and devise a plan of action. This isusually a lacking starting point without which nothing will change. In the following, twoexamples from two different places in the world show how peace engineering can play apositive role in eliminating the sources of conflict and in implementing a plan to dealwith the root causes that created the conflict in the first place.2.1. The War in SyriaTrying to dissect the raging war in Syria in a few lines of text will be extremely naïve.This war encompasses an enormous entanglement of political, economic, religious,cultural, historical, and societal aspects [7]. In addition, regional and global powers thathave something to gain or lose in this part of the world became deeply involved, whichadded fuel to the
presenting the findings in both oral and written form. The project wasinstrumental in teaching the value and importance of the following: (1) close interaction andpersonal relationships between students and instructor; (2) collaborative efforts and teamworkamong the students themselves; (3) organization and discipline; (4) time management andcommunication skills; (5) openness to research ideas and concepts; and (6) appreciation of theschool’s diverse curriculum. Finally, the overall goal was to encourage and teach the studentshow to think, plan, analyze, create, revise or improve what they create, and above all askquestions.IntroductionThis eight-week summer research project, also referred to as the Maybeck Chapel project, wasundertaken for the
Lab II course and the MICA FYE courseswere taught are slightly less than two (2) miles apart.Project PlanningWe began planning the design project in December of 2016. Collaborations between JHU andMICA were not uncommon, and the two institutions continue to work together on variousendeavors (e.g. the JHU-MICA Film Centre). However, this was the first time we, the facultyinvolved in the design project, worked together.We had several reasons for wanting to orchestrate a collaborative design project for our students.The opportunity for our students to work with others from outside of their discipline and culturewas a huge motivator, and we were confident the experience would improve their teamwork,communication, and social/empathic skills. Since
Individual and Team Performance Lab at Universityof Calgary. This assessment tool contains 81 Likert Scale questions about Team Dynamicscovering the following areas: strategy formulation & planning; role clarity; cooperative conflictmanagement; team monitoring & backup; goal progression; coordination; contribution equity;healthy, fact-driven conflict; lack of personal conflict; trust; constructive controversy;exploitative learning; and exploratory learning. The experimental group consisted of two sectionsof the cohered courses whereas the control group involved students enrolled in four sections ofthe traditional Introduction to Engineering course during the same semester. This assessment toolwas given to both groups three times during the
accessible acrossour state and will serve as a first step toward broader dissemination of IoT-related topics inengineering curricula. This paper will present the planning, organization, and structure of theworkshop, including a report of its lessons learned, initial findings and results, with the purposeof enabling other institutions to learn from our experience.IntroductionThe ongoing 4th industrial revolution, driven by the Internet of Things, is having profoundimpacts on Wisconsin industries of all kinds, especially manufacturers. Further, the increasingability to collect and analyze large amounts of data has impacts beyond manufacturing. Giventhe critical role that the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, UW-Milwaukee, UW-Stout, andUW-Madison
. 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
, understanding technical reinvent, how it is done in knowledge, inhibited by industry, sketching skills. 2 Planning, development, Values structure, Demands accountability, user, face-to-face, formal, interactive team solution motivated, informal, active, member, versatile stronger link between participate, listening, ideas, leader, lead by education and industry development. example
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
. 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
Directive introduced the obligation for nearly zero energy buildings(nZEB) and stated that “Member States shall ensure that (a) by 31 December 2020, all newbuildings are nearly zero-energy buildings; and (b) after 31 December 2018, new buildingsoccupied and owned by public authorities are nearly zero-energy buildings” [6, p. 153/21]. In theUnited States, the Department of Energy (DOE) has established guidelines for homesparticipating in the DOE Zero Energy Ready Home Program [7]. In addition, the U.S.government has mandated “that all new construction of Federal buildings greater than 5,000gross square feet that enters the planning process is designed to achieve energy net-zero and,where feasible, water or waste net-zero by fiscal year 2030.” [8, p
4 Integration of society and technology 2, 4 Overview of engineering disciplines 4 Field trips providing exposure to the impact of 2, 4 technology on society Ethical and professional behavior 4 History of technology 7 Course Topic ABET Criterion 3 Student Outcomes Engineering project planning and management 7 Computer aided design (CAD) 7 Prototyping methods
autonomous vehicles. He received a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering on dynamic modeling of flexible multi-body systems in 1999. He has graduated 8 Masters students, and has offered several senior design projects. He is currently supervising several full time and part time graduate students. He has taught several undergraduate and graduate level courses such as Dynamics, Vibrations, System Dynamics, Elasticity, Finite Element Method, Introduction to Robotics, and Advanced Robotics. He has authored a graduate level text book titles: Autonomous Robots; Modeling, Path Planning, and Control. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work-in-Progress: Layering
sent prior REU participants a survey askingthem to provide their perceptions of these workshops and what they learned from them. (SeeAppendix.) The authors designed the survey to collect data on student perceptions of both theirsummer REU experiences and post-REU activities. The authors planned to use this data toassess the efficacy of this interdisciplinary approach in terms of teaching soft skills toengineering students.Study DesignResearch Questions and ObjectivesThe question guiding the data collection for this project was RQ: To what extent do STEM students participating in integrated summer REU program believe this approach provided them with effective training in hard and soft skills essential to contributing in the
increasing after incorporating assistive technology or real-world medical applicationsinto course projects [3, 4].Research regarding the development of these real-world biomedical application courses andassistive technology often encourage multidisciplinary teams [1]. One example combinedengineering and business students who worked on entrepreneurial assistive technologyprototypes and a business plan [5]. These projects were also used to introduce and involvestudents in technology transfer opportunities [5, 6]. Another course combined biomechanicalengineering and occupational therapy students, with faculty from both disciplines teaching thestudents and combined design teams. Feedback on the interdisciplinary teaching style waspositive, though there
of resourceful problem-solvingwould have been less likely in a classroom or simulated setting.While modeling and simulation are both critical learning tools for students, they can only serve asa simplified picture of the realities faced by a real engineer [9]. Parts will break, wiring will shortout, and programs will encounter unexpected errors; the ability to overcome these challenges isfundamental to a successful career in engineering.A survey was conducted to see how this multidisciplinary project has helped students in “an abilityto function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create acollaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives” (newABET Criteria 5).The School of
4th yearlearners together. Seniors have a higher level of performance expectation, including leadership ontheir project teams. In Design, student engineers learn and practice the essential elements ofengineering design: scoping, modeling, experimentation, analysis, use of modern tools,multi-disciplinary systems view, creativity, safety, business plans, andglobal/societal/environmental impacts.The project problems are sourced from industry clients or proposed by student engineers. Studentteams of 3 -5 members each write a Team Contract, occupy Project Rooms, and work togetherapproximately 15 hours per week to complete the project each semester. They select roles such asProject Manager, Client Communications, Documentation Manager, and Research
of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Know Your Role! Designing Faculty and External Stakeholder Roles in a Multidisciplinary Capstone CourseAbstractThis paper describes our development of novel faculty roles and our method for the planning andexecution of projects in our year-long, multidisciplinary capstone experience. Well-defined rolespermit management of increasingly complex multidisciplinary and multidepartment projects,prevent duplication of effort, and help ensure an enriching and rewarding student experience.These roles have enabled us to offer an unprecedented variety and scope of projects with anaverage of
teams that exist inworkplaces within the United States and abroad. As such, the purpose of this paper is to describethe process of creating and subsequent plans for implementation of an interdisciplinary capstonecourse at a large research-intensive institution in the Southeast US. The challenges associatedwith developing a course that meets the need of each disciplinary capstone experience and spansthe boundary of different approaches to pedagogy, knowledge structure and learning will beexplored as well.Background and ObjectivesOne of the most common complaints among recruiters of engineering graduates is a failure ofuniversities to properly prepare their students to collaborate within a diverse workplaceenvironment [1], [2]. Students typically
bydesigning smart systems and processes that will improve human welfare. One’s ability tomeaningfully contribute to this field requires her/him to acquire an interdisciplinary knowledgeof mechanical, electrical, computer, software, and systems engineering to oversee the entiredesign and development process of emerging MRE systems. There have been many educationalefforts around MRE, including courses, minors, and degree programs, but they have not beenwell integrated or widely adopted. Now is the time for MRE to coalesce as a distinct andidentifiable engineering discipline. To this end, and with support from the National ScienceFoundation, the authors have planned three workshops, the first of which has concluded, on thefuture of MRE education at the
to know and be able to do by the time of graduation.”One of the Student Outcomes for the 2019-2020 cycle is “(5) an ability to function effectively ona team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusiveenvironment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives ” [7]. These strategic documentsguide all engineering programs and are more than aspirational. They are meant to affect change,so implementing action to produce students with habitually effective leadership skills starts withthe faculty.BackgroundToday's students are usually very comfortable with technology, have shorter attention spans, alower threshold for boredom, resist memorization and homework and favor action to observation[8]. Learning
owncommunity that we could all wrap our heads around to solve.” A variety of projects involvingrecycling and sustainability were mentioned. They wanted “a bigger scale community projectthat’s going to have a lasting impact.” From this conversation it appears that, while they enjoythe “making” process, it is not just tinkering, but engineering design for social good that excitesthis group of students.How would you describe your experience of working in the makerspace?While the interview protocol included a question about the makerspace, students’ references towanting more “making” in the course prompted raising the question earlier in the discussion thaninitially planned. Student 1: We had an intro and nothing else. [Student 2: Yea.] However, I’m
previous student team members were analyzed to determine the extent to whichmultidisciplinary composition of the student teams impacted student perceptions of projectsuccess, skills acquired, and overall team environment.To complement the student perspectives, faculty perspectives regarding supportingmultidisciplinary teams in the EPICS program were also collected through a roundtablediscussion. Results of a roundtable and SWOT (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats)analysis are included and discussed. This paper reports the results of the student-focused andfaculty-focused analysis of multidisciplinary EPICS teams and plans for further work.1. IntroductionThe Engineering Projects in Community Service Program was started at Purdue University
Mehwish Butt, University of Alberta Mehwish Butt, BSc., is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta. Her research area lies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Design Processes, Product Development and Evolution, Design interface across disciplines, and identifying the commonalities of design concepts across disciplines.Dr. Jason P. Carey, University of Alberta Jason P. Carey, PhD., PEng., is a Professor and Associate Dean of Programming and Planning, in the Faculty of Engineering, at the University of Alberta. He is a collaborator of the Transdisciplinary Design Education for Engineering Undergraduates research project. Dr. Carey research interests are in
. Brogno, G. Hendrix, and N. MacDougall, “Layingthe Foundation for Transdisciplinary Faculty Collaborations: Actions for a Sustainable Future,”Sustainability, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 2893–2928, 2014.[8] K. A. Holley, “Interdisciplinary Strategies as Transformative Change in Higher Education,”Innovative Higher Education, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 331–344, 2009.[9] T. Stone, K. Bollard, and J. M. Harbor, “Launching Interdisciplinary Programs as CollegeSignature Areas: An Example,” Innovative Higher Education, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 321–329, 2009.[10] L. L. Bucciarelli and D. E. Drew, “Liberal Studies in Engineering – a Design Plan,”Engineering Studies, vol. 7, no. 2–3, pp. 103–122, 2015.[11] J. T. Klein, Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, and Practice. Wayne
second is a final oral presentation describing every step of eachproject developed, in presence of the parents, family, and friends. Examples of project (designsfrom the summer camp) are shown in the figures 1 to 8 (Appendix).Lessons learned from summer camp:The activities of the camp and the degree of their success will be shared with other CAM membersto determine the possibility that some of the activities would be implemented on other campuses.Knowing that other campuses in CAM plan to have similar summer camps, we also plan to learnfrom the success of activities from these camps. 1) During the summer, twelve high school students and a teacher participated in the summer camp. A number of lessons were learned from that program among
collaborative and inclusive environment, establishgoals, plan tasks, and meet objectives, and Outcome 7 - an ability to acquire and apply newknowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies. This paper discusses the issues,benefits, and effective approaches in designing and executing multidisciplinary undergraduateresearch projects.The remainder of this paper is organized as follows: Section 2 introduces Marine Corps weaponoperation and maintenance. Section 3 describes the design and implementation of the ARproject for M16A4. Section 4 presents current results. Section 5 discusses future work andchallenges.2. Marine Corps Weapon Operation and MaintenanceOne important use of augmented reality is equipment operation and maintenance [1, 2
they can do to succeed in their courses. This isshown in both a heavily analytical course (Dynamics) and a more qualitative course (SCADA). Even more interesting is that none of the students in the SCADA class studied with otherstudents. The conclusion we come to here, is that this may have been related to the type of course(analytical vs. qualitative) selected to include in this analysis, but we recognize that there areseveral other factors that could influence this behavior. In the future we plan to revisit questionsin the Formative and Summative surveys to help students and instructors to better understandcriteria that leads to satisfactory performance.6 References[1] M. Kaplan, N. Silver, D. LaVaque-Manty, and D. Meizlish, Using
description of this case, documentation, archival records, interviews,direct observations, surveys, and both physical and digital artifacts were be used for datacollection and analysis. Data collection included direct observations of participants using fieldnotes, photography, and audio/video recordings. Both physical and digital artifacts wherecollected throughout the study including planning documents, the final “demo reel” of the movieeffect, blogs, Slack conversations, Trello project boards, and student-generated photos/videosthat were shared in a course repository.AnalysisAnalysis for this work-in-progress paper focuses on findings from exit interviews and end-of-course survey. All interviews were transcribed and analyzed in NVivo 12 qualitative
students (Students 4-6) were somewhat vague in specifyingtheir ideal job position. Example student responses are as follows: Student 1 (Junior, Male): I'm very interested in joining a program such as FEMA or NIMS and working with a group of people who are familiar with disaster and figuring out an effective plan to mitigate disaster, to respond to the disaster, to act as disaster relief. Student 2 (Sophomore, Male): I would like to have a paid internship related to cybersecurity, in the coming summer to allow myself to get actual real world experience of what a job I might have later on would look like. Student 3 (Senior, Female): Upon graduation, I hope to apply for a few internships, to gain a
Conference & Exposition.5. Batstone, D. J. (2013). Teaching uncertainty propagation as a core component in process engineering statistics. Education for Chemical Engineers, 8, 132-139.6. Figliola, R. S., & Beasley, D. (2015). Theory and design for mechanical measurements. John Wiley & Sons.7. Kline, S. J. (1953). Describing uncertainty in single sample experiments. Mech. Engineering, 75, 3-8.8. Bevington, P. R., & Robinson, D. K. (1969). Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences., McGraw-Hill, New York.9. Moffat, R. J. (1985). Using uncertainty analysis in the planning of an experiment. Journal of Fluids Engineering, 107(2), 173-178.10. Al-Jobeh, Z., & Schueler, J. E., & Seeley, G. R. (1996