going onto the next. At these early phases, it may besufficient for the engineers and other project staff to simply acknowledge the product-safetyissues that will be faced by the project. Although solutions will be needed before final-designrelease, a detailed plan of action may not be required yet.Phase 3 is the stage of most concern to the design-engineering team. It is here that the product isdesigned, re-designed, prototyped, analyzed, tested, and finally released to Manufacturing. Thisblock shows interactions with suppliers and the suppliers’ interactions with sub-suppliers. Thefigure shows the explicit need for testing in the field and in the laboratory. There are numerousincremental reviews of product safety during Phase 3. During these
factors contribute to the ethical practice of science andengineering- Moral upbringing? Laboratory leadership? Institutional environment-and howcould these factors be combined more effectively toward cultivating cultures of ethical STEM? For interpretation and clarity, please note that in the following figures (Figure 2-6), the top-30terms are ordered by relevance to the red highlighted “topic” (or student-responses cluster). Thelight-blue extensions of the bar graph (on the right side of each figure) indicate all the other usesof a given term in the corpus of text, i.e. all responses to the prompt. The term “tokenpercentage” is the percentage of the total terms within the selected topic in relation to all theterms captured in the corpus of text
group began with general safety procedures for the room (safety glassesrequired, long hair tied back, denim aprons provided for clothing protection, closed-toed shoesrequired, etc.) Each student was given an engineering laboratory notebook to use with a brieftutorial about good practice for engineering documentation in building.Equipment in the rolling tool chests that were used during the builds included: hammers, variouspliers, multiple types of screw drivers, ratcheting socket wrenches, adjustable wrench, a level,hex wrenches, measuring tape, calipers, hand saw, miter box, clamping vise, sanding sponges,cordless power drills, drill bits, corded and cordless Dremel rotary tools, various Dremel toolaccessories and tips, wire strippers
) Event Points Course % Notes Homework Sets 250 25.0% 5 @ 35 points, 1 @ 75 points (Streeter-Phelps) Laboratory Work 150 15.0% 3 @ 50 points each Wastewater Treatment Plant Design with Cost Engineering Design Problem 125 12.5% Analysis In-Class Exams 250 25.0% 2 @ 125 points each TEE 200 20.0% Comprehensive Instructor Grade 25 2.5% Class Participation / Peer Evaluations TOTAL POINTS: 1000 100% Total Number of Assignments: 16
up in the AIChE Concept Warehouse [8]. Each week, LAs received a promptasking them to read a short article about learning and pedagogy and relate that to their teachingexperiences through a 250-word written reflection.For recruitment of faculty to include LAs in their course instructional team, we targeted large-enrollment classes (over 100 students), but did not exclude other courses with enthusiasticinstructors. We specifically targeted introductory courses that had a history of hiringundergraduate students to facilitate laboratories and recitations. The LA Program added thepedagogy elements (both the workshop and the online reflection) and, in some cases, shifted tomore structured, regular meetings with the instructional team; thus, we
and approach.Lectures, tutorials and laboratories allow students to acquire engineering knowledge, while the projectcan give them the opportunity to become a problem solver or an innovator. Projects provide severalopportunities to the students to learn aspects that are difficult to be taught in a class room or laboratory.This paper documents the experience of developing, testing and deploying an WSN energy harvestingsystem, highlighting and discussing the students’ efforts. This project was developed and completed by agroup of four students, during Spring 2017 and Fall 2017 semesters, as their senior project design.2. Senior Design Project and Project Goals and ObjectivesIn the environmentally-based energy harvesting systems the main design
multiple projects in education data mining, some in collaboration with the Dean of Engineering. His research interests include healthcare and education data mining.Ms. Elnaz Douzali, University of Illinois, Chicago To be added.Dr. Peter C. Nelson, University of Illinois, Chicago Peter Nelson was appointed Dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) College of Engineering in 2008. Prior to assuming his deanship, Professor Nelson was head of the UIC Department of Computer Science. In 1991, Professor Nelson founded UIC’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which specializes in applied intelligence systems projects in fields such as transportation, manufacturing, bioinformatics and e-mail spam
impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context i. Recognition of the need for and an ability to VII engage in life-long learning. j. A knowledge of contemporary issues V & VI k. An ability to use the techniques, skills, and VI & VII modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practiceTaxa I—Pre-knowledge Conceptual Experiences: hands-on laboratory experiences viademonstrations, physical models, practical applications to demonstrate, visualize and observebasic concepts.Taxa II—Basic Conceptual Knowledge: learning, understanding, memorizing basic engineeringconcepts, definitions, terms, symbols, theories
meets twice a week for75 minutes and is taught in two sections with approximately 30 students in each section. AtDrexel, the four-credit class meets twice a week for 80 minutes and once a week for two hours(including a laboratory portion) as one large section. The class size at Drexel typically rangesfrom 60 to 80 students, but the last offering (fall 2017) had an abnormally low enrollment of 34students. Although the academic calendar at Drexel is on a quarter system and Villanova issemesters, the number of class meetings is essentially the same for both schools. For bothuniversities, the geology course fulfills a science requirement for ABET.In the past, engaging and interesting engineering students in geology at both universities hadbeen a
Technology (BIST) Center, an ICTAS-supported interdisciplinary effort with 40 faculty members from across the university. In his international efforts, he directs the Shandong University - Virginia Tech International Laboratory that is dedicated to the engineering analysis of biosonar, flight, and system integration in bats. His international work has been recognized by the Friendship Award of the People’s Republic of China (2010), a Dean’s Award of the VT College of Engineering (2011), and Virginia Tech’s Alumni Award for International Research (2016). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Student Learning in International Research Programs
atdifferent stages in their academic careers. The first level is the ASPIRES Research ScholarsProgram, which is a two-week program that targets freshmen and rising sophomores. Heldduring the winter break, the program introduces students to research and covers the followingtopics: applying for internships; introduction to the research process; university laboratory tours;conducting literature reviews; university transfer process for community college students;presentation skills; and project-specific topics including experimental methods, instrumentation,and data acquisition and analysis.A focus group of STEM students at Cañada College identified common barriers to a successfulresearch internship program for community college STEM students. For most
, 2011.[14] V. Sampson, P. Enderle, J. Grooms & S. Witte, “Writing to learn by learning to write During the school science laboratory: Helping middle and high school students develop argumentative writing skills as they learn core ideas,” Science Education, vol. 97, issue 5, pp. 643-670, September, 2013.[15] J.P. Walker, & V. Sampson, “Learning to argue and arguing to learn: Argument-driven inquiry as a way to help undergraduate chemistry students learn how to construct arguments and engage in argumentation during a laboratory course,” Journal of Research in Science Teaching, volume 50, issue 5, pp. 561-596. May, 2013.[16] T.J. Moore, M.S. Stohlmann, H.H. Wang, K.M. Tank, & G.H. Roehrig
Adrienne Minerick is the Associate Dean for Research & Innovation in the College of Engineering and Assistant to the Provost for Faculty Development at Michigan Tech. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and B.S. from Michigan Tech. Adrienne’s research interests include elec- trokinetics, predominantly dielectrophoretic characterizations of cells, and the development of biomedical microdevices. She earned a NSF CAREER award and was nominated for Michigan Professor of the Year in 2014. Research within her Medical micro-Device Engineering Research Laboratory (M.D. – ERL) also inspires the development of Desktop Experiment Modules (DEMos) for use in chemical engineer- ing classrooms or as
conceptualize the relationship between research and the creative process after participating in the REU program? 3. How do faculty members incorporate concepts of the creative process into the laboratory experiences of the REU students? Do the approaches used by faculty influence how students’ conceptualize research and the creative process?This study builds on the previous work by Huffstickler, et al. (2017) by focusing more closely onstudents’ understanding of research and its relationship to the creative process. In addition,changes were made in the 2017 program to better train supervising faculty on the relationshipbetween the creative process and the scientific method. In addition, because graduate students areprimarily
such structures including percussion instruments, land- mines/IED, and coupled resonator arrays.Dr. Colleen Janeiro, East Carolina University Dr. Colleen Janeiro teaches engineering fundamentals including Introduction to Engineering, Materials and Processes, and Mechanics of Materials. Her teaching interests include development of solid commu- nication skills and enhancing laboratory skills, while ensuring students are aware of, and adhere to, the University’s academic integrity policies.Dr. Patrick F. O’Malley, Benedictine College Patrick O’Malley teaches in the Mechanical Engineering program at Benedictine College in Atchison, KS. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018
spent three years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Delaware where he expanded his knowledge on simulation of multiphase flows while acquiring skills in high performance parallel computing and scientific computation. Before that, Dr. Ayala hold a faculty position at Universidad de Oriente at Mechanical Engineering Department where he taught and developed graduate and undergraduate courses for a number of subjects such as Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Multiphase Flows, Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machinery, as well as Mechanical Engineering Laboratory courses. In addition, Dr. Ayala has had the opportunity to work for a number of engineering consulting companies, which have given
Aerospace Engineering at the University of Dayton. She teaches undergraduate and graduate materials related courses including Introduction to Ma- terials, Materials Laboratory, Engineering Innovation, Biomaterials and Engineering Design and Appro- priate Technology (ETHOS). She was director of the (Engineers in Technical Humanitarian Opportunities of Service-Learning) for approximately ten years. She has incorporated service-learning projects into her classes and laboratories since she started teaching in 2000. Her research interests include community engaged learning and pedagogy, K-12 outreach, biomaterials and materials testing and analysis. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018
experiential learning. This can beas complicated as laboratory experiences or projects, or as simple as providing students an activerole in lecture. To facilitate student involvement in a lecture format, students must be prepared tocontribute to the discussion of new material.One common model for experiential learning is the Kolb Experiential Learning Cycle [1,2], whichhas four steps: 1. Introduction of new experience, 2. Reflection on this experience, 3. Abstractionof this experience, and 4. Application of this experience. An essential component of this cycle isallowing students the time to reflect on new experiences. If students are introduced to a new topicduring lecture, little reflection can take place prior to abstraction or application of that
served as Director of Research & Development for a multimedia development company and as founding Director of the Center for Integrating Research & Learning (CIRL) at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University. Under Dr. Spiegel’s leadership, the CIRL matured into a thriving Center recognized as one of the leading National Science Foundation Laboratories for activities to pro- mote science, mathematics, and technology (STEM) education. While at Florida State University, Dr. Spiegel also directed an award winning teacher enhancement program for middle grades science teachers, entitled Science For Early Adolescence Teachers (Science FEAT). His extensive background in science education
investigated uses a semester long team-based designproject to introduce students to the engineering design process. Course enrollment representsapproximately 80% of all incoming first-year engineering students (total enrollment = 660; 525identified as first-year students). Other students in the course include upper level students thattook the course out of sequence from the traditional plan of study. Due to the volume of students,the course offered two large auditorium style lecture sections and multiple (32) smallerlaboratory sections. Each week students would meet in their smaller laboratory classes,maximum of 32 students. Additionally, students were required to attend one of the two largerlectures (~350 students per lecture), each week.Students
indicating that basic microcontroller programmingknowledge would have been valuable not only for completing the projects in the introductorydesign course, but also for use in upper level engineering courses and projects of personalinterest. Not only were students eager to learn microcontroller basics, instructors also recognizedthat by introducing students to these skills, the resulting projects may be higher quality and therange of design challenges that can be assigned may be broadened.Use of microcontroller technology in freshman level courses is not new, and these concepts havebeen taught through in-person laboratory instruction with positive results at numerousuniversities [2], [3], [6]. Additionally, multiple universities have employed a
engineering.Teaching in the programs are mainly carried out as lectures, lessons, and laboratory sessions. In atypical engineering course, 30−40% of the education is carried out as lectures, 30−40% aslessons and 20−40% as laboratory experiments. In addition, case studies and project works areused in about half of the courses. Some projects are small (down to 15% of the course workload)and some may make up the whole course.In the present study, two courses are of interest. One is a course in Engineering thermodynamicswhich both the ME, DPD and IEM students take; the ME students as the very first course of theprogram, and the PDP and IEM students at the middle of the second year. The other is a bachelor(capstone) project course that the IEM students take as
, automation, robotics and control, intelligent manufacturing system design, and micro/nano manufacturing. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation 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, 2018 MAKER: Face Detection Library to Teach Algorithm Basics in PythonAbstractThis paper describes an approach to teach face detection algorithms to beginner levelprogramming learners using a face detection tool built in Python. Learners are expected tounderstand and practice their Python coding skills
seals for the next generation of manned spacecraft. The unique problem necessitated a grasp of both fluid dynamics and material science, as well as experimental and computational analysis. As a DAGSI/Air Force Research Laboratory Ohio Student-Faculty Fellow, Dr. Garafolo gained experimental knowledge in structural dynamics of turbomachinery. In particular, his research on engine order excitation yielded insight into generating high cycle fatigue of turbomachinery using acoustic excitation.Mr. Benjamin G. Kruggel, University of Akron Ben is a graduate student at the University of Akron pursuing a MEd in high school science education. He received his B.S. in aeronautical engineering from Ohio State in 1994 and was
learning.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 Research Assistant Professor at Rutgers University. He was also a Senior Speech Scientist at T-Netix from July 1996 to August 1997. Since September 1997, he is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rowan University where he has been a Professor since September 2006. He has served as a
struggling students. These efforts help build the CEE Department as a place wherepositive change is happening and coupled with the research group’s efforts to disseminateknowledge, will lead the transformation of the College of Engineering.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation underIUSE/PFE:RED Grant No. 1632053. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions orrecommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarilyreflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References 1. C.S. Slater, T.R. Chandrupatla, R.A. Dusseau, J. L. Schmalzel, (1996). “Development of multifunctional laboratories in a new engineering school,” ASEE Annual Conference and
the under-representation of women and minorities in STEMby involving undergraduate students from across the U.S. in automotive-related research projectsfor 10 weeks during the summer [1-3]. Ultimately, the goal is to engage participants in rewardingautomotive research experiences that motivate them to pursue graduate studies and embark oncareers in in industry, government or academia.REU programs are designed around the needs of the undergraduate participants. The researchprojects, seminars, laboratory/industry tours, meetings with mentors, networking events andother activities are all set up to maximize the positive impact of a research experience on thestudents. Numerous studies have shown that active participation in hands-on
Paper ID #23098Investigation of Factors Promoting Competitive Candidates for Entry-levelBioengineering PositionsDr. Marcia Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Marcia Pool is a Teaching Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs in Bio- engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In her career, Marcia has been active in improving undergraduate education through developing problem-based laboratories to enhance ex- perimental design skills; developing a preliminary design course focused on problem identification and market space (based on an industry partner’s protocol); and
theireducation, complete their degrees, and prepare for a career and/or graduate studies; 3) toincrease the retention rate and monitor each supported student’s progress to ensure theircompletion of degree requirements within a reasonable time frame; 4) to encouragestudents to graduate and continue their education in graduate school, or obtainemployment in local industry, such as a nearby national laboratory; and 5) to engagescholarship recipients in college activities and encourage college service career options,such as teaching and research.The indicators measuring the effectiveness of the project are: 1) increasing the degreeprogress rate; this means that scholarship recipients will successfully complete aminimum of 12 credit hours towards the degree
’ professionalism and autonomy.The expected outcomes of this REU program are:1. Students will be able to demonstrate core knowledge in SST related areas (i.e. structural control, structural health monitoring, signal processing, etc.);2. Students will be able to understand and identify the differences between engineering science and engineering practice;3. Students have publications co-authored with academic/industrial mentors.Program ActivitiesThe program will feature: formal training, workshops, and supplemental activities in the conductof research in academia and industry; innovative research experience through engagement inprojects with scientific and practical merits in both academic and industrial environments;experience in conducting laboratory