undergraduate students feel more comfortable and atease approaching graduate students with questions or to ask for help19,20.Knowledge Gains Knowledge gains related to the students’ increased understanding of academia, careers,and research in the science and engineering fields. In Katarina’s interview there were 15 units ofdata (16%) placed in the theme related to knowledge gains and Estelle’s interview there were 39units of data (20%). Every technique Katarina was introduced to in the laboratory was new to her, so she hadto rely on the research group to teach her how to perform the techniques. Her graduate studentmentor expected her to write laboratory reports on each the laboratory techniques that shelearned. As challenging as the
incorporate new technologies throughout their career. The paperrelates not only the professor’s view of the experience but a student view as well.IntroductionNew paradigms are required for undergraduate teaching in Engineering and EngineeringTechnology that are “student centered” [1]. In forming these new directions within the laboratoryexperience, we need to rethink traditional methods to become more flexible and challenging tothe individual student. Accomplishing this requires a new method of delivery that is differentfrom the traditional laboratory instruction [2, 3, 9 and 10]. Allowing the student to use higher orderleaning including problem development, experimental planning and most importantimplementation all though the use of active learning
Paper ID #8036Work-in-Progress: Videos and Video Podcasts - What Engineering EducatorsOught to KnowDr. Bill M. Diong, Southern Polytechnic State University Dr. Bill Diong received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He gained valuable practical experience as a Senior Research Engineer with Sundstrand Aerospace (now UTC Aerospace) before returning to academia. He is currently an associate professor at Southern Polytechnic State University, in Marietta, GA. His research and teaching interests include power electronic systems, advanced power and
Conference (EDUCON), IEEE (pp. 983-989). Amman, Jordan: IEEE. doi:10.1109/EDUCON.2011.57732668. Ayodele, K. P., Akinwale, O., Kehinde, L. O., Osasona, O., Ajayi, E. O., & Akinwunmi, O. O. (2009). Advanced Digital Laboratory: An FPGA-Based Remote Laboratory for Teaching Digital Electronics. Proc., ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. Paper AC 2009-1206. Austin , Tx: ASEE.9. Google Inc. (2012). Gingerbread. Retrieved November 18, 2012, from http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-2.3-highlights.html10. Google Inc. (2012). Honeycomb. Retrieved November 18, 2012, from Android Developers: http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-3.0-highlights.html11. MIT. (2011, January 24). iLab: Remote Online
the same, the way, order and relevance of contentused varies as much as the variation of the instructors teaching this course. There is also theadditional task of creating content that is flexible enough to be incorporated in courses atmultiple universities. Having both the Tempe Cell and oedometer-type pressure plate laboratory materialavailable to the instructor relates directly to the flexibility we feel is important while developingthis learning module. Ramirez, for example, has been conducting tests on soil samples prevalentin the United States Southwest. This sample type, however, may not be as readily available whenone is teaching in the Midwest, Northeast or the South. With that in mind we found it isimportant to offer the
studio space on teaching and learning: Preliminary findings from two case studies. Innovations in Higher Education, 33, 217-228.4. Prince, M. (2004). Does active learning work? A review of the research. Journal of Engineering Education, 93(3), 223-232.5. Collis, B., de Boer, W., & van der Veen, J. (2001). Building on learner contributions: a web-supported pedagogic strategy. Educational Media International, 38(4), 229-40.6. Kimok, D., & Heller-Ross, H. (2008). Visual tutorials for point-of-need instruction in online courses. Journal of Library Administration, 48(3/4), 527-543.7. Chu. K.C., & Leung, D. (2003). Flexible learning via web-based virtual teaching and virtual laboratory systems. Journal
Paper ID #7239IMPACTING UNDERGRADUATE NANOSCIENCE AND NANOENGINEER-ING EDUCATIONDr. Dhananjay Kumar, North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Dhananjay Kumar is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. His teaching interests are courses related to Materials Science, Thin Film Technology, Nanoscience, and Nanoengineering. He is actively associated with developing and teaching new courses at North Carolina A&T under the NSF-funded Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) project.Dr. Devdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State UniversityMiss
2. To enhance and reinforce science and engineering concepts taught in accordance with state science teaching standards at 5th and 8th grade level 3. To increase awareness of the use of models in engineering research Page 23.1362.2 4. To increase awareness of local coastal hazards in the Pacific Northwest specifically tsunamisLive demonstrations are often available to the over 5000 annual visitors the facility, providing arich platform for meeting these goals, along with our presentations and guided tours. While 5000annual visitors is admirable for any research laboratory, live demonstrations at the site do nottruly reach a
/output expansion peripheral for PC computers. Today, many microcomputers and laptops no longer use the parallel interface. Instead, they use the USB interface as an alternative. In this paper, an innovative Digilent PC-based USB I/O Explorer is being investigated for the Microcomputer Systems Technology course. The Digilent USB I/O Explorer provide various on-board I/O devices, which allows our students to write PC based software (C/C++) to interface to the external electronics devices, such as analog-to- digital and digital-to-analog converter. The laboratory development is intended to give students better understanding of USB peripheral device. From this experience, students
astrophysical institute’s attemptsat “reconstructing and visualizing the universe’s early days” as “the ultimate reverse engineeringproject.”1 This reference to science as the reverse engineering of natural systems is consistentwith the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) recent announcement that one of theirGrand Challenges for the twenty-first century is to “reverse engineer the human brain.”2 Manyscientists and engineering educators are now beginning to recognize the value of the reverseengineering mindset, not only for unraveling the mysteries of nature, but also for teaching theintricacies of design in the engineering laboratory. The last two decades have seen a significantincrease in the number of universities that have integrated this method
Paper ID #7498Integrating Manufacturing, Management and Marketing into InternationalService LearningDr. Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Technological University Dr. Ismail Fidan is a faculty member at the College of Engineering of Tennessee Technological Uni- versity. His research and teaching interests are in additive manufacturing, electronics manufacturing, distance learning, and STEM education. Dr. Fidan is a member and active participant of SME, ASME, IEEE, and ASEE. He is also the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology.Dr. Bonita Barger, Tennessee Technological
hybrid approach was used.”5 Hybrid teaching methodology is a bridgebetween traditional and online schooling. One method of hybrid teaching that pertains to thisstudy includes the use of traditional teaching to cover materials for the class, while requiring allexample problems and homework to be covered digitally. By continuing to require studentparticipation in a traditional classroom setting while implementing online worked examples3,homework, and possibly quizzes, the worry of losing the hands-on, laboratory portion of anengineering education can be dismissed. Moving some of the material covered in class to anonline format will allow more time in class to answer questions and cover the materialeffectively.Mackey and Freyberg completed a study
, mechanical,bio-medical, materials joining and computer engineering, as well as electrical engineering.Based on the experience gleaned throughout one instructor’s teaching experience, the format forthe circuits class has been slowly modified. A two-hour per week laboratory has been added, inwhich students are given their own breadboard, DMM, and electrical components. Note: thismay be a first: Students actually being allowed to keep something for which they paid lab fees!In each of these lab sessions the students are given a simple circuit to wire up and build, and alsoa problem to work. Student workers, who have previously taken the course, are hired to help thecircuit students along. When each student finishes demonstrating his circuit, and then
the growingbiofuels and bioprocessing industries. A highly successful aspect of this program wasimplementation of Summer Teaching and Learning Institutes for pre- and inservice educators -primarily those in secondary agriculture programs in the state. The Institutes focused on thescience, technology, engineering, mathematics, and agriculture of sustainable biofuelsproduction and bioprocessing in the Southeast US. A major component of the Institutes wasextensive hands-on instruction including fabrication, field and laboratory modules that utilizedengineering and laboratory equipment that were provided to each participating inservice educatorfor use in his/her school. A total of 33 inservice and preservice educators participated in theSummer
sessions. Two students in fall 2012 class also applied the Page 23.1349.13Simulink tool to another course they were taking and got excellent results. Students’ commentsand rating in teaching evaluation also demonstrated that they truly liked the Simulink approach.As this was the first teaching experience for the first author, he learned a great deal aboutteaching and working with students. Experience gained through this teaching may also be helpfulto other instructors using this set of lab exercises. 1) It is important to test the lab exercises on the computers that students use. This is true for any laboratory-based courses. Compatibility
to account for complementary topics,two text mining techniques were applied in five years segments by extracting 6 and 10 topicsfrom the corpus of documents associated with each segment. Latent Semantic Analysis andLatent Dirichlet Allocation are two text mining techniques commonly used for topic extractionover large volumes (corpora) of text documents producing a summary of topics that describe theentire corpus of documents. These topics were then analyzed to determine how the overallengineering education evolved over a period spanning approximately three decades. The resultsindicate the overall engineering education has evolved from teaching basic engineering anddesign skills, computers, systems and processes; to creative teaching
Security Instruction. J. Educ. Resour. Comput. 6(4), 5. doi: 10.1145/1248453.1248458.2. Cao, X., Y. Wang. Wang, A. Carciula & Wang. 2009. Developing a multifunctional network laboratory for teaching and research. In Proceedings of the 10 th ACM conference on SIG-information technology education, 155-160. Fairfax, Virginia, USA: ACM.3. Curtis, S. 2011. World IPv4 Stocks Finally Run Out. TechWeek Europe.4. DoD HPC. 2012. IPv6 not Needed Here. Retrieved 11 December, 2012 from http://www.hpcmo.hpc.mil/cms2/5. EMC. 2012. EMC Academic Alliance. Retrieved 11 December, 2012, from https://education.emc.com/academicalliance.6. Hamza, M. K., Alhalabi, B., Hsu, S., Larrondo-Petre, M. M., and Marcovitz, D.M. 2003. Remote
singlecore processors to multicore and many-core processors properly. Training students in thistechnology is critical to the future of exploiting new computer systems [5]. Today, with all theProceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Educationadvances in hardware technology, we as educators find ourselves with multicore computers asservers, desktops, personal computers, and even handheld devices in our laboratories (Labs)while still teaching undergraduate students how to design system software, algorithms andprogramming languages for sequential environment [6]. The current practice is to introduceparallel programming at graduate-level (only at some high-ranked universities), starting withparallel
commercial thermal cycle, analyze its performance and discuss thedifference between the actual device and the theoretical model. Students were also required tobuild a small physical model of the device using straws, wires, plastic cups and paper. By doingthat students could better visualize the device and its components.Toro et al.40 presented a desktop scale Rankine cycle with a solar-powered boiler for use as ahands-on laboratory experiment. Patterson41 collected real-life thermodynamics examples in abooklet. The examples were intended to enhance teaching of thermodynamics by increasing theaccessibility of thermodynamics principles, and to raise the appeal of thermodynamics tostudents. The examples were designed using the 5Es approach: Engage
. Conducting the experimental measurements was the most useful in helping 62 31 3 4 0me grasp the concept of transient heat conduction3. Performing the COMSOL simulations was the most useful in helping me 5 8 24 49 14grasp the concept of transient heat conduction4. This teaching module increased my interest in transient heat conduction 20 44 25 10 15. I prefer this type of combined teaching module than only laboratory 13 14 33 37 3experiments.6. I feel that it is
Paper ID #6663Incorporating Engineering into the High School Chemistry ClassroomMs. Lisa Arnold, Alma High School, Alma, MI Lisa Arnold has a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Alma College with emphasis in Mathematics and Natural Science and a Master of Arts from Central Michigan University in Secondary Education with an emphasis in Mathematics. She has also obtained M.A. +30 with emphasis in Curriculum and Instruction. Lisa has been teaching chemistry at Alma High School for the past seventeen years.Mr. Ze ZhangDr. Tolga Kaya, Central Michigan University Dr. Tolga Kaya currently holds a joint assistant professor
process, butoftentimes engineering technology students have few opportunities to develop their skills in thisarea as they matriculate through their chosen degree program. Many programs require only oneor two writing courses outside of the major. In addition, courses that require communication inthe form of laboratory reports often provide minimal feedback regarding appropriate writingstyle, the effective support of results with analysis, and maintaining efficiency in writing.In this paper, a new approach is presented that unburdens some of the responsibility from theinstructor to peer tutors outside of the engineering technology major who are skilled writers.Although this effort has been ongoing, with engineering technology students required to
thatcomplement traditional teaching methods. Course and laboratory development are discussed,and project selection and management is emphasized. This analysis was done to predict theeffectiveness of project-based instruction for programs related to power generation, ingeneral, and to renewable energy, in particular.Two different courses were examined and their course learning outcomes compared to theexpected, statistically predicted outcome. Both courses were structured as lecture-lab-project,where the laboratory experiments were sufficient in number and complexity to consolidatethe topics addressed during lectures, while the projects selected were intended to coversufficient number of topics addressed through the first half of the course, as the
experimental inves- tigations such as designing and testing of propulsion systems including design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past 8 years she gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development.Dr. Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.) Dr. Radian Belu is Assistant Professor within the
Paper ID #5817Impacts of New Modes of Instructions for Nanotechnology Education withinEngineering and Science ProgramsDr. Maher E. Rizkalla, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Maher Rizkalla received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1985. From January 1985 to September 1986, he was employed as a Research Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, and an Assistant Professor at Purdue University Calumet until September 1986. Then, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at IUPUI where he is now Professor and Associate
design.Dr. Robi Polikar, Rowan UniversityDr. Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University Dr. Kevin Dahm is an associate professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his B.S. from WPI in 1992 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1998. His primary areas of pedagogical scholarship are teaching design, process simulation in the curriculum, assessment of student learning and teaching engineering economics. He has received the 2011 Mid-Atlantic Section Outstanding Teaching Award, the 2005 Corcoran Award, the 2004 Fahien Award and the 2003 Martin Award from ASEE.Prof. Robert M Nickel, Bucknell University Robert. M. Nickel received the Diplom-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Rheinisch- Westflische Technische
information can be found at the centrifuge facility website(http://nees.rpi.edu).References1. Balamuralithara, B. and Woods, P.C. (2008). Virtual Laboratories in Engineering Education: The Simulation Lab and Remote Lab, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 17, pp. 108-118.2. Budhu, M. (2002). Virtual laboratories for engineering education, In International Conference on Engineering Education, Manchester, UK.3. Caicedo, B. (2000). Geotechnical centrifuge applications to foundation engineering teaching, In 1st International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering Education and Training, Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 271– 274.4. Craig, W. H. (1989). Use of a centrifuge in geotechnical engineering education, Geotechnical Testing Journal
students in authentic, ill-structured engineering tasks facilitates the development oftheir engineering skills.1-3To facilitate students’ authentic practice of these skills we have developed a learning systembased on virtual laboratories. In this learning system, student teams take on the role of processdevelopment engineers. They are tasked with finding suitable input parameters to be released tohigh volume manufacturing through experiments that are completed virtually. When studentsperform experiments, the lower cognitive demand affords them the opportunity to build a richexperimental design. While not instructed to do so, most student teams inevitably resort tomodeling as a tool to progress towards completion.Student team modeling practices are
Tallahassee, FL 32307 850-599-868 (Office) 830-561-2739(fax) gnanasigamani.bellar@famu.edu Dr. G. Thomas Bellarmine is currently working at Florida A&M University as Professor of Electronic Engi- neering Technology. He is currently teaching Electronic and Computer Engineering Technology Courses. He obtained his BSEE degree from Madras University and MSEE degree from Madurai Kamaraj Uni- versity in India. He received his PHD in EE from Mississippi State University and M.S. in Computer Science from The University of West Florida. He is currently an IEEE Senior Member and a Member in ASEE. He is also a Registered Professional Engineer. His research interest includes power systems, energy management systems, and computer
Paper ID #8381IGIP Co-Plenary - Present and Future Challenges in Engineering Educationand the Strategies of IGIPProf. Michael E. Auer, International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP) Since 1995 Dr.-Ing. Dr.sc. Dr. h.c. Michael E. Auer is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Sys- tems Engineering Dept. of the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences Villach, Austria and has also teaching positions at the Universities of Klagenfurt (Austria), Amman (Jordan), Brasov (Romania) and Patras (Greece). He is a senior member of IEEE, author or co-author of more than 170 publications and leading member of numerous