was kepthorizontal and facing the antenna.Data Collection:The data is collected in laboratory environment with minimal interference from external factorssuch as metal objects and interference from other antennas. For this experiment, the antenna andthe receiver were connected above each other on a wooden pole. The antenna height was fixed at4 feet from the ground. This setup has been shown in figure 2. ANTENNA TAG DISTANCE BETWEEN TAG AND ANTENNA RECEIVER
geared towards middle school, high school, and community college students to expose and increase their interest 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.Dr. Charles J. Kim, Howard University Charles Kim is a professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Howard University. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1989, and worked as a researcher c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016
online research or simulated laboratory exercises, that were associated witheach disciplinary lecture. Approximately 30-50% of these activities depending on the yearinvolved collaborative work, in teams of 3-4 students.Description of Revised Course Beginning in Winter 2015, the FYE engineering course was redesigned by a team of fourexperienced faculty-level instructors who represented several engineering disciplines. The coursecurriculum was modified substantively while maintaining the original course logistics (2-credits,14 weeks, two lecture sections of 325-350 students). Revised course curricula were framed withthe following core concepts: (1) a 4-phase engineering design process [6]; (2) collaborativelearning in small teams
mathematics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014. 111(23): p. 8410-8415.11. Patton Luks, C.L. and L.P. Ford. Analysis of a small gamification addition to labs. in ASEE Annual Meeting. 2015. Seattle, WA.12. Anastasio, D.D. Impact of narrative, character creation, and game mechanics on student engagement in a game-based chemical engineering laboratory course. in ASEE Annual Meeting. 2015. Seattle, WA.
calculations and Mars ‘entry’.We have a professor in Mechanical Engineering who “worked as a postdoctoral researchassociate at the NASA Langley Research Center. He used the PLIF technique to studyinterference from the Reaction Control System (RCS) jets used for guided atmospheric entry ofthe Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) vehicle. His current research is focused on studying high-speed combustion phenomena and aerodynamic problems related to power generation,propulsion, and explosion safety.”8 He was able to give the students a high-level lecture on bowshock (Fig. 4) waves and some of the issues encountered in getting current rovers to Mars. Forfirst year students who are mainly taking math, physics and chemistry courses in their commoncore year this
entrepreneurship development center invited MBA students tojoin contracting activities. Students gain practical experience as economists andmarket experts in the start-ups located in its innovative park. This centerorganizes training courses for MBA students and PhD students twice a year.This course is dedicated to commercialization of innovations on their way froma laboratory to the market, and is also focused on the innovativeentrepreneurship principles.In 2013, the representatives of a Russian engineering university visited theuniversity in the USA for a short-time training program. The visit has resultedin the development of a new training course at the Russian university. Thiscourse is aimed at commercialization of research and foundations
virtual worlds for research alliances (e.g. virtual and remote laboratories, intelligent assistants, semantic coding of specialised information). Sabina Jeschke is vice dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the RWTH Aachen University, chairwoman of the board of management of the VDI Aachen and member of the supervisory board of the K¨orber AG. She is a member and consultant of numerous committees and commissions, alumni of the German Na- tional Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes), IEEE Senior Member and Fellow of the RWTH Aachen University. In July 2014, the Gesellschaft f¨ur Informatik (GI) honoured her with their award Deutschlands digitale K¨opfe (Germany’s digital heads). In
Beach, University of California - Los Angeles,University of California - Berkeley, and the University of Southern California. Seven have beenaccepted to NSF-sponsored REUs, three have been named as Rio Hondo College OutstandingStudents, and one was selected as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Undergraduate Scholar and wenton to accept a research fellowship at JPL.Student AnecdotesIn the students’ final reports, they are asked to comment on the impact that the scholarship hashad on them. A few of these comments follow:• Mentoring was beneficial because it allowed me to be more open about my personal goals witha professor. From my experience when I have a professor, I only see him in class and lecture andmight go to his office hours on occasions but
equipment for unit processes 4. Perform biomolecular engineering experimentation4.3 Laboratory Topics 1. Flocculation 2. Dead end filtration 3. Tangential Flow Filtration 4. Liquid-Liquid Extraction, supercritical CO2 extraction 5. Chromatography 6. Centrifugation 7. Freeze drying4.4 Modifications done to focus on bioprocessingThe list of topics added to the course besides traditional topics covered in similar courses in otherinstitutes are listed in table 4 below.Table 4. List of the additional topics included in the Unit Operations course. Chapters Additional topics Sedimentation Flocculation Filtration Tangential flow filtration Extraction Supercritical CO2
experiences include software engineering, systems engineering and analysis, and production optimization for private, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations. His research interests include complex systems modeling and simulation and systems engineering, and their application in healthcare and aerospace.Dr. Maximo J. Ortega, Indiana Tech Dr. Maximo Ortega is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Indiana Tech. He is responsible for the Automation Laboratory. Dr. Ortega is a Fulbright Scholar and was a member of the Mexican National Academy of Industrial Engineering. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University from 2001 to 2003. Dr. Ortega earned his Bachelor of Science
Paper ID #15074Flipping the Design Class Using Off-the-shelf Content: Can it work?Dr. John-David S Yoder, Ohio Northern University John-David Yoder is Professor and Chair of the mechanical engineering at Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH. He has previously served as Proposal Engineer and Proposal Engineering Supervisor at Grob Sys- tem, Inc. and Software Engineer at Shaum Manufacturing, Inc. He has held a number of leadership and advisory positions in various entrepreneurial ventures. He is currently a KEEN (Kern Entrepreneurial Ed- ucation Network) Fellow, and has served as a Faculty Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
in the Robotics laboratory at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He worked as a post-doc at University of Pennsylvania in the area of Haptics and Virtual Reality. His research interests are in the areas of unmanned vehicles particularly flapping flight, mechatronics, robotics, MEMS, virtual reality and haptics, and teaching with technology. He has ongoing research in flapping flight, Frisbee flight dynamics, lift in porous material and brain injury He is an active member of ASEE and ASME and reviewer for several ASME, IEEE and ASEE, FIE conferences and journals. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Fluids Friday! A Method for Improving Student Attentiveness
projects with communities in Puerto Rico since 2002. Eight undergraduate electrical engineering students participated in three different capstone projects related to improving water service in rural communities, in particular improving the electrical system for the pump that takes water from the community well. In one of the projects, the team included students from Electrical, Mechanical, and Civil Engineering, as well as Surveying and Biology students, and students from Purdue University15. Acting as Faculty mentor in the UICD broadened the policy horizon of Dr. O’Neill and was an invaluable capacity building experience that helped in future policy work. Another example of a community-based project is the photovoltaic (PV) laboratory at Casa
part files were imported into the 3D printing machine as STL files. Figures 4 and5 show the Makerbot® and Lulzbot® machines used in printing the tensile test specimens. Eventhough these machines were easily accessible to the students, they had to be trained on how torun them by the laboratory technician. Figure 6 shows some of the tensile specimens that were3D printed and tested. All tensile test specimens were 3D printed at 100% fill with ± 45º rasterangle. After 3D printing the specimens, they were conditioned for over 40 hours at roomtemperature and at ~50% relative humidity, according to the standard practice for conditioningplastics for testing described in ASTM D 618-14. Following the conditioning of the specimens,an Instron materials
visits each teacher four times throughout the academic year to give support with teaching and experimental methods. Guskey and Yoon note that “educators at all levels need just-in-time, job-embedded assistance as they struggle to adapt new curricula and new instructional practices to their unique classroom contexts”[3] Full Group Meetings These meetings were held four times throughout the year, and a new materials science topic and classroom laboratory was introduced at each one. Time was also allotted for the teachers to share experiences, strategies, and pedagogical best practices with each other. Spending over 70 hours together between the camp and full-day sessions
Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state- of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. He also serves as Director of an NSF Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program in the area of Mechatronics, Robotics, and Industrial Automation.Mrs. Vania Willms, c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Teaching Robot Perception in Middle SchoolAbstractRobots are key to manufacturing, healthcare, entertainment, and aerospace exploration feature.The industry is in great need of qualified professionals that can meet the demand of the ever-changing technologies and latest innovation. Robot perception
implemented on the cutterwith little or no technical support, allowing rapid prototyping and the possibility of severaldesign iterations and testing cycles. The design of the hinges is an excellent exercise inmechanics of materials, since students can apply their basic knowledge of stress, strain, bending,and torsion to design and analyze different hinge patterns to predict their strength and flexibility.Hence, design, analysis and testing of hinges could provide a hands on laboratory component fora course in mechanics of materials that would highlight the usefulness of solid mechanics theory.Finally, the construction of 3D objects from 2D components is an excellent exercise in geometryand visualization, as well as a window into the field 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 Director of the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state- of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. He also serves as Director of an NSF Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program in the area of Mechatronics, Robotics, and Industrial Automation.Prof. Dezhen Song c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 MAKER: From 2D
-on experiences and follow-up laboratory reports. Research indicates science conceptunderstanding improves with the use of unstructured context maps and that writing-to-learnpractices can greatly improve student learning and engagement; however, these practices are oftenlacking in STEM 2,3,4. To incorporate these research findings, we developed a fading paradigmscaffolding approach to maximize engineering students’ communications skills. Our goal is toelevate the writing capability of undergraduates to the level of graduate students by utilizing afading paradigm scaffolding approach, where writing templates become less structured over time.We hypothesize that this approach will increase the average writing ability of engineeringundergraduates
group of students received a provisional U.S. Patent. Several students have seen their work actually produced by industry, including the ordering touch screens used by Bucky’s.Dr. Sheng-Jen ”Tony” Hsieh, Texas A&M University Dr. Sheng-Jen (”Tony”) Hsieh is a 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
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-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 MAKER: Programmable Logic Control (PLC) Based Automated System for Water-Level Control for Teaching Pneumatics and
Paper ID #15165Middle School Teachers’ Evolution of TPACK Understanding through Pro-fessional DevelopmentMr. Anthony Steven Brill, New York University Anthony Brill received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 2014. He is currently a M.S. student at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, studying Mechanical Engineering. He is also a fellow in their GK-12 program, promoting STEM education. He conducts research in the Mechatronics and Controls Laboratory, where his interests include using smart mobile devices in closed loop feedback control.Colin Hennessy Elliott, New York
its steering committee for several years. He has invested over twenty-five years in the development and maintenance of a multimillion dollar manufacturing laboratory facility complete with a full scale, fully integrated manufacturing sys- tem. Professor Harriger has been a Co-PI on two NSF funded grants focused on aerospace manufacturing education and is currently a Co-PI on the NSF funded TECHFIT project, a middle school afterschool pro- gram that teaches students how to use programmable controllers and other technologies to design exercise games. Additionally, he co-organizes multiple regional automation competitions for an international con- trols company. c American Society for
300 has standard first-level fluid mechanics content that includes fluid properties,hydrostatics, shear stress, the Bernoulli Equation, control volume analysis, dimensional analysis,and open channel flow. The three credit hour course has enrollment that varies betweenapproximately 90 and 175 students, and is dominated by junior and senior civil engineeringstudents (about 60%), with a smaller percentage of students typically from agricultural andbiological engineering and other engineering disciplines. Most (>80%) students enrolled in CE300 are also enrolled in a companion one-credit laboratory course, but there are no recitationsections for the course.Flipping CE 300During the Fall 2013 semester, CE 300 was structured as three 50-minute
- Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University Jason Franz is Assistant Professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University, and Director of the UNC/NC State Applied Biomechanics Laboratory. He received B.S. (2004) and M.S. (2006) degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech and served for three years as a biomechanist in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the University of Virginia. Dr. Franz then earned his Ph.D. in Integrative Physiology in 2012 from the University of Colorado Boulder. His primary research seeks to discover the musculoskeletal and sensorimotor adaptations that underlie a loss of independent
Application in Biomedical Engineering” in which students are taught skills in virtualinstrumentation for developing biomedical device prototypes4.Multidisciplinary studies require students to take more courses then other traditional courses.This has caused to reduce load of laboratory modules. Beebe has proposed teaching hands onbiomedical engineering to the students of biomedical engineering instead of traditional teaching.This will give students an insight into lab work without performing any lab experiments 5. Ton-Tai Pan has presented design of a myoelectric controlled prosthesis to reinforce mechatroniceducation offered to Electrical Engineering and Bio-industrial Mechatronic Engineering studentsat KWIT and NTU in Taiwan6. Sodager has presented
Director of the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Design and Evaluation of Sensor Module for Portable Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Kit for Automated Control EducationAbstractAutomated control can be found in almost every sector of the economy. Many automated controlapplications are integrated into daily life, such as traffic lights, automatic doors, elevators,coffeemakers, automated lighting, and copy machines. In all these applications, sensors are
Vikram Kapila is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU Tandon), where he directs a Mechatronics and Control Laboratory, a Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics and Entrepreneurship, a GK-12 Fellows project, and a DR K-12 research project, all funded by NSF. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests include K-12 STEM education, mechatronics, robotics, and control system technology. Under Research Experience for Teachers Site and GK-12 Fellows programs, funded by NSF, and the Central Brooklyn STEM Initiative (CBSI), funded by six philanthropic foundations, he has con- ducted significant K-12
piloted aircraft (OPA) shown in Fig. 15. ManyMississippi State University students are familiar with this aircraft as it is housed at the RaspetFlight Research Laboratory. Elements of this research study were integrated over the semester atappropriate times.In the following sections, the overall program development, objectives of the study and adiscussion linking ABET student outcomes to student learning are presented. A brief descriptionof the wing vibration research is given, along with student activities that use the results of thisresearch. A complete summary showing the integration of this research in class topics is shownin Appendix A.II. Program Development, Learning Objectives, and Relationship to ABET OutcomesVibrations
typicallyyields knowledge gains (Cohen d-values) of around 0.76 σ (where σ denotes the standarddeviation), comparable to those resulting from expert human tutors (0.79 σ) and superior to thoseof answer based systems (0.31 σ).1 In a previous, laboratory-based evaluation, this superioritywas confirmed with a significant effect size of 1.21 σ and strongly positive impacts on studentmotivation (0.91 σ) as well.2,3This system further emphasizes the use of worked examples that are exactly isomorphic to thetypes of problems students are required to solve in the exercises. This approach is supported bythe well-known pedagogical importance of learning from examples in the early stages of learninga new cognitive skill.4-8 Studying worked examples before (and