project includes: • the list of courses which will be set up jointly with other programs; • the list of courses which will be delegated to the departments of support; • the sequence of the courses; • the process of integration of the courses which will be privileged; • strategies to include an internship in the program; • strategies to include an international aspect in the curriculum; • strategies to facilitate access to the graduate levels; • the supervision process which will be set up; • various methods of assessment which will be adopted; • various methods of teaching and learning which will be used.The development of the curriculum is based on the principles exposed in the framework of thiseducational
AC 2008-1198: SEVERAL WAYS OF PREPARING EXPORT ENGINEERINGSTUDENTS FOR INTERNATIONAL PRACTICEKnud Holm Hansen, Copenhagen University College of Engineering Page 13.1077.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Several Ways of Preparing Export Engineering Students for International PracticeAbstractExport engineers work in many different kinds of Danish and foreign companies where theymarket projects and products with substantial contents of engineering knowledge – in a highlyinternational environment.Besides giving an overview of the study program, including objectives and structure, this paperdescribes the different ways to
presenters and community partners to discussobjectives, techniques, problems, solutions with improving the S-L projects in our courses.Other goals of the SLICE program with regard to faculty are to:• study the art and science of service-learning and form a community of practice ,• create a formal program to connect faculty to community groups (local and international) ,• develop appropriate projects/experiments for integration of S-L into at least forty core courses in the undergraduate engineering curriculum at UML ,• develop assessment tools to gauge the impact of this integration on students, faculty, institution, and community ,• become an engaged college—engaged with the students, each other as faculty across departments, and with the
. Oliva and W.K. Waldron Jr., “Virtual Design Competitions in a Computer Aided Engineering Course,” Proceedings of 2004 ASEE/NCS Conference, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan (2004).2. W. Waldron, P. Chaphalkar, S. Choudhuri, J. Farris, “Teaching Design and Manufacture of Mechanical Systems,” 2007 ASEE National Conference and Exposition, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 24-27, 2007.3. S.J. Noble, “An Approach for Engineering Curriculum Integration for Capstone Design Courses,” Int. J. Engng Ed. Vol. 14, No. 3, p. 197-203, 1998.4. L.S-B King, T. Lin, “Interdisciplinary Integration of Courses – Automation and Quality Control, International Conference on Engineering Education, Gainesville, Florida, October 16-21, 2004.5
data show that at least 30 of the student ventures funded by NCIIA havebrought at least one new product or service to the market, and an additional 15 projects areactively pursuing commercialization. In addition, NCIIA-funded projects have led to $36 millionin additional leverage ($1.6 million from awards and competitions; almost $3.7 million in privateand federal contracts; almost $9 million in grants; and $23 million in additional investment).ConclusionsNCIIA’s mission has focused on expanding opportunities for engineering students to engage inentrepreneurship by supporting curriculum, projects, and complementary activities that gearedtoward commercialization outcomes. The outcomes of the past decade provide strong evidencethat engineering
to makeengineering principles a part of their instruction for student learning, then engineering principlesand design must be a part of the state science standards. Unfortunately, most existingengineering curricula lack an appropriate translation into standards-achieving lessons forenriching the science curriculum. Translation into standards-achieving lessons is critical.Aligning with StandardsMost states have promulgated content standards in important subject matter, and school districtsare working on the alignment of their curricula. Curriculum frameworks have been prepared,lesson and unit plans have been revised, and new assessments are intended to measureachievement of the standards by students at all grade levels. Unfortunately, the
workethic, while at the same time take on the social identity of a first year university student.Strategies such as the ones discussed in this paper (online and onsite orientation, and facilitatedstudy groups), and the need for these strategies has been promoted through research on the firstyear experience. Braxton and McLendon1 note that social integration and subsequent institutionalcommitment are empirically reliable sources of influence on college student departure, and theyspecifically note that advising, communication with students, the development of socialenvironments, techniques of collaborative learning & active learning, and student orientationprograms all have an impact on student retention. These methods are key components of
Cooperative Education: A Literature ReviewAbstractCooperative education began as an experiential education program for engineering students atthe University of Cincinnati in 1906 and remains a key component of many engineeringprograms nationwide[1]. Cooperative education provides opportunities for students to engage inexperiential education, integrating academic course work with practical work experience. Whilemany sources have commented on the affective benefits of cooperative education, this paperexamines the literature to assess the academic value of cooperative education.Faculty, Student and Employer Views on Cooperative EducationRelatively little is known about how engineering faculty value, account for, and
Design with Industry (3semester hr) to the systems design curriculum, students have been provided an opportunity for adeeper understanding of the need and benefit for systems design and systems engineeringmethodology.1This paper describes: 1. the perceived shortcomings of a systems design course curriculum in a traditional classroom setting; 2. the development of a non-traditional systems design course with the cooperation of a local industry partner; 3. examples of off-campus field trips to the industry partner that support systems design learning experiences; 4. the outcomes, feedback, and experiences from partnering with a local industry;2 5. additional student opportunities resulting from developing a partnership
middle school teachers via its Earthstorm outreach program. Finally,an assessment plan has been devised by a nationally known expert who specializes in learn-ing and course development. There are several special features in this research-oriented teaching program, including:(1) it is the only program in the country with a full and equal collaboration between theSchool of Meteorology and the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering for the purposeof adding strength to an existing, successfully integrated curriculum on weather radar,(2) it has access to weather data from the recently constructed National Weather RadarTestbed (NWRT). Students have a unique opportunity to take advantage of the weatherdata derived from the new phased array
microcontrollers to controlvarious devices. Read input from sensors, perform analysis through software, and then providecorresponding control signals. Currently, students perform labs on stand-alone project MPUproject boards. Another course is CPET 4381 Digital Signal Processing Applications Lab,experiments in signal processing using commercial DSP processors for performing variousimage and speech processing task. Previously, the lab is made through MATLAB simulation,and TI DSP 6416 boards just become available recently. We are planning (4) To introduce LabVIEW to integrate the Freescale or TI board with the software. Embedded project manager is an add-on toolbox to make teaching embedded systems using DSPs or MPUs easy and affordable
AC 2008-641: INVENTION, INNOVATION AND INQUIRY - ENGINEERINGDESIGN FOR CHILDRENDaniel Engstrom, ITEA/Cal U Dr. Engstrom is an associate professor and principal investigator for Invention, Innovation, and Inquiry. He has written national curriculum that integrates science, mathematics, and engineering with technology education. He currently works in teacher preparation in technology education at Cal U Page 13.811.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Invention, Innovation and Inquiry - Engineering Design for ChildrenAbstractThis preservation will
. Page 13.808.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Introduction of GIS into Civil Engineering CurriculaAbstractThis research project developed a web-based learning system to teach students the use ofGeographic Information Systems (GIS) within the foundational courses of a typical civilengineering program. As opposed to generating a series of GIS courses, the GIS know-how isintroduced within existing courses as a module that will reinforce basic concepts taughtthroughout the curriculum in a comprehensive manner. Evaluation research of a proof-of-concept prototype for geotechnical course supported the efficacy of such an approach. With thisprototype as a guide, modules are developed in the following five areas
. After the introduction, the paper will be organized in thefollowing sections: (1) goals for change, (2) barriers to change, (3) foci for change, and (4)strategies for change.Intr oductionAs an engineering faculty member, you may be in the midst of working on a curricularinnovation or contemplating making a curricular innovation. In either case, you may be thinkingthat the curricular innovation on which you are working (or hope to be working) will eventuallybe broadly adopted across your department, college, or institution. However, issues that you facewhen developing your curricular innovation are almost entirely different from issues that youface when contemplating broader adoption of your curriculum. Curriculum developmentintegrates subject
AC 2008-1005: EXPOSING CHEMICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS TO REALWORLD PROBLEMS: HEALTH CARE AND RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMSNichole Au, University of Maryland-Baltimore County Ms. Au is a 2008 Magna Cum Laude graduate with a BS degree in Chemical Engineering (Bioengineering Track) with a minor in History. She is also an Honors College graduate and a member of Tau Beta Pi. She has been working on the INSPIRES curriculum for the last year and will continue this work as she completes her MS degree in Chemical & Biochemical Engineering in spring 2009.Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland-Baltimore County Taryn Bayles is a Professor of the Practice of Chemical Engineering in the Chemical and
-appropriate global knowledge. Page 13.502.3A faculty committee was charged with recommending curricular elements for an on-campusexperience to equip ECS students with global and business knowledge while not diminishingother important academic topics. A limiting factor imposed on the committee included addingno additional credits to the curriculum. This caused the committee members to focus onadjusting or modifying courses common among the different ECS majors and that contained ortaught complimentary topics. Because courses in Engineering Economic Analysis, Professionaland Technical Writing, and Technical Speaking satisfied these criteria, they
imaging using random noise waveforms. His industrial work experience extended to CMOS analog circuit design and signal integrity in gigabit-speed data architectures. His current research interests are in advanced imaging radar systems and sensor networks and in non-conventional approaches to modeling and solving signal integrity problems in above-10 Gb/s wireline links. He is also interested in improving electromagnetics curriculum on undergraduate level. Page 13.398.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Developing Problem-Based Introductory Electromagnetics
integration of engineering and education.Bradley Jenkins, Saint Petersburg College BRADLEY JENKINS, is the Director of the Engineering Technology program at St. Petersburg College. He has developed engineering technology related curriculum and course content for the last twenty years and is the director of the Engineering Technology Forum for the State of Florida. He holds a B.S. Degree in Engineering Technology from the College of Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF) and the M. Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction, also from USF. He is the state of Florida course numbering coordinator for the enginering technology curriculum. He is a Co-Principal Investigator for the NSF-ATE
verylarge, massively parallel systems. This in turn leads to the productivity improvementsbehind the title of this paper. Thus an individual can manage tools that make billions ofmeasurements in a very short time period at a cost of nano-$ each (or less). This is a newworld for instrumentation and its practitioners. It requires new skill-sets that in turn placenew requirements on curriculum content and emphasis.Impact on skill-setsThe starting point to determine how these changes in systems applications should affectthe curriculum is to identify the new or enhances skills that are needed. The mainoperational challenges are: Be clear about requirements for accuracy Identify and limit sources of drift that lead to loss of precision
)created a consortium of Texas-based schools to address their immediate, short term, and longterm workforce needs. In an effort to respond to these needs, Texas A&M University has createdthe Nuclear Power Institute and through collaboration with several community/junior collegepartners, new programs and curricula are being developed as an early response to the anticipatedworkforce shortage. Two year degrees are being put in place to educate technicians andmaintenance workers. A Nuclear Power Certificate is being developed on Texas A&MUniversity’s main campus to augment the education of the typical engineering undergraduate.Finally, as an integral part of this initiative, the Department of Engineering Technology andIndustrial Distribution
and mapping to the EET program outcomes. Table 3 Senior Course Assessment Tool and EET Program Outcomes Mapping EET Course Course Learning Objectives EET Program outcomes EET3225 Demonstrate the ability to analyze and Outcome 4. An ability to apply design linear integrated circuits used in creativity in the design of systems, signal conditioning and simple control components or processes appropriate system with an emphasis on practical to the program objectives (ABET application. 2.d
methods in engineering. The effective teaching sessions(sessions 8-12) were aligned to the participants’ interests; among others, topics discussedin these sessions were teaching in large classes, engaging students in collaborativelearning, and self-assessing one’s teaching practices.Since MEAs are one of the core components of ENGR 126, they were discussed in detailduring the course, and they were used as an example of how curriculum design lines upwith a learning model (HPL). The solution of an MEA requires the development of oneor more mathematical, scientific, or engineering concepts that are unspecified by theproblem – students must grapple with their existing knowledge to develop a generalizablemathematical model to solve the problem. An MEA
school. Because of the added costs of these kits, no high schoolsin the district were able to participate in this work, however in future years, the desire is to makethem an integrated part of the learning-mentoring-learning experience.The ultimate goals for the students were as follows: For grades six-eighth, increase studentexposure to technology and technological careers and raise expectations to these students thatsuch careers are possible and educational resources are available to them at both vocational anduniversity levels. Specifically, use robotics and data logging tools to expose the students to usingthese tools for competitions, and to solve math, science, and engineering problems. In addition,through the process of working with
they learn”4. By providing studentswith an integrated curriculum and opportunity for inter-disciplinary studies, students are allowedto build bridges and make connections on their own. When this happens, they are fuelingthemselves and enabling their own learning reinforcing the notion of life-long learning.Interdisciplinary Approaches in ActionInterdisciplinary approaches have been used in a wide variety of educational settings. Teamcompetitions, such as Solar Challenge, Concrete Canoe, Human Powered Submarine, etc…, andeven degree/certificate programs, such as Virginia Tech’s Green Engineering minor all fosterinterdisciplinary teams. Courses and programs (even new fields) have been developed aroundthe context of interdisciplinary education
engineering studentsto hands-on engineering design earlier in their academic career. The ITEST project aimed toadapt these intensive efforts, which have taken place with self-selected engineering students, for Page 13.261.2suitability with a group of socio-economically, academically, and ethnically diverse middle andhigh school students and within the confines of regular school-day courses, not as an extra-curricular or club activity. Such vertically integrated curricular innovation is being tested as aneffective model of engaging a wide spectrum of students—in terms of age, maturity, andenvironment—through the adaptation of a single, intrinsically
path.Opportunities must be available for middle school students to interact with and experiencemanufacturing professionals and careers as a recruitment to build a future workforce. Thefollowing activities were introduced to project schools last year to provide manufacturingawareness to students.School-Based Manufacturing Activities that Create Student ‘Buzz’Given the state and national reports that few students are selecting careers in advancedmanufacturing, the NSF-ATE project identified numerous hands-on student-centered activitiesthat could be integrated into the curriculum at each educational level. These activities introducestudents to manufacturing careers, equipment used, and interaction with mentors from themanufacturing and engineering fields all
schools level in earth science and chemistry prior to moving to engineering. He has 33 years of experience in engineering education.Morteza Sadat-Hossieny, Northern Kentucky University Morteza Sadat-Hossieny is an Associate professor and a graduate faculty of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology at Northern Kentucky University. Dr. Sadat-Hossieny is actively involved in consulting and research in different areas of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology fields such as CADD, Automation, and technology transfer mechanisms. He regularly publishes papers in different proceedings and journals
to ease adoption pains. The paper will also discuss efforts at James MadisonUniversity to expose students to the various aspects of this technology.RFID NetworksAt the enterprise level, an RFID system will comprise many different technologies, includingbarcodes systems, passive and active tags, GPS/GIS systems, and chain of smart software – thehardware and software from different vendors must be seamlessly integrated. See Figure 1 forrepresentative auto ID technologies that one will find in a robust enterprise system. Transport Movement Item Packaging Unit Load Container unit
insight into the “laboratory based problem solvinglearning environment” that has been developed with financial and technical assistancefrom local industries. The discussion will also identify how the “need” for this type ofproject based curriculum became obvious. Four prerequisite courses are briefly describedbefore focusing on the project based capstone course. These four courses provide thestudents with the technical skill sets needed to succeed in the senior level capstonecourse. Accomplishments and outcomes from the student perspective, the Universityperspective, and the industry perspective will also be shared.Our advancing world of computer integration, process control, industrial automation, andtelecommunications requires technical problem
., “Combining Experiments with Numerical Simulations in the Teaching of Computational Fluid Dynamics,” Proc. 2003 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June, Nashville, Tennessee, 2003.7 K. Aung, “Design and Implementation of an Undergraduate Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Course,” Proc. 2003 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June, Nashville, Tennessee, 2003.8 D. Pines, “Using Computational Fluid Dynamics to Excite Undergraduate Students about Fluid Mechanics”, Proc. 2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June, Lake City, Utah, 2004.9 R. Bhaskaran, L. Collins, “Integration of Simulation into the Undergraduate Fluid Mechanics Curriculum using FLUENT”, Proc. 2003 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June