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and suggest a few ways to improve the modulesover time.Module ResultsQualitatively, we found that the student work completed in these modules to be higher qualitythan similar work submitted in prior years. Exam scores were improved when measuring studentsability to create use cases, especially clarity and completeness. This qualitative improvement wasalso noticed by the instructors of our senior capstone course. The module on quality attributesnoticeably increased student commitment at the end of the project attributable to the perspective itprovides the students. Projects from the course most recently have included web-apps fordiscovering and rating art installations in Hawaii, displaying comparative statistics aboutclean/dirty energy
problem solving project-based challenges. Kits providethe opportunity for students to engage in legitimate tasks where they can engage in practices theywill use in the engineering and aerospace industry [4]. Using components, technical tools (bothsoftware and hardware), and safety equipment, employed within the engineering field, thestudents engaged in project-based work throughout the Capstone course. The kits were designedto leverage all the prior technical skills students had developed during their studies in thecurriculum of their engineering degree. To a lesser extent, tools such as Zoom also provided alegitimate engagement to practice professional engineering skills, including collaboration andteam participation via video-conferencing. This
interdisciplinary BS of Applied Science degree program combines the fieldsof computer science, computer engineering, mechanical engineering and electrical engineeringtechnology. The proposed program will require 124 credits of undergraduate work including aone-year-long senior design project capstone requirement. The program consists of lab-intensiveapplied courses, which will be delivered in the robotics labs. Three new courses will bedeveloped to promote and enhance robotics education in the new RET program. Table 1 presentsan outline of the proposed RET curriculum requirements. The RET courses will be offered in ahybrid format which includes some modules being offered online or through distance learning.The program will also be open to students
engineering in theintroduction lecture, such as resources and materials, safety, and scheduling. Additionally theauthors intend to incorporate a specific design task for the civil engineering majors, and an actualconstruction task for the construction engineering majors.This research is being implemented at the inception of a construction engineering degreeprogram with strong ties to a long-standing successful civil engineering degree program. Theseprograms combine the first 2 years of the degrees, and then bring the student back together for afinal semester culminating event that ties the programs together through a capstone project. Thestudents who participated in the original iteration of the module and game in 2018 are currentlyjuniors, and the
-readers. He holds 30 patents related to semiconductor devices and microfabrication and has published in IEEE and AIP journals and conferences. His current research interests include instrumentation for combustion science, novel methods for environmental re- mediation, and microelectronics including surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices. In addition to teaching in the field of electrical engineering, he coordinates the senior engineering capstone program which is a multidisciplinary, two-semester course sequence with projects sponsored by industrial partners. Within this role, he focuses on industrial outreach and the teaching and assessment of professional skills. He received his Ph.D. and S.M. degrees from MIT in 2007
, attrition rates in engineering remain at 57% [9]despite investments in student retention research and translation of findings. High impact practices that promote student engagement among undergraduate studentsacross the country in all disciplines have been examined [1]. Such high impact practices includedfirst-year seminars, learning communities, writing-intensive courses, collaborative projects andassignments, service learning, internships, capstone courses and projects, and undergraduateresearch. This work examines the role of HIEP on student outcomes specifically in engineeringand computer science programs at two western, rural, land-grant universities. This study will address the following research questions: 1. To what extent do
technical and professional knowledge to authenticproblems [7,8]. The shifts reflect the growing need for an engineering workforce prepared toaddress the increasingly complex and interconnected problems that engineers will face in the 21stcentury [9,10]. The growth in the number of first-year project-based undergraduate engineeringcourses and senior capstone design courses [11,12] provide opportunities to prepare engineeringstudents with progressive knowledge of engineering. In these courses, students engage inauthentic project-based learning activities designed to support their professional engineering skilldevelopment and increase their capacity for effective communication and problem solving[1,11].In conjunction with curricular shifts and the
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areas of research are engineering education, the behavior of steel structures, and blast. Aaron mentors students by serving as an advisor for capstone projects and through service as an Officer Representative for Women’s Volleyball and Men’s Basketball. His passion for teaching and developing tomorrow’s leaders resulted in his selection for the 2009 American Society of Civil Engineers New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2013 Outstanding Young Alumni Award for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Applying Army Doctrine to Engineering…is that complex
class, in the end they all get veryengaged in the conversations creating a really active learning environment.Building a laboratory like this is challenging. The machinery are not available off-the-shelf. Theyare expensive since industrial-grade components and controllers are used in the design to meet themain goal of the course. Programming software is proprietary, expensive and requires license.The student excitement and feedback about the course have been extremely positive.In parallel to this course, most students are also taking their senior capstone course where somestudents worked on automated machines for their team project. Feedback from the projectsponsors has been very positive indicating that they were able to design custom machines
in solving ‘real’ worldchallenges, a task that can equip students with technical and soft skills that are necessary in theindustry. Experiential learning experiences such as capstone projects is one way for students togain hands on industry experience as they prepare to enter the industry [3]. Other ways studentscan gain hands on experience is through internships and cooperative programs. Throughcollaborative projects between schools and industry, students learn to: • apply theoretical knowledge to solve practical problems, • communicate effectively with their industry consultants and fellow student team members, • understand financial impacts of problem solutions, • work in teams, • to understand industry demands such
as reflect on progress and achievements for the atto-grid project.IntroductionToday, the global pandemic has affected and impacted professionals and students by hinderingthem from safely working together at an office, facility, or school. Because of this, manyprofessionals must work at home where electricity or internet connectivity issues may be moreprevalent than at their typical office. To address the need for a resilient power source for at-homeoffices, the team developed the atto-grid – a resilient power system that uses distributed powersources to safely and effectively power a typical at-home office load.The team designed the atto-grid for a senior design capstone project that complied withrequirements set by faculty, as well as
energy devices, fluid dynamics… Capstone eng Senior design design (CDsn) Other leadership, entrepreneurship, business, project Coaching for engineers management, seminar (I3), professional issues (I5) ^ Courses not listed among those that contributed to ethicsFor courses that impacted ethical development, about half of all alumni identified a course withethics in the title. This included three of the exemplar courses (at I1, I2, and I8). Some studentslisted multiple ethics courses. HSS courses were listed by about a third of the alumni asimpacting ethical development, with course titles commonly
mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development. Dr Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement and Instrumentation course as well as for quality control undergraduate and graduate courses in ET Masters program. Also, she introduced the first experiential activity for Applied Mechanics courses. She is coordinator and advisor for capstone projects for Engineering Technology.Dr. Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University Michael Mauk is Assistant Professor in Drexel University’s Engineering Technology program.Regina Ruane Ph.D., Temple University
systems.Individual class sessions include hands-on design and building activities to support theengineering design or engineering science content. Students also have a number of substantialdesign project challenge experiences over the course of the semester. The senior cohort ofstudents is in an optional senior elective that augments their engineering design experiences(foundational product development through capstone design) with introduction of a human-centered design approach to get at latent and expressed needs for problems where people are atthe center of the problem and solution space. Similarly a problem-based learning approach istaken and students have many in-class hands-on activities to support different aspects of humancentered design (like
ease the transition into the senior capstone design project and enableprofessors to easily achieve program educational objectives by fostering long-term retention ofmaterial through hands-on exposure.Through the incorporation of cost-effective robotics kits into theory-based courses, this paperintends to promote group learning to refine essential scientific and social skills through efficientand structured collaboration. Students who engage in a design-centered approach to engineeringeducation tend to correlate activities and project outcomes with core course knowledge tostrengthen concept retention. By facilitating continual exposure to design principles throughoutthe undergraduate curriculum, this paper is expected to familiarize students
/feb6910923f5ff7251b20a678e50db33e7f6.pdf.[17] Y. Doppelt, “Implementation and assessment of project-based learning in a flexible environment,” Int. J. Technol. Des. Educ., vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 255–272, 2003.[18] A. Ayob, R. A. Majid, A. Hussain, and M. M. Mustaffa, “Creativity enhancement through experiential learning,” Adv. Nat. Appl. Sci., vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 94–99, 2012.[19] N. Hotaling, B. B. Fasse, L. F. Bost, C. D. Hermann, and C. R. Forest, “A Quantitative Analysis of the Effects of a Multidisciplinary Engineering Capstone Design Course,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 101, no. 4, pp. 630–656, 2012.[20] K. Evans and F. Reeder, A Human Capital Crisis in Cybersecurity: Technical Proficiency Matters. Washington, DC: Center for Strategic &
curricula and published a number of works in engineering education, including a Statics workbook for undergraduate engineering students. She is the Director of Innovation Programs and Operations for the non-profit research collaborative, Ad- vancing Engineering Excellence in P-12 Engineering Education. Dr. Gurganus teaches several first and second year Mechanical Engineering classes along with the Mechanical Engineering Senior Capstone design course for UMBC.Anita H. KomlodiDr. Neha B. Raikar, University of Maryland Baltimore CountyDr. Maria C. Sanchez, University of Maryland Baltimore County Dr. Maria C. Sanchez is currently serving as the Director of Education and Outreach for the College of Engineering and Information
Design Projects, which the author co-taught for several years. We also found that students generally tended to avoid DAQ for their Capstone Design Projects. As mentioned, the students use NI USB 6001 (previously NI USB 6008) as the DAQ for this class. They are required to compare and report on pros and cons for up to four different DAQs from different manufacturers. After this introduction, the number of capstone design projects that used DAQ increased. ● Basic programming blocks and structures used in various computer i/o systems software. For example: sequential structure, for and while loops, decision structures (e.g., like if, if then else, switch, case) Boolean logic. Designing modules for
Honors Society, is a Student Research Mentor, is a Dean’s Honors student, and also serves her community by sitting on the Academic Commis- sion Committee, the Student Services Committee, and the ICC Funding Committee. Additionally, in her free time, Sophia decided to teach herself Python and is now leading the research project Studying Statis- tics in Python. In the future, she hopes to become a physician-scientist studying preventative measures for Alzheimer’s disease and treatments for Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease. ¨Ms. Sophia Isabella Ibarguen, Pasadena City College Sophia Ibarguen is a first-generation college student of immigrant parents, who is majoring in Biology and minoring in
learn how to make their projects more visible. While moststudents utilize social media already, few have developed project portfolios, andacademic makerspaces can naturally demonstrate the value for career preparation androle model the development of better project documentation.Moving forward, the authors hope to conduct follow up interviews for all four spaces asthe university and makerspace functions continue to develop. To begin to assess the long-term impact on engineering student design skills, longitudinal studies from the first-yearthrough capstone should be used. Many first-year engineering programs now utilizemakerspaces, either embedded in the design course itself or by encouraging training anduse of the larger school makerspace
basis. A common example of thisformat in the engineering curriculum is the assignment of teams to Capstone Design Projects [6],[7], [8]. Common issues include team formation, mentoring, feedback and evaluation,milestones, assessment, leadership, individual accountability, and team dysfunction.In contrast to larger team projects, the Problem Solving Studio (PSS) implemented at GeorgiaTech and Emory University [9], [10] has students working in pairs to solve “well-structured butsomewhat complex” problems during class time. A similar approach is found in “Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning” (POGIL) [11], [12]. POGIL also uses instructor facilitatedteaming during class times. Typical POGIL groups consist of 3-4 students, each with anassigned
was developed incrementally to address several challenges thatvarious academic departments encountered during a period from roughly 2016-2017. Becausethe institution is both an academic and military one, it encountered several obstacles to UASoperations. Some were unique to the military status and will not be addressed in as much detail,but all of the obstacles could apply to any academic institution.During the time period in question, there were four primary academic departments attempting touse sUAS for research, capstone projects, or to directly support classroom instruction. Asobstacles to operations surfaced, each department had a representative attempting to navigate thevarious requirements. This was an inefficient approach that led to
distance education is nothing new, the pandemic of COVID-19 forcedinstructors to rapidly move their courses online whether or not they had ever received priortraining in online education. In particular, there is very little literature to guide instructors insupporting students in online engineering design or project-based courses. The purpose ofthis research is to examine engineering students’ report of social support in their project anddesign-based courses at a large research university during the move to online instruction due toCOVID-19 in the Spring 2020 semester and to provide recommendations for instructors teachingthese types of courses online in the future. Our study is framed by social constructivismand social capital theory. We surveyed
" ● "contemporary design tools"Mechanical ● "computer-aided ● "numerical methods"Engineering three-dimensional design" ● "heat transfer laboratory" ● "Computer-based analysis ● "modeling of thermal equipment" in support of design" ● "predictive models" ● machine elements and ● alternative energy systems mechanical systems ● "measurement of stress, strain, ● "Advanced 3-D solid vibration, and motion" modeling" ● "capstone design" ● "Computer based design projects" ● thermal systems
(3 credit hours) - at SUNY Buffalo State replaced a single-semester course.The transition from a single-semester to a two-semester sequence allows for more time for thestudents to design and conduct design projects that involve learning and applying researchmethodologies. This sequence integrates knowledge gained by students in prior coursesincluding but not limited to Electronics, Digital Systems, Microcontrollers, and Control SystemsI and II. ENT 465 and ENT 466 are taken by all Electrical Engineering Technology students inthe fall and spring semesters of their senior year.The senior design sequence serves as a capstone and integrating experience that further developsstudent competencies in applying both technical and non-technical
mechanical engineers can impart directly with stakeholders and users.Because items imagined can be within the size of consumer products where solutions may besimply created and mocked up (Brandt, 2007), there is a unique opportunity to better understandthese students’ behaviors in designing and prototyping.This research project explores how a cohort of senior mechanical engineering students candesign and prototype solutions for a problem today, and how their solutions are changed whenasked to be placed out into the future. We are curious about the similarities and differences intheir approaches along aspects of the design process (cognition) and in the design result(artifacts). This project allows us to explore how engineering students conceive of
capstone courses(Senior Project courses in the CE, ConE and CM programs). In this assessment, again a 1-5 LikertScale was selected, and yielded a score of 4 (Exceeds Criteria), for both SLOs, 3 and 4. A scoreof 4 (rather than 5) was attained because of the overall error in the resulting model. Note that aftergeoreferencing the final model into the corresponding State Plane Coordinate System, the softwareindicated an overall mean absolute error (in all employed fixed ground points) of ~4 inches. TheWest section of the model experienced that error magnitude. The central section presented slightlysmaller errors, ranging from ~3 to 4 inches. Similarly, the East section showed errors of about 3.6inches. These are relatively large errors compared with
articles in this area, co-authored the book How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching, and developed several innovative, educational technologies, including StatTutor and the Learning Dashboard.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