; engineering design decisions are consequential for the design and how it performsupon implementation. To use a spoon, the person may need to like the color; and the material ofthe blade must be strong enough for an endurance task. Because design decisions areconsequential, undergraduate engineering programs have a responsibility to prepare students asdecision makers.Capstone design courses allow undergraduate engineering students to experience open-endeddesign projects before starting their professional careers. As such, capstone serves as anopportunity to develop students’ ability to make decisions in an ill-structured setting. Typically,explicit instruction related to decision making includes an introduction to rationalistic tools, suchas decision
, Community College of the Air Force Stephen Harris is an adjunct faculty member at the Pennsylvania State University’s Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies. He served in the USAF as an Electronic Warfare Officer and completed both a military and a civil service career with a total of 42 years of Federal service. In his final civil service position he served as the Dean of the Community college of the Air Force. His research and teaching interests include problem solving science and leadership with a focus on the impact of cognitive style based upon Adaption Innovation theory. Dr. Harris received his Ed.D. in Career Technology from Auburn University. c American Society for
. Despite this, the nation still struggles to produce the ENG talent it needs. Given this, programs to increase the number of ENGs that graduate have been promoted across the nation [1]-[3]. Such programs focus on recruitment [4], retention principles [5], persistence [6], as well as practices that help students with critical thinking [7]-[8], academics [9]-[10] and professional development [11]-[12]. The latter includes mentoring by faculty [13]-[14], peer mentoring [15], project-based learning [16]- [26], research experiences for undergraduates (REUs) [27]-[28], internships [29], preparing for graduate school [30], career planning [31], etc. We at Arizona State University’s (ASU’s) Fulton Schools of Engineering, have
Mechanical Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the impact of motivation on performance and persistence in mechanical engineering design courses under the guidance of Dr. Beshoy Morkos. She also serves as a graduate student advisor to senior design teams within the mechanical engineering department. Elisabeth is a member of ASME, ASEE, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society and Pi Tau Sigma International Mechanical Engineering Honor Society.Miss McKenzie Carol Clark, Florida Institute of TechnologyDr. Beshoy Morkos, Florida Institute of Technology Beshoy Morkos is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at the Florida Institute of Technology where he
best practices, we present an overview of literature on engineering designeducation.Engineering design education has been the subject of numerous research studies. In 2005,Dym et al. published a paper that examined about 200 articles on engineering design educationand determined that teaching and learning design in an engineering context should includehaving the student be able to do the following: 1) think at the scale of systems, 2) makeestimates, 3) conduct experiments, 4) manage ambiguity through convergent-divergent inquiry,5) make decisions under uncertainty, 6) communicate in diverse languages, and 7) function aspart of an interdisciplinary team. Many researchers have explored these seven engineeringdesign experience elements, including
Paper ID #27613Capstone Prepares Engineers for the Real World, Right? ABET Outcomesand Student PerceptionsDr. Kris Jaeger-Helton, Northeastern University Professor Beverly Kris Jaeger-Helton, Ph.D. is on the full-time faculty in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University (NU) teaching Simulation Modeling and Analy- sis, Human-Machine Systems, and Facilities Planning. She is the Director of the Galante Engineering Business Program as well as Coordinator of Senior Capstone Design in Industrial Engineering at NU. Dr. Jaeger-Helton has also been an active member of Northeastern’s Gateway
Paper ID #27578A Mixed Methods Analysis of Motivation Factors in Senior Capstone DesignCoursesElisabeth Kames, Florida Institute of Technology Elisabeth Kames is a graduate student working on her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the impact of motivation on performance and persistence in mechanical engineering design courses under the guidance of Dr. Beshoy Morkos. She also serves as a graduate student advisor to senior design teams within the mechanical engineering department. Elisabeth is a member of ASME, ASEE, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society and Pi Tau
-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Ceyba, an optical long-haul networking company that employed 250 people at its peak. Hanan also worked at Nortel Networks in different positions conducting pioneering research in various areas of photonics, rang- ing from device physics to optical networking. She has numerous journal and conference publications and patents. Hanan’s current research interests include Biophotonics, Innovation and engineering educa- tion.Her passion is to help students graduate with an entrepreneurial mind set that enable them to play leading roles in existing organizations or create their own jobs.Dr. Patrick Dumond, University of Ottawa Professor Patrick Dumond is an assistant professor in the
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
, nanomanufacturing, optical measuring techniques, and intercultural design.Dr. Patrick Cunningham, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patrick Cunningham is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue Univer- sity and was an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipient. Dr. Cunningham has industry experience through 7 co-op experiences as an undergraduate student, 2 sponsored projects as a graduate student, and as a consultant after joining the faculty at Rose-Hulman. He teaches a range of courses across un- dergraduate levels with specialization in dynamic systems, measurement, and control. During the 2013- 14
support. In fact, design courses, in general, have emerged as a means for students to beexposed to some flavor of what engineers actually do; and also, could learn the basic elements ofthe design process by being involved in real design projects. There have even been formalproposals for curricular goals and assessment measures for design-based curricula. Thisargument is driven by a widespread notion that the intellectual content of design is consistentlyunderestimated [1].This paper reviews research on design thinking as it relates to how designers think, learn andmake decisions, which is an important reason why design is not easy to teach. Design thinkingis, in general terms, complex processes of inquiry and learning that designers perform in
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