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-cost and versatile hardware kit for a remote first-year mechanical engineering design classI. IntroductionEngineering design courses with hands-on laboratories are a critical component of an engineeringundergraduate curriculum. In particular, incorporating design courses early has been shown tohelp with retention rates in engineering, as well as with improved ability of students to solve open-ended problems [1, 2]. These courses have also shown student progress in academic achievementby helping to build confidence in their engineering skills, and by expanding their perspective onproblems and solutions [3, 4]. Introduction to Engineering Graphics and Design is an introductorylevel course, usually taken by
Paper ID #34174Leadership and Communication Network Identification and Analysis withDependency Structure Matrices in Senior Design TeamsDr. 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.Prof
Paper ID #32834Emergency Transition of Intro Communication and Design Course to RemoteTeachingMr. Clay Swackhamer, University of California, Davis Clay is a PhD candidate at UC Davis working under the supervision of Dr. Gail M. Bornhorst in the department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering. His research focuses on the breakdown of solid foods during gastric digestion and the development of improved in vitro models for studying digestion.Dr. Jennifer Mullin, University of California, Davis Jennifer S. Mullin is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering. She has a
Education, 2021 Culturally Responsive Engineering Education: Creativity through “Empowered to Change” in the US and “Admonished to Preserve” in Japan Author(s) InformationAbstract:Enhancing creativity is an indispensable goal of many engineering courses. However, withflourishment of global collaboration in various engineering classrooms and best educationalpractices being replicated across cultures, there are not many curriculum interventions thatoriginate from students’ diverse cultural needs. When cultural differences are ignored, studentsmay get culturally biased grades and face confusion and difficulties. For instance, the notion of“disruption” and “breakthrough” in product design innovation is
engineering to sales engineering to design engineering. He has also functioned as an engineering technology faculty for three years at Zane State College in Zanesville, Ohio, where he developed and taught courses that included CAD, solid modeling, statics, strength of materials, machine design, and statistical process control. He is currently active in curriculum development and education research focused on capstone design.Dr. Kris Jaeger-Helton, Northeastern University Professor Beverly Kris Jaeger-Helton, Ph.D. is on the full-time faculty in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University (NU) teaching Simulation Modeling & Analysis, Human-Machine Systems, Facilities Planning &
240 hours ofpracticum, were formed to support practice-based, professional community service beyond thetraditional classroom experiences.Innovation and Entrepreneurship Courses Fostering entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking in students is integral to theprogram's culture and is highlighted as an essential part of the curriculum in our UTEP catalog.We are currently considering a curricular revision to provide a more holistic approach tointegrating entrepreneurial thinking throughout the curriculum. As a result, we expect to havemore opportunities to assess the related competencies critical for developing entrepreneurism inour students. Figure 1. The main engineering design stream courses in the program
relatively new feature of HCD modes of contextualization, butthis emphasis on the bigger picture is a cornerstone of other approaches to contextualizingengineering education. Appreciating complex interactions not only between designers and users,but also between engineers themselves, other human and non-human actors, and broader socialand cultural factors is an important aspect of a mode of contextualization that we describe associotechnical thinking. In this mode, contextualization is a key aspect of curriculum because ithelps students to understand what engineering is: namely, that engineering work is asociotechnical endeavor [10], [38]. Educators who practice this type of contextualization pursue“sociotechnical integration” as a learning outcome
understanding coursematerial and assignments. Positive impact on their understanding of elements and principles ofdesign, an integrated course objective for the interior design and art course, indicated 97%satisfied or very satisfied. When asked whether they perceived a positive impact on academicsuccess in the interior design course and art course, student response indicated 83.9% agreed orstrongly agreed.Respondents indicated a positive impact due to the amount of time spent together in the learningcommunity with 90% agree or strongly agree; and 84% agreed or strongly agreed that the © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings | Paper ID 35129learning community
and open innovation engineering-related projects become more wide-spread and globally orientated, we must pay attention to cybersecurity issues that can emerge.The sharing of data and personally identifiable information are fundamental aspects ofcrowdsourcing and open innovation initiatives, necessitating the evaluation of the cybersecurityconcerns of user privacy, data confidentiality, data integrity and system availability. Lapseswithin any area of the cybersecurity realm can result in damages to reputation, cause for legaldamage or regulatory action. Governance of crowdsourced projects must include attention to both ethicalconsiderations, as well as cybersecurity issues, regardless of their scope and scale. Theexploitation of
on gestural orverbal communication that would uniquely identify another player, or activities in which order ofinteraction did not matter. These results suggest that the effectiveness of remote learning would beimproved with an interface for teleconferencing that (a) preserves the order of participants across theparticipant’s views of the class session and (b) provides participants with an easy-to-use and easy-to-understand means of pointing to other participants. IntroductionThe University of Texas at El Paso has offered its course in Innovation in Technology annuallysince 2013. The course was inspired by Carnegie Mellon University’s boot camp for enteringstudents in the Entertainment Technology
essential knowledge and skills in 2015 and,while engineering is now a recognized subject, many K-5 teachers, especially, do not feelprepared to integrate engineering into their pedagogy [2]. The idea of early childhood makerspace as a place to facilitate engineering teaching andlearning is a relatively new notion. While the makerspace concept began in the early 21stcentury, it’s standing in higher education settings and high school curricular activity is steadilyincreasing in acceptance and practice. The idea of a makerspace in public school Kindergarten isnovel, and especially in the southwest region. This paper describes an ethnographic case study ofa kindergarten makerspace and researcher lead collaboration within a local elementary
computed answer. Recently, a diligent statics student followed the author’s prescribedsteps to locate the centroid of the area under a parabola using equations found on the back coverof the text. The correct answer was computed; however, the student had no idea how, why, orwhat the meaning was. Figuring out how to find the abc’s in y=ax2+bx+c and then integratexdA to get the answer without using the equation on the back cover was not considered, eventhough the integration process had been the focus of a lecture two hours earlier and the studentwanted to know how the equation was developed. Was the math hard? No. Because the studentcouldn’t get beyond the equation in order to understand the phenomena (the moment of an areaabout an axis
is an understanding that just because I didn’t integrate r dθ today,calculus is still the means of obtaining πr2.As students progress into their engineering courses, they find themselves immersed in a worldwhere math and science occur simultaneously. Typically, each week of an engineering courseintroduces at least one new concept with its accompanying vocabulary, constants, symbols,model, and resulting equations. As an engineering instructor, it is easy to begin believing thatthere just isn’t enough time to cover all the required material. It is tempting to cut corners.Technology is bounding ahead and there is important ‘new stuff’ that engineers need to know.By racing through the traditional fundamental topics (the modeling and the math
Paper ID #33155Using the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam as an Assessment Toolfor Engineering Schools and Their LibrariesMs. Jean L. Bossart, University of Florida Jean Bossart is an Associate Engineering Librarian at the University of Florida (UF). She assists students with research, data support, and citation management. She investigates and integrates creative technolo- gies, such as 3D printing into the STEM discipline library services. She has a BS in chemical engineering and MS in environmental engineering from UF, over 20 years of experience in industry and consulting, and is a licensed professional engineer
commitment,including individuals’ willingness to coordinate efforts across the degree program and teach ESIin their own courses. Given shrinking credit hours for engineering degrees and an increasingnumber of topics, it can be challenging to find space in the curriculum for standalone ethicscourses [9]. These courses can be offered outside of the engineering department as part of thegeneral education or liberal arts requirement, but this approach can be met with a lack of studentengagement if the topics appear disconnected from their engineering preparation [10].Given these considerations, micro-insertions of ESI have been promoted as an effective approach[11]. Micro-insertion is the integration of ethics in technical courses “without substantial
Paper ID #35023Engineering Pedagogy Scale (EPS): Preliminary Development of anObservational Instrument to Detect Elementary Teachers’ Level ofEngineering-Pedagogical Content Knowledge (E-PCK) (Fundamental)Dr. Ibrahim H. Yeter, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University Ibrahim H. Yeter, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the National Institute of Education (NIE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Before joining NIE/NTU, he was appointed as a Postdoc- toral Research Fellow in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University and the School of
. o Polls: Integrative polls in Collaborate Ultra is an excellent way of getting stu- dents engaged and involved in a discussion. They also helped instructor to gauge student understanding of a particular topic. o Chat Box: Chatbox available through a Blackboard conferencing tool allows the students to provide comments and answers to the questions. The chatting setting was done in such a way that every participant can send a message to everyone or have the ability to send a private message to the instructor. o Annotation on the PowerPoint slides: Annotation on the PowerPoint slides is another excellent feature when teaching
Engineering Disciplines into a Common First Year Engineering Program,” in 2003 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2003, pp. 1–19.[14] K. Reid and D. Reeping, “A Classification Scheme for ‘Introduction to Engineering’ Courses: Defining First-Year Courses Based on Descriptions, Outcomes and Assessment,” in 121st ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2014, pp. 1–11.[15] B. M. Olds and R. L. Miller, “The effect of a first‐year integrated engineering curriculum on graduation rates and student satisfaction: A longitudinal study,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 23–35, 2004.[16] C. Brozina and K. Meyers, “Engineering Major Discernment: A Model for Informing Students and Offering Choice,” in 126th Annual
these experiential learning experiences. The SE department is within a large, private university which is committed to experiential learning within its undergraduate engineering curriculum. The university has one of the oldest cooperative education programs in the country and firmly believes in learning through doing. This presentation will describe how an experiential learning model is used to improve learning and accelerate needed academic cultural changes within the department. The experiential learning methodology is based on an existing educational model which includes four basic stages; active experiences, reflective observations, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation. This experiential learning model is used
during each application cycle. Regardless of the specific academic role, allREEFE participants were integrated into the institution as a part-time visiting faculty member.The expectation was for each REEFE participant to contribute his or her engineering educationexpertise in the assigned role for the improvement of the host institution. REEFE fit the untestedcriterion of the EAGER funding line, because to our knowledge, this program was the first tocreate an on-site, long-term internship for engineering education. The project wasinterdisciplinary by design because the host institutions did not have engineering educationdepartments. We believed REEFE was potentially transformative based on the researchregarding internship experiences and because
specialization in Educa- tional Psychology, both from Purdue University. Her work centers on engineering education research as a psychometrician, program evaluator, and data analyst, with research interests in spatial ability, creativ- ity, engineering-integrated STEM education, and meta-analysis. As a psychometrician, she has revised, developed, and validated more than 10 instruments beneficial for STEM education practice and research. She has authored/co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings and served as a journal reviewer in engineering education, STEM education, and educational psychology. She has also served as a co-PI, an external evaluator, or an advisory board member on
UniversityMs. Briceland McLaughlin, Boise State University Briceland McLaughlin is an academic advisor at Boise State University. She graduated with an M.Ed. from the University of Kansas in 2011 and has worked at higher education institutions across the country over the last decade in both student affairs and academic support roles. Briceland is interested in the intersectionality of student development theory and curriculum design.Dr. Donald Plumlee P.E., Boise State University Dr. Plumlee is certified as a Professional Engineer in the state of Idaho. He has spent the last ten years es- tablishing the Ceramic MEMS laboratory at Boise State University. Dr. Plumlee is involved in numerous projects developing micro-electro
thereof), the availability of resources such as problem-based learning activities, and course/curriculum challenges were identified. Common areas ofstudent weakness are mentioned below, with those weaknesses appearing in the 2010 surveymarked with *: • *Math software, • Programming, • *Differential equation formulations, • *Analytical solutions when possible, • Numerical methods when needed, • *Chemistry recollection, • Thermodynamics recollection, • Comprehension of mixing, and • Mass transfer/fluid mechanics applicationMost often students struggled with the knowledge and conceptual integration required tounderstand and analyze chemical reactors and chemical reactor design. Other challenges inteaching kinetics and
avenue forstudents to learn these concepts. However, the downside to this is that students cancompartmentalize this information and fail to connect it with the rest of the curriculum, as that’show the course was designed. On the other hand, an across-the-curriculum model in which ethicaland global concepts are integrated into many disciplinary courses provides a model in whichstudents can connect their ethical knowledge to their disciplinary work. And while an across-the-curriculum program for these integrative concepts might lead to a lack of depth of continuity, manyfaculty do not have the competencies to teach these concepts even if they wanted or were requiredto [3]. This lack of a shared vision is one of the many barriers that researchers
the upper division courses. This is one ofthe areas that mechanical engineering can learn from civil/environmental engineering in regardto sustainability integration.It is desired for all students to gain exposure and knowledge in sustainability principlesthroughout their engineering curriculum. Additionally, it is desired for all students to receive thisexposure and knowledge, not only the ones who choose it. And thus, sustainability inclusioninto core courses is an important area of interest. Each civil/environmental and mechanicalengineering have their own core course integration, as well as integration into courses thatoverlap between the two disciplines.In addition to the patterns of sustainability inclusion in both mechanical and civil
courses.Examples are provided, but have not yet been used by the authors. These examples present ideasto spur the integration of environmental justice topics into civil and environmental engineeringcourses, while also inviting programs to more broadly consider an intentional across-the-curriculum approach.BackgroundDiversity, equity, and justice issues have garnered increased attention in 2020 as public outrageover the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many others exploded. This led to broaderacknowledgement of systemic racial bias and inequalities in society at-large and within highereducation. In 2020 a number of institutions newly required the integration of justice, equity,diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) issues into students’ education, via
, democratization of K-12 engineering education, and online and technology-based learning.Prof. W. Ethan Eagle, University of Maryland Dr. Eagle is a professor of practice in engineering and innovation design. His curriculum design for in- novation, co-developed by and building on the research of Jeff and Staney DeGraff, was adopted by the University of Michigan ’Certified Professional Innovator’ program in 2014, one of the first such certifi- cations in the country. Now a faculty member in the Keystone Program at the University of Maryland, Dr. Eagle’s current work is on the integration of diverse perspectives to discover unique engineering de- sign spaces and on the development of multi-disciplinary courses that bring together
. Thus, the purpose of this pilot study is to examine students’ output and perceptions of a concept map and an analysis canvas utilized in an agricultural waste management course to evaluate how the studentsresponded to these tools and to identify how to improve the integration of such tools intoengineering coursework.MethodologyAgricultural Waste Management is a biological engineering course that focuses on wastemanagement strategies and technologies for different types of livestock and poultry operations.For the past ten years, this graduate course has been taught as an asynchronous distanceeducation class. An undergraduate version has only been taught once before as a separatesynchronous on-campus course using the flipped-classroom model. In