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The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is recognized as an emerging tier one university with a commitment to enhancing research capacity and academic excellence. The Campus Office for Undergraduate Research Initiatives aims to prepare students for competitive graduate programs and a global workforce through enriched research and training experiences. Additionally, the MAA Southwest program focuses on inspiring K-12 students in STEM fields through innovative curricula and family engagement in educational activities.
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- 1. Consortium for Integrating Energy Systems in Engineering and Science Education The University of Texas El Paso Lourdes Echegoyen (PI) Director Campus Office for Undergraduate Research Initiatives Norman Love (co-PI) and YirongLin (co-PI) Department of Mechanical Engineering December 12, 2016
- 2. UTEP at a Glance The University of Texas at El Paso's extraordinary progress in developing its research capacity and expanding its doctoral programs has earned UTEP the designation as one of the state's "Emerging Tier One" universities by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. • Enrollment: 23,000+ •Faculty: 1,183 • Academics: 7 Colleges: Business Administrations, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, Liberal Arts, Nursing, and Science • Annual Operating Budget: $404.6 million • Annual Research Expenditures: $89+ million
- 3. Expenditures - FiscalYears 1992-2015 Source: NSF Survey of Research Expenditures 9.6 10.4 12.9 12.9 13.8 13.7 17.3 14.8 28.0 29.6 31.1 32.9 36.4 36.9 45.7 46.4 50.6 50.6 56.5 66.0 79.6 83.2 79.5 89.4 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 In$Millions Dr. Diana S. Natalicio UTEP President Served as Vice Chair, National Science Board (NSB) Vision • Commitment to creating access and excellence • Goal: Tier 1 in Research and promoting access at the same time Col. of Eng
- 4. • We believethe purpose of public higher education is to educate the populace, create economic opportunities, and catalyze social mobility. • We reject the traditional choice between Access and Excellence that characterized U.S. higher education in the twentieth century and insist upon the joint attainment and continuing enhancement of both Access and Excellence. • We must become a Tier I Research University to bring our region the pinnacle of excellence in public higher education – that is, the full capacity, breadth, innovation and regional impact of a national research university.
- 5. Campus Office for Undergraduate Research Initiatives (COURI) • The overall goal of the office is to use undergraduate research and the special training opportunities that it provides as the vehicle to prepare all students on campus to compete effectively for the best graduate and professional programs in the work and prepare them to join a 21st Century workforce that is globally engaged. •Seeks to enrich the undergraduate experience of students by facilitating, enhancing and showcasing research training. • Provides first-rate personal mentoring and training • Participation impacts learning, retention and graduation rates, and allows UTEP to increase productivity in shortened time to degree.
- 6. Department of Mechanical Engineering Core Programs Professional Graduate Programs Professional Development and K-12 Outreach 2016-2017 Student Enrollment Undergraduate: 1050 Masters: 55 PhD: 60 • BS in Mechanical Engineering • MS in Mechanical Engineering •PhD in Mechanical Engineering • Graduate Certificate in 3D Engineering and Additive Manufacturing • Professional MS in Aerospace and Defense Engineering • Southwest Emerging Technology Symposium • Student Professional Development Short Courses • Shell Speaker Series • NASA MUREP Aerospace Academy
- 7. Mechanical Engineering Department W. M. Keck Center for 3D Innovation NASA MIRO Center for Space Exploration and Technology Research Collaborations across the Department’s Boundary § Research Management (Advanced Manufacturing) § Research Strategies and Development §Research Infrastructure Development and Management § Contracts and Grants § Charge Center/Cost Center § Professional Staff and Research Faculty § Professional Graduate Programs § Academic Management § Students and Faculty § Curriculum § Course Scheduling § Advising and Progress Tracking and Monitoring § Teaching Innovation and Excellence § Tenure and Promotion § Research Management (Aerospace and Energy) § Research Strategies and Development § Research Infrastructure Development and Management § Contracts and Grants § Professional Staff and Research Faculty § Student Professional Development Programs § K-12 Outreach Programs
- 8. CIESESE Project Overview • Energy Modules for K-12 • Module development based on existing curriculum •Leveraging existing K-12 Academy at UTEP to maximize outreach • Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs), Project Based Learning (PBL), and Flipped Classroom Intervention Topics • Examples • Research Experiences for Students
- 9. CIESESE Project Overview • Energy Modules for K-12 • Module development based on existing curriculum •Leveraging existing K-12 Academy at UTEP to maximize outreach • Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs), Project Based Learning (PBL), and Flipped Classroom Intervention Topics • Examples • Research Experiences for Students
- 10. Energy Modules for K-12 • The current project will utilize the MAA Southwest at UTEP • Our goal will be to inspire and prepare underserved K-12 students in the southwest border region for advanced studies and careers in STEM fields. •Specifically we will utilize: • Modules currently based on existing aerospace NASA curriculum • In-school and after-school experiences for students • Active events and activities geared for family participation • Outreach visits ongoing with a prior focus on the Maker Movement
- 11. Energy Modules for K-12 q Some background on the MAA Southwest: q Engaged more than 1000direct participants last year q K-12 Students q 130 in-service teachers q Engaged thousands more non-direct participants q Educational community outreach events q Physical Educational Laboratory located at UTEP q Workspace to foster creativity and instruction in STEM fields Southwest) at the University of Texas at El Paso (UT 12 students in the southwest border region for ad particularly, aerospace related fields. The MAA Sout economically disadvantaged underrepresented in STEM d The MAA Southwes UTEP Science, Engineerin (SEMAA) program, which h than 5600 direct participants Additionally, it has enga participants, including both community outreach events. with the overall goals of the Objective 1: Establish classroom contact time via in Southwest will continue its long established in-schoo and structure for its after school model. Since 2013, the school day by all middle school students enrolled in the largest school district of El Paso, El Paso instructors associated with this model have acquir curriculum, AEL familiarity and NASA-related co Southwest will continue to strongly support. Also overall success of the MAA Southwest is its after sch After school programs provide an opportunity underserved youth who might not otherwise have interest in other after school activities. Both progra the school day by all middle school students enrolled in the Gifted and Talented Program (G&T) in the largest school district of El Paso, El Paso Independent School District (EPISD). The instructors associated with this model have acquired significant expertise with the SEMAA curriculum, AEL familiarity and NASA-related content, and so it is something that MAA Southwest will continue to strongly support. Also key to the overall success of the MAA Southwest is its after school model. After school programs provide an opportunity to engage underserved youth who might not otherwise have access or interest in other after school activities. Both program models incorporate innovative curriculum with inquiry-based lessons and experiential hands-on activities. The curriculum lessons are NASA or STEM-related with grade-appropriate content representative of state testing standards. The MAA Southwest curriculum incorporates lessons and activities from SEMAA and NASA. It follows the model of an existing adaptation of the SEMAA curriculum whereby SEMAA lessons and activities are embedded into a narrative structure. First piloted in 2013 at SEMAA by the partnering non-profit, Philosophic Systems Institute (PSI) of El Paso, it is an interdisciplinary STREAM approach, a variant on STEM, that incorporates not only the arts, but also reasoning and logic. Since this adapted curriculum was received with much interest and success among both teachers and their students, the MAA Southwest at UTEP will continue working with PSI as its partner to further develop and update the Figure 1 Family Café featured speaker Jen Allred, Project Engineer of NASA WSTF 2 | Project Description MU curriculum according to NASA’s latest endeavors and re teacher training and coaching. Objective events and The Family family mem and its goa with STEM parental or crucial to a events, the pathways a progress a extracurricu This is im portion (83 hold colleg caregivers a Figure 2 Family Café educational workshop at the TecH2O Water Utilities Center.
- 12. Energy Modules for K-12 parental or caregiverunderstanding and support are crucial to a student’s career success. Through these events, the families are made aware of the various pathways and mechanisms by which a student can progress and excel in his or her studies and extracurricular activities in preparation for college. This is important since, regionally, a significant portion (83%) of adult El Paso county residents do not hold college degrees. It serves to educate parents and caregivers about the increasing opportunities to excel in NASA and STEM-related careers. These events typically feature speakers who are experts from NASA such as the recent SEMAA Family Café speaker Jen Allred, a project engineer from the nearby NASA White Test Facility (Fig. 1). Through their talks and demonstrations, these experts inspire interest in NASA, aerospace, and STEM-related research. In Ms. Allred’s case, the speaker can also serve as a role model to inspire more girls to pursue STEM-related fields. This is in fact an important objective of the UTEP SEMAA program this year that MAA Southwest will continue. The Family Café also provides fun and educational experiential activities for the whole family so that they may gain further insight about what the program entails. (Fig. 2) Supplementing the featured speakers and activities is a recognition ceremony that highlights the dedication and commitment of the attending MAA instructors. Lastly, the STEM-related UTEP student organizations who are committed long term partners to MAA Southwest including UTEP student chapters of SWE (Society of Women Engineers) and AIAA (The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics), serve to educate families about STEM and aerospace-related degree programs at UTEP and also to directly assist as volunteers to help out where needed. Objective 3: Conduct outreach visits and camps at UTEP, with a focus on the use of specialized technology to support maker movement projects: Outreach visits to UTEP typically involve the Figure 2 Family Café educational workshop at the TecH2O Water Utilities Center. Figure 3 UTEP Aerospace Education Laboratory 3 | Project Description MUREP Aerospace Academy for the Southwest (MAA Southwest) University of Texas at El Paso use of, but are not limited to, UTEP’s Aerospace Education Lab (AEL). This lab has an inventory of high technology engineering, aerospace and aeronautical teaching tools that can be used for demonstrations and hands-on projects (Fig. 3). Outreach groups include primarily the MAA Southwest in school and after school classes, but it would also be open to other K-12 groups like robotics clubs, Girl Scouts troops, and a smaller- scale Family Café. Outside the AEL on the UTEP campus are numerous other points of interest like various research and instructional laboratories of the College of Engineering and College of Sciences, UTEP Centennial Museum, and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens. The MAA Southwest at UTEP will have a particular emphasis on the new ‘maker movement’ to develop creativity, problem- solving, teamwork, and build and test skills. Advanced technologies from the AEL (Fig. 4), like the Little Bits electronics, and also the Mechanical Engineering Department’s 3D Printing Design Studio (Fig. 5) would strongly support the maker movement endeavors. I.a (ii) Management Plan Figure 4 Inventory of Electronics Technologies Figure 5 3D Printing Design Studio q More on the MAA Southwest: q In-School Model (Established) q Curriculum carried out during the school day by middle school students in the Gifted and Talented Program in the El Paso Independent School District (largest in El Paso) q Teachers are familiar with curriculum, we will continue to leverage these relationships q After-School Model (Established) q Narrative structure incorporating energy based modules q The Family Café q Educates family members about inspiring kids to become more involved in STEM q Parents and caregivers educated about increasing opportunities to excel in STEM careers q Includes speakers who are experts q Example: Jen Allred a project engineer from NASA White Sands Test Facility q Great role models for kids involved
- 13. Energy Modules for K-12 • CIESESE planned activities for 2016: • Development of Energy Learning Modules for K-12 (beginning with HS level) •Energy Balance • Combustion • Chemistry • Energy and the Environment • Materials (Solar Energy, Wind Turbine, Thermoelectrics) • Delivery of content using computer-based tools • Flipped classroom delivery methodology and experience leveraged (more on this later) • Delivery of content using Project-Based Activities
- 14. CIESESE Project Overview • Energy Modules for K-12 • Module development based on existing curriculum •Leveraging existing K-12 Academy at UTEP to maximize outreach • Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs), Project Based Learning (PBL), and Flipped Classroom Intervention Topics • Examples • Research Experiences for Students
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- 16. CUREs, PBL, and Flipped Classroom • CURE Example: • Experimental setup: •Aluminum beam with embedded piezoelectric ceramic • Oscilloscope • Clamp • Caliper • Objective: Capture voltage variation of piezoelectric ceramic with oscilloscope to obtain beam’s vibration and compare with calculation • 3-D printing of composite/energy harvesting materials Experimental setup for Module III experiment
- 17. CUREs, PBL, and Flipped Classroom Project-based learning (PBL) • Solving problems and asking the fundamental principles and related information allows students attaining the enhanced knowledge. •Advantages such as promoting inter-communication, inter-personal skillset, and critical thinking. Concepts of Project-based learning by Adderly et al. 1) A solution to a problem must be involved in the project. 2) Initiative is needed by the student/group of students, as well as a variety of educational activities. 3) An end product such as a thesis, report, or model is common. 4) Projects are performed for a considerable length of time. 5) Professors and teaching assistants perform advisory roles. - These concepts plainly summarize core of project-based learning and clear roles of both instructor and students in this method.
- 18. CUREs, PBL, and Flipped Classroom Students performing windturbine experiment Student assessing performance of thermoelectric material
- 19. CUREs, PBL, and Flipped Classroom Students performing solarmeasurement experiment
- 20. CUREs, PBL, and Flipped Classroom Flipped classroom What are the advantages? • Opens class time for practicing ideas, project, solving problems, assessing learning, or answering questions • Accessibility and mobility (vs. TV/Satellite courses from past) Could someone use other lectures available online? •Yes but some are not easily available (Mechanical Design) How much time does it take to develop the lectures? • Comparable to paper based lectures with right hardware and software
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- 22. CUREs, PBL, and Flipped Classroom Course Design for implementation • Students studied available online lectures • Introductory information, software guidance and example applications were presented to the students via YouTube
- 23. CUREs, PBL, and Flipped Classroom Course Design for implementation • Mechanical Design, 3 hours junior level course in Mechanical engineering department at UTEP •Design and analyze mechanical components such as gears and shafts by implementing the theoretical concepts learned from prerequisites courses such as Mechanics of Materials and Statics • Two classes with different project-based learning held in Spring and Fall 2015 • Class is composed of traditional lecture-based learning (lecture, quizzes, and exams) with the project-based learning method Project Designing mechanical shaft with a design factor ≥ 3, at the same time maintaining the greatest ratio of Max and Min Von Mises stresses possible. The only constraint on this 2nd project was 1 meter length of shaft but left to student on selection of parameters such as materials, radial dimensions, and overall design.
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- 26. CUREs, PBL, and Flipped Classroom • CIESESE planned activities for 2016: • Deliver into existing course infrastructure: •CUREs • PBL activities • Use the Flipped Classroom: • With PBL and experiments • Term paper presentations
- 27. Project Overview • Energy Modules for K-12 • Module development based on existing curriculum •Leveraging existing K-12 Academy at UTEP to maximize outreach • Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs), Project Based Learning (PBL), and Flipped Classroom Intervention Topics • Examples • Research Experiences for Students
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- 30. Research Experiences (cSETR) JANUS Robotic Lander ScaleMethane Propulsion Technology Testbed Directly Heated Oxy-Fuel Supercritical Combustor DAEDALUS Suborbital Payload Scale Methane Propulsion Technology Testbed CUBE SAT Modular Green Propulsion Testbed Direct Power Extraction (Magnetohydrodynamics) Using Oxy-Fuels Technology Research and Innovation Acceleration (tRIAc) Park Fabens, Texas Airport 400 Acres Occupied with Expansion to 9600 Acres Intermediate Pressure Oxy-Fuel Testing