Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching and Outreach

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B. Lanning, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Wahyu Lestari, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Shirley Anne Waterhouse, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona

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Materials

Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. She is also the author of six books, and the most recent is The Power of eLearning: The Essential Guide for Teaching in the Digital Age, Allyn and Bacon Publishers, 2005. Page 22.645.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Evaluating Prerequisite Knowledge Using a Concept Inventory for an Engineering Failure CourseAbstractA unique laboratory-based course in engineering failure, entitled Aerospace EngineeringFailure, has been developed to prepare undergraduate students to design structures and materialsfor

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Qianjin Yue; Peifung Guo; Hung Tao Shen; Hayley Shen

programs in physical and environmental oceansciences. DUT with its State Key Laboratories in Coastal and Offshore Engineering andStructural Analysis and Industrial Equipment is one of the top technical universities in China.Both universities are experienced in international exchanges and are enthusiastic about the REUProgram. Both cities, Dalian and Qingdao, are modern port cities, which provide good livingenvironments for REU students.Planning and ImplementationFrom our own experiences advising undergraduates in research projects, we have observed thatthere are two aspects of research projects that increase the benefits of participating in a summerresearch project: 1) students should work within a research team on a comprehensive researchproject

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stefani A. Bjorklund; Norman Fortenberry

measure engineering students’ progress towards achieving more than one or two – muchless all 15 – of the identified foundational student learning outcomes. Table 1. 15 Foundational Technical and Non-Technical Student Outcomes Engineering graduates must have: ABET Criteria 3a-k a) An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering b) An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data c) An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs d) An ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams e) An ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems f) An understanding of professional and ethical

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering and Pre-College Outreach Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kauser Jahan, Rowan University; Kathleen Sernak, Rowan University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

to ourincoming freshman engineering students. As such a brief overview of the Rowan engineeringclinics is provided below:Rowan’s engineering programs include hands-on, team-oriented laboratory and real worldexperiences with a strong interdisciplinary component. All engineering students take eightsemesters of required Engineering Clinic Courses4-5 a unique component of the engineeringprogram. Key clinic features include:• Creating inter- and multi-disciplinary experiences through collaborative teamwork,• Stressing innovation and total quality management (TQM) as the necessary framework for solving complex problems,• Incorporating state-of-the-art technologies throughout the curricula, and• Creating continuous

Collection

2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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Diversity

relate to potential internship and professionalemployers. Although guided at arms-length by industry-experienced staff, the overwhelmingemphasis was for the Engineering Team to reach their own designs, experience their own failuresand successes in earning their own know-how, resolve their own communications and schedulingconflicts, and to respond to customer critical comments of prototype product performance.The spirit of this project is in line with previous successful efforts to expose students to“authentic” engineering experiences and environments through, for example, Service Learning[1], Learning Factories [2], Capstone Projects [3], hands-on 1st-Year Engineering Courses,Learning in Laboratory Settings [4], and Engineering courses featuring

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Szaroletta

, P.E.William K. Szaroletta is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University wherehe presently teaches solid mechanics courses. He is a member of ASEE and ASME. He has 18 years industryexperience in engineering and project management positions and 6 years university teaching experience. His currentapplied research interests are experimental mechanics, lab automation, and optimal design using genetic algorithms. Page 6.1151.7 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanley J. Pisarski

liquid crystal display modules, 2) matrix hexadecimal keypads, 3) digital toanalog converters, and 4) analog to digital converters. These topics require approximately eightto nine weeks of the term leaving the rest of the laboratory periods for nontraditional laboratoryexperiments. Laboratory exercises for this course are far from cookbook style experiments. Thestudents are only supplied with the functional specifications for the resulting operational system Page 5.653.2and they provide the creativity to make it happen and meet or exceed the design specifications.Over the course of the past seven years, the students have completed projects such

Conference Session

Classroom Engagement

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Holbert, Arizona State University

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Educational Research and Methods

students’ understanding of platform commonality,” International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 120-130, 2007.15. S. Goel, D. Pon, “Innovative model for information assurance curriculum: a teaching hospital,” ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing, vol. 6, no. 3, Sept. 2006, Article 2.16. E. Granado, W. Colmenares, M. Strefezza, A. Alonso, “ A web-based virtual laboratory for teaching automatic control,” Computer Applications in Engineering Education, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 192-197, 2007.17. T.W. Simpson, “Experiences with a hands-on activity to contrast craft production and mass production in the classroom,” International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 19, no. 2, 2003, pp. 297-304.18

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

A. J. Baker; Z. Chambers; M. B. Taylor

experience of the instructor, see second attachment. The next left column hotword is the Course Calendar, presenting the summary of the lecture topic for every class meeting,along with citations for the appropriate courseware material.A key course compliment is the design of classwork Problems and computer Lab Assignmentexperiences. On the Course Calendar, the date of assignment of problems and when they aredue are hot words. The student is thus immediately led to the appropriate locations in correlationwith the current subject material. A printout of the first page in the course calendar, problem and Page 4.268.2computer lab assignment areas

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Bassam H Matar, Chandler Gilbert Community College

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

propertraining on these devices to draw employment opportunities back to this country. By providing astate-of-the-art learning environment, technicians and technologists can become morecompetitive within the workplace. The project will help community colleges and 2- and 4-yearuniversity-based technical programs to update curricula to meet the expectations of industry bysupplying qualified technicians and technologists who have extensive hands-on experience withcurrent design tools. By developing a curriculum that includes hands-on re-configurableelectronics laboratories, we will be able to provide students in these programs state-of-the-arttraining tools that match the expectations of industry.FPGAsFPGAs were created approximately 15 years ago by the

Conference Session

Robots and K-12 Computer Applications

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert L. Avanzato, Pennsylvania State University, Abington

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Computers in Education

sensors on one robot(such as a potentiometer) to remotely control the motion (steering) of a second robot using XBeeradio communication. In addition to the high success rate for project completion, the levels ofstudent enthusiasm and student team interactions were also observed to be very high during themulti-robot laboratory experiences.2.3 Programmable Multi-robot ControllerIn the third educational project to be presented, a low-cost, handheld, programmable remotecontrol device (using XBee) has been designed and constructed to allow a human operator towirelessly control the motion of one robot or multiple robots in a team, and also allow the Page

Conference Session

ECCD Innovative Teaching Methods & Outreach

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

during the execution of each program that will prove helpfulwhen implementing the Model.Need to promote ST(EE)2MThe Wind Powering America initiative has set a goal to power 20% of the country’s energy fromwind by the year 2030 6. In order to accomplish this goal, a workforce needs to be developedwith the necessary skillsets. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) workforcedevelopment analyses studies show that, “The greatest near-term solar and wind workforce needsinclude technicians and tradesmen with hands-on solar- and wind-specific experience,experienced electrical, mechanical and solar engineers, and project managers.” 13 And in orderto create this workforce a “Standardized education and training at all levels – primary

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tolga Duman; Cihan Tepedelenlioglu; Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola; Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

both independently and collaboratively in the discovery of SP-COM principles.2. The Combined Curriculum and Research StructureAt ASU, the signal processing and communications curriculum (Fig. 1 – right hand side) includes fourundergraduate courses, i.e., the required junior-level signals and systems (EEE 303) and random signalanalysis (EEE 350), and the senior electives digital signal processing (EEE 407) and communicationsystems (EEE 455). We are developing a new senior 3-credit elective course entitled “Introduction toSignal Processing for Communications Research” (EEE498). Research experiences are provided in all four years of the undergraduate SP-COM curriculumthrough carefully designed modules that contain results drawn from our

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Manion; Moshe Kam

socialresponsibilities of engineers, as well as the cultural, environmental and global impact ofengineering and technology. Indeed, criterion 4 places emphasis on the larger, social impact ofengineering, and, in addition, requires students to be aware of the political impact ofengineering. It mandates that “a major design experience…must include…the followingconsiderations: economic; environmental; sustainability; manufacturability; ethical; health andsafety; social; and political.”In ABET’s “Conventional Criteria,” under the heading of “Curricular Content: Humanities andSocial Sciences” one finds the following principle: In the interests of making engineers fully aware of their social responsibilities and better able to consider related factors

Conference Session

Preparing Future Educators

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda M. Head, Rowan University; Melanie Basantis, Rowan University; Steven H. Chin, Rowan University; Bernard Pietrucha, Rowan University

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Graduate Studies

responsibilities is key to their ownacademic success making appropriate mentoring and training crucial1.In the College of Engineering each of our four departments was assigned funding for threeTeaching Assistants that are designated Fellows. The Teaching Fellows (TFs) not only takeclasses, work on their thesis research and assist with undergraduate laboratories, they also havethe opportunity to gain direct classroom experience as instructor of record for a freshman orsophomore course. With these opportunities in mind, the College of Engineering Dean’s Officeand the four department Chairpersons formed a committee to develop a summer trainingprogram that prepares the TFs for the teaching experience.Since TFs are assigned to a wide variety of different

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lash B. Mapa, Purdue University Northwest; Feroja Goni, Purdue University Northwest; Sadia Alam; Gokarna Aryal, Purdue University Northwest

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Diversity

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Instrumentation

illustrate that; DOE can improve tracking and shipping performance and improve item level of monitoring of valuable plants. (1) Data collection Appropriate statistical test for data analysis, for this study Design of Experiments (DOE) will be used.Data Collection and Data AnalysisThe data is collected in laboratory environment with minimal interference from external factorssuch as metal objects and interference from other antennas. For this experiment, the antenna andthe receiver were connected above each other on a wooden pole. Antenna height was fixed at 3.5feet from the ground. This set up has been shown in figure -3. When a tag is placed facing theantenna, its reading is taken for 20 seconds. All RFID readings are taken for to

Conference Session

Ensuring Access to K - 12 Engineering Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence Genalo, Iowa State University; Jamie Gilchrist, Iowa State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Technology Program. Page 11.688.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Home Schoolers in an Engineering/Education K12 Outreach ProgramAbstractThe Toying With TechnologySM program (TWT) has been offered to preservice elementary andsecondary teachers for ten years. This program is designed to explain the principles behindmany of the technological innovations in wide use today. This is accomplished through hands-onlaboratory experiences. This includes, but is not limited to, experiences with programming,global positioning systems, and biomedical engineering. This program uses engineering as abasis to teach math, science, technology

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Kornecki, ERAU; Thomas Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott; Wojciech Grega, AGH; Jean-Marc Thririet, LAG; Miroslav Sveda, BUT

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International

of external devices are ofprimary importance. The area of real-time safety-critical control systems is one of the mostchallenging fields of computing, relying on designs developed according to the latest advances inscience and modern principles of engineering practice.The study discussed in this paper is focused on the creation of an international curriculumframework centered on RSIC – an important aspect of the computer-system-control-softwareengineering education 1,2. The study explores the mechanism for involving students frommultilingual, geographically separated institutions in a coordinated educational experience. Theultimate objective is the creation of a RSIC curriculum model, which can be used by engineeringschools both in the USA

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Klaus Bartels, San Antonio College; Steven F Lewis

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Diversity

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Two-Year College

emphasize spectrumcomponents most beneficial to vegetative growth and flowering. Fig. 3 – Experiments with fluorescent lighting resulted in healthy basil plantsDesign work and experimentation during Re-Energize Years 1 and 2 came to fruition in multipleprojects during Year 3. In the hydroponic laboratory, multiple teams of STEM students designedand assembled mounting structures that support multiple layers of plants nourished by a flow ofnutrient solution. In accordance with the project’s goal of producing low-cost grow systemsmade from readily available materials, they assembled most of the support structures from1.5-inch schedule 40 PVC pipe and fittings.After completing the support structures, Re-Energize students designed and experimented

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Vollaro

RequirementsIn the IE314 Manufacturing Processes course, students experience the ‘learning beyond theclassroom’ activity of industrial field trips as an integral and required component of this course.The course is taught 2 times a week for one hour and fifteen minutes or 3 time a week for 50minutes and field trips are scheduled for a two-hour period by extending one of the sessions. Theadministration specifies a ‘laboratory period’, which corresponds to the working hours of mostcompanies and the student’s course schedules. The accompanying textbook is Materials and Processes in Manufacturing by E.Paul DeGarmo,J.T. Black, Ronald A. Kohser, Eighth Edition, Prentice-Hall Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ,1997.The course description is as follows: “This

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

D. Cenk Erdil, Sacred Heart University; Kevin N. Bowlyn, Sacred Heart University; Joshua Randall, Sacred Heart University

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Computing and Information Technology

discussion of fundamentals ofcomputer organization and architecture. In addition, a project-based component helped students to design andimplement a basic computer organization idea, using the fundamental skillsthey have learned in class. Almost all of the students being in their sopho-more year, stated that this class made them excited about their major choice,and indirectly contributed to increasing levels of retention, especially in 3early college experiences in computer science and engineering classes. Fig-ure 1 shows demographics of age distribution and class standing in Fall 2019cohort. Figure 2 shows distribution of undergraduate majors within the col-lege, with majority of students either already

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Anderson; Marc Hoit; Richard M. Felder; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

material (i.e., mathematics, physics, chemistry, English) being taken byengineering students. Thus the SUCCEED Coalition embarked on a set of experiments in 1992 toexplore different approaches to integrate the freshman year.Coupling subject integration in the first year with an introduction to engineering was ideally suitedfor the Coalition’s program given the large resources required to conduct large-scale experiments,the availability of a multiple-campus laboratory to determine robustness, the extended period offunding, and the visibility of this NSF program. The approaches to integration studied by thecoalitions required building teams of faculty from multiple disciplines and assessment experts toevaluate the program impact and designing and

Collection

2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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Diversity

Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project Oriented Capstone Courses,” Journal of Engineering Education (January 1997): 17 - 28. 4. Milo Koretsky, Christine Kelly, and Edith Gummer, “Student Perceptions of Learning in the Laboratory: Comparison of Industrially Situated Virtual Laboratories to Capstone Physical Laboratories,” Journal of Engineering Education (July 2011): 540 - 573. 5. Heshmat A. Aglan and S. Firasat Ali, “Hands-On Experiences: An Integral Part of Engineering Curriculum Reform,” Journal of Engineering Education (October 1996): 327 – 330. 6. Stupak P.R., S. Rumrill, B. S. Carlsen, T. George, and J. Suriano, “Authentic Engineering Experience: Electromagnetic-Induction Keychain for a

Conference Session

Innovative Projects in Energy Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed D. Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University; Jeremy Keith Posey Sr.

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

laboratories help to facilitate the complete working experience forthe students. The labs allow the students to design, create, and enhance their vehicles. Eachstudent has the ability to work on every aspect of the vehicle they are creating and hone theirskills. The machine shop allows the students to test their designs as well as gain invaluableexperience working on machines such as laser cutters that they will be using during their futurecareers. These projects help students to sharpen their skills for future workmanship, such as teamwork, understanding responsibility, and making use of techniques learned in class. Moreover theEVP students gain an irreplaceable experience and lifelong relationships while working withinternational students and

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdogan Sener

“what if’ type of questioning, enabling sensitivity analysis and decision making. Other assignments necessitate working with spreadsheet and other commercial software. This type of collaborative undertakings inherently facilitate students working together on problems of nature that they will be exposed to in their outside work in the industry after graduation. b. I also use formal groups for some laboratory work and writing of laboratory reports in courses such as Soils Testing Laboratory, and Construction Materials and Methods. c. I also employ formal groups of 2-3 students for semester project assignments that may involve model building, portfolio preparation, and analysis/design type of assignments that

Conference Session

First-Year Issues in ECE Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Girma Tewolde, Kettering University

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Electrical and Computer

few pre-designed practical tasks the students complete that arefocused on the main topics for that class. These activities help students demonstrate how wellthey understand the concepts by completing practical laboratory experiments, either insimulation or on a real physical setup. Each class period ends by giving students open-endedproblems that expect them to apply the knowledge they gained from that day or other previouslessons, and making connections to practical real-world applications. These often motivate themto think outside the box and to come up with creative solutions to existing problems or developnew applications or use-cases based on the tools they are learning.III. Course ModulesThis section presents the course modules

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles McIntryre

$classroom as a laboratory# approach, and assisted in course assessment and evaluation.To the surprise of both the students and the instructor, and contrary to typical academic endeavors,this experiment in education actually turned out to be $fun# for both the students and theinstructor.Bibliography1. Horn, E., et. al., $Individual Differences in Dyadic Cooperative Learning,# Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 90, 1998.2. Loxterman, Alan, S., $Student-Centered Lecturing,# The Teaching Professor, December 1998.3. Edwards, Leslie, $Practical Risk Management in the Construction Industry,# Thomas Telford Publications, 1 Heron Quay, London, England , 1995.Charles McIntyreCharles McIntyre is an Assistant Professor of Civil

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session II - Curriculum Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Jared P Coyle, Drexel University; Jamie Lyn Kennedy, Drexel University; Jessica S Ward, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Adam K Fontecchio, Drexel University (Eng.)

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Curriculum Development

Kenyan country. Quantitative and Page 21.21.8qualitative outcomes of the two week intensives in Kenya have been reported here. TheEngineering Visiting Fellows program has demonstrated dramatic increases in student awarenessand interest in engineering, with 71.9% of all participants indicating an interest in pursuingengineering after participating. For under $28,000, a pilot and expansion of the program wererun over a period of two years that reached over 1,500 total students, including over 300 whoparticipated in targeted engineering design projects. Evidence of cross-cultural experiences isshown in student

Conference Session

CIP Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atin K Sinha, Albany State University

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College Industry Partnerships

students. Page 23.993.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Project Oriented K-12 Programs in Rural SouthAbstractAlbany State University (ASU), located in the rural south, conducts a transfer engineeringprogram since 1985. With the help of external funding, an engineering laboratory consisting of anumber of manufacturing and testing equipment was established in 2002. The existence of thelaboratory and the industry advisory committee established as a direct result of external fundinghelped launch a number of project oriented outreach programs targeting middle and high

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Vernengo, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Johannes Strobel, Texas A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

and applicable to a range of student levels and STEM disciplines.The hands-on experiments cover the application of polymer design to: i) static and dynamicstructure-property relationships in hydrogels for load-bearing tissue replacement, ii) cell-biomaterial interactions in tissue engineering scaffolds, iii) characterization of stimuli-responsivehydrogel composites, and iv) modeling of mass and heat transfer in thermally sensitive polymernetworks for pulsatile drug delivery.2. PROJECT GOALSThe goals and objectives of this project are outlined below. • To develop multidisciplinary curricula on tissue engineering and biomaterials, based in materials science, that enhances student knowledge of fundamental concepts in core STEM