currently teaches thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and biofluids. Page 23.1384.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013Works in Progress: Computational Modeling of Biomedical Devices withActive Learning StrategiesAbstractBiomedical engineers need to be able to model transport processes quickly and accurately toproduce competitive and safe products. These products include items like drug-eluting stents forcoronary artery disease and therapeutic contact lenses for glaucoma. Collaborative learningstrategies are used to help students gradually build confidence and skill. Learning
27 years as a teacher and researcher. He has extensive research and curriculum development experience in STEM disciplines. His research includes the study of thinking processes, teaching methods, and activities that improve technological problem-solving performance and creativity. He has expertise in developing technology education curriculum that integrates science, technology, engineering and mathe- matics (STEM) concepts. Currently, Dr. DeLuca’s research includes projects to develop curricula to teach STEM concepts associated with renewable energy technologies by providing a living laboratory of perfor- mance data from numerous renewable energy systems. The overarching goal of the project is to develop middle
environmental sensors and sustainable bioremedi- ation processes. Since joining the University of Toledo in 2008, he have been teaching water resources engineering as well as water supply & treatment courses for both graduate and undergraduate students.Mr. Christopher Mark Hessler, University of Toledo Christopher Hessler holds a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toledo and is currently completing his doctorate. He possesses nearly a decade of experience in process and wastewater engineering, centered around oil recovery and waste treatment. He currently is the Custom and Treatment products manager at QED Environmental Systems in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he leads a team of engineers in
software for these computations is essential for a mechatronic system designto be successful.[5] It is widely accepted that the most important aspect of mechatronics educationis to provide haptic (hands-on) experience that allows students to gain an understanding of highlevel theoretical concepts as well as an in-depth appreciation of integration issues.[4, 6, 7] Virtuallyall of the available literature agrees that the best approach to teaching mechatronics to today’sMechanical Engineering students is within a laboratory environment in which students actuallysee mechatronic systems in action and experiment with them directly. Figure 1: Dimension uPrint FDM 3D printers in the
control group. Ten students took part in theexperimental group; 22 were involved in the control group.Faculty members teaching ENGR 1201 accommodated the trial use of The Coach byagreeing to mandate the laboratory report format of The Coach for all assignments and torequire reports to be submitted in hard-copy form. Instructors in ENGR 1201 turned over alllaboratory reports to the faculty member responsible for The Coach at UT-Tyler, but onlythose reports submitted by participants were scanned to .pdf form. All reports were thenreturned for normal grading. This process was meant to preserve the anonymity of thoseparticipating in The Coach and to prevent any potential bias in grading. Scanned reportswere redacted to remove names and to assign each
State Berks Dr. Rungun Nathan is an associate professor in the division of engineering at Penn State-Berks. He got his B.S. from University of Mysore, his DIISc from Indian Institute of Science, his M.S. from Louisiana State University and his Ph.D. from Drexel University. He has worked in electronic packaging in C-DOT in India and then as a scientific assistant in the Robotics laboratory at the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, India. He worked as a post-doc at University of Pennsylvania in the area of Haptics and Virtual Reality. His research interests are in the areas of unmanned vehicles particularly flapping flight, mechatronics, robotics, MEMS, virtual reality and haptics, and teaching with technology
for educators forenhancing instruction in the areas of sustainable bioenergy and bioproducts: In addition totraining STEAM educators on a systems perspective of bio-energy, the program and the institutefocus on developing and providing workbooks and laboratory tool kits for implementingclassroom activities in bioenergy and bioproducts. The workbooks that are developed are alignedwith national and state standards of science, technology, and mathematics and do provide samplelessons in bioenergy and bioproducts for middle and high school students. It is anticipated thatthe bioenergy and bioproducts teaching tools will become self-sustaining following thetermination of the project.3. To leverage other ongoing training activities and training
course, with an emphasis on computer programming using MATLAB and communication. Her teaching interests are in the area of thermo-fluids and freshmen engineering. Her current research is focused on the success of freshmen engineering students, and implementing a flipped classroom by using Team-Based Learning in engineering core courses. Jennifer can be reached at jmpeuker@gmail.comDr. Steffen Peuker, University of Alaska Anchorage Dr. Steffen Peuker is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Thermal System Design Laboratory at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is teaching the Thermal System De- sign, Thermal System Design Laboratory, HVAC Systems Optimization and Introduction to
a freshmen course in electrical engineering to improve retention. Another paper is related to the development of an online graduate course in Random Process. And the last paper focuses on the development of an online course in Linear Circuit Analysis for Electrical Engineering Student.Dr. Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas at Tyler Dr. Mukul Shirvaikar is the Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Tyler, where he develops curriculum and laboratories in computer engineering. Prior to this he worked at Texas Instruments specializing in real time imaging systems. Dr. Shirvaikar graduated with his doc- torate from the University of Tennessee, a M.S. degree from the University of
networks, among other areas. He also focuses on enhancing recruitment and retention of underrepresented minorities in the STEM areas in general, engineering in particular.Dr. Deborah Walter, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Deborah Walter is an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She teaches courses in circuits, electromagnetics, and medical imaging. Before joining academia in 2006, she was at the Computed Tomography Laboratory at GE’s Global Research Center for eight years. She worked on several technology development projects in the area of X-ray CT for medical and industrial imaging. She is a named inventor on nine patents. She has been active in
2011 fall semester and again in the 2012 fall semester. The course forstudents in the three engineering departments included lectures, hands-on laboratory exercises,demonstration experiments, and a final design project. In this paper, we discuss the lecturetopics and eight hands-on laboratory experiments that were developed into modules tocomplement lectures in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mixing, reaction engineering,electroosmosis, electophoresis, and manufacturing methods for micro and nanoscale devices. Wealso show the final project designs for the nanodevices or nanosystems that were proposed bystudent teams at the end of the course. Finally, we present the assessment results from the pre-post student surveys as well as faculty
.[8] D. E. Graff, et al. (ed.), Research and Practice of Active Learning in Engineering Education, Pallas Publication in Leiden University Press, Amsterdam, Nederland, 2005.[9] D. Paulson and J. Faust, “Active Learning for the College Classroom,” Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 3-24, 1998.[10] P. Pheeney, “Hands on, minds on: Activities to engage our students,” Science Scope, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 30-33, 1997. Page 23.264.14[11] S. Burd, et al. (ed.), “Virtual Computing Laboratories: A Case Study with Comparisons to Physical Computing Laboratories,” Journal of Information Technology
engineeringclassrooms across the United States2.In order to prepare our future engineers with competencies well beyond those expected of pastengineers, as the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the NationalAcademy of Engineering (NAE) say we must, engineering education itself must change andbecome more effective and efficient3, 4. We must draw on available engineering educationresearch to improve our classrooms and our teaching both now and into the future. Page 23.252.2This is not a simple task, as there are many barriers to overcome. Some are barriers of individualfaculty members, and others reflect their work environment. Some examples of
is like acknowledging that students at any given agearen’t all the same height: It is not a statement of worth, but of reality”.2 In a differentiatedclassroom and laboratory, the teacher proactively plans and carries out varied approaches tocontent, process, and product in anticipation and response to student differences in readiness,interest, and learning needs.According to Tomlinson, our teaching style “can influence a students’ IQ by 20 points in eitherdirection, that’s a 40 point IQ swing”.2 Key concepts of differentiated instruction include but arenot limited to: More qualitative than quantitative. Merely assigning more or less work based on a learner’s ability is typically ineffective. Rooted in assessment. Evaluation
majors at the University ofArizona. The project illustrates the entire control systems design cycle from systemidentification, through analysis and design of dynamic compensators in classical (transferfunction based) and modern (state space based) control theory. Advanced topics such as systemidentification tool box of Matlab, design and testing of an observer/controller pair is alsoillustrated in an intuitive way suitable for undergraduate students. A summary of the mainlearning gains is also presented.The workshop will conclude with a question and answer session as well as individualizedexperimentation with the portable hardware.IntroductionHands-on laboratories are an essential part of the engineering curriculum since its inception.Their
Paper ID #7987Use of a CPLD in an Introductory Logic Circuits CourseDr. Krista M Hill, University of HartfordDr. Ying Yu, University of Hartford Dr. Ying Yu received the B.Eng. degree from Fudan University in Shanghai, China, in 2000. She received the M.Eng. degree and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University in 2003 and 2007, respectively. Since 2008, she has been teaching as an assistant professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Hartford. Her current research interests includes audio and speech signal processing, bowel sound detection, speaker identification and
” engineeringcourses throughout their entire engineering curriculum represents a new “authentic-learning”approach toward teaching engineering to students. Medical Schools and Law Schoolspredominantly use authentic learning, or experiential learning, techniques to teach our futuredoctors and lawyers.3 Engineering education has been slow to follow their lead in this regard,basing almost all instruction on lecture-based and laboratory-based teaching methodologies,rather than authentic learning methodologies. However, in the Spring semester of 2010, aneducational initiative was begun to determine the value of integrating semester-long, Project-Based Design Streams (PBDSs) into the entire electrical engineering curriculum. Due to theexceptional response by the
. However, many of these legal barriers are being removed to facilitate the construction of these environmentally friendly buildings. 3. The design of an alternative energy education laboratory. As our Alternative Energy and Sustainability minor is still very new, we have limited alternative energy outreach events or activities at RMU (although an alternative energy summer camp has been successfully ran over the last couple of years). Therefore, we had a student interested in designing a laboratory space (outside) that could be used to teach the science behind alternative energy to young children. Interestingly, the laboratory was designed to consist of a number of different activities to showcase the
acquisition systemwith energy management is a small step onto having a micro scale smart grid in our laboratory.Another main reason for developing this project is to have laboratories for student teachings,other projects, and master’s theses. We are planning to have up-to-date laboratories andassignments with engineering tasks which are not taught in other courses. One of our laboratoryassignment plans is to educate our undergraduate students in the programming softwareLabVIEW.We feel that LabVIEW is becoming very popular in the engineering field and it is a good idea tohave our students exposed to it.We have developed a laboratory assignment which is a reduced form of our data acquisitionsystem. This lab will introduce the students to instrument
engagement. Information, advice, and guidance in making informed higher education (HE) choices. Preparation, including developing realistic expectations and skills. Induction and transition support. Social engagement with peers and HE staff. Integrated or aligned academic development. A range of student services. Monitoring and data using. Comprehensive curriculum design, learning, teaching, and related assessments.Another study also showed that the most effective freshmen student retention programs addressseveral major components, including financial aid packages; course and laboratory availabilityand content; and the implementation of support mechanisms such as tutoring, mentoring,engagement, and
Outstanding Teaching, RIT’s premiere teaching award. Dr. Kim has directed numerous undergraduate research projects and undergraduate and graduate research competitions in the 2012 GPEC (Global Plastics Environment Conference; Division of Society of Plastics Engineers). Page 23.1268.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013Transforming Undergraduate Curriculum for Green Plastics Manufacturing Technology (GPMT)Student-Centered Learning and POGIL ApproachAll learning involves knowledge construction in one form or another; therefore, it is aconstructivist process.1,2
patients’ rehabilitativehealth; this understanding was strongly affected by the student’s research experience.Student exchange in Mexico increased the Spanish language proficiency of one of two studentparticipants, as assessed with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language(ACTFL) Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI).More than 20 faculty participated in consortium site visits and/or hosted exchange students intheir laboratories; nearly 50 faculty welcomed consortium members into their laboratories duringthese consortium site visits. These research laboratory visits may foster future faculty researchcollaboration, as well as providing research internship opportunities for exchange students.Conclusions: All interviewed students were very
the alumnus request a team was formed to make the course, laboratoryexercises and the physical laboratory a reality. The team consisted of the faculty membercurrently teaching the industrial controls course, a graduate student who would be developing thelaboratory exercises for his graduate project, the alumnus, the department staff engineer and thedepartment senior technician who would plan and supervise the laboratory renovation andlaboratory equipment purchase [9].”In the next section we detail the methods used by students in developing their service learningproject: a Concrete Curing Box (CCB) for use in a high school STEM recruiting and enrichmentprogram.MethodsIn this section we discuss the methods used by the student team to develop
Paper ID #6360A Formal Research Study on Correlating Student Attendance Policies to Stu-dent SuccessDr. Donald C. Richter, Eastern Washington University Dr. Donald C. Richter obtained his B.Sc. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Ohio State University, M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Arkansas. He holds a Professional Engineer certification and worked as an Engineer and Engineering Manger in industry for 20 years before teaching. His interests include project management, robotics /automation and air pollution dispersion modeling.Mr. Jason K Durfee, Eastern Washington University
Paper ID #7088How to Use Engineering in High School Science: Two Case StudiesDr. Ibrahim F. Zeid, Northeastern UniversityMs. Jessica Chin, Northeastern University Jessica Chin is an Artist/Designer/Researcher focusing on blending creativity with mechanical design. She has been collaborating with leading research and development laboratories including the Modeling, Analysis, and Predcition (MAP) Laboratory at Northeastern University in Boston, Mass. and the Center for STEM Education at Northeastern. For the past four years, Chin was a researcher working on the development of a predictive model for chronic wound tracking. In
complete a Senior Project to earn the BS-ETT degree.To support both teaching and research for the EVE and ETT programs, WSU has established twoindustrial-standard laboratories as shown in Fig. 1 through the support of the DOE grant: The Energy Storage Lab, located in the Danto Engineering Development Center, provides for the testing of energy storage devices and systems with a focus on batteries and fuel cells at the cell, module, and pack system level. The Electric Propulsion and Integration Laboratory, located the Engineering Technology Building, provides for the testing of different types of power electronic converters and electric machines and machine drives/controllers for electric drive applications
challenges in the pharmaceutical industry. In an effort to engage thesurrounding communities, New York City public and private high school students wereintroduced to the field of pharmaceutical engineering over the course of six weeks. Through theuse of lectures, teamwork activities, and laboratory experiments, students learned about thefundamentals of oral solid dosage forms, drug dissolution, and experimental design. Examples ofexperiments performed include building their own “in-house” drug dissolution devices, studyingthe effect of impeller geometry and velocity on dissolution rates, and obtaining drug dissolutionprofiles for various oral solid dosage forms containing Ibuprofen using UV-Vis spectroscopy.Students were also trained in
teaching paradigm to learningparadigm that is based on the discovery approach. One must remember that the ultimate goal ofthe discovery approach, however, is to deliver the needed information to learners in the bestpossible manner, that suits the receiver’s optimum learning style. The author also strongly recommends and encourages students to utilize the resourcesthat are readily available at the university, such as University Library, Divisional Documents,Departmental Research Reports, Computer Laboratory, Writing Center, etc. 1. Discovery approach utilizes five principles and this has been documented in Appendix A. 2. Discovery Based ISD is recorded in Appendix B. According to Reuben Tozman, Instructional Systems Design is the
working with environmental sensors and sustainable bioremedi- ation processes. Since joining the University of Toledo in 2008, he have been teaching water resources engineering as well as water supply & treatment courses for both graduate and undergraduate students.Ms. Kimberly Mary Coburn, University of Toledo Ms. Kimberly Coburn has recently completed her Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Toledo. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Toledo in the Summer of 2011 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering and a Minor in Astrophysics. Her academic career contains numerous awards for scholastic achievement, research, and teaching. While completing her undergraduate, Ms
isawake will receive the packet. The packet is retransmitted three times by each device, thusthese types of broadcasts should only be used when necessary. The other broadcast addressis the use of endpoint number 0xFF to send a message to all of the endpoints on thespecified device. For group addressing, an application can assign multiple devices andspecific endpoints on those devices to a single group address. The source node would needto provide the cluster ID, profile ID and source endpoint.Course Protocol and Zigbee MethodsA low cost, 68HC12 microprocessor module based, laboratory intensive instructionprogram was developed for common use in the newer microprocessor course ECET365. The overall objectives of this teaching module were to