AC 2011-1596: DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A CER-TIFICATE IN ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENTAndrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University Andrew Gerhart, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. He is actively involved in ASEE, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Engineering Society of Detroit. He serves as Faculty Advisor for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Student Chapter at LTU, chair for the LTU Leadership Curriculum Committee, director of the LTU Thermal Science Laboratory, coordinator of the Certificate in Energy & Environmental Man- agement and Certificate/Minor in Aeronautical Engineering, and
discontinued for now,with faculty choosing to focus more in depth on the first two case studies. However, it offersmuch for students, and may be substituted for one of the other case studies or added as the coursechanges.Case Studies in the LiteratureMany authors over the past two decades have pointed out the need to integrate lessons learnedfrom failure case studies in engineering education 6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14. The case for including failurecase studies in the engineering curriculum has been made by several authors, including Delatteand Rens 15, Delatte 16, Carper 13, Carper et al. 17, and Carper et al. 18. Over the years, the ASCETechnical Council on Forensic Engineering (TCFE) has carried out several surveys of civilengineer programs across the
experience to the ethical lessons taught in the curriculum, we begin toengage engineers and create more robust learning experiences. Engaging students on thepractical decisions they face in their organizations could positively influence how students viewethics in all situations they encounter. In addition to relating out-of-class experiences to in-classdiscussions on ethical development, institutions should create a culture that promotes studentengagement with an understanding that there may be risks to students when they are overcommitted.AcknowledgementsThis work was supported in part by grants from the National Science Foundation (EEC#0647460, 0647532, and 0647929). The views expressed represent those of the authors and notnecessarily those of
University of Michigan and MSEChE and PhDChE from Princeton University.Daina Briedis, Michigan State University DAINA BRIEDIS is a faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Michigan State University. Dr. Briedis has been involved in several areas of education research includ- ing student retention, curriculum redesign, and the use of technology in the classroom. She is a co-PI on two NSF grants in the areas of integration of computation in engineering curricula and in developing comprehensive strategies to retain early engineering students. She is active nationally and internationally in engineering accreditation and is a Fellow of ABET.Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University
AC 2011-748: ENGINEERING INTERNSHIPS IN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR-SHIP: DEVELOPING PARTNERSHIPS AND STUDENT PERSPECTIVESCamilla M. Saviz, University of the Pacific Camilla M. Saviz is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of the Pacific. She received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Clarkson University, an M.B.A. from the New York Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Davis in the area of hydrodynamic and water quality modeling. She joined the University of the Pacific in 1999 and is a registered Professional Engineer in California. Her current research interests include sustainable engineering and
usually measured in miles or kilometers. Would it not seem ridiculous to ask for that same distance in units of inches or centimeters? 2. Should you create a new part template? Do you have to?Multiple Perspectives:Ask students to create puzzle part shapes from snap cubes first. They can then create a sub-assembly of each puzzle piece using their snap cube part drawn earlier.Possible questions: Page 22.470.15 1. What type of tolerance fit is between each snap cube? The snap-cubes have an Interference Fit between the mating surfaces. This question is meant to reinforce the regular EG curriculum with a
Page 22.404.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011Ron J. Gerrits, Ph.D.Ron Gerrits is currently an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Academic Program Di-rector of the Master’s of Science in Perfusion program at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. He holdsa B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering (1994) and a Ph.D. in Phys-iology from the Medical College of Wisconsin (1999). He most commonly teaches health science coursesfor nursing, perfusion and biomedical engineering students. Professional interests focus on science ed-ucation and he currently serves as the chairperson of the Curriculum and Instruction Committee of theHuman Anatomy and Physiology
specialist at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program (ITLL) and the Broadening Opportunity through Leadership and Diversity (BOLD) Center in CU’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. He holds a B.A. in psychology from the Louisiana State University, and an M.S. degree in industrial/organizational psychology and a Ph.D. degree in coun- seling psychology, both from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Knight’s research interests are in the areas of retention, program evaluation and teamwork practices in engineering education. His current duties in- clude assessment, evaluation and research for the ITL Program’s and BOLD Center’s hands-on initiatives.Dr. Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder
AC 2011-2000: IMPROVING COMMUNICATION SKILLS: USING PECHAKUCHASTYLE IN ENGINEERING COURSESSandra Soto-Caban, Muskingum University Sandra Soto-Caban received her BSEE and MSEE from 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.Emre Selvi, Muskingum University Emre Selvi is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Muskingum University, New Concord. He received his academic degrees in Mechanical Engineering; B.S. and M.S. from Middle East
accreditation.3 Papers by Oakleaf4 and by Riley,Piccinino, Moriarty and Jones4 have pointed out the overlap between ABET accreditationoutcomes and ACRL/ILST standards.6 There are significant commonalities between the two setsof standards, which librarians can capitalize on to embed information literacy lessons in theengineering curriculum. Students are bound to benefit from a focus on “the ability to engage inlife-long learning” -- one of the ABET criteria and a foundation of information literacyinstruction.Our institution requires all students to have at least one class with an embedded informationliteracy component.7 For engineering students, that class is ES 1000, which has the statedobjectives of teaching students to “pose a research question
bepresented at the ASEE conference in June 2011 and published in a future paper.BackgroundIn the 1920s, less than a third of engineering educators considered the study of differentialequations to be necessary for an engineer’s education, now such study is integral to theengineering curriculum. In the engineering world of the future, a sound understanding of thetheoretical and practical sides of engineering ethics will be as necessary to the proper educationof engineers as a knowledge of differential equations is today, if not more so”.4Robin Tatu in her article “Knowledge Isn’t Enough” takes the famous quote from the Greekinventor Archimedes “Give me a place to stand and I will move the Earth” and argues that “thepotential to wield such power is
Master’sprograms in three main fields: Humanities and Social Sciences; Science, Engineering andTechnology and Biomedical Sciences. In 2010 approximately 37000 students were enrolledat K.U.Leuven. The Engineering Faculty is part of the Science, Engineering and Technologygroup. In the current academic year 4369 students are enrolled at the Faculty of Engineering.The engineering curriculum consists of a three year Bachelor’s program that prepares thestudents for a subsequent Master’s program of two years. The Faculty organizes Master’sprograms in several disciplines, like Architecture, Electrical Engineering, MechanicalEngineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Civil Engineering, BiomedicalTechnology, Computer Science, Energy Engineering
AC 2011-2425: RETURNING STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION:MAKING A CASE FOR ”EXPERIENCE CAPITAL”Michele L. Strutz, Purdue University, West Lafayette Michele L. Strutz is the first NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2009) in Engineering Education. She is an Engineering Education doctoral student, with a secondary doctoral focus in Gifted and Talented Ed- ucation, at Purdue University. Michele’s research interests include stEm talent development and identi- fication. Prior to completing her Master’s Degrees in Gifted and Talented Education and in Curriculum and Instruction, Michele worked as an engineer for 13 years in Laser Jet Printer product development and marketing at Hewlett Packard Co., computer systems design at
. There is an emphasis on interdisciplinary, integrated, project-based, learning within abroad based curriculum framework: Collaboration – the ability to work in teams Critical thinking – taking on complex problems Oral communications – presenting Written communications – writing Technology – use information and communication technology(ICT) in education Learn about careers – through internships Citizenship – take on civic and global issues and involving in community service learningShift from Teaching to Learning Paradigm “A paradigm is like the rules of a game. One of the functions of the rules is to define theplaying field and
on the following questions:1) In what ways, if any, do practitioners’ sentence structures and use of active vs passive voice reflect concerns of engineering practice? In other words, do the practitioners just use standard English that could be used in any formal written communication, or are aspects of engineering practice integrated into the grammar of their texts?2) To what extent and in what ways do students’ sentence structures and use of active vs passive voice differ from the practitioners’? To what extent do differences demonstrate neglect for concerns that are important in engineering practice?We answer these questions with an analysis of reports and technical memoranda (tech memos)written by civil engineering practitioners
they serve.As it is now an engrained part of the undergraduate engineering education process, the ABETEngineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000) introduced a significant change in the amount and type ofprofessional and ethical education in the undergraduate curriculum. Specifically, ABETCriterion 3.f required accredited engineering programs to provide instruction and assessment inprofessional and ethical responsibility, but at the same time the outcomes-based wording ofCriterion 3 allowed individual programs to preserve a distinctive focus or mission.As part of a previously completed research program, a mixed-methods (quantitative-qualitative)research program was designed and implemented to evaluate the methods of incorporating ethicsand
compartmentalizing components of the design process used in lab toindividual teams. The goal is to expose students to a less controlled environment representativeof real-world design practice. Student teams are responsible for the design decisions of theirassigned component, as well as ensuring that components are compatible for use in the larger,class-wide system. Other highlights of the PLP system are: a „hands-on‟ experience with realhardware early in the computer engineering curriculum, low overall cost for students andinstitutions, and cross-course application of concepts. The latter is of great importance sincestudents often fail to see how concepts learned in one course apply to another.With an overarching system like PLP, where different aspects of
potential for utilities to deliver electricity moreefficiently and effectively by integrating information and communication technologies into thenext-generation grid. This requires knowledge of topics outside the traditional powerengineering curriculum including communications, sensor integration, policy, softwaredevelopment and security.4Universities have similar workforce issues in the area of electric power engineering. Afterhighlighting the challenge of an aging workforce in its 2006 report, the NERC noted a parallel“decline in the number of college professors able to teach power systems engineering and relatedsubjects” in its 2007 report.5 A report by the U.S. Power and Engineering WorkforceCollaborative indicates that the situation will grow
Leadership Development and Learning Technologies. She is currently the Chair, MSN Advance Practice Role Program, Coordinator of Informatics Projects and Associate Clin- ical Professor at Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Profession teaching in both under- graduate and graduate programs. She is a board certified nurse informaticist and an NLN certified nurse educator. Her area of research involves student learning, development of clinical decision making skills, faculty development in integration and application of instructional technology for classroom innovations and simulation learning experiences, virtual learning environments for DL, and information seeking be- haviors among students and professionals in
, they need to be prepared to benefit from the knowledge beingproduced in this field and to interact constructively with colleagues in this field. As a basicintroduction to this field, our new semester curriculum will include an introduction toengineering education, as well as assignments requiring participants to read and report on at leastone experimental study whose results could be applied to a class they are teaching or might teach.In addition, faculty from the UC Engineering Education Department will be invited to makepresentations to participants on their research. These faculty will also be asked to participate inthe mock review panel to which PFF participants are required to submit abbreviated NSF REUgrant proposals. Thus the new
, math success, K-12 STEM curriculum and accreditation, and retention and recruitment of STEM majors.Anne Hay, Boise State University Anne Hay is the Coordinator of the Idaho SySTEMic Solution, a K-12 research project at Boise State University funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Ms. Hay has more than 25 years of teaching experience in K-12 through college programs, teaching German, English as a foreign language, biology, general science, life science, ecology and music. She received a B.A. and an M.S. in biology from Stanford University and a Teaching Credential from the University of California, Berkeley.Joshua Pfiester, Boise State University Joshua Pfiester is a Doctoral Student in Curriculum &
. Page 22.98.14 13 7. Cordes D. Teaching an integrated first-year computing curriculum: Lessons learned.Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference 1997.8. Craig A, Bullard L and Joines J. Computing across curricula. Proceedings of the ASEEConference 2008.9. Deek F, Friedman R and Kim H. Computing and composition as an integrated subject insecondary school curriculum. Proceedings of the ASEE Conference 2002.10. Dunne B, Blauch A and Sterian A. The case for computer programming instruction forall engineering disciplines. Proceedings of the ASEE Conference 2005.11. Finlayson B. Introduction to chemical engineering computing. Proceedings of the
help students develop an integrated knowledge of a specific subject. In thispaper, we share our experience in achieving these goals by adding a model-building project to Page 22.1220.3the curriculum of an existing course.Manufacturing Automation and Control Course ModificationThe author teaches an undergraduate-level manufacturing automation and control course forEngineering Technology students at a U.S. university. The course covers the following topics:(1) programmable logic controllers and programming, (2) sensor technology, (3) industrialrobots and programming, (4) vision system, and (5) industrial interfaces. These are major typesof
integrated roboticsystem. The standard curriculum in the robotics course focuses on the programming of individualrobots, but the students never use the PLC to setup the I/O configuration. By completing thistutorial experiment, the students can gain a better understanding of how an integrated system isdeveloped and controlled.Advanced application – Quality controlThis experiment performs quality control testing on machined parts and sorts them based onpreset tolerances. The devices used in the physical part of the experiment are a YK220X SCARArobot, a YK250X SCARA robot, a machine vision camera, a conveyor belt, and a photoelectricsensor. The layout of the components in the workcell can be observed in Figure 9. Figure 9: Robotic cell
for biomanufacturing education, training and theworkforce, the Northeast Biomanufacturing Center and Collaborative (NBC2) developsinstructional materials and resources, based on harmonized biopharmaceutical manufacturingindustry skill standards. These learning and teaching resources, available in printed and onlineformats form a Global Biomanufacturing Curriculum to support biomanufacturing education andtraining. As a part of our educational efforts, we designed the first module of a comprehensiveinteractive virtual learning environment for biomanufacturing – a virtual low pressure liquidchromatography laboratory based on NBC2 equipment and process SOPs utilizing a BioLogicLow Pressure (LP) Chromatography System made by Bio-Rad Laboratories
AC 2011-1189: GRAPHICAL COMMUNICATIONS: A CONCEPT INVEN-TORYHeidi M Steinhauer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach Assistant Professor of Freshmen Engineering at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. Have Introduc- tory Graphics for the last 10 years in addtion to developing several upper level advanced 3D modeling courses. Areas of reserach interest: development of student visualization skills, effective integration of 3D modeling into graphics communication courses, and women’s retention in engineering. Co-Advisor of only all-women’s baja SAE team in the world and Director of summer engineering camp for middle school girls
this shift, the first concernsabout the lack of professional skills of the new graduates appeared in public opinion, concernsthat have strongly increased during the 1990s3. Sciences, in particular physical sciences andengineering sciences, have become the essential component of the engineering curriculum,giving a higher status to analytical courses than intuitive and practical-oriented courses4. Thispredominance of sciences in engineering seems to be a barrier to developing the new set of skillsthat new engineers need, now that industry has become the main employer and an importantsupporter of engineering schools, more so than federal funds5. A further challenge resulting fromthis shifts is that globalization has generated a global and open
testing methods, suchas distributed hybrid testing, where various components of a single structural system are tested at Page 22.883.5geographically distributed sites. Video and data can be streamed in real time to laboratories andusers around the country for analysis and simulation through the Real-time Data Viewer (RDV)developed by NEES.ii The current evaluation study is a part of a larger project, an NSF funded Phase 2 Course,Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) project. The purpose of this project, inrecognition that integration of the fundamental concepts of hazard mitigation is not currently acomponent of traditional civil
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AC 2011-2287: HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AS NOVICE DESIGNERSNathan Mentzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette Nathan Mentzer is an assistant profession in the College of Technology with a joint appointment in the College of Education at Purdue University. Nathan was a former middle and high school technology educator in Montana prior to pursuing a doctoral degree. He was a National Center for Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE) Fellow at Utah State University while pursuing a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction. After graduation he completed a one year appointment with the Center as a postdoctoral researcher.Kyungsuk Park, Utah State University