andimportant to today’s engineers. However, Frankenstein is rarely discussed in technical classes.This paper discusses a design project for first-year Mechanical Engineering students that askedstudents to select and explore themes from Frankenstein as a guide for the design of anautonomous robot. In essence, the students were required to develop a target customer that wouldbenefit from the theme they selected. The use of the novel to generate concepts for the robotswas supported by using a form of double column notes. This processes required the students toselect several quotes from the book as inspiration for concept generation. Students sketched therobot ideas and explained the connection between the quote from the book and the concept. The
presented their paper to their classmates.The course addressed much more than forming a complete sentence. Topics ranged from figuretitle placement to a thorough review of a journal’s style manual to reading and interpretingauthor guidelines. Students were also presented with examples of published articles fromleading journals.As with any class, the goal was for the students to learn more about the course subject matter andimprove their writing skills. This paper presents observations of the course project from theprofessor’s and the students’ perspectives. Recommendations for future writing projects are alsopresented.IntroductionWhen do students learn to write? It is a question that is often asked of employers and of faculty.When surveyed
Paper ID #26098Does ”Affordance” Mean ”Thing-inform”?: Case Studies in Seeing Engineer-ing Meaning Differently Through the Process of Technical ASL VocabularyCreationMel Chua, Georgia Tech Mel is an engineering education researcher who enjoys geeking out about developing languages for ar- ticulating engineering curricular cultures and their formation, open source hacker/maker communities, faculty development, and more. She occasionally draws research comics. Mel is also an electrical and computer engineer, a low-pass auditory filter, and a multimodal polyglot.Mr. Ian Smith, Project Alloy Ian is a Deaf software engineer
Paper ID #33795A Tool for Informing Community-Engaged ProjectsCamille Velarde, University of New MexicoDr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and associate professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information and Learning Sciences program and in the Chemical and Biological En- gineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutionizing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National
AC 2011-1170: PROJECT-DIRECTED WRITING ASSISTANCE IN CON-STRUCTION MANAGEMENT PROGRAMElena Poltavtchenko, Northern Arizona University Elena Poltavtchenko is a Ph.D. candidate in the Applied Linguistics program at Northern Arizona Univer- sity. She is a graduate teaching assistant at NAU’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Elena obtained her B.A. in Russian Linguistics and Literature in Novosibirsk State University, Russia, and M.A. in English Applied Linguistics at the University of Houston, TX. Her current research interests lie in the area of writing in the disciplines, with a specific focus on writing in engineering.John Tingerthal, Northern Arizona University John joined the Construction
Paper ID #34286Engagement in Practice: Project-Based Community Engagement ModelPreliminary Case StudiesPaul A. Leidig P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette Paul A. Leidig is a PhD student in Engineering Education and a member of the instructional team for the Engineering Projects In Community Service (EPICS) program at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He received his Bachelors of Science in Architectural Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and Masters of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Mr. Leidig is licensed as a Professional Engineer in the
Paper ID #19626Integration of Critical Reflection Methodologies into Engineering Service-Learning ProjectsDr. Scott A. Newbolds P.E., Benedictine College Dr. Newbolds is an assistant professor in the engineering department at Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas. After graduating from Purdue University in 1995, Dr. Newbolds started his career in construction as a Project Engineer for the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT). He returned to Purdue for graduate school in 1998 and subsequently took a position in the INDOT Research and Development office. While completing his graduate degrees, Dr. Newbolds conducted and
Paper ID #8655Student Made Video Projects in a Computer Technology CourseMr. William E Genereux, Kansas State University, Salina William Genereux is an Associate Professor of Computer & Digital Media Technology at Kansas State University at Salina. He is also a K-State doctoral student in curriculum and instruction, with research interests in media literacy and the educational use of digital media technology. He has been working with computers and technology for the past 25 years. Page 24.1130.1
, United States Air Force Academy Dr. Phelan is an associate professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.Prof. Kathleen M. Smits, The University of Texas at Arlington American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021AbstractThe Responsible Mining, Resilient Communities project is a multi-country, interinstitutional, andinterdisciplinary global research collaboration whose goal is to co-design socially responsibleand sustainable gold mining practices with communities, engineers, and social scientists. A keycomponent of this work is engineering education research that investigates how situated
pedagogical interventions in the classroom, including how to best teach technical and professional skills.Dr. Linda A. Battalora, Colorado School of Mines Linda A. Battalora is a Teaching Professor in the Petroleum Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines (Mines) and a Shultz Humanitarian Engineering Fellow. She holds BS and MS degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Mines, a JD from Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, and a PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering from Mines. Prior to joining the Faculty at Mines, Linda served in various roles in the oil and gas industry including operations engineer, production engi- neer, attorney, and international negotiator for oil and gas project development
electromagnetic simulation of underground contaminants, material characterization, and engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Experiences in Teaching Writing Unit Design Course to Engineering Students Using Advanced Rube Goldberg ProjectsAbstractTeaching design and communication skills to engineering students is always a challenging andevolving process. Many design courses compromise a project in order to provide students ahands-on experience to address different aspects of design. Project selection is very important tomotivate and encourage creativity in the students. It also alters the teaching efficiencysignificantly.Principles of Design course has been taught
Paper ID #7845Embedding communication in an interdisciplinary project-based upper-levelengineering design courseMr. John C. Anderson, Northwestern University John C. Anderson is a lecturer in the Segal Design Institute, where he also serves as Instructional Technol- ogy Coordinator. He has taught courses in composition and engineering communication at Northwestern for more than fifteen years. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan’s Residential College and his M.A. from Northwestern University.Dr. David W. Gatchell, Northwestern University Dr. David W. Gatchell is a clinical associate professor of
AC 2012-3917: IMPROVING ENGINEERING EDUCATION WITH EN-HANCED CALIBRATED PEER REVIEW ASSESSMENT OF A COLLAB-ORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTDr. Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patricia A. Carlson teaches at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She is the author of over seventy publications and presentation. She has used her experience in educational technology on two large-scale Lilly Endowment grants and on two National Science Foundation-funded research projects. In addition to teaching, she is the Director of the PRISM Project, an outreach program that helps Indiana teachers of middle school science, mathematics, and technology to integrate new information technology applications into their
Paper ID #6638Using the Portfolio Approach to Assess Multi-year Engineering Projects: aCase StudyDr. Harold R Underwood, Messiah College Dr. Underwood received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at UIUC in 1989, and has been a faculty member of the Engineering Department at Messiah College since 1992. Besides teaching Circuit Analy- sis, Electromagnetics, and Communications Systems, he supervises students on projects in the Integrated Projects Curriculum (IPC) and within the Communications Technology Group of the Messiah College Collaboratory. His on-going projects include Flight Tracking and Messaging for small planes in
Paper ID #18229Diplomacy Lab Provides Term-length Group Projects Integrating Policy Anal-ysis and Liberal Arts into the Traditional Engineering ClassroomDr. Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology Professor Daniel B. Oerther, PhD, PE, BCEE, CEng, F.AAN joined the faculty of the Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2010 after ten years on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati where he served as Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Since 2014, he has concur- rently served as a Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State in the areas of environment
Paper ID #25678Making Connections Across a Four-Year Project-Based Curriculum: ePort-folios as a Space for Reflection and Integrative LearningDr. Chrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Dr. Chrysanthe Demetry is associate professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Morgan Teaching & Learning Center at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Her teaching and scholarship interests focus on materials science education, K-12 engineering outreach, gender equity in STEM, and intercul- tural learning in experiential education abroad. As director of the Morgan Center at WPI since 2006, Dr. Demetry coordinates
Paper ID #8159”Doing Engineering in the School of Letters & Science: Adding a Manufac-turing Line Design Project to a Writing Program Class for Engineers”Mr. Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California, Davis Brad Henderson is a faculty in writing for the University Writing Program (UWP) at University of Cali- fornia, Davis. Henderson holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Cal Poly State University SLO and a Masters in Professional Writing (MPW) from USC. Currently focusing his career on engineer- ing writing and soft-skill education, he has worked as an engineer and engineering educator for Parker
Paper ID #9931Living With Contradiction: Cultural Historical Activity Theory as a Theo-retical Frame to Study Student Engineering Project TeamsMr. Michael L Jones, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto Michael Jones is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto and professor of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at Sheridan College, Oakville ON. Michael’s research interests are in project-based learning in technology education, with his dissertation looking at how Formula SAE engineering student project teams engage information management contradictions
Paper ID #8571The Wicked Problems in Sustainable Engineering (WPSE) Initiative: PilotResults of a Cross-Institutional Project-Based Course OfferingJustin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette Justin Hess is a Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. He received his BS in Civil Engineering in 2011 with a minor in philosophy and hopes to receive his MSCE in December of 2014, both from Purdue University. His research focuses on understanding engineers’ core values, dispositions, and worldviews. His disser- tation focuses on
Biomedical Engineering. He teaches several instrumentation courses and a senior design class. His primary interest is in rehabilitation engineering and assistive technology for people with disabilities. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 1 A Maker-in-Residence program to build a community of MakersAbstractThe BeAM (Be A Maker) Makerspace at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosts aMaker-in-Residence (MIR) program. Through this program, undergraduate students participatein design-build projects under the guidance of expert Makers who are skilled in a particulartechnology or
, students are expected to create a display (poster, brochure, animations, or video)that visually communicates how an engineered system of their choice works. While the studentswork individually on the displays for each unit, they collaborate with peers in the class tobrainstorm ideas, improve drafts and evaluate the final projects. Engineered systems that studentshave selected to explain include clocks, LED lights, bicycle gears, stethoscopes, games,thermometers, wind turbines, photovoltaics, and more. The course syllabus is provided inAppendix A.In addition to the projects, each unit includes introductory lectures related to engineering,sketching lessons and exercises, hands-on building projects, and reverse engineering activities.The following
early results results from a four-year,mixed-method study which collected data through a combination of interviews and focus groupswith members of the Engineers Without Borders USA organization, analysis and coding ofcompleted project documentation, and observations and notes collected during a field visit to aproject site. We conclude from our early data that students who are able (given sufficientresources) to fully participate in these type of projects do see positive benefits. However, barriersmay prevent all students from having this opportunity. Further, the nature of student servicelearning projects inherently creates challenges for the communities that partner on these projects.Ongoing revisions to the Engineers Without Borders USA
. Leidig P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette Paul A. Leidig is a PhD student in Engineering Education and a member of the instructional team for the Engineering Projects In Community Service (EPICS) program at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He received his Bachelors of Science in Architectural Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and Masters of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Mr. Leidig is licensed as a Professional Engineer in the state of Colorado and has six years of industry experience in structural engineering consulting. Throughout his student and professional activities, he has focused on community-engaged engineering and
Carolina Agricultural &Technical State University. She mentored Departmental sponsored projects such as UNCC Parking team, IEEE Hardware competition teams, indus- try sponsored projects from Microsoft, NASA teams and special Innovation and Entrepreneurship teams. She published and presented papers in ASEE conferences in June 2009, 2010, and 2011. Prior to her current position at UNC- Charlotte, Nan worked for IBM (15 years) and Solectron (8 years) in the area of test development and management.Dr. James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte James M. Conrad received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and his master’s and doctorate degrees in computer
, her research spans education and practice, working on the integration of community research into project based learning. Her work overlaps areas of GIS mapping, global sustainable urbanism, design and creativity.Dr. Andrew N Quicksall c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Deep Observation: Geo-Spatial Mapping as a Strategy for Site-Engagement and Problem-DesignAbstractWhile project-based learning powerfully brings students into real world economic andenvironmental contexts, a subject-oriented approach to such work means that they are often ableto remain aloof from real stakeholder engagement and participation, even when working on alocal site [1]. Given
approach totechnical writing and assignments, and an experimental course, which featured an interventionwhereby student teams completed an electro-mechanical device repair and documentationproject. The device repair and documentation project requires students to propose and report ondeliverables to corporate representatives, produce user-oriented technical prose supported bydetailed photography, and proceed with the project according to their own declared timelines todeliver publish-ready user guides. At completion, these user guides are published on the site andaccessed by a growing network of global users. It is hypothesized that the experiential devicerepair and documentation project uniquely equips students in the experimental cohort
content andtechnical content together in ways that are manageable by faculty who are not engineers. Thecourse in professional and technical writing at our college is required of all engineering andcomputer science majors and is usually taken in the junior year. The course has undergone manytransformations in content and focus since it was first developed in 1994. The latest iterationblends communication principles with technical projects that can bridge the divide and helpstudents see how the two fields are intricately intertwined in the engineering workplace.This paper reflects on the work-in-progress at Rose-Hulman focused on helping our studentsdevelop their communication skills in technical contexts. Currently five faculty are
Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Uncovering the Role of Emotion in Engineering Education within an Integrated Curricular ExperienceAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to uncover the role of emotion within an interdisciplinary, project-based design studio as implemented in 2009 and 2010. This qualitative research study involves anarrative analysis of data collected over two semesters of the design studios to identify the typesof emotions described, the change in these emotions over the semester, and the interaction ofthese emotions with learning. This analysis is conducted on students’ written reflections, as it isimportant to understand emotions from the perspective of the student and within the desiredcontext
Alabama. Dr. Burian’s professional career spans more than 20 years during which he has worked as a de- sign engineer, as a Visiting Professor at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as a Professor at the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah, and as the Chief Water Consultant of an international engineer- ing and sustainability consulting firm he co-founded. He served as the first co-Director of Sustainability Curriculum Development at the University of Utah where he created pan-campus degree programs and stimulated infusion of sustainability principles and practices in teaching and learning activities across campus. Dr. Burian currently is the Project Director of the USAID-funded U.S.-Pakistan Center for
how team dynamics affect undergraduate women’s confidence levels in engineering.Dr. Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder Malinda Zarske is a faculty member with the Engineering Plus program at the University of Colorado Boulder. She teaches undergraduate product design and core courses through Engineering Plus as well as STEM education courses for pre-service teachers through the CU Teach Engineering program. Her primary research interests include the impacts of project-based service-learning on student identity - es- pecially women and nontraditional demographic groups in engineering - as well as pathways and retention to and through K-12 and undergraduate engineering, teacher education, and