Paper ID #22716Algae City - An Interactive Serious GameDr. Ying Tang, Rowan University Ying Tang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Northeastern University, P. R. China, in 1996 and 1998, respectively, and Ph.D degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in 2001. She is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Rowan University, Glass- boro, NJ. Her research interests include virtual reality and augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and modeling and scheduling of computer-integrated systems. Dr. Tang is very active in adapting and devel- oping pedagogical
Importantly, the U.S. is the only nation among the G7 to register a TEA score in the topten.Today, nearly 50 percent of the growth in the U.S. economy can be attributed to entrepreneurialactivity; much of this activity is in the technology sector. Since success in a technology venturerequires both technical feasibility and economic viability an engineering curriculum thatintegrates both aspects is of considerable value.2 Of the over 200 thousand graduates of collegeengineering and science programs each year in the U.S., a growing proportion seek employmentin entrepreneurial ventures or are starting their own ventures. This trend among engineering andscience graduates requires “a new type of engineer, an entrepreneurial engineer, who needs abroad
systemic engineering education reforms and the realization of harmonized systems of quality assurance as a fundamental basis for both hemispheric progress and their own future business success. • Foster a broad dialogue on Innovation that addresses research as an integral part of quality education and facilitates an expanded capacity for inquiry, especially in the applied sciences, as an essential ingredient to improving university capabilities and expanding intellectual and economic opportunity throughout the region. • Engage faculty in curriculum reform, the creation of quality learning environments, and the shaping of policy and strategies aimed at creating the educational infrastructure
that equipsengineering students with core concepts and methodological tools necessary to analyze the roleof engineering in society, using a Human Rights framework. This paper explores learningoutcomes in an existing course within this curriculum (i.e., “Engineering for Human Rights”)by analyzing original exit survey data from enrolled students. Our survey instrument integratedNew Ecological Paradigm (NEP) statements to assess variation in perceptions of the usefulnessof the course content as it relates to sustainability. The findings of this study have implicationsand suggestions for designing interdisciplinary curricula that integrate engineering,sustainability, and human rights in engineering education.Keywords – Human Rights framework
Equivalent Force System, Equilibrium of a Particle and Rigid Body, Structural Mechanics, and Friction has been developed. Laboratory equipment required for these exercises have been designed and fabricated. The reformed class was given for the first time in Spring 2004. The changes in the course are part of ongoing integration of various modes of learning in the Engineering Science curriculum at Borough of Manhattan Community College. Introduction Undergraduate engineering programs across the U.S. are modifying their curricula to incorporate active learning components. These modifications involve introducing lab components and computerized modeling and simulation into the syllabi. Other approaches incorporate
Ph.D. in Physics (1998) from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has been twice selected as a visiting ´ Chaire Joliot at the Ecole Sup´erieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles at Paris Tech and has orga- nized extended workshops on the physics of glasses and on friction, fracture and earthquakes at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. He has received several awards for his educational accomplishments, and in 2011 he received an award from the university’s Diversity Leadership Council for his work on LGBT inclusion. His education research focuses on integrating computation into the undergraduate core curriculum. Falk also serves as the lead investigator for STEM
. Page 14.692.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING EDUCATION CONSORTIUMAbstract:In recent years, the growing integration of economies and societies around the world hasrequired that graduates of all institutions and disciplines be prepared to work in an economy thatis now best seen as essentially international. Global markets are dictating the way that nationaleconomies around the world design, distribute, and consume goods and services. Engineers arein the midst of this dynamic development. Most large engineering projects currently requiremulti-national teams of multi-disciplinary professionals to work together and, therefore, a betterunderstanding of the
by an MIT “Handy Board,” with optical en-coders and IR sensors as inputs. Starting from a fixed position, the robot finds its way to a given destination coordi-nate while avoiding randomly placed obstacles along the path. The project is an excellent teaching and learning ex-perience due to the multiple disciplines involved: logic, electronics, control, programming and mechanics. In addi-tion, the project provides the students with a relatively realistic professional experience involving financial and timebudgeting, management, meeting of deadlines, making presentations and writing reports.IntroductionProbably due to the interdisciplinary nature of the program, design has been an integral part of the undergraduatecurriculum in Trinity’s
A is area.If the density is assumed to be constant, which is the case for most problems encountered in afirst course in fluid mechanics then it can be brought outside the integral giving equation 2. m&= ρ ∫ V dA (Equation 2) AIf the function for the velocity profile V as a function of position is known, then it can be Page 12.1531.2evaluated at each cross-section.In most real applications the velocity profile is not a nice clean function that can be easilyintegrated. The velocity can vary seemingly randomly across the cross-section. An example ofthis
nature, engineering and teaching both require problem solving, and integrating the topicsand practice of engineering research with the extant curriculum in a STEM classroom also requirescreativity and innovation. One explanation for the benefit of cognitively-diverse teams oncomplex, creative tasks is the cognitive diversity hypothesis [13,18,19]. The cognitive diversityhypothesis posits that dissimilarity in team makeup (with regard to task-related attributes)discourages groupthink and encourages positive member disagreement, debate, and discussion, aswell as introducing differing attitudes, perspectives, and knowledge structures [18-23]. Similarly,the information processing perspective provides an additional framework to explain
lessened awareness of engineering as it relates to one’sindividual study habits for each different learning style on his surroundings and to current world events. [11] For ourweb site. [8] Understanding one's individual learning style purposes, it was decided that each presentation shouldand adapting specific habits in regards to the process of incorporate an engineer (or working team of engineers)learning can optimize the time allotted to studying. Further, associated with the student's chosen topic into their project inrecognizing professors who teach using a different style will an effort to build the student's perception of the human factorhelp students to adjust their own efforts in understanding the integral
Paper ID #26223Factors Contributing to the Problem-Solving Heuristics of Civil EngineeringStudentsMr. Sean Lyle Gestson, Oregon State University Sean Gestson is a recent graduate from the University of Portland where he studied Civil Engineering with a focus in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering. He is currently conducting Engineering Education research while pursuing a doctoral degree in Civil Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include problem solving, decision making, and engineering curriculum development.Dr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University Shane Brown is an
Page 23.642.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 GIS and Introductory Environmental Engineering: A Way to Fold GIS into An Already-Existing CourseThe use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) was implemented in the upper-divisionundergraduate technical elective Introduction to Environmental Engineering at Harvey MuddCollege. Students integrated technical engineering skills, newly-learned geographicalinformation system (GIS) skills, and the engineering design process, all in the context of thedesign of a debris flow barrier for a wilderness land parcel acquired by a local conservancygroup.Junior and senior general engineering students, the majority of whom had no experience
member schools. Meetings werefacilitated by the PD21 Director, whose position was funded by CIPD. Regular attendeesincluded program directors and at least one senior level administrator from each institution,industry representatives, and several CIPD staff members. Special topics meetings, such asthose associated with curriculum development or transfer, engaged faculty and others asappropriate. Every participant had an equal voice in setting the agenda and participating indiscussions. Meeting durations have ranged from one hour, to half-day or even full-daysessions.Meeting topics have ranged from a discussion of consortium operation, to curriculum, toindustrial input. For instance, the topics slated for discussion during 2000 included: 1
implementation of a new course in communications through thecreation of a computer-based laboratory for modeling and simulating communicationsystems. The lecture course in a typical Electrical Engineering (EE) curriculum, alongwith this laboratory, provide a totally integrated delivery system for teaching a widespectrum of topics ranging from transmission/reception concepts and applications toperformance analysis of fiber optic networks. The laboratory is easily implemented byconstructing a PC-based computer network supporting several simulation tools. Studentsare able to access a variety of software packages for analysis of different communicationsystems. The topics covered in the laboratory can be divided into three categories:communication signals
components by analyzingstudent survey results and compared the student performance by showing average student scoresin the “flipped-classroom” approach vs. in the traditional approach. In [7], Yildiz et al share thedetails (course curriculum, student body, projects, and components) of a project-basedmicrocontroller course and presents feedbacks freely written by students.Educational researchers have been exploring and studying the online teaching mode in CS, CpE,and EE courses. In a Database course [8], the t-tests indicate that face-to-face studentssignificantly outperformed online students when there were no significant differences inbackground characteristics. Whitney et al explored the impact of captions on learningperformance in an online Intro
accreditation cycle., accessedJanuary 5, 2005.2 Wankat, Phillip C., Oreovicz, Frank S., Delgass, W. Nicholas, “Integrating Soft Criteria into the ChECurriculum”, Proceedings of the 2000 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition, (2000)3 Felder, Richard M. and Rebecca Brent, “Designing and Teaching Courses to Satisfy the ABETEngineering Criteria”, J. Eng. Ed., 92(1), 7 (2003)4 Miller, R.L., and B.M. Olds, “A Model Curriculum for a Capstone Course in MultidisciplinaryEngineering Design,” J. Eng. Ed., 83(4), 1 (1994)5 Fornaro, R.J., M.R. Heil, and S.W. Peretti, “Enhancing Technical Communication Skills in EngineeringStudents: An Experiment in Multidisciplinary Design,” Proceedings of the 31st Annual ASEE/IEEEFrontiers in
Session 3425 Designing an Engineering Experience for Non-Engineers Major Robert J. Rabb, Colonel John S. Klegka United States Military AcademyAbstractThe United States Military Academy (USMA) has a balanced core curriculum to help promotethe ability of all graduates to be creative problem solvers. Part of the core curriculum provides abasic knowledge of physical systems for all graduates. All graduates receive a B.S. degree invarious disciplines, many in a non-engineering major or field of study. However, all graduatesare expected to be technically competent in their future
ability to apply previously learned theories to solve unanticipatedproblems14.Continuity is particularly important as it relates to engineering education. The National Academyof Engineering’s (NAE) recent report, The Engineer of 202015, suggests a necessary paradigmshift in engineering education, redirecting the focus to better prepare engineers for theanticipated challenges of the future; globalization, sustainability, complexity, and adaptability16.Incorporation of international service-learning projects into an engineering curriculum provides afeasible mechanism of accomplishing this goal. As a progressive form of experiential education,service-learning is based on Dewey’s model insofar as service-learning projects will inevitablytrigger new
Paper ID #42192WIP: Using a Human-Centered Engineering Design Framework to DevelopLearning Progressions in an Aerospace Engineering ProgramMs. Taylor Tucker Parks, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Taylor Parks is a research fellow in engineering education at the Siebel Center for Design. She earned her bachelor’s in engineering mechanics and master’s in curriculum & instruction from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on promoting teamwork in complex engineering problem solving through collaborative task design. She currently co-leads the integration of human-centered design
should weave through and integrate with the Design Sessions to teach itsapplication in a real-world setting.Next StepsWith the first iteration of the redesign course complete, the planning for the second iteration isunderway. Under consideration is the opportunity to integrate the engineering ethics session intothe design sessions in an authentic manner so it does not appear to be separate from or anafterthought to the engineering design process. Improved scaffolding and support for studentsadapting to the project-based and teamwork-intensive nature of the course will be a focus for thesecond iteration.With the initial focus and investment on the curricular design of the course, it is essential that thecoordination team consider a long-term plan
]. Traditional and non-traditional colleges and universities are now using a variety ofinstruction tools to deliver on-line instruction to their students. WebCT is an on-line tool thatfacilitates the development of web-based educational environments. In the case of ExcelsiorCollege, delivery of instruction is achieved primarily through the use of WebCT distancelearning tool. The key features of WebCT are listed in [4] and [5].The curriculum for Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology (withconcentrations in electronics, power systems, and nanotechnology) being developed by Excelsior Page 15.420.4College is presented in Figure 1. This
hold an undergraduate degree in a STEM field and may not even befamiliar with the acronym. This preliminary study evaluates the impact of an After SchoolSTEM service learning course on undergraduate preservice teachers (PSTs). This course wasdesigned with the broad goal to engage undergraduates who are thinking about becomingteachers (going on to a credential program after graduation) in a service learning course in whichthey engage in a pre-credential field experience. As part of this experience, undergraduates learnabout STEM integration in teaching and STEM based activities, and then teach those activities toelementary students in local after school programs. The main research questions for this studyinclude: A) How did the service learning
Engineering Education: An Integrated Writing andCommunication Program for Materials Engineers.” Journal of Engineering Education, 85:4:343-352.LISA LEBDUSKA is Director of the Center for Communication Across the Curriculum and an adjunct assistantprofessor of writing at WPI. She received her PhD in English from the University of Rhode Island. Her most recentarticle, “Peer Writing Tutors,” will be appear in Student-Assisted Teaching by Anker Publishing, and reflects herresearch in peer tutor training, writing in the disciplines, and technologies of writing.DAVID DIBIASIO is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and assessment coordinator for theInterdisciplinary and Global Studies Division at WPI. He received his PhD in chemical engineering from
Goldberg machine design Team 2 Conclusions The incorporation of notebooks in a physics high school classroom served to support the integration of engineering in the physics curriculum. The notebooks provided evidence of the key indicators essential for successful implementation of engineering in a science classroom as 17identified by Kersten – design process, STEM content, engineering thinking and engineering communication. They served as an effective tool for guiding the engineering design process and for stimulating the selfdirected learning and authentic assessments that are the goals of PBL curricula. In contrast with the project results of the previous year during which engineering design notebooks were not
Integrated Graduate Research Team in a Complex Interdisciplinary Domain: Preliminary Findings. In: SEFI Annual Conference: Global Engineering Recognition, Sustainability and Mobility. Lisbon, Portugal; 2011:303–307.17. The Design-Based Research Collective. Design-based research: An emerging paradigm for educational inquiry. Educ Res. 2003;32(1):5–8. Page 24.1087.1318. Roco M, Bainbridge W. Converging technologies for improving human performance: Integrating from the nanoscale. J Nanoparticle Res. 2002;4:281–295.19. Borrego M, Cutler S. Constructive alignment of interdisciplinary graduate curriculum in
course. A team taught course should be just that: team taught. An important lesson to learn is that professorsshould regularly attend each others classes or at the very least meet regularly to ensure course coordination.According to their evaluations, students felt professors must work diligently to integrate and coordinate theirlectures. As mentioned before, the professors could see distinct advantages to attending each others classes.Meeting outside of class to structure the syllabus is important but true integration can only occur if bothprofessors are in class to add insight to the topic under discussion. Of course this will require the mutualrespect of the faculty participants to ensure that no one faculty member becomes the dominant
8051microprocessor in our curriculum. My recommendation to the curriculum committee is to placethe present course after the introductory microprocessor course. Then the course couldeffectively cover C programming for the 8051. This would better integrate the course into thecurriculum, and give students a marketable skill. However, if the course must remain where it is,then I would continue to use the OOPic.Further Information About the OOPicThe web site www.oopic.com offers complete documentation on the OOPic including tutorialsand sample projects.Henry ChayaHenry Chaya is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Manhattan College in RiverdaleNew York. His professional interests include robotics and automation, artificial
inthis paper) and geomatics. At that time, the infrastructure course was envisioned as includingwater and wastewater, solid waste and basic transportation, topics not covered elsewhere in thecurriculum due to our large and humanities-heavy core requirements. As part of this initial refit,it was thought that dynamics and electrical engineering would be covered in a consolidatedcourse, and we would work with the electrical engineering department to ensure that some powerand power distribution content, considered essential, would be included in the consolidatedcourse. By 2010, West Point’s Civil Engineering Program had undergone an ABET visit andconsiderable further work had been done on the curriculum reform, and the results of that workwere
a new Engineering Leadership Program to enable students to bridge the gap between traditional engineer- ing education and what they will really experience in industry. With a background in both engineering education and design thinking, her research focuses on how Latina/Latino students develop an identity as an engineer, methods for enhancing student motivation, and methods for involving students in curriculum development and teaching through Peer Designed Instruction.Dr. Ines Basalo, University of Miami Dr. Basalo is an Assistant Professor in Practice in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Uni- versity of Miami. Prior to joining the University of Miami in 2014, she worked as an adjunct professor at