(DAT: SR), the Mental Cutting Test(MCT), the Mental Rotations Test (MRT), the Revised Minnesota Paper Form Board Test, andthe Purdue Spatial Visualizations Test: Rotations (PSVT:R) 6-10. In studying the capacity ofengineering students for performing spatial visualization, the PSVT:R is often preferred, withone rationale being that it includes objects of complex geometries (curved surfaces, etc.) ratherthan simple structures including only cubes 11, 12. The ENGAGE Engineering project has madespatial visualization skills, as assessed by the PSVT:R, a principal focus of their efforts toenhance retention and diversity of engineering students, based on considerable work donepreviously at Michigan Technological University (MTU) 1, 2. The ENGAGE
resultof being non-traditional students. For example, most of the students do not have available time tospend in the lab performing hands-on learning, or in the library performing more in-depth study.They have difficulty finding time in their schedule to come together as a group and work ongroup projects. Basically, the students surveyed indicated that they do not take advantage offacilities and resources BCTC provides them. As a result, some students fail to pass their classes.Those who do pass do not do learn as much as they could because of limited and inefficent timespent with course material. Thus, finacial barriers decrease retention and lowers the quality ofeducation a student receives
what skills those in-demand jobsrequire; and (3) Hard-working Americans, whether studying, looking for work, or wanting bettercareer paths, often aren’t sure what education to pursue and whether jobs will be waiting whenthey finish.1 The Center for Aviation and Automotive Technology Education using Virtual E-Schools (CA2VES) is an innovative regional center aiming to address these three majorproblems, and many additional challenges that have plagued workforce development projects. The Center for Aviation and Automotive Technology Education using Virtual E-Schools 2(CA VES), located at Clemson University in South Carolina, serves as a state, regional, andnational resource for 2-year college e-learning research, professional
Paper ID #12790Work in Progress: Mini Projects - Using News Articles to Promote LifelongLearning and Expose Students to Engineering BreadthDr. Chris Geiger, Florida Gulf Coast University Chris Geiger is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Bioengineering in the U.A.Whitaker College of Engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University. He received his M.S and Ph.D.degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1999 and 2003, respectively,and his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1996.Prof. James D. Sweeney, Oregon State University JAMES D. SWEENEY is Professor and Head
solving. His research interests particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU.Prof. Audrey Briggs Champagne, University at Albany. State University of New York Champagne is Professor Emerita at the University at Albany, SUNY where she was Professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice in the School of Education and in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences. Champagne is a fellow of the American
Paper ID #13357Ideologies of depoliticization in engineering education: A Mediated DiscourseAnalysis of student presentations in a first year projects courseKevin O’Connor, University of Colorado Boulder Kevin O’Connor is assistant professor of Educational Psychology and Learning Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. His scholarship focuses on human action, communication, and learning as socio- culturally organized phenomena. A major strand of his research explores the varied trajectories taken by students as they attempt to enter professional disciplines such as engineering, and focuses on the dilem- mas
Paper ID #11739Impacts of Service-Learning Projects on the Technical and Professional En-gineering Confidence of First Year Engineering StudentsDr. Matthew Siniawski, Loyola Marymount University Dr. Matthew T. Siniawski is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Loyola Marymount University. He has advised over 40 different senior capstone project design teams since 2004, and is particularly interested in the design of assistive devices for children with disabilities. He is a an active proponent of service-learning and is interested in understanding how such experiences impact the technical
. Page 26.902.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Implementation of a Case Study in an Engineering Science Course: A Pilot Project for Increasing Experiential LearningAbstractIt is valuable for instructors to provide real-world connections in their curricula so thatengineering students can appreciate and practice integration and application of knowledge. Thisis essential in both engineering science and design. A variety of mechanisms have been used toaccomplish this, including guest speakers, field trips and company-sourced design projects.Another useful mechanism to achieve this objective is the case study.For this reason, a case study was developed for a second year mechanical
Paper ID #13336A reflection on the process of selecting, developing, and launching a new de-sign project in a large-scale introduction to engineering design courseMr. Kevin Calabro, University of Maryland, College Park Kevin Calabro is Keystone Instructor and Associate Director in the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland.Dr. Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park Ayush Gupta is Research Assistant Professor in Physics and Keystone Instructor in the A. J. Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. Broadly speaking he is interested in modeling learning and reasoning processes
Paper ID #12215A Student Design, Develop, Test & Deploy Project: Perseus II - Developmentof an Unmanned Marine System for an Underwater Unexploded OrdnanceMissionMr. Michael DeLorme, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES) Mr. Michael DeLorme Mr. DeLorme has 11 years of professional experience as a Research Asso- ciate/Engineer at Stevens; Davidson Laboratory, DHS National Center for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce (CSR), and Systems Engineering Research Center. Research concentrations include exper- imental marine hydrodynamics, unmanned marine vehicles, the implementation of hydro-acoustics for the detection of
Paper ID #12509Adaption and evolution of a first year design project week course-From Ger-many to the United States to MongoliaDr. Rebecca Jo Pinkelman, Technische Universit¨at Darmstadt Rebecca J. Pinkelman graduated from Chadron State College with a B.S. in Chemistry and Biology in 2008. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 2010 and 2014, respectively. She is currently a post-doctoral research scientist in the Mechanical and Process Engineering Department at the Technische Universit¨at Darmstadt.Mr. Malte Awolin, Center for Educational Development at
(MAC) protocols and their application in Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) communications and she is interested also in collision avoidance systems design and their use in the V2V communications. In addition to the wireless research, Dr. Alsbou is collaborating with the medical imaging group at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center on research projects in medical imaging. The focus of these projects is on developing new approaches to reduce image and motion artifacts in helical, axial and cone-beam CT imaging used in diagnostic imaging and radiotherapy. Dr. Alsbou has publications in the ASEE National Conference and attended multiple KEEN workshops, she uses ACL, PBL and EML in her classes. She has publications
capstone design project is embraced by schools from Orono, Maine to San Diego,CA and many, many in between [5, 6]. The opportunity to practice project managementprinciples, put theory into practice, and accomplish something of significance serves to enrichand motivate. Naturally this is no less true in the area of Electrical, Computer, Communications,and Telecommunications Engineering education.This paper describes such a capstone project as conducted at the United States Coast GuardAcademy (CGA) on Secure IPv6 Design. At this time education in networking at the CGA isfocused almost entirely Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) at the Internet layer. Through thisyear-long project, two senior students (known as cadets at CGA) successfully extended
Paper ID #11163Looking back: A Student Review and History of AerosPACE – a Multi-University, Multi-Disciplinary, Distributed, Industry-University Capstone ProjectMrs. Larissa Cannon, Brigham Young University Larissa Cannon participated in AerosPACE for her Senior Capstone project. She has since graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University and is currently working in the aerospace industry. Her undergraduate experience included three internships at Pratt & Whitney and one internship at ATK. She is the co-author of two published papers and has four years experience of
Paper ID #13520MAKER: Applications in Do-It-Together, Environmental Monitoring Tech-nologies - Student Projects from an Interdisciplinary, Flipped, Service Learn-ing, Makerspace CourseDr. Charles M Schweik, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Charles M. Schweik is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Conservation and the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. Schweik is the author of Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software Commons (MIT Press, 2012) that examines collaborative principles in open source software projects.Dr. Paula Rees
Paper ID #13973Using Project-Based, Experiential, and Service Learning in a Freshman Writ-ing Intensive Seminar for Building Design and Technical Writing Skills (Workin Progress)Dr. Bilal Ghosn, Rice University Dr. Bilal Ghosn is a lecture in the Department of Bioengineering at Rice University. A native of Louisiana, he received his doctoral degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2009 with his doctoral research in the areas of drug delivery, biomaterials and diagnostics. He then spent 4 years as a post-doctoral fellow in the department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington where
Paper ID #12211Online-BSEE (Online Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering): A Multi-University Collaboration Project in Partnership with Open SUNYProf. Wendy K Tang, Stony Brook University Wendy Tang is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Stony Brook University. She received her B.S., M.S. and Ph. D in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester. Her current research interests are in Wireless Sensor Networks, Communication Networks and Graph Theory Applications. She and her colleagues are the recipients of two best paper awards in 1997 and 1998. She is also
Paper ID #12295Opening the Classroom to the Civil Engineering Profession through Web-based Class Projects: Assessment of Student LearningWilliam Greenwood, University of Michigan William Greenwood is a doctoral student in Civil Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environ- mental Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research interests in geotechnical earthquake engineering include post-disaster site reconnaissance, geophysical methods for site investigation, and dy- namic properties of waste materials. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Vermont in 2013.Prof. Dimitrios Zekkos
Paper ID #11490Project-based learning in a high school pre-engineering program: Findingson student achievement (RTP, Strand 3)Todd France, University of Colorado Boulder Todd France is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is part of the Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education Program and helps teach and develop curriculum at a high school STEM academy. His research focuses on pre-engineering education and project-based learning. Page 26.1265.1 c American Society for
Paper ID #11491Project-based learning in a high school pre-engineering program: Findingson student behavior (RTP, Strand 3)Todd France, University of Colorado, Boulder Todd France is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is part of the Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education Program and helps teach and develop curriculum at a high school STEM academy. His research focuses on pre-engineering education and project-based learning. Page 26.1266.1 c American Society for
Paper ID #11686Student Experiences in a Structural Engineering Course: Responses of Viola-tion and Grief When a Novice Instructor Implements Project-Based LearningMs. Jillian Seniuk Cicek, University of Manitoba Jillian Seniuk Cicek is a PhD Candidate in Engineering Education in the Department of Biosystems En- gineering, Faculty of Engineering at the University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg, Canada. She is a research assistant for the Centre for Engineering Professional Practice and Engineering Education in the Faculty of Engineering. Her research areas include outcomes-based teaching and assessment, and student-centered
Paper ID #11404Assessment of Communication, Teamwork, and Engineering Motivation inInter-Disciplinary Projects Implemented in an Introduction to EngineeringCourseDr. Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University Haolin Zhu is a faculty lecturer in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State Univer- sity. She received her Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics from Cornell University. Currently she focuses on the freshmen engineering program, as well as designing and teaching mechanical engineering courses.Dr. Ryan J Meuth, Arizona State University Dr. Ryan Meuth is a Freshmen Engineering Lecturer in the Fulton Schools of Engineering, and
projects that include the layout optimization for wind farms, array design for novel wave energy conversion devices, optimization of collaborative power systems, the sustainable redesign of commuting bicycles, and the quantification of sustainability during the early de- sign phase. Dr. DuPont completed her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2013 in the Integrated Design Innovation Group, and her projects are currently funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Energy Technology Laboratory, Oregon State University, and Oregon BEST/Bonneville Power Association.Dr. Christopher Hoyle, Oregon State University Dr. Christopher Hoyle is currently Assistant Professor and Arthur Hitsman
of complex, multi-disciplinary, systems engineering focused student de- sign and development projects. Page 26.1509.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 “Work-in-Progress:” The Capstone Marketplace: An Online Tool for Matching Capstone Design Students to Sponsors with Challenging ProblemsThe Capstone Marketplace is an online tool developed and maintained to match multi-disciplinary student teams with challenging engineering projects. While web based tools exist formatching students to projects at individual institutions, the Capstone
. Page 26.831.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015Hands-On Active Learning via Development of FPGA-based Intelligent Microwave Oven Controller Page 26.831.2 Hands-On Active Learning via Development of FPGA-based Intelligent Microwave Oven Controller1. IntroductionDesign project in laboratory development course plays an important role in electricalengineering education to connect theory and hands-on skills for student learning. In thispaper, a team-based design project with regard to FPGA-based intelligent microwave ovencontroller is presented for its development of learning modules and its pedagogy. The
document and assess how wehave integrated design in all four years of a traditional mechanical engineering program.Overview of the Design Process Engineering projects may be broken into several distinct phases, although in reality, the phasesoverlap or may be even be entirely different from that presented here. Design is rarely a linearprocess, it is iterative in nature. Each design project is unique, there is no one process to followfor design. In general, the design process can be described as: • Define the problem (which includes establishing objectives and criteria, and developing a plan), • synthesize math, science and engineering knowledge to develop alternatives, • evaluate the alternatives (through testing, analysis
circuit analysis arecovered along with instrumentation topics. The laboratory portion of the course reinforces the conceptslearned in lecture and assignments while building skills in circuit prototyping and measurement. Labexercises have traditionally been a time when students follow a given procedure, collect data, andinterpret the data. The highly structured experience often leads to students focusing on the procedureand not fully thinking through the concepts being covered. To encourage a deeper understanding ofcourse concepts and how they translate to physical systems, two open-ended design projects wereoffered in place of structured labs in the most recent offering the circuits and instrumentation course.The design projects are undirected
- versity of Pittsburgh, Freshman Engineering, 126 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261; 412-624-6474. [budny@pitt.edu]Mr. Sina ArjmandDr. David V.P. Sanchez, University of Pittsburgh Page 26.156.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 ADDING AN INTERNATIONAL SENIOR DESIGN COMPONENT INTO THE CIVIL CURRICULUMAbstractInternational exposure as well as project-based service learning for undergraduate students hasgained much attention for their positive impact on students. Additionally, ABET engineeringcriteria require international exposure for all undergraduates. As
, and integrating digital applications into the design process. He is skilled with a variety of digital modeling tools including Revit, Rhino 3D, Grasshopper, 3DS Max Design, and AutoCAD Architecture. In addition to university teaching he is an Autodesk Certified Revit Professional and provides training and consulting services. Page 26.1660.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Using BIM to support Habitat for Humanity: A case studyAbstract This paper documents a graduate level research project intended to enable students togain experience with Building
resources. In this program, senior-level engineering courses trainundergraduate and graduate students to design and deploy ecologically-designed wastewatertreatment plants with renewable energy systems in collaboration with faculty-led research teamsand community participants. These courses are strategically designed to be training andrecruitment tools to help prepare the local student chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB)for the project, and to provide students at all levels with challenging, immersive, hands-onexperiences that augment their research and education in sustainability.This work is significant because it is one of the first international, multi-disciplinary programs inSustainable Engineering in North America, and utilizes a