Session 1526A Web-based Learning Tool that Introduces Engineering Concepts by Simulating a Chemical Reactor Jay B. Brockman, Jucain Butler, and Mark J. McCready University of Notre DameAbstractThe arrival of the World Wide Web signaled the beginning of fundamental changes in howteaching, training, and self-directed learning will occur at all ages and stages of life. Because ofits versatility as a learning tool in the realm of higher education, the Web has woven its way intoengineering classes and laboratories. As a supplement to a Chemical Engineering project in
and Dr. Steve Chen forproviding his Resistor Color Code tutorial program. We are also indebted to Professor NathanialDavis IV for allowing us to use the sections on the Lab Kit Description and Familiarization andon Circuit Breadboarding and Wiring from his ECE 2504 Lab Manual. By presenting thisinformation as common to students of both courses, we are able to minimize cost of equipmentto the student while assuring uniformity in teaching good laboratory practices regardless of theorder in which the courses are taken.We wish to thank the faculty and staff of The Bradley Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering at Virginia Tech for their enthusiastic support for this project. Professors WilliamBaumann, Nathanial Davis IV, and Kathleen
.20Many engineering courses require students to compose documents (such as laboratory reports,activity reports, and project reports) and to verbally present project findings or laboratoryresults. However, Walvoord expresses that engineering faculty, although they know that writingis important are often reluctant to “teach” writing to their students. The faculty worry that theirknowledge of technical writing and verbal communication and their ability to constructivelyrespond to student work is limited and their ability to constructively provide feedback to thestudents is inadequate. 19 In addition, many schools and programs do not recognize thedifference between what is being taught in introductory composition courses and industry’sneeds. Ramey
Engineering in Volgograd, Russia. This program successfullyaddresses such academic challenges in engineering education as the inherent verticalstructure of scientific curricula, courses with laboratory requirements, ABETaccreditation, and accelerated summer course calendars. Engineering disciplinesincluded are civil engineering, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering,chemical engineering, statistics, and construction management. Also featured in thisprogram is a unique curricular collaboration between the humanities and engineering.The paper also discusses the program’s treatment of such logistical issues as studentsafety, moving large groups of students through a cultural landscape where Russianlanguage proficiency is a necessity, as well
most popular method of teaching antenna design at most majoruniversities. It is understandable that most would choose this method due to the greatexpense of the antenna fabrication and test equipment required, not to mention theuniversity resources of faculty and laboratory space. Page 6.195.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for engineering EducationII. Approaches ConsideredA considerable amount of time was devoted to considering various approaches to solvingthe problem of effectively teaching antenna design, fabrication
safety and appropriateness. The initial Rube Goldberg projects tendedto be large and often incorporated portions of the classroom in the design (e.g.blackboards, overhead projector, door/entryway). There was a requirement for includingresults from a simulation program, but this was more often relegated to the status of afootnote in project reports. When the number of sections increased in 1997 with theopening of a new laboratory (the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory) there wasconsiderable pressure on space and facilities. This laboratory included two classroomsspecifically designed and reserved for the first year engineering projects course. Thenumber of students enrolled in the course increased until, during the fall 1998
experience is how individuals interpret and act on that information” [8]. Adeserved criticism from industry, where most students go after graduation, is that most universityengineering programs do not incorporate enough hands-on activities (experience) with actualequipment. This is referred to as “practical intelligence” [9]. U.S. undergraduate engineeringeducation has a heavy emphasis on theory with much less emphasis on practical applications[10].Wankat and Oreovicz write, “Despite almost universal agreement on the importance of designand laboratory work, there is a tendency to cut these programs since they are expensive, messy,hard to teach, time-consuming, and not connected to the university’s other mission – research”[11]. Laboratories play an
of classroom instruction with hands-on laboratory activities for a period of six hours aweek and is taught by a different instructor, often with significant support from a number ofgraduate and undergraduate teaching assistants and laboratory staff. At the time of this writing,each of these introductory courses has been taught at least three times, thus, providing someexperience on which this paper is based.II. ASE 1013: Introduction to Aerospace EngineeringThis introductory course is offered to first semester freshman students. Topics covered in thiscourse include flight vehicle specifications; aircraft components; aerodynamics; flightmechanics; computer essentials including the use of Microsoft Office and Mathcad; andcomputer-aided design
)Instructor’s ability to teach course online (Instructional limitations, Seeking help, IncreasedWorkload), 2) Student’s ability to learn online (Time Management, Lower engagement andmotivation, Harder to absorb material, Hard to focus, Worry about performance), 3) Difficultiesoutside of class (Technology issues), and 4) No concerns. Students seemed more concernedabout their ability to learn the material (48% of responses) than the instructor’s ability to teachthe material (36% of responses). The instructional limitations or lack of instructional support(22% of responses) and time management (12% of responses) were among the major concerns inthe sub-categories.The results from two-item scale indicated participants' s confidence in their ability to
Paper ID #33285Improving In-Service Science and Mathematics Teachers’ Engineering andTechnology Content and Pedagogical Knowledge (Evaluation)Emel Cevik, Texas A&M UniversityDr. Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University Bugrahan Yalvac is an associate professor of science and engineering education in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture at Texas A&M University, College Station. He received his Ph.D. in science education at the Pennsylvania State University in 2005. Prior to his current position, he worked as a learning scientist for the VaNTH Engineering Research Center at Northwestern University for three
to serve as teaching assistants. Teaching assistants at Dartmouth are typicallyundergraduate students themselves who have done well in the courses for which they serve asteaching assistants. Responsibilities of the teaching assistants include running problem sessions(optional evening help sessions), grading problem sets, and helping to set up and rundemonstrations and laboratories. Teaching assistants are not responsible for grading quizzes,exams or projects. As shown in Figure 4, the percentage of women serving as teaching assistantsin undergraduate engineering courses for the past six terms has been quite high, ranging from47% to 55%. 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Fall 2017 Spring 2017 Winter 2017
binding proteins in cancer and in promoting and assessing undergraduate learning. Susannah has taught classes in biochemistry, molecular biology and cell biology as well as general biology, human biology and cancer biology for engineering and science students. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Case studies offer opportunities for us to show the “real world” of engineering and science in the classroomAbstract- Much of the teaching of science can seem unlinked to the application of the material to realworld problems. This can make it much harder for some students to engage with the information inways that help them to retain it and to see value in
-tenure period, when they likely have a greater set of outsidecommitments than younger new faculty members; and leveraging their skills developed inindustry for success in the classroom and research. This article explores the experience of twofaculty members who each made the move after over fifteen years in industry, one who is nowearly in that transition and the second moving toward full retirement. These experiences are usedto outline not only ideas on best practices for being successful in the transition, but pitfalls andtraps to avoid.IntroductionThe motivation of this article is to explore the transition from industry to teaching from both aspecific and general viewpoint. The specific context explores the perspectives on theexperiences of
Paper ID #46493Instructional Benefits of a Web-Based Students’ Concurrent Course RegistrationToolDr. Ke Tang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ke Tang is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Tang’s research focuses on engineering education, particularly on student-centered pedagogies, data-driven instruction, and interdisciplinary education.Dr. Thomas Golecki, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign I spent 10+ years in industry as an engineer in structural mechanics and structural health monitoring projects
sequential coursework, especially until the senior year. The use of AI to help solve engineering problems as a collaboration tool is being used inengineering classrooms at increased frequency, hence the motivation of this paper to look at theuse of AI in developing professional skills in engineering undergraduate education. Using AI asprompts to help students draft papers or laboratory reports is starting to emerge in undergraduateengineering programs, although using AI to teach or enhance professional skills seems to be anew area of research [5]. One paper found that the typical use and extent of using generative AIin engineering classes based on student surveys [6] and the general impact of AI incommunication skills training has been
Engineering Department at the Uni- versity of New Mexico. The research in her lab is focused on understanding the dynamics and structures of macromolecular assemblies including proteins, polymers, and lipid membranes. Undergraduates, grad- uate students, and postdoctoral scholars are trained in a multidisciplinary environment, utilizing modern methodologies to address important problems at the interface between chemistry, physics, engineering, 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
” experience [20], [21], especially when used tosimulate a real-life experience. VR also provides a relatively inexpensive and less riskyalternative compared to expensive or dangerous situations that might happen by interacting withactual systems [22], [23]. Some universities have tried to build physical manufacturing systemsto teach and train students on manufacturing operations. For example, the Department ofIndustrial and Systems Engineering at Auburn University created a laboratory called automotivemanufacturing systems lab [24]. In this lab, students build Lego vehicles and learn about Toyotaproduction system principles. While these labs provide hands-on experiences, they need aconsiderable amount of space (4,000 ft2)[25] and require at least 18
with the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez 1992-2012. Since August 2012, he is Professor and Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has held Faculty Internship Positions with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Air Force Research Laboratories, and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. His teaching and research interests are in signal and sensor analytics, information extraction from dynamic systems using remote or minimally intrusive sensing, hyperspectral remote sensing, and data-driven science and engineering. He has over 160 publications in journals and conference proceedings and has contributed to three books. He was the Director of the Institute for
seemed to have helped the students in understanding “word problems”7) Having the English class in a computer laboratory was very helpful as the students can do their writing on the computer8) Overhead projection equipment connected to the computer was very helpful in teaching different software like Maple, Excel, AutoCAD, etc.Discussions1) While it is too premature to draw any definite conclusions, the pilot program seemed to have accomplishedsome of its objectives. Students are better motivated by early exposure to engineering subjects. Theyappreciated mathematics more, realizing its applications to physical problems. Students in the pilot program, ingeneral, performed better in the calculus course, especially in “word problems
them can be found at www.edc-cu.org/Education.htm.Starting in spring 2004, an outdoor teaching laboratory has been created on the CU Boulder campusthat gives students the opportunity to practice sustainable building techniques in an outdoor setting.The Field Laboratory for Applied Sustainable Technologies (FLAST) allows students to gain Page 11.566.7experience with low cost, low maintenance green building materials through active and experientiallearning (www.edc-cu.org/FLAST.htm). In 2004, the laboratory was used as an integral part of theteaching of Sustainability and the Built Environment, which wastaught to graduate and undergraduate
circuit design, digital systems design, signal detection and parameter estimation, radar systems, and automated detection of disease in medical images. His teaching and administrative activities include development of laboratory experiments and courses, and ABET accreditation. Prof. Jacobs is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ASEE.Ms. Alaine M. Allen, University of Pittsburgh Alaine M. Allen is the director of the Swanson School of Engineering pre-college and undergraduate di- versity initiatives - INVESTING NOW and Pitt EXCEL. Her work includes providing oversight to these two programs, developing partnerships with professionals from key educational and non-profit communi- ties, maintaining relationships
- Communicates verbally and non-verbally in acompetencies of the curriculum. This implies that friendly and respectful manner.they should be incorporated from the beginning to - Achieves empathy with team members.the end of the program in all learning and teaching - Achieves harmonious work in disciplinaryscenarios such as classrooms, laboratories, projects, teamsinternships and field work. - Achieves harmonious work in interdisciplinary teamsThe objective is for students to learn to develop - Respects the opposing views of peers andethical competencies in engineering through active facultyand collaborative
design and seeks to engage their enthusiasm forengineering. This is a two-credit laboratory course that meets in our design laboratory that isequipped with workbenches and tools. The capacity for the course is 24 students. Students workin groups of three, giving an instructor a maximum of eight groups per section. We had sixinstructors teaching a total of 22 sections for Fall 2017, some adjunct professors teaching justone course, and full-time faculty teaching up to six sections of this course. The instructors thatteach this course have been doing so for over six years and meet only once at the beginning ofthe semester and once in the middle of the semester. Students are assigned to teams usingCATME team maker based on prior experience in
undergraduate education;§ Strengthen SMET curricula, courses and laboratories through the incorporation of advances in research-based teaching and learning in SMET disciplines;§ Develop appropriate partnerships with other academic institutions and industrial laboratories, as well as NSF-supported research centers, to ensure quality research experiences that complement student academic programs;§ Ensure that students are aware of, and well prepared for, graduate school matriculation, including an understanding of non-academic factors that are critical to success in graduate school;§ Stimulate faculty, professional organizations and business, and industry involvement in mentoring undergraduate SMET students, motivating them to
AC 2012-4686: INTEGRATING ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATIONINTO AN ENGINEERING CURRICULUM THROUGH SERVICE LEARN-ING AND THE LIBERAL ARTSDr. Katherine Hennessey Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering Katherine Hennessey Wikoff is an Associate Professor in the General Studies Department at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where she teaches courses in communication, literature, film studies, and political science.Dr. Michael Hoge Carriere, Milwaukee School of Engineering Michael Carriere is an Assistant Professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, where he teaches courses on American history, public policy, political science, environmental studies, and urban design. He has written for such publications as the
of the faculty who teaches a full course load. Input is received from a number ofsources: The Council on Design and Manufacturing, The Design and ManufacturingAdvisory Committee, faculty who have agreed to incorporate projects into their courses,and faculty mentors.CoordinatorThe clinic is led by a full-time member of the faculty who has a dual role, teaching andadministration of the clinic. It is an asset that the teaching function involves venues Page 4.512.3where clinic projects can be implemented. Roughly, eight months of the year are devotedto teaching with administration of the clinic being an administrative type function.During the summer
two hours of preparation time be allowed for eachone hour of classroom time6, I have found that the three courses I am teaching this semesterrequire different amounts of time for preparation. I am very familiar with one of the courses dueto my graduate study and consulting experiences. This course has a laboratory that requiresvarying preparation time depending on the experiment being conducted, the condition of theequipment and the difficulty of the theories and procedures involved. Another course tends tohave topics or themes that continue over several weeks requiring preparation for several classperiods at one time. The third course is homework intensive with new topics or sequential topicdevelopment changing from class period to class
more opportunities towork on projects in the design laboratory, earlier in the curriculum. This has already beenaddressed with the hiring of two teaching assistants this spring who are able to provide moreguidance to the students. In the long term, it will be addressed with the hiring of a newundergraduate design faculty, who will be able to fully dedicate the necessary time to thesecourses.SummaryWe have implemented a sequence of courses so that students can develop skills in modern designand manufacturing. Students learn these skills through traditional lecturing, and moreimportantly, through hands on projects and challenges in the design lab. This starts in thesophomore year, and students already have several hands-on experiences as they
4 different courses and alaboratory, on top of a heavy advising, service, and new course and laboratory development role.Thus, the overall workload was significant.In spite of being at an institution where research expectations were secondary to teaching, theauthor not only recognized the importance of establishing a research program relative topromotion, tenure, merit pay, and professional creditability and mobility, but also sincerely desiredto remain involved in research, as a follow-up to his graduate school research experience. Thelack of engineering graduate students, as well as a minimal research infrastructure, made thischallenging, so the author sought ways to creatively leverage the resources and time that wereavailable. He was/is
Partnership (MEEP) is a multi-institutionpartnership that has resulted in the development of specialized learning factories that supportmanufacturing engineering curriculum integrated through laboratory facilities and industrycollaboration.Pennsylvannia State University - http://www.lf.psu.edu/University of Washington - http://www.me.washington.edu/~ilf/University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez - http://www.uprm.edu/winin/mfg_lab.htmOne learning center concept that was particularly useful in the development of the current facilitywas the ITLL, Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory (http://ITLL.colorado.edu), at theUniversity of Colorado, Boulder which opened in 1997. This is a facility of significant size (athree-story building with 34,000 sq.ft. of