Paper ID #18226Correlation of Admission Data to Undergraduate Student Success in Electri-cal EngineeringDr. Harry O. Aintablian, University of Washington, Bothell Harry Aintablian is a Lecturer of Electrical Engineering. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engi- neering from Ohio University. He has eighteen years of experience in aerospace power electronics/power systems at Jet Propulsion Laboratory and at Boeing Space Systems. He has five years of full-time teaching experience in electrical engineering. His research interests include the application of power electronics to space systems and to alternative energy
users. The Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology (DO-IT) center at the University of Washington [6] provides an extensive repository of resources related to accessibility and universal design, in particular guidelines for both engineering labs [7] and makerspaces [8]. The Accessible Biomedical Immersion Laboratory (ABIL) at Purdue University [9] and the Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind [10] also provide excellent recommendations and models. Recommendations are broken down into guidelines for physical environments, tools and hardware, and instructional and support resources. Open floor plans with clearly marked and accessible routes of travel are a priority in accessible work spaces, with reconfigurable and height
Paper ID #21688Review of Global Trends in Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA) Frame-works Applicable to Ph.D. Programs in EngineeringMr. Eric Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette Eric Holloway currently serves as the Senior Director of Industry Research in the College of Engineering at Purdue University, where he focuses on industry research in the College of Engineering. From 2007-2013, Eric served as the Managing Director and the Director of Instructional Laboratories in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. As Director, he was in charge of the building and implementation of the Ideas to
Paper ID #22281Teaching Mechanics in Another Country – Reflections on a Professorenaus-tauschDr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Brian Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Brian has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. During the 2011-2012 academic year he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich
Standards and Technology.Dr. Peter C. Nelson, University of Illinois, Chicago Peter Nelson was appointed Dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) College of Engineer- ing in July of 2008. Prior to assuming his deanship, Professor Nelson was head of the UIC Depart- ment of Computer Science. In 1991, Professor Nelson founded UIC’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which specializes in applied intelligence systems projects in fields such as transportation, manufacturing, bioinformatics and e-mail spam countermeasures. Professor Nelson has published over 80 scientific peer reviewed papers and has been the principal investigator on over $30 million in research grants and con- tracts on issues of
1978; and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1991. Dr. DeLyser, a member of the U.S. Air Force between 1965 and 1986, held a teaching position at the United States Air Force Academy, served as a development engineer at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Kirtland AFB in New Mexico and was the Requirements Officer for the Nellis AFB Ranges in Nevada. Prior to 2000, his research areas included pedagogy, outcomes based assessment, the study of periodic gratings used as antennas and in antenna systems, high power microwave interactions with large complex cavities, anechoic chambers, and anechoic chamber absorbing materials. Since 2000, he has been concentrating on engineering education pedagogy
power control or fan speed control is required. Students in an instrumentation or controlscourse could use the USB interface to the Arduino to collect data and/or reprogram the Arduino toperform feedback control.Six of the devices with varying sized heat sinks were used in a trial homework assignment in anundergraduate heat transfer course with 75 students in Spring 2015 and in another section of thesame course with 57 students in Winter 2016. At this point, we have no quantitative assessmentdata.OverviewThough laboratory exercises are a standard part of an engineering curriculum, there are a widevariety of ways that labs can be implemented. In recent years a number of simple experimentshave been developed that help to make laboratory
peer reviewed conference proceedings articles in these areas. He has B.S. in ME, and both M.S. and Ph.D. in IE. He is a member of ASEE, INFORMS, and a senior member of IIE.Dr. Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University Dr. Michael D. Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and In- dustrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product development engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Johnson’s research focuses on design tools
Paper ID #14903Expanding Diversity in STEM: Developing International Education and Re-search Partnerships in a Global SocietyDr. Christopher Lum, University of Washington Dr. Lum received his PhD in Aeronautics & Astronautics from the University of Washington in 2009. He is currently a research scientist at the University of Washington’s William E. Boeing Aeronautics & Astronautics Department and runs the Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory. His research interests includes coordinated multi-vehicle searching, automatic target recognition, formation flight of swarms of vehicles, risk assessment of UAS in the
researchcomputing facilities (2400-processor cluster). Recently a group of self-selected faculty and theirgraduate students have formed a cluster in the newly renovated second floor of theInterdisciplinary Research building. A feature of this space that is relevant to this project is that itwas designed to foster collaboration through the use of non-partitioned, shared laboratories andinterdisciplinary arrangement of office space. We believe this atmosphere, which facilitatescollaboration and collegiality, is the perfect environment for a RET site.ParticipantsParticipants in the program are in-service high school teachers, community college faculty andpre-service teachers. High school teachers are recruited by an email to all high school teachersin
opens new possibilities in nanotechnology, and other recent research holds exciting promise for energy-related applications. Dr. Dresselhaus’ public advocacy for women in engineering and science began in the mid-1970s, when the number of American women seeking undergraduate degrees in engineering began to rise. Recognizing this as an issue of great importance for the profession, Dr. Dresselhaus began actively speaking out in favor of women's access to careers in technology and science. Her unquestioned accomplishments in the laboratory and classroom gave her an unparalleled credibility in this national dialogue. Her 1975 article “Some Personal Views on Engineering Education for Women” (IEEE Transactions on
Paper ID #13106FAST learning: Follow Accomplishments of Senior TeamsDr. Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Florida Golf Coast University Dr. Fernando Gonzalez joined FGCU as an Assistant Professor in the Software Engineering Program in the fall of 2013. Previously he has worked at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas, the U.S. Department of Energy at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico and at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Gonzalez graduated from the University of Illinois in 1997 with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. He received his Master’s degree in Electrical
design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past 10 years she gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development. Dr Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement and Instrumentation course as well as for quality control undergraduate and graduate courses in ET Masters program. Also, she
, NativeAmerican, and Latino designs. Likewise, eliminating masculine-associated language frompromotional materials and decorating rooms in a gender-neutral manner can help increase theparticipation of females.11, 22Engineering programs typically include a rich set of hands-on laboratories that supportclassroom-based curriculum. These hands-on laboratories can create particular challenges inmaking a curriculum that is broadly accessible, especially for individuals with disabilities.However, simple UD strategies can often make these labs accessible to a broader audience. Weconducted site visits of a machine shop and four engineering labs at a large research university.Based on these site visits and resources developed for making science labs more
mathematics by applying evidence-based teaching strategies—student-centeredproblem-based teaching(SC-PBT), example-based teaching, and just-in-time teaching (JITT); (3)incorporating classroom and laboratory activities that require active student engagement,conceptual understanding, critical thinking, and problem-solving; and (4) Employing modelstudents to lead Supplementary Instruction (SI) courses with evidence-based peer-to-peerlearning strategies. This section mainly describes the details on the implementation of evidence-based teaching and SI program in selected STEM gateway courses.3.1 Implementing evidence-based teaching in STEM gateway coursesInnovative, evidence-based instructional practices are critical to transforming the
Sustainability (CIVL 317), andEngineering Management (CIVL 411), the two courses that are the focus of this paper.Table 2 Summary of Civil Engineering Courses linked with Professional Skills Development Civil Engineering Course Academic Year Engineering Drawing, CIVL 101 Freshman Introduction to Civil Engineering, CIVL 103 Surveying, CIVL 205Computer Application for Civil & Environmental Engineering, CIVL 210 Sophomore Surveying I Laboratory, CIVL 235 Highway Engineering, CIVL 302 Transportation Engineering, CIVL 305
Paper ID #13599Student Learning in Challenge-based Ocean Engineering ProjectProf. Shyam Aravamudhan, North Carolina A&T State University Shyam Aravamudhan is an Assistant Professor and Graduate Coordinator of Nanoengineering at the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN), North Carolina A&T State University. Shyam re- ceived his PhD in Electrical Engineering (2007) from University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. Shyam previously worked as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (Emer- gency Response and Air Toxicants Branch in the Division of Laboratory Sciences) and
an unsafe condition, whereas pilots must realize the complex coordinationthat is occurring on the ground in a control room, and the need to have efficient and optimizedtests to minimize programmatic costs.Curriculum Execution Challenges Page 26.193.11Each student day allows for 3 to 4 hours of academic instruction, with 1 to 2 flight events alsoscheduled during that day. A simulation laboratory, instructor feedback session, or oral reportmay take the place of a flying event as required. An academic event will often last 3 to 5 days,with a test given at the end of an event. Each academic event is part of a larger course that alsoincludes
Page 26.251.3is to engage students with research experiences in the first two years by funding implementationof research courses for students in the first two years, and establishing collaborations betweenresearch universities and small colleges, such as community colleges, to provide all studentsaccess to research experiences.1There are many studies documenting the benefits of research opportunities for undergraduatestudents. Independent research experiences increase student engagement in their education2-4,enhance research and laboratory skills2-6, improve academic performance4,7,8, increaseunderstanding and interest for their discipline2-6,9-12, strengthen oral and written communicationskills12,14, enhance problem solving and critical
program incorporatedafternoon laboratory rotations that both reflected the multidisciplinary characteristics of thecritical infrastructure security problems and addressed the often-limited attention span of theADHD student. The extended laboratory research experience allowed the students to form an in-depth understanding of a critical infrastructure research challenge related to their academicmajors. The students’ daily schedule, then, consisted of spending mornings and early afternoonsin their primary lab and afternoons in their laboratory rotation. Primary laboratory experienceswere facilitated both by a graduate student and a faculty mentor. The rotations lasted for oneweek, which maintained student interest that can often be lost while
, to the best of our knowledge, a practical solution and an effective assessmentstrategy have not been adopted for emerging usage models integration such as IWMDs. Ourpedagogical hypothesis is that emerging security research (through cryptographic solutions) canbe integrated in university education considering three teaching and learning approaches; (a).Developing a respective multi-disciplinary laboratory (engineering, mathematics, andbiomedicine in particular) for both research and teaching, (b). Advancing education throughinter- and intra-university research collaborations in the aforementioned fields, and (c).Assessing the outcome through detailed benchmarks. The authors of this work are from differentand diverse backgrounds and have prior
majors. The course is not tailored toengineering in so much as the content covered is not presented or framed within the context ofengineering. Different than pre-medical or biology majors, the engineering students are notrequired to take the laboratory portion of the course.InstrumentsThe engineering students were given a series of instruments at the end of their biology course.Four different instruments were utilized to assess the relationship between future timeperspective, course belongingness, and interest.Future time perspective was measured using two different instruments that represent the twocomponents of future time perspective: perceptions of instrumentality and career connectedness: Perceptions of Instrumentality (PI): The
including design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past 10 years she gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development. Dr Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement and Instrumentation course as well as for quality control undergraduate and graduate courses in ET Masters program. Also
under-represented minority groups.Dr. Mark Tufenkjian, California State University, Los Angeles Dr. Tufenkjian is Chair of the Civil Engineering Department at Cal. State LA. His research interests include advanced geotechnical laboratory testing and in-situ testing of soft clay soils. His research has been funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Department of Defense. He is currently the PI on a STEM grant from ONR to provide engineering students pathways to careers at Navy Labs in the southern California region.Dr. Emily L. Allen, California State University, Los Angeles Emily L. Allen, Ph.D., is Dean of the College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology at California State University, Los
-year life of the Hope Scholarship. Therefore, financial aid in the fifth year is often required.For these reasons, schematics for students on both the Tennessee Promise and Hopescholarships are shown in Figure 4. 8Year 1: Onsite Faculty Seminars As a way to generate interest in UTK Tickle College of Engineering disciplines, faculty members will travel to community colleges state wide to perform an onsite laboratory demonstrations, and promote academics and research capabilities of individual departments. This high impact practice resembles a first year seminar focused on introducing students to different disciplinary areas of engineering. To
Paper ID #31451Making the Move from C to Python With Mechanical Engineering StudentsDr. Burford J. Furman, San Jose State University Burford ”Buff” Furman has been on the faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at San Jos´e State University since 1994. Prior to coming to SJSU, he worked at IBM in the Silicon Valley (San Jos´e, California) in the development of disk drive actuators and spindle motors. He has also worked as a consultant in the optomechanical and laboratory automation industries. His areas of teaching and research are primarily focused in mechatronics and solar-powered automated
composites. He has worked with several federal laboratories in the area of fatigue, impact, and finite element modeling of woven composites. He has published over two hundred papers in these areas. In addition, he has edited two books in the area of Nano Engineered materials. He is a member of several professional societies including ASME, SAMPE, AIAA, ASM, and ASEE.Dr. John P. Kizito, North Carolina A&T State University John Kizito is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director Graduate Program in Mechanical En- gineering Program at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. His research areas include Microgravity Fluids, Thermal Management and Astronautics. He is a member of SAE, ASME, and
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 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 Electrical Engineering, the University of Texas at Arlington from 2005 to 2012. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, West Virginia University Institute of Technology in 2012, and he is currently a professor. His current research inter- est
between chemistry, physics, engi- neering, and biology preparing the trainees for careers in academe, national laboratories, and industry. In addition to research, she devotes significant time developing and implementing effective pedagogical approaches in her teaching of undergraduate courses to train engineers who are critical thinkers, problem solvers, and able to understand the societal contexts in which they are working to addressing the grand challenges of the 21st century.Dr. Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico Jamie Gomez, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer III in the department of Chemical & Biological Engineering (CBE) at the University of New Mexico. She is a co- principal investigator for the following
Canada Automotive Research and Development Centre (ARDC), conducting vehicle durability studies and associated research activities in the Road Test Simulation (RTS) laboratory. In 2005, Dr. Johrendt joined the University of Windsor and developed her research in the areas of Engineering Education as well as neural network models for automotive design and simulation with the goal of accelerating product development. Additional work related to the field of composites includes design for light weighting structures for automotive and aerospace applications. in 2018, Dr. Johrendt took an administrative role as the Assistant Dean - Student Affairs, leading the WINONE Office of First Year Engineering, also responsible for