of engineering practice and education, Beddoes and colleagues applied twoof the BNA categories, inclusion and compilation artifacts, to explore cross-disciplinaryteamwork among graduate engineering students, post-docs, and faculty19,27. That studyhighlighted the value of employing BNAs as a theoretical construct for describing how teammembers collaborated and provided a foundation for exploring the creation and evolution ofBNAs and BSOs within engineering practice. Still, additional research is necessary to understandthe extent to which cross-disciplinary teams within engineering utilize artifacts to supportcommunication and how that practice can support the development of engineering students.In particular, studies of artifacts used on
with graduate and undergraduate students) and directed large scale projects in engineering education research. He is the founding editor for the Journal of Pre- College Engineering Education, co-editor of the book ”Engineering in Pre-College Settings: Synthesizing Research, Policy, and Practices” and ”Technology Education Today: International Perspectives” and co- lead author of Hands-on Standards STEM in Action, an award winning internationally available set of learning modules for grades preK - 5th grade published by ETA hand2mind and LearningResourcesUK.Prof. Suzanne – Burgoyne, University of Missouri Suzanne Burgoyne, Ph.D., is a Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of Theatre, and Director of MU’s Center
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
anddevelopment. We will require students to maintain design journals throughout the three-year design course sequence, documenting not only the progress they make on theirdesign projects, but as importantly, the journals will serve to describe the evolution of Page 13.1131.16students’ thinking processes and the development of an “individual design process” aswell as a “collaborative design process.” Faculty will read and evaluate students’ designjournals each semester, respond in writing and confer with students. The JMU Center for Assessment and Research Studies is currently assisting in thedevelopment of engineering design-specific qualitative and
Paper ID #16011The Prototype for X (PFX) Framework: Assessing Its Impact on Students’Prototyping AwarenessMs. Jessica Menold, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Jessica Menold is a third-year graduate student interested in entrepreneurship and the design process. She is currently conducting her graduate research with Dr. Kathryn Jablokow and Dr. Timothy Simpson on a project devoted to understanding how prototyping processes affect product design. Jessica is interested in exploring how a structured prototyping methodology, Prototype for X, could increase the end design’s desirability, feasibility, and
Paper ID #30070Engineering Students’ Epistemological Thinking in the Context of SeniorDesign ProjectsMiss Qiushi Li, Shanghai Jiaotong UniversityJiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jiabin Zhu is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong Uni- versity. Her primary research interests relate to the assessment of teaching and learning in engineering, cognitive development of graduate and undergraduate students, and global engineering. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Engineering Education, Purdue University in 2013. c American Society for Engineering
Paper ID #16102Fostering Learning Principles of Engineering DesignMr. Jackson Lyall Autrey, University of Oklahoma Jackson Autrey is a Master of Science student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and currently is involved with research into design-based engineering education. After completion of his Master’s degree, Jackson plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering.Prof. Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma Farrokh’s passion is to have fun in providing an opportunity for highly
external to internal ability to define theself assists in the social and professional development of students.25Context of CourseProgram and Course DescriptionThe University of Michigan’s Multidisciplinary Design Program was established in 2007. Asseen in Conger et al., students were excited to begin their engineering programs at the university,but there was a disconnect from what they learned in their courses to their professional practiceafter graduation.26 MDP is but one piece of the university’s commitment to prepare engineersfor the 21st century and beyond. Recognizing the need for cooperation and collaboration amongdifferent disciplines in the design process, a common experience for all engineers, MDP, wascreated to allow students and teams
AC 2012-3761: CAPSTONE DESIGN FACULTY MOTIVATION: MOTIVA-TIONAL FACTORS FOR TEACHING THE CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSEAND MOTIVATIONAL INFLUENCES ON TEACHING APPROACHESCory A. Hixson, Virginia Tech Cory A. Hixson is a graduate student in engineering education at Virginia Tech. Previous experience is in audio/visual engineering and K-12 math/science education. His research interests are in faculty motiva- tion, entrepreneurship, design education, K-12 engineering/STEM education, and research to practice in engineering educationDr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of engineering education at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center
research labs with universityfunds, Imation financial support for graduate students and Senior Design projects, and the useof specialty Imation equipment essential to the studies being conducted. The dedication of thefaculty and Imation representatives to these activities should also be duly noted. Severalfederal agencies can now be effectively targeted for the submission of research proposals.Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI), a National ScienceFoundation (NSF) program, is especially appropriate for the activities at UND with Imation.The GOALI initiative aims to synergize collaborative research partnerships by making fundsavailable to support an mutually beneficial mix of industry/university linkages. Industry
experiences.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com- munication 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 com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication
that necessitate engineers’ abilities to work cooperatively and learnto incorporate diverse perspectives, specializations, and values into the design process. The highlysocial nature of design work itself 2,8 requires novice engineering students to learn about,recognize, and practice the social sides of engineering, an effort advanced by many researchersand practitioners in recent years.4,9,10,11,12 Yet much of the extant literature has failed toincorporate insights from organizational and team research outside of engineering education andrelated disciplines.3This study focuses on the emergence of technical and ethical relations in design project teams.While technical coordination has long been a primary consideration for both scholars
sustainable energy technologies. She holds a BS and MS in Engineering Mechanics and a PhD in Biomedical Engi- neering from Virginia Tech.Dr. Robin Dawn Anderson, James Madison University Robin D. Anderson serves as the Academic Unit Head for the Department of Graduate Psychology at James Madison University. She holds a doctorate in Assessment and Measurement. She previously served as the Associate Director of the Center for Assessment and Research Studies at JMU. Her areas of research include assessment practice and engineering education research.Cheryl Alyssa Welch Alyssa Welch is a Psychological Sciences master’s student in the concentration of Experimental Psychol- ogy, and a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the
been assigned specific roles or functions to perform and who have a limited life span of membership [1]. Over the past few years, at the University of Oklahoma, a graduate course titled AME5740 Designing for Open Innovation has been designed, course content and assignments developed and a learner centric paradigm instantiated. Different facets of this course have been described in several publications – most recently in [2], [3]. In these papers, the authors explore the key question: How can we foster learning how to learn and develop competencies? In this paper we document our initial findings as to how far we have succeeded in facilitating students learning how to learn and develop competencies within this course
AC 2012-5247: A NEW VISION FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN INSTRUC-TION: ON THE INNOVATIVE SIX COURSE DESIGN SEQUENCE OFJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITYDr. Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University Olga Pierrakos is an Associate Professor and founding faculty member in the School of Engineering, which is graduating its inaugural class May 2012, at James Madison University. Pierrakos holds a B.S. in engineering science and mechanics, an M.S. in engineering mechanics, and a Ph.D. in biomedical en- gineering from Virginia Tech. Her interests in engineering education research center around recruitment and retention, engineering design instruction and methodology, learning through service (NSF EFELTS project), understanding engineering
is also an important educational objective. They need tounderstand that when they practice as engineers, the design knowledge they lack as studentsis readily accessible through networks of people built up over time with collaborativerelationships.3,6The third challenge is the lack of experienced teaching assistants. The emphasis on leadingedge engineering science research in engineering faculties has resulted in weak (if any)practical design knowledge among teaching staff and graduate students who would normallybe teaching assistants. Therefore, it is necessary to find designers residing nearby who havetime and inclination to contribute to educating students for relatively modest pay and also tonegotiate mutually satisfactory employment
AC 2012-5470: TRACKING DESIGN KNOWLEDGE IN ENGINEERINGSTUDENT PROJECTS AROUND COURSE MILESTONESDr. Sharad Vimal Oberoi, Carnegie Mellon University Sharad Oberoi completed his Ph.D. from the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 2011. He is currently affiliated with the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems at CMU. His research interests include language in design, computer-supported cooperative learning, collaboration in design, and design education.Prof. Susan Finger, National Science Foundation Susan Finger is currently a Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation. She is on leave from Carnegie Mellon
prepares Engineering/Technology candidates for teacher licensure. Dr. Mentzer’s educational efforts in pedagogical content knowledge are guided by a research theme centered in student learning of engineer- ing design thinking on the secondary level. Nathan was a former middle and high school technology educator in Montana prior to pursuing a doctoral degree. He was a National Center for Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE) Fellow at Utah State University while pursuing a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction. After graduation he completed a one year appointment with the Center as a postdoctoral researcher.Dr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of
engineering design. How Slack facilitates learning, course inquiry and group interactionsamong engineering students, faculty members and student assistants is discussed. In addition, theimpact and correlation to good pedagogical principles are also explored. Social software is any e-learning tool that is designed for collaborative purposes and introduced to help with user self-determination of content generation. They traditionally come in the form of wikis, blogs, orforums [6], [9]–[11]. Bernsteiner [6] describes social software as follows “Social software emerged and came into use in 2002 and is generally attributed to Clay Shirky (2003). Shirky … defines social software simply as “software that supports group
Team building & common purpose 5.80 5.74 NA 5.89 5.57H https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison/G https://globeproject.com/study_2004_2007?page_id=data#dataNA = Saudi Arabia not among the 24 countries surveyed in the GLOBE projectThese global cultural frameworks provide insights regarding teamwork and caution againstsingular analysis of “international students”. Previous research on teamwork has been groundedin global cultural dimensions [e.g. 28-30]. Based on this research, one can posit potentialscenarios. For example, the uncertainty avoidance characteristic of Hofstede may indicate thatMiddle Eastern students will be less comfortable engaging in an open-ended design project oroverly rely on objective
- tional environment through the use of collaborative learning, problem-based and project-based learning, classroom interaction, and multiple representations of concepts.Dr. Clifford A. Whitfield, Ohio State University Clifford Whitfield graduated from the Ohio State University with B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering and is currently working as a Lecturer-B.E. and a Senior Research Associate for the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department and the Engineering Education Innovation Center’s First-year Engineering program at the Ohio State University.Miss Jintana Nina Phanthanousy, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Nina Phanthanousy is currently pursuing her master’s degree in mechanical
Elisabeth Kames is a graduate student pursuing her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Dynamic Systems- Robotics and Controls. She graduated with her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in May 2015. Her research is focused in the field of Automotive Engineering under the advisement of Dr. Beshoy Morkos.Dr. Beshoy Morkos, Florida Institute of Technology Beshoy Morkos is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Florida Institute of Technology where he directs the STRIDE Lab (SysTems Research on Intelligent Design and Engineering). His engineering design research focuses on developing computational represen- tation and reasoning support for managing complex system
opportunities and challenges that they may encounter as they progress intotheir junior and senior years? These include paid project/research opportunities, career fairs, internships,graduate school and a rapidly changing job market. Our focus, at Arizona State University’s (ASU’s) FultonSchools of Engineering, has been on a longstanding ENG scholarship-projects-mentoring program at ourfour year ENG institution – a program serving mostly upper-division transfer students (generally about70%), some upper-division non-transfers (~25%) and scholars continuing as graduate students (~5%) thathave progressed through the program. Despite this, the ideas presented are useful for all ENG students. Wewant students to become aware, take control, and pursue
Alpha Pi Mu Industrial Engineering Honor Society.Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech Janis Terpenny is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education with affiliate positions in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial & Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. Dr. Terpenny’s research interests focus on the design of products and systems, including design process and methodology and use of interdisciplinary collaboration and human centered design to improve student learning and motivation. Dr. Terpenny is a co-director of the NSF Center for e-Design, a multi-university NSF industry-university cooperative research center. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, Dr. Terpenny was an
changethe market dynamics of CAD design through revitalization of the design curriculum. Thoughuniversities currently exhibit full design cycles across a variety of courses spread out in differentsemesters, it could be of major benefit for universities to integrate student extracurricular designteams as a part of the engineering curriculum. The ingrained collaboration required in designteams, as well as the cross-disciplinary interaction of students, academic mentors/advisors andindustry sponsors, is the most realistic analogue to the full end-to-end design cycle currentlypresent in an academic setting. In addition, since the competitive aspect of design competitionsto create superior designs push students to explore new/creative design avenues
Paper ID #23041An Experiential Learning Framework for Improving Engineering Design,Build, and Test CoursesMr. Jackson Lyall Autrey, University of Oklahoma Jackson Autrey is a Master of Science student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and is currently involved with research into assessment methods and pedagogy in engineer- ing design education. Following completion of his Master’s degree, Jackson plans to pursue a PhD. in Engineering with a focus on engineering education.Ms. Shalaka Subhash
experience working on collaborative teams, particularly with students of other disciplines.Educators might incorporate industry collaborative organizational structures, but while there aresome aspects of collaboration used in industry that faculty can incorporate, often those modelsare complicated by the need to achieve academic goals. The potential benefits ofinterdisciplinary teamwork include development of communication skills and the incorporationof and exploration of a multi-layered, more creative solution from different viewpoints, whichneed to be balanced with students’ acquiring and incorporating new material and carving time forassignments that demonstrate student outcomes for accreditation. As the College of Engineering,Architecture, and
EngineersAbstract Hands-on learning experiences and interactive learning environments can be effective inteaching K-12 students. Design, in essence, is an interactive, hands-on experience. Engineeringdesign can be taught in the classroom using innovative hands-on projects, such as designing andbuilding serve to teach design, promote creativity, and provide opportunities for hands-onproblem solving, in addition to giving students experience working in cooperative teams. In turn,these experiences could encourage students to consider future careers in engineering and science. This paper explores findings from data collected during the authors’ recent experienceteaching a group of fifteen 4th – 6th grade students enrolled in a 6-week Saturday
research interest includes small angle scattering (SAS) and the use of informarion technology systems (ITS) in physics and in education. In is on this bases that Rhyme has partnered with Mr Ben Groenewaald (Departmental Head- DEECE ) and Dr Christina Carmen (a capstone design class coordinator in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering de- partment at the University of Alabama in Huntsville(UAH)) on this ALLiance for International Excellence among the future Space workforce (ALLIES). Rhyme has been involved in this international STEM out- reach programme for three years now, coordinating CPUT students’ involvement in the ALLICE STEM tool development with UAH students.Ms. Aysha Abrahams, Cape Peninsula University of
database and query processing The database is written in Java and SQLite. Using Java and html, we interact with thedatabase using a locally hosted web interface that serves as the GUI. For LS written byindividual students, the tables include one for the assignment, one for the student, and one tablefor the LS. We show the attributes that are stored in each of these tables in Figure 5. Eachstatement that is written must be unique to be placed in the database. This was done to ensurethat students were writing a new statement for each assignment to reflect on their learning. For1 We are keen to share this software with faculty interested in collaborating with us on writing papers andpursuing funded research opportunities