twice, inpart to give a baseline presentation on finding information, including a discussion on what is“information” and how to incorporate specialized information into their research, including livedexperiences. For the fourth-year capstone project, the librarian is an active member andparticipant of the teaching team.The collaborations developed with the Engineering Wellness Coordinators also exemplify thevalue of long-term sustained efforts to build and maintain relationships. Through repeatedinteractions it allowed a camaraderie to evolve, which encouraged open and honest discussionsregarding the successes and challenges of helping students. Through years of communication asolid foundation was established, fostering a mutual respect and
overlapping part body. Missingor dimensionally incorrect features can be visualized to prompt self-correction. It’s also easierfor the instructor to hone in on errors when providing help. One drawback of this approach is thatit limits the practice of reading and interpreting views in drawings which can be a secondarylearning outcome in a CAD class as is the case for the capstone example discussed earlier. As illustrated earlier, more complex assignments where students are expected to do more independentthinking on their modeling strategy, capture design intent, and use appropriate best practices are muchmore challenging to automate their assessment. It might even be true that because more complexassignments such as a capstone project are meant to
(OSU). During his time at OSU, Sean taught multiple undergraduate engineering courses including, geotechnical engineering, highway design, surveying, and senior capstone design. His engineering education research aims to understand more about the gap in student preparedness for the engineering workplace. He has worked closely with engineering practitioners, faculty, and students to understand more about their problem-solving behavior, beliefs around engineering knowledge, and learning more about what it means to be an engineer. Sean enjoys being active outdoors with his family and friends while climbing, mountain biking, and camping.Audrey Dewey ©American Society for Engineering Education
Instrumentation 4 √MMET 363 Mechanical Design Applications I 3 √ESET 419 or Engineering Technology Capstone I 3 √MMET 429 Managing People & Projects in a Techn SocietyRDNG 465 Reading in the Middle and Secondary Grades 3 √ √TEFB 324 Teaching Skills II 3 √ √Summer Total 6UCC University Core Curriculum 6 Fourth YearFall
projects. Thisresearch also analyzes how adult learners interactively learn, reflect, and apply their AIknowledge to examples drawn from their workplace, while improving their understanding andreadiness to implement AI technologies effectively.Our three-day workshop centered around enriching and engaging learning about AI technologies,ethics, and leadership, featuring topics like supervised learning and bias, AI strategy, andgenerative AI. Apart from discussions, the workshops incorporated hands-on learning with digitaltools, robots, problem-solving scenarios, and a capstone project. Participants were 44 leadersfrom a large government organization. Their learning was measured through pre- andpost-questionnaires on AI leadership, knowledge checks
contributory courses and tools in the Final ConstructionEngineering Portfolio CourseStudents were given a list of conceptual and technical tools as part of the capstone coursedesign. The students were asked to choose the top five tools they believed would be the mosthelpful for the project, followed by the ones they considered least useful. Table 1 belowprovides a summary of the students' selections. Detailed tables of all responses can be foundin Appendix 2.Table 1. Courses and tools with the highest and lowest contributions to the portfolio course. # Most helpful (Frequency) Least useful (Frequency) Construction Scheduling and Deadline Risk prevention considerations. (14) 1 Analysis
mechanical engineering at four different colleges. He started at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez in the traditional role of teaching and administering a modest graduate research program. At Trine University, a small private school in Angola, Indiana, he focused on undergraduate education while teaching ten different courses ranging from introductory freshman courses to senior capstone. Scott also served as an advisor to many different undergraduate research projects. He then moved on to Michigan State University and took a position as a teaching specialist concentrating on undergraduate classroom instruction. Scott finally settled at York College of Pennsylvania. He has been at York College for over ten years
Paper ID #43651Teaching Effective Communication for TeamworkDr. Joanna Tsenn, Texas A&M University Joanna Tsenn is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. She earned her B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin and her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. She coordinates the mechanical engineering senior capstone design program and teaches senior design lectures and studios. Her research interests include engineering education with an emphasis on capstone design and teamwork.Jonathan Weaver-Rosen, Texas A&M University
always get that. But I think it is unique.Dominik had a similar observation about the long-term timeline for these projects andpartnerships, contrasting that timeline with more traditional design projects within the university. For example, most engineers go through a capstone program that's either six months or 12 months. That's a lot shorter than four years. And your horizon for things to go wrong and your horizon to get very deep technical in that timeframe is much less than a four- year project. So, I think it affords the opportunity to go deeper, broader, and gain skill in bringing new people into the fold, solving more technically complex problems. And it really gives the time horizon to work through
from a study investigating thetransition from capstone design to industry,” In 2018 Capstone Design Conference Proceedings,June 2018.[13] B. Amadei, “Engineering for sustainable human development: A guide to successful small-scale community projects,” American Society of Civil Engineers, August 2014.[14] B. Altringer and F. Habbal, “Embedding design thinking in a multidisciplinary engineeringcurriculum,” in VentureWell: Proceedings of Open, the Annual Conference. National CollegiateInventors & Innovators Alliance, 2015, p. 1.[15] R.M. Felder and R. Brent, “Designing and teaching courses to satisfy the ABET engineeringcriteria,” Journal of Engineering Education, 92(1), 2003, pp. 7-25.[16] G. Lichtenstein, A.C. McCormick, S.D. Sheppard and J
Paper ID #41047A Comparison between the Different Accredited Architectural EngineeringPrograms through ABET and CEABDr. Rachel Mosier, Oklahoma State University Dr. Rachel Mosier is an Associate Professor in the Construction Engineering Technology program at Oklahoma State University, with a background in structural engineering and project management. Dr. Mosier has received regional and international teaching awards through the Associated Schools of Construction.Dr. Rania Al-Hammoud, MpowerU Training & Consultancy Inc. Rania Al-Hammoud is a lecturer and the current associate chair of undergraduate studies at the civil
socialresponsibility. Course creation and revisions incorporated EOP learning outcomes; many of theserevisions took effect in Autumn 2023. Additionally, one of the core courses of our proposedspecialization will be offered on a satellite campus beginning Spring 2024.The EOP framework provided the guiding principles for the proposed specialization. Theseprogrammatic elements balance student learning with community impacts while weavingSustainability, Intercultural Competence and Cultural Awareness into a core tenet of engineering.Further, the EOP mentorship program was instrumental in guiding the project participants increating buy-in from stakeholders across the university enterprise.IntroductionThere are many dimensions to sustainability, and our pedagogical
first-year design projects [40],but project implementation differs between institutions. At LUC, each student group solves aproblem their first semester for a campus sponsor. The first-year design project is administeredas a first step towards LUC’s industry-sponsored, two-semester capstone project that studentscomplete during senior year. This first-year situative learning experience provides meaningfulpractice in solving a design problem, which is a fundamental engineering professional practice[15].As with StRIP survey results, Empathy survey results should be interpreted with caution. Only21/51 students completed the pre-Empathy survey at week 14, and no student completed thepost-Empathy survey at week 23. Pre-Empathy survey responses were
students as underprepared for the information needs of the workplace. A2023 AAC&U survey of 1,010 executives and hiring managers reported that 70% of respondentsviewed “locating and evaluating information from a variety of sources” as a very important skillfor new hires, but only 54% of respondents reported that students are well-prepared with thisskill [8].To help address student IL skill gaps, engineering librarians have long integrated instruction intocourses to support senior capstone projects and other assignments, which has shown to improvethe quality of students' final projects and increase the number of references cited [9], [10].However, often academic IL instruction is highly focused on supporting the specific courseassignments
, and measured risk [3]. Faculty have incorporated the entrepreneurial mindset[4], head/heart alignment and passion finding, creativity, and an innovators identity [5] into variouselements of experiential and project based courses. Capstone design instructors often teach tenetsof entrepreneurship to their design teams to build “soft skills” and develop “well-rounded”engineers [6]. These activities are both necessary for ABET accreditation as well as desired by theengineering workforce.In addition, employers seek more creative, entrepreneurial engineering graduates. Increasingly,they believe that gaining knowledge beyond traditional engineering curriculum is more importantthan discipline knowledge [7]. In addition, learning creativity and
problems, developing knowledge that supports designers and decision-makers. Dr. Layton is an expert on bio-inspired systems design, with a focus on the use of biological ecosystems as inspiration for achieving sustainability and resilience in the design of complex human networks/systems/systems of systems. Examples include industrial resource networks, makerspaces, power grids, cyber-physical systems, supply chains, innovation processes, and water distribution networks. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Quantitative Network Analysis for Benchmarking and Improving Makerspaces: Project OutcomesAbstract: Makerspaces on university campuses have seen
engineering design capstone course [13] [14].One group of educators identified a need for increased knowledge of sustainability, so theydeveloped a module with learning objectives that included definitions of basic concepts ofsustainability, sustainable development, the triple bottom line, cradle-to-cradle, life-cycleassessment and whole-system thinking, accompanied by application of the Envision ratingsystem to an infrastructure project [13]. The authors concluded that, although their PowerPointpresentation and assessment assisted in students achieving lower levels of development, deeperlearning and higher levels of achievement would require a dedicated sustainability engineeringcourse [13]. Another author described how the EnvisionTM rating system
,contributed by the student at the heart of the research and the two professors guiding him,reflect the symbiotic relationship between teaching and learning, and the profound influence ofmentorship in shaping future engineers. This testament serves to illustrate the integral role thatsuch projects play in academic growth and the cultivation of expertise in a specialized field.Incorporating a scaling element into future projects is a viable consideration. In the currentscenario, the student had independently conceived the idea and completed substantialpreliminary work before seeking faculty guidance. Although capstone drone students receivedencouragement to contribute and participate, there was a noticeable lack of strong interest injoining the project
interests include transfer student information asymmetries, threshold concepts, curricular complexity, and advancing quantitative and fully integrated mixed methods. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Work In Progress: Influences of Team-Based Activities on Engineering Students' Identities and Careers in University and Co-op Settings AbstractThis work-in-progress (WIP) paper describes preliminary analyses for a qualitative study aboutthe impact of team-based project participation on two constructs: (1) engineering students'professional identities and (2) career goals. In this paper, we describe how we are leveragingexisting data from
coursework including a one-yearcapstone in their final year. The curriculum involves several experiences of hands-on and project-based learning. A sample of the four-year coursework is shown in Figure 1. All the students arerequired to take courses in each of these pillars: First-Year Engineering Technology Experience,Programming Basics, Manufacturing and Material Sciences, Electrical and Electronics,Industrial Automation and Robotics, Network Security and Technology Applications, OperationalExcellence and Leadership and Capstone Sequence. In addition to these courses, students takeChemistry, Physics I and II, and Calculus I and II offered through the College of Arts and Sciences.Since the previous publication of authors on the same program, the
earlier, allowing students to focus on‘understanding’ the content rather than just ‘knowing’ the content [8]. The difference being thatlecture based teaching tends to focus on theory and strict processes, limiting students to findingone particular ‘right’ answer. Active learning methods, such as flipped-classrooms,think-pair-share activities, and case study reflections, push students to defy their normalcognitive boundaries of what engineering “is” [9, 10]. This education method can ease the oftenfrustrating transition that seniors experience during capstone design courses where students areexpected to translate isolated concepts learned in classrooms to suddenly very technicallycomplex projects [11]. The frustration that students experience
projects are present infirst-year engineering courses, senior capstone projects, and more recently, second and third-year courses [4, 5, 6]. These team interactions demonstrate practical knowledge skills by taskinggroups of students with complex problems. While research on student engineering teams is ex-tensive, few studies to date have explored how students’ intersecting identities impact their expe-riences on teams, particularly at the intersection of race and gender. (Note: in discussing gender,we use the terms “man/men,” “woman/women,” “non-binary,” and “trans-men/women” for gen-eral discussions; when referencing previous research, we use the term used by the researchers;when referencing our participants, we use the term “female” because, as
solutions, multiplestakeholders and no conclusive formulation) or the ability to communicate in a digital environment[1, 2]. Moreover, project-based learning (PBL) has been gaining more traction in engineeringprograms to facilitate student learning experience and professional development. Although designcourses including capstone design have PBL with components of EML, entrepreneurial mindsetbased PBL is quite uncommon in many engineering courses that are not design courses [3].Traditional engineering course projects involve a relatively close-ended problem whereinstructions and information about the project specifications are provided. This can be due toengineering instructors lack of access to curriculum that focuses on problem solving with
music to visually impaired people?” as part of the course’s capstone project. Wecollected data between March and May 2023. Data includes semi-structured in-depth interviews(5.4 hours with the instructor and 1.5 hours with each focal student), observational field notesand audio recordings of classes (including two external events where the students presented),observational field notes and audio recordings of focal students’ working meetings, focalstudents’ artifacts, coursework materials and supporting multimedia (pictures and videos).For our analysis, we followed standard procedures of qualitative case study research (e.g., [43],[44]). For question 3, we used a provisional code [45] based on the set of human-centeredengineering design
, doi: 10.1109/te.2007.906894.[5] M. D. Koretsky, C. Kelly, and E. Gummer, "Student Perceptions of Learning in the Laboratory: Comparison of Industrially Situated Virtual Laboratories to Capstone Physical Laboratories," Journal of Engineering Education, Article vol. 100, no. 3, pp. 540-573, 2011, doi: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2011.tb00026.x.[6] C. M. Cunningham and G. J. Kelly, "Epistemic practices of engineering for education," Science Education, vol. 101, no. 3, pp. 486-505, 2017, doi: 10.1002/sce.21271.[7] M. D. Koretsky, E. J. Nefcy, S. B. Nolen, and A. B. Champagne, "Connected epistemic practices in laboratory‐based engineering design projects for large‐course instruction
Paper ID #42092GIFTS: Improved Team Skill Development through a Semester-Long TeamworkReportDr. Melissa M. Simonik, State University of New York at Binghamton Melissa received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Union College (Schenectady, NY) in 2014 and her M.Eng. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) in 2015. Melissa started at Binghamton University in 2015 as a Mechanical Engineering doctoral student. She served as a teaching assistant (TA) for Watson Capstone Projects for two years. She continued as a TA for the Engineering Design Division in 2017 where she taught both Introduction to
yet to disambiguate the impactof design education from persistence behaviors. For instance, a survey study linked participatingin capstone design to stronger engineering identity, but without accounting for the differencesthat might be due to comparing seniors to students earlier in their educational careers [3].To address this gap, we extend typical models of persistence intentions to examine the effects ofengagement in a core engineering practice—design problem framing—across first-year andsenior students. We conjectured that framing agency—the capacity to make decisionsconsequential to design problem framing [4]—relates to engineering identity and engineeringdesign self-efficacy, which in turn predicts persistence intentions. We sought to
(2nd ed.). Oxford Press. 4. Leidig, P. A. & Oakes, W. C. (2021-a). Model for Project-Based Community Engagement. International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship, 16(2), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.24908/ijsle.v16i2.14809 5. Howe, S., and J. Goldberg. (2019). Engineering capstone design education: Current practices, emerging trends, and success strategies. In Design education today: Technical contexts, programs and best practices, edited by D. Schaefer, G. Coates, and C. Eckert. Springer.6. Leidig, P. A., Khalifah, S. M. & Oakes, W. C. (2023). Capstone design in engineering community engagement course. Journal of Civil Engineering
course sections seat at most 24 students, to facilitate active learning.Four social justice case study projects are embedded in the curriculum, specifically in theIntroduction to Engineering Design first-year course, Experiential Engineering sophomorecourse, Electronics Circuits and Devices sophomore course, and Capstone Design I seniorcourse. Each case study project has a different format, and contains written, presentation, anddiscussion components.The U.S. Senate Hearing social justice case study is assigned by the first author during theExperiential Engineering sophomore course, which is taught by another instructor. This casestudy is worth 10% of the total course grade. Within each case study, each student is assigned acase study character
effectiveness of a tourniquet and to measure pressure and count theoutput of a pellet press. They have also appeared in Capstone projects such as a prosthetic handproject, electrospinning project, and the SAE formula car. While no historic data was collectedprior to the first implementation, 11/41 students (26.8%) from the second implementation of theArduinos in Instrumentation Laboratory indicated that they have used Arduino since the coursein a context in which it was not required. In comparison, only 7/53 (13.2%) students in theirfreshmen year have ever used an Arduino at all, and none of these students would have beencomfortable using them again without help. It should be noted that Labview was used in the instrumentation class for at least eight