in bioenergy, biological en- gineering, capstone design, HVAC, thermodynamics, waste management, professional development, and engineering teaching. Her research interests include energy, the environment, and engineering education. She is assistant dean for teaching and learning in the College of Engineering. She is a second-generation woman engineer.Ms. Tara Gupte Wilson, Ohio State University Tara Wilson is a second/third year undergraduate student of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engi- neering at The Ohio State University (OSU). She worked in a chemical engineering laboratory for four semesters studying separation of human red blood cells from whole blood. For the past four semesters, she has worked as
her research focuses on the role that various forms of technology play in terms of student learning in physics and in engineering. She has been an active member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) for over 30 years. Dr. Larkin served on the Board of Directors for ASEE from 1997-1999 as Chair of Professional Interest Council (PIC) III and as Vice President of PICs. She has received numerous national and international awards including the ASEE Fellow Award in 2016 and the Distinguished Educator and Service Award from the Physics and Engineer- ing Physics Division in 1998. In January 2014 the Center for Teaching, Research and Learning at AU
for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, and the MechSE Five-Year Effective Teaching Award.Dr. Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Blake Everett Johnson is a lecturer and instructional laboratory manager in the Department of Mechan- ical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include experimental fluid mechanics, measurement science, and engineering education. He oversees un- dergraduate laboratories in fluid mechanics, fluid dynamics, and heat transfer. Pedagogically, Dr. Johnson employs active learning, inquiry-based laboratory instruction, and any initiative that
Paper ID #27792An Interdisciplinary Research-based Education Program for Engaging Plant/AgricultureSciences, Chemical Sciences, and Engineering Students (iREP-4-PACE) atMinority InstitutionsDr. Sharanabasaweshwara Asundi, Old Dominion University Sharan Asundi, a native of INDIA, is a Ph.D. from University of Florida working as an Assistant Profes- sor of Space Systems Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Old Dominion University (ODU). Currently, he is engaged in several teaching and research activities, largely focused on furthering the Space Systems Engineering Program at ODU. He has
” experience [20], [21], especially when used tosimulate a real-life experience. VR also provides a relatively inexpensive and less riskyalternative compared to expensive or dangerous situations that might happen by interacting withactual systems [22], [23]. Some universities have tried to build physical manufacturing systemsto teach and train students on manufacturing operations. For example, the Department ofIndustrial and Systems Engineering at Auburn University created a laboratory called automotivemanufacturing systems lab [24]. In this lab, students build Lego vehicles and learn about Toyotaproduction system principles. While these labs provide hands-on experiences, they need aconsiderable amount of space (4,000 ft2)[25] and require at least 18
- Communicates verbally and non-verbally in acompetencies of the curriculum. This implies that friendly and respectful manner.they should be incorporated from the beginning to - Achieves empathy with team members.the end of the program in all learning and teaching - Achieves harmonious work in disciplinaryscenarios such as classrooms, laboratories, projects, teamsinternships and field work. - Achieves harmonious work in interdisciplinary teamsThe objective is for students to learn to develop - Respects the opposing views of peers andethical competencies in engineering through active facultyand collaborative
design and seeks to engage their enthusiasm forengineering. This is a two-credit laboratory course that meets in our design laboratory that isequipped with workbenches and tools. The capacity for the course is 24 students. Students workin groups of three, giving an instructor a maximum of eight groups per section. We had sixinstructors teaching a total of 22 sections for Fall 2017, some adjunct professors teaching justone course, and full-time faculty teaching up to six sections of this course. The instructors thatteach this course have been doing so for over six years and meet only once at the beginning ofthe semester and once in the middle of the semester. Students are assigned to teams usingCATME team maker based on prior experience in
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program (SISTEM), portable lab equipment, and Summer teacher training programs.Ms. Erica J. Marti, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Erica Marti completed her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She holds a Master of Science in Engineering and Master of Education from UNLV and a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to graduate studies, Erica joined Teach for America and taught high school chemistry in Las Vegas. While her primary research involves water and wastewater, she has strong interests in engineering education research, teacher professional development, and secondary STEM education.Mr. Erdogan Kaya, University
Virtual Worlds to Teach Electronic and Electrical Engineering. Ieee Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2013. 9(1): p. 575-584.18. Chang, Y.Z., et al., Evaluation of a video game adaptation for mechanical engineering educational laboratories, in 2016 Ieee Frontiers in Education Conference. 2016.19. Joiner, R., et al., Digital Games, Gender and Learning in Engineering: Do Females Benefit as Much as Males? Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2011. 20(2): p. page 182.20. Pejic, P., et al., 3D VIRTUAL MODELLING OF EXISTING OBJECTS BY TERRESTRIAL PHOTOGRAMMETRIC METHODS - CASE STUDY OF BARUTANA. Tehnicki Vjesnik-Technical Gazette, 2017. 24: p. 233-239.21. Choudhury, A.A. and J. Rodriguez, A New
basic features, and their implementation are discussed inthe lab description section, with detailed instruction included in the actual laboratory manual. Figure 1. Comparison of FANUC LR mate robot (left) with RobotRun Simulation (right).Software Simulation Advantages,As previously discussed, the use of simulation can offer some distinct advantages, especiallywhen the software comes at no cost to the University, or the students. The obvious mainadvantage is concept reinforcement, and overall exposure to the basic constructs, and commandsof a typical industrial robot. Tasks such as jogging the robot, teaching frames,creating/modifying, and executing programs are essentially identical in the FANUC teachpendant, and the “RobotRun” teach pendant
turnmajority of students who have attempted ME 3293. students spend some of the classroom time to solveThey have used various teaching concepts and student example problems, engage in classroom discussionlearning tools to engage students to help them to learn under the guidance of the instructor, or answer quizthe fundamental thermodynamic concepts [3-13]. questions.” The flipped classroom concept has been aThese efforts include hands-on laboratory hot pedagogical topic in the recent year. Some ofexperimentation in thermodynamics and recent studies have reported that flipping classroomimplementation of thermodynamic software for
Paper ID #25104Strategies to Improve Engineers’ Writing of Executive SummariesDr. Cara N. Morton P.E, Washington State University Cara is professional engineer and has three years of structural engineering design experience from the design of marine structures in the Gulf of Mexico to the design of shear walls in seven story concrete buildings governed by seismic loads in Seattle, WA. She currently serves as Clinical Professor at Wash- ington State University teaching the Integrated Civil Engineering Design class where a broad knowledge base from stormwater management to traffic engineering is required. Regarding
perceived enhancement of the undergraduate CEEresults of readiness tests and student assessments curriculum with the addition of FMM education.demonstrate the effectiveness of the content and the A total of 13 professionals responded to the geotechnicalpedagogical model to engage students and teach SHM engineering survey. While this was a very modest response,fundamentals and practices. the results were generally very consistent and are
Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University where she spent more than seven years as a teaching professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Exploring Hypotheses Regarding Engineering Graduate Students’ Identities, Motivations,and Experiences: The GRADs ProjectProject Goals & OverviewThis project, funded by U.S. National Science Foundation (EHR-1535254 & EHR- 1535453),was developed with a goal of exploring engineering graduate students’ (EGSs’) identities,motivations, and experiences. A growing literature base and increasing awareness regardingthe importance of identity and motivation for engineering students has focused on
University of Texas at Austin and West Point respectively. His research interests include capstone design teaching and assessment, undergraduate engineering stu- dent leadership development, and social network analysis. He is also a licensed professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Catalyzing Engineering Student Identity Development through an Independent Design ProjectAbstract This paper examines the engineering identity development of an undergraduateengineering student through an auto-ethnographic look at an independent design project advisedby a senior faculty member (co-author) at the United States
instructing courses in industrial management, financial management, computer technology, and environmental technology, as well as leading seminars in the uni- versity’s general education program. Prior to academia, Mr. Hilgarth was employed as as engineer in the aerospace industry in laboratory and flight test development, facilities management, and as a manager in quality assurance. He has contributed papers on management, ground-test laboratory and flight test facilities, and ethics to several technical and professional organizations. In education, he has served as a consultant and curriculum developer to the Ohio Board of Higher Education and the Ohio Department of Education. He holds an M.S. in engineering management
steps of constantcomparative analysis.This review suggests the existence of at least 31 factors that can potentially impact the successfulimplementation of RBIS in the classroom. Hence, they could be barriers or drivers toinstructional change in higher education. These 31 factors were classified and organized into sixcategories: 1) culture, 2) change management, 3) institutional support, 4) pedagogical knowledgeand skills, 5) students´ experience, and 6) faculty motivation.BackgroundSeveral reports on engineering education make the call to change pedagogical approaches inengineering by increasingly embedding research on learning into teaching practices [1-3]. Thistype of change, that involves a transformation in instructional practices and
Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, in 2017. He was a Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Brunel University London, UK, 2014-16. He was a senior lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire before joining Brunel, 2011-2014. He was a visiting scientist and postdoctoral researcher in the Industrial Automation Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada, 2007-2012. He was a visiting researcher at California Institute of Technology, USA, 2009-2011. He carried out post- doctoral research in the Department of Civil Engineering at UBC, 2005-2007. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Brunel
engineering.Mr. Michael Golub, IUPUI Michael Golub is the Academic Laboratory Supervisor for the Mechanical Engineering department at IUPUI. He is an associate faculty at the same school, and has taught at several other colleges. He has conducted research related to Arctic Electric Vehicles and 3D printed plastics and metals. He participated and advised several student academic competition teams for several years. His team won 1st place in the 2012 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge. He has two masters degrees: one M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.F.A. in Television Production. He also has three B.S. degrees in Liberal Arts, Mechanical Engineering, and Sustainable Energy. c American Society
course incorporates content fromthe previous courses in the sequence as well as from a fundamental statistics course in thecontext of experimental design and measurement. We anticipate that SBG will allow forfrequent, formative feedback throughout a single course as well as inform the instruction offaculty teaching subsequent courses building on these standards, including courses beyond thissequence such as Capstone. Our long-term goal will be to identify, align, and assess LO withinand across these courses in the curriculum using SBG. We will also review and assessimplementation of SBG in this context.This preliminary work focuses on implementation of SBG in the culminating course. Wehypothesize that Canvas-mediated SBG will 1) allow for
fundamentals portion of the class, which occurs threes time per week and isled by a faculty member, students are introduced to engineering problem solving; get exposed toengineering ethics; and learn how to use computer software for word processing, spreadsheets,and programming in C/C++ and MATLAB. In the laboratory portion of the class, which occursonce per week and is led by a graduate teaching associate (GTA), students conduct bench-topexperiments to investigate fundamental engineering concepts, with a variety of experiences tointroduce elements of each of the engineering disciplines in which a student could choose tomajor. Lab reports or lab memos are assigned most weeks to develop technical writtencommunication skills. Several of the lab reports
Interdisciplinary Department. As a tenured full professor of mechanical engineering, he taught and performed research in the areas of mechatronic system design and the modeling, analysis, and con- trol of multidisciplinary engineering systems. With significant continuous funding from both industry and government, he developed the Mechatronics Program at RPI, which included an extensive teaching and research laboratory and several undergraduate and graduate courses in mechatronics. He collabo- rated extensively with the Xerox Mechanical Engineering Sciences Laboratory (MESL), an offshoot of Xerox PARC, during this time. During his 18 years at RPI, he graduated 37 M.S. students and 20 Ph.D. students. While at RPI, he authored over
, India Susan S. Mathew, is an Associate Professor. Presently she is also the Associate Dean (Academics and Research) and Head, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. In NITTTR, for the last 29 years, she has been involved in outcome-based curriculum design, teaching postgraduate students, content updating and laboratory management programmes, induction training of new teachers, research in areas of technical education, projects concerned with the development of instructional material for polytechnics, engineering colleges as well as industries, etc. Prior to NITTTR, she was working as a lecturer in MANIT, Bhopal and SGSITS, Indore and was involved in teaching undergraduate & postgraduate students.Ms
Engineering at Technology. It is an opportunity for students and families to learnmore about different engineering programs. The event includes laboratory tours, as well asmeetings with current students, faculty, and the Office of Admissions. Faculty from variousdepartments open their labs and showcase their research. Other events are focused on hosting aspecific group of students, such as the Girl Scouts or the Verizon STEM Academy. Additionally,other groups are hosted specifically for laboratory tours, such as various high and middle schoolsfrom the area. The college also hosts an Open House, Scholar Day, Discover Engineers Week,Admitted Students Day, and Engineering Student Senior Design Expo. The open house is anevent in which teachers
other long-term funding to continue long term development is nowunderway.References 1. S. Tegen, Growing a Wind Workforce: The National Wind Energy Skills Assessment Report (Poster). No. NREL/PO-5000-61251. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO., 2014. 2. “Wind Vision: A New Era for Wind Power in the United States,” https://energy.gov/eere/wind/maps/wind-vision, 2015 (accessed January 2017). 3. “AWEA U.S. 2017 Market Reports” https://www.awea.org/resources/publications-and- reports/market-reports/2017-u-s-wind-industry-market-reports, 2017 (accessed December 2018) 4. D. Billing, "Teaching for Transfer of Core/Key Skills in Higher Education: Cognitive Skills," Higher education 53.4 (2007
project-based learning pedagogy. Someissues implemented in project-based approach are addressed (Khorbotly, 2015). Luo presentedan on-going multiple-project-based pedagogy in electrical and computer engineering program. Inthis course, a sequence of well-prepared projects was assigned to students to cover various topicsto help student learning for enhancement of research skills (Luo, 2015). Behrouzi and Kuchmaaddressed an inquiry-based learning pedagogy used in a freshman civil and structuralengineering curriculum with an equipment-light laboratory course (Behrouzi and Kuchma, 2016).Active-based learning is a learning protocol, in which teaching strives to involve students in thelearning process more directly than in other methods (Luo, 2015). It
Paper ID #26163Runge-Kutta Algorithm and AssessmentDr. Mysore Narayanan, Miami University DR. MYSORE NARAYANAN obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, England in the area of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He joined Miami University in 1980 and teaches a wide variety of electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering courses. He has been invited to contribute articles to several encyclopedias and has published and presented dozens of papers at local, regional , national and international conferences. He has also designed, developed, organized and chaired several conferences for Miami University
this problem. A fairly well-known approach, first proposed by faculty from Wright StateUniversity, involves teaching an Engineering Mathematics class to freshmen engineeringstudents. This class, typically taught by engineers (and not mathematicians), covers only thosetopics from the entire Calculus curriculum that are actually used in early engineering courses suchas Physics, Statics, Dynamics, Circuit Theory, etc. Passing this course allows students to continueinto freshmen and sophomore level engineering classes while they are still continuing to finishthe traditional sequence of Calculus courses. This class was recently added to the engineeringcurriculum at University of Detroit Mercy. In this paper the author will present the course
Paper ID #25088Problem-based Learning As A Pedagogy For Individual Students - Quanti-fying The Long-term Effects of Land Subsidence and Rising Sea Levels InCoastal Areas For Greater Student EngagementDr. Sanjay Tewari, Missouri University of Science & Technology Dr. Tewari is Assistant Teaching Professor of Civil Engineering at the Missouri University of Science & Technology, Rolla, MO. Prior to joining Missouri S&T, he worked as Assistant Professor at Louisiana Tech University. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering (Civil Engineering) and Master of Technology (Chemical Engineering) in India. He later joined Texas