has taught in the Department of Philosophy and Religion since 2002. She became Director of the First Year Seminar Program in 2012. She received a ThD in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament from Harvard University. She received her MA from Luther Seminary in Old Testament and a BA from Capital University in both History and Religion. Her areas of specialization include the history of biblical interpretation and the role of the Bible in culture Page 26.1153.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Minding the Gap: How engineering can contribute to a liberal
Engineering Education, 2015 Opportunity Thinktank: Laying a foundation for the entrepreneurially minded engineerIntroductionDesign projects have become a principal element of the undergraduate engineering curriculum.Recently, using the KEEN philosophy, there is momentum to push engineering education furtherby fostering an entrepreneurial mindset among students. Providing a basic set of engineeringskills in specific specialty areas of study is no longer sufficient. Engineers design solutions formarketplace problems. As such it is imperative that they approach the marketplace in search ofopportunities for which they can design break-through solutions. This is the mindset of theentrepreneur. The need for entrepreneurial thinking is pervasive among
Research Data Librarian at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is inter- ested in engineering information, data management in the physical sciences and has published extensively in the library literature. Page 26.1154.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Minding the gaps: Comparing engineering research output and library holdings at four large universitiesAbstractThis study compares serial subscriptions and holdings of conference proceedings at four largeacademic engineering libraries in Canada to determine where researchers are publishing
Paper ID #13198Analogy Seeded Mind-Maps: A Simple and Quick Design-by-Analogy MethodMr. K. Scott Marshall II, The University of Texas at Austin Scott Marshall is a graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin conducting research on Design Methodologies with a focus on directed Design-by-Analogy techniques.Dr. Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin Dr. Richard H. Crawford is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and is the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellow No. 3. He is also Director of the Design Projects program in Mechanical Engineering. He received his BSME from
Paper ID #11630Towards a Better Graphlet-based Mind Map Metric for Automating StudentFeedbackDr. Peter Jamieson, Miami University Dr. Jamieson is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Miami University. His research focuses on Education, Games, and FPGAs.Mr. Jeff Eaton, Miami University Page 26.1588.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Towards a Better Graphlet-based Mind Map Metric for Automating Student
Paper ID #12025A Robotics-Focused Instructional Framework for Design-Based Research inMiddle School ClassroomsMr. Matthew Moorhead, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering Matthew Moorhead received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 2014. He is currently pursuing a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY, where he is a teaching fellow in their GK-12 program. Matthew also conducts research in the Mechatronics and Controls Laboratory with an interest in robotics and controls.Dr. Jennifer B Listman, NYU Polytechnic School of
Paper ID #12013Chua’s Circuit for Experimenters Using Readily Available Parts from a HobbyElectronics StoreMr. Valentin Siderskiy, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering Valentin Siderskiy received his B.Sc. degree from the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering and M.Sc. degree from Columbia University. He conducts research in the Mechatronics and Controls Laboratory, where his interests include controls and chaos. Siderskiy is also the CTO of a technology startup.Mr. Aatif Ahmed Mohammed, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering Aatif Mohammed is currently enrolled in his second year of B.S. Mechanical Engineering at NYU Poly
Paper ID #12024Using Robotics as the Technological Foundation for the TPACK Frameworkin K-12 ClassroomsAnthony Steven Brill, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering Anthony Brill received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 2014. He is currently a M.S. student at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, studying Me- chanical Engineering. He is also a fellow in their GK-12 program, promoting STEM education. He conducts research in the Mechatronics and Controls Laboratory, where his interests include controls and multi-robot systems.Dr. Jennifer B Listman, NYU Polytechnic School
Paper ID #14123Engineering Leadership: A New Engineering DisciplineDr. Roger V. Gonzalez P.E., University of Texas, El Paso Roger V. Gonzalez, Ph.D., P.E., is the Director of the Leadership Engineering program for the College of Engineering and Professor and Chair of Engineering Education and Leadership. Dr. Gonzalez earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1986 from UTEP. He earned his M.S. in Biomedical Engineering and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow and the premier Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and Northwestern Medical School. Professor Gonza
engineering problem. Inthe process the student teams are engaged in the following activities (as given to students): Understand and/or clarify step-by-step (e.g. fill-in missing steps) how applied mathematics is used to model an engineering system of interest Page 26.161.7 Create appropriate and mathematically correct simulation models using MATLAB incorporating relevant parameters With specific scenarios in mind, perform MATLAB simulation runs, plot results, and create animations Prepare a technical report (with CD of all relevant computer files) and make a short presentation to the class (you can
within acommunity that acknowledges their expertise in a particular craft or discipline and shareinformation competently with those who are not experts."The Kern Family Foundation is helping engineering schools change their pedagogy to developthe entrepreneurial mindset in undergraduate engineers [12]. The Kern EntrepreneurshipEngineering Network (KEEN) consists primarily of small private engineering schools to promotethis change. Attributes of the KEEN entrepreneurially minded engineer are integrity, tenacity, Page 26.1507.5ethics, creativity, intuition, a deep knowledge of engineering fundamentals, the ability toengineer products for
widening gap in systems engineering expertise in the workforce. There is aparallel need to develop “entrepreneurally-minded” engineers (i.e., those who can identifyopportunities to create or improve products, and to implement plans to capture such opportunities).Engineering graduates need the capability and competency to efficiently and effectively engineerinnovative systems that satisfy customer and user operational needs, within budget, schedule,technology, and risk constraints. The solutions developed must incorporate societal impacts as wellas regulatory constraints. As evidenced by our definitions, there are strong overlap between Page
Paper ID #13559Assessment of Innovative Skill Development in Weekend ChallengesMs. Magdalini Z Lagoudas, Texas A&M University Magda Lagoudas, Executive Director for Industry and Nonprofit Partnerships, Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M University. Mrs. Lagoudas holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering. She worked for the State of New York and industry before joining Texas A&M University in 1992. Since then, she developed and taught courses in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Technology. In 2001, she joined the Spacecraft Technology Center as an Assistant Director
is built thatsatisfies the stakeholder requirements.The system to be designed under consideration must be clearly and completely defined withstakeholder’s requirements in mind. The stakeholders, the management team, and the systemsengineering team together must consider the cost, schedule, and performance constraints. Thefeasibility studies will be conducted to make sure that the stakeholders, management, and thesystems engineering team agree on the feasibility of developing the system under consideration.Based on the discussion of all the parties involved a very important document must be written;the document is called the stakeholder’s requirements document (SRD).Based on the SRD the systems engineering team translates its contents in
technical trades exploit physicallaws of the universe, which is in his mind far easier than developing new physical laws orinterpretations of physical laws. The interpretation of why the modern engineer is viewed the way he is has beendiscussed in multiple venues, but the work of Bix takes a philosophical approach. He argues thatduring and after World War Two, the genesis of the engineer as product became paramount. Oneway he supports this is through the development of the modern engineering pathway – aprecursor to the often discussed pipeline problem in today’s engineering colleges. Colleges anduniversities shortened the length of their degrees, identified shortages in local defense industriesand filled them, and provided specialized
thethree (i.e. engineering ethics, engineering cultures, and regulations and standards). The studentsdemonstrated that they were very much aware of the constraints they were working under bykeeping in mind the cultural context in which they were working. For instance, Craig, who hadworked with EWB-U for nearly 3 years, noted how his first summer trip was focused ondesigning and implementing the system. The second year was focused on design changes,implementation, and initial assessment of the system. The upcoming trip was focused onimplementing changes based on the 2nd year’s assessment, and conducting further assessment ofthe system. When asked to give an example of how the design might change year to year, Craigstated: [Craig]: “I think
. This was a six-year study about current education practices atmajor engineering schools. One of their main points is that education innovation requiresengineering and education expertise working in continual cycles of educational practiceand research. In the Innovation1 report, Recommendation 5 states: “Raise awareness ofthe proven principles and effective practices of teaching, learning, and educationalinnovation, and raise awareness of the scholarship of engineering education.” It is withthis goal in mind that the committee approaches the Best Practices in EngineeringEducation series.Besterfield-Sacre17, et al. surveyed engineering faculty & deans across the country aboutpossible pathways for transforming engineering education. They fit
LSU and administers a comprehensive radiological control program under a broad scope radioactive material license. Dr. Wang received his B.S. in geology from National Taiwan University, M.S. in environmental health engineering from Northwestern University, and Ph.D. in health physics from Purdue University. He is certified by the American Board of Health Physics (ABHP), the Board of Certified Safety Professionals, and the Board of Laser Safety. He is a member of the ANSI Z136 Technical Subcommittee on Laser Safety Control Measures and Training, the Editorial Board of Environmental Health Insights, Sigma Xi, and Phi Kappa Phi. Dr. Wang has been a full member of the Health Physics Society (HPS) since 1993, and a
Paper ID #12921Black Male ”Buoyant Believers” in Engineering and Engineering-RelatedFieldsDr. Leroy L. Long III, Ohio State University Dr. Leroy L. Long III recently earned his PhD in STEM Education with a focus on Engineering Education within the Department of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University (OSU). He earned his Masters in Mechanical Engineering at OSU and his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering at Wright State University. He has been a Graduate Teaching Associate with the First-Year Engineering Program and a Research Affiliate with the Center for Higher Education Enterprise at OSU. He has also served as
Paper ID #11415Improving Learning in Continuous-Time Signals and Systems Courses ThroughCollaborative WorkshopsDr. Mario Simoni, Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyProf. Maurice F. Aburdene, Bucknell UniversityDr. Farrah Fayyaz, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and TechnologyDr. Vladimir A Labay, Gonzaga University Currently, Dr. Vladimir Labay is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Gonzaga Uni- versity in Spokane, Washington, USA. Dr. Labay was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and earned a B.Sc.(E.E.) and M.Sc.(E.E.) from the University of Manitoba in 1987 and 1990, respectively. After grad
American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Engineering Leadership as Principled NonconformityFour years at MIT permanently solders some primary circuits of the mind, and perhaps for that reason some modes of thinking seem permanently closed to me. --Richard Meehan, Getting Sued and Other Tales of the Engineering Life, p. 18As a recent review article in the Leadership Quarterly (2014)1 reported, “Leadershipdevelopment has emerged as an active field of theory building and research, providing a morescientific and evidence-based foundation to augment the long-standing practitioner interested inthe topic” (p. 63). Like many of the papers submitted to the Engineering
engineer.” Femalestudents, however, often had a different experience, as this response illustrates: Funny story there… the guy driving the shuttle found out I was in engineering. He goes, "Wait, you're an engineer?" And the implication was you're a woman studying engineering, and I was very, very surprised that that happened…when I got off, I was walking by [a student] who's my friend, and they were hanging out there to wait for the [campus] shuttle. And I was like, "The guy was absolutely shocked that I was a female engineer. He couldn't handle it." I mean, because he repeated that a few times. He's like, "You're a woman studying engineering." I mean, it's just mind-blowing for him, and it was mind
Paper ID #11775Does Motivation Matter for Conceptual Change: Developing Effective Qual-itative Research ApproachesDr. Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech Dr. Matusovich is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Programs in Vir- ginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 8 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research
can see this worked out in Kallenberg’s [22] approach tothe teaching of ethics to engineering students, and we can also see that by substation of theengineering examples it is a more general application of design as knowledge. As both Kallenburgand Koen point out in any area of thought and practice that is ‘messy’ heuristics are valuable.Exercise 3. Student activity in relation to teaching decision making and its outcomesI had neither of these things in mind when I asked my students to design and implement a lesson toevaluate the merits of Wales and Stager’s design/problem solving heuristic for teaching decisionmaking. This heuristic was widely discussed by engineering educators in the nineteen seventies (Eckand Wilhelm, 1979 [23]; Heywood[24
significant improvements in students’ learning when the instructors use computersimulations in fluid mechanics.With this theory in mind, we developed a spreadsheet-based simulation model as the IEchallenge activity in an introduction-to-engineering course. The purpose of this user-friendlysimulation tool was to raise students’ understanding of IE and introduce a few common IE tools.This challenge allowed the students to directly apply the Operations Research and HumanFactors concepts learned in the IE lessons of the course. The scenario behind the challenge wasthe realistic case of designing a commercial passenger airplane and scheduling its operations.Rather than a traditional test on the IE material presented during the three IE lessons
16%Housing 16% Materials 6%Materials 14% Admin Materials 1% Admin Materials 6%Misc. Expenses 20% Misc. Expenses 24%To give a framework for how the camps are organized, sample weekly agendas are shown inFigure 1. The agenda is designed to be fast-paced, while giving adequate time for each activityto meet its goals. For example, activities during the beginning of the week need to concentrateon teaching how to use the design process and on the Engineering Habits of Mind of optimism—sticking with it until success is achieved—or teamwork. Later in the week, activities may bemore designed to teach a particular scientific concept; however, each activity is
communication skills for Ph.D.s in engineering, but by looking at the data througha service and justice lens, Transformation indicates the application of knowledge to a broader orglobal environment. One participant urged Ph.D.s in engineering to be “flexible, open-minded,open to new cultures, [and] new understanding of the global environment.” Other participantsnoted use of their expertise and position to establish global engineering exchange programs withinstitutions around the world so students (future stewards of the disciplines) could gain globalengineering experience or work to support undergraduate research initiatives and other outreachprograms. Specifically, some participants noted the importance of transformation in their effortsto introduce
Paper ID #11275Accrediting a program in Engineering TechnologyProf. Richard Cliver, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST) Richard C. Cliver is an Associate Professor in the department of Electrical, Computer and Telecommu- nications Engineering Technology at RIT where he teaches a wide variety of courses both analog and digital, from the freshman to senior level. Richard also works for the Eastman Kodak Company as a Senior Design Engineer. Richard has received two teaching awards while at RIT. He was the recipient of the 1998 Adjunct Excellence in Teaching Award and the recipient of the 2002 Provost’s Excellence in
Paper ID #13724Academic Maker Spaces and Engineering DesignDr. Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University Vincent Wilczynski is the Deputy Dean of the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science and the James S. Tyler Director of the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design. As the Deputy Dean, he helps plan and implement all academic initiatives at the School. In addition, he manages the School’s teaching and research resources and facilities. As the James S. Tyler Director of the Center for Engineer- ing Innovation & Design he leads the School’s efforts to promote collaboration, creativity, design and
EPICS(Purdue), EFELTS(Tufts) and EWB(several) or higher educationinstitutions starting community engaged engineering learn by doing and solving real community Page 26.1577.5needs kinds of programs.The Purdue session was a wealth of information. There were good tools for assessment andalignment with ABET a-k criteria. There was a sense of growing momentum…pioneers were sohappy to have a large gathering of like-minded faculty and staff from across North Americainterested in service learning in engineering. They suggested a Community of CommunityEngagement Practitioners. They noted that ASEE’s Community Engagement division was thequickest new division