faculty from different disciplines into small groups where each member observes aclass taught by the others and also a class taught by a separate faculty member versed in one ormore EBT approaches. Teaching assistants for STEM laboratory courses are provided trainingin EBT methods. A new program developed during COVID solicited STEM faculty to producevideos in which they illustrate one or more methods useful in online teaching.(2) Retreats: STEER facilitates departmental retreats in which faculty are guided to fine- tunetheir curricula and align departmental courses. These retreats include an introduction to EBTmethods. STEER also hosts interdisciplinary retreats, in which STEM faculty from variousdisciplines are grouped and encouraged to explore
©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Paper ID #39169 for administrative, budgetary, hiring, and tenure decisions, and for leading the faculty and staff in the development of research, teaching, and public service programs. Oversees administrative and research expenditures of about $75M per year. Oversees and participates in extensive advancement activities as head, including managing and increasing the Dept. endowment of approximately $75M. Leads aggressive faculty hiring campaign that has hired 35 new tenure-track, 8 teaching, and 5 research faculty since Jan. 2014. Director, Coordinated Science Laboratory
”Summers by Design” (SBD) program, Dr. Tucker supervises students from Penn State during the summer semester in a two-week engineering design program at the ´ Ecole Centrale de Nantes in Nantes, France. Dr. Tucker is the director of the Design Analysis Technology Advancement (D.A.T.A) Laboratory. His research interests are in formalizing system design processes under the paradigm of knowledge discovery, optimization, data mining, and informatics. His research interests include applications in complex sys- tems design and operation, product portfolio/family design, and sustainable system design optimization in the areas of engineering education, energy generation systems, consumer electronics, environment, and
complete problemsolutions are now available including explicit equations for the desired voltages, currents, andpowers. The software has been used on a mandatory or strongly encouraged basis in 10 sectionsof a linear course at Arizona State University (totaling over 560 students) and by 42 students atthe University of Notre Dame, and a few students at the University of Virginia and twocommunity colleges in 2013. Student satisfaction has been very high at all sites. A controlled,randomized laboratory-based study showed that learning gains are approximately 10X higherusing the software tutorials than when working conventional textbook problems for the sameperiod of time, with a statistically significant effect size (Cohen d-value) of 1.21
; develop Thévenin equivalent circuits; and carry out first-order circuit calculations.Naturally, students must also demonstrate skill in a laboratory setting as they put together anddebug their circuits. So as to help the typical student through the relatively complexconsiderations in designing the project circuit, several standard lecture sessions were convertedinto active-learning group work. These activities were spread out over the semester and in manycases the activities amounted to pre-lab exercises including studying component datasheets andspeculating on the impact of component specifications on circuit function. The lab activitieswere made to require students to tackle open-ended problems and fashioned using inquiry-basedtechniques.The
teachers found the experience to bevaluable and listed the people and the research environment as the two most impactful areas of the program.This paper will further discuss the specifics of this novel REU/RET program as well as the outcomes.IntroductionAn REU/RET Site project funded by NSF DMR program has provided research experiences for 14 REUand 6 RET participants in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering,Chemistry & Chemical Biology Laboratories of Stevens. 6 REUs and 2 RETs participated virtually the firstyear due to COVID-19 and 8 REUs and 4 RETs participated in-person the second year.The goals of the REU/RET program were four-fold: 1. Create a vibrant research environment for allparticipants that offers
Georgia Tech. She also earned a M.S. in materials engineering from Auburn University and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Mississippi State University. Prior to beginning her current position, Tammy taught science at a local high school, was an instructor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Spelman College, and an adjunct instructor in the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering at Georgia Perimeter College.Dr. Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute Comas Lamar Haynes is a Principal Research Engineer / faculty member of the Georgia Tech Research In- stitute and Joint Faculty Appointee at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research includes modeling steady
Paper ID #20480Creating an Instrument to Assess the Professional Formation of EngineeringStudents at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ)Prof. Bijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey Bijan Sepahpour is a registered Professional Engineer and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the College of New Jersey (TCNJ). He has served as the Chairperson of the ME department at TCNJ from 2006 through 2015. Prof. Sepahpour has been actively involved in the generation of design-oriented exercises and development of laboratory apparatus and experiments in the areas of mechanics of mate- rials and dynamics of machinery for
ourselves.Structure of CollaborationBecause of our record of research in the area of bio-modification of soils, we knew researchersassociated with the newly funded CBBG who were conducting research in a related area. Wereached out to these colleagues and explained the collaboration we hoped to create. BecauseERCs are expected to develop and support numerous education and outreach efforts, ourcolleagues saw potential benefits of the collaboration for the CBBG and we began work with theERC’s leadership to develop a structure for the collaboration.The laboratory portion of the activities funded by the grant are scheduled during the academicyear, i.e., the funded research efforts occur when the undergraduate students are on our campusduring the academic
the learning objectives of the courses have been accomplished, theirconfidence in taking on new challenges in these domains, and the degree to which they feel thatthe HPL centers entered into the course. This last topic was addressed by a series of elements notdirectly asking about HPL, but framed to reveal this. For example, to understand whether thecourse was assessment-centered we asked their level of agreement with the statements, “Ireceived adequate feedback on my work,” and “I was able to obtain enough practice onimportant topics.”Another part of the quantitative study was gauging to what extent the teaching reflects HPL. Weexpected simply by using the laboratory kits and employing active learning, these courses will beassessment and
and Explosions," in Chemical Process Safety Fundamentals with Applications, 3rd ed. Boston, MA, USA: Prentice Hall, 2011, pp. 317-374. 5. “T2 Laboratories Inc. Reactive Chemical Explosion,” United States Chemical Safety Board, Washington DC, USA. Accessed: Dec. 2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.csb.gov/t2-laboratories-inc-reactive-chemical-explosion/ 6. “Blocked In: Explosion and Fire at Williams Olefins Plant, Geismar, Louisiana,” United States Chemical Safety Board, Washington, DC, USA. Accessed: Dec. 2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1KaykPaF8M 7. “MGPI Processing, Inc. Toxic Chemical Release,” United States Chemical Safety Board, Washington DC, USA. Accessed
Career Success for Raleigh Future Scholars at North Carolina State UniversityAbstractThe NC State University STEM Scholarship Program, sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation since September, 2013, is designed to give economically disadvantagedundergraduate students located in the Raleigh area the financial support, mentoring, and careerskills necessary to graduate from NC State University. These resources and aid lead students tobe more successful in their engineering and/or statistics careers. The program provides afinancial aid package equaling 75% of in-state tuition costs each semester. Several careerdevelopment activities, such as laboratory visits, mock interviews, and industry panels are alsooffered by this
laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Design of Remotely Accessible Automated Systems to Enhance Industrial Automation EducationAbstractIndustrial scale automated systems can be used to provide authentic learning experiences forstudents. Skillsets needed to design and build automated systems are essential to our nationaleconomy. However, students often have limited access to equipment due to limitations inavailable lab time and available equipment. This paper describes the design of three web
Arizona State University’s Ira A. FultonSchools of Engineering. The cohort-focused program was significantly expanded from previousyears (Pickett, et al. 2013), thanks to a three-year, $314,261, REU site grant awarded to QESST.The program, entitled, “Solar Energy Research for the Terawatt Challenge” allows nineundergraduate community college and university students to travel from around the country towork in ASU laboratories for nine weeks. The specific aim of the QESST REU site is forundergraduate students to be introduced to research and solar research specifically, experiencehow coursework they are studying can be put into practice in tackling the terawatt challenge, andpractice how the principles of scientific research can be applied to any
meaningful context8.Furthermore, the introduction of these junior level courses will establish a Nano-Science andEngineering base for an interdisciplinary minor for the (technical) students who also choosedesignated advanced level courses in participating departments, and the new senior/graduatelevel inter-departmental laboratory course in the fabrication and characterization of Page 26.1182.3nanomaterials and nanostructures (ECE410/510.)Examples of advanced level nanotechnology courses include: ECE 417/517 Nanoelectronics (4 credits): Operational principles and circuit applications of nanoelectronic devices: electron tunneling devices, (Esaki
. The website is currently being expanded to include other instructional tools includinginquiry based activities,30 formative class reflection questions,31 surveys, and virtual laboratories,all of which are focused on assessing and improving students’ conceptual understanding. 700 faculty 14000 600 students 12000 500 Student Users (in blue
department, college, and university level. He has been recognized as an outstanding faculty member by both Eta Kappa Nu and the Mortar Board. His research activities are focused in the areas of computer networks, communications, and digital design. Prior to joining Kansas State University as a faculty member, Dr. Gruenbacher was a member of the senior staff in the Space Department of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory from 1994 to 1997 and from 1989 to 1990. He received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 1989, a master’s degree in 1991, and a doctorate in 1994, all from Kansas State. Dr. Gruenbacher has also completed engineering internships with both Motorola Inc. and IBM.Dr. Noel N
M.S. in Electronics from Kiev Polytechnic University in Kiev, Ukraine. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1998 from the University of South Florida at Tampa. From 1993 till 1995, Dr. Koshka worked as an engineer mathematician at the Institute for Problems of Material Science, Kiev, Ukraine. From 1998 to 2000, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Mississippi State University (MSU). In 2000 he accepted a position as an assistant research professor at the same university. He joined the faculty at MSU in 2002. He is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at MSU and the director of the Emerging Materials Research Laboratory. His research interests include
actively being integrated into several core engineeringcourses (25.108 Introduction to Mechanical Engineering, 22.202 Mechanical Engineering De-sign Lab I and 22.423 Senior Capstone Design).2.0 CNC Platform SelectionThis section presents a brief survey of desktop CNC machine platforms and the associated sup-port hardware necessary to implement a safe and meaningful CNC machining laboratory experi-ence. Platform selection in this first phase of the project is also described.2.1 Desktop CNC MachinesA broad range of commercial desktop CNC machines are now readily available in assembledand/or kit form. Numerous desktop CNC machine specifications were considered for student usewithin engineering curricula and include: overall dimensions, design
Rowan and TSU have an important laboratory component (e.g., 2.5hour laboratory period every week for the Digital I course at Rowan), where our games aredeployed as a replacement to the traditional lab experiments. The overarching goal of thesegames is to provide an attractive and motivating environment for students to tackle engineeringdesign in general, and to impart essential reading and reasoning strategies to promote improvedproblem-solving skills, in particular. More specifically, the broad objectives of the games are to:1. Improve students’ active reading and thinking of ECE concepts by exposing them to a selection of metacognitive reading strategies through carefully designed game activities demonstrating ECE principles.2
these disciplines in integrative ways. The parallels were highlighted with the rise ofacoustical research in the 19th century, which led to the creation of laboratory-generated soundsfor experimental purposes [2]. These sounds, neatly described with mathematical formulas,allowed a systematic exploration of human acoustic perception. To study hearing, scientists tookto using sounds like electronically generated sinusoids, acoustically resonating tuning forks, andelectronic sirens [2]. This line of scientific inquiry on the effects of music and sound continues tointerest psychologists and neuroscientists in their studies on musical acoustics and itsrelationship with human memory, emotion, and language, among others [3], [4], [5]. Similarly,this
, 2022, pp. 1-6.[3] A. A. da Conceic'ão et al., "Internet of Things Environment Automation: A Smart LabPractical Approach," 2022 2nd International Conference on Information Technology andEducation (ICIT&E), Malang, Indonesia, 2022, pp. 01-06.[4] J. Agrawal, O. Farook, Z. Anderson, and D. Walker, “Internet of Things (IoT) Laboratory,”2019 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Tampa, Florida, June 2019.[5] S. Rowland, M. Eckels, and R. Sundaram, “Laboratory Instruction and Delivery of a PilotIoT Course,” 2021 ASEE North Central Section Conference, University of Toledo, Ohio. March2021. https://peer.asee.org/36345[6] L. McLauchlan, D. Hicks, M. Mehrubeoglu and H. Bhimavarapu, “Enabling Remote StudentLearning of Technologies,” 2023 ASEE Annual
. D. Jones et al, "An analysis of motivation constructs with first‐year engineering students:Relationships among expectancies, values, achievement, and career plans," J Eng Educ, vol. 99,(4), pp. 319-336, 2010.[2] V. G. Renumol, D. Janakiram and S. Jayaprakash, "Identification of cognitive processes ofeffective and ineffective students during computer programming," ACM Transactions onComputing Education (TOCE), vol. 10, (3), pp. 1-21, 2010.[3] S. Bergin and R. Reilly, "Predicting introductory programming performance: A multi-institutional multivariate study," Computer Science Education, vol. 16, (4), pp. 303-323, 2006.[4] M. Thuné and A. Eckerdal, "Analysis of Students’ learning of computer programming in acomputer laboratory context," Null
Coca-Cola Bot- tling Company Consolidated, Abbott Laboratories, and Burlington Industries. She is a national member of ATD and has twice presented at the ATD International Conference and Exposition. Dr. Hughes is a Langevin Certified Master Trainer, Harvard Management Development Fellow, and a Darden School of Business Minority Executive Education Scholar. She has a PhD in Career and Technical Education from Virginia Tech, Master of Textiles in Textile Technology Management from NC State University, B.A. in Chemistry from Clemson University, and MBA in Management from University of Arkansas.Dr. Karen A. High, Clemson University Dr. Karen High holds an academic appointment in the Engineering Science and Education
research experience in the areas of Integrated optoelectronics, Optics, Microelectronics, and Electromagnetics. He has worked as a Research and Design Engineer at Motorola and Bell laboratories. Also, he worked at NASA Langley Research Center as a NASA faculty fellow for the Nondestructive Evaluation Sciences Branch where he performed research in the area of optical fiber sensing for real time health monitoring of aerospace vehicles. In addition, Prof. Geddis was a Research Engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute where he fabricated scalable multiplexed ion traps for American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020
Paper ID #29762Understanding Context: Propagation and Effectiveness of the ConceptWarehouse in Mechanical Engineering at Five Diverse Institutions andBeyond – Results from Year 1Dr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Brian Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Brian has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. During the
titled Data Mining–Driven Design (EDSGN 561). As part of the Engineering Design Program’s ”Summers by Design” (SBD) program, Dr. Tucker supervises students from Penn State during the summer semester in a two-week engineering design program at the ´ Ecole Centrale de Nantes in Nantes, France. Dr. Tucker is the director of the Design Analysis Technology Advancement (D.A.T.A) Laboratory. His research interests are in formalizing system design processes under the paradigm of knowledge discovery, optimization, data mining, and informatics. His research interests include applications in complex sys- tems design and operation, product portfolio/family design, and sustainable system design optimization in the areas
Paper ID #14801Teaching Practices Inventory for Engineering EducationDr. Sheng-Jen ”Tony” Hsieh, Texas A&M University Dr. Sheng-Jen (”Tony”) Hsieh is a Professor in the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Engineering Technology and the De- partment of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include engineering education, cognitive task analysis, automation, robotics and control, intelligent manufacturing system design, and micro/nano manufacturing. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A&M
, Unaffiliated Debra Gilbuena has an M.BA, an M.S, and four years of industrial experience including a position in sensor development. Sensor development is also an area in which she holds a patent. She has engineering Page 26.1258.1 education research focused on student learning in virtual laboratories and the diffusion of educational interventions and practices.Mr. Gavin Tierney, University of Washington c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Paper ID #11529Gavin Tierney is a Ph.D
educators who are willing to use our cyber security and cryptographylabs.In the future work, we plan on adopting large-scale cyber security lab modules through theintegration of the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) and the currentlydeveloped lab modules, where GENI is a real-world, at-scale, programmable, and virtualnetworking-enabled laboratory for experiments in a variety of computer science and engineeringareas such as cyber security and networking. GENI testbed is sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) [1], [2], and [3]. Student Performance Improvement over Semesters 105 Spring 18 Spring 19 100 95