Paper ID #29566Helping Students Write it Right: Instilling Good Report Writing Habitsin a Linear Circuit Lab CourseDr. Eva Cosoroaba, University of Vermont Eva Cosoroaba is a lecturer in the Electrical and Biomedical Engineering Department at the Univer- sity of Vermont. She received her PhD form the University of Texas at Dallas in December of 2017. Cosoroaba was a research assistant in the Renewable Energy and Vehicular Technology (REVT) Labora- tory and a teaching assistant at UT Dallas. Her expertise lies in electric machines and design, multiphysics simulations, and magnetohydrodynamics and its possible use for
Paper ID #28309Walking on Water Term Design Project in Fundamentals of EngineeringDr. Djedjiga Belfadel, Fairfield University Djedjiga Belfadel is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Bio Engineering department at Fairfield University. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from University of Connecticut in 2015, in electrical engineer- ing. Her interests include embedded systems, target tracking, data association, sensor fusion, machine vision, engineering service, and education.Dr. Michael Zabinski, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CTDr. Ryan Munden, Fairfield University Dr. Ryan
University Dr. Bryner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona. He teaches courses in thermal-fluid sciences, experimental engineering, and air-breathing and rocket propulsion. Prior to joining Embry-Riddle he worked for over ten years in the propulsion and energy fields doing design, analysis, and testing on both the component and system level. His current research interests are development of engineering laboratory courses and gas turbine engine component design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Fundamental Instrumentation Course for Undergraduate Aerospace
Technician EducationLayer 2 protocol (link-layer) communications represent the critical path element in the publicand industrial realms. The interconnection of nodes (host, routers, switches and WiFi) throughindividual links in the end to end path is fundamental for information mobility. For specificinformation, the datagram is “encapsulated” as a link-layer frame with that frame transferred intoa target link.This specific example, condensed to the previous three sentence paragraph, accents technicianeducation issues. First, it is not clear that the language used to state the example is uniformacross the computer networking community. Second, it is not clear what the roles of the 4-yearand 2-year professional technologists, engineers and technicians
fundamental concept that is commonly taught in foundational engineering classes inthe “middle years” where students often struggle to find relevance [1], [2]. Instructors deliverlectures on the processing, production, storage and delivery of energy for industrial andhousehold purposes. There are discussions about the resources used to create energy and how tobetter use those resources. Sometimes engineering considerations of energy focus on quantitiesand numbers involving efficiency and costs. Energy continues to be one of those engineeringtopics that is siloed and discussed in isolation without a social, cultural, or environmentalcontext.The conceptualization of energy within a sociotechnical framework is critical for the formationof future
description. For example, “it is both mandatory and extremely helpful” and “b/c itwas very beneficial and gave us guidance.” The next most prevalent specific reason was for helpwith their topic (24; 16%). For example, “librarians are great at helping narrow down a topic tosomething we can reasonably write about” and “it helped focus our efforts in finding a topic.”The only reasons provided for not scheduling an appointment were graduating and beingcomfortable with databases.Discussion The students’ feedback was important in assessing teaching effectiveness and consideringfuture changes on consultations. In the fall 2018 questionnaire, the subject librarian wanted toknow if a library session was needed prior to this class. During some
graduate schooltraining, which socializes future faculty toward traditional definitions of scholarship that remaindeeply held: that scholars create new knowledge for academic communities and demonstratetheir expertise in writing; and that discovery research is harder and requires more expertise thanteaching or service [24] [37]. In a multi-institutional case study of reform institutions, O’Mearacharacterized a “culture war” around decisions about promotion to full professor, wrapped up ininstitutional self-image and values of prestige associated with traditional scholarship [24].Ratcheting up of research expectations to improve rankings has also been identified as asignificant barrier [37]. In addition, CAOs have reported difficulty in expanding
might be all but one. In this method,students can also choose to work towards the grade they want in order to spend their timeelsewhere (Nilson, 2015). Another instructor might use a mix of traditional grading and pass/failgrading. For example, to earn an A in a course, a student may have to receive an average examscore of 80%. The instructor can also set bars for specific grade levels such as a C resulting fromfailing a peer evaluation. In all of these systems, missing one element on the overall gradechecklist results in a lower grade.As all elements become pass or fail, the specifications for an assignment must be made veryclear. Writing good specifications is a lot like writing good requirements for a project. Just likerequirements in
Paper ID #29040Perspectives and practices of undergraduate/graduate teaching assistantson writing pedagogical knowledge and lab report evaluation inengineering laboratory coursesDr. Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver Dr. Dave (Dae-Wook) Kim is Associate Professor and Mechanical Engineering Program Coordinator in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. He has been very active in pedagogical research and undergraduate research projects, and his research interests include writing transfer of engineering students and writing pedagogy in engineering lab courses. His
the Spring 2020 semester. Lab Title Overview Students write a documented program that will implement a Utilizing Door Simulator hardwired reciprocating motion machine. Simulation is done with a door simulator. Students write a documented program for traffic flow on a one-way street, which is to be controlled by means of a Utilizing Traffic Simulator pedestrian pushbutton. Simulation is done with a traffic simulator. Students write a
Paper ID #32094Engineering the Future – Communicating Across Borders Through ElevatorPitchesMs. Debjani Sarkar, College of Engineering, Michigan State University Ms Debjani Sarkar is an academic teaching specialist in the College of Engineering at Michigan State University. She teaches Technical Writing for Engineers and Scientists at MSU. She also leads the com- munications and marketing activities of the first-year engineering CoRe Experience. She supervises the College of Engineering Tutoring Center, which offers free tutoring in Calculus, Physics, and Chemistry for undergraduate engineering students. She has taught
c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Turning Mesh Analysis Inside OutAbstractElementary linear circuit analysis is a core competency for electrical and many other engineers.Two of the standard approaches to systematic analysis of linear circuits are nodal and meshanalysis, the latter being limited to planar circuits. Nodal and mesh analysis are related byduality and should therefore be fully symmetrical with each other. Here, the usual textbookapproach to mesh analysis is argued to be deficient in that it obscures this fundamental dualityand symmetry, and may thereby impede the development of intuition and the understanding ofthe nature of “mesh currents.” In particular, the usual distinction between
offerings give students experiencewith engineering design, problem-solving processes, computer programming, and a weeklylaboratory experience that introduces students to different engineering disciplines and teachestechnical writing through assignments given after lab experiences. The second semester coursescontain graphics and computer-aided design content, as well as consisting of a multi-weekproject that students work on in teams. Table 1, below, shows the first semester course optionsthat students select, as well as the typical second semester options that follow the completion ofthe first semester course. The focus of this paper is on the content and structure of thenanotechnology project in the fundamentals of engineering honors
our own research work. - Hypothesis: Research work should aim at gathering repeatable and reliable data to either accept or reject your underlying hypothesis. We reviewed several examples to practice writing a good hypothesis. - Planning: The development of a research plan is another fundamental step in designing research work. Defining specific aims, milestones, and control points that guide the development of experiments, simulations, literature searches, reviews, and product design require practice and are key to successful project completion. Unguided research work leads to long project times, dissatisfaction with project outcomes, and unintended use of resources. In the workshop, we discuss how to define project goals that
claim is that Parsons problems are a more efficient way tolearn than either writing full programs, completing programs, or finding errors in code. In thispaper, we try to modify this claim because it seems overly broad. The kind of problems whereParsons is equivalent to fill in the missing code are short sequence of logic where the student isbeing taught the fundamentals of structured programming (i.e loops, conditions, and functioncalls). Fig. 1 shows a sample Parsons problem for a loop in C++.Fig. 1 - Sample Parsons Problem for C++ For the case above of counting from 0 to 9, it is easy enough for students to memorize thecorrect answer, and thus the puzzle works well. The next level is to provide choices (typicallytwo) for specific
-defined theoretical framework, forexample, “Vygotsky’s theory of scaffolding” and “zone of proximal development (ZPD),”[which is] “the learning zone between what students can do by themselves and what cannot beachieved without the explicit support of an instructor.” The authors also make interestingdistinctions such as writing as metacognition, writing as disciplinary meaning-making, andwriting as technical communication. All of these strategies both strengthen the researchpresented and increase the potential impact of the methods and findings reported in the paper.Conclusions: what does our analysis demonstrate or suggest and what should we do?Perhaps the most significant finding emerging from the research and analysis presented here isthat
elective experimentation courses before graduation. The course reported in thispaper is redesigned as an exemplar of the elective experimentation course which can supportaccreditation in multiple programs.Prior to the redesign, the course had highlighted engineering operational skills, includinghands-on making, experiment, and test and technical communication skills, especiallytechnical writing skills, and it had been highly praised by students, who felt they achieved alot in this course, and the course portfolios—including the articles written by students and theartifacts completed in the class—were very helpful in job search or applying for theenrollment of a graduate school.The newly designed course was implemented for the first time in the
, rather than on fundamental engineering concepts.Therefore, we believe it is beneficial to present to students a more universally applicableproblem-solving framework that is can be used for solving many different types of engineeringproblems.The systematic problem-solving approach presented in this paper is intended to free studentsfrom a reliance on limited problem-solving approaches that they may perceive as beingapplicable to only a small number of circumstances. This approach emphasizes a few basic stepswhich can be applied to a wide variety of problems in statics or in other courses. Severaltextbooks use a systematic, structured problem-solving approach, including Sheppard andTongue [3], Plesha, Gray, and Costanzo [4], and more recently
the ability to generate questions isfundamental to all engineering problem-solving. The ability to develop a research question isalso an essential information literacy skill that provides focus, strategy, and structure to aresearch paper. Critical thinking, writing and research skills, are important course componentsthat students will continue to develop throughout their academic and professional careers.At New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), a mid-size technology university, the instructorsand university reference librarians collaborated to create a research assignment [1]. Thisassignment was given to students in a First-Year Engineering Course, Fundamentals ofEngineering Design (FED101) starting in the fall semester of 2017. This
an introductory course in engineering fundamentals atthe J. B. Speed School of Engineering (SSoE) at the University of Louisville (UofL). The course,titled Engineering Methods, Tools, and Practice II (ENGR 111), is the second component of atwo-course sequence and is primarily focused on application and integration of fundamentalengineering skills introduced and practiced in the first component of the sequence (ENGR 110).Fundamental skills integrated within ENGR 111 include 3D printing, basic research fundamentals,circuitry, communication, critical thinking, design, engineering ethics, hand tool usage, problemsolving, programming, project management, teamwork, and technical writing. The course isrequired for all first-year SSoE students (no
matrix, K1, possesses all the properties that make it an unconstrainedstructure. Stiffness matrices that are extracted from commercial packages may also be used andthis can be done in the future (please see summary section). The logic to identify these wouldremain the same. At the time of writing of this work-in-progress paper, a fundamental,one-dimensional spring element problem is used to provide a stiffness matrix.nSize =34;K1 = r e p m a t (K, n S i z e ) ;The second matrix (K2) is K1 with it’s non-zero elements replaced by -rand*rand. This is not astiffness matrix as it lacks the property of being symmetric and having non-zero, positive diagonalelements.K2 = K1 ;K2 ( any ( K2 ( : ) ) ) = −r a n d . ∗ r a n d ;The third matrix (K3) is a
has threaded design challenges throughout the chemical engineering core curriculum to relate real-world Community-, Industry-, Research-, and Entrepreneurship-based projects to fundamental course work. Faculty, graduate students, and dozens of chemical engineering students have developed, implemented, and refined these design challenges which stretch through the core curriculum from the first year to some graduate-level electives courses. Our goal with implementing these varied design challenges is to allow a diverse set of students the opportunity to see the numerous applications of chemical engineering to local and globally-relevant problems [1], and to help them develop the engineering skills and confidence which will
Paper ID #29075A Visual and Intuitive Approach to Teaching and Learning the Concept ofThermodynamic EntropyDr. Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Raviv is a Professor of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University. In December 2009 he was named Assistant Provost for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. With more than 30 years of combined experience in the high-tech industry, government and academia Dr. Raviv developed fundamentally different approaches to ”out-of-the-box” thinking and a breakthrough methodology known as ”Eight Keys to Innovation.” He has been sharing his
affective learning outcomes improved forchemistry-related outcomes in an introductory environmental engineering course. Furthermore,this study demonstrates that including writing assignments with case studies can benefit studentlearning. Case studies may be especially beneficial for motivating students to engage with andlearn material that could otherwise be deemed as unimportant for their chosen field of study.IntroductionEvery undergraduate student majoring in civil and environmental engineering at the Universityof Wisconsin - Madison is required to complete an introductory course in environmentalengineering. A major component of this course is applying chemistry to solve environmentalengineering problems. The specific problems relate to acid
shootinghoops knows the feeling of the ball leaving their hands only to immediately know that the shothas missed both hoop and backboard. Embarrassment sets in, even as reality is still working outthe implications of a badly missed shot.A strong mental model is not directly teachable. Instructors cannot simply hand the student theirown internal understanding of the world. The instructor can help, with words, equations anddiagrams; but fundamentally, developing a strong mental model and the engineering judgementthat goes with it requires careful observation of the first model, reality [5]. By seeing andconsidering the behavior of the world, daily and continually, the engineering student can becomea competent practicing engineer. Where the engineering
Paper ID #30141Integrating Entrepreneurial Mindset in a Multidisciplinary Course onEngineering Design and Technical CommunicationDr. Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University Kevin Dahm is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He earned his BS from Worces- ter Polytechnic Institute (92) and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (98). He has pub- lished two books, ”Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics” and ”Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance.” He has also published papers on effective use of simulation in engineer- ing, teaching design and engineering economics, and
Paper ID #28311A Hands-on Introduction to Embedded Systems & IOTDr. James Peyton Jones, Villanova University James Peyton Jones is a professor of electrical and computer engineering, and a member of the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Control at Villanova University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 A Hands-on Introduction to Embedded Systems & IOT J.C. Peyton Jones Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Villanova University, Villanova PA 19085AbstractTraditional curricula often teach low-level fundamentals of digital
course at The Citadel [1], [2]. The simple architecture providessufficient complexity to demonstrate fundamental programming concepts. The entire system ismodeled in VHDL and can be simulated to demonstrate operation of the processor. Memory-mapped input/output (I/O) provides the external interfaces necessary to demonstrate examplemicrocontroller applications, when synthesized to a field programmable gate array (FPGA).Serial communication is widely used to connect external devices to computer systems. Thecommunication interface, which receives and transmits serial data, is commonly known as aUART (universal asynchronous receiver transmitter). The serial data format uses standard bittiming and framing. The protocol can be implemented in software
undergraduate education levels must be explored. Oneapproach to introducing students to rigorous, discipline-specific content is through the use ofDisciplinary Literacy Instruction (DLI). DLI is an instructional approach that equips students toutilize the evaluative frameworks and reading and writing strategies that are employed by expertpractitioners in a particular discipline [1].Models of DLI for K-12 instruction have been introduced in subjects such as history [2], math[3], and science [4], but there has been little research exploring a model for DLI in engineering.Thus, this project aims to develop a model of DLI in engineering that can be used in both K-12and undergraduate engineering settings. This model of DLI will be informed by the
Paper ID #29239Aligning the chemical engineering curriculum to a common problem-solvingstrategyProf. Nicolas Hudon, Queen’s University Dr Nicolas Hudon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Queen’s Uni- versity (Canada) since 2016. His teaching activities are mainly concerned with second-year fundamental courses. He is the recipient of the 2019 Carolyn Small Award for teaching innovation from the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Engineering at Queen’s University.Dr. Louise Meunier P.Eng., Queen’s University Dr. Meunier studied mechanical engineering and worked for twenty years as an