Paper ID #8859Student Peer Teaching in Engineering Laboratory SituationsDr. Ernest M. Kim P.E., University of San Diego Ernest M. Kim received the B.S.E.E. from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from New Mexico State University. After spending ten years in industry at the then National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) in Boulder, Colorado, Burroughs Corporation (now Unisys) in San Diego, California, and TACAN Corporation in Carlsbad, California, he joined the faculty of the University of San Diego in 1990. He is currently Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at
generationof engineers and scientists. Teaching micro and nano scale technologies is often challenging andexpensive due to the cost and complexity of typical systems that are utilized to access the microand nano realm. In this work we discuss the Class on a Chip System, which has four maincomponents: packaged Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) chip, driver board/controlelectronics, graphical user interface, and laboratory experiments. The system provides arelatively low cost MEMS experimentation platform which can be utilized through a reasonablecontingent of laboratory tools (microscope and personal computer) available at most educationalinstitutions to teach fundamental physics and engineering knowledge, as well as illustrateimportant micro and
other senior students.V. Future Improvement Based on our experiences from teaching DSP courses, we felt that in Portion 1, all thelectures containing well-established topics including the digital spectrum, the FIR and IIR filterimplementations and developed laboratories are suitable. Even though the topics of DFT, FFT,bilinear transform method and optimum design seemed challenging to our technology studentsdue to the demand of their math proficiency to understand certain subjects, we still havesuccessfully delivered the course materials with an emphasis on principles and hands-onapplications instead of theoretical development. On the other side, based on the DSP industrialtrend, we could improve the course by introducing additional
University Richard J. Kozick received the B.S. degree from Bucknell University in 1986, the M.S. degree from Stanford University in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, all in electrical engineering. From 1986 to 1989 and from 1992 to 1993 he was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Since 1993, he has been with the Electrical Engineering Department at Bucknell University, where he is currently Professor. His research interests are in the areas of statistical signal processing and communications. Dr. Kozick received a ”2006 Best Paper Award” from the IEEE Signal Processing Society and the Presidential Award for Teaching Excellence from Bucknell University in 1999
report Students were introduced basic scientific writing process of journal article-like laboratory reports and Page 24.575.4 scientific data analysis process.14 Final PresentationUndergraduate students usually have a very limited experience with the scientific writingprocess, data analysis, and preparation of high-quality figures. Within this course, one laboratorymodule was entirely dedicated to teach students the writing process of journal article-likelaboratory reports and scientific data analysis. In this context, faculty elaborated in detail thestructure and content of a journal article-like lab report
Paper ID #9526Green Plastics Laboratory by Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning(POGIL)Dr. Spencer S Kim, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Dr. Spencer Kim is an Associate Professor in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology Department (MMET) at RIT, and serves as Associate Director of American Packaging Corporation Cen- ter for Packaging Innovation at RIT. He previously worked in the semiconductor industry. Dr. Kim, as a PI or Co-PI, received grants and sponsorship from NSF, SME, SPE, universities, and industries. In 2009 and 2013, he was nominated for the Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching, RIT’s
. Page 24.97.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 A REALISTIC INTELLIGENT MULTIMEDIA VIRTUAL LABORATORY FOR POWER ENGINEERINGAbstract Laboratory works and exercises play an important role in learning and increasing students’understanding of basic concepts in engineering. Although a laboratory practicum is oftenconsidered a key component of engineering education, a hands-on approach is often ignored forcourses involving electrical machines for various reasons, such as safety, expense, and lack ofqualified teaching assistants. In this paper, we present the on-going development of a realisticsoftware environment which simulates an electrical machines laboratory
Paper ID #9454Teaching Freshman Design Using a Flipped Classroom ModelDr. Ann Saterbak, Rice University Ann Saterbak is Professor in the Practice and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs in the Bioengi- neering Department at Rice University (Houston, Texas). Saterbak joined the Bioengineering Department shortly after it formed and was responsible for developing its laboratory program. Saterbak introduced problem-based learning in the School of Engineering and more recently launched a successful first-year engineering design course. Saterbak is the lead author of the textbook, Bioengineering Fundamentals.Dr. Maria Oden
of Science and Technology in 2002. Mr. Yaseen joined Central State University on August 2013. He is currently an Assistant Professor who enjoys teaching computer science classes. As for his research areas, Mr. Yaseen is interested in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and High Performance Computing. Page 24.1090.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Software Defined Radio Laboratory Platform for Enhancing Undergraduate Communication and Networking CurriculaAbstract: The advances of communication and networking have changed the worldfundamentally
projects with traditional wirelesscommunications courses to enhance teaching and student learning and to offer senior designprojects for students with different expertise to work together9. In this paper, we focus onreporting our work on developing a new SDR laboratory course for junior and senior levelwireless engineering students. CURRENT COURSE STRUCTURE AT AUBURNAuburn University offers a Bachelor of Wireless Engineering program, which is ABET-accredited and first-of-its-kind in the nation. The BWE curriculum has two formal options: (i)wireless engineering-hardware (WIRE), emphasizing a hardware design-oriented approach towireless engineering, and (ii) wireless engineering-software (WIRS), emphasizing a software-oriented
Paper ID #9389Sensor-based Experimental Evaluation of Mixing Characteristics in Laboratory-scale Reactor SystemsDr. Steven C. Chiesa P.E., Santa Clara University Professor Chiesa is an associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Santa Clara Univer- sity. He has been teaching environmental engineering courses at the university level for over 30 years. He holds a BS degree from Santa Clara University, an MS degree from Stanford University, and a PhD degree from the University of Notre Dame. Page
Paper ID #8596Effectiveness of Green-BIM Teaching Method in Construction Education Cur-riculumProf. Jin-Lee Kim P.E., California State University Long Beach Jin-Lee Kim, Ph.D., P.E., LEED AP BD+C is an Assistant Professor of Dept. of Civil Engineering & Construction Engineering Management at California State University, Long Beach. He is a Director of Green Building Information Modeling laboratory at CSULB. He has earned a doctorate degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida, majoring Construction Engineering Management with a minor in Statistics. His research interests include construction engineering
, "Process control laboratory experiments using LabVIEW," Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2001.7. D. Um and V. Sriraman, "Teaching basic control systems theory using robots," Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2004.8. S. Daniels, D. Harding, and M. Collura, "Introducing feedback control to first year engineering students using LabVIEW," Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2005.9. C. Chen and J. Derr, "Radio-controlled robot lawnmower," Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &
theinterdisciplinary nature of those processes.IntroductionIn a fast changing industrial environment, educational laboratory activities need to keep pacewith new and emerging technologies that are implemented, in order to provide students with therequired skills consistent with the newest technologies available. Real life industrial settings areoften too expensive and complex to implement at laboratory level. The fundamental challengingproblems in manufacturing education are related to: (a) Improving the student–instructionaltechnologies interface to incorporate the required learning tools; (b) Improving teaching andlearning effectiveness. On the other hand, the advancement of increasing efficiency and reducingthe cost of manufacturing is contingent on
]. Despite what is known about Millenniallearners, however, traditional laboratory courses tend to fall short of addressing effectiveteaching methods recommended for millennial student learning[1-4]. Page 24.940.2II. Case-studies teaching method Step-by-step laboratories for the 21st century learner are relatively ineffective, providelimited student critical thinking, and often leaves little to no impact on student learning andcontent retention[5-11]. Examples of methods to reform laboratory experiences include the use of“story” based historical cases, vignettes, dramatizations, thematic narratives, and dialogues inchemistry and physics
Paper ID #9411Development and Implementation of Interactive Virtual Laboratories to HelpStudents Learn Threshold Concepts in Thermodynamics – Year 1Dr. Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC San Diego and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, all in Chemical Engineering. He currently has research activity in areas related engineering education and is interested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher-level cognitive skills in engineering problem
Engineering Education, 2014 An Implementation of Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELN) Using a Course Management System Platform in an Undergraduate Experimental Engineering CourseAbstractExperimental Engineering at Harvey Mudd College is a sophomore-level, semester-long course,involving multiple experiments covering a number of engineering disciplines. The primarypurpose of the course is to teach basic instrumentation and measurement techniques; good labnotebook practice; technical report writing; analysis and presentation of data; the usage ofexperimental results for engineering design purposes; and the beginnings of professionalpractice. During the 2011-2012 academic year, we implemented a transition from
assignment, which must be completed during theassigned laboratory time, is a subset of or is closely related to the week’s project. The project iscompleted outside of the normal laboratory meeting time and the total weekly assignment is dueSunday midnight. Friday afternoon office hours are held in the lab and are well attended.Each of the weekly assignments has baseline requirements and optional challenges; thechallenges are intended to provide a deeper level of understanding and are used for bonus points.It should be noted that those who complete the challenges rarely need the extra points! Studentswho meet the challenges, demonstrate good debugging skills and submit high quality reports anddocumentation are invited to serve as (paid) teaching
stay ontask longer then before, thus increasing grit.Previous Work The value of experiments, laboratory exercises, and other hands-on experiences inundergraduate engineering education is well established through Kolb’s Experiential LearningCycle theory. The use of rapid prototyping machines and more expensive 3D printers aidingvisualization in engineering graphics courses, teaching additive manufacturing methods inmanufacturing courses, and building of prototypes in engineering design courses are welldocumented in the literature.Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle theory1 claims that regardless of the learning style, a studentlearns most efficiently if he/she follows a cycle consisting of four steps (axes): experiencing(concrete
Paper ID #8403A Practical Educational Fatigue Testing MachineProf. Bijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey Bijan Sepahpour is a registered Professional Engineer and Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He is currently serving as the chairman of the ME department at TCNJ. He is actively involved in the generation of design-oriented exercises and development of laboratory apparatus and experiments in the areas of mechanics of materials and dynamics of machinery for undergraduate engineering programs. Professor Sepahpour did his undergraduate studies at TCNJ and has advanced degrees from New Jersey Institute of
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
Paper ID #9540Hands-on and Virtual Labs for Juniors’ Course on Applied ElectromagneticsDr. Vladimir Mitin, University at Buffalo, SUNY Dr. VLADIMIR V. MITIN, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering; Uni- versity at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY. Has more than 400 technical publications. Vladimir Mitin has made considerable efforts to involve undergraduate and graduate students in his re- search. • He has established a state-of-the-art research laboratory: Materials, Device and Circuit Simu- lations Laboratory. • He graduated thirteen Ph.D. students and six MS students. He has taught Electro