andexperiment with real wireless waveforms and applications.In this paper, we report our experience on the development of an SDR laboratory course at theundergraduate level to enhance the Bachelor of Wireless Engineering (BWE) curriculum atAuburn University, an ABET-accredited program and first-of-its-kind in the US. With the 1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, 200 Broun Hall, AuburnUniversity, Auburn AL 36849-5201, smao@ieee.org 2 Network Appliance, 800 Cranberry Woods Drive Suite 400, Cranberry Township, PA 16066,yzh0002@tigermail.auburn.edu 3 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, 200 Broun Hall, Auburn
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, it can be easy to focus on the experiences of first-time-in-college (FTIC)students. However, this focus is an idealization - as messaging about engineering from the firstyear is a critical junction for how students make decisions about persisting in an engineeringprogram [see 1]. Not everyone has the opportunity or chooses to begin at a four-year institution.The National Student Clearinghouse [2] reports that, in the previous ten years, 49 percent ofstudents who completed a bachelor’s degree at a four-year university in the 2015-2016 academicyear had also enrolled in a community college (two-year institution) for at least one semester.For those looking to revise their curriculum substantially, thinking about how to bridge transferstudents
of how this storytelling approach can benefit first-yearengineering (FYE) programs. FYE is crucial in shaping students' initial perceptions of engineering, significantlyinfluencing their motivation and decision to stay in engineering [8], [9], [10]. An ineffectivepedagogical approach can result in a lack of motivation, leading to a disconnect between thetheoretical concepts taught and their practical application [11], [12], [13]. This work-in-progress paperexamines the implementation of Story-Based Pedagogy (SBP) by introducing narrative elementsinto the curriculum to promote engagement and bridge learning to real-world engineeringcontexts in a FYE program. By developing course content that incorporates storytelling, we aimto create a
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existing curriculum constraints. In particular, teachers found that the NextGeneration Science Standards [1] practice of “computational thinking” was the best lens fordeveloping their aligned big data instruction. After exploring a taxonomy of computationalthinking in mathematics and science [2], the teachers collectively eventually settled on a core setof four computational thinking skills [3] most likely to be productive for their teaching focus;algorithmic thinking, decomposition, abstraction, and pattern recognition. This paper reports onthe variety of connections teachers developed with the practice of computational thinking, fromdata clustering as an active practice for simulating early generation of the periodic table in achemistry class
, Simulation, Qual- ity, Six Sigma, Operations Research, Simulation, and Application of System Thinking. For more than 25 years, he has given training courses in different companies and training courses for teachers in topics related to statistics and Six Sigma methodology. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Integrating companies and higher education in the teaching-learning process of Lean Thinking using Challenge-based LearningAbstractManufacturing companies constantly search for graduates who know more about LeanManufacturing to reduce waste and improve productivity. This paper presents a modelthat integrates teaching Lean Thinking in higher education within an organization’s fa-cility
Future WorkThe objective for this research was to better understand the baseline, demonstrated informationliteracy skills of first-year engineering students by using an authentic assessment tool to evaluatewritten artifacts produced by student teams. The results of this study are consistent with theliterature in that students exhibit weakness in both gathering and evaluating information 12,17,28. Aunique contribution of this study to the literature is the finding that students had very weakdocumentation skills. While no specific criteria regarding citation style (e.g. APA, MLA, etc.)was specified in the project description, providing citations for referenced material is asignificant element of academic integrity and is discussed in detail in the
) program at MSOE is transitioning from a quarter-basedacademic calendar to a semester-based academic calendar and is uniquely situated to reimaginethe curriculum with a mobile studio approach at its core. While exemplary case studies of mobilestudio platform usage in single courses or course sequences can be found in the literature, thiswork documents a proposal to design a new Electrical Engineering curriculum that utilizes acommon mobile studio platform throughout all years of the curriculum, across many courses.This paper is organized as follows: Section II summarizes the current state of the literature onmobile studio pedagogy; Section III examines the proposed curriculum integration of a mobilestudio lab instrumentation; Section IV presents
Material into Engineering Courses and CurriculaThis mixed-methods Work-In-Progress (WIP) paper is designed to capture engineering faculty andstudents’ perceptions of the integration of the arts and engineering into engineering courses andcurricula. There is a lack of prior investigation into the subject of faculty and student perceptionand curriculum development concerning the integration of the arts and engineering. This studyintends to create a baseline understanding of how engineering faculty and students perceive theintegration of the arts and engineering and measure the interest around courses and curriculumdevelopment concerning the arts and engineering.Literature ReviewThe integration of arts into STEM education has been fairly common in
. The faculty arecertified instructors to offer variety of FANUC certificates. The ET program at UTRGV is aCertified Training and Education Site for FANUC Robotics Material Handling ProgramSoftware and iR-Vision 2D (15).The CAD lab at UTRGV has SIEMENS NX Product Life Cycle Management software bundlethat serves as the principle CAD software that is employed throughout the engineeringtechnology curriculum. NX CAD Design Certification is perfect for students and educators whowant to demonstrate core design skills in NX. The certification is achieved through an onlineexam that tests skills and knowledge of the NX software. NX Certification enhances thecompetitive edge and reputation of both students and schools and provides an industryrecognized
AC 2010-219: A HANDS-ON COURSE CURRICULUM FOR SUPPORTINGDESIGN EDUCATION FOR MANUFACTURING STUDENTSPriya Manohar, Robert Morris University Dr. Priyadarshan Manohar is an Assistant Professor of Manufacturing Engineering at Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA. He has a Ph. D. in Materials Engineering (1998) and Graduate Diploma in Computer Science (1999) from University of Wollongong, Australia and holds Bachelor of Engineering (Metallurgical Engineering) degree from Pune University, India (1985). He has worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (2001 – 2003) and BHP Institute for Steel Processing and Products, Australia (1998 – 2001). Dr. Manohar held the
credit portion for general education. Hence, the total credits of core coursesare forced to decrease, and only slight changes in the curriculum can be made. With newoutcome-based demands, the mechanical engineering program committee tailors the revisedcurriculum by integrating design and experiment skills across course series. The implementationis divided into short and long terms. The short-term procedure involves restructuring andintegrating courses for specific competencies while the intensive quality assurance is consideredin long term.I IntroductionChulalongkorn University was established as the first university in Thailand in 1917 with theFaculty of Engineering as one of the four founding faculties. The Department of MechanicalEngineering
Paper ID #18998Longitudinal Effects of the Foundation Coalition Curriculum on Chemicaland Petroleum Engineering Student PerformanceDr. So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University So Yoon Yoon, Ph.D., is an assistant research scientist at the Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation (IEEI) within the College of Engineering, Texas A&M University and the Texas A&M Engi- neering Experiment Station (TEES). She received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with specialties in Gifted Education and her M.S.Ed. in Educational Psychology with specialties in Research Methods and Measurement both from Purdue University
training courses aboard acombination of our 500-foot diesel training ship, the Golden Bear (Sea Training I and III), and a“Commercial Cruise,” aboard a commercial sea-going vessel (Sea Training II). The second halfof the sea service requirement is met over the cadet’s four-year tenure at CSUM by an aggregateof standing regular engineering “watches” aboard our training ship’s fully functional engineroom and time accrued in USCG approved courses.Integration of Assessments into CurriculumTo ensure that our engineering graduates meet STCW compliance to obtain a USCG engineerslicense they must meet all the STCW KUP based assessments and earn the required sea serviceaboard ship. The training we have integrated into our curriculum to ensure STCW
Page 24.458.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Effectively engaging engineers in ethical reasoning about emerging technologies: A cyber-enabled framework of scaffolded, integrated, and reflexive analysis of casesAbstract: Training future engineers to effectively handle ethical dilemmas they will encounterin developing and implementing new technology is a critical and relevant challenge for a nationthat is advancing science and engineering technologies at an ever increasing rate. Each yearthousands of new engineers join the workforce and face novel issues raised by radicaltechnological advances. Concurrently, changing societal responses to new technologies
career fields for technical warrant officers in the United States Army. Warrantofficers enjoy the privileges of an officer, and according to the Army’s website, “technical warrantofficers are the Army’s mechanical experts”. Qualification training for warrant officers is generallyseveral months to a year in duration of fulltime study, but many warrant officers do not have four-yearcollege degrees.The American Council on Education (ACE), based out of Washington, D.C., reviews military trainingcourses, including Army warrant officer courses, and makes credit recommendations of equivalentcollege credits based upon training durations, content and scope. Technical warrant officer trainingincludes the types of curriculum often found in four-year
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 5500 Wabash Ave, Terre Haute, Indiana, 47803 1. Abstract Engineering Physics (EP), at its core, is a multidisciplinary approach to solving problemsthat require insights from various traditional disciplines. The EP curriculum at Rose-HulmanInstitute of Technology strives to foster this multidisciplinary approach by incorporating studentprojects that require integrating concepts and principles from various fields into a meaningfulapproach toward a realistic solution. These projects, ideally involve a design / problemstatement, a fabrication step, and a testing or characterization stage. As an example of such anapproach, a new lab is proposed to provide students with an
Paper ID #45124(Full Paper) Enhancing Sense of Belonging in First-Year Engineering Studentsthrough Integrated Project-Based Learning and Communication Skills DevelopmentDr. Song Wang, University of Hartford Song Wang is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Hartford. His research focuses on the durability of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials and their application in reinforcing and repairing steel and concrete structures. He is particularly interested in FRP-reinforced seawater and sea sand concrete structures, and bio-oriented
Paper ID #25402Board 4: Leveraging Undergraduate Curriculum Reform to Impact Gradu-ate Education: a Case StudyDr. Jennifer R Amos, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr Amos joined the Bioengineering Department at the University of Illinois in 2009 and is currently a Teaching Associate Professor in Bioengineering and an Adjunct Associate Professor in Educational Psychology. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech and Ph.D. in Chemical En- gineering from University of South Carolina. She completed a Fulbright Program at Ecole Centrale de Lille in France to benchmark and help create a new hybrid
-effective design-build projects for large-scale first-year engineering programs.II. Conventional Curriculum Research and Development at OSU.Curriculum research has been an integral part of the curriculum development agenda for theFirst-Year Engineering Program.2-5,7,8,11-14 The research and development of new labs has helpedthe program stay novel and appealing for the students as well as the faculty. New ideas fromvarious engineering disciplines have been incorporated in labs to engage students’ backgroundsand interests. Furthermore, the variety in the lab curriculum exposes freshman students todifferent disciplines of engineering thus helps them in understanding and choosing the right fieldof study.Conventional methods of curriculum research
integrated with the practice ofmaking and includes three important components of any training system: information,demonstration, and practice [7]. Instruction on each topic in the curriculum begins with a shortactive learning lecture about a particular method or tool. In these lectures, exemplars producedby the instructor or sampled from prior student work are presented to the students. The classengages in an open discussion about what makes each piece a success or failure. Followingthis period, the instructor or TA gives a demonstration of how to execute the relevanttechnique/tool, including methods of operation, and displays of best and worst practices.Students then rehearse the technique/tool in class or a scheduled out-of-class workshop
Arizona State University (ASU) campus at Mesa, Arizona received an AdvancedTechnology Education (ATE) grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a series ofsix laboratory curriculum modules in the area of microelectronics. The partner institutions ofthe ATE grant are Central Arizona College, Chandler Gilbert Community College, MesaCommunity College and the Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC).MATEC is a NSF funded center for Advanced Technology Education. The laboratorycurriculum development efforts include both lower and upper division courses, which havelaboratory activities integrated into the course. The instructional materials developed utilize theMicroelectronics Teaching Factory (MTF) as the laboratory of choice
students with an opportunity tospecialize their learning in specific concentrations such as water and soil conservation, airquality, agricultural systems/power & machinery, renewable energy, and post-harvestprocessing/food engineering/bioprocess engineering. In an effort to identify distinguishingcharacteristics of a BAE, learning outcomes were mapped to specific concentrations and specificknowledge areas for the BAE curriculum at Texas A&M University. Learning outcomes havebeen viewed as the standard for measuring the knowledge, skills and attitudes a student hasobtained. Mapping of these learning outcomes could function as indicators of students’ abilitiesto perform in careers focused on their concentration and distinguish them from
traditionally underrepresented groups in engineering education. Page 23.360.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Curriculum Exchange: Middle School Students Go Beyond Blackboards to Solve the Grand ChallengesAbstractOur program offers an integrated approach to engaging middle school students in activities thatimprove awareness and understanding of a range of STEM college and career pathways. Theprogram is framed within the Grand Challenges of the 21st Century identified by the NationalAcademy of Engineering (NAE). The focus of this paper is the curriculum used for
Paper ID #49643Incorporating Sustainability Knowledge into Construction Education Curriculum:A Case Study of Earthen MasonryRoy Uzoma LanMr. Chinedu Okonkwo, The University of Texas at San AntonioDr. Ibukun Gabriel Awolusi, The University of Texas at San Antonio Dr. Ibukun Awolusi is an Associate Professor in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Construction Management at The University of Texas at San Antonio. His research interests and expertise are in construction safety and health, automation and robotics, innovation and technology integration in construction, sustainable materials and
) How much faculty direction should be given during the mini-project?The answers to the first two questions were “yes” if we looked at the senior capstone project as themain instrument in achieving these objectives. However, the authors felt these issues should beaddressed earlier in the curriculum. Also there are a number of disadvantages of using the seniorcapstone project as an assessment tool. In our department, each team of students works with a facultyadvisor for their senior project. The team is normally composed of two students but can have as manyas six students depending on the project. The majority of project topics are in the faculty’s researcharea which in our department includes controls, audio systems, advanced digital and
programs nationally andinternationally would at some point begin to coalesce toward a uniformly demanded andstandardized core curriculum. A reference curriculum was soon provided by the GRCSE. The needs of the U.S. are embodied by the following quotation. The DeputyAssistant Secretary of the Air Force for Science, Technology and Engineeringcommissioned the National Research Council of the National Academies to examine therole that Systems Engineering can play during the defense acquisition life cycle andaddress the root cause of program failure during the early phase of the program. In someof its findings, the National Research council states: “There is a need for an appropriate level of SE talent and leadership early in the
Paper ID #28673Intercollegiate Coaching in a Faculty Professional Development Programthat Integrates Pedagogical Best Practices and the EntrepreneurialMindsetDr. Heather Dillon, University of Portland Dr. Heather Dillon is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Portland. She recently served as the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in STEM Education. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education. Before joining the university, Heather Dillon worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior
Page 24.356.8 7created piecemeal ad hoc. We are in the presence of immediate cognisance of fact, onlyintermittently subjecting fact to systematic dissection. Romantic emotion is essentially the Have been exposed to a broad, varied and integrated curriculum and have developed an informed sense of his/her own talents and preferences in general educational and vocational matters (transition skills) Have developed significantly the basic skills of literacy and numeracy and oracy. (It is assumed that most students will have developed these skills before the end of the junior cycle, but specific reinforcement for some will be needed through TYO) (literacy and