Belu is an assistant professor within the Engineering Technology program at Drexel Uni- versity in Philadelphia. He holds the second position as research assistant professor at Desert Research Institute–Renewable Energy Center at Reno, Nev. Before Drexel University, Dr. Belu held faculty and research positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada and the United States. He also worked for several years as a project manager and senior consultant. He has taught and developed undergraduate and graduate courses in electronics, power systems, control and power electronics, elec- tric machines, instrumentation, radar and remote sensing, numerical methods and data analysis, space and atmosphere physics
Education conferences: 0 papers on bio-products; 2 papers on bio-energy, 6 papers on bio-fuels, 3 papers on bio-mass, 4 papers on bio-processes, and 10 papers onbio-chemicals. [4] Only 25 total papers on bio-renewable topics at ASEE conferences in 10 yearsaccentuates an unrealized opportunity to improve STEM education and best practicesdissemination in this topical area.At the Milwaukee School of Engineering, we capitalized on an opportunity to teach a bio-renewable energy module within an existing required mechanical engineering class.‘Thermodynamics Applications’ is a senior-level hybrid lecture/laboratory course in which twoweeks are set aside for instructors to teach customized energy-focused modules of their ownchoosing and design. To help
related issues. TheHolcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, provides the “Fundamentals ofSolar Energy” (ECE 461) and “Renewable Energy Penetration on the Power Grid” (ECE 420)classes. The “Fundamentals of Wind Power” (ECE/ME 457) course is a cross-listed courseoffered by the Mechanical Engineering Department. These courses and class certificate are partof a “Fundamentals & Advanced Power Systems Certificate Programs for Training the PowerIndustry Sector” grant. Undergraduate and graduate level courses on solar energy have beenoffered since 2006, while a similar course on the impact of distributed energy sources on powerdelivery systems has been taught since 2004. This course was modified to include renewableenergy
-efficient teaching practices into these new courses fromhere-on in order to give the students the best and facilitate their learning in these new fields.To do these, according to a recent article by Linda C. Hodges, Associate Vice Provost forFaculty Affairs, Director, Faculty Development Center, University of Maryland, we wouldneed to address three basic best practices that can have positive impact on the way we presentthe course that will emerge in the areas of Renewable Energy, heretofore: Page 23.994.31. Begin with the end in mind.2. Generate criteria or rubrics to describe disciplinary work for students.3. Embed “assessment” into course
University (Tech.) Dr. Radian Belu is an assistant professor within the Engineering Technology program at Drexel Uni- versity in Philadelphia. He holds the second position as research assistant professor at Desert Research Institute–Renewable Energy Center at Reno, Nev. Before Drexel University, Dr. Belu held faculty and research positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada and the United States. He also worked for several years as a project manager and senior consultant. He has taught and developed undergraduate and graduate courses in electronics, power systems, control and power electronics, elec- tric machines, instrumentation, radar and remote sensing, numerical methods and data analysis
at MSU, including Pro- cess Control, Transport Phenomena, Reactor Design, Engineering Materials, Thermodynamics, both Unit Operations Laboratories and graduate courses in Advanced Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena and Chemical Kinetics. He performs research in the areas of catalysis, fuel cells and nanocomposite materials.Dr. Larry Everett Pearson, Mississippi State University Page 23.468.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Efficient and Effective Instruction in Process Simulation across the Chemical Engineering CurriculumAbstractOne
American students, it was excellent practice for technical language skills of the German students. The six American students were then teamed up with approximately 30 German first-year students; forming teams of 12 students with two Americans on each team. The teams were then released and taken to separate dedicated rooms, which they would use full-time for their project design work over the next 5 days. Student teams were closely supervised by a tutor from
and mathematics. The resultingengineering graduates were perceived by industry and academia, at the time, as being “ill-prepared” for the practice. Despite steps taken to remedy the situation, through greater industry-academia collaboration; both design faculty and design practitioners argue that furtherimprovements are necessary. Design faculty across the country and across a range of educationalinstitutions still feel that the leaders of engineering schools (deans, department heads, tenuredfaculty) are unable or unwilling to recognize the intellectual complexities and resources neededto support good design education.Fortunately, more and more educators are becoming aware of the issues of design, and steps arebeing taken world wide, to
its share of controversy. There is no argument that traffic volume on US 29, a main north-south artery, is far beyond capacity; the arguments revolve around proposed solutions, their impacts, and costs. We research the main problem and related issues and perform an analysis similar to the one for the Community Water Plan.Because of the writing-intensive nature of the course, second-year standing became a pre-requisite for the second offering of the course. This change ensured that students would havehad the PVCC English Composition sequence before the class. Students who had not completedthis sequence had some issues completing the case studies, and we wanted to support studentsuccess in this course as well as
his B.Tech (Ed.) and Ph.D. in Technology Education from the University of Limerick in 2008 and 2011 respectively. He spent six years in the metal fabrication industry developing engineering craft based skills prior to pursuing his studies in technology education. He currently holds a faculty position at the University of Limerick where he teaches engineering graphics courses to under- graduate and postgraduate students of initial teacher education. He was the program chair for the 67th MidYear Engineering Design Graphics Division (EDGD) Conference in Limerick, Ireland in 2012. He has been awarded the EDGD Chair’s Award in 2010 and 2011 in addition to the prestigious Oppenheimer Award in 2012. He is the current
Collaboratory (GEEC) research group. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech. Dr. Jesiek draws on expertise from engineering, comput- ing, and the social sciences to advance understanding of geographic, disciplinary, and historical variations in engineering education and professional practice. Page 23.1017.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Raising Students’ Cultural Awareness through Design ScenariosIntroductionFor many reasons, stakeholders from academia and
graduate courses in concrete, steel, timber and masonry. He is a registered civil engineer and a registered structural engineer in the state of California. Dr. Mwangi is a member of the Structural Engineers Association of Central California, Earthquake En- gineering Research Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, the Structural Engineers Institute and active member of the Masonry Society (TMS), serving as a voting member on the Masonry Standards Joint Committee and on the TMS’s Technical Activities Committee. Dr. Mwangi is a certified Disaster Service Worker (Safety Assessment Program) for the state of California Emergency Management Agency. His other interests are in post-disaster structural mitigation and
University, where he has taught courses on Hybrid and Electric Vehicles, Vehicle Dynamics, Energy Storage Systems for HEVs and also manages the Electric Propulsion Integration Lab- oratory. Dr. Liao is experienced in the areas of hybrid drivetrains and automotive manufacturing. Prior to Wayne State, he worked as a practicing engineer for over fifteen years with General Motors and Ford Motor Company. He holds a Doctor of Engineering in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Mechanical Engineer from Columbia University, M.S. from the University of Texas at Arlington and B.S. from National Central University (Taiwan), both in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Liao has research and teaching interests
assignments were focused on the individual to help each student identify his/her ownlearning objectives. The teams were core to developing an answer to the Question for theSemester (Q4S) and an important component of the end of semester deliverables. The details ofthe assignments are presented in the appendices. In addition to the team answer to the Q4S. at theend of the semester, each student submitted two reports, namely, an end of semester Assignment0 and a semester learning essay. For details see Appendix II.4 Research questions and design of studyIn Fall 2012, we received IRB approval to investigate the impact of individual mental modelson the shared (team) mental model (and vice versa), how individual mental models changeover the course of a
impact on the firstfall GPA1. Furthermore, entry-level calculus continues to be a challenge for many engineeringstudents 2-5. Nearly 30 years ago, Edge and Friedberg6 reported that an algebra pretest and highschool rank were the best combination of predictors of success in a first calculus course. Thisresearch coincides with the long held belief of the faculty in the Department of EngineeringFundamentals that weak algebra skills are a stumbling block for students entering the program.So strong has been this conviction, that in the first two weeks of Engineering Analysis I algebraconcepts and functions are reviewed rather than beginning immediately with calculus concepts. One remedy for entering freshman who struggle with Engineering
Task Model to Acceptable? Completed CUCWD Fig.4: Flow chart for CAD module creation processB. Online LearningThe instructional design model driving the online learning design of CA2VES strives to Page 23.796.8incorporate leading research outlining best practices in the implementation of online learningtools. One element of the CA2VES online learning tool design was a virtual reality component,contained within learning modules, providing students with an opportunity to engage inhigh-impact
probability of the engineered product’s impact to society, times the consequence ofthe product; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of the design; or to forecastthe behavior under specific operating conditions; with respect to its intended function, economicsof operation or safety to life and property, or other probability/statistical likelihood functions.Risk Engineering as a discipline acknowledges that uncertainty as a concept is unknowable andmore importantly for engineering, indeterminate. Risk Engineering replaces this indeterminacywith the twin concepts of process variability and data/knowledge gaps for internal project risksand shareholder risk for those external acts, inclusive of the environment, whoseactions/inactions
: creating general freshman courses to give early hands-on experience to the students,utilizing student feedback to design courses, and moving the ownership and maintenance oflaboratory equipment from the university to the students. In the fall semester of 2009, theElectrical Engineering program at The University of Texas at Tyler took the initiative of creatingand offering a first semester freshman experience course aimed at improving freshman retention.The rationale for creating this course was based on student and faculty feedback, and commentsprovided by graduating seniors during their senior exit interview. A number of students alsoexpressed their concern about how late the electrical engineering laboratory experience is in thecurriculum. Since
Paper ID #6048A Robotics Summer Camp for High School Students: Pipelines ActivitiesPromoting Careers in Engineering FieldsDr. Mehmet Ayar, TUBITAK Dr. Mehmet C. Ayar is a scientific programs expert in the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). He received his PhD. in Curriculum and Instruction with specialization in STEM education at Texas A&M University in 2012. His research is in ethnographic studies of science and engineering practice, curriculum development, design of learning environments and robotics activities. He offers a graduate course in METU on communities of practice. Dr. Ayar
conversion. Economic analysis.Comments: Beside the prerequisites issue, this course seems to be well designed and is offered byone the best faculty in mechanical engineering. This course is an ideal candidate for fulfilling theelective units required by the minor we are going to offer.MSE 415: Product Design (3 Units)Prerequisite: MSE 412/L or graduate status. Engineering principles and practices of productdesign. Applications of process design for manufacturing engineering. Approaches to design formanufacture (DFM) and design for assembly (DFA). (Design units: 2.0)Comments: One of the issues is the prerequisite course required for taking this course. Since theprerequisite is an MSE course not included in the certificate, this will add 3 hidden
Paper ID #7948The State of the Use of Standards in Engineering and Technology EducationDr. Ahmed S. Khan, DeVry University, Addison, IL Dr. Ahmed S. Khan is a Senior Professor in the College of Engineering and Information Sciences at DeVry University, Addison, Illinois. Dr. Khan has more than thirty years of experience in research, instruction, curricula design, development, evaluation, implementation and program accreditation, management and supervision. Dr. Khan received an MSEE from Michigan Technological University, an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management., and his Ph.D. from Colorado State University
questions, specific next steps in the project include: Analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of survey results via a project report (released in 2013) Development of outcome statements for each attributes, informed through the literature and best practices of CMC member organizations Validation of outcomes statement for attributes through focus group research, funded by a CMC partner organization, held in the U.S., Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East Pursuit of grant funding to develop and pilot test engineering-related curricular modules related to key attributesConclusionThe Attributes of a Global Engineer Project, initiated by the ASEE Corporate Member Council’sSpecial Interest Group for
, professional skills are tantamount.Leadership Engineering - Naming the Degree ProgramThe premise for typical “Engineering Leadership” programs is that you start with an engineerand then make a leader out of him or her. Thus Leadership training is the primary focus, withEngineering as the qualifier for the type of leaders being trained. The premise of our LeadershipEngineering program is that the profession will attract future leaders (as is the case of many otherprofessions that require post-graduate professional training, such as medicine and law), and theprogram is designed to produce engineers out of those future leaders. Thus it is a broad-based,liberal engineering program for future leaders in the public and private sectors.Therefore we have
practice, project and cooperative work experience will bring this into focus andthe faculty see this as a skill that needs growth or attention. Exactly how to achieveprofessionalism in our classes is a provocative discussion, though team projects, settingstandards for work and responsibility for quality and timeliness are part of the written andunwritten syllabus, in hopes to impact exactly these skills.Problem solving is on all lists and continues to be deemed important. It is more important to tiethis to societal context and real world problems, looking at hands-on and service-learning to helppractice this in impactful ways.Creativity! This was not high on the faculty list as lacking, but very high for the engineer of2020 and high on the student
notbe required to taste anything prepared in or for class. Counsel also required that the classavoid working with raw meats. Students signing up for the course provided a signedrelease recognizing that they would be expected to handle and prepare food in this courseand to disclose any allergies or religious / cultural food prohibitions. In practice, this wasseldom a problem.Course Design and StructureThe complex nature of the subject matter combined with the relative ease of connectingthe material to ‘real world’ experiences and the instructor’s desire to makeexperimentation a significant portion of the course suggested a problem-based learningformat could be a successful pedagogical approach (26). The course is therefore brokeninto six
satisfaction and therefore, retention andpromotion. Program OverviewAs suggested by the initial faculty survey, the project has worked to adapt and implement best Page 23.257.4practices from NSF ADVANCE Programs designed to build a more supportive climate forwomen faculty in STEM departments. Specific programs have included engaging faculty andadministrators in reviews of social science research; an external lecture series; lunchtimeseminars for women faculty focused on professional development, leadership and genderissues; a faculty mentoring program; a new allies program for male faculty; and a worklifepolicies effort.While senior (male
, designedtop-down, incorporates a number of best practices, including spiral curriculum, a unified set ofcore courses, multiple pathways, inclusion of social issues and entrepreneurship, an emphasis onprojects-based learning, and capstone design projects. This paper provides a brief synopsis,comparison with other approaches, and multi-year retrospective on the program. The curriculumhas evolved rapidly from the original to its current state, including changes in requirements,courses, hardware, software, labs, and projects. The guiding philosophy remains unchanged,however, providing continuity of purpose to the program. The program has been highlysuccessful in meeting its desired outcomes, including: quantity and quality of enrolled students,ABET EAC
area is rural,surrounding communities have few resources for improvement to their communities. The class,Introduction to Project Management, has been developed as a service learning course whichworks with area communities. Students learn basic best practices for project management aswell as basic tools for tracking and controlling projects. The course is a junior level courserequired in the Engineering Management curriculum and students are generally junior or seniorlevel engineering students. A majority of the students are Engineering Management majors, butthe course is growing in popularity with many students from other majors who are minoring inEngineering Management or just taking the class because of the perceived importance in
Paper ID #6814CCLI: Evaluation of a Cost Effective Program for Augmenting Calculus withEngineering ContentDr. Jeremiah J. Neubert, University of North Dakota Jeremiah Neubert is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of North Dakota. He conducted research and taught at Cambridge University. Prior to that Dr. Neubert attended the University of Wisconsin and obtained a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering as well as Masters of Science degrees in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering. During his time at the University of Wisconsin he served as a National Science GK12 fellow where he
military. He is a hands-on manufacturing expert who has worked in several areas of engineering, manufacturing, and technical management including research, design, and production of mechanical, electronic, and electromechanical systems. Recognized trainer and resource person in the fields of CAD/CAM/CIM, Robotics and Automation, Machine vision, ISO 9000 and Lean Six Sigma. He has published several papers, in these areas, in various national & international conferences and journals. He has won several teaching awards including the academic excellence award, NISOD 2008, from the University of Texas at Austin