manufacturing engineering and technology students. This projectinvolved devising real time data acquisition using National Instruments (NI) LabView and dataacquisition (DAQ) tools, and developing animation and simulation examples using Authorware/Flashand Pspice.Presently, we utilized the results from the NSF-CG CBI development as background and extend thedevelopment to enhance an existing senior level “Electric Machines and Power’ course (EET 3500) in Page 6.446.1WSU’s DET-EET program. The division has been awarded a NSF CCLI grant to carryout this work. In this paper, we describe the objective, planing steps and development procedures ofthis on
Engineering Design (EI-100) is a first-semester 3 credit required course for everyengineering program of Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP). Course content andclassroom activities are divided into three, two-hour sessions (Modeling, Concepts, andLaboratory) per week. Students have six different EI-100 facilitators (an instructor and teachingassistant for each session). UDLAP’s engineering students have in EI-100 a great opportunity fora multidisciplinary collaborative experience. EI-100 is a team-taught course that uses active,collaborative and cooperative learning, which has been a major player in UDLAP’s efforts ofengineering education reform since 2001. However, EI-100 could be improved taking intoaccount technological advances and recent
students What the curriculum is trying to teach How to integrate math into science and technology The role of the faculty team members How to use this information in your classroom What will be expected of you next year Figure 4 Teacher Perception of Workshop 4.5 4 Score on 1-4 scale 3.5 3 2.5 2 1.5 1
University incollaboration with Bay de Noc Community College. [1] This software was developedspecifically for incorporation into an academic curriculum to give institutions an opportunity tooffer training in situations where robots cannot be afforded, or to augment training in limitedaccess scenarios.This paper will explore the implementation of the “RobotRun” software into an existing roboticscourse as a “Virtual Lab” component. This “Virtual Lab” is then run in parallel with lecture, anda hands-on lab, reinforcing weekly concepts. The course “Programming Industrial Robots” isoffered as an elective, and as course two of a four course robotics concentration for the ElectricalEngineering Technology (EET), and Mechatronics Engineering Technology (MCET
AC 2007-2123: THE REMOTE CLASSROOM – ASYNCHRONOUS DELIVERY OFENGINEERING COURSES TO A WIDELY DISPERSED STUDENT BODYJames Klosky, U.S. Military Academy Led Klosky is an Associate Professor and Director of the Mechanics Group in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Maryland. Dr. Klosky received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1987 and 1988, respectively. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1997. il7354@usma.eduStephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy Colonel Stephen J. Ressler
combustion engine performance, wind power, and development of aheat flux meter. The course ends with a formal final project report and a formal finalbriefing. While a lot of effort, the course was highly praised during the last ABETaccreditation visit. Student feedback from industry also confirms this. A discussion willbe made of assessment tools used in this course. This course is taken in addition to acapstone senior design course. IntroductionAll accredited engineering programs must have a component of experimental design intheir curriculum. ABET Criterion 3b states “Engineering programs must demonstratethat their graduates have an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as toanalyze and interpret
mentoring.Giovanni Bautista, University of Massachusetts, LowellDr. Yanfen Li, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Dr. Yanfen Li is an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She received her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2018. Dr. Li has extensive experience in engineering education focusing on recruitment and retention of underrepresented and under resourced students and engineering pedagogy. Her work spans the areas of curriculum instruction and design, program design and evaluation, and the first-year college experience. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 A Systematic Review of Instruments
Paper ID #34297Virtual Reality Laboratory Experiences for Electricity and MagnetismCoursesProf. Raluca Ilie, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Prof. Ilie is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her primary research is the development and application of high-performance, first principles computational models to describe and predict the conditions in near- Earth space leading to geomagnetic storms. Prof. Ilie’s focus is on developing new approaches to study the dynamics of plasmas and electromagnetic fields in the geospace
and market student to the global • Curriculum includes: • Resume & Cover letter workforce • Applying to appropriate positions • Interview preparation• Prepare students for work abroad through • Professional expectations in the workplace culture, language, and workplace difference • Goal setting & Reflections
Introductory ThermodynamicsAbstractThis paper describes a laboratory component for a sophomore level introductoryengineering thermodynamics course. The class is core component of the EngineeringScience curriculum at Borough of Manhattan Community College. The introduction of thelab is part of a greater curricular modification to invigorate engineering education atBMCC by integrating real world situations and active-learning based instructions intoclassroom. Thermodynamics is an abstract subject. Many students lack first handexperience with the subject matter. They resort to memorization rather than gaininganalytical understanding of concepts. The Lab component is designed to create anopportunity for students to accumulate
(feasibility) ofthese ideas is also addressed. In engineering education, a number of techniques are implementedto develop creativity and enhance ideation capabilities of students. These techniques includebrainstorming2, brainwriting3, collaborative sketching4, morphological analysis5, transformationaldesign using mind-mapping6, design by analogy7, principles of historical innovators8, and variouscombinations of the aforementioned techniques9. Developing an ability to innovate has beenapproached through improvisation10, the theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ)11-20, and theS-field (also referred as Su-field) theory21.One of the commonly used techniques in ideation is brainstorming (especially when solvinggeneric, non-engineering problems
group learning process of an open-endedcreative mechanical design course for technological creativity cultivation. Surveys andsemi-structured interviews were collected and analyzed to evaluate the curriculum, and tounderstand students’ learning difficulties to determine directions of improvement. Overall, thetop three abilities students gained were: (1) Efficient use of time to reach consensus; (2) Growthof problem-solving ability; and (3) Development of teamwork strategies. Finally, lessons learnedfrom this study are presented to help develop a cooperative classroom atmosphere and toimprove the effectiveness of this course in following years.I. Introduction In this study, we follow the principles of Seat and Poppen [1] that students must
Sustainabil- ity Practices, energy management of Data Centers and to establish Sustainable strategies for enterprises. He is an Affiliate Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, focusing on the energy efficiency of IT Equipment in a Data Centers. As a means of promoting student-centric learning, Prof. Radhakrishnan has successfully introduced games in to his sustainability classes where students demonstrate the 3s of sustainability, namely, Environment, Economics and Equity, through games. Stu- dents learn about conservation (energy, water, waste, equity, etc.) through games and quantifying the results. He has published papers on this subject and presented them in conferences. Before his teaching
AC 2010-822: EXTREME EXPERIENCE INTERVIEWS FOR INNOVATIVEDESIGNS: CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT OF A NEW NEEDS-GATHERINGMETHODMatthew Green, LeTourneau University Dr. Matthew G. Green is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at LeTourneau University, Longview. His objective is to practice and promote engineering as a serving profession, with special interest in improving the quality of life in developing countries. Focus areas include remote power generation, design methods for frontier environments, and assistive devices for persons with disabilities. Contact: MatthewGreen@letu.edu.Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin Dr. Carolyn C. Seepersad is an assisstant professor of
appointment in Integrative Systems and Design at the University of Michigan. She studies curriculum, teaching, and learning in postsecondary settings, most often in engineering and interdisciplinary undergraduate programs. She is particularly interested in how faculty attitudes, beliefs, and cultures influence their curricular and instructional practices and how these in turn affect students’ learning. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 The Value of Co-Curricular Experiences: Perspectives of Third Year Biomedical Engineering StudentsAbstract. Many studies have examined student engagement in university settings as a
showingsomething unexpected the students realize a gap in their knowledge and have a newfoundfascination and personal motivation for solving the mystery. The preceding steps help to engagethe students on an emotional, behavioral, and cognitive level, and thus induce intrinsicmotivation. This paper will discuss the pedagogy of the“Room with A VUE” system and concludewith a case study of curriculum development aimed at creating hands-on exploration experimentsin materials engineering to apply the system. This paper is not meant to be a resource of visualdemonstrations – such a resource is forthcoming from the author. The system to be discussed is rooted in the psychological motifs of behavioral,emotional, and cognitive engagement. Motivation
semesters from Fall 2012 to Summer 2014. Fall 2012 class was taught in the traditional lecture format and used as the control group in the Page 26.1087.5 study. All subsequent semesters were taught in the flipped format with slight variations.Results and DiscussionA student needs a “C” or better grade to successfully complete the course and continue furtherinto the curriculum. In Fall 2012, only 54% of the students that started the semester received themarks required to take further courses in the curriculum. This number includes the 28% thatdropped the course during the semester. It should be noted that the course is not designed to be aweed-out
oftendemotivated and discouraged the overly competitive nature of engineering [13], open-endeddesign tasks could provide welcoming and positive experiences for underrepresented groups.Historical overviewAt our large, southeastern university, we offer a Physics for Engineers course sequence but donot have an introductory, design-focused course. As such, we have historically supplemented ourphysics for engineers courses by integrating team-based design projects and instruction. Tojustify this, the projects have always been closely tied to the course content, which has often ledto relatively closed-ended project contexts. For instance, for many years, the design task in themechanics course was a mousetrap car that had to accomplish some goal that varied from
century state that programs must demonstrate that their graduates have anunderstanding of professional and ethical responsibility, an ability to effectively communicate,the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a globalsocietal context, and a knowledge of contemporary issues3. In the past, required courses such asIntroduction to Engineering or Professional Issues in Civil Engineering typically includedinstruction in ethics issues.In Florida, there is pressure from the state legislature to reduce the number of credit hoursrequired for graduation4. This places courses that introduce student engineers to societal issues,ethics, and the role of the engineer in jeopardy because they are neither required nor
theycan meet the energy demand of a growing population for both the short-term (5 years) andlong-term (100 years). In their analysis, the students first consider providing power throughlocally available natural gas and coal which has an expected finite lifetime based on the Hubbertcurve for coal and natural gas extraction. The first plan then for energy is to potentially use thesefossil fuel resources in conventional combustion power plants that follow thermodynamicscycles such as the Rankine, Brayton and Combined Cycles. The students are given specificationsfor existing power plants and are allowed to refurbish and or retrofit the components to predictenergy production. Their simulation analysis is done with a series of MATLAB® codes that
shortchanges academia’s more importantcustomers…its students, and America at large. It subjugates imaginative, creativeleadership skills to “in the box” thinking. The approach satisfies short-term industryneeds while defocusing the leadership crisis in American industry.Consideration of an advance along the continuum from “market pull” dominance moretowards “technology push” thinking is proposed. The question is rephrased as “Whatshould tomorrow’s industrial leaders be learning today?”I. IntroductionThe future of American industry depends on the directions set by today’s engineeringstudents. Whether these students become followers or leaders is largely up to them. But
practices and procedures that are incorporated into thedesign and development process, i.e., a system of checks and balances. Design controls makesystematic assessment of the design an integral part of development. As a result, deficiencies indesign input requirements, and discrepancies between the proposed designs and requirements,are made evident and corrected earlier in the development process. Design controls increase thelikelihood that the design transferred to production will translate into a device that is appropriatefor its intended use. 6 Medical product development from concept to market requires a considerable amount ofknowledge at different job levels. Various disciplines may be involved throughout thedevelopment cycle from
method used to justify aproject, and cost-effectiveness analysis should be performed to help provide additional informationand supporting detail. Unfortunately, determining the benefits associated with flood preventioninfrastructure design implementation is a more advanced topic than introduced in an undergraduateengineering economy course. Civil engineering programs may provide students with someexposure to these topics as part of their curriculum, which extends beyond topics introduced in asemester-based engineering economics course. The primary benefit measurement methods includerevealed willingness-to-pay, imputed willingness-to-pay, expressed willingness-to-pay, andbenefit transfer. These methods are well beyond what is introduced in a one
be given to the engineering students and they should be able to create anautomaton, either a push-down stack for a context free grammar, a Turing machine for acontext sensitive grammar, or a finite state automaton for a right linear grammar. Thesewould be good programming assignments for undergraduates.ConclusionLanguage theory is usually taught in compiler theory, operating systems, and othercourses, that are in an engineering student’s curriculum. Using these familiar concepts isa good way to introduce bioinformatics without spending a great deal of time onreviewing genomic concepts at the onset of a bioinformatics course.This paper included a brief review of language theory, including alphabets and grammars.It also included ways to
] Ronald Musiak, Eric W. Haffner, Steve Schreiner, Alan K. Karplus, Mary B. Vollaro, Richard A. Grabiec, Forging New Links: Integrating the Freshman Engineering Curriculum, Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2001.Biographies:STEVE NORTHRUP received his B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Michigan, AnnArbor, in 1986, and M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Vanderbilt University in 1997 and2001. His research interests include robotics in education and embedded control systems.He worked as an automotive electronics design engineer from 1987 to 1993. He iscurrently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering at Western New England College.JAMES MORIARTY is
development [17]Nonetheless, while innovation may be an indirect benefit of myriad engineering curricularefforts, instruction may be framed in such a way as to encourage [17] (or discourage [18,19])students’ development of innovative behaviors. Some scholars have emphasized innovation as adesirable outcome of instruction or learning environments [20,21], others as the demonstration ofcertain abilities [22], and yet others as appropriate conceptualizations [23]. As researchers, wemight ask how goals directed towards these distinct ends vary in terms of outcomes. It might bethat the ideal modality involves the integration of multiple efforts, as studies of expert innovatorssuggest that they demonstrate and deploy a variety of approaches and mindsets
systems to find leaks. Any leakage in an unconditioned area, such as an attic or vented crawl-space, is a huge energy drain. In addition, duct leakage within the home can cause pressure differences that drive air out of or into the home. Blower Door Testing – A blower door is a precisely variable speed fan installed in an exterior doorway (or other location to be studied) that depressurizes or pressurizes the home. This diagnostic tool helps quantify air leakages in a home that are otherwise difficult to detect. Infrared Thermography – An infrared camera sees temperature difference, which helps to find hot and cold spots in a home, often due to lack of insulation, water leak or the presence of thermal
Engineering Physics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2010. She is interested in Clean Energy Systems and has native fluency in English and Spanish. She is currently working at General Motors as a Development Engineer for the Chevrolet Volt and has worked for Mitsubishi Power Systems as a Mechanical Engineer.Dr. Jennifer C Adam, Washington State University Dr. Jennifer Adam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineer- ing at Washington State University (WSU). She applies numerical hydrologic models to investigate the impacts of climate change on regional to continental scale hydrology. For example, she and collabo- rators are currently integrating a regional-scale hydrologic
tools help them.While the CorpU platform proved successful in many ways, it was not perfect. When presentedwith five possible upgrades, students overwhelmingly selected an integration of Google Driveinto the LMS as the most important upgrade. These results highlight the ongoing transformationof LMS’s; end users now expect Product Data Management (PDM) capability, which untilrecently was only used in high-end, sophisticated Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software.This is likely due to the rise of cloud computing and file sharing facilitated by Google Drive andother products like Dropbox. Students expect similar novel capabilities out of all technologicalplatforms, including their LMS. An initial analysis of the clickstream data reveals that
-year community college (Clark College in WA), a public polytechnic institution(Oregon Institute of Technology in OR), a branch campus of a public R1 institution (WashingtonState University Vancouver in WA), and an independently governed Catholic institution (theUniversity of Portland in OR). We included courses from three engineering disciplines (civil,electrical, and mechanical) with one general engineering curriculum. All courses are 2nd yearengineering labs, except MECH 309, which is offered in the 3rd year. CE 376 is offered in the2nd year.Table 1 provides information regarding the major of the courses being analyzed, along with thename of the course, the institution, the term and year in which it was offered, and the number of