that seeks to promote racial equity andincrease interest in computing careers by integrating elements of computing, music, social justice,and entrepreneurship. Centering around the song “Entrepreneur” by Pharrell Williams, studentsengage in lyrical analysis to extract and explore themes of social justice using the OUTKASTImagination framework. Students then engage with musical concepts from a computingperspective and implement them using EarSketch, a web-based, learn-to-code through musicremixing platform developed at Georgia Tech. In this paper, we present a description of the YourVoice is Power Curriculum and results from an evaluation study. The curriculum overviewincludes a description of the content and activities, as well as a discussion
Paper ID #42725Board 68: Integration of Learning by Evaluating (LbE) within the 5E InstructionalModel in Engineering-Design EducationDr. Wonki Lee, Purdue University Wonki Lee received a Ph.D. in Education, Curriculum Instruction, Language and Literacy at Purdue University. She received her bachelor’s and master’s, specializing in Korean language education as a second/foreign language, from Seoul National University, South Korea. Her research interests are self-efficacy, culturally responsive teaching, and machine learning in a diverse educational setting.Prof. Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University Nathan Mentzer is a
implementation of project-based engineering courses have been growing during thepast decade. However, evidence-based evaluations of the degree to which project-based courseshave improved student retention and learning are still rare. Faculty members at Texas A&MUniversity have developed a project-based first-year engineering curriculum that draws on theestablished knowledge base of integrated engineering curricula to construct a new learningexperience for engineering majors. The first pilot of the curriculum was offered to approximately200 students in the 2004-05 academic year. Students who continued in engineering are nowtaking a sophomore engineering mechanics course in classes with students who were intraditional first-year courses. Comparison of
engineering curriculum went through a major curriculum change in2001 that included adding an interdisciplinary sophomore and junior design course to theexisting freshman and senior design capstone courses. The new courses were added as part of aNSF grant entitled “Integrating Engineering Design with the Humanities, Social Sciences,Sciences and Mathematics.” The interdisciplinary sophomore design course has undergoneseveral iterations since its inception. Initially, the sophomore course paralleled our seniorcapstone design course with each project team of 3 to 6 students working on industrial sponsoredproject with a practicing engineer as the technical mentor. This approach has worked extremelywell for our senor design course because of the effort put
teamor knowledge of farming, the experience led to encouraging outcomes including high levels ofstudent engagement and gains in their engineering design self-efficacy. Having a “client” oncampus (i.e., the student farm) with a rich set of problems to solve and access to the site providedstudents with an authentic opportunity to explore, collaborate and develop their design solutions.Preliminary course outcomes including significant gains in students’ design self-efficacyhighlight the potential for integrated communication and design course(s) in undergraduateengineering curriculum across engineering majors and years. Plans are underway to continuewith the project through the Winter and Spring quarters, to assess feasibility for a larger
. 93.10. A New Theory for the Assignment of Members to Engineering Design Teams. Chambers, Terrence ,Manning , Alan and Theriot, Lovonia . Las Cruces, NM : ASEE, 2000.11. Capstone Course in an Integrated Engineering Curriculum. Jenkins, Rod, et al., et al. 2, s.l. : Journal ofProfessional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 2002, Vol. 128.12. Report: A Capstone Project Involving a Hundred Students, for an Industrial Partner. Stearns, Daniel,et al., et al. Valencia, Spain : International Conference on Engineering Education, 2003.13. An Optimization Routine for Assigning Students to Capstone Project Groups. Schmidt, Peter, et al., etal. Vancouver, BC : ASEE, 2011.14. Academic and Industrial Perspectives on Capstone Course Content and the
distance/asynchronous learning technologies and methods, object-oriented programming,modeling, and design.HASSAN AREF is Dean of Engineering and Reynolds Metals Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics. Hejoined Tech in April 2003 after ten years as department head at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has along-standing interest in engineering education and arranged for the first ever session on “Education in Mechanics”at the 2004 International Congress of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics in Warsaw, Poland.SUSAN MAGLIARO is Director of the School of Education at Virginia Tech. She holds an Ed.D. in curriculum andinstruction from Virginia Tech. She has experience as a classroom teacher in general and special education
AC 2008-657: TEACHING THE SN METHOD: ZERO TO INTERNATIONALBENCHMARK IN SIX WEEKSErich Schneider, University of Texas at Austin Dr. Schneider is an Assistant Professor of Nuclear and Radiation Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Since joining the UT faculty in 2006, Dr. Schneider has been active in the development of a modern nuclear energy systems analysis curriculum including courses in computational radiation transport and the nuclear fuel cycle. Prior to joining UT, Dr. Schneider was a Technical Staff Member in the Nuclear Systems Design group at Los Alamos National Laboratory
AC 2007-3028: ENGINEERING DESIGN AND COMMUNICATIONS: SUCCESSESAND FAILURES OF AN EVOLVING FIRST-YEAR COURSEJanice Miller-Young, Mount Royal College JANICE MILLER-YOUNG is a P.Eng. with a background in mechanical engineering and a PhD in biomechanics. She has worked in the oil industry, has consulted for sports equipment companies and academics on biomechanics research, and has been teaching engineering design for three years. She also incorporates writing-across-the curriculum and inquiry-based learning concepts in more traditional courses such as statics and dynamics.Sean Maw, Mount Royal College Sean Maw has a PhD in Neuroscience (University of Alberta) and a BASc/MASc in Systems
understanding.When introducing lifelong learning skills into the engineering curriculum at Grand Valley StateUniversity, there were multiple considerations. How should lifelong learning skills be defined bythis program? What courses and assignments already embody these concepts and skills in someway, implicitly or explicitly? What existing programs, courses, or assignments could be revisedor augmented to introduce lifelong learning skills more explicitly and measurably? At what pointin the curriculum should lifelong learning skills be introduced, and how often?This paper reports on a work in progress where ABET program outcome „i‟ is introduced in afirst-year course through the use of an independent research project, focusing on the ability toseek out and
AC 2008-136: IN-CLASS CIRCUITS: USING PASSIVE COMPONENTS TOCREATE ACTIVE LEARNINGAlan Niemi, LeTourneau University Alan D. Niemi is an Associate Professor and Chair of Engineering Technology at LeTourneau University. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology from Lake Superior State University and his M.S.E.E. from Illinois Institute of Technology. He has taught courses in Electrical Engineering and Technology for 21 years. In addition to teaching, Mr. Niemi has spent 7 years in industry designing digital and microcontroller systems. Page 13.722.1© American Society for
, software, and firmware aspects of microcomputers are covered in detail. RIT: (B.S. in Computer Engineering Technology) There is an increasing requirement in industry for graduates with an in-depth knowledge of both hardware and software design and development. The program bridges the gap between hardware and software by providing a solid foundation in both and tying the disciplines together with a curriculum that has intensive classroom and laboratory components. From a software perspective, students are provided with a strong background in leading edge development using programming languages that are fully entrenched in industry. Students learn industry standard approaches to application software development as well as state-of
adventure; and pathways for integrating the online and offline curricula. Figure 1: The Through My Window homepage (left) shows options for reading the Talk to Me novel, engaging in learning adventures and other options. The Team Through My Window homepage (right) shows options for learning about the project and accessing educator resources.III. Imaginative Education Engaging the imagination is not a sugar-coated adjunct to learning; it is the very heart of learning. It is what brings meaning and sense and context and understanding to the knowledge we wish to teach. --Kieran Egan, An Imaginative Approach to Teaching4The learning sciences place great emphasis on developing
. Sheppard, E. McGrath, and B. Gallois, “Promoting Systems Thinking inEngineering and Pre-Engineering Students,” in American Society for Engineering EducationSpring 2008 Mid-Atlantic Section Proceeding. 2008.[2] J.E. Mills, and D.F. Treagust, “Engineering Education—Is Problem-Based or Project-BasedLearning the Answer,” Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 3, pp. 2-16 2003.[3] D. J. Cappelleri and N. Vitoroulis, "The Robotic Decathlon: Project-Based Learning Labsand Curriculum Design for an Introductory Robotics Course," IEEE Transactions on Education,vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 73-81, Feb. 2013.[4] M. Yim, et al. "AC 2008-2230: A Practice-Integrated Undergraduate Curriculum inMechanical Engineering," ASEE PEER, pp. 13.81.1 - 13.81.15 Jun
showcase the nexus of science and design using case studies, news, and articles. As an instructor, she was one of the recipients of The Allan Blizzard Award, a Canadian national teaching award for collaborative projects that improve student learning in 2004. In 2005, she was one of the recipients of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Curriculum Innovation Award. She is - as PIC II chair - currently a board member of ASEE.Dr. Denis Onen, University of Calgary Dr. Onen is a registered professional engineer with a broad industrial background in electrical engineering, in the following areas: electronics and embedded systems, integrated circuit design (signal processing and crytpography), biomedical engineering
AC 2011-1905: DESIGNING AND TESTING WATER FILTRATION DE-VICES USING THE ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS: A DESCRIP-TION OF AN EIGHTH GRADE CURRICULAR UNIT ON BIOREMEDI-ATIONTirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Arizona State University Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh is Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. He has bachelors and masters degrees in Computer Science and Engineering and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction. His research interests include educational research methods, communication of research, and k-16+ engineering education. Ganesh’s research is largely focused on studying k-12 curricula, and teaching-learning processes in both the formal and informal
, 2003, pp. 197-205.9. Lamancusa, J. S., Jorgensen, J. E. and Fridley, J. L., "Product Dissection - A Tool for Benchmarking in the Process of Teaching Design," 26th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, IEEE, Vol. 3, 1996, pp. 1317-1321.10. Beaudoin, D. L. and Ollis, D. F., "A Product and Process Engineering Laboratory for Freshmen," ASEE Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 84, No. 3, 1995, pp. 279-284.11. Sheppard, S. D., "Mechanical Dissection: An Experience in How Things Work," Proceedings of the Engineering Education: Curriculum Innovation & Integration, Santa Barbara, CA, 1992.12. Lamancusa, J. S., Jorgensen, J. E. and Zayas-Castro, J. L., "The Learning Factory-A New Approach to
eight courses taught in the profiled higher education makerspace, threedesign-focused instructional methods are presented that integrate course instruction, skilldevelopment, knowledge acquisition, and client-based problem solving by student teams. Thesemethods have been applied across all four undergraduate years in courses closely aligned withbiomedical engineering, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, and engineering asa whole (for an introductory course). The courses span design education across the typical gapbetween cornerstone and capstone design courses. In all cases, the specific role of the highereducation makerspace in enhancing the value of these courses is demonstrated.IntroductionThe establishment of higher education
alreadybegun to change the way engineers work. In the automotive industry, these challenges havebeen most severe in the areas of supply chain integration, organizational culture shift, andcommunication. More and more newly hired engineers in the automotive/manufacturingindustry are required to work in global team projects. In addition to the basics of engineering,the engineer of the future will need to have a thorough understanding of the extended network ofentities that form the supply chain, need to be adept in dealing with individuals from diversecultural backgrounds, and will need to stay abreast of the latest collaborative technologyavailable. In this paper, we present a model for teaching engineering courses through whichstudents experience
to help me create and teach instructional unitsconnecting math concepts to engineering design. The Summer Institute was part of theCincinnati Engineering Enhanced Math and Science Program (CEEMS), which is a Math andScience Partnership grant funded by the National Science Foundation, DUE-1102990. In oneinstructional unit taught to approximately 30 students in my honors pre-calculus class, I mademathematical concepts more relevant to students’ everyday lives by presenting them with theconnections between math, music, engineering, and science. The study of sound through musicis an excellent way to introduce the mathematics of waves. When presented with trigonometry,students are often confused and sometimes turned off by the subject. My
tools and equipment that can’t be locked downthroughout the curriculum. For example, the freshmen might only need to use PVC cutters andsand paper, while juniors are expected to be able to use the band saw and drill press forfabrication tasks. These tools and skills are taught to students in small groups by Design StudioTAs during class time as needed.4 Impact on StudentsThe impact of the Design Studio on our undergraduate population was assessed as a subcategoryof outcomes in our Department’s standard alumni survey, which is administered approximatelyevery five years as part of the ABET accreditation process. In fall 2015, an online survey wasdistributed to all alumni of the department, both graduate and undergraduate, with active
presented by safety experts, librarians, architects,and students. Faculty members from high schools, community colleges and universitiesparticipated in the symposium. Multiple papers addressed making and its role in collegeadmissions, highlighting another key aspect of academic makerspaces.The symposium included the following papers and presentations from institutions outside theUnited States: Best Practices for a Newly Established Academic Makerspace in a Nascent Maker Ecosystem (Pakistan) Using Makerspaces to Develop Didactic Models for Mechanical Engineering (Guatemala) Development of an Educational Program Using Capabilities of an Academic Makerspace (Austria) SNU Idea Factory with Integrative
evidence to support that their program is meeting ABET outcomes A through K[25, 28-29].Engineering programs strategically locate capstone design courses within the last year ofundergraduate engineering studies, where students can apply the fundamental technicalknowledge gained in previous courses in an authentic real-world context. Several institutionshave identified Capstone Design as an ideal place for teaching professional skills, which aretypically not emphasized earlier in the curriculum [30]. Howe’s Capstone Design survey of 232engineering institutions showed that the five most common topics taught were: writtencommunication, oral communication, engineering ethics, project planning and scheduling, anddecision making. Only 48% of the survey
AC 2007-1659: DEVELOPING AN UNDERSTANDING OF INSTRUCTORS’DESIGN LEARNING PHILOSOPHIES IN A SERVICE-LEARNING CONTEXTCarla Zoltowski, Purdue University CARLA B. ZOLTOWSKI is Education Administrator of the EPICS Program at Purdue University. She received her BSEE and MSEE from Purdue University, and is currently pursuing her PhD in Engineering Education at Purdue. She has served as a lecturer in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.William Oakes, Purdue University WILLIAM C. OAKES is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Purdue University and the Interim-Director of the EPICS Program. He is a co-recipient of the 2005 National Academy of
authorities and someschools have realized that the traditional teaching models cannot meet the needs of industrialupgrading and development. Novel teaching model emphasizes demand decision, valueorientation, comprehensive engineering training, and overall reform of curriculum system.At the national level, the “National Medium and Long Term Education Reform andDevelopment Plan (2010-2020)” presented a major education and teaching reform program -program to educate and train excellent engineers (Excellence Plan), which was officiallylaunched in June 2010. "Excellence Plan" is an important measure for China's engineeringeducation to serve the national development strategy in the new period. The task is to focuson "industry guidance, school-enterprise
University of California, Irvine. She earned her B.S. in aerospace engineering at Syracuse University and her Ph.D. in engineering education in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is particularly interested in teaching conceptions and methods and graduate level engineering education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Whom are we serving? An exploration of student demographics in a large engineering design projects ecosystemAbstractProject-based learning is a popular way for students to gain hands-on experience in engineeringcurriculums. Curriculum in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at
, National Institute of Fashion Technology Working as Assistant Professor in National Institute of Fashion Technology, Chennai. Having 11 years of experience in Teaching.Published International paper on the topic ’ Improving the Quality of Teaching- Learning Process in Design Education’. Ph.D scholar in National Institute of Technical Teachers Training & Research,Chennai,India. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 The Quality of Education and its Challenges in Developing CountriesAbstract In today’s competitive environment with globalization and GATS (Global Agreement onTrade in Service) drive for quality becomes an important
of the integrated design and communication pedagogy of the course. In addition to engineering communication, her areas of interest and expertise include interdisciplinary learning, collaborative learning and teamwork, meta-cognitive learning, information literacy, and student learning outcomes assessment. Page 12.406.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Converging-Diverging Design Strategies in a Sophomore Level Design Sequence: Review of an Electromechanical ProjectAbstractAt our university Sophomore Clinics I and II are part of an eight-semester design sequence inwhich
. Page 25.412.4These objectives facilitated the team’s development of an interdisciplinary, collaborative groupproject in which students created a working video game by the end of the semester. The coursestructure is described in more detail below starting with the course project which drove thedesign of the course. Appendix A contains a detailed listing of the topics taught in the lecture andlab section each week.The Course Project: OverviewTo assess students’ mastery of the course learning objectives, student teams were required tosubmit a working video game at the end of the semester. The curriculum development teamdebated whether to provide students with a detailed design specification for the game or to givethem more design freedom by
environments and conditions will be more effective and less expensivepath to improved health. Local research-focused universities can (and should) play a critical rolein this scenario3,4.Academic institutions have always played an important role in healthcare. Historically theResearch University is a site of discovery and innovation as well as a place where futurehealthcare workers are trained. In the United States and other developed countries great advanceshave come from a decades-long integration of engineering and medicine, however, in thedeveloping world engineering faculty and physicians collaborate with much less frequency. Theobjectives of this program address the challenging development issues facing Global Health inrelation to the creation