source, and on-board storage of data (often done using amemory card.) Channel count and sample rates are some important characteristics of dataloggers.The teaching of data acquisition principles in undergraduate engineering is important becausecomputer-based data acquisition and control is ubiquitous in industrial and laboratory contexts.Data measurements are taken to characterize and analyze performance of a device or system;validate analytical models; further understanding of physical phenomena; monitor and controlperformance of manufacturing, automation, or processes; and monitor equipment. Data-acquisition education can be tied to principles of signal processing and electrical engineering,and reinforce graphing skills and presentation.Ray1,2
, Michigan. Dr. Irwin is PI for an NSF S-STEM grant until 2023. He is experienced in the manufacturing industry as well as the teaching profession with five years in engineering design, several years part time consulting in industry and over 30 total years of teaching. Dr. Irwin’s research focus is on teaching and learning in computer aided design, analysis, & manufacturing subjects.Michael Johnson (Professor) Dr. Michael D. Johnson is a professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. He also serves as the Associate Dean for Inclusion and Faculty Success in the College of Engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product
catapulted electronics into all aspects of our lives. This offers newopportunities and challenges in teaching circuits and electronics to excite and motivate today’sstudents [1]. The design focus on electronic circuits is more motivating than the conventionalbottom-up approach, addressing a common dissatisfaction of students with circuits classes [2].The design focus on a custom PCB can spark student’s interest in electronics and exposestudents to physical aspects of circuit designs.For the ECE students, this course is the first exposure to electronic circuits hidden in the mobiledevices they own. However, most are familiar with computers and have programming experiencewith the open-source Arduino software and hardware, providing a natural path to
Technology with interests and expertise in teaching human factors and user-experience. Momenipour is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, and American Society For Engineering Education. Momenipour’s studies focus on human factors to design and evaluate human-centered systems and effective practices of teaching human factors to develop a human-centered design mindset in engineering students.Priyadarshini R. Pennathur, University of Texas at El Paso Dr. Priyadarshini R. Pennathur is an associate professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Designing and Innovating Sustainable Products
learning new skills with a semester-long independentdesign project. Every week, students attend a lecture dedicated to teaching and exemplifying theskills necessary for the week. Following the lecture, students have a weekly 4-hour, TA-ledlaboratory section that is split into a pre-lab consisting of tutorials for building the skills necessaryto complete the laboratory assignments and actual work on the lab within the context of theirdesign project. A schedule of the weekly topics covered can be found in Appendix A and arrangedsuch that students simultaneously develop their skills in CAE and apply those new skills to thedesign of their project.The design project chosen is a fidget toy colloquially known as a fidget spinner. This was chosenfor the
Paper ID #38079STEM Summer Camps in the US: Knowledge and ContextAmani Qasrawi, University of Texas at San Antonio Amani Qasrawi is a civil engineer pursuing a Ph.D. in Construction Science and Management at The University of Texas at San Antonio. She completed her undergraduate studies in Civil Engineering at Al Balqa Applied University in Jordan and Construction Science and Management at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Throughout the academic career, she has been involved in research and teaching. She is working as a Graduate Research Assistant and Graduate Teacher Assistant at UTSA.Dr. Sandeep Langar, The
Paper ID #37474Resolving Troublesome Knowledge in Engineering Physiologyusing ICAP framework based Problem-Solving StudioSara Cunha Sara Cunha is graduated from Western New England University in 2022 with a BSE in Biomedical Engineering. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student in Biomedical department at the University of Connecticut concentrating on tissue engineering and biomaterials research. As an undergraduate student, she has served as laboratory technician and assistant for core biomedical engineering lab courses. She has keen interest in learning innovative teaching methods in undergraduate engineering
Paper ID #40534From Ash to Action: Student-Led Sustainable Trail Resurfacing Using Mt.Mazama Volcanic AshDr. Ashton Danielle Greer, Oregon Institute of Technology Ashton Greer is an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at the Oregon Institute of Technology, where she teaches freshman to graduate-level courses across the curriculum. Ashton’s back- ground is in water resources engineering, but she also teaches the First-Year Engineering course sequence for the Civil, Electrical, and Renewable Energy Engineering programs.Dr. Charles Riley, Oregon Institute of Technology Dr. Riley has been teaching structural
Using Multimedia Case Studies to Teach Engineering Design”, Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 1994, 3(3/4): p. 351-376.[5] Regan, M. and Sheppard, S.D., "Interactive Multimedia Courseware and Hands-on Learning Experience: An Assessment Study", Journal of Engineering Education, 1996, 85(2): p. 123-130.[6] Chen, X., Kehinde, L.O., Zhang, Y., Darayan, S., Olowokere, D.O. and Osakue, D., “Using Virtual and Remote Laboratory to Enhance Engineering Technology Education”, American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, June 2011.[7] Murphy, T., Goeser, P.T., and Williams, C., “Analysis of Usage Statistics of MATLAB Marina - A Virtual Learning Environment
Paper ID #16910Identification of Misconceptions Related to Size and Scale through a Nanotechnology-Based K-12 ActivityMs. Joyce Seifried, The College of New Jersey Joyce Seifried is currently an undergrad at The College of New Jersey in the both the Technological Stud- ies and Special Education Departments anticipating graduating in 2017. Her summer of 2014 research was based on using nanotechnology in the high school classroom by teaching students about hydrophobic and superhydrophobic surfaces as well as using silver nanoparticles as a DNA nucleotide base indicator.Dr. Manuel Alejandro Figueroa, The College of New Jersey
Paper ID #22577Impact of a STEM-focused Research Program on Minority High School Stu-dents’ Self-Efficacy and Interest in STEM Research and Careers (Work inProgress)Dr. Tameshia Ballard Baldwin, North Carolina State University Dr. Tameshia Ballard Baldwin is a Teaching Assistant Professor working jointly in the College of En- gineering and in the Department of STEM Education within the College of Education at North Carolina State University. She earned a B.S. in Biological Engineering from North Carolina State University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Biological Systems Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Uni
persistent and cannot be easily debunked by standardinstruction with lectures, textbooks, demonstrations or laboratories. Educators and researchers havelooked at using computers to enhance classroom instruction ever since the technology made itfeasible to do so. This is particularly effective for topics that involve motion of objects or othersignificant visual components that are not easily represented on a black board. Simulation programsalso allow complex systems to be quickly and easily modeled and can be adapted to many differentlearning styles. The authors have collaborated in the development of a dynamics simulationsoftware package that has the power and flexibility to handle the model systems normallyencountered in a course in dynamics in
development of complexproducts and processes. Systems engineering concepts are extremely important toindustry. As companies or organizations bring new products to market, whether it is asmall standalone widget or a large-scale “system of a system,” a systems approach indesign is omnipresent throughout a broad cross-section of industries today.Formally teaching systems engineering to undergraduate students is somewhatcontroversial. Some educators with an industrial background have suggested that a truesystems engineering approach can only come with years of industrial experience. Acursory look around the country indicates that a handful of institutions offer a BSprogram in systems engineering, many are computer oriented, management slanted
Compatibility Laboratory. His research and teaching interests include electromagnetic compatibility in high speed digital and mixed signal designs, electronic packaging, and© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 electromagnetic compatibility in power electronic based systems. Page 14.463.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Development and Evaluation of a Characteristic Impedance Calculator Amendra Koul1, Keith Hoover2, Vysakh Sivarajan1, Jianjian Song2, Edward Wheeler2, James Drewniak1 1 Missouri University of Science and Technology
2006-796: CAN ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGYPROGRAMS RESIDE WITHIN THE SAME DEPARTMENT?Tim Brower, Oregon Institute of Technology TIM L. BROWER is an associate professor and department chair in the Department of Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering and Technology at Oregon Institute of Technology. He received his BS in General Engineering at Idaho State University, MS in Mechanical Engineering from Montana State University and PhD in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University. Before teaching at OIT seven years ago, he worked as an aerospace engineer with the Lockheed Martin Corporation in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Brower is the Associate Director of Oregon Space Grant and
US Navy Laboratories and employment with Koch Industries. Dr. Bachnak is a registered Professional Engi- neer in the State of Texas, a senior member of IEEE and ISA, and a member of ASEE.Dr. Shashi S. Marikunte, Penn State Harrisburg Shashi S. Marikunte is an Associate Teaching Professor of Civil Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, Middletown, Pennsylvania. He serves as the ABET Coordinator for Civil Engineering (CE) as well as Structural Design and Construction Engineering Technology (SDCET) programs. He received his PhD in Civil Engineering from Michigan State University. His research interests include high- performance cement composites, recycled materials in concrete, durability of concrete, non
Paper ID #27005Board 35: An Integrated Program for Recruitment, Retention, and Gradua-tion of Academically Talented Low-Income Engineering StudentsProf. Houshang Darabi, University of Illinois, Chicago Dr. Houshang Darabi is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the Depart- ment of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Dr. Darabi is the recipient of multiple teaching and advising awards including the UIC Award for Excellence in Teaching (2017), COE Excellence in Teaching Award (2008, 2014), UIC Teaching Recognitions Award (2011), and the
Paper ID #17403A Pilot Study of Project-Based Learning in General Chemistry for EngineersDr. Kent J. Crippen, University of Florida Kent Crippen is an Associate Professor of STEM education in the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research involves the design, development, and evaluation of STEM cyberlearning environments as well as K-12 teacher professional development. In addition to NSF and NIH-funded research involving the translation of science into materials for K12 schools, Crippen has served as PI on multiple
, University of Wyoming. He is a senior member of IEEE and chief faculty advisor of Tau Beta Pi. His research interests include digital and analog image processing, computer-assisted laser surgery, and embedded control systems. He is a registered professional engineer in Wyoming and Colorado. He authored/co-authored several textbooks on microcontrollers and embedded systems. His book, ”A Little Book on Teaching,” was published by Morgan and Claypool Publishers in 2012. In 2004, Barrett was named ”Wyoming Professor of the Year” by the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching and in 2008 was the recipient of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) Professional Engineers in Higher Education, Engineering
courseIntroductionWith the widespread increase of use of composite materials in manufacturing it has becomealmost mandatory to teach courses related to these in engineering schools worldwide. Compositematerials are manufactured with various matrix materials such as metals, ceramics and polymers.Out of these, polymers are being reinforced with fibers widely to manufacture composites. Thesecomposites are manufactured not only with specific mechanical and chemical properties foraviation and aerospace sectors but also for general use such as in sports goods, fluid containersand conduits, and vehicles for land and water transport. Thus, most of the courses1,2,3,4,5 taught atthe undergraduate level in material based programs focus on teaching about
programming to high school students; the other was to teach digital signal processing basics to burgeoning sophomores in the engineering technology program before they have even taken the DSP course in their junior year and work on their capstone senior project. In both cases, the delivery was well received and the students were able to understand most of the basic concepts within a very limited time. 8. Conclusions Ultimately the hardware and software laboratory material developed in this paper was developed by students for students. With basic knowledge on how FFT’s and DFT’s can be computed as well as of the Python language; there should be no problem in writing these algorithms. This paper presented a FFT, DFT
governmental) are assessing colleges and universities.As engineering educators we have been assessing student learning and course and programoutcomes for years under the context of ABET evaluation, we are much better positioned thansome of our liberal arts colleagues. Those of us who teach as part of the engineering curriculumhave recognized for many years that if we do not measure what students are learning then wereally do not know what or how to teach. We believe that by measuring student learning, withvalid and robust instruments, we can adjust the curriculum and pedagogy to increase studentlearning. We should be teaching with research based active-learning activities, assessing whatour students know and address their misunderstandings before they
chosen a different approach to this section,from teaching a broad overview using a seminar approach, to focusing on teachingspecific software necessary for future courses.Introduction to Chemical Engineering The department faculty has adapted a project-based learning approach due to thelarge success shown in many other similar introductory level courses(3-7). The goal was tointroduce different unit operations through a fun process example that was simple enoughfor the students to follow. The process needed to involve simple chemistry and provideopportunities for introducing different unit operations, teamwork, ethics andsustainability. The other challenge, due to lack of laboratory space, the process ideallywould not require the use of a
research and teaching interests are multilingual writers, writing across the curriculum and writing in the disciplines (WAC/WID), and first-year writing.Dr. Yasser M. Al Hamidi, Texas A&M University at Qatar Yasser Al-Hamidi is currently working as a Laboratory Manager in the Mechanical Engineering Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He is specialized in instrumentation, controls and automation. He worked as a Lab Engineer in the College of Engineering, University of Sharjah before joining TAMUQ. His other experiences include Laboratory Supervisor/Network Administrator at Ajman University of Sci- ence and Technology (Al Ain Campus), Maintenance Engineer at AGRINCO, Electrical Engineer at Min- istry of
Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Professor-in-Residence in the De- partment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He received his B.S. in chemical engineering from Lehigh University in 1998, and his M.S.C.E.P and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000 and 2003, respectively. His primary areas of interest are chemical vapor deposition and engineering pedagogy.Dr. Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University Dr. Matthew Cooper is an Associate Professor (Teaching Track) in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. He teaches Material and Energy Balances, Unit Operations, Transport
2016-2019 at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany.Prof. Musa K Jouaneh, University of Rhode Island Musa Jouaneh is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Systems Engineering at the University of Rhode Island where he has been working since 1990. His research interests include mechatronics, robotics, and engineering education. Dr. Jouaneh founded the Mechatronics Laboratory at the University of Rhode Island, is the author of two text books on mechatron- ics, is the developer of mechatronics-based tools for engineering education, and is the recipient of several c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020
regarding class size, teaching load, laboratory availability,service expectations or research requirements.Policies and procedure requirementsEach accrediting group features policies and procedures that regulate the release of informationto the public. Prior to an accreditation visit, programs should review the latest requirements toensure compliance, especially on websites and in printed materials. These often change andprograms are expected to be up-to-date or make efforts to become compliant. For example,ABET requires three types of information to be available to the public: the program educationalobjectives, the student outcomes as well as headcount data, including enrollment and the numberof graduates. This information should be “easy” to
-on experience that include operations of those complex systems. However, theinsurmountable costs and lengthy regulating processes render the aforementioned type of projectsunfeasible.In this paper, we discuss the potential to engineering education of re-purposing of a $40M IntegratedSystem Test (IST) facility with a 1.7 MWt capacity, which was originally developed for the m-PowerSMR design by BWXT Technologies, Inc. (a.k.a. BWXT), and it is currently located at LibertyUniversity's Center for Engineering Research and Education, in Forest, Virginia. The aforementionedthermal-hydraulic loop could be used for complementing teaching on areas such as: controls, thermal-hydraulics, modularity in energy systems, cyber-physical systems, and many
Philosophy degree in Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 2000 Master of Military Operational Art and Science, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, AL 2000 Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, AL 2003 Air War College, by correspondenceLynnane George, U.S. Air Force Academy Lynnane George is Deputy Head of the Department of Astronautics at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. As Deputy, she leads 28 faculty teaching 17 courses to thousands of students yearly. She is also Academic Year 2006 - 2007 course director for Engineering 100, an introductory freshman engineering course taught by 24 instructors to 1222 students
existence of controland experimental groups.ProcedurePractical experience - Control GroupThe approach for the control group replicated the traditional approach to machine tooltuition within the University of Limerick. Students were assigned an allotted time on thetraditional milling machine. Then a didactic approach was employed to teaching thestudents (in pairs) prescribed content. Each group of students machined two cuts on awork piece as per the technician’s instructions. All machine and work-piece set-ups wereexplained to the students but carried out for the most part by the technical staff. Theduration of this machining exposure was approximately one hour.Practical experience - Experimental GroupStudents in the experimental group experienced