Engineer- ing, Florida State University. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Southern California in 1988. He has served as the department Chair from 2002 until 2011 and is currently the Director of the Aeropropulsion, Mechatronics and Energy Center established in 2012. He is the coordinator of the ME Senior Capstone Design Curriculum and the dual degree B.S.-M.S. program. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Continued Development of an Integrated Capstone Design CurriculumThe objective of this paper is to discuss the best practices for an integrated approach to teachproject management and product design and development
Paper ID #22504Developing an Integrated Curriculum-wide Teamwork Instructional Strat-egyDr. Natasha D. Mallette P.E., Oregon State University Dr. Mallette worked as a design, process and research engineer before obtaining her PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Montana State University. She has five years of professional experience and almost four years of chemical engineering instructional experience, including two years at Univer- sity of Wisconsin-Madison. Her current research focus is effective teamwork instruction in engineering curriculum. Her past research explored biofilms and fungal production of fuel
definitely a new approach resulting in a different method of recruiting faculty for mentoringthe teams.In order to “quick start” the integration of innovation into the engineering curriculum, we createdan overall strategy of starting with piloting a Freshman class, then piloting a SeniorDesign/Capstone class, then providing pathways from the Freshman class (two semester class) tothe Senior Design/Capstone class. The concept was to introduce the key elements of innovationin the first year, including results and recommendations from [6] and [8] and the experiencesfrom an existing Freshman research class, expand on key aspects from the Freshman innovationclass in existing sophomore- and junior-level major-specific classes (again using the results
courses for engineering students and leads study-abroad trips for students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Integration of Global Competencies in the Engineering CurriculumKeywords: curriculum, study abroad, globalIntroductionThe need for developing global competency in engineering students has received considerableattention over the past several years and a number of high-profile reports [1] [2] have highlightedthis need. A variety of programs have emerged to address this need ranging from namedprograms like Purdue’s Global Engineering Programs [3], college programs focused on theEngineering Grand Challenges (see for example [4]), at least one “global competence certificate”program [5
Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Redesigned Application Oriented Integral Calculus CurriculumAbstractThis paper presents the development of an application based curriculum for an integral calculuscourse, a project funded by the KEEN Foundation. Textbook examples are frequentlydisconnected from students’ immediate environment or use past data of little interest. In addition,information given on the subject is at most sketchy and the practical purpose of solving theseexamples is not clear. This lack of vivid applications in calculus courses motivated us to developcontent that can be used by instructors to enhance students’ learning experience by engagingthem directly in solving problems and applying attained skills to real life
Paper ID #22462Integrating Design Thinking into an Experiential Learning Course for Fresh-man Engineering StudentsDr. Mark J. Povinelli, Syracuse University Dr. Mark Povinelli is the Kenneth A. and Mary Ann Shaw Professor of Practice in Entrepreneurial Lead- ership in the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University where he is developing and teaching curriculum in innovation and entrepreneurship. Dr. Povinelli current research interests and curriculum development are in experiential team learning approaches to engineering education focused on design thinking
fellow of the Institute of Industrial andSystems Engineers (IISE) and is a former Chair of the IISE Council of Fellows. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Product-Based Learning: Bundling Goods and Services for An Integrated Context Rich Industrial Engineering CurriculumAbstractThis work-in-progress paper reports on the redesign of the undergraduate Industrial Engineering(IE) curriculum at The Pennsylvania State University around a set of complex products thatbundle goods and services together to facilitate an integrated product-based learning approach.Unlike the relatively disjointed silo-style approach to learning individual topics that has been thecornerstone of engineering programs
Learning Association, and the National Society for Experiential Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Using Experiential Learning in Course Curriculum: The Case of a Core Engineering Graphics CourseIntroductionIn Fall 2017, Nova Southeastern University (NSU) launched an experiential education andlearning program (ExEL) for all undergraduate students. In this paper, we describe a work-in-progress (WIP) that focuses on the establishment of this university-wide program and the re-design of an engineering graphics course that embeds experiential and active learningpedagogies. The paper is organized as follows. First, a brief overview of experiential educationand relevant theories
Paper ID #23604Breaking Down the Silos with an Integrated Laboratory ExperienceDr. Barbara E. Marino, Loyola Marymount University Dr. Barbara E. Marino is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Com- puter Science at Loyola Marymount University. She also serves as the Undergraduate Director for the Electrical Engineering Program at LMU. Her current research interests include engineering design and K-12 STEM outreach. Dr. Marino received the B.S.E.E. degree in 1989 from Marquette University and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1993 and
Education at National University of Defense Technology. Her research focuses on translation theory and practice of C-E and E-C. In this project ”Assessing the Active Learning in Engineering Education Based on BOPPPS Model”, she is mainly assigned to take responsibility to literature review. Her education includes a B.A. in English translation from Hunan Nor- mal University and a M.A. in Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.Dr. Zhao Zhao, National University of Defense Technology ZHAO Zhao is an Associate Researcher of the Center for National Security and Strategic Studies (CNSSS) at the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT). He holds a B.S.degree
Paper ID #23286Improving Students’ Writing Skills by Integrating Prototyping Activities intheir Writing CourseDr. Amy Hodges, Texas A&M University at Qatar Dr. Amy Hodges is an instructional assistant professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar, where she teaches first-year writing and technical and business writing courses. She also leads the Writing Across the Curriculum initiative and coordinates the undergraduate writing courses. Currently, she is working on a project examining writing strategies used by engineers in multinational workplaces and the impact of these findings on WAC/WID programs. Her primary
development and deployment of a new, integrative, first-yearbiomedical engineering curriculum focused on studio-based learning of engineering design.Developed by an interdisciplinary team of faculty and staff, this curriculum is team-taught(meaning, multiple faculty are in the studio at all times) by biomedical engineers, mechanicalengineers who specialize in design, a professor of English, a computer scientist, and amathematician. The foundation of the curriculum is the engineering design studio, which meetsfour hours per day, four days per week. The design studio has a different general theme for eachacademic quarter – for example, the Fall quarter theme is ‘Play for All,’ focusing on children’splay environments, toys, and games that are
summers, engaging in engineering research and writing pre-college engineering curricula. Her research interests include physics and engineering education and teacher professional development. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Integrating Authentic Engineering Design into a High School Physics Curriculum (Work in Progress)Background and ObjectivesThe Framework for K-12 Science Education calls for the integration of engineering practicesinto pre-college science classrooms [1], because “providing students a foundation in engineeringdesign allows them to better engage in and aspire to solve the major societal and
Paper ID #23365Women in Science and Engineering: A Framework for an Honors Under-graduate CurriculumDr. Angela M Kelly, Stony Brook University Angela M. Kelly is an Associate Professor of Physics and the Associate Director of the Science Education Program at Stony Brook University, New York. She attended La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, where she received her B.A. degree in chemistry, and completed her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in science education (2000 and 2006, respectively) and her Ed.M. degree in curriculum and teaching (2007) at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. She is the recipient of
-Across-the-Curriculum: Year One of Developing an Ethics Curriculum in an Undergraduate Biological Engineering ProgramAbstractThis paper reports the first two phases of an on-going, multi-year project that seeks tocreate an integrated ethics curriculum for undergraduate Biological Engineering (BE)majors at a large, public university. Our objective is to create an exemplar process thatencourages engineering faculty members to contribute to, and develop ownership of, theethics curriculum. Literature in engineering education research has called attention to faculty buy-inas one of the key indicators of successful educational innovation. Scholars of ethicseducation also note engineering faculty’s attitude
to the attendant problems andchallenges of the profession. Relevant, responsive, and adaptive curriculum development is thebest approach to achieving an integrated delivery of education.In this paper, we suggest the application of a systems approach to curriculum development,particularly where normally dichotomous disciplines are involved, such as engineering andaerospace medicine. A systems-based view of a robust curriculum permits the inclusion of all (ormost) of the facets attendant in each of the collaborating disciplines. Systems thinking is, thus,essential for integrating curriculum elements. Traditionally, a system is defined as the collectionof interrelated elements whose collective output (or result) is higher than the sum of
. This research intends to amend the currentengineering curriculum by integrating the teaching of 21st century skills into manufacturingsimulations. In doing so, soft skills are taught in a manufacturing systems course through twocustom designed workshops. We examine the relationship between improved soft skills andproblem-solving skills in student team activities.2. Description of the Manufacturing CourseThe Manufacturing Systems course discussed in this study is an undergraduate course inIndustrial Engineering at Penn State University, the Behrend College. It introduces to studentsthe modern manufacturing systems and discusses how the systems can be improved.The course is offered during the seventh semester of the program. Students learn
toleverage the framework of an existing community of practice within a lab to formalize activitiestargeted at promoting group active learning related specifically to scientific communication.Beginning in the spring of 2017, we integrated various activities aimed at helping students withscientific writing and publishing, into a research group consisting of more than 10 professors andover 30 graduate students and research staff. These activities included communal Writingsessions, Peer support writing groups, and Journal clubs among others. Even with voluntaryparticipation, many lab members participated in the activities, with large group activitiesattracting on average about 35% of the students in the lab. We also discovered that many of themwere
Austin. Dr. Al-Aubaidy is certified by the Center for Policy Dispute Resolution at The University of Texas School of Law. She was also the President of the Central Texas Section of AACE-International, 2013 – 2014. She served as an Education Board Member of AACE-International (formerly the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering) from 2012-2016. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Integrating Micro-House Design and Construction into the Construction Management and Engineering CurriculumThis paper shows how micro-house design and construction projects are integrated into thecurriculum in Norwich University’s Civil Engineering and Construction Management
, international designer, manufacturer, and distributor of durableconsumer/hard goods. The products were innovative—frequently industry leading—and wereproduced with a focus on product-safety function integrated into the engineering-design process.Consequently, the curriculum for the new course is targeted to this type of engineeringenvironment.This product-safety engineering course benefits by being within an engineering departmentoffering courses in ergonomics, human-factors, system safety, and industrial safety. Therefore,some material also important to product-safety engineering is covered in other courses.Engineering challenges during product design, development, and testing—as well as ethicaldilemmas regarding product safety that may confront a
Classroom or Active Learning: Integrating alternative teaching methods into Engineering Technology CurriculumAbstract This paper looks at the characteristics of the flipped classroom and the significance ofhow this may or may not change the traditional engineering technology approach to teaching.The lessons learned from flipping an engineering technology class in operations managementwill be presented along with assessment of student learning in the class. Examples of traditionalengineering technology courses utilizing active learning techniques that are not supportive of theflipped methodology are also presented. Finally, points for discussion will be explored regardinghow to determine when the flipped classroom should be used
Metallurgy and a diploma in Industrial Administration (Aston University). He was the recipient of the Henry Morton Distinguished Teaching Professor Award in 2009. In his prior role as Associate Dean, Prof. Sheppard had a leading role in the development of the undergraduate engineering curriculum at Stevens, including innovations in design education and initiatives to include entrepreneur- ship, sustainability, and global competency for undergraduate students.Dr. Gail P. Baxter, Stevens Institute of TechnologyDr. Frank T. Fisher, Stevens Institute of Technology Frank T. Fisher is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and former co- Director of the Nanotechnology Graduate Program (www.stevens.edu
Paper ID #22919Make-an-Engineer Introduction to Engineering Activity (P12 Resource/CurriculumExchange)Dr. Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Morgan Hynes is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue Univer- sity and Director of the FACE Lab research group at Purdue. In his research, Hynes explores the use of engineering to integrate academic subjects in K-12 classrooms. Specific research interests include design metacognition among learners of all ages; the knowledge base for teaching K-12 STEM through engi- neering; the relationships among the attitudes, beliefs
research interests lie in the area of educational scholarship, including teaching and advising effectiveness, academic integrity, process design instruction, and the integration of writing, speaking, and computing within the curriculum. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Work-in-Progress: Ten Years in the Trenches: An Updated Suite of Scenario-Based Academic Integrity VideosAbstractFaculty at two large public universities have had extensive experience in student academicintegrity violations in the introductory material and energy balance class. Scenario-basedacademic integrity videos developed by the authors ten years ago were
Paper ID #242992018 ASEE Zone IV Conference: Boulder, Colorado Mar 25Optimizing the Curriculum in an Engineering Statistics Course with Realis-tic Problems to Enhance LearningDr. Kyle Frederick Larsen P.E., Eastern Washington University Dr. Larsen currently teaches mechanical engineering at Eastern Washington University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from California State University Sacramento and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Brigham Young University.Dr. NM A HOSSAIN, Eastern Washington University Dr. Hossain is Professor in the Department of Engineering and Design at Eastern
Paper ID #23537An Integrated Supplemental Program to Enhance the First-year EngineeringExperienceDr. Ordel Brown, Northwestern University Dr. Ordel Brown is an instructional professor in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, where she currently teaches first-year engineering design courses. Her research interests in engineering education include the identification of variables that impact the first- year experience and the development of strategies to enhance it, retention of underrepresented populations in STEM fields and service-learning in engineering.Robin A.M. Hensel
, some students might not develop a basic working understanding offatigue theory in the typical two weeks of time allotted in an undergraduate curriculum. In ourexperience, the lack of fully grasping the concepts of fatigue caused some students to avoidfatigue-related analysis in their senior mechanical design projects.To facilitate students developing a better working understanding of fatigue theory, we proposedthe integrated active learning approach for teaching fatigue theory, which included lecture &homework, physical fatigue specimen testing, fatigue FEA simulation and theoreticalcalculations. The proposed approach was successfully implemented in the spring semester of2017. 100% of students supported the proposed approach and agreed
of an engineering design-based STEMintegration curricular unit.Study designParticipant and curriculum backgroundThe participant in this study was a 7th grade life science teacher. She had attended a three-weekteacher professional development during the summer prior to this study. The first two weeks ofthe professional development focused on content and pedagogies related to engineering, dataanalysis and measurement, and the life science subject of ecology. During these weeks, theteachers participating in the professional development completed two middle school level,engineering design-based STEM integration curricular units and also learned about STEMintegration. Throughout this process, the teachers were exposed to a variety of
refereed publications and over $16 million in funded grant proposals.Dr. Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas, El Paso An Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at El Paso, Dr. Meagan R. Kendall is helping develop a new Engineering Leadership Program to enable students to bridge the gap between traditional engineer- ing education and what they will really experience in industry. With a background in both engineering education and design thinking, her research focuses on how Hispanic students develop an identity as an engineer, methods for enhancing student motivation, and methods for involving students in curriculum development and teaching through Peer Designed Instruction. c
Engineering Service Learning Course with a High School Robotics TeamAbstractThrough service learning, both students and community partners help fulfill each other’s needs.A robotics service-learning course teaches the principles of robotics through hands-on activitiesand requires each student to participate in mentoring high school robotics team. Through theserelationships, students gain a deeper understanding of the principles of robotics from theclassroom, through teaching those principles to others and helping their mentored team solveproblems. Students gain an appreciation for, and capability to, inspire younger generations toengage in STEM activities.The course integrates STEM outreach into the engineering curriculum as a major