Engineering for last seventeen years. His research interests include Environmental and Surface Chemistry, Catalysis, Advanced Materials, Biomedical Research, Capillary Electrophoresis, Advanced Electrochemistry and Sensors.Jewel Gomes, Lamar University Dr. Gomes currently serves as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Chemical Engineering of Lamar University under Dr. Cocke. His research interests are Atmospheric Chemistry, Matrix Isolation Spectroscopy, Gaussian Simulation, Wastewater Management, Materials Characterization, and Electrochemistry. He is also actively involved with Problem Based Learning (PBL) laboratory of Lamar.Hector Casillas, Lamar University Mr. Moreno is currently
AC 2007-1599: ONE-MINUTE ENGINEER, NTH GENERATION: EXPANSION TOA SMALL PRIVATE UNIVERSITYJohn-David Yoder, Ohio Northern University JOHN-DAVID YODER is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at ONU. His Doctorate is from the University of Notre Dame. Research interests include education, controls, robotics, and information processing. Prior to teaching, he ran a small consulting and R&D company and served as proposal engineering supervisor for GROB Systems, Inc.Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University Beverly Jaeger, PhD is a member of Northeastern University’s Gateway Team, a selected group of full-time faculty expressly devoted to the first-year Engineering Program at Northeastern
incorporate feedback from this teaching of the courseand from the follow-on project to improve students' application and written communication ofparametric design techniques.1 J. A. Newell, D. K. Ludlow, and S. P. K. Sternberg, "Progressive development of oral and written communicationskills across and integrated laboratory sequence," Chemical Engineering Education, vol. 31, pp. 116-119, 1997. Page 11.281.122 D. K. Ludlow and K. H. Schulz, "Writing across the chemical engineering curriculum at the University of NorthDakota," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 83, pp. 161, 1994.3 N. Van Orden, "Is writing an effective way to learn
Institute of Technology, 550 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115Mr. Herb ConnorsProf. Vitaliy Victorovich Saykin, Wentworth Institute of TechnologyMr. Mohammed Khalid Alhuwayrini, c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 The Sagan Research Project for Exploring Statistical Parameters of Typical Mechanical PropertiesAbstractThe involvement of undergraduate students in research is very important for engineeringeducation. Research can not only significantly enhance student engagement and enrich studentlearning experience, but it is also useful as a tool to enhance undergraduate engineeringeducation. However, it is a big challenge for a small teaching institution to do this because
play akey role in the curriculum. Furthermore, it is important to link the curriculum to research andscholarship in engineering and applied science education to foster the use of the best pedagogicalpractices and to create visibility for the curriculum model. Over the last several years, a few institutions in the country have established separateDepartments of Engineering Education to spearhead innovative teaching practices and conductresearch in engineering education. However, a separate Department of Engineering Educationcan become yet another “silo” within the engineering college with its own values that do notpermeate into disciplinary departments. Faculty in this separate department can be viewed as“second class citizens” by faculty
and science in biology: Teaching and learning impacts ofreading apprenticeship professional development. American Educational Research Journal,48, 647-717.Hand, B., Wallace, C. W., & Yang, E-M. (2004). Using a science writing heuristic toenhance learning outcomes from laboratory activities in seventh-grade science:Quantitative and qualitative aspects. International Journal of Science Education, 26, 131-149.Maltese, A. V., Melki, C. S., & Wiebke, H. L. (2014). The nature of experiences responsiblefor the generation and maintenance of interest in STEM. Science Education, 98, 937-962.Osborne, J. A., Simon, S. B., & Collins, S. (2003). Attitudes towards science: A review ofthe literature and its implications. International Journal of
Paper ID #20368Algae for STEM EducationDr. Kauser Jahan, Rowan University Kauser Jahan, is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University. She received her B.S.C.E. from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, an MSCE from the Univer- sity of Arkansas, Fayetteville and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Her passion as an educator and mentor has been recognized by many professional organizations over the years. She is the recipient of the Gloucester County Women of Achievement Award, Lindback Foundation Teaching Award, the NJ ASCE Educator of the Year award
Paper ID #12260Industrial Advisory Board Open ForumDr. Charles E. Baukal Jr. P.E., John Zink Co. LLC Charles E. Baukal, Jr. has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, an Ed.D., and Professional Engineering License. He is the Director of the John Zink Institute which offers continuing professional development for engineers and technicians. He has nearly 35 years of industrial experience and 30 years of teaching experience as an adjunct. He is the author/editor of 13 books on industrial combustion and is an inventor on 11 U.S. patents.Dr. Ted Song, John Brown University Dr. Ted Song joined the JBU engineering faculty in
programs and 1,2developments in the area of technological literacy. Different schools have since developedprograms, minors, and classes whose major goals are educating a non-engineering workforce andnon-engineering students so they might have a deeper and functional understanding oftechnology and engineering, and develop life-long competencies in understanding the basics oftechnology. The premise has been to develop a national level awareness and education fortechnological literacy. Currently the effort is synergistically advancing technological literacy aswell as helping STEM and STEM education activities.Many of the instructors who are designing and teaching technological literacy classes are alsoactive
, instrument development, psychometrics and statistical programming.Dr. Howard S. Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology HOWARD KIMMEL is Professor-Emeritus of Chemical Engineering and Retired Executive Director of the Center for Pre-College Programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Dr. Kimmel is currently providing his services on a part-time basis as a Special Assistant for Teacher Training and Curriculum Development with a focus on alignment of teaching practices with the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards. He has spent almost forty years designing and implementing professional development programs, curricula, and assessment of student learning for K-12 teachers in STEM. At
stages of cognitive development to engineering knowledge and skills for K-12 curricula.Dr. Richard M. Goff, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education Richard M. Goff is a former aircraft structural test engineer for the Navy, a Peace Corps Volunteer, and a computer entrepreneur. He holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Richard has been teaching and engaging in research in multidisciplinary engineering design education for over twenty years. Dr. Goff is the recipient of several university teaching awards, outreach awards, and best paper awards. His passion is creating engaging learning environments by bringing
Cyberinfrastructure Course through Project-Centric BioinformaticsAbstractIt is increasingly difficult for teaching to keep pace with rapid advances in technology, especiallyat the interface of several disciplines. We describe here the development and implementation ofan interdisciplinary bioinformatics course focused on preparing the future scientific workforce.Central to the course is a project-centric teaching paradigm to engage students in applying theconcepts of cyberinfrastructure through the integration of the disciplines of biology, computerscience, mathematics, and statistics in the field of bioinformatics. In this project, Bluefield StateCollege (BSC) professors and their students were introduced to the concepts ofcyberinfrastructure
existing engineering undergraduate curriculum. Funded by a three-yearNSF-Course, Curriculum, Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) grant, the BESTEAMS curriculum iscomprehensive and developmental, offering three levels of instruction (introductory, intermediate,advanced) in three key areas of team functioning (personal awareness, interpersonal dynamics,and project management).The purpose of this paper is to describe the results of student evaluation of the introductory levelcurriculum that has been introduced into the Clark School of Engineering's - Introduction toEngineering Design course (ENES 100). Students completed three team work modules presentedby faculty trained in the module delivery during the 2001-2002 academic year. The firstIntroductory
. If we were to trace this deficiency in software testing background back to its source, wewould end up at the educational institutions that are responsible for teaching and training peopleto test software. Thus, if today’s software testers are not sufficiently armed with the knowledgerequired to test software well, then it is most likely because they have not been adequatelytrained. This is one of the main root causes of the current state of software testing, and it ishere that we need to begin to remedy the problem.Current ApproachThe subject of software testing rarely appears in the undergraduate curricula, despite its wellestablished place in classical computer science (CS) literature 2 and its extensive use in industry.Many academic CS
next time we held thecourse we should do only one session per week. On the other hand, the students felt that thesession length of 1 ½ to 2 hours was appropriate.Impact on Teaching FellowsIn reflecting upon the impact of this course, it is clear that we learned as much from thisexperience as did the students who participated. Foremost, educational research of this typevastly differs from the typical laboratory research we as graduate engineering students havebecome accustomed to. For example, when conducting educational research investigators mustunderstand that working in a K-12 environment requires a higher degree of flexibility, patience,and tolerance of unexpected chaos. An important outcome derived through the implementationof this
form of: (1) student to student, (2) students to instructor, (3)students to practitioner, (4) instructor to instructor, and (5) everyone to technical support staffand vice versa. One of the advantages of online courses is the possibility of interactions withpractitioners in the field to give students real life perspectives on what is learned in a course. Eventhough interactions with technical staff may not be part of an online course content, provisionsshould be made for such interactions so that students and instructors can get the necessarytechnical support they need. The focus of this paper will be primarily on student – teacherinteractions.One of the most difficult aspects of teaching online is integrating student – teacher
Paper ID #42621Enhancing Understanding and Retention in Undergraduate ECE Coursesthrough Concept MappingProf. Yang Victoria Shao, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Yang V. Shao is a teaching assistant professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She earned her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Prof. Shao has research interests in curriculum development, assessment, student retention, and student success in engineering, developing innovative ways of merging engineering fundamentals and research
the fact that throughout thecourse, student attendance was excellent. During the class, students consistently maintained eyecontact with the instructor because they were engaged in the presentation of the material.Students very much liked the course content and the way in which it was presented, but probablyvery few students could put into words why they liked the pedagogy used in Aero TWC. Theanswer as to why the course content was well received is that the teaching of the course wasdone in such a manner that every class had features of the presentation style that appealed totheir various learning styles.Also, during the academic year 2022-2023, the Aero TWC instructor was a Teaching Assistant(TA) for an Aerospace laboratory course (which
measure in this study.Table 6. The number of the participants’ responses based on the type of courses they teach % of I am not # of participants Course Type No Yes Maybe sure participants First-year engineering 30 course 8 12 20 Capstone 37 course 14 11 25 Laboratory 34
connection. For instance,hundreds of Java simulations were created at the National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU)Virtual Physics Laboratory. Many physics teachers use these Java simulations in their teaching. Holliday from the Western Carolina University recently implemented few Java Applets thatillustrate some of important concept of network by using animation. The applets and accompany-ing materials addresses four network concepts: packet encapsulation, packet fragmentation, errorcontrol and media access. All these applets has been applied to the class of computer network. Butthe AQM concept is not mentioned in this paper [10]. 33 Network simulation modelOur simulation package is based on the
andposition engineering graduate education to meet both the technology and societal needsof the 21st century. This paper adds value for the preparation of adjunct faculty membersas graduate instructors and future teaching scholars. The paper contains an expanding setof Promising Practices in engineering and technology education that are currently beingused. Teaching at the graduate level requires a high level of motivation in faculty whoare committed to excellence in knowledge, in research, and in contributions to theprofession, and/or serve to the community. Adjunct professors are an excellent way tobridge with the community and add richness to many course and degree programofferings.Historical PerspectiveThe role of the adjunct within the modern
.," Laptops in psychology: Conducting flexible in-class research and writing laboratories", New directions for teaching and learning Vol. 2005, No. 101, 2005, pp. 15-26.16 Fitch, J.," Student feedback in the college classroom: A technology solution", Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 52, No. 1, 2004, pp. 71-77.17 Mazur, E., Peer Instruction: a user’s manual, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997.18 Crouch, C.H., and E. Mazur," Peer Instruction: Ten years of experience and results", A merican Journal of Physics Vol. 69, 2001, pp. 970-977.19 Hake, R.R., "Design-Based Research in Physics Education Research: A Review", Handbook of Design Research Methods in Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education: Erlbaum
programming skills in solving engineering problems without having to be explicitly told todo so. During Phase 1 of the project, we are exploring the feasibility of our framework and havedeveloped and evaluated five instructive modules for four IE professional courses in ourcurriculum.Modeling FrameworkThe methods that are commonly used to achieve educational objectives include: lectures,experimental laboratory, design projects, case studies, games, and internships1. All of thesemethods are used in teaching IE courses in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department atAuburn University. However, the lecture method is by far our most common approach forinstruction. This is also the case at most other engineering academic departments. One of
Paper ID #49680Examining Student Usage/Access Statistics from two Canvas LMS courses:Undergraduate and GraduateProf. Tariq Khraishi, University of New Mexico Khraishi currently serves as a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Mexico. His general research interests are in theoretical, computational and experimental solid mechanics and materials science. He has been involved for years in the scholarship of teaching and learning. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 1
Paper ID #46656Enhancing Student Learning in a Blended Undergraduate Dynamics Coursethrough Hands-on Mini-ProjectsDr. Sudeshna Pal, University of Central Florida Dr. Sudeshna Pal is an Associate Lecturer in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Central Florida (UCF), where she teaches courses in the areas of system dynamics, controls, and biomedical engineering. Her current research interest is engineering education, with focus on blended learning, project-based learning, and digital and design education. Her educational research is supported by grants through the National Institutes of
from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for sevDr. Julian Ly Davis, University of Southern Indiana Jul Davis is an Associate Professor of Engineering at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, Indiana. He received his PhD in 2007 from Virginia Tech in Engineering Mechanics where he studied the vestibular organs in the inner ear using finite element models and vibration analyses. After graduating, he spent a semester teaching at a local community college and then two years at University of Massachusetts (Amherst) studying the biomechanics of biting in bats and monkeys, also
, leading efforts in research and assisting product devel- opment and testing. As part of her term at WillowWood, she was a two time recipient of the prestigious Thranhardt Award for Prosthetic Research Dr. Gerschutz passion for teaching has drawn her away from industry towards the academic setting, but has left her enthusiasm for bettering the lives of others. She is currently the Chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department at Trine University. Her focus areas of teaching include introduction to biomedical engineering, biomaterials, bioinstrumentation and dynamics.David A. Evenhouse, Purdue University David Evenhouse is a Graduate Student and Research Assistant in the Purdue School of Engineering Education. He
Paper ID #34900Pedagogy Improvement in Aerospace Structures Education Using VirtualLabs: Before, During, and After the COVID-19 School Closures and RemoteLearningWaterloo Tsutsui, Purdue University Waterloo Tsutsui, Ph.D., P.E., is a Lecturer and Lab Coordinator in the School of Aeronautics and As- tronautics at Purdue University. Tsutsui’s research interests are energy storage systems, multifunctional structures and materials design, fatigue and fracture, and scholarship of teaching and learning. Before Purdue, Tsutsui was an engineer in the automotive industry for more than 10 years.Eric J. Williamson, Purdue University
: Reflections of STEM Teachers on the Use of Teaching and Learning Tools. Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health. https://doi.org/10.21891/jeseh.711779Zhang, M., Zhang, Z., Chang, Y., Aziz, E. S., Esche, S., & Chassapis, C. (2018). Recent developments in game-based virtual reality educational laboratories using the microsoft kinect. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning, 13(1), 138–159. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v13i01.7773 Proceedings of the 2021 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Baylor University, Waco, TX Copyright © 2021, American Society for Engineering Education 15
S Swenson, University of Michigan Jessica Swenson is a post doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. She was awarded her doctorate and masters from Tufts University in mechanical engineering and STEM education respectively. Her current research involves examining different types of homework problems in undergraduate engineering science courses, flexible classroom spaces, active learning, responsive teaching, and elementary school engineering teachers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Open-Ended Modeling Problems in a Sophomore-Level Aerospace Mechanics of Materials CourseAbstractThe aerospace curriculum during students’ sophomore and