Paper ID #48962Taco Holder Laboratory ProjectChidiebere Akudigwe, Oral Roberts University Chidi Akuidgwe is a Nigerian undergraduate Mechanical Engineering student at Oral University. Fueled by curiosity and determination, he pursues innovative solutions.Mark Baumruk, Oral Roberts University Mark Baumruk is an engineering major with a mechanical concentration in the School of Engineering at Oral Roberts University. He is on track to earn his Bachelor of Science in Engineering in May 2025. Driven by a desire to understand how things work, his academic interests include thermal and fluid sciences, as well as hands-on
Paper ID #47314BYOE: Hands-on Experiments for Teaching Process Safety: Exploring DustExplosionsDr. George Prpich, University of Virginia Professional Skills and Safety are my main pedagogical interests. I use the Chemical Engineering laboratory to implement safety training to improve safety culture, and to adapt assessment methods to enhance development of students’ professional skills. I am an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia and I hold a B.Sc. (University of Saskatchewan) and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (Queen’s University). Complimenting my pedagogical research is an interest in
before returning to Virginia Tech to teach engineering as a professor of practice. He then moved to Charlottesville and began teaching at the University of Virginia in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, where he has now been for 5 years.Dr. George Prpich, University of Virginia Professional Skills and Safety are my main pedagogical interests. I use the Chemical Engineering laboratory to implement safety training to improve safety culture, and to adapt assessment methods to enhance development of students’ professional skills. I am an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia and I hold a B.Sc. (University of Saskatchewan) and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (Queen’s
physical concepts. However, despite their increasingadoption in laboratories and classrooms, there is significant variability in the technologies andpedagogical strategies used across different teaching kits. Furthermore, their overalleffectiveness in achieving specific learning outcomes remains underexplored, highlighting acritical need for further investigation in this area. This systematic review adheres to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews andMeta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines to comprehensively analyze the current landscape ofteaching kits in biomedical engineering education. The review focuses on evaluating the types oftechnologies integrated into these kits, the educational methodologies they support, and theoutcomes
toolkit. However, it can be difficult to impart the criticality of such topics toundergraduate students in the early years, especially to Freshman students overwhelmed withnew experiences and responsibilities. Even students who successfully learn these skills willquickly forget them, inhibiting the synthesis of those skills with future lessons.An entertaining, hands-on laboratory activity centered on the quadrant tool from antiquity can beeffective in teaching those crucial skills. The Mariner’s Quadrant is a historical nautical tool thatnavigators used to measure celestial body altitude, the forerunner to modern sextants, surveyingequipment and remote measurement devices. There are many variants of the quadrantsthroughout history for different
and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, China, 2016.[14] E. Cooney, S. Deal, A. McNeely, and H. Chaubey, “Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Project to Create Musical Effect Box,” in 2019 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration, 2019 CIEC, New Orleans, LA, February 2019.[15] E. Bezzam, A. Hoffet, and P. Prandoni, "Teaching Practical DSP with Off-the-shelf Hardware and Free Software, "2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, UK, 2019, pp. 7660-7664.[16] Y. Lin and T.D. Morton, “A Microcontroller-based DSP Laboratory Curriculum Paper,” in 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 2017.[17] K.D. Coonley and J. Miles
Paper ID #43628A Trilogy for Teaching and Learning Digital Electronics and MicroprocessorsProf. Wei-Jer (Peter) Han, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 1. BackgroundAccording to the Moore’s law, which is the observation that the number of transistors in an integratedcircuit doubles about every two years. At present, one example of a GPU is the Nvidia H100, which has80 billion transistors on a single chip. At the same time, on August 9, 2022, the President of the UnitedStates signed the CHIPS and Science Act. All of the above mean the education of digital and
Paper ID #39606At-Home Drug Delivery Experiment: Teaching Mass Transfer Using FoodDyes, DIY SpectrometerDr. Gautom K. Das, University of Maryland Baltimore County Dr. Gautom Das is a Lecturer in the Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering at UMBC. Prior to joining UMBC, he was a Research Scientist and Lecturer in the Chemical and Biomolecular En- gineering at Rice University, and a Post-doctoral Scholar at the University of California, Davis. He earned his PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He has worked in laboratories in the US, Canada
complete instructional strategy that seeks to overcome issues of student conceptual understanding. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Mobile Phone-Based Contact and Non-Contact Vibration Sensing for Structural Dynamics Teaching LaboratoriesAbstractAcceleration-based dynamic sensing has been available for many years and numerous researchershave made effective use of the accelerometer available in mobile phones for measuring vibrationsat frequencies up to half the sampling rate of the phone. Manufacturers of mobile phones, tablets,and other devices are adding new sensors with each new model creating the potential to expandthe engineering laboratory from the confines of university
Ph.D. degrees in BME from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024BYOE: Wacky-Waving-Non-Inflatable-Arm-Flailing-Tube-Man for Teaching Soft RoboticsAbstract. The emerging field of soft robotics has a wide range of applications in many differentfields. Due to its recent emergence and development, it is important to formally expose studentsinterested in STEM to this rapidly developing interdisciplinary field. We have addressed this issueby assembling the undergraduate engineering students to create a hands-on experience for college-level engineering students, allowing them to become familiar with a subset of soft-robotics-relevant
Paper ID #44552An Innovative Approach for Teaching Some Concepts of Digital Design LaboratoryCourse in 2+2 Program Using a Portable Laboratory InstrumentationDr. Neda Bazyar Shourabi, Pennsylvania State University, York Dr. Bazyar Shourabi is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University/York Campus. Her current research is focusing on Smart cities and engineering education.Dr. Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 An Innovative Approach for Teaching Some Concepts of Digital Design Laboratory
UniversityAbstractEngineering courses, particularly undergraduate engineering courses, include practical learningthrough laboratory experiments. Laboratory experiments help students understand theoreticalconcepts. They also teach them practical skills and soft skills.This paper presents the perception of students about laboratory experiments in various coursesrelated to electrical and computer engineering technology. The student perceptions were obtainedat the end of the semester via anonymous evaluations taken by the students for the laboratorycourses (courses with both theory and laboratory components).These courses were taught by thelead author over a period of six years at two different institutions. This paper presents statisticsbased on the students’ comments
of Engineering Brian Faulkner’s interests include teaching of modeling, engineering mathematics, textbook design, and engineering epistemology. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Student Epistemic Beliefs in Engineering LaboratoriesAbstractEngineering laboratories require different kinds of thinking than typical engineering theorycourses. Laboratories often require students to correctly recall theory and gain practicalknowledge of how to perform experiments related to that theory. The results of such experimentsare frequently inconclusive, which requires students to practice judgement in interpreting results.These factors make the engineering laboratory an epistemically rich
©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 The Implementation and Assessment of the Effectiveness of Peer Teaching Instructional Technique in Lecture and Laboratory CoursesIntroductionPeer teaching is based on Bandura’s social learning theory, Piaget’s cognitive development, andVygotsky’s social constructivist learning theory [1-2], in which knowledge is sociallyconstructed by consensus among peers. The basic principle of peer teaching is that teachingsomething to others is an effective way to learn it [2-3]. Peer teaching involves students acting asboth teachers and learners, assisting each other in gaining knowledge and understanding throughinterdependence [4]. By teaching others, students
teach undergraduate engineering students how to preparea formal engineering laboratory report. Custom equipment for materials testing was designedand constructed in order to meet the first goal in an economically reasonable manner. Writing-intensive pedagogy was used to meet the second goal, with weekly individual writing assign-ments and one-on-one feedback meetings with every student to promote learning and writingskills improvement. This publication provides some details regarding how the development ofcustom materials testing laboratory equipment and workbenches shaped the laboratory experi-ence, and also outlines the writing-intensive course structure used to support the development ofstudents’ writing skills.1 Background1.1 The Need for
Paper ID #37969Toy Adaptation in a Laboratory Course: An Examination of LaboratoryInterests and Career MotivationsDr. Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of California, San Diego Dr. Alyssa Taylor is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengi- neering at the University of California San Diego. Dr. Taylor has twelve years of experience teaching across bioengineering laboratory, introductory, and capstone design classes. Through work such as toy adaptation described in this paper, Dr. Taylor seeks to prepare students to engage in Universal Design and consider accessibility in their
of Technol- ogy in 2006 and went on to receive a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in 2011.Dr. Chris Barr, University of Michigan Dr. Christopher Barr is the Instructional Laboratory Supervisor in the Chemical Engineering Department at University of Michigan. He obtained his Ph.D. at University of Toledo in 2013 and is a former Fellow in the N.S.F. GK-12 grant ”Graduate Teaching Fellows in STEM High School Education: An Environ- mental Science Learning Community at the Land-Lake Ecosystem Interface”. His main responsibilities are supervising and implementing improvements to the undergraduate labs. He also serves as secondary instructor for the CHE labs, the Departmental
on equity, inclusion in the classroom, and easing student transition to the workforce catering to STEM graduates.Marcos Jose Inonan Moran, University of Washington Marcos Inonan is a PhD student and research assistant in the Remote Hub Lab (RHLab) of the depart- ment of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research is centered on developing remote laboratories with a lens of equitable access to engineering education, and driven by his commitment to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM education. In addition to his research on remote laboratories, Marcos has expertise in digital communication theory, signal process- ing, radar technology, and firmware
Paper ID #38152Gamification Applied to a Microprocessor Systems Laboratory ActivityIng. Luis Felipe Zapata Rivera, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Luis Felipe Zapata-Rivera, Ph.D. is an assistant professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. His research interest are in Online Laboratories and Microprocessors. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Gamification Applied to a Microprocessor Systems Laboratory Activity Luis Felipe Zapata-Rivera, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Computer, Electrical and Software Engineering
Paper ID #41284Prioritizing Learning Outcomes for Chemical Engineering Laboratory Courses:Student PerspectivesDr. Chris Barr, University of Michigan Dr. Christopher Barr is the Instructional Laboratory Supervisor in the Chemical Engineering Department at University of Michigan. He obtained his Ph.D. at University of Toledo in 2013 and is a former Fellow in the N.S.F. GK-12 grant ”Graduate Teaching Fellows in STEM High School Education: An Environmental Science Learning Community at the Land-Lake Ecosystem Interface”. His main responsibilities are supervising and implementing improvements to the undergraduate labs. He also
Paper ID #38466Survey of the Entrepreneurial Mindset of Students in UndergraduateLaboratory CoursesAkshara SubramaniasivamDr. Rebecca Marie Reck, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Rebecca M. Reck is a Teaching Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign. Her research includes alternative grading, entrepreneurial mindset, instructional laboratories, and equity-focused teaching. She teaches biomedical instrumentation, signal processing, and control systems. She earned a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, an M.S. in Electrical
access.Therefore, it is essential to consider the compatibility of the lab with different types of internetand computers and to provide adequate feedback and support from the teaching staff. Theseresults underscore the importance of internet access in providing equitable access to RLs, with theneed to consider internet speed and compatibility with different types of computers. Additionally,to ensure equity in RLs for low-income students, possible solutions include providing freeresources such as internet access or developing lightweight or offline versions of RLs.DiscussionIn 2022, the research team of the Remote Hub Lab (RHLab) developed a Software Defined Radio(SDR) Remote Laboratory (RELIA) to be used in teaching signal processing and
mundane.The technique exemplifies Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development where you teach a studentjust outside of their range of knowledge [11]. In a high-tech laboratory, there is the potential forstudents assume that these principles only exist in such a setting and are beyond them—thatcellphone development is only for tech companies, yet one day that could be them.The current literature reinforces our observation of student deficiencies. Student difficulties inlearning from these lab experiences are partly due to their lack of observation of the worldaround them through free play (see Rosen [3]) Combined with the rise of the impacts of mobiletechnology on attention, memory, and delay of gratification, we see these issues becoming moresignificant
generally have for lab coursework. Anotherissue students experience is developing a thorough understanding of what the lab is teaching andretaining that knowledge. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the discipline of manufacturingprocesses and the study of material properties in material science.Material properties lie at the heart of many engineering disciplines, as materials are whatengineers incorporate in their disciplines. The study of material properties can be greatlyaccelerated in engineering courses by integrating a hands-on approach to the creation and testingof laboratory experiments through inquiry-based experiential learning. This approach will beachieved by allowing students to create, design, test, and write their own laboratory
class.” “This virtual lab was useful in helping me learn at my own pace. It gave me options to keep doing genome sequencing or if I was comfortable with it, I could progress to the next step.” “I think the overall concept of this lab was simply hard to grasp.” Laboratory Technique DevelopmentThis theme captures references to technique development within the virtual laboratory. Itencapsulates feelings of accomplishment with learned techniques and confidence in theability to replicate techniques in the VR labs. Learners highlighted the effectiveness of theVR labs in teaching about laboratory practices in a way that enhanced understanding beyondthe classroom sessions. They specifically mentioned techniques like cell
Paper ID #48951Stretch Blow Molding Laboratory Using Preform and 3D Printed MoldTrevont Moore, Oral Roberts University I am an engineering major with a mechanical concentration in the School of Engineering at Oral Roberts University. I will earn a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in May 2026. I have been drawn to science and math for as long as I can remember, and studying engineering has only furthered my desire for it. I am hungry for more and more knowledge so that I can impact the world for good.Mr. Jonathan V Ophus, Oral Roberts University Jonathan Ophus has worked in several facets of the fabrication industry over
Paper ID #47292Faculty Professional Development in Engineering Lab Writing Pedagogiesthrough a National WorkshopDr. Dave Kim, Washington State University-Vancouver Dr. Dave Kim is Professor and Mechanical Engineering Program Coordinator in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. His teaching and research have been in the areas of engineering materials, fracture mechanics, and manufacturing processes. In particular, he has been very active in pedagogical research in the area of writing pedagogy in engineering laboratory courses. Dr. Kim and his collaborators attracted close to
Paper ID #39116Increasing Student Motivation and Learning by Adopting theExperiment-Centric Pedagogy: A Case of Undergraduates in BiologyMs. Blessing Isoyiza ADEIKA, Morgan State University Blessing ADEIKA is a graduate student at Morgan State University currently studying Advanced Com- puting. She has interest in teaching student basic concepts by adopting an Experiment-centric approach to it. She also is currently working towards being a Data Scientist - AI/ML Expert and hope to use her skills to prefer solutions in the Medical, Financial, Technology and any other Sector she sees a need to be filled/catered for.Dr
, instructional laboratories, and equity-focused teaching. She teaches biomedical instrumentation, signal processing, and control systems. She earned a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Designing a Bioinstrumentation Lab for All LearnersIntroductionCombining the experiences of the instructor, teaching assistant, and students, we utilizedparticipatory action research and the application of entrepreneurial mindset to improve theexperience for all students in a
leveraging technology to enhance learning experiences and broaden access to engineering education. He has experience as a practicing engineer and has taught at the university and community-college levels. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work-in Progress: Aligning an Engineering Hands-On Learning Program to College Strategy: Reducing Implementation Barriers to Support Faculty, Students, and Their SuccessAbstractThis Work in Progress addresses two of ELOS’ requested foci: pedagogy and best practices oflaboratory courses and hands-on laboratory instruction. We describe a redesign plan in theIntegrated Teaching and Learning Program (ITLP) at University of Colorado Boulder