Paper ID #18905Building Life Cycle Assessment Skills with GREET and SimaPro to EngageStudents in Analyzing the Sustainability of Biofuel AlternativesDr. Bradley A. Striebig, James Madison University Dr. Striebig is a founding faculty member and first full professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison University. Dr. Striebig came to the JMU School of from Gonzaga University where he developed the WATER program in cooperation with other faculty members. Dr. Striebig is also the former Head of the Environmental Technology Group at Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory. In addition to Dr’ Striebig’s
Paper ID #22917A Cross-Institution Collaboration: Analysis of Power Electronic Technolo-gies for Solar Panel ArraysMs. Jill Davishahl, Bellingham Technical College Jill Davishahl is a faculty member in the engineering department at Bellingham Technical College where she teaches courses ranging from Intro to Engineering Design to Engineering Statics. Outside of teaching, Jill is working on the design and development of a Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Technol- ogy and is currently PI on an NSF funded ATE project grant in renewable energy. She holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the
. Nakagawa, H. Suda, M. Ukigai, Y. Miida, “An innovative hands-on laboratory for teaching a networking course”, Proceedings of the 33 rd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 14-20, Boulder, CO, USA. November 5-8, 2003.8. G. Steffen G, “Teaching Local Area Networking in a Secure Virtual Environment”, Proceedings of 2004 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, June 2004.9. http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VBox_vs_Others, retrieved February 3, 200910. S. Averitt, M. Bugaev, A. Peeler, H. Shaffer, E. Sills, S. Stein, J. Thompson and M. Vouk, “Virtual Computing Laboratory (VCL)”, Proceedings of the International Conference on the Virtual Computing Initiative, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, May
graduating, Caleb joined the United States Marine Corps and served as a Reconnaissance Ma- rine at 3rd Reconnaissance Battallion in Okinawa, Japan from 2006 to 2010. Following his enlistment in the Marine Corps, he worked as a weapons and tactics instructor for M¨obius Industries, in Okinawa, teach- ing Marines and sailors prior to unit deployments. Caleb and his family returned to the United States in January of 2015, when he enrolled at The University of Texas at Tyler and declared mechanical engineer- ing as his major. Currently, he works as a tutor in the University tutoring center for Several engineering courses and is also an undergraduate research assistant in the Mechanical Engineering department.Dr. Chung-Hyun Goh
Center of the City University of New York in 1991. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Incorporating Quantum Technologies into Engineering CurriculumAbstract: This paper first reviews the present status of quantum technologies that are rapidlymaking inroads to various fields of science and engineering. The author then suggests, in light ofthese developments, how one may incorporate the key principles, ideas, and topics of newquantum technologies into undergraduate quantum mechanics courses and laboratories to prepareand equip future engineers. Concrete examples of curriculum changes in modern physics,quantum mechanics, and advanced quantum mechanics courses are presented based on threeyears of
and engineering projects. She also co-directs the Welcome Project (welcomeproject.valpo.edu), a first-person story collection about identity and inclusion.Dr. Jeffrey Dale Will, Valparaiso University Will completed his B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and has been a full-time faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering De- partment at Valparaiso University since August of 2001. He teaches courses in senior design, computer architecture, digital signal processing, freshman topics, and circuits laboratories and is heavily involved in working with students in undergraduate research. Will is also a 2013 recipient of the Illinois-Indiana ASEE
AC 2010-1761: BROADENING STUDENT RESEARCH EXPERIENCES THROUGHSUMMER EXCHANGE PROGRAM ACROSS CAMPUSESAbhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Abhijit Nagchaudhuri is a Professor in the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences at University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Prior to joining UMES he worked in Turabo University in San Juan , PR as well as Duke University in Durham North Carolina as Assistant Professor and Research Assistant Professor, respectively. Dr. Nagchaudhuri is a member of ASME and ASEE professional societies and is actively involved in teaching and research in the fields of engineering mechanics, robotics, systems and control, design of mechanical and
objectives, forexample, the curriculum has long had no engineering laboratory courses- only project courses inwhich students work in teams on open-ended design problems, not rote experiments. Theseprojects course start in the freshman year and culminate in a year-long senior design project.Faculty work closely with the students, and encourage independent thinking and challengestudents to push themselves, to reach their full potential. The result is the professionaldevelopment of young project engineers who can both design and direct small groups ofdedicated professionals. The theory covered in courses is also rigorous, and students areprepared for and introduced to graduate level work while still in undergraduate school.The small size of the school
AC 2012-5020: THE WRIGHT STATE MODEL FOR ENGINEERING MATH-EMATICS EDUCATION: HIGHLIGHTS FROM A CCLI PHASE 3 INI-TIATIVE, VOLUME 3Prof. Nathan W. Klingbeil, Wright State University Nathan Klingbeil is a professor of mechanical engineering and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Wright State University. He is the lead PI for Wright State’s National Model for Engineering Mathematics Education. He held the University title of Robert J. Kegerreis Distinguished Professor of Teaching from 2005-2008, and served as the College’s Director of Student Retention and Success from 2007-2009. He has received numerous awards for his work in engineering education, including the
focuseson one school, identified here as Eastern Technical University (ETU). This analysis is restrictedto ETU’s first-year mechanical engineering curriculum, which typically involves students takingMechanics (ETU Physics), Calculus (ETU Math), Introduction to Manufacturing (ETUEngineering), and/or Introduction to CAD (ETU Design). Each course includes threecomponents: lecture, recitation, and laboratory. ETU’s curriculum generally identifies lectures asthe main venue through which content knowledge is imparted, while the recitation sessions areprimarily used as an opportunity to engage with the material through Q&A experiences andparticipation in group-work exercises. The laboratories serve as vehicles for specific skilldevelopment and attempt
quick. At San José State University (SJSU), students and faculty were given lessthan one week to prepare to teach and take classes remotely. Most faculty at SJSU had nevertaught online before this dramatic shift in March 2020 and both faculty and students werechallenged to finish the semester. Most SJSU engineering classes are offered in the traditionalface-to-face mode with in-person laboratories and project classes. Because of COVID-19, allSJSU classes, including those in the College of Engineering, went to a remote mode.The object of this study was to determine the impact of the sudden move to remote learning onengineering students at SJSU through a survey and interviews. By supplementing the surveyswith interviews of students, this study
Paper ID #29575The Formation and Dynamics of Teacher Roles in a Teacher-StudentGroupwork during a Robotic Project (Fundamental)Pooneh Sabouri, New York University Pooneh Sabouri received her Ph.D. in Teaching and Learning, focusing on science education at New York University. She has a master’s degree in mathematics education and statistics from The University of Texas at Austin and earned her bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Iran. Pooneh is interested in teacher learning and how to co-develop theoretical tools with teachers to inform and expand their teaching practices
abstractrepresentation of reality. Thus, the goal of learning, behaviourism submits, is to understand thereality and modify behaviour accordingly, and the purpose of teaching is to transfer theknowledge from expert to learner18. The behaviourist model is still widely adopted forinstructional design of teaching factual or procedural knowledge of engineering. Instructorsconvert the reality into abstract or generalized representations, and transfer them to studentsthrough a well-planned, linear and gradual procedure in a “tamed” environment, be it aclassroom or laboratory. The students’ performance is assessed by measuring the proximity oftheir behaviour (answering questions, writing reports and essays, performing laboratoryexperiments, etc.) to the expected
solutions. This process ensures that students take ownership of their project as anengaged team. It allows students to strengthen their problem-solving and collaboration skills.The interdisciplinary teaching team models the teamwork skills the students are learning. Theaim is to promote interdisciplinary learning, foster teamwork, and improve student engagement.Other course objectives are to develop students’ creative problem solving, empathetic designpractices, communication skills, prototyping skills, and ethical reasoning. Students are expectedto become proficient at the empathetic design process as well as interdisciplinary communicationand teamwork. Creative problem solving, ethical reasoning, and realization of a product throughprototyping
Paper ID #26393A Tale of Two Rubrics: Realigning Genre Instruction through Improved Re-sponse Rubrics in a Writing-intensive Physics CourseJohn Yukio Yoritomo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign John Yoritomo is a 6th year PhD candidate in the Physics Department at the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign. His research focuses on diffuse field ultrasonics, with applications in non-destructive evalu- ation and seismology. He has been a teaching assistant for many writing-intensive undergraduate courses in the Physics Department. He is also a member of a team working to improve the writing instruction in the
Jose State University and a Master of Science in Biological Sciences from Illinois State University.Prof. Jose E Castillo, San Diego State University Dr. Castillo is the Founder and Director of the Computational Science Research Center and the Computational Science Program at SDSU. The Center, founded in 1999, facilitates cooperation between the university and industry as well as national laboratories. The center involves participation of researchers from applied mathematics, astronomy, biology, chemistry/biochemistry, computer science, geology, mathematics and statistics, physics, geophysics, and engineering. Dr. Castillo also created the MS in Computational Science in 1999 and the Ph.D in Computational Science in
more than 70 articles and given more than 150 presentations to various groups. His primary teaching and research interests include pavement design, materials, construction, and rehabilitation, in addition to the topics of professionalism, licensure, and ethics. On the education front, he serves as the co-Chair of the ASCE Body of Knowledge Education Fulfillment Committee (BOKEdFC), and is an active participant in the Civil Engineering Division of ASEE. In terms of technical/research efforts, he currently serves on eight committees, task groups, and panels through the Transportation Research Board (chairing one standing committee of TRB and one NCHRP Project Panel), and numerous committees with ASTM and industry
compression of four-year programsfrom 140 to 120+ credit hour range. In the wake of reducing engineering content and cost,something had to go. So laboratories, where students (and faculty) gained valuable hands-onexperience and learned to use tools and instruments, have almost entirely disappeared. After all,these are resources that require staffing, scheduling, consume major space, involved expensiveequipment, require costly supplies, demand maintenance, all while presenting environments thatharbor potential liabilities if students are injured – a huge concern in our litigious era. So labshave become “look, but don‟t touch” observation or simulation exercises normally conducted bygraduate teaching assistants – not faculty. Hence the lack of
Paper ID #37867Designing, Codifying, and Implementing Social Justice Content in aRequired Course on Engineering and Research Skills for First-YearGraduate StudentsKavitha Chintam, Northwestern University Kavitha Chintam is a Ph.D. Candidate at Northwestern University in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.Dr. Alexis N. Prybutok, University of Washington Alex Prybutok (she/her) is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington. She earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering and her B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Texas at Austin in 2016 and
years of grantfunding.The project had four distinct phases. In Phase One, Cohort A, high school participants, engagedin an intensive summer university experience. While participating in classroom and laboratory-based experiences, they were exposed to cutting-edge research in NASA-Related Earth SystemScience. In collaboration with university faculty, graduate students and a professionaldevelopment team of master teachers, Cohort A systematically developed NASA-related STEMK-12 teaching modules for secondary students. The proposed module development activitieswere designed to help teachers translate their new NASA-related scientific knowledge during thesummer research experience into their instructional practices in the classroom.Cohort A
AC 2012-3748: TAKING STOCK: PROGRESS TOWARD EDUCATING THENEXT GENERATION OF ENGINEERSDr. Peter H. Meckl, Purdue University Peter H. Meckl is a professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, where he has served since 1988. Meckl obtained his B.S.M.E. from Northwestern University and M.S.M..E and Ph.D. degrees from MIT. His research interests are primarily in dynamics and control of machines, with emphasis on vibration reduction, motion control, and engine diagnostics. His teaching responsibilities include courses in sys- tems modeling, measurement systems, and control. In addition, he teaches a course entitled technology and values, which introduces students to the social and environmental impacts of technology
havethe opportunity to earn academic credit for their engineering design work. A key difference in thisframework as compared to other typical capstone designs, independent studies, or research creditcourses is that undergraduate TAs and project managers within the project teams are responsiblefor developing many of the assignments distributed to those students enrolled the course as theproject progresses. The methods of student assessment within this framework include: individualor small-group weekly assignments, design notebook checks, peer and self-evaluations,participation, summative technical reports, and the Humanitarian Library. Additionally, unlikemany traditional problem set or laboratory courses, student skills are developed through
University in 1987 and a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1997.John W. Lawson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo John Lawson is a Full Professor in Architectural Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where he primarily teaches structural design courses to undergraduates. He obtained his Bachelors of Science in Architectural Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and his Masters of Science in Structural Engineering from Stanford University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer and Structural Engineer in California and Arizona with over 25 years of design experience. American c Society
accepted into theprofessional engineering community, and being different puts that acceptance at risk. For a newidea to be accepted into an isolated community, the idea needs to have merit. The idea alsoneeds to have a “critical mass” of supporters who make the others willing and perhaps slightlypressured to try the new idea. Our experience suggests that, at least in an academic context, oneof the best ways to create a critical mass and apply slight pressure is to teach the methodexplicitly and require it as part of graded presentation assignments. Experience at Virginia Tech. In the past four years, undergraduates in the MechanicalEngineering Department at Virginia Tech have used the alternative design in a laboratory coursesequence that
Paper ID #15169Professional Development through Situated Learning Techniques Adaptedwith Design-Based ResearchMr. Matthew Moorhead, New York University Matthew Moorhead received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 2014. He is currently pursuing a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY, where he is a teaching fellow in their GK-12 program. Matthew also conducts research in the Mechatronics and Controls Laboratory with an interest in robotics and controls.Colin Hennessy Elliott, New York University Colin received his B.S. in
ofMaterials course were required to implement an outreach activity in place of the final threeweeks of lab in the course (project statement in Appendix A). The specific aims andrequirements of the project were communicated to the undergraduates as the following: The specific aims of this outreach project are two-fold: 1. to excite middle school students about science and engineering and break down misconceptions about engineers, and 2. to instill in undergraduate engineering students the need for science outreach while giving Page 23.633.3 them an opportunity to creatively teach course content. As a culminating lab project, groups
”developing ethics workshops for nanotech students as well as mid-career industry professionals.The goals of the workshops are to introduce the AIR (awareness, investigation and response)model18 of ethical inquiry to participants. This model will be presented both as a proven tool toassist them in processing the ethical issues that may arise during their own laboratory research,and as a teaching tool for use with the students, graduate assistants, technicians under theirsupervision.CHN-affiliated faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell are designing curricula that usenanotechnology as a framework for examining the entire range of societal issues associated withemerging technologies. For example: faculty in the Department of Work Environment
objectives of the studio implementation include: 1. Provide an environment where a large number of students are engaged in active learning. 2. Design a learning environment that allows strategic and tactical implementation of active learning pedagogies and which allows relatively easy scaling to meet changing enrollments. 3. Provide a scaffolded support structure for GTAs which promotes their integration in class organization and achievement of learning objectives and that allows them to develop their teaching skills, knowledge of how students learn, and increases the value they place in teaching.Studio Architecture and Implementation DesignIn the studio-based curriculum design, classes are divided with studios
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design classes;and enhancing the competence of participating professors in teaching CDIO skills. Futuredirections for further developing and evaluating the framework and student retention goals arealso discussed. Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2007, American Society for Engineering EducationI. Introduction and BackgroundProjected U.S. engineering workforce needs call for 48% representation by underrepresentedminorities by 20501,2. Meeting this need will be challenging: Data show that ScienceTechnology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) students who are African American, Latino andAmerican Indian remain vastly underrepresented in university