suggestions for designing similar engineering leadership programs in the future.IntroductionFast-paced technological transformation and innovation demands not only technical expertisefrom future engineers, but also multiple soft skills, in particular leadership [1]. Crumpton-Young indicated that engineering leadership is the influence and ability to lead otherengineers and technical staff to design, create, innovate, implement and evaluate and assessservices and products [2]. MIT-Gordon engineering leadership program describes engineeringleadership as a set of capabilities and values that enable a person to accomplish a multi-disciplinary complex project by leading teams instead of functioning as an individualtechnical contributor. Engineering
. in civil engineering from VT. His research interests are in the areas of computer-supported research and learning systems, hydrol- ogy, engineering education, and international collaboration. He has led several interdisciplinary research and curriculum reform projects, funded by the National Science Foundation, and has participated in re- search and curriculum development projects with $4.5 million funding from external sources. He has been directing/co-directing an NSF/Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site on interdisciplinary water sciences and engineering at VT since 2007. This site has 66 alumni to date. Dr. Lohani collab- orated with his colleagues to implement a study abroad project (2007-12
support the development ofinterdisciplinary curricula at the undergraduate level and encourage faculty and studentengagement in interdisciplinary projects that could be later presented at the university, regional,national and international levels. SEMS-ROC demonstrates diversity in research backgroundsof the faculty and includes interdisciplinary interests of all three departments in the school.Research activities tend to cluster around several broad topic areas involving faculty from acrossSEMS disciplines as well as in some cases, from other Schools at the institution along with otherinstitutions around the country.One of the initiatives undertaken at SEMS-ROC to break down the departmental-level andschool-level silos and encourage to nurture
can also include demonstrations of real-world applications. Forexample, in the capstone design courses and projects, students can use relatively inexpensivemicrocontrollers such as Arduino, Raspberry PI, and Beaglebone to serve as complementaryhardware with the myDAQ from National Instruments. These affordable microcontrollers havebeen investigated or used by past student group projects. Instructors can also use myDAQ andthe microcontrollers to demonstrate key concepts found in circuit analysis and electronicscourses. To further promote user engagement, any student questions raised from the interactiveand multimedia content can be addressed in the online and required interactive chat sessions.From an online perspective, synchronous delivery
cohorts. The initialfaculty cohort team comprises five of the six facilitators of the new cohorts. Moreover, all sevenmembers of the initial faculty cohort continue to meet. This community of practice is leading thedevelopment of additional workshops, implementation of an assessment/evaluation framework todocument the effect of active learning as this continues and expands through SCSE, writing grantproposals to enable further dissemination of the multidisciplinary cohort model approach acrossa college of engineering and science, and supporting each other’s individual research endeavors.IntroductionThis paper describes Work in Progress (WIP) efforts to increase active learning in a college ofengineering and science. Motivation for this project
in the open-ended responses about these team-basedapplied projects was that most occur at the end of the program, usually acting as a capstone orsenior project. As a result, many these projects occur as part of academic classes within theirrespective programs. Projects tend to be tailored to meet the needs of different majors, as well asthe current needs of industry and the community. For example, some of these projects maybenefit the community or a company by having students build a product that can be used (e.g., apiece of specialized equipment or a campus bridge). Likewise, these applied products help thestudent gain direct experience (e.g., skills and knowledge) working on a specialized project intheir field of interest (e.g., a
authors developed an exploratory pilot interview focusing on students’identification and recognition of the application of course concepts into their senior designprojects. The pilot interview was qualitative, semi-structured, and open-ended in nature.2,3 Theinterview protocol is listed in table 4.In order to explore students’ ability to recognize and identify mechatronics, instrumentation, andexperimental design concepts without biasing their answers at the initiation of the interview, theprotocol followed a specified format. The first stage of the interview allowed the students toexplain their senior design project (i.e. their roles, problems faced, and stage in design). Thesecond stage of the interview engaged students in talk about concepts
Technological University since March 2014. She has the position of an interpreter and her current area of activities includes: organization international conferences, visits of foreign delega- tions, writing minutes of the meetings; preparation documents for concluding international agreements and making calendar and end-of-year reports. Marina is the author or co-author of about 15 research papers.Dr. Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Sanger is a professor in the School of Engineering Technology in the College of Technology of Purdue University. His focus and passion is real world, industry based, senior capstone experiences both domes- tically and internationally. He has successfully developed
College. She is the senior design co-ordinator for Mechanical Engineering within the School of Engi- neering at Penn State Behrend. She is also involved in the executive committee of Design In Engineering Education Division at ASEE and the Capstone Design Conference.Johnathan Moody, Pennsylvania State College, Erie c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 MAKER: Redesign of a Multipurpose Hardware Tool to Improve its Functionality and MarketabilityAbstractThis paper presents the summary of a maker project that redesigned a multi-purpose utility tool,originally designed for linemen. While the tool had a great potential, its original design was aletdown and the product was a
andcomplex problems,” can be achieved through educational practices, such as first-year seminars,learning communities, E-Portfolios, service learning courses, internships and capstone projects(7). Barriers that exist for integrative learning in higher education today often point to afragmented undergraduate curriculum (collections of independent classes in general education,specialized study, and electives) and the organization of knowledge into distinct and separatecolleges and departments, “even though scholarship, learning, and life have no such artificialboundaries” (p. 16) (7). Learning communities, capstone experiences, and service learningprojects can transcend these barriers by organizing around interdisciplinary themes, linkingcross
decisions as we flipped our multi-sectionsophomore project-based design engineering course, Mechanical Engineering (ME 270). Ourcourse is part of the mechanical engineering department’s critical design course chain, whichalso includes a course on introduction to engineering graphics and two senior capstone designcourses (Mechanical Systems and Multidisciplinary). These critical design courses are “chained”together through prerequisites. ME 270 serves as the initial exposure to the application ofengineering design tools and methodologies, which are shared across the chain.In ME 270 students work in permanent design teams tasked with the creation of micro-economykits (projects) resulting in a working design prototype that promotes sustainability and
Proceedings, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, INFORMS Transactions on Education, and the International Journal of Engineering Ed- ucation, and others. She authored the book Oral Communication Excellence for Engineers and Scientists, published in summer 2013. Over the past 15 years Dr. Norback has given over 40 conference presen- tations and workshops at nation-wide conferences such as ASEE, where she has served as chair of the Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Division. She has been an officer for the Education Forum of INFORMS and has served as Associate Chair for the National Capstone Design Conference. Dr. Norback has a Bachelors’ degree from Cornell University and a Masters and PhD from
Technological University After an 18 year career in the automotive industry, Dr. De Clerck joined the Michigan Tech Department of Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Mechanics in August 2009. His areas of expertise include noise and vibration, structural dynamics, design, modal analysis, model validation, inverse methods applied to design, and advanced measurement techniques.Dr. Michele Miller, Michigan Technological University Dr. Michele Miller is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological University. She teaches classes on manufacturing and does research in engineering education with particular interest in hands-on ability, lifelong learning, and project-based learning.Dr. Ibrahim Miskioglu, Michigan
for team-based learning, aswell as for a mentor to provide advice and feedback.Applied in an academic setting, the SEEA concept provides the possibility for a much broaderscope of learning environments than a capstone project or industry internship. These moretraditional approaches provide a beneficial learning experience and support integrating thevarious components of the SE body of knowledge, but are limited by time and domain. Thecapstone is usually a single project and at most a year in length. If it covers the full lifecycle,then it must be a fairly simple project and most likely represents only one domain. An internshipis even more limited, given that few companies would assign a student to a significant role orprovide much variation
students on their course projects. He was given an Outstanding Advising Award by USF and has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards at the department, college, university (Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teaching Award) and state (TIP award) levels. Scott is also a member of the executive com- mittee of a Helios-funded Middle School Residency Program for Science and Math (for which he taught the capstone course in spring 2014) and is on the planning committee for a new NSF IUSE grant to trans- form STEM Education at USF. His research is in the areas of solution thermodynamics and environmental monitoring and modeling.Dr. Sylvia W. Thomas, University of South Florida Dr. Sylvia Wilson Thomas is currently an
Paper ID #16821Seven Axioms of Good Engineering: Development of a Case Study-BasedCourse for NASADr. Anthony F. Luscher, Ohio State University Dr. Anthony Luscher has taught engineering design for 23 years at the freshman, sophomore and senior levels. He leads the capstone design effort at Ohio State and is interested in innovative methods of teaching design. At Ohio State he conducts research in innovative fastening strategies and methods, assembly ergonomics and structural optimization.Mr. Roger Forsgren, NASA Headquarters Roger Forsgren is the director of NASA’s Academy of Program/Project and Engineering
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need to be flexible and accessible tostudents in order to help trouble-shoot computer programs, electrical circuits, fabricationtechniques, and mechanical component and system design. While simultaneously encouragingthe ambitious students who may have prior relevant experience, instructors also need to be patientand to coach those students who are not as well-prepared and who feel overwhelmed by the paceof instruction and the difficulty of the projects.Adoption of LWTL as our Freshman Engineering (FE) curriculum has had positive side effects onother parts of our BSME program. Students have asked for more hands-on experiences in otherclasses; some have incorporated Arduino microcontrollers into their senior capstone projects; anda group of
. Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause is professor in the Materials Science Program in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of introductory materials engineering, polymers and composites, and capstone design. His research interests include evaluating conceptual knowledge, mis- conceptions and technologies to promote conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on NSF projects in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback with
George W McNelly Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, In- diana, USA. He received a Ph.d. from Purdue University in 1995. He is the founder and director of two industry sponsored applied research labs: Power Electronics Development and Applications Lab (PEDAL) and Smart Meter Integration Lab (SMIL). He is the Principal Investigator of one of 10 Global Innovation projects funded by the US department of State, Rapid, Smart Grid Impact RSGI), partnering with DeMontfort University in Leicester, UK, and UNESP in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has been a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) since 1998.Mr. Naveen Kumar Koyi, Purdue University, West Lafayette Naveen Kumar was
example of evolvable SDRbased laboratories for three existing undergraduate courses. In this project, we are developingnew lab components that can be adopted by multiple courses ranging from freshman yearintroductory course to senior year capstone design projects. Specifically, we have developed aSDR based general modulation/demodulation platform with a graphical user interface (GUI).This user-friendly GUI will allow students to adjust RF parameters such as carrier frequency andsymbol rate. More importantly, this general modulation/demodulation platform is capable oftransmitting many popular modulation schemes such as BPSK, QPSK, 8PSK, 16PSK, 16QAM,64QAM. Additionally, students are able to observe the transmitted signal in both time andfrequency
projects give little consideration to the cognitive and behavioralprocesses such as team building, clarifying goals and expectations, planning, communication,consensus building and conflict resolution; which hold the key to successful collaboration.5,6 Arecent review of research on engineering student teams suggests that our understanding of howbest to cultivate collaboration amongst remote teams of students is largely underdeveloped7.Others have noted an opportunity to capitalize on much of the life-long learning that can occurthrough team dynamics and interaction.6Web-based scaffolds that include technologies and team activities help enhance virtual teamcollaboration by providing support for online collaboration. A team scaffold is a stable
software testing techniques. This preparationshould increase the students’ chances of success in both creating testable requirements for theirapplications as well as creating adequate test cases.CS/CMP 403 – Senior Problem This is capstone course of Computer Science at AAMU and a continuation of CS/CMP401 (software engineering). During this course, the student is expected to code a single,meaningful project started earlier in CS/CMP 401 and present the results of this project in class.This project must meet a set of standards for software design and documentation. Topics ofprofessional ethics and responsibilities are discussed in the class. Software-testing techniquesmust be used in this course on the selected project to ensure the quality
relevant courses were contacted directly by email when practical. Thesurvey was conducted online using the open-source survey package LimeSurvey. The surveyquestions this year were developed in consultation with CACHE Corporation and with theAIChE Education and Accreditation Committee. The report consists primarily of the statisticaland demographic characterization of the course and its content, with some additional summaryresponses related to the course from open-ended questions. Additionally, the survey seeks tobring out the most innovative and effective approaches to teaching the course as cited byinstructors.Introduction and BackgroundThe AIChE Education Special Projects Committee conducted surveys of U.S. institutionsbetween 1965-1993
from the Software Engineering Master’s Program.Two distinctive aspects of the Stevens engineering curriculum are the traditional breadth ofengineering education (see Figure 1) and the integrative, eight-course Design Spine The DesignSpine is a fundamental component of the engineering curriculum that is required for all B.E.students, regardless of discipline. It consists of eight core design courses taken throughout alleight undergraduate semesters of study including a two-semester capstone senior design project,which introduces students to the underlying principles of engineering design through hands-onand project-based learning [7]. For the software engineering students, the senior design projectwill be a multi-disciplinary project focused on
freshman or capstone engineering classes that have a fairly broad scope of learningobjectives. This paper describes the design and assessment of a service-learning module in arequired junior-level course in probability and statistics for engineering students at a large publicuniversity, which typically enrolls 90-100 students. This course is ideal for service learningbecause students struggle with the material, complaining it is “too theoretical”, and can feelanonymous in a large lecture course. Yet, there are few examples of how to successfullyintegrate service-learning ideas, including reflection activities, into a high-enrollment course thattraditionally focuses heavily on quantitative fundamentals.This paper details the design, student work
potentially interested in the makerspacemovement and for those in the beginning stages of planning or implementation of a space. Ourprimary aim is to help students navigate through the process of creating a space similar to ours,emphasizing resources (people, financial, and otherwise) needed. Our secondary aim is toprovide faculty with student perspective on the creation of a makerspace, including the type ofguidance needed (and not needed) from a collaboration between students and faculty.Team-Building (Empathize)It cannot be emphasized enough the importance of a diverse team of both faculty and studentswhen working on a student-centered project like this one. Our student group consisted of twobiomedical engineering majors (one with an interest in
, organizational change, and program management. Dr. Springer sits on many university and community boards and advisory committees. He is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions; most recently he was awarded the Purdue University, College of Technology, Equity, Inclusion and Advocacy Award. Dr. Springer received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University, his MBA and Doctorate in Adult and Community Education with a Cognate in Executive Development from Ball State University. He is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP), Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR & SHRM-SCP), in Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR), and, in civil and domestic mediation. He is a State of
understanding, it is possible todetermine if an additional longitudinal study could be used to determine if this teaching approachbrings skills to students to help them perform in their capstone projects more effectively.Specifically, the goal is to determine if this teaching method increases student conceptualunderstanding of the material and interdependencies between different aspects of the courseThe ideation for this research falls at the intersection of traditional education concepts, specificresearch on the education of business end of systems management, and future goals forengineering education.Beginning with traditional education processes, in 1973, curriculum theoretician, JosephSchwab, wrote The Practical: A Language for Curriculum, where he
Paper ID #16509Balancing the Influence of Driving and Restricting Factors to Use ActiveLearningDr. James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach James J. Pembridge is an Assistant Professor in the Freshman Engineering Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, M.A. Education in Curriculum and Instruction, and Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. His research has focused on mentoring as pedagogy for project-based courses and understanding the adult learning characteristics of undergraduate students.Dr. Kari L. Jordan, Embry-Riddle