assessment – can be assessed as a performance of an individual student (author judgment) ABET – important to ABET accreditation (existing and proposed criteria) [3] Industry value – valued by industry (combined survey data) Institution importance – typically valued by educational institutions (TUEE 2nd workshop) [9] Student value – valued by students (TUEE 2nd workshop) [9] Industry dissatisfaction – reported by industry as lacking in graduates (TUEE 1st workshop) [1]Table 3 shows a decision matrix used to consider each outcome in the light of these factorsimportant to assessment in capstone design courses. A weighting for each need (1 to 5) isassigned in column two. A score indicating how well
one if I'm lucky. They are also responsible for assessing the technical merit of the student's final report. The course coordinator moderates this mark." [AUS31] "One faculty member runs the course and does the bulk of the assessment. Other New Zealand faculty members supervise student design groups." [NZ3] "Informally." [NZ8]3.5 Projects and TeamsFigure 12 displays the range of sources of capstone design projects for Australia, New Zealand,and the United States. Faculty research and industry/government were the two most popularchoices. Strikingly, 100% of respondents from New Zealand reported use of faculty research as aproject source, compared to Australia’s 76%, and the
skills set as primary outcomes. Human values, socialaspects of engineering design, and engineering ethics are also discussed within the context of thecourse projects. STEPS is a student’s first exposure to engineering design, occurring in theSophomore year for most. The specific course of this study, STEPS 251 PGEG, is a project-based design course for sophomore level students studying Petroleum Engineering andPetroleum Geosciences. Its purpose is to provide students with an experiential overview of thepetroleum industry through the planning of exploration and development of a local concessionarea. The course is team taught, with 1 Geosciences, 1 Petroleum Engineering, and 1Communication faculty all serving as facilitators and providing input at
University. He teaches context-centered electrical engineering and embedded systems design courses, and studies the use of context in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Com- puter Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?” He has also been part of the teaching team for NSF’s Innovation Corps for Learning, and was named one of ASEE PRISM’s ”20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014. Dr
Engineering Education Excellence Award He is a past-chair of the ASEE IL/IN Section, and board member of Freshman Programs and Educational Research Methods Divisions.Barrett Myers, Purdue University Barrett Myeters is a masters student in Computer Programming Technology. He received his B.S in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky in 2004. He is currently a graduate assistant with the EPICS Program at Purdue University. Page 11.941.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Multi-Campus Collaborations among Undergraduate Design Teams: Opportunities and
-based learning. Her research interests lie upon the intricacies amongst the design of learning environments, human-computer interaction, online learning.Dr. Mathew Hagge, Iowa State University Matt Hagge is a Senior Lecturer at Iowa State University. He has spent his career talking to students to figure out how students think and learn. The result of these talks has been the development of a course-wide decision framework for a thermodynamics course that allows students to solve previously unseen problems while building their expertise. This pedagogy is called Decision Based Learning, and has received tremendous student feedback and results. Students are able to solve complex problems through understanding rather
knowledge and meaning-making that results in career-ready students preparedand committed to apply whole-system thinking to solve local and global problems” (2017, p.xvi).Problem-based learning (PBL) is an alternative to traditional learning environments involvingprimarily lecture delivery (Yildririm, Baur, LaBoube, 2014). PBL features hands on learningwith the goal of longer retention of the desired learning outcomes. PBL activities candemonstrate increased performance compared to a traditional classroom setting. Barlow statesthat soft skills typically not learned through passive learning are developed and honed throughPBL (2011).Spiral learning (SL) adds to the value of PBL by introducing concepts at various points. Veladat& Mohammadi list the
faculty at her Alma Mater in 2015, Robin has been coordinating and teaching the Cap- stone Senior Design program in Mechanical Engineering while pursuing graduate work in Engineering Education.Dr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she directs the Vir- ginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication