classroom project modules that supported students indeveloping an entrepreneurial mindset in the context of software engineering. The modulesconnect the software development life-cycle from beginning to end including user focusedrequirements elicitation and evaluating quality attributes. The modules were implemented in ajunior level software engineering course in 2019. A student survey was developed and measuredstudent perceptions of learning objectives that tie directly into ABET accreditation outcomes.Students reported they found the activities most helpful for designing, building, and testing realworld systems.Qualitatively, we found that the student work completed in these modules to be higher qualitythan similar work submitted in prior years
• train a growing workforce spanning the full supply chain• De-risked technology development in a highly regulated industry that is facilitated by collective action and collaboration with NIST and FDA• Participate in collaborative projects. • For deployment of technology, scale-up and regulatory science • For applied RD&D to de-risk process development• Opportunity to share in IP addressing shared challenges.• Partnership to train a workforce for producing, testing, A M E R I C A N I N N O VAT I O N AT W O R K and regulating products at scale
Community-Based Learning: Student Outcomes Kurtis G. Paterson, Ph.D., P.E. Michigan Technological University Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringAbstractInitiated in Fall 2006 with the help of a NSF grant, this program engages engineeringstudent teams in community-based learning (CBL) outside La Paz, Bolivia. CBL isdefined as learning via working with and in a community in need of engineering (orother) services. This paper will present student participation, project results, and lessonslearned to date.The four main goals of this CBL experience are: (1) to produce engineers with a bettersense of the societal and global interconnections of
Building a Load-bearing Truss for Introductory Statics Course Ahmet Coskun, Mehdi Abedi, and Kai-tak Wan* Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115Abstract The term project for Statics is to design and construct a load bearing truss. Groups with 5members use toothpicks and wood glue to construct a 3-dimensional structure to hold ahemispherical metal shell above a circular hole in a substrate. A universal testing machine appliesan external compression until the truss collapses or reaches its maximum load capacity. Each trusswill be evaluated based on ultimate breakage load, failure mode analysis, cost analysis
pipeline of an educated and skilled workforce is known as a demand-driven workforcedevelopment system. The enabling technology for the federal government’s efforts is its labor market informationsystem.In order for STEM programs to meet the needs of the 21st Century workforce, we must understand the componentsof the nation’s labor market information system (LMIS) so that we can fully participate in our regional and localworkforce and economic development planning decisions. The LMIS collects, among other things, data from amyriad of sources on employment across occupations and industries, projections of high demand/high wageoccupations for the next 10 years, occupations and industries likely to see declining demand, and the knowledge,skills, and
criteria or constraints in an engineering problem or multipledimensions of sustainability). Accordingly, some researchers have used time spent on tasks inrelation to performance on tasks as indicators of cognitive flexibility. Another definition is the“selective use of knowledge to adaptively fit the needs of understanding and decision-making ofa particular situation” [1, p. 548]. The latter definition seems appropriate for describing cognitiveflexibility in engineering problem-solving but does not seem to be fully captured by existingmeasures of time spent on task and performance.Guided by CFT, the main goals of our NSF EEC project were to improve students’ abilities toapply sustainable engineering concepts across different problem contexts or
Carolina State University, MBA from King University, and PhD in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Dr. Carrico is a certified project management professional (PMP) and licensed professional engineer (P.E.).Dr. Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Jacob Grohs is an Assistant Professor in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech with Affiliate Faculty status in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics and the Learning Sciences and Technologies at Virginia Tech. He holds degrees in Engineering Mechanics (BS, MS) and in Educational Psychology (MAEd, PhD).Dr. Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Holly M. Matusovich is a Professor in the Department of
the Promise of Virtue, the subject of an upcoming symposium on Syndicate. Commit- ted to interdisciplinary collaborations that translate academic research for larger, professional audiences, he has contributed to Uppsala University’s Engaging Vulnerability Project and, most recently, collabo- rated with Dr. Shelly Rambo at Boston University developing an ebook, Trauma and Moral Injury: A Guiding Framework for Chaplains. He holds a BA from Georgetown University, an MDiv from Harvard University, and PhD in religion, ethics, and society from Emory University.Dr. Michael Lamb, Wake Forest University Michael Lamb is Executive Director of the Program for Leadership and Characterand Assistant Professor of Politics, Ethics
University. His background is in mathematical sciences and mathematics education. Luke’s primary research interests include math anxiety and student success in higher education. He is currently involved in projects surrounding the topics of transfer student success, cognitive and symbol load, math anxiety, and qualitative research methods. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Using Design-Based Research Methods to Scale an Expanding InterventionIn this work-in-progress paper, we share the methodological decisions we made to supportresearch within the ongoing implementation of a large-scale, five-year NSF
of automation components including programmable logic controllers (PLC’s),actuators and robots, sensors, motors, drivers, and operator control displays. Students design,simulate, build, test and document automation systems for capstone projects to demonstrate theirunderstanding of the subjects. The initial version of the courses and lab was described in a paperin late fall 2006 1.Since then, several different types of laboratory equipment have been added the course syllabusand material has been continuously improved. Active learning and hands-on learning are thebasis for instruction in the courses. Several short projects have been added to the course. Teamsof two-to-three students develop and complete capstone projects. More details about
Management from IAU, and Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering/Surveying from University of Tehran. Prior to joining The Citadel, he was a Visiting Professor of Construction Management in the Moss School of Construction, Infrastructure, and Sustainability at FIU. Dr. Batouli teaches diverse range of courses in civil engineering, construction engineering, and construction/project management. As a teacher, he aims to inspire his students to think intensively and critically and to live ethically and morally. Dr. Batouli’s major area of research is system-of-systems analysis of sustainability and resilience in civil infrastructure. He is particularly interested in studying human-infrastructure-environment interactions
sus- tainability assessment of renewable and non-renewable energy resources with emphasis on analysis and optimization of transportation processes in multiproduct pipeline systems. She also serves as a teaching assistant at Rowan University Chemical Engineering Department courses in Thermodynamics, Separation Processes, and Process Dynamics and Controls. She is the graduate student mentor of the junior/senior engineering clinic for the industrial project funded by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and the ExxonMobil Lubricant Oil Blending Facility Paulsboro NJ. Swapna is an active member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) as well as a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS
Professor in 2013 and Full Professor in 2019 . Dr. Chrysochoou’s general research area is environmental geochemistry, with a focus on site remediation, characterization and reuse of industrial waste and construction materials. Dr. Chrysochoou’s serves as the Principal Investigator of the project ”Beyond Accommodation: Leveraging Neurodiversity for Engineering Innovation”. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation Revolutionizing Engineering Department program, this 5-year project aims at transforming educational practices and cultivate the potential of neurodivergent individuals to contribute to engineering breakthroughsDr. Arash E. Zaghi, University of Connecticut Arash E. Zaghi is an Associate Professor in the
graduate student culminating projects, theses, or dissertations, in 2011 and 2005. He was also nominated for 2004 UNI Book and Supply Outstanding Teaching Award, March 2004, and nominated for 2006, and 2007 Russ Nielson Service Awards, UNI. Dr. Pecen is an Engineering Tech- nology Editor of American Journal of Undergraduate Research (AJUR). He has been serving as a re- viewer on the IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing since 2001. Dr. Pecen has served on ASEE Engineering Technology Division (ETD) in Annual ASEE Conferences as a reviewer, session moderator, and co-moderator since 2002. He served as a Chair-Elect on ASEE ECC Division in 2011. He also served as a program chair on ASEE ECCD in 2010
practice in a twice a week 85 minute class, we present many adjustments toScrum for use in the classroom. We describe the implementation of the top six agile techniquesused in industry (daily standup, sprint planning, retrospectives, sprint review, short iterations,planning poker) which focuses the learning experience on the most important components of agiledevelopment in addition to including top engineering practices used in industry. Additionally, wereport extensions and variants for adapting this design to existing software engineering courses atother universities. Among these variants we propose adopting class-wide teams which is atypicalat other universities for junior-level project courses.IntroductionThe agile software development is
2013 for designing the nation’s first BS degree in Engineering Education. He was named NETI Faculty Fellow for 2013-2014, and the Herbert F. Alter Chair of Engineering (Ohio Northern University) in 2010. His research interests include success in first-year engineering, engineering in K-12, introducing entrepreneur- ship into engineering, and international service and engineering. He has written texts in design, general engineering and digital electronics, including the text used by Project Lead the Way.Mrs. Tina Marie Griesinger, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Tina Griesinger is a PhD student in the Engineering Education department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
The Institute for Engineering Education at SMU – Answering the Shortage of Tomorrow’s Engineers Geoffrey Orsak Executive Director The Institute for Engineering Education at SMU Betsy Willis Director, Student Programs and Outreach, School of Engineering Southern Methodist University AbstractTo help combat the projected shortage of engineers, the Institute for Engineering Education atSMU was founded in 2002 with funding from the national government. The Institute developsengineering
minorities in CS and related disciplines.DesignThe design of ERSP is based on four pillars:1. A course-supported apprentice model2. A dual-mentoring framework3. A team-based environment4. An inclusive selection processERSP students work in teams under the guidance of a research faculty member, as part of anactive research project. This apprenticeship is supported by a required course that introducesstudents to research in a structured class setting: topics, findings, how to read and evaluate aresearch paper, and a variety of research exercises. The students are mentored by both ERSPmentors and a member of the research project (faculty, or graduate student). The program isteam-based, building a strong sense of student community and support
effective, responsible, andaccountable to the communities they hope to serve? How do engineering students understandhow to work in these organizations that historically have not been part of traditionalengineering career pathways – “The Road Less Travelled”? This paper presents a conceptualmodel for understanding, partnering, and building relationships between engineering teamsand NGOs, organizations that rarely figure in the employment landscape of engineering. Itproposes that sustainable community development (SCD) projects require a level ofembeddedness in communities, engagement, continuity and logistical maturity that mostengineering schools with community-engagement programs are ill equipped to provide bythemselves but that in partnership
, a midwestern STEM-focusedinstitution, received an internal grant to develop a class in research for undergraduates. Thisclass, which is designed to be offered online either for cohorts or for individual students as anindependent study, contains information and resources on a diverse range of issues such asmotivation for research, research ethics, planning a research project, conducting literaturesearches, experimental procedures, keeping lab documentation for various types of projects, dataanalysis, technical writing, intellectual property, and issues relevant to scoping out one’s ownresearch project.This paper will give the background for the course development, evaluation of the requiredcontent and decisions on structure and format, and
, first-year engineering students take on a semester-long design projectthat grounds engineering design as an epistemic practice. The project is designed to motivatestudents to creatively and collaboratively apply mathematical modeling to design roller coasters.Students are asked to engage as engineers and respond to a hypothetical theme park that hassolicited design proposals for a new roller coaster. Students are required to use variousmathematical functions such as polynomials and exponentials to create a piecewise function thatmodels the roller coaster track geometry. The entire project is composed of five modules, eachlasting three weeks. Each module is associated with a specific calculus topic and is integratedinto the design process in the
ASEE-NMWSC2013-0004 Impact of a Research Experience Program on North Dakota Tribal College STEM Student Retention Audrey LaVallie1, Eakalak Khan2, and G. Padmanabhan2 1 Faculty, Turtle Mountain Community College, Belcourt, North Dakota (e-mail: alavallie@tm.edu) 2 Professor of Civil Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota (e-mails: Eakalak.khan@ndsu.edu and g.padmanabhan@ndsu.edu respectively)Abstract Recent educational research shows that students who engage in research projects aremore likely to
theestate of Fulton and Edna Holtby. The goal was to promote professional activities of students,faculty, and staff in areas of research, scholarship, course development and professionaldevelopment by providing funds for stipend, travel, buyout for release time and purchase ofequipment, services and supplies. These funds were to be used to offer undergraduate andgraduate students opportunity to explore special topics outside of their formal coursework thatinspired their creativity and imagination through additional research and exploration and earncollege credit for their work. As structured coursework rarely offers extended, stress-freeenvironment conducive to learning and exploration, ideas were developed for student projects toprovide laboratory
mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development. Dr Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement and Instrumentation course as well as for quality control undergraduate and graduate courses in ET Masters program. Also, she introduced the first experiential activity for Applied Mechanics courses. She is coordinator and advisor for capstone projects for Engineering Technology.Dr. Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University Michael Mauk is Assistant Professor in Drexel University’s Engineering Technology program.Regina Ruane Ph.D., Temple University
, comprised of practicing Pre-Calculusmath problems with educational software (ALEKS) and developing solutions to engineeringprojects with synchronous video conferencing instruction via Zoom. Students receivedinstruction and assistance (via Zoom) from faculty and student assistants throughout thebootcamp. Finally, students integrated four projects that focused on different disciplines,including programming a robot to detect and circumnavigate obstacles, designing andconstructing a truss bridge, modeling the dynamics of a trebuchet, and programming the robot toimplement a PID Controller. Four out of the seventeen students successfully completed the finalchallenge, which required designing and building a truss bridge capable of handling a certainload
her experiences include projects funded by the National Science Foundation, USEPA, and the US Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division. For 20 years, Dr. Singer served as the director of the Buffalo State Office of Undergraduate Research and administered programs that supported students in all academic majors. Dr. Singer had a NSF award to scale up to the national level the evaluation program designed to assess student learning and student growth from participating in undergraduate research. This method, known as EvaluateUR, is now being modified to support course-based undergraduate research experiences (EvaluateUR-CURE). American c
Education. He was named NETI Faculty Fellow for 2013-2014, and the Herbert F. Alter Chair of Engineering (Ohio Northern University) in 2010. His research interests include success in first-year engineering, engineering in K-12, introducing entrepreneur- ship into engineering, and international service and engineering. He has written texts in design, general engineering and digital electronics, including the text used by Project Lead the Way. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Gaining Industry Experience Exposure During a Pandemic Introducing Engineering Students to IndustryIntroductionThere is a growing need for engineering
widely-used technology. He has several projects that aim to improve the security of the Web public-key infrastructure (PKI) by building on existing technology, and he is currently studying and improving the economic incentives underlying cryptocurrency. He is also interested in computer science education, particularly in the field of security, and focuses on designing courses that build students’ (1) competence in technical fields, (2) confidence to tackle important and interesting problems, and (3) context in non-STEM fields. Before coming to Olin, Steve was a postdoctoral researcher in the Cybercrime group in the Institute for Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University, supervised by Nicolas Christin. He earned
Paper ID #33234Taking Control of Control Systems: A Student Developed, Multimedia andSimulation Tool for Control Systems EducationMatilda Ho, University of Texas at Dallas Matilda Ho completed this capstone project for a BS in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas. She is currently continuing her education at The University of Texas at Dallas for an MS in Systems Engineering and Management. Upon completion, she hopes to work in industry with a focus in sustainable business.Ms. Maria Fernanda ValdezCasey HatfieldMs. Jieun KimTaylor Carlile Beach American
classroom accommodations. A typicalfreshman engineering class will utilize teamwork on large design projects. Teamwork can bedaunting for a student with ASD in terms of the social aspects and the organization of a largeassignment with multiple due dates. However, many ASD students are visual learners and dowell with “hands-on” projects, and may just need assistance keeping track of assignments.Faculty members should have direct communication with the students and provideaccommodations with guided group work, a consistent format for assignments, breakingprojects in to smaller assignments, and making slides/lectures available before class.Currently, a freshman engineering class has implemented these adjustments andaccommodations. This work in