degree in 2001, and the PhD degree in 2005, all from the mechanical engineering department of Carnegie Mellon University. After a seven year career in the hard disk drive industry, Dr. Bedillion joined the faculty of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Spring 2011. Dr. Bedillion’s research interests include distributed manipulation, control applications in data storage, control applications in manufacturing, and STEM education.Dr. Michael Langerman, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Michael Langerman is professor and Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department and Co- Director of the Computational Mechanics Laboratory at the South Dakota School of Mines and Tech- nology (SDSM&T
listed below: I. To develop biomedical nanotechnology modules in existing bioengineering courses. II. To develop a team-based, biomedical nanotechnology course with a significant hands-on laboratory component. III. To develop a semester long research experience course related to biomedical nanotechnology for a limited number of undergraduates. IV. To develop an interdisciplinary nanoengineering certificate program (INCP).ASSESSMENT METHODS & IRB APPROVALEach phase of the undergraduate student’s learning experiences were assessed using multiplemeasurements. Content learning for Objective I, the learning modules in BMEN220 andBMEN310, was assessed using an instructor designed content assessment and studentsatisfaction was assessed
). 2008. Page 26.980.93. Hall GE, Dirksen DJ, George AA. Measuring implementation in schools: Levels of use. Southwest Educational Development Laboratory; 2006.4. Borrego M, Froyd JE, Hall TS. Diffusion of Engineering Education Innovations: A Survey of Awareness and Adoption Rates in U.S. Engineering Departments. Journal of Engineering Education 2010;99(3):185- 207.5. Henderson C, Dancy MH. Increasing the impact and diffusion of STEM education innovations. 2011.6. George AA, Hall GE, Stiegelbauer SM. Measuring implementation in schools: The stages of concern questionnaire. Southwest Educational Development
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing into the Chemical Engineering CurriculumAbstractOver the past several years we have explored ways to incorporate concepts of pharmaceuticalengineering within the chemical engineering curriculum. Our initial efforts in this area have beendirected towards the integration of these concepts in freshman and sophomore level courses. Thisprovides an experience that reinforces core educational objectives and increases student interestin the pharmaceutical field. This paper is a continuation of our educational methodsdevelopment, and will describe several pharmaceutical and consumer product educationalmodules. These modules include both laboratory and course-related activities for both lower andupper-level
time. Contemporary manufacturers have the option of selecting optimumtechnologies or processes to suit their manufacturing environment. Fast paced transformations inEngineering Technology (ET) field require new and enhanced learning and teaching strategies inengineering technology curriculum. More than ever, the educational advance is leaning towardsmeeting the demands of industrial world. Engineering Technology curricula needs to adapt tonovel technologies and modern tools by enabling students to acquire meaningful and relevantpractices. Laboratory activities should be incorporated into dry-lectured courses, being vital toET programs, since they are ultimately enhancing the understanding process, leading towardsdeveloping experience-led
fourcredit hour semester course that consists of three 50-minute lectures and a 2-hour associatedlaboratory each week, and is considered one of the core courses in the Electrical Engineeringcurriculum. The course covers electric circuit analysis techniques in addition to certain aspects ofcircuit design. The objectives of the course include circuit analysis, design, simulation, and datagathering and analysis in the laboratory. The circuit analysis portion emphasizes proficiency inthe analysis of DC and AC circuits, which include circuits theorems and analysis techniques,operational amplifiers, first-order transient analysis, ideal transformers, and balanced three-phasecircuits. The design objectives in the course include design and construction of
Paper ID #11364Is a video used as a didactic content effective in the learning process?Dr. Regina Melo Silveira P.E., Universidade de S˜ao Paulo Regina Melo Silveira is Assistant Professor and researcher at the Department of Computer and Digital Systems Engineering (PCS) at Escola Polit´ecnica - Universidade de S˜ao Paulo (EPUSP), since February 2002. Associated to LARC (Laboratory of Computer Architecture and Networks) she works in the Net- working area since 1995. She participated in relevants Projects like Poli-Virtual, Multimedia on Demand System, RMAV-SP (S˜ao Paulo Internet 2), Tidia-Ae, KyaTera, and Interactive TV
during the execution of each program that will prove helpfulwhen implementing the Model.Need to promote ST(EE)2MThe Wind Powering America initiative has set a goal to power 20% of the country’s energy fromwind by the year 2030 6. In order to accomplish this goal, a workforce needs to be developedwith the necessary skillsets. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) workforcedevelopment analyses studies show that, “The greatest near-term solar and wind workforce needsinclude technicians and tradesmen with hands-on solar- and wind-specific experience,experienced electrical, mechanical and solar engineers, and project managers.” 13 And in orderto create this workforce a “Standardized education and training at all levels – primary
through which twelve freshmanand sophomore physics and engineering students from U.S. universities complete researchinternships in the multidisciplinary field of nanoscience and nanoengineering in leadingJapanese laboratories.34 The program first received five years of funding in 2006 and wasselected for a five-year renewal in 2010 with funding confirmed through 2015. Within thisPIRE grant, the research projects conducted by NanoJapan students are concerned with variousaspects of nanoscience and nanoengineering, ranging from synthesis of nanomaterials throughnanodevice fabrication to a variety of electrical, magnetic, and optical characterizationmeasurements.35NanoJapan recruits high-potential first and second year physics and engineering
attrition inengineering programs across the country. Assuch, there is a drastic need for a proven modelwhich eliminates the first-year mathematicsbottleneck in the traditional engineeringcurriculum, yet can be readily adopted byengineering programs across the country. Such Figure 1. The Derivative Labis the focus of this work. Page 26.1580.2The Wright State model begins with the development of a novel first-year engineering mathcourse, EGR 101 Introductory Mathematics for Engineering Applications. Taught byengineering faculty, the course includes lecture, laboratory and recitation
-8) at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.Arpit Shah, Drexel University, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems. Arpit Shah is a Ph.D candidate in Drexel’s School of Biomedical Engineering , Science, and Health Systems.Mr. Jay J. Bhatt, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) Jay Bhatt is responsible for building library collections in engineering subject areas, outreach to fac- ulty and students, and teaching information and research skills to faculty and students in Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and related subject areas. He provides individual and small group consultations to students, instructional sessions to specific classes, online research support in both face to face
Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. Page 26.1332.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automated System DesignAbstractIndustrial automation makes modern manufacturing possible, and mechatronics and robotics arethe building blocks for industrial automation. Even in challenging economic times, U.S.manufacturers are still looking to hire highly skilled
engineering grant supporting Historically Black University and Col- leges; ”Building Learning Communities to Improve Student Achievement: Albany City School District” , and ”Educational Leadership Program Enhancement Project at Syracuse University” Teacher Leadership Quality Program. She is also the PI on both ”Syracuse City School District Title II B Mathematics and Science Partnership: Science Project and Mathematics MSP Grant initiatives.Dr. Corey A Graves, North Carolina A&T State University Corey A. Graves is an associate professor and the director of the Auto Mobile Pervasive and Embedded Design 9AMPED) Laboratory in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at North Carolina A&T State University
indications that technologists and engineers are active learners and therefore hands-onexperiences are an important part of their education [11]. In order to facilitate hands-on learningin the MET course of dynamics, we propose to design and fabricate several manipulativephysical models of selected linkages or mechanisms that students frequently encounter in theirstudy of dynamics and will also encounter regularly in the real world. Sirinterlikci and Kerzmann[22] have described an educational initiative involving developing laboratory kits that wouldallow the mechanical engineering courses ENGR 1010 - Introduction to Engineering and ENGR2160 - Engineering Graphics to utilize the same kits for numerous laboratory sessions.Simulations and/or
student teams work out theirinterpersonal problems only to then be faced with hours of grading lengthy reports. And,although the students only have to complete the work once, for faculty, the cycle repeatsannually.Two years ago, we attended a presentation on gamification in a laboratory course 1. Although theplan used in that paper did not suit us, the idea of adding an element of fun and competition tothe Unit Ops Lab had a certain appeal. We brainstormed ways to incorporate the game conceptand fix some of the small annoyances of teaching the lab courses. The small gamificationaddition was dubbed “Bragging Points”. The idea would be to recognize the students for doingsomething right (that they probably should have been doing anyway) and let them
New Approach to Integrating Design and Manufacturing into Engineering Curricula." Proc.,1995 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 25-28, 1995; Anaheim, CA. pp. 2262 - 2269.5. DeMeter, E. C., Jorgensen, J. E. and Rullan, A.: "The Learning Factory of The Manufacturing Engineering Education Program." Proceedings, SME International Conference on Manufacturing Education for the 21st Century, San Diego, CA6. Ssemakula, M. E. and Liao, G. Y.: ‘Implementing The Learning Factory Model In A Laboratory Setting’ Page 26.252.8 IMECE 2004, Intl Mech Engineering Congress & Exposition, Nov. 13-19, 2004
working to find new contexts in which to offer research experiences to non-science majors, including a new undergraduate research class conducted by physics andchemistry faculty. These courses are inherently interdisciplinary. Students in the engineering andcomputer science fields step into physics and chemistry labs to solve science problems, ofteninvoking their own relevant expertise. In this paper we start by discussing the common themesand outcomes of the course. We then discuss three particular projects that were conducted withengineering students and focus on how the undergraduate research experience enhanced theiralready rigorous engineering curriculum.KeywordsUndergraduate research, Physics Education, Laboratory Instruction
and Alterna- tives Laboratory. He is the recent recipient of a major $2.1M microgrid research project from the Xcel Energy Renewable Development Fund. Dr. Mowry’s research interests vary widely. His current research is focused on reliable, robust, and economic microgrids, alternative energy systems, power electronics, graphene, and biofuels. Microgrids have a wide variety of commercial and humanitarian applications. Humanitarian microgrid projects require non-traditional design approaches since their operation requires minimal human intervention and maintenance. Furthermore, users typically become dependent on the reliable operation of these systems hence premature failures can have serious negative consequences.Dr
Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Low-Cost Satellite Attitude Hardware Test BedAbstractRecent technological developments surrounding CubeSats and Commercial Off-The-Shelf spacehardware have drastically reduced the cost of producing and flying a satellite mission. As thebarriers to entry fall, space missions become a viable option for more students and researchgroups. Many of these missions require accurate spacecraft pointing and attitude control.Consequently, exposing students to the practical elements of spacecraft attitude sensing andcontrol is more important than ever. To help address this challenge a novel low-cost test-bed forattitude control has
is focused on enhancing educational access for deaf and hard of hearing students in mainstreamed classrooms. He worked in industry for over five years before returning to academia and disability law policy. Towards that end, he completed a J.D. and LL.M. in disability law, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science.Mr. Gary W. Behm, Rochester Institute of Technology Gary W. Behm, Assistant Professor of Engineering Studies Department, and Director of NTID Center on Access Technology Innovation Laboratory, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology. Gary has been teaching and directing the Center on Access Technology Innovation Laboratory at NTID for five years. He is a deaf
as a poster presentation at a formalresearch forum.Project DetailsSpecifically, students are given a detailed problem statement with objectives, idealcharacteristics, required features, required constraints, and specific tasks. Excerpts from theproblem statement are given in this section. The acronym for the device the student teams createis the “Nanofunctionalized Assay Nested in an Onboard Laboratory Yielding SpecificExpeditious Results” or NANOLYSER. The project objectives are as follows:1. Exposure to various fields of engineering – specifically, how nanotechnology approaches can be utilized for various applications in many fields2. Experience in essential time management, task scheduling, and project management skills3. Experience in
, ingenuity, and utility of printedobjects, as well as the students’ sophistication in using additional machines and techniquessupporting 3D printing processes. A number of examples from an engineering department’s 3Dprinting laboratory are provided to illustrate the various stages of 3D printing evolution. Introduction Experiments and other hands-on activities are well-known cornerstones of education andare highly supported by the experiential education philosophy established by Dewey1, and theexperiential learning cycle developed by Kolb2. Designs, physical models, and prototypes areaccepted as an integral part of engineering education in both education research3-5 and engineeringcurricula6, 7. Furthermore, engineering texts address 3D
) scienceand engineering curricula are already full; (2) practical, hands-on experiences require extensivetraining on complex, expensive equipment; and (3) necessary fundamental concepts andknowledge – if taught at the undergraduate level at all – are introduced in late junior or senioryear only.3,4 Closely related to the demand for expertise is the knowledge required to initiate theinnovation to venture process.5,6 Specifically, students in these spheres have limitedunderstanding of the processes behind intellectual property protection and the steps to movinginnovative ideas from the laboratory to the market. We tackle these challenges with anundergraduate Nanotechnology Fellows Program. The program uses an interdisciplinarypracticum approach to
increasedtransfer rates to a bachelor program. As detailed by S. Artis5, TTE REU brings communitycollege students from around the state of California to the University of California, Berkeley tocomplete a 9 week summer research internship. The first week of the internship has the studentsgoing through a “laboratory bootcamp” whereby the students learn lab safety, tour labs aroundcampus, speak with graduate students and postdocs from different science and engineeringdisciplines, and learn different laboratory sampling techniques. For the remaining 8 weeks, thestudents are given a research project under the supervision of a graduate student or postdocmentor within a faculty lab. Throughout the summer, the students are engaged in weeklyseminars about
described here forclarity. This four-semester hour course has students spend 165 minutes with engineering facultyin lab each week and 150 minutes over two lecture sessions with writing arts faculty. During thewriting arts time periods, students spend time learning about audience, rhetorical analysis,argumentation, and information literacy. In prior iterations of the course, some of the time withwriting arts faculty was spent discussing technical genres such as the traditional lab or designreports. However, this component was de-emphasized in the Fall 2015 offering, and that materialwas picked up by engineering faculty during the laboratory sessions. In the lab sessions, studentslearn about design through open-ended design projects. There is some
their data management lifecycle as a dynamic process and as one element,albeit a key element, in their scholarly workflow. Researchers, for the most part, have thefundamentals of this workflow in mind, but do not necessarily have it explicitly outlined. This isparticularly critical as scientific researchers often rely on graduate students and/or post-docs forday-to-day management of laboratory studies and data recordkeeping. In developing a datamanagement instructional program, libraries take on the responsibilities of orienting graduatestudents and other personnel on basic data management skills.INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMIt is clear that changing e-research technologies and methodologies have led to rapid changes inscholarly communication models
Paper ID #17771Artificially Intelligent Method (AIM) for STEM-based Electrical Engineer-ing Education and Pedagogy Case Study: MicroelectronicsDr. Faycal Saffih, University of Waterloo Dr. Fayc¸al Saffih (IEEE, 2000) received B.Sc. (Best Honors) in Solid-State Physics from University of S´etif-1, Algeria, in 1996, M.Sc. degree in Bio-Physics from University of Malaya, Malaysia, in 1998, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2005. In 2006, he joined the Communication Research Laboratory, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, where he developed a versatile FPGA
propulsion systems 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
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explore and share quantitative results. This project’s recentcontributions are organized according to their central framework and presented below.Engineering Identity 1. A Case for Disaggregation. This work-in-progress paper explored how aggregation of demographic groups (gender within race/ethnicity) can obscure meaningful differences in the experiences of EGS. Researchers should disaggregate race/ethnicity by gender and other demographic groups, where possible, to uncover meaningful within group differences [27]. 2. Influence of Laboratory Group Makeup on Recognition. This work-in-progress paper explored the relationship between laboratory groups and engineering identity. We found that participants with two