Paper ID #16103Using an Aquifer Simulation to Investigate Relationships between Ground-water, Human Activity, and Drought (P12 Resource Exchange)Samantha Lindgren, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Samantha Lindgren is the Coordinator of STEM Teacher Development at The Office for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (MSTE) in the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. A former Physics and Environmental Science teacher, she now writes STEM cur- riculum that integrates engineering into science curriculum. She has presented at annual conferences such as American Society for
determine the first natural frequency of the wing structure. By integrating researchresults into the classroom, many engineering mechanics and mechanical vibration concepts canbe reinforced by (a) analyzing a “real-world” problem through simple mechanical models tosimulate a complex structure and (b) by highlighting the relationships between physical andmathematical models of an actual aerospace structure.I. IntroductionSeveral papers have reported on the importance and benefit of including research into theundergraduate curriculum. Phillips and Schroeder 1 note that undergraduate research thatcomplements course topics is innately interactive and can enable student interest in engineering.Prince et al 2 highlighted the potential of research
provide background or context for the project, or in a small number of cases, direct data collection, analysis and testing. 3. through a dedicated for-credit course. Students can undertake the Summit to contribute to the EfaHC course. Students complete one and a half days of workshops and three assignments before the Summit, with an additional day workshop and three assignments upon returning from the Summit.Table 1: Assessment tasks for the curriculum integration options for EWB Summits.Option Assessment DueWork • Summative 5-page work experience • once all 12 weeks of workExperience report summarising work completed. experience completed by
for Engineering Education, 2016 Integrating a Research Grade Simulation Tool in a Second-Year Materials Science Laboratory CourseAbstractStudents have difficulty conceptualizing phenomena that are not directly visible. For example,students struggle to understand the atomic-level processes responsible for plastic deformation inmetals. This paper reports on an innovative laboratory lesson redesign that better integrates thesimulation and traditional tensile test components of a unit on plastic deformation that iscompleted by second-year Materials Science and Engineering students. This paper will discussthe evolution of the unit and present findings from the most recent end-of-semester exam asevidence of progress
/layout designer, integrating sophisticated security/cryptographic capabilities into a single accelerated processing unit. In 2012, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department, Princeton University, New Jersey, as an NSERC post-doctoral research fellow, having the pleasure of working with Prof. Niraj K. Jha. Currently, he is with the Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. His current research interests include emerging security/privacy measures for deeply em- bedded systems, cryptographic hardware systems, fault diagnosis and tolerance in cryptographic hard- ware, VLSI reliability, and low-power secure and efficient FPGA and ASIC designs
problem – theformulation applied to redesign the tested chassis component. They specifically stated that thesimulation skills and knowledge related to structural optimization would serve them well in anyfuture job that would require them to design light-weight vehicle structures and components.Summary and ConclusionThe students who completed this vehicle structural integration course gained valuable experienceregarding how to select components for an experiment, how to set up an experiment, how toevaluate experimental results, and how to improve a design via computational simulation. In theirfuture engineering positions they will be either designing or evaluating experimental results on aregular basis. The skills gained from this course will make
Engineering programs. A review of the top ten Mechanical Engineeringundergraduate programs, according to U.S. New and World Report, indicates that only oneschool offered an integrated Thermal-Fluids sequence.4 That school offered the traditionalThermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics courses as well thus not fully switching the curriculum toan integrated method. The authors also examined the curriculum of the two peer serviceacademies’ ME programs and found that only the U.S. Naval Academy offered an integratedThermal-Fluids sequence, while retaining the traditional Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanicscourses in their offerings. The limited availability of integrated thermal-fluids textbooks,compared to the wide availability of Thermodynamics and Fluid
Collaboration Award from ASEE, and is offered free of charge to students across thecountry by a network of volunteer facilitators.This interactive panel discussion will feature the Director of the Engineering Futures program,Dr. Katy Luchini Colbry (Michigan State University), and several experienced EF Facilitators,including Dr. Matthew Ohland (Purdue University) and J.P. Blackford (George WashingtonUniversity). The panel will provide a brief introduction to the EF curriculum and offer specificinformation for faculty or employers who are interested in integrating communications and “softskills” training into their own organizations. The goal of this interactive session is forparticipants to leave with some specific tools that they can use with their
the required curriculum. To this end, it is possible to leverage learningand build upon an existing knowledge base.NX and CATIA also offers a level of customization that is integral to its application in the AFL.Using the many back-end features contained in this application, the interface and system settingscan be tailored to the specific needs of the AFL. This proves crucial in a controlled setting, asNX and CATIA has been customized to function within the confines of the developed workflow,including custom settings that have been rigorously tested and validated using the equipment inthe AFL. Careful design of the workflow provides a firm foundation for implementation on themanufacturing floor.Design of the WorkflowAs the primary users of
education provides all graduates with an appropriate working knowledge and understanding of sustainable development. The purpose of this paper is to outline the role civil engineers can play and some opportunities for faculty members to contribute to achieving the goals as engineering educators preparing the next generation of civil engineers and as engineering professionals. Civil Engineering Higher Education Curriculum Opportunities ASCE has a Committee on Sustainability and one of its subcommittees deals with formal engineering (universitybased) education. The Formal Engineering Education Committee (FEE) believes that education on sustainability should be integrated throughout a program with both breadth and depth. The following
GCS program components, including 1) hands-onproject/research experience, 2) interdisciplinary curriculum, 3) entrepreneurship, 4) globaldimension, and 5) service-learning. The authors discuss potential applications of the rubric toevaluate course-level outcomes, including student projects from an interdisciplinary courseentitled “Creatively Applying Science for Sustainability.” In the course, students work to addressa societal Grand Challenge in a semester-long project and in interdisciplinary student projectsthat tackle Grand Challenges on an international scale. This rubric fills a literature gap inassessing 21st century global engineering skills by measuring capabilities based on five key NAEGCS program components and provides a mechanism
postsecondary classrooms in order to help students make connections among the STEM disciplines and achieve deep understanding. Her work focuses on defining STEM integration and investigating its power for student learning. Tamara Moore received an NSF Early CAREER award in 2010 and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2012.Mrs. Elizabeth Gajdzik, Purdue University, West Lafayette Elizabeth Gajdzik is the Assistant Director of the INSPIRE Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received her B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies with a specialization in mathematics and M.S.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis
Education, 2016 Systems Engineering and Capstone Projects Abstract Systems Engineering (SE) methods are increasingly being integrated into capstone design projects as a critical component of capstone design competitions, through mentoring during capstone project advising, and through capstone course syllabi development. In this paper, we describe an “engineering science” course developed specifically to teach selected SE topics and designed to primarily prepare third and fourth year undergraduate students for their engineering (ABET) capstone project. The course was developed using an inverted classroom format where students view short, topic
Educational experiences that integrate liberal education content into theengineering curriculum have expanded as the role of an engineer in the workplace and in societyis reexamined. 4,5 Indeed, as argued by Grasso in 2002, it is engineering faculty’s responsibility tocomplement technical curriculum with a humanistic approach to meet the needs of society. 6 Thiscontent can take many forms such as enhanced discussion of ethics or service learningopportunities. Other examples include integration of curriculum modules covering social justicedirectly into technical coursework, thus forcing students to examine technical concepts moreholistically and blurring the traditional disciplinary boundaries. 7Often these approaches are suggested as a means to
Elizabethtown College, a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Auburn University, eleven years of experience in industry as a software engineer, and three years as a full-time faculty in the department of engineering at a small Midwest engineering university.Dr. Susan McGrade, Indiana Institute of Technology Dr. McGrade is a Professor of English at Indiana Institute of Technology, where she teaches a range of classes from First-Year Composition to African American Literature. She often works closely with the College of Engineering, and has developed both an integrated model for English instruction within a Software Engineering program, and a problem-based learning curriculum for a First-Year
. This is a very important point to emphasize, especially for engineeringstudents who are drawn to quantitative data and who tend to be less comfortable with qualitativedata and analyses. Hence, this “set up” for a discussion on analyzing the stories they receivedfrom their respondents is critical to a successful implementation of this exercise. Otherwise,students will take the “path of least resistance” and base most of their paper on the quantitativeassessments described below.When I introduce this phase, I spend a few minutes describing how strengths are holisticallydefined in this exercise (summarized on a PowerPoint) 16. Strengths are an integration of our (a)self-identities, which is how we express ourselves in a given situation, (b
with an interdisciplinary and integrated perspective of fourkey features of building design: Safety, Sustainability, Style, and Society. This course introducesstudents to the idea that engineering design of buildings, and the organization of communities,and cities is highly integrated with and constrained by societal and environmental influences.The classwork and assignments asked students to analyze buildings both qualitatively andquantitatively. This paper summarizes the curriculum and assignments developed for the course.In addition to providing a template for an interdisciplinary class, the concepts in this coursecould be integrated into upper-level engineering courses to encourage students to interrogate theenvironmental, economic, social
distance-learning format.These courses are Marine Power and Energy Systems and Maintenance Engineering. This paperpresents an overview of the curriculum, traditional and unique pedagogical methodsimplemented in the distance learning courses, assessment of the course offerings, andrecommendations to be implemented in the curriculum development and future course offeringsof Old Dominion Old Dominion University’s distance learning marine engineering educationprogram.INTRODUCTIONOld Dominion University, located in Norfolk in the metropolitan Hampton Roads region ofVirginia, is a dynamic public research institution that serves its students and enriches the state, thenation, and the world through rigorous academic programs, strategic partnerships, and
professional network.Networking has been long highlighted as an essential skill in finding a job11,12, but lessemphasized as part of an ongoing process of staying current, staying connected and stayingrelevant in one’s areas of knowledge and expertise. Benefits cited include13: 1. Gaining solid ground in the current operational state in which the engineer operates, even just within his or her own firm, significantly improves the ability to understand how every part of the organization contributes to the success of the company. 2. The pace of technology advances in every area of engineering increases, integration of these technologies across disciplines becomes more possible, sophisticated, existing technologies rapidly
isinterested in integrating SE Design into their course. Therefore, our 1st recommendation is tostart off with a singular focus on engineering discipline capstone learning objectives includinglevels of SE knowledge required for today's projects, most of which are multi-disciplinary.When you are satisfied with the learning objectives, superimpose curriculum and facility/facultyconstraints that limit course content and structure. Then within the constraints including credithours and semester schedule, functionally define what you think would be one or more idealprojects that satisfy your SE Design learning objectives. Generalize the results in the form ofproject selection criteria and then and only then start looking for company or organizationsponsored
efforts maintaining minimal reference to learning outcomes assessment datameasured for accreditation. The lack of utilization of digital technology and appropriatemethodologies supporting the automation of outcomes assessment further exacerbate thissituation. Furthermore, learning outcomes data measured by most institutions is rarely classifiedinto all three domains of the revised Bloom’s taxonomy and their corresponding categories of thelevels of learning. Generally institutions classify courses of a program curriculum into three levels:introductory, reinforced and mastery. The outcomes assessment data is measured for mastery levelcourses in order to streamline the documentation and effort needed for an effective programevaluation. A major
residential computing camp for students in grades 6-8 (entering sixth through ninth). The camp follows a project-based curriculum using entry-level Robotics Kits and is designed to integrate Art, Computer Science and Engineering, and English to foster and strengthen computational thinking and design, programming, and communication skills. Additionally, given the nature of the Internet in the 21st Century, cyber safety will be emphasized and girls will have the opportunity to learn about how computer crimes are investigated. High School Track: A 5-night residential computing camp for students in grades 9-12 (just graduating 9th to just entering 12th). The camp follows a project-based curriculum
systems and machinery. Also, the immersive environment with game-likenavigation is a natural platform and an effective tool for encouraging and attracting the new generation tothe STEM field.Purpose of the StudyThis study aims to test and assess the impact of the next generation immersive virtual reality (IVR),developed by integrating several state-of-the-art technologies, on the effectiveness and quality of studentlearning of STEM content. The VR curriculum will be offered online to provide e-learning opportunity tousers from remote areas. In addition, the study will explore the appropriate balance of student control,guidance, and instructional strategies in order to develop an optimal learning environment. The workcompares and contrasts student
coursework, seminars and workshops that accommodate their educational, researchtraining, and career placement needs. The fellows have to attend an introductory panel discussionwith several faculty members, researchers at national lab, industry professionals, and currentgraduate students to help new fellows identify their interest.With successful completion of background knowledge and core research skill training, studentsstart working in their home institution’s research laboratories for the first year. Faculty andexternal mentors help trainees in developing his/her applied research project (i.e., thesis,dissertation or undergraduate project depending on the student’s level) that addresses asustainability priority track.3.1 Integration of
that uses AM to supplement instruction in finite element analysis8 , orto model rocketry to enhance learning in undergraduate engineering design projects9. An inter-disciplinary approach of designing and developing of a 3D printer machine, by integrating theknowledge of CAD/computer aided manufacturing (CAM), and automation methods acquired inother courses10 enable deeper learning. A few institutions are offering courses in a moretraditional format into their engineering programs. For example, Austin Peay State Universityhas offered a concentration in their undergraduate manufacturing curriculum11. Ohio NorthernUniversity developed a curriculum on digital manufacturing and simulation12. Courses such asAdditive Manufacturing: Theory and
joined Howard University in 2006 as an Assistant Professor. Her research interests are algorithms and computational biology.Dr. Alex Pantaleev, SUNY Oswego Alex Pantaleev received a B.A. degree in computer science from the American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, in 2003, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio in 2007 and 2008, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the State University of New York, Oswego. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Incorporating Service-Oriented Programming into the Computer Science Curriculum using Course
and integral calculus or other mathematics above the level ofalgebra and trigonometry.”Licensing IssuesHow do we currently license BS-level engineering technologists in the U.S.? The issuespertaining to the licensure of engineering technologists as professional engineers in the U.S. is amatter that is not often discussed in the engineering profession. It is actually controversial amongsome professional engineers and engineering technologists.The NCEES Model Law and Model Rules require a BS degree from an EngineeringAccreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET-accredited program or equivalent. There is nomention of ETAC of ABET-accredited programs. The Model Law 3 is silent on this issue. TheNCEES requirements for the equivalency evaluation of non
Mississippi State University, a predominately white institution, iscommitted to creating an educational environment of inclusiveness and high academic excellence.This environment is fostered to enable students to persist in the engineering curriculum, graduatewith an engineering degree, and allow for exposure to research and graduate school opportunities.By promoting a culturally diverse environment, the College of Engineering seeks to increase theparticipation of minorities and women in the field of engineering and to close the social gaps ofunderrepresented minority students. In the fall 2013 first-time incoming freshmen in engineeringconsisted of 637 students with 531 (83%) of students being White American and 87 AfricanAmerican students making up
characterized as global, long term, complex problems c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Towards a systems theory-based curriculum for Complex Systems GovernanceThe purpose of this paper is to explore challenges associated with the development of acurriculum for an emerging field of Complex System Governance (CSG) that could be used forinstruction and teaching leaders, managers, and students interested in increasing their knowledge,skills, and abilities about CSG. CSG has been suggested as a means to (1) explore deep systemissues impacting performance, (2) introduce practitioners to new thinking, technologies, tools,and methods to address these issues, and (3
Paper ID #16344Experiences in Establishing an Outreach Program for Attracting and Retain-ing Minorities to EngineeringDr. Rocio Alba-Flores, Georgia Southern University Rocio Alba-Flores received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Tulane University. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Georgia Southern University. Her main areas of interest include control systems, robotics, digital systems, microprocessors, signal and image processing, and engineerign education.Dr. Fernando Rios-Gutierrez, Georgia Southern University Fernando Rios-Gutierrez was born in Mexico City