AC 2011-2745: INNOVATIVE SENIOR PROJECT PROGRAM PARTNER-ING UNIVERSITY AND CORPORATE PARTNERSEric Paul Pearson, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Electronic Systems Eric P. Pearson is the Sector Director of Development Programs for the Electronic Systems Sector of Northrop Grumman Corporation. After several years as an organizational Staff Manager and the Antenna Integrated Product Team lead for major radar programs he began the development of Internship, Co-op, New Graduate Engineering rotation and Early Career Leadership Training Programs. Eric carries a pas- sion for assisting soon-to-be and recent university graduates as they develop their technical, professional and leadership skills through their early careers in
engineering andtechnology students within the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology. TheCapstone course was developed in part due to feedback provided by employers of BYU alumniwith encouragement to increase student experiences in: real-world design work, communication,project management, leadership, and teamwork1. Intellectual property (IP) is very much a part ofreal world design work and is basically a creation of the mind for which property rights arerecognized within corresponding fields of law. Intellectual property typically includesinventions (patents), trademarks, copyrights, and industrial designs, and owners of IP aretypically granted certain exclusive rights2.During the early years of the Capstone course at BYU, surveys of
, institutional andmarket forces that have brought about that situation and that may impede its improvement are notaddressed.The Agency of EngineersDefining engineering problems in light of such up- and downstream conditions would require aconcerted shift in the field; in no engineering job description that I know of are the words"Determine the broadest social and political conditions in which you perform your technologicaltasks and act accordingly." Such a work requirement sounds absurd to our ears, but that sense ofabsurdity in fact arises from a culturally specific idea of engineering which can be challenged.Some, if not all, engineers historically involved in humanistic reforms surely had just such arecalibration in mind, despite such impediments as
AC 2011-1405: ANALYSIS OF THE BARRIERS, CONSTRAINTS AND IS-SUES FOR DUAL CREDIT AND / OR ADVANCED PLACEMENT PATH-WAY FOR INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING / DESIGNLeigh R Abts, Ph.D., University of Maryland College Park Dr. Abts received his Bachelor’s of Science in 1973 from Brown University, and his Ph.D. in Engineering in 1982 from Brown University. Currently, Dr. Abts holds a joint faculty appointment as a Research Associate Professor in the College of Education and the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland at College Park. Page 22.206.1 c American Society for
AC 2011-2377: TWEAKING PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENTBill Crockford, Sam Houston State University He is a registered engineer in Texas. Work experience includes research on flexible pavement materials, design, manufacture and instrumentation of closed loop testing machines, remote sensing, aviation related positions, and a NASA/JSC Advanced Programs Office summer fellowship involving lunar base construc- tion. He holds utility patents as sole inventor. His current work is with Industrial Technology students in construction, product design and manufacturing, and electronics programs.Bruce Hamby, The Hamby Law Firm Bruce W. Hamby is a Registered Patent Attorney in the United States. He graduated from law school at
AC 2011-2315: TRANSFER FROM CAPSTONE DESIGN: A MODEL TOFACILITATE STUDENT REFLECTIONSusannah Howe, Smith College Susannah Howe is the Design Clinic Director in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College, where she coordinates and teaches the capstone engineering design course. Her current research focuses on innovations in engineering design education, particularly at the capstone level. She is also involved with efforts to foster design learning in middle school students and to support entrepreneurship at primarily undergraduate institutions. Her background is in civil engineering with a focus on structural materials; she holds a B.S.E. degree from Princeton, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell.Mary A
and instruction. The central location acts similarly to „hackerspaces,‟ a physical location providing a common place for like-minded thinkers to collaborate onprojects. The goal of the paper is to report on a novel collaboration among home, public, andprivately schooled students within the context of a US FIRST team. Along with the collaborationhands-on modules are developed and taught by partnering engineers in collaboration with collegefaculty. The model applies the constructionist learning theory with structured preparation for thecompetition. In addition the paper presents issues and solutions to implementing an innovativeopportunity for home, public, and privately schooled students. This initiative lays thegroundwork for future endeavors
AC 2011-2751: TEACHER TRAINING AND STEM STUDENT OUTCOME:LINKING TEACHER INTERVENTION TO STUDENTS’ SUCCESS IN STEMMIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL CLASSESGisele Ragusa, Ph.D., University of Southern California Gisele Ragusa is an associate professor in the Viterbi School of Engineering and the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. She has expertise in engineering education, precollege engineering and in assessment and measurement. Page 22.1370.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Teacher Training and STEM Student Outcome: Linking Teacher
learning. Student assessments, both formative and summative, must takeinto account students’ natural inclination to leverage multiple modes of discourse, as it is animportant aspect of how students construct knowledge. Engineering as a profession makeswidespread use of physical and virtual modeling tools and modeling opportunities in theelementary grades should be provided as a way to both understand concepts and solve scientificand technological problems. These opportunities, of course, should continue to be built upon inlater grades in a variety of STEM and pre-engineering courses. Work with models and modelingis not only a meaningful way to develop deeper understanding of core conceptual knowledge, butalso develop habits of mind around the
Keeley. Wade is currently living in Arlington, Texas. Email: blakecwade@gmail.comYvette Pearson Weatherton, University of Texas, Arlington Dr. Yvette Pearson Weatherton received her Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science (Environmental Engineering) from the University of New Orleans in 2000. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Pearson Weatherton’s expertise is in the areas of air quality including monitoring and modeling and engineering education. She is currently PI or Co-PI on a number of NSF-funded engineering education projects including ”UTA RET Site for Hazard Mitigation”, which is the basis for this paper. She is a registered Professional
State University Page 22.1106.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Novel Curriculum Exchange —Research-based teacher professional development strategies to support Elementary STEM curriculumAbstractThis paper reports on professional development strategies to support elementary STEMcurriculum, for presentation in the K-12 Division Novel Curriculum Exchange. This paperpresents the strategies developed and deployed as part of a two-year NSF project supportingenhanced elementary STEM instruction through student-generated graphics. All of the schoolsthat participated in the study
Page 22.345.2provide a global cultural and engineering context. However, such courses have been rarelyoffered in engineering programs. Summer or intersession study-abroad courses provide abalance between the two approaches and are the focus of this study.It has been stated that engineering study-abroad programs fall generally into eight broadcategories ranging from extended field trips and mentored travel to student exchange and dual-degree programs1. The broad range of international experiences in place suggests to the authorsthat what is “best” has not yet been determined and that there is room for additional explorationof course formats. It is with that exploratory mission in mind, that the Compact InternationalExperience (CIE) courses were
Implementation of 21st century skills Figure 1. Preliminary analysis pertaining to the effectiveness of teachers’ use of computer and internet-based technology in their classrooms using the Jonassen’s framework17.We are hoping that the teachers’ exposure and experiences in the EDP as part of the professionaldevelopment programs in PISA2 will help them to achieve a better understanding of these mind-tools and overall, enhance their ability to successfully engage students in engineering design andscientific inquiry to foster 21st century skills, such as creativity and innovation. Page
faculty advisors.We want to connect with our students. Fostering an environment of help, information anddirection may lead to more successful academic achievement and persistence in the engineeringprogram.This is also an opportunity for the Baker College Student Chapter of ASME (American Societyof Mechanical Engineers) to communicate directly with like-minded students for recruitment andsupply information on meetings, events and tours.General information can be communicated via this medium. As some alumni have keptmembership in the Facebook group there is an opportunity to share information across thegraduation-gap. Discussions are posted with potential job and co-op opportunities, careerinformation and scheduling of Fundamentals of Engineering
Bringing Concurrent Engineering into Classroom through Multidisciplinary Product Design Project - Design and Construction of Chemical Detection Robots Andy S. Zhang, Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology, NYC College of Technology Farrukh Zia Department of Computer Engineering Technology, NYC College of Technology Iem Heng Department of Computer Engineering Technology, NYC College of TechnologyANDY S. ZHANGProfessor Andy S. Zhang earned his master’s in mechanical engineering from the City College ofNew York in 1987 and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Graduate
AC 2011-453: GENERAL AVIATION AIRPORT LAYOUT AND DESIGN:A CROSS-DISCIPLINE EXERCISE IN DESIGN MANAGEMENT FOR FRESH-MAN ENGINEERING STUDENTS.Ibibia K. Dabipi, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Page 22.741.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 GENERAL AVIATION AIRPORT LAYOUT AND DESIGN: A CROSS-DISCIPLINE EXERCISE IN DESIGN MANAGEMENT FOR FRESHMAN ENGINEERING STUDENTS.IntroductionOver the past four years, the aviation faculty at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore(UMES) have been working in conjunction with the engineering faculty within the department todevelop a joint freshman
implementation. Bibliography1. Vygotsky, L. S. (1978). Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.2. Bell, P., & Davis, E. A. (2000). Designing Mildred: Scaffolding Students’ Reflection and Arguemntation Using a Cognitive Software Guide. In B. Fishman & O’Connor-Divelbiss (Eds.), Fourth International Conference of the Learning Sciences (pp. 142-149). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.3. Linn, M. C. (1995). Designing computer learning environments for engineering and computer science: The scaffolded knowledge integration framework. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 4(2), 103-126.4. Scardamalia, M. (2002). Collective cognitive responsibility
them at the proposed level. The aspects of developing materials that areappropriate for both the depth and breadth approach is also covered.2. Embedding EMC into the ET curriculum and the development of an EMC courseIt is important to keep in mind that a course in EMC is not standalone but builds on existingelectrical and electronics engineering programs as a whole. EMC/EMI concepts and principlescan be highlighted with examples from other courses e.g. analog/digital electronics, powerelectronics, mobile communication, microprocessors, VLSI and digital design, etc. Althoughvarious concepts of EMI/EMC can also be incorporated in various courses, but a dedicated EMCcourse would be of many benefits where various issues and problems can be
AC 2011-2123: RENEWABLE ENERGY INTERNSHIPS: STUDY OF 7THAND 8TH GRADE STUDENTS KNOWLEDGE OF RELATED SCIENCEAND ENGINEERING CONTENTTirupalavanam 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 settings. He is principal investigator of
AC 2011-925: UTILIZATION OF A THINK-ALOUD PROTOCOL TO COG-NITIVELY VALIDATE A SURVEY INSTRUMENT IDENTIFYING SOCIALCAPITAL RESOURCES OF ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATESJulie Martin Trenor, Clemson University Julie Martin Trenor, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of Engineering and Science Education with a joint appointment in the School of Materials Science and Engineering. Her research interests focus on social factors affecting the recruitment, retention, and career development of under-represented students in engi- neering. Dr. Trenor is a recent NSF CAREER award winner for her research entitled, ”Influence of Social Capital on Under-Represented Engineering Students Academic and Career Decisions.”Matthew K. Miller, Clemson
an avenue to help others. We would like to developa sense of caring in our students and foster the idea that as engineers they have a real opportunityto make a difference in the lives of others. With these goals in mind, we often jump into theprocess of trying to integrate service-learning projects into a classroom only to realize later thatthe extra coordination and logistics required are extensive. In contrast to service learning, aservice-oriented project will possess virtually all of the same elements but without the need toactually interact with the community thus eliminating most of the challenges of coordination.Service Projects at Engineering Universities. In recent years, many have attempted to integrateprojects with the hopes of
AC 2011-735: THE NATURE OF TEACHER KNOWLEDGE OF AND SELF-EFFICACY IN TEACHING ENGINEERING DESIGN IN A STOMP CLASS-ROOMElsa Head, Tufts UniversityDr. Morgan M Hynes, Tufts University Page 22.1483.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 The Nature of Teacher Knowledge of and Self-Efficacy in Teaching Engineering Design in a STOMP ClassroomCurriculum standards increasingly feature engineering as a requirement for K-12 students. Thisis a content area in which most K-12 teachers have little to no background; therefore, providingsupport is critical for successful implementation. In an effort to provide
: Ability to keep in mind parameters of the project while creating a solution.UnderstandingConstraintsEngineering: Generate an idea for testing based on knowledge of what might work (from math orCreating physics, for example, or even other things that exist - a bridge in your neighborhood,Hypotheses something found in nature or even experience).Engineering: Figure out what must be done at certain time points in order to meet a deadline.ProjectManagementEngineering: Use Use of computer aided tools for creating and modeling the project.of Software forDesign Page 22.1318.8
consider theiranswers from their perspective. From this angle, their assertions are correct. The students wereevaluating their experience in an engineering and technology class, a completely new andexciting phenomenon to them. It is likely this was the first time that any of them learned aboutmaglev transportation systems or studied about bridges and structure. For them, therefore, thisclass in itself was a great learning experience. Their difficulties grasping the concepts orexplaining them clearly do negate the fact that they learned a lot about maglev and bridges. Thisis an important example to keep in mind when introducing students to new concepts, developingnew and innovative programs, and assessing learning. The students’ perception of
AC 2011-1620: EXPLOITING A DIFFICULT ENVIRONMENT: MATUR-ING A MODEL FOR AN ENGINEERING DEGREE COMPLETION PRO-GRAM IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MULTIPLE COMMUNITY COLLEGESKenneth Wayne Santarelli, California State University, Fresno Dr. Santarelli received an Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership and an MBA from Pepperdine University. He received a B.S. in Engineering (Ocean Engineering) from California State University and is a licensed Professional Mechanical Engineer. He is currently employed by California State University, Fresno as the Director of the Antelope Valley Engineering Program located in Lancaster California. Dr. Santarelli retired from Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne in 2007 after 27 years working on a variety of
AC 2011-252: GRANDPARENTS UNIVERSITY PROVIDING THE SPARKTO ELEMENTARY STUDENTSCraig J. Gunn, Michigan State University Craig Gunn is the Director of the Communication Program in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University. His duties include the integration of communication skill activity into all courses within the mechanical Engineering program, including overseas experiences. He works closely with the Cooperative Engineering Education Division of the College of Engineering to monitor the com- munication skills of students who co-op during their college years. He is currently the editor of the CEED Newsbriefs and is co-author of a number of textbooks focusing on engineering freshmen
, No. 7, p. 38.2. Sarasin, L., 1998, “Learning Style Perspectives: Impact in the Classroom.” Madison, WI: Atwood.3. Gardner, H., 1999. “Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century.” New York: Basic Books.4. Joyce, B., and Weil, M., 2000, “Models of Teaching.” Boston: Allyn and Bacon.5. Brandford, J.D., et al., Eds., “How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School,” Expanded Edition, National Academy of Sciences, 2000.6. Klingbeil, N., Newberry, B., Donaldson, A. and Ozdogan, J., 2010, "The Wright State Model for Engineering Mathematics Education: Highlights from a CCLI Phase 3 Initiative," Proceedings 2010 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Louisville, KY, June 2010.7. Klingbeil, N
students shouldknow more than just something about the technology, but rather, they should be able to designalternative energy systems and act upon the knowledge they had gained in the courses within theprogram. Students needed to be able to integrate knowledge, skills, and abilities to be productiveengineers in the field. Lawrence Tech felt that it was not enough to “know” about the field, but toalso be able to “do” in the energy field. With this in mind the outcomes associated with ABETaccreditation were used as a base reference. These outcomes have since been revised with theissuance of the latest ABET criteria for accrediting engineering programs.11 The followingoutcomes were further developed and deemed as adequate for each course in the
AC 2011-1541: ANALYSIS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE HOWPEOPLE LEARN FRAMEWORK THROUGH DIRECT CLASSROOM OB-SERVATION IN SELECTED FOOD ENGINEERING COURSESlourdes gazca, American University in Puebla, Mexico Lourdes Gazca is Science, Engineering, and Technology Education Ph.D. Student at Universidad de las Americas Puebla in Mexico. She teaches mathematics and statistics related courses. Her research inter- ests include faculty development, active and cooperative learning, and creating effective learning environ- ments.Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas PueblaEnrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla Enrique Palou is Director, Center for Science, Engineering, and Technology Education; and Professor
AC 2011-1796: NAVY METROLOGY ENGINEERING CENTER STEM OUT-REACH THROUGH THE STEP PROGRAM: CHALLENGES, LESSONSLEARNED AND APPLICATION TO DOD STRATEGYDouglas Sugg, Navy -NSWC Corona CA Doug Sugg is the Department Head of Product Engineering Assessement at the Corona Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center.John V Fishell,JD, John Victor Fishell, President, Science and Technology Education Partnership (STEP) John V. Fishell retired from his position as Technical Director of NSWC, Corona Division, Corona, CA in 2008 after 36 years of service. He holds a Juris Doctorate in Law from California Southern Law School and a BSEE from the University of Texas, El Paso along with two Certficates in Management from the