childhood science methods courses. She has taught engineering to children in informal settings, and is a partner with Harford County Public Schools (Maryland) on a district-wide project to implement elementary engineering instruction using EiE units of instruction. Her research includes examining the ways in which children and adults critically analyze technologies, and investigations of factors that support and those that hinder elementary teachers as they learn to teach engineering. Page 22.329.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Classroom Teacher - Enrichment
motivated by the improvedfeatures and cost as described in the preceding section. The introduction of the new technology isexpected to improve the class, but it also introduces complications because the lecture materialsand laboratory exercises need to be modified. Thus, we are using formative assessment tomonitor the effect of changes in curriculum. Another research goal is to determine the degree towhich changes in curriculum are effective at motivating student interest in engineering ingeneral, and interest in specific skills such as working with basic electronics, computerprogramming, solid modeling, fabrication, testing, data analysis and plotting. The popularity of the Arduino platform amongst hobbyists and professionals working
. This event highlights how an engineering failure can cross geopolitical, economical,national, and disciplinary boundaries.Engineering curricula and the corresponding required learning outcomes must be updated toinclude early and continued exposure to environmental, political and social issues and theirinternational and historical contexts, legal and ethical implications of engineering solutions, aswell as how to generate and harness collective innovation using current technology. Page 22.38.12Bibliography1. Duderstadt, J. J. (2008). Engineering for a changing world: A roadmap to the future of engineering practice, research, and
one of the FIGs, called FORCES (FocusOn Retention in Cohorts of Engineering Students), compared to students in the other three FIGsand the College of Engineering as a whole. FORCES is funded by NSF’s S-STEM (Scholarshipsin Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) program and targets students inunderrepresented groups for recruitment with the broad goals of removing financial barriers andimproving student retention.Recognizing that success in mathematics is critical to engineering student success, key FORCESprogram elements were designed with a focus on calculus. FORCES scholars were required todemonstrate first fall semester calculus readiness by either earning an acceptable score on theuniversity’s Math Aptitude Test (MAT) or by
Computers in Education Journal published a selected survey of novelapproaches to robotics education for high school and engineering undergraduate levels whichindicated that currently in the U.S.A. Worcester Polytechnic Institute is probably the onlyuniversity that currently offers a stand-alone B.S. degree in Robotics Engineering 1, while otheruniversities such as Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology adopted the approach of amultidisciplinary robotics minor for students majoring in Computer Science, Electrical,Computer, Mechanical or Software Engineering 2. With the recent approval by the UniversitySystem of Georgia Board of Regents for new B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering andElectrical and Electronics Engineering to come on line in Fall 2013
courses(including experimental design) and then 3 engineering “clinic” courses in the final years. 15Stevens Institute of Technology implemented a “Design Spine” a number of years ago. Stevensfirst year includes technical drawing, disassembly, teaming, and communic ations.. They havefive semesters of general multidisciplinary design followed by three of discipline specific effort.Design experience is integrated with technical content (thermodynamics, materials,instrumentation, etc.), and a "theme" is suggested each semester to provide a link betweenengineering science courses and design.19The University of Guelph, which offers five engineering programs within their School ofEngineering, has incorporated a design sequence since 1973. 15 Their
M.S. in mechanical engi- neering from The Georgia Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in engineering from Walla Walla University.David J Therriault, University of FloridaChristine S Lee, University of Florida Page 22.1084.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Moving beyond formulas and fixations: Exploring approaches to solving open-ended engineering problemsAbstract Open-ended problem solving is a skill that is central to engineering practice. As aconsequence developing skills in solving such problems is
AC 2011-408: UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENT PERCEP-TIONS OF GRADUATE SCHOOL AND THE DECISION TO ENROLLErin Crede, Virginia Tech Erin D. Crede is a PhD candidate at Virginia Tech, where she also completed her B.S and M.S in Aerospace Engineering. Her doctoral research focuses on the social aspects of graduate education in engineering departments with internationally diverse populations using a mixed methods approach.Maura J. Borrego, Virginia Tech Maura Borrego is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She is currently serving a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship at the National Science Foundation. Her research interests focus on interdisciplinary faculty
• Network of engineering alumni • Small class size • Opportunities for summer research • Opportunities for leadership • Graduate schoolThe model builds on UND’s established leadership in undergraduate distance engineeringeducation. A 2007 study2 from Stevens Institute of Technology states, “only UND offers ABET Page 22.64.4accredited degrees in the traditional disciplines of chemical, civil, electrical and mechanicalengineering.” Because UND has been delivering distance engineering courses for 20 years, ithas solved or mitigated many of the distance engineering concerns discussed in the
AC 2011-33: BUILDING AN ACADEMIC CENTER INFRASTRUCTUREFOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTMitchell L Springer, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Mitchell L. Springer, PMP, SPHR Dr. Springer is an Associate Professor in Technology Leadership & Innovation and currently serves as the Director of the Purdue University College of Technology, Academic Center for Professional Studies in Technology and Applied Research (ProSTAR) located in West Lafayette, Indiana. He possesses over 30 years of theoretical and industry-based practical experience from four disciplines: Software Engineer- ing, Systems Engineering, Program Management and Human Resources. He sits on many university and community boards and advisory
for the problems they deal with.” A mechanicalengineering professor believed, “Engineers approach design logically, whether it works or notand that designers approach design aesthetically, whether it looks good or not and how userfriendly it is. But they both should have both in mind.”On the topic of selecting a solution one product/industrial design professor stated that,“engineers explore a few varieties to find an acceptable solution that is dependable. They like toknow for sure something will work.” Additionally, this professor felt that, “Industrial designersare trained to find the problems and then to find the solutions that are „plausible‟ based oncurrent and emerging technologies.” Likewise it was also stated by one participant, “In
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AC 2011-2155: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: INTEGRATION OF CON-CEPTUAL LEARNING THROUGHOUT THE CORE CHEMICAL ENGI-NEERING CURRICULUMMilo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. He cur- rently has research activity in areas related to thin film materials processing and engineering education. He is interested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. Dr. Koretsky is a six-time Intel Faculty Fellow and has won awards for his work in engineering education at the university and national levels.David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky
Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER), an interdisciplinary research group with members from engineering, art, and educational psychology. His research interests span the formation of students’ professional identity, the role of reflection in engi- neering learning, and interpretive research methods in engineering education. He was the first international recipient of the ASEE Educational Research Methods Division’s ”Appren- tice Faculty Award”, was selected as a 2010 Frontiers in Education ”New Faculty Fellow”, and is currently a UGA ”Lilly Teaching Fellow”. His teaching focuses on innovative approaches to introducing systems thinking and creativity into the en
:[1] TIME.com (Partners with CNN), (February 4 2010), The Unsustainable U.S. Health Care System, http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/02/04/the-unsustainable-u-s-health-care-system/. (Web visited in December of 2010).[2] CardioNet, see http://www.cardionet.com/. Visited in May of 2009.[3] V. Shnayder, B. Chen, K. Lorincz, T. R. F. F. Jones, and M. Welsh, “Sensor networks for medical care,” Technical Report TR-08-05, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University , 2005.[4] Ohno-Machado et al., “SMART: Scalable Medical Alert Response Technology,” http://smart.csail.mit.edu/.[5] Lenert et al., “WiiSARD :Wireless Internet Information System for Medical Response in Disasters
Model for Higher Level Undergraduate Education inGeneral. Johansson, G.T. and George, W.K. s.l. : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2005.Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training.20. CFD Advanced Professional Education via the Internet. Baker, A.J. et. al. 2005 : American Society ofMechanical Engineers. International Mechanical Congress and Exposition.21. Disposable SMART Lab on a Chip for Point-of-Care Clinical Diagnostics. Ahn, C.H. et. al. s.l. : Instituteof Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2004.22. Imeplementation of a Continuous Adjoint for Topology Optimization of Ducted Flows. Othmer, C. s.l. :American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2007. Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference.23. The
Carolina University Dr. Jianchu (Jason) Yao joined the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University as an Assistant Professor in August, 2005. He received a B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Shaanxi university of Science and Technology, China, in 1992 and 1995, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in elec- trical engineering from Kansas State University in 2005. His research interests include wearable medical devices, telehealthcare, bioinstrumentation, control systems, and biosignal processing. His educational research interests are laboratory/project-driven learning and integration of research into undergraduate education. Dr. Yao is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education
. Thus, there is an urgent need toprepare future engineers for solving unknown problems. The emphasis should be on teaching tolearn rather than providing more knowledge. Teaching engineers to think analytically will bemore important than helping them memorize theorems. Teaching them to cope with rapidprogress will be more critical than teaching them all of the technology breakthroughs.1 In theopinions of engineering managers, thinking and problem solving skills are evaluated as the mostimportant skills of an engineering professional, and are becoming even more vital in theextremely challenging world of today.2Currently, most of our engineering schools have developed curricula by creating scenarios orpredicting the expected problems. In doing so
as Senior Director of Research and Evaluation at PowerUP, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding technology access and providing youth development resources for underserved youth. Schneider’s current research interests include race, class, and gender inequality in educational access and retention, in particular, issues of access, climate, and the quality of student learning in undergraduate engineering education.Ms. Maria Terrell, Cornell University Page 22.798.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Impact of Collaborative Problem-solving
AC 2011-333: INDUSTRY FELLOWS: A MODEL FOR INDUSTRY-ACADEMICCOLLABORATION IN THE ENGINEERING CLASSROOMJosh Tenenberg, University of Washington, Tacoma Josh Tenenberg is a Professor in Computing and Software Systems at the University of Washington, Tacoma. He employs the behavioral and social sciences in analysing and designing the relationship between people and technologies. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Computing Education. Page 22.866.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Industry Fellows: A model for industry-academic collaboration in the
Northern, James, “Recruitment and retention programs for minorities in engineering programs” ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2007, 7p.7 Ferrara, Irene “Analysis of the retention of students and possible recruitment into technology in a common first year course for engineering and engineering technology students” ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Page 22.1222.11 Conference Proceedings, 20078 Gattis, Carol “A successful engineering peer mentoring program” ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings,20079 Pai, D.M. “A supplemental instruction program for enhanced retention of
increased slightly in recent years, therecontinues to be concern about preparing the number of engineers necessary to meet the workforce needs of the United States to maintain technological and economic competitiveness. Two-year institutions represent a source of students if a coherent curriculum were available and aseamless articulation process existed that would maximize the credit earned at the two-yearinstitution and potentially decrease the time to a bachelor’s degree. Presented in this paper arethe basis and methodology used to develop a voluntary transfer and articulation compact formechanical engineering programs in Texas. As of February 16, 2011, the chancellors orpresidents of 14 public universities and 30 public community and technical
AC 2011-1540: INTEGRATING A NONTRADITIONAL HANDS-ON LEARN-ING COMPONENT INTO ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS COURSESFOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTSKathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech Kathleen Meehan is an Associate Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer En- gineering at Virginia Tech. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, she worked at the University of Denver and West Virginia University as well as having worked 12 years in industry. Her research interests include optoelectronic materials and devices and high heat load packaging in addition to Electrical Engineering pedagogy.David Fritz, VA Tech
, activities, and as- sessments by using a cognitive framework of differentiated overt learning activities for designing effective classroom instruction in materials science and engineering.Glenda Stump, Arizona State University Glenda Stump is a Post-doctoral Scholar in the School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Dr. Stump earned a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and a certificate in Educational Technology from Arizona State University in May of 2010.Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University Stephen J. Krause is Professor in the School of Materials in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of bridging engineering and education
goodpartners/partnerships, and identifies some of the benefits for the parties involved.Introduction: Engineering is ElementaryEngineering is Elementary (www.mos.org/eie) is a research-based, standards-driven, andclassroom-tested curriculum developed by the Museum of Science, Boston that integratesengineering and technology concepts and skills with elementary science topics. EiE materialsalso connect with literacy, social studies, and math. Each of the 20 EiE units reinforces oneelementary science topic, focuses on one field of engineering, and is set in a different country.The units each begin with an illustrated storybook in which a child confronts a problem. S/hesolves it with the mentoring of an adult engineer who introduces the child to the
AC 2011-1751: PRACTICING ENGINEERS CONCEPTIONS OF SIGHTDISTANCE AND STOPPING SIGHT DISTANCE WITHIN THE CONTEXTOF HIGHWAY DESIGNShane A. Brown, Washington State University Shane Brown is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Wash- ington State University. His research focuses on conceptual understanding of engineering students and practitioners and conceptual change processes that lead to differences in understanding.Shannon Davis, Washting State UniversityChelsea Nicholas, Washington State University Page 22.1165.1 c American Society for
K. Hogg, “Quantum mechanics for everyone: Hands-on activities integrated with technology”, Am. J. Phys. 70, 252 – 259 (2002).2 V. Mitin, D. Sementsov, and N. Vagidov, “Quantum mechanics for nanostructures”, Cambridge University Press, 431 p. (2010).3 D. F. Styer, “Common misconceptions regarding quantum mechanics”, Am. J. Phys. 64, 31 - 34 (1996).4 V. Mitin and N. Vagidov, "Quantum mechanics for nanostructures: first course in nanoelectronics for engineers", Symposium on Advances in Higher Education in Nanoscale Science and Engineering, August 5 - 8, 2009, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY, Book of abstracts.5 http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/Courses/ee340/applets.html6 http://www.hitachi.com/rd/research/em
with a BS in Logic and Computation from Carnegie Mellon University, and is now engaged in the research and development of STEM curricula using classroom robotics technologies and game-like systems.Christian D Schunn, University of Pittsburgh Christian D. Schunn is an Associate Professor of Professor of Psychology, Intelligent Systems, and Learn- ing Sciences and Policy at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his PhD in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon in 1995. His research ranges from cognitive / social psychology studies of science/engineering and connections to classroom science instruction to studies of peer feedback in science and instruction
students choose, generally while in high school, tostudy (or not to study) any of the STEM (science, mathematics, technology, engineering) majors. Page 22.376.4The participants in the current study, however, have already chosen to study engineering andentered the GE program, so the focus of this article is how General Engineering students choose from a number of different engineering programs, and how they subsequently migrate within alarge college of engineering.Adelman3, based on an 11-year (1982-1993) study of college student transcripts, noted that ofstudents who completed baccalaureate degrees before age 30, 16% entered college with
AC 2011-1490: TEAMS BATTLING TEAMS: INTRODUCING SOFTWAREENGINEERING EDUCATION IN THE FIRST YEAR WITH ROBOCODEJohn C. Georgas, Northern Arizona University John Georgas is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sci- ence at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. He holds the Ph.D and M.S. degrees from the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. He also holds a B.S. degree in Com- puter Science from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His research interests include self- adaptive software systems, software architecture, domain-specific architectures, social aspects of software engineering, software engineering education