ways. One, the WrightState Model includes recitation, lecture, and laboratory components. Two, engineering facultyteach first-year engineering students the recitation, lecture and laboratory components instead ofmath faculty. Lastly, the Wright State Model presents all math concepts within an engineeringcontext while solely using math topics and examples from core engineering classes. After beingexposed to the Wright State Model for Engineering Mathematics Education, engineering studentshave had increased graduate rates and GPAs, with the greatest impact on underrepresentedgroups (Klingbeil and Bourne, 2013).Faculty sought to increase first-year engineering students’ retention, motivation, and success bycreating an experimental course based on
of lecture and one class for labactivities. For these civil engineers, the lab used a water tank simulator. This simulator is a high-fidelity virtual copy of a laboratory scale water tank. It has a reservoir, an overhead tank, a levelsensor, a pump and a manual valve. The pump is used to transfer water from the reservoir to anoverhead tank and the level is reported real-time by the level sensor. The manual valve connectsthe overhead tank to the reservoir and water from the overhead tank is circulated back to thereservoir when the valve is open. The control logic (manual or auto) is implemented using avirtual copy of OpenPLC [2]. In auto mode, the programmable logic controller (PLC) controlsthe pump and keeps the level of the water between
scoring was not directly mentioned, the CSCDP platform utilized the Zabbixmonitoring tool to monitor network traffic via proxy. The Zabbix tool is an enterprise class,open-source monitoring tool that can monitor the status of network services, servers andhardware. The information gathered by Zabbix in CSCDP was displayed on a central VIPdashboard server [3].Closely related to SCGs are the educational cybersecurity laboratory environments. Theseenvironments did not generally have game like features such as an ASMB. However, they didcontain management systems such as the Report tool in the Smallworld Cloud-based platform[5]. Smallworld was a software defined virtual environment that simulated large distributedsystems and could also simulate agents
ubiquitous technology, mobile devices, into construction managementcoursework shows much promise [9,10,11]. However, the literature only provides two specificexamples of how mobile devices have actually been incorporated [5,12]. Reyes et al. (2015) [5]describe the incorporation of iPads into an undergraduate blueprint reading course, and foundthat students were more efficient in completing the class exercise when able to familiarizethemselves with a hard set of blueprints ahead of working with the blueprints on a mobile device.Cline and Davis (2013) [12] describe the integration of iPads into a construction materials andmethods laboratory course. They stated that the incorporation of iPads (1) facilitatedcommunications between the student and the
a formal studentsurvey for this and similar exercises, such as the one involving pump performance [7]. Thereflections presented here are based on instructor observations. These observations haveprovided useful guidance regarding how the exercise should be structured, and also places in theclassroom component of the course where more thorough instruction is needed in areas likeproblem solving techniques. A few key observations are as follows: 1. The students appear to become well engaged in the tasks related to taking measurements in the laboratory. They tend to show enthusiasm for distributing tasks among the team members and in coming up with plans for how they will execute the measurements. They appear to enjoy the data
Muci-Kuchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Karim Muci-K¨uchler is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Experimental and Computational Mechanics Laboratory at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T). Before joining SDSM&T, he was an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Iowa State University in 1992. His main interest areas include Computational Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, and Product Design and Development. He has taught several different courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, has over 50 publications, is co-author of one book, and has done
University. During 2006-2010, he was Chair of the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences, Founder and Director of the Center for 3-D Visualization and Virtual Reality Applications, and Technical Director of the NASA funded MIST Space Vehicle Mission Planning Laboratory at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. In 2010, he joined Eastern Michigan University as an Associate Dean in the College of Technology and currently is a Professor in the School of Engineer- ing Technology. He has an extensive experience in curriculum and laboratory design and development. Dr. Eydgahi has served as a member of the Board of Directors for Tau Alpha Pi, as a member of Advi- sory and Editorial boards for many International
and surrounding areas, where the first tubular digester was installed in 1999.Fabricio Camacho, a Ph.D. Candidate in Agricultural Engineering at the UGA-CR and GeneralManager and Associate Director of UGA-CR, expanded the use of digesters to several farms inthe region that previously did not treat their agricultural waste. Local farmers implemented ninetubular digesters to varying levels of success. UGA-CR is a valuable in-country partner becauseit hosts approximately 800 students a year, mostly from Costa Rica and the United States, forclassroom, laboratory, and field education and research.3 Agricultural Treatment System AnalyzedAn agricultural waste treatment system in Costa Rica was analyzed in a civil engineering courseat CSU-Chico
. To make minimal impacton student credit hours, the course was designed as a one semester, 2 credit hour course. Thisallows first-year students to take the course in the fall, spring, or summer terms. Fitting thatquantity of students into a makerspace and having a meaningful experience resulted in thestructure of a 2 hour live meeting once per week for a maximum of 49 students per section. Thiswill result in approximately 33 sections; 14 in the fall, 14 in the spring, and 5 in the summer. Adedicated makerspace classroom and 3D printer room for the Engineering Design & Societycourse is part of a building currently under construction with an opening date within the nextyear. To limit the in-makerspace time to 2 laboratory hours, 1 credit
mechanics and heat transfer and is examining research topics in laboratory education in those fields. Prior to CSUM, Dr. Tsai was a Member of the Technical Staff in the Fluid Mechanics Group at The Aerospace Corporation. Dr. Tsai earned his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. at the University of California, Berkeley in Mechanical Engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Measuring Information Fluency Instruction: Ethical Use of Images in Engineering Student PresentationsAbstractThe ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, “Information Has Value”frame includes the knowledge practice of “articulate the purpose and distinguishingcharacteristics of
to grade senior-capstone projects. [16] Jones and Abdallah haveventured into the area of performance indicators as a means to pinpoint more specific outcomesin a course. [17] Nayak et. al. has worked to compose rubrics that look to bridge the gap betweenthe course-outcomes in a laboratory setting to program-outcomes outlined by their department ofComputer Science and Engineering. [18] For Knecht, Moskal and Pavelich, their focus wascentralized around measuring and tracking growth in the design program at the Colorado Schoolof Mines. [19] In a study by Dancz, Plumblee II et al, civil engineering students were assessedduring their ‘Grand Challenge Sustainable Entrepreneurship Projects.’ [20] As evidenced by theabove, there is significant
and explanation of multi-scale material behavior can broaden students’ understanding of materials and mechanics, and assistthem to link mechanics concepts to materials behavior they observe in laboratory testing.Assessment of education outcomes of M3E moduleTraditional assessment based on student performance by solving given problems does not provideenough information about how students internalize and organize the knowledge presented to them.In particular, it is difficult to design a set of testing problems that can efficiently evaluate studentunderstanding of broad solid mechanics concepts and their relationship with manufacturing anddesign knowledge. However, such insight is necessary for educators to help students achievedeeper learning
classroom spaces, active learning, responsive teaching, and elementary school engineering teachers.Mr. Magel P. Su, University of Michigan Magel P. Su is a PhD student in the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology. He earned a B.S.E in materials science and engineering and a minor in chemistry from the University of Michigan. At Michigan, he was a member of the Ultrafast Laser - Material Interac- tion Laboratory and the Engineering Honors Program. He also served as an instructor for several courses including Introduction to Engineering, Introduction to Materials and Manufacturing, and Structural and Chemical Characterization of Materials.Mr. Max William Blackburn
gene regulation during development in Drosophila melanogaster in his newly established Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at SAU. Dr. Melton received his B.A. degree in biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the M.S. degree in developmental biology from North Carolina A&T State University and the Ph.D. in developmental neurophysiology from the University of Maryland at College Park. He also conducted c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #27241postdoctoral research in molecular genetics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School ofMedicine.Dr
teaching awards, and since 2016 he has been appointed to the Postgraduate Research Program at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) administered through Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE).Mr. Spencer Mark SullivanProf. Kevin Chen c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Project-Based Learning of Optics and Photonics: How to Teach a Stand- Alone Technical Elective “Niche” Course?AbstractAt the typical engineering school, lasers and optics is an elective “niche” area, often with astandalone senior course offering. This course is generally taken by students in their final yearswhen they are ready to graduate and start their careers or graduate school. For
student assistants to record and edit a few full-length lecture seriestaught by well-respected senior instructors who would retire in the near future (e.g., [14]), aswell as produce demonstration videos of student laboratory experiments (e.g., [15]). Thesevideos would serve as both a resource for current students and a reference for new instructors.By 2015, over 100 videos had been produced and it was becoming evident that the departmentneeded a better method of organizing content by subject area. While it is possible to makeplaylists in YouTube, account administrators have limited control over the layout of the interfaceand it can be difficult for students to find content easily. In order to create a more user-friendlyexperience for students
section 2, were launched between 2009 and2014.2. Identifying the needs of graduate students and facultyThe 2009 assessment, performed by the Professional Enrichment Center, in collaboration withthe Office of Graduate Studies, surveyed 214 graduate students and organized various focusgroups with eight graduate program coordinators. The participants reported deficiencies in a)technical writing and communication skills, b) search strategies, and c) research integrity. Theassessments also exposed unsatisfactory and inadequate laboratory facilities for graduateresearch, as well as the lack of accommodations for collaborative learning. These findings agreewith the literature regarding support services for graduate students [3-6].In 2012, the Research
(1989), and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering (1993) from Texas A&M University. His areas of interest in research and education include product development, analog/RF electronics, instrumentation, and entrepreneurship.Dr. Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University Dr. Michael D. Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and In- dustrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product development engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
. Martínez, F., Herrero, L. C., & De Pablo, S. (2011). Project-based learning and rubrics in the teaching of power supplies and photovoltaic electricity. IEEE Transactions on Education, 54(1), 87- 96.7. Lanning, D., Lestari, W., & Waterhouse, S. (2010). A unique undergraduate laboratory-based course in engineering failure. In American Society for Engineering Education. American Society for Engineering Education.8. Chen, R., Goodman, D., Izadian, A., & Cooney, E. (2010). Teaching renewable energy through hands-on project-based learning for engineering technology students. In American Society for Engineering Education. American Society for Engineering Education.9. Echempati, R., & Dippery, R. (2010). Teaching and
atCCSU program. A prototype helicopter simulator was developed and built by a faculty memberand his students at the host university through a National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) research grant. Program participants, who are interested in operating a helicopter, aresupervised to "fly a helicopter" in a laboratory environment. Material testing instrument includesa series of demonstrations on steel and concrete mechanical property testing: a concretecompassion test, a steel impact test of, a steel fatigue test, and a steel tension test. Students aresplit into small groups and can operate testing apparatus to their comfort levels. Buildingexercise and competition is applied multiple times in the curriculum: a balsa wood bridge
, and comprehensive engineering program requirements for learningtechnical topics limits the amount of coursework for explicitly developing technical writingability. To assess strategies to improve technical writing among upper divisions students, wereport the response of three cohorts of engineering students to modifications of a fluid mechanicscourse with a hands-on fluid mechanics laboratory project assignment that involves thepreparation of a technical report. We find that group format instruction on report preparation,with specific examples of good and bad writing styles and a clear standard for the expected levelof performance, is equally effective as small group meetings with more personalized feedbackand is substantially less resource
research experiences were based on Lopatto’s criteria for “good research projects”:reasonable scope, feasible, generate data that students can present, not “cookbook” experiments,built-in difficulties, and multifaceted [8]. For the Spring 2018 semester, the CURE wasimplemented as four different manufacturing and service laboratory-type exercises and onegroup project.Preliminary results were collected in the form of pre- and post-surveys from the students. Duringthe third week of class, after which there were no drops or changes in enrollment, students wereinformed about their option to voluntarily participate in the data collection process. Two papersurveys were used: one in week 4 and one in week 15 of the semester. No reward of any kindwas
. Experimental Design and Data Collection3.1. Participants43 participants gave informed consent to take part in the study. 22 participants were engineeringstudents of various majors; the remaining 21 participants did not have formal education inengineering. 7 participants were excluded from the analyses due to technical problems duringEEG data recording, or excessive noise in the recorded data. In total, 36 participants (19engineering, 17 nonengineering) were included in the analyses.3.2. ProcedureUpon arriving to the laboratory participants were introduced to the research team, screened foreligibility criteria and asked to read the consent form and decide whether or not they agreed toparticipate in the study. Participants were next taken to the
hybrid energy systems and investigation of the structure-property relationships in ferroelectric, dielectric and piezoelectric materials in the form of thin films and bulk composites for sensing/actuation and energy storage/harvesting applications. Dr. Cook-Chennault’s research group, the Hybrid Energy Systems and Materials Laboratory, conducts work towards understanding the fundamental mechanisms and processing parameters that allow for the control of physical material characteristics. In addition to this work, Dr. Cook-Chennault is the director of the Green Energy Undergraduate Program (GET UP) program which is funded through the National Science Foundation and the Student Learn and Achievent in Aerospace and
across multiple course formats (e.g., face-to-face, online, and laboratory). An ad-hoc SETreview committee was formed in April 2017, consisting of faculty members across colleges andmembers from the faculty development, online learning, and institutional research offices. Thiscommittee embarked on a process that included discussions around many aspects of the SETsuch as implementation issues and use of the SET data from the faculty’s perspective. However,after one year, the ad-hoc committee had not conducted a systematic review of the existing SETquestions or drafted revisions. A more focused effort was needed, and thus a two-day workingmeeting of the committee convened in May 2018 with the goal of developing recommendationsfor revised SET
known that Active Learning methodologies involve the students in their own learningand there is no doubt about their effectiveness in sharing knowledge with today’s students.Actually, undergraduate students taking traditional lecturing-based courses are 1.5 times morelikely to fail than those enrolled in courses where active learning methodologies are implemented[1]. Thus, our university has centered its attention on investigating, applying, improving anddesigning new active learning methodologies. Examples of such methodologies are: The MathOperatory Skills Laboratory (MOSL), introduced in [2], as a remedial mathematics course forfreshmen engineering students; and, the Guided-Lecture Team Based Learning (GL-TBL)targeted to teach mathematics
the community colleges located in Long Island, NY. Students enrolled inthese programs have a large range of skills and aptitudes, in terms of math, sciences, experiencewith laboratory test equipment, computer-based-tools, programming.The general characteristics of student population at Farmingdale State College was taken intoconsideration also. A study of student population at Farmingdale State College shows thefollowing: over 90 % of the students are commuting on daily basis from the greater New Yorkmetropolitan area and they hold full time jobs; around 35% are first-generation college students(e.g., neither parent has earned a 4-year degree); 30% are minority; the student population includeslarge numbers of “New Americans” (i.e., they or
establish Sustainable strategies for enterprises. He is an Affiliate Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, focusing on the energy efficiency of IT Equipment in a Data Centers. As a means of promoting student- centric learning, Prof. Radhakrishnan has successfully introduced games in to his sustainability classes where students demonstrate the 3s of sustainability, namely, Environment, Economics and Equity, through games. Students learn about conservation (energy, water, waste, equity, etc.) through games and quan- tifying the results. He has published papers on this subject and presented them in conferences. Before his teaching career, he had a very successful corporate management career
printing techniques and are highly visual and interactive, allowingstudents to see trends in pressure, flowrate, and fluid paths, as well as manipulate and measureflow rates and temperatures while collaborating with their peers. Due to their compact size, lessthan 10 by 10 inches for most modules, LC-DLMs have been employed in a variety of classroomorientations including traditional classrooms containing tablet arm chair desks and largerlaboratory spaces. Compared to traditional laboratory teaching equipment, LC-DLMs are simpleto transport, construct, and deconstruct. Examples of current vacuum formed LC-DLM cartridgesformed over 3D printed molds are shown below in Figure 1. A B C Figure
through automation.Mr. Alec William Maxwell, San Francisco State University Alec Maxwell is currently an graduate student in the School of Engineering at San Francisco State Uni- versity (SFSU). Besides actively conducting research on innovative tools for engineering education in the Intelligent Structural Hazards Mitigation Laboratory at SFSU with Prof. Zhaoshuo Jiang, he also serves the community as the President of the American Society of Civil Engineers for the SFSU chapter.Dr. Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College Amelito Enriquez is a professor of Engineering and Mathematics at Ca˜nada College in Redwood City, CA. He received a BS in Geodetic Engineering from the University of the Philippines, his MS in Geode- tic