industry practitioners, faculty andstudents believe there is value in learning how to construct technical drawings using a pencil andthat ‘the haptic experience of pencil and paper line production and layout, combined with thediscipline of using orthographic and axonometric projections appears to engender a deeperappreciation of accepted conventions 16.”Some suggest that engineering students are dissatisfied with flat, non-engaging instructionalapproaches and tools. A review of engineering mechanics projects found that none employedhaptics for the feel of forces involved 17. With “feeling as believing” as their guide, a group ofOhio State researchers developed a haptic interface to a set of software activities used byengineering undergraduates and
Paper ID #8228Using a UAV to Teach Undergraduates Math and Aircraft PerformanceDr. Chadia Affane Aji, Tuskegee University Dr. Chadia Affane Aji is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences at Tuskegee University. Dr. Aji’s research interests lie in the areas of numerical analysis, computational applied mathematics, nonlinear partial differential equations, complex analysis, and on improving student learning in undergraduate mathematics courses. Dr. Aji has been a principle investigator or co-principle investigator on numerous interesting and engaging NSF projects. Dr. Aji
comprisedof a three year curriculum that fosters a learning environment in which electrical, computer and systemsengineering students collaborate to engage in the designing, prototyping and testing of engineeringprojects. At the end of the curriculum, students of both majors will have developed a unique skillsetwhich allows for them to effectively solve the real world engineering challenges faced in industry.Specifically, fourth year systems engineering graduates will have the ability to work on technology-oriented projects while electrical and computer engineering graduates with have the ability to integratedomain-specific technical designs into larger systems.During the spring semester of 2012, a pilot study was conducted at the Sunapee State
Professorships, two national ASEE teaching awards, and is internationally recognized in his primary research field.Ms. Kristen Strominger, University of Cincinnati - School of Energy, Environmental, Biological and MedicalEngineering Kristen Strominger is the STEM Program Coordinator working under Anant Kukreti on the NSF Type 1 STEP Project in the School of Energy, Environmental, Biological and Medical Engineering at the Uni- versity of Cincinnati (UC). Kristen completed her master’s degree in Higher Education, Student Affairs at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida previous to beginning her position at UC in July 2012. She plans, designs, evaluates and modifies programs supported by the NSF Type 1 STEP Grant in the
possible that ahybrid course could lead to more efficient delivery of courses, and more efficient utilization ofcampus resources such as rooms and faculty. Of course, this is offset by the time and effort todevelop online course materials. Online course materials can be highly sophisticated and cantake many hours to develop. This may be one of the biggest barriers to developing hybridcourses. Due to the limited scope of this project we did not have the time or funds to developmuch in terms of new online course materials. Therefore, we kept the initial experiment simpleas described below, and concentrated on evaluation.A budget of $5000 was provided for this project. One thousand was spent on equipmentincluding video camera, microphone, and a
-winningintroductory engineering design process course in Germany. First, the US rising sophomoreengineering students joined second-semester freshman German engineering students in a week-long design project in Germany. American students learned that the German design method is awell defined procedure, leading to the best engineered product or process. While the Americanmethod generally tends to be more rapid to market, frequently with improvements made afterproduction begins. Then the US students toured ACHEMA 2012 in Frankfurt, Germany, as wellas numerous large industrial facilities to explore commonalities and differences between the twocountries’ industries and traditions. Finally, the US students participated in guided tours ofGerman historical and
support the scientific research through the finance provided byindustry in order to establish research chairs in the College, the first funded research chair wasestablished in the College of Engineering among the colleges in King Saud University. So far,the College of Engineering has established thirteen research chairs, which are funded by differentinstitutions of the society; most of them are from the industry. The third area contains the supportprovided by industry to the educational aspects in the College through the provision ofscholarships to the outstanding students in different departments of the College. It also includesthe provision of awards to the outstanding graduation projects in the departments. The fourtharea involves the
. Page 23.503.2IntroductionInterest in introducing engineering concepts, including engineering design, to elementary schoolaged children has continued to increase in recent years for a variety of factors, some of whichinclude concerns of lacking STEM literacy and global competitiveness1-3. Engineering designpractice has been emphasized as one of the fundamental components of K-12 science andengineering education4.Learning engineering has several benefits for children, including improved technological literacy.In addition, learning engineering also enhances children’s learning. Students develop problemsolving skills when a design-based learning approach is used in the classroom5. Also,engineering design projects enhance students’ science content
18 Mathematics and Basic Sciences 39 General Education 30The engineering fundamentals courses consist of a project-driven freshman engineeringcurriculum taken by all engineering majors at Louisiana Tech University as well as fundamentalcore courses in statics and strengths of materials, electrical circuits, thermodynamics,engineering materials, electronics, and measurement and instrumentation. These engineeringcourses range from two to three semester credit hours and are sophomore to junior level courseswithin the curriculum.The microsystems and nanosystems engineering courses are engineering courses that provide thestudents a greater depth of knowledge within this
Page 23.898.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Mentoring Programs Supporting Junior FacultyAbstract In this paper we discuss the junior faculty cohort mentoring program we developed aspart of our National Science Foundation funded ADVANCE project. We first providebackground on our ADVANCE project and review the mentoring literature that helped shape ourmentoring program. Then, we describe our program, and discuss the benefits received by theparticipants: mentees and mentors.Introduction North Dakota State University (NDSU), a progressive, public, land grant university in theupper great plains, has been undergoing transformation since the late nineties. The
disasterdetection[2,3]. In addition to performing difficult calculations with ease, robots are also capable ofperforming tasks that are either too intricate, such as small-scale surgeries[4], or too strenuous,such as automobile assembly[5], for humans to perform. For these reasons and countless others,the field of robotics and the wide variety of applications that it encompasses will continue togrow. It is beneficial, therefore, to educate and excite young minds about the wonderfulopportunities available in this field of study. In this paper, our undergraduate research teamhopes to outline the research we conducted over the course of a summer and to propose that ourproject could be expanded upon in further research projects or as part of an
andmath test scores, graduation rates, college enrollment rates, higher education completion rates,and college performance, among other metrics4. Toward this end, we’ve developed severalhands-on STEAM activities specifically to illustrate the interconnectedness of the arts and thesciences through music technology.Summer Music Technology ProgramThe Summer Music Technology Program (SMT) offers a unique educational experience forrising high school sophomores and juniors*. The week-long program, initiated in 2006 as part ofan NSF CAREER award, aims to introduce its participants to the concepts underlying modernmusic technology through inquiry-based projects and activities, drawing upon common musiclistening and playing experiences5. The vast majority
Page 23.954.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Overview of the Tokyo Institute of Technology International Research Opportunities Program (TiROP) - Season One: 2012This paper gives an overview of the establishment of the new Tokyo Institute of TechnologyResearch Opportunities Program (TiROP) to promote bilateral student research exchanges withUS/EU and Asian research universities. TiROP was funded by a grant from the Japan Society forPromotion of Science (JSPS) in the Re-inventing Japan Project that led to the formation of a 10week summer research exchange program in 2012, which consisted of a student led researchproject, Japanese classes, factory tours, cultural activities and a
instructions on how to do something), it follows that thisgeneration of student, who have much experience and reliance on the internet, will fit the schemawe propose.Methodology The current work is a sub-set of a larger project designed to test the impact of bothcreating and viewing videos on students understanding of several important concepts withinthermodynamics. The sophomore level Introductory Thermodynamics course is offered once ayear at the authors’ institutions. This course is usually a student’s first exposure tothermodynamics, and focuses on teaching vocabulary and concepts, and fundamental first-lawproblems.The overall study has four treatment groups and will occur over a period of three years. Each ofthe three thermodynamics
Conversion and Conservation Divisions; presenting all of them with the exception of one paper in 2010 when she was double-booked. Lynn most recently held the position of project coordinator for the ARRA funded Student Energy Internship Program in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at NCSU. She mentored and coordinated 60+ interns with energy professionals in the private and public sectors and recruited interns to volunteer at Family STEM Nights. Prior to this experience, she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow in K-12 Education working under the direction of Liz Parry, Dr. Laura Bottomley and Dr. Karen Hollebrands in the RAMP-UP program at NCSU. During this tenure she created Energy Clubs
receive a D or F on the exam.This research project investigates the introduction of university provided mobile devices into afreshman level construction materials and methods course. Device use is incorporated into thecourse in several ways, but this paper only examines the use of electronic flashcards, allowing Page 23.1313.2students to study their vocabulary wherever they are. Specifically, this paper provides apreliminary evaluation of: (1) whether the flashcards help students to better prepare for mediumand high stakes exams; and (2) whether the flashcards increase the mean exam scores comparedto previous semesters with no flashcards.The
i. Develop original research ideas j. Develop start-up plan including budget and equipment Figure 1: Flowchart to Prepare for an Academic Career in a Research UniversityProceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 4Research: In my particular case, at the start of my degree program, I picked a research area Iwas interested in and stayed with it throughout my graduate program. My research was a JointIndustry Project (JIP) with a 5 year privacy clause on the finish date of my dissertation. Thismeant I would not be able to publish my work in any public journals until 5
ImplementationFor our "flipped" approach, we chose a junior level undergraduate computer organization andarchitecture. This course included coverage of fundamental computer organization conceptsincluding assembly language programming and instruction set architecture, memory hierarchy Page 23.548.5concepts and policies, processor organization, and structures of discussion and practice withembedded systems programming. While conceptual understanding and mastery of these topicswas important, students in the traditional lecture-based approach often struggled when posedwith their application in specific hardware and software design projects. Students
Page 23.759.2AbstractAn innovative Game Design/creation/play Methodology (GDM), developed through our researchon the HP Catalyst Grant project, in conjunction with International Society for Technology inEducation (ISTE) and Sloan Consortium (SLOAN-C), was introduced in the graduateSustainability Management program courses. This was a pilot to study GDM’s impact on studentlearning, motivation, creativity, engagement, innovation, team interactions, instructor leadership,and how they all contributed towards the Course Learning Outcomes (CLO). GDM wasintroduced in two different courses in MS Sustainability Management program: SUS601Introduction to Sustainability and SEM608 Sustainable Buildings. These student-built gameswere closly tied to and
Paper ID #8204An Effective Leadership Development Experience through Modular Skill BasedSimulationsMr. Tim Boyd, Northrop Grumman Corporation After graduating from the California Institute of Technology in 2006, Tim started working at Northrop Grumman as a Systems Engineer. Since 2006, Boyd has not only been involved in performance analysis and on-orbit sensor characterization but has also managed technical teams as a technical team lead and a deputy Integrated Project Team lead within the SEIT (Systems Engineering Integration and Test) organi- zation. Boyd has presented his work at both academic and industry
a B.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame. She received a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.Ms. Gloria A. Murphy, NASA Gloria A. Murphy is currently the Project Manager of the Lunabotics Mining Competition at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida. Ms. Murphy began her career in 1990 with NASA as a cooperative student in the Payload Processing Directorate. Her first engineering position was an experi- ment test engineer for the Spacelab Program. In 1998, Ms. Murphy began working on the International Space Station (ISS) Program as a systems engineer for the Multi Element Integrated Test (MEIT). She continued to develop her engineering
and Techniques for Improving Students Learning6.1 Real-life Examples and ExperimentsSeveral real-life examples, hands-on experiments and projects have been constructed and used tohelp students in tackling thermodynamics concepts and principles, and to connect abstract ideasto accrual hardwere.38- 44 Flotterud et al.38 for example described a micro-combined heat andpower system sized for residential distributed power generation. The system has been used as alaboratory experiments in which students take measurements to complete an energy balance andperform second-law analysis. The real-life experiment enhanced students learning of somethermodynamics principles. Li and Zhou39 described a thermodynamics project in whichstudents had to select a
eight TAs, 11 different factors regarding time, workload, training format, andtraining content were discussed that they felt either helped or hindered their training experience.Three factors, completing the open-ended project, face-to-face discussions, and face-to-facelecture discussed as main helpful factors. Major hindering factors were too much work and toomuch information.3. Helpful Factors related to TrainingThe completing the open-ended project for the semester was identified to be the most helpfulfactor on training participation, since three TAs (Piper, Gail, and Greg) explicitly discussed thisfactor. Piper mentioned completing an MEA and doing MEA grading prior to face-to-facetraining was helpful. Gail states that completing the MEA
questionwere pleasing to see. None of the students involved had participated in a balloon-launch Page 23.665.8experiment prior. Because of this, it was expected that most students would be affected by theproject. The results regarding influence on course selection were also expected. Because of how new the SEDS team was at the time of the experiment, it was necessary to create a non-technically intensive project. This means there would not be any specific coursework necessaryto have to succeed in executing or understanding what was going on. As the group grows, moretechnically advanced projects may become possible with using subgroups of specific
literacy and has given numerous talks on security. His current funded research is targeted at developing robust countermeasures for network-based security exploits and large scale attack simulation environ- ments and is the director of the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE) test bed project. He has given over 75 presentations in the area of computer security and has testified in front of the U.S. Senate committee of the Judiciary on security issues associated with peer-to-peer networking. He has served as an ABET program evaluator representing IEEE for five years. He is a Fellow of IEEE and received the IEEE Educational Activities Board Major Educational Innovation Award in 2012 for his work
position in the School of Engineering and Technology and the Science of Advanced Materials program at Central Michigan University (CMU). Prior to joining CMU, Dr. Kaya was a post-doctorate associate at Yale University from 2007 to 2010 and a research and teaching assistant at Istanbul Technical University in Instanbul, Turkey from 1999 to 2007. He was a consultant at Brightwell Corp. in 2007, and a senior VLSI analog design engineer and project coordinator at Microelectronics R&D Company from 2000 to 2006. Dr. Kaya was a visiting assistant in research at Yale University from 2004 to 2005. Dr. Kaya received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics Engineering from ITU. His research interests in electrical
the department visit, the students participate in two-or three hourhands-on experimental laboratory classes. The truss bridge laboratory is a part of this onecredit hour course offered to the freshmen engineering students by the Civil and CoastalEngineering department. The purpose of the laboratory is to familiarize students with theconcept, theory and practical side of the civil engineering and is focused on aidingstudents in the process of making an informed decision for their futures. This paper isfocused on procedure of the laboratory as well as how the resulted data can be utilized inreal-life projects. After each team of 4-5 students build their truss, the truss is loaded untilit fails. Record of the failure load, score, and final score
Mechanics and Heat Transfer Page 23.302.21. Introduction:It is common knowledge, and has been demonstrated by numerous studies, that thecombination of theory and hands-on experience is a critical component of engineeringeducation1-5. Hands on, i.e. open-ended laboratory experiences can be delivered in variousways. They are either integrated into courses that contain both lectures and lab componentsor offered separately as lab courses which may, in turn, be formal group-based activities orsingular individual project-based. In an effort to give students the full benefit that they cangain from in-depth laboratory activities, departments devote money and effort to purchase orupgrade lab
providedopen source videos, from resources such as Khan Academy[7] and MIT Open Courseware[8], foreach topic. After reading, students will answer reading questions to test their understanding ofthe material. They will also answer engineering application questions that will test theirknowledge of the calculus concepts in the form of an engineering problem. The reading andengineering application questions will be administered through SoftChalk and will not be graded.Their purpose is for students to check their understanding of relevant concepts so they can seekadditional help when appropriate.IV. Design ProjectMost college engineering courses incorporate a team design project so we decided to use one forthe course. Studies have also shown that
flow, b) data structures like dictionaries, lists, tuples, and classes c)structured and object oriented programming methods, d) interactive graphic programmingand e) the html, xml and http processing.The paper elaborates the pedagogy of classroom delivery and impact on student comprehen-sion, conceptual understanding, learning and mastering of Python philosophy. Both methodsof vertical and horizontal learning methods are used in this class. All programs that studentswrite are added to a class repertoire which the current and future students will have access tofor enhanced horizontal learning. Students are required to a design a project at the end of theclass in which student teams of twos work on a project using python and share with the