impeded during the pandemic due to the utilization of the newdevice. The system will continue to be implemented face-to-face with option of remote accessavailable in future course offerings. Such a remote laboratory experience has shown great potentialto complement and even enhance experiential learning experience of students in a laboratory course.Future plans include building and integrating more similar experimental devices and setups toenhance our preparedness for the unknown.IntroductionEmploying experiential learning methods is an effective way to teach and develop capable studentsin STEM careers. The literature shows numerous examples of hands-on experience being utilizedby educators and proving to be of the most effective modes to teach
in this area [8] and base our approach on similar mechanicalengineering teaching efforts that attempt to shift from subject-based learning to problem-basedlearning [9].ConclusionsIn the past, our department has purchased expensive “turn-key” laboratory setups to demonstratethermo-fluid concepts - often costing thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. The goal tosupplement the existing thermal fluid science experiments with a new lab event to demonstratethe hydrostatic vacuum concept was accomplished. Two iterations of the hydrostatic vacuumdevice were built and tested. The current iteration has a small footprint of approximately 30 cmby 30 cm, is relatively low-cost (~$143 in materials as of early 2022), and can be built with basichand
Paper ID #37300The Status of Laboratory Education Focusing on LaboratoryReport Assignment and Assessment in the EngineeringPrograms of a 4-Year InstitutionDave Kim (Professor and Mechanical Engineering Program Coordinator) Dr. Dave Kim is Professor and Mechanical Engineering Program Coordinator in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. His teaching and research have been in the areas of engineering materials, fracture mechanics, and manufacturing processes. In particular, he has been very active in pedagogical research in the area of writing pedagogy of engineering
activities. Students did identify pre-laboratory videos or a flipped lab as a successfor the ability to re-watch and being prepared for the in-person, hands-on activities. Continuingwork is proposed to compare these soils mechanics courses with other universities. Additionally,a survey has been created to investigate how faculty have moved through Covid-19 online labsfor soils mechanics courses and how this has affected the learning and experience for theirstudents.References[1] Liszka, J. (2013). “Charles Peirce’s Rhetoric and the Pedagogy of Active Learning.”Educational philosophy and theory. V.45 N.7 p. 781–788.[2] Felder, R. and Silverman, L. (1988). “Learning and Teaching Styles in EngineeringEducation. Engineering Education.” V. 78 (7), pp
engineeringIntroduction In order to better meet the demands of students in a competitive higher-educationenvironment, many liberal arts institutions including ours have added new engineering programsand majors. As a part of the process of becoming an interdisciplinary physics and engineeringdepartment, and based on prior success at teaching physics with open-ended projects in theupper-level undergraduate curriculum [1], we are studying how these projects can also be used toteach engineering skills and principles. Of particular interest to us are questions related to i) howbest to use existing assets (e.g. laboratory equipment, faculty expertise) within a physics andengineering department to create a thriving engineering laboratory curriculum, and ii) to
class is taught in two sections, primarily to first year students, and teaches 3Ddesign using SolidWorks. The Double 3 robot enabled Dr. Leland to physically and remotelymove around the classroom, and give students personal help with their projects and exercises. Apicture of the Double 3 is shown in Figure 1. The Double 3 has excellent cameras, display andaudio, and it produces enough volume to easily address a class of 25-30 students. Fortunately, thecomputer lab is on the same floor as faculty's office, although the robot does not have arms, andcould not open and close office door.Physics Labs classesFor Laboratory classes transition to remote learning was much more difficult. In Spring 2020Semester after entering “lockdown” faculty performed
Lecturer in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Her PhD is in chemical engineering from Purdue University. Research focus areas include laboratory courses, process safety, and chemical engineering pedagogy.Jennifer Cole Dr. Cole is the Assistant Chair in Chemical Engineering at Northwestern and the Associate Director of the Northwestern Center for Engineering Education Research. Dr. Cole's teaching and research interests lie in engineering design, both first year and capstone. She is particularly interested in bringing anti-racism and social and environmental justice contexts to engineering problem solving in her courses.Kevin D. Dahm (Professor of Chemical Engineering
Paper ID #37182Using the Gather Platform to Support Peer-Learning andCommunity in a Virtual Bioengineering Laboratory CourseLeAnn Dourte Segan LeAnn Dourte Segan is a Practice Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Her interests include bringing evidence-based teaching methods to the classroom and increasing the sense of community and belonging in the undergraduate engineering experience. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Using the Gather Platform to Support Peer
Session T4B1 Application of A Modern Distributed Control System in a Chemical Engineering Laboratory Bernard L. Newman and James J. Dooley Department of Chemical Engineering University of Louisiana at Lafayette Lafayette, Louisiana AbstractModern distributed control systems are a valuable teaching tool in chemicalengineering and control engineering laboratories. Compared to earlier systems,the entry cost has been greatly reduced, making these systems affordable foralmost all engineering schools
, applied electronics for measurement and instrumentation, and development of technology enhanced teaching tools and pedagogical framework for improved engineering education. Dr. Das has published more than 30 research articles in international journals and conference proceedings. He has designed and developed various hands-on teaching and learning tools for electrical engineering students. Dr. Das has lead several research projects as a Principal Investigator and has been funded by the Office of Undergraduate Research, Office of the Vice President for Research at KSU, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He has also led two projects for the development of open access laboratory instructional resources for
theycompleted.These competency-based teaching methods were assessed by teaching the course twice, onceusing a lecture-based format and once using the competency-based techniques described above.In both offerings, the students completed the same set of exams and laboratory exercises, and thescores on the exams were used as quantitative measures of learning gains for the students. Ashort survey was used to gather additional quantitative measures of student attitudes aboutcompetency-based instruction. Finally, qualitative measures of student attitudes were extractedfrom student evaluations of teaching. A pre-test was used to assess whether students had priorexperience with the course material.Students that received competency-based instruction scored higher on
InstructionMotivationUndergraduate engineering programs seek to train students in the process skills of engineering,which include designing hypotheses, identifying and synthesizing relevant literature, interpretingand analyzing data, and presenting findings [1]. While engineering educators routinely reportthat engineering process skills are critical, many report difficulty teaching students these skillsdue to time constraints [2]. Librarians, who specialize in the organization of information anddata, are well-equipped to help biomedical engineering (BME) educators address some of thesegaps in their students’ learning [3]. This project sought to determine whether integrating aspecialized information literacy curriculum into a BME laboratory course sequence couldimprove
Paper ID #37702Work in Progress: Assessing Biomedical Engineering StudentEngagement in Asynchronous and Synchronous VirtualPhysiology Laboratory ExperiencesKarly S FranzDawn M Kilkenny Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in Biomedical Engineering & Engineering Education at the University of Toronto, CANADA © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Work in Progress: Assessing Biomedical Engineering Student Engagement in Asynchronous and Synchronous Virtual Physiology Laboratory
Conferences, June 2016, https://peer.asee.org/26164. [9] S. M. Reckinger, “Implementation and evaluation of different types of peer learning instruction in a MATLAB programming course,” in 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, no. 10.18260/p.25561. New Orleans, Louisiana: ASEE Conferences, June 2016, https://strategy.asee.org/25561.[10] E. Zivi and J. Piepmeier, “Dynamic system animation within a Simulink laboratory environment,” in 2001 Annual Conference, no. 10.18260/1-2–9152. Albuquerque, New Mexico: ASEE Conferences, June 2001, https://peer.asee.org/9152.[11] J. Zhou, P. Corder, and K. Aung, “Teaching of dynamic systems with integrated analytical and numerical techniques,” in 2007 Annual Conference & Exposition
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education IntroductionA number of papers have been written recently on methods for improving orsupplementing the teaching of heat transfer including the use of spreadsheets to solvetwo-dimensional heat transfer problems1, a new transport approach to teaching turbulentthermal convection2, the use of computers to evaluate view factors in thermal radiation3,and a new computational method for teaching free convection4. Supplementalexperiments for use in the laboratory or classroom have also been presented includingrather novel experiments such as the drying of a towel5 and the cooking of French fry-shaped potatoes6. As part of the combined requirements for CHEG 3143
Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. His teaching and research have been in the areas of engineering materials, fracture mechanics, and manufacturing processes. In particular, he has been very active in pedagogical research in the area of writing pedagogy of engineering laboratory courses. Dr. Kim and his collaborators attracted close to $1M research grants to study writing transfer of engineering undergraduates. For the technical research, he has a long-standing involvement in research concerned with manufacturing of advanced composite materials (CFRP/titanium stack, GFRP, nanocomposites, etc.) for automotive, marine, and aerospace applications. His recent research efforts have also included the
Paper ID #36620Enhancing Student Engagement in Engineering MaterialsScience using KEEN Mindset in Laboratory ActivitiesHui Shen (Associate Professor) Dr. Hui Shen is a professor at Ohio Northern University. Her research interests lie in mechanical behavior of materials, biomaterials, and biomechanics.Joshua Gargac Joshua Gargac is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio Northern University. He received a BSME from Ohio Northern in 2010 and a PhD in bioengineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2015. Dr. Gargac's research interests include bone mechanics, incorporating video games into
Grader software.Table 2: Laboratory activities focus on teaching and improving programming skill along withproblem-solving applications relevant to Biomedical Engineering Title Concepts Application 1 Signal Properties Arrays, Indexing, Loops ECG Analysis, Descriptive Statistics 2 Systems of Equations Arrays, Curve Fitting
measured by a standards-based grading system when compared toonly reflecting post-submission.Methods:Course Description and Consenting ProcessThis study was conducted over two terms in an experimental design laboratory course forsecond-year and advanced first-year Biomedical Engineering majors. Both quarters were team-taught with a single pair of instructors. There were different teaching assistants (TAs) for eachquarter; see below (Grader Calibration) for efforts to mitigate the effect of different TAs. Duringboth quarters student participants (Winter; n=18 and Spring; n=24) completed the course in ahyflex format where some students took the course entirely virtually and synchronously, whereasothers took the course entirely in-person. Groups were
online labs (including simulation). At the same time, they alsocommented that “researchers are at polar ends of arguments for and against the efficacy of onlinelabs.” In fact, research by Ma and Nickerson [5] suggests that online laboratories are well-suitedfor teaching conceptual knowledge, and perhaps not as well-suited for teaching design skills.Instead of focusing on design skills or concept mastery, here we focus on student ability todevelop and conduct an experimental procedure to test a hypothesis or characterize a system.Since a student’s ability to conduct an experimental procedure is directly linked to that student’sproficiency and confidence in using laboratory test equipment, we became concerned when earlyassessment in Fall 2021
Paper ID #37846Design, Construction, Operation, and Analysis of a ChemicalEngineering Unit Operations Laboratory Plate HeatExchanger ExperimentAndrew Maxson (Assistant Professor of Practice) Andrew Maxson is an assistant professor of practice in chemical engineering at The Ohio State University where he teaches Chemical Engineering Unit Operations. He earned his B.S. in chemical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Ohio State. Having worked as a manufacturing process engineer for ten years, his focus is on optimizing the process of teaching, as well as
Paper ID #35605Promoting First-Semester Persistence of Engineering Majors with DesignExperiences in General Chemistry LaboratoryMr. Corey Payne, University of FloridaDr. Kent J. Crippen, University of Florida Kent Crippen is a Professor of STEM education in the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research in- volves the design, development, and evaluation of STEM cyberlearning environments as well as scientist- teacher forms of professional development. Operating from a design-based research perspective, this work focuses
Paper ID #38441Work in Progress: Development of UAS Module inLaboratory Class for a Senior Engineering Core CourseMd Tanvir Ahad Md Tanvir Ahad received his Bachelor’s degree from Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology on November 2013 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. From January 2015July 2015 he was at the Dana Engineering International Ltd (GEWaukesha) in Dhaka, Bangladesh as an Assistant Engineer (GEWaukesha) gas engine. From 2015-2018 he was at the Applied DSP Laboratory of the Lamar University at Beaumont,TX, USA, and obtained a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering on 2018. Currently he
Rosati law firm, where she prepared and worked on patent applications in different fields of technology.Oscar Rios (Engineering Content Developer)Nikitha Sambamurthy (Engineering Content Lead) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Analyzing the Use of Embedded MATLAB® Laboratory Problems in an Online Interactive TextbookAbstractMany first-year engineering problem-solving courses have a goal of encouraging students tolearn software skills as one of a myriad of tools in solving engineering problems. In thesecourses, MATLAB® is the programming language often taught, as multiple subsequentengineering courses
Continuous Miner Operator Safety developing Proximity Detection technology. He is currently a Research Engineer study- ing EMI and performing FMEA analyses for underground coal equipment. Dr. Jobes has been teaching in Geneva College’s Engineering Department since 2007 and has been a full-time professor since 2015. His areas of interest lie in Engineering Mechanics, Machine Component Design, Finite Element Analysis, Kinematics, Robotics, Digital Systems Design, Mechanical Vibrations and Control Theory. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022Development of a Laboratory Module to Analyze the Effect of 3D Printing Orientation on Material Properties
Paper ID #38000Enhancing Undergraduate Civil Engineering Mechanics ofFluids Laboratory Experiences using Sensors and ComputingToolsElma Annette Hernandez (Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies &Professor)Venkatesh Uddameri (Dr.) (Texas Tech University)Ameri Gurley (Lecturer) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Enhancing Undergraduate Civil Engineering Mechanics of Fluids Laboratory Experiences using Sensors and Computing ToolsFluid mechanics laboratories traditionally use manual hydraulic instrumentation such as piezometers,venturi meters to
, M. Dubois and J. P. Trovao, “Problem- and Project-BasedLearning in Engineering: A Focus on Electrical Vehicles,” 2016 IEEE Vehicle Power andPropulsion Conference (VPPC), pp. 1-6, 2016.[4] R. Pucher, A. Mense, and H. Wahl, “How to Motivate Students in Project Based Learning,”6th IEEE Africon Conference in Africa, vol. 1, pp. 443-446, Oct. 2-4, 2002.[5] L. McLauchlan and M. Mehrubeoglu, “A Laboratory Exercise - Unmanned Vehicle Controland Wireless Sensor Networks,” 2014 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Indianapolis,IN, USA June 15-18, 2014.[6] A. Maiti, A. Raza and B. H. Kang, “Teaching Embedded Systems and Internet-of-ThingsSupported by Multipurpose Multiobjective Remote Laboratories,” in IEEE Transactions onLearning Technologies, vol
Paper ID #37704Leveraging ThingsBoard IoT Service for RemoteExperimentationAhmet Can Sabuncu (Assistant Teaching Professor) Dr. Sabuncu holds a Ph. D. in Aerospace Engineering from Old Dominion University. Dr. Sabuncu’s professional interests spans from engineering education research, engineering laboratory education, history of science and engineering, thermo- fluids engineering, and microfluidic technology. Dr. Sabuncu is eager to discover next generation workforce skills and to educate next generation of engineers who will carry Industry 4.0 forward considering the needs of the global world.Kerri Anne Thornton
application of artificial intelligence techniques in power system control.John Goomey (Senior Lecturer) John Goomey earned his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. He is an instructor and the University of Wisconsin-Platteville teaching a variety of courses in analog and digital electronics, with a special interest in semiconductor devices.David Andersen David Andersen is a Laboratory Manager at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. He has gained experience
fromoutside, or in a public place not very quiet having a lot of elements around that may destroy thefocus of the lecture coming through a little computer/mobile device.Besides misusing the advantage of mobility, there are issues with capability of performing someactivities through online meeting sessions. For example, courses that require hands-on practicesand practical exercises, such as computer programming, mobile application development,biology-physics-chemistry laboratory works, electrical engineering laboratory works, are stillfacing this challenge of teaching in a remote setup. Although, some innovative ideas are inventedby recent studies to mitigate this lacking by proposing virtual laboratories 3 4 , this shortcoming isstill present since