University of Cluj-Napoca, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana and R@D engi- neer for The Institute of Scientific Research for Automation and Telecommunications, Bucharest Roma- nia. Over the past ten years she taught several undergraduate and graduate courses on Electronic Compo- nents and Circuits, Digital Design, Design of Fault Tolerant Systems and Testing of Digital Systems. Her current research interest includes Reliability and Fault Tolerance of Electronic Systems, Programmable Logic Devices and new educational methods teaching digital system design and analog electronics, em- phasizing ”hands-on” experiences and project-based-learning. She has
that the high relevance of practical courses and projects in these modules,the extensive access to laboratories and independent experimenting, the possibility of a broadchoice and the internship are of special interests for our female students.Aims of the programEconomics and society have a growing demand for interdisciplinary educated graduates with abroad scientific knowledge. Interdisciplinary, both application and research-oriented programs asdeveloped at Berlin Institute of Technology focus on teaching methods and basics of computersciences, mathematics and natural sciences. They aim at providing a basis for the development ofcomprehensive knowledge about scientific methods which are complemented by choices offurther technical and non
AC 2009-1115: COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND STUDENTEVALUATIONS: CAN BOTH BE IMPROVED?Zbigniew Prusak, Central Connecticut State University Dr. Prusak is a Professor in the Department of Engineering at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT. He teaches courses in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering Technology and Mechanical Engineering Technology programs. He has over 10 years of international industrial and research experience in the fields of precision manufacturing, design of mechanical and manufacturing systems and metrology. Dr. Prusak received M.S. Mechanical Engineering from Technical University of Krakow and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from
principlesthey are meant to illustrate become lost in a blizzard of factoids about perishable tools andtechniques that have little long-term value.Various drags also combine to make curricular change difficult. Sources of drag include thelogistics of laboratory technologies. These tend to be expensive in dollars, with price magnifiedby the number of copies needed in the teaching environment. Another expense is the time spentby faculty and technicians to install and make new technologies functional for teaching purposes,including time to learn new tools and techniques and to address in advance the problems thatstudents are likely to encounter. The latter costs are particularly hard to quantify and articulatefor purposes of resource allocation within the
rm focused on the evaluation of the use and deployment of technology assisted teaching and learning. Throughout her career, she has served as an external evaluator for a number of NSF-funded projects associated with faculty development, community building, peer review of learning materials, and dissemination of educational innovation. She was PI for the project ”Learning from the Best: How Award Winning Courseware has Impacted Engineering Education.” This research focuses on determining how high quality courseware is being disseminated and what impact it is having on the culture of engineering education as measured by changes in student learning, teaching practices, and the careers of the authors of these
traditional lecture / class notes model is needed to help students reason about topics that arenot in their everyday experience and thinking. One instructional strategy that helps engineeringstudents go deeper in their thinking about the functional aspects of electrical circuits is showingthese effects through the use of real-time devices.We have not been able to use real-time demonstrations in class effectively, and certainly not inour larger classes. A real-time prototyping and development system that is an ideal teaching aid,called ELVIS (Electronics Laboratory Virtual Instrument Suite) 3 has been developed byNational Instruments (Austin TX). This apparatus uses real circuit devices on a breadboardconnected to a PC through ADC (Analog Digital
werepiloted in the College in 1998-99 and became a requirement for all students entering theUniversity, effective summer 1999. The overall objective was to foster an understanding andappreciation for the importance of general education within the context of students’undergraduate experience; and specifically to engage students more quickly in the scholarlycommunity and facilitate their adjustment to the high expectations and challenges of college life.Other than stipulating that the seminars should be offered in small classes (20 students or less),and led by faculty with at least several years of teaching experience, the format and approachwere left very flexible. Each of the University’s colleges was free to develop a seminar programthat would be
testing. For that work, she received an ASEE National Award, the Robert G. Quinn Award for Excellence in Laboratory Instruction. She has also implemented new pedagogical methods and teaching standards to broaden students’ problem solving skills, scientific and technological literacy through real-world prob- lems, problem- and project-based learning, and hands-on experiences. She also teaches Introduction to Engineering Design (ENGI 120) for the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership. In 2011, she won the George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching, the university’s highest teaching award.Dr. Mark Embree, Rice University Mark Embree is the Doerr Professor and Director of the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership, and
undergraduate colleges in theUS. While faculty at UTG (and smaller colleges in the US) will struggle to compete with theR1's in the scholarship of discovery, the playing field can be leveled or even tipped to theiradvantage in the other areas. Faculty at many smaller US colleges and UTG will likely alwayshave greater teaching responsibilities and less access to costly research laboratories andresources (library, software, database access, support staff, technicians, etc.). This clearly tips thecompetitive balance toward the R1's in the scholarship of discovery. However in the scholarshipof teaching, an increased valuation of teaching should provide opportunity to raise visibility inthis area of scholarship. Evidence of this can be seen every summer at
physical prosthetic hand that can beoperated by students from their own homes. In this paper we describe the development aninteractive experience to teach K12 students about prosthetics, medical devices, and soft roboticsby controlling a laboratory-based physical robotic hand via webcam that is reliable in a variety ofcontexts. To evaluate this curriculum, we also present results of a mixed methods approach tocollect quantitative and qualitative data on the tool and students’ perceptions of engineering as aresult of using the tool. Previous research has shown that new materials in soft robots may fosterrobotics interest for a diverse population of students and expand students’ ideas about whatrobots do and how engineering can be used in human
Paper ID #36578Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM) in Undergraduate Vibration ClassDr. Chau M. Tran, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University Chau Tran is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at NC State University. He is currently the course coordinator for capstone senior design and previously was the course coordinator for Vibration, the director for undergraduate advising and the director for undergraduate laboratory. He teaches senior design and Vibration annually. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from NC State University in 1998
Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, since 2003. He has a history of supervising student teams there. Prior to that he was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories and at NCR Corp, where he worked on and led teams for many years. His PhD dissertation was in the area of AI Search. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com A Team Taught Undergraduate Course on Data MiningAbstractWe summarize our experience team teaching an undergraduate data mining course and providerecommendations for those interested in developing and teaching their own course. We alsocompare and contrast our course to other data
positive attitudetowards working in collaborative environments and provided better understanding to students andhelped in student retention in the CS course. In another work [2], the authors used MicrosoftResearch’s Kodu Game Lab to teach computer science programming concepts to students. It wasobserved that students were actually being interested in the programming and learning conceptsand not only playing games. The authors in [3], developed a new lab-based format for computerscience instruction where the course was converted to totally lab-based and instructors’ role wasconverted to a tutor. The results showed that this method enhanced the learning experience forstudents while improving the communication between instructors and students. In [4
, and the adoption of evidence-based teaching strategies.Dr. Sam Spiegel, Colorado School of Mines Dr. Spiegel is the Assistant Provost and Executive Director of the Trefny Innovative Instruction Center at the Colorado School of Mines. He previously served as Chair of the Disciplinary Literacy in Science Team at the Institute for Learning (IFL) and Associate Director of Outreach and Development for the Swanson School of Engineering’s Engineering Education Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining the University of Pittsburgh, he was a science educator at Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS). Dr. Spiegel also served as Director of Research & Development for a multimedia development
, a lower student-to-faculty ratio in the classroom. Three or sequence, the Augustinian Culture Seminars, which combines 2018built in 1974 and named after Robert E. White, a long- (anticipated) 69 44 four sections of laboratory classes and senior design have aspects of literature and writing classes in a small seminarserving chair of the department who was renowned for been offered to accommodate limitations of experimental
example of what the tutorial looks like, Figure 1 shows a snapshot on teaching studentshow to create an object toward the bottom of the screen labeled ‘hello1’. Figure 1. A Snap Shot (Step to Create an Object)ProceduresEach student was asked to log into their WebCT account and download the tutorial. The studentsthen went over the tutorial by themselves. All students had never been exposed to JAVAprogramming at the time of the implementation of this media based instructional tool. They wereable to follow and comprehend the tutorial with relative ease and without using a great deal oftime. Then in the following laboratory session they used BlueJ to run and simulate the givenlaboratory that was due for that day.The main
AC 2007-2469: INCORPORATING ACTIVE LEARNING INTOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERINGTracy Thatcher, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Page 12.870.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Incorporating Active Learning Into Environmental Engineering Lecture CoursesIntroductionThe benefits of incorporating active learning into science and engineering classes have long beenrecognized. Traditionally, the active learning portions of courses have been primarily relegatedto laboratory and ‘discussion’ sections. However, during recent years, there has been arecognition that the same techniques that make laboratory classes so valuable can also transformthe traditional
thesequence is a new laboratory focused on design, fabrication, and characterization of microfluidicbiochips, introduced in spring 2006 with support from the National Science Foundation.Many undergraduate and most of the graduate students take the “BioMEMS sequence”concurrently with the “MEMS sequence,” which includes courses focused on principles ofmicrofabrication and microsystem design. Thus, for most students, the ECES607: Introductionto Biomedical Microsystems course is not only the first exposure to BioMEMS, but also toMEMS.The “Introduction to Biomedical Microsystems” CourseThe objective of the course is to expose students to biomedical microsystems and to teach themfundamental principles of MEMS applications in biology and medicine. Topics
-basedcourse focuses on teaching students basic engineering design principles and professional skills.In conjunction with these lectures are additional laboratory components in which students learnto use software packages for computational needs (MathWorks Matlab) and 3D designrenderings (Alias Wavefront Maya). Throughout the academic semester students haveassignments relating to both the technical aspect as well as their final project. The course finalproject is team-based and encompasses skills learned in class applied to a design problemproposed by a community partner. These projects are known as service-learning projects sincethe client is a non-profit community organization. Deliverables required by each team include afinal presentation with
the Technology Accreditation Council (TAC) of ABET, representing ASME. Previously, he had been at North Dakota State University where he was a faculty member in the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering department. His research interests include machining, effective teaching and engineering mechanics. Before coming to academia, he was a design engineer, maintenance supervisor, and plant engineer. He is a registered professional engineer. Page 13.298.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 CNC Machining: A Value Added Component of a Mechanical Engineering
middle schools.MSET also helped to recruit the State University to create the AVEP and broker thearrangement that allows local engineering professionals to teach laboratory classesdirectly at the LUC. Because of its central role in coordinating engineering educationalactivities in the AV, the City of Lancaster Aerospace Office, which manages MSET,holds a seat on the local Industry Advisory Board for Fresno State’s AVEP. Other activities which support the engineering student pipeline in the AV arepervasive. In conjunction with another servicing state university with a program inteacher education, CSU Bakersfield, Antelope Valley College won an NSF grant toestablish a Teacher’s Pathways program to increase the number of certified math
AC 2009-1222: DEVELOPMENT AND OUTCOMES OF A “DESIGN FOR THEENVIRONMENT” COURSEMelissa Bilec, University of PittsburghDavid Torick, University of PittsburghJoe Marriott, University of PittsburghAmy Landis, University of Pittsburgh Page 14.467.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Development and Outcomes of a Design for the Environment CourseAbstractWe have developed a Design for the Environment (DfE) course which is a dynamic mix of non-traditional lectures and hands-on DfE laboratory experiments that are infused with real-worldinteractions. Our engineering teams (E-teams) partner with local green industries
DiversityThe XXX community of volunteer scientists, teachers, and students has a diverse range Page 14.569.2of teaching and educational opportunities and needs. The ____ School District (XXXX)and other local schools serve a diverse population that includes groups typicallyunderrepresented in science and engineering (Table 1) and that vary widely in classroomneeds. Teachers represent the full spectrum of grades K-12, both genders about equally,and a broad range of experience from fairly novice to veteran teachers. Scientist-volunteers include graduate students, post docs, and occasionally staff or alumni, andthey vary in the grade-level, subject area, and
. Principles of Assessment The term assessment is generally used in two contexts. Summative assessment (usually just calledassessment) is what an institution may use to make decisions about global learning outcomes, resourceallocation, and accountability. The assessment is usually a formal process and consists of documentation thatstudents completing degree programs have the knowledge and/or skills required of their degree program. Theaudience for summative assessment is usually external to the department or university. Formative assessment(often called classroom assessment) involves continuous, oflen informal, assessment of student learning withthe expressed purpose of improving teaching and learning within a specific course or curriculum
2006-446: OUTCOME ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATIONKenneth Stier, Illinois State University Dr. Ken Stier is a professor and Coordinator of the Integrated Manufacturing Systems Program at Illinois State University. He received his Ed.D in Curriculum and Instruction and has been responsible for coordinating the assessment plan for the Manufacturing Systems Program for the last three years. He has served in various capacities on six accreditation site visits. Regular teaching responsibilities include courses in manufacturing processes, materials technology, and manufacturing organization and management.Richard Boser, Illinois State University Dr. Richard Boser is a Professor and Coordinator of the
instructor’s perspective to guarantee that all lecture “attendees” had accessto a computer with MATLAB/SIMULINK® (available through the Rowan University cloud forall students).In summary, our comparison of two cohorts of Process Dynamics and Control students suggeststhat online delivery is neither beneficial nor detrimental to student learning (as measured byperformance on a common final exam), suggesting that an online course in this area could beutilized effectively by programs struggling to find an instructor for the course, or by instructorsseeking to implement a flipped classroom.References:1. Eisen, Edwin O., Robert M. Hubbard, Angelo J. Perna, “Summary Report: Teaching of Undergraduate Process Dynamics and Control”, Chemical Engineering
Paper ID #25088Problem-based Learning As A Pedagogy For Individual Students - Quanti-fying The Long-term Effects of Land Subsidence and Rising Sea Levels InCoastal Areas For Greater Student EngagementDr. Sanjay Tewari, Missouri University of Science & Technology Dr. Tewari is Assistant Teaching Professor of Civil Engineering at the Missouri University of Science & Technology, Rolla, MO. Prior to joining Missouri S&T, he worked as Assistant Professor at Louisiana Tech University. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering (Civil Engineering) and Master of Technology (Chemical Engineering) in India. He later joined Texas
,” International Journal of Engineering Education 21, 103-112 (2005).[5] C. Crouch, et al, “Classroom Demonstrations: Learning Tools or Entertainment?,” American Journal of Physics, 2004. 72(6): p. 835-838.[6] R. Edwards, G. Recktenwald, “A Laboratory Exercise to Teach the Hydrostatic Principle as a Core Concept in Fluid Mechanics,” Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2009, Austin, TX.
Paper ID #12788Incorporating Active Learning of Complex Shapes in STEM CoursesDr. Yeow Siow, University of Illinois Chicago Dr. Yeow Siow has over ten years of track record as an engineering educator and practitioner. With ex- perience in the automotive industry, he brings real-world examples and expectations into the classroom. Known for his unconventional teaching style, he has earned accolades at Michigan Technological Univer- sity, Purdue University Calumet, as well as University of Illinois at Chicago where he currently teaches
the Industrial Consortium to Foster Applied Research for Economic Growth at Tecnol´ogico de Monterrey; also he holds The Roberto Rocca Endowed Energy Research Chair and is the Director of the Master in Energy Engineering Program. In 1979 he got a design engineer position in an Argentinean-French Consortium of private Industrial companies. He worked for them twelve years. In 1991 he left this consortium and with a group of colleagues founded an Engineering Services Company for developing special equipment in the electronics area for industrial applications. Simultaneously to its industrial activities, in 1984 he began teaching at Instituto Tecnol´ogico de Buenos Aires, ITBA. Later, in 1997, he became full-time