Paper ID #73332013 State of Manufacturing EducationDr. Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University Hugh Jack is a Professor of Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering at Grand Valley State Uni- versity in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His interests include manufacturing education, design, project man- agement, automation, and control systems. Page 23.19.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 The 2013 State of Manufacturing EducationAbstractThis paper presents
beenstructured as an engineering design report and uses engineering design terminology. Selectedheadings include both design-focused and education-focused terminology to assist the reader innavigating this structure.Institutional and ProgramThe University of Toronto is a large, publicly funded, research-intensive Canadian university.The Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering offers undergraduate and graduate engineeringprograms, and admits approximately 1300 undergraduate students per year into one of 10programs. All of these programs require that their students take a capstone engineering designcourse in their senior year, and a cornerstone engineering design and communication course intheir freshman year.Our program, the Division of Engineering
isaided by using colored or fluorescent dyes. A thermal camera can also be used to maptemperature profiles where heating and cooling effects are important.In the following, we describe some of the experiments we are developing that use microfluidicchips as projects and case studies for undergraduate engineering technology. These areincorporated into current traditional courses on fluid mechanics, engineering measurements, heattransfer, prototyping, robotics, and microcontrollers, as well as capstone Senior Design projects.The advantages of microfluidics-based experiments for instructional purposes include modestequipment costs, small space requirements (all of the experiments can be done on a table top),miniscule generation of waste products, and
Paper ID #6675Development of a Concept Inventory for Introductory Environmental Engi-neering CoursesDr. Sukalyan Sengupta, University of Massachusetts, DartmouthProf. Jeffrey A Cunningham, University of South Florida Dr Jeffrey Cunningham is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engi- neering at the University of South Florida (USF). Dr Cunningham’s research and teaching interests are related to the fate, transport, and remediation of contaminants in the environment. His current students are working on projects related to the clean-up of soil contaminated by hazardous chemicals, the fate of
Talmadge Fennell, Ohio Northern UniversityElizabeth Marie Spingola Elizabeth is a junior at Ohio Northern University. She is the Project Manager of an organization at school that is designing and fabricating a model Mars Rover for a local museum. She is, also, has leadership roles in Phi Sigma Rho, the engineering sorority at ONU. Other organizations she belongs to include SWE, ASME, Flute Choir, JEC, and more. Page 23.238.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Bachelor of Science in Engineering Education: Differentiating from Traditional
operator.PLCs are used in almost every factory setting where there is assembly line technologyand automated processes. They are also used to control such things as dishwashers,lighting systems and computer peripherals.3In 1968 General Motors issued a request for proposals for an electronic replacement forhard-wired relay system. The winning proposal came from Bedford Associates 4 whostarted a new company dedicated to developing, manufacturing, selling, and servicingthis new product: Modicon, which stood for MOdular DIgital CONtroller. One of thepeople who worked on that project was Richard E. Morely, who is considered to be the"father" of the PLC.5PLCs are a form of computer that has the specific job of sequencing the steps in a processor the
project: An empirical evaluation. Applied Measurement in Education,22(3), 290-308.Page |3 January 7, 2013 NSF CCLI Phase 3 Grant 0817403, SMARTER Teamwork: System for Management, Assessment, Research, Training, Education, and Remediation for Teamwork 6. Loughry, M.L., M.W. Ohland, and D.D. Moore. Development of a Theory-Based Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 6 2007; vol. 67: pp. 505 – 524. 7. Ohland, M. W., Layton, R. A., Loughry, M. L., & Yuhasz, A. G. (2005). Effects of behavioral anchors on peer evaluation reliability. Journal of Engineering Education, 94(3), 319-326. 8. Kaufman, D
this course the Curriculum Development Team was composed of selectedinstructors from across the state to create a web-based book (Portable Document Format and/oreBook) and online course that teaches the principles of drafting and design at the process level topromote curriculum acceptance and implementations from K-12 to Post-Secondary Education.The team members of this project were given the task to teach the underlying basic principles ofdrafting in generic terms and then supply some supplemental training specific to each CADsoftware package. This approach treats the specific CAD software as just a tool to learn theprocess so the student can solve the problem much like a calculator is to math (just a tool, it doesnot matter if it is a Casio
-selected groups of two to three to solve a series of example problems. Thegraded activities for students remained the same as in previous semesters: homeworkassignments that were primarily quantitative; a team project related to remediation that requiredtwo written reports and two oral presentations based on a site risk assessment and a remedialdesign feasibility evaluation; and a midterm and final exam. Assessment methods used todetermine the effectiveness of the revised course model included: student logs showing videoresource use from the Blackboard software; student feedback on an informal in-class survey andthe final course evaluations; a comparison of student knowledge from the traditional class modeland inverted model based on performance
). Current research focuses on sustainable engineering, community development, water and wastewater treatment design, stormwater retention/detention and treatment design, urban hydrology, constructed wetland and stream restoration design, ecological stabilization, sustainable engineering in land development, water resources, water and wastewater treatment. He is also the faculty advisor for Duke Engineers for International Development and the Duke Chapter of Engineers Without Borders and has led DukeEngage experiences every year since the inception of the program. He has facilitated and/or led trips to Indonesia, Uganda, Kenya, Honduras, El Salvador, Bolivia, and Peru. Representative projects he has worked on include
in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Tyler. Prior to joining academia, he worked for nearly five years as a project manager and structural analyst for Electric Boar Corporation. Dr. McGin- nis’ research interests include nondestructive evaluation of structures, response of structures to extreme events such as fire and earthquake, and improving undergraduate engineering education. He has published numerous articles concerning the application of digital image correlation, a non-contact photographic method of determining deformations, to study the behavior of unique structures under various loadings. In teaching and mentoring areas, Dr. McGinnis has been recognized by his peers as the
introduced an extrinsic performance goal that enhancedthe undergraduates’ motivation, but left us able to answer our research question: what are thesimilarities and differences between women and men undergraduates in their intrinsic motivationto perform K12 outreach?MethodsOutreach Project Our study focused on an outreach activity performed in one mid-level course (Strength ofMaterials) within the ABET-accredited general engineering curriculum at a small (less than2,000) private regional liberal arts college. The course had an enrollment of 22 students spanning10 sophomores (45%), 11 juniors (50%), and 1 senior (5%), including 16 men and 6 women(27%). To expose undergraduates to outreach, all undergraduates enrolled in the Strength
physics curricula in the U.S.A.shows courses with names such as “advanced experimental physics,” “experimental methods,” orsimply “physics lab” or “engineering measurements. 1” (Indeed, a “measurements lab” is also acommon feature of mechanical engineering undergraduate curricula.2) Our institution, theUniversity of Wisconsin-Platteville, is no different: the “engineering physics laboratory” iswhere students first undertake longer, more open-ended experiments than is done in theintroductory physics sequence.The EP Lab has a prerequisite of Modern Physics, and is typically taken in the first semester ofthe third year. It almost always is completed before our other lab course (Sensor Lab), it is theonly specific course prerequisite for our capstone
signal processing, pattern recog- nition, and active learning techniques applied to engineering education.Dr. Mir M. Atiqullah, Southern Polytechnic State University Dr. Mir Atiqullah is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Southern Polytechnic State University, in Marietta, Georgia. He received his MS and PhD in mechanical engineering from Purdue University. He teaches mainly Materials Science, Machine Design, Capstone Design as well as various engineering mechanics courses and labs. He is also interested in the pedagogy of teaching and learning. He is a member of a campus group called Research Learning Community studying various opportunities and methodologies to engage students for improved learning. He is also
education research and providing educational opportunities on sustainable assessment processes for program continual improve- ment worldwide.Dr. Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow Dr. Beyerlein has a Ph.D. from Washington State University and has taught at the University of Idaho since 1987. For the last fifteen years he has been the college coordinator for an interdisciplinary capstone design course that features industry sponsored projects. In 2012, the faculty team responsible for running this course was recognized by the National Academy of Engineering for creating a capstone course that is an example of real world engineering education.Dr. Patrick D. Pedrow P.E., Washington State University Dr
Paper ID #6759Negotiating Masculine Spaces: Attitudes and Strategies of First-Year Womenin EngineeringDr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communica- tion and teamwork in engineering, design education, and engineering identity. She was awarded a CA- REER grant from NSF to study expert teaching practices in capstone design courses nationwide, and is co-PI on NSF . Her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication
Page 23.84.12between the academic offerings of the College and its workforce development.The title of the project is “Manufacturing Product Development Associate Degree andWorkforce Development Project.” The objective of the project is to develop and enhance theprogram of study with innovative strategies. A portion of the funding will be used initially toincorporate sustainability concepts in an introductory course titled “Technology Orientation.”The course content development and delivery work has begun in real time.Subsequently, in-depth sustainability principles as discussed in this paper will be integrated intoan existing capstone course “Fundamentals of Products Development and Manufacture.” Thisapproach to integrate sustainability
a leader in internation- alization of Engineering at NAU since arriving in 1999, expanding this initiative to the Natural Sciences starting in 2005. Significant milestones in this area include the development of an effective model of re- ciprocal ”exploratory trips” to motivate international study in engineering; the International Engineering and Natural Sciences certificate program; and the Global Engineering College project, an NSF-funded exploration of a comprehensively internationalized curricular model for engineering education. These efforts culminated in 2010 with the creation of the Global Science and Engineering Program (GSEP), an innovative initiative to establish a comprehensive framework for
McCleskey, Virginia Military Institute Turk McCleskey earned a Ph.D. in colonial American history from the College of William and Mary. His research focuses on frontier societies in North America. He is a tenured professor in the Department of History, Virginia Military Institute, where he teaches introductory courses in American history and historical methods, upper division elective courses in colonial American history, and senior capstone seminars on the American Revolution and on North American Indians.Dr. Elizabeth White Baker, Wake Forest University Elizabeth White Baker is a visiting assistant professor at Wake Forest University Schools of Business, teaching courses on Information Systems Management, Strategic
provide results of rudimentary analyses of data using novel metrics or statistics. 6. Make recommendations, based on data analysis and interpretation, to advance sustainability of individuals or institutions.The research methods course addresses 3-6 of the sustainability program learning objectives. Theprocess of conducting research and gaining experience in creating a sustainability researchproject is outside the scope of the originally developed introductory courses in the sustainabilityprogram. Therefore, a sustainability course devoted to research methods will give the studentsthe necessary knowledge to complete their capstone projects and increase the quality of work.Future plans are to design a full curriculum
comprisedof a three year curriculum that fosters a learning environment in which electrical, computer and systemsengineering students collaborate to engage in the designing, prototyping and testing of engineeringprojects. At the end of the curriculum, students of both majors will have developed a unique skillsetwhich allows for them to effectively solve the real world engineering challenges faced in industry.Specifically, fourth year systems engineering graduates will have the ability to work on technology-oriented projects while electrical and computer engineering graduates with have the ability to integratedomain-specific technical designs into larger systems.During the spring semester of 2012, a pilot study was conducted at the Sunapee State
assess these skills among engineeringundergraduates have been limited to senior capstone design courses and an approach thatincludes additional classes or a new curriculum coupled with workshops and training for bothfaculty and students that introduces students to the concept of innovative thinking2, 3, 4. Recent literature describes how these skills can be learned if individuals are providedwith the opportunity to exercise and practice thought processes associated with innovativethinking. For instance, engaging in questioning that challenges commonly known or acceptedbehavior, critically observing processes in order to identify new ways of doing things,networking in order to meet people with different ideas, and having the opportunity
forum. We refer to thissequence of tasks as research workflow. The above tasks also arise in independent study andwriting-intensive courses, research methods courses,31 and capstone projects.26 New graduatestudents also experience difficulties in productive engagement with research as they lackexperience with the research workflow tasks.Given this backdrop, the overarching goal of this paper is to illustrate how various open sourcetools can be used to help with various activities in the research workflow except tasks 4, 5, and 7.More specifically, we discuss how we and our students have used them in our own research.These open source tools are based on advances in machine learning, information retrieval, andsearch engine technologies.The
of an engineering career, practicing hands-on engineering, acquiring formal and informalknowledge that eases the pathway to retention and graduation, accessing potential employers atnational and international competitions, building a stronger résumé and interview portfolio,interacting with faculty and high level institutional administrators, and potentially using thevehicle as one’s senior capstone project. These benefits accrue as a result of the capital that coremembers are able to invest in TEAM A. That capital is commitment.The students are emphatic in their perceptions of the benefits they receive from their status onTEAM A. Page
Paper ID #6142Enhancing Peer-Learning Using Smart DevicesProf. Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma Dr. Siddique is currently a professor at the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering of Uni- versity of Oklahoma. His research interests are in areas of product design, product platform design, and engineering education. He is the faculty advisor of the Sooner Racing Team (FSAE) and coordinator of the Mechanical Engineering Capstone program.Dr. Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee UniversityDr. Gul E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. G¨ul E. Okudan Kremer is an associate professor of Engineering
all facets of a system, such as stakeholder values, risk, quality, and policyimplications in addition to the process or physical system, and develop sets of recommendationsand action plans. The value of these KSAs to industry, government, and academia can be seen inthe growing demand for systems engineers, with one source anticipating a 45% increase indemand for practitioners from 2009 to 2019.1 However, systems engineering is not the onlydiscipline in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields calling forincreased numbers to meet projected demands, and therefore face competition for and potentialshortage of students.2 A root cause for this shortage is that the traditional K-16 pipeline has notprovided sufficient
transferred to another college, and one student hasdecided not to pursue mechanical engineering/engineering technology degree at this time. Twonew students have been awarded scholarships in their place who were both upperclassmen.These students have chosen power-related capstone projects (one on spent nuclear fuel devicedesign, and one on smart home energy control system), further exposing additional students tonuclear power and supporting fields, improving the awareness of these fields among otherstudents involved, and indirectly enlarging the pool for the nuclear workforce.Figures 1 shows the details of the survey results to the following 11 questions for one freshmenintroductory engineering technology course: 1. I plan to complete a degree in
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engineering at Michigan State University. She teaches a range of courses from the introduction to engineering course to the upperclass courses on water/wastewater treatment, air pollution engineering and science, and capstone design . She was recently involved in the development of a B.S. program in environmental engineering Dr. Masten’s research involves the use of chemical oxidants for the remediation of soils, water, and leachates contaminated with hazardous organic chemicals. Dr. Masten has been working etensively to develop water treatment technologies that are more effective and suitable for use in decentralized water treatment systems. Over the last year, she has also begun to evaluate water treatment technologies
Paper ID #6035Using Leadership Education Practices to Enhance Freshmen EngineeringStudent Interviewing SkillsDr. David Bayless, Ohio University Dr. Bayless is the Loehr professor of Mechanical Engineering and the director of Ohio University’s Center of Excellence in Energy and the Environment. He is also the director of the Robe Leadership Institute, director of the Center for Algal Engineering Research and Commercialization (an Ohio Third Frontier Wright Project), and director of the Ohio Coal Research Center at Ohio University, where he is engaged in the development of energy and environmental technology, such as