from a focus on products (Dym, etal., 2005) to processes (Diefes-Dux, et al., 2004) and to the integration of entrepreneurship into thecurriculum (Kuratko, 2011; London, et al., 2018). However, while the importance of centering the designeffort of students around customer discovery and value creation is increasingly being recognized (e.g.,Bekki, et al., 2018), challenges exist in effectively integrating content that students learn in theengineering curriculum, and advances in technology, with ways of values to a customer in an educationsetting. A primary challenge is the development of new content which builds on, supplements andexpands students’ grasp of engineering, economic and social concepts. Furthermore, the integration ofnew content
’ 21st century skills such as collaboration and problem solving.Idalis Villanueva, University of Florida Dr. Villanueva is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Education Department at the University of Florida. Her multiple roles as an engineer, engineering educator, engineering educational researcher, and professional development mentor for underrepresented populations has aided her in the design and integration of educational and physiological technologies to research ’best practices’ for student profes- sional development and training. In addition, she is developing methodologies around hidden curriculum, academic emotions and physiology, and engineering makerspaces.Dr. Jana Bouwma-Gearhart, Oregon State
associate of Claude Batley. Professor Dave ensured that the curriculum include courses inhumanities (he himself taught history of architecture) and the Beaux Arts emphasis on the 'making ofarchitecture', that is, one's ability to put together a building properly, the tectonics of architecture wasincorporated in the pedagogy. Besides, the university had always had an excellent liberal artsprogram with a number of prominent personalities actively engaged in exploring ideas of modernity.In those early years when the university was relatively small and interaction between departmentswas still possible, students of architecture would find themselves in the company of students fromthe literature, philosophy and social science departments. These lateral
inception in 2000. Her current responsibilities include academic program and curriculum development and assessment of and workshop/course instruction in the areas of teaming, human-centered design and leadership. She received her BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Wayne State University and is currently working on her PhD at Michigan Technologi- cal University. Before joining MTU she held various engineering and management positions during a 15 year career in the automotive industry.Ms. Laura Vidal-Chiesa, Michigan Technological UniversityModupe Omolara Yusuf, Michigan Technological UniversityDr. Abraham Romney, Michigan Technological University Abraham Romney is Associate Professor
from 2002 to present. His research interests are in adaptive digital signal processing, digital communica- tions, and education pedagogy. He currently serves the ECE department of the University of Illinois as a Teaching Associate Professor and an undergraduate advisor and is working to improve undergraduate education as an Education Innovation Fellow (EIF) in the Grainger College of Engineering.Mr. Jake Fava, Siebel Center for Design Jake is a Design Strategist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Siebel Center for Design, working to integrate human-centered design education into curricula across campus.Ms. Sneha Subramanian, Siebel Center for Design Sneha Subramanian is a Design Fellow at the Siebel
and teamwork [4]. Nevertheless, researchers argue that there is stilla need to develop empirical representations of engineering work and engineers in practice to helpengineering educators design curricula for students [5]. Yet, while studies have investigated theskills students develop in design, research is limited in focus to the design courses themselves[6], [7].The capstone senior design courses are among the main areas in the curriculum where studentsdevelop design skills, integrate technical knowledge from previous courses, and further theirprofessional skills. There is, as a result, an opportunity to examine students’ perceptions of theirskill development across the entire curriculum and possibly leverage the entire curriculum
Paper ID #33987The Growth of Interdisciplinarity in Engineering Education in the 21stCenturyDr. Mousumi Roy P.E., University of Connecticut Dr. Roy earned her Doctoral degree from Columbia University, NY, MS from The Cooper Union, NY, and BS from Jadavpur University, India. She has a joint appointment in Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and Management & Engineering for Manufacturing Program (a collaboration between School of Engineering and Business) as an Assistant Professor in Residence in University of Connecticut. Her research interests include interdisciplinarity in Automation, Industry 4.0
Paper ID #33170Work in Progress: Exploring the Nature of Students’ CollaborativeInteractions in a Hands-on, Ill-structured Engineering Design TaskMiss Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Taylor Tucker graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics. She is now pursuing a master’s degree at UIUC through the Digital Environments for Learning, Teaching, and Agency program in the department of Curriculum and Instruction. She is interested in design thinking as it applies to engineering settings and lends her technical background to her
modeling, project based engineering design, and robotics in manufacturing.James R. McCusker, Wentworth Institute of Technology James R. McCusker is an Associate Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Since joining Wentworth in 2010, he has been heavily involved with an array of interdisciplinary design courses that range from introductory to capstone courses.Prof. Lynette Panarelli, Wentworth Institute of Technology Lynette Panarelli is an Associate Professor of Interior Design at Wentworth Institute of Technology. She teaches across the curriculum with a special interest in technology and healthcare design. Before arriving at Wentworth ten years ago, Lynette
anundergraduate-only, project-focused curriculum. Students are given instruction and mustdemonstrate their abilities to execute team-based design and to build projects in all of their fouryears of study. The pedagogical basis for their required design classes is governed by aProfessional Plan, assuring that by graduation all ME students experience key areas of theengineering profession and show the ability to perform at an acceptable professional level.The authors of this paper have delivered the freshman and sophomore design classes at WKU formore than a decade. The courses are stable; student performance in all aspects of design havebeen consistently assessed and deemed successful. The stability of this aspect of the curriculumwas thrown into
Human-Centered Design via Student ReflectionsIntroductionWith a worldwide pandemic threatening the health of all, now is the time to ensure that we, thecommunity of engineering educators, are actively providing the next generation of engineerswith the skills and motivations necessary to address grand societal challenges in meaningfulways. One "grand challenge" for the engineering education community that we put forth ispreparing engineering undergraduate students to meaningfully integrate stakeholders into theirdesign-based thinking, a domain of work that is preceded by many others [1-3] and which isostensibly an essential aspect of the design outcome of ABET program accreditation [4].To this end, in this study
professionally in mechanicaland thermal systems (Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2020 – 2021 | ABET, n.d.).Mechanical engineering curricula have been studied in many ways. These curricular research efforts areprimarily interested in improving mechanical engineering programs to prepare students for the modern age.For example, Incropera & Fox implemented more open-ended problem-solving opportunities for students,and developed increased exposure to design and communications skills. (Incropera & Fox, 1996). Theyprovided an overview of the revision of the mechanical engineering curriculum at Purdue University, outlinedtheir implementation, and described several lessons learned from the process. Sorby et al. investigated theintegration
make curricular connections between the liberal arts and engineeringeducation. In many cases, multiple faculty members from different disciplines create and co-teach courses, which may take substantial time and effort for faculty to sit together to design thecurriculum. On the other hand, faculty members might be fiercely proud of their disciplines.They may resist an integrated curriculum that devalues their own discipline while elevatinganother [2]. No matter what the course is, faculty members should be devoted to creating aneffective learning environment and then ensure students achieve designed learning outcomes.Thus, understanding students’ motivation for learning is one of the prime factors that contributeto achieving the goal which is
pretest and posttestresults show there is a significant improvement in students’ spatial cognition when the proposedtool is used to assist the course.Introduction The development of technology has led to the high demand in engineering design careersthat undergo required training involved with innovative technology. Computer-Aided Design(CAD) have become an essential tool for engineers and other STEM-related fields, which requiresan adequate spatial cognition skill (Sorby et al. 2013). Strong spatial skills are necessary to notonly complete the engineering course but also to succeed in professional practice after finishingthe curriculum (Hsi et al., 1997). Improving students’ interpretation, analysis, and visualization ofmodels, as well as
Paper ID #32980Minority Graduates in Engineering Technology: Trends in Choice of MajorMr. Yury Alexandrovich Kuleshov, Purdue University, West Lafayette Yury A. Kuleshov is a graduate student earning his Master’s in Engineering Technology degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He received his Diploma in Engineering (6-year program) from Bauman Moscow State Technical University, where he majored in Robots and Robotic Systems, and specifically Underwater Robots and Vehicles. He has experience working as an engineer, a research assistant at Purdue University, and an instructor. His research as a Master’s
[11-14]. Compared to other active learning pedagogies, it results in increased gains in self-regulated learning [15]. The curriculum includes curricular contextual threads, which aremulti-semester projects threaded through the curriculum. One of these contextual threads isthe patient monitoring thread, during which each student builds her own functionalcardiograph.“Building this cardiograph is an implementation of situated learning [16], which Lave and Wenger first defined as ‘an extended period of legitimate peripherality [that] provides learnerswith opportunities to make the culture of practice theirs [17].’ As described by Johri, et al., this“learning takes place not through transmission of abstract knowledge, but through engagementin the
skills to succeed in the workplace. Senior capstone design courses provide an opportunity for undergraduate engineering studentsto participate in project-based learning, a unique learning experience requiring hard skills and softskills [15]. Research has identified the importance of senior capstone design on student successentering an industry, rendering it a critical course in the engineering curriculum [16,17]. In priorresearch, motivation was observed to be one of the constructs contributing to student’s overallsuccess as measured by factors such as project performance, peer evaluations, and courseperformance [18,19]. 1.1 Prior Research A recent study in student retention in engineering [4] suggests retention rates between 40-60
Engineering in 2017 and a B.S. in In- dustrial Engineering in 2017, all from the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests are in engineering education and human factors. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 STUDENT REFLECTIONS ON SUSTAINABILITY AND EMPATHY: THE OUTCOMES OF A SUSTAINABILITY WORKSHOP IN FIRST-YEAR DESIGN COURSESABSTRACTGiven the growing need for sustainability in engineering, there has been an increased emphasison introducing sustainability in the engineering design curriculum. Towards this end, severalresearchers and educators have proposed educational initiatives for integrating sustainabledesign in the engineering design
engineering programs but also on providing a serviceopportunity for our engineering students (Our students are required to accumulate 30 hours ofcommunity services as part of the graduation requirement). Over the last 10 years, thisengagement had gradually become an integral part of the engineering curriculum.Many universities around the country hosted math competitions for their local schools, typicallyby their math departments. Many institutions limited their involvement in offering the facilityonly and not much beyond that. The math competitions hosted by our institution were organizedby the College of Engineering. In addition to offering the facility, we were actively involved inrunning the competitions with our engineering students serving as
notexplored by engineering students to the fullest due to lack of time, opportunity or motivation.Exposing the engineering students to creative arts and allowing them to explore it has a potentialfor significant benefits. The works of Leonardo da Vinci are one of the most famous examples ofinnovation resulting from the integration of arts and engineering. Leonardo da Vinci was apainter, sculptor, scientist, engineer, architect, anatomist and has made significant contributionsand discoveries in each of these fields. In fact, his interest in a variety of fields and the ability toconnect the knowledge from different fields is what led to many of his inventions [3]. Educatorshave investigated several approaches of integrating art and engineering in an
attributes and future career progression of studentsand need to be integrated effectively into engineering courses.The digital revolution has massively changed the way people learn. The universities need toadapt to these changes. COVID 19 has further pushed universities to adapt to a new way ofteaching and learning. Existing face to face (f2f) courses need to transform to offer quality onlineeducation that achieves the learning outcomes [9].This review paper has conducted analysis of online learning theories, existing frameworks, andteaching techniques to develop an online framework for course design that aims to improvestudents’ T&L skills. A plan for implementation is also discussed in this paper.The research question for this paper is “How to
one of the importantgoals of the undergraduate engineering curriculum. Accordingly, Bloom’s taxonomy has becomean important tool for science and engineering educators [16][17][18] to ensure an adequatecoverage of high-level cognitive skills in the curriculum in order to prepare students to effectivelydesign engineering systems in industry [19].The application of Bloom's taxonomy to the laboratory experiences and reports assessed in thispaper is shown in Figure 1. Students are expected to enter into the laboratory with prior knowledgeof Finite State Machines and the fundamentals of Hardware Description Language(SystemVerilog). The 6th level of Bloom’s taxonomy was not included in the study because theoutcome (goal) of the laboratory was
molded and formed in numerous ways. These polymers could be incorporated into items and surfaces with which we come into contact every day, thereby reducing our contact with infectious pathogens. For this challenge, you are joining a research team that has just developed a material that is an oligomer falling into the category of oligo-phenylene ethylynenes (OPEs). This particular OPE has remarkable antimicrobial properties, has proven safe for human contact, is highly durable, and can be molded into a variety of shapes and sizes or integrated into a variety of materials. Your task is to design a product that can be made from or can utilize OPE and that can be marketed and sold by a major
engineeringstudents all five of their courses in an integrated format [15]. LCs were an integral component ofensuring student success in ILS, as they “help learners build interdisciplinary links and sociallinks within a community” [16]. LCs were also integral to the ILS design project, where everyLC form two sub-groups to complete a major engineering design project from conceptualizationto delivery, using the technical knowledge gained from their courses. The use of LCs inengineering design education has been shown to be successful through the ILS pilot, and inWinter 2021, this LC-based integrated delivery format has been integrated into all 2nd yearelectrical engineering education.As the vaccination rollout for COVID-19 steadily improves, academic
focused on identifying and developing leadership and other socio-technical capabilities among engineering students and professionals. She is passionate about improving engineering education and practice and has been working in the areas of innovation, leadership development, diversity, equity, and inclusion, ethics, and, faculty development. Previously, she also worked for companies including Deloitte, Sprint, ProStem and Credit Suisse, both as an internal and external research consultant focusing on areas of leadership development, performance management, competency development and people analytics. She integrates her research in Engineering Education with prior background in Human Resource Management and Engineering
Course and Lab Projects Development Director at Stanford, where he brings his 25-year industry experience to the role. He is responsible for the ongoing strategy, design, curriculum plan and instruction plans for capstone courses in the Mechanical Engineering Department, as part of a broad effort to redesign the curriculum requirements for the undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering. Jeff has over twenty years’ product development and manufacturing experience bringing medical and consumer products to market, through the course of my career journey with Apple, SGI, Nektar, Boston Scientific and Amazon/Lab126. In addition to working with and training engineers in industry, his 9+ years coaching and teaching
]. Without proper training and practice, creativity can be difficult to master.Although creativity is regarded as an essential skill in engineering, much improvement can bemade in applying creativity to the curriculum [14]. Research shows that while engineeringeducators perceive that they provide inducements for creativity behavior in the students, thesehints are often not picked up by the students. This leaves students feeling that instructors do notplace value on creativity [14].Education can play an essential role in increasing the confidence in our own creative abilities,teaching us how to practice creativity and how to implement it in the real world. Severalapproaches have been implemented by instructors to foster creative mindset and teach
summer of 2020 with help from the Olin SummerInstitute, to create a co-taught course with more shared content and organization and an updatedset of learning objectives. The redesign included considering the course in the larger context ofthe curriculum and, in particular, the current first-year experience. Although the redesign wasplanned prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, additional considerations were made to transition thecourse to the virtual environment, especially considering that effective online teaching requiresadditional skills and pedagogy compared to in-person teaching [7, 8].Issues that the faculty were interested in addressing were: finding mechanisms for how to sustainsome student projects within the curriculum; creating a shared
Paper ID #33644Building a Sense of Community in a Multidisciplinary, Split-level OnlineProject-based Innovation Design CourseDr. Melissa Mae White, University of Florida Dr. Melissa Mae White develops and instructs course curriculum in Engineering Innovation and Engi- neering Entrepreneurship to the students in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida. She works with faculty and students to build an ecosystem focusing on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship across campus and in the community. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering with a minor in
Paper ID #33979Quality Function Deployment (QFD) in Late Stages of Capstone DesignDr. James Righter, The Citadel James Righter is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Engineering (SOE) at The Citadel. He earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering at the U.S. Naval Academy, his MS in Military Studies from the Marine Corps University Command and Staff College, and his PhD in Mechanical Engi- neering from Clemson University. His research interests include design methods, engineering leadership, collaborative design, and engineering education.Dr. David S. Greenburg, The Citadel Dr. Greenburg is