), Opportunities To Teach Teamwork, Collaboration, And Interpersonal Communications In Mechanical Engineering Technology Courses Paper presented at 2000 Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri. 10.18260/1-2--8609.Gribb, M. M., & Alford, E. M. (2000, June), Using Writing To Improve Retention: Communications Assignments In A Freshman Year Experience Course For Engineers Paper presented at 2000 Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri. 10.18260/1-2--8826.Gunn, C. (2000, June), Utilizing Co Op To Further Liberal Education Within Engineering Paper presented at 2000 Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri. 10.18260/1-2--8828Jalkio, J. A. (2000, June), Incorporating Design, Communications, Teamwork, And Modeling In A Controls Laboratory
Paper ID #36595Flipped Online Learning with Synchronous Meetings in anEngineering Thermodynamics CourseRandall Manteufel Dr. Randall Manteufel is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). He has won several teaching awards, including the 2012 University of Texas System Regent’s Outstanding Teaching Award and the 2013 UTSA President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence, the 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2019 College of Engineering Student Council Professor of the Year Award, 2008 Excellence in Teaching Award for College of Engineering, and 2004-2005
responsibility [23]. Thus, anexperimental learning framework is a great teaching method if educators could implement it usingVRT as a proxy. 2.2 Virtual reality in educationVirtual Reality technologies have already lent themselves to many implementations in K-12schools, tertiary education, research laboratories, and collaborative programs across academia. ForK12 education, VR tools are commonly used for visualizing geometry-shape in math class, solarsystem and planets in earth science, historical sites around the world in history and geographyclass, organs and animal habitats in biology, and molecular bonds in chemistry. It can help putclass materials into perspective, magnify small elements, and shrink large systems. Beyond the K12program, the
Paper ID #35802Why is thermodynamics so hard for students and what can an instructor doabout it.Dr. Randall D. Manteufel, The University of Texas at San Antonio Dr. Randall Manteufel is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). He has won several teaching awards, including the 2012 University of Texas Sys- tem Regent’s Outstanding Teaching Award and the 2013 UTSA President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence, the 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2019 College of Engineering Student Council Professor of the Year Award, 2008 Excellence in Teaching Award for
experience in an effortto improve university recruiting and retention. Within the College of Engineering and AppliedSciences, the goal is to focus the Honors experience on undergraduate research with an aim ofbroadening research opportunities and competitiveness of student applications for summerresearch programs, NSF REUs, internal/external research funding applications, participation inundergraduate research conferences, and preparing the students for graduate school. Historically,many students (inside and outside of the honors program) have received credit for completingundergraduate research, but this is often a “stand-alone” course with no additional preparation andill-defined outcomes. While this approach may provide a laboratory experience
compound, and the potential for mastery andinnovation to be more likely. Young Students, Problem Solving, and PBLFor many children educated in a traditional school setting, engineering and innovation is not adaily class offering. By the time students reach the pre-college years of high school, theopportunity to teach concepts that would make for a strong engineering candidate may havealready been missed. Li Tan concluded in “Using random forest analysis to identify studentdemographic and high school-level factors that predict college engineering major choice” that itis crucial to attract more students to college engineering programs that are prepared tosuccessfully complete the degree [1]. While there are no metrics to
Paper ID #37628Engineering and the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program AWorld of OpportunitiesJohn David Rice (Associate Professor) Dr. John Rice is an Associate Professor at Utah State University (USU) where he teaches senior and graduate-level courses in Embankment Dams and Slopes, Ground Improvement, Advanced Shear Strength of Soils, and Foundation Analysis and Risk Assessment for Dams. He received he Ph.D. from Virginia Tech with a dissertation titled The Long- Term Performance of Seepage Barriers in Dams. His research at USU focuses on seepage and internal erosion in dams and levees and he has published over 40
quality STEMteachers in rural areas, heavier teacher workloads as compared to urban counterparts, lack ofspecialized or graduate degrees, the need to teach multiple subjects and grades, and deficienciesin mentoring and networking opportunities [3], [7], [8], [9], [12]. Geographic isolation isassociated with access barriers to professional development and a sense of professional isolation[5], [18].Contrary to the dominant storylines, some studies have found no disadvantage between rural andnon-rural teachers in terms of time devoted to professional development and collaborationopportunities [7]. Other studies found similar results in terms of student outcomes, with studentsfrom rural schools performing as well, or better, than their urban
other real world applications.References:[1] American Society of Mechanical Engineering, “ASME Vision 2030: Creating the Future of Mechanical Engineering Education,” Executive Summary, ASME Board on Education, go.asme.org/v2030, September 2012.[2] American Society of Civil Engineers, “Achieving the Vision for Civil Engineering in 2025,” ASCE, Reston, VA, August 2009.[3] T. Korman, and L. Simonian, “Using building information modeling to teach mechanical, electrical, and plumbing coordination,” in 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition (pp. 15- 1320).[4] R. Palomera-Arias, R. and R. Liu, “BIM laboratory exercises for a MEP systems course in a construction science and
of fall 2020. Eleven of the applicantsthen decided to accept the offer to enroll in the program and started activities in the Spring 2021semester. In addition, a new student joined the program mid-Spring 2021 based on the advocacyof one of the scholars to help a racially minoritized woman who was in a negative researchlaboratory environment. The director and collaborators mentored her by providing guidance onpolicies for relocating laboratories within her program. At the start of Spring 2021, faculty mentors in different departments, but still in STEMdisciplines, were assigned to eleven of the 12 students that requested external faculty mentors.In addition, monthly seminars were planned for teaching the principles of self-advocacy. A
Engineering Entrepreneurship.Bruk T Berhane (Assistant Professor of Engineering Education) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com A Literature Review On Computational & Numerical Methods in Engineering Education (Work in Progress)AbstractScholars within computing and engineering education have broadly explored howstudents understand computing-related disciplines. Existing studies have led topublications on promising practices for teaching computing, such as evidence-basedstrategies for teaching computer science principles and programming languages likeC++ and Java. However, other education research on computer-based
engagement. Bielefeldt is also a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Faculty Responsibility for Student Safety, Health, and Welfare?AbstractMany engineering codes of ethics state that engineers shall hold paramount the safety, health,and welfare of the public. As engineering educators should we extend this responsibility to ourstudents? And if so, how? Each of these three elements are distinct in some ways. Faculty areresponsible for student safety in experimental laboratory and hands-on design/build settings, forexample. Unique safety concerns may arise during study abroad
the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2003, her M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore, Singapore, in 1999, and her B. Eng. in Information and Control Engineering from the Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, in 1996. Her research interests include controls, robotics, haptics, and engineering education. Email: grace.ni@biola.eduKeith Hekman (Professor) Keith Hekman is a Professor at California Baptist University where he teaches courses on AutoCAD, Excel, SOLIDWORKS, LabVIEW, Machine Design, and Vibrations. His research has been on automated grading. Prior to teaching at CBU, he taught at Calvin College and the American University in Cairo. He received his PhD from the Georgia
, who can use this information totailor the next class towards what students struggled most on [9, 11]. When it comes to comparing student achievement between traditional teaching methodsand the Flipped Classroom method, there are some discrepancies. Some have found no statisticallysignificant differences between the two methods; however, it has been found that with a FCmethodology, there are fewer students with lower grades, and generally students obtain bettergrades when frequently attending laboratory sessions [8]. The success of FC tends to heavily rely on the course type. Courses that are more content-based, as opposed to design-based, have been found to perform better [11]. For example, when aFC method was applied to a high
courses with this new modality. Instructorsreported some resistance to change methods and as predicted, it happened.Despite having some resistance to change, in this case the instructors were opened to learningabout new teaching methods adapted to the reality and time at which the world is advancing.Whenever a new educational framework is designed, there will always be a new challenge tomeet, in this case how to adapt the laboratories to this modality. Today it is believed that the onlyway to teach the laboratory class is 100% face-to-face, but there will be a way to plan certainactivities to be done synchronously and others asynchronously.In closing, using the class as an example of the topic was pleasantly surprising. Since it was
. Golter and R. F. Richards, "Implemenation of Very Low-Cost Fluids Experiments to Facilitate Transformation in Undergraduate Engineering Classes," in 122nd ASEE Anual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, 2015.[7] G. Casella and R. L. Berger, "Reconciling Bayesian and Frequentist Evidence in the One- Sided Testing Problem," Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 82, no. 397, pp. 106-111, 1987.[8] S. S. Lan, "Participation, Class Types, and Student Performance in Blended-learning Format," in 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, 2011.[9] C. Kelly, E. Gummer, P. Harding and M. Koretsky, "Teaching Experimental Design Using Virtual Laboratories: Development, Implementation And Assessment Of The
Director of Teaching Laboratories for ECE prior to joining the Faculty as a Teaching Stream professor. He has received multiple awards on innovation, and was the first staff member to receive the Gordon R. Slemon Award for excellence in the teaching of design. Motivated by his strong interest in laboratory teaching within engineering education, he is presently completing a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Waterloo, with his research concentrating on prospective attention as applied to video instruction. In addition to his technical training and practice, he also holds a B.A. in Political Science/Int’l Relations (Calgary) and an MBA in Marketing (FGV – Brazil). He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the
Paper ID #37623WIP: Bingo! Gamification to Promote Course Community,Engagement, and Instructor Rapport in a BME CourseRachel Childers Rachel Childers, PhD is an Associate Professor of Practice at The Ohio State University. She teaches hands on courses in Biomedical Engineering including laboratory courses. Her scholarly interests are in curriculum development, DEIJ, gamification to promote learning, and cost-effective medical technologies. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com WIP: Bingo! Gamification
students visualize these concepts because of its ability to displayand manipulate virtual objects in a realistic context.We present the pedagogy, design and development, and initial course implementation of avision-based AR app to teach the architecture and working principles of the SEM. The appenables learners to “look into” the SEM and examine in 3D the different subassemblies of theSEM, visualize mechanical and electromagnetic phenomena within the SEM, and probe howthese phenomena are affected by commonly-used imaging parameters such as working distanceand magnification. This app has now been released into an undergraduate-level laboratory class(“Micro/Nano Engineering Laboratory”) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).Students
Science Foundation). Some institutions cluster these seminars into a series.Moreover, the National Science Foundation recently has invested in both developing coursework (EURO:Enhancing Undergraduate Research Opportunities, DUE# 1123068) and training faculty/staff on how toassemble pre-research coursework (DUE#1623697). These programs focused on teaching generalresearch skills to undergraduate students instead of engaging them in disciplinary research activities(Burkett, et al 2013; Schneider, et al 2016). However, most existing programs do not provide robusttraining materials for pre-research and research skills development for beginning undergraduates.While one of this paper’s coauthors attended the workshop on assembling pre-research
in 1983. Thereafter, he worked in a multinational industry for a little over three years before joining Tulane University as a graduate student in the fall of 1987. He received a master’s degree from Tulane University in 1989 and a doctoral degree from Duke University in 1992. He is a member of the 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 sensing and precision agriculture, and,(iii) biofuels and renewable energy © American Society for Engineering
by completing a carefully planned sequence of laboratory exercises and hands-oninvolvement with manufacturing processes” [6]. The facilities the proposed lab course would betaught are recommended to include a manufacturing laboratory with student-use desktop CNCmachines and a computer lab with PCs installed with Autodesk Fusion 360. Fusion 360 is cloud-based, 5-axis capable CAM software that is common in the private sector and educationally free-to-use, which makes it a natural choice to teach a computer-aided manufacturing course. Based onFigure 1. Pocket NC V2 5-axis desktop CNC Mill (left) and simulated toolpaths for a part generated in Fusion 360(right).the current market, the Pocket NC V2 (Figure 1) stands out as a suitable CNC model
Paper ID #37551Work in Progress: Reformulation of a Truss CompetitionCourse Project to Improve Educational OutcomesLuke Fredette Dr. Luke Fredette completed his Ph.D. and postdoctoral research at the Ohio State University before coming to Cedarville University as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 2020. His teaching focus is in mechanical systems and computational methods, which meshes with his research interests in vibration, noise control, and nonlinear system dynamics.Michael Kennedy Michael is a junior mechanical engineering student from Cincinnati, Ohio who is driven to solve demanding
Challenge-Based Instruction in Biomechanics Using the VANTH Internet Modules Ronald Barr1, Marcus Pandy2, Anthony Petrosino3, and Barbara Austin3 Department of Mechanical Engineering1, Department of Biomedical Engineering2, and Department of Curriculum and Instruction3 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78712 AbstractThis paper discusses the biomechanics learning modules developed as part of the VaNTHeducational coalition. The pedagogical framework for these modules is based on the widelypublicized book “How People Learn” (HPL). The HPL teaching
Paper ID #36851A Model for Student-led Development and Implementation ofa Required Graduate-level Course on History, Ethics, andIdentity in Aerospace EngineeringEmily Palmer Emily H. Palmer is a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT). Her current research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying steady state flight control in Drosophila melanogaster. She has been involved in numerous educational outreach programs throughout her undergraduate and graduate career, and holds a leadership position in the GALCIT graduate student council. She earned her M.S
tools do not provide enough feedback to the user. Ifthere are fundamental errors related to sketching linkages or to providing specifications, those arenot shared with the user. The users can extract the final results, kinematics or forces, but there isno information about the equations used in the backend. The availability of equations, for instance,will greatly help their usage in course work. If more information is available, students can improvetheir understanding of the step-by-step process taught in lectures or illustrated in technical books.During homework and laboratory activities, a student must spend a lot of time trying to manuallyverify the correctness of their work. The teaching team also experiences delay during the gradingprocess
students obtaining feedback fromlikely users, including students with and without disabilities. Students also received feedbackfrom Disabilities Services Office staff and the Social Work Department of their institutionthroughout the design process [11].Prior efforts have demonstrated the effectiveness of a teaching model in which first-yearengineering course students engaged in a two-month design project specifically focused onuniversal design (e.g., redesigning an engineering laboratory to make it more usable to all).Students were provided mentoring from the university’s disability services staff, as well asindividuals with first-hand experience of disability. Results demonstrated that students were ableto understand and apply the principles of
taught in both the Fall and Springsemesters. The students each purchase the Sparkfun Inventor's Kit 4.1 (Sparkfun, Niwot, CO)which contains an Arduino Uno style development board as well as a breadboard and anassortment of sensors, motors, and other elements. Each weekly module starts with tutorialvideos. A one hour class on Mondays reviews this material in an active-learning style, wherestudents sit in their project groups to complete exercises. Each week has a 2 hour laboratory inwhich an individual programming assignment is competed followed by a homework assignmentdue the following week. The course has 3 individual exams, the first in week 4 on Arduino C++programming, the second in week 8 on Arduino C++ programming, and the third during
, Teaching Stream)Nikita Dawe PhD Candidate, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering and Collaborative Specialization in Engineering Education, University of TorontoRubaina Khan Rubaina Khan is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests lie at the intersection of engineering design, learning communities and reflective practice. Prior, to pursuing graduate studies, Rubaina spent 10 years in autonomous marine vehicles research and, teaching robotics and design to engineering students in Singapore. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Conceptualizing First Principles
printing will be given to students enrolled in CHEG 4310 Polymer Science and Engineeringelective course. Students will build knowledge through actively making some artifacts. Theproject aims to teach students scaffolds' design and operation techniques and other creativemodels with various 3D printing platforms. The primary goal is to find the impact andeffectiveness of 3D printing on student interest, motivation, and engagement. The evaluation willbe carried out through pre- and post-surveys from the students.Elective Course: Introducing 3D PrintingPolymer Science and Engineering is a new elective course offered in Chemical Engineering. Thiscourse aims to provide a broad overview of polymer science and engineering. The emphasis is onthe structure