Paper ID #26660Building Your Dream Team for ChangeDr. Cara Margherio, University of Washington Cara Margherio is the Assistant Director of the UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE). Cara manages the evaluation of several NSF- and NIH-funded projects, primarily working with national professional development programs for early-career academics from groups underrepresented in STEM. Her research is grounded in critical race and feminist theories, and her research interests include community cultural wealth, counterspaces, intersectionality, and institutional change.Kerice Doten-Snitker, University
teaching in future courses. Rogers’ DOI was chosenbecause it provides a way of analyzing the stages through which individuals progress whendeciding whether or not to adopt an innovation, making it well suited to studying instructors’decisions about the adoption of evidence-based interactive strategies. The framework helpscapture more nuance in the decision to adopt an innovation and the progress toward change inteaching.SIMPLE Teaching Development GroupsThis NSF-funded project implemented and studied a network of ongoing STEM faculty teachingdevelopment groups within a single university. The discipline-based groups were created in sixdepartments: mathematics, global and community health, computer science, biology,physics/astronomy, and civil
Introduction Even early in the lifecycle of an academic change project, change agents may find that theirrelationship to change theory is far more complex than simply selecting a theory and translating itdirectly into practice. Change agents not only need to select change theories that align with their vision,but also to adapt the theory into a pragmatic framework to fit their social context and meet the myriadneeds of administration, faculty, students, and other academic stakeholders. Further complicating useof theory in academic change projects is the substantial number of theoretical frameworks availablethat can be applied to academic change. These include frameworks that typologize different process-oriented approaches to change (e.g
. IntroductionEngineering curricula have traditionally been developed around fundamental engineering coursesand this has resulted in programs prioritizing simple problem-solving activities over open-endedproblem-solving and integrative design learning experiences [1], [2], [3]. Although manyengineering schools have cornerstone and capstone projects that contain significant designopportunities for students in the first year and senior year, respectively [4], there is a need toscaffold student’s design skills throughout an entire curriculum [5].A critical need in curriculum development is the ability to assess student design knowledge. In theengineering education literature, there have been numerous studies that reformulated engineeringprograms or developed design
futurecareers, and (2) serves as a platform through which the undergraduate experience of all studentsin the program is enhanced. The approach involves complementary engagement of a technicaladvisor, a course instructor, a course facilitator, and an industry sponsor. The technical advisorensures that the project synthesizes and applies technical knowledge (e.g., engineering design,software, analysis, prototyping, testing, project management, etc.) as taught in the sophomoreand junior years. The course instructor is responsible for overall guidance, scheduling,assignments, team set-up and coordination, and assessment. The course facilitator incorporatesspecialty seminars, networking events, outreach, site visits, and career opportunities offeredwithin
championed more than 20 STEM outreach programs, impacting over 500 K-12 students. His contributions to education have been lauded with awards, including the College Educator of the Year by the Technology Alliance of Central New York (TACNY). A staunch advocate for hybrid teaching, Prof. Yung promotes a holistic learning environment rich in hands-on projects, experiential activities, and peer collaboration, a marked shift from conventional pedagogies. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Enhancing Engineering Capstone Design Preparedness: A Systematic Curriculum ApproachIntroductionEngineering education is pivotal in equipping students with the technical and
Paper ID #21943Teaching Engineering, Teamwork & Tolerance by Bringing Multi-discipline,Multicultural Students Together via a Project of Common Interest; Vertical,Hydroponic, Smart Garden With Global and Universal (Space) Applications(Student Poster-Paper)Mr. Miguel Rafael Ruiz-CarpioMr. Cyrus Safai, SLCC Cyrus is an undergraduate student majoring in Mechanical Engineering at Salt Lake Community Col- lege (SLCC). Cyrus has teamed up and worked with a group of four other students from Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, and Computer engineering departments on the Vertical, Hydroponic, Smart Garden With Global and Universal (Space
-based and Project-based Learning called APPI (French acronym for« Apprentissage par Problèmes et par Projets en Ingénierie ») 1 . There are no more lectures.Instead, on a repetitive two-week schedule, a small group of nominally 12 students meets twicewith a tutor. During the first meeting, students try to solve a given problem with the knowledgethey have already acquired and identify what new knowledge is required to fully solve it. Then,they go on to studying and applying their new knowledge. To help them organize their knowledge,we ask them to draw concept maps and procedural maps. During the second meeting, the problemis summarised and solved, using the new knowledge acquired during the first week. As support,students can use only maps they
118 Student Project: Demonstration of Production of Necessary Gases for Return from andSurvival on Mars – Automated Methane, Oxygen, and Hydrogen Production Using a Solar Powered Electrolysis Tank and a Table Top Sabatier Reactor David Dillon, Huseyin Sarper, Nebojsa Jaksic, and Jude DePalma Colorado State University, PuebloAbstractCurrent engineering education literature supports a number of approaches and methods to helpstudents learn. In this paper, an exciting, multi-year engineering project supported by NASA isdescribed as a means of retaining students in STEM and increasing their
Daniel Felix RitchieSchool of Engineering & Computer Science Project XITEOne DU : Entrepreneurship and InnovationThree Deans : Business, Law, and Engineering/CSInstitute – structure (-ish) Project XITEOne BHAG: “Building the Stanford of Denver at the speed of an entrepreneur”http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_29689866/building-stanford-denver-at-speed-an-entrepreneur Project XITETwo Activities during Alpha Phase: “Meetings of the Minds” --Building a CyberSecurity Eco-System “Activate” --JoyBox, „Uber-ize the Courts‟, Lyric2Learn Project XITEWhat could possibly go wrong???
projects that include the layout optimization for wind farms, array design for novel wave energy conversion devices, optimization of collaborative power systems, the sustainable redesign of commuting bicycles, and the quantification of sustainability during the early de- sign phase. Dr. DuPont completed her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2013 in the Integrated Design Innovation Group, and her projects are currently funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Energy Technology Laboratory, Oregon State University, and Oregon BEST/Bonneville Power Association.Dr. Christopher Hoyle, Oregon State University Dr. Christopher Hoyle is currently Assistant Professor and Arthur Hitsman
directed all research activities, the identification of new technologies, and the review of new business opportunities for the corporation. His responsibilities included transitioning projects into development and potential commercialization. He identified and successfully created research programs with leading academic institutions and formed strategic alliances with other high technology companies. He is currently a Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Technology Management Program in the College of Engineering. He remains active in the field of medical devices as a consultant for new ventures and investment
. Howeverthis relationship becomes closely tested when industry and academia endeavor to work togetheron joint projects, especially if a courtship period is cut short or bypassed in the interest ofexpediency. Fissures may show up as a result of the difference in cultures, objectives,expectations and the “internal clock speed” of each organization.3Joint Industry University ProjectsThe key to a successful working relationship with industry is the mutual recognition of the"Operating Cycles" of business and the university, and the motivation on both sides to achieve acommon goal. Business cycle is often driven by quarterly performance, new productintroduction, and organized efforts to improve manufacturing. The company operating cycle isinfluenced by
Washington University Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering Technology Program Department of Engineering & Design c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Optimizing Capstone Team FormationAbstractFor senior capstone teams, team composition is one of the primary factors in student satisfactionand project success. Previous team formation were done manually after students submitted theirtop five choices from the available projects and were time consuming and ineffective. Toimprove team composition and reduce formation time, mixed-integer linear programming isutilized to optimize the team formation process. The presented approach allows control of
Paper ID #6720Implementing a service learning class for undergraduate engineers with littlerequired budgetDr. Joan B Schuman, Missouri University of Science & Technology Dr. Joan Schuman is an assistant teaching professor in the Engineering Management at Missouri S&T. She has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Arkansas and completed her Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering. Schuman teaches a variety of courses including several in Project Management. She has several years of industrial experience in the aerospace industry but is now focusing on engineering education with a special interest in
from theoutset of their professional career while simultaneously having immediate value in helping themto manage a research project and capstone design project in their senior year. An integral part ofthis innovation was the development of a web-based project management tool. While the mainobjectives of the new course design were achieved, a number of important lessons were learnedthat would guide the further development and continuous improvement of this course. The mostcritical of these is the need to achieve the optimum balance in the mind of the students betweendoing the project and critically analyzing the processes used to accomplish the work.IntroductionIn most industries, engineering is increasingly managed through projects. As a new
identification of new technologies, and the review of new business opportunities for the corporation. His responsibilities included transitioning projects into development and potential commercialization. He identified and successfully created research programs with leading academic institutions and formed strategic alliances with other high technology companies. He is currently a Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Technology Management Program in the College of Engineering. He remains active if the field of medical devices as a consultant for new ventures and investment firms
Teaching Engineering Design – The Evolution of a Senior Design Course in Electrical Engineering Carl E. Fossa, Jr. and Glen P. Dudevoir Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996 Carl.Fossa@usma.edu Glen.Dudevoir@usma.eduAbstract Engineering students typically take a core set of courses that include both laboratoryexercises and semester design projects. These courses provide the students with practicallaboratory and experimental skills, as well as teaching them to apply these skills to a well-defined design project. However, the core engineering courses do
Benefits of Industry Involvement in Senior Design Courses Jay R. Goldberg, Ph.D., P.E. Marquette University Milwaukee, WI Senior design courses teach students about the product development process,project management, and teamwork. Industry involvement in senior design coursesreinforces the importance of these processes and skills and benefits students,faculty, and participating companies. Representatives from industry can participate in senior design courses asguest lecturers, curriculum advisors, and design project sponsors. As guestlecturers, practicing engineers provide a relevant, practical real-world perspective
Session 1432 A Combined Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Laboratory M. E. Parten and D. L. Vines T. T. Maxwell and J. C. Jones Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409AbstractThis paper describes a multidisciplinary capstone design laboratory course offered in theElectrical and Mechanical Engineering Departments at Texas Tech University. The courseuses projects from industry, research efforts and other faculty initiatives.The projects for the course come from industry, research
product design, including a threecredit Design Methodology course and a twelve credit Major Design Project extended over thelast three terms of the program. These two large components of the program were developedaccording to the characteristics of each discipline. This paper presents the results up to thepresent of a multidisciplinary effort to unify the approaches to mechanical engineering design. Itpresents the enriched version of the Product Development Process (PDP) which has beendeveloped in order to integrate the two approaches. In this respect, specific tools will beintroduced in order to join the design process of a mechatronics system with the design of moretraditional mechanical engineering products. This will be illustrated using a
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Paper ID #42853A Discussion and Analysis of Two Methods of Team Selection in an InterdisciplinarySenior Design ProgramDr. Rachel Horenstein, University of DenverDaniel D. Auger, University of Denver ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A Discussion and Analysis of Two Methods of Team Selection in an Interdisciplinary Senior Design ProgramINTRODUCTION Senior design capstone projects are a professional opportunity for students to develop realworking solutions for a customer-provided design challenge. During this project-based learningexperience, students work closely together in small
Paper ID #26080Board 59: Work in Progress: Industry-based Team Program Reviews forCapstone Design teamsDr. Rachana Ashok Gupta, North Carolina State University Dr. Rachana A Gupta is currently a Teaching Associate professor and Associate Director of ECE Se- nior Design Program. She teaches and mentors several senior design students on industry-sponsored projects (On average 12 / semester) to successful completion of an end product. These projects include all aspects of System Engineering: concept design, product design and design trade-offs, prototyping and testing (circuit design, PCB, mechanical fabrication, algorithm
Paper ID #28230Retaining Women in Engineering: Finding the Perfect JobLynn Mayo P.E., RePicture Engineering Lynn Mayo holds a M.S. in civil engineering from Stanford University and a B.S in civil engineering from Bucknell University. After working for over 30 years as a civil engineer, she became CEO of RePicture Engineering, PBC. RePicture is dedicated to increasing interest and diversity in engineering by telling the stories of engineering projects, engineers, and organizations. Through the RePicture.com site, we are helping students discover careers shaping the future and helping companies attract innovators
data acquisition technology. As part of the objectives ofthe project, the Principal Investigators (authors) purchased and implemented a state-of-the-art infrared thermalimaging system into solicited university-industry case study projects. This paper highlights the performancecharacteristics of our radiometer system, student projects which have utilized our system, results generated bythe usage of this engineering technology, and the educational worthiness of having undergraduate mechanicalengineering students employing this system in their experimentation projects. Mechanical Engineering Experimentation The Mechanical Engineering Department at UWM offers a unique laboratory course for its
at Purdue University and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Page 15.1312.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Using a Design Course to Augment Program Curriculum and Foster Development of Professional SkillsAbstractThis paper describes the structure of a recently reorganized senior design project coursesequence in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of the Pacific.The paper focuses on the first course in a two course senior project sequence, a course that wasrecently reorganized with a view to improve student design and professional skills. Previously
associate director of BME’s undergraduate program. In this role, she will strengthen the department’s connection with the local medical community, both in clinical and industrial settings, in order to foster undergraduate design projects as well as internship and employment opportunities for our students.Dr. Sarah Ilkhanipour Rooney, University of Delaware Sarah I. Rooney is an Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Engineering department at the University of Delaware, where she seeks to bring evidence-based teaching practices to the undergraduate curriculum. She received her B.S.E. (2009) and M.S.E. (2010) in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and her Ph.D. (2015) in Bioengineering from
Session 3657 The Community Based Capstone Design Experience: More than Meets the Eye Joseph T. Emanuel Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Technology Bradley UniversityAbstractFor the past 36 years, Bradley University’s Industrial Engineering program has used community-based projects as the basis for the Capstone Design experience. For the past 25 years, the“clients” for these projects have been asked to pay for the service provided. The courseemphasizes real-world team problem solving and the need for strong
towerfor a museum exhibit, the question of the role of service in the civil engineering (CE) curriculumwas explored. Service learning projects such as this one are contrasted to the steel bridge andconcrete canoe projects done as part of the ASCE student competitions. This paper aims toconsider the development and management of a service learning project for the civil engineeringcurriculum. Several example projects are listed along with their relation to various civilengineering courses. Additionally management suggestions are presented. Success of the projectfor both the students and the client depends on the number of students involved, on theinvestment of the client in the project, and on the level of the corresponding CE course. Thepossibility