various research and development projects in industry and academia for more than 15 years.Dr. Nicholas B. Conklin, Gannon University Nicholas B. Conklin received a B.S. in applied physics from Grove City College in 2001, and a Ph.D. in physics from Penn State University in 2009. He is currently an associate professor and chair of the Physics Department at Gannon University, Erie, PA. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Assessment and Analysis of Use of Self-Regulated Learning in Laboratory-Based Extracurricular Undergraduate/First-year Graduate Research ProjectsAbstract This paper in the Research category examines student use of the self
ExperienceIntroductionLaboratory notebooks serve numerous purposes and have been used to document activities,results, success, and revisions [1]. Laboratory notebooks also serve as a means of organizingideas and serve as a record of legal ownership of ideas [2]. Beyond this, though, notebooksprovide valuable information that can be analyzed to answer an array of questions [3]. Forinstance, laboratory notebooks served as means of understanding how researchers catalogactivities [4]. Researchers have also addressed the ways in which lab notebooks are used todocument research activities and the degree to which notebooks should be considered vitalrecords [5]. Still others have investigated how implementing electronic notebooks influenceslaboratory activity [7]. In the
into circuits and communication links. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Measurement of the Effect of Interactive Questions in Lab Manuals on LearningAbstract -- This research paper will describe the results of an experiment in which two groups ofstudents in a laboratory class received different web-based lab manuals featuring interactivequestions, the treatment with many more interactive questions than the control. The hypothesiswas that asking students more questions would cause the students to reflect on the task at hand,which would in turn increase learning. This study was motivated by work on experientiallearning, particularly Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle, which suggests that
. This maker space provides additive manufacturing support for design courses, laboratory courses, and entrepreneur initiatives. This facility houses several differ- ent technology 3D printers that capable of printing parts from polymers, fibers, composites, and metals as well as 3D scanning and subtractive manufacturing equipment. His research focuses on machining and manufacturing with a specific concentration on the use of additive manufacturing processes for ad- vanced materials. He emphasis on design for additive manufacturing (DfAM), topology optimization, lightweight applications, and finite element analysis in additive manufacturing processes. Dr. Vora exten- sively teaches the additive manufacturing
,NSF REUs and other research funding, and regional and national conference presentations. Toachieve these goals, the undergraduate research will be paired with a Research Methods course.The broad goals of this research methods course are to improve the productivity of thesubsequent undergraduate laboratory research course while providing the skills to apply for andreceive competitive funding, admissions, and conferences. In the social sciences, undergraduate research methods courses are fairly common.[3-5]These courses usually focus on developing, using, and interpreting surveys along with statisticalanalysis techniques. While these courses are less common in the hard sciences and engineering,some similar courses are offered.[6-8] In
Outcome indicates the need for: an ability to recognize ethical andprofessional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which mustconsider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societalcontexts [5], rather than the demonstration of that understanding itself only. Nevertheless, thecareers of our students as engineers and technologists in an increasingly interconnected worldwill require them to possess a solid understanding of the contexts and consequences of theirengineering efforts in order to make decisions that are both responsive and responsible. A capstone design course requires senior-level students to apply knowledge gained from the coreengineering courses and laboratory
introduces essential personal and interpersonal skills 5 Design-Implement A curriculum that includes two or more design-implement experiences, including one at a basic level Experiences and one at an advanced level 6 Engineering Workspaces Engineering workspaces and laboratories that support and encourage hands-on learning of product, process, and system building, disciplinary knowledge, and social learning 7 Integrated Learning Integrated learning experiences that lead to the acquisition of disciplinary knowledge, as well as Experiences personal and interpersonal skills, and product, process, and system building skills 8 Active Learning
Learning Work? A Review of the Research", Journal ofEngineering Education, vol. 93, no. 3, pp. 223-231, 2004.[3] S. Freeman et al., "Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering,and mathematics", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 111, no. 23, pp. 8410-8415, 2014. Available: 10.1073/pnas.1319030111.[4] L. D. Feisel and A. J. Rosa, "The Role of the Laboratory in Undergraduate EngineeringEducation, " Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 94, no. 1, pp. 121-130, 2005.[5] R. Krivickas and J. Krivickas, "Laboratory Instruction in Engineering Education", GlobalJournal of Engineering Education, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 191-196, 2007.[6] J. S. Rolston and E. Cox, "Engineering for the Real World: Diversity
Paper ID #30590Increased Performance via Supplemental Instruction and Technology inTechnical ComputingDr. Nathan L Anderson, California State University, Chico Dr. Nathan L. Anderson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing at California State University Chico. He engages in multiple research projects spanning computational materials science to educational pedagogy. Prior to joining academia, he worked in the semiconductor manufacturing industry for KLA Corporation. Before industry, he spent time at Sandia National Laboratories. He earned his Ph.D. in
) student interaction patterns (i.e. networks) during thesemester, b) relationships between student interaction patterns and course performance asmeasured by exam grades, and c) student motivations for changing their interaction preferencesduring the semester. MethodsCourse ContextThis study was conducted during the spring 2019 offering of a 2nd year engineering materialsscience course. The course is required for all students enrolled in the mechanical engineeringprogram at our institution. The course comprises two weekly, 75-minute, f2f lecture sessions. Anassociated materials science laboratory course is typically taken concurrently, which comprisesone two-hour lab session every other week. Lectures
Florida State University followed by a Master’s de- gree and PhD from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. After completing his PhD, he spent the next few years at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Researcher. His research there was focused on developing new technology for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) using superconducting materials. Currently he serves as a teaching faculty member in the department of elec- trical and computer engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering as the capstone design project coordinator. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Exploring Antecedents of Engineering Students’Indirect and Direct Feedback-Seeking
study were collected during four 50-minutes discussion sections thatwere a required part of an introductory engineering course at a large Midwestern university. Thediscussion sections took place in a laboratory classroom. Each discussion section was taught byone TA and two CAs (see Table 1). The 14 consented groups, the TAs, and the three CAs wererecorded using ceiling mounted cameras and lapel, table or hanging microphones. During alldiscussion sections, students worked in small groups to solve the same ill-structured, authenticengineering task that was designed using the guidelines designed by the Authors [16]. The taskwas on 11-inch tablets, with project software installed. Each student had one tablet; tablets ofstudents in the same group
$25,000 to more than $2 million annually. He introduced Polytech- nic’s first computer-based instructional laboratory. In 1983 he became Associate Provost for Computing and Information Systems. During the early stages of the PC and Workstation explosion he worked closely with Aerospace and Architectural and Engineering Design companies to lead the University’s develop- ment of Interactive Computer Graphics and Computer Aided Design (CAD) laboratories and curricula. He won a $3.2 million IBM CAD/CAM grant which enabled introduction of CAD/CAM and VLSI in- struction at Polytechnic. He served as Dean Graduate Studies 1986 - 1992, a position in which he had responsibility for recruiting graduate students and establishing
Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the director of the Dynamic and Smart Systems Laboratory at Tennessee Technological University. Dr. Anton received the B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University (2006), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (2008 and 2011, respectively). Following his graduate work, Dr. Anton held a two year postdoctoral position at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The central theme of his research involves characterizing the dynamic response of smart material systems for energy harvesting, structural health monitoring, sensing, and actuation. By combining expertise
, China published the national pilotimplementation plan for the integration of industry and education, which requiresthe organic connection of education chain, talent chain, industrial chain, andinnovation chain, and the formation of an innovative mechanism for the integrationof industry and education in higher education.[21] In fact, the integration ofproduction and education is reflected in many mechanisms, such as the "university+ enterprise" double tutor system in the faculty construction mechanism; thepractice platform, practice base and laboratory of university-enterpriseco-construction in the practice training mechanism; the enterprise to provide somemodules such as courses in the resource sharing mechanism. However, theimplementation of
. Otherplans included graduate study in STEM fields, professional school (e.g. medicine or law), orother jobs not in engineering fields.Respondents were classified as feeling like they belong or feel like an engineer (Q13 of thesurvey) if they selected “Somewhat Agree”, “Agree”, or “Strongly Agree”. Most respondentsreported that they feel like they belong in the school (86%) and their major (84%), and theyfeel like an engineer (80%). Interestingly, 67% of respondents who agreed that they feel likean engineer indicated that the experience that made them feel that way occurred at their ownuniversity (i.e., UVA).Research-Experienced RespondentsExcluding capstones and course-structured laboratory projects, 39% of respondents (n = 303)have participated in
[1].Along with class time schedules packed with lectures, laboratories, and tutorials, there are asignificant number of course assignments that occur outside of class, such as team-basedprojects and experiential learning tasks [1]. Researchers have encouraged the incorporationof these constructivist approaches into engineering education [2], aiming to help studentsdevelop a wide range of abilities (such as complex-problem solving skills andinterdisciplinary thinking [3]). However, this increasing number of assignments stressesstudents [4], [5], negatively affecting their learning results [1], [6].To understand what students define as a demanding course, several researchers haveexplored the concepts of academic workload and course difficulty
dedicated toconstructing a free body diagram of the tailgate (i.e. an explicit prompt for P1); and a follow-upprompt requiring students to evaluate the performance of a different cable choice in place of theoriginal material with explicit direction to evaluate the factor of safety (i.e. an explicit prompt forP4). The scaffolded task also included a prompt to plan the type of loading used to solve theproblem (i.e. an explicit prompt for P2).Data CollectionData collection took place during one semester in four 50-minute discussion sections that wereheld in a laboratory classroom; each section was taught by three teaching assistants. Each week,groups solved the same ill-structured tasks in all sections. Only one task was solved during eachweek’s
engagement, they may also allow for hands-on practice, skill development, andthe acquisition of situation-based competencies [17],[56]-[58] and, thus, support the learningprocess as well as the learning content [53]. This research direction into virtualizations can becharacterized as “incorporating reality as the content” [58], for which the three key directions,situated/context aware learning (e.g., problem-based scenarios in [56]), mixed-reality-basedlearning (e.g., reality augmentation and the DynaMus in [54]), and interactive response learning(e.g., simulation in complex machine operation training in [59]) mirror the objectives identifiedby [16] for the application of virtual laboratories in STEM education.There is ample evidence describing the
Paper ID #30014Utilizing Peer Learning Assistants to Improve Student Outcomes in anIntroductory ECE CourseDr. David John Orser, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities David Orser teaches and develops undergraduate education curriculum with a focus on laboratory courses for the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His courses leverage project-based learning, experiential learning, and self-paced activities. David has over ten years of industry experience specializing in mixed-signal high-speed integrated circuit design, power systems, and power electronics.Kyle Dukart
teachers.Dr. Krishnanand Kaipa, Old Dominion University Dr. Krishnanand Kaipa is an Assistant Professor and director of the Collaborative Robotics and Adaptive Machines (CRAM) Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Old Dominion University. Dr. Kaipa received his BE (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India in 1998, and his MS in 2004 and PhD in 2008, both in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He worked as a postdoctoral associate at Depart- ment of Computer Science, University of Vermont and later at Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, where he was also a research assistant
. 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).Dr. Marisa Exter, Purdue University at West Lafayette Marisa Exter is an Assistant Professor of Learning Design and
. Franke, M. Ing, A. Turrou, N. Johnson, and J. Zimmerman, "Teacher practices that promote productive dialogue and learning in mathematics classrooms", International Journal of Educational Research, vol. 97, pp. 176-186, 2019. Available: 10.1016/j.ijer.2017.07.009.[10] "Occupational Information Network", 2013.[11] J. Luft, J. Kurdziel, G. Roehrig, and J. Turner, "Growing a garden without water: Graduate teaching assistants in introductory science laboratories at a doctoral/research university", Journal of Research in Science Teaching, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 211-233, 2004. Available: 10.1002/tea.20004.[12] G. Marbach-Ad, C. Egan and V. Thompson, "Preparing graduate students for their teaching
rather than setting up and operating laboratory equipment).There is another important remainder for engineering education researchers and instructors:over half of the selected articles are from industry where power distance is obvious and stablebetween team leaders / managers and employees. This phenomenon is less likely to bepromoted or present in academic teams. The role of leadership moderating the relationshipbetween cultural diversity and team effectiveness might not be a significant factor in the contextof engineering education.LimitationThere are two limitations of this paper relating to the sources of literatures we include andanalyze and the selection process. From the spectrum of included papers, we find that themajority is from
. degrees in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech. Dr. Jesiek draws on expertise from engineering, computing, and the social sciences to advance understanding of geographic, disciplinary, and historical variations in engineering education and practice.Dr. Aditya Johri, George Mason University Aditya Johri is Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at George Mason University where he also directs the Engineering Education and Cyberlearning Laboratory (EECL). Dr. Johri studies the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for learning and knowledge sharing, with a focus on cognition in informal environments. He received the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Early Career Award in
supporting discourse and design practices during K-12, teacher education, and college- level engineering learning experiences, and increasing access to engineering in the elementary school ex- perience, especially in under-resourced schools. In 2016 she was a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). https://engineering.tufts.edu/me/people/faculty/kristen- bethke-wendellDr. Melissa R Mazan, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Clinical Sciences Director, Tufts Equine Respiratory Health Laboratory American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020
Embedded Systems: Using Microcon- trollers and the MSP430 (Springer 2014). From 2013 to 2018 served as Associate Dean of engineering at UPRM. He currently directs the Engineering PEARLS program at UPRM, a College-wide NSF funded initiative, and coordinates the Rapid Systems Prototyping and the Electronic Testing and Characterization Laboratories at UPRM. He is a member of ASEE and IEEE.Dr. Luisa Guillemard, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Luisa Guillemard is a psychology professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayag¨uez Campus. She has a M.S. in Clinical Psychology from the Caribbean Center of Advanced Studies in Puerto Rico [today the Carlos Albizu University] and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from
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.Dr. Renee Kaufmann, University of Kentucky, College of Communication and Information, School of Informa-tion Science c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 “All communication is important”: Comparison of Incoming FreshmenCommunication Expectations to
a master’s degree in engineering management at George Washington University in 2007. In 2016, he earned a Ph.D. in the Minority and Urban Education Unit of the Col- lege of Education at the University of Maryland. Bruk worked at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where he focused on nanotechnology, from 2003 to 2005. In 2005 he left JHU/APL for a fellowship with the National Academies where he conducted research on methods of increasing the number of women in engineering. After a brief stint teaching mathematics in Baltimore City following his departure from the National Academies, he began working for the Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering (CMSE) in the Clark School of
, embedded cyber-physical systems, and engineering education. He is the lead author of the textbook Introduction to Embedded Systems: Using Microcon- trollers and the MSP430 (Springer 2014). From 2013 to 2018 served as Associate Dean of engineering at UPRM. He currently directs the Engineering PEARLS program at UPRM, a College-wide NSF funded initiative, and coordinates the Rapid Systems Prototyping and the Electronic Testing and Characterization Laboratories at UPRM. He is a member of ASEE and IEEE.Dr. Luisa Guillemard, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Luisa Guillemard is a psychology professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayag¨uez Campus. She has a M.S. in Clinical Psychology from the Caribbean Center of