Paper ID #36736Using Project Based Learning (PBL) with Control TheoryStephen Andrew Wilkerson (Assistant Professor) Stephen Wilkerson swilkerson@ycp.edu received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1990 in Mechanical Engineering. He retired from the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Aberdeen Proving Grounds after 33 years of service. During the last 15 years of Stephen Wilkerson’s work for the U.S. Army; his focus was on unmanned systems mainly drones and small robots. During his career with ARL he has been an instructor at the United States Military Academy West Point for three years and the exchange scientist
collaborative projects in pairs and in teams, and where they learnby doing and by communicating about what they do [1-5].UVU’s Engineering and Computer Science InitiativeTo address a critical shortage of engineers and computer scientists [6], the governor and statelegislature established the Utah Engineering Initiative in 2001 and have continued its funding[7]. The ongoing initiative provides money to engineering and pre-engineering programs so theycan increase their capacity to train students; it aims to double the number of graduates inengineering and computer science. UVU has received funds to build new engineering programs,hire new faculty, and equip laboratories. In support of the Utah Engineering Initiative, JohnWarnock, co-founder of Adobe
transformativeadvances to turbomachinery and propulsion systems, materials, and manufacturing is vital toreduce both the costs and emissions associated with manufacture and operation [8]. Results fromthe 2019 and 2021 summer sessions indicate HYPER is accelerating progress and ignitingexcitement in the current generation of students to pursue research-oriented careers tackling thesemultidisciplinary research challenges [9, 10, 11].4. Impact of COVID The COVID pandemic significantly affected HYPER. In the 2020 summer, the Universityof Central Florida shifted to remote operation. Access to dormitories and laboratory spaces becamemore restricted as the summer progressed. The conditions did not facilitate the launching of a sitewhich could meet its program
experience.Field Engineering and Readiness Lab OverviewIn 1994 the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the United States Air ForceAcademy initiated an innovative concept in higher education: The Field Engineering andReadiness Laboratory, more commonly referred to as FERL. FERL is a direct result of thevision and dedicated effort of Retired Brigadier General David O. Swint to improve the learningof students in this unique course. FERL is where engineering practice and education areuniquely combined in a hands-on construction environment. In addition to improving thelearning, FERL was intended to increase interest in and motivation to study civil andenvironmental engineering. Vander Shaaaf and Welch [1], and Buchholtz and Vander Schaaf [2
thecommunity.The student cohort is working toward the ultimate deliverable of designing and building a living-learning laboratory. This laboratory will be created with maximum sustainability, with repurposedmaterials and architecture designed to work in tandem with the land on which it is built. The landis near the HBCU but not the PWI, generating a need for remote planning and collaboration. Inaddition, the laboratory will aim to benefit the local community by reflecting on the area's historyand context and contributing via learning resources, sustainable agriculture, and accessibleknowledge sharing.Our lessons learned are divided into three fundamental areas: using a PALAR framework,intentional community engagement, and genuine inter-institutional
levee failuresworldwide. Most of Rice’s research involved working with a group at Deltares attempting tounderstand the balance of effects from multiple components of the BEP process along with theeffects three-dimensional seepage flow has on the current BEP assessment methods. In thiscapacity he worked with Deltares and TUD researchers performing numerical modeling tounderstand the observations and results of physical models and field observations, heparticipated in laboratory tests and field simulations of the BEP process, and undertook fieldexcavations of actual locations where BEP was know to have occurred. The collaboration was afruitful exchange of ideas and knowledge and resulted in several publication and a Keynoteaddress co-presented by
, actuation, and control are integral to smart devices with embedded microcontrollers.Arduino and Raspberry Pi microcontrollers and single-board computers can be interfaced withvarious sensors and actuators and incorporated into mechanical devices to perform a variety ofintelligent functions using appropriate software programming. Over and above themultidisciplinary graduate and undergraduate students that are hired to advance the proposalobjectives, project assignments integral to “Instrumentation” and “Control Systems” coursesoffered by the principal author to juniors in the engineering program endeavor to integrate the out-of-classroom field and laboratory efforts with the course requirements to introduce a larger poolof students to growing
). Finally, a contact database from previous Letters of Reference for REU applicants was created. These faculty members are contacted directly and asked to consider their current students for the REU program and to encourage them to apply.Diversity of participants:As a result of our recruitment efforts and value based on attracting applicants from historicallyunderrepresented groups for the purpose of increasing diversity in STEM, our participantsrepresent a diverse and inclusive community. Having a diverse group of participants each yearenhances the learning experience for all student participants, helps to build an inclusive researchenvironment for our laboratories, and provides an opportunity for mentors to work with anincreasingly
Paper ID #39964Board 51: Utilizing Technical Competitions to Enhance Diverse WorkforceRecruitment and RetentionMs. Jacalynn Sharp, JHU APL Jackie Sharp is a mechanical engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU APL) where she works in mechanical design and analysis as well as simple electronics development and integration. Jackie volunteers as a robotics instructor and mentors high school students interested in STEM from low SES and diverse backgrounds. She is the treasurer of the ASME DC Section (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) and is committee co-lead for the ASME FutureME platform
and served in several ad- ministrative roles within higher education; secured over $5.5M funding and support for STEM education research; and led several program development efforts, including: a childcare facility at a federal research laboratory, STEM K-12 teacher training programs, a Molecular Biology/Biotechnology master’s degree program at a small internationally-focused teaching institution, as well as a first-year engineering program and a B.S. Engineering Technology degree program at an R1 research institution. She has been recognized for her teaching, advising, and service, and as an Exemplary Faculty Member for Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.Dr. David A. Wyrick PE, CPEM, West Virginia
Paper ID #37608Process Control Experiment Using an Arduino Board and LED LightsDr. Maddalena Fanelli, Michigan State University Dr. Maddalena Fanelli is a Teaching Specialist in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Michigan State University. Dr. Fanelli teaches and coordinates a number of undergraduate courses and laboratories, helping students learn chemical engineering fundamentals and gain hands-on experience.Mr. Ryan Daniel Atkinson, Michigan State University Mr. Ryan Atkinson is an undergraduate student studying Electrical Engineering. Currently, Ryan is working as a professorial assistant
importance of lifelong learning. 2. Use technical communication skills to explain the analysis and results of introductory laboratory exercises in engineering and computer science. 3. Explain the engineering analysis and design process and use it to solve problems. 4. Analyze data collected during laboratory exercises designed to expose students to the different engineering disciplines. 5. Describe the impact engineering has had on the modern world. 6. As part of a team, design a simple engineering device, write a design report, and present the design. 7. Demonstrate computer literacy through computer aided analysis, graphing, documentation, and presentation of results. 8. Create detailed plans for degrees at
matrix calculations and mass density values in material cards [1].The laboratory portion of the class is set up using a series of instructional labs and assignments.The instructional labs are designed to expose the students to finite element software. Studentsimport geometry, mesh the model, define properties, apply boundary conditions, create a solutionset, and then solve the model. Once the model is solved, the students learn how to display theresults properly. Laboratory assignments are assigned to reinforce the instructional labs and helpstudents learn how solve a given problem by displaying their results in a logical manner andwriting a lab report.The Laboratory ProblemThe first portion of the vibration lab exercise is to perform a modal
Paper ID #37014Work In Progress: Professional Development Through High-Impact Experi-encesDr. Charles Patrick Jr., Texas A&M University Dr. Charles Patrick Jr. currently serves as a Professor of Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engi- neering at Texas A&M University. He serves as Director of the Undergraduate Program and administers the Ideas to Innovation Engineering Education Excellence Laboratory. He is involved in Texas A&M’s Center for Teaching Excellence, the Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation, and the College of Engineering’s Faculty Engineering Education Group. His research focuses
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
., 2005). It means that computer simulations in actual scientificequipment are becoming integral parts of recitations or laboratories (Lee et al., 2008). Studiesdone with different age groups showed the positive impact of computer simulations on learners'mastery of concepts and ability to integrate information (e.g., Sari & Wahono Widodo, 2021;Triona & Klahr, 2003; Zacharia & Anderson, 2003). However, there have been few efforts to usesimulations to facilitate the integration of engineering design with scientific inquiry (e.g.,Capobianco et al., 2013; Magana et al., 2021). For example, Magana and colleagues (2021)provided a multiple case study in which different age groups were engaged in engineering designwith computer-aided
commoncomponent and a one-credit-hour department-specific component. The interdisciplinary course,meeting one hour per week, involves team-teaching, the professional community, and scarceteaching resources. The departmental component is in a laboratory format. Discipline-specificlabs allow departments to assign problems related to their own discipline and introduce non-common content. Most importantly, it also provides departments with the opportunity to get toknow their students and allows the students to feel connected to a department.Each departmental representative on the committee presented a list of topics covered in theirdiscipline-specific course. This data was accumulated and then comparisons made so that a listof topics common to all
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationtopics that are not normally offered during the regular academic year. By completing all threesummers of TexPREP, students will have received instruction in following subjects: • Logic and Its Applications to Mathematics: A daily lecture class required of Year 1 participants. • Visual Calculus: A visual, hands on approach to calculus concepts for Year 1 participants. • Algebraic Structures: A daily lecture class required of Year 2 participants. • Introduction to Engineering: A four-week daily lecture/laboratory class with topics in Engineering. This component incorporates design projects for
particularly the strong support for a “Learning Laboratory”(statement #7) by all (but especially females [column 3] and Hispanic [column 5]) andthe “steep” learning curve experienced by the females. (Ten of the eleven female students“strongly disagreed” (The eleventh simply “disagreed”.) that they had “considerableprevious experience” with their component (statement #5), and yet as a group theyprovided the strongest agreement that they “learned a lot.” (statement #2)) .Table 2 also presents survey results for three ethnic groupings. For the most part theirresponses fell between the responses of the males and females indicating that the issuesaddressed in the survey are more gender than ethnicity related. Please respond to the following statements
also focus on the data in the design of labs, includingcollection, transmission, storage, and presentation. Since the labs are designed mainly forteaching purpose, security issues such as device authentication are not addressed. Web serverand database server will be running on a Linux machine. Since most students are not familiarwith Linux operating systems, they can choose to start the web and database development onWindows and then migrate it to Linux.Devices used in laboratory experiments and the data flow are displayed in Figure 1, whichincludes sensors, ESP8266 WiFi module, Raspberry Pi, and HM 10 BLE module. All devices areprovided by the instructor, except the computer and mobile phone. Table 1 gives a summary oftechnologies covered in
QISKIT), but hardware and experiential learning have lagged despite being consideredcritical by industry. Virginia Tech has recently developed a unique QISE hardware capacityto meet this need. With the development of hardware and the lab at Virginia Tech comes theopportunity to help diversify the workforce in this emerging engineering field.Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) could play a critical role in growingthe QISE workforce. Currently, no HBCUs have specialized hardware laboratorycapabilities for workforce development and the associated student research. Virginia TechCollege of Engineering is currently working with the QISE hardware laboratory to facilitatea QISE partnership with Prairie View A&M University. The
from Research and Practice for Middle Grades through University Education. (Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access, 2012).16. Sweet, C. Accessibility in the Laboratory. in Hidden or Invisible Disabilities and Laboratory Accommodations (ed. E. Sweet, W. Strobel Gower and C.E. Heltzer) vol. 1272 69–75 (American Chemical Society, 2018).17. Prema, D. & Dhand, R. Inclusion and accessibility in STEM education: Navigating the duty to accommodate and disability rights. Can. J. Disabil. Stud. 8, 121–141 (2019).18. Miner, D. L., Nieman, R., Swanson, A. B. & Woods, M. Teaching chemistry to students with disabilities: A manual for high schools, colleges, and graduate programs. (American Chemical Society, 2001).19
a safety exam before working in theInnovation Hub and to use best operating practices within the Lane Innovation Hub at all times.Proceedings of the 2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference Copyright © 2023, American Society for 3Engineering EducationETEC 220L (Applications of Technology Laboratory) is the next course in the plan of study thatutilizes the Lane Innovation Hub. This lab and the corresponding lecture course (ETEC 220)will focus on computer integration into manufacturing processes. ETEC 220L will split timebetween honing SolidWorks skills outside of the Innovation Hub and utilizing manufacturingequipment within the Lane Innovation Hub. Manufacturing equipment planned for use in theclass are 2D cutting machines including
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of belonging to their program of study. While this was a known problem for theEE program, a closed-loop educational assessment and improvement was conducted to close thegap and relate students to their field of study as early as the first semester of study. In this newapproach to the lower-division courses students will start system view courses and currentprototyping circuits and tools were used to set up the laboratory experiments. The goals of thisstudy were: a) Integration of courses and providing a system view in the lower-division courses. b) Improving retention and engagement in early years of study. c) Closing the gap between lower-division and upper-division courses by practicing system view projects using
Paper ID #34076Toward a Quantitative Engagement Monitor for STEM EducationDr. Aly A. Farag, University of Louisville Aly Farag, Fellow, IEEE and IAPR: received B.S. in EE from Cairo Univ. M.S. in Bioengineering from the Ohio State and the Univ. of Michigan, and PhD in EE from Purdue. He is a Prof. of ECE at the Univ. of Louisville, and director of the Computer Vision & Image Processing Laboratory, focusing on research and teaching in computer vision, biometrics and biomedical imaging. He introduced over 13 new courses into the ECE curriculum, authored over 400 papers, edited two volumes on deformable models and a
initial finding aswell as conduct additional tests to statistically analyze the motivation and engagement throughMotivational Strategies for Learning Questionnaire.ReferencesAkçayır, M., Akçayır, G., Pektaş, H. M., & Ocak, M. A. (2016). Augmented reality in science laboratories: The effects of augmented reality on university students’ laboratory skills and attitudes toward science laboratories. Computers in Human Behavior, 57, 334–342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.12.054Bazarov, S. E., Kholodilin, I. Y., Nesterov, A. S., & Sokhina, A. V. (2017). Applying Augmented Reality in practical classes for engineering students. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 87, 032004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755
involve significant hands-on and/or problem-solving components. In this regard,engineering education has been profoundly impacted by the challenges associated withdelivering laboratory content and design experiences remotely. In a qualitative survey conductedby the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) to help assess the impact of thepandemic on the engineering education community [1], respondents overwhelmingly consideredthe loss of lab-based, hands-on instruction to be the leading problem faced by engineeringeducators. Approximately 120 out of 207 responses included the terms “hands-on,” “lab” or“laboratories,” or both, and another 20 mentioned “team,” referring to activities and projects. Incomparison, although lecture courses have
adjust to the distance learning mode include: a) decomposition of the course context into three modules and clear specification of the corresponding learning objectives of each module; b) combination of different technologies to create friendly and inclusive learning environment; c) frequent assessment of students' performance via online quizzes/tests; and d) carefully- designed laboratory assignments via MATLAB simulations that are able to demonstrate the entire feedback control process. A comparison of students' performance under the traditional face-to-face learning mode and the new distance learning mode is conducted. Based on assessment results, we will evaluate the effectiveness of our current teaching methodology/plan developed
learn more about producingreports that support work in a laboratory setting. Each class period begins with a brief lectureabout writing and then moves into lab work and data analysis.Using formal report and memo templates [18], students produce individual and team reports,which give them a chance to add to writing and teamwork skills. In group reports, roles arerotated so each student has experience in writing different sections and acting as the group editor.Figure 10 illustrates the type of comments they receive from the engineering instructor. 14 Figure 10. ENGR 3270 – Laboratory Report – Engineering Instructor Comments.Figure 11