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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson

Session 3563 Real World Learning in Distance Education John C. Anderson, PE Mechanical Engineering Technology Dept., Purdue University, 1417 Knoy Hall, W. Lafayette, IN 47909-6219 Ph. (765) 494-7526 email: jcanderson@tech.purdue.eduAbstractObtaining and maintaining laboratory equipment in technology courses is a constantproblem. This paper proposes an alternative to the use of simulation or to buying laboratoryequipment for a school laboratory, and uses a course in Programmable Logic Controllers(PLC) to illustrate the concept.With the reduction in pricing of

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Josette Rice; Thad Welch

electrocardiography (ECG) and electromyography (EMG)signals. With the advent of real-time data acquisition and signal processing technology, it is nowmuch easier to develop instrumentation lab experiments for student use. The current hardware andsoftware enables our students to achieve highly accurate measurements, perform time domain andfrequency domain analysis, and store the data for subsequent use, analysis, and design. This paperdiscusses some of the methods developed for implementing these labs. We believe our techniqueshave greatly enhanced the ease of teaching and learning these important topics in instrumentation.1. IntroductionThis paper describes how student laboratories using data acquisition, measurement, and analysis ofphysiological signals has

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Davidson, Wentworth Institute of Technology; James Lambrechts P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology; Leonard Anderson, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Nakisa Alborz, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

students are accustomed to this approach. The DSL course had to adopt a teamteaching approach due to the different sub-disciplines, but such team teaching was unfamiliarand unconventional to students. Even though the course professors had clear communicationbetween themselves as to the labs to be performed and assignments, the students’ perception ofthe organization was that the course was mismanaged, leadership unclear and the syllabusschedule unorganized. Those teaching the course need to have intimate knowledge of the topics they are responsiblefor to be able to lead students through the different laboratory exercises. Dependence on the labtechnician to instruct the students in the details of different experiments leads to a disconnectbetween

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in the Junior and Senior Year

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sarah A Wilson, University of Kentucky; Samira M. Azarin Azarin, University of Minnesota; Christopher Barr, University of Michigan; Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis; Tracy L. Carter, Northeastern University; Amy J Karlsson, University of Maryland

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Chemical Engineering

Rowan and UMass, she developed a passion for undergraduate education. This passion led her to pursue a career as a lecturer, where she could focus on training undergraduate chemical engineering students. She has been teaching at UK since 2015 and has taught Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Computational Tools and the Unit Operations Laboratory. She is especially interested in teaching scientific communication and integration of process safety into the chemical engineering curriculum.Prof. Samira M. Azarin Azarin, University of Minnesota Samira Azarin is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. She earned her B.S. in chemical engineering from the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Freeman; Rebecca Kellogg

opportunity to explore how we could teach this course more effectively.Innovative use of technology and media impacted not only what we were able to do in thelecture, but also the laboratories that are part of part of the course. The lectures were captureddigitally and made available using streaming video. This gives students flexibility in viewinglectures multiple times as they learn. Before this, students only had the option of viewing thecontent in a synchronous mode. One of the other powerful advantages of using technology wasthe ability to bring examples from the real world into the classroom. For example, in discussingfinite state machines the instructor did a remote session in front of a vending machine, whichillustrated the concepts using

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2005 GSW

Authors

Kevin M. Nickels

Department at Trinity University is a unique one. We offer a broad-based curriculum with a grounding in the “fundamentals” of electrical, mechanical, and chemicalengineering, along with some specialization through disciplinary electives. Students earn a B.S. inEngineering Science, and customize their program with help from their academic advisor. Moredetailed information on the program is given in a paper by Uddin1.The “fundamentals” courses, required of all engineering majors, include (in the electronicsportion) Electric Circuits, Electric Circuits Laboratory, Electronics I, and Electronics I Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi

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Introducing New Methodologies and the Incoming Students to Engineering Programs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhang Lei, University of Florida; Fazil T. Najafi, University of Florida

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International

Paper ID #5926Introducing Freshmen Engineering Students to Civil Engineering at the Uni-versity of FloridaMs. Zhang Lei, University of Florida Ms Lei Zhang is the graduate students at University of Florida (UF). She earned her BSCE in 2010 from the Tongji University, in her place of birth, Shanghai, China. After that, she came to the United States and is doing her Master degree in civil engineering. She was the instructor for the STEP-UP program for the College of Engineering at UF and was awarded the most outstanding instructor. She is the teaching assistant for the Introduction to Engineering, Public Works Planning

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis J. Doyle III; Ferhan Kayihan

in the University laboratory, or at home with the StudentEdition of MATLAB/Simulink.6. AcknowledgmentsThe first author gratefully acknowledgements the support of the National Science Foundation(NYI Award CTS 9257159).7. How to Learn More About PCM and the Digester Benchmark ProblemInterested educators are referred to the Web-page for the Process Control Modules at: http://www.che.udel.edu/pcmInterested researchers and educators should contact fkayihan_ietek@msn.com for moreinformation about the IETek Digester Benchmark.8. References[1] Cooper, D.J., “Picles: A simulator for teaching the real-world of process control”, Chem. Eng. Educ., 27, 176-,1993.[2] Koppel, L.B., and Sullivan, G.R., “Use of IBM’s advanced control system in

Conference Session

Demonstration and Project Enhancements in Chemical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

. Eng. Ed., 84(45) 351-359 (1995).3 Bulter, A., Moses, W.M., Introducing Experimental Design in Mechanical Engineering Laboratories, Proceedingsof the Annual ASEE Conference (2005).4 Waitz, I.A., Barrett, E.C., Integrated Teaching of Experimental and Communication Skills to UndergraduateAeorspace Engineering Students, Proceedings of the Annual ASEE Conference, Session 2302 (1996).5 McCluskey, R.J. and Harris, S.L., The coffee Pot Experiment: A Better Cup of Coffee Via Factorial Design,Chemical Engineering Education, Summer 1989, pp. 150-153. Page 15.804.8

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura L. Sullivan; Winston F. Erevelles

research at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and currentlycollaborates with the Urology Research Laboratory at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan.Dr. Winston Erevelles is an Assistant Professor of Manufacturing Systems Engineering at GMI Engineering &Management Institute. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of CIM, Robotics, andManufacturing Systems. He has a B. S. in Electrical Engineering from Bangalore University, India, and M. S.and Ph. D. degrees in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri-Rolla. He has worked as aService Engineer and Plant Manager at Mykron Engineers, India. He is an active member of SME, ASEE,and AAAI

Conference Session

International Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, Implementations, and Pedagogical Challenges in Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alireza Rahrooh, Daytona State College; Walter W. Buchanan, Texas A&M University; Faramarz Mossayebi, Youngstown State University

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International

. Distribution Department at Texas A&M University. He received his B.S.E. and M.S..E from Purdue University, and his Ph.D. and J.D. from Indiana University. Buchanan is a P.E. in six states.Dr. Faramarz Mossayebi, Youngstown State University Faramarz Mossayebi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Youngstown State University. He received his B.E. and M.S. degrees from Youngstown State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Akron. His teaching and research interests includes modeling and simulation of nonlinear dynamical systems, digital signal processing, embedded systems, and control

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in ET Programs I

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khosro Shirvani, State University of New York, Farmingdale; Marjaneh Issapour, State University of New York, Farmingdale; Zachary Ross Licht, State University of New York, Farmingdale

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

3 credits Table 1. Required coursework for Farmingdale State College’s Wind Energy Technology Micro-credentialThe WTT courses offered that are of 300 level or higher include [5]. 1. WTT 301: Wind Turbine Mechanical Systems 2. WTT 307: Principles of Fluid Systems 3. WTT 314: Wind Turbine Motor Control 4. WTT 415: Wind Turbine Trouble Shooting These four courses, along with WTT 101: Introduction to Wind Energy and TurbineTechnology, were developed by Farmingdale State College’s School of Engineering Technologyfaculty. Each of these WTT courses are assigned a laboratory period to teach students the hands-on applications relevant to wind turbine technicians. These applications include both electrical andmechanical

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom Merrill, Rowan University

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Biomedical

currently teaches thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and biofluids. Page 23.1384.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013Works in Progress: Computational Modeling of Biomedical Devices withActive Learning StrategiesAbstractBiomedical engineers need to be able to model transport processes quickly and accurately toproduce competitive and safe products. These products include items like drug-eluting stents forcoronary artery disease and therapeutic contact lenses for glaucoma. Collaborative learningstrategies are used to help students gradually build confidence and skill. Learning

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Turso; David Johnson; Shannon Sweeney

vibrations courses,course goals and their relation to Mechanical Engineering Technology program outcomes,student evaluation of the course value and effectiveness, and plans for continuous improvement.It will also discuss current laboratory activities, the selection of textbook and laboratory manualmaterials, and vibration laboratory equipment needs.IntroductionThe course is currently entitled Vibrations for Technologists and has been offered twice to date;the Fall semester of 2001 and the Fall semester of 2002. Each offering has had 14 students.Based on laboratory capacity, the course limit has been set at 16 students. It will continue to beoffered every fall semester. In addition to providing basic vibration theory, the course is set upto address

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Svend Christiansen, Aalborg University; Lykke Bertel; Bettina Dahl, Aalborg University

and engaginglearning experiences and teaching material, hopefully translating into an increase in studentmotivation and aspiring STEM candidates. The northern region of Denmark faces particularchallenges compared to the rest of the country when it comes to industry’s need for STEMcandidates in the future, thus it is essential to initiate local efforts to ensure diversity in STEM-educations and career paths and to improve retention in pre-college engineering and highereducation STEM [21]. The LabSTEM North project is inspired by and collaborating with asimilar effort in the southern region of Denmark, focusing on the integration of Mathematicsin STEM-teaching through a STEM laboratory model [22], [23]. In LabSTEM North, the focusis STEM

Conference Session

K-12 Professional Development II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy V Ernst, Virginia Tech; Aaron C. Clark, North Carolina State University; Vincent William DeLuca, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

27 years as a teacher and researcher. He has extensive research and curriculum development experience in STEM disciplines. His research includes the study of thinking processes, teaching methods, and activities that improve technological problem-solving performance and creativity. He has expertise in developing technology education curriculum that integrates science, technology, engineering and mathe- matics (STEM) concepts. Currently, Dr. DeLuca’s research includes projects to develop curricula to teach STEM concepts associated with renewable energy technologies by providing a living laboratory of perfor- mance data from numerous renewable energy systems. The overarching goal of the project is to develop middle

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in CHE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Wankat, Purdue University

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Chemical Engineering

engineeringprofessors retool their research from a technical specialty to engineering education.IntroductionDespite being a relatively small engineering discipline and despite the conservatism of ChEdepartments, chemical engineers have been leaders in the push for engineering education reformand in engineering education research. Examples of chemical engineering leadership inpedagogy include the Chemical Engineering Division of ASEE Summer School that meets everyfive years, the Division’s publication of the journal Chemical Engineering Education, andleadership in teaching professors how-to-teach. Leadership in educational research has includedthe development of the guided design method, introducing Problem Based Learning intoengineering, laboratory

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

, scholarship in ET has to achieve the following:• ET scholarship must improve our teaching, add value to the education of our undergraduate/graduate students, and involve our students in meaningful ways.• ET scholarship must be relevant to industry, and lead to improvement in the curriculum and in undergraduate laboratories• ET scholarship must be documented and disseminated to others and be open to critical examination by peers outside our department in order to ensure the quality of the scholarly activity and to facilitate continuous improvement in this area of faculty endeavor.9, 11Based on this premise, we propose the definition of ET scholarship to include the following: 1. Scholarship of discovery in applied research

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Schreiner; John Burns

synergy between engineeringexperts and pre-college educators – the overarching philosophy of workshop was that bothgroups need to come together as equal partners to successfully bring biomedical engineeringconcepts into the pre-college students’ curriculum. Time was spent each day on activity called“putting it into practice” in which the pre-college teachers presented ideas of how to fit the topicpresented the previous day into their own teaching plan. Essentially, this became an outline for afull lesson plan. At the end of the workshop the teachers developed at least one full lesson tobring back to their classroom. The teachers reconvened in the Fall of 2000 to discuss how wellthe new lessons worked. The workshop was a success with many teachers

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ravi Athale; John Treichler; Dave Munson; Sally Wood; Geoffrey Orsak; Scott Douglas; Mark Yoder

UniversityAbstractThe INFINITY Project (www.infinity-project.org) is a nationally recognized partnership betweenleading universities, industry, and K-12 educators to help school districts incorporate modernengineering and technology in their high school curricula. This effort aims to develop a novel andinteractive curriculum emphasizing the engineering fundamentals and the fun of the modern high-tech age.This paper outlines the goals and technology elements of the INFINITY Project. Implementationissues of the program are addressed, including textbook and laboratory creation, teacher training,and online classroom support.Math and physics high school teachers are teaching this curriculum in 14 Texas schools at thistime. This paper presents the early results of

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2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Michael A. Rother

2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Online Unit Operations Lab, a Difficult Balance Michael A. Rother Chemical Engineering University of Minnesota DuluthAbstractAs a result of COVID-19, teaching Unit Operations Laboratory in an online format becamenecessary in Spring 2020. Implementing experiments, which could be easily conducted fromhome, or at least away from the standard lab environment, but were challenging in nature, proveddifficult. In particular, the labs needed to be amenable to theoretical treatment and significantuncertainty analysis. In addition, the topics studied

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie Phillips, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Khalil Najafi, University of Michigan; Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #22711Work in Progress: Reinventing the Undergraduate Electrical EngineeringCurriculum to Address Tomorrow’s Cross-Disciplinary Global ChallengesProf. Jamie Phillips, University of Michigan Jamie Phillips is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Com- puter Science at the University of Michigan. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 1994, 1996, and 1998, respec- tively. He was with Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA, and the Rockwell Science Center, Thousand Oaks, CA

Conference Session

FPD8 -- Systems, Nanotechnology & Programming

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Youssef Allam, Ohio State University; David Tomasko, Ohio State University; John Merrill, Ohio State University; Bruce Trott, Ohio State University; Phil Schlosser, Ohio State University; Paul Clingan, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

first-yearengineering curriculum. The lab project was piloted during Winter and Spring Quarters of 2004,with one section offered in each quarter for a total of 127 students then expanded to 3 sections in2005 with an enrollment of 190 students. This alternate project is currently being revised andwill be fully integrated into the program by Winter and Spring of 2006. In addition, an honorsversion of the project was offered in Spring 2005 to a single section of 32 students. A revisedhonors version will also be offered in Spring 2006. A three-pronged approach was employed indeveloping the project involving on-campus nanotechnology research laboratory tours hosted byfaculty and researchers, nanotechnology teaching modules, and hands-on lab

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Mariano Javier Savelski, Rowan University; C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Paper ID #9458Interactive, Modular Experiments and Illustrative Examples to Integrate Phar-maceutical Applications in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum and K-12Outreach ProgramsDr. Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University Zenaida Otero Gephardt is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University in Glass- boro, NJ where she has served as founding Director of Engineering and Assistant Dean. Her interests are in experimental design and data analysis. She teaches fluid mechanics, process fluid transport, process dynamics and control and unit operations. She developed the laboratory operations and safety program

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard N. Smith; Michael K. Jensen; Deborah A. Kaminski; Amir Hirsa

relate the physics of a problem to the analytical tools used to develop engineering solutions than when the majority of the students were “tinkers.”• Laboratory content, which demonstrates physical principles, of most curricula has diminished or been eliminated.• Students’ ability to synthesize information from different courses or fields is weak.• Interest in thermal/fluid systems has diminished.• Many universities are seeking to improve the overall learning environment for their students and to use faculty time more efficiently.One approach at Rensselaer to reinvigorate the teaching of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, andheat transfer has been to rethink completely what we wish to achieve with these courses and, fromthis

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taz Daughtrey; Edgar Sibley; Anne Marchant

nation’s overallinformation security defense.A joint MS/PhD class was used during the fall 2003 semester at GMU to test possible exercisesfor the capstone course as well as provide a pool of teaching assistants and mentors for theundergraduate program. The curriculum was also expanded in the spring 2004 semester jointlyby JMU and GMU. The capstone course, which will be taught in a closed laboratory setting,will be piloted by faculty from both institutions in the summer semester of 2004 at GMU. Page 9.273.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for

Conference Session

New Directions for Engineering Technology

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Chen Xu, New York City College of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

connection between breadboardand Multisim simulation software; 3) combine various technologies to support online learning andcreate an inclusive learning environment. This paper will present student performancecomparisons with traditional face-to-face teaching mode and summarize challenges throughout thesemester and lessons learned. This paper will be of interest to any engineering educator whoteaches hands-on lab class remotely or anyone interested in improving their current lab course withonline resources.KeywordsEngineering Education, Electrical Circuits, First-year Student, Hand-on laboratory 1. Introduction The City University of New York (CUNY) is the nation’s largest urban public university andserves as a transformative engine of social

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Hans J. Goettler

Engineering.Education . in Germany Hans J. Goettler Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics North Dakota State University Fargo, North Dakota, 58105IntroductionThe kind and the intensity of student/teacher interaction influencethe way a student learns as well as the teaching style and the teach-ing load of the professor including the number of students he or shecan effectively handle. It should be worthwhile, therefore, to in-vestigate other systems of higher learning and see how they functionand how they cope with certain nrohlems that arise in the academic en-vironment from time to time

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kim Blair; David W. Miller; David Darmofal; Col. Peter W. Young; Doris Brodeur

checklist has useful applications to higher education. The problem statementshould be grounded in student experience, be curriculum based, allow for a variety ofteaching and learning strategies and styles, be unconstrained, focus on a question, and beassessable. 9PBL in Aerospace Engineering at MITAbout five years ago, the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at MIT launched anew strategic plan committing faculty and instructional staff to major curriculum reform.Program and learning outcomes were identified and validated with key constituent groups,new teaching and learning strategies were initiated, and laboratories and workshops werebuilt or re-modeled to emphasize student-centered education. Major resources, bothpersonnel time and funding

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Zahraa Stuart, Stony Brook University; Angela M Kelly, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

Paper ID #30964University-Designed Middle School Science Experiences Aligned with NGSSMrs. Zahraa Stuart, Stony Brook University Zahraa Stuart received Bachelor of Engineering in electrical engineering from Stony Brook University in 2016.In 2017, she joined the PhD program in Electrical engineering statistical signal processing. Zahraa design, develop and instruct engineering teaching laboratories for both high school and middle school students and teaches since 2016.Dr. Angela M Kelly, Stony Brook University Angela M. Kelly is an Associate Professor of Physics and the Associate Director of the Science Education