses or theircomponents (e.g., laboratories, recitations, seminars). For example, for doctoral
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
, 2017Professional development workshop to promote writing transfer between first yearcomposition and introductory engineering laboratory coursesAbstractEngineering Programs and the Writing Assessment Center of Washington State UniversityVancouver conducted a 4 day summer professional development workshop for a group (n=12) offaculty and graduate teaching assistants, who instruct first-year composition and introductoryengineering laboratory courses. This professional workshop was designed to provideprofessional development on rhetoric and writing transfer, to build community of practice amonginstructors from English and engineering to share a passion for engineering students' writing, andto complete the writing transfer module draft so the participants can
Paper ID #19791Experiences of Pre-College Teachers Working with Undergraduate Engineer-ing Students with ADHD in Research LaboratoriesMs. Catherine Clark Hain, Mansfield Public Schools Catherine Hain is a fourth-grade teacher at Anne E. Vinton Elementary School in Mansfield, Connecticut. She received her Bachelor of Arts in French, summa cum laude, from the University of Connecticut in 1993. She earned her teaching certificate from Eastern Connecticut State University. Ms. Hain worked for eight years at Natchaug Elementary School where she taught Kindergarten and Enrichment until taking a position in Mansfield in 2006
of Research Experience for Teachers (RET) programs funded by the National Science Foundation in which engineering faculty collaborate with middle and high school teachers and their students. One program (3 years) is a comprehensive teacher professional development program in which middle school teachers participate in an intensive summer research experience in computer science and engineering labs, build curriculum based on the laboratory research content that they learn, participate in lesson study, and implement new curriculum in their middle classrooms. The second program (4 years) is a high school teacher RET program with similar components. This paper reports the results of both of the RET programs. The two programs had the combined
Paper ID #18044Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Site: Sustainable ElectronicsDr. Inez Hua, Purdue University Dr. Inez Hua is Professor in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering and the Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering. Her research and teaching areas include aquatic chemistry, water pollution control, environmental sustainability in engineering education, and sustainable electronics. Dr. Hua has a Ph.D and an MS in Environmental Engineering and Science from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and a BA in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.Dr. Monica E Cardella
Paper ID #19679Engaged Student Learning Project: Challenges and Lessons LearnedDr. Rambod Rayegan, Prairie View A&M University Rambod Rayegan is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department at Prairie view A & M University. He has a strong background in conducting research in building energy efficiency and renewable power generation for buildings. He served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at University of North Texas before joining PVAMU. He oversaw the research in the Zero Energy Laboratory at UNT and worked as a researcher at UNT in the
Engineering at the University of Akron (UA) ran aNational Science Foundation funded Research Experience for Teachers (RET) site from 2012-2016 and started a new cycle in 2016-2019. This paper is a summary of the 2012 – 2016 site.The main objective of this RET site was to bring ten high school science teachers to TheUniversity of Akron (UA) campus for eight weeks each summer to increase their knowledge ofengineering research and enable them to effectively disseminate this knowledge in their highschool classrooms. This was accomplished through a combination of (1) an independent researchproject for each teacher in the laboratory of a UA faculty member and (2) hands-on professionaldevelopment activities to reinforce the fundamentals of engineering
Paper ID #17854Constructionism in Learning: Sustainable Life Cycle Engineering Project(CooL:SLiCE)Dr. Kyoung-Yun Kim, Wayne State University Dr. Kyoung-Yun Kim is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Wayne State University, where he directs the Computational Intelligence and Design Informatics (CInDI) Laboratory. Dr. Kim’s research focuses on design science; design informatics; semantic assembly design; transformative product design; product life-cycle modeling; design and manufacturing of soft products. Dr. Kim has received external funding from several U.S. federal agencies
).ActivitiesThe RET program annually supports 13 local K-12 teachers who teach a STEM subject in a six-week summer research internship. Once the teachers have been selected, we attempt to matchtheir interests as stated in their application with those of participating Rice faculty and labs. RETteachers are then paired with a post-doc or graduate student mentor from that lab. Thementorship experience has been shown to be beneficial not only to the participants but alsoprovides a valuable experience to the graduate student mentors.29 One month prior to the start ofthe summer research, all stakeholders connect so that the RET teacher can be better preparedwith background readings and gain familiarity with people and laboratory. Teachers are providedwith a
Labor, Dec. 29, 2014. 2. Donovan, S. and Bransford, Ed., “How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom,” Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2005. 3. Windschitl, M., “Folk Theories of ‘inquiry’: How Preservice Teachers Reproduce the Discourse and Practices of the Scientific Method,” J. of Research in Science Teaching, 41, z81-512, 2004.4. Windschitl, M. and Thompson, J., “Transcending simple forms of school science investigations: Can pre-service instruction foster teachers' understandings of model-based inquiry?” American Educational Research J., 43(4), 783-835, 2006.5. Brown, S. and Melear, C., “Preservice Teachers’ Research Experiences in Scientists’ Laboratories,” J. of
Paper ID #17920A PATTERN RECOGNITION APPROACH TO SIGNAL TO NOISE RA-TIO ESTIMATION OF SPEECHMr. Peter Adeyemi Awolumate P.AMr. Mitchell Rudy, Rowan University Rowan University Electrical and Computer Engineering student.Dr. Ravi P. Ramachandran, Rowan University Ravi P. Ramachandran received the B. Eng degree (with great distinction) from Concordia University in 1984, the M. Eng degree from McGill University in 1986 and the Ph.D. degree from McGill University in 1990. From October 1990 to December 1992, he worked at the Speech Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories. From January 1993 to August 1997, he was a
Paper ID #19347Defining the Frontiers of Bioengineering Education at Illinois and BeyondDr. Jennifer R Amos, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr Amos joined the Bioengineering Department at the University of Illinois in 2009 and is currently a Teaching Associate Professor in Bioengineering and an Adjunct Associate Professor in Educational Psychology. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech and Ph.D. in Chemical En- gineering from University of South Carolina. She completed a Fulbright Program at Ecole Centrale de Lille in France to benchmark and help create a new hybrid masters program
research experiences for teachers in the laboratories of faculty and providesyear-long activities to support implementation of research-based curriculum in the classroom.High school teachers and community college faculty are engaged in a six-week summer researchand training program in cutting edge research in sustainable polymer engineering. Integratedwith the research experience are education and professional development programs, includingteam-building workshops, short courses in polymer science, field trips to industry, presentationskills development, and workshops in developing activities for laboratory experiments based ontheir research. Teachers partner with graduate students, who serve as research mentors during thesummer and visiting
they are used as tools for generating ideas and visual communication, especially when it involves the skill to generate quick and realistic sketches of an object or idea. He has also conducted research on how to effectively teach these skills to novice engineers.Miss Myela A Paige, Georgia Institute of Technology Myela Paige is a first-year graduate research assistant in the Engineering Design Research Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology. She is pursuing her Master of Science and PhD in Mechanical Engineering under the advisement of Dr. Katherine Fu. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2015. Myela is passionate about helping students from all walks of life
literature reviews, identifying opportunities for external funding (scholarships andfellowships), applying to graduate school, and communicating scientific findings through oralpresentation. In addition, the effect size (Cohen’s d)11,12 was calculated for each item (Table 1).This indicates the practical significance of changes for each item between TP1 and TP2. Thesevalues show that there was not significant overlap between the TP1 and TP2 responses except forItem 1 (“document my research in a laboratory notebook”) and Item 2 (“steps to patentresearch”). Focus group interviews conducted by the evaluator confirmed these survey findingsand pointed to specific REU programming that boosted students’ self-efficacy in these areas.Table 1: Mean values of
anddrive toward improving subsequent iterations of the software.Bibliography 1. S. Tegen, Growing a Wind Workforce: The National Wind Energy Skills Assessment Report (Poster). No. NREL/PO-5000-61251. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO., 2014. 2. “Wind Vision: A New Era for Wind Power in the United States,” https://energy.gov/eere/wind/maps/wind-vision, 2015 (accessed January 2017). 3. AWEA Operation and Maintenance Recommended Practices, http://www.awea.org/Issues/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=4266, 2013. 4. D. Billing, "Teaching for Transfer of Core/Key Skills in Higher Education: Cognitive Skills," Higher education 53.4 (2007): 483-516. 5. E. Lamos, M. Simon, and M. J. Waits, "A Sharper Focus on
addressing the national imperative ofincreasing underrepresented minorities in STEM, it is therefore critical to prepare teachersserving Native American students in STEM and its impact on their communities. Disseminationof the results of RET participants’ research projects through poster sessions and conferences,further increases the efforts to bridge the gap between Native Americans and higher educationstudies in STEM.MethodsIn the RET ROKET program, teachers participate in an AILDI course concerning language,culture revitalization, and teaching methods to improve science education for Native Americanstudents; engage in an interactive ORW to learn optics laboratory techniques, through hands-onexperiments with lasers, fiber optics, solar cells, and
Glendale Community College (GCC) teaching engineering, electron- ics and semiconductor classes. Through his eleven years teaching at GCC, Bassam developed a variety of courses in these fields. He served on several committees, such as budget, computer technology, ad- vanced technology partnership and industry advisory. Also, he served as assistant chair for the last five years before transferring to Gilbert-Chandler Community College (GCCC). He implemented GCCC’s en- gineering program in Fall 2001 and is responsible for its success. He has served as a PI or Co-PI on seven NSF-funded grants. Mr. Matar is also a lecturer faculty for the Electrical Engineering Department at Arizona State University. Bassam Matar, has taught
Y in robotics”, Proceedings of ASEE AC 2009-750.32. Liu, Y., “From handy board to VEX: the evolution of a junior-level robotics laboratory course”, Proceedings of ASEE AC 2009-1890.33. Karatrantou, A, “Introduction in basic principles and programming structures using the robotic constructions LEGO Mindstorms”, Tzimogiannis A., Proceedings of the 3 rd National Conference, Teaching Informatics, University of Peloponnese.34. Eslami, A., “A remote-access robotics and PLC laboratory for distance learning program”, Proceedings of ASEE AC 2009-1410.35. Ren, P., “Bridjing theory and practice in a senior-level robotics course for mechanical
Institute for Leadership in Technology and Manage- ment and from 2003 through 2007 as Associate Dean of the College of Engineering. In 2003 he received Bucknell’s Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. Prof. Buffinton’s scholarly interests range across the areas of multibody dynamics, nonlinear control, mechanical design, systems thinking, entrepreneurship, engineering management education, and his pri- mary research focus, the dynamics and control of robotic systems. He has been the recipient of external grants from a number of funding agencies including the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Ben Franklin Technology Center of Pennsylvania, and most recently the
. Deborah Walter is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She teaches courses in circuits, electromagnetics, and medical imaging. Before joining academia in 2006, she was at the Computed Tomography Laboratory at GE’s Global Research Center for 8 years. She worked on several technology development projects in the area of X-ray CT for medical and industrial imaging. She is a named inventor on 9 patents. She has been active in the recruitment and retention of women and minorities in engineering and currently PI for an NSF-STEM grant to improve diversity at Rose-Hulman. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017
laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Design of Remotely Accessible Automated Systems to Enhance Industrial Automation EducationAbstractIndustrial scale automated systems can be used to provide authentic learning experiences forstudents. Skillsets needed to design and build automated systems are essential to our nationaleconomy. However, students often have limited access to equipment due to limitations inavailable lab time and available equipment. This paper describes the design of three web
Paper ID #20194Progress toward Optimizing Student Team Skill Development using Evidence-Based StrategiesDr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Matthew W. Ohland is Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineering students, team assignment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative teaching methods has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation and his team received Best Paper
Paper ID #19773Introducing First Year Engineering Students to Engineering ReasoningDr. Lizzie Santiago, West Virginia University Lizzie Y. Santiago, Ph.D., is a teaching associate professor for the freshman engineering program in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources. She holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and has postdoctoral training in neural tissue engineering and molecular neurosciences. She teaches freshman engineering courses and supports the outreach and recruiting activities of the college. Her research interests include neural tissue engineering, stem cell research, absorption of
Paper ID #17713REU programs and K-12 outreach: A natural synergyDr. Laila Guessous, Oakland University Laila Guessous, Ph.D. is a professor in the department of mechanical engineering at Oakland Univer- sity (OU) in Rochester, MI. Her research and teaching interests lie in the areas of fluid mechanics and heat transfer, with an emphasis on computational methods. She is the program director for the NSF- funded AERIM Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at OU, as well as a co-PI on the Oakland University WISE@OU NSF ADVANCE Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination (PAID) grant. She is
, Schwartz accepted a lecturer position in the Department of Computer Science to teach computer programming and develop new introductory courses. Recognizing the academic potential of games, Schwartz founded the Game Design Initiative at Cornell (GDIAC) in the spring of 2001. Soon after, he designed the Cornell Library Collaborative Learning Computer Laboratory (CL3), which started hosting GDIAC courses in August 2004. In May 2006, these efforts established Cornell’s Minor in Game Design offered by the College of Engineering, the first formal Ivy-League game design program. In the summer of 2007, Schwartz joined the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Game Design and Development program as an assistant professor. In 2009
scale, disparate data. He is currently working on a project that ambition to design a system capable of providing students customized motivational stimuli and perfor- mance feedback based on their affective states.Dr. Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Tucker holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in Engineering Design and Industrial En- gineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He is also affiliate faculty in Computer Science and Engineering. He teaches Introduction to Engineering Design (EDSGN 100) at the undergraduate level and developed and taught a graduate-level course titled Data Mining–Driven Design (EDSGN 561). As part of the Engineering Design Program’s
Carolina Dr. Pierce is the Director for Diversity and Inclusion and Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Carolina. He is a USC Connect Faculty Fellow for Integrative Learning, and a Bell South Teaching Fellow in the College of Engineering and Computing. Dr. Pierce also serves as the ASEE Campus Representative for USC.Dr. Robert Petrulis Dr. Petrulis is an independent consultant specializing in education-related project evaluation and research. He is based in Columbia, South Carolina. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Integrating Thematic Problem-Based Learning Modules on Nanotechnology
food engineering. She has been honored by the American Society of Engineering Education with several teaching awards such as the 2004 National Outstanding Teaching Medal and the 2005 Quinn Award for experiential learning.Prof. Harriet Hartman, Rowan UniversityDr. Kauser Jahan, Rowan University Kauser Jahan, is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University. She received her B.S.C.E. from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, an MSCE from the Univer- sity of Arkansas, Fayetteville and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Her passion as an educator and mentor has been recognized by many professional organizations over the years. She is the recipient of the