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student in chemical engineering. As an undergraduate student, healong with several fellow students struggled with a lack of understanding in a requiredcourse in numerical and computational methods (NCM). Despite the fact that heobtained a good grade in this course, he did not retain or fully grasp much of theinformation taught in this course. He eventually learned computational methods whileworking at research laboratories and by doing some personal research on mathematicalmodeling. Thus, he is motivated to explore the literature on the topic of numerical andcomputational methods in engineering and computing education, which cansubsequently help to broaden the understanding of these methods and ensure that futurestudents have a better experience
themechanical engineering department.AssessmentAt the time of writing this paper, the curriculum is in the first year of implementation. Due tothis being a work in progress no assessment has been conducted at this time. In addition, thecourse is only 0.5 credit hours for the student. Due to this low number of hours and the course,being conducted in the fashion of a laboratory course but with the deliverables being design andfabrication of components for the Baja SAE car no assignments and exams were administered.In the future, an increase in hours would allow for homework problems and/or exams to beconducted. Once this change in credit hours is made, a cross-sectional study of the students’work can be conducted. The cross-sectional study will compare
Mechanical Engineering from Kansas State University(K-State) in 2012. Between 2012 and 2016, he worked as a post-doctoral research fellow, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) consultant, and a Thermal-Fluids Laboratory Instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Villanova University.Kevin Schull Graduated from Mankato State University (name changed to Minnesota State University, Mankato) with a BS in Electronic Engineering Technology with a minor in Computer Science. I worked as a Software Engineering with the Owatonna Tool Company in Owatonna Minnesota and then joined Minnesota State University, Mankato as an Engineering Specialist Senior. © American Society for Engineering Education
significantly affected.Introduction and Background It is easy to say that the COVID-19 pandemic challenged teaching techniques andprocedures at traditional institutions of higher education, but quantifying these consequences ofCOVID is difficult, especially for engineering specialties. Did students perform better inengineering classes thanks to the responsiveness and availability of online instruction, or did theysuffer with the loss of laboratories and demonstrations in the standard classroom? Numerous researchers have grappled with this question, across many disciplines andaround the world. Fundamentally, it appears that COVID lockdown periods, especially thoseearly in the pandemic’s development (2020), increased the state of stress
). Specifically, I-Corps addresses thelack of knowledge academic researchers have about technology entrepreneurship giventhat few receive such training as part of their doctoral programs (Duval-Couetil, et al.,2020). As a result, more are likely to conform to conventional cultural norms inacademia which incentivize obtaining funding to support research and laboratories,rather than pursuing commercialization opportunities (Huyghe & Knockaert, 2015).Hayter et al. (2018), stated that “limited attention has been placed on the role of nationalprograms and policies and their critical role supporting academic entrepreneurship” (p.1059). Considering this, I-Corps offers a valuable context for examining the ability of aprogram to promote and grow involvement
, Natesan, P. Vidhya, and Xiao-Zhi Gao. "Virtual laboratory: A boon to the mechanical engineering education during covid-19 pandemic." Higher Education for the Future 8.1 (2021): 31-46.5. Makransky, Guido, Thomas S. Terkildsen, and Richard E. Mayer. "Adding immersive virtual reality to a science lab simulation causes more presence but less learning." Learning and Instruction 60 (2019): 225-236.6. Deshpande, Amit A. and Samuel H. Huang. "Simulation games in engineering education: A state‐of‐the‐art review." Computer Applications in Engineering Education 19.3 (2011): 399-410.7. Brown, Corina E., et al. "Visualizing molecular structures and shapes: A comparison of virtual reality, computer simulation, and traditional
highlighting the value of thislearning process and the changes we are enacting, the college can attract more environmentally- andsustainably-minded students.The reports and design plans that stem from these courses are also useful to the college administrationfor them to make informed decisions about the stream and floodplain maintenance. The focus of theadministration has typically been on the physical facilities on campus and not so much on the openspace aspects of the campus. There is a growing recognition, however, of the importance of preservinggreenspaces, especially in the context of using this stream as a natural, outdoor laboratory to thebenefit of the students. These data can also be used as the basis for fundraising and grant applicationsto
Multifunctional Materials Laboratory, Shell Office Complex, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria 7 School of Science, Atlantic Technological University, Ash Lane, Ballytivnan, Sligo, Ireland8 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana Corresponding author: David O. Obada (doobada@abu.edu.ng)ABSTRACTGroup project forms an integral part of engineering education because creatingconnections between the course modules and its applications can be a difficult task.Therefore, team dynamics/cooperative learning can play a major role in determining thesuccess rate of learners, with new pedagogies and think-pair
(COSE), Center for Equityand Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CEETL), Center of Science and Math Education(CSME) as well as the Science Education Partnership and Assessment Laboratory (SEPAL), acommunity of scientists that conducts research on effective science education and providesresources to science teachers.ConclusionAny funded education initiative that wishes to have a long term, positive impact on a universitycampus must put forth significant effort to ensure that its core tenets are sufficiently embedded inthe university and academic department culture. To accomplish this, it is often necessary to seekfurther funding to continue work towards institutionalization of program components beyond theinitial support period. This case study
boy, he filled sandbags to channel a river down State Street in his native Salt Lake City after the El Ni˜no winter of 1982-1983. He earned his B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995, then taught high school through Teach for America and worked as a contractor at Los Alamos National Laboratory before earn- ing his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley in 1999 and 2005, respectively. He has been at CU Denver since 2005, where he applies ideas from complex systems science to study flow in porous media, leads the graduate track in Hydrologic, Environmental, and Sustainability Engineering (HESE), leads the NSF-sponsored faculty learning community Engineering is Not Neutral: Transforming
applicable) and energy–environmentinteraction related inputs to the students.(d) It should provide a balance between theory and practical aspects. Therefore, its curricula shouldinclude inputs on laboratory and demonstration experiments, hands-on-skills training, trouble-shooting,design and manufacture inputs besides lectures, tutorials, assignment and seminar, etc.(e) It should be flexible and dynamic thus allowing for future improvements in the content and structureof teaching/training programme.(f) It should be compatible with global efforts to facilitate effective and mutually beneficial experiencesharing and interaction with other institutions in the world.(g) To the extent possible, the university level teaching/training programmes on
, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, USA. She joined Pur- due University Northwest in 1994 after three years of industrial experience. Dr. Zhou has more than 38 years of experience in the areas of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), combustion, energy, multiphase reacting flows, and air pollution control. She is on the cutting edge in the integration of computer simu- lation and virtual reality visualization for solving real world problems. Dr. Zhou has conducted a large number of funded research projects totaling over $25 million and collaborated with many experts from over 140 organizations including academia, K-12 schools, national laboratories, and various industries (e.g
advancedstudents the dissolved iron level can be tested. Students utilize pool filter sand, zeolite andactivated carbon to design filters to remove the dissolved and particulate iron. Each item is givena cost and students develop the best performance for the least cost using a Water Quality Index.The activity has been utilized in an after school program, in a first-year program course and willbe utilized in a unit processes laboratory course for civil engineers. Data will be collected for thefirst-year course and the civil engineering course. The activity in the past renditions did not includea component about social justice and equal access to infrastructure. For this paper, the activity willbe framed in terms of access to safe water and environmental
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that the output is not the most ideal solution, to isolate whichinput codes are needed to be corrected, and to iterate the investigation to fix the error. Twentystudents (ntext = 9, ngraphic = 11) from the laboratory component of a calculus-based introductoryphysics course consented to participate in this study. Four think-aloud interviews wereconducted to ensure that the questions were eliciting the desirable debugging practices understudy.Box 1Sample text-based debugging question. We write a code to plot the points (1.5, 2.5), (2.5, 4.5), (3.5, 7.2) and (4.6, 10.3), as follows: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt point1 = (1.5, 2.5) point2 = (2.5, 4.5) point3 = (3.5, 7.2) point4 = (4.6, 10.3) plt.plot(point1, point2, point3, point4
chemistry and other sciences to blind and low-vision students through hands-on learning experiences in high school science laboratories,” 2010. Accessed: Feb. 21, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010PhDT.......375S.[11] K. Fiehler, J. Reuschel, and F. Rösler, “Early non-visual experience influences proprioceptive-spatial discrimination acuity in adulthood,” Neuropsychologia, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 897–906, Feb. 2009, doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.12.023.[12] S. E. Lopez, W. Goodridge, I. Gougler, D. E. Kane, and N. Shaheen, “Preliminary Validation of a Spatial Ability Instrument for the Blind and Low Vision,” in AERA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Apr. 2020.[13] W. H. Goodridge, N. L
of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Council at CSU. She advocates for the incorporation of high-impact practices such as problem-based learning into educator lectures, laboratories, and outreach activities to engage students and the community in the education process, particularly STEM education.Dr. Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton Dr. Margaret Pinnell is the Associate Dean for Faculty and Staff Development in the school of engineering and associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Dayton. She teaches undergraduate and graduaKelly Bohrer, University of Dayton Kelly Bohrer is the Executive Director of the ETHOS Center, a community engagement center
mentors to establish expectations for thesummer and the launch of their projects. The BUT mentors were all professors from the Facultyof Electrical Engineering and Communication at BUT (in either the Department of RadioElectronics or Department of Telecommunications). Faculty were selected based on their activeresearch related to fractional-order circuits and systems and their interest in mentoringundergraduate students. Students were provided access to an electronics laboratory on campus astheir shared research space. For research activities, participants were expected to spend 40 hoursper week towards their specific research. The BUT campus building where students workedthrough the summer is shown in Fig. 1(a).The specific research activities
University Persons with Disabilities Committee chair; Founder and Director Auburn University Laboratory for Education and Assistive Technology; fac- ulty representative Auburn University Core Curriculum Oversight committee and Multicultural Diversity Commission. Dr. Marghitu also served as World Usability Day Web Site Committee Chair; Alabama STEM Education board chair, Panel member for the National Science Foundation; member of the congressionally mandated Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering; member of the Committee on the Future of NSF EPSCoR; and member of the Computer Science for All (CSforAll) Accessibility Board. Dr. Marghitu published seven Information Technology books at Pearson
traditional hinged bar and weight experimental set-up frombeginning physics laboratories, as illustrated in Figure 3, can be utilized for instruction in thefirst objective. Objective #2 is analytical and will involve problem solving. A vector table withpulleys and weights, also from high school physics labs, and shown in Figure 4, is planned foruse in teaching objective #3. Objective #4 can be taught using individual truck tire scales, anexample of which is provided in Figure 5, or alternatively, using contact paper and tire pressuregauges. The remaining learning objectives for this vehicle balance module will involve using asmall-scale pulling tractor that the students can either have provided or be allowed to assemble.The pulling tractor has been
a recitation or laboratory format (depending onthe course) running in parallel with the overall course section.Building on the success observed in the calculus 1 and 2 courses, the School of Engineering andTechnology (E&T) at IUPUI has continued to expand PLTL with 34 PLTL student leaders inspring 2023 from E&T, with a leader to student ratio of approximately 10 to 1 for a givenrecitation section. E&T at IUPUI continues to expand and invest in PLTL for several engineeringcourses with D/F/W rates above average. The goal continues to be to increase student persistenceand retention in engineering majors by supplementing in class experiences with outside of classinformed peer support. One benefit that is continuing is the high
' self-confidence.Edgar et al. [6] present a set of laboratory activities using the Static Stability Factor (SSF), aconcept commonly employed in vehicle design to establish the circumstances under which avehicle will roll over (tipping) or spinout (slipping). The static stability factor uses the trackwidth and the location of the center of gravity to determine the stability. They found the SSFconcept easy to comprehend for first-year students.According to Ha and Fang [7], spatial abilities are crucial for learning engineering mechanics,yet often overlooked by engineering educators. They suggest encouraging sketching to enhancespatial skills instead of solely relying on figures from problems. Mueller et al. [8] also highlightthe significance of
incorporated into the draft curriculum. A key to the student-centered process we took was to start from the perspective of howmany student contact hours each of our current (quarter) courses have–broken down by lectureand laboratory. When putting together options for the courses, we calculated the new studentcontact hours and compared them to the quarter hours. The accounting of hours is a moreaccurate representation of the conversion from quarter to semester and took out some of theuncertainty of the conversion. For example, the direct conversion of a 3-unit lecture quartercourse is a 2-unit lecture semester course (3 times 2/3). On the surface, a 2-unit course soundslike and can feel like a loss when in reality both have the same number of
estimated value of all non-personnel financial support providedto the new hire. Following this logic, we sought to identify high-level, relatively universalcomponents to faculty startup packages that may critically influence a faculty member’srecruitment and pathway to success (e.g., salary, laboratory space/equipment as warranted byresearch field, graduate student and/or post-doctoral researcher support, and teaching load).Additionally, the University offers pre-tenure leave, as guaranteed in the faculty handbook, andoffered COVID-19 related tenure clock extensions; thus, we also wanted to assess the equity inuse of these guaranteed supports. Because the same staff and administrative personnel would haveaccess to that information, it was concluded
Oklahoma State University. Right now, Mohammad is working in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) as a Lecturer 2. He started this position in the fall of 2022, right after he got his Ph.D.Dr. R Ryan Dupont, Utah State University Dr. Dupont has more than 35 years of experience teaching and conducting applied and basic research in environmental engineering at the Utah Water Research Laboratory at Utah State University. His main research areas have addressed soil and groundwater bioDr. David K. Stevens, Utah State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Assessing Engineering Students' Behavioral Engagement and
students, either asteaching assistants or as mentors during a semester. In this latter role, we are tasked with guidingstudents through research endeavors and giving them an introduction to engineeringinvestigations. While in some instances this can be a straightforward task, there are times whenthe role of a mentor can be physically, mentally, and emotionally taxing. Some students have aharder time being able to grasp the research method or process, and it can lead to moredrawbacks than benefits to the project. But what of the instances outside of the laboratory?Certainly, our role as a mentor is to guide students and give them advice and mentorshipregarding their research endeavors. Do we just tell them that their problems are outside of
-doctoral fellowship at Lawrence National Laboratory focusing on com- putational analysis for nonlinear seismic analysis of Department of Energy nuclear facilities and systems. After joining SFSU in 2016, she established an active research lab at SFSU with a diverse group of under- graduate and Master’s level students. For her engineering education research, she is interested in exploring how to use technology such as virtual reality and 3D printing to enhance student engagement. She is an active member of ASCE, ASEE, and SEAONC.Shah Rukh Humayoun, San Francisco State UniversityKhanh NguyenYongjian Pan ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Reinforcing Human-Technology Interaction Theory
not limited to, embedded technology, autonomoustechnology, edge and end-point technologies. Compared to cybersecurity in general, however,cyber engineering still requires further refinement in its curriculum coverage. The currentcurriculum for the cyber engineering program at our university is centered on cyber physicalsystems (CPS) and their security including device-level security, boot security, and attack-resilienthardware/middleware. As an engineering curriculum, cyber engineering also requires a variety ofhands-on laboratory-based learning as well. To better facilitate hands-on learning in a curricularsetting, we have been developing a 1/5th-scale autonomous vehicle as a framework of cyberphysical systems for a set of cyber engineering