of practicum courses in collaboration with the industry in China. He has been awarded Shanghai 1000-Telent Distinguished Professor status (2017). The CFE has launched a major initiative called the Technology Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development (TESD), the defining philosophy for several entrepreneurship projects for social development in the Belt and Road region. He has been the founder Director (2013-2016) of the WHO Collaborating Centre on eHealth at the University of New South Wales (UNSW)-Australia where he is an Honorary Professor in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine (SPHCM). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 From
, Page 26.799.2a http://www.sc.edu/fye/center/history.html b http://www.fgcu.edu/qep/ such that a three-credit class would meet for four hours over two days, allowing for uniqueopportunities in curriculum development. Studio classrooms based on the SCALE-UP (StudentCentered Active Learning Environment for Undergraduate Programs) model5 were designed inHolmes Hall to accommodate this model of engineering education. In Fall 2011, the U.A.Whitaker School of Engineering became the U.A. Whitaker College of Engineering (WCE), andtoday the college has a student enrollment of almost 900, with over 1000 students projected bythis fall. II. The Introductory Engineering Course – Fall 2005 – Spring 2014 “Introduction to the Engineering
Paper ID #21172Innovation in the Course Disaster Risk Management to Improve the Univer-sity Student’s Competence for Multidisciplinary and Participatory WorkDr. Ing. Sandra Cecilia Santa Cruz, PUCP Professor at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, PUCP, and Director of the Master’s Degree Program in Civil Engineering, with experience in the coordination and execution of multidisciplinary projects in the area of natural disaster risk, seismic hazard and structural design. Experience in consulting for international organizations and Peruvian Government. AREAS OF INTEREST Disaster Risk Managment, Risk assessment
experienced computer science lecturer, software engineer, mobile applications developer and re- searcher with a flair for creativity and visual design. At Western Carolina University I have taught a diverse range of topics under the umbrella of computer science and supervised undergraduate research projects (capstone). My current research interests revolve around computer science education, best prac- tices in team formation and assessment of work, the visualization of programming concepts, and mobile applications. I have been programming in the OO and imperative paradigms for over 15 years. Since 2006 I have been lecturing and tutoring computing subjects. In addition to my teaching record, I have also gained significant
has been designed to train theEngineer of 2020 [1,2]. Offering a single Bachelor of Science degree in engineering without discipline-specific majors or concentrations, the goal is to train and produce engineering versatilists, a termpopularized by Friedman [3], who can work in cross-disciplinary environments. At the heart of ourprogram is the six-course engineering design sequence that provides instruction on design theory(thinking, process, methods, tools, etc.), sustainability, ethics, team management, and technicalcommunication (both oral and written), while incorporating elements of engineering science andanalysis. Students apply design instruction in the context of two projects during the six-coursesequence—a cornerstone project spanning
sustainabledevelopment concepts, exposed the students to the challenges of sustainable development froman engineering design perspective. The course objectives were that students would: 1. Be able to define sustainability 2. Identify sustainability issues in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere 3. Apply the engineering design process to sustainable projects 4. Summarize methods to measure sustainability 5. Analyze examples of sustainable and non-sustainable programs.Participants were also exposed to field experiences to observe issues in sustainability.Assessment of the course objectives illustrates the need for cooperation among engineering andother disciplines, such as economics and politics, in the design process for a sustainable
from being a demo technology to being a hands on productiondevice. These days, engineering students can successfully build physical models of their designswith low-cost 3D printers. In this paper, the applicability of 3D rapid prototyping in a virtualmachine design course is investigated, and impact of this technology on student learning is alsoreported.The design projects were assigned to the selectively random group of students. Mechanicaldevices of different energy generation technologies involving both stationary and dynamic partswere designed and prototyped for a comparative study. Each team selected one of the followingenergy generation technologies: hydro, wind, solar, or tidal. Students identified the componentsof their design and
Page 15.843.2learning some of the concepts of entrepreneurship. The students in our engineering classes areeager to learn about entrepreneurial opportunities and ideas. A recent survey 1 of undergraduateengineering students at five different schools showed that most (82%) were interested inpursuing some form of entrepreneurship after graduation. Students want to know how to taketheir ideas and get them into the marketplace. They want to use their engineering skills to helpreal people with real problems (and they see entrepreneurship as a means to that end). Theyunderstand that competing for engineering projects in a global context requires not only strongtechnical knowledge, but also business acumen. This strong interest translates into
aconstruction engineering undergraduate course, twelve (23%) offer a separate constructionmanagement program in the college of engineering. Figure 2: Location and number of universitiesFigure 3 identifies the course names used by the civil engineering programs. It can be seen that“Construction Engineering,” “Construction Management” and their variations, such as“Introduction to Construction Management,” “Construction Engineering and Management,”“Construction Project Management,” are widely used. The construction engineering courses forcivil engineering students have mostly three credit hours and only approximately 6% of thecourses have two or four credit hours. The requirements for the course are junior/senior standingor the instructor’s permission
, experiment, and analyze complex computer simulation models. Dr. Jimenez is member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). Page 14.1195.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Undergraduate Research Project: Development of a Micro/Nano Assembly Workcell Via Micro Visual Sensing Abstract The first year of the NSF REU program titled “Micro/nano Assembly Workcell via MicroVisual Sensing” provided a positive learning and research opportunity for 10 junior-level studentsin the fields of
Paper ID #11268Design of an Autonomous Pace Car for Athletic Training: a MultidisciplinaryUndergraduate Research ExperienceMr. Martin Fevre, Elizabethtown College Martin Fevre is an undergraduate student currently pursuing his B.S. in Engineering with a concentration in Mechanical Engineering at Elizabethtown College. During his first three years at Elizabethtown Col- lege, he has found that he is adept at building analytical models with software such as MATLAB, like he did in his Numerical Methods course. Beside his undergraduate research, Martin started a group project featuring a quadrotor helicopter that aims to map
multi-disciplinary knowledge base in their future career as an engineer. This paper proposes a solution to this problem through the use of the maker spaceconcept in a freshman design course. The course in question is currently being revamped and ismaking use of Project Based Learning. However, addition change is being considered to embracethe maker approach, encourages people to understand how things work, to experiment, inventand redesign things through multiple iterations, to democratize and understand processes ofengineering, science, and innovation, and to commercialize new products by developing andtesting prototypes quickly and in a cost-effective manner. Making frequently takes place in socialcontexts, often called Maker spaces
to motivate students throughout the engineering science classes. Third year courses. Use exercises and projects in which students apply engineering knowledge to topics in sustainability. Fourth year courses. Ensure students’ knowledge of sustainability in the senior seminar and require that students consider sustainability in senior design projects.In each year we continue the previous strategies and add more, so that by the senior year, thestudents find sustainability a natural part of engineering and a natural view of the world. Explicitinstruction on sustainability is done as “bookends” with an introduction to the topic in the first
Nanotechnology ProgramsAbstractA new Bachelor of Science Nanotechnology track within the School of Engineering andTechnology at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) is being developedunder NSF NUE program*. This paper covers the educational elements from the first phase ofthe project. A sequence of two courses was offered in the fall and spring semesters within boththe School of Engineering & Technology and the School of Sciences. Students from electricalengineering, computer engineering, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, physics,and chemistry disciplines, were enrolled in these courses. A total of five faculty members fromboth engineering and sciences collaborated in developing and teaching these two
and applied mechanics from the University of South Carolina and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, respectively. His areas of research interest include engineering mechanics applications.Jon-Michael Hardin, Virginia Military Institute Page 22.73.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 A Multidisciplinary Investigation into Various Possible Geometries Of Imperial Roman Artillery: A Case StudyIntroductionMultidisciplinary projects provide unique opportunities to foster critical thinking inundergraduate engineering students and to help students develop an
Lecturer and is the recipient of the Fulton Outstanding Lecturer Award. She focuses on designing the curriculum and teaching in the freshman engineering pro- gram. She is also involved in the NAE Grand Challenges Scholars Program, the ASU ProMod project, the Engineering Projects in Community Service program, the Engineering Futures program, the Global Freshman Academy/Earned Admission Program, and the ASU Kern Project. Dr. Zhu also designs and teaches courses in mechanical engineering at ASU, including Statics, Mechanics of Materials, Mechan- ical Design, Mechanism Analysis and Design, Finite Element Analysis, etc. She was a part of the team that designed a largely team and activity based online Introduction to
Paper ID #13217SUSTAIN SLO: Reenergizing LearningDr. Lizabeth T Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University Lizabeth is a professor at Cal Poly, SLO in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. She has been teaching for 22 years and has continued to develop innovative pedagogy such as project based, flipped classroom and competency grading. Through the SUSTAIN SLO learning initiative she and her colleagues have been active researching in transformation in higher education.Kylie Hensley, SUSTAIN SLO Kylie graduated from Cal Poly SLO with a B.S. Environmental Engineering in 2012 and now works with SUSTAIN SLO, a
Engineering in 1980 and the Sc.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1987 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Gennert is interested in Computer Vision, Image Processing, Scientific Databases, and Programming Languages, with ongoing projects in biomedical image processing, robotics, and stereo and motion vision. He is author or co-author of over 90 papers. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, NDIA Robotics Division, and the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council Robotics Cluster.William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic InstituteMichael Demetriou, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Page 15.85.1© American
design process. It is taught in a studio-setting and serves as aprerequisite for advanced courses in either major. The material is motivated by the classicproblem of controlling an inverted pendulum on a translating cart. We have developed an easy-to-implement but robust, affordable system based on a commercial Arduino-like platform thatallows students to experiment and quickly iterate on proposed control algorithms. Ourimplementation of the project requires students to perform cycles of symbolic and numericalmathematical analysis followed by experimentation and iteration. Student evaluation dataprovides evidence of the efficacy and advantages of concept integration which helps build ashared language applicable to future academic projects and
Page 26.70.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 A Multidisciplinary Re-evaluation of the Fabrication and Operation of the 4th Century CE Roman Artillery Engine known as the Onager.IntroductionMultidisciplinary projects provide unique opportunities to foster critical thinking inundergraduate engineering students and to allow them the opportunity to determine and useapplicable engineering analysis methods. In addition, multidisciplinary projects which combineengineering analysis and a study of technological history are an interesting way to increasestudent interest in the engineering design process.To motivate and reinforce the targeted engineering
seminar.Students awarded SEECS scholarships are required to attend a seminar where specificdevelopment and learning outcomes are realized in a team-based, project-based approach. Thechallenging and engaging aspect of the SEECS program is a zero-credit seminar. The SEECSseminar encompasses three components: engineering design, professional development, andpersonal development. Through workshops, university support services, lectures, and invitedspeakers, the facets of professional and personal development are addressed. Each academiclevel, that is seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen, has different professional and personaldevelopment objectives realized each semester.While the two development facets follow more typical seminar activities, the
Paper ID #34100Authentic Engineering Design AssessmentMiss Joanna AmbrosioDr. M. David Burghardt, Hofstra University Dr. M. David Burghardt, professor of Engineering, founder and co-director of the Center for STEM Research, has been the principal or co-principle investigator on 13 NSF projects primarily dealing with engineering in STEM.Dr. Deborah Hecht, Center for Advanced Studyin Education As Director of the Center for Advanced Study in Education, at the CUNY Graduate Center I am involved in a wide range of educational evaluations of funded and local projects. I also mentor graduate students interested in careers in
AC 2007-803: MEASURING STUDENT ABILITY TO WORK ONMULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAMS: BUILDING AND TESTING A RUBRICCarolyn Plumb, Montana State University Carolyn Plumb is the Director of Educational Innovation and Strategic Projects in the College of Engineering at Montana State University. She works on various curriculum and instruction projects including instructional development for faculty and graduate students, assessment of student learning, and program evaluation. Prior to coming to MSU, Plumb was at the University of Washington, where she directed the Engineering Communication Program. While at the UW, Plumb also worked as an Instructional Development and Assessment Specialist for the School of
completion can increase the pool of qualified engineers entering the USworkforce, promote social equity, and support the US economy in a global market. The SpaceEngineering Institute (SEI) was established in 2003 at the University as a partnership with theNASA Johnson Space Center targeting underrepresented groups. The SEI focus is to provideengineering experiences, improve graduation rates, and increase the pipeline to graduate school.The SEI approach seeks to engage undergraduate engineering students in team projects that aremultidisciplinary and multi-level (freshman to seniors) with faculty, graduate students, andNASA engineers serving as mentors. Students apply to the program and are selected based ontheir engineering majors and academic
) stimulating self-learning and exploration of new hardware to foster lifelonglearning skills. The students’ lab experiences begin with structured lessons plans regarding analogand digital components and culminates with an open-ended project where students are tasked withdeveloping a robot racer to compete with other students. During the course, students beginprogramming with MATLAB to reinforce engineering programming concepts and transition tousing C programming to implement an embedded solution. A survey was provided to learn aboutthe student’s experiences and to help improve future course offerings.IntroductionAdvances in technology and the increase in affordable computational power have enabled thedevelopment of more autonomous and dynamic
Arts/Culture Business Models Capstone Project History/Language Business Systems Analysis Humanities Design Research Methods Integrated Teams Seminars/Capstone Engineering External Customers Real Deliverables First, College
simulation. After the second year of simulation, groups were asked to reflect on how thechanges they implemented affected their performance. Finally, students were asked to submit apaper on “lessons learned” from this experience. Page 22.19.2This project was unique and rewarding. It gave students a broad understanding of tradeoffs thatare made, not only by airlines, but by any organization that make decisions. The project fosteredhealthy competition between students, which in turn motivated students to investigate manydifferent strategies airlines implement when making decisions. This module was very wellreceived; consequently, co-authors Dr
that this multidisciplinary projectprovided an outlet where both engineering and fine art majors could put theory into practice in asafe environment where the outcome did not have to be perfect. Working in multidisciplinaryteams provided an opportunity for both engineers and fine art majors to gain an appreciation thatboth majors work hard but in different ways. The artists described how the experiencehumanized engineering, but gatekeeping did emerge when it came to engineers painting andmaking creative choices on the project. While the project did provide opportunities to exchangeskills and knowledge between the majors, it also lead to some resentment from the artists aboutthe abundance of resources provided to engineering majors by the
Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee in Berlin, Ger- many. A competitive stipend from the German government (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Di- enst) supported graduate coursework at The University of Cincinnati (UC), Cincinnati, USA, where Ralf Schneider was awarded a Master in Design degree in 2005. He worked as an Assoc. Director/Senior Design Researcher at the Live Well Collaborative, founded by Procter & Gamble and UC with a unique mission to foster the collaborative, interdisciplinary design process between industry leaders and academia. In this role Schneider worked with Hill-Rom and P&G on various projects. Ralf Schneider is interested in solving complex problems with interdisciplinary teams. His current re
First-year Design Offered since ~80 Utilizes CricketSat wireless sensor EE & ME Experience Spring 2004 as project platformSenior/Grad Wireless Sensor New offering ~15 Utilizes commercial wireless All Networks for Fall 2006 sensors to develop networks forEngineering custom applications & CS Junior Mechanical Revised for ~40 Integration of commercial wireless ME Engineering Lab Spring 2007 sensors for beam mechanics and III vibration monitoring Junior