course of the exercise, thestudents matured the model, increasing its detail and complexity through organic growth. Thefinal outcome was a respectable fraction of the size of large, professionally executed efforts(such as the 30 Meter Telescope model still under development).The significant advantages in clarity, consistency, and overall integrity of a model-drivensystems engineering effort will be highlighted; an emphasis will be placed on derived workproducts (tables, matrices, and derived properties) and their ability to provide relevant content tostakeholders.The MS in Product Development (MPD) Program at the University of Detroit MercyThe MPD Program at the University of Detroit Mercy began in the late 1990s (the seventeenthcohort completed
power, electronics thermal management, and manufacturing. He has authored more than 140 technical publications. His honors include SAE’s Teetor Award, Rosten Award for Thermal Analysis of Electronic Equipment, ASME Curriculum Inno- vation Award, and Fischer Engineering Teacher of the Year Award. He is an ASME Fellow and on the Board of Directors of ASEE’s Engineering Research Council.Dr. Joseph J. Helble, Dartmouth College Joseph J. Helble is Professor of Engineering, and Dean of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, a position he has held since 2005. Prior to Dartmouth, Dr. Helble was the AAAS Revelle Fellow, spending a year on staff in the U.S. Senate with a focus on science policy. Previously, he
understandings of ethics and morality, but yet were distinct.Norms/Traits. As with general ethics, honesty and integrity were cited by a number ofinterviewees as important characteristics for an engineer to possess. An example response isgiven by Beverly: “I think honesty is a big one. I think at any field, not just engineering, honesty is the best quality as they say. It's really important, because as engineers you're making all these decisions that impact not just you but thousands and millions of people. You have to make those honest decisions, because they could be the deal breaker or they could be that one thing that makes the bridge collapse or holds it up for a lifetime.”Other specific and general traits that were in
Paper ID #18098The RED Teams as Institutional Mentors: Advice from the First Year of the”Revolution”Dr. Jeremi S. London, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Dr. Jeremi London is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Arizona State University. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue Uni- versity. Prior to her PhD, she worked in quality assurance and logistics roles at Anheuser-Busch and GE Healthcare, where she was responsible for ensuring consistency across processes and compliance with federal regulations. For four consecutive summers
weinhabit and leave behind for future generations.”12The course content is built upon the description of Earth Systems Engineering as described byMichael E. Gorman who developed an Earth Systems Engineering course in the department ofSystems Engineering at the University of Virginia and concepts promoted by Industrial EcologistBradden Allenby.1,2,10,11 Other influential work that contributed to the curriculum includes thecase study on the Florida Everglades Restoration Project, the NASA Earth Science EnterprisePlan, and course and curricula descriptions of Columbia University’s Earth and Environmental Engineering Program, The Center for Earth Systems Engineering
mechanical engineering students completelab experiments at brick-and-mortar facilities is outmoded.We propose an alternative approach with potential to revolutionize distance undergraduatemechanical engineering education: Hands-On Learning Module (@HOLM™) laboratory kits.These kits maintain the centrality of laboratories in the mechanical engineering curriculum whileallowing undergraduate engineering courses to be taught fully remotely and on-line. In this newparadigm, remote learners receive in the mail an inexpensive @HOLM™ kit containingexperiments integrated into the online course they are taking. Following assembly instructions,learners build each apparatus, run experiments, collect and analyze data, and author lab reports. Bydescribing here
Paper ID #18213Continuous Improvement of Teaching via Peer and Administrator ClassroomObservationDr. Ekaterina Koromyslova, South Dakota State University Ekaterina Koromyslova, an Assistant Professor in Operations Management, has PhD in Economics and MS in Business Economics and Management. She has work experience in industry as an analyst-consultant of manufacturing enterprises and managerial work experience as the deputy head of a customer service department in STS Logistics, which is leading 3PL full service provider in the Russian and CIS logistics market.Dr. Teresa J.K. Hall, South Dakota State University Hall is
Paper ID #18172The Essence of Scientific and Engineering Thinking and Tools to Promote ItProf. Osman Yasar, State University of New York, Brockport Osman Yasar is an endowed professor and director of the CMST Institute at The College at Brockport, SUNY. He established the first undergraduate degree program in computational science in the United States and developed a computational pedagogical content knowledge (CPACK) framework for teacher education. His research interests include engineering and science education, computational pedagogy, computational and scientific thinking as well as fluid dynamics, engine ignition
&M University. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Engineering Technology and the De- partment of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include engineering education, cognitive task analysis, automation, robotics and control, intelligent manufacturing system design, and micro/nano manufacturing. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 MAKER: Smart Lighting Module for Teaching High School Science and Engineering
evaluation methods as applied to process control (NDE) and pedagogical methodology. Dr. Shull’s peda- gogical efforts include meta-cognitive strategy learning to improve student academic success, an interest in women’s issues within the engineering environment, integrated, experiential techniques to improve engineering students’ social emotional development as applied to teamwork and communication, and program assessment methods that minimize stakeholders’ efforts while maximizing the effectiveness of the measurement tool.Dr. Catherine Cohan, The Pennsylvania State University Catherine Cohan holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and has been a research psychologist for over 20 years. Her areas of expertise include
. Person C: (nodding) Actually, I needed that too. Person A (host): Thanks for letting us know. Come to think of it, we've been going for a while, so why don't we do one more discussion round and then take a 15-minute break? (people nod agreement; discussion continues).In an engineering education context, we have used the Circle Way format to facilitate facultydiscussions on engineering curriculum design. We have also used it as the discussion format fora graduate-level course on signal processing, where technical topics discussed in the prior week’sclass were placed in the center for the class to explain, comment on, and ask questions about.The Circle architecture can be used to hold both intellectually and affectively difficult
journals and conferences.Dr. Shaobo Huang, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Shaobo Huang is an Assistant Professor and the Stensaas Endowed STEM Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. Her research interests in- clude student retention and academic performance in engineering, student achievement evaluation and assessment, and K-12 STEM curriculum design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Improving Student Understanding of Digital Systems Design with VHDL via Inductive InstructionAbstractThis paper introduces inductive instruction strategy that is applied to Digital Systems design withVHDL class. This
senior designexperience. A project with significant design content, where work is completed in a teamenvironment, is universally desired. The following statement is from ABET’s Engineeringprogram accreditation requirements: “Students must be prepared for engineering practicethrough a curriculum culminating in a major design experience based on the knowledge andskills acquired in earlier course work and incorporating appropriate engineering standards andmultiple realistic constraints.”1 What fits the bill better than having students work withinindustry, maybe even as paid interns, on an active company project? Nothing could be more realsince the project is real. Such projects automatically include real schedules, deadlines,constraints, codes
responsibility for their own learning. Educators call this traditional method, “instructor-centered teaching.” In contrast, “learner-centered teaching” occurs when instructors focus on thelearner and authentic problems rather than on the structured analysis of the curriculum content(Blumberg 2008, Gunderman et al. 2003). If teacher’s primary focus is covering the content,students respond by memorizing the material with limited understanding. If the students are theones doing hard and messy work, then the understanding is deeper (Weimer, 2013). Learninginvolves active construction of meaning by the learner, who construct meaning by combining whatthey currently know with the new information that they are acquiring. Meaningful learning can befacilitated by
., 2017). Lastly, consumers often believe that they want a product that is loadedwith features but later may be overwhelmed by the product’s complexity (Rust et al., 2006). Itbecomes clear that a sharper focus on stakeholders and features is a critical requirement forproduct success and an integrated approach is needed to help students navigate thesecomplexities. A systems engineering approach for undergraduate design education has been applied in firstyear to capstone design courses to help students with designing systems (Simoni, et al., 2016).The advantages of the approach are that one set of models or views is applicable to a widevariety of design problems making the common approach easier for students to learn and facultyto teach and assess
Paper ID #18496Inclusion of Safety Discipline into Pneumatic and Hydraulics Lab ActivitiesDr. Shoji Nakayama, Purdue University Northwest (College of Technology) Dr. Shoji Nakayama is an Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership and Supervision in the De- partment of Construction Science and Organizational Leadership at Purdue University Northwest. In this position, he teaches safety and health related courses, as well as improving Environmental Health and Safety curriculum through Industrial Advisory Committees. Dr. Nakayama has safety related experience in automotive, airline, regulatory agency and printing
components of the system is shown in Figure 2. Fig. 2: Block Diagram of UHD Sustainability Garden Automated Irrigation SystemTo collect solar energy, two RENOGY® 250W mono-crystalline black photovoltaic panels areused6 (Figure 3). An Air Primus Air40 wind turbine7 (Figure 4) is used to provide a secondarysource of energy in addition to the solar panels. The wind turbine is mounted to a steel pole at aheight of 23’ and contains an integrated charge controller that allows the wiring to be directlyconnected to the battery bank. It requires a 7 mph wind to begin spinning the turbine blades. Therated output is 160 watts given a 12 mph wind speed.Other major components of the renewable system include the batteries for energy storage (two100 Ah
/manufacturing/electronics/ information technology associate degree andcertificate programs. These curricula resulted in 105 new courses integrating academicand vocational subject matter with industry skill standards and/or competencies.The CREATE Regional Center, which evolved out of Project CREATE’s successes,established objectives, activities, outcomes, and timelines designed to target the sevenchief areas of need or goals that the CREATE project identified. These areas includeteacher preparation, high school feeder linkages, articulation and access, student worksiteand internship experiences, curriculum development, curriculum delivery, andlongitudinal evaluation of student success. A primary focus of all years of CREATE wasfaculty development
Paper ID #18700Toward a Shared Meaning of the ”Impact” of Engineering Education Re-search: Initial Findings of a Mixed Methods StudyDr. Jeremi S London, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Dr. Jeremi London is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Arizona State University. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue Uni- versity. Prior to her PhD, she worked in quality assurance and logistics roles at Anheuser-Busch and GE Healthcare, where she was responsible for ensuring consistency across processes and compliance with federal regulations. For
Interim Department Head in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She is a former Program Director of the Engineering Education Program at the National Science Foundation and served as a founding faculty member of Smith College’s Picker Engineering Program from 2001- 2014. She is an ASEE Fellow and the 2012 recipient of the Sterling Olmsted Award from the Liberal Education/Engineering and Society Division. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Which “Me” am I Today? The Many Disciplines and Skill Sets of Engineering EducatorsPick up any issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education and it is clear that American educationtoday, regardless of level or
academic and academic-industry-collaborativeprojects. These projects are typically integrated into the curriculum as full-semester projects fordesign courses, as small projects within a technical course, as work for a co-op employee, and/oras an extra-curricular project. Each of these methods was utilized as a part of this particularproject, as will be discussed in future sections. It is also worth noting that Wentworth has threefull semesters, fall, spring, and summer, each of which is 15 weeks.RRT eBikes, the industry partner, produces an electrically-assisted bicycle. It is a small, localcompany, focusing on a narrow, but growing, application-space for their e-bikes, includinghobbyists, police departments, and now, rehabilitation patients. RRT
Paper ID #20495Further Development of Capstone Design Project Courses based on a CaseStudyDr. Junkun Ma, Sam Houston State University Dr. Junkun Ma is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering Technology at Sam Houston State University (SHSU). He teaches courses in areas related to product design, manufacturing processes, CAD, and HVAC. His research interests include finite element method (FEM) based numerical simulation, heat transfer and fluid dynamics with application to alternative energy, and engineering education.Mr. Case Dakota Born, c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017
Education and Outreach (CEEO) “works in the areas of outreach, research, and tool development to make engineering and design accessible and feasible in P12 classrooms” [3] . In this study, funded by an internal grant from the CEEO’s innovation fund, we have developed a game that integrates and scaffolds content knowledge of engineering design while allowing students to playfully engage in problem solving and teamwork skills. Engineering education researchers have worked with P12 teachers to understand their mental models of engineering and how professional development can help them identify
TBLhave on team performance, compared to an offering of the course prior to implementation, and3) what effect does being a member of a high-performing team have on individual studentlearning in the course?BackgroundTeam-based learning (TBL) takes cooperative learning to the next level by increasing the timeteams spend together and the expectations of team integration and performance. TBL differsfrom cooperative learning in that particular attention is payed to team formation, peerassessment, prompt feedback on individual and group performance, and group work (L. K.Michaelsen et al., 2002). Teams should be made up of 5-7 people and stay together for the entiresemester, group work should account for a significant portion of the course grade
response. To beeligible for enrollment in the course, students must have successfully completed the EE 302course as well as an introductory Physics course, Calculus 1 (derivative and integral calculus)and 2 (series, sequences, and multivariable calculus), with concurrent enrollment in Calculus 3(differential equations and linear algebra).In the fall 2015 semester, 401 students enrolled in EE 302, divided between six lecture sectionswith about 65 students in each section. Of these students, 86 enrolled in EE 411 for the spring2016 semester, which had a total enrollment of 124 students divided between four lecturesections. The majority of the students (83 of the 86) who progressed from EE 302 to EE 411 hadsuccessfully completed EE 302 in their very
curriculum of a classroom. This is reflected in the disjointedness betweenstandards they should be comfortable with and the way they use them in their lesson plans. Thesepreservice teachers spend 2 to 3 days a week in a classroom and rotate between different gradelevels and classes. This removes them from familiarity with the overall curriculum, standards,and strategies.Aligning the lesson components to the standard is an important skill for all teachers to have, andit is evident that some of our preservice teachers struggled with this skill. The idea of forming anentire lesson around appropriate standards is something that takes time and practice. A full-timeteacher would likely follow the curriculum of given standards. As a teacher is forming
member of the American Society for Engineering Education and the SAFE Association. Prior to receiving his Ph.D. in 1983, Dr. Nelson worked as a design engineer in industry and taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston and Texas A&M University at Galveston. In industry he was primarily involved in design of floating and fixed structures for the offshore petroleum industry. After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Nelson joined the civil engineering faculty at Texas A&M University. He joined the civil engineering faculty at Clemson University in 1989 as Program Director and founder of the Clemson University Graduate Engineering Programs at The Citadel and became Chair of Civil Engineering in 1998. In
Paper ID #19400A Quantitative Pilot Study of Engineering Graduate Student IdentityMr. Nathan Hyungsok Choe, The University of Texas, Austin Nathan (Hyungsok) Choe is a doctoral student in STEM education at UT Austin. His research focuses on the development of engineering identity in graduate school and underrepresented group. Nathan holds a master’s and bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Tech. He also worked as an engineer at LG electronics mobile communication company.Dr. Maura Borrego, University of Texas, Austin Maura Borrego is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Curriculum &
Paper ID #18300Five-Minute Demonstrations:MinimalFaculty InvestmentforMaximumLearn-ing ImpactDr. Pamela L Dickrell, University of Florida Dr. Pamela Dickrell is the Associate Director of the Institute for Excellence in Engineering Education (IE3) at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida. She designs and teaches large enrollment service courses, and researches innovative educational methods for the delivery of curriculum to students across multiple engineering majors. Her prior appointment at UF was director of the engineering distance learning program, UF EDGE (Electronic Delivery of
Paper ID #18624Getting ”There”: Understanding How Innovation and Entrepreneurship Be-come Part of Engineering EducationMrs. Elizabeth Nilsen, Purdue University Liz Nilsen is a Senior Program Director at the Purdue Agile Strategy Lab, helping nurture change efforts in engineering education, innovation, and beyond. Previously, she was a Senior Program Officer at Ven- tureWell, where she co-developed and co-led the Epicenter Pathways to Innovation initiative, an effort to engage with a cohort of colleges and universities to fully embed innovation and entrepreneurship in under- graduate engineering education. Her experience