RPs indicated that these interactions were not the same as pre-COVID campuslearning environments, they appreciated the limited, but real-time interactions with professorsand peers. Nevertheless, they expressed that it was very challenging to even ask questions inthese virtual teaching platforms. An RP noted that ‘I think in the class, you can actually see eachother and have a conversation about what you’re asking and what you’re trying to say ... you’rekind of, like you ask a question, but its 30 to 40 other students who have questions.” RPs alsomissed the hands-on experiences of STEM learning. Considering that most STEM students arevisual and tactile learners, the lack of hands-on STEM laboratory projects in synchronouscourses negatively
student records, and instructors toensure all students had the kit in hand, in time for teams to form and to begin using thecomponents.Due to the distance learning format of the course, students accessed course materials andattended virtual lectures and laboratories remotely, and attended weekly synchronous lectures aspart of a ‘flexible’ blended learning format. The tools and platforms students used were theprimary points-of-contact for students and their time spent interacting with each other formed alarge part of their learning experiences.The course implemented several tools to facilitate remotecourse delivery and student-instructor interactions, including: ● Zoom - video conferencing platform ● Canvas - course learning management
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Paper ID #32761Scaling Hands-On Learning Principles in Manufacturing through AugmentedReality Disassembly and Inspection of a Consumer ProductMs. Emily Welsh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ms. Welsh works as an educational technologist at MIT. Her work includes the development and running of MOOCs and the development of digital education tools. Prior to joining MIT, she worked in industry at an original equipment manufacturer.Dan Li, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyProf. A. John Hart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology John Hart is Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing
Paper ID #33291Sustainability Incorporation in Courses in Mechanical, Civil andEnvironmental Engineering: Insights from AASHE STARS DataMs. Joan Kathryn Tisdale, University of Colorado Boulder Joan Tisdale holds degrees in both Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from Auburn University and MIT, respectively, and is pursuing a PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has worked in renewable energy at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and has taught STEM related courses both at the high school and college levels.Dr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is
of instruction and the student engagement. The structures capstone was in a studio format toreplicate the professional industry experience. The studio was variant of the laboratory classroom[32]. The studio instruction facilitated the classroom application of the smaller individualstructural engineering problems combining into a comprehensive solution. All the students wereworking in the classroom while I met with smaller groups and individuals.The course materials for the introductory courses supported each learning objective. Thematerials included written narratives, video summaries, and handwritten lecture notes.Nomenclature and formula sheets and practice problems and solutions supported the objectiveswith numerical outcomes. The course
year or even second year ofstudy. Until recently, Binghamton University students have declared their engineering major atthe end of their second semester of study. Now, the declaration of major is done at the end of thefirst semester, although students are informed that they can still change their selection with nopenalty until the start of their second year. The fall semester of engineering courses introducestudents to the engineering majors offered at Binghamton University. There are guest lecturersfrom the engineering departments and industry. The engineering lectures, laboratories, andstudent projects represent all the engineering majors. These educational experiences are designedto give students a better understanding of the engineering
, Clarkson students and CCE educational staff periodically visit the cafeteriasto coach students on proper food waste management procedures.Curriculum development and instruction. The cafeteria food waste program offers an excellentopportunity for students to engage in place-based learning experiences that use the school as aliving laboratory [23]. Project-based educational experiences have been developed tocomplement the cafeteria food waste program, so that students can learn the science behindresource recovery and anaerobic digestion. Evidence has shown that project-based and place-based learning experiences enhance student motivation, engagement, and learning [24]. Open-ended projects challenge students to operate at the higher levels of Bloom’s
function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives [6]Programs necessarily define points within the curriculum where these outcomes are included incoursework. In some cases, these are included in coursework in ways where there may not be anatural fit in a typical lecture or lecture/laboratory course, or that appear to be contrived.Teamwork may consist of students put into groups based on proximity, with minimal instructionin how to effectively operate as a team; while this is indeed working within a group, it isarguably not effective teamwork [7]-[9]. Effective communication often consists of in-classpresentations
are crucial for work in laboratory,welding, ship simulators, and ship operation and maintenance, environments commonly found inlicense students’ curricula. It is interesting to consider, then, if—and by what degree—license studentsare affected by the flipped classroom format, especially as compared with their non-license engineeringstudent counterparts (“interns”).This paper aims to quantify the effects that the flipped classroom format has on license students. Thepaper achieves this by performing a difference-in-differences (DiD) [4] analysis on the students’ finalcourse letter grades in a recently flipped course in signals and systems, specifically ENGR 383 Signalsand Systems—a junior-level electrical engineering course taken by license and
decision was made to keep the plant running, instead of shutting it down,aligning the holes in the final safety barrier of the Swiss cheese model. Since it is evident thathuman decision making is integral to the overall safety of plant operations as poor decisions canimpede the effectiveness of other safety barriers, it is necessary to ensure appropriate training isprovided to students before they enter the workforce. Figure 1. Example of the Swiss cheese model [18].Process Safety EducationSince 1992, the Safety and Chemical Engineering Education (SAChE) program has helped tobring process safety to engineering schools by providing teaching materials and programs forstudents [19]. After the events of the T2 Laboratories
Havan, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignMs. Charlotte HathawayDr. Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Dr. Blake Everett Johnson is a Teaching Assistant Professor and Director of Instructional Laborato- ries in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. His research interests include experimental fluid mechanics, measurement science, and engi- neering education. He oversees undergraduate laboratories in fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Pedagog- ically, Dr. Johnson employs evidence-based writing instruction, active learning, inquiry-based laboratory instruction, and initiatives that empower students to do hands-on
://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc[4] P. Orduña, L. Rodriguez-Gil, J. Garcia-Zubia, O. Dziabenko, I. Angulo, U. Hernandez, E.Azcuenaga, "Classifying online laboratories: Reality simulation user perception and potentialoverlaps", 13th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation(REV), pp. 224-230, 2016.[5] D. Samuelsen, O. Graven, "Adopting an exercise program for electronics engineeringeducation utilising remote laboratories for the age of MOOC", IEEE Frontiers in EducationConference (FIE), pp. 1-7, 2016.[6] N. Kafadarova, N. Mileva, S. Stoyanova, "Remote Wireless Communications lab in realtime," IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), Berlin, pp. 69-74, 2013.[7] S. Kocdar, A. Bozkurt, T. G. Dogan, "Engineering
Paper ID #33723Investigating Team Roles Within Long-Term Project-Based LearningExperiencesMs. Amy Dunford, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Amy K. Dunford is the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program Manager at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Amy earned a master’s degree in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from the Uni- versity of California, Irvine and a master’s in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Amy spe- cializes in project-based learning management and curriculum development, and has prior experience as a first-year engineering laboratory course developer and instructor at UC Irvine.Dr
, the objectivesremained the same. However, because the second-year students had previous introduction totopics including AutoCAD, Excel, and ArcGIS in their first year, there was a concern that thefirst-year students would not be able to grasp the course content as easily as the second-yearstudents. To compensate for this, the Fundamentals course was expanded from 3-credits to 4-credits with an additional 75 minutes (1 hr 15 min) per week of in-class time for a total of 315minutes (5 hr 15 min). When offered in the first-year, three weekly class meetings were 50minutes each and offered on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule with the remaining 165minutes (2 hr 45 min) reserved for a weekly laboratory session.Additional content that exposes
- tered Professional Engineer that volunteers with the National Council of Examiners in Engineering and Surveying.Cameron N. Morgan, Arizona State University Cameron N. Morgan is an undergraduate student in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Ari- zona State University, majoring in environmental engineering. His research interests include air pollution control, atmospheric chemistry, climate change, and environmental educational outreach. Cameron is a recipient of the Fall 2021 Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative award, a competitive award that en- ables undergraduates at Arizona State University to conduct laboratory research with faculty. Through this award, Cameron will conduct laboratory research in
the semester during theregularly scheduled laboratory sessions, which are otherwise used for the implementation ofcoding concepts and development of programming skills through interactive group activities andcode-writing exercises. The coding interviews provided an opportunity for each student to meetindividually with a Teaching Assistant (TA) or Instructor to discuss the core programmingconcepts of the course in the context of code that the student wrote for a previous assignment.The TAs were trained to keep the interviews as an informal discussion focused on the codingconstructs implemented in the student’s code with primary goals as follows: • To ensure each student is developing fundamental programming skills and to flag those
- and transdisciplinary experiences relevant to the currenttechnical development. More specifically, this program provided three main objectives,including: (1) providing transdisciplinary engineering design experiences relevant to cutting edgetechnical development for teachers; (2) developing teacher-driven lesson plans that could beimplemented in the classroom, and (3) disseminating results and developed materials to helpteachers in the region and beyond.In this RET site program, teachers rotated to four different research laboratories with a 1.5-to-3-week duration in each at the University of Central Florida (UCF) campus under the guidance offaculty mentors, graduate students and, in some cases, even undergraduate NSF REUparticipants [4]. In
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
Climate Change Panel for the City of New York, and more recently as Senior Visiting Scientist of the Beijing Institute of Urban Meteorology and of Brookhaven National Laboratory. He was named in 2019 the Founding Editor of the newest ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities.Prof. Joseph Barba, City University of New York, City College Dr. Joseph Barba is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Grove School of Engineering at the City College of New York. He received his BEE and MEE from the City College of New York and his PhD from the City University of New York. His research interests focus on the development of image and signal processing algorithms for biomedical applications. These
bridge was built in 1968-1969, the steel is assumed to be A-36 for calculations,but this assumption must be verified. The steel A-36 has the following properties: Yielding stress, Fy = 36 ksi . Then: Fy = 0.9x36 = 32.4 ksi Ultimate stress, Fu = 58 ksiFigure 7a shows the stresses from the dead loads using the model consisting of the steel beamsand fresh concrete. Figures 7b and 7c show the stresses due to the lane load and the truck loadamplified by the impact factor of 1.33. The maximum ultimate stress is 38.7 ksi, which is 20%greater than the design stress.To comply with AASHTO loads, the following tasks are necessary:a) Investigate about the steel type used in the beams. A laboratory tensile test is necessary for this purpose. The
Paper ID #34482Computer Interfacing to Real-world: Low-cost ApproachDr. Rungun Nathan, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Rungun Nathan is a professor and program chair for the mechanical engineering in the division of engineering at Penn State Berks. He got his BS from University of Mysore, DIISc from Indian Institute of Science, MS from Louisiana State University and PhD from Drexel University. He has worked in Electronic Packaging in C-DOT (India) and then as a Scientific Assistant in the Robotics laboratory at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He worked as a post-doc at University of Pennsylvania in
Education, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, as well as industry organizations and partners, such as the National Masonry Concrete Association and Nucor. She served as the director of the National Science Foundation-funded Tigers ADVANCE project, which focuses on improving the status of women and minority faculty at Clemson. Previously, Dr. Atamturktur was the director of the National Science Foundation-funded National Research Traineeship project at Clemson, with funding for over 30 doctoral students and a goal of initiating a new degree program on scientific computing and data analytics for resilient infrastructure systems. In addition, Dr. Atamturktur was the director of two separate Department of Education
smallstructural engineering laboratory. The room is equipped with flattop tables and is arranged in atraditional lecture format: chalkboard at the front of the room and tables in rows. The back ofthe room is equipped with a small load frame and tensile testing machine. The instructor usesactive learning techniques during class lectures. Each class meeting includes a short lectureintroduction to the content for the day supported by skeleton notes, then students work exampleproblems, engage in group reflections, or participate in a demonstration. While both institutionsincorporated some demonstrations in their classroom activities, prior to the 2019-2020 academicyear, neither institution was equipped with large-scale testing equipment. The
students to take the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam which is inherently computational, leaving little opportunity to vary teaching methods and topics. 4. Engineering faculty have many responsibilities, including, but not limited to: teaching a heavy course load, laboratory research, writing publications, applying for funding, attending conferences, managing laboratory materials and safety, mentoring students, networking with industry, and professional development. Therefore, professors’ time is often limited, and professors may not see the value in adjusting a preexisting course. 5. Engineering education is often based on precedent; it is slow to accept change, especially relative to liberal arts
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 Fils-Aime is currently a doctoral student at Loyola University Chicago in the Research Method- ology program.Jana GrabarekMr. Pete Livas Jr, Loyola
laboratories,conduct hands-on experiments, engage in engineering skill building activities, and collaborate ona daily basis. The program was based in teamwork, both for the WDC where a student team anda teacher team worked together to create their wearable device, and in the labs where student-teacher pairs worked on independent research projects under the direction of a graduate studentand faculty advisor. Implementation details and results of these established programs have beenpreviously reported [1] [2].During summer 2020, due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, all in-person campsand activities were cancelled, and even research laboratories shut down in-person activities for aperiod of time. The situation, while making it impossible
degree, he moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2020 to work full-time at a motorcycle’s company development center as a CAE Engineer.Dr. Louis J Everett P.E., University of Texas at El Paso Dr. Everett is the MacGuire Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas El Paso. Dr. Everett’s current research is in the areas of Mechatronics, Freshman Programs and Student Engagement. Having multiple years of experience in several National Laboratories and Industries large and small, his teaching brings real world experiences to students. As a former NSF Program Director he works regularly helping faculty develop strong education proposals.Dr. Miguel Cedeno, The University of Texas at El Paso
and informal learningsettings in high school and undergraduate engineering education. PIV Background PIV is a proven [11], minimally intrusive, flow visualization and measurement techniquewhich employs a digital imager, a high power laser, laser sheet optics, and a fluid of interestseeded using neutrally buoyant “seeding” particles (Figure 1). In many ways, PIV is uniquelysuited for education in that it allows qualitative and quantitative observation of actual flows inreal time. However, laboratory grade PIV systems are traditionally expensive and requireexperienced users for safe and accurate measurement of flow fields. The high cost of these PIVsystems stems from the individual costs of high
. Eng. Educ., vol. 93, no. 1, p. 23, 2004.[17] D. Mascaro, S. Bamberg, and R. Roemer, “SPIRAL Laboratories in the First Year Mechanical Engineering Curriculum,” in Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), 2011.[18] R. Roemer, S. Bamberg, A. Kedrowicz, and D. Mascaro, “A SPIRAL Learning Curriculum in Mechanical Engineering,” in Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, 2010.[19] Auburn University, “Automotive Manufacturing Systems Lab.”.[20] M. Burmester, “Lego lab teaches lean manufacturing principles,” Assembly magazine, 2014. .[21] S. Credille, “Auburn University automotive lab teaches manufacturing using Legos,” General News, 2012. .[22] E. W. Ernst and