Open-Ended Design Project as Introduction to Design for Civil Engineering Freshmen. Bert Davy, Indranil Goswami, Jiang Li, Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein, Charles Oluokun, Arcadio Sincero. Department of Civil Engineering, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD 21251.AbstractA freshman design course - CEGR 105 Introduction to Civil Engineering - was designed anddelivered as part of the effort for ‘early introduction of design into the engineering curriculum’.The course is a second semester orientation course that follows a broader first semester coursecalled ORIE 104 Orientation to Engineering.With a team-teaching
Industry Academia ModelAbstractThis paper describes a collaborative industry-academia model for teaching medical devicedesign, which combines active learning with input from industry experts. The course coversinterdisciplinary topics such as biological testing, human factors, usability engineering, riskmanagement, and regulations, areas that go beyond the expertise of a single instructor. Industryprofessionals contribute through guest lectures, mentorship, and real-world case studies, ensuringthat students gain practical, industry-relevant knowledge. Students work on hands-on projectsthat simulate real-world scenarios, helping them develop critical thinking, teamwork, andproblem-solving skills. Active learning activities like sensor-based labs and
” have come todominate analog and digital electronics, introductory electronics courses in Electrical andComputer Engineering programs have evolved to place greater emphasis on CMOStransistors and amplifiers. However, due to the perception that chip design is tooesoteric, both lecture and laboratory coverage of this important topic are usually deferredto more advanced courses. Design experiences are instead limited to “breadboard”circuits using discrete components and operational amplifiers.This paper presents a new approach to teaching introductory electronics that incorporatesthe design and layout of CMOS chips. The coverage of topics in the two-semestersequence only needs minor changes from the traditional approach. Topics on the physicsand
have also been many studies that explore engineering instructors’ teaching beliefs,and what factors and contexts influence their course decision-making. In a study that involvedten engineering instructors, Huang et al. (2007) found the importance of time as a factor thatinfluences teaching decisions. These instructors used creative ways to address the teachingchallenges, such as considering the students’ needs and being selective in terms of curriculumcontent. A literature review explored instructor decisions to integrate laboratory components intoengineering education, showing that instructor decisions were shaped by factors such asinstitutional context and policies, the role of society, and stakeholders such as students andaccreditation
well as school and camp curriculums centered around Artificial Intelligence. Previously, he has worked as an instructor at Mathnasium, where he taught math to K-12, and as a lab assistant in an undergraduate laboratory at the University of Florida.Jacob Casey Yarick, University of Florida Jacob Yarick is an undergraduate student at the University of Florida pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Astrophysics. He works under the EQuIPD program where he designs, creates, and teaches lessons related to Python programming and Artificial Intelligence. Previously, he has worked at the Kika Silva Pla Planetarium, and the Calusa Nature Center & Planetarium. He has also tutored
the fundamentals ofembedded systems and IoT.” Some other student responses to this question are as follows.“developing real world work”,“The professor really helped us in anyway she could.”Next, the students were asked “Did you understand what was expected of you in this course?”. Inresponse to this question, 50% replied Extremely well, 25% Well and 25% reasonably well. As areply of the question “Were you adequately prepared in the prerequisite course to take this course?”, 50% response was Extremely Well, 25% replied Well and 25% students responded poorly.5 ConclusionsIn this paper, I presented some laboratories that the students conducted using a remote simulationtool: Tinkercad. The pedagogical approach of remote teaching was briefly
, effectiveness, and pedagogical value ofstudent-generated stories in a fluid mechanics course part of the mechanical engineeringtechnology curriculum. This application, which addressed Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET)’s Criterion 3 and Criterion 5c, was implemented in a four-credit hour(ch) senior-level applied fluid mechanics course, with a 3ch lecture and 1ch laboratorycomponent. The course is the second in fluid mechanics’ sequence and covers topics likepipeline systems design, pump selection, flow of air in ducts, lift and drag, etc. The originalinstructional design used a blend of traditional in-class lectures and problem-based learningfocused on project-based and other laboratory exercises.To further improve the students
Bartels, San Antonio College Klaus Bartels is an Adjunct Faculty member at San Antonio College (SAC) in the Mathematics, Archi- tecture, Physics and Engineering Dept. He was born near Buenos Aires, Argentina and immigrated to the U.S. in 1956. He grew up and went to college in the Boston, MA area. He has a B.S.E.E. from Tufts University (1972) and an M.S.E.E. from M.I.T. (1975). He served as a Communications-Electronics En- gineer/Officer in the USAF from 1975 to 1999, retiring as a colonel. He worked part time as a Flight Director at the Challenger Learning Center of San Antonio from 2000 to 2009, and has been teaching remedial math and engineering classes at SAC since 2000. He has also been involved in various engi
years in government, industry, and education. Besides teaching during the last 14 years, Dr. Najafi has conducted research, has been a participating member of several professional societies including ASEE, has published numerous refereed and non-refereed articles, and has presented many technical papers to international, national and local organizations. Page 12.358.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Civil Engineering Education at the University of Florida and the Middle East Technical University, TurkeyAbstractCivil engineering is a discipline that
;ME and ship design are taken during the lastthree semesters. A single course – Principles of Naval Architecture (PNA) – is taken duringspring of 2/c (junior) year. Content for this course consists of an introduction to the following Page 11.194.6fundamentals: NA&ME nomenclature, ship hydrostatics, intact and damaged stability, hullstrength, hydrodynamic resistance, and propulsion. Fall of the 1/c (senior) year is the semester-long integrated ship design experience. As such, students in the NA&ME major have only thePNA course before the students begin their actual ship design. Clearly, there is no way tosuccessfully teach all of the
intended learning outcomes that they enhance. Prof Lindsay is the Foundation Professor of Engineering at Charles Sturt University. His research interests centre largely around online learning – the use of remote and virtual laboratories, MOOCs and other methods for making learning asynchronous, and data analytics for promoting student learning. Prof Lindsay was the 2010 President of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education. He is a Fellow of Engineers Australia, and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. Prof Lindsay was the recipient of a 2007 Carrick Award for Australian University Teaching. In 2005 he was named as one of the 30 Most Inspirational Young Engineers in Australia.Dr. Colm Howlin
experiential learning and computer applications in his courses, including the development of two websites, one devoted to analysis of aircraft structures and the other to statics. He has also led or contributed to the development or redesign of several courses in aerospace and mechanical engineering.Dr. David S. Rubenstein, University of Maine David Rubenstein has twenty-five years of industrial and research experience in aerospace guidance, nav- igation and control (GN&C) system design and modeling and simulation development. He has worked for a variety of major aerospace contractors including Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin), Raytheon Space andMissile Systems Design Laboratory and Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, MA
.” Much of this naming discussion is connected to aforementioned topic of which school and campus should house the department.• Motivation for developing an undergraduate degree in BME.• Overview of the undergraduate curriculum including coursework, laboratories, and teaching staff.• Implications for research including a movement toward multi-disciplinary collaborations within and across schools.• The vision of the BME department: ‐ Improve and extend the technological capabilities of medical personnel in healthcare delivery; ‐ Operate a department which serves as solution hub for research, medical device manufacturers and clinicians; ‐ Train highly skilled biomedical engineers capable
Paper ID #26383Assessing Student Responses to the Potential Conflict between Safety andWelfare in the American Society of Civil Engineers Code of EthicsDr. Matthew Sleep P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology Matthew Sleep is an associate professor of civil engineering at Oregon Institute of Technology. Prior to Oregon Tech, Matthew received his PhD at Virginia Tech researching slope stability, levees, transient seepage and reliability. Matthew is from Nashville, TN and has worked for the United States Army Corps of Engineers and private consulting. He currently teaches and continues research on reliability and transient
at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining Texas A&M, he was an researcher at KBSI in College Station, Texas. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University. Dr. Fang's teaching and research interests are in manufacturing processes , nondestructive testing technologies, and acoustic noise reduction.Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University Johnson is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product development engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his S.M. and
AC 2012-3222: IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW MECHANICAL ENGI-NEERING PROPULSION DETAIL DESIGN CAPSTONE COURSEProf. Brenda A. Haven, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott Brenda Haven teaches thermodynamics and three jet propulsion courses at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU). Prior to coming to ERAU in 2008, Haven retired from the Air Force after 25 years working as an engineer in support of the F-15 fighter, advanced turbine engine research and development, and as a professor at the Air Force Academy.Prof. Michael Kenneth Fabian, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Michael Kenneth Fabian teaches thermodynamics, jet and rocket propulsion, and thermal power con- version courses at ERAU. He retired from
molding and metal casting, and deep drawing. After studying their selected processes, thestudents had to figure out how to provide the forces, heat, fluids, motion, geometry, etc. to thematerials they chose for objects used to demonstrate their processes.One student modified a polishing wheel in the Materials Laboratory to provide centrifugal forcesand designed and built the means to hold the mold to the wheel shaft to demonstrate vertical spincasting. Using a vacuum former as a model, a group of students built their own pressure formingsystem. Another group used silicon rubber to make molds to cast small parts of materials withmelting temperatures under 400oF. They designed and built molds with sprues and runners,machined patterns or used common
AC 2010-1882: ENGINEERING FUTURE CHEMICAL ENGINEERS:INCORPORATION OF PROCESS INTENSIFICATION CONCEPTS INTO THEUNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUMRebecca Toghiani, Mississippi State University Dr. Rebecca K. Toghiani is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at MSU. She received her B.S.ChE, M.S.ChE and Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She received the 1996 Dow Outstanding New Faculty Award and the 2005 Outstanding Teaching Award from the ASEE Southeastern Section. A John Grisham Master Teacher at MSU, she is an inaugural member of the Bagley College of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Teachers. She has also been recognized at MSU with the 2001
integrated whole. Their system design is presented, this one basedon integrated renewable resources including hydroelectric, solar, and propane (convertible tobiofuel) generation. Student-developed description of the design issues, construction, and initialtesting is presented with initial hardware results and photographs. Student-supervisedinstallation is scheduled for summer 2010.IntroductionTaylor Wilderness Research Station is a unique field research and teaching facility for scientificinvestigations of natural resources phenomena within this university’s College of Forestry,Wildlife, and Range Sciences (CFWRS). It is in the Frank Church Wilderness of Central Idaho,400km southeast of the university’s main campus. The only access to the site is
2001 and teaching engineering courses since 2008. Renewable Energy Technologies, Electrical Circuits and Electronics, Introduction to Engi- neering, Electrical Substations, Introduction to AutoCAD, Digital Electronics and Systems and Controls are among the courses Dr Melendez-Norona has taught. She is committed to an engineering education of excellence and to service the community and has participated in a training for cybersecurity issues immersed in smart grids also funded by the NSF. Dr Melendez-Norona is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Florida Atlantic University (Florida, United States), with the support of the ASEE eFellows program, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).Dr. Maria M. Larrondo
Integration in K-5 Settings Alaina Mabie1 , Monica M. McGill2 , and Brenda Huerta3 1,3 Bradley University 1,2,3 CSEdResearch.org 1 amabie@mail.bradley.edu , 2 monica@csedresearch.org, 4 bhuerta@mail.bradley.edu Abstract Problem. Computer Science (CS) is in its early stages of being taught to K-5 students within the United States. It still remains unknown how best to teach CS to students; however, evidence suggests that integrating CS into other
here is to renew the call for a new and freshoutlook at engineering education in the Region, commensurate with increasing demand for morerounded engineering graduates with the ability to function in a modern business climate.Engineering graduates must have the abilities and the skills to cope with challenges broughtabout by a highly competitive and global marketplace; and also, are able to develop the capacityto adapt to unforeseen changes that could arise in the future.The core issue, in author’s view, is the mode of teaching and learning that is practiced. (3, 4, 5)Learning “about” things does not enable students to acquire the abilities they will need for thetwenty first century. (8, 9) How students approach their education and how the
developmentworkshops with a response rate of 42 %, indicated that the workshops changed the behavior ofmany of the respondents with 52 % of the respondents having reread the workshop notes, 54 %having read one or more related articles or website material, and 78 % having tried someimplementation of the approach, although the extent of the changes and the sustainability werenot discussed.47Programs through campus-based centers for teaching and learning provide another mechanismfor faculty development, and many of these centers offer a wide variety of programs, events, andservices through a collaborative approach. However, engineering faculty members often do nottake advantage of these opportunities, perhaps because they fail to see the connections betweenthe
Paper ID #43862Building the Engineering Identity of the Lower-Division Engineer: A FormalModel for Informal Peer-to-Peer Mentorship and Student Leadership throughUndergraduate Student-Led Experiential LearningDr. Tela Favaloro, University of California, Santa Cruz Tela Favaloro is an associate teaching professor for the Baskin School of Engineering at UCSC where she works to establish holistic interdisciplinary programming centered in experiential learning. Her Ph.D is in Electrical Engineering with emphasis in the design and fabrication of laboratory apparatus and techniques for electro-thermal characterization as well as
The Path to Improving the Capstone CourseAbolfazl AminI am an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering program of the Engineering department atUtah Valley University. I have 33 years of teaching experience at the university level. My areas ofinterest are Thermal Sciences, Machine Design, and Advanced Manufacturing. My hobbies are all kindsof sports.Israd JaafarAbdennour SeibiProf. Abdennour is a member of ASME and SPE. He received his BS in Mechanical Engineering, MS,and Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics at Penn State University. He is a distinguished researcher inproblems related to the energy sector and advanced materials. He has published over 150 technical papersand 30 technical reports which earned him international recognition
Engineering Education at the University of Nevada, Reno. There she completed her Bachelorˆa C™s and is working on her Master of Science in mechanical engi- neering. Her research focuses are on undergraduate engineDr. Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada, Reno Ann-Marie Vollstedt is a teaching assistant professor for the College of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). Dr. Vollstedt completed her dissertation at UNR, which focused on exploring the use of statistical process control methods to assess course changes in order to increase student learning in engineering. Dr. Vollstedt teaches courses in engineering design as well as statics and runs the Engi- neering Freshmen Intensive Training Program. She
University of Montevallo in Alabama. Her research interest focuses on public opinion related to federal and state public policy and how outside political interests affect policy agendas and policy implementation.Karen Jo JohnsonGayatri Anoop Gayatri Anoop received the B.Sc. degree in Physics from Mahatma Gandhi University, India in 2008 and a B.Ed. degree in Physical Science Education from Mahatma Gandhi University, India in 2011. She is currently pursuing an M.S. degree in industrial engineering from Clemson University Clemson, SC, USA. with a focus on human factors engineering. She has more than 4 years’ experience in a leading IT company in India. She also has 1 year of teaching experience in a school in India
when developing this course. First, considering the myriadof topics that can fit under the ML umbrella, it was necessary to find an adequate breadth vs depthbalance to design a course that fits within the time constraints of an academic calendar. Moreover,considering the undergraduate nature of the course audience, we had to simplify some of the high-complexity mathematical concepts. The challenge was to simplify the Mathematics in a way thatdoes not compromise the rigor of the course. Another challenge was finding the right balancebetween covering the conceptual background behind the various ML methods as opposed tosuperficially teaching the CAD tools that allow the students to find solutions without looking“under the hood”. Finally, as
. In doing so, he focuses on Engineering education policies and practices in teaching learning processes, assessments, laboratories and practical internships. Mr. Halkiyo has been teaching different Civil En- gineering courses at Bule Hora University, Ethiopia, where he also served as a department head, and conducts various research and community projects. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Powerful Change Attends to Power RelationsIntroduction & BackgroundWhile changing engineering departments to become more inclusive and equitable is a commongoal, research repeatedly confirms that such change is rare. Notably, change efforts
Paper ID #35083Using MUTISIM software to reinforce use and application of Norton’stheory in electrical circuitsDr. Cyrus K Hagigat, The University of Toledo Dr. Hagigat is an associate professor in the Engineering Technology department of the College of Engi- neering of the University of Toledo. Dr. Hagigat has an extensive industrial background, and his teaching technique is based on practical aspects of engineering. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 1