collaborates with faculty on the Scholarship of Teach- ing and Learning through various research projects. Particular current areas of collaboration include instructional design, evaluation, engineering education and learner support. In addition, Dr. Jackson is an Affiliate Faculty in Penn State’s Higher Education Department.Prof. Karl R Haapala, Oregon State University Dr. Karl R. Haapala is an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University, where he directs the Industrial Sustainability Laboratory and is Assistant Director of the OSU Industrial Assessment Center. He received his B.S. (2001) and M.S. (2003) in Mechanical Engineering, and his Ph.D. in
Paper ID #28451CardioStart: Development and Implementation of a Tissue EngineeringSummer High School ProgramJasmine Naik, University of California Irvine Jasmine Naik is currently a 5th year Ph.D. candidate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California Irvine. She is working under the guidance of Dr. Anna Grosberg in the Cardiovas- cular Modeling Laboratory. Prior to beginning her Ph.D., she received her bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. Throughout her years of schooling, she has become passionate about teaching and education research.Emil Martin Lundqvist, University
sessions aimed to help thestudents gain an understanding about the different fields of engineering that can be studied in orderto be part of the transportation workforce; that is, other engineering fields are related totransportation not only Civil Engineering.Hands-On Laboratory Experimental Sessions The goal of these sessions was to provide the students with a fun, interactive learningenvironment in which they can discover different aspects of transportation engineering. All of thehands-on sessions were designed so that the students were engaged in the session through buildingor conducting an experiment. The session related to building and testing a bottle rocket is oneexample of such activities (Table 1: Week 1, Friday). In this session
. The program seeksto improve students’ competence and self-efficacy in science and engineering, stimulate an interestin pursuing STEM-related careers, and provide engaging “hands-on/mind-on activities.” Theprogram is divided into two initiatives which include an academic year and weekend academy. Atotal of 45 middle school students have participated in a 1-week Girls in Science Lab Camp andfive half-day Girls in Science and Engineering Weekend Academy activities. For the Girls inScience Lab program, the participants were divided into teams and assigned an environmentalscience and engineering themed case study to solve during guided laboratory experience. Studentswere taught how to collect and analyze water samples using university laboratory
utilizing the capabilities of aerodynamic assessment. This platform was designed toensure that their products minimize energy consumption associated with ventilation ofconvective heat and effluent.Secondly, an internal student grant was awarded to allow a student researcher to develop arelationship between leakage areas, pressures, and flow rates. Understanding how theseelements correlate will provide an understanding of energy consumption in residential,commercial and industrial settings due to building envelope construction and maintenance/agingflaws.Halton Company manufactures kitchen ventilation hoods, which are sized for commercialkitchen use. This being the case, it was impractical to obtain a hood sized for use in theuniversity laboratory
offered during the summer 2015 OIP. Thedeadline for new course approvals was the middle of Semester 2 and there were concerns thatit would be difficult to justify awarding 10 credits (100 hours of learning of which about aquarter are contact hours for lectures, laboratory exercises, other structured learningactivities, and assessment of student learning) for a course that was only two-weeks in length.Thus, the group came to a rapid agreement that most, if not all, of the cultural and industrialvisits had to contribute to the course aims in order to achieve the expected amount of studentlearning in a 10 credit course. Thus, the course objectives had to be outlined before the sitesfor the trips could be identified.Aims of the OIPThe academic
2 Function calls and arrays in embedded C with interfacing a liquid crystal display (LCD) module 8 2 PIC18 features and analog-to-digital (A/D) conversions 9 Course Review - Midterm Exam 10-12 6 Timer programming and interrupt programming 13-14 4 Capture-compare-PWM programming 15 Course Review - Final ExamTable 3 shows the laboratory projects in the laboratory exercise sections, where the content oflaboratory project #3 is included in Appendix A. For the laboratory exercises, MPLAB Integrat-ed Development Environment (IDE)8 as shown in Figure 1 is used to program the source code in
State University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019An Engineering Grand Challenge Focused Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Program: Purpose, Outcomes and Evaluation (Evaluation)AbstractThis paper provides details on administering a NSF-funded Research Experiences for Teachers(RET) Site grant. The experience was organized with stratified laboratory research teams solvingEngineering Grand Challenge-focused problems. Described here are the research questions andoutcomes related to the development and impetus behind stratified teams, and how literature froma variety of disciplines suggests diversity of thought and viewpoint are strongly correlated to highfunction teams. Detailed also are the
from underrepresented groups and averaged academicachievement. The program objectives are to: a) Enhance the teachers' professional knowledge by providing unique research experiences in modern and advanced manufacturing, b) Use a design thinking approach to help teachers integrating new research knowledge into their class /laboratory activities while motivating young students to pursue engineering careers, c) Support the school infrastructure for long term partnership, and d) Enhance the schools' quality and performance for continuous collaboration with the host university.This paper presents the program structures of the last two summers 2018-2019, feedback fromparticipants, and
experimental characterization of multiphase flow phenomena. Page 12.895.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Innovative Fluid Mechanics Experiments for Modern Mechanical Engineering ProgramAbstract One of the primary objectives of the Petroleum Institute (PI) is to prepare futuremechanical engineers to assume successful career paths in the Oil and Gas industry.With this in mind, a state of the art core measurement laboratory represents an importantfacility for teaching use within a Mechanical Engineering Program. Such a facility hasbeen developed at the PI, and is utilized at undergraduate level
, web-based format to regional community collegesand 3+2 partner institutions (i.e., 4-year universities without engineering programs).The first course in our freshmen engineering series is a hands-on laboratory/lecture course thatstudents in all engineering majors take. The course is designed to let students experience what itis that engineers do in each of the majors offered. PowerPoint lectures, based on the on-campuslectures were modified to add recordings of the spoken lectures and animated sample problemsto lead the students through problems that ordinarily would be written on the board in the lecturehall. All lectures and assignments were posted on Blackboard. The greatest challenge inconverting this course into a successful distance
principles which form the basis of the author’s methods for effective teaching arediscussed. Additional topics covered in this paper include using lecture time effectively,conducting a laboratory course, administering assignments and exams, and grading consistentlyand fairly. The effective use of helpers such as homework graders and laboratory teachingassistants is discussed. The author also addresses the use of technology for teaching, specificallywarning about becoming overly reliant on such technology.IntroductionIn today’s university environment, much is expected from professors regarding the education ofstudents. One primary duty and responsibility of the university professor is to teach effectively.Specifically, the engineering professor is to
visiting an aerosol research laboratoryon campus, a roof-top meteorological and air sampling station, and outdoor atmosphericobservations including heterogeneous nucleation (mixing clouds) from a local power station.These trips allowed students to see the equipment used in collecting data and performingatmospheric experiments in a laboratory setting and to gain a better appreciation for how theyfunction and the limits of what they can do.The final major class activity was a field trip to the Marian Koshland Science Museum of theNational Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. This museum is dedicated to only twoexhibits, one of which has been climate change. Students took an independent audio tour of thismuseum and had the opportunity to work with
schools: New Jersey Institute of Technology, PurdueUniversity and University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez). The goal of this educational partnershiphas been to develop and disseminate undergraduate materials related to pharmaceuticaltechnology and to seek ways to integrate this into the undergraduate engineering curriculum.1-3Pilot testing at X University, including the use of some of the materials in the FreshmanChemical Engineering course at the State University of New York-Stony Brook,4 has yieldedpositive assessment results. This work has resulted in the development of classroom problems,laboratory experiments and demonstrations that can be used throughout the undergraduateengineering curriculum and for K-12 outreach. The results have been
collegestudents interested in pursuing a bachelor’s degree in science and engineering. Created in 2012,this multi-disciplinary summer undergraduate research program is hosted by three centers fundedby the National Science Foundation, Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S),Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS), and Synthetic Biology EngineeringResearch Center (SynBERC) at UC Berkeley. Together, these NSF-funded centers programobjectives are to provide TTE REU participants: 1) challenging science and engineering researchprojects in leading edge research laboratories; 2) advising to prepare students to transfer tocompetitive 4-year colleges/universities in science and engineering majors; 3) enrichmentactivities to build
to introduce students to avariety of biological principles that are relevant to chemical engineering. Additionally, Page 8.722.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationseveral laboratory modules and projects that can be easily incorporated at the freshmanand sophomore levels have been developed. These modules include reverse engineering ofthe human body, reverse engineering of the beer making process, and designing amicrobial fuel cell. Modules developed for the freshman year expose students to
design effective and efficient part manufacturing methods and complete production systems for commercial and industrial products. The common theme for students is mastering process, production system and enterprise design procedures that are applicable to any product in any industry. Graduates have been successful in manufacturing enterprises that produce virtually every type of product -- literally, from spacecraft to foodstuffs. In addition to traditional courses, Dr. Wells leads innovation teams in two engineering venues: product realization and transforming laboratory research into commercial products. Dr. Wells’ active research lies in orthopedic implants, micro-assembly, micro-machining
. Page 24.636.3Virtual Facility and Tutor SystemBased on the development of 3D Virtual Facility, the authors have conducted an experiment toexplore if the use of operating the RP simulator is performing as good as the use ofimplementing the real FDM 3000 machine. The experiment reveals that students who have usedthe RP simulator perform not as good as students who have an instructor in the laboratory,particularly in the comprehensive exam and the calibration operation31. Consequently, theauthors would like to conduct further investigation to learn about (1) If integration of VF andTutor System (TS) can achieve similar performance as a real instructor in the classroom;and (2) What components should be incorporated in the TS to enhance
environmentwas designed to help bridge the existing “chasm” between how science is carried out in researchenvironments and how it is taught in secondary and undergraduate classrooms3. The LRCprofessional development environment brings together teams of experts from university andpublic school classrooms and laboratories to investigate the unique aspects of this environmentthat affect student learning. One assumption underlying the LRC is that mathematics and scienceteaching and learning will be improved when all participants in a learning environment ofdistributed expertise (a) become more connected to the authentic science research done in fieldsettings or laboratories and (b) work together to design innovative instructional frameworks thattranslate
computer andInternet resources such as gigabits network, video conferencing and remote control software. Butwe found that it could be adapted to minimal IT resources such as cable modem at 1 Mbps andaudio-only feedback between teacher and students. System performance and student feedbackfor the first 7-week class period are reported herein. IntroductionOne of the thrusts in the UGA/Biological & Agricultural Engineering Department curriculum isto enhance the experiential learning aspects for our engineering students during class lectures aswell as during laboratory experiments needed for the course. Based on Student Technology feesand departmental funds, the Collaborative Distance Education (CDE
Session 2793 You can't do a thing if you can't build the swing: Modeling and Reality in Mechanics of Materials Paul Palazolo, Anna Phillips Civil Engineering Department - The University of MemphisAbstractThis paper presents the results from the integration of lab experiences and classroom materials ina junior level Mechanics of Materials class at the University of Memphis. Previously, the classcontent and laboratory content were disjointed and offered no sense of continuity between topicsand potential applications. This produced students who might have passed
more dominant roles. A new course innanoscale mechanics for engineering students was recently taught at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. This course provided an introduction to nanoscale engineering with a direct focuson the critical role that mechanics needs to play in this developing area. The limits of continuummechanics were presented as well as newly developed mechanics theories and experimentstailored to study and describe micro- and nano-scale phenomena. Numerous demonstrations andexperiments were used throughout the course, including synthesis and fabrication techniques forcreating nanostructured materials, bubble raft models to demonstrate size scale effects in thinfilm structures, and a laboratory project to construct a
effort with partners from higher education, government, and industry. Notableexamples include (i) $12 million in a community funded effort to construct two new engineeringbuildings that became operational in 2000; (ii) $5 million in laboratory equipment donationsfrom Micron, HP, American Microsystems, SCP, Cascade Microtech, Teradyne, and Zilog;(iii) $5 million in research and equipment grants in the Year 2000; (iv) development of four new“distance” graduate courses to be offered to the industry and the community-at-large via variousvideo delivery modes; (v) participation of four industry experts as adjunct faculty for teachingBSU graduate courses; and (vi) 10,000 man-hours donated by industry engineers to train BSUfaculty and technicians in the
a challenge for measuring these properties. Engineering designs using tire bales as construction material, however, rely on knowingproperties of the bales. The Wolverines’ conceptual design led to a grant through the ColoradoAdvanced Material Institute (CAMI) Tire-Tap Program to study properties, the market, anddesign issues for tire bale construction.Engineering a Tire Bale Wall Project Integration and Synthesis: A Senior Design Issue The engineering strategy for this project evolved from a feasibility work package thatassessed tire bales for wall construction specifically for noise abatement walls. The engineeringstrategy included assessing previous research, testing materials in laboratories, and constructinga prototype in the
engineering and the sciences, that may becompleted as part of the curriculum in each participating department. We have developed anintroductory microchip fabrication laboratory in which students process 4-inch wafers to createworking nMOSFETs and other devices. It is anticipated that this course will be required of allstudents in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering,and Physics, and has only freshman chemistry as its prerequisite. Interested students who thenselect the microelectronics option then take a sequence of core courses in solid state physics andsemiconductor processing technologies, and select electives from a menu including range ofelectronics materials processing courses, semiconductor devices
Applets to allow the users to design and simulate experiments and systems (user-configurable virtual laboratory Applets). Moreover, additional groups have realized theimportance of developing user configurable simulation environments [7, 8]. Figure 1: Optical Design Applet showing graphical representation of optical components and sources. This applet is a design environment where students can add, remove, and modify optical components and observe the resulting ray tracing.Example of User Configurable Design Applet: Optical Design SystemFigure 1 shows a snapshot of our Optical Design Applet where all the optical components(lenses, mirrors, dielectrics) in the optical system are graphically represented. This OpticalDesign Applet
executive advisory board, composed of representatives fromall areas of the building design and construction profession.The hallmark of the 30-credit, 10-month program is a 9-credit, 3-course design project sequencein which student teams design a real-world structure from initial concept to final constructiondocuments. An individual project assignment, as well as technical elective courses, allowsstudents to tailor the program to their unique interests and career goals. A laboratory classprovides hands-on learning of structural behavior. Interaction with industry leaders throughseminars, field trips, and externships provides students ample opportunity to network withprofessionals and gain an understanding of their chosen industry.Assessments were
field.The developed learning module has been implemented in a six-week curriculum and the projecteffectiveness is evaluated for enhanced faculty-student experiences during transferring researchknowledge to a two-year college educational curriculum. Page 25.60.2Learning Module Development: The learning module activities took place during the Summer-Fall 2011 period and included the legacy cycle and engineering design process concepts, theresearch experience and associated technical knowledge from the RETainUS program at TexasA&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) laboratory, and the module implementation in afreshman level robotics course at Del-Mar
multimedia is a pervasive part of our lives. Content of all types is available fromwebsites such as YouTube, Hulu, and Pandora. Individuals consume this content using homeentertainment systems, personal computers, tablet PC’s and cell phones giving them access tomultimedia information at any time or place. Applying this approach to education gives studentsbetter access to course content, expands instructor time, assures uniform delivery, and can beconstructed to engage students using several learning styles simultaneously. This paperdocuments the application of on-demand multimedia content into electric machines lecture-laboratory courses. It will explore software tools, application techniques, and student responsesto on-demand video and screen
controltheory. A set of laboratory experiments derived from the maglev system are presented which canbe used by engineering technology students. Circuit diagrams and equipment lists coupled withverbal descriptions are intended to yield inexpensive magnetic levitation systems. Both analogand digital control strategies are also included.IntroductionA magnetic levitation demonstration can be a powerful motivation for the study of feedbackcontrol systems, perhaps because there is something very special about magnetic levitation.Middle school children have shown great interest in maglev design contests.1,2 Thetransportation industry has acknowledged the real possibility of magnetically levitated trains inthe near future.3 Several excellent web sites have