; Engineering Liv- ing Learning Community (LLC), Educating Engineering Students Innovatively (EESI) and Peer-Assisted Study Sessions (PASS). Dr. Caldwell also serves as the activity director for the Title III program Engi- neering Learning Community. Those collective programs have nearly doubled the first-year retention of underrepresented minorities at the college.Dr. Roxanne Hughes, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Dr. Roxanne Hughes is the Director of the Center for Integrating Research and Learning (CIRL) at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab). She has also directed the MagLab’s Diversity and Inclusion Programs from 2014 to 2019. She brings a breadth of experience in science teaching and infor
universities closed their campus and moved most or alllectures and labs online. Lab instructors were forced to convert their physical labs to online withlimited preparation time. It is important to highlight that only putting course content on the web,without using appropriate pedagogical models and principles, without appropriate means ofcommunication between participants and instructors and without the use of modern informationtechnologies to present the learning content, is not enough to fulfill educational goals [1].There are many educators that have already tried diverse ways to provide remote or virtualengineering labs [2]. All types of laboratories offer certain advantages. Engineering studentsshould be offered, through the duration of their
computation data and computer science. For this study,we did not include these majors, but their existence affirms our motivation to establish a baselineof computational skills and concepts in first year programs, as more of these types of majorscome into engineering. Findings and DiscussionExtracting concepts from course descriptionsCourse descriptions are limited by nature in what they can tell us and some were written in adifferent style than others (e.g. talking about experiences versus listing topics). There isdisciplinary jargon that we need help unpacking to identify what the actionable concept or skillmight be (e.g. machines and power laboratory). The disciplines of civil, environmental,transportation, and
of a faculty instructor,a graduate teaching associate, and undergraduate teaching assistants. The classrooms arearranged to encourage groupwork, with students seated at four-person tables with individualcomputers and a collaborative workspace [33]. These four-person groupings extend to thelaboratory experience, where students rotate groups approximately weekly. The facultyinstructors take primary responsibility for delivery of the classroom experience, while thegraduate teaching associates develop and lead the laboratory component under the guidance ofthe instructors.The first course in the honors sequence provides instruction in problem solving, computerprogramming, engineering design, and technical communication. The classroom portion of
-solver.However, these activities require access to equipment, peripherals, and sensors. Traditional thehigh cost of these laboratory equipment have made their use restrictive [7] [8]. In recent years,open source hardware and software has helped to reduce the cost of laboratory equipment andmake hands-on engineering education accessible to more students [9] [10]. Open source Arduinomicrocontroller has become the go to tool for researchers, academics, and DIY enthusiasts forprototyping control systems [11]. Arduino is a simple and easy to use device that has helped todemocratize prototyping and making for all [12]. Open source Arduino microcontroller hashelped to make scientific experimentation affordable and created more opportunities for first-year
Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Activities. He was awarded numerous summer faculty fellowships with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the Air Force Institute of Technology - Wright Patterson Air Force Base. He is currently on sabbatical working at the US Environmental Protection Agency. He is a Princi- pal Investigator of the National Science Foundation-funded $1.5 Million grant to enhance freshman and sophomore engineering students’ learning experiences. His research is in the areas of fate and transport of organic and inorganic pollutants in the environment.Dr. Paulina Reina, California State University, Fullerton Dr. Paulina Reina is an Assistant Professor in the
of belonging to their program of study. While this was a known problem for theEE program, a closed-loop educational assessment and improvement was conducted to close thegap and relate students to their field of study as early as the first semester of study. In this newapproach to the lower-division courses students will start system view courses and currentprototyping circuits and tools were used to set up the laboratory experiments. The goals of thisstudy were: a) Integration of courses and providing a system view in the lower-division courses. b) Improving retention and engagement in early years of study. c) Closing the gap between lower-division and upper-division courses by practicing system view projects using
class years. All engineering students take calculus-based Physics-Mechanics (PHY160) during the spring semester of their first year. PHY160 is a 5-credit coursethat meets for nearly 2.5 hours three days a week that combine lecture and laboratory together.Two professors are always present in the classroom to provide additional opportunities to answerstudent questions. There are two textbooks used in the course. “Exploratory Physics” by (nameomitted for anonymity) is used as an in-class workbook that includes active-learning activities andintegrated laboratories [11, 12]. “Fundamentals of Physics” by Halliday, Resnick and Walker isused for before and after class for prior reading and homework assignments [13]. Some of thetopics covered include
faculty fellowships with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the Air Force Institute of Technology - Wright Patterson Air Force Base. He is currently on sabbatical working at the US Environmental Protection Agency. He is a Princi- pal Investigator of the National Science Foundation-funded $1.5 Million grant to enhance freshman and sophomore engineering students’ learning experiences. His research is in the areas of fate and transport of organic and inorganic pollutants in the environment. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference
expectationsthat engineering audiences have for documents—expectations for titles, summaries,introductions, sections, appendices, illustrations, and equations. Until students learn theprinciples of engineering writing, a significant gap exists between what those students haveexperienced in general writing courses and what those students are expected to produce inreports for design courses, laboratory courses, and internships. Engineering colleges are responding to this gap. For instance, at the University ofMichigan [4], the College of Engineering has dropped first-year English from their curricula infavor of increasing the number of credits allotted to first-year design. Now having four credits,this first-year design course has both a design
year or even second year ofstudy. Until recently, Binghamton University students have declared their engineering major atthe end of their second semester of study. Now, the declaration of major is done at the end of thefirst semester, although students are informed that they can still change their selection with nopenalty until the start of their second year. The fall semester of engineering courses introducestudents to the engineering majors offered at Binghamton University. There are guest lecturersfrom the engineering departments and industry. The engineering lectures, laboratories, andstudent projects represent all the engineering majors. These educational experiences are designedto give students a better understanding of the engineering
, the objectivesremained the same. However, because the second-year students had previous introduction totopics including AutoCAD, Excel, and ArcGIS in their first year, there was a concern that thefirst-year students would not be able to grasp the course content as easily as the second-yearstudents. To compensate for this, the Fundamentals course was expanded from 3-credits to 4-credits with an additional 75 minutes (1 hr 15 min) per week of in-class time for a total of 315minutes (5 hr 15 min). When offered in the first-year, three weekly class meetings were 50minutes each and offered on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule with the remaining 165minutes (2 hr 45 min) reserved for a weekly laboratory session.Additional content that exposes
Engineering at Boise State University. He earned a BSc in Geological Engineering from the University of Manitoba and MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering and PhD in Engineering from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. His research is focused on the laboratory characterization of brittle materials and how their formation and and external factors influence physical and engineering properties.Dr. Robert Hamilton P.E., Boise State University Dr. Hamilton has been with Boise State University since 1995, where he helped found the Civil Engineer- ing Department.Prof. Bhaskar Chittoori P.E., Boise State University Dr. Bhaskar Chittoori received his bachelor’s degree from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada
departments are well-known to be “hands-on” departmentsas most core courses require laboratory experiences. Thus, distance learning was rarely used forengineering-related curriculum. Possible advantages from online education include the ability toaccess material and notes at the student’s own pace at any time, which in turn, may help studentsto grasp concepts more efficiently. Moreover, the information and content of courses is startingto become widely available among multiple institutions [3]. However, many challenges existrelated to the execution and delivery of online classes. The face-to-face interactions students andinstructors had become accustomed to have suddenly transitioned into minimal interactionswhere mostly the instructor is doing all
. • Sensing learners prefer to learn facts, solve problems through well-established approaches, and don’t like complications and surprises. They tend to be patient with detailed information, doing hands-on laboratory work, and good at memorizing facts. They are practical and careful. They don’t like being tested on material that has not been explicitly covered in class. They don’t like to receive content that is not connected to the real world. • Intuitive learners prefer discovering relationships and possibilities. They dislike repetition and like innovation. They are good at grasping new concepts and comfortable with mathematical formulations and abstractions. They tend to work fast and are innovative
puzzles by handing pieces of paper back and forth and discussing where the strips belonged. The new solution had to replicate this process as closely as possible. • Easy to disseminate: The instructional team responsible for the course were already transitioning courses and laboratories online, along with dealing with the inherent work overhead of an online course. The solution could not require an instructor to create duplicate documents, copy and paste code for multiple teams, or other work-intensive operations. • Self-checking: In the in-person implementation, the instructional team (one faculty member and multiple undergraduate teaching assistants) would rotate around the classroom
) multiple molds of hydrogel actuators, (d) student researcher prepping prototyping materials, (e) silicone actuators in a dynamic test rig developed by students, (f) student researcher building test rig.Weekly Group Meeting In addition to technical, laboratory skills, students were provided a variety of workshopsrelated to research and their professional development. Workshops were delivered by subject-matter experts, further facilitating networking and community building. In weekly groupmeetings, students presented progress on goals, discussed current literature, practiced career-readiness skills and brainstormed independent projects.Progress reports. Each week students prepared a one slide progress
MATLAB’s Online Tutorial in First-Year Engineering Courses, 11th Annual First Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference,July 2019, University Park, PA.[6] Sodhi J. S. and Roman M., A Novel 2D Vectors Hands-on Lab Exercise for a First YearEngineering Mathematics Laboratory, 10th Annual First Year Engineering Experience (FYEE)Conference, July 2018, Glassboro, NJ.
resources.While students felt competent in their abilities to pursue an engineering degree, they describedcompetence as individual knowledge and understanding of engineering and access to resources.These resources were described as people (e.g., advisors, tutors), and as non-human resources(e.g., libraries, relevant laboratories, tutorials). Having access to resources made them feelcompetent and confident in themselves in the present and in their future. Often studentsconflated competence with confidence, which we plan to discuss in a separate study, but ingeneral, students felt like competent learners. Therefore, they felt confident they can becomeengineers in the long run. Access to resources made sense as contributing factors to students’competence
. He has co-founded two successful start-up companies (Accuri Cytometers and Fusion Coolant Systems), co-founded BLUElab, served as Director of the Graduate Pro- gram in Mechanical Engineering (2009-2012), and served as associate and guest editor for four different academic journals. His Ph.D. students in the Environmental and Sustainable Technologies Laboratory have addressed sus- tainability challenges in the fields of systems design, technology selection, manufacturing, and water.Claudia G. Cameratti-Baeza, University of Michigan At CRLT, Claudia works with the Foundational Course Initiative (FCI) as Pedagogy & Instructional De- sign Consultant. In this role, she partners with departmental instructional teams
. Dr. Atamturktur’s research has received funding from several federal agencies including the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Education, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, as well as industry organizations and partners, such as the National Masonry Concrete Association and Nucor. She served as the director of the National Science Foundation-funded Tigers ADVANCE project, which focuses on improving the status of women and minority faculty at Clemson. Previously, Dr. Atamturktur was the director of the National Science Foundation-funded National Research Traineeship project at Clemson, with funding for
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instruction.Topics included: Zoom breakout rooms and student engagement, giving remote exams, wellness,online laboratories and fieldwork, hands-on project-based learning, and feedback from studentson their transition to remote learning (https://www.mtu.edu/ideahub/). Additionally, severalUniversity policies were modified in response to challenges faced by students during Spring2020. Options were provided to extend the time for students to withdraw from classes, providedthe option to retake courses in Spring 2020 regardless of the grade they received, and included apass/low-pass/fail grading scale option.Planning for Fall 2020Planning for the first-year engineering courses for Fall 2020 semester started well before the endof the 2019-20 academic year. Early
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describealternating waveforms in electrical generators where a sine wave is produced when a coil of wire isrotated within a magnetic field. Other courses like dynamics are designed and analyzed usingtrigonometric functions. Even earthquake wave motion can be described with the sine function. Itis this sine function that became the basis for introducing the sine function in MATLABprogramming to create a melodious sound. The sine function was also introduced after thedemonstration of a laboratory-grade mass spring system while measuring SHM using a Vernier™Motion Detector.MATLAB and Wave MotionEngineering educators have previously presented algorithmic tools like MATLAB to solve forsinusoidal-based models for projectile motion [4]. Some researchers have
, each team has a budgetof $50. Most of the building material is available in the machine shop. For this project, 10% ofteams build the full-scale model in the machine shop and 90% of the teams 3D printed theirsmall-scale model in engineering laboratory. Figure 3 shows examples of prototypes built bystudents. At the last week of classes, teams presented their project work to the client and a groupof local high school students. In addition, each team prepared a written report outlining projectgoals, background research, sketches of three possible design ideas, their chosen design,SolidWorks drawings, and bill of materials. Written reports are also shared with the client. Figure 3: Examples of little free library prototypes are shown in the
and thought-provoking curriculums for the engineering department at UC San Diego. My master’s degree background is aimed towards the field of medical technology, where I am able to work in a design laboratory that specializes in researching and developing medical devices. I plan to continue my education to obtain a Ph.D., directing my impact on engineering education and translational research at UC San Diego.Mr. Edward I Lan, University of California, San Diego Edward Lan earned his B.S in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 2017. He moved on to work in the aerospace industry at Applied Composites San Diego (Formerly San Diego Composite) directly after graduating, developing new
? 1 The Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI) is a multidimensional measurement device intended to 2 evaluate participates’ subjective experience regarding target activity in laboratory experiments 3 [40]. It has been used in several past experiments related to intrinsic motivation and self- 4 regulation [41-43]. The instrument assesses participants’ relatedness (Q1 — Q8), perceived 5 competence (Q9 — Q11), and interest or enjoyment (Q12) while performing a given activity, 6 thus yielding three subscale scores. The relatedness subscale covers interpersonal interactions as 7 well as friendship formation. Figure 4 shows the procedure for calculating a relatedness score 8 for each lab mode. Figure 4. Calculation
completed her doctorate in mechanical engineering in 2011, all from WVU. At WVU, she has previously served as the Undergraduate and Outreach Advisor for the Mechani- cal and Aerospace Engineering department and the Assistant Director of the Center for Building Energy Efficiency. She has previously taught courses such as Thermodynamics, Thermal Fluids Laboratory, and Guided Missiles Systems, as well as serving as a Senior Design Project Advisor for Mechanical Engineer- ing Students. Her research interests include energy and thermodynamic related topics. Since 2007 she has been actively involved in recruiting and outreach for the Statler College, as part of this involvement Dr. Morris frequently makes presentations to
Laboratory on campus where she works with lithium ion coin cells. She has completed two co-ops, where she has worked on grid-scale energy storage technologies and electrochemically medi- ated CO2 capture devices. She is an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipient and will begin pursuing a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Brown University this Fall.Ms. Hannah Boyce, Northeastern University Hannah Boyce is a fourth year undergraduate student pursuing a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at North- eastern University. She has been involved in the Connections Chemistry Review program for a three years, is a peer mentor, President of AIChE and Conference Chair for the 2021 AIChE Northeast Regional Con- ference. She