into circuits and communication links. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Measurement of the Effect of Interactive Questions in Lab Manuals on LearningAbstract -- This research paper will describe the results of an experiment in which two groups ofstudents in a laboratory class received different web-based lab manuals featuring interactivequestions, the treatment with many more interactive questions than the control. The hypothesiswas that asking students more questions would cause the students to reflect on the task at hand,which would in turn increase learning. This study was motivated by work on experientiallearning, particularly Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle, which suggests that
taught many engineering courses including, but not limited to, Linear Circuit Laboratory, Electronics Laboratory, Electromagnetics, Communication Theory, and Signals and Systems. Dr. Fenner is an accomplished researcher and has published several journal articles and conference papers. She has also served as a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques and IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. She has served as the faculty mentor for the Loyola section of the Society of Women Engineers and the Women in Engineering affiliate of the Baltimore IEEE.Dr. Peggy ONeill, Loyola University Maryland Peggy O’Neill, PhD, a professor of writing and Associate Dean of Humanities at Loyola
Paper ID #16477Implementing a Challenge-Inspired Undergraduate ExperienceDr. Marcia Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Marcia Pool is a Lecturer in bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In her career, Marcia has been active in improving undergraduate education through developing problem-based laboratories to enhance experimental design skills; developing a preliminary design course focused on problem identification and market space (based on an industry partner’s protocol); and mentoring and guiding student teams through the senior design capstone course and a translational
Paper ID #25131Work in Progress: A Transferable Model to Improve Retention and StudentSuccess in STEM through Undergraduate Research (NSF LEARN Consor-tium)Dr. Daniel Meeroff, Florida Atlantic University Daniel Meeroff is Professor and Associate Chair at Florida Atlantic University’s Department of Civil, En- vironmental & Geomatics Engineering. His area of specialization is Environmental Engineering, specifi- cally water and wastewater engineering, water quality, solid and hazardous waste management, and pollu- tion prevention. Dr. Meeroff is the founder and director of the Laboratories for Engineered Environmental
Paper ID #13186Enhancing Accessibility of Engineering Lectures for Deaf & Hard of Hearing(DHH): Real-time Tracking Text Displays (RTTD) in ClassroomsMr. Gary W Behm, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST) Gary W. Behm, Assistant Professor of Engineering Studies Department, and Director of NTID Center on Access Technology Innovation Laboratory, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology. Gary has been teaching and directing the Center on Access Technology Innovation Laboratory at NTID for five years. He is a deaf engineer who retired from IBM after serving for 30 years. He is a
engineering design and students were required towork in teams to solve a variety of design tasks (e.g., designing a net-zero energy house forhabitat for humanity). Instruments previously established by Brewe and colleagues16 for use inintroductory physics laboratories were adapted for use. In brief, students were asked “Who doyou work with on engineering assignments (i.e., homework, projects, etc.)? Please list all.” Ofthe 860 students enrolled in the class, 725 responded to the survey resulting in a response rate of84%. This SNA question was administered as part of larger, pen and paper survey of studentattitudes towards diversity during the final weeks of the semester.Data was manually compiled into an edge list, a paired list describing all the
inengineering.In this work-in-progress paper, we describe a design-based research project that explores howstudents adopt positive learning behaviors and dispositions through a course, because positivelearning behaviors and dispositions have been shown to increase persistence through challengesand setbacks4.We have designed a course titled Engineering the Mind as an eight-week, second-half semestercourse that is offered for one semester-hour of credit. We plan to pilot this course in Spring 2017to prepare for the Fall 2017 offering.BackgroundDesign-Based ResearchDesign-based research (DBR) is a research paradigm that attempts to bridge laboratory studieswith complex, instructional intervention studies5. DBR is described as “theoretically-framed,empirical
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
Added Course Expenses and Technology Fees on Students of Differing Social and Economic StatusAbstractThe field of electronics has made immense advancements in affordability and portability that havetransformed engineering education. Engineering course curricula have increasingly incorporatedmodern technology that has made a positive impact by creating more hands on activities andexperiments. Specialized laboratory equipment and setups are being replaced with off the shelfdevices and components. Customized printed circuit boards can be purchased cheaply andfabricated in days instead of weeks. Creating these hands on activities has many timescorresponded with an increased expense that is passed on to the students in the form of a
assistant with the Visualization, Analysis, and Imaging Laboratory (VAIL), the GeoResources Institute (GRI), Mississippi State University. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Engineering Technology, Prairie View A&M University. His research interests include digital signal processing, image and video coding, and wavelets.Dr. Suxia Cui, Prairie View A&M University Suxia Cui is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU). She joined PVAMU right after she obtained her Ph.D. degree in Com- puter Engineering from Mississippi State University in 2003. Her research interests include image and video processing
is focused on enhancing educational access for deaf and hard of hearing students in mainstreamed classrooms. He worked in industry for over five years before returning to academia and disability law policy. Towards that end, he completed a J.D. and LL.M. in disability law, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science.Mr. Gary W. Behm, Rochester Institute of Technology Gary W. Behm, Assistant Professor of Engineering Studies Department, and Director of NTID Center on Access Technology Innovation Laboratory, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology. Gary has been teaching and directing the Center on Access Technology Innovation Laboratory at NTID for five years. He is a deaf
4 graphical user interfaces.Koretsky, Kelly, The authors conducted a .93, .85, and .89 Cohen’s Kappa score for& Gummer content analysis to contrast three different laboratories offered under(2011) the survey responses of each of the two conditions. undergraduates who attended a virtual laboratory versus those who attended a physical laboratory.Mentzer, Becker, The authors coded the The authors reported the interrater& Sutton (2015) engineering design thinking reliability, as indicated by Cohen’s kappa, of 59 high school students’ for
mathematics by applying evidence-based teaching strategies—student-centeredproblem-based teaching(SC-PBT), example-based teaching, and just-in-time teaching (JITT); (3)incorporating classroom and laboratory activities that require active student engagement,conceptual understanding, critical thinking, and problem-solving; and (4) Employing modelstudents to lead Supplementary Instruction (SI) courses with evidence-based peer-to-peerlearning strategies. This section mainly describes the details on the implementation of evidence-based teaching and SI program in selected STEM gateway courses.3.1 Implementing evidence-based teaching in STEM gateway coursesInnovative, evidence-based instructional practices are critical to transforming the
majors. The course is not tailored toengineering in so much as the content covered is not presented or framed within the context ofengineering. Different than pre-medical or biology majors, the engineering students are notrequired to take the laboratory portion of the course.InstrumentsThe engineering students were given a series of instruments at the end of their biology course.Four different instruments were utilized to assess the relationship between future timeperspective, course belongingness, and interest.Future time perspective was measured using two different instruments that represent the twocomponents of future time perspective: perceptions of instrumentality and career connectedness: Perceptions of Instrumentality (PI): The
study were collected during four 50-minutes discussion sections thatwere a required part of an introductory engineering course at a large Midwestern university. Thediscussion sections took place in a laboratory classroom. Each discussion section was taught byone TA and two CAs (see Table 1). The 14 consented groups, the TAs, and the three CAs wererecorded using ceiling mounted cameras and lapel, table or hanging microphones. During alldiscussion sections, students worked in small groups to solve the same ill-structured, authenticengineering task that was designed using the guidelines designed by the Authors [16]. The taskwas on 11-inch tablets, with project software installed. Each student had one tablet; tablets ofstudents in the same group
$25,000 to more than $2 million annually. He introduced Polytech- nic’s first computer-based instructional laboratory. In 1983 he became Associate Provost for Computing and Information Systems. During the early stages of the PC and Workstation explosion he worked closely with Aerospace and Architectural and Engineering Design companies to lead the University’s develop- ment of Interactive Computer Graphics and Computer Aided Design (CAD) laboratories and curricula. He won a $3.2 million IBM CAD/CAM grant which enabled introduction of CAD/CAM and VLSI in- struction at Polytechnic. He served as Dean Graduate Studies 1986 - 1992, a position in which he had responsibility for recruiting graduate students and establishing
Research Achievement Award and the International Liquid Crystal Society Multimedia Prize. In 2003, he received a NASA/ASEE Sum- mer Faculty Fellowship to research NEMS/MEMS adaptive optics in the Microdevices Laboratory at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Fontecchio received his Ph.D. in Physics from Brown University in 2002. He has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed publications. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 The impact of project based learning on engagement as a function of student demographicsAbstractThis work in progress seeks to determine the role of demographics in student inclination tochoose science, technology, engineering, and
Senior Research Associate (Auditory Protection and Prevention - US Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory, Fort Rucker Alabama), Joint Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Engineering Technology and Built Environment at North Caro- line Agricultural and Technical State University, as a visiting professor at University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Industrial and Production Engineering Department, as a research assistant with Dr. Denise Tucker at University of North Carolina Greensboro in the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, School of Health and Human Science, as a Facilities Engineer at Maryland Motor Vehicle Administra- tion Glenn Burnie. Dr. Fasanya holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering
course. In essence, all of their prior program baggage went into the classroom every day;they could not hit the “reset” button as students typically do every semester as they encounterdifferent instructors. We became convinced through student testimonials that they needed to feellike, and be “regular” engineering students. Yes, they were admitted through a special programbecause of their potential, but once in the engineering college, students just wanted to be“normal.”To boost both students’ learning and their beliefs that they belong in engineering, in fall 2013 weconverted the traditional preparatory physics course to a hands-on format, implementing weeklyengineering-focused laboratories that focused on data collection, analysis and synthesis
-mentoring. Incorporation of engineering design experiences across the undergraduatecurriculum with linkages to the university’s engineering innovation laboratory for access toindustry projects contributes to increased student retention and persistence to graduation.CASCADE uses promising practices from research to create a retention program that includesintegrated curriculum, peer-mentoring, learning communities, and efforts that build innovationand creativity into the engineering curriculum. CASCADE vertically aligns 32 problem-baseddesign efforts from the first-year to senior-year (capstone) courses. Research on engineeringstudent learning communities indicates increased retention and student satisfaction with theirfirst-year experience 18, 33
in the Robotics laboratory at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He worked as a post-doc at University of Pennsylvania in the area of Haptics and Virtual Reality. His research interests are in the areas of unmanned vehicles particularly flapping flight, mechatronics, robotics, MEMS, virtual reality and haptics, and teaching with technology. He has ongoing research in flapping flight, Frisbee flight dynamics, lift in porous material and brain injury He is an active member of ASEE and ASME and reviewer for several ASME, IEEE and ASEE, FIE conferences and journals. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Fluids Friday! A Method for Improving Student Attentiveness
work, she developed and validated a new interdisci- plinary assessment in the context of carbon cycling for high school and college students using Item Re- sponse Theory. She is also interested in developing robotics-embedded curricula and teaching practices in a reform-oriented approach. Currently, a primary focus of her work at New York University is to guide the development of new lessons and instructional practices for a professional development program under a DR K-12 research project funded by NSF.Dr. Vikram Kapila, New York University Vikram Kapila is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU Tandon), where he directs a Mechatronics, Controls, and Robotics Laboratory, a
students. Martin et al.19 alsoemphasize the need for improving parental education regarding the processes for universityadmission, financial aid, expected engineering course load, and long-term benefits of earning anengineering degree. They specifically suggest considering language barriers while designingparents’ events.Transition The transition solutions focused on 1) making curricular changes and 2) developingsocial capital in community colleges for engineering. Hoit and Ohland showed, with statistically-significant evidence, that presenting the realengineering content, in the first-year itself, helps retain women students14. They introduced theintroduction to engineering course in a laboratory format, where they employed active
teachers.Dr. Krishnanand Kaipa, Old Dominion University Dr. Krishnanand Kaipa is an Assistant Professor and director of the Collaborative Robotics and Adaptive Machines (CRAM) Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Old Dominion University. Dr. Kaipa received his BE (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India in 1998, and his MS in 2004 and PhD in 2008, both in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He worked as a postdoctoral associate at Depart- ment of Computer Science, University of Vermont and later at Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, where he was also a research assistant
admitted (e.g., low STEM gender stereotypes), find more successas students and as professionals [22].In response to these findings, interventions developed to challenge students’ stereotypes ofSTEM professionals – with a goal of strengthening interest and buffering against attrition – arebecoming more frequent. Some have focused on the type of people who are interested andsuccessful in STEM: since biased representations of STEM professionals generally portray themas white and male, educators have attempted to change these portrayals by spotlighting thediversity that already exists in the field [23], [24]. Other stereotypes pigeonhole STEM careers asthose that focus excessively on laboratory work and mechanical tinkering, overlooking both thesocial
Columbia University and the Cooper Union in New York City. She received her PhD from Columbia University in 2006, where her research focused on the mechanical and frictional properties of articular cartilage. Dr. Basalo ’s teaching experience includes Thermodynamics, Computer Graphics, Materials Science and laboratory courses. Since 2015 she has been actively involved in the University of Miami College of Engineering’s ”Redefining Engineering Education” strategic plan on educational innovation. As part of this plan, Dr. Basalo worked with 2 other faculty members to organize inaugural Senior Design Expo in May 2017, an exposition where over 200 senior students showcased their Capstone projects to the University of Miami
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two courses. This paperfocuses on the honors sequence, specifically the first course in the sequence, 1281H, whichemphasizes problem solving through computer programming. Course Structure and Classroom ConfigurationFirst-year engineering students enrolled in the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors (FEH)sequence at The Ohio State University complete a two-semester sequence of classes that cover awide variety of fundamental engineering topics and laboratory exercises were eligible toparticipate in the study.The first course (ENG 1281.01H) emphasizes problem solving and computer programming inMATLAB and C/C++. All courses include a laboratory component designed to expose studentsto a wide variety of engineering disciplines and topics
investigated uses a semester long team-based designproject to introduce students to the engineering design process. Course enrollment representsapproximately 80% of all incoming first-year engineering students (total enrollment = 660; 525identified as first-year students). Other students in the course include upper level students thattook the course out of sequence from the traditional plan of study. Due to the volume of students,the course offered two large auditorium style lecture sections and multiple (32) smallerlaboratory sections. Each week students would meet in their smaller laboratory classes,maximum of 32 students. Additionally, students were required to attend one of the two largerlectures (~350 students per lecture), each week.Students
Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics.Undergraduate students from each major assisted faculty in the development of the VR lessons.One undergraduate research assistant from each of the five STEM areas assisted the faculty indeveloping and testing the lessons. The research assistants gained experience in the lessondevelopment process starting from establishing learning objectives, and then storyboarding andprototyping.The implementation of these lessons was in the following courses 1) Introduction to AerospaceEngineering, 2) Aerodynamics-I, 3) Molecular Cell and Genetic Biology, 4) Molecular Cell andGenetic Biology Laboratory, 5) Signals and Systems, 6) Microprocessors, 7) Pre-Calculus andAlgebra, 8) Calculus 1, 9) Differential Equation, 10) Physics I