Paper ID #9593Growing a STEM Initiative: Establishing Philosophies, Identifying Needsand, Lessons LearnedProf. Les Kinsler, Kansas State University, Salina Les Kinsler is a Professor with the Engineering Technology Department at Kansas State University Salina campus. Mr. Kinsler received his M.S. Degree in Computer Science from Wichita State University (KS) in 1987 with an emphasis in Software Engineering. He received a B.S. in both Physics and Mathematics from Emporia State University (KS) in 1972. Mr. Kinsler teaches classes in programming, software engineering, and fluid mechanics. His research interests include
of Engineering Educationtypes, and special features which can only be determined by working through thedrawings. The third goal is to teach AutoCAD. “Do you know AutoCAD?” is still the mostcommon question students are asked during job interviews. By learning it during thesophomore year, it becomes a tool that they can use throughout their college career. The course was developed to fit into the curriculum between Surveying in the Fallof sophomore year and the breadth of CE courses at the junior years. Because it usesland descriptions and legal documentation, Surveying is a prerequisite course. It alsofunctionally limits the class to Civil Engineering students. The course also has a co-requisite of Mechanics of Materials to ensure
coastal engineering department strives to buildupon a leading program of exceptional teaching, innovative research and dedicated service bymaintaining a strong curriculum, a highly qualified and committed faculty, outstanding facilitiesand essential funding. The department of civil engineering, which was established in 1905, hasbeen a recognized leader in innovative educational programs and is widely considered to beamong the top programs in the United States. The Department merged with the Department ofCoastal Engineering in 1999 and currently has 44 faculty members in 10 technology areas. There Page 8.296.1“Proceedings of the 2003
University of Missouri E-Business Program was established to support a learningenvironment where students, faculty, and businesses work together toward understanding andenhancing the principles upon which today's global and complex enterprises are created andoperated successfully. Innovative curricula using the latest in technology and teaching methodsare continuously evolving to match the needs of industry with the knowledge and skills ofstudents.The business world has recognized the value of the program since its inception. Industrialpartners have helped establish a solid computing and support infrastructure by providinghardware and software grants in excess of $1 million. The program is strongly supported by theUM System central administration
received her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Wayne State University in 1989.Prior to joining WSU’s Division of Engineering Technology in 1993, she taught at Western MichiganUniversity, and held technical positions at General Electric, Ford Motor Company, NASA (Lewis, JetPropulsion Laboratory, and Ames Research Center) and Navy (SPAWAR). Her areas of interest includecomputer networks and communications where she has published a number of papers. She has receivedexcellence in teaching awards from ET Division and the College of Engineering. She has received fundingfrom NSF and other organizations for her scholarly work.Attila Yaprak: Attila Yaprak, Ph.D. is a Professor of Marketing and International Business at Wayne StateUniversity. He is a
experiences with these teams over two semesters.IntroductionWorking in teams, improving communication skills, and enhancing problem solving are all keyobjectives for ABET 20001 as well as for most engineering courses. One way to address all ofthese is to have students work in cooperative learning homework teams. Cooperative learning2,3has been shown to have beneficial effects on student learning and benefits for the instructorincluding fewer and better papers to grade. Organizing the teams requires some work by theinstructor at the beginning of the semester as well as continual monitoring throughout the course.To teach the students about teamwork, it is important that they be provided with a structure forthe roles they are to play rather than just
plot of the release profileof drug from their lozenge is created. Finally they determine the parameter necessary to apply amodel to their system, and they compare their experimental release profile to that described bythe model.IntroductionRowan University is pioneering a progressive and innovative Engineering program that usesinnovative methods of teaching and learning to prepare students better for a rapidly changing andhighly competitive marketplace, as recommended by ASEE[1]. Key features of the programinclude: (i) multidisciplinary education through collaborative laboratory and course work; (ii) Page 5.405.1teamwork as the necessary
adverse student reaction toward structuring the course too muchtoward Internet content was also evident in other ASEE 2001 Internet course content papers. As aresult, the course has been further modified in the recent semesters to re-establish more traditionalinstructor-student classroom activities. Teaching assistant led computer laboratories and help sessionshave been added. In the current semester live lecture and group participation activities have beenreintroduced.This paper builds on the previous paper by presenting additional statistical comparisons from the currentmore balanced approach course and by discussing some of the changed approaches to teaching thecourse.II. Group PresentationsThe class was divided into groups of four to five
à à Session 1742 WEB-BASED COURSES PRODUCTION AUTOMATION I. Stiubiener, R.M. Silveira, W.V. Ruggiero LARC - Department of Electrical Engineering of Universidade de São Paulo Av.Prof. Luciano Gualberto, trav. 3 – 158, sala C1-46, 05508 900 SP, Brasil. itana, regina, wilson@larc.usp.brIndex Terms - automation teaching learning process, online learning, multimedia, and Web applications.Abstract: This work presents the process we implemented to develop our Web basedcourses using multimedia elements. We present the reasons we have decided to
-principal investigator for the National Girls Collaborative project. Dr. Marra teaches course on assessment, evaluation and the design and implementation of effective online learning experiences.Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Terenzini is Distinguished Professor and Senior Scientist Emeritus in Penn State’s Center for the Study of Higher Education. He has studied the effects of college on students for nearly 40 years and is co-author (with Ernest T. Pascarella) of the two-volume review of research on college student outcomes published since 1970. For the past 15 years, he has concentrated his research on engineering education and, in 2002, received (with others) the William Elgin
-principal investigator for the National Girls Collaborative project. Dr. Marra teaches course on assessment, evaluation and the design and implementation of effective online learning experiences.Ardie D. Walser, Grove School of Engineering at the City College of the City University of New York Ardie D. Walser is the Associate Dean of the Grove School of Engineering and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the City College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York.Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Terenzini is Distinguished Professor and Senior Scientist Emeritus in Penn State’s Center for the Study of Higher Education. He has studied the effects of college on students
where the DBF approach has been used to enhance learning ofengineering concepts6, 7, 8, 9.Flight Test Engineering (FTE) as an important element of the design & development cycle of anaerial platform certainly is well known. In view of this aspect, teaching of FTE is incorporated inaerospace engineering curricula at some engineering schools across the US for example10, 11, 12.FTE facilities are also utilized as flying laboratories for explaining concepts in aircraftperformance, stability & control. Page 25.1460.2Engineering students need to be exposed to important aspects such as teamwork, time and spacemanagement, planning engineering
teaching (and learning) about how the PLC works and how toapply the PLC be conducted? Should it be accomplished through customer training by the PLCsystem supplier and/or systems integrator or through the end user’s own training department—asis usually the case with new system installations? Or should this teaching and learning beimplemented through a formal course as part of a university or college curriculum in engineeringor engineering technology? Page 6.782.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society of Engineering
to "close" students taking courses that meet in traditionalclassroom settings. A third viewpoint is that "close" students are actually distance students mostof the time, since even they should do most of their learning outside of the classroom; this modelhas the advantage of encouraging lifelong learning. This paper describes some of ourexperiences over the last three years while offering web-based course supplements, designed anddelivered with World Wide Web Course Tools (WebCT) software, at the University of Arkansasat Little Rock. One benefit of web-based course supplements for engineering (as well as other)programs is that they can permit more class time to be devoted to interactive classroom activitiessuch as laboratory experiments and
used for teaching traditionally theoretical coursesin a laboratory setting. Student evaluations of the course indicated unanimously that theyenjoyed the hands-on experience and they felt that they assimilated a substantial amount ofnetworking knowledge. In addition, they obtained a valuable amount of hands-on networkexperience that gave them confidence in their networking abilities.Feedback from the Computer Science Department advisory board, consisting of communitybusiness members, stated that they feel that the students can be hired to be trained on other Page 2.15.4 4network operating
dwindled to the point where it was canceled for one quarterjust two years ago, and had only 12 students enrolled during two offerings in the 97-98academic year. This paper describes the reincarnation of this course to make it compelling forstudents not planning to major in nuclear engineering, and then the advertising that has proveneffective to significantly increase enrollments. Success is currently being measured by having21 students enroll for Fall 1998 and 28 students enroll for Spring 1999. The goal for the 98-99academic year was to serve 50 students. The goal for future years is to serve a minimum of 100students, teaching the course twice per year.IntroductionNuclear Engineering at The Ohio State University is a graduate only program
. • TVA – the nation’s largest electricity producer and is a regional economic developer. • Saturn Corporation – a GM company that produces the Saturn automobile. • Tech 2020 – a telecommunication solution provider that helps business, industry, and government meet their customers needs. • Oak Ridge National laboratory – the largest multi-program DOE laboratory. • Virginia Tech. – a pioneer in educational curriculum development and delivery techniques. • Alumax – a fully integrated aluminum producer and a fortune 200 company with worldwide facilities. • Dupont – with about 175 manufacturing and processing facilities in 70 countries, is one of the oldest continuously operating industrial enterprises
., “Tutorial: What You Can Do with the World Wide Web Today - Locating and Using Teaching andResearch Resources on the Web”, ASEE Summer School for Chem. Eng. Faculty, Snowbird, August 1998.[2] Internet Literacy, The First PBS TeleWEBCourse. PBS Agenda (Fall/Winter 1997-98), 12-13.[3] Serf’s Up! Teaching and Learning with Serf: Your Servant on the Internet. AACRAO Proceedings (in press).[4] http://www.udel.edu/serf[5] Hofstetter, F.T., Serf User Guide Version 1.0, University of Delaware, 1997[6] http://fourier.che.udel.edu/~cheg401[7] Doyle, F.J., Venkatasubramanian, V., and Kendi, T.A., “Process Control Modules: A Flexible Set of SoftwareModules for an Undergraduate Process Dynamics and Control Laboratory”, Comp. Appl. Eng. Educ., 4(3), 179
AC 2011-212: APPLIED MODELING OF SOLAR CELLSIgnacio B. Osorno, California State University, Northridge I have been teaching and researching Electrical Power Systems for over 25 years, and currently I am a professor of ECE. Published over 20 technical papers and given several presentations related to the ”smart grid” and electric power systems. Consulting with several major corporations has been accomplished in the areas of power electronics and solar energy. I am the lead faculty member of the Electric Power Sys- tems Program. I have established the electrical machines and microprocessor-relay laboratories and power electronics laboratory (in progress). Research interests are solar energy, wind energy, power
. Continuous interaction with enterprises helped motivatestudents to prepare for general classes individually; they have managed to gain good practicalmaterial for the final examination. Teachers have developed new teaching materials, which are nowwidely used in the educational process and mainly in the training of high school teachers. Neweducational technologies used in the implementation of programs are successfully incorporated intoin the main educational process. Among them – lectures given by foreign partners of the project, inperson as well as in the form of video lectures, audio presentations, recurring to pools of knowledgefrom the client enterprises' and program partners' databases; in-built consulting, etc. Thepreparatory work also includes
Transformation of Science Teaching and Learning: The Approach of the OpenSciEd Middle School Program. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 32(7), 780–804.Evans, C. M. (2023). Applying a Culturally Responsive Pedagogical Framework to Design and Evaluate Classroom Performance-Based Assessments in Hawai‘i. Applied Measurement in Education, 36(3), 269–285.Gay, G. (2018). Culturally responsive teaching: Theory, research, and practice (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Teachers College, Columbia University.Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (n.d.). Build a satellite.Ladson-Billings, G. (1995). But That’s Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy. Theory Into Practice, 34(3), 159–165.National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
perusal and reflection that may be of use to others teaching future CAD courses or others, such as students interested in CAD work in a BSME program. In addition, one can see the natural evolution of the course since it was first taught. The projects demonstrate the application of CAD knowledge acquired in the freshman Engineering Graphics course where SolidWorksTM has been taught recently. However, because of the wide applicability of CAD, projects from many other courses (such as Introduction to Engineering, Kinematics and Mechanism Design, Machine Design, and the Senior Design Clinic sequence) are emphasized (although not all of them are showcased) as well. Finally, because of the success of the Engineering Graphics course
student, and a quiz section. In the quiz section, students mustrun experiments, analyze their data, and then check to see if they have an answer within anacceptable range. The Lab charges virtual $ for each experiment to teach students that theyshould not run experiments indiscriminately, and then awards them virtual $ for correct answers.The Budget Report records the history of each quiz. Students must turn in their data, analysiswork, and a copy of the Budget Report which contains an authentication code. These quizzesincorporate the features Pavia9 lists that should be exhibited by a laboratory simulation.It is interesting to observe a new group of students start to use the software in a computer lab.Doing homework in the Lab is much different
37 Curricular Innovation for Real-Time Embedded Systems Course Reza Raeisi Sudhanshu Singh, Graduate Student California State University, Fresno Electrical and Computer Engineering DepartmentAbstractThe objective of this project is to experience and develop rapid prototypes of System-on-chip(SoC) using soft-core processor in the undergraduate laboratory. We will share the experience ona reconfigurable hardware-software co-design environment and µClinux embedded Real TimeOperating System (RTOS). A soft
data collected for accreditation.Methodology:ESG 201: “Learning from Engineering Disaster”, a 3 credit asynchronous online undergraduatecourse taught to both engineering and non-engineering majors by the presenter at Stony BrookUniversity for the past 12 years, has proved to be a successful method for teaching ethics as wellas the broader societal implications of engineering processes and technological design (10). Acombination of lectures, case studies, laboratory demonstrations, interviews, video site visits andteam-based collaborative analysis of engineering failures and their implications (societal,environmental, economic, legal, psychological) has proved successful in teaching the role ofengineers and engineering in society, as well as
, multimedia, hypermedia, Internet, virtualreality, interactive TV (iTV), digital TV (DTV), satellite and advanced classroom gadgetry.Convergent content combines conventional books, lecture notes, and video with digitally basedinformation on CD’s and DVD’s, on-line laboratory experiments and demonstrations bothlocally and globally via the internet, internet based information resources, classroom recording ofideas from convergent and divergent thinking, discussions and group activities using visual,audio and text authoring software. The convergent classroom is allowing the same and newcontent to be presented via multiple ways on different platforms and to be saved for future use indigital asset banks and warehouses using multiple means of storage and
contain hands-on laboratory activities to emphasizecourse concepts4, it became apparently that this course should contain similar learningcomponents for teaching professional skills, mainly using simulations. This was supported by theadaptive nature of this course, which is continually redesigned to maintain its relevance in thearea of technology. Thus, new technology components are implemented every two years, whilemaintaining the historical elements of industry practices that do not waiver, such as the history ofthe Internet and Circuitry.The course under examination not only contains a lecture component, but a hands-on computerlab component, which include the simulations. The hands-on lab component allows students theopportunity to actively
Professor of Teaching from 2005-2008.Scott C. Molitor, Ph.D., University of Toledo Scott C. Molitor received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1997 and has been a faculty member in Bioengineering at the University of Toledo Depart- ment of Bioengineering since 2000. His research is in computational neuroscience, auditory neuroscience and traumatic brain injury. He has also served as the Bioengineering undergraduate program director since 2001.Brian W. Randolph, University of Toledo Brian W. Randolph is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Toledo. He is the lead investigator for the UT adoption of WSU’s
Learned” paper is to investigate how former graduate studentleaders can employ their experiences to achieve and excel in service requirements as juniortenure-track faculty members. Research skills, and increasingly teaching ability, have been coreto the graduate student curriculum, and match the majority of faculty tenure requirements.However, preparation for the service requirement is often overlooked at both the graduatestudent and faculty level. While a small part of the overall tenure package, there is an unspokenpresumption that faculty members will be able to serve effectively and efficiently. In STEMcurricula, the development of interpersonal skills is often overlooked. While this may not be animpediment in research communications, faculty
routinelyemployed in small laboratory and discussion sessions. Wireless technology coupled with pen-based computing technology that is suited for analyzing and solving engineering problemsprovides an ideal venue for these interactive teaching and learning methods to be applied to alarger, more traditional lecture setting. This study focuses on how Tablet PCs and wirelesstechnology can be used during classroom instruction to create an Interactive Learning Network(ILN) that allows real-time student assessment and assistance. The ILN is designed to enhancethe instructor’s ability to solicit active participation from all students during lectures, to conductimmediate and meaningful assessment of student learning, and to provide needed real-timefeedback and