successful with mentors. Takaghaj2 described the impact of mentoring girls in STEM.Feldhaus3 describes a mentoring program, which involves under-represented mentors. Sarder4discusses the impact of a mentor in designing K12 curriculum. Rochefort5 describes a programthat used graduate students as mentors. Mentoring has been attempted in many places for a singleprogram. This paper describes an effort, which strives to increase the number of STEM mentorsacross many programs in a single community.The Wichita Coalition is comprised of individuals and organizations that are passionate about thefuture of our community. Wichita has a high concentration of STEM professionals (the 3rdhighest concentration of engineers in the nation, according to Forbes). In
to teach,especially in ways that capture students’ interest and attention. A variety of approaches areimplemented including dedicated courses inside and outside of engineering, as well as weavingethical case studies throughout the curriculum 3-5. Creative approaches to teaching engineeringethics including argumentation, eye-witness role playing, videos, engineering ethics lunches, andeven an engineering ethics board game have previously been presented 6-10. The objective of thisassignment was to combine the common practice of integrating an ethics unit into a first yearIntroduction to Engineering course with the innovation of a creative fiction assignment requiringthe students to generate and reflect upon an ethical dilemma of personal
needs, Concept of Operations (ConOps), requirements, and RFPgeneration, all aspects of the integrated SE curriculum. To avoid increasing the coursedeliverables to seven reports, the original six reports were re-structured into five reports. Thiswas done by re-distributing and in many cases combining the deliverables more evenly across allreports. Only one deliverable content was eliminated, although this content was still included inthe lectures. In addition to changes to the Oral Reports, instructors addressed the addition of SEtopics in the course using a couple of methods. Telecons with representatives fromindustry/government organizations were added to the course to provide actual SE experience indefining requirements. In addition, overlap
, have achecklist of key elements to reach the goal, and provide guidelines to integrate their buildingblocks.2.2 Problem Based-Learning Origins and BenefitsPBL began with medical school curricula, however, it has been used in a wider spectrum ofdisciplines including Architecture, Art, Business, Management, Engineering, InformationManagement, Law, Music, and Nursing among others4. PBL is a constructivist philosophy ofteaching that creates an interactive learning environment encouraging students to work together,commonly in teams, to find solutions to problems. PBL is based on the principle that whenstudents identify their own learning needs they are able to research, discuss, and analyze whathas been discovered. Thus, through sharing concepts
as well as a faculty member at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Page 26.1781.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 “And Now for Something Completely Different” – A Faculty Sabbatical in Public PolicyIntroductionThe title phrase,1 coined and made popular by Monty Python, uniquely describes the transitionfrom engineering educator to public policy participant for a biomedical engineering facultymember partaking in a one-semester public policy sabbatical at an honorific and advocacyorganization in Washington, DC. A major goal of the sabbatical
Director of the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. Page 26.1331.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Research Experiences for Teachers in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Industrial AutomationAbstractU.S. manufacturers are seeking highly skilled workers to hire in industrial automation andcontrol jobs. Encouraging active participation of secondary school teachers and two-year collegefaculty in university
Paper ID #11681Applications of Reflective Thinking Exercises in both Technological Literacyand Standard Engineering CoursesDr. Mani Mina, Iowa State University Mani Mina is with the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He is also an active collaborator and participant in the department of Industrial Design. He has been working on better understanding of students’ learning and issues of technological and engineering philosophy and literacy. In particular how such literacy and competency are reflected in curricular and student activities
Paper ID #11219Designing of Bottle Washing Machine in Virtual Environment Using the En-hanced Mechatronics System Design MethodologyMr. Rizwanul Neyon, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology) Rizwanul Neyon, M.Sc, has completed his masters from Purdue University Calumet majoring in Mecha- tronics Engineering Technology. In his MS Directed project he worked in a Pick & Place machine where he has integrated a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) & Human Machine Interface (HMI). He was awarded a graduate assistantship from Purdue University Calumet in 2012. As a graduate assistant in engineering Technology
Paper ID #13321Peace, Conflict and Sustainability: Addressing Global and Ethical Issues inEngineering EducationDr. robert j muscat, Global Peace Services USA Robert J. Muscat is an economist specializing in problems of conflict in developing countries. He was formerly Chief Economist of the US Agency for International Development, and has consulted for the World Bank and UN agencies. He has authored books and articles on Thailand, development aid and con- flict, aid effectiveness, malnutrition, and other subjects.He received his PhD in economics from Columbia University. He is currently an independent scholar, living in
resources in a low impact environ- ment, developing globally competent engineering graduates and integrating active learning methods into engineering curriculums.Matthew E Verbyla, University of South Florida Matthew Verbyla is a Ph.D. candidate and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of South Florida, where he studies pathogen removal and microbial risk of water reuse in wastewater treatment pond (lagoon) systems. Matthew obtained his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Lafayette College in 2006, and his M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of South Florida in 2012. Matthew is an E.I.T. and a LEED Green Associate with several years of work experience both in the United
' improving an org's experts par,cipa,on within a compe,,veness group Figure 1: Evolution of CoP [9]In their characterization of a virtual CoP, Sharrat and Usoro [10] identified several criteria for theidentification and assessment of CoP that include: value congruence, sense of community, careeradvancement, competence-based trust, benevolence-based trust, integrity-based trust, perceivedusefulness, and ease of use (Table 1).Table 1. Characterizations of CoP [10]Characterization Definition
in the United States. Engagingcommunity college students in engineering studies especially earthquake engineering research isof significant interests for the San Francisco Bay Area and the state of California. Futureearthquake disaster prevention and preparation require that professional civil engineers are trainedand recruited into the next generation workforce for the purpose of public safety. With supportfrom NASA through the Curriculum Improvement and Partnership Awards for the Integration ofResearch (CIPAIR) program, four community college engineering students participated in a ten-week summer research internship program at San Francisco State University in summer 2014. Theproject focuses on an innovative experimental technique of real
integrity here iscohesiveness, joining together, or integration. Thus, just as good care results from the fourphases being well-aligned and collectively appropriate, the four moral elements must fit togetheras an integrated whole in a way that is sensitive to context and addresses the conflict inherent inany moral situation, be it micro- or macro-ethical, as traditionally understood. The Integrity ofCare can also be considered a disposition [15, p. 8] that provides a motivational dimension of careethics, to which the four phases and moral elements add operational “legs” for enacting theprocess of care. Tronto’s framework for care ethics is roughly summarized graphically inFigure 2 and can be described as an interconnected and sometimes overlapping
both NES and non-native speakingstudents in terms of identifying and differentiating main ideas and major supporting details inreading, maintaining focus and unity, paraphrasing, and making logical connections among ideas.The community college students taking a physics gateway course often confused key ideas withsupporting details. Consequently, they failed to show an understanding of the text. As reading ascience textbook is daunting for many students, 100 level science courses should emphasizesummary writing across the curriculum. Students should be encouraged to produce and revisesummary writing in different disciplines on a regular basis. The college has a huge, diversestudent population. Since ESL students have limited English reading and
Cincinnati. He has taught a variety of classes ranging introductory programming and first-year engineering design courses to introductory and advanced courses in electronic circuits. He is a member of ASEE, IEEE, and ACM.Dr. Kathleen A. Ossman, University of Cincinnati Dr. Kathleen A. Ossman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Cincinnati. She teaches primarily freshmen with a focus on programming and problem solving. Dr. Ossman is interested in active learning, flipped classrooms, and other strategies that help students become self-directed learners.Mr. Tony James BaileyMs. Leigh Anna Folger, University of CincinnatiMs. Rachel Schwind, Mechanical Engineering, University of
and other historians a two-coursesequence on the history of technology and an introduction to science, technology and society”with a strong historical component. More specialized history of technology courses have alsobeen given. Owing the structure of scheduling and curriculum by Rutgers, these courses wereseldom taken by engineering students. Our previous paper cited above and another paper co-authored by one of us (Geselowitz)3 presented results of a web survey and an email survey ofengineering schools that history of engineering courses were not widely available to engineeringstudents.As reported in the earlier paper, in 2009 one of us (Vardalas) had an opportunity, as a visitinglecturer, to teach a course on the history of technology at
11‘...teams be made of at least six people…” and suggests dedicated positions such as “crew chief”, “team manager”, “mechanical lead”, etc. Another example of an electric vehicle class was Stanford University’s ME185 class, which was much closer in nature to the MIT class. In ME185, teams of 24 students constructed small electric vehicles such as electric bicycles, electric skateboards, and other form factors. The last time this class was run appears to be 2012, 12according to the class website . Unlike the MIT class, the Stanford class focused its curriculum
enable them toconduct some detailed analysis and design (for example, in the sizing of the pipes for thedistribution system), but also to integrate some components where that level of analysis and pilottesting has already been completed (for example, the river pump and the slow sand filters). This “simplification” of some aspects of the design could give the students anopportunity to actually build and hand off the system, in addition to designing it, within the timeconstraints of an academic schedule. For example, they could design the system and constructportions throughout a semester-length independent study project, then spend a week or two on-site during the summer with a contractor installing the system and handing it off
sufficient depth in their engineering education. One solution tothis challenge is to incorporate laboratory experiences in a mixed learning approach, whichincludes laboratory experiences provided by both in-class studio labs and larger take-homeprojects. This work briefly describes the mixed-learning method and provides further details onthe projects employed in a multidisciplinary digital signal processing course. This work alsodescribes the blind review method that is used to assess student learning to judge the success ofthis method.K eywor dsBlind review; Mixed Learning; Take-home projects; Reverberation; Computer VisionI ntr oductionIt is commonly held knowledge that laboratory experiences are an essential component ofengineering education
movement toward use of wise, informed, and economical sustainable development. This should begin in our educational institutions and be founded in the basic tenets of the engineering profession and its actions.”5Beyond their immediate academic programs and accreditation umbrella, engineering students atthe UW are a part of a campus community supported by an environmental stewardship andsustainability program that has been recognized internationally for its success in developingsustainable campus projects that integrate sustainability into culture, community, andoperations.6Thus, we would expect that the students we interview in this study to be speaking from a culturepermeated by concerns for a more sustainable world. Familiarity with
university, industry, and federal sources – and for his efforts has received departmental, college, and national teaching honors including the Farrall Young Educator Award given by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, and an invitation to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s 2013 Frontiers in Engineering Education Conference. Raman chairs the ABE Engineering Curriculum Committee and in that role oversaw the successful 2012 ABET accreditation visit for both the Agricultural Engineering (AE) and Biological Systems Engineering (BSE) degree programs. Upon arriving at ISU in 2006, he led the development of the BSE program, and this program now enrolls over 80 students. Raman also runs multiple summer
long-term11-15. Case-Based instruction has been used extensively in medical andlaw schools to prepare students for the real world practices8,15-17. With the success of case-basedinstruction seen in medical and law curriculums, an increasing number of science, technology,engineering and math (STEM) instructors have begun to integrate cases into their courses. A newchampion for the use of cases in the sciences emerged in 1994 with the work of Herried andfunding from the National Science Foundation to form the National Center for Case StudyTeaching in the Sciences (NCCSTS). This educational pedagogy promotes the use of cases, orinteractive “stories”, to engage students in STEM courses and to help reform STEM instruction14,18-20 . These
awards from the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008 and 2011 and from the IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011. Dr. Ohland is Chair of the IEEE Curriculum and Pedagogy Committee and an ABET Program Evaluator for ASEE. He was the 2002–2006 President of Tau Beta Pi and is a Fellow of the ASEE and IEEE.Dr. Clemencia M. Cosentino, Mathematica Policy Research Clemencia Cosentino (Ph.D., Sociology, Princeton University), a Senior Researcher and Area Leader at Mathematica Policy Research, is the former director of the Program for Evaluation and Equity Research at the Urban Institute. Over the past 20 years, her work has focused on evaluating efforts and studying factors that influence the participation of
computer automated, such as practice exercisesand problem solving. Therefore in a flipped classroom, activities that historically have beenperformed in class are performed at home and vice versa, i.e. a re-ordering of the traditional classstructure.It is increasingly becoming evident that a more specific definition of the flipped classroom isnecessary, as instead of merely a re-ordering, the successful flipped course actually expandsbeyond the typical course curriculum by including activities based on proven active learningmethods focused on knowledge integration and application2. In their review of flipped Page 26.41.2classroom research, Bishop
Entrepreneurially Minded Learning & Fluid Intelligence Building in Community College Pre- engineering Calculus Physics Pedagogy Sunil Dehipawala, Vazgen Shekoyan, Raul Armendariz, Chantale Damas, Todd Holden, David Lieberman, and Tak Cheung CUNY Queensborough Community College Physics DepartmentAbstractThe importance of including Entrepreneurially Minded Learning in an engineering curriculumcannot be overemphasized, according to The Kern Family Foundation. Currently most publicengineering schools lack the funding to include Entrepreneurially Minded Learning, according tothe results of our web search using the Goggle Search Engine. The
Page 26.103.3development of a robotic system and to create a bridge to span different subjects in theclassroom. Within each phase of the robotic learning sequence the ADDIE model (consisting ofanalysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation steps) of instructional design isused.16 The analysis step provides the designer an opportunity to understand the learningenvironment and the learning challenges faced by the students and teachers. During the designstep, learning objectives are specified so that the lesson can begin to take shape. Next, thedevelopment of the lesson takes place where the content and materials used are formed. Thelesson is then implemented and evaluated.Use of instructional scaffolding is integrated into the
Institute of Technology. At Rose-Hulman, he co-created the Integrated, First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, which was recognized in 1997 with a Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence. He served as Project Director a Na- tional Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized innovative undergraduate engineering curricula. He has authored over 70 papers and offered over 30 workshops on faculty development, curricular change processes, cur- riculum redesign, and assessment. He has served as a program co-chair for three Frontiers in Education Conferences and the general chair for the 2009 conference. Prof
to 2009, she was a Senior Associate with Exponent, Inc. From 2009 to 2013, she was principal of RSO Consulting, LLC, and taught as an Adjunct Professor at Widener University, Chester, PA. Since 2013, she has been an Associate Professor with the Bioengineering Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Her research interests have included biomechanics, primarily focusing on spine-related injuries and degeneration. Currently, her interests are in engineering education, curriculum development and assess- ment. Dr. Ochia is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Society for
Problems:Enhancing Student Problem-Solving Ability in Statics and Mechanics of Materials”. Proc. ASEE Conference & Exposition, 2012. 4. Hugh A. Bruck, Dave K. Anand, William L. Fourney, Peter C. Chang, and James W. Dally. “Development of an Integrated Statics and Strength of Materials Curriculum with an Emphasis on Design. Proc. ASEE Conference & Exposition, 1999. 5. Papadopoulos, C., A. Santiago Román, G. Portela Gauthier, and A. Ponce. “Leveraging Simulation Tools to Deliver Ill-Structured Problems in Statics and Mechanics of Materials: Initial Results”. Proc. ASEE Conference & Exposition, 2013. 6. Ertmer, P., D. Stepich, C. York, A. Stickman, X. Wu, and S. Zurek. “How Instructional Design Experts
Paper ID #11493Preparation and In-Class Intervention Programs for Barrier Courses for Two-year College Engineering Students ˜Dr. Courtney Hadsell, Canada College I graduated with my PhD in Physics from The University of North Carolina in 2013. I am currently a physics Instructor and physics program services coordinator at Ca˜nada College. I have a deep passion in promoting understanding and success for physics students thought pre-semester and continuing academic support. ˜Dr. Tracy Huang, Canada College Tracy Huang is an educational researcher in STEM at Ca˜nada College. Her research