variety of sustainability assessments, ranging from indirect todirect measures of student learning, are available but a comprehensive review of the field isneeded to make the assessments more accessible and implementable by educators from acrossengineering disciplines.A systematic review of ASEE conference proceedings was conducted to identify and discuss thequality of available methods for assessing student knowledge of and interest in sustainability.First, a search of the ASEE PEER database for the terms “sustainability + assessment” yielded1001 results. Records with relevance indexes above 1.0 were screened based on their abstractsand appraised by their full texts according to four inclusion criteria: (1) The study was publishedduring 2011 to
on the exam?); 2. Many college students do not know how to take effective notes. Although various strategies and formats for effective “note-taking” have been identified. The fact is that “note-taking” is seldom taught; 3. The listening, language, and/or motor skill deficits of some students make it difficult for them to identify important lecture content and write it down correctly and quickly enough during a lecture; 4. Instructors sometimes get off-track from the primary objectives of the lecture. Professors—especially those who really know and love their disciplines—are famous for going off on tangents during a lecture. Although getting off-track would break the monotony, it could make it
“guides” or “consultants.” A guide is afaculty member who is the primary mentor for the project. He or she is the most intimatelyinvolved with the entire process, and remain with the team for both quarters of MSD. The guideis also ideally an expert in the field of the project’s subject matter. He or she meets with theirteam weekly, helps resolve technical issues, provides advice on resolving personnel conflicts,and grades the team on its deliverables. The final individual student grade is also adjusted up ordown by the guide. After reviewing the logbooks, peer evaluations, and looking at the overallparticipation, the grade can be modified to reflect the student’s overall contribution.The guide most often acts as the administrative point of
-engineering subspecialties can be implemented in order to bestow great additional value to thenewly graduated engineer.Background:A faculty-driven, high-quality biomedical systems engineering concentration was implementedwithin an established and EAC-of-ABET accredited five-year interdisciplinaryelectromechanical engineering program1. Of note is that under EAC rules, the existingelectromechanical engineering program had simultaneously met the accreditation criteria forelectrical engineering and for mechanical engineering. The graduates of this program are trueinterdisciplinary engineers. A graduate of this program is as comfortable in tackling a thermo-fluid problem as he/she is comfortable in designing the electronic hardware and writing thecontrol
networking topics.Teams are collaborating across the UW System through the Canvas learning environment, whichhas recently been implemented at all campuses. Canvas “courses” have been created for each ofthe IoT modules, and “instructors” – those with read/write privileges – have been assigned.These instructors come from multiple campuses, with some from industry also participating.b IT/OT = Information Technology / Operational Technologyc MES = Manufacturing Execution System; ERP = Enterprise Resource PlanningUsing Canvas allows instructors to readily share and develop materials, and it will also facilitatedissemination after the modules are completed. The Canvas course modules in progress thus farare listed below. IoT Networking Protocols
, construction management,and structures. This group of professional engineers has been donating their time and efforts to help in thecapstone design courses and help the program in aspects such as the response to the support survey for theProgram Educational Objectives. As well, this group of people serves for guidance and as evaluators forthe final work.The capstone design experience lasts a full year. The project commences with a meeting betweenstudents, practicing engineers and the instructors and a site visit. The project ends with a report and oralpresentation. This provides students with a proposal writing experience and clarifies the project for thestudent team and the client.Progress reports are due over the semester. These reports include
“StudentOrganizations and Leadership Development” (SOLD) office and the “Student Success Center”(SSC) that are each available to all GU students having the desire to partake of the servicesoffered. The SEECS seminar utilizes SOLD and the various resources of the SSC in order toprovide content that job- and graduate education-seeking students may need, as well as needededucation in skills required to succeed at Gannon.The SSC houses the university Math Center and the Writing Center, each of which provides freetutoring for students choosing to use those resources. In addition, the SSC fosters ExperientialEducation and general career development activities. SEECS makes great use of these latterresources. In particular, we have utilized the SSC staff to provide
paper also includes studentfeedback regarding the process derived from student surveys and their peer evaluations. Finally,suggestions are made regarding how these projects would be used for future academic years.BackgroundPrior to the development of a multidisciplinary capstone for the ECSSE Department, eachdiscipline has addressed the senior design experience differently. For the past 12 years,computer engineering and software engineering have had a common senior design. Theirprojects have primarily focused upon autonomous systems such as ground robots and unmannedaircraft. For this course, the students have followed an agile design process based upon theCrystal Clear and Crystal Yellow software design processes defined by Alistair
limited level of teamwork instruction is achieved passively inthe form of team peer evaluations, usually in capstone design courses and more rarely in othercourses. Given the currently limited and fragmented opportunities to learn about why and how towork in teams, engineering students may not know: (1) why teams exist and why good teamworkis important, (2) how individuals can be effective team members, and, (3) how to structure workwithin the team, track progress, and deal with issues along the way.In response to this identified weakness, a committee of representatives from various departmentsin the Faculty of Engineering and other teaching and support units are developing a series of sixworkshops that will be delivered to engineering students
Outcome 4 (k)] 4. Design and conduct experiments to collect, analyze, and interpret data with modern 4 engineering tools and techniques. [ABET Criterion 3 Outcomes (b) and (k)] 5. Communicate solutions clearly, both orally and in writing. [ABET Criterion 3 4 Outcome (g)] 6. Work effectively in diverse teams. [ABET Criterion 3 Outcome (d)] 3 7. Apply professional and ethical considerations to engineering problems. [ABET
robots were provided to thestudents by our department. Nonetheless, this does not mean that the project is simply puttingvarious parts together. In particular, students first had to design the electrical circuits andmechanical layout of the robot; they then needed to write embedded software that uses the inputfrom various sensors and transducers to control actuators (motors). Our next two learningobjectives are:Objective #2: To learn how to interface with and program Raspberry Pi in an embeddedenvironment.Objective #3: To learn the basics of computer networking and Wi-Fi received signal strength(RSS)In what follows, we present how we use project-based learning to inspire the students to achievethe above learning objectives along the way.3
number of local companies in the areas of CAD/CAM, CNC machining, and process development/improvement. Dr. El-Mounayri is a member of ASME, ASEE, and SME. He has published over 75 technical papers in renowned peer-reviewed journals and technical conferences in his Page 24.697.1 field and gave presentations at various national and international conferences.Dr. Kody Varahramyan, IUPUI c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Paper ID #10093Dr. Kody Varahramyan received his Ph.D. in Electrical
academic achievements he won the nomination by the University of New Brunswick as the best doctoral graduate in science and engineering. Since 2000, he joined the Systems Engineering Department, Uni- versity Arkansas at Little Rock where he is currently a tenured Professor. He has published over 35 peer- reviewed journal papers, 70 conference presentations, and two patents. He won the UALR’ excellence awards in teaching and research in 2007 and 2009, respectively. His research areas include implantable antennass and wireless systems, smart antennas, WLAN deployment and load balancing, electromagnetic wave scattering by complex objects, design, modeling and testing of high-power microwave applicators, design and analysis
on the projects withsupervision of a faculty member, meeting regularly with their advisors. A final project reportdetailing the process and the final product plus a formal presentation to students, faculty, and Page 23.1049.9professionals from industry are required. Our experience with robotics capstone projectsindicates that student learning is drastically improved as the students are extraordinarilyenthusiastic about their projects, working within multidisciplinary teams (it is very common forcapstone design project teams to include students from other disciplines) and communicatingtheir “cool” robot projects to peers, faculty and
, and has participated in research and curriculum development projects with $6.4 million funding from external sources. He has been directing/co-directing an NSF/Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site on interdisciplinary water sciences and engineering at VT since 2007. This site has 85 alumni to date. He also leads an NSF/Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site on interdisciplinary water research. He has published over 85 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Benefits for undergraduates from engagement in an interdisciplinary environmental monitoring research and
department, who then assigns the student’s final overallcourse grade based on this information and other factors, such as peer review data and varioussmaller, department-specific assignments that may be associated with each individual course.Current Year’s Interdepartmental Projects Table 2 below lists the Senior Design projects this year that involve students (and facultycoordination/advising) contributed by multiple engineering departments at our College, out ofthe set: Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Electrical and Computer Engineering(ECE), Mechanical Engineering (ME), and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (ME); theengineering departments that are currently involved in each project are indicated with an ‘X.’ The
we have recently received grant funding to create a digital projectenvironment for this generation of digital native students in NEET.3.5 External outreachNEET is already being acknowledged in academic and professional forums as an initiative that is worthwatching. Two articles titled “Following the Thread” and “NEET --- New Approach to EngineeringEducation” were published in the Fall 2018 issue of Spectrum5. A peer-reviewed paper on NEET waspresented at the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah in June 20183. Anop-ed piece authored by NEET leadership has been published in a 2018 edition of MechanicalEngineering magazine6. NEET had commissioned an independent consultant to conduct a globalundergraduate education
engineering design through all Voices of our Studentsfour undergraduate years. Highly selective colleges implementing flexible engineering programsinclude Olin College of Engineering, Dartmouth College, and Harvey Mudd College. Theseprograms are in the top 5 schools with the highest percentage of their bachelor’s degreesawarded to women [8]. BSU’s approach is informed by the efforts of our institutional peers,adapted to meet the unique culture and resources for our campus, and has been introducedpreviously [9].We are guided by the literature as we create a curriculum and employ instructional practicescorrelated with increasing diversity and inclusion. Thus we have made
. The first presentation had each student focus on a specific scientist of significance that hasmade one or more significant contributions to topics of interest for the course. The second and thirdpresentations required each student to read a contemporary research article related to astronomy,or space exploration. Science was often used as an appropriate source since it’s articles are writtento be understandable to a wide readership. Students were asked to present the topic of the researcharticle, the significance of the research and findings in the article and the background informationnecessary to clarify the significance of the research results.Student presentations were rated by other students using peer review sheets. The review sheet al
. Thispaper resulted from the Fourth Future of Mechatronics and Robotics Education (FoMRE)Workshop held September 27-28, 2019 at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield,Michigan. This workshop was the final in a series of National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported academic and industrial workshops in a project that aims to define and promote theconcept of MRE as a distinct engineering discipline, build a community of MRE educators, andpromote diversity and inclusivity within the MRE community [2]. The project leaders write: “Our vision is that MRE will become one of the most impactful disciplines of engineering; attracting diverse and innovative students, graduating professional engineers who will design, develop, and
strategies she used to approach conflict resolution. This instructorengagement successfully encouraged the students to reflect on their own past experiences andrelate the theoretical concepts to real-world scenarios. One example of this was demonstrated atthe end of the ENV/GEO session when a student approached the facilitators to share a previousconflict experience and to ask for feedback and strategies to try in the case of a similar conflictoccurring in the future.6. Qualitative resultsIndividual students were asked to write a 5-10 page long reflection report at the end of the term,looking back at their course project. These reports were graded to ensure they were takenseriously, with grades focused on completion, insight, and grammar/clarity1
21 Credits (Choice from 1-3 cores) General education courses to meet requirements of the appropriate college.The Innovation Core is 27 Credits, geared toward innovation and entrepreneurship; a keycomponent is the multi-disciplinary, long-term team activities over the sophomore, junior andsenior years. Teams are expected to include students from all years, possibly including graduatestudents. The teams will have dynamic membership and the roles of team members will changeon a regular basis. The innovation core also includes an overview course of innovation, acourse on entrepreneurship, a variation on the technical writing course focused on proposalpreparation, a course
academic quarters (22 weeks). The MSD experience is a studio course in that it adopts ageneral approach to student interaction that is hands-on, instructor facilitated, and student-centered [1]. Refer to companion paper by Walter et al, 2007 [2]for more details on the overallMSD program at RIT. Like its peer institutions, RIT strives to continuously improve curriculumstructure, integration, and assessment. The MSD course sequence is particularly crucial to thisongoing improvement due to its culminating nature. Accordingly, the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) Criterion 3 Program Outcomes and Assessment states thatengineering programs must demonstrate that their students attain the following set of attributesupon graduation
-preserveinterpretive center provides laboratory space for K-12 education via camps and enrichmentactivities for nearby students. Our demonstration wind turbine and solar photovoltaic systemshave generated significant interest from nearby high school science teachers who want to exposeyoung students to the benefits and challenges of alternative and renewable energy technologies. Intentional living and learning communitiesAt the time of this writing, Calvin College is evaluating options for an intentional living andlearning community to be housed on one floor of a new dormitory whose heating and coolingloads may be partially offset by a geothermal system. It is envisioned that the geothermal systemand other innovative energy systems in the dormitory will
Interdisciplinary Design Skills1 INTRODUCTIONAt the Sunapee State University engineering majors are similar to those at other schools around thenation. Most students choose a specific major in an area of interest to them and their future career plans.Within the engineering major, these students follow a specific track of courses with little variation in theform of electives taken during the third and fourth years. With the only common courses between majorsbeing rooted in math, physics, chemistry, writing and some social sciences, it is unsurprising to find thatgraduates from different programs develop and exhibit a completely different set of technical skills. Theissue in this model surfaces when those graduates leave the university to begin their
material by the end of the course, to show cumulativeknowledge, or to test on a final unit of material. Students also noted that forming an epic finalethat covers all of the course material or relates and probes the technical content deeply may be achallenge (yes, students, it is!). One student expressed concern that with the group nature ofsome of the work, students may ‘ride the coattails’ of classmates. However, that student noted,and the instructors have observed, that this has not happened during our experiences. The peer-accountability, the quick pace, the interesting topics, and the buzz and excitement in the roomhave thus far carried along even the least motivated students.Ultimately, one student astutely put it this way:I think this model
differentiation.” Practitioners have identified key areas to addressthe negative aspects of teamwork through the implementation of team norms or teamagreements, peer-evaluation of team members, and team timelines to improve work efficiencyand clear objectives to be successful [14,15].2.1 Student perceptions of teamsWork by Burian et al. highlights an example project based learning for teaching sustainability,but included only nominal comments by the students on the impact of the multidisciplinarygroups they worked in, spanning from “I focused on my design and did not interact very muchwith the other students” to “Collaborating with other student groups helped to expand the scopeof work to include ideas that were novel and interesting” [16]. According to
(e.g. student, nonprofit, clinical, professional, and Page 23.403.3 industry networks); 5) an academic and research community that facilitates interdisciplinary undergraduate research and undergraduate publication in peer-reviewed research journals; and 6) a social unity and alignment among student and faculty researchers (e.g. volunteer outreach activities, community projects) Few studies, if any, have looked at the effectiveness of undergraduate-based researchprograms to initiate