engineering educa- tion. His current duties include assessment, team development and education research for DC Colorado’s hands-on initiatives.Dr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co-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, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on
about how students learn given variations in their health, homes, classrooms, and schools.Dr. Sara Grajeda, University of Delaware Dr. Grajeda’s research interests lie in applied measurement work and policy analyses in education and public health areas. Her measurement work has involved developing and analyzing observational rubrics and surveys in both K12 and higher education settings in various content areas.Dr. Dustyn Roberts P.E., University of Pennsylvania Dustyn is a Philadelphia-based engineer, Senior Lecturer at Penn, and co-founder of Sage Smart Garden, LLC. After an early career putting robots on mars and teaching engineering to artists, she now teaches en- gineering primarily at the undergraduate level
, as well as asking the students to explain howor why a particular design works (or doesn’t work). These are applicable to the undergraduatedesign as well – the trick is to find new and innovative ways to awaken the inner curiosity of thestudents. For at least one of the graduate student authors, whose goal is a career in academia,this take home message was an invaluable one.Dealing with the UninterestedOne particular student on author 1’s team was almost entirely not interested in participating inFLL. This was very frustrating to the teacher as well as the mentor. Both teacher and mentoroften asked themselves, “Why did they even bother to show up?” This posed a formidablechallenge; both to get the student involved and prevent the student from
methodology, learning through service, problem based learning methodologies, assessment of student learning, as well as com- plex problem solving. Her other research interests lie in cardiovascular fluid mechanics, sustainability, and K-12 engineering outreach. Dr. Pierrakos is a 2009 NSF CAREER Awardee. Dr. Pierrakos holds a B.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics, an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Virginia Tech.Dr. Elise M. Barrella, James Madison University Dr. Elise M. Barrella is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at James Madison University, focusing on transportation systems and sustainability. Prior to joining the JMU Engineering faculty in 2012, Dr. Barrella was
-long learning, cultural sensitivity and diversity Preparation for the senior design project o Student resume, team formation and project identification Life as an engineer o A series of lectures by outside speakers on topics such as building a career, what to look for in a (small, mid-sized, large) corporate position, topics of current concern, the future of the profession, and professional responsibilityIn the senior design course, students demonstrate proficiency in a technical discipline area and anunderstanding of the
engineering. • They enjoyed working in teams. • They wanted more materials in bridge set to make more creative designs.DiscussionsAs a result of our observations and students’ feedback, we believe that these design projectsserved well for our purposes. We achieved our goals of teaching them in consecutive courses, aswell as they individually provided some other aims of teaching a design project.Discussion on teaching similar design projects in consecutive coursesSome students do not decide on their career on engineering until their sophomore year or later.There is a definite need to motivate these students and show them the benefits of studyingengineering. We believe that these projects enabled them, as well as the more determinedstudents, to
. Page 15.496.3Another benefit of this approach is to hardwire the concept of “deadlines” by relating the numberof points earned in each step of the project to timely submission of the required documents. Timemanagement, stress management, and dealing with deadlines are among the skills necessary forlanding a successful career in engineering. As part of the design assessment, students also haveto perform a cost and failure analysis of their design. This gives the students an opportunity toevaluate the real value of their design and to critic their approach.One major challenge for the supervisor is evaluating every individual student in every team.Certainly, some team members contribute to the project more than others. One of the methodsused in
Research and Learning (INSPIRE) at Purdue University. Dr. Purzer is a NAE/CASEE New Faculty Fellow. She is also the recipient of a 2012 NSF CAREER award, which examines how engineering students approach innovation. Her expertise is on assessment and mixed-methods research. Page 23.1227.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 The Quality of Engineering Decision-Making in Student Design TeamsAbstractEngineers often must decide between multiple design options that present tradeoffs. Engineeringstudents gain experience making and justifying such decisions during team design projects
failure mechanisms at the micro-scale. In 1998 he received a NSF CAREER award to study thermal barrier coatings and was later active in studying dura- bility of solid oxide fuel cell materials. After one year at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics in Holzkirchen, Germany, in July of 2015, Dr. Walter joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. At UCI Dr. Walter teaches regular MAE classes and helps to manage the senior projects program.Prof. Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine Natascha Trellinger Buswell is an assistant professor of teaching in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of
common for engineering courses to contain team-based projects ranging fromfirst-year Introduction to Engineering courses to Senior Design/Capstone courses. However,students’ experiences in teams vary greatly and when un-facilitated within large courses,students may have negative experiences which impact their future learning. To overcome thisissue, a new course: Applications in Project Management in Biomedical Engineering wasdeveloped at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. This course is student-led where upper-class students serve as project managers (PMs) to first-year student teams in Introduction toBiomedical Engineering who are conducting semester long design projects. The upper-classstudents learn about a promising career in
college life, alook at career opportunities, and a chance to meet professional engineers as well asengineering faculty. Students work on several projects, attend lectures, write reports,code programs, give presentations, and do problem solving and design. The IEPcounselors assist the students in their projects during the sessions in the EngineeringLearning Center, and help enforce the rules in the residence halls.Seven of the nine IEP counselors were engineering students at Notre Dame (the other twowere a pre-med student and a business student), and eight of them had either previouslyattended the camp back when they were in high school, or had worked as IEP counselors
arts college. She received an NSF CAREER award in 1998 and the VT College of Engineering Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award in 2000.Brenda Brand, Virginia Tech Dr. Brenda R. Brand is an assistant professor of Science Education at Virginia Tech. She received her Masters and Doctorate degrees in Curriculum in Science Education from Virginia Tech. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, Dr. Brand was the science supervisor for Montgomery County Public Schools. As the science supervisor, Dr. Brand co-developed a year-long robotics program, working with the lead teacher to develop a course description and syllabus that incorporated participation for the FIRST robotics competition. Currently, Dr. Brand
development, gain this experience. End-of-semester grading showsthat nearly all students understand the need for and have mastered documentation concepts.Student evaluations submitted at the end of each semester also provide insight on the benefits ofworking with companies. Student comments include: • This was a very good class. Everything will be very beneficial for our future careers. • I love the multidisciplinary idea; it is so much better than the normal senior design. • I learned a lot about the business end of industry about a Work Breakdown Structure, a Bill of Materials, Requirements Documents, etc. A very interesting class that gave me a little bit of industry experience. • This class really gives students an
DESIGN COURSES FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF PROFESSIONAL SKILLSIntroductionIn addition to completing a challenging technical curriculum, engineering graduates mustdemonstrate teamwork, communication, and other professional skills including professional andethical responsibility, life-long learning, and understanding the impact of engineering solutionsin a global and societal context. Unless these outcomes are integrated into students' conceptionsof being a "successful engineer" (getting a job and advancing their career), they will be under-valued and under-developed. This project demonstrates the use of industry-modeled 360°performance reviews in a team-based capstone project to link professional skills with an
instruction are excellent instructionalmethods for organizing these kinds of learning experiences. An Aerospace EngineeringDesign course has blended project-based learning experiences into the traditionalsequence of lectures and homework instructional design. Prior evaluations of this coursedemonstrate that students find this approach compelling and vital to their learningbecause it replicates experiences they anticipate having in their career. However, theexperiences are still too artificial. Students report frustration when they know they needinformation, but the source of this information does not come until lectures scheduledmuch later in the course. Also, the instructor would like more detail of the quantity andquality of a team’s interactions
AC 2009-629: ASSESSING WRITING IN A COMPREHENSIVE DESIGNEXPERIENCE COURSERhonda Young, University of Wyoming Rhonda Young is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at the University of Wyoming. Dr. Young received her doctorate in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington in 2002. Prior to a career in academics she worked for 11 years as a consultant in the transportation field. Her research interests are in transportation planning and intelligent transportation systems. Dr. Young teaches a wide variety of courses in the transportation field including the Comprehensive Design Experience course.April Heaney, University of Wyoming April Heaney
only in an academic environment. Page 11.194.9Not all of our Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering graduates pursue an engineeringcareer path, but all of them serve on active duty in the Coast Guard where their technicalknowledge is a definite asset. The majority of our Naval Architecture and Marine Engineeringgraduates do choose to pursue an engineering career, and they spend the first few years aftergraduation gaining shipboard engineering operational experience. After that they typically go toa shoreside ship maintenance support office or to a Coast Guard Marine Safety Office. In theseshore assignments they serve as junior engineers
within Page 11.181.7the University of North Dakota School of Engineering & Mines, through corporate fundingand premiere career opportunities at Imation. Maintaining the professional relationshipsbetween UND and Imation Corporation is critical in sustaining and growing this partnership.V. Funding OpportunitiesThe work with Imation has strengthened the research capabilities of UND and has helpedestablish a successful and productive research environment that is well-positioned to seek outexternal federal, state, and local government funding opportunities. This has been establishedthrough strategic purchases of appropriate equipment in the
Learning. She completed her Ph.D. in 2014 in Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech. Alexandra received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT and her M.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. Her research interests include engineering design education (especially in regards to the design of complex systems), student preparation for post-graduation careers, approaches for supporting education research-to-practice. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Iterating on Students’ Perceptions of Iteration in the Design Process: An Exploratory StudyAbstractExplorations of experienced designers demonstrate how these designers employ
our internship opportunities it allowed the students exposure to a business that routinely hires KSU engineers.According to the sponsor, the major student outcomes from this project were, Meeting a deadline, provide a valuable solution to an existing problem, practical experience with the engineering process.The sponsor also indicated that the industry-sponsored project helped the students with outcome(f) — Learn effective communications: I noticed improved communication with the students by the end of the process.The students were polled after obtaining and working in engineering positions, in order to gaugethe impact of MTRE 4800 on their careers. The responses show that their professional experiencereinforces the
. Strimel, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Dr. Greg J. Strimel is an assistant professor of engineering/technology teacher education in the Purdue Polytechnic Institute at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. His prior teaching experience includes serving as a high school engineering/technology teacher and a teaching assistant professor within the College of Engineering & Mineral Resources at West Virginia University.Dr. Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) enay Purzer is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education. She is the recipient of a 2012 NSF CAREER award, which examines how engineering students approach innovation. She serves on the editorial boards
affect change 19.Our approach to capstone is based on the premise that as a culminating experience there shouldbe little or no formally prepared content delivered to students. Engineering faculty andexperienced engineers provide mentoring to each project team. The basic assumption is thatstudents should be prepared and ready to work on an open-ended real world project at theculmination of their undergraduate academic careers and demonstrate an ability to apply theknowledge and skills learned in prior courses to solve a practical problem. Of course, in practicewe find that this assumption is not always true. Nevertheless, we maintain that a capstoneproject is in essence a semester long exam that provides direct measures of how students
beneficial for our future careers. • I love the multidisciplinary idea; it is so much better than the normal senior design. • I learned a lot about the business end of industry about a Work Breakdown Structure, a Bill of Materials, Requirements Documents, etc. A very interesting class that gave me a little bit of industry experience. • Great class. Look forward for next year. • This class really gives students an unforgettable experience. They gain experience in industry, documents (business) required, & w/developing posters. This class should continue. For the first semester ever taught, it was fabulous. • Our company did not seem fully prepared at the beginning of the semester. Overall, the
application inpreparation for entry into a career.” Durel [3] offers another perspective stating that capstone canbe seen as a “rite of passage or luminal threshold through which participants change their statusfrom student to graduate. A capstone course should be a synthesis, reflection and integration,and a bridge or a real-world preparatory experience that focuses on the post-graduation future.”Other definitions include, a crowning course or experience coming at the end of a sequence ofcourses with the specific objective of integrating a body of relatively fragmented knowledge intoa unified whole [4], and an experimental learning activity in which analytical knowledge gainedfrom previous courses is joined with the practice of engineering in a
biodiesel refinery project will 0 4 0 0 6 make me more likely to consider sustainable design options in my future career. 0% 100% 0% 0% I would recommend future students to participate in 0 4 0 0 7 sustainable engineering senior design projects. 0% 100% 0% 0% I would recommend future students to participate in 2 0 2 0 8 multidisciplinary engineering senior design projects. 50% 0% 50% 0% 8 17 6
incorporating environmental impact and human factors design. She received her B.S. in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her M.S. in Technological En- trepreneurship from Northeastern University. Page 22.824.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Implementing the Capstone Experience Concept for Teacher Professional DevelopmentABSTRACTThe need for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) workforce is well documentedin the literature. The lack of interest among school-age students in STEM careers and the
AC 2011-2623: IMPROVED TEAM FUNCTION: STUDENT-DRIVEN TEAMRULES AND CONSEQUENCESPeter J. Shull, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Campus PETER J. SHULL is Professor of Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. After a successful career in the technical field of Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE), and having worked at the prestigious Nation Institute of Standards and Technology, Dr. Shull made the decision to return to academia and began his career in education. From the first day, Dr. Shull noted an apparent lack of sound educational practice at the higher educational level. This is reflected in a statement made by Dr. Shull’s Ph.D. advisor regarding teaching”If you know the material well, you’ll be a great
design techniques into mechanical engineeringcurricula, students could establish a solid working relationship both with the concepts of design andthe professionals in the field while still in college. This may result in engineers having a deeperunderstanding of design and its process, as well as being better prepared for their future career. Orput differently, the aforementioned call could be answered.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank the University of St. Thomas Young Scholars program forfunding this research.Bibliography[1] Neeley, W. Lawrence, Sheri Sheppard, Larry Leifer. “Design is Design is Design (Or is it?): What we say vs.What we do in Engineering Design Education”. Proc. of American Society for Engineering Education
-developed and co- teaches the biomedical engineering capstone design sequence at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Glen’s educational research interests include student learning styles, the statistical evaluation of assess- ment instruments, and increasing student engagement with hands-on activities. He has received an NSF CAREER award and served as a Fellow at the National Effective Teaching Institute.Dr. Jameel Ahmed, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Jameel Ahmed is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Biology and Biomedical Engineer- ing at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He has been teaching at Rose-Hulman since 1999, and his technical interests lie in the areas of quantitative physiology and
-solving, whereasEuropean educators focus on preparing students for career mobility by restructuring degrees,expanding nontechnical contents and creating student-exchange programs. Zhou and hercolleagues (2015) found a push-pull difference of teacher-student relationship between China andthe U.S., in that teachers are regarded as the owner of learning and need to push their students tolearn in China, whereas U.S. students perceive themselves to be the owner of learning. Lessresearch is focused on the culturally-shaped values and orientations of engineering learnersthemselves. Drawing on a learning pathway perspective, Nasir, et al., (2020) analyzed howidiosyncratic upbringings and educational cultures would channel engineering students