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Paper ID #20290A Case Study Approach for Understanding the Impact of Team Selection onthe Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Capstone TeamsDr. Mark W. Steiner, University of Central Florida Mark Steiner is Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He currently serves as Director of Engineering Design in the MAE Department. Mark previously served as Director of the O.T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory in the School of Engineering at Rens- selaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and
and manufacturing activities at Yale’s academic makerspace. His professional interests in Mechanical Engi- neering are in the areas of data acquisition/analysis and mechanical design. He is the Co-Chair of the Executive Advisory Board of the FIRST Foundation and is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechan- ical Engineering. Previously, he was the Dean of Engineering at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and has had fellowships at the MIT Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, the Harvard School of Public Health and with the American Council on Education. He has also served as the Vice President of Public Awareness for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was the 2001 Baccalaureate College Professor of the
applications. The presence of at least one and usually two directors in the every classprovides continuity and consistency for the course administration, course content, and student-faculty interactions.Table 1. Departments from UPENN and Industry represented by the speakers from 2014 to 2017School/Industry Department Speakers Lectures Bioengineering (BE) 2 2SEAS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 1 7 (CBE) Pathology and laboratory medicine 3 7 Pediatrics 1
development and testing the assessment is presented in thissection. A goal is to convey presently available results at this initial stage of the project.Results are available from preliminary trial testing with students in three different institutions.Figure 1 shows the results from this trial. A total of 131 students took the test. Of these, 42 werefrom Hope College. These were non-engineering students enrolled in a course called “Scienceand Technology of Everyday Life”. The course satisfies a general education laboratory courserequirement for non-STEM majors. All of these students are majoring in a discipline that is not afield of science, engineering, technology, or mathematics. There were 59 students from IowaState University. These non
University Dr. Colleen Janeiro teaches engineering fundamentals such as Introduction to Engineering, Materials and Processes, and Statics. Her teaching interests include development of solid communication skills and enhancing laboratory skills.Dr. William E. Howard, East Carolina University William E (Ed) Howard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. He was previously a faculty member at Milwaukee School of Engineering, as well as as a design and project engineer with Thiokol Corporation, Spaulding Composites Company, and Sta-Rite Industries.Dr. Patrick F. O’Malley, Benedictine College Patrick O’Malley teaches in the Mechanical Engineering program at Benedictine College
chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing fluids in coal-bed methane and regular oil and gas wells in Colorado. While in the middle of his master’s degree, he also spent a year as a graduate intern at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory studying renewable energy commercialization in Caribbean countries among other areas. He is currently completing is second master’s in engineering for developing communities in conjunction with his PhD Civil Systems Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. His trans-disciplinary research involves addressing global development issues from an engineering, political, and economic perspective.Dr. Bernard Amadei, University of Colorado, Boulder Dr. Amadei is Professor of Civil
., Radenkovic, B., & Despotovic-Zrakic, M. (2014). A Platform for Learning Internet of Things. International Association for Development of the Information Society.16. Dickerson, S.J. (2016). Preparing Undergraduate Engineering Students for the Internet of Things. In Proceedings of the 2016 ASEE 123rd Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, LA, June 26-29, 2016.17. Hamblen, J. O., & van Bekkum, G. M. (2013). An embedded systems laboratory to support rapid prototyping of robotics and the internet of things.IEEE Transactions on Education, 56(1), 121-128.18. Hu, J., van der Vlist, B., Niezen, G., Willemsen, W., Willems, D., & Feijs, L. (2013). Designing the Internet of Things for learning environmentally
-goals(e.g. add a feature) and engage in multiple sub-problems (e.g. debugging, feature testing). Bytaking a discourse perspective, we can view the relationship between subject and problem as anegotiation between multiple sub-problems, each which may take the focus of the participant atdifferent times, e.g. while implementing a new feature, the participant may notice a bug andengage in a debugging process before returning back to feature implementation.Example caseIn this section we describe an ongoing study that is utilizing these methods. While this study isconducted in a laboratory setting which restricted participants’ range of options, it provides aconvenient example of how the theoretical framework of sociomateriality might be combinedwith
Aidan O Dwyer, “Learning Styles of First Year Level 7 Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Students at DIT,” in International Symposium for Engineering Education ISEE- 08 (Dublin City University, 2008), 69–74.13 Mary Baker, Michael O’Boyle, and Rachna Mutreja, “Learning Styles and Retention Rates in Engineering Students,” in On Being an Engineer: Cognitive Underpinnings of Engineering Education (Lubbock, TX, 2008).14 James Bluman and J. Ledlie Klosky, “Jump-Starting a Senior-Level Capstone Project through Hands-on Laboratory Exercises,” in 41st ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (Rapid City, SD, 2011), 1–6, doi:10.1109/FIE.2011.6142810.15 Robert P Hesketh, Stephanie Farrell, and C S Slater, “The Role of
of scoring rubrics: Reliability, validity and educational consequences. Educ. Res. Rev. 2, 130–144 (2007).27. Popham, W. J. Classroom assessment: What teachers need to know. (Pearson, 2014).28. Reddy, Y. M. & Andrade, H. A review of rubric use in higher education. Assess. Eval. High. Educ. 35, 435–448 (2010).29. Andrade, H. G. Using rubrics to promote thinking and learning. Educ. Leadersh. 57, 13– 18 (2000).30. Kellogg, R. S., Mann, J. A. & Dieterich, A. Developing and using rubrics to evaluate subjective engineering laboratory and design reports. in ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition 1–10 (2001).31. Lovorn, M. G. & Rezaei, A. R. Assessing the assessment: Rubrics training for pre-service
worked as a de- sign engineer, as a Visiting Professor at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as a Professor at the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah, and as the Chief Water Consultant of an international engineer- ing and sustainability consulting firm he co-founded. He served as the first co-Director of Sustainability Curriculum Development at the University of Utah where he created pan-campus degree programs and stimulated infusion of sustainability principles and practices in teaching and learning activities across campus. Dr. Burian currently is the Project Director of the USAID-funded U.S.-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Water at the University of Utah. He also serves as the Associate
onquality and progress of the student’s work. Students have the ability to discuss their progressboth in individual meetings with their mentor and in the weekly collaboration meetings. Inaddition, graduate students involved in the project are expected to monitor each student’sperformance and progress in the laboratory setting. Ideally, concerns are addressed early, and thestudent is mentored to overcome weaknesses or deficiencies in regards to research. The facultymentor is expected to provide constructive criticism to the students to help them gain the mostfrom the summer program.Assessment:The program was assessed in a number of ways. The demographic data of the participants wasused to determine the success of the recruitment efforts in engaging
% Participation in student associations 10% Others 10% Table 12 shows the percentage of respondents that have observed a specific studentmisconduct in the last 12 months, besides showing the percentage that recognized havingcommitted a misconduct themselves over the same period of time. The misconducts were definedas respondent options according to the qualitative information collected in group interviews withstudents. There are student issues such as the free-rider problem that are highly prevalent in thestudent body, besides the act of signing the attendance list on someone’s behalf and cheating inactivities within a laboratory module. Furthermore, more
, manufacture, assembly, and evaluation of a fairly complexproduct. The project also requires students to work in teams, plan a long-term project, andcommunicate their product development plan, preliminary design, and final designs through aseries of presentations and reports. The course has a final competition where teams demonstratetheir designed products. In an earlier paper, Calabro, Gupta, and Lopez Roschwalb23 discussedmore details about the design and implementation of this Design Course.Each section is staffed by an instructor and an undergraduate teaching assistant (UTA).Additionally, there are laboratory teaching fellows who manage the laboratory/fabrication spaceand assist teams in fabrication and/or programming as needed. The staffing for
. Theguided notes provided a way for the students to accurately document the derivations as well. Thismethod can be applied even for a larger class. The instructor should walk around the class andmake sure that students are working on the guided notes without being distracted.5. Passion Projects This teaching module was not successfully implemented in the compressible flow classbecause of the lack of supersonic wind tunnels and laboratory facilities at the University of Daytonto generate compressible flows. But this module is currently being incorporated in the fundamentalaerodynamics class taught by the author. The idea of passion projects was inspired from a projectbased research class for undergraduate students at Massachusetts Institute of
Paper ID #18737It’s Simply Different There! Studying Abroad to Advance Engineering Prob-lem Solving while Cultivating Engineering LeadershipDr. Robert Prewitt Penno P.E., University of Dayton Dr. Robert Penno is a life, senior member of IEEE and a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Penno helped initiate Study Abroad programs for engineering students at the University of Dayton and has co-led five, month-long Study Abroad trips to Italy. He has also performed research at the Air Force Research Laboratories at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in
building on this theory encourage studentsto engage in real world problems where they can reflect on their learning experiences andknowledge gained.42 By engaging in these learning activities, students can directly apply theirtheoretical knowledge and skills in a real-life context.43 These experiential learning activities caninclude field site work, laboratory experiences, indoor and outdoor projects and other researchwork.2 Thus, experiential learning is situated in a setting, which is relevant to the learner’s futureprofession that furthers helps in developing transferable skills. 40 This theory also emphasizes thatstudents’ experiences will be reflected in their future engagements. For example, if students areengaging in research work and
, among other goals, provide recommendations for selecting appropriate recycled materials, identify suitable characteristics for such materials (including environmental suitability), and develop a list of suitable, high-potential recycled materials; explain the benefits of each recycled material (environmental, social, and economic); and design laboratory and field testing requirements and installation guidelines. 12Despite the fact that the statement did not appear to be closely related to the class focus, theinstructor did not recommend a change because no instructions had been given at the beginningof the class pertaining to the specific topic selected and because the initial intention was to notguide the
industry sponsored capstone from at his school and is the advisor of OU’s FSAE team.Prof. Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma Farrokh’s passion is to have fun in providing an opportunity for highly motivated and talented people to learn how to define and achieve their dreams. Farrokh Mistree holds the L. A. Comp Chair in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. Prior to this position, he was the Associate Chair of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech – Savannah. He was also the Founding Director of the Systems Realization Laboratory at Georgia Tech. Farrokh’s current research focus is model-based realization of complex systems
School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. Prior to this position, he was the Associate Chair of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech – Savannah. He was also the Founding Director of the Systems Realization Laboratory at Georgia Tech. Farrokh’s current research focus is model-based realization of complex systems by managing uncertainty and complexity. The key question he is investigating is what are the principles underlying rapid and robust concept exploration when the analysis models are incomplete and possibly inaccurate? His quest for answers to the key question are anchored in three projects, namely, Integrated Realization of
univariate and multivariate statistics, measurement issues across diverse populations, educational assessment, and evaluation of educational programs. He holds the Patricia Daw Yetter Professorship in quantitative methodology and program evaluation, and coordinates the Research and Evaluation Laboratory (REL) in the College of Education at UTEP. He is an expert on educational research with an emphasis on quantitative methods and the application of univariate and multivariate statistical procedures, measurement issues across diverse populations, educational assessment, and eval- uation of educational programs. He has served on over 87 doctoral dissertation committees; published more than 45 refereed research articles; and
differences between BEand MAE groups. First, the BE groups’ flows suggest an increase of reported engagement nearthe end the project. We suspect that this increase is due to the impending deadlines. The BEexperts commented that they usually saw a similar pattern among the undergraduate students intheir laboratory. Second, the MAE groups’ design process flow pattern suggests an incrementalreported engagement from the problem definition phase to the conceptual design phase and thento the preliminary design phase. A similar trend was not found in the BE groups’ flows. Oneinterpretation of this pattern is that the MAE groups’ design process was design-phase-drivenwhile the BE groups were design-activity-driven [13]. We suspect the discipline principles
incollaborative research settings, especially at the graduate level. Graduate engineering studentsare immediately expected to assimilate into a laboratory group, usually an interdependent team,with varying degrees of guidance by faculty members. The group dynamics and the role of trustas graduate students learn to conduct collaborative research is underexplored, but may haveramifications for the way in which graduate programs are structured or in how graduate studentsare matched with potential research advisors.Other theories and research also seek to understand mechanisms by which experts innovate inprofessional settings, and many of these have been applied to engineering education. Theories ofdistributed cognition 20 have been employed to understand
in Nigeria. His research focuses on studying the various processes by which societies select, adopt and implement large technological systems with an emphasis on digital telecommunication technologies, particularly mobile telephony systems and the Internet. At the University of Virginia, Tolu heads the Digital Privacy Research Laboratory. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 The Whole as the Sum of More Than the Parts: Developing Qualitative Assessment Tools to Track the Contribution of the Humanities and Social Sciences to an Engineering CurriculumAbstractAs over sixteen years of experience have demonstrated, outcomes-based assessment under theEC2000 criteria has
their tasks, as well asshared their contact information with the other teams, leading to a better communication structureamong the student teams. Specifically, the students used an online communication messagingplatform to maintain constant updates across the teams.Towards the end of the semester, RRT eBikes’s CEO made frequent stops at the laboratory,observing demonstrations, asking questions, and ensuring the work was being done properly andon time.The co-op student, employed by RRT eBikes, served as a centerpiece to much of the progress inthe semester. The student was part manager and part engineer, and without this student, it is likelylittle would have been accomplished. Faculty and students alike relied on the co-op, as wasreflected in
. Sharing known skills- Students who possess certain knowledge or skills (examples: computer skills, laboratory skills, data reduction skills, presentation skills) should be willing to pass it on, and/or share it with their group members. Collaborative Skills- Groups cannot function effectively if members do not have (be willing to learn) or use some needed social skills. These skills include leadership, decision making, trust building, and conflict management. Monitoring Progress- Groups need to discuss amongst themselves whether they are achieving their set goals; they also need to prioritize the scheduled activities, introduce changes if need be, solicit advice and
College. His research group, the Music & Entertainment Technology Laboratory (MET-lab), focuses on the ma- chine understanding of audio, particularly for music information retrieval. Honored as a member of the Apple Distinguished Educator class of 2013 and the recipient of Drexel’s 2012 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, Youngmoo also has extensive experience in music per- formance, including eight years as a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Festival Chorus. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017STEAM Education through Music Technology (Evaluation)IntroductionFor the past 10 years, the Music Entertainment Technology Lab (MET