located on the South Campus. And, recognizing that healthy minds need healthy food choices, the college has a food and resource bank for any student in need. Finally, to generate confidence in program completion and matriculation, the college offers an open laboratory every Friday where students utilize equipment, make up work, and formulate study groups. During the Introduction to Engineering course, faculty introduce students to the Project Graduation program where counselors and students work together to map their educational experience—from the first engineering course at San Jacinto College to the final class in completing a four-year engineering degree. 3. South Texas College, McAllen, TX for
respect to addressing the increased headcount by 30%-40% and considering the futureattrition rates of EASi employees transitioning to the electric utility company, EASi’s talentacquisition team estimates that they will need to hire between 130 and 150 technical employees.In 2016 alone, they hired 100 technical employees to support the partnership.Finding and hiring 130 to 150 electric utility-minded employees is not going to be a simple task.EASi’s talent acquisition team acknowledges that interest level to pursue a career at an electricutility company is low among U.S. engineering students. A career in electric utilities is simplynot an obvious career option for many students. There is also a misconception that the industry isnot innovative or
PBSL activities to answer our research question 1 and 2 respectively. The PUI/LIA universities typically have a high ratio students who are U.S. residents, manyof whom will pursue professional careers and advanced degrees after receiving their B.S.degrees. Successful completion of this series of projects will better prepare students for theircareers, strengthen relationships between local community organizations and our institution, andhelp produce excellent, civically-minded next generation STEM workforce.References[1] Swan, C., Paterson, K. and Bielefeldt, A. R., Community Engagement in Engineering Education as a Way toIncrease Inclusiveness, chapter 18, Cambridge Handbooks of Engineering Education Research, 2014.[2] Kolmos, A., Graaff
- Hulman Institute of Technology in 1987 where he is now a professor of Physics, Optical Engineering, and Associate Dean of Faculty. Siahmakoun is a SPIE Fellow (The International Society for Optical Engineering), OSA Senior Member, and Founding Director of Micro-Nanoscale Devices and Systems (MiNDS) Facility since 2003.Prof. Wonjong Joo P.E., Seoul National University of Science and Technology Wonjong Joo is a professor of Seoul National University of Science and Technology (Seoul Tech) and was a vice president of ABEEK (Accreditation Board of Engineering Education in Korea) for 2012- 2014. He has been a director of Seoul Tech’s Innovation Center for Engineering Education (ICEE) & Hub Center for 8 years and was a
-focused design is necessary for developing entrepreneurial tendencies withinthe minds of engineering students. The challenge, then, is understanding how to effectively instill a customer focus in engineeringstudents, a task that requires knowledge of how engineers learn. As it stands, engineering studentsin our colleges today do not relate well to traditional engineering pedagogy, such as the directtransmission model, which has remained the norm for the past few centuries (Freeman et al., 2014).The current generation of students is looking for a curriculum and educational approach that usesadvanced classroom technology and active learning to engage them in the learning process (Freemanet al., 2014, Mina and Gerdes, 2006). A novel approach that
Paper ID #18247Summer Education Internship ProgramDr. Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University Asad Yousuf is the Coordinator and Professor of Electronics Engineering Technology at Savannah State UniversityDr. Mohamad A. Mustafa, Savannah State University Mohamad Mustafa is a Professor of Civil Engineering Technology and the Chair of the Engineering Technology Department at Savannah State University (SSU). He has six years of industrial experience prior to teaching at SSU. He received his BS, MS, and PhD in Civil Engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.Dr. Keenya Mosley, Savannah State University
engineers do.IntroductionEngineering students often have difficulty explaining their chosen profession to non-engineeringstudents. Their motivation to finish an engineering degree and to fit within their socialenvironment can be enhanced by doing something interesting yet useful for the community. Withthis in mind, mechatronics engineering students approached the Humans vs. Robots WorkoutChallenge lab. The main justification for the lab was to use various pedagogical learninginstruments such as project-based learning, peer learning, and increased student engagement, allin the function of learning basic robotic concepts and robot programming, as well as developingcommunication skills. Student engagement was directed towards increasing awareness
fromgroups typically underrepresented in engineering are still less likely to persist. We seeintroductory-level engineering courses as having the potential to play a critical role atuniversities like ours that serve a large percentage of such students. With this purpose in mind,we redesigned an introductory chemical engineering course at a research university that isminority-serving. Participants included students enrolled in two sections of the original course(n=117) and one section of the redesigned course (n=53). Data include pre/post surveys ofstudent beliefs about design and interviews. We coded student responses and interviews tounderstand how they perceived the original and redesigned course. We conducted a repeatedmeasures ANOVA to examine
Paper ID #18133Research Experiences for School Teachers and Community College Instruc-tors in Smart-Vehicles: Initial Implementation and AssessmentDr. Kumar Yelamarthi, Central Michigan University Kumar Yelamarthi received his Ph.D. and M.S degree from Wright State University in 2008 and 2004, and B.E. from University of Madras, India in 2000. He is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Central Michigan University. His research interest is in the areas of Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, computer aided design tool development, assistive devices, au- tonomous adaptive
Paper ID #19273Embedding YouTube Videos and Interactions in PowerPoint Using Office Mixfor Adaptive Learning in Support of a Flipped Classroom InstructionProf. John M. Santiago Jr, Colorado Technical University Professor John Santiago has been a technical engineer, manager, and executive with more than 26 years of leadership positions in technical program management, acquisition development and operation research support while in the United States Air Force. He currently has over 16 years of teaching experience at the university level and taught over 40 different graduate and undergraduate courses in electrical engineer
Paper ID #19460Work in Progress: Using Conceptual Questions to Assess Class Pre-Work andEnhance Student Engagement in Electromagnetics Learning Studio ModulesProf. Branislav M. Notaros, Colorado State University Branislav M. Notaros is Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University, where he also is Director of Electro- magnetics Laboratory. His research publications in computational and applied electromagnetics include more than 180 journal and conference papers. He is the author of textbooks Electromagnetics (2010) and MATLAB
the course was very successful in increasing students’understanding of and commitment to the engineering andtechnology profession. During the focus group, studentshighlighted both the conventional aspects of ENGR1500 withcomments like “I’m a procrastinator. ENGR1500 really Figure 5. ROV competitionhelped me with time management skills” and “I thought Iwould just come to class and start out slowly. Then they[Career Development Center guest speakers and ENGR1500 faculty] told us that you have tostart thinking about finding mentors and internships and creating a resume….. from the verybeginning”, and the new aspects of the course, “I realized that doing the physical work ofengineering opens the mind,” one student commented. One of his classmates
Research Scientist at Aggie STEM, Department of Teaching, Learning, & Culture and Senior Lecturer in Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M University, where she has taught 10 different courses in mathematics and mathematics education. She has served on several committees in the mathematics department, including course development for teacher education in mathematics. Her research agenda includes engineering calculus success, including high school preparation for college. Previously, she taught 8 additional courses at the college level and 13 different high school courses in mathematics and science. She has worked with teacher professional development for over 20 years, and served as mathematics curriculum
on which to focus a project idea ‒ In 5 min or less, identify no more than 3 engineering hurdles associated with this challenge Consider: What are critical engineering hurdles underlying this theme (e.g., construction methods, or methods to simultaneously measure complex nerve firing, or resolution of VR video display)?. 25 Team Ideation Exercise 3/6/2017Team Storming, Norming, and Performing Exercise Team Storming - Individual Ideation: ‒ Keeping in mind the challenge and the engineering hurdles that the team identified; What is a high level approach to solving one or two of these hurdles? ‒ Write down as many individual ideas on Post-It notes that you
emphasized over the disembodied act of “Making”. When describingMakers, other categories of identities are often invoked such as designers, scientists, engineers,entrepreneurs, and inventors.Instead of starting with physical materials or pedagogical strategies, we started with the end goalin mind: the formation of a Maker. If the aim of education is to form people who have certainskills, knowledge, and attitudes, then it would be useful to gain a deeper understanding of theyoung adults who already embrace them.The concept of identity has been explored extensively within the larger social science andeducational research communities as well as in engineering education (Kaplan & Flum, 2012;McLean & Pratt, 2006; Tonso, 2006). In looking for a
Paper ID #19048Developing a working 2-year/4-year research program: experiences from thefirst year of a collaborative ATE grant.Dr. Paul B Golter, Washington State University Paul B. Golter obtained an M.S. and Ph.D. from Washington State University. His research area has been engineering education, specifically around the development and assessment of technologies to bring fluid mechanics and heat transfer laboratory experiences into the classroom. He is currently a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Ohio University.Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie received his B.S., M.S
Paper ID #18991An Intelligent Software Tutor for Scaffolding Solving DC-DC Converter Cir-cuitsProf. Ali Mehrizi-Sani , Washington State University Ali Mehrizi-Sani received the B.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and petroleum engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, both in 2005. He received the M.Sc. degree from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, both in electrical engineering, in 2007 and 2011. He is currently an Assistant Pro- fessor at Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA. He was a Visiting
Consultant for Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology.Mr. Matthew Pierce, Embry-Riddle Human Factors and SystemsMr. Andrew Calvin Griggs, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityDr. Lulu Sun, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach Lulu Sun is an associate professor in the Engineering Fundamentals Department at Embry-Riddle Aero- nautical University, where she has taught since 2006. She received her B.S. degree in Mechanical En- gineering from Harbin Engineering University (China), in 1999, and her Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Riverside, in 2006. Before joining Embry-riddle, she worked in the consulting firm of Arup at Los Angeles office as a fire engineer. Her research
Paper ID #18653Using a Techno-Economic Model to Promote Consideration of Uncertainty inBioengineering DesignXuwen Xiang, Oregon State University Xuwen is currently a doctoral candidate in Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. He currently has research focused on techno-economic analysis of glucosamine and lipid from algae.Prof. James D. Sweeney, Oregon State University James D. Sweeney is Professor and Head of the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental En- gineering at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1988
hands-onprojects, is widely acknowledged as an effective way to learn. [1] Students are givenopportunities to direct their own learning, focusing on a fun and exciting outcome that isbeyond simply the knowledge required. [2, 3] Previous studies have found that a hands-on or project freshman experience can have impacts on student attitudes and persistencein engineering. [4-7]A critique of the MIT curriculum is that the core classes in the freshmen year are allscience and humanities classes, however the majority of the students complete a degree inengineering. To better connect freshman core science classes to engineering concepts, aclass was developed that focused on hands-on projects in the freshman year. Thisseminar, called Mens Et Manus (Mind
programming. This will be something to keep in mind for future iterations of thisresearch.In addition, the student comments need to be viewed and judged also in the context of the entireRED program. This group of students had increased workload through the individual core junior-level electrical engineering courses and their LSMs, the associated knowledge integrationmodules between the courses, foundations and professionalism sessions, and team activities.Many students found the “extra” MATLAB assignments overwhelming and overly time-demanding in the context of all the other newly established and required course and programcomponents. “I never had a chance to really try all the problems with multiple other timeconstraints.” “I feel this assignment
be forgotten. Perhaps the most prominent aspect of threshold concepts is their transformative nature.4 Onemanner of understanding the transformative criterion is to recall a concept that presented anentirely new lens to view the physical (and perhaps nonphysical) world. For example, fromelectrical engineering, one of the first ideas that may come to mind is the Fourier Transform of asignal f(t), ' 𝑓 𝜉 = 𝑓(𝑡) 𝑒 (*+,-. 𝑑𝑡, ∀𝜉 ∈ ℝ (1) ('From a purely mathematical point of view, the transform appears
Goldberg machine construction as the foundation of a pilotstudy for the development of an interdisciplinary PBL teaching method that incorporates open-ended design challenges. If successfully developed, the approach would be used to enhance theearly stages of an existing five-course PBL sequence in the engineering curriculum at WesternCarolina University (WCU) where this work was conducted. The PBL sequence at WCU hashistorically employed more closed-ended, single-solution design projects. It has been observedby the authors that, particularly in the early stages of the curriculum, emphasis on effectivecommunication, teaming, open-ended problem solving, and an understanding of quality is ofhigh instructional impact.With these objectives in mind, a
Top Minds, (P150), St. Martins Press7 Karanian, B. A., & Eskandari, M., & Taajamaa, V. (2016, June), Conversational Storytelling: Classroom Teaching through Story Parallels Entrepreneurial Need for Engagement Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.265878 Chesney, D. (2007, June), Big Fish Ii: The Lost Science Of Story Telling In The Engineering Classroom Paper presented at 2007 Annual Conference & Exposition, Honolulu, Hawaii. https://peer.asee.org/1741
Paper ID #18265Utilizing Cluster Analysis of Close-Ended Survey Responses to Select Partic-ipants for Qualitative Data CollectionMs. Katherine M. Ehlert, Clemson University Katherine M. Ehlert is a doctoral student in the Engineering and Science Education department in the College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences at Clemson University. She earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and her MS in Mechanical Engineer- ing focusing on Biomechanics from Cornell University. Prior to her enrollment at Clemson, Katherine worked as a Biomedical Engineering consultant in Philadelphia
Paper ID #17772A Model for Development of Employer Engagement at a Small CampusDr. Joseph Ranalli, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton Campus Dr. Joseph Ranalli is an Assistant Professor at Penn State Hazleton, and is the Program Option Coor- dinator for the Alternative Energy and Power Generation Engineering program. He previously earned a BS from Penn State and a PhD from Virginia Tech, both in Mechanical Engineering. Prior to his cur- rent appointment, he served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Energy Technology Lab in Morgantown, West Virginia. Dr. Ranalli’s current research interests include
Paper ID #19198MAKER: CAD Boeing 747-400 Model Redesign and 3D PrintingMr. Garrett Scott Wiles, Frostburg State University Mechanical Engineering undergraduate (’18) in the Frostburg State University/University of Maryland, College Park Collaborative Mechanical Engineering Program. Degree Seeking: B.S. Mechanical Engineering - A. James Clark School of Engineering (May 2018)Mr. Nicholas Ryan BaicarMr. Brian Leech, Frostburg State UniversityDr. Hugh Jack P.E., Western Carolina University Dr. Jack is not an author and has submitted this paper on behalf of the authors. c American Society for Engineering
information passes from the notes of the instructor to the notes of thestudents - without passing through the mind of either one - continues as “the norm”.The purpose of this paper is to renew the call for deployment of better and more effectiveinstructional strategies in the classrooms of the Arab Gulf States, stressing on cooperativelearning practices as a viable alternative to the traditional (low-interaction lecture-based)environment that has gripped the engineering education of Region’s institution for decades.The paper sheds light on: theoretical roots, research support, current practices, andsuggestions for redesigning classes-if need be- to stimulate interaction and help break thetraditional lecture dominant pattern, when cooperative learning
Paper ID #19678Creation of an Internet of Things (IoT)-Based Innovation LabDr. Shiny Abraham, Seattle University Shiny Abraham is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seattle University. She received the B.E. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Visveswaraiah Technological Uni- versity (VTU), India in 2007 and Ph.D. from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA in 2012. Her research interests span the areas of Wireless Communication, Internet of Things (IoT), Optimization using Game Theory, and Engineering Education Research. She is a member of the IEEE and ASEE, a technical pro- gram
-designed html scheme with a dynamic theme, there was substantial contrastcontent delivery resources such as readings and videos, or interactive elements such asknowledge checks and assignments. In addition, headings and alt-tags were used to denote boththe kind and arrangement of content, so that information was accessible to audio learners and theblind. This combination of plugins and coding allowed our department to design with UniversalDesign Principles or flexibility and perceptible information in mind, resulting in more usableexperience for learners.V. Lessons Learned and Future PlansLessons LearnedThere are lessons that we learned early in the implementation of the new Fundamental Skills andKnowledge of Cost Engineering course. Our previous