– Host Implant Interface interactions Biomaterials – Macro, Micro and Nano structural behavior and optimization Biomedical Engineering - Macro, Micro and Nano structural behavior, scaffolds , engineered tissues……………… ……………………. Research Support Verification and Validation activities as an independent party Test Development (ASTM, ISO etc.) Laboratory and animal testing for compatibility and optimization Collaboration for clinical research investigations ………………………… Deans and their chairs influence these activities through identification of opportunities, “seeding” and helping faculty “see it”Thank you!
building, renovating, and maintaining the university infrastructurethat can be used as a learning laboratory for students in construction-related curricula. Beyondsimply being a laboratory for observation, the university can be intentionally developed into apartner in the process of preparing the next generation of construction engineers and managers.While larger institutions typically have larger facilities departments, even smaller organizationshave some personnel that are charged with the maintenance of facilities that might work withprograms. Even those institutions who outsource some of these functions may find that theassociated companies are willing to cooperate with construction programs.Basic approaches: exposing students to construction
materials (harvesting and storage), flame retardant polymers, nanocompsite materials, and advanced materials characterization. He is an active member of professional organizations related to his research interests. He has authored more than 40 technical papers.Mr. Curtis Paul Desselles Jr., I am the Engineering Laboratory Coordinator at Northwestern State University of Louisiana (NSULA). My specialty is robotics and building and designing scientific devices. My experience is as follows: Retired U.S. Navy Medical Laboratory Technologist and Physician’s Assistant (P.A.). I worked as a Research Fellow at National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) following my career in the Navy. I also work as a
environment, science, technology, and health (ESTH). Oerther earned his B.A. in biological sciences and his B.S. in environ- mental health engineering from Northwestern University (1995), and he earned his M.S. (1998) in envi- ronmental 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, in Public Health from The Johns Hopkins University, and Public Administration from Indiana University, Bloomington. Oerther is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE, Ohio), Board Certified in Environmental Engineering (BCEE) by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientist (AAEES), and
role in the development and implementation of the first completely online un- dergraduate ECE program in the State of Maryland. He has published over 50 papers and presented his research work at regional, national and international conferences. He also runs several exciting summer camps geared towards middle school, high school, and community college students to expose and increase their interest in pursuing Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Dr. Astatke travels to Ethiopia every summer to provide training and guest lectures related to the use of the mobile laboratory technology and pedagogy to enhance the ECE curriculum at five different universities.Dr. Dianna Newman, University at Albany
encourage students to pursue the field of cybersecurity. Virtual laboratories allowemulating real life cyber threats and rapid generation of multiple scenarios and infrastructures.The purpose of RunLabs project was to create a lab infrastructure to allow instructors to generatevirtualized environments rapidly. Instructors can create virtual lab for students easily, with asimple configuration file. The methods used for RunLabs creation consist of a javascript objectnotation (JSON) configuration file that creates virtual machines with specified networkconfiguration. In addition, it creates virtual network computing (VNC) service for each virtualmachine with a random password, which allows students to be able to access the virtualmachines and work on
of technologies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Networks Security Lab Support: A Case Study for Problems Facing Distance Education ProgramsAbstractCreating, supporting, and administering online laboratory experiences has become important inthe pedagogy of learning environments for online networking courses. A case study is presentedfor an online laboratory environment used in a fundamental network security course that coversthe competencies of the CompTIA Security+ certification. The online lab environment consistsof virtual machines connected in an isolated virtual network managed by VMware vCloudDirector. This online laboratory environment is used for both online and face-to-face
willreport the above conceptual framework in more details against its literature background.2. The Multiple-Lab-Driven Pedagogy with TCK IntegratedThere have been plenty of studies performed on lab-based curriculum. For instance, Abbas andLeseman [5] developed a laboratory-based curriculum on the theory, fabrication, andcharacterization of microelectromechanical systems, in which course assessment data is input bystudents from three semesters, based on which the effectiveness of the laboratory project isevaluated. Alexander and Smelser [6] proposed a distance laboratory teaching method thatcombined multi-media computer experiments, portable hands-on exercises, and place-boundlaboratory experiments. Zhang et al. [7] utilized graphical development
also contributes to their lackof inclusion and sense of belonging. To a smaller extent, some hearing students misunderstand spokeninformation, especially in lab environments.We report on the evaluation of an extension to our Real-Time Text Display (RTTD), to handle multiplespeakers (RTTD-MS), for engineering labs. RTTD was developed to reduce frustration in following theteacher and other peers during laboratory and other academic settings. The system projects a real-timedisplay of captions (RTTD) above a teacher who can move around the room during the class orlaboratory, which may aid deaf students in viewing both the speaker and the speaker’s words as text.Our first study with RTTD found that deaf students in engineering course lectures
given Assessment Semester. Exceptions to this are the writing course, specific laboratories, and the capstone design sequences where student work is used to demonstrate attainment of multiple SOs. The design process reported here started with the development of preliminaryrequirements. The formal statement of the need, goals, and objectives were developed iterativelyas the process was refined.Design Need An efficient and systematic way to approach satisfying ABET Criterion 4 is needed.Goals (1) Collect and analyze data sufficient for assessment of student outcomes. (2) Use these analyses plus other data to improve the curriculum. (3) Avoid collecting extraneous data. (4) Standardize the data analysis and
canbenefit from the laboratory experience in applications of mechatronics, robotics, and rapid prototyping.As well as helping in the teaching of various courses, such experience benefits students who are pursuingdegrees in the engineering field. Students in the Mechanical, Electrical, and Industrial fields along withmany others can learn many new skills from multi-disciplinary projects such as the rapid prototype designof consumer products, a walking robot or various designs related to capstone senior design projects3, 4.Such projects show students how to use different types of technology, and demonstrate how advancedtechnology can be used in an actual application. Overall, many different fields of engineering can benefitfrom this application
of test reagents, a statistical experimental design matrix is compiled. The matrixused guides the synthesis and extraction experiments. It is possible that the resultant cellulosicfibers may accept the natural and synthetic colorants. The purpose of color enhancement is todetermine feasibility and longevity of its use with different celluloses as starting electrodematerials. Promising results may lead to production of novel biomaterials, polymeric materials,and composite materials as well as compliant sensing materials capable of being modified fordifferent applications. Assessment results point to greater engagement of minority learners.These students tended to spend more than eight hours per week in the laboratories, often wellinto the
assignments and/or courses into therequired MSE curriculum, but not to the extent of 3 semester-long required lab courses. Bydeveloping new courses specifically designed to tie computational assignments to concurrent andpreceding courses in the undergraduate curriculum, OSU made use of significant facultyexpertise in modeling and simulation to develop and teach this curriculum. By operating thesecourses as weekly labs with significant instructor and TA oversight during extended hands-oncourse sections, the courses focused on the need for students to learn to use computational toolsby doing.This paper introduces the curriculum of this 3-semester computational laboratory sequence,discusses the largely qualitative analyses done to measure its efficacy
student understanding and learning once some theoreticalbackground is presented in the class. Most available textbooks choose to use Matlab, but Mathcad can also veryuseful because of its natural and symbolic way of representing signals. WFilter ([3]) is another software tool foranalysis/design of analog as well as digital filters. Another factor to consider is the cost of licensing andmaintenance of these software packages. In our schools most of the tools are available in computer laboratories forstudent use. For some tools (e.g., Matlab) the student version is also available. Furthermore the tools can be optionalespecially for lecture courses where the emphasis might be on understanding and learning of basic concepts first.For details of these
for Electromechanical Engineering and Energy and PowerEngineering at Temple University. Only existing courses in EE and ME were integrated intothese plans of study for the BSE degree. The BSE program utilizes no new courses, requires nonew faculty and only administrative resources. Interdisciplinary design objectives were promotedand utilized in discipline undergraduate course laboratories and the capstone design project forthese students. The BSE program is uniquely administered by the College and not by aDepartment and has a Director and not a Chair.IntroductionThe Electrical Engineering (EE) discipline was once embellished with a significant number ofMechanical Engineering (ME) courses suitable for between-the-world-wars technical training
robotics, automation, and nanotechnology engi- neering education and research. He is a licensed PE in Colorado and a member of ASEE, IEEE, and SME.Mr. Boyan LiMr. Benjamin MaestasMs. Katheryn Michelle Rothermal c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Dancing Humanoid Robots Lab Demonstration for the First Year Engineering StudentsAbstractThis work addresses an exciting humanoid robots laboratory demonstration developed bystudents (one senior and two master’s students) for the first year engineering students. The goalsof the demonstration are to entice the first year mechatronics engineering and industrialengineering students, and to motivate them to continue with their
A Pharmacokinetic Simulation-Based Module to Introduce Mass Balances and Chemical Engineering Design Concepts to Engineering FreshmenIntroductionOften the opportunities for freshmen engineering students to be exposed to chemical engineeringare limited. Introduction to chemical engineering is typically a sophomore level course.Freshman general engineering courses come in a variety of forms from college orientationcourses to lectures on basics of design and safety to project-based laboratory or designexperiences. A recent survey of 50 chemical engineering undergraduate programs showed that6% of those programs offered engineering laboratory experiences for freshmen through generalengineering courses and 4
effectivesolutions to complex technical problems and an active learning environment is useful for studentsto learn practical skills. This includes problem-based learning and student designed laboratoryexperiments.The Civil Engineering Materials course at Manhattan College is a core course taken by all civilengineering students in the spring semester of the sophomore year or fall semester of the junioryear. Traditionally this course covers a variety of civil engineering materials, their sources,manufacturing processes, and behavior under different loading conditions. The content of thiscourse is flexible and includes a laboratory component. This is one of the core classes in whichactive learning techniques can be implemented successfully.A term project
is offered as co-requisite to the laboratory portion of the firstgeotechnical engineering course in both day and evening programs in the spring semester. Dayclasses meet three times a week (50 minutes each) and are populated by students of traditionalage. Evening classes meet twice a week (75 minutes each) and are populated with students wholive in the community, many of whom work full or part-time.Merrimack College is an independent college in the Catholic tradition with undergraduate andmaster’s programs in liberal arts, engineering, business, science, and education. This institutionhas a total enrollment of approximately 3,800 (3,200 undergraduate and 600 graduate students);in Civil Engineering, there are approximately 100 undergraduate
theireducation and that asking good questions and seeking help when they needed it is takingleadership along with coming to office hours, starting assignments early, and following throughon their delegated responsibilities by being an active participant in class activities. Other thansome initial discussion, there were mentions of leadership throughout the semester when theprofessor felt that students were not following through on their responsibilities and when somegroups were not keeping up with their assigned tasks and deadlines.Development of Leadership Through Hands-On Laboratory Exercises in Self-Selected TeamsIn many academic programs, leadership is not directly included in the curriculum. Students areoften encouraged to pursue internships and
, and modeling of motor performance and con- trol in Parkinson’s disease. She previously held a faculty position at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver, and postdoctoral positions at Sandia National Laboratories and at the National Ecological Observatory Network. She is the recipient of the UNM Regents’ Lectureship, the NSF CAREER Award, the UNM Teaching Fellowship, the Peter Wall Institute Early Career Scholar Award, the Truman Post- doctoral Fellowship in National Security Science and Engineering, and the George Bienkowski Memorial Prize, Princeton University. She was a Summer Faculty Fellow at AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate, and a Science and Technology Policy Fellow at The National Academies.Dr
opportunity with aU.S. academic institution for the limited testing of a variety of wood species. Through anacademic contact, EMI partnered with a faculty member knowledgeable in materials testing atthe U.S. Air Force Academy’s (USAFA) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineeringwho was able to identify an undergraduate student interested in a conducting an independentstudy. Like most U.S. academic institutions with civil and/or mechanical engineering programs,USAFA has a laboratory that includes frames capable of basic material testing to support theirprograms, such as a course in construction materials. Not only was EMI grateful for anopportunity to have some of these species tested at virtually no cost, they were able to avoid thecost of
theNational Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program,initially established in 1987, increase access to research opportunities to underrepresentedminority students and students coming from non research-focused undergraduate institutions4.Research on and evaluations of undergraduate research programs have demonstrated numerouspositive outcomes for participants in these experiences. These outcomes include clarifying orreinforcing students’ decisions to pursue graduate studies involving technical research, andincreasing participants’ confidence in their ability to be successful in these programs5,6. Workingin a laboratory alongside graduate students can help undergraduate see themselves as futuregraduate students, and
opportunity by adapting Louisiana Tech’sclasslab concept (integrating class and lab facilities at scale) and large portions of theirinnovative, NSF-funded LivingWithTheLab (LWTL) curriculum. The LWTL curriculumemploys hands-on, project-based instruction for first-year engineering design and demandsavailability of classrooms featuring equipment often restricted from wide student use byavailability and safety concerns. This adaptation included developing an updated interpretationof the classlab concept (where traditional lecture and laboratory activities are seamlesslyinterwoven into the same course, taught in two-hour blocks) and adding new supporting spacesdedicated to collaboration and access to equipment outside of class hours. As the
project-based learning curriculum integrated into math or science courses (Table 1). Students must conduct laboratory and simulated experiments, carry out analysis, and develop a hands-on model based on their results. Laboratory experiments are described in Table 2. Each lesson consists of PowerPoint presentations and laboratory handouts with student worksheets. It should be noted that the CorrSim II program used in the module is a free software available at (http://corrdefense.nace.org/corrdefense_Spring2014/tech4.asp). Instructor professional development materials are also included, consisting of lesson plans, PBL Learning Experience Design (LED) template, student success rubrics, and instructional material on the laboratory and simulation
," "Electronics," and "Signals and Systems" have evolved into asequence of three "Fundamentals" courses in which material from each of the three priorsegments is taught each semester at increasing levels of depth. "Embedded Computing" is also ina studio format and is taught from the perspective of how it is a component of an overall system."E&M Fields" is in a studio format and is largely based on experimental techniques learned in"Fundamentals" and "Embedded Computing." Traditional lecture and laboratory courses are stilltaught in upper-level elective courses, i.e. "Communications" and "Linear Controls."Such sweeping changes also necessitate a reevaluation of how we assess student learning andconcept retention. There are well-known concept inventory
theseevents occurred over a five-year period (2010 – 2015). The authors will describe the curriculum,development of courses and laboratories, the senior design capstone, and preparation of the self-study report necessary for accreditation. All curricula and assessment tools are linked to amodified Bloom’s Taxonomy and ABET Outcome 3 Criteria a through k. A description of theuniversity, its service area, and student population is also provided. In 2015 West Texas A&MUniversity achieved a major milestone through designation as a Hispanic Serving Institution(HSI, 25% or more of student population) [1] and is seeking to improve participation of womenand underserved populations in STEM fields, such as civil engineering. Lessons learned andfuture
, electronics and physical hardware. Prof Lindsay’s background is in Remote laboratories, investigating whether remote and simulated access alternatives to the traditional in-person laboratory experience can provide the high quality learning outcomes for students. Prof Lindsay’s work in Remote and Virtual laboratory classes has shown that there are significant differ- ences not only in students’ learning outcomes but also in their perceptions of these outcomes, when they are exposed to the different access modes. These differences have powerful implications for the design of remote and virtual laboratory classes in the future, and also provide an opportunity to match alternative access modes to the intended learning
, CampbellUniversity’s implementation of the LWTL first-year curriculum was ongoing during the 2016-2017 academic year, but no LWTL-style offerings in sophomore, junior, or senior years were inplace.It was decided to limit class size to 24 students for Campbell University’s LWTL courses, sothree sections of the first-year engineering course were required to accommodate all interestedstudents. This is somewhat smaller than most Louisiana Tech LWTL course sections (most ofwhich have 40 students each), but Campbell University does not plan to implement an in-classTA. An in-class TA is standard at Louisiana Tech, and removing the in-class TA lowers themaximum number of students that can reasonably be supervised using laboratory equipment persection, but allows
been used by us inengineering courses and laboratories, either as demonstrations or student hands-on work forundergraduate Engineering Technology programs. These courses include: 1) undergraduateEngineering Materials, 2) CNC machining operations, 3) Rapid Prototyping, 4) Introduction toNanotechnology, 5) Robotics, 6) Quality Assurance, and 7) Renewable Energy Engineering. Aslaboratory exercises, each instrument can be learned in a time frame of 30-60 minutes. With theexception of the AFM, most of these instruments range in cost from $100 to $1000, and can bereadily interfaced with a laptop computer. We emphasize concepts related to correlating andcollaborating measurements by different techniques. Further, many of these techniques can bedone