defined by the following: i. The Learner is in a professional environment, generally in industry; ii. The Learner works towards a qualification that is relevant to the industry, and aligned with her/ his work profile; iii. The workplace is the natural setting for the delivery of the education, and is converted into a learning environment or class room/laboratory; iv. Synchronous instruction is employed to teach the fundamental principles, and applications, in core and advanced areas relevant to the domain, along with relevant laboratory sessions; v. Asynchronous means of instruction are employed to provide flexibility and ease of access, and most importantly, to keep the learner engaged constantly
Leadership and Principal Certificate from Northern Arizona University in 2007. She is currently working on heRebekah Jongewaard, Arizona State UniversityMaryan RobledoSteven J. Zuiker, Arizona State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Energizing the Engineering Pipeline with Agrivoltaics Citizen Science (Pre-College Resource Exchange) Authors: Janet Ankrum, Cheryl Carswell, Andrew Centanni, Melany Coates, Mia DeLaRosa, Rebekah Jongewaard, Michelle Jordan, Maryan Robledo, Steven ZuikerThe Sonoran Photovoltaics Laboratory (hereafter SPV Lab) organizes a regional approach topursuing photovoltaic (PV) engineering research for 4th-12th grade STEM teachers and
, ratherthan artifacts in which those humans were represented, as our unit of analysis.We summarized these data to share with our committee and found that though women wererepresented in the human imagery, they were used to portray non-scientific, unprofessional, orunintelligent stereotypes and in problematic contexts. Recalling two specific examples of suchgender bias, we returned to those example laboratory safety posters, took pictures, and includedthese illustrative instances of gender bias for qualitative content analysis to complement ouranalysis of the quantitized catalogue [16].These two illustrative images, along with the catalogue, formed our complete, multi-methoddataset.Data AnalysisOur data analysis process applied quantitative and
Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Activities. He was awarded numerous summer faculty fellowships with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the Air Force Institute of Technology - Wright Patterson Air Force Base. He is currently on sabbatical working at the US Environmental Protection Agency. He is a Princi- pal Investigator of the National Science Foundation-funded $1.5 Million grant to enhance freshman and sophomore engineering students’ learning experiences. His research is in the areas of fate and transport of organic and inorganic pollutants in the environment.Dr. Paulina Reina, California State University, Fullerton Dr. Paulina Reina is an Assistant Professor in the
laboratory experiences are less available, including extended school closuresdue to current circumstances or other uncontrollable events, such as natural disasters [7].However, the benefits of these lab kits to grade-school students could extend beyond abnormalcircumstances. They could be used to add increased variety and depth to homework assignments,allowing the educational benefits of lab science to be realized outside of the classroom and thetime and procedural restrictions of in-class labs. Drawing inspiration from the work of Pinnell etal. [8] on engineering challenges for students that utilized fixed sets of materials, the lab kitscould also be tailored to serve as a vehicle for STEM outreach that motivates students to becomemore interested
research experience in the areas of Integrated optoelectronics, Optics, Microelectronics, and Electromagnetics. He has worked as a Research and Design Engineer at Motorola and Bell laboratories. Also, he worked at NASA Langley Research Center as a NASA faculty fellow for the Nondestructive Evaluation Sciences Branch where he performed research in the area of optical fiber sensing for real time health monitoring of aerospace vehicles. In addition, Prof. Geddis was a Research Engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute where he fabricated scalable multiplexed ion traps for American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020
Paper ID #29762Understanding Context: Propagation and Effectiveness of the ConceptWarehouse in Mechanical Engineering at Five Diverse Institutions andBeyond – Results from Year 1Dr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Brian Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Brian has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. During the
Professor (Lecturing) in the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Utah. He received his B. S. and Ph. D. from the University of Utah and a M. S. from the University of California, San Diego. His teaching responsibilities include the senior unit operations laboratory and freshman design laboratory. His research interests focus on undergraduate education, targeted drug delivery, photobioreactor design, and instrumentation.Prof. Jason Wiese, Jason Wiese is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah. His research takes a user-centric perspective of personal data, focusing on how that data is collected, interpreted, and used in applications. His work crosses the domains of
sevenacademic units. Research in these units includes both experimental and modeling andcomputational work. The experimental work is housed in several laboratories and a fewcenters. Research with a modeling and computational emphasis is conducted in single or smallfaculty group research laboratories, and in some instances, the high performance computingfacilities in the College. In 2010, the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE)department was established. CSE has graduate programs at the MS and PhD levels (but noundergraduate program) and houses the primary high performance computing facilities in thecollege. Using the foundation offered by the small faculty group’s research laboratories and theCSE program, we implemented a Research Experiences
Data Mining–Driven Design (EDSGN 561). As part of the Engineering Design Program’s ”Summers by Design” (SBD) program, Dr. Tucker supervises students from Penn State during the summer semester in a two-week engineering design program at the ´ Ecole Centrale de Nantes in Nantes, France. Dr. Tucker is the director of the Design Analysis Technology Advancement (D.A.T.A) Laboratory. His research interests are in formalizing system design processes under the paradigm of knowledge discovery, optimization, data mining, and informatics. His research interests include applications in complex sys- tems design and operation, product portfolio/family design, and sustainable system design optimization in the areas of
Paper ID #18918Microbial Fuel Cell Development and Testing for Implementing Environmen-tal Engineering Education in High SchoolsDr. Bradley A. Striebig, James Madison University Dr. Striebig is a founding faculty member and first full professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison University. Dr. Striebig came to the JMU School of from Gonzaga University where he developed the WATER program in cooperation with other faculty members. Dr. Striebig is also the former Head of the Environmental Technology Group at Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory. In addition to Dr’ Striebig’s engineering work, he is also a
relate to potential internship and professionalemployers. Although guided at arms-length by industry-experienced staff, the overwhelmingemphasis was for the Engineering Team to reach their own designs, experience their own failuresand successes in earning their own know-how, resolve their own communications and schedulingconflicts, and to respond to customer critical comments of prototype product performance.The spirit of this project is in line with previous successful efforts to expose students to“authentic” engineering experiences and environments through, for example, Service Learning[1], Learning Factories [2], Capstone Projects [3], hands-on 1st-Year Engineering Courses,Learning in Laboratory Settings [4], and Engineering courses featuring
of Reading Assignments in Environmental Engineering Education for Effective Learning and Greater Student Engagement in an Era of Innovative Pedagogy and Emerging Technologies1.0 IntroductionSince the dawn of education, educators have been looking for ways to make teachingeffective and it has been a never-ending pursuit. Engineering education is no exception tothis. There have been numerous pedagogical advances such as focusing on students' learningstyles, teaching aids, in-class assessments, and use of more hands-on activities and multi-media, which made education more effective. Most engineering majors, some more thanothers, have dedicated laboratories for hands-on learning of specific
these students live on campus. All students take two semesters ofengineering fundamentals, and also, depending upon their intended major and background,choose their math and science courses from two special honors physics courses, two honorschemistry courses, an engineering mechanics honors course, two accelerated calculus honorscourses, and a special linear algebra course. The students are not arranged into specific cohortsthat share the exact same schedule, but they do tend to see many familiar faces in each of theircourses. The visibly random grouping was conducted in some sections of the first-semesterengineering honors course.This course has two components: engineering fundamentals and hands-on laboratory exercises.In the engineering
circuit design, digital systems design, signal detection and parameter estimation, radar systems, and automated detection of disease in medical images. His teaching and administrative activities include development of laboratory experiments and courses, and ABET accreditation. Prof. Jacobs is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ASEE.Ms. Alaine M. Allen, University of Pittsburgh Alaine M. Allen is the director of the Swanson School of Engineering pre-college and undergraduate di- versity initiatives - INVESTING NOW and Pitt EXCEL. Her work includes providing oversight to these two programs, developing partnerships with professionals from key educational and non-profit communi- ties, maintaining relationships
’ knowledge in a variety of areas. Students who had just completed either the10th or 11th grade are recruited via a program web site or by contacting guidance counselors,STEM teachers, and principals. Social media was also used as a recruitment tool. Applicants areevaluated using selection criteria that include high school transcripts and an essay where studentsdescribe their reasons for wanting to attend.STEM-SEP has been held on the campus of Penn State University-Harrisburg each June since2016. The workshop sessions provide participants with active learning opportunities throughparticipation in laboratory-style experiments and team activities. Such activities have shown toimprove retention of women in engineering majors, a key feature since female
suspected that the global learners who were not asinterested in science (particularly females) responded well to the GBL module. It is suspectedthat most of the students who commented on the fact that subject material should be taughtbefore the GBL module was executed, were sequential learners. This may be verified when morepost survey results are obtained. It should be noted that if used in conjunction with the PLMS, alllearners would have the opportunity to access content related material at any point during thegame development.The major challenge noted with the GBL module is the fact that the project was not a suitablereplacement for the laboratory component of the class and students suffered as a result. It shouldbe noted that in general, the
after the projects areover because the projects are small and requires the same mentor and/or specific equipment.This paper presents the results of a 15-month collaboration (two summers and one academicyear) between the Engineering Department at Virginia State University (VSU) and the HydrogenEnergy Laboratory at Old Dominion University (ODU) on sustainable energy. The aim of theODU REU Program is to motivate and encourage undergraduate students, especially those fromunderrepresented groups, to pursue advanced degrees and/or careers in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The ODU REU Program provided mentoring hands-onresearch experiences on sustainable energy, lab facilities, student offices and planned activities
transferstudents not completing ENGR 216 (the prerequisite course) until the spring semester of theirjunior year. ME 306 and 311 are both lab courses that were initially moved to a summer termbetween junior and senior year as part of the initial laboratory solution described in the followingparagraph.The second major challenge in implementing this satellite program was how to provide acomparable laboratory experience to the offerings on the Pullman campus. A mechanicalengineering program requires extensive and expensive laboratory space and equipment toprovide a quality education experience and meet ABET standards. The WSU BSME curriculumincludes five mechanical engineering lab courses: ME 220: Materials Lab ME 306: Thermofluids Lab ME
effect) of putting some point first (or burying data in a table at the back of the report). Such a discussion might naturally open a wider discussion of the ethical aspects of the relationship a researcher has with funders and with those who may use the research (for example, what innovations may be published or what warnings should go into a report).10Learning to collect accurate, precise data is also an important component of many engineeringcurricula. Past researchers have explored many aspects of data collection, analysis and reporting,such as error analysis,11 scientific measurement,12 and laboratory procedures.13From Accuracy and Precision to Ethics: Evolution of the CurriculumThe ethics exercise
would be appropriate to collect this information. The subjectpopulation for the industry needs assessment was chosen to be individuals within the automotiveindustry (broadly defined) who met the criteria of having hiring authority over engineeringpositions, being located in the US, and managing hybrid, electric vehicle or fuel cell vehicleprograms. A list of companies that would be the target of our investigations included originalequipment manufacturers, federal research laboratories, automotive suppliers, automotiveconsultancies, state and federal regulatory agencies, private research laboratories, and companiesfrom the “entrepreneurial” automotive industry. Letters, emails and telephone calls were used tocontact persons within these
paper is to develop the courseware that will introduce high schoolstudents to engineering through robotics. The courseware development includes methods forteaching robotic hardware - through chassis assembly and sensor integration, software throughbasic programming techniques including the creation of algorithms, and the problem solvingskills required in engineering. It is expected that this course layout described in Figure 1 and thecorresponding courseware development will benefit those who are thinking of running a pre-college engineering course at other institutions. This course was divided into lectures and laboratory exercises. On the lecture days thestudents were taught new materials about robotic hardware and software design
, and also Educational Innovation to virtual graduate students at Tecnol´ogico de Monterrey. She has experience working in projects with different local industries. Recently she has been working with innovation and technology for engineering education (remote Laboratories, virtual laboratories, flipped classroom, active learning and PBL among others).Dr. Pablo Moreno Ram´ırez, Universidad Aut´onoma Chapingo Born in Chile in 1942. Get graduation as Agronomist at the Univrsidad de Chile in 1966. In 1969 went to Cornell University to study Agricutural Economics. Get Master degree in 1972 and started Ph.D program at the same university, In 1974 went to M´exico to be professor at Universidad Aut´onoma Chapingo where I get
ofnanotechnologists, that is, the researchers, inventors, engineers, and technicians who drivediscovery, innovation, industry and manufacturing.The Integration of nanotechnology concepts in science and engineering curricula have startedslowly in many universities worldwide. There are nine models that are used by the universitiesdepending on the resources that were available to them. Majority of tier 1 universities that havestate-of-art laboratories for nanotechnology are offering undergraduate and graduate programs inthis exciting field. Other universities that have smaller laboratory facilities and resources usuallyoffer an introduction course to nanotechnology or an elective course in this area. There are manyuniversities and colleges that don’t have any
program to expose students to STEMlearning, especially minorities from rural counties surrounding ECSU. Student activities weredelivered through Friday Academy, Saturday Academy and Summer Academies withparticipation from 235 middle and high school students. The participants comprised of 43.83%Male and 56.17% Female, participating in a total of thirty-six (36) to forty (40) hours of hands-on experience. The three key components of K-12 Aerospace Academy program at ECSU are: (i)Curriculum Enhancement Activities (CEAs) – Hands-on, inquiry-based K-12 STEM curricula,(ii) Aerospace Educational Laboratory (AEL) – both stationary and mobile, and (iii) FamilyConnection – parental involvement and informal education. The curriculum supports the
modernchallenges to engineering include scale, multidisciplinary aspects, hierarchy, and complexity 1 . Asthe prevalence and relevance of these problems increase, engineering education must beresponsive 2,3,4 and many universities are including a special focus of multidisciplinaryengineering in basic courses 5 , capstone courses 6,7 , laboratories 8 , clinics 9 , and programs 10,11,12 .Overall, as course content is adjusted to the state-of-the-art, there may be a natural shift tomultidisciplinary engineering. One example of this shift is an automotive vehicle design course at our university titled“Hybrid Electric Vehicle Powertrains”. This course employs mechanical engineering andelectrical engineering skills equally to successfully design and simulate
skills. Students who successfully complete these courses are eligible for a $300 scholarship at the beginning of the fall semester.● Students move into their designated residence hall one week prior to the beginning of the fall semester. For the duration of this week they: ○ familiarize themselves with the VCU campus ○ participate in classes, workshops, and community building activities ○ attend guest lectures and visit research laboratories ○ meet with advisors in preparation for the fall semesterSTP SCHEDULE DEMOHave members break into teams and perform a brainstorming activity similar tothat which was done during the design challenge so that
-of-the-artindustrial equipment for ExLENT participants.The MEP will provide the foundationalknowledge in five critical areas ofmechatronics: robotics, mechanical, electricaland controls, cybersecurity, and artificialintelligence. Project participants will beimmersed in a five-week, remote, self-paced Figure 1. Regional map of partnerships.training utilizing the MEP's advancededucational materials and tools. Upon completing the MEP training, the participants willparticipate in one-week practical training at Michigan Tech laboratories (Phase II), where theknowledge obtained via the MEP will be reinforced with hands-on activities in all five criticalareas of Mechatronics.Technology
preparation.2.1.1 Designing effective syllabiSyllabi serve as a contract between instructor and students. New faculty members should ensurethat their syllabi communicate course objectives, learning outcomes, grading criteria, and policiesin a transparent and accessible manner. Providing students with an alternative lecture schedulecan also show an outlining key date for assignments, exams, and other important milestones. Thisclarity enables students to plan their study schedule effectively, manage their time efficiently, andstay on track with coursework.2.1.2 Laboratory Design and real-world connectionDesigning laboratories with stronger connections to real-world examples and theoretical knowledgeinvolves several strategies, including selecting
Predictive Model Using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Prashanta Kumar Acharjee, Mena I. Souliman Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering The University of Texas at Tyler. AbstractIn Mechanistic-empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG), dynamic modulus |E*| is identified asa key property for Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA). Determining |E*| in the laboratory requires several daysof sophisticated testing procedures and expensive instruments. To bypass the long testing time,sophisticated testing procedure, and expense, several multivariate regression analysis-based modelshave been developed to predict