Paper ID #41756A Hands-on Outreach Activity to Promote Electrical Engineering to UnderrepresentedGroups in Local Middle and High SchoolsDr. Aref Majdara, Washington State University, Vancouver Aref Majdara received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA, in 2018. He is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in the School of Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, USA. His research interests include density estimation, machine learning, and engineering education.Dr. Dave Kim, Washington State University
rather than being allowed tochoose their own scenario.Students learned the value of understanding expected results when conducting experiments. Bycompleting analytical calculations and FEA analysis prior to conducting the experiment, studentswere able to see when their experimental procedures led them to incorrect results. As would betrue when conducting industrial experiments, this allowed the students to trouble-shoot theirexperiments and correct any problems.As combined loading seems to be one of the most difficult topics for students to understand inMechanics of Materials, having this experience allows students to have a hands-on experiencewith combined loading. This helps the students absorb and use the material.Although FEA is not a
comfortable with topicswhich may have previously been considered in the realm of engineering. Furthermore,engineering students who choose to work in this exciting field should have enough backgroundin the atmospheric sciences to effectively communicate with the radar system users. Onlythrough such an interdisciplinary approach can true leaps forward in both technology and sciencebe achieved. To guide the development of the team’s university educational radar program [1],the following three overarching goals were created.≠ Provide a comprehensive interdisciplinary education in weather radar at both the undergraduate and graduate levels≠ Provide extensive hands-on experience≠ Combine the talents of faculty members from different departments across
Paper ID #6504Curricular Materials and Methods for Student Conceptual Understanding inMechanics of MaterialsDr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University Dr. Shane Brown conducts research on cognition and conceptual change in engineering. He received his bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees from Oregon State University, both in civil engineering. His Ph.D. degree includes a minor in Science and Mathematics Education. His master’s degree is in Environmental Engineering from the University of California-Davis. Dr. Brown is a licensed professional civil engineer and has six years of experience designing water and wastewater
varied responses about the difficulty of implementation. With thegrowing importance of data science in electrical engineering, tools like our interface play acrucial role in exposing students to cutting-edge robotics and cyber-physical systems earlier inthe degree program. Our interface has been made available on GitHub for any who wishes toimplement it.IntroductionThe advent of Arduino microcontrollers has provided a more user-friendly and approachablemethod for introducing topics in robotics and embedded programming [1]. It is common to findMechanical Engineering departments teaching mechatronics courses that cover Arduinoprogramming alongside basic circuitry, sensors, and actuation [2]. These courses are intended forlowerclassmen (freshman
Paper ID #14110A Hands-On, Arduino-Based Approach to Develop Student Engineering Skillsand Introduce Cybersecurity Concepts to K-12 StudentsMr. Robert Shultz, Drexel University Robert Shultz is a 3rd year Biomedical Engineering PhD student, and a GK-12 fellow at Drexel University.Mr. Daniel Edward Ueda, GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania Daniel Ueda is the Associate Director for Education and Outreach at the GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania. He earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a MS in Teaching Mathematics from Pace University. Ueda has worked as a product
refinement of a setof several undergraduate courses and laboratory modules that are offered by the Schools ofMeteorology and Electrical & Computer Engineering, that provides hands-on experiencesin the special knowledge and skills necessary for organizing real-time weather data, improv-ing and preparing that data for display, and interpreting its meteorological and scientificsignificance. In addition, programs for middle school teachers have been generated for thepurpose of increasing their students’ interest in science and engineering prior to enteringcollege. The principal investigators have partnered with a major statewide climatologyoffice during the summers of 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 to adapt and implement projectmaterials directly to
model of online delivery and learning. This hasbeen especially difficult for engineering faculty and students due to the high reliance on hands-on experimentation in labs and other modes of face-to-face learning such as projects. In our case,this has meant lectures delivered over Zoom and labs done by students by themselves at home.For example, many of our electronics courses used Analog Discovery from Digilent and moreadvanced courses used nanoVNA-s.In addition to this switch to “personal” instrumentation we were forced to rely on simulationmuch more than before Covid. This is due to many reasons, such as simplicity of use, wideavailability, and use across multiple courses. The use of virtual tools in engineering educationhas been recognized
and I am part of the high school division of the SENAET group. Page 24.1286.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Undergraduate Training to Teach a Hands-on, Problem-based, Novel Application of Embedded Technology in K-12 Classrooms Principles of K-12 Engineering Education and PracticeAbstractAn internally-funded undergraduate research project proposes to study the effectiveness of ahands-on, problem-based science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) course forthree levels of public education: elementary, middle, and high school. The project will
Using a Materials Concept Inventory to Assess an Introductory Materials Class: Potential and Problems William Jordan, Henry Cardenas, and Chad B. O’Neal College of Engineering and Science Louisiana Tech University Ruston, LA 71272ABSTRACTIn every engineering course there is a concern about how much the students are actuallylearning. The physics community has addressed this through the development of anassessment instrument called the Force Concept Inventory. More recently this has beenexpanded to the development of Engineering Concept Inventories. Universities affiliatedwith the N.S.F. sponsored Foundation Coalition
2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Group-Project-Based Development of A Modular Microfluidic Platform: A Case Report on A Hands-on Microfluidics Course Carson Emeigh1, Austin Griswold1, Rumayel Hassan Pallock1, Jaideep Sahni2, Morgan Schake2, Udochukwu Anuta1, Jessica Deters1, and Sangjin Ryu1 1 Mechanical and Materials Engineering, 2Biomedical Engineering, University of Nebraska-LincolnAbstractMicrofluidic devices manipulate fluids at the micro- or sub-millimeter scale and are used forvarious applications. Courses on microfluidics offer students an opportunity to learn aboutmicrofluidics that may be
Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 2017, pp. 24-28, doi: 10.1109/TALE.2017.8252298.[13] Y. Liu, A. Vijay, S. M. Tommasini, and D. Wiznia, “Hands-on engineering courses in the COVID-19 pandemic: Adapting Medical Device Design for remote learning,” Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 195–200, 2021.[14] M. Galaleldin, F. Bouchard, H. Anis, and C. Lague, “The impact of Makerspaces on Engineering Education,” In Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA), 2017.[15] R. Li & J. Bringardner, “Understanding remote student motivation in hybrid and remote engineering lab modes”, In Proceedings of 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference
-basedlearning class at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The Electrical and ComputerEngineering (ECE) department at Virginia Tech underwent significant curriculum changes in2019 with the support of Revolutionizing Engineering Departments program (RED grant) fromthe National Science Foundation with the vision of bringing more hands-on learning experiencesto undergraduate students. One of such curriculum changes was to create a new course forsophomore ECE students with the mission of helping students develop practical research, design,and hands-on skills while also developing their technical communication and teamwork skills.This course, called Integrated Design Project, is a two-credit hour course where students meet inlab once a week
the realm for changes to adapt and develop this materials tester can be vast dueto the machine’s modularity and detailed documentation over the course of the academic year. By developing a means to inexpensively produce an easy-to-use universal materials testerwith basic CNC machinery and hand-tools entirely from scratch, this project has paved the wayto increase the accessibility of such devices in classrooms, labs, and workshops. Using themachine, undergraduate students in mechanical and materials engineering classes will be able togain a hands-on understanding of how the stress-strain curves in their textbooks were produced.If a lab or workshop requires material testing, but the machine’s ability to demonstrate theprocesses are
. Page 8.1245.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2630Many of the faculty members who volunteer do not necessarily have expertise in graphics, CAD,MATLAB, hands-on laboratories, or design. They must be educated in these areas and providedwith the teaching materials.The Current ProgramDescription of Course Content Covered – There are two course sequences for the First-Yearengineering students. The first option is a two quarter sequence, known as Fundamentals ofEngineering or (FE). Students designated Honors
Paper ID #37624Keeping Cool with Qatar Cool: A Pre-College Education ProgramEmphasizing Corporate Regional Engineering with Hands-On STEM Learn-ing(Resource Exchange)Mr. G. Benjamin Cieslinski, Texas A&M University at Qatar A resourceful science professional with expertise in STEM fields, science communication, laboratory safety, program management, and chemistry, Benjamin Cieslinski manages the science, technology, engi- neering, and mathematics (STEM) laboratories for Texas A&M University at Qatar’s Office of Advance- ment. He designs and performs demonstrations of science and engineering to local schools via the
Session 1626 Implementing A Sophomore-Level Materials, Manufacturing & Design Laboratory Edmund Tsang and Andrew Wilhelm Mechanical Engineering Department, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama 36688ABSTRACT A one-credit hour, sophomore-level laboratory course was implemented in Fall Quarter, 1995 tointegrate materials, manufacturing and design. The course meets once a week for three hours, and is team-taught by two faculty members, one with background in materials science and the other with background inmanufacturing and design. Course activities aim to create a discovery-oriented learning
a learning framework and goals and outcomes to foster a publicdiscussion of science, technology and society, a set of super low-cost, hands-on activities isimagined to support a larger effort exploring the popularity and utility of the Frankenstein storyto build science, technology, and engineering literacy. This paper describes some of that thinkingas well as one specific activity developed around a scribbling bot deployed in engineeringoutreach settings to support such a dialogue in the public about science and technology.Art Bots and Scribbling MachinesThere is quite a library of hands-on activities to demonstrate and explore introductory makingactivities3. San Francisco’s Exploratorium has developed quite a library of such activities
success rates, the level of these rates isstill considerably low at 70%, which needs to be improved up to 80% by 2020 [1-3]. Universityadministration, faculty members, parents, and students are all concerned about this and, hence,are looking for a solution to increase these rates at WSU.Our major goal of this study was to address the problem associated with retention and successrates of freshmen students through undergraduate research experience in the nanotechnologylaboratory at WSU. Also, we expect that this will considerably improve the graduation rate(40%) of first-time, full-time freshmen students at WSU. The specific objectives of this studywere as follows: (i) to educate freshmen science and engineering students based on hands-onexperience
on the use of multimedia elements—especiallygraphics—in instructional materials. Research by the author will be presenteddemonstrating the use of eye tracking methods to help further understand the basiccognitive processes of multimedia learning. Findings have helped explain the interactionof text, graphics and narration. In addition, the results help provide guidance as to when itis or is not appropriate to differing combinations of these three mediums.IntroductionEngineering education has been witness to an ever-evolving array of technologies used tocommunicate science and engineering concepts. While many of these communicationtechnologies have changed over the years, others have remained relatively constant (e.g.,the textbook) and—even
necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue. Dalai Lama2What exactly is meant by an engineering based on love? As engineers and engineeringeducators, some of us have encountered traditional applied ethics theories includingUtilitarianism,3 rights-based ethics4 and virtue ethics5 to name a few. As a starting pointfor the present work, a brief description of each of these applied ethical theories shall be
years. These include:‘more than metals’ and ceramics, polymers and electronics materials.Special topics have surfaced over the years. These include ‘Fracture and Failure’, ‘MaterialsDesign and Mechanical Behavior’, ‘Material and Mechanical Engineering’ and an attempt tocreate a session on ‘Life Cycle Analysis’.A last observation is that of ‘modeling and design’ in materials. With the computationalresources available, more interest and activity is occurring in modeling of materials systems. Theresulting ability to design with respect to materials is reflected in more abstract submissions.In summary, our focus on materials science and engineering education is maintained. Creativeexperiments for students at all educational levels, novel teaching
undergraduate course was offered in Spring ‘96 under MSE496 Special Topics in Materials Science and Engineering and ES 494 Special EngineeringScience Topics.Participants The Co-principal investigators (Co-PIs) of the proposed program are Professor Peter K.Liaw, Ivan Racheff Chair of Excellence, MSE department, and Dr. N. Yu, assistant professor ofESM department, UT. Dr. Liaw's research and teaching expertise centers around the fatigue,fracture, fiber coating, and thermomechanical behavior of CMCs. Dr. Yu's research and teachinginterests are focused on the micromechanics of elastic properties, nonlinear behavior, anddamage of CMCs. Both Drs. Liaw and Yu are responsible for the curriculum development andliaison with ORNL. Furthermore, they have been
-CurriculumDevelopment (CRCD) Program" has been supported by the National Science Foundation tointegrate the long-standing research advances, achieved by the University of Tennessee (UT),Knoxville, and ORNL, on CMCs into the interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate levelcurricula of Materials and Mechanics at UT.Implementation of New CurriculumThe two courses on CMCs have been developed by the co-principal investigators (Co-PIs), Liawand Yu, and approved by (a) Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) and Mechanical andAerospace Engineering and Engineering Science (MAES) Departments, (b) College of Engineering(CoE), and (c) Undergraduate and Graduate Councils at UT. The newly developed undergraduatecourse - MSE 429/ES (Engineering Science) 429: Introduction
awordprocessor.A critical and challenging part of an on-going project to develop spreadsheet modules for use inthe materials science and engineering curriculum is finding the best way to introduce these intoexisting courses. This paper describes an effort to integrate spreadsheets into a sophomore-levelintroductory materials science course.Why Spreadsheets?While spreadsheets have been around for many years, dating back to the late 1970s and early1980s when the availability of programs such as VisiCalc and Lotus 123 alone justified thepurchases of the hardware, the engineering student and instructor today have many more optionsfor mathematical and number-crunching software. TKSolver, Maple, MatLab, Mathematica, andothers offer powerful modeling and
Paper ID #36752Virtual Hands-on Learning – The development of an onlineengineering design course with a virtual product inspectionportalCaitlin Knowles (PhD Student)Amanda MillsYan Shen (Instructional Designer)Jesse Jur Jesse S. Jur received the B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA, in 2001, the M.S. degree in chemical and biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree in materials science and engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, in 2007.,He is currently a Professor of Textile
with design andmanufacturing activities. Too much focus on these “hands-on” activities, however, can also leadstudents to be unprepared for traditional engineering roles. This study will present thedevelopment of a survey to gather perspectives from industry representatives on the importanceof engineering science and analysis in undergraduate ME education.KeywordsCurriculum development, mechanical engineering, industry perspectiveIntroductionThe role of engineering science and analysis in engineering education has been debated for manydecades. In a review of the history of engineering education, Seely 1 states that there was a shiftaway from apprenticeship training to formal university training soon after the civil war. He goeson to list how
Paper ID #27997A Flexible, Portable Making Solution to Enable Hands-On Learning with Ad-ditive Manufacturing in Cornerstone Engineering DesignDr. Nicholas A Meisel, The Pennsylvania State University Dr. Nicholas (Nick) Meisel is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Design in the School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs (SEDTAPP) at Penn State and an affiliate faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2010 with his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and received his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in Mechanical Engineering in 2015. He joined
undergraduate classroom. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Hands-On Made 4 ME: Deploying, Using, Developing and Evalu- ating Desktop Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) Systems in the Engineering ClassroomAbstractThis paper describes the Hands-On Made 4 ME project to design, use and deploy inexpensive,desktop computer numerical control (CNC) systems in mechanical engineering courses. The pro-ject examines both the deployment of off-the-shelf CNC machines as well as the developmentand deployment of an in-house, education specific, modular CNC building block. This modularCNC building block is designed to minimize the deployment cost in a high volume classroomenvironment
classroom, in undergraduate research and in engaging K12 students in STEM. Holly received her BS/MS in Materials Science and Engineering from Drexel University and her PhD in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Build a Robot! Dr. Holly Golecki, Elizabeth McNeela, Thomas Tran, Lucy Brizzolara What is a Soft Robot? What is Bio-inspired Design? In this three day activity, children can learn about how robots are used to help people perform daily tasks and how engineers use nature as inspiration for their design. Roll up your sleeves and build your own robot gripper in this hands-on