Paper ID #26810Powering Internal Combustion Engines Using Cost Effective SYNGAS Drivenfrom BiomassDr. Hazem Tawfik P.E., State University of New York, Farmingdale Prof. Tawfik obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, from University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He has held a number of industrial & academic positions and affiliations with organizations that included Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Stony Brook University (SBU), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Atomic Energy of Canada Inc., Ontario Hydro, NASA Kennedy, NASA Marshall Space Flight Centers, and
which is a high-stake design-build-test whose themevaries from term to term. This paper describes three semesters of the course: Term 1 is Fall 2018, 1Term 2 is Spring 2019, and Term 3 is Fall 2019. The course currently underway is Spring 2020and referenced as Term 4.Students are tasked with a design-build-test of a mechanical device for the end-of-term“competition” to showcase their high-stake design project. This class employs a team of 20undergraduate teaching assistants (TAs) to help facilitate various aspects of the course and tostaff the laboratory around the clock during business hours. Two to three graduate TAs are alsoassigned to the course
Paper ID #29982Designing a MATLAB-based Escape RoomMs. Lauren Nicole Heckelman, Duke University Lauren Heckelman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. She previously received her B.S.E. and M.S. degrees in biomedical engineering from Duke in Spring 2016 and Fall 2017, respectively. Lauren is currently advised by Dr. Louis E. DeFrate, Sc.D. She works as a graduate research assistant in the DeFrate Musculoskeletal Bioengineering Laboratory, where she investigates hip and knee cartilage mechanics using magnetic resonance imaging, image processing, and 3D solid modeling.Dr
engineeringundergraduate programs. These can be offered as a part of a minor or a concentration: Mandatory Course (3 – 4 credits) Details Introduction to IoT and Cyber Physical An introductory course using Arduino- Systems (Junior) (3) based kits and simple laboratories, assuming that the students took a general programming course and some electrical/electronics content. Microcontrollers and Sensors for IoT Building on the first course, this course (Junior/Senior) (4) will focus on the hardware being utilized
Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronau- tics. His research interests are in model-based systems engineering, system-of-systems, and information fusion. He also holds a temporary faculty appointment with U.S. Navy Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, IN. He has worked with the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on fusion systems and prior to joining Purdue University, he was a flight controls and flight management systems engineer at Honeywell Aerospace. He is a Certified Systems Engineering Professional from the Interna- tional Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) where he is a co-chair of the Complex Systems Work- ing Group and the assistant director of
postdoctoral research associate at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1988-1990. Cooper’s research interests include optical spectroscopic studies of novel magnetic and superconducting materials at high pressures, high magnetic fields, and low temperatures. Each spring since 2013, Cooper has co-taught (with Celia Elliott) a graduate- level technical writing course, ”Communicating Physics Research,” to physics and engineering graduate students.Celia Mathews Elliott, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Celia Mathews Elliott is a science writer and technical editor in the Department of Physics at the Uni- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been teaching technical communications to upper-level
instructional designers through retrospectiveinterviews. Kirschner and colleagues27 compared university and business instructional designersthrough a Delphi-like study (using Visscher-Voerman’s 16 principles) and a short team designtask. In another study, Perez and colleagues28 compared expert and novice instructional designprocesses using a think-aloud protocol in laboratory setting. Although these studies do not reporton their findings as heuristics, they all rely on data collected from expert practices anddemonstrate several similarities, including an emphasis on learner and context analysis, theapplication of proven techniques, and problem framing. However, these studies also showimportant differences between contexts (e.g., university and business
received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Bei- jing, China, in 1995 and 1997 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Uni- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. From 1997 to 2002, he was a research assistant at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 2002 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Electromagnetics Laboratory in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an assistant professor with the Department of Elec- trical Engineering, the University of Texas at Arlington from 2005 to 2012. He joined the Department of Electrical and
in an Engineering ClassroomIntroductionThis research paper describes a study that examines a testing effect intervention deployed in anengineering classroom setting. The testing effect is based on the premise that learning isimproved when students engage with newly acquired information by challenging themselves toanswer questions about the content instead of using other means of interacting with the content,such as rereading a text. The testing effect has been established in laboratory research studies[1]. To translate this finding into educational practice, classroom research studies [2]-[6] aim todefine the conditions for which the testing effect remains robust in authentic classroom settings.In the classroom domain, a testing effect
or studio setting thatintegrates both lecture and laboratory work in the same environment. The course interactivelydeveloped student's understanding of: the product design process, project management skills, andengineering practice principles while keeping track of the economic aspects of the design. Theteam based approach provided students with the opportunity to discuss alternative design ideasand work on their communication and interpersonal skills [6]. In addition, the setup of thiscourse also played an important role in meeting ABET general Criteria, Criterion 3 -Student Outcomes a -k. The course covers (a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, k) [7].Essentially, recycling and re-manufacturing would allow production of new products with lowermaterial
MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY.Prof. Branislav M. Notaros, Colorado State University Branislav M. Notaros is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University, where he also is Director of Electromagnetics Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. in elec- trical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1995. His research publications in computational and applied electromagnetics include more than 150 journal and conference papers. He is the author of textbooks Electromagnetics (2010) and MATLAB-Based Electromagnetics (2013), both with Pearson Prentice Hall. Prof. Notaros served as General Chair of FEM2012, Colorado, USA, and as Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Finite
valves. Dr. Amini has served as an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Akron since August 2013. The overall goal of his research laboratory is to improve human health by studying the multi-scale biomechanics and biotransport in cardiovascular, ocular, and digestive systems. Dr. Amini’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Akron Children’s Hospital, Firestone Foundation, and American Heart Association.Dr. Marnie M SaundersMichael CoonMr. Robert Paul Thoerner, University of Akron Biomedical Engineering c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Work in Progress: using video tutorials to assist biomedical
Have students reflect on how knowledge in their field has changed over time and discuss the process of creating new knowledge. o Plan and conduct open-ended laboratory experiences or solve problems for which students and instructors do not know the outcome. o Ask students to reflect on the knowledge they gained that is new to them versus new to their field.Future WorkThe outcome of the first two phases of this work will be the development of a theoretical modelthat captures epistemic cognition and identity development during UREs based on our data andusing a grounded theory approach. The final phase of the project will involve defining anddescribing the factors and experiences from UREs
engineer for Mote Marine Laboratory, and a contestant onthe television show MythBusters.2. Sponsor a girls technology summer camp where women engineering students help teach middle school girlsThrough outreach programs, women engineering students promote the engineering profession tomiddle school girls as they begin taking the math and science classes they will need as anengineering college major.5 Started in the summer of 2016 and continuing in the summer of2017, a week-long full day camp for middle school girls was held at the UF science andengineering library. Teaming with women engineering students to teach the middle school girlscreative technologies reinforced the women engineering students’ belief in their own abilities.3. Hold a human
spent six years with Boston Scientific Corporation. During this time, he progressed from a doctoral entry-level position to manage the day-to-day activities of five direct reports along with the operation of a corporate cell biology research laboratory staffed with ten scientists. He also worked with senior management to propose and develop a cross-Divisional collaboration network to improve communication and eliminate redundancies within the Company’s billion-dollar research and develop- ment (R&D) organization and drive the completion of cross-disciplinary medical device R&D projects critical to products’ commercialization. Prior to Boston Scientific, Garanich served as both Associate and Analyst with The
Devices laboratory at MIT before moving to Boston University’s Biomedical Engineer- ing department where she received a NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellowship to work with Dr. Catherine Klapperich developing molecular diagnostics for point-of-care pathogen detection. Dr. Linnes’s current research bridges innovations in basic science and translational diagnostic techniques in order to develop non-invasive, rapid detection technologies that efficiently diagnose and monitor diseases at the point of care. Her teaching focuses experiential learning and co-creation of devices and technologies via user- centered design.Prof. Chi Hwan Lee, Purdue University Chi Hwan Lee is an Assistant Professor at Purdue University, with
standardsand applications relevant to students. Each teacher developed a plan for her/his own school andcurriculum during this part of the RET. Formative feedback on these plans included weeklyfeedback from graduate student, research mentors, resource specialists from Engineering Projectsin Community Service (EPICS) at PU, and the other teachers in the RET program. Teachers were also embedded into the research groups of their mentors: they attendedgoup meetings, discussed research results, and conducted laboratory work, modeling exercises,or other utilized other methodologies to answer their research questions. Teachers also workedwith their research group to develop implemenation plans, and in particular, what type ofsupplies and equipment
Paper ID #19806Demo or Hands-on? A Crossover Study on the Most Effective Implementa-tion Strategy for Inquir–Based Learning ActivitiesDr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Brian Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Mechanics 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 seven years. Brian has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. During the 2011-2012 academic year he participated in a
Innovations in Engineering Education and Research,2007.[9] Feisel, L.D. and Rosa, A.J., "The role of the laboratory in undergraduate engineering education”, Journal ofengineering education, pp. 121-130, January 2005.[10] Thomas, J.W., "A review of research on project-based learning", California: The Autodesk Foundation. URL:http://www.bie.org/images/uploads/general/9d06758fd346969cb63653d00dca55c0.pdf, March, 2000. AccessedMarch 13, 2018.[11] Waks, S. and N. Sabag, N., "Technology Project Learning Versus Lab Experimentation", Journal of ScienceEducation and Technology, Volume 13, issue 3, pp. 333-342, September 2004.[12] Song, J. and Ma, G., "Different Lab Formats in Introduction to Engineering Course", Proceedings of the 2017American Society for
successfully introduced students to DNAsequencing technologies and genomic analysis. Students were able to identify appropriatetechnologies for different types of experiments. They were able to perform basic analysis andidentify the challenges associated with these analyses.To improve student mastery of the learning objectives that were not well met, I will be addingmore discussion of the history and developmentof genetics as well as genomic technologies.We will spend more time discussing libraryproduction, and spend some time reviewing theearly concepts again later in the course.For those wishing to implement a similarcourse, I have posted my materials on githubfor public use (http://bit.ly/GenAnal). Thecomputational laboratory component has beenmost
exit the discipline [1]. Important factors in student attrition from STEM disciplinesinclude: 1) instructional experiences such as first-year Mathematics courses and facultyexpectations [1][2] and 2) individual self-efficacy, epistemologies, and goal orientations [2][3].In order to enhance student cognitive and affective outcomes and retain students in STEMdisciplines, undergraduates have been used as Learning Assistants (LAs), course UTAs, and labUTAs with positive results [4][5][6]. For example, UTAs used in an inquiry-based generalchemistry laboratory context have similar student content knowledge gains as GTAs in the sameposition [5]. As another example, in a large-enrollment introductory physics course, studentshave significantly higher
), includes hands-onlaboratories and activities that are essential for all Mechanical Engineering Technology, ElectricalEngineering Technology and Mechatronics Engineering Technology students to work on. In orderto allow students to work with PLC training units individually or in small groups without requiringa large lab space, portable PLC trainers have been utilized in order to support the laboratory portionof this course for two semesters in 2017. Therefore, portable PLC trainers have been designed andbuilt to replace the out-of-date, rack-mounted PLC trainers. The final design, schematic drawings,sample lab handouts, and results from a survey given to students will be presented in this paper.Finalized designThis section includes figures
of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition, 2005[7] Robnett, R., "The Role of Peer Support for Girls and Women in STEM: Implications for Identity and AnticipatedRetention", International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 5(3), 232-253, 2013.[8] Akl, R. G., Keathly, D., and Garlick, R., "Strategies for Retention and Recruitment of Women and Minorities inComputer Science and Engineering", Innovations 2007: World Innovations in Engineering Education and Research,2007.[9] Feisel, L.D. and Rosa, A.J., "The role of the laboratory in undergraduate engineering education”, Journal ofengineering education, pp. 121-130, January 2005.[10] Thomas, J.W., "A review of research on project-based learning
perceived and I think very real discouragement that young engineering faculty receive from… traditional administrators that engineering research is in a laboratory and is traditional in the sense that it involves scientific equipment and established research protocol and again, laboratory based. And there is a kind of a discouragement to not allow this distraction, or it's even viewed as a distraction, engineering education research, as a young faculty member… I was told specifically not to allow, my teaching not to distract from my research nor my interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning to distract from my research.The interviewee’s reflection on his pre- and post-tenure experience illuminate several layers
-Champaign. From 2002 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Electromagnetics Laboratory in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an assistant professor with the Department of Elec- trical Engineering, the University of Texas at Arlington from 2005 to 2012. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, West Virginia University Institute of Technology in 2012, and he is currently an associate professor. His current research interests include wireless power transmission, radar systems, microwave remote sensing, antenna design, and computational electromagnetics. He was the recipient of the first prize award in the student paper competition of the IEEE International
Thermodynamics, Thermal Fluids Laboratory, and Guided Missiles Systems, as well as serving as a Senior Design Project Advisor for Mechanical Engineering Students. Her research interests include energy and thermodynamic related topics. Since 2007 she has been actively involved in recruiting and outreach for the Statler College, as part of this involvement Dr. Morris frequently makes presentations to groups of K-12 students, as well as perspective WVU students and their families. Dr. Morris was selected as a Statler College Outstanding Teacher for 2012, the WVU Honors College John R. Williams Outstanding Teacher for 2012, and the 2012 Statler College Teacher of the Year. ©American Society for
) Undergraduate Research and Student Presentation of ResultsOver the period of September 2016 to August 2018, fourteen undergraduate researchprojects were performed. Project results have been presented to a wide range ofaudiences, including K-12, undergraduate students, graduate students and practicingprofessionals. Project participants included 39 undergraduate students, 11 faculty(including the PI, co-PIs, other Wentworth faculty and one external collaborator fromanother college) and 2 laboratory technicians, representing seven different academicprograms/disciplines from the Colleges of Engineering and Arts and Sciences. Inaddition to mentoring students during their research, a considerable effort was given tosupporting students in their presentation
. Novak and D. B. Gowin, Learning How to Learn. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1984.[7] K. M. Hamza and P. O. Wickman, “Student engagement with artefacts and scientific ideas in a laboratory and a concept-mapping activity,” International Journal of Science Education, vol. 35, pp. 2254-2277, Jul. 2013.[8] H. Wang, I. Huang and G. Hwang, “Effects of a question prompt-based concept mapping approach on students’ learning achievements, attitudes and 5C competences in project- based computer course activities,” Educational Technology & Society, vol. 19, pp. 351- 364, Jul. 2016.[9] A. Acharya and D. Sinha, “An intelligent web-based system for diagnosing student learning problems using
sent to all 50 BME studentsin Senior Design. All 11 students on the clinical projects completed the pre-survey, but only 20%(10 of the 50, 3 from clinical projects) completed the post-survey. The results from the pre-survey illustrate the student’s interest in working in a clinical setting and on projects that aredirectly applicable to the biomedical field. Several of the students were also drawn to the projectsdue to direct application of their academic strengths and laboratory skills. The results from thepost-survey are harder to interpret due to the low response rate. Overall, senior design (bothindustry and clinical projects) is a well-received course where the students learn valuable skills.However, there are areas that BME students feel