radiation, extremetemperatures, and more). Several examples of such efforts include the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense(OUSD) Acquisition & Sustainment Industrial Base (IBAS) program, which now leads theNational Imperative for Industrial Skills program and the Research & Engineering Trusted &Assured Microelectronics program. These initiative support several University-run programsincluding SCALE as part of a Public, Private, and Academic Partnership (PPAP), and theSTART-HBCU program to increase research collaborations between Sandia NationalLaboratories and several major HBCUs nationwide (U.S. Department of Defense, 2020; SandiaNational Laboratories, n.d.). Important aspects of such models include defining a common
motivation and engagement. Projects were developed by academics (research facultymembers or doctoral students) in their research laboratories. The purpose of this exploratorystudy is to understand the motivation the academics had to engage with students and invest timeand resources in creating research projects not attached to students' grades or credits. Weconducted interviews with academics to understand why they decided to engage with theresearch projects. Our results suggest that the most important thing was to develop student-teacher engagement, which had an implication later on in their classrooms. Similarly, they saw itas a mentoring opportunity and as a way to improve their time-management skills.IntroductionStudent motivation and engagement
timeallotted to the project during the semester (approximately 6 weeks), the instructor gave thespecific problem definition to the students rather than having them perform their own problemdefinition based upon a more generic needs statement.The instructor provided each student team with low-cost materials with which they could form asimple treatment device, namely a container using two-inch PVC pipe and endcaps, andtreatment materials including filter paper, sand, gravel, and activated carbon. Additionalequipment, such as a peristaltic pump and a digital refractometer, were available for the studentsto use. The teams constructed and tested their treatment devices in the chemical engineering unitoperations laboratory. Typical student constructed
initial tensor componentsand the rotation to be applied, and the program displays the final results without any intermediatehistory) or not widely available (e.g., [20]). In response, the present authors have developedapplications that illustrate three-dimensional tensor transformations dynamically, in real time.This paper documents the development of these applications and serves as their public debut.Of particular relevance to the present work, we note that Pirker [21] has used virtual reality (VR)to create a virtual “educational physics laboratory” and has compared the efficacy of the VRexperience on mobile devices versus in the classroom. The results of Pirker’s study [21] indicatethat the mobile experience profits from more flexibility and
analysis quadcopter platformincludes various sensors used to analyze the water composition and properties. These includepH, saturated oxygen, and temperature. They are connected to a custom PCB, and the data can becollected and stored to the device. The data can be retrieved once the measurement mission iscomplete. The rate of reading sensors can be chosen. Moreover, this water analysis quadcopterplatform is capable of collecting water samples for further analysis in a laboratory. This is basedon the use of a custom designed peristaltic pump. The pump speed can be controlled, and it willcontrol the amount of the water sample and the speed of the collection. Furthermore, this wateranalysis quadcopter platform has an underwater camera, and it can
need (kWh), students determined the number of solar panelsrequired to offset the load. They used PVWatts® Calculator tool [20] developed by NationalRenewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and other online resources provided (e.g., commerciallyavailable solar panels). They calculated the battery bank capacity needed to store enough energyfor a day. They sized and selected the solar charge controller, inverter, circuit breakers, junctionbox, and other components and developed a one-line electrical diagram for the solar PV System.Phase 2: In phase two, students included the energy load for conditioning the house provided bymechanical engineering students. ME students provided two different energy loads; one based ona building envelope compliant with
and Lecturer. He brings experiential knowledge to Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Ships and Maritime Systems and Laboratories in Engineering Experimentation, Machine Design, Electric Circuits and Machines. Starting out as a USCG licensed Merchant Marine Officer and U.S. Navy Reserve officer, he progressed into long time ownership of van Zelm Engineers, Connecticut’s largest Mechanical and Electrical engineering firm. After retiring from his practice, he joined the faculty of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, after previously serving as an Adjunct Professor at Central Connecticut State University. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022
, all while continuing tomake progress towards their four-year degree.Another way for four-year universities to assist each two-year college is to identify and betterunderstand all of the required university courses that are unable to be offered at the two-yearcollege level due to various reasons [4], [7]. An example of this would be Direct Current (DC)Circuits with a Laboratory component, a 3-credit course requirement of the IRE-Bell programthat is not consistently offered at some two-year institutions due to various state requirementsand varying enrolment demands. Although transfer students are required to complete DCCircuits Lecture and Laboratory before transferring and taking the advanced Circuits courses atthe university level, IRE-Bell
are upper division laboratory courses and capstonedesign taught by engineering instructors. Prior to entering these courses, the writing instruction atypical engineering student would have received was through their university freshman levelEnglish composition courses, or their high school courses if they test out of the university course.In these engineering courses, students are typically required to write large design reports,experimental plans, and technical reports, which are generally not accompanied by any formalcommunication instruction. As a result, students are learning technical communication skills inan ad hoc and implicit manner through practice rather than instruction, with some studentshaving the advantage of additional
regarding how the course was adapted to thesocial distancing learning model (Fig. 1: Q5,Q6). Figure 1: Student overall evaluations of the courseThe fabrication lab was popular during the previous analysis of the course [17]. Each year,students built a device in the fabrication lab that was designed by the previous cohort. Thisdevice was fabricated across four laboratory activities: 1) milling, 2) turning, 3) welding, and 4)tapping, threading, and assembly. After completion of the four labs, students developed ideas forsimilar projects, wrote a “Design of Labs” report, and competed in a class pitch competition. Thehighest scoring project in the combined categories of appeal, feasibility, project cost, andpresentation quality
start of the course. This is consistentwith other research findings [12]. Maki [18] noted the consistently poor monitoring accuracy © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings | Paper ID 36107discovered across studies conducted in her laboratory. Glenberg and Epstein [19] made a similarobservation stating, ‘‘Data from our laboratory has almost uniformly demonstrated poorcalibration’’.After providing students with tag-enhanced Open learner models visualizing their relativeperformance and calibration, student calibration improved from Exam 1 to Exam 2 and studentswere almost well calibrated by the end of Exam 2. Moving into Exam 3, students were not as
Paper ID #36227Python for chemical engineers: an efficient approach to teachnon-programmers to programProf. Gennady Gor, New Jersey Institute of Technology Dr. Gennady Gor received Ph.D. in theoretical physics from St. Petersburg State University, Russia in 2009. He continued his postdoctoral research in the United States, at Rutgers University, Princeton University and Naval Research Laboratory. In 2016 he joined the Chemical and Materials Engineering department at NJIT as an assistant professor. He authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, and is the recipient of the National Research Council Associateship (2014) and
B.S. in mechanical engineering from Mississippi State University. Prior to beginning her current position, Tammy taught science at a local high school, was an instructor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Spelman College, and an adjunct instructor in the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering at Georgia Perimeter College.Dr. Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute Comas Lamar Haynes is a Principal Research Engineer / faculty member of the Georgia Tech Research In- stitute and Joint Faculty Appointee at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research includes modeling American c Society for Engineering
learning with higher functions of Bloom’s taxonomy[7]. Students were expected to submit a report documenting a tensile test laboratory and aneccentric combined loading laboratory. In addition, students coded cells in a spreadsheettemplate that was given to them to assist them in specifying the material and cross-sectionaldimensions for a new B-52 wing spar that met certain requirements under a given biaxialcombined loading case. That final engineering design project, which primarily consisted ofspecifying a B-52 wing spar, also included a formal report explaining the process the studentsused to identify a wing spar that met requirements. Though the course adequately covered thefundamental topics in statics and mechanics of material, several
opportunities to re-take assessments and demonstrate competency. With the shift infocus to attaining outcomes, the overall grade moves away from a what can be an arbitraryaveraging of scores from disparate parts of the course. Instead, the grade is based upon studentsmastering individual learning outcomes. These outcomes can be based on laboratory skills,problem-solving application, ethical considerations, or whatever else is deemed important for thecourse. In specs grading, students gain a clearer understanding of what is needed to pass thecourse, and they can also have the ability to select their own learning goals. In Fall 2020, theauthor converted a General Physics I section and an upper-division Electric & Magnetic Fieldscourse into a specs
(4 credits) • Differential Equations with Linear Algebra (4 credits) • Applied Probability and Statistics (B2) (3 credits) • General Physics I (3 credits) • General Physics Laboratory I (1 credit) • General Physics II (3 credits) • General Physics Laboratory II (1 credit) • General Chemistry I (C1) (3 credits) • Chemistry Laboratory I (1 credit) • Engineering Ethics (F1, IT6) (2 credits) • Basic Engineering Graphics and Design (1 credit) • Engineering Computing and Problem Solving (1 credit) • Fundamentals of Engineering Design (2 credits) • Statics (3 credits) • Dynamics (3 credits) • Mechanics of
, or at least useful reference and backgroundmaterial for, an intermediate thermodynamics course or an engineering course on thermal control of thebuilt environment. Some interesting student research projects might also be based on further applicationof this ZTE.Acknowledgement and ContributionsThe first author initiated this work and completed the first derivation and prepared most of the currentmanuscript. The second author assisted in the development and verification and has applied the results ingraduate and practical research.References [1] G. N. Walton, "NBSIR 83-2655 Thermal Analysis Research Program Reference Manual (re NBSLD)," U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, National Engineering Laboratory, Building
that a key quality of problem solvers is the ability to learn from failure,students were given the latitude needed to find for themselves what works and what does not (evenif foreseen by the faculty mentors).The project typically involves six students during a given semester: i.e., on average two studentsper sub-team. Since an important objective of our initiative is for students to develop hands-on © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022engineering design and research skills, participating students work in the laboratory (wheneverpossible) and maintain a 10 hour-a-week work schedule during the academic year. The students'work schedules in the laboratory are designed such that there are overlaps; thus, there
Paper ID #37252Connecting classrooms across borders to engineer a processto manufacture a Tequila bottleRodrigo Martinez-Duarte Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University (USA) and Head of the Multiscale Manufacturing Laboratory www.multiscalemanufacturing.net. His group’s expertise lies at the interface between micro/nanofabrication, carbonaceous materials, electrokinetics and microfluidics. Rodrigo is known as the pioneer of carbon-electrode Dielectrophoresis (carbonDEP), a technique for bioparticle manipulation using carbon electrodes and
[3, 4]. Watermeyer, et al. [2] argues that due to COVID 19 and the resulting quick move toonline teaching and learning, both the immediate and long-term future of higher education arelinked to the digital transformations discussed prior to the pandemic. It is necessary that theeducation that students receive prepares them to be technology-change leaders and have thenecessary skills to navigate a post-COVID world [5]There is abundant literature about implementation of online teaching and assessment approachesin engineering and computer science fields [6-9]. Compared to other disciplines, manyengineering fields rely not just on lecture sessions but also laboratory sessions which aretraditionally carried out in a face-to-face format. Generally
program thatsimulates a smart power distribution grid withseveral households; each is equipped with smart heating,ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) that adjustsconsumption in response to the price signal. Specifically,the participants learned to design and implement a powerdistribution network in GridLAB-D, an open-source grid Figure 9. Comparison of power distribution with new technologymodeling software developed by the Pacific NorthwestNational Laboratory (PNNL), and TMY, a weather simulation database developed by the NationalRenewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The participants customized the referenced IEEEdistribution network in the PNNL library by
raised questions about their future reliability, muchof the current technological advancement in the green energy sector has been a result of evidenceimplicating their use as a primary factor in the ever-growing climate crisis.As such, there has been an unmatched investment in the future of alternative sources of energy,such as wind, solar, and hydropower. These have led to massive improvements in every aspect ofthese technologies, especially cost and efficiency [1]. For example, according to the Departmentof Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the cost of a 200kW solar array has declinedfrom 5.57 to 1.72 dollars per watt, a 69% decrease [2].However, there are still many drawbacks to these technologies. Perhaps the most notable of
) for the rest of the week.The second and third week of the program focused on one of the most involved investigations ofthe program. Adapted from BioRAD Laboratories, these two weeks required students to workthrough activities from the company’s pGLO Bacterial Transformation Kit [11]. Intended toteach students about genetic engineering using the pGLO plasmid and a strain of E. coli bacteriaand provide an opportunity to engage in a thoughtful biomedical scientific inquiry process, thekit aligned well with the program goals. Unfortunately, despite the meticulous thought andplanning involved in preparing these weeks for at-home use, the experiments were not wellsuited for individual kitchen experimentation due to inconsistencies with kitchen
, and Process Design [12]. A co-requisite one-credit hands-on laboratory course integrateswith each of the first five courses, while a Safety and Ethics course accompanies the ProcessDesign class. Approximately one third of the students alternate the last three class-semesters withco-op rotations. These last two years (which include summer terms) offer the best potential forstudents get involved in outreach. At this point, they have developed significant knowledge andvaluable industry/research experience to document the narrative on the scope of the career and thecollege experience.The Reactive Process Engineering (RPE) and Process Design (PD) courses are offered everyspring and summer terms. The Process Control (PC) is offered only during the
Paper ID #37864Identifying Best Practices to sustain a US-MexicoInternational Program integrated into an engineeringcurriculumRodrigo Martinez-Duarte Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University (USA) and Head of the Multiscale Manufacturing Laboratory www.multiscalemanufacturing.net. His group’s expertise lies at the interface between micro/nanofabrication, carbonaceous materials, electrokinetics and microfluidics. Rodrigo is known as the pioneer of carbon-electrode Dielectrophoresis (carbonDEP), a technique for bioparticle manipulation using
Dr. Mark A. Finlayson is Eminent Scholar Chaired Associate Professor of Computer Science and Interim Associate Director in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences (KFSCIS) at Florida International University (FIU). His research intersects artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and cognitive science. He directs the FIU KFSCIS Cognition, Narrative, and Culture (Cognac) Laboratory whose members focus on advancing the science of narrative, including: understanding the relationship between cognition, narrative, and culture; developing new methods and techniques for investigating questions related to language and narrative; and endowing machines with the ability to understand and
. He currently consults on learning and talent development programs within the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. Mr. Leidig has focused on community-engaged engineering and design for over fifteen years.Andrew Pierce (Laboratory Manager) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Assessing Multidisciplinary, Long-Term Design ExperiencesIntroductionCommunity-engaged design experiences offer many benefits to engineering, the designcommunity, and higher education in general. These experiences offer opportunities for studentsto engage with real users and to see how designs can positively impact people
Success in the College of Engineering. 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. Dr. Johnson received his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Johnson’s research focuses on engineering education, production economics, and design tools. Dr. Johnson has over 80 peer reviewed publications and several patents. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and industry. Dr. Johnson is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education, the American Society
of UPOP are larger, and include the start of a lifelong professional journey.Bernard M. Gordon Engineering Leadership Program (GEL): This co-curricular program,started in 2008, is targeted at juniors and seniors, and can be taken as a one year experienceleading to a certificate in engineering leadership (GEL1 - about 150 students) or as a two yearadvanced certificate (GEL2 – about 30 students per year). Several key elements of the programsuch as individual entrance interviews, a mandatory design requirement, and an experientialengineering leadership laboratory, make this program a catalyst for future engineering leadersAt the inception of the program, we spent several months meeting with educators, successfulpractitioners from industry, and