, capstone designprojects usually either require a massive learning curve to build on previous systems or arerelegated to relatively simple designs, many of which are repeated year after year. This paperdescribes the educational experience gained through design and construction of an R2D2 replicafrom the Star Wars™ movies. The initial project incorporates basic radio control as well assimple autonomous navigation and limited user interface with the capability for futureexpansion. The modular design is intended to allow future capstone groups to add innovativenew features as well as novel applications of well established technologies. In addition to beinga motivational project for senior-level engineering students, it is also a marketing tool for
, economy, and environment and graduate with thefoundation and technical skills supported by systems thinking, multidisciplinary training, andpractical engineering application to confront the challenges found in modern engineering practice[8].Based on data from our previous work with on measuring literacy in sustainable engineering andthe development and results of one teaching module, we proposed the creation of a course at theundergraduate level designed to help students develop sustainable thinking in engineering [9]. Thekey feature of introducing this course early in the curriculum is to ensure that the students aretrained in integration sustainability in their thinking which will help integrate sustainableengineering into whichever discipline
Paper ID #5997Assessing Student and Employer Satisfaction in a Liberal Arts/EngineeringBachelor of Arts DegreeDr. Michael Haungs, California Polytechnic State University Michael Haungs is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at California Polytechnic State University. He received his B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley, his M.S. degree in Computer Science from Clemson University, and his Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis. Over the last 8 years, Dr. Haungs has been actively involved in curriculum
the Electrical Engineering department. His PhD research focused on the design and fabrication of micro-optical elec- tromechanical systems for aberration correction in imaging systems. As a postdoctoral researcher at Montana State University he worked with a group to develop focus control for an OCT system. Currently Dr. Himmer is the facility manager at the Montana Mircofabrication Facility and he continues to research novel materials, actuators and optics that may be used in the development of optical systems. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Fluidic Channels in the Classroom: Fabrication and Integration in Fluid MechanicsAbstract
Marietta Energy Systems, and later GE Superabrasives. Cindy is active in assessment and accreditation activities at MSOE and has been exploring ways to include on-line education in her classes.Mr. James R. Kieselburg II, Grohmann Museum at Milwaukee School of Engineering Director and Curator, Grohmann Museum at Milwaukee School of Engineering Adjunct Professor, Visual Design, Milwaukee School of Engineering Page 24.784.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Integration of Art and Engineering: Creating Connections between Engineering Curricula and an Art
knowledge have been the basis to build the sets of Knowledge and Skills andgenerate the frame to get both individual and ideal profiles. Additionally, these sources are beingused in a larger project whose objective is to represent the Electrical Engineering curriculum ofUniversidad Nacional de Colombia through ontologies.The three sources of knowledge are: • The Conceive, Design, Implement and Operate (CDIO) Syllabus. • Technical knowledge. • Electrical Engineering curriculum of Universidad Nacional de Colombia.CDIOCDIO is an initiative from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and other universities,whose goal is to integrate technical knowledge with some expected characteristics that a studentshould possess when he or she
portion is on-line and theremainder is face-to-face is growing in popularity. Aycock1, et al, of the University ofWisconsin – Milwaukee, studied numerous hybrid courses and reported that the integration ofon-line with face-to-face learning facilitates interaction among students and between studentsand their instructors. McFarlin2 of University of Houston, found an increase by one letter gradein student performance from standard lecture to hybrid instruction. Riffell3 of Michigan StateUniversity found that minorities, in particular, increased their laboratory performance in a hybridenvironment. Perhaps the most compelling argument can be made by Landers4 in his doctoralthesis where a large number and variations of hybrid courses were analyzed. He
(one three-credit junior design and two four-credit senior design courses,all five hours long).Finally, at Boston University, students graduate with a bachelor of science in a single discipline,biomedical engineering, while at Wentworth they will major in two disciplines as at TuftsUniversity, though at a more integrated and a broader level.Worcester Polytechnic Institute:Worcester Polytechnic Institute6 offers an accredited undergraduate program in biomedicalengineering. This program, like Boston University’s, suffers from being a specialized biomedicalengineering program, which limits student career opportunities in other areas of engineering. Inaddition, only one quarter of a four-credit capstone senior design course is required and there
Paper ID #21632International Engineering Student Motivation to Develop CommunicationSkills: a Case for an Integrated Training ApproachJohn Pringle, Vantage College, University of British Columbia John Pringle M.Ed. (Applied Linguistics) has been teaching academic and professional writing for 15 years. He has previously researched the value of Systemic Functional Linguistics as pedagogical tool to teach report writing, and the benefits of collaborative writing on second-language acquisition.Dr. Gabriel Potvin, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Dr. Gabriel Potvin is a faculty member in the Department of Chemical and
technology curriculum inthe classroom. The curriculum was incorporated in the team-teaching effort of an honorscourse at a four-year university. A case study description of the teaching experience andresponse by the students presented below.The honors course, Philosophy and History of Technology (HON 2013), was offered atthe University of Tulsa (TU) during the fall semester 2017. TU offers such courses tostudents in the TU Honors Program, a cohort program of students who receive honorsscholarships and live in a designated honors dormitory on the university campus. Thehonors students enroll in four seminars studying ancient history, medieval andEnlightenment studies, philosophy and history of science, and modernity.The course and teaching
courses which incorporate multi-disciplinary teaching teams formultidisciplinary studios or labs, as well as, participated in and observed the effects other modelsof team teaching.This paper will explore the advantages and disadvantages in team teaching to enhance studentlearning in a multi-disciplinary environment. Using new and existing courses as case studies fordescribing the pros and cons of the two team teaching models, the paper will highlight howmulti-disciplinary teaching teams have helped encourage students to participate in design studioswhich promote an integrated delivery approachUni-disciplinary Teams – Uni-disciplinary Class Page
ideas rooted inSystems Engineering.The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)1 defines Systems Engineeringas “an interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems.”The Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK), created by Body of Knowledge andCurriculum to Advance Systems Engineering (BKCASE) project2, notes that systemsengineering includes the “full life cycle of successful systems, including problemformulation, solution development and operational sustainment and use.” As noted in theSEBoK, a host of criteria such as continuous process improvement, considerations fortradeoffs, system integration, safety, recycling, etc., are needed while developing solutions fortechnical problems. In fact
, including theintroductory engineering course, a speech course, and an engineering seminar course(Introduction to the Engineering Profession), where students are enrolled by the IUPUI Registrarconcurrently as cohorts. IUPUI’s TLC program won the 2008 Outstanding Student RetentionProgram Award given by the Educational Policy Institute.2.1 Curriculum Enhancements for the Nanotechnology Track: In addition to thenanotechnology modules integrated into the freshman engineering, new interdisciplinarysophomore-, junior-, and senior-level nanotechnology-based courses will be introduced into thecurriculum for students in the INEC nanotechnology track. A new sophomore-level (NT201,Introduction to Nanotechnology and Applications), and a junior-level
Paper ID #29142Using an Education Ideas Forum to Foster Institutional InnovationStaring from the Grassroots LevelDr. Adeel Khalid, Kennesaw State University Adeel Khalid, Ph.D. Professor Industrial & Systems Engineering Office: 470-578-7241Dr. Tris Utschig, Kennesaw State University Dr. Tristan T. Utschig is Director for Scholarly Teaching in the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) and is Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Kennesaw State University. For- merly, he was Assistant Director for CETL and the Office of Assessment at Georgia Tech, and prior to that was a tenured Associate
, thereby moreeffectively integrating student education.1,2 The author further believes that such an approachcould be generalized to other non-design courses in the curriculum such as courses taken in the3d and 4th year (see Table 1) that would establish bridges to the capstone 5th year design. Alsobased on recommendations from students in Spring 2009 junior design who took NetworkTheory II with the term project in Spring 2008, as well as the better performance of thosestudents who chose a design project, the author decided that future projects would all be requiredto be design projects instead of also allowing research papers on special topics.The author plans to continue refining this approach as well as continue assessment while refiningthe
with computational simulation in the classroom, we extendpractices in curriculum development to propose an integration method that will assist faculty ineffectively incorporating research-grade simulations into their existing courses.IntroductionNanotechnology is a rapidly growing area of research1, therefore training students to understandatomic level principles and have the skills necessary to work in nanotechnology-related projectsis critical in all fields of engineering and part of a multidisciplinary engineering education2. Yet,the growing body of research related to nanotechnology education has consistently found thatstudents struggle with concepts at the nano-scale3–6. Simulation tools developed for research canprovide deep insight into
of the LWD program is to use interdisciplinary collaboration across doctoralprograms at WSU in order to broaden the perspectives of students as they address learning withdisability with an emphasis on education and employability within the STEM fields. Doctoralstudents who complete the LWD program will have a distinctive set of knowledge, skills, anddispositions with regard to the needs and strengths of persons with disabilities. This uniquepreparation will make possible professional opportunities in a multitude of areas related to, butpotentially broader than their original disciplines (e.g. higher education, research and design ofassistive technology, curriculum development and implementation, or consultation with federaland state
materials are developed by experienced teachers familiar with thebackgrounds of first- and second-year students. In addition, each of the institutions has its ownnetwork of peer institutions used for benchmarking, thus providing a multiplication factor fordissemination. One of the principal strategies is to foster integration of research and educationthrough the programs, projects and activities scheduled in the curriculum, that infuse educationwith the excitement of discovery and enrich research through the diversity of learningperspectives. AKNOWLEDGMENTS Page 22.1058.14This research was supported by the St
andplanning concepts to technological problems. The requirement for all students to completeoriginal research and publish the results in a thesis would be the primary tool in developing thisspecialization and integrating the knowledge toward the application of the science. As ultimately implemented, the AFIT PSM Degree Program in Combating Weapons ofMass Destruction is a six-academic quarter (18 month) degree program as is typical of otherAFIT masters programs. Figure 1 provides an overview of the courses and scheduling. For the first quarter, all students follow the same schedule and complete an officiallyrecorded certificate program – the certificate element of a PSM. The graduate Certificate inCombating Weapons of Mass Destruction Program
essential to engineering in a problem-solving environment 2. To provide a context for considering the interactions and synergistic relations between properties in engineering systemsThe proposed course outline for the first offering is given in Table 3. Because there is no text forthe course the first two years of offerings will be used to generate an extensive set of coursenotes and examples based on the best available demonstrations of a computational context forfoundational engineering courses. In cooperation with colleagues from the ENE curriculum a Page 11.993.7series of integrated and evaluated on-line modules are
interests include product family and product platform design, trade space exploration and multi-dimensional data visualization, and multidisciplinary design optimization, and he has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers to date. He is the recipient of the 2011 ASEE Fred Merryfield Design Award and has received numerous awards for outstanding teaching and research, including the 2007 Penn State University President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Integration. He is a Fellow in ASME and an Associate Fellow in AIAA. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech, and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University.Mr. Marcus Shaffer, Penn State
Paper ID #13550Multidisciplinary Vertically Integrated Teams Working on Grand ChallengesMs. Magdalini Z Lagoudas, Texas A&M University Magda Lagoudas, Executive Director for Industry and Nonprofit Partnerships, Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M University. Mrs. Lagoudas holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering. She worked for the State of New York and industry before joining Texas A&M University in 1993. Since then, she developed and taught courses in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Technology. In 2001, she joined the Spacecraft Technology Center as an Assistant
Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Robotics Engineering M.S. DegreeAbstractThere is an increasing demand for creative scientific, engineering, and management talent tomeet national needs. We believe that the best way to educate professionals for leadership roles isin a unified multi-disciplinary curriculum. This paper describes one such program, a Master ofScience degree in Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, whose goal is toprepare men and women for technical leadership in the robotics industry and research inrobotics.The program, launched in fall 2009, develops competence in electro-mechanical-computationalsystems and an awareness of management systems. It constitutes a multi-disciplinary
(2012) hands-on approach and last year’s (2011) lecture-based approach.Conclusions A hands-on, project-based approach to teaching introductory Mechatronics to undergraduatestudents in a Mechanical Engineering curriculum was shown. This course is mainly structuredaround a multi-stage team project which is mostly mechanical in nature but requires enoughelectro-mechanical integration to effectively introduce the scope, reach and potential ofMechatronics. Every student obtained their own Arduino Uno microcontroller and a set of basicelectro-mechanical components, which greatly facilitated hands-on learning at an individuallevel. A particular emphasis was placed on a group design process similar to that in a small-company, where
in the engineering curriculum for an electric circuitcourse that combines both analog and digital circuits, this section addresses related literature inthe field of engineering education. A number of recent papers address improved methods ofinstruction for a course on electric circuits. Skromme, et al. have described the latestdevelopments of a computer-based tutorial program involving a step-based approach to assiststudents in the learning key concepts of circuit analysis, resulting in significant gains for studentsover doing conventional textbook problems.3 Morrow recently reported on experience withimplementing a blended-learning model involving more active learning, technology-enhancedexercises for an electric circuit course, resulting
students. The new Engineering Plus degree has a core setof required foundational courses in engineering, a multi-year design sequence, and allows forself-defined pathways. The new curriculum also offers three defined degree pathways that havebeen chosen based on an examination of student “fate” data: secondary education, pre-medical,and environmental studies, with additional pathways planned for the near future. The fateanalysis examined the paths of students who were enrolled in an engineering or STEM major inone year and samples their major choice in the following year. This analysis maps the flow ofstudents into and out of the major with demographic slicers to more closely understand these in-migration and out-migration choices.This paper will
and invention team almost certainly will comprise a multidisciplinary groupof engineering and computer science students, undergraduates and graduate students. The RICCis a testing ground and springboard for the dissemination of this combined vision and approachto fundamentally transform Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)education in universities.2.2 Mission StatementThe main reasons for this effort are summarized below:Interdisciplinary: It seems obvious that designing devices that marry sensing, computing, andacting requires individuals who have a background in electrical engineering, computer science,and mechanical engineering. Design of robots requires emphasis on system integration that goesbeyond that usually
,designers, and lawyers. These professionals were invited in March of 2016 to participate in aday-long workshop to discuss the program in Indianapolis, Indiana. During that time,participants were given an overview of the major ideas for the program, were asked to provideinput regarding employability of this future DCI graduate, and participated in break-out sessionsto discuss curriculum priorities. For potential professional placement of DCI graduates,workshop participants validated the list previously elaborated by organizers, which includedpositions in the following areas: • Design/Build Manager • Owner’s Representative • Developer Representative • Business Developer • Design Manager • Program Manager • Finance or
Paper ID #26845Work in Progress: Multidisciplinary, Vertically Integrated Projects Courseon 3-D Printed Biomedical DevicesMs. Vy-Linh Gale, New York University Vy-Linh Gale is an undergraduate in her junior year studying Biotechnology with a minor in Computer Science, and is expected to graduate with her BS in 2020 and MS in Biotechnology in 2021.Prof. Victoria Bill, New York University Victoria Bill is the MakerSpace Lab Manager and an adjunct professor in the First-Year Engineering Program at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. She studied electrical engineering and received her B.S. from the Ohio State University and
an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. At Rose-Hulman, he co-created the Integrated, First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, which was recognized in 1997 with a Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence. He served as Project Director a Na- tional Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized innovative undergraduate engineering curricula. He has authored over 70 papers and offered over 30 workshops on faculty development, curricular change processes, cur- riculum redesign, and assessment. He has served