State Uni- versity, San Luis Obispo, teaching a variety of design related courses. Previous to joining Cal Poly, Sarah worked in the automotive industry as a chassis engineer and quality manager.Dr. 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 2011-2012 academic year he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the
Paper ID #31175Paper: Attendance and Social Interdependence in Game Development LabsBrantly Edward McCord, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Brantly McCord is a teaching assistant and co-instructor at Purdue Polytechnic Institute assisting with the development and instruction of video game dev curriculum. His instructional specialties are in Unreal Engine 4, visual scripting and art design, and his current research interests are concentrated on education in his field.Dr. Ronald Erdei, University of South Carolina Dr. Ronald Erdei is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of South Carolina Beau- fort
Program for two years, and is also an active member of the university’s chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and is on the ChemE Car team. Sydney is also part of the Complex Electrochemical Systems Laboratory on campus where she works with lithium ion coin cells, and will be completing her second co-op this fall in the field of electrochemistry.Ms. Hannah Marie Boyce, Northeastern University Hannah Boyce is a third year undergraduate student pursuing a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at North- eastern University. She has been involved in the Connections Chemistry Review program for two years, was a Teaching Assistant for Cornerstone of Engineering, holds an e-board position on AIChE, is co- captain of ChemE
the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research and the Department of Defense etc. He served as Department Chair for many years and as Faculty Senate President multiple times. He received Distinguished Faculty Service Award in 2019. Previously, Dr. Challoo also received the Engineering Dean’s Outstanding Service award, merit of excellence award, and the Javelina Alumni Association’s Distinguished Teaching Award. He was founding director of the Maquiladora Electrical Engineering Master’s program and of the University Honors Program. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Voltage and Current Loop Controlled Three-Stage Three-Port Solid
global research collaborations during their careers? 2) Impact on Faculty Collaborators ● How has IRES and resulting linkages influenced their research and teaching? ● What factors facilitated and hindered achievement of IRES research goals? 3) Impact on Participating Institutions ● How has IRES influenced ongoing and future research collaborations between institutions? ● How has IRES influenced the educational environment at participating institutions, including educational exchange/future study abroad opportunities? 4) Impact on Quality of Research Outcomes (e.g., on Knowledge Environments) ● In what ways has the research process been transformed as a result of
affairs from The University of Texas at Austin (BS Civil Engineering, Master of Public Affairs) and Virginia Tech (MS Industrial and Systems Engineering, PhD Engineering Education).Dr. Mark Weichold P.E., Texas A&M University Dr. Mark H. Weichold, Regents Professor and Halliburton Engineering Global Programs Professor, is an electrical engineer and has worked for General Dynamics Ft. Worth Division, Motorola in Austin, TX and the U.S. Army Electronic Technology and Devices Laboratory in Ft. Monmouth, NJ. He joined the Electrical Engineering faculty at Texas A&M University in 1982 and now holds the rank of Professor. In January 2007, he became Dean and CEO of Texas A&M University’s branch campus in Doha
Paper ID #30747Development and Assessment of a Summer Program to Introduce High SchoolStudents to STEM through Aviation and Transportation EngineeringDr. Jalil Kianfar P.E., Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng. Dr. Jalil Kianfar is an assistant professor of civil engineering at Saint Louis University and a registered professional engineer (P.E.) in the state of Missouri. In addition to his academic experience, he has five years of industry experience as a traffic engineer that informs his teaching, research and service. Dr. Kianfar research interests and background includes traffic operations and roadway safety
Paper ID #30066Evaluating a Multi-Campus Undergraduate Research Program to ImproveRetention of 2+2 Engineering StudentsDr. Cynthia Howard-Reed, Pennsylvania State University Cynthia Howard Reed is the Assistant Director for Student Research and Graduate Equity and an Assistant Teaching Professor in the College of Engineering at Penn State. She has a MS in Environmental Health Engineering and PhD in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and received her BS in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University. Prior to her position at Penn State, Dr. Reed conducted research in the field of indoor air
, such as visiting the State Key Laboratory, and participating in the 30th Asianremote sensing conference.(3) Teachers’ active participation in class constructionThe head teacher and the counselor have actively participated in their class construction. Thehead teacher is responsible for lecturing professional knowledge and creating academicatmosphere, whereas the counselor for daily management and supervision. The classcommittee would also regularly collect students’ opinions and hold discussion among thehead teacher, the counselor and the students.(4) Development of colorful class activitiesFeaturing “promoting class construction through class activities”, the class committee hasheld a variety of class activities such as fun sports meetings
McGill and Concordia University, Canada. He is currently a visiting Associate Professor at Elizabeth City State University. His research interests are in the area of aviation, aerodynam- ics, control system design, modeling, simulation, aircraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles, teaching and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Integrating Hands-on Activities with Drones to Engage High School Students in Engineering Design Process and Applied ResearchAbstractThe overarching goal of Elizabeth City State University’s (ECSU’s) Drone ExplorationAcademy is to capitalize on the increasing popularity of unmanned aerial vehicles
industrial management, financial management, computer technology, and environmental technology, as well as leading seminars in the university’s general education program. Prior to academia, Mr. Hilgarth was employed as as engineer in the aerospace industry in laboratory and flight test development, facilities management, and as a manager in quality assurance. He has contributed papers on management, ground-test laboratory and flight test facilities, and ethics to several technical and professional organizations. In education, he has served as a consultant and curriculum developer to the Ohio Board of Higher Education and the Ohio Department of Education. He holds an M.S. in engineering management from the Missouri
- ogy, University of Madras, India, his B.E.. (M.E.) degree from the Institution of Engineers, India, M.E. (Production Engineering) degree from PSG College of Technology, Bharathiar University, India, and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Bharathiar University, India. He is currently a professor and di- rector of engineering technology at the University of Texas, Brownsville (UTB). Prior to joining the UTB faculty he was a visiting professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology and an associate professor of production engineering technology at PSG College of Technology, Bharathiar University, India, where he served as the director of the Computer Vision Laboratory and National Cadet Corps – Engineering
Professor at Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria, in Nov. 2014 and Jan. 2016. His areas of interest include power system applications of power electronics and integration of renewable energy resources. Dr. Mehrizi-Sani is an editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, and IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion. He is the Chair of IEEE Task Force on Dynamic System Equivalents and the Secretary of the CIGRE Working Group C4.34 on Application of PMUs for Monitoring Power System Dynamic Performance. He was the recipient of the 2018 IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award, 2018 ASEE PNW Outstanding Teaching Award, 2017 IEEE Mac E. Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award
participants) from variouscommunity organizations and events to participate in this project, as citizen scientists (see Table3). Recruiting focused on low-income, Latinx families because they represent a vulnerablepopulation that does not often participate in citizen science projects. The families completedinitial screening interviews to establish a baseline of their perceptions of drought, drought-resiliency, water conservation and water quality testing. The project required a commitment ofapproximately six months to construct an acrylic concrete rainwater harvesting tank at ourengineering laboratory, adopt it for home use, document water usage, and collect rainwatersamples for quality testing. The tanks were built with a metal frame covered with a
Notebooks.Moreover, the author is aware of several students who have continued to use Notebooks tocomplete other coursework, e.g., data analysis for their laboratory courses.Lessons LearnedThe author has gradually incorporated more of the elements of the approach described above overthe last several semesters. The following discussion is an account of some of the “lessons-learned”from the approach described in the previous section and future directions to be explored.Lesson 1: Students Are Worried About ProgrammingIn the Mechanical Engineering program at the University of Connecticut, students take a general“Introduction to Programming” course in their first year, so they have some experience with Pythonprior to taking Thermodynamic Principles. Nonetheless
Simulink is just as good whenstudents learn and use the tool independently without consuming class time. (2) Studentsatisfaction with respect to the availability and effectiveness of the OER materials as measuredby a survey is high.IntroductionOpen Educational Resources (OER) are “teaching, learning and research materials in anymedium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under anopen license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no orlimited restrictions.”1 OER that range from short documents to peer-reviewed textbooks in avariety of subject areas are available at no cost from sites such as OpenStax (www.cnx.org) andMerlot (www.merlot.org). Recent articles2,3 have
society through investigating community-based learning and its potential impact on students and commu- nities. The goal of this research is to establish knowledge in how STEM CBL can support broadening participation and promote social justice and citizenship through evidence-based approaches.Tanya M. Nocera PhD, The Ohio State University Tanya M. Nocera, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Practice in Biomedical Engineering at The Ohio State University. She is focused on developing, teaching, and assessing upper-level Biomedical Engineering laboratory courses, with particular interest in improving student technical communication skills. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Comparison of
during the semester at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research ora related university lab and then can apply for a summer teaching internship. For the teachinginternship, they instruct middle and high school students in science education outreach programs.Both the mentors and middle and high school students are from communities with limitedresources. The mentors reported that involvement in this program helped their professionalgrowth and maturity. The students reported that they were able to develop a rapport with theirmentors that they typically could not with teachers.Pluth et al. [10] describe a program where students in grades 6-12 come to a university campusfor hands-on laboratory science activities. High school volunteers and graduate
-growing jobs are based in science and mathematics, especially inrelation to engineering. U.S. universities are graduating a significant number of engineers, butmany are studying on visas and returning to their countries or decide to work in another field.Engineers’ salaries are continue to be 20% higher than non-engineering graduates [1].High school experiences and high school teachers are important in the mathematics and sciencebackground needed to pursue an engineering major [4]. However, one-third of U.S. mathematicsand science teachers have a major in the field they teach [1]. In particular, mathematicspreparation is often inadequate for students to successfully pursue engineering degrees [5].Students who perform poorly in mathematics on
teaching an undergraduate course in deep learning in a mathematicsdepartment. Also presented are data that suggest that weak programming skills may not be assignificant an obstacle for STEM majors as the author originally feared.IntroductionDeep learning—sometime referred to colloquially as AI—is at the center of a wave of innovationthat is changing the way consumers interact with products. It is being used to solve challengingtechnical problems such as autonomous driving in unstructured environments or enabling robotsto grasp arbitrary objects. Deep learning is a special type of machine learning that automates thegeneration of useful data features. An introduction to deep learning for mathematicians isprovided by Higham et at 1 .Deep learning is
. degree in physics from Villanova University, and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. I was a communication system engineer at General Electric in both military and commer- cial communication satellite operations for over nine years. I establish technical, college level, programs of study for modernized classroom and laboratory curricula including online course platforms, and inte- grated technologies. I have been involved in several grant efforts as the author and project director that have enhanced the programs at Bucks. I am currently the PI of an NSF ATE grant to increase the num- ber of engineering technicians in Southeastern Pennsylvania. This grant involves a
the renowned Ford SYNC R system, which has directly impacted Ford’s present vehicle production. Before joining Ford Motor Company in 1996, Prasad worked as a senior scientist at RICOH Innovations in Menlo Park, Calif., developing automatic ”lip reading” as a novel human-machine interface. In addition, he was at Caltech and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where he worked on the world’s first telerobotic visual surface inspection system to help design the International Space Station. Attracted by an open-ended challenge to discover ways to integrate ”intelligence” into cars and trucks, Prasad joined Ford to work with a small group of engineers in the development of adaptive headlamp and lane
Paper ID #29585The Effect of Humanitarian Engineering on Female Learning and ConfidenceMs. Tara Gupte Wilson, The Ohio State University Tara Wilson is a graduating undergraduate student of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering at The Ohio State University. For the past six semesters, she has worked as a teaching associate for OSU’s fundamentals of engineering honors program - a first year, introductory course required for all honors engineering students. She also spent two semesters working as a teaching assistant for the Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering Department’s thermodynamics class. She worked
Paper ID #30185Whom are we serving? An exploration of student demographics in a largeengineering design projects ecosystemProf. David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine David A. Copp received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Teaching at the University of California, Irvine in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Prior to joining UCI, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National
Engineering at Purdue University and is affiliated with both the Birck Nanotechnology Center and Ray W. Herrick Laboratories at the same insti- tution. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, each in mechanical engineering, from Michigan State University in 2002, 2004, and 2007, respectively. Dr. Rhoads’ current research interests include the predictive design, analysis, and implementation of resonant micro/nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) for use in chemical and biological sensing, electromechanical signal processing, and computing; the dynamics of parametrically-excited systems and coupled oscillators; the thermomechanics of energetic materials; additive manufacturing; and mechanics education. Dr. Rhoads
Engineering Education Research Programs at University of Michigan (U-M). Dr. Finelli is a fellow in the American Society of Engineering Education, a Deputy Editor of the Journal for Engineering Education, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education, and past chair of the Educational Research and Methods Division of ASEE. She founded the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching in Engineering at U-M in 2003 and served as its Director for 12 years. Prior to joining U-M, Dr. Finelli was the Richard L. Terrell Professor of Excellence in Teaching, founding director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Kettering University. Dr. Finelli’s
Paper ID #28246Writing Effective Autograded Exercises using Bloom’s TaxonomyDr. Lina Battestilli, North Carolina State University Lina Battestilli is Teaching Associate Professor of Computer Science at NC State University. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from NCSU in August 2005, her masters in Computer Networking in August 2002 also at NCSU and her BS in Electrical Engineering and Minor in Applied Mathematics from Kettering University in 1999. Prior to joining North Carolina State University in 2012, Dr. Battestilli was a network research engineer at the Next Generation Computing Systems at IBM Research
relevant professional society, to Capstone make an informed judgment in which they must consider the impact of their scientific or engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts. Table 2: Performance indicators at the Introduce, Reinforce, and Master levels and in which courses they will be assessed for the student learning outcome related to ethics and professional responsibility.The focus of this paper is on how our program assessed the ANSAC SLO 5 and EAC SLO 4 atthe “Introduce level” in our introductory physics courses in the fall of 2019 and the results of theassessment process. To introduce ethics in our physics laboratories, we created a series of casestudies and quizzes that our Introductory Physics
, Iran and MS and PhD from University of Cincinnati. Dr. Moayed has been teaching occupational safety courses such as fire protection, industrial hygiene, ergonomics and human factors at graduate and undergraduate levels. He has research and publications in human factors and ergonomics, maintenance management, artificial neural network modeling.Dr. Alister McLeod, Indiana State University Alister McLeod is an Associate professor at Indiana State University in its Applied Engineering Tech- nology Management department. His research interests span the widespread adoption of operational improvement strategies as well as technologies in the manufacturing sector. Previously, his research has made contributions to the
Paper ID #31228Work in Progress - Transdisciplinary Design Education in BiomedicalEngineering and Industrial Design Towards Identifying Unmet Needs of USVeterans and their Healthcare TeamsDr. Christopher Arena, Virginia Tech Chris is a Collegiate Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech in the Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics Department. He teaches senior design and quantitative physiology. Additionally, he is co-founder of VoltMed, a company dedicated to treating brain tumors with pulsed electric fields. Chris received his B.S. degree from the University of Virginia and Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech, both in Biomedical