Download Professional Networking Skills for Engineering Students Many students are missing the personal networking skills to effectively seek opportunities, despite opportunities to interact with campus recruiters. This is a project to develop materials and active engagement learning tools to develop these skills in engineering students. Resource Added: April 1, 2015 170KB, PDF
Download Expansion of Biomedical Engineering Materials Core Curriculum Expansion of integrated engineering curriculum (IEC) to enhance students understanding of materials for biomedical applications through hands-on, project driven labs. Resource Added: February 16, 2015 2MB, PDF
Download Can We Guide Novice Design Thinking with Music? Hansen and Melzner (2014) provide indications that certain music can make the listener think/act in abstract and global terms, and other music promotes concrete modes of thinking/action and focus on detail. That music affects real-time brain activity is not news (e.g., the “Mozart effect”), but this work offers possible interventions through music to improve students’ ability to think divergently (i.e., establish high-level construals‘ that extract the essential, core aspects’) when design process steps warrant it and, conversely, to promote convergent thinking at appropriate times in the engineering design cycle. Though long term effects of music on thinking have not been demonstrated, it is this real-time effect of music that is of consequence in helping students practice the iteration of divergent and convergent thinking—design thinking. If design thinking can be guided by music cues, repeated cued practice may have long term effects on how students manage their own design thinking. Resource Added: January 12, 2015 608KB, PDF
Download Engineering Opportunities: Reimagining the First Year Experience How might we retain and equip 1st year students? Resource Added: December 23, 2014 3MB, PDF
Download Effective Use of Classroom Response Systems in Large : Introductory Level Engineering Courses Effective Use of Classroom Response Systems in Large : Introductory Level Engineering Courses Resource Added: December 19, 2014 208KB, PDF
Download An Online, Multi-Media "Textbook" for Introduction to Chemical Engineering Want textbook to reflect excitement and challenges of modern chemical engineering Resource Added: December 17, 2014 435KB, PDF
Download Interactive and Comprehensive Mathematical Modeling Learning Environment Mathematical modeling encompasses the highest learning objectives in Bloom’s taxonomy, but more importantly, modeling is a task that cannot be automated; in contrast, there are many tools that excel at performing the algorithmic tasks emphasized by most texts and professors. Therefore, one of my major interests in teaching is to provide education and training in formulating/modeling real-life problems as optimization problems. Resource Added: December 17, 2014 1008KB, PDF
Download Employing Fellowship Proposal Development to Teach a Biomedical Device Engineering Course In order to train a workforce to tackle diverse scientific and technological challenges, there is a need for courses that expose students to essential knowledge and tools to facilitate pursuit of a specific idea with a multidisciplinary scope. To address this need, I developed and taught a graduate-level course titled “Micro- and Nano-Technology in Life Sciences”. I utilize the development of a fellowship proposal as the framework to effectively teach a highly-interdisciplinary biomedical device engineering course and instill critical thinking skills. Overall, this approach enables a self-directed and collaborative learning environment, where students are motivated by the practicality of the proposal (e.g., an end-product for submission as a fellowship application) and engaged in lectures and assignments to more effectively strengthen their technical knowledgebase. Resource Added: December 17, 2014 227KB, PDF
Download Active Laboratory-based Learning Strategies applied to Biotransport The purpose of this project is to incorporate a laboratory-based component into an existing Biotransport course offered in the chemical engineering department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of actual processes, conducted in class, and a sound dissemination plan will prepare undergraduates for developing and conducting experiments based on transport phenomena principles learned in the classroom. This strategy will stimulate learning, facilitate the transition between theory and practice and help students embrace the challenge of developing efficient devices that may lead to sensible solutions to a range of current biomedical transport problems. Resource Added: December 17, 2014 308KB, PDF
Download Transforming CE 361: Introduction to Transportation Engineering to a Project-based Learning Course The objective of the proposed work is to redesign CE 361: Introduction to Transportation Engineering, which is offered at the junior-year, within a project-based learning (PBL) framework. While the development of problem-based and project-based learning courses is not novel, the application of non-traditional teaching methods in the transportation engineering curriculum⎯besides the first and senior years⎯ has been surprisingly scarce in transportation engineering education. Providing students with real-life transportation projects and challenges can be instrumental in fostering and maintaining their interest in transportation engineering and provide them with a broader perspective related to the social and environmental aspects of the basic concepts they learn in the classroom. Resource Added: December 17, 2014 385KB, PDF
Download Arduino as a Learning Tool for a Mechanical Engineering Measurements Lab This innovation introduces the Arduino micro-controller board as a educational tool in an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering teaching lab. I want to offer students the opportunity to do more hands-on work, and the low cost of the Arduino platform will allow each student to borrow a board and a set of sensors during the entire semester. The core of the innovation is a final group project in which students will work with a sensor of their choice to design a simple experiment in order to test a hypothesis. Resource Added: November 20, 2014 2MB, PDF
Download Nanoscience and Molecular Engineering - Undergraduate Option Programs in Engineering This poster describes the successful Incorporation of modern and emerging science fundamentals, with focus on nanoscale principles and molecular engineering, into any engineering curricula. To date this program has been adopted at the University of Washington by departments in Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Material Sciences and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. Resource Added: November 10, 2014 167KB, PDF