Paper ID #11385MAKER: Whack-a-Mole for PLC ProgrammingDr. Sheng-Jen ”Tony” Hsieh, Texas A&M University Dr. Sheng-Jen (”Tony”) Hsieh is Professor in the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Engineering Technology and the De- partment of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include engineering education, cognitive task analysis, automation, robotics and control, intelligent manufacturing system design, and micro/nano manufacturing. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state
courses from a wide range of institutions and curricula, a more complete picture ofboth the difficulties and solutions to help students get past them is formed. For example, severalnew hands-on activities were developed by workshop attendees during the extended summerofferings. Several new perspectives with regard to conceptual learning theories were derivedfrom offering the workshop and were used to steer a Ph.D. dissertation study [5]. Discussions Page 26.921.2have promoted and influenced a redesign of the hands-on laboratory sessions at Rose-Hulman.Workshop DescriptionThe workshop is presented in three major phases: analysis of student
problemswhile facilitating communication with different specialists in a team. As one of the leading collegesof engineering, our mission is to link theory and practice via our learning-by-doing philosophy.To be in alignment with this mission, students in both areas of engineering technology can take atechnical elective course in robotics and applications during their senior year. In this course, theylearn the basic principles of the science of manipulation along with basic control of roboticmanipulators. In the laboratory portion of the course, they work in interdisciplinary teams andbuild a robotic manipulator with the interface to teleoperate it by using a haptic device. They applythe system for specific tasks of activities of daily living (such as
Paper ID #11587Design for Impact: Reimagining Inquiry-Based Activities in Heat Transferfor Effectiveness and Ease of Faculty AdoptionDr. Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University Margot Vigeant is a professor of chemical engineering and an associate dean of engineering at Bucknell University. She earned her B.S. in chemical engineering from Cornell University, and her M.S. and Ph.D., also in chemical engineering, from the University of Virginia. Her primary research focus is on engineering pedagogy at the undergraduate level. She is particularly interested in the teaching and learning of concepts related to thermodynamics
Teaching Strategies in a Laboratory Exercise. Advances in Physiology Education. 2012; 36: 147-53.6. Hibbeler RC. Engineering Mechanics: Statics & Dynamics 13 editon. 13 ed. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2013. Page 26.849.6
natural science. However, students are oftenfocused on fulfilling requirements and constraints necessary to achieve high grades, rather thanemphasizing creative ways of apply their knowledge. Past studies have shown that whileengineering instructors value creativity, they believe it to be lacking in their students, while atthe same time current engineering students do not think that creativity is valued by theirprofessors1. Similarly, while there is a greater industry emphasis on recruiting creative engineersand a greater interest in creativity from new engineering students, related literature questionswhether or not postsecondary institutions are teaching creative thinking to their engineeringstudents1. Postsecondary institutions must consider
Paper ID #12669Influence of Integrating GPS and Civil 3D in Engineering Technology CoursesDr. Maher M Murad, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown Dr. Maher Murad is a faculty member in the Civil Engineering Technology department at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. Dr. Murad served as a visiting professor at Bucknell University. He also has overseas teaching and professional experience. He worked as a technical manager at Modern Contracting and as a highway project manager at Acer Freeman Fox International. He is a licensed professional engineer (P.E.) in the state of Ohio. Dr. Murad received a Masters degree in
are space systems, robust fault tolerant control, nonlinear control, adaptive control, small spacecraft design, high performance spacecraft components, mechatronics, real-time health monitoring, and diagnostic methodology.Dr. Michael A. Swartwout, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng. Dr. Swartwout is co-director of the Space Systems Research Laboratory. His research and teaching interests focus on systems engineering and design. Page 26.1454.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Systems Engineering Entrepreneurship Modules across Aerospace
explained above. We willalso focus on our new pre-/post motivation survey and planned implementations of the hands-onlearning modules to undergraduate and high school students at a small number of institutions.IntroductionHands-on teaching methods have a long history, but generally these are in the form of science-based laboratory classes that accompany lecture courses or capstone laboratory courses such asthe chemical engineering unit operations laboratory.While STEM instruction is considered mature, engineering students graduate with a surprisinglack of understanding of core concepts, even though seasoned professors teach the material. Amarked reversal occurs with team activities as Washington State University (WSU) students whoused miniaturized
. Page 26.1124.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Making Meaning of Data: Exploring Representations of Classroom Activities from a First Year Engineering CourseAbstract Real-time, pedagogical feedback can be useful for instructors and graduate teachingassistants in assessing the effectiveness of their instructional activities. This is especially usefulin first-year engineering classes, where laboratory and team activities may be more common.The G-RATE, Global Real-Time Assessment Tool for Teaching Enhancement, is a tool toprovide research- based feedback for instructors about their classroom interactions across fourareas based on the “How People Learn” framework1
minorities inengineering disciplines. However, very little has focused on the issues faced byunderrepresented minorities who pursue a graduate degree or the need for effective mentoring ofpost-docs and faculty in engineering to attract and retain them to pursue academic careers.Women and ethnic minorities usually do not persist in academia because they frequently receivelower salaries, heavier teaching loads, less research support, and serve on more committees thantheir male counterparts. Although these disparities are more pronounced at the faculty level, thisleads to higher attrition rates at every level of career their development, starting at theundergraduate level.This paper will present our approach and preliminary results of a National
Paper ID #12015Leadership Development in Change: A Panel to Explore Experiences, Skills,and Learning in Change Management for New Engineering Educators.Dr. Ella Lee Ingram, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Ella L. Ingram is an Associate Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for the Practice and Schol- arship of Education at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her educational research interests include promoting successful change practice of STEM faculty, effective evolution and ecology instruction, and facilitating undergraduate research experiences. Her teaching portfolio includes courses on: nutrition
Mechatronics kits and peripheralhardware as shown in Fig. 2. The students had access to the project setup and toolbox inthe laboratory while the teaching assistant was available. The groups also had the optionto check-out their toolbox and work with it at home or outside the lab at their own pace,which was well received and taken advantage of by the students. Lectures devoted to discussing the overall conceptof mechatronics and introducing the overall Lab-VIEW software environment were also incorporatedin the Introduction to Robotics course. The firstlecture discussed a simple LabVIEW Virtual Instru-ment (VI) was developed to explain the Front Panel(FP) and Block Diagram (BD) windows, and themanner in which these tools could be used to developa
University of Cluj-Napoca, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana and R@D engi- neer for The Institute of Scientific Research for Automation and Telecommunications, Bucharest Roma- nia. Over the past ten years she taught several undergraduate and graduate courses on Electronic Compo- nents and Circuits, Digital Design, Design of Fault Tolerant Systems and Testing of Digital Systems. Her current research interest includes Reliability and Fault Tolerance of Electronic Systems, Programmable Logic Devices and new educational methods teaching digital system design and analog electronics, em- phasizing ”hands-on” experiences and project-based-learning. She has
Paper ID #12788Incorporating Active Learning of Complex Shapes in STEM CoursesDr. Yeow Siow, University of Illinois Chicago Dr. Yeow Siow has over ten years of track record as an engineering educator and practitioner. With ex- perience in the automotive industry, he brings real-world examples and expectations into the classroom. Known for his unconventional teaching style, he has earned accolades at Michigan Technological Univer- sity, Purdue University Calumet, as well as University of Illinois at Chicago where he currently teaches
the Industrial Consortium to Foster Applied Research for Economic Growth at Tecnol´ogico de Monterrey; also he holds The Roberto Rocca Endowed Energy Research Chair and is the Director of the Master in Energy Engineering Program. In 1979 he got a design engineer position in an Argentinean-French Consortium of private Industrial companies. He worked for them twelve years. In 1991 he left this consortium and with a group of colleagues founded an Engineering Services Company for developing special equipment in the electronics area for industrial applications. Simultaneously to its industrial activities, in 1984 he began teaching at Instituto Tecnol´ogico de Buenos Aires, ITBA. Later, in 1997, he became full-time
-based human metabolism laboratory for undergraduates. Journal of Engineering Education, 97(2),213-222.[34] Brandsford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (Eds.). (1999). How people learn: Brain, mind,experience, and school. Washinton, DC: National Academy Press.[35] Felder, R. M., & Brent, R. (2004). The intellectual development of science and engineering students. part 2:teaching to promote growth. Journal of Engineering Education, 93(4), 279-291.[36] Marra, R. M., & Palmer, B. (2004). Encouraging Intellectual Growth: Senior College Student Profiles.Journal of Adult Development, 11(2), 111-122. Page 26.885.14
Paper ID #11542Comparatively Mapping Genres in Academic and Workplace EngineeringEnvironmentsDr. Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University Dr. Jovanovic is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology, Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology at Old Dominion University. She is teaching classes in the area of mechatronics and computer aided engineering. Her research Interests are: mechatronics, robotics, digital manufacturing, product lifecycle management, manufacturing systems, and engineering education.Megan McKittrick, Old Dominion University Megan McKittrick is a full-time Instructor and part-time PhD
teaching that included an emphasis on laboratory experiences, and a willingness to engage undergraduates in scholarship activities. Recent hires (8 in total) have shifted the faculty mix to one that is now predominantly Ph.D. qualified. However, most have some industrial experience, and all have backgrounds that will help in promoting these core values and mission of the department. The old technology programs were effective in their hands-on approach in large part because of a collegial and collaborative environment that existed between faculty and the department’s highly trained technical staff. This was to be maintained in the new programs. The concerns of staff and their role in supporting the new programs was thus a
Paper ID #13654Valuing and engaging stakeholders: The effects of engineering students’ in-teractions during capstone designIbrahim Mohedas, University of Michigan Ibrahim Mohedas is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2011. His research focuses on the design of medical devices for resource limited settings, particularly related to the use of design ethnography in developing these technologies. He works in the Laboratory for Innovation in Global Health Technology (LIGHT
thisas a pedagogical approach for teaching statistics.Science and engineering educators make similar recommendations for developing dataanalysis skills in applied settings. Bybee15 argues that “planning and carrying outinvestigations should be standard experiences in K-12 classrooms” (p. 36), and Hofsteinan Lunneta16 found that the literature consistently supports these kinds of tasks saying,“well-designed science laboratory activities focused on inquiry can provide learningopportunities that help students develop concepts” (p. 47). However Hofstein andLunneta did also note that the success of this approach is highly dependent on the natureof the task itself and recommended that more research be done into identify thecharacteristics of tasks
the director of marketing for Drexel’s College of Engineering and director of operations for Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Engineering. Now, as CEO of Christine Haas Consulting, LLC, Christine travels around the world teaching courses to scientists and engineers on presentations and technical writing. She has taught clients across gov- ernment, industry and higher education, including Texas Instruments, Brookhaven National Laboratory, European Southern Observatory (Chile), Simula Research Laboratory (Norway) and the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. Christine works closely with Penn State University faculty Michael Alley (The Craft of Scientific Presentations and The Craft of Scientific Writing) and
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).Dr. Anthony Bourne, Wright State University Dr. Bourne is the Director of Enrollment Management at Wright State University and completed his PhD in Engineering at Wright State. He holds a BA in Economics and MPA. His research focus is in engineering education and student success measures in engineering curriculum. Page 26.1580.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 The Wright State Model for Engineering Mathematics Education: Longitudinal Impact on Initially
Paper ID #14334Evolution of a Chinese-Canadian Educational PartnershipDr. Ronald J Hugo, University of Calgary Ronald J. Hugo is Professor of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and Associate Dean (Teaching & Learning) at the University of Calgary. He is also the holder of the Engineering Education Innovation Chair in the Schulich School of Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of experimental fluid dynamics, energy systems, and engineering education.Dr. Bob Brennan, University of CalgaryDr. Jian ZhangDr. Xiaodong Niu, Shantou University Niu Xiaodong is currently a full professor and Head of
the Director of Academic Technologies at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has had experience in learning in both a traditional university program as well as the new online learning model, which he utilizes in his current position consulting with faculty about the design of new learning experiences. His experience in technology and teaching started in 1993 as a student lab technician and has continued to expand and grow over the years, both technically as well as pedagogically. Currently he works in one of the most technically outstanding buildings in the region where he provides support to students, faculty, and staff in implementing technology inside and outside the classroom, researching new engineering
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Dr. Wood completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology, where he was an AT&T Bell Laboratories Ph.D. Scholar. Dr. Wood joined the faculty at the University of Texas in September 1989 and established a computational and experimental laboratory for research in engineering design and manufacturing, in addition to a teaching laboratory for prototyping, reverse engineering measurements, and testing. During his academic career, Dr. Wood was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the United States Air Force Academy. Through 2011, Dr. Wood was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Design
Paper ID #12140Fostering the entrepreneurial mindset through the development of multidis-ciplinary learning modules based on the ”Quantified Self” social movementDr. Eric G Meyer, Lawrence Technological University Dr. Meyer directs the Experimental Biomechanics Laboratory (EBL) at LTU with the goal to advance experimental biomechanics understanding. Dr. Meyer teaches Introduction to Biomechanics, Tissue Mechanics, Engineering Applications in Orthopedics and Cellular and Molecular Mechanobiology. He has been an active member of the engineering faculty committee that has redesigned the Foundations of Engineering Design
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Radhakrishnan, National University Prof. Ben D Radhakrishnan is the Lead Faculty for MS Sustainability Management Program in School of Engineering and Computing at National University, San Diego, CA. He develops and teaches Engineering and Sustainability Management graduate level courses. Ben has conducted Sustainability workshops in Los Angeles (Army) and San Diego (SDGE). His special interests and research include promoting Leadership in Sustainability Practices, energy management of Data Centers and to establish Sustainable strategies for enterprises. He spent part of his 2011 and 2012 summers as an Affiliate Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, focusing on the energy efficiency of IT
Paper ID #13933Using the Cognitive Apprenticeship Model to Develop Educational LearningModules: An Example from StaticsFrancesca G Polo, Purdue University Francesca G. Polo is a doctoral student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her current research investigates motivational and cognitive affordances in game design to inform pedagogy. She earned both M.S. and B.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Rochester Institute of Tech- nology and has over 15 years combined work experience in academia, industry, and a DOE sponsored laboratory. She is a member of ASEE, AAPT, and a Senior member of the