engineering design sequence which represents the spine of the curriculum for the Department of Engineering. The research and teaching interests of Dr. Nagel tend to revolve around engineering design and engineering design education, and in particular, the design conceptualization phase of the design process. He has performed research with the US Army Chemical Corps, General Motors Research and Development Center, and the US Air Force Academy, and he has received grants from the NSF, the EPA, and General Motors Corporation.Prof. Matt Robert Bohm, Florida Polytechnic University Matt Bohm is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Florida Polytechnic University (Florida Poly). He joined the University in 2016
-year effort to moretightly integrate process and product by focusing on design representations, or artifacts, thatcapture process and also serve as part of the product of a design course.Design representations are an integral element of the design process that have been tied to designcreativity [7] and process [8]. Representations are also important in education in both math andchemistry [9] and have been shown to relate to how well engineering students can create models[10]. At a more fundamental level representations are integral to engineering design and help todistinguish engineering from science. As Basset and Krupczak [11] have pointed out scienceseeks to produce theory by abstracting from specific observations. Engineers on the other
STEM pedagogy, design thinking, project-based learning and educational entrepreneurship.Dr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Carla B. Zoltowski is an assistant professor of engineering practice in the Schools of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue. Prior to this she was Co-Director of the EPICS Program at Purdue where she was responsible for developing curriculum and assessment tools and overseeing the research efforts within EPICS. Her academic and research interests include the profes- sional formation of
followed this trend.The self-efficacy findings are comparable to the findings from the phenomenologically basedinterviews of female students who are each voluntarily involved in the makerspace. The femaleusers were introduced to the space through both friends and class, and given that the intervieweeswere split 50/50 with seeking out hands-on making activities upon starting their undergraduate,this reaffirms that initial motivation does not impact involvement in the space as strongly as beingpresented an initial opportunity to use the space. It seems that student involvement in themakerspace is more impacted by the engineering design curriculum and their exposure to thespace. Engineering design curriculum does not necessarily have to enforce
exploration, rather than an additive course or exercise, is integratedinto valuable GIS mapping and environmental site design coursework.Keywords: design-thinking, creativity, GIS, Mapping, design approach.IntroductionThe creative engineer is in great demand. With expectations of not only competency but acompetitive urgency to innovate, the demands on the new engineer are multiple. While it isrecognized that design and innovation are key areas for growth and development withinengineering education, it remains difficult to integrate open-ended learning into what is alreadyan overly dense, hugely broad, introductory package of courses [1]. We need to explore moreefficient ways of fostering open-ended creativity training for engineering students.The
(Tversky & Kahneman, 1975). In other words,while expert intuition may allow for elegant decision-making, an abundance of experimentalpsychology and social science research provides thorough evidence that intuitive reasoning mayutilize cognitive biases such as anchoring bias, availability bias, and implicit bias. The use oftools and formal processes can reduce the impact of these biases, but they are inherent to humancognition. Burke & Miller (1999) posit that decision-makers need to iterate between intuitiveand rational strategies for effective decision making.Working from the assumption that intuitive reasoning can and should be integrated intoengineering education (per argument presented above), this work provides a baseline of
; Strimel, G. (2015). Engineering design: The great integrator. Journal of STEM Teacher Education, 50(1), 8.Hartell, E., & Skogh, I. B. (2015). Criteria for Success: A study of primary technology teachers’ assessment of digital portfolios. Australasian Journal of Technology Education, 2(1).Kimbell, R. (2007). E-assessment in project e-scape. Design & Technology Education: An International Journal, 12(2), 66-76.Kimbell, R. (2012). Evolving project e-scape for national assessment. International Journal of Technology & Design Education, 22, 135-155.Leahy, K., & Phelan, P. (2014). A review of Technology Education in Ireland; a changing technological environment promoting design activity
teams on design projectssponsored by external partners, are quite common in today’s engineering programs [2]. Based onreview of the pedagogical literature, management of these design projects is an important and attimes problematic issue for these team-based projects. Several papers [3-5] report observedproject management issues and corrective measures, such as implementing milestones, formaldesign reviews, and Gantt charts into the capstone curriculum. Lawanto, et.al, [6] examinestudent self-regulation while working on capstone design projects, and suggest that teamstrategies require a high level of student involvement and effort. Vavreck [7] identifies key skillsneeded by project managers and describes the integration of them into an existing
was deemed ‘not cut out for’ engineering,” this paper eloquently outlined“the ways that many other actors (students, teachers, societal labels, engineering culture)contribute to and construct this student ability in everyday moments.” The final pitch is for alleducators to view culture not as a past explanation for the current plight, but instead as a currentchallenge to create a desired, inclusive culture.The team of Svihla et. al. [10] added an engineering design course early in the curriculum as astrategy to support persistence in engineering, especially with underrepresented groups. The goalwas to help students discover and gain confidence in individual attributes, skills, and beliefs thatare critical for engineering design. Those
water finding paste, which changes colour when immersed in water. So the presence of water can be noticed by the paste. Manual measurement is inaccurate, is difficult to do, for example when it is raining, and incurs a risk on the user who must climb atop tanks to take the measurement. Overall Goals: There is a need to design an automatic system that can measure the fuel levels in tanks, check the presence of water, calculate (measure) the density of the fuel, and display this information to the responsible people view so they can take the appropriate actions.The curriculum of the FYP courses has also shifted to provide more structure and support forstudents in their projects. Now, in the first semester of the FYP course for ME and EE
Design from Stanford University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Entrepreneurial Management. Prior to joining Mines she spent 20 years as a designer, project manager, and portfolio manager in Fortune 500 companies and smaller firms in the Silicon Valley and abroad. She is passionate about bringing the user-centered de- sign principles she learned at Stanford and in her career to Mines’ open-ended problem solving program, and is working with others on campus to establish a broader integrated context for innovation and design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Increasing Student Empathy Through Immersive Stakeholder
significantly, the hackathon environment encourages the same type ofinnovation one would expect from a PBL course. Hackathons, however, have not previouslybeen thought of as an environment for PBL in the same way that classroom courses have. Giventhat hackathons are becoming increasingly integral to the success of computer science students, itis useful to consider how, and to what extent, elements of PBL are manifested in hackathons.4The purpose of this research study is to use the Buck Institute of Education’s (BIE) GoldStandard PBL framework to analyze hackathon environments for the presence of key project-based learning characteristics.2 This was accomplished through a qualitative study utilizing bothobservation and interview protocols of selected
Paper ID #23471Co-Creating Opportunities for Extracurricular Design Learning with Mak-erspace StudentsVictoria Bill, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering Victoria Bill is the MakerSpace Lab Manager and an adjunct professor in the First-Year Engineering Program at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. She studied electrical engineering and received her B.S. from the Ohio State University and her M.S. from the University of Texas at Austin.Anne-Laure Fayard, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering Anne-Laure Fayard is Associate Professor of Management in the Department of Technology Manage- ment and
Paper ID #22268The ’Structured’ Engineering Design Notebook: A New Tool for Design Think-ing within a Studio Design CourseMs. Kristen Clapper Bergsman, University of Washington Kristen Clapper Bergsman is the Engineering Education Research Manager at the Center for Sensorimo- tor Neural Engineering at the University of Washington, where she is also a doctoral student and graduate research assistant in Learning Sciences and Human Development. Previously, Kristen worked as an ed- ucational consultant offering support in curriculum design and publication. She received her M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction (Science Education
multiple AE curriculum courses, working well with architecturaldesign, and including communication and collaboration in a team setting. Additionally it is toconsider standards and codes, integrate computer technology, and to consider buildingperformance and sustainability fundamentals. In individual programs this design knowledge isoften referred to as a focus, and in some of the programs this focus in delivered as a degreeoption(s) within the program. Having a degree option in an AE program is not a requirements ofABET, and the majority of programs currently do not offer degree options in their curriculum.For some programs there is not a stated focus or degree option even though one can be seen uponexamination of the program’s curriculum
Paper ID #22916Neuro-cognitive Differences Among Engineering Students when Using Un-structured, Partially Structured, and Structured Design Concept GenerationTechniquesMo Hu, Virginia Tech Mo Hu is a Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Virginia Tech. Her research interest is applying neuroscience methods in engineering to provide better solutions for sustain- ability.Dr. Tripp Shealy, Virginia Tech Tripp Shealy is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech.Dr. John S. Gero, University of North Carolina, Charlotte John Gero is Research Professor in Computer
, experiential learning, and assessment: An interdisciplinary communication course in Second Life." Computers and Education 53.1 169-182, p. 170, 2009.[4] C. Traver, and D. Klein. "Fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurship through the Integration of Engineering and Liberal Education." In American Society for Engineering Education. American Society for Engineering Education, 2011.[5] A. Sharag-Eldin, and O. Nawari. "BIM in AEC education," In Structures Congress, pp. 1676- 1688, 2010.[6] S. Azhar, M. Khalfan, and M. Tayyab. "Building information modelling (BIM): now and beyond." Construction Economics and Building, 12, no. 4, 15-28. P.16, 2015.[7] S.Vassigh, W. Newman, A. Mostavavi, A. Behzadan. “Hybrid Technologies for
Paper ID #22311A Doctoral Teaching Program in EngineeringDr. Donald P. Visco Jr., University of Akron Donald P. Visco, Jr. is the Dean of the College of Engineering at The University of Akron and Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering.Nidaa Makki Dr. Nidaa Makki is an Associate Professor in the LeBron James Family Foundation College of Education at The University of Akron, in the department in Curricular and Instructional Studies. Her work focuses on STEM curriculum integration and science inquiry practices in middle and high school. She is a co-PI on an NSF funded project to investigate the impact of
had an enthusiastic response fromstudents interested in both Robotic projects and interest in learning more about Robotics. Roboticsis an interdisciplinary field that incorporates the integration of many systems in software,electronics, control systems, actuators and sensors. The Robotics of today imparts the mostimportant attributes such as the nature of motion, the motions available to rigid bodies and the useof kinematic constraints to organize motion. Because the growing field of Robotics covers manyareas of EET education we decided we would develop curriculum for an introductory course inRobotics. This paper explores the curriculum design and the Lie Algebra and Lie Group that arekeeping track of the variables involved in arm robotic
) Lawrence O. Schmidt is an associate librar-when submitting proposals for funding. Thus, it is clear that ian at the University of Wyoming. He holds B.S. degrees in chemistry and biology, ana systematic and thorough education on RDM is appropriate M.S. degree in environmental engineeringand necessary for a graduate curriculum. Thielan, et al. also from Montana State University, and receivedpresent a case for how a RDM course can meet multiple an
and experiential learning experiences. Integration of thesetechnologies added an additional dimension to the value of scientific inquiry and shows how toapply scientific knowledge, procedures and mathematics to solve real problems and improve theworld we live in. The curriculum supports the Next Generation Science Standards and containeda strong emphasis on math and science literacy for 21st century learners. Students participating inthe outreach program completed a total of thirty-six (36) to forty (40) hours of hands-onexperience.Hands-on learning was provided through the AEL, a state-of-the-art laboratory that featurescollaborative learning environment and equipped with hardware and software to supportcurriculum enhancement activities. The
setting of this study was the redesign of a second-year embedded systems course that wasrequired for electrical, computer, and software engineering students. The redesign effort was partof a federally-funded initiative to facilitate change in the Electrical and Computer EngineeringDepartment at a large university in the Midwest United States8. The course redesign effort wasone several such efforts in the initiative tasked with helping to shift the departmental paradigmtoward student-centered teaching and learning practices and greater integration of professionalformation throughout the curriculum, in a bottom-up fashion9. As an established course in thedepartment, the course had undergone revisions in the past, but as part of the
interactive classroom alternative outweighed the technical challenges ofthe delivery method.A number of other techniques for developing better student-faculty interaction have been triedwith mixed success including the incorporation of life cycle assessment into early engineeringclasses (Weber et al. 2014); the use of incidental writing, or informal writing that students dothroughout the course (Hawkins et al. 1996); using a plant trip as a theme for an energy balancecourse (Younf and Stuart 2000); integrating thermal-fluid experiments into the classroom(Olinger and Hermanson 2002) and using problem based learning in an electrical engineeringcourse (Yadav et al. 2011). Finelli et al. (2001) present a list of activities that might improve theclassroom
into the curriculum. Readers can learn more about this campusinitiative here https://pdp.iupui.edu/. This electronic tool has encouraged the development ofhope, setting self-concordant goals, increasing self-awareness, and promoted self-authorship [5],[6]. Well established in the first year seminars, the portfolio is intended to be updated throughoutthe academic career. The ePDP should foster an internal foundation and academic commitmentfrom learners. In addition, the use of an electronic portfolio can foster an improved ability to seethe integration of curricular content over time, supporting improved retention.The program-specific accrediting body associated with engineering technology programs, ETACof ABET, sets standards and guidelines
. The National Institute of Standard and Technology(NIST) defines smart manufacturing as “fully-integrated, collaborative manufacturing systemsthat respond in real time to meet changing demands and conditions in the factory, in the supplynetwork, and in customer needs” [6]. In other words, IIoT uses a collaborative network ofdevices or things to collect sensory data about and from the various workings within an industrymanufacturing facility; and then relays this information to other things to be used. This processcan be used to help automate systems or software based on specific conditions that need to bemet, or to present verbose, real-time, up-to-date information to a user that can monitor it andmake better, more informed decisions.IIoT
understanding of NOE aspects or improved them.Keywords: NOE, engineering design process, nature of engineering, secondary science teachers,NGSS, engineering design challenge, professional development, cognitive apprenticeshipIntroductionTo meet the demand of an increasing science and engineering workforce, teachers must beprepared to integrate engineering in their instruction. There are some attempts at policies andeducational reforms aimed at changing science and engineering education to improve students’understanding of engineering and to influence more students to study those degrees [1], [2].Teacher training programs in the US do not adequately prepare secondary science teachers tointegrate engineering in their curriculum and, in turn, to increase
is an Army Aviator and the Mechanical Engineering Program Director in the Depart- ment of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point. He has a PhD in Aerospace Engineering, a PE in Mechanical Engineering, an MBA in Technology Management and recently commanded an Army Battalion at Hunter Army Airfield, Savannah, Georgia. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018` “Development of an Introduction to Circuits Course and Lab for Mechanical Engineering Students via Systematic Design of Instruction”AbstractIn the traditional Mechanical Engineering undergraduate curriculum, students are typicallyrequired to take a
including the mass balance analysis,the process safety case studies (each team chose their own comparison incident), and the risk modeldiscussions. We’ll also demonstrate the EML elements using student work samples. 3 The course is the first sophomore-level course in a 4-course, integrated sequence. Thisintroductory course covers basic material and energy balances, thermodynamics, and an introduction tovapor-liquid equilibrium and separations. Normally content is restricted to steady state mass balances insingle and multiple units. Typically non-steady state balances are covered only qualitatively with maybeone quantitative example
and appurtenancesmust be underpinned and supported in place to avoid damages. Additionally, on heavy civilprojects requiring heavy construction equipment, there is always the need for trestles andequipment bridges used as temporary access. What is unique about these topical areas is that theyfall under the subject area called temporary structures, which happens to fall outside the requiredcurriculum of the CM (construction management) and ConE or CEM (construction engineeringor construction engineering management) programs in the US. The objective of this paper istwofold. The first is to make the case for including temporary structures as a required part of theCM, ConE or CEM curriculum, and secondly, to recommend an instructional design
Paper ID #22891Undergraduate STEM Students and Community Engagement Activities: Ini-tial Findings from an Assessment of Their Concern for Public Well-beingAlexandra ErwinDr. Jason Borenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Jason Borenstein is the Director of Graduate Research Ethics Programs and Associate Director of the Center for Ethics and Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His responsibilities in- clude administering a Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) policy for all new doctoral students at Georgia Tech and instructing undergraduate and graduate courses on topics at the intersection of science