projects. Such anapproach will produce engineers capable of imparting knowledge integrated from a holistic viewand applying a systems approach to practical solutions. The old principles where an engineerunderstands a single system and attempts to assemble the resulting systems from that perspectiveare no longer viable. Engineers of the 21st Century will face issues in an exploding environment,expanding their vision from local issues to worldwide concerns while interacting with businessesglobally.Learning how to be productive contributors in our continuously changing world is the challengeof the engineering student. To facilitate in this learning, the Pennsylvania State University –Berks College has offered engineering and engineering technology
Teaching and Research Assistant in the Virginia Tech departments of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering. He currently also serves as a contractor for Imaging Science Research, Inc., Burke, VA. His research interests are in the area of human-computer interaction, knowledge modeling, and educational technology. Dr. Castles is a student member of the ASEE and the IEEE.Gary Riggins, Virginia Tech Gary Riggins is a 4th year civil engineering student at Virginia Tech with a double major in French. He has focused his academic career on learning about civil engineering (transportation systems) in different environments. He spent the summer of 2009 conducting a self-designed
AC 2010-2414: THE ENGINEERING PROFESSOR OF 2020: THE FORGOTTENVARIABLELueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard Lueny Morell, M.S., P.E., is Program Manager in the Strategy and Innovation Office staff of Hewlett Packard Laboratories (HPL) in Palo Alto, California. She is responsible for facilitating external research collaborations for HPL and lead initiatives focused on R&D talent development, collaborating with external partners (government entities and other corporate labs) to pursue strategies and initiatives of benefit to the research community. In the past, she was in charge of developing engineering/science curriculum innovation initiatives worldwide in support of HPL research and technology
AC 2010-2220: ENGINEERS AS TEACHERS: HELPING ENGINEERS BRINGCUTTING EDGE SCIENCE TO UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIESLindsey Jenkins-Stark, IridescentTara Chklovski, Iridescent Page 15.501.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 K-12 Pre-Engineering Education Engineers as Teachers: Helping Engineers Bring Cutting Edge Science to Underserved CommunitiesAbstractThere is growing concern among the scientific community that the United States is not preparinga diverse enough group of students, in the areas of science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM). The percentage of bachelor’s degrees in STEM awarded
fundingfrom the Kern Family Foundation’s KEEN program. The goal of the course is twofold: First, weseek to introduce students to the broader context of engineering that installs a mindset acceptingcommercialization as a natural part of the introduction of new technologies. Secondly, we seek toprovide the students with a “toolbox” of skills to understand the business world and to assess thecommercial context and viability of new technologies.1.0 IntroductionIt is agreed by those pondering the future of engineering education1-4 that innovation andentrepreneurship (I & E) must be part of the experience that graduates entering the moderncompetitive and global workplace must possess. At our institution, and many other educationalinstitutions
these positions included those in the followingindustries. • Consulting • Industrial Tooling, Machines, • Industrial/Agricultural Equipment Automation, Manufacturing (graders, tractors, etc) • Transportation • Systems Integrators • IT Services (Technology) • Industrial Chemicals and Supplies • Energy/Utilities • Contractors and HVAC Suppliers The Industrial Engineering committee reviewed the companies that were hiring COE graduates for sales and marketing positions. Prior ISU graduates at these companies, or companies in similar industries, were asked to participate on an engineering sales
worked at McDonnell Aircraft Company for 10 years. Mr. Walden is currently the Program Manger of the International Council on Systems Engineering’s (INCOSE’s) Certification Program and also serves as the INCOSE liaison to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 Working Groups 10, 20, and 22. He holds the INCOSE Certified System Engineering Professional (CSEP) certification. He has an M.S. in Management of Technology (MOT) from the University of Minnesota, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Valparaiso University in Indiana
. (waiters, landscapers, doctors, and others) would be African American orHispanic. However, this is not the case for the engineering profession where AfricanAmerican and Hispanic Americans compose only 11.7% of engineering occupations(approximately 1 in 10). Many factors contribute to the underrepresentation of thesepopulations in technological fields.One primary variable determining access to the engineering profession is the attainmentof the bachelor of science degree in engineering. Over the past 30 years, successfulremedies have typically included race-based college admission selection processes andmath-intensive college retention programming7,9,13,15,21,27,28 . The result has increasedenrollments, but also raised legal questions regarding
“the majortransdisciplinary index in the world’s engineering literature.” There are no doubts that thispublication has been used for the last 125 years by engineers and technical staff all over theworld, people that in one way or another have contributed to the development of today’s modernsociety. Therefore, Ei is an intrinsic part of the history of technology. The history of TheEngineering Index has been presented by several authors at different times. The most prominenthave been the works of Hannum2, Bissell3, Landau4, and Woods5 which combined cover detailsfrom 1884 to 1984. More recently, Youngman6 wrote about how the role of librarians haschanged as reflected by the changes in the The Engineering Index as occurred, and Lafferty
, Lawrence Professor Emeritus at Virginia Tech and Chairman, Academic Applications International, Inc.AbstractFrom its modest beginnings more than a half-century ago, Systems Engineering is now gaininginternational recognition as an effective technologically based interdisciplinary process forbringing human-made systems into being, and for improving systems already in being. Certaindesirable academic and professional attributes are coming into clear view. Others require furtherstudy, development, testing, and implementation.This paper summarizes the heritage from which Systems Engineering entered the 21st century.Several emerging attributes of Systems Engineering education and professional practice areaddressed. These include the
holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Nebraska, an M.S. in Environmental Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a B. S. in Civil Engineering from Assam Engineering College in India.Bruce Schumacher, North Dakota State University Bruce Schumacher is an ABD doctoral student in education at North Dakota State University. Schumacher holds an M.S. Ed. from Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota, an M.A.T in Education and B. A. in History from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Page 15.367.1© American Society for Engineering
engineering education. He has authored and co-authored various journal and conference publications. His research interests include: virtual reality, CAD/CAM, Multi-agent based manufacturing systems control and automation, robotics, holonic manufacturing systems, agile manufacturing and wireless sensor networks.Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Dirk Schaefer is an Assistant Professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Over the past ten years, Dr. Schaefer has been conducting research in the interface domain between Engineering, Computer Science, and Information Technology principles in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United
AC 2010-1747: INTEGRATING THE ENGINEERING CURRICULUM THROUGHCROSSDISCIPLINARY STUDIOSNadia Kellam, University of Georgia Nadia Kellam is an Assistant Professor and engineering educational researcher in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at the University of Georgia. She is co-director of the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER) research group. Her research interests include interdisciplinarity, creativity, identity formation, and the role of emotion in cognition.Joachim Walther, University of Georgia Joachim Walther is an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Georgia
oflaboratory courses, with incorporation of technology tools that enable students to work ondifferent real-world control configurations. This adjustment to incorporate the more practicalformat into the classroom has taken different forms throughout the academic world. In theTechnische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands, the modeling of control systems is animportant part of their Bachelor’s in mechanical engineering degree curriculum3. There is agradual introduction to real world systems that begins with a lower level course where thestudents are introduced to mathematical concepts and A/D conversion and ends with a final yearproject that incorporates the manipulation of various feedback controllers to accomplish aspecific task. In this way the
AC 2010-903: EVALUATION OF A STUDENT TEAM PROJECT IN ANINTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COURSE FOR AEROSPACEENGINEERSMary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University Mary Lynn Brannon, Instructional Support Specialist at the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at the Pennsylvania State University, has a Master of Arts Degree in Education and Human Development specializing in Educational Technology Leadership. Her work focuses on projects that measure and assess student perceptions of learning related to their experiences with engineering course innovations. She is a faculty development consultant with previous experience in instructional design, and instructor of the
. The student-generated model shown inFigure 1 also includes technology enhanced spaces for team meetings and collaboration. FIGURE 1. Proposed Design of UI Engineering Student Service CenterThis project has underscored the realization that successful operation requires a coordinatedeffort of all engineering departments in the College. Furthermore, the delivery of center servicesis envisioned as a partnership between well-prepared, upper-division students from alldepartments and student-centered professional staff. In this way, service learning opportunitiesfor upper-division students coexist with institutional recruiting, academic career planning,counseling, and tutoring functions for lower-division students. This presentation will
University of Virginia. Within this position, she helps execute a number of programs that are designed to peak K-16 student’s interests in STEM disciplines. Prior to working at UVA, she taught at the collegiate level and worked as a National Academies Science and Technology Fellow.Ping Guan, University of Virginia Ping Guan is a program coordinator and evaluator in the Center for Diversity in Engineering, at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science since January 2008. Before working in the center, she received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Building Science department of Tsinghua University in Beijing China, and a Master of Science degree from Systems and
technology in a professional setting.Within engineering education, wikis have been used in several ways at several different levels.One example is the creation of ePortfolios in a freshman engineering design course8. Thestudents were given writing assignments in which they reflected on the human implications ofdesign. Another example can be found in a team-based capstone design project in which thewiki was used to document social knowledge and assess group performance9. A third example isa student-written online textbook5. In a senior level chemical engineering process controlscourse, an open-source text was written, edited, and reviewed by the students to allow them tolearn the course content though teaching it.This paper describes the use of a
AC 2010-478: INSPIRING FUTURE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS THROUGHSCIENCE TEACHERSTodd Kaiser, Montana State University Todd J. Kaiser is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Montana State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Physics from Oregon State University and a B.S. in Physics from Montana State University. His current focus areas include microfabricated sensors and actuators.Peggy Taylor, Montana State University Peggy Taylor, Ed.D., is the Director of the Master of Science in Science Education (MSSE) program at Montana State University. As director of the program, Taylor recruits and advises
. As a tool, e-portfolios provide a structure that integrates learning, in this case communication skills, acrossthe entire span of a student’s experience.Finally, the public presentation of scientific and technological results is an important element ininstitutionalized production of knowledge. An annual presentation of research work by students,as well as faculty is organized by the institution. Students in the engineering program will berequired to make presentations at this annual event. Not only will there be faculty and students inthe audience, but members of the local professional engineering community will be in attendanceto help evaluate the presentations.In terms of delivery and assessment, a three level structure that consists of
Carolina; and at BPM Technology in Greenville, South Carolina. Dr. Conrad is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). He is also a member of ASEE, Eta Kappa Nu, the Project Management Institute, and the IEEE Computer Society. He is the author of numerous books, book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers in the areas of robotics, parallel processing, artificial intelligence, and engineering education. Page 15.903.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 NASA Senior Design: Systems Engineering and Reusable AvionicsAbstractOne
AC 2010-69: ENGINEERS OF THE ROUND TABLE: UTILIZING A DISCUSSIONFORUM TO ENHANCE STUDENT LEARNING IN GEOTECHNICALENGINEERINGTanya Kunberger, Florida Gulf Coast University Dr. TANYA KUNBERGER is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering in the U.A. Whitaker School of Engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University. Dr. Kunberger received her B.C.E. and certificate in Geochemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a minor in Soil Science from North Carolina State University. Her area of specialization is geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering.Robert O'Neill, Florida Gulf Coast University Dr
were framed in theintersection of medicine and science, not engineering.24,25 This is unsurprising in light ofOmran’s hypothesis regarding the “epidemiologic transition” from communicable diseases asnations develop. Omran asserts that An epidemiologic transition has paralleled the demographic and technologic transitions in the now developed countries of the world and is still underway in less- Page 15.477.4 4 developed societies. Ample evidence may be cited to document this transition in which degenerative and man-made diseases displace pandemics of infection as
AC 2010-843: PROGRAMMING FOR PRE-COLLEGE EDUCATION USINGSQUEAK SMALLTALKKathryn Rodhouse, Missouri University of Science and Technology KATHRYN N. RODHOUSE is a Computer Engineering undergraduate at Missouri University of Science and Technology. She has interests in programming and is active in Eta Kappa Nu.Benjamin Cooper, Savant LLC BENJAMIN COOPER is CTO/Managing Partner of Savant LLC. He is an entrepreneur with experience in several start-up companies. He attended Emory University and the University of California, San Diego.Steve Watkins, Missouri University of Science and Technology STEVE E. WATKINS received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas - Austin in Electrical Engineering in
AC 2010-1323: MAKING SERVICE COUNT: ADVICE FOR NEW ENGINEERINGEDUCATORSAndrew Rose, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown Andrew T. Rose, Ph.D., P.E. is Associate Professor and Department Head of Civil Engineering Technology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. His teaching interests are in the areas of geotechnical and structural engineering. His research interests are in curriculum development and inovation, engineering education, engineering history, historic structures, and incorporating practical design experience and professional practice issues into the undergraduate civil engineering curriculum. Dr. Rose received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University
writings of E.F. Schumacher. Cases includedin the course focus on hydraulic fracturing and its possible use in Upstate New York and the oilspill associated with the Exxon Valdez.IntroductionA new course has been introduced into the undergraduate engineering program which focuses onsustainable engineering from a complex systems perspective. Sustainable engineering, one facetin the broader discussion of sustainability, can be defined as environmentally conscious attitudes,values, and principles, combined with science, technology, and engineering practice, to developproducts and processes directed toward enhancing the human experience while improving localand global environmental quality. It begins with our ability to model nature
(electricalengineering) and Car Design (mechanical engineering).Although the chief goal of this project is to produce scientists, engineers, and secondarymathematics and science educators who are experienced in developing and implementingauthentic educational practices, the secondary goal is to impact student learning by relatingSTEM content to urban city issues through the use of hands-on, technology-driven, inquiry-based projects that relate to the desired curriculum. Students need an understanding of STEMand the reasons to pursue STEM careers; over 3,000 students have been exposed to STEMlessons in the past three years with Project STEP. Teachers of these students are involved in thisprocess as well, and 36 different teachers have participated in the STEP
the global economy and to pursue successful careers.Mathematics education in engineering curricula has undergone very little progress within thepast century, while the field of engineering and the educational demands of the engineeringworkforce have changed quite significantly. Much effort is needed in improving themathematics content to provide closer correspondence with and support of engineeringeducation. One particular aspect of modernization is increased integration of powerful andwidely available computing tools in education. New technologies have rendered many topicsstill taught in mathematics somewhat obsolete while bringing to the forefront the need and abilityto teach different areas of mathematics in increased depth. This article
AC 2010-509: DESIGN EXPERIENCE IN A MANUFACTURING ENGINEERINGPROGRAMJahangir Ansari, Virginia State University Jahangir Ansari is an Associate Professor of Manufacturing Engineering in the Department of Engineering and Technology at Virginia State University. He received his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1979 and Ph. D. degree in Mechanical Design and Production Engineering in 1983 both from Seoul National University. He joined the faculty at VSU in 2002. He has over 18 years of industrial experience in different areas including shipbuilding and cement plant industries. His research interests include Structural Vibration, FEM, CAD/CAM/CNC, and Computer Integrated
AC 2010-796: THE ENGINEER: A TREE OR A PRODUCT?Andrew Trivett, University of Prince Edward Island Dr. Trivett is a graduated with a Doctor of Science Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint program in Oceanographic Engineering and a bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from Dalhousie University. His research has ranged from development of new ocean sensors for monitoring flow and turbulence in the ocean, to the design of numerous environmental technologies for small technology business in Atlantic Canada. He is currently an associate professor at the University of Prince Edward Island where his primary focus is teaching