within the context of the fundamental skills of thediscipline. To this end, we are developing curricular and experimental modules from selectedunit operations common in the microelectronics industry, and are integrating these into theclassroom and the laboratory. Unit operations include: plasma etching, spin coating, chemicalvapor deposition, electrodeposition and chemical mechanical planarization. The curricularmodules are intended to reinforce core ChE fundamentals with examples from microelectronicsprocessing. The lab modules provide students with hands-on learning in this area as well asmore open-ended problem solving experiences. The incorporation of these microelectronics unitoperations into core engineering science classes, into senior
interactions.We intend to retain the visit to the maker space described under 4.2.2 while potentiallyintroducing another such visit to a different maker space or laboratory, for example, abioengineering laboratory for the ‘systems thinking in bioengineering’ section of the course.5.2.5 PublicationThe change we plan for the challenge in the algorithmic thinking section of the course (see 5.2.3)should allow for easier, standardized data collection. As of spring 2023, the materials for the fall2022 iteration of the course will be available on [University]’s public-facing platform, and thusopen for everyone to view and download. This will facilitate use of course materials byinstructors outside of [University] interested in active learning and in teaching
lab activities. This led to the idea for online chat sessions dedicated to addressing studentquestions based on viewing videos, reading text material, doing lab experiments, and solvinghomework problems. Moderating the online discussion boards will also supplement the chatsession approach to promote more student engagement. In terms of video content, it took onlyabout 8.5 hours of recorded video lectures for ‘Introduction to Engineering’ course havingnumerous engineering lab activities than circuit analysis. So about 46 minutes of video contentper week are needed for the ‘Introduction to Engineering’ course that is primarily laboratorybased. Based on the experience of Professor Guo to teaching the laboratory content, she believesthat more
astipend for their living expenses, they were not dependent on identifying funding throughtheir university advisors or having to take on laboratory or teaching assistantships inorder to finance their studies. This funding provided the students with full financialsupport while the mentoring provided professional support not available through otherfellowship programs. In doing so, Bell Labs endorsed the student and became astakeholder in the student's success .An additional feature of this program was that of the academic advisor who was selectedby the Labs to act as an advocate for students in academic matters on the company'sbehalf. This neutral party could work with university graduate advisors on behalf ofstudents to address issues that company
Department of Education.Dr. Yonghui Wang, Prairie View A&M University Dr. Yonghui Wang received his B.S. in Optoelectronics from Xidian University in 1993, his M.S. in electrical engineering from Beijing Polytechnic University in 1999; and his Ph.D. in computer engineering from Mississippi State University in 2003. From 1993 to 1996, he was a Research Engineer with the 41st Electrical Research Institute in Bengbu, China. From July 1999 to December 1999, he worked as an IT Specialist in IBM China, Beijing, China. From 2000 to 2003, he was a research assistant with the Visualization, Analysis, and Imaging Laboratory (VAIL), the GeoResources Institute (GRI), Mississippi State University. He is currently an Associate
students obtain solid basic knowledge. Secondly, FEH focuses more on basicengineering education. ENGR1281 and ENGR1282 have been specially set up with diversetopics and laboratories providing a broad overview of engineering disciplines to enablestudents to understand and choose an engineering major. Relevant research also proved theimprovement of retention rates in engineering [12]. Thirdly, FEH courses place moreemphasis on students’ practical ability, capability to solve practical problems, as well asteamwork skills. All the ENGR and the physics and chemistry courses have correspondingexperimental parts. Hands-on lab experience about once a week, is designed to give studentsexposure to a variety of engineering disciplines, as well as to teach
withvaluable skills that they will need in industry.Despite the fact that many engineering programs have altogether dropped teaching computerprogramming to their non-ECE majors, other programs have continued to require an introductoryprogramming course at the freshman level for all engineering majors1,2,3,4,5. A variety ofplatforms are used in these courses, from the traditional general-purpose programming languageslike C, C++, or Java to programmable engineering tools such as MATLAB, Mathcad, and evenExcel. We present our case for keeping programming as a key introductory course in anengineering curriculum. Our program utilizes a common course thread for the first two years ofstudy. Having a student population already programming-literate enables us
Student- Centric Learning), promoting Leadership in Sustainability and Management Practices. He is also an Affiliate Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, focusing on the energy ef- ficiency of IT Equipment in a Data Centers. Before his teaching career, he had a very successful corporate management career working in R&D at Lucent Technologies and as the Director of Global Technology Management at Qualcomm. He initiated and managed software development for both the companies in India. He holds MS in Engineering and MBA degrees. Page 24.140.1 c
Journal of Physics, 72(1), 98-115. https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1614813Finkelstein, N. D., Adams, W. K., Keller, C. J., Kohl, P. B., Perkins, K. K., Podolefsky, N. S., & S, R. (2005). When learning about the real world is better done virtually: A study of substituting computer simulations for laboratory equipment. Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research.Haryadi, R., & Pujiastuti, H. (2020). PhET simulation software-based learning to improve science process skills. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 1521, No. 2, p. 022017). IOP Publishing.Karplus, R. & Butts, D. P. (1977). Science teaching and the development of reasoning. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 14
incorporated problem-based learning into her lectures, lab- oratories, and outreach activities to engage students and the community in the STEM education process.Dr. Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton Dr. Margaret Pinnell is the Associate Dean for Faculty and Staff Development in the school of engineering and associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Dayton. She teaches undergraduate and graduate materials related courses including Introduction to Ma- terials, Materials Laboratory, Engineering Innovation, Biomaterials and Engineering Design and Appro- priate Technology (ETHOS). She was director of the (Engineers in Technical Humanitarian Opportunities of Service
Paper ID #11886An Interactive Dynamics Learning CourseDr. Sunil Mehendale, Michigan Technological UniversityDr. John L. Irwin, Michigan Technological University As Associate Professor for Mechanical Engineering Technology since 2006 at Michigan Technological University, Dr. Irwin teaches courses in Product Design & Development, FEA and CAE Applications, Parametric Modeling, and Computer Aided Manufacturing. Research interests include STEM education, where as PI for Improving Teacher Quality grants (2010 & 2013) he has developed and implemented professional development courses for K-12 science teachers to implement
curriculum modules and laboratorymodules to teach microcontroller concepts. During the second year 60 faculty throughout theU.S. were taught microcontroller/embedded system concepts and exercised hands-on laboratoryexperiment activities using distance learning technologies. Feedback has been favorable. Duringyear three an additional group of faculty will be taught these concepts and an academiccommunity with common interest of embedded system design will be built, bringing the totalfaculty trained to 120.Goals of the Project To accomplish this statement of work, there are four guiding goals that include:1. Create a teaching platform with supporting instructional and hands-on laboratory modules to teach microcontroller concepts and activities
cooperativelyhave involved supporting the educational mission of our institution. In fact, some of our moreresearch-oriented projects have their roots in teaching techniques and instructional problems.And more importunately, successful and meaningful interdisciplinary collaboration cumulativelybenefits students in the classroom. A second key component of interdisciplinary collaboration isto let go of rigidity of thought and process and find common ground. Lastly, a key component isinstitutional support. Institutional leadership should not only recognize but encourageinterdisciplinary cooperation.In this paper, the authors review the strategies and rationales they have used in interdisciplinaryactivities. With creativity and a disciplined focus, the authors
biomedical scientist in Immunology, Dr. Borges balances the world of what STEM professionals do and brings that to STEM education in order to provide PD that aligns to The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Since 2008 she has provided teacher PD to science teachers in the tri-state area, including international visiting teachers and scholars. Dr. Borges’ research interests include: building STEM professional-teacher relationships, diversity and equity, and enhancing urban science teaching and learning.Dr. Vikram Kapila, New York University Vikram Kapila is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU Tandon), where he directs a Mechatronics, Controls, and Robotics Laboratory, a
educational materials and learning spaces that stimulate serious play. © American Page 15.470.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Engaging Spaces for First-year Engineering: A Tale of Two ClassroomsAbstractEngaging students in learning through the use of active and cooperative approaches has beenrecognized as an effective way to improve their educational experience. These approaches areparticularly important in the first year where student engagement is an important factor instudents success and retention. Engineering education has used these approaches in laboratories
, NIST internalreport NIST-IR 6118.Figure 1: This supplemental handout from my first Figure 2: A typical first year homework assignmentyear of teaching is printed as a half-sheet. handout printed as a half-sheet has plenty of space for wordy problem statements, as well as reminders about upcoming exams and laboratory experiments.Second Year of Teaching In my second year of teaching, I transformed two Materials courses, a Fluid Power course,and an Instrumentation and Controls course from chalkboard to PowerPoint (PP). Initially
AC 2007-152: ENHANCING STUDENT LEARNING IN ENGINEERINGTECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS ? A CASE FOR PHYSICAL SIMULATIONSAlok Verma, Old Dominion University ALOK K. VERMA Alok K. Verma is Ray Ferrari Professor and Director of the Automated Manufacturing Laboratory at Old Dominion University. He also serves as the Chief Technologist of the Lean Institute at ODU He received his B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering, MS in Engineering Mechanics and PhD in Mechanical Engineering. He joined the Mechanical Engineering Technology Department at ODU in 1981. He is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Virginia, a certified manufacturing engineer and has certification in Lean Manufacturing
achieved by the integration of the contemporaryinformation technology (IT) and visualization tools in teaching engineering technology.Although the classroom environment in Engineering and Construction Science is highlystructured by the instructor, teaching students to be critical thinkers is essential in the virtualclassroom of the future. The objective of this research was to develop a virtual tour of areinforced concrete building construction using 3D animation and walkthrough. All thetechniques that were used in this research employed a generic programming architecture, whichwas discipline independent and could be adapted to any other similar domain. Thesevisualization techniques can be valuable aids not only in teaching in the classroom but
Paper ID #45301Preparing community college and high school students for inertial confinementfusion jobs in engineering and technologyArkadiy Portnoy, City University of New York, Queensborough Community CollegeDr. Sunil Dehipawala, City University of New York, Queensborough Community CollegeProf. Tak Cheung Tak Cheung, Ph.D., professor of physics, teaches in CUNY Queensborough Community College. He also conducts research and mentors student research projects. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Preparing community college and high school students for inertial confinement fusion jobs in
-19-public-health- emergency.html[20] D. J. Cheney, P.L. Dickrell, L. Virguez. “Online versus flipped classroom: A comparison of hands-on skills development in an introductory circuits course,” Proceedings of the 126th American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Tampa, FL, MD, USA. 2019.[21] *S. Das, C. Chin, S. Hill. “Development of open-source comprehensive circuit analysis laboratory instructional resources for improved student competence,” Proceedings of the 129th American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2022. https://peer.asee.org/40925[22] C. A. Berry. “Teaching an electrical circuits course online,” Proceedings of
research projects while engaged in teaching, research and consulting in the area of power electronics, motor drives, power quality and clean power utility interface issues.Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston FARROKH ATTARZADEH Dr. Attarzadeh is an associate professor in the Engineering Technology Department, College of Technology at the University of Houston. He teaches software programming, digital logic, and is in charge of the senior project course in the Computer Engineering Program. He is an Associated Editor for student papers of the Journal of Technology Interface (http://engr.nmsu.edu/~etti/). He is a member of ASEE and has been with the University of Houston since 1983.Miguel Ramos
were teaching and all showed useto inquiry learning in their description of student interactions. Their understanding of functiondeepened with the broader diversity of contexts in which function was used. None of the scienceteachers explicitly described contextualization of the mathematics they were teaching since itwas already used as the context for learning. Only four teachers indicated the use to inquirylearning in their classes because they were the ones who described their interactions withstudents. However, it is likely that inquiry learning was being carried out in the laboratories of allof the teachers, but this was not explicitly requested in the question. It is likely that theirunderstanding of the concept of function deepened since
, tenure, funding, teaching and service. Seed questions provided afoundation for lively, interactive discussions consisting of student-posed questions and diversefaculty perspectives. While most panelists were Northwestern University engineering faculty (tofacilitate scheduling and minimize costs), a final capstone event included engineering facultyrepresenting several different types of institutions. The capstone event highlighted similaritiesand differences in engineering faculty life and responsibilities between institutions. Theinformation and perspectives students obtained through this series will assist them in determininga career path: academia, industry or government. Those choosing academic careers are betterprepared to identify and
. Multisim includes powerful virtual instruments, which aresimulated instruments found in the laboratory such as oscilloscopes, multi-meters, and functiongenerators, among many others6. Multisim is an industry-standard, best-in-class SPICEsimulation environment. It is the cornerstone of the NI circuits teaching solution to buildexpertise through practical application in designing, prototyping, and testing electrical circuits7.However, with context to this course students only utilize Multisim’s ability to draw schematicdiagram and use the virtual instrumentation to capture required data from the respectiveinstruments.V. Computation and Mathematical Modelling by Utilization of MatlabMatlab by Mathworks has become the standard computational engine in
Balances I X X CHEE 202 Material & Energy Balances II X X X X CHEE 230 Modeling & Analysis X X X X CHEE 310 Process Fluid Mechanics X X X X CHEE 311 Heat Transfer Operations X X X X CHEE 312 Mass Transfer Equipment Design X X X X CHEE 320 Chem. Engr. Thermodynamics X X X X CHEE 325 Kinetics & Reactor Design X X X CHEE 350 Chem. Engr. Laboratory X X X X CHEE 410 Advanced Heat Transfer (E) X X X X CHEE 411 Separations Processes (E) X X X X CHEE 435 Process
responsibilities included management of theATE and engineering projects, and interaction with college and university faculty from across the country.VENKAT ALLADAVenkat Allada is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Management Department at UMR. He is the director ofthe NSF and Halliburton Foundation funded Sustainable Design Laboratory at UMR, and serves on the editorialboard of the International Journal of Industrial Engineering. His teaching and research interests include RapidProduct Realization, and green design and manufacturing. He has published over 50 technical articles and hasreceived over $2M in research grants.MING. C. LEUMing C. Leu is the Keith and Pat Bailey Professor in Integrated Product Development and Manufacturing, in
group in the fluid mechanics and heat transfer domains. Packed bed/fluidized bed instruc-tion appears in most chemical engineering curricula, but hands-on exposure is usually relegatedto senior-level unit operations laboratories if the equipment is available at all. We have devel-oped a simple system with manometer ports for understanding pressure losses in particle beds;our system can eventually be used for safe low-low temperature catalytic processes that can bevisualized with a color change. Classroom implementation strategies, accompanying conceptual-reinforcement materials, and motivational strategies will be presented.IntroductionStudents learn in many ways. Over the past two decades, many studies have shown a connectionbetween student
has been a licensed professional engineer for over twenty years and worked primarily in the aerospace and biomedical engineering fields. He has utilized the capabilities of additive manufacturing for over a decade, originally applying it to space suit and helicopter centered projects. At the Academy, he teaches design courses that include lessons on solid modeling, and additive manufacturing as well as classic subtractive methods such as accomplished with a mill or lathe. He earned his B.E. and M.E. at The Cooper Union, and his Ph.D. at Rutgers University. All are in mechanical engineering.Mary Shalane Regan, U.S. Coast Guard Academy Shalane Regan is a native of Massachusetts and currently resides in Connecticut
and software (developed by Rensselaer) which, when connected to the PC via aUSB port, provides similar functionality to an oscilloscope (with a full 50KHzbandwidth), 2 function generators, a multimeter and bipolar power supplies (for less thanthe cost of a typical textbook – approximately $80). With the advent of this mobileinstrumentation studio PC-based laboratory, many instrumentation-based course offeringscan now be held in normal classrooms rather than in specially outfitted facilities. Inaddition, students are asked to perform hands-on experiments outside of the classroomanywhere/anytime, thus facilitating new opportunities for them to “tinker,” to gainvaluable insight through practical experience and to rekindle the passion for
AC 2012-3882: IMPACTING UNDERGRADUATE NANOSCIENCE ANDNANOENGINEERING EDUCATION AT NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATEUNIVERSITYDr. Dhananjay Kumar, North Carolina A&T State University Dhananjay Kumar is an Associate Professor of mechanical engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. His areas of research are thin films and nanomaterials. He teaches classes in materials science, advanced materials, and nanotechnology.Dr. Devdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State UniversityMr. Kwadwo Mensah-DarkwaDr. Robin Guill Liles, North Carolina A&T State UniversityMr. Mainul Kader Faruque, North Carolina A&T State UniversityMiss Courtney Lambeth, North Carolina A&T State University Courtney Lambeth, North Carolina