Conference Session

Sustainability

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L. Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Alexander T. Dale, Engineers for a Sustainable World

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

students to a list of pre-selectedtopics, time was better spent covering wicked problems and analysis skills with greater depth andusing sustainability problems as topics for discussion in these contexts.Professional rather than academic mentors are most helpful Page 24.1257.16Perhaps because students entered with an academic mindset, professional mentors and real-worldexperiences were seen as much more valuable than information from more academic sourceswhen creating projects. Some of this separation could be resolved by asking academic guestspeakers to focus on more advanced topics, but for the purposes of the programs, findingadditional

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Experiential Learning

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University; Jack V. Matson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Darrell Velegol, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

developing change-focused mindsets for creativityand innovation in our MOOC students: Creative Diversity to recognize that everyone is creative indifferent ways, CENTER to guide the process of turning passion and initiative into possibilities,and Intelligent Fast Failure to actuate change through frequent experimentation. Figure 1. One CIC MOOC student’s visual summary of the three course themes Page 24.75.7 6Briefly, Intelligent Fast Failure (IFF) focuses on the “rapid prototyping” of ideas, products, andprocesses, so that “rapid and smart

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs and Curricula

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert W. Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

combine robotics engineering knowledge with entrepreneurship andintrapreneurship opportunities, and to bring an entrepreneurial mindset to the to the field ofrobotics engineering;ABET accreditation: ABET accreditation is a requirement of all engineering bachelor degrees atLawrence Tech. As stated previously, there is no degree accreditation for the RoboticsEngineering discipline, at this time. Accreditation of the program will be done by theEngineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET under the General-Basic Level Criteria.A detailed assessment plan has been developed for the BS in Robotics Engineering and is kept asan internal document within the mechanical engineering department. The first students enteredthe program in the fall of 2011