laboratory components of courses tend tobe overly competitive and not collaborative14. The projects involve collaborative, team-based problem solving with socially relevantproblems, which require multiple perspectives and values the forms of practical knowledge thatstudents can bring to a team15. The projects are constructed to be MEAs and sequenced toemphasize the context in which an engineer understands chemistry, to require the use ofcollaboration and to scaffold the process of design16. The projects are conveyed in a three-phase format: Inquiry, Problem Solving and aDeliverable. During Inquiry, students are presented with the task as a memo from thehypothetical company CEO requiring them to produce a deliverable for a local client
University Dr. Adam Fontecchio is an Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vice-Dean of the Graduate College, and Director of the Center for the Advancement of STEM Teaching and Learning Excellence (CASTLE). He is the recipient of a NASA New Investigator Award, the Drexel Graduate Student Associ- ation Outstanding Mentor Award, the Drexel University ECE Outstanding Research Achievement Award and the International Liquid Crystal Society Multimedia Prize. In 2003, he received a NASA/ASEE Sum- mer Faculty Fellowship to research NEMS/MEMS adaptive optics in the Microdevices Laboratory at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Fontecchio received his Ph.D. in Physics from Brown University in 2002. He has authored
on her mentoring of students, especially women and underrepresented minority students, and her research in the areas of recruitment and retention. A SWE Fellow and ASEE Fellow, she is a frequent speaker on career opportunities and diversity in engineering.Dr. Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University Prior to joining the ASU Electrical Engineering faculty in 1990, Dr. Armando A. Rodriguez worked at MIT, IBM, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Raytheon Missile Systems. He has also consulted for Eglin Air Force Base, Boeing Defense and Space Systems, Honeywell and NASA. He has published over 200 tech- nical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings – over 60 with students. He has authored three
isprohibitively expensive. Renewable energy resources on site must be tapped to power thenetwork.3The site has abundant hydroelectric energy at the river and on the three creeks that run throughthe university property. Two years before this project began, the university’s electrical systemon site was upgraded to a 4.5kW capacity. Of this, 1.5kW is hydroelectric and 3kW is solarphotovoltaic. There is a propane generator for backup, but other than being run for periodicmaintenance, it has not been used. The university’s power serves nine buildings, includingliving quarters and laboratories. Energy storage in lead acid batteries provides ride-through forfive consecutive cloudy days, an event too rare to show on the site’s weather records dating backto 1910
understand certain important concepts in the fluid and thermal sciences. Theinitial stage of this development consists of eight exercises that were identified by the authors asdifficult concepts for the mechanical engineering technology students at Penn State Erie - TheBehrend College in thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid power. Some of these exerciseshave a basis in a previous project by Gerald Recktenwald and Robert Edwards (Engineering ofEveryday Things (EET))1 which had a focus on laboratory exercises. Since these are for use in aclassroom, the existing exercises needed to be scaled back in both size and duration. Others arenew to this project. The overall project is in the early stages. Some of the exercises are welldeveloped with only a
is senior research scientist at the Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simula- tion at Purdue University Northwest. He has MS in Technology, BS in Computer Graphics Technology, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Technology focusing on the application of mixed reality technologies to education.Mr. Jichao Wang, CIVS, Purdue University Calumetzitao xiong, tappolloDr. Rameh Teegavarapu, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Ramesh Teegavarapu (Dr. T.) is currently an associate professor in the Department of Civil, Environ- mental and Geomatics department at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), Boca Raton, Florida and founder and leader of the Hydrosystems Research Laboratory (HRL) in the department. He has over 15
thataccomplishes little. The originality of his concept made it popular among the society and twoPurdue engineering fraternities began a contest as a rivalry in the 1940s and 1950s, which laterwas revived in 1983 and became a nationwide Rube Goldberg Machine (RGM) contest in 19883.The contest was expanded to the high school level in 1996 with the support of the USDepartment of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. In 2012, an international online RGMcontest was launched by Rube Goldberg Inc. for ages 11-144.RGMs were also used in educational studies, especially those related with design. Several ofthese studies utilized Rube Goldberg projects in K-12 education and freshmen level engineeringcourses such as teaching engineering design to K-12 students
University of Northern Iowa, a founder director of manufacturing engineering program at St. Cloud State University, Project Manager at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Visiting Scholar at TU-Berlin, Germany. Dr. ElSawy teaching and research interests are in the areas of material processing, metallurgy and manufacturing systems. His current research interests are in the areas of renewable energy, bioenergy from waste in order to reduce the carbon footprint and preserve natural resources for future generations. Dr. ElSawy received ˜ $2M of state, federal, and industrial grants in support of his laboratory development and research activities. He advised several masters and doctoral students who are holding academic and
navigation features; however, it requires modification toallow for successful navigation.MethodsTwo electrical and computer engineering faculty members and a senior undergraduatemechanical engineering student developed the curriculum for the course. Our goal was toprovide enough theory to allow the students to progress rapidly in the laboratory exercises. Thecurriculum was divided into ten 2.25 contact hour sessions. We also planned a related session onsupercomputers and modeling. The session on supercomputers was taught by a Department ofMathematics faculty member. Also, a field trip was taken to the National Center forAtmospheric Research (NCAR) - Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) and a nearby hightechnology Walmart regional distribution center
Research Achievement Award and the International Liquid Crystal Society Multimedia Prize. In 2003, he received a NASA/ASEE Sum- mer Faculty Fellowship to research NEMS/MEMS adaptive optics in the Microdevices Laboratory at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Fontecchio received his Ph.D. in Physics from Brown University in 2002. He has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed publications. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 The impact of project based learning on engagement as a function of student demographicsAbstractThis work in progress seeks to determine the role of demographics in student inclination tochoose science, technology, engineering, and
compared to ascertain the relative gains (if any) thatare directly attributable to the MILL model intervention, which is the objective of this work.Acknowledgement The work described in this paper was supported by the National Science FoundationIUSE Program under grant number DUE-1432284. Any opinions, recommendations, and/orfindings are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors.References1. SME Education Foundation website: http://71.6.142.67/revize/sme/about_us/history.php2. Ssemakula, M.E. and Liao, G.: ‘Implementing The Learning Factory Model In A Laboratory Setting’ IMECE 2004, Intl Mech Engineering Congress & Exposition, Nov. 13-19, 2004; Anaheim, CA.3. Ssemakula, M.E. and Liao, G
the ASME at the University of San Diego and the President of the Pacific Division of the AAAS. He received the Outstanding Engineering Educator Award from the San Diego County Engineering Council in 2008, the Faculty of the Year Award from the Zeta Omega Chapter of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity in 2013, the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award from the University of San Diego in 2014, the Preceptor Award of the University of San Diego in 2015, 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
time the course is taught.They also have the option of using a different software that they are comfortable with and haveaccess to. One of the groups opted to use HyperMesh and OptiStruct as they were planning onusing that software to design bridges for the SAMPE student bridge contest. Students getintroduced to the composites workbench in the surfacing class with CATIA and strengthen theirknowledge about how models are designed using orthotropic materials. Two lectures are setaside to instruct the students with the FEA laboratory. Examples of a model setup and thedisplacement results obtained by one of the student groups for flexural testing are given below(Figures 1 & 2.) Figure 1. CATIA model of flexural test using Figure 2. FEA
usuallyinvolves group work. Many of the engineering projects in the paper were group work. Engineersare now, more than ever, expected to collaborate and cooperate with their peers [17]. Futuredirections for integrating PBL in these courses include adding one more project that allowsstudents to design from scratch in Logic Circuits, and assessing whether the students who havebenefited from PBL will continue to be successful in their future courses.References:[1] Shekar, A. Project based Learning in Engineering Design Education: Sharing Best Practices, ASEE 120thAnnual Conference and Exposition, paper ID 10806, Indianapolis, IN, 2014.[2] Pang, J. Active Learning in the Introduction to Digital Logic Design Laboratory Course. 2015 ASEE Zone IIIConference
Paper ID #16118Effect of Electrical Alternative Energy Sources on Power GridDr. Masoud Fathizadeh P.E., Purdue University - Calumet Masoud Fathizadeh – PhD, PE Professor Fathizadeh has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Purdue University Calumet since 2001. He has worked over 15 years both for private industries and national research laboratories such as NASA, Argonne and Fermi National Laboratories. Dr. Fathizadeh has established his own consulting and engineering company in 1995 spe- cializing in power system, energy management and automation systems. During last twenty years
. in Mechanical Engineering, from University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He has held a number of industrial & academic positions and affiliations with organizations that included Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Stony Brook University (SBU), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Atomic Energy of Canada Inc., Ontario Hydro, NASA Kennedy, NASA Marshall Space Flight Centers, and the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Cen- ter at Carderock, Md. Dr. Tawfik is the co-author of more than 60 research papers in the areas of Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Biomass Energy, Thermo- fluids and Two Phase Flow published in prestigious peer reviewed journals and conference symposiums. He holds
results to a central resource/database to allowstorage or logging of data. This implies the need for an easy-to-use “cloud-based” service toallow storage and display of data. Such ability is crucial for real use in a laboratory environment.The ability to provide basic circuit training and coding techniques using the approach used hereproved completely do-able within a few weeks for those with absolutely no programmingexperience, as exemplified by their results with the extemporaneous projects. Each teamenthusiastically presented and explained the operation of their team projects - because they hadto create the hardware and software themselves, and because it related to their field of endeavor.Provision of early-on training about “care and feeding
-learning experiences and clinical immer- sion opportunities for students that improve their ability to execute the design process, Dr. Schmedlen has developed an undergraduate capstone design course, biomedical engineering laboratory, and clinical observation and needs finding course. In addition to teaching an introduction to biomedical engineering course for first-year students, she is also serves as an advisor for undeclared engineering undergraduates.Dr. Stephanie Marie Kusano, University of Michigan Stephanie Kusano is an assessment and evaluation postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Re- search on Learning and Teaching at University of Michigan. She has a Ph.D. in Engineering Education, M.S. in
Paper ID #15884Future K-12 Teacher Candidates Take on Engineering Challenges in a Project-Based Learning CourseDr. Pamalee A. Brady, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo Pamalee Brady is an Associate Professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She teaches courses in structural systems, concrete, steel and wood design as well as structural engineer- ing courses for architecture and construction management students. Prior to joining the faculty at Cal Poly she worked in applied research at the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, Illinois. She is
interventions in mechanics classes. He was one of the co-leaders in 2013-2014 of the ASEE Virtual Community of Practice (VCP) for mechanics educators across the country.Prof. Jeffrey F. Rhoads, Purdue University, West Lafayette Jeffrey F. (Jeff) Rhoads is an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University and is affiliated with both the Birck Nanotechnology Center and Ray W. Herrick Laboratories at the same institution. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, each in mechanical engineering, from Michigan State University in 2002, 2004, and 2007, respectively. Dr. Rhoads’ current research inter- ests include the predictive design, analysis, and implementation of resonant micro
2011,27, 458-476.7. Agarwala, R.; Abdel-Salam, T. M.; Faruqi, M., Introducing thermal and fluid systems toindustrial engineering technology students with hands-on laboratory experience. In AmericanSociety for Engineering Education, Hawaii, 2007.8. Ma, J.; Nickerson, J. V., Hands-on, simulated, and remote laboratories: A comparativeliterature review. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 2006, 38, 7.9. Ribando, R. J.; Richards, L. G.; O’Leary, G. W., A “Hands-On” Approach to TeachingUndergraduate Heat Transfer. In ASME 2004 International Mechanical Engineering Congressand Exposition, American Society of Mechanical Engineers: 2004; pp 413-422.10. Minerick, A., Desktop experiment module: heat transfer. In American Society
biohazard laboratory. In order to allow contractors orvisitors into those areas, our facility requires proof of both training and certain immunizations forthose individuals.” This industry contact continued, “our group is the pipeline filler for the entire[specific category of business deleted] segment of the business. For this reason we are verysensitive about the intellectual property generated, discussed, and advanced on a daily basis. Iunderstand that you have precautions in place to help ensure that our sensitive information is notshared, but we try to limit the exposure of our IP as much as possible.”Industry contacts also did not always have new hires on hand, sometimes due to hiring freezes,off times in the job cycle, or because the firm
is designed to give students supervised practical application of previously studied theory. Inthis course, students are required to identify suffering of others (others includes the humanspecies as well as other species), design a response to the suffering and carry that action out. Theproject must involve at least 15 hours of service. Alternatively, students can explore issuesassociated with the use of animals in the research laboratory through service at the FarmSanctuary in Watkins Glen. The relevance for this project’s inclusion is based on the fact that avast majority of the new devices and drugs are first tested on a wide range of animal species.One will very often hear reference to “porcine” and “bovine” animal models in the
experience.This paper describes a direct method of teaching ergonomics topics by incorporating a researchstudy into a classroom laboratory experience. This results in a hands-on, active learningexperience that will impact all students in the class. In addition to learning research methods byparticipation, this approach incorporates additional topics and broader contemporary topics.2. PurposeThe traditional ergonomics syllabus has focused on the physical requirements of manual laborworkers. While manufacturing and other jobs requiring physical labor remain vital componentsin the workforce, many developed countries have transitioned to a knowledge economy. By2003, more than half of all workers in the United States used a computer1 and the number
University of Cincinnati and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of California-Berkeley. He worked as a research scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. before joining the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. He has several publications in the areas of microflu- idics, chemical and biological sensors, and MEMS technology. He is also passionate about engineering pedagogy. He has not only published articles on engineering education but has also led several workshops on using instructional methodologies that make classroom instruction more engaging and effective.Dr. Eric G. Meyer, Lawrence Technological University Dr. Meyer directs the Experimental
Paper ID #15090Using Time More Efficiently: Converting an Interview Protocol to a SurveyDr. Paul B. Golter, Washington State University Paul B. Golter obtained an M.S. and Ph.D. from Washington State University and made the switch from Instructional Laboratory Supervisor to Post-Doctoral Research Associate on an engineering education project. His research area has been engineering education, specifically around the development and as- sessment of technologies to bring fluid mechanics and heat transfer laboratory experiences into the class- room.Dr. Olusola Adesope, Washington State University Dr. Olusola O. Adesope is
Paper ID #16991Video-Based Concept Tutors with Assessment in Game Format for Engineer-ing CoursesEliza A. Banu, Auburn University Dr. Eliza Banu has a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University of Bucharest and completed her Ph.D. program in Mechanical Engineering at Auburn University in 2014. Dr. Banu’s research interests are in the dynamics of impact of rigid bodies and human with granular matter as well as developing innovative instructional materials. She has been working with LITEE (Laboratory for Innovative Technology and Engineering Education) at Auburn University since 2010.Dr. P.K
University of Tennessee in Nuclear Engineering and her Ph.D. is from Georgia Institute of Technology in Mechanical Engineering. Her industrial experience includes Oak Ridge Na- tional Laboratories, Chicago Bridge and Iron, and a sabbatical at Eli Lilly. She is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Tennessee. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Work in Progress: Design, Creativity, and Creativity Techniques: Finding, Encouraging, and Developing the ‘Voice of the Designer’ Allen White, Glen Livesay, Kay C. Dee, and Patsy BrackinAbstractDesign courses commonly discuss the importance of the voice of the customer and the voice ofthe product in the design
-20 as well as theenhancement of education and training of individuals as implemented in one of the consortiummember institutions. The outreach components involved the training of undergraduate studentsthrough summer exchange at universities as well as through summer internship placement atnational laboratories. A local outreach to middle / high schools was established through theimplementation of an advanced manufacturing skills development after-school program formiddle school students. The paper also presents the model curriculum for the outreach programand shows the integration of undergraduate students and K-12 teachers working together.Introduction to MSIPP Program In 2012, the National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) established the
Research.Dr. Vikram Kapila, New York University Vikram Kapila is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU Tandon), where he directs a Mechatronics and Control Laboratory, a Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics and Entrepreneurship, a GK-12 Fellows project, and a DR K-12 research project, all funded by NSF. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests include K-12 STEM education, mechatronics, robotics, and control system technology. Under Research Experience for Teachers Site and GK-12 Fellows programs, funded by NSF, and the Central Brooklyn STEM Initiative (CBSI), funded by six philanthropic foundations