AC 2011-1345: THE PROFESSIONAL SPINE: CREATION OF A FOUR-YEAR ENGINEERING DESIGN AND PRACTICE SEQUENCEBrian Frank, Queen’s University Brian Frank is the Director (Program Development) and DuPont Canada Chair in Engineering Education Research and Development in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science and Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.David S. Strong, Queen’s University Professor David S. Strong has held the NSERC Chair in Design Engineering since joining Queen’s Uni- versity in 2003. His previous experience includes 22 years in the private sector in research, development, and manufacturing with three companies spanning the metals
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagez Campus, and her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University. She is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Muskingum University in New Concord, OH. Her interests focus on engineering education and electromagnetics, especially electromagnetic characterization of materials.Richard S Taylor, Muskingum UniversityDr. William R Wilson, Muskingum College Page 22.1292.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Similar Consecutive Bridge Design Projects for Freshmen and Sophomore Level Engineering CoursesAbstractThe
. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Windsor. Dr. Urbanic is presently an Assistant Professor at the University of Windsor. Her interests include integrating advanced technologies into manufacturing systems, in conjunction with balancing human characteristics and capabilities within the technical and business environments.Susan S. Sawyer-Beaulieu, University of Windsor Dr. Sawyer-Beaulieu a has more than 30 years professional engineering experience, including 10 years in the mining and mineral processing industry, 7 years in the metals recycling industry, 8 years in consulting, and holds professional engineering licenses in Ontario and Quebec. She is currently working as a Post Doctoral Fellow at the
AC 2011-432: ASSESSING AND IMPROVING A CAPSTONE DESIGN SE-QUENCE WITH INDUSTRIAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUESStacy S. Wilson, Western Kentucky University Stacy S. Wilson is a professor in the Electrical Engineering Program at Western Kentucky University. Her research interests include controls, system identification, and wavelets. She is actively involved in the assessment process.Mark E Cambron, Western Kentucky UniversityMichael L. McIntyre, Western Kentucky University Page 22.230.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Assessing and Improving a Capstone Design
AC 2011-441: CONNECTING SCIENCE WITH ENGINEERING: USINGINQUIRY AND DESIGN IN A TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOP-MENT COURSELouis S. Nadelson, Boise State University Louis S. Nadelson is an Assistant Professor in the College of Education at Boise State University. His research agenda is conducted within the context of STEM education and includes aspects of conceptual change, inquiry, and pre-service and in-service teacher education. He has published research ranging from teacher professional development to the impact of inquiry on STEM learning. Dr. Nadelson earned a B.S. degree in Biological and Physics Science from Colorado State University, a B.A. with concentrations in computing, mathematics and physics from
AC 2011-926: IDEALS: A MODEL FOR INTEGRATING ENGINEERINGDESIGN PROFESSIONAL SKILLS ASSESSMENT AND LEARNINGDenny C. Davis, Washington State University Denny Davis is Professor of Bioengineering and Director of the Engineering Education Research Center at Washington State University. He has led multi-institution collaborations developing and testing assess- ments and curricular materials for engineering design and professional skills. He has been a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education since 2002.Michael S. Trevisan, Washington State University Dr. Michael S. Trevisan is Professor of Educational Psychology and Associate Dean for Research and External Funding in the College of Education at Washington
National Academy of Engineering‟s (NAE) 2004 report, TheEngineer of 20201, several aspects of the future of engineering have been undeniable. The worldpopulation is changing in mostly known ways and changing with it are the kinds of stakeholderneeds typically addressed by engineers. Government studies project population worldwide toincrease from 6 billion currently to 9 or 10 billion within the lifetimes of today‟s beginningengineers1 and this massive increase will bring with it more than the challenges of sheer volume.The demographic diversity of the global population is changing just as radically. To give oneexample, according to a US Census Bureau study, “If current trends continue . . . the percentageof whites will decline from the 2000 value
AbstractDesign tasks are ubiquitous, complex, ill-structured, and challenging to students and professionalengineering designers. Successful designing depends on having not only adequate knowledge butalso sufficient awareness and control of that knowledge, known as metacognition. Researchsuggests that metacognition not only enhances learning outcomes but also encourages students tobe self-regulated learners who are metacognitively, motivationally, and behaviorally activeparticipants in their learning process.This article evaluates the extent to which students‟ task interpretation of the design project isreflected in their working plans and monitoring/regulating strategies. Butler and Cartier‟s Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) model was used to evaluate the
, 2011 Design in Context: Where do the Engineers of 2020 Learn this Skill?Increasingly, engineers must design engineering solutions that consider the contexts in whichthey are implemented. Examples like China‟s Three Gorges Dam, the development of next-generation fusion nuclear power, and the One Laptop per Child program illustrate thecomplexities and the stakes of current and future engineering projects. The National Academyof Engineering [1, 2] argues that the “Engineer of 2020” must not only be technically capable, butalso be able to understand the contextual requirements and consequences of their work.ABET program accreditation criteria[3] promote contextual engineering practice in several of
analysis was to observe a similar level of analysis bystudents individually when asked to answer the questions “What was the problem(s) youwere trying to solve as part of Project 1”?”Research questions: 1. How do FYE students comprehend and state their initial understanding of a given engineering problem? 2. How do FYE initially indentify the primary function of an engineering system (device or process) they are designing?MethodsParticipantsThe participants in this study included sixty-four students enrolled in an honors versionof the first year engineering (FYE) course at a large midwest university during the Fall2010 semester. These students self-select into the course and were accepted on a firstcome bases. These students have a
., Yarbrough, D., Rothmyer, A., Rajagopalan, G., Otta, S., Caughey, D., Bhaskaran, R., Smith, S., Hutching B., and Moeykens, S., “Development of Hands-On CFD Educational Interface for Undergraduate Engineering Courses and Laboratories”, ASEE, AC 2004-1526, 2004.11. Blekhman, D., “Lessons Learned in Adopting a CFD Package”, ASEE, AC 2007-830, 2007.12. LaRoche, R., Hutchings, B., and Muralikrishnan, R., “FlowLab: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Framework for Undergraduate Education” , ASEE, AC 2002-1520, 2002.13. Ormiston, S., “Incorporating CFD into the Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Programm at the University of Manitoba”, Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the CFD Society of Canada: CFD2001, pp. 333
DC/F Degree of the functioning or working final designProject ConstraintsFunctional PC/F Functional or working model of presented designEconomic PC/E Project budget constraints; $20.00 limitAesthetic PC/A Overall appearance of the designSustainability PC/S Sustainable design; use of a renewable energy sourceCourse ConstraintsPrior Knowledge/ CC/PK Lack or deficiency of prior knowledge and experienceExperience regarding engineering designTiming CC/T Design artifact due dates and project deadlinesTechnological CC/T Technological concerns
knowledge base and professional practice, today’sengineers must also cope with continual technological and organizational change in the workplace. Inaddition, they must cope with the commercial realities of industrial practice in the modern world, aswell as the legal consequences of every professional decision they make.7Despite these challenges, Mills and Treagust7 noticed that the predominant model of engineeringeducation remains similar to that practiced in the 1950’s - “chalk and talk”, with large classes andsingle-discipline, lecture-based delivery the norm, particularly in the early years of study. Theyconsider that developments in student-centered learning such as problem-based and project basedlearning have so far had relatively little
a discussion of educationalimplications.Mr. SAt the time of this study, Mr. S had been teaching for 10 years. He began as a chemistryteacher and shifted into teaching engineering and robotics 3 years prior to the study’sbeginning. Mr. S taught only engineering and robotics courses. He used robotics as anavenue for students to study engineering concepts and skills, namely: design processes,Computer Aided Design (CAD), electronics (sensors) and programming. The class weexamined was a Robotics I class taken by students ranging from 9th-12th grade. Mr. Sdesigned the curriculum of the first semester (the focus of our study) to engage studentsin solving one complex, ill-structured, engineering challenge. In particular, his studentswere working
‟s program, is inconsistent with present thinking regardingeffective curriculum design. The next section addresses the concept of curriculum alignment andhow impromptu design problems can resolve the significant curricular gap in traditionalengineering programs.2. Design education and curriculum theoryThe concept of curriculum alignment provides a sound rationale for integrating design across thecurriculum. The idea that curriculum, instruction, and assessment should be conceived as partsof a cohesive whole (or system) forms the core principle of curriculum alignment. Each of thesethree component parts – curriculum, instruction, and assessment – must be viewed relative to theothers if curriculum alignment is to take place. In this
Mechanics and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering Science from the Univ. of CO at Boulder. His industrial experience includes Texas Instruments (mechanical design), Naval Research Labs (computational dynam- ics), NASA Langley funded post doc (finite elements), consulting at Lockheed and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (computational mechanics) MSC Software Corporation (educational multimedia develop- ment) and Creo Consulting (Mechanical Engineering Consulting). He taught at Univ. of the Pacific for 4 years and is currently a Professor in the Department of Engineering Mechanics at the U. S. Air Force Academy. He has published approximately 100 technical publications and generated approximately 2 million dollars of research
parallel the engineering design process with the student’s well-establishedscientific method. This will provide a means for teachers to infuse their existing curriculum withengineering content.AcknowledgementThis study was made possible in part by support from the National Science Foundation GK-12program Grant # 0742504. The authors would like to thank Mrs. Gloria Clark for her exceptionalteaching abilities and encouragement.Bibliography1. Brophy, S., Klein, S., Portsmore, M., & Rogers, C. 2008. Advancing engineering education in P-12 classrooms. Journal of Engineering Education, 97(3), 369.2. Cantrell, P., & Ewing-Taylor, J. 2009. Exploring STEM career options through collaborative high school seminars. Journal of
hope to integrate the choosing policy of designing around existing patent and thechoosing technology of target patent in an integrated structure as much as possible. Thefurther study will develop and improve the given innovation model structure. Therefore,the integrated theory should be more actual application in enterprises.Bibliography[1] Song, O. M. and Montoya-Weiss, H. M., “Critical Development activities for really new versus incremental products,” Journal of Product Innovation Management, Vol. 15, pp.124-135, 1998.[2] Crawford, “New Product s Management,” 6th ed., P.25, 2000.[3] Betz, F., “Strategy Technology Management,” New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993.[4] Morin, J. and Rafferty, P. J., “The Six Key Functions of Technological Resources
Interesting 7.5 Very Interesting 10 Innovative Page 22.705.4Quality (in terms of technical feasibility)The technical feasibility of the concepts is measured using a quality metric developed by Shah et mal.32-33 Quality is measured as M qual = ∑ f j S qj , where m is the number of features in the design, j =1fj is the weight assigned for feature j, and Sqj is the quality score given for feature j. To calculatean average quality score, fj can be replaced with 1/m. Sqj is evaluated by one of the
their primary Page 22.78.5learning style(s) early in the IRE program and build strategies which make the mosteffective use for each learning style. Students reflect often on their selection of learningapproaches as well as monitor the effectiveness of the approaches and regulate theirlearning by making changes in their approach. One fourth of the grade in every technicalcompetency is based upon the students use, documentation, and oral description of theirmetacognition strategies and use.Throughout the entire semester students are tracking their progress on development ofprofessional competencies. Weekly, there are mini workshops on topics like
drawings on paper or whiteboard, but also might include screenshots or photos of partially developed sketches/prototypes. There should be several! 4. Choice rationale: Provide a rationale for your choice of the design idea(s) that you converged on for prototyping. That is, given the set of ideas that you considered, why did you choose these ideas for further development? 5. Novelty: Is it novel? If not novel, how does it differ from what currently exists, and how is it better? 6. Appropriate to user needs: Make sure to indicate how this design meets the key goal(s) that you Page 22.1631.3
designer’s usual way of thinking and the type(s) of thinkingrequired to resolve a given Problem A. For example, a designer whose capacity for sketchingis low might learn some basic drawing techniques to help bridge this (level) gap. Or, adesigner who tends to think tangentially may need to apply techniques that help him/her to“stay focused” (a different style) in order to solve a particular problem. Once again, werecognize the need for a systematic way to characterize design techniques, so the appropriatechoices can be made; we turn now to our development of such a classification scheme.3. A Cognition-Based Classification Scheme for Design TechniquesBased on the Cognition-Based Design (CBD) framework described briefly above, we havedeveloped a
a secondary student’s design-based project(s) – an often important aspect of anundergraduate Introduction to Engineering Course.Currently, a student’s transcript is the most widely applied and utilized model for representing astudent’s learning and practice of STEM concepts. The transcript provides a series of one-dimensional, snapshots (grades) aggregated as a Grade Point Average – GPA, and is sometimessupplemented with other data such as SAT® or ACT® scores. The assessment process that ismost often used to generate a transcript grade is the administration of multiple-choice tests,inferences from which have, for the past century, been central to the definition of competency.Given the potential richness and complexity of evidence of
0 0 Strongly Disagree No Opinion Agree Strongly Disagree Agree Figure 7: Q5 - “Small group discussion(s) of the case helped me understand the specific course topics” 30 25 2009 2010 20 20 Total 15 12 10 10 10 8 5 4 4
distance was 10 mm, we derived an ideal target linear speed of 1/16 mm/ms(0.0625 m/s) for the read head. Page 22.331.5The class was provided with the floppy drive chassis and the restriction that they must fittheir new retrofit mechanism train into the existing space. No modifications of thechassis were permitted. Alternative gear designs and mechanisms were an option forbonus marks. Each team was specified a different input motor speed; however, all teamswere required to meet the specified output condition of the original read head speed.Assessment criteria included: preliminary research report, part and assembly modelling,system
LAfter the automatic adjustment, the vertical reaction force on the front and the back wheels canbe determined as 1 1 R BY W R B R BY cos (R 2 L W S ) cos 2 2 (10) 1 1 R FY W R F R FY cos (R 2 L W S ) cos 2 2By considering L= 30/, H1 = 5/, R = 4/, and 15.47o , the following table provides thehorizontal forward force and the reaction forces on the wheels before and after automaticadjustmentTable2: Forces in downhill direction before and after automatic adjustmentTank Condition Horizontal Back
the cut. This provides a nicely mitered joint, which can then be reinforcedwith 1/16” thick plates cut from balsa wood sheet stock.The top and bottom chord members are best constructed by starting with one continuous lengthof balsa wood, and then laminating pieces to it in the middle region where the higher loadsrequire a thicker cross-section. It is very difficult to construct straight chords by piecing themtogether in shorter lengths from joint-to-joint.To keep the bottom chords parallel when connecting the two truss panels together, one can tapethe chords to a sheet of paper with two parallel lines drawn on it. To keep the truss square andplumb, the trusses can be held in a vertical position with a carpenter‟s square or other
observations and opinions about how toinstruct senior mechanical design projects based on our Capstone design course - MECH690-Mechanical Design will also be presented and shared throughout this paper. We recommend thatmechanical engineering program provide every student the virtual factory when they graduate.1. IntroductionOne of the main activities of engineers is to design and to construct products that satisfycustomers‟ and society‟s needs. One of the primary outcomes for engineering education is totrain students for conducting engineering design. In ancient time, engineering students wereapprentices to their Masters to learn engineering designs through real practices in realenvironments. Nowadays, engineering students are effectively training
. Students are provided theopportunity to work on real projects with real consequences and also learn the value thatcompanies place on IP and are better prepared for the normal practices concerning IP that areused in industry.Bibliography1 Todd, R. H., C. D. Sorensen, and S. P. Magleby, Designing a senior capstone course to satisfy industrial customers, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 82, No. 2, 1993, pp. 92-100.2 WIPO, What is intellectual property? http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/3 Gorka, S., J. R. Miller, B. J. Howe, Developing realistic capstone projects in conjunction with industry, SIGHTE 2007 Annual Conference, Destin, Florida.4 Radack, D. H., Intellectual property: yours or your employer’s, Getting Results…For the