AC 2012-3412: IMPLEMENTATION AND ASSESSMENT OF A VIRTUALREALITY EXPERIMENT IN THE UNDERGRADUATE THEMO-FLUIDSLABORATORYDr. Sushil K. Chaturvedi, Old Dominion UniversityDr. Jaewan Yoon, Old Dominion UniversityDr. Rick McKenzie, Old Dominion University Rick McKenzie is the Graduate Program Director in the new Modeling, Simulation and Visualization En- gineering (MSVE) Department and a joint faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Old Dominion University. Before coming to Old Dominion University, he spent six years in the simulation industry as a Senior Scientist. McKenzie’s research has been in medical modeling and simulation, human behavior representation, and simulation
study, the researcher withprior PBL experience and basic pedagogical knowledge was involvedly in daily journaling and self-monitoring in conducting the data collection and analyses to be aware of any potential bias andinfluences from prior experiences. During these processes, research group discussion with twoexperienced exports in engineering education and PBL research were conducted frequently asauditing procedures. In order to enhance the inter-coder reliability, a graduate student with richqualitative research experience, majoring in higher education, was invited as the external coder tocode one part of the transcripts and discuss with the leader coder, resulting in agreement of 86.3%.Codes were modified and refined for two rounds through
minor in engineering mechanics from the Pennsylvania State University and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from MIT. He spent 22 years on active duty in the U.S. Air Force and is a Flight Test Engineer graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School. Gibbons spent most of his AF career performing flight test on advanced aircraft weapons systems. His interests include thermo-fluid sciences, teaching, experimentation, traveling, SCUBA, and botanical sciences.Mr. Philip Knodel, U.S. Air Force Academy Philip Knodel is currently a senior at the U.S. Air Force Academy and will commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Air Force this May. At the Academy, Knodel has studied to earn a B.S. in mechanical engineering for the past four
-Masoud research interests are in the fields of Control Systems and Dynamics, HVAC systems, and Engineering Education. He has numerous journal and conference proceeding publications in the aforementioned area, and was the winner of the ASEE Mechanics Division Best paper Award in 2006. He has an extensive experience in Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning Systems (HVAC) design.Dr. Viatcheslav Naoumov, Cental Connecticut State University Viatcheslav Naoumov, Professor, Ph.D., Dr. of Science, Distinguished Scientist of Russian Republic of Tatarstan. Current affiliation: Cental Connecticut State University Graduated from Kazan Aviation Institute, College of Aircraft and Rocket Engines (Russia). During his 26 years
perform experimental research and encouraged their matriculation to graduate school. Dr. Traum also serves as the founding Chief Technology Officer at EASENET, a start-up renewable energy company he co-founded with his former students to commercialize residential scale waste-to-energy biomass processor systems.Dr. Vincent ”Vince” C Prantil, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Vincent Prantil earned his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. He has worked as a senior member of technical staff in the Applied Mechanics and Materials Modeling Directorates at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California where he was a co-recipient of the R&D100 Award for
AC 2007-2118: COLLABORATIVE LEARNING IN LABORATORY-ORIENTEDCOURSES USING WEB CONFERENCING FOR SHARED CONTROL OFPHYSICAL LABORATORY EXPERIMENTSTrishna Das, University of Minnesota-ECE Trishna Das, received BE degree in 2005 (in Electrical & Electronics) from College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, India. She is currently a graduate student in the University of Minnesota, pursuing MS leading to PhD in Electrical Engineering. Her areas of interest are power electronic devices and drives.Paul Imbertson, University of Minnesota-ECE Paul Imbertson received the BS (’83) MS (’94) and PhD (’97) in electrical engineering, all from the University of Minnesota. He has worked in power
extracurricular social connections and women’s persistencein engineering, and research coming from the NSF-funded Center for the Advancement ofEngineering Education (CAEE) has identified the importance of participation in extracurricularcommunities for academic success6-10. A study at Purdue University, which has one of thelargest engineering colleges in the United States, showed that students who engage in co-curricular activities have higher GPAs and more credit hours than the their peers, a performanceadvantage that only increases when controlling for SAT scores, academic major and otherfactors11. In another study12, students who report higher levels of social integration throughouttheir college experience also had higher GPAs upon graduation
Scholar-Teacher in the Department of Psychology at East Carolina University. His research interests include Comparative Psychology: Development, Paternal Care, & Evolution, Computing: Statistics, Instructional, and Internet Multivariate Research Design and Statistics, Social Psychology: Cross-Cultural, Jury Decisions, Ethical Ideology, and Attitudes about Animals.Shahnaz Aziz, East Carolina University Dr. Aziz, completed her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational (I/O) psychology from Bowling Green State University. Her expertise lies in the application of psychological principles to human behavior in the workplace. In her program of research, she has mainly conducted studies in the area of
Science and Mechanics, an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Virginia Tech.Dr. Robin D. Anderson, James Madison University Robin Anderson is a Professor and the Academic Unit Head in the Department of Graduate Psychology at James Madison University. Prior to her current position, she served as the Associate Director of JMU’s Center for Assessment and Research Studies. Her research interests include Engineering Education and the assessment of student learning outcomes in higher education. Page 24.597.1 c American Society for Engineering Education
Curriculum Study (BSCS). Dr. Spiegel also served as Director of Research & Development for a multimedia development company and as founding Director of the Center for Integrating Research & Learning (CIRL) at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University. Under Dr. Spiegel’s leadership, the CIRL matured into a thriving Center recognized as one of the leading National Science Foundation Laboratories for activities to pro- mote science, mathematics, and technology (STEM) education. While at Florida State University, Dr. Spiegel also directed an award winning teacher enhancement program for middle grades science teachers, entitled Science For Early Adolescence Teachers (Science FEAT). His
. prototyping*. Contemporary and industry relevance. Active engagement in applied research with collaborators in industry, and case studies based on current MEMS journal and conference literature. Unforeseen obstacles, lack of a priori assessment Formal and informal advisory relationships with data on best practices. experienced MEMS lab developers outside our local team.Team Functional Prerequisites. Intentionally to reach the widest audience of students, the onlymandatory course prerequisites are basic math, physics, and
framework is implemented. The shaketableexperiment considered in this study is primarily used as part of a laboratory course to illustratethe concepts in structural dynamics for undergraduate and graduate students. Figure 1 shows thelaboratory setup of the shaketable experiment considered for illustration of the computationalframework. It consists of a 12”×34” one-dimensional shaketable and a 100 lb electro-magneticshaker. The test specimen is a single or multi-story shear building having wide but thin aluminumcolumns and heavy steel girders. Forced vibration tests are conducted by applying a harmonicexcitation to the table using a function generator. The input frequency of the excitation isincreased in steps from a value that is lower than the
AC 2012-3864: SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ACTIVE LEARNING (SEAL)SYSTEM: A NOVEL APPROACH TO CONTROLS LABORATORIESDr. Per Henrik Borgstrom, University of California, Los Angeles Per Henrik Borgstrom received the B.S. (2005), M.S. (2007), and Ph.D. (2009) degrees in electrical engineering from UCLA, where he received the prestigious Regent’s Scholarship and Chancellor’s Prize. His research interests include robotics, controls, and educational methods.Prof. William J. Kaiser, University of California, Los Angeles William J. Kaiser received a Ph.D. in solid state physics from Wayne State University in 1984. From 1977 through 1986, as a member of Ford Motor Co. research staff, his development of automotive sensor and
and innovation of transportation systems. David teaches graduate and undergraduate classes covering topics such as; Highway Engineering, Traffic Operations, Isolated Signalized Intersections, and Driv- ing Simulation. Additionally, Dr. Hurwitz serves as an executive committee member of the Institute of Transportation Engineer’s Traffic Engineering Council and Education Council, and as a member of the Transportation Research Board’s Simulation and Measurement of Vehicle and Operator Performance committee (AND30), and Traffic Control Devices Committee (AHB50).Dr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University
Page 25.1286.4V1, (3) pilot study the first version among graduate civil engineering students who completedtheir engineering BA degree at a HSI and determine the clarity of the translated items andevaluate/revise research protocols, (4) revise items according to students recommendations andgenerate a second version (CATS-S V2), (5) conduct a large-scale data collection, and (6)compare students’ performance on the English and Spanish versions of CATS. In this phase,experienced faculty at UPRM acted as consultants to translate each question, paying attention tothe wording used, not to change the intended objective.Also, a pilot study was conducted to evaluate if the translation of CATS was appropriate. Agroup of 10 graduate students from Civil
Lawani, M.S. is a doctoral student in strategy in the Department of Management and also a Fellow of the Robert B. Toulouse School of Graduate Studies at the University of North Texas. While his doctoral minor work was in Economics, he has a B.S. degree in Microbiology and received his MBA in Finance from East Carolina University. His research interests include Organizational governance structures: mergers; acquisitions; and alliances. His solo authored refereed paper has been published in the proceedings of the Decision Science Institute’ Department of Management. Page 15.929.1© American Society
research and theoryhas devoted too little attention to the study of problem-solving processes.” In PBL, prototypingactivities should help students become more reflective on their design. Lande (2017) suggestedthat scaffolded activities in prototyping support “self-regulated learning by offloading feedbackfrom the instructor to students’ evaluation of their own prototype in the context of iterativefeedback from a user.” In this pilot, exploratory study, the research question we try to address is:What are design educators’ conceptions of prototyping in design courses? Understanding theseconceptions represents a first step to transform design teaching by employing scaffoldedprototyping.Research methodIn this exploratory study, three faculty members
Paper ID #8649Exploring Engineering Students’ Beliefs on Effort and IntelligenceNora B. Honken, University of Louisville Nora Honken holds degrees in industrial engineering from Virginia Tech and Arizona State University. She will receive a PHD in Education Leadership, Foundations and Human Development from the Uni- versity of Louisville in May 2014. She has held positions in engineering and management for Axxess Technologies, Varian, Amoco and Corning, and has taught in industry, at community college and at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Her research interests include engineering student performance and
Paper ID #34551Conceptualizing Faculty Adaptability in Enacting Curricular ChangeHadi Ali, Arizona State University Hadi studies the influence of the future of work on curricular innovation, with a focus on exploring the relationships between and among adaptability, risk taking and value making. In an effort to characterize engineering education as an (eco)system for creating value, Hadi’s approach integrates analytical methods of data science to address changes in systems and society. More broadly, Hadi is interested in examining how engineering innovations mobilize social and economic change. Hadi has graduate degrees
as an officer and Army Aviator. He is a graduate of Michigan State University (BS in Mechanical Engineering) and The Pennsylvania State University (MS in Aerospace Engineering). Major Duling’s research interests are in swashplateless and conventional helicopter rotor dynamics, rotorcraft stability and control, and evolutionary optimization. Page 22.415.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Daily Review Quizzes – a Hindrance or a Help?AbstractThis paper reports on a study of the costs and benefits of conducting frequent in-class reviewquizzes in undergraduate
notcoincided with an increase in engineering graduates.3, 4 Therefore the departure of students fromthe discipline remains an issue. The primary focus in engineering education as well as other STEM fields has been toimprove the curriculum and pedagogy of faculty. STEM educators adopted this focus largely inresponse to Seymour and Hewitt’s seminal work studying students who depart from the STEMdisciplines. Noting that leavers do not differ significantly in terms of academic achievement orpreparedness, their findings indicate that students leave the STEM disciplines primarily due tothe content-laden curriculum, the inadequate and uninteresting instruction, and an overalldisinterest in STEM careers.5 As a result, engineering has invested
engineers.If we compare engineers working on projects in 2008 with those of a century earlier, wewould find that they have the benefit of vast resources of accumulated knowledge about thescientific aspects of engineering. However, just as most engineers of 1908 learned theirengineering science through apprenticeships and personal experience, our research is showingthat today's engineers still learn most of their engineering practice in more or less the sameway. A longitudinal study of our own engineering graduates13 is showing that nearly all theskills and knowledge they need for their work is learned on the job. While this emphasizesthe importance of graduate learning abilities, it also echoes employer concerns thatengineering education does not
interesting commentary onacademic and career choices.Professional Identity StudyThis study is concerned with the impact of the four curricular offerings described above on thedevelopment of students’ professional engineering identity. Professional or career identity can beconsidered a form of social identity that develops over time, and includes shared discourse,values and skills characteristic to members of that profession.11-12 It is also a feeling of fittingwithin the group (in this context, engineering), and can influence post-graduation careerchoices.8,13,14 Emerging engineering identity formation research has examined the influencingfactors on students’ engineering identities, how identity changes throughout a student’seducation, and how much a
,” International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, vol. 5, no.1, pp. 1-8, 2016.[27] R. García‑Ros, F. Pérez‑González, F. Cavas‑Martínez, and J. M. Tomás, “Effects of pre‑college variables and first‑year engineering students’ experiences on academic achievement and retention: A structural model,” International Journal of Technology and Design Education, vol. 29, pp. 915–928, 2019.[28] M. M. Uddin and K. Johnson, “Faculty learning from the advisors for students’ retention and persistence to graduation,” in Proceedings of the 2019 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration, 2019.[29] S. Martin, “Engineering retention: Improving inclusion and diversity in engineering,” PhD dissertation, Department of
conceptual change and situated cognition. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2010 and is working on a study to characterize practicing engineers’ understand- ings of core engineering concepts.Dr. Paul S. Steif, Carnegie Mellon University Paul S. Steif is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a Sc.B. in engineering from Brown University (1979) and M.S. (1980) and Ph.D. (1982) degrees from Harvard University in applied mechanics. He has been active as a teacher and researcher in the field of engineering education and mechanics. His research has focused on student learning of mechanics concepts and devel- oping new course materials and classroom approaches. Drawing upon methods of
2006-1433: TOOLS FOR AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT USED IN THE ACTIVELEARNING IN THE VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE SYSTEM (ALIVE)Paul Stanfield, North Carolina A&T State University Paul Stanfield is an Associate Professor and Chair of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. Dr. Stanfield received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, M.S. in Industrial Engineering/Operations Research and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from NC State and an M.B.A. from UNC-Greensboro.Caroline Moineau, North Carolina A&T State University Caroline Moineau is a doctoral student at North Carolina A & T State University. She received her B.S. in Industrial Engineering and M.S. in Computer
on post-graduation successand social responsibility with workshops on life after university studies (including graduate andprofessional school opportunities, scientific and professional societies, and teamwork in theworkplace), and being a member of a community (e.g., giving back to society, civicresponsibility, mentoring others, etc.).A survey given to the 28 participants at our first workshop showed that the students’ interestsand knowledge deficiencies were less than a perfect match for what we had expected and forwhich we had planned activities. The survey results (shown in Table 2) indicated that anoverwhelming majority of the students wanted to learn more about the following as soon aspossible: additional scholarship and fellowship
Construction Engineering, 211 Kearney Hall, 1491 SW Campus Way, Corvallis, OR 97331 Phone: 509-499-5187 Email: bornasaf@onid.oregonstate.eduDr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University Shane Brown is an associate professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include conceptual change and situated cognition. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2010 and is working on a study to characterize practicing engineers’ understand- ings of core engineering concepts. Page 26.391.1 c American Society for Engineering Education
Foundation’s engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field). In addition, in 2011 Dr. Sheppard was named as co-PI of a national NSF innovation center (Epicenter), and leads an NSF program at Stanford on summer research experiences for high school teachers. Her industry experiences includes engineering positions at Detroit’s ”Big Three:” Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, and Chrysler Corporation. At Stanford she has served a chair of the faculty senate, and recently served as Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 The Making of an Innovative Engineer: Academic and Life
. She joined the University of Michigan after serving as Founding Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and Richard L. Terrell Professor of Excellence in Teaching at Kettering University. In her current role, she consults with administrators, faculty, staff, and graduate students, offers workshops and seminars on teaching and learning, and supports college-wide initiatives in engineering education. In addition, she actively pursues research in engineering education at the University of and Michigan and assists other faculty in their scholarly projects. She is PI on a multi-university collaborative research study assessing the ethical outcomes associated