Paper ID #22840Effective Teamwork Dynamics in a Unit Operations Laboratory CourseDr. Erick S. Vasquez, University of Dayton Erick S. Vasquez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Dayton. Dr. Vasquez earned his B.Sc. degree in chemical engineering at Universidad Centroamericana Jose Simeon Canas (UCA) in El Salvador. He received his M.Sc. degree in chemi- cal engineering from Clemson University and his Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from Mississippi State University. His research focuses on the development and applications of nanomaterials in separation
Paper ID #23073Undergraduate Research and Curricular Redesign of IPLS Laboratory CoursesMr. Nathaniel Raymond Nunez, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Detroit Mercy,Detroit, MI 48221. Undergraduate researcher and Rebuild Scholar at the University of Detroit Mercy department of Chem- istry and Biochemistry.Dr. E. Prasad Venugopal, University of Detroit Mercy E. Prasad Venugopal is an Associate Professor of Physics in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of Detroit Mercy. His research interests include physics education research and science and technology studies. Venugopal
research interests include computer graphics, visualization, serious games, signal and image processing, and mod- eling and simulation. Dr. Shen is currently an Associate Professor of the Department of Modeling, Sim- ulation, and Visualization Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Old Dominion University. He is also affiliated with Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC). Dr. Shen is a Senior Member of IEEE. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Implementation of a 3D Interactive Mobile App for Practicing Engineering Laboratory ExperimentAbstractPerforming laboratory experiment for off-campus and distance
systems play an integral role in large-scale processes for interfacing with transducers and machinery for real time control and dataacquisition. The increasing demand to integrate SCADA systems with remote networks andInternet of Things (IoT) technologies has raised concerns for information security specialists.These systems are thought to have notable security vulnerabilities and may be subject to anincreasing number of cyber threats. In this paper/project, several students from Sam Houston StateUniversity design and deploy a SCADA laboratory to better understand these systems and theinherent security threats that go with them. The details including system infrastructure, challengesfaced during the establishment of the laboratory, student and
Paper ID #22725Work in Progress: Designing Laboratory Work for a Novel Embedded AICourseDr. Mehmet Ergezer, Wentworth Institute of Technology Mehmet Ergezer (S’06) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, USA, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He received the D.Eng. degree in artificial intelligence from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA, in May 2014. From 2003 to 2005, following his internship with U.S. Steel, he was a Graduate Assistant with Youngstown State University. In
Paper ID #22660Creating and Assessing an Upper Division Additive Manufacturing Courseand Laboratory to Enhance Undergraduate Research and InnovationDr. Patricia Ann Maloney, Texas Tech University Dr. Patricia Maloney is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Texas Tech University. Dr. Maloney has 10 years of experience as a sociologist of education and holds a master’s in education from the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on individual- and program- level assessment. She also holds a master’s in sociology, a master’s in philosophy, and a doctorate in sociology from Yale
Paper ID #23512Guided Modules Emphasizing Process-Based Troubleshooting Techniques HelpBelow-Average Performing Students Improve Instrumentation SkillsDr. Renata Fortuna Ramos, Rice University Renata Ramos is an Associate Teaching Professor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the De- partment of Bioengineering at Rice University, 6100 Main St., Houston, TX 77005: rfr1@rice.edu c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Guided Modules Emphasizing Process-Based Troubleshooting Techniques Help Below-Average Performing Students Improve Instrumentation SkillsAbstractInstrumentation laboratory
also one of the first technical courses that ECE students areexposed to. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) is a versatile and adaptable technologywith many applications ranging from medical image processing to cryptography. By combiningan FPGA course and a digital logic design course, students can learn the basics and beintroduced to new implementation tools and platforms at the same time. This paper describes anumber of academic approaches to incorporate FPGA design in digital design courses andpresents a number of laboratory experiments and tutorials that pave the path for designing asophomore-level four semester credit hour (SCH) course. The results of a survey conducted togauge student interest of such a course are included as
residency, fellowship and postdoctoral training at Harvard. Her research focuses on development of novel antimicrobials and polymeric delivery devices to treat infections with multi-drug resistant pathogens, as well as STEM and community outreach. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Paper ID #23942Dr. Robin S.L. Fuchs-Young, Texas A&M University Dr. Fuchs-Young is a Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine in the College of Medicine at Texas A&M University. The scope of her laboratory research includes studies of breast can- cer health disparities and the bio
assignments. The assignmentshave been designed based on the real life ergonomic problems in different areas ofergonomics. The students were challenged with five different assignments coveringdifferent sections of ergonomics, work design and safety. In addition, each student needsto submit a term paper or case study focusing on any specific application area ofergonomics towards the end of the semester. For each assignment, the students wereasked to study and investigate the ergonomic issues from their daily life accessories,classrooms and laboratories and offer possible solutions for the non-ergonomic designsand issues. For each assignment, the students need to prepare a report including the imageand brief description of the non-ergonomic design
employed at the end of an assignment,reflection questions encourage students to recognize what they learned, identify errors, andconsider different choices they might make in the future. Throughout an entire course, students’writings become an artifact of the changes and growth that accompany learning and provideinstructors with a rare insight into students’ learning processes.Our team is currently investigating how intermingled writing and coding can improve theprocess of learning to program. We have incorporated WTL strategies into introductorycomputer programming laboratory assignments and are comparing student work from thoselaboratories with student work from traditional laboratories. In order to minimize additionalwork for the WTL students
major types of solar PV modules: monocrystalline, polycrystalline, and thin-filmPV. Each type converts sunlight into power at a different efficiency rate, therefore, the cost varies.The power conversion efficiency of solar energy is relatively low, at an average of about 15%,according to the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).4 If modules degrade 10 – 2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Spring Conference, April 6-7, 2018 – University of the District of Columbia15% after a certain time period, PV module efficiency is considered a failure.5 The performanceof PV modules over long periods of time have been unclear, therefore, estimation of accurate netefficiency that take degradation rate into account is important. The Engineering
and Engineering Department). Her research interests include materials science, physical chemistry and non-conventional technologies for materials and process engineering. 2018 FYEE Conference: Glassboro, New Jersey Jul 25 Work in Progress: Fundamentals of Engineering Design (FED) for Chemical Engineering 1st Year UndergraduatesThis is a work-in-progress report on continuous improvement of our first-year chemicalengineering design / laboratory course. Such courses continue a tradition identified severaldecades ago of the importance of freshman engineering experiences [1, 2]. We present amodified structure of our traditional introductory course successfully running since 2006. Thiscourse, and
addition to her current positions she has held various positions at the Naval Research Lab- oratory and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Filling the Pipeline By Exciting Middle School Girls with Creative ProjectsIntroduction:Despite some progress, the gender imbalance in electrical engineering and computer science inhigher education and in industry has persisted. ASEE reported that in 2016, women made up justover 20 percent of students pursuing Bachelor’s degrees in engineering, with an even smallerpercentage of women students pursuing degrees in electrical engineering (12.7%) and computerscience (12.3%) [1]. To address
Paper ID #22711Work in Progress: Reinventing the Undergraduate Electrical EngineeringCurriculum to Address Tomorrow’s Cross-Disciplinary Global ChallengesProf. Jamie Phillips, University of Michigan Jamie Phillips is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Com- puter Science at the University of Michigan. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 1994, 1996, and 1998, respec- tively. He was with Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA, and the Rockwell Science Center, Thousand Oaks, CA
and Monitoring Test Chips through Manufacturing Processes AbstractCurrent Techniques of diagnostics use expensive laboratory equipment. These costs are leviedupon the patient. Medical costs have increased to astronomical numbers and have crippled theaccessibility to healthcare technology. Simplified miniaturized laboratory processes areconsidered ‘lab on a chip’ medical diagnostics devices. In recent years, microfluidic projectshave proved highly effective in introducing traditional engineering students (electrical,mechanical, and industrial) to clinical diagnostics and the emerging field of point-of- care (POC)tests. This senior design project consisted of students within biomedical, electrical
sessions aimed to help thestudents gain an understanding about the different fields of engineering that can be studied in orderto be part of the transportation workforce; that is, other engineering fields are related totransportation not only Civil Engineering.Hands-On Laboratory Experimental Sessions The goal of these sessions was to provide the students with a fun, interactive learningenvironment in which they can discover different aspects of transportation engineering. All of thehands-on sessions were designed so that the students were engaged in the session through buildingor conducting an experiment. The session related to building and testing a bottle rocket is oneexample of such activities (Table 1: Week 1, Friday). In this session
].In 2014, four colleges in Northern California, Cañada College, College of Marin, MontereyPeninsula College, and Skyline College collaborated to develop the Creating AlternativeLearning Strategies for Transfer Engineering Programs (CALSTEP) in order to help strengthenCalifornia community college engineering transfer programs. CALSTEP is a three-year projectfunded by the National Science Foundation through the Improving Undergraduate STEMEducation (IUSE) Program, and one of its main objectives is to develop laboratory courses thatare delivered either completely online, or with limited face-to-face interaction. The onlinelaboratory courses developed include Introduction to Engineering [4], Engineering Graphics [5],Materials Science [6], and
National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. He directs the KSU Medical Com- ponent Design Laboratory, a facility partially funded by the National Science Foundation that provides resources for the research and development of distributed medical monitoring technologies and learning tools that support biomedical contexts. His research focuses on (1) plug-and-play, point-of-care medi- cal monitoring systems that utilize interoperability standards, (2) wearable sensors and signal processing techniques for the determination of human and animal physiological status, and (3) educational tools and techniques that maximize learning and student interest. Dr. Warren is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education and
onwhich future mobile-application researchers can base the designs of their project is imperative.Hopefully, this will contribute to a greater emphasis on mobile-learning using the benefits ofmodern technologies, and eventually result in the widespread usage and implementation ofmobile-learning principles and resources in modern educational management software.The rest of this paper is organized as follows. The next section gives some backgroundinformation on educational application programs in optics and photonics, as well as the use ofsimulations in virtual laboratories. The following section describes the Optics and PhotonicsEducational App, its capabilities, and its user interface. This section also includes the link to thecode repository for
Paper ID #22642Academic Practice/Design Interventions: An Activity-Based Design Coursefor Conceptualizing Failure and Factor of SafetyMr. Nikolaos E. Vitoroulis Jr, Stevens Institute of Technology Nikolaos Vitoroulis supervises the Engineering Design Laboratories at Stevens Institute of Technology. He earned his Bachelor and Master of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens and specialized in Robotics, Mechatronics, and Manufacturing. As a member of the Innovation, Design & Entrepreneurship at Stevens (IDEaS) team, he works with the development team to update and generate engineering curriculum con- tent. His past industrial
technology at Korea Tech in 2008 and a master degree in manufacturing engineering technology at Oregon Institute of Technology in 2014. His research interests are focused on 3D printing of piezo-, pyro-, and dielelectric materials for pressure/temperature/strain sensors and energy storage. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 4D Printing of Pressure Sensors Devices for Engineering EducationAbstractThis paper elaborates on the development of laboratory project modules in the Industrialmanufacturing and systems engineering department at The University of Texas El Paso based onFour-Dimensional (4D) printing technology. These modules are aimed at introducing the studentsto interdisciplinary
students this opportunity, especially if done in an in-class orlaboratory setting. Laboratory courses give students a more hands-on approach to the conceptsand skills they are learning, making it a great time for individual and group reflection. However,if reflection is to be implemented within the laboratory setting, it is critical that the workload ofthe laboratory is not significantly increased. Adding a reflective portion to laboratory exerciseswithout revising the other activities will most likely contribute to students becoming overworked,which is detrimental to the very thing trying to be accomplished. This is discussed more later.Overall, this evolution towards making connections and reflective learning necessitates a shift inthe mindset
the Year Award from the National Society of Black Engineers.Dr. Todd Pagano, Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical Institute for the Deaf Todd Pagano is the Associate Dean for Teaching & Scholarship Excellence and Professor of Chemistry at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf (RIT/NTID) where he is responsible for oversight of NTID’s undergraduate research initiatives and has mentored over sixty Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing undergrads in his own scientific research projects. He was the founding director of the Laboratory Science Technology program at NTID; a unique degree granting program for Deaf/Hard- of-Hearing students. In this role he led the design and
Paper ID #23532Using Distinctive Student Engagement Elements in a Technical Elective CourseDr. Rambod Rayegan, Prairie View A&M University Rambod Rayegan is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department at Prairie view A & M University. He has a strong background in conducting research in building energy efficiency and renewable power generation for buildings. He served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at University of North Texas before joining PVAMU. He oversaw the research in the Zero Energy Laboratory at UNT and worked as a researcher at UNT in
Education, 2018 Enhancing Engineering Lab Report Writing Using Peer Review Assessment Rocio Alba-Flores Georgia Southern UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the educational experiences gained by incorporating a peer review componentfor evaluating formal lab reports in a Circuit Analysis Laboratory course. In this course studentsperformed ten lab experiments, from which the instructor selected two to have individual formalwritten lab reports. The instructor dedicated about one hour at the beginning of the semester to talkabout peer review and its importance. The instructor together with all students performed a mockpeer review of
Paper ID #23445Hk Maker Lab: Creating Engineering Design Courses for High School Stu-dents (Evaluation -or- Other)Dr. Aaron Kyle, Columbia University Aaron Kyle, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University. Dr. Kyle teaches a two semester series undergraduate laboratory course, bioinstrumentation and Senior Design. Senior Design is Dr. Kyle’s major teaching focus and he has worked diligently to continually enhance undergraduate design. He has taught or co-taught the BME Design class since January 2010. Dr. Kyle has spearheaded the incorporation of global health technologies into Senior
. Food and its availability is of major concern in various regions of the world,especially in the underdeveloped communities. Furthermore if the water is used downstream forfarming, there might be additional concerns. This also impacts the quality and life of aquaticcreatures (especially fish) and wildlife. The water samples are taken at various locations of theriver. They are then shipped to the college in the USA. The laboratory experiments are performedto analyze each sample at this college. The laboratory results are analyzed and conclusions aredrawn based on the data from the lab experiments.Introduction:Five total sites were considered, three sets of samples were obtained from the Shanghai tributaryof the Yangtze River from each of the
thespring semester of their final year. The course is comprised of a 2-credit-hour course lecture anda 1-credit laboratory. Before spring semester of 2017, the course followed a more traditionalstructure. Readings were assigned out of a manufacturing textbook, the manufacturing processeswere described during traditional academic lectures, and tests were proctored to assess studentlearning. The 1-credit-hour lab was used to tour five local manufacturing facilities throughoutthe semester. A comparison between the 2016 and 2017 course structure is shown in Figure 1.Figure 1: Comparative course structure between the 2016 and 2017 version of the course.During the spring 2017 semester, 14 senior-level, male mechanical engineering students wereenrolled in
Dr. Blake Everett Johnson received his doctorate in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. Dr. Johnson now works as a lecturer and lab manager in the De- partment of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois. While remaining interested and active in the field of experimental fluid mechanics, he has chosen to spend most of his professional energy on improving the teaching of thermo/fluids laboratory courses through the development of en- gaging and intellectually-stimulating laboratory exercises, as well as improving introductory mechanics education and design courses in the MechSE department.Dr. Matthew D. Goodman, University of Illinois