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
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
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
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
institution offers an ABET accredited engineering degree (Engineering Scienceand Industrial Engineering) and each graduates ~7-12 engineers per year. Sharing expertise,capabilities, and faculty time are important considerations in developing the program because ofthe very small size of each school’s departments.The mission of the program is to allow students to practice engineering skills while they developstrong communication and teamwork skills, gain global perspective, and learn socialresponsibility through projects for persons with disabilities that otherwise could not affordassistance, both locally and globally. At each institution the program is incorporated intorequired sophomore and junior-level design-intensive courses. The course is offered
inmultidisciplinary engineering design problems. Modern-world engineering problems are oftendescribed as no longer solely within a single discipline. For example, traditional mechanicalengineering designs often now involve software, controls, electronics and perhaps biology, etc.One primary difficulty in posing multidisciplinary design problems in the undergraduatecurriculum is that within the student body of a course there is variety in the past courses andexperiences. An instructor can only expect students to have taken the pre-requisite courses,which thereby limits the range of multiple disciplines that a project can cover. Further,instructors from these other disciplines are typically not available during the course project forlearning and consulting on
Technology Doug Carroll is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Missouri S&T and is the Director for the Cooperative Engineering Program, a cooperative effort with Missouri S&T and Missouri State University. Dr. Carroll founded the student design center at Missouri S&T and served as its first director. He also served as the advisor for the solar car project for 12 years, including two national champion teams. He has worked with many students on design projects in his career. Page 24.964.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014
education has been noted by the National Academyof Sciences 4 and echoed in the “Engineer of 2020” report of the National Academy ofEngineering5 and more recently in President Obama’s strategy for American innovation6.Following the lead of the NAS and NAE, several universities have launched a variety oftechnology commercialization and entrepreneurship programs – short courses, workshops, cross-disciplinary courses, commercialization projects, and others7.This paper describes a sequence of three technology commercialization courses in the Master ofBiotechnology Program at Northwestern University. We developed these courses based onrecommendations of our industrial advisory board, our interactions with business developmentprofessionals, previously
-Packard Inkjet. Henderson was featured in the book—Engineers Write! Thoughts on Writing from Contemporary Literary Engineers by Tom Moran (IEEE Press 2010)—as one of twelve ”literary engineers” writing and publishing creative works in the United States. Henderson’s current project is a textbook pioneering a new method for teaching engineers workplace writing skills through the lens of math. Page 24.64.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 A Math-Based System to Improve Engineering Writing OutcomesIntroductionThis paper
thinking. The purpose of this joint-inquiry course was to providean opportunity for the students and the professor to explore these questions, to identify and learnsome common “habits of the mind” of engineers, to enhance their sensitivity to when thesehabits of the mind can be used as effective tools to think critically about the world, and topractice applying these concepts to the analysis of systems that are not normally encountered ordiscussed in the context of the engineering classroom. This paper describes several highlights ofthe course’s design and implementation, including the readings, discussions, activities, and thefinal term project. Also included are students’ perceptions of the course elements as told by thestudent co-authors of
social sciences, and foreign languages.”8 Union College is experimentingwith pairing courses, one taught by an engineering faculty member and another taught by onefrom the humanities or social sciences.9 Pairings such as music and acoustical engineering haveproven to complement each other while generating both interest and benefit to both schools.O’Neill-Carrillo, et al.10 have utilized engineering projects at the university level to respond tofundamental needs of society and address social, environments, and socio-economic issues of thelocal community thorough creation of academic structures that enable direct interaction amongstudents, faculty and community members. Catalano11 described a new interdisciplinary coursefor both engineering and
Paper ID #8570An Integrated Approach to Developing Technical Communication Skills inEngineering StudentsProf. Ronald S Harichandran, University of New Haven Ron Harichandran is the Dean of the Tagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven. He leads the Project to Integrate Technical Communication Habits and implemented a similar program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan State University when he was the chair there. Dr. Harichandran received his BE in Civil Engineering from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and his MS and PhD from MIT. He was a faculty member
-curricularmultidisciplinary design program established in 19954. Through this program, student follow afive-stage approach to an engineering design project to respond to the needs of a communitypartner such as a museum, school, community center, or another service organization4. As aresult of participation in this program, students report that they develop skills in leadership,communication, and project planning, as well as an increased resolve to pursue a degree inengineering4. Other studies of engineering co-curricular service and development projects –such as Borg and Zitomer’s research on student solar water pump projects5 or Amadei,Sandekian, and Thomas’ model for undergraduate experience in sustainable humanitarianengineering design6 – have shown positive
research includes in-depth case studies of three programs that seek to educateengineers as liberal learners: the engineering program at Harvey Mudd College (“HMC” Page 24.1374.2hereafter), a liberal arts college for engineers, scientists, and mathematicians; the PickerEngineering Program (“Picker” hereafter) at Smith College, the only ABET accreditedengineering program in a women’s liberal arts college; and the program of Design, Innovation,and Society (“DIS” hereafter) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a program that blendsengineering, arts, and critical social studies in design learning.Data for the dissertation research project was collected
out occasionally for conversations during ethics classes or service learning projects, butspeaking – and living – our values of faith as engineers and engineering education researchers isstill uneasy territory for many. This paper is a multivocal autoethnographic dialogue betweenthree graduate researchers in engineering education that explores how each individual stands inthat uneasy territory. It addresses the intertwining of spirituality with both teaching and researchpractices in engineering education, investigates the discomfort of conducting such a dialogue in asecularized technical culture, and explores the tensions of multiple and often conflictingperspectives of faith on each topic. The authors are Roman Catholic, Evangelical
, she has been involved in research projects to develop, refine, and apply innovative assessment tools for characterizing student knowledge of sustainability. Her ultimate goal is to use this assessment data to guide the design and evaluation of educational interventions to improve undergraduate sustainability education. In the area of bioprocessing, Dr. Watson has experience using bacteria and algae to convert waste materials into high-value products, such as biofuels.Joshua Pelkey, AirWatch Joshua Pelkey is currently a product manager at AirWatch in Atlanta, GA. He completed his MS in Elec- trical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech and his BS in Computer Engineering from Clemson University. He has
2011. Ms. Cross is currently in the fourth year of the Engineering Education PhD program at Vir- ginia Tech and involved with multiple educational research projects with faculty and graduate students. Her research interests include teamwork and communication skills, assessment, diversity, and identity construction.Dr. Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech Dr. Holly Matusovich (co-PI) is an Assistant Professor in Virginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. Her expertise includes motivation and related frameworks, using these frameworks broadly to study student
Page 24.452.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Effect of Student Model Presentations from a Speaking Contest on the Development of Engineering Students as SpeakersIntroduction Because of TED.com, many high quality models exist of professional engineers andscientists presenting. However, high quality examples of students presenting are lacking. Suchhigh quality models by engineering students are important because many engineering studentscannot project themselves presenting in the same manner as TED speakers, who are experts intheir fields [1]. For instance, engineering students simply cannot generate the same level oforiginal content as TED speakers do. At Pennsylvania State
, collaborative research projects among scholars, and with underserved communities. She is also a lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering department where she is currently teaching a course built on her doctoral thesis called Global Engineers’ Education. Page 24.398.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Developing curriculum to preparestudent engineers to engage with problems faced by underserved communities globally Page 24.398.2Abstract:This paper addresses the need to develop pedagogy that will enable engineering
Presentation Oral Exam 1 Oral Presentation Scientific Knowledge County Fair Writing Written Reflections Teaming/Professionalism Press Conference Oral Presentation Design Deliverable Proposal Written Report Design Deliverable You-tube video Instructional Video Design Deliverable Page 24.1370.3 Employment Project Cover letter and Resume Resume & Cover LetterEach deliverable shown in Table 2 was assigned to a category with the grade distribution shownin Table 3. The design deliverable’s grade for each
into freshman-level humanities course and a junior-level technical course allowed students to make connections with what they learned earlier in their college careers. • Not insignificant is the fact that this interdisciplinary project brought together three people from very different academic areas to exchange ideas.The Museum - Contributions to the Synthesis of Art and EngineeringWhile the seeds may have been planted much earlier, the synthesis of art and engineering atMilwaukee School of Engineering formally began in 2001 with the gift of the Eckhart G. Page 24.784.2Grohmann Man at Work collection to the University
multidisciplinaryteam as one of its undergraduate curriculum learning outcomes, listed in Appendix B.Communication skills are considered an important component within engineering curricula,either as stand-alone classes or integrated into a program curriculum along with otherimportant process skills. In the integrated approach, all of these skills are coveredprogressively in a series of courses. Examples of the integrated approach are those at theVirginia Tech's Materials Science and Engineering Department3 and the University ofQueensland’s Project Centred Curriculum in Chemical Engineering for the third and fourthyear students4.The communication skills course in our program is a stand-alone class, nevertheless, it hasbeen developed as part of our effort to
undergraduate, majoring in math and biology. He has served as teaching assistant five times for math and industrial engineering courses. He currently works as a graduate research assistant in Georgia Tech’s Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) where he assists with assessment and data analysis for ongoing CETL projects. His thesis research involves mathematical models and decision making in cardiology.Gloria J Ross, Georgia Institute of Technology Gloria Ross is currently a PhD candidate in History and Sociology of Science and Technology at Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on the spatial and demographic factors that shape urban food distribution sys- tems. She currently works as a graduate research
the best of their ability. One of the allures of incidental writing isits ability to encourage students to be open about their opinions, and typical assessment methodsused in quantitative assignments could potentially discourage students from fully sharing theirviews and beliefs. On the other hand, not giving an assessment can potentially lead students tonot fully complete assignments and thus not benefit from these learning opportunities. Thisresults in the challenge of balancing completion versus encouraging free and open thought.9 Page 24.141.5One challenge that this project strives to investigate is the proper pairing of the types of
hydraulic and social engineeringdesigned to connect the Mediterranean with the Atlantic. In addition to providing students with adisciplined, analytical approach to the interactions among science, technology, and society, thecourse is designed to deepen students’ understanding of technology in social and global context.The culminating project for the course asked the students to synthesize first-hand observationwith research to provide a coherent view of some particular aspect of French engineering,commerce, and aesthetics. Specific topics addressed by students included the function andregulation of public space; strikes and demonstrations; work, leisure, and the pace of life; wineas a business that exemplifies what the student called the
have a pragmatic way of projecting to external stakeholders that accreditationactivities are somehow “independent.” Yet domestically, accreditation activities are organized bythe CEEAA, which was initiated by and located in the Ministry of Education. Figure 1. The Governing Bodies of EEA in ChinaFurther, both CAST and CEEAA are GONGOs (government organized non-governmentalorganizations). Through such a complicated but pragmatic design of the accreditation agency, theChinese government is able to reach two seemingly contradictory ends. In theory and forinternational purview, China has what looks like an “independent” and “non-governmental
a sample scenarioabout modern challenges in managing electronic waste. Feedback from project advisory boardmembers are integrated in this discussion.BackgroundEngineering programs have an explicit need to define, teach and measure professional skillssince their introduction by ABET evaluation criteria for engineering programs in 2000. Theseskills include ability to function on multidisciplinary teams (3d), understanding of professionaland ethical responsibility (3f), ability to communicate effectively (3g), understanding of theimpact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and cultural/societalcontexts (3h), recognition of and ability to engage in life-long learning (3i), and knowledge ofcontemporary issues (3j). A well
, and by an authorityderived from education and expertise. The historical development of engineering into aprofession highlighted the engineer’s role in social development and progress; the tradeoffsnecessary in engineering decision-making; and the need to anticipate “unintended consequences”and identify stakeholders who may be silent or lack social power.Student learning outcomes are listed in Table 1.Student work included several design projects, with documentation in the form of hand and CADdrawings, written descriptions, and oral presentations; design problem definition assignments;and writing assignments in which students reflected on their experiences and responded toreading assignments. This work was assessed to evaluate achievement of
at Morgan & Claypool Publishers.Mr. Corey M Schimpf, Purdue University, West LafayetteDr. Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alice L. Pawley is an associate professor in the School of Engineering Education with affiliations with the Women’s Studies Program and Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She has a B.Eng. in chemical engineering (with distinction) from McGill University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering with a Ph.D. minor in women’s studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE) group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at