Paper ID #33766Design and Outcome of a Course on Software-defined Radio Within theComputer Science DepartmentDr. Marc Lichtman, University of Maryland College Park I am an adjunct professor in the dept of Computer Science at UMD where I teach an undergrad elective that I created, introducing the CS students to digital signal processing, wireless communications, and software-defined radio. I do it in a non-traditional and hands-on manner, because the students are strong programmers but don’t have the same type of signals and systems background EE students do. I have a PhD in EE from Virginia Tech where I studied wireless
, Thermodynamics, Multiphase Flows, Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machinery, as well as Mechanical Engineering Laboratory courses. In addition, Dr. Ayala has had the opportunity to work for a number of engineering consulting companies, which have given him an important perspective and exposure to the industry. He has been directly involved in at least 20 different engineering projects related to a wide range of industries from the petroleum and natural gas industry to brewing and newspaper industries. Dr. Ayala has provided service to professional organizations such as ASME. Since 2008 he has been a member of the Committee of Spanish Translation of ASME Codes and the ASME Subcommittee on Piping and Pipelines in Spanish. Under
Paper ID #32970Mechanical Engineering Students’ Perceptions of Design SkillsThroughout a Senior Design Course SequenceValerie Vanessa Bracho Perez, Florida International University Valerie Vanessa Bracho Perez is a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering student and Gradu- ate Research Assistant in the School of Universal Computing Construction and Engineering Educations (SUCCEED) at Florida International University (FIU). She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from FIU. Her research interest includes integrating LAs into engineering courses, examining responsive teaching practices in
specialist on academic writing at the graduate level and worked collaboratively with the College of Engineering and Graduate Writing Center to ensure an array of writing services were offered to international graduate students within the College of Engineering and other departments. She has pre- sented at regional and national Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) conferences. She holds a BA in Latin American Studies and an MA in Spanish Linguistics from The University of Alabama, and an MA in Modern Languages (TESL) from The University of Mississippi. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Academic Writing at the Doctoral and
engineering education during the 2020-2021academic year. The transition to remote learning was particularly difficult for many of the hands-on experiential learning and laboratory courses that are integral parts of an engineeringeducation. Very few engineering programs in the United States offer purely remote learningenvironments for engineering students, and so this kind of teaching and learning was new forboth faculty, rapidly adjusting their curriculum in a short amount of time, and for the studentswho had to quickly adapt their learning styles [1]. In addition, most students across the countryleft their campuses and returned home to complete the spring 2020 semester from afar, leading tofewer interactions with their peers, faculty, and staff for
themethods of teaching (i.e, pedagogy) and design of learning experience. Virtual reality, STEMeducation, and gamification were relevant in specific periods of time. There is a need for futureresearch in mixed reality applications, diversity of gamification techniques, and the use ofnon-digital games.IntroductionThe addition of games in educational environments can have a powerful impact on studentlearning, motivation, and self-regulation 2 . Whether they are designed for sensory stimuli throughmultimedia, learner control through game choice, or feedback through progress monitoring,game-based learning increases overall motivation to learn and, consequently, studentengagement 3 , participation, attendance, motivation, and satisfaction 4 5 . The
Systems Engineering, and many years of experience teaching and developing curriculum in various learning environments. She has taught technology integration and teacher training to undergrad- uate and graduate students at Arizona State University, students at the K-12 level locally and abroad, and various workshops and modules in business and industry. Dr. Larson is experienced in the application of instructional design, delivery, evaluation, and specializes in eLearning technologies for training and devel- opment. Her research focuses on the efficient and effective transfer of knowledge and learning techniques, innovative and interdisciplinary collaboration, and strengthening the bridge between K-12 learning and
will support the development and delivery of better aligned engineering ethics educationfor chemical engineering students. We hope the descriptions of experiences can serve as usefulresources which faculty members may utilize to discuss ethics in their classrooms and thuscontribute to incorporating ethics education throughout chemical engineering curriculum. Wesuggest these specific educational implications in the discussion section of this paper.Literature ReviewEthics education in chemical engineeringWhile there has been no strong consensus on how to teach engineering ethics for chemicalengineering students nor on what the contents of the teaching should be, chemical engineeringeducators have endeavored to include ethics in their classroom
applications, optimization of off-grid energy systems, wind turbine aero- dynamics, and wind integration on the electrical system. He has worked extensively with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the International Energy Agency on grid integration of wind and hy- dropower technologies. He is a member of the editorial board of Wind Engineering, serves on the board for the North American Wind Energy Academy, and is President of the board for the Western Energy Futures Institute.Dr. Nena E. Bloom, Northern Arizona University Dr. Nena Bloom is an evaluator and education researcher at the Center for Science Teaching and Learning at Northern Arizona University. The primary area of her work is evaluating STEM education
to 2013 he was manager of the KAUST Visualization Laboratory Core Facility and the Supercomputer Facility at King Abdullah’s University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. At KAUST he recruited a technical team of engineers and visualization scientists while managing the building of the state of the art scientific data visualization laboratory on the KAUST campus, forged relationships with international university and corporate partners, continued to improve the laboratory and recruit new staff. Prior to his work in Saudi Arabia, Dr. Cutchin worked at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) first as manager of Visualization Services at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and later at
University and teaches courses at junior and senior level in the Civil Engineering and Construction Department at Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing. His research experiences include development of computer syntaxes to unequivocally describe construction activities and development of a consistent methodology to explicitly classify and quantify construction methods (emerging taxonomy of construction methods). Marcel’s main expertise is in computer modeling of construction processes and his doctoral work allows the profiling of each journeyman’s affinity for productivity, quality and safety. He is also interested in educational contributions and research opportunities towards integrating field-level
situation made learning almostimpossible, while a consistent 15% of students listed at least eight distinct items that madelearning at least highly challenging, if not almost impossible. The primary factors thatcontributed to these major challenges, in all semesters, were lack of motivation to do work, ageneral lack of daily structure, limited social interaction, and anxiety. As we transitioned fromemergency remote teaching to HyFlex teaching, our students reported an organized learningmanagement system (LMS) and clear communication being very helpful, while alsoacknowledging their need for compassion, empathy, and praise from their instructors.MethodsOur survey was deployed at York College of Pennsylvania, a private, medium-sized, liberal
Paper ID #32625Integrating Public Health Topics in Drug Delivery System EducationMr. Jorge Jimenez, University of Pittsburgh Jorge Jimenez is a PhD candidate in bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering. They are part of the National Science Foundation’s Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP-KAT) program and has research interest in ophthalmic biomaterials, drug delivery systems, Latinx healthcare and advancing diversity and inclusion in education. They engage in teaching as research through the Center for the Integration of Research Teaching, and Learning
Paper ID #32686Work in Progress: Entrepreneurship and Senior Design ProgramCollaboration Towards Multidisciplinary DesignDr. Rachana Ashok Gupta, North Carolina State University at Raleigh Dr. Rachana A Gupta is currently a Teaching Professor and Director of the ECE Senior Design Pro- gram. She teaches and mentors several senior design students on industry-sponsored projects (On average 25 / semester) to complete an end product. These projects include all aspects of System Engineering: concept design, product design and design trade-offs, prototyping, and testing (circuit design, PCB, me- chanical fabrication, algorithm
include robotics, haptics, and engineering education.Mr. He LiuMr. Cristian H. TharinDr. Carolyn L. Sandoval, University of California, San Diego Dr. Sandoval is the Associate Director of the Teaching + Learning Commons and Director of the Com- mons Engaged Teaching Hub at the University of California, San Diego. She earned a PhD in Adult Education-Human Resource Development. Her research interests include adult learning and develop- ment, faculty development, qualitative methods of inquiry, and social justice education.Christopher John Cassidy, University of California, San DiegoDr. Huihui Qi, University of California, San Diego Dr. Qi is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace
Paper ID #33691Self Reflection of Engineering Majors in General Chemistry IIDr. Patricia Muisener, Stevens Institute of Technology Dr. Patricia Muisener is an Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate and Undergrad- uate Education in the Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department at Stevens Institute of Technology. She teaches and coordinates the General Chemistry I and II course sequence. She was previously at the University of South Florida as a faculty member and Assistant Chair in the Chemistry Department. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a M.S
Paper ID #34035Team Formation and Function Decisions and Student Roles on DiverseEngineering Design TeamsDr. 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 Laboratories and an adjunct
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
Paper ID #34818WIP: Engineering As a Social Discipline: Shaping First-Year Students’UnderstandingStacie Edington, University of Michigan Stacie Edington is the Director of Honors and Engagement Programs within the University of Michigan, College of Engineering. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Michigan and her Master of Science in Executive Leadership from the University of San Diego. In addition to serv- ing on the instructional team for ”Engineering 110: Design Your Engineering Experience”, she teaches the Engineering Honors Seminar, directs the College of Engineering Honors Program
from Loyola Marymount University, her MS Electrical Engineering and MS Biomedical Engineering degrees from Drexel University, and her PhD Bioengineering degree from the University of Washington. Between her graduate degrees, she worked as a loop transmission systems engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories. She then spent 13 years in the medical device industry conducting medical de- vice research and managing research and product development at several companies. In her last industry position, Dr. Baura was Vice President, Research and Chief Scientist at CardioDynamics. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).Ms. Francisca Fils-Aime, Loyola University Chicago Francisca
capabilities of allthese modern technologies are necessary technical skills.To support this growing demand of cloud skills, Miami Dade College partnered with AmazonWeb Services (AWS), the industry leader in cloud computing solutions, to train high schoolstudents as early cloud adopters and to be well-prepared for the computing/IT workforce oftomorrow. This academic-industry partnership aims to raise cloud literacy in K-12 by offering atwo-week cloud computing bootcamp, Cloud 101, for high school students selected fromtraditionally underrepresented groups, Hispanic and/or African Americans. The bootcamp used acombination of team teaching, online sandbox repetition and experimentation, and project-basedpractice. The AWS materials provided by AWS Academy
thought about thecomputer programming and hardware interface required to achieve this graphic display. Afterteaching freshman engineering for a number of years and observing the skills of recentlyentering freshmen, the question becomes are the secondary or high schools doing all they can tointerest students in a university engineering degree? What skills are necessary to help highschool students develop the skills and make the transition to a successful university academiccareer? Defining the Skills GapFaculty teaching introductory freshman engineering courses indicate that there exists what somewould call a “Skills Gap” referring to the lack of skills that graduating high school students arebringing to their
, Florida International University Dr. Bruk T. Berhane received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Mary- land in 2003. He then completed a master’s degree in engineering management at George Washington University in 2007. In 2016, he earned a Ph.D. in the Minority and Urban Education Unit of the Col- lege of Education at the University of Maryland. Bruk worked at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where he focused on nanotechnology, from 2003 to 2005. In 2005 he left JHU/APL for a fellowship with the National Academies where he conducted research on methods of increasing the number of women in engineering. After a brief stint teaching mathematics in Baltimore City
of the Provost’s Inclusive Teaching Fellowship at CMU, was the 2020 recipient of the Frederick A. Howes Scholar Award in Computational Science and the 2016 MIT Graduate Teaching Award in the School of Engineering, and is an alumnus of the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship and the Tau Beta Pi Graduate Fellowship. Wang directs the Mechanics of Materials via Molecular and Multiscale Methods Laboratory (M5 Lab) at CMU, which focuses on computational micro- and nanoscale mechanics of fluids, soft matter, and active matter, with applications in Civil and Environmental Engineering across the nexus of water, en- ergy, sustainable materials, and urban livability. The M5 Lab is particularly
puzzles by handing pieces of paper back and forth and discussing where the strips belonged. The new solution had to replicate this process as closely as possible. • Easy to disseminate: The instructional team responsible for the course were already transitioning courses and laboratories online, along with dealing with the inherent work overhead of an online course. The solution could not require an instructor to create duplicate documents, copy and paste code for multiple teams, or other work-intensive operations. • Self-checking: In the in-person implementation, the instructional team (one faculty member and multiple undergraduate teaching assistants) would rotate around the classroom
- prentice Faculty Grant from the Educational Research Methods ASEE Division in 2009. She also has been an Electrical Engineering Professor for two Mexican universities. Dr. Mendoza is interested in sTEm education, socioeconomically disadvantaged students, Latino studies in engineering and computer aided/instructional technology in sTEm.Dr. Russ Meier, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Russ Meier is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University. His teaching and research interests include embedded systems, evolvable hardware, the use of complex adaptive systems in digital
; Awards and recognition. Teaching Grading and administration; Job Salary and benefits; Assistants Help with student learning directly; Community engaged design teaching experience; Time and expertise. Personal / professional community engagement. Engineering Allowing for course credit (tech Promotional materials for recruiting; College electives, senior design, 1st-year); Increased diversity; Laboratory funding; Provides experiential learning in 1st year to senior design; Facilities and personnel technical Broader impacts for research grants; expertise; Awards and recognition
Academic Integrity in the ClassroomAuthor: Dr. Steve SternbergAffiliation: Chemical Engineering, University Minnesota Duluth ssternbe@d.umn.eduThis paper will explore issues of academic integrity (AI) in the classroom: Define several meanings of academic integrity Explore how and why students cheat Describe techniques to enhance student integrityThe work is based on personal observations and informal discussions with many studentsthroughout my career as a student and as an instructor.Academic Integrity is a term used to describe the expectation of honest, open, and responsibleconduct while engaged in scholarly activity - be it research, teaching, service
Paper ID #32543Academic Success and Retention of Underprepared StudentsDr. Robin A. M. Hensel, West Virginia University Robin A. M. Hensel, Ed.D., is the Assistant Dean for Freshman Experience in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University. While her doctorate is in Curriculum and Instruction, focusing on higher education teaching of STEM fields, she also holds B.S. and M.A. degrees in Mathematics. Dr. Hensel has over seven years of experience working in engineering teams and in project management and administration as a Mathematician and Computer Systems Analyst
Paper ID #34513Work in Progress: Implementing Elements of Engineering Design intoCalculusDr. Salvador Mayoral, California State University, Fullerton Dr. Salvador Mayoral received his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, Irvine in 2013. As a graduate student, Dr. Mayoral worked on the shielding of jet noise by a hybrid wing body aircraft. In 2014, Dr. Mayoral joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at California State University, Fullerton where he currently serves as an Assistant Professor. As the PI of the Wind Tunnel Laboratory, his research interests span the areas