Safe Science: Promoting a Culture of Safety in WATERAcademic Chemical SCIENCE AND Research TECHNOLOGY BOARD Douglas Friedman Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology Briefing to the ASEE National Meeting of Engineering Research Deans BOARD ON CHEMICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY March 9, 2016 The Task at Hand• Examine laboratory safety in chemical research in non- industrial settings.• Compare practices and attitudes in these settings with knowledge about promoting safe practices from the
in class. In thisproject, supported by a NSF TUES type II grant, Collaborative: TUES: Software Defined RadioLaboratory Platform for Enhancing Undergraduate Communication and Networking Curricula,we explore the possibility of applying the SDR as an education tool to teach fundamental signalprocessing concepts. To achieve this goal, we developed SDR based laboratory exercises.Although students are still required to develop analog/digital communication systems, the majorfocuses of these exercises are to illustrate fundamental signal processing concepts such asfrequency-shift, spectra of real and complex valued signals, etc. The target students are juniorlevel undergraduate students who have taken “Signals and Systems” but are not necessary
also the home of many classrooms. This setting allows the facility to be accessible withconvenience for both research and teaching applications. Thus, this facility provides a uniqueopportunity to allow students to observe and integrate their use into student laboratories tofacilitate not only a greater understanding of the principles of the coursework, but also acommand of the technology that translates these principles beyond the classroom. This modelwas applied to the course Biological Principles for Engineers (BEN 301) and included surveys, alecture, and a laboratory portion. Materials and MethodsStudent evaluations. In order to gauge student learning outcomes related to the knowledge offunction and
determined using previous chemistry experiments presented in thecourse. A team of teaching assistants, along with the course coordinator, developed anengineering driven problem to build off existing labs. These replaced the traditional chemistrylabs as found in Table 1.Table 1. Comparison table of changes for PBLE implementation Traditional Laboratory Problem Based Laboratory Experiments Experiments Week 1 Statistics and Experimentation Freezing Point Depression and Week 2 Freezing Point Depression Examination Quality of Various Deicers Week 3 Rates of Reaction Polymer Development and Examination
manydifferent approaches proposed to improve statistics curriculum for engineering students. Bartonet al3 developed a laboratory-based statistics curriculum. Standridge et al25 did similar work.Bryce used data collected by students in his introductory engineering statistics course4. Levine etal16 used Microsoft Excel and MINITAB in their book to teach applied statistics to engineers andscientists. Zhan et al30 proposed to apply statistics in several courses in the curriculum instead ofhaving a separate applied statistics course within the curriculum. They found that applyingspecific statistical analysis methods in appropriate courses was an effective way for students tolearn to use statistics.Based on these findings, several laboratory exercises were
Oregon State University. He serves as the Coordinator of Collegiate Mathematics Education, as Faculty Director of the OSU Math Learning Center, and as the OSU Math Excel (Treisman Emerging Scholars) program. His main mathematics education research interests are in the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning of mathematics. He was recognized in 2009 with the Pacific Northwest Section of the Mathematical Association of America Distinguished Teaching Award. He most recently served on an Equity Task Force for the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators.Dr. Susie J Brubaker-Cole, Oregon State University Dr. Susie Brubaker-Cole is vice provost for student affairs at Oregon State University. Prior to this
state that the number of expectedenergy related green jobs is expected to increase by 11% by 2018, and most of that growth isexpected to be in the environmental or energy related sectors [9-10].Edgar Dale’s cone of learning shows that participating in discussions or other active experiencesmay increase retention of material by up to 90% [11]. Richard Felder and Linda Silvermanrecommend several teaching techniques to address all learning styles, one of which is to providethe students with demonstrations that address sensing and visual learning styles, and hands-onexperiments for students with active learning styles [12]. According to Moore [13], there is adirect correlation between in-class performance, laboratory attendance, and performance
Paper ID #16397Setting Student Safety Knowledge to PracticeProf. Elizabeth M. Hill, University of Minnesota - Duluth Dr. Hill is focused on active learning teaching methods and research for engineering education. After receiving her Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Hill spent several years working on polymer processing research and advanced materials manufacturing. She has an extensive background in system development for water purification as well as membrane manufacturing. She is an avid hiker and enjoys spending time with her family in the Boundry Waters Canoe Area of Minnesota
addition, online coursesettings allow students to learn the course materials at their own pace without being forced tofollow the pace of the instructor or the class [4-6].Although online education has its own advantages, the effectiveness of student experience inonline settings compared to in-class settings is questionable. Researchers around the world havebeen studying the effectiveness of online education [7-10]. Traditional in-class setting is in aprofessor-centered learning environment; where the professor teaches the theoretical componentof the course and explains the materials to the students directly within the limited class hours.Also, the practicum component is carried through the hands-on laboratory setting. Theinteraction in this
foundation for the ExCEEd Teaching Workshop where the skills andtechniques necessary to fulfill meeting the expectations inherent in these models are presented,discussed, and practiced. The typical ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Workshop (ETW) schedule forthe six-day workshop is shown in Figure 3 and is representative of the workshop at different sites(United States Military Academy, University of Arkansas, University of Northern Arizona,University of Texas at Tyler, and Florida Gulf Coast University). The workshop activities can besub-classified into seminars, demonstration classes, laboratory exercises, and social events. 1Seminars: The primary course schedule for the ETW contains 13 Seminars which vary incontent and were designed to provide theoretical
successfully employed to grade these projects through the design of a rubric thattolerated differences in robot designs. Though the approach described in this paper has workedfor an introductory lab with simple circuits, the authors suggest that more complex hardwarecourses would require virtual laboratories or remote-controlled equipment to properly teach thematerial. However, carefully curated kits could introduce students to new fields beyondelectronics with a powerful hands-on approach that may inspire additional study.Though MOOC courses must contend with high attrition rates and low participation rates, theeffort is worth it for those people that they reach. Those students that did not finish this coursehave shared gratitude and appreciation for
the (Scottish) accent of the presenter. An effort todetermine the exact cause will be studied during the next offering of this course. An area fornote taking will be added to the printed laboratory procedure. The undergraduatelaboratory teaching assistants will be asked to observe whether students use this areaduring the presentation and to informally assess the accuracy of the notes that are takenduring the lab session.The interference caused by sunlight was observed by several teams who were conductedtheir experiment while seated at lab stations near an outside window. As the studentscirculated among teams, the information about this interference was rapidly communicatedto the rest of the cohort, some of whom then realised that the
Paper ID #14933Hybrid Course Design in Manufacturing Courses to Improve Learning in theClassroomDr. Gozdem Kilaz, Purdue University - West Lafayette Gozdem Kilaz is an Assistant Professor of Aviation Technology Department at Purdue University. Dr. Kilaz holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering. She serves as the Chief Scientist for the Air Transport Institute for Environmental Sustainability (AirTIES). Her research is focused on avia- tion biofuels and sustainability. Her courtesy appointment with the Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering (LORRE) research center provides collaboration between
in teaching design, instrumentation, and medical device regulations.Prof. Poul Fønss Nielsen, University of Auckland Poul’s research focuses on using novel instrumentation, detailed computational models, and quantita- tive descriptions of physical processes to gain a better understanding of human physiology. Many of his projects couple mathematical modelling with innovative instrumentation to improve our ability to understand and interpret measurements of complex biological systems, subject to the constraints of well- understood physical conservation and balance laws. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Work in Progress: The consumer breathalyzer as a model design
: metals, polymers,ceramics. The course also taught different types of material failure and how to select materials to avoidfailure. The types of failure topics addressed include yielding, creep, wear, fatigue and fracture. Thecourse text material was based around two popular materials textbooks.15, 16 Traditional teaching inChina tends to be rote learning, more passive than active. This course employed an inquiry-basedapproach with a combination of integrated class/seminars and laboratory-demonstration classes. TheDeakin-led classes consisted in two hours of lecture, followed by a two-hour practical class. Thepractical classes focussed on six aspects of materials science and engineering: Stress and strain in materials Material
learners andinstructors) is a key factor which defines the success of online education3.But unfortunately, engineering courses such as that are in need of laboratories, team works,construction site visits, field personnel’s technical presentations cannot be offered through onlinemedium. The physical interactions that are needed in the laboratories and construction sitescannot be offered by the online courses. Such collaborations of educational institutions withindustry and Government are necessary for Civil Engineering program’s success. UndergraduateEngineering students love to have hands-on experience for the most of the courses in theirCourse curriculum. The instructors who teach courses that are complemented by laboratoriesreceive high grade
) in the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Utah. He received his B. S. and Ph. D. from the University of Utah and a M. S. from the University of California, San Diego. His teaching responsibilities include the senior unit operations laboratory and freshman design laboratory. His research interests focus on undergraduate education, targeted drug delivery, photobioreactor design, and instrumentation. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Implementation and Usage of an Online Environment in a Chemical Engineering CurriculumAbstractWe have developed an online system to serve as a hub for student activities in our chemicalengineering
than those provided bytextbook publishers34.The online Graphics class at Cañada College was developed by an engineering instructor whohas been teaching the face-to-face version of the class for about 20 years, and has been teachingonline lecture courses (Statics, Dynamics, Circuits lecture, Materials lecture) deliveredsynchronously for the past several years. The online Graphics class is the first asynchronousclass to be developed by this instructor. Online course materials that have been developedinclude PowerPoint lectures, lecture videos, video tutorials, laboratory exercises, and homeworkassignments. Most lecture videos and video tutorials were created and edited using a tabletcomputer and screen capture software such as Camtasia Studio
real time simulation of the powersystem. The GPS units are available for time stamping data received from PMUs and relays. Thelab has been featured in a prominent industrial trade publication 9 and is set to double in size witha $1 million equipment donation from Doble Engineering.The Setting and Testing Digital Relays laboratory course is taught by faculty and experiencedengineers from industry, with TVA routinely supplying adjuncts to teach actual industry practiceto a diverse group including traditional graduate students as well as practicing engineers.To expose students to a wide variety of equipment present in the smart grid, a new laboratorycourse was developed with specific assignments including: • Phasor Measurement Unit setup
); ”Research Experience for Teachers: Integrating Research Skills into the classroom” (UNH 2nd Annual Nanotechnology Conference for Teachers April 2006); and ”Educational Outreach Programs” (2005 MA STEM Summit). She was Co-principal Investigator/Program Director, Research Experience for Teachers (RET), development and implementation of the Research Experience for Teach- ers site at Northeastern University; Executive Director/Founder, Young Scholars Program, development and implementation of the Young Scholars Program, a summer research program for high school students; Co-executive Director, Exxon Mobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp, development and implemen- tation of a residential camp for middle school students
asophomore-level course are given in the paper. Plans to use the device for homework and in-class active learning exercises are also explored. A take-home laboratory kit called The BitBox©which incorporates The BitBoard and a DE1 is also described. The paper discusses the results ofa student survey on the usefulness and reliability of the device and the kit. Observations andresults of the survey suggest that The BitBoard and The BitBox are effective educational toolsfor teaching digital logic fundamentals and have a range of application well beyond the localenvironment. The BitBoard and provides a seamless way to bridge the gap from basic gate-levelexperiments to advanced FPGA projects using an integrated take home laboratory kit.IntroductionThis
Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Computer Engineeringcurricula. Due to costly hardware needed for communication and networking teachinglaboratories, many of these courses are taught without a laboratory. Additionally, such hardwarebased teaching labs lack the flexibility to evolve over time and adapt to different environments.Supported by an NSF TUES type II grant, we have developed a software defined radio (SDR)based general modulation/demodulation platform for enhancing undergraduate communicationand networking curricula. In our previous NSF funded CCLI project “Evolvable wirelesslaboratory design and implementation for enhancing undergraduate wireless engineeringeducation”, we have developed and demonstrated the first nationwide
83% Final Grade 84%Table 2: Summary of direct assessment averages.8. Final remarksOffering an undergraduate course in intra-vehicle communication, with a supplemental hardwarelaboratory, has some challenges. In this paper, the author outlined the course content and a fewexamples of laboratory experiments based on Seed studio CAN shield with MCP2515 CAN BusController board and Arduino Mega 2560. The teaching methods used have proven to beefficient tools in responding successfully to the challenge of teaching an automotivecommunication course to both Electrical and Mechanical Engineering students. Additionalenhancements and improvements are planned for the laboratory experiments. This course canserve as a basis for other
, academically, and professionally, one teachingassistant responds, “Instructing helps solidify concepts and processes in my own knowledge. Inaddition, questions posed by others help me look at things in ways that I didn’t originally.” Itbecomes evident that experience with the teaching the CAM workflow does not only benefittechnical engineering skills, but also professional skills such as training and mentoring.SummaryThe preceding describes the development and implementation of a CAM workflow at largeMidwestern university’s fabrication laboratory. This workflow is integral to the laboratory’smission of providing engineering students with the manufacturing knowledge required to helpthem become more informed designers/engineers. This approach was
, ASEE, SME and TAP.Dr. Jorge Rodriguez P.E., Western Michigan University Faculty member in the Department of Engineering Design, Manufacturing, and Management Systems (EDMMS) at Western Michigan University’s (WMU). Co-Director of the Center for Integrated Design (CID), and currently the college representative to the President’s University-wide Sustainability Com- mittee at WMU. Received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering-Design from University of Wisconsin- Madison and received an MBA from Rutgers University. His B.S. degree was in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at Monterrey Tech (ITESM-Monterrey Campus). Teaches courses in CAD/CAE, Mechanical Design, Finite Element Method and Optimization. His interest
currently works as a Research Assistant in the Combustion and Energy Research Laboratory (COMER). His current research is focused on new catalyst development, ceramic materials for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), combustion, energy conversion, fuel cell modeling, fuel cell technology applications and system design. Ryan is a Syracuse University Graduate Fellow and an Astronaut Scholar.Mr. Michael J. Garrett, Syracuse University Michael Garrett is an incoming graduate student at Syracuse University. Throughout his undergraduate career he developed an interest in energy systems which encouraged him to pursue energy related research. During the summer of 2015, Michael began working as an Undergraduate Research Assistant in
Conference for ASEE, San Antonio,” Texas, June 10-13, 2012. 2. Spencer Kim, “Transforming Curriculum for Workforce Development in Green Plastics Manufacturing Technology (GPMT),” 2013 CCLI/TUES Conference, Renaissance Hotel, Washington DC, Washington, District of Columbia, Jan. 21-22, 2013. 3. Spencer Kim and Betsy Dell, “Transforming Materials Education in Mechanical Engineering Technology,” 2012 Faculty Institute on Teaching and Learning, RIT, May 30-31, 2012. 4. Spencer Kim, “Green Plastics Laboratory by Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL),” 2014 ASEE Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 15 - 18, 2014. 5. Spencer Kim, “Materials Laboratory Designed by Process Oriented
experience in which teachers fullyparticipate in a computer science or engineering laboratory research and engage in an inquiryfocused content-to-pedagogy teacher professional development workshop, buildingcurriculum from their lab research experience with foci on scientific experimentation andimproving students’ science achievement and literacy. The programs are aligned withCommon Core Math Standards and Next Generation Science Standards and addresses theresearch question: • What is the impact of an intensive research-based teacher professional development program on teacher and student performance?Fifty-three teachers and their 7,420 students have participated in the ACCESS 4 Teachers RETand our previous Societally Relevant Engineering
Paper ID #16979Promoting Safety Throughout the Design-Build-Test CurriculumMr. Michael M. Umbriac, University of Michigan Michael Umbriac is a lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Michigan, where he teaches the sophomore and junior design-build-test classes.Mrs. Amy Hortop, University of Michigan c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 WORK IN PROGRESS: Promoting Safety Throughout the DesignBuildTest Curriculum Abstract The undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum at the University of Michigan has a unique teambased
Paper ID #14910After School Matters: Expanding the Time to Engage Minority Middle SchoolGirls in STEMDr. Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Stephanie Luster-Teasley is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Departments of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, and Chemical, Biological, and Bioengineering. Over the last ten years, Dr. Luster-Teasley has demonstrated excellence in teaching by using a variety of research-based, student-centered, pedagogical methods to increase diversity in STEM. Her teaching and engineering education work has resulted in her