to study SMET. The result of their efforts is Program ACCESS (Accessing CareerChoices in Engineering and ScienceS).Program ACCESS is a three-year project sponsored by the National Science Foundation and TheUniversity of Arizona, and is housed in the Department of Mathematics. It is a multi-disciplinary program involving faculty, staff, and graduate and undergraduate students withphysical disabilities from the College of Science, the College of Engineering and Mines, theGraduate College, the University Teaching Center, the Disability Resource Center, and theDepartment of Career Services.The program’s goal is to promote a high level of academic and professional success in SMETfields among students with physical disabilities by encouraging the
retention and quality in an introductory Electronics and Network Analysiscourse offered at a university in northeastern United States. It also seeks to study the effects oftechnology-based instruction that complements conventional instruction. This progress, as wellas lessons learned in the first three years of Media Based Instruction in introductory engineeringcourses (namely Circuits, Electronics, Network Analysis, and C++ for Digital Computations) isevaluated with data. The efficacy of embedding conventional teaching with Media BasedInstruction is assessed.IntroductionThis paper explores the results of a study and feedback completed by students. The feedbackwas based on their outlook toward a media-based tool that was used in the instruction
2006-130: CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT FOR AN INTERDISCIPLINARYMANUFACTURING ENGINEERING PROGRAMFrank Liou, University of Missouri-Rolla Dr. Frank Liou is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR). He currently serves as the Director of the Manufacturing Engineering Program at UMR. His teaching and research interests include CAD/CAM, nano-technology, rapid prototyping, and rapid manufacturing. He has published over 100 technical papers and has research grants and contracts over $7M. Page 11.384.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006
. COLERichard B. Cole is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology and the Coordinator ofthe dual-degree program with New York University. Dr. Cole received his Bachelors degree in MechanicalEngineering from Cornell University, Masters degree from Princeton University, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineeringfrom Stevens Institute of Technology.IGBAL MEHMEDAGICIgbal Mehmedagic is currently a doctoral student at Stevens Institute of Technology. He received his diploma inMechanical Engineering from Sarajevo University (Bosnia) and Masters in Mechanical Engineering from StevensInstitute of Technology. In addition to research, Igbal is a laboratory teaching assistant for the thermal and fluidsciences courses
endless for this technology. Whether it is just a simple simulation of amechanism or a highly complex fluids problem, it can be visually and mathematicallysimulated using VR. However, the benefits of VR are not limited to just its flexibility. Themost crucial advantage of using VR as a teaching aid is that it boosts student learningperformance through visual representation of complex concepts which they might have foundhard to grasp otherwise.6,7 Apart from these, its other advantages include assisting in research,increasing outreach to a wider audience remotely, and making the learning environment saferby eliminating risks. Weber et al. reported that using virtual instruments helped inestablishing a complete state-of-the-art laboratory from a
elements, numerical control; metal cutting and turning; drilling,boring, milling; shaping planning, sawing broaching; grinding, sanding; gears and gear-cutting, threads and thread-cutting. (Lecture-problems 1 hour, laboratory 3 hours.) Traditional grading only. Concentration in communicationsOur program has one concentration in communications consisting of 12 semester units. Thetable below shows the courses covering this concentration. Following the table is a listing of thecourses including the catalog descriptions. The concentration courses cover communications inregards to teaching (CECS 310E), learning (ENGR 400E), problem solving and design (ENGR304), and business practices (ENGR 310). Several breadth
Session 2263 Experiences in Integrative Research and Education Projects with Undergraduate Engineers Winston Erevelles Kettering UniversityIntroductionAcademic careers offer engineering faculty an array of activities that they are expected toparticipate in - these include teaching, research and publications, laboratory development,student advisement, accreditation documentation, committee work, and service to professionalorganizations, to mention a few areas of involvement. Time constraints, the diversity in the setof responsibilities, and
Developing an Innovative Mobile and Wireless Networks Course Hetal Jasani Assistant Professor School of Technology Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractAll over the world, mobile and wireless courses become increasingly popular in colleges(including community colleges) and universities. This paper discusses about developing theinnovative course of mobile and wireless networks using laboratory activities. It elaboratesinnovative projects that are suitable for laboratory work in network engineering (includingtechnology) curriculum. It explores both hardware and software components that are
, Goodwin College is in the process ofexpanding and upgrading its educational facilities. The developed educational laboratories serveas training centers for undergraduate AET students as well as for the workforce of companies,such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and PECO Energy, with whom Drexel has a rich history ofeducational and research partnership. After careful consideration and discussions with the largestemployers in the Atlantic region, and based on our research, educational, and engineeringexperience, we came to the conclusion that the creation of the hands-on approach to teaching andlearning would significantly benefit our students and working engineering personnel.Engineering education is changing with its focus shifting from the
presentation.The hypothesis is whether the AR/VR technology increases students’ motivation for the projectand improves their comprehension of the design process. Among five sections of the capstonedesign course, three sections are comparison groups, and two are experimental groups. Theexperimental groups consist of two instructors teaching nine teams: five teams for Constructionand Site Design and four for Structural Engineering. In their final presentation, these students arerecommended to develop an AR/VR model of their final deliverable and present their design asan AR/VR model. The developed AR/VR laboratory, XR training site, and all the tutorials willbe used for the self-learning of these students. In addition, the same Ph.D. student
undergraduate curriculum. The workshop has introductory lectures on the field of process science and engineering andemerging areas of the chemical industry. Detailed lectures on specific topics are presented byexperts from industry. Laboratory experiments and demonstrations are integrated throughout theworkshop. These bench-scale experiments are designed so that they can be effectively integratedinto the curriculum at the participants’ home institutions. The workshop has a computer sessionon the use of simulators in the process industry. The workshop also has sessions devoted tocurriculum development. The workshop instructors utilized an active teaching and learningstyle. Lecture and laboratory sessions were held in Henry M. Rowan Hall, home of
] C.J. Ankeny and M.C., Tresch, "Creation and Deployment of a Virtual, Inquiry-Guided Biomedical Engineering Laboratory Course," Biomedical Engineering Education, 1(1) pp. 67-71, 2021.[16] T.E. Allen, and S.D. Barker, "BME Labs in the Era of COVID-19: Transitioning a Hands- on Integrative Lab Experience to Remote Instruction using Gamified Lab Simulations", Biomedical Engineering Education, 1(1) pp. 99-104, 2021.[17] K.C. Fogg, and S.J. Maki, "A Remote Flipped Classroom Approach to Teaching Introductory Biomedical Engineering during COVID-19", Biomedical Engineering Education, 1(1) pp. 3-9, 2021.[18] H. Lancashire and A. Vanhoestenberghe, "Rapid Conversion of a Biomedical Engineering Laboratory from in Person to
the (Scottish) accent of the presenter. An effort todetermine the exact cause will be studied during the next offering of this course. An area fornote taking will be added to the printed laboratory procedure. The undergraduatelaboratory teaching assistants will be asked to observe whether students use this areaduring the presentation and to informally assess the accuracy of the notes that are takenduring the lab session.The interference caused by sunlight was observed by several teams who were conductedtheir experiment while seated at lab stations near an outside window. As the studentscirculated among teams, the information about this interference was rapidly communicatedto the rest of the cohort, some of whom then realised that the
AC 2008-363: REAL-TIME, EMBEDDED-SYSTEMS NETWORKING: A NOVELWAY TO DEVELOP AN INTERACTIVE UNDERGRADUATE COURSEEce Yaprak, Wayne State University Dr. Ece Yaprak is a Professor of Engineering Technology in the College of Engineering at Wayne State University. Her areas of interest include computer networks and communications where she has published extensively. She has held engineering positions at General Electric and Ford Motor Company, and research fellowships at NASA (John Glenn, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ames Research Center, and the Johnson Space Center) and the U.S. Navy (SPAWAR). She has received teaching excellence awards from her Division and the College of Engineering. She has received
, masters, anddoctoral levels with instructional opportunities in and out of the classroom. Practitionerengagement (e.g. agencies, consultants, contractors, material suppliers, private laboratories) hasbeen a key component of this process, and is the focus of this paper. Practitioner involvement is:1) important to the educational process; 2) not always easy to obtain; 3) not always easy toeffectively utilize; 4) a key to the presence or absence of balance; and 5) debated amongsteducation literature. Key items that resonate through this paper are the student opportunitiescreated by balance, and how practitioners fit into this balance.Industry and agency collaboration concepts are nothing new and are discussed in literature1-5.The amount or extent of
material thatbridge the gap between the university classroom and student studying the material over the internet orthrough some other remote study program. Using his own “on-line” students as a laboratory, Dr.Summers was able to improve their performance and success by recording streaming lectures of keylearning concepts, and developing circuit design trainers and experiments that his students could useanywhere to build and test each learned concept. The teaching packages produced and tested by Dr.Summers included state of the art multimedia CD ROM text books, recordings of streaming white boardlectures on each learning concept, laboratory circuit design trainers, laboratory parts kits, partsdescriptions and documentation, and CD ROM laboratory
2015-16 AY. Nazli offers several fundamental engineering courses along with technical elective courses in water resources field. The 2XX level courses Nazli teaches are gateway courses and offered to students from civil, mechanical, electrical and computer engineering programs. Nazli is passionate about undergraduate engineering education and concluded several trainings to improve her teaching abilities. She attended several certificate programs offered by Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning of MNSU. Nazli also received ASCE ExCEEd (American Society of Civil Engineers Excellence in Civil Engineering Education) and KEEN Innovation Curriculum with Entrepreneurial Mindset (ICE) certificates. She is a member of
students. Willthey be better engineers? Itdoesn’t necessarily mean that.”—Ken Burbank, Purdue Polytechnic 9Students: How Do You Learn the Best?Listening to a lecture? 10Studying in a Library? 11. . . Or Is This More Like It? 12. . . Or This? 13. . . Or This? 14An Emphasis on Teaching• Traditional Engineering • Engineering technology programs place a heavy faculty have fewer research burden on research demands and faculty. As a result, can spend more time some or most of the with students. Many teaching is done by bring real-world graduate students and
development program in which middle school teachers participate in an intensive summer research experience in computer science and engineering labs, build curriculum based on the laboratory research content that they learn, participate in lesson study, and implement new curriculum in their middle classrooms. The second program (5 years) is a high school teacher RET program with similar components. This paper contains a combined report of results of both of the RET programs. The two programs had the combined intent of bringing innovative computer science and engineering research to middle and high school teachers and their students and improving teacher performance, while simultaneously improving student achievement through scientific inquiry
‘run’portion of the crawl, walk, run methodology.Following the success of the Football Lab, three additional laboratories were introducedfor EDP 3. The goal of this series of laboratories was once again to introduce thestudents slowly to the theory behind their design and then to progress towards morecomplex concepts. The first of these laboratories dealt with gear trains. This ‘Gear Lab’focused solely on teaching students gear train construction principles and techniques.The student design teams built and tested static gear trains to lift a set amount of weightwith a pulley. The students’ goal was to lift the weight a set distance as quickly aspossible, and teams that performed well were rewarded with bonus points. The simplegear trains built by the
, manufacturing, andmechanical areas, students might gain a better feel for their interests.Many students stated that they became tired of hearing the same professor every lecture. Ateam-teaching approach would help to introduce the students to other faculty members and toexpose students to different perspectives. Recently, the lab tours, design projects, and plant tourswere directed and supervised by student members of the SAE and SME clubs, graduate students,and volunteers from industry. Although this mentoring was provided at no additional cost, theseactivities needed to be monitored by faculty to be effective.The recommended changes may require additional laboratory resources and higher faculty-to-student ratios. The authors believe that the higher
advanced materials are useful in emerging applications including:energy, biomedical, and environmentalTo help with the development of a learner-centered module on the topic of supramolecular self-assembly, the schematic shown in Figure 3 was created. This figure presents the main elementsof the integration approach for teaching the concepts of macromolecular self-assembly. The“learner centered” ideas are characterized by the learning styles listed in the center of the figure.The learning elements include: in-class lectures / student presentations, laboratory experiences,textbook, and exam / homework content. Within the laboratory experience area, experimentsrelated to emulsion formation and phase separated membranes will be presented
approachSimilar to the existing automation courses, active learning and hands-on learning are also thefundamental teaching approaches applied to this real-time system design course. All of theclasses are held in the laboratory. For this course, this setting eases the flexible adoption of avariety of teaching methods, depending on the characteristics of the different course topics insequence. In Table 1, the time schedule of each top-level topic is given for this one semestercourse (16 weeks). Please note that the topic 7 - Case studies is not labeled with a specificschedule because its sub topics are provided in the combination with other topics throughout thesemester. The teaching formats and material employed in this course are presented as
MichiganTechnological University (MTU). A particular emphasis will be placed on themultidisciplinary education of chemical engineering undergraduate students in alternativeenergy. Experiences can involve enrollment in an interdisciplinary design project, anelective fuel cell course, a hydrogen fuel cell “electrochemical engineering” laboratory,or performing basic or applied research with university faculty and staff. Teaching andmentoring opportunities are also available to doctoral students.The major aspect of the experience is the Alternative Fuels and Fuel Cell Enterprise(AFE). This is a multidisciplinary, research-oriented undergraduate research projectwhich is run as a business with student management and faculty / staff oversight. Thestudents are
; Exposition.14. Buket Barkana, "A Graduate Level Course: Audio Processing Laboratory", 2010 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.15. Tim Lin, Saeed Monemi, and Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, "Interactive Learning Discrete Time Signals and Systems with MATLAB and TI DSK6713 DSP Kit", 2007 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.16. Lisa Huettel, "Integration of a DSP Hardware Based Laboratory into an Introductory Signals and Systems Course", 2006 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.17. Michael G. Morrow, Cameron H. G. Wright, and Thad B. Welch, "Old Tricks for a New Dog: An Innovative Software Tool for Teaching Real-Time DSP on a New Hardware Platform", 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.18. Michael G. Morrow, Cameron H. G
asintroducing index cards for students to write questions and concerns; others engaged in a full flipof their classroom. Also, many of the participants indicated that they are comfortable employinginteractive strategies in small, higher level courses or laboratories but continue to use primarilylecture when teaching large, entry-level courses. How can SIMPLE groups be adapted to addressthe challenge of translating these strategies to large courses? Would it be valuable to createSIMPLE groups that focus on this challenge, perhaps across disciplines?Many of the teaching development group participants had begun using interactive teachingstrategies recently (1-2 years) before joining the group. It is likely that because interactiveteaching was relatively
-widetraining programs, but rated departmental programs highly14. In engineering specifically,another study found that 59% of GSIs spend their time in laboratories, raising importantissues that campus-wide programs may not address 2. Thus, departmental programs mustbe seen as an essential tool in combination with campus-wide activities.Peer MentoringA network of mentoring individuals, both student and faculty, would support broad-scopeprograms in an ideal setting. GSIs will only consult professors in low-risk situations (e.g.how to grade the homework, whether to allow make-up exams). They tend to approachmore experienced GSIs with high-risk questions (e.g. how a professor might react to achallenge of authority, how to teach an unfamiliar subject matter
2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections) Clinical Faculty Development Program Norman D. Dennis, Jr. and Edgar C. Clausen College of Engineering University of ArkansasAbstractWith the significant increase in engineering student enrollment over the last ten years and therelatively flat number of tenure/tenure track faculty positions in engineering, a significant portionof the undergraduate teaching load has shifted to non-tenure track faculty. As a result ofincreased involvement of non-tenured faculty in teaching in
theparticipant teachers’ sense of science teaching efficacy and their perceptions of success ofthe first year of the BMERET program.BMERET Program Design/DescriptionThe BMERET program selected a cohort of middle and high school STEM teachers frompartnering urban area schools that primarily serve disadvantaged and minority students.A comprehensive application directed the recruitment process for the program. A total ofsix science teachers were chosen to participate in year of the program. Teams of teacherswere placed in a BMES ERC laboratory. Each teacher team was matched with a Ph.D.student and a faculty mentor in the given laboratory for most direct daily interaction aswell as to facilitate multi-directional expertise transfer between the teachers, the