around in a circle to answer the question. If you don’t want to answer a question, feel freeto pass. The audio is being recorded for transcription purposes but will not be shared publicly. Ifyou’re more comfortable chiming in via chat, go for it, nod your head, add thumbs up.Guiding Questions: 1. What is your program (major, minor concentration), and why did you choose it? [Round Robin] 2. What makes a good learning experience for you? 3. What are some strategies you use to balance coursework and life? 4. For those of you who've completed a capstone project and/or a research paper, can you talk a little bit about the preparation you received that was most helpful and what you wish you knew before you started
capstone designcourses starting in 2016. No other concern, weakness or deficiency was raised about thedepartment ABET assessment in the 2015 ABET review. When the 2021 ABET reviewoccurred, a weakness was assigned for our program in Criterion 4: continuous improvement.The weakness was attributable to (a) faculty not assessing all elements of certain studentoutcomes (SOs), (b) inconsistency in which aspect of SOs were assessed by different instructorsteaching two different sections of the same course, and (c) faculty averaging their assessmentscores in an ad-hoc manner. ABET determined that the department assessment results did notrepresent a systematic assessment process that was applied in a consistent manner throughout theprogram.The new
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Research, 1979) and the development of more recentethical norms, this research project has been reviewed and processed by the author’s institutionalreview board (IRB). The author’s plan for this research is to utilize a mixed methods surveyapproach. Survey research has a long history in the realm of human subject research and has arelatively mature methodology associated with it (see, e.g., Sapsford, 2007). Mixed methods research involves both qualitative and quantitative data collection andanalysis (Creswell & Plano Clark, 2018). The use of quantitative data analysis in engineeringwork is long and uncontroversial given engineering’s historical commitment to philosophicalprinciples of post-positivism. More noteworthy is the use of
published 16 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 28 papers in peer-reviewed conference proceedings, and given 12 technical presentations on various topics including: additive manufacturing, mechatronics, biomechan- ics, and engineering education. He currently teaches the Engineered Systems In Society, Mechanical Engineering Professional Practice, and Capstone Design I and II courses.Dr. Priya T Goeser, Georgia Southern University Dr. Priya T. Goeser is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Southern University - Armstrong Campus in Savannah. She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware. Her current research interests ©American Society
. from the University of Wales at Swansea in 2003 where he did research onSaul E. Crespo, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM) Bachelor in Civil Engineering with a Master of Science in Structural Engineering and PhD candidate in Structural Engineering. From April 2011 to July 2017 he served as Senior Researcher of the ”Structural Health Monitoring” group of the Mexican Institute of Transportation, directing and collaborating in mon- itoring and structural prognosis projects applied to special highway bridges, transportation infrastructure, historical monuments and structural systems. He has developed research projects in the area of structural deterioration of reinforced concrete bridges and in the development of damage
provided with WATTStraining) as well as in the “experimental” year of the study (tutors provided with the WATTS training).Background:The students in the study were senior-year students enrolled in the capstone design sequence of an METprogram. The course sequence meets once a week during the fall and spring semesters and is taught bythe same instructor both semesters. Students are assigned to work on industry-sponsored design projectsin teams of three or four. Each team’s project work is facilitated by a faculty advisor drawn from the METdepartment faculty. During the course of the semester, the students are tasked with applying the designskills learned in other MET courses to their design project. Each student must select a component oraspect of
. Nguyen is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a founding member of the Environmental and Socially Responsible Engineering (ESRE) group who work to integrate and track conscientious engineering aspects throughout the undergraduate educational experience across the college. His efforts include formally integrating sustainability design requirements into the mechanical engineering capstone projects, introducing non-profit partnerships related to designs for persons with disabilities, and founding the Social/Environmental Design Impact Award. He manages several outreach and diversity efforts including the large-scale Get Out And Learn (GOAL) engineering kit program that reaches thousands
complex sociotechnical and global contexts, as well as designing one’s ownengineering pathway and designing for real-world clients as required in our Capstone Designsequence. For assessing and growing this programmatic spine, we have carefully integrated theassessable performance indicators into our course delivery to expand what it means to be adesign engineer in a socially, and technologically, complex world.Problem Solving Five Years OutAs we develop our students for their post-graduate careers, we consider not only the mission andvalues of our department, but projections for student development and growth five years aftertheir learning experience in our courses. Program educational objectives (PEOs) help us to framestudent success as related
identity and mindsets, global competencies, failure culture, first year experiences in engineering, capstone design thinking, integrating service and authentic learning into the engineering classroom, implementing new instructional methodologies, and design optimization using traditional and non-traditional manufacturing. She seeks to identify best practices and develop assess- ments methods that assist in optimizing computing and engineering learning. Dr. Gurganus was one the inaugural award winners of the Diane M. Lee teaching award in 2021 and received an Exemplary Men- tor Award from the Center for Women in Technology in 2022. She also received the Northern Maryland Technology Council Leader Award in STEM education
, whereas the 'Advanced' level represents the described learningoutcome itself, indicating that the student developed the competency at a fundamental level.The intermediate levels, 'Under Development' and 'Satisfactory,' differ based on the degree ofcomplexity of the verb used in the rubric's description. Table 3 provides an example of a rubric for competency 14, which is called“Communicate orally, written and graphically”. The initial level of competency 14 isevaluated in the third semester through the “Quality Engineering” course. The intermediatelevel is evaluated in the seventh semester in the “Service Management” course, while thefinal level is evaluated in the ninth semester through the “Capstone Project” course. For eachtype of knowledge
primary research project is sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, and focuses on improving engineering education methods. I am also contributing to a research project sponsored by the US Department of Energy, in which I am assisting with the solid mechanics modeling of moisture swing polymers for use in low-energy carbon capture. For my senior capstone, I led the development of a theoretical offshore wind farm for the 2022 Collegiate Wind Competition, and helped our team earn second place at the competition. This experience led me to become the current president of NAU’s Energy Club, where I now manage two interdisciplinary engineering teams who are working to complete the Collegiate Wind Competition and
Chicago LegalForum, 1(8): 139-167.Davis, D., Trevisan, M., Gerlick, R., Davis, H., McCormack, J., Beyerlein, S., ... Brackin, P. (2010).Assessing team member citizenship in capstone engineering design courses. International Journal ofEngineering Education, 26(4), 771–783Douglas-Mankin, K. R. (2008). Assessment of student learning of design skills from a first semesterdesign project. Transactions of the ASABE, 51(6), 2249–2254.Edwards, B. D., Day, E. A., Arthur, W., & Bell, S. T. (2006). Relationships among team abilitycomposition, team mental models, and team performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91, 727–736.Fiegel, G. L., & Denatale, J. S. (2011). Civil engineering capstone design: Team formation, preparation,and performance
/Capstone Project IdeasBeyond modules which can be accomplished in a laboratory class setting of two to three hours,the PolyVent can also provide inspiration for larger projects, for courses such as CapstoneEngineering Design not specific to bioengineering but open to many disciplines. Ideas forresearch or advanced undergraduate projects include: ● Designing a PCB to drive an air heater and/or humidifier and creating a supportive software extension ● Designing a nebulizer for drug delivery ● Programming new ventilation modes ● Designing a hardware module to support acoustic ventilation ● Programming the system to become a small animal veterinarian ventilator ● Designing a software control, and possibly a new hardware, to
-level courses. As a department, we took this to mean that studentsneed to complete their first year not only with competency using the CAD software but also with the self-study skills to renew their CAD capability in later courses without direct instructional intervention.Observations made by faculty mentors and external reviewers during senior capstone projects as well asfaculty feedback from other upper-level courses, also indicate our students lack the skill and confidence touse programming for analysis. Currently, we rely on MATLAB as our ME programming language,introduced in the first-year programming course and again in an upper-level third-year course called MEAnalysis. Student work in other upper-level courses demonstrates a lack of a
was developed as part of theNRT requirements in the 2019-2020 academic year and has been taught every fall semester since2019. The course objectives are to enhance graduate students’ systems thinking competency andestablish a knowledge base that students build upon through the educational and experimentalpillars of the NRT at our university. These pillars include field experiences in Southwest Kansas,policy experiences at the state capital, course work, and a subsequent 2-credit capstone, project-based course.This paper aims to describe the experience gained from the NRT Integrated FEW Systems course,which may be beneficial in the implementation of a systems thinking course at the graduate levelin other four-year institutions. The paper
Paper ID #39936Board 264: Endeavour S-STEM Program for First-Year Students: 3rd-YearResultsDr. Diana G. de la Rosa-Pohl, University of Houston Diana de la Rosa-Pohl is an Instructional Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Houston (UH). She is currently the Director of the Endeavour S-STEM Program. In addition to S-STEM courses, she teaches courses in computer engineering and capstone design. She has also developed multiple project-based first-year experience programs. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Endeavour S
Paper ID #38022Toward Bidirectional Faculty Development: A Collaborative Model forDesigning and Implementing Faculty Trainings on Evidence-BasedStrategies for Supporting Student Learning in Low- and Middle-IncomeCountriesMr. Steven Ghambi, Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences Steven Ghambi has over seven years experience as a lecturer in Materials engineering, currently with the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS). While searching for better teaching strategies, Steven got attached to the NEST project co-implemented by Rice University and MUBAS. Through these collaborations, Steven has
research is associated with the Modernization of Undergraduate Education Program(PMG), supported by FULBRIGHT, CAPES, and U.S. Embassy in Brazil [26]. Industrialengineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul is one of the participatingcourses. This public university has participated in this project since 2019, with professors onmissions to partner with North American institutions [26], [27]. 2. MethodologyTo investigate whether the teaching strategies present in North American universities can beused in Brazilian universities, an investigation of different necessary factors was carried outin loco. For this, we used a qualitative and descriptive study to highlight the main points usedby these teaching methodologies from the perception
student societies’ activities.This study was conducted as a senior capstone project by a team of four industrial engineeringand one mechanical engineering senior students. The capstone senior project spanned twoquarters, for a total of 22 weeks, and was sponsored by the OSU Department of EH&S, advisedby an industrial engineering faculty, and assisted by a PhD student in industrial engineering. Thecapstone senior project focused on identifying the root cause of the lack of near-miss reportingamong student societies within the COE through the development of research instruments andpreliminary data collection and analysis.Qualitative Approach of Current StudyExisting studies on academic laboratory safety either focus on formal learning settings
capstone course predicted students’ success working as early engineerprofessionals, including broader social and technical practices impact students’ pursuit ofengineering because the practices enrich students’ learning experience, and potentially encouragestudents’ interest in engineering [19].MethodsGoal: This study focused on first-year engineering students’ perceptions of the engineeringpractices they perceived as important in their choice to study mechanical engineering. Theresearch question that guided our work was: What types of engineering practices do first year students describe as motivating their interests in the field of mechanical engineering?Participants: The study presented here included data from interviews of three
debug.Our EE program has recently gone through the re-accreditation process. One of the strengthsof the program is students’ hands on skills. In our program, the capstone project is a two-semester course, and students are required to develop a working system as a prototype inteams. Many capstone projects are sponsored by local industry. Student teams design andbuild circuits with well-defined practical applications. For example, several capstone projectswere sponsored as real devices to be used to aid the disabled individuals, particularlydisabled children. As such, our students are required to build systems consisting of hardware(analog and digital) and software and having many different components and physical parts(power supplies, LED matrices
-curricular activities and curricularcoursework. EEPs can vary in intensity, type of delivery, and mentorship and can differ within andbetween disciplines such as business and engineering [13], [15], [16]. For example, engineeringEEPs tend to focus more on innovation, while business EEPs emphasize working toward venturecreation and imparting business knowledge [13]. For instance, North Carolina State University, aprogram founded in 1993, offers weekly seminars and team-based projects with anentrepreneurial focus unique to engineering [17]. On the other hand, capstone projects inbusiness schools may have a more individualistic focus in the form of a written analysis of abusiness case study [17
Education, 2023 Closing the Gap between Industry and Academia via Student Teams SupportAbstractA well-known challenge in engineering education is the attempt to balance the demands of industryrecruitment with the core needs of an already packed engineering curriculum. Due to timeconstraints, real-world examples and other learning opportunities that aim to develop andconsolidate the industry-desirable skills can be difficult to include in the curriculum. One way toaddress this challenge is to collaborate with industry (for example, on capstone projects, studentteam challenges, etc.) while the students are still studying. A place for these collaborations, whichcan provide benefit for both parties, is through student competitions. Student
, HMI, industrial network devices, etc.) has been aprimary concern for faculty working on this project. There were initial challenges in retrofittingthe CRBs with some existing systems. This was often due to the age of existing systems andtechnological advances since their installation. The faculty of this project sought to keep existingperipherals and components in place as often as possible for various reasons. A primary concernwas that industrial peripheral components are often costly, and replacing these componentsmight not make sense if they are otherwise fully functional. When possible, newer versions ofthe technology were added to replace previous systems. For example, machine vision cameraswere upgraded to work better with the embedded
Paper ID #39262WIP Using Automated Assessments for Accumulating Student Practice,Providing Students with Timely Feedback, and Informing Faculty onStudent PerformanceDr. Brian F. Thomson, Temple University Dr. Brian Thomson is an associate professor of instruction in the department of electrical and computer engineering at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. During his time at Temple, he taught courses in circuits, circuits lab, control systems while serving as a mentor for senior capstone projects. In 2016, he was selected as the IEEE student chapter professor of the year. He has also graduated from the provost
Paper ID #39833Work in Progress: An Investigation of the Influence of Academic Cultureon Engineering Graduates’ Workforce Expectations and Subsequent WorkBehaviorsPhilippa EshunDr. Kacey Beddoes, San Jose State University Kacey Beddoes is a Project Director in the College of Engineering Dean’s Office at San Jose State Univer- sity. She holds a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech. Further information about her work can be found at www.sociologyofengineering.org. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: An Investigation of the Influence
Measure Bode Plots in 5 MinutesEric BogatinDr. Eric Bogatin has been a full time professor in the Electrical, Computer, and Energy EngineeringDepartment at the University of Colorado Boulder since January 2021 where he has been teaching thePractical Printed Circuit Board and the Senior Design Capstone courses.Dr. Bogatin received his BS in physics from MIT in 1976 and MS and PhD in physics from theUniversity of Arizona in Tucson in 1980. In his graduate work, he focused on lasers, quantum optics anddesktop experiments on special relativity and cosmology using frequency stabilized lasers.Mona ElHelbawyDr. Elhelbawy joined ECEE on July 1, 2022. Prior to joining CU Boulder, she taught at Colorado Schoolof Mines, California Polytechnic State
, specialized faculty support the instructors in each course. Elements supportingeach of these threads exist in each of the courses, increasing in maturity across the first threecourses, and culminating in application of these skills in the fourth-year course: Capstone Design.RQ2: What pedagogies appear to be more effective in advancing multiple learning objectivessimultaneously? To address this question, individual instructors are given the opportunity to engage withspecific pedagogies identified to support holistic engineers and EM: problem-based learning, the3Cs of entrepreneurially minded learning, value sensitive design, and story-driven learning.Problem-based learning is an approach to problem solving that is primarily student-driven and
Robust Design and (4) Capstone Projectsfor System Design. Courses in the SE embedded systems certificate included (1) Embedded andNetworked Systems Modeling Abstractions, (2) Formal Methods, (3) Design Flows forEmbedded and Networked Systems, and (4) Capstone Projects for Embedded Systems. Coursesin the controlled systems certificate included (1) Foundations of Thermal Fluid Systems, (2)Foundations for Control, (3) Design Flows for Control and Verification, and (4) CapstoneProjects for Controlled Systems. These graduate courses were offered in the evenings in-personand were run as cohorts with about 30-40 students in each cohort. The cohort followed theprescribed sequence of four courses across four semesters over two years. Courses were