Session 2793 Undergraduate Research Using the Finite Difference Time Domain Technique for Electromagnetics José G. Colom Ustáriz, Rafael Rodríguez Solís University of Puerto Rico at MayaguezI. INTRODUCTIONThe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Puerto Ricoat Mayaguez offers five-year B. S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering. In addition,M.S. and M.E. degrees are offered in both programs. The Electrical Engineering program has astrong core from which the students receive a broad spectrum of the fundamental
overall process has been initiated in some cases by the authorpublishing an RFP for interested students or by students approaching the author with requeststhat have been triggered by a past course, tours through the facility, or a stated interest in thearea under study. The author has treated independent research programs have been treated asindependent study projects at Kettering University. Assigned a designation of IMSE-499, eachof these courses has had a published syllabus with goals/objectives, guidelines, andreporting/assessment/evaluation procedures. These and other managerial issues will beaddressed from a global perspective in a subsequent section. Students spend several hours eachweek at scheduled times and on their won time working on
AC 2011-2780: BOOTSTRAPPING A NEW GRADUATE CURRICULUMTHROUGH AN ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTERDevdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State University (Eng) Devdas M. Pai is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and serves as Director for Education and Out- reach for the NSF Engineering Research Center for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of manufacturing processes and materials engineering.Robin Guill Liles, North Carolina A&T State University Robin Guill Liles is associate professor in counseling and counselor education in the Department of Hu- man Development and Services in the School of Education at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State
Session 3613 Integrating Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum – NASA’s Microgravity Bioreactor Shani Francis, Keith Schimmel / Neal R. Pellis North Carolina A&T State University / Johnson Space CenterAbstractCurrently, there is an emphasis in many funding agencies on integrating research results into theundergraduate curriculum. The basic rationale is that research expenditures will thus beleveraged to improve the quality of undergraduate education by providing students withinteresting, real world engineering problems that will motivate, provide opportunities forstudents to
electronics.1. Introduction The merits of involving engineering undergraduates in research have been widelydiscussed in engineering journals. It has been suggested that such an initiative may help thestudent become more passionate about the subject, create appreciation for research processand practice, improve problem-solving skills or even serve as motivation for furthereducation in graduate school1-3. Furthermore, it allows advanced students an opportunity tobe exposed to challenging and realistic engineering problems they may encounter in postgraduation work. In some cases, the students participate directly in a funded research thatholds significant benefit to all participants – students, faculty, and the university4. Thegrowing recognition
NASA Graduate Student Research Program (GSRP) was initiated in 1980 to cultivateresearch ties with the academic community and broaden the base of students pursuing advanceddegrees in science, mathematics, and engineering. The program awards approximately 300graduate students annually each with an educational grant of $24,000, which includes an $18,000student stipend, a $3,000 student allowance, and a $3,000 university allowance. The awards arerenewable for up to 3 years. Application deadline is in early spring, and the announcement ofawardees is made by the end of June each year. Applicants must submit their applications onlineat http://fellowships.hq.nasa.gov, as well as mail in required documents. Undergraduate seniorswho have been accepted
programs or in research projects specially designed for thepurpose” 1.For the past five summers the NSF has funded a summer REU site in Characterization ofAdvanced Materials at Washington State University. WSU currently has the longest active REUprogram in materials research in the northwest. Our REU site brings students to Pullman tospend 10 weeks each summer focused on interdisciplinary materials research.The initial target population for our REU program was primarily students from schools in thePacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain states that do not have access to the moderninstrumentation that is needed for materials research. Over the five years of our program thenumber and popularity of REU programs has increased nationally and we have
Document: 2002-2401 Industry, Academia and Government Collaboration on Undergraduate Rocket Research Dianne J. DeTurris Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CAUndergraduate engineering students are interacting with government and industry to pursueapplied research in reusable launch vehicles for cheaper access to space. Cal Poly StateUniversity, San Luis Obispo, is flight testing subscale demonstrators of a reusable glidebackbooster. A highly productive collaboration has been established between NASA LangleyResearch Center, Cal Poly and Starcraft Boosters, Inc. to conduct research in
Session 2087 Real Time Mechatronic Design Process for Research and Education Devdas Shetty 1, Jun Kondo 2, Claudio Campana3, Richard A. Kolk 4 1,2,3 - University of Hartford, College of Engineering West Hartford, CT, USA 4 - Carrier Electronics Div., United Technologies Corp., Farmington, CT, USAAbstractThis paper presents the design methodology used in various real time mechatronics projects thatinvolve data acquisition, real time control and embedded processing. As a design philosophy,mechatronics serves as an integrating approach to engineering design. A mechatronicallydesigned product relies heavily on system
Paper ID #44673Developing a Writing Rubric to Answer Research Questions (not forGrading!)Mr. John William Lynch, University of Cincinnati I am an engineering and computing education PhD student at the University of Cincinnati. My interests are in retention of computer science students and improving Computer Science education for undergraduates by leveraging current technology. I am also interested in exploring the links between spatial skills and computer science, particularly how they can contribute to success in computer science. My overarching goal is to increase the retention rate for studying Computer Science at all
Departments of Surgery and Neurosurgery. Amy holds a Master of Science in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Florida. Her research interests consist of assessment of information seeking behaviors, library instruction, and the marketing and outreach of library services.Margeaux Johnson, University of Florida Margeaux Johnson is a Science & Technology Librarian at the University of Florida, where she coor- dinates information literacy instruction for the sciences and integrates technology into library learning environments. Her research interests include 21st Century Skills, games-based learning, and New Media Literacies. She served as a
DESIGN OF MEDICAL IMPLANTS FOR UNDERGRADUATE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH Adityen Sudhakaran Toure Cort Shankar Krishnan, Ph.D. sudhakarana@wit.edu cortt2@wit.edu krishnans@wit.edu Wentworth Institute of Technology 550 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, USA 02115 Abstract: Undertaking research projects, applying the theory learnt and working on design
Paper ID #44044Work in Progress: Investing in Engineering Futures Through Summer ResearchFundingJessica Baldis, University of California, San Diego Jessica Baldis serves as the Strategic Initiatives and Assessment Senior Analyst at the University of California, San Diego’s IDEA Engineering Student Center. She holds a Masters degree in Engineering from the University of Washington and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Jessica spent several years managing and directing software engineering and content development teams primarily in the military and law enforcement
inclusive within the design. In early methods, researchers usedto not consider other important facts that are unknown like waterfall approach in which they defined and validated themental level factor, environment factors, parenting and so on. requirements ahead of time before initiating the design andThese factors could have revealed in-depth conclusions about hence the implementation (14). Later, researchers used thethe study (13). In this study, going through the variety of prototype approach where they proposed certain tool basedguidelines mentioned in the following sections of the paper, methods for application development and programming. In themake sense to understand the relationship between behavior
educational objectives, results obtained, and the student surveysassessing the outcomes.I. IntroductionThe purpose of this research project was to develop a software-based model, with hardwareimplementation capabilities, of a brain-inspired neural network responsible for edge andorientation detection. Consequently, we had to validate the developed model through extensivetesting, using diverse environments that might affect the functionality of the model—forinstance, the use of fixed images initially, and then, the incorporation of live streaming video.For such testing we used different geometric objects like squares, right triangles, circles, as wellas a more complex image like a picture of Lenna Gray (used to test image processing software
professors.Figure 3: Students Work On an Experimental Engine Design In a Classroom Designed for LecturesRecommendationsStudents were required to determine how to extract the pertinent data, calculate the efficiencythemselves, and explain how and why their engines operated. This act of explanation of a non-traditional problem exposed some understandings and misunderstandings that might haveotherwise not been observed. The initial design activity, despite having this reflectioncomponent, did not close the loop to address or correct these misunderstandings. Given that eachgroup of students had very different experiences, more sharing and group analysis could improvethe educational aspects and further aid the researchers’ data analysis.A key element to this
respondents: select, generate, and demonstrate.” [38 p. 311]In the case of Atman, Kilgore, and McKenna [38], one data source was associated with a singleperspective. However, if different stakeholders frame the perspectives, then multiple sources ofdata can be associated with a single perspective. For researchers looking to explorecontradictions and divergence, this type of approach aligns well with the initiation design posedby Greene, Caracelli, & Graham [43] in their typology of purposes for employing mixedmethods [2] - evaluation designs could also benefit. Considering dialectical pluralism is aboutallowing different perspectives to mix, divergence is likely to occur.Evaluation designs invite multiple data sources and likely have
on the subjects they taught and their interest in incorporatingpharmaceutical engineering into their courses. Teachers were required to apply in teams of twofrom the same school. This allowed teachers to support each other when they returned to theirclasses in the school year. Page 22.1552.4The SettingThe RET program at NJIT is a collaboration between the Engineering Research Center forStructured Organic Particulate Systems (ERC-SOPS) and the University’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) initiated under an NSF-sponsored four-university project. The goal ofthe program is to educate high-school teachers in the opportunities and
Paper ID #39759Development of entrepreneurial mindset-driven training materials forundergraduate researchersDr. Maysam Nezafati, Georgia Institute of Technology I am a lecturer in the department of biomedical engineering at Georgia institute of technology /Emory University. I have been working on educational research since 2016. My main focus is on problem based learning core courses. But specifically I work onDr. Irene Reizman, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Irene M.B. Reizman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Al- fred R. Schmidt Endowed Chair for Excellence in Teaching at the
researchers have two ways this could be approached. The first would be to focus on themultiple racial identities as the intersectionality component of MultiCrit. The second would be tofocus on how mixed-race, as one social identity, and another social identity, such as religion,gender, or sexuality, is experienced by the multiracial individual.The fourth limitation is that MultiCrit was initially conceived and formulated in the context of aPWI university. While this was Harris’s first exploration of MultiCrit, MultiCrit has not beenexplored at minority-serving institutions. For instance, perhaps the racial experiences at aminority-serving institution may not occur as frequently as at a PWI, or there may be moreresources available to the multiracial
-engineering-and-the-gender-gap (accessed Feb. 06, 2023).[7] “Common Core State Standards |.” https://learning.ccsso.org/common-core-state-standards- initiative (accessed Feb. 06, 2023).[8] T. Kettler and J. S. Puryear, “Research Experiences for High School Students: A Curriculum for Expertise and Authentic Practice,” in Modern Curriculum for Gifted and Advanced Academic Students, Routledge, 2016.[9] “AP Research – AP Students | College Board.” https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-research (accessed Feb. 06, 2023).[10] M. Abdullah, R. A. Majid, B. Bais, N. S. Bahri, and M. F. Asillam, “Fostering research aptitude among high school students through space weather competition,” Adv. Space Res., vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 478–486
COVID-19 restrictions and concluded in FallSpring 2021. Three undergraduate students graduated and joined the industry. One of themdecided to stay for his master’s degree in this department. He has been continuing this researchand development on the water analysis quadcopter platform for mosquito research. This specificcapstone project has shown the education value of successful vertical integration. An initial post-capstone survey was previously collected for the analysis for a bigger scope ofmultiple capstone projects [3]. For this paper, another post-capstone survey was collected in May2022 to analyze the educational impacts on this project only. The questions in the on-line surveyare shown as follows:1. In your experience and opinion, did
classroom of students may be substantively the same eachtime they meet, even with a defined group like a Girl Scout troop, the participants in informalsettings tend to fluctuate from meeting to meeting, which is amplified in spaces such as museumsor outreach programs. Depending on the study design, this may mean that a researcher ininformal spaces must plan for additional time to meet participant recruitment goals by eithercoming back to a given group or by adding additional settings to the study. For example, whileher initial recruitment plan was successful, Dr. Clark was concerned that parents would not bewilling to let their child participate in her study. Therefore, she included nearly twice the neededrecruitment timeline in her project plan to
Paper ID #36926Board 389: Strengthening Student Motivation and Resilience throughResearch and AdvisingDr. Zhaoshuo Jiang, San Francisco State University Zhaoshuo Jiang graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering. Before joining San Francisco State University as an assistant professor, he worked as a structural engi- neering professional at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) LLP. As a licensed professional engineer in the states of Connecticut and California, Dr. Jiang has been involved in the design of a variety of low-rise and high-rise projects. His current research interests
” WorkshopCareer planning and professional development are important components of undergraduatestudies. This includes not only a rigorous academic education, but also personal development andpreparation for the job market. In the career development workshop, we discussed successful stepstowards choosing a profession, evaluation of personal strengths and weaknesses, and concretesteps to towards career readiness. Specifically, we discussed: - Career Development Model: As shown in Figure 2, the Career Development Model includes initial assessment of personal interests, values, and skills, followed by research and inquiries into possible career paths. Once applicants have concrete options, they systematically evaluate their priorities and commit
they must follow until their deadline whenthe building must be constructed. The research project could not have been completed by oneengineer because it takes teamwork and collaboration on everyone’s part to get the project done.2. Civil Engineering ProjectAs part of a grant-funded initiative titled Accelerated STEM Pathways through Internships,Research, Engagement, and Support (ASPIRES), a ten-week summer group research internshipprogram was held at San Francisco State University in summer 2017. There were six researchgroups in the program, each group consisting of four to five community college students,mentored by a graduate student and an engineering faculty. One of the groups consisted of fiveinterns who did a structural and earthquake
Paper ID #20640Student Outcomes Of Participating in an International Research ExperienceMs. Lauren Michelle Hatfield, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Lauren is a graduate assistant for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. She supports the Research and Graduate Studies team by conducting research and assisting on research projects focused on current engineering students and the programs which serve them. Lauren is pursuing her Ph.D. in Educational Research and holds a BA in English from the University of Connecticut and an M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration
/M250_DS_EN_60Hz.pdf).[12] Egauge, (https://www.egauge.net).[13] National Interagency Fire Center, (https://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/fireInfo_statistics.html).[14] Hutchison, Mica A., Deborah K. Follman, Melissa Sumpter, and George M. Bodner."Factors Influencing the Self‐Efficacy Beliefs of First‐Year Engineering Students." Journal ofEngineering Education, no. 1, 2006.[15] Litton A et al. “Effect of Research Opportunities on Undergraduate Students’ Self-Efficacyand Professionalism: Initial Qualitative Findings” American Society of Engineering EducationRocky Mountain Section Conference, 2017.
while their papers are under editorialand publishing processes. University and college initiatives can quickly change research foci and newfaculty may bring new research interests to the university and college.ConclusionWe implemented the LDA approach to identify a total of 25 research topics from the bibliographicrecords of faculty publications for the past 20 years. The study results helped us develop a quickunderstanding of our faculty research needs and would provide good evidence from which to makedecisions on collection management, reference and library instruction. Our experiment with the LDAapproach also showed the possibility of academic libraries, especially for liaison librarians, to make useof data and data science techniques to
Paper ID #27838Engaging Community College Students in Cutting-Edge Research in Topol-ogy OptimizationMr. Adrian Bituin, ASPIRES Program: Canada College & San Francisco State University Adrian Bituin is currently an undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at University of California, Irvine. Adrian obtained two Associate of Science for Transfer degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Skyline College prior to transferring to UCI in the Fall 2018 Quarter.Ms. Krystal Kyain, Skyline College Krystal Kyain is currently a student at