. Welliver Fellow, and the recipient of a 1998 White House Presidential Excellence Award for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering. He has also received numerous teaching/mentoring excellence awards. His research includes control systems, hypersonic vehicles, sustainability, low power electronic systems, and portfolio management.Dr. John H Bailey, Eastern Arizona College Dr. John H BAILEY (Jack) is the Director of the Eastern Arizona Community College METSTEP pro- gram. Jack is the engineering instructor at Eastern Arizona College. He joined Eastern’s faculty in 2006, after teaching at Prince George’s Community College, in Largo, MD. Prior to his teaching career, Jack was a Technical Director at ARINC, Inc, of Annapolis
Session 1526 Multidisciplinary Lab-Based Controls Curriculum Gregory L. Plett, David K. Schmidt University of Colorado at Colorado SpringsAbstractThis paper describes a multidisciplinary lab-based controls curriculum under development. Oneof the main focuses of the lab is that it be a multidisciplinary facility. It is shared by Electrical andComputer Engineering (ECE) and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) students. Thisarrangement allows more efficient use of space and equipment, better use of funds, andelimination of overlap among individual departmental
the training hours and mentorshipto support students in gaining internships and securing employment after graduation. Similarly,McHugh and colleagues [9] developed an on-campus internship model to increase computingstudents' employability preparedness from both the students’ and employers’ perspectives. Theauthors find that by understanding the expectations of employers and students, educators cantailor internship programs to better align with industry needs, thus enhancing students’ chancesof success in the job market. Furthermore, some studies highlight the significance of internshipsin improving computing students’ employability skills and career prospects [7], [8], [9]. Studentsalso better understand how to find and apply for internships
Division under an NSF Graduate Fellowship. More recently, she was an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California, and before that a postdoctoral instructor of design in the mechanical engineering department of the California Institute of Technology. She has been a lecturer in design at Stanford University. She is the 2006 recipient of an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. Dr. Yang’s industrial experience includes serving as Director of Design at Reactivity, a Silicon Valley software company now a part of Cisco Systems. She has done research into collaborative design tools at Apple Computer’s Advanced Technology Group and Lockheed Artificial
EngineeringEducation, 2009.[5] E.J. Nelson, R. Hotchkiss, L. Manley, O. Dzul, J. Draper. “Developing an International Study Abroad Programthat is Sustainable from both Faculty and Student Perspectives,” 2009 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June14 - 17, 2009 - Austin Convention Center. American Society for Engineering Education, 2009.[6] B. Jesiek, D. Sangam, J. Thompson, Y. Chang, D. Evangelou. “Global Engineering Attributes and AttainmentPathways: A Study of Student Perceptions,” 2009 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 14 - 17, 2009 -Austin Convention Center. American Society for Engineering Education, 2009. Page 22.420.17
the IBM Austin Texas facility as a Robotics and Automation Engineer until 1998. He joined the University of Texas at Austin in 1998 as a Research Scientist where he was the Associate Director and Program Manager of the Robotics Research Group. In 2001 he joined the faculty at the University of North Florida where he is now Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Since joining UNF he has initiated the Manufacturing Innovation Partnership program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, to foster industry-academic collaboration. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of robotics and automation, advanced manufacturing, and dynamic systems and control engineering
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 medical 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 the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.Xiongjie Dong, Kansas State UniversityTim J. Sobering
topics covered, adescription of the resource materials developed for use by the workshop participants in theirrespective classrooms, and follow-up school visits by ISU College of Engineering student-faculty teams. We conclude the paper with our thoughts on future extensions and improvementsin this program.Motivation for the project:It has been nationally recognized, and well documented, that the United States is facing alooming shortage of citizen engineers and scientists in the coming decades.1 Since the SecondWorld War, the US has relied on “technological innovation” in preserving our preeminent standin the world economy, and in ensuring our own security. The basis for this technologicalsuperiority has been our ability to train and retain
Session 2366 Integrated and Structured Project Environment in Mechatronics Education Mark A. Minor, Sanford G. Meek University of Utah Department of Mechanical Engineering 50 S. Central Campus Dr, Room 2202 Salt Lake City, UT 84112 minor@mech.utah.edu meek@mech.utah.eduAbstractThe Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah has developed a two-semester
Paper ID #44705Preparing Students to Master Hybrid and Co-Processing Methods for HighPerformance ComputingDr. Sam B Siewert, California State University, Chico Dr. Sam Siewert has a B.S. in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from University of Notre Dame and M.S., Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Colorado. He worked in the computer engineering industry for twenty-four years before starting an academic career in 2012. Dr. Siewert spent half of this time on NASA astronautics and deep space exploration programs and the next half on commercial product development for high performance networking and storage systems
Mechanics (AEM) Department at the University of MN – TwinCities / Minneapolis campus (henceforth just called the U of MN), in conjunction with NASA’sMinnesota Space Grant Consortium (MnSGC), has developed a freshman seminar entitledSpaceflight with Ballooning and offered it four times since 2008. This no-prerequisites class ispart of a suite of curricular and extracurricular aerospace activities offered by the MnSGC tocomplement the AEM undergraduate program. Students in the class of about 20 work in teamsof 4 or 5 to design, build, and test a robust near-spacecraft to take photos or video and to usesensors to collect basic atmospheric data which is saved on HOBO data loggers and on miniatureflight computers which the students solder together and
tips and techniques for field trip asprovided by a Vanderbilt University faculty experienced in taking students on field trips: Set up the field trip as a research project that includes data collection. Conduct a theoretical examination of the issue in class long before going into the field. Students should have a sense of what the field trip is going to be about before they go. At least two weeks before heading into the field, develop the rudiments of basic hypotheses. At this point the instructor gives details about the field site so that students know what to expect. In the field, focus on the things that you’ve agreed to focus on and let the other stuff be icing on the cake
Model for the Secondary-TertiaryTransition in Mathematics developed by Clark and Lovric [1],[2] is completed. The theoreticalmodel proposes that the secondary-tertiary transition in mathematics is a rite of passage [1],[2].During the transition, students may struggle due to differences in high school and collegemathematics [1],[2]. Because of this struggle, mathematics is commonly characterized as agatekeeper to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) degrees [3].Therefore, for mathematics-heavy STEM majors, such as engineering, mathematics courserequirements could inhibit STEM degree completion. By better understanding the secondary-tertiary transition in mathematics, student accessibility to college mathematics could
teaching freshman/sophomore students thefundamentals of technical writing, a skill set that is not taught in typical English or Literatureclasses in college. This work describes the pedagogical initiatives to develop those skills duringthe limited time available in such a design class by assigning team-work reports about well-known cases of mechanical engineering design. It also discusses the main difficulties offreshman/sophomore students evolving from typical narrative, fiction and “reflection” writings(which are taught to them in previous non-engineering classes) to the required content, layout,format and style of technical writings. The author also presents how his own teaching evolutionon the subject led to the pedagogical initiatives he
Institutional Research data to monitor retention and degree completion rates of targeted groups. She is currently part of an NSF-IGE award leadership team that focuses on developing and evaluating the impact of an innovative entrepreneurial training program with graduate STEM students.Dr. Stephany Santos, University of Connecticut Stephany Santos is faculty in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Connecticut, with affiliate appointments in Engineering for Human Rights and Engineering Education. She is also the Executive Director and Endowed Chair of the Vergnano Institute for Inclusion in the UConn College of Engineering. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025
- agement and Certificate/Minor in Aeronautical Engineering, and faculty advisor of the LTU SAE Aero Design Team.Robert W Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University Robert W. Fletcher joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Lawrence Techno- logical University in the summer of 2003, after several years of continuous industrial research, product development and manufacturing experience. Dr. Fletcher earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington, a Master of Engineering in Manufacturing Systems from Lawrence Technological University, in Southfield, Michigan, and the Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Chem- ical
, including faculty and staff with disabilities who teach or work in thelaboratory setting, graduate students whose research is performed in a laboratory setting,students and teachers with disabilities in the K-12 laboratory setting, and employees engaged inother workplace laboratory settings outside of academia.METHODSFaculty in chemical engineering departments across the world were surveyed todetermine the current state of accessibility in unit operations lab spaces andcourses.To assess the current state of unit operations lab space and course accessibility acrosschemical engineering departments, we developed a survey, shown in Table 1, based on theUniversity of Washington (UW) Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology(DO-IT
. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Ohio State University in 2003. Following his time as a National Research Council postdoctoral reseaProf. Nicola H. Perry, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Nicola Perry has been an assistant professor in Materials Science and Engineering at UIUC since 2018. She received her PhD degree in the same field from Northwestern University (NU) in 2009 and sub- sequently held postdoctoral positions at NU, Kyushu University (Japan), and MIT. Prior to joining the faculty at UIUC she was a World Premier Initiative assistant professor in the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research at Kyushu University and a research affiliate at MIT. Her research fo- cuses on
Paper ID #36512The Brain TrainerBala Maheswaran (Professor) Bala Maheswaran is currently a senior faculty in the College of Engineering, Northeastern University. He has contributed and authored over one hundred publications consisting of original research and education-related papers, and conference proceedings. He has over twenty years of experience in teaching at Northeastern University. He is the Chair of the Engineering Physics Division, ASEE, Chair and executive board member, ASEE NE Section; the co-chair of TASME Conference (Technological Advances in Science, Medicine and Engineering, Toronto, Canada), Academic
undergraduate students to apply their engineering skills in practical applications while earning their degree. Dr. Stagg-Williams earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1994 and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1999.Dr. Molly McVey, The University of Kansas Dr. Molly A. McVey is a post-doctoral teaching fellow at the University of Kansas School of Engineering where she works with faculty to incorporate evidence-based and student-centered teaching methods, and to research the impacts of changes made to teaching on student learning and success. Dr. McVey earned her Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kansas in 2012.Mr. Andrew David Yancey
accuracy and precision might come from the students’ wordchoice being superlatives and absolutes (e.g. “the best design to ensure”) as well as vague words(e.g. “at really high temperature”). They also documented other weakness in student writing,when compared with engineering practitioners’, as “a greater use of passive voice; a lack ofawareness of connections between ambiguous writing and unintentional liability; choppiercontent development due to the writers’ failure to follow typical information flow in English; anda much higher rate of grammar and punctuation errors” [3].While Conrad’s team used linguistics as a theoretical framework to characterize engineeringstudents’ written reports, Kelly et al. [5] have applied linguistics to analyze
fosters an active learning classroom environment where student involvement is highly encouraged. Instructional tools based in technology are heavily used in the classroom to aid the learning process for all students, to strengthen student-faculty interaction, and to improve student engagement. She is passionately involved in supporting the success of at-risk stu- dents through the development of the general engineering course and supplemental instruction sessions for introductory ECE courses.Miss Nisha Abraham, University of Texas at Austin Nisha Abraham coordinates the Supplemental Instruction program. She received her B.S. in Cell and Molecular biology from The University of Texas at Austin in 2007, her M.S. in
Paper ID #19102Assessment of Student Learning Experience in Two Exemplary EngineeringProjectsDr. Wookwon Lee, Gannon University Wookwon Lee, P.E. received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Inha University, Korea, in 1985, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the George Washington University, Washington, DC, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He is currently an associate professor and department chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Gannon University, Erie, PA. Prior to joining Gannon, he had been involved in various research and development projects in industry and
loaded term when applied to the outcomes of an engineering cornerstone course.While it is the sum total of four (or more) years of coursework that constitutes the learning ofstudents in an engineering program, the courses they take in their first year of college are able toset the tone and direction for the remainder of their studies. In discussing the importance of bothstudents and faculty to work toward larger goals instead of simply achievement of grades, thebook Why Students Resist Learning by Tolmen et al eloquently summarizes the end goal ofhigher education this way: “The industrial, social, ethical, political, environmental, and educational dilemmas that characterize the contemporary world must be met by highly educated
and three years into the project's life, we areconvinced by empirical evidence that comprehensive mentorship is probably the most powerfultool to meet our project goals, ultimately leading to increased numbers at the STEMundergraduate level.Model DevelopmentIn an effort to provide a sound, research-based foundation for Engineers of Tomorrow, theprogram faculty adapted a well known, robust model of drug and alcohol prevention known as Page 14.401.3the Social Stress Model, first mentioned in the psychosocial research by Jason and Rhodes in the1980s 13, 14. A manuscript synthesizing 35 separate research studies using the social-stress modelof
outcomes include the students being able to applythe concepts and procedures enabling them to identify, idealize and analyze mechanical forcesystems via sketches and free-body diagrams, apply 2D/3D equations of equilibrium to particleand rigid-body systems for solving problems involving trusses, frames, machines and otherstructural and mechanical systems, and to be able to find geometric and mass properties ofcollections of areas/volumes, to be able to find internal forces developed in structural members,and to be able to apply the concepts of dry friction. Altogether, the course emphasis is onunderstanding physics/mechanics concepts and being able to apply them to real-world problems.2. Background and Literature ReviewSummer classes have been
Paper ID #19346Creating a Psychological Profile of Successful First-Year Engineering Stu-dentsDr. Danielle D. Gagne, Alfred University Dr. Gagne is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Alfred University. Although her formal training is in discourse processing, her professional interests in learning and cognitive theory have provided op- portunities to serve as a consultant for classroom and program assessment across disciplines. In 2010 she served as Project Faculty for a U.S. Department of Education grant for Preparing Leaders in the Educa- tion and Training of the Next Generation of School Psychology Practitioners, and
managing their time in the classroom andare forced to use a ‘write down now, learn later’ strategy. Flipped classrooms have gainedtraction in recent years because this instructional method enables the student to begin thelearning process outside of class at their own pace (still under the guidance of the instructor),digest the material prior to class, and subsequently, use the in-class time to participate in activelearning strategies that increase engagement between faculty and students, and enhancecomprehension of the material. This study pilots a Partially Flipped Classroom (PFC)instructional model in a required geotechnical civil engineering course at UNC Charlotte toformally assess student engagement, perceptions, learning, and gains. This
at USMA. She has been an active duty Army officer since 1996, serving in a variety of tactical and operational assignments. Her research interests focus on applied statistical analysis and include Bayesian Methods for Effect Estimation, and analysis of relationships between nutrition, fitness, and obesity in the general population and the military.Ms. Susan M. Lintelmann, United States Military Academy Susan Lintelmann is Manuscripts Curator in the Special Collections Division of the USMA Library. She provides exhibits and classes in collaboration with faculty in the departments of English, History, and Geography. She also supplies reference services for local and remote researchers. Ms. Lintelmann holds a B.A. in
School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interests include creating systems for sustainable improvement in engineering education, promoting intrinsic motivation in the classroom, conceptual change and development in engi- neering students, and change in faculty beliefs about teaching and learning. He serves as the webmaster for the ASEE Educational Research and Methods Division.Ms. Nicole Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Nicole received her B.S. in Engineering Physics at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) in May 2013. She is currently working towards a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) under Professor Angus