discussion. Contextualizing professional developmentoutcomes by integrating them into existing gateway and professional issues courses providedsignificant improvements in student awareness (meta-cognition) of the professional world3. Forthe cases where no significant improvement was found, observations suggest that in order for theprofessional development intervention to be effective, the course format must be sufficient toadequately develop the instructional intervention strategies. Thus, to aid in this issue, “Mini”modules were developed to provide an additional means of integrating professional developmentissues into the curriculum. In this case, we anticipated the modules being used in capstone designcourses where professional development issues
Green Design Project Part 1: The Hybrid Powertrain ProjectAbstractSubjects that are separate in the curriculum, such as thermodynamics and mechanical design, areintegrated in practice, since thermal and mechanical systems must function cohesively in realmechanical systems (e.g. an air conditioner). With this in mind, we are beginning theimplementation of a novel, potentially transformative approach to integrating courseworkthrough five semesters of the core mechanical engineering curriculum.The centerpiece of this research is a long-term design/build/test project that will be developed bystudents over the course of five semesters. The project, a bench-scale hybrid powertrain, isimplemented in modules, so that parts of the
AC 2012-3370: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: INTEGRATION OF CON-CEPTUAL LEARNING THROUGHOUT THE CORE CHEMICAL ENGI-NEERING CURRICULUM YEAR 1Dr. Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is a professor of chemical engineering at Oregon State University. He currently has re- search activity in areas related to thin film materials processing and engineering education. He is inter- ested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. Koretsky is a six-time Intel Faculty Fellow and has won awards for his work in engineering education at the university and national levels.Dr. David L. Silverstein, University of
AC 2012-3423: SUSTAINCITY A INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL REALITYGAME PROMOTING ENGINEERING DESIGN IN PRE-ENGINEERINGCURRICULUMDr. Ying Tang, Rowan University Ying Tang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Northeastern University, P. R. China, in 1996 and 1998, respectively, and Ph.D. degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J., in 2001. She is currently an Associate Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rowan University. Her research interests include virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and modeling and scheduling of computer- integrated systems. Tang has led or participated in several research and education projects funded by National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of
AC 2012-3964: IMPROVING PROJECT-BASED LEARNING VIA REMOTEOPNET-BASED LAB SEQUENCE IN UNDERGRADUATE COMPUTERNETWORKING CURRICULUMDr. Jianyu Dong, California State University, Los Angeles Jianyu Dong is a professor in electrical and computer engineering at CSULA. Her area of expertise is video compression/communication, multimedia networks, QoS, etc. As the PI of the NSF CCLI Project entitled ”Enhancing undergraduate computer networking curriculum using remote project-based learn- ing,” she works closely with colleagues from computer science to redesign the network curriculum to integrate project-based and inquiry-based learning.Dr. Huiping Guo, California State University, Los Angeles Huiping Guo is currently an
AC 2012-3560: FROM DEFENSE TO DEGREE: INTEGRATING MILI-TARY VETERANS INTO ENGINEERING PROGRAMSDr. David L. Soldan, Kansas State UniversityDr. Noel N. Schulz, Kansas State UniversityDr. Don Gruenbacher, Kansas State UniversityMrs. Rekha Natarajan, Kansas State University Rekha Natarajan is an instructor in the Mathematics Department at Kansas State University, coordinating college algebra. She received her B.S. and M.A. in mathematics from Arizona State University, B.S. in secondary education from Kansas State University, and is currently a doctoral student in the Mathematics Department at KSU. Her research area is undergraduate mathematics education.Mrs. Blythe Marlow Vogt, Kansas State University Blythe Vogt joined the
(depending upon variable) a total 71 to 73 ratings could be paired across twosemesters. On average across both semesters, relative to pre instruction, students rated all areashigher at post instruction, with five variables rated significantly higher on average. Thesevariables included: (a) Encouraged to be Flexible, t(1, 72) = (-2.08), p < 0.041; (b) Encouragedto Problem Solve, t(1, 72) = (-2.08), p < 0.041; (c) Encouraged to Integrate OutsideMaterials/Knowledge, t(1, 72) = (-2.00), p < 0.049; (d) Encouraged to Use Analysis, t(1, 72) = (-2.48), p < 0.016; and (e) Can Use Synthesis, t(1, 71) = -2.22, p < 0.030 (see Table 10).In the Reactor Design (both semesters) and Mass Transfer (one semester) courses, an integrationactivity was
AC 2012-4422: USABILITY EVALUATION OF A PROBLEM SOLVINGENVIRONMENT FOR AUTOMATED SYSTEM INTEGRATION EDUCA-TION USING EYE-TRACKINGPunit Deotale, Texas A&M UniversityDr. Sheng-Jen ”Tony” Hsieh, Texas A&M University Dr. Sheng-Jen (”Tony”) Hsieh is a professor in the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Engineering Technology and the De- partment of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include engineering education, cognitive task analysis, automation, robotics and control, intelligent manufacturing system design, and micro/nano man- ufacturing. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation Laboratory at Texas A&M
University of Manitoba. After graduating with a Ph.D. from the University of Victoria in 1995, he remained in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada as a lecturer and research engineer until he accepted an Assistant Professor position in 1999 at Eastern Washington University located in Cheney, Wash., USA. In 2007, Labay was a visiting scholar at SRM University in Chennai, India. His research interests include modeling of and the development of microwave/millimeter- wave integrated circuit devices used in wireless and satellite communications.Dr. Ismail I. Orabi, University of New Haven Ismail Orabi is professor of mechanical engineering, University of New Haven. Orabi has been perform- ing research and teaching in the areas
knowledge changes, as they shifttheir focus, as their motivation changes, the map should adapt to their needs as a learner. Theideal approach would be to adapt the map according to the individual cognitive load needs thatare specific to each learner.As noted in Section 1, alleviating these limitations through the design of a proper visualizationtool that enables the viewing of a large quantity of information and personalizes informationvisualization according to the learner’s cognitive load needs will help learners integrate conceptsacross an entire course and even a curriculum, thus providing a more cohesive and flexible bodyof knowledge and will help students move towards a more adaptive expertise.3. Proposed Approach: The Adaptive Concept MapTo
field of computational materials science.Dr. Miladin Radovic, Texas A&M UniversityDr. Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University Jeffrey E. Froyd is a TEES Research Professor and the Director of Faculty Climate and Development at Texas A&M University. He served as Project Director for the Foundation Coalition, an NSF Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized their undergraduate engineering curricula, and extensively shared their results with the engineering education community. He co-created the integrated, first-year curriculum in science, engineering, and mathematics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, which was recognized in 1997 with
papers in the field of engineering technology education.Ms. Danielle Tadros, Drexel UniversityMr. Christopher Sikich, Sun Valley High School Christopher Sikich is in his sixth year as a high school biology teacher, fifth as a teacher at Sun Valley High School in Aston, Penn. Page 25.935.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Microfluidics in Engineering, Science, and Technology EducationAbstract We are integrating microfluidics laboratory experiments and projects into the EngineeringTechnology curriculum and high school science classes with the support of a Type 1 NSF
”.Engineers and non-engineers alike widely characterize engineering as a discipline whose purposeis to “solve problems”, and this is often framed as “design”1. Despite movements since at leastthe 1990’s to reform engineering education to integrate design throughout the curriculum,including during the freshman year, engineering curricula remain dominated by “linear” and “topdown” models that postpone the introduction of design. In this standard model, basic math andscience (“analysis”) courses are given during the first two years, followed by application of thisknowledge to conduct basic engineering analysis during the second and third years, andculminating in engineering design (e.g., capstone design projects) during the last year2, 3. Theinherent
played a leadership role in an effort to establish the Nuclear Engineering program at PV. He has led the efforts of procuring NASA and DOE funding for curriculum development of radiation science and engineering program at PV. He is the architect for the curriculum development of the energy engineering minor at the undergraduate level and energy engineering concen- tration at the graduate level within the Roy G. Perry College of Engineering. His research interests include characterization of radiation environment (neutrons and gamma) for fundamental materials research and space radiation effects in material and radiation shielding analysis for ground based system and space radiation environment. Aghara published a
Page 25.1251.2mechanism, four spring-type SMA actuators are required to have long stroke and a strongenough force to overcome resistance force due to deformation of small intestine. Thedeveloped actuator is integrated with clampers mimicking claws of insects and an earthworm-like locomotive mechanism is proposed. The SMA actuators can be controlled to contract andstretch by passing current through the wire. When all four SMA are actuated in the samerhythm, the capsule robot moves forward or backward. Turning capability can be achievedby actuating the left and right SMAs in the opposite rhythm. Based on the design of actuators,the capsule robot have the ability to move in 2-dimensional, moving forward and turning,which enables it to implement
AC 2012-3625: REPRESENTATION GUIDANCE WITH ABSTRACT ANDCONTEXTUALIZED REPRESENTATION: EFFECTS ON ENGINEERINGLEARNING PERFORMANCE IN TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY EDU-CATIONDr. Gamze Ozogul, Arizona State University Gamze Ozogul is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU). She received the undergraduate degree in Curriculum and Instruction in 2000 from Hacettepe University, and the M.S degree in Computer Education and Instructional Technology in 2002 from Middle East Technical University. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Technology in 2006 from ASU. She completed a Postdoctoral Research fellowship in the Department of Electrical Engineering at ASU in
AC 2012-3442: LAB-IN-A-BOX: TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGIESTO MANAGE LARGE AND NOT SO LARGE LABORATORY COURSESMs. Justeen OlingerMichael HuttonMr. Christopher Gretsch CovingtonDr. Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech Kathleen Meehan is an Associate Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engi- neering at Virginia Tech. She joined Virginia Tech in 2002 after having taught at the University of Denver (1997-1999) and West Virginia University (1999-2002). Her areas of research include optoelectronic materials and devices, optical spectroscopy, packaging for power electronic applications, and electrical engineering pedagogy.Dr. Richard Lee Clark Jr., Virginia Western Community CollegeMr. Branden McKagen
Student Affairs. He has more than 120 refereed publications in solid state electronics and is active in freshman retention, computer-aided instruction, curriculum, and academic integrity activities, as well as teaching and research. Page 25.242.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Automated Problem and Solution Generation Software for Computer-Aided Instruction in Elementary Linear Circuit AnalysisAbstractInitial progress is described on the development of a software engine capable of generating andsolving textbook-like
description language modeling. Alaraje is a Fulbright scholar. He is a member of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), a member of ASEE’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Division, a member of ASEE’s Engineering Technology Division, a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department Heads Association (ECETDHA).Prof. Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University Aleksandr Sergeyev is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Technology program in the School of Technology at Michigan Technological University. Sergeyev earned his bachelor degree in electrical engineering at Moscow
. (2001). Peer instruction: Ten years of experience and results. American Journal of Physics, 69, 970-977.13. Beichner, R., L. Bernold, E. Burniston, P. Dail, R. Felder, J. Gastineau, M. Gjertson, and J. Risley. 1999. Case study of the physics component of an integrated curriculum. Am J Phys, 67 (Suppl.): S16–S24.14. Marrs, K A., Blake, R., & Gavrin. A. (2003). Use of warm up exercises in Just in Time Teaching: Determining students’ prior knowledge and misconceptions in biology, chemistry, and physics. Journal of College Science Teaching, 32, 42-47.15. Pintrich, P. R., & Schunk, D. H. (2002). Motivation in education: Theory, research, and practice. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Merrill.16. Pajares, F. (1996). Self-efficacy beliefs
AC 2012-3380: EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS OF VIRTUAL REAL-ITY GAMES PROMOTING METACOGNITION AND PROBLEM-SOLVINGDr. Ying Tang, Rowan University Ying Tang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Northeastern University, P. R. China, in 1996 and 1998, respectively, and Ph.D degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J., in 2001. She is currently an Associate Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rowan University. Her research interests include virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and modeling and scheduling of computer- integrated systems. Tang has led or participated in several research and education projects funded by National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Transportation
set up in MacombCommunity College South Campus and the Division of Engineering Technology at Wayne StateUniversity, respectively. Prior to receiving this grant, MCC and WSU have implemented aplanning grant (DUE 0802135) to investigate automotive workforce needs, automotive educationcore competencies, existing automotive education curriculum/pedagogy and advancedautomotive future trends, and to select educational and industry partners. This paper describesthe rationale of creating an ATE center for advanced automotive technology, the finding of theplanning grant, the CAAT goals and objectives, and the center activities, including educationalmaterial collection and dissemination, a seed funding program, student summer academies, andfaculty
mechatronics courses because ituses an integrated approach using contemporary industrial motion control technology and multi-axis real world applications. Our goal is to make connections between separately taught subjectsof abstract control theory, kinematics, dynamics, electronics, programming and machine design inthe context of real world applications. Our instructional design includes active learningcomponents in the lectures and cooperative learning components for the lab modules. Table 1provides a brief listing of the curriculum modules that are under development. In the next sectionwe present details of one of the modules. Table 1. New modular curriculum Module Content 1
(SOPS), a term that describesthe multicomponent organic system that comprises a drug, nutraceutical, or medicineformulation.The workshop modules proposed for the 2012 Summer School will introduce faculty to theessential concepts of pharmaceutical engineering in a way that they can be easily integrated intothe undergraduate curricula at their home institution. This will be accomplished throughinteractive exercises where workshop participants will learn new concepts and then be engagedto explore ways to improve the courses they teach. We will use the approach that we havepracticed at Rowan University, to integrate concepts of new technologies into the traditionalundergraduate chemical engineering curriculum through laboratories/demonstrations, in
stronger technical background. Work on this project is continuing with additionalcourses at the participating universities, and with additional university partners. This additionaldata will allow the researchers to investigate whether these patterns continue to hold.IntroductionA number of studies have assessed the value of including failure case studies in the civilengineering curriculum. It has been argued that failure case studies should be integrated into theengineering curriculum, early enough in order for young professionals to connect with theproblems encountered by engineers and perhaps trigger interest, excitement, and relevance of theprofession. In other words, exposing students to factors that result to failure and disaster canhelp them
of companies, and some members also taught at several colleges/organizations offering wind technician education programs. The location for the DACUM work session was conducted at the GE plant in Tehachapi, CA. Regional DACUM profiles and materials were produced from the November 30, 2010 and December 1st and 2nd, 2010. In the Fall of 2011 and the Spring of 2012, after an intensive gap analysis between the DACUM results and the curriculum of Cerro Coso Community College, faculty at Cerro Coso College have developed a series of 23 courses that are extensively mapped to this DACUM and have been reviewed and approved by the curriculum committee. • After completing NABCEP certification through workshops
participation in thefield by shortening the time required to prepare undergraduates to engage in research.Computing and software are ubiquitous. There is a compelling need for software engineeringeducation in computer science10,11 and engineering12,13,14,15, as well as animation, biology andother disciplines in which computing plays an ever increasing role. The TAILS modeldemonstrates a technique for integrating software engineering concepts that can be used incomputing-intensive courses beyond traditional computer science programs.Alpha testing is underway on the initial version of the adversarial search/Nine Men’s Morrismodule. Work has begun on developing course materials for unification, basic and informedsearch and conceptual clustering algorithms
controls.Dr. Bowa George Tucker, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Bowa G. Tucker has a doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His disser- tation research, ”Uncovering the Civic Dimensions of Service-Learning in Higher Education,” focused on how faculty members integrate civic learning into their service-learning courses. Currently, he is a Research Fellow in the College of Engineering working on two National Science Foundation grants at UMass-Lowell (Engineering for the Common Good, and Engineering Faculty Engagement in Learning through Service). He is also an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Political Science
25.1356.10As described above, the initial development of the IMEA course at WSU was motivated by theneed to increase retention of engineering students, in particular those students who struggle withthe Calculus courses encountered near the beginning of the engineering curriculum. At theUniversity of Maryland, this philosophy was extended to high school students who are potentialapplicants to engineering programs. It is hypothesized that a number of good candidates forengineering programs may choose not to apply to or enroll in engineering programs because of alack of mathematics self-efficacy and engineering career awareness. Additionally, it is believedthat there is an additional cohort of students who choose to enroll in engineering programs
Director, Tim’s vision was realized as the laboratory came online and assumed the responsibility for supporting the instrumentation needs of research programs across all of K-State.Dr. Jason Yao, East Carolina University Jianchu (Jason) Yao received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Kansas State University in 2005. He is currently an associate professor of engineering at East Carolina University. His research inter- ests include wearable medical devices, elehealthcare, bioinstrumentation, control systems, and biosignal processing. His educational research interests are laboratory/project-driven learning and integration of re- search into undergraduate education. Yao is a member of the American Society of