Conference Session

What's New in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Saumitra Mishra; Boris Ramos; Amy Zeng; Arthur Gerstenfeld; Sharon Johnson

of value, flow,demand pull and perfection. The physical simulation that serves as the basis of the lab wasdeveloped by MEP-MSI and is used by Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) programs inseveral states to teach lean principles to employees at small- to medium-size manufacturers. Inadopting the simulation to an undergraduate course, we wanted to provide students with moreopportunity to ‘discover’ theory, by generating and analyzing data that could be used to supportdecision-making. The laboratory exercises specifically address: (1) ‘traditional’ manufacturingprocesses and process variability, (2) problem-solving using a QI-story format, (3) process flow,takt time, and balance, (4) demand pull and visual management, (5) supply chain

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Milne; Pascal Rol; Jean-Marie Parel; Fabrice Mann

laboratory sessions included in the classes significantly enhance the students’understanding and provide an initial practical experience, an evaluation of the students enrolledin design projects after taking the classes demonstrates that the practical experience acquired inthe laboratory sessions is not sufficient to allow the students to independently tackle opticalsystems or solve optical design problems in practice, which is an ultimate goal of thecurriculum.To improve the curriculum, we are currently developing an undergraduate laboratory inbiomedical optics (NSF ILI grant #DUE-9751369). In addition to classical teaching experimentson optics, fiber optics and lasers, the laboratory will be used to teach undergraduate studentshow to solve

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Capstone Experiences in Manufacturing Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Ejiwale, Jackson State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

functions to enhance research capabilities and forinstructional delivery on basic nanofabrication technology. Currently, cross-teaching is inexistence among faculty members from Departments of Technology and Physics with theutilization of some of these facilities and laboratories to enhance nanofabrication hands-onexperience. Some of the major laboratories and facilities are: 1) The Ronald Mason Jr. Nanotechnology Modeling Center (RMNMC) 2) Nanoscience Core Laboratory 3) Molecular Magnetic Resonance Core Laboratory 4) The Computational Modeling Core Laboratory/Supercomputer Center 5) The Visualization Core Laboratory 6) GIS Remote Sensing Laboratory.Utilizing the existing core laboratories and

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 11

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seth Norberg, U.S. Military Academy; Tim Ashcraft, Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, United States Military Academy; Matthew Miller, United States Military Academy; Michael J Benson, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

currently an Associate Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He has his Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy (1994), and his Master of Science (2003), Degree of Engineer (2003), and Ph.D. (2011) from Stanford University all in Mechanical Engineering. He has authored/co-authored papers in Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, and Heat Transfer, along with Engineering Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Teaching experimental design in a fluid mechanics courseAbstractIn this paper we discuss the development and implementation of a new Design of Experiment (DoE)experience in the junior-level Thermal-Fluid

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Youngmee Lee; Yasuo Kuga; Thomas Stoebe; Minoru Taya; Mani Soma

Chip Carrier (PLCC), and Small Outline Package (SOP), were prepared(Fig. 1). These packages were already molded and dissectioned by the Teaching Assistance (TA)ready for grinding and polishing in the lab. Students were divided into three groups with three orfour students in each group and assigned each package. Photographs of specimens were takenwith a low magnification (40x) stereoscope in one of the MSE laboratories followed bypolishing. Students investigated four different package features: cross-section (A), wire bond(B), circuit pattern on the die (C), and lead fingers and die (D) (Fig 2). Students reported the 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional features of the assigned package, and the function of eachcomponent and its requirement. This was

Conference Session

Elementary School Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Caroline Beller, Oklahoma State University; Pamela Fry, Oklahoma State University; Adrienne Redmond, Oklahoma State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Science and Engineering?AbstractDr. Karen High, faculty member in Chemical Engineering, was a Laboratory Instructorfor the fall 2005 Semester for CIED (Curriculum and Instruction Education) 4353 atOklahoma State University. The course is “Science in the Elementary SchoolCurriculum.” This course covers the purposes, selection and organization of content,teaching and learning procedures and evaluation of outcomes in elementary schoolscience and its participants consist of education students typically without anybackground in engineering or science.Approximately 75% of class time is devoted to laboratory activities and field experiencesthat promote the science content, process, learning theory, philosophy and curriculaappropriate for grades 1-8

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Measurements: Innovative Course Development

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Beams, University of Texas-Tyler

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Instrumentation

Project TUNA II –Bode Analyzer and Teaching ToolAbstractStudents measuring the frequency response of a linear circuit (e.g., an active filter) by manualmethods find the task mind-numbing and repetitive, and the purpose was frequently lost in theminutiae of data-taking. Project TUNA (Texas Universal Network Analyzer), a Bode analyzerfor low to moderate frequencies, was conceived as an answer to this problem. The prototype ofProject TUNA was developed as a project in Electronics II (EENG 4409) in 1999, andpermanent copies were constructed in 2000. Project TUNA has been integrated into theelectronics curriculum of UT-Tyler since that time. It is used as both a laboratory instrument andas a teaching tool, particularly to illustrate the principles of

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mikaya Lumori; Ernest Kim

Session 1732 A Review of Two Appr oaches to Teaching Applied Electr omagnetics Mikaya L.D. Lumor i and Er nest M. Kim Univer sity of San DiegoIntr oductionTwo different approaches to teaching the mandatory engineering electromagnetics courseare reviewed. Using basic theories developed in the course, divergent applications wereemphasized in different semesters of the course offering. The two separate applicationscovered were (a) radio frequency circuit design and (b) radar and antenna design. Thegeneral electromagnetic theory lectures were enhanced through laboratory experiences inthe two different

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Deborah M. Mechtel; K.A. Korzeniowski

Session 1232 Teaching Engineering to Non-Electrical Engineering Majors K.A. Korzeniowski, D.M. Mechtel United States Naval Academy Abstract It has long been recognized in the engineering education community that is useful to conveysome core knowledge of underlying physical system components by requiring courses outside of aspecific engineering major. The Electrical Engineering Department at the United States NavalAcademy meets this challenge by teaching a core competency course in electrical engineering to allAcademy

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Hollis; Namas Chandra; Chiang Shih

Session 2230 Learning-Through-Teaching, a Collaborative Learning Strategy Chiang Shih, Namas Chandra, Patrick Hollis Department of Mechanical Engineering FAMU-FSU College of EngineeringAbstractWe have proposed the promotion of collaborative learning by systematically engaging allstudents in an innovative “Learning-Through-Teaching” (LTT) pedagogical practice in the coreMechanical Engineering curriculum. The LTT program empowers students with self-learningcapability by involving them in the actual classroom/laboratory teaching. Through LTT, studentslearn

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Berg; Homayun K. Navaz; Brenda S. Henderson

Session 1302 A New Approach to Teaching Compressible Flow Brenda S. Henderson, Homayun K. Navaz, and Raymond M. Berg Kettering UniversityAbstractAt Kettering University, a new course in modern compressible flow was introduced at theundergraduate and graduate level for mechanical engineering students. The course incorporatedanalytical, computational and experimental techniques and analysis. Students learnedfundamental concepts in gas dynamics, as well as developing the ability to solve basicproblems using commercial CFD codes. Threaded throughout the course were segments wherethe students learned

Conference Session

But I'm a Loner! Expanding capability and creativity by examining effective alliances

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley; Colin Cerretani, University of California, Berkeley; Marjorie S Went, UC Berkeley

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New Engineering Educators

teaching and learning experience. This paper provides guidelines for working withgraduate teaching assistants by applying the five principles of high-performance engineeringteams described by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith,1 and adapted by Karl Smith andothers for collaborative learning:2 face-to-face promotive interaction, positive interdependence,group and individual accountability, teamwork skills, and group processing. Perspectives areshared from engineering faculty who work with graduate teaching assistants in lecture,laboratory, and professional skills courses, and consideration is paid to small teams (1-3) andlarge teams (8+) of teaching assistants. Best practices in organization, clarity of expectations,leadership, communication

Conference Session

Automation Subjects in Manufacturing Education I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nebojsa Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

physical and PLC ladder logic whendesigning simple automation projects. Combined lecture and laboratory activities implementingthe Kolb experiential learning cycle for the PLC module are addressed. The success of themodule is assessed and evaluated through student performance tests in solving design problemsusing ladder logic and through student surveys. Results demonstrate an effective method forstudent learning when lectures and labs are integrated in a meaningful manner.IntroductionIn engineering education, depending on the material to be learned and the instructor’s style ofteaching, a number of teaching and learning methodologies and their combinations are used.Since engineering is considered an applied discipline, many of the methods revolve

Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

relatively rare in engineering courses and is almost non-existent in textbooks.Instructors can teach inductively by presenting familiar phenomena, practical issues, orexperimental observations before presenting a general principle. Surprisingly, most textbooksstill use an exclusively deductive approach, proceeding from first principles and governingequations to specific applications. Since there are relatively few textbooks that are written usingan inductive approach; this makes implementation of the inductive method a challenge. Anotherchallenge is that students typically will not have a wide range of experience or intuition neededto begin the inductive process. A simple laboratory experiment or demonstration will providethe foundation

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

William W. Predebon; Peck Cho

commissioned by Michigan Technological University (MTU) to develop anew teaching assistant (TA) training program for the Department of Mechanical Engineering and EngineeringMechanics (ME-EM). At that time we had a TA training program that was administered by the University Centerfor Teaching Excellence and offered to new TA’s from all departments during the week preceding the first day ofclass. The program consisted of a two-hour long session on “what to do on the first day of class” followed by atwo-hour long practice session. Foreign TA’s underwent additional six-hour long discussion session onAmerican classroom culture. These sessions were thought to be inadequate in preparing TA’s for effectiveclassroom and laboratory instruction, and we were

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2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Christi Patton Luks

2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Teaching Unit Operations Lab in the Pandemic Christi Patton Luks Missouri University of Science and TechnologyAbstract2020 was a year of many changes. Faculty suddenly needed to convert their courses to an onlineformat. For lecture classes there were many issues to address, but laboratory courses had aspecial set of concerns. When the lab instructor also left during this year, the author suddenlyfound herself thrust into teaching unit operations lab. The university was beginning to open up,but there were more students scheduled to be in the lab facilities than the university

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Harper; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

. Page 8.1245.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2630Many of the faculty members who volunteer do not necessarily have expertise in graphics, CAD,MATLAB, hands-on laboratories, or design. They must be educated in these areas and providedwith the teaching materials.The Current ProgramDescription of Course Content Covered – There are two course sequences for the First-Yearengineering students. The first option is a two quarter sequence, known as Fundamentals ofEngineering or (FE). Students designated Honors

Conference Session

Remote Sensing and Telemetry

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

/GIS Laboratories and Equipment at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD)The GPS/GIS Laboratory at UHD has excellent GPS equipment that is used for educationalpurposes. Figure 1 shows a partial view of the laboratory at UHD. The GPS equipment consistsof the OMNISTAR DGPS receiver. This receiver has the capability to collect signals from 12satellites and at the same time a signal from a stationary satellite that applies all necessarycorrections. This system has sub-centimeter capabilities defined as the ability to determinelatitude and longitude of a point with errors of less that one-centimeter. The system is used in astationary manner to teach GPS in the laboratory where a stationary antenna was installed at thetop of the building. This GPS

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

K. A. Korzeniowski; J. L. Rice

Session 2532 The Khepera Robot as a Teaching Tool K.A. Korzeniowski and J.L. Rice United States Naval AcademyAbstractThe Khepera robot is a small, commercially available, microprocessor driven robotic device that hasbeen used at the United States Naval Academy for pre-college recruiting, college level engineeringrecruiting, course work and research purposes. It is a convenient platform for investigating eachelement of an autonomous system; namely data acquisition, signal conditioning and microprocessorcontrol. This paper describes demonstrations used for pre-college

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2016 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Jing Guo; Kathy Kasley; John M. Santiago

2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference The Challenges of Teaching Engineering Labs Online Dr. Jing Guo, Dr. Kathy Kasley, and Dr. John Santiago College of Engineering, Colorado Technical UniversityAbstractThe paper presents the Engineering Department’s development and the pilot delivery of anonline laboratory experience to support the electrical and computer engineering online deliveryof a previously on campus course, “EE110: Introduction to Engineering”. The most significantchallenges in support of students in the construction, debug, and measurement of circuitparameters include the following: (1) replacing face-to-face interaction with both the

Conference Session

Reassessing Your Teaching Through Turmoil

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jennifer Retherford P.E., University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Kristen N. Wyckoff, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Sarah J. Mobley, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

pairingthoughtful online content with small group, hands-on learning opportunities.The laboratory course used as an example in this section teaches geotechnical engineering fieldsampling techniques and testing methods through interactive exercises. Students are broken intogroups of five and are required to conduct experimentation adhering to standard methods and toproduce professional technical reports conveying the results, analysis and application of thecollected data. The course culminates with a project wherein each group submits soil profilecalculations including bearing capacity and predicted settlement for use in foundation design. Thefollowing discussion about engineering laboratory courses will focus on integrating online contentinto a

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics of Materials and General Mechanics Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Henry Christiansen, Brigham Young University; Steven Benzley, Brigham Young University; Spencer Guthrie, Brigham Young Univeristy; Gaurab Paudel, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

AC 2009-1417: EFFICIENT TEACHING OF ELEMENTARY ENGINEERINGMECHANICS COURSESHenry Christiansen, Brigham Young University Henry N. Christiansen obtained a BS degree in Mathematics from Utah State University in 1957 and MS and PhD degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Stanford University in 1958 and 1962. He began his career at the Western Development Laboratories, Palo Alto CA in 1960 and later joined the faculty of the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Brigham Young University in 1965. He served as chair of this department from 1980-1986. Professor Christiansen’s primary research has been in the field of computer graphics. He founded and served as Director of the Engineering

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics & Structural Modeling Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natasha Smith, University of Southern Indiana

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2010-2146: TEACHING ENGINEERING REASONING USING A BEAMDEFLECTION LABNatasha Smith, University of Southern Indiana Page 15.1173.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Teaching Engineering Reasoning using a Beam Deflection LabAbstractWell crafted laboratories reinforce theoretical concepts presented in class, but also sharpenstudents’ technical reasoning skills and provide practice in technical communication. This paperpresents an introductory mechanics laboratory on beam deflection, suitable for freshmenengineering courses or as an opening week experiment for Strengths of Materials. The labconsists of 4 distinct experiments, each requiring students to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill K Nelson, George Mason University; Daria Gerasimova, George Mason University; Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University; J. Reid Schwebach, George Mason University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

School, where he was a principal intern. His scientific research focused on the immunology of M. tu- berculosis, the bacterial pathogen that causes tuberculosis. He currently works with undergraduate and graduate researchers to investigate the evolution of microbes, and to improve how undergraduate students learn science at the university. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Exploring Experiences of Graduate Teaching Assistants in Teaching Professional Development GroupsIntroductionMany universities rely on graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) to teach college courses or theircomponents (e.g., laboratories, recitations, seminars). For example, for doctoral

Conference Session

SD Technical Session: Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martha E. Grady, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Ryan Christopher Reuer Gergely, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Student

assistants. At many universities, teaching assistants are employed to lead discussionsections, provide grading assistance, and provide laboratory assistance. The purpose of thisreport is twofold: 1) To describe perspectives of engineering teaching assistants on incorporatingnon-traditional teaching methods and 2) To propose methods that minimize the perceivedbarriers reported by engineering teaching assistants.An online survey was chosen as the assessment method to describe perspectives and practice ofengineering teaching assistants. The use of surveys for assessment in engineering education is a Page 24.1372.2common practice.4 This method was

Conference Session

Manufacturing Engineering Technology Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramesh Narang, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne

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Engineering Technology

AC 2008-903: TEACHING APPLIED MEASURING METHODS USING GD&TRamesh Narang, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne RAMESH V. NARANG is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering Technology program in the Department of Manufacturing & Construction Engineering Technology and Interior Design at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN. He has received both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. His research and teaching interests include: automated feature recognition, lean manufacturing, metrology, ergonomics, cellular manufacturing, and statistical process control

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luis E Monterrubio, Robert Morris University; Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Engineering Education, 2015 A Hands-on Approach in Teaching Machine DesignIntroductionThe purpose of this paper is to present a modified curriculum for a Machine Design course. Themodified curriculum aims to provide students with hands-on experience in the development ofnew products following procedures used in the research and development departments in theindustry. The hands-on laboratories included in the course Machine Design are carried out afteran introduction to the design philosophy presented by Eggert 1 and most of the first two parts ofthe textbook by Budynas and Nisbett2. The design philosophy included in this course splits thedesign process in five phases1 (formulation, concept design, configuration design, parametricdesign

Conference Session

New Concepts for Alternative Energy Courses and Concepts

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Max Rabiee P.E. P.E., University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

) programs. He hasalso worked in industry, where he was responsible for designing, specifying, testing, andanalyzing electro-mechanical devices. In this paper, the author will describe topics that shouldbe included in an electric rotating machine course and explain why using Matlab is an efficientmethod for students to solve lecture problems and analyze laboratory data.Due to the time constraint in one quarter, seven (7) important AC and DC laboratory assignmentspertaining to electric machines are selected for this course. Using MatLab enables the in-depthteaching of these topics during the ten-week quarter period. In the following sections of thispaper, he will describe the subjects that he teaches in an electric rotating machine class, duringone

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg; Bruce Muller

Teaching PLCs with the IEC 61131 Standard Languages James Rehg, Bruce Muller Penn State AltoonaAbstractProgrammable Logic Controllers are the de facto standard for sequential control of discreteautomation systems and are fast becoming the system of choice for control of analog processsystems. The new languages introduced in the IEC 61131 PLC standard will increase the numberof applications suitable for PLC control. This paper provides a description of the new standardand describes a laboratory at Penn State Altoona that supports a two course sequence for PLC.The laboratory has 16 student stations and 4 automated assembly systems linked by an

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Equity, Inclusion, and Access

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ingrid Joylyn Paredes, New York University ; Rui Li, New York University; Sooah Kwak, New York University ; Chris Woods, New York University; Dominic Roy Krusniak, New York University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

in a First-Year Design Course," in 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, 2020.[4] A. Phillips, K. M. Kecskemety, and D. A. Delaine, "First-year Engineering Teaching Assistant Training: Examining Different Training Models and Teaching Assistant Empowerment," in 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2018.[5] L. B. Wheeler, C. P. Clark, and C. M. Grisham, "Transforming a Traditional Laboratory to an Inquiry-Based Course: Importance of Training TAs when Redesigning a Curriculum," Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 94, no. 8, pp. 1019-1026, 2017/08/08 2017.[6] C. Robinson and J. Collofello, "Utilizing undergraduate teaching assistants in active learning environments," in 2012