/instrumentation related to fluency, speechproduction, language, cognition, voice, resonance, feeding/swallowing, and auditoryhabilitation/rehabilitation [3]. In clinical practice, Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) andAudiologists (AuDs) utilize a range of technologies including audio recording/acoustic analysis,electromyography, and video imaging/analysis. Research projects for our REU includeassessment of noise levels in mobile audiology clinics, image analysis to identify features ofpediatric dysphagia from videofluoroscopy swallow studies, and assessment of surfaceelectromyography data of oropharyngeal musculature collected during swallowing events.Beyond the research, students participated in professional development sessions and
, “Value added or misattributed? A multi-institution study on the educational benefit of labs for reinforcing physics content,” Physical Review Physics Education Research, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 1–12, 2017. eprint: 1705.03580.[3] S. Willner-Giwerc, K. B. Wendell, C. B. Rogers, E. E. Danahy, and I. Stuopis, “Solution diversity in engineering computing final projects,” in ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, vol. 2020-June, 2020.
Paper ID #35287Who are the instructional assistant interns?: Examining the synergy ofteaching assistants in first-year engineering course during the pandemicDr. Gerald Tembrevilla, McMaster University Gerald Tembrevilla completed his PhD in science (physics) education in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada in July 2020. Currently, he serves as a postdoctoral fellow for the PIVOT project, a cutting-edge revamp of the engineering curriculum in the Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. During his
(not including 2020 due to COVID restrictions) up to 24 secondary students come toparticipate in hands on/minds on engineering projects, coupled with lectures and lab timelearning skills of electrical and computer engineering, aspects of professional engineering andcollaboration and critical thinking skills, among others. The experience is designed to makeengineering as a profession a possibility and choice for future university students. In addition tothe informal engineering day camp the faculty hosts, there is also a federally funded teacherresearch experience (RET) engineering faculty provide in collaboration with a local communitySTEM outreach organization. This year, the day camp and RET experiences were combined toaddress problems of
faculty involved in the 3+1program and regular check-ins with students helped instructors troubleshoot problems and keepreliable accessibility to class content with minimal disruptions to class progress.Overall, remote teaching success encompassed adapting tools typically used to facilitate in-person classes to an online environment. Constant interaction and communication amonginstructors and with students played a central role to ensure everyone had the tools they neededto succeed.References[1] Ladyshewsky, Richard K., "Instructor Presence in Online Courses and Student Satisfaction," ijSOLT, vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 1 – 3, Jan. 2013.[2] Simpson, N., “Asynchronous access to conventional course delivery: a pilot project”. Br. J. Educ
connections werefostered through breakout rooms during class, a class GroupMe account, a virtual study lounge,and group project assignments. These provided for increased student peer interactions inside andoutside of class. Student-faculty connections were developed through opportunities to participatein socialization and wellness events. These were informal remote gatherings that were a mix ofsubstantive and social events to attract a varied range of interests. Students were polled at thebeginning of the semester regarding the types of events that would be offered, and it was madeclear that participation was voluntary and would not impact grades in any way. The remoteevents were hosted roughly every other week and included gaming nights, a book club
registered professional engineer with APEGA (Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta). Prior to her career at MacEwan, Shelley worked in industry as a research engineer and a consulting engineer for several years.Dr. Jeffrey A Davis P.Eng., Grant MacEwan University Dr. Davis’ research focuses on pedagogical topics such as student engagement, active learning, and cognitive development. Projects he is currently working on include ”Development of a risk assessment model for the retention of students”, ”Development of Student Assessment Software”, and ”Improving Student Engagement through Active Learning”. American c
specifically engineering as a field of study and career.Dr. Todd France, Ohio Northern University Todd France is the director of Ohio Northern University’s Engineering Education program, which strives to prepare engineering educators for grades 7-12. Dr. France also helps coordinate the first-year engi- neering experience at ONU. He earned his PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder in Architectural Engineering, and conducted research in K-12 engineering education and project-based learning.Dr. J. Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University Dr. Hylton is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Coordinator of the First-Year Engi- neering experience for the T.J. Smull College of Engineering at Ohio Northern University
and post-attendance survey served as participants for this project (N = 204),approximately half of which were middle school students (n = 99, accounting for 48.5% of thesample). Over 60% of the respondents were female (n = 124). A majority of respondents Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE North Midwest Sectional Conference Knowing an Engineer and Engineering Self-Efficacyreported their ethnicity as Black/African-American (n = 97, or 47.8% of sample) orWhite/Caucasian (n = 86, or 42.4% of sample).Materials A survey was designed to measure demographics, engineering self efficacy, courseenrollment and extra-curricular behavior, and expectations and perceptions of the YES! Expo.Of
, Altera, and Lattice Semiconductor. Tochoose among Microblaze, Nios II, and Mico32, we considered the following factors: Development software support Availability of tutorials and books for the development software Availability of affordable demo boards for lab projects Availability of lab projectsAfter comparing these factors, we chose Altera’s Nios II soft core processor for our course.Nios II is a soft-core processor targeted for Altera’s FPGA devices. As opposed to a fixedprefabricated processor, a soft-core processor is described in HDL codes and then mapped ontoFPGA’s generic logic blocks (logic element (LE) in Altera’s term). A soft-core processor can beconfigured and tuned by adding or removing features on a
tapeof the ukulele, which is the traditional and insulating tape to serve as an improvisedmethod of building items with curved PCB to mount the LEDs. A printout of theplywood pieces. However, we consider the mechanical drawing of the fretboard wasbody of the Smart Ukulele, given our used to line up the LEDs, ensuring theymanufacturing constraints, one of the would be directly under the fretboard whensuccesses of the project. the system was assembled. The LEDs were soldered directly to one end of the strips ofThe bridge was modeled after a traditional copper tape and lead wires were soldered toukulele bridge. It
into aesthetic issues provided the surprising result that the decorative designproffered by the student, shown in Figure 2, was not preferred over a basic cylindrical form.A pleasant surprise was to learn that many popcorn devotees existed and were happy to helpcomplete the questionnaire. It seemed that devotees who would be willing to get an expensivepopcorn popping system were less concerned about aesthetics of any individual component asthey were the system’s ability to package nicely. Figure 2 – Ideation sketches of popcorn popper [8].Medical DeviceOne example of a student design project involved a tool that would extract a femur pin duringpartial knee replacement surgery [9]. The design research relied upon
board member of the American Society of Engineering Education’s Precollege Engineering Education Division; as an advisor for Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab Satellite Network; as a committee member on the National Academy of Engineering project, Educator Capacity Building in PreK-12 Engineering Education; and advises the NSF funded INCLUDES project, STEM PUSH Network at the University of Pittsburgh.Dr. Malinda S Zarske, University of Colorado Boulder Malinda Zarske is the Associate Director with the Engineering Plus program at the University of Col- orado Boulder and Chair of ASEE’s Commission on P12 Engineering Education. She teaches undergrad- uate product design and core courses through Engineering Plus as
to several aquatic drastically decreases the amount of food that isspecies. This number is projected to double by 2050 wasted. However, not all leftovers are eligible to beif current trends do not change. The use of picked up and donated. We aim to reduce outgoingfood-related items such as plastic utensils, straws, food waste by 50-60% with our proposed policies.and containers over an extended period contributes tothis problem. The issue of plastic pollution has only IV. TECHNICAL APPROACHgotten worse since the COVID-19 pandemic began,forcing an increase in single-use items to minimize To decrease the number of single-usethe spread of the disease. Policies that will
c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Southeast Section Conference Adaptive Solar Energy Harvesting and Data TransmissionJames Kaul, Greg Weed, Jared Cunningham, Alisha Sue Pettit, Imtiaz Ahmed, Wook-Sung Yoo Computer Sciences and Electrical Electrical Enginering Marshall University, Huntington, WV, USAAbstractA prototype for an adaptive solar tracking and efficient data communication system empoweredby the harvested solar energy was developed by a capstone project team at Marshall University.The prototype is developed on Raspberry Pi and Arduino development boards and the overallsystem comprises a solar tracking module
EMT program is to help students gain a well-rounded skill set that willallow them to succeed in an emergency management or homeland security position. To reachthis goal, the existing courses in EMT have been enriched to induct contents of virtual reality,telecommunication, nuclear emergency preparedness, and atmospheric dispersion model into thecurriculum. Besides developing new course and course modules, the project team also revisedexisting courses. Establishing and Upgrading LaboratoriesIt is believed that technology concepts are best learned with hands-on activities. Therefore, alongwith enhancing EMT’s curriculum, the EMT faculty also work on adding and upgrading the Proceedings of the 2021
skills impact the current project in real-world ways that people can understand and be involved in. As part of a university that is focused on supporting the 21st century student demographic he continues to innovate and research on how we can design new methods of learning to educate both our students and communities on how STEM and STEAM make up a large part of that vision and our future.Dr. Diane Elisa Golding, University of Texas at El Paso Diane is a passionate educator and proponent for K-12 engineering education and the education of future teachers.She is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Diane serves as the director for the UTEP YES! She Can program that support minorities and
Paper ID #35108Simulated Laboratory-Based Learning In A Thermal Fluid Laboratory CourseDr. Mohammad Abu Rafe Biswas, The University of Texas at Tyler Dr. Rafe Biswas is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Tyler in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His expertise and interests include process dynamics and control, fuel cell systems and thermal fluid engineering education. He teaches courses in system dynamics and control, process control, energy conversion, and thermal fluids laboratory at the Houston Engineering Center. He also has been advisor and mentor to several senior design project groups.Mr
runs through the first week of December when the winterinspection of the airplane. break begins. The Spring period starts in January and runs If during the technical review the judges detect some through the end of May.discrepancy between the measurements written in the When the class period begins, the project students jointechnical report and the aircraft that presents the equipment, the same activities as the rest of the students and spendpoints are subtracted to
. Previously, he was an assistant di- rector at Massachusetts General Hospital (a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School) in Boston. He has also held faculty appointments in Illinois, Miami and Singapore. At NTU in Singapore, he was the founding director of the BME Research Center and the founding head of the Bioengineering division. He was the Principal Investigator for several Biomedical Engineering projects. He also worked in R&D at Coulter Electronics in Miami and in hospital design and operations management at Bechtel for healthcare megaprojects. He has served in the National Medical Research Council in Singapore. His research in- terests are biomedical signals and image processing, telemedicine, medical
Shear Wall Building Felipe J. Perez1, Yasser S. Salem1, Brittany J. Myers1, Cristian Aguilar1, Garrett Jones1, Daniella Ginocchio1, Edwin Medina1, and Kevin Chin1 1 California State Polytechnic University, PomonaAbstractThis paper presents results of a capstone senior project at California State Polytechnic University,Pomona. Students conducted a vulnerability assessment of a five-story building constructed inSouthern California. The structure has non-ductile concrete shear walls at the core and gravityframes at the perimeter. Partial infilled walls exist within the perimeter frames, creating captivecolumns. Students studied as-built plans for the structure and conducted an assessment of
Paper ID #242572018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29A Leadership Collaborative Model: Fostering Community Through DiverseStudent Organization CollaborationsMs. Tricia S. Berry, University of Texas, Austin Tricia Berry, Director of the Women in Engineering Program (WEP) at The University of Texas at Austin, is responsible for leading the efforts on recruitment and retention of women in the Cockrell School of Engineering. She concurrently serves as Director of the Texas Girls Collaborative Project, connecting Texas organizations, companies and
development of "Introduction to Embedded Computing," which provided avaluable model for both pedagogical approaches as well as laboratory and instructor resourcesthat would be required.7 All of these courses are taught in a studio style in which the laboratoryand lecture material are combined into a single cohesive period and in the same physical space,as shown in Figure 1. Each class meeting typically consists of a short lecture in which conceptsthat are relevant to the experiment are introduced followed by the experimental section of themeeting; all classes have both experimental, and lecture components and each course in thesequence is taught each semester. Educational research has demonstrated the effectiveness of hands-on project-based learning
Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Morgan State University. Mrs. Partlow currently serves as the Program Director of the Verizon Minority Male Maker Program, which focuses on providing minority middle school boys with hands-on learning experiences using advanced technology, app development software, 3-D design techniques, and entrepreneurship skills. Mrs. Partlow also serves as the Lab Manager of the Engineering Visualization Research Laboratory (EVRL) where she helps to advise students on undergraduate electrical engineering research projects ranging from smart lighting technologies to cyber security. She has also served as an online course development specialist responsible for the creation
-Learning) for approximately ten years. She has incorporated service-learning projects into her classes and laboratories since she started teaching in 2000. Her research interests include community engaged learning and pedagogy, K-12 outreach, biomaterials and materials testing and analysis.Dr. M. Suzanne Franco, Wright State University Professor of Statistics and Research, Leadership Studies in Education and Organizations, College of Ed- ucation and Human Services. Program Director for EdD in Organizational StudiesBrett Doudican, University of Dayton Brett Doudican is the curriculum coach of the NSF RET for Materials and Manufacturing program. He also is a full time math teacher and department chair at the Dayton Early
from theseenhanced educational practices (results). During the first year of the project, data was collectedto assess Level 1- 3 outcomes. Level 4 outcomes will be developed and tracked in subsequentyears to assess changes in student engagement and achievement levels in classes taught byprogram participants. Data collected included the following measures: Pre-program classroom observation and lesson plan evaluation[10,11] Pre-program online survey (Adapted from SWEPT and RET NSF Programs) End-of-program online survey (Adapted from SWEPT and RET NSF Programs) Post-program individual interview[12] Mid-academic year interview Academic year classroom observation and lesson plan evaluation (in progress
state-of-the-art learning spaces. While at Purdue University, Imbrie co-led the creation of the First-Year Engineering Program’s Ideas to Inno- vation (i2i) Learning Laboratory, a design-oriented facility that engages students in team-based, socially relevant projects. While at Texas A&M University Imbrie co-led the design of a 525,000 square foot state-of-the-art engineering education focused facility; the largest educational building in the state. His expertise in educational pedagogy, student learning, and teaching has impacted thousands of students at the universities for which he has been associated. Imbrie is nationally recognized for his work in ac- tive/collaborative learning pedagogies, teaming and
State University in 1989. Dr. Lowell maintains a re- search program in directed energy weed control. She mentors undergraduate students in funded research projects who have gone on to present at local, state and national conferences.Dr. Abiodun Fasoro, Central State University Dr. Fasoro is an Assistant Professor of Manufacturing Engineering at Central State University, Wilber- force, OH. He is also the coordinator of CSU’s Additive Manufacturing and Rapids Prototyping Labora- tory. Dr. Fasoro is the Program Director of the Verizon Innovative Learning Program directed by Central State University. Prior to joining CSU, Dr. Fasoro was a Research Engineer at Owens Corning’s Global R&D center in Granville, OH. Dr
2000 to 2010 with 7.9%increase, while non-STEM positions grew just 2.6% over this period. It is projected that STEMjobs will continue growing 17.0% during 2008 - 2018, compared to just 9.8% for non-STEMjobs (Langdon, 2011). Besides, workers in STEM occupations also earn more on average than their counterparts inother fields, regardless of their educational attainment. A regression analysis – which controls fora variety of demographic, geographic, industry, etc – demonstrated the salary premium in STEMfields. In addition to higher earnings, workers in STEM occupations on average experience lowerunemployment rates than those in other fields. Another impressive characteristic of STEMworkers is their educational attainment. More than two-thirds
▪ Students can receive instantaneous feedback ▪ Reduces the required time for grading • Good for increased course sizes o Randomly Generated constants, unknown and units ▪ Minimize cheating o Interactive laboratory style problems ▪ Train students before coming to the lab • Save lab resources and time • Students can progress at their own pace • Students develop ideas of how to complete their project before completing it in the lab • Get a realistic sense of how adjusting a parameter affects the system o Tracking