most useful for addressingchallenges that are complex, require many people, and in which there is a high degree ofuncertainty about the best approach.1 This set of conditions holds true far beyond productdevelopment.One such scenario is that of planning and implementation of organizational interventions –anenvironment in which “strategic planning” is often the tool of choice but one which is ineffectivein a networked (rather than hierarchical) context. An alternative approach described in this paperis “strategic doing”. As in agile product development, the approach uses iterative cycles ofimplementation, learning and reflection, and improvement, with a focus on rapidexperimentation and gradual scaling up of solutions. While not designed for
, distributed simulation, adaptive control systems, digital signal processing, and integrat- ing technology into engineering education. He has also been an industry consultant on in discrete event modelling for strategic planning. Professor Elizandro received the University Distinguished Faculty Award, Texas A&M, Commerce and College of Engineering Brown-Henderson Award at Tennessee Tech University. He served as Governor’s Representative for Highway Safety in Arkansas and member of the National Highway Safety Advisory Commission during the Jimmy Carter presidency. He is also a member of Tau Beta Pi, Alpha Pi Mu, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon honor societies. c American Society for Engineering
University Ibrahim H. Yeter is currently a PhD candidate in the Curriculum and Instruction program at the College of Education, and at the same time, he is pursuing his Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University. He is highly interested in conducting research within the Engineering Education frame- work. Mr. Yeter plans to graduate in December 2016 with both degrees and is looking forward to securing a teaching position within a research university and continuing his in-depth research on Engineering Ed- ucation. He is one of two scholarships awarded by NARST (National Association for Research in Science Teach- ing) to attend the ESERA (European Science Education Research Association) summer
(i.e., task interpretation, planning strategies, cognitive strategies,and monitoring and fix-up strategies). The findings suggest Team strategies require a high levelof student involvement and effort, while time strategies and resource management strategies areemployed to a lesser degree, on average. Small differences were seen between male and femalestudents in average strategy expression. Students may be benefitted by interventions designed toimprove self-regulation for specific team management strategies employed by engineeringstudents in relation to project management activities. Needed improvements touching on variousstrategic actions, as well as monitoring and fix-up strategies, are described in this paper.Keywords: self-regulation
eighteenundergraduate students that hail from different disciplines, we are currently in the beginningstages of implementing a fully-functional maker space in the primary library for undergraduates.Our planning was and is strongly informed by the Stanford d.school method of design thinkingconsisting of five fundamental steps of: empathizing, defining, ideation, prototyping, and testing.Using this method as a framework, we will describe our experiences with the development,design, and implementation of a student-led makerspace. Given that it is rare for students on ourcampus to take on a task as seemingly large as developing a makerspace, we feel it is necessaryto highlight the resources and infrastructure needed in terms of people, facilities, and funding
Paper ID #14633Enhancing Verification and Validation Education Using Active Learning ToolsDeveloped through an Academia-Industry PartnershipDr. Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University Acharya joined Robert Morris University in Spring 2005 after serving 15 years in the Software Indus- try. His teaching involvement and research interest are in the area of Software Engineering education, Software Verification & Validation, Data Mining, Neural Networks, and Enterprise Resource Planning. He also has interest in Learning Objectives based Education Material Design and Development. Acharya is a co-author of ”Discrete
ofcollaborative research programs. Unfortunately, adjuncts are marginalized by the academicsystems in place today; and their contributions to the academic process are undervalued. Next,the paper reports on the success story of an adjunct, a practitioner with good credentials, who“teamed-up” with a “full-time” faculty, in an attempt to bring the practice to 4thyear students in ageotechnical/ foundation engineering class. The success achieved in meeting course objectives,was attributed, in large measure, to proper planning and coordination that preceded coursedelivery. Plus, the willingness, experience and abilities of the adjunct in addressing the practicein the locale. The positive outcome of this experience has encouraged other faculty members tosearch
). Through the implementation of SHRP 2 products, it is expected that the transportationcommunity will find more efficient solutions to strengthen the Nation’s highway system. In order to increase awareness of the SHRP 2 research products, the agency hasestablished the SHRP 2 Education Connection program. This program focuses on incorporatingSHRP 2 products into college-level lesson plans and curricula. This program also advances theefforts of bringing state of the art to current state of the practice and extending the benefits ofSHRP 2 products to the next generation of transportation professionals. However, in order tosuccessfully incorporate SHRP 2 products into academia, the agency must collaborate withuniversities. Therefore
improvement.The online course was designed with three principle phases for the students and instructors topromote student achievement of the ten professional skills: 1. Planning involving the student, instructor, and employer, to achieve the professional competencies during the industry experience 2. Brief online tutorials with short exercises for each of the ten professional skills that cycle through Kolb’s experiential learning stages: Experience, Reflection, Generalization, and Experimentation5 3. Regular assessment activities throughout the term with guidance and timely feedback from the instructor and ultimately the employerA significant feature of the online course draws upon various aspects of project management forthe
understanding and meetingthe customer’s, as well as all relevant interested parties, requirements, the need to considerprocesses in terms of added value, obtaining results of process performance and effectiveness,and continual improvement of processes based on objective measurement. Figure 1 shows agraphic from the ISO 9001-2015 Standards document illustrating one example of a continuousimprovement process.Figure 1. ISO 9001-2015 Continuous Improvement Process12This graphic includes the Shewart Cycle, also known as “Plan-Do-Check-Act” (PDCA), whichcan be applied to many processes. PDCA 11 can be described as follows. Plan: establish the objectives and processes necessary to deliver results in accordance with customer requirements and the
private sectors to implement sustainability as part of building plan- ning, design, construction, and operations. As a LEED Accredited Professional, Annie brings the latest in green building methods, technologies, and best practices to the classroom. Her specific areas of interest include metrics of sustainability for built facilities, green building materials and systems, cost modeling to support sustainability implementation, and in situ performance of sustainable facility technologies.Dr. Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University Faruk Yildiz is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering Technology at Sam Houston State Uni- versity. His primary teaching areas are in Electronics, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and
Paper ID #14848A Preliminary Study on Upper-Level Building Information Modeling Educa-tion for Construction Management StudentsDr. Namhun Lee, Central Connecticut State University Dr. Namhun Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Manufacturing and Construction Manage- ment at Central Connecticut State University, where he has been teaching Construction Graphics/Quantity Take-Off, CAD & BIM Tools for Construction, Building Construction Systems, Building Construction Estimating, Heavy/Highway Construction Estimating, Construction Planning, and Construction Project Management. Dr. Lee’s main research areas
building to a design challenge in which studentsexperience the arc of the engineering design process and develop a technology. The efficacystudy included four units: • An Alarming Idea: Designing Alarm Circuits: This unit introduces students to the field of electrical engineering as they incorporate their understandings of electricity to design alarm circuits. During the design challenge, groups are tasked with developing a circuit that triggers an alarm when a trough for feeding a baby lamb is empty. Students plan a circuit design, test it themselves, and develop a schematic diagram. They pass it to another group in the class to construct and test. Based on the results, they improve their design10
that can beintegrated to the curriculum design and review process. We describe the adaptation of a user-based collaborative filtering recommender systems algorithm to analyze the online data and toconvert the data into relevant information that can be used as input to the process. Anundergraduate industrial engineering Operations Planning and Control course case study wasused to illustrate the adaptation of the algorithm. Some of the topics taught in the course weresearched on websites that advertise jobs and tallied. A professor who is familiar with the topicsalso provided expert judgments with regard to the relevance of the topics to industry needs. Bothdata sets were used as inputs to the algorithm. The experimental results show that some
learners is an often-stated goal of higher education institutions andprofessional organizations. The ability to develop and master a specific body of knowledge is acommon attribute of both academia (peer-review discipline activities) and professions. Thecontribution of lifelong learners is paramount to the success of these institutions. The UnitedStates Military Academy at West Point presents a unique opportunity to blend the developmentof lifelong learning in our graduates in both their identity as an undergraduate engineeringstudent and a member of the profession of arms. The West Point Strategic Plan (2015-2021)explicitly identifies that the development of professional engineers and Army Officers is notmutually exclusive. The two goals are
teamwork, believes in education as a process for achieving life-long learning rather than as a purely aca- demic pursuit. He currently works on maintaining, upgrading and designing the classroom of the future. Mr. Perez is inspired because he enjoys working with people and technology in the same environment.Dr. Virgilio Ernesto Gonzalez, University of Texas - El Paso Virgilio Gonzalez, Associate Chair and Clinical Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engi- neering at The University of Texas at El Paso, started his first appointment at UTEP in 2001. He received the UT System Board of Regents Outstanding Teaching Award in 2012. From 1996 to 2001 he was the Technology Planning manager for AT&T-Alestra in Mexico
curricula, surveying 950 employers to determine their educationand training needs in the photonics area, delivering outreach events to 8000+ K-12 studentsinvolving hands-on exploration of lasers and optics, providing professional development tofaculty, participating in training and subsequently developing a recruiting and retention plan forfemales and minorities into the photonics technology field, and giving presentations about bestpractices in photonics technician education at several conferences. Next steps include setting upa laser assisted manufacturing laboratory at Indian Hills Community College and developing theassociated curriculum to serve as a model for colleges in the Midwest interested in teaching thisadvanced manufacturing technology
projects give little consideration to the cognitive and behavioralprocesses such as team building, clarifying goals and expectations, planning, communication,consensus building and conflict resolution; which hold the key to successful collaboration.5,6 Arecent review of research on engineering student teams suggests that our understanding of howbest to cultivate collaboration amongst remote teams of students is largely underdeveloped7.Others have noted an opportunity to capitalize on much of the life-long learning that can occurthrough team dynamics and interaction.6Web-based scaffolds that include technologies and team activities help enhance virtual teamcollaboration by providing support for online collaboration. A team scaffold is a stable
Paper ID #15568Enhancing Industrial and Systems Engineering Education through Academic-Industry AlliancesDr. Mark Angolia, East Carolina University Mark Angolia, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator for the Industrial Distribution and Logistics degree program in the College of Engineering and Technology at East Carolina University (ECU). Prior to entering academia in 2005, he held industrial positions in engineering, manufacturing, quality, materials, and operations management for manufacturing companies within the automotive sup- ply chain. Dr. Angolia’s teaching focuses on Enterprise Resource Planning
mission and goals. Most recently her responsibilities included serving on the PRR steering committee for Standards 7 & 14 and the Co-Chair for Standard 14, working as a lead on ABET accreditation, chairing the general education committee for the college, and overseeing all assessments and institutional effectiveness plans. At the 2015 Drexel University assessment confer- ence: Assessment for Student Success - Building Academic Innovation & Renewal, Kathryn authored and conducted the presentation, Utilizing & Linking Academic Assessment Outcomes to Strategic Planning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A Student Outcomes Assessment Methodology for Technology
and then students were tasked with further refining and re-designingtheir safe shelters. The students were given three additional weeks to refine and complete afinalized plan and professional scaled model. At project close, the students presented theirproposed designs for the safe shelter project to the professor and the community partner. Thecommunity partner offered valuable insight as to the most appropriate solution, and offeredsuggestions for further refinement before the project could be constructed. At the semester’send, the community partner chose which design best embodied the design intent, and onestudent’s design was chosen, see Figure 1. This design was the springboard to further explorationand study. Figure 1
) have been created in a flexible manner that supports theiradaption to multiple venues and grade levels. The design presented here simplifies the lessoncreation process while supporting a broad dissemination to pre-college teachers and students.The importance of this effort is reflected in the research findings that many young students donot know what engineers do.3 The proposed approach supports faculty and graduate students inmaximizing the potential impact of their outreach efforts, reaching a broader population of youngstudents. Two specific lesson plans are presented, Mining Coal and Bridge Building. These lessonswere selected because they illustrate flexibility in design and our initial efforts at embeddingsuch flexibility
reach solutions more efficiently and effectively and to continuelearning from their experiences [5]. More specifically, metacognition improves ones awarenessand regulation of how they think – identifying and defining problems and sub-problems, howwell specific known strategies are matched to a particular problem, planning and monitoring asolution process, and evaluating the process and results. These same skills improve engineeringstudent learning in present educational contexts and are connected to lifelong learning. Inpreparing to become practicing engineers, i.e., messy problem solvers, engineering students willbenefit greatly from explicit development of their metacognitive skills – now and throughouttheir lives.The purpose of this project
can be applied in the workplace has been identifiedas a need by industry and accreditation bodies. Institutions are seeking to properly meet theseneeds, while also balancing decades of history with traditional courses. Courses that teachbusiness-type practices and fundamentals help fill key a necessity for the “engineer of thefuture.” In response, the researchers developed a new course over two semesters that providesinstruction on the owners’ role in developing request for proposals (RFP), evaluating proposals,conducting project pre-planning, and identifying project performance indicators. The researchersused applied instructional design concepts from the field of education in creating the course,focusing on the objectives and related
, 2016 A Case for Incorporating Preconstruction Cost Estimating in Construction Engineering and Management ProgramsThe need to effectively manage costs during the construction phase of a project to meet budgetconstraints is widely understood by both practitioners and academics. Most, if not all,Construction Engineering and Management undergraduate and graduate programs require thatstudents complete construction cost estimating courses as part of their core curriculum.However, the value of estimating the owner’s planning, design, and procurement costs during thepreconstruction period is not typically included in the Construction Engineering andManagement curriculum. Preconstruction costs are usually defined as all work required
skills.IntroductionOperations management refers to the systematic design, direction, and control of processes thattransform inputs into services and product for internal, as well as external customers. It is a vitaltopic that every engineering management student needs to understand because it is at the heart ofthe creation of wealth for business and the improvement in the living standard of citizens of allcountries1. Operations Management has been listed as a core course in the management scienceand engineering programs all around the world3. This course usually covers broad areas such asprocess analysis, quality and performance, capacity planning, supply chain, inventorymanagement, forecasting, operations planning and scheduling, and resource planning etc., whichare
skills are essential for career development. However, in typicaluniversity settings, undergraduate students take different courses and work on different projects indifferent teams each semester. As a result, students lack opportunities to work on multi-yearprojects and develop the skills essential for long-term planning. To remedy this situation, ourdepartment has created elective courses that allow students from all years (first-year students tograduate students) to work on research projects under the supervision of faculty members and thementorship of senior graduate students. These projects provide the opportunities for students tolearn many skills essential in workplace, such as (1) understanding how projects are designed andmanaged; (2
recruitmore female students to the STEM fields by showing them the emerging and multidisciplinaryaspects.Our collaboration with the local high school started in Fall 2014 by offering their students a year-long robotics workshop. Our objective is to utilize the robotics workshop to introduce STEMconcepts to high school students, and encourage them to be interested in an engineering andscience career. A sequence of workshop topics were given to introduce the fundamentals ofrobotics science and the basic components of a robotics system, including hardware, software,programming, sensors, and control. The students would gain intensive experience working withthe robots. In addition to introducing the fundamentals, we planned to prepare the students withthe
makerswith very useful and important information in planning and implementation of manyengineering practices or taking some proactive engineering measures. In the followingsections, we will use coastal shoreline erosion, geotechnical/foundation engineering asexamples to stress the importance of Google Earth in the mankind’s engineering workand planning efforts.COASTAL/SHORELINE EROSIONShorelines and especially sea or great lakes beaches provide many recreation, stormprotection and attractive environment for human natural habitat. They are veryeconomically attractive magnets where more than 50 percent of Americans prefer to livewithin 50 miles of the coast/shorelines. Boruff et al. (2005) reported the erosion hazardvulnerability of US coastal
employer feedback surveys (not included in this document due to spacelimitations). This broad area includes topics such as programming languages, basic debugging,problem solving, algorithms, mathematical skills (rated highly), standards, and root causeanalysis.The survey confirmed to the department that the current inclusion of these topics is importantand we should not reduce these at the cost of other topics. In our follow up work we took care toensure that these topics continued to be a strong part of our degree plan.A second group of topics that were ranked closely together could be collected under the broadcategory of “Software Design, construction, and testing”. Upon closer examination of ourdegree plan, and with consultation with our