into a user handbook for the department’s use. This handbookillustrates the most effective lean six-sigma tools from the research, and provides step-by-stepinstructions on how to use them. The outcome of this research prompted the restructuring of thedepartment and the creation of a new position. This paper will provide the methods used andexplanations given, results found from this project and explain why a complete lean six-sigmaproject is not feasible for this type of environment.IntroductionAccording to a 2007 Industry Week Magazine Survey, 70% of US companies are using sometype of continuous improvement program (Lean, Six Sigma, Total Quality Management, etc.) butonly 9% report good results, and less than 25% are satisfied with their
Paper ID #18797No More Duct Tape! Institutionalization of Advance InitiativesDr. Carol Elizabeth Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Dr. Carol Marchetti is an Associate Professor of Statistics at Rochester Institute of Technology, where she teaches introductory and advanced undergraduate statistics courses and conducts research in statistics education, deaf education, and online learning. She is a co-PI on the NSF AdvanceRIT IT project and leads grant activities in salary equity and faculty data.Prof. Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Professor Dell is an associate professor in the
the Space Engi- neering Institute and in 2010 she accepted a position with the Academic Affairs office of the Dwight Look College of Engineering where she oversaw outreach, recruiting, retention and enrichment programs for the college. Since 2013, she serves as the Executive Director for Industry and Nonprofit Partnerships with responsibilities to increase opportunities for undergraduates engineering students to engage in experiential learning multidisciplinary team projects. These include promoting capstone design projects sponsored by industry, developing the teaching the Engineering Projects in Community Service course, and developing curricular and co-curricular programs at the Engineering Innovation Center
Paper ID #20214MAKER: Simple Motor for a Freshman ClassDr. Dawn Wendell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. Dawn Wendell is an engineer whose past projects range from BattleBots robots to medical devices, for which she holds several patents. She received four degrees from MIT including a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. She worked as a fluid mechanics researcher in Paris, France before returning to MIT as Assistant Director of Admissions. Currently Dr. Wendell works as a Senior Lecturer in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering teaching design, manufacturing, and instrumentation. c
University and is currently a 5th- year Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Prof. Thomas Jaramillo. Her thesis work focuses on developing tantalum nitride semiconductors as photoanodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting—the process of using solar energy to directly split water into hydrogen and oxygen.Gabriel K. Head, University of Pennsylvania c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Sustainable Energy Projects for Undergraduates: Biofuels from Solar-Powered Algae CulturesAbstractRenewable, Green, and Sustainable energy utilizing photovoltaics and wind power are well-established in educational laboratories and as topics for student projects. Biofuels are
Paper ID #17952Industry Certification Program in Quality ControlDr. Ali Ahmad, Northwestern State University Ali Ahmad is the Head of the Engineering Technology Department at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. He received a B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Jordan (Amman, Jordan; with Highest Distinction) and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida (Orlando, Fl, USA). He has diverse expertise in human-computer interaction, quality engineering, and simulating human-machine systems. He previously worked on projects related to transfer of
Paper ID #17715WIP: Introducing Active Learning in a Software Engineering CourseDr. Bruce R Maxim, University of Michigan, Dearborn Bruce R. Maxim has worked as a software engineer, project manager, professor, author, and consultant for more than thirty years. His research interests include software engineering, human computer interaction, game design, social media, artificial intelligence, and computer science education. Dr. Maxim is associate professor of computer and information science at the University of Michigan—Dearborn. He established the GAME Lab in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. He has
. Understanding students’ prioritization and re-prioritization on designstrategies after undertaking a design project allows an opportunity to see how students’conceptions of design develop. This work-in-progress uses a conceptions of design researchinstrument adapted to be sensitive to students’ design experience with a simulated engineeringdesign environment (Energy3D). Students select the five most important and five least importantdesign activities from a list of twenty and provide an open-response regarding one of theirselected terms for both most and least important terms. The survey was administered as a pre-and post-test assessment in three middle schools in the Midwest with over 700 students. Throughstatistical analysis of changing terms of
science and engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Students’ Perceptions of Software RisksAbstractRisk—the possibility of an unsatisfactory outcome—is an essential vehicle for a softwaredevelopment project to progress. Iterative and incremental process models like spiral advocatethe continuous identification of the items likely to compromise the project’s success and theearly resolution of those top-ranked risk items. Although the concepts and principles, such as riskexposure and project top-10 risk-item monitoring, are commonly taught in undergraduatesoftware engineering courses, little is known about how students, especially those working inagile software teams
, 21st century skills, and design and evaluation of learning environments informed by the How People Learn framework.Antonia Ketsetzi Antonia Ketsetzi is a graduate student in the Department of Teaching Learning & Culture at Texas A&M University. She received her BS degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Technological Educational Institute in Crete. She received her M.Sc degree in Environmental Technologies at University of Crete in Greece. Ketsetzi’s research is in How People Learn / Engineering Design and evaluation of educational innovations. She also serves as a Research Assistant in the project. Antonia Ketsetzi, M.Ed. Texas A&M University ketsetzi@tamu.eduDr. Xiaobo Peng, Prairie View A&M
Scholar and is the current endowed chair for innovation in science, engineering and mathematics education at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Multidisciplinary Pilot Course on the Internet of Things: Curriculum Development Using Lean Startup PrinciplesAbstractThis paper will summarize the development and teaching of a multidisciplinary, project-based,pilot course on the Internet of Things using strategies inspired by the Lean Startup movement.The course was taught at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a small teaching institution inthe Midwest with an emphasis on engineering education. Eight students from four differentmajors
. Deborah Walter is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She teaches courses in circuits, electromagnetics, and medical imaging. Before joining academia in 2006, she was at the Computed Tomography Laboratory at GE’s Global Research Center for 8 years. She worked on several technology development projects in the area of X-ray CT for medical and industrial imaging. She is a named inventor on 9 patents. She has been active in the recruitment and retention of women and minorities in engineering and currently PI for an NSF-STEM grant to improve diversity at Rose-Hulman. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017
minority students enrolling and graduating with graduate level de- grees. Dr. Banks also has experience in program evaluation and research involving health disparities and psychosocial issues and is a lecturer in the psychology and interdisciplinary studies program.Ms. Sharon A Stauffer, NC State University Genetic Engineering and Society Center Sharon joined the Genetic Engineering and Society Center in the fall of 2013, at the beginning of its inaugural year. She brings to the Center many years of experience in event planning, office management, project management, and financial management. She is the current project manager on the Centers’ NSF- funded grant titled ”Cultivating Cultures in Ethics STEM:Comparing Meanings
Research, Interactive Learning Environments, etc. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Service Learning Approach to Developing a Kinect-based Showering Training Game for Children Who Do Not TalkAbstractIn this study, we combined social inclusion with a curriculum design emphasizingservice learning to transform academic classroom curricula into meaningful services incommunity-based settings. In a service-learning curriculum at the junior and seniorlevels in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), we implemented a servicelearning pedagogy to engage students in a social context. The curriculum encouragedstudents to work with special education schools in joint projects that help children
Curtis Yes sir.19 [00:04:45] Will Credit… Credit is due where it belongs.In this exchange, a mentorship interaction emerges without notice from an unexpected prompt.Although he is sitting two feet from Curtis, Will is unaware of what Curtis is working on until anoise draws his attention. Then he is surprised by Curtis’s project and expresses some incredulitytowards Curtis’ role on the project. After prompting from Curtis, Will forms an ad hoc purposefor applying some mentorship and gives Curtis mild feedback, followed by light praise and workadvice about taking credit where credit is due. This final piece of advice could be seen asattempting to provide a more experienced perspective on how one might navigate
&S IT-Consulting Christian Steinmann has an engineer degree in mathematics from the Technical University Graz, where he focused on software quality and software development process assessment and improvement. He is man- ager of HM&S IT-Consulting and provides services for SPiCE/ISO 15504 and CMMI for development as a SEI-certified instructor. He performed more than 100 process assessments in software development de- partments for different companies in the finance, insurance, research, automotive, and automation sector. Currently, his main occupation is a consulting project for process improvement for safety related embed- ded software development for an automobile manufacturer. On Fridays, he is teaching
student learning via a project-based learningassignment on the corrosion of winter maintenance vehicles in the State of Ohio. The module’seducational objectives were to (1) increase knowledge among high school students about thefactors associated with corrosion, specifically vehicular corrosion, (2) increase studentunderstanding of engineering principles behind corrosion prevention and mitigation, and (3)engage students in multiple interactive, hands-on activities to reinforce their learning. Pre- andpost- assessments were administered to (1) determine if an engineering module would allowstudents to develop a more complex understanding of corrosion engineering problems and higherlevels of corrosion science knowledge, (2) assess whether students
space.The aim of the new makerspace was to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship by engagingstudents in both formal and informal multidisciplinary design projects. In the long term, the goalis to integrate the space into all levels of the engineering curriculum and encourage project-basedlearning. The university has a strong entrepreneurial center with ongoing programs as well asseveral incubators. The new space was designed to supplement the current innovation andentrepreneurship options available to students and student startups by providing prototypingequipment. A mixed method approach (a survey combined with ethnographic observations andinterviews) was used to analyze student use and perception of the new space. Of particularinterest was
techniques. The event took place over one day, andincluded a speaker at lunch, who provided the women with a female role model who was familiarwith manufacturing processes. Participants in this event were asked to fill out a short post-eventsurvey, in order to determine the program’s value and effectiveness and guide futureimprovements.In this paper, the program is described, and the evaluation data from the survey is presented. Thisdata shows that participants felt that the event was valuable. The description of the event, togetherwith the data on its effectiveness, can be used by other universities that wish to create similarprograms. With additional programs, it would be possible to further explore the role of individualhands-on projects in
experienced computer science lecturer, software engineer, mobile applications developer and re- searcher with a flair for creativity and visual design. At Western Carolina University I have taught a diverse range of topics under the umbrella of computer science and supervised undergraduate research projects (capstone). My current research interests revolve around computer science education, best prac- tices in team formation and assessment of work, the visualization of programming concepts, and mobile applications. I have been programming in the OO and imperative paradigms for over 15 years. Since 2006 I have been lecturing and tutoring computing subjects. In addition to my teaching record, I have also gained significant
further her knowledge in Energy Engineering to focus on methods to effectively increase efficiency and to use energy in cleaner ways. For her Senior Design Project, Ms. Stinnett Designed a Dome Test Setup for Sheet Metal Formability Characterization. During the summer of 2014, Ms. Stinnett had a Maryland Space Grant Consortium Summer Exchange Student Internship. She developed lab experiments that aid the learning of multiple manufacturing concepts through hands- on completion of the lab exercise. Integrating learning-based assessment tools into the designs of the experiments. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Learning Experience in Designing a Dome Test Setup for Sheet
as well as other outcomes that are more distantto the experiments themselves; e.g., teamwork, professionalism and ethics, life-long learning,and especially communications. This paper will describe the process of redesigning a junior-level mechanical engineering laboratory on measurements and instrumentation at Georgia Tech.Such classes are fairly standard in ME curricula, and they are often structured so that a newmeasurement technique, or new sensor/actuator is introduced in every lab. Such courses have theadvantage of introducing students to a wide variety of instruments and measurement techniques,but they do this at the risk of losing conceptual connections between the weekly projects. Thispotential problem was compounded by the original
found in current literature as to theessence of engineering leadership. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Programportrays engineering leadership as a process to promote teams to implement commongoals; it represents a series of capabilities and skills that help engineers to accomplisha multi-disciplinary project, which is often characterized as a team-working processinstead of individual efforts [10]. The National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)points out that leadership skills represent essential professional capabilities thatcontribute to public health, safety and welfare [11]. By an analysis of differentengineering leadership program outcomes, one can understand the varied emphases ofthese programs in their training. For example, the
Engineering riley@msoe.eduAbstractThe development of Software Product Lines (SPL) hold promise to improve the efficiency ofwriting and maintaining large software projects, but SPL engineering can be difficult to teach in asoftware engineering classroom for many reasons. The development of a non-trivial SPL typicallytakes longer than the time available in a typical semester, student interest in SPL engineering israrely inherent, and learning outcomes from different approaches to SPL engineering are notalways consistent or aligned with traditional software engineering learning goals. Further,applying SPL methods in an agile development environment can be challenging because agilemethods typically prioritize features and bug
components. The advent of 3D solid modeling and 3D printing hasreduced the cost of incorporating hands-on education to mechanical engineering classes forplastic components but has little application to metals commonly used in engineering design.This paper presents the use of a RapidCast process for a Mechanics of Materials class project toenable the design and testing of custom metal parts. The RapidCast process’ adaptation oftraditional casting techniques which replaces wax or foam with a plastic 3D printed model allowscomplex shapes to be designed, produced, and tested in a matter of days as a demonstrationtechnique. This class project concept has been refined over several semesters to the currentprocess where students are tasked to design, 3D
amounts required or at the price points of the past havechallenged these companies significantly. In addition, newer technologies like 3D printing andadvanced computer methods have begun to change the game for creating and distributing music.Both of these topics and others continue to allow the instructor to relate the music-related issuesto the bigger picture of engineering and technology in general society.In response to both the growing interest in the course among high-ability students and the needsof the host university, an Honors section was created and approved. This new offering enhancesthe experience of these students by requiring the completion of a guitar design project. Startingwith basic guitar parts, student teams must identify
the bridge program in the comingyear as effective as possible, the project team interviewed current engineering graduate studentsat Purdue whose undergraduate degree is from an MSI or other relatively small school, to learnwhat challenges they faced when making the transition from a small, minority-serving institutionto a large, majority institution.During conversations with faculty members at MSIs and with URM students participating in thefirst year of the summer undergraduate research program, it became clear that the end of thejunior year was too late to introduce students to the idea of pursuing a graduate degree andfaculty career in engineering. By that time, most of the top students had already participated incorporate internships or
. Mahmood Moussavi is currently a faculty member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the University of Calgary. He has over 25 years research and teaching experience in different areas of software engineering and information technology, and he has served over 11 year as Director of the Software Engineering at the above-mentioned department. His general research interest and expertise are summarized as follows: Distributed and multi-agent soft- ware systems Software design and architecture Data mining and database management Dr. Moussavi’s most recent research projects involves: A simulation-based study on software design for connected vehicles and traffic infrastructures, applying agent-based
introduction of vehicle automation, autonomy and connectivity is fundamentally changingthe concept of automotive transportation. Although many of these technologies are still indevelopment in lab, some of these technologies are already available and demonstrated by theprototypes such as Google and Toyota self-driving cars. To prepare for the future workforceneeds of autonomous vehicles in the automotive industry, we develop new, technologicallyprogressive curricula and hands-on lab as well as student project materials. This proposed “LaneKeeping System by Visual Technology” is a research and concept-proving student project thatwill be studied and used to develop teaching materials for the subject of vehicle automation,autonomy and connectivity. Lane
Campus), Maintenance Engineer at AGRINCO, Electrical Engineer at Min- istry of Culture (National Theater Project, Damascus). Yasser’s professional interests include precision mechatronics, real-time control systems design, networked control systems.Mr. Shameel Abdulla, Texas A&M University at Qatar Shameel Abdulla is currently working as a Technical Laboratory Coordinator in the Mechanical Engineer- ing Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He joined the MEEN program in December 2012. He is responsible for coordinating experiments in the Controls and Measurements labs. Shameel’s professional interests include Product Design, Control System Design, and Mechatronics.Prof. Ibrahim Hassan P.E., Texas A&M