AC 2012-5527: ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS IN THE 21ST CEN-TURY: ACTIVE LEARNING BY HUMAN BODY THERMODYNAMICSDr. Joakim Sigurd Wren, Linkping University Page 25.563.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Engineering Thermodynamics in the 21st Century – Active learning by human body thermodynamicsAbstractA new project on human body thermodynamics was developed and used in traditionalengineering thermodynamics courses. The aim was to increase student motivation andlearning by making the students more active and in charge of their learning, and to widen theapplication of thermodynamics outside the
projects like this one, the coordinator needs to have a team of students thatnot only have the engineering discipline background but also have the initiative to meet the manychallenges that will inevitably occur.The automotive industry sponsor felt it was a large success, both for the students and for thecompany. “The students were able to practice their studies in a real world application. When thestudents are challenged to explore new ‘outside of the box’ ideas they help us keep a freshperspective and an open mind. It’s great for the industry and great for the students as well.They used CFD software to design and countermeasure their virtual model. They were then ableto collaborate with our company to turn the virtual model into a working wind
, Mind, Experience, andSchool: Expanded Edition. Washington DC, National Academy Press.[8] McLennan, M., Kennell, R, (2010), HUBzero: A Platform for Dissemination and Collaboration inComputational Science and Engineering. Computing in Science & Engineering 12(2), 48 – 53[9] Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) website. [URL] nees.org. Last viewed January 2012. Page 25.1007.14
young minds of the middle school students to give a thought to how theycan impact and change their lives and the society in a positive way.The objectives of the “Mechanical Engineering Day” were to establish an effective program toincrease middle school student’s exposure to engineering, to inspire middle school students toconsider mechanical engineering/engineering as a future career, and to provide the undergraduatestudents opportunities for leadership and professional development. Middle school studentslearned about engineering and mechanical engineering careers, how engineers impact everydaylife, and according to the survey, that engineering is fun. The event will be discussed from aproject-based perspective in a classroom setting. The
AC 2010-1006: TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT EXPERIENCES OF ANUNDERGRADUATE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSERaghu Echempati, Kettering UniversityRichard Dippery, Kettering University Page 15.1166.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT EXPERIENCES OF AN UNDERGRADUATE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSEAbstractTeaching and learning a fundamental core course such as Mechanical Engineering Design (orMachine Design) continues to be fun but a challenging task for many instructors, as well as forstudents. It certainly helps if an instructor has both hands on and/or professional consultingexperience to share their rich and real-life knowledge to keep
AC 2010-1117: INTEGRATION OF JOURNAL CLUB IDEOLOGY INTO ANANOTECHNOLOGY COURSESmitesh Bakrania, Rowan University Smitesh Bakrania is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his PhD from University of Michigan in 2008 and his BS from Union College in 2003. His research interests include combustion synthesis of nanoparticles and their applications. Page 15.782.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Integration of Journal Club Ideology into a Nanotechnology CourseNanotechnology is bound to dramatically impact how we use materials in all aspects ofengineering
. C. (2004). Nanoscale science and engineering: unifying and transforming tools. AIChE Journal, 50(5), 890--897. 5. Gorman, M. E., Groves, J. F., & Catalano, R. K. (2004). Societal dimensions of nanotechnology. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 23(4), 55--62. Page 15.591.10 6. Mnyusiwalla, A., Daar, A. S., & Singer, P. A. (2003). Mind the gap': science and ethics in nanotechnology. Nanotechnology, 14(3), 9--13.7. Roco, M. C., & Bainbridge, W. S. (2005). Societal implications of nanoscience and nanotechnology: maximizing human benefit. Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 7(1), 1
; Federal Other Building Code Building Code DOT Stormwater Figure 2. Codes and Standards used by Civil Engineering Graduates-2009 Alumni SurveyIn 2009, the University of Evansville ranked ninth in the United States among Master’s grantinginstitutions with 58.3% of all undergraduates participating in a study abroad experience.1 The2009 alumni survey results revealed that 40% of graduates had traveled outside the United Statesin the previous two years for either business or pleasure. Travel to Mexico, the Caribbean, andCanada was not included in the percentage because they are convenient vacation destinations.International travel contributes to graduates global minded perspective
in the areas of pedagogy and consensus building. We are increasingly bringing educational experts into the college for special seminars and presentations. We seek to better leverage the educational innovation activities that occur broadly across our campus. • Engage colleagues in manner that is pre-emptive in managing conflict and change reluctance. • Re-communicate the vision of the EB2 initiative. • Recommit to working toward better measurement, documentation and communication of progress. • With the long-term in mind, continue to move forward with consistent goals and messages.SummaryDespite an increasing number of studies calling for major changes to engineering education
Paper ID #9354Embedding video-based learning modules for library research methods in anonline graduate engineering degree programJeffery L. Loo, University of California, Berkeley Jeffery L. Loo is the Chemical Informatics Librarian at the UC Berkeley Library. He also serves as a liaison to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.Lisa T. Ngo, University of California, Berkeley Lisa Ngo is the Instruction and Electronic Services Librarian at the Kresge Engineering Library of UC Berkeley.Cody K. Hennesy, University of California, Berkeley Cody Hennesy is the E-Learning Librarian at the UC Berkeley Library and liaison to the
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the individuals who are using the AIChE ConceptWarehouse and those who have provided feedback to improve this tool, particularly those whoparticipated in this study. We would also like to acknowledge the people who supported thiswork with their time and help.References 1. E. M. Rogers, Diffusion of innovations, Free Press, New York, 2003. 2. E. National Academy of, Educating the engineer of 2020 : adapting engineering education to the new century, National Academies Press, Washington, DC, 2005. 3. National Research Council. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2000. 4. D. Hestenes, M. Wells and G. Swackhamer, The Physics Teacher, 1992, 141
therequirements given by the internal consultants. This iterative process allows for the generationof new designs and ideas, which are the hallmark of innovation. To support this process,students must build skills related to problem solving, collaboration, and communication, whichare attributes linked to the entrepreneurial mindset.12Research QuestionsWe were interested in understanding whether an epistemic game framework influenced theentrepreneurial mindset of senior chemical engineering students. In order to ascertain whetherthere was an effect, we approached the study with two principal research questions in mind. 1. Prior to the use of Nephrotex: a. What level of involvement did senior chemical engineering students have with
Zoology from the University of Rhode Island and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from the University of South Carolina. Page 22.851.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Incorporating Societal and Ethical Issues of Nanotechnology into an Integrated User Network – Results from the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure NetworkAbstractNanoscale science and engineering (NSE) is viewed by many to be the next “technicalrevolution” which will transform science and industry in the 21st century. It is important thatsociety and the researchers bringing
, Shaver, Gregory M., and Meckl, Peter (2010) Lessons Learned: Implementing the Case TeachingMethod in a Mechanical Engineering Course, Journal of Engineering Education, January 201010 Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education, National Research Council (1996). From Analysisto Action. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.11 Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., and Cocking, R. L., (1999), How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, andSchool, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.12 Committee on Undergraduate Science Education, Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science,Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology, Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education, NationalResearch Council, 1999.13 Google
AC 2012-3327: THE RAISE THE BAR EFFORT: CHARTING THE FU-TURE BY UNDERSTANDING THE PATH TO THE PRESENT - THE BOKAND LESSONS LEARNEDDr. Stuart G. Walesh P.E., S. G. Walesh Consulting Stuart G. Walesh, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, D.WRE, and F.NSPE, is an independent consultant provid- ing management, engineering, education/training, and marketing services. Prior to beginning his consul- tancy, he worked in the public, private, and academic sectors serving as a Project Engineer and Manager, Department Head, Discipline Manager, marketer, legal expert, professor, and Dean of an engineering college. Walesh authored or co-authored six books and many engineering and education publications and presentations. His most recent
December 2009.23Developing a Plan to Re-envision the Engineering LibraryThe Advisory Committee to Re-envision the Engineering Library was comprised of faculty,librarians, graduate students, and undergraduate students. They gave their report to the Dean,Librarian, and Provost, and a decision on the library’s transition was made public in June 2010.24 Page 25.1375.3Recruiting for this committee was important. The Dean recruited open-minded faculty andlibrarians recruited students through relevant student organizations. Of high importance wasensuring students’ needs were being addressed. As a result of their representation, 24/7 buildingaccess was
AC 2011-576: SPECIAL SESSION: EDUCATIONAL METHODS AND TOOLSTO ENCOURAGE CONCEPTUAL LEARNINGMilo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. He cur- rently has research activity in areas related to thin film materials processing and engineering education. He is interested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. Dr. Koretsky is a six-time Intel Faculty Fellow and has won awards for his work in engineering education at the university and national levels.Ronald L. Miller, Colorado School of Mines Dr. Ronald L. Miller is
value (Taylor, 1992) Awareness of the desire to be Page 22.1534.8oriented to the good can motivate people to act ethically. In addition, this drive to be oriented tothe good explains why people might try to justify in their own minds unethical behavior, therebyconvincing themselves that this behavior is, in fact, ethical.)VII. Future Efforts and Applications to the Ethics Classroom In the coming semesters, we will be designing, administering and testing theeffectiveness of an ethics program for engineers and scientists that, unlike traditional ethicsclasses, focusing to a considerable extent on why people violate ethical codes or act
AC 2011-307: ASSESSMENT OF ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY EDU-CATION USING A LEARNING PARADIGM APPROACHMysore Narayanan, Miami University DR. MYSORE NARAYANAN obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, England in the area of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He joined Miami University in 1980 and teaches a wide variety of electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering courses. He has been invited to contribute articles to several encyclopedias and has published and presented dozens of papers at local, regional , national and international conferences. He has also designed, developed, organized and chaired several conferences for Miami University and conference sessions for a variety of organizations. He is
AC 2011-1173: ASSESSMENT OF SOFT-SKILLS-PROGRAM LEARNINGOUTCOMES USING ENGINEERING COURSESThomas J. Vasko, Central Connecticut State University Thomas J. Vasko, Assistant Professor, joined the Department of Engineering at Central Connecticut State University in the fall 2008 semester after 31 years with United Technologies Corporation (UTC) where he was a Pratt & Whitney Fellow in Computational Structural Mechanics. While at UTC, Dr. Vasko held adjunct-instructor positions at the University of Hartford and RPI Groton. He holds a PhD in ME from the University of Connecticut, an MSME from RPI, and a BSME from Lehigh University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Connecticut and he is on the board of
AC 2011-262: BENEFITS OF RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDER-GRADUATE ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENTSWei Zhan and Alan Lam, Texas A&M University Dr. Wei Zhan is an Assistant Professor of Electronics Engineering Technology at Texas A&M University. Dr. Zhan earned his D.Sc. in Systems Science from Washington University in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he worked at University of California, San Diego and Wayne State University. From 1995 to 2006, he worked in the automotive industry as a system engineer. In 2006 he joined the Electronics Engineering Technology faculty at Texas A&M. His research activities include control system theory and applications to industry, system engineering, robust design, modeling, simulation
AC 2011-93: DESIGN PROJECTS WITH OUT-OF TOWN COMPANIESLizabeth T Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Lizabeth Schlemer has been teaching at Cal Poly, SLO for 18 years. She is a graduate of Cal Poly herself, and she holds a Masters in Industrial and Systems Engineering and an MBA from University of Southern California, and a PhD in Educational Research from University of California, Santa Barbara. She has 10 years of work experience at Unocal Corporation where she held positions of increasing responsibility. Most of her current research activities center around engineering education and enhancing engagement through valid contexts like project based learning and community service. She
AC 2010-848: INDIVIDUALIZED HOMEWORK: AN EFFECTIVE LEARNINGSTRATEGYRonald Goulet, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga Page 15.727.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Individualized Homework: An Effective Learning StrategyAbstractAlthough evidence that homework improves learning outcomes at the university level is sparse,instructor opinion about the importance of and the role of out-of-class assignments suggests thathomework is the most important factor to maximizing achievement of learning outcomes, whenit is significantly weighted, relevant, promptly scored and returned. That said, these sameinstructors express a reluctance to assign much homework or
students capable of lifelong learning.With these guidelines in mind, the library faculty member prepared a document that comparedthe missions of the university, the College of Technology, and the ECET department, as well asthe ABET Technology Accreditation standards Section 3 and the ACRL Standards forInformation Literacy for Science and Technology3, 23, 24. This document served as a baseline andguide for skills and characteristics required or desired in graduates of the ECET department andgave a picture of possible standardized outcomes. (See Appendix 1.) It was inspired by the workof Riley et al, which described the redesign of Smith College’s engineering curriculum.20The document demonstrated that information literacy skills supported not only
& Measurements” and offered mostly toMechanical (MET) and Electrical (EET) Engineering Technology students, in addition to others Page 15.517.2who can take it as an elective course in their major of studies. Therefore students taking thiscourse have a wide range of capabilities, varied preparation, and different levels of motivationthat entail a more complex teaching strategy than a traditional course would normally require.Moreover, retention rate may severely be affected if struggling students were not adequatelymotivated to continue their pursuit of an engineering career. With this in mind, faculty teachingthis course decided to make
AC 2010-279: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY UNDERGRADUATE COURSEBRIDGING THE GAPS BETWEEN ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND THE ARTSYunfeng Wang, The College of New JerseyChristopher Ault, The College of New JerseyTeresa Nakra, The College of New JerseyAndrea Salgian, The College of New JerseyMeredith Stone, Independent Evaluator Page 15.166.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 An Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Course Bridging the Gaps between Engineering, Science, and the ArtsAbstractThis paper presents an innovative interdisciplinary undergraduate course that simultaneouslyengages the disciplines of engineering, science and arts. This course is
project. The timing of when the topics are presented isalso important especially for the ones that have direct application to a project deliverable.Examples of topics that are time sensitive include contract documents, estimating andscheduling, and graphic communications.V - MATURITYAfter 15 years of evolution, this course is nearing maturity. We have guided its developmentwith long-term values in mind. The model and structure are near full development but by nomeans near a perfected condition. The instructors and mentors now focus on providing students,those engineers of the future, with positive experiences and encouraging life-long learning
studentsfrom majors other than engineering. Page 22.65.13References 1. Bransford, J., A.L. Brown, and R.R. Cocking. 2000. How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Academies Press. 2. McKenna, A.F., B. Yalvac, and G.J. Light. 2009. The role of collaborative reflection on shaping engineering faculty teaching approaches. Journal of Engineering Education 98(1): 17-26. 3. Ohland, M. W. Sheppard, S. D., Lichtenstein, G., Eirs, O., Chacra, D., & Layton, R. A. (2008). Persistence, engagement, and migration in engineering programs, Journal of Engineering Education 97 (3), 259-278. 4
has been stalled by boundaries between ways of thinkingand seeing. Practitioners on the ground have to learn from experience with no foundationalconcepts to help them build their knowledge. This study hopes to move engineering education ina more useful direction by breaking down these barriers to learning. It is not the intention toenlarge the amount that engineering students have to know by unimaginable leaps, but to expandengineering students minds and their potential to act in the best interests of society and toquestion what this might be. The approach is to introduce them to different ideas, thoughts andways of thinking by eliciting the support of scholars in other domains who, by engaging withmultidisciplinary knowledge building