Conference Session

Engineering Technology Pedagogy 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nancy E. Study, Pennsylvania State University; David Clippinger, Pennsylvania State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

implement the plan. This disconnectoccurred because the personnel on the IT accessibility team has little to no teaching experienceand no knowledge of the practicalities of what happens in an MET course, especially one withhands-on laboratory components. A major concern of the faculty in the Penn State Behrend METprogram was based on the first line of the official EEAAP document that indicated it was alegally binding document. Faculty were hesitant to simply create a bare-bones document thatcould be misinterpreted later, or to create a plan that was not actually feasible to implement if theoccasion occurred that a visually impaired or blind person chose to major in MET on theBehrend campus. Therefore, it was almost entirely up to the MET faculty

Conference Session

Teamwork and Student Learning in Design

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nikolaos E. Vitoroulis Jr, Stevens Institute of Technology; Changhong Zhang; Kishore Pochiraju, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

appropriate (a)oral and Communications 5 (b)written technical presentations.Table 1: List of Course Learning Outcomes listed with associated criterion fulfillment and class activity designed to teach corresponding outcome. See Activity list below for full detail.This laboratory leaning environment is designed to move away from the traditional classroomsetting and methods of teaching. The theoretical equations and principles are kept at a minimum,as they are covered in more detail in a concurrent Mechanics of Solids course. By implementinga team-based learning environment in a laboratory setting, we are able to improve the overalllearning experience [7] [8]. The team-based activities are designed to take and utilize

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheldon M. Jeter; Jeffrey A. Donnell

inefficiently, with our students dithering endlessly over minutiae and ourcolleagues explaining trivia at great length. To solve these problems, our faculty determined to embrace a program of explicitinstruction in lab report writing. This approach does not rely on general skills that may not be Page 5.144.2present and focuses limited resources on a well defined context. For our program to function 2properly we needed to coordinate our teaching of the report-writing processes. This coordinationmust consider the relationships among the courses in our laboratory sequence and thecorresponding variation

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Clancey; Anton Pintar; Jason Keith

Intro to Engineering Systems.ANTON J. PINTARAssociate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Michigan Technological University; PhD in ChE from Illinois Institute ofTechnology, 1968. Teaches mass and energy balances and unit operations laboratory. Member of the MTU AssessmentCouncil, ChE Curriculum Committee, ABET Assessment Committee for both ChE and College of Engineering. Majorinterests include process safety, estimation of fire and explosion parameters, mathematical modeling and applied math.Appendix 1: Summary of Comments from Industrial Reviewers on Oral Plant Design Presentations(2001) · Writing Style Poor cover letter (3) Report format very good Poorly formatted and difficult to follow Report format

Conference Session

Technical Session 2c

Collection

2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

bryan james mealy, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

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Pacific Southwest Section

previous teaching experiences.The format of the Implementing Designs portion of the course is to design and implementincreasingly complex circuits. To support and expedite this process, we direct students toward amodular approach to HDL modeling. In this way, students spend a majority of their timemodifying and interfacing HDL-based templates for their modules rather than spending asignificant amount of time implementing modules from scratch. Students use the both modulesthey developed in earlier labs as well as provided template modules in the lab exercises.Table 2 shows the sequence of laboratory exercises for the Implementing Designs phase. One ofthe underlying goals of these exercises is to have students develop modules they can use in

Conference Session

Engineering Education in the Mid-East / Asia

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Gash, United States Military Academy; C. Conley; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Paul Krajeski, U.S. Naval War College; Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy

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International

including Iraq and Afghanistan. During the summer of 2007 he served as a member of the implementation team at the National Military Academy of Afghanistan.Christopher Conley, United States Military Academy Chris Conley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the U.S. Military Academy. He earned a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Massachusetts (1978), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Cornell University (1980, 1983). He has served as a Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, a Senior Research Associate at Cornell University, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell

Conference Session

Novel Measurement Experiments

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

author taught anew course in the area of Engineering Instrumentation during 2005 – 2006 andexperimented with some new ideas. He also successfully designed, developed andimplemented certain assignments and exercises to enhance student learning anddiscovery. In this course, the author attempted to move away from a teaching andlearning paradigm to a discovery paradigm. This is a junior/senior level course whichalso includes a set of creative laboratory experiments that aim at providing hands-onexperience to students. As a part of this course curriculum development, the authorimplemented certain assessment techniques. In this presentation the author describeshow he assessed the outcomes for selected topics in this specific course. He also

Conference Session

Software and Hardware for Educators III

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Vernier, Ohio State University; Craig Morin, Ohio State University; Patrick Wensing, Ohio State University; Ryan Hartlage, Ohio State University; Barbara Carruthers, Ohio State University; Richard Freuler, Ohio State University

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Computers in Education

AC 2009-1941: USE OF A LOW-COST CAMERA-BASED POSITIONING SYSTEMIN A FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING CORNERSTONE DESIGN PROJECTMichael Vernier, Ohio State University Michael A. Vernier is a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the OSU Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors (FEH) Program where he teaches the laboratory portion of the three-quarter FEH engineering course sequence and develops course materials. Mr. Vernier earned his BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2007) from The Ohio State University and is currently a Master’s Candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University, researching control system design for autonomous vehicles.Craig Morin, Ohio State University

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masoud Fathizadeh P.E., Purdue University, Calumet (College of Technology)

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Instrumentation

seeking the education that teaches them skills that can beutilized in real world applications. Despite the fact that colleges and universities are able toreplicate or simulate some of real-world problems within the lecture room or laboratory settings,exposing students with actual real-world experiments as well as hands-on practices can bringanother dimension to their learning and understanding of the subject. Experiential learningcreates a useful possibility to prepare students for profession or research carriers. When collegestudents are given opportunities to examine a real-world situation on campus or in the networklike the ones furnished in internships, area placements, and industrial project partnerships, themastering becomes extensively

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jack Bringardner, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Yona Jean-Pierre, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

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First-Year Programs

knowledge and improve their ability toapply new concepts. Video use also has the potential to utilize students’ existing knowledge baseto foster their interest in engineering and provide them with techniques to assist them withinformation retention. Video instruction allows instructors to tap into students’ prior learning ordeficiencies and provide a teaching approach that helps students prepare outside of theclassroom. It can provide instructors with a method to measure students’ preparedness before thelab and potential for success.For this first-year engineering course, the laboratory exercises and assignments make up three ofthe five weekly meeting hours. The lab assignments cover different disciplines of engineeringevery week, and therefore

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Trung H. Duong, Colorado State University-Pueblo; Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. Themanual robot control and lead-through programming session deals with manipulating varioussmall objects. The computer programming task (two week session) is to have the robot write aword (student’s name) on an 8 ½ by 11 inch sheet of paper. Students’ evaluation survey, collectedwith the lab reports at the end of lab sections, plays an important role of “closing the loop” instudents’ experiential learning process. Figure 1: Laboratory setup for the RV-M2 robot.Hardware Setup The robot system setup, shown in Fig.1, includes the RV-M2 robot arm, the teach pendant, thecontrol module, and a computer. The robot arm can be controlled manually by a teach pendant orprogrammatically by a Q-Basic program, which originally run on an

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Giurgiutiu; David Rocheleau; Jed Lyons

developing this emerging engineering educationfield. DME-USC established a course for teaching microcontrollers to mechanical engineeringstudents – EMCH 367, www.me.sc.edu/courses/emch367. The course consists of four majorcomponents: (a) classroom instruction; (b) homework; (c) laboratory; (d) project. The classroominstruction is focused on instilling in students the basic knowledge related to programming andusing the microcontroller. Part of the classroom instruction is performed in a computerlaboratory, where the students interact with simulation software on a one-on-one basis. Thehomework is focused on the students’ understanding and retention of the concepts in a self-teaching style, and it consists of examples that students follow and exercises

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Striz

Engineering enrollment ofover 500. In the same time frame, the University of Oklahoma College of Engineering (CoE) Page 9.403.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationwas going through the ABET 2000 accreditation process. Based on the industrial andgovernment laboratory (JPL) experience of Donna Shirley and members of the AME AdvisoryBoard, it was obvious that a modern Aerospace Engineering program had to teach more than theold basics of aerodynamics, structures, and propulsion, especially more

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

place, another idea was generated that providesadditional support for engineering students, both undergraduate and graduate alike. The Departmentof Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University implemented a plan in 1993 that focusedon communication needs by having the majority of the on average 25 teaching assistants employedby the department become the principal readers for text produced in the Fluid Mechanics, HeatTransfer, Vibrations, and Controls laboratories. These graduate students critique, comment, andgrade in both the technical and communication areas while also teaching the above laboratories.Over the years this method has had an impact on the quality of the reports produced and theconcentration that is shown by students toward

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Melinda Gallagher; Jenny Golder; Lawrence Genalo

as elementary school. Elementary (andeven secondary) schoolteachers who have an appreciation for technology will likelyconvey that appreciation to their students. This will, in turn, broaden the horizons ofthese students regarding the opportunities they may have regarding careers in scientificand engineering disciplines. Engineering faculty believe the Toying with Technologycourse is a component of the long-term recruitment of K-12 students, particularlyminorities and women, into technology-based fields3, 4, 5.This course is designed to explain the principles behind many of the technologicalinnovations in wide use today via a collection of hands-on laboratory experiences basedupon simple systems constructed out of LEGOs and controlled by

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Satterfield, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Susan Heller-Zeisler, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

15.1247.4associated engineering and mathematics, is increasingly also involved in research involving 3biology and biotechnology related fields. This wide range of research provides multipleopportunities for overlap with the middle school curriculum, including forensics, chemicalreactions, materials science, magnetism, and earthquakes, as shown in Figure 1,the 2009schedule.When considering the topics to be taught in the NIST Summer Institute, the focus and purpose ofNIST is also kept in mind. NIST, as the premier U.S. measurement science, or metrology,research laboratory has much to teach regarding the role of measurement science and itsimportance. The NIST

Conference Session

LEES 4: Understanding and Disrupting Engineering Cultures

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taiylor Rayford, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Nidia Ruedas-Gracia, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Molly Goldstein, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Corey Schimpf, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Lara Hebert, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Lorena Escamilla, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Jesus Zavala, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

. 2019. Accessed: Feb. 03, 2022. [Online]. Available:https://peer.asee.org/beyond-trial-error-iteration-to-learn-using-computational-paper-crafts-in-a-steam-camp-for-girls[32] D. Paris and H. S. Alim, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning forJustice in a Changing World. Teachers College Press, 2017.[33] L. M. Anstey et al., “Reflections as near-peer facilitators of an inquiry project forundergraduate anatomy: Successes and challenges from a term of trial-and-error,” AnatomicalSciences Education, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 64–70, 2014, doi: 10.1002/ase.1383.[34] M. Jett and D. Yourick, “Laboratory near-peer mentoring of jr/sr high school students bycollege undergraduates provides experience and incentives to enhance careers in

Conference Session

Faculty Development Toolkit

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Jordan, Baylor University; Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University; Walter Bradley, Baylor University

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New Engineering Educators

in the state of Louisiana.Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University BILL ELMORE, Ph.D., P.E., is Associate Professor and Hunter Henry Chair, Mississippi State University. His teaching areas include the integrated freshman engineering and courses throughout the chemical engineering curriculum including unit operations laboratories and reactor design. His current research activities include engineering educational reform, enzyme-based catalytic reactions in micro-scale reactor systems, and bioengineering applied to renewable fuels and chemicals.Walter Bradley, Baylor University WALTER BRADLEY is a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Baylor University. He has a B.S

Conference Session

Issues of Concern to New Faculty

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato

Session 3275 So You’re a New Teacher – What Now? Captain Craig Quadrato United States Military AcademyIntroduction Teaching is not my regular job. Or at least it wasn’t. One of the wonderful opportunitiesin the Army is the chance to get selected as a rotating faculty member at The United StatesMilitary Academy (USMA) at West Point. When I was accepted, I was overjoyed. With theappointment as an instructor at USMA came a fully funded masters degree and the opportunityto present structural steel design to undergraduate cadets. But somewhere

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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New Engineering Educators

, innovative and novel graduate education experiences, global learning, and preparation of engineering graduate students for future careers. Her dissertation research focuses on studying the writing and argumentation patterns of engineering graduate students.Dr. Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette Monica F. Cox, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue Univer- sity and is the Inaugural Director of the Engineering Leadership Minor. She obtained a B.S. in mathemat- ics from Spelman College, a M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching interests

Conference Session

Research to Practice: STRAND 4 K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design (Part 2)

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afrin Naz, West Virginia University Inst. of Tech.; Mingyu Lu, West Virginia University Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Technology Mingyu Lu received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Bei- jing, China, in 1995 and 1997 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Uni- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. From 1997 to 2002, he was a research assistant at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 2002 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Electromagnetics Laboratory in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an assistant professor with the Department of Elec- trical Engineering, the University of Texas at Arlington from 2005 to 2012. He joined the Department

Conference Session

Exemplary Outreach Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley; Eli Patten, University of California at Berkeley; Sara Atwood, University of California, Berkeley

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

; sequential vs. global;visual vs. verbal).3 Students are then matched up in groups of four with balanced learning styles,major, and gender. The undergraduates are simultaneously enrolled in a skills laboratory as partof the course that provides a framework for oral and written communication, teamwork, andeffective teaching styles. The objective of the K-12 outreach project is to interest more childrenin the field of engineering while strengthening the engineering and communication skill sets ofthe undergraduates.There is strong evidence that outreach to the K-12 sector is a vital part of maintaining andimproving the numbers of current and potential students who study engineering at the universitylevel.4 Many children are naturally interested in the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationteaching and learning and attend conferences such as ASEE where we interact with our peers.But I contend that we, as academics, are isolated from the day-to-day activities in industry. Evenour research work is generally done in our own labs away from the industries we are doing thework for. Given that very few graduate engineers with bachelor degrees pursue research, alsogiven the fact that I teach mostly first year students, it seemed appropriate that I shouldinvestigate work in industry rather than doing research at a laboratory. I felt that this experiencewould be more directly transferable and of more

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny

Session 3255 Design in Engineering Education and Practice Janis P. Terpenny and Richard M. Goff Department of Engineering Education Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061AbstractThis paper reports on a new core graduate course that has been developed for the recentlyestablished Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and StateUniversity (Virginia Tech). The course is focused on preparing future engineering facultymembers and practitioners to teach

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ursula Nguyen, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Deepika Menon, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Minji Jeon, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Amanda Thomas, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

culture as a starting point, J. Settlage, S. A. Southerland, L. K. Smetana, andP. S. Lottero-Perdue (Eds.), Routledge, 2017, pp. 207–266.[19] T. Anderson, and J. Shattuck, “Design-based research: A decade of progress in educationresearch?” Educational researcher, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 16-25, 2012.[20] C. E. Mundy, M. Potgieter, and M. K. Seery, “A design-based research approach toimproving pedagogy in the teaching laboratory,” Chemistry Education Research and Practice,vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 266-275, 2024.[21] M. Schreier, “Qualitative Content Analysis” in The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative DataAnalysis, pp. 170-183, 2014.[22] S. Stemler, “An overview of content analysis,” Practical assessment, research, andevaluation, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1-6, 2001.[23] T

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Professional Practice 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Retherford, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Sarah Mobley, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

Paper ID #41567Re-designing a Technical Communications Course to Address Scaling ChallengesDr. Jennifer Retherford, University of Tennessee at Knoxville Dr. Retherford is an alumna of the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and received her graduate degrees from Vanderbilt University. She currently teaches a variety of courses supporting the department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University ofDr. Sarah Mobley, University of Tennessee at Knoxville Sarah J. Mobley is a Lecturer in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 2 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Equitable Engagement and Transformative Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Marcia Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

, professional development for graduate students, curriculum innovation in computing, and service-learning.Prof. Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Blake Everett Johnson is a Teaching Assistant Professor and instructional laboratory manager in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include experimental fluid mechanics, measurement science, engineering education, engineering leadership, and professional identity development.Mr. Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign I am currently the Associate Director of Assessment and Research team at the Siebel Center for Design (SCD) at the University

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Lai, Carnegie Mellon University; Elaine Soohoo, Carnegie Mellon University; Diane L. Nelson, Carnegie Mellon University; Conrad M. Zapanta, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical Engineering) from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Zapanta has served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Engineering at Hope College in Holland, MI, an Adjunct Professor of Engineering at Austin Community College in Austin, TX, and an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering at The Pennsylvania State University in Hershey, PA. He also worked for CarboMedics Inc. in Austin, TX, in the research and development of prosthetic heart valves. Dr. Zapanta’s primary teaching responsibilities are Biomedical Engineering Laboratory and Design. Ad- ditional teaching interests include medical device design education and professional issues in biomedical engineering. Dr. Zapanta’s responsibilities as Associate

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed Rahouti, University of South Florida

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

. Applying software-defined networking to minimize the end-to-end delay of network services. ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review 18, 30–40 (2018). 3. Topham, L., Kifayat, K., Younis, Y. A., Shi, Q. & Askwith, B. Cyber security teaching and learning laboratories: A survey. Information & Security 35, 51 (2016). 4. Sharma, S. K. & Sefchek, J. Teaching information systems security courses: A hands-on approach. Computers & Security 26, 290–299 (2007). 5. Willems, C. & Meinel, C. Online assessment for hands-on cyber security training in a virtual lab. In Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2012 IEEE, 1–10 (IEEE, 2012). 6. Xiong, K. & Pan, Y. Understanding protogeni in networking courses for research and

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-15: ASSESSMENT OF PROBLEM-BASED LEARNINGMysore Narayanan, Miami University DR. MYSORE NARAYANAN obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, England in the area of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He joined Miami University in 1980 and teaches a wide variety of electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering courses. He has been invited to contribute articles to several encyclopedias and has published and presented dozens of papers at local, regional, national and international conferences. He has also designed, developed, organized and chaired several conferences for Miami University and conference sessions for a variety of organizations. He is a senior member of