85 ASSESSMENT AND CURRICULUM MODIFICATION INELECTRONICS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM Shahryar Darayan David Olowokere Xuemin Chen Darayan_sx@tsu.edu Olowokeredo@tsu.edu Chenxm@tsu.edu Department of Engineering Technology 3100 Cleburne, Houston, Texas 77004 Abstract: The Electronics Engineering Technology at Texas Southern University has been actively involved with course embedded assessment techniques for more than nine years. The assessment project has spanned the engineering technologies programs, the
. Junior internship – continue to learn about BHI and take a course for credit that is taught jointly by BHI engineer and FM. Identify capstone project. Senior internship – take a course for credit that is taught jointly by BHI engineer and FM, plus identify and work on MS project. Fifth year at OU – Work on BHI MS project under supervision of FM and BHM / BHI engineers. Fourth and fifth years: The BHS’s degree plan is jointly worked out by mentors (BHM and FM). Students are provided the opportunity to take customized courses: - Three graduate courses from Petroleum Engineering for ME students and a like number from AME for the PE students. - Graduate electives - Up to two graduate
technology students are notpermitted to take the FE exam during their senior year in the state of Indiana. Additionally, whilethe FE exam does cover a wide range of topics, it lacks questions in several of the requiredsubject areas of the CIMT and MET programs, thereby making it limited as an assessment tool.These graduation exams have been incorporated in the capstone, senior design project courserequired in each program. MET students take MET 414, Senior Design Projects and CIMTstudents take CIMT 481, Integration of Manufacturing Systems in the 8th semester in theirrespective plans of study. The exam represents 10% of the student’s grade for these courses. Itwas decided by the department’s faculty that to insure that students take the exam
medicalresearch are available in the market such as EnvisionTEC 3D-Bioplotter, however they areusually extremely expensive. Collaborating with the medical school, this project will design andbuild new extruding systems on a low-cost RepRap machine. One RepRap Prusa i3 printer ismodified able to extrude independently two different hydro-gels dedicated to the stem cellresearch. The modification is expected to utilize other 3D printing methods to create parts. Thisis a team's Capstone Design Project with students involved to promote and extend theapplications of 3D printing. Student working processes of design, hardware modification, as wellas testing procedures will be observed and recorded. The project activities, the testing results,and the students
conferences and by participation on technical committees that develop application codesor material and process standards - an important activity in our market-driven economy. These organizationsusually have very strong industrial bases that employ many engineers, and several sponsor annual undergraduatestudent design competitions that can serve as excellent vehicles for team and/or capstone design projects thataddress challenging problems under real constraints of time and budget. A number of industry-based multidsciplinary groups that are organized around a particular class ofindustrial material or process also advertise grants to faculty for research that addresses topics of continuingconcern or that holds promise of expansion into new
(i.e., junior-level) required course for students enrolled in the LTU BSME program.Measurement Systems was developed with two prerequisites (Differential Equations and Circuits& Electronics) and one corequisite (Probability & Statistics), as shown in Figure 1.Mechatronics, a course focused largely on dynamic system modeling and control, now includesMeasurement Systems as a prerequisite. Other courses, including the capstone sequences(Competition Projects 1 and Industry Sponsored Projects A) and Mechanics Lab, now includeMeasurement Systems as a corequisite. Figure 1. Measurement Systems with prerequisite courses (solid arrows), corequisite course (dashed arrows), and following courses in the LTU BSME programThe course
). A total of n = 83 institutions were initially identified. First or second yearcourses, semester- or year-long capstone project courses, online programs, and graduate coursesthat undergraduates could take were excluded from the analysis. After applying the exclusioncriteria and eliminating curricula that did not include an upper-division mechanical designcourse, the final sample was n = 74 institutions that each offered at least one required or elective(only if no requirement) upper-division mechanical design course. The most common coursetitles in the dataset were Machine Design (13 instances), Mechanical Design (12 instances),Design of Machine Elements (6 instances), and Mechanical Engineering Design (5 instances).Figure 1 shows the
approach was initiated to build a teaming thread through the earlydesign sequence as preparation for and reinforcement by the capstone design experience. Thefirst phase commenced with Freshmen in the Engineering Design 2 course. This course followsup on the first design course in having a sensors and systems theme and again includes a major Page 13.399.4design project. The students were not just asked to reflect on their first semester teamingexperience, but were now given instruction in teaming skills using material prepared incollaboration with a faculty member in technology management with expertise in teaming andleadership development.A
to be implemented during the study abroadprogram and to identify appropriate projects for students to collaborate on, 2 faculty membersfrom the University of Dar es Salam, Tanzania (UDSM) were invited to James MadisonUniversity (JMU) in 2017. During their visit, they had meetings with relevant administrators andfaculty, toured facilities, engaged with engineering classes, had formal and informal meetingswith engineering students and participated in workshops. They also took the opportunity to visitsregional sites to develop a deeper appreciation of the social context in which American studentslive and study. The visiting faculty worked with JMU faculty to develop goals and scope for anengineering capstone design project for our respective
Texas A&M UniversityAbstractThis paper presents the progress made in the first two years of a five-year NSF ER2 (Ethical andResponsible Research) project on ethical and responsible research and practices in science andengineering undertaken at a large public university in the southwestern United States. Overallobjectives of the project include: 1) conduct a survey of incoming freshmen college students toassess their ethical research competency and self-efficacy at the beginning of their tertiaryeducation and during their senior-level capstone course; 2) evaluate the ethical researchcompetency and self-efficacy of university students and identify any significantly contributingfactors to develop an intervention plan to improve their ethical
possible changes that could affect a system during its life, creating systems that measure when, where, what, and how much adaptation is needed to respond to a change, measuring system agility, integrating components and architectures that permit agility, and assessing trade-offs of building agility into systems.After completing numerous short design case studies during their junior year, students are readyto synthesize their knowledge of multiscale, agile systems in their senior year. The two-semestercapstone project will be run through the existing capstone program in Systems and InformationEngineering. Technology Leader capstone teams will work on projects sponsored by aTechnology Leaders industrial partner. Teams will be
beextremely engaging. The paper discusses these lessons learned and reports on how the teachersare implementing the content of the professional development in their courses. A model forengineering design using a problem-solving cycle developed at Dartmouth was taught to the 9-12grade teachers to help infuse engineering design content in their courses. Specific examples areprovided in the paper of how one of the teachers has used the problem-solving cycle in his highschool classes.A key-activity during the second-year professional development was the use of a capstone-likeproject. This project was to build an electrically powered vehicle to be used in the ElectrathonAmerica competition. The participants used the problem-solving cycle to help design
courses and other project-based learning methods aresimilar to the aims of this research; however, the intent of this research is not to recreate ormimic a capstone design experience. Instead, the intent of this research is to provide moreopportunities for students to engage with practical design problems earlier in their degree and tocreate LIs for courses that align with the needs and opinions of the three major stakeholders inthe academic process while addressing any barriers to adoption.One common barrier to adoption of new teaching strategies is that a change in teachingmethodology often requires time, effort, and resources from educators [13]. Andersen et al.(2019) developed a factory classroom environment to provide students with a unique
and solutions in terms of value creation; apply creative thinking toambiguous problems; demonstrate resourcefulness and collaborate in a team setting. Anadditional objective for each of these projects was to help students synthesize knowledge gainedfrom various separate chapters in a given unit or over the course of the semester and to relate thisinformation in a practical manner to a real world Biomaterial problem. Each of the fourassignments embedded multiple ACL techniques such as jigsaw (expert teams) and think-pair-share.Mini-Project1 - Bonding, Crystal Structure, Slip, Crystallographic Defects and Properties:The first Mini-Project was designed to occur at the end of the first unit and to serve as a“capstone” assignment to the unit prior
Program Chair for her division in ASEE, VP of External Relations for INFORMS-ED, and Chair for Student Involvement for the 2012 Capstone Design Conference. She is working on a book called ”Oral Communication Excellence for Engineers: What the Workforce Demands” for John H. Wiley & Sons (due in 2013) and several articles, while continuing to teach capstone design communication instruction and a course on journal article writing for graduate students. Her current research focus includes evaluating the reliability of the scoring rubric she and Tristan Utschig developed from executive input and identifying the cognitive schema used by students to create graphs from raw data.Jeffrey S. Bryan, Georgia Institute of Technology
undergraduateengineering curriculum to real-world problems. While many students have demonstrated interest inworking on humanitarian projects that address the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs), these projects typically require longer timelines than a single semester capstone course will allow.To encourage student participation in achieving the SDGs, we have created an interdisciplinary course thatallows sophomore through senior-level undergraduate students to engage in utilizing human-wildlifecentered design to work on projects that prevent extinction and promote healthy human-wildlifeco-habitation. This field, known as Conservation Technology (CT), helps students 1) understand thecomplexities of solutions to the SDGs and the need for diverse
student aspiration conforms to oneof the basic tenets of “design thinking” in that it is a methodology that imbues the full spectrumof innovation with a human-centered design ethos.At our university we have started to infuse the concepts of design thinking in our initialIntroduction to Engineering course and then later in our capstone senior design project courses.Between those “course bookends” we are working with our faculty to introduce to them thedesign thinking concept of “identifying the need” in place of only teaching “transactional”engineering concepts and theories and how to solve engineering problems.This paper will illustrate how we have introduced design thinking in our first-year introduction toengineering course and then conducted
blue), and thenreformed into seven groups for a project on ASGM (in green). In the second phase, duringSpring semester 2019, these students are developing projects to compete in the GSIC. Some tookclasses on related topics, and some were even able to make their ASGM work count as a requiredsenior capstone project. Of the original seven teams whose work on ASGM we document here,three began to develop projects in Phase 2. Eventually all but one group dropped out of the GSICexperience. Nonetheless, all three groups will be involved in Phase 3 as students travel toColombia to engage members of ASGM communities in person.Context: ASGM and the Complex Risks Associated With ItIn 2017, Colombia was among the top 20 gold producing nations of the world
. Ogot, An investigation on industry-sponsored design projects' effectiveness at the first-year level: potential issues and preliminary results. European Journal of Engineering Education, 2006. 31(6): p. 693-704.16. Larochelle, P., J. Engblom, and H. Gutierrez, A Cornerstone Freshman Design Experience. 2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition: Engineering Education Reaches New Heights, 2004.17. Qammar, H.K., et al., Impact of Vertically Integrated Team Design Projects on First Year Engineering Students. 2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition: Engineering Education Reaches New Heights, 2004.18. Dutson, A.J., et al., A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone
to three management courses, which are offered by RIT’s Collegeof Business.Finally, the MSTET program includes a capstone project, which may be a thesis (8 quarter credithours) or a project (4 quarter credit hours). Students who choose the project option mustcomplete an additional elective, which can be a fourth management course.Table 2 summarizes the MSTET program requirements for both the thesis and the project option. Table 2 Thesis Option Core courses 6 4 24 Technical electives 1–4 4 4 − 16 Management electives 0–3
Session 1526 Assessing the Effectiveness of a Racecar-Based Laboratory Course Jed Lyons, Edward F. Young and Susan D. Creighton University of South CarolinaAbstractA new capstone mechanical engineering laboratory course was recently institutionalized at theUniversity of South Carolina. The course is based upon an integrated sequence of laboratoryexperiments on a Legends-class racecar, chosen because it involves many fundamentalmechanical engineering principles. It's also exciting to the students. As the students progressthrough the series of experiments, they are increasingly involved
Paper ID #42590Board 316: Innovation Self-Efficacy: Empowering Environmental EngineeringStudents to InnovateDr. Azadeh Bolhari, University of Colorado Boulder Dr. Bolhari is a professor of environmental engineering in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her teaching focuses on fate and transport of contaminants, capstone design and aqueous chemistry. Dr. Bolhari is passionate about broadening participation in engineering through community-based participatory action research. Her research interests explore the boundaries of engineering and social
Mechanical Engineering at Saint Louis University. Page 14.299.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Bumblebee Saint Louis University The primary goal of capstone projects is to familiarize students with the design process. Throughstudent interaction and peer reviews students are able to gain valuable knowledge that cannot be taught inthe traditional lecture. This particular capstone project focuses on the design of an autonomous UAV that iscapable of loitering above a field for 10 hours while collecting pollen samples for post
will be placed on professional, ethical, global, environmental, and contemporary issues. Contact Hours: 2 Lecture, 2 Lab. ENGR 400 - Engineering Capstone I - Senior engineering project selection, planning, and development. Emphasis will be placed on defining project requirements, developing project work breakdown structure, conceptual designs, and working prototypes. Contact Hours: 1 Lecture, 4 Lab. ENGR 450 - Engineering Capstone II - Senior engineering project design, development, fabrication, and testing. Emphasis will be placed on iterative design processes, project management and execution, fabrication and testing. Contact Hours: 1 Lecture, 4 Lab.The PBL sequence of courses provided the
calculation and analysis.The students were graded using a rubric that included expected design content and steps to befollowed. The design task was divided into analytical work, simulation, and prototyping.Evidence of learning included a technical report, a working physical model, and a presentation.The effectiveness of this work was assessed by using a Likert scale survey at the end of the studyperiod.Integration of 3D printing helped to improve the rigor of the course by adding prototypingcapability into existing analytical and simulation based instruction. As a part of the prototypingprocess, students were able to acquire skills in 3D printing, which will be useful to them in futurecoursework, including their senior capstone project, and in
ofTechnology3, and are probably characteristic of many engineering graduates. A recent survey ofgraduating Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering seniors of the WSU program in Table 1shows that they have relatively low confidence in their knowledge of engineering design andscience (the focus of much of their education) and their communication skills (a major Page 7.1285.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationcomponent of their terminal projects). This data was collected after their capstone
years of teaching experience in the fields/subjects of photovoltaics, fuel cells and batteries with over 50 journal and conference publications/presentations. Page 13.220.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Arizona -Texas Consortium for Alternative and Renewable Energy TechnologiesAbstract The focus of the Arizona–Texas Consortium for Alternative and Renewable EnergyTechnologies is to meet the workforce needs of our national energy, transportation, andelectronic industries. The project intends to establish an educational consortium throughcollaboration between
engineering and advised capstone design projects within the robotics and automation option. He received his PhD and M.S. degrees from Purdue University, both in electrical engineering. He received his BS in electrical and electronics engineering from Middle East Technical University. Dr. Padir currently teaches undergraduate robotics engineering courses at WPI, advises student projects and participates in curriculum development activities for WPI's robotics engineering BS degree. Page 14.428.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Designing an Undergraduate Robotics Engineering
years of teaching experience in the fields/subjects of photovoltaics, fuel cells and batteries with over 50 journal and conference publications/presentations. Page 14.232.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Arizona -Texas Consortium for Alternative and Renewable Energy TechnologiesAbstract The focus of the Arizona–Texas Consortium for Alternative and Renewable EnergyTechnologies is to meet the workforce needs of our national energy, transportation, andelectronic industries. The project intends to establish an educational consortium throughcollaboration between
/EX Structural Engineering Teaching Laboratory, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1994).7. Issa, R.R., Cox, R.F., and Killingsworth, C.F., Impact of Multimedia-based Instruction on Learning and Retention, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 4, 281-290 (Oct. 1999).8. Stahl, D.C. and DeViries, R.A., Structural Engineering Workshop; a curriculum of real and virtual experiments, 2000 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Session 1526 (2000).9. Stahl, D.C., Capano, C., McGeen, M., Hassler, J.M., and Groser, L., Implementation of Project Specific Web Sites in a Capstone Design Course, 1999 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Session 1606 (1999