. Military Academy, West Point, NY. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is an active member of ASEE and a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia. His research areas include climate change impact on water resource systems and infrastructure. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Helping Students Learn Engineering Mechanics Concepts through Integration of Simulation Software in Undergraduate CoursesABSTRACTThis paper describes recent experience within the civil engineering program at the U.S. MilitaryAcademy (USMA) to integrate simulation tools to assist students in
Paper ID #22055Assessment of Discrete Concept Knowledge, Integrated Understanding, andCreative Problem Solving in Introductory Networking CoursesProf. Mark J. Indelicato, Rochester Institute of Technology Mark J. Indelicato is an associate professor in the College of Applied Science and Technology (CAST) in the department of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology since 1990. Previously, he was a Large Business Systems Communications En- gineer for NEC America, specializing in large scale deployment of voice and data network switching equipment. He teaches in
Paper ID #23389Teacher Implementation of Structured Engineering Notebooks in Engineer-ing Design-based STEM Integration Units (Fundamental)Hillary Elizabeth Merzdorf, Purdue University, West LafayetteAmanda C. Johnston, Purdue University, West LafayetteDr. Kerrie A. Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Douglas is an Assistant Professor in the Purdue School of Engineering Education. Her research is focused on improving methods of assessment in large learning environments to foster high-quality learning opportunities. Additionally, she studies techniques to validate findings from machine-generated educational data.Prof
asingle week or multiple week-long activities [3]. With experience, an instructor can teach anentire course using such active learning techniques. It is important to understand thatentrepreneurship, in this context, is not necessarily about teaching students how to start a newbusiness, but rather to develop the mindset of innovation necessary to recognize opportunitiesand make the most of them [1,3]. An enterprise does not need to be created at the end of an EMLactivity. Entrepreneurial Minded Learning is designed to ● Stimulate curiosity. Students are encouraged to demonstrate constant curiosity about our changing world, and explore a contrarian view of accepted solutions. ● Make connections. Students integrate information from many
Ethics in an Introductory Bioengineering Course (Work In Progress)IntroductionEthics and diversity are critical components of engineering training and practice, but mostundergraduate engineering programs do not address these issues in-depth [1-3]. In this work-in-progress, we describe the design and implementation of a novel curriculum that allows earlyengineering students to explore the interplay of diversity and ethics in an engineering context.Importantly, our curriculum can be incorporated into any engineering course, and thus serves asa model for educators in any engineering discipline.This work-in-progress describes student response to three rounds of pilot efforts [4] and how weare developing and implementing the first
memorization. The iterative thinkingprocess required to achieve even partial success in solving ambiguous problems not only activelyengages students, but has also been shown to improve learning and retention [4].Developing collaborative problem-solving skills, starting with the transformative freshmen year,provides students with the outlook and tools crucial for academic and professional success [5],[6]. Integrating design into the first semester exposes students to the complex process of creating,assessing, selecting, and realizing an initial prototype [7, 8]. By incorporating a fun foam coredesign project, students gain exposure to the design process such that many of them arecomfortable designing their own equipment for their final project. More
now approaching theirsenior years. In this paper, we present the recent progress of our computational curriculum andfocus on the influence of the program on the performance of students in senior computationalmodeling classes and senior classes with computational modules.2 IntroductionComputational modeling of materials properties has grown increasingly important in both academiaand industry.[1] Survey data from 2009 shows that the an average of 50 % of new hires are ex-pected to have computational training experience. [1] Due to the well-known need of computa-tional skills, it is vital to provide computational training to undergraduate students in materialsscience.[1, 2] A recent study by Vieira and others[3] shows that integrating
Paper ID #23523Planning of Curriculum Modules for Teaching of Fluid Power ConceptsDr. Jorge Rodriguez P.E., Western Michigan University Faculty member in the Department of Engineering Design, Manufacturing, and Management Systems (EDMMS) at Western Michigan University’s (WMU). Co-Director of the Center for Integrated Design (CID), and currently the college representative to the President’s University-wide Sustainability Com- mittee at WMU. Received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering-Design from University of Wisconsin- Madison and received an MBA from Rutgers University. His B.S. degree was in Mechanical and Electrical
wasimplemented at RainStar University to design and develop MS curriculum in the Acupunctureand Oriental Medicine. The implementation was not only successful but exceeded theprofessional competencies. In addition, the QFD technique ensured that the curriculum is agileand flexible to meet future real-world changes [9] [10].Based on the literature review and the research in this area our team decided to use QFDtechnique in the design and development of an existing associate degree in engineering atDaytona State College (DSC) to meet industry workforce needs and professional competencies[11].Curriculum Design and DevelopmentTo identify the gap between industry and academia and to create the best set of educational andprofessional development materials
Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was then a Senior Sensors Engineer with the MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA from 2011 to 2013. Since 2013 he has been an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. His research interests include ultrawideband antenna arrays, electrically small antennas, Radar systems, analog circuits, and engineering education.Dr. Jennifer L Bonniwell, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Jennifer L. Bonniwell joined the Milwaukee School of Engineering faculty as an assistant professor in 2016. She earned her BS in Electrical Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and her MS and PhD in Electrical
of AppliedScience (AAS) and Bachelor of Science (BS) degrees in Mechanical Engineering Technology(MET) with an emphasis on Advanced Manufacturing. Through a collaborative curriculumdevelopment process, Rowan College at Burlington County (RCBC) and Rowan University (RU)have created a clearly articulated pathway from the AAS degree to the BS degree. This academicpathway will include a “3+1” delivery model where the first three years of instruction aredelivered by the two-year college, and the final year is delivered by the university, on the two-year college campus. This curriculum development effort has been achieved through activitiesincluding an industry forum as well as a week-long faculty curriculum development workshop.Additional work
Student Chapter at UTEP.Mrs. Helen Elizabeth Geller, University of Texas, El Paso Helen Geller is the Program Manager for the STEMGROW grant, funded by the Department of Education at the University of Texas at El Paso.Luis Carlos Jimenez, University of Texas, El Paso Luis C. Jimenez is an undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science at The University of Texas at El Paso with interest in Cyber Security. He is currently working with the Center for Research in Engineer- ing and Technology Education as a Research and Development Specialist with an emphasis in technology implementation in the STEAM curriculum. Luis has been an active volunteer with organizations that try to help the community through engineering
what you were taught. Go through the book, e.g., a chapter a week. Go through a list of topics, e.g., a topic a week.Ideally, course content is determined by planning the program’s curriculum so that the content ofeach course plays its part in achieving the program’s educational objectives [5], [6], [7]. This isunlikely to translate to any of the above bullets. Neither academic freedom nor faculty purviewimplies that the faculty member can teach whatever they want to [8], [9]. See Figure 1. In a well-functioning department, e.g., fully accredited with complete ABET approved syllabi, the newfaculty member should be able to focus on interpreting the bases of each pyramid in Figures 1and 2. In an imperfect scenario, e.g., the faculty
interaction groups ofthinkers who have identified a social problem, analyzed its sources, and devised a solution”(p.22).”30 Coherent groups are the intellectual arm of social movements, yet there is littlescholarship on how they operate to produce new scientific knowledge and cultural change inscientific institutions.30 This paper addresses this gap in knowledge. Further, we also add to thisbody of scholarship by providing an intersectional analysis of collaboration across not justscientific disciplines but also across social identities such as race/ethnicity, gender, andsexuality.Furthermore, scholars from a range of social sciences highlight the important role of emotions inscientific knowledge production.2, 34, 30, 34 Integrating science and
Paper ID #22360Designing an Interprofessional Educational Undergraduate Clinical Experi-enceDr. Barbara Jean Muller-Borer, East Carolina University Barbara J. Muller-Borer, PhD is a professor in the Departments of Engineering and Cardiovascular Sci- ences and the Director of the Cell-Based Therapy and Tissue Engineering Laboratory at East Carolina University. She serves as the graduate program director for the MS in Biomedical Engineering program and oversees curriculum development and assessment for both the undergraduate biomedical engineering concentration and graduate programs in the Department of Engineering. She received
Environmental Engineering Technologies. As such, the capstonecourse, is designed to be robust and challenges students to link concepts from the first twocourses focusing on environmental science and environmental engineering technologies, to solveproblems that are open-ended and contextually-based in the developing world. Students areexpected to integrate concepts from core curriculum courses, their life experiences, and theexperiences and training from the military program. A large portion of the course is dedicated tothe students developing concrete answers to problems by applying science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills. However, the semester long design project is arealistic, open-ended problem representative of a humanitarian
years of industrial Research and Development experience at IBM Microelectronics, DuPont and Siemens. He has also conducted research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NASA, Naval Research Lab and Army Research Lab. Presently, he is a tenured Associate Professor in the Engineering Department at Virginia State University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Integration of Agriculture Research into the Manufacturing Design and Implementation ProjectsAbstractVirginia State University (VSU) is an 1890 Land-Grant institution. In the fiscal year (FY) 2015, aUSDA project jointly submitted by College of Agriculture and College of Engineering &Technology was funded
) believed thathaving a research-oriented project in their undergraduate curriculum enhanced theirundergraduate experience which additionally supports the integration of research-orientedprojects into courses.Grade AnalysisThe percentage scores for each student’s course project that used a research-oriented topic in thespring 2017 CNIT 350 Object-Oriented Programming course and fall 2017 ITS 245 IntegrativeProgramming course are shown in Table 3. The percentage scores for each student’s course projectthat did not use a research-oriented topic in the spring 2015 and spring 2016 CNIT 350 Object-Oriented Programming courses are shown in Table 4. The ITS 245 Integrative Programmingcourse was not available prior to fall of 2017.The same research-oriented
a recent process of curriculum reformin an undergraduate engineering program. Curriculum continues to hold a prominent spacein discussions around engineering education, yet there are limited exemplars of full scalecurriculum reform around the globe. At the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa,the design of the new chemical engineering curriculum drew on contemporary shifts inthinking about the engineering profession [1, 2], as well as a focus on widening access to thedegree and coupling this with success. Furthermore, engaging with current deliberations onthe problem-based curriculum, this design took on a problem-centered focus [3]. Thiscurriculum design demanded a far more integrated mode of course delivery than is typical ina
teamor knowledge of farming, the experience led to encouraging outcomes including high levels ofstudent engagement and gains in their engineering design self-efficacy. Having a “client” oncampus (i.e., the student farm) with a rich set of problems to solve and access to the site providedstudents with an authentic opportunity to explore, collaborate and develop their design solutions.Preliminary course outcomes including significant gains in students’ design self-efficacyhighlight the potential for integrated communication and design course(s) in undergraduateengineering curriculum across engineering majors and years. Plans are underway to continuewith the project through the Winter and Spring quarters, to assess feasibility for a larger
. Sheppard, E. McGrath, and B. Gallois, “Promoting Systems Thinking inEngineering and Pre-Engineering Students,” in American Society for Engineering EducationSpring 2008 Mid-Atlantic Section Proceeding. 2008.[2] J.E. Mills, and D.F. Treagust, “Engineering Education—Is Problem-Based or Project-BasedLearning the Answer,” Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 3, pp. 2-16 2003.[3] D. J. Cappelleri and N. Vitoroulis, "The Robotic Decathlon: Project-Based Learning Labsand Curriculum Design for an Introductory Robotics Course," IEEE Transactions on Education,vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 73-81, Feb. 2013.[4] M. Yim, et al. "AC 2008-2230: A Practice-Integrated Undergraduate Curriculum inMechanical Engineering," ASEE PEER, pp. 13.81.1 - 13.81.15 Jun
Intentionally ReflectiveKolb +Bloom (IRK+B) model developed by one of the workshop coordinators, Amy Bradshaw[5]. A concrete takeaway from these efforts were two clearly differentiated set of competencies,namely, task specific competencies that make a learner competitive today and meta-competenciesthat enables a learner to adapt to future needs. IRK+B provides an instructor with a conceptualframework to understand and evaluate (using Bloom’s taxonomy) where a learner is today andwhere he/she needs to be in future and thereby determine the scaffolds (using Kolb’s experientiallearning) a learner would need in attaining the goal. These experiences were foundational to the design a curriculum that embodies the need fora systemic development of
Paper ID #23324Exploring Mind Maps for Assessment in an Introductory Chemical Engineer-ing CourseProf. Joshua A Enszer, University of Delaware Prof. Joshua Enszer is an assistant professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Uni- versity of Delaware. He has taught core and elective courses across the curriculum, from introduction to engineering science and material and energy balances to process control, capstone design, and math- ematical modeling of chemical and environmental systems. His research interests include technology and learning in various incarnations: electronic portfolios as a means for assessment
Educational Activ- ities (2005-2007) IEEE launched tryengineering.org and expanded greatly its pre-university engineering programs, including EPICS-in-IEEE. Kam is a Fellow of IEEE ”for contributions to the theory of deci- sion fusion and distributed detection.” He received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal and the C. Holmes MacDonald Award ”for the Outstanding Young Electrical Engineering Educator.” c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 An Application-Oriented Course to Improve Student Performance in Mathematics CoursesAbstractThis is an evidence-based practice paper. Performance in pre-calculus and calculus courses has astrong impact on student success
Paper ID #22746Bowman Creek Academy: An Immersive STEM Experience (Work in Progress)Ms. Sara Boukdad, Bowman Creek Educational EcosystemMrs. Amy Blue Cuevas, Bowman Creek Educational EcosystemMarty Kennedy c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018Comments from Reviewers ● A reviewer commented on the rewrite -done ● Thank you for making changes to the manuscript to address comments, the study is much easier to understand and is logical for inclusion as a work in progress. I feel the paper would still benefit from inclusion of the survey results you make reference to in the outcomes section. Even if
Paper ID #22581An Ecosystem for Success in Engineering and Computer ScienceDr. Horacio Vasquez, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley Dr. Horacio Vasquez is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), in Edinburg, Texas. His current research interests are in the areas of control systems, mechatronics, measurements and instrumentation, and engineering education.Dr. Virgil U. Pierce, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley Dr. Virgil Pierce is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas – Pan American. His research is in
Paper ID #22439Flipped Classroom and Emotional Learning in an Engineering LeadershipDevelopment CourseDr. Dean H. Lang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Lang is the Associate Director of the Engineering Leadership Research Program at Penn State Uni- versity. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University, an MBA from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Kinesiology with a focus on Biomechanics from Penn State University. Dr. Lang’s previous professional experiences and research interests range from mechanical engineering facilities design to research that applied engineering
process. All their recommendations were relatedto the improvement of teaching and student service processes. Although an employer was namedas a first customer, students’ recommendations on curriculum improvement, campus layout, andfacilities utilization demonstrated that students considered themselves as customers as well.Francis4 in his study of lean implementation in Canadian universities pointed out strongprospects for new research programs related to Lean in higher education. The universitiespotential in producing rigorous research should be leveraged to promote the lean adoption as asystem in HEI.Although some authors believe that in the recent years it has become easier to use Leanmethodology for non-experts in the field9, most of the
. Kölling, "Teaching Java with BlueJ – A Sequence of Assignments." University of Southern Denmark Technical Report No 1, September 2002, ISSN No. 1601-4219.[6] Q.H. Mahmoud, "Integrating Mobile Devices into the Computer Science Curriculum." Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2008), Saratoga Springs, NY, USA, pp. S3E-17- S3E-22.[7] A. Vihavainen, J. Airaksinen, C.Watson, “A systematic review of approaches for teaching introductory programming and their influence on success”, Proceedings of the tenth annual conference on International computing education research, August 11-13, 2014, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.[8] T. Beaubouef, and J. Mason, 2005. “Why the high attrition rate for
correlating course content across the broader curriculum. The data shows that afterthe change in course structure, more students felt that course content was integrated withother courses in the curriculum. This is believed to be a direct result of delivering active-learning and problem solving sessions In-Lab. We speculate that this increase in studentresponse was also a result of two indirect, yet beneficial, changes that were a result of thecourse structure change in 2015. 1) More direct and immediate feedback was given tostudents as a result of the increased student to instructor ratio (lecture faculty available inall lab sections, along with lab coordinator and two teaching assistants); providing thefaculty an opportunity to adjust the content to