the STEM workforce.Next, we will briefly outline the future success stories of the high school, undergraduate, andgraduate scholars who participated in this program. These success stories show the potential forthese programs to generate new streams of students and researchers for universities, which caneventually grow and diversify the STEM workforce.• Two patent applications. Two journal publications• One Barry Goldwater Recipient, Two Barry Goldwater Honorable Mentions• One DoD SMART Scholarship Recipient• One National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow• Eighteen students continued these projects in Senior Capstone.• Seven Honors Theses at the University of Mississippi.• Two successful grants with NASA and C Spire
apprenticeships, capstone design projects, andinternships, are offered as part of the ADVANCE model. The ultimate goal of the degreepathway model that ADVANCE offers is to ensure that students are prepared for post-baccalaureate employment and success in the workplace. ADVANCE seeks to ensure that whatstudents learn and experience in their educational journey reflects workforce realities. Mappeddegree pathways that integrate industry-defined credentials and standards will leave noambiguity for students regarding desired workforce competencies. By building in immersiveexperiential learning opportunities, students will better understand workplace expectations andprepare to transition successfully upon graduation.As ADVANCE students progress through their
regular NAU graduate programs in EE or CS. For the remainder ofthe students, some of them were accepted to graduated programs from other U.S. universities, orthey decided to return to China to pursue career or graduate school there. In addition to highGPA, these students were evaluated highly among NAU faculties, including those courseinstructors and Capstone project mentors. In particular, a group of the 3+1 students developed aninstrumented bike and cell phone applet for their Capstone project. This work was thensubmitted as a conference paper and received the Best Student Paper Award in the smart sensorsection at the 2018 International Symposium in Sensing and Instrumentation in IoT Era (ISSI) inShanghai, China9.Comparison of teaching
, where he is serving as a research assistant under an NSF-funded ITEST project.Dr. Sheila Borges Rajguru, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Dr. Sheila Borges Rajguru is the Assistant Director of the Center for K-12 STEM Education, NYU Tandon School of Engineering. As the Center’s STEAM educator and researcher she works with engi- neers and faculty to provide professional development to K-12 STEM teachers with a focus on social justice. She is currently Co-Principal Investigator on two NSF-grants (senior personnel of one) that pro- vide robotics/mechatronics PD to science, math, and technology teachers. In addition, she is the projects director of the ARISE program. This full-time, seven-week program includes: college
transfer of learning from school into professional practice as well as exploring students’ conceptions of diversity and its importance within engineering fields.Dr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she directs the Vir- ginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, design, and identity in engineering
of Engineering at Peking University, College of Engineering and Science atHuazhong University of Science and Technology, College of Modern Engineering andApplied Science at Nanjing University and so on. These engineering schools providemulti-faceted and multi-channeled funds for undergraduate engineering students totake international project internships, short-term international exchange programs, andfinish their capstone design projects overseas. Moreover, a number of engineeringschools in China adopt a “3+2” or “3+1+1” [12] dual-degree/joint degree collaborativeeducation to cultivate engineering talents by cooperating with overseas universities,providing opportunities for engineering students to study at home and then abroadduring their
capstone senior design course at UD.Working on a design team that has two members from Shanghai, for example, is different fromany other planned international program. It challenges students in many of the same ways thatthey will be challenged upon entering today’s workforce. Perhaps one the best aspects of this isthat it is not an activity that is presented as “now we’re going to do something international.”Instead, it is simply the reality that to be successful on a technical project, and earn the desiredgrade, they will have to navigate working on a team that is international.Basic Description of ArrangementThe University of Dayton and Shanghai Normal University are partners in a unique articulationagreement for the Bachelor of Science in
design skills and mentoring and guiding student teams through the capstone design and a translational course following capstone design. In her Director role, she works closely with the departmental leadership to manage the undergraduate program including: developing course offering plan, chairing the undergrad- uate curriculum committee, reviewing and approving course articulations for study abroad, serving as Chief Advisor, and representing the department at the college level meetings. She is also engaged with college recruiting and outreach; she coordinates three summer experiences for high school students visit- ing Bioengineering and co-coordinates a weeklong Bioengineering summer camp. She has worked with the
Paper ID #26269Developing Reliable Lab Rubrics Using Only Two ColumnsProf. Joshua A. Enszer, University of Delaware Dr. Joshua Enszer is an associate professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He has taught core and elective courses across the curriculum, from introduction to engineering science and material and energy balances to process control, capstone design, and mathematical modeling of chemical and environmental systems. His research interests include technology and learning in various incarnations: electronic portfolios as a means for assessment and professional development
. studentswere given assignments that required them to use a makerspace to complete), from introductorycourses that open to non-engineering students to capstone design courses for senior engineeringmajors. The number of courses for which the space was utilized by students was expected toincrease in the next academic year.Data CollectionWe have designed our project using both instrumental and collective case study frameworks[31]. We are currently in our instrumental case study phase, detailing the particulars of eachuniversity program. Following the completion of our instrumental work we will engage in acollective case study framework to determine similarities and differences across programs toform a comprehensive perspective of makerspaces embedded
for 5 of the 7 engineering majors at UT. 9Summer: Team Building Project A major focus of the TranSCEnD experience is a summer program where studentsvoluntarily participate in a multidisciplinary capstone group project. The high impactcapstone project will incorporate aspects of materials science and civil, environmental,mechanical, and electrical engineering to build a solar thermal heating system or both an offgrid/grid-tied solar electric system; the projects will alternate every other year. The projectswill supplement the summer lecture coursework with a hands-on experience that will give thestudents opportunity to cement a series of
learning in a senior/graduate mechatronics course. In [19], theauthors showed how virtual software and hardware environment can provide enhanced learningopportunities for mechatronics engineering technology majors. The project-based approach ofteaching mechatronics was presented in [20]. Development of a senior mechatronics course formechanical engineering students was described in [21]. In [22], the authors presented thedevelopment of an introductory mechatronics course for the students who had completed theirsecond year at the community college and planned on pursuing a bachelor’s degree in anengineering field. In [23], the authors investigated the use of agile methods enhancingmechatronics education through the experiences from a capstone
Academic Affairs, Southeast Universityincharge of ad- ministration of the university’s teaching research projects for undergraduate programs, also undertook the national social science fund project, published a number of teaching reform papers in the core journals. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Field Programs to Accomplish the Learning Objectives for Engineering Courses: A case study of Road Surveying and Design Course at Southeast University, ChinaAbstractBackground: China Engineering Education Accreditation Association (CEEAA)emphasizes advancing the learning objective requirements of the Chinese studentsmajoring in engineering disciplines to the
engineering disciplines at PurdueUniversity, EPICS courses will satisfy at least a technical elective (some require students to havethird or fourth year standing) and capstone for four disciplines. The curricular structure allowsstudents to participate over multiple semesters or even years which supports long-term,reciprocal community partnerships. The long-term student participation allows for projectdevelopment over multiple semesters or years and allows projects in EPICS to address complexand compelling needs in the local or global community.EPICS teams, or course sections, consist of 8-25 students and are student led with a faculty orindustry mentor, called an advisor. Graduate student teaching assistants support the advisors andeach one supports
, he supports over 230 cadets in the ABET accredited systems engineering major. Systems Engineering is currently the largest engineering major at USAFA, administered by seven departments with cadets participating in over 30 engineering capstones projects. Trae received his undergraduate degree in Systems Engineering in 2012 from USAFA with a focus in Electrical Engineering. He is a distinguished graduate from the Air Force Institute of Technology receiving a Master of Science in Systems Engineering in 2018. Trae serves in the USAF as a developmental engineer and holds Department of Defense certifications in systems engineer- ing, science and technology management, test & evaluation, and program management. He
also acquired and practiced in other contexts, such as seniordesign or capstone projects, the selected approach of focusing on only laboratory or statisticscourses was considered suitable first step for the initial pilot stage.Catalog descriptions were coded for cognitive level of data analysis content based on Bloom’staxonomy [6], with demonstration of understanding coded as 1, application coded as 2, andanalysis coded as 3. Note that no higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy were identified in anycourse description. Therefore, these three levels were used to assign a quantitative rank to eachcourse. For example, a Statistical Topics in Electrical Engineering course with the description,“This course examines the use of probability and statistical
Paper ID #27231A Review of Ethics Cases: Gaps in the Engineering CurriculumDr. Chris Swan, Tufts University Chris Swan is Dean of Undergraduate Education for the School of Engineering and an associate professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Tufts University. He has additional appoint- ments in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on community engagement, service-based projects and examining whether an entrepreneurial mindset can be used to further engi- neering
result related to the raceand gender and ignored other results of papers.CollaborationThree papers were about the mode of collaboration [20], [21], [23]. Flynn et al. [20]investigated the effect of mode of collaboration on female students while working in teams.The authors studied two different engineering teams working on the capstone project. Oneteam consisted of two men and two women. The mode of collaboration in this team wasdialogic. Another team consisted of two women and three men and the mode of collaborationhad the characteristics of dialogic, asymmetrical and hierarchical modes. In the first team,female students were treated equally with men and there was no major conflict among teammembers. But, in the second team, female students
) program. The project’s overall aim is to support aculture of pedagogical risk-taking and realize an additive innovation mindset to promote faculty-teaching innovations at a large, southwestern public university. A specific research sub-goal ofthe project is to further understand how faculty development programs and initiatives caninfluence faculty-teaching practices. A modified version of the Business Model Canvas (BMC)[1] is employed to document the emergent activities of innovation driven, self-formed facultygroups over time. The Business Model Canvas is an organizational tool for capturing andcommunicating the critical elements of an evolving project’s ecosystem. Borrowed fromentrepreneurship practices, it is used to identify the necessary
. Impact of engineering on society and the environment 10. Ethics and equity 11. Economics and project management 12. Lifelong learningAs with other accreditation boards, such as ABET, it is the engineering program seeking accreditationthat must devise the outcomes-based teaching and assessment measures to facilitate students’ learningin these areas1. To some extent, thus far in Canada, due to the pressures of accreditation, approaches tothis problem could be generalized as efforts to teach and assess the CEAB graduate attributes byindividually and equitably attending to each attribute on the list, despite acknowledgment by theWashington Accord that whilst all attributes are important, they should not necessarily be appointedequal weight2
journals, storyboards, and traditional assessments, in situ videorecordings captured decisions and evolution of projects differently. To further investigate thepotential of ongoing interactions as spaces for demonstrating engineering thinking and ideas, aframework was created to analyze in situ video clips. An epistemic frame [2-6] was developedto capture skills, knowledge, identity, values, and epistemologies of engineering relative to K-12formal and informal spaces. First, this paper will describe the development of an engineeringepistemic frame for K-12 students and its synthesis using literature, local contexts, and nationalpolicy directives and its application to one pilot set of data as a case study. The context of thecase study was final
, Cost/Risk tech risk, safety, uncertainty, whistleblowing, NA 8 NA / 89 Lg, R1 elective, So- environmental protection, organizational Grad, Ind3 Cv25 ethics, IP / discussion, videos, current CS25 events, case studies, reflection Sci-Elect Public, Elective, FY to energy, climate change, NA 35e NA / 40 Lg, R1 Grad, mainly sustainability/lecture, discussion, group non-STEM projects, discussion of contemporary controversy from multiple perspectives SrDsn-Env Public, Capstone Dsn
Chemical Engineering. She coordinated STEM outreach for the Leonard C. Nelson College of Engineering and Sciences.Dr. Marcia Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Marcia Pool is a Teaching Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs in the Depart- ment of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She has been active in improving undergraduate education including developing laboratories to enhance experimental design skills and mentoring and guiding student teams through the capstone design and a translational course following capstone design. In her Director role, she works closely with the departmental leadership to manage the undergraduate program including
University. Her research interests include design education research at K-16 levels.Dr. Michael L. Philpott, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignJulia Laystrom-Woodard, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignDr. Marcia Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Marcia Pool is a Teaching Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs in the Depart- ment of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She has been active in improving undergraduate education including developing laboratories to enhance experimental design skills and mentoring and guiding student teams through the capstone design and a translational course following capstone design. In her Director role, she
during the spring quarter.Year 4:By the end of Year 4, students should be able to: • Analyze a no-win ethical dilemma • Analyze a dispute involving multiple conflicting ethical principles • Discuss how ethics played a role in their senior design projectDuring the year-long senior capstone design course, students assessed two different ethicaldilemmas. One dilemma involved an engineer being asked to donate engineering services tomaintain future work for his firm (a no-win ethical dilemma). The students also analyzed theDeepwater Horizon Oil Spill case, in which there were conflicting ethical principles. For bothcase studies, students utilized the ethical decision-making process worked in teams to discuss thedilemma, reflect on relevant
luncheon was scheduled to alignwith the annual Project Day events in which the graduating seniors set up and present theircapstone projects. These capstone projects are industry sponsored and multi-disciplinary. First-year students were able to interact with the seniors, to ask questions about the program, and tosee the types of projects and real world applications that students in the engineering programwere involved with.During the welcome luncheon the seating for the meal was organized by the sections of theIntroduction to Engineering Design I course, the first of the engineering courses that the studentswill be taking. The faculty member who will be instructing the course is placed at the table withstudents enrolled in their class so that they
a licensed Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania since 1998. Dr. Walters worked in industry as a process controls and automation engineer for eighteen years prior to joining the faculty at Behrend in 2010. Most of his experience is in the design, development, and commis- sioning of PLC-based control systems for the food & beverage and cement industries. He has developed and teaches a course on PLC-based control systems for engineers. He also teaches a course on advanced digital design using FPGAs, a course on embedded systems using 8- and 32-bit microcontrollers, and the two-semester capstone project sequence for electrical and computer engineers at Behrend.Dr. Jessica Resig, Pennsylvania State University Dr
engineering education. Precisely, they have elaborated a variety of lab experiments and capstone projects which allowstudents for integrating a real-world testbed for various research and learning purposes. Furthermore, Mirkovic and Benzel [7] presented DeterLab, a open technology based on Emulab. This technology is anexperimental space/resource sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and Department of Homeland Security andthis facility is dedicated for online cyber security learning. In this facility, while students can reserve entities (available nodesout of 400 computing nodes in total) via an online interface, they are allowed to keep remote access (virtual session login) tovirtual nodes for a very short period of time only in order to
manufacturing in both of these disciplinesis needed8. Many current engineering programs do not emphasize the marriage of design andmanufacturing in a modern industrial technical workforce [10].Many research studies have assessed the quality of exposure to manufacturing through the seniordesign or capstone course. McMasters and Lang indicate that few people in industry have anunderstanding of how the current engineering education is undertaken. Through design projects,the inclusion of industry partners in the education process will enhance the education provided tothe students and better reflect the expectations of industry [11]. Universities are exposingstudents to manufacturing through senior capstone design courses to offer students with arealistic