facilitate participation of a larger, more diverse student base.• Disseminate research products and findings to the broader engineering education community.II. MotivationA. The Lecture/Laboratory DisconnectIn curricula that teach EE concepts, hands-on laboratories that accompany circuit theory, signals& systems, and digital design courses are often scheduled separately, partly because textbooksoften adopt a written-work and software paradigm. Additionally, organizing students and topicsin laboratory-only environments is more efficient than interspersing hands-on assignments withlectures, so unless lecture and laboratory courses are paired, laboratories can be separated in timefrom their corresponding lecture material, making it difficult for
Paper ID #35228Teaching an Engineering Lab Through Hybrid InstructionProf. Shamim Mirza, California State University at Long Beach Dr. Shamim Mirza has been teaching at the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, CSULB, since Fall 2013. He is teaching several courses including materials labs. His research interest is in the field of nanotechnology, especially, polymers and nanomaterials (e.g., carbon nanotubes, graphene, organic/inorganic nanoparticles, bio-sensors). Dr. Mirza was the PI of several government SBIR/STTR projects including NASA, DoD, and NIH. American
creating two new courses for theFall 2000 semester – a new four credit hour course called Introduction to Engineering and a onecredit hour Engineering Seminar. The content of the new Introduction to Engineering coursefocused on learning the engineering design process and some of the tools (such as graphics,CAD, and various computer packages) needed to support that design process. This course wasdesigned with a significant portion of its content devoted to hands on exposure to engineeringdesign. The students experienced the entire design process twice during the Fall semester usingRoboLab by LEGO-DACTA as a platform to solve engineering problems. In the one credithour Engineering Seminar, students learned strategies needed to be a successful
applicationexists. This paper explores integrating VT software like Revit models and VR programs (SentioVR, Resolve, Arkio) to improve learning outcomes. By combining advanced tools such as Revitmodels, Sentio VR, Resolve, Arkio, and more, students can gain a deeper understanding ofcomplex engineering concepts, apply theoretical knowledge in practical scenarios, and improvetheir problem-solving skills.The use of personalized learning experiences and feedback provided by Artificial Intelligence (AI)technology further enhances student engagement and maximizes their potential in civilengineering. The paper focuses on VR's use in upper-level courses, allowing students to interactwith 3D models in simulated real-world scenarios, providing crucial hands-on
hybrid vehicle configurations and comparison with hybrid electric vehicle.”[21] Tvrdić, Vjekoslav & Podrug, S. & Jelaska, Damir & Perkušić, Milan. (2018). “Model of a hydraulic hybrid vehicle with regenerative suspensions.”[22] Yu, Miao & Xu, Xinquan & Wu, Chuanhai & Li, Shanqiang & Li, Mingxia & Chen, Haifeng. (2021).” Research on the Prediction Model of the Friction Coefficient of Asphalt Pavement Based on Tire-Pavement Coupling.” Advances in Materials Science and Engineering. 2021.[23] Warguła, Łukasz & Wieczorek, Bartosz & Kukla, Mateusz. (2019). “The determination of the rolling resistance coefficient of objects equipped with the wheels and suspension system
. (Iowa State University 2000), all in civil engineering. He has been on the faculty of the de- partment of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at Iowa State University of Science and Technology since 2001, and currently holds the rank of Associate Professor and is the holder of the Weg- ner Professorship. Dr. White is the Director of Earthworks Engineering Research Center at Iowa State University and is in charge of the Iowa State University Geotechnical Mobile Laboratory. Dr. White has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in introduction to soil engineering, foundation analysis and design, experimental testing, soil behavior, and soil stabilization and compaction. Dr. White has research interests
AC 2008-1503: TEACHING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) TODESIGN ENGINEERSJunling Hu, University of Bridgeport Junling Hu is an assistant professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Bridgeport, CT. She teaches courses in the fields of CFD, Thermofluid science, thermal management of electronics, welding engineering, and materials science. Her research area is CFD, transport phenomena in welding processes, and thermal management of electronics. Contact: jjhu@bridgeport.eduLinfeng Zhang, University of Bridgeport Linfeng Zhang is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Bridgeport, He teaches in the areas of
educational objectives and outcomes and to educategraduates that are well-rounded to enter the profession or to pursue graduate studies. This isachieved through a well-balanced set of courses to ensure the strength needed in basic scienceand engineering, basic architectural engineering, hands-on experience through laboratory andprojects, humanities and social sciences, senior level architectural engineering professionalexperience and major design experience through senior-level courses and the capstone designcourse. The courses required are versatile. Each course has a set of objectives that focuses onlearning the materials needed to ensure the level of competency required from students. TheProgram outcomes are listed in each course descriptions; and
Riverside High School 18 8 Lemon Battery/Viscosity/Egg Drop 2015 InTech 15 12 Egg Drop* The Boy Scouts’ Engineering Day and Tech International’s Science Fair were not run as atypical lesson plan but instead as a station.After the lesson and hands-on activity, the ambassadors distribute an evaluation to collectfeedback from the middle and high school visits. In figure 5 below, the collected results from thefall 2016 visit to Lincoln High School and both visits to Riverside High School. It is clear thatthe students learned something about engineering in a fun, non-threatening, and interactive waywhich was the goal. The students consistently express that the ambassadors are well preparedand
class. This set ofproblems must be solved prior to homework assignments as an additional way forstudents to learn the material. The author also solves selected problems in the classroom,stimulating students to interact with the author on the right path to the solution.3.2) Use of examples related to their fieldDiscuss real-world applications that are straightforward extensions of fundamental ideas.Show students why electrical engineering is relevant to their careers, and involve them inlecture demonstrations. Emphasize “transferable skills” and their relevance to futurecareers: robotics, information system management. The use of examples relatingelectronics to their field, for instance, a mapping correlating the electrical circuit of
Paper ID #14501Performance of Engineering and Engineering Technology Scholars in the Trans-fer Pipeline ProgramDr. Surendra K. Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) ”Vinnie” Gupta is a professor of mechanical engineering, and a member of the graduate faculty of ma- terials science and engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, NY. He is a recipient of the 2014 Robert G. Quinn Award from ASEE, and the 2000 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching. At RIT, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in applied mechanics, computational techniques, and materials science.Dr. James E Moon
School of Engineeringand Applied Science. Initially, the MITE program was intended to serve as a preparation andrecruitment program for first-generation college students and minority groups in engineering,defined as: women, African-Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans. In 2002, the programwas renamed the Introduction to Engineering, reflecting a conscious decision to make theprogram more overtly inclusive of all demographic groups. The OMP continued to run theprogram and was officially renamed the Center for Diversity in Engineering (CDE) in 2004. Inaddition, in 2003, a new emphasis on hands-on engineering was introduced and material frominteractive engineering teaching kits was incorporated into the ITE program. This included theadoption
Paper ID #21694Developing Engineering Proficiency and Self-Efficacy Through a Middle SchoolEngineering Course (Fundamental)Dr. Jessica D. Gale, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Jessica Gale is a Research Scientist II at Georgia Tech’s Center for education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC). Her research focuses on and often connects a range of topics within STEM/STEAM education including, engineering and STEM integration at the elementary and mid- dle grades levels, project-based learning across STEM disciplines, college and career readiness, design- based implementation research, and STEM student
outcomes in alumni careertrajectories. Engineering graduates need a lifelong learning mentality and skillset that will enablethem to address complex sociotechnical challenges (some of which have yet to be predicted) andnavigate a changing labour system. Fostering these lifelong learning competencies throughcurriculum design has been a challenge in engineering programs. While scholars havedocumented curriculum and pedagogy intended to develop lifelong learning skills in students,assessment methods are typically short-term. On the other hand, studies of alumni have providedsome insight into career trajectories and workplace learning, but rarely connect these outcomesback to undergraduate experiences.To span these broad and complex concepts, we are
mechanical engineering students took and a 1-hour combustion-energy conversion labthat only thermal mechanical engineering students took). The new (2) semester hour lab course(1-hour of lecture plus one 3-hour lab weekly) is taken by both mechanical and thermal designstudents. The new lab includes ten mechanical and thermal systems labs and a five-week designproject.Modern Laboratory FeaturesThe older mechanical engineering labs at UTC used little computer data acquisition while thenew 2-hour lab has electronic instrumentation, data acquisition, analysis, control, andpresentation integrated throughout all lab systems. No new laboratory systems were purchasedas on-hand systems were retrofitted-upgraded with new instrumentation and data
alleviate the problem, it is proposed tocombine some courses, eliminate some, and move some to different se mesters.First SemesterNo change is proposed in the first semester.Second SemesterIn the second semester, statics is moved to third semester and Surveying II is moved to secondSemester. The rational being that students need some calculus in order to understand someconcepts in Statics and therefore it is moved to this semester where Math III is offered.Surveying II on the other hand, does not need any advanced math and therefore, it is moved tothe Second Semester.Third SemesterStrength of Materials (SOM) and Dynamics are moved from the Third Semester to FourthSemester. Again math prerequisite for these courses requires them to be offered after
and its idealization as an instantaneous measurement. Now is a good time to re-enforce the difficulties in measuring instantaneous velocity and its uncertainties (physics) compared to the precision in mathematics that is contained in the derivative as a limit (mathematics). On the other hand, this is also a good time to acknowledge that there are many ways to define the derivative as a limit, and that these ways arise naturally in science and engineering, for example, the limit of forward differences (standard definition), the limit of backward differences (more natural in the computation of average speed), and the limit of centered differences (a natural way to measure slopes).The outline
activities, mayadvance inclusion of under-represented populations in engineering pathways.Acknowledgements This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation underGrant No. 1744539. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed inthis material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.References[1] Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) High. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. 2018. Available online: https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS/k12 (accessed on 5 December 2018).[2] Capiobianco, B.M., French, B.F., & Diefes-Dux, H.A. (2012). Engineering identity development among pre-adolescent learners
, clear 10 ptsand unbiased.The information presented is thorough and 10 ptssufficient to support the project objectives.The presentation is well organized and closely 10 ptsreflects the project scope.The visual aids (photographs, figures, 10 ptsgraphics) are of good quality andunderstandable.The material presented is relevant to the 10 ptsproject.Interesting examples and/or observations are 10 ptsused where appropriate to keep the audienceinvolved.Clear speaker, using good grammar, 10 ptsenunciation and eye contact. Good posture andappropriate use of hand gestures.Overall impression of presentation quality. 10 ptsDelivered on date assigned
engineering have done some Workshop practice and Computer Programming at the highschool level. Drawing is not considered to be an essential subject any more presumablybecause of the availability of many software packages for drafting and drawing. The thirddifference is that in India considerable time is spent on Applied and Design Engineeringsubjects in which a fair amount of empirical information is included. This is not consideredessential in USA. Instead they find it more profitable, to spend nearly 20% of the time in theteaching subjects in Humanities and Social Sciences. Excepting for some exposure to Page 5.257.2economics, these do not find a place
transforming theundergraduate mechanical engineering curricula from one primarily based on physics toone based on physics, information science, and biologyx. Therefore, the first goal ofthis project is to develop course materials that introduce engineering students to thecomplexity of real-world problems and show how engineering companies areworking in the information age. The teaching of domain-specific knowledge has long been recognized to be theprimary objective of school and college education, but many students lack the breadth ofknowledge and skills that are fundamental to the practice of their professionxi. There isnow a growing realization among educators of the need to put a greater emphasis onimparting higher-level cognitive skills (e.g
Gulf Coast before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina; and2) provide a real hands-on research experience for exceptional students, which allows them toexplore the many facets of civil and environmental engineering. It should be noted that thiscourse is not an engineering course per se; rather, it is an honors proseminar taught by anengineering professor.Course LogisticsThe South Carolina Honors College was founded in 1977 and is now recognized as one of thetop honors programs in the country. The Honors College offers an enriched academicexperience under the general rubric of Research Based Learning (RBL). The experiencecombines the benefits of a small liberal arts college with the opportunities of a comprehensiveuniversity. Like a liberal
Paper ID #16519Research and Instructional Strategies for Engineering RetentionDr. Claudia J Rawn, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Claudia Rawn is an Associate Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is also the Director of the Center for Materials Processing. Prior to joining the University of Tennessee full time she was a Senior Research Staff Member in the Materials Science and Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a Joint Faculty Member in the University of Tennessee’s Materials Science and Engineering Department. She received her
often involves simple solutions tosolve problems related to basic needs (i.e. clean water, air, sanitation, heat, shelter etc.). As such,training for one who participates in humanitarian engineering incorporates history, politics,economics, sociology, language, as well as rigorous engineering basics. The nature of humanitarian engineering projects offer a unique opportunity to teach studentsthrough an approach that integrates theory with a practical hands-on experience. By creating alearning environment through helping marginalized communities, students are challenged withproblems that enhance their critical thinking ability and help them acquire new technical skills.Moreover, the service learning aspect of these projects contribute to
work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNos. 1160455 and 1254323. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe National Science Foundation. We also thank affiliates of Prof. Jesiek’s Global EngineeringEducation Collaboratory (GEEC) and Prof. Woo’s Laboratory for Understanding Careersand Individual Differences (LUCID) for their extensive assistance with developing SJT items.References[1] Grandin, J., & Hirleman, E. D. (2009). Educating engineers as global citizens: A call for action / A report of the national summit meeting on the globalization of engineering education. Online Journal of Global
theengineering and technology curriculum, enhance students’, especially Hispanic students’knowledge in these areas using a holistic approach by providing new courses and laboratories,research support, seminars and workshops, internship and co-op opportunities9,10. Goals, aimsand objectives of our collaborative project are designed to align with the sponsor goals andobjectives: 1) The project aims and targets to increase the entry, enrollment and retention levelof women, minorities, with special attention paid to the Hispanic students in engineering majorsat participating institutions; 2) The proposed green energy and IT-based engineering curriculumimprovements aimed to provide hands-on instruction, skills, knowledge and experience whichthat are
and laboratory experiments widely used in the pharmaceutical sciences,to teach engineering principles. Material from the seven modules is being integrated verticallyinto the curriculum beginning with the Freshman Clinic, then fundamental Engineering courses,followed by Junior-Senior Clinic research projects, and finally advanced level electives onpharmaceutical topics. At the freshman level, students are engaged in the scientific discoveryprocess with exciting hands-on analysis of commercial drug delivery systems. In more advancedcourses, students design and formulate drug delivery systems and investigate the variablesaffecting their behavior. The Junior/Senior Clinic provides an opportunity for students toperform research projects related to
Page 22.847.3emphasis on mathematics and science, as well as other traditional EE courses. However, itindeed has a heavy hands-on learning component comprising the core PBL courses. Table 1: Eight-semester course plan for B.S.E.E degree Electrical Engineering ‐ B. S. Degree – Western Carolina University Suggested Course Plan Fall Semester Hours Spring Semester Hours ENGL 101 Composition I 3 ENGL 102 Composition II 3 MATH 153 Calculus I
Session 2461 Using Detailed, Multimedia Cases To Teach Engineering Ethics Michael E. Gorman, Julie M. Stocker, Matthew M. Mehalik School of Engineering and Applied Science The University of VirginiaABET has decided to switch to outcome-based assessment of engineering programs rather thanlists of required courses (See the last page of this paper for resources on outcome-basedassessment). Thus, programs will be evaluated according to their contribution to the skillsABET has decided must be demonstrated. While a progressive move in some ways, it raisesserious questions for the
Illinois for purchase of instruments and construction ofa dedicated laboratory, a course has been developed with the goal of involvingundergraduate students in significant laboratory and field experience and having themrelate that experience to design applications.This course, which is a permanent addition to the Civil and Environmental Engineering(CEE) curriculum, is a hands-on laboratory course in which students are involved inacquisition of data necessary for the development of environmental programs, design oftreatment systems, and evaluation of compliance with regulatory requirements. Thestudents work with the analytical procedures that are used to generate the data used byprofessionals before they enter the work force. The benefits to the