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Jiayue Shen; Daniel Jones; Kazi Imran; Xiang Wang; Weiru Chen; Lanju Mee

fundamental concepts of control systems and automation. Several studieshave shown the benefits of incorporating mechatronics into the MET curriculum. [1-3] .However, due to the complexity of mechatronic systems, students can struggle to grasp theconcepts through theoretical lectures and traditional laboratory experiments.The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized the field of mechatronics by enablingconnectivity between various mechanical and electronic devices. The integration of IoT inmechatronics systems has led to enhanced automation and control, improved monitoring andmaintenance, and increased efficiency and productivity. The application of IoT in mechatronicshas become an active research area in recent years, with numerous studies

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Md. Ali Haider; Jody Alberd

ETD 345 Design a Learning Model to Integrate IoT Aapplications into the Engineering Curriculum Md. Ali Haider and Jody Alberd Austin Peay State UniversityAbstractInternet of Things (IoT) applications are widely prevalent in the age of smart technologies. Thispaper presents a proposed learning model aimed at integrating IoT applications into engineeringcurricula. The rapid advancement of IoT technology has opened up new possibilities andchallenges for the engineering field, necessitating the inclusion of IoT concepts and practicalskills in

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David Satterwhite

ETD 465 Impact of Chat GPT on the Marine Engineering Technology Curriculum David Satterwhite California State University Maritime AcademyAbstractIn recent years, ChatGPT, an arguably groundbreaking product by OpenAI, has significantlyinfluenced the pedagogical methods and processes employed in various academic courses acrossthe globe. This paper explore the potential impact of ChatGPT on student engagement andlearning in the EPO-125, Introduction to Marine Engineering course, at the California StateUniversity Maritime Academy (CSUM). Some areas of focus include accuracy, accessibility

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Darrell Nickolson

analysis of the program with ouradvisory board, internal faculty, and some external faculty from programs that have successfully donethe integration, we believe our certificate program will mee the standards of the U.S. Department ofEnergy.Interactive LearningPrompted by an interactive exercise during one of our advisory board meetings where we asked eachboard member to create the ideal studio classroom environment, and several of them suggestedflipping the classroom technology to the advantage of the teacher. Instead of fighting against tablets,cell phones, and other technology, utilize it to teach and inform. Teaching interior design andarchitecture has changed tremendously over the years, from slide-rules and T-squares to digitizers andmouse

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Afi Anuar; Vukica Jovanovic; Natnan Luetke; Hamid Eisazadeh; Isaac Flory IV; Mileta Tomovic; Anthony Dean

, and food processing.However, both the region and the broader state of Virginia are struggling with a skilled laborshortage that fails to meet the demands of these manufacturing enterprises. This paper aims toprovide insights into the recently established Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MFET)program at Old Dominion University, located in Norfolk, Virginia. The MFET program featuresa comprehensive curriculum, encompassing the development of new courses and theestablishment of a state-of-the-art smart manufacturing laboratory. This program has beeninitiated in collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research and Patrick &Henry Community College in Martinsville, VA, and a grant funded by the U.S. Department ofVeteran

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Saeed Foroudastan

interdisciplinary skills. The purpose of this paper is to explain howthe technical design of vehicle competitions gives every member an advantage when entering theworkforce, such as hands-on engineering experience, construction, fabrication, teamwork, andinterdisciplinary skills.IntroductionThe EVP is not a dedicated course curriculum but is instead based on volunteers who participatesolely to gain experience in designing, building, and manufacturing various vehicles. We submitvarious documents in each competition, giving students experience in writing, business, andfinance [7]. The team is comprised of diverse students from majors including aerospace,mechatronics engineering, and biotechnology. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference for Industry

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Mark Pagano; Lorne Arnold; Heather Dillon

, primarily in the upper division level. This was done since it was decidedto only admit two-year transfers into the programs the first few years so that graduates would beavailable in just two years allowing for application of an initial ABET visit. First year studentswould then be admitted after the initial cohorts, which has since occurred in 2023.Once the mapping was complete, faculty could design their specific courses to include thestudent outcomes agreed upon earlier. Then it could be guaranteed that each graduate would beexposed to learning directed toward each of the required ABET criteria as they work toward eachof the SO’s distributed across the curriculum. Furthermore, if exercises and assessments couldthen be designed to test each SO

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Afshin Zahraee

constraints, studentshave the opportunities to participate in the implementation and delivery phases of the project”[2]. Many other studies in the following years integrated international collaboration in theirtechnology and engineering capstone projects as well as developing internship and capstonedesign integration for university-industry collaborations [3], [4]. Limitations still remained thatthose without internships or previous connections would not be able to find a project as easily.To address the aforementioned gap, capstone projects have been updated and curriculums havebeen modeled to better prepare students to work after graduation by not only involving industryin capstone projects, but also adding them to be part of the curriculum. In

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Jungwon Ahn

also show the use of case study presentations stimulates student interest andpromote active engagement in class.IntroductionFluid-thermo classes are integrated into engineering technology programs’ curriculum, yet theirincorporation presents challenges for several reasons. Engineering technology programs includediverse topics, so it results in limited time for fluid-thermo courses despite their significance. Inaddition, engineering programs emphasize practical applications, whereas traditional fluid-thermo classes involve complicated equations and calculus. This calculus contents might posedifficulties for engineering technology students, despite their strength in practical and hands-onskills. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference

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David Labyak; Scott Wagner

curriculum design in both the CME and MSME. Thecourses are offered Online to suit graduates and industry professionals from electrical orcomputer engineering, materials science and engineering, manufacturing engineering,mechanical engineering, and engineering technology degree programs.Discussed here are the industry collaborations that have influenced the courses i. Courseassignments and student course evaluations will be used to assess the level of meeting the courselearning objectives. Industrial collaborators play a significant role in the methods of coursedelivery and content covered.Introduction/BackgroundThe Industry 4.0 Concepts course is a three-credit course that is an examination of Industry 4.0as it relates to manufacturing. Topics

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Ghazal Barari; Brian Sanders

ETD 515 The Effectiveness of Virtual Environments for Increasing Engagement in Engineering Technology Courses Ghazal Barari, Brian Sanders Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University- WorldwideAbstractThe paper describes a learning activity design and data gathering methodology for use inforecasting student achievement via a survival analysis approach. Survival analysis is amethodology to predict the probability of survival based on a medical treatment procedure. Inthis paper, it is tailored for an academic program by defining learning activities, treatments, andmeasuring the

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Ahmad Fayed; Mohamed Zeidan; Ephraim Massawe; Mehmet Bahadir

, occupationalhazard control strategies for indoor air quality improvement. Each case study is based on anexperimental setup. A summary of results and the industrial codes used in each case is presented.2. Background2.1. The DepartmentIn a multidisciplinary industrial and engineering technology department, such as the one inSoutheastern Louisiana University, that houses three different programs, namely, IndustrialTechnology (IT), Engineering Technology (ET), and Occupational Safety, Health, andEnvironment (OSHE), it is not always possible to integrate enough industrial standards with thetheory introduced in the curriculum. This is true because the number of common courses sharedamong different concentrations does not allow an in-depth examination of many of

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Carmen Cioc; Noela Haughton; Sorin Cioc

Society for Engineering Education ETD 515support technical learning outcomes in undergraduate programs [3]. This synthesis was primarilyinformed by ABET, EML, and the National Society of Professional Engineers’ statement onethics [4]. While there is an emphasis on technical skills, it is recognized that supporting skillsenable undergraduates to utilize a combination of skills to create value in their respective fieldsof practice. Hence assessment strategies have been expanded to assess the development of thesesupporting skills at multiple levels, including student perspectives within courses. Preparing Qualified

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Jason Bruns

gain a better understanding of their desired career/work exploration by employing these Lean tools to evaluate processes and responsibilities integral to those roles in a virtual setting. Imagine a virtual reality nursing station, for example. Learners can actively observe and assess how they might use the Lean methodology to increase safety, efficiency, teamwork and encourage employee empowerment to provide an overall improved experience for the nurses, staff, and patients, as well. Educators For educators, the Lean curriculum offers a straightforward concept that demands minimal computation, much to the delight of some learners. The modules come equipped with project- based and problem-based activities, which align with the learning outcomes

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Mauricio Torres; Ying Shang; Zakariya Al Hamouz

. That made necessary for higher education institutions to seek ways to providestudents the knowledge and skills immediately needed, as observed by Levine and Van Pelt [15].Certificates and micro-credentials are how institutions are addressing that requirement.3. CurriculumThe integration of various streams like mathematics, science, and technology into the STEMpedagogy is an inevitable development for both students and educators in the 21st century. Thisapproach requires adequate knowledge of the field in order to formulate the integration ofvarious streams of study [16].STEM education is an experiential learning pedagogy in which the application of knowledge andskills are integrated through in-context projects or problems focused on

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Maged Mikhail; Peter Zafiro

the lab. This will givestudents more advantages in learning and practicing system integration using innovativetechnology. This type of system is currently not available in our engineering technology labs andwill add another avenue to our students and our curriculum. This system has many technicaladvantages over the conventional ones currently in use. These advantages include beingpositioned freely, extremely dynamic, long service life, adjustable speed, monitored motions,adjustable acceleration, gentle motions, programmable force, and synchronization to othermotors.Project TasksDuring the summer of 2020, the following objectives will be accomplished for new equipmentintegration for the fall 2023 semester: - System assembly The

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Sidney Martin; Marilyn Barger; Catherine Davis

manufacturing industry participants then deployed into manufacturing and workforce supportteams to discuss their engineering technology workforce needs and how they address them. Duringteam report-outs, employers discussed having different job titles for similar positions, which canconfuse their industry, HR managers, and candidates looking for employment. They also discussedapprenticeship programs; many were unsure if they would benefit their organizations.The group discussed creating a standard engineering technician curriculum that could be an entrypoint for new employees. The employers listed the skills they would like to be taught in thiscurriculum and identified the top outcomes of standardizing a curriculum. Proceedings of the

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MADDUMAGE KARUNARATNE; Christopher Gabany

, professional responsibilities,and economic and social impacts. This case deals with fraud, unlike the Ford Pinto case.The ethical societal impact of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) known as drones [11] areexplored in many aspects. The curriculum discussed delivering at-home medical test kits viadrones. This was an especially pressing and current subject during the Covid-19 pandemic. Alsodiscussed was drones in warfare (as battlefield use expands, ethics follow), a deeper dive intodisembodied warfare. Students have a drone club and are involved in this topic which brings updiscussions on ethics to avoid accidents, foe/friend recognitions, genuine mistakes or intentionalattacks, moral conflicts as an operator or engineer, etc. Students really engage in

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Marilyn Barger; Richard Gilbert; Sidney Martin

ofconnected device. The remaining five competencies of this digital badge (digital forensics,incident management, infrastructure design, systems integration, and vulnerabilities assessment)are also technical competencies but require skills and knowledge of specific technical situations,equipment, digital devices, and scenarios in an automated working environment. These are allcategorized as “technical competencies” in the NICE framework.The TRACKS-CN Cyber 4 RAM Digital Badge provides modular content for the learner ofthese competencies using the basic principles of cybersecurity. It applies these principles Proceedings of the 2024 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2024, American Society

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MADDUMAGE KARUNARATNE

beexperts in the customization of them.The programming language and the platform of choice for embedded processors are mostly C or C++due to its efficiency in memory allocation, run time and the ability to directly manipulate data inhardware components, although some languages such as Python have gained a level of popularity forembedded processors, in addition to being a popular language for machine learning. Therefore,teaching C/C++ to electrical and computer engineering students is considered essential in anyundergraduate curriculum. Once the solution is finalized in an algorithm, the software program maybe developed for a specific platform such as MS Windows, Androids, etc. Such developments can bedone in most software packages (Python, MATLAB

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Gary Mullett; Lara Sharp

things – (1) their programsare already filled to the brim with manufacturing topics and (2) that they are not equipped toteach the new enabling technologies of Industry 4.0. Speaking to the first point, two-yearcommunity colleges are under pressure from governing agencies and accreditation bodies toreduce two-year associate degree programs to a uniform sixty-credits [12]. Talk to any facultythat teaches technology and they will tell you that the curriculum of their programs is alreadyeliminating important topics and that the field is evolving in such a manner that there is a distinctneed to add additional topics. Obviously, these two positions are at odds with one another. Butthis has been an ongoing issue for as long as we have been teaching

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Md. Ali Haider; Hosssain Ahmed; Mahesh Pallikonda

evolving technological landscape. By equipping graduates with a morecomprehensive skill set and deeper understanding of the field, it is hypothesized that they will bebetter positioned to secure higher-paying jobs and contribute more effectively to the economy.Moreover, to gain exposure to modern technologies used in the industry, students need to gettrained with the latest tools and techniques. An extension of the degree program allows thestudents to delve deeper into these modern technologies and gain hands-on experience thatdirectly aligns with industry requirements. To achieve this goal, the addition of specializedcourses and internships into the curriculum will ensure that graduates are well-prepared to enterthe workforce and excel in their

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Sabah Abro; Ken Cook

discrete rather than integrated abilities of students.The Bachelor of Science in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology (BSMMET)program have used different set of student outcomes. These 11 outcomes align up not only to thefive ETAC students outcomes, but also to the American Society of Mechanical Engineering(ASME) criteria and the criteria of the Society of Manufacturing Engineering (SME).The accreditation of the BSMMET program requires that both professional association criteria to bemet since the program title includes both, the mechanical and the manufacturing.Student Outcome 11 of the BSMMET reads: “Apply written, oral and graphical communication,demonstrating an ability to identify and use appropriate technical literature, and