team, and Kali Linux. In this paper, we provideexamples on how students’ knowledge of CPS security changes over the course of the program,how students are supported in and out of the classroom towards advancing their knowledge in thisfield. We also highlight the impact that project-based and team coordinated learning can have onincreasing students’ understanding of the fundamentals of CPS security.IntroductionA recent study by Cybersecurity Ventures [1], a respected publisher of cybersecurity content,predicts that 3.5 million cybersecurity jobs around the world will be unfilled by 2021. In the UnitedStates, the demand for professionals with cybersecurity expertise is outpacing all other occupations[2]. These reports, along with many others
- physical security, and advancing cybersecurity education in multiple STEM fields. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Cybersecurity Awareness and Training Through a Multidisciplinary OSINT Course Project1. IntroductionOpen Source Intelligence (OSINT) is “based on information which can be obtained legally andethically from public sources” [1]. OSINT has risen in value recently, as technological advanceshave increased the amount and accessibility of publicly available material [2], [3]. Open sourceintelligence can be used offensively, such as during the reconnaissance stage of a cyberattack [4],or defensively, as when private corporations use OSINT to find out their
Science (CS) department got together and proposed a focused10-week long funded summer camp for two local high schools with the following objectives: 1. Provide graduate students to instruct in the areas of` mobile application development, forensics and cyber Security. 2. Provide CS one-on-one mentors for students while conducting their work-based learning experience in Computer Science. 3. Assign hands-on interdisciplinary projects that emphasize the importance of STEM fields when using and developing software applications. 4. Promote and develop soft skills among participants including leadership, communications skills, and teamwork.The proposal was funded, by DOE and the summer camps were conducted in the summer of
solving skills. Many researchersand practitioners propose moving from using the acronym STEM to science, technology,engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM). The difference in STEM and STEAM is theinclusion of arts of any kind, aligning artistic creativity with STEM learning. Zimmerman andSprung concluded that motivation and self-confidence in computing for females is increasedwhen they can learn CS in the context of a content area, they are already comfortable with [1].Recognizing this cross-disciplinary connection approach, Mississippi State Universityresearchers in 2014 integrated a physical art component module that enabled girls to designrobots using crafting material, with positive results. In 2019, the team piloted a 4-day camp
. Jacoby conciselydescribes service learning as “a form of experiential education in which students engage inactivities that address human and community needs together with structured opportunitiesintentionally designed to promote student learning and development” [1].The main components of community engaged learning are service, academic content, partnershipand reciprocity, and finally, analysis or reflection [2]. The service should provide support andsolutions for overcoming a community identified need, while also deepening students learning ofengineering concepts. The community engagement work provides an opportunity for students toapply their classroom learning in a real world setting, with the intention of enriching theirunderstanding of
, stakeholders in highereducation including faculty instructors and researchers, academic advisors, deans and staff charged withcreating and implementing support services, and administrators considering an institution’s mission,strategic direction, and student outcomes, must understand the demographic characteristics and collegeexperiences of so-called ‘first-generation, low-income’ students. First-generation (FG) and/or low-income (LI) student populations are of particular interest inengineering education as our societal challenges require a growing engineering workforce while at thesame time, engineering careers afford pathways for social mobility. According to a report by the U.S.Department of Education in September 2017 [1] approximately 60
civil engineers.This paper provides an overview of the research activities and findings to demonstrate how thedata have informed an understanding of workforce development that includes applications andimplications for educating and training civil engineers. The paper will also detail how thisunderstanding is guiding the career trajectory of the CAREER awardee.IntroductionSince this research aims to conceptualize workforce development in civil engineering, it ishelpful to begin with a broader background on the topic.Workforce DevelopmentThe use of “workforce development” has burgeoned recently in academic, vocational, andpolitical contexts leading to varying meanings of the term [1]. As examples, workforcedevelopment research has been situated
SLLO implementation is presented toshow the capabilities of this architecture.1. Context of Online LaboratoriesThis section presents some works that are part of the state of the art for online laboratories used ineducation, including virtual, remote and hybrid laboratory implementations.The Virtual Instruments Systems In Reality (VISIR) project [1] develops online laboratoriesspecifically in areas of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, including hands-on, virtual, andremote experiments. The VISIR experiments include: protoboards, sources, signal generators,meters, oscilloscopes and components (resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes etc). All theexperiments can be remotely operated through the Internet. This characteristic allows
about creating – from new ideas and products to discovering improved ways ofmaintaining and utilizing what we already have. Sustainability, sensors and big data, improvedefficiency, safety, and even the beauty of what we create – the challenges facing the modernengineering graduate are monumental and require effective design thinking. To produce greatdesigns, engineers must be innovative. This requirement is as old as engineering itself.In order to innovate, one must be creative and imaginative.1 In aspirational documents publishedby the National Academy of Engineers2 and the American Society of Civil Engineers3, the callfor developing engineers who possess these skills has been clearly made. Beyond the mandate ofour professional societies
. Introduction Invention and entrepreneurship are at the core of the American spirit and economy. Ourglobal quality of life depends on inventions that will ultimately solve grand challenges, as well assimple inventions that delight and improve quality of life. These claims are supported by therecent STEM Education Strategic Plan published by the White House, which cites innovationand entrepreneurship as critically important to U.S. competitiveness and security [1]. However, U.S. patent holders typically come from high-income families, with fewpatents belonging to women and minorities [2]. This study coins the phrase “lost Einsteins”—children who may have become inventors if they had been exposed to innovation growing up,where a
additional skills in areas of functional materials to bioengineeringstudents that they would not otherwise receive. The PBL module that consists of lectures andlaboratory experiments was seamlessly connected with the rest of the content of the course. Thisapproach allowed us to create a low barrier way of adopting shape memory alloy by introducingadvanced topics in the existing course [1, 2].Nitinol (Nickel-titanium, NiTi) alloys are one of the most well-known and most usedbiocompatible SMAs. Shape memory alloy market (predominantly NiTi) is a growing marketand is expected to arrive at $33.9 billion market by 2027. This is mainly due to the fact thatNitinol has widely being used in medical devices as the base material for transcatheter stent
instruction, and online learning.Dr. Sherry Marx, Utah State University Sherry Marx, PhD, is a professor of qualitative research methodologies, ESL education, and multicultural education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Departures from the “norm”: How nontraditional undergraduates experienced success in an alternative engineering transfer programThis research paper presents findings from a narrative qualitative research study conducted with14 nontraditional undergraduates (14 white; 13 male 1 female) enrolled in a 2-year engineeringtransfer program. The engineering transfer program was offered by a four-year, public land grantinstitution, located in the western United States, to
, Service performance, Cisco WebEx Board, Raspberry PI, SaaS,Monitoring.Neither the entire paper nor any part of its content has been published or has beenaccepted for publication elsewhere. It has not been submitted to any other journal.1. IntroductionDistance Education is made possible by real time collaboration and interaction which in turn are enabledby a set of ever improving set of technologies and services. This evolution and these improvementsprovide the tools for delivering a very rich and effective learning experience regardless of thegeographical location of either students or expert instructors. Distance Education and DistanceCollaboration are particularly impactful in communities lacking the resources to provide access to
, and Charter. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Deploying Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) in the Engineering ClassroomAbstractThe volume and complexity of student analysis practice required to effectively navigateengineering courses drives the need for Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) deployment to bestmanage the time of both students and instructors. This study will explore student feedback andinstructor observation of a recent classroom deployment of the Physics Education Technology(PhET) online simulation tool [1] and two specialized web-based ITS tools, Mechanix andSketchtivity. These three tools provide personalized and immediate feedback
assess the performance of the project, an instrument was developed withmultiple-choice problems and survey questions for the students. The results of a field test in asophomore manufacturing class are presented. The module is available at the ASME Dropboxand the developers are seeking other colleges to promote the project and participate in thefield test.1. IntroductionAfter surveying 2500 industry engineering supervisors, early career mechanical engineers andME Department Heads it was found that 46.9% of industry supervisors state a weakness inunderstanding of standards among ME/MET graduates and 48.3% of early career engineersstate their own weakness of standards understanding1. In addition, under the programcurriculum section in the self
fulfillment of their graduate degree. In this work, we describe thedevelopment and characteristics of the worksheets and report some preliminary results of a studydesigned to assess their perceived impact and usefulness from a student’s perspective.IntroductionThe abundance of literature on developing research questions ([1] – [3], to name a few) concur:there are grand ideas, good ideas, and doable ideas. In the case of executing a research project,being able to recognize these differences is essential to moving the project from planning to datacollection to analysis, and finally, to implementation [4]. However, developing researchquestions is a skill that many graduate students lack. Most graduate students do not haveextensive experience in research
in the test section, multiple types of wind tunnels are classified, such as low-speed,high-speed, subsonic (80 percent of the speed of sound/0.8 Mach), transonic (1 Mach), supersonic(1 Mach to 6 Mach), hypersonic (6Mach to 12 Mach), and hypervelocity (> 12 Mach).Wind tunnels are commercially available. The price ranges from $20K to a few hundred thousanddollars depending on the size, flow speed, and accessories, such as electronics data acquisitiondevices. It can be expensive for some small engineering programs. Considering its fairly simplestructure, it can be an attractive design project for undergraduate engineering students. It providessufficient technical challenges and ample opportunities to allow students to apply their knowledgein
instructional endeavorconsists of four courses designed to reduce gradually the difference between what students areable to accomplish with support structures and what students are able to accomplish on theirown. To maximize and enhance the educational experience, the program blends a technology-infused classroom learning with broad co-curricular opportunities such as site visits,undergraduate research, and internships. As students advance in the program, they will beexposed and required to perform increasingly complex tasks.During the first year of the program, the following outcomes were achieved: 1) implementationof the faculty teamwork process to develop courses and analyze cases from an interdisciplinaryperspective, 2) development and approval of
Design, Construction and Testing of a Soil Sterilizer- A Student Design ProjectAbstractRoot-knot nematodes are microscopic worms that live in soil and feed on the roots of manycommon garden crops. Many species can develop from egg to egg-laying adult in as little as 21to 28 days during warm summer months. Root damage causes formation of galls and gallsdamage the water-and nutrient-conducting abilities of the roots. Plants heavily infested early inthe season can die.Students’ task was to design, construct and test a soil sterilizer to kill nematodes. Sterilizershould be capable of raising sandy soil temperature by 70oF (from 60oF to130oF) in less than halfan hour. Targeted soil volume was 1.5-ft in diameter and 1-ft
team’s design and construction of an APVAWT, total eightdecision gates (stakeholder requirements, system requirements, system operations, systemfunctions, system architectures, implementation, verification and validation) are set for theproject from inception to completion in order to satisfy the need of a client who asks to make anAPVAWT. This process includes technical and artistic designs considering functionality, beauty,safety, economics, and ethical implications, ensuring the functionality and beauty for thecompleted physical unit. Through this project, students will have an enriched opportunity for aninterdisciplinary design process combining engineering and arts. 1. IntroductionAccording to recent reports on renewable energy, although
Figure 1 below depictingthe user headset interactions and resulting visual output.Figure 1: A simplified representation of the Virtual Environment for Design and Evaluation of Aircraft Stability Augmentation Systems (SAS) D. OVERVIEW OF DESIGN METHODOLOGY In this section, the various components utilized in the creation of a virtual environment to aidin the visualization of aircraft dynamics, stability and control are described. The virtualenvironment and the methodology followed here can be applied across other engineeringdisciplines to provide alternatives to aid in the understanding of abstract or difficult concepts. Forthis study, we focused on the dynamics of a fixed wing
sizes. With no sitting space, it is desirable to use portable desktop trainers which can beused in any classroom. The same issue exists with regards to the PLC course. Previously, theauthors had proposed two separate portable desktop units for these lab activities with theircorresponding lab activities and they also mentioned their plan to incorporate instrumentation inthese lab activities ([1, 2, 3]). Currently, there are 21 PLC trainers and a prototype is alreadybeing built for the fluid power lab. Further discussion and consideration resulted in identifyingsome lab activities that can be shared if there were one set of trainers that cater to the need ofboth courses.This paper discusses the design and development of an integrated trainer
, overall system operation and necessary LabVIEW TM Virtual Instruments (VIs) areprovided. This unique senior design project also provides necessary assessment data for both seniordesign and Instrumentation and Data acquisition courses in a B.S. in Engineering Technology Program.IntroductionA number of indoor irrigation systems were developed with multiple objectives such as improvedefficiency, quality, and reduced cost. A wireless plant irrigation robot system constructed based on a well-known ZigBee system investigated how to overcome the limitations of the fixed sprinkler system andavoid large space consumption [1]. The authors recommended the use of solar photovoltaic (PV) panelsand rechargeable batteries to enhance the system efficiency
: structural analysis, reinforced concrete, steel design, and geotechnical engineering (soilmechanics and foundations) as described by Carroll et al. [1]. This paper focuses only on thedesign and implementation of the experiential learning modules for structural analysis. Theexperiential learning modules discussed herein use fiberglass reinforced polymer (FRP)structural shapes produced by the Strongwell Corporation. Strongwell produces over 100structural shapes from an FRP material called EXTREN® that is both lightweight and highstrength. EXTREN® is an anisotropic material with directional dependent properties, but themodulus of elasticity for flexural members is determined directly from simple beam bendingtests on full sections. The modulus of
which is a high-stake design-build-test whose themevaries from term to term. This paper describes three semesters of the course: Term 1 is Fall 2018, 1Term 2 is Spring 2019, and Term 3 is Fall 2019. The course currently underway is Spring 2020and referenced as Term 4.Students are tasked with a design-build-test of a mechanical device for the end-of-term“competition” to showcase their high-stake design project. This class employs a team of 20undergraduate teaching assistants (TAs) to help facilitate various aspects of the course and tostaff the laboratory around the clock during business hours. Two to three graduate TAs are alsoassigned to the course
ambiguity involved in determining damping in avibration system poses difficulty for mechanical engineering students to understand this conceptand capture its associated properties (damping coefficient, damping ratio, damping force, etc.).New instructional tools need to be developed for vibration classes to help the students to betterunderstand the role of damping in vibration theory and how damping elements function invibration systems.The role of damping in vibration theory had been fully demonstrated by Crandall [1] and a methodfor damping measurement was proposed by Carfagni et al. [2]. Engineering educators havedeveloped different approaches to enhance learning in vibration courses [3-8] but few attemptshave been dedicated to strengthen
students. We accomplish these goals by using injection molding of see-through plastics and off-the-shelf ancillary componentry to make hydraulic loss, venturi meter, and double-pipe and shell andtube heat exchanger units. Remarkably all of these units behave as anticipated when compared totextbook industrial correlations and representative data will be presented. We will also touch uponrelevant factors being used to assess conceptual growth and motivation and to train faculty through anation-wide hub-and-spoke scheme.Background and MotivationsGolter et al. [1] first developed a set of hands-on classroom systems consisting of small heat exchangersand fluids systems, rack-mounted with small white boards for modeling equations. The concept waslater
engineeringfaculty.1.0 IntroductionEconomic globalization, rapid advances in technology and cognitive science, and a worldwidemovement toward outcomes-based program accreditation increasingly require changes in thetraditional model of engineering education design and delivery [1]. Students need new learningexperiences to prepare them for managing yet unforeseen future challenges [2]. Pressure willcontinue to mount on engineering faculty globally, to address challenges in equipping studentswith the skills needed in 21st century, meeting specified outcomes in program accreditation,overcoming anticipated shortfalls in engineering graduation rates, addressing diverse anddynamic engineering student demographics and attributes, and incorporating advances
attainment of the co-op. It identifies that thetoo much training and emphasis was put on students submitting a high quantity of “cold-call”applications. Instead, the data shows that students actually acquired their positions throughcareer-fairs and networking. More findings are presented and future steps for both the programdesign and the research study are recommended. The findings of the research will feed back intothe program for the second cohort of 50 students which starts in August 2020.I. Design-Based Research MethodThe curricular development work for this PBL program began in 2016 [1] utilizing design-basedresearch (DBR) as the methodology for both design and research. Design-based research (DBR)was adopted as the methodology to 1) address
process moves through ‘empathize,define, ideate, prototype, and test’1 and the biodesign process described by Yock, et al.2Our college has been introducing DT concepts in our first year Introduction to Engineeringcourse (ENGR 1101) and our senior design (SD) series (ENGR 4169 and 4269) since 2014.These courses are required for every engineering student in our college. As a bioengineeringdepartment, we have also included design thinking within our required, introductorybioengineering course since 2014, as well as, two newly developed elective Biodesign coursesstarted in 2018. Our goal is to determine if our intervention has made an impact on the designthinking mindset of engineering students as reflected in their culminating design experience