Paper ID #28572How Extra Credit Quizzes and Test Corrections Improve Student LearningWhile Reducing StressDr. Brian Scott Rice, Rochester Institute of Technology Dr. Brian S. Rice is an assistant professor in the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology Department at Rochester Institute of Technology since 2016. He joined the RIT faculty after spending over 25 years in applied research while working at University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Ener- getics, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and Eastman Kodak Company. Areas of applied research include system dynamics and controls, solid mechanics, heat transfer, and
, studentclub meetings, departmental or college guest lecture series, departmental information sessions,and meetings with individual faculty members. For those students specifically interested in CE orEVEG, the following additional major exploration opportunities were created for all studentsenrolled in the Fall semester course: (1) guided construction site tours of a large campus project,(2) CE/EVEG major information session, (3) faculty and student departmental picnic, (4) guidedtours of academic and research laboratories, and (5) lunches between small groups of FYEstudents and individual CE/EVEG faculty members. Table 1 provides a summary of these majorexploration opportunities. For each event, sign-in sheets were used to track student
institutions cater theirtraining to specific populations, use qualified, in-person trainers, and instruct participants how tointervene. These recommendations motivated a chemical engineering department at a technicalinstitute to develop a custom in-person training program in collaboration with the Title IX andBias Response (T9BR) and the Violence Prevention and Response (VPR) offices.The in-person trainings, entitled “Promoting a Professional and Inclusive Lab Culture,” weremandatory for all laboratory groups in the department, including faculty, staff, and trainees. Topromote discussion and interaction within the context of individual lab cultures, training sessionswere small (~20 participants) and grouped lab members together. The trainings were
would be “incredibly helpful”.AE scholars also use a wide variety of tools and platforms for sharing research data. Manyfaculty think of the published thesis or journal article as the public sharing of data. However,internally, data is shared through local tools like emails and shared laboratory disc drives. Datathat is not sensitive is shared through document sharing platforms like Microsoft OneDrive,Dropbox, and Google Drive. Services like QNAP's Network Attached Storage (NAS) are alsoused for backup, storage, and transferring large data. Although sharing data internally wasgenerally not considered a challenge by most respondents, getting large amounts of simulationdata from one place to another was a problem. At least one faculty member
Curriculum Study (BSCS). Dr. Spiegel also served as Director of Research & Development for a multimedia development company and as founding Director of the Center for Integrating Research & Learning (CIRL) at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University. Under Dr. Spiegel’s leadership, the CIRL matured into a thriving Center recognized as one of the leading National Science Foundation Laboratories for activities to pro- mote science, mathematics, and technology (STEM) education. While at Florida State University, Dr. Spiegel also directed an award winning teacher enhancement program for middle grades science teachers, entitled Science For Early Adolescence Teachers (Science FEAT). His
recognized excellence in the academic community. ‚ The history of these institutions generally indicates that they earned their reputations for educating engineers at the undergraduate level; research emphasis ordinarily came later as the programs developed, and as scientific and technological advances dictated the need for more research within the academic community. ‚ Comprehensive doctoral programs usually have considerably larger and more comprehensive laboratory facilities. ‚ Many of comprehensive doctoral programs actively engage undergraduates involvement in research ‚ Undergraduate class sections at comprehensive doctoral institutions tend to be larger. The
. Therefore, students not only learned about the requirements for their homedesigns, but they also got an insight of things to consider when implementing certainaspects of their design. For example, students were warned not to put technologicalsystems in their homes that would frequently break and would be high in maintenancecosts because this would be an expense that home owners could not handle.Professor Jeff Haberl from the Energy Systems Laboratory [4] within the Department ofArchitecture at Texas A&M University and PhD student, Mini Malhotra, spoke to thestudents about past and current projects between the College of Architecture and Habitatfor Humanity. Both speakers were able to summarize past research and give feasibleideas to implement
large course project. Limiting thespace and time to convey ideas has the added benefit of focusing student attention on theimportant technical objectives of a laboratory exercise. After implementing thisinstructional model, the faculty have observed a rise in the quality of written, oral,graphical and technical work. Furthermore, end of course evaluations indicate thatstudents understand how the sequence of short assignments develop technicalcommunication skills. Page 12.331.2 Building Engineering Communication Skills 2IntroductionAll too often the authors’ have received reports that are 30 pages long with
optimization. He has consulted for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wimpey Offshore Ltd., and Argonne National Laboratory. Address: Department of Civil Engineering, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL 62026; telephone: 618-650-2815; e-mail: mrossow@siue.edu. Page 13.844.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Learning Statics by Studying Worked ExamplesIntroductionThe traditional way to learn in a problem-solving course such as statics is to solve a largenumber of homework problems. This approach is often inefficient and frustrating becausestudents spend so much time
). Page 13.1095.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Statics and Dynamics Projects Emphasizing Introductory Design and ManufacturingAbstractThis paper describes in detail 4 major projects undertaken by mechanical engineering students inan abbreviated laboratory (lab) component of a combined statics and dynamics course, oftentaken by sophomores. For each of the projects, there was a significant analysis, design,manufacture, and testing aspect with significant interdependent synergy. Specific requirementswere provided and the projects were essentially fun-spirited design contests with either aperformance index or a class vote determining the best overall project. Two projects were in
(6), 356-361. [3] Koszalka, T. (2002). Technology resources as a mediating factor in career interest development. Educational Technology and Society, 5(2), 29. [4] Ogot, M., & Kremer, G. (2006). Developing a framework for Disassemble/Analyze/Assemble (DAA) activities in engineering education. Chicago, IL. [5] Donovan, E. (1982). The influence of the eighth grade science teacher's gender, classroom laboratory emphasis, level of understanding of science and career interest on eighth grade girls' science and engineering career interests. Florida Institute of Technology, University Microfilms International. [6] Sheppard, S. D., 1992, "Mechanical Dissection: An Experience in How Things Work," Proceedings of the
2003. She has been a research associate in the Laboratory for Responsible Manufacturing (LRM) at Northeastern University since September 1999. She has also been employed as an Assistant Professor by Yildiz Technical University till February 2006. Dr. Kongar is currently an Assistant Professor at Bridgeport University and a Part-Time Researcher in the Center for Industrial Ecology at Yale University. Her research interests include the areas of supply chain management, logistics, environmentally conscious manufacturing, product recovery, disassembly systems, production planning and scheduling and multiple criteria decision making. She has co-authored several technical
economic development, but alsowith respect to quality of life as it pertains to conditions that promote sustainable humanprosperity and growth (e.g. opportunity, economy, privacy, community, education, andhealth). In August 2008, James Madison University (JMU) will enroll its first engineeringstudents into a unique engineering product and process design program focused onsustainable societies. A significant component of this integrated program is the sixsemester 10-credit design laboratory sequence that stretches from the sophomore year tograduation. We present a divergence from the generally accepted approach tosustainability (normally referred to as “sustainable engineering” or “environmentalsustainability”) and include instruction in
Laboratory for Responsible Manufacturing (LRM) at Northeastern University since September 1999. She has also been employed as an Assistant Professor by Yildiz Technical University till February 2006. Dr. Kongar is currently an Assistant Professor at Bridgeport University and a Part-Time Researcher in the Center for Industrial Ecology at Yale University. Her research interests include the areas of supply chain management, logistics, environmentally conscious manufacturing, product recovery, disassembly systems, production planning and scheduling and multiple criteria decision making. She has co-authored several technical papers presented at various national and international
12SAFETY:SAFETY WILL BE STRESSED AT ALL TIMES DURING THE COURSE AND IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OFEVERYONE.Safety glasses: There may be tours taken during the semester which require the use of safetyglasses. It is not anticipated that the students will need to use any of the laboratories with powermachines in them for this class. However, if the need arises during the semester, in accordancewith the Illinois State Law, all students must wear safety glasses in the laboratory whenlaboratory work is in progress. During the regular school year safety glasses may be purchasedthrough the ISU Construction Management Student Chapter.TRANSPORTATION:Every attempt will be made to provide university transportation for students to participate in fieldtrip activities, but
dualgraphics displays allowing the student to use one display for his or her personal workspace,while the second display could be used to view/share information with the instructor’s desktop,or to share into other students work during collaborative sessions. This project was started inmid-August 2007 and assessment results are presented in this article for Fall 07 and the early partof Spring 08.IntroductionOne of the thrusts for our Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department curriculum is topromote the active learning aspects for our engineering students during classroom lectures aswell as during laboratory experiments needed for the course1. Based on student technology fees,departmental and collegial funds, two collaborative classrooms were
AC 2007-1964: WHY PEDAGOGY MATTERS: FACULTY NARRATIVESSusan Lord, University of San Diego Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is currently Associate Professor and Coordinator of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year engineering courses, as well as feminist and liberative pedagogies. Dr. Lord served as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education Conference. She has been awarded an NSF CAREER and ILI grants. Dr. Lord’s industrial experience includes AT&T Bell Laboratories, General Motors
experimentation projects EAS 112 Methods of problem-driven, use of algorithm development, use Engineering Analysis18 spreadsheet and of computer tools, statistics, programming to develop numerical methods, algorithms to solve programming concepts engineering problems EAS120 Chemistry with a second semester science laboratory taught from an Applications in BioSystems course, provides background engineering perspective, for further study of chemistry includes design and analysis and
incorporating documents such asproposals, laboratory reports, and design reports into engineering courses.22, 24, 35 Few, if any,offer models in which first-year composition courses serve as sites to ground students’ rhetoricaldevelopment in college and provide the framework for subsequent communication learning.Fewer still take full advantage of the broad skill base developed in the composition classroom. In Page 12.1135.4fact, disturbingly, a number of authors speak quite disparagingly of English courses, as thefollowing examples suggest: • “Traditional composition courses cannot adequately prepare students for the writing required to solve
Page 12.315.5Technology (BMIT )”, who involves testing, maintenance, repair, and calibration of theequipment used to deliver health care. The Biomedical Instrumentation Technician (BMIT),who also known as a Biomedical Equipment Technician, or Biomedical EngineeringTechnician (BMET), works closely with other health care professionals. They are commonlypart of the hospital engineering division. Specialization areas include clinical radiology,ultrasound, cardiac monitoring, nuclear medicine laboratory, respiratory care, and therapeuticequipment. Graduates find employment with hospitals, biomedical instrumentationmanufacturers, and service organizations that specialize in biomedical instrumentation.Future Development of Biomedical Engineering:In
2006-2472: HOW TO ENGINEER A WINNING COMPETITION PROJECT:LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE HUMAN POWERED VEHICLE CHALLENGEJohn Gershenson, Michigan Technological University Dr. Gershenson is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering – Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan and directs the Life-cycle Engineering Laboratory. Professor Gershenson performs research in the areas of life-cycle product architecture and lean and sustainable design and manufacturing. Specific research interests include: product and process architecture, product platforms, modular product design, lean manufacturing, lean engineering, life-cycle design, and design for the environment
signals, and synthesis of digital diffractive elements. He has been a visiting summer faculty Page 11.1336.1 member at IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, Sandia Labs in Livermore, CA, and Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, CA. In addition, he has consulted extensively for industry and government laboratories. Professor Allebach is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T), and a member of the Optical Society of America. In 1987, he received the© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Senior Award from the IEEE
and at Honeywell Industrial Automation and Controls), combat pilot decision support and mission management (at Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems), robotics (at AT&T Bell Laboratories), and surveillance (at AT&T Bell Laboratories). In these areas, he developed and applied technologies including distributed, component-based software architectures, software and systems engineering process models, intelligent control, the semantic web, and real-time artificial intelligence. In 1999, Dr. Hawker joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Alabama as an Assistant Professor focusing on software engineering, and in 2004 he moved to the Software Engineering
Science I Introduction to essential programming concepts using C. Decomposition of programs into functional units; control structures; fundamental data structures of C; recursion; dynamic memory management; low-level programming. Some exposure to C++. Laboratory practice. (Intended for non-CS/CE majors).4. Cp Sc 1010 Introduction to Unix An introduction to the Unix workstations used in the College of Engineering CADE Lab. Topics include the X Windows system, Unix shell commands, file system issues, text editing with Emacs, accessing the World Wide Web with Netscape, and electronic mail. Self-paced course using online teaching aids.5. Math 1210 or 1270 Calculus I or Accelerated Engineering Calculus I
througha laboratory oriented curriculum. From the initial conception of the camp there has been strongindustrial support through the local chapter of InfraGard. The role of industry will be describedthroughout the paper. The goals of summer camp are provided below. • Convey an overview of computer security • Educate students on computer networking concepts as they pertain to security • Instruct students on the uses of different type of cryptography • Provide an understanding of how information warfare is conducted • Provide an opportunity for students to interact with security professionals • Visit several local companies to understand what types of jobs are available in computer security • Introduce students the
light of our prior experience teachingsimilar robotics practica both remotely (using our WWW infrastructure) and in a traditional in-person laboratory setting. We compare and contrast examples of student work, including criteriafor richness of interpersonal interaction, quality of engineered artifacts, and overall quality ofstudent documentation and journals. We conclude with concrete suggestions to further improveonline practicum courses in general, as well as a plan to test these suggestions in future offeringsof our own online robotics practicum.1. IntroductionFormal knowledge-based classroom instruction is necessary for the education of engineers.However, engineering education also requires practicum components in which students
obtained in collaboration with colleagues from the Page 11.234.12Central Connecticut State University and Gettysburg College. The CCLI NSF grant obtained bythe University of Hartford is entitled “Machine Learning Laboratory Experiences for IntroducingUndergraduates to Artificial Intelligence”. The goals of this grant are: (a) Highlight the bridgethat machine learning provides between AI and modern software engineering, and (b) Introducestudents to an increasingly important research area, thus motivating them to pursue research inthis area9. It is worth pointing out that the dissemination potential of Dr. Russell’s CCLI A&Igrant is
system course covers fundamentalconcepts and applications of small (8-bit) and larger (OS-based) embedded systems, real-timeconcepts and applications and includes class and laboratory work in interfacing sensors andactuators to embedded systems. Within this context we added a module to teach the aboveprinciples of sensor mesh networking, combined with a single lab experience. The objectives ofthe module were that students should • Be cognizant of the evolution and need for sensor-mesh networking in embedded systems • Be cognizant of the features and constraints of mesh networking systems. Including current and emerging standards. • Be able to describe and work with the principles of implementation (networking, routing
short quiz given at the end of each class.Advantages and Disadvantages of the New Design of Teaching Slides The new design of teaching slides features a succinct sentence headline that provides themain assertion of the slide as has been advocated by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories[4]. However, this new design also calls for visual evidence to support this assertion as well assome specific formatting guidelines as described in The Craft of Scientific Presentations [5].The guidelines for the new design, as outlined in Table 1, were developed through critiquesessions of more than 400 graduate research and senior laboratory presentations over four years,primarily at Virginia Tech [3]. Shown in Figure 1 is an example of a
a particular place of time,and demands a time for learning and further education. The intrinsic characteristics of theelectronic education are probably the main factors for its development.General CharacteristicsGeneral Environmental Requirements (Basic Facilities) 1. Virtual classroom space including all requirements (teaching program, virtual laboratory, virtual examination,…etc) 2. presentation of web-based course material and graphics, with instructor image 3. presentation of voluminous course texts in memo fields 4. facilities for question/answer dialog between the student and the instructor 5. Search facilities for the offered courses' database using the XML or other script