Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)current applications. We will answer questions such as “How does the Roomba robot clean thefloor in a house?” We will explore the economics of robots and their use as a tool to boostproductivity. The lecture topics will be reinforced with hands-on projects -- the students will useLEGO Mindstorms to explore robot construction and intelligence. We will analyze emergingtrends to develop our own predictions for the future of robotics. The projects will culminate witha design project where students work with a group to build their own walking robot. In theirfuture careers as business leaders, educators, physicians, etc. students will make decisions aboutrobotics; the course outlined below will provide the
their own teaching teams. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 133ContextERAU/Prescott is a 4-year university located in Northern Arizona with an enrollment ofapproximately 2000 undergraduate students. The two most popular engineering degree programsare Aerospace Engineering (AE) and Mechanical Engineering (ME). Within the AE/MEcurriculum, there is a strong emphasis on hands-on application and conceptual design projects toprepare students for senior capstone design courses.Students majoring in AE
Kathy Kasley, Ph.D, Emeritus Professor, Pamela Phillips, Professor, Joseph LaSalle, BSEE, Joe Bracha, BSEE, and Ashok Kavadapu. BSEE College of Engineering, Colorado Technical UniversityIntroductionThe key contribution is that two frameworks are described in this paper for an undergraduatecapstone course. The capstone project is the Compressed Air Controller Tire Inflation System(C.A.C.T.I.S.). The project’s intent is to design a system reducing the amount of time and effortinvolved in achieving proper vehicle tire inflation. The CACTIS uses a convenient touch screendisplay and a rugged air distribution box such that multiple tires can be inflated simultaneously.This project serves as another example in
HeemstraJohn J. Classen (Director of Graduate Programs)Erin CortusJacek Koziel (Professor) Jacek Koziel is serving as a Professor at Iowa State University, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering. He leads and collaborates on multidisciplinary projects on the nexus of agriculture and the environment. His team develops and tests strategies to enhance the efficiency of livestock production systems and reduce the environmental impacts of animal production. Dr. Koziel received M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Warsaw University of Technology in 1989 and M.S. in Environmental Quality Engineering from the University of Alaska in Anchorage. He earned a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He
graduates with theknowledge, skills, and attributes needed in their workplace, and they want faculty whounderstand and respond to the changing needs of the workplace.” For academia, industry arefrequent financial donors, however industry can also play many different roles including: asmembers of research consortia; affiliate members of programs; advisors through mechanismslike industrial advisory boards; hosts of student internships/co-op programs; instructors or guestlecturers; and sponsors and/or stakeholders for design projects (especially capstone designprojects) [1].Focussing on partnerships in the realm of teaching (as opposed to research), there are severalexamples of graduate degrees both developed with industry, and developed specifically
doctoral degrees in Civil En- gineering from North Carolina State University in the USA. Her disciplinary research interests lie in the area of sustainability in asphalt pavements using material considerations, green technologies, and efficient pavement preservation techniques. Her doctoral work focused on improving the performance of recycled asphalt pavements using warm mix asphalt additives. As a postdoctoral scholar at North Carolina State University, she worked on several NCDOT sponsored research projects including developing specifica- tions for crack sealant application and performing field measurements of asphalt emulsion application in tack coats and chip seals. Her undergraduate teaching experience includes
non-profit organization called Christ Church Camp (CCC)that served as the primary client for design. The project was to design a neighborhood for those transitioningout of homelessness and into greater self-sufficiency. The design had to fit within a budget determined bygrant money sought by CCC. There were engineering challenges concerning how to build sustainable tinyhomes and use rainwater harvesting to support an urban garden. Student designers also had to learn thebasics of social work and poverty alleviation so that they could design a neighborhood that would buildconfidence and community for homeless individuals. Frequently, the homeless we served were coming outof addictions and had deficient relational skills.We conducted the class
, where he is serving as a research assistant under an NSF-funded ITEST project.Dr. Sheila Borges Rajguru, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Dr. Sheila Borges Rajguru is the Assistant Director of the Center for K-12 STEM Education, NYU Tandon School of Engineering. As the Center’s STEAM educator and researcher she works with engi- neers and faculty to provide professional development to K-12 STEM teachers with a focus on social justice. She is currently Co-Principal Investigator on two NSF-grants (senior personnel of one) that pro- vide robotics/mechatronics PD to science, math, and technology teachers. In addition, she is the projects director of the ARISE program. This full-time, seven-week program includes: college
silliness that many organizations get enamored with and get to the core of what people need to do to be productive professionals. Richard is a recipient of a 2012 Academy Award (Oscar) for technical development of the Phantom High Speed Camera in additional to other awards for professional achievement and volunteer leadership roles. Richard has also written papers titled ”Project Management with Technical Professionals”, ”Real Men Downsize”, and ”Ivan Boesky got it Wrong” and is sporadically working on a book based on his experiences. Richard believes that the engineering profession, with its many disciplines, provides intelligence and structure which is desperately needed in our increasingly complex world. Most recently
institutions.● We have a particularly high concentration of many emerging best practices including open-ended projects, with an emphasis on team-based work, and high student autonomy. We have noticed ways in which these approaches serve students with non-visible disabilities well and ways in which they present new challenges. We have been working together for the past two years to develop some strategies and best-practices to make these pedagogical approaches even more universally accessible as they become more prevalent across engineering institutions.● Today we would like to share with you some of this work we have been doing at the intersection of disability accommodations and emerging pedagogical practices. We will
and Technology Fellow at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). His research project at MCC fo- cuses on the design and implementation of microgrids to aid the expansion of modern electricity services in six Sub Saharan African countries: (1) Sierra Leone, (2) Liberia, (3) Ghana, (4) Benin, (5) Tanza- nia, and (6) Malawi. Prior to his current position at MCC, Shelby was a dual J. Herbert Hollomon and Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy fellow within the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) working on engineering education initiatives and the application of operational system engineer- ing techniques for peace building and diplomacy endeavors in Libya, Kenya, and Haiti. Shelby recently completed
AC 2011-1295: INVESTIGATING AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH FOR DE-VELOPING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING CURRICULUM: THE SYSTEMSENGINEERING EXPERIENCE ACCELERATORAlice F Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology Alice Squires has nearly 30 years of professional experience and is an industry and research professor in Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in the School of Systems and Enterprises. She is a Primary Researcher for the Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering (BKCASE) and Systems Engineering Experience Accelerator projects. She has served as a Senior Sys- tems Engineer consultant to Lockheed Martin, IBM, and EDO Ceramics, for Advanced Systems Support- ability Engineering Technology
. Page 25.97.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 A Quarter-Century of Teaching Spacecraft-Mission DesignAfter more than twenty five years of teaching a capstone spacecraft-mission design course in anaerospace engineering curriculum, the instructor looks back on the evolution of the course andchanges in student capabilities. The evolution in course structure, types of projects, projectdepth, and instructor understanding of the design process are discussed. The effect of thetremendous increase in information available to students through the Internet is discussed.Instructor BackgroundThe author became a member of the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin in September1965. From 1965
should be included in engineering education. With thistraining comes the need for developing a means to enhance the rate at which effectivecommunication can be developed between team members. The lifetime of student teams is short,and the team building training is only effective if the interaction between the team members canrapidly be brought to a meaningful state.The context in which we have faced this problem is in teaching a project laboratory in theDepartment of Chemical Engineering at MIT in which students work on a project in groups ofthree. Although the concept of students working in groups in this course can be traced backabout sixty years, initiation of team building training only began several years ago. Initially, wefound that
. Page 22.1609.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Using Arduino as a Platform for Programming, Design and Measurement in a Freshman Engineering CourseAbstract Arduino is a compact, inexpensive, open-source electronics prototyping platform builtaround an Atmel AVR microcontroller. The features, cost, and small size makes Arduino apotent tool teaching as well as practical device use in engineering projects. This paper reports onadapting the Living with the Lab (LWTL) curriculum to the Arduino platform. LWTL wasdeveloped with the Boe-Bot mobile robotics platform and the Basic Stamp microcontroller. TheArduino is more modern and has better technical capabilities, but
AC 2011-1763: EDUCATING ELEMENTARY TEACHERS IN ENGINEER-ING: A DESIGN METHOD AND BASELINEYvonne Ng, St. Catherine University Yvonne Ng, M.S.M.E, teaches computer science and engineering at St. Catherine University. Educated at Princeton University and the University of Minnesota as a mechanical and aerospace engineer, she worked in industry as an automation design engineer and contract programmer. She made computer sci- ence a more appealing topic for her all-women undergraduate student body by presenting this technically valuable course in a project-oriented comprehensive manner. She is currently the director of the Center of Excellence for Women, Science and Technology where she administers the college’s National
thehazard of losing the interest of students who may already have an established interest in it.This paper describes the techniques used in a water resources management course offered at theUniversity of Utah to bridge the communication barriers among students from civil engineering,humanities, and other disciplines. The strategies and techniques employed in a second offering ofthe course are described, and the successes and areas for improvement identified through theassessment are highlighted. New tactics applied include lesson learning objectives, studentjournals, outside events (e.g., conferences and seminars), instructor interaction and disciplinaryrole playing, and multidisciplinary teams for in-class exercises and the semester project
in 1995 as an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at Rose-Hulman he was an assistant professor at Virginia Tech and an instructor at N. C. State University. After completing his M.S. in electrical engineering in 1976, he joined the DuPont Corporation where he worked in various technical, design, and supervisory positions before returning to obtain his PhD. Dr. Moore directed the electrical and computer department’s senior design program for several years and is currently involved in externally sponsored multidisciplinary graduate and undergraduate projects as well as international project teams and collaborations. He recently spent a sabbatical year at the
Student Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Engineering Design in Work-Integrated Learning Contexts1 IntroductionTo continue enhancing student learning, many institutions are implementing work-integratedlearning programs (WIL) to aid in the development of work-ready graduates [1]. WIL integratesacademic studies with experiences within a workplace or practice setting [2]. These experiencescan take many forms including collaborative research projects, apprenticeships, co-operativeeducation, entrepreneurship, field placements, internships, professional placements, servicelearning, or work experiences. WIL programs are very common in undergraduate engineeringprograms and have more recently expanded to graduate programs
to work in groups to complete projects, which fosterscollaboration and teamwork skills. They help to prepare students for their future careers byexposing them to the safety training, tools, equipment, and processes that they will encounter intheir future professional engineering practice.Since 2000, there have been reported research on exploring virtual laboratory in engineering andscience. A virtual engineering laboratory is presented in [3] for hybrid electric vehiclestarter/alternator experimentation. A virtual laboratory environment is developed in [4] for anelectronic circuits course. Using interactive TV and the internet, Gurocak [5] created a newapproach for distance delivery of a Manufacturing Automation laboratory course. Compared
Loyola University Maryland. Dr. Lowe earned her Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter physics from the University of Pennsylvania. At Loyola she has taught all levels of lectures and labs for undergraduate physics majors. Her grant-funded teaching projects have included robotics in the introductory physics lab and the development of physics of medicine modules. Over the years, she has conducted research at Loyola on fluid flows in large, curved ducts and in the microcirculation; multiplexed identification and quantification of DNAs on the surface of microscopic beads using flow cytometry; molecular dynamics simulations of proteins and lipid membranes; and atomic force microscopy measurements on DNA/protein complexes
Engineering DesignProgramConstanza Miranda, PhD 1*, Elizabeth Logsdon, PhD 1, Amadea Martino Smith 11 Johns Hopkins University, Biomedical Engineering DepartmentABSTRACTThis is a work in progress. To instruct design abilities in undergraduate engineering students, it iscommon for programs to engage in problem-based learning projects. In addition, project-based instructionis often done with students in teams and these teams have formal or informal leadership structures. In thiscontext, the success of the student project is usually attributed to the mindset of the leader, managementstyles, team dynamics that are cultivated by the leader, as well as a clear team structure and goals. Thisvertically operating leadership model is manifested as an
agriculturalyields. Overwatering occurs when a plant receives too much water, which waterlogs the soil andprevents the plant from absorbing an optimal amount of oxygen for survival. Overwatering plantsessentially drown crops, creating additional waste products. The environmental concerns from ourworld’s overuse of water require changing how we use agricultural irrigation. This paper presentsa proof of concept of an automated watering system that monitors and corrects the water contentin the soil, specifically in situations where the plant needs watering.Our project presents a solution to how society waters plants and uses the world’s availablefreshwater resources. Our world’s current depletion of freshwater resources is not sustainable andrequires change
water/wastewater utilitiesAbstractWaterworks is a USEPA funded project that focuses on exposure of careers in water andwastewater utilities to K-12 students and educators. The nation will face a shortage of workers inthese utilities due to retirement. As such, there is a dire need to inspire the next generation tocontribute to this utility workforce. We are developing four innovative tools as part of ourWaterWorks project. These are WaterMobile, WaterPal, WaterTalk, and WaterCave. All fourtools are instrumental in exposing the multi-faceted careers in these utilities using moderninstruments such as Virtual Reality (VR). We have five partners, three utilities, the City ofCamden schools and a non profit the South Jersey Land and Water Trust. We
Paper ID #37534Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 on the First-YearEngineering Experience at a Mid-Sized Teaching FocusedUniversityBrian Dick Brian Dick chairs the Physics, Engineering, and Astronomy department at Vancouver Island University, and coordinates its Engineering Transfer program. He believes strongly in enabling equitable access to engineering education, and led work to develop the Common First-Year Engineering Curriculum in British Columbia. He is also passionate about enriching program curriculum with intercultural experiences and student engagement as global citizens. Brian has led intercultural projects
Paper ID #38287Building Bridges into Engineering and Computer Science:Outcomes, Impacts and Lessons LearnedDoris J. Espiritu (Dr) Doris J. Espiritu, PhD is the Senior Advisor to Provost, Dean of the Center of Excellence for Engineering and Computer Science, and a professor of Chemistry at Wright College. Doris Espiritu is one of the first National Science Foundation’s research awardees under the Hispanic- Serving Institutions (HSI) Program. She pioneered Engineering at Wright and had grown the Engineering program enrollment by 1300 % within four years of the NSF-HSI project. Doris founded six student chapters of
conduct research on Smart Energy Management Systems in High-Rise Buildings. During her industry career, she designed and procured the electrical, mechanical and HVAC systems for large commercial, residential and industrial buildings. She established the BS EE, BS CpE and MS EE Concentrations in Power Engineering at GMU. She supports energy-related projects and initiatives at GMU, and collaborates with a multidisciplinary team on research projects in the areas of smart grid, power system protection and cybersecurity, Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) and grid modernization.Mr. Matthew Gardner, ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section
, where she is a member of the Tufts Institute for Research on Learning and Instruction (IRLI) and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO). curriculum and instructional supports for inclusive knowledge construction by engineering learners. Major projects emphasize community-based engineering curricula and professional development, engineering discourse studies, design notebooking, undergraduate learning assistants, and responsive teaching for engineering. Kristen is an associate editor for the Journal of Engineering Education. She teaches courses in design, mechanics, electronics, and engineering education. Wendell completed her PhD in science education at Tufts, her MS in aeronautics and astronautics
Paper ID #39156Development and Use of an Adaptable Arduino-Based Control System forBench-Top Process Control ExperimentsDr. Stacy K. Firth, University of Utah Stacy K. Firth is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah. In her role, she focuses on Engineering education in grades K-12 and undergradu- ate education. She has developed an inclusive curriculum for a year-long Engineering exploration and projects course that is now taught in 57 Utah high schools. She also developed and provides professional development workshops for Elementary and Secondary science
Department at a private, mid-sized university was awarded theNational Science Foundation (NSF) Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer ScienceDepartments (RED) grant in July 2017 to support the development of a program that fostersstudents’ engineering identities in a culture of doing engineering with industry engineers. TheDepartment is cultivating this culture of “engineering with engineers” through a strongconnection to industry and through changes in the four essential areas of a shared departmentvision, faculty, curriculum, and supportive policies.As we conclude this project, we are auditing all the activities we did throughout our project. Inthis audit, we review our activities with an eye toward what was particularly impactful for us