women and underrepresented minority students, and her research in the areas of recruitment and retention. A SWE and ASEE Fellow, she is a frequent speaker on career opportunities and diversity in engineering.Dr. Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University Prior to joining the ASU Electrical Engineering faculty in 1990, Dr. Armando A. Rodriguez worked at MIT, IBM, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Raytheon Missile Systems. He has also consulted for Eglin Air Force Base, Boeing Defense and Space Systems, Honeywell and NASA. He has published over 200 tech- nical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings – over 60 with students. He has authored three engineering texts on classical controls, linear systems
Paper ID #12605Using Graphical Data Presentation Techniques to Improve Student Success,Teaching Effectiveness, and Program AssessmentDr. Barry Dupen, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne Dr. Dupen is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Indiana University – Pur- due University Fort Wayne (IPFW). He has 9 years’ experience as a metallurgist, materials engineer, and materials laboratory manager in the automotive industry. His primary interests lie in materials engineer- ing, mechanics, and engineering technology education. He is also an experienced contra dance caller
• Study Abroad opportunities• Laboratory facilities • Laboratory facilities• Education is good • Small class sizes• Advisors are good • Friends in other majorsWhat do you think of the faculty/mentors available to you?• Vast majority of faculty are willing to help students • Vast majority of faculty are willing to help students• Faculty can help give you confidence • Large number of women faculty• Mentors can be both male and female faculty • Faculty is very knowledgeable• Faculty realize that you are students and that you • Class work is based on real problems have other
students developing insect-size mechanisms at SmallMechanism Applications Laboratory (SMAL) at California State University, Sacramento. Ourgroup focuses on a class of millimeter-size mechanisms larger than micro-electro-mechanicalsystems (MEMS) but much smaller than ordinary mechanisms seen in our daily life. Seeing thetechnological trend of electro-mechanical products getting more and more minitualized, webelieve this class size of mechanisms has a wide range of future applications in manufacturing,bioengineering, the military, and many other areas. One of the difficult challenges to buildingthis class size of mechanism is a lack of actuator technologies for miniaturization. Today'scommonly used actuators for industrial automation, such as
support for events at the Eco Centro for raising awareness of the many possible STEM career opportunities and recruiting students into the STEM fields. Activity 2.2: The program will create a big brother/big sister mentorship between students in the participating institutions and industry or graduate school mentors. Activity 2.3: Texas State will facilitate a day-long tour for the participating students to Texas State labs and facility with STEM-oriented educational and entertainment programs. Activity 2.4: Texas State will provide research assistantship through the financial support to students in the minority institutions.Objective #3: Design and develop a replicable renewable energy laboratory to carry out thetraining and hands
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instructor questions. They prefer to ask other women students.”3.2.3 Lack of practical hands on experience Additionally, the Liberian students describe their engineering education system as lacking in practical activities and laboratories, which they have recognized is far different and inferior to the experiences of their international peers. “Hands on materials, more of the practical material. It will help you more than what we learn in class. We don’t have it here. Teachers tell us about concrete, mortar, have to draw a picture or go on the internet to find other people reports. Stress and strain, trusses, all that from internet. If we had a lab, would not need to go to the internet. It would be my own work if
engineering courses could provide an authentic laboratory experience that helpsimprove students’ conceptual understanding of engineering mechanics concepts. Moreover,physical manipulatives are easy to implement, easy to duplicate and distribute,13 and can beextended to include different engineering subjects.Other studies have investigated the use of physical manipulatives in a variety of STEM areas. Theuse of hands-on (physical) manipulatives has helped engineering students in modeling andengineering problem solving.7 For instance, Coller indicated that the manipulatives helpedstudents increase their understanding of engineering concepts when they used manipulatives andwere able to see and feel reactions created by the manipulative.7 Another study
National Research Council postdoctoral researcher at the Air Force Research Laboratory, he joined the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2006. He was a TMS Young Leader International Scholar in 2008, received the NSF/CAREER award in 2009, the Xerox Award for Faculty Research at Illinois in 2011, the AIME Robert Lansing Hardy Award in 2014, co-chaired the 2011 Physical Metallurgy Gordon Research conference, and became a Willett Faculty Scholar at Illinois in 2015. His research focuses on defects in materials using density-functional theory, and novel techniques to understand problems in mechanical behavior and transport.Prof. Andrew Ferguson, University of
were other solutions, but I felt that this was the best fit. To me, that’s what deciding on methods for research was. Figuring out the best fit.Overall, the students felt the research course and the process of developing their researchproposals prepared them well for the summer experience. However, the students felt lessprepared to conduct specific laboratory procedures and methods. One said that the proposal wasnot as detailed as she was now realizing would be needed to complete her project; several othersagreed that their big questions had to do with lab procedures, use of equipment, and similarpractical concerns. The students also said they were confident that they would receive thesupport needed to work through those issues
, process development and product development. - See more at: https://www.asee.org/public/person#sthash.WaxuWfqL.dpufDr. 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). Before academia, Dr. Langerman was employed at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory either as a member of the technical staff or as a closely aligned consultant. He has conducted applied research for LANL, ORNL, and several universities and companies. He has over 80 technical publications and conference presentations. He was
has taught clients across gov- ernment, industry and higher education, including Texas Instruments, Brookhaven National Laboratory, European Southern Observatory (Chile), Simula Research Laboratory (Norway) and the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. Christine works closely with Penn State University faculty Michael Alley (The Craft of Scientific Presentations and The Craft of Scientific Writing) and Melissa Marshall (TED, ”Talk Nerdy to Me”) on these courses. Christine is also the director of the Engineering Ambassadors Network, a start-up organization at 25 plus universities worldwide that teaches presentation skills to undergraduate engineering students, particularly women and underrepresented groups in
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Capstone Project: Assessment of Energy Savings from Retuning of Air HandlersAbstractOne of the best ways to reduce operating costs for buildings is to reduce energy consumption.Energy is used to run equipment in classrooms and laboratories, provide area lighting and hotwater, but heating and cooling typically account for the largest energy use in a building.Facilities Management at Western Carolina University (WCU) maintains over 300 air handlingunits (AHUs) covering almost 3.1 million square feet. These AHUs provide heating and coolingand operate continuously while their respective building is occupied. Some newer AHUs havevariable frequency drives (VFDs
, technology, and health (ESTH). Oerther earned his B.A. in biological sciences and his B.S. in environmental health engineering from Northwestern University (1995), and he earned his M.S. (1998) in environmental health engineering and his Ph.D. (2002) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has completed postgraduate coursework in Microbial Ecology from the Marine Biology Laboratory, Environmental Health from the University of Cincinnati, Public Health from The Johns Hopkins University, and Public Administration from Indiana University, Bloomington. Oerther is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE, DC, MO, and OH). He is Board Certified in Environmental Engineer- ing (BCEE) by the American Academy of
students fromfreshman through junior levels using a carefully redesigned curriculum of engineering sciencecore courses (ESCC) and a blended set of applied laboratories. ESCC consists of six core coursestaught by teams of ME faculty with clearly set educational objectives and managed by acoordinator and trained teaching assistants. Though essay type examination questions candemonstrate positive learning outcomes, multiple choice questions are better to pinpoint areas ofconceptual difficulties. After designing and adopting ESCC in 2006, faculty agreed that carefullydesigned multiple choice questions should form an integral part for all examinations in coreclasses. We frequently discuss performance data on conceptual questions and archive them
the community colleges located in Long Island, NY. Students enrolled inthese programs have a large range of skills and aptitudes, in terms of math, sciences, experiencewith laboratory test equipment, computer-based-tools, programming.The general characteristics of student population at Farmingdale State College was taken intoconsideration also. A study of student population at Farmingdale State College shows thefollowing: over 90 % of the students are commuting on daily basis from the greater New Yorkmetropolitan area and they hold full time jobs; around 35% are first-generation college students(e.g., neither parent has earned a 4-year degree); 30% are minority; the student population includeslarge numbers of “New Americans” (i.e., they or
granular materials. In 2008, he was awarded the Merck Research Laboratories Fellowship in Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science, Material Science, and Engineering. After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Ely conducted postdoctoral research in Duesseldorf, Germany at the Heinrich-Heine University where he extended current dissolution models to predict nano-particle dissolution kinetics. Upon returning to the States, he worked as a postdoctoral research assistant at the School of Materials Engineering at Purdue University where he spent two and one-half years modeling high performance electrochemical systems with complex microstructures including and beyond Li-ion chemistries at the atomistic, mesoscale, and continuum levels in order
through automation.Mr. Alec William Maxwell, San Francisco State University Alec Maxwell is currently an graduate student in the School of Engineering at San Francisco State Uni- versity (SFSU). Besides actively conducting research on innovative tools for engineering education in the Intelligent Structural Hazards Mitigation Laboratory at SFSU with Prof. Zhaoshuo Jiang, he also serves the community as the President of the American Society of Civil Engineers for the SFSU chapter.Dr. Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College Amelito Enriquez is a professor of Engineering and Mathematics at Ca˜nada College in Redwood City, CA. He received a BS in Geodetic Engineering from the University of the Philippines, his MS in Geode- tic
technologyThis paper mainly describes the computer engineering internship project, in which foursophomore students from Cañada college developed a mobile gesture recognition system byintegrating bio-signal processing, machine learning, real-time system design, and mobile andcloud computing technologies. The project was conducted in the Intelligent Computing andEmbedded Systems Laboratory (ICE Lab) at San Francisco State university and was supervisedby the lab director and a graduate student mentor. The research outcome of the project as well asthe results of the pre- and post-program surveys show that the internship program was a greatsuccess in allowing the student interns to gain valuable computer engineering researchexperience and strengthening their
University of California, Irvine in 2013. As a graduate student, Dr. Mayoral worked on the shielding of jet noise by a hybrid wing body aircraft. In 2014, Dr. Mayoral joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at California State University, Fullerton where he currently serves as an Assistant Professor. As the PI of the Wind Tunnel Laboratory, his research interests span the areas of aeroacoustics, ground effect aero- dynamics, and has recently expanded his interests into the hydrodynamics of marine life. Moreover, Dr. Mayoral is a CoPI of the NSF funded ”Advancing Student Success by Utilizing Relevant Social-cultural and Academic Experiences for Undergraduate Engineering, Computer Science Students” (ASSURE-US
interests include physics and engineering education, collaborating with Prof. Genaro Zavala’s Physics Education Research and Innovation Group at Tecnologico de Monterrey (Monterrey, Mexico).Prof. Mathieu Brochu, McGill University Prof. Brochu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering at McGill University, a Gerald Hatch Engineering Faculty Fellow on Additive Manufacturing and the Director of the Powder Processing and Additive Manufacturing of Advanced Materials Laboratory. He is codirector of the NSERC network on Holistic Innovation on Additive Manufacturing and co-director of the Canadian Additive Manufacturing Network. Prior to Joining McGill in 2004, Prof. Brochu held key AM
University Dr. Bryner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona. He teaches courses in thermal-fluid sciences, experimental engineering, and air-breathing and rocket propulsion. Prior to joining Embry-Riddle he worked for over ten years in the propulsion and energy fields doing design, analysis, and testing on both the component and system level. His current research interests are development of engineering laboratory courses and gas turbine engine component design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Fundamental Instrumentation Course for Undergraduate Aerospace
year, when the course sections aretaught by non-tenure-line faculty, and when there is little discussion or development of gradingmethods, laboratory instruction, or normalization of grading across sections. (a) (b) Figure 3. Physics course grades in (a) 2018 and (b) 2019 for FYrE and Control (Non-FYrE) groups.The FCI exam provides a complementary measurement of students’ mastery that does not haveas much dependence on the specifics of the course situation (e.g., grading policy, instructor,etc.). In particular, this assessment targets students’ understanding of the basic concepts of forceand motion that are considered essential for
interests in- clude innovative teaching and learning strategies, use of emerging technologies, and mobile teaching and learning strategies.Dr. Donald Plumlee P.E., Boise State University Dr. Plumlee is certified as a Professional Engineer in the state of Idaho. He has spent the last ten years es- tablishing the Ceramic MEMS laboratory at Boise State University. Dr. Plumlee is involved in numerous projects developing micro-electro-mechanical devices in LTCC including an Ion Mobility Spectrometer and microfluidic/chemical micro-propulsion devices funded by NASA. Prior to arriving at Boise State University, Dr. Plumlee worked for Lockheed Martin Astronautics as a Mechanical Designer on struc- tural airframe components
for Engineering Students 3 CHEM 117 General Chemistry for Engineering Students Laboratory 1 ENGL 103 Introduction to Rhetoric & Composition 3 ENGR 102 Engineering Lab I - Computation 2 MATH 151 Engineering Mathematics I 4 UCC University Core Curriculum 3 Spring Total 15 ENGR 216 Engineering Lab II - Mechanics 2 MATH 152 Engineering Mathematics II
selected to participate asFWS students with the Office of Academic Affairs: • Conduct research (laboratory and/or literature based) 8 - 15 hours per week (per Mentor’s instruction). • Research assignments may be part of a larger project, a pilot project, or be designed to provide preliminary data for future research, scholarly or creative projects. • Are required to attend a monthly research seminar given by the GSOE. • Complete of a variety of research assignments (per Mentor’s instruction/project description). • Write a Research Report at the end of each semester.The Process for FWS - A half page description of the overall project (goals, objectives, and methodology),student tasks and responsibilities, minimum
always be less than 100%. Power = ηQgh Eq. (3) 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑝𝑢𝑡 η= Eq. (4) 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑝𝑢𝑡 The project team at Southern Illinois University developed lab activities associated withthermal energy, with energy efficiency and heat loss as the primary focus. This set of labactivities also contained two parts: a pre-lab activity and a hands-on lab activity. a. The pre-laboratory activity discusses the history of insulation in buildings, such as using large stones
computational thinking skills. Another line of research was the development of a simulated operating system, SimpleOS, that allowed students to run basic programs and visually see the state of the simulated memory, registers, and process queues in order to facilitate student learning. Dr. Hoskey has also collaborated with the Farmingdale State College Center for Applied Mathematics and Brookhaven National Laboratory on an undergraduate research program in the area of Signal Analysis. Dr. Hoskey received the 2017 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching from the State University of New York.Dr. Ilknur Aydin, Farmingdale State College, SUNY, New York Ilknur Aydin is an Associate Professor of Computer Systems at
presently includes nine topics: facultydevelopment, cultural capital and cultural relevance, inclusive teaching, persistence, field work,laboratories, patents, funding and research, gender inclusive standards, and STEM librarianship.Each page in the disciplinary and special topics modules contains readings, videos, and websitesto explore as well as reflection questions. When adopted, the content can be used as is by faculty,or edited to meet their specific learning outcomes and course topics. Content was selected toprovoke discussion and introduce students to issues and resources. For example, the ElectricalEngineering page contains readings on gendered interests in computer engineering [11], andengineering identity in electrical engineering [12
worldwide. To determine if the implementation of these initiatives is having a positiveimpact on engineering students’ performance in a first-year programming course, a correlationalresearch study at a mid-size Michigan public university was completed over a three-semesterperiod beginning in 2022. Students were surveyed regarding their prior experience with computerscience at the beginning of the semester, and student scores on the first laboratory practicum andfinal course grade were recorded. The data demonstrates that nearly sixty percent of students hadno prior experience with computer science and withdrew from the course at nearly double the rateas students with AP experience. For those that did complete the course, a Welch’s t