the course.Many students create study aids while reviewing course material and in preparation for exams.These may include crib sheets, outlines reviewing key concepts, mind maps, or summaryparagraphs. For mathematics and engineering courses, students often prepare for exams byreworking homework problems or working review problems provided by instructors or found inold course files. The act of creating study aids or working problems can improve understandingof course material and the student’s ability to recall that information but it does not require thestudent to communicate this knowledge with others nor does it require or encourage creativity.Effective communication skills are critical for engineers and have long been a student
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
Paper ID #14394Applied ABET Student Outcome Continuous Improvement ProcessProf. Byron G. Garry, South Dakota State University BYRON GARRY is an Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Construction & Operations Management in the College of Engineering at South Dakota State University. He has been a member of ASEE since 1998. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Applied ABET Student Outcome Continuous Improvement ProcessAbstractA sustainable continuous improvement process was desired for use in the ABET
Education, 2016Capstone Design Projects: An Emphasis on Communication, Critical Thinking and Analysis Work In Progress Our department has adopted the following Program Educational Objectives, such that withinthree to five years after graduation our graduates will have demonstrated Competency in thediscipline of chemical engineering; exhibited Critical thinking ability that has enabled them to solvecomplex problems; successfully achieved Cooperation goals through teamwork; demonstratedeffective Communication and will have exhibited the Capacity for life-long learning. With theseobjectives in mind, our undergraduates have a wide variety of experiences, which support
Paper ID #14884Development of a Low-cost Automotive Communications Network Course forEE and ME StudentsDr. Aurenice Menezes Oliveira, Michigan Technological University Dr. Aurenice Oliveira is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engi- neering at Michigan Technological University. She received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, in 2005. Her current research interests include communication systems, digital signal processing, optical fiber systems, automative networks, and engi- neering education. Dr. Oliveira is member of the ASEE
students who selected disciplines other than civilengineering).Perceptions of civil engineeringWhen asked “When you hear 'civil engineering', what are the first thoughts that come to mind?”,the highest number of responses listed bridges and buildings, as illustrated in the word cloud ofFigure 5, and generally answered “bridges”, “building”, “construction”, roads”, i.e. thetraditional notion of civil engineering, and didn’t mention other areas (hydraulics, geomatics,etc.) of civil engineering.When asked what were thought of as advantages of civil engineering, two main themes emerged.Multiple participants stated that civil engineers “get to see their products finished on a dailybasis”, and this was seen as an advantage. Some students also stated
Consul- tants, a group of students who provide peer-to-peer library research help.Nora Allred, Michigan Technological University Nora Allred is Scholarly Communications and Copyright Librarian at the J. Robert Van Pelt and Opie Library at Michigan Technological University. She provides copyright and fair use awareness to the campus community through the library’s webpage, presentations, instruction sessions, and one-on-one consultations. As Co-PI on the NSF ethics education project, she lead the learning module on copyright and fair use for graduate students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Developing a Comprehensive, Assessment-based
Paper ID #16133Successful Use of Performance Indicators to Assess Student OutcomesDr. Daniel K. Jones P.E., SUNY Polytechnic Institute Dr. Jones is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology and Chair of the Engineering Technology Department at SUNYIT in Utica, NY. He coordinates the ETAC/ABET accrediations pro- cesses. His technical interests include machine design, mechancial measurements, vibrations, instrumen- tation, and assistive technology for people with physical disabilities.Dr. Mohammed Abdallah, SUNY Polytechnic Institute c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016
Islanders.Our vision of a fully inclusive program includes students, faculty, and staff from all backgroundsfeeling comfortable and fully engaged in the educational process and having equal opportunitiesto be successful. We would like to see improvement in the recruitment and retention of the bestand brightest minds, regardless of sex, ethnic background, or sexual orientation, in our studentand faculty bodies. We envision a learning community that demonstrates its culture of inclusionthrough (i) providing training to the student body in cognitive empathy to foster a more inclusive learning environment (ii) encouraging more engaged participation from female and underrepresented students and faculty on extracurricular engineering
success in simplifying difficult subjects in statics and strength of materials courses4. 3) SolidWorks is a program used by a number of engineering professions, promoting communication among the professions. 4) SolidWorks is a program introduced at the freshmen level, where both authors are employed and is utilized throughout engineering students’ curriculum.The structures selected for this research were done with the idea in mind that the computerresults could easily be checked via hand calculations. The models generated were of a simplysupported beam and an overhang beam, two very commonly used structures to demonstratevarious concepts in structural analysis and engineering mechanics courses. A uniform and non-uniform
project as he was: “I was just consumed bythis passion to help these people, and I know they were, too, so it was just really confusing mewhy they weren’t going above and beyond.” The human-centered orientation was recognized by the students as a unique take ondesign across their engineering education experiences, and they acknowledged that it affectedtheir ultimate designs and products. Danielle (Class A) summed up the HCD orientation of theprogram that emerged throughout many of the students’ descriptions of their everyday work onthese teams: That’s the thing that I really enjoy about [this program], is the human-centered design aspect and always keeping the stakeholders in mind, kind of drilling that into our heads
. 8-22, 1996.8. G. Huvard, "Make Summer Internship a Learning Experience," Chemical Engineering Education, vol. 32, no. 1, 1998.9. P. Eakins, The Theory and Practice of Cooperative Education, Victoria University of Technology, 1997.10. National Research Council, "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, Expanded Edition (2000)," 22 January 2016. [Online]. Available: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/9853/how-people-learn-brain- mind-experience-and-school-expanded-edition.11. "Moodle," The Moodle Project, [Online]. Available: https://moodle.org/. [Accessed 22 January 2016].12. J. Pennebaker and M. Francis, "Cognitive, emotional, and language processes in disclosure," Cognition and Emotion, pp. 601-626
young minds to engineering careers includingtransportation. The literature documents that experiential learning approaches are extremelyeffective in this regard5. That is when context-based (or authentic) educational strategies that linkreal-world situations to concepts and principles are adopted by teachers. Such approaches areextremely effective at helping students attain a deeper and long-term understanding of thesubject materials, which in turn stir their interest in their learning environment.The Next Generation Science Standards emphasize inquiry-based curriculum, instruction, andassessment and provide guidelines for science teaching and learning. Science inquiry“encompasses not only an ability to engage in inquiry but an understanding of
missionexperience that included appropriate technical content that informed participants of the program offeringsat Purdue Polytechnic. As such, the critical components of the event requiring development prior to theevent included a) an event script and supporting media, b) a physical 3-D Martian surface, c) a roboticrover based on LEGO Mind Storm robots, d) custom sensors and hardware to extend the capabilities ofthe rover, and e) instructional documents for student preparation of their “news releases”. a) Script and MultimediaTo engage students in PMTM, they were asked to role play as if they were design engineers in anaerospace think tank. To make the experience as authentic as possible, a fictional mars rover campaignwas created and the engineering
computer, and now every entering engineeringstudent at most universities has a laptop computer fully-loaded with the latest technical software.When confronted with a problem before the desktop/laptop computer era, the engineeringstudent would develop the problem solution by hand, with pencil, paper, and much thought, andonly then was the slide rule or calculator taken out of its case, or, if needed, a computer programwritten and cards punched. Today, entering freshmen have the perception that the solutions toengineering problems are somewhere in the computer and just have to be found, when in fact thesolutions are where they have always been – in the minds of the engineers! Freshman engineering students in all disciplines usually take some
Paper ID #14533Perceptions and Applications of Honors Contracts in Developing an Under-graduate Engineering Research ExperienceDr. Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University Yanjun Yan received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Harbin Institute of Tech- nology (China), and the M.S. degree in Applied Statistics and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University. She is an assistant professor in engineering and technology at Western Car- olina University. Her research interests are statistical signal processing, diagnostics, and particle swarm optimization.Prof. Sudhir Kaul, Western
building on campus and some are accessible 24 hours a day five daysa week during the academic year. Logic, as does practice, suggests that a campus library wouldbe one of the better places to house equipment intended to improve accessibility to 3D printingand provide students with an informal workspace to extend their learning beyond the classroom.With this in mind, the College of Engineering and Technology’s Department of TechnologySystems approached the main campus library in the spring of 2014 with the hope of forming apartnership to make 3D printing more accessible to the campus community to house a 3D printerin the library in order to make the technology more accessible to the campus community. SeeFigure 1. Following the meeting, which
reviewed eight years of experience by a team of faculty and students developingWERCware to provide social services; several lessons have been learned along the way. Theselessons may also be instructive to other engineering faculty who manage or advise undergraduateengineering projects. To recap, four key lessons learned by the team phrased as suggestions hereinclude 1) keeping the big picture in mind to helps project team members focus on what works toserve the client by effectively meeting the need, not just developing fancy technology, 2) whendeveloping a new product, it helps to start by trying to meet a specific need in a smaller localmarket, and gradually work toward the larger market, 3) grant funding or other support for fieldtesting proves
leading major, complexprojects who have had their own moments of “This is it. This is how I (or my project/career)end.” What can we as engineering educators do to best equip our students to prepare for thosemoments and challenges, and have the knowledge, resolve, and adaptability to solve enoughproblems to get their projects home?This paper explores that challenge and some related lessons that we, the authors, have learnedand which we seek to continue to explore with like-minded educators and practitioners. Our goalis to find how best to prepare project managers that have both the deep knowledge and honedadaptability to navigate their projects and teams through tough, challenging crises that they arecertain to experience. We don’t pretend to have
Hispanic respondents. For comparison, only 13% of students indicated thesame level of interest in fulfilling medical school admission requirements, and only 8% ofstudents had the same level of interest in attending law school after completion of anundergraduate engineering degree.Engineering design is a powerful vehicle for math and science learning in K-12 classrooms,standing to improve student learning and achievement in those subjects, and increase studenttechnological literacy, awareness of and interest in pursuing engineering as a career.8 Withengineering, science and math teacher development in mind, engineering design was thereforecarefully woven in and through the fabric of the degree program.Regardless of national need and student
engineering coursework, which often places great focus on workingequations computationally rather than actually understanding the material3,4. Traditionalengineering coursework often leaves students in a position where they can construct and solve aseries of equations to find a requested answer, but they do not understand “why” or even “whatthey just did”5. This is often evidenced on exams when students do not realize a computedanswer is incorrect by multiple orders of magnitude, and poor conceptual understanding such asthis has been observed in young engineers during their work in industry6,7. With this in mind,instruments which can effectively teach and evaluate engineering students’ conceptualunderstanding are key tools for engineering
Paper ID #17214Self-Efficacy in Senior Design: Effects of Time and TeamDr. Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University Elif Miskioglu is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bucknell University. She graduated from Ohio State University in 2015 with a PhD in Chemical Engineering, and is interested in student learning in engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Self-Efficacy in Senior Design: Effects of Time and TeamAbstractMuch of traditional curriculum is designed around individual assessment, but throughout theircareer most engineers are more
Paper ID #15880An Innovative Approach to Offering a Global Supply Chain Class for Engi-neering Managers in an International ContextDr. S. Jimmy Gandhi, California State University, Northridge Dr. S. Jimmy Gandhi is an assistant professor at California State University, Northridge. His research interests and the courses he teaches includes Quality Management, Lean Manufacturing, Innovation & Entrepreneurship,Sustainability as well as research in the field of Engineering Education. He has over 30 conference and journal publications and has brought in over $500K in research grants to The California State University
Paper ID #14493’Other’ Reasons to Invert a ClassDr. Brett Batson, Trine University Dr. Batson has taught thermal sciences courses (using both inverted and conventional modes of deliv- ery) at Trine University in Angola, Indiana since 2006. Prior to that, he taught three years at Iowa State University as an adjunct professor. His non-academic experience includes automatic controls for process turbocompressors, gas and steam turbines, and patent prosecution. His interests include mathematics edu- cation for engineering students, tools and materials for supporting student learning, and general pedagogy
TechnologyMajor (ENET), a concentration within Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) that focuses on electricalenergy and power systems. As part of this degree program, a gateway course will be required for all EETsophomores that is designed to recruit into the ENET major, to serve as an introduction to AC systemsanalysis, and to explain electric energy and power systems in a systems context. This course wasdesigned specifically with the IEEE mandate in mind, and great importance was placed on meeting theprogram characteristics described above. Therefore, the course content was chosen to emphasize theapplication of building renewable and efficient electric power systems. Topics such as renewable energyresources (wind, solar, and fuel cells), cleaner
Paper ID #15535Analysis of Student Preconceptions Related to Telecommunications and Qual-ity of ServiceProf. Mark J. Indelicato, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST) Mark J. Indelicato is an associate professor in the College of Applied Science and Technology (CAST) in the department of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology since 1990. Previously, he was a Large Business Systems Communications En- gineer for NEC America, specializing in large scale deployment of voice and data network switching equipment. He teaches in the Master of Science
Using 3D Printing Paper presented at2015 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.23789.8. Bailey, R. T. (2015, June), Using 3D Printing and Physical Testing to Make Finite-Element Analyis More Real ina Computer-Aided Simulation and Design Course Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference andExposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.24982.Appendix: Method for scaling engineering drawings for 3D printingFollowing these instructions will allow you to create handheld visual aids of large scaleenvironmental engineering treatment works (e.g. sedimentation basin) and other largeengineering designs on our 3D printer. Keep in mind that the 3D printout can only serve as avisual aid because dimensions that are changed
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
unless other criteria are not met. A primarypurpose of ABET is to ensure engineers are receiving the skills and competencies needed to besuccessful engineers. With this purpose in mind, engaging ABET representatives in discussionsaround multidisciplinary capstones and how they may fit within ABET criteria may be useful –both for the university as well as for the ABET organization.Therefore, industry-university collaboration may be needed to develop an effective andsustainable multidisciplinary capstone. This collaboration could be facilitated by havingprofessionals from academic and industry work together to best understand and articulate what isneeded from the senior capstone course in terms of multidisciplinary content and skills, and thebest
Paper ID #17120Unseen Influences on Student Performance: Instructor Assessment StylesDr. Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University Elif Miskioglu is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bucknell University. She graduated from Ohio State University in 2015 with a PhD in Chemical Engineering, and is interested in student learning in engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Unseen Influences on Student Performance: Instructor Assessment StylesAbstractMass and energy balances is the common first course in