ofexperience or too little experience. [Some of them] were beneath my degree … There wasnothing…. tailored at the entry-level. It took a while to find something.” The handful of applicationshe submitted through online job boards were all unsuccessful. Yet his social connections helped tooffset his inexperience. He eventually secured a job offer through a family friend who providedinformation on a company and manager recruiting for a position.Milan also credited landing a job to his involvement in extra-curricular activities: “I would say themost valuable things were the extracurricular, [and] my summer co-op. I did put some courses, my[capstone] project because it showed that I managed a project, went through the entire designprocess. I don’t think
, Eugene, OR, 2003. 8. Krajcik, J. et al. Teaching Science: A Project-Based Approach, McGraw-Hill College, New York, 1999. 9. Jung, S. Effects of basic thinking skills and project method on creativity and project performance ability of elementary school children (dissertation), Kyungsung University Press, 2001. 10. Criteria for accrediting engineering programs, 2016-2017. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. Accessed at on 16 March, 2017. 11. Dunlab, J. C. Problem-based learning and self-efficacy: How a capstone course prepares students for a profession. Educational Technology Research and Development, 53:65-83, 2005. 12. Hsieh, P., et al. Undergraduate engineering students
University’s Engineering Education program, which strives to prepare engineering educators for the 7-12 grade levels. Dr. France is also heavily involved in de- veloping and facilitating the Introduction to Engineering course sequence at ONU. He earned his PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder where his research focused on pre-engineering education and project-based learning.Dr. Louis A. DiBerardino III, Ohio Northern University Dr. DiBerardino is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio Northern University. His teaching and research interests are in first-year engineering, dynamic systems, and musculoskeletal biome- chanics. c American Society for Engineering Education
in 1987, Cornell’s SibleySchool of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) has required that its majors fulfill itthrough a senior level capstone course taught by departmental faculty and graduate teachingassistants. As a lab-based course, that capstone focuses primarily on report writing and designingvisuals. While the instructors have been successful at empowering students to produce well-written reports and well-designed visuals, the recurring results of departmental surveys ofstakeholders (e.g., students, alumni, industry representatives) suggested that MAE needed to dosomething more to prepare students for workplace and research communication needs.In the early fall of 2015 and as a beginning step in their attempt to do more
Paper ID #19152Work in Progress: A Delphi Study to Investigate the Value of Board Gamesto Teach Teamwork SkillsDr. Kevin Ray Hadley, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Hadley received his BS in Chemical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines and his PhD in Chemical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt, he also completed their teaching certificate program and was the first participant to publish the results of his project in a national peer-reviewed journal, Chemical Engineering Education. Afterwards, Dr. Hadley completed a postdoctoral study at NASA. IN 2012, he joined the faculty at South
, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Tech- nology Leadership and Innovation at Purdue University. She is responsible for the launch and develop- ment of the university’s multidisciplinary undergraduate entrepreneurship program, which involves 1800 students from all majors per year. She has established entrepreneurship capstone, global entrepreneurship, and women and leadership courses and initiatives at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Prior to her work in academia, Nathalie spent several years in the field of market research and business strategy consulting in Europe and the United States with Booz Allen and Hamilton and Data and Strategies Group. She received a BA from the University of
recognized pre-college initiative STEM program, FreshStart, which has served more than 2500 students since its inception. Dr. Wickliff has been blessed since 2013 to work daily in the area of her passion – developing young professionals – in her exciting role at Texas A&M University. She is a Professor of Engineering Practice and Mentor to a group of STEM POSSE Scholars. At Texas A&M University, she has taught Capstone Senior Design, Foundations of Engineering courses, Statics & Dynamics, Ethics and Engineergin, and Engineering Leadership Development courses. She is also the founding director of the Zachry Leadership Program. She has also taught Project Management and Risk Management courses for the University
Kinematics CourseAbstractThe proper application of lean management techniques to manufacturing processes typicallyresults in process improvements. Many of the principles of lean thinking can also be applied tothe educational process. This paper examines the implementation of lean management principlesin the design and delivery of a traditional lecture-based engineering course – Kinematics ofMachines.The format of a typical kinematics course relies on lectures, homework, exams, and perhaps adesign project as a means for transferring knowledge from the instructor to the students. In thispaper, lean thinking principles are applied to redesign the kinematics course format to increasethe effectiveness and efficiency of the knowledge transfer process
noticing a lack ofcontinuity and participation in our student organizations, since students are not physically here inthe department as in previous years. It is unclear still how these networks may be affected, and itmay take several more years to realize some of these unintended consequences of movingstudents away from specific disciplines in that first year.It is also important to ensure the FYE instructors understand the BAE discipline well enough sothat relevant examples and projects are incorporated into the FYE engineering courses. In orderfor this program to receive the college-wide support needed to be successful in its adoption, itwas imperative to assemble a core set of FYE instructors with the breadth necessary to representall
participate in the study aswell as their perception of the usefulness of the instrument.In a nationwide study of the adoption of engineering education innovations, Borrego, Froyd andHall [17] explored how seven engineering education innovations were used across the US. Theseven innovations were student-active pedagogies, artifact dissection, curriculum-basedengineering service-learning projects, interdisciplinary capstone design projects, summer bridge 3programs, learning communities or integrated curricula and design projects in the first-yearengineering courses. The purpose of this work was “to understand and make recommendations topromote adoption
suited for online delivery also include: greenscreen techniques, interactive video and software tools from the internet marketing niche tocapture and engage students6.During 2016 Summer Quarter, the set of videos provide a technical foundation made up of aseries of short mini-lectures (usually lasting between 5 to 10 minutes for each video) followed bya series of short assessments to verify and validate student understanding using Google Docs.Video recordings on the use of engineering tools such as Matlab/Simulink, Labview/Multisim,PhET and Algodoo software, can serve as examples to show key concepts. The video instructioncan also include demonstrations of real-world applications. For example, in the capstone designcourses and projects, students
male faculty member each year since its inception in 2011. He joined the institution in2011 after nearly fifteen years in the electronics industry.The course draws a lot of comparisons to our two-semester senior design sequence. However,there are significant differences between ECE490 and our capstone design classes. First, unlikesenior design, ECE490 has a single course objective: Students will be able to apply theengineering design process. Second, it is a truly multi-disciplinary class, and in ECE490engineers of all majors (bio, civil, computer, electrical, and mechanical) work on multi-disciplinary teams developing solutions to real world problems.One of the most significant differences between ECE490 and the senior design sequence is
applies to tasks individuals take pleasure in, enjoy, or find interesting. Costrefers to the negative consequences of engaging in a task.Research MethodsSample: Researchers from four distinctly different institutions implemented an initial assessmentof faculty, students, and practitioners to investigate how each group defined reflection and whatvalue they associated with reflective practices. Students and faculty surveyed included a widerange of engineering disciplines based on the distribution at each institution. Practitioners wereidentified from industrial advisory boards, capstone affiliations, alumni, and colleagues.Responses were obtained from 458 respondents - 295 students, 67 faculty, and 92 practitioners.An additional 288 partially
Measure?They actually do not measure students’ outcomes directly. What they measure for a particularoutcome is performance criteria related to that outcome. Degree of attainment based on students’level of performance on performance criteria.When Do They Measure?All or most courses should be mapped with the students’ outcomes. Also, most outcomes needto be measured at multiple points or at multiple embedded courses. Most of these points ofmeasurement should be at the upper level courses, when students would have enough time tomaster the outcome. If there are sequences of courses on a subfield, the embedded assessmentshould be done at the terminal course. For that reason many of the outcomes could be assessedat a capstone course.How Often Do They
students’experience of the given project within the informal environment, as well as, their understandingtheir learning through this non-curricular setting. Open-ended questions were developed toencourage students’ natural statements about their experiences.The interview protocol included open-ended questions. The open-ended questions provided themeans to explore students’ thinking about their learning. Sample questions included “How wouldyou describe your process?” The purpose for this question was to understand how studentsthought about the design of their product (ABET student outcome [c]), problem solving (ABETstudent outcome [e]), and experimentation processes (ABET student outcome [b]). We did notspecifically prompt them to consider these processes
Richard Huston, University of Cincinnati Dr. Thomas Huston is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Materials Engineering (MME) De- partment within the College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Huston has been a member of the engineering faculty at the University of Cincinnati since 1985. He is the Director of the Design Clinic for MME and oversees the capstone design projects for the Senior Me- chanical Engineering students. Dr. Huston also serves as the Deputy Director of the Occupational Safety and Health Engineering program of the NIOSH Education and Research Center (ERC) at the University of Cincinnati. An alumnus of the University of Cincinnati, he completed his
teaching with engineers and scientists has been geared towards encouraging them to think about the broader social, ethical and political dimensions of their research and training.Dr. Michael R. Caplan, Arizona State University Michael Caplan earned his undergraduate degrees from The University of Texas at Austin and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following post-doctoral research at Duke University Medical Center in Cell Biology, Michael joined the faculty of Arizona State University in 2003, and he is now an Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Caplan’s research focuses on molecular cooperativity in drug targeting, bio-sensing, and cell sig- naling. Current projects align along
capstone design project reports. However,the difference here is to have a structure to provide multiple formative feedbacks from theinstructor, the peers, and the student writing fellow (trained by the writing center) to helpstudents reflect on their weaknesses in writing through multiple interactions and assessment overa period of a semester. Furthermore, this vigorous writing-to-learn process is repeated in twosubsequent courses to ensure students proficiency in the process. In this format, the benefits ofusing writing-to-learn methodology have been expressed in many ways in the literature, such asimproved student writing, increased student learning and engagement, student-facultyinteraction, collaborative learning, and critical thinking to name
the need to increase incorporation of the entrepreneurial mindset in theengineering classroom at every level, not simply within the capstone senior design courses.Due to the relative ease in implementation, a group of lead faculty determined that online classdiscussions (either through an online class or face-to-face class) would provide an ideal startingpoint for incorporating the entrepreneurial mindset. Creating, deploying, and managing an onlinediscussion can be accomplished effectively and efficiently with a relatively minor investment inprep work prior to deploying the online discussion [12-14] with limited classroom disruption.Furthermore, online discussions provide many benefits for both face-to-face classrooms andonline courses [9-11
Paper ID #19631Sophomore Design Course on Virtual PrototypingDr. Michael R. Caplan, Arizona State University Michael Caplan earned his undergraduate degrees from The University of Texas at Austin and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following post-doctoral research at Duke University Medical Center in Cell Biology, Michael joined the faculty of Arizona State University in 2003, and he is now an Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Caplan’s research focuses on molecular cooperativity in drug targeting, bio-sensing, and cell sig- naling. Current projects align along three main themes
University in 2002, and has taught numerous construction courses throughout her academic career including: Construction Drawings, Concrete Tech- nology, Estimating I, Strength of Materials in Construction, Structures I, Construction Contracts, and Capstone courses. She received the Halliburton Excellent Young Teacher Award in 2008, and the CEAT Advisor of the Year in 2010. Dr. Yates served as the Associated Schools of Construction Region 5 Director from 2014-17. She also enjoys sharing her passion for increasing the recruitment and retention of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math through local, national, and international presentations. Additionally, she speaks on charting your own path in college
Paper ID #20014STILAS: STEM Intercultural Leadership Ambassador Scholars in Biology,Marine Biology, and EngineeringDr. William J. Palm IV, Roger Williams University William Palm is Assistant Professor of Engineering at Roger Williams University, where he teaches Engi- neering Graphics and Design, Computer Applications for Engineering, Machine Design, Manufacturing and Assembly, Biomechanics, and Capstone Design. He previously worked as a product design engineer and consultant and taught at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and Boston University. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and is licensed as a
Paper ID #19774Computer Simulations Developed to Improve Understanding of Thermody-namic PrinciplesDr. David G Alexander, California State University, Chico Dr. Alexander’s research interests and areas of expertise are in teaching pedagogy, capstone design, renewable energy systems, thermal sciences, vehicle system modeling and simulation, heat transfer, new product development, entrepreneurship, and technology transfer. He is PI and adviser of the Department of Energy Collegiate Wind Competition 2016. He is also working on an undergraduate research project modeling solar cells using a thermodynamics approach and analyzing
served more than 2000students since its inception.Dr. Wickliff is blessed to work daily in the area of her passion – developing young professionals – in herrole at Texas A&M University. She is the Director of the College of Engineering’s, Zachry LeadershipProgram and a Professor of Engineering Practice. At Texas A&M University, she has taught Capstone Se-nior Design and Foundations of Engineering courses, but now teaches Engineering Leadership Develop-ment courses. She has also taught Project Management and Risk Management courses for the Universityof Phoenix.Dr. Wickliff has been honored with University of Houston’s Distinguished Young Engineering AlumniAward, the Black Engineer of the Year Career Achievement Award for New Emerging
Paper ID #20271Engineering Technology Education in the United States: Findings and Rec-ommendations from an NAE StudyMr. Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering Greg Pearson is a Scholar with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in Washington, D.C. Greg currently serves as the responsible staff officer for the NSF-funded project ”The Status, Role, and Needs of Engineering Technology Education in the United States.” He is also study director for the Chevron-funded project, Guiding Implementation of K-12 Engineering in the United States. He was the study director for the NAE and National Research Council project
underserved elementary schools to promote STEM literacy, and provided in school STEM training for both teachers and students. She began her career at Rice in 2010 as a post-doctoral research fellow and then project manager in the Colvin labs. She joined the office of STEM engagement at the beginning of 2015 as Director of Programs and Operations. In her role Carolina is responsible for overseeing the program operations and the research efforts for the RSTEM group. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Nanotechnology Research Experience for Teachers Enhancing STEM EducationAbstractTeachers serve a vital role in improving the nation’s STEM education and
varying levels of trainingcan learn to use the Design Heuristics cards within a short instructional session, and then go on tosuccessfully create their own novel and diverse concepts[20]. One study of 48 first-yearengineering students given different subsets of 12 Design Heuristics used Design Heuristics inover half of their created concepts for a portable solar oven[28]. Further, the concepts resultingfrom the application of Design Heuristics were rated by blind coders as more creative designs.Studies with more advanced engineering students showed that design teams made use of theirconcepts including Design Heuristics in senior capstone projects across various designproblems[29]. Even non-engineering students have been shown to be able to apply
Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Lab-Integrated Librarians: Engagement with Unreachable ResearchersAbstractSubject liaison librarians are working at the crossroads of the practical and emerging needs ofresearchers, seeking to connect with them throughout the research life-cycle rather than at thebeginning when literature reviews are conducted or at the end when a scholarly publicationemerges. In STEM disciplines, where research is oftentimes conducted in secure lab facilities,engagement is particularly challenging. In 2016, librarians at North Carolina State Universityembarked on a project to overcome this difficulty by joining selected research groups andattending regular lab meetings. This paper’s findings will suggest that lab
librarian in the Engineering Library. He was director from 1987-2001 and 2006-2008; from 2002-2005 he went on partial research leave as Director of Collection Development for the NSF-funded National Science Digital Library Project.52 In 2009 he was appointed Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resourcesand Special Collections. He served as principal investigator on the Kinematic Models for DesignDigital Library (KMODDL)53 involving the Reuleaux Collection of 19th-century kinematicmachines. He led the Task Force to examine library-related needs for the Cornell Tech campus inNew York City