the undergraduate level. Through the years, there have been several projects aimedat creating case study modules for teaching. Most recently, the Software Development CaseStudy [8] project developed a set of case studies that can be used across the software engineeringcurriculum based upon the digital home. However, while testing materials were part of theproject, the materials were not focused specifically on verification and validation.A later NSF project, Collaborative Education: Building a Skilled Software Verification andValidation User Community [9], focused on developing active learning exercises for softwareengineering. This paper provides initial feedback on the usage of one such activity in a softwareengineering program.About the
learningare collaborative learning, co-operative learning, and problem-based learning. Various studies,from using interactive, hands-on lessons and activities designed to teach research process toundergraduate engineering students 1 , to preparing manufacturing engineering students throughcompetitions, projects sponsored by industry, capstone projects, laboratory exercises or projectssimulating real-life scenarios 2 , have shown that active learning increases student performance inSTEM subjects.Critical thinking, identified by The U. S. Department of Labor as the raw material of a number ofkey workplace skills such as problem solving, decision making, organizational planning, and riskmanagement, is highly coveted by employers of engineering graduates
professional development tool.Dr. Peter T. Savolainen, Iowa State University Dr. Peter Savolainen is an Associate Professor in the Iowa State University (ISU) Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. His research includes fundamental and applied projects focused on traffic operations, safety, and driver behavior, as well pedagogical approaches to improve transportation engineering education. Dr. Savolainen currently serves on the editorial advisory boards of Accident Analysis and Prevention and Analytic Methods in Accident Research. Dr. Savolainen’s peda- gogical efforts are reflected by his selection as a fellow by the American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE) Excellence in Civil Engineering
students, not just GE students. As such, it isbeing developed by faculty within and outside GE.1st Year: User-Centered DesignOne major challenge that engineers universally face is the disconnect of their work from itsusers. In this first year class, we stress that designs cannot be based simply on the designers’ ownunderstanding, and we emphasize the need to develop empathy for users, who may have differentassumptions and experiences. In an effort to better integrate social justice into engineering, thiscourse aims to help students understand their own privileges, which we achieve throughreflection journals, activities such as a trip to a local museum with an exhibit on race, andclassroom discussion. The course project entails a community
, she introduced the first experiential activity for Applied Mechanics courses. She is coordinator and advisor for capstone projects for Engineering Technology.Mr. Carlos Michael Ruiz, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.)Mr. Smarth H. ChadhaMr. Shraman Kadapa, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) Shraman Kadapa completed his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette. He is currently pursuing a masters’ degree in mechanical engineering and mechanics at Drexel University. He is a research and teaching assistant in the mechanical and mechatronics lab at Drexel. He is also a researcher in Scalable Autonomous Systems Lab. His research interests are mainly in robotics which
respond to questions. The clients used the final review as a basis forselecting students for a monetary award or summer internship.Mechanical engineering design: a semester long mechanical engineering capstone design coursefor teams of undergraduate students in their final year. As a capstone course, the syllabusemphasized integrating various engineering sciences in an authentic, practical, and open-endeddesign project with real clients. Students were encouraged to treat the instructor like a boss andtheir teammates as colleagues. Students had a dedicated laboratory work area where they couldbuild and test prototypes. Funding for prototypes was available with instructor approval. Therewere three design reviews (a preliminary design review that
Engineering Education, 2017 Entrepreneurship, Engineering, Innovation and Libraries: Empowering Innovators with InformationAbstractsNearly two-thirds of millennials aspire to start their own business or have already done so. Innovation andentrepreneurship are dominant forces driving innovation in a dynamic global economy, and universitieshave an essential role in cultivating the innovators and entrepreneurs of the future. In most universities,capstone senior design courses have an entrepreneurship component. We describe a cross-institutionworkshop designed to heighten student awareness of university resources supporting entrepreneurship.Drexel University and University of Pennsylvania STEM libraries
through a capstone and internship.Figure 3. Framework for the new interdisciplinary architectural engineering curriculum.Competency Rubric DevelopmentFollowing the data gathering phase, including both external and internal input from thoseidentified as key program influences, the faculty moved to begin developing the program’slearning outcomes. These learning outcomes encompass the content deemed necessary todevelop the knowledge and skills defined for an ideal architectural engineering graduate. Theidentified program learning outcomes are:1. Mathematics 9. Project and Construction Management2. Physical Sciences 10. Integration of Building Systems3. Humanities and Social Sciences
Paper ID #18246Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Mindset through Design: Insights from The-matic Analysis of First-year Engineering Students’ ReflectionsMr. Mark Vincent Huerta, Arizona State University Mark Huerta is a PhD student in the Engineering Education Systems and Design program at Arizona State University. He earned a B.S. and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Arizona State University. Mark possesses a diverse background that includes experiences in engineering design, social entrepreneurship, consulting, and project management.Dr. Jeremi S. London, Arizona State University Dr. Jeremi London is an Assistant
project that the students may be involved with in theirfuture careers. Capstone team projects which have become a standard part of (nearly) every en-gineering and computing program have been especially successful in helping to achieve this goal.The second intended goal of such activities is to help students learn the technical, conceptual mate-rial by engaging in suitable activities with their fellow-students rather than just listening passivelyto lectures. At the same time, many engineering and computing faculty have serious concernsabout introducing such activities to any serious extent in their courses; primary among these con-cerns is the potential negative impact of such activities on topic coverage. Trying to arrange suchactivities outside
theflipped classroom model. Using graded online quizzes encourages students to go over thematerial before class and holds them accountable for their learning. The online quiz allowsstudents multiple attempts until they get the correct answer along with direct feedback. This hasbeen proven to increase students’ retention and acts as a motivation for them to learn (M. L.Epstein et.al.,2002; R. E. Dihoff et al.,2003; J.D. Tune et al, 2013; J. Bergman and A. Sams,2014). Another method to hold students accountable for their learning and preparation for theclass in a flipped classroom design is team-based learning as proposed by OP McCubbins et al.,2014. This leads to students coming prepared to their capstone course and being engaged in theclassroom. C
-based projects, ethics, and the entrepreneurial mindset in engineering education. He also researches the development of reuse strategies for waste materials.Ms. Elizabeth Simon, Seattle University Elizabeth Simon is a civil engineering student at Seattle University, a Jesuit institution located Seattle, Washington. She moved to Seattle from Chicago, Illinois where she attended Saint Ignatius College Prep. Previously, Elizabeth spent a year at Loyola University Chicago’s John Felice Rome Center, located in Rome, Italy, where she studied art history and obtained a minor in the subject. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Challenges and Opportunities: Faculty Views on
Dr.Hanan Anis, P.Eng., as the Chairholder. As part of its commitment to CEED1, uOttawaEngineering created two new regular faculty positions, one in the area of engineering design andthe other in technological entrepreneurship (re. Section 2.2). CEED1 focuses on five keyobjectives: To facilitate access to, and provide training with rapid prototyping equipment and facilities. To establish a Master’s in Entrepreneurial Design graduate program of studies. To facilitate a student internship program. To create a multidisciplinary capstone project stream at the undergraduate level. To implement curriculum enhancements targeted at strengthening linkages between design engineering, business, and entrepreneurship.2.5.2 CEED2The development of the
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makerspaces (aswell as academic makerspaces), has been previously reviewed and documented.1,2,3The rapid growth of makerspaces within higher education is significant. While originating inengineering programs, often as extensions of the infrastructure needed to support open-ended problemsolving in keystone and capstone courses, higher education makerspaces are also being created tosupport student learning in other disciplines.4 The concept of learning by creating in the physical anddigital space has also been adopted by liberal arts programs to promote critical and innovative thinking.5In a related development, the American Library Association identified makerspaces as an importanttrend in the evolution of libraries, including university libraries, as
in equipping our students with the “tools of the trade” thenwe need to alert our graduate students( the future engineering teachers) to the need ofdeveloping proper and enduring connections with industries in their locale, andeventually have a mutually beneficial relations with the industrial sector; not so muchto supplement their income; but, principally, to be able to reach the broader goal, i.e.,to gain valuable experience and be truly involved in real engineering.iii) Third, reaching out to the industrial sector and engineering services in the Region,and striving to form symbiotic partnerships between local industry and academiathrough: capstone projects, theses work with practical overtones, and applied researchprojects in selected
. She works with ASCE’s Committee on Education on issues of importance to the undergraduate and grad- uate level education of civil engineers.Dr. Brock E. Barry PE, U.S. Military Academy Dr. Brock E. Barry, P.E. is an Associate Professor and Mechanics Group Director in the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Dr. Barry holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, a Master of Science degree from University of Colorado at Boulder, and a PhD from Purdue University. Prior to pursuing a career in academics, Dr. Barry spent 10-years as a senior geotechnical engineer and project manager on projects throughout the United
-, and transdisciplinary ways, cyberlearning and cyber-environments, service and experien- tial learning, teaming and collaborative learning.Dr. Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Sarah Zappe is Research Associate and Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State. She holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology emphasizing applied measurement and testing. In her position, Sarah is responsible for developing instructional support programs for faculty, providing evaluation support for educational proposals and projects, and working with faculty to publish educational research. Her research interests
ofexperience or too little experience. [Some of them] were beneath my degree … There wasnothing…. tailored at the entry-level. It took a while to find something.” The handful of applicationshe submitted through online job boards were all unsuccessful. Yet his social connections helped tooffset his inexperience. He eventually secured a job offer through a family friend who providedinformation on a company and manager recruiting for a position.Milan also credited landing a job to his involvement in extra-curricular activities: “I would say themost valuable things were the extracurricular, [and] my summer co-op. I did put some courses, my[capstone] project because it showed that I managed a project, went through the entire designprocess. I don’t think
, Eugene, OR, 2003. 8. Krajcik, J. et al. Teaching Science: A Project-Based Approach, McGraw-Hill College, New York, 1999. 9. Jung, S. Effects of basic thinking skills and project method on creativity and project performance ability of elementary school children (dissertation), Kyungsung University Press, 2001. 10. Criteria for accrediting engineering programs, 2016-2017. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. Accessed at on 16 March, 2017. 11. Dunlab, J. C. Problem-based learning and self-efficacy: How a capstone course prepares students for a profession. Educational Technology Research and Development, 53:65-83, 2005. 12. Hsieh, P., et al. Undergraduate engineering students
University’s Engineering Education program, which strives to prepare engineering educators for the 7-12 grade levels. Dr. France is also heavily involved in de- veloping and facilitating the Introduction to Engineering course sequence at ONU. He earned his PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder where his research focused on pre-engineering education and project-based learning.Dr. Louis A. DiBerardino III, Ohio Northern University Dr. DiBerardino is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio Northern University. His teaching and research interests are in first-year engineering, dynamic systems, and musculoskeletal biome- chanics. c American Society for Engineering Education
in 1987, Cornell’s SibleySchool of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) has required that its majors fulfill itthrough a senior level capstone course taught by departmental faculty and graduate teachingassistants. As a lab-based course, that capstone focuses primarily on report writing and designingvisuals. While the instructors have been successful at empowering students to produce well-written reports and well-designed visuals, the recurring results of departmental surveys ofstakeholders (e.g., students, alumni, industry representatives) suggested that MAE needed to dosomething more to prepare students for workplace and research communication needs.In the early fall of 2015 and as a beginning step in their attempt to do more
Paper ID #19152Work in Progress: A Delphi Study to Investigate the Value of Board Gamesto Teach Teamwork SkillsDr. Kevin Ray Hadley, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Hadley received his BS in Chemical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines and his PhD in Chemical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt, he also completed their teaching certificate program and was the first participant to publish the results of his project in a national peer-reviewed journal, Chemical Engineering Education. Afterwards, Dr. Hadley completed a postdoctoral study at NASA. IN 2012, he joined the faculty at South
, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Tech- nology Leadership and Innovation at Purdue University. She is responsible for the launch and develop- ment of the university’s multidisciplinary undergraduate entrepreneurship program, which involves 1800 students from all majors per year. She has established entrepreneurship capstone, global entrepreneurship, and women and leadership courses and initiatives at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Prior to her work in academia, Nathalie spent several years in the field of market research and business strategy consulting in Europe and the United States with Booz Allen and Hamilton and Data and Strategies Group. She received a BA from the University of
recognized pre-college initiative STEM program, FreshStart, which has served more than 2500 students since its inception. Dr. Wickliff has been blessed since 2013 to work daily in the area of her passion – developing young professionals – in her exciting role at Texas A&M University. She is a Professor of Engineering Practice and Mentor to a group of STEM POSSE Scholars. At Texas A&M University, she has taught Capstone Senior Design, Foundations of Engineering courses, Statics & Dynamics, Ethics and Engineergin, and Engineering Leadership Development courses. She is also the founding director of the Zachry Leadership Program. She has also taught Project Management and Risk Management courses for the University
Kinematics CourseAbstractThe proper application of lean management techniques to manufacturing processes typicallyresults in process improvements. Many of the principles of lean thinking can also be applied tothe educational process. This paper examines the implementation of lean management principlesin the design and delivery of a traditional lecture-based engineering course – Kinematics ofMachines.The format of a typical kinematics course relies on lectures, homework, exams, and perhaps adesign project as a means for transferring knowledge from the instructor to the students. In thispaper, lean thinking principles are applied to redesign the kinematics course format to increasethe effectiveness and efficiency of the knowledge transfer process
noticing a lack ofcontinuity and participation in our student organizations, since students are not physically here inthe department as in previous years. It is unclear still how these networks may be affected, and itmay take several more years to realize some of these unintended consequences of movingstudents away from specific disciplines in that first year.It is also important to ensure the FYE instructors understand the BAE discipline well enough sothat relevant examples and projects are incorporated into the FYE engineering courses. In orderfor this program to receive the college-wide support needed to be successful in its adoption, itwas imperative to assemble a core set of FYE instructors with the breadth necessary to representall
participate in the study aswell as their perception of the usefulness of the instrument.In a nationwide study of the adoption of engineering education innovations, Borrego, Froyd andHall [17] explored how seven engineering education innovations were used across the US. Theseven innovations were student-active pedagogies, artifact dissection, curriculum-basedengineering service-learning projects, interdisciplinary capstone design projects, summer bridge 3programs, learning communities or integrated curricula and design projects in the first-yearengineering courses. The purpose of this work was “to understand and make recommendations topromote adoption
suited for online delivery also include: greenscreen techniques, interactive video and software tools from the internet marketing niche tocapture and engage students6.During 2016 Summer Quarter, the set of videos provide a technical foundation made up of aseries of short mini-lectures (usually lasting between 5 to 10 minutes for each video) followed bya series of short assessments to verify and validate student understanding using Google Docs.Video recordings on the use of engineering tools such as Matlab/Simulink, Labview/Multisim,PhET and Algodoo software, can serve as examples to show key concepts. The video instructioncan also include demonstrations of real-world applications. For example, in the capstone designcourses and projects, students
male faculty member each year since its inception in 2011. He joined the institution in2011 after nearly fifteen years in the electronics industry.The course draws a lot of comparisons to our two-semester senior design sequence. However,there are significant differences between ECE490 and our capstone design classes. First, unlikesenior design, ECE490 has a single course objective: Students will be able to apply theengineering design process. Second, it is a truly multi-disciplinary class, and in ECE490engineers of all majors (bio, civil, computer, electrical, and mechanical) work on multi-disciplinary teams developing solutions to real world problems.One of the most significant differences between ECE490 and the senior design sequence is