university - administeredresearch projects. It provides experiences, incidents, and insight that can positively impact therelevance and quality of a budding professor’s classroom teaching. It provides good resumeNmaterial and reputation enhancement, the latter for the university as well as the new professor.Of course and often the touchy point with university administrators, consulting providesadditional income for the professor, and usually not the university, above and beyond his/herstandard university salary; this can be extremely valuable as the new and usually young professoris building a family, buying a house and car, starting an investment program, or paying offeducation debts, and generally results in a happier, less stressed, and ideally
three-hour period dedicated to laboratory training. In the firstweek of the two-week schedule, students familiarize themself with new concepts they have tomaster in order to solve the problem they were assigned during the first meeting with a tutor. Inthe second week, they materialize and test the theoritical solution they found. A written report isrequired and is marked.Each week, a two-hour supervised period is dedicated to the semester-long design project. It iswithin those periods that workshops on different topics are sporadically held throughout thesemester. These include workshops on change, problem-solving process, active listening, teamconsolidation, brainstorming, arguing, feedback and conflict resolution, stress management andoral
Cavalry Company Commander, Installation Commander, and as a Maintenance Test Pilot. His engineering and industry experience is in the repair of gas and oil pipelines with non-metallic materials and in the fabrication and testing of composite and lightweight structures, primarily aircraft and wind energy devices. French and his wife have served as full-time missionaries in Korea, China, and Mongolia and have lead student missions teams to several countries to conduct engi- neering missions support work. French joined the LETU faculty in the fall of 2010 and teaches design and engineering science courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in addition to advising graduate students and directing two senior projects.Dr
Department and the Secretary of the committee Ronald H. Robnett, professor of Engineering and Business Administration and a fiscal officer in the DIC (MIT’s sponsored research office) C. Richard Soderberg, a theoretically oriented mechanical engineer and head of that department Julius Stratton, physicist and director of Research Laboratory for Electronics, the postwar incarnation of the Radiation Lab Page 25.1322.3Among the other items the committee discussed was an unsolicited letter from the head of thePhysics Department, John Slater, expressing his unabashed preference for a curriculum moresolidly
– for example, a community service agency, museum or school, orgovernment agency and a faculty or industry advisor. A pool of graduate teaching assistantsfrom seven departments provides technical guidance and administrative assistance.Each EPICS team is vertically integrated, consisting of a mix of freshmen, sophomores, juniors,and senior and is constituted for several years, from initial project definition through finaldeployment. Once the initial project(s) is completed and deployed, new projects are identifiedby the team and community partner allowing the team to continue to work with the samecommunity partner for many years. Each undergraduate student may earn academic credit forseveral semesters, registering for the course for 1 or 2
, engineeringeducation1 IntroductionMicrofluidics is a versatile research tool for a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines[1,2]. Microfluidic devices manipulate fluids using channels with height or width at a micro- or © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conferencesub-millimeter scale. One of the most striking and promising applications of microfluidics is tocreate lab-on-a-chip (LoC) environments in which full laboratory-scale procedures can occur on afootprint smaller than a notecard. LoC devices can be used for detecting and manipulating specifictypes of cells, creating point-of-care diagnostic devices, and developing drugs [3,4
sociologist, associate professor in the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, and affiliated faculty in the Department of Human-Computer Interaction within the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering in Indianapolis.Dr. Stephen J. Spicklemire, University of Indianapolis Has been teaching physics at UIndy for more than 35 years. From the implementation of ”flipped” physics class to the modernization of scientific computing and laboratory instrumentation courses, Steve has brought the strengths of his background in physics, engineering and computer science into the classroom. Steve also does IT and engineering consulting.Dr. Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis Kenneth Reid is the
, categorizing, applying, inventing and updating knowledge. A truly practical aerospaceKBS implementation is still absent in the current aerospace engineering design community. TheAVD Laboratory at UTA makes the very first effort in developing an industry-relevant thuspractical aerospace KBS dedicated to the strategic conceptual design phase. Methodology and ImplementationIntroduction AVDSIZING Knowledge AVDDBS Base Data Flow Control
. The steps in the project development will bedescribed along with the contributions of various team members and how their work wasevaluated. The regulatory aspects of this project will be described along with how an on-goingsearch is made for competitive devices. Finally, the future direction for this project including:next generation developments, partnering with the Veterans Administration, other educationalinstitutions, selecting manufacturing facilities and setting up future supply chain distribution willbe presented.1. Introduction (By Michael Marcus)As an Associate Professor of Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, York Campus, Ihave worked with students on design projects for various courses that I teach. In addition, I
. Scholar. Dr. Wood joined the faculty at the University of Texas in September 1989 and established a computational and experimental laboratory for research in engineering design and manufacturing, in addition to a teaching laboratory for prototyping, reverse engineering measurements, and testing. During his academic career, Dr. Wood was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the United States Air Force Academy. Through 2011, Dr. Wood was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Design & Manufacturing Division at The University of Texas at Austin. He was a National Science Foundation Young Investigator, the ”Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor in Engineering,” ”Uni- versity Distinguished Teaching
/testing projects that focus on experimental work in the laboratory involve a surprisinglylarge number of activities. For example, a recent beam testing project involved a study ofbackground issues, specimen design including development of a spreadsheet, preparation ofspecimen drawings, development of an instrumentation plan, preparation of a materials list,acquisition of materials, installation of strain gages, fabrication of formwork and rebar cages,casting of concrete, preparation of test setup and data acquisition system, testing, and dataanalysis, including comparison of data to pretest predictions based on computer analyses.Teams encounter many challenges in conducting project activities. They realize the usefulness ofthe project proposal as
immerseundergraduate students in the research community by giving them a full year of lab experiencethat also offers a global perspective on research challenges and opportunities in the field ofbiomedical engineering. It is our hope that this will inspire students not only to enter a graduateprogram, but also to seek a program with an international component.An additional, and equally important, goal of CURE is to build relationships between personnelin the three collaborating institutions by linking the collaborators and their work with each otherthrough these students. We conceptualized the participating student as a resource that would beshared by the collaborating laboratories and, thus, would be prepared by the Georgia TechTech/Emory PIs and mentors to
semester, students taking this course were providedwith an opportunity to evaluate the course in both the lecture and laboratory portions of the class.Twenty of twenty-three students enrolled in the course participated in the survey, yielding an87% response rate. Table 4 shows the questions and the results from the survey. Each of thequestions dealt with a characteristic of teaching excellence. The students were asked to indicatetheir rating for each question by filling in a bubble number from 1 (lowest) to 7 (highest). Afterprocessing the course evaluations of every student, an overall score of 6 out of 7 was reported forthis course which shows the successful conduction of the course and its components. In additionto the quantitative survey
selected toparticipate in various additive manufacturing design, processing, and fabrication research projects.Over a ten-week program, students are mentored by faculty, post-docs, and graduate students, andparticipate in training via coursework as well as guided and tiered mentoring within and acrossmaterials science laboratories associated with project investigators and their teams.E. Sampling The sample included in this study consists of five representative students sampled from alarger group of 60 REU student participants surveyed and interviewed by the author team (Blackand/or Latinx women) across five cohorts. These students were drawn from the most recent pre-pandemic cohort (Summer 2019), to limit potential noise associated with COVID
myself from others.I enjoy when my friends from other cultures teach me about our cultural differences.I consciously behave in terms of making a difference.I am open to people who strive to live lives very different from my own life style. A. Transferrable Skills & Global Competence Results of the survey indicate an increase in self assessed transferrable (i.e., soft,employability) skills. Students who participated in ELCIR reported they have strongerleadership, time management, and interpersonal (social) skills; are more able to work effectivelyindependently and with others; and are better equipped to work through obstacles or challengesfollowing the program. Independ travel and research engagement has shown o increase
abstract field, due to difficulty ofintegrating tangible and realistic experiments into electrical engineering curriculum. Sometimessetting up a laboratory for these experiments could be very expensive. Therefore, a lot of timeusing simulation tools is a good alternative to examine and visualize the realistic problems.However, the available simulation software may require vast technical proficiency, whichsometime impedes the inclination of students towards this area of study.In this paper we introduce a ray-tracing simulation tool that can be beneficial in teaching wavepropagation and wireless communication. Wireless InSite®, from Remcom®, is a site-specificwireless channel simulation tool based on ray-tracing method. This paper introduces
ability to survive and to attain the degree. “Recognizing thatstress and self-doubt are a natural part of any significant experience, including graduateschool, tends to help.” 2 In the past, white men went on for doctoral degrees while women stopped at bachelor’sdegrees, often in teaching. Differences between how men and women fare in doctoralprograms has only recently begun to attract attention. For example, Lazarus, Ritter, andAmbrose2 claim that many women meet “invisible barriers” that make the doctoral workeven more demanding. The barriers and the system are unknown to most women becauseof their marginal status in the system, with less access than men to information andcontacts. Even when engineering departments welcome women, they may later
of Toledo. The author explains that, because of trends promoted bystate departments of transportation, his program opted to integrate GEOPAK © into designclasses. Specifically, GEOPAK © was integrated into a synchronized CAD laboratory whichincluded highway geometric design, and site and utility layout. A semester long project was usedas the vehicle with which the software was introduced to the students. The conversion fromquarters to semesters was the original impetus for the expansion of the CAD laboratory courseoffering. The prerequisite is a freshman level course which incorporates Microstation ©instruction. The author refers to the challenge of adequately exposing students to all of thecapabilities of GEOPAK © within the available 33
foundations, industrial and government sources. His teaching, research, service, and publishing interests are in the areas of Automation, Robotics, Rapid Prototyping, Reverse Engineering, Process Monitoring & Control, and Computer Integrated Manufacturing.Jennifer Parsons, Robert Morris University Jennifer Parsons is the Director of STEM Outreach Programs within the School of Engineering, Mathematics and Science. She previously served as the SEMS Outreach Programs Specialist and PRIME Business Manager and is an integral part of all grants from Pittsburgh area foundations, the SME Education Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Labor. She continues to work
&T Bell Laboratories, General Motors Laboratories, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and SPAWAR Systems Center.Matthew Ohland, Purdue University Matthew W. Ohland is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University and is the Past President of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida in 1996. Previously, he served as Assistant Director of the NSF-sponsored SUCCEED Engineering Education Coalition. He studies longitudinal student records in engineering education, team-member effectiveness, and the implementation of high-engagement teaching methods
different companies and each player has a specific role within the virtual firms.A wrong decision could result in disaster. In one scenario, for example, a firm’s ethics officeravatar “killed” 350 employees after making the decision to continue production at a virtual plantin Indonesia, which had been repeatedly threatened with terrorist actions. Notes game developerAllen Varney, “The game is all about temptation.”26Quick TakesNot all ethics games are time-consuming. Abbott Laboratories has implemented “Rocked orShocked,” a touch-screen game played at kiosks set up during training sessions or corporatemeetings.27 Players have a minute to answer six questions, such as “When it is appropriate toaccept baseball tickets from clients” from a rotating
in which to get there. In addition to his engineering work, he also competes on Saint Louis Universities division 1 cross county and track and field team year round. Since he first stepped foot on campus he has continually pursued community service and giving back.Mr. T. Alex Ambro, Saint Louis UniversityWilliam HiserMr. Andrew RiddleDr. Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University Dr. Sanjay Jayaram is an associate professor in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department of Saint Louis University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Central Florida in 2004. He teaches control systems/mechatronics, space systems engineering and astronautics related courses as well as engineering
State University Jacob Leachman is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University (WSU). He initiated the HYdrogen Properties for Energy Research (HY- PER) laboratory at WSU in 2010 with the mission to advance the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of hydrogen systems. He received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Idaho in 2005 and a M.S. degree in 2007. His master’s thesis has been adopted as the foundation for hydrogen fuel- ing standards and custody exchange, in addition to winning the Western Association of Graduate Schools Distinguished Thesis Award for 2008. He completed his Ph.D. in the Cryogenic Engineering Laboratory
including design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past 10 years she gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development. Dr Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement and Instrumentation course as well as for quality control undergraduate and graduate courses in ET Masters program. Also
populations.Visscher-Voerman [23] conducted retrospective interviews to identify 16 “principles” used byinstructional designers. Kirschner and colleagues [24] explored how instructional designers (inboth academic and business contexts) used Visscher-Voerman’s 16 principles through a Delphi-type study and a team design task. Perez and colleagues [25] used a laboratory think-aloudprotocol to investigate instructional design practices among both novices and experts.Despite differences in sample populations and data collection methods among the studies byPerez and colleagues [25], Visscher-Voerman [23], and York and Ertmer [6], these studiesreported some similarly themed heuristics/approaches. Each of the studies featured at least one(and usually more) heuristic
AC 2008-592: UTILIZING A SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORETICALFRAMEWORK TO INVESTIGATE THE INFLUENCES OF A SUMMERUNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE ON PARTICIPANTS’ACADEMIC AND CAREER PLANSJulie Trenor, University of Houston JULIE MARTIN TRENOR is a Research and Instructional Assistant Professor at the University of Houston, and is the Director of Undergraduate Student Recruitment and Retention for the Cullen College of Engineering. Dr. Trenor holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech and a bachelor’s degree in the same field from North Carolina State University. Dr. Trenor develops and teaches freshman engineering courses, and directs the women-in-engineering program
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Stormwater Management and En- gineering Education. She received her bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering from Gonzaga University and a master of science in Civil Engineering from Washington State University. She is also an adjunct member of the Civil Engineering Faculty at Gonzaga University where she teaches Stormwater Management and Senior Design.Dr. Noel E. Bormann P.E., Gonzaga University Professor of Civil Engineering.Dr. Sue L. Niezgoda P.E., Gonzaga University Dr. Niezgoda is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Gonzaga University. She has a doctorate in Civil Engineering from Penn State University and is a registered professional engineer in the state of Wyoming. She conducts research in the
theory course. While they can demonstrate frequency-dependent behavior with analog circuits in the laboratory, they find it difficult to (a) conceptuallymap time-domain signal character to frequency-domain spectra and (b) describe the effect of a Page 10.976.1frequency-domain filter on the shape of a time-domain signal, even if they understand the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationfundamental concept of a Fourier series. Finally, linear systems students find it hard to correctlyinterpret the
involve individual students working in faculty research laboratories with one-on-onementoring, typically spanning one or more semesters, although the activities and mentoringstyles may vary. Due to limited capacity, UREs are often competitive and have selection criteriasuch as grades, test scores, and previous experience or performance based in a class [19].In contrast, CUREs have a structured curriculum and are open to a broader range of students,placing higher demands on mentors to guide multiple students [18]. Duration is a critical factorin both UREs and CUREs, influencing outcomes significantly [18]. UREs and CUREs differ inselectivity, duration, setting, mentoring approaches, and associated costs. Notably, Burt andcolleagues [19] delve into