, computer architecture, electric drives, and power electronics. He also conducts research on engineering education concepts and STEM outreach camps. Dr. Yilmaz is a member of the Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society, IEEE and ASEE.Prof. Nuri Yilmazer, Texas A&M University, Kingsville Nuri Yilmazer received the B.S. in electrical and electronics engineering from Cukurova University at Adana, Turkey in 1996, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Uni- versity of Florida and Syracuse University in 2000 and 2006, respectively. He worked as a post-doctoral research associate in the Computational Electromagnetics Laboratory at Syracuse University from 2006 to 2007. He is
LTU Leadership Curriculum Committee, supervisor of the LTU Thermo-Fluids Laboratory, coordinator of the Certificate/Minor in Aeronautical Engineering, chair of the First Year Engineering experience, and faculty advisor of the LTU SAE Aero Design Team.Dr. Donald D. Carpenter P.E., Lawrence Technological University Page 23.266.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Campus-wide Course Modification Program to Implement Active & Collaborative Learning and Problem-based Learning to Address the Entrepreneurial MindsetAbstractWhile active and
as an adjoint professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering, Teaching & Learning, and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt University where she partners with other universities in NSF-funded research to develop the Engineering Design Process Portfolio Scoring Rubric . She ran an NSF-funded programs such as Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) for nine years. She served as the Associate Dean for Outreach in the Vanderbilt School of Engineering from 2007-2010. She established the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) engineering pathway from K-12 with Race to the Top funding in 2010-2011 and is working with the state of Tennessee on potential adoption plans for the new Next Generation Science
the course but is picking upthe material and teaching it well. He also embraces the need to teach both A-B andSiemens and has joined in supporting the overall plan.This is also a time to look forward and potentially add to the laboratory experiences. Asmoney is made available, future labs will be explored with the Festo lab equipment. Thisis a commitment to enhance the present lab experience while continuing to advance thestudents’ experiences. If one is to dream, continue that dream to a brighter future.Summary:The courses are in a good state of development at present. While the instructor may haveconsidered waiting for the course content to stabilize, the concepts were new enough andimportant enough to begin a dialog with colleagues such as
assigned in the place of two weeks of laboratory in a Strength ofMaterials course. Students were in groups of 4-5 and were given four weeks to design andconstruct an interactive demonstration of an engineering concept, which was then presented onemorning at a local Middle School.The specific aims of the outreach project described in the project statement (Appendix A) were: 1. to excite middle school students about science and engineering and break down misconceptions about engineers, and 2. to instill in undergraduate engineering students the need for science outreach while giving them an opportunity to creatively teach course content.The learning outcomes were expressed as the following:: • identify a concept related to
formatappropriate for journal submission, engage in anonymous graded peer review, and subsequentlyrevise their papers for a final score. Writing review articles is, however, primarily an exercise inaccumulating and organizing knowledge.Often a different approach is taken with graduate students, where the goal is to emphasizeanalysis and synthesis rather than knowledge. For example, the analysis of raw experimental datahas been used as a case-based approach to enforcing higher-order cognitive skills 3. Thisapproach may not be appropriate, however, for many undergraduate classes. Further, thisapproach was not designed to teach the basics of researching the technical literature, writing in atechnical style, or of engaging in peer review; these are often
Paper ID #8110Integration of Environmental Sustainability with Capstone ExperienceDr. Mohamed E. El-Sayed, Kettering University Dr. Mohamed El-Sayed is a pioneer and technical leader in vehicle integration, vehicle development process, and optimization. Through his research, teaching, and practice he made numerous original con- tributions to advance the state of the art in automotive development, performance, vehicle development process, lean, and integrated design and manufacturing. Currently, Dr. El-Sayed is a professor of Mechan- ical Engineering and director of the Vehicle Durability and Integration Laboratory at
control as well as aspects of interaction with humans and the surrounding environment, has resulted in over 130 peer-reviewed publications in a number of projects – from scientific rover navigation in glacier environments to assistive robots for the home. To date, her unique accomplishments have been highlighted through a number of awards and articles, includ- ing highlights in USA Today, Upscale, and TIME Magazine, as well as being named a MIT Technology Review top young innovator of 2003, recognized as NSBE Educator of the Year in 2009, and receiving the Georgia-Tech Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities Award in 2013. From 1993-2005, Dr. Howard was at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of
Paper ID #7858Strategy to incorporate BIM curriculum in Planning and Scheduling classesDr. Marcel Maghiar, Georgia Southern University Marcel Maghiar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Georgia Southern University teaches Construction Manage- ment courses at junior and senior level in the department. His research experience includes development of computer syntaxes to unequivocally describe construction activities and development of a consistent methodology to explicitly classify and quantify construction methods (emerging taxonomy of construc- tion methods). Marcel’s main expertise is in computer modeling of construction
252 A HARD JOB: ASSESSING “SOFT” OUTCOMES David A. Vaccari, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE dvaccari@stevens.edu Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ 07030Abstract: Under criterion 3 of the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET,engineering programs are required to have eleven documented student outcomes1, commonlyreferred to as “a through k.” Five of these student outcomes represent technical attributes thatengineering educators are familiar with teaching and assessing. However, six of these studentoutcomes are, for many faculty members
: Steering Committee: consisting of the three ETID program directors. Working committee: consisting of three ETID faculty members, one from each ETID program. Page 23.661.5 Faculty advisors: consisting of faculty members with expertise and interests that match particular projects. Student assistant: consisting of students from College of Engineering who are paid to work on PID Initiative projects. Instructors and students: consisting of instructors and students in relevant ETID courses. Parts of PID Initiative projects that are appropriate for certain ETID courses will be developed into laboratory
., Miller, G. R., and Ogurinde, A. (2002). “Live modeling of 1-D wave propagation inlayered soil media,” Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 9(4), pp. 248–258.Balamuralithara, B. and Woods, P.C. (2008). “Virtual Laboratories in Engineering Education:The Simulation Lab and Remote Lab," Computer Applications in Engineering Education 17, pp.108-118.Budhu, M. (2002). “Virtual laboratories for engineering education,” Proceedings of InternationalConference on Engineering Education (CD-ROM), Manchester, U.K., International Network forEngineering Education and Research (INEER), Arlington, Virginia, April 14-18.Caicedo, B. (2000). “Geotechnical centrifuge applications to foundation engineering teaching,”Proceeding 1st International Conference on
Paper ID #8129The LowCost Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Project: An exercise in learningacross disciplinesDr. Narayanan M. Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology This is a student-led paper guided by Professor Komerath. Dr. Komerath is a professor of aerospace engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, and director of the Micro Renewable Energy Systems Laboratory. He has over 300 publications, over 120 of them peer-reviewed, plus 3 US Patents, and has guided 15 PhDs , 50+ MS and over 160 undergraduate research special problem projects. He is a former Chair of the Aerospace Division.Akshay Milind Pendharkar, Georgia
, Centre County Chapter Board of Directors, President’s Club, Nittany Lion Club, ASEE, ASME, AIAA, AKC, GRCA. He has been honored with a LMC/KAPL Leadership Award, GE Phillippe Award, PSEAS Outstanding service award, Jaycee International Senatorship, and an ESM Centennial Fellowship. Mike Erdman and his wife, Donna, operate Nicker Barker Farm where they raise Golden Retrievers.Dr. Richard John Schuhmann, Gordon–MIT Engineering Leadership Program Dr. Rick Schuhmann is a senior lecturer/Short Subject program manager in the Gordon–MIT Engineer- ing Leadership Program and teaches and supervises research in civil and environmental engineering. Dr. Schuhmann joined MIT in September 2012 after fifteen years at Penn State
Paper ID #8328Infusing Engineering Practice into the Core to Meet the Needs of a Knowledge-based EconomyDr. Brian Bielenberg, Petroleum Institute Dr. Brian Bielenberg holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Metallurgical Engineering, a Master’s in Materials Science, and a Ph.D. in Education. His research interests revolve around engineering education reform, content and language integrated learning, and academic language and literacy needs in design classrooms. He currently serves as Head of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching and Assistant Director of the Arts and Sciences Program at the Petroleum Institute in Abu
Mechanical Engineering. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana State University in 1982, and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1985 and his Ph.D. in 1989, both from Purdue University. He teaches mechanical engineering design and geometry modeling for design. Dr. Crawford’s research interests span topics in computer-aided mechanical design and design theory and methodology. Dr. Crawford is co-founder of the DTEACh program, a ”Design Technology” program for K-12, and is active on the faculty of the UTeachEngineering program that seeks to educate teachers of high school engineering.Dr. Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy Dr. Dan Jensen is a professor of engineering mechanics at the U.S. Air
Paper ID #7327Creating a STEM School Using Engineering ConnectionsDr. Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University Dr. Laura Bottomley received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1984 and an M.S. in Electrical Engi- neering in 1985 from Virginia Tech. She received her Ph D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1992. Dr. Bottomley worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a member of technical staff in Transmission Systems from 1985 to 1987, during which time she worked in ISDN standards, including representing Bell Labs on an ANSI standards committee for physical layer ISDN
this deformed shape to stress distributions.These findings have implications for teaching MoM. In most textbooks and courses,relationships between external and internal loads and stresses are examined, and thenstrain and deformation are investigated. For example, the equations (sigma is normalstress) sigma = p/a, sigma = m*c/I, etc…, focus on the relationship between normal stressand internal load. However, our research suggests that students have a strong interest inand are able to observe and understand deformation much more than stress. Observeddeformations may be able to be quickly interpreted to strains by students. If this was thecase then this course could potentially be improved substantially by focusing on therelationship between
Paper ID #7854Design and Simulation of a Sun Tracking Solar Power SystemDr. Liping Guo, Northern Illinois University Dr. Liping Guo received his B.E. in Automatic Control from the Beijing Institute of Technology at Beijing, China in 1997. She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Auburn University in 2001 and 2006, respectively. She is currently an assistant professor in the Electrical Engineering Technology program in the Technology Department at the Northern Illinois University. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of power electronics, renewable energy, embedded
civilengineering course and meets several ABET outcomes.Documentaries as Educational ToolsOld curriculums must be updated with more dynamic and flexible teaching styles toaccommodate the way students want to learn.1 A documentary project is a potentially usefuleducational tool that can complement traditional coursework such as textbook problem sets. Themain contribution to student achievement is improvement of communication skills.The absence of much literature on student documentaries is evidence of the novelty of thisexercise. Previously, at two universities, undergraduates in geotechnical laboratory coursesmade documentaries of experimental procedures, and the activity was found to enhance studentenjoyment and engagement. These documentaries, each a
funded (DUE 0717536) study examines the use ofinquiry-based teaching to promote misconception repair in four critical areas inheat transfer (rate of heat transfer vs. amount of energy transferred, confusionbetween temperature and energy, confusion between how something “feels” andits temperature, and confusion about radiation) and five critical areas inthermodynamics (Entropy, Equilibrium and Steady State, and Internal Energyand Enthalpy). Significant work demonstrates that students often enter theclassroom with tightly held misconceptions about the physical world that are noteffectively addressed through traditional lecture-style teaching. This work hastwo primary parts: the development and testing of a concept inventories toreliably assess
Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia; and a PhD in Systems Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technol- ogy in Hoboken, New Jersey. Current research areas include systems thinking, competency framework development, and engineering education.Dr. Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach Massood Towhidnejad is the director of NExtGeneration Applied Research Laboratory (NEAR), and a tenure full professor of software engineering in the department of Electrical, Computer, Software and System Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. His teaching interests include autonomous systems, and software and systems engineering with emphasis on quality assurance. He has been in
Paper ID #5923Mental Models of Students and Practitioners in the Development of an Au-thentic Assessment Instrument for Traffic Signal EngineeringDr. David S Hurwitz, Oregon State University Dr. David Hurwitz is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University and he serves as the point of contact for the Driving and Bicycling Research Laboratory. He is interested in the integration of user behavior in the design and operation of transporta- tion systems. He teaches classes at the graduate and undergraduate level in highway engineering, traffic operations and
engineering textbooks without further research.With regards to electronic mediums in general, some studies using psychology e-textbookssuggest that e-textbooks do not impact student learning relative to printed textbooks (Shepperd etal., 2008, Taylor, 2011). Daniel and Woody (2013) recently investigated students’ use andperformance on a variety of print and electronic formats in both laboratory and at homeconditions. They randomly assigned students to use a chapter of an introductory psychologytextbook in one of five formats: print textbook, printed text pages, printed manuscript inMicrosoft Word, electronic pdf, or electronic textbook. The results from the study indicated thatthe various formats had no significant impact on student learning
Paper ID #6150Exposing Middle School Students to Robotics and Engineering through Legoand MatlabMr. Jeffrey Laut, Polytechnic Institute of New York University Jeffrey Laut received his B.Sc. degree from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in 2009 and his M.Sc. degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2011, both in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where for the 2011-2012 academic year he was a teaching fellow in their GK-12 program. Laut conducts research in the Dynamical Systems Laboratory, where his interests include controls
received his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He joined the School of Engineering at San Francisco State University in 1998. He teaches courses in Civil/Structural Engineering. Dr. Pong is a registered Professional Engineer in California. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Structural Engineers Association of California. He has published over forty technical papers in the areas of Structural Control and Earthquake Engineering.Dr. Nilgun Melek Ozer, San Francisco State University Nilgun Ozer, Ph. D., is the MESA Engineering Program and Student Resource Center Director for the College of Science and Engineering at San Francisco State University
. degree in aeronautical engineering. Her research interest is in thermo-fluid sciences with applications in micro-combustion, fuel cells, green fuels and plasma assisted combustion. Dr. Husanu has prior industrial experience in aerospace engineering that encompasses both theoretical analysis and experimental inves- tigations such as designing and testing of propulsion systems including design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past 8 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
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES COURSEAbstractAt the University of California at Santa Cruz, a quarter long course on renewable energy sources wascomplemented with a realworld team project. The course was designed for engineering andnonengineering students and did not require any advanced mathematics or physics backgrounds. Thecourse was open to freshmen, sophomore, junior and senior undergraduate students. The courseconsisted of fifteen biweekly lectures, eight weekly laboratory sections, a midterm, and a final exam.The lecture material consisted of an introduction to renewable energy sources, energy harvesting, energyconversion, system efficiency, and energy storage solutions. The lectures consisted of instructorpresentations, discussions, and
retiring from NASA, the Head of the Aerospace Engineering Department at Texas A&M University asked him to come to A&M and teach a Senior Capstone Design course focused on Spacecraft Design. He began his second year of teaching at Texas A&M in August 2012.Dr. Kristi J Shryock, Texas A&M University Dr. Kristi J. Shryock is the assistant department head for Undergraduate Programs and Outreach in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University. She is also a senior lecturer in the De- partment. She received her Ph.D. in interdisciplinary engineering with a research focus on engineering education. She works to improve the undergraduate engineering experience through evaluating prepara
Paper ID #7524Engaging US Engineering Students in Fuel Cell Research at a Foreign SiteDr. Xia Wang, Oakland University Dr. Xia Wang is an associate professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Oakland Uni- versity. Her research and teaching interests lie in the areas of fluid mechanics and heat transfer, with an emphasis on fuel cell and battery technology. She was the program director for the NSF-funded project entitled International Research Experience for Students: Collaborative Research Activities with China on Fuel Cells at Oakland University.Dr. Qian Zou, Oakland University Dr. Qian Zou is an