for international assignments,according to Mazumder, consists of:1. Foreign language capability and insight into communication style.2. Knowledge of culture, customs, social behavioral and group thinking pattern of a region (e.g., differences and commonality, verbal-non-verbal communication, differences in negotiation styles).3. Knowledge of global technology, foreign education system, and business practice.4. Capacity to accept, adapt and integrate with other cultures; ability to bridge the differences.5. Awareness of the phenomenon of cross-cultural refraction as an essential result of crossing cultures.6. Self knowledge and knowledge of technology and culture of your own country.7. Knowing that it is alright to seek a “cultural
and solve the wide variety ofethics problems encountered in this rapidly-progressing field. Because of the importance ofethics education in engineering, ABET criteria for accreditation includes the requirement thatgraduating students be equipped with an understanding of professional and ethical responsibilityand the ability to engage in engineering design while considering ethical, economic,environmental, social, and safety constraints. At the University of Washington, this requirementis satisfied by addressing ethical responsibility and engineering ethics problems throughout thebioengineering curriculum. Students are first exposed to ethical issues in the context ofbioengineering in a recently-implemented course entitled Introduction to
educational technologies, teachers can be expected to be more preparedto implement technology in the classroom.18 Teacher readiness and professional educationrequire significant effort to facilitate integration of engineering and technology content in theteaching of science and math.19,20 Several papers focusing on the use of robotics in STEMeducation have explicitly acknowledged the challenge of teacher preparation. For example,teacher training has been identified as one of the main challenges preventing the adoption ofrobotics in STEM education.5 Moreover, teachers often find it difficult to link robotic activitiesto the curriculum outcomes.7 Finally, if teachers are not comfortable with the robotics material,then the project implementation and
Barbara Burks Fasse is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Georgia Tech. Fasse studies the efficacy and value of student-centered learning initiatives, specifically problem-based and project-based learning, in classrooms, instructional labs, and undergraduate research experiences. She joined the BME faculty in 2007, following 10 years in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing where she was a member of the NSF-funded Learning By Design problem-based learning curriculum development and research project. She also conducted an NSF-funded ethnographic study of learning in a problem-driven, project-based bio-robotics research lab at Georgia Tech. In addition to her duties in BME, she
together to do the design and implementationplanning. The integration of C3’s user-interface work with C4’s back-end code is the primarychallenge. And, of course, since the C4 students have already taken C3, there will be naturalmentoring about user-interface and animation issues.The projects have evolved, but are now based on work that Wilczynski did during hisentrepreneurial career when his company built manufacturing applications in an area called cellcontrol7. In the fall we do an assembly cell. In spring we do a glass-processing line. Schematicsof the cells, which the students will build and animate, are shown in figures 1 and 2 in theappendix. Here are links to the specifications the students start from:http://www-scf.usc.edu/~csci201
NEES Education Outreach and Training(EOT) Team. They developed a mechanism to support online courses to support workforcedevelopment in academic and industrial settings. They integrated the open source coursemanagement system, called Moodle, into the NEEShub architecture creating an import deliverysystem in their NEESacademy. This capability provided an excellent solution to distribute theWEI learning modules. The screen shot of the NEEShub courseware entry point and the firstpage of the online modules access are shown in Figure 5 and 6 respectively.Figure 5 – Wood Education Institute Screen Page 25.1007.10Figure 6 - Wood Education Institute
experience in curriculum development.Ms. Dunia Tania Periverzov Page 25.120.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 A Wireless Sensor Node Powered by Solar Harvester for Marine Environment Monitoring as a Senior Design Project AbstractImproving the design component in undergraduate engineering education has been an immediateand pressing concern for educators, professional societies, industrial employers and agenciesconcerned with national productivity and competitiveness. The projects are a valuablecomponent of the science and engineering education. The design experience
and curriculum and instruction in the College of Education. He is an Fellow of the ASEE and NSPE. He was the first engineer to win the Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service- learning. He was a co-recipient of the 2005 National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education for his work in EPICS. Page 25.130.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Adapting Curricular Models for Local Service-Learning to International CommunitiesIntroduction:In recent years, respected voices in
as short a time frame as possible and entering professional practice quickly,largely due to the high cost of education. Furthermore, an advanced degree frequently provides aquicker path to leadership positions within a company.In recent years, the Council of Graduate Schools began promoting the development ofProfessional Science Master’s (PSM) degrees, an innovative graduate degree designed to providestudents with advanced mathematical and technological knowledge, while developing practicalskills valued by industry.4 The significant growth of such programs nationwide indicates theiracceptance by institutions of higher education as an integral part of graduate studies and supportsthe need for graduates of such programs. In recognition of this
Mechanical Engineering 5 david.akopian@utsa.edu, Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringAbstractEducational robotics provides many opportunities to enhance science, technology, engineering,and mathematics (STEM) education for students and teachers by using engineering and computerprogramming techniques integrated into the curriculum. In addition to in-class activities, thereare many programs targeting use of educational robotics in after-school activities. In this paper,we present our experience at the Interactive Technology Experience Center (iTEC) in design,development, and implementation of robotics activities for K-12 students and teachers. iTEC isa K-12 STEM center at the University of Texas at San
out under that grant includedthe planning of a civil engineering curriculum with an infrastructure theme. As part of the plan-ning process for the new curriculum, the team of faculty members created a framework of the I2Iclass to be taken by sophomores. This class was intended to provide students with a better un-derstanding of the challenges to be faced in improving, securing, and maintaining the nationalinfrastructure. Part of the planned course included student evaluation of infrastructure compo-nents in local communities from direct observation.In 2008, three faculty members from the department were awarded an NSF Course, Curriculum,and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) grant (DUE 0837530) to create and teach the I2I courseplanned under the
AC 2012-3917: IMPROVING ENGINEERING EDUCATION WITH EN-HANCED CALIBRATED PEER REVIEW ASSESSMENT OF A COLLAB-ORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTDr. Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patricia A. Carlson teaches at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She is the author of over seventy publications and presentation. She has used her experience in educational technology on two large-scale Lilly Endowment grants and on two National Science Foundation-funded research projects. In addition to teaching, she is the Director of the PRISM Project, an outreach program that helps Indiana teachers of middle school science, mathematics, and technology to integrate new information technology applications into their
the effective amount of lecture time, resulting in an increased chance that the instructoris not capable of fully covering the material in the original course syllabus. In the two case studycourses, this impact was negligible because a significant amount of fundamental conceptspresented were synthesized from other courses in the curriculum. SE 1 provided an introduction(roadmap) to concepts students would learn in future courses, while SE 103 synthesized topicslearned in previous courses. Instead of classes in which lectures are primarily used to restate thetextbook and students are taught procedures to solve a limited set of problem types, these twocourses aim to get the students to understand and apply concepts to general problems and
-120.8. Coyle EJ, Jamieson LH, Oakes WC. Integrating engineering education and community service: Themes for the future of engineering education. Journal of Engineering Education. 2006;95(1):7-11.9. VanderSteen J. Humanitarian Engineering in the Engineering Curriculum. Kingston, Canada: Civil Engineering, Queen's University 2008.10. Mehta K, Morais DB, Zhao Y, Brannon ML, Zappe S. Milking the Rhino - Innovative Solutions Showcase: Promoting Ethics Education, User-Centered Design and Social Entrepreneurship in the Global Context. Paper presented at: ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition; 26-29 June, 2011; Vancover, BC.11. Baillie C. Engineers within a local and global society. Synthesis Lectures on Engineering
time for testing, feedback from users, andreflection.The spring 2011 “Sustainable Energy Technology” course was an instance of the indirect model.Two teams of students (7 of the 30 students enrolled) worked on projects that had been definedbefore the start of class and in this case the faculty member in charge acted as proxy for thecommunity partner. The projects (a building scale energy use analysis and a district-wide datacollection, aggregation, and analysis) had community based components and aligned with thecourse goal of students completing a design project that integrated a sustainable energytechnology with existing infrastructure (only the students in these community related projectswere surveyed.) Both projects were data rich and
. Page 25.538.97. Ohland, Matthew W.; Zhang, Guili; Thorndyke, Brian; Anderson, Timothy J., “Grade-Point Average, Changes of Majors Selected by Students Leaving Engineering”. 34 th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (2004), Session T1G.8. Pascarella, Ernest T.; Terenzini, Patrick T., “Predicting Freshman Persistence and Voluntary Dropout Decisions from a Theoretical Model”. Journal of Higher Education 51 (1980): 60-75.9. Winn, Gary; Hensel, Robin; Curtis, Reagan; Taylor, Lydotta, “An Integrated Approach to Recruiting and Retaining Appalachian Engineering Students”, American Journal of Engineering Education 2 (2011): 1-16
meaningful change in Region’s classroom practicestoday (dominated by traditional lecture-based methods) must be mandated and supported by theuniversity administration. What is necessary to create a change, is for the department or college,to have a comprehensive and integrated set of components: clearly articulated expectations,opportunities for faculty to learn about new pedagogies, and an equitable reward system.Introduction“To teach is to engage students in learning.” This quote, from Education for Judgment byChristenson et al, (1) captures the meaning of the art and practice of pedagogies of engagement.The theme advocated here is that student involvement is an essential aspect of meaningfullearning. Also, engaging students in learning is
evaluation, and curriculum design and implementation. Gomez works closely with the Assessment and Evaluation Manager and staff in the development and implemen- tation of the NCIIA’s evaluation plans, including client satisfaction surveys, instrument development, data collection, analysis, and reporting.Mr. Phil Weilerstein, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) As an entrepreneur leading a not-for-profit organization, Phil Weilerstein has grown the NCIIA (http://www.nciia.org/) from founding as a grassroots group of enthusiastic university faculty to an internationally recognized re- source supporting and promoting technology innovation and entrepreneurship to create experiential learn- ing
description language modeling. Alaraje is a Fulbright scholar. He is a member of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), a member of ASEE’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Division, a member of ASEE’s Engineering Technology Division, a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department Heads Association (ECETDHA).Prof. Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University Aleksandr Sergeyev is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Technology program in the School of Technology at Michigan Technological University. Sergeyev earned his bachelor degree in electrical engineering at Moscow
the need to organize, store and retrieve printed patentdocuments efficiently and quickly. Even today in an era of massive online patent databases,integrated thesauri, and semantic search engines, patent classification is a useful tool for prior artsearching and patent analysis. Keyword searches in patent databases are problematic for severalreasons. First of all, keyword searches locate words, not ideas or concepts. It is very difficult toinclude in a search all the terms and synonyms that may represent a technological concept.3Language presents another major challenge to keyword searching. If you search an internationalpatent database such as Espacenet using only English keywords, you will miss non-Englishdocuments from China, Korea, Japan
Oenardi Lawanto is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University. Lawanto holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in human resource education. His research interests include areas in cognition, learning, instructions, engineering design, and e-learning. Currently, he is working on two research projects that investigate students’ cognitive and metacognitive activities while learning engineering. Both projects are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).Dr. Gary A. Stewardson, Utah State University Gary Stewardson is an Associate Professor in technology and engineering education at Utah State Uni- versity. His curriculum and research interests
AC 2012-4941: BUILDING A FRAMEWORK TO EVALUATE THE IN-CLUSION OF ENGINEERING IN STATE K-12 STEM EDUCATION ACA-DEMIC STANDARDSProf. Tamara J. Moore, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Tamara J. Moore is the Co-director of the University of Minnesota’s STEM Education Center and an Assistant Professor of mathematics and engineering education in the Department of Curriculum and In- struction. Her research is centered on the integration of STEM concepts in K-12 and higher education mathematics and engineering classrooms. Her research agenda focuses on models and modeling as a curricular approach and working with educators to shift their expectations and instructional practice to facilitate effective STEM integration.Mr
the HonorsEngineering Program (HEP), established to create a small-college atmosphere among studentswho join the university’s Honors College in addition to enrolling in the College of Engineering.Honors students engage in an extended curriculum that supplements their specific disciplinarycurriculum to provide a full-spectrum liberal education. As with the PROMES cohort,participating students represent all disciplines within engineering and enjoy a multidisciplinaryfirst-year engineering experience. They also form a racially and ethnically diverse cohort thatmirrors the demographics of the university as a whole. Unlike most members of the PROMEScohort who represent the first in their families to pursue a university degree, HEP members
AC 2012-3077: ONE OR MANY? ASSESSING DIFFERENT DELIVERYTIMING FOR INFORMATION RESOURCES RELEVANT TO ASSIGN-MENTS DURING THE SEMESTER. A WORK-IN-PROGRESSProf. Amy S. Van Epps, Purdue University, West Lafayette Amy Van Epps, M.S.L.S., M.Eng., is an Associate Professor of library science and Engineering Librarian and Coordinator of Instruction at the Siegesmund Engineering Library, Purdue University. Her research interests include information literacy, effective teaching, and integration methods for information literacy into the curriculum and ethical writing skills of engineering students.Ms. Megan R. Sapp Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Megan Sapp Nelson is Associate Professor of library sciences at Purdue
edited with the use simple text Page 25.1030.5editing facilities included in the software (i.e. without specialized knowledge or tools). There aredifferent encouraging studies about the use of Wikis in education 15-18 and multiples reports ondiverse uses from undergraduate student learning environments to coordinating curriculumimplementation. Important for the authors, literature shows that the visibility of Wikis’ sharedenvironment and sense of creativity promotes motivation14.Integration of a CBI STEM Wiki website with the faculty development workshop activities hasgrown in usefulness to workshop participants and has proven to be an efficient
AC 2012-2985: EMPLOYING A PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGEMENTMETHODOLOGY TO DEFINE AND DIFFERENTIATE UNIVERSITY-WIDEROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN PROFESSIONAL STUDIESDr. Mitchell L. Springer PMP, SPHR, Purdue University, West Lafayette Mitchell Springer is an Associate Professor in technology leadership and innovation and currently serves as the Director of the Purdue University College of Technology, Academic Center for Professional Stud- ies in Technology and Applied Research (ProSTAR) located in West Lafayette, Ind. He possesses more than 30 years of theoretical and industry-based practical experience from four disciplines: software en- gineering, systems engineering, program management, and human resources. He sits on many
three: the stage of pondering and deliberations, Page 25.993.6which has lingered on for a long time, is characterized by calls from industries,engineering graduates, and invited experts, for more rounded engineers with the skillsand abilities to function in a modern business climate. Unfortunately, the response tothese calls has been slow. The “piece meal” approach and/or periodic adjustments toan already over-burdened curriculum, in an attempt to meet a broad set of demands,have not been effective in meeting objectives, and have convinced manystakeholders that the time has come for a radical departure from the traditionallayered and sequential structure
is expected to continue to decrease, leading toward more time available forimplementing design decisions, increasing exposure to the iterative process of design.Additionally, it is expected that the students will gain an appreciation with the use of potential Page 25.47.11software tools and programming techniques to increase efficiency within engineering designprocess; and in the case of the FEP course sequences, the opportunity to further emphasizeproblem solving with computer programming in the design process.ConclusionFrom the three main curriculum objectives and technical references used by FEP, the AEVcornerstone design-build project was
from out. The 1st and 2nd or filling of a tank orapplication of the 1st heat-transfer, or time which all other laws are typically vessel. Applicationlaw to determine rate-of-change of classes of problems applied to analyze of the 1st lawheat and/or work, or system temperature. can be derived. common devices: requires theto determine the Examples here Conservation of pumps, turbines, integration of thefinal (or initial) include the heating energy is frequently heat exchangers, etc. instantaneous formstate, depending on of a filament with an stated in this form Various simplifying for as controlgivens. Many
AC 2012-3808: SELF-REGULATED LEARNING STRATEGIES OF GRADES9-12 STUDENTS IN DESIGN PROJECT: VIEWED FROM PERFORMANCEAND GENDER PERSPECTIVESDr. Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University Oenardi Lawanto is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University. Lawanto holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in human resource education. His research interests include areas in cognition, learning, instructions, engineering design, and e-learning. Currently, he is working on two research projects that investigate students’ cognitive and metacognitive activities while learning engineering. Both projects are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).Dr. Wade H