requirements. The case study revealed major technology trends, whichthe company is going to follow in the nearest future. These technologies will require new skillsets of young professionals. As universities are not able to adapt the curriculum in short- andmedium-term, the company’s business lab must be able to fill this gap, although there currentlyexists no process for the setup of new courses for the business lab in the company.UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION FRAMEWORKBased on the case study findings and the success factors identified through literature review wepropose a generalized framework for university-industry cooperation in the area of IS, which isdepicted in figure 1. The framework is intended to formalize the steps for a successful long
– in anticipation that this willensure the highest level of professionalism when construction management students graduate.1. The nature of construction industry, trends and changesThe construction industry is currently one of the largest industries in western democracies. In theUnited States, it is on a par with education and health and along with associated investment andservice industries, it contributes about 9% of the US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) andemploys more than 10 million workers. Australia has a similar profile, where the constructionindustry contributes to 8% of the GDP and employs more than a million people – about 9% ofthe total workforce1.Modern construction spans design, new construction, rehabilitation, renovation
' knowledge and determinetheir readiness to progress in their studies [1]. These exams are typically individual, time-limited, and closed-book, with no external aids allowed. While they serve the purpose ofevaluating students' understanding, there is substantial evidence showing that traditionalexams can induce significant stress and anxiety, negatively affecting students'performance[2], [3]. Many students report that stress and worry cause them to forgetimportant information during the exam, even when they possess the necessary knowledge[4], [5], [6], [7] . The pressure to perform within a limited timeframe exacerbates theseissues, leading to what is commonly referred to as "blanking out" during exams [8]. Thiswidespread stress is not unique to
students. Students often express astrong sense of pride in becoming an engineer and believe that their hard work, perseverance,and ability to overcome rigorous challenges are a testament to their capability and worthiness inthe field.[1] However, the intense, high-pressure culture within engineering programs often takesa serious toll on students' mental health. Engineering students, even before the COVID pandemichit, were reporting higher levels of stress, anxiety, and depression than the general studentpopulation, but are less likely to seek help.[2-4] Their well-being is connected to whether theyfeel like the academic environment is supportive, hostile, or something in between.Culture change is a gradual process, requiring time, commitment, and
and skills in integratingaccessibility into product development. The course began with 35 students, the maximum enrollment limit, and concluded with29 students. It met once a week for 2 hours and 45 minutes. Each session was divided into two[THE SHIFT TOWARDS INCLUSION AND ACCESSIBILITY] 4parts: a 1 hour and 15-minute lecture covering the week’s topic, followed by a 15-minute break.The second half of the class involved interactive in-class activities to reinforce the lecture’sconcepts. Guest speakers from various companies specializing in accessibility and UX replacedsome lectures throughout the semester, sharing their professional experiences and insights. Students’ grades were
degree. Increasingly, all constituent groups cite advantages inbeginning experiential learning early – in the first or second year of college. The Interdisciplinary Projects course IDPro had 80 students enrolled in 2024, which wasoffered at both the 2000 and 4000 levels for 1-3 credit hours. IDPro was designed to providestudents with team-based, interdisciplinary, vertically integrated, project-based learningexperience before their degree-specific capstone. Examples of IDPro projects include researchprojects, industry sponsored projects, and topic-based projects selected by undergraduatestudents. IDPro functions as a 15-week course with projects expanding across semesters forstudents to continue developing over time as they hone their
, helping men develop a personal motivation forengaging in gender equity efforts, utilizing male roles models, providing opportunities for male-only dialogues, and engagement in solution-building. Barriers include apathy, fear of status loss,and lack of knowledge about gender inequities15. Additional theory and research indicate thatthere are key stages in the development of an ally identity and effective ally behaviors16-21.Overall, there appears to be accord among investigators such that (1) potential allies must firstunderstand unearned advantage and how it works in their own lives as well as how it impacts thelives of systemically disadvantaged persons; (2) successful ally development approacheseducate, inspire, and support members of the
written, distributable articulation of suchpriorities is also felt to be required. But if we are interested in the social relations associatedwith engineering codes of ethics, we must ask: Why precisely is such an articulation felt to benecessary? After all, many features of many professional operations never find such formalexpression; although Codes of Ethics for History professors exist, they are rarely invoked inpractice or passed along for graduate students, for example. Moreover, although developing acode of ethics is commonly viewed as having been an essential part of engineering’sprofessionalization in the United States,1 the question of how codes of ethics actually shape dailyengineering practice is a, huge realm for study. To delve into
present, about fifty percent of the projects are multidisciplinaryand more than eighty percent are Industry-sponsored projects, as shown in Table 1.Table 1: List of current projects at Mechanical Engineering Senior Design at FAMU-FSUCollege of Engineering. Project Project Description Sponsor CEE ECE IME ME No. 1. Oleophobic Sealing Solutions Cummins X 2. Improving the Range of an Electric Vehicle Cummins X X 3. Marine Keel Cooler Optimization Tool Cummins X 4. High Speed Motor Test Rig Turbocor X 5
, many other industries have been or are planning to introducerobots into their manufacturing processes.1 In the Pacific Northwest region several companies inaerospace, electronics, apparel, and commercial cookware have either introduced robots or ex-panded their use in recent years. As such, an introduction to robotics in the context of manufac-turing is becoming more important for students pursuing degrees in Manufacturing Engineering.There is, however, always a challenge when teaching robotics to find the correct balance betweenapplication and modeling. Many robotics courses taught in Electrical or Mechanical EngineeringDepartments have a tendency to emphasize modeling over application, but a well-prepared Man-ufacturing Engineer needs to
teachers should teach (1, 2). Further, they address differentlearning styles (3, 4), focus explicitly on communication, teamwork, and leadershipskills (5, 6), and stress on educating students for life by helping them learn how tolearn. (5, 7)“Skillful engineering teachers” are those who are committed to the profession, and atthe same time, do possess knowledge in three domains: engineering knowledge (i.e.,their main disciplinary expertise and its related areas), pedagogical knowledge (i.e.,how students learn, effective pedagogies in achieving learning goals), andpedagogical content knowledge (e.g., how best to demonstrate procedures, relateconcepts, and correct students’ misconceptions within given constraints) (8) .However,expertise in any domain
engineering education:A Mediated Discourse Analysis of student presentations in a first year projects course Page 26.880.3 Ideologies of depoliticization in engineering education: A Mediated Discourse Analysis of student presentations in a first year projects course1. IntroductionThis paper works toward two goals. The first is to build on our previous work on“becoming an engineer”,1 in which we have attempted to understand engineering learningwithin a broader framework that focuses not only on the development of knowledge orcognitive capacities, but also on additional dimensions, including the development ofidentities within social
Society for Engineering Education, 2015 1 Not engineering to help but learning to (un)learn: Integrating research and teaching on epistemologies of technology design at the margins Abstract Locating engineering education projects in sites occupied by marginalizedcommunities and populations serves primarily to reinforce themisapprehension that the inhabitants of such sites are illiterate, inept,incapable and therefore in need of aid or assistance from researchers, facultyand students. Drawing on the emerging literature on engineering educationand social justice, I examine the stated objectives, content, duration, andoutcomes of exemplar projects
sometimes when I'm like I can't believe I suck at math, like why?” (1stinterview), “I guess career-wise maybe so I'm not very strong at math” (2nd interview), and thefollowing passage from the 3rd interview: I realized, like, one: I sucked at (ooh… gosh...). Um, you're probably gonna be sick of hearing me talk after this!... S: No no... R: 1- I suck at math. S: Ok... Page 26.1582.6 R: I don't suck, I was, was pretty weak at math. I didn't have natural. My sister has a lot more aptitude for learning math.The repetition of this theme, in both 1st and 2nd person speech, suggests that this is a
Control Mass Rigid Boundary Ideal Gas Model Open System Pinned Joint Steam Tables Control Volume Linear Translation Friction Factor Closed System Rigid Body Newtonian Fluid Insulated Boundary Viscous Drag Lumped Element Figure 1 -- Common Concepts in Core Engineering Science Coursesfreshman engineering textbook. Saterbak, McIntire, and San9 have used this approach for an in-troductory
on the scenarios and open-endedquestions related to issues of sexual harassment.Participants:A total of 96 subjects participated in this study, although not every participant responded toevery scenario. We have clarified the numbers of participants responding to each scenario in the Page 26.1434.3results section. Participants consisted of engineering students (19 female; 14 male), facultymembers (19 female; 14 male), and professionals (27 female; 11 male). Students and facultywere recruited from universities ranging from research 1 to smaller, liberal arts schools. Studentswere predominantly sophomores and juniors, while faculty members all
communication skills among students in C-I courses. Results from C-Icourse completion questionnaires showed that we still had some room to improve our students’perception of the value of the communication assignments they completed (see Figure 1).However, results also indicated that students realized that improving their communication skillswas essential for careers in engineering (see Figure 2). 180 160 140 120 100 Fall 2007 80 Spring 2008 60 40 20 0 Very Little Little Somewhat Much Very MuchFigure 1: Student responses to question, “How much did the
unrealistic and difficult to relate to their own circumstances.2,3 Over the course of everydayengineering design work, many students do not realize they are engaging in ethical processes atall,2,4 and have little to no recognition of how their considerations shape and are shaped by theorganizational context of the program. Indeed, it is often only on looking back “after thingsturned out nasty” that reasoning seemingly unrelated to ethics may be identified as ethical.1 Likewise, students may not recognize that engineering design is inherently tied to ethics.However, the products of an engineering design process, and especially the use of thoseproducts, undoubtedly are.1 Scholars have argued that ethical issues arise on a day-to-day basisin the
illustrating how courses taught in a higher education makerspace meet long-standing design education goals (such as design across the curriculum). This paper presents thebenefits of makerspace-hosted design courses, highlighting three models that illustrate the abilityof a higher education makerspace to improve design education.Design Education: History and ChallengesThe importance of design as a component of engineering education is stressed in Fiesel’s (et al.)description of engineering as “a hands-on profession where doing is key.”1 According to Fiesel, akey aspect of the profession is to design, analyze, and build creations that harness and modifyenergy, materials, and information to solve problems and improve humanity’s standard of living.The
that they are active participants and partners with scientists. Recent discussionsof CER are explicit in recognizing a continuum of engagement [1],[2]. CER is an umbrella ideaunder which more defined sub-types are found including community-based participatoryresearch (CBPR) [3]. A rough conceptual idea of forms of academic engagement withcommunities is shown in Figure 1, where areas within the gray box represent different forms andintensity of engagement. The activities located closer to the right side of the box represent moreleadership and agency by communities and therefore may be more likely to meet their goals. Figure 1. Examples of different
ofcommunities while introducing foundational engineering concepts. Drawing on culturallysustaining pedagogy and positionality theory, this study analyzes how the identities of instructorsshaped lesson design and delivery, and how students’ engagement with engineering wasinterpreted through a multimodal and multilingual lens. Data sources included instructorjournals, field notes, and community conversations. The thematic analysis highlights (1) theinfluence of instructors’ own definitions of engineering on classroom interactions; (2) the role ofheritage language use in building trust; and (3) students' creative engagement with materials,which surfaced localized forms of engineering not always recognized in traditional curricula.This WIP illustrates the
intentionally create possibility: 1. Find your purpose and declare a statement of possibility 2. Communicate and enroll others into possibility 3. Define a project, event, program or initiative 4. Layout a plan 5. Get into action 6. Acknowledge and Celebrate along the way2.3.4 Using Intentional Possibility in LearningPeople that live in possibility develop a number of traits we wish to develop in our students.They are driven, motivated, engaged, focused and prone to openly accept and handleadversity as challenge.By engaging students in possibility and having them enrol volunteers to develop a project thatimpacts between 50 and 200 people, we can provide an environment in which the studentincreases resiliency, self-confidence and
women’s participation in STEM, and related topics grew steadily from the 1970s onward [1],[2]. In the last two decades or so, an investment in programs that support broadeningparticipation with a lens of diversity, equity and inclusion has been prioritized in these and otheragencies. The 2024–2026 vision for NSF (produced in 2022) explicitly calls for “A nation thatleads the world in science and engineering research and innovation, to the benefit of all, withoutbarriers to participation” [3]. The NSF strategic plan further articulates core values which arethen specified within the agency’s individual programs: 1) Scientific leadership 2) Diversity andinclusion 3) Integrity and excellence 4) Public service and 5) Innovation and collaboration [3
Republic’s students produce and ship more than 40,000wreaths, each year, to destinations throughout the United States and around the world5.Figure 1. (Left) Boys’ Republic Christmas Wreath. (Right) Final assembly and production of the wreaths. Notice along the backwall the hook line assembly line that travels throughout the various assembly areas.The challenge the engineering team addressed for this aspect of the wreath production was theapplication of the clear lacquer sealant. The project’s primary goal was to replace the manualapplication of the lacquer which can expose the workers to various chemicals if they are notwearing the necessary protection and while also alleviating the long days that can cause theworkers to become fatigued while
(CCs). The authors suspected that these transfer students might just be the tip of a large icebergof students who sought and could benefit strongly from a “supportive hand.” 1 There were noprograms at that time specifically for new transfer students in ENGR; the only option availableto learn about life at a large school for these students was to join freshmen students in an ASU101 introductory class. Transfer students averaging age 25 are not particularly enthralled to be inclass with 18 year olds who are very interested in what happened in the dorm last night. The firstauthor and director of the NSF STEM for upper division students then wrote a second successfulproposal (#0324212) to NSF to support upper division transfer students in an S
layers and separate them from the platform. Figure 1 shows an example ofcatastrophic failure where parts of the extruder were engulfed in plastic. In this case, the 3Dprinter was left unattended overnight since the time predicted by the 3D-printing program tocreate a part was about 9 hours. As the first few layers were deposited, they separated from theprinting platform and adhered to the printing nozzle of the extruder. Then, the nozzle and someportions of the extruder were encapsulated as more plastic was extruded. To remove the plasticbuild-up, a student used a heat gun to re-melt the plastic and release the extruder. However, inthe process, a plastic extruder holder was partially melted as well and had to be replaced. Figure1a shows the
that fewer than 200 undergraduate working hours were spent indeveloping and testing the computer tools, leading to a labor cost of less than $1500.Developed Computer ToolsThe seven existing computer tools are all employed in the grading and analysis of a singleassignment. Figure 1 shows the workflow that would be used in the grading and analysis of asingle class assignment, illustrating the relationship between the seven tools and theirinputs/outputs. Four of these seven tools (1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1) mostly duplicate features that wouldcommonly be available for in-LMS grading workflows (such as automatically generating gradingrubrics with each student's name, or returning graded work to students) but were created tosupport and streamline the
curriculum will be the basis to understand the system level approachof specifying, breakdown, hardware/software development, and integration of an embeddedsystems course. In such a course students typically explore microprocessor architecture,instruction sets, interfacing, and real-time programming techniques in assembly language.Laboratory exercises usually consist of system level development in serial and parallel datatransfer, data acquisition, and analog input and output signal processing. The most commonchips used in microprocessor courses are the Motorola HC11/12 or the Intel 8051. Figure 1Figure 1 shows how a four year EET curriculum would map out introducing the integratedAnalog and Digital
during the second course. These types of real-world project aspects are totallydifferent from the standard course where the student shows up, takes notes, completes homeworkand exams generally on his/her own and then moves on. It has been said that Capstone is theclosest thing to a real-world experience that still includes academic credit. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2019, American Society of Engineering Education Session ETD 545The external sponsorship is derived from two primary sources: 1) private sector / public sectorfunding of the projects that they want to have
sciences.Contents, tools and services provided by COPEC, through courses, publications and consultationswith national and international experts, contribute to the promotion of the professional who wantsto be privy of the new achievements and the service of man to technology.COPEC enjoys respect and recognition internationally characterized by the open discussion, thefree exchange of ideas, respectful debate, and a commitment to rigorous inquiry. Its IIE –International Institute of Education - is a bold and resilient source of innovation in highereducation [1].Educational Aspects in Current RealityWork environment worldwide has changed drastically, and today millions of professionals arealso unemployed, even in advanced economies. On the other hand