AC 2012-3560: FROM DEFENSE TO DEGREE: INTEGRATING MILI-TARY VETERANS INTO ENGINEERING PROGRAMSDr. David L. Soldan, Kansas State UniversityDr. Noel N. Schulz, Kansas State UniversityDr. Don Gruenbacher, Kansas State UniversityMrs. Rekha Natarajan, Kansas State University Rekha Natarajan is an instructor in the Mathematics Department at Kansas State University, coordinating college algebra. She received her B.S. and M.A. in mathematics from Arizona State University, B.S. in secondary education from Kansas State University, and is currently a doctoral student in the Mathematics Department at KSU. Her research area is undergraduate mathematics education.Mrs. Blythe Marlow Vogt, Kansas State University Blythe Vogt joined the
development company.Ms. JoAnn M. Marshall, Cyber Innovation Center Page 25.867.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Junior Cyber Discovery: Creating a Vertically Integrated Middle School Cyber CampAbstractThis paper describes an innovative partnership that was developed between high schools andtheir feeder middle schools in an effort to foster collaboration and mentoring among facultywhile immersing rising 7th grade students in a week-long, project-driven day camp to developinterest and skills in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Themiddle school teachers received
knowledge of particle measurement techniques to plan and conduct an ambient aerosol measurement campaign near the University. The students analyzed their data and compared it to measurements from nearby monitors and related the data to national standards.As the next step, the course material is being prepared for online posting and adapted for integration with the theoretical modules described earlier.COURSE WEB EFFECTIVENESS:The effectiveness of the course website was assessed in two ways:1. Usability tests were conducted on an early version of the site and conducted again onthe revised version of the site. In both tests, participants were given tasks to find coursematerial and use the calculation model available on the site. The purpose
providing an introductory course in the microprocessoror microcontroller in Engineering and Engineering Technology type curriculums has longbeen over due. The subject matter covered in System Design has matured to the extent that ithas been the subject of curriculum content in the form of two or more courses in most of theuniversities1. The subject course which is the subject of this paper is a 400 level course in the Page 25.961.2Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department. This is preceded by twocourses: 1) a C or C++, programming course, that covers the C or C++ language constructswith emphases on bit manipulation, 2) an introductory
AC 2012-5489: CORE CONCEPTS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES IN ANINTRODUCTORY TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING COURSE: AN EVAL-UATION OF PILOT IMPLEMENTATIONSDr. Rhonda K. Young, University of WyomingDr. Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette CollegeDr. Shashi S. Nambisan P.E., Iowa State University Since 2007, Shashi Nambisan has been the Director, Institute for Transportation (InTrans) and a professor of civil engineering at Iowa State University (ISU) in Ames, Iowa. He previously served on the faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for more than 17 years. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Nevada. One of Nambisan’s passions is the development of the future transportation work- force. He enjoys working
freeways, and higher efficiency standards2. This increase in rawcomputing power coupled with higher levels of software based logic abstraction is movingvehicle borne computer systems into the realm of software engineering. Software engineering inthe automotive industry provides a strong platform for student exploration.One key hurdle for integration of automobiles into a software engineering curriculum is that ofaccess. Vehicles based on classic internal combustion (IC) engine power sources require speciallaboratory space, have harmful emissions to deal with and are hard to keep clean. In addition tospace issues, it is difficult to build bench test systems if the power plant is an internal combustionengine. Electric vehicles (EVs), on the other
. Christopher S. Greene, University of Saint Thomas Christopher Greene got his B.S. degree in electrical engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and then did his master’s and Ph.D. at MIT, where he studied control theory. Following a 23-year career at Honeywell and another industrial company, he joined the University of St. Thomas School of Engineering. He is currently the Director of the Electrical Engineering program at St. Thomas and does research on the applications of control theory.Mr. Scott Edward MorganDr. Miguel Angelo Rodrigues Silvestre, University of Beira Interior Miguel Angelo Rodrigues Silvestre is an Assistant Professor at University of Beira Interior (UBI) in Portugal and an Integrated Researcher
. 93.10. A New Theory for the Assignment of Members to Engineering Design Teams. Chambers, Terrence ,Manning , Alan and Theriot, Lovonia . Las Cruces, NM : ASEE, 2000.11. Capstone Course in an Integrated Engineering Curriculum. Jenkins, Rod, et al., et al. 2, s.l. : Journal ofProfessional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 2002, Vol. 128.12. Report: A Capstone Project Involving a Hundred Students, for an Industrial Partner. Stearns, Daniel,et al., et al. Valencia, Spain : International Conference on Engineering Education, 2003.13. An Optimization Routine for Assigning Students to Capstone Project Groups. Schmidt, Peter, et al., etal. Vancouver, BC : ASEE, 2011.14. Academic and Industrial Perspectives on Capstone Course Content and the
. Page 25.412.4These objectives facilitated the team’s development of an interdisciplinary, collaborative groupproject in which students created a working video game by the end of the semester. The coursestructure is described in more detail below starting with the course project which drove thedesign of the course. Appendix A contains a detailed listing of the topics taught in the lecture andlab section each week.The Course Project: OverviewTo assess students’ mastery of the course learning objectives, student teams were required tosubmit a working video game at the end of the semester. The curriculum development teamdebated whether to provide students with a detailed design specification for the game or to givethem more design freedom by
each year to meet global collaborators, competitors, and leaders through an intensely immersive learning experience that goes beyond classroom studies. Other programs reflecting Wei’s international reach include the college’s Poverty Alleviation/Service-Learning program and Engineers Without Borders. This global perspective is rooted in a vision of SJSU as a preeminent producer of forward-thinking problem-solvers. With this goal in mind, Wei has established the Silicon Valley Engineering Scholarship, a program that provides $5,000 of annual support for high-achieving students to pursue engineering careers. Wei is also a Principal Contributor to CSU (California State University) Engineering Academies, a statewide
in the curriculum typically involve an internal client (such asfaculty). Those later in the curriculum introduce external competition-based projects. The projects bringreal world considerations into the mix, such as design constraints, scheduling, logistics, financing andvarious other project management concerns.The design curriculum culminates in a two-semester capstone design project that encompasses the fullscope of engineering design and standard program outcomes [2]. The capstone design projects areintended to be a design/build/test project for an external audience. Students are assessed for the technicalwork and independent learning necessary in the design phase, the ability to assemble the overallprototype, and the quality of testing
were glad they had something to give back to the college, andthe college benefitted from their volunteer work and increased giving. One engineering alumni,who is a retired vehicle dynamics engineer from Ford, offered our students free training on somebasic vehicle dynamics terminology and concepts. He also critiqued the students‟ initial designthis year. The engineering department organized an industry advisory focus group meeting in fallof 2010. Many of the advisors that attended the meeting came through our connections to thelocal SAE community. They offered valuable advice on curriculum improvement and a range ofother things to enhance our engineering program.Fundraising and budgetingStudents must function as a team to not only design
concepts that underpin thedesign challenge.The WISEngineering team has been engaged in preliminary work to study the feasibility of usinginformed engineering design to improve mathematics learning. A team of teachers, Page 25.881.4administrators, engineers, and educational researchers, have implemented an instructional unittermed the Skyline Design Challenge (Figure 1). The unit focused on the sixth- and seventh-grademathematics curriculum using informed engineering design and digital fabrication. The unit wasa paper- and-pencil prototype for the web-based WISEngineering project. The developmentprocess included math teachers to ensure the content
world. Page 25.3.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012AbstractThe primary goal of this newly developed certificate program is to address the need for“green” workforce development related to education, training, and public informationdissemination of renewable energy and sustainability. The certificate programincorporates the significant research and teaching experience of faculty members at theCollege of Engineering and Computer Science in Florida Atlantic University (FAU) toaddress the industrial needs in this field. An innovative curriculum is designed thatincludes exposure to all
the Certified Aging in Place (CAPS) and the Certified Green Professional (CGP) curriculum and professional designation, not previously provided at the university level, has many challenges, not the least of which are anticipation of the career aspirations of the students enrolled and the expected educational outcomes by the industry. The addition of the NAHB courses and professional designation into construction technology education, the contractual relationship between the university and NAHB, the requirements of the educators delivering the courses, and the integration and administration of NAHB industry curriculum into an undergraduate residential construction management specialization program are discussed. The CGP Designation from the
AC 2012-5087: ARTICULATION OF CURRICULUM ACROSS UNIVER-SITIES, COMMUNITY COLLEGES, AND ADULT AND CAREER CEN-TERS TO MEET THE EMERGING INDUSTRY REQUIREMENTS IN CLEANAND ALTERNATIVE ENERGYMs. Margaret Anna Traband, University of Toledo Margaret Anna Traband, M.B.A., is the Grant Director for the National Science Foundation Partnership for Innovation grant entitled An Innovative Model for a New Advanced Energy Workforce. Traband earned a bachelor’s of arts from Bowling Green State University and her master’s of business adminis- tration in entrepreneurship and technology commercialization from the University of Toledo. Previously, Traband worked as the Program Manager for the University Clean Energy Alliance of Ohio (UCEAO
manipulatives and technology, and inthe integration of reading instruction in mathematics and science content delivery (see:http://mcs.mines.edu/Research/bechtel/new). This is being accomplished by offering cohorts of K-5teachers two, two-week summer workshops on a college campus, over successive summers, inmathematics and science with an energy and renewable energy emphasis. Each cohort consists of ateaching team representing all grade levels, K-5, within a given elementary school. These workshopsare taught by university professors and researchers from a national laboratory. Implementation of workshop activities in the elementary classroom during the academic year isnot left to chance; rather, graduate students directly assist the participating
sciences (economics, policy, and management) to ensure successfulcareer opportunities and growth within energy-related industries, government agencies, andacademia. The courses are structured to enable students to understand engineering fundamentals andapply the knowledge to solve problems in the production, processing, storage, distribution, andutilization of energy using multiple techniques as synthesis, analysis, design and case studies.Inquiry-based teaching methods and lab experiences are emphasized. The faculty research andscholarly activities are integrated into the curriculum. The program is designed to train studentsto be lifelong learners, problem solvers, and energy industry leaders. The educationalopportunities are sufficiently
require a significant amount of design practice, along with proper reinforcement – onesuggestion is that several simple design problems precede the larger capstone design project [7].In addition, design and other engineering subjects are best learnt through hands on activelearning, e.g. project based learning [6, 8]. Therefore, the integration of impromptu designexercises into all aspects of the curriculum is motivated by the above research findings.In addition, the authors have found that these projects have a number of other advantagesincluding: • Using these hands-on activities give students concrete examples of the issues being discussed in class – e.g. students go through an impromptu design exercise (where they design and
learn how the graphicallibrary was implemented, not just how to use it. This observation triggered a sequence ofi iMPaCT is an approximate acronym for Media Propelled Computational Thinking. The learning modules (LMs) Page 25.315.2developed for integration within high school math courses are collectively referred to as iMPaCT-Math (IM).refinements that eventually resulted in a new course that uses the programming of simplemathematical algorithms that render graphics and simulate kinematics. These tiny programsfocus student attention on exploring principles underlying (and building “gut level” intuitionsrelated to) the content of high
code.Seniors in computer engineering at Iowa State University (ISU) are exposed to concepts in deviceinterfacing and hardware/software optimization through multiple classes in softwaredevelopment, computer architecture, digital logic and signal processing. A course that focuses ongraphics processing and architecture has the potential to nicely tie together several instances ofthese concepts in an integrated environment. Page 25.842.2At ISU we have created a senior elective class for teaching graphics processing. While this classis offered as an elective in the computer architecture focus area, course topics are introduced fromthe systems perspective
25.1321.3This way, CM students can develop proper skills in estimating courses for MEP scopeunderstanding, and they can eliminate the fear of dealing with technologically complex workscope when they are assigned as junior estimators early in their career. Due to limitations incredit hours, it is not always possible to launch specialty courses such as MEP estimating. Thepurpose of this paper is to present an estimating course module that addresses the currentshortcoming in CM curriculum. The paper presents a systematic approach that is used in anestimating course on how to develop a MEP scope which later can be used in detailed estimatingprocess.The Course Structure and Teaching MethodologyThe MEP estimating module is integrated into a third year course
AC 2012-4701: AN EVALUATION OF TEACHING METHODS USED INTEACHING CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENTDr. Edward Godfrey Ochieng, Liverpool John Moores University Edward Ochieng is a Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University involved in project manage- ment teaching and research. Ochieng’s research interests include multicultural project team performance, value creation, project governance, project culture, project integration, modelling technology, and sus- tainability in construction. He has presented in both national and international conferences, such as Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM), Australian Universities Building Educators Association (AUBEA), CIB World Congress, and
in general, but specifically for a career in NASA. What followed was a sense of motivation, and an assurance that with hard work, I can achieve a lot with an engineering career” (Ivan).InterpersonalStudents learned the importance of teamwork and collaboration. “Through the team project, I learned how to think from multiple viewpoints when approaching a project, incorporate other student’s ideas to create new concepts, and Page 25.530.8 combine team members’ skills to solve problems” (Cristian). “Teamwork was an integral part of the design projects. In fact, if there was one expectation of the
at Oregon State University. He currently has re- search activity in areas related to thin film materials processing and engineering education. He is inter- ested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. Koretsky is a six-time Intel Faculty Fellow and has won awards for his work in engineering education at the university and national levels. Page 25.304.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Characterization of Student Modeling in an Industrially Situated
, we have integrated experimental design into some of our thermodynamiclaboratories in order to strengthen students’ understanding of fundamental concepts. OurIntroduction to Thermodynamics requires that students learn basic, yet complicated concepts,such as determining properties of pure substances, calculating heat and work exchanged during aprocess, and the first and second law of thermodynamics, before they undertake complexapplications, such as thermodynamic cycles or combustion systems. These basic concepts areconducive to simple, conceptually oriented laboratory assignments and are an ideal place to havestudents design an experiment.This paper is a continuation of a paper3 presented at the 2011 ASEE conference in the ASEEDELOS division
. Page 25.228.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Assessment of Student Knowledge in an Introductory Thermodynamics CourseAbstractThe first course in thermodynamics builds the foundation for the thermal science courses in anundergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum. Students who master the fundamentalconcepts typically do well in the follow up thermal science courses. Therefore, assessment ofstudent knowledge in this course is essential for student success in the follow up courses.Assessment of student knowledge is usually achieved through homework assignments, one ortwo mid-semester exams, and a final examination. The difficulty is that only simple
, 128, 1. 6. Jenkins, S. et al. (2002) “Capstone Course in an Integrated Engineering Curriculum,” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 128, 2. 7. Butkus, M., and Kelley, M. (2004) “Approach for Integrating Professional Practice Issues into Undergraduate Environmental Engineering Design Projects,” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 130, 3. 8. Hanna, A., and Sullivan, K. (2005) “Bridging the Gap Between Academics and Practice: A Capstone Design Experience,” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 131, 1. 9. Jones, J., and Mezo, M. (2007) “Team Teaching the Capstone Management Course: How and Why
AnnualASEE Conference and Exposition, Chicago, Il. June 20063. Alenskis, Brian, “Integrating Ethics into an Engineering TechnologyCourse: An Interspersed Component Approach,” Proceeding of the 1997 AnnualASEE Conference and Exposition, Milwaukee, WI. June 19974. Mindek, R. B., Keyser, T. K., Musiak, R. E., Schreiner, S., Vollaro, M.B.,“Integration of Engineering Ethics Into The Curriculum: Student Performance andFeedback,” Proceeding of the 2003 Annual ASEE Conference and Exposition,Nashville, TN. June 20035. Durfee, J., Loendorf, W., “Using the National Society of ProfessionalEngineer’ (NSPE) Ethics Examination as an Assessment Tool in the EngineeringTechnology Curriculum,” Proceeding of the 2008 Annual ASEE Conference andExposition
AC 2012-5292: ADVISING ENGINEERING STUDENTS TO THE BESTPROGRAM: PERSPECTIVE, APPROACHES, AND TOOLSDr. Narciso F. Macia P.E., Arizona State University, Polytechnic Narciso F. Macia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology, at Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus. Prior to accepting his present position with ASU, he founded Control Systems Innovation, Inc., an engineering consulting and product development firm, in which he continues to be active. Macia received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering in 1974 and 1976 from the University of Texas, Arlington, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Arizona State University in 1988. He is a registered Professional