Paper ID #38498Low-Cost DC Motor Control System Experiments for Engineering StudentsMs. Bhawana Bhatta, Youngstown State University Ms. Bhawana Bhatta is a graduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Youngstown State University (Aug 2021 – May 2023). As a graduate assistant, she has been actively involved in developing the low-cost controls laboratory set-up at YSU. She also completed her BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from YSU.Prof. Ghassan Salim, Youngstown State University Ghassan Salim is a lecturer in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Youngstown State
Disciplines George Prpich and Natasha Smith University of VirginiaAbstractEngineering Laboratory courses are used to teach many of the core professional developmentcompetencies that are required of engineering graduates. Safety is one competency that is highlyvalued by industries (e.g. petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, aeronautical) that hire from a varietyof engineering disciplines, but is not commonly taught across the disciplines. In this paper, wediscuss a work in progress to transfer safety pedagogy from a Chemical Engineeringundergraduate laboratory to a Mechanical Engineering undergraduate laboratory. First, wepresent results from a baseline safety culture survey that
Engineering, Hydraulic Structures, Construction, Sharif Univ. of Technology, Tehran, Iran (1996) B.S. Civil Engineering, Shari ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Effects of Distance Learning on African- American Students in Engineering Technology Courses During COVID-19 PandemicAbstractUntil 2019, many students enrolled in online courses for advantages such as flexibility andfinancial benefits. Research shows that online students made up 32% of the total enrollment in2013. The number continued to grow for many majors; however, previous research does notinvestigate online learning for laboratory-based engineering courses and its effect on minoritystudents. When the US declared COVID-19
Mathematics (STEM) graduatesspecifically trained to handle the technical challenges and meet the job market demand. Thisproject is funded through the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program of NationalScience Foundation (NSF), and has been conducted at New Jersey Institute of Technology(NJIT) with the objective to train the required workforce for the solar photovoltaic (PV) jobmarket through several activities that will provide benefits to university students, K-12 students,faculty members and instructors, and remote users all around the U.S.In this paper, the five major activities of the project are explained, which include: (i) Design anddevelopment of the new laboratory entitled “Renewable Energy Systems Training (REST)” andthe associated
laboratories are favorable and also provide learnerinsight on the new gamified activities introduced within the curriculum. We note severallimitations on the interpretation of these results, the need to collect more data over time and outlinedifferent courses of action for future improvements to these measures. Overall, from positivesurvey results and anecdotal feedback from teaching staff, we are encouraged to pursue moregamified strategies within our first-year curriculum and beyond.2. Setting Context – Classroom Description & Gamified ApproachesThe introduction of project-based learning to evolve our undergraduate engineering designcurriculum at McMaster University, known as “The Pivot” initiative, is leading to large-scalechanges to the
to teach students the basic principles ofdrone aeronautics through laboratory programming.This course was designed by professors from Vaughn College of Aeronautics andTechnology for high school students who work on after-school and weekend programs duringthe school year or summer. In early 2021, the college applied for and was approved to offer acertificate program in UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) Designs, Applications and Operationsto college students by the Education Department of New York State. Later that year, thecollege also received a grant from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to providetuition-free early higher education for high school students, allowing them to complete themajority of the credits in the UAS certificate
specifically trained for renewable energy industries. In this National ScienceFoundation (NSF) sponsored project, state-of-the-art equipment and laboratory materials aredesigned and developed for the engineering technology students to get exposure to the relevanttheories and get hands-on skills on the functional knowledge of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.The new course “Solar PV Planning and Installation” and the associated laboratory experimentsare designed, developed, and continuously improved in collaboration with the external advisorycommittee (EAC) including industrial partners. This new course provides the students with thepractical and experimental skills required by the industry jobs in the field of solar PV design,installation, and
Engineering Education, 2023 Achieving Active Learning through Collaborative Online Lab ExperiencesAbstract In engineering education, laboratory learning that is well aligned with core contentknowledge is instrumental as it plays a significant role in students’ knowledge construction,application, and distribution. Learning in laboratories is interactive in nature, and thereforestudents who learn engineering through online platforms can face many challenges with labs,which were frequently documented during the recent pandemic. To address those reportedchallenges, innovative online lab learning modules were developed and learning strategies wereimplemented in five courses in electrical engineering, Circuits I, Electronics I, Electronics II
Paper ID #39941Student-centered design: A capstone design project of a batch vacuumevaporator for food science students by a multidisciplinary team ofengineering seniorsDr. Philip Jackson, University of Florida Dr. Philip B. Jackson earned B.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering as well as an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, all from the University of Florida. He is currently faculty in the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida where he leads the Game-Based Learning and Digital Experiences Laboratory (GLaDE)Emily Hope FordAllison Kathleen PorrasAndrew John MacIntosh
emphasis placed on microstructure characterization,LuoBin Cui ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023An Educational Game using Multiphysics Enriched Mixed Reality forIntegrated Geotechnical Engineering EducationABSTRACTTraditional geotechnical engineering education has difficulties for students to connect amongtheoretical concepts, laboratory testing, field investigation and engineering design due to thelimitation of temporal and spatial resources. Developing an educational game could providean integrated geotechnical engineering education so that students could systematicallycomprehend the process of a design for a geotechnical project from theories, experiments,and practical designs. To achieve this
Technology I am a professor in the School of Engineering at Wentworth Institute of Technology. My area of spe- cialization is Computer Networks. I worked for decades as a Technical Staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the areas of computer network modeling and simulation and high performance processor design for signal processing applications. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Using Telecommunication Instructional Modelling System (TIMS) in Electrical Engineering CoursesAbstract:Conventional courses in signals and systems and communications systems use lecture andreadings to explain the theory and assign paper-based problem sets of theory and math
, TX, USA Author Note:This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundationunder Grant No 1902072.Authors are listed in the order of their contribution to the manuscript.Correspondence regarding this manuscript should be sent to Magdalena G.Grohman at magdalena.grohman@unt.edu.AbstractMultiple studies report the benefits of authentic research experiences in STEMeducation. While most of them focus either on course-based research projects oron undergraduate students’ experiences, few document authentic learningexperiences unfolding in real time among and between graduate students inresearch laboratories. Therefore, we situate our study in the context of authenticresearch experiences in
of new and revised courses, including a new System Dynamics Lab. She has also worked with a number of SUNY students to investigate different aspects of 3D printed multi-material structures.Graham Werner, State University of New York at New Paltz Graham Werner is an assistant lecturer, who teaches engineering labs and lectures for the Division of Engineering Programs at SUNY New Paltz. He primarily develops curriculum for mechanical engineering laboratory courses, and is interested in promoting STEM education in local K-12 communities. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Developing a Dynamics Lab on a Shoestring Budget Heather L. Lai and
Mechanical,Electrical or Mechatronics Engineering. Unfortunately, outfitting a laboratory with PLC systemsfor a few lab experiences is resource intensive and thus infeasible for many smaller engineeringprograms. In the area of industrial control, a single training station may cost upwards of $8000or more. This motivates the development of low-cost laboratory experiences for teachingindustrial control topics.This paper details the development of lab apparatuses and lab documentation for severallow-cost PLC labs for an undergraduate control systems course. To assess the efficacy of theselabs, pre- and post- quizzes were used. In addition, students were surveyed to self-assess theirunderstanding of and comfort with industrial control concepts. Initial
workfocuses on the flexibility of developing skills that will allow students to learn how to team (i.e.teaming skills), rather than on teambuilding exercises that promote the power of traditional rigidteam structures[1], [7].The overall objective of this work-in-progress is to propose the utilization of modern practices inteamwork and teaming education to effectively prepare chemical engineering students for achanging work environment that centers around collaborative activities. In the followingsections, we will detail our training model development as we have created lectures and practicalclass components focusing on the acquisition of teaming skills and the practice of effectiveteamwork in a Unit Operations laboratory course. The research question
., theoretical concepts, laboratory testing, and engineering design) in traditionalgeotechnical engineering education. Many students find geotechnical engineering education to be disconnected from theirinterests and career aspirations, leading them to perceive geotechnical jobs as tedious,challenging, and irrelevant. As a result, current geotechnical engineering education oftenfails to establish a strong interaction with students[1, 2]. To overcome these challenges andraise students’ interest in geotechnical engineering, traditional group projects ingeotechnical engineering courses are being replaced with creative, project-basedparticipation games, such as mixed reality games, to illustrate engineering principles usingreal-world applications. Based on
contamination, and use of experiment-centric pedagogy in STEM fields.Hannah Abedoh, Morgan State UniversityDr. Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University Dr. Oludare Owolabi, a professional engineer in Maryland, joined the Morgan State University faculty in 2010. He is the director of the Sustainable Infrastructure Development, Smart Innovation and Resilient Engineering Research Lab at Morgan State UniversityArnesto Bowman, Morgan State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Enhancing student engagement and enthusiasm in undergraduate physics laboratory experiments at a historically black university by using hands-on devices via experiment-centric pedagogyAbstractPolicy
include robotics, automation, and product design. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Use of Individual Lab Kits to Enhance Hands-on Learning in Electronic Circuits CoursesAbstractThe Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology degree program at Western CarolinaUniversity offers a series of lab-lecture courses covering DC circuits, electronic circuits withactive devices such as diodes and transistors, and AC circuits. These four credit hour coursesinclude one laboratory session per week. During the COVID-19 era, these classes were offeredremotely using lab kits consisting of an all-in-one pocket-sized data acquisition module, abreadboard, and a set of passive
complete instructional strategy that seeks to address student conceptual understanding.Dr. Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver Dr. Dave Kim is Professor and Mechanical Engineering Program Coordinator in the School of Engineer- ing and Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. His teaching and research have been in the areas of engineering materials, fracture mechanics, and manufacturing processes. In par- ticular, he has been very active in pedagogical research in the area of writing pedagogy in engineering laboratory courses. Dr. Kim and his collaborators attracted close to $1M in research grants to study writ- ing transfer of engineering undergraduates. For technical research, he has a
Paper ID #37276Development and First-Year Outcomes of a NSF-Funded Summer ResearchInternship Program to Engage Community College Students in EngineeringResearchDr. Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University Dr. Xiaorong Zhang is an Associate Professor in Computer Engineering in the School of Engineering at San Francisco State University (SFSU). She is the Director of the Intelligent Computing and Embedded Systems Laboratory (ICE Lab) at SFSU. She has broad research experience in human-machine interfaces, embedded systems, and engineering education. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award to develop the next
educators to support their teaching of En- gineering within K-12 classrooms. She has developed and implemented a senior-level projects laboratory course in the Chemical Engineering curriculum at the University of Utah, giving students hands-on expe- rience with the concepts she is teaching in their Process Control theory course. Stacy received a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Utah. She then earned a PhD in Chemical Engineer- ing at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research was focused on algorithms used in the processing of semiconductor wafers and resulted in two patents.Prof. Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah Anthony Butterfield is an Assistant Professor (Lecturing) in the Chemical
Physicslaboratory, there are three types of activities: a) Weekly laboratory experiments, b) AppliedPhysics Seminars and c) Problem learning projects. This work is focused on Applied PhysicsSeminars where students by using a simulator software "Speed Calculations for TrafficAccidents" – SCTA study the process of collision in a real situation, developing a role similarto the one performed by a forensic investigator where by means of the skid mark and type ofpavement he can estimate the initial vehicle speed. In the Physics laboratory, teams of studentsmust: 0) Read the original paper about "Speed Calculations for Traffic Accidents" and payattention for general teacher’s explanation during class laboratory, 1) Use Design Thinkingmethodology for project
at Illinois State University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Learning Concrete in Construction Management Course Through Bowling Ball ProjectAbstractConstruction Management programs usually offer a Materials course which includes hands-onconcrete technology laboratory involving series of experiments (e.g., compressive strength,flexural strength) to obtain strength of concrete specimens. However, Materials course lackshands-on activity discussing concrete forming, and effect of mix design and ingredients on thefresh and hardened properties of concrete. In this study, a fiber-reinforced concrete bowling ballproject was implemented in a Construction Material
. PhD. Civil Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS , May 2008. Dr. Palomo is currently a Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). In this position, Dr. Palomo is responsible for teaching courses such as Introduction to Civil Engineering; Hydraulics; Water and Wastewater Treatment; Groundwater Mechanics; Research Experience of Undergraduate Students; and Engineering Outreach Service Learning courses, among others. She is also a faculty advisor for the California Water Environment Association (CWEA), and Engineers Without Boarders (EWB) student chapters. Additionally, Dr. Palomo is the CE Water Analysis laboratory director and
– (i) increasednumber of historically underserved students from rural NENC who are interested in pursuingtechnical careers with DOE/national laboratories and energy-specific careers, (ii) promoteinstitutional partnerships for collaborative efforts in strengthening the future energy workforce.The renewable energy education and training supported efforts to engage underservedcommunities and foster greater inclusion of underrepresented groups in energy-related researchand the workforce.Methodology and ApproachNortheastern NC has long suffered the effects of poverty and has lacked the opportunities formost students to encounter the 21st Century workplace that is readily accessible in more urbanareas of the state. However, with the recent growth in
, laboratory, or field activities.An inevitable drawback is that the limitations of time, money, and space play a large role inaccessing such physical resources. The proposed research explores the role of virtual realitylearning (VRL) platforms and other virtual learning environments (VLE) in providing hands-onexperience of conceptual knowledge. Mississippi State University engineering undergraduatestudents were surveyed regarding their experiences with and opinions of virtual learningenvironment integration into their engineering courses. This technology was favorably receivedby students, regardless of prior experiences with VLE in a classroom setting. Open-endedresponses provided insight into student perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks of
group in the fluid mechanics and heat transfer domains. Packed bed/fluidized bed instruc-tion appears in most chemical engineering curricula, but hands-on exposure is usually relegatedto senior-level unit operations laboratories if the equipment is available at all. We have devel-oped a simple system with manometer ports for understanding pressure losses in particle beds;our system can eventually be used for safe low-low temperature catalytic processes that can bevisualized with a color change. Classroom implementation strategies, accompanying conceptual-reinforcement materials, and motivational strategies will be presented.IntroductionStudents learn in many ways. Over the past two decades, many studies have shown a connectionbetween student
-determined “bundles” of assignments [18].The last several years have seen an increase in the use of specifications grading in highereducation courses in STEM, including examples in chemistry [19], biology [20], physics [21],mathematics [22], first-year engineering [23], [24], engineering computer applications [25],engineering mechanics [26], thermodynamics [27], fluid mechanics [28], biomedical engineeringstatistics [24], a chemical engineering laboratory [29], a biomedical engineering elective course[30], and capstone design [24].This paper will describe the implementation of specifications grading in two offerings of anundergraduate fluid mechanics course, one with lecture and laboratory components and a lecture-only course the following year
technologies being created and added to our everyday lives despite theongoing mere theoretical and abstract exposure of these advancements to students [3]. Suchtechnological advances can add more expenses to educational institutions that strive to integratejob market applications in a pedagogical setting to expose students to real-world applications.Many educational institutions have been developing new styles and instruction tools that could bereadily integrated into undergraduate engineering laboratories [4]. The role of the laboratory inengineering is to teach students how to extract data for a specific design, analyze a new device,and discover a new piece of information to their knowledge of the world [5]. Capstone projectsare one of the well
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Preliminary Experience and Impact of Experiment-focused Teaching Approach in a Computer Architecture Course in Computer ScienceAbstract—One of the key knowledge areas in Computer Science (CS) is Digital Logic andComputer Architecture where the learning outcome is an understanding of Boolean algebra, logicgates, registers, or arithmetic logic units, etc. and explaining how software and hardware arerelated to a computing system. Experimental Centric based Instructional Pedagogy (ECP) withportable laboratory instrumentation might provide real hands-on experience to obtain a practicalunderstanding of those concepts at a lower cost compared to virtual hands-on laboratories thatlack direct