Paper ID #33723Investigating Team Roles Within Long-Term Project-Based LearningExperiencesMs. Amy Dunford, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Amy K. Dunford is the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program Manager at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Amy earned a master’s degree in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from the Uni- versity of California, Irvine and a master’s in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Amy spe- cializes in project-based learning management and curriculum development, and has prior experience as a first-year engineering laboratory course developer and instructor at UC Irvine.Dr
‘practice’ through ‘doing’ both in an individual as well as in ateam format. These experiences fit well within a dictionary definition of engineers,namely, “a person who has scientific training and who designs and builds complicatedproducts, machines, systems, or structures.” (Merriam-Webster). And yet, studentoutcomes for ABET accredited engineering programs include design within social,health, and safety constraints as well as broad education incorporating global and societalcontext.While there exist a myriad of potential approaches to integrate ‘practice’ into theengineering curriculum, the examples available often in the engineering educationliterature tend to focus upon opportunities for authentic learning such as the creation ofcapstone
remotely from their garages to complete the robot integration. Through the story of theBadger project, students learned stewardship and responsibility.POST BADGER PROJECT STORY:All seniors were graduated in May 2020, and progress on the project stopped and seemed like itwould remain unfinished. However, last summer, one junior student worked as an intern tocontinue the integration supported by A&K Systems. Last December, a member of the Badgerbusiness team from the second year, who was an international exchange student fromLeTourneau University, contacted the faculty to address the interest to participate the ‘startup’contest as part of LeTourneau University’s curriculum. The student presented the pitch on thebehalf of Badger team and received
individualstudents in developing a professional identity. Professional identity development is the processof “becoming” a practitioner, including the reconciliation of professional identity with one’sother identities (such as gender and cultural identification). An effective path towardassimilating a professional identity is participation in the STEM community and in theperformance of work that is authentic to professional practice.All engineering students and many other STEM majors at Montgomery College take a freshmanlevel course called “Introduction to Engineering Design.” Like similar courses in virtually everyengineering curriculum, this course features development of fluency in engineering vocabulary,an introduction to some of the technology tools of
make current efforts and practices more visible and accessible,including by identifying accredited programs, different formats and approaches tried, and types of capstonedesign experiences. Three phases of review were conducted with emphasis on multidisciplinary programs,multidisciplinary approaches, and multidisciplinary capstone, separately. The results reveal an increasing trendin the development of multidisciplinary engineering programs, the significant role of capstone projects infacilitating multidisciplinary engineering education, including integrated and real-world trends inmultidisciplinary capstone experiences. In addition, there are gaps in the literature that required more insightsregarding non-accredited programs, student outcomes
Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST).Dr. Michael Escuti, North Carolina State University Dr Michael Escuti is Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. He earned his PhD’02 and MS’99 degrees at Brown University and BS’97 degree at Drexel University. He has taught a wide range undergraduate classes, including in cir- cuits, electromagnetics, photonics, organic electronics and nanotechnology, and since 2010 serves as Chair of the ECE Course and Curriculum Committee.Prof. Mehmet C. Ozturk, North Carolina State University Mehmet C. Ozturk received his BS degree in
Dr. Elise Barrella is an Assistant Professor and Founding Faculty Member of the Department of Engineer- ing at Wake Forest University. She is passionate about curriculum development, scholarship and student mentoring on transportation systems, sustainability, and engineering design. Dr. Barrella completed her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Georgia Tech where she conducted research in transportation and sustain- ability as part of the Infrastructure Research Group (IRG). In addition to the Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Dr. Barrella holds a Master of City and Regional Planning (Transportation) from Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University. Dr. Barrella has investigated best
sufficient foundation in three different engineering andscience disciplines. Further, attempts to do so would virtually ensure that we would not engagestudents quickly in their chosen area of robotics engineering. This paper describes the approachtaken to balance conflicting goals and show how future generations of robotics engineers mightbe educated.IntroductionThe Robotics Engineering (RBE) program at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is anattempt to integrate electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and computer scienceconcepts into a series of unified courses in robotics at the undergraduate level. Two Sophomore-level courses, RBE 2001 and RBE 2002, introduce students to many of the basic concepts ofrobotics at an introductory
Head of Robotics Program at BVB College of Engineering and Technology.Prof. Arunkumar Chandrashekarappa Giriyapur, B.V.Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering & Technology Page 23.78.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013New Approach in Mechatronics Education through Project-based Learning, an effort in International CollaborationAbstract The field of “Mechatronics” has changed from being an integrating vehicle formultiple disciplines, into a design philosophy. In the emerging scenario, mechatronics playsone of the key roles in innovative engineering
curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU.Dr. Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington Professor of Learning Sciences & Human DevelopmentDr. Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University Dr. Montfort is an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engi- neering at Oregon State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Motivating and Engaging Faculty in Cultural and Curricular Transformation of a Multidisciplinary Engineering School1. IntroductionIn an NSF-funded IUSE:RED
, published in 2016 with SAGE. She has published numerous articles in journals including Journal of Curriculum Studies, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, and Educational Philosophy and Theory.Dr. Chongzheng Na, Texas Tech University Chongzheng Na is an associate professor at Texas Tech University. He graduated from Tsinghua Uni- versity (B.E.), Pennsylvania State University (M.S.), and University of Michigan (Ph.D.). Before joining Texas Tech, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and an assistant professor at University of Notre Dame. His research and teaching interests include developing innovative water treatment technolo- gies and incorporating knowledge related to such efforts in
:23836. Accessed 3 January 2016.11 Bannerot, R, Kastor, R., and Ruchhoeft, P. "Multidisciplinary capstone design at the University ofHouston." Advances in Engineering Education 2.1 (2010): 1-33.12 The Ohio State University, “ME Senior Capstone Sequence Options,”https://mae.osu.edu/undergraduate/mechanical/capstone.13 University of Florida, “ME Curriculum,” http://www.mae.ufl.edu/PDFs/ME-Curriculum.pdf.14 University of Florida, “Integrated Product & Process Design,” http://www.ippd.ufl.edu.15 Carnegie Mellon, “Product Design Course 39-605/606,” http://www.ices.cmu.edu/product-design-course.asp.16 Widmann, J., Laiho, L., and Savage, R. "Initiating and sustaining an interdisciplinary capstone design course."Capstone Design
Assessing teaming skills and major identity through collaborative sophomore design projects across disciplinesAbstractCollaboration and student projects than span multiple departments are often seen as too difficultto pursue due to administrative, topical, or other logistics related barriers. This projectdemonstrates an approach at introducing true interdisciplinary design projects within asophomore level materials and energy balances courses in both Bioengineering and ChemicalEngineering programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Engineering curriculahave been focused on integrating design in the freshman and senior years but often fail tointegrate projects into the sophomore and junior year courses. The study
Paper ID #15132Supporting Student Attainment and Management of Competencies in a Trans-disciplinary Degree ProgramProf. Amy S. Van Epps, Purdue University, West Lafayette Amy S. Van Epps is an associate professor of Library Science and Engineering Librarian at Purdue Uni- versity. She has extensive experience providing instruction for engineering and technology students, including Purdue’s first-year engineering program. Her research interests include finding effective meth- ods for integrating information literacy knowledge into the undergraduate engineering curriculum. Prof. Van Epps has a BA in engineering science from
isequivalent to one 50 minute lecture period or a 30 minute lab) shared between all complementarystudies. Our accreditation board acknowledges the need for interpretation and judgement whiledistributing these units across the range of topics covered by this category, noting: While considerable latitude is provided in the choice of suitable content for the complementary studies component of the curriculum, some areas of study are essential in the education of an engineer. Accordingly, the curriculum must include studies in the following: a. Engineering economics b. The impact of technology on society c. Subject matter that deals with central issues, methodologies, and thought
), ranging fromStatics in Sophomore year, to Entrepreneurship and Statistics in the Junior year, and Three-Phaseand Signals and Systems for the Seniors, among others. Entrepreneurial Mindset was alsoreinforced in Design class and applied in project work.This paper describes the experiences of faculty and students in the implementation ofentrepreneurial mindset modules adopted in our program, as well as preliminary results of thisrapid deployment in an interdisciplinary engineering program. We use a case study format toreport auto-ethnographic stories from both faculty and student perspectives.Early results are promising. After two semesters of simultaneous deployment of entrepreneurialmindset across the curriculum, faculty are engaged and working
Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Boutique Engineering: Student Learning in a Multidisciplinary Engineering Concepts and Methods CourseIntroductionEGN1008C Engineering Concepts and Methods is a first year course that has been designed andteam-taught by a multidisciplinary troika of faculty (one bioengineer, an environmental engineer,and a civil engineer) in the fall semester of 2006. This paper provides an overview of the overallphilosophy, content, and evaluation of assessment results obtained in our first offering ofEGN1008C as a highly integrated and multidisciplinary “gateway” technical course to our threecurricula in bioengineering, environmental engineering, and civil engineering.OverviewThe new U.A
Paper ID #22444Work in Progress: Co-curricular and Extra-curricular Experiences of NSF-supported ScholarsProf. Huihui Wang, Jacksonville University Dr. Huihui Wang, is an assistant professor and the Chair of the Engineering Department at Jacksonville University (JU). She is an advisor of the National Society of Professional Engineering (NSPE) at JU. She is the senior member of IEEE and the Vice Chair of IEEE Jacksonville Section. She is also the member of ASEE and ASME and FES. She has served as a technical program committee member and a reviewer for international conferences, journals as well as fellowships.Dr. Lee Ann
focusing on humanitarian engineer- ing. In addition, she teaches STEP 1 and STEP 2 education courses through CU Teach Engineering, a new General Engineering Plus program specifically designed to prepare students to earn a secondary math or science teacher licensure through engineering. She manages and mentors graduate and undergraduate engineering Fellows who teach in local K-12 classrooms through the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program’s TEAMS initiative, is on the development team for the TeachEngineering digital library, and is faculty advisor for CU-Boulder’s Society of Women Engineers (SWE).Jaclyn L. Cunitz, University of Colorado Boulder Jaclyn L. Cunitz is an undergraduate student in the department of
Paper ID #26585Know Your Role! Defining Faculty and External Stakeholder Roles in a Mul-tidisciplinary Capstone CourseDr. David Paul Harvie, United States Military Academy David Harvie is an active duty Army officer and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the United States Military Academy. David has a Ph.D. in Com- puter Science from the University of Kansas, a M.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University, and a B.S. in Computer Science from the United States Military Academy.Dr. Tanya Thais Estes, United States Military Academy Tanya Estes has a Ph.D
. Studentsurveys conducted at two different institutions show why students select to become engineers andtheir preference for the different course components.Introduction “Introduction to Engineering” is a core course given to freshmen students of all engineeringdisciplines. The course aims to familiarize students with the engineering profession, the differentengineering disciplines, the design process for exploratory projects, the work in interdisciplinaryteams, the ethics and professional behavior, the lifelong learning, the written and oral presentationof technical concepts, and problem solving. As curriculum often changes, an online research wasconducted on the most current catalogs (2018-2019) of 182 higher education institutions offeringdegrees in
: A Multidisciplinary Course in Mechanical Engineering Electrical EngineeringAbstractThis paper presents pedagogy and experiences in teaching system modeling and analysis as wellas feedback control systems in the engineering curriculum. The course is a requiredmultidisciplinary course to be offered at the junior level for both electrical and mechanicalengineering students. In addition, electrical engineering (EE) students and mechanicalengineering (ME) students who pursue an electrical engineering (EE) minor are required toconcurrently complete a laboratory course. But regular ME students who do not pursue an EEminor are not required to take the laboratory course. The motivation for offering thismultidisciplinary
based on multiagent framework with applications to the power grid, and the integration of an intelligent virtual laboratory environment in curriculum. He is an associate editor of Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems: Series B, and is a member of IEEE, ASEE, and Sigma Xi.Dr. Michael Haney, University of IdahoDr. Michael John Santora, University of Idaho Dr. MIchael Santora is a Clinical Assistant Professor at University of Idaho since Fall of 2013. He has worked in industry as a R&D Controls Engineer creating OEM machinary. He specializes in controls, embedded systems and automation.Dr. Brian K. Johnson, University of Idaho, Moscow Brian K. Johnson received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering
education.12 In literature, themost popular way of integrating real-world problem solving, especially in multidisciplinaryteams, seems to be through capstone design courses. As of 2005, roughly 35% of undergraduatecapstone design projects were conducted in multidisciplinary teams of students (an increase from21% in 1994).6 Evidence has shown, both qualitatively and quantitatively, that students benefitgreatly from working in multidisciplinary settings. Survey results show that engineeringprofessionals associate interdisciplinary thinking with creativity in their peers and ratemultidisciplinary work as very important in preparation for industry.7 Similarly, students whoparticipated in a multidisciplinary capstone course identified functioning in a
integrated into the existing curricula in differentengineering departments.The committee identified the objectives of the minor program as follows: • To train undergraduate students in the fundamentals of nano-scale materials, devices, and systems for a broad variety of applications. • To create a multidisciplinary program that combines courses from a variety of engineering disciplines, and is accessible to students from all engineering backgrounds. • To encourage students and prepare them to pursue graduate degrees in nanoscience and technology. • To prepare undergraduate students for the global workforce by combining technical training with diversity awareness, engineering ethics, and an understanding of
education and practice towards accelerating theiradoption. To this end, Section 2 will provide an overview of the available open-source softwarepackages that can be used in the modeling and analysis of MRE systems. Real-time data acquisitionand control will be studied in Section 3 and hardware platforms that can be used for these purposeswill be reviewed. Finally, Section 4 provides a summary of the paper along with a roadmap forfurther integration and utilization of the open-source platforms in MRE education.2 Open-source Software Packages for Modeling and Analysis of MRE SystemsModeling refers to mathematical representation of certain characteristics of the system which areof interest for a specific application. It is widely used in the
space and budget became less available. Therefore, the“lab-on-a-chip” approach seeks to overcome these difficulties, and yet to provide students with Page 25.843.4meaningful experiential activities that support and enhance the topics lectured, that are based onemerging technologies and may be easily adapted to emulate real-industrial settings.Broader objectives in microfluidics education, of which this course is an important component,stem from a two-year awarded NSF TUES project. The primary goal is to integrate microfluidicstechnology and applications into Engineering Technology (ET) curriculum, mainly for the“Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer
AC 2011-680: PEER MENTORING, A TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM TOIMPROVE RETENTION IN THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGSummer Dann Johnson, Louisiana State University Ms Dann is the Project Manager for the College of Engineering’s STEP program. She has her Master’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering and worked for industry for 9 years prior to returning to academia.Paige Davis, Louisiana State University Paige Davis has 20 years experience as an Instructor in the College of Engineering at Louisiana State University. In addition to teaching she assists with the STEP program. She received her baccalaureate degree in Engineering Technology and her master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Louisiana State University.Ashley
investigating the use of Oral Discourse Method for con- ceptual development in engineering, the impact of a four-year hands-on design curriculum in engineering, the effects of service learning in engineering education, and informal learning in engineering.Derek T Reamon, University of Colorado, Boulder DEREK REAMON is Co-Director of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program, and a Senior In- structor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his PhD in Educational Interface Design from Stanford University and has won numerous outstanding teaching awards. Dr. Reamon’s research interests encompass the foundations of educational theory, the practical issues involved in
introduces a method of using multidisciplinary teams to enhance levels of higher-order thinking and innovative problem solving within higher education. Traditional educationmethods may sometimes hinder the curiosity and inquisitiveness that drives innovation. Forinnovation to occur current knowledge must be questioned, solutions discussed, and ideasattempted and learned from regardless of success or failure in the outcomes. Our Innovation-Based Learning (IBL) framework provides students with both the freedom and responsibility todefine their own learning within an environment that applies innovative thinking to currentchallenges. By assembling multidisciplinary teams, students are forced to rethink and reframeconcepts that are familiar or dogmatic