Engineering Edu- cation (ASEE) and conducts research in engineering education.Darius Fieschko, University of Wisconsin - Platteville c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 PLC Training in First Year Electrical Engineering ProgramAbstractProgrammable Logic Controllers ( PLCs) have had a profound impact on industry and society atlarge. PLCs are an integral part of a wide variety of control systems, ranging from industrialmanufacturing to amusement park rides and filmmaking. Programming languages like ladderlogic allow technicians and engineers without formal programming experience to build anddebug complex automation systems much faster than if they needed to physically build arrays ofrelays and
Advanced Ground In- structor. He has been immersed in a wide range of aviation related research work, and has expertise in solving cutting-edge aviation problems, such as aviation data analytics and modeling, UAS operations, air traffic management automation, flight safety enhancement, aviation emissions assessment, and engineer- ing applications on aviation operations. He has worked closely with related industry leaders and aviation authorities, including Boeing, United Airlines, Jeppesen, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Air Traffic Management Bureau of China.Prof. Mary E. Johnson Ph.D., Purdue Polytechnic Institute Mary E. Johnson earned her BS, MS and PhD in Industrial Engineering from The University of
, online education effectively competeswith residential programs. For many disciplines, the interaction among students required fordiscussion or peer review of written work can be handled in courses through discussion boards,chat sessions, team conferences, and written assignments. Furthermore, for some courses,simulations and case studies can replace active learning sessions.[1] However, even with theadvances in online education, the challenges of most laboratory courses required on-sitelaboratory experiences because of the need for physical hardware and resources. Some of themost affected disciplines include engineering, the physical sciences and health sciences.[2][3][4] The 2020 pandemic created immediate and focused challenges that
Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work-in-Progress: A modular course on sensors, instrumentation and measurement: Supporting a diversity of learners' agency of self-direction Brian Storey, Bradley Minch, Linda Vanasupa Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringAbstractIntroductory courses in circuits can be challenging for some because it requires the learner toconnect the concept of invisible electron motion to voltage measurements. This 10-modulecourse was designed to be a fun way of learning about authentic, relatable circuit applications. Ituses the voltage divider as a basic instrumentation circuit for sensors and advances to filtering,feedback, and amplification circuits using
the instructor during the laboratory day,it appears many students gained insight by being able to generate numbers via an experimentrelated to equations previously applied only to textbook-type problems.Introduction:Laboratory experiences are common in engineering curriculum [1], and examples of realengineering tasks [2] and concepts can help student learning [3]. As stated by Feisel and Rosa[4], a typical goal of a laboratory course is to relate theory and practice. They also mention theadded benefit of students interacting with physical systems, which can be useful in a successfulengineering career where the theory must be applied. If done well, laboratories can assist inhands on skills, problem solving, and analytical thinking [5]. While
Paper ID #27729Introducing 3-D Printed Specimens to Mechanical EngineeringMr. Michael Golub, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis Michael Golub is the Academic Laboratory Supervisor for the Mechanical Engineering department at IUPUI. He is an associate faculty at the same school, and has taught at several other colleges. He has conducted research related to Arctic Electric Vehicles and 3D printed plastics and metals. He participated and advised several student academic competition teams for several years. His team won 1st place in the 2012 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge. He has two masters degrees: one M.S. in
applications in thermodynamics, assessment practices targeted at ABET accreditation, K-12 outreach programs , and measurement science and training. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Laboratory Measurement Activities in a First-Year Engineering Technology ClassAbstractPurdue Polytechnic Columbus is one of ten statewide extensions of Purdue University and islocated about an hour south of Indianapolis in an economic region dominated by manufacturing.Just less than 40% of the workforce in this 10 county region is directly employed by themanufacturing industry. The primary employer in the region is diesel-engine manufacturerCummins, Inc. but there are many others including Toyota, Honda
about the interaction possibilities and their relation to the expected learningoutcomes from their work in both remote and face-to-face laboratories. We also consider howremote laboratories can be integrated into engineering courses from the students’ viewpoint,in order to preserve the essential learning of practical skills and also to make students betterprepared for future engineering practices.This study therefore endeavours to address the following research questions through the lensof interactions in the engineering laboratory: a. Is the remotely controlled laboratory implementation appropriate for first-year engineering students? b. Can remote laboratories help in learning essential personal and professional
sustainable urbanization with ecological economics to address climate change in cities, and strives to find ways to re-imagine and redefine engineering of the future.Dr. Rahim Rezaie, University of Toronto Dr. Rahim Rezaie is a Senior Advisor and Program Coordinator at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Engineering, where he is engaged in teaching, grant writing and coordinating research projects. He has conducted post-doctoral fellowships at the Rotman School of Management and the Munk School of Global Affairs, and completed a Post Graduate Research Fellowship at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Dr. Rezaie’s expertise and research interest is in global health, with a focus on health technology innovation. He
Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Western Michigan University, and has more than 10 years industry experience in the manufacturing sector in a variety of roles including process engineering, operations management, and technical sales. His area of expertise centers on applying OR/MS and Simulation techniques to Supply Chain & Operations Management problems, and has also conducted research in the areas of Human Factors and Work Design for evaluating time and motion efficiencies of operations. Jim also holds an undergraduate IE degree and a Six Sigma Greenbelt.Mr. Brian Jeffrey Carmichael, Security Automation Systems Brian is a recent graduate of Purdue University’s Electrical Engineering Technology program. He
should we learn about “X”? Insteadof traditional preaching that “X” would probably be useful in your profession, the answerbecomes: “Because it helps you do cool things with Arduino this week.”In the context of Engineering Education, at any level from high school to college, for ElectricalEngineering (EE) and non-EE majors alike, “X” may be any of the following: Sensors andcalibration; Ohm’s law and voltage division; Current and power; Sine and square waves;Transient responses; Analog and digital signals; Sampling rate, bits, and accuracy; Controltheory; Programming; Protocols for wireless communication; Test/measurement procedures;How motors work, etc.Use of Arduino-based projects as motivators for learning is beneficial to both the student and
subject, types ofactivities, particular focus, and so on. These engineering notebooks are also known as Portfoliosor Journals in some other schools or disciplines. In one form or another, they are widely adoptedin engineering programs and courses. “Student portfolios” are recognized by ABET as anexample of data collection processes for the evaluation of Student Outcomes [1].In the “Introduction to Engineering Design” course, we had been using paper-based LabNotebooks (LN); students would employ a standard three-ring binder, and insert and organizehand-written notes, sketches, and other records of project-related work, including many pages ofprintouts of computer-generated contents. Noting the limitations of paper-based LN andpotential benefits of
Paper ID #25222A Writing in the Disciplines Approach to Technical Report Writing in Chem-ical Engineering Laboratory CoursesMs. Catherine Anne Hubka, University of New Mexico Catherine (Cat) Hubka, MFA, holds dual appointments at the University of New Mexico in the Depart- ments of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) and Department of English. For CBE, she is em- bedded in the 300 and 400 labs where she supports curriculum redesign focused on incorporating content- based writing approaches. In the Department of English, Cat teaches in the Core Writing Program where her pedagogy incorporates creative writing
Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Masters’ Degrees in Air Traffic Planning and Management, and Aerospace and Aviation Management, Ph.D. degree focused on Aviation Safety Support Systems, Avionics, and Aviation Operations from Purdue University. Chenyu is also a current FAA Certified Advanced Ground Instructor. He has been immersed in a wide range of aviation related research work, and has expertise in solving cutting-edge aviation problems, such as aviation data analytics and modeling, UAS operations, air traffic management automation, flight safety enhancement, aviation emissions assessment, and engineering applications on aviation operations. He has worked closely with related industry leaders and aviation
technology through the dedicated undergraduate (MET 4173) class as well as through the hands-on training sessions and certification (level 1 to 4) in the Endeavor Digital Manufacturing Maker Space.Dr. Brad Rowland, Oklahoma State University Dr. Rowland has extensive military experience that includes military acquisition; research and develop- ment related to test and evaluation of military equipment; management of high risk technical programs and advanced application of statistical designs. He served as the Chief Scientist for the Chemical Test Division at the Dugway Proving Ground, as well as the Director of Research for NitroLift Inc. Currently, Brad is the ENDEAVOR Operations Manager who helped design the facility
. David Edward Torello, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. David Torello graduated with his B.S. in mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently non-tenure track faculty in mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, lecturing in mechanics related disciplines and directing the A. James Clark Scholars Program.Dr. Jeffrey A. Donnell, Georgia Institute of Technology Jeffrey Donnell coordinates the Frank K. Webb Program in Professional Communication at Georgia Tech’s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Designing a Laboratory Sequence and Scaffolding an
, he earned a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2011 at the University of Virginia. His current research interests include machine learning, embedded systems, electrical power systems, and engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 BYOE: Circuit Modules for Visualizing Abstract Concepts in Introductory Electrical Engineering CoursesPresenter Information:The author welcomes the opportunity to collaborate on the development of courseware related toundergraduate laboratories for electrical and computer engineering. Design files and printedcircuit fabrication for these experimental setups are open-source and available from the author.Contact
, 3D printing, Arduino electronics, introductory programming), and the last sixweeks students work in multidisciplinary teams to design and build functional prototypes of aproduct to help society. At the end of the semester, teams create formal engineering designreports and give presentations of their functional prototypes.This work focuses on one of the technical skills aspects of the course, the Arduino-based sensorand actuator kits and related curriculum. Each student in the course purchases an Arduino starterset as the course “textbook” for individual ownership and more personalized experimentation inlearning about common engineering sensors and actuators. In parallel to the physical Arduinokits, the course recently introduced the use of
) [9],which accredits all Washington State Univeristy engineering programs, recently updated the"program outcomes" related to communication and experimentations, such as Outcome 3:"communicate effectively with a range of audiences" and Outcome 6: "analyze and interpret dataand use engineering judgement to draw conclusions", which are directly relevant to engineeringlab reports.In order to improve engineering undergraduates’ learning via lab report writing, this paperfocuses on undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants (U/GTAs). In many institutions,engineering labs are instructed with the aid of U/GTAs. Although U/GTAs have been trained asapprentices within their disciplinary fields, they are novice instructors. U/GTAs’ lab instruction
Paper ID #31005Developing best practices for teaching scientific documentation: Towarda better understand of how lab notebooks contribute toknowledge-building in engineering design and experimentation.Dr. Rick Evans, Cornell University Sociolinguist and Director of the Engineering Communications Program in the College of Engineering at Cornell UniversityProf. Jeffrey Moses, Cornell University Since 2014, an Assistant Prof. in the School of Applied & Engineering Physics, College of Engineering, Cornell University.Dr. Traci M. Nathans-Kelly, Cornell University Traci Nathans-Kelly, Ph.D., currently teaches full-time at
100 publications and holds 10 patents. His research interests are in the area of optical fiber devices with an emphasis on optical fiber based sensors.Prof. Brad L. Hutchings, Brigham Young University Brad L. Hutchings received the PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Utah in 1992. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University. In 1993, Dr. Hutchings established the Laboratory for Reconfigurable Logic at BYU and currently serves as its head. His research interests are custom computing, embedded systems, FPGA architectures, CAD, and VLSI. He has published numerous papers on FPGA-related topics and is an inventor/co
. We collected and analyzed undergraduates’ lab reportsamples (n = 18) of the first lab and the last lab in order to identify the ZPD of lab report writingin the context of three entry-level engineering lab courses. We developed and used an inclusiveassessment rubric originated from the 2014 Writing Program Administrators OutcomesStatement for First-Year Composition (WPA 3.0 outcomes) to analyze recurrent patterns ofstudents' writing 1) in disciplinary meaning-making (i.e. organizational structures, reasoning, useof sources, etc.) and 2) technical communication (i.e. writing conventions, use of multi-modaldesign and/or quality of graphs/tables, etc.). This preliminary research uses Vygotsky's ZPD toidentify the area of writing knowledge that
experiments and the data trends are clear enough thatquantitative analysis can still have intuitive outcomes.Copies of the handouts for each laboratory are available from the authors upon request.References[1] M. Chi, “Active-Constructive-Interactive: A Conceptual Framework for Differentiating Learning Activities,” Topics in Cognitive Science, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 73-105, 2009.[2] M. Abdulwahed and Z. Nagy, “Applying Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle for Laboratory Education,” J. of Engineering Education, vol. 98, no. 3, pp 283-293, 2009.[3] ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission, “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs,” Baltimore, MD, 2019.[4] J. DeBoer, C. Haney, S. Zahra Atiq, C. Smith, and D. Cox, “Hands-on engagement online
Tech, her MS degree in Biomedical Engineering from the joint program between Virginia Tech and Wake Forest University, and her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Surrey.Kyle LuthyWilliam N. CroweLindsey J. Gray, Wake Forest University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Lab every day!! Lab every day?? *&%#ing lab every day!? Examining student attitudes ina core engineering course using hands-on learning every day of class.AbstractThe author’s Control Systems and Instrumentation course is a four credit, core course combiningtopics traditionally taught across several courses including electrical theory, instrumentation,signal processing, and
Paper ID #26418How Research Informs Teaching and Learning Models: Case Studies in Build-ing Solar Cell and Bioengineering Technology in the Lab and ClassroomDr. Anas Chalah, Harvard University Dr. Anas Chalah Assistant Dean for Teaching and Learning Lecturer on Engineering Sciences Director of Lab Safety Program Harvard University John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science Pierce Hall G2A, 29 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)-495-8991 achalah@seas.harvard.eduDr. Fawwaz Habbal, Harvard University Fawwaz Habbal has served as the Executive Dean for the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
experiences are open-ended problems, progress reporting, report writing, feedback, group work, etc. Comment on particular experiences if you can.An additional prompt embedded within two of the progress reports asked students to reflect onany breakthrough or particularly memorable moments related to the successful completion oftheir first two projects (Table 2). This question was intended as an evaluative question after thefirst two projects; however, insights gained could still be used for monitoring as the studentsproceeded towards completion of the third and final project. This question was modeled uponquestions developed to elicit engineering student reflections via emotional-based prompts thatcan trigger the recall of learning moments [17
Relations (DRI)at Universidad del Valle and its Mechanical Engineering School. Here the authors express theirgratitude because this was a unique experience for all the involved parts. 8References[1] The Fulbright Specialist Program, “What is the Fulbright Specialist Program?”, 2018.[Online]: https://fulbrightspecialist.worldlearning.org/the-fulbright-specialist-program [Accessed24 - May - 2019].[2] Best Practices: A Fulbright Specialist Experience in Perugia, Italy 2015 …file:///U:/Personal/Downloads/Stephen%20Mcneil_Best%20Practices%20A%20Fulbright%20Specialist%20Experience%20in%20Perugia%20Italy.pdf[3] Experiences, Northern Star https://northernstar.info/news/fulbright-specialist-back-from
and support airworthy operation of the aircraft fuel metering, ignition, propeller, and propeller control systems components under study. 2) Students will understand and be able to apply knowledge of aviation fuels to operation of the engine and the powerplant components under study. 3) Students will be able to identify and analyze factors that potentially impact on the cost and appropriate use of aviation fuels.”The course also had the following ABET-ETAC requirements: 1) This course was part of the ABET-ETAC accredited aeronautical engineering technology program and provides evidence for student outcomes related to criterion 3, parts b. and j. The program accreditation committee
Paper ID #21967Field Investigations: An Overlooked Form of Laboratory ExperienceProf. David F. Radcliffe, Swinburne University of Technology Dr. Radcliffe’s research focuses on the nature of engineering; engineering habits of mind, how engineering knowledge is created and shared and how it is learned especially outside the classroom. Over the past 30 years, he has conducted field research on the practice of engineering design, new product development and innovation in variety of industries, in large and small firms with an emphasis on design thinking, most recently in relation to sustainability. He also studies
Paper ID #21898Using Mechatronics to Develop Self Learners and Connect the Dots in theCurriculumDr. Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel Robert Rabb is an associate professor and the Mechanical Engineering Program Director at The Citadel. He previously taught mechanical engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Military Academy and his M.S.E. and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching interests are in mechatronics, regenerative power, and multidisciplinary engineering.Dr. Nathan