little training for a user to employ it to design quite complex hybrid powerand renewable energy systems. So it can bring technical skills related to energy systems toundergraduate engineering and technology students or professionals interested to learn andexpend their knowledge in these areas. Moreover HONER can be a useful tool and aid forstudents’ research projects or to engage the students in renewable energy related research andproject. In next section we are presenting some examples of how HOMER could be integrated aspart of the existing or planed renewable energy courses. After interacting and learning theHUMER use students and other users (teaching and research assistants, laboratory engineers ortechnicians) are expected to get technical
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facilitation of cleanroom teaching and high school outreach in VINSE and helps researchers use nanoscale fabrication techniques to solve challenging nanoscale science and engineering problems.Dr. Charleson S Bell, Vanderbilt University Charleson Bell, PhD, overseeing the domain of Innovation, Enterprise, and Economic Development in the Vanderbilt Office of the Vice Provost of Research and Innovation, is a recognized leader administering the establishment of an innovation ecosystem across the Mid-South that will galvanize an innovation economy to impart shared prosperity across the region. Dr. Bell is the Hub Director of the NSF Mid-South I-Corps Hub and co-PI & State Director of the NIH Mid-South Research, Evaluation and
Paper ID #15987Assessment of a Collaborative NSF RET Program Focused on Advanced Man-ufacturing and MaterialsDr. 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
” (ActiveExperimentation). This led to keeping the focus on hands-on experiences in the classroom [9].A focus on Student-Centered Instruction [2] even helped with the classes where some lecturewas done, so that problem-solving and group work was always mixed in. Even more supportwas provided through attending an ExCEEd workshop (Excellence in Civil EngineeringEducation), where there were numerous examples of class demonstrations and innovative classactivities. The text provided with that workshop continues to be invaluable for teaching, alongwith Wankat and Oreovicz [11] who state that “Laboratory classes can be structured to reinforcelectures not with cookbook exercises but with the scientific learning cycle.” They provideexamples and options for both in-class
” (ActiveExperimentation). This led to keeping the focus on hands-on experiences in the classroom [9].A focus on Student-Centered Instruction [2] even helped with the classes where some lecturewas done, so that problem-solving and group work was always mixed in. Even more supportwas provided through attending an ExCEEd workshop (Excellence in Civil EngineeringEducation), where there were numerous examples of class demonstrations and innovative classactivities. The text provided with that workshop continues to be invaluable for teaching, alongwith Wankat and Oreovicz [11] who state that “Laboratory classes can be structured to reinforcelectures not with cookbook exercises but with the scientific learning cycle.” They provideexamples and options for both in-class
sections with each section having a different project. The students originallyattended two lectures per week, and had a three-hour laboratory. The laboratory includedteamwork exercises, dissection exercises, and other activities, in addition to direct work onthe project. There is a relatively large number of teaching staff associated with the course,with one faculty member associated with two sections. In addition, a senior undergraduatestudent (called a student assistant) is associated with each of the sections.Table 1: Description of Original Version of Introduction to EngineeringNumber of Students ~200Number of Laboratory Sections 16Number of Lectures Per Week 2 – 50 minutes
Paper ID #44036Impact of PhET Interactive Simulation in a Hybrid Physics Course: The Caseof Repeating StudentsJohanna Antonia Perasso Adunce, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile. Johanna Perasso is a Physics teacher with over 25 years of experience in teaching sciences at the university level. She completed her master’s degree in Experimental Sciences, focusing on researching students’ levels of scientific thinking in the field of sciences. Johanna has participated in projects for designing and implementing strategies to strengthen competencies in STEM; and she is continually involved in designing and evaluating
reviewed publications in these fields.Mr. Lawrence David Landis, Intel Programmable Solutions Group Senior Manager University Academic Outreach, Intel Programmable Solutions Group Lawrence has 35 years’ experience in a wide variety of functions in the electronics industry including marketing, sales and project management for numerous ASIC and FPGA products. Larry teaches part time digital electronics and ASIC design at Santa Clara University and UC Berkeley.Prof. Perry L. Heedley, California State University, Sacramento PERRY L. HEEDLEY earned his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Auburn University and his B.E.E. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has over 20 years of industrial experience designing analog and mixed
. Xilinx has been involved in all aspects of the redirection ofthe two courses and has provided outstanding support.Microcontrollers and Associated Development EnvironmentsWhen teaching applied microcontroller development, the Programs have found that theestablishment and maintenance of the laboratory infrastructure (hardware, software, and testequipment) is both expensive and time consuming. Therefore, the first requirement associatedwith picking a microcontroller environment is ensuring that the manufacturer will partner inorder to support teaching and education. A second decision factor is making sure that the chosenenvironment is a leading industry standard. Finally, the selected family of microcontrollers mustbe complex enough that students
offered at RELLIS that addresses an identified need. There is no limit in thenumber of programs, within the constraints of space and cost, that a single institution can offer.The proposed programs, however, are evaluated to ensure the objectives of non-duplication andcost-effectiveness are achieved. Figure 4: Decision tree for evaluating a proposed program offering Figure 5: Consideration for facilities, focus and synergiesWhen proposing to offer a degree program, the institutions are asked to submit a detaileddescription of the program including opportunities for a minor, the curriculum (broken out bysemester), laboratories and specialized teaching facilities required to offer
phenomena, Biotransport focuseson passive biological transport, including mass and fluid transfer both in the body and inartificial organs. In the presentation of biological transport, it is essential that students recognizethe limitations in solving problems with fundamental equations and the importance ofassumptions when investigating realistic problems. A non-traditional laboratory component wasdeveloped to address these issues and it involved a semester-long group project to create anexperiment based on teachings in the first transport course. The objective of the project was toapply the basic principles learned in the first course to biological situations and to present alaboratory using these concepts to a specified audience (e.g., first
that the faculty has determined to be important.” 7 And in a pithyassessment of the value of clear written communication for the engineer, Forsyth (2004) notesthat “the effort involved” in careful drafting “will pay dividends.” 8 The authors of this study Page 11.694.2understand the value of writing within engineering practice. The University of Texas at Tylerfounded its School of Engineering (now the College of Engineering and Computer Science) in1997, and industrial experience was required in all founding faculty, including Dr. Beams whowrote numerous laboratory reports, letters to vendors and customers, memoranda, testinstructions, failure
total delay time between a user’s action andthe system response. Latency must be below human perceptual thresholds to create acomfortable virtual environment. Other considerations for wireless design in virtualenvironments are: complete coverage of the interaction space, no interference with other wirelessdevices, the data rates between the user and the system, and low-power requirements. Thecurrent project team includes four faculty members, three graduate students and twoundergraduate students.First Year AccomplishmentsIn the first year of this project, new laboratory experiments were added to existing courses incommunications to enforce the concepts of hardware/software co-design and human factorsissues. One example of these first
information, and periodic review of thecurriculum.Teaching Area Groups (TAG) are formed based on the current teaching interests of faculty.These groups advise the Undergraduate Program Committee on various matters related to thecourses assigned to a particular group. The tasks include choice of textbooks, updating ofcourse syllabi, and the review of assessment information.A number of other committees are involved in improving the quality of academic environmentsuch as student advising, faculty promotion, appointment and contract renewal, scholarship,laboratory, computing facilities, budget and planning. The advising committee is responsiblefor advising and counseling students to ensure a healthy progression towards graduation.Faculty promotion and
2006-1264: EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF INTERACTIVITY ON STUDENTPERFORMANCEDaria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado-Boulder DARIA KOTYS-SCHWARTZ is a doctoral candidate and instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering at The Ohio State University. Her research interests include polymer processing, development of student assessment measures, gender disparity in engineering and innovative instructional methodology.Lawrence Carlson, University of Colorado-Boulder LAWRENCE E. CARLSON is a founding co-director of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory and Program, as
Provost for Research and Gradu- ate Studies. A Professor of Software Engineering, Dr. Acharya joined Robert Morris University in Spring 2005 after serving 15 years in the Software Industry. His teaching involvement and research interest are in the area of Software Engineering education, Software Verification & Validation, Software Security, Data Mining, Neural Networks, and Enterprise Resource Planning. He also has interest in Learning Objectives based Education Material Design and Development. Dr. Acharya is a co-author of ”Discrete Mathematics Applications for Information Systems Professionals” and ”Case Studies in Software Verification & Val- idation”. He is a member of Nepal Engineering Association and is
Paper ID #16107Engineering Faculty on Writing: What They Think and What They WantNatascha Michele Trellinger, Purdue University, West Lafayette Natascha Trellinger is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She graduated with her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Syracuse University where her interest in the teaching and learning aspects of engineering began. At Purdue, Natascha is a member of the Global Engineering Education Collaboratory (GEEC) and is particularly interested in graduate level engineering education and faculty experiences.Prof. Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West
AC 2011-1503: WHY INDUSTRY SAYS THAT ENGINEERING GRADU-ATES HAVE POOR COMMUNICATION SKILLS: WHAT THE LITERA-TURE SAYSJeffrey A. Donnell, Georgia Institute of Technology Jeffrey Donnell coordinates the Frank K. Webb Program in Professional Communication at Georgia Tech’s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical EngineeringBetsy M. Aller, Western Michigan University Betsy M. Aller is an associate professor in industrial and manufacturing engineering at Western Michigan University, where she teaches and coordinates the capstone design project sequence. She also teaches first-year engineering, manufacturing for sustainability, and graduate-level project management courses.Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University
components of the arm to bequickly cut out of a single sheet of Lexan. While this approach was effective in demonstratingthe fluid power components used to control the arm, the fluid power system was mechanicallycontrolled, which limits the opportunities to use the tool in a wide range of courses. Figure 4. Excavator Arm Utilizing Layered Lexan Materials Designed at the University of Southern Indiana in 2018 [9]A portable excavator design was developed at Purdue University with the intent of providing atool to teach electro-hydraulic principles in fluid power. This excavator arm takes the approachof providing a small portable demonstrator to students in fluid power laboratories. The designfeatures a lightweight
AC 2007-628: RESULTS FROM A MULTI-CENTER INVESTIGATION OF THEEFFECT OF NETWORK LATENCY ON PEDAGOGIC EFFICACYJames Squire, Virginia Military Institute Dr. James Squire is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Virginia Military Institute. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY and served in the army as a Military Intelligence officer during Desert Storm. Although his PhD is in electrical engineering, he completed his doctoral work in a biomedical engineering laboratory at MIT and has interests in analog and digital instrumentation, signal processing, biomechanics, patent litigation, and cardiology. At VMI he teaches
authors intend to continue collaboration around building, improving and sustainingexceptional undergraduate ergonomics classrooms and labs to meet the needs of the changingworkforce. Continuous improvement in the classroom necessitates alignment with professionalorganizations and industrial partners. Faculty collaboration and class comparison makes theprocess meaningful.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to acknowledge colleagues at University A and University B who havecontributed and enabled the development of the ergonomics class and laboratory. Also, thanks tothe many undergraduate and graduate students who have influenced the teaching style andcontent for the benefit of future students. Thank you to the NCEES for expertise and
Paper ID #9940Virtual Community of Practice: Electric CircuitsProf. Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDr. Lisa Huettel, Duke University Dr. Lisa G. Huettel is an associate professor of the practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University where she also serves as associate chair and director of Undergraduate Studies for the department. She received a B.S. in Engineering Science from Harvard University and earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Duke University. Her research interests are focused on engineering education, curriculum and laboratory
choosing learning outcomes beforeinstructional methods or assessments. This means one chooses the outcome of the learningexperience first, and let that guide the teaching/learning and the assessment/evaluation. Thismethod challenges "traditional" methods of curriculum planning in which a list of content that isto be taught is created and/or selected first and teaching/assessment methodology usually arelectures and laboratories, with written exams as assessment of learning. In backward design, the Page 26.1354.4educator starts with goals, creates or plans out assessments and finally makes lesson plans.Supporters of backward design liken the
and extracurricular activities.4 The overall competence and effectiveness of faculty members may be judged by such factors as the level of academic achievement; the diversity of their backgrounds; the extent to which they further their own education in relevant areas; industrial experience; teaching experience; being technically current; interest in and enthusiasm for improving instruction; involvement in laboratory development; publication and other scholarly activities; active participation in professional and scientific societies; favorable evaluations from students, graduates, and peers; the ability to
Experiments,” The Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 87, no. 1, pp. 7-9. 10. Phillips, A., Palazolo, P. and C.V. Camp. “Team Teaching Technical Topics: An Innovative Approach to an Introductory Civil Engineering Course,” Proceedings, 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, 2000, Session 473. 11. Engineering Criteria 2000, 3rd edition. Engineering Accreditation Commission. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., Baltimore, MD Pub. No. 98- AB-7a, 1998. 12. Schmucker, Douglas G. Structures Demonstration Laboratory. http://diamond.gem.valpo.edu/~harvey/models/strdemo.html 13. Schmucker, Douglas G. Manila File Folder Project. http://diamond.gem.valpo.edu/~harvey/classes/ce202/project.html
multitude of factors:environmental impact, rising energy cost and future workforce needs [5,6]. The cross-disciplinarynature of energy-efficient building design has created many challenges for architecture,engineering and construction instructors. The key challenge in teaching sustainable buildingdesign is the complexity of integrating various factors like energy efficiency, material selection,and building orientation, as these concepts can be difficult to convey through traditional methods[7]. The multifaceted nature of this problem makes energy a powerful unifying concept in scienceeducation, but this can lead to confusion for students, especially as they progress through differentgrade levels and subject areas [8].Although curricula across the
the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE). Prior to joining ASU he was a graduate student research assistant at the Tufts’ Center for Engineering Education and Outreach.Dr. Jumoke ’Kemi’ Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University Dr. J. ’Kemi Ladeji-Osias is Professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the School of Engineering at Morgan State University in Baltimore. Dr. Ladeji-Osias earned a B.S. in electrical engi- neering from the University of Maryland, College Park and a joint Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Rutgers University and UMDNJ. Dr. Ladeji-Osias’ involvement in engineering curricular innovations includes adapting portal laboratory instrumentation into experiments from multiple STEM
enter professional practice. Students whopursue graduate school directly upon graduation are recruited by a number of schools andhave been very successful. The department faculty is a relatively young, dedicated, and col-legial group that is regarded as exemplary throughout the university in terms of teaching ef-fectiveness and in professional development.The existing curriculum at UWP is typical of conventional CEE curricula. Students completebasic mathematics, science, and general engineering courses in the first two years followed bycivil and environmental engineering courses in the remainder of their studies. The CEE pro-gram includes a significant laboratory component and practical design projects in the upperlevel classes. The program
the 15 desired student outcomes in engineering education.I. Introduction This work is Phase III of a continuing effort to identify a comprehensive summary of andthe links between the student learning outcomes desired by engineering education stakeholdersand the most effective teaching and learning strategies associated with those outcomes. In PhaseI of this project we identified, through a thorough review of engineering education literature, anadditional five learning outcomes not specifically included in ABET’s 3a though k criteria [1].Although many more outcomes were mentioned in the literature, each of the five learningoutcomes was cited at least 16 times, which was also the number of times the least cited ABETEAC criterion was