Paper ID #18886Formalizing Experiential Learning Requirements in an Existing Interdisci-plinary Engineering CurriculumDr. Harold R. Underwood, Messiah College Dr. Underwood received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (UIUC) in 1989, and has been a faculty member of the engineering Department at Messiah College since 1992. Besides teaching Circuits, Electromagnetics, and Communications Systems, he su- pervises engineering students in the Communications Technology Group on credited work in the Inte- grated Projects Curriculum (IPC) of the Engineering Department, and those who
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
,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
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
Institute of Technology. At Rose-Hulman, he co-created the Integrated, First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineer- ing and Mathematics, which was recognized in 1997 with a Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence. He served as Project Director a National 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 devel- opment, curricular change processes, curriculum redesign, and assessment. He has served as a program co-chair for three Frontiers in Education Conferences and the general chair for the 2009 conference. Prof
Dr. Vinod K. Lohani is a Professor of Engineering Education and also serves as the faculty director of education and global initiatives at an interdisciplinary research institute called the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) at Virginia Tech. He is founding director of an interdisciplinary lab called Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System (LEWAS) at VT. He received a Ph.D. in civil engineering from VT. His research interests are in the areas of computer-supported research and learning systems, hydrology, engineering education, and international collaboration. He has led several interdisciplinary research and curriculum reform projects, funded by the National Science Foundation
hardware (white)”.ProgrammingJust as in the high level design, the team decomposed each of the programming tasks into smallermodules that could be integrated seamlessly as functions. As each module was completed, it wasassimilated into the larger project program. The module is then called as a function anytime thattask was needed. Some examples of the smaller coding modules are below.Ultrasound CodeThis function sends a short pulse then listens for the echo. By evaluating the time it takes for thisecho to return the distance to an obstacle can be determined. The program calls this functionanytime the robot is moving forward to ensure avoidance of all obstacles. Figure 9. Ultrasonic programWi-Fi RSSI Value CodeThis
Paper ID #18833Community Health Innovation through an Interprofessional CourseDr. Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University Dr. Jacquelyn K. Nagel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison Uni- versity. She has eight years of diversified engineering design experience, both in academia and industry, and has experienced engineering design in a range of contexts, including product design, bio-inspired de- sign, electrical and control system design, manufacturing system design, and design for the factory floor. Dr. Nagel earned her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Oregon State
Paper ID #20602The CASCADE Experience: An Innovative Cascaded Peer-Mentoring ProjectDr. Nael Barakat P.E., Texas A&M University, Kingsville Dr. Nael Barakat is a professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean for Research and Grad- uate Studies at Texas A&M University - Kingsville. He is a registered professional engineer in Ontario, Canada, and a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). His areas of interest include Controls, Robotics, Automation, Systems dynamics and Integration, Mechatronics and Energy Harvesting, as well as Engineering Ethics, professionalism, and Education. Dr
integration of the pole structure to the base. The plane had been securely attached to a mounting plate, and the task, for UT Tylerstudents, was to design a safe support structure that would attach to the mounting plate. Tosimulate this ideal attachment of the mounting plate a “tie” command was used. This ideal tiefurther focused the study of the FE analysis on the pole structure itself. Furthermore, since it wasestablished that the pole structure would be supported by a sturdy concrete foundation, thedecision was made to incarcerate the bottom of the pole. For an aesthetically pleasing look, theplane would be supported at a 15-degree tilt. This tilt will cause a change in center of gravity,thereby affecting the force distribution onto the
Paper ID #20595Measuring the success of an educational program through box-and-arrowdiagram: A case study of the Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment Inter-disciplinary Instructional InstituteDr. Umesh Adhikari, Michigan State University Dr. Adhikari is Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engi- neering at Michigan State University.Dr. Jade Mitchell, Michigan Sate University, Dept. of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Dr. Jade Mitchell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering at Michigan State University. She received her B.S
/universities have introduction to engineering for freshmen. However,most are offered in each department to fulfill the need for the department.Laboratory exercises play an important role in engineering education1-3. They provide theopportunity for students to work on modern machines, tools used in industry. There are differentways to deliver labs: individual lab exercises and project based lab exercises.Project-based learning is a dynamic method to inspire students to obtain a deeper understandingof the subjects, apply and integrate knowledge they are studying. Normally a project is acomplex task, which involves design thinking, decision making, problem solving, etc.2Laboratory work helps students learn actively, hence it has been widely applied to
., S.A. Brownell, and A.T. Dale, The wicked problems in sustainable engineering (WPSE) initiative: Pilot results of a cross-institutional project-based course offering in American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. 2014: Indianapolis, IN.12. Matthews, D.H., Far-post assessment of a sustainability engineering high school outreach program, in American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. 2011: Vancouver, BC.13. Sattler, M.L., V.C.P. Chen, B.H. Dennis, S.P. Mattingly, K. Rogers, Y. Pearson Weatherton, M. Rani, and K. Kositkanawuth, Integrating sustainability across the curriculum: Engineering sustainable engineers, in American Society for
collaboration framework and use it to evaluate studentprogress throughout the semester. With strategic selection of assignments, we could build someof the data generation into course assignments. This information could be coupled with pre andpost interviews of students regarding their attitudes towards empathy across disciplines. Whileboth more challenging and susceptible to our own biases, such an approach could provide morespecific data about the impact of our course.Why not just do service learning?Service learning classes are an integral part of the way in which engineering is taught at USD.Our new general engineering department has been founded on the premise that engineers needmultiple opportunities to understand the social context of their work
‘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
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
: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
Paper ID #19929Improving Non-Electrical Engineering Student Engagement and Learning inIntroductory Electronics Course through New TechnologiesDr. Kenan Baltaci, University of Wisconsin, Stout Kenan Baltaci is an Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Stout, in the Electrical Engineering Technology Department. He received B.S. in electrical engineering degree from Istanbul Technical Uni- versity in Turkey. Following, a master’s degree and doctoral degree in industrial technology was granted from University of Northern Iowa.Dr. Andy S. Peng, University of Wisconsin, Stout Andy S. Peng is an assistant professor with
mainly focused on the reform strategies of engineering① The Engineers’ Council for Professional Development (ECPD) was founded in 1932 as an engineeringprofessional body dedicated to the education, accreditation, regulation and professional development ofengineering professionals and students in the United States. In 1980, ECPD was renamed the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET) to more accurately describe its emphasis on accreditation.http://www.abet.org/about-abet/history/teaching and curriculum from the perspective of curriculum design, students appraisal andclassroom teaching evaluation under ABET accreditation, and impact of ABET upon thedevelopment of engineering disciplines and programs. A few monographs were also
simply manner and then revisited at a higher level ofsophistication in subsequent courses, as the students’ mathematical prowess develops. Figure 1. “Spiral” curriculum The administration of the courses in the spiral curriculum is awkward within a standarddiscipline-based department structure and has been handled in an ad hoc manner for many years.Also, as further curricular innovations were developed and more and more faculty becameinvolved in engineering education research, a need for leadership and coordination of activitiesemerged. In order to maintain the integrity of the curriculum it is essential that its managementbe separated from specific degree programs and yet faculty from those degree programs
.1Even as late as the 1960s EE students were required to take ME courses in statics, dynamics,nature and properties of materials, and thermodynamics.2 Although the 1960s was the incipientage of solid-state electronics, EE students also took compulsory courses in electric machineryand power transmission.The rapid development of digital logic integrated circuits and the microprocessor in the 1970sshifted the extent of the EE curriculum away from these courses. Accelerating the shift were newtopics such as microelectronics, probability and statistics, digital signal and image processing,and digital communications and control. The result is that most, if not all, EE curricula today donot feature any substantive required courses in ME.3The Mechanical
is also re- sponsible for developing a process and assessing graduate attributes at the department to target areas for improvement in the curriculum. This resulted in several publications in this educational research areas. Dr. Al-Hammoud won a couple of teaching awards in 2014 and 2016 from University of Waterloo. Her students regard her as an innovative teacher who introduced new ideas to the classroom. Such ideas in- clude using ”props” to increase students’ understanding of the materials, as well as using new technology such as i-clickers and IF-AT cards. Dr. Al-Hammoud also organized a bridge-building contest in one of her courses where she worked with other professors in the department to integrate the
needs, aging infrastructure, the impacts ofclimate change, and managing emerging technologies for human health, manufacturing andmaintaining environmental integrity, the study of engineering disasters and the nature of risk incomplex systems (and their broader societal and ethical context) will be an educationalnecessity.1For engineering, science and technology students in particular, the study of engineering disastersin their broadest context is critical. On one level, it is obviously necessary to learn from ourmistakes. But just as, if not more importantly, it is the broader context of failure – failureunderstood through the lens of the “open system” – which must be understood, especially in anincreasing complex engineered world. A key need
Paper ID #20000The Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment Interdisciplinary InstructionalInstitute (QMRAIII) – A Platform for Cross Disciplinary Training of Engi-neers with Social and Biological Scientists to Address Public Health IssuesDr. Jade Mitchell, Michigan Sate University, Dept. of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Dr. Jade Mitchell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering at Michigan State University. She received her B.S. from the University of Pittsburgh in Civil and Envi- ronmental Engineering, M.S. in Civil Engineering and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from
practices(Brophy et al., 2008; NRC, 2012; NGSS Lead States, 2013; Roth, 1996).Methods Context and Participants. This study took place at a medium-sized land grant universityin the eastern United States. Students from two separate undergraduate programs, MechanicalEngineering (ENG) and Early Childhood Education (ECE) participated in the study. Participantswere enrolled in one of three courses; namely, ENG students were enrolled in a 200-level designcourse that covered 3D drafting and modeling, while ECE students were enrolled in either a 400-level course on inclusive curriculum and assessment for infants and toddlers, or a 400-levelcourse on integrated early childhood teaching that emphasized science curriculum, instructionand assessment for
://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc). development initiative: Relevance, content, and results—Part I.” IEEE Transactions on Education, 53.2, pp. 194–201, 2010.4. Ruzzenente, Marco, et al. “A review of robotics kits for tertiary education.” Proceedings of the International Workshop Teaching Robotics Teaching with Robotics: Integrating Robotics in School Curriculum, 2012.5. Grandgenett, Neal, et al. “Robotics and Problem-Based Learning in STEM Formal Educational Environments.” Robots in K-12 Education: A New Technology for Learning: A New Technology for Learning, 94, 2012.6. George, Sébastien, and Pascal Leroux. “Project-based learning as a basis for a CSCL environment: An example in educational robotics.” First European Conference on
work environment, ultimately leading tocost and time savings.Over the last decade, the construction industry has seen an increased use of alternative PDMsthat integrate the roles of both designer and contractors into a single entity, and offer morecollaboration opportunities among the various disciplines. One of these growing alternative PDMis Design Build (DB). DB has experienced increasing popularity in the construction industryultimately for its recognized benefits, including overall reduction of project cost and completiontime, compared to traditional Design Bid Build (DBB) PDM. A quick comparison of the majordifferences between the two PDMs shows that in a traditional DBB, the owner hires an engineerto design the project and develops the
Paper ID #17831Initial Survey of Engineering Technology Capstone Courses and TeamworkBuilding Using CATMEDr. Anne M. Lucietto, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dr. Lucietto has focused her research in engineering technology education and the understanding of engineering technology students. She teaches in an active learning style which engages and develops practical skills in the students. Currently she is exploring the performance and attributes of engineering technology students and using that knowledge to engage them in their studies.Dr. Andrew Simon Scott, Western Carolina University I am an
workingprofessionals who represent all the disciplines represented in our endeavor. This was our firsttime offering a course with this combination of disciplines (and hence has no feedback from agroup of external stakeholders). As an update, we have, since the submission of the abstract,offered this course twice. However, it was offered to only engineering students, and with aplatform-independent app development methodology. Feedback from all students convinced usto seek a simpler and better integrated app development process. We now feel comfortable inoffering full-fledged transdisciplinary courses in spring 2018, at which time formativeevaluation will be undertaken (see the discussion section). We document our efforts at formativeevaluation in another paper