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
2006-1149: TEACHING THE INTRODUCTORY COMPUTER-PROGRAMMINGCOURSE FOR ENGINEERS USING MATLAB AND SOME EXPOSURE TO CAsad Azemi, Pennsylvania State University Asad Azemi is an associate professor of Engineering at Penn State University. He has received his B.S. degree from UCLA in 1982, M.S. degree from Loyola Marymount University in 1985, and Ph.D. degree from University of Arkansas in 1991. His professional interests are in nonlinear stochastic systems, control systems, signal estimation, bio-computing, and use of computers in undergraduate and graduate education.Laura Pauley, Pennsylvania State University Laura Pauley is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Arthur L. Glenn Professor of
2006-1980: PEER REVIEW OF TEACHING: A MULTI-FACETED APPROACH TOIMPROVING STUDENT LEARNINGMatthew Roberts, University of Wisconsin-Platteville MATTHEW ROBERTS is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Roberts earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Brigham Young University in 1993 then spent four years in the U.S. Air Force as a civil engineering officer. He received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 2002 and has been teaching structural engineering topics at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville since then. Page 11.989.1© American Society for
2006-56: A NEW APPROACH TO TEACHING INTRODUCTION TOELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AT THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARDACADEMYDavid Godfrey, U.S. Coast Guard Academy David Godfrey, MSEE, PE, is an assistant professor at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (USCGA). He graduated from USCGA with his BSEE in 1992 and earned his MSEE from University of Rhode Island in 1997. He holds the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Coast Guard. Address: U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Department of Engineering, 27 Mohegan Ave., New London, CT 06320-8101; telephone: 860-444-8536; fax: 860-444-8546; e-mail: dgodfrey@exmail.uscga.edu.Joseph Staier, U.S. Coast Guard Academy Joseph Staier, MSIT, is an assistant professor
2006-1001: ACTIVE TEACHING, ACTIVE LEARNING: INFUSING THE DESIGNPROCESS IN A FIRST-YEAR COURSESusan Freeman, Northeastern University Susan Freeman, Beverly Jaeger and Richard Whalen are members of Northeastern University's Gateway Team, a selected group of faculty expressly devoted to the first-year Engineering Program. The focus of this team is on providing a consistent, comprehensive, and constructive educational experience in engineering that endorses the student-centered and professionally-oriented mission of Northeastern University.Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern UniversityRichard Whalen, Northeastern University
2006-1968: TEACHING BASIC CARDIO-VASCULAR MECHANICS WITH LEGOMODELS: A HIGH SCHOOL CASE STUDYReginald Hobbs, Tufts University Reginald is currently a graduate student at Tufts University in a M.S./Ph.D. program in Science Education. He previously earned his M. Ed. in Secondary Education from Harvard University and his B.A. in Biology from Carleton College. Reginald is also currently a research assistant at TERC where he is involved in looking at improving the performance of historically under-achieving groups in the field of science.Nataliia Perova, Tufts University Nataliia is currently a graduate students at Tufts University majoring in Mathematics, Science, Technology and
Experiments, (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 2005) 6th ed., pp.325-350.8 Arons, A.B., Teaching Introductory Physics, (John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, 1997), pp.188-214 and 333- 339.9 McDermott, L.C., et.al., Physics by Inquiry, (John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, 1996).10 G.Brizuela and A. Juan, “Planck’s constant determination using a light bulb,” Am. J. Phys 64 (6), 819-821 (1996).11 I. R. Edmonds, “Stephan-Boltzmann Law in the Laboratory,” Am. J. Phys. 36, 845 (1968).12 B. Prasad and R. Mascarenhas, “A laboratory experiment on the application of Stefan’s law to tungsten filament lamps,” Am. J. Phys 46 (4), 420-423 (1978
education,” Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Conference, 2002. http://www.asee.org/about/events/conferences/search.cfm10. Prince, M. J. and R. M. Felder, “Inductive Teaching and Learning Methods: Definitions, Comparisons, and Research Bases,” to appear in Journal of Engineering Education, 2006.11. Kanter, D. E., Smith, H. D., McKeenna, A., Rieger, C., and R. A. Linsenmeier, “Inquiry-based laboratory instruction throws out the “cookbook” and improves learning,” Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Conference, 2003. http://www.asee.org/about/events/conferences/search.cfm12. National Research Council, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. National Academies Press, 2000a. http://www.nap.edu
currently serving as PI on a NSF grant on designing remote laser laboratory for teaching techniciansDon Engelberg, Queensborough Community College Don Engelberg is a Professor of Physics at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. His research interests include nuclear physics, laser physics, and education. He was awarded several NSF grants and is currently serving as PI on a NSF grant in laser physics education.Alex Flamholz, Queensborough Community College Alex Flamholz is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. His research interests include bio-physics, electronics, and education. He worked in
through the stimulation and motivationof students [1]. Accordingly, it makes sense that those selected to teach undergraduatestudents should be trained properly for this function. Unfortunately, while mostcandidates applying for openings have little teaching experience, the institutions that arelooking to hire prospective faculty expect their candidates to be “teaching ready”[2].Adding to this problem is that the teaching experience that graduate students receive isquite different across the nation. For example, some graduate students are just used tograde homework and examinations, while others run homework recitations and a thirdgroup handles the laboratory. All of these experiences are quite unique and, at somelevel, a newly-hired faculty
2006-1195: EVOLUTION OF THE ELECTRICAL POWER TECHNOLOGYPROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONLuces Faulkenberry, University of HoustonWajiha Shireen, University of Houston Dr. Faulkenberry is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Technology Department of the University of Houston College of Technology and is the Coordinator of the Electrical Power Program. Dr. Shireen is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Technology Department at the University of Houston College of Technology. She teaches and does research in electrical power. Page 11.606.1© American Society for Engineering Education
2006-1858: PORTFOLIOS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION: WHAT DO THEYPROMISE AND HOW CAN THEY BE USED?Zhiwei Guan, University of Washington ZHIWEI GUAN is a doctoral student in the University of Washington’s Technical Communication department and a member of the Laboratory for User-Centered Engineering Education (LUCEE).Steve Lappenbusch, University of Washington STEVE LAPPENBUSCH is a doctoral student in the University of Washington’s Technical Communication department and a member of the Laboratory for User-Centered Engineering Education (LUCEE).Jennifer Turns, University of Washington JENNIFER TURNS is an assistant professor of Technical Communication at the University of Washington
publication, submitting grant proposals, participating in professional societies,and working on departmental and university committees.Teaching is considered the primary activity for faculty members and carries the highest weight(65%) toward the tenure decision. As a result a great deal of effort is channeled each year intoevery aspect related to teaching courses. Lectures are updated to improve class discussions andunderstanding; laboratory exercises are restructured to provide the right emphasis; homeworkassignments are refreshed; and projects are rejuvenated to increase the application of the subjectmatter. All of this effort is aimed at increasing the students’ comprehension of the material beingstudied. Regrettably this process creates a
2006-883: AN INNOVATIVE TWO-PLUS-TWO TRANSFER AGREEMENTSTRUCTURE WITH MULTIPLE TWO-YEAR COLLEGES IN ELECTRICALENGINEERING TECHNOLOGYRobert Strangeway, Milwaukee School of Engineering ROBERT A. STRANGEWAY is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), where he teaches courses in circuits, signals, electromagnetic fields, and RF/microwaves. He was the Program Director of the Electrical Engineering Technology program at MSOE from 1997-2003. He earned his Ph.D. (EE) from Marquette University in 1996. He is also currently performing research on millimeter-wave components and systems at the Medical College of Wisconsin
2006-1353: JITT IN AN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CLASSNancy Denton, Purdue University NANCY L. DENTON, P.E. CVS 3 Nancy L. Denton is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University and associate department head. She teaches courses in basic mechanics, controls, and machinery diagnostics. She has held a number of positions within ASEE. She is also active in the Vibration Institute, serving on its certification examination committee and corresponding ISO standards group.Heather Cooper, Purdue University HEATHER L. COOPER, P.E. Heather L. Cooper is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University. She teaches courses in thermal science and
these students areentitled to receive, they must be registered for a full time load.There are four eight week terms each year. The contract year for faculty starts in July with theFall I (July-Sept) term, which ends around Labor Day. Between each term, there is a break ofaround three weeks. The next term (Fall II) starts in October and ends in December. The two Page 11.967.3spring terms, Spring I (Jan-March) and Spring II (April-June) round out the year. With thisuniversity, faculty are on nine month contracts. Most faculty contracts run July to March, andany teaching during Spring II is the equivalent of summer teaching for faculty on
individual topics covered in the workshops, the students also 2experienced the incremental development process of a full-featured multi-tier system. Thecomplete case study worked well as an example for the team projects.Overall StrategyLectures and guided laboratories are common practices in teaching a wide range of computerscience and engineering courses. Lectures are a necessary component in teaching a softwareengineering course to present concepts, principles, and technologies, which are necessary tounderstand the background of a development scenario. But they are not efficient indemonstrating what artifacts are to be generated under the given scenario and how to use CASEtools to generate them. The
2006-2067: ASSESSMENT OF HANDS-ON INTRODUCTIONS TO INDUSTRIALENGINEERINGDurward Sobek, Montana State University Durward Sobek is an Associate Professor in Industrial and Management Engineering. He holds an AB degree in Engineering Science from Dartmouth College, and MS and PhD degrees in Industrial and Operations Engineering from The University of Michigan.Susan Freeman, Northeastern University Susan Freeman is an Associate Academic Specialist in the College Of Engineering. She holds BS, MS and PhD degrees in Industrial Engineering from Northeastern University. Susan worked at Eastman Kodak Company for 9 years as an IE, and has been teaching in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
increase studentawareness of the application of MoM in emerging technologies, several examples ofbeams in Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) were analyzed and illustrated. Besides content update, we also made some changes in teaching methods. Since thecourse has no laboratory component, we adopted four simple home experiments toenhance the understanding of basic concepts. In the classroom we demonstrate beambending, column buckling, and torsion of a tube etc. Also, some time was allocated forstudents to solve problems after the instructor had solved a similar one. With help fromthe instructor and their peers, students can identify their deficiencies, clear somemisconceptions and grasp the content more effectively. From surveys conducted
2006-434: ANIMATION AS THE FINAL STEP IN THE DYNAMICS EXPERIENCEThomas Nordenholz, California Maritime Academy Thomas Nordenholz is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the California Maritime Academy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998. His present interests include the improvement of undergraduate engineering science instruction, and the development of laboratory experiments and software for undergraduate courses. Page 11.215.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Animation as the Final Step in the Dynamics ExperienceAbstractA
component of the course introduces students to principles of engineeringdesign practice while developing design competencies in problem definition, idea generation,evaluation and decision making, implementation of teamwork, and process improvement.Introduction to Engineering Technology (ET 002) is a one credit-hour course which in the pasthas been used to teach basic computer skills to all the first-semester engineering technologystudents at Altoona College of the Pennsylvania State University. Traditionally, this course hasbeen a combined lecture and laboratory course focusing on topics such as microcomputerfundamentals, word processing, electronic spreadsheets, and basics of computer programming.Current state of Engineering Design at the Altoona
Hands-on Introduction to Chemical and Biological EngineeringSession 1526: We have revised our freshman seminar course by modeling it after RowanUniversity’s exemplary Freshman Engineering Clinic course which utilizes a hands-onlaboratory approach to introduce freshman students to engineering. Innovative laboratorymodules developed and published by faculty at Rowan under NSF funding were adaptedand implemented. These laboratories utilize common activities (such as brewing coffee,taking blood pressure, and delivery of medication) to teach fundamental engineeringprinciples, techniques for experimental measurement, data representation and analysis,and group problem solving and communication skills. Many of these laboratories aredesigned
areused in the digital system laboratory [7]. The reader can visit the laboratory webpage to find more detailsabout the laboratory coursework [9]. 3 Digital Systems LaboratoryTable 1 summarizes the flow of laboratory exercises for the digital systems laboratory. This is a verystandardize set of laboratory experiments to teach basic concepts of digital circuits. We anticipate thatthese experiments can be easily ported with little modification for use at other curriculum. The flow oflaboratory experiments has been customized to follow the course text-book [8]. During the first andsecond weeks of the semester, the students work through a self-paced tutorial to learn the basic features ofXilinx ISE schematic
acquired.ConclusionThe teaching of attack understanding based information assurance requires the use ofguaranteed isolation of laboratory networks. Providing Distance Education courses witha remote laboratory network presents challenges to providing adequate isolation. The useof IP-KVM switches adds a very strong layer of isolation, and in combination with theuse of emulation software such as VMWare or other virtual operating systemenvironment, provides an adequately isolated laboratory network for some exercises.References[1] Frincke, D., “Who watches the security educators?”, Security & Privacy Magazine, IEEE Volume 1, Issue 3, May-June 2003 Page(s):56 – 58[2] Eppes, T. & Schuyler, P., “A General-Purpose Distance Lab System
Computer Aided Design & Graphics by teaching students with hands-on type of educational practices and laboratory exercises in the area of FMS. A MiniCIM 3.2 Amatrol has been selected as the equipment to teach FMS. This equipment is used to modify the curriculum and nine courses and labs in the IET department to enhance the students’ learning. The FMS project serves also as a starting point to accomplish a six-year development plan of the Manufacturing Laboratory in the IET department. The goal is to complete a fully Computer Integrated Manufacturing system in six years. The strategy used is aligning students’ class projects and/or students’ senior projects with the goals of the Manufacturing Laboratory. These class projects
semester of the Freshman year. While the course does not require a textbook, a number of textbooks, including [4] and [5], are available for such a course. Associated with [4] is a laboratory manual available on the internet describing a series of experiments.‚ Thinking and Doing Mathematics: Engaging today's youth in mathematics and science is the foundation for sparking their future interest in the fields of engineering and science. This is the motivation for "Thinking and Doing Mathematics," a program that helps teachers learn more hands-on approaches to teaching mathematics through engineering and science. Participating teachers attend a ten day workshop at the university. The university’s colleges of Engineering
Paddle laboratory series1,developed at Stanford and currently implemented at Johns Hopkins University, is adapted to fitRice’s curriculum. This series of five laboratory exercises was developed for use in anundergraduate course on dynamics and controls, and is fully explained in the literature and onseveral websites1,6,7. A low-cost, single-axis force-reflecting joystick was used to teach studentsabout electromechanical systems, dynamics, and controls. Figure 2 clearly illustrates the topicsfrom the lecture portion of the Hopkins course and the related topics in the Haptic Paddle Labs.It should be noted that other researchers have adopted haptic devices to undergraduate courseswith much success8.While most of these labs fit right in to the
is that moving to remote and virtual access to laboratoryhardware leads to significant changes in the learning outcomes of the students whoexperience this laboratory. In the face of such changes, these alternative access modes mustbe considered pedagogical alternatives, rather than simply logistical conveniences.IntroductionLaboratory classes are a key element in undergraduate engineering teaching. They serve anumber of valuable roles, such as validating analytical concepts, and providing exposure toprofessional practice 1. One of the drawbacks of laboratory classes is that they are expensive,in terms of both time and money. Another drawback is the significant logistical challenge ofscheduling access to hardware for potentially large groups
2006-856: UPDATING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MEASUREMENTS ANDINSTRUMENTATION – A CASE STUDYTheodore Heindel, Iowa State University Ted Heindel is the William and Virginia Binger Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University. He taught ME 370 at ISU from spring 2003 through spring 2005 and was responsible for major course modifications, including development of several new laboratory exercises. He is currently teaching thermal science courses, including fluid mechanics and heat transfer. He also has an active research program in multiphase flow characterization and visualization and gas-liquid mass transfer enhancement, and is the director of a one-of-a-kind X-ray
receive training in an Rensselar Politechnic Institute (RPI) clean room, the total cost will be $40/hour/class, which will fund a teaching, assistant ($15/hour) and the teaching assistant's clean room usage fee ($25/hour). The access to RPI and SUNY-Albany eliminates the need for new multimillion-dollar semiconductor specific laboratories at HVCC. Faculty – Twenty-nine contact hours of faculty load would be generated by the new courses required by the program. Existing faculty and/or adjunct faculty will teach the seven technical course electives in the area of Nanotechnology and semiconductor manufacturing technology (SMT). Other NYS research institutions (Rensselaer, University at Albany-Center for Thin Film Technology, RIT) have provided HVCC