and underserved youth, and provides space education programs for teachers at students in her current position with Texas Space Grant Consortium. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas State University, post-graduate work at Texas A & M University and a Masters in Education from The University of Houston.Dr. Wallace T. Fowler P.E., University of Texas, Austin Dr. Wallace Fowler has served on the faculty of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineer- ing Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin since 1965. His early research focused on low thrust interplanetary trajectory optimization. In the 1970s, his research focus broadened to include spacecraft attitude dynamics, tumbling satellite
Paper ID #11957”I realized that I myself am on the path to being a pioneer”: Characterizingthe experiences of graduate students in an innovative interviewing experienceNatascha M Trellinger, Purdue University, West Lafayette Natascha Trellinger is a second year Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Syracuse University where her interest in the teaching and learning aspects of engineering began. At Purdue, Natascha is a member of the Global Engineering Education Collaboratory (GEEC) and is particularly interested in graduate level
educationalexperience of our students. The themes were selected to provide broad umbrellas that addressresearch and education strengths that bridge the five engineering departments (BiomedicalEngineering; Chemical and Biological Engineering; Civil and Architectural Engineering;Electrical and Computer Engineering; Materials, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) withinthe College. Those themes are: Energy, Health, Security, and Water. The distinctive educationteam includes 4 faculty co-directors, each in charge of coordinating the activities of a specifictheme. Page 26.25.5 Program Overview: The undergraduate research program was initiated in Spring
Paper ID #12032A Multiple Institution Investigation of Student Perceptions of the InvertedClassroom in First-Year Engineering CoursesDr. Krista Kecskemety, Ohio State University Krista Kecskemety is a Senior Lecturer in the Engineering Education Innovation Center at The Ohio State University. Krista received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University in 2006 and received her M.S. from Ohio State in 2007. In 2012, Krista completed her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at Ohio State. Her engineering education research interests include investigating first-year engineering student experiences, faculty
designing a 4-way coupler component that was inserted into the receiver front-end circuitry in a satellite communication link.Dr. Payam Matin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Dr. Payam Matin is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), Princess Anne, Maryland. Dr. Matin has received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan in May 2005. He has taught a number of courses in the areas of mechanical engineering and aerospace at UMES. He has served as departmental ABET committee chair through a successful accreditation visit in Fall 2012. Dr. Matin’s research has been mostly in the
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and Director of The Poly- technic School at Arizona State University. Prior to joining ASU she served as a program director at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Undergraduate Education, and was on the faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Segal Design Institute at Northwestern University. Dr. McKenna received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. McKenna is also a Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of Engineering Education.Eva Pettinato, Arizona State University Eva is a Master’s student in Aerospace Engineering at Arizona State University
relationship that it has with a greatvariety of local, regional and national companies. Our school is part of the different clusters thatthe government of the state of Nuevo Leon has organized in sectors such as the automotive,aerospace, home appliances and nanotechnology, among others. These clusters integrates manycompanies which have strong relationship with Materials Engineering, thus we receive theirfeedback directly from them. Although this a well established international practice, it is not, inour experience, the general case for Latin American programs, at least at the bachelor level.Curriculum and its evolution.After its creation in 2000, the program has been revised in 2004 and 2011. In the 2004 revisionthe General Education module was
engineers.Dr. Aaron W. Johnson, Tufts University Aaron W. Johnson is a postdoctoral research associate at the Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. He received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2014, where his research focused on human-automation interaction in complex aerospace vehicles. Aaron also obtained a master’s degree from MIT in 2010 and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in 2008, both in aerospace engineering.Dr. Merredith D Portsmore, Tufts University Page 26.593.1 c American
Anomaly Report System (SOARS)The student’s experience in working with NASA engineers or industry can significantlyenhance their resumes for future employability. For instance, after conducting Master’s researchproject on reliability with NASA engineer, an M.E.N. graduate received several job offers asreliability engineer from Zodiac Aerospace, BGE and a consulting firm. Another M.E.N.graduate, who conducted an applied research with NASA engineers at GSFC for his researchproject, received an offer from Lockheed Martin System Integration division, and his work atLockheed Martin is closely related to his Master’s level research project.Categorizing the database of Spacecraft Orbital Anomaly Report System (SOARS) is acurrent project to help the
. Strife, West Virginia University Mary Strife has been an engineering/sciences librarian for over 32 years, working at Cornell, Syracuse University, the University of Rochester, and SUNY Institute of Technology, Utica/Rome. She has been at West Virginia University for 20 years and currently serves as Director of the Evansdale Library and Senior Engineering Librarian.Ms. Marian G. Armour-Gemmen, West Virginia University Marian Armour-Gemmen has been the Patent & Trademark librarian at West Virginia University Libraries since 2003. In this capacity she assists inventors throughout the state of West Virginia. She is also the bibliographer for Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering as well as for Civil &
. degrees in Civil Engineering from Ohio State and earned her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Her research interests focus on the intersection between motivation and identity of undergraduate and graduate students, first-year engineering programs, mixed methods research, and innovative approaches to teaching. Currently, she teaches within the first-year engineering program at Ohio State while maintaining an active engineering education research program.Dr. Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University Krista Kecskemety is a Senior Lecturer in the Engineering Education Innovation Center at The Ohio State University. Krista received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University in 2006 and
four-year Integrated Engineering and Business (IBE) honors program. Rogers earned his PhD at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst focused on Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing and holds the position of Professor of Practice at The Ohio State University.Dr. Richard J. Freuler, Ohio State University Richard J. Freuler is the Director for the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors (FEH) Program in the OSU Engineering Education Innovation Center. He teaches the two-semester FEH engineering course sequence and is active in engineering education research. He is also a Professor of Practice in the Me- chanical and Aerospace Engineering Department and conducts scale model investigations of gas turbine
Paper ID #11577Travel for a Penny a Mile: An Engineering Design Challenge Inspiring Stu-dent Engagement and Sustainable LivingDr. Richard M. Goff, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education Richard M. Goff is a former aircraft structural test engineer for the Navy, Peace Corps Volunteer, and com- puter entrepreneur. He holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Richard has been teaching and engaging in research in multidisciplinary engineering design education for over eighteen years. Dr. Goff is the recipient of
. Christopher M Weyant, Drexel University Dr. Weyant has been an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engi- neering at Drexel University since 2011. Prior to this position, he was an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Stony Brook University. He earned his doctorate from Northwestern Uni- versity, master’s from the University of Virginia and his bachelor’s from Pennsylvania State University. In addition to his experience in academia, Dr. Weyant has worked at Honeywell Aerospace, Capstone Turbine Corporation and Sandia National Laboratories.Dr. Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University Dr. Robert Nagel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at
Paper ID #15734Effectiveness of Flipped Classroom for Mechanics of MaterialsAndrew Lee, Arizona State University Andrew Lee is an undergraduate student in aerospace engineering at Arizona State University, set to graduate in May 2016. He has served as a Teaching Aide for Dr. Haolin Zhu’s flipped Mechanics of Materials course and has conducted finite element analysis for Aerojet Rocketdyne. He is currently a teaching aide for Engineering Mechanics. His work as an honors student with Dr. Haolin Zhu and Dr. James Middleton has allowed him to discover a research interest in engineering education.Dr. Haolin Zhu, Arizona State
Paper ID #17131Engaging Pre-college Minority Students at a Technical Engineering ResearchConferenceTizoc Cruz-Gonzalez, University of Michigan Tizoc Cruz-Gonzalez is a Ph.D candidate in mechanical engineering focusing on design with smart ma- terials at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on model-based design of dielectric elastomer devices. He received his Bachelor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After re- ceiving his degree, Tizoc worked for five years as an aerospace engineer and as a Presidential Campaign Field Organizer in 2008. Ultimately, Tizoc desires to expand his
concepts in some of his math andengineering classes. The fact that he lived in an apartment near campus enabled him to find thetime to access these supports. Pat also took full advantage of the ECASE mentoring opportunitywith an engineer from industry, with whom he continues to interact occasionally. Patsuccessfully graduated and is now working in engineering at an aerospace company.Chris… is a married veteran who transferred to SPU from another four-year university, seekingsmaller classes and more individual attention. He has a passion for audio production. Prior tohis college studies he was on active duty with the Marine Corps and served a tour in Iraq. Heworked half time while pursuing his engineering degree to support himself and his wife, as
students. During the Spring 2015 semester, the author taught one sectionof this course offered to 38 mechanical, aerospace, chemical, and electrical engineering students.The class met for a 50-min lecture and a 3-hr lab each week. A NAE Grand Challenges designproject was implemented in this course which students worked on in teams of three or fourduring the second half of the semester in the labs. In this project, three open-ended designproblems were formulated based on three of the fourteen NAE Grand Challenges forEngineering10: make solar energy economical; provide access to clean water; advancepersonalized learning, and student teams had the freedom to choose one out of these three designproblems and design, build, and test a functional
a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech. Prior to her time at Georgia Tech, she received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT and her M.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. Her research interests include engineering design education (especially in regards to the design of complex systems), student preparation for post-graduation careers, and innovations in research-to-practice.Dr. Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech Dr. Walter Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education and the Assistant Di- rector for Research in the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED), both at Virginia Tech. Lee’s research interests include co-curricular support
component ofthe course begins with basic combinatorics and the axioms of probability, and ends with analysisand applications of univariate and multivariate distributions of discrete and continuous randomvariables. The statistics component of the course covers simple numerical and visual descriptionsof data, interval estimation, hypothesis testing, and linear regression. The goal of this course is toprovide engineering students with a comprehensive survey of probability and statistics.Specifically, our IE students traditionally take this course in their fourth semester. Moreover, it isa required course for other engineering disciplines including Aerospace Engineering, ChemicalEngineering, and Materials Science and Engineering curricula, and
Paper ID #20200A Capstone Engineering Modeling Course for Developing Creative Problem-SolvingDr. Megan Reissman, University of Dayton Dr. Reissman studied mechanical engineering at Cornell University (BS) and Northwestern University (PhD). She currently teaches engineering design, analysis, and experimentation courses in the mechanical engineering department of University of Dayton. She specializes in biomechanics and robotic systems.Dr. Allison L. Kinney, University of Dayton Allison L. Kinney is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Dayton. She received her BS
hosting career fairs toestablishing data bases of companies that may or may not attend a career fair. The ability toestablish a single contact for human resource offices and a single database containing the timingof company advertises internships/Co-Ops and open full-time positions allows for more efficientcommunication with students and a better working relationship with companies. Students arevery busy completing academic requirements and working part-time or completing militaryrequirements each week that limits their ability to keep track of these opportunities. A recentexample is the lack of applications from our students with a certain aerospace company. Theirapplication window for all openings is the first week of October - before our
define terms associated with movement of the solids and liquids apply the concepts to “every day” liquids and solids Aerospace Egg Drop Physics, identify the basic principles of 4 Mathematics, dynamics in order to construct an egg Engineering drop apparatus. Design Process discuss the experimental results of their designs in order to assess
Paper ID #23077Using a Critical Incident-centered Transition Theory Framework to ExploreEngineering Education Research Faculty TransitionsDr. Alexandra Coso Strong, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Alexandra Coso Strong is an assistant professor of systems design and engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Prior to starting a faculty position at Olin, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Geor- gia Tech’s Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning. She completed her Ph.D. in 2014 in Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech. Alexandra received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT and her M.S
Identity (write-in quoted) of interview Hispanic, “Honduran Aaron Male Computer Engineering American” John Smith Male White, “Midwesterner” Agricultural Engineering Kathie Female White Aerospace Engineering Keyla Female White Chemical Engineering Midwest PWI Matt Male White Computer Engineering Construction Engineering & Sean
scientific and mathematical principles17, 18, develops andenhances problem-solving techniques17, 18, 20-23, and promotes cooperative learning17-19.While robotics can be used as an interdisciplinary STEM learning tool, there is also a strongneed for industrial certification programs in robotics automation. Millions of domestic/personalrobots are already on the market worldwide, from lawn mowers to entertainment robots25. As aresult, popular interest in robots has increased significantly16-28. Global competition, productivitydemands, advances in technology, and affordability will force companies to increase the use ofrobots in the foreseeable future39-41. While the automotive industry was the first to use robotics,aerospace, machining, and medical
exposed to information about what engineers actually do in various disciplines and industries. This information can help to shape the student’s major interests. In past summer bridge programs, studentswould all attend one industry tour together. As the cohort grew, this model becamechallenging, as many industry partners could not accommodate large groups. Studentswere not as engaged with the company if they did not have an interest in that type ofwork or if the company did not hire from their major. The summer bridge redesignincluded four different industry options on the same day. Students were broken out bymajor and interest to attend a tour with Ball Aerospace, Medtronic, Zayo, or GH PhippsConstruction. Feedback from both industry
Paper ID #25072A First-Year Power Plant Design ProjectDr. Benjamin Emery Mertz, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Benjamin Mertz received his Ph. D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2010 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2005. He spent 7 years as a part of a lecturer team at Arizona State University that focused on the first-year engi- neering experience, including developing and teaching the Introduction to Engineering course. Currently, he is an assistant professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in the Mechanical Engineering de
Paper ID #24651A Frankenstein-inspired Engineering Design ProjectDr. James ”Jamie” Canino, Trine University Jamie Canino is currently an associate professor at Trine University where he focuses on undergraduate education research. He teaches in the thermal-fluids and aerospace engineering fields and can be reached at caninoj@trine.edu.Dr. Kendall B. Teichert, Trine University Dr. Teichert received his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University. His Masters research studied behavior of microelectromechanical sensors/actuators. He worked for a small engineering firm in Salt Lake City, Utah
, aerospace assembly and equipment engineering to cement production, shipbuilding and medical device design. Additionally, Professor Ragonese has interests and experience in Intellectual Property from writing, formulating and ex- amining patent applications to assessing the validity of patentable claims from her tenure at the US Patent and Trademark Office as well as her time spent working for a small boutique patent law firm. Professor Ragonese’s current research interests focus on identifying, assessing and developing competences and opportunities for engineers in the realm of product innovation, design and entrepreneurship, particularly how these concepts have an effect on leadership in the corporate world. Additionally