programs, andoutlines the current research on how design thinking processes could be taught and learned. Itexplores also the currently most-favored pedagogical model for teaching design, namely:Project-Based Learning (PBL). The paper identifies several contexts for PBL along with someavailable data on it success. Finally, the paper raises some of the questions that should beanswered to identify the most effective pedagogical practices of improving design learning.IntroductionDesign is widely considered to be the most distinguishing activity of engineering. It has also longbeen understood that engineering institutions should graduate engineers who could designeffectively to meet societal needs. Historically, engineering curricula have been based
applications and select the best applicants for each project based ondiscipline, technical knowledge and overall interest. For the IEEE Senior Design project,disciplines of interest were Electrical, Computer and Mechanical Engineering and at least oneEngineering Technology student for practical applications experience. The combination ofdisciplines allow students to gain valued experience working on interdisciplinary team whiletackling their problem: building an autonomous robot that is directly related to each discipline.IEEE Region 3 Student Hardware Competition teamsThis paper compares teams, based on their SOW, for work completed and the final results fromeach competition. As mention earlier, the faculty mentor generates a description of the
research spans education and practice, working on the in- tegration of community research into project based learning. Her work overlaps areas of GIS mapping, global sustainable urbanism, design and creativity. She undertook a Fulbright in Valpara´ıso, Chile, to investigate, and map, devices of landscape as inspirations for the orders of community space. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Mapping as Design-Thinking: Can GIS Help Engineering Students Approach Design?AbstractSpatial site design, accessed through GIS mapping, teaches three-dimensional data analysis skillsinvaluable for the contemporary engineering student. Integrating design-thinking
. The effects were observed in Page 24.468.5low earth orbit satellite constellations, automotive manufacturing plants, military equipment inIraq, and fashion and customer products.Despite the undergoing researches and their importance in industries, the concept of uncertaintyis not well known among engineering graduates. This is not because theories of uncertainty arenot numerically represented but because they are not usually included in a typical engineeringcurriculum7. For the special issue of the ASME Transaction: Journal of Mechanical Designdedicated to the topic of Design Under Uncertainty (DUU) 13, the editors indicated that no
practice of design and the resulting impact of engineering designs on society.The CoursesCourse InstructorsAs discussed earlier, the endeavor of teaching engineering as a sociotechnical discipline whileintegrating issues such as race, justice, and -isms can be a daunting task for instructors, and weare no exceptions. As the background and positionality of the instructor is critical tounderstanding the risks and rewards associated with these courses, this section briefly describeseach of the instructors who have taught or are currently teaching the course.J. A. Mejia self-identifies as Mexican American and his research investigates the funds ofknowledge of Latinx adolescents. He grew up in a binational setting where the majority of thepopulation
in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE, group), whose diverse projects and group members are described at feministengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of early career and re- cently tenured faculty and research staff primarily evaluated based on their engineering education research productivity. She can be contacted by email at
, students are encouraged to have several mentors. Over 100 faculty have agreed to mentor our scholars. Moving forward, we intend to grow this resource. To inform the above activities, we have two mentoring surveys. First, there is a Mentee-Seeking-Mentor Mentoring Survey. In Section 3, we present data for the following relevant questions: Q13: How many faculty mentors do you have? How many peer and industry mentors do you have? Q14-Q18: Do you seek mentoring on research, technical skills, professional skills, graduate school, academic success? Next, there is a Mentoring Survey for Faculty – What Faculty Seek in their Mentees. This survey (designed
engineering degrees, mostly allin mechanical engineering. They gravitate to ME310 because they are interested in learning moreabout design and developing products. An annual survey of students asking where they “hope towork after graduation” shows that Apple, IDEO or a Car Company are the top choices. These arecompanies that practice product management and have Product Managers who run majordevelopment projects. ME310 students often participate in design research studies and over time a psychometricprofile of the typical students has emerged. The Herrmann Brain Dominance Indicator (HBDI) isa cognitive assessment tool that has been judged to be both valid and reliable 9 and maintains asignificant database of industry and functional subject
capabilities to projects. Students are typically quite anxious to have areal world engineering design experience to help them prepare for the workforce. Wehave found that many students favor projects that have social impacts or deal withfamiliar subject areas for which they have had some prior exposure. They prefer designproblems with few constraints and would rather approach design from a “clean sheet”perspective. It is often more difficult to motivate students to work on projects thatinvolve the application of existing technology to complex systems for which they mayhave had little or no prior background or exposure. And, it can be difficult to keepstudents motivated on projects for which the best approach to design is to use off-the-shelf hardware
a substantial impact on the direction of air quality policies in Texas. He has developed environmental educational materials for engineering curricula and for the University’s core curriculum, as well as engineering education materials for high school students. The quality of his work has been recognized by the National Science Foundation (through the Presidential Young Investiga- tor Award), the AT&T Foundation (through an Industrial Ecology Fellowship), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (through the Cecil Award for contributions to environmental engineering and through the Research Excellence Award of the Sustainable Engineering Forum), the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science
have typically been classified as “mentoring” in the capstone literature, thoughthe term has also been used interchangeably with coaching, supervising, and managing. Theterms, however, typically remain ill-defined and and subject to tacit rather than explicityunderstanding 5-7, 13. The tacit nature of design teaching knowledge makes it difficult both toassess the impact of specific practices on student learning and to provide appropriate facultydevelopment support for new design educators.To bridge this gap and provide a step towards identifying best practices and developing means tobetter support both new and experience faculty, this paper draws on an established frameworkfor mentoring to analyze the results of a national survey and describe
sponsoring companies is a significant factor both in the abilityfor BYU to recruit Capstone projects and to develop long-term collaborative workingrelationships with companies throughout the world to enable us to reach our desired Capstonecourse learning outcomes and prepare our students for the practice of engineering. As previouslynoted, these relationships have led to funded research opportunities for our faculty, scholarships,internships, and employment for our graduates. By providing the intellectual property tosponsoring companies, we are able to increase both the quality and quantity of sponsoredCapstone projects even when facing more difficult economic times.Providing intellectual property rights to sponsoring companies is an important
Page 13.534.7Content and experiences in the capstone design course are required to ensure studentsdemonstrate certain capabilities as outlined in criterion 3 and 4 for ABET accreditation. Manyrequirements of criterion 4 are also addressed by the capstone course. Specifically, Cal Poly’sMechanical Engineering program relies in some part on the capstone design course to providestudents with instruction, application, and feedback with respect to criteria a-d, g, i and k7. Forother outcomes, students may receive experience depending on the nature of their project. Thefollowing briefly outlines how these outcomes are practiced and sometimes assessed. In order tosatisfy the accreditation requirements, the Mechanical Engineering graduates must have
, values, and goals. Annual Review of Psychology 53, 109–132.Hylton, J.B., France, T., & DiBerardino, L.A. Impact of Various Pedagogies on Design Confidence, Motivation, and Anxiety of First-Year Engineering Students. Presented at the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2017.Kier, M.W., Blachard, M.R., Osborne, J.W., & Albert, J.L. (2014) The Development of the STEM Career Interest Survey (STEM-CIS). Research in Science Education, 44, pp461-481. DOI 10.1007/s11165-013- 9389-3Kosovich, J., Hulleman, C.S., Barron, K.E., & Getty, S. (2014) A Practical Measure of Student Motivation: Establishing Validity Evidence for the Exectancy-Value-Cost Scale in Middle School. Journal of Early Adolescence. DOI: 10.1177/0272431614556890Mamaril
, Page 11.306.2engineering design is held responsible for the impact it has on life-cycle issues such as costs,usability, safety, manufacturability, serviceability, recyclability, sustainability, disposability, andquality; ultimately, determining the success or failure of products and organizations. Indeed,design is considered an issue of national importance2. Good design practices can be observed,but how can the expertise and methodologies employed be captured, transferred, implemented,formalized or improved? Why are some people more likely to be good designers? These are justsome of the questions that researchers and practitioners have sought to answer.In engineering education, students (undergraduate and graduate) are often involved
students apply design methods, they rarely practice needs finding.All Canadian undergraduate engineering students participate in a capstone project in their fourthyear. Engineering instructors at the University of Waterloo have identified a lack of opportunitiesfor students to practice their need finding skills prior to fourth year. As a result, a set of needfinding instructional activities were conducted in-class for one term. The objective of thisresearch is to conduct evidence-based program improvement by identifying the teachingpractices that improve need finding competencies in engineering graduates. More specifically, inthis ongoing study, the authors explore how students identify, select, and justify their capstoneproject problem; and
AC 2012-3132: GENDER DIFFERENCES IN AN ENERGY CONSERVA-TION IDEA GENERATION TASKDr. Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette Senay Purzer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education and is the Director of Assessment Research for the Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning (INSPIRE) at Purdue University. Purzer has has journal publications on instrument development, teacher professional develop- ment, and K-12 engineering education. Her research focuses on assessing constructs such as innovation, information literacy, and collaborative learning.Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University Nicholas D. Fila is a doctoral student and Graduate Research Assistant in the School of
Engineering Major at the US Air Force Academy.The Secretary’s goal was not only to create a core of officers who possess a systems-levelperspective for research, developmental engineering and acquisition of new systems, butto develop that same perspective among graduates who serve as Air Force pilots,operations officers and battle managers. Through the combined efforts of departments from the Engineering, BasicSciences and Social Science Divisions, the Academy’s Systems Engineering major wasestablished in 2003 with its first graduates to be commissioned in June 2006. Inrecognition of the importance of a discipline with a more managerial focus, the SystemsEngineering Management major was also created. These two academic programs share acore of
University Aditya Vora is a Junior at The Pennsylvania State University majoring in Industrial Engineering and graduating in May 2020. He has been a part of the High-Performance Design Team Research for a year, with technical interests including Data Visualization, Artificial Intelligence, Team Cognition, and Entrepreneurship. He is the design lead of a team that was awarded phase one winner at the Nittany AI challenge at Penn State. With a minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Aditya is also the Co-founder of a Startup at Penn State. His interest in Engineering Education stems from prior work as a Learning Assistant in Physics courses. Outside of school, he enjoys traveling, producing music and playing the
improvement in teamwork skills9.One limitation of these studies is that these professional skills can be very difficult to quantify.Unlike measures of post-graduation salary, which have been shown by several researchers to behigher in co-op students1,3 it is only relatively recently that the professional skills have beenstudied in a systematic way5. The capstone design experience provides a unique opportunity tofocus on these professional skills in a somewhat controlled environment. Although the projectsvary widely in topic, scope, and difficulty, one would expect that a team composed of individualswith good teamwork and project management skills should be able to produce a final design thatshows good technical skills, a logical thought process, and
-week long study was implemented. We describe the design of our ARapp and how it was used and evaluated in the study. We discuss our initial findings from thiswork-in-progress and share our ideas for future implementations.Related workWe have built our design framework for this project off of two key past observations. The firstobservation being that 3D modeling has a positive impact on enhancing spatial skills. Second,that 3D modeling coupled with AR leads to enhanced spatial understanding of virtual objects.3D Modeling helps enhance spatial skillsFactors like age and experience matter in the improvement of spatial skills but it has been foundin prior research that this skill can be enhanced with the help of 3D modeling. Researchers likeDevon
had its own advantages and challenges. In this paper,we present some of the techniques we have used that have helped us improve studentlearning in large class settings. We discuss challenges associated with large classesinside and outside of the class. We present this research as a case study of a particularlarge computer science graduate course with information that may be replicable to otherlarge classes across computer science and engineering education. For our case study weselected a graduate level algorithms design class to demonstrate the effectiveness ofdifferent approaches to addressing the ever-increasing enrollment numbers for theseclasses. We share our experience with both pedagogical and logistical challenges insuch class settings
conference and American Society for Engineering Education conference.Miss Meg E West, The Ohio State University Meg E. West is an engineering education graduate student at The Ohio State University. She is a graduate teaching and research associate for the Department of Engineering Education.Dr. J. Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University Dr. Hylton is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Coordinator of the First-Year Engi- neering experience for the T.J. Smull College of Engineering at Ohio Northern University. He previously completed his graduate studies in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, where he conducted re- search in both the School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Engineering
, while inspired by the work of Butterfield and Branch [1] where freshman studentswere ‘hired’ by Capstone students, relied on integrating the Capstone Design course intochemical engineering courses occurring across the freshman-junior level. In the first iteration ofthe present work, technical aspects of the Capstone Design projects formed the basis for groupproblems that were assigned in two courses: Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer. In the seconditeration, the Capstone Design students gave a series of presentations to a first-year, introductorychemical and biological engineering course. Presentations focused on both the technicalcomponents of their design and safety considerations and societal impacts pertaining to theirprocess design. At
are defined andsponsored by local industry. However, the faculty or occasionally students propose designprojects called internal projects. Both internal and industry-defined projects have their pros andcons. For example, industry projects are problems which help students know and buildrelationships with industry. On the other hand, internal projects can be good research projectswhich help students gain extensive technical learning. This paper provides a general comparisonbetween these two types of projects. Additionally, the different perspectives of the students,graduates, and faculty of Iron Range Engineering on these two types of design projects arediscussed. Data were collected by conducting surveys, and the responses from our students
and mathematics. The resultingengineering graduates were perceived by industry and academia, at the time, as being “ill-prepared” for the practice. Despite steps taken to remedy the situation, through greater industry-academia collaboration; both design faculty and design practitioners argue that furtherimprovements are necessary. Design faculty across the country and across a range of educationalinstitutions still feel that the leaders of engineering schools (deans, department heads, tenuredfaculty) are unable or unwilling to recognize the intellectual complexities and resources neededto support good design education.Fortunately, more and more educators are becoming aware of the issues of design, and steps arebeing taken world wide, to
for learning, teaching,mentoring, and advising; designing, building, and fixing; collaborating; and participating.In recent years, there has been growing interest in understanding the impact of maker spaces ineducation and the best practices for developing new maker spaces. In particular, a reoccurringtopic of discussion in engineering education revolves around the need to increase retention andimprove recruitment of students, especially women, minorities, and first generations, intoengineering related fields. While the difficulty of the engineering curriculum and poor teachinghave been recognized as factors influencing attrition, other issues like the lack of belonging inengineering have a great impact on the decision to leave.19-22 In other
explore howstudents described their experience with the class, and what reasons were given to the utility ofthe class and address the study’s research question, “How useful students perceive what theylearned in an introductory engineering design course for their successive years in college or forwhat they want to do after graduation?”Open coding was the primary method of analysis [17] of the written-response survey question.As a starting point, the authors removed null responses from the dataset, including responses thatdid not have text content or had non-applicable content. We identified 25 (31% of the totalresponses) student responses as null responses, and they were excluded from the qualitativeanalysis. The open coding system helped to
, realistic constraints,collaborative, and includes an artifact or artifact design. The high school program was chosenthrough chain sampling41. Chain sampling for this research involved asking those “in the know”(teacher educators, graduate students as practitioners, the state office of education) torecommend high school programs. The school was chosen from the Mountain West Region. The High School had predominantly White students. The school has a certified pre-engineering program using Project Lead the Way curriculum. There are six courses offered thatbecome available to the students starting their sophomore year: Introduction to Engineering,Digital Electronics, Civil and Architectural Engineering, Computer Integration andManufacturing
STEM program to prepare pre-service teachers to become K-12 technology and engineering educators. His research involves engaging college students in human centered design and improving creativity. He also develops nanotechnology based lessons that integrate the STEM disciplines. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Design through empathy: how low vision simulators can be used to engage students in better design solutions (Academic Practice/Design Interventions) INTRODUCTION: One of the objectives of a first-‐year engineering design course is to engage students in a real engineering design project. The team project typically