, comprised of practicing Pre-Calculusmath problems with educational software (ALEKS) and developing solutions to engineeringprojects with synchronous video conferencing instruction via Zoom. Students receivedinstruction and assistance (via Zoom) from faculty and student assistants throughout thebootcamp. Finally, students integrated four projects that focused on different disciplines,including programming a robot to detect and circumnavigate obstacles, designing andconstructing a truss bridge, modeling the dynamics of a trebuchet, and programming the robot toimplement a PID Controller. Four out of the seventeen students successfully completed the finalchallenge, which required designing and building a truss bridge capable of handling a certainload
her experiences include projects funded by the National Science Foundation, USEPA, and the US Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division. For 20 years, Dr. Singer served as the director of the Buffalo State Office of Undergraduate Research and administered programs that supported students in all academic majors. Dr. Singer had a NSF award to scale up to the national level the evaluation program designed to assess student learning and student growth from participating in undergraduate research. This method, known as EvaluateUR, is now being modified to support course-based undergraduate research experiences (EvaluateUR-CURE). American c
Education. He was named NETI Faculty Fellow for 2013-2014, and the Herbert F. Alter Chair of Engineering (Ohio Northern University) in 2010. His research interests include success in first-year engineering, engineering in K-12, introducing entrepreneur- ship into engineering, and international service and engineering. He has written texts in design, general engineering and digital electronics, including the text used by Project Lead the Way. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Gaining Industry Experience Exposure During a Pandemic Introducing Engineering Students to IndustryIntroductionThere is a growing need for engineering
widely-used technology. He has several projects that aim to improve the security of the Web public-key infrastructure (PKI) by building on existing technology, and he is currently studying and improving the economic incentives underlying cryptocurrency. He is also interested in computer science education, particularly in the field of security, and focuses on designing courses that build students’ (1) competence in technical fields, (2) confidence to tackle important and interesting problems, and (3) context in non-STEM fields. Before coming to Olin, Steve was a postdoctoral researcher in the Cybercrime group in the Institute for Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University, supervised by Nicolas Christin. He earned
Paper ID #33234Taking Control of Control Systems: A Student Developed, Multimedia andSimulation Tool for Control Systems EducationMatilda Ho, University of Texas at Dallas Matilda Ho completed this capstone project for a BS in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas. She is currently continuing her education at The University of Texas at Dallas for an MS in Systems Engineering and Management. Upon completion, she hopes to work in industry with a focus in sustainable business.Ms. Maria Fernanda ValdezCasey HatfieldMs. Jieun KimTaylor Carlile Beach American
classroom accommodations. A typicalfreshman engineering class will utilize teamwork on large design projects. Teamwork can bedaunting for a student with ASD in terms of the social aspects and the organization of a largeassignment with multiple due dates. However, many ASD students are visual learners and dowell with “hands-on” projects, and may just need assistance keeping track of assignments.Faculty members should have direct communication with the students and provideaccommodations with guided group work, a consistent format for assignments, breakingprojects in to smaller assignments, and making slides/lectures available before class.Currently, a freshman engineering class has implemented these adjustments andaccommodations. This work in
of projects. Craemer [1] identified Introduction toEngineering as a pivotal course in the curriculum at Dartmouth for generating interest amongstudents, especially those who identify as women.Building on the study by Craemer [1], faculty teaching Introduction to Engineering haveadministered pre- and post-course surveys to further assess students’ interests and self-efficacyrelated to engineering, among all students but among those who identify as women in particular.Self-efficacy refers to an individual’s belief that they can do certain things [2], in this case thebelief that they can succeed in engineering. Results of these surveys as well as a description ofthe course and of the projects and problems addressed by student groups are
- IMPRESS-C) – First Year Progress ReportAbstract:Recognizing the State of Ohio and regional need for a highly trained computing workforce with4-year degrees, the Choose Ohio First – IMProving Retention and Student Success in Computing(COF-IMPRESS-C) project provides financial support and an ecosystem of high-impact curricularand co-curricular activities to increase the success of academically talented students. The COF-IMPRESS-C team will leverage student-centered strategies and academic support, such asundergraduate research, faculty/peer mentoring, and academic success sessions to enhanceacademic and personal success. The project will facilitate the recruitment, retention, andmatriculation of scholarship recipients, provide them with access to a
been re-designed to have project-based components, highlighting the engineering uses of chemistry, such as using chemistryknowledge to evaluate material properties for an engineering application. Alongside moretraditional chemistry exams, students complete a set of smaller individual projects and asemester-long team-based design challenge. In the design challenge they use the design processto develop a solution to an environmental or health issue of their choosing. While completing theindividual projects, students apply their chemistry knowledge to engineering situations. The teamdesign challenge incorporates the same engineering design process as used in the first yearengineering design course, which many students take concurrently. Prior to
, where I have enjoyed playing sports, music, and being involved in my church community. I have a passion for invention and engineering design, as well as works of fiction. My favorite hobbies are playing the piano, computer programming, and writing fiction.Michael R. VanDusen American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Development of a Virtual Reality Flight Simulator to Assist in the Education of Aircraft Design Engineers (Work in Progress)ABSTRACTThe ongoing development of a Stewart platform-based flight simulator that incorporates virtualreality has provided ample opportunities for exciting project-based
presented, were invited to answerquestions. For class periods when neither tapes nor lectures were presented, avariety of activities were planned. These included small group dis-cussion, demonstrations, lab experiments, a panel discussion and exams.In addition, students were required to work in small groups on projectsrelated to novel and innovative uses of wood as an engineering material.Students were occasionally given short periods of time to work on pro-jects during class time, but were expected to do the major portion oftheir projects as homework. The last two class periods were set asidefor project reports. Students were required to submit a written projectreport at the end of the semester. Those students not enrolled forcredit were
publicly accessible. We will describe a few open sourcehardware products and identify in which courses they can be used. Senior design courses inComputer Engineering are also ideal to utilize Open source hardware and we will show someexamples. We describe the design course project selection, hardware selection technicalchallenges, design, testing, challenges in using Open source hardware and documentation. TheOpen source RISC-V processors can be used in Computer Organization courses. RISC-V are opensource processors which are freely available as soft core and they can be used in FPGA basedEmbedded Systems courses. The microprocessor board designs can be taught using the Opensource hardware such as Arduino. An Embedded systems course outline is
IoT CourseAbstractThis work-in-progress paper discusses the laboratory setup and delivery of a pilot course on thefundamentals of Internet of Things (IoT). Hands-on laboratory experiments and project-basedexperiences are adopted to introduce and reinforce IoT-related concepts. The laboratoryexperiments introduce the students to (a) the collection of data using temperature and motionsensors (b) program the microcontroller, and (c) to communicate between WiFi-enabledmodules. Rather than using the hardware and software tools from an established vendor in theareas of IoT, we chose to design and assemble our laboratory experiments and projects withsimple, cost-effective, off-the-shelf components. The project activities focused on system designand
participating classes. The secondyear added the option of co-facilitating a project between the two classes. All teaching,assignments, and projects were completed through virtual platforms. Several travel opportunitieshave been provided for student and faculty participants. These have either been through theattendance of international technology bootcamps that were organized by the French Embassy, apartner IUT, or through a travel program organized by the IEI. Travel includes experiences thatprovide an overview of French engineering and technology education, industry, history, andculture. Study-travel opportunities and hosting faculty colleagues and leaders from partnercampuses also supply key motivators for funders, students, and faculty. It should be
article are twofold: (1) to present the maincharacteristics of a novel, project-based, technical elective course on Introduction to T-LiDAR forstudents in the Civil Engineering (CE), Construction Engineering (ConE) and ConstructionManagement (CM) programs at Georgia Southern University, and (2) to assess students’acquisition of knowledge through the adopted hands-on approach. This work describes details ofthe developed course to expose students to the fundamentals of T-LiDAR and engage them inspecialized activities involving this modern technique to successfully complete 3D point-cloudmodels of real, service-learning projects. These projects benefit the community and could assistuniversities in attaining or maintaining their Carnegie Community
each of these three areas utilizing the nine principles.Financial support is provided in the form of scholarships. The programming then supportsstudents both academically and develops community through two main components, a first-yearseminar and seminar grouping subsequent years together. The first-year seminar focuses on keyskills related to the transition to college. In subsequent years, the program shifts its focus toapplications, incorporating a community-based learning project and developing skills to findinternships and research opportunities. We initially tried an approach of using as many of theseresearch-backed best practices as possible. This beginning tactic has helped us identify thecomponents that make the largest impact on
2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Arduino Controlled Irrigation System Nur-E-Afra Anika, Kabilananthan Asokan ,Bryar Pim Department of Engineering and Technology, Southeast Missouri State UniversityAbstractIn this era of technology, machines are used to make people's lives easier. Using this knowledge,we can improve and design simple methods of keeping people healthy. This project focuses onagriculture. By implementing technology, we can reduce manpower, time and still produce healthyorganic produce. Therefore, an automatic plant irrigation system has to be designed to controldifferent aspects necessary for plant growth. These parameters are
hours of graduate course work with a GPA ≥ 3.0 may elect to participate in theinternship program. The interns work at industrial sites, either part- or full time. A facultymember serves as the advisor for the student and interfaces with the supervisor of the student atthe firm. The advisor verifies that the assigned project provides the student with meaningfulindustrial experience and also monitors the student’s progress. Participating students register forinternship credit hours and receive a letter grade based on their performance. Participation in theinternship program is optional and the accrued internship course credit hours are not appliedtoward the graduate degree course requirement. That is, they may not be substituted for
model the learningoutcomes for the course remain the same for all who enroll regardless of the mode of attendance. Our HyFlex SQA approach consists of lectures (in class, with video recordings), face-to-face activities, as well as group assignments, group projects, and exams all facilitated through anonline campus management system. During the lecture period, the instructor delivers content inthe form of lecture slides and writing on a whiteboard. This poses significant challenges for theinstructor, as the learning outcomes have to be delivered in different modalities, but with the samequality. This is particularly difficult in SQA courses, as these require instruction in formal methodsas well as systematic justification of engineering
developing campus digital twin through collaboration with companies such asAutodesk and Amazon Web Service (AWS). The presented pilot project results and discussionscan be used for larger application at the other campuses and communities, while addressing awide range of privacy, security, and ethical concerns.Introduction The global smart cities market is growing. From $99 billion in 2020 to almost $460billion in 2027. This is a global movement for improving the quality of life and tackling some ofthe most challenging issues such as climate change, by using information and communicationtechnology Universities have a critical role in growing implementation through training theworkforce with cutting-edge skills and knowledge and conducting
. Theapproach used is presented as a model for potential use by other programs in the future. Finally,the paper concludes with a discussion of potential changes to the model that could beimplemented in future REU programs, should there be a continued need to operate them online.2. BackgroundThis section provides a brief overview of prior work that provides a foundation for the presentstudy. First, a discussion of prior work related to project-based learning and experientialeducation is presented. Then, the current cybersecurity workforce need is discussed.2.1. Prior Work in Project-Based Learning and Experiential EducationREU programs inherently draw on prior work in project-based learning (PBL) and experientialeducation, as undergraduate research
mechanics, sustainable infrastructure development, and material model development. He had been actively involved in planning, designing, supervising, and constructing many civil engineering projects, such as roads, storm drain systems, a $70 million water supply scheme which is comprised of treatment works, hydraulic mains, access roads, and auxiliary civil works. He had developed and opti- mized many highway design schemes and models. For example, his portfolio includes a cost-effective pavement design procedure based on a mechanistic approach, in contrast to popular empirical procedures. In addition, he had been equally engaged in the study of capacity loss and maintenance implications of local and state roads (a World
Paper ID #32569Incorporating Virtual Reality in Construction Management EducationMs. Ramyani Sengupta, Purdue University, West LafayetteDr. Anthony E. Sparkling, Purdue University, West Lafayette Anthony Sparkling is an Assistant Professor in Construction Management Technology (CMT) at Pur- due University where he teaches courses in mechanical and electrical systems, electrical estimating, and electrical construction. His research interests include teams, organizations, contract governance, organi- zational processes, project/team performance and behavioral feedback systems. He has a growing interest in the skilled
philosophy behind LaTeX as a typesetting and publishing software Understand the advantage of LaTeX over other commonly used text editors as MS Word Understand LaTeX commands, formats, fonts, and environments Understand the versatility and flexibility of LaTeX for creating bibliography, tables, mathematical equations, and for inserting figures Typeset technical reports such as a conference paper on LaTeX Typeset career-related document such as a resume and a cover letter on LaTeX Understand how to collaborate and share projects with co-authors, reviewers, instructors using Overleaf: a writing and collaborating toolTarget Audience:This workshop is designed for a diverse group of participants. These include researchers, K-12educators
. However, students are expected to apply science and engineeringaccording to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), principles acquired throughout their undergraduate academic80% of deviations in manufacturing are caused by human error and co-op experiences to the design of a product, system,and lack of process knowledge on the manufacturing floor. This device, and/or process. Students form teams and are assignednot only impacts public health and safety, but also leads to a high their design project and faculty advisor. Projects can berisk of failures and financial loss. Traditionally, these industrially, departmentally, or externally
. However, students are expected to apply science and engineeringaccording to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), principles acquired throughout their undergraduate academic80% of deviations in manufacturing are caused by human error and co-op experiences to the design of a product, system,and lack of process knowledge on the manufacturing floor. This device, and/or process. Students form teams and are assignednot only impacts public health and safety, but also leads to a high their design project and faculty advisor. Projects can berisk of failures and financial loss. Traditionally, these industrially, departmentally, or externally
. However, students are expected to apply science and engineeringaccording to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), principles acquired throughout their undergraduate academic80% of deviations in manufacturing are caused by human error and co-op experiences to the design of a product, system,and lack of process knowledge on the manufacturing floor. This device, and/or process. Students form teams and are assignednot only impacts public health and safety, but also leads to a high their design project and faculty advisor. Projects can berisk of failures and financial loss. Traditionally, these industrially, departmentally, or externally
. However, students are expected to apply science and engineeringaccording to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), principles acquired throughout their undergraduate academic80% of deviations in manufacturing are caused by human error and co-op experiences to the design of a product, system,and lack of process knowledge on the manufacturing floor. This device, and/or process. Students form teams and are assignednot only impacts public health and safety, but also leads to a high their design project and faculty advisor. Projects can berisk of failures and financial loss. Traditionally, these industrially, departmentally, or externally
. However, students are expected to apply science and engineeringaccording to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), principles acquired throughout their undergraduate academic80% of deviations in manufacturing are caused by human error and co-op experiences to the design of a product, system,and lack of process knowledge on the manufacturing floor. This device, and/or process. Students form teams and are assignednot only impacts public health and safety, but also leads to a high their design project and faculty advisor. Projects can berisk of failures and financial loss. Traditionally, these industrially, departmentally, or externally
twenty years.The program of instruction includes a laboratory program that uses appropriate laboratoryequipment, kits, and a hands-on project to design, build, fabricate, populate, test, and iterate aDC/DC converter. Assessment summarizes nearly twenty years of successful instruction.IntroductionAlmost all electrical power in industrialized societies now is processed through at least onepower electronic stage. As such, electrical engineers (EE) often encounter power electroniccircuitry and systems when performing their routine duties. A knowledge of how these systemswork gives an EE an advantage in understanding and working with power of a nature that isprovided to every electrical system. As part of an innovative sequence of courses at