these skills, not related to professional ambitions, come into play. Interestingly, aminority of students (14.3%) do not agree that English-language skills are important in thesecontexts, which suggests that their decision to study at a North-American institution is likely forother academic reasons. It should be noted that of those that did not agree on the importance ofEnglish-language skills, half indicated they were planning to stay in Canada after graduation(data not explicitly shown), which suggests a perception that communication skills are notrelevant to engineers or necessary for future success, even in an English-speaking environment. 45 42 40 35
California San Diego. His interests include robot control, design of mechatronics systems, pneumatic actuation, motion planning and optimal control.Dr. Michael D. Cook, Milwaukee School of Engineering Michael D. Cook is an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA. His interests are in control system design and optimization of mixed-physics dynamic systems, with current research in power flow control with emphasis on the
growth requiresthoughtful planning.” Almost all leading colleges and universities have recognized this fact andcontinuously participating in an ongoing discussion on assessment. Therefore, one recognizesthe fact that any strategic plan for continuous ongoing assessment should have a clear vision ofwhat the university needs to assess and how the process will be implemented. In reality, themethodology used in designing a continuous assessment plan should actually direct and raisequestions about the significance and effectiveness of instructional delivery techniques. Gregorc Page 15.215.2and Ward (1977) are of the opinion that instructors should
collaboratively to improve andextend this type of entrepreneurial learning even further into the program. The impact on ABETand KEEN outcomes are addressed. Student feedback is also positive. The pervasiveness of theapplication of entrepreneurial mindset is present in student reflections, project technicaldocuments, design reviews, oral exams, and other student work. The entrepreneurial mindset hasbecome part of the culture of our program in a short time, which we view as a positive outcome.The experiences of the participating faculty members are presented in the paper, as well asstudent reflections on the application of entrepreneurial mindset in their courses and designprojects. Planned next steps are also addressed in the paper.IntroductionEngineers
surveys, available to the participants online using the GTNeuro.net website(powered by Drupal 6.0’s webform feature, secured with AES encryption), were utilized tomonitor and understand the perspectives of LINCR Fellows (biweekly), PIs (monthly), andmentors (biweekly) before, during and after the LINCR program. The survey instruments weredeveloped by the LINCR planning committee and were sent out to the relevant user groups asreminders via the Boomerang application attached to Google mail. These short feedback formswere used to assess how the collaborations were proceeding and/or ask the graduate studentshow valuable the collaborations are to their particular research. We took survey data in abiweekly capacity to see how impressions change
pursuing a bachelor’s degree of science in Industrial and Manufacturing Engi- neering with a minor in mathematics at the University of Southern Indiana. His expected graduation date is May 2022. He is the recipient of a full-ride scholarship, which has allowed him to study and engage in research abroad. In his studies, Jotam is focusing on engineering education and data science. Jotam has worked as an intern at the Panama Canal Authority and at the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana. After undergraduate school, his plans are to pursue a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and work in research and academia. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021
. One leadership and advising office manages the MDE and IDES programs; however, theprograms are administered as two separate entities. Students who pursue an interdisciplinaryengineering studies education (IDES) do not plan to practice engineering, while themultidisciplinary engineering program (MDE) is ABET accredited and provides students with aneducation that supports an engineering career by combining multiple disciplines to solve theirproblems of interests.ParticipantsWe used purposeful sampling to recruit participants for this pilot study. To be broadly eligible forparticipation, students had to be currently enrolled in either the interdisciplinary engineeringstudies (IDES) (n=1) or multidisciplinary engineering (MDE) (n=6) program. To
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data, and development of a balloontracking system.Through this experience, students have learned principles of integrated engineering technology,and nurtured their skills in cooperative learning, team work, and effective planning. This paperpresents in detail the modes by which these have been achieved, results obtained andimprovements planned for the next senior design team.IntroductionWeather balloons have been used for many years by meteorologists to study weather patterns inthe upper atmosphere. Recently there has been increasing interest in other studies that could beperformed using weather balloons in “near space” environment. The exact definition varies, but“near space” is often considered the area of the earth’s atmosphere between
undergraduateelectrical engineering students as early in the curriculum as possible to the challenges presentedby real projects. The project had to be relatively long term, multidisciplinary, and it had torequire both technical depth and breadth, problem solving skills, ethical responsibilities,communication skills, effective teamwork and planning skills. The basic idea was to engagestudents in an activity that would emulate as closely as possible the industrial environment theywill be facing soon after graduation providing students with the opportunity to gain the skills andtools needed in the day-to-day practice of engineering. Toward this end, in collaboration with thebiology department, a group of undergraduate electrical engineering students were
and connect materials in the course with their area of study, as well as overall academic and career plans. Eportfolios are reviewed by instructor and teaching assistants to both provide feedback and assess student performance.In summary, the design of the course and its implementation follows our teaching philosophy,that all learning is multidisciplinary. The course includes aspects of engineering design andanalysis, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, business, economics, political science,sociology, psychology – hence incorporating a broad spectrum of student areas of study andinterests, leading to engagement and motivated learning. Problem-based and project-basedlearning strategies integrate real-world case studies (including
Bathe, Associate Professor, BiologicalEngineering, Geoffrey Beach, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Markus Buehler, JerryMcAfee Professor in Engineering and Head, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,Dennis Freeman, Henry Ellis Warren Professor of Electrical Engineering, Kristala Prather, Arthur D.Little Professor of Chemical Engineering, Michael Short, Class of ’42 Career Development AssistantProfessor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Bruce Tidor, Professor of Biological Engineering andComputer Science, and, Maria Yang, Professor of Mechanical Engineering. The Extended NEETFaculty Committee comprises faculty from the other four schools --- School of Humanities and SocialSciences, School of Architecture and Planning
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
Generator System Electrical Mechanical Civil Generator Turbine I Structure Monitor Turbine II Transmission Figure 1. Top-level organizational structure for the generator project.Electrical teamThe generator design was based largely on a straightforward permanent magnet generator (PMG)plan that is designed to be built with basic tools that are likely to be found in communities indeveloping countries. The plans are available on line from Hugh Piggott,2 as well as through theoriginal sponsoring organization Practical Action
)on learning has been designed. The subjects collaboratively solved an analysis and designproblem in a graduate engineering course. In previous experiments, we showed the benefits ofthe CCM in improving engineering team performance and investigated the mechanisms thatfacilitate this improvement.The CCM is a six-stage cognitive model that takes into consideration the cognitive and socialactivities that occur during collaborative problem solving by facilitating problem formulation,solution planning, and system design tasks during collaboration. While facilitating collaborationwithin teams has long been seen as advantageous, the CCM model prescribes tactics to employto ensure that collaboration is effective.In the first two experiments we showed
students are introduced early in thecareer to plan for a coherent nanotechnology program. The paper summarizes briefly the newnanotechnology program and the initial outcomes. Page 22.925.2*This program is partially funded by NSF NUE program grant number NSF1042110. 2. Nanotechnology TrackIUPUI started a new B.S. program that will establish a new, dynamic academic and research-based nanotechnology track in engineering. The Integrating Nanotechnology in EngineeringCurriculum program (the IUPUI “INEC”) defined by this new nanotechnology track is integratedinto the established degrees of the Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering(ECE
curricula and to create new courses to meet the New York State Education Department’s new technology standard. Zhang is also a member of the NYC FIRST Robotic Competition’s Planning Committee. This committee is responsible to provide training to FIRST mentors and high school students on robot building and programming. For the past three years, Zhang has organized numerous weekends and after school robotic training workshops for high school students.Farrukh Zia, New York City College of TechnologyDr. Iem H. Heng, New York City College of Technology Iem Heng earned his bachelor’s degree from Providence College (Providence, R.I.) with double majors in the pre-engineering program and mathematics. In addition, he earned
Montréal’s First Strategic Plan for Sustainable Development.Erik Bélanger, École Polytechnique de Montréal Erik Bélanger has worked on the development of the course Sustainable Development Capstone Project. Since then, he has contributed to the evolution and the teaching of the course. He obtained his engineering bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from University of Sherbrooke in 1999. After graduating he worked in industry as a design engineer before completing a Master’s of Applied Science Montreal at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. Since 2004 he has worked at Ecole Polytechnique as research assistant for sustainable development projects and as a lecturer
design project to formulate the thread ofdesign in the curriculum. Table 2 provides a listing of the different courses hosting the designproject as part of the CASCADE project. As shown by table 1, implementation of the CASCADE project started in the academicyear of 2012 – 2013 and continued through the following years [21]. Currently the project is stillongoing with minor changes of logistics and participating faculty depending on availability offaculty and the changes in their assignments. Nevertheless, the general plan and objectives arestill the same with activities and participation expanding every year. Two departments participatedin the project at its inception in 2013. In the following years, two additional departments joinedand
Society for Engineering Education, 2008 MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN OF STUDENT PROJECTS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIESAbstractThe challenge with EWB-USA project design has been to reach the proper balance ofstudent-led creativity and learning, collection of data, and adequate expert review.Collection of data in a developing country has logistical barriers that are sometimesfrustrating. Furthermore, international travel is expensive, and much of the funds raisedgo directly into getting the students there. Therefore, collection of data on the preliminarysite assessment trip is critical and must be thoroughly planned. This paper explores theprocess and initial results of using an International Project Development (IPD) flowchartdeveloped by
establish peer/mentor relationships.Students receive a paid 2-week research skills workshop, followed by 8-10 weeks of researchtraining as a full-time UMB employee during the summer.24Promoting early engagement for community college students in STEM research, the Internshipsin Nanosystems Science, Engineering, and Technology (INSET) program, is held at theUniversity of California at Santa Barbara, a tier-one research university. Similar to the SCCOREprogram goals, INSET provides research opportunities to increase retention and degreecompletion. Unlike bridge programs that were researched, the INSET program involvescommunity college faculty in all aspects of program planning and implementation of theprogram. The faculty from the four community
. Jacob has focus on autonomous robotics spending time researching and competing in robotics. He plans on graduating in 2020 Jacob is currently the chair of the Autonomous Robotics Club (ARC). ARC annually compete in au- tonomous robotics competitions in the US. ARC also has focuses on educational robotics and volunteers or host events geared towards teaching robotics to grade schoolers. Please email janovosa@gmail.com to contact me.Mr. Huan Phan-Van, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville Huan Phan-Van received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, in 2013. He is currently a graduate student in Me- chanical Engineering
Paper ID #29513Enhancing teamwork skills through an engineering service learningcollaborationDr. Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University Pilar Pazos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engi- neering at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA. Her main areas of research interest are collabo- rative work-structures, virtual teams and team decision-making and performance.Mr. Francisco Cima, Old Dominion University Francisco Cima is a PhD student of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at Old Dominion University. He obtained his Masters in Business Planning and Regional
and, if feasible, to propose a type of program that will meetcurrent and future workplace needs for more qualified engineers, contribute to the overallacademic offerings of the university and the state, and attract additional qualified studentsinterested in science, technology, engineering, and math to the university.The task force established an aggressive timeline (Table 1) that took the group from concept toimplementation in little more than two years. In that time period, many external and internalsources of information were reviewed and considered in the design of the new program. Page 13.262.2 Table 1: Program Planning and
provided by National Science Grant No. 0234478, Principle Investigators: Lucy King and Tony Lin, Kettering UniversityThis paper describes the preparations and early experiences of the students. Preparations includedeveloping the projects for the teams, the integration structure, methods for monitoring theintegrated and non-integrated teams, and plans to provide outsourcing and assessment. Thesuccesses as well as what could be improved will be reviewed at the end of the project to helpmachine design, product design, and manufacturing students make the transition fromcomponent design and fabrication to concurrent design and manufacture of mechanical systems.Previous WorkIn Phase I during the 2006 winter semester, two sections of EGR 409 (Machine
Page 24.103.8tested their ability to do patent searchs and write patent claims.The IP module was followed by a four class project management module which was taught inworkshop format. The broad goal of this module was to learn the steps in planning and running aproject. A project management consultant was the guest instructor for this module. Eachworkshop had a brief lecture followed by hands-on activities by student teams. Students weretaught the essential elements of project management such as project charter, communicationplan, scope statement, and work breakdown structure. Student teams were assessed through amini-project which was given out as a homework assignment. Teams were allowed to choose aproject that they can relate to and found
Founder and Owner of Integrated Resilience, LLC, he is a former Fluor Fellow, Director of Resilience Solutions, and Secretariat of the World Economic Forum – Disaster Resource Partnership (WEF DRP). He founded and spearheaded development of Fluor’s Business Continuity and Disaster Management Services which helped Clients build resilience by mitigating risk to natural disasters. He has more than 25 years of project management experience in diverse industries, including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, oil and gas, steel mills, microelectronics, water treatment, and contingency operations. His experience in rapid deployment, planning, disaster management, and reconstruction is a culmination of his work in support of the U.S
education to enhance curricula andpedagogy. The fourth and final workshop was held at Lawrence Technological University inSouthfield, Michigan, September 28-29, 2019. This workshop differed from the first three in thatit was a stand-alone event, in contrast to the conference affiliations of the other workshops,allowing more time to consider the topics in greater depth.At the conclusion of each workshop, participants completed an online survey intended to assesstheir expectations of, and experiences in, the workshop, as well as their plans for implementingMRE in their respective institutions. The final workshop produced another outcome – a set of draftinventories and commitments by the working groups to refine and publish their findings [10-14].4
Engineering; Requirements Development; Functional Analysis; System Design; Integration, Verification and Validation; Trade Studies and Metrics; Modeling and Simulation; Risk Management; and Technical Planning and Management.The course outcomes were specified as follows. At the completion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Explain what a system is, what systems engineering (SE) is and what is meant by the SE development process. 2. Explain the classical SE Vee diagram, and be able to elaborate on different phases of system development activities along different points of the diagram. 3. Explain what a good requirement is and provide examples of good requirements. 4. Explain what is meant by validation and verification
Page 26.1013.4campus through establishing better relationships with various departments, including Pediatrics,Family Medicine, and Oncology/Hematology; (2) deepening the user-centered research approachby adding a design research and strategy professor to the faculty; (3) including participation ofgraphic design students, who bring new competencies and different thinking to the process; (4)including a variety of stakeholders who provide clinical feedback throughout the process (theemphasis in the first year was on receiving feedback from only patients). In the current offeringof IMPD (2014-15), the teams also include medical students to strengthen the clinical inputthroughout the design process.III. COURSE DESIGNA. Planning During the Summer