civil structures [1,11, 12]; (2) increasing engagement with core topics by moving from abstract to interactivelearning [7, 11, 13]; (3) introducing the engineering design process in a quick, easy, andvisible way [14, 15]; (4) bridging the physical and digital model within the classroom [7]; (5)integrating hands-on experience with digital work in a creative capstone project [7]. Thispaper aims to evaluate the feasibility of integrating laser scanning technology in theconstruction engineering management curriculum. The study conducted a thorough literaturereview to assess how laser scanning technology can improve SLOs required by ACCE. Thecontributions of the study involve (1) helping educators in construction engineering andmanagement programs
continues into the second year.These positive results indicate that it would likely be advantageous to transition this program to amulti-university project to more effectively demonstrate the robustness of the process for RisingScholar students.I. Background and structure of the Rising Scholars ProgramThe project, NSF S-STEM 1644143: Rising Scholars: Web of Support used as an Indicator ofSuccess in Engineering, is a research/scholarship program that was initiated in September 2016at Purdue University. The research portion of the program was designed to determine whetherhaving a strong support network could outweigh high school grades and test scores in predictingsuccess in STEM majors, particularly engineering. ‘Rising Scholars’ (RS) is the
, and problem solving discourse among students, faculty, and practitioners. Dr. Olewnik is also the Director of Experiential Learning for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and associate professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information and Learning Sciences program and in the Chemical and Biological En- gineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutionizing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Educa
Paper ID #32395Lessons Learned Developing and Running a Virtual, Faculty-Led,International Program on Sustainable Energy in BrazilDr. Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University Dr. Courtney Pfluger an Associate Teaching Professor at Northeastern University in the College of Engi- neering. In 2011, she joined Northeastern as a teaching professor in the First Year Engineering program. As part of the First Year Engineering faculty she focusing on curriculum innovations and implementing educational lessons and engineering design projects on sustainability. In 2017, she moved full time into the Chemical Engineering department
, helping students to make connections, and ultimatelyfinding ways to create value through engineering. Multiple attempts at infusing EM have beenexplored and developed throughout recent years, including into first year engineering programs,capstone courses, elective courses, and other core technical courses. However, much of theshared faculty-examples of the new EM-infused content involves adding or revising an existingterm project, or revision of an entire course completely. These large time-investments in EM canbe effective, but faculty may be hesitant to alter their courses so substantially. By identifyingsingle-class opportunities to integrate pedagogically-sound practices that meet both EM andABET outcomes, faculty can excite their students
-AnywhereLaboratories – where students choose when they will perform their physical hardwareexperiments and where they wish to conduct these experiments. For this study students canperform all the physical experiments within their home environment using a variety of locallyavailable resources coupled with a box of sensors and controllers as part of an otherwise virtualor online course. Our idea of an online experimentation course was proposed in 2017. The initialexploration was the focus of a senior capstone project at the institution, where the idea andpotential implementations were tested.[6] The students performed a trade-space analysis ofavailable sensors, controllers and microcontrollers and selected a set that was roughly equivalentto the cost of
addition, the department implemented changes inexisting courses by adding industry driven design projects [3], [4]. All these changes reliedheavily on group projects, hands-on labs, and in-person meetings with industry representatives.In the spring of 2020, a pandemic forced the program to offer all its courses remotely andchallenged the department to rethink how it could continue its strong hands-on, industry-focusedprogram while fostering a sense of belonging in students. While changes occurred throughout thecurriculum to support remote learning, these changes were exemplified in three coursesequences: integrated design, circuits and instrumentation, and the year-long capstone design.The remainder of this paper describes these three course
ProblemDefinition-HCPD; 2) rapidly construct and test concepts to foster a strong feedback loopbetween students and NGO partners in the course Projects for People-PfP; and 3) developdesign solutions that can be implemented by NGOs in the communities where they workthrough the Engineering for Community Development Capstone Design course.5.1.1 Human-Centred Problem Definition (HCPD)HCPD equips students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to identify, define, and beginsolving real problems, for real people, within the socio-technical ambiguity that surrounds allengineering problems. By the end of the course, students are able to recognize designproblems around them, determine whether they are worth solving, and employ design tools tocreate multiple
Austin. His past research has focused on membrane science, adsorption, and ion exchange. He currently serves as the Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Program Director at UC and currently teaches the capstone process design sequence. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio.Dr. Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University Kevin Dahm is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He earned his BS from Worces- ter Polytechnic Institute (92) and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (98). He has pub- lished two books, ”Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics” and ”Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance.” He has also published papers on effective use of simulation in
has been achieved in successfully chairing ten or more graduate student culminating projects, theses, or dissertations, in 2011 and 2005. He was also nominated for 2004 UNI Book and Supply Outstanding Teaching Award, March 2004, and nominated for 2006, and 2007 Russ Nielson Service Awards, UNI. Dr. Pecen is an Engineering Tech- nology Editor of American Journal of Undergraduate Research (AJUR). He has been serving as a re- viewer on the IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing since 2001. Dr. Pecen has served on ASEE Engineering Technology Division (ETD) in Annual ASEE Conferences as a reviewer, session moderator, and co-moderator since 2002. He served as a Chair-Elect on ASEE ECC Division in
in capstone-style projects. These projects are performed in teaching lab spaces oncampus under the mentorship of undergraduate and graduate students [17]-[20]. Graduatestudents develop and deliver projects motivated by current challenges in biomedical engineering.Curriculum is designed in collaboration with classroom teachers to meet Ontario STEM learningoutcomes while promoting the global competencies of scientific investigation and careerexploration skills. Discovery deliverables are assessed by teachers and comprise 10-15% of therespective final course grade. To date, student grade data and survey responses support thebenefits of Discovery participation to student engagement and interest in STEM [17]. RemoteDiscovery programming is unique
Paper ID #34832How Well Can Makerspaces Build an Entrepreneurial Mindset?Dr. Stephanie M. Gillespie, University of New Haven Stephanie Gillespie is the Associate Dean of the Tagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven. She previously specialized in service learning while teaching at the Arizona State University in the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program. Her current teaching and research interests are in developing study skills and identity in first-year engineering students and improving re- tention rates. She acts as a faculty liaison for the University of New Haven Makerspace
. 1, pp. 87–96, Feb. 2011.24. H. Jackson, K. Tarhini, B. Maggi and N. Rumsey, “Improving Students Understanding of Engineering ConceptsThrough Projects Based Learning,” IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, pp. 1-6, 2012. 25. R. Belu, “Renewable Energy Based Capstone Senior Design Projects for an Undergraduate EngineeringTechnology Curriculum”, 2011 ASEEE Conference & Exposition, June 26 - 29, Vancouver, BC, Canada (CD).26. G. Verbic, C. Keerthisighe, and A.C. Chapman, “A Project-based Cooperative Approach to TeachingSustainable Energy Systems”, IEEE Trans. Educ., Vol. 60(3), pp. 221-228, 2017.27. A.P.S. Meliopoulos, and G.J. Cokkinides, "Role of laboratory education in power engineering: is the virtuallaboratory feasible? III. Virtual
. C. (2014) ‘Curriculum Design in the Middle Years’, in Johri, A. and Olds, B. M.(eds) Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,pp. 181–200. doi: DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139013451.014.Nasir, M., Kleinke, D. K. and McClelland, M. (2016) ‘Multidisciplinary patient-centered capstone seniordesign projects’, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. New Orleans,Louisiana: ASEE Conferences. doi: 10.18260/p.25764.Nezafati, M., Chua, M. and LeDoux, J. M. (2020) ‘Work in progress: A case study of integrating inclusiveengineering skills into a middle-years biomedical engineering course via model-based reasoning’, ASEEAnnual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. Virtual On
Paper ID #34926Design and Manufacturability of Medical Ventilators from the Perspectiveof a Global Automotive FootprintDr. H. Bryan Riley, Clemson University H. Bryan Riley Ph.D., joined Clemson University in July 2019 and currently teaches controls and man- ufacturing processes courses. He has taught courses in signal processing, electrical communication sys- tems, EE capstone design, electric machines, adaptive signal processing, and hybrid and electric vehicles. Riley, who spent his early career in the automotive industry, has managed multi-disciplined and global en- gineering teams responsible for introducing advanced
graduate level, has over 50 publications, is co-author of one book, and has done consulting for industry in Mexico and the US. He can be reached at Karim.Muci@sdsmt.edu.Dr. Laura Ochs Pottmeyer, Carnegie Mellon University Laura Pottmeyer is a Data Science Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation. She consults with faculty members and graduate students on implementing educational research projects. She assists with study design, data collection, and data analysis. Laura’s training includes a Ph.D. in Science Education and M.Ed. in Educational Psychology from the University of Virginia, where she studied the impact of engineering design integrated
abroad, service-learning, entrepreneurship programs, interdisciplinary courses) do E/CS students engage / not engage in? 2. How do the HIEP participation rates in E / CS students vary as E/CS students’ progress in their programs?To create a historical picture of the E/CS participation, we gathered and analyzed existing NSSEsurvey data to investigate the possible relationships between student demographics, andparticipation in HIEP.Data Analysis / ResultsThe main objective of this study is to examine the extent to which E/CS students participate inHIEP. The NSSE survey results indicate that the E/CS students engage in culminating seniorexperiences such as capstone courses and senior projects and internships or co-op programs
design [3], it is difficult to realizewithout adding another year to the existing, rigid course load requirements. Implementing theStrand Model and Freshman Seminars at The Citadel represents an effort to acknowledgedifferent interests.The entire General Education curriculum begins with a Freshman Seminar and correspondingFreshman Writing course. During the student’s senior year, the General Education curriculumculminates in a Capstone project that should be in the student’s major. Between the FreshmanSeminar and Writing Courses, all six outcomes are assessed. Again in the senior year capstone,all six outcomes are assessed. Throughout the General Education curriculum, specific outcomesare assessed in certain courses for depth and reinforcement
Writing ProgramIn Fall 2016, the ME department began an embedded technical writing project that would giveME students sustained exposure to writing concepts and practice. From a single class in Fall2016 (Basic CAD, taken in first semester of Freshman year), the project has grown to encompassfour additional classes, which are discussed later and span first- through third-year courses. Inaddition, technical writing instructors have been involved in coaching Capstone students in their 1fourth year. All five embedded classes are co-taught by engineering and technical writinginstructors.In 2021, the second cohort of four-years exposed to the four-year
booking system).For the Fall 2020 semester, I was the instructor for the Undergraduate Final Year Project (aka,Capstone Design), which included 323 students in their final year of undergraduate study. This isthe most crucial element of the degree program within our discipline, as it gives students anopportunity to work on an extensive piece of work within the areas of Electronic Engineering andComputer Science. The project also allows students to demonstrate their problem-solving abilitiesby being able to apply a range of skills that they have acquired throughout their degree program.Overview of Teaching and Learning Changes Implemented • Preparation (Outside of Class) - Interactive Videos: As the co-ordinator for undergraduate projects
senior design or capstone projects,” ASEE Annual. Conf. Expo. Conf. Proc., vol. 2018-June, no. July, 2018.[20] S. Gillespie and A. Maccalman, “A Case Study in Developing an Integrated Data and Model Management System for the Development of a Complex Engineered System,” in 2018 IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Conference, 2018.[21] K. Laitinen and M. Valo, “Meanings of communication technology in virtual team meetings: Framing technology-related interaction,” Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., vol. 111, pp. 12–22, 2018.[22] R. Khan, C. Whitcomb, and C. White, “Self-efficacy analysis of student learning in systems engineering,” ASME Int. Mech. Eng. Congr. Expo. Proc., vol. 5, 2016.[23] E
Engineering from Bucknell University. Dr. Barrella has investigated best practices in engineering education since 2003 (at Bucknell University) and began collaborating on sustainable engineering design research while at Georgia Tech. Prior to joining the WFU faculty, she led the junior capstone design sequence at James Madison University, was the inaugural director of the NAE Grand Challenges Program at JMU, and developed first-year coursework and interdisciplinary electives.Dr. Kevin Skenes, The Citadel Kevin Skenes is an associate professor at The Citadel. His research interests include non-destructive evaluation, photoelasticity, manufacturing processes, and engineering education.Mr. Aidan Puzzio, The CitadelMr
Paper ID #34719Teaching Power Electronics to Electrical Engineering Undergraduates inan Interactive Two-semester Integrated SequenceDr. Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho Herb Hess is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Idaho. The University of Wisconsin- Madison awarded him the PhD degree in 1993. His research and teaching interests are in power elec- tronics, electric machines and drives, electrical power systems, and analog/mixed signal electronics. He has taught senior capstone design since 1985 at several universities. He has served as Division Chair and Program Chair for three ASEE divisions
many papers written on team formation. Some of these papers focuson team formation for senior design [2, 3], while others focus on comparing different teamformation strategies, such as comparing self-selected teams versus instructor-selected teams [2-5]. In Ref. [2], the teams were half self-selected and the other half were assigned by theinstructor using the Jung Typology Test, which is based on Carl Jung and Isabel Myers-Briggs’typological approach to personality. Ref. [3] considered different approaches for assigningteams in a capstone design course. One approach had faculty forming teams based on studentsurveys of project interests, skills, time availability, and team preferences. The alternativemethod enabled students to form their own
0.030 0.086 Openness to Novelty (0.80) 4.42 0.60 4.24 0.55 2.52 0.115 0.025 Avoiding Premature Closure 4.48 0.55 4.37 0.52 1.19 0.276 0.012 (0.58) Embracing Diversity (0.67) 4.49 0.54 4.30 0.51 3.15 0.079 0.031 Contextual Skills (0.78) 4.44 0.60 4.28 0.68 1.49 0.224 0.015Bono’s Six Hat MethodBono’s Six Hats [19] approach has been used to evaluate student presentations in both thecornerstone and capstone courses at a university in the Northeast US. The cornerstoneengineering design course consists of mostly first-year students and is comprised of two separatedesign projects. At the end of each project, the design
of design courses. E. CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSESAs of the 2018-19 academic year, each engineering department runs their own capstone coursewith students primarily from their own department. Starting in Fall 2019, however, the machineshop and makerspace will host 3 interdisciplinary capstone projects where students frommechanical and electrical engineering will work together. F. MASTERS DEGREE PROGRAMStarting in Summer 2020, the makerspace and machine shop will host a new 1-yearinterdisciplinary master’s degree between the College of Engineering, School of Business, theArt Department, the Information School and the School of Human Ecology. This program willteach students to work on interdisciplinary teams to create products and/or
DesignThe core curriculum design for cloud computing leveraged the existing pathway for an associatedegree in computer networking, and partially pulled courses from the design of the bachelor’s ininformation systems technology degree (Figure 3). Figure 3. Integration of new cloud pathways.Using the above-mentioned foundational courses, the three cloud-specific courses added were:Cloud Essentials for the AWS Cloud Practitioner and Cloud Infrastructure and Services for theAWS Solutions Architect certifications. A project-based learning capstone class completed thepathway with industry experiential projects (Table 1). Table 1. Core Course Sequence Guide Courses
careers, saying that hewas particularly surprised by how senior engineering students are not prepared for managementskills, stating, “In some cases, I'm stunned by how not ready they seem.” Dr. James explainedthat he thinks engineering students are not well prepared for allocating resources and supportingtheir decisions in the capstone course: Our capstone course is literally, like, give them a project and give them some assignments that help them maybe make progress on that project, and then see what they could do after working on it for 20 weeks by presenting to a group of engineers, and what did you design, and what'd you do well, and what'd you screw up. And then some students just hate that it's too
. Joshi has worked on multiple industry sponsored research projects (Michelin tweel –low rolling resistance for non-pneumatic tires, IFAI ballast friction testing project). She was actively involved in mentoring and advising Capstone design projects. She has advised over 10 different design projects –BMW, Rotary, TTi and mentored over 100 students. While at Clemson, Dr. Joshi was also awarded endowed teaching fellowship as a part of which she has taught a sophomore class on Foundations of Mechanical Systems for 2 semesters. Dr. Joshi worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Professor Jonathan Cagan at Carnegie Mellon University. She investigated the avenues of internet of things and connected products. While at Carnegie
were conducted to see how student perception changes with additional exposure to the identitiesof founder and developer. This survey was deemed “exempt” by Temple University’s IRB committee.Survey results were compared with data from recent engineering upperclassmen before and after theirsenior capstone courses [3] and experienced entrepreneurs [2] to determine if our program revisions areinfluencing the development of all EEI in our bioengineering program. Cardon et al. reported a singlequestion for each identity with her experienced entrepreneurs. We used the same questions in ourcomparisons (Figure 1). [2] Single factor ANOVA tests were conducted to determine differences inresponses to the EEI for both pre and post surveys with paired t