AC 2011-1315: FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE CREATIVITY OF EN-GINEERING STUDENTSNicole E GencoKatja Holtta-Otto, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Dr. Holtta-Otto is assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Massachusetts Dart- mouth.Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin Page 22.705.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Factors that influence the creativity of engineering studentsAbstractMany engineering curricula focus on educating engineers who are not only technicallycompetent but also capable of designing innovative engineering
the past decade.1. IntroductionCapstone design courses offer engineering students a culminating design experience on anapplied engineering project. With a longstanding history reinforced by support from theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), these courses have becomecommon in engineering departments across the United States. The composition of capstonecourses, however, varies widely. In 1994, Todd et al.1 conducted a survey of engineeringdepartments throughout North America to capture educational and logistical practices incapstone design courses at the time. Their results2,3 provided a wealth of information about theirrespondents' capstone courses plus comments about plans for future modifications.Since then, a number
engineering students develop in their career identity while also developing as whole persons. James received his Ph.D. in engineering education and his his M.S. in electrical and computer engineering, both from Purdue University. He received his bachelor’s in computer engineering at Harding University.Dr. Keelin Siomha Leahy, University of Limerick Keelin Leahy is a lecturer of Technology Education at the University of Limerick. Keelin received her PhD from the University of Limerick in 2009, which focused on approaches for design activities in second level education. Keelin’s main research interests include developing approaches for the development of creativity and design based activities and pedagogy. Keelin lectures in the
operations at major corporations.3. Engineer's Council for Professional Development (ECPD). (1947). Canons of ethics for engineers.4. See: http://www.sache.org/ [accessed Feb 1, 2009]5. Kletz, T.A., T.A., 1978. What you don’t have, can’t leak. Chemistry and Industry, 6 May 1978, p 287-292.6. NIOSH (DHHS) Publication No. 2006-136, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND THE SAFETY AND HEALTH OF WORKING PEOPLE: Knowledge Gaps and Research Directions, August 2006.7. See: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/SHAPE/ [accessed Feb 1, 2009]8. Christensen, W.C. & Main, B.W. Compendium; 1996 Symposium: Integrating safety through design: Developing concepts of safety, health, and environmental knowledge to be incorporated into engineering curricula
in it and I like it a lot. -I did not realize that we would be working in teams as much as we did. I think that this was a good experience because I had very little team experience in the past. -Programming, Sustainability, and that engineering not only consists of modern technology but engineering can also be applied to the most simplest things such as making something out of clay, a soda can, and bamboo sticks. -I didn’t expect to spend half a semester designing something from rope, cloth, and bottles. -I learned how an engineering design project is run. -I learned how important the engineering process is. The whole thing about teamwork and all the beginning steps to a successful design and construction of a
the type of nurturing environment, providing background knowledge and motivation for students to engage in deeper thinking [6]. The results of the study can also be replicated in other engineering domains, adopting real-life problems from other areas.Acknowledgment We would like to thank Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology, under grantnumber NSC101-2120-S-006-002.References [1] C.L. Cheng, “Evaluating water conservation measures for Green Building in Taiwan,” Build. Environ., vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 369-379, 2003. [2] H.W. Wang and G.M. Kondolf, Upstream Sediment-Control Dams: Five Decades of Experience in the Rapidly Eroding Dahan River Basin, Taiwan.,” J. Am. Water Resour. As., vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 735-747, 2013. [3
, Jim Schaaf, Tim Hight, Drew Nelson,Ramesh Shah, Andrew Davol, Steve, Laguette, Jawaharlal Mariappan, Amir Rezaei, JawaMariappan, Keiko Nomura, Nathan Delson.8.0 References[1.] Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, ABET-Accredited Programs, www.abet.org, AccessedJanuary 2007.[2.] Dixon, J. R., “Engineering Design Science: The State of Education,” Mechanical Engineering, ASME,February 1991, pp 64-67.[3.] Dixon, J. R., “Engineering Design Science: New Goals for Engineering Education,” Mechanical Engineering,ASME, March 1991, pp 56-62.[4.] Todd, R., Sorenson, C., and Magleby, S., “Designing a Senior Capstone Course to Satisfy IndustrialCustomers,” Journal of Engineering Education, April 1993, pp. 92-100.[5.] Todd, R., Magleby, S
mechanical engineering, civil engineering, architecture, cognitive science, and computer science at MIT, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia and CMU in the USA, at Strathclyde and Loughborough in the UK, at INSA-Lyon and Provence in France and at EPFL in Switzerland.Prof. Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University - Engineering Education Kurt Becker is the current director for the Center for Engineering Education Research (CEER) which examines innovative and effective engineering education practices as well as classroom technologies that advance learning and teaching in engineering. He is also working on National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects exploring engineering design thinking. His areas of research include engineering
Paper ID #18145Work in Progress: Quantifying the Differences Between Professional ExpertEngineers and Engineering Students Designing: Empirical Foundations forImproved Engineering EducationDr. Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University, Center for Engineering Education Research Kurt Becker is the current director for the Center for Engineering Education Research (CEER) which examines innovative and effective engineering education practices as well as classroom technologies that advance learning and teaching in engineering. He is also working on National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects exploring engineering design
Provost at Texas A&M University. He served as Project Director for the Foundation Coalition, an NSF Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized their undergraduate engineering curricula, and extensively shared their results with the engineering education community. He co-created the Integrated, First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engi- neering and Mathematics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, which was recognized in 1997 with a Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence. He has authored or co-authored over 70 papers on engineer- ing education in areas ranging from curricular change to faculty development. He is currently an ABET Program
curriculum that rapidly respond to industryrequirements while in the same time adhering to the basic needs of traditional engineering.Today, the design, manufacture, and effectiveness of modern road transportation require theintegrated application of concepts in disciplines ranging from engineering and informationtechnology to business and behavioral sciences. The challenges and opportunities arise fromadvances in enabling technologies amid the myriad of often conflicting and ever-changingpublic regulations and policies. The rate of market change has dramatically increasedchallenging product development speed and innovation cycles. Furthermore, it isincreasingly difficult to forecast and integrate future product requirements into new productsand
Paper ID #6734Designing for Communities: The Impact of Domain ExpertiseMiss Kristina Elizabeth Krause, The Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching - University of Washing-tonDr. Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington Cynthia J. Atman is the founding director of the Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching (CELT), a professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering, former director of the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE), and the inaugural holder of the Mitchell T. & Lella Blanche Bowie Endowed Chair at the University of Washington. She earned her doctorate in engineering and
company. The program works with over 600 universities world-wide to provide the latest tools and support so that students knowledgeably enter the high-tech workforce. While at Freescale, McLellan helped to build a portfolio of academic oriented, project-based student learning kits, support curricula, and competitions to facilitate academic innovation and invigoration. McLellan holds a degree in Electrical Engineering Technology from Texas A&M University.Prof. Jeffrey S Sumey, California University of Pennsylvania Prof. Jeffrey Sumey is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Engineering and Technology at California University of Pennsylvania. He is program coordinator for the Computer Engineering Tech
his B.Tech (Ed.) and Ph.D. in Technology Education from the University of Limerick in 2008 and 2011 respectively. He spent six years in the metal fabrication industry developing engineering craft based skills prior to pursuing his studies in technology education. He currently holds a faculty position at the University of Limerick where he teaches engineering graphics courses to under- graduate and postgraduate students of initial teacher education. He was the program chair for the 67th MidYear Engineering Design Graphics Division (EDGD) Conference in Limerick, Ireland in 2012. He has been awarded the EDGD Chair’s Award in 2010 and 2011 in addition to the prestigious Oppenheimer Award in 2012. He is the current
courses increases, this distinctive feature iseroded if traditional teaching methods are used in such courses. Blended learning offers anopportunity to maintain or improve the personal attention that a student receives, be it throughfeedback to students from instructors, interaction between students, or interaction betweenstudents and faculty.Preliminary results from this study, in which several blended learning technologies were appliedto a methodology-oriented sophomore course in systems engineering, indicate that students feltthat they learned more and that the course was more worthwhile than four prior offerings of thecourse. In end-of-course survey questions, students also cite that the technologies used enhancedface-to-face interaction with
—T. E. LawrenceHow do you teach students who do not want to be taught? The answer to the question is acritical one, particularly as universities begin to incorporate more broad-based core curricula intotheir academic programs in order to produce graduates equipped to meet the challenges of anincreasingly technologically oriented world.2 The overarching goal of the United States MilitaryAcademy’s academic program is to enable its graduates to anticipate and respond effectively tothe uncertainties of a changing technological, social, political, and economic world. To this end,graduates are expected to demonstrate proficiency in six key domains: • Engineering and Technology • Math and Science • Information Technology • History
AC 2012-5526: CULTIVATING T-SHAPED ENGINEERS FOR 21ST CEN-TURY: EXPERIENCES IN CHINAMiss Jingshan Wu, Zhejiang University Jingshan Wu, Ph.D. candidate, majors in educational economy and management. Her research interest is the cultivation of engineering talents. She has been working for ”Research on International Engineering Education: Frontiers and Progress” and ”Model Innovation on Engineering Education” recently.Prof. Xiaodong Zou, Zhejiang University Xiaodong ZouPh.D., Vice President of Zhejiang University, professor of Public Administration School, Zhejiang University. His research area is administration and strategic planning of science, technology and higher education, organization management, and innovation
formanufacturability. Through working on this project, students will be able to study a complexengineering and technology system that: (1) exposes them to applied and cutting-edgetechnologies; (2) encourages them to participate in an integrated, interdisciplinary curriculum;and (3) involves them in methods of applied technology and skills necessary to transition fromacademic to professional environments.1. Introduction Rapid advancement in technology has laid a path for the design and manufacture of manyinterdisciplinary integrated technologies. These advancements have provided new avenues forthe engineering educators to better prepare tomorrows global citizens through methods capableof responding to the challenges of tomorrow1. On the other hand, the
modules shown inTable 1. These topics are offered through an internet based course open to engineering, science,and management undergraduate and graduate students.In addition to providing students with the environmentally conscious perspective, the developedmaterials aims at developing students’ economic, managerial, ethical, scientific, and engineeringskills for critically examining environmental issues in product design andmanufacturing. Emphasis is placed on engineering alternatives for reducing costs and improvingenvironmental performance13. Table 1 – Course Modules and Topics Module # Topic Discussed Module 1 Technology, the environment and industrial ecology
AC 2007-1573: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN EDUCATION APPROACH FORSUPPORTING ENGINEERING PRODUCT INNOVATIONRainer Seidel, The University of Auckland Rainer Seidel (Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing., Ind.Eng., PhD) works in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His main research, teaching and consulting activities are in the areas of technology management and strategic business innovation in SMEs, productivity improvement in manufacturing, new product development, and engineering education. He is currently the Project Director of the multi-disciplinary R&D project ‘High Technology Design for Engineering Product Innovation’ funded by the New Zealand
AC 2008-691: SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES: THE SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERINGDESIGN CURRICULUM AT JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITYEric Pappas, Dr. Eric Pappas is Associate Professor of Integrated Science and Technology at James Madison University. He developed, and was director of, the Advanced Engineering Writing and Communications Program in the College of Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) from 1993-2003. Dr. Pappas was on the faculty of Virginia Tech from 1987-2003 and taught classes in technical writing, creative writing, American literature, interpersonal communications and public speaking, creative thinking, leadership, engineering design
Paper ID #29126Engineering design and social justice: A systematized literature review o˜Mr. Cristian Eduardo Vargas-Ord´ nez, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engi-neering) Colombian Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. He is a Master in Education from the University of Los Andes in Colombia, a Master in Science, Technology, and Society from Na- tional University of Quilmes in Argentina, and B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of America in Colombia. He has belonged to Colombian educational formal and informal ambits like Peda
. Page 23.893.3IntroductionIn 2011, California State University, Northridge (CSUN) received a federal grant to increase thenumber of minority students studying engineering and computer science. CSUN qualifies as aHispanic Serving Institution (HSI), and created the Attract, Inspire, Mentor, and SupportStudents (AIMS2) program to meet the needs of underrepresented and low-income studentsentering into Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs [1].CSUN chose to work directly with two local junior colleges in order to perform the study.Students meeting the qualifications were identified with the intent of following their progressfrom junior college transfer to graduation. The cohort would receive tutoring, mentoring,stipends
Lecturer Award), and the state of Texas (through the Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award). He has won teaching awards at the Univer- sity of Texas and UCLA. Allen received his B.S. degree in chemical engineering, with distinction, from Cornell University in 1979. His M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering were awarded by the California Institute of Technology in 1981 and 1983. He has held visiting faculty appointments at the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Department of Energy.Dr. Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin Richard H. Crawford is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas, Austin, and is the Temple
that student acquisition of the “technologies” of reading and writing werecausally responsible for cognitive and developmental benefits that could subsequently be transferred to othereducational tasks. [1,2,3,4] This “autonomous” model has gradually given way to a more “social” model of literacythat takes into account the context in which a literacy practice takes place, and the effects that setting may have onhow literacy is conceived and enacted.[5,6,7,8,9] One of these new literacies, Academic Literacy, indicates a fluencynot only in reading and writing, but also in particular ways of thinking, doing and being that are peculiar toacademic contexts such as undergraduate engineering education. This paper reviews the changes in the concept
c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Designing for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Systems Engineering EducationAbstractTechnology is often thought to be unbiased; however, the views, perspectives, and experiencesof designers are embedded in technology. These biases, whether conscious or unconscious, haveresulted in technologies that have been particularly harmful for marginalized populations. Oneway to mitigate these biases is to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principlesinto engineering education, specifically within the domain of systems engineering and relatedfields that focus on designing systems for humans. This paper focuses on exploring theexperiences of
of new technology that the computers andsoftware available in higher education in engineering. Coursework and classrooms must be up-to-date, collaborative, active learning environments and filled with new technology and ideas.Engineering graduates should be exposed directly to the “real-world” problems1. The graduatesshould realize that a good portion of the engineering skills is dedicated to actually formulatingthe problem and asking the right questions, in addition to trying to find a solution. Today'sindustry demands a production-ready graduate, rather than a graduate who will still need somefurther training2. We need to change some of our classrooms into innovation centers for smallscale projects and ask the students to be the innovators
Paper ID #10304Reframing Engineering Capstone Design Pedagogy for Design with Commu-nitiesBriana Lucero, Colorado School of Mines Briana Lucero is a Systems Engineering doctoral candidate at Colorado School of Mines with minors in Humanitarian Engineering and Science, Technology, Engineering and Policy (STEP). She holds engi- neering degrees from Colorado School of Mines in mechanical and electrical engineering. Her research is grounded in engineering design and design by analogy with a focus on analogy retrieval. She is employed by Ball Aerospace as a Systems Engineer and has worked on two successful satellite
AC 2007-1842: DEVELOPING A TRIZ DESIGN TOOL TO ENHANCEENGINEERING DESIGN COURSESShih-Liang (Sid) Wang, North Carolina A&T State University Page 12.483.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Developing A TRIZ Design Tool to Enhance Engineering Design CoursesTRIZTRIZ1 is the acronym for the phrase "Theory of Inventive Problem Solving" in Russian. TRIZresearch began with the hypothesis that there are universal principles of invention that are thebasis for creative innovations that advance technology, and that if these principles could beidentified and codified, they could be taught to people to make the process of invention
Paper ID #5768On Teaching Capstone Design: The Role of Practitioners in the ClassroomDr. Waddah Akili, Iowa State University Dr. Waddah Akili is an academician and a civil engineering consultant in Ames, Iowa. He has been published in various fields including: geotechnical engineering, foundations, and pavement materials and design. He has been involved with contemporary engineering education issues, addressing a range of topics of interest and relevance to engineering institutions and practicing engineers in the U.S. and abroad