government to effect change in education and foster economic development.Luis F. Font, Ana G. Mendez University System Luis F. Font has a B.S. in Biological Sciences from University of Puerto Rico; and a M.B.A. in Marketing from Universidad Metropolitana of Puerto Rico. Luis has been working with students for his entire pro- fessional career. In 2005 he started as an Auxiliary Librarian helping and orientating students with their academic work. Later, he became AHORA Program Coordinator at Metropolitan University where he administrated the entire academic organization and execution programs in education, business and com- puter sciences. Luis has worked as Business Administration Professor where he teaches Marketing and
AC 2011-2457: AN INTERESTING APPLICATION OF OPTICAL MEA-SUREMENT TECHNIQUESBijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey Bijan Sepahpour is a registered Professional Engineer and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at TCNJ. He is currently serving as the chairman of the ME department. He is actively involved in the generation of design-oriented exercises and development of laboratory apparatus and experiments in the areas of mechanics of materials and dynamics of machinery for undergraduate engineering programs. Professor Sepahpour did his undergraduate studies at TCNJ and has degrees from New Jersey Institute of Technol- ogy (NJIT). He has served as the Chair of ASEE Divisions of Experimentation and Laboratory
Internet as well as experienced in FIEworkshops. The author has adapted/developed evaluation rubrics to grade the reports andpresentations. Finally a rubric to evaluate the students’ performance and their projects on thefinal showcase has been developed. Graduate students, faculty, and industrial advisors have usedthis rubric now for several semesters to find the best-presented project of the showcase.The author hopes that the full set of outlines along with evaluation rubrics stimulate ideas in thecommunity to develop new and better means of teaching and evaluating the technical as well asprofessional skills needed by our graduating seniors.IntroductionSenior Design or Capstone courses are common for most engineering degrees. These coursesprovide
recommendations in the accreditation report.The accreditation is valuable not only to the institution and its faculty but also to thestudents 1.The value of the accreditation for faculty members is the enjoyment and professionalpride of teaching courses of an accredited program. Accreditation provides both apersonal and professional opportunity to work towards educational improvement. Theevaluation experience affords the opportunity for the administration and faculty toconduct and to receive a rigorous analysis of present conditions so that needed changesmay be carefully planned.Students are most affected by accreditation since they are the central focus of theeducational process. Accreditation assures them that their needs are being met through aquality
. Instructors wrestled with studentfrustration and the reality that good projects were tough to come by and an engineer’s“final design” could always be modified by a client.In 2000, the classroom and the capstone design components of this course began tochange. Planning and Design of Construction Projects continued to consist of two 50minute classroom sessions each week and two three hour laboratory periods per week. Toenhance student achievement of various educational outcomes and better meet the needsof the Coast Guard, the classroom portion of the course expanded its focus to coverlecture topics that can be assigned to six broad categories: 1. Planning 2. Cost Estimating 3. Scheduling 4. Engineering Economics 5. Engineering Ethics
. Instructors wrestled with studentfrustration and the reality that good projects were tough to come by and an engineer’s“final design” could always be modified by a client.In 2000, the classroom and the capstone design components of this course began tochange. Planning and Design of Construction Projects continued to consist of two 50minute classroom sessions each week and two three hour laboratory periods per week. Toenhance student achievement of various educational outcomes and better meet the needsof the Coast Guard, the classroom portion of the course expanded its focus to coverlecture topics that can be assigned to six broad categories: 1. Planning 2. Cost Estimating 3. Scheduling 4. Engineering Economics 5. Engineering Ethics
. Instructors wrestled with studentfrustration and the reality that good projects were tough to come by and an engineer’s“final design” could always be modified by a client.In 2000, the classroom and the capstone design components of this course began tochange. Planning and Design of Construction Projects continued to consist of two 50minute classroom sessions each week and two three hour laboratory periods per week. Toenhance student achievement of various educational outcomes and better meet the needsof the Coast Guard, the classroom portion of the course expanded its focus to coverlecture topics that can be assigned to six broad categories: 1. Planning 2. Cost Estimating 3. Scheduling 4. Engineering Economics 5. Engineering Ethics
added as an extradimension?Pragmatism is an overall way of thinking, one that Dewey used effectively in spelling outhow education and democracy work together, and for taking action in education. Dewey’spragmatism produced concrete results such as the laboratory schools, which pioneered theprogressive early education movement, and emphasizes teaching principles in contextthrough practice.Pragmatism and the ethic of care can be translated into engineering practice, and includedin the way we teach engineering and science in the early part of the curriculum forexample. Students should be made aware that science is dynamic, and that knowledgechanges. We do not normally convey this when teaching science. The pragmatic waywould say that rather than
Technical College, where he also serves as the director of the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education (CREATE). Dr. Walz is also an adjunct professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wiscon- sin. He has served as teacher for the UW Delta Center for Integrating Research, Teaching and Learning, and has mentored several graduate students who completed teaching internships while creating new in- structional materials for renewable energy and chemical education. Dr. Walz is also an instructor with the Wisconsin K-12 Energy Education Program (KEEP), delivering professional development courses in energy science for public school teachers. Dr. Walz is an alumnus of the
teaches courses in science curricula, teaching and learning, and assessment courses with an emphasis on constructivist theory and issues of equity. Her research focuses on issues of gender, science, and science teaching. She has won two awards for her research in these areas. In this work she is responsible for developing assessments and overseeing data collection, analysis, and feedback to the project.Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University Amaneh Tasooji is an Associate Research Professor in the School of Materials at ASU and has been teaching and developing new content for materials science and engineering classes and laboratories. She has developed new
Group. She has contributed to educational initiatives as a teaching fellow at Teach For India.Mrs. Belen A Garcia, University of Michigan, Dearborn Belen A. Garcia is an instructional designer at the University of Michigan Dearborn. She earned her Ph.D. in Learning Design and Technology with a focus on engineering education from Purdue University. In her dissertation research, she investigated how middle school students built sustainable virtual cities and the effect on their environmental attitudes. She has taught college courses in interdisciplinary studies, educational technology and Spanish. Previously, she taught German at the high school level. Her research interests lie at the intersection of online learning
teachers for the week to participatein a teaching laboratory. During the week, the teachers are responsible for teaching the modulesto the students in a highly supported environment, surrounded by SENSE IT staff, available toassist with any questions or concerns. The opportunity for teachers to implement the materialswith students enables the teachers to review the materials again, better understand how theymight teach the materials to students in their classes and offer more time for the mentalpreparation required for implementing new classroom activities.As mentioned, the SENSE IT teachers also participate in four school-year professionaldevelopment workshops. The workshop materials involve the development of sensors, evaluationneeds, and STEM
University Dr Subramanian is currently a lecturer with the Ocean Engineering Department at Texas A and M Uni- versity at Galveston. He is primarily involved with teaching and mentoring undergraduates. He teaches courses including design of ships and floating structures, fluid mechanics and computational methods for engineers. Professional interests include developing and applying computational hydromechanics towards the hydrodynamic design of floating structures and engineering education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 1
Paper ID #37350Educating the Workforce of the 21st Century through Smart ManufacturingSystems in the ClassroomsRoya Salehzadeh, University of Alabama Roya Salehzadeh obtained her B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from Urmia University, Iran, in 2010, and her M.Sc. degree from Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Tehran, Iran, in 2013. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Advanced and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Laboratory at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA. Ms. Salehzadeh’s research interests are focused on human-robot interaction, automation, and
of waves. Listening to Waves (LTW) is a program designed toincrease adolescents’ interest in STEM through the science of sound and music. Based onLTW’s early experience performing STEM outreach activities in schools, LTW recognized theneed to create easily accessible tools for visualizing and manipulating sound. In particular, LTWhas been developing browser-based implementations of a signal generator, an oscilloscope, and aspectrogram. These tools, commonly used in physics and engineering laboratories, represent andanalyze data gathered through the computer microphone and sent to the speaker. LTW hasmodified them and added functionalities that allow students to deepen their engagement byplayfully creating sound and music. For example, the
heat transfer. He has held a summer research position with Alcatel-Lucent Bell Laboratories and has also served as a consulting mechatronics engineer with two startup technology companies, in the areas of force sensing in gaming devices and the control of multi-actuator haptics. His research interests include nonlinear dynamical and control systems, and the analysis and design of mechatronic systems, especially in the context of cyber-physical systems—in particular making them secure and resilient.Dr. Vishesh Vikas, The University of Alabama Vishesh Vikas is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Al- abama, Tuscaloosa (UA) and the director of the Agile Robotics Lab at UA
Paper ID #35246Development of a Mechatronics System Design CourseDr. Benjamin D McPheron, Anderson University Benjamin D. McPheron is Chair of the Department of Physical Sciences ans Engineering and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Anderson University. Dr. McPheron received his B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering at Ohio Northern University in 2010, and his Ph.D, in Electrical Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University in 2014. Dr. McPheron teaches Freshman Engineering and various courses in Electrical Engineering including Circuit Theory, Electronics
the United States. He is a licensed professional engineer in multiple states. Dr. Barry’s areas of research include assessment of professional ethics, teaching and learning in engineering education, nonverbal communication in the classroom, and learning through historical engineering accomplishments. He has authored and co-authored a significant number of journal articles and book chapters on these topics.Dr. James Ledlie Klosky, U.S. Military Academy Led Klosky is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point and a past winner of ASEE’s National Teaching Medal. He is a licensed professional engineer and works primarily in the areas of infrastructure, subsurface engineering and
point, university administrators should engage students, faculty members, and staffwith disabilities in devising solutions for accessibility campus-wide (classrooms, laboratories,offices, recreational facilities, etc.). The ADA and other regulations provide standards, butfrequently they fall short of meeting the needs of people with disabilities in an optimal manner.Institutions that will be most successful with inclusion for students with disabilities will begin byincluding their perspectives in program development, planning, and other aspects of theacademic community. We offer the following additional recommendations: • Provide opportunities for graduate student (teaching assistant) and faculty development focused on
Geotechnics. Prior to joining the doctoral program, Medha was teaching Computer Science and Information Science classes at an engineering institute in Bangalore, India. Her research interests include hybrid/blended learning for engineering education; pedagogy of technology integration and cognitive and motivational processes of learning.Dr. Jean S Larson, Arizona State University Jean Larson has a Ph.D. in Educational Technology, postgraduate training in Computer Systems Engineer- ing, and many years of experience teaching and developing curriculum in various learning environments. She has taught technology integration and teacher training to undergraduate and graduate students at Ari- zona State University, students at
focus on Smart Structures Technology, Structural Control and Health Monitoring and Innovative Engineering Education.Mr. Alec William Maxwell, San Francisco State University Alec Maxwell is currently an graduate student in the School of Engineering at San Francisco State Uni- versity (SFSU). Besides actively conducting research on innovative tools for engineering education in the Intelligent Structural Hazards Mitigation Laboratory at SFSU with Prof. Zhaoshuo Jiang, he also serves the community as the President of the American Society of Civil Engineers for the SFSU chapter.Prof. Zahira H Merchant, San Francisco State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Using Mobile
AC 2007-2757: TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION IN K-12: REVELATIONS FROMDESIGNING AND DELIVERING A ROBOTICS LESSON PLAN FORPRE-SERVICE TEACHERSAbhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore Abhijit Nagchaudhuri is currently 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, SME and ASEE professional societies and is actively involved in teaching and research in the fields of engineering mechanics, remote
free developmenttools now allow each student to have access to state of the art development tools and hardware.Students must be provided access to these industry leading tools to be competent and competitivein the marketplace.A study to be conducted at Washington State University will measure changes in studentperformance and retention when first year engineering students have exposure and unlimitedaccess to state of the art development tools and hardware. Data will be collected from surveys,exams, project reports, laboratory assignments, and homework.Quantitative data will be analyzed by comparison to historical data gathered from studentgroups that did not have exposure to and unlimited access to development tools.Qualitative data will be
really are uncomfortablewith math, or feel insecure regarding their math (or other) abilities. A more limited ILAPsdevelopment – for example, between champions in just two departments – could perhapsovercome many of these logistical problems and provide a better "sense of ownership" to theprojects.In this project, miscommunications and different interpretations of what was acceptable werecommon. One major issue was related to "how applied" an ILAP should be. ILAPs that weredesigned to include hands-on applications could not be implemented efficiently into the largercalculus classes, and availability of "unique" instrumentation and laboratory space was always anissue for the other STEM courses. The differences in personal teaching styles (for
. 2017) and a Masters of Science in Computer Science (Dec. 2018). He is currently an RPI Engineering Ambassador and is participating in research with Professor Agung Julius from the RPI ECSE department as well as research with the Worldwide Computing Laboratory group (https://wcl.cs.rpi.edu/) directed by Professor Carlos Varela. He has also worked as an engineering intern for Sikorsky Aircraft (Summer 2015, Summer 2016).Timothy Andrew Spafford, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Timothy Spafford is a fourth year student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, pursuing both a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a M.B.A. At RPI he is involved in the Engineering Ambassador program, where he is a student ambassador as well as a
. He has been active in the technology application research and teaching training courses for the local industries and technology application centerMr. Nestor Escobales P.E., Old Dominion University Mr. Escobales is a licensed professional engineer (PE) with 18 years of progressive structural engineering experience in the US. Mr. Escobales expertise is in the area of pre-engineered metal buildings (PEMB), low rise building construction, and forensic engineering. Mr. Escobales is a graduate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and is currently serving as the Civil Engineering Technology Program Director at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. He is also the Materials Laboratory Direc- tor
Paper ID #27217Student Perspectives on the Use of iPads for Navigating Construction Draw-ings: A Case StudyDr. Tom Michael Leathem, Auburn University Tom Leathem is an Assistant Professor in the McWhorter School of Building Science at Auburn Univer- sity where he teaches courses in Estimating, Construction Documents, Scheduling, and Project Delivery. He has 11 years industry experience in commercial construction management, holds a Ph.D. in Educa- tion, an M.S. in Integrated Design & Construction, and a B.S. in Construction Management. His areas of research include construction education, assessment, accreditation
Paper ID #22450A Naval Hydrodynamics Undergraduate Curriculum for the Midwestern UnitedStatesProf. James Buchholz, University of Iowa James Buchholz is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Iowa. He received the Bachelors and Masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University. He teaches courses in fluid mechanics and conducts research in unsteady aerodynamics and hydrodynamics.Prof. Pablo M. Carrica, University of Iowa P. M. Carrica is a professor with the Department of Mechanical
engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology (MS&T), formerly the University of Missouri-Rolla. He worked for Toyota Motor Corporation as a qual- ity assurance engineer for two years and lived in Toyota City, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from MS&T in 1999 while he worked as a quality engineer for Lumbee Enterprises in St. Louis, Missouri. His first teaching position was at the architectural and manufacturing Sciences depart- ment of Western Kentucky University. He was a faculty at Trine University teaching mainly graduate courses as well as undergraduate courses in engineering technology and mechanical engineering depart- ments. He is currently teaching in Engineering
Paper ID #19684Creating an Environment for Transfer Student SuccessDr. Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University Agnieszka Miguel received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2001 from the University of Wash- ington, and MSEE and BSEE from Florida Atlantic University in 1996 and 1994. Dr. Miguel’s profes- sional interests involve image processing, machine learning, and engineering education especially active learning, diversity, retention, and recruitment. Her teaching interests include MATLAB, circuits, linear systems, and digital image processing. She is a member of the IEEE, ASEE, SWE, and Tau Beta Pi. Cur- rently