. Excel worksheet. The system is an electrically powered The electrically powered mode of transportation and is transportation system responds to a 35% controlled with a handheld remote handheld remote control. control. By the end of the project, a new system is expected to be fully functional and On project completion, the fully ready to operate. In the end, the functional new system gives people a 54% excellent design is meant to give people great new way to pursue happiness. a great new way to pursue
- gram and is passionate about teaching students engineering through project based learning. He received both his BS and MS degrees in Engineering from Colorado School of Mines. In addition to leading cap- stone, Jered is the faculty adviser for the Mines SAE Baja team, Anonymous Right Brains Club, and CSM Racing Club. Page 26.1466.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015Teaching and Learning Open-‐Ended Problem Solving Throughout a New Degree Program Overview The concept of ‘Design’ is a significant challenge for faculty
exciting project he could possibly imagine: the Space Shuttle. Over his career, David held successively influential management positions including Deputy Branch Chief of the Aerodynamics Branch in the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division, Chief of the GN&C Analysis and Design Branch, Deputy Chief of the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division, and for the final 10 years of his career, Chief of the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division in the Engineering Directorate at the Johnson Space Center. Dave retired from NASA at the end of 2010 after more than 38 years of service in the US Space Program. His career spanned numerous projects and programs, including both crewed and robotic spacecraft. After retiring
member of the BKCASE project and the lead author of the Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Systems Journal.Dr. Alice F Squires, Washington State University Dr. Alice F. Squires is an Associate Professor at Washington State University (WSU) with over 30 years of technical leadership experience. Prior to joining WSU, Dr. Squires served as Manager of Systems En- gineering at Aurora Flight Sciences, Senior Researcher for the nationwide University Affiliated Research Center in Systems Engineering and Online Technical Director for SSE at Stevens Institute of Technol- ogy, Senior Systems Engineer consultant to LM, IBM, and EDO Ceramics, Senior Engineering Manager
communicatingeffectively and efficiently. Much work has been done to investigate the effect of interventions inupperclassmen capstone courses (see bibliography). Additionally, courses which integratewriting and project design instruction are becoming increasingly common6,8 . Thisinterdisciplinary combination has the potential to give students an experience in technical writingand engineering design closer to that practiced outside of an academic setting8 .For this paper, the researchers examined the effect of instructional interventions on earlyengineering students, primarily freshmen and sophomores. The course in question is ENGR 14:Introduction to Solid Mechanics. This is a prerequisite course for many higher level engineeringclasses which combines
-select based on achievement alone. Further investigation into the possible differencesbetween the groups, such as grit or parental influence, will be conducted Fall 2015; this mayalleviate the lack of meaningful statistical results based on GPA alone as other factors affect thereason a student may choose to take ENGR 204. However, we believe that any student that takesENGR 204, higher achieving or not, will benefit from the interaction with an engineering facultymember, face-to-face information transfer of engineering activities, interaction with otherengineering students, supplemental information on Math 143, and hands-on experience with anengineering design project in addition to the study and college survival skills taught in the class
from the National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education (NSFATE) program. The program is now completing its second year and graduating a first group ofwell-prepared photonics technicians ready for employment in the growing photonics industry inthe state and across the US. The second year marked the successful completion of the programcurriculum and further development of the Optics and Photonics Laboratory. Outreach activitiesincluded summer programs for high school and middle school students. The paper describes theoutcomes of the two year project in relation to the objectives of the NSF ATE grant. Challengesand lessons learned along the way are discussed, together with plans for sustainability and futureexpansion of the
adults12,13,14. Therefore, there is a need to develop educational activities to improveenergy literacy. These activities have included high school energy competitions, development ofinterdisciplinary curricula, and field experiences and internships. As many of these educationalendeavors culminate in some type of deliverable or other artifact, an opportunity exists tosupplement measurement of energy literacy via tests of knowledge with measurement throughobservation of project artifacts. This type of approach could then be used to examine whatfactors might be contributing to higher levels of energy literacy, allowing refinement of theeducational activities. The development of a rubric for the evaluation of energy literacy is inprogress to capture the
Paper ID #12955Integration of Simulation Tools in Manufacturing Processes CourseDr. Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University (Tech.) Dr. Ertekin received his BS degree in mechanical engineering from Istanbul Technical University. He received MS degree in Production Management from Istanbul University. After working for Chrysler Truck Manufacturing Company in Turkey as a project engineer, he received dual MS degrees in engi- neering management and mechanical engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology (MS&T), formerly the University of Missouri-Rolla. He worked for Toyota Motor Corporation as a qual- ity
, it will become clear that the fieldof mechanical engineering and physics dominates compared to the other fields and areas, thusgiving a huge scope and opportunity to develop more lesson plans and examples in the otheracademic areas and courses. Although most of these examples are provided by and used by alimited number of faculty, opportunities are there to market them more effectively to studentsand other faculty. These examples serve as a repository to the students providing some sort of„blended‟ or „flipped classroom‟ atmosphere.Numerous studies support these teaching methods [2, 3]. Blumenfeld et al. [4] elaborate on theprocesses of PBL: "Project-based learning is a comprehensive perspective focused on teachingby engaging students in
Engineering. His background is in dynamic sys- tem modeling and simulation, nonlinear control, hardware-in-the-loop, hybrid-electric vehicles, and solar powered water purification. He teaches Instrumentation, Vehicle Dynamics, Hybrid-electric Vehicles, and Senior Design. He recently co-founded a small business called AquaSolve Ventures selling large and small solar powered water purifiers. He is involved in Project Haiti which is a student movement to de- sign the 6th solar water purifier for installation in Haiti this summer. His current research is focused on reducing diesel emissions, improving solar panel effectiveness with phase change materials, and helping to define the water-energy-climate nexus
Paper ID #13745Student Experiences and Perceptions on the Evolving Nature of Digital Toolsin the Architecture ClassroomMs. Shahnaz J. Aly, Western Kentucky University Shahnaz Aly, OAA, LEED AP, M. Arch, is a licensed Architect in India and Canada and Assistant Profes- sor in the Department of Architectural and Manufacturing Sciences at Western Kentucky University. She has 10 years professional experience in the architecture and construction industry in residential, commer- cial and mixed-use projects. She has 5 years of experience in teaching and research in areas of architec- tural design, sustainable design, historic
sessions, total time spent, how farahead of deadline students start, and time of day worked. We compare work patterns betweenstudents who completed the assignments on time, and those who did not. We also comparestatistics such as recent numbers of good and bad test runs and editing activity against reportedstudent frustration levels. Finally, we review a sample of student compile errors in two differentC language projects, one by beginning programmers, and the other by upperdivisionprogrammers, and report the types of errors made in each group.We find several interesting results from these comparisons: students often work in short stints,they work fewer late hours than might be expected, and early starts on a project, while useful, arenot as
design teams shape whetherand how students’ contributions to the design project are recognized.4 Given this, groupcomposition in design teams becomes an important instructional decision since access todisciplinary knowledge and identity can influence students’ future trajectories. However,mechanisms by which roles affect broader relationships to design are underexplored. Our aim isto understand students’ emergent roles in design teams, and how this may or may not interactwith their complex relationships (epistemological and affective) to computer programming anddesign. We unpack how pairing students of different levels of expertise influences students’access, their sense of whether or not they can participate in a discipline. We suggest that
systems, but he has ongoing projects in the area of hospital patient health monitoring. He is actively engaged in K-12 outreach through several venues including Summer Ventures, high school STEM day, the NC Science Olympiad, a Math Science Partnership grant, volunteer work with a local literacy camp, Boy Scouts Robotics Merit Badge counseling, and teaching the science portion of VBS and children’s Sunday School at his local church.Dr. Zhen Zhu, East Carolina University Zhen Zhu is an assistant professor at East Carolina University. From 2010 to 2013 he was a senior research engineer and a principal investigator with the Navigation Systems Division and the Advanced Concepts and Technologies Division in Northrop Grumman
problem-based learning and service learning alsobecame popular approaches to connect course material with field applications, often using client-driven scenarios and open-ended challenges.5,6 This attention to increasing student engagementwas in part prompted by an increased awareness of the value of active learning and team-basedproblem solving.These initiatives manifested themselves in a variety of fashions, including improving studentexperiences using cornerstone and capstone design projects as well as the creation of U.S.Government sponsored initiatives. For example, the grant-funded “Learning Factory” projectwas developed to simultaneously create a practice-based curriculum and the supporting physicalfacilities required to design/fabricate
, and mathematics(STEM). Toward that end many summer informal STEM education experiences have beenestablished for middle school students. While these experiences can be very fun and engaging forstudents, they often consist of prescribed experiments, projects, and investigations. Here wepresent a novel summer enrichment program, Everyday Engineering, which consists of both theprescribed experiments/activities and also a design project based investigation which allows thestudents to explore their imaginative side in the design and prototyping of an invention of theirown creation.The Everyday Engineering program, designed for middle school students, was a one week allday (8:15 am – 5:00 pm) summer camp on the campus of a Virginia Commonwealth
and creating a valid ship structural model, it ispossible to incorporate its use into general naval architecture courses without the requirement tobecome an expert in structural finite element analysis. The use of MAESTRO in the graduateprogram affords the students greater insight into ship structural response to load effects that arenot always accurately analyzed by current manual methods (simple prismatic beam analysis). Inthe undergraduate program, the students use MAESTRO to develop a structural model as part oftheir senior ship design project. There has been difficulty in the undergraduate program in thedevelopment of a whole ship model, but the software allows the mid-portion of the ship structureto be easily created. In both the
experienceswhere the adolescents had the opportunity to research, analyze, and/or design solutions toproblems affecting their community. The adolescents worked in teams of three or four membersover the course of one school year to develop a solution to the problem they selected. Pre andpost-interviews were conducted to determine the adolescents’ perceptions of engineering andtheir self-efficacy in engineering. Data revealed that the participants’ sense of engineering self-efficacy increased after participating in the project. In addition, the participants’ perceptions ofengineering changed over time. This exploratory study suggests that authentic engineeringexperiences, defined as experiences in which students identify real problems they want to solvefor
Paper ID #12252Developing a Toolkit and Online Community of Practice to Support Imple-mentation of Engineering in PreK-12 Education (Other)Dr. Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering Dr. Elizabeth Cady is a Program Officer at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) working on en- gineering education topics such as building skills in project management and change leadership, diversity, and developing communities of practice. She also staffs the Frontiers of Engineering Education sympo- sium, which recognizes and supports innovative engineering faculty members. She co-edited a resource collection translating
profile are in general satisfied, including the 30 %studying abroad. Many of the bachelor projects carried out abroad are located in emergingcountries which highlights the competence deficiency in countries outside the industrialized partsof the world.IntroductionThe general trend in society is towards increasing sustainability, including economic, social andenvironmental aspects. Sustainability is also related to corporate social responsibility (CSR),which can be referred to as the industry equivalent for businesses that intend to prosper in thelong run1,2, and is highly reflected also in engineering education3.There is an increasing demand on education in energy engineering in a broad sense, includinge.g. environmental technology and energy
near industrial technology laboratory building at Sam Houston StateUniversity were the vibration source. The building used for this project is a combined laboratory Page 26.599.4and shop and classroom facility with two condenser units–one single fan and one twin fan. Theinitial study employs the twin fan unit. Initially, the AC condenser unit was studied, and potentialpaths of the study were generated.Figure 3. R-410A XP series 6-1/2 ton 60Hz AC Condenser UnitFigure 4. Pictorial of AC condenser unit showing waste energy sources for energy harvestingViewing the unit from above, the rotation of both fans is clockwise. The fan blade length
Paper ID #11099Sabbatical Leaves with Industry–Three ExperiencesDr. Robert G. Batson P.E., University of Alabama Bob Batson is a professor of construction engineering at The University of Alabama. His Ph.D. training was in operations research, and he has developed expertise in applied statistics over the past thirty years. He currently teaches the required courses in project management, safety engineering, engineering man- agement, and engineering statistics within the undergraduate programs of the Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department, and graduate courses in operations research and supply chain
within the constructionism approach that underlies thepedagogical philosophy of this study. The project to develop the CooL:SLiCE cyberlearningplatform and planned evaluations within this cyber environment are next discussed.CooL:SLiCE Cyberlearning Environment The CooL:SLiCE project supports sustainable engineering education by leveragingcyber-technology’s role in learning environmentally responsible lifecycle engineering. A multi-institutional team of researchers from Wayne State, Penn State, and Oregon State universities arecollaboratively developing the innovative distributed cyberlearning platform to facilitate students’consideration of the range of human controlled and initiated impacts products have on the naturalenvironment. The
the process, students learned to design for manufacturing, build withinmaximum build envelope of the 3D printers, assembly for parts, and resolve fitment issues.Additional parts to be designed include side skirts, motor and battery covers, and a rear wing.The outcome of such learning experiences from this project can be expanded to interdisciplinaryproject oriented courses for engineering students to enhance their learning experiences.IntroductionThe goal of this project is to introduce new technology in the class room and inspire studentsabout using 3D printers for design and manufacturing processes. Most engineering colleges havebeen providing outdated technologies in current high technology era. Engineering studentsexperience lack of next
Paper ID #13828Impact of the You’re Hired! Program on Student Attitudes and Understand-ing of Engineering (RTP, Strand 4)Mrs. Kristin M Brevik, North Dakota State College of Science Kristin Brevik is the STEM Outreach Specialist at North Dakota State College of Science. She received her M.S. from the University of North Dakota in Chemical Engineering and her B.S. from Minnesota State University Moorhead in Physics. Her research focus is in STEM education and project design.Dr. Kristi Jean, North Dakota State College of Science Dr. Kristi Jean is associate professor in the Applied Sciences and Technology at the North Dakota State
Paper ID #11879Development of a course in energy management for engineering and technol-ogy programsDr. Radian G Belu, University of Alaska Anchorage Dr. Radian Belu is Associate Professor within Electrical Engineering Department, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA. He is holding one PHD in power engineering and other one in physics. Before joining to University of Alaska Anchorage Dr. Belu hold faculty, research and industry positions at universi- ties and research institutes in Romania, Canada and United States. He also worked for several years in industry as project manager, senior engineer and consultant. He has
Engineering Equity Extension Project and served as a curriculum consultant on a National Science Foundation Gender Equity grant. She also co-authored the Engineering Connections to STEM document published by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. She is currently serving on a commit- tee with the National Academy of Engineering, Guiding the Implementation of K-12 Engineering.Dr. Jerome P. Lavelle, North Carolina State University Jerome P. Lavelle is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of engineering economic analysis, decision analysis, project management, leadership, engineering management and
and vocational pathways. Dr. Lande received his B.S in Engineering (Product Design), M.A. in Education (Learning, Design and Technology) and Ph.D. in Me- chanical Engineering (Design Thinking) from Stanford University. Dr. Lande is the PI on the NSF-funded project ”Should Makers Be the Engineers of the Future” and a co-PI on the NSF-funded project ”Might Young Makers Be the Engineers of the Future?”Dr. Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus SHAWN JORDAN, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of En- gineering at Arizona State University. He teaches context-centered electrical engineering and embedded systems design courses, and studies the use of context
result of their roles in various student societies and project teams with leadershiptraining, mentoring and coaching. This allows the students not only to learn new skills andknowledge but to apply and adapt these elements in a real work situation all within the securityof a safe learning environment.Reflections will be made by looking at historical feedback data and accounts from the foundingmembers of the program, who have been involved in all of its eight years. It is anticipated that anunderstanding will be gained into the students’ perceptions of the offered activities and thestudents’ commitment to their own personal leadership development. This case study willprovide a model for undergraduate institutions looking to provide similar