Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chiu Choi

Session 3432 Undergraduate Controls Laboratory Experience Chiu H. Choi, Ph.D., P.E. University of North Florida Division of Engineering Electrical Engineering ProgramAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to share the educational experience offered to the students through acontrols laboratory course in the electrical engineering program at the University of North Florida.The laboratory experience included the design and prototyping of proportional, proportional-integral, proportional

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karl L Wang, Department of Engineering Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Boulevard Clarement, CA 91711 909-607-9136 ; Clint S Cole, Digilent, Inc.; Tinghui Wang, Digilent Inc; Joe Harris, Digilent, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #6849An Effective Project-Based Embedded System Design Teaching MethodProf. Karl L Wang, Department of Engineering Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Boulevard Clarement, CA91711 909-607-9136 Dr. Karl Wang is the Laspa Professor of Electrical Engineering Practice of in the Department of Engineer- ing at Harvey Mudd College. He is teaching Introduction to Engineering Systems, Digital Electronics and Computer Engineering, Microprocessor-based Systems: Design and Applications, and Embedded Sys- tem Designs, Introduction to CMOS VLSI Design, and Engineering Clinics. His previous experience include working in the

Conference Session

Effective Energy Laboratory Ideas

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Nelson; David Flegel; Brian Johnson; Herbert Hess

Session 3233 Undergraduate Research and Teaching Opportunities from a Transient Network Analyzer Ronald O. Nelson, David C. Flegel, Brian K. Johnson, Herbert L. Hess University of Idaho Moscow, IdahoAbstractA Transient Network Analyzer (TNA) is a large, controlled hardware simulation environment forstudying electrical faults. Background is presented on how the university acquired a TNA from apublic utility and adapted it for use in teaching and research. System is described withspecifications. Capstone design process combined

Conference Session

Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Semahat Siddika Demir

Session 1309 A Simulation-Based Teaching and Learning Resource for Electrophysiology: iCell Semahat S. DemirJoint Biomedical Engineering Program, University of Memphis & University of Tennessee 330 Engineering Technology Building, Memphis TN, 38152-3210, USA Email: sdemir@memphis.edu Abstract— An interactive web resource, iCell (http://ssd1.bme.memphis.edu/icell/), wasdeveloped as a simulation-based teaching and learning tool for electrophysiology. The web siteintegrates education and research, and provides JAVA applets that represent

Conference Session

Laboratory Applications of Computers

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nannan He, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Han-Way Huang, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Computers in Education

classes were held in the laboratory. For this course, thissetting eases the flexible adoption of a variety of teaching methods, depending on thecharacteristics of different course topics in sequence. The main teaching formats and materialemployed in this course are presented as the following.At the beginning, we used power point slides presentation and class discussion to introducestudents the topics on defining real-time systems. These topics are basis for further learning.Thus, it is important to help students to set up a solid and comprehensive foundation. In the classdiscussion, some questions are designed to enable students to reflect on key concepts in real-timesystems, and to encourage active learning. Here are some examples: 1) Are real

Conference Session

How to Effectively Teach Using Teams

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Burian, University of Utah; Pedro Romero, University of Utah; Steven Bartlett, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

, describescharacteristics of an effective team, defines leadership, and discusses conflict types and conflictresolution. Additional short reading assignments are given at the beginning of selected labsessions (about every other session in the Hydraulics course) to supplement the general overviewof teaming and leadership with focused excerpts from texts and brief papers presenting qualitiesof effective leaders12,13, stressing the importance of leadership and communications in the civilengineering profession6,14,15, and describing the importance of civil engineers taking leadershippositions in industry and government16. These “leadership” laboratory periods begin withstudents reading the assigned paper or excerpt. The instructor or teaching assistant then leads

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Transportation and Geotechnical Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Hanson, California Polytechnic State University; David J. Elton, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

AC 2012-5392: MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL TEAMING EXERCISES IN AGEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORYDr. James L. Hanson, California Polytechnic State University Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Cal PolyDr. David J. Elton, Auburn University David J. Elton, Ph.D., S.M., P.E., is a professor, Civil Engineering Department, Auburn University, AL 36849. Page 25.957.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Multi-institutional Teaming Exercises in a Geotechnical Engineering LaboratoryAbstractA teaching methodology was developed incorporating

Conference Session

Great Ideas for Projects that Teach Instrumentation

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

El-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Zengqian Wang, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven K. Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

control engineering teaching laboratory14 was developed and demonstrated atOregon State University in 1998. A remote laboratory called VLAB15 involving an oscilloscopewas set up at The National University of Singapore in 1999. Later, a Web-based experiment16 forcontrolling a coupled tank apparatus was developed. In the Process Control and AutomationLaboratory17 at Case Western Reserve University, a process rig was made accessible over theInternet, where the user can submit parameters using a Web browser from a remote client to aLaboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) Web server, which isconnected to the process rig via a PLC control module. An interactive online laboratory forremote education called Automated Internet

Conference Session

Pedagogy in Physics Education, Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teresa L. Larkin, American University; Baishakhi Bose, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D)

and Learning at AU presented Dr. Larkin with the Milton and Sonia Greenberg Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award 2013. Dr. Larkin was honored by the International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP) at the ICL conference held in Kos Island, Greece in September 2018 with the International Engineering Educator Honoris Causa award for outstanding contributions in the field of Engineering Education.Dr. Baishakhi Bose, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Baishakhi Bose is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL). Her cur- rent research focus is on life cycle assessment of novel polymers, building materials and plastic recycling processes. She obtained her PhD. in Materials

Conference Session

Virtual Laboratories: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Pamela L. Dickrell, University of Florida; Lilianny Virguez, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

, 93(3), 195-204, 2004.[3] C. Kelly, E. Gummer, P. Harding, & M.D. Koretsky, “Teaching experimental design usingvirtual laboratories: Development, implementation and assessment of the virtual bioreactorlaboratory.” In Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education AnnualConference & Exposition, June 2008.[4] G. Olympiou & Z.C. Zacharia, “Blending physical and virtual manipulatives: An effort toimprove students' conceptual understanding through science laboratoryexperimentation”, Science Education, 96(1), 21-47, 2012.[5] J.O. Campbell, J.R. Bourne, P.J. Mosterman, & A.J. Brodersen, “The effectiveness oflearning simulations for electronic laboratories” Journal of Engineering Education, 91(1), 81-87,2002.

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rick Evans, Cornell University; Jeffrey Moses, Cornell University; Traci M. Nathans-Kelly, Cornell University

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

students with practical andsometimes quite authentic experiences of what it means to be a disciplinary participant. One ofthose important knowledge practices is scientific documentation or keeping a lab notebook. Labnotebooks perform a number of key functions. They at once provide a record of a scientist’s orengineer’s work, serve as an important reference for other scientific genres, e.g., future reportsand/or articles, and perform as a kind of journal that enables questioning presuppositions,considering new approaches, and generating new ideas.Given the importance of notebooks, there is surprisingly little scholarship on how to teach theiruse. Stanley and Lewandowski [2] surveyed students in undergraduate laboratory courses andevaluated how

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anas Chalah, Harvard University; Fawwaz Habbal, Harvard University; Michael Raspuzzi, Harvard University

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

Paper ID #26418How Research Informs Teaching and Learning Models: Case Studies in Build-ing Solar Cell and Bioengineering Technology in the Lab and ClassroomDr. Anas Chalah, Harvard University Dr. Anas Chalah Assistant Dean for Teaching and Learning Lecturer on Engineering Sciences Director of Lab Safety Program Harvard University John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science Pierce Hall G2A, 29 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)-495-8991 achalah@seas.harvard.eduDr. Fawwaz Habbal, Harvard University Fawwaz Habbal has served as the Executive Dean for the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver; John D. Lynch, Washington State University, Vancouver

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

Paper ID #29040Perspectives and practices of undergraduate/graduate teaching assistantson writing pedagogical knowledge and lab report evaluation inengineering laboratory coursesDr. Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver Dr. Dave (Dae-Wook) Kim is Associate Professor and Mechanical Engineering Program Coordinator in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. He has been very active in pedagogical research and undergraduate research projects, and his research interests include writing transfer of engineering students and writing pedagogy in engineering lab courses. His

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships: Bringing Industry into the Curriculum Development and Design Cycle

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammy Baldwin, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.; Marisa Hemingway, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc

Tagged Divisions

College-Industry Partnerships

Laboratories developed and integrated a formalized mentor program intothe EDP. The program coordinators reviewed the needs of associate engineers, evaluated bestpractices, and created benchmarks for success. It became evident that a mechanism beyondsupervision and teaching was a necessary component of the new training program. Mentoringserves many purposes at varying levels. The EDP includes numerous individuals across theUnited States and therefore had to be multifaceted and deliverable through contemporary trainingand communications methods.The needs of the associate engineers included a formal mentoring component that would aid theirultimate success as well as assist with swift facilitated growth. Formal mentoring can be achallenge, because it

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Asad Davari; Amir Rezaei

forsome undergraduate students who can be classified as sensing, or visual learners. Moderncomputation tools equipped with simulation and visual capability can ease explanation of topicsin vibration and control theories in the classroom and laboratory. Through the use of thesemodern visualization and simulation tools, it is possible to teach “mathematically advancedconcepts in vibration and control courses in engineering” more efficiently and make it moreinteresting for them to understand.This paper describes teaching vibration and automatic control courses in the Mechanical andElectrical Engineering departments at the West Virginia University Institute of Technology.Experiments are designed to give student thorough understanding of basic

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratory Approaches in ECE Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph P. Hoffbeck, University of Portland

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE), Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, China, 2016.[14] E. Cooney, S. Deal, A. McNeely, and H. Chaubey, “Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Project to Create Musical Effect Box,” in 2019 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration, 2019 CIEC, New Orleans, LA, February 2019.[15] E. Bezzam, A. Hoffet, and P. Prandoni, "Teaching Practical DSP with Off-the-shelf Hardware and Free Software, "2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, UK, 2019, pp. 7660-7664.[16] Y. Lin and T.D. Morton, “A Microcontroller-based DSP Laboratory Curriculum Paper,” in 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 2017.[17] K.D. Coonley and J. Miles

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratory Approaches in ECE Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei-Jer (Peter) Han, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE), Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

Paper ID #43628A Trilogy for Teaching and Learning Digital Electronics and MicroprocessorsProf. Wei-Jer (Peter) Han, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 1. BackgroundAccording to the Moore’s law, which is the observation that the number of transistors in an integratedcircuit doubles about every two years. At present, one example of a GPU is the Nvidia H100, which has80 billion transistors on a single chip. At the same time, on August 9, 2022, the President of the UnitedStates signed the CHIPS and Science Act. All of the above mean the education of digital and

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences in Signal Processing and Controls

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ding Yuan, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Teaching Engineering Design Concepts Through A Multidisciplinary Control ProjectAbstractThis paper described the design and the implementation of a multidisciplinary project in two-sequential control courses to reinforce students’ understanding of engineering design conceptsfrom a system point of view. Such a project had two phases which corresponded to the twocourses. In the Phase I of the project, a vague problem idea was given, which required thestudents to design a (multidisciplinary) mechatronics system. The students formed in teams andcollected information to further define the project before drawing their first drafts. Multiple ideaswere

Conference Session

Teaching Tools: Communication (NEE)

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maryam Mirabolghasemi, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

final rehearsal sessionwhere the teams received feedback from other students and the instructor before their finalpresentation to the invited external audience.Oral presentation was one of the alternative assignments that Lepek and Stock (2011)incorporated in their chemical engineering laboratory sequence. Students were evaluated basedon criteria such as time management, body language of the presenters, slides quality, technicalcontent, and the ability to engage with the audience and answer their questions.VideoIt is a well-known fact that visualization is an effective tool for teaching engineering topics.Among visual teaching aids, training videos are most efficient as they can provide real-worldexamples and applications, and explain how

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Ross, University of Detroit Mercy; Eswara Venugopal

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

., Parker, G.W., and Beichner, R.J., “Can one lab make a difference?”, Phys. Educ. Res., Am. J. Phys., 68 (7), July 2000, pp. S60.3. Arons, A.B., Teaching Introductory Physics, John Wiley & Sons, 1997.4. McDermott, L.C., Shaffer, P.S., and the Physics Education Group, Tutorials in Introductory Physics, Prentice Hall, 1998.5. McDermott, L.C., et.al., Physics by Inquiry, John Wiley & Sons, 1996.6. Ross, R.A., “Inquiry-Based Experiments in the Introductory Physics Laboratory”, Proceedings of the 2000 Frontiers in Education Conference, Kansas City MO, (2000).7. Ross, R.A., Langrill, M., and Tomlinson, S., “Directed inquiry in the introductory physics laboratory”, Proceedings of the 1998 North Central Section Spring Conference of the

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part Two

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephan Durham, University of Colorado at Denver; Micah Hale, University of Arkansas; Seamus Freyne, Manhattan College

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

AC 2008-2564: CLASSROOM TEACHING AIDS AND LABORATORYEXPERIMENTATION TO ENGAGE STUDENTS IN MATERIALS LEARNINGStephan Durham, University of Colorado at DenverMicah Hale, University of ArkansasSeamus Freyne, Manhattan College Page 13.296.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Classroom Teaching Aids and Laboratory Experimentation to Engage Students in Materials LearningAbstractMost civil engineering programs require one course in materials and materials testing. Thesecourses are designed to provide students with general knowledge of the production, properties,and behavior of common structural materials. Emphasis is often placed on the

Conference Session

ECCD Innovative Teaching Applications

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mustafa Farhadi, Florida International University; Osama A. Mohammed, Florida International University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

Paper ID #12974Design and Hardware Implementation of Laboratory-Scale Hybrid DC powerSystem for Educational PurposeMr. Mustafa Farhadi, Florida International University Mustafa Farhadi received the BS degree in EE from Mazandaran University, Mazandaran, Iran, in 2007 and the MS degree in EE from Iran University of Science & Technology, Tehran, Iran in 20011. He is currently a graduate teaching and research assistant working toward the Ph.D. degree at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Florida International University, Miami, Florida USA. His current research interests include design

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Franz

Fire Alarm Laboratory Class using LabVIEW Software taken by Students from Two-Year Colleges Prof. Harry Franz, P.E.1 University of Houston- Downtown Member ASEE, IEEE, ISA. NSPE, TAPAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the creation of a Safety and Fire Alarm LaboratoryCourse that uses LabVIEW and is taken by students that originate from two-year colleges.The University of Houston – Downtown in Houston, Texas has recently instituted a Safetyand Fire BSET program. One of the courses in the program is the “Fire Alarm” course. Thechallenge has been to create a laboratory that is within both budget and

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (ELOS) Technical Session 3: Best of ELOS

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gautom K. Das, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

Paper ID #39606At-Home Drug Delivery Experiment: Teaching Mass Transfer Using FoodDyes, DIY SpectrometerDr. Gautom K. Das, University of Maryland Baltimore County Dr. Gautom Das is a Lecturer in the Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering at UMBC. Prior to joining UMBC, he was a Research Scientist and Lecturer in the Chemical and Biomolecular En- gineering at Rice University, and a Post-doctoral Scholar at the University of California, Davis. He earned his PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He has worked in laboratories in the US, Canada

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (ELOS) Technical Session 3: Best of ELOS

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Riley, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

complete instructional strategy that seeks to overcome issues of student conceptual understanding. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Mobile Phone-Based Contact and Non-Contact Vibration Sensing for Structural Dynamics Teaching LaboratoriesAbstractAcceleration-based dynamic sensing has been available for many years and numerous researchershave made effective use of the accelerometer available in mobile phones for measuring vibrationsat frequencies up to half the sampling rate of the phone. Manufacturers of mobile phones, tablets,and other devices are adding new sensors with each new model creating the potential to expandthe engineering laboratory from the confines of university

Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 6: Bring Your Own Experiment!

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Y Heil-heintz; Jacob Wojcicki, Rowan University; Mitja Trkov, Rowan University; Wei Xue, Rowan University; Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University; Cassandra Sue Ellen Jamison, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

Ph.D. degrees in BME from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024BYOE: Wacky-Waving-Non-Inflatable-Arm-Flailing-Tube-Man for Teaching Soft RoboticsAbstract. The emerging field of soft robotics has a wide range of applications in many differentfields. Due to its recent emergence and development, it is important to formally expose studentsinterested in STEM to this rapidly developing interdisciplinary field. We have addressed this issueby assembling the undergraduate engineering students to create a hands-on experience for college-level engineering students, allowing them to become familiar with a subset of soft-robotics-relevant

Conference Session

Committee on Effective Teaching Presents: Models, Models, & More Models

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Warren Plugge, Central Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

Paper ID #38794A Hands-On Concrete Laboratory Framework for Construction Manage-mentEducationDr. Philip Warren Plugge, Central Washington University Dr. Plugge is an full professor at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington teaching heavy civil construction management. Professor Plugge has earned a Ph.D. in Education and Human Resource Studies with a focus in Civil Construction Management. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 A Hands-On Concrete Laboratory Framework for Construction Management Education P. Warren

Conference Session

Digital Methods in Mechanics: Teaching with Digital Tools

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rick Hill, University of Detroit, Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics Division (MECHS)

Paper ID #37645Employing Live Scripts for Implementing Virtual Laboratories andActivitiesDr. Rick Hill, University of Detroit, Mercy Dr. Richard Hill is a Professor and Assistant Dean in the College of Engineering & Science at Univer- sity of Detroit Mercy. Dr. Hill received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1998, and an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cal- ifornia, Berkeley in 2000. He joined the faculty of Detroit Mercy in 2008 after receiving a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from the

Conference Session

Teaching Methods for the 21st Century: Part 2

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anastasia Micheals, San Jose State University; Emily Allen, San Jose State University; Jeanne Linsdell, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

AC 2007-1875: WRITING PROGRAM IMPROVEMENTS FOR A MATERIALSENGINEERING LABORATORY COURSEAnastasia Micheals, San Jose State University Anastasia Micheals, materials researcher and instructor in materials engineering, works with a wide variety of materials, including metals, ceramics, composites, and polymers. She has more than 13 years experience in industry, government and consulting in the areas of materials characterization, analysis, and processing. She holds an M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University, and currently teaches Materials Engineering at San Jose State University. Courses include introductory materials engineering, electrical properties of

Conference Session

Real and Virtual - "New" Approaches to Teaching "Old" Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Daniel D. Anastasio, University of Connecticut; Aravind Suresh, University of Connecticut

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

courses. Students can earn a resource as they successfullycomplete assignments, increasing their grade as the semester progresses. Earning things basedon successfully completing assignments, as opposed to losing things based on poor performance,can alter student perceptions of the class and give them a more positive attitude toward learning9.While it is still difficult to judge if adding game elements actually contributes to student learningor retention, and while gamification is not a “magic bullet” that can be applied to every course toequal effect, it can allow students to associate the course material with positive reinforcement1,10.Additionally, the novelty of the teaching style can be memorable to students11.2. Previous Laboratory