Freshmen Research Project: Design, Development and Testing of Variable Pitch Propeller Thrust Measurement Apparatus – A Case StudyAbstractWhen students first start their engineering education, they often do not know what to expect interms of the curriculum. Students are often discouraged by the rigor of freshmen theoreticalcourses. One of the ways to motivate them and keep them interested in engineering is to havethem work on hands on projects. In this project, freshmen students designed, developed, andtested a variable pitch propeller apparatus. The apparatus was intended to become a part of theaerospace engineering laboratory that future students would use to conduct experiments. Thechallenges of working
2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference Network Programming – Beyond Sockets Hugh Smith Cal Poly Computer Engineering ProgramAbstractIn this paper we present a methodology for teaching computer network programming. In typicalComputer Networking textbooks used in networking courses the only coverage of networkprogramming is a discussion of the sockets API. This approach seems logical since many timesthe students taking a Computer Networking course are upper division students who already knowhow to program. The problem with this approach is most students have not writtenasynchronous programs that need to work together to
Kettering University this approach began a few years ago with various faculty membersworking to integrate their laboratories and the curriculum. The primary driver for this initiativewas the provision of a seamless curriculum to the student body in contrast to the traditionalapproach where learning is often experienced in fragmented fashion. Grants from the NationalScience Foundation were instrumental in obtaining some of the equipment used for this method.Two of the laboratories that welcomed this change were the Computer Integrated Manufacturing(CIM) and Polymer Processing facilities.The CIM laboratory features material handling systems such as a Litton AS/RS, a Litton AGV,and conveyors from Bosch and Flex-link. The sixteen material handling
learning methodology suitable for this new medium. It is clear that careful experiments ofusability and effectiveness are essential. While there are many Web-based learning projectsunderway, few have provided proper controlled measurements of their effectiveness, except for thecommon approach that students in class B liked the new techniques better than those in old class A.Contemporary brain science, learning theory, and educational psychology confirm that students Page 5.629.2learn best by a variety of complex and interactive, biological and cultural modalities. Here, thepotential of Web-based learning is especially significant. Consistent
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based on durability and efficiency. In addition, the teamredesigned the rebar truss, reducing its overall size and eliminating complex weld angles. Theteam also made fixtures for the pump seals and rebar truss to reduce construction time and toprovide more repeatable construction process. The updated design was installed at HeA in thesummer of 2007. The 2006-2007 academic year also marked the implementation of theIntegrated Project Curriculum (IPC) for engineering majors at Messiah College.During the fall of 2007, IPC students began work on creating a construction document andbuilding new fixtures (the originals were left in Burkina Faso). Considering the difficulties ofmaintaining a working relationship with Burkina Faso, the project contacted
based on durability and efficiency. In addition, the teamredesigned the rebar truss, reducing its overall size and eliminating complex weld angles. Theteam also made fixtures for the pump seals and rebar truss to reduce construction time and toprovide more repeatable construction process. The updated design was installed at HeA in thesummer of 2007. The 2006-2007 academic year also marked the implementation of theIntegrated Project Curriculum (IPC) for engineering majors at Messiah College.During the fall of 2007, IPC students began work on creating a construction document andbuilding new fixtures (the originals were left in Burkina Faso). Considering the difficulties ofmaintaining a working relationship with Burkina Faso, the project contacted
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701 {rileyh1,cs044712,jp953310@ohio.edu}Abstract— Active learning occurs on different levels and we engineering students may undertake highly self-define a relevant problem for which students may achieve directed projects to engage learning about sensors,“hands-on” learning. The Infra-Red (IR) spectrum sensing for software design, and hardware development. One ofautonomous vehicle applications is a compelling approach to these self-directed student projects considers thedetecting objects in the path of vehicle travel. Official data
for: • The US Naval Facilities Engineering Command • The Principal Deputy, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering • Liberty Science Center’s Engineer Week Event • New Jersey Sea Grant Middle School Technology Camp • Fox News • NJ Tech Weekly • NJ.com • NJ Today • Voice of AmericaFour of the Perseus II students also developed a miniaturized UUV they dubbed microROV. Thishand held system used many of the same concepts of their full scale system and operated withthe same demo mission of finding UXO underwater. This microROV was developed in onemonth from concept to final implementation at the USA Science and Engineering Festival inApril 2014. The student developed
Paper ID #38390Recruitment Strategy Development for First Generation,Underrepresented, and Low-Income Masters StudentsBriceland Mclaughlin (Senior Advisor) Briceland McLaughlin is the Senior Academic Advisor for the College of Engineering at Boise State University. She graduated with an M.Ed. from the University of Kansas in 2011 and has worked at higher education institutions across the country over the last decade serving in student affairs, academic support and faculty roles. Briceland is interested in the intersectionality of equity-based curriculum design and experiential learning.Julianne A. Wenner (Associate
Outcomes AssessmentIndividual professors naturally tend to focus on their own courses, and may be onlyperipherally aware of other courses within an engineering program. However, studentsexperience the program as a whole, and it may therefore be beneficial to look at thecourses in an engineering curriculum holistically, rather than as isolated components.Certainly, the knowledge, skills, and abilities that students achieve upon completion oftheir programs are affected by how well courses and other experiences in the curriculumfit together and build on each other16.Ideally, a curriculum should be constructed starting first with a statement of goals,followed by a definition of program objectives and outcomes, ultimately leading todevelopment of
(RQs): RQ1: How effective is the first iteration of workshops in fostering student learning outcomes in intercultural competence, community-engaged practice, and qualitative data analysis? RQ2: How did the workshops promote transdisciplinary approaches to climate change solutions?Future environmental professionals will need a broad understanding of the dynamicrelationships across natural, social, and engineering systems. These workshops represent ascalable curriculum that can be offered to graduate students from diverse disciplines as a co-curricular dimension to their degree plans. Through the completion of these workshops, theintent is to help grow students as future environmental professionals who will
in a Large Enrollment, Multiple Section Blended Linear Circuits Course,” Advances in Engineering Education, Vol 5, No. 3, 2016. [18] A.A. Ferri and B.H. Ferri, “Blended Learning in a Rigid-Body Dynamics Course Using On-Line Lectures and Hands-On Experiments,” 2016 ASEE Conference and Exposition, New Orleans, LA, June 26-29, 2016. [19] A. Ferri, B. Ferri, and R. Kadell, “Program to Integrate Mobile, Hands-On Experiments into the ME, AE, and ECE curriculum,” ASEE 2019 Annual Conference and Exposition, Tampa, FL, June 16-19, 2019. [20] L.A. Meadows and D. Sekaquaptewa, “The Influence of Gender Stereotypes on Role Adoption in Student Teams,” ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
sense of new information in the context of what stage they are inand the information they already have, especially when new information conflicts with orcontradicts existing information. The integration of new information into a process may requirereturning to a previous stage. Gumienny, Lindberg, and Meinel [94, Sec. Introduction] havedefined information synthesis as the “practice of integrating, organizing, filtering and evaluatingexternal information [in the design process]” and highlight its importance for both understandingstakeholder needs and solution limitations.Research MethodsStudy Goals. This initial exploratory study is part of a larger research plan that aims, in part, toexplore how engineering student designers interpret the role
’ Conceptions of State,” IEEE Trans. Educ., vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 88–98, Feb. 2012.[24] R. A. Streveler, S. Brown, G. L. Herman, and D. Montfort, “Conceptual change and misconceptions in engineering education: Curriculum, measurement, and theory-focused approaches,” in Cambridge Handbook on Engineering Education, A. Johri and B. M. Olds, Eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 83–101.[25] J. Kelly, S. Krause, and D. Baker, “A pre-post topic assessment tool for uncovering misconceptions and assessing their repair and conceptual change,” in 2010 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2010, p. T1G–1.[26] S. Krause, J. Kelly, A. Tasooji, J. Corkins, D. Baker, and S. Purzer, “Effect of pedagogy on conceptual
proficiency testingby computer is commonplace. There is virtually no potential student any place in the world or inany lifestyle condition who cannot be accessed, instructed and evaluated electronically via a phoneconnection and computer, and at increasingly affordable prices. In todayÀs marketplace, access tocomputers and on-line services is more a matter of choice rather than cost, meaning thatsocioeconomic status is not a deterrent to having access to technology. Virtual universities, whichtake full advantage of this new computing environment, hold the promise to revolutionizeeducation delivery in the 21st century.During the 1996-2006 decade, employment in science and engineering (S&E) occupations isexpected to increase at more than three
Paper ID #19558Use of a Vertically Integrated Project Team to Develop Hands-On LearningModulesProf. Aldo A. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology Al Ferri received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University in 1981 and his PhD degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 1985. Since 1985, he has been a faculty member in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, where he now serves as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies. His research areas are in the fields of dynamics, controls, vibrations, and acoustics. He is also active in course and curriculum
part.Overall, the faculty survey results and student performance outcomes demonstrate theeffectiveness of JTF web-enabled, engagement and feedback pedagogy. Shifting faculty beliefsand classroom practice from instructor-centered teaching toward student-centered learningresulted in positive outcomes of student attitude, achievement and persistence.AcknowledgementThe authors acknowledge the support of this work from NSF Grant #1226325.Bibliography1. Adelman, H. S. and Taylor, L. (1997). Toward a scale-up model for replication new approaches to schooling. Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 8, 197-230.2. Borrego, M., Froyd, J. E., and Hall, T. S. (2010). Diffusion of engineering education innovations: A survey of awareness
Artificial Intelligence Center, interned at the New England University Transportation Center, and led the IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu Theta Xi chapter as its president. He has completed a Site Reliability Engineering internship at Walmart ASR and is currently a Software Engineer Intern at AtomBeam Technologies.Toluwani Collins Olukanni, Norwich University Toluwani Olukanni is a graduate of Norwich University, where he received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include machine learning and the application of artificial intelligence in medicine, with a focus on computer vision and deep learning. He is passionate about creating AI solutions that enhance human productivity and
Teach Engineering Genres.” TPC 42.1(1999): 3-11.2. Randolph, Gary B. “Collaborative Learning in the Classroom: A Writing Across the Curriculum Approach.”JEE 89.2 (1999): 111-114.3. Walker, Kristin. “Using Genre Theory to Teach Students Engineering Lab Report Writing: A CollaborativeApproach.” TPC 42.1(1999): 12-20.4. Sharp, Julie E., Barbara M. Olds, Ronald L. Miller, and Marilyn A. Dyrud. “Four Effective Writing Strategiesfor Engineering Classes.” JEE88.1 (1999): 53-57.5. Informal survey during ASEE workshops, 1999 and 2000.6. Dorothy Winsor. Writing Like an Engineer: A Rhetorical Education. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence ErlbaumAssociates, Inc., 1996.7. Informal survey conducted during ASEE workshops, 1999 and 2000.Biographical
. Metacognition is a relatively new construct and thus has lowawareness among engineering and science faculty, whose graduate education included little or noeducational theory or training. Even if faculty members were made aware of the importance andvalue of metacognitive instruction, we argue that its adoption would remain low. Many well-known instructional approaches with overwhelming research supporting their effectiveness haveyet to be adopted in engineering and science teaching33, 34. The most frequently cited reasons fornon-adoption of these innovations include the displacement of course content, the fear of studentresistance, and the alteration of the instructor’s preferred pedagogy.33 It is clear thatoverwhelming evidence is insufficient to
research on changes in STEM teaching and learning as well as institutional change.Dr. Kent Steen, Lincoln Public Schools American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A Comprehensive Professional Development Program for K-8 Teachers to Teach Computer Science1. IntroductionThe Adapt, Implement, and Research at Nebraska (AIR@NE) project, funded by the NSFCSforAll Researcher-Practitioner Partnership (RPP) program, examines the adaptation of avalidated K-8 Computer Science (CS) curriculum in diverse school districts statewide. OurResearch-Practitioner Partnership is primarily between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, theLincoln Public Schools, and
genuine interest in full engagement. Fifteen faculty, called ASSERTFellows, were selected to engage in the yearlong ASSERTive community—for AligningStakeholders and Structures to Enable Research Transformation (ASSERT). The goal of havinga diverse set of participants was realized with a cohort consisting of six women and nine men, atall ranks (i.e. Assistant, Associate, and Full Professors), and from multiple academic units oncampus (Biology; Community and Environmental Health; Computer Science; Curriculum,Instruction, and Foundational Studies; Electrical and Computer Engineering; English; MaterialsScience and Engineering; Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering; Nursing; Philosophy;Physics; Public Policy and Administration).To ensure university
engineeringtechnology programs.McKenzie7 reported in 2004 the results of their survey of all ABET-accredited engineeringprograms, where they asked about the characteristics of capstone projects, including its duration,importance in the undergraduate curriculum, and practices using the capstone design projects tofulfill EC 2000 Criterion 3 and Criterion 4 requirements. They reported that 80% of therespondents said that each of Criterion 3 outcomes can be assessed within the capstoneexperience, with the most commonly assessed Program Outcomes being: Communicateeffectively, Solve engineering problems and Use engineering tools. They further reported 91%required a final written report. Respondents also reported evaluating many other items for
provide everyone with insight into their experience. These presentations will take place at the Page 25.93.10 end of the internship and again for the new intern class next semester.The Professional Internship CoordinatorThe internship coordinator takes a proactive role in this curriculum. They represent theDepartment and perhaps even the School, and are the “point-of-contact” for bothindustries and students alike. They continuously search for new hosting firms whilemonitoring existing ones. Their role involves recruitment, administration, guidance,coordination, and a great deal of quality control. The coordinator must be
Education at Purdue University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Applied Ethics via Encouraging Intuitive Reflection and Deliberate DiscourseAbstractArtificial intelligence’s (AI) widespread societal impact means that students of alldisciplines will be working in roles adjacent to this new technology. As a result, theyneed to understand how to appropriately navigate and behave ethically in practice. Thepurpose of this paper is to introduce and detail a learning intervention intended toenhance the ethical behavior of future AI developers and engineers. The SIMDEconceptual framework was developed to offer a basis for understanding the pre-rationalaspects of
. Educators hope that the student-receptors will receive and digest 100% ofthe written materials and the words that the teacher delivered. However, this is not always thecase so other innovative training methods are needed. “Learn by Doing” 2 is a motto at Cal PolyPomona. This motto is especially true for engineering education where practice is a key tocomprehend technical theories and skills.Service learning approach originated from the hands-on learning or experiential education. Thepower of experiential learning has been pointed out in various work 1, 2, 3, 4. Specially, in servicelearning, college students do not only learn by doing, they can also make or produce usefulprofessional-grade product, thereby having the feeling of accomplishment
Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Educationthat the new high-tech teaching and learning will have a large impact on their retention andsuccess rates.3.3 Comments of Freshmen StudentsAs part of this retention grant, a total of 62 freshmen students were trained on differentnanotechnology subjects. During the experiments, the GTA and the instructor had manyconversations with the students about the subjects, retention, student successes, future goals andvisions, etc. Some of their comments are summarized below: The hands-on nanotechnology experience program should continue with more experiments in the following years. It is a great experience because everyone felt comfortable to ask questions and
Northern Arizona University, and at University of Southern California. Dr. Ozis enjoys every dimension of being an engineering educator. She teaches across the curriculum from freshman introductory level, to graduate level courses. Dr. Ozis conducts research related to engineering classrooms and innovative pedagogical strategies. Dr. Ozis passionate about broadening participation in engineering. She has been an ASCE Excellence in Civil Engineering Education (ExCEEd) fellow since 2016, and currently serves as an assistant mentor. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com The Impact of Faculty Mindset on Communication
. This growth has occurred so rapidly that the academicpipeline is struggling to keep up with the demand for cybersecurity professionals capable ofprotecting the expanding infrastructure. Training a security-focused workforce has become acritical objective of government entities, businesses, and academic institutions.As educators respond to this growing demand, developing new curriculum and methodologies fortraining cybersecurity professionals, there has been little systematic effort to assess studentoutcomes from the variety of pedagogical approaches being used. This paper presents the secondstage in our work to develop an assessment tool designed to measure student interest andself-efficacy in relation to cybersecurity.Such a tool will allow