materials (harvesting and storage), flame retardant polymers, nanocompsite materials, and advanced materials characterization. He is an active member of professional organizations related to his research interests. He has authored more than 40 technical papers.Mr. Curtis Paul Desselles Jr., I am the Engineering Laboratory Coordinator at Northwestern State University of Louisiana (NSULA). My specialty is robotics and building and designing scientific devices. My experience is as follows: Retired U.S. Navy Medical Laboratory Technologist and Physician’s Assistant (P.A.). I worked as a Research Fellow at National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) following my career in the Navy. I also work as a
role in the development and implementation of the first completely online un- dergraduate ECE program in the State of Maryland. He has published over 50 papers and presented his research work at regional, national and international conferences. He also runs several exciting summer camps geared towards middle school, high school, and community college students to expose and increase their interest in pursuing Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Dr. Astatke travels to Ethiopia every summer to provide training and guest lectures related to the use of the mobile laboratory technology and pedagogy to enhance the ECE curriculum at five different universities.Dr. Dianna Newman, University at Albany
, they may find it easier or harder to accomplish. Theless constrained curriculum in senior design allows them to pivot and adjust their target to accountfor new findings. This would be harder in shorter-term projects, as will be discussed later.3.2 Hardware Security Course3.2.1 Course DescriptionWentworth offers a technical elective once a year called Hardware Security, which has beendiscussed in previous work [12]. As part of the course activities, students engage in a number ofhands-on labs and a project. The labs take roughly 1-2 hours, while the project is intended to beworked on all semester and is the focus of class activity for the last 2-4 weeks.The laboratory assignments are used for conceptual reinforcement in various
Paper ID #25879Introducing a New Graduate Degree in Technology Management: ProgramOverview and Assessment PlanDr. Gonca Altuger-Genc, State University of New York, Farmingdale Dr. Gonca Altuger-Genc is an Assistant Professor at State University of New York - Farmingdale State College in the Mechanical Engineering Technology Department. She is serving as the MS Technol- ogy Management Graduate Program Coordinator. Her research interests are engineering education, self- directed lifelong learning, virtual laboratories, and decision-making framework development for design and manufacturing environments.Dr. Bahar Zoghi, State
manufacturing analysis as a capstone design project. Fortheir project, they developed the design of a flexible work cell that could be used to produce themodular units for multiple houses that would make up the MAGIC village. The work cell wouldallow rapid production and assembly but still leave some degree of customization options, to beselected by the residents.The construction site of the house in the middle of campus was easily accessed during and priorto construction; this allowed the students more opportunities than they would have been for atypical building project. A Soil Mechanics class took advantage of this by taking soil samplesthat were analyzed using the same techniques included in the laboratory portion of the class, butwith a tangible
implementation of the first completely online un- dergraduate ECE program in the State of Maryland. He has published over 50 papers and presented his research work at regional, national and international conferences. He also runs several exciting summer camps geared towards middle school, high school, and community college students to expose and increase their interest in pursuing Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Dr. Astatke travels to Ethiopia every summer to provide training and guest lectures related to the use of the mobile laboratory technology and pedagogy to enhance the ECE curriculum at five different universities.Dr. Charles J. Kim, Howard University Charles Kim is a professor in
students, 68 full-timefaculty, and over 100,000sf of laboratory space. The School has undergraduate programs inChemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Engineering, ElectricalEngineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Technology (electronic &Computer, Global Manufacturing Systems, Industrial, and Mechanical), and graduateengineering programs in Aerospace, Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Materials, and MechanicalEngineering as well as graduate programs in Electro-Optics, Engineering Management, andManagement Science.The University of Dayton China InstituteThe University of Dayton China Institute was established in August, 2012 in Suzhou, China.During the first several months, UDCI worked to design
Paper ID #41378Work in Progress: Implementation of a Curricular Development Project forExperiential Learning in a Senior Capstone Product-Design CourseDr. Chris Barr, University of Michigan Dr. Christopher Barr is the Instructional Laboratory Supervisor in the Chemical Engineering Department at University of Michigan. He obtained his Ph.D. at University of Toledo in 2013 and is a former Fellow in the N.S.F. GK-12 grant ”Graduate Teaching Fellows in STEM High School Education: An Environmental Science Learning Community at the Land-Lake Ecosystem Interface”. His main responsibilities are supervising and implementing
our course. Weinclude results and analysis from a student focus group, an anonymous exit survey, and includeour own observations.IntroductionIn the Fall 2011 semester when CPLDs were adopted for our introductory logic circuit course we Page 26.1252.2used an integrated approach, including the use of CAD tools and a hands-on experience with abreadboard. Our students first used discrete logic devices in two laboratory experiments and thena used CPLD module. Based on our research4 we found that in using this module, students caneasily identify the CPLD and with modest wiring they can construct circuits that they feel areboth satisfying and
educational videos introducing theunit content and additional educational resources through Canvas. During class, students meet tolearn more about the class content and participate in discussions and other classroom activities. Students also meet weekly in the laboratory to work in teams to solve clients’ concerns byapplying what they have learned in class.Based on the findings of Keshwani and Keshwani [3], students place interpersonal relationshipsas one of their biggest successes during their first year of college. Students also discussed theimportance of connecting with others to overcome challenges and acknowledged thatacclimating to the university plays an important role in keeping themselves motivated. Studentsconnected community with “knowing
13 114. Discussion and ConclusionOne-semester virtual REU and two-semester virtual REU had higher perceived learning gains thanthe 10-week summer in-person REU. These higher gains can potentially be attributed to five mainfactors.First, the participants worked directly with the advisors during the virtual program. Compared tothe in-person program, participants mostly worked independently or with graduate students.Second, the virtual program had limited laboratory time on the part of the participants. As a result,students completed more research-oriented tasks (beyond data collection within the labenvironment). In contrast, in the face-to-face summer program, students focused more on datacollection in the laboratory than on
with just use of the software, but rather also to the risks and hazards associated with an industrial laboratory environment when completing hands-on practical activities. 2. Persons or groups affected In this case, the persons or groups affected, as defined by Penn State, specifically included any person with a visual disability who relies on alternative text to perceive images or graphical content, and any person who relies solely on the keyboard to operate their machine. Among the most highly impacted users will be users who are blind and use screen readers and assistive technologies to interact with their computers, and users with physical issues who rely on keyboard-based input
increased ability to be innovative. Our Launch Lab program strives to implement and buildupon the insights garnered from these researchers mentioned above to ensure the long-termcareer success of our students.Launch Lab OverviewThe origin of YSU’s Launch Lab can be traced back to a conversation between an Art andMechanical Engineering Technology faculty in 2008. Their discussion centered around thecollaboration between STEM and Arts faculty to bring students from different disciplinestogether to work on interdisciplinary projects. Shortly after, the group began to use the name“Co-Lab” for collaborative laboratory. The first project with two students was completed in2009, and since that time, there have been typically three to four projects
onwhich future mobile-application researchers can base the designs of their project is imperative.Hopefully, this will contribute to a greater emphasis on mobile-learning using the benefits ofmodern technologies, and eventually result in the widespread usage and implementation ofmobile-learning principles and resources in modern educational management software.The rest of this paper is organized as follows. The next section gives some backgroundinformation on educational application programs in optics and photonics, as well as the use ofsimulations in virtual laboratories. The following section describes the Optics and PhotonicsEducational App, its capabilities, and its user interface. This section also includes the link to thecode repository for
also contributes to their lackof inclusion and sense of belonging. To a smaller extent, some hearing students misunderstand spokeninformation, especially in lab environments.We report on the evaluation of an extension to our Real-Time Text Display (RTTD), to handle multiplespeakers (RTTD-MS), for engineering labs. RTTD was developed to reduce frustration in following theteacher and other peers during laboratory and other academic settings. The system projects a real-timedisplay of captions (RTTD) above a teacher who can move around the room during the class orlaboratory, which may aid deaf students in viewing both the speaker and the speaker’s words as text.Our first study with RTTD found that deaf students in engineering course lectures
Paper ID #22642Academic Practice/Design Interventions: An Activity-Based Design Coursefor Conceptualizing Failure and Factor of SafetyMr. Nikolaos E. Vitoroulis Jr, Stevens Institute of Technology Nikolaos Vitoroulis supervises the Engineering Design Laboratories at Stevens Institute of Technology. He earned his Bachelor and Master of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens and specialized in Robotics, Mechatronics, and Manufacturing. As a member of the Innovation, Design & Entrepreneurship at Stevens (IDEaS) team, he works with the development team to update and generate engineering curriculum con- tent. His past industrial
classroom and laboratory setting, enhance thelearning process7,8.In the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department at FSC the digital design education is accomplished by a sequence of three courses: EET 105-Introduction to Digital Electronics, EET 223-Digital Electronics and EET 316-Digital Design.Each course is taught by various instructors, both from academia and industry. Annual meetingswith the Industrial Advisory Board provide continuous feedback regarding the curriculum andthe content of the EET and CET courses, including the digital design sequence of three courses.The first digital course in the sequence, Introduction to Digital Electronics, presents fundamentalconcepts of digital electronics, specifically
Paper ID #42760Engaging Community College Students in Artificial Intelligence Researchthrough an NSF-Funded Summer Research Internship ProgramDr. Zhuwei Qin, San Francisco State University Dr. Zhuwei Qin is currently an assistant professor in the School of Engineering at San Francisco State University (SFSU). His research interests are in the broad area of deep learning acceleration, interpretable deep learning, and edge computing. Dr. Qin serves as the director of the Mobile and Intelligent Computing Laboratory (MIC Lab) at SFSU. Dr. Qin’s research endeavors are dedicated to addressing the inherent challenges related
devices, thereby promoting active participation during classroom teaching.Much of the current literature on hands-on pedagogy suggests that its interactive nature increasesstudents' engagement in engineering disciplines. Ikiriko et al. [9] investigated the impact of ahome-based measurement of strain experiment. They found increased student motivational levelsin the civil engineering discipline following a pre- and post-experimental survey. According toChowdhury et al., [10] most engineering programs require hands-on workshop facilities toconduct educational laboratory activities to achieve academic objectives. Hands-on pedagogyachieves better learning outcomes using portable multifunction instruments to substitute largerlaboratory instruments [7
Technology Students Kevin Zender, Corey Blankenship, Tyson Bethke, Nathir Rawashdeh Department of Applied Computing, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MIAbstractThis paper details the design of a levitating ball portable training system for in-depth learning ofProportional Integral Derivative (PID) control theory. This system can be incorporated into theElectrical Engineering Technology bachelor degree curriculum laboratories at our university.Based on the prevalence of PID control applications in industry, and it being a relativelyadvanced concept in traditional, theory heavy, control system courses, it is important to addressthis topic with a practical system. This has inspired the idea of designing a PID training labcourse
courses will be added in 3rd and 4th semesters of the curriculum. Also, these newcourses will either replace the existing courses or new content will be integrated into existing courses.In the following sections, the proposed new curriculum’s salient features, how the proposedcurriculum is different from existing traditional curriculum and the laboratory equipment selection forthe new three courses are explained. All proposed courses will have integrated Labs. They will beflexible so that content can move across the courses; same lab equipment can be used or combined inany course; the focus is system integration of Robots and Training Systems with PLCs & HMI & putthem on network to mimic real time industry factory floor; same equipment
robotics, automation, and nanotechnology engi- neering education and research. He is a licensed PE in Colorado and a member of ASEE, IEEE, and SME.Mr. Boyan LiMr. Benjamin MaestasMs. Katheryn Michelle Rothermal c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Dancing Humanoid Robots Lab Demonstration for the First Year Engineering StudentsAbstractThis work addresses an exciting humanoid robots laboratory demonstration developed bystudents (one senior and two master’s students) for the first year engineering students. The goalsof the demonstration are to entice the first year mechatronics engineering and industrialengineering students, and to motivate them to continue with their
. He is the author of numerous research and pedagogical articles in his areas of expertise.Prof. Sanjeev Arora, Fort Valley State University Dr. Arora holds a B.Sc. (Honors) and M.Sc. degree in Physics from University of Delhi, India, and a M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Physics from University of Delaware. Dr. Arora’s research interest is experimental atomic physics and he is well-versed in the use of the van de Graaff accelerator, scalars, MCAs, and other physics instrumentation. He has been instrumental in acquiring, through various grants, computers, and software for the physics laboratory at FVSU. Some of his funded grant proposals are as follows: 1) Establishing a Nuclear Science and Engineering Minor at Fort Valley
]. Simplylecturing about these steps is insufficient to give students the experience necessary to effectivelyiterate in teams. Failure is one of the main reasons for iteration, but is difficult to teach about.The ability to identify and assess failures or other reasons for iteration can only be properlylearned through hands-on experience. Previous studies have highlighted the ability to teach suchconcepts using hands-on activities such as model building and laboratory exercises. Lemons etal. showed that model building helped students generate ideas, make ties between concept andphysical object, and finally make the students more away of their process-based strategies [6].Mackenchnie and Buchanan have employed hands-on activities in a laboratory class using
Award from the University of San Diego in 2014, and Best Paper Awards from the Division of Experimentation and Laboratory Oriented Studies of the American Society for Engineering Education in 2008 and 2014.Dr. Ernest M. Kim, University of San Diego Ernie Kim received his BSEE from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and MSEE and PhD in Electrical Engineering from New Mexico State University. He has been an electronics engineer at the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) at the Boulder CO labs where he performed research on precision optical fiber metrology, staff engineer with the Advanced Systems Group of Burroughs Corporation, Manager of Electro-Optics at Ipitek Corporation where he developed early fiber optic
high schools.Providing students with enhanced opportunities for collaboration, social engagement, andresearch, the program’s model of integration requires networking across disciplines and physicalspace. Students participate in real-time, in-person and virtual lectures, as well as week-longsummer camps and Saturday experiences for hands-on activities, team-building, interaction anddiscussion, and problem-solving. Science courses meet two Saturdays a semester to completehands-on laboratories. These are complemented by in-class laboratory demonstrations andonline, virtual laboratory activities. Presently, instructors are developing an integrated set ofdesired outcomes and assessment tools informed by ABET accreditation standards. Areas
, properties, processing, and applications of polymers, composites, andemerging/alternate materials commonly used in industry. Problem solving skills are developedin the areas of selection, testing, and evaluation of materials and processes. Through ongoinginteractions in the laboratory, a group project, and in-class activities, communication skills areenhanced to prepare for industrial and professional expectations. To inculcate understanding ofthe need for self-directed lifelong learning into these primarily fresh high school graduates, asmall number of student-selected Professional Development Activities (PDAs) are embeddedinto the course. The purposes for implementing instructional innovations in this course areimproving students learning outcomes
A Pharmacokinetic Simulation-Based Module to Introduce Mass Balances and Chemical Engineering Design Concepts to Engineering FreshmenIntroductionOften the opportunities for freshmen engineering students to be exposed to chemical engineeringare limited. Introduction to chemical engineering is typically a sophomore level course.Freshman general engineering courses come in a variety of forms from college orientationcourses to lectures on basics of design and safety to project-based laboratory or designexperiences. A recent survey of 50 chemical engineering undergraduate programs showed that6% of those programs offered engineering laboratory experiences for freshmen through generalengineering courses and 4
instructors at a concentration of 5% (w/v) and cyanoacrylate was used at themanufacturer concentration. Students used these two bioadhesives to adhere leather chamois strips.Leather chamois strips were chosen because they have a rough, protein-rich surface, which couldallow for adhesion through chemical interactions or mechanical interlocking. Since we did notconduct the activity in a laboratory space, we did not include a crosslinking agent with our gelatinbioadhesive; thus, gelatin and cyanoacrylate adhered through a mechanism of mechanicalinterlocking. Prior to distributing chamois, instructors threaded them with a plastic safety tie formechanical testing. Students then marked the chamois with a horizontal line 0.5 cm from thebottom of the strip
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