classes.Multidisciplinary engineering courses could stimulate faculty and students to approach otherdepartments to conduct multidisciplinary research and conduct collaborative design projects.Multidisciplinary projects are highly encouraged by the departments and help the studentsbecome more knowledgeable and valuable in their future positions. Describing the advantagesand limitations of the mechatronics course as a multidisciplinary teaching endeavor provides acatalyst for the development of other courses.The short term goals are to evaluate the existing course content and integrate more labs anddemonstrations that could make an immediate impact on the students’ learning. For instance,student feedback has indicated the second lab with the Sumobot on the balance
and Engineering Design at Penn State University. A graduate of Ohio State University (Ph.D., Electrical Engineering), Dr. Jablokow’s teaching and research interests include problem solving, invention, and creativity in science and engineer- ing, as well as robotics and computational dynamics. In addition to her membership in ASEE, she is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of ASME. Dr. Jablokow is the architect of a unique 4-course mod- ule focused on creativity and problem solving leadership and is currently developing a new methodology for cognition-based design. She is one of three instructors for Penn State’s Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Creativity, Innovation, and Change, and she is the founding
impacts of different factors on ideation of designers and engineers, developing instructional materials for 77 cards, and designing innovation workshops for students without design or engineering background and teaching them design thinking methodologies. She received her PhD degree in Design Science in 2010 from University of Michigan. She is also a faculty in Human Computer Interaction Graduate Program and a research faculty in Center for e-Design.Dr. Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan Shanna Daly is an Assistant Research Scientist and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the College of Engi- neering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton and a Ph.D. in
for Engineering Education, 2011 Navy Metrology Engineering Center STEM Outreach through the STEP Program: Challenges, Lessons Learned and Application to DoD StrategyBackground:The United States and especially the Department of Defense (DoD) has historically reliedheavily upon scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians to innovate, design, produceand maintain a technically superior capability to defend and advance the interests of the UnitedStates, both at home and globally. The United States maintained a leading edge technologicadvantage through and beyond World War II until it was stunned by the Soviet Union‟s launchof Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957. Sputnik 1 was the first artificial
126 conference papers. He has mentored 1 B.S., 17 M.S., and 4 Ph.D. thesis students; 31 undergraduate research students and 11 undergraduate senior design project teams; over 300 K-12 teachers and 100 high school student researchers; and 18 undergraduate GK-12 Fellows and 60 graduate GK-12 Fellows. Moreover, he di- rects K-12 education, training, mentoring, and outreach programs that enrich the STEM education of over 1,500 students annually. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Using Mounted Smartphones as a Platform for Laboratory Education in Engineering 1. IntroductionRecent years have witnessed pervasive adoption of smartphones in our
) undergraduate classrooms when activeand collaborative instructional strategies are utilized; these are commonly referred to as inductiveteaching methods as compared to traditional lecture and discussion (deductive). However, thisdocument indicates that for more systemic change across STEM instruction, researchers need todevelop/evaluate pedagogical innovations that do not require substantial external funding ortime, and therefore can be easily adopted by other educators.1 This was one of the motivationsfor undertaking the study presented in this paper.The inquiry-based learning activities described in this paper address the necessity for engaging,student-centered experiences in the freshman civil/structural engineering curriculum with arelatively
funded by the National Science Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Arizona Board of Regents, Goddard Space Flight Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Arizona Department of Education, among others. She has a special interest in sup- porting exemplary and equitable science education for traditionally underserved populations.Dr. Steven D Hart, U.S. Military Academy LTC Steve Hart is currently assigned as the ERDC Engineering Fellow and Director of Infrastructure Studies at West Point. He has taught numerous civil engineering courses including innovative courses on Infrastructure Engineering and Critical Infrastructure Protection and has authored numerous articles and a book chapter on
current re- search focuses on identifying impacts of different factors on ideation of designers and engineers (funded by NSF), developing instructional materials for 77 cards (funded by NSF), and designing innovation workshops for students without design or engineering background and teaching them design thinking methodologies (funded by Procter and Gamble). She received her PhD degree in Design Science in 2010 from University of Michigan. She is also a faculty in Human Computer Interaction Graduate Program and a research faculty in Center for e-Design.Dr. Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Kathryn Jablokow is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Design at Penn State
VT Engineering Com- munication Center (VTECC). She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in English from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include interdisciplinary collabora- tion, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a CAREER award to explore the use of e- portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice. Her teaching emphasizes the roles of engineers as communicators and educators, the foundations and evolution of the
structures. Threeof which are supported by hands-on labs except for the structural engineering area. The newlab will support structural engineering and integrate teaching and research in structural andconstruction engineering.This paper also summarizes the lessons learned and the innovative aspects of the planningand design phases of this laboratory. This lab facility will be providing valuable informationabout the economics and technical challenges to support its mixed use of teaching andresearch. Students will benefit from this facility by having education in an applied structuraland materials testing environment.The lab features a unique layout and spacing arrangement of anchors to fully take advantageof the limited floor area. We are currently
(Industrial Innovation and Partnerships). In 2006 and 2007, he won the Most Cited Journal Paper award from Computer-Aided Design and the Research Excellence award in the College of Engineering at Purdue University. In 2009, he won the Outstanding Commercialization award from Purdue University and the ASME Best Paper Award from technical committees twice at the IDETC. In 2012 his labs paper won the all conference best paper award from ASME-CIE for ”Handy Potter”. Page 24.683.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 IDEA-Pen: Interactive Design and Analysis through a Pen-based
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immediately in competitiveenvironments with system engineering, information technology, and soft (communication,leadership and team) skills in addition to traditional engineering fundamentals 2,3. Such skills areparticularly relevant for Industrial Engineers who often serve as a facilitator of technical andbusiness interactions4,5.A number of efforts to increase these skills have been undertaken, the most common being thecapstone senior design projects. Curriculum designers are increasingly more aware ofdeveloping courses that combine skills from several prior courses to practice such skills.Especially innovative approaches introduce students to systems thinking early and continuouslythrough their program, stressing both engineering and business
and Technology (NIST) Participation in STEP:The Science Technology Education Partnership Conference aligns with the outreach efforts ofthe National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) Metric Program. The goal of the twoday STEP Conference is to bring together members of the research and development industryand academia to expose youth to the sciences in a way that is fun and interesting and encouragestudents to pursue Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics careers. Typically about4,000 students, teachers, and parents attend the STEP Conference each year. The STEP 10Conference consists of four main events designed to impact the career choices of local studentand provide the necessary resources to teachers to successfully
decreasing rampup time. Proprietary research. Consulting services for universities providing information about the job readiness of their engineering graduates. Consulting services for industry providing assistance in improving their onboarding practices. Grant monies investigating new areas of interest.This business plan describes the initial set up and operation of the proposed coalition, whichwould occur over a time frame of 1 – 1.5 years.1 The authors are actively seeking other colleges of engineering who want to collaborate with Boise State University to set up the proposed coalition
. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of customized embedded DSP systems and digital signal processing as applied to radar signal processing, digital communications, image processing, adaptive filter design, and real-time systems. His applied signal processing contributions are many, and include the design an all-digital system-on-a-chip scheme for a Ka band radar and various target tracking algorithm developments for phased array systems.Tian Yu, University of Oklahoma Dr. Tian-You Yu is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His education at the University of Nebraska and post-doc experience at the National Center for Atmospheric
environment. Others simply left for jobs in industry. Each DoD activity had itsown BRAC experience.The Navy Metrology Engineering Center and Gage and Standards Laboratory (now consolidatedinto the Measurement Science and Technology Laboratory) are located at the Naval SurfaceWarfare Center, Corona, CA (NSWC Corona Division). This Metrology Engineering Center andassociated Laboratory provide for all of the Navy and Marine Corps Test and MeasurementSystems (TAMS) research, development and engineering support. The engineering capabilitiesrequired to be sustained in order to perform this important function span a multitude ofdisciplines from electronic/electrical (both high and low power), mechanical, microwave,chemical, pressure, temperature, and
. Ives, Farmville Future?, 2013, National Center for Case Studies in the Sciences.22. Rittenhouse-Olson, K., Is it a Lemon or a Lyme?, 2002, National Center for Case Studies in the Sciences Database.23. Bransford, J.D., A.L. Brown, and R.R. Cocking, How people learn. 2000: National Academy Press Washington, DC.24. Chung, J. and S. Chow, Promoting student learning through a student-centered problem- based learning subject curriculum. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2004. 41(2): p. 158-168.25. Yeung, E., Au-Yeung, S. Chiu, T., Mok, N., Lai, P. “”. . 2003. Vol 40(3). 237–241. , Problem Design in Problem-based Learning: Evaluating Student’s Learning and Self- directed Learning Practice
, 2004. Coal: A Human History. Penguin Books.7. Jacobs, Jane. The Economy of Cities (1969) or The Nature of Economies (2001), both from Vintage Press8. Lau, Andrew (2010) "Sustainable Design: A New Paradigm for Engineering Education" in International Journal for Engineering Education, 26(2) 252-2599. Lau, Andrew S. (2004) "Life-centered Design - A Paradigm for Engineering in the 21st Century" ASEE 200410. Lau, Andrew S. (2010) A Philosophy of Sustainability for the 21st century. In Materials Research Insittute, PSU, Summer 2009.11. Lubchenco, Jane (1998) "Entering the Century of the Environment: A New Social Contract for Science" Science 279(23 January) 491-49712. McConville, J.R., and J.R. Mihelcic, “Adapting Life Cycle Thinking
understanding of materials concepts. Dr. Chan also teaches an advanced course on electrochemical energy conversion and storage and leads a group of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers focused on the design and characterization of novel materials for batteries and photoelectrochemical applications. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 JTF Web-Enabled Faculty and Student Tools for More Effective Teaching and Learning through Two-Way, Frequent Formative FeedbackAbstractJTF (Just-in-Time-Teaching with Interactive Frequent Formative Feedback) is an NSF TUESType 2 project with an overall goal of implementing web-enabled tools and resources thatfacilitate the strategies, practices
for using simulations for learning and describing in detail a student’s perception of thismethod.Methods The goal of this research study is to describe an instructor’s and his students’ perceptionsand experiences with simulation tools as laboratory simulations in the context of an advancedgraduate elective course for electrical engineering students. These graduate students arespecializing in the area of very-large-scale integration (VLSI) and circuit design. The coursefocuses on examining advanced transistors and its physical principles. Considerations that enterinto the development of new integrated circuit technologies were also explored. This course hasas pre-requisite a course related to solid state devices only offered to master’s
Page 24.49.12while the author Gül E. Okudan Kremer was serving at the NSF, and includes NSF supportthrough her Independent Research and Development plan.References[1] Friedman, T.L., 2005. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.[2] Schaefer, D., Panchal, J.H., Choi, S.K. and Mistree, F., 2008. “Strategic Design of Engineering Education for the Flat World”. International Journal of Engineering Education. 24(2), 274-282.[3] Tryggvason, G. and Apelian, D., 2006. “Re-Engineering Engineering Education for the Challenges of the 21st Century”. JOM. October 2006: p. 14-17.[4] Snyder, T.D. and Dillow, S.A., 2011. Digest of Education Statistics, 2010. National Center for Education
experienced major technological innovations in the past decade. Theresult is the proliferation of electronics in products, increased miniaturization, high powerrequirements, increased functionality and lower prices. New materials and processes areconstantly being introduced and the demand for innovation continues.To be successful in the competitive global marketplace, U.S. electronics industries must adopt asystems approach to product and process design. A systems approach requires a versatileworkforce with a comprehensive understanding of product design, material selection,manufacturability, cost, environmental impact, safety and reliability. In this new workenvironment, engineers have more diverse responsibilities than ever before in implementing
between academic theory and real world practice. Accordingly, the proposedsenior projects should include elements of both credible analysis and experimental proofing asdiscussed in ABETs criteria6. The senior design project can serve as an excellent culminatingexperience in the program of study when it focuses on research and design projects that have Page 24.632.4practical value to consumers or to industry. For the Drexel’s College of Engineering’s ETprogram at our university, the senior design course is a year-long educational journey (threequarters) that takes an idea generated by a student team or an industrial sponsor and culminatesin a
fund his research. His research and teaching focuses on engineering as an innovation in P-12 education, policy of P-12 engineering, how to support teachers and students’ academic achievements through engineering, the measurement and support of the change of ’engineering habits of mind’ particularly empathy and the use of cyber-infrastructure to sensitively and resourcefully provide access to and support learning. Page 24.528.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Enhancing the STEM Curriculum Through a Multidisciplinary Approach that Integrates Biology and Engineering
appropriate designs, but tocommunicate these designs in written, oral, and graphical form to a variety of audiences rangingfrom their technical peers to the general public. Indeed, almost all professional engineeringorganizations cite effective communication skills as a top priority for graduating engineers. Forinstance, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)’s The Engineer of 2020: Visions ofEngineering in the New Century outlines expectations for engineers entering practice within thenear future (National Academy of Engineering, 2004). The report states that it is impossible topractice engineering without communication, and engineers functioning in global networks musthave “an ability to communicate convincingly and to shape the opinions and
Paper ID #9823Engineering to Enhance STEM Integration EffortsDr. Tamara J Moore, Purdue University Tamara J. Moore, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Dr. Moore’s research is centered on the integration of STEM concepts in K-12 and higher education mathe- matics, science, and engineering classrooms in order to help students make connections among the STEM disciplines and achieve deep understanding. Her research agenda focuses on defining STEM integration and investigating its power for student learning. She is creating and testing innovative, interdisciplinary curricular
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Increasing Retention in Engineering and Computer Science with a Focus on Academically At-Risk First Year and Sophomore Students1. IntroductionThe program described in this paper seeks to increase retention rates for engineering andcomputer science students and to evaluate the effectiveness of best practices for retention ofacademically at-risk students. The main hypothesis is that students who fall behind their cohortearly in their college career are less likely to be retained in engineering and computer science.As such, we focus this project on the academically “at-risk” student group defined as first-yearcollege students who are not
by Wright StateUniversity and has had a significant positive impact on the retention rate for underpreparedengineering students10. Studies of students taking ENGR 107 at WSU show that they havesignificant improvement in their math efficacy11. Additionally, WSU STARS will take MATH108 Trigonometry, the prerequisite for the first calculus course required of engineers. Theremainder of the second semester is CHEM 101 Introduction to Chemistry (preparation forcollege chemistry), ENGR 120 Innovation in Design (a project-based introduction to engineeringcourse), and general education credits. After two semesters, students will have completed fourcourses required for graduation, lightening the load in the subsequent four years, while alsopreparing
Urbana-Champaign Katherine Earl is a graduate student in the Department of Education’s Counseling Psychology Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; earl2@illinois.eduDr. Geoffrey L Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Geoffrey L. Herman is a visiting assistant professor with the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engi- neering Education. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Mavis Future Faculty Fellow and conducted postdoctoral research with Ruth Streveler in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interests include creating systems for sustainable improvement in engineering