new to engineering instruction. Feisel and Rosa10 give anextensive review of the historical role of instructional engineering laboratories. Howeverlaboratory or hands-on learning specifically for Statics instruction is a relatively modern conceptdeveloped in recent decades. Numerous authors have described hands-on instructional activitiesinvolving pulley systems, levers, cables, trusses, ladders and friction forces to demonstrate andteach basic principles of Statics.11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19 The focus of their work is in improving theconceptual understanding of the student and helping the student relate theory to the physical.Some of the exercises also incorporate creativity and design.14,18 There is not, however, a directeffort by these
including design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past 10 years she gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development. Dr Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement and Instrumentation course as well as for quality control undergraduate and graduate courses in ET Masters program. Also
NIH, NASA, NSF, FAA, DOE, and private companies. Currently, he and his students at the Advanced Tech- nology Systems Laboratory are pursuing cutting-edge research on the role of visualization and virtual reality in aviation maintenance, hybrid inspection and job-aiding, technology to support STEM education and, more practically, to address information technology and process design issues related to delivering quality health care. As the Department Chair, he has been involved in the initiation of programmatic initiatives that have resulted in significant growth in the Industrial Engineering Program, situating it in the forefront both nationally and internationally. These include the Online Master of Engineering in
Engineering. Her industrial experience includes Oak Ridge Na- tional Laboratories, Chicago Bridge and Iron, and a sabbatical at Eli Lilly. She is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Tennessee.Dr. Richard A House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Richard A. House is Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He received a B.A. from Illinois Wesleyan University and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. His interests include liberal education for engineers, engineering communication and pedagogy, sustainability, and Shakespeare. He is co-author (with Richard Layton, Jessica Livingston, and Sean Moseley) of The Engineering Communication Manual (Oxford University Press, 2016
other electrical engineering courses, with benefits notedby both students and instructors. For example, this approach was taken in an undergraduatepower electronics course, and survey respondents noted that the on-line quizzes were beneficialto their understanding13. Remote laboratories sometimes comprise blended learningenvironments. In the area of control theory, a remote lab was used so that students couldremotely experiment and integrate the practical with the theoretical aspects of the course14. Asimilar goal was noted in another controls engineering course, in which a web-based simulatorwas used to complement the theoretical-based lectures15. In this controls course, there was anincrease from 63% to 79% on an end-of-course exam, when
project manager. He joined Ohio University in 2002 as a research engineer working for the Ohio University Avionics Engineering Cen- ter. He has worked on projects covering a wide variety of avionics and navigation systems such as, the Instrument Landing System (ILS), Microwave Landing System (MLS), Distance Measuring Equipment (DME), LAAS, WAAS, and GPS. His recent work has included research with the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, aimed at understanding and correcting image geo-registration errors from a number of airborne platforms. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Low-Cost Control System Experiment for Engineering Technology
University Dr. Gene Hou is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Old Domin- ion University (ODU). He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Iowa in 1983 and joined Old Dominion University since then. His expertise is in computational mechanics, multidis- ciplinary design optimization and system integration and risk management. He is the co-director of the Marine Dynamics Laboratory. During his tenure, he has the privilege of developing 3 new undergraduate and 6 new graduate courses in the areas related to computational methods and design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 An Integrated Curriculum for Technical Writing
Texas A&M University. His areas of interest in research and education include product development, analog/RF electronics, engineering education, and entrepreneurship.Dr. Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University Dr. Michael D. Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and In- dustrial 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 B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Johnson’s research focuses on design tools; specifi
populations.Visscher-Voerman [23] conducted retrospective interviews to identify 16 “principles” used byinstructional designers. Kirschner and colleagues [24] explored how instructional designers (inboth academic and business contexts) used Visscher-Voerman’s 16 principles through a Delphi-type study and a team design task. Perez and colleagues [25] used a laboratory think-aloudprotocol to investigate instructional design practices among both novices and experts.Despite differences in sample populations and data collection methods among the studies byPerez and colleagues [25], Visscher-Voerman [23], and York and Ertmer [6], these studiesreported some similarly themed heuristics/approaches. Each of the studies featured at least one(and usually more) heuristic
otherexisting facilities, CET faculty are mentoring Junior or Senior-level Engineering students duringthe regular semester and also during the summer. Another aspect of the research/project workusing laboratory equipment is to involve the freshmen Engineering students with their seniorcounterpart in some of the experiments and/or demo to excite them about the field and toreinforce their theoretical knowledge through these hands-on experiments. These paid researchopportunities are helping our students from the poor community in reducing their regular workhours from low-paid non-technical jobs, and also in honing their professional skills.Through the support of the grant project, the CET faculty was also able to create several paid (aone-time stipend
. The data showed that itpromoted increased metacognition and career formation, coursework engagement, classparticipation and a sense of belonging. Recommendations on further research are tohighlight specific cognitive aspects of peer teaching.Kim et al. (2014) were interested in understanding the impact of peer teaching on studentlearning in a theory based and laboratory Electric Circuits course. Their case study isdesigned to allow teams of two student Peer Assistants (PAs) to prepare and presentcourse materials for the week they are assigned. Each week a different team presents andby the end of the course each student has become a PA. The authors start the report withintroducing the concept of peer teaching, defining it and describing
people had little interaction with computers at the time [14]. Throughout theeighties and nineties, he continued to explore ways for learners to use computers as “objects tothink with” [20, p. 23] and cofounded the MIT Media Lab, an interdisciplinary research centerwhose members developed and popularized much of the technology that is currently associatedwith Maker Education, from Makey Makey microcontrollers to the kid-friendly, visualprogramming language of Scratch [21].Another off-shoot of the MIT Media Lab was the Center for Bits and Atoms, a group thatemerged out of Neil Gershenfeld’s popular class “How to Make (Almost) Anything” and that ledto the creation of the first Fabrication Laboratories or “Fab Labs”, high-tech workshop spacesthat
short term, robotics education fosters problem solving skills, communication skills,teamwork skills, independence, imagination, and creativity32-34; and 2) in the long term, roboticseducation plays a key role in preparing a workforce to implement 21st century technologies.Currently, few universities offer specific robotics degrees. For instance, Worcester PolytechnicInstitute (WPI) has offered a Bachelor of Science in Robotics Engineering50 since 2007.Universities that have graduate degrees focused on robotics include Carnegie Mellon University,MIT, UPENN, UCLA, WPI, and the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT).Michigan State University has a well-established Robotics and Automation laboratory, but it isutilized for graduate
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 Section Outstanding Teacher Award. Upon coming to Valparaiso University, Will established the Scientific Visualization Laboratory (SVL), a facility dedicated to the use of Virtual Reality (VR) for un- dergraduate education. Working exclusively with undergraduate students, Will
Chicago’s (UIC) College of Engineering in July of 2008. Prior to assuming his deanship, Professor Nelson was head of the UIC Department of Computer Science. In 1991, Professor Nelson founded UIC’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which specializes in applied intelligence systems projects in fields such as transportation, mobile health, man- ufacturing, bioinformatics and e-mail spam countermeasures. Professor Nelson has published over 80 scientific peer reviewed papers and has been the principal investigator on over $40 million in research grants and contracts on issues of importance such as computer-enhanced transportation systems, man- ufacturing, design optimization and bioinformatics. These projects have
collaboration (NIIMBL: National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals; BATL: Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Laboratory)3.1 An Academic, Industry and Regulatory Collaboration PlatformFigure 3 illustrates the implementation platform to facilitate the academic, regulatory andindustry collaboration. It is centered around NIIMBL composed of 113 members from academicinstitutes, regulatory agencies, biomanufacturing industry and workforce representatives. TheNIIMBL community focuses on the technologies and training programs to accelerate thebiopharmaceutical manufacturing innovation, which can strengthen our economy and improvehealth outcomes for all patients. We have regular meetings and technical
freely and publicly available andis in widespread active use by millions throughout industry, academia and privately [1].VNC is a desktop sharing system that uses the Remote Frame Buffer (RFB) protocol totake complete control of a remote computer. The keyboard presses and mouse clicks aretransmitted from one computer (the viewer) to the other (the server) over a network.The set of laboratory exercises on Visual Route and Virtual Network Computing (VNC)software suites discussed in this article are: 1. Study the basic commands of networking 2. Implement traceroute for specific website name using Visual Route. 3. Implement ping for specific IP address using Visual Route 4. Study the basics of packet sniffing. 5
by Marathon-Ashland Petroleum upon graduation.Neil Miller, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Neil Miller is a senior Mechanical Engineering student at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Neil will graduate with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in May 2007.Richard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Richard A. Layton is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His professional interests include system dynamics, curriculum and laboratory development, and project- and team-based learning. His interest in students' teaming experiences and the technical merit of team deliverables is founded on his years of experince in consulting
theoretical research in actual laboratories. The benefitswould be not only that the students would gain valuable research experiences, but also that thestudents’ appreciation for the communication would deepen, because the students would be morelikely to attain deeper understanding and to assume more ownership of the content. One strategy for this research option would be as a frame for a summer researchexperience, such as a Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) sponsored by the NationalScience Foundation.11 This framing would entail preparing the students during the spring for thesummer research experiences and then allowing students enough time to document theexperiences in the fall. Such was the strategy for the course option that we
80% Apply experimental engineering/scientific tools (e.g., machining, oscilloscopes, 80% instrumentation, laboratory equipment) in engineering/scientific practice Increase perseverance 80% Recognize my strengths and weaknesses 80% Page 13.1372.11According to results from NESLOS, (1) eight participants stated that they spent 1 to 5 hours perweek with their faculty mentor, one stated they spend 6 to 10 hours per week, and one spent 21
objectives of engineering laboratories formulated in the 3-dayconference organized by ABET, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in January2002.29 The workshop was concluded by a set of rubrics to evaluate design oriented students’lab work.30AAU failed to sell the idea of students exit portfolio to the 12 engineering programs. The ideawas to ask each student in one of the early courses to create a reflective portfolio subdividedaccording to ABET outcomes. The student will insert in each outcome divider reflected-uponartifacts, i.e. Drawings, designs, projects, presentations, or any other student work, thatdemonstrate mastering the corresponding outcome. The portfolio is kept by the student, updatedby the student by inserting new
her work at annual conferences of ASEE, WEPAN, and CEIA, and published in the Journal of Engineering Education, the Journal of Language and Social Psychology, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, the European Journal of Social Psychology, and the European Review of Social Psychology.Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University Michael Alley is an associate professor of engineering communication in the College of Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Craft of Scientific Presentations (Springer, 2003) and regularly gives workshops on engineering presentations for different institutions including Sandia National Laboratories, the SPIE, Los Alamos
. USMA (Avg) C&ME (Avg) CE300 (Avg) Page 12.217.8 Figure 3. Assessment results for interpersonal rapport 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 In this course, laboratory exercises contributed to my learning. My instructor used visual images (pictures, demonstrations, models, diagrams, simulations, etc.) to enhance my learning. My instructor gave me timely and accurate feedback on my learning progress. Your grades accurately represented
employment 5i: Exhibit the willingness to participate in a diverse group 3, 4, 5 k 3iii: Perform tasks in a professional manner 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Page 12.282.5 2iv: Complete assigned tasks in a timely manner 1, 3The next step was to determine how each performance criterion would be measured. The facultyexamined the MET curriculum and selected courses in which measures associated with a specificperformance criterion could be effectively taken. A combination of laboratory experimentation,traditional classroom instruction, and courses that
packages, so very limited facilities are available to start a research program. As a result,the start-up costs of the research may be higher than at research institutions. For many newfaculty, there is no existing research group to join, so the faculty member starts from scratch. Inaddition to these external challenges, often the PUI is not set up to support the faculty inobtaining external research funds, as this may be a relatively new activity there.Locating facilities for research is difficult at a PUI. Faculty must find a way to useundergraduate teaching laboratories for their research, or need to locate funds to outfit a new lab. Page
’ skillsand knowledge will be directed. From the perspective of faculty, Fromm 3 defines a detailed listof characteristics which future engineering graduates should possess to become leaders of theprofession, including a strong foundation in basic sciences, math and engineering fundamentals,the capacity to apply these fundamentals to a variety of problems, among others.The Millennium Project 4 at the University of Michigan is a research laboratory designed for thestudy of the future of the American universities. The mission of this project is to “provide anenvironment in which creative students and faculty can join with colleagues from beyond thecampus to develop and test new paradigms of the university”. The Millennium Project proposessome key
available at both universities.Examples of courses with a one-to-one match, both in content and in credits, include fluidmechanics, vibrations, controls, heat and mass transfer, and senior capstone design. Forinstance, the unique, required course at Virginia Tech on applied fluid mechanics and heattransfer design, was replaced with a cluster of non-required but regularly offered portfolio oflecture and laboratory courses at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, that taken together,covers the material of the required Virginia Tech course, with the surplus credits being appliedtowards the Virginia Tech technical elective requirements; thus no credits earned abroad remainunused once transferred home.The students from the Technische Universität
based on Commonality/Diversity, Modularity, and CostFew would argue that engineers are more likely to be active rather than reflective learners6, andthe benefits of “hands-on” educational activities such as product dissection are many. Forinstance, product dissection has been successfully used to help students identify relationshipsbetween engineering fundamentals (e.g., torque and power) and hardware design (e.g., a drill)7.It has also been used to help teach competitive assessment and benchmarking8, 9. Productdissection is part of the freshmen Product and Process Engineering Laboratory at North CarolinaState University where users take turns playing the role of user, assembler, and engineer10.Sheppard11 was among the first to develop a formal
introduced for descriptive geometry. Thisapplication was replaced on the market with KeyCreator.ixThe 1950's: A leader emerges in academia Page 12.792.4Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory was a leader in the academicworld. They developed the first graphic system in the mid-1950's for the United States Air Forcefor SAGE (Semi Automatic Ground Environment) air defense system. Computer-processed radardata were displayed on a cathode-ray tube (CRT) display.In 1957 PRONTO, the first commercial computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software system,was developed by Dr. Patrick J. Hanratty. This Arizona State University graduate is
Paper ID #6150Exposing Middle School Students to Robotics and Engineering through Legoand MatlabMr. Jeffrey Laut, Polytechnic Institute of New York University Jeffrey Laut received his B.Sc. degree from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in 2009 and his M.Sc. degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2011, both in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where for the 2011-2012 academic year he was a teaching fellow in their GK-12 program. Laut conducts research in the Dynamical Systems Laboratory, where his interests include controls