showcased to the attendees through lectures delivered by experts fromuniversities and national laboratories. Teaching modules offered introductions on data sciencemethods and included hands-on illustrations and tutorials covering applications of data scienceand engineering for nonproliferation. Lectures included discussions on existing challenges in thefield coupled with hands-on experiences. Modules were organized to boost students’ knowledgeof data science and hone their skills under constraints of a single week program.course was delivered via the WebEx platform. Within WebEx, students were limited to utilizethe chat tool for communication. Instructors also established a Slack channel to enhance student-to-student and student-to-instructor
. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Investigation on Students' Educational Experience with HyFlex Instruction Model in Two Engineering CoursesAbstract Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, educators all around the world searched for effectiveways to continue teaching. Although switching to online learning seemed to be the safest andmost appropriate method at the time, the virtual setting is inadequate for providing activelearning. Hands-on learning is indispensable especially for engineering programs. In Fall 2020,synchronous online mode was augmented with HyFlex instruction for the first time. HyFlex isshort for Hybrid learning and Flexible course structure. The HyFlex
[6]. In order for future engineers to produce efficientfunctional texts, they must acquire specific features of academic training in their undergraduateeducation that mirrors the demands of professional engineering career paths [7]. Research alsoproposes that students are lacking in projects that enhance their communication and teamworkskills [8]. This highlights the importance of the role of engineering educators as they are requiredto make careful selections of teaching material that both develops the student’s general writingskills and provides students with relevant practical experience in project-based learning andopportunities to work and write together as a team.The Technical Writing and Experimental Design course at the University of
and teaching in the freshman engineering program and the mechanical engineering program. She is also the Assistant Director of the NAE Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP) at ASU and works closely with the Director to ensure the success of the program. Dr. Zhu is also involved in the ASU ProMod project, the Engineering Projects in Community Service program, the Engineering Futures program, the Global Freshman Academy/Earned Admission Program, and the ASU Kern Project. She was a part of the team that designed a largely team and activity based online Introduction to Engineering course. She has also co-developed two unique MOOCs, Introduction to Engineering and Perspectives on Grand Challenges for Engineering
study of remote, hands-on, and simulated laboratories.” ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, vol. 14, issue 2, pp. 1-27, Aug 2007. https://doi.org/10.1145/1275511.1275513.[10] C. Viegas, A. Pavani, N. Lima, A. Marques, I. Pozzo, E. Dobboletta, V. Atencia, D. Barreto, F. Calliari, A. Fidalgo, D. Lima, G. Temporao, and G. Alves, “Impact of a remote lab on teaching practices and student learning.” Computers and Education, vol. 126, pp. 201-216, Nov 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2018.07.012.[11] M. Brereton, S. Sheppard, and L. Leifer, "How students connect engineering fundamentals to hardware design: observations and implications for the design of curriculum and assessment methods
Paper ID #32492Transition from the F2F to the Online Teaching Method During EmergencyStatus (Engineering Emergency Remote Learning)Dr. Bahaa Ansaf, Colorado State University - Pueblo B. Ansaf received a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering /Aerospace and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in me- chanical engineering from the University of Baghdad in 1996 and 1999, respectively. From 2001 to 2014, he has been an Assistant Professor and then Professor with the Mechatronics Engineering Department, Baghdad University. During 2008 he has been a Visiting Associate professor at Mechanical Engineering Department, MIT. During 2010 he has
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
and ground. His team deployed a bomb finding robot named the LynchBot to Iraq late in 2004 and then again in 2006 deployed about a dozen more improved LynchBots to Iraq. His team also assisted in the deployment of 84 TACMAV systems in 2005. Around that time he volunteered as a science advisor and worked at the Rapid Equipping Force during the summer of 2005 where he was exposed to a number of unmanned systems technologies. His initial group composed of about 6 S&T grew to nearly 30 between 2003 and 2010 as he transitioned from a Branch head to an acting Division Chief. In 2010-2012 he again was selected to teach Mathematics at the United States Military Academy West Point. Upon returning to ARL’s Vehicle
in-person laboratory experiences. The course used the video conferencing clientZoom as the primary method of communication. If virtual and in-person learning was happeningsynchronously, the Zoom call was projected in the classroom so that all students could see andhear each other. A video and audio feed was also available from the classroom so that studentscould hear each other across platforms.ResultsThe results of both Cohort A and Cohort B’s activities were extremely promising. Students inCohort A had statistically significant improvements in the number of other students they feltcomfortable working with over the course of the semester. At the start of the semester, studentsidentified in the survey that they were willing to work with an
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
, energy and water supply chain, energy use, conservation and lighting technologies for buildings, communications for energy sys- tems, water use in hydraulic fracturing, environmental impacts of energy production, turbomachinery for energy use and its reliability.Dr. Sunay Palsole, Texas A&M University Dr. Palsole is Assistant Vice Chancellor for Remote Engineering Education at Texas A&M University, and has been involved in academic technology for over 20 years. Prior to Texas A&M, he was the Associate Vice Provost for Digital Learning at UT San Antonio, where he lead teams focused on enhancing the learner and teaching experiences across all spaces. His focus on the user experience and data, has led to
Paper ID #33723Investigating Team Roles Within Long-Term Project-Based LearningExperiencesMs. Amy Dunford, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Amy K. Dunford is the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program Manager at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Amy earned a master’s degree in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from the Uni- versity of California, Irvine and a master’s in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Amy spe- cializes in project-based learning management and curriculum development, and has prior experience as a first-year engineering laboratory course developer and instructor at UC Irvine.Dr
Paper ID #34191Assessing the Value and Implementation of Interdisciplinary Activitiesin Academic Makerspaces and Machine ShopsDr. Lennon Rodgers, University of Wisconsin – Madison Lennon Rodgers is currently the Director of the Design Innovation Lab at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, which includes a makerspace, machine shop and a set of interdisciplinary design programs. He earned his PhD and M.S. from MIT and B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (all mechanical engineering). Previously he worked at MIT as a Research Scientist and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an engineer. All of his
Paper ID #34857Building STEAM: Creating a Culture of Art in an Engineering EducationDr. Katherine Hennessey Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering Katherine Wikoff is a professor in the Humanities, Social Science, and Communication Department at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where she Is a member of the UX faculty and teaches courses in communication, film/media studies, and political science. She has a B.A. in political science from Wright State University and an M.A. and PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.Mr. James R. Kieselburg, Milwaukee School of Engineering Director and Curator, Grohmann
uncertainty.The learning throughout the course is intended to give the students a toolbox to aid in theirperformance of a team project authentic to engineering practice.The course does not use a standard textbook but is built from a common “textbook” of core topiclessons and examples authored by previous instructors, supplemented with materials, lessons,and topics curated by individual instructors, such that the course has common elements, but eachinstructor offers a different interpretation.In the Fall of 2020, the course was presented in synchronous remote mode using Blackboardcourseware delivered over a Zoom platform. The course allows for class time to performteamwork as part of a laboratory component, and breakout rooms were used for this purpose
majors in the industrial setting, were reported. Arduino has beenwidely used for teaching junior and senior level controls [3]-[9] and microprocessor courses [10],computer engineering capstone projects [11], and communication systems courses [12].Arduino has also been widely used in lower-division courses. For freshman engineering students,Arduino was used as a platform to teach programming, design, and measurement [13]. In thiswork, the authors transited the Living with the LAB curriculum, which used the Boe-Bot mobilerobotics and the Basic Stamp microcontroller, to the Arduino platform. In [14], Sullivan et al. usedArduino in an Introduction to Mechanical Engineering course where freshman students designedand implemented a cornerstone project
engineering educatorsmay consider for their courses.Details of ImplementationThree separate instructors have modified this approach to fit their courses, their intendedoutcomes, and their teaching philosophies. In this section we will present a concise overview ofeach implementation, with details provided in attached appendices.Strength of Materials (Spring 2018)The first implementation was in a Strength of Materials course after the instructor looked for anopportunity to implement an ‘epic finale’ inspired by reading the article in the Chronicle ofHigher Education years earlier. On the final exam day, she rode a bicycle into the final exam andasked the students to tell her the three locations most likely to fail during a specific use-case, andthe