Virtual Reality for Green Energy Manufacturing Education AbstractThis paper presents the project-based learning result of green energy manufacturing integratedwith virtual reality (VR). This work provides an innovative solution for optimizing learningeffectiveness and improving educational outcomes through the development of virtual models thatcan be used and integrated into the existing renewable energy laboratory. The goal is to apply theseprototypical simulators to train undergraduate engineering students and professionals in windenergy education; and to offer experiential learning opportunities in 3D modeling, simulation, andvisualization. The students were given multiple projects
BSME program designs and implements its curriculum to preparestudents in either mechanical or thermal systems. This paper is also intended to discuss how eachprogram incorporates first-year experience, hands-on laboratory experience, and capstone designexperience in the curriculum. In summary, a map of higher education in mechanical engineering-related programs is provided in the first part of this paper, while the latter part will be helpful foreducators to learn of the current mechanical engineering curriculum trends in the United States.Introduction The bachelor’s degrees awarded in mechanical engineering has increased by 84% from17,375 in 2009 to 31,936 in 2018 [1]. Most mechanical engineering programs have experiencedfirst-hand the
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
the course can help students to understand and gain further insightinto the theoretical lectures. According to the study [4], data communications and networkingcourses are divided into three categories: (1) The fundamental and general topics of computernetworks using some practical examples, (2) Internet protocols, and (3) A set of programming andproject assignments. The traditional approach to teaching data communications consists of lecturescovering theoretical information and mathematical basis, and of laboratory sessions where studentscan understand better the communication process and how to program a communications protocol.It is very crucial to keep up in classrooms with today's industry requirements for graduates in termsof both
Paper ID #28855Workshops for Building the Mechatronics and Robotics EngineeringEducation CommunityProf. Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Michael A. Gennert is Professor of Robotics Engineering, CS, and ECE at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he leads the WPI Humanoid Robotics Laboratory and was Founding Director of the Robotics Engineering Program. He has worked at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, the University of California Riverside, PAR Technology Corporation, and General Electric. He received the S.B. in CS, S.B. in EE, and S.M. in EECS in 1980 and the Sc.D. in EECS in 1987
demonstration that the derivative operatoris more than a symbolic mathematical operator and much more than just anotheracademic exercise.We have successfully used winDSK, winDSK6, and the latest version, winDSK8, toprovide demonstrations of any number of concepts during outreach (K-12 events), atfreshman motivational events, and in junior, senior, and even graduate ECE courses.IntroductionFor years, students have struggled with learning the significance of the impulse response.This is especially true given that there is no piece of test and measurement equipment(T&ME) in our teaching laboratories that is capable of producing a true impulse. Manyeducators have written about the benefits of demonstrations to aid student learning,especially for some
integrated into core courses taught in the BME program that cover the criticalengineering concepts with direct application to biomedical problems. These core courses will betaught by BME faculty who have the training to work across the boundaries of traditionalapproaches in order to promote the systems-thinking skills necessary for engineers. Importantly,vertically-integrated engineering design will be included in each year of the undergraduatecurriculum in order to increase hands-on experience, creative thinking, and programcohesiveness. All core BME course offerings will be project- and laboratory-based, with anemphasis on active learning and interdisciplinary perspectives on biomedical technologies.Background Active learning is
BiomedX program provides funding, education, and support to students and faculty interested in commercializing their biomedical inventions. She has ad- vised and educated numerous student and faculty teams and start-ups in developing and commercializing medical technologies. Her current educational work focuses on developing new instructional tools and programs to enhance graduate education in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Prior to joining Columbia and while pursuing her PhD, Reuther served as a Research Assistant at the McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory. Her dissertation researched focused on determining fundamental relationships and mechanisms of tendon and ligament injury and repair, with a
immersionexperience in which both second and third year students are transiently and sequentially embeddedin a fourth year capstone project. All students participating in this project receive class credit. As a precursor to the capstone immersion, both second and third year students receive bothlarge-group and laboratory training to prepare them for the design immersion. Second yearstudents receive large-group topics on existing clinical solutions, concept generation, conceptbenchmarking, and document control. Simultaneously, they participate in technical skills modulesthat include topics for computer-aided drafting (SolidWorks), embedded systems (Arduino), 3Dprinting, laser cutting, mammalian cell culture, and bacterial cell culture. Third year
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and Explosions," in Chemical Process Safety Fundamentals with Applications, 3rd ed. Boston, MA, USA: Prentice Hall, 2011, pp. 317-374. 5. “T2 Laboratories Inc. Reactive Chemical Explosion,” United States Chemical Safety Board, Washington DC, USA. Accessed: Dec. 2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.csb.gov/t2-laboratories-inc-reactive-chemical-explosion/ 6. “Blocked In: Explosion and Fire at Williams Olefins Plant, Geismar, Louisiana,” United States Chemical Safety Board, Washington, DC, USA. Accessed: Dec. 2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1KaykPaF8M 7. “MGPI Processing, Inc. Toxic Chemical Release,” United States Chemical Safety Board, Washington DC, USA. Accessed
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
design. The University Curriculum Committee approved the request to change thecontact hours for Structural Analysis from 3 hours of lecture per week to 2 hours of lecture plus2 hours of laboratory per week to accommodate the experiential aspects of these proposedchanges. After assessing the changes to the Structural Analysis course, we will decide whether tomake similar changes in the class meeting times for the Structural Design courses.The Structural Analysis course syllabus lists the following broad goals for the course: a) Students will develop technical skills in classical methods for analysis of determinate and indeterminate structures. b) Students will gain proficiency in analysis structures comprised of trusses, beams, frames
and instructionaldesign. We often receive written feedback that TAs would like more information on specificfacilitation styles (laboratory facilitation vs. a flipped classroom environment vs. online) wherenow they receive general guidance on facilitation and interpersonal relationship development. AsNEO moves forward, we will examine reallocating time so we can add other types of facilitationskills to better serve laboratory TAs and flipped classroom/online facilitation methods. The future of NEO will incorporate the feedback above and continue to build on existingstrengths. NEO brings TAs from all of the fields of study within these two Colleges together sothey can interact, providing a singular networking opportunity which is
. The makerspace has an individualclassroom, as well as a workstation area used as a laboratory workspace. This course allows forthe Cornerstone project to be a long term project spanning multiple lab sessions, which isadvantageous because it simulates how engineering functions in industry [1]. This involveshands-on learning and utilizes an instructor being present to assist the students [2] [3].The current Cornerstone project involves the construction, and design of a windmill system. Thissystem requires the integration of a windmill, student-built AC motors, DC motors, circuitry,data acquisition, manipulation of the acquired data, and the display of the data results.The scaffolded lesson plans related to programming in ENGR 111 have been
American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Promoting Open-source Software and Hardware Platforms in Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering EducationAbstractThe evolution of Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering (MRE) has enabled numeroustechnological advancements since the early 20th century. Professionals in this field are reshapingthe world by designing smart and autonomous systems aiming to improve human well-being.Recognizing the need for preparing highly-educated MRE professionals, many universities andcolleges are adopting MRE as a distinct degree program. One of the cornerstones of MREeducation is laboratory- and project-based learning to provide a hands-on and engaging experiencefor the students. To this
water body. The STRIDER team consistsof a small group of engineering majors as well as students from other fields collaborating to meetthe requirements set by scientists at the Environmental Monitoring and Food Safety Laboratory(EMFSL) of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); under the advice of a few facultymembers at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES). STRIDER currently has thecapability of providing critical geo-located measurements; pH, Oxidation Reduction Potential(ORP), and Dissolved Oxygen (DO) values at the surface and other specified depths. This data canbe interpolated over the surface, as well as across the depth to provide a three-dimensionalrepresentation of the variation of water quality parameters of a
engineering technology programs. Such experiences are typically expected totake place during the final year of the undergraduate curriculum. They can range in durationfrom one semester to a whole academic year. Consequently, the senior design course istypically the last bridge for students between the undergraduate engineering technologycurriculum and the engineering profession. However, the senior design course differs infundamental ways from lectures and laboratory-based courses in the engineering technologycurriculum.Capstone Design vs. Regular CoursesThe Capstone Design is based on many years of experiences and observations through workingwith technological education programs. The Capstone Project course differs fundamentally fromother
research experience in the areas of Integrated optoelectronics, Optics, Microelectronics, and Electromagnetics. He has worked as a Research and Design Engineer at Motorola and Bell laboratories. Also, he worked at NASA Langley Research Center as a NASA faculty fellow for the Nondestructive Evaluation Sciences Branch where he performed research in the area of optical fiber sensing for real time health monitoring of aerospace vehicles. In addition, Prof. Geddis was a Research Engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute where he fabricated scalable multiplexed ion traps for American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020
also to have studentsidentify each course topic, that simulations helped them to learn. Also highlighted here is onetopic common to fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and an associated laboratory course: externalflow over bluff and streamlined bodies. Students simulate the flow past a cylinder and/or airfoil,and design an app to investigate how various parameters impact lift and/or drag experienced byan object. Finally, laboratory experiments allow comparison of simulation results withexperimental data.Keywords — simulations; assessment; junior courses; thermo-fluidsIntroductionThe implementation of computer-based simulations using multi-physics software in engineeringeducation is of growing interest at the undergraduate [1-9]. Integration of
from Cairo Univ. M.S. in Bioengineering from the Ohio State and the Univ. of Michigan, and PhD in EE from Purdue. He is a Prof. of ECE at the Univ. of Louisville, and director of the Computer Vision & Image Processing Laboratory, focusing on research and teaching in computer vision, biometrics and biomedical imaging. He introduced over 13 new courses into the ECE curriculum, authored over 400 papers, edited two volumes on deformable models and a textbook on Biomedical Image Analysis (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014). He graduated over 70 MS and PhD students, and mentored over 20 postdoctoral researchers. He holds seven US patents on object modeling, computer-aided diagnosis, and visualization. He was lead editor of
Paper ID #29762Understanding Context: Propagation and Effectiveness of the ConceptWarehouse in Mechanical Engineering at Five Diverse Institutions andBeyond – Results from Year 1Dr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Brian Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Brian has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. During the
Professor (Lecturing) in the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Utah. He received his B. S. and Ph. D. from the University of Utah and a M. S. from the University of California, San Diego. His teaching responsibilities include the senior unit operations laboratory and freshman design laboratory. His research interests focus on undergraduate education, targeted drug delivery, photobioreactor design, and instrumentation.Prof. Jason Wiese, Jason Wiese is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah. His research takes a user-centric perspective of personal data, focusing on how that data is collected, interpreted, and used in applications. His work crosses the domains of
summer internship. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work-in-Progress: Online Tutorials to Help Undergraduates Bridge the Gap Between General Writing and Engineering WritingAbstract Although engineering students are regularly called upon to write as engineers in designcourses, laboratory courses, and internships throughout their curriculum, many engineeringstudents do not formally learn to write as an engineer until their third or fourth year of study. Forthis reason, a gap exists between what engineering students know about general writing and howthey are expected to write as an engineer. As a first step to address this gap, this paper
Boolean algebra Digital devices Interfacing and the major functional unitsTable 1: Major Topics Covered in Introductory EE CoursesBoth Circuit Analysis II and Digital Electronics courses consist of weekly three-hour lectures andtwo-hour lab sessions. The laboratory activities are aimed to provide students hands-on practiceon course content and to enhance students’ understanding of important topics covered in lectures.Given that the integrated course project is offered in the Circuit Analysis II class, we next providesome course information and desired learning outcomes of this course in Table 3 and Table 4. Course information of EE210 Circuit Analysis II Prerequisite
author at University of Maryland Eastern Shore forengineering undergraduates, two web-based tools -(i)BITES ( Buildings Industry Transportationand Electricity Generation Scenarios) developed at National Renewable Energy Laboratories(NREL) and (ii) TEST (The Expert System for Thermodynamics) developed at San Diego StateUniversity are introduced to the students and integrated with the course project and classroominstruction.The BITES tool provides a framework to discuss thermodynamic cycles related to power,refrigeration, Otto, and Diesel cycles to energy production and utilization in commercial andresidential buildings, as well as the transportation and industrial sector at large, and their relevanceto carbon emission, ozone depletion, and
Francis of Assisi, and has worked as an engineering laboratory instructor at Saint Francis University since 2017 after earning an MS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Embedded Measurement and Control Applications Utilizing Python on the Pocket BeagleBoneAbstractOpen source Linux platforms can be used in a variety of academic courses. By choosing Linux,the instructor can utilize inexpensive hardware to demonstrate programming concepts, hardwareinterface, algorithms and data analysis. Many low cost embedded Linux boards (such asBeagleBone and Raspberry Pi) contain a variety of busses (SPI, I2C, CAN
University, Cassie earned her B.S. (2017) and M.S. (2018) in Biomedical Engineering from Wright State University.Ms. Tara Gupte Wilson, Ohio State University Tara Wilson is a third/fourth year undergraduate student of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU). She worked in a chemical engineering laboratory for four semesters studying separation of human red blood cells from whole blood. For the past six semesters, she has worked as a teaching associate for OSU’s fundamentals of engineering honors course- a first year, introductory course required for all honors engineering student. She also volunteers at Mount Carmel West Hospital in the pre-op/post-op department, the Dublin food
. 2Workshop objectives and general description:The two-week camp is part of a consortium project that includes research, education andoutreach programs. More specifically, this program has several objectives:1) Train high-school students to use the Autodesk Inventor™ 3D CAD computer program, tocreate technical designs, and teach them how to print designs in 3D using 3D printers.2) Improve students' STEM skills and Improve students' communication skills3) Bridging the gap in industry and research laboratories in terms of human resources andqualified personnel.4) Introduce high-school students to advanced manufacturing (AM) applications to increase theirinterest in pursuing university degrees that would prepare them for careers in AM.Each year, the
before explanations, and giving evidence to support claims) and write theirown memos in a laboratory setting. In the third course, the instructor references what waslearned in the previous two but does not give significant instruction about memo writing.Students are expected to write a satisfactory memo in a laboratory setting when asked.MethodsIn this study we assess the impact of our memo scaffolding plan by assessing a single assignmentin a required third-year Mechanics of Materials course (EM204 in Figure 1). The control andtreatment groups consist of students taking the course at two separate offerings. We describehere the context of the course, the details of the assignment, development of the assessmentrubric, and our assessment