education. He is currently the principal investigator on two NSF-funded projects. The first project examines factors that influence academic resilience among engineering students, while the other involves the development of a diagnostic tool to identify students’ misconceptions in electrical engineering.Dominik May (Dr.) Dr. May is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Education Transformations Institute. He researches online and intercultural engineering education. His primary research focus lies on the development, introduction, practical use, and educational value of online laboratories (remote, virtual, and cross-reality) and online experimentation in engineering instruction. In his work, he focuses on developing
, American Society for Engineering EducationAt the University of Houston (UH) in the Engineering Technology program, senior project wasoffered within Micro-controller Interfacing course (ELET4308) for several years. This was onesemester course with a laboratory consisting of few experiments and then the group project.Teams were formed and each team was assigned a different project. Recently the name of thecourse has been changed to ‘senior project’ and format has been slightly changed. This campushas a large percentage of commuter students with part time or even full time jobs. This situationled to consider this proposal of evaluating the indigenous resource.At PVAMU senior project is a two-semester course (ELET4082 and ELET4092) and carriestotal 4
, American Society for Engineering EducationAt the University of Houston (UH) in the Engineering Technology program, senior project wasoffered within Micro-controller Interfacing course (ELET4308) for several years. This was onesemester course with a laboratory consisting of few experiments and then the group project.Teams were formed and each team was assigned a different project. Recently the name of thecourse has been changed to ‘senior project’ and format has been slightly changed. This campushas a large percentage of commuter students with part time or even full time jobs. This situationled to consider this proposal of evaluating the indigenous resource.At PVAMU senior project is a two-semester course (ELET4082 and ELET4092) and carriestotal 4
will elaborate the detail content of the curriculum for our new electrical engineeringprogram as well as the two-semester long capstone design courses. The paper also presents theprimary experiences of teaching capstone I and II to our electrical engineering students. Thedescription of these courses is first given, including course contents, learning outcomes andinstruction approach.IntroductionUtah Valley University is a comprehensive regional university with over 41,000 studentscharged with serving Utah County, which is the second largest county in the state. UVU isregionally accredited at the institution level by the Northwest Commission of Colleges andUniversities. UVU has a dual mission – that of a comprehensive university offering
Proceedings | Paper ID 36136experience in various technologies in this course. It prepares students well for their seniorproject, if they choose to work on an IoT related application.References:[1] Agrawal, J. P., & Farook, O., & Anderson, Z. J., & Walker, D. G. (2019, June), Internet of Things (IoT) Laboratory Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--33008[2] Barendt, N., Sridhar N., and Loparo, K. A New Course for Teaching Internet of Things: A Practical, Hands-on, and Systems-level Approach, 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.[3] Bluetooth Low Energy, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_Low_Energy[4] DSD TECH Bluetooth 4.0 ble module HM 10, http
from Research and Practice for Middle Grades through University Education. (Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access, 2012).16. Sweet, C. Accessibility in the Laboratory. in Hidden or Invisible Disabilities and Laboratory Accommodations (ed. E. Sweet, W. Strobel Gower and C.E. Heltzer) vol. 1272 69–75 (American Chemical Society, 2018).17. Prema, D. & Dhand, R. Inclusion and accessibility in STEM education: Navigating the duty to accommodate and disability rights. Can. J. Disabil. Stud. 8, 121–141 (2019).18. Miner, D. L., Nieman, R., Swanson, A. B. & Woods, M. Teaching chemistry to students with disabilities: A manual for high schools, colleges, and graduate programs. (American Chemical Society, 2001).19
. Prior to joining MSU Mankato, Dr. Yamin served as a faculty member at Bradley University in Peoria, IL, and as a visiting faculty member at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. In addition to his academic experience, Dr. Yamin worked as a design engineer in the Bridge Department at the California Department of Transportation, Sacramento, CA. He also worked as an Engineering Manager at Gulf Engineering House – a consulting firm in Saudi Arabia.Khosrow Ebrahimi Khosrow Ebrahimi joined Minnesota State University, Mankato in August 2018. In his current position, he teaches a wide variety of courses in the ME curriculum including Statics, Dynamics, Engineering Analysis, Fluid Mechanics, Heat
industrial robot cells," Control EngineeringPractice,Vol 15, Issue 11, pp 1416-1426, 2007.[6] C. Wronka and M. Dunnigan, “Internet remote control interface for a multipurpose roboticarm,” International Journal of Advanced Robotic systems, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 179-183, 2006.[7] A. Eslami, and A.Williams, and K. Krauss, and A. Rezaei. "A Remote Access Robotics AndPlc Laboratory For Distance Learning Program". 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition, Austin,Texas, 2009, June. ASEE Conferences, 2009. pp 14.97.1-14.97.9[8] M. Garduño-Aparicio, and J. Rodríguez-Reséndiz, G. Macias-Bobadilla and S. Thenozhi,"A Multidisciplinary Industrial Robot Approach for Teaching Mechatronics-Related Courses," inIEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 55-62
background is in mechanical engineering with a focus on manufacturing. Prior to joining MIT, she worked at an original equipment manufacturer.Nicholas Xuanlai FangJohn Liu (Dr.) Dr. John Liu is the principal investigator of the MIT Learning Engineering and Practice (LEAP) Group, which applies design and systems principles to solving challenges in learning and develops learning experiences to better meet the increasing demand for STEM skills in tomorrow’s workforce. He is a Lecturer in MIT's Mechanical Engineering department and Scientist of the MITx Digital Learning Laboratory. Dr. Liu's work includes engineering education, mixed reality and haptic experiences, workforce solutions to address the nation-wide manufacturing
solving. The escape room exercise was split into a total of two laboratory periods (ca. 4 hours). Teams who did not escape during laboratory period one were given the option to complete the unfinished module, at the end of the first laboratory period, during the time between laboratory period one and laboratory period two. The instructor team used Microsoft Teams to communicate with groups during the exercise, which expedited communications. In addition, we used one instructor and one staff member during the exercise to minimize time that groups waited for assistance. The need for an instructor team is discussed in more detail below.5. Develop a grade scheme. The instructions stated that every group who escaped by the end of the
’ commitment and planning efforts. The instructors should meet to discuss the scope of the collaboration and the length of the planned interactions. COIL activities can range from 3 weeks to an entire semester of combined teaching. Aspects to consider include time zone differences, languages, the number of participating students, and the students’ level (e.g., senior vs. sophomore) of the engineering courses at both institutions. Instructors should also discuss previous experiential learning opportunities for students of different backgrounds. Some students may not know about co-ops, teaching laboratories, internships, or volunteering/service opportunities, which promote multicultural learning
concepts in engineeringmechanics courses in order to maximize the effectiveness of experiential learning lab modulesfor students due to the limited laboratory sessions available in one semester.The survey is focused on obtaining a student perspective regarding the most difficult coursetopics, but also included education professionals in order to capitalize on their regular experienceof teaching the concepts in the classroom. The survey was distributed via email using a Googleform link, with conditional settings to skip questions in which the recipient self-identified as nothaving relevant experience (i.e. if the student had not taken dynamics yet, the student was notasked to rank the dynamics topics in order of difficulty). For this reason, the
and inclusion. She has served as PI and co-PI for grants from multiple sponsors including NSF and Amazon totaling more than $9M. In addition, her STEM outreach programs and curricula have impacted hundreds of thousands of K-12 students nationwide. She is the co- founder and director of Georgia Tech’s K-12 InVenture Prize, a statewide invention competition, open to all students and teachers in Georgia. She earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2007, and her Masters and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2009 and 2012. Dr. Moore received the Georgia Tech Teaching Effectiveness Award in 2018.Michael Helms Dr. Michael Helms is a Senior Research
deformation can be an obstacle to structural mechanicseducation and learning. Teaching structural mechanics is traditionally delivered by a primarylecture component usually complemented by structural laboratory demonstrations. While thelecture component covers the theoretical concepts and derivations, the laboratory demonstrationsare known to improve the students’ understanding of the concepts through observation andexperimentation. Students often work with line drawings of members with idealized loadings andboundary conditions, but struggle to understand the dimensional reduction of load path (i.e. 3Dcombined loading reduced to member force effects) within a multi-story building systems [1, 2].Other shortcomings in traditional modes of teaching
whether that class is a laboratory, alecture or a design class. Unfortunately, the form is usually directed toward classroomperformance in lecture classes with questions like: • Did instructor presented material clearly and effectively? • Did the instructor encouraged interaction with the class? • Was the teaching assistance available and helpful? • Did the facilities adequately met course needs?These questions hardly seem appropriate for a course with no lectures, with no teachingassistants and for studio courses that must be held in a lecture room because no otherfacilities are provided. Finally, instructor/student interaction is desirable for the studentwhen the student has the choice. When students are forced to participate
electrical engineering from Tsinghua University,Beijing, China, in 1995 and 1997 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. From 1997 to 2002, he was a research assistant at theDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.From 2002 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Electromagnetics Laboratory in theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an Assistant Professor with the Department ofElectrical Engineering, the University of Texas at Arlington from 2005 to 2012. He joined the Departmentof Electrical and Computer Engineering, West Virginia University Institute of Technology in 2012, and
Paper ID #37862WIP: The Impact of Human-Centered Design Modules onStudents’ Learning in an Introduction to Electronics CourseSaadeddine Shehab (Postdoctoral Research Associate) Saadeddine Shehab is currently the Head of Assessment and Research at the Siebel Center for Design (SCD) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He works with a group of undergraduate and graduate SCD scholars at SCD’s Assessment and Research Laboratory to conduct research that informs and evaluates the practice of teaching and learning human-centered design in formal and informal learning environments. His research focuses on
Paper ID #36681Experiences Of Faculty Mentoring Engineering TransferStudentsDeniz Nikkhah BME Grad student at UCIDavid A. Copp (Assistant Professor of Teaching) David A. Copp received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Teaching at the University of California, Irvine in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Prior to joining UCI, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories and
with the project managementtechniques followed in the industry. A survey conducted after the completion of the course projectpoints to evidence that 78% of the students benefitted from this innovative concept and 81% of thestudents reported that they learned something new from this concept. In other words, the studentslearned Project Management techniques as a result of this innovative concept. Encouraged by theresults, it is intended to continue this initiative when teaching courses with term projects. It is alsointended to continuously keep improving this process to make it more beneficial for the studentsboth from an academic and industry perspective.Keywords—project management, computer-aided engineering, computer-aided design, GanttchartI
Paper ID #38093Learning Outside of the Classroom - Applying a Design,Development, and Testing Exercise to Augment the Early-Stage Undergraduate Aerospace and Mechanical EngineeringExperienceFrancisco Bueno Francisco Bueno is an undergraduate student majoring in Aerospace Engineering and a concentration in Mechanical Engineering. He studies at Parks College of Engineering, Aviation, and Technology of Saint Louis University. He has been a part of AirCRAFT laboratory since Spring 2021, where he is team captain for the AUVSI AUS competition. His current vision is to follow a Master's program after finishing his
student empowerment to address climate change. Currently, MiguelAndrés is developing teaching and evaluation pedagogy that directs a philosophy of seeking excellence as a pillar to eradicate corruption.Francisco Wladimir Jativa Valverde © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Work in Progress: Designing a First-Year Hands-on Civil Engineering Course to Reduce Students Dropout and Improve the Overall College Experience María Emilia Mariño1, Jacoba Ubidia1, MiguelAndrés Guerra2*, Francisco Játiva21 Undergraduate student, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías
recognition and/or classification.Figure 1 captures the essential subject matter necessary for the course on applied AI to delivermeasurable course outcomes. The activities conducted during this course fall in the categories ofproblem-based, project-based, and self-directed learning. The laboratory and project activities ofthe course emphasize the integration and testing of physical systems by providing the necessaryinsight into the building blocks displayed in Figure 1. Figure 1: Background preparation Proceedings of the 2022 ASEE North Central Section Conference Copyright © 2022, American Society for Engineering Education 2Section 2 overviews the course setup in
Annual Conference and Exposition, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, June 26-29, 2011.[3] C. C. McDaniel and G. C. Archer, “Full-scale Mechanical Vibrations Laboratory,” ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, June 23-26, 2013.[4] J. R. Baker, “MATLAB-Based Finite Element Analysis in a Vibrations Class,” ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 15-18, 2014.[5] S. Zhang, and A. Togbe, “Engineering Application Projects for Teaching Engineering Mathematics and Numerical Methods,” 127th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Virtual Conference, June 22-26, 2020.[6] S. Zhang, and M. Mikulich, “Parametric CAD Modelling of Aircraft Wings for FEA Vibration Analysis,” Journal of Applied Mathematics and
Paper ID #36767Building Partnerships to Bridge the Transfer Gap andIncrease Student SuccessCody Mann (Director of Bell Program Operations and Facilitators)Andrew HanegmonMichelle Soledad (Assistant Professor) Michelle Soledad is an Assistant Professor in the Iron Range Engineering - Bell Program at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She holds degrees in Electrical Engineering (BS, MEngg) from the Ateneo de Davao University in Davao City, Philippines, and in Engineering Education (Ph.D.) from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include teaching and learning experiences in fundamental engineering courses, and data
began working as Co-PI on another NSF-funded study to reduce barriers in the hiring of underrepresented racial minority faculty in data science and data engineering fields.Dr. Tammy Michelle McCoy, Georgia Institute of Technology Tammy M. McCoy is the TA Development and Future Faculty Specialist for the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In this capacity, she works closely with graduate students and postdoctoral scholars interested in pursuing careers in college teaching through teaching assistant (TA) training and support, academic career development programs, and training and certification in college teaching. Specifically, she teaches courses and facilitates workshops to
Paper ID #37715Development of a Project-Based Civil & EnvironmentalIntroductory CourseJacob Henschen (Teaching Assistant Prrofessor) Jacob Henschen is a teaching assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. His research interests include additive manufacturing with cementitious materials and the use of virtual reality in undergraduate education.Jordan Ouellet (Graduate Research Assistant) Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant
, Hydraulic Machinery, as well as different Laboratory courses. Additionally, Dr. Ayala has had the opportunity to work for a number of engineering consulting companies, which have given him an important perspective and exposure to the industry. He has been directly involved in at least 20 different engineering projects related to a wide range of industries. Dr. Ayala has provided service to professional organizations such as ASME, since 2008 he has been a member of the Committee of Spanish Translation of ASME Codes. Dr. Ayala has published over one hundred journal and peer-reviewed conference papers. His work has been presented in several international forums in Austria, the USA, Venezuela, Japan, France, Mexico, and
include enhancing facilities, maintaining strongindustry relations, and consistently advancing the curriculum. These are some examplesof how engineering technology departments have tried to eradicate these problems.Enhancing facilities, for example, has been resolved by continuing to improve classroomand laboratory equipment that is even more conducive to learning. Improving the facultyand staff offices to better serve the needs of students is also a common technique. Somehave tried upgrading and enhancing teaching support equipment and resources.Maintaining strong industry relations has been accomplished by meeting biannually withthe Industrial Advisory Committee. Others have solved this issue by arrangingproductive internships for all
Paper ID #37123Dean’s Racial Justice Curriculum Challenge (WIP)Paula Rees (Assistant Dean for Diversity) Assistant Dean UMass Amherst.Scott A Civjan (Professor)Erin Baker (Professor)Promise MchengaHannah WhartonJacqueline E Thornton (Software Developer)Lia Marie CiemnyEsha Ayman UddinSamantha WojdaShannon Roberts Dr. Shannon C. Roberts is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department and the co- director of the Human Performance Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass). Prior to joining UMass, she was a technical staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Cyber
not theintention of the laboratory exercise to train the students to become lab technicians. Rather, the © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings | Paper ID 35748principal purpose in putting our students in the laboratory setting is to enhance and supplementtheir understanding of the concepts and principles being taught within the classroom.”For engineering curriculum, impact analysis is typically first introduced in a physics orengineering dynamics course. More in-depth analysis and practical applications are typicallycovered in a mechanics of materials course for all engineering majors, and/or a machinecomponent design course for mechanical