include repair and strengthening of buildings and bridges using Advanced Composite Materials, laboratory and field testing of structures and the fatigue behavior of concrete bridges. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Strengthening Sustainable Design Principles in the Civil and Environmental Engineering CurriculumAbstractSustainable design principles are starting to become part of professional engineering designs. Toprepare students to be competitive in the workplace, it is prudent that undergraduate programsincorporate sustainable design principles throughout curricula. It was the vision of the Civil andEnvironmental Engineering (CE) Department at Rose-Hulman
the students to design a realistic system and its components under realistic design requirements and constraints.2- The project aims to improve the ability of the students to understand and apply fundament of mechanics of materials for strain measurement, basics circuits, circuit simulation, chemistry, electronic laboratory testing and validation.3- The project is to improve the ability of the students to apply modern engineering tools (such as Multisim, Excel, Circuit lab equipment) to analyze and design a realistic system and its components.4- The project is to improve the students’ hands on skills in fabricating circuitry and working prototype of circuitry system.5- The project aims to improve the ability of the students to
American Education and Qualitative and Ethnographic Research. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Designing for assets of diverse students enrolled in a freshman- level “Computer Science for All” courseAbstractProficiency in computer science skills is crucial for today’s students to succeed in science,technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields and the modern workforce. Despite thisfact, few universities count computer science (CS) classes toward the core curriculum. Ouruniversity, a Hispanic- and minority-serving research-intensive university located in theAmerican Southwest, recently began counting CS towards fulfilling the laboratory sciencerequirement in the
your college, department, and organizational outreach programs for opportunitiesto serve as a volunteer educator to young students and/or K12 educators. This could range fromoff-campus visits to conduct demonstrations or design activities in public school classrooms,providing tours to student groups on-campus in your laboratory, leading topic-specificengineering modules for on-campus summer camps, or supporting local/state-wide workshopsthat teach educators how to incorporate engineering in their K12 instruction. Research-intensiveinstitutions, especially those funded as a land-grant, have a strong commitment to the communityand often have College of Engineering outreach programs that serve these populations.There may be fellowships available
and Inquiry Learning: A Response to Kirschner, Sweller, and Clark (2006), Educational Psychologist,42(2), 99–107, 2007, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.6. Barroso, L.R. and J.R. Morgan, Developing a Dynamics and Vibrations Course for Civil Engineering Students Based on Fundamental Principles. Advances in Engineering Education, 2012. Winter: p. 1-35.7. Kypuros, J.A., et al. Guided Discovery Modules for Statics and Dynamics. in American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. 2011. Vancouver, Canada.8. Mativo, J. M., & Smith, N. (2011, June), Learning in Laboratory Compliments to Lecture Courses via Student Designed and Implemented Experiments Paper presented at 2011
considerations, contemporary knowledge, life-long learning, and the broad impact of engineering solutions. In 2009, ABET’s the Criteria Committee of the Engineering Accreditation Commission(EAC) started receiving requests from constituent groups for additional outcomes to be includedin Criterion 34. During that same year, the EAC convened a review process of Criterion 3,considering engineering programs, private enterprises, public companies, research laboratories,boards of professional engineering and professional societies. Major publications concerningdesired attributes of engineers were also reviewed, and additional efforts were also made to gainadditional input from a broad range of constituents4. Further discussions of the
serves as Faculty Advisor for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Student Chapter at LTU, chair of the First Year Engineering Experience committee, chair for the LTU KEEN Course Modification Team, supervisor of the LTU Thermo-Fluids Laboratory, coordinator of the Certificate/Minor in Aeronautical Engineering, and faculty advisor of the LTU SAE Aero Design Team. Dr. Gerhart conducts workshops on active, collaborative, and problem-based learning, entrepreneurial mindset education, creative problem solving, and innovation. He is an author of a fluid mechanics textbook. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Embedding Fluid Power into Fluid Mechanics and
), robotics and automation (e.g. heterogeneous and cooperative robotics, cooperative agents, web services for robotics), traffic and mobility (autonomous and semi-autonomous traffic systems, inter- national logistics, car2car & car2X models) and virtual worlds for research alliances (e.g. virtual and c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Paper ID #18873 remote laboratories, intelligent assistants, semantic coding of specialised information). Sabina Jeschke is vice dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the RWTH Aachen University, chairwoman of the board of management of the VDI
electrical andcomputer engineering (ECE) department. The first, ECE 102, requires the student to solveengineering problems using MATLAB. The follow-on course introduces the C language. Tomake programming less abstract and to establish a real-life connection, we use MATLAB forinterfacing with a data acquisition device called LabJack. Students use MATLAB’s integrateddevelopment environment to write scripts that control the LabJack.This environment has enabled students to participate in some interesting hands-on projects thatcombine problem-solving, programming, and interfacing. Early on, student participation in theECE 102 course consisted of attending lectures, three laboratory exercises related to LabJack andMATLAB interfacing, and participation in
. Ayala spent three years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Delaware where he expanded his knowledge on simulation of multiphase flows while acquiring skills in high performance parallel computing and scientific computation. Before that, Dr. Ayala hold a faculty position at Universidad de Oriente at Mechanical Engineering Department where he taught and developed graduate and undergraduate courses for a number of subjects such as Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Multiphase Flows, Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machinery, as well as Mechanical Engineering Laboratory courses. In addition, Dr. Ayala has had the opportunity to work for a number of engineering consulting companies, which have
overlooked; Sharing known skills- Students who possess certain knowledge or skills (computer skills, laboratory skills, data analysis and reduction skills, writing skills, presentation skills, etc.) should be willing to pass it on, and/ or share it with their group members; Collaborative skills- Groups cannot function effectively if members do not have (be willing to learn) or use some needed social skills. Such as: leadership, decision-making, trust building, and conflict management; Monitoring progress- Groups need to discuss amongst themselves whether they are achieving their set goals. They need also to prioritize the scheduled activities, introduce changes when needed, and solicit advice
Gaudette, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Glenn R. Gaudette, PhD, is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His research, which is supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, aims to develop a treatment for the millions of Americans suffering from myocardial infarction and other cardiovascular diseases. In May of 2012, he co-founded a company based on some of the pioneering technology developed in his laboratory. Prof. Gaudette also teaches biomedical engineering design and innovation, biomechanics and physiology. He promotes the development of the entrepreneurial mindset in his students through support provided by the Kern Family Foundation
. I think so. I have an underlying—I don't know what to call it - anxiety that— it is a lot easier to involve students in science if you bring them into a laboratory, and they actually make experiments and things of this kind. I'm essentially a mathematician when everything is said and done, and so it's hard—I feel that pulling people into the math and showing how that relates to science is not as easily done and so I think that he, somehow, bought into it. And in fact, he may even continue doing what he was doing. So, it seemed to me that the whole thing was successful even in cultivating a certain interest that it's often harder to cultivate.”When asked if the program had impacted their own
development of virtual and remote labs thatintegrate engineering data into the classroom through interactive online laboratory environments(Glasgow et al., 2004, Orduna et al., 2011). These labs can provide interactive experiences for studentsthrough multimedia including graphs, images, and geospatial visualizations. An example is the OnlineWatershed Learning System (OWLS), which is an environmental exploration tool that grants users accessto historical and live watershed monitoring data and educational case studies7,8,9. It acts as the front endfor the Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System (LEWAS), which is a real-time continuouswatershed monitoring station that collects stormflow, water quality (pH, dissolved oxygen, oxidationreduction
campers were able to make connections between each moduleand the materials science tetrahedron. Over 98% of responses were either a 4 or a 5. Enjoymentand general opinion of the camp were also high (>90%). Creativity was lower, most likely due tothe intro lecture and other laboratory activities that did not allow for much choice from thecamper due to the nature of the experiment. Overall, these results show that the comprehensionof materials science, over all activities, was achieved via our transfer of learning methods.Looking at the individual module responses gives a more detailed look into how well the girlscomprehended each module, as well as how much they enjoyed it.Figure 8 shows the Likert responses for the Design project module. Based
. For this study, the case was the CSCE instrument with each facultymember serving as an individual unit of analysis. The courses taught by the faculty participantsranged from small (46 students) to large (over 200 students). The course structures were alsodifferent and included lectures, laboratories, workshops, and recitations (mandatory groupproblem solving sessions). In addition, the range of experience between faculty membersencompassed first time instructors to others with over five years of teaching at the same institution.Description of caseThe CSCE instrument consists of two major sections. Section one is split into two main categories,in-class and out-of-class activities. In category one, students are expected to answer
, interdisciplinary teaching and learning, reflective eportfolios and professional development of graduate students related to teaching.Prof. David E. Claridge P.E., Texas A&M University David Claridge is the Director of the Energy Systems Laboratory and the Leland Jordan Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University and a Professional Engineer. He holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Walla Walla College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Stanford University. He is internationally known for his work on energy efficiency. He pioneered development of the process of existing building commissioning which is today generally recognized as THE most cost-effective way to reduce energy use in buildings
together to create a tangible working object. I was amazed how a diverse group of people, each with varying backgrounds in EE, could work so seamlessly together, helping each other out along the way. The project really solidified my passion for engineering. Currently, I am working on a joint project with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, designing and prototyping a landing mechanism for quadcopters for uneven and angled surfaces. Similar to the Theremin project, my team is composed of a variety of students of different grade levels and majors. It is exciting to see interdisciplinary teamwork come together.” Degree status: currently B.S. mechanical engineering, Caltech.Female Student, PGSS 2013 Project: “I came into the project with
and hands-on, tesbed-enabled exercises that comprise remote laboratory,visualization, and game-like competitive or cooperative aspects.In the remaining sections, we describe enabling technologies as well as the design, development,and initial implementation and assessment of tutorials that are intended to provide an immersiveexperience of otherwise-abstract concepts and phenomena for engineering students andprofessionals. Section 2 provides background on technologies that enable our work. Section 3describes the approach to development of two types of tutorials, and briefly presents an exampleof each type in outline form. Section 4 describes implementation and assessment of one of thesetutorials in a graduate SDR course, including assessment
TechniquesTwo common methods used to explore neural processes of decision-making and problem solvingunder laboratory conditions are electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magneticresonance imaging (fMRI). EEG involves a head cover (e.g., cap or net) which places electrodeson the scalp and measures electrical changes in the brain. Temporal resolution is very good(detects quick changes) though spatial resolution (where the change occurs) is poor becausesignals often interfere with one another and make it difficult to pinpoint specific brain regionsinvolved in the processing. EEG methods are mainly of value when stimuli are simple and thetask involves basic processes (e.g., target detection) triggered by task stimuli (Eysenck & Keane,2015
Undergraduate Curriculum Com- mittee, as well as faculty advisor for several student societies. She is the instructor of several courses in the CBE curriculum including the Material and Energy Balances, junior laboratories and Capstone De- sign courses. She is associated with several professional organizations including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and American Society of Chemical Engineering Education (ASEE) where she adopts and contributes to innovative pedagogical methods aimed at improving student learning and retention.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and assistant professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information
land and marine environ- ments and ship design for the U.S. Navy.Dr. Stephanie Sheffield, University of Michigan Dr. Sheffield is a Lecturer in Technical Communication in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan.Mr. Magel P. Su, California Institute of Technology Magel P. Su is a PhD student in the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology. He earned a B.S.E in materials science and engineering and a minor in chemistry from the University of Michigan. At Michigan, he was a member of the Ultrafast Laser - Material Interac- tion Laboratory and the Engineering Honors Program. He also served as an instructor for several courses including
laboratory experiments.However, troubleshooting of equipment and complex machines are not given sufficient attentionfor a typical industrial setting during regular engineering coursework. Purdue UniversityNorthwest’s Outcome Based Education allows students to gain hands-on experiencetroubleshooting complex circuits, machines, and their subsystems.In order to familiarize students with troubleshooting and identifying equipment failures, theresurrection of a relatively complex and non-functional NovaMill 3-Axis CNC Milling Machineis selected as a Capstone Senior Design project. The objectives of this project include identifyingthe different sub-systems of the machine, isolating each sub-system, testing and documentationof initial status, identification
EE in the curriculum, is typically takenby students in the fourth semester, and includes a separate 3-hour weekly laboratory. In Spring2018, three modules were implemented in one lecture section of this course with 16 students.Testing in one section offered an opportunity to develop modules before they could beimplemented more broadly or the effects of their use evaluated in participating andnonparticipating sections. The instructors were an interdisciplinary team of educators includingthe instructor for the class, a tenured engineering professor with expertise in EE and MaterialsScience and two postdoctoral scholars, one with expertise in anthropology and the other inbioengineering. All were familiar with active learning techniques. The
: REvolutionizing engineering and computer science Departments (IUSE PFE\RED) - Formation of Accomplished Chemical Engineers for Transform- ing Society. She is a member of the CBE department’s ABET and Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, as well as faculty advisor for several student societies. She is the instructor of several courses in the CBE curriculum including the Material and Energy Balances, junior laboratories and Capstone Design courses. She is associated with several professional organizations including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and American Society of Chemical Engineering Education (ASEE) where she adopts and contributes to innovative pedagogical methods aimed at improving student learning
courseproposal was submitted through UFS curricular processes and went through consultationprocedure. Finally, the course proposal was approved by UFS in April, 2018 and offered tostudents for the first time in Fall 2018.Course Objectives and DescriptionThis course reveals the techniques of making laboratory and everyday fluid flows visible for bothscientific and aesthetic purposes. In this course, students explore techniques for the visualizationof the physics of fluid flows including seeding with dyes and particles. Students will also gaintechnical expertise in a range of photographic techniques drawn from the course topics, such asphotographing atmospheric clouds. Assignments are student-driven, to individuals and mixedteams of undergrad students
Design Program. Passionate about expanding engaged, active-learning experiences and clinical immersion opportunities for students that improve their ability to execute the design process, Dr. Schmedlen has developed an undergraduate capstone design course, biomedical engineering laboratory, and clinical observation and needs finding course.Dr. Jin Woo Lee, University of Michigan Jin Woo Lee received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. Jin’s research focuses on studying and developing design strategies, particularly in problem definition and concept gen- eration.Dr. Prateek Shekhar, University of Michigan Prateek Shekhar is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Biomedical Engineering
explanations [9]. However, thefield of engineering has not yet established a clear idea of what “disciplinary engagement”means.Engineering at its core is about creating solutions to problems using mathematics, science, andcreativity through a design process. The engineering curriculum reflects this by containingdifferent types of courses that teach the mathematical models of natural phenomena (i.e.engineering science courses, or technical core courses), laboratory and experimental techniquesand processes (i.e. lab courses), and fundamentals of engineering design (i.e. design courses).These courses all ask students to engage disciplinarily in different ways, all in support of theoverall practice of engineering to create new solutions. Prior research
Paper ID #25374The Impact of Course Transformation on Student Learning and Success inFundamental Electrical Engineering/Computer Science CoursesDr. David O. Johnson, University of Kansas David O. Johnson is a Lecturer in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the Uni- versity of Kansas in Lawrence, KS, USA. He received his BSEE and MSEE from Kansas State University and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Kansas. Prior to two post-doctoral research appointments at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and in the Applied Linguis- tics Speech Laboratory at Northern