earliest peer-reviewed journal, IEEE/ASMETransactions on Mechatronics, appearing in March 1996 1. This journal defines mechatronics as"The synergistic integration of mechanical engineering with electronics and intelligent computercontrol in the design and manufacturing of industrial products and processes." Many universitiesare beginning to embrace the idea of mechatronics programs, due to the ever-increasingintegration of electrical and mechanical systems, especially in the areas of industrial control andautomation. Several noteworthy programs are discussed here.The University of California, Berkeley, houses the Robotics and Motion Control Laboratory, amechatronics research center within the Department of Mechanical Engineering2. Thelaboratory's
experience as a possiblechoice for a required technical elective provided a range of research experiences which would bedifficult to achieve through a lecture or a laboratory course. c. Other programsModels for integration of nanotechnology education into the undergraduate curriculum havebeen discussed by a number of engineering educators over the past decade, and all haveemphasized the need for a multi-disciplinary, active learning and problem based approach.6Uddin and Chowdhury specifically concluded that development of a broad-based introductorycourse at the freshman/sophomore level, which includes general concepts and societal/ethicalissues, is essential.7 They also identified a capstone, design-oriented course as critical todevelopment of
pneumatic actuators, power transmission, materialsand static force analysis, controls and programmable embedded computer systems, systemintegration and robotic applications. Laboratory sessions consist of hands-on exercises andteam projects where students design and build mobile robots.RBE 2001. Unified Robotics I.First of a four-course sequence introducing foundational theory and practice of roboticsengineering from the fields of computer science, electrical engineering and mechanicalengineering. The focus of this course is the effective conversion of electrical power tomechanical power, and power transmission for purposes of locomotion, and of payloadmanipulation and delivery. Concepts of energy, power and kinematics will be applied.Concepts from
engineering curriculum necessitated incorporation of controls engineeringcoursework in their program of study. An existing dynamic modeling and controls courseexisted between two departments: electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. With theintroduction of chemical engineers in the course, the chemical engineering specific lessons aretaught by a chemical engineering instructor. This organizational structure is important, allowingthe multidisciplinary faculty team to synchronize their efforts, bringing their individual strengthsand resources together for the course to promote student learning. The instructors engage inmeaningful dialogue concerning their assignments, lesson preparations, laboratory exercises, andtheir results. The
comparative assessment of the effectiveness of this approach compared to the previousyear’s offering of Sophomore Engineering Clinic.IntroductionThe Sophomore Clinic is a four semester-hour course team taught by the College ofCommunication and the College of Engineering. Typically, the course has approximately 120students divided into six sections. The faculty team consists of two or three instructors from theCollege of Communication and five from the College of Engineering, with each of the fourRowan engineering disciplines (Chemical, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical) represented. Studentshave two 75-minute lecture sessions and one 160-minute laboratory session each week.During the lecture sections students receive instruction on technical
(Connecticut) Annual fire-fighting home robot contest • AAAI Grand Challenges that focuses on human robot interactions • The Mobile Autonomous Systems Laboratory, a university-level vision-based autonomous robotics competition • VEX U, a university level VEX Robotics Competition for university students (ages 18+). • NASA's Annual Robotic Mining Competition • DARPA Robotics Challenge • IGVC autonomous ground vehicle competition • AUVSI Foundation and ONR's International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition • AUVSI Foundation's International Aerial Robotics Competition • Marine Advanced Technology Education Center Competition • AUVSI Foundation's Student Unmanned Air System
Paper ID #28855Workshops for Building the Mechatronics and Robotics EngineeringEducation CommunityProf. Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Michael A. Gennert is Professor of Robotics Engineering, CS, and ECE at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he leads the WPI Humanoid Robotics Laboratory and was Founding Director of the Robotics Engineering Program. He has worked at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, the University of California Riverside, PAR Technology Corporation, and General Electric. He received the S.B. in CS, S.B. in EE, and S.M. in EECS in 1980 and the Sc.D. in EECS in 1987
for a new typeof science and technology program that provides a broad scientific and technical education,engages students with real-world problems, and seriously addresses societal influences andimpacts. The department cuts across typical disciplinary boundaries, focusing more on practicalproblem solving than on theoretical knowledge. The curriculum emphasizes learning-by-doing,and includes several hands-on laboratory courses and a 3-semester senior capstone project.Upper-level instruction in the department is organized around strategic industry sectors, withstudents choosing to concentrate their studies in biosystems, engineering and manufacturing,information and knowledge management, telecommunications, energy, or environment.In 1997, the
has 235acute-care beds, and a 61-bed rehabilitation and skilled nursing facility. The hospital owns threerural hospitals and two long-term care facilities. This case study focuses on the AdministrationWing, which is part of the main building complex.Areas and Organizational StructureThe Administration Wing, built in 1991 with an area of approximately 63,000 sq-ft, is part of themain building complex and it houses offices, laboratories, education centers, and meeting rooms.The building is comprised of a basement and three floors. The Education Center of the hospital islocated in the basement of this building. The first floor, also known as the main floor, containsthe main hospital entrance, a gift shop, cafeteria and some offices. Laboratories
AC 2007-2527: MULTIDISCIPLINARY EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATEENGINEERING STUDENTSFred DePiero, California Polytechnic State University Dr. Fred DePiero received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University in 1985 and 1987. He then worked as a Development Associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory until 1993. While there he was involved in a variety of real-time image processing projects including a high-compression video transmission system for remote driving and several laser-based ranging systems. Fred began working on his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee while still at ORNL, and completed it in May 1996. His research interests include
American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Promoting Open-source Software and Hardware Platforms in Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering EducationAbstractThe evolution of Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering (MRE) has enabled numeroustechnological advancements since the early 20th century. Professionals in this field are reshapingthe world by designing smart and autonomous systems aiming to improve human well-being.Recognizing the need for preparing highly-educated MRE professionals, many universities andcolleges are adopting MRE as a distinct degree program. One of the cornerstones of MREeducation is laboratory- and project-based learning to provide a hands-on and engaging experiencefor the students. To this
water body. The STRIDER team consistsof a small group of engineering majors as well as students from other fields collaborating to meetthe requirements set by scientists at the Environmental Monitoring and Food Safety Laboratory(EMFSL) of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); under the advice of a few facultymembers at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES). STRIDER currently has thecapability of providing critical geo-located measurements; pH, Oxidation Reduction Potential(ORP), and Dissolved Oxygen (DO) values at the surface and other specified depths. This data canbe interpolated over the surface, as well as across the depth to provide a three-dimensionalrepresentation of the variation of water quality parameters of a
laboratory experiences are less available, including extended school closuresdue to current circumstances or other uncontrollable events, such as natural disasters [7].However, the benefits of these lab kits to grade-school students could extend beyond abnormalcircumstances. They could be used to add increased variety and depth to homework assignments,allowing the educational benefits of lab science to be realized outside of the classroom and thetime and procedural restrictions of in-class labs. Drawing inspiration from the work of Pinnell etal. [8] on engineering challenges for students that utilized fixed sets of materials, the lab kitscould also be tailored to serve as a vehicle for STEM outreach that motivates students to becomemore interested
of graduate and undergraduate courses in popula- tion health such as epidemiology, environmental health, and global health. He regularly publishes articles in peer-reviewed journals with both undergraduate and graduate students and presents his research ac- tivities in national and international conferences in the US and beyond including the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) annual conference.Dr. Rasheda Rasheda Sultana, Sam Huston State University Dr. Rasheda Sultana has been at Sam Houston State University since 2020. She teaches a unique combi- nation of classroom and laboratory-based courses and has more than 10 years of instructional experience in multiple disciplines of Health Sciences
Profession andEducation chaired by Professor Johnson2 .The two semester-long materials science subject was taught to second year undergraduates inBuilding, Civil and Mechanical Engineering courses. The relative high pass and low attritionrates in this subject ensured its victim-hood subject when it was swapped in 2003 in thecourse curricula with a less performing first year subject. In 2006 the subject becameProblem-based learning (PBL) designated and was transferred back to the second year level.PBL designation significantly altered the course delivery. Initially the subject organizationwhich consisted of 2 hours of lectures for 2semesters supplemented by 1 hour tutorial perweek in the first semester and a 2 hour laboratory session per fortnight in
. Page 26.1309.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Realizing Proof of Concept in Machine Design with 3D PrintingAbstractThe Virtual Machine Design course was developed to teach basic concepts of mechanicalcomponent design to mechatronics engineering students. The laboratory section of the course isgeared towards designing electromechanical devices. Students develop prototypes of theirdesigns in order to strengthen their design and visualization skills. The prototypes also givestudents the opportunity for hands-on learning. 3D printers, which can convert a CAD model toa physical product, are popular among the designers and inventors. As the printers become moreaffordable, 3D printing is moving
contributions to a multi-disciplinary project wasimplemented in the spring of 2012. The chosen project was a hydroelectric generation project inwhich the ME students designed a waterwheel to work in a laboratory flume, the ECE studentsdesigned a permanent-magnet generator with wireless monitoring, and the CEE studentsdesigned a structure to support the wheel and generator. Throughout the course of the projectstudents designed their respective components and communicated with others among the variousdisciplines to define design interface requirements. The first year of the project was successful inthat the student teams were able to design working components that functioned together in asystem to generate electricity. That design experience and several
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faculty as the expertise needed to teach each course was developed. Active learning is used in many of the core robotics courses [14]. Progressive increase in level of autonomy in each course. The robots developed in each course progress from tele-operation to line-following to total autonomy. FIGURE 2. Robotics Engineering laboratory late at night Tight integration of laboratory before a term project is due. assignments with lecture material [12]. Community-building. Many activities serve to build a sense of community amongst Robotics Engineering majors. These include
firstsemester of the course focuses on multidisciplinary engineering experiments using engineeringmeasurements as a common thread. The theme of the second semester is reverse engineering ofa commercial product or process. Sophomore Clinic I combines a 1-credit multidisciplinaryengineering laboratory with the 3-credit college composition and rhetoric requirement and is co- Page 12.1011.4taught by engineering and writing arts faculty. The 3-hour laboratory for the course is asemester-long multidisciplinary design project. Sophomore Clinic II follows the same structureas Sophomore Clinic I, with public speaking as the 3 credits of required
project at the end. This paper presents our study with differentlab delivery formats, including preparation, implementation, survey data, observations, andfindings.Course BackgroundIntroduction to Engineering in our institution is a 3 credit course. The course includes one 1-hourlecture, and two 2-hour labs/week. In the lecture, students develop the skills needed during theirstudy of engineering. Topics include task/time management, effective use of notes, engineeringresearch, oral and written communications, problem-solving techniques, ethics and professionalresponsibility and institute resources. In the laboratory, students work in teams to complete avariety of engineering tasks.Each class is set to 85 students maximum. The lecture is held at a
tools such as the Student Assessment of Learning Gains survey.4 Videotaping and captioning – materials developed for the course have included interviews with experts in particular disasters, site visits (e.g. to the Navy Lakehurst Historical Society and the site of the Hindenburg disaster). Laboratory experiments and discussions also filmed (e.g. impact testing of alloys related to the Titanic disaster, electron microscopy of materials from Hindenburg recovered after the disaster). Lectures making use of VoiceThread (created by the instructor) for a number of asynchronous discussions of videos of engineering failures, news reports, videos of laboratory testing methods, and Powerpoint presentations to provide background information
aimed at understanding the effect of introducing the newmethods on the students gaining a more in-depth understanding of uncertainty analysis, as wellas improving their efficiency by using different methods. Four different instructors presentedthese three methods in ten different sections of a laboratory course, and 60 students volunteeredto fill a questionnaire. The survey questions and results are discussed below.1. How much has your understating of the role that uncertainty plays in an experimental analysis improved?2. Evaluate the difficulty of uncertainty analysis using the Law of Propagation of Uncertainty (Taylor’s Series Expansion) which you learned in EGR 220.3. Evaluate the difficulty of uncertainty analysis using Monte Carlo
. Because of the integrated multidisciplinaryapproach, the scope for innovation in product engineering is ever increasing. With rapidchanges in technology and more applications becoming real-time and embedded, teaching themechatronics course only through laboratories or course projects is not sufficient. The leapfrom the traditional sequential design approach to the mechatronics philosophy is very big.Added to this are the various definitions that have evolved and the various methodologiesdeveloped for the mechatronics system design. Mechatronics is at a stage of evolutionaryprocess of modern engineering design and involves systems thinking. “V-cycle” is aprescribed industrial process for mechatronics. It is a graphical construct used tocommunicate
engineering education practices and then argued in support ofan educational model where components of engineering science, laboratory work, and designactivities interact with one another in an approximation of professional practice. Happily, thereare examples of engineering education programs that have created or modified their programobjectives and curricula to meet such curricular calls5, 6, 7. More recently, the ASME Vision2030 Task Force has joined others in endorsing the utilization of a design spine across thecurriculum. Ideally, this design spine is multidisciplinary in nature, providing the students withmultiple experiences working with people from other disciplines as they progress through theircurriculum culminating in a yearlong senior
StateUniversity found that minorities, in particular, increased their laboratory performance in a hybridenvironment. Perhaps the most compelling argument can be made by Landers7 in his doctoralthesis where a large number and variations of hybrid courses were analyzed. He states (p. 61):“it appears that online instruction is more effective than traditional instruction when seekingknowledge and problem solving gains”. In creating a hybrid Senior Design offering, facultymembers would have more opportunities to make connections with the on-line material and theteam project.Many of the present lecture topics apply directly to the design and construction of an object orstructure and dissemination of knowledge (lists and facts). The teams that work on projects
experience mustbe taken because extensive assessments are done and each student is tracked individually. Theengineering selectives ensure that students have a sufficient amount of design, laboratory, andcoverage of materials.Tailoring of the individual concentrations is mainly done in the engineering area and the area,and to a lesser extent in the general education program. The flexibility of the MDE program isillustrated in Table 2. For the student developed concentration up to 43.5% of the course creditscan be elective (although they must be chosen in the appropriate categories) and up to 50% of thecourse credits are either elective or selective. This flexibility allows the program to offer studentsthe opportunity to study almost any engineering
, University of Texas, Tyler Dr. Goh has worked as a Mechanical Engineering faculty of The University of Texas at Tyler. Prior to joining UT Tyler, he worked in the Systems Realization Laboratory at the University of Oklahoma from 2012 to 2015. He worked for the Korean government after he received his Ph.D. degree at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002. Dr. Goh is a member of ASEE, ASME, TMS, and the Institute of Integrated Healthcare in the East Texas. He also worked as a member of the board of directors in the materials and fracture group in the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has published a total two book chapters, 30 peer reviewed journal and proceeding papers as well as a co-authored textbook
. Figure 3. IDEAS StagesAfter the proposal is approved, the groups start working in a literature review to develop a betterunderstanding about their research topic. The students then produce an abstract (Figure 3 b),which is submitted online by the deadline, to be peer reviewed by the course’s teachingassistants. The groups prepare their physical model(s) and experimental set-up (Figure 3 c) to betested according to their experiment design (Figure 3d). Once the laboratory results, handcalculations, and simulations are completed, the groups write and submit a paper according to theprovided template and guidelines (Figure 3f). The students also create a poster (examples areprovided) which is presented at the showcase along with the model(s), video(s
Paper ID #23299Robotics as an Undergraduate Major: 10 Years’ ExperienceProf. Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Michael A. Gennert is Professor of Robotics Engineering, CS, and ECE at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he leads the WPI Humanoid Robotics Laboratory and was Founding Director of the Robotics Engineering Program. He has worked at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, the University of California Riverside, PAR Technology Corporation, and General Electric. He received the S.B. in CS, S.B. in EE, and S.M. in EECS in 1980 and the Sc.D. in EECS in 1987 from MIT. Dr. Gennert’s research