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
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
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
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
... ~ 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
, 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
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
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
- 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
, 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
, 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
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
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
- 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
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
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
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
ofAerospace Engineering from a design perspective in addition to building skills necessary forsuccess in later required courses. The course met for two 50-minute lectures sessions as well as a110 minute laboratory session each week. Students in the laboratory session were split betweenexperimental facilities using for performing the experiments and computational classrooms tofacilitate data analysis and report writing. In order to enable this simultaneous approach to thelaboratory aspects of the course, four fourth-year students were employed as teaching assistantsfor the course, supported by the Lafayette College Division of Engineering. These instructionalassistant students were instrumental in being available for students seeking
economic burden on student populations. The UnitedNations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) defines OER’s as“teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside inthe public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use,adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.”, [4]. However, in 2016 astudy by Seaman & Seaman [5] found that only 9% of the overall textbook market wasrepresented by OER textbooks. Furthermore, these resources usually were found for introductorymulti section courses such as math and physics [6], while the availability of engineering upperlevel OER titles is scarce [7]. Finally, a survey by Moore
of a faculty instructor,a graduate teaching associate, and undergraduate teaching assistants. The classrooms arearranged to encourage groupwork, with students seated at four-person tables with individualcomputers and a collaborative workspace [33]. These four-person groupings extend to thelaboratory experience, where students rotate groups approximately weekly. The facultyinstructors take primary responsibility for delivery of the classroom experience, while thegraduate teaching associates develop and lead the laboratory component under the guidance ofthe instructors.The first course in the honors sequence provides instruction in problem solving, computerprogramming, engineering design, and technical communication. The classroom portion of
Paper ID #33040A Curriculum on Naval Science & Technology for a Midwestern UniversityDr. James Buchholz, University of Iowa James Buchholz is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Iowa. He received the Bachelors and Masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University. He teaches courses in fluid mechanics and conducts research in unsteady aerodynamics and hydrodynamics.Dr. Jae-Eun Russell, University of Iowa Dr. Russell serves as the Director of Research & Analytics Office of
Creating a Minor in Materials for Engineering Technology StudentsAbstractPurdue University Fort Wayne is located near a concentration of manufacturing industries,including automotive parts manufacturers, orthopedic implant manufacturers, medical toolmanufacturers, copper wire mills, and steel minimills. Knowledge of engineering materials iscritical for engineers working in these industries, so in 2015 the university's chancellor becameinterested in starting a materials program. Academic departments were asked to provideinformation and recommendations. As a metallurgist, I prepared a short report outlining fivepossible programs which could be created to satisfy industry's needs: ● A certificate program for materials laboratory technicians
Paper ID #34063Work in Progress: Development of a Virtual Introduction to Machining andManufacturing for BME ApplicationsEmily Moreno, University of California, Davis Emily Moreno is currently a Biomedical Engineering (BME) M.S. student at the University of California, Davis. Her thesis work deals with understanding the mechanisms involved with atherogenesis. Emily has been a teaching assistant for the ”Introduction to Manufacturing” course for BME undergraduate seniors for two years; the last year being taught virtually. She received her B.S. in Bioengineering at UC San Diego and aims to go into the medical device
Conference and Exposition. 2007.[6] S. Ates, and E. Cataloglu. "The effects of students' cognitive styles on conceptual understandings and problem-solving skills in introductory mechanics." Research in Science & Technological Education 25(2). 167-178, 2007.[7] Y. Turkan, R. Radkowski, A. Karabulut-Ilgu, A.H. Behzadan, and A. Chen. “Mobile augmented reality for teaching structural analysis”. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 34, 90-100, 2017.[8] K. Altmeyer, S. Kapp, M. Thees, S. Malone, J. Kuhn, and R. Brünken. “The use of augmented reality to foster conceptual knowledge acquisition in STEM laboratory courses—Theoretical background and empirical results”. British Journal of Educational Technology, 51(3), 611-628, 2020.[9] Y. Ohta, and