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ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgpeort, CT, USA. Mobile Robots Exploration and Mapping in 2D Sithisone Kalaya Hussain A. Alhazmi Robotics, Intelligent Sensing & Control (RISC) Laboratory, Robotics, Intelligent Sensing & Control (RISC) Laboratory, School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport, School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport, 221 University Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06604, USA
education points to hands-on experiences asof fundamental concepts during undergraduate engineering a necessary ingredient in the learning process. A participant ineducation. We describe recent experience at the University of the recent 2013 ASEE University/Industry perspectivesMassachusetts in introducing a laboratory component into the workshop stated this succinctly, “Students must experience aFundamentals of Electrical Engineering course taken by 170upper-level mechanical and industrial engineering hands-on example of every fundamental taught in order toundergraduate students. The lecture part of the course exposes reinforce it
Paper ID #10272A Teaching Model for Teaching Deaf/Hard of-hearing and Hearing Studentswith Course Accessibility and Real World Product DesignMr. Gary W Behm, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST) Gary Behm is an Assistant Professor of the Engineering Studies department and Director of the Center on Access Technology Innovation Laboratory at RIT/NTID. He is a deaf engineer who retired from IBM after serving for 30 years. He received his BS from RIT and his MS from Lehigh University. His last assignment with IBM was an Advanced Process Control project manager. He managed team members in delivering the next generation
different types of electronic warfare. 2. Analyze and design several antenna systems. 3. Analyze and predict RF propagation characteristics under various conditions. 4. Describe the function and operation of a range of military systems. 5. Apply a variety of EW techniques and characterize their effectiveness in different operating environments.Although there were several homework assignments and quizzes during the course, the toolsused for summative assessments were three midterm exams, a comprehensive final exam, and asubset of the laboratory exercises.Objective one was evaluated using questions from exam one and the final exam, with a classaverage of 82.3%. No changes were recommended. The second objective was assessed withboth exam
Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Paper ID #9959Prof. James Louis Tangorra, Drexel University (Eng.) James Louis Tangorra received the B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 1989 and 1990, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA in 2003. He was a Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy from 1990 to 1996, and served in the U.S. Navy reserves from 1997 to 2007. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Bioinstrumentation Laboratory, MIT, from 2004 to 2007. Currently, he is
considerable effort to develop pedagogical techniques inorder to teach CTSS courses more effectively. Various pedagogical techniques have been tried,such as the "chalk-and-talk" lecturing style [1], teaching continuous-time concepts beforediscrete-time concepts [2], or vice versa [3], developing signals and systems concept inventories[4], using MATLAB ™ [5-7], instituting hardware-based signal processing laboratories [8], and P Pusing LEGO™ MINDSTORMS NXT platforms for signal processing experimentation [9].Despite all the efforts, conceptual learning of the course content still remains to be a challenge.Without a better understanding of the educational challenges associated with this course, anyattempts to improve student learning
beoptimized, usually through designed software packages for modeling, analysis and optimization.In the last two decades there have been significant advances in renewable energy technologies,as well as increased demands for engineers and technicians trained in these areas, requiringinnovative curricula, new courses and laboratories to educate students to work in this rapidlydeveloping industry and to help professionals become acquainted with these new technologies.However, the pace of change in education curriculum is growing exponentially due to legislativechanges, financial or administrative constraints. Engineering education moves into the twentyfirst century charged with an environmental agenda due to response to wider changes in thesociety
(ESET) in conjunction with their Mobile IntegratedSolutions Laboratory (MISL) accepted this challenge, and over the course of 2013, several undergraduate students in aCapstone design course developed five wireless DC Smart Plugs for NASA. The wireless DC Smart Plugs developed byTexas A&M in conjunction with NASA’s Deep Space Habitat team is a first step in developing wireless instrumentation forfuture flight hardware. This paper will further discuss the X-Hab challenge and requirements set out by NASA, the detaileddesign and testing performed by Texas A&M, challenges faced by the team and lessons learned, and potential future work onthis design.IntroductionNASA has been focusing on deep space missions, and new technologies are necessary
practice and constructive feedback in four activities: (a) reading oftechnical articles for form and content, (b) weekly group meetings where students give shortpresentations on their progress, (c) the formal presentation of a poster at the end of the semester,and (d) writing a technical paper for potential submission to a conference. The writing of thetechnical paper is what the author dubbed a “stretch goal” – something that is a desired goal butis dependent on the progress of the research. Page 24.1023.3The students also were required to keep a laboratory notebook to help them acquire skills inrecording their results and to encourage them to
investment, maintenance andreplacement costs as the renewable sources can complement each other. However the evaluationof the correct type of renewable energy system needs to be done so that the system needs to beoptimized, usually through designed software packages for modeling, analysis and optimization.In the last two decades there have been significant advances in renewable energy technologies,as well as increased demands for engineers and technicians trained in these areas, requiringinnovative curricula, new courses and laboratories to educate students to work in this rapidlydeveloping industry and to help professionals become acquainted with these new technologies.However, the pace of change in education curriculum is growing exponentially due
-levelcourses, the lab managers distribute the appropriate lab equipment to the remote sites at the startof the semester. Remote student laboratory check-offs are typically handled by faculty andstudent alone via webcams and web conferencing software during scheduled office hours.Next we sought to improve office hours for distance courses through the use of webconferencing software and pen-tablet technology which allowed students and faculty to write onthe same electronic piece of paper.4 With the growth of the program, we expanded our use oftechnology to allow real-time troubleshooting of lab equipment/work and the assessment ofhigher-level design projects at a distance.5After spending the last several years about improving distance course logistics
a graduate student, Rudolpho Azzi, who happened to be an experienced teacher, thegroup worked to assemble a research program and teaching laboratory in behaviorism at theUniversity.15This work was deemed a success, and Bori and Keller were invited to take their work to theUniversity of Brasilia, Bori to create a new department of psychology, and Keller to continue onas advisor. With the university’s doors yet to open, they had the time and space to plan. It was inthe course of designing from scratch an introductory course in experimental psychology that thegroup came up with PSI. Pressed to be experimental in form as well as content, the group beganconsidering how their knowledge of behaviorist principles could be applied to the
Director, Maggie leads the SOCHEIntern Program, which employs nearly 300 students an- nually in cooperation with local government and small businesses, as well as the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The program provides high impact experiential learning opportunities for students while generating economic benefit and enhancing community sustainability. Her work improves the efficiency of programs that support member institutions and increase the success of more than 120,000 students in southwest Ohio. Maggie has also provided guidance and leadership in the creation and evolution of regional initiatives such as the Dayton Water
technological devices cease to function, andvehicles drop from the sky like flies. The city is now in darkness, except for fires from thequickly accumulating accidents (see Figure A3). One falling aircraft damages the city wall,creating an escape opportunity for Lloyd, who ventures out into the fog (see Figure A4).Outside the city, the terrain seems bouncy, plastic as if manufactured, and unnaturally flat.Eventually Lloyd encounters a large, intimidating wall that stretches in all directions, with anentrance to a building called the Cypress Laboratory, which will be the main focus of the game(see Figure A5). Peering inside the laboratory, Lloyd
assistants. At many universities, teaching assistants are employed to lead discussionsections, provide grading assistance, and provide laboratory assistance. The purpose of thisreport is twofold: 1) To describe perspectives of engineering teaching assistants on incorporatingnon-traditional teaching methods and 2) To propose methods that minimize the perceivedbarriers reported by engineering teaching assistants.An online survey was chosen as the assessment method to describe perspectives and practice ofengineering teaching assistants. The use of surveys for assessment in engineering education is a Page 24.1372.2common practice.4 This method was
retaining interested students is theemphasis on applied laboratory experience. The program has a solid record of career placementamong employers who are seeking graduates that are productive upon entering the workforce.The university as a whole has maintained a placement rate of over 95% in recent years in spite ofthe difficult economic times. All School of Technology faculty members have a minimum ofthree years of industrial experience, which enhances the ability of the School to access industrysupport and place engineering technology graduates. The faculty members have a strongcommitment to the integration of practical laboratory experience with engineering technologyfundamentals.Capstone Course DescriptionIn the past several years EET program in
59% passage rate from theprevious year’s traditional face-to face lecture class. Fall semester 2012 flipped classroominstruction was augmented with enhanced content and problem-based learning in Spring 2013,resulting in a passage rate of 87%, while the content of the course nearly doubled. For Fall 2013,an in-class laboratory segment using National Instruments myDAQ was added to the Spring2013 version of the course to include the hands-on approach. The passage rate of 91% wasachieved. It appears that adaptation of high quality MOOC content using a blended approach inconjunction with a highly structured, in-class team-based, problem-based and hands-on approachcan produce significant benefits in effectively improving student learning and
students may enjoyopportunities to reinforce course topics through hands-on learning, such as what would be foundin classroom laboratories. Others might benefit more from practice problems that allow them toreinforce course topics through problem solving. Providing a plentiful variety of choicesbenefits students in picking and choosing how they might best learn course concepts7.Third, course concepts should be designed to encourage interest, and thus, stimulate intrinsicmotivation among students. Providing course materials and activities that are applicable andmeaningful to students’ future coursework and/or careers encourages students to becomeinterested in course topics because they are closely related to future goals. Fourth, studentsshould
Systems, Energy Conservation and Alternate Energy Sources and smart grid power system design and optimization.Prof. Osama A. Mohammed, Florida International University Dr. Mohammed is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and is the Director of the Energy Systems Research Laboratory at Florida International University, Miami, Florida. He received his Master and Doctoral degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1981 and 1983, respectively. He has performed research on various topics in power and energy systems in addition to computational electro- magnetics and design optimization in electric machines, electric drive systems and other low frequency environments. He performed multiple research projects for
Student- Centric Learning), promoting Leadership in Sustainability and Management Practices. He is also an Affiliate Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, focusing on the energy ef- ficiency of IT Equipment in a Data Centers. Before his teaching career, he had a very successful corporate management career working in R&D at Lucent Technologies and as the Director of Global Technology Management at Qualcomm. He initiated and managed software development for both the companies in India. He holds MS in Engineering and MBA degrees. Page 24.140.1 c
rise to a new idea or a modification of an existing abstract concept. 4. Active Experimentation– The learner applies them to the world around them to see results. Figure 1 – Adapted from Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle (Kolb, 1984)11Experiential learning is not a new approach within engineering education as it is a commonmethod utilized within technical courses utilizing laboratory experiences to provide students“hands on learning”. However when it comes to developing leadership within engineers, toooften a lecture-based approach is utilized. Most college instructors teach through lecturesbecause that is the way they were taught and where they are most comfortable or they just have
and education aimed at reducinglosses from earthquakes NEEScomm, the headquarters for NEES located at Purdue University,operates a network of 14 earthquake engineering laboratory sites located at universities acrossthe United States, which can be used for testing in-place or through the Internet. NEES providesspecialized equipment to the civil engineering community such as shake tables, geotechnicalcentrifuges, a tsunami wave basin, unique large-scale testing laboratories, and mobile andpermanently installed field equipment 4.The goal of the study described in this paper is to determine users’ practices and perceptions ofthe attributes of the NEEShub based on their current experience. The guiding research questionfor this study is: How do
efforts to use the web-conferencing software Elluminate-Live! for deliveringtutorials, discussion classes, and even laboratory practicals to groups of students studyingengineering off-campus, including students posted overseas. Examples are given from twodisciplines. We then compare student feedback across all engineering subjects over the years2012-2013. Our results show that students welcome web-conferencing as a very effectivemeans to deliver classes to distance students and improve their learning experience.introductionIn recent years there has been an increasing interest in delivering engineering courses throughnon-traditional means, such as by distance, on-line, flexible, and combinations/blends oflocated and on-line learning environments.1
opportunities for vetting new ideas, providing updates, and sharing points of pride. b) Group meetings: The chair meets monthly for coffee/dessert with untenured faculty as a group. In addition to the chair’s mentoring, there is much peer mentoring and learning that takes place at these meetings. The chair also meets with groups that are formally defined or informally emerge periodically throughout the year. These groups may be focused with a desire to try something new in the curriculum, in our laboratory facilities or be focused on a research proposal/initiative. The chair’s role might be to help with brainstorming creative ideas, help to surmount roadblocks, make connections in or outside of the department
, knowledge of domain, intellectual style,personality, motivation, and environmental context. Creative performance ensues from aconfluence of these six elements.6-8 Introduction to Chemical, Food, and EnvironmentalEngineering Design is a 3 credit required course for CE, FE, and EE. Course content andclassroom activities are divided into two, 75-minute sessions (Concepts, and Laboratory) perweek. Students have three different facilitators (an instructor and two teaching assistants).Course main goal is to introduce students to the Engineering Method, this is accomplished byfocusing on six course objectives: self-regulation, communication, working cooperatively andcollaboratively, problem solving, modeling, and quality. Introduction to Chemical, Food
computer modeling techniques. Dr. Leitch is a member of ASEE, ASCE, TB, and Chi Epsilon and is a registered PE in Texas and Indiana and a LEED Green Associate.Dr. Roy Jean Issa P.E., West Texas A&M University Dr. Issa is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at West Texas A&M University. He joined the College of Engineering and Computer Science in 2004, a year after it started. Since joining the de- partment, he has been in charge of the enhancement of the Thermal Sciences Laboratory. His background is in the area of heat transfer and fluid dynamics. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from
. Page 24.1216.2In addition to its pedagogical role, this library also serves a practical role in providing studentshands-on experience using microcontroller peripherals in the course of their laboratory exercisesand also scales to enable students to employ multiple microcontroller peripherals in the course oftheir capstone design experience. This library has been used since late 2008, and Google Analyt-ics numbers for the library’s website give 84,000 visits since January 2009, with approximately52% of these visits originating from within the United States.2. BackgroundSweller’s Cognitive Load Theory5, 6, 7 (CLT) provides a framework for understanding why stu-dents learn (or do not learn) new concepts and problem solving strategies. CLT focuses
Robert M. Bunch is a Professor of Physics and Optical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technol- ogy and an Innovation Fellow at Rose-Hulman Ventures. Since joining the Rose-Hulman faculty in 1983, he has been active in developing undergraduate and graduate courses and laboratories for the optical en- gineering educational program. He has directed 23 completed master’s degree thesis projects, consulted with industry, and is co-inventor on two patents. In 2000, he received the Rose-Hulman Board of Trustees Outstanding Scholar Award. His research and technical interests include development of optics-based products, fiber optics, optical instruments, and systems engineering.Dr. Thomas W. Mason, Rose-Hulman Institute of
). The design of Energy Efficiency” report by National Renewable Energybuilding envelopes continued on the previous integrated ventilation systems Laboratory (NREL), 11 parameters influence energy efficiency of(e.g. desiccant wheel and energy recovery wheel systems with variable air the building design are building envelopes, site analysis, orientation,volume). Data analysis and simulation results (e.g. contour plot, response configuration, space planning, ventilation, heating, cooling, lightingsurface plot) indicated energy reduction more than 16.6% along with the and appliances, water heating and waste management [4]. In