Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra L. Doty; Dr. Kathryn A. Svinarich; Cynthia Finelli

Session 0575 Session 0575 ISSUES INVOLVED IN CROSS-DISCIPLINE COLLABORATION AND OFF-CAMPUS RESEARCH Dr. Kathryn A. Svinarich, Dr. Cynthia J. Finelli, and Dr. Sandra L. Doty GMI Engineering & Management Institute Abstract Satisfying the research requirements for tenure and promotion at a small, predominantlyundergraduate teaching institution can be daunting. This is especially true since the time involvedwith effective teaching, another key

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tristan Ventura, Rutgers University; Abdallah Khreishah, New Jersey Institute of Technology; John D. Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Durga Misra, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

application has over digital orphysical textbooks.In regards to the use of software to supplement the educational process, many academic papershave been published exploring this topic. Many researchers have acknowledged the value ofhaving a virtual laboratory to explore physical phenomenon, noting it is an efficient, cost-effective alternative to physical laboratories, and as a potentially suitable replacement whenphysical laboratories are not available [2]-[6]. Many studies report the value of simulations tostudent learning, noting their ease of introduction into pre-existing curricula [7]-[10].Educational technology has demonstrated the ability to stimulate more interactive andcooperative teaching methods and student learning, in addition to saving

Conference Session

Design Projects

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frederick Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William Eccles, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Bruce Ferguson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Daniel Moore, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Mihaela Radu, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Terry Schumacher, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; David Voltmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Mark Yoder, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Edward Wheeler, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

transplanted middle westerner, having spent her childhood in Norfolk, Virginia. She came to Rose-Hulman early in her teaching career and has taught a wide variety of courses over the past three decades. Pat has held a number of American Society for Engineering Education summer fellowships that have taken her to NASA-Goddard, NASA-Langley, the Army Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland, and NASA’s Classroom of the Future in Wheeling, WV. She was on loan to the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory from 1989 to 1995, managing a project to transition advanced instructional technologies to ten different middle schools located in five states. She is on the editorial board of three

Conference Session

Issues in Mechanical Engineering Technology II

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ranjeet Agarwala, East Carolina University; Robert A. Chin, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

. They remarked that the tools provided “novel hands-on” interdisciplinary teaching instrument for aerospace and mechanical engineering students.[6]. Spearrin, R. M., & Bendana, F. A. (2018). Design-build-launch: a hybrid project-based laboratory course for aerospace engineering education. Acta Astronautica.[7]. Kroll, E., & Artzi, D. (2011). Enhancing aerospace engineering students' learning with 3D printing wind-tunnel models. Rapid Prototyping Journal, 17(5), 393-402.[8]. Chiou, R., Tseng, T. L. B., & Jayadev, S. (2018, June). Enhanced 3-D Printing for Energy Harvesting Project Implementation into Green Energy Manufacturing Laboratory. In 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.[9]. Cengel, Y. A., &

Conference Session

Innovation in Continuing Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Cala; Jaymin Patel; Ganesh Kudav; Burke Davis

courses, to sophomore laboratories, to junior co-operativeeducation experiences, to the capstone experience in the senior year. Therefore, this center has catalyzed the collaboration of multiple participants withinterests in a variety of curricular features. Innovations are proposed in the form of new ordifferent content, new delivery methods, and expanded points of delivery. This center is alsohelping to redefine interactions with institutional entities such as the Office of Grants andSponsored Programs, the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, the UniversityAssessment Council, and the Office of Professional Practice. This center will createdopportunities to streamline the undergraduate curriculum and share resources more

Collection

2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kimberly H. Henthorn

participation, and feedback to theinstructor and students. In 2006, the 3-hour lab block associated with the course was reorganizedinto 3 1-hour problem solving sessions. This modification greatly increased students’ retentionand understanding of the material by efficiently utilizing class time, which resulted in anoticeable improvement in overall course grades.CollaborationOne of the most important and hardest skills to teach students is collaboration. Many youngerstudents in engineering were at or near the top of their high school and freshman college classesand have learned that they work most effectively by themselves. However, the problem-basedcourses they encounter in engineering are very different and many students who do not learn towork

Conference Session

Curriculum and New Course Development in ET

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay R Porter, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

unique aspects of the course is the teaching format. In 2013, the College began aninitiative to double its enrollment over a period of about ten years. As part of this initiative,departments have been asked to find novel teaching approaches that allow for increased capacitywithout sacrificing quality of instruction. From this standpoint, a hands-on laboratory is one ofthe primary distinguishing components of engineering technology education and is also one ofthe major limiting factors to throughput. This course was the perfect opportunity to investigatemethods for offering a laboratory component without the requirement for a multiple, two to threehour, facility intensive laboratory sections. To this end, the course was designed to have

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosa Buxeda; Ramon Vazquez Espinosa; Jorge I. Velez; Lueny M. Morell

developed, as per ABET 2000 criteria number 3, and theassessment strategy to evaluate student performance. Teaching and learning activities aredesigned to provide the student with the content knowledge as well the opportunities to developthe proposed skills. Therefore, traditional lectures are complemented with in-classdemonstrations, laboratory experiences, consultations, field trips, and oral presentations andwritten reports. Students will be required to work in teams in projects and other activities. Alearning style profile on the student population will be used in designing course activities topromote learning. In addition, a portfolio will be used to document the student learning process.PaSCoR faculty have been exposed to this new ABET 2000

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Hasler, Georgia Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

, A. Dukes, and R. Clark, “Student performance in partially flipped ece laboratory classes,” in ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, Jun 2020.[34] Y. Tsividis, “Teaching circuits and electronics to first-year students,” in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, vol. 1, 1998, pp. 424–427.[35] ——, “Turning students on to circuits,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Newsletter, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 6–9, 2008.[36] “Analog discovery 3 reference manual,” https://digilent.com/reference/test-and-measurement/analog-discovery-3/reference-manual, last downloaded, February 7, 2024.[37] M. Radu, C. S. Cole, J. Harris, and M. Dabacan, “Use of electronics explorer board in electrical engineering education,” in American

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenan Hatipoglu, West Virginia University Insttitute of Technology; Mingyu Lu, West Virginia University Institute of Technology; Afrin Naz, West Virginia University Institute of Technology; Yogendra M. Panta, West Virginia University Institute of Technology; Steven Kent Blevins, West Virginia University Institute of Technology

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Instrumentation

involvedexperiments. A few experiments in the second course involve surge generators. The surgegenerators are all in-house design and construction. Therefore, the design information pertainingto the surge generators are available for teaching purposes. This gives students a visual tool toobserve exactly how certain devices are constructed2.Also at OSU, dissectible machines are used in the energy conversion lab. The test machines arefully dissectible and can be used to construct a wide variety of ac and dc electrical machines.This allows students the opportunity to observe the behavior and construction of various kinds ofac and dc machines2.At IIT Bombay, laboratory instruction is offered and believed to be a necessary part of theelectrical engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Kepner, Midwest Photonics Education Center; Anca L. Sala, Baker College, Flint

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

curricula, surveying 950 employers to determine their educationand training needs in the photonics area, delivering outreach events to 8000+ K-12 studentsinvolving hands-on exploration of lasers and optics, providing professional development tofaculty, participating in training and subsequently developing a recruiting and retention plan forfemales and minorities into the photonics technology field, and giving presentations about bestpractices in photonics technician education at several conferences. Next steps include setting upa laser assisted manufacturing laboratory at Indian Hills Community College and developing theassociated curriculum to serve as a model for colleges in the Midwest interested in teaching thisadvanced manufacturing technology

Conference Session

Micro-Technology and Nanotechnology

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhiyong Gu, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Bridgette Maria Budhlall, University of Massachusetts; Hongwei Sun, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Carol Forance Barry, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Alfred A. Donatelli, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

2011 fall semester and again in the 2012 fall semester. The course forstudents in the three engineering departments included lectures, hands-on laboratory exercises,demonstration experiments, and a final design project. In this paper, we discuss the lecturetopics and eight hands-on laboratory experiments that were developed into modules tocomplement lectures in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mixing, reaction engineering,electroosmosis, electophoresis, and manufacturing methods for micro and nanoscale devices. Wealso show the final project designs for the nanodevices or nanosystems that were proposed bystudent teams at the end of the course. Finally, we present the assessment results from the pre-post student surveys as well as faculty

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine; William R. Marshall, Alief Independent School District

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

a teaching and learningstyle that is the result of neuroscience research on how the human brain processes and retainsnew information”. 1Introduction“Acknowledging that students learn at different speeds and that they differ in their ability tothink abstractly or understand complex ideas is like acknowledging that students at any givenage aren’t all the same height: It is not a statement of worth, but of reality”.2 In adifferentiated classroom and laboratory, the teacher proactively plans and carries out variedapproaches to content, process, and product in anticipation and response to student differencesin readiness, interest, and learning needs. According to Tomlinson, our teaching style “caninfluence a students’ IQ by 20 points in either

Conference Session

Lessons for New Engineering Educators

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

challenge and encourage learning in today’s effective teaching programs.“Differentiated instruction, often referred to as universal design, is a teaching and learningstyle that is the result of neuroscience research on how the human brain processes and retainsnew information”. 1Introduction“Acknowledging that students learn at different speeds and that they differ in their ability tothink abstractly or understand complex ideas is like acknowledging that students at any givenage aren’t all the same height: It is not a statement of worth, but of reality”.2 In adifferentiated classroom and laboratory, the teacher proactively plans and carries out variedapproaches to content, process, and product in anticipation and response to student differencesin

Collection

2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Raluca I. Rosca

through the 2005 survey and exit interview, and the 2009follow-up email survey. From these, we present only the data associated to the professionalcareer and the diversity statement.In the 2005 Exit interview, we asked the participants ‘What Job would you like to have in theFuture.?. In Table 1 we report the answers in order of preference, and we code them asfollows:-‘Industry-Research’= industry or research laboratory-‘Research Teaching’ =faculty in a Carnegie Extensive (Carnegie 1) institution-‘Teaching-Research’=faculty in a Carnegie Intensive (Carnegie 2) institution-‘Teaching’= faculty in a Carnegie three or a Community College.We compare those answers with the present-day work positions of people, as found on a generalinternet search or as

Collection

2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Raluca I. Rosca

through the 2005 survey and exit interview, and the 2009follow-up email survey. From these, we present only the data associated to the professionalcareer and the diversity statement.In the 2005 Exit interview, we asked the participants ‘What Job would you like to have in theFuture.?. In Table 1 we report the answers in order of preference, and we code them asfollows:-‘Industry-Research’= industry or research laboratory-‘Research Teaching’ =faculty in a Carnegie Extensive (Carnegie 1) institution-‘Teaching-Research’=faculty in a Carnegie Intensive (Carnegie 2) institution-‘Teaching’= faculty in a Carnegie three or a Community College.We compare those answers with the present-day work positions of people, as found on a generalinternet search or as

Conference Session

Emerging Technologies in Manufacturing Education II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Salil Desai, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Jagannathan Sankar, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

andplanned non-residential summer camp. Students were introduced to the micro and nano conceptswith a presentation. They were assigned homework task to list miniaturized components that gointo devices being used in their daily life. Further the authors coordinated a laboratory visit toCAMSS and demonstrated micro-drop fabrication with assistance from graduate students.6. Evaluation of Micro and Nano Course ModulesThe micro and nano lecture modules were evaluated based on two measures namely; (1) Pre andpost learning surveys and (2) NCA&TSU teaching evaluations for the two courses. The learningsurvey included a total of 7 multiple choice questions. The surveys were administered for apopulation size of 25 students from the INEN 324: Computer Aided

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom Spendlove, Baker College, Flint; Anca L. Sala, Baker College, Flint; James Riddell, Baker College, Flint

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

involved in the learning process taking place inthe classroom, as opposed to the teacher centric traditional lectures. Engineering faculty havelong been using such approaches in many of our courses, for example in courses which includeexperimental laboratories and projects. This initiative has prompted us to focus more consciouslyon the effect of teaching on, and the assessment of student learning. This paper will discuss avariety of design projects we are using throughout the curriculum in the Mechanical Engineeringprogram before the Senior Design Project, how they fit with the Learner Centered Instructioninitiative, as well as how they support the Program Outcomes and Program EducationalObjectives of our ABET accredited program.Projects from

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Berreen

be used in either study mode or lecture mode and contains various exercises,animations and quantitatively correct simulations. The combining of these with other learningresources such as mathematical packages and laboratory work is considered.1. IntroductionThere would appear, from recent reviews of engineering education in the USA1 and inAustralia2 that there is strong impetus towards a broadening of engineering courses and astriving to make students more central in the whole educational process. Coupled with thesedirections is a highlighting of longlife learning aspects so that students progressively takegreater control of their learning. This means that as important as the technical skills is theobtaining of the learning skills to ensure

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Jana Bouwma-Gearhart, Oregon State University; Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University; Thomas Dick, Oregon State University; Susie J Brubaker-Cole, Oregon State University; Ann Sitomer, Oregon State University; Kathleen Quardokus Fisher, Oregon State University; Julie Risien, Oregon State University ; David L. Little II, Oregon State University; Christina Smith, Oregon State University; john David ivanovitch, Oregon State university

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Oregon State University. He serves as the Coordinator of Collegiate Mathematics Education, as Faculty Director of the OSU Math Learning Center, and as the OSU Math Excel (Treisman Emerging Scholars) program. His main mathematics education research interests are in the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning of mathematics. He was recognized in 2009 with the Pacific Northwest Section of the Mathematical Association of America Distinguished Teaching Award. He most recently served on an Equity Task Force for the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators.Dr. Susie J Brubaker-Cole, Oregon State University Dr. Susie Brubaker-Cole is vice provost for student affairs at Oregon State University. Prior to this

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Walker; Susan Magliaro; Michael Alley; Hassan Aref, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Alex Aning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Hayden Griffin; Mark Sanders, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University

and/or enhance their chances for facultyjob opportunities in higher education. With the current outsourcing of industrial research, thenumber of job opportunities in corporate and government research laboratories has diminishedgreatly. Thus, those students obtaining a Ph.D. in engineering increasingly look to academia forpositions. There are also others who are interested in teaching engineering in corporate settings,as well as those who are interested in pursuing educational research in engineering and science.While the sample population of prospective employers is very small in this survey, it is apparentthat employers view all the four graduate programs as useful. In the next section, we providemore details of our proposed

Conference Session

COED Programming Education 1: Students, Motivation, and Mastery

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Rossi, Penn State Behrend; Paul C. Lynch, Penn State Behrend

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

thetopic being discussed that week. For example, if a student is learning about loops in lecture, theycould be asked to write a program using loops to generate a multiplication table during the labperiod. Hazzan et al assert this allows students to be engaged in their learning rather than abystander similar to what you might see in laboratories for the natural sciences [2].Prior engineering education research has clearly shown that inductive teaching styles in lecturesand lab sessions show the students the importance and application of the subject matter byshowing the students particular examples while challenging them to keep building concept byconcept to solve complex challenges [3] [4]. These inductive teaching methods typically use ascaffolded

Conference Session

Enhancing Instructional Effectiveness in Civil Engineering: Case Studies

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, University of Texas, Tyler; Clifton B. Farnsworth, University of Texas, Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

material on the white board versus PowerPoint to build board contentwhile using questioning techniques, etc. Then the faculty completed the same lessonusing Camtasia screen recorder software (voice over PP and/or a talking head). Thefaculty team assessed the quality of these techniques and determined what was missingfrom the ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Model within the distance education products. Basedon the assessment by the faculty, the team determined what adjustments in teaching stylewere needed to increase the quality of instruction using the available distance educationplatform. The ultimate goal was to provide the best quality instruction no matter themedium. The real challenge will be laboratory lessons where the students usually need tosee the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sukesh K. Aghara, Prairie View A&M University; M. Golam Faruk, Prairie View A&M University; Latha Vasudevan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

). Aghara earned a master’s in environmental engineering from Vander- bilt University in 1999. He then went on to get his master’s and Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in 2001 and 2003, respectively. Upon completion of his Ph.D., Aghara was appointed as research associate at Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory in Austin, Texas and a Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UT prior to taking his current position at PV. He serves on the board of the Nuclear Power Institute (NPI), a multi-agency (university/industry/utilities) consortium focused on the development of the nuclear workforce of the future. Aghara has more than 10 years of teaching experience and has

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Division Technical Session 11

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Temileye Omopariola Ibirinde, Morgan State University; Pelumi Olaitan Abiodun, Morgan State University; Adebayo Iyanuoluwa Olude, Morgan State University; Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University; Niangoran Koissi, Morgan State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

University, where he also served as a research assistant at the Environmental Pollution Research unit, in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. As part of his contribution to science and engineering, Pelumi has taught as a teaching assistant both at Morgan State University and Obafemi Awolowo University. With passion to communicate research findings and gleaned from experts in the field as he advances his career, Olaitan has attended several in-persons and virtual conferences and workshop, and at some of them, made presentation on findings on air pollution, waste water reuse, and heavy metal contamination.Adebayo Iyanuoluwa Olude, Morgan State University Adebayo Olude is a doctoral student and research assistant at Morgan State University’s

Collection

2019 ASEE Zone I Conference & Workshop

Authors

Lisa Greenwood; Mark Indelicato; Miguel Bazdresch; Mike Eastman

changingdemographics in the United States point to the need for revolutionary changes in thepreparation of engineers (Jamieson & Lohmann, 2012; McGee & Bentley, 2017; NationalScience Foundation, 2014). Engineering education researchers have argued the educationalbenefits of deductive or student centered learning strategies (Felder, Brent, & Prince, 2011;Prince & Felder, 2006). In this paper, we describe one college’s attempts to enhance facultypreparation and pedagogical practices with the goals of improving student engagement andpromoting deeper learning. We offer three specific examples of alternative teaching strategiesas evidence for those who wish to consider moving away from the traditional technical lecture.Problem-Based Learning in

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Oerther, University of Cincinnati; Cathy Maltbie, University of Cincinnati; Baikun Li, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Jin Li, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Amy Pruden, Colorado State University; Peter Stroot, University of South Florida

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Environmental Engineering

EEP atPSU-H lack formal training in Biology and do not have exposure to molecular biology skills.Therefore, the ‘introductory’ materials are being expanded to represent thirty percent of the totalcourse (5 of 15 lectures). The belief is that this adaptation will allow students to become familiarwith molecular biology terminology and skills necessary for the laboratory.2. Emphasizing case studies discussing the application of molecular biology tools to addressengineering problems. Because the teaching perspective at PSU-H focuses on the practicalapplication of knowledge, it is critical to include engineering case studies to demonstrate tostudents the value of using molecular biology tools to address water and wastewater treatment.Including a

Conference Session

Exploration of Written and Team Communication

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

D'Arcy Randall, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin; Hyesun You, The University of Iowa; Daniel S. Puperi, The University of Texas at Austin; Thomas E. Lindsay, The University of Texas at Austin; Rhya Moffitt Brooke, The University of Texas at Austin

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

. Her research interests center on interdisciplinary learning and teaching, technology-integrated STEM teaching practices, and assessment development and validation in STEM education.Dr. Daniel S. Puperi, The University of Texas at Austin Daniel is an assistant professor of instruction in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Uni- versity of Texas at Austin. Dan received a BS in aerospace engineering from Purdue University and then worked at NASA Johnson Space Center for 15 years before pursuing a PhD in Bioengineering from Rice University. In 2016, Dan graduated from Rice and began teaching four design/laboratory courses required for all undergraduate BME students at UT Austin.Thomas E. Lindsay, The University

Conference Session

Computing Technology Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M T Taher; Usman Ghani, Robert Morris University; Ahmed S. Khan, DeVry University, Addison

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

hands-on labs; using such methodology will not only improve students’ learning but will also offer a low-cost and a flexible training platform. g. Even though AUC is a preferable type of feedback compared to KCR, it is more complex and therefore expensive to develop. h. Instructional designers are often interested in efficiency. It might be expected that the additional steps necessary for AUC would require more study time. i. Simulation-based teaching methodology offers a cost reduction by replacing expensive physical lab equipment such as routers, switches, and firewalls. By incorporating simulation-based laboratory experiments in place of physical

Conference Session

Teacher and Counselor Professional Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth English, State University of New York, Buffalo; Deborah Moore-Russo, State University of New York, Buffalo; Thomas Schroeder, University at Buffalo-SUNY; Gilberto Mosqueda, University at Buffalo-SUNY; Sofia Tangalos, University at Buffalo-SUNY

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

that relate classroom topics to practical application. As a result of their comfort withthe use of information technology, contemporary students and teachers can find traditionalclassroom methods of lecture and guided laboratory experiments limiting. Recently, the need forincreasing the number of students graduating in Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (STEM) fields United States has been recognized as a threat to continued economicdevelopment. This need, coupled with increasing technological literacy, has created anopportunity to leverage leading edge cyberinfrastructure in an outreach program targetingsecondary school teachers. This paper demonstrates the implementation of a targeted outreachprogram that engages pre- and in