. Dr. Hsu received his PhD in Educational Psychology from Texas A&M University and has a background of statistics education. He works closely with researchers in STEM to pursue high quality of STEM education for future researchers. He is currently participating in an NSF-funded grant (#1923452) to spearhead research into middle school students’ digital literacies and assessment. Recently, Dr. Hsu has received a seed grant at UML to investigate how undergradu- ate engineering students’ digital inequalities and self-directed learning characteristics (e.g., self-efficacy) affect their learning outcomes in a virtual laboratory environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Hsu’s research interests include advanced
Mathematics will provide an overview of the salientmath topics most heavily used in the core physics and engineering courses. Students will learn tosolve problems from engineering applications using mathematical concepts ranging from algebrato differential equations. Examples from the first two years of engineering coursework are solvedin class and explored in corresponding laboratory experiments. The objective of this course is toprovide an engineering context for subsequent courses in mathematics. Intended for studentsprior to taking Calculus I.GNEN 1800 Engineering Applications of Mathematics was developed as part of an NSF-fundedconsortium to adopt and assess the Wright State Model for Engineering MathematicsEngineering. The Wright State model
studies.The workshop series included major stakeholders and leaders of doctoral training. Specifically,there were 111 participants from 33 universities, including the ones ranked in top 50 universitiesoverall and top 50 in number of engineering PhDs granted; and 19 companies, including Fortuneand Global 500 corporations. Additional participants represented NSF, the National Academies,national laboratories, national non-profit organizations with interest in STEM doctoral training andworkforce development (American Chemical Society, American Society for EngineeringEducation, Council of Graduate Schools, Graduate Career Consortium, National GEMConsortium).The participants agreed that the US system trained PhDs well in subject matter expertise but notso
projects,which they are conducting concurrently. While not definitive, these preliminary observationsindicate that Flash-labs seem to be effective. Further data analysis would confirm this.Conclusions and Future WorkThe next stage of this research involves analysis of the thematic coding elements compiled fromdata sets collected from end-of-semester course evaluations. While Flash-labs may not be acomplete replacement for a full laboratory class component, it does appear that they helpstudents relate to and internalize core fundamental concepts within the compressed time frameand are eager to collaborate with each other. Another extension of the analysis may involveconducting photovoice analysis, focusing on themes extracted from the student DSP
, and shear stress due to direct shear and torsion were covered.Student learning was assessed with three exams, a final exam, and three projects. Students weresubmitted a reports for a tensile test laboratory and an eccentric combined loading laboratory. Inaddition, students coded cells in a spreadsheet template that was provided to assist them inspecifying the material and cross-sectional dimensions for a new B-52 wing spar that met certainrequirements under a given biaxial combined loading case. That final engineering design project,which primarily consisted of determining the specifications for a B-52 wing spar, also included aformal report explaining the process the students used to identify a wing spar that met therequirements. Though the
Keble, New, University, and Harris Manchester Colleges, was College Lecturer for New College and a Senior College Lecturer in Engineering Science for Keble College. He taught approximately 75% of the core degree topics, as well as human physiological measurement laboratory classes for medical students. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work-In-Progress: Improving Student-Instructor Relationships and Help- Seeking through Office HoursIntroductionStrong relationships between students and their instructors have an undisputed link to positivestudent outcomes such as retention, motivation, sense of belonging, and academic achievement[1]. These observations are
student’s point of view as it relates to satisfaction and a senseof belonging, particularly in engineering technology classrooms and labs.Purpose:This paper was derived from the observations of one construction management program in theMidwest that noticed an immediate need for change related to the way that their primaryclassroom and laboratory appeared and functioned. The educators aspire to improve thesefacilities in the best interests of faculty, students, and visitors alike. The authors of this paperoutline the observations which revealed the shortfalls, explain the exploratory steps which weresubsequently taken to identify the overarching problems that existed, highlight the ways in whichfunding and resources were obtained to improve the
Paper ID #38901Student-led program to improve equity in Ph.D. oral qualifying examsMeredith Leigh Hooper, California Institute of Technology This author was an equal first author contributor to this work. Meredith Hooper is an Aeronautics PhD student studying under Professor Mory Gharib in the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT). Meredith is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, leader within the GALCIT Graduate Student Council, and Co-Director of the Caltech Project for Effective Teaching (CPET). Her PhD research uses a combination of machine learning and
Lecturer in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Her PhD is in chemical engineering from Purdue University. Research focus areas include laboratory courses, process safety, and chemical engineering pedagogy.Jennifer Cole Dr. Cole is the Assistant Chair in Chemical Engineering at Northwestern and the Associate Director of the Northwestern Center for Engineering Education Research. Dr. Cole's teaching and research interests lie in engineering design, both first year and capstone. She is particularly interested in bringing anti-racism and social and environmental justice contexts to engineering problem solving in her courses.Kevin D. Dahm (Professor of Chemical Engineering
wetransitioned to the sense-making cycles of the analysis [6].ResultsAvoidance and digital learning toolsBroadly, educational institutions across the United States were ill-prepared for a long-termdisruption to learning because they lacked avoidance mechanisms to maintain academiccontinuity. Our research found some exceptions, where schools had mechanisms before thepandemic, such as digital infrastructure and support systems. The administrator at one AMTSdesigned a program to have all lectures and some introductory laboratory projects completed viadistance learning. As a result, Participant 5's curriculum quickly transitioned to remote educationsince the students were already accustomed to learning at home employing various
9 4 Mechanical Properties of Bulk Nanomaterials 9 Application of Nanostructured Materials: 5 Tungsten Carbide Parts 3 Sensors 3 Nanocomposites 6*The number of hours shown includes the time allotted for lectures and seminarsNo laboratory program is planned for the present, but once experience is gained in teaching thiscourse, time will be made available for some simple demonstration experiments as typicallydiscussed
2005, American Society for Engineering Education References1. Boronkay, T. G., and Janak, D. “Introduction of Finite Element Methods in the Lower Division Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum.” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 1997. Session 2238.2. Cole, W.: “Graphical Applications: Analysis and Manufacturing”. Engineering Design Graphics Journal, Spring, 1999, pp 43-49.3. Howell, S.: “Finite Element Analysis in a Freshman Graphics Course?” Engineering Design Graphics Journal, Winter, 1993, pp 29-32.4. Juricic, D., Howell, S., Jenison, R., and Barr, R. “Extending Engineering Design Graphics Laboratories to have a CAD/CAM Component – Part II
”, Prentice Hall ISBN4. E. H. Shaban,” Applications of CAD in Simulations of Laboratories for Electrical Engineering Education,” Intertech. 2000,University of Cincinnati, OH June 13-16, 2000.5. E. H. Shaban,” Electrical Engineering Education in Underdeveloped and Developing Countries,” ASEE/Annual, June 10-13, 1999, Charlotte, NC.6. E. H. Shaban,” Senior Design Logic Projects Using VHDL,” Proceedings ASEE/GSW, hosted by Le Torneau University, March 7-9, 1999, Dallas, TX.7. PSPICE User’s Guide, Cadence PCB System Division, Portland, OR 97223. E. H. SHABAN Dr. E. H. Shaban is an associate professor in the electrical engineering department. He attained the BSEE and MSEE in 1968, and 1978 from the University of Khartoum
aregistered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas. Contact him at Don.Bagert@rose-hulman.edu.STEPHEN V. CHENOWETHSteve Chenoweth is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute,following a career at NCR Corporation and at Bell Laboratories. His research interests include software architectureand requirements, software processes, artificial intelligence, and alternatives to pedagogy. Contact him atSteve.Chenoweth@rose-hulman.edu. Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas Tech University Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education
taught in both the Fall and Springsemesters. The students each purchase the Sparkfun Inventor's Kit 4.1 (Sparkfun, Niwot, CO)which contains an Arduino Uno style development board as well as a breadboard and anassortment of sensors, motors, and other elements. Each weekly module starts with tutorialvideos. A one hour class on Mondays reviews this material in an active-learning style, wherestudents sit in their project groups to complete exercises. Each week has a 2 hour laboratory inwhich an individual programming assignment is competed followed by a homework assignmentdue the following week. The course has 3 individual exams, the first in week 4 on Arduino C++programming, the second in week 8 on Arduino C++ programming, and the third during
every week for 50 minutes per meeting. While the official coursedescription states that it consists of three weekly lectures with no laboratory components, theinstructor lectures twice a week while reserving the third class meeting for an active learning inclass project session where students implement the concepts they have learned about in the twolectures in that week.The student performance will be assessed via three different categories: 1. Weekly assignments: every week, students will be given homework problems pertaining to the lecture contents. In addition, students will have to implement a programming assignment during the third class meeting every week. Students will submit a weekly assignment including the solved
are placed a coil’s radius apart from each other. Due to ease of assembly andcompact nature of the apparatus, Helmholtz coils are useful laboratory and testing tools.The objectives of the senior design project were to a) create collaborative senior designopportunities between the two institutions due to limited industry partnerships availability duringthe, and b) design a Helmholtz coil to be used with a temperature changing device between itstwo coils. The senior design team, graduate student, and faculty advisors were located at theUToledo. The senior design took on roles of project managers, safety manager, designer, andtester. The online teaching and meeting tools developed during the onset of COVID-19 pandemicwere leveraged to maintain
their paper citing the changes made to the way graduate students are evaluated for admissions. She also serves as the Associate Director for the $18M Center of Emergent Materials and is Co-PI and Consortium Director of the $40M Air Force Research Laboratory Minority Serving Institution Consortium agreement. Dr. Stiner-Jones received her Bachelor’s and PhD. degrees from Wright State University and her MBA from Capital University. After completing her PhD in Biomedical Sciences, she completed postdocs, in neuroimmunology and psychoneuroimmunology at Ohio State. Her area of expertise is the impacts of psychological stress on the immune response. Her work has been published in numerous scientific journals and
. 2011 to Oct. 2014, she served as a division director in theEngineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF). She was responsible for a $135Mbudget in support of interdisciplinary research centers, research translation, innovations in engineeringeducation, special initiatives in support of military veterans, broadening participation in engineering, andworkforce development programs. Her initial appointment at NSF was in 1999 to 2001, when she servedas a program director in the Engineering Research Centers program and represented the EngineeringDirectorate on several NSF-wide committees. Before entering academia, Dr. Maldonado was a member oftechnical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories for 5 1/2 years working on optical fiber
course isincluded to cover electronic devices and circuits with laboratory experiments, leading to a total offour credit hours of coursework. Typical topics covered in Electronics can be largely grouped intothe following four categories: op-amp applications, diodes and applications, bipolar junctiontransistors (BJTs), field-effect transistors (FETs). Closely related to the electronic platform furtherdiscussed in this paper is op-amp applications. When op-amps are covered in the course, variousop-amp circuits are discussed starting with inverting op-amps and non-inverting op-amps and then,comparators, integrators, differentiators, summing amplifiers, instrumentation amplifiers, and someother op-amp circuits. It is generally expected that students
before the NSF S-STEM funding, the fundingprovided scholarships for some students who would otherwise not be able to participate,supported programming initiatives, and facilitated research regarding how students transition tocollege in a STEM, specifically engineering, field. The overall AcES summer bridge componentis now institutionalized and has been supported to some level by local industry.Fall Professional Development CourseThe 2-credit fall professional development course, open only to AcES participants, consists oflectures, company and laboratory site visits, guest speakers, and 1-2 design projects (dependingon the year). Course topics include: learning styles, goal setting, teamwork, professionalcommunication, and career paths. Students
taught by faculty from the home institution. • Internship or Co-op – Student works abroad. • Mentored Travel – Group of students travel under the guidance of a faculty member. • Partner Sub-contract – Similar to the exchange option, but this does not require parity. Instead, there is an agreed to compensation for providing courses to students. • Project-based Learning / Service Learning – Students travel abroad to work on a project that aims to aid the abroad society. A common example is Engineers Without Borders. • Research Abroad – Students are placed in an abroad laboratory and conduct work under the guidance of a faculty member.The ProgramThe School of Engineering at Grand Valley State University (GVSU
way. In an effort to reach all students, he has consistently deployed a host of teaching strategies into his classes, including videos, example problems, quizzes, hands-on laboratories, demonstrations, and group work. Dr. Kerzmann is enthusiastic in the continued pursuit of his educational goals, research endeavors, and engagement of mechanical engineering students.Veronica RothDr. David V.P. Sanchez, University of Pittsburgh David V.P. Sanchez is an Associate Professor in the Swanson School of Engineering’s Civil & Envi- ronmental Engineering department and the Associate Director for the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation at the University of Pittsburgh. He serves as the Program Director for the
laboratory, she has mentored more than a dozen undergraduate students who are under-represented minorities in STEM. Additionally, she has been involved with her school’s Rainbow Center as well as anti-racist activism in both her department and outside of academia. Her goal is to bring social justice principles into STEM education and model what a queer, feminist, anti-racist engineer would be.Dr. Jennifer Pascal, University of Connecticut Jennifer Pascal is an Assistant Professor in Residence at the University of Connecticut. She earned her PhD from Tennessee Technological University in 2011 and was then an NIH Academic Science Education and Research Training (ASERT) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of New Mexico
advances successfulcollaboration and teamwork, which is another beneficial skill students gain during their capstoneexperience. Student teams also develop skills in project management, which includes projectplanning, scheduling and budgeting.The shift to remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic had dramatic impacts onundergraduate engineering education. Industry sponsored engineering capstone programs wereno different and suffered many of the challenges associated with the rapid switch to remotelearning. Campuses were closed and laboratories became inaccessible, thereby imposing severerestrictions on available resources to engineering students. The loss of communal workspacesthat resulted from lockdowns and closures also hindered team
Paper ID #32429Making Teaching Matter More - The Making of a T1 UniversityDr. Tara E. Prestholdt, University of PortlandDr. Heather Dillon, University of Washington Tacoma Dr. Heather Dillon is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education. Before joining academia, Heather Dillon worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research engineer.Dr. Eric Anctil, University of Portland Eric Anctil is a professor of media and technology in
/05/T001-15-16-ETAC-Criteria-05-04-15.pdf[2] Y. Zhang, J. Wang, and M. Mamodapur, “Understanding additive manufacturing partperformance through modeling and laboratory experiments,” in 122nd ASEE Annual Conference& Exposition, T523B·Integrating Curriculum and Labs in ET Programs, Seattle, WA June 14-17,2015.[3] Fused filament fabrication, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fused_filament_fabrication[4] MakerBot Method X, https://www.makerbot.com/3d-printers/method/[5] STL (file format), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STL_(file_format)[6] Topology optimization, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology_optimization#:~:text=Topology%20optimization%2 0(TO)%20is%20a,the%20performance%20of%20the%20system.Appendix AFigure A-1. Page one of Lever
. In doing so, he focuses on Engineering education policies and practices in teaching learning processes, assessments, laboratories and practical internships. Mr. Halkiyo has been teaching different Civil En- gineering courses at Bule Hora University, Ethiopia, where he also served as a department head, and conducts various research and community projects. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Powerful Change Attends to Power RelationsIntroduction & BackgroundWhile changing engineering departments to become more inclusive and equitable is a commongoal, research repeatedly confirms that such change is rare. Notably, change efforts
, power point slides, etc. However, several studies have found that students’ mastery ofcontent knowledge increases when they are engaged in problem-based learning (PBL) andproject based learning (PjBL) [10-24].Curricula must focus not only on the theoretical basis ofenergy systems, but also on the experimental works of power technologies. This point of view isimportant in power and energy engineering studies, consisting of mixtures of power electronics,energy conversion, electric machines, electric circuits, computing, signals and systems,communications, and electromagnetics. Promoting, adapting, and restructuring powerengineering disciplines can be done by defining a new curriculum that includes news courses,new laboratories or new topics in
currently explores top- ics related to undergraduate STEM education improvement, including holistic engineering; connecting teaching, research, and practice; student retention in engineering; and recruitment and retention of under- represented students in engineering. Dr. Pyrialakou also teaches courses on transportation engineering, transportation/urban planning, and civil engineering/transportation data analysis.Dr. David Martinelli, West Virginia University Professor of Civil Engineering at West Virginia University.Dr. Julia Daisy Fraustino, West Virginia University Dr. Fraustino is an assistant professor of strategic communication and director of the Public Interest Com- munication Research Laboratory in the Media