REVIEW ON FLIPPED CLASSROOM MODELThe flipped classroom model was developed over a twenty-five year period, matching innovationwith available technology, beginning with Dr. Eric Mazur’s Essence of Physics, a 1991HyperCard program for Macintosh computers.18 The introduction of mainstream access topersonal computers and the Internet in the late 1990s and early 2000s brought additionalinnovations in developing the association between student-centered instruction and educationaltechnology. In 2000, Baker19 advocated the application of online instructional programs to freeclassroom time for collaborative learning and a shift in classroom pedagogy from teacher-ledinstruction to a student-centered model.Learning Catalytics was first launched in 2011 to
method.Students gain experience in use of the method and can apply learned principles to optimizeoperation of other engineering equipment. Final results of this study does identify favoredpacking material and in what direction the optimum will reside for conditions of temperatureand scrubber liquor caustic concentration.Introduction. Evolutionary Operation (EVOP) is a statistical method developed forincrementally moving a dynamic process in the direction of some optimum operational point.The EVOP method [1] was introduced in the late 1950's as a field application technique forimprovement of existing industrial processes. In the University of Kentucky ChemicalEngineering undergraduate laboratory, students operate a carbon dioxide scrubber to gaintraining
programs aboutthe appropriate education in this area for industrial engineering students at the undergraduate andgraduate levels.IntroductionFraser and Gosavi9 examined the nature of ―systems engineering‖ and described six meanings ofthe phrase ―systems engineering:‖ 1. The INCOSE definition. ―Systems Engineering is an interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems. It focuses on defining customer needs and required functionality early in the development cycle, documenting requirements, then proceeding with design synthesis and system validation while Page 25.1230.2 considering
around applying what they had been learning. The story of Pamillustrated the difference she saw between the theory of her classes and the application she didin her internship. Participants also tied their current competency beliefs to how they expectedthey would do on future engineering practices, which helped them identify their specific needs[6], [48]. To design engineering curriculum that supports identity development across an entireundergraduate program, understanding the variance in students’ competency needs isnecessary to create temporally relevant opportunities for students to learn and apply.6 ImplicationsThe competency-oriented themes presented in this paper shed light on how students thinkabout their engineering identity development
UDC in May 2012 after receiving her Ph.D. in Computer Science from The URui Kang, Georgia College & State University Rui Kang is Professor of Secondary Education (6-12) of Georgia College & State University (GCSU). She teaches graduate courses in numerous areas, including math pedagogy, assessment, educational research, and learner development. She holds two Ph.D. degrees, in Curriculum and Instruction from Texas A&M University (2007) and in Mathematics Education from the University of Georgia (2022). Her scholarship focuses on mathematics teaching and learning, STEM education, and teacher preparation and professional development. Her 20+ publications include articles that appear in journals such as
Making it real: oral communication skill development for undergraduates Michael R. Penn University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Platteville, WI 53818IntroductionEffective communication is paramount to being a successful engineer. Historically, employershave rated communication skills as a highly desired attribute of new graduates (Nguyen, 1998;Riemer, 2002), and have rated the skills of new graduates as deficient. Many universities re-quire that students complete a course in public speaking. Such courses give students presenta-tion experience, typically in a traditional
2017 ASEE International Forum:Columbus , Ohio Jun 28 Paper ID #20727Open source in STEM program for effective learning in developing nationsDr. Simon Obeid, DeVry University, Orlando Dr. Simon Obeid is a full-time faculty in the College of Engineering & Information Sciences at DeVry University in Orlando, Florida. He is also serving the Department Chair of the College of Engineering & Information at DeVry Orlando. He was the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering & Information in Columbus, Ohio. He holds Masters and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the
Using Technology to Develop Ethical Choice in Engineering Students Roman Taraban, Ph.D. & William M. Marcy, Ph.D., P.E. Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409 U.S.A. E-mail: roman.taraban@ttu.edu Abstract students, to exploit current technology in creative This paper describes the interactive technology that we ways, and to raise the visibility of supportinghave added to an undergraduate course titled “Engineering institutions in promoting the development of ethicalEthics
widely [2], [3]. The shift, over the last few decades, to morepracticed-based experiences through project-based learning (PBL) has resulted in a number ofpositive learning outcomes [1]. However, there is still a call for more practice-based experiencesthroughout the curriculum [4]. Instead of focusing on packing more into engineering curriculum,we explore the idea of leveraging the many design experiences students are already engaging inby advocating for the development of a “bridging language”.Students are already engaging in a breadth of design experiences throughout their lifetime.Engineering students engage in a number of formal design education experiences - such ascornerstone and capstone classes or design electives - throughout
Learning ActivitiesAbstractActive learning hands-on activities improve students’ learning. More active learning tools,approaches and activities for the engineering curriculum are critical for the education of thenext generation of engineers. A new methodology specifically aimed at the creation of hands-on active learning products (ALPs) has been developed and is described in detail withexamples. Methodology provides guidance for a more effective and efficient developmentprocess. Educational theory forms a solid basis for this methodology. A set of activities basedon the methodology for implementation in a mechanics of materials class is described.Preliminary evaluation results for the ALPs from the US Air Force Academy and AustinCommunity College
Cousins in theNCSU Office of Student Conduct has been a valuable resource in developing andcommunicating the ethical scenarios. Information literacy skills were well illustrated by HonoraEskridge and David Zwicky of the College of Textiles Library at NCSU. Page 15.987.17References(1) J. Keith, D. Silverstein, and D. Visco, “Ideas to Consider for New Chemical Engineering Educators, Part 1:Courses Offered Earlier in the Curriculum,” Chem. Eng. Ed.,43(3), 207 (Summer 2009).(2) K. A. Solen and J. N. Harb, “An Introductory Course for First-Year Students,” Chem. Eng. Ed., 32(1), 52 (1998).(3) S. C. Roberts, “A Successful ‘Introduction to ChE’ First
Development of the Persistence in Engineering (PIE) Survey Instrument Ozgur Eris, Helen Chen, Tori Bailey, Kimarie Engerman Heidi G. Loshbaugh, Ashley Griffin, Gary Lichtenstein, Angela Cole Stanford University/ Stanford University/ Stanford University/ Howard University/Colorado School of Mines/Howard University/ Stanford University/Howard UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the design, development, and validation of the Persistence in Engineering(PIE) survey instrument. The purpose of the survey is to identify and characterize thefundamental factors that influence
. Learner-centered assessment on college campuses: Shifting the focus from teaching to learning. Boston: Allyn and Bacon (2000).5. Allen, D. E., Duch, B. J., and Groh, S. E. The Power of Problem-Based Learning in Teaching Introductory Science Courses. pp. 43-52.6. Woods, D. R., Felder, R. M., Rugarcia, A., and Stice, J. E. The Future of Engineering Education 3. Developing Critical Skills, Chem. Eng. Ed., 34(2), 108-117 (2000).7. Jiles, D., Huba, M., & Others. Vertically Integrated Design Curriculum. Unpublished document. NSF CRCD Project , Material Sciences and Engineering, Iowa State University (2000).8. Woods, D. R. Problem-Based Learning: How to Gain the Most from PBL. Waterdown: D. R. Woods, 1994 (distributed notes from McMaster
solution of a problem where no solution existed before. Thus, cost is irrelevant. Examples ofunconstrained design include the steam engine, airplane, and many drugs. The fuel celllocomotive project involves all three types of design: the project itself qualifies as unconstraineddesign, development of lower cost fuel cells requires loosely constrained design at several levels,and staying within budget requires constrained design.Relationship of Educational Goals to Engineering EducationThe educational goals outlined above correspond well with those of the American Society ofEngineering Education (ASEE) [4]. Of the 15 action items in that report the fuel cell projectrelates to 4. The most important of these, reexamination of curriculum includes 12
AC 2012-3945: DEVELOPMENT OF A VIRTUAL TEACHING ASSISTANTSYSTEM APPLYING AGILE METHODOLOGYDr. Pablo Biswas, Texas A&M International UniversityDr. Runchang Lin, Texas A&M International University Runchang Lin received a Ph.D. in mathematics and a M.A. in statistics from Wayne State University, De- troit, Mich., and a M.S. in computational mathematics and a B.S. in mathematics from Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He is an Associate Professor of mathematics at Texas A&M International University, Laredo, Texas, and has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., in spring 2009. Lin’s research interest is in numerical analysis and applied mathematics. He has published
Session 3261 Integration of Liberal Arts, Management, and Technical Skills for Professional Development Vijay K. Arora Wilkes UniversityIntroductionIn the global era of planet Earth moving into trade blocks and multinational organizations, thereis a need for Renaissance Engineers—able to integrate science, humanities, and managementconcepts. This need is creating a paradigm shift to teach design process to solve any problem—engineering or non-engineering—as opposed to learning specific solutions to a specific set ofproblems. Design is a process
A New Engineering Program’s Needs, Development, Implementation and Assessment Results Mohammad Amin National University, San Diego, California mamin@nu.eduAbstractBrowsing on the web, shopping online, sending messages, checking email, playing games,sending multimedia data, and paging are routine activities. Some of these activities are nowpossible through a mobile phone which has embedded itself in society faster than anycommunication system in history. Almost everyone agrees that the applications of wirelesscommunications in different areas, e.g. laptops, home automation, public safety, e-business
otherwise become discouraged while taking the traditional physics,calculus, and chemistry prerequisites.1,2,3The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Montana State University(MSU) has developed and implemented a new laboratory experience in EE 101, our requiredfreshman-level introductory course, as part of an ongoing course and curriculum evaluationprocess. Students in EE 101 now work on a custom autonomous robot kit, assembling theelectronics and chassis components step-by-step with soldering irons and hand tools, whilegaining an understanding of basic laboratory instruments, measurement procedures, and circuitconcepts. The students learn to work both independently and with a partner to complete theassembly, measurement, and
invaluable teaching andrecruiting tool.First while the current vehicle has deficiencies that will keep it from ever becoming acompetitive competition vehicle it is still a valuable research vehicle. We intend to instrumentthe vehicle to collect valuable data on efficiencies and other characteristics that need to beinvestigated. In particular we are still not happy with the recharging algorithm that controls thegasoline engine throttle and thus both battery charge level and fuel efficiency.Second to make the mini-baja hybrid project a viable long-term research area we must prove thetechnology can compete with the SAE specification vehicles. To that end we intend to develop anew vehicle from the ground up. We will start in the winter semester of 2007
AC 2009-2191: DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF IMPACT (ACCELERATION)SENSORS AS CLASS PROJECTS IN A MEMS COURSEMustafa Guvench, University of Southern Maine Dr. Mustafa G. Guvench received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics from Case Western Reserve University. He is currently a full professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern Maine. Prior to joining U.S.M. he served on the faculties of the University of Pittsburgh and M.E.T.U., Ankara, Turkey. His research interests and publications span the field of microelectronics including I.C. design, MEMS and semiconductor technology and its application in sensor development, finite element and analytical
Directors of Engineering Without Borders - USA. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 A New Framework for Student-Led Cocurricular Design ProjectsAbstractThis report describes an academic framework to introduce student-led extracurricular engineeringdesign projects to an undergraduate curriculum. Typically, student-led projects are limitedexclusively to the domain of extracurricular groups with only a few examples of universitiesassigning academic credit value to this work. Over the past four years, the Harvard School ofEngineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has designed and implemented a structure in whichstudents who participate in the Harvard chapter’s Engineers Without Borders USA projects
most popular deep learning architectures, isthe only deep learning algorithm we use without the necessity of unsupervised pre-training.Namely, we can directly feed our raw data into the network. Because the neural network withseveral full-connected layers is not practical for training when initialized randomly, the CNNstructure we develop in this study is based on LeCun’s model: a fully-connected layer followedby several convolutional layers and subsampling layers, and each layer has a topographicstructure.The algorithm begins by extracting random sub-patches from the ROIs mentioned above, withthe size of the sub-patches referred to as the “receptive field size.” In each layer, the neuron isassociated with a fixed two-dimensional position, and
ComputerEngineering in fall, 2003. This Computer Engineering program offers a balancedcurriculum in both software and hardware; there are seven quarter courses in digitalhardware, and seven courses in software. These courses are taught in a traditional way;the interaction and trade-off between hardware and software design is hardly covered inany computer engineering courses. The faculty members have been trying for severalyears to integrate hardware with software courses.The ECE faculty members have been working with the managers and engineers of theDepartment Industrial Advisory Council to update our curriculum. With theirencouragement, we started to teach hardware-design language and digital design based onField Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) in our
wasdecided that more aggressive support should be developed, aimed at specific courses thatare known to be historically difficult for engineering students. Surprisingly, wediscovered that Calc I was not one of those courses as the success rate of Calc I is ratherhigh. Further analysis showed that only a minority of students in Calc I are beginningtheir college career, hence the high attrition often seen in the pre-calculus anddevelopmental algebra courses.Supplemental Instruction and MathematicsThe Supplemental Instruction (SI) model has proven to be successful in many settings,particularly for at-risk students in gate-keeper courses 3,4. Surprisingly, this model hasnot been widely used in developmental mathematics courses as noted by Wright5. One
nanotechnology. The program is designed to cater to incomingstudents with diverse backgrounds, to prepare the students for new challenges in theworkplace, and to provide a curriculum with strong multidisciplinary foundation that canevolve with changing technology. The new curriculum consists of a set of core coursesand several focus research areas. It provides students with extensive hands-onexperience, a comprehensive experience in teamwork and technical communication, andthe opportunity to exercise and develop their creativity and innovation.I. IntroductionThe integration of entire systems into micron scale devices and the sensing technology tointerface these devices to the real world is and will be core disciplines required for nextgeneration
calculations needed.1 FEArequires an extremely large number of calculations to solve and is only practical today due tomodern advances in computer speed and capacity. In the 1970’s, general purpose finite elementsoftware was developed due to the increasing availability and power of digital computers.Digital computers in the form of mainframe computers provided an efficient tool to performfinite element calculations. Since then, computer hardware has rapidly increased in speed and Page 11.264.2storage capacity and the FEA software has gained better interfaces, pre and post processing ofthe data and improved graphics.2Since the early days of FEA, there
analysis, and quality assurance. Machined metals, 3D-printed plastics, andsemiconductor materials for solar cells in various stages of production provide interesting andinformative case studies for surface characterization. We have developed a suite of laboratorymodules for surface characterization using stylus profilometry, depth gauge measurements, laserand LED light scattering, image processing, thermal imaging with infrared cameras, atomic forcemicroscopy, and white light interferometry. Students learn the metrology and parameterizationof surfaces, the techniques to measure and characterize surfaces, the advantages anddisadvantages of various methods with regard to accuracy, information content, cost, time,contact vs non-contact, and localized
, troubleshooting, and running the APPproject. As depicted in Figure 6, the project planning process started with developing a workbreakdown structure (WBS) method, in which the project was broken down into its five majorcomponents. These components were then subdivided into various subcomponents withassociated activities. The WBS method was used to ensure that all activities were identified andincluded and that these activities could be completed in the proper sequence. Page 13.1057.9 PROJECT Robot Sensors PLC Feeder Conveyor Teach the Attach to Program
manufacturing machinery and machinecomponent design. The second course in the sequence, ME404, is dedicated to learning andapplying the design process. ME404 covers the process from gathering customer requirementsto creating and implementing a test plan to ensure the product successfully meets thoserequirements. The students work through an in-class example based on an illumination deviceand develop their own solution to a storage container out of class. They are required to producea prototype of their container using skills from ME403. The final course, ME496, is dedicated toa senior group capstone project that the student selects. This course allows the student to applythe design process to a more complex problem and relies heavily on the
Paper ID #9589An Experience with Electronic Laboratory Notebooks in Real-World, Client-Based BME Design CoursesDr. John P Puccinelli, University of Wisconsin, Madison Dr. Puccinelli is an Associate Faculty Associate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He began here as student near the start of the UW-BME program and earned his BS, MS, and PhD in BME. He is interested in hands-on instruction – teaching and developing courses related to biomaterials and tissue engineering, as well as design. He was awarded the BMES Student Chapter Teaching Award in 2011 and 2013 and the Polygon Outstanding BME Instructor Award in