taken a lead role in addressing this issue, investing inquality programs that prepare the state’s K-12 students to proceed into engineering degreecurricula. This is a large project due to the state’s social economics and students’ STEMpreparedness. According to the Arkansas Department of Education 2015-2016 data, 61% ofpublic school students receive free or reduced lunch with 41% of Arkansas school districtscontaining populations where at least 70% of students receive free or reduced lunch (15 districtsbetween 90% - 100%).[3] According to ACT, Arkansas students perform lower than the nationalaverage on all sections, especially in math (below a 20).[4] This means outreach activities areimperative to help expose, excite, and prepare students to
Cornell University (1999). Prior to coming to UPRM, Papadopoulos served on the faculty in the department of civil engineering and mechanics at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Papadopoulos has diverse research and teaching interests in Structural Mechanics, Appropriate technol- ogy, Engineering Ethics, and Mechanics Education. He is a PI on the NSF-sponsored project Full-culm Bamboo as a Full-fledged Engineering Material and is developing community bamboo projects in Puerto Rico and Haiti. He is also co-author of the book Lying by Approximation: The Truth about Finite Element Analysis and served as the Chair of the ASEE Mechanics Division in 2015-16. c American Society for Engineering
increasingcomplexity through initial exercises and subsequent assignments; they reported that studentsshowed significant gains in their abilities to perform the skills targeted with these assignments. 5Linder et al. used a modified version of the first approach and employed scaffolding inredesigning an introductory computer science course to keep students interested in their selectedmajors and better prepare them for higher-level classes. 6 Their scaffolding structure includedclassroom activities and short one-week assignments that target the skills needed in a largerassignment, which was the final class project. They observed that with the instructionalscaffolding approach followed in structuring and conducting assignments, the weaker studentswere able to
spending currently absorbs over17% of GDP, nearly twice the average of the 34 OECD member nations and nearly 1.5 times thenext highest country. While prior research has generated meaningful improvements in healthcare delivery, the vast majority of this activity focuses on improvements in large urban centers,which has placed “rural communities . . . at the margins of the health care quality movement[with] most quality initiatives . . . not directly applicable to rural health care settings.” This workexplores the design of the internship program, the challenges of interprofessional education andapproaching improvement projects in rural healthcare settings, and the benefits the partnerorganizations and students received from the
industrial and system engineering at the University of New Haven where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses. Dr. Aqlan has also worked on industry projects with Innovation Associates Company and IBM Corporation. His work has resulted in both business value and intellectual property. He has published several papers in reputed journals and conferences. Dr. Aqlan is a senior member of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) and has received numerous awards and honors including the IBM Vice President award for innovation excellence.Prof. Yuan-Han ”Rick” Huang, Pennsylvania State University, Erie (Behrend College) Dr. Yuan-Han Huang is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at Penn State Behrend
University of Waterloo in the area of Construction Engineering and Management. Dr Zaneldin is a professional engineer currently working as an associate professor of Construction Engineering and Management at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, United Arab Emirates University. Dr Zaneldin is also the head of the College of Engineer- ing Requirements Unit and the Director of the Master of Engineering Management Program at the United Arab Emirates University. In addition to his experience in the academia, Dr Zaneldin has more than thirteen years of work experience in areas related to design, construction supervision, and project man- agement of mega size projects in North America and the Middle East. He
need is by using teams (Varvel, Adams,Pridie, & Ruiz Ulloa, 2004). Organizations recognize the importance for employees tounderstand how to work effectively with others, but also express that new employees do notbring adequate teaming skills to the workplace (S. Adams & Ruiz, 2004; Pascarella &Terenzini, 2005). Despite calls to promote teamwork as “an indispensable quality forengineering”(Lingard & Barkataki, 2011) engineering schools have been generally slow indeveloping pedagogies that successfully promote collaborative behaviors. Several initiativeshave been done in engineering education -like project-based learning and team-basedlearning to try to promote teamwork skills (Felder & Brent, 2009; Prince, 2004). However
. Hopefully, this article will shed some light on a path thatothers may choose to follow.Experiential learning can be applied when teaching the entrepreneurial thought process byconverting theory into reality. At East Tennessee State University, a course was developed thatteaches experiential learning by combining business and engineering technology students intoteams. The students utilize engineering management techniques to solve real-world problemsfacing K-12 education in an attempt to improve the K-12 students’ learning outcomes. ETSUgraduate students learn how to problem-solve in non-linear situations. One of the biggestchallenges in teaching a class such as this is finding real-world projects that are sufficientlymeaningful to qualify as
, and Tau Beta Pi Honors Fraternity. She has been attending the university since August of 2013 and will complete her Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Management in December of 2016.Miss Katie M. Kaczmarek, Missouri University of Science & Technology I am a student at Missouri University of Science and Technology where I am earning a Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering Management. I have work experience in Project Management and Lean Six Sigma. I am also Six Sigma Green Belt Certified.Bonnie Wilt, Missouri University of Science & Technology Bonnie Wilt is an undergraduate student in the Engineering Management department at Missouri Univer- sity of Science and Technology. She will graduate with honors in
agreed that their internet use has had a positive impact on their college academic experience 46% of college students agreed that email enables them to express ideas to professors that they would not have expressed in class 58% of college students have used email to discuss or find out a grade from a professor 65% of college students have used email to report absencesPew Internet and American Life Project, comparing 2000 to 20153: In 2000, about 50% of American adults used the internet, in 2015 that value was 84% In 2015, and steadily since 2010, internet usage of young American adults has been 96- 97% In 2015, and steadily, internet usage by college-educated American adults has been 95%In a 2005
International Science and Technology Award. Dr. Salado holds a BSc/MSc in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University of Valencia, an MSc in project management and a MSc in electronics engineering from Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the SpaceTech MEng in space systems engineering from Delft University of Technology, and a PhD in systems engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology. He is a member of INCOSE and a senior member of IEEE and IIE. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Industrial Engineering beyond Numbers: Optimizing under EthicsAbstractOptimization is a major component of industrial engineering. Simplistically (and naively), theeducation of industrial
Systems Engineering Research and the Fulbright International Science and Technology Award. Dr. Salado holds a BSc/MSc in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University of Valencia, an MSc in project management and a MSc in electronics engineering from Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the SpaceTech MEng in space systems engineering from Delft University of Technology, and a PhD in systems engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology. He is a member of INCOSE and a senior member of IEEE and IIE.Mr. John Ray Morelock, Virginia Tech John Morelock is a doctoral candidate at Virginia Tech. His research interests include student motivation, game-based learning, and gamified classrooms. He received the NSF
the history of engineering education.” Actions toattract and train technically active mid-career professionals as ABET evaluators would takelonger. The Participation Project and its successor, Partnership to Advance VolunteerExcellence (PAVE) continued the collaboration between member societies, volunteers, andheadquarters staff to advance ABET’s commitment to continuous quality improvement of itsvolunteer processes beginning in 2003. PAVE led to a program evaluator competency model,new experiential volunteer training, workshops on assessment, and a new volunteer managementtool. Further demonstrating commitment to continuous quality improvement, ABET wasformally recognized as ISO 9001:2008 certified in 2015.Engineering Criteria as a Quality