Conference Session

Impact of COVID-19 on Design Education 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Sheng Lun (Christine) Cao, University of Calgary; Laleh Behjat P.Eng., University of Calgary

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Design in Engineering Education

isgenerally defined as “education being delivered in an online environment through the use of theinternet for teaching and learning” [6]. There are two general types of online content delivery,being synchronous (instructor teaching in real-time) or asynchronous (content is deliveredoutside pre-defined lecture times) [7]. In the Department of Electrical and Software Engineeringat the University of Calgary, both types of online content delivery are being used to teachundergraduate engineering students.This shift to online learning has caused a myriad of issues for students, including resourceintensiveness [8], limited attention span [8], and absence of traditional classroom socialization[9]. Students are reporting higher levels of perceived loneliness

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2011 North Midwest Section

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R. Nelson; J. Bumblis; C. Liu; A. Turkmen; N. Zhou; D. Olson; R. Rothaupt

prospective students and their families and to properly direct current students. Many of these were developed the first year of the program.Plan for equipment / laboratory needs When the Computer Engineering program was approved, three rooms were already dedicated for laboratory instruction in the electrical / computer areas. These labs were used for teaching ET, PE and MFGE students. Additional laboratory space and new equipment was needed for CEE courses. Planning for the laboratory expansion was initiated this year. Several pieces of new equipment (computers, oscilloscopes, function generators, etc.) were secured.Program Advisory Board formed Active involvement of an appropriate Program Advisory Board is one of the keys to

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2008 GSW

Authors

Walter W. Buchanan

alternative energy producers, as well as a staticdisplay solar panel and a second wind turbine, will be part of the public exhibit. Foranother part of the exhibit, seniors in the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (ME Lab)course built a wind turbine display complete with LED lights to show the magnitude ofthe power produced when a fan was operated at various speeds. Another team of seniorsin ME Lab instrumented wall simulations to measure the temperature drop acrossdifferent insulation materials. A similar display on the effects of window treatments(single pane, double pane, and double pane with low E) was also developed. The desiredresult of these efforts is an energy display which will educate the general public onrelevant energy issues. The display

Conference Session

Manufacturing Division Technical Session Innovative Pedagogy in Manufacturing Education

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Technological University; George Chitiyo, Tennessee Technological University; Perihan Fidan, Tennessee Technological University; Ankit Gupta, Tennessee Technological University; Seymur Hasanov, Tennessee Technological University; Allen Munyaradzi Mathende, Tennessee Technological University; Zhicheng Zhang, Tennessee Technological University

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Manufacturing

2020 and 2021 [1]. The study will present the developmentand implementation of AM techniques in the flipped classroom (FC), online/on-ground workshopformat, and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).In FC, concepts are learned out of class and the laboratories or problem-solving activities areworked out in practical settings under the supervision of the instructor or assistant [2]. Severalbenefits of FC have been reported in other fields, but not in the 3DP field. One FC study has shownthat integration of 3DP and Industry 4.0 (known as the fourth industrial revolution for the cutting-edge automation of traditional manufacturing practices using modern smart technologies) couldbe successfully implemented in multi-disciplinary engineering teaching

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Tammy Michelle McCoy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute; C. Fred Higgs III, Rice University; Illya V. Hicks, Rice University; Clayton J. Clark II, Florida A&M University; Natalie Yolanda Arnett, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering; Sylvia L. Mendez, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Valerie Martin Conley, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Molly Stuhlsatz, BSCS Science Learning

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #32994The AGEP Engineering Alliance: A Model to Advance Historically URMPostdoctoral Scholars and Early-Career Faculty in EngineeringDr. Tammy Michelle McCoy, Georgia Institute of Technology Tammy M. McCoy is the TA Development and Future Faculty Specialist for the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In this capacity, she works closely with graduate students and postdoctoral scholars interested in pursuing careers in college teaching through teaching assistant (TA) training and support, academic career development programs, and training and certification in

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2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Marvin Gayle; Danny Mangra

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Diversity

. Concerns include how instructors are able to teach at a high level andconduct quality laboratory experiments remotely. Instructors were also mindful of the socialisolation of our students and the need to create a community remotely as we isolated physically.Changes to the assessment strategies also had to evolve, from the traditional multiple-choiceexam to other effective methods.KeywordsSTEM, Remote Learning, Learning Management System [LMS], Synchronous, Asynchronous.IntroductionThe rapid transition from in person to online modality was a necessary and swift response to theglobal pandemic. For educator accustomed to in-person learning the switch was jarring. A rapidtransition offered little time to thoroughly prepare for such a move. Educators

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Aldo A. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; James I. Craig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

also active in educational research and course and curriculum development. He is a Fellow of the ASME.Dr. James I. Craig, Georgia Institute of Technology Prof. Craig has been on the faculty at Georgia Tech for more than fifty years and continues to teach as an emeritus professor and to develop classroom engagement methods and tools. His past research is in the general area of experimental structural mechanics, dynamics and structural control with applications to aerospace and earthquake engineering. He is coauthor of a textbook on structural analysis with application to aerospace structures.Dr. Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Bonnie Ferri is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer

Conference Session

Diversity and Two-year Colleges Part 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Miguel Velez-Reyes P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Ivonne Santiago P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Victor Manuel Garcia Jr., The University of Texas at El Paso; Irma Y. Torres-Catanach, The University of Texas at El Paso; Dawn M. Horton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Yajaira Mejia, The City College of New York; Dugwon Seo, Queensborough Community College; Jorge E. Gonzalez, City University of New York, City College; Joseph Barba, City University of New York, City College; Fenot Aklog, Teachers College Columbia University; Fred Moshary, City University of New York, City College; Jeff Sivils, El Paso Community College; Yasser Hassebo, The City University of New York, LaGuardia CC

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Diversity

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Two-Year College

Agency National Advisory Committee (NAC), that advises the Administrator of the EPA on environmental policy issues related to the implementation of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation. Also, she was a member of the Good Neighbor Environmental Board (GNEB) that advises the President and Congress of the United States on good neighbor practices along the U.S./Mexico border. She has received local and state teaching awards: 2014 UTEP’s CETaL Giraffe Award (for sticking her neck out); 2014 College of Engineering Instruction Award; 2014 The University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award; and the 2012 NCEES Award for students’ design of a Fire Station. She also received 2018 American

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2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

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Mohammad Abu Rafe Biswas, The University of Texas at Tyler; Aws AlShalash

Paper ID #35693Improve Technical Communication Using Scaffolding Method in MechanicalEngineering CoursesDr. Mohammad Abu Rafe Biswas, The University of Texas at Tyler Dr. Mohammad (Rafe) Biswas is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Tyler Houston Engineering Center in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His expertise and interests include process dynamics and control, fuel cell systems and thermal fluid engineering education. He has taught courses in system dynamics and control, process control, energy conversion, and thermal fluids laboratory. He also has advised and mentored several senior design

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Pedagogy 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Immanuel Edinbarough P.E., University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Jesus A. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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Engineering Technology

engineering technology at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). Prior to joining the UTB (A legacy university) faculty he was a visiting professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology and an associate professor of production engineering at the PSG College of Technology, Bharathiar University, India, where he served as the director of the Computer Vision Laboratory and National Cadet Corps – Engineering Division Director. With over 33 years of teaching and research ex- perience in manufacturing/mechanical engineering and engineering technology, he currently teaches in the areas of CAD/CAM/CIM, robotics and automation, product and process design, materials and man- ufacturing processes, machine design

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ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

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Amir Karimi P.E., The University of Texas at San Antonio; Randall D. Manteufel P.E., The University of Texas at San Antonio

be conducted on the first day of scheduledon-site visit. The TC also informed the programs that the PEVs might also request live, on-camerawalkthrough of the facilities on the first day of on-site virtual visit. The TC requested that the recordedtours should focus on facilities used for teaching, to include laboratories, examples of typicalclassrooms and faculty offices, library and computing services, and other relevant facilities. Annotatedphotographs of equipment items available in each undergraduate laboratory as discussed in the Self-Study Report will aid the lab tours. The ABET-EAC Criterion 7-Facilities8 requires that classrooms,offices, laboratories, and associated equipment must be adequate to support attainment of the

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

David A. Carlson; Clyde E. Work

... ~ Based Graphics Laboratory The Michigan Tech computer graphics laboratory consistsof an IBM 4341 computer system running under the VM operatingsystem with a variety of graphical devices for userinteraction. The main computer, housed in the AdministrationBuilding, is connected to the laboratory site which islocated in the Mechanical Engineering-Engineering MechanicsBuilding. Inp_ut and output lines are available to connectthe graphics facility with other computer facilities locateddirectly in the teaching and research laboratories. The system hardware is described in schematic form inFigure 1. Note that the system currently supports vectorrefresh (7), storage tube (5), and-alpha numeric

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ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

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Byul Hur, Texas A&M University

, TX Copyright  2021, American Society for Engineering Education 6period. In-person lecture meetings and laboratories were not possible back then. For faculty, it wasrequested to teach their courses remotely. Students had their own MSP432 Launchpad boards.However, they could not access the BH EDU kit (as shown in Figure 1) in Spring 2020. It varies bysections; however, there are up to 16 to 18 students in one laboratory section. In Spring 2020, weoffered seven laboratory sections. The total number of students in Spring 2020 was about 99. Therewere enough BH EDU kits for one laboratory section and extra BH EDU kits that are available forstudents to borrow. However, the

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Duc Hoai Tran, CSULB; Hen-Geul Yeh

and laboratory section. They weretaught through synchronous mode during fully online instruction. There was a total of 135students attending these courses with 55% average responding rate, meaning that there were 74students responding to the courses' survey.The survey's gathered data, Table I, sought to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of ourimplemented teaching approach, and provide insight into how students felt about our onlinecourses. The likert scale used in the survey was 1-6, where 1 was strongly disagreed and 6 wasstrongly agreed. The average mean scores were high suggesting that students enjoyed the onlinelearning experience.Table 1. Survey questions and descriptive analysis. Question Question Text

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

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Aaron P. Wemhoff, Villanova University

Paper ID #35273Restructuring a Pedagogical Course to Benefit Engineering Ph.D. Studentsand FacultyDr. Aaron P. Wemhoff, Villanova University Aaron Wemhoff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Villanova University. He earned his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2004, and he previously worked as a staff engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Restructuring a Pedagogical Course to Benefit Engineering Ph.D. Students and FacultyEGR 9200 Teaching

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1981 North Midwest Section

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O. Hawaleshka

- credit hours and clock time are riate to their ranks and unequal). In effect, the schools tenure? are telling teachers that run- --------- ning a lab is not teaching • • 11 11 The sad state of Philippine engineering laboratories is in part directly attributable to the lower per clock hour salary associated with it. This rule may help to make the labs

Conference Session

Continuing Professional Development Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University; Oludayo Samuel Alamu, Morgan State University; Jumoke 'Kemi' Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University; LaDawn E. Partlow, Morgan State University; Mehdi Shokouhian, Morgan State University; Kathy Ann Gullie, Gullie Consultant Services LLC; Krishna Bista; Sotonye Ikiriko, Morgan State University; Mulugeta T. Dugda, Morgan State University

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Diversity

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Continuing Professional Development

Paper ID #34004Virtual Intensive Training for Experimental Centric Pedagogy TeamMembers: Effectiveness During COVID-19 PandemicDr. Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University Dr. Oludare Owolabi, a professional engineer in Maryland, joined the Morgan State University fac- ulty in 2010. He is the assistant director of the Center for Advanced Transportation and Infrastructure Engineering Research (CATIER) at Morgan State University and the director of the Civil Engineering Undergraduate Laboratory. He has over eighteen years of experience in practicing, teaching and research in civil engineering. His academic

Conference Session

Computers in Education 9 - Technology 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Mahgol Nowparvar, Pennsylvania State University ; Xing Chen, Pennsylvania State University ; Omar Ashour, Pennsylvania State University ; Sabahattin Gokhan Ozden, Pennsylvania State University Abington; Ashkan Negahban, Pennsylvania State University

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Computers in Education

hybrid delivery methods. For example, in the simulation, learners can explorethe procedure of switching or handing off a mobile phone from one cell to another as it movesacross cell boundaries in a system of different sized cells. The student can also change theparameters (e.g., probability of blocking, traffic intensity, and number of users) and see theireffect on the simulated system. However, no assessment data are reported on the effectivenessof the simulations and virtual experiments.Biomedical engineeringIn [51], besides traditional teaching and learning methods, and laboratory activities, the authorpresents case-based and problem-based learning using browser-readable interactive 2D and 3Dobjects, animation, videos, 3D objects of real

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2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Robert F. Saunders

health of students and theirquality of work. The rebuilding of the student/university community can be accomplishedthrough well documented practices in the classroom, laboratory, and student societies. Asuniversities open it will be necessary for the instructors to play a vital role in implementing thesepractices to help students rebuild a healthy community with in the university.KeywordsCommunity, student society,IntroductionOver the last year students, instructors and university communities have seen massivedisruptions due to the coronavirus pandemic and many of the disruptions have ramifications forthe years to come. The speed with which the pandemic moved on the university communitycaused educators to move quickly into teaching in an online

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2010 North Midwest Section

Authors

Beckry Abdel-Magid

Empowering Undergraduates to Design and Conduct Experiments and Attain Outcome 3b of the ABET Engineering Criteria Beckry Abdel-Magid Department of Composite Materials Engineering, Winona State University, Winona, MN 55987. Beckry@winona.eduAbstractTwo approaches of incorporating design of experiments in an undergraduate laboratory courseare presented in this paper. The first approach consisted of a semi-structured design ofexperiment project with prescribed experimental procedure, and the second approach consistedof an open-ended design project where students had to develop, justify and execute anexperimental program. Comparison and contrast

Conference Session

First-year Programs: Computation in the First Year

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Darren K. Maczka, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Rehan Shah, University College London; Andrew L. Gillen, University College London

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First-Year Programs

AbstractIn this paper, we describe an exploratory study to support efforts in revising first-year coursesrequired for engineering students. It is common to include some form of introductoryprogramming or spreadsheet computation topics in first-year courses. The inclusions of thesetopics is ostensibly to provide foundational computational skills needed in later courses.However, there are many challenges associated with teaching and learning these skills, the leastof which is selecting which skills to include in the finite time allotted for a first-year introductorycourse that may also be tasked with teaching foundational problem solving and professionalskills. This study is the first stage towards identifying a core set of skills for inclusion that

Conference Session

Remote Instruction/COVID-19 Strategies

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sheikh Fahad Ferdous, Indiana State University; M. Affan Badar, Indiana State University; Maria Javaid, Indiana State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

, and M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University. Dr. Badar has published more than 70 articles in refereed journals and proceedings in the areas of quality, reliability, coordinate metrology, engineering economy, etc.Dr. Maria Javaid, Indiana State University Dr. Maria Javaid joined Indiana State University in August 2019 as Assistant Professor. Before coming to ISU she was Assistant Professor at Jacksonville University. She received her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Chicago in 2014, where she was nominated as an exemplary teaching assistant by her department for three consecutive years

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2008 GSW

Authors

Matthias W. Pleil

Mechanical Engineering Department University of New Mexico Thor D. Osborn Sandia National Laboratories AbstractThis paper will showcase an innovative approach to creating interest in microsystemsengineering processing and design at the community college undergraduate level. Thisproject based curriculum begins to address some of the economic competitiveness issuesraised in the recent National Academy of Sciences report “Rising Above the GatheringStorm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future,” and theNational Academy of Engineering’s “Engineer of 2020.” Common points raised includethe students

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 14

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Nicolas Ivanov, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto; Nhien Tran-Nguyen, University of Toronto; Neal Callaghan, University of Toronto; Theresa Frost, Toronto District School Board; Jose Luis Cadavid, University of Toronto; Huntley H. Chang, University of Toronto; Ileana Louise Co; Patrick Diep, University of Toronto; Guijin Li, University of Toronto; Nancy T. Li, University of Toronto; Corinna Smith, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto; Joshua Yazbeck; Locke Davenport Huyer, Johns Hopkins University; Dawn M. Kilkenny, University of Toronto

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Pre-College Engineering Education

, Undergraduate Programs (IBBME) and the Associate Chair, Foundation Years (Division of Engineering Science), she is currently the faculty advisor for the Discovery Educational Program. Dawn is a recipient of the 2017 U of T Early Career Teaching Award and was named the 2016 Wighton Fellow for excellence in development and teaching of laboratory-based courses in Canadian UG engineering programs. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Discovery: Transition of an inquiry-focused learning program to a virtual platform during the COVID-19 pandemic (Evaluation)AbstractThe shift to distance learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has presented teachers

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Curriculum and Programs

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Chen Xu, New York City College of Technology; Lili Ma, New York City College of Technology

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

adjust to the distance learning mode include: a) decomposition of the course context into three modules and clear specification of the corresponding learning objectives of each module; b) combination of different technologies to create friendly and inclusive learning environment; c) frequent assessment of students' performance via online quizzes/tests; and d) carefully- designed laboratory assignments via MATLAB simulations that are able to demonstrate the entire feedback control process. A comparison of students' performance under the traditional face-to-face learning mode and the new distance learning mode is conducted. Based on assessment results, we will evaluate the effectiveness of our current teaching methodology/plan developed

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2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Kiril Alexandrov Nikolov, The University of Texas at Tyler; Mohammad Abu Rafe Biswas, The University of Texas at Tyler; Xuan Nguyen, The University of Texas at Tyler; Victor Eduardo Ortiz, The University of Texas at Tyler

the University of Texas at Tyler in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His expertise and interests include process dynamics and control, fuel cell systems and thermal fluid engineering education. He teaches courses in system dynamics and control, process control, energy conversion, and thermal fluids laboratory at the Houston Engineering Center. He also has been advisor and mentor to several senior design project groups.Ms. Xuan Nguyen, The University of Texas at Tyler Xuan Nguyen is an undergraduate mechanical engineering student at the University of Texas at Tyler. Her interests include renewable energy, robotic, design, and automatic and HVAC systems. Also, she has a passion and interest in DIY projects

Conference Session

Undergraduate Students' Development of Computational and Programming Skills

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Bill M. Diong, Kennesaw State University; Craig A. Chin, Kennesaw State University; Sandip Das, Kennesaw State University; Ayse Tekes, Kennesaw State University; Walter Thain, Kennesaw State University

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Educational Research and Methods

- search. His research and teaching interests include engineering education, power electronic systems, advanced power and energy systems, and dynamic systems and control.Dr. Craig A. Chin, Kennesaw State University Craig A. Chin is currently an Associate Professor in the electrical engineering department at Kennesaw State University. His research interests include applying digital signal processing and machine learn- ing techniques to biomedical signals/images, and investigating innovations in engineering education to enhance student learning.Dr. Sandip Das, Kennesaw State University Sandip Das is currently an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Kennesaw State University. Dr. Das received his

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 9

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Uma Balaji, Fairfield University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #33260Service Learning Through RoboticsDr. Uma Balaji, Fairfield University Dr. Uma Balaji received her Ph. D from University of Victoria, B.C., Canada in Electrical Engineering. She was a Canadian Common Wealth Scholar. Her research focused in novel modelling techniques to de- sign components for wireless and satellite applications. Some of the components designed and fabricated by her include RF power amplifiers, antennas and filters. Another area of her research and teaching inter- est is Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC). Prior to joining Fairfield, she is a recipient of the University Grants Award

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Potpourri

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jesus A. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Immanuel Edinbarough P.E., University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

University, India, and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Bharathiar University, India. He is currently a profes- sor and director of engineering technology at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). Prior to joining the UTB (A legacy university) faculty he was a visiting professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology and an associate professor of production engineering at the PSG College of Technology, Bharathiar University, India, where he served as the director of the Computer Vision Laboratory and National Cadet Corps – Engineering Division Director. With over 33 years of teaching and research ex- perience in manufacturing/mechanical engineering and engineering technology, he currently teaches

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Hadi Kazemiroodsari, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Anuja Kamat, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Diversity

ofroad design is the geometric design that focuses on locating the road on a topographic map.Introduction to Engineering Design is a laboratory-based course for first-year students at theauthors’ university. In this course, students work on a civil engineering-related project during thesemester. In the Spring 2019 and 2020 semesters, students were introduced to geometric designby working on a road design project. Three main sections were implemented in this project. Thefirst piece was understanding of topographic map. In this piece, students were asked to select anon-flat site located in the United States. The topographic map of the selected site was printedand provided to the students. Students were asked to draft the topographic map in