disciplines such as Systems Engineering, Engineering Management, and evenbusiness.AcknowledgmentWe would like to thank Dean’s Excellence in Teaching and Learning Grant of College ofEngineering and IMSE Exploratory Research Program for the financial support. We would alsolike to thank Atousa Arzanipour for her contribution in producing the tactile aids.References1 Schwanenflugel, Paula J. Why are Abstract Concepts Hard to Understand? The Psychology of Word Meanings. Accessed on: Feb. 4, 2022. Available: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-psychology- of/9780805806618/xhtml/17_chapter09.xhtml2 McRae, Ken, Daniel Nedjadrasul, Raymond Pau, Bethany Pui‐Hei Lo, and Lisa King. “Abstract concepts and pictures of real‐world
of the LGBTQ+ community. Being a part of that small group, it was hardenough to find allies in the major, let alone in the faculty. With my classrooms and professorspredominantly represented white cis-gendered heterosexual men, it takes a toll on your health,both emotional and mental. It’s a constant reminder that you’re an imposter, that you’re in aspace that was not designed for you to succeed.Naturally, I was not going to let this hinder me. I still wanted to become the first engineer in myfamily. I still wanted to receive an education. I still wanted to be as authentic to myself as I canand navigate through the major. Unfortunately, staying true to yourself wasn’t the easiest whenyour always the ‘different’ one in a classroom. I learned
://www.brookings.edu/research/opportunity-engines-middle-class-mobility-in-higher-education/major from either other City Tech majors or from other colleges. All of these students came witha background in mathematics and programming and were eager to start taking the Data Sciencecourses designed specifically for the Data Science program. Thus, the first seven students whograduated with BS in Data Science degree in December 2022 had already completed the CS1, CS2,and CS3 sequence by the time City Tech moved to remote teaching in Spring 2020.According to the presented numbers and despite the outlier (BS in Data Science), the analysis ofthe CST department enrollment and performance of the CST students in the introductory levelcourses could provide an insight into
M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Ohio State and earned her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Her research interests focus on the intersection between motivation and identity of undergraduate and graduate students, first-year engineering programs, mixed methods research, and innovative approaches to teaching. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Using Qualitative Techniques to Understand the Types of Undergraduate Research MentorshipIntroductionMentoring is a form of teaching and learning that can be optimized to further enhance the qualityof education. A greater understanding of the benefits of mentoring could help create morementorship
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Paper ID #18531Investigating the Effect of Temperature in RFID TechnologyDr. Tae-Hoon Kim, Purdue University NorthwestDr. Lash B. Mapa, Purdue University Northwest Lash Mapa is a Professor in Industrial/Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University Calumet (PUC). His undergraduate and graduate degrees are in Chemical Engineering. He has several years’ experience as a Chemical Engineer, Process and Project manager with European and U.S. manufacturing organizations. Currently, he is involved in the MS Technology program at PUC and has managed over thirty lean six sigma projects with manufacturing, service industry
Paper ID #17618The essence of computational thinking and tools to promote itProf. Osman Yasar, State University of New York, Brockport Osman Yasar is an endowed professor and director of the CMST Institute at The College at Brockport, SUNY. He established the first undergraduate degree program in computational science in the United States and developed a computational pedagogical content knowledge (CPACK) framework for teacher education. His research interests include engineering and science education, computational pedagogy, computational and scientific thinking as well as fluid dynamics, engine ignition modeling, and
Sinchana Sulugodu Shashidhara Dept of EECS Syracuse University Syracuse, NY USA ssshashi@syr.eduAbstractThe disparity of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) discipline have beena persistent problem in the United States of America. Research suggests that women who join STEMdiscipline leave very frequently to care for their families, financial setbacks, personal obligations, and callto active-duty program. Returning women, very rarely choose to pursue STEM education or cannot enterthe STEM workforce because - 1) these fields are constantly
AC 2011-2559: MOBILE GIS IN A MULTIDISCIPLINARY ACADEMICCENTERGuy Johnson, Rochester Institute of Technology (CMS) Professor Guy Johnson, Professor in the Center for Multidisciplinary Studies, Rochester Institute of Tech- nology (RIT). He has served as a faculty member at RIT for 36 years in STEM disciplines of Computer Science, Information Technology, Manufacturing Engineering Technology and now in Multidisciplinary Studies. In addition to faculty duties in these departments, he has held faculty administrative roles as De- partment Chair, Director, and Vice-Dean for programs in information technology and engineering tech- nology. He gained extensive experience with multidisciplinary degrees while serving in these
variety of reasons, creating a new course is unworkable. In someways a course may not be the ideal solution because it is often removed from the context ofwriting in a working research group. One ideal solution would be a problem-based learninggroup that is facilitated by instructors in Engineering or writing, and embedded in thedepartment’s activities (e.g., researching, presenting, and publishing). Departments can establishthese learning groups, and writing centres (writing across the curriculum programs) on thecampuses of large universities are often eager to support these groups.Ultimately we came away from the workshop with these thoughts: 1. Technical writing skills must be learned continually throughout a career as new writing
arts college with afour-year Civil Engineering program that includes three full-time semesters of co-operative (co-op) experiences. Civil Engineering is the newest engineering program at York College, havinggraduated its first cohort in August 2020. Our sophomore-level Introduction to EnvironmentalEngineering course is run as a three-credit lecture (three 50-minute sessions per week) with aone-credit lab (one 165-minute session per week). For a pre-pandemic semester, lab sectionshave been typically capped at 16 students; to accommodate the Spring 2021 cohort enrollment(33 students), lab sections were capped at 12 students to ensure a relatively even distribution ofstudents across the sections. Following social distancing guidelines, our
. Procedure This section of the proposal includes a logical, organized, and detailed explanation of the procedures thatwill b used to accomplish the objectives of the project. The procedure section may include a technical plan anda management plan. A technical plan includes highly specific details of the methods, tests, instrumentation,quality control, materials, design approach, and special techniques. A management plan includes a descriptionof key personnel with their qualifications to accomplish the goals of the proposal. Also, include organizationsupport or collaborative effort; resources, such as equipment, space, laboratories; and schedule for completion ofthe proposal in the procedure section. Tables or diagrams used to simplify the
. Procedure This section of the proposal includes a logical, organized, and detailed explanation of the procedures thatwill b used to accomplish the objectives of the project. The procedure section may include a technical plan anda management plan. A technical plan includes highly specific details of the methods, tests, instrumentation,quality control, materials, design approach, and special techniques. A management plan includes a descriptionof key personnel with their qualifications to accomplish the goals of the proposal. Also, include organizationsupport or collaborative effort; resources, such as equipment, space, laboratories; and schedule for completion ofthe proposal in the procedure section. Tables or diagrams used to simplify the
, Metropolitan State College, and others. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science, an M.S. in Management Information Systems, an M.A. in Mathematical Logic, and a B.A. in Philosophy. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Computing Ethics for the Ethics of Computing May 15, 2021AbstractIn an undergraduate computing ethics course, computing analogues can assist in illustrating andgrounding some of the content of professional ethics for computer science itself. To introducestudents to the standard normative theories, the instructor gives function headings; to show thedifferent ways that these normative theories can be
often a pivotal firstcourse, in which many students weigh whether to proceed with an engineering major. Inaddition, learning of statics is also a concern to instructors in advanced level courses, such ascapstone design, who would like students to be able to utilize what they learned in statics1.Conceptually, statics breaks important ground for engineering students. Drawing free bodydiagrams (FBDs) and imposing equilibrium in statics is an early foray into a style of analysis thatis a cornerstone of engineering problem solving: isolation of a sub-system upon which balancelaws are applied.Students who complete statics should be able to effectively apply its methods to analyze realisticengineering systems. Some exposure to realistic systems comes
Luegenbiehl state that the discourse of inevitability “impliesthat technology is the primary or sole driver of social evolution and that control over designs andoutcomes is either difficult or impossible.” [3]An important distinction must be made between engineering design and technologicaldevelopment. The discourse of design is largely viewed as being iterative, a consistent feedbackloop where the expectation is revision. On the other hand, technological development is morerigid in that the range of perceived choices are limited based on defined standards of progress.[3] Opportunities for ethical reflection are seemingly embedded in the design process but arelargely ignored over smaller improvements for technological development.The rapid adoption
conversations about supporting the disability communityin a positive way. This paper is also meant to be a starting point for professors and academicleaders to make courses accessible for all students.Guidelines for Promoting Disability Inclusion in Engineering Educationc The curb cut effect occurs when a law or program that is designed to benefit vulnerable groups, likedisabled people, ends up benefiting all of society. This term is derived from when curb-cuts (a rampgraded down from the top surface of a sidewalk to the surface of an adjoining street) were required by lawto be installed. These curb-cuts were found to benefit people not only with disabilities, but also thosepushing strollers or heavy carts.d The author of this paper has applied both
experiencegained by the members of the KSU/ Kabul University Partnership Project Engineering Teaminvolved in a wide range of activities that were tied to rebuilding, revising and strengthening theengineering programs at the Kabul University. Addressing the roots of the aforesaid observationsin design and implementation of any plan to reconstruct the educational infrastructure andstrengthen the higher education in Afghanistan plays a critical role to achieve the pertinent goals. Page 15.271.6This complements the keen interest of the Afghan nation in the education of their generation.This is well stated by Samady10 that: "Despite the tragic war, Afghans
Paper ID #25830Best Practices in Promoting Faculty-Student Interaction in Online STEMCoursesMr. Thomas M. Freeman, Michigan Technological University Thom Freeman Sr. Instructional Designer, Online Learning Specialist, and Adjunct Instructor - Michigan Technological University Thom Freeman provides faculty and academic departments at Michigan Technological University with Instructional Design services, LMS Support, and assistance with the design, development, and admin- istration of distance learning programs and online learning. He teaches graduate education courses in online teaching and integrating educational
a degree in mechanical en- gineering, with a minor in Spanish. He has focused his undergraduate education on thermal fluids and energy topics, while also taking upper-level Spanish courses and participating in the Academy Scholars Program. After graduation and commissioning, he will go on to Undergraduate Pilot Training. His in- terests include renewable energy and energy conversion, Spanish literature, rock climbing, recreational shooting, and traveling. Page 25.153.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 An Approach to Using Undergraduate Student
organization that manages Education City, among other projects. Initiallysupervised solely by Qatar Foundation, VCUQatar began in 1998 as Shaqab College of DesignArt, but in 2002 the school became an official branch campus of VCUR, began to operate morefully under its direction, and was officially renamed Virginia Commonwealth University inQatar.VCUQatar’s approximately 200 students come not only from Qatar but from all over the world.Regardless of their nationality, all must study in English because the country’s rulers recognizeEnglish as the lingua franca of global business.VCUQatar undergraduates may major in Fashion Design, Graphic Design, Interior Design, orPainting and Printmaking. The curriculum imposes specified Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS
integrated circuit. They usuallyinclude: an 8 or 16 bit microprocessor (CPU): a small amount of RAM: programmable ROMand/or flash memory: parallel and/or serial I/O: timers and signal generators: analog to digital(A/D) and/or digital to analog (D/A) conversion. Microcontrollers are designed to be used inembedded systems because the microcontroller and support circuits are often built into, orembedded in, the devices they control. Microcontrollers respond automatically to certain inputsin an embedded system; Examples of such devices/embedded systems that use microcontrollerswould be car engines, VCRs, microwaves, cameras, pagers, cell phones, etc. During the course of this project, the Arduino Uno microcontroller was utilized. Thismicrocontroller has
AC 2008-830: REAL–TIME SIMULATION OF ELECTRIC MACHINE DRIVESWITH HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOPOsama Mohammed, Florida International UniversityNagy Abed, Quanta Technology Page 13.1026.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Real–Time Simulation of Electric Machine Drives with Hardware-in-the-LoopAbstractThis paper presents a real-time Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulator on PC-cluster, ofelectric systems and drives for research and education purpose. This simulator was developedwith the aim of meeting the simulation needs of electromechanical drives and powerelectronics systems while minimizing the complexity and programming burden
to deepen and broaden her knowledge of a key application domain for information systems. She has taught both online and hybrid courses and is interested in enhancing the quality of online learning experiences.Cheryl Willis, University of Houston Cheryl Willis is an Associate Professor of Information Systems Technology at the University of Houston. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Florida. Her teaching focus is primarily on applications development and database management. Her research interests include curriculum revision processes for career and technology programs; service learning in information technology undergraduate programs and the use of
, a relatively small percentage (17.8%) of faculty positions are off thetenure track [10]. However, some engineering schools have started to recognize the benefits ofhiring and supporting full-time NTT faculty, many of whom focus on teaching. For example, atour institution, the University of Delaware (UD), in the College of Engineering (COE), NTTfaculty account for 16% (N=28) of the full-time faculty. Yet, in the calendar year 2020, theseNTT faculty taught 37% of the student credit hours in the college [11]. At UD COE, full-timeNTT faculty hold leadership positions, for example, director of undergraduate programs oroverseeing ABET accreditation. These faculty play a critical role in the education of engineeringstudents and in the operations
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 A rubric-based grading app for iPadsAbstractWhile there are numerous classroom management and instructional apps available on the touch-based devices such as Apple’s iPad, there are limited alternatives that offer comprehensivegrading functionality. The few apps that do exist, lack the features necessary for effectivelygrading technical reports or are poorly designed to take advantage of the touch gestures. Thispaper describes the inception, development, and key design features of an iPad app, evaluA+,that facilitates rubric-based grading of both written and oral assignments. evaluA+ is specificallytargeted for grading essays, technical reports, and oral
postdoctoral fellow in the area of bioacoustics. He teaches dynamics, machine design, numerical methods and finite element methods. He has work for the automotive industry in drafting, manufacturing, testing (internal combustion engines—power, torque and exhaust emissions, vibration fatigue, thermo-shock, tensile tests, etc.), simulations (finite element method), and as a project manager (planning and installation of new testing facilities). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Analytical Solution, Finite Element Analysis and Experimental Validation of a Cantilever BeamIntroductionThe purpose of this work is to show how a series of labs can be used to provide
AC 2008-2513: DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS FORSMARTPHONESAleksandr Panchul, UTSA Aleksandr Panchul received M.Sc. in Computer Science from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1997. He is currently a PhD student at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Texas at San Antonio. His research interests include software engineering, digital communications, distributed systems, 3D animation, virtual environments, CPU emulators and mobile applications.David Akopian, UTSA David Akopian received the M.Sc. degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1987 and Ph.D. degree from the Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland
Paper ID #6104Student Case Study Creation for the Sustainable Side of Material ScienceDr. Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State UniversityDr. Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Stephanie Luster-Teasley is an associate professor in Civil Engineering and Chemical Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. She specializes in Environmental Engineering and her research interests include water and wastewater treatment, physical and chemical remediation of soil and ground- water and water sustainability. Her research group has designed remediation system that entails the use of
. DatabaseIn addition to Microsoft’s IIS, the OpAmp Lab Lab Server runs SQL Server 2000 for experimentdata and configuration management. The SQL Server can be accessed by both the web servicesmodule and the experiment engine at any given time. It consists of SQL tables used toencapsulate Service Broker and Lab Server configurations, experiment records, and groupmanagement, as well as of a number of procedures used to manipulate them."For instance, the LS (Lab Server) System Config table stores all Lab Server-specific information,such as the Lab Server’s unique ID and the default experiment it should run. In addition, itcontains a Boolean flag which is automatically set to true whenever the experiment engine isrunning, but which is set to false