project objectives targeted at specific levelswithin the domains.In addition to expectations of institutional and department mission statements, the authorsbelieve that the engineering education profession is setting an expectation for studentdevelopment in both the cognitive and affective domains as evidenced in the American Societyof Civil Engineers (ASCE) Body of Knowledge 2 (BOK2) 7. Additionally, the departmentmission statement emphasizes design and innovation and the authors agreed that thedevelopment of the requisite skills must begin at the beginning of the curriculum and be taught inconjunction with technical content. This paper focuses on recent innovations primarily intendedto more effectively address program outcomes #2 and #8 early
culminate in Engineering Justice: Transforming Engineering Education and Practice (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2017).Dr. Te Kipa Kepa Brian Morgan CPEng, The University of Auckland Dr Kpa Morgan researches decision process complexity. A seminal project on ancestral lands created the impetus to research contentious engineering projects, and resulted in the creation of the Mauri Model Decision Making Framework. Mauri Model evaluations include wastewater projects, aid project effective- ness, water catchment management, hydro development, hydraulic-fracturing, and anthropogenic disaster response. Kpa’s work creating and applying the Mauri Model was recognised by the Institution of Pro- fessional Engineers NZ in 2016 with a Supreme
anyone. It was just hard not to be able to speak Spanish fully and comfortably and stuff.” – Latina Engineer “When I was in Baltimore, it was all white male. And that actually was something I was very uncomfortable with because I was the only female in the room and sometimes the only person of any type of minority status.” – Latina Engineer “I know I’m 1 percent of people that…look like me. I’ve known that through most of college. I’ve always counted. So sometimes when I do feel insecure, it does bring up that you’re also the only person of color or female in there.” – African American Engineer “…When I first walked into the first project meeting, I was the only female in a room
listed as a component to their ideal career; (C) after being asked whatwould be rewarding, the student mentioned having a positive impact on society or people, or thattheir work would naturally help society because that is inherent in engineering; and (D) helpingpeople or improving society was not mentioned as part of their ideal career or an aspect thatwould be rewarding in their work as an engineer. Students in group A through C described thatthey would try to work on projects that improved the environment, local communities, andsociety at large. Group D students would not be looking for a particular engineering job thatwould help people and did not seem to be concerned with the impact of their job. Theyprioritized interesting work, location
outside thescience and technical literature. Technical reports are either generated by private enterprise andits research-and-development (R&D) component, or by governmental support of research.Contracts with the federal government almost always require a report summarizing the project(Walker, 1990).During the 1930s, technical reports were considered at the time furnishing “newer informationfaster” (Box 4, Series 2). Crosland understood the importance of technical reports and wasactively involved in acquiring them based on research needs. She was instrumental inparticipating in several depository programs. For instance, with the Library of Congress’sCooperative Plan, the Georgia Tech Library received valuable research reports from
their courses. Second, administrative processes atuniversities make adding new courses and/or updating current offerings to incorporate socially engaged designcontent a long, difficult process that requires significant investment from faculty members. Third, non-traditionalengineering skills may not fit sequentially into engineering curricula. Students are typically most motivated toacquire these skills when confronted with the challenges of specific design projects, which they may encounterthrough both traditional coursework and co-curricular opportunities. Because of these factors, educationalprograms related to socially engaged design need not only to be accessible to faculty for incorporation into theirexisting courses, but also accessible
co-teaching to students in engineering and science. She is co-Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) research and education project developing an ethnographic approach to engineering ethics education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Where Does the Personal Fit Within Engineering Education? An Autoethnography of One Student’s Exploration of Personal-Professional Identity AlignmentAbstract This paper presents an exploration of personal-professional identity alignment throughthe use of an autoethnography. To understand identity and identity formation, my researchadvisor and I drew from post-modernist
Paper ID #17991Workshops and Seminar Series to Enhance and Create Opportunities for In-novation in Green Manufacturing and EngineeringProf. Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso Dr. Tseng is a Professor and Chair of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering at UTEP. His research focuses on the computational intelligence, data mining, bio- informatics and advanced manu- facturing. Dr. Tseng published in many refereed journals such as IEEE Transactions, IIE Transaction, Journal of Manufacturing Systems and others. He has been serving as a principle investigator of many research projects, funded by NSF
seeking help – Felt trapped his office one day, and I really needed help on my project, um, and he had emailed us . and abandoned by instructor . . the wrong time that he wasn’t going to be in class, and when I went up there—that was the time that he wasn’t in class . . . I feel like he just kind of threw that on us, and ditched us with that specific project, or, um, whatever it was—the homework, I don’t remember”Theme 2: Felt shame in the disconnection between perceived skill and academic performanceWhile David felt confident about his abilities during the beginning portions of the semester, hestated that
psychology, and the learning sciences. Through in-situ studies of classroom and institutional practice, Chandra focuses on the role of culture in science learning and educational change. Chandra pursues projects that have high potential for leveraging sustainable change in undergraduate STEM programs and makes these struggles for change a direct focus of her research efforts. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 The Role of Empathy in Supporting Teaching Moves of Engineering Design Peer EducatorsAbstractEmpathy is a diverse and complex phenomena by which humans relate their experiences to oneanother. This work explores empathy as a resource for engineering
, many of the descendants of trust were interrelated (the levelof analysis of descendant “interrelatedness” varied by study). In several studies trust wasessential to mitigating conflict and enhancing communication and cohesion which in turnincreased the overall team performance27,28. Studies that observed the relationship between trustand knowledge sharing generally surveyed teams within industry. These teams required trustamong teams and companies in sharing pertinent project information.As noted previously, the most common antecedent of trust that was identified and measured wastransformational leadership. Transformational leadership is a leadership style defined by a leaderwho considers the input of her or his team members to identify where
Education, 2017 DEVELOPMENT OF A WEB-BASED DECISION TOOLFOR SELECTION OF DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES AND SYSTEMS (DERS) FOR MOVING COLLEGE AND CORPORATE CAMPUSES TOWARD NET-ZERO ENERGYAbstractNet-Zero energy buildings are currently being built, and they no longer consist of smalldemonstration projects but rather large commercial and institutional buildings. However,achieving a “net-zero energy building” concept for existing buildings has its challenges in anurban environment where private and/or public space around the building considered is limited,in addition to the inherent energy challenges associated with urban multi-story buildings. Whilethe most achievable task would be energy efficiency improvements in the operation of thebuilding
programparticipants working to preserve and promote the legacy of the program. Counselors receivemany of the same benefits as camp participants, as they also attend the tours and mentor visits.Instructors for the high school offering of the summer program are primarily faculty membersfrom five disciplines: Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, ComputerEngineering, and Mechanical Engineering. Faculty prepare workshops with projects, typicallyincluding a design challenge, that introduce camp participants to each discipline. The faculty-ledworkshops generally last 3 to 8 hours, depending on the complexity of the project. Largerprojects are completed in a series of shorter sessions to maintain participant interest andengagement. As the
Paper ID #18111Entering the Engineering Pathway: Student Veterans’ Decision to Major inEngineeringDr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 25 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies, and government organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the American Association of Retired Persons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Since 2004, she been a member of the NSF-funded MIDFIELD research project on
. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and assistant professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information & Learning Sciences program, and in the Chemical & Biological Engineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutioniz- ing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Education / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions; this includes a two- strand research program focused on (1) authentic assessment, often
to analyzethe downstream effects of technologies on unknown or silent users (Casper & Clarke 1998).These efforts can also be understood as a way of organizing others’ work (Suchman 2000),particularly when the users come from inside one’s own organization.In this paper we describe and analyze how early career engineers learn about users and theirneeds in the engineering workplace. We draw special attention to how users are conceptualizedduring product development and how notions of how users might employ technologies can shapedesigners’ plans. These data are part of a larger project that examines the workplace learning ofearly career engineers, and so several of our examples highlight the orientations early careerengineers hold toward
obscured the effect of class year that might only be salient in the final years, as studentsget closer to graduation. Senior status could be taken as a proxy for more “life experience”which ideally give individuals more world and self-knowledge with which to navigate theircareer.We also see that more career certain students are more sure about staying in engineering oneto ten years post-graduation (though the difference in commitment to engineering betweencertain and uncertain students becomes less pronounced the longer the projection time fromgraduation). In addition, their stronger expressed desire to stay in engineering is consistentwith their greater engineering task self-efficacy, an observation which supports the SCCTmodel. According to SCCT
instruction in select junior and senior level MAE courses. 3. Designing a two-to-five-year educational research project with the objective of assessing students’ improved ability to communicate. This research should provide both quantitative (most important) and qualitative evidence of the success (or not) of that course and should be useful for continuing assessment into students’ third and fourth years and beyond graduation.Our plan allowed us to teach ENGRC 2250 during the spring 2016 and 2017 semesters to a self-selecting subset, 20+ students, of MAE undergraduates also enrolled in MAE 2250. At the sametime, we conducted quantitative and qualitative educational research, commonly referred to asmixed methods research. As
undergraduate elective at California State University,Sacramento that focuses on the design of steel structures for civil engineering majors. Thiscourse meets twice a week for 75 minutes and has 29 meetings over the 15 week semester. Oneclass period is spent on the midterm exam and another 2 hour time period beyond the 15 weeksemester is spent on the final exam. The course covers content regarding the analysis and designof tension members, compression members, beams, beam-columns, and connections in steelstructures. Students in both sections engage in an open-ended service learning project, completenine in-class conceptual quizzes, are provided with suggested homework problem sets andsolutions (not graded), and have access to examples with solutions
online discussion forums were delivered through a course web site in the university learningmanagement system (UVaCollab, collab.itc.virginia.edu). Some aspects of the grade were basedon activities that could be compared to the traditional lecture course: homework problems (25%of the grade), in-class test problems (25% of the grade), and a final exam (15% of the grade).Students also worked in teams to complete a “grand challenge project” (25% of the grade) thatconsisted of a series of assignments of increasing complexity addressing methods to deliverchemotherapeutic drug to a tumor in a patient. Finally, students completed daily formativeassessments in a category called, “Help Yourself Learn” (10% of the grade). Examples of theselow-stakes
(Michigan State University Outreach and Engagement). She is involved in usability evaluations, focus groups, and information architecture projects for MSU and external clients. Her research areas include effects of cooperative online learning, interventions based on cognitive flexibility theory for read- ing to learn on the web, and student motivation and achievement in flipped classrooms. Hannah holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Bonn, a M.A. in Communication from the University of Missouri, and a Ph.D. in both Communication and Educational Psychology and Educational Technology from Michigan State University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Using
in STEM fields. 1,2,3 . Under the umbrella of active learning,however, a large variety of different (and sometimes contradictory) methodologies have beenproposed; including project-based learning, problem-based learning, gamification, tinkering,collaborative learning, class competitions, and many others. As educators become more interestedin student-centered pedagogies, the question of which specific techniques are most effective isincreasingly important.Because active learning is still an emerging paradigm, the number of studies examining distinctapproaches is somewhat limited, and the difficulty of isolating those techniques in the classroomenvironment is a recognized concern. 1 In this paper, we wish to contribute to the growing pool
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
engineering) along with composition-studies experts from the UndergraduateRhetoric Program. The team developed a course designed to focus on introducing engineers torelevant genres and types of writing prominent in many engineering disciplines. The “Writing inEngineering Fields” course, designed to mirror in structure and delivery the university’s first-year composition course (Table 1), aims to inculcate these skills in a single semester.Our team developed the course in one semester by meeting every two weeks to discuss contentand provide feedback on drafted material. Throughout the development and offering, two teammembers (our graduate TAs—one from English and one from Engineering) were essential inpromoting the success of the project. These TAs
Paper ID #19539The Roots of Entrepreneurial Career Goals among Today’s Engineering Un-dergraduate StudentsMr. Gunther Rameseder, Stanford University Gunther Rameseder, MSc., studied Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Universidad de Barcelona (UB). His majors were Mathematical Finance, Statistics and Operations Re- search with a minor in Economics. During his studies, Gunther gained loads of industry experience at Allianz, Roland Berger, UnternehmerTUM and Finleap where he was involved in projects regarding the digital transformation of organizations as well as corporate venturing. Gunther
Paper ID #18657THE USE OF DECISION MAKING MULTI-MEDIA COMPONENTS INELUCIDATING THE CONSTRUCTION METHODS OF THE ST. GEORGECHURCH IN LALIBELA, ETHIOPIAMr. Bart Malone Ridgill, The Ohio State University Bart M. Ridgill is a graduate student in Civil Engineering at The Ohio State University. He holds an A.S. in Engineering Graphics from Piedmont Technical College and a B.S. in Construction Engineering Technology from The University of Akron. At the time of this writing, he is a Project Manager for Facilities Design and Construction at The Ohio State University.Dr. Adrian Hadipriono Tan, The Ohio State University Adrian H. Tan
. From 2003 through 2006, he was involved with Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL in developing direct computer control for hydrogen powered automotives. He is also involved in several direct computer control and wireless process control related research projects. His current interests are in the area of packaging machinery system design & control, industrial transducers, industrial process control systems, modeling and simulation of Mechatronics devices and systems in virtual environment, programmable logic controllers, programmable logic devices, renewable energy related projects, wireless controls, statistical process control, computer aided design and fabrication of printed circuit board
, his doctorate in industrial engineering from Stanford University in 1975, and his masters in civil engineering from UAA in 1999.Dr. Jerome P. Lavelle, North Carolina State University Jerome P. Lavelle is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of engineering economic analysis, decision analysis, project management, leadership, engineering management and engineering education.Dr. Neal Lewis, University of New Haven Neal Lewis received his Ph.D. in engineering management in 2004 and B.S. in chemical engineering in 1974 from the University of Missouri – Rolla (now the Missouri University of Science and
learning • Students work in teams • Learning is self-directed and student-centered • Faculty serves as a mentor or guideThe module asks students to choose from a set of components (pump, turbine, boiler and con-denser) for which example performance data are provided. The example data tables included inAppendix A were created for the project using realistic numbers, but were not derived from actualcomponents. In fact, we permit a number of simplifying assumptions to facilitate the process (likeindependence of efficiency on shaft speed, flow, etc. . . ). For instructors who are so inclined, thiscan afford a good opportunity for a discussion about how the students might “go the next step” tomodel real components.At the end of their work
Paper ID #18000Redesigning Housing and Rethinking Programs through Design-BuildMr. Scott Gerald Shall, Lawrence Technological University Scott Gerald Shall, AIA, is an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean of the College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University (LTU) and the founding director of the International Design Clinic (IDC, www.internationaldesignclinic.org), a registered non-profit that realizes socially- responsive creative action with communities in need around the world. Since founding the IDC in 2006, Shall has worked through this organization to complete over a dozen projects on