are sent to South Korea for8 weeks to work on their own research project at their assigned laboratories. In Summer 2019,the first cohort of five students completed their 8-week immersive research internship at a top-ranked Korean university.COVID-19 affected most, if not all, in-bound and out-bound international programs. IRiKA wasno exception. In late February 2020, the program was canceled altogether because no viablealternative could be offered for Summer 2020, as institutions world-wide were grappling withdisruptive challenges the pandemic brought on. In Fall 2020, with contingency plans in place andan additional Korean host site aboard, the project team solicited applications. However, in early2021, before the final selection of the 2021
distance of the scan was theleast difficult to accomplish, as different positions can be tested on demand. Initial testing wasconducted in laboratory environment where the ambient conditions were stable and controlled. Other variables, such as the effect of sunlight on skin temperature, or the effect of thewind blowing cannot be tested easily due to the lack of independent variables [1]. Testing for theeffects of sunlight, wind, or other factors depends on weather conditions and time did not permittesting under all possible conditions. The temperature decrease as distance increases is nearly a linear line, with the averagedrop in temperature being around four degrees Fahrenheit per foot. The figure below illustratesthis drop
problems andhands-on lab activities illustrate new approaches to introduce students to graphical techniquesand robotics through excel software and scope of laboratory experiences, respectively. Thecourse trains students how to use excel tool to graph and interpret the data through visualizationand introduce them to simple computer programming for path planning and navigation of robots.The initial observations and results are in favor of promoting visualizations and concepts ofrobotics.IntroductionVisualization and robotics are rapidly developing disciplines in engineering and science. The useof visual aids in learning process has been recognized by many educators and researchers [1-3].Various studies report that 75 percent of all information
course on Tribology, I presentedcans of contamination-controlled industrial coolants and lubricants, as well as examples of chemicallycorroded manufactured products for the lack of proper pollution-free storage environment. While by nomeans these are laboratory courses, such on-the-table demonstrations help the students developconsciousness on sustainable, pollution-controlled development in such courses where the mechanics ofmaterials and its proper use are of utmost importance. In an online lecture such a direct presentation ofthe artefacts, as in archaeology, in front of the students is missing! Undoubtedly, there are many promises of online lectures in the future of distance learning. A fewyears ago in a TIME magazine article, Dr
the research community have reported on the disruptionstheir classrooms faced [1, 2, 3] and the strategies they adopted to improve the effectiveness ofonline learning [4, 5, 6]. A popular research avenue has been to investigate the impacts of ERLin the context of laboratory and project work—aspects of engineering education which havetraditionally involved hands-on experiences unique to the in-person setting. In [1], the authorsexplain that a key issue arising when conducting labs online is the lack of access to conventionallaboratory equipment, and therefore the reliance on simulation. Interestingly, the authors in [5]show that lab simulations can provide students with a novel "opportunity structure", offeringthem more ownership over the lab
results for Q3 regarding student confidence with programming (inside circle is 2019 data, outside circle is 2021 data).These results indicate that student confidence in programming has improved overall. There issignificant decline in the “Not Confident” selection (a 57% decrease) as well as large gains inboth the “Very Confident” (26% increase) and “Extremely Confident” (29% increase) selection.5. ConclusionThe ENGR 111 course at the J. B. Speed School of Engineering (SSoE) at the University ofLouisville is typically a laboratory-based, hands-on course taught in a makerspace setting. Due tothe COVID-19 pandemic, the course was modified to remote instruction for the Spring 2021semester. The instructors maintained the inclusion
: Entrepreneurship education in engineering. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com The Characteristics of Engineering Learning in Communities of Practice: An Exploratory Multi-case StudyAbstract: The Emerging Engineering Education (3E) transformation has been implemented in China tomeet the society’s needs of high-quality talents in science, technology, engineering and mathematics(STEM) fields. The transformation has stimulated some new forms of engineering learning which wereorganized in communities of practice such as engineering studio, engineering laboratory in someuniversities. However, little is known about
relevant to their inquiry. The following is the list ofthe organizations: • The American Farmland Trust (AFT) • Environ Da Berry (EDB) • Food, Energy, Water (FEW) Nexus • The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)The virtual meetings with the organizations provided a framework for the design solutions. Theconversation with the AFT and EDB stimulated the discourse around the existential threat,particularly climate change from the environmental impact of industrialized agriculture. It alsohighlighted the significance of the local food production and distribution as well as the need forempowering the labor force, protecting food sovereignty, supporting conservation practices, andraising awareness of the consumer. The conversation
Lecturer in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Her PhD is in chemical engineering from Purdue University. Research focus areas include laboratory courses, process safety, and chemical engineering pedagogy.Jennifer Cole Dr. Cole is the Assistant Chair in Chemical Engineering at Northwestern and the Associate Director of the Northwestern Center for Engineering Education Research. Dr. Cole's teaching and research interests lie in engineering design, both first year and capstone. She is particularly interested in bringing anti-racism and social and environmental justice contexts to engineering problem solving in her courses.Kevin D. Dahm (Professor of Chemical Engineering
wetransitioned to the sense-making cycles of the analysis [6].ResultsAvoidance and digital learning toolsBroadly, educational institutions across the United States were ill-prepared for a long-termdisruption to learning because they lacked avoidance mechanisms to maintain academiccontinuity. Our research found some exceptions, where schools had mechanisms before thepandemic, such as digital infrastructure and support systems. The administrator at one AMTSdesigned a program to have all lectures and some introductory laboratory projects completed viadistance learning. As a result, Participant 5's curriculum quickly transitioned to remote educationsince the students were already accustomed to learning at home employing various
9 4 Mechanical Properties of Bulk Nanomaterials 9 Application of Nanostructured Materials: 5 Tungsten Carbide Parts 3 Sensors 3 Nanocomposites 6*The number of hours shown includes the time allotted for lectures and seminarsNo laboratory program is planned for the present, but once experience is gained in teaching thiscourse, time will be made available for some simple demonstration experiments as typicallydiscussed
2005, American Society for Engineering Education References1. Boronkay, T. G., and Janak, D. “Introduction of Finite Element Methods in the Lower Division Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum.” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 1997. Session 2238.2. Cole, W.: “Graphical Applications: Analysis and Manufacturing”. Engineering Design Graphics Journal, Spring, 1999, pp 43-49.3. Howell, S.: “Finite Element Analysis in a Freshman Graphics Course?” Engineering Design Graphics Journal, Winter, 1993, pp 29-32.4. Juricic, D., Howell, S., Jenison, R., and Barr, R. “Extending Engineering Design Graphics Laboratories to have a CAD/CAM Component – Part II
”, Prentice Hall ISBN4. E. H. Shaban,” Applications of CAD in Simulations of Laboratories for Electrical Engineering Education,” Intertech. 2000,University of Cincinnati, OH June 13-16, 2000.5. E. H. Shaban,” Electrical Engineering Education in Underdeveloped and Developing Countries,” ASEE/Annual, June 10-13, 1999, Charlotte, NC.6. E. H. Shaban,” Senior Design Logic Projects Using VHDL,” Proceedings ASEE/GSW, hosted by Le Torneau University, March 7-9, 1999, Dallas, TX.7. PSPICE User’s Guide, Cadence PCB System Division, Portland, OR 97223. E. H. SHABAN Dr. E. H. Shaban is an associate professor in the electrical engineering department. He attained the BSEE and MSEE in 1968, and 1978 from the University of Khartoum
aregistered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas. Contact him at Don.Bagert@rose-hulman.edu.STEPHEN V. CHENOWETHSteve Chenoweth is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute,following a career at NCR Corporation and at Bell Laboratories. His research interests include software architectureand requirements, software processes, artificial intelligence, and alternatives to pedagogy. Contact him atSteve.Chenoweth@rose-hulman.edu. Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas Tech University Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education
taught in both the Fall and Springsemesters. The students each purchase the Sparkfun Inventor's Kit 4.1 (Sparkfun, Niwot, CO)which contains an Arduino Uno style development board as well as a breadboard and anassortment of sensors, motors, and other elements. Each weekly module starts with tutorialvideos. A one hour class on Mondays reviews this material in an active-learning style, wherestudents sit in their project groups to complete exercises. Each week has a 2 hour laboratory inwhich an individual programming assignment is competed followed by a homework assignmentdue the following week. The course has 3 individual exams, the first in week 4 on Arduino C++programming, the second in week 8 on Arduino C++ programming, and the third during
every week for 50 minutes per meeting. While the official coursedescription states that it consists of three weekly lectures with no laboratory components, theinstructor lectures twice a week while reserving the third class meeting for an active learning inclass project session where students implement the concepts they have learned about in the twolectures in that week.The student performance will be assessed via three different categories: 1. Weekly assignments: every week, students will be given homework problems pertaining to the lecture contents. In addition, students will have to implement a programming assignment during the third class meeting every week. Students will submit a weekly assignment including the solved
are placed a coil’s radius apart from each other. Due to ease of assembly andcompact nature of the apparatus, Helmholtz coils are useful laboratory and testing tools.The objectives of the senior design project were to a) create collaborative senior designopportunities between the two institutions due to limited industry partnerships availability duringthe, and b) design a Helmholtz coil to be used with a temperature changing device between itstwo coils. The senior design team, graduate student, and faculty advisors were located at theUToledo. The senior design took on roles of project managers, safety manager, designer, andtester. The online teaching and meeting tools developed during the onset of COVID-19 pandemicwere leveraged to maintain
their paper citing the changes made to the way graduate students are evaluated for admissions. She also serves as the Associate Director for the $18M Center of Emergent Materials and is Co-PI and Consortium Director of the $40M Air Force Research Laboratory Minority Serving Institution Consortium agreement. Dr. Stiner-Jones received her Bachelor’s and PhD. degrees from Wright State University and her MBA from Capital University. After completing her PhD in Biomedical Sciences, she completed postdocs, in neuroimmunology and psychoneuroimmunology at Ohio State. Her area of expertise is the impacts of psychological stress on the immune response. Her work has been published in numerous scientific journals and
. 2011 to Oct. 2014, she served as a division director in theEngineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF). She was responsible for a $135Mbudget in support of interdisciplinary research centers, research translation, innovations in engineeringeducation, special initiatives in support of military veterans, broadening participation in engineering, andworkforce development programs. Her initial appointment at NSF was in 1999 to 2001, when she servedas a program director in the Engineering Research Centers program and represented the EngineeringDirectorate on several NSF-wide committees. Before entering academia, Dr. Maldonado was a member oftechnical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories for 5 1/2 years working on optical fiber
course isincluded to cover electronic devices and circuits with laboratory experiments, leading to a total offour credit hours of coursework. Typical topics covered in Electronics can be largely grouped intothe following four categories: op-amp applications, diodes and applications, bipolar junctiontransistors (BJTs), field-effect transistors (FETs). Closely related to the electronic platform furtherdiscussed in this paper is op-amp applications. When op-amps are covered in the course, variousop-amp circuits are discussed starting with inverting op-amps and non-inverting op-amps and then,comparators, integrators, differentiators, summing amplifiers, instrumentation amplifiers, and someother op-amp circuits. It is generally expected that students
competition in detail, including goals,implementation, and challenges. The paper also discusses the challenges introduced by theCOVID pandemic and how the event was moved to a virtual platform to ensure social distancing.Finally, lessons learned and future plans are presented. IntroductionIt is currently well understood that team competitions are an important component of engineeringeducation1-3 and support education in teaming, communications, leadership, design and open-ended problem solving. While classroom and laboratory learning are the backbone of engineeringeducation, extracurricular competitions, especially those that involve teaming, are an excellentway to augment learning. Not only does competition
courses in laboratory techniques, fluid mechanics, energy systems, and propulsion systems, as well as freshman engineering. Research interests include renewable energy to include small wind turbine aerodynamics and experimental convective heat transfer as applied to HVAC and gas turbine systems. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 1 Session XXXX Engineers and Accountability Kenneth Van Treuren Mechanical Engineering
California.Prof. Grace D O’Connell, University of California, Berkeley Grace O’Connell is the Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence in the College of Engineering and As- sociate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the co-director of the Berkeley Biomechanics Laboratory, and her research interests are in soft tissue mechanobiology and tissue engineering. O’Connell received a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009, where her research focused on intervertebral disc biomechanics with age, degeneration, and injury. O’Connell’s research group employs computational modeling and experi- mental approaches to study the effect of aging and
education as it can limit the engagement orinvolvement of an educator with the students [11]. The COVID-19 pandemic pushed educators to conduct emergency remote teaching, withhands-on laboratory and skills-based workshops disrupted. The inability among educators toshift to online learning and create meaningful learning in their courses, along with the lack ofavailable remote or online laboratories and simulated technology-based skills training, exposedthe stark gap between engineering education requirements in the 21st century and what HEIscurrently have. Therefore, well-designed and planned pathways to transformation must beadequately studied to bridge the gap in engineering education to transform educatorseffectively in a sustainable
Elements was used, since the company provided licenses for home use for all instructors and professors. This was critical during pandemic conditions as no access to campuses or laboratories was allowed. The use of commercial software also allowed different loading conditions to be set in their models, especially for the wind loading combinations. During the first three phases, students were taken step by step by their professors and instructors into the different topics of a structural analysis, as this was their first course on hyperstatic structures. During this stage, students were given some problems oriented or related to the problems they would solve during the solution of the challenge, as a way of training. In phase 4, as indicated in Fig
programming skills in later courses, such asthe capstone design project, but these were not required to complete assignments before thepandemic. Unfortunately, a portion of the study cohort had their undergraduate educational plansdisrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Students enrolled in the two-quarter capstone designproject in Spring 2020 were not permitted to access laboratory equipment on campus or travel tosponsor companies. Thus, they relied on computational tools to complete their projects.MethodsThis study surveyed students enrolled in a Materials Kinetics course in either Winter 2018 or2019. The new survey was distributed to the cohort in Spring 2021, nine to twenty-one monthsfollowing the expected graduation date (based on course timing
course of a program, students will benefit from exposure to a varietyof both.Without time and resource constraints, instructors may naturally collaborate and engage with stu-dents as individuals, tailoring assignments and timelines to their individual interests, priorities, andcontexts. In order to scale a learning environment to accommodate tens or hundreds of students,more general protocols are needed to keep track of progress through learning outcomes. The spacebetween scale and individualization of education is ripe for creative solutions.6 ConclusionIn this paper, we have reported on the effect of different late policies on student outcomes andattitudes for a computer programming laboratory course. Within the same course offering, instruc
courses with this new modality. Instructorsreported some resistance to change methods and as predicted, it happened.Despite having some resistance to change, in this case the instructors were opened to learningabout new teaching methods adapted to the reality and time at which the world is advancing.Whenever a new educational framework is designed, there will always be a new challenge tomeet, in this case how to adapt the laboratories to this modality. Today it is believed that the onlyway to teach the laboratory class is 100% face-to-face, but there will be a way to plan certainactivities to be done synchronously and others asynchronously.In closing, using the class as an example of the topic was pleasantly surprising. Since it was
Paper ID #36896Impact of In-Class Demonstration on Student Performance inan Introductory Thermodynamics CourseHaejune Kim (Assistant Professor of Instruction)Phapanin Charoenphol Phapanin Charoenphol is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the J. Mike Walker ‘66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. She earned her M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She teaches thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, engineering laboratory, and senior design studio courses. Her research interests include engineering education and targeted drug delivery. In 2022, she was awarded the
, L., Sturtevant, H., & Mumba, F. (2019). Exploratory Study of the Impact of a Teaching Methods Course for International Teaching Assistants in an Inquiry-Based General Chemistry Laboratory. Journal of Chemical Education, 96(11), 2393–2402. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b002394. Wheeler, L. B., Maeng, J. L., Chiu, J. L., & Bell, R. L. (2017). Do teaching assistants matter? Investigating relationships between teaching assistants and student outcomes in undergraduate science laboratory classes. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 54(4), 463–492. https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.213734. Guadagni, G., Ma, H. and Wheeler, L., (2018), June. The Benefit of Training Undergraduate Teaching Assistants. In