university and the State of South Carolina for their work. In honor of his support for engineering students who are changing the world, David was awarded the 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Excellence in Service Award and the 2014 Distinguished Service Award from Clemson University.Aaron S. Gordon, Clemson University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Enhancing Student’s Learning Experiences through Translational Research in Multidisciplinary Engineering EducationAbstractTo tackle the societal grand challenges of the 21st century, this article proposes that the conceptof translational research has valuable applications within a broad
Paper ID #14939The Bucknell Poetry Path App Experiment: A Collaboration Across CampusProf. Michael S Thompson, Bucknell University Prof. Thompson is an associate professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Bucknell University, in Lewisburg, PA. While his teaching responsibilities typically include digital design, computer engineering electives, and senior design, his focus in the classroom is to ignite passion in his students for engineering and design through his own enthusiasm, open-ended student-selected projects, and connecting engineering to the world around them. His research interests
Paper ID #15132Supporting Student Attainment and Management of Competencies in a Trans-disciplinary Degree ProgramProf. Amy S. Van Epps, Purdue University, West Lafayette Amy S. Van Epps is an associate professor of Library Science and Engineering Librarian at Purdue Uni- versity. She has extensive experience providing instruction for engineering and technology students, including Purdue’s first-year engineering program. Her research interests include finding effective meth- ods for integrating information literacy knowledge into the undergraduate engineering curriculum. Prof. Van Epps has a BA in engineering science from
, University of California, Santa CruzProf. Michael S. Isaacson, University of California, Santa Cruz Michael Isaacson is the Narinder Singh Kapany Professor emeritus, professor of electrical engineering, Director of the Center for Sustainable Energy and Power Systems (CenSEPS) and a member of the Sus- tainable Engineering and Ecological Design Program at UCSC. He is recipient of numerous awards including a Sloan Foundation Faculty Fellowship, the Burton Medal from the Microscopy Society of America, an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics and the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Microscopy Society of America. He is a Fellow of the AAAS and the MSA. He has been elected to the
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and use these videos as areference when preparing for their quizzes and exams. As a result, these videos were repeatedlyused every semester and students gave positive reviews as well.Table 1: Transition of the course from regular to online structure Spring 13 Fall 13 Spring 14 Fall 14 Spring 15 Summer 15 Fall 15Lecture in class in class in class in class in class online online/in classLab s ession in class in class in class in class in class online in classHelp s ession in person in person in person in person in person online in personSLAs no yes yes yes
., Fortenberry, N. L, Yoder, B., and Chavela Guerra, R. C. (2013). Facultydevelopment using virtual communities of practice, ASEE Conference, Atlanta.3. Shartrand, A. M., Gomez, R. L., and Weilerstein, P. (2012). Answering the call for innovation: three facultydevelopment models to enhance innovation and entrepreneurship education in engineering, ASEE AnnualConference, San Antonio.4. Henderson, C. and Dancy, M. (2011). Increasing the impact and diffusion of STEM education innovations;Engineering Education Innovation Forum, New Orleans, available online.5. Manohar, P. A., Acharya, S., Wu, P., Hansen M., Ansari, A. and Schilling, W. (2015). Case studies for enhancingstudent engagement and active learning in software V&V education, J. Education and
Paper ID #15385Systems Engineering and Capstone ProjectsDr. Fred J. Looft, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Prof. Looft earned his B..S, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of Michi- gan. After a brief period on industry, he joined the faculty of WPI 1n 1980 where he is now a professor in the ECE department and a founder of, and Academic Head of the Systems Engineering program. His interests include projects based education, curriculum development, international study abroad programs and mentoring, and autonomous robotic systems.. c American Society for Engineering
(PPR) Session.The reviews are presentations to their peers that includes students in both capstone sequencecourses. Students are requested to assess the team’s progress and recommend whether the projectshould continue to the next step or return to the previous step and address issues unveiled by thereview. See Figure 3.Figure 4. Weekly Robosub Testing Sessions4. Time LineThe first three years of these capstone projects were ran through the mechanical engineering(ME) department, and all students were required to meet the course requirements of the MEdepartment. In each of these years the students started from scratch and developed a newsubmarine without major input from faculty or previous design teams. See Figure 5. The firstyear (F’10-S’11
stories which they later implem ment as a viddeo game proototype usinggcomputerr programmiing. This interdisciplinarry approach seems to bee effective inn teachingcomputattional thinking concepts and skills to o non-compuuter majors. Moreover, sstudents are ableto make interdisciplinary connections between creative writing and computational thinking.There is an intriguing relationship between video game playing and interdisciplinary awareness.References1. Barnett, S. & Ceci, S (2002). When and where do we apply what we learn? A taxonomy for far transfer. Psychological Bulletin, 128(4), 612-637.2. Benander, R., & Lightner, R. (2005). Promoting transfer of learning: Connecting general education courses. The Journal of
Testing of Hypothesis step.References1. Carper, K. L. (Ed.). (2000). Forensic engineering. CRC Press.2. Delatte, N. J., & Rens, K. L. (2002). Forensics and case studies in civil engineering education: State of the art. Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, 16(3), 98-109.3. Schweitzer, N. J., & Saks, M. J. (2007). The CSI effect: Popular fiction about forensic science affects the public's expectations about real forensic science.Jurimetrics, 357-364.4. Chen, S. E., & Janardhanam, R. (2013). Forensic engineering education reform. Proceedings of the ICE- Forensic Engineering, 166(1), 9-16.5. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2004, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin
by a user with a web browser • Safe operational constraints in the event of network errorsSpecifications for the mobile telepresence robot’s design are based on the desire to make a robotsufficiently large to interact with humans, sufficiently small enough to navigate normally-sizedhallways, and that had a platform substantially sturdy and robust. The robot needed to be capableof driving forward at approximately 4.0 ft/s. The robot will also be expected to be able to turn in-place at 60 degrees per second and halt motion if impending collision is detected by the onboardsensors. This should allow for the robot to navigate through doorways and around corners whilestill being able to avoid a collision with both fixed and moving objects.IV
standard resultsSuppose a conduction electron in a quantum dot emits a photon with Calculation not statisticallyfrequency of 600 THz as it drops to the valence band. Determine its band significantgap in units of both J and eV. p=0.68Calculate the Reynolds number of a 100 nm diameter spherical fullerene Calculation not statistically(i.e., buckyball) falling by gravity at 1 m/s in air (density = 1.23 kg/m3, significantviscosity = 1.72 x 10–5 Pa-s). p=0.81Name and
., Bost, L. F., Hermann, C. D., Forest, C. R. (2012). A quantitative analysis of the effects of a multidisciplinary engineering capstone design course. Journal of Engineering Education, 101(4), 630-656. 6. Howe, S. and Wilbarger, J. (2006). 2005 National survey of engineering capstone design courses. In: 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. Chicago, Illinois. 7. Klukken, P. G., Parsons, J. R., Columbus, P. J. (1997). The creative experience in engineering practice: Implications for engineering education. Journal of Engineering Education, 86(2), 133-138. 8. Liston, C., Peterson, K., Ragan, V. (2008). Evaluating practices in informal science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education
degrees. However, professionals with health informatics degrees, and computerscience and engineering degrees each approach problems differently from their particularperspective(s), and resulting multidisciplinary teams can only provide short-term solutions. Thus,resulting data architectures and support infrastructures are both inefficient and incomplete in mostcases.This article provides a basic analysis of twelve existing health informatics undergraduate majorprograms, and proposes a more STEM-focused, engineering-oriented degree options tocomplement these programs to help narrow the skills gap. In particular, we argue that at leastsome of the health informatics professionals on-the-field should be providedopportunities—during their
integrated teaching and learning program,” International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 20–31, 1999. 9. D. W. Knight, L. E. Carlson, and J. F. Sullivan, “Improving engineering student retention through hands- on, team based, first-year design projects,” in ASEE 31st Conference on Research in Engineering Education, June 2007. 10. “Makerspaces,” ELI, 2013. 11. R. S. Kurti, D. Kurti, and L. Fleming, “Practical implementation of an educational makerspace: Part 3 of making an educational makerspace,” Teacher Librarian, 2014. 12. R. S. Kurti, D. Kurti, and L. Fleming, “The environment and tools of great educational makerspaces part 2 of making an educational makerspace
in undergraduate education and helpengineering educators better prepare students for cross-disciplinary collaborations withinengineering professional practice.Qualitative ResearchThis qualitative research paper follows the American Psychological Association (APA)guidelines for reporting qualitative data in that the paper is written in first person, active voice.1While readers trained in engineering or science research may find this awkward to read at first, itis an important aspect of qualitative research because the first person (i.e. the use of “I” or “we”)acknowledges the researcher(s)’ role in the study.2 Likewise, this differs from laboratoryresearch that typically is written in passive voice. The use of active voice is intended
TechnologyIndustry Association (CompTIA), which develops vendor-neutral professional certificationslinked with various Information Technology (IT) areas, recommends a seven-step process27for tackling computer/network related issues. Here, it has been adapted for the capstoneprocess as follows, with different project phases added in parenthesis, linking it with theEngineering is Elementary (EiE)28 design process: (1) Problem identification and information gathering: What, who, where, when, why, constrains, assumptions (“Ask” phase) (2) Formulate a theory to establish probable cause(s) of the problem (“Imagine” phase) (3) Identify suitable ways of testing the theory, and if not confirmed generate a new one (“Imagine” phase) (4
develop hybrid educational modules linked to engineering grandchallenges to improve science and math concepts in k-12 curriculum.References 1. Ward, J. S., & Fontecchio, A. (2012, October). Work in progress: The NAE Grand Challenges, high school curricula and Graduate student research. In Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2012 (pp. 1-2). IEEE. 2. Davis, V., Raju, P. K., Lakin, J., Davis, E. (2016). Nanotechnology Solutions to Engineering Grand Challenges. American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference. 3. Mote Jr, C. D., Dowling, D. A., & Zhou, J. (2016). The Power of an Idea: The International Impacts of the Grand Challenges for Engineering. Engineering, 2(1), 4-7 4. Thomas, J. W. (2000). A
particular, the facilitator emphasized the importanceof setting a clear team mission and goals, achieving team motivation through the careful balanceof each team member’s interests, and a team culture that promotes and encourages contributionfrom each team member.Students then participated in a modified version of the fort-building activity, which was intendedto be more structured and reflective of the knowledge students had just been provided. To thisend, the goal of the second build was modified to "maximizing the team score, objectivelymeasurable by a given metric". The metric to be maximized was (n + s)(h – 4) – y, where n, s, h,and y were defined as the total number of towers, the number of square towers, the height of thetallest tower (in
and industry mentors.Bibliography1. Miller, R. L. & Olds, B. M. A model curriculum for a capstone course in multidisciplinary engineering design. J. Eng. Educ. 83, 311–316 (1994).2. Hotaling, N., Fasse, B. B., Bost, L. F., Hermann, C. D. & Forest, C. R. A quantitative analysis of the effects of a multidisciplinary engineering capstone design course. J. Eng. Educ. 101, 630–656 (2012).3. Howe, S. & Wilbarger, J. National survey of engineering capstone design courses. in Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition 18–21 (2005).4. Lamancusa, J. S., Zayas, J. L., Soyster, A. L., Morell, L. & Jorgensen, J. 2006 Bernard M. Gordon Prize Lecture*: The Learning Factory: Industry-Partnered Active Learning. J
satisfaction 4.6/5) and believed that the camp helped them significantly in understandingtopics in nanotechnology (4.8/5). The most popular activity was the Scanning ElectronMicroscope when the students were amazed by how different things looked under highmagnifications.References 1. Prins, R. J., MacDonald, S., Leech, J., Brumfield, J., Ellis, M., Smith, L., and Shaeffer, J., Techfacturing: A Summer Day Camp Designed to Promote STEM Interest in Middle School Students through Exposure to Local Manufacturing Facilities, 2010 ASEE Southeast Section Conference. 2. Sala, A., Sitaram, P., and Spendlove, T., Stimulating an Interest in Engineering Through an ”Explore Engineering and Technology” Summer Camp for High School
) will be given during the lecture period(s). Other areas showed successes as well across the breadth of the ResCS topic areas. Fully functional prototypes either in additions to the Grid Game, real time data simulators, microcontrollers, etc. were completed in over half of the projects. Given only several weeks at the end of the semester to focus on projects, this is considered a notable result. Most projects Table I. A summary of student project accomplishments out of ten projects Full/Partial/Low mastery of expected outcomes. Fully Partially Not Satisfied Expected Outcome Satisfied Satisfied 10 0 0 Complete Development of Concept 6 4 0
,different work paces Patience, perseverance, tolerance Manage emotions Respect for other people´s perspective Balance academic and project Load Lack of an organized work schedule Develop new skills Apply technical knowledge effectively Communicate respectfully Oral communication 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% Percentage of students (%) Figure 8. Primary personal challenges students recognize when participating
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ECUs inearly 90’s through around 100 in today’s vehicles) and communication signals with complexinterrelation between them, requires more robust and time efficient intra-vehicle communication.This is especially important in automotive manufacturing as vehicles become increasingly relianton robust electronic networks and systems for improved reliability, anti-lock brake systems,steering, on-board navigation systems, and much more. Automotive networks eliminateunwieldy wiring harnesses, and increase vehicle safety and reliability, in addition to fast andefficient communication. Therefore, the education of engineers to work on these systems iscritical.Despite the fact that automotive networks such as Controller Area Networks (CAN
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