of Idaho Professor John Crepeau received his BS degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Utah. After serving as an NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, he began teaching at the University of Idaho. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He has served as Department Chair, Associate Dean and Interim Dean at the University of Idaho. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Enhancing Pathways from Community Colleges to Four-Year Schools with an Online Lecture/Laboratory Course in
access to necessaryhardware for laboratory assignments. Many students from lower-income and underrepresentedminority backgrounds begin their college journey through community colleges [3]-[5] and seekto transfer to a four-year college to obtain a computer engineering degree. However, communitycolleges may face challenges in providing appropriate engineering coursework to align withfour-year university curriculums [6], such as a course on digital logic that is typically completedduring freshman and sophomore years. This is due to the extensive breadth of the topic and thecost of supplying lab equipment to the community college and their students [7]. BEADLEintends to tackle this challenge by creating a series of laboratories that progressively
Technology.Dr. Paul N Beuchat, The University of Melbourne Paul N. Beuchat received the B.Eng. degree in mechanical engineering and the B.Sc. degree in physics from the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, in 2008, and the M.Sc. degree in robotics, systems, and control in 2014 and the Ph.D. degree in 2019, from ETH Z¨urich, Z¨urich, Switzerland, where he completed his research with the Automatic Control Laboratory. He is currently working as a Teaching Fellow with the University of Melbourne. Paul’s research interests include control and optimization of large-scale systems with applications in the areas of building control and multi-agent robotics, as well as research investigating project-based learning pedagogies
produced include a concept map. Students leave the course with a clear listof which topics they mastered and which they are still working on. This model still permits roomfor traditional laboratory and project components.IntroductionIn standard teaching, course topics are covered on a set schedule and exams occur at set schedules.If students have not learned the material for an earlier portion of the class, the course moves alonganyway and focuses on new more difficult material that builds on the previous material thatstudent still does not understand. This promotes a fixed mindset promoting the idea that if youdidn’t get a concept, you never will. At the end of the course, students may only have a partialunderstanding of the material and may be
and Space Studies (TCESS), a NASA University Research Center, and Director of the UPRM Laboratory for Applied Remote Sensing and Image Processing (LARSIP). Dr. Velez-Reyes is a strong advocate on promoting access to excellent higher education to all students particularly those from socioeconomically disadvantage backgrounds and underrepresented populations. He is a board member of the Inclusive Engineering Consortium and is actively engaged in initiatives that promote diversity equity and inclusion in engineering education. He has held faculty research-internship positions with Air Force Research Laboratories, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Furthermore, he is a member of the Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta
States.Undergraduate students in the department of electrical and computer engineering and thedepartment of computer science at this institution are expected to complete these courses in their3rd year of study. In terms of structure, the course had 12 weekly online assignments and 3examinations. The course also had a laboratory component with students completing 8laboratories during the semester.This course was designed by the instructor for a face-to-face delivery with initial syllabi andstudent learning objectives provided by the department (the course was not a new course to theinstitution prior to delivery by this instructor). Details regarding the design and differencesbetween styles of delivery as the courses evolved from face-to-face to asynchronous to
curriculum: at Tufts, students take the course(ES 4) in the fall semester of sophomore year and it forms part of their core conception of whatelectrical and computer engineering is. In general, their courses up to this point have been genericacross engineering, and many students see the course as a way to confirm whether an electrical orcomputer engineering major is right for them. As a result, we have both an opportunity and anobligation to inspire and motivate students in addition to helping them develop prerequisite skillsfor other courses.Digital logic labsAs at most universities, our offering of the course has a substantial laboratory component, wherestudents put in the hard (and rewarding) work of translating pencil-and-paper logic designs
Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) led by Northeastern University. He was also UPRM campus coordinator for the Center for Power Electronic Systems (CPES) a NSF ERC led by Virginia Tech. He was director of the UPRM Tropical Center for Earth and Space Studies (TCESS), a NASA University Research Center, ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Paper ID #43708 and Director of the UPRM Laboratory for Applied Remote Sensing and Image Processing (LARSIP). Dr. Velez-Reyes is a strong advocate on promoting access to excellent higher education to all students particularly those from socioeconomically
participants’ return to the U.S., follow-on projects were offered to leverage their newly formed professional and personal network.Over the lifetime of the grant, the program supported a total of 18 undergraduate and graduatestudent research projects in 10 Korean host laboratories at Seoul National University, KAIST,Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, and CJ Group. Despite challenges posed by COVID-19 that led to two no-cost extensions, every cohort in the program traveled to Korea and was ableto have an immersive experience. The participants were diverse in ethnicity (3 African Americans,1 Native American, and 4 Hispanics) and gender (7 female students). The program has catalyzedcontinuing and new collaborations in the smart systems field
critical thinking skills. Gradually, the student will be able to apply the concepts learned processing from basic to complex skills through activities like laboratories with specific feedback with the sole intention for improvement. The application of the knowledge might also then lead to analysis by exploring connections and organizing information into meaningful domains similar to writing a report. This also might include discussing discrepancies in cases and the student might explore other personal variables through their increased critical thinking [17].The taxonomy introduces a new dimension, highlighting four types of knowledge—factual,conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive—aimed at addressing diverse
an integrationof technological devices into classroom learning that does not require a specialized laboratory forconducting such experiments. The study adopted a survey and assessment methodology for datacollection. Data were collected pre-and post-implementation of the module in the course where itwas implemented. The study found that there was a significant improvement in learners' peerlearning and collaboration, as well as critical thinking. The test anxiety of the learners was alsoimproved. The performance of the learners was also found to increase significantly. The study waslimited to some courses taken at different levels of learning in different fields to avoid more thanone dosage of the implementation among the learners. In addition
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University Dr. Bruk T. Berhane received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Mary- land in 2003. He holds an M.S. in engineering management from the George Washington University and a Ph.D. in minority and urban education from the University of Maryland. In 2003, Bruk was hired by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL), where he worked on nanotech- nology and microsystems. In 2005 he left JHUAPL for a fellowship with the National Academies and researched methods of increasing the number of women in engineering. Later that year, he briefly served as a mathematics instructor in Baltimore City High Schools. From 2005 through 2018, Dr. Berhane directed