Paper ID #21701Work in Progress: Sustainable Engineering for non-EngineersCapt. Katherine Sievers, US Air Force Academy Katherine Sievers is a Senior Instructor in the Civil Engineering department and the US Air Force Academy. She teaches courses in Sustainability, Environmental Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, and Introductory Statics. Prior to teaching she worked as a Bioenvironmental Engineer for three years. She received her BS in Environmental Engineering from the US Air Force Academy and her MS in Environmental Engi- neering and Science from the Air Force Institute of Technology.Prof. Melissa Stewart Beauregard
knowledge in project teams working onindustry-sourced projects, each of the four semesters of their junior and senior years. In addition,freshman and sophomores enrolled in pre-engineering studies in a closely aligned communitycollege are included in the culture, many activities, and teaching staff of the upper divisionprogram.Drawing from the Kern Family Foundation’s Engineering Unleashed program and InnovatingCurriculum with Entrepreneurial Mindset (ICE) workshops, faculty in the program wereintroduced to the entrepreneurial mindset in the summer of 2017. In the Fall, 2017 semester, theydeveloped and piloted several entrepreneurial-minded learning (EML) modules across thecurriculum of our program (approx. 95 students in lower and upper divisions
Paper ID #22319Social Network Analysis: Peer Support and Peer Management in Multidisci-plinary, Vertically Integrated TeamsJ. Sonnenberg-Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology Assistant Director, Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program, Georgia Institute of Technology; Doc- toral student in Education at Georgia State University, with a concentration in Research, Measurement and Statistics; Master of Education in Education Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.Dr. Randal T. Abler, Georgia Institute
Paper ID #22849Preparation of the Professional Engineer: Outcomes from 20 Years of a Mul-tidisciplinary and Cross-sectoral Capstone CourseDr. Tela Favaloro, University of California, Santa Cruz Tela Favaloro received a B.S. degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is currently working to further the development and dissemination of alter- native energy technology; as a project manager and researcher with the Center for Information Technology and Research in the Interest of Society. Her background is in the development of characterization tech- niques and
where, when etc. That is why; when I was a student, I hated history. I always thought why I would learn about what war was fought in what age and who did what when it has nothing to do with my life.The professional engineer went on to suggest, “You can make a difference if you tell itlike its story so that it sticks in your mind, and makes it interesting.” For many yearswhile serving as a history instructor at a community college I frequently heard similarstatements from the best students in STEM fields.STEMstoryEducation has undergone a revolution in a generation. Many of us learned handwriting ingrade school, read Dick and Jane primers, performed calculations on a slide ruler, studiedmechanical drawing, and took vocational
Paper ID #21632International Engineering Student Motivation to Develop CommunicationSkills: a Case for an Integrated Training ApproachJohn Pringle, Vantage College, University of British Columbia John Pringle M.Ed. (Applied Linguistics) has been teaching academic and professional writing for 15 years. He has previously researched the value of Systemic Functional Linguistics as pedagogical tool to teach report writing, and the benefits of collaborative writing on second-language acquisition.Dr. Gabriel Potvin, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Dr. Gabriel Potvin is a faculty member in the Department of Chemical and
Paper ID #22980Promoting Innovation in a Junior-level, Multidisciplinary, Electro-MechanicalDesign CourseDr. Wesley L. Stone, Western Carolina University Dr. Wes Stone is an associate professor in the School of Engineering and Technology at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC. He earned his bachelors degree from the University of Texas at Austin, masters degree from Penn State, and PhD from Georgia Tech, all in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include manufacturing processes, quality techniques, and outdoor gear manufacturing. He also serves as the program director for Engineering Technology at WCU.Dr
priorities to CE students, and realizing that their priorities areminimally geared towards structural efficiency. This type of change in both the CE andArchitecture student group compared to CET students’ perceptions shows a convergence inthoughts between the two disciplines after working for 3 months collaboratively. Anotherinteresting change was how after 50% of the CET students thought that both Civil Engineers andArchitects worked for them, all changed their perceptions that they didn’t (drop from 50% to 0%).This was the same change observed for the Architecture students who thought the same aboutconstruction engineers, and all changed their mind (50% to 0%). This illustrates the idea that thecollaborative work environment reinforced in the
variations in the engineering discipline composition of teams is a reality of theclass, we needed to ensure that variations to the project requirements could be made relativelyeasily. Design requirements were formulated with this in mind and Table 2 shows how differingmake ups of team disciplines could work in each team. Table 2. Discipline Specific Design Requirements Based on Team Composition Missing Deiscipline in a Group Responsibility with Design and Project Mechanical Engineer/Mechanical Students may purchase any 1/24 RC Rock Engineering Techology Crawler Kit (but cannot use the electronics). The Makerspace has a limited
Paper ID #22530Drones and Satellites: Identifying Interdisciplinary Capstone Projects withOther Departments at Your Own UniversityDr. Bruce E Dunne, Grand Valley State University Bruce E. Dunne received the B.S.E.E. (with honors) and M.S. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985 and 1988, respectively, both in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, in 2003. In the Fall of 2003, he joined the Padnos College of Engineering and Computing, Grand Val- ley State University, Grand Rapids, MI, where
Paper ID #21735Effects of Service-Learning Projects on Capstone Student MotivationDr. Jason Forsyth, York College of Pennsylvania Jason Forsyth is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at York College of Penn- sylvania. He received his PhD from Virginia Tech in May 2015. His major research interests are in wearable and pervasive computing. His work focuses on developing novel prototype tools and techniques for interdisciplinary teams.Dr. Mark M. Budnik, Valparaiso University Mark M. Budnik is Paul H. Brandt Professor of Engineering at Valparaiso University. Prior to joining the faculty at