, students will acquire an ability to apply the knowledge of control theoriesthey have learned from class to an actual system.For the robot programming course, this system will be used as a good project to carry out. As it isshown in this paper, students will learn not only ROS, but also programming to run various sensorsand actuators along with a vision system. With adequate instructions, we believe students will beable to complete this project in one semester through four separate modules: vision, actuation(servo motors), control, and system integration. Additionally, other relevant topics such as robotdynamics and digital control can also be taught with the system presented in this paper.7. ConclusionThis paper presents a ROS-based solid multi
Paper ID #19345Development of Enhanced Value, Feature, and Stakeholder Views for a Model-Based Design ApproachDr. William A Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Bill Kline is Professor of Engineering Management and Associate Dean of Innovation at Rose-Hulman. His teaching and professional interests include systems engineering, quality, manufacturing systems, in- novation, and entrepreneurship. As Associate Dean, he directs the Branam Innovation Center which houses campus competition teams, maker club, and projects. He is currently an associate with IOI Partners, a consulting venture focused on innovation tools and
. While this course uses active learning approaches and team projects, the scope of theircontents distinguish them from similar courses that seek to achieve improved graduation andretention rates. For instance, in this course, soft skills such as technical writing, use of Excel,developing an individual academic plan of study, cooperative education, internships, culturaldiversity, quality, safety, and ethics are covered. Basic technical skills covered include math,mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering technology. The rationale for this course is toexpose students to these subjects and topics before they enroll in core engineering technologycourses such as applied statics.Assessment of learning:While the author plans to conduct this
significantdifferences in visualization skills improvement for the two course offering modalities. Table 1. Topics covered on each one of the offered courses. Institution A ‐ WI B ‐ MI Orthographic Projections S.M. Concepts Auxiliary Views Constructive Solid Geometry Section Views Constraints Dimensioning Orthographic Projections S.M. Concepts Auxiliary Views Constructive Solid Geometry Section
represented by the heights. All four “buildings” are placed on a two-by-four,which is mounted on a set of wheels. Figure 2. Predict: Students are asked to predict the outcome.Students are asked to predict which buildings will sway the most in an “earthquake”, where theearthquake is simulated by the instructor by oscillating the two-by-four base on wheels. Theprediction is done by online polling, where students can observe the class results. In the twoyears (2015 and 2016) that this interactive demonstration was done, the results were similar tothat shown in Figure3. Figure 3. Predict: Students’ online prediction of the demonstration. (2015 poll shown).With Figure 3 projecting on the screen, the instructor then shakes the base with
hands-oninstruction to students on a variety of topics. Each week the program followed a similar pattern,involving a warm-up discussion about a professional from a STEM field, a thematic mainactivity, and a closing portion that encouraged review and reflection. At select points in theprogram, a field trip was incorporated that allowed students to visit university labs, sciencemuseums, or engineering open houses.SEBA Project OutcomesOver the course of the project multiple measures were used to assess student attitudes,engagement, and the overall impact that teaching assistants, parents, and mentors had onstudents’ perspective of STEM. Feedback about the program design, implementation, content,and outcomes was obtained from school staff, parents
that a large percentage of students in engineering programs switch theirmajors in the first two years. A study has reported that retention rates can be improved throughmultiple strategies that include making curriculum changes, moving practical engineeringlaboratories earlier in the curriculum, integrating projects into classes, and other classenhancements1. Another reason given by students who switch to other majors is that teachingapproaches are not suitable for current populations of students who learn and acquire newknowledge quite differently from those of earlier generations2, 3.Several new pedagogical approaches have been proposed to improve engineering education, suchas the use of hands-on tools to change the learning style in the
experience with a traditional lecture, preventing studentsfrom receiving guided practice and providing little motivation to learn. This contradictseducational theory that shows students learn best when shown the usefulness of the material andhow it can impact their lives (3). Numerous inductive or experiential learning techniques exist toaddress these issues, including case-based learning, project-based learning, discovery learning,and more. PBL and JiTT were chosen since these best matched the curriculum goal for studentsto program more in a collaborative setting. Also, correctly incorporating PBL helps studentsdevelop the following skills: 1) flexible knowledge, 2) effective problem solving, and 3) self-directed learning which help promote
Paper ID #18536Enhancing Student Success by Combining Pre-enrollment Risk Predictionwith Academic Analytics DataDr. D. Raj Raman, Iowa State University Raj Raman is Professor in the Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE) Department at Iowa State University, where he is also University Education Program Director and Testbed Champion for the NSF Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals (CBiRC), Director of Graduate Education for the Interdepartmental Graduate Minor in Biorenewable Chemicals, and Education Programs Co-Leader for the USDA-AFRI project CenUSA Sustainable Production and Distribution of
, George Mason University Colin Reagle joined the Volgenau School of Engineering at George Mason University in 2014, specializ- ing in the area of thermal fluid flows and sustainable energy systems. He brings his extensive background in the subjects to Mason as a boon to the growing mechanical engineering program. He has also taught and conducted postdoctoral research at Virginia Tech including research projects for Solar Turbines, Siemens, Pratt and Whitney, Rolls-Royce, and Honeywell. Reagle has R&D experience as a researcher for Techs- burg, a small engineering services company in Christiansburg, Virginia. His primary focus at Mason has growing the Mechanical Engineering undergraduate program through teaching
projects Problem Solving Recognizes problems and potential challenges in their work Identifies solutions or courses of action and evaluates the costs and benefits of each Makes timely decisions, plans course of action, and carries out action accordingly Communication Oral Communication Clearly conveys information with appropriate purpose & detail Matches communication style with audience Uses listening to effectively respond to others’ input Written Communication Expresses thoughts clearly and
difficult. Unfortunately this resulted in the lowest pass rate ourdepartment had observed in several years at 40%.We found that students, when given multiple test date options, instead of taking the exam earlier,students postponed taking the test until late into the spring quarter. In some instances, ourstudents, feeling the pressure of encroaching graduation and senior design project deadlines,simply went into the test centers and put in little effort. Their motivation was mainly getting thetick mark to ensure they graduated.For our part, because of the continuous dates, we did not offer an organized review session to ourstudents as we had in the past. The timing of these review sessions in the past aimed at preparingstudents for the April exam
a host of instructional strategies andeducators have been significantly lagging in using them[1]. In fact, Henderson and Dancy [7] arguethat the improvement in engineering education lies not in finding more effective instructionalstrategies but in using the proven strategies.This paper describes our attempt to introduce a few RBIS in a rural Indian engineering college.We introduced simple strategies such as using audio-visuals, think-pair-share, formative feedback,problem-based learning in lab sessions, and project-based learning in design courses in a one-dayworkshop. Eighty faculty members, in two batches, attended the workshop, which itself used manyof the above RBIS. The participating faculty members reflected on the strategies in
Paper ID #18531Investigating the Effect of Temperature in RFID TechnologyDr. Tae-Hoon Kim, Purdue University NorthwestDr. Lash B. Mapa, Purdue University Northwest Lash Mapa is a Professor in Industrial/Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University Calumet (PUC). His undergraduate and graduate degrees are in Chemical Engineering. He has several years’ experience as a Chemical Engineer, Process and Project manager with European and U.S. manufacturing organizations. Currently, he is involved in the MS Technology program at PUC and has managed over thirty lean six sigma projects with manufacturing, service industry
. She works with ASCE’s Committee on Education on issues of importance to the undergraduate and grad- uate level education of civil engineers.Dr. Brock E. Barry PE, U.S. Military Academy Dr. Brock E. Barry, P.E. is an Associate Professor and Mechanics Group Director in the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Dr. Barry holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, a Master of Science degree from University of Colorado at Boulder, and a PhD from Purdue University. Prior to pursuing a career in academics, Dr. Barry spent 10-years as a senior geotechnical engineer and project manager on projects throughout the United
. The lectures which introduce and then developthese concepts are usually very detailed and technically dense by necessity. Students often audiorecord these lectures for repeated playback outside of class, but the associated derivations anddiagrams cannot easily be captured unless taken cell phone video during lecture. This solution isnot ideal since picture quality of written or projected imagery can be insufficient, and manyprofessors do not wish to be videotaped during a lecture. This situation has led students toformally request high quality videos (technical content and production values) which can berepeatedly viewed outside of lecture as needed to assist with mastering the material.The objective of the work described in this paper is to
Paper ID #27165Research Paper: Where Do We Meet? Understanding Conference Participa-tion in a Department of Engineering EducationMr. Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury, Virginia Tech Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury is a PhD student at Virginia Tech in the department of Engineering Edu- cation. Tahsin holds a BSc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from IUT, Dhaka and has worked as a manufacturing professional at a Fortune 500. He is actively engaged in different projects at the department involving teamwork, communication and capstone design with a focus on industrial engineering practice.Ms. Ashley R. Taylor, Virginia Tech
professionals in STEM-related careers. 7. Increase student motivation to follow through with next steps to fulfill STEM career decisions. 8. Increase student interest in working on STEM projects in the future. 9. Increase student commitment to continue studies and/or professional development in a STEM area.Description of ProgramSISTEM was a grant-funded program that offered high school participants the opportunity tolearn about a variety of STEM careers. The program took place at a university in the southwestregion of the United States. SISTEM met once per week for five consecutive weeks. All of theparticipants arrived in the evening, ate a complimentary dinner, and then attended a briefinformation session or “lightning” talk on a
undergraduate engineering courses, such as a fluid mechanics course [2], a first-year introductory engineering course [3], a hybrid thermodynamics course [4], and project-baseddesign courses [5]. Best practices [1] have been established by educators from severaluniversities.Continuous-time signals and systems (CTSS) is a fundamental electrical and computerengineering course in which students are introduced to mathematical models for commonengineering signals and systems. The CTSS course is typically prerequisite to other ECEcourses, such as digital signal processing, control systems, and communication systems. Theconcepts found in a CTSS course are among the most conceptually difficult [7-8] in a typicalECE curriculum. To that end, many attempts have
serve as enhancement or replacement toconventional instruction. Hennessy et al. [13] concluded that instructors prefer computer-based technologies since they allow not only to replicate the real experiments, but also toexplore "what-if" scenarios. To that end, many scholars investigated the use of simulation-based instructional materials. For example, Montevechi et al. [14] examined the use ofdiscrete event simulation and how it can be used to increase students' understanding of thereal systems in conceptual models, where Lego Mindstorms' robot application was used asan example for the project. Skoogh et al. [8] examined ways to include simulation as partof learning objectives by including objectives to learn discrete event simulation.This
practice and reflection doing normal activities such as eating, moving, and journaling.MethodsOur participants in this study were undergraduate engineering students—mostly first- and second-year and from various demographic backgrounds—who took the course on engineering thrivingduring 2018. We examined changes in students’ scores on gratitude, meaning, and mindfulness atthree time-intervals: a pretest the first day of class (n = 12), a post-test the last day of class (n =12), and a follow-up six months later (n = 5). Part of a larger project (NSF #1626287), we measuredthese competencies using a previously validated survey [26] that examined the impact of variousnon-cognitive and affective factors on engineering student success. For gratitude
program includes up to 40 participants, rising juniors or seniors at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), who have interest in pursu- ing STEM disciplines at the graduate-level. Annually, Dean Vaughan supervises direction of the 4-week FAME/UD Summer Residential Program for 30-35 high school students, the RISE Summer Enrichment Program for incoming engineering freshmen and, in the past, the HEARD (Higher Education Awareness Response in Delaware) Project, a college awareness program, funded by the Department of Education through Philadelphia GEAR UP for College Network. Globally in the College, he manages academic programs and policies that impact the careers of all engineering students at both the
M.S. in operations research in 1973 and his Ph.D. in IE in 1975 from Stanford University, and his MCE from UAA in 1999.Dr. Jerome P. Lavelle, North Carolina State University Jerome P. Lavelle is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of engineering economic analysis, decision analysis, project management, leadership, engineering management and engineering education.Dr. Neal A. Lewis, Fairfield University NEAL A. LEWIS, CPEM, received his Ph.D. in engineering management in 2004 and B.S. in chemical engineering in 1974 from the University of Missouri–Rolla and his MBA in 2000 from the University of New
as well as intrapersonalskills. The new millennium also needs an enlightened workforce that possesses written and oralcommunication skills in addition to acquiring in–depth knowledge in their chosen discipline. Leading scholars in the area of Cognitive Science and Educational Methodologies haveconcluded that it is essential that students need to be taught in a creative learning environment.Educators who utilize the Discovery Approach help students acquire much needed real–worldproblem–solving skills. In this paper the author outlines how interactive projects can help theinstructor in promoting a problem–based learning environment. Furthermore, he also providesinitial results of his assessment data.Introduction Educators
Goni, Juli´an is an educational psychologist from the Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile, with academic certification in Economy. He is an instructor and researcher at DILAB UC (School of Engineering UC). He has collaborated in diverse innovation projects with the National Innovation Council (CNID), the Center for Studies of Argumentation and Reasoning (CEAR UDP) and ChileCreativo. In DILAB UC he researches on tipics such as Engineering Education, Public Innovation and Teamwork. He is interested in research, theory and application of interdisciplinary social sciences, with emphasis on the intersection of psychology, innovation, education, philosophy and engineering. c American
collection of all of these instantiations, along with the secondary quantitativeanalyses mentioned previously, will allow for the final step of the FRAM: identification ofpossible control mechanisms. Through this process, common trends will be explored to identifywhich functions lead to the most variability in the system and the outcome. This analysis shouldgive indications of design decisions that can be made to reduce the corresponding variability.For instance, if variability originating in an assignment function leads to large variability ofoutcome, that can inform aspects of assignment design. While many of the specific aspects ofthis project are rooted in the context of the study, the final recommendations will be stated asgenerally as the
softwareassociated with it has become cheaper, faster, and easier to use, both in the consumer market aswell as for research purposes. As devices get more affordable, the market is filled with new anddifferent types of games to utilize the hardware. From education to training and therapy, manyapplications were not possible to this extent previously. In this project, the use of VR is dedicatedto creating a richer and more immersive learning environment for the participants involved in theproject. Researchers have been using video games in educational settings for the purpose oflearning and training [6,7]. This fast-growing trend is aided by the vast improvement in hardwarecapable of rendering increasingly realistic and high definition virtual
the growth of the Internet is nolonger in question. In fact, the last remnants of the global IPv4 address pools are already dryingup. As Table 1 shows, four of the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) have exhausted theirIPv4 address pools and are operating under exhaustion policies that restrict IPv4 addressallocations. Only the RIR for Africa, AFRINIC, has yet to reach full exhaustion. At the time ofwriting AFRINIC is allocating from its final /8 and has a projected exhaustion date of 09November 2019 [1].Table 1. Regional Internet Registry Last /8 Allocation Information. Last /8 Assignment RIR Description
Paper ID #26152Learning Outcomes for Engineering Education ProgramsDr. Kseniya Zaitseva, Tomsk Polytechnic University/ Association for Engineering Education of Russia Associate professor at Tomsk Polytechnic University faculty member, Accreditation Center director in As- sociation for Engineering Education of Russia. PhD in Pedagogical Sciences, graduate degree in ”Math- ematical Methods in Economics”. Also holds a Management degree. Her research focus is in Quality Assurance, active learning and international academic mobility. Has experience in coordinating several TEMPUS, Erasmus+ projects as well as organizing joint