design course, specific activities on teamwork training activities wereconducted using the three major course projects. Students were assigned to teams for the firstproject based on balancing their skill sets across the teams. Prior to the first project, students didinteractive activities in active listening and shared leadership, and wrote team contracts thatdiscussed communication channels, tasks, meeting times, as well as group behaviors that each ofthem dislike (awareness of the undesirable behaviors is the first step in avoidance). After theproject, each student did a reflection of the teaming and identified any dysfunctional behaviors.They had training on conflict resolutions and how to have “difficult conversations” using role-playing of
department had been struggling with writingexecutive summaries for their final senior design course projects to be reviewed by an advisoryboard panel. Over the years the advisory board had been complaining about the quality andwhat was being communicated in the summaries. This led to a collaboration with a writingconsultant at the university to provide instruction on the executive summary. This paperaddresses the framework used for the intervention employed to help these students write betterexecutive summaries. It also explores the improvement of the summaries based on theintervention adapted for the course coming from a background of genre theory and employingtools from genre analysis. The study examines the writing of executive summaries from
Resources Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, while working with the Austin chapter of Engineers Without Borders as a volunteer and project lead for a project in Peru. She has published and presented on incentivizing decentralized sanitation and wastewater treatment, on sustainability of coastal community water and sanitation service options, as well as on integrating liberal arts and STEM education, currently through the vehicle of the Grand Challenges Scholars Program. She has co-designed workshops oriented toward educational change for Olin’s Summer Institute and the joint Olin College-Emerson College event: Remaking Education.Dr. Selin Arslan, Lawrence Technological
. Dr. Gennert’s research interests include robotics, computer vision, and image processing, with ongoing projects in humanoid robotics, robot navigation and guidance, biomedical image processing, and stereo and motion vision. He led WPI teams in the DARPA Robotics Challenge and NASA Space Robotics Challenge and is author or co-author of over 100 papers. His research has been supported by DARPA, NASA, NIH, NSF, and industry. He is a member of Sigma Xi, and a senior member of IEEE and ACM.Dr. Nima Lotfi Yagin, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville Nima Lotfi received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran, in 2006, his M.S. degree in electrical engineering
Sky’s the Limit: Drones for Social Good courseincludes critical aspects that relate to multiple engineering disciplines, which allows students toidentify the connections between drones and their particular engineering concentration. Thecourse is also multi-disciplinary and encourages critical social reflection. Students consider abroad range of applications of drones with the goal of promoting social good. The courseculminates in an entrepreneurial project that incorporates knowledge and skills from severalengineering disciplines in the context of engineering for social good.Research has found that female, Black, and/or Latinx engineering students are drawn to pursuingcareers that they identify as promoting social justice and a greater social
, providing the participants not only a formal program inentrepreneurship education, but also immersing them in a research endeavor that seeks totranslate a concept or idea to an eventual product and introduces students to the process by whichthat translation occurs.Structure - Faculty Research Projects:The E-REU program follows an intensive, immersive model, which is cited as being high-impactby the Bridge Report. The foundation of the program is a 10-week intensive research projectunder the direction of a faculty mentor. Many typical REUs focus on a particular major ordiscipline, or are narrowly focused on a specific area of research within a discipline. One of theunique features of this entrepreneurial REU is the focus on projects with a high
and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was a Chancellor’s Fellow (City University of New York) and a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow (Weill Cornell Medical College-Division of Molecular Medicine). As the Executive Director of the LSAMP, he was responsible for the day-to-day operation of the NYC Louis Stokes Al- liance program across the 18 member campuses of City University of New York. Claude also served as the Co-Director of the Black Studies Program at the City College and the Project Director of the City College Black Male Leadership and Mentoring Program. The Black Male Leadership and Mentoring Project (BMLMP) at the City College of New York, provides a
international colleagues. He has a broad background in mechanical and electrical engineering, and physiology with specific training and expertise. His work includes mod- eling the cardiovascular system, ventricular assist devices, cardiac physiology, instrumentation systems and leadless cardiac pacing. He help developed and was the inaugural director of a project-based-learning engineering curriculum. He is now involved in discovery-based-learning on multi-disciplinary teams. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Building Your Change Agent Tool-Kit: Channeling the Power of StoryWe live in a social and organizational infrastructure made up of stories. These stories can behanded down
primarily tasked with the education of undergraduate engineers. In her courses, she employs active learning techniques and project-based learning. Her previous education research, also at Stanford, focused on the role of cultural capital in science education. Her current interests include en- gineering students’ development of social responsibility and the impact of students’ backgrounds in their formation as engineers.Dr. Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder Janet Y. Tsai is a researcher and instructor in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on ways to encourage more students, especially women and those from nontraditional demographic groups
Corporation, the creators of 3D CAD software PRO-Engineer. In 1999 she joined Kollmorgen, a motion control company based in Radford, where she held multiple roles of increasing responsibility dur- ing her nine years there. While at Kollmorgen Robin worked with Shingijutsu Global Consulting experts from Japan and earned black belts in the DBS kaizen areas of Standard Work and 5S and traveled globally to qualify suppliers in Asia and Europe. Most recently Robin worked as Senior Director of Project Man- agement for a small bio-tech company, Intrexon, located in the VT Corporate Research Center and had the opportunity to introduce manufacturing principles into a highly specialized DNA production facility. Since joining the
approach which included teaching fundamental concepts of FEA theory,teaching its commercial software and implementation of it in class design projects. Althoughsome students complained about the complexity of fundamental concepts of FEA theory andtedious theoretical calculations, 92.3% of students agreed that teaching the fundamental conceptsof FEA theory helped them to have a better understanding of the FEA commercial software.92.3% of students agreed that teaching the fundamental concepts of FEA theory should be keptas part of the course. At the end of the course, we asked students to take the CSWA-SCertification, 60% of students in the section with the proposed approach passed the certificationexam while other sections had an average 35.9% of
manufacturing-focused courses. Sarah’s research interests include aspects of project-based learning and enhancing 21st century skills in undergraduate engineering students.Kate Youmans, Utah State University Kate Youmans is a PhD student in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University. Kate earned her bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and worked in the medical device industry designing surgical instruments before focusing on engineering out- reach in MIT’s Office of Engineering Outreach Programs. After receiving her master’s degree in Science Education from Boston University, Kate helped open the American International School of Utah, a K-12 charter school in
focused on mechatronics, digital manufacturing, digital thread, cyber physical systems, broadening participation, and engineering education. She is a Director of Mechatronics and Digital Manufacturing Lab at ODU and a lead of Area of Specialization Mecha- tronics Systems Design. She worked as a Visiting Researcher at Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing in Disputanta, VA on projects focusing on digital thread and cyber security of manufactur- ing systems. She has funded research in broadening participation efforts of underrepresented students in STEM funded by Office of Naval Research, focusing on mechatronic pathways. She is part of the ONR project related to the additive manufacturing training of active
whoare taught or recruited, an important but often overlooked consideration is the effect of theoutreach on the professional development of the STEM undergraduates themselves. Our NSFEAGER project is determining which outreach programs in the United States provided the mosttransformative professional development of the participating STEM undergraduates. This projectthen is capturing the essence what practices in those programs provided transformativeprofessional development. Next, the project is disseminating these practices to a network ofinstitutions doing outreach. Supporting this project is the NSF EArly-concept Grant forExploratory Research (EAGER) program. In this first year of the project, we performed a review of literature and
Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Broadening Participation in Engineering by Enhancing Community College to University Partnerships: Findings from a Tri-Institutional NSF Grant Partnership Project Funded by National Science Foundation - Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (S-STEM)Community colleges are often touted as cost-effective gateways to four-year universities foracademically-talented, low-income students. However, there is room for four-year institutions toplay a much more actively engaged role in turning this promise into reality. Funded through theNational Science Foundation
Excellence Award and the 2017 North Carolina A & T State University (NCAT) Rookie Research Excellence Award. Under her mentorship, Dr. Ofori-Boadu’s students have presented research posters at various NCAT Undergraduate Research Symposia resulting in her receiving a 2017 Certificate of Recognition for Undergraduate Re- search Mentoring. In 2016, her publication was recognized by the Built Environment Project and Asset Management Journal as the 2016 Highly Commended Paper. Andrea has served as a reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and several journals and conferences. In 2015, Dr. Ofori-Boadu established her STEAM ACTIVATED! program for middle-school girls. She
received her graduate degrees from Vanderbilt University. She currently teaches a variety of courses supporting the department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Tennessee. Among many structural engineer- ing courses, Dr. Retherford also manages the Senior Design Project course for all undergraduate seniors.Chris Wetteland, University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleProf. Mary Skidmore KocakMr. Travis Griffin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Mr. Travis Griffin was is the Fred D. Brown Jr. Director of Engineering Diversity Programs at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Mr. Griffin comes to the university from Oklahoma State University where he served as the coordinator for the Multicultural
the field, desirable ROV speci- fications, and current technology used during field work. She has also led students as a business mentor for water monitoring systems, and guided and tracked students’ progress collecting customer interviews through the NSF I-Site program. Her personal research focuses on understanding post-medieval seafaring life through analysis of diet and physical labor on sailors’ health. Her most recent field work includes the Gnalic¸ Project, an excavation of a sixteenth-century Venetian galley that sank off the coast of Croatia, the Burgaz Harbor Project, an excavation of Hellenistic harbors in Turkey, and the Shelburne Steamboat Project, an excavation of a steamboat graveyard in Vermont
Bringardner is an Assistant Professor in the General Engineering Department and Civil Engineer- ing Department at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He teaches the First-Year Engineering Program course Introduction to Engineering and Design. He is also the Director of Vertically Integrated Projects at NYU. His Vertically Integrated Projects course is on Smart Cities Technology with a focus on trans- portation. His primary focus is developing curriculum, mentoring students, and engineering education research, particularly for project-based curriculum, first-year engineering, and transportation. He is ac- tive in the American Society for Engineering Education and is the Webmaster for the ASEE First-Year Programs Division and
of responses for each question. Results indicate that ASMTstudents have some similarities with their engineering counterparts, but place a stronger focus onrelationships and building connections. Students valued the use of group projects as a way tobuild community and noted the importance of classroom management to build community.IntroductionAcross the country, many biological and agricultural engineering departments are also home toagricultural systems management/technology (ASMT) programs. From a historical perspective,nearly all these ASMT programs have evolved from traditional agricultural mechanizationprograms. This evolution parallels how biological engineering programs evolved from traditionalagricultural engineering programs. We
DIGITAL THERMOELECTRIC-GENERATOR BASED POWER SYSTEMAbstractThis paper is an attempt to report the modeling, design and build analysis of thermoelectricmodule (TEM) with realistic conditions for electrical power generation. It gives an insight tostatic and dynamic modeling with temperature dependent parametric variations and computationof various TEM parameters for modeling power generators.This paper demonstrates the undergraduate engineering technology student-driven research atour university in this arena. It depicts the application of the multi-agent approach which allowedthe student team to take full control of the project from inception to completion. The teamdeveloped and built a microprocessor based prototype thermo
Gillian Saunders-Smits is Senior Lecturer and Passionate Engineering Education Researcher and Cur- riculum Developer at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of TU Delft in the Netherlands. She teaches Research Methodologies to all Master students, runs a MOOC on the Introduction to Aerospace Structures and Materials and has previously taught Mechanics, Flight mechanics, and Design Projects and has served as Project Education Coordinator in the Bachelor and Master Track Coordinator for Aerospace Structures and Materials track and was the initiator of the successful online education program at Aerospace Engi- neering. She has overseen many curriculum innovation projects, most recently the overhaul of the MSc. track in
program. Also, she introduced the first experiential activity for Applied Mechanics courses. She is coordinator and advisor for capstone projects for Engineering Technology.Dr. Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University Dr. Ertekin received his BS degree in mechanical engineering from Istanbul Technical University. He received MS degree in Production Management from Istanbul University. After working for Chrysler Truck Manufacturing Company in Turkey as a project engineer, he received dual MS degrees in engi- neering management and mechanical engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology (MS&T), formerly the University of Missouri-Rolla. He worked for Toyota Motor Corporation as a qual- ity assurance
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.Dr. Paul Hummel, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Paul Hummel is a lecturer in the Electrical Engineering department at California Polytechnic State Uni- versity. He has a BS in Engineering with a Computer concentration from LeTourneau University and a PhD in Engineering with an emphasis on Microelectronics from Louisiana Tech University. His current activities focus on project based learning and online student assessment. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Perceived Benefits and Drawbacks of Group Assignment Methods Bridget
in Chemical Engineering - Can We Bolt-It On? James Campbell, Deesha Chadha* Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK. E-mail:d.chadha@imperial.ac.uk; Tel: +44 20 7594 8958IntroductionIn a Chemical Engineering degree programme, teaching the core technical concepts takecentre stage, but in order to produce graduates that are prepared for a career in ChemicalEngineering, degree courses need to develop so-called transferable skills [1]. Transferableskills, including effective teamwork, communication (both written and verbal), problemsolving and leadership are typically gained via assessments such as group project work andpresentations. Hereby
,problems, etc.) prior to class. The students receive productive feedback through the processingactivities that occur during class, reducing the need for the instructor to provide extensive writtenfeedback on the students’ work. Walvoord and Anderson describe examples of how thisapproach has been implemented in history, physics, and biology classes, suggesting its broadapplicability (Berrett D, 2012).Flipping of Construction Management CourseConstruction Management course can be flipped in different ways. In the following sectionsthree different case studies are analyzed.Case Study 1A graduate level course was designed having the Building Information Modeling (BIM) as thecore of the syllabus. BIM was used in this course to integrate project
browsing capabilities via TOR (The Onion Router), LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHPor Python or Perl) server, Virtual Private Network (VPN) server, and protected browsing viaproxy service. The main goal of this educational project is to leverage the total holisticintegration of open source hardware and software to provide an affordable and portable solutionthat could be promptly deployed in case of an emergency, as a part of an incident response plan(IRP), or in case it is needed for testing purposes. Implementing this project provides valuablehands-on security experience and best practices in network architecture and configuration.Additional security features, both in hardware and software, were added to the single-boardcomputers to add additional
-Director of the Nanotechnology Graduate Program (www.stevens.edu/nano) at Stevens. He has been awarded the NSF CAREER award, the ASEE Mechanics Division Ferdinand P. Beer and E. Russell Johnson Jr. Outstanding New Educator Award, and the 2009 Outstanding Teacher Award from the Stevens Alumni Association.Dr. Patricia J. Holahan, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science) Patricia J. Holahan is an Associate Professor of Management in the School of Business, Stevens Insti- tute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA. She has served as PI/PD on several NSF funded projects that target large-scale institutional change and transformation where she oversaw the organizational research related to modelling
@txstate.edu c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Facilitating Makerspace Adoption: Professional Development for University Faculty in Making Techniques and PedagogyIntroduction As part of an NSF-REE funded research project, The Engineering Education MakerIdentity Project, this research project seeks to study how students’ STEM professional identitywas impacted through the inclusion of making and design projects in their courses. The studentpopulations of interest were majoring in engineering, engineering technology, and pre-/in-serviceSTEM teachers. In order to reach this large and diverse group of students, the study needed asizable and diverse group of faculty members to
University of Central Florida and is anticipated to graduate in Spring 2019. He has two masters degrees one in mechanical engineering from UCF and another in aerospace engineering form Sharif University of Technology. He currently works in the Nanofabrication and BioMEMS Laboratory at UCF and his research areas include Nanofabrication, Microfluidics, Sensors and Actuators, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Optimization, and Mathematical Modeling. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Running Head: Project CoMET RETCollaborative Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Experiences for Teachers (CoMET) Train the Trainer Model of Supports Type 5 Work in ProgressThe K-12 learning environment is