be assessed upon completion of the design course sequence in May 2019. References[1] ABET, Criteria for Accrediting Engineering programs, 2016-2017., General Criterion 5: Curriculum., Retrieved from http://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria- for-accrediting-engineering-programs-2016-2017/#curriculum.[2] C. Dym, A. Agogino, O. Eris, D. Frey, and L. Leifer, “Engineering design thinking, teaching and learning,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 86, pp. 103-120, 2005.[3] R. Allen, S. Acharya, C. Jancuk and A. Shoukas, “Sharing best practices in teaching biomedical engineering design,” Annals of Biomed. Eng., vol. 41, pp. 1869-1879, 2013.[4] R. Mertz, “A capstone design course [electrical engineering],” IEEE Trans. Educ
Elena Truyol, Ph.D., is full professor and researcher of the Universidad Andr´es Bello (UNAB). She graduated as physics teacher (for middle and high school), physics (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. in Physics at Universidad Nacional de C´ordoba, Argentina. In 2013 she obtained a three-year postdoctoral position at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her focus is set on educational research, physics education, problem-solving, design of instructional material and teacher training. She teaches undergraduate courses related to environmental management, energy and fundamentals of industrial processes at the School of Engineering, UNAB. She currently is coordinating the Educational and Academic Innovation Unit at the School of
student at Oral Roberts University.Mr. Jordan David Reutter, Oral Roberts University Jordan is Mechanical Engineering Student at Oral Roberts University Graduating in May 2018. He’s been involved with many projects such as The Hyperloop Competition and is currently interning with The Boeing Company. He was primarily involved with the design and manufacturing of Team Soar’s flight simulator serving as a design engineer.Nathaniel Shay FraileyMatthew SamuelsonMr. David Ahrens, Oral Roberts University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Development of a Virtual Reality Flight Simulator to Assist in the Design of Original Aircraft (Work in Progress)ABSTRACTThe
Paper ID #22986An Engineering Design-Oriented First Year Biomedical Engineering Cur-riculumDr. Kay C. Dee, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Kay C. Dee received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After completing her graduate work, Kay C joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. She later joined the faculty at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She served as the founding Director of the Rose-Hulman Center for the Practice and Scholarship
mapping childhood stages of cognitive development to engineering knowledge and skills for K-12 curricula.Dr. Richard M. Goff, Virginia Tech Richard M. Goff is a former aircraft structural test engineer for the Navy, a Peace Corps Volunteer, and computer entrepreneur. He holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, and is currently an Associate Profes- sor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Richard has been teaching and engaging in research in multidisciplinary engineering design education for over twenty years. Dr. Goff is the re- cipient of several university teaching awards, outreach awards, and best paper awards. His passion is creating engaging learning environments by bringing useful research
2017 AAAS Science & Diplomacy Leadership Workshop.Dr. Linda R ShawDr. Marla A Franco, University of Arizona Marla A. Franco, Ph.D., serves as the Director of Assessment and Research for the Division of Student Affairs, Enrollment Management, Academic Initiatives, and Student Success at the University of Arizona, where she leads the design and implementation of research, assessment, and evaluation plans across 45 units and departments to support a data rich environment for improved student learning and strategic de- cision making. Dr. Franco has close to 20 years of experience in higher education, which has brought her countless opportunities to assess, research, and inform educational practice, particularly in
computerscience disciplines, the activities of team design, group problem solving, and projectcollaboration have always been a prominent and defining attribute of STEM fields. Especially inthe last two decades and into the foreseeable future, team design skills are receiving increasingimportance as complexity of science and engineering marches ever forward [3]. The rising tide ofcomplexity necessitates future graduates at all levels within STEM fields to function effectivelyas disciplinary specialists who work together closely and frequently during most phases ofproduct development and research. While always an integral element of STEM curricula, theneed and benefit for learners to become immersed in collaborative learning activities havebecome
Universitydeveloped a new strategy for improving student retention and overall student quality based on anew first-year engineering experience. The older curriculum had become outdated, was notteaching our students what we thought they needed, and was not preparing the students for therest of the mechanical engineering program and beyond.As our graduating students completed exit surveys, common criticisms of the program included aperceived lack of software availability and a deep knowledge of how to use the software, lack ofpreparation for constructing prototypes (mechanical and/or electrical), and lack of product designinstruction and practice. In an effort to address these problems, two new courses were developedfor 1st year students [1] and a 2nd year
, manufacturing, and post-manufacturing stages of a product. The importance of engineering ethics to a practicing engineer are discussed. A comprehensive approach to product safety is taught including the influences of designers, manufacturers, sales and marketing personnel, executives, regulators, consumers, and the use environment. The need for effective and consistent information, instructions, and marketing messaging for a product is stressed. Students will study the role of compliance with standards and regulations as well as the failure of standards developers to keep standards current.1 For its first offering, the course, ME EN 5960/6960 “Special Topics,” was offered as a joint product
we could assiststudents with disabilities a priori by providing additional services, to now recognizing that wecan best support their success by listening and growing our understanding of how they use theirconsiderable assets to build their success. Through this recognition, we are able to retool our effortsto be individual student-focused. This new paradigm is an outgrowth of our internal research,which demonstrates that those practices based on our students’ assets best support their exceptionalachievement [1]. Through the intersection of curricular and co-curricular experiences that can besynthesized, transferred to new situations, and articulated for the student’s benefit, we developeda Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). This was part of
should not be considered a production-based environmentnor interfere with such an environment that serves the entire campus and its constituents. Theyrecommend that the lab may be best served by a joint venture or contract directly with a cellularprovider that may offer an avenue to provide coverage in an area that is not impacted by theuniversity DAS.According to design concepts of cellular networks both DAS and small-cell systems can coexist.Each system can use different frequency band from a different MSPs. This design will mitigateany form of interference between the running production systems serving the universityconstituents and the lab test-bed. Another solution is using carful coverage design to providespecific areas for lab small-cells
and underrepresentedcommunities. miniGEMS was a free two-week summer STEAM (Science, Technology,Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) and Programming camp for middle school girls in grades 6to 8 held at the University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) in San Antonio, Texas. miniGEMS washosted by the Autonomous Vehicle Systems (AVS) Research and Education Laboratory. This is the third year that miniGEMS is being held at UIW. Four two-week miniGEMScamps were hosted at UIW for a total of eight weeks starting June 5 till August 4 this summer.The primary goal of the camp was to introduce more female students to the field of Engineeringthrough robotic projects, computer programming, graphic design, and guest speakers. ProjectBased Learning
On-Campus. The availability of research labs to provide the required resources for programs. The qualification of faculty instructing in the program. The relationship of the institution with government & private sector. Availability of scholarships & grants to students. Location proximity of the institution to tech areas, government defense agencies, and hubs of corporate activity. NSA CAE Designation: CAE designations provides indicators to the quality of the program.Table 1 provides a list of the universities, their available programs, and related information. Forpurpose of the quantitative analysis in this study, a Boolean variable Y or N is used to indicatethe availability or
with these courses is highly theoretical and instructors areconfronted with many of the same educational hurdles as in a microelectronics course. Suchmath-intensive courses would benefit greatly by incorporating many of the widely availablemodel-based simulation tools (e.g., Matlab's Simulink) that can be used to simulate continuous-time and discrete-time systems. Therefore, the use of simulation tools for reflection is notlimited to the case study presented in this paper. Rather, this method can be used in other ECEcourses as well as in other engineering disciplines that rely on simulation.ReferencesAdams, R., Turns, J., & Atman, C. (2003). Educating effective engineering designers: The roleof reflective practice. Design Studies, 24(3
. Art Lizotte is the Director of University Development in the Americas. Art began his career as an ap- plication engineer working with HP’s microprocessor development system. Originally from New Jersey, he worked with numerous companies to develop their embedded designs. In 1988 he started a consulting practice focused on developing embedded systems. Art rejoined HP in 1996 in the newly formed Tech- nical Contact Center in Englewood, Colorado. He became a manager in 1998, managing both digital and RF teams. For the last five years, Art was responsible for hiring college graduates and interns for our sales team. He is a member of four university industry advisory councils and in June of 2015, he became the Director
-week long study was implemented. We describe the design of our ARapp and how it was used and evaluated in the study. We discuss our initial findings from thiswork-in-progress and share our ideas for future implementations.Related workWe have built our design framework for this project off of two key past observations. The firstobservation being that 3D modeling has a positive impact on enhancing spatial skills. Second,that 3D modeling coupled with AR leads to enhanced spatial understanding of virtual objects.3D Modeling helps enhance spatial skillsFactors like age and experience matter in the improvement of spatial skills but it has been foundin prior research that this skill can be enhanced with the help of 3D modeling. Researchers likeDevon
associate professor of electrical engineering at Kettering University. Dr. Finelli’s current research interests include student resistance to active learning, faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices, the use of technology and innovative pedagogies on student learning and success, and the impact of a flexible classroom space on faculty teaching and student learning. She also led a project to develop a taxonomy for the field of engineering education research, and she was part of a team that studied ethical decision-making in engineering students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Incorporating IMU Technology to Demonstrate Concepts in
importance ofproviding undergraduate students open-ended, loosely defined projects, and allowing projectteams to assume responsibility for design and innovation.2. INTRODUCTIONEngineers, clinicians and patients often struggle to find balance between innovative technologyand the human side of medical care. Graduate level educational programs dedicated to teachingbiomedical innovation have seen significant growth in the last decade [1-7]. In addition, the fieldof biomedical engineering has seen a dramatic escalation in activity over the past 20 yearsleading to innovative medical devices and procedures. Due to the multidisciplinary characteristicof the field, biomedical engineering has a diverse research impact, often serving as a bridgebuilder between
, while inspired by the work of Butterfield and Branch [1] where freshman studentswere ‘hired’ by Capstone students, relied on integrating the Capstone Design course intochemical engineering courses occurring across the freshman-junior level. In the first iteration ofthe present work, technical aspects of the Capstone Design projects formed the basis for groupproblems that were assigned in two courses: Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer. In the seconditeration, the Capstone Design students gave a series of presentations to a first-year, introductorychemical and biological engineering course. Presentations focused on both the technicalcomponents of their design and safety considerations and societal impacts pertaining to theirprocess design. At
information includes locations of fire extinguishers and first-aid,what to do for a more severe injury, and simple lab rules. Makerspace student staff then walkthrough the printing process and best practices for slicing CAD files in Cura. All student IDs arescanned so there is a log that they have attended orientation and can then attend any of the moreadvanced trainings offered.Prototyping LabWhen the makerspace first opened, first-year students informally commented on the desire tohave an entry-level space that was not so intimidating. The school of engineering’s makerspacewas designed to be open and inclusive, but some first-year students were still nervous learningthe new equipment next to seniors working on their capstone project and graduate
STEM program to prepare pre-service teachers to become K-12 technology and engineering educators. His research involves engaging college students in human centered design and improving creativity. He also develops nanotechnology based lessons that integrate the STEM disciplines. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Design through empathy: how low vision simulators can be used to engage students in better design solutions (Academic Practice/Design Interventions) INTRODUCTION: One of the objectives of a first-‐year engineering design course is to engage students in a real engineering design project. The team project typically
, andInclusivity in STEM Education at Cal Poly,” PLC sought to: 1. identify explanations for patterns of underrepresentation that exist within the research and best practices literature; 2. assess how Cal Poly’s student recruitment (admission and yield), retention, and graduation demographics compare to those at other institutions and the nation (with a focus on discipline-by-discipline comparisons); 3. employ the research and best practices literature as a lens to a) initiate analysis of Cal Poly at the course, major, department, college, and university levels and b) identify research questions and areas of uncertainty; 4. build and strengthen new and existing faculty
his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering in 2003 during which time he spent two summers and one-year designing equipment for the livestock and dairy industries at Kuhn North America. In 2004, Dr. Digman returned to graduate school to study Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Madison where he received his master’s and doctor of philosophy degrees in 2006 and 2009, respectively. Dr. Digman has experience in design and evaluation of novel machine forms for production of biofuels, biomaterials, food and livestock feed at the United States Dairy Forage Research Center (USDA-ARS) and, most recently, in a research role at Kuhn North America
in and teachers to identify appropriate learning discipline-specific content. Once teachers formulated a design problem for their assessment curricula, instructional materials, students (third design challenge), teachers worked in small teams to develop instructional and assessment methods. materials and assessment tools such as rubrics for evaluating student performance. E. Alignment to The professional learning institute was developed and implemented by engineering faculty Professional learning for (content experts) and education faculty (educational research and practice experts). As such, research
-2016-2017/2. Guilford, W.H., Allen, T.E., & Peirce, S.M. “The Forgotten Steps of Engineering Design: Design-Build Experiences and their Downstream Effect on Capstone Design Projects.” Paper presented at 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio. https://peer.asee.org/28970, 2017.3. Lattuca, L.R., Terenzini, P.T., & Volkwein, J.F., Engineering change: A study of the impact of EC2000. ABET: Baltimore, 2006.4. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A.L., & Cocking, R.R. (Eds.), How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999.5. Karweit, N. “Contextual learning: A review and synthesis”, in Educational Reform and Vocational Education, A.M. Milne, Ed. Washington, DC: U.S
graduate, having an entrepreneurial mindset will help thembecome creative and valuable engineers. “EML is not about start-ups, it is about thinkingcreatively and creating value for society” [2]. However, it is not easy for students to build upentrepreneurial skills within one course or a couple of courses in an already crowded engineeringprogram. The College of Engineering (CoE) at Colorado Technical University (CTU) decided toembed entrepreneurial skills in engineering learning activities for a number of coursesthroughout the program curriculum, requiring an efficient and integrated process. Byincorporating EML in different course sequences such as circuits, electronic design, andcommunication sequences, students will have the opportunity to
looking at student support through this lens is that the MCCS provides a way todeconstruct student support and identify the underlying experiences. This multipronged approachis advantageous because, while specific interventions may not be transferable, students’experiences can transcend contexts within and across institutions. For example, instead ofinvestigating the impact of peer mentoring programs—which are not often identical—this lensallows us to investigate the impact of the overall perception of interactions that students havewith other students outside of the classroom.Research Design& RationaleThe development of the survey instrument is being carried out following best practices asdefined by DeVellis [2] and Gall, Gall & Borg [3
Paper ID #21789Using Experiential Learning in Course Curriculum: The Case of a Core En-gineering Graphics CourseDr. Martha M. Snyder, Nova Southeastern University Martha (Marti) Snyder, Ph.D., PMP, SPHR teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in learning design and technology, design thinking, project management, and computing privacy and ethics. She also chairs doctoral student dissertations. Marti researches effective designs for teaching and learning in face-to- face, blended, online, mobile, and virtual learning environments; and issues relating to technology use among older adults. Her work crosses multiple
experience, for example in high school math andphysics, is a better predictor for success on a first-year fluid mechanics midterm than is theexposure to online learning materials such as practice problems (via the LMS) or online reviewvideos. This suggests that prior performance (e.g., grades) and not just experience may be amongthe best predictors available. Finally, the data have confirmed that student performance on amidterm exam is most significantly impacted by whether students attend classes regularly andfor the full duration of the class, and whether they have access to the book—although it does notseem to matter much if that access is to a digital copy or to a printed copy.In conclusion, it is clear that more study is required to elucidate
Paper ID #23329The Industry Scholars Program: An Immersive Professional Experience forUndergraduatesDr. Breanne Przestrzelski, University of San Diego Bre Przestrzelski, PhD, is a post-doctoral research associate in the General Engineering department in the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, where she seeks to innovatively integrate social justice, humani- tarian advancement, and peace into the traditional engineering canon. Before joining USD in August 2017, Bre spent 9 years at Clemson University, where she was a three-time graduate of the bioengineering program (BS, MS, and PhD), founder of The Design &