of these materials allowed further learning to take place on the followingaspects of the project: Because all team members from the ECE department are on the electrical engineering track as opposed to computer engineering track, configuring the Raspberry Pi via a remote SSH login to the Linux environment required a significant amount of learning. Working in a Linux environment was fairly new to all of them and required learning basic commands and recognizing major differences between Windows-based and Linux-based operating systems, including such fundamental aspects as clicking with a mouse to perform certain tasks on a Windows system versus precisely typing commands in a command line. Even properly using upper- and
and project-based methods in teaching Information Technology curriculum and bridging thegap between the university and the community. Dr. Said can be reached at 513-556-4874,hazem.said@uc.edu.TOM WULF Tom Wulf is an Assistant Professor of Information Engineering Technology at the College ofApplied Science at the University of Cincinnati. He has a Masters Degree in Computer Science. Hisresearch and teaching interests include Web Technologies, Multimedia, IT Pedagogy, and ComputationalLinguistics with a focus on the development of web-based Computer Language Learning Systems for OldNorse.MARK STOCKMAN Mark Stockman is an Assistant Professor of Information Technology. His area of interest centersaround networking/systems administration
. Thelaboratory course brings together undergraduates from two engineering departments (electricaland mechanical) with plans to include systems and computer science students in the near future.Laboratory Hardware/Software InterfaceTo concentrate fully on the actual control design task and allow students to gain experience withindustrial control development tools, a dSPACE DS1104 DSP board6 is chosen as the maininterface between the controlled system (process) and the host computer. One of the salientfeatures of the dSPACE DS 1104 DSP-board is the ease of building real-time applications. Inorder for students to access the I/O dSPACE DS 1104 DSP-board, a software interface to theboard is required. Here, the student has two options: 1) the student can
calculation ofthe diffusion coefficient. The diffusion coefficient, on the other hand, varies with temperatureaccording to an Arrhenius-type of equation, D = Do exp(-EA/kT) = a2 (EA/Nh)exp(-EA/kT) (A5)where a is the interatomic distance, N is Avogadro”s number, h is Planck’s constant (6.6 x 1026atoms per kilogram mole). The values of Do for a number of solid materials are given in anynumber of reference books and papers on the subject.2References:1. A. B. Ellis, et al., "Teaching General Chemistry: A Materials Science Companion", A.C.S. Books, 1993. Page 3.280.6 pp.463-472.2. W. Jost, Diffusion in Solids
of Respondents Major Percentagea Computer Engineering 33% Computer Science 24% Electrical Engineering 38% Mechanical Engineering 29% a Total is greater than 100% due to dual majors. Figure 3: Class Standing of RespondentsThe level of involvement of the respondents also varied; students were asked to self-identify theirlevel of involvement on a five-point Likert scale, where 1 represented the lowest level ofinvolvement and 5 was the highest level of
engineering, mission engineering, energy storage systems, multifunctional structures and materials design, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.Prof. Daniel DeLaurentis, Purdue University Dr. Daniel DeLaurentis is a Professor at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, where he also serves as Vice President for Discovery Park District (DPD) Institutes. His research centers on design and system engineering methods for aerospace systems and systems-of-systems. Dr. DeLau- rentis is Chief Scientist in the DoD Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) and a Fellow of both INCOSE and AIAA. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 A System-of-Systems
. Now, however, industries andorganizations are seeking engineers and managers to not only lead lean projects but to also initiateprojects to change organization culture and conduct lean training for fellow employees.For the past 12 years, Iowa State University has delivered a lean course via lectures and homework onkey lean tools and concepts. Further, lab-related lean projects, for teams of 5 to 6 students, have beendeveloped to supplement the academic learning with hands-on experience. Such lab-based leanprojects guide students in reviewing the current design and production system using an off-shelfproduct, brainstorming a new design so that the product can be produced in a one-piece-flow pullmanufacturing system. The course has been well
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department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University. His primary research interests span from computer systems, system modeling, and to the future generation of real-time, distributed systems. He is keen on developing innovative technologies to enable students in overcoming the common learning barriers, especially the STEM fields.Dr. Robert M. Capraro, Aggie STEM @ Texas A&M University Robert M. Capraro, is Co-Director of Aggie STEM, Director of STEM Collaborative for Teacher Pro- fessional Learning, and Professor Mathematics Education in the Department of Teaching Learning and Culture at Texas A&M University. Dr. Capraro’s expertise is applied research in school settings, program
as its implications for future instructional development and engineeringeducation practice. 2. Literature ReviewTwo areas of literature are relevant to this study: instructional development in engineering; andinstructional development during the pandemic.2.1 Instructional Development in engineeringThe need for instructional development in engineering has become increasingly important overthe past two decades [5]. This has been driven by several factors, including outcomes-basedaccreditation of engineering programs, changing demographics and attributes of engineeringstudents, advances in instructional technology and cognitive science, and the increased emphasison scholarship of teaching and learning in engineering education [6].On
student in engineering or computer science • U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or refugee • Unmet financial need as defined by FAFSATherefore the scholarship is a large motivator for the student to continue to keep their GPA above3.0. It is our philosophy that just handing a scholarship to a student does not guarantee that thestudent will benefit. The student also needs guidance in how to manage time and on how to learn.The scholarship requires that the student take the ASAP class. The assignments of the class areall designed to help the student. Most of the students have no idea why they would want toconsider graduate school, have put little thought into their life plan for 10 years after theBachelor’s degree, and are sure that they do
secondaryobjective is to provide these students an opportunity practice and improve communication,leadership, and technical skills while grouped in small competing teams. Each engineering teamis challenged to predict the performance of a miniature rocket by developing an analytical modelof the rocket trajectory using engineering principles and laboratory measurements. The studentteams also participate in the hands-on activity of building and launching the prototype rocketsystem. This prototype is ultimately used to test the predictions of the analytical model. It islaunched for the first, and last, time as the concluding event of this design competition. To addrealism to the activity, the student teams are given imitation money that is used to buy
managed various educational enterprises. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Work in Progress: Redesigning Curriculum to Foster Student SuccessMotivationFor years various organizations and institutions like The National Academy of Engineering [1],the National Science Foundation [2], and the American Society of Engineering Education [3],have called for curriculum reform in engineering education. On group called Big Beacon, whichwas formed by faculty at Olin College and Illinois Foundry for Innovation in EngineeringEducation developed the Big Beacon manifesto which points out that the best students of today“come to school in search of the excitement of creating cutting edge technology or
, June), Design and Construction of a Hydro WindHybrid Renewable Power Station in Iowa Hickory Hills State Park, Proceedings of 2005 AnnualConference, Portland, Oregon. 10.18260/1-2—15539.[6] Pecen, R., & Humston, J. (2009, June), MSETI Area: Math Science Engineering Technology in Iowaon Applied Renewable Energy Areas, Proceedings of 2009 Annual Conf. & Exposition, Austin, Texas.10.18260/1-2—5819.[7] Pecen, R., & Yildiz, F., & Yuksek, B. Z., & Dakeev, U., & Baltaci, K. (2012, June), Design andImplementation of a 10 kW Wind Power and Instrumentation System. Proceedings of 2012 ASEE AnnualConference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2—21148.[8] Pecen, R., Timmerman, M. (2001, June), A Hands-on Renewable
is especiallychallenging in programming courses, where the natural environment for evaluation requires a oneto one ratio of student to terminal. On the other hand, purely computer-based assessments takeaway the opportunity to examine one’s understanding of main concepts - students must have truecomprehension of the materials when there is no terminal available to hack to get the correctanswer. Additionally, curriculum redesign brings another layer of difficulty and also opportunityfor improvement, which makes choosing and designing assessments a crucial task. In this paper,we will discuss the three phases of change in assessments in a sophomore-level introductoryprogramming course in ECE after curriculum redesign. Details of each phase will
the laboratory structure designed to foster team work was found to becounterproductive to the students' abilities to retain and utilize basic laboratory instrumentationfor routine laboratory measurements. This study evaluated the laboratory skills and knowledgeacquired by students who worked in two member teams and contrasted those attributes for the Proceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2students who worked individually on the weekly laboratory assignments during the semester.The results indicated a significant improvement in the ability to retain and apply laboratory
September 4, 1999 Version 2c: Mountaineering, The Freedom of the Hills, 6th Edition, 1997 Q3: AC Power: Fundamental Electrical Quantities: Charge and Energy Conceptual Physics, Paul G. Hewitt, 9th Edition, 2002. Addison Wesley Q4: Fundamental Electrical Quantities: Charge and EnergyParticipantsThe data used for this study extend from a larger project conducted at Purdue University with thegoal to investigate engineering students’ misconceptions on scientific concepts [9], [12]. Juniorand senior electrical engineering students who had taken at least two electrical circuit
fill some need or want, or just for thesake of creation itself.Tinkering and tinker were used in the verb form. These terms appeared in contexts specific to themaker community (as referred directly to the Maker Faire) or in an education context referring toa manner of hands-on learning. Dale Dougherty talks about the value of tinkering as a means ofteaching kids: “I see the power of engaging kids in science and technology through the practices of Page 23.368.4 making and hands-on experiences, through tinkering and taking things apart.” 6This view is also expressed by Damour13 and Leopold.14 This context stresses tinkering as hands-on
. Costanzo and a. S. E. Zappe, "A Cognitive Study of Problem Solving in Statics," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 99, pp. 337-353, 2010.[2] P. S. Steif and A. Dollár, "Reinventing the Teaching of Statics," International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 723-729, 2005.[3] R. A. Streveler, T. A. Litzinger, R. L. Miller and P. S. Steif, "Learning Conceptual Knowledge in the Engineering Sciences: Overview and Future Research Directions. Journal of Engineering Education," vol. 97, p. 279–294, 2008.[4] E. Davishahl, R. Pearce, T. R. Haskell and K. J. Clarks, "Statics Modeling Kit: Hands-On Learning in the Flipped Classroom," in 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, 2018.[5] O. Ha and
courses forstudents at both institutions.2. The Cyberdefense Capstone CourseOne novel aspect of this joint program is that it will end with a capstone course to be held in aspecial hands-on teaching laboratory. This course will teach the basics of cyberdefense withenough attack knowledge to allow the separate courses to coordinate a final week’s exercise Page 9.273.2involving a war-game, i.e., cyber-attack and defense exercise, between JMU and GMU classesProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineeringover a virtual private network (VPN). As a
82 Accident Reconstruction: A Model-Eliciting Activity in Dynamics Collin Heller and Brian Self California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoAbstractTypical assignments in a traditional dynamics course often do little to motivate students or togive them an indication of how they would use the material in a future job situation. Manyinstructors are now attempting to provide motivational projects, hands-on demonstrations, andeven laboratory assignments to increase understanding and
totransfer new knowledge; to transfer scientific and technical know-how; and, most importantly, totransfer an innovative “can do” attitude into our general society. Undergraduates (juniors andseniors) and graduate students in chemistry, physics, engineering, biology, and business are thetargeted students for this program. Small and developing technology based businesses in the stateof Arkansas are the targeted customers of the improvement process.Throughout the nation small businesses are responsible for our economic growth. One significantarea for small business development is in science and technology. In this area, researchuniversities have played a large role through its students and faculty in establishing start-upcompanies. For example, many
providedas hands-on material at [2].1.2. TurbulenceThe plot shown in Fig. 1 is for a turbulent flow in which the velocity is recorded in time at aparticular point in space. In Fig.1, the instantaneous velocity is given by u = U + u’, where U isthe time-averaged velocity and u’ is the velocity fluctuation over time. As the variation in timedoes not follow or repeat in a periodic manner, so, such flows are random and chaotic and arecalled turbulent flows. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Fig. 1. Wind velocity in time at one pointThe dimensionless parameter, Reynolds Number (Re) is defined by Eqn. 1 and it helps
Paper ID #38338Embedding Equity in an Undergraduate Introductory Course throughExperiential LearningDr. Rania Al-Hammoud, University of Waterloo Rania Al-Hammoud is a lecturer and the current associate chair of undergraduate studies at the civil & environmental engineering department at university of waterloo. Dr. Al-Hammoud has a civil engineering background with research focusing on materials and the rehabilitation of reinforced concrete structures. She also has passion for engineering education and has published widely in this area. She cares about the success and well-being of her students, thus always being creative
the course structure. This paperdescribes the details of the course design and document some of the outcomes.IntroductionWe have embarked on an effort to change the educational outcomes of engineering students bychanging how we teach the foundational engineering courses. We call the effort The MechanicsProject because, at least initially, the focus has been on the engineering mechanics courses(Statics, Dynamics, and Deformable Solids). The Mechanics Project was created at a large R1university in the southwest, and although it was certainly not the first effort in higher educationto redesign the fundamental mechanics courses [1] – [6], it has created long term impacts on bothstudent learning and subsequent course content.The decision to focus
throwing an 8-lb pumpkin246 feet away.The design of a pumpkin thrower was assigned to three Mechanical Engineering Technologystudents as a project for senior level "ETME 475 - Mechanical Systems Design" course. As a firststep, each student worked on their own pumpkin thrower. During the final phase, students workedon the design and manufacturing of the different parts of the project. During the early Fallsemester one student, with faculty supervision, worked on the project to redesign the pouch andtune the system. Students from the Engineering Society have also helped to set it up for tests anddecorations. Competition day was of course a Department affair.Students enjoyed working on this good engineering applications project. The Project
undergraduate studentresearcher, applied to the REU program after being inspired by the material science andengineering course completed the previous fall semester. Seeking an increase in knowledgeabout materials and research, the student gained much appreciation for all the activitiesexperienced during the REU program. The student was selected to work with the Shape MemoryAlloy Research Team (SMART), consisting of faculty, research staff, and all levels of students,whose interest includes developing the design capabilities of “smart” structures for actuationcontrol applications. The student researcher worked in the Active Materials Lab which is one ofthe facilities where thermo-mechanical testing is performed at multiple test frame
Paper ID #31930The Need for Holistic Implementation of SMART AssessmentDr. Ron Averill, Michigan State University Ron Averill joined the faculty at Michigan State University in 1992. He currently serves as the Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research focus is on pedagogy, design optimization of large and complex systems, and design for sustainable agriculture.Dr. Geoffrey Recktenwald, Michigan State University Geoff Recktenwald is a member of the teaching faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University. Geoff holds a PhD in
understand the universityexperience and how it relates to professional practice; and (4) implementing formal changes ingoverning policies and procedures within CBEE. In the first stage of this project we haveparticularly focused on the use of base-line, qualitative data to inform future project activitiesand on processes to garner broad buy-in for change throughout the unit’s community.This work is supported by the National Science Foundation pilot program RevolutionizingEngineering Departments (RED) that is aligned with the NSF Engineering (ENG) Directorate’smulti-year initiative, the Professional Formation of Engineers, to create and support aninnovative and inclusive engineering profession for the 21st Century.2. Theory of ChangeWhile CBEE has
AC 2012-3764: MULTI-DISCIPLINARY INTEGRATION FOR DESIGN ANDCONSTRUCTION FRESHMAN: STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION ANDCHALLENGESDr. Yilmaz Hatipkarasulu, University of Texas, San Antonio Yilmaz Hatipkarasulu holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering from Louisiana State University. He is currently the Coordinator of the Construction Science and Management program at the University of Texas, San Antonio.Dr. Vincent B. Canizaro, University of Texas, San Antonio Vincent Canizaro is currently the Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Texas, San Antonio. A registered architect for 15 years, he has practiced in Texas, Massachusetts, and California. He has published Architectural Regionalism