international colleagues. He has a broad background in mechanical and electrical engineering, and physiology with specific training and expertise. His work includes mod- eling the cardiovascular system, ventricular assist devices, cardiac physiology, instrumentation systems and leadless cardiac pacing. He help developed and was the inaugural director of a project-based-learning engineering curriculum. He is now involved in discovery-based-learning on multi-disciplinary teams.Mr. Ronald R Ulseth, Itasca Community College Ron Ulseth directs and instructs in the Iron Range Engineering program in Virginia, Minnesota and he teaches in the Itasca Community College engineering program in Grand Rapids, MN. He was instrumental in
Michigan in 2012. Outside of research, she enjoys teaching, traveling and desserts. She has been teaching the fluid mechanics lab for the past year and loves working in the lab, troubleshooting experiments and working with students. Sahithya is also working as an Engineering Teaching Consultant for CRLT Engin. She is an active member of GradSWE and has developed a number of STEM outreach programs in ele- mentary schools around Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, as a member of the GradSWE officer board. Sahithya presently works with female engineering students in Liberia, helping them start a Society of Women En- gineers student chapter in Liberia, West Africa (Blog). She is developing a leadership camp for female engineering
Analysis and Optimization: An Exploratory Study (Evidence-based Practice)Background and MotivationThere is a long-standing interest and focus in educational research on electricity-related concepts, due totwo essential reasons: (a) electricity is one of the central areas of science, technology, and engineeringcurricula at all levels of education, and (b) its concepts are particularly difficult to teach and learn becausethey are abstract and complex 1. Therefore, both educators and students face several challengesthroughout the learning process 2. Students often develop their own conceptions of electricity, which maybe in conflict with the formal science perspectives 3. When these students’ interpretations of
Paper ID #31263Improving STEM Education for Lower-division College Students at HSI byUtilizing Relevant Sociocultural and Academic Experiences: First YearResults from ASSURE-US ProjectDr. Jidong Huang, California State University, Fullerton Dr. Jidong Huang is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at California State University, Fullerton. His research had been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Federal Aviation Administra- tion (FAA) and multiple industrial sponsors. Currently, his research interests are focused on innovative approaches for STEM teaching and learning; robotics; the design of high-precision
interests include physics and engineering education, collaborating with Prof. Genaro Zavala’s Physics Education Research and Innovation Group at Tecnologico de Monterrey (Monterrey, Mexico).Prof. Mathieu Brochu, McGill University Prof. Brochu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering at McGill University, a Gerald Hatch Engineering Faculty Fellow on Additive Manufacturing and the Director of the Powder Processing and Additive Manufacturing of Advanced Materials Laboratory. He is codirector of the NSERC network on Holistic Innovation on Additive Manufacturing and co-director of the Canadian Additive Manufacturing Network. Prior to Joining McGill in 2004, Prof. Brochu held key AM
[7] games. The questions in the Kahoot games are specially designed based on common mistakes or misconceptions observed from pre-class quizzes. The teaching strategy used in the lecture is inquiry-based learning, and the teaching process is guided using specially designed, logically connected questions to strengthen students’ ability for critical thinking. Video demonstrations of real-world applications are used to raise students’ interest and keep their attention throughout the class. The 2.5-hour class is always divided into two sessions. In the first part (60 minutes), a quick review of the previous topic is presented and the new topic is delivered through a short lecture. Inquiry-based teaching takes place by
interests in- clude innovative teaching and learning strategies, use of emerging technologies, and mobile teaching and learning strategies.Dr. Donald Plumlee P.E., Boise State University Dr. Plumlee is certified as a Professional Engineer in the state of Idaho. He has spent the last ten years es- tablishing the Ceramic MEMS laboratory at Boise State University. Dr. Plumlee is involved in numerous projects developing micro-electro-mechanical devices in LTCC including an Ion Mobility Spectrometer and microfluidic/chemical micro-propulsion devices funded by NASA. Prior to arriving at Boise State University, Dr. Plumlee worked for Lockheed Martin Astronautics as a Mechanical Designer on struc- tural airframe components
Engineering Department. His research interests include adsorption, permeation of chemicals through polymeric materials, membrane separation and fire extinguishing agents. Page 11.1144.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Spreadsheet Instruction Within A First Year Chemical Engineering CourseAbstractThis paper reports upon our experiences with incorporating formal instruction in spreadsheetsoftware (Microsoft Excel) in our department’s introductory chemical engineering course.Spreadsheet instruction was conducted in the department’s computer laboratory with all thestudents
including the multi-disciplinary project team members, the industry partners, the Users and external vendors. In the EDIC, he teaches and supervises undergraduate engineering students who engage in multidisciplinary projects. Eng Keng has a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) from Nanyang Tech- nological University, and a Master of Science (Management of Technology) from National University of Singapore.Ms. Ameek Kaur, National University of Singapore Ameek Kaur is an Instructor in the Engineering Design and Innovation Centre (EDIC) of National Uni- versity of Singapore. Her current work involves training and facilitating the multidisciplinary engineering teams through their innovation projects. Prior to this, she has
steering committee for the International Conference on Wear of Materials and on the Mechanical executive committee of the Mechanical Engineering Division of ASEE. He also serves as an ABET program evaluator on behalf of ASME. Prof. Sundararajan has been recognized for his accomplishments with the Young Engineering Faculty Research Award and Early Achievement in Teaching Award at Iowa State University. He received his B.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (India) followed by M.S. and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Paper ID #7433Adapted Physical Activity Design Projects: A Collaboration Between Kinesi-ology and EngineeringDr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University Dr Self has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. Prior to that, he worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. During the 2011-2012 academic year he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education activities include collaborating on the Dynamics Concept Inventory
Page 15.413.1three full time faculty as well as two long time part-time faculty who had been teaching coursesrelated to design, including the 286A/B sequence. The committee’s charge from the DepartmentChair was to create a new design stem of courses to support our program’s learning outcomes,without being constrained by the format of the existing course sequence. The committee was touse the Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) framework as a template for this review.CSUN has been a CDIO collaborator since 2005, and has adapted the CDIO syllabus2 to theneeds of our student population, which is characterized by significant racial and ethnic diversity,as well as large variances in academic preparation3. The application of CDIO principles to
, refining students’ effective communication abilities and improvingassessments of course learning outcomes. Addressing current challenges requires constructioneducators to increase their use of pedagogies that enhance students’ education. The NationalResearch Council (NRC) notes several challenges to effective undergraduate education inscience, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, including providingengaging laboratory, classroom and field experiences; teaching large numbers of students fromdiverse backgrounds; improving assessment of learning outcomes; and informing science facultyabout research on effective teaching [2-4]. In addition, research suggests that team basedprojects can also enhance student learning in STEM
Paper ID #10526Curriculum Development for Embedded Systems SecurityDr. Janusz Zalewski, Florida Gulf Coast University Janusz Zalewski, Ph.D., is a professor of computer science and software engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University. Prior to an academic appointment, he worked for various nuclear research institutions, including the Data Acquisition Group of Superconducting Super Collider and Computer Safety and Re- liability Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He also worked on projects and consulted for a number of private companies, including Lockheed Martin, Harris, and Boeing. Zalewski served as a
Leadership and Teamwork Education for Engineering and Technology Students An Experiential Learning and Community Service Approach George Suckarieh, Jason Krupar University of Cincinnati1. IntroductionThe history of technical education in the United States over the last two hundred years can betraced back to the American Revolution; it evolved from both military and craftsmanship needs.Over the years, the trends in technical education changed from teaching of craftsmanship andbasic science, to assembly and design of sophisticated projects. The present trend in technicaleducation focuses on complimenting the design skills of
of the need for and an ability to engage in life-long learning; (j) a knowledge of contemporary 1issues;" in a way that traditional lecture-homework-exam instruction formerly supported only sporadically. Andwhile one can still reasonably argue about the implied scope or relative importance of these Criterion 3 outcomes,Undergraduate Research, broadly construed to encompass all inquiry-based teaching from open-ended classroomproblems to self-directed research theses, can be an effective means of achieving many of them. But Undergraduate Research is more than a teaching tool or instructional vehicle. It is also a means ofintroducing young engineers to the processes of discovery and design that accompany the search for
, and has been a majorprovider of courseware to NTU (National Technological University), with several department fac-ulty honored for outstanding teaching. Professor Ragsdell has been involved in distance education(as a professor and administrator) since 1973 (Purdue), and has delivered courses in every conceiv-able format across the US and around the world. In addition, the Engineering Management depart-ment has regularly delivered on-site courses and entire MS degree programs for industry (inMissouri and around the world), and has participated aggressively in the University of MissouriVideo Network (UMVN), and has been an active participant in the course offerings of the UMRGraduate Engineering Education Center in St. Louis, since its
Session: 2330 Graduate Engineering Student Performance Assessment: How learning pattern affects test scores Timothy Chang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ and Daphne Chang, Bloomfield College, NJAbstractIn this paper, the findings based on a graduate electrical engineering course titled “Real-Time Control Systems Design” are analyzed and reported. This course comprises of alecture and laboratory component where the students are expected to transform theirtheoretical knowledge into a viable team laboratory design and present the results to theentire class. Upon
student has to take 10 or more courses per semester, with over 30hours of regularly scheduled lectures, recitations, and laboratory sessions per week. Eachgraduating MS student has to submit and defend a thesis.A recipient of a Master's degree can follow one of two basic paths leading to a PhD degree. Oneway, typical for the 70's and 80's, but still frequently adopted, is to take a position of a teachingassistant or research assistant at a higher education institution or research institute and pursue - inparallel with routine teaching, research and administrative duties - research work in the selectedarea, under supervision of a senior member of academic or research staff. An alternative is topursue a program of study leading to a PhD degree
AC 2011-172: CAD MODEL CREATION AND ALTERATION: A COM-PARISON BETWEEN STUDENTS AND PRACTICING ENGINEERSMichael D. Johnson, Texas A&M University Johnson is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distri- bution 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 for three years. 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. Johnson’s research focuses on design tools; specifically, the cost modeling and analysis of product development and
-128. 8. Yalvac B., Smith H. D., Hirsch P., & Birol G. (2006). Teaching writing in a laboratory- based engineering course with a “How People Learn” framework, New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 108, 59-73. 9. Hardy M., King M., Bigelow R. (2010). Analysis of Operator Responses to Mitigate Temperature Rise in Electrical Auxiliary Building, ICONE18-30119. Page 22.65.14
laboratories usedin traditional engineering courses.Many of the examples currently used in Engineering curricula seem better suited to the "GreatestGeneration" than to the students in school today. While some of these examples are stilleducationally sound, twenty-first century students need twenty-first century examples. Ourexperiments are intended to promote learning through guided inquiry. There is a constant battlein educational circles between traditional explicit instruction where students are told what theyneed to know and then expected to know it and discovery learning where students are given afew parameters and then given the chance to “play” and figure out the way things work. Theformer seems more expedient and most engineering faculty seem
-Champaign I am currently the Associate Director of Assessment and Research team at the Siebel Center for Design (SCD) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I work with a group of wonderful and talented people at SCD’s Assessment and Research Laboratory to conduct research that informs and evaluates our practice of teaching and learning human-centered design in formal and informal learning environments. My Research focuses on studying students’ collaborative problem solving processes and the role of the teacher in facilitating these processes in STEM classrooms.Nicholas Robert PozzaDr. Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Dr. Blake Everett Johnson is a Teaching Assistant Professor
' Representational Fluency when Designing in the Context of Fluids Mechanics AbstractIncorporating design into the engineering curriculum has become an educational priority, as itsignificantly influences students' learning, motivation, and development of an engineeringidentity, among other outcomes. While some research exists about the teaching and learningof engineering design in the first- and last- years of undergraduate education, the second andthird years have received comparatively less attention. This study contributes to this gap byexploring the design practices of third-year chemical engineering students. Particularly, itfocuses on students' ability to create and translate among multiple
describes a practical application of learning theory as well as the teaching andreinforcement of that theory as part of continuing faculty development in an emergingeducational system.IntroductionWhat did you do with your summer vacation? In 2009, a group of faculty members from theUnited States Military Academy at West Point and the United States Air Force Academy joinedforces and traveled to Afghanistan for the sole purpose of helping to build that nation’s fledglinguniversity system. Their focus of effort was at the National Military Academy of Afghanistan(NMAA) located in the capital city of Kabul. They joined the core cadre of advisors as rotating Copyright ASEE Middle Atlantic Regional Conference
dissertation ”Changing the Learning Environment in the College of Engineering and Applied Science: The impact of Educational Training on Future Faculty and Student-Centered Pedagogy on Undergraduate Students” was the first of its kind at the university. Whitney has been recognized by the National Technical Association (NTA) for her novel approach to studying students, specifically underrepresented minorities and women. Whitney also works with the Emerging Ethnic Engineers (E3) Program. She teaches Calculus 1 during the Summer Bridge program and instructs Cooperative Calculus 1 during the school year. Continuing with her commitment to community involvement, Whitney has previously served on the Na- tional Executive Board
juggle a full time job and family.Here distance learning provides an additional avenue to help busy students.With the popularity of WWW and Web-Based Instruction (WBI), a new model to delivercourses on the Internet has emerged. WBI allows us to effectively administer coursematerial, tutorials and quizzes, or to communicate with the students. More important wehave a powerful mechanism to teach the class—using the web for communication withthe student. Web technology has matured significantly today to allow voice and graphicsincluding video to be effectively transmitted at a distance.In this paper we compare our experience with two distance education models for teachingprofessional graduate students. The first is a synchronous teleconferencing
andEngineering] project are to measure if improvements in student learning outcomes, studentengagement, and successful course completion are possible if the structure in basic materialsengineering courses are transformed from primarily deductive practice to an InformationCommunication Technology (ICT) enabled inductive teaching and learning environment. Thespecific innovations that are proposed in the project are the development of MSE educationapplications for the iPod Touch that are designed to facilitate and support collaborative learningexercises which target specific student learning objectives which are known to be challenging formany students in MSE courses. It is hoped that the combination of specific learning objectivetargets, completed in
student attributeson student grades and course evaluations. The data come from undergraduate courses given atthe University of Texas at Austin during the 1992 through 1998 calendar years. Instructorexperience, standing, and gender; course department and credit hours; and student classification,test scores, gender, and other variables are used to explain variation in both grades andevaluation scores. The results of multivariate weighted-least-squares regressions of average grades givenacross a sample of over 2,500 courses suggest that the average male instructor assigns lowergrades than female instructors, while lecturers and teaching assistants assign higher grades thanfull, associate, assistant, and adjunct faculty. Instructors teaching
Electrical andComputing Engineering (ECE), and educational researchers from the Teaching + LearningCommons at UC San Diego. The study is based on data collected from Fall 2021 to Fall 2022.Over 5 quarters, a team of 7 faculty from MAE and ECE designed and implemented oral examsin 13 undergraduate engineering classes (9 unique courses): ● MAE 30A Statics and Introduction to Dynamics ● MAE 30B Dynamics and vibrations ● MAE 131A Solid Mechanics I ● MAE 131B Solid Mechanics II ● MAE 107 Computational Methods in Engineering ● MAE 8 MATLAB Programming for Engineering Analysis ● ECE 35 Introduction to Analog Design ● ECE 65 Components and Circuits Laboratory ● ECE 101 Linear Systems Fundamentals ● ECE 144 LabVIEW