practices, they need opportunities to developownership of these practices by coming up with their own ways to solve problems, posing theirown questions, and developing their own conclusions [22]. In engineering, in particular, theyneed opportunities to have ownership over the design problem; although posed by a customer orclient, design problems are framed by the designer [23], leading to a sense of agency [24] andownership [25].Interest can drive a sense of ownership over learning [26], which in turn can foster a mastery-oriented stance on learning [27] and help students make decisions about their futures [28]. Oneapproach to support ownership development is through the use of project-based instruction [29];creating artifacts that reflect learning
, he was a recipient of the Texas Tech University President’s Excellence in Diversity & Equity award in 2014 and was the only graduate student to have received the award, which was granted based on outstanding activities and projects that contribute to a better understanding of equity and diversity issues within Engineering Education. Additional projects involvement include: Engineering is Elementary (EiE) Project; Computational Think- ing/Pedagogy Project; Rocket Project of SystemsGo; World MOON Project; East Lubbock Promise Neighborhood (ELPN) Project; and Robotics. Since 2013 he has served as the president of the Nu Sigma chapter of Kappa Delta Pi: International Honor Society in Education and was the founding
are widely used in theAEC industry, the ability to interpret them mostly depends on students’ prior experience.Students have to mentally visualize the components of a structure from the lines and symbols indifferent drawings and combine them into a virtual structure. CM students with little or noprevious experience often face challenges and have to spend more time interpreting thedrawings22.BIM can assist CM students to understand the complexity of construction projects in both theprocess and product7, 35. CM students also have the expectations of being equipped with theemerging technologies used in the AEC industry. BIM is the latest and most essential paradigmthat CM students are aware of and are looking forward to learning32. However, BIM
through coaching, subject-specific courses to increase content knowledge coupled with pedagogical content knowledge, and collaborative professional leaning communities (PLCs) in which teachers share best practices and undertake peer visits. 3. The after-school component, run by the schools’ existing after-school provider, builds an understanding of the engineering design process through hands-on explorations. Students engage in an after-school program that focuses on long- term, problem-based, student-directed projects that are relevant to their own lives and communities. STEM faculty and students from Johns Hopkins University help guide the development of the student-driven projects
powersystems comparable to that of the internal combustion engine, saving the industry $20B per yearand reducing yearly CO2 emissions by 110 MMT. Considering this benefit, industries arelooking for methods to reduce overall energy consumption and maximize the sustainability ofproducts and processes. Achieving this goal is a complex and gradual process and will require adifferent design methodology. Both industry and government bodies have made energy savingand energy efficiency a priority in all future operations. In academia, this awareness is leading tovarious curriculum reform. The National Science Foundation funded various projects to updateengineering curricula for the comprehensive teaching of energy in different undergraduateprograms. The NSF
secondary and under- graduate students, developed the TESS (Teaching Engineering Self-efficacy Scale) for K-12 teachers, and rescaled the SASI (Student Attitudinal Success Inventory) for engineering students. As a program evaluator, she evaluated the effects of teacher professional development (TPD) programs on elementary teachers’ attitudes toward engineering and students’ STEM knowledge through a NSF DRK-12 project. As an institutional data analyst, she is investigating engineering students’ diverse pathways to their suc- cess.Dr. P.K. Imbrie, Texas A&M University P.K. Imbrie is the Deputy Director for the Institute of Engineering Education and Innovation and Asso- ciate Professor in the College of Engineering
, there is a wave of energy focused onlearning-by-doing and human-centered design. From the business and engineering domains,students are being introduced to the concepts of Lean and Agile to inspire new ways ofaccomplishing collaborative, team oriented projects that require rapid iteration towards solutionsfor open-ended problems. A significant portion of STEM Faculty spends a great deal of timeand energy incorporating these concepts into effective pedagogy applied to undergraduateengineering education. Often, these same faculty members are eagerly engaged in advancing theentrepreneurial learning ecosystem in their institutions. In engineering and other STEMprograms, we apply innovation and entrepreneurship as the catalysts used to help guide
actions (student activities to improve learning without any evaluation grades,namely, 1.Student support; 2.Technical Staff; 3.Video classes, and 4. Teaching service) anddirect learning actions (student activities to improve learning with evaluation grade, namely, 5.Online exercises; 6. Pre-Exam; 7. Laboratory reports; 8. Active Learning Projects; 9. LaboratorySeminars, and 10. Preparatory Discussion Laboratory Questions).Keywords: Physics, Engineering Education, Active LearningIntroductionLearning is a process. The assessment of learning is a powerful diagnosis that allows teachers toredirect their efforts towards assisting the weaknesses of the learning process as presented bystudents. This paper discusses 10 ways to improve learning Physics as
engineering disciplines. It was lecture only,without any team-based projects or hands-on labs. In 1995, Intro 160 was introduced and isdescribed as a course that provides incoming freshman with an overview of engineering based ona "hands-on" experience with a client-centered engineering design project. Intro 160 covers thesame topics as Intro 101 in a lecture format, but also includes this hands-on lab. Due to itspopularity, the course has expanded to serve almost one thousand students per year. The classmeets twice a week in lecture format where the design process is taught and significant societalissues are discussed, such as: clean water, sustainability, energy, health care, and engineeringethics. The class also meets once per week for three hours
Paper ID #14584A Building-Block Approach to Industrial Controls Laboratories Using Pro-grammable Logic ControllersProf. Robert J. Durkin, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis Mr. Durkin teaches courses in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Technology; including the capstone design and independent study projects. He serves as a Faculty Senator and earned the 2013 Outstanding Teacher Award. He has over 25 years of engineering and manufacturing experience including; design, project management, and various engineering, research and manufacturing leadership roles. He has been awarded two US patents. He is an
their academic and industrial training and meeting this need is the objective ofthis paper. Based on this perspective, we will examine the full range of engineeringfundamentals (i.e., ethics, problem solving, modeling, analysis, design, economics andcommunications) in an effort to layout an approach that prepares first-year students fortheir future careers in a manner that is consistent with their current knowledge andexperience (i.e. high school math and science). That is, in a general sense engineeringreduces to either engineering analysis or engineering design both of which rely onproblem solving and modeling. Engineering economics provides a means to consistentlyevaluate the performance of an engineering project by using optimization
projectthan the teams in the freshman course, indicating the need of a transition to engage students indesign decision making.Project based learning (PBL), which strongly motivates students, is a well-known pedagogicalapproach.6 In PBL, open-ended problems are provided in courses. As there are multiple feasiblesolutions, students need to evaluate each option, make decisions, and deliver a solution. Thisprocess guides students to use their analytical skills to solve real problems. Previous endeavorsinclude incorporating an open-ended project (delivering a prototype at the end of the semester),into a junior level course to prepare students for the capstone project.7 The outcomes showed thatstudents appreciated this experience with positive feedback
focusing his research in engineering design, educational tech- nologies, and engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Implementation of a Mobile Makerspace in a K-8 School - Work in ProgressThis paper describes a work in progress aspect of the Novel Engineering research project at TuftsUniversity, a maker cart developed for participant support. This research project provides anapproach for teachers to integrate engineering into their curriculum with greater ease. In thisprogram, students develop functional solutions to problems they’ve identified from variousliterary sources and then develop their solutions for, typically using found
Paper ID #14951Inclusion of Entrepreneurially Minded Learning (EML) Modules in 2nd-Year Core Engineering CoursesDr. Jennifer A. Mallory, Western New England University Dr. Mallory joined Western New England University after earning her Ph.D. from Purdue University in August 2012. Dr. Mallory’s current teaching interests include integrating problem- and project-based learning into core mechanical engineering courses to enhance student learning and motivation. She is currently the primary instructor for the Thermodynamics I and II courses in Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests are in engineering education and spray
in a wirelesscommunications course can motivate students. Researchers have found enthusiasm and interestfrom students who participated in lab experiments in wireless communications courses12. Theabstract theory can be effectively conveyed through experiments10. Furthermore, hands-on activities work well with a project-based curricula, which hasbeen successful in research studies5. Guzelgoz and Arslan12 surveyed students before the finalexam in a wireless communications lab course. Their results demonstrated how students canlearn the difficult theoretical knowledge with the help of labs. Also, students agreed that the labcomponent made the course more interesting. Moreover, Dawy, Husseini, Yaacoub, and Al-Kanj11 evaluated a wireless
content as the basis forengineering, rather than using engineering projects to motivate the learning of science. Finally,unlike many outreach efforts, this program is not connected with particular content areas ofengineering, such as nanotechnology or electrical engineering.Developed through the collaboration of a university physicist and a high school teacher in thelate 80’s, the Modeling framework for science instruction has spread to high schools throughoutthe U. S. and internationally, largely through grass-roots teacher efforts. It is one of only twohigh school science reform efforts designated as exemplary by the U. S. Department ofEducation and has reached an estimated 7,500 teachers. Further, the cohesive Modelingcommunity has created
Paper ID #15521Achieving Excellence in Master of Engineering Education: A Case Study ofNational University of Defense Technology’s PracticeProf. Fu zhongli, National University of Defense Technology FU,zhongli is deputy director of the Center for National Security and Strategic Studies, National Univer- sity of Defense Technology (NUDT).In this role, he manages NUDT’s continuing education reform and leads excellent engineer training research projects. He has conducted research on engineering education as a visiting scholar in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2013. His research interests are in engineering
ofinnovation where problem solving is addressed by group interaction, as opposed to just oneindividual effort3. Negotiation techniques are needed in order to recombine past experiences ofdifferent individuals, and lead to new insights. Nonetheless, engineering schools often dismissteaching negotiation techniques that might be relevant for developing high performance teams2. Techniques for achieving temporary settlements are relevant to engineering students’ training.Innovation driven projects usually have to work with ambiguity4. Teams that manage multiplepoints of view are more prepared to face that challenge because they allow the existence ofhealthy conflict. Although the interest in Project Based Learning (PBL) courses has increased,the
, and use experience and intuition to steer their projects andnavigate challenges that may arise. One might characterize such skills as elements of researchprocess sophistication. However, while experienced researchers may be able to identify asophisticated application of such skills in which they “know it when they see it,” a need existsfor a way to consistently and systematically represent students’ varying levels of researchprocess sophistication. This would allow programs to evaluate groups of students at varyinglevels in their degree process as well as single students over time to evaluate progress.The need for a classification system to characterize the sophistication of graduate research inengineering became evident to our team in a
International, Ford, and DRDC Toronto. He is the founding director of the ”Univer- sity of Toronto Institute for Multidisciplinary Design and Innovation”, an industry-centred project-based learning institute in partnership with major aerospace and automotive companies. Dr. Behdinan is the past President of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME), served as a member of the technical and scholarship committees of the High Performance Computing Virtual Lab- oratory (HPCVL) and a member of the Design Division of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI). He is the founding director and principal investigator of the University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering ”Advanced
interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Student Persistence Through Uncertainty Toward Successful Creative PracticeAbstract: To increase creative practice among students in engineering and other
Humanitarian Opportunities of Service-Learning) for approximately ten years. She has incorporated service-learning projects into her classes and laboratories since she started teaching in 2000. Her research interests include community engaged learning and pedagogy, K-12 outreach, biomaterials and materials testing and analysis.Prof. Elizabeth S Hart, University of Dayton Beth Hart is a Lecturer for the University of Dayton School of Engineering Dean’s Office. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Dayton, both in Chemical Engineering. She currently teaches engineering design and oversees the Women Engineering Program, part of the Diversity in Engi- neering Center.Mrs. Laura Kozuh Bistrek, University
-changing world where values often shift rapidly? How do civil engineers safeguardthe rights of future generations while fulfilling the wants and needs of the present? How docivil engineering designs of today meet the different needs of the stakeholders in the future?How do we prioritize the current needs of the natural environment while designingconstruction projects? We contend that these are key questions related to the future that oughtto be addressed in a civil engineering curriculum.This paper describes the ongoing efforts and preliminary results of incorporating futuresthinking into a cornerstone course at the Department of Civil Engineering at National TaiwanUniversity in Taiwan. The experiment was conducted as one of the two parts of a
the students were given two lab sessions to complete the final project. Lab Number Lab Description Introduction to Matlab and Solving 1 Differential Equations 2 Matrix Math 3 Spring Mass Damper System 4 Linear Simulation in Matlab 5 Introduction to Simulink 6 Block Diagram Algebra 7 First Order System Response Final Lab Project: Modeling and 8
(Water Resources and Hy- drology) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.Sc Eng in Civil Engineering from the University of Natal in South Africa. His research and teaching are in the area of surface water hydrol- ogy. His research focuses on advancing the capability for hydrologic prediction by developing models that take advantage of new information and process understanding enabled by new technology. He has developed a number of models and software packages including the TauDEM hydrologic terrain analysis and channel network extraction package that has been implemented in parallel, and a snowmelt model. He is lead on the National Science Foundation HydroShare project to expand the data sharing
participants of the Jam referred to creating a web-portal andmobile app that will support social-media type of communication between Industry andAcademia. Suggested platform will allow businesses to deploy information about ongoingresearch projects, calls for participation for academia and in its turn could identifyopportunities to join industry projects, position its areas of expertise and get better involvedin understanding trends for educating future of workforce.The framework describes herebelow the main steps towards stable, successful, long-termacademia-industry cooperation. The framework is industry-oriented, meaning that the processis initiated by the enterprise partner.IntroductionToday the interaction process between business and academia is
practice in an integrated, real worldenvironment that a systems engineer can develop the necessary insights and wisdom to becomeproficient. Systems engineering educators are struggling to meet the growing educationaldemands for a workforce able to solve problems driven by accelerating technology, rapidlyevolving needs, and increasing systems complexity [1-3]. At the same time, there is a wideninggap in industry between the need and the availability of systems engineering practitioners withthe necessary experience to address these challenges [4].The Systems Engineering Experience Accelerator (SEEA) project was designed as a response tothese critical needs and challenges [5]. The project goals are to: assess the feasibility of an immersive
, 2016 MAKER: Public Engineering: Informal Interactive Video and Electronic Poster Hallway Learning ExperienceAbstractThrough class projects and assignments, students create a wide range of interesting content.How can faculty use the student video and poster projects after the semester is over? Thisproject is focused on the production of a system that can be used in the hallway to allow studentsto interact and learn from videos and electronic posters. The term public engineering was chosento be analogous to the field of public history as the aim here is educate the public aboutengineering topics. This public engineering display is primary made up of a PC runningwindows and 32-inch LCD TV. The computer is surplus from a student
at Roger Williams University where he teaches engineering and construction management courses.He hold a Professional Engineer License from California and he is highly involved in professional societies like American Society of Civil Engineering and Construction Management As- sociation of America. Aside from teaching, he has 10 years of experience in the field of construction engineering.he was highly involved in Civil/Construction Management projects, where I performed de- sign, estimate, and schedule for various projects. Also, he assisted in the development of project proposals by securing project specifications from clients and communicating the same to design teams. c American
final step was to have OEM engineers lecture on the importance and relevance of theintegration of analysis and experimental techniques. The students’ reflection on collective learningwrapped up the course, and helped to prepare them for competence and relevance in their ownautomotive engineering careers.Course Project PreparationIn order to accomplish the previously described course objectives, two of the faculty membersworked in collaboration with a professional engineer and two additional participants from theOEM research lab. A test setup mimicking the OEM laboratory was constructed (Figure 2), andall components were checked for safety as a practice run was performed in attendance of theprofessional engineer. With the support of the