develop online environments that promote democratic and equitable learning in secondary and higher education. Nilakanta has worked closely on national and international projects funded by the NSF and FIPSE-EU.Dr. Giada Biasetti, Iowa State University Giada Biasetti is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Iowa State University. Her areas of interest are 20th century Latin American literature, as well as translation and interpretation studies. She obtained her Ph.D. in Spanish at the University of Florida and an M.A. in comparative literature at Florida Atlantic University. She also holds a B.A. in foreign languages and linguistics with a double major in Spanish and Italian and a degree as a professional translator and
AC 2012-5188: ASSESSING EVOLVING CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGEIN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING STUDENTSProf. Kevin A. Gary, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Kevin Gary, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering within the College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University’s Polytechnic campus. At ASU, Kevin led the development of the new bachelor’s of software engineering program, and the revised design of the master’s of computing studies. Gary designed and implemented the Software Enterprise, an NSF-funded hybrid pedagogical method for conducting project-based courses. More than 40 industry projects have been conducted by the Software Enterprise over the past eight years, and the
education requires exposing students to the current edge of research and technology.To ensure that student projects are complementary to industrial development, educators mustcontinually introduce emerging techniques, technology, practices, and applications into theircurriculum. The field of wireless sensor networks is growing rapidly and has captured theinterest of various sectors. The increasing popularity of WSN has motivated universities toprovide students with a foundation in the area. It is crucial that the emerging field of wirelesssensor networks be integrated into the computer science and engineering curriculums. Thispaper studies the different approaches that are used by different institutions of higher educationaround the world to
other scholarly journals. Canary is Co-principal In- vestigator for two inter-disciplinary projects of graduate ethics education, funded by the National Science Foundation. Her other research foci include organizational and family communication, particularly as those processes co-influence each other in contexts of disability, health, and public policies.Dr. Joseph R. Herkert, Arizona State University Joseph R. Herkert, D.Sc., P.E., is Lincoln Associate Professor of ethics and technology in the School of Letters and Sciences and the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University. He has taught engineering ethics and related courses for nearly 25 years. His work on engineering ethics has
. Page 25.423.4Proposed ProcessThere are several team project experiences built into most engineering curricula. These arenatural opportunities to learn, think about, and apply leadership skills. The essence of ourproposed process is for students to use these experiences to develop their own skills in acontinual process - from one team project to the next - of practicing, receiving feedback, makingplans for improvement, and then practicing again. However, since most courses have but oneproject experience, the process has to be programmatic - spanning several semesters - so thateach student experiences multiple cycles.We have designated one course in each semester beginning in the second semester of thesophomore year and continuing through the
through direct assessments administered in several courses. Figure 1 illustrates therelationship between the various outcomes. Program Educational Objectives - PEO 1, …, PEO 6 Program Outcomes - PO a., …, PO m. Program Courses – Student Learning OutcomesFig.1 Relationship between Student Learning Outcomes, Program Outcomes, and ProgramEducational ObjectivesOne important curriculum change implemented by the program just before the ABET visit in2009 was to introduce a Capstone Project course at the end of the program requiring students tocomplete and present a hands-on project utilizing the knowledge and skills acquired throughouttheir studies. The
AC 2012-3702: GRANTSMANSHIP AND THE PROPOSAL DEVELOP-MENT PROCESS: LESSONS LEARNED FROM SEVERAL YEARS OFPROGRAMS FOR JUNIOR FACULTYDr. Laurie S. Garton, Texas Engineering Experiment Station Laurie Garton is a Senior Research Development Associate with the Texas Engineering Experiment Sta- tion Office of Strategic Research Development. She has B.S., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineer- ing (environmental) from Texas A&M University and was an engineering faculty member before joining TEES in 1999 where she started working on technical research project grants related to interdisciplinary environmental themes. Currently, she leads the TEES New Faculty Initiative targeting grants such as the NSF CAREER awards
AC 2012-4640: ”WHAT COUNTS FACTORS”: PREPARING ENGINEER-ING STUDENTS TO INNOVATE THROUGH LEADERSHIP OF MULTI-FUNCTIONAL TEAMSDr. Mark Schar, Stanford University Mark Schar works in the Center for Design Research at Stanford University, he is a member of the Sym- biotic Project of Affective Neuroscience Lab at Stanford University, and he is a lecturer in the School of Engineering. Schar’s area of research is the intersection of design thinking and the neuroscience of choice where he has several research projects underway. He has a 30-year career in industry as a Vice President with the Procter & Gamble Company and Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer with Intuit in Silicon Valley. Schar has a B.S.S
AC 2012-3934: USING PEER TEACHING OBSERVATIONS TO GIVE FEED-BACK TO GRADUATE TEACHING INSTRUCTORSMs. Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Mary Lynn Brannon is an Instructional Support Specialist and instructor of the Graduate Teaching Assis- tants Seminar at the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education, College of Engi- neering, Penn State University. She has a master’s of arts degree in education and human development specializing in educational technology leadership. Her work focuses on projects that measure and assess student perceptions of learning related to their experiences with engineering course innovations. She has worked extensively in the design of
towards teaching science,technology, engineering, and mathematics principles both within and outside the classroomenvironment. Collaboration amongst academic researchers and educational practitioners hasyielded exceptional opportunities for students to increase technological literacy throughparticipation in structured formal and informal learning activities. This paper outlines a resourcefor students to display their creativity and independent learning skills by presenting a journalisticapproach to publishing student-initiated research projects. Comparable in format to professionaltechnical journals, the establishment of a peer-reviewed, online and open-access journal gearedfor the 7-12 grade audience is presented. This concept is currently being
math and engineering courses, contextualized teaching approaches thatincorporate NASA-related content as hands-on activities and projects are developed. A ten-weeksummer research internship program specifically designed for community college students hasalso been developed to provide research opportunities on various engineering topics includingperformance-based earthquake engineering, circuit design for biomedical applications, andembedded systems design. Additionally, a group of community college students are selected toparticipate in year-long upper-division and senior design courses at San Francisco State Universityto help develop skills and attributes needed to succeed in a four-year engineering program. Resultsfrom the first year of
thismaterial can be covered in a large-class setting, including how it can be examined. Our datasuggests that spreadsheets must be incorporated into quizzes and or examinations in order toassess student abilities in these areas. Thus, while our teaching has evolved to includespreadsheets, so must our examination procedures.IntroductionCapital investments require analyses by engineers with tools and insight into whether theinvestment is sound. The field of engineering economy provides these tools. In order to make asound decision, a three-phase approach to evaluate the risk of a project is necessary: 1. Identify the risk, or risks, of an investment project. 2. Analyze the identified risk(s) of the project. 3. Assess how the identified risks
Associate Professor, Program Director, and Assistant Department Head in the Department of Engi- neering and Technology. He is currently serving as the Interim Department Head and continues to teach several courses in the department. Ferguson has more than five years of industrial experience designing and building electro-mechanical and hydrostatic power systems. Additionally, he has completed several significant industrial, medical, and governmental applied research projects working individually and with other faculty, students, and the Center for Rapid Product Realization at Western. Page 25.1368.1
. Page 25.1131.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Revisions to Software Engineering 2004: Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Software Engineering1. Introduction Software Engineering 2004: Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs inSoftware Engineering (SE 2004)1 is one volume in a set of computing curricula adopted andsupported by the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. In order to keep the softwareengineering guidelines up to date the two professional societies established a review project inearly 2011. This paper describes that review effort and plans to revise the guidelines over thenext year and a half.2. Project organization The charge for
AC 2012-4699: ENHANCING LABORATORY EXPERIENCES WITH PORTABLEELECTRONICS EXPERIMENT KITSDr. Jason Yao, East Carolina University Jianchu (Jason) Yao received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Kansas State University in 2005. He is currently an Associate Professor of engineering at East Carolina University. His research in- terests include wearable medical devices, elehealthcare, bioinstrumentation, control systems, and biosig- nal processing. His educational research interests are laboratory/project-driven learning and integration of research into undergraduate education. Yao is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic
, namely Xcode andinterface builder, although it is possible to develop Cocoa applications without using theseapplications at all. Beginning with Xcode 3.1 and the introduction of iOS, when we create asoftware project, we must choose a platform SDK. The platform SDK contains everything that isrequired for developing software for a given platform and operating-system release. The SDK foriOS (like MAC OS X SDK) consists of frameworks, libraries, header files and system tools butincludes a platform-specific compiler and other tools. There is also a separate SDK for iOSSimulator. All SDKs include build settings and project templates appropriate to their platform.Xcode and MVCXcode is the engine that powers Apple’s integrated development environment
position, she has oversight of various programs and projects for international and domestic higher education engagements. This includes such things as: developing corporate policy, procedures and guidelines for Boeing inter- national university relationships; providing recommendations to the Higher Education Integration Board and executive sponsors for country and university relations global expansion for Boeing’s strategic work- force; leading a global network of Boeing Country/Regional Focals for alignment and implementation of Boeing’s University Relations Strategies; and managing the company’s domestic university relations portfolio of more than 160 higher education institutions. Annually, University Relations
sophisticated softwareto perform the autonomous navigation using the sensor inputs. The complexity of the projectnecessitates the involvement of a relatively large group of students working together on differentparts of the system.The Robotics Laboratory at the University of Central Florida has been participating in the annualIGVC competition since 2002. In this project the students learn about most of the engineeringdisciplines that are typically included in a complex robotic project such as software design,computer vision, sensor data interpretation and fusion, robotic motion planning, vehiclenavigation, vehicle design and construction, electric motor control, computer interfaces tovarious components and many others. Naturally this education
AC 2012-4134: ENGINEERING FACULTY ATTITUDES TOWARDS SERVICE-LEARNINGDr. Emmanuelle Reynaud, University of Massachusetts, Lowell E. Reynaud is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Univer- sity of Massachusetts, Lowell.Dr. John J. Duffy, University of Massachusetts, LowellMs. Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell As the Engineering Service-Learning Coordinator, Linda Barrington, B.S.M.E., M.B.A., serves as a fac- ulty resource to identify community needs, facilitate community partnerships, and provide logistical sup- port in service-learning projects imbedded into required engineering courses. Last academic year, she supported 22 faculty in 35 courses to
engineeringprofession while introducing students to the NAE Grand Challenges7. Laboratory sessionsconcentrate on applications of the lecture topics through individual and team-based assignmentsand small projects as related to two team-based major design projects. Page 25.645.8The major design projects consist of a five-week, team-building project and an eight-week open-ended design project. Students are assigned to teams based on their individual interests,backgrounds and talents so as to create parity across all teams. Although students are given theopportunity to change teams between projects, nearly all teams remain the same throughout thecourse. Both of the
includes more than 30 years of teaching, designing curriculum and implementation of education programs for students of all ages including new teachers. Page 25.782.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Innovative Curriculum for Engineering in High School (ICE-HS)—Status UpdateAbstractThe ICE-HS was developed to address the need to define an engineering curriculum in a charterhigh school. The research team reviewed several vendor prescribed curricula such as project leadthe way and infinity, and digital libraries funded by NSF and ASEE such
meansthat system administrators must potentially configure a subset of the computing nodes tobecome dual-booting systems. Once all of the nodes are operational, system administrators needto be able to control the nodes in batches, while maintaining the integrity of the systems. Evenwith shell scripts and other automation tools, this process has traditionally been tedious at best.To mitigate the problems faced with deploying clusters, a number of projects have been createdcalled “cluster kits”. These software toolkits are designed to automate a large portion of theinstallation and configuration procedures.Additionally, businesses and universities of all sizes are moving their traditional ITinfrastructures to the recently emergent technologies of
development that meets the needs ofthe present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own need.”3In the Manufacturing Engineering Technology program in a Midwestern University, aspects ofsustainability are incorporated into some courses at the freshman, sophomore, and junior levels.The pedagogical tools used to introduce students to sustainability in these courses includepresentations, class discussions, homework assignments, and projects. With regard to projects,some students in a junior level plastics course chose to work with a biopolymer, polylactic acid(PLA) and clay nanoparticles to make polymer-clay nanocomposites. PLA is a renewable andenvironmentally friendly raw material. Clay nanoparticles are naturally
AC 2012-2982: TWO PREFERRED ACTIVITIES USING S-STEMDr. Mo Ahmadian, Eastern New Mexico University Mohamad H. Ahmadian is a professor of electronics engineering technology at Eastern New Mexico University. He also serves as ABET/TAC program evaluator for electronics and computer engineering technology programs. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri, Columbia. Before starting his Ph.D. work, he worked three years as a project engineer. Tom Brown is a professor of computer science and the chair of the Mathematical Sciences Department at Eastern New Mexico University. He received his B.S. in mathematics education and M.S. in mathematics with an emphasis in
respective cultures are vastly different. Data gathered from theobservance of culturally diverse competing teams is studied with the objective of developingcurriculum and pedagogy that will prepare our student teams for global engineering practice.In addition, the experiential value of international travel and intercultural exchange inherentin this project is significant.IntroductionBoth the STEPS Program (PI) and the EPICS Program (CSM) introduce team-basedengineering design problem solving to students in their first and second years. While thetheory, objectives, and practices of the programs are similar, the respective cultures are vastlydifferent. Recognizing the need for students to understand the global nature of modernengineering and have an
summer 2011 I had the opportunity to participate in the Research Experience forTeachers program at the Texas A&M University-Kingsville. This program was a total learningexperience, in which I had the opportunity to develop a high level scientific research project. Ialso got a chance to get to know ten other educators that were selected the same as I toparticipate in the program. Throughout the six weeks of the summer that this program lasted, Iwas working on a research project titled “Study of the behavior of Shape Memory Polymers inthe Active Disassembly Process” under the supervision of Dr. Hua Li. This project focused onactive disassembly using smart materials (ADSM) as an alternative, with the potential to enable abroad range of
. The peer mentors provided feedback andsupport in specific projects and provided insight about what they had learned in these labactivities. The participants found the answers they needed to many of their questions or concernsfrom the mentors. Peer mentors discussed work experiences and/or projects with which they hadbeen involved and shared how this had impacted their career goals.Summer Bridge DescriptionAll four days of each SBP were organized around the theme of the generation of electricity fromrenewable sources and provided an introduction to engineering design and green technologywhile emphasizing the centrality of applied mathematics. Energy conservation, efficiency andcarbon footprints were also covered. Participants explored how
particular design solutions. Specifically, they struggle with creating,manipulating, and critiquing mathematical models to assist in the design of a product or process.The ultimate aim of our work is to improve students’ ability to use models in capstone designafter being exposed to instruction on mathematical modeling.This study was a continuation of an earlier project in which we explored how studentsdeveloped, used, and interpreted mathematical models. In the previous study, students weregiven instruction in the steps of mathematical modeling and a scenario in which they were askedto assist a hypothetical design team by creating a mathematical model that could be used inmaking decisions about the design. The instruction and the scenario broke
won awards for research and teaching excellence from the Society for Information Management, NEEDS, Decision Sciences Institute, American Society for Engineering Education, Amer- ican Society for Mechanical Engineering, International Network for Engineering Education & Research, Computer World, Campus Technology, and the Project Management Institute. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education and the Managing Editor of the Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research.Dr. P.K. Raju, Laboratory for Innovative Technology & Engineering Education (LITEE)Mr. Nanda Kumar B.S. Nanda Kumar B.S. is Assistant Construction Manager, Center of Excellence & Futuristic
the Air Force after 25 years and worked on advanced rocket engines, jet engines, and directed energy weapons. He was Program Manager for the first Lamilloy turbine, Branch Chief for world’s first cryogenic full-flow rocket cycle, Deputy Director for Propulsion Directorate developing next generation jet engines with three flow paths instead of turbofan’s two paths, and Faculty Advisor for ERAU Jet Dragster Project, Formula Research Club (March race car chassis), University Space Launch Initiative Club. He has a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering, University of Notre Dame, 1995, M.S. in aeronautics and sstronautics, University of Washington, 1989, (Oates Fellow), and a B.S. in aeronautical engineering, U.S. Air Force