Paper ID #14737The Impact of Museum OutreachMr. Mark Roger Haase, University of Cincinnati Mark Haase is currently completing his PhD in Chemical Engineering. His research is focused on the synthesis, characterization, and application of nanocarbon materials, especially carbon nanotube arrays exhibiting the property known as spinnability. Mark has been involved with teaching since starting his graduate work, developing laboratory experiences and lesson content pertaining to nanotechnology. He is outreach work enters around introducing people, especially youth, to nanotechnology concepts. c
. The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation. Simplicity – the art of maximizing the amount of work not done – is essential.The programmers were then introduced to their clients as part of a laboratory session where eachengineering education major provided a brief presentation on their lesson plan. Eachprogramming team had to evaluate and rank the lesson plans in a bidding-type process. Thesebids were reviewed by the instructor and teams were then assigned to specific lesson plans. Thefirst half of the next laboratory session was dedicated for the teams to interact with their assignedclient in order to discuss the specifics of the lesson plan and to
experimental studies of the role of prior knowledge base in learning; cognitive load in virtual and simulated laboratory experi- ments for science education; and critical thinking skills utilized in those roles. She focuses specifically at the use of virtual environments to deliver scientific inquiry curricula and science assessments to students in the classroom and at professional development to help teachers integrate scientific inquiry into their curricula. Her expertise in educational technology and online learning allows her to create virtual learn- ing environments for her students that may be used as both assessment tools and for student retention of learned information. Dr. Simon has authored several research papers
summer camps geared towards middle school, high school, and community college students to expose and increase their inter- est in pursuing Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Dr. Astatke travels to Ethiopia every summer to provide training and guest lectures related to the use of the mobile laboratory technology and pedagogy to enhance the ECE curriculum at five different universities.Prof. Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Kenneth Connor is a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE) where he teaches courses on electromagnetics, electronics and instrumentation, plasma physics, electric power, and general engineering. His research
solution is a new cloud service known as HPC-as-a-Service.In this paper, we present an HPCaaS platform called ASETS which uses Software DefinedNetworking (SDN) technologies to smooth the execution of parallel tasks in the cloud. Further,we provide application examples that could be used in a typical introductory parallel programingcourse. We argue that HPCaaS platform like ASETS can significantly benefit the users of HPCin the cloud as if their program is running on a dedicated hardware in their own laboratory. Thisis especially advantageous for students and educators who need not to deal with the underlyingcomplexities of the cloud.1. IntroductionCloud Computing according to NIST1 is a shared pool of configurable resources offeringservices with
Paper ID #17010A New Robotics Educational System for Teaching Advanced EngineeringConcepts to K-12 studentsDr. Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Florida Gulf Coast University Dr. Fernando Gonzalez joined FGCU as an Assistant Professor in the Software Engineering Program in the fall of 2013. Previously he has worked at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas, the U.S. Department of Energy at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico and at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Gonzalez graduated from the University of Illinois in 1997 with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. He
State University Jacob Leachman is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University (WSU). He initiated the HYdrogen Properties for Energy Research (HY- PER) laboratory at WSU in 2010 with the mission to advance the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of hydrogen systems. He received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Idaho in 2005 and a M.S. degree in 2007. His master’s thesis has been adopted as the foundation for hydrogen fuel- ing standards and custody exchange, in addition to winning the Western Association of Graduate Schools Distinguished Thesis Award for 2008. He completed his Ph.D. in the Cryogenic Engineering Laboratory
systems for internet ser- vices providers and mobile service companies. He has trained engineers and technicians through formal courses, on-the-job training, and supervising on field. His research interest includes self-regulated learn- ing, abstraction in problem solving, and troubleshooting problem solving in laboratory environments. His long-term goals include improving laboratory hands-on activities based on how students improve their metacognitive skills. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Abstraction Thresholds in Undergraduate Electrical Engineering CurriculaAbstractA great deal of work has been done to study the types of problems posed to students in variousdisciplines and
5 of 5 Literacy in Materials Science Undergraduate Students” #11347 11. Manufacturing Materials M735 Teaching the Latest 1 • “Improving Student Lab Report Writing Performances in Materials and & Processes Manufacturing 4 of 4 Manufacturing Laboratory Courses by Implementing a Rhetorical Processes & Materials Approach to Writing” #14083 Concepts 12. Multidisciplinary W241 Multidisciplinary 1 • “Strategies to Integrate Writing in Problem-Solving Courses: Promoting Engineering
Research Advisor to the Stanford University Epicenter.Dr. Michael R. Ladisch, Purdue University, West Lafayette Michael R. Ladisch is Director of the Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering (LORRE), and Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering with a joint appointment in the Wel- don School of Biomedical Engineering. He was CTO at Mascoma Corporation from 2007 to 2013 and serves on Agrivida’s SAB. His BS (1973) from Drexel University and MS (1974) and PhD (1977) from Purdue University are in Chemical Engineering. Ladisch’s research addresses transformation of renew- able resources into biofuels and bioproducts, protein bioseparations, and food pathogen detection. He is an author of two
Paper ID #15982Assessing the Efficacy of K-12 Engineering Outreach ”Pick Up and Go” KitsDr. Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton Dr. Margaret Pinnell is the Associate Dean for Faculty and Staff Development in the school of engineering and associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Dayton. She teaches undergraduate and graduate materials related courses including Introduction to Ma- terials, Materials Laboratory, Engineering Innovation, Biomaterials and Engineering Design and Appro- priate Technology (ETHOS). She was director of the (Engineers in Technical
Paper ID #15724Assessment of STEM e-Learning in an Immersive Virtual Reality (VR) Envi-ronmentDr. Hazim A El-Mounayri, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Dr. El-Mounayri received his PhD in 1997 from McMaster University (in Canada) in Mechanical En- gineering, He is currently an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering, the co-director of the Ad- vanced Engineering and Manufacturing Laboratory (AEML) at IUPUI, and a senior scientist for manu- facturing applications at Advanced Science and Automation Corp. Also, he is a leading member of INDI (Integrated Nanosystems Development Institute). He co-developed
-dimensional(3-D) structural members/systems. The issue with the former arises since students viewprescriptive, code-based design as an exercise of plugging values into equations disregarding thatthese analysis/design approaches are based on actual physical phenomena – flexure is foundedon strain compatibility and shear on the results of countless experimental tests. On the otherhand, visualizing structures is typically a problem for students who have not been exposed to thedesign and construction of reinforced concrete members via laboratory, work-site, or design-office experience. They have no 3-D reference to help them make sense of the many two-dimensional (2-D) figures shown in textbooks, course notes, and the concrete building code.The question
Writing Program Administration in STEM. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Extending WID to train mechanical engineering GTAs to evaluate student writingAbstractBeyond first-year composition, the undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum providesfew opportunities for students to develop technical writing skills. One underutilized path forstudents to strengthen those skills is the required sequence of laboratory courses, where studentswrite reports that are evaluated by graduate teaching assistants (GTAs), many of whom speakEnglish as a second language. Historically, engineering GTAs have not been trained informative assessment techniques to help
new to engineering instruction. Feisel and Rosa10 give anextensive review of the historical role of instructional engineering laboratories. Howeverlaboratory or hands-on learning specifically for Statics instruction is a relatively modern conceptdeveloped in recent decades. Numerous authors have described hands-on instructional activitiesinvolving pulley systems, levers, cables, trusses, ladders and friction forces to demonstrate andteach basic principles of Statics.11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19 The focus of their work is in improving theconceptual understanding of the student and helping the student relate theory to the physical.Some of the exercises also incorporate creativity and design.14,18 There is not, however, a directeffort by these
including design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past 10 years she gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development. Dr Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement and Instrumentation course as well as for quality control undergraduate and graduate courses in ET Masters program. Also
NIH, NASA, NSF, FAA, DOE, and private companies. Currently, he and his students at the Advanced Tech- nology Systems Laboratory are pursuing cutting-edge research on the role of visualization and virtual reality in aviation maintenance, hybrid inspection and job-aiding, technology to support STEM education and, more practically, to address information technology and process design issues related to delivering quality health care. As the Department Chair, he has been involved in the initiation of programmatic initiatives that have resulted in significant growth in the Industrial Engineering Program, situating it in the forefront both nationally and internationally. These include the Online Master of Engineering in
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.Dr. Richard A House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Richard A. House is Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He received a B.A. from Illinois Wesleyan University and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. His interests include liberal education for engineers, engineering communication and pedagogy, sustainability, and Shakespeare. He is co-author (with Richard Layton, Jessica Livingston, and Sean Moseley) of The Engineering Communication Manual (Oxford University Press, 2016
other electrical engineering courses, with benefits notedby both students and instructors. For example, this approach was taken in an undergraduatepower electronics course, and survey respondents noted that the on-line quizzes were beneficialto their understanding13. Remote laboratories sometimes comprise blended learningenvironments. In the area of control theory, a remote lab was used so that students couldremotely experiment and integrate the practical with the theoretical aspects of the course14. Asimilar goal was noted in another controls engineering course, in which a web-based simulatorwas used to complement the theoretical-based lectures15. In this controls course, there was anincrease from 63% to 79% on an end-of-course exam, when
building design, construction, and operations processes. Specifically, she is interested in novel design processes that financially and technically facilitate energy-efficient buildings. Her work also explores how principles of lean manufacturing facilitate energy-efficiency in the commercial building industry. Another research interest of Kristen’s is engineering education, where she explores how project- and experience-based learning foster better understanding of engineering and management principles. Prior to joining ASU, Kristen was at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) as a Postdoctoral Fellow (2009-11) and then a Scientific Engineering Associate (2011-2012) in the Building Technologies and Urban
sent to all 50 BME studentsin Senior Design. All 11 students on the clinical projects completed the pre-survey, but only 20%(10 of the 50, 3 from clinical projects) completed the post-survey. The results from the pre-survey illustrate the student’s interest in working in a clinical setting and on projects that aredirectly applicable to the biomedical field. Several of the students were also drawn to the projectsdue to direct application of their academic strengths and laboratory skills. The results from thepost-survey are harder to interpret due to the low response rate. Overall, senior design (bothindustry and clinical projects) is a well-received course where the students learn valuable skills.However, there are areas that BME students feel
approximately 1 ms after the input changes. This observation matches the predictedvalue.Transitioning to the Frequency DomainStudents were assigned a similar laboratory experiment in the previous circuits class, but thetime-domain experience and time constant measurement were at the end of the assignment. Thisassignment continues on a path to introduce frequency domain behavior.The next part of the assignment asks the students to increase the frequency of the applied squarewave until the square wave period is approximately ten times the circuit time constant. This tasksets the square wave period to 10 ms, and they must determine the frequency to be 100 Hz. Thisexercise confirms that the exponential response of the circuit is independent of the
technology,however, only the three finalist projects are discussed here. Two of the contributions primarilyfocused on experimenting with the flipped classroom practice due to availability of the state ofthe art video and recording equipment purchased and provided by the University. However, oneimplementation targeted introductory math courses while the other focused on a core mechanicalengineering course. Developing a visual support tool to aid learning and training activities for achemical engineering laboratory was the theme of the third project. Table 1 lists the projects andtheir status.Table 1. Three finalist projects from the 2014 Teaching Innovation with Technology Competition. Project Title
theapproaching vessel is identified as a threat (Huntsberger & Woodward, 2011). This software,developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), originates from NASA’s Mars rovers, but hasrecently been adapted for use on small boats. Figure 1 shows an example of applying thistechnology. Figure 1: 3D trajectory planning under CARACaS - AUV (Huntsberger & Woodward, 2011). Ship design in the U.S. Navy starts with concept design, then moves to engineeringdesign, and then to production design, as shown in Figure 2. The concept phase defines the waythe ship is supposed to function. During this phase, a concept of operation (CONOPS) isdeveloped (Chalfant, 2015). In the Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) phase, ship designers definemajor equipment
Paper ID #16861Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Depression and Its Impact on Stu-dent Success and Academic RetentionSherif Elmeligy Abdelhamid, Virginia Tech Sherif is a PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and is a graduate research assistant at Network Dynamics and Simulations Science Laboratory. Sherif’s research work lies at the intersection of computation, biology and education: in particular, he is interested in designing and building software systems to enable domain experts to easily access and effectively use high performance computing to
well as differential equations (which is a co-requisite.) Since Matlab/Mathcadprograms are available in our computer laboratory, these are used throughout the course. Thetextbook by Kamen & Heck [1] is used for the course and students can access the accompanyingtextbook website. It should be noted that some class examples use both Mathcad and Matlab butthe textbook uses Matlab only. In our program we also have a senior-level elective course onfilters using the software tool called WFilter accompanying the textbook [2]. As engineeringeducators teaching undergraduate, first year graduate courses we are all aware that these toolsshould be used at the right time, right place to help student understanding and learning. Usuallya problem is
, “A Laboratory Exercise - Unmanned Vehicle Control and Wireless SensorNetworks,” 2014 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Indianapolis, IN, USA June 15-18, 2014.5. L. McLauchlan, “Simulation and Control of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle,” 2014 ASEE Annual Conference andExposition, Indianapolis, IN, USA June 15-18, 2014.6. C. Sonnenburg, A. Gadre, D. Horner, S. Krageland, A. Marcus, D. Stilwell and C. Woolsey, “Control OrientedPlanar Motion Modeling of Unmanned Surface Vehicles,” Technical Report, Virginia Center for Autonomous Systems,2010.7. T. Fossen, Lecture Notes TTK 4190 Guidance and Control of Vehicles, Norwegian University of Science andTechnology.8. F. Lewis, H. Zhang, K. Hengster-Movric and A. Das, Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent
Renewable Energy Laboratory: Expert Tools. Available: http://www.solmetric.com/annualinsolation-us.html[7] A. D. James Larminie, Fuel cell systems explained (2nd edition): WILEY, 2003.
transfer and thermodynamics. However, sincemany courses in heat transfer do not have laboratory sections, or are very large, it ischallenging for instructors to adopt these activities. Instructors may modify the activitiesto adapt them to their context, but in that case, the effectiveness of the activities aseducational tools is unknown. Our goals in the current work are to first, to createversions (modes) of the activities that are easier for faculty to use, and second, assesstheir educational effectiveness. To what extent does delivery mode impact conceptuallearning? Our third goal is to share all modes of all activities, with sufficient informationthat faculty can make good choices about their adoption, and learn which factors are mostimportant
Paper ID #17397Development of Student-centered Modules to Support Active Learning in Hy-drologyDr. Emad Habib, University of Louisiana, Lafayette Dr. Emad Habib is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His research interests are in Hydrology, Water Resources, Rainfall Remote Sensing, Water Management, Coastal Hydrology, and Advances in Hydrology Education ResearchProf. David G Tarboton, Utah State University David Tarboton is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University. He received his Sc.D. and M.S. in Civil Engineering