absolutely no experience “under their belt,” are assigned to teachpractice related courses. Often, teaching design-oriented and/ or field-related subjects do require“first-hand” knowledge that instructors could only get by having taken part, or been involved inreal engineering problems. Relying mainly on textbooks and/ or reference material, as the onlysource to teach from, is regarded by many, as an oversimplification or a deviation from reality.This paper sheds light on the pros and cons of opening-up to off-campus practitioners, andargues for engaging properly selected adjunct faculty in the teaching-learning process, inpartnership with “full-time” regular faculty members. The impetus here is three fold. First, thegeneral belief that well
Paper ID #25928A New Curriculum to Teach System-Level Understanding to Sophomore Elec-trical Engineering Students using a Music-Following RobotMr. Son Nguyen, University of California, Davis Son Nguyen received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam, in 2012, and his M.S. degree in micro and nano systems technology from University of South-Eastern Norway, in 2014. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Micropower Circuits and Systems Group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California
Paper ID #26488Board 11: Work in Progress: Best Practices in Teaching a Chemical ProcessDesign Two-course Sequence at a Minority Serving UniversityDr. Matthew Lucian Alexander P.E., Texas A&M University, Kingsville Dr. Alexander graduated with a BS in Engineering Science from Trinity University, a MS in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University. He worked for 25 years in environmental engineering consulting before joining the faculty at Texas A&M University- Kingsville in 2015.Dr. Joseph Amaya c American Society for Engineering Education
40 20 0 Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Set 6 Hands-on Data Sets from previous semesters or at different locationsFigure 8. Comparison of final course grades for hands-on semester against 6 other data sets from previous semesters and different locations within the same schoolSummary and ConclusionsThis paper presented a change in teaching style for fluid power course towards a more student-centered based learning. This course is already rich with laboratory work, but students’ interestwas noticed to have decreased due to the routine in
Paper ID #25994Work in Progress: Embedding a Large Writing Course in Engineering De-sign - A New Model to Teach Technical WritingMr. Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Michael Alley is an associate professor of teaching at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Craft of Scientific Writing (Springer, 2018) and The Craft of Scientific Presentations (Springer- Verlag, 2013). He is also founder of the popular websites Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science (www.craftofscientificwriting.com) and the Assertion-Evidence Approach (www.assertion-evidence.com).Dr. Stephanie Cutler
study of real-world phenomena through hands-on, laboratory activities to develop a deepunderstanding of the material world. (8) Focusing on core science ideas, crosscutting concepts,and practices—teachers’ lessons integrate the core science or engineering ideas, SEPs, andconcepts within and across disciplines, which is consistent with the interdisciplinary nature ofscience represented through the concept of “crosscutting ideas” in the NGSS [2] and Framework[3]. (9) Building classroom community—teachers nurture a collaborative learning community inwhich students feel encouraged to voice their ideas and seek clarifications. Table 1: Ten science teaching practices ([9], pp. 7-8). Reform-oriented science teaching practice
involved with developing and teaching laboratory content, leading the maintenance of the in-house robotics controller, and managing the development of the robotics project.Dr. Kathleen A. Harper, Ohio State University Kathleen A. Harper is a senior lecturer in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. She received her M. S. in physics and B. S. in electrical engineering and applied physics from Case Western Reserve University, and her Ph. D. in physics from The Ohio State University. She has been on the staff of Ohio State’s University Center for the Advancement of Teaching, in addition to teaching in both the physics and engineering education departments. She is currently a member of the ASEE
teaching awards, and since 2016 he has been appointed to the Postgraduate Research Program at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) administered through Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE).Mr. Spencer Mark SullivanProf. Kevin Chen c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Project-Based Learning of Optics and Photonics: How to Teach a Stand- Alone Technical Elective “Niche” Course?AbstractAt the typical engineering school, lasers and optics is an elective “niche” area, often with astandalone senior course offering. This course is generally taken by students in their final yearswhen they are ready to graduate and start their careers or graduate school. For
Paper ID #25936Board 82: Lessons Learned: Using a Faculty Developer’s Skillset to Facilitatea Challenging Revision Process – A Student Evaluation of Teaching ExampleDr. Amy B Chan Hilton, University of Southern Indiana Amy B. Chan Hilton, Ph.D., P.E., F.EWRI is the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and a Professor of Engineering at the University of Southern Indiana (USI). Her interests include faculty and organizational development, teaching and learning innovations, and systems thinking applied to educational contexts. Prior to joining USI, Dr. Chan Hilton served as a Program Director at the
) simulation sickness –through three symptoms nausea, oculomotor disturbance, and disorientation, 2) VR SystemsUsability – through comfort and ease of use, and 3) User Experience – through involvement,immersion, visual fidelity, interface quality, and sound. Simulation sickness analysis showed thatthe current VR teaching modules need some adjustments. The analysis of the systems usabilityand user experience of the module were found to be acceptable. In phase III of the research, wewill improve the VR module to make a full self-paced tutorial where the instructor’s role will bemore facilitator than an instructor.References[1] B. Dalgarno, A. G. Bishop, W. Adlong, & D. R. Bedgood, (2009). “Effectiveness of a virtual laboratory as a
time programs, she believes that they complement any teaching style thereby reach- ing all learning styles. She earned her doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University specializing in thermal sciences where her dissertation research spanned three colleges and focused on Engineering Education. Her passions include but are not limited to Engineering Education, Energy Engineering and Conservation, and K-20 STEM Outreach. Prior to matriculating at NCSU, she worked at the North Carolina Solar Center developing a passion for wind and solar energy research while learning renewable energy policy. She combined these passions with K-20 STEM Outreach while a Na- tional Science Foundation Fellow with
Paper ID #26758Work in Progress: Educational Uses of an Intelligent System to Teach Con-struction Processes – A Case Study of the Giant Wild Goose PagodaMs. Fei Yang, Ohio State University Fei Yang is a Ph.D. candidate at the Ohio State University. Fei has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture and is currently working towards Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at the Ohio State University, focusing on the graphical simulation of ancient buildings applying VR and AI technologies, and reconstruction analysis.Dr. Michael Parke, Ohio State University Dr. Parke has over twenty
Paper ID #25172Are We Teaching What They Want? A Comparative Study of What AM Em-ployers Want versus What AM Frameworks RequireDr. Faye R. Jones, Florida State University Faye R. Jones is a Senior Research Associate at Florida State University’s College of Communication & Information. Her research interests include STEM student outcomes and the exploration of student pathways through institutional research.Dr. Marcia A. Mardis, Florida A&M University/Florida State University Marcia A. Mardis is a Professor and Associate Dean at Florida State University’s College of Communica- tion & Information and Associate
mechanics and heat transfer and is examining research topics in laboratory education in those fields. Prior to CSUM, Dr. Tsai was a Member of the Technical Staff in the Fluid Mechanics Group at The Aerospace Corporation. Dr. Tsai earned his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. at the University of California, Berkeley in Mechanical Engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Measuring Information Fluency Instruction: Ethical Use of Images in Engineering Student PresentationsAbstractThe ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, “Information Has Value”frame includes the knowledge practice of “articulate the purpose and distinguishingcharacteristics of
of Technology An undergraduate of Beijing University of TechnologyMiss YaNa Guo, Faculty of InformationTechnology,Beijing University of Technology I am a senior student of Beijing University of Technology,majoring in Computer Science and Technology.Prof. Xiwei Liu, Qingdao Academy of Intelligent Industries; Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy ofSciences Xiwei Liu is an associate professor of engineering at the State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an executive deputy director of Institute of Smart Education Systems, Qingdao Academy of Intelligent Industries. He received the Ph.D. degree at Nara Institute of Science and
Civil and Mechanical Students with Integrated Hands-on Laboratory Exercises. Proceedings of the 2006 American Society of Engineering Education Conference.[5] Kukreti, A.R. (1999). Use of Small-Scale Models Testing Laboratory to Teach Structural Dynamics. Proceedings of the 1999 American Society of Engineering Education Conference.[6] Riley, C.R., Millar J.D., Lozano, S., and St. Clair, S. Using Mobile Devices to Teach Structural Dynamics and Structural Health Monitoring. Proceedings of the 2016 American Society of Engineering Education Conference.[7] Jacquot, R., Anderson, J., and Walrath, D. (2009). Damped Beams: A Versatile Matlab Script for the Animation of a Variety of Beam Vibration Problems. Proceedings of the 2009 American
College of Engineering and the 2014 Engineers Without Borders-USA Peter J. Bosscher Faculty Advisor Award for Outstanding Leadership.Mr. Mostafa Soltaninejad, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Currently, I am a graduate student and studying Transportation Engineering at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln. My research focuses on using 360 videos and virtual reality for laboratory teaching in traffic engineering. Previously, I have received my B.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering and M.Sc. degree in Highway and Transportation Engineering from Iran. The title of my M.Sc. thesis was ”Feasibility of using coal waste powder in roller compacted concrete pavements”.Claudia Ponce de Leon Claudia Ponce de Leon is currently a junior
distributions in Newport Bay and the Tijuana River Estuary will evolve considering sea level rise and long-term climatic and land use changes. Matthew has been a TA for 3 years and is passionate about improving students writing and communication abilities through the use of innovative teaching techniques.Dr. Joel Lanning P.E., University of California, Irvine Dr. Joel Lanning specializes in seismic design of civil structures such as bridges and buildings. His research focuses on the development of tools and methods used in structural design and those used in experimental physical testing aimed at improving structural resilience during an earthquake. Lanning is passionate about teaching and is also focused on research
, she developed a passion for undergraduate education. This passion led her to pursue a career as a lecturer, where she could focus on training undergraduate chemical engineering students. She has been teaching at UK since 2015 and has taught Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Computational Tools and the Unit Operations Laboratory. She is especially interested in teaching scientific communication and integration of process safety into the chemical engineering curriculum.Prof. Samira Azarin Samira Azarin is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. She earned her B.S. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy in 2006 and went
States Military Academy with a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and graduated from Columbia University with an M.S. in Environmental Engineering in 2016. He teaches Environmental Biological Systems, Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering Technologies, Introduction to Environmental Engineering, Advanced Individual Study I-II, Biochemical Treatment, and Officership.Kimberly Quell, United States Military Academy Kimberly Quell is a Laboratory Technician in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineer- ing at the United States Military Academy. She is a 2010 graduate of SUNY-College of Environmental Science and Forestry with a B.S. in Environmental Science and is a currently attending graduate school
University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dr. David Whittinghill is an Associate Professor of Computer Graphics Technology and Computer and Information Technology. Dr. Whittinghill’s research focuses on gaming, simulation and computer pro- gramming education and how these technologies can more effectively address outstanding issues in health, education, and society. Dr. Whittinghill leads projects in pediatric physical therapy, sustainable energy simulation, Chinese language learning, virtual reality, and games as a tool for improving educational out- comes. Dr. Whittinghill is the director of the Games Innovation Laboratory (www.gamesinnovation.org). c American Society for
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Network of K-5 Educators and Engineering Researchers in a RET Gayle Evans , Kent Crippen , Chelsey Simmons , Renee Simmons 1 1 2 1 1 School of Teaching and Learning, University of Florida, 2Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of FloridaIntroductionResearch Experience for Teachers programs (RET) are an established form of professional developmentfor K-12 teachers in which they are invited to work as members of a laboratory research team in order toincrease their enthusiasm, knowledge and experience in STEM fields. Historically, bringing teachers
goals to investigate the efficacy of the stratified nature of eachteam—with participant expertise ranging from student to instructor, and education toengineering—on research and curriculum development. Additionally, we investigated the impactof the summer program on efficacy and attitudes toward teaching STEM. This paper reports onthe products produced by teams during the program, and program outcomes based on thequantitative, and preliminary qualitative, results of our investigations.2. The NSF RET ProgramThe NSR RET program focuses on creating opportunities for K-12 and community college facultyto engage in research in laboratory settings predominately on university campuses. Built on thesame framework as NSF’s successful Research Experience
requirements of the project.The student will be required to assemble their system and take measurements toprove their system works. Finally, the student will be required to analyze andinterpret the results from the experiment.IV. Future WorkTo further improve the overall success of the process, several topics will beaddressed in future work. This includes an integration with other courses, thedevelopment of low-cost solutions for the students to work on, and development ofnew material each year.The laboratory experiment has components that can be applied to various othercourses within the electrical engineering curriculum. Circuit design teaches thefundamentals of waveform design, filtering, and ADC design which can be used asportions of the radar
their lab that tied in directly with the learningobjectives of their module. Additional applications were presented at the end of the course in afew 30 min biomaterial presentations from the handful of graduate students in the course.Throughout the semester, the graduate students performed literature research projects which threecheck points in which specific parts of the project were assigned. These check-points coincidedwith the hands-on laboratories performed by the undergraduate students (the majority of the class).Hands-on ActivitiesThe content of each module ended with a hands-on laboratory for the undergraduates that was heldin our dedicated biomaterials and biomechanics teaching laboratory. The large class was split intotwo groups. One
improve technical writing instruction in laboratory courses, a multidisciplinary team ofprofessors in the departments of Writing and Engineering (1) developed a curricular frameworkthat integrates common practices of teaching technical writing in tandem with existing engineeringlaboratory courses and (2) trained a set of students to be Engineering Writing Fellows (EWF),undergraduate engineering students who tutored peers in their technical writing assignments. Thispaper will share the student and instructor opinions of these initiatives employed in the LinearCircuits Analysis Laboratory course. Analysis of the initiatives was conducted via student surveyand comparison of student writing pre and post EWF tutoring. Results show students
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 (5 years) is a high school teacher RET program with similar components. This paper contains a combined report of results of both of the RET programs. The two programs had the combined intent of bringing innovative computer science and engineering research to middle and high school teachers and their students and improving teacher performance, while simultaneously improving student achievement through scientific inquiry
asintroducing index cards for students to write questions and concerns; others engaged in a full flipof their classroom. Also, many of the participants indicated that they are comfortable employinginteractive strategies in small, higher level courses or laboratories but continue to use primarilylecture when teaching large, entry-level courses. How can SIMPLE groups be adapted to addressthe challenge of translating these strategies to large courses? Would it be valuable to createSIMPLE groups that focus on this challenge, perhaps across disciplines?Many of the teaching development group participants had begun using interactive teachingstrategies recently (1-2 years) before joining the group. It is likely that because interactiveteaching was relatively
when lessons include hands-onpractice and application. Laboratory activities are perhaps the deepest application common toengineering curricula. In the fall of 2016, Campbell University introduced a general engineeringprogram that incorporates project-based courses throughout the curriculum and teaches mostengineering courses in a Classroom Laboratory (ClassLab), blending the content-focused(lecture) and hands-on (lab) aspects of engineering classes into a seamless course offering. Thefirst Materials Science and Processing course was first taught in the fall 2017 semester. Thiscourse mixes just-in-time lecturing with laboratory activities in three weekly 110 – minutesections. Five hands-on labs guide the course interspersed with weekly problem