, his MS in Geode- tic Science from the Ohio State University, and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include technology-enhanced instruction and increasing the representation of female, minority and other underrepresented groups in mathematics, science and engi- neering.Dr. Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University Dr. Cheng Chen is currently an associate professor in the school of engineering at San Francisco State University. His research interests include earthquake engineering, structural reliability and fire structural engineering.Dr. Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University Hao Jiang received the B.S. degree in materials sciences from
Paper ID #27109Exploring the Impact of Added Course Expenses and Technology Fees onStudents of Differing Social and Economic StatusDr. Andrew Danowitz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Andrew Danowitz received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2014, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. His engineering education interests include student mental health, retention, and motivation.Dr. Paul Hummel, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Paul Hummel is a lecturer in the
Engineering, NY, USA. In this role she supports and studies use of robotics in K-12 STEM education. Her other research interests include robotics, mechanical design, and biomechanics.Dr. Sheila Borges Rajguru, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering Dr. Sheila Borges Rajguru is the Assistant Director of the Center for K-12 STEM Education, NYU Tan- don School of Engineering. As the Center’s STEAM educator and researcher she works with engineers and faculty to provide professional development to K-12 STEM teachers with a focus on social justice. She is currently Co-Principal Investigator on two NSF-grants that provide robotics/mechatronics PD to science, math, and technology teachers. In addition, she is the projects director of the
her Bachelor’s at WPI with a major in Computer Science and a minor in Business.Gretchen Rice, Olin College Gretchen is originally from Maine and plans to graduate from Olin College in May 2020. Outside of classes and GCSP, Gretchen is president of Olin’s A Capella group and works as a Resident Resource, a teacher’s assistant, and a tour guide.Sydney Ross, Lawrence Technological University Sydney Ross is a first-year student at Lawrence Technological University (LTU). She is majoring in Com- puter Science with a concentration in Scientific Software Development.Mr. Sebastien Zenzo Selarque, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET) Sebastien Selarque is a fifth-year Electrical Mechanical Engineering Technology student at
Paper ID #26691Senior Capstone Project in Green Technologies: Study of ElectromagneticBraking as Prospective Enhancement of Friction-based Automotive BrakingSystemDr. Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University Irina Ciobanescu Husanu, Ph. D. is Assistant Clinical Professor with Drexel University, Engineer- ing Technology program. Her area of expertise is in thermo-fluid sciences with applications in micro- combustion, fuel cells, green fuels and plasma assisted combustion. She has prior industrial experience in aerospace engineering that encompasses both theoretical analysis and experimental investigations such
Paper ID #25820Use of a Design Canvas in a Robotics Workshop and Analysis of its Efficacy(Fundamental)Mr. Abhidipta Mallik, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Abhidipta Mallik received his B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India, and M.Tech. degree in Mechatronics from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, West Bengal, India. He has one year and ten months of research experience at the CSIR-CMERI, India. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY
. Michael D. Cook, Milwaukee School of Engineering Michael D. Cook is an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA. His interests are in control system design and optimization of mixed-physics dynamic systems, with current research in power flow control with emphasis on the optimization and decentralized control of microgrids. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Development of a
Paper ID #25283Analyzing Successful Teaching Practices in Middle School Science and MathClassrooms when using Robotics (Fundamental)Mrs. Veena Jayasree Krishnan, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Veena Jayasree Krishnan received a Master of Technology (M. Tech.) degree in Mechatronics from Vel- lore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India in 2012. She has two years of research experience at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. She is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. She is serving as a research assistant under an NSF-funded DR K-12 re- search project to
blended learning on student learning and problem-solving skills. The Likert questions were separated into three broad categories: instruction, technology, engagement and satisfaction.The qualitative questions from the end-of-semester questionnaire were evaluated by readingthrough the students’ answers and summarizing their responses. Conversely, the quantitative Proceedings of the 2019 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2019, American Society for Engineering Education Session ETD 415data from the Likert-scale questions was analyzed at the class- level using spreadsheets thatevaluate
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educational kits. Such equipment is expensive. Advances ingeneration (5G) cellular networks - including millimeter software defined radio (SDR) [2] allow instructors to usewave transmission, ultra-wideband wireless less expensive equipment to develop new educationalcommunications, and multiple-input-single-output (MISO) laboratories. For example, some of our teachingantennas – helped develop laboratory experiments for laboratories at Texas A&M University use USB donglesundergraduate engineering students. The experiments not (e.g., DVB-T RTL USB [3]) that act as an SDR receiver,only teach students about 5G technologies, but also how to operating between 50 and 2200 MHz.use real-time spectrum
Integrated Projects at NYU. His Vertically Integrated Projects course is on Smart Cities Technology with a focus on trans- portation. His primary focus is developing curriculum, mentoring students, and engineering education research, particularly for project-based curriculum, first-year engineering, and transportation. He is ac- tive in the American Society for Engineering Education and is the Webmaster for the ASEE First-Year Programs Division and the First-Year Engineering Experience Conference. He is affiliated with the Trans- portation Engineering program in the NYU Civil and Urban Engineering Department, and is the Associate Director for Education and Workforce Development Initiatives for the Connected Cities for
13 14 15 8 10 6 6 7 5 0Figure 3: ASEE and FYEE Sessions Related to First-Year Engineering Education Themes Figure 3 represents ASEE and FYEE sessions combined and as expected reveals a similardistribution to those presented in Figure 1 and 2. Student outcomes and classroom strategies arethe most common themes for both conferences. Curriculum development, design, and retentionform a second tier of the most common session topics. A third tier could include K-12 transition,experiential learning, and learning technology, while a fourth tier could include teamwork,diversity, and
Paper ID #25285Designing Robotics-based Science Lessons Aligned with the Three Dimen-sions of NGSS-plus-5E Model: A Content Analysis (Fundamental)Dr. Hye Sun You, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Hye Sun You received a Ph.D. from a STEM education program at the University of Texas at Austin. She earned her master’s degree in science education and bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Yonsei University in South Korea. Prior to entering academia, she spent several years teaching middle school science. Her research interests center upon interdisciplinary learning and teaching, and technology-integrated teaching practices in
American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 An Introductory Communication Systems Course with MATLAB/Simulink-Based Software-Defined Radio LaboratoryAbstractIn recent years, software-defined radio (SDR) has become increasingly popular in electrical andcomputer engineering education as a tool for teaching communication systems, networking, anddigital signal processing. Adoption of SDR has been enabled through decreasing hardware costs,mature and widely available software development tools, and educational resources aimed ateffectively utilizing SDR in undergraduate education. A survey of the current engineeringeducation literature shows that SDR technology has been widely adopted in advanced digitalcommunications and
Paper ID #28001The effectiveness of writing interventions on first-year engineering reports.Dr. Kimberlyn Gray, West Virginia University Inst. of Tech. Dr. Kimberlyn Gray is an Assistant Professor at West Virginia University Institute of Technology in the department of Chemical Engineering. She coordinated STEM outreach for the Leonard C. Nelson College of Engineering and Sciences.Dr. Rachel L. Bragg, West Virginia University Institute of Technology Dr. Bragg is an Assistant Professor of English at West Virginia University Institute of Technology. Her research interests include writing studies and visual rhetoric
Paper ID #25946Understanding the Roles of Low-fidelity Prototypes in Engineering DesignActivityHadi Ali, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Hadi Ali is a doctoral student in Engineering Education Systems and Design at Arizona State University.Dr. Micah Lande, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Micah Lande, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor and E.R. Stensaas Chair for Engineering Education in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. He teaches human-centered engineering design, design thinking, and design innovation courses. Dr. Lande researches how
Paper ID #24893Design and Implementation of an Engineering for Social Justice CurriculumDr. Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington Dr. Dianne Hendricks is a Lecturer in the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering and the Director of the Engineering Communication Program at the University of Washington. She designs and teaches courses involving universal design, technical communication, ethics, and diversity, equity and inclusion. She co-founded HuskyADAPT (Accessible Design and Play Technology), where she mentors UW students in design for local needs experts with disabilities and also leads outreach
role she supports and studies use of robotics in K-12 STEM education. Her other research interests include robotics, mechanical design, and biomechanics.Mrs. Veena Jayasree Krishnan, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Veena Jayasree Krishnan received a Master of Technology (M. Tech.) degree in Mechatronics from Vel- lore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India in 2012. She has two years of research experience at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. She is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. She is serving as a research assistant under an NSF-funded DR K-12 re- search project to promote integration of robotics in middle school science and math education. For
Paper ID #27809Development of a Novel Engine Test Rig for Research and Educational Pur-posesProf. Pejman Akbari, California State Polytechnic University in Pomona Dr. Pejman Akbari is an assistant professor at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona with over a decade of experience and expertise in utilizing unsteady flows for advanced propulsion and power generation systems. His education includes a Postdoctoral Research position at Purdue School of Engi- neering and Technology in Indianapolis (2004-2006), B.S. (1996) and M.S. (1998) degrees in Aerospace Engineering, and a Ph.D. (2004) in Mechanical Engineering
Paper ID #25660Work in Progress: Building the Mechatronics and Robotics Education Com-munityProf. 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
Engineering. Her research interests focus on the application of seismic technology for critical facilities and engineering education. She is a member of ASCE, EERI, SEAONC, CAIES, and SWE.Ms. Lakshmipriya Lakshmipathy, Indian Institute of Technology, MadrasMr. Panfilo Jesus ArmasMr. Andres Ernesto ParedesChris ParkJorge Antonio Campos c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Design and Small-Scale Testing of 3D Printed Seismic IsolatorsAbstract3D printing is a versatile technology with applications spanning from toy production tobiomedical devices. With the ability to bring small-scaled prototypes into the classroom, 3Dprinting offers educators an excellent opportunity to enhance the learning
process. We want our students to notonly work on the design or to solve a problem presented, but also develop a solution that can betested. All projects within Make to Innovate has goals that involve some level of design, build,and learning from the process. It is, for this reason, Make to Innovate has the slogan of “Design,Build, Learn”.We wish to engage students in more than just learning engineering skills. Engineering studentstoday are often required to have additional skills outside of what they learn in the classroom [1].The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) also requires that studentslearn other skills then the math, science, and engineering we teach them [2]. Through thishands-on process students need to work in a
Paper ID #25315Tools for Assessing the Creative Person, Process, and Product in EngineeringEducationMs. Kristin Lerdal, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Kristin Lerdal is an Undergraduate Research Assistant studying creativity in engineering education at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. She is working towards a Bachelors of Science degree in Civil Engineering with an Environmental Emphasis.Dr. Andrea E. Surovek, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Andrea Surovek is a research scientist working in the areas of biomimicry for sustainable construction and engineering education at the
Paper ID #25586Exploring Differences in Senior and Sophomore Engineering Students’ Men-tal Models of Common ProductsMr. Francis Jacob Fish, Georgia Institute of Technology Francis Fish is a current Ph.D. student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned his Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering and MBA at the University of Delaware, in 2016 and 2017, where he conducted research for DARPA and ARL funded projects as well as private industry projects. From 2016 to 2018 he worked as a Nuclear Engineer for NAVSEA.Alexander R. Murphy, Georgia Institute of Technology Alexander Murphy is a mechanical engineering Ph.D
Paper ID #281062018 Best Zone II Paper: Comparison of Student and Faculty Perceptions ofIntent and Effectiveness of Course Evaluations in an Engineering Curricu-lumDr. Thomas P. James P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Tom James is presently a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His major interests are new product development and global business ventures. He currently teaches courses in accounting, finance, and entrepreneurial studies. In addition to teaching, Dr. James directs the ES- CALATE program, a living-learning community focused on integrating entrepreneurship and technical
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Use of Online Homework for Circuit Analysis David J. Broderick Ph.D. broderick@ccsu.edu Computer, Electronics, and Graphics Technology Central Connecticut State UniversityAbstractElectric circuit analysis is a critical course in engineering and technology programs for studentsstudying electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering. This study considers the use of onlinehomework in circuit analysis courses for a group of students from diverse academic backgrounds.The effect of homework
. D. Van den Bogaard, Delft University of Technology Dr Van den Bogaard is director of studies and assistant professor of Science Education and Communica- tion at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Pathways of students’ progress through an on-demand online curriculumAbstractCharles Sturt University makes its underpinning technical curriculum available to its studentsusing an on-demand online system they call their Topic Tree. The tree is a directed acyclic graphwhere nodes represent topics to be learned, and edges represent the prerequisite relationships thatexist between the topics. Branches on the topic tree represent concentrations
, University of Washington Dr. Dianne Hendricks is a Lecturer in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering and the Director of the Engineering Communication Program at the University of Washington. She designs and teaches courses involving universal design, technical communication, ethics, and diversity, equity and inclusion. She co-founded HuskyADAPT (Accessible Design and Play Technology), where she mentors UW students in design for local needs experts with disabilities. She also leads STEM outreach activities for the UW community and local K-12 students involving toy adaptation for children with disabilities. Di- anne holds a PhD in Genetics from Duke University, and BS in Molecular Biology and BA in
Paper ID #24847Combining Flipped Classroom and Integrating Entrepreneurially MindedLearning in DC Circuit Analysis and Design CourseDr. Jing Guo, Colorado Technical University Dr. Jing Guo is a Wireless Device Applications Engineer at Keysight Technologies and an adjunct profes- sor at Colorado Technical University (CTU) . She was a Professor in Engineering Department at Colorado Technical University. She has 14 years of teaching experience at the university level and taught over 30 different undergraduate and graduate courses in Electrical and Computer Engineering area.Prof. John M. Santiago Jr, Freedom Institute of