programming to high school students; the other was to teach digital signal processing basics to burgeoning sophomores in the engineering technology program before they have even taken the DSP course in their junior year and work on their capstone senior project. In both cases, the delivery was well received and the students were able to understand most of the basic concepts within a very limited time. 8. Conclusions Ultimately the hardware and software laboratory material developed in this paper was developed by students for students. With basic knowledge on how FFT’s and DFT’s can be computed as well as of the Python language; there should be no problem in writing these algorithms. This paper presented a FFT, DFT
governmental) are assessing colleges and universities.As engineering educators we have been assessing student learning and course and programoutcomes for years under the context of ABET evaluation, we are much better positioned thansome of our liberal arts colleagues. Those of us who teach as part of the engineering curriculumhave recognized for many years that if we do not measure what students are learning then wereally do not know what or how to teach. We believe that by measuring student learning, withvalid and robust instruments, we can adjust the curriculum and pedagogy to increase studentlearning. We should be teaching with research based active-learning activities, assessing whatour students know and address their misunderstandings before they
chosen a different approach to this section,from teaching a broad overview using a seminar approach, to focusing on teachingspecific software necessary for future courses.Introduction to Chemical Engineering The department faculty has adapted a project-based learning approach due to thelarge success shown in many other similar introductory level courses(3-7). The goal was tointroduce different unit operations through a fun process example that was simple enoughfor the students to follow. The process needed to involve simple chemistry and provideopportunities for introducing different unit operations, teamwork, ethics andsustainability. The other challenge, due to lack of laboratory space, the process ideallywould not require the use of a
Page 26.951.2support research activity at an internationally competitive level for a top 100 university.Coordinating two courses for 300 or more students is normal, with support from teachingassistants for tutorials and laboratory classes. (In Australian universities, each course isnormally 25% of a full-time student’s study load for a semester.) In view of its importance,the capstone design course has a slightly higher level of teaching resources than most othercourses.The second challenge is students’ lack of practical knowledge. Practical knowledge amongstudents entering our engineering courses is usually limited to basic domestic repairs andassembling flat-packed furniture. Almost all the prior courses completed by students focuson
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
Paper ID #13443The Rapid Adoption of SMARTER Teamwork Tools: the System for Man-agement, Assessment, Research, Training, Education, and Remediation forTeamworkDr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University Matthew W. Ohland is Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineering students, team assignment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative teaching methods has been supported by over $14.5 million from the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation
Paper ID #12882Optimizing Student Team Skill Development using Evidence-Based Strate-gies—NSF Award 1431694Dr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University Matthew W. Ohland is Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineering students, team assignment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative teaching methods has been supported by over $14.5 million from the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation and his team received Best Paper awards from the
described here was designed to eliminateoutdated or overly canned experiments, while choosing robust equipment that the students couldinteract with in a much more open-ended way.Measurement and Analysis is a required course for junior level mechanical engineers. Theoverall purpose of the course is to teach students how to design experiments, how to measurecommon engineering variables, and how to use and select sensors. The experiment in question isdesigned to teach students how to measure strain. Students are asked to investigate the effect ofdifferent numbers of strain gauges on the output of a Wheatstone bridge circuit, and observe therelationship between physical location on the object and location in the circuit. The specificgoals are: 1. To
, he teaches Intro to Engineering, circuits I & II, senior lab, and embedded controls courses. His research interests are robotics, embedded control systems, and teaching methodologies and effectiveness.Dr. John J. Burke P.E., Western New England University John Burke received the B.S.E.E. degree from Northeastern University in 1984, and the M.S.E.E. de- gree from University of California at Los Angeles in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in 1993. Dr. Burke joined the faculty of Western New England University (WNE) in 2000 and since 2004 he has been an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. Dr. Burke’s primary teaching inter- ests are
, respectively from Purdue University. Her work centers on P-16 engineering education research, as a psychometrician, program evaluator, and institutional data analyst. As a psy- chometrician, she revised the PSVT:R for secondary and undergraduate students, developed the TESS (Teaching Engineering Self-efficacy Scale) for K-12 teachers, and rescaled the SASI (Student Attitudi- nal Success Inventory) for engineering students. As a program evaluator, she has evaluated the effects of teacher professional development (TPD) programs on K-6 teachers’ and elementary students’ attitudes to- ward engineering and STEM knowledge. As an institutional data analyst, she is investigating engineering students’ pathways to their success
interest are promoting student en- gagement via techniques such as hybrid teaching, flipped classroom and problem-based learning. Page 26.1026.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Introducing Software Specifications to an Undergraduate Software Engineering ProgramIntroductionThe complexities of developing clear and well-defined specifications and their important role inthe success of a software project are widely recognized. This recently led to increased attentionin corresponding courses in the Software Engineering curriculum. One of the challenges
State University, where he directs the Human-centered Environments for Learning and Programming (HELP) Lab (http://helplab.org). Recipient of over $2.5 million in funding from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Hundhausen applies the methods of human-computer interaction to the design and empirical evaluation of software and pedagogies to improve learning and retention in computing and engineering education.Dr. Derrick Wayne Smith, University of Alabama in Huntsville Dr. Derrick Smith is an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville College of Ed- ucation, Department of Curriculum and Instruction. He has over 14 years of professional teaching and research experience within education. His
: A Case StudyAbstractProject-based learning is a comprehensive approach to classroom teaching and learning that isdesigned to engage students in investigations of authentic problems. This paper presentsperceptions and attitudes of students that have participated in a Project-Based Learning (PBL)course in environmental engineering. The course, `Environmental Engineering II', was developedand taught using PBL approach. In this course, 3- or 4-member teams of students carried out twoprojects that required data collection, literature review, design, and preparation of professionalreports. The two projects comprised 50% of the final grade. At the end of the semester, a surveywas conducted with seven questions to compare the students’ learning
program administration, co-teaching the courses offered, and mentoring students in the program.Ms. Andrea L. Gorman, Marquette University Andrea L. Gorman is the graduate assistant for Engineering Leadership Programs in the Opus College of Engineering at Marquette University. She received her bachelor of science in business in supply chain and operations management from the University of Minnesota – Carlson School of Management and is pursuing a master of education in college student personnel administration at Marquette. As the graduate assistant for Engineering Leadership Programs, she assists with the administration and instruction of Engineers in the Lead (E-Lead), a people-centered, technical leadership program.Dr
to multidisciplinary engineeringprinciples through application to artificial organs. This project adapts and implements researchequipment and methodology used by medical and engineering researchers to teach engineeringprinciples. At the freshman level, students will be engaged in the scientific discovery processusing exciting hands-on design challenges to analyze artificial organs. In more advanced coreengineering courses and laboratories, students will explore the function of artificial organs in thelaboratory and investigate the variables affecting their performance.The engineering goals of this project are: (1) to explore the function of human and artificial or-gans; (2) to apply current research methodology state-of-the-art medical
. Transform Teaching and Learning: Improved retention as a result of expanding our undergraduate teaching assistance (UTA) programs and institutionalizing a formal UTA training pedagogy. A working knowledge in best practices will enable them to be both effective and engaging in the laboratory and/or classroom. 2. Increase Faculty and Student Interactions: Improved retention as a result of implementing University-wide and discipline-specific (intentional) community building activities that foster STEM students’ sense of identification with STEM departments.This project’s conceptual framework is built around three mutually intersecting groups: STEMfaculty, STEM undergraduates, and STEM Undergraduate Teaching
Paper ID #11480Recruiting and Retaining Women Engineers: An Analysis of a SuccessfulCollege ProgramDr. Andrea L Welker, Villanova University Dr. Andrea L. Welker, PE, is a professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Villanova University. Dr. Welker teaches a variety of geotechnical undergraduate and graduate classes, including soil mechanics, foundation design, geoenvironmental engineering, and geosynthetics. Her re- search focuses on the geotechnical aspects of stormwater control measures and the use of recycled materi- als in plastic pipes. In addition to teaching and performing research, she
class, which is classified as a General Education Page 26.949.18Laboratory course, and as such is likely to be a popular choice for non-STEM students incompleting the science requirements of the general education pattern.PREP has been institutionalized as a mathematics laboratory course that is tied as acorequisite to a particular section of precalculus. The class is team taught by two facultyand supported by four student teaching assistants. It has been offered for three consecutivesemesters now and continues to be successful. All four TAs in the current cohort were oncePREP participants themselves.Curricular modules from the Energy Academy, such as
extensively in Material Science, teaching courses ranging from introductory materials science to thermodynamics, diffusion, materials selection, manufacturing, biomaterials, and building science.Dr. Scott D Ramsay, University of Toronto Page 26.313.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 BYOE: A Portable Table-top Lab for Exploring Crystal StructuresSummaryFirst year students often struggle to develop the spatial thinking skills required to understandcrystal structures and crystallographic planes and directions. The experiment presented here isused
to learning4.Description of the ActivitiesPH 101 Principles of Physics is a general education introductory physics course focusing onconcepts with minimum math requirements for non-science majors. This course has three 50-minute lectures and one 1 hr 50 minute long laboratory per week. This is a co-teaching researchproject involving inter-disciplinary collaborations. Co-teachers, Dr. Guo from the Department ofPhysics and Dr. Ye from the Department of Academic Literacy, are peers having equivalentteaching qualifications and thus can truly be partners in the instructional effort. To ensure thatinstructional strategies engage all students in ways that are not possible when only one teacher ispresent, throughout the semester, Dr. Guo and Ye
Technology had on theparticipants’ career paths. Over the nine years, there have been 131 undergraduate students whoparticipated. Ninety nine (76%) of these students were supported via funding from the NationalScience Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. The other 32 (24%)were supported through institutional funds. More than half of the students (56.5%) were female,26.7% of the students were from underrepresented groups, and 52.7% students without previousresearch experience. The undergraduate research program understudy is a 10-week engineeringresearch project working in research laboratories at the University or a collaborating MedicalSchool. A tiered mentoring structure was developed within the participating laboratories
engineering program to the Six Sigma green belt standard. The map shows that programs generally deliver essential statistical methods and content. Other topics in the standard, such as ‘Piloting your solution’, are more suited to experiential activities in laboratories and projects. The outcome of the paper is an indication of how the standard manufacturing curriculum supports the Six Sigma standard. In addition, the paper will highlight aspects of the standard that do not require the addition of new courses but can enhance traditional topic coverage. 2. Six Sigma Green Belt Body of Knowledge The topics listed below are summarized from the American Society for Quality Body of 1Knowledge for
career in automotive research as a product development engineer at the University of Windsor/Chrysler Canada Automotive Research and Development Centre (ARDC), conducting vehi- cle durability studies and associated research activities in the Road Test Simulation (RTS) laboratory. In 2005, she joined the University of Windsor as an Experiential Learning Specialist, focusing on teaching and educational research in hands-on learning and cooperative education as it relates to undergraduate engineering. She has developed neural network models for automotive rubber bushings for incorporation in durability simulations with the goal of accelerating product development. Additional work related to the field of composites
Paper ID #13213Enhancing undergraduate education through research-based learning: a lon-gitudinal case studyDr. Yawen Li, Lawrence Technological University Yawen Li is an associate professor in the biomedical engineering program at Lawrence Technological University. Her teaching portfolio include courses such as Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, Tissue En- gineering Lab, MEMS, MEMS Lab, and Engineering Materials. Serving as the university assessment committee representative since 2011, she coordinates various aspects of the assessment-related activities within the program
faculty in the design and development of the teaching modules.Professional Development: Community college faculty participated in a research orientation,training in research protocol, laboratory safety, and scientific ethics, group meetings, andseminars on context-based pedagogical methods and online education. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 573Together, this breadth of summer experience made this a broad learning experience that took fulladvantage of the strengths of the university.Green and
providing thetextbook copies used in our laboratory experiment and for his support of the project.References1 C. D. Whitlatch, Q. Wang, and B. J. Skromme, “Automated problem and solution generation software forcomputer-aided instruction in elementary linear circuit analysis,” in Proceedings of the 2012 American Society forEngineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition (Amer. Soc. Engrg. Educat., Washington, D.C., 2012), p.Paper 4437.2 B. J. Skromme, C. D. Whitlatch, Q. Wang, P. M. Rayes, A. Barrus, J. M. Quick, R. K. Atkinson, and T. Frank,“Teaching linear circuit analysis techniques with computers,” in Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for
newcode in hardware. In addition, they applied Gabor filter functions for edge detection, whichallows the detection of multiple edges in the same image an improvement to the previous versionof the software. Another improvement was the use of multiple simple and complex cell functionsto scan the image frame, allowing a better simulation of the biological brain function.In 2013 the COMET’s program was expanded to include a Mechanical Engineering group. The Page 26.251.8four interns in the group worked on the development of a low-cost dynamic plant and dataacquisition Haptic Paddle laboratory apparatus for use in teaching upper division topics
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 at the University of
Teaching Assistant, designing PLC trainers and working with several mechatronics projects. At present, I am also working as an Engineering Intern at A Packaging System, La porte, IN (from May, 2014) experiencing different technologies like liquid filling machine, Bottle capping machine in a primary packaging environment. I strongly believe that my experi- ence and education would create excellent opportunities for me and would flourish my knowledge in the future.Mr. Priom Chakraborty, Purdue university Calumet Priom Chakraborty, B.S, currently working as a Teaching assistant of Purdue University calumet .He is now doing his Masters focusing in Mechatronics Engineering Technology. He also worked as lab assistant in
Paper ID #13595Enhancing Undergraduate Students’ Learning and Research Experiences throughHands on Experiments on Bio-nanoengineeringDr. Narayan Bhattarai, North Carolina A&T State University Narayan Bhattarai is Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Department of Chemical, Biological and Bioengineering, North Carolina A&T State University (NCAT). Dr. Bhattarai teaches biomaterials and nanotechnology to undergraduate and graduate students. He is principal investigator of NUE Enhancing Undergraduate Students’ Learning Experiences on Bio-Nanoengineering project at NCAT.Mrs. Courtney Lambeth, North Carolina A&T State