current research interests include wearable medical devices, telehealthcare, bioinstrumentation, biosignal processing, and control systems. His educational research interests are laboratory/project-driven learning and integration of research into undergraduate education. Dr. Yao is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education and a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Page 26.1163.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Modeling and Control of a Tungsten-Bulb Heated Incubator: Teaching Controls Theory in a
Paper ID #10148JTF Web-Enabled Faculty and Student Tools for More Effective Teachingand Learning Through Two-Way, Frequent Formative FeedbackProf. Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University Stephen J. Krause is professor in the Materials Program in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of bridging engineering and education, capstone design, and introductory materials science and engineering. His research interests include strategies for web-based teaching and learning, misconceptions and their repair, and role of formative feedback on conceptual change. He has co-developed a
Hands-on Introduction to Chemical and Biological EngineeringSession 1526: We have revised our freshman seminar course by modeling it after RowanUniversity’s exemplary Freshman Engineering Clinic course which utilizes a hands-onlaboratory approach to introduce freshman students to engineering. Innovative laboratorymodules developed and published by faculty at Rowan under NSF funding were adaptedand implemented. These laboratories utilize common activities (such as brewing coffee,taking blood pressure, and delivery of medication) to teach fundamental engineeringprinciples, techniques for experimental measurement, data representation and analysis,and group problem solving and communication skills. Many of these laboratories aredesigned
-boardDSP capability which makes real-time signal processing—a vital part of the signals and systemslaboratory exercises—challenging. The Arduino lacks audio capability, processor speed, andsize for the necessary DSP computations. The Beagleboard-xM has the advantage of including Page 26.1635.3built-in audio jacks and a dedicated on-board signal processing integrated circuit block. It hasbeen used in comparable teaching laboratories.5 A comparison of hardware specificationsbetween the existing TMS320C6713 DSK development board and the Beagleboard-xM is shownin Table I. For compatibility with Code Composer software, the lab currently uses the WindowsXP
Pedagogical Best PracticesAbstractThe pedagogy of laboratory courses has been well discussed in the literature, but the extent towhich these best practices are incorporated into laboratory experiment design varies wildly. AtNortheastern University, various capstone design teams over the years have been tasked withdesigning new experimental apparatus for the undergraduate teaching laboratories along withappropriate lab handouts and other instructional material. In many cases, the students involved inthese projects have taken the lab class for which they are designing the experiment and havereported negative experiences, and therefore are motivated to try to improve the class for futurestudents. Student designed labs have the potential to reduce burden
Paddle laboratory series1,developed at Stanford and currently implemented at Johns Hopkins University, is adapted to fitRice’s curriculum. This series of five laboratory exercises was developed for use in anundergraduate course on dynamics and controls, and is fully explained in the literature and onseveral websites1,6,7. A low-cost, single-axis force-reflecting joystick was used to teach studentsabout electromechanical systems, dynamics, and controls. Figure 2 clearly illustrates the topicsfrom the lecture portion of the Hopkins course and the related topics in the Haptic Paddle Labs.It should be noted that other researchers have adopted haptic devices to undergraduate courseswith much success8.While most of these labs fit right in to the
is that moving to remote and virtual access to laboratoryhardware leads to significant changes in the learning outcomes of the students whoexperience this laboratory. In the face of such changes, these alternative access modes mustbe considered pedagogical alternatives, rather than simply logistical conveniences.IntroductionLaboratory classes are a key element in undergraduate engineering teaching. They serve anumber of valuable roles, such as validating analytical concepts, and providing exposure toprofessional practice 1. One of the drawbacks of laboratory classes is that they are expensive,in terms of both time and money. Another drawback is the significant logistical challenge ofscheduling access to hardware for potentially large groups
distance education programs in engineering education is not a very new effort.Zalewski mentions that the first attempts to access lab experiments remotely date back to19913. In 1999 Alexander and Smelser presented an online material laboratory course makinguse of a tensile test simulation from the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory at theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder4. Nevertheless the development of online laboratories,which are based on real physically existing and remotely controlled equipment instead ofsimulations, remains a particularly challenging task. Following Schaefer et al. the main ad-vantages of remote experimentation include performing hands-on learning experiences and atthe same time reaching those students, who are not
, who can dedicate two hours per week to supporting the facility, plus atrained student teaching assistant, who staffs the lab for ten hours per week, has proven to be anefficient model. The staff member provides the necessary oversight and departmentalknowledge of the equipment and its capabilities, including laboratory safety and compliance withstandards. The teaching assistant supervises the space while students work: orienting, assisting,and ensuring safe lab practices.Integration of the Laboratory Facilities throughout the CurriculumWith the advent of the redesigned ECE curriculum, the number of courses with extensive hands-on, project-based content has increased dramatically over course offerings of just a few yearsago. Whereas previously
Worked-Example Instruction in Electrical Engineering: The Role of Fading and Feedback during Problem-Solving Practice, Journal of Engineering Education, 98(1), 83-92.17. Collins, A., J.S. Brown & A. Holum. (1991). Cognitive apprenticeship: making thinking visible. American Educator. 15(3), 6-11,38-39.18. Schön, D.A. (1987). Educating the reflective practitioner: toward a new design for teaching and learning in the professions, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.19. Gilbuena, D., B. Sherrett, E. Gummer, and M. D. Koretsky. (2011). Episodes as a discourse analysis framework to examine feedback in an industrially situated virtual laboratory project. Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, Canada
basic thermodynamic principles and assumptions.This experiment has several safety and operation concerns that make it very time consumingduring the laboratory. The nonlinear and transient response of the system to user control makesit difficult for the students to initially operate, at least within safety margins. While exposure tothis nonlinear nature is very educational for the students the amount of time taken to get a “feel”for the system limits what can be accomplished experimentally. In addition, the previousapparatus used for this experiment experienced a catastrophic failure when the students used itimproperly, making safety and supervision during this learning phase a primary concern.Through a MSU Presidential Teaching Scholar
working prototype (that included bothsystem and measurement sensors on prototyping boards), and concluded the project by conductinga feasibility study by writing a report and delivering a class presentation. Because the ELVISsystem has been used primarily as an instructional tool in electrical engineering laboratories, anextensive process that adapted it to the needs of mechanical engineering was implemented. Thisincluded the development of completely new experiments that involved newly-designed hardwareand instructions that were all developed and built in-house with student participation. IntroductionIn the undergraduate teaching process, both instructors and students often get bored solving simpletextbook
7 35% Close faculty supervision and/or limited lab times 5 25% Other (please specify)* 2 10%*Two specific answers were given to this questionWireless capability will only be available in and around our new Technology Building. Studentswill have to register IP addresses and students who use the wireless will not be able to access ourcampus network.We began with teaching 802.11A; we now tone down the AP and use the available security toprevent unauthorized access.4. Would your capital budget support a shielded wireless laboratory environment includingwireless equipment and laboratory exercise supporting 12 students
academic programs and the needs ofthe graduates and industry. The academic programs are heavily oriented towards control theory,board-level electronics, interfacing and microprocessors supplemented with laboratoryequipment, such as the inverted pendulum, and projects, such as Lego robots5-7. But industrialapplications require mechanical engineers to design machines with multiple axes that executecomplex, high speed, high precision coordinated motion using sophisticated motion controllers.In this paper, we present overview of a new course and its laboratory developed in partnershipwith industry. The course aims to teach “the fundamentals” while focusing on industrial motioncontrol technology and multi-axis machines. The course was offered for the
/EX Structural Engineering Teaching Laboratory, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1994).7. Issa, R.R., Cox, R.F., and Killingsworth, C.F., Impact of Multimedia-based Instruction on Learning and Retention, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 4, 281-290 (Oct. 1999).8. Stahl, D.C. and DeViries, R.A., Structural Engineering Workshop; a curriculum of real and virtual experiments, 2000 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Session 1526 (2000).9. Stahl, D.C., Capano, C., McGeen, M., Hassler, J.M., and Groser, L., Implementation of Project Specific Web Sites in a Capstone Design Course, 1999 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Session 1606 (1999
, class lectures were central and some demonstrationshighlighted a few topics. Labs were not well developed and were very basic. In 2008, we used alaboratory teaching approach for this course with just-in-time instruction to address key conceptsand topics given the breadth of the material. Students were required to complete pre-labexercises that reinforced material from the lectures and in turn gave them a preview of the actuallab activity. The pre-lab assignments strengthened their understanding of the material and helpedmake experiments go smoothly on lab day. Page 14.839.33. Mechatronics Teaching MethodologyFour laboratory exercises were
in STEM education. She teaches courses in re- search design, measurement theory, critical pedagogy in STEM and courses in learning and instructional theory. She extensive expertise in assessment, psychometrics, advanced quantitative analyses, and mul- timodal research design. She is active in many professional associations in the engineering and science education, teacher education, distance learning, program evaluation and special education fields. She has been the principal investigator on several federal grants through the US Department of Education, the National Institute of Health, and the National Science Foundation.Dr. Maja J. Mataric, University of Southern California Maja Mataric is professor and Chan
‘run’portion of the crawl, walk, run methodology.Following the success of the Football Lab, three additional laboratories were introducedfor EDP 3. The goal of this series of laboratories was once again to introduce thestudents slowly to the theory behind their design and then to progress towards morecomplex concepts. The first of these laboratories dealt with gear trains. This ‘Gear Lab’focused solely on teaching students gear train construction principles and techniques.The student design teams built and tested static gear trains to lift a set amount of weightwith a pulley. The students’ goal was to lift the weight a set distance as quickly aspossible, and teams that performed well were rewarded with bonus points. The simplegear trains built by the
AC 2007-410: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MECH LAB I AT THE UNIVERSITYOF SOUTH FLORIDADon Dekker, University of South Florida Don Dekker is currently an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida. He is currently teaching Mechanical Engineering Laboratory I, and Capstone Design at USF. Before his retirement in 2001, Don taught at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He first joined ASEE in 1974 and some of his ASEE activities include Zone II Chairman (86-88), Chairman of DEED (89-90), and General Chair of FIE ‘87. His degrees are: PhD, Stanford University, 1973; MSME, University of New Mexico, 1963; and BSME, Rose Polytechnic Institute, 1961
., Wick, C., and Piper, G., “Teaching Robot Design: Student-Driven, Open-Ended Design Projects,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Session 2006-1905, 2006.19. Froyd, J., Li, X., Srinivasa, A., Bassichis, W., Hodge, J., and Maxwell, D., “How Do Students in a Project- Based First-Year Engineering Curriculum Perform in a Sophomore Engineering Mechanics Course?,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Session 2006-1117, 2006.20. Greenwald, L. and Kopena, J., “Mobile Robot Labs,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, vol. 10, No. 2, June 2003, pp. 25-32.21. http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/4435, accessed on 17 January 2007.22. Isom, J., “Lessons from the Laboratory with Brian Davis: NXT
challenging problems in manufacturing education are related to improving thestudent–instructional technologies interface to incorporate the required learning tools, andimproving teaching and learning effectiveness in online course and training. The majorobjectives of our project are to design and use CNC machine control simulator systems toenhance the cognitive learning of online laboratories and design and use of simulator interfacesfor metrology and quality control systems to enhance the cognitive learning of online labs. Webriefly discuss the development of virtual 3-D laboratory activities (learning modules andtutorials) that provide students with a realistic interaction with CNC machine in the area ofprototyping, metrology, quality control and
thatseek to have a research experience. Moreover, the inherent variability in experiences acrosslaboratories means that students are exposed to varying levels of structured learning during theirresearch experiences. Many research universities in the United States offer courses teaching research methods andtechniques to students, but few of these are in an engineering environment. Furthermore, manyof these courses are designed to teach students methods specific to a domain, design experimentsto address a pre-defined problem, implement existing protocols, or perform literature reviewsand develop proposals2, 3, 4. These are all very important components of the research process andenabling students to perform research in a laboratory. Here at
, Strategies for Success”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, San Antonio, TX, 2012.4. Radian Belu, “Virtual Laboratory For Study of the Electric Machines Parameters and Characteristics”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Louisville, KY, 20105. Radian G Belu, Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, “Using a Virtual Platform for Teaching Electrical Machines and Power Systems”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Atlanta, GA, 20136. S. Ayasun and G. Karbeyaz, DC motor speed control methods using MATLAB/Simulink and their integration into undergraduate electric machinery courses, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, vol. 15, 2007, pp. 347 - 354.7. J.R
supported by a National Science FoundationAdvanced Technological Education3 (ATE) Grant. The goals of the grant project are to: a) createand implement a new Associate of Applied Science Photonics and Laser Technology (AAS PLT)program; b) fully equip an Optics and Photonics Laboratory for education and training; c) trainfaculty to teach core courses in the AAS PLT program; d) perform outreach activities to localhigh schools to promote the new program; e) educate 30 or more students or workers by the endof the project.The paper discusses the efforts and activities performed towards achieving the project goals, andthe results and outcomes obtained in the first year of the grant. Activities included convening anAdvisory Board with industry
Paper ID #9458Interactive, Modular Experiments and Illustrative Examples to Integrate Phar-maceutical Applications in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum and K-12Outreach ProgramsDr. Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University Zenaida Otero Gephardt is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University in Glass- boro, NJ where she has served as founding Director of Engineering and Assistant Dean. Her interests are in experimental design and data analysis. She teaches fluid mechanics, process fluid transport, process dynamics and control and unit operations. She developed the laboratory operations and safety program
seen students grimace, rolltheir eyes, beginning looking around and making gestures to each other or, shrink deep into theirseats in horror. “This course will include a team project worth a significant portion of your grade.”This seems like an odd reaction to the announcement of a team activity. After all, engineering isa team sport. Our engineering programs are ABET accredited only after demonstrating acurriculum that offers the ability to function in multidisciplinary teams to our students. The truthis that working in teams is a skill that instructors must teach along with all the otherprofessionalism skills we require from our graduates. This book is designed to give engineeringinstructors the means, methods, and motivation to add team
overly fashioned examples2, 5, 6. Hands-on laboratories that feature realmeasurements could allow students to probe the dynamics of realistic systems, therebystrengthening their conceptual understanding2, 7, 8. However, the prohibitive cost of equipmentand shortage of laboratory space limits these options.Our project aims to overcome these challenges by utilizing a new, highly portable andinexpensive technology, which we call interactive-Newton (i-Newton). The i-Newton can engagestudents in the experiential learning of dynamics outside the confines of the traditional lecture-based teaching methods.The objectives of the project we describe in this paper are to: 1. Investigate whether i-Newton has an effect on students’ conceptual
learning of mathematics. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Hands-on Learning of Wireless Communication Principles Using Software Defined Radio Experiments and LabVIEW With the rapid proliferation of millions of smartphones, the adoption of the latest 4G LTEtechnology worldwide, and the emergence 5G broadband wireless technologies, wirelesscommunications have become an integral part of every person’s daily life and will continue to beas such in the foreseeable future. Due to this remarkable surge in wireless technologies, a strongneed for developing a flexible, hands-on laboratory platform to teach a wide variety of wirelesstechniques has emerged. Indeed, current educational
(ECET 26200) - Programable Logic Controllers - Modular Offering for NSF- ATE Course Update and ImprovementDate Submitted: 6-15-2012 for SPRING 2012 Date to be Reviewed: Fall 2012Responsible faculty for the review: Akram Hossain(PUC), Course Instructor, Laboratory Instructor: Adam Beemer(COD) Type of Update New Edition of the Text New Text Adopted New Software Teaching Method New Laboratory Equipment Lab Material
corporate foundations and state and federal agencies, and has numerous publications in refereed journals and edited books. Her research interests include communities of practice, gender, transformative learning, and identity.Dr. Peter Golding CPEng, University of Texas, El Paso Director, Center for Research in Engineering Education and Provost Faculty in Residence at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at The University of Texas at El Paso. Page 24.242.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Building Capacity for Preparing Teacher-Engineers