Paper ID #27162Board 137: Critical Thinking Skills in Non-calculus Ready First-yearEngineering StudentsDr. Lizzie Santiago, West Virginia University Lizzie Y. Santiago, Ph.D., is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engi- neering and Mineral Resources. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and has postdoctoral training in neural tissue engineering and molecular neurosciences. She teaches freshman engineering courses and supports the outreach and recruiting activities of the college. Her research interests include neural tissue engineering, stem cell research, attrition and university
well as differential equations (which is a co-requisite.) Since Matlab/Mathcadprograms are available in our computer laboratory, these are used throughout the course. Thetextbook by Kamen & Heck [1] is used for the course and students can access the accompanyingtextbook website. It should be noted that some class examples use both Mathcad and Matlab butthe textbook uses Matlab only. In our program we also have a senior-level elective course onfilters using the software tool called WFilter accompanying the textbook [2]. As engineeringeducators teaching undergraduate, first year graduate courses we are all aware that these toolsshould be used at the right time, right place to help student understanding and learning. Usuallya problem is
rehabilitation devices, particularly orthopaedic, neurosurgical, and pediatric devices. She teaches courses in design, biomechanics, and mechanics at University of Delaware and is heavily involved in K12 engineering edu- cation efforts at the local, state, and national levels.Dr. Amy Trauth-Nare, University of Delaware Amy Trauth-Nare, Ph.D., is the Associate Director of Science Education at the University of Delaware’s Professional Development Center for Educators. In her role, Amy works collaboratively with K-12 sci- ence and engineering teachers to develop and implement standards-based curricula and assessments. She also provides mentoring and coaching and co-teaching support to K-12 teachers across the entire tra
Paper ID #15165Middle School Teachers’ Evolution of TPACK Understanding through Pro-fessional DevelopmentMr. Anthony Steven Brill, New York University Anthony Brill received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 2014. He is currently a M.S. student at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, studying Mechanical Engineering. He is also a fellow in their GK-12 program, promoting STEM education. He conducts research in the Mechatronics and Controls Laboratory, where his interests include using smart mobile devices in closed loop feedback control.Colin Hennessy Elliott, New York
Paper ID #208732017 Zone IV Best Paper: Assessment of Long-term Effects of TechnologyUse in the Engineering ClassroomDr. Sean St. Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology Sean St.Clair is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Civil Engineering Department at Oregon Tech, where he teaches structural engineering courses and conducts research in engineering education. He is also a registered Professional Engineer. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Assessment of Long-Term Effects of Technology Use in the Engineering Classroom
college, we continued our collaboration to realize the dream of the Dean toutilize the building and building systems as a practical teaching tool for faculty and students.Representatives from Trane and the engineering faculty met to brainstorm on ways we could utilize thebuilding as a teaching tool – we primarily expanded on existing lab experiments already in the curriculumto develop new laboratory experiments using instrumentation added to the new building’s hydronic systemas well as a dedicated heat pump system in the Thermal-Fluids lab with high-level instrumentation. Thisallowed for lab exercises calculating heat transfer, air flow, thermodynamics, hydronics, efficiencies, etc.The resulting lab curriculum benefits students insomuch as it
Paper ID #29948Paper: Exploring How Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Students SpendTheir Time Inside and Outside of the Classroom (WIP)Alaa Abdalla, Virginia Tech Alaa Abdalla is a first year PhD student in Engineering Education with a background in Mechanical Engineering. Her primary research interests are culture and identity, teaching and learning, and design of learning spaces. Her ultimate career goal is to bring together engineering, education, and design thinking.Dr. Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Tech Nicole is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Prior to
lines and wave propagation: CRC Press, 2001.[5] "The Bergeron method: A graphic method for determining line reflections in transient phenomena," Texas Instruments, http://focus.ti.com/lit/an/sdya014/sdya014.pdf[6] L. D. Feisel and A. J. Rosa, "The Role of the Laboratory in Undergraduate Engineering Education," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 94, pp. 121-130, 2005.[7] F. Jalali, "Transmission Line Experiments At Low Cost," 1998 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition: Engineering Education Contributing to U. S. Competitiveness, 1998. http://www.asee.org/acPapers/00580.pdf[8] D. M. Hata, "A low-cost approach to teaching transmission line fundamentals and impedance matching," 2004 ASEE Annual Conference &
lecture with little to nointeraction with the professor, curriculum or fellow students. In active learning, the student istasked with a higher level of ownership in regard to academic success. The professor activelyfacilitates learning through discussion, feedback and other interactive models and thus servesmore as a teaching mentor and guide rather than a traditional lecturer. An example of activelearning is a student providing a differential equation for a hydraulic system and then challengedto learn everything they need to know to solve it. Taking the lead from accreditation bodies,progress in a course is measured in terms of desired outcomes—skills and knowledge the studentshould possess upon completion. Achievement of the outcomes is then
. These include projects for a classroom playhouse; an apparatus illustrating Archimedesprinciple; an apparatus to teach and experiment on electromagnetism, which has been throughseveral developmental iterations in the engineering design process involving students fromCEAS, COE, and K-12 teacher customers; and an interactive wind tunnel. Materials developedduring a joint workshop for practicing and pre-service K-12 teachers are discussed, where theparticipants worked with university faculty to develop their own STEM-related curriculummodules for classroom usage. Efforts continue to build and enhance a service-learningconsortium with academic units within WMU, other educational institutions, and communitygroups, including a project with Goodwill
located inDenton, Texas. During this time it was possible to expand the program to include a Bachelor’sdegree Electronics Engineering Technology , a Master’s Degree in Engineering Technology, anda Masters degree in Business Administration. The program is entirely supported by the utilityand no state funds are involved in the program. The program has strong competition from non-accredited degree granting institutions. Methods of delivery vary with the course of instruction.For laboratory courses, the instructor will generally travel from campus to deliver the material atthe site; for lecture only courses, videoconference is frequently used. Efforts are underway toimport additional courses from other universities at the time of this writing.II
more than enough to talk about during class.One might question using three faculty to teach one class, but with 45-55 students expected inthe class each year, it is as if we were each teaching 15-20 students in individual sections, whichis slightly-but-not unusually low by Lehigh freshman seminar class-size norms (usually 20-25).We do have the luxury of 1) Lehigh’s extensive laboratory, computer and library resources, 2)two TAs for grading purposes and for helping set up the workshop space, as well as 3) $200 perteam for prototyping expenses and for purchasing competitive products to reverse engineer.Presumably these last minor expenses could be left to the students. But regarding the first, it
Session 1639 Integrating Research into the Cost Engineering Classroom Heather Nachtmann University of ArkansasAbstractThis paper is based on the author’s positive experience of integrating research into the classroomat two levels of engineering education, graduate and freshman. Several integrative teaching andresearch activities were conducted in a graduate Cost Estimation Models course. These activitiesincluded article reviews, presentation of current faculty research, and student research projects.The freshman level course, Industrial Cost Analysis, introduced
AC 2011-876: IMPACT OF PROJECT BASED LEARNING IN INTRO-DUCTION TO ENGINEERING/ TECHNOLOGY CLASSAlok K. Verma, Old Dominion University Dr. Alok K. Verma is Ray Ferrari Professor and, Director of the Lean Institute at Old Dominion Univer- sity. He also serves as the Director of the Automated Manufacturing Laboratory. Dr. Verma received his B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, MS in Engineering Mechanics and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from ODU. Prof. Verma is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Virginia, a certi- fied manufacturing engineer and has certifications in Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma. He has orga- nized several international conferences as General Chair, including ICAM-2006
learning”. Consequently the concept is oftenmisunderstood and at times erroneously used to describe a wide variety of experimentaleducation endeavors from volunteer and community service projects to field studies. At theIndiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), a faculty-student workshop in 1995,offered an uniform, unambiguous and a succinct definition for service-learning - as integratingstudents’ community service experience with academic study so that learning is enhanced and arecognized community need is met. The idea is simple, and hence compelling – improve thequality of teaching/learning environment while fostering and enhancing student’s sense of civicresponsibility.II. History of Service-Learning in the Engineering
Session 3553 The Design and Performance of Musical Instruments Chris Rogers, Martha Cyr, John McDonald, and Todd Nocera Tufts UniversityAbstractBy challenging the students to design and build a musical instrument, we teach the fundamentalsof engineering design and acoustics, as well as introduce statics, dynamics, fluid mechanics, andvibrations to liberal arts students and first-year engineers. Using the instrument as a non-threatening medium, students get a chance to do hands-on problem solving from the beginning oftheir college career. One of the unique aspects of this course is that it is co
technology that ranges from Power Electronics, ComputerSimulation, Data Acquisition, DSP, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic, Electromagneticsand Energies, and Microprocessor Control. Normally these topics are covered in details inmore than fifteen credit hours, while using "only as needed" philosophy, we can cover whatwe need from these materials that serve an important application: Electric Vehicles. Thepaper details the contents of the course, the laboratory components utilizing an actualpropulsion system as donated from Delphi E. Inc, a subdivision of GM, and the role ofLabView as a data acquisition system. The course was offered in a senior project formatand the student satisfaction is reported here. In addition, the course is offered officially
below.Bibliography1. Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: on being a mentor to students in science and engineering, (NationalAcademy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine), National Academy Press, 1997.2. P. C. Wankat and F. S. Oreovicz, Teaching Engineering, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, NY, 1993.3. W. J. McKeachie, Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers, D.C.Heath and Company, Lexington, MA, 1994.4. J. Lowman, Mastering the Techniques of Teaching, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 1985.KAY C DEEKay C Dee is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Cell and Tissue Engineering Laboratory in theDepartment of Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University. She has served as
online, and in-person. The resulting data from approximately 200 consentingundergraduate mechanical engineering students in each of the synchronicity options (N > 600)showed that grades for certain lab experiences (i.e., early labs with high levels of skill-building)actually benefitted from an asynchronous online format, even above in-person offerings, while alater lab with deeper dives into specific skills produced better learning and ratings from studentswhen offered either in-person or synchronously online. The results of this investigation can benefitengineering educators, as well as those with interest in online physical labs in other disciplines.Keywords: Online Education, Laboratory Learning, Student ExperienceIntroductionSince the
AC 2011-230: THE LEADERSHIP OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGEDUCATION IN AFGHANISTANBahawodin Baha, University of Brighton Dr. Bahawodin Baha is a Principal Lecturer at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Brighton, England. Following his graduation from Kabul University (KU) in 1980, he was an assistant lecturer at KU for a while. Then he was able to obtain a British Council Scholarship and completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees at the Universities of Salford and Brighton respectively. He has been teaching at the University of Brighton since 1989, where he has been teaching and conducting research in electron- ics, where he has published many papers on power electronics at high quality international
learned.BackgroundAll Junior Architectural Engineering students take a pair of courses, Architectural EngineeringDesign I & II(ArchEng 390, 391) which are their introduction to the design of engineeringbuilding systems. As course prerequisites they have taken at least two Architectural designstudios. They have also had as pre- or co-requisites: introductions to structural engineering,HVAC fundamentals and electrical/lighting systems. Virtually all students are also experiencedEMail users and are accustomed to using personal computers for word processing and analysis intheir courses.Drexel has full ethernet/appletalk wiring of all buildings including most laboratories as well andall dormitories. In addition we have several multi-media rooms which are
, Brazilian government concerned with the teaching for engineeringsponsored a project named PRODENGE – Program for Engineering Development. Thisprogram that aimed to support engineering programs at universities and the basic subjectssuch as Physics, Chemistry, Computing and Mathematics promoted the restructuring andmodernizing of teaching and research in Engineering (Longo, Rocha and Loureiro2). Itwas a partnership of the Coordination for Improving University Education Staff(CAPES), the Secretariat of University Education (SESU) and the National Council ofScientific and Technological Development (CNPq). The results of this effort, accordingto Longo3, should be measured not only by products generated by laboratories,educational material available
Environment. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 31(1), 50-62.Robert H. LightfootRobert Lightfoot currently serves as an Associate Professor of Practice in Computer Science and Engineering at TexasA&M University. His research interests include engineering education and teaching non-Computer Science studentsintroductory Computer Science courses. He also teaches Software Engineering courses which follow closely with hisindustry experience.Tracy HammondDr. Hammond is currently the Director of the Sketch Recognition Laboratory and a Professor with the Department ofComputer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University. She is an International Leader in sketch recognition andhuman-computer interaction research
experiences played asignificant role in their ability to learn from and communicate with cultures other than their own.Two students directly reported that time spent in laboratories was influential. One participantwrote that “labs at college have a very diverse group, specifically physics, so it allows me towork with other people.” 16 students mentioned the diversity of their high school. One wrote thatthey “went to a high school with a very wide array of economic and social background” and that © American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conferencethey “also participated in both artistic and athletic programs, giving [them] different experienceswith people
tosimulation tools, such as MultiSim. Use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) board iseven a better choice. This helps students to create schematic circuits at ease and also indeveloping Hardware Descriptive Language (HDL) program. The schematic or the HDL codecan simulate a circuit and help to fix any possible problems and finally to download the programon to FPGA board. The whole process is clean, neat, and encouraging to the users. As an addedadvantage, this hands-on process keeps the students engrossed in learning by keeping them awayfrom side-talks, high-tech distracters, such as smart phones and iPads. On another front, we haveintroduced high-end technology in teaching assembly language using microcontrollers. Thereare newer versions of
summative final assessment or exam, which is usedto help determine a grade. It is not used for feedback to improve student learning. Although themost common form of summative assessment is the final examination, some instructors structuretheir courses in units, and do a summative assessment after each unit. In that model, each unit ofthe course is essentially a self-contained mini-course.Midterm exams are frequently used for both summative and formative purposes. For example, ina course having two midterm exams and a final exam, the midterms may each be used todetermine ten to twenty percent of the final grade (while the final exam, laboratory scores,homework, and other items determine the remainder of the grade). This is the summativecomponent of
Paper ID #37862WIP: The Impact of Human-Centered Design Modules onStudents’ Learning in an Introduction to Electronics CourseSaadeddine Shehab (Postdoctoral Research Associate) Saadeddine Shehab is currently the Head of Assessment and Research at the Siebel Center for Design (SCD) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He works with a group of undergraduate and graduate SCD scholars at SCD’s Assessment and Research Laboratory to conduct research that informs and evaluates the practice of teaching and learning human-centered design in formal and informal learning environments. His research focuses on
. His team deployed a bomb finding robot named the LynchBot to Iraq late in 2004 and then again in 2006 deployed about a dozen more improved LynchBots to Iraq. His team also assisted in the deployment of 84 TACMAV systems in 2005. Around that time he volunteered as a science advisor and worked at the Rapid Equipping Force during the summer of 2005 where he was exposed to a number of unmanned systems technologies. His initial group composed of about 6 S&T grew to nearly 30 between 2003 and 2010 as he transitioned from a Branch head to an acting Division Chief. In 2010-2012 he again was selected to teach Mathematics at the United States Military Academy West Point. Upon returning to ARL’s Vehicle Technology
AC 2008-847: THE ATTITUDES AND OPINIONS OF STUDENTS TOWARDTECHNICAL GRAPHICS: PRELIMINARY SURVEY RESULTSAaron Clark, North Carolina State University Aaron C. Clark is an Associate Professor of Graphic Communications at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Technology and Technology Education from East Tennessee State University. He earned his doctoral degree from North Carolina State University. His teaching specialty is in introductory engineering drawing, with emphasis in 3D modeling and animation. His research areas include graphics education and scientific/technical visualization. He presents and publishes in both vocational/technology education and
National Laboratory. His research includes modeling steady state and transient behavior of advanced energy systems, inclusive of their thermal management, and the characterization and optimization of novel cycles. He has advised graduate and undergradu- ate research assistants and has received multi-agency funding for energy systems analysis and develop- ment. Sponsor examples include the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy and NASA. Dr. Haynes also develops fuel cells and alternative energy systems curricula for public and college courses and experimental laboratories. Additionally, he is the co-developer of the outreach initiative, Educators Lead- ing Energy Conservation and Training Researchers of