Paper ID #21161The Effects of Professional Development and Coaching on Teaching PracticesDr. Eugene Judson, Arizona State University Eugene Judson is an Associate Professor of for the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. He also serves as an Extension Services Consultant for the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT). His past experiences include having been a middle school science teacher, Director of Academic and Instructional Support for the Arizona Department of Education, a research scientist for the Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering
disciplines.One example of this reflective practice may be seen in a variety of “laboratory” projects. Studentsin Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) and Mechanical EngineeringTechnology (MET) often design and build prototypes for actual laboratory apparatus that is fullyinstrumented and used by faculty in subsequent years. These “Senior Design” products resultfrom students evaluating their own laboratory learning experiences, identifying gaps in thelearning sequence, and using their capstone projects to address current student needs and developfuture learning opportunities.1Many direct learning measures characterize the CAS capstone curriculum. The faculty advisorsgive ongoing, portfolio-style assessment of students’ work as it evolves
electronic construction project to be completed by the end of the semester. Theseassignments range from an introduction to conventional house wiring to Printed Circuit Board(PCB) layout and etching, culminating with the fabrication of a variable voltage DC powersupply. Providing a course with well defined objectives within the constraints of a project-oriented atmosphere serves as a major confidence builder for students with little or no previouselectrical/electronic experience. The course’s philosophy, objectives, assignments, learningplatforms and student evaluations are presented.IntroductionElectrical Engineering Technology (EET) on most campuses has a reputation for being tough onstudents in the early semesters. The introductory course, EET 196
pending up-dating to cover thenewer micro- and nano-scale and opto- technologies.MSE496 - Manufacturing engineering in electronics manufacture: crystal growth, doping, thin filmdeposition technologies and tooling, pattern generation techniques, contamination control, clean roompractices, microelectronics assembly and packaging. Examination of systems design and operationissues. [This course also explores manufacturing processes associated with nanotechnology,optoelectronics and related newer advanced manufacturing technologies – a catalog revision is inprocess.] Proceedings of the 2007 Middle Atlantic Section Fall Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education
at the University of Utah. Her current research focuses on cost effective methods for efficient utilization of biomass-derived oils in combustion applications.Dr. Mary U Christiansen, University of Minnesota Duluth Dr. Mary Christiansen is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth in the Civil En- gineering Department. Her education includes a B.S. in Architectural Engineering (2008) and M.S. in Structural Engineering (2008) from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineer- ing (2013) from Michigan Technological University. Her research focuses on the development and charac- terization of alternative cementitious materials and portland cement binders with the goal of improving
new technology in junior and senior projects should be shifted to developing practical knowledge and skills.4. Certain successful methods in the existing curriculum should remain.Obviously, the main goal of any engineering program is to prepare engineering students for theirprofessional career in the global economy. By the time of the graduation these students shouldnot only know how to solve technical problems, but also be able to deal with problems beyondthe scope of technology.1A recent research discovered that students benefit from so-called practical knowledge in theirprofessional career.6 The research also found that obtaining practical knowledge from collegestudy is more beneficial to the professional career of students than
Dunsworth is the Director of Center for Teaching Initiatives at Penn State Erie, the Behrend Col- lege. She holds a master’s degree in Communication Studies and a Ph.D. in Educational Technology. At Behrend she supports faculty in classroom teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She has created a series of faculty teaching workshops and is the recipient of several grants for course revision, educational research, and professional development.Mrs. Melanie R. Ford, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Melanie Ford is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Computer Science and Software Engineering in the School of Engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. Ford also holds the positions of Director of
, discuss, problem solve and engage higher-order thinking taskssuch as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.2 The implementation of active learning exercises indistance education classes may help establish student rapport and enhance the feeling ofcommunity among the students in a distance education environment.In distance education instruction, it is more difficult to establish student rapport and get studentfeedback from the remote students than from those in the traditional campus setting. OldDominion University delivers junior and senior level engineering technology elective courses usingone-way video and two-way audio. The limitations of this delivery system compound theproblems of establishing student rapport due to the geographical disparity
AC 2011-2548: NSF GRANTEE PRESENTATION: CHALLENGES OF IM-PLEMENTING A PEER MENTORING PROGRAM TO SUPPORT STEMLEARNINGFarrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston Farrokh Attarzedeh earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston in 1983. He is an associate professor in the Engineering Technology Department, College of Technology at the University of Houston. He teaches software programming and is in charge of the senior project course in the Computer Engineering Technology Program. He is a member of ASEE and has been with the University of Houston since 1983. Dr. Attarzadeh may be reached at FAttarzadeh@central.uh.eduDeniz Gurkan, University of Houston Deniz Gurkan received her B.S. (1996) and
in K-12 reform, since it impacts engineering educationat the college level. K-12 is the pipeline and lifeblood for what engineering educators do andhow it affects the technology base of this country. Indeed, ASEE has already begun to try andimpact K-12 through a number of initiatives including the all day seminar initiated at the pastthree national conferences. The YOD on the other hand was an attempt to get a handle on thevarious aspects of engineering education through research and to build on the momentum startedby such schools as Purdue and Virginia Tech, which have started engineering educationprograms. The RAGS report and the YOD events, as envisioned, were two very different things,but they were and are very much entwined and the
Paper ID #8584Louisiana State University and Baton Rouge Community College – A Part-nership for STEM Student SuccessMs. Summer Dann , Louisiana State UniversityDr. Jo Dale Ales,Dr. Karim Elkholy, Baton Rouge Community College (BRCC) Karim N. Elkholy, Ph.D. Professional Preparation: Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Egypt, Mechanical Engineering, BS 9/1994, MS 7/1999 Louisiana State University, Mechanical Engineer- ing, Ph. D. 12/2007 Professional Appointments: 8/2011 – Present Engineering Program Manager / Assistant Professor, STEM Department (Science, Technology, Engineering &
Paper ID #47108Examining an NSF S-STEM Community College program through an IdentityLensDr. Jan Edwards, College of Lake County Jan L. Edwards is a Professor of Engineering at the College of Lake County in Illinois. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering at Michigan Technological University. She completed her Ed.D. at Northern Illinois University with an emphasis in College Teaching. Dr. Edwards teaches general engineering courses, manages outreach initiatives and the CLC Baxter Innovation Lab at the community college. She is also serving as the Principal Investigator on the
F collaboration with Outreach O industry & academia L I O Knowledge & Skill Engineer 2020+ Technology Gap: A Comparison Internet/Computer Today’s Power Grid1) Plug-and-Play Interface 1) ? (RJ45, USB) 2) ?2) Router FREEDM System:3)Open Standard Protocol and The Energy 3) ? Operation System
A Quick Look at theFY16 R&D BudgetMatt HourihanFebruary 10, 2015for the American Society for Engineering EducationPublic Policy ColloquiumAAAS R&D Budget and Policy Programhttp://www.aaas.org/program/rd-budget-and-policy-program LimitsonDiscretionarySpendingSinceFY2010 billionsofconstant2015dollars $1,200 $1,150 $1,100 $1,050 $1,000 $950 $900 BaseDiscretionaryBudgetAuthorityBasedonpastbudgetresolutions,theBudgetControlAct,andsubsequentlegislation.Adjustedforinflationusingdeflators fromtheFY16budgetrequest.©AAAS2015 LimitsonDiscretionarySpendingSinceFY2010
about 6000 students, the university has colleges of liberal arts, education, business,and technology. The EET program has an approximate enrollment of fifty-five and is one of fiveprograms comprising the Department of Engineering Technology. The rural environment andabsence of local high-tech industries present significant funding and educational challenges for ourEET program. Additionally, institutional support is sparse. However, the three-person faculty isrelatively autonomous, and functions as a well-knit team. Significant concerns for standards andquality are hallmarks of our program.Prior to our TC2K conversion, individual faculty members owned their courses. As a result,management of the program and curriculum tended to be reactive in
Session Number: 2148 DESIGN PROJECTS and INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT in a MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CURRICULUM R. L. Alan Jordan PE, Associate Professor, Dennis S. Schell, Patent Attorney Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Technology Purdue University Statewide Technology - Muncie, IN/ Baker & Daniels Indianapolis, INAbstract Design projects are encouraged and even required in most engineering
Paper ID #21017Towards Real-time Ergonomics Feedback and Educational Content with theuse of Co-RobotsChristian Enmanuel Lopez, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Christian E. L´opez, is currently a Ph.D. student at Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. He has worked as an Industrial Engineer in both the Service and Manufacturing sectors before pursuing his Ph.D. His current research focuses on the design and optimization of systems and intelligent assistive technologies through the acquisition, in- tegration, and mining of large
AC 2012-4523: MOBILE STUDIO PEDAGOGY, PART 1: OVERCOMINGTHE BARRIERS THAT IMPEDE ADOPTIONProf. Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Kenneth Connor is a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, where he teaches courses on plasma physics, electromagnetics, electronics and instrumentation, electric power, and general engineering. His research involves plasma physics, electromagnetics, photonics, en- gineering education, diversity in the engineering workforce, and technology enhanced learning. Since joining the Rensselaer faculty in 1974, he has been continuously involved in research programs at such places as Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Universities of Texas
Foundation Program director for the new curriculum was established tocoordinate the scheduling of all EAS courses, recruit faculty and adjuncts to teach EAS courses,and to manage the resources (supplies and equipment, salaries for undergraduate TAs) allocatedto support the spiral curriculum.EAS107P Introduction to Engineering – Project-BasedEAS107P is a required course for all engineering majors as well as for students in computerscience and information technology. Students typically take the course first semester freshmanyear. However a section of EAS107P is offered during the spring semester for transfer studentsor those students who lack adequate math background. Because EAS107P fulfills one of theuniversity core requirements, non-engineering
STEM education, sustainable energy, and material characterization.Taiwo Raphael Feyijimi, University of Georgia Taiwo is a highly skilled AI Engineer, Researcher, and Doctoral Student at the University of Georgia who completed his MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering. He is currently leveraging AI to tackle simple and longstanding problems in engineering education. With over a decade of industry experience as a Technology Strategist and Technical Lead, he has established himself as a forward-thinking innovator in AI and EdTech. His expertise spans Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Prompt Engineering Techniques (PETs) with
Raju, Auburn University Dr. P.K. Raju, Mechanical Engineering and Director, AETAP. He is a PI on three current NSF projects and directs the LITEE and the Auburn Engineering Technical Assistance Program (AETAP). The mission of AETAP is to provide technical assistance and technology transfer to industries and community in the State of Alabama using the resources from Auburn University and other research labs in Alabama. In addition to consulting for the United Nations and several industries, he has developed an excellent team in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering that is successfully conducting research in acoustics, non-destructive evaluation, and vibration. He is the recipient
. China, in 1991 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. Dr. Huang’s research focuses on big data analytics, supplier-based manufacturing, and complex system analysis and optimization, with applications in health care and manufacturing. He has published over 140 highly influential technical papers (including books and book chapters) that are frequently cited by other researchers. He serves on the advisory board of International Journal of Ad- vanced Manufacturing Technology, the editorial board of International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, and Recent
Session Number 3159 Revision and Translation of Existing Programs as a Tool for Teaching Computer Data Acquisition and Control Systems Design and Implementation Thomas Hannigan, Keith Koenig, Bryan Gassaway, Viva Austin Department of Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State UniversityAbstractKeeping data acquisition and control systems (DACS) used in a graduate and under-graduate laboratory current in a rapidly evolving technological environment is anexpensive and time-consuming task. Computer architecture and software have evolvedmore rapidly than the curriculum repeats, and the interfaces commonly used for
minority in the field of engineering.Prof. Joshua M. Hamel, Seattle UniversityDr. Claire Strebinger, Seattle UniversityDr. Gregory Mason, Seattle University Gregory S. Mason received the B.S.M.E. degree from Gonzaga University in 1983, the M.S.M.E. de- gree in manufacturing automation from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1984 and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering, specializing in multi-rate digital controls, from the University of Washington in 1992. He worked in a robotics lab for the Department of Defense for five years after receiving his M.S.M.E. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Seattle University, Seattle, WA. His research interests are controls system and the use
Paper ID #12394Industry Immersion: The Impacts of a Sabbatical Deep-DiveProf. Susannah Howe, Smith College Susannah Howe, Ph.D. is the Design Clinic Director in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College, where she coordinates and teaches the capstone engineering design course. Her current research focuses on innovations in engineering design education, particularly at the capstone level. She is invested in building the capstone design community; she is a leader in the biannual Capstone Design Conferences and the Capstone Design Hub initiative. She is also involved with efforts to foster design learning in middle
Technological University has made it possible for the faculty toimplement fully online courses and courses with online components. The WebCT software is acourse management system that enables the institution-wide delivery of online courses. WebCTincludes a set of teaching and learning tools, supported by customization and personalizationcapabilities, student performance tracking features, and content management. The BE 1120Programming for Engineers course taught in the Basic Engineering Program at Tennessee Techhas been made available to students as a fully online course. The traditional BE 1120 lecture/labformat course seemed appropriate for implementation as an online course for two major reasons.Programming is text based and thus lends itself to
64 A Truss By Any Other Name May Still Not Be a Truss: A ‘Do-Say’ Pedagogical Laboratory Exercise Michael G. Jenkins, PhD, PE Bothell Engineering and Science Technologies and California State University, Fresno, CAAbstractContrary to common perception, undergraduate education in engineering mechanics does notneed reform. Basic aspects of mechanics (e.g., strength of materials, mechanical behavior ofmaterials, experimental mechanics, etc
importance, we envision someexpansion of this topic in the course in coming offerings and fine-tuning of the instructionalmaterials.Education in process control – typical courses in the U.S.In the mid-1980’s, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) modified the criteriafor accreditation used by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) toinclude a required component in the undergraduate program in process dynamics and control. Page 7.1166.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering
Paper ID #40643Opening the First-Year Design ProjectDr. Nathan M. Hicks, University of Tennessee at Knoxville Dr. Nathan M. Hicks is a Lecturer and Research Assistant Professor in the Engineering Fundamentals Program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University and his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida, teaching high school math and science for a few years in between degrees. His primary research interests focus on assessment and evaluation, as well as pedagogical practices for engineering design and
engineers in industrialpositions. In addition, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)accreditation criteria requires that graduates of engineering programs possess “an ability todesign and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data” [4] and “an ability todesign a system, component or process to meet desired needs” [4]. To meet the requirements ofthis ABET accreditation criteria, the faculty of the mechanical engineering program at IndianaUniversity-Purdue University Fort Wayne has begun the development of DBT experiments in allrequired laboratories of the mechanical engineering program. The faculty believes that thisapproach would enhance and add another dimension to the teaching/learning experience in