include power pointpresentations, ready-to-implement instructor’s kit, in-class and homework problems, and well-documented hands-on laboratory exercises. These modules and be readily used in existingmechanical and manufacturing engineering programs, both undergraduate and graduate curricula.Courses that can directly benefit and have strong potential for implementation are MechanicalDesign, Machine Design, All courses in Manufacturing Processes, Freshmen, Sophomore andSenior Design courses, Surface Metrology, Precision Engineering, courses in Tribology, frictionand wear, etc. As a trial run, at the University of XXXXXXX, a 3-hour course module wasimplemented in the Junior/Senior Manufacturing Processes course. This included a 1-hourhands-on
mandate change when appropriate and necessary. • Be staffed with qualified faculty, and, support continuous professional development. • Receive adequate budgetary support for laboratory and teaching equipment, computer access and software, appropriate faculty development, and other reasonable and necessary needs. • Be administered by supportive and qualified administrators. • Maintain access to library and other reference materials, computers and computer software, laboratory and shop facilities as necessary to support the educational process. • Continually assess the impact of University, College, and Departmental requirements such as the University Core Curriculum, service courses both inside
with creating a research project from inception.When completed, this water tunnel will serve as a tool for classroom and laboratorydemonstrations in undergraduate-level courses related to fluid mechanics, as well as a resource inperforming undergraduate research on a small scale. One of the capabilities of this device will beinterchangeable test section models. This will allow for a variety of applications to differentcourse topics and research ideas. The portability of the device will allow for use in a typicalclassroom setting rather than requiring a separate laboratory space, which should facilitate morefrequent use in demonstrations.This paper provides an overview of the primary aims of this senior design project, detailing theways in
instructor at the community-college and research-university level.Prof. Charles Morton Krousgrill, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) 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
granular materials. In 2008, he was awarded the Merck Research Laboratories Fellowship in Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science, Material Science, and Engineering. After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Ely conducted postdoctoral research in Duesseldorf, Germany at the Heinrich-Heine University where he extended current dissolution models to predict nano-particle dissolution kinetics. Upon returning to the States, he worked as a postdoctoral research assistant at the School of Materials Engineering at Purdue University where he spent two and one-half years modeling high performance electrochemical systems with complex microstructures including and beyond Li-ion chemistries at the atomistic, mesoscale, and continuum levels in order
laboratory apparatus for advancement of novel electronic devices, in addition to curriculum development for inquiry-based learning and facilitation of interdisciplinary, student-led project design. She emphasizes engineering sustainable solutions from a holistic perspective, incorporating analysis of the full technological life cycle and socioeconomic impact.Dr. Patrick E. Mantey, University of California, Santa CruzMr. Stephen C. Petersen P.E., University of California, Santa Cruz Stephen Petersen is currently Undergraduate Director and a Teaching Professor with the Electrical Engi- neering Department in the School of Engineering at UCSC. Prior to teaching full time, he practiced before the FCC as an independent Consulting
High school GPA min 3.02 2.70 2.97 High school GPA max 4.00 4.00 4.00 High school GPA average 3.77 3.82 3.93The Engineering Math pilot implementation included a 50-minute lecture section meeting threetimes a week, one 50-minute recitation section a week, and one 110-minute lab section eachweek, consistent with a 4-credit hour class during a 16-week semester. All course activities tookplace in a unique active-learning classroom dedicated to Engineering Math. Students worked inpairs to complete weekly laboratory exercises, with the first pairings determined by studentchoice, and the second and third
Hilounderrepresented or under-served Maui High Performance Computing Centergroups in or from Hawai‘i, including Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawai‘i Authoritythose with less access and Air Force Research Laboratoryopportunity to experiences that Integrity Applications Incorporated/Pacific Defense Solutionspromote student success in STEM. Daniel K Inouye Solar TelescopeThe program focuses on including 2C4/PJITCstudents during their early years of college, when attrition from STEM is high, and servingstudents interested in a broad range of STEM career paths, especially careers at telescopes and inindustry requiring 2-year and 4-year degrees.1.4 Evidence and research-based design and practiceRetention among the
Paper ID #22619Fundamental: A Teacher Professional Development Program in EngineeringResearch with Entrepreneurship and Industry ExperiencesMr. Sai Prasanth Krishnamoorthy, New York University Sai Prasanth Krishnamoorthy received his BSEE from Amrita University and M.S in Mechatronics from NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Mechanical En- gineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, serving as a research assistant under NSF-funded RET Site project. He conducts research in Mechatronics, Robotics and Controls Laboratory at NYU and his research interests include automation
experience at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. She is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. She is serving as a research assistant under an NSF-funded DR K-12 re- search project to promote integration of robotics in middle school science and math education. For her doctoral research, she conducts mechatronics and robotics research in the Mechatronics, Controls, and Robotics Laboratory at NYU.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
develop educational materials to help K-12 students learn about the brain. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 “Helped me feel relevant again in the classroom”: Longitudinal Evaluation of a Research Experience for Teachers Program in Neural Engineering (Evaluation)Abstract The Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program, supported by the NationalScience Foundation, engages pre-college teachers in authentic research experiences inuniversity-based laboratories across the country. Some RET program sites engage scienceteachers in engineering research. With A Framework for K-12 Science and EngineeringEducation [1] and the Next Generation Science
students. Martin et al.19 alsoemphasize the need for improving parental education regarding the processes for universityadmission, financial aid, expected engineering course load, and long-term benefits of earning anengineering degree. They specifically suggest considering language barriers while designingparents’ events.Transition The transition solutions focused on 1) making curricular changes and 2) developingsocial capital in community colleges for engineering. Hoit and Ohland showed, with statistically-significant evidence, that presenting the realengineering content, in the first-year itself, helps retain women students14. They introduced theintroduction to engineering course in a laboratory format, where they employed active
University in 1987 and a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1997.Dr. Pamalee A. Brady, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Pamalee Brady is a Professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She teaches courses in structural systems, concrete, steel and wood design as well as structural engineering courses for architecture and construction management students. Prior to joining the faculty at Cal Poly she worked in applied research at the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, Illinois. She is a member of the Education Committee of the ASCE Forensic Engineering Division and an Asso- ciate Editor of the ASCE
interviews at the beginning, middle, and end of the semester.Participants were diverse in terms of their home countries, genders, and engineering discipline.Using thematic coding, we are analyzing the data using both a priori codes drawn from theliterature and inductive codes emerging from the data, with particular attention to engineering-specific and ITA-specific experiences.Preliminary findings suggest that three of the four general categories developed by priorresearchers are relevant to the experiences of engineering ITAs. At the same time, the data allowus to operationalize these experiences in the context of engineering classrooms, including bothlecture and laboratory courses, and identify nuances in each category that are unique to the
building client-based relationships with members of various educational learning communities.Participants and Course Context:The first set of participants are the students enrolled in the Programming 2 course, which is thesecond course in the introductory programming sequence at Ohio Northern University. Bothintroductory courses have three 50-minute lectures and one 175-minute laboratory sessionweekly during the semester, with the laboratory being used to reinforce just-covered lecturematerial. The first course uses C++ to provide experience in breaking problems down intofunctional units involving sequence, selection, and iteration; whereas the second course uses Javato explore the event-driven graphical user interface paradigm through
research and development job in either industry or a government laboratory. Eventually I will return to pursue my Ph. D. and then teach in academia.”Figure 1. Impact of the experience on student career goals.The program met its goal of at least 60% of the REU participants going to graduate school and asin past REU research [2], [8]. After the REU experience, there was one particular AERO studentwho wanted to go to private industry first by the end of the program.Some US students opting for industry instead of graduate school wanted to work at a companywhere they would still be involved in conducting research. For example, one students said: “I would like to pursue a research and development job in either industry or a
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(Pearson’scorrelation = 0.31, n = 42) correlation was found between the exam 1 score and the in-class“transfer quiz.” It should be noted that exam 1 in EELE 201 contains little if any content relatedto calculus and thus any correlation between exam 1 and either calculus grades or the transferproblem quiz would speak more to a student’s general ability to handle abstract concepts ratherthan to their ability to demonstrate a particular math skill. Certainly, students are required todemonstrate an understanding of basic calculus and the ability to manipulate complex numberslater in the course.The laboratory activity required students to explain through words, sketches and simplecalculation why a proposed measurement of current would yield a perhaps unexpected
NASA funded MIST Space Vehicle Mission Planning Laboratory at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. In 2010, he joined Eastern Michigan University as an Associate Dean in the College of Technology and currently is a Professor in the School of Engineer- ing Technology. He has an extensive experience in curriculum and laboratory design and development. Dr. Eydgahi has served as a member of the Board of Directors for Tau Alpha Pi, as a member of Advi- sory and Editorial boards for many International Journals in Engineering and Technology, as a member of review panel for NASA and Department of Education, as a regional and chapter chairman of IEEE, SME, and ASEE, and as a session chair and as a member of scientific
and external opportunities to expand scholarly connections. This included sessions on making meaningful sabbaticals, research collaborations, and connecting interdisciplinary researchers via an interactive “round- robin” meet-up event. Funding and Research Development • COE faculty connections with funding agencies, industry, associated program directors and researchers. As part of the faculty development program, we have sponsored a combination of visits to agencies (e.g., EPA, NSF), national labs (e.g. Sandia National Laboratories) and industry. These programs are instrumental in connecting new and senior faculty to agencies resulting in new proposals, invitations to serve on panels, new
learning in ways thatspecifically align with cognitive theory. Student responses aligning with cognitive theory are consistent with our understanding ofEER and traditional engineering experiences. Many students’ experiences in engineering reflectlearning experiences developed from cognitive perspectives. Lectures, modeled demonstrations,and guided inquiry such as prescriptive laboratory classes align with cognitive theories, thatinformation is individually acquired [24], [35]. We do not claim that students were aware of theirtheoretical stance on learning. Rather, our finding that the majority of students within our studydescribe learning cognitively provides insight into another potential barrier to address whentranslating active learning
mathematics. As a Graduate Teaching Associate for the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors program, he is heavily involved with developing and teaching laboratory content, leading the maintenance of the in-house robotics controller, and managing the devel- opment of the robotics project.Dr. Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University Krista Kecskemety is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. Krista received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State Uni- versity in 2006 and received her M.S. from Ohio State in 2007. In 2012, Krista completed her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at Ohio State. Her engineering education research interests include
admitted (e.g., low STEM gender stereotypes), find more successas students and as professionals [22].In response to these findings, interventions developed to challenge students’ stereotypes ofSTEM professionals – with a goal of strengthening interest and buffering against attrition – arebecoming more frequent. Some have focused on the type of people who are interested andsuccessful in STEM: since biased representations of STEM professionals generally portray themas white and male, educators have attempted to change these portrayals by spotlighting thediversity that already exists in the field [23], [24]. Other stereotypes pigeonhole STEM careers asthose that focus excessively on laboratory work and mechanical tinkering, overlooking both thesocial
graduated with a B.S in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona.Dr. Anthony J. Marchese, Colorado State University Anthony J. Marchese is the Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs, Director of the Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory and Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering at Colorado State University. Marchese holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University and B.S. and M.S. degrees from Rensselaer Poly- technic Institute. His research areas include internal combustion engines, alternative fuels, combustion, chemical kinetics, microgravity experiments, methane emissions and biomass cookstoves. He is
/nasatlx.html. R (version 3.3.1) was used to conduct thedata analysis for the study with the integrated development environment RStudios. R is a statisticalcomputer environment and language that was developed by Bell Laboratories. It provides a largevariety of statistical and graphical capabilities and is an open sources product [14].Results and Data AnalysisThe quiz scores are shown in Table 1 and Figure 8 Table 1: Quiz Score Statistics Quiz Scores Statistics Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu Max Analytical .20 .40 .60 .6043 .80 1 Conceptual .27 .60
the projects and the impact they have had in different areas of academia and industry. “The TurbidityChallenge” project is a good example from the research perspective. The goal of the project was to analyze anddevelop a low-cost turbidity monitoring network to address key issues in coastal management. The studentswere involved in the completion of the largest and most comprehensive survey of Moreton Bay sediments todate; 220 sites were sampled over a 1500 km2 area in a 3-month field campaign with all students participating inboth the field work and laboratory analysis. Results from this project were included in the Health WaterwaysEcosystem Health Report Card for 2015, which assesses the health of waterways across the entire South
ofEngineering (level 8), Masters (level 9) and finally, PhD (level 10). As a result, the school has avery broad student demographic. Many students who cannot gain direct entry to a universityprogram join this technical institute at a lower point on the ladder, work their way up, andeventually sit beside those who entered directly from high school.Academic staff members are employed to teach and typically have 18 hours of classroom activityper week. Although research is encouraged, and the School has several highly regarded researchgroups, the majority of staff members devote most of their time to teaching—both in the classroomand the laboratory. Laboratory groups of 16 students per staff member facilitate close contact andallow staff and students to
effectiveness. Closed-loop implies performance data is compared to a referencevalue and depending on the magnitude of the difference, the implementation strategy for theacademic program is modified.SPK functional areas derived from the following ABET General Criteria [12] are: 1. Students: Ensure students are academically prepared and scheduled to be in the right place in the program at the right time. 5. Curriculum: Ensures an integrated set of courses and laboratory experiences from the discipline BOK to develop knowledge, skills, and behaviors of students and satisfies accreditation and university requirements.Extra-Curricular, also an SPK Functional Area, consists of non-curriculum related programactivities that also develop knowledge
exuded fromexcessive hand movements [14], [19], [20]. Accelerometers that are embedded in the sensorswere used to identify any additional movements by the participants and were used as criteria todetermine potential outliers in the data as described by others [28].Each electrodermal sensor recorded the electrical conductivity of the skin (in microSiemens, µS)at a frequency of 4Hz (period is 1/4 of a second) at a low electrical current of 1100mAh(Empatica, Boston, MA) during the laboratory session. Each participant was in the session for anaverage span of two hours, which yielded approximately 28,800 data points per participant. AllEDA datasets were normalized via range-correction that considers an individual’s autonomic(baseline) response as it
doctorate in mechanical engineering in 2011, all from WVU. At WVU, she has previously served as the Undergraduate and Outreach Advisor for the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department and the Assistant Director of the Center for Building Energy Efficiency. She has previously taught courses such as Thermodynamics, Thermal Fluids Laboratory, and Guided Missiles Systems, as well as serving as a Senior Design Project Advisor for Mechanical Engineering Students. Her research interests include energy and thermodynamic related topics. Since 2007 she has been actively involved in recruiting and outreach for the Statler College, as part of this involvement Dr. Morris frequently makes presentations to groups of K-12