Paper ID #34560Reporting the Use of an Innovative Platform for Online Teaching andTeamworkDr. Peter Golding P.E., University of Texas at El Paso Undergraduate Program Director in Engineering Innovation & Leadership, Professor in the Department of Engineering and Leadership, and Director of the Center for Research in Engineering and Technology Education, at the University of Texas at El Paso.Mr. Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas at El Paso Mike Pitcher is the Director of Academic Technologies at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has had experience in learning in both a traditional university program as well
learning has yet to be seen [4]. The lackof remote teaching in engineering, prior to the pandemic, has been attributed to the inherentnature of the discipline, which requires hands-on training to work with instruments and materialsin controlled laboratory settings [5]. Learning experiences that support practical knowledge andskill development are essential for engineers but are difficult to create in a digital environment[5]. Consequently, researchers have claimed that transiting conventional engineering courses thatfocus on content-centered and designed-oriented learning to online may not provide studentswith the in-depth learning required in engineering [5-6]. Furthermore, converting conventionalengineering courses to remote instruction
Session 5-2 Simulating the Engineering Workplace: An Innovative Teaching Methodology in a Senior Electrical Engineering Class Carol Costello, August Allo Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Texas at San Antonio AbstractConcerns regarding the ability of the U. S. to produce competitive scientists andengineers have stimulated a major reconsideration of curricula in many universities. Thispaper documents the results of an innovative engineering professionalism programintegrated into the first semester of a two-semester
traditional in-person instruction. This prompted the faculty to schedule a series offormal discussions throughout the fall term to allow a critical review of the model. Because thisreview of the model was precipitated by the unique environment in which educators foundthemselves, this paper is largely focused on teaching and learning outside of a physicalclassroom or laboratory. This new environment may be described as remote teaching, distanceeducation, virtual instruction, or online learning. As our faculty were new to any of thesemodalities, we used these terms interchangeably but soon learned that they are each unique. Toensure clear understanding, the terms remote, virtual, and online are defined for the purposes ofthis paper in Table 1. It
Paper ID #33237Introducing Simple Harmonic Motion – A Teaching Module in a First-YearEngineering CourseDr. Christopher Horne, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Since 2011, Dr. Horne has been a Lecturer at NC AandT State University and East Carolina University. He currently teaches freshman a course in problem solving using MATLAB. He combines twenty years’ experience in management and engineering with a passion to help students learn STEM-related material. He is a licensed professional engineer and holds masters and Ph.D. from North Carolina State University and North Carolina AandT State
Paper ID #33461Pivot to Remote Teaching of an Undergraduate InterdisciplinaryProject-Based Program: Spring–Fall 2020Dr. Amitava ’Babi’ Mitra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Amitava ’Babi’ Mitra linkedin.com/in/babimitra|+1-617-324-8131 | babi@mit.edu Dr. Amitava ’Babi’ Mitra is the founding Executive Director of the New Engineering Education Trans- formation (NEET) program at MIT. His expertise and interest are in setting up and leading innovative ’start-up’ educational initiatives; he has over twenty-five years’ experience in institution building, higher education, corporate e-learning, and distance education
Paper ID #34694Examining the Teaching Needs of Engineering Faculty: How the Library andLibrarian Fit InMs. Erin Rowley, University at Buffalo Erin Rowley is the Head of Science and Engineering Library Services at the University at Buffalo and serves as the Engineering Librarian. Before coming to UB, Erin was the head of a research team at a consumer products testing laboratory specializing in international standards and regulatory research. At UB she assists faculty, students, and staff with library resource instruction and engineering-related research including standards, technical reports, and patents. Erin’s research
Case-Based Learning: A Creative Experience in Comparison to Traditional Teaching Methods Waddah Akili Geotechnical EngineeringA b s t r a c tThis paper describes the steps taken in planning, developing, and executing a case study/ casehistory course in geotechnical/ foundation engineering at an international university. The paper ed : a ab e a ec e a a ed a ; e a a ecourse; and the results of evaluating the effectiveness of this approach versus traditionallecturing. Problems and challenges that could arise when offering the course for the first time arealso addressed. Embedded in this
Paper ID #32302Teaching in the Era of COVID-19: A Reinvented Course Project for anOcean Engineering CourseDr. Maija A Benitz, Roger Williams University Dr. Maija Benitz is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Roger Williams University, where she has taught since 2017. Prior to joining RWU, Benitz taught at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, after completing her doctoral work jointly in the Multiphase Flow Simulation Lab and the Wind Energy Center at UMass Amherst. She teaches in the first-year curriculum, as well as thermodynamics, sustain- able energy, fluid mechanics, and ocean engineering. Benitz is a
Notre Dame Dr. Chaoli Wang is an associate professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He holds a Ph.D. degree in computer and information science from The Ohio State University. Dr. Wang’s research interests include scientific visualization, visual analytics, visualization in education, user interface and interaction, and high-performance visualization. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 VolumeVisual: Design and Evaluation of an Educational Software Tool for Teaching and Learning Volume Visualization Xueyi Bao, Jun Han, Chaoli Wang
of graduate and undergraduate courses in popula- tion health such as epidemiology, environmental health, and global health. He regularly publishes articles in peer-reviewed journals with both undergraduate and graduate students and presents his research ac- tivities in national and international conferences in the US and beyond including the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) annual conference.Dr. Rasheda Rasheda Sultana, Sam Huston State University Dr. Rasheda Sultana has been at Sam Houston State University since 2020. She teaches a unique combi- nation of classroom and laboratory-based courses and has more than 10 years of instructional experience in multiple disciplines of Health Sciences
and ground. His team deployed a bomb finding robot named the LynchBot to Iraq late in 2004 and then again in 2006 deployed about a dozen more improved LynchBots to Iraq. His team also assisted in the deployment of 84 TACMAV systems in 2005. Around that time he volunteered as a science advisor and worked at the Rapid Equipping Force during the summer of 2005 where he was exposed to a number of unmanned systems technologies. His initial group composed of about 6 S&T grew to nearly 30 between 2003 and 2010 as he transitioned from a Branch head to an acting Division Chief. In 2010-2012 he again was selected to teach Mathematics at the United States Military Academy West Point. Upon returning to ARL’s Vehicle
engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her B.S. at the University of Oklahoma. She did postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on developing computational models for multiscale tissue physiology and pharmacology including the kidneys and lungs as key organs of interest. Her teaching interests focus on chemical reaction kinetics and computational science and engineering. She received an NSF CAREER Award in 2019. She is the 2020-2021 Chair of the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division.Samantha Lyn Carpenter, Oklahoma State University Samantha Carpenter received her B.S. in mechanical engineering from Oklahoma State University cum laude in the spring of
in-person laboratory experiences. The course used the video conferencing clientZoom as the primary method of communication. If virtual and in-person learning was happeningsynchronously, the Zoom call was projected in the classroom so that all students could see andhear each other. A video and audio feed was also available from the classroom so that studentscould hear each other across platforms.ResultsThe results of both Cohort A and Cohort B’s activities were extremely promising. Students inCohort A had statistically significant improvements in the number of other students they feltcomfortable working with over the course of the semester. At the start of the semester, studentsidentified in the survey that they were willing to work with an
Infrastructure Engineering Research (CATIER) at Morgan State University and the director of the Civil Engineering Undergraduate Laboratory. He has over eighteen years of experience in practicing, teaching and research in civil engi- neering. His academic background and professional skills allows him to teach a range of courses across three different departments in the school of engineering. This is a rare and uncommon achievement. Within his short time at Morgan, he has made contributions in teaching both undergraduate and graduate American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021
. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Examining the Changing Perceptions of Graduate Students’ Role as Teaching Assistant with Online and Hybrid Labs during COVID-19” (Instruction)Abstract The transition from traditionally face-to-face “in-person” courses to hybrid/onlinelaboratory courses as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered how theselabs are delivered in the mechanical engineering curriculum at Clemson University. This paperseeks to capture the graduates’ and undergraduates’ changing perceptions of the roles andresponsibilities that graduate laboratory assistants (GLAs) have in the delivery of course materialwithin the
to build the Pre-Engineering Department. He assisted with writing the AMI accreditation report to the HLC, wrote several successful grants, and managed CCCC’s Advanced Manufacturing Curricu- lum and Pre-Engineering Educational Consortium. In addition the Advanced Manufacturing initiative at CCCC has hired two undergraduates to run the 3-D/Scanner Laboratory. The aforementioned gives the students hands on training in a STEM related field. Mr. Haefner has 13 years’ experience teaching college STEM courses. He has taught construction man- agement at Westwood College in Chicago; mathematics at Mid-Michigan Community College and Cor- nerstone University in Grand Rapids, MI. Mr. Haefner has taught algebra, engineering
literature reviews, instrument development and validation, and person- ality theory. As a Graduate Teaching Associate for the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors program, he is heavily involved with developing and teaching laboratory content, leading the maintenance of the in-house robotics controller, and managing the development of the robotics project.Dr. Krista M. Kecskemety, The Ohio State University Krista Kecskemety is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. Krista received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State Uni- versity in 2006 and received her M.S. from Ohio State in 2007. In 2012, Krista completed her Ph.D. in Aerospace
learningexperiences. Students liked much about the approach, finding the student instructors“personable”, “friendly”, and “approachable”, but students also found the student instructorsamateurish and inexperienced, making comments related to unpreparedness, disorganization, andunclear expectations. Suggestions included having the professor lead the course and having thestudent instructors as secondary instructors. The model in this paper differs from the Kendall andWilliams model in that the professor remains the main instructor and only about one-fourth ofthe lectures are delegated to students with the professor providing oversight and collaboration.Bailey [2] used a peer-teaching pedagogy in a laboratory course. Different student groupsperformed different
Paper ID #33373A Combined Online Learning / In-Class Activity Approach to Teach SystemsThinking and Systems Engineering Skills to Freshman Engineering StudentsDr. Mark David Bedillion, Carnegie Mellon University Dr. Bedillion received the BS degree in 1998, the MS degree in 2001, and the PhD degree in 2005, all from the mechanical engineering department of Carnegie Mellon University. After a seven year career in the hard disk drive industry, Dr. Bedillion was on the faculty of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology for over 5 years before joining Carnegie Mellon as a Teaching Faculty in 2016. Dr. Be- dillion’s
Paper ID #34096Student Responses to Remote Teaching During the Covid-19 Pandemic:Implications for the Future of Online LearningDr. Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is the McDonnell Family Bridge Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and in the Department of Education at Tufts University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC San Diego and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, all in Chemical Engineering. He currently has research activity in areas related engineering education and is interested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting
photon, prepared in an unknown state. Alice alsoreceives one of the entangled photons. Alice measures the state of her entangled photon and sendsthe information through a classical channel to Bob. Although Alice’s original unknown state iscollapsed in the process of measurement, due to quantum non-cloning phenomenon, Bob canconstruct an accurate replica of Alice’s state by applying a unitary operator. 4. Remote hands-on experiments Offering the hands-on experiment component of any course that includes laboratory is one ofthe most challenging teaching tasks in a virtual setup. In an innovative approach to teaching alaboratory course (Mechatronics in this case) in Fall 2020, we managed to overcome the challengeby automating the hands-on
. While the results of this assessment will inevitably lookdifferent for each environmental engineering program, our program found opportunities toimmediately ‘bounce forward’ in several areas, to include integrating remote teaching anddistance learning best practices and streamlining administrative practices. We also identifiedopportunities to ‘bounce forward’ over the next three to five years, to include eliminating lowpayoff activities and reassessing the way we do laboratory work. However, continual clear-eyedself-assessment is required to fully realize the ‘bounce forward’ opportunities available post-pandemic. 1 “Never let a good crisis go to waste
- tered Professional Engineer that volunteers with the National Council of Examiners in Engineering and Surveying.Cameron N. Morgan, Arizona State University Cameron N. Morgan is an undergraduate student in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Ari- zona State University, majoring in environmental engineering. His research interests include air pollution control, atmospheric chemistry, climate change, and environmental educational outreach. Cameron is a recipient of the Fall 2021 Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative award, a competitive award that en- ables undergraduates at Arizona State University to conduct laboratory research with faculty. Through this award, Cameron will conduct laboratory research in
Paper ID #33160The Impact of Scaffolding Prompts on Students’ Cognitive InteractionsDuring Collaborative Problem Solving of Ill-structured Engineering TasksMiss Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Taylor Tucker graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics. She is now pursuing a master’s degree at UIUC through the Digital Environments for Learning, Teaching, and Agency program in the department of Curriculum and Instruction. She is interested in design thinking as it applies to engineering settings and lends her technical background to
home one of only five prizes. Additionally, he has developed and taught fourteen different courses, many of which were in the areas of energy, sustainability, thermodynamics, dynamics and heat transfer. He has always made an effort to incorporate experiential learning into the classroom through the use of demonstrations, guest speakers, student projects and site visits. Dr. Kerzmann is a firm believer that all students learn in their own unique way. In an effort to reach all students, he has consistently deployed a host of teaching strategies into his classes, including videos, example problems, quizzes, hands-on laboratories, demonstrations, and group work. Dr. Kerzmann is enthusiastic in the continued pursuit of
- sity. Dr. Nagel joined James Madison University after completing his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Oregon State University. Nagel teaches and performs research related to engineering design. Specifically, through research, Nagel explores how design interventions commonly used to teach design influence stu- dent learning.Dr. Julie S. Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Julie S. Linsey is an Associate Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineer- ing at the Georgia Institute of Technological. Dr. Linsey received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas. Her research area is design cognition including systematic methods and tools for innovative design with a
for enhancing corporate support for design courses, managing design and fabrication/prototyping facilities, coordinating the design competitions/expo, and teaching design courses, with a strong focus on creating and enabling multidisciplinary educational experiences. His research interests are in makerspaces, evidence-based de- sign education, and advanced additive manufacturing processes.Nicholas Greenfield, Georgia Institute of TechnologyEmily Orton, Georgia Institute of Technology Industrial Systems Engineering BS with a concentration in AnalyticsMr. Rohan Banerjee, Georgia Institute of Technology Candidate for B.S. in Mechanical Engineering concentrating in Automation & Robotics, with a Minor in
underrepresented students through expert teaching practices? For his efforts in examining science for the under-served, Dr. Yerrick has received numerous research and teaching awards including the Journal of Research in Science Teaching Outstanding Research Paper Award, Journal of Engineering Education ”Wickenden Best Paper Award” (Honorable Mention), the Most Outstanding College Science Teacher Award from the Science Teacher Association of New York State, the Teaching Innovation Award from The State University of New York, and The STAR Award for Outstanding Mentoring. He has held fellowships in several or- ganizations such as the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure, the San Diego State Center for
education and engineering programs at Case Western Reserve University.Dr. Kenneth A. Loparo, Case Western Reserve University Kenneth A. Loparo is the Arthur L. Parker Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, holds academic appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the Case School of Engineering and the Faculty Director the Institute for Smart, Secure and Connected Systems. He has received numerous awards including the Sigma Xi Research Award for contributions to stochastic control, the John S. Diekoff Award for Distin- guished Graduate Teaching, the Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Engineering and Science Professor Award, the