Paper ID #12193Undergraduate Students’ Recognition and Development as ResearchersCourtney June Faber, Clemson University Courtney Faber is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. She holds a B.S. in Bioengi- neering from Clemson University and a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University.Dr. Lisa Benson, Clemson University Lisa Benson is an Associate Professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University, with a joint appointment in Bioengineering. Her research focuses on the
susceptible to failures. Page 24.171.10 Figure 7 – FEA Model of connection shown in Figure 3ConclusionStructural engineering is the oldest discipline in civil engineering. It is one of the most commonareas used to fulfill ABET civil engineering program accreditation criteria. Typically, studentswould take a course in steel or reinforced concrete design or a combination of both after astructural analysis course to meet this proficiency requirement. A 8-ft, 2500-lb steel connectionsculpture was designed and sponsored by AISC and its members to help students understandconnection design. While this has many practical benefits
the authors. Please avoid choosing other AEs and people who work at the same institution as one of the authors.The focus of this work is to describe an automated methodology used to assign reviewers forconference papers for the ASEE National Conference.Methodology/ResultsContextThe author of this paper was the Program Chair for the Educational Research and MethodsDivision (ERM) of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) for the 2017Annual Conference held in Columbus, OH. The Program Chair is responsible for managing thepaper process for the division, including selecting reviewers, making accept/revise/rejectdecisions, and organizing the overall program. The ERM Division received 157 draft papersneeding at least three (3
A Second Language Acquisition Toolkit for Teaching Introduction to Computing Michael R. Gardner, Nina K. Telang Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin 301 E Dean Keeton St, Austin, TX, 78712, USA E-mail: mgardner@utexas.edu, telang@ece.utexas.edu AbstractIntroduction to Computing and higher-level programming 2. Language and Computing Analogscourses are common first-year engineering curricula at the 2.1 Language Skillsuniversity level and are key in developing logical thought In
A shaft design aid for integrating basic elements of introductory machine design. Ernest W. Tollner and H.Y. Shadow Huang Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department Driftmier Engineering Center University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 AbstractMany of the concepts one learns in a two course sequence in machinery designculminates in the design of power transmission shafts and supporting elements rangingfrom various drives, supporting bearings and other supports. By the time one reaches theend of the sequence, there is little time to develop a program that can
scheduling and documentation issues. The cases chosen can be used to focus onmultiple program topics or singular issues. The legal course chosen by the author forincorporating these debates is a 400 level course where the instructor has incorporated higherlevel critical thinking challenges in accordance with the departmental and program goals. Lesscomplex case study debates may be more appropriate for lower level courses.Registering for daily or weekly news letters relating to professional industry are helpful forfinding current case studies that can be adapted to many courses in a program. In addition,reading industry journals are helpful. Engineering News Record legal postings (ENR.com),Construction Risk newsletters (ConstructionRisk.com), and the
Paper ID #42746Scaffolding Strategies for Teaching ROS 2: An Approach Using JupyterLaband iRobot™ Education’s Create® 3 RobotMiss Kathryn Lara Wujciak, Tufts University Kathryn Wujciak recently graduated from Tufts University with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and is pursuing a master’s in the same field this year. She has been a teaching assistant for multiple robotics courses throughout her time at Tufts. Kathryn is passionate about educational robotics and hopes to lower the barrier of entry for new engineers.Dr. Briana M Bouchard, Tufts University Briana Bouchard is an Assistant Teaching Professor in
specialists, or even examinees. Judgmental reviews have two guiding principles: each reviewer must be qualified for the task, and the task itself must be a systematic process. Both numerical analysis and judgmental review are important ways for writers to learn about the items they have written.”7Based on this information, the authors ‘ideally’ would like the following types of independentreviewers: Engineering Faculty Members. Engineering faculty members have the background to prove the validity of the quiz content related to the quiz learning objectives. Non-engineering Faculty Members. The non-engineering faculty members would have scientific and educational backgrounds. Their knowledge and
Paper ID #10713Flipping a Classroom: A Continual Process of RefinementProf. Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Kenneth Connor is a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering where he teaches courses on plasma physics, electromagnetics, electronics and instrumentation, electric power, and general engineering. His research involves plasma physics, electromagnetics, photonics, engineering education, diversity in the engineering workforce, and technology enhanced learning. Since joining the Rensselaer faculty in 1974, he has been continuously involved in research programs at such
they lack.”3 A common andpersistent theme in the literature on critical engineering workforce issues is the need to addressthe loss of technical expertise mainly due to retirement.4,5,6Scholarly research in engineering education rests on the ability of researchers to create field-shaping knowledge to rethink the boundaries of engineering. Re-imagining engineering andengineering education requires carefully considering the entire spectrum of education andpractice, from pre-school programs to higher education and beyond to include the study of thepractice of engineering. Studying the practice of engineering is insightful when one understandsthat research in engineering education should tackle the big question of how engineering is bestlearned
Program Director for the Engineering Educational Research Center (EERC) and the Institutional Co-leader for Pitt-CIRTL (Center for the Inte- gration of Research, Teaching, and Learning) at the University of Pittsburgh. April studied at Winthrop University, earning a BS degree in Chemistry and BA degree in Psychology in 2000. She then completed her PhD in 2007 at the University of Pittsburgh, studying oxidative stress in in vitro models of Parkinson’s disease. During her prior graduate and postdoctoral work in neurodegeneration, April mentored several undergraduate, graduate, and clinical researchers and developed new methods for imaging and tracking mitochondria from living zebrafish neurons. In her work for the
Consultant Engineer. Dr. Najafi taught at Villanova University, Pennsylvania, and was a visiting professor at George Mason University and a professor at the University of Florida, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering. He has received numerous awards, such as Fulbright scholarship, teaching awards, best paper awards, community service awards, and admission as an Eminent Engineer into Tau Beta Pi. The Florida Legislature adopted his research on passive radon-resistant new residential building construction in the HB1647 building code of Florida. Najafi is a member of numerous professional societies and has served on many committees and programs; and continuously attends and presents refereed papers at
indicates that we have achieved instructional consistency across all the lab sections.Student performance can be further improved if the course instructor explicitly relates thetheoretical principles to experiments students do in the lab..IntroductionAt our institution, every mechanical or industrial engineering major must take the introductorymaterials science course that includes a weekly lab component. The lab experiments coverstandard mechanical testing and materials characterization techniques. In all experiments exceptx-ray diffraction, students get hands-on experience in using the lab equipment and instruments.In the last seven years, our department has experienced such a significant growth in studentenrollment that many of the lab sections
Ethnic Studies. Her engineering education interests include researching the gap in performance and between white students and students of color. Her professional interests include aerospace design and manufacturing as well as space policy.Ms. Eileen W. Rossman P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Eileen Rossman has a worked in various industries for over 14 years before starting a career teaching engineering. Here industry experience includes field support for Navy Nuclear refueling with Westing- house, analysis and programming of pipeline flow solutions with Stoner Associates, and design of elevator structures and drive components with Schindler Elevator. Since 2002, Eileen has taught in the
students who have very good GPA struggle during senior capstone design. This is duemainly to the lack of system-level integrating experience. When given a real-life project,students have challenges of linking it with what they have learned from different courses inprevious years. “It seems that all the course projects we completed previously in individualcourse have nothing to do with the senior design” said one student.One of the student outcomes evaluated by ABET for engineering programs accreditation is “anability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs…”1. Among the most-favored pedagogical models to help students attaining this ability are integrated curricula2,project-based learning (PBL), problem-based learning, and
response to this need, most engineering programs containsome form of efficiency training, usually imbedded in a course such as quality control or arequired business course. An alternative to this traditional pedagogy is to recognize that studentshave an acute need not only to understand the concept of “working smarter in the right areas” butto be able to implement this concept. In keeping with the sense of creating pedagogy that isgrounded in need-based, interdisciplinary, and real-world learning, this work proposes a methodto integrate these concepts into students’ daily life. This integration gives both value andpurpose for the students to learn the material and practice it. This initial study asks thefundamental question: Do students understand
response to this need, most engineering programs containsome form of efficiency training, usually imbedded in a course such as quality control or arequired business course. An alternative to this traditional pedagogy is to recognize that studentshave an acute need not only to understand the concept of “working smarter in the right areas” butto be able to implement this concept. In keeping with the sense of creating pedagogy that isgrounded in need-based, interdisciplinary, and real-world learning, this work proposes a methodto integrate these concepts into students’ daily life. This integration gives both value andpurpose for the students to learn the material and practice it. This initial study asks thefundamental question: Do students understand
aftertreatment.Dr. Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Matusovich is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Programs in Vir- ginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 8 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using motivation and related frameworks to study student engagement in learning, recruitment and retention in engineering programs and careers
Paper ID #9778A Study of Pre-Algebra Learning in the Context of a Computer Game-MakingCourseErin Shaw, University of Southern California Erin Shaw is a Computer Scientist at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences In- stitute, a research center at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Her research focuses on modeling and assessing student knowledge in the areas of science and mathematics, experimenting with new tech- nologies for aiding assessment in distance learning, and studying computer mediated social dialogue and team collaboration in post-secondary engineering education. She received an MA in
AC 2011-2327: CURRENT TRENDS IN OSHA-AUTHORIZED CONSTRUC-TION SAFETY EDUCATIONNeil D. Opfer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Neil Opfer holds a P.D. Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MBA from Purdue Uni- versity along with a B.S. Building Theory, B.A. Economics, and B.A. Business, all from Washington State University. He has been on the faculty of the Construction Management Program College of En- gineering at University of Nevada, Las Vegas since 1989. In addition, he has extensive experience in the construction industry in various construction positions and as a construction consultant. He is a member of ASEE. He is a OSHA Authorized Construction Industry Trainer
findings presented in this paper may be used byinterested parties involved in STEM curriculum.IntroductionExperts agree that there is a growing need for cybersecurity professionals and universities across thecountry haven't caught up to the needs of the corporations. Against ever evolving cyber-threats the needto graduate students skilled in the concepts and technologies of Cybersecurity is becoming a criticalresponsibility of academic institutions in order to help preserve the sovereignty of the US and her allies.Universities are only beginning to catch up [1, 2].Security programs, security tracks and certificates in information security exist, but often these coursesare available only for computer science majors or majors in computer related
AC 2011-2209: TEACHING MECHANICS WITH MAPLERadian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.) Dr. Radian Belu is Assistant Professor within the Engineering Technology (ET) program - Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA, and Research Assistant Professor at DRI, Reno, Nevada. Before joining to the Drexel University Dr. Belu hold faculty and research positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada and United States. His research interests included power system stability, control and protection, renewable energy system analysis, assessment and design, power electronics and electric machines for wind energy conversion, radar and remote sensing, wave and turbulence simulation, mea- surement and modeling
of mechanical vibration into electrical energy (energy harvesting). A key interest of Dr. Kwuimy is the development of active tools/methods to foster and enhance the learning experience for undergraduate students and, scale down cutting edge research challenges into undergraduate topics discussions.Dr. Jeff Kastner, University of Cincinnati Dr. Jeff Kastner is an Assistant Professor Educator in the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Cincinnati. His primary responsibility is to teach freshmen engineering classes which focus on hands-on experiments, basic computer programing, problem solving, and communication skills.Dr. Yuan Chen, Center for Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, Chongqing
-time physical data, and providing best fit mitigations to impending failures and responses. At Iowa State University, Rursch is very involved in the IT-Adventures high school outreach program, serving as the Assistant Director since the program’s inception in 2007.Dr. Douglas W. Jacobson, Iowa State University Doug Jacobson is a university P=professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He is the Director the ISU Information Assurance Center, which has been rec- ognized by the National Security Agency as a charter Center of Academic Excellence for Information Assurance Education. Jacobson teaches network security and information warfare and has written a text- book on
Session XXXX A Student Centered Approach to Improving Course Quality Using Quality Function Deployment (QFD) Madara M. Ogot and Gül E. Okudan School of Engineering Design and Professional Programs The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractThe aim of this study was to develop an approach based on the QFD method to use appropriatepedagogies found in the literature, that will lead to an increase in student satisfaction with theireducation experience in a redesigned course. The key elements of the approach are to obtain andcategorize in the students’ own words
-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/medept/fame/clave/MAIN.HTM[2] FAME program web page, San Diego State University,www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/medept/cim.html[3] Shigley, Joseph E., Mischke, Charles R. Mechanical Engineering Design, 5th ed. NewYork: McGraw-Hill, 1989. Page 3.21.5JAMES S. BURNS, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director, Facility for AppliedManufacturing Enterprise at San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile DR, San Diego, CA 92182-1323jburns@mail.sdsu.edu http://rohan.sdsu.edu/course/me546/burns.html Page 3.21.6
adjunct professor for Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh, and an automation consultant for Crossroads Consulting, LLC. Brian’s consulting, teaching and research focus areas include hardware and GUI software integration primarily using LabVIEW by National Instruments and kinematic and kinetic data collection and analysis methods for human body movement characterization especially as related to normal and perturbed (slipping) gait. Dr. Moyer earned a BS in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 1993, a MS in mechanical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1996, and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 2006. Brian teaches courses in computer programming for engineers
Paper ID #6761Characteristics of Students Who Do Not Do HomeworkDr. Richard M. Bennett, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Dr. Richard Bennett is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the director of Engineer- ing Fundamentals.Prof. William Schleter, University of Tennessee, Knoxville William Schleter is a senior lecturer.Dr. Taimi Olsen, Tennessee Teaching and Learning Center Dr. Taimi Olsen is the associate director of the Tennessee Teaching and Learning Center at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and adjunct in the First Year Studies program and the UT English Department. At UT, she oversees
program is as follows:- Proceedings of the Spring 2013 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education 97Step1- Select an image from a set of brain images stored in a file. Then store the selected imagein a handler variable after displaying it on the axes. The handler variable is passed to the nextstep.Step 2- Process the selected image using Non-Separable Complex Wavelet Transform, whichincludes focusing on the part of interest in the image and process that to get the segmented imagefrom the brain Image. Then display the segmented image on other axes in
the flexibility andaccessibility to achieve the effective and efficient learning outcomes. How different are thesetwo methods of teaching, and do either prove better for the student? With these questions, we Proceedings of the Spring 2013 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education 125comparedtwo different systems in curriculum development, class activities, student support andassessment.Curriculum Development:In both traditional college campuses and online campuses, curriculum developments are alwaysongoing processes tomaintain the degree program current