two multidisciplinary service-learning programs: the Access by Design project that has capstone students design devices for people with dis- abilities to participate in adapted physical activity, and Organic Twittering that merges social media with sustainability.Dr. James M. Widmann, California Polytechnic State University Jim Widmann is a professor of mechanical engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from Stanford University. Currently, he is a visiting Fulbright scholar at Kathmandu University in Nepal. He teaches mechanics and design courses. He conducts research in the areas of machine design, fluid power control, and engineering
practitioners to increase exercise adherence and clinical evaluation.Dr. Shraddha Joshi, James Madison University Shraddha Joshi earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University with her research focused on understanding the role of requirements in engineering design by novices. Dr. Joshi received her MS in mechanical engineering from Clemson University and her BE in mechanical engineering from Nirma University, India. At Clemson, Dr. Joshi has worked on multiple industry sponsored research projects (Michelin tweel –low rolling resistance for non-pneumatic tires, IFAI ballast friction testing project). She was actively involved in mentoring and advising Capstone design projects. She has ad- vised over
Paper ID #7162Spectra of Learning Through Service ProgramsDr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder Dr. Angela Bielefeldt, P.E., is a professor and associate chair for Undergraduate Education in the De- partment of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She began integrating service-learning projects into her senior capstone design course for environmental engineering in 2001.Prof. Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University Kurt Paterson is a associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, but also director of Michi- gan Tech’s
. Asmy partnership with The Foodbank has grown, our projects are developed using a morecommunity-engaged methodology as shown in Figure 2 [2]. Using this methodology, we stillwork closely with our partners to develop our research questions, but now, our projects focusmore on the co-creation of knowledge as well as social and cultural change.Thus far, students have either participated in the projects as part of a summer research experience(community gardens) or through an Engineering Management master’s capstone project(donation collection and audit scheduling). To successfully complete the capstone project,students are expected to identify a significant problem, locate the necessary data and informationto solve the problem, and utilize the
goals.Courses or experiences in quadrant 3 could best be described as traditional technical engineeringcourses. There are few or no social or cultural learning goals. The service may provide somecontext for the technical learning, but there are no planned learning outcomes in thesocial/cultural domain.Most engineering service learning programs would then be situated in quadrant 4. At a freshmanlevel the learning goals on both axes may be modest. However, in a capstone type project or amulti-year project we would expect substantial learning to take place in both dimensions. Ideallythe program would be planned to have deliverables, learning outcomes, reflection andcommunity engagement that supports substantial learning in dimensions 11 and 12
manufacturing analysis as a capstone design project. Fortheir project, they developed the design of a flexible work cell that could be used to produce themodular units for multiple houses that would make up the MAGIC village. The work cell wouldallow rapid production and assembly but still leave some degree of customization options, to beselected by the residents.The construction site of the house in the middle of campus was easily accessed during and priorto construction; this allowed the students more opportunities than they would have been for atypical building project. A Soil Mechanics class took advantage of this by taking soil samplesthat were analyzed using the same techniques included in the laboratory portion of the class, butwith a tangible
educationinitiatives and service-learning opportunities are developed and supported by EWB Australia(EWB-A). These include the EWB Challenge, an embedded first year coursework program,and the Undergraduate Research Program, providing service-learning projects for later yearindividual or group work. These represent the extremes of an undergraduate degree, leavinga significant gap in the program for a student interested in humanitarian engineering. Inaddition, it was observed that students undertaking a final year project often did not have arelevant background in development or people-centred approaches. Without this, studentsoften took a strong technical focus in their final year capstone project, often at the expense ofother contextual or people-centred
practices, benefits, andchallenges of engaging in Learning Through Service (LTS) activities, with a focus on theengineering faculty perspective. LTS in engineering typically takes two forms: (1) course-basedservice-learning (SL) projects for real communities or individuals (such as assistive technologydevices), and (2) service projects conducted via extracurricular activities such as EngineersWithout Borders (EWB). Studying both of these distinct but related activities was of interestsince extracurricular service activities such as EWB projects have sometimes moved intoengineering courses such as capstone design. The group of engineering faculty and LTSresearchers first described what excited them about LTS. Then the group shared ideas on
academic content. It is important that the work is done in partnership with thecommunity, and not for the community, in a way that is truly reciprocal. Finally, students mustreflect on their work before, during and after the experience to process, contextualize, anddeepen their learning.While community engagement projects have been primarily incorporated into first-yearcurriculum as well as senior design capstone experiences, there continues to be growth in the useof this pedagogy across the entire undergraduate engineering experience [3]. Communityengagement projects also occur in extracurricular settings, for example through participation instudent clubs such as Engineers Without Borders [4].The benefits of community engaged learning for course
, Computer Graphics, Materials Science and laboratory courses. Since 2015 she has been actively involved in the University of Miami College of Engineering’s ”Redefining Engineering Education” strategic plan on educational innovation. As part of this plan, Dr. Basalo worked with 2 other faculty members to organize inaugural Senior Design Expo in May 2017, an exposition where over 200 senior students showcased their Capstone projects to the University of Miami community, alumni and industry leaders. Starting in 2016 and through her work with the University of Miami’s Engaged Faculty Fellowship program, Dr. Basalo incorporated an academic service component into the final project for a sophomore-level Measurements Lab
full list in Table 1). While the rubric was designed to allowfor assessment of a variety of project types, it has only been applied to civil engineering studentdesign projects.5The rubric includes two four-point rating scales to aid evaluators in judging capstone reportsbased on the 16 sustainable design criteria. The earned points scale [0-3] captures the extent towhich students consider each sustainable design criterion in their capstone projects. Evaluatorsassign a score of 0 to projects that show no evidence of incorporating the design criterion, whilea score of 3 is assigned if the project shows evidence of extensive criterion application. Thepotential points scale [0-3] describes the extent to which each sustainable design criterion
conference. Polak18 argued the peopleliving in marginalized communities have resources to purchase various products, but themarket lacks products that meet the unique needs of people living in poverty. In his lecture,Polak challenged engineers to broaden their conceptions of design. This lecture catalyzedframing the freshman capstone project in a poverty alleviation context. As the professorspiloted this innovative course,13, 19-21 they discovered a need to use design personas andcommunity profiles rather than statistical income measures of poverty.This paper introduces theoretical frameworks of wellbeing while explaining the programevolution at Ohio Northern in order to support engineering educators developing communityengagement programs. The
projects into two design courses at Mines and assessthe ways in which HCD protocols, which included significant stakeholder engagementcomponents, impacted students’ understandings of sustainable development and their perceptionsof their roles in sustainable development initiatives. One of the selected courses was, Projects forPeople, and the other was the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) SeniorDesign Capstone course. The courses were chosen because of their focus on applying HCDprotocols, as well as the instructors’ willingness to participate in the project. Also, both of thecourses are required for students enrolled in the Humanitarian Engineering (HE) minor. The HEprogram, home to the HE minor, began at Mines in 2006 with the
higher enrollments in subsequent years. Secondly, itwould offer our students a chance to work on a real-world engineering design problem thatwould make a lasting impact on the community. Along with the transport course, the potentialwould exist for students to complete their capstone design project by continuing their work onthe evaporator. For the syrup-making program, the main benefit would be an evaporator withimproved efficiency and/or safety, making the syrup production process easier and more flexible.They would also gain some insight into how the engineering field views the world, andpotentially increase their technical and scientific literacy. This could help to improve otheraspects of production not specifically addressed by the student
1.CVEN 4899 Civil Engineering Senior Design Project (Sr. Design)The CVEN 4899 course is the required 4-credit capstone design course for all civil engineeringmajors. The course is only offered in fall semester. The course provides a simulated real worlddesign and construction planning experience with multiple constraints including budget,schedule, technical, regulatory, and societal. Teams of 4 to six students encompass the multiple Page 25.558.6civil engineering sub-disciplines. In fall 2011 multiple student teams competed on two separatedesign projects; the municipal client selected the winning team on each project at the end of
- Engineering Innovation - Ideas for social enterprises created by the students; • Any year - Work Experience or internships with community-based organizations or social enterprises; • Year 3 or 4 - Engineering for a Humanitarian Context course as a dedicated elective subject; • Year 4 - Systems Engineering Project (1 semester) and Individual Research Project (2 semesters) - both involve service learning and external partners, the former with a group capstone project, the latter, with research to development or humanitarian contexts.Engineering for a Humanitarian Context (EfaHC). Although the student may participate in HEdriven activities in all years, just one elective course is specific to the subject of HE, the
installation requirements (e.g. when design doesn’tmeet reality). Overall, this project-based learning experience profoundly impacts studentlearning, as witnessed by a final student quote: “I wish everyone had to take this class prior to taking Senior Design [Capstone Experience]. This class is so helpful in learning how to manage a project! I learned more from this experience than I did from my other [engineering] courses about design.” (Bernardo Quevedo, CBED) V. ConclusionThe ongoing collaboration between CBED, BUG, and the San Jose Unified School District hasbeen successful from each perspective, delivering student projects which have added educationaldimensions to the school gardens and created a positive visual
mentors.EWB-USA projects can and often do span multiple semesters or even years.The curriculum for EPICS can accommodate projects in any phase of the design process and hassupported the current pilot project over the two semesters with plans to extend into the nextacademic year.Opportunities for the EPICS/EWB-USA credits to count as more, including capstone projects isunder discussion. The relationship with EPICS and EWB-USA will continue to evolve and maylook different at different institutions. However, it seems clear that EPICS can be a proven wayfor EWB-USA projects to be integrated into the curriculum in a way that promotes progress andaccountability on the projects as well as student learning. The curriculum structure documentsthat learning so
blue), and thenreformed into seven groups for a project on ASGM (in green). In the second phase, duringSpring semester 2019, these students are developing projects to compete in the GSIC. Some tookclasses on related topics, and some were even able to make their ASGM work count as a requiredsenior capstone project. Of the original seven teams whose work on ASGM we document here,three began to develop projects in Phase 2. Eventually all but one group dropped out of the GSICexperience. Nonetheless, all three groups will be involved in Phase 3 as students travel toColombia to engage members of ASGM communities in person.Context: ASGM and the Complex Risks Associated With ItIn 2017, Colombia was among the top 20 gold producing nations of the world
. Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University Dr. Malini Natarajarathinam joined the faculty of Industrial Distribution Program at Texas A&M Univer- sity in 2007. Natarajarathinam received her Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management from The University of Alabama. She received her Bachelor of Engineering (Major: Industrial and Systems Engineering) from Anna University [Tamilnadu, India], her MS in Industrial Engineering from Auburn University, her MA in Management Science and MS in Applied Statistics from The University of Alabama. She has experi- ence working with many industries such as automotive, chemical distribution etc. on transportation and operations management projects. She works extensively with food banks
during this summer, teaching the skillsthey have learned to others. The final year is Figure 1. Curriculum breakdown forspent working on capstone projects reflecting on a typical engineering student. Thethe coursework and international experience and percentage of class types taken for a Page 25.887.3continuing the advancement of the program. bachelor’s of science degree is shown. Figure 2. Distribution of general education
the problem on hand.As we can see from how learning takes place in this initiative, there is a great balancebetween learning and service in this activity (Figure 2). The focus of working on theproject definitely is on service learning.Figure 2: What is Service Learning (Furco 2000)The three dimensions of service learning are 1. Curricular Content 2. Service 3. Social IssueThis project experience serves as a capstone project for the students. Students are able to Page 26.1367.4apply their curricular content and develop practical knowledge. For example, one of theprojects involves developing a sound maintenance plan for the wastewater plant
engineering. He has written texts in design, general engineering and digital electronics, including the text used by Project Lead the Way. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020A Qualitative Study of Empathy in the Experiences of Students in a First-Year Engineering Service-Learning CourseEmpathy is an important ability for engineers, it allows us to connect with the people we impactas we seek to solve problems, engage in design and innovate technologies. This ability iscommonly and casually defined as the ability to put oneself in another person’s shoes. Severalresearchers within and outside of the engineering education community have sought to defineand suggest practical
members of Marwa Village. The conclusion was that thecommunity had the desire and organizational capacity to be a strong partner for aninternational water development project. A multi-disciplinary team was assembled, traveled toMarwa in May 2016, and established the foundation that would evolve into a multi-year, multi-phase community development project: Maji Marwa. The Maji Marwa project was introduced to students as a capstone project option in theundergraduate civil engineering program and has expanded to collaboration amongst twouniversities, five colleges and participation from over 175 students. The rainwater harvestinginitiatives goal was to collaborate with in-country partners to construct three rainwaterharvesting (RWH) systems
ProblemDefinition-HCPD; 2) rapidly construct and test concepts to foster a strong feedback loopbetween students and NGO partners in the course Projects for People-PfP; and 3) developdesign solutions that can be implemented by NGOs in the communities where they workthrough the Engineering for Community Development Capstone Design course.5.1.1 Human-Centred Problem Definition (HCPD)HCPD equips students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to identify, define, and beginsolving real problems, for real people, within the socio-technical ambiguity that surrounds allengineering problems. By the end of the course, students are able to recognize designproblems around them, determine whether they are worth solving, and employ design tools tocreate multiple
. As a result, it is hoped that the students will determine an effective collaborative learningapproach that informs each others’ areas of interest regarding international developmentsustainability, while building a knowledge base for better understanding the interrelationshipsamong these disciplines to evaluate long-term interactions between an engineered infrastructureand a recipient community.We emphasize that this course is not design-based, such as an Engineering Capstone project, nordoes it teach technical design. Instead, it focuses engineering minds on the non-engineeringinfluences that must be considered to produce a successful, sustainable engineering design for arecipient outside the designers’ own sociocultural experience.Course
abroad, service-learning, entrepreneurship programs, interdisciplinary courses) do E/CS students engage / not engage in? 2. How do the HIEP participation rates in E / CS students vary as E/CS students’ progress in their programs?To create a historical picture of the E/CS participation, we gathered and analyzed existing NSSEsurvey data to investigate the possible relationships between student demographics, andparticipation in HIEP.Data Analysis / ResultsThe main objective of this study is to examine the extent to which E/CS students participate inHIEP. The NSSE survey results indicate that the E/CS students engage in culminating seniorexperiences such as capstone courses and senior projects and internships or co-op programs
first program was an optional senior capstone project taking place with a community inCentral or South America, including two weeks of field work abroad. The second program was agraduate research program with a local service component developing sustainable developmentteaching materials with K-12 teachers based on the graduate student’s research. The thirdprogram involved short-term (three months) of field research in East Africa embedded within atwelve-month long research program on small-scale infrastructure research. The fourth programwas the Engineers Without Borders chapter at MPuT. The last student program was a graduateprogram comprised of one year of campus course work, followed by two years of field researchin a community partnering
of Success and Failure in Engineering with Implications for Increased Retention, Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 263-274. 8. Besterfield-Sacre, M., Moreno, M., Shuman, L. J., & Atman, C.J. (2001). Gender and ethnicity differences in freshmen engineering student attitudes: A cross-institutional study. Journal of Engineering Education, 90(4), 477. 9. Bielefeldt, A.R. (2007a). Environmental engineering service learning projects for developing communities, National Capstone Design Course Conference Proceedings, Paper 12183, June 10-12, University of Colorado – Boulder, CO. 10. Bielefeldt, A.R. (2007b). Engineering for the Developing World Course Gives Students International
NGOs and Civil Society. Meanwhile, he and his wife Stacey continue to work with Heart to Honduras at a distance.Patrick John Sours, Ohio State University Patrick is a graduate student in Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering. Patrick received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from The Ohio State University with a minor in Humanitarian Engineering. Patrick’s graduate research focus is international development through engineering. His main research project is Maji Marwa: A Sustainable and Resilient Community Project. Patrick has been involved with Humanitar- ian Engineering projects at Ohio State for the past seven years. He has worked on project in Guatemala, Honduras, India and Tanzania