Paper ID #24459Embedding Core Skills in First-Year Engineering Students with Applicationsin Embedded System DesignDr. Michael Cross, Norwich University Michael Cross is a Lecturer of Electrical and Computer Engineering teaching classes in the areas of circuits, electronics, energy systems, and engineering design. Cross received degrees from the Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Vermont and began his academic career at UVM where he taught courses in the areas of analog and digital circuits, electronics, semiconductor physics, power electronics, and engineering design.Dr. David M. Feinauer P.E., Norwich
Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Utah. He received his B. S. and Ph. D. from the University of Utah and a M. S. from the University of California, San Diego. His teaching responsibilities include the senior unit operations laboratory and freshman design laboratory. His research interests focus on undergraduate education, targeted drug delivery, photobioreactor design, and instrumentation. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Modeling Student Performance in an Introductory Chemical Engineering CourseWe have developed an open-ended, laboratory-based introduction to chemical engineering, acourse coupling traditional, hands-on, and
general, and to the use of modern pedagogicalskills in particular. The paper also argues that any meaningful change in Region’s classroompractices today (dominated by traditional lecture-based methods) must be mandated andsupported by the university administration. What is necessary to create a change, is for thedepartment or college, to have a comprehensive and integrated set of components: clearlyarticulated expectations, opportunities for faculty to learn about new pedagogies, and anequitable reward system.Introduction“To teach is to engage students in learning.” This quote, from Education for Judgment byChristenson et al, (1) captures the meaning of the art and practice of pedagogies ofengagement. The theme advocated here is that student
. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and has served as principal or co-principal investigator on seven grants from the National Science Foundation. At Lafayette College Dr. Roth has served as Department Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director of Engineering, and Associate Provost for Academic Operations in addition to multiple faculty committee assignments. She has led campus-wide accreditation and assessment initiatives, implemented new faculty orientation programs, collaborated on the development of multiple proposals to private foun- dations, and coordinated interdisciplinary academic programs. She has received a number of awards in recognition of her scholarship and teaching
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Colorado StateUniversity, and is currently serving as a postdoctoral researcher at NREL. During herPh.D., she served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow for the College of Engineering, teachingengineering concepts and studying undergraduate engineering retention patterns. Shegraduated with a B.S in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona.Anthony J. MarcheseAnthony J. Marchese is the Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs, Directorof the Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory and Professor of MechanicalEngineering in the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering at Colorado StateUniversity. Marchese holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineeringfrom Princeton University and B.S
ofEngineering (level 8), Masters (level 9) and finally, PhD (level 10). As a result, the school has avery broad student demographic. Many students who cannot gain direct entry to a universityprogram join this technical institute at a lower point on the ladder, work their way up, andeventually sit beside those who entered directly from high school.Academic staff members are employed to teach and typically have 18 hours of classroom activityper week. Although research is encouraged, and the School has several highly regarded researchgroups, the majority of staff members devote most of their time to teaching—both in the classroomand the laboratory. Laboratory groups of 16 students per staff member facilitate close contact andallow staff and students to
Education, 2018 Enhancing Engineering Lab Report Writing Using Peer Review Assessment Rocio Alba-Flores Georgia Southern UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the educational experiences gained by incorporating a peer review componentfor evaluating formal lab reports in a Circuit Analysis Laboratory course. In this course studentsperformed ten lab experiments, from which the instructor selected two to have individual formalwritten lab reports. The instructor dedicated about one hour at the beginning of the semester to talkabout peer review and its importance. The instructor together with all students performed a mockpeer review of
/population, and the 3D-printed case. Due to time constraints, teaching-assistant help wasoffered in terms of the BLE data transmission and the cell phone app. Portable data acquisitionhardware (Digilent Analog Discovery 2 units) and virtual instrument software (WaveForms 2015software) provided students with means to build and test circuitry outside of the confines oftraditional benchtop laboratories. Student performance was assessed relative to learningobjectives specified for the project, and pre/post surveys were employed to gauge student self-perceptions of learning with regard to physical device components, instrumentation concepts,analog circuitry, digital circuitry, wireless links, printed circuit boards, 3D printing, and cellphone apps. While
Paper ID #23738Algebra-Related Misconceptions Identified in a First-Year Engineering Rea-soning CourseDr. Lizzie Santiago, West Virginia University Lizzie Y. Santiago, Ph.D., is a Teaching Associate Professor for the Fundamentals of Engineering Program in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and has postdoctoral training in neural tissue engineering and molecular neurosciences. She teaches freshman engineering courses and supports the outreach and recruiting activities of the college. Her research interests include neural tissue engineering
Paper ID #22563The River Project: an Open-Ended Engineering Design Challenge from Bench-Scale to Pilot-ScaleDr. Lucas James Landherr, Northeastern University Dr. Lucas Landherr is an associate teaching professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University, conducting research in engineering education.Dr. Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University Dr. Courtney Pfluger received her Doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University in 2011. In the fall of 2011, she took a position as an Assistant Teaching Professor at Northeastern University in the College of Engineering as a part of
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
. He got his BS from University of Mysore, DIISc from Indian Institute of Science, MS from Louisiana State University and PhD from Drexel University. He has worked in the area of Electronic Packaging in C-DOT (India) and then as a Scientific Assistant in the Robotics laboratory at Indian Institute of Science, 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. He has ongoing research in flapping flight, Frisbee flight dynamics, lift in porous material and brain injury He is an
Paper ID #22025 University. Subsequently, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, also at Stanford University. He has been with the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Illinois since 2006, where he now serves as Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs. He holds an affiliate appointment in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, where he leads a research group that works on a diverse set of projects (http://bretl.csl.illinois.edu/). Dr. Bretl received the National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award in 2010. He has also received numerous awards for undergraduate teaching in the area of dynamics and control, including all three teaching awards given by the College of
studied: an on-campus (traditional) group and an online group.Both groups were registered and attended the same Digital Fundamentals course in Fall 2017.The course instructor, lab instructor/teaching assistant, curriculum and course content were thesame for both groups. The course rubric was identical except for the assessment of the lab. Forthe on-campus course, the students conducted the experiments in the physical laboratory on aweekly basis. The online students conducted the same labs at home using miniaturized testinstruments and a breadboard. While the on-campus group were expected to conduct theexperiments under direct supervision during the 2 hours lab period each week, the onlinestudents completed the lab at their leisure during the
the Year Award from the National Society of Black Engineers.Dr. Todd Pagano, Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical Institute for the Deaf Todd Pagano is the Associate Dean for Teaching & Scholarship Excellence and Professor of Chemistry at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf (RIT/NTID) where he is responsible for oversight of NTID’s undergraduate research initiatives and has mentored over sixty Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing undergrads in his own scientific research projects. He was the founding director of the Laboratory Science Technology program at NTID; a unique degree granting program for Deaf/Hard- of-Hearing students. In this role he led the design and
Paper ID #21623Single-board Computer Used for Network Streaming Audio Player TFT Touchscreen-based ApplicationDr. David Border, Bowling Green State University David A. Border, Ph.D., holds a principle research interest in electronic information systems. This field includes digital communication and networking and intelligent networked devices. His work includes wireless sensor networks. Prior research included work on signal bandwidth compression and signal specific data encoding techniques. His technology application interest includes networked systems. Typ- ical teaching duties include junior- and senior-level courses in
, acquisition development and operation research support while in the United States Air Force. He currently has over 16 years of teaching experience at the university level and taught over 40 different graduate and undergraduate courses in electrical engineer- ing, systems engineering, physics and mathematics. He has over 30 published papers and/or technical presentations while spearheading over 40 international scientific and engineering conferences/workshops as a steering committee member while assigned in Europe. Professor Santiago has experience in many engineering disciplines and missions including: control and modeling of large flexible space structures, communications system, electro-optics, high-energy lasers
received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Bei- jing, China, in 1995 and 1997 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Uni- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. From 1997 to 2002, he was a research assistant at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 2002 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Electromagnetics Laboratory in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an assistant professor with the Department of Elec- trical Engineering, the University of Texas at Arlington from 2005 to 2012. He joined the Department of Electrical and
Paper ID #23445Hk Maker Lab: Creating Engineering Design Courses for High School Stu-dents (Evaluation -or- Other)Dr. Aaron Kyle, Columbia University Aaron Kyle, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University. Dr. Kyle teaches a two semester series undergraduate laboratory course, bioinstrumentation and Senior Design. Senior Design is Dr. Kyle’s major teaching focus and he has worked diligently to continually enhance undergraduate design. He has taught or co-taught the BME Design class since January 2010. Dr. Kyle has spearheaded the incorporation of global health technologies into Senior
regardingphrase 6 (Fig.2a), that the weekly homework helped them to master the application of theconcepts studied in each chapter. In 2017, (Fig.2b) none of them strongly agreed but 60% agreedand 15% were neutral. This is one of our expectations from engineering students. The weeklytake home online quiz helped them to master the conceptual ideas studied in each chapter isstrongly agreed by 5% and agreed by 48% in 2016 (Fig 2a) which is equally selected by 20% ofthe students’ sample in 2017 (Fig 2b).Regarding laboratory teaching, 48% and 50% strongly agreed in 2016 (Fig.2a) and 2017(Fig.2b), respectively that the labs helped them to explore the facts via careful observations orthoughtful analysis which they learned in the lecture class, while 38% agreed
Paper ID #22057Integration of a Highway Fill Embankment Case Study in Engineering De-sign Courses for Instructional ImprovementProf. Jiliang Li P.E., Purdue University Northwest Dr. Jiliang Li, D.Eng, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, M.ASEE, is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University Northwest. Before coming back to teach at University, he had industrial experience in several States with projects consulting experience ranging from small residential, commercial and subdi- vision projects to larger scale State DOT and federal projects after additional courses and research study of geotechnical engineering at
education.Dr. Scott R. Bartholomew, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Scott R. Bartholomew, PhD. is an assistant professor of Engineering/Technology Teacher Education at Purdue University. Previously he taught Technology and Engineering classes at the middle school and university level. Dr. Bartholomew’s current work revolves around Adaptive Comparative Judgment (ACJ) assessment techniques, student design portfolios, and Technology & Engineering teacher preparation.Dr. Greg J. Strimel, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Dr. Greg J. Strimel is an assistant professor of engineering/technology teacher education in the Purdue Polytechnic Institute at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. His prior teaching experience includes
Paper ID #23434Summer Exchange Program: A Unique Platform to Broaden Exposure andAddress Several Dimensions of LearningDr. Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Dr. Abhijit Nagchaudhuri is currently a Professor in the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences at University of Maryland Eastern Shore. He is a member American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and, American Society for Agricultural and Biological Engineers(ASABE) and is actively involved in teaching and research in the fields of (i) robotics and mechatronics, (ii)remote
their scientific communication skills. ´Mr. Jerome Harrison, Ecole de Technologie Sup´erieure ´ Jerome is a M.A.Sc. student at the Imaging and Orthopaedics Research Laboratory at ETS. He specializes in medical image processing, analysis and visualization. ´Mr. Prasun Lala, Ecole de Technologie Sup´erieure ´ Prasun Lala is a member of SARA’s team at the Ecole ´ de technologie sup´erieure (ETS), in Montr´eal, where he focuses on helping graduate students learn skills
addition to her current positions she has held various positions at the Naval Research Lab- oratory and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Filling the Pipeline By Exciting Middle School Girls with Creative ProjectsIntroduction:Despite some progress, the gender imbalance in electrical engineering and computer science inhigher education and in industry has persisted. ASEE reported that in 2016, women made up justover 20 percent of students pursuing Bachelor’s degrees in engineering, with an even smallerpercentage of women students pursuing degrees in electrical engineering (12.7%) and computerscience (12.3%) [1]. To address
significantly higher. The equipmentmaking industries are heavily reliant on higher education. Entry level work for automationtypically requires electrical and machining knowledge. Associates degrees are typically theminimum requirement for lower level system design, programming, debugging, and testing.Engineering and Engineering Technology graduates typically do mid- to high-level research,design, programming, debugging, and testing.The approach to teaching PLC based controls varies by program type. Bachelor’s degreeprograms will frequently survey many aspects in one higher-level course. Associates degreeprograms may offer a series of in-depth courses. Of course, the program focus is critical indetermining the extent of the coverage. Fields that
project proposals and the projects that they produce?Literature ReviewAs far back as 1998 researchers such as Edelson were conceptualizing authentic science practices2. Roughlyten years later, the researchers contend, “that laboratory-based school science teaching needs to becomplemented by … learning that draws on the actual world3.” This is authentic science practice3.Recently, researchers are showing that authentic STEM experiences4 include creating questions,investigating – which includes failure - and disseminating results to the community5. The majority of thetime at the university level, undergraduate research experiences are considered authentic scienceexperiences6. There is a large body of research on undergraduate research experiences7
al. suggested that instead oflibrarians, a co-taught model with a departmental faculty member and a librarian would improvethe ability for the course to put theory into practice. The DMP assignment in the Thielen workresulted in a large range of DMPs: from 3 to 26 pages. The authors note that they will revise theassignment in the future to be more explicit. Our experience from this course indicates that thismight be a result of no distinction between the short, funding proposal DMP and the longer,laboratory DMP. A distinction between these two different DMPs and suggestions on how toteach each is included in a separate presentation.[27] From the variety of previous approaches to teaching RDM at the graduate level, twothemes emerge: 1
Paper ID #22265Optimizing Student Team Skill Development using Evidence-Based Strate-gies: Year 3: NSF Award 1431694Dr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Matthew W. Ohland is Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineering students, team assignment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative teaching methods has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation and his team received Best
Paper ID #23532Using Distinctive Student Engagement Elements in a Technical Elective CourseDr. Rambod Rayegan, Prairie View A&M University Rambod Rayegan is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department at Prairie view A & M University. He has a strong background in conducting research in building energy efficiency and renewable power generation for buildings. He served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at University of North Texas before joining PVAMU. He oversaw the research in the Zero Energy Laboratory at UNT and worked as a researcher at UNT in