AC 2009-772: INCORPORATION OF GREEN PRINCIPLES INTO ORGANICCHEMISTRY FOR ENGINEERSMontserrat Rabago-Smith, Kettering UniveristyJennifer Aurandt, Kettering University Page 14.728.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Incorporation of Green Principles into Organic Chemistry for Engineers Promoting environmentally responsible engineers and scientistsnecessitates the integration of green chemistry into the undergraduateengineering curriculum. In response to this need we have developed a pollutionprevention (P2), Green Chemistry, and Green Engineering course designed forundergraduate engineering students that have taken
students and teaching science to education professionals. Dr. High is a trainer for Project Lead the Way pre-Engineering. She initiated an engineering program at Stillwater Middle School. In the summer of 2008, Dr. High was part of a professional development workshop for 80 Northeast Oklahoma middle level teachers to develop integrated engineering curriculum. Page 14.1383.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Writing to Learn: The Effect of Peer Tutoring on Critical Thinking and Writing Skills of First-Year Engineering StudentsCritical Thinking
and the Global EngineerIt is nearly universally acknowledged that the world is becoming increasinglyinterconnected, interdependent and integrated, and that technology is accelerating at anescalating pace. The interdependence of financial systems and world economies turned a“made-in-America” banking problem into a global economic crisis of historicproportions. Ease of travel allowed avian flu to spread from an isolated remote village inChina to cities around the world, and created a health crisis that brought Toronto to a nearstandstill. Global warming, global political unrest, global epidemics, global poverty –the challenges that future generations of engineers will be asked to address are global innature. Charles Vest31 urged universities to
programs. Since opportunities for student choice in courses increased motivation3, it isprobable that choice in curriculum will also increase motivation. In spring 2009, 2/3 of thestudents in IDE 301 had transferred into IDES/MDE from another program at the university.Some of these students, particularly those who developed broad interests3, would probably nothave stayed in engineering. Because adding a few students to an existing lecture course hasalmost no additional cost, the major costs are for the two core courses required for the MDEprogram, for the academic advisor, and for the program director – who also teaches in theprogram. By retaining students, these two programs earn much more in tuition than they cost
engineering. She has an NSF CAREER and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) award for this work. Page 14.683.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 IGERT Funding and the Institutionalization of Interdisciplinary Graduate EducationAbstract Interdisciplinary graduate education is key to the preparation of tomorrow’s engineers,researchers and faculty. The U.S. National Science Foundation’s Integrative Graduate EducationResearch Traineeships (IGERTs) provide funding to train students in interdisciplinary scienceand engineering
. Page 14.668.2NCETE Teacher Professional Development Positioning of the teacher as developer of lessons facilitates coherence with otherlearning activities occurring in each teacher’s classroom. Specifically, teachers can situate theengineering design concepts into their curriculum by crafting a lesson rather than attempting tofit a pre-packaged generic lesson into an existing and, perhaps, rigidly structured curriculum.The lesson development opportunities provide teachers with an active learning experience,wherein they first experience exemplary engineering design challenges as participants and thencreate design challenges. Formative feedback was provided by peer teachers and professionaldevelopers as the teachers developed the lessons
credit in local school districts.The second change was the introduction of a in the Introduction to Engineering course.Promotion of the Program was further enhanced by the creation of a 30 minute “infomercial”about the EDGE Program that was presented for two weeks on the public access TV channel.However, the broadcasting was delayed until the last two weeks of the enrollment period and wedid not expect to see a significant impact on recruitment.This brings us to EDGE VI in 2008. The Program continued with the augmented ConceptualPhysics curriculum and the year around math engagement for qualified students. An updatedversion of the infomercial was broadcast weekly for the entire month of January. Building onthe successful robotics project
based on active experiential consistent with program goals and validated by learning methods program stakeholders 9. Enhancement of Faculty CDIO Skills 3. Integrated Curriculum Actions that enhance faculty competence in personal, A curriculum designed with mutually supporting interpersonal, and product and system building skills disciplinary subjects, with an explicit plan to integrate 10. Enhancement of Faculty Teaching Skills personal, interpersonal, and product and system Actions that enhance faculty competence in providing building skills integrated learning experiences, in using
AC 2009-551: WHAT NEW FACULTY NEED TO KNOWSusan Murray, Missouri University of Science and Technology Susan L. Murray is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Department at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Dr. Murray received her B.S. and Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University. Her M.S. is also in industrial engineering from the University of Texas-Arlington. She is a professional engineer in Texas. Her research and teaching interests include human systems integration, productivity improvement, human performance, ergonomics, and engineering education. Prior to her academic position, she spent seven years working
Carnegie Mellon University. Purpose built state-of-the-art learning and teachingfacilities have been built for each university.Texas A&M University at Qatar offers undergraduate degrees in chemical, electrical,mechanical and petroleum engineering. It graduated two students in 2007 and a full classin 2008. It is beginning to offer two graduate programs, a Master of Engineering Degreeand a Master of Science Degree. The undergraduate curriculum integrates cutting-edgeand applied research with innovative classroom instruction to ensure that its graduates areequipped to assume leadership roles after graduation.Carnegie Mellon Qatar has offered undergraduate programs in Computer Science andBusiness Administration since 2004. It has recently added a
, the operating money had to comeout of the existing EWU budget (an internal relocation). Many on campus were furious and, ofcourse, the BSEE program had to be approved by faculty committees. The administration wasextremely supportive of the BSEE effort and in the end EWU faculty committees did approve thenew program. Luckily, the HECB created opportunities for “high demand” fields to receiveadditional funding. This resulted in three new department faculty positions. Therefore, internalrelocations were kept to a minimum.III. Curriculum DevelopmentThe most important step in the planning of the electrical engineering degree was, obviously, thecurriculum. Before getting down to the actual four year plan, the Department sought help fromits
with the ‘teacherless education’-example. This is anexample which could be characterized as ‘live experimenting’, meaning that the instructors areperforming an experiment with their students without either prior information or consent. In thepaper describing the experiment, the author provides all information necessary to reproduce thesetup, including the course curriculum and other info. Even if the experiment itself is a majoreffort to reproduce, the article could be used in education to elaborate a discussion abouteducation in creativity.ConclusionsOur ambition has been to find, investigate, evaluate and present what we have defined as rolemodels for education in product innovation, to serve as examples for our continuous work
universities with a very high percent of positive feedback on them.The graduate-level courses in the LITEE curriculum are a sequence of two classesthat act as a case study development project for students participating in theInternational Research Experience for Students (IRES). The first semester courseprovides an introduction to how case studies are developed. The second semesteris a fieldwork course in which the students actively work with industrial partnersin India to research a problem and turn the results into a multimedia case study.This paper discusses how the IRES program is conducted as a two-semestersequence at Auburn University. It also describes how a research problem at acompany was converted into a case study for implementation in a
is an important characteristic as it enables the system to evolve in response to changes within the system, e. g. the changes in relationships between agents and their resulting emergence, and to changes beyond the boundaries of the system, e. g. changes to the socio-technical landscape in which the enterprise of engineering education is embedded. Within engineering education, there are inherent links to professional practice and engineering education practice which have evolved in response to these changes. An example of this is apparent in the recent thrusts to include communication in the engineering education curriculum as a result of the inputs from industry and the profession1. One would be hard pressed to find
take an institution-wide core curriculum in liberal arts, math and sciencethat comprises the first three semesters. For engineering majors, the majority of the courses inthe remaining five semesters builds the foundations in math, science and discipline specificengineering. Upperclassmen majoring in electrical engineering or mechanical engineering take aseries of three courses that define a concentration for their studies. Mechatronics is the centralcourse taken by students in their senior year who are concentrating in robotics or mechatronics. Itis also offered as an elective to students of all other majors who have taken the two prerequisitecourses, Dynamic Modeling and Control and Digital Computer Logic.The Mechatronics course objectives
: theengineering curriculum must be expanded beyond technical skills to develop students’proficiencies in those skills traditionally considered “soft”; i.e. leadership, project management,teamwork, and communication (5).In chartering the Engineer of 2020 project, the NAE’s primary goal was to develop a curriculum Page 14.150.2framework that would provide engineers with the necessary skill set to “overcome futurechallenges” (15). This combination of skills will require engineers to integrate technicalknowledge with practical ingenuity to identify problems and develop solutions. ABETrecognized in the late 1980s that “effective preparation for engineers of
previously, but also, because “they get to apply their knowledge to aninteresting project, launch a satellite to the upper reaches of the atmosphere and recover it. Thisis how the HARP program revolutionizes education: by providing classroom knowledge, andsimultaneously integrating it with real experience. This kind of experience is not as costly asmight first be expected: after an initial expense of $9,000 for a complete system, each missioncosts less than $300 total in consumables (balloon, helium, recovery vehicle operation, etc). In Taylor University implementation of the HARP program into its curriculum, studentsare enabled to experience every part of a truly professional research project. Once a specificproblem is identified, the
engineering curriculum necessitated incorporation of controls engineeringcoursework in their program of study. An existing dynamic modeling and controls courseexisted between two departments: electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. With theintroduction of chemical engineers in the course, the chemical engineering specific lessons aretaught by a chemical engineering instructor. This organizational structure is important, allowingthe multidisciplinary faculty team to synchronize their efforts, bringing their individual strengthsand resources together for the course to promote student learning. The instructors engage inmeaningful dialogue concerning their assignments, lesson preparations, laboratory exercises, andtheir results. The
insufficient methods for students to acquire hands-on experience in the scientific and technical disciplines necessary for space commerce and exploration. 2. Students have a hard time identifying relevant space systems hardware requirements while designing a real mission. 3. The National Research Council (NRC) committee believes that training students to design and build satellite and satellite instruments, gain hands-on experience with the unique demands of satellite and satellite systems environments and operations, and acquire early knowledge of systems engineering techniques is an extremely important investment to make[4, 5]. Founded by California Polytechnic State
context for science, engineering and technology investigations. He also proposed and implemented the pioneering concept of integrated adjustable virtual laboratories and designed easy-to-use authoring tools to create such labs. Dr. Cherner holds an MS in Experimental Physics, and Ph.D. in Physics and Materials Science. He has published over 80 papers in national and international journals and made dozens of presentations at various national and international conferences and workshops. Dr. Cherner has served as a Principal Investigator for several government-funded educational projects.Edward Bigos, Springfield Technical Community College Edward Bigos, a professor of Electronics/Computer Systems
means thatbetter understanding of potential “foreign” user communities and environments are needed.Students participating in the Introduction to the Core Concepts of Systems Engineering haveengaged in a first-hand experience integrating systems engineering and global collaboration aspart of an effort to increase the number of students who will go on to pursue engineeringeducation and careers and to provide them with workforce skills for the 21st century.Pilot Test DescriptionThe two major components addressed during the first year of the SAGE project were to 1)identify and develop the four systems and global engineering curriculum modules and 2) provideprofessional development on those modules to selected teachers who would then pilot test
the premier place in the world to innovate.” Rising Above the Gathering Storm Committee - 2006 National Academy of Sciences AbstractThis is the first of four invited papers prepared for the special panel session of the ASEE-NationalCollaborative Task Force for Engineering Graduate Education Reform. This paper presents an overviewof the initiative. The paper reaffirms the National Collaborative strategy that the present and futureindustrial strength of U.S. technology for economic prosperity and national security is ultimately reflectedin the strength and
assessment shows students find this course dramatically improves their ability to work inteams. For instance, data from Section 04 for fall 2008 shows that 75% of students found thatthis course is “very useful” in learning attributes of an effective team member. 94% respondedthat is was “very useful” or “useful.” These results are based upon a sample of 16 responses froma class of 18 students.Implementation and ResultsThis research has led to curriculum changes that instructors are currently implementing.Instructors implemented new curriculum related to the bridge project during the fall 2008semester and instructors will begin implementing the other proposed curriculum changes in thespring and fall semesters of 2009. Instructors expect some
realize that continuing rapidchanges in electronic components, technologies, methods, equipment and jobs are the norm butfind it difficult to keep courses and curriculum are in step. Yet, more than ever it is essential thatacademia match industry and the consumer in keeping up with the technology.One way to update and improve the technician-level electronics curriculum is to adopt a systems-oriented rather than a component/circuit analysis approach that most schools still use. Thanks tohigh density integrated circuits, fewer and fewer discrete component circuits are in use today yetmost two-year schools continue to teach the analysis and design of discrete component circuitsthat few technicians actually encounter today. The modern technician
, thermodynamics, solid mechanics, fluids, and propulsion in a single course.The concept was to combine the material to emphasize the systems nature of aerospaceengineering. With this integrated approach to presenting the material, it became a naturalfit for the ABET 2000 requirements on social impact, ethics and economics. In responseto industry concerns that engineering students were becoming applied physicists insteadof engineers, MIT revamped its undergraduate curriculum. The result of a two-yearoverhaul was the Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) educational initiative.Emphasis is towards hands-on learning. Unified Engineering is still a key part of thecurriculum, but most core classes have added hands-on labs. Through the years, MIT
, P.E., Univ. of Wisconsin-Platteville, Department of Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Curriculum ChairMesut Muslu, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Professor, P.E., Univ. of Wisconsin-Platteville, Department of Electrical Engineering, Previous Electrical Engineering Chair Page 14.329.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Closing the Loop on AssessmentAbstractIn recent years we have noticed an increase in the number of students making fundamentalmistakes in upper-division electrical engineering (EE) courses. In addition, we have found thatsome students have
AC 2009-115: WRITING TECHNIQUES FOR IMPLEMENTINGPROJECT-DIRECTED MATHEMATICSJohn Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch John Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar Branch Campus Dr. John Schmeelk is a Professor of Mathematics at Virginia Commonwealth University, Doha Qatar Branch, where he is engaged in applied mathematics, generalized functions, image processing and educational pedagogy. He received his PhD from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He was awarded many summer faculty grants to go to Fort Rucker, Alabama implementing procedures utilizing generalized functions. He has been an invited speaker to conferences in Australia
AC 2009-62: EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERINGSTUDENT PERCEPTIONS ON STUDENT EFFICACYLesley Strawderman, Mississippi State University Lesley Strawderman is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She conducts research in the area of human factors and ergonomics, specifically looking at the impact of large scale service systems on human use. She has received her IE degrees from Penn State and Kansas State Universities.Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University Bill Elmore is an Associate Professor and Associate Director in the Swalm School of Chemical Engineering. His research interests include K-12 and undergraduate education reform and
of goal functionsand ecosystem indicators. IN Eco Targets, Goal Functions and Orientors (F. Muller and M.Leupelt, Eds). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.Jorgensen, S. E. and Y.M. Svirezhev. 2004. Towards a thermodynamic theory for ecologicalsystems. Elsevier Ltd. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.Haven, D.S. and R. Morales-Alamo. 1966. Aspects of biodeposition byoysters and other invertebrate filter feeders. Limnology and Oceanography 11(3):487-498.Kazanci, C. 2007. EcoNet: new software for ecological modeling, simulation and networkanalysis. Ecological Modeling 208(1): 3-8.Kazanci, C. and E.W. Tollner. 2008. Particle tracking: an integrated approach for solvingecological network models. J. Math. Biology (In Prep.).Matis, J.H., Patten, B.C., White
cost labor regions, particularly India and China, there is a realconcern that the US-educated engineering student of the 21st century must be educated ina different way to the traditional engineering curriculum. The United States still leads theworld in terms of having a complete vertically integrated infrastructure supportingbusiness development. The elements of this infrastructure include a supportive culture forentrepreneurship, small business financing vehicles, intellectual property protectionand a supportive business tax and legislative structure. Yet with all this support, not manyuniversities provide entrepreneurship education to undergraduates within their curricula.Some universities that do include Lehigh University, the University