Paper ID #10168A Sequence of Technology Commercialization Courses for Science and Engi-neeringDr. Arthur Felse, Northwestern University Arthur Felse is a Lecturer and the Assistant Director for Research in the Master of Biotechnology Pro- gram. His responsibilities include teaching, student advising, coordinating research training, and man- aging the MBP teaching laboratory. Before joining Northwestern University, Dr. Felse completed his post-doctoral training at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. He received his BS in Chemi- cal Engineering as well as his MS in Biotechnology from Anna University, India and
analysis ofthe exam results shows that there is no significant distinction between hybrid learning andtraditional study. The survey results reflected the growth of students’ computer knowledge andthe acceptance of new technology application to today’s classes.It is believed that with continuously improving instructional videos, assessment methods, use ofup-to-date technology, hybrid design in the course will be accepted by more students, andprovide a more effective way of self-learning and interactive laboratory practice experience ascompared to traditional classroom style.References[1] A. Azemi, L.L. Pauley, "Teaching the Introductory Computer-Programming Course for Engineering Using Matlab and Some Exposure to C," 2006 ASEE Annual
. Page 15.207.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Assessing the Effectiveness of Synchronous Content Delivery in an Online Introductory Circuits Analysis CourseAbstractA 2008 study released by the US Department of Education indicates that online enrollments aregrowing at substantially faster rates than overall higher education enrollments (12.9% vs. 1.2%),with over 3.9 million students (or over 20% of all U.S. higher education students) taking at leastone online course in the fall of 2007. The study also reveals that among the eight majordiscipline areas examined, engineering has much lower online representation compared to others.One reason for this slow adoption of online teaching pedagogies in US engineering
faculty teach only their area of specialty, to all sections. Theadvantages to this were that the faculty were more comfortable with this approach and thestudents got to see a variety of faculty from the division. The main disadvantage was thatthis, by example, seemed to promote the idea that engineers need only be concernedabout their narrow discipline and de-emphasized the notion that it’s important forengineers to have a broad base of engineering knowledge. Since then we have adoptedthe approach whereby each faculty teaches a given section and covers all of the topics.This required recruitment of faculty into this course who were comfortable teaching abroad range of topics, many of which were outside of their specialty.Student grades were based
challenge and an opportunity. The authors share the view that engineering educationhas evolved to become more inclusive and responsive to stakeholders i.e. their constituency.As such engineering programs are becoming less isolated and not restricted to engineeringschools boundaries.A systems perspective brings a sense of inclusiveness into the design process. That is thesystem is composed of functional groups or subsystems that when brought together, all of theparts,(laboratories/classrooms infrastructure, human resources, teaching methods, constituenciesneeds, university mission and a business plan), interact /perform in a way that the outcomessought for the system, are achieved.The systems approach seems consistent with the accreditation criteria
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the biodegradable polymers as a mechanism to deliver chemical oxidants to remediate chemical and bio- logical contaminants in wastewater and soil. She conducts educational research where she has creatively works to change educational instruction in laboratory courses by introducing topics in sustainability us- ing case studies. In 2010 she led the NCA&T team that developed the National 4-H Science Youth Day experiment which was used to teach millions of K-8 students about water quality, energy use, and global warming. Her work and research involvement includes over $2,000,000 of research funding. To date she has received a number of teaching and research awards including the 2005 National Women of Color in
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led by trained K-8 professional developers in partnership with engineering faculty from theInstitution of Higher Education partner. While working with the K-8 teachers, engineeringfaculty members also enhanced their pedagogical methods. Positive changes in teaching ofengineering courses by the university faculty members were observed, including increasedstudent-led inquiry, use of pre-assessment techniques, student-learning assessment, enhancedstudent probing, development of a university study-group to explore teaching of experimentaldesign, and development of pedagogical content knowledge for basic engineering courses.Findings include identifying key elements of successful professional development programs,examples of the enhanced teaching
areas examined, engineering has much lower online representation compared to others.One reason for this slow adoption of online teaching pedagogies in US engineering programs canbe attributed to the perception by some engineering faculty and administrators that onlinecourses are not equivalent in content and rigor when compared to the traditional, face-to-facecourses. This paper presents the results of a study comparing the performance of on-campus andonline students in a sophomore-level Circuits Analysis course in a public two-year institution. Inthis introductory course for all engineering majors, content is delivered simultaneously to on-campus students and online students (dual delivery mode) using a combination of Tablet PCfunctionality
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Mechanical Engineering program. The age group ofthe students undergoing this program is between 18 and 25. The team for the implementationof PSBL consisted of faculty members teaching the courses relevant to PSBL in the classrooms and faculty members assessing the outcomes in the theory and laboratory components.There were also technical assistants who were part of the instruction and assessments for thelaboratory exercises. Specific faculty teaching competence and technical competencedevelopment measures were also implemented as part of PSBL to equip the faculty memberssufficiently. The faculty team was all-along supported by subject matter experts from theindustry who were also adjunct faculty. The entire
chemicals.Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University Michelle Bothwell is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Oregon State University. Her teaching and research bridge ethics, social justice and engineering with the aim of cultivating an inclusive and socially just engineering profession.Dr. Christine Kelly, Oregon State University Dr. Kelly earned her BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona and her PhD in Chem- ical Engineering from the University of Tennessee. She served as an Assistant Professor for 6 years at Syracuse University, and has been an Associate Professor at Oregon State University in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering since 2004, where she also served for
Education.Major Hans J Thomas, United States Military AcademyLt. Col. Shad A Reed, United States Air Force Academy Lt Col Shad Reed is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautics at the United States Air Force Academy. He is in the second year of this his second teaching assignment. Primary interests include engineering education research, aircraft design and aircraft structures.Lt. Col. Bruce Floersheim, U.S. Military Academy LTC Bruce Floersheim, Ph.D. P.E. was commissioned from the United States Military Academy as an officer in the Corps of Engineers in 1989. He has served in the United States, Turkey, Bosnia, Germany and Iraq during a career spanning over 23 years. His assignments include platoon leader, company
engineering design problems. Electrical and mechanical (machining)laboratory experiences are also in the process of being incorporated into the course. Thefollowing are the course objectives: 1. To learn and apply the processes, methodologies, and skills useful in engineering design. 2. To gain experience in and become skilled in the engineering problem solving process. 3. To become proficient in the various analyses often utilized in the engineering design process (e.g. cost analysis and graphical analysis in Excel). 4. To acquire a foundational understanding of engineering graphics and become proficient in the use of SolidWorks solids modeling software. 5. To become proficient in structured programming techniques, through the
describe the combination of the contextual and process skillswith the elements of traditional engineering education, all seen critical for success in the twenty-first century. In particular, he cited the lack of the ability of engineers to communicateeffectively as the greatest shortcoming in current engineering education. Geppert 3 contends thatthe ability of engineers to communicate effectively has always been important to industry andacademia but it matters even more today because of the growing complexity of systems and thecross-disciplinary-team approach to engineering.Consequently, many engineering programs are now addressing the issue of communication.There are a variety of ways to teach students about communication. One method is to offer
participants whotaught other engineering courses. The demographics (Table 1) indicates that a greater percentageof PE/ED teachers held a bachelor’s degree in a professional engineering field and were certifiedby their state to teach engineering education. Regardless of the potential safety hazards andresulting risks that are present, whether it be hot glue guns or table saws, research hasdemonstrated that teacher safety training and classroom/laboratory management practices(including safety demonstrations and direct supervision) are paramount to reducing the risk ofaccidents [5]. Readers must remember there will always be potential safety hazards and resultingrisks associated with hands-on P-12 engineering teaching and learning, but data-informed
AC 2012-3732: ENGAGING ALL STUDENTS IN ENGINEERINGDr. Christine M. Cunningham, Museum of Science, Boston Christine Cunningham is a Vice President at the Museum of Science, Boston, where she oversees curric- ular materials development, teacher professional development, and research and evaluation efforts related to K-16 engineering and science learning and teaching. Her projects focus on making engineering and science more relevant, understandable, and accessible to everyone, especially marginalized populations such as women, underrepresented minorities, people from low socio-economic backgrounds, and people with disabilities. She is the Founder and Director of the Engineering is Elementary project.Ms. Cathy P
the needs of a mobile robotics course for students from multiple disciplines. This robot systemcan be programmed in JAVA, Python, Lua or C. It can also be programmed with various devicessuch as smartphones, tablets, or the traditional laptop computer. This mobile robotics coursecurrently uses off the shelf or slightly modified off the shelf robots to teach robotics. The initialresults will indicate that it is possible to use this modular platform in its various modes to createsome of the basic behaviors required for the laboratory assignments.IntroductionThis paper will present the design of a modular educational robotics platform to handle thedivergent skill sets of a multidisciplinary population in an introductory mobile robotics course
Journal cover. She is an active men- tor of undergraduate researchers and served as co-PI on an NSF REU site. Research within her Medical micro-Device Engineering Research Laboratory (M.D. ERL) also inspires the development of Desktop Experiment Modules (DEMos) for use in chemical engineering classrooms or as outreach activities in area schools. Adrienne has been an active member of ASEE’s WIED, ChED, and NEE leadership teams since 2003.Donald P. Visco, Tennessee Technological UniversitySusan M. Montgomery, University of Michigan Susan Montgomery is Lecturer IV and program advisor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She also serves as ASEE campus representative. She earned a BSEChE from the
Paper ID #38013Innovating Through a Pandemic: Zooming in on theSustainable Lessons Learned in Engineering EducationDavid John Orser (Distinguished Teaching Professor) David Orser a Distinguished University Teaching Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He is a teacher, lab coordinator, and mentor with over a decade of industry experience. David teaches and leads the development of undergraduate curricula with a focus on project-based learning, experiential learning, and laboratory courses. His leadership brings together faculty, TAs, staff, and students
followingchallenges for transdisciplinary or cross-college learning: a) different departmental norms (i.e.,grading, course delivery, class size, etc.), b) program awareness and marketing that is easy forstudents and advisors to interpret across colleges, c) competing value structures across academicunits (the value of teaching vs. research vs. revenue generation), d) scheduling systems based onthe traditional credit hour and faculty loading, e) duplication of efforts across the campus thatspurs internal competition instead of complimentary practices, f) curriculum approval structuresthat are not in coordination across academic units, g) course naming and course ownership, h)traditional course structures such as lecture and laboratory settings and course time
Paper ID #12015Leadership Development in Change: A Panel to Explore Experiences, Skills,and Learning in Change Management for New Engineering Educators.Dr. Ella Lee Ingram, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Ella L. Ingram is an Associate Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for the Practice and Schol- arship of Education at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her educational research interests include promoting successful change practice of STEM faculty, effective evolution and ecology instruction, and facilitating undergraduate research experiences. Her teaching portfolio includes courses on: nutrition
Mechanics and Modeling of Orthopaedic Tissues Laboratory at Bucknell, where they use computational and experimental techniques to better understand the mechanics of musculoskeletal soft tissues and human movement. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Pre and Post Tenure: Perceptions of Requirements and Impediments for Faculty in Civil Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Construction DisciplinesAbstractThe tenure process is a way of life in the majority of US higher education institutions, andfaculty in engineering disciplines are no exceptions to this practice. A tenured position is covetedand sought by many aspiring assistant professors. Since the
Pedagogies of Liberation in an Engineering Thermodynamics Class Donna Riley Assistant Professor Picker Engineering Program, Smith College Northampton, MA 01063AbstractPedagogies of liberation, including feminist and critical pedagogies based on the works of bellhooks*, Paulo Freire and others, were employed in teaching Engineering Thermodynamics withtwo classes of women at Smith College. Aspects of course development, assignments, andclassroom dynamics are discussed, including connecting course material to student experience,emphasizing
Engineering Undergraduate and Graduate Students: Results of a National SurveyAbstractThe new ABET EAC accreditation outcomes recognize the importance of educating studentsabout their ethical and professional responsibilities, and how these relate to the impact ofengineering in societal and environmental contexts. This research explored how the educators ofchemical engineering students viewed the sufficiency of education on ethics and societal impacts(ESI), as well as their own teaching practices for ESI. Two online surveys gathered feedbackfrom chemical engineering instructors, resulting in 107 respondents representing 76 institutions.A large percentage of the chemical engineering respondents felt that undergraduate educationwas deficient on
content of new course materials, or the results of changes, e.g., howincorporating new teaching strategies affected student learning. Some of these reportshave come from the work of faculty in the NSF-sponsored Foundation Coalition (FC),currently consisting of six institutions: Arizona State University (ASU), Rose-HulmanInstitute of Technology (RHIT), Texas A&M University (TAMU), the University of Page 9.298.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationAlabama (UA), the University of Massachusetts at
Mechatronics kits and peripheralhardware as shown in Fig. 2. The students had access to the project setup and toolbox inthe laboratory while the teaching assistant was available. The groups also had the optionto check-out their toolbox and work with it at home or outside the lab at their own pace,which was well received and taken advantage of by the students. Lectures devoted to discussing the overall conceptof mechatronics and introducing the overall Lab-VIEW software environment were also incorporatedin the Introduction to Robotics course. The firstlecture discussed a simple LabVIEW Virtual Instru-ment (VI) was developed to explain the Front Panel(FP) and Block Diagram (BD) windows, and themanner in which these tools could be used to developa
Paper ID #39848Analysis of Student Motivation in an Introductory Engineering TechnologyGateway CourseHernan David Moreno Rueda, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)Kevin Michael SimonsonProf. Jeffrey J. Richardson, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) At Purdue, Professor Richardson teaches courses in electric vehicle technology, prototype construction / project development and management, and courses in embedded microcontroller sequence. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Professor RichardProf. Eddy Efendy, Campbell University Eddy Efendy currently teaches Mechanics of Materials in the Engineering
Paper ID #34434Improving Programming Content Delivery in an Introductory BiomechanicsCourse Using a Blended Classroom ApproachMr. Jeffery Ethan Joll II, Vanderbilt University Ethan is in the final year of his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University where he works under Dave Merryman. His laboratory work investigates the mechanobiological underpinnings of cal- cific aortic valve disease and post-menopausal osteoporosis. His education research focuses on blended learning strategies to improve content delivery in undergraduate biomedical engineering courses. He is investigating careers in educational research
Paper ID #33075Incorporating the Use of a Materials Database into a Materials Scienceand Engineering Freshman CourseKisung Kang, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Kisung Kang is a Ph.D. Candidate, Mavis Future Faculty Fellow, and the computational teaching as- sistant in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from Yonsei University in Seoul, Republic of Korea. His research in the Schleife group and the Cahill group focuses on studying the properties of metallic anti- ferromagnetic materials through the first