and his MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology.Bryan Howell, Brigham Young University Bryan Howell received his MFA in Design from the University of Texas Austin in 2003 and his under- graduate degree in Industrial Design from Brigham Young University in 1984. He started his professional career working with frogdesign in Germany. He then worked at Dell Computer in Design and Engineering Management following which he successfully directed his own Design consulting business. He has re- ceived IDEA, ID and G-Mark design awards and has 29 utility patents. He has lived in England, Germany, Singapore and the USA. Since 2006 he has been teaching Design courses at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah
following key issues: (1) what must undergraduateengineers learn/accomplish in the course string to be successful throughout their academic career Page 22.432.2and in the next generation professional settings; (2) what obstacles exist to providing thenecessary educational experiences, and (3) how can we effect change and what changes(integration) need to be made to an existing curriculum. Course string faculty committeescontinue to hold regular meetings every semester to address these questions. Syllabi analysisprovided invaluable information to enhance the alignment of the courses. As a result of coursestring faculty committees’ working sessions
22.457.10This kind of state-of-art laboratory and technology will help our engineering technologyeducation better prepare students for careers in industry.AcknowledgementsThis work is partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Numbers DUE-0942778and HRD-0928921.References:1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_technology.2 http://www.coe.neu.edu/Depts/SET/set/whatisset.html3 http://www.careercornerstone.org/pdf/engtech/engtech.pdf4 M.L. Good, N.F. Lane, “Producing the Finest Scientists and Engineers for the 21st Century”, Science, Vol. 266, pp. 741-743, November 1994.5 http://www.ni.com/nielvis/6 http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/86577 Y. Zhang, “The Application of MATLAB to Teaching Communication Systems” Proceedings
Page 22.462.6 the subject matter and began to clearly see the important and needed applications of assistive devices that go beyond the manufacturing process. Each prototype that will be developed will surely demonstrate that our students can make a difference in the lives of their fellow man. What a difference projects like that make in the life of the targeted disabled individuals! Impacts Diversity in the workplace is essential in today's society. Individuals with disabilities have much to offer and need just that little boost to push them on their way to a successful and fulfilling career. Likewise, the future generations of engineers must understand that their studies mean something. The implemented
year (2010) the program is training 50students and will graduate its first class.The degree requires basic knowledge in engineering, electrical circuits, motors and generators,thermodynamics, heat transfer and the language of computers. Then there come specializedcourses in photovoltaics (solar energy research and technology), wind, biomass (the recycling ofbiological material), hydropower and geothermal energy development. After graduation, studentswould be applying their new Bachelor of Science degrees in a range of design, engineering,installation, auditing and programming careers in the region’s expanding green-power sector.In 2006, the State University of New York (SUNY) at Canton started a four-year degree programin alternative and
and retrieval of the scientific data inspires the next batch of students to continuethis rocketry project as a sustainable research program.1. IntroductionThe NASA – MSFC’s (Marshall Space Flight Center) University Student Launch Initiative(USLI) program involves undergraduate students in the design, building, and testing of reusablerockets with associated scientific payloads. USLI is a competitive rocket and payload-buildingchallenge designed for university students. The initiative is intended to encouragestudents to pursue careers in engineering or science related fields. This unique hands-onexperience allows students to demonstrate proof-of-concept for their designs and givespreviously abstract concepts tangibility. It requires an eight
curriculum unit to real-life. A few RET programs have found successcomparable to that of Vanderbilt University in program implementation, though student levelresults have not been reported. The Georgia Institute of Technology’s Physics RET programsaw similar results: a majority of the teachers claimed the program gave them the ability toencourage students effectively to pursue a major in science or engineering.18 In addition, thePolytechnic Institute of New York University also found that their RET program allowed theirparticipants to conduct inquiry-based teaching successfully while engaging the students inSTEM-related curricula.19 The Texas A&M RET program aims to do the same while alsoimproving teachers’ knowledge about careers in engineering
incorporating environmental impact and human factors design. She received her B.S. in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her M.S. in Technological En- trepreneurship from Northeastern University. Page 22.824.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Implementing the Capstone Experience Concept for Teacher Professional DevelopmentABSTRACTThe need for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) workforce is well documentedin the literature. The lack of interest among school-age students in STEM careers and the
AC 2011-2623: IMPROVED TEAM FUNCTION: STUDENT-DRIVEN TEAMRULES AND CONSEQUENCESPeter J. Shull, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Campus PETER J. SHULL is Professor of Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. After a successful career in the technical field of Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE), and having worked at the prestigious Nation Institute of Standards and Technology, Dr. Shull made the decision to return to academia and began his career in education. From the first day, Dr. Shull noted an apparent lack of sound educational practice at the higher educational level. This is reflected in a statement made by Dr. Shull’s Ph.D. advisor regarding teaching”If you know the material well, you’ll be a great
shed light on whycertain issues may be of more interest to these adjuncts compared to full time faculty.Gappa and Leslie (1993) extensively studied adjunct instructors and developed atypology of four categories of adjuncts based largely on experience and motivation: 1)career enders, 2) aspiring academics, 3) freelancers, and 4) specialists, experts orprofessionals. 21 Sputo (2006) believes that most engineering adjuncts fall into two ofthose categories: aspiring academics and specialists, experts or professionals. 22 The lattercategory concerns highly skilled part-time instructors working full-time at a job in theirfield. They are looking for fulfillment by sharing their expertise.1 This describes thetype of adjunct considered here.Most
can create cumulative disadvantages or advantagesfor women of certain race/ethnicity groups 13, 14, 15. This dual minority status has been referred toas the “double bind” although other research suggests that race is an asset for women of someracial minority groups. A recent study of African-American and white female science studentsfound that a “double jeopardy” hypothesis of dual minority status may not result in theaccumulation of greater disadvantages. For example, elements of African-American familyculture hold women up to near equal status as men and do not place work and child-rearing atodds, suggesting that elements of African-American family support structures give theseminority women more agency to be successful in science careers
Organizational structure and Strategy of the ISU ADVANCE ProgramTo broaden our impact and learn from other experts, ISU ADVANCE hosted a nationalconference on increasing flexibility in faculty careers (in October, 2008). To broaden the reachof ISU ADVANCE within ISU, Equity Advisors from each of the three colleges spoke to non-focal department faculty in their college (usually at a departmental faculty meeting) to discussISU ADVANCE activities and efforts in other departments and colleges – focusing specificallyon how they can make use of the results of research in their own departments. To improve accessto these results, a number of electronic resources have been developed (in Web and sometimesCD-ROM format). Topics include best practices for faculty
government/public service,and a third from industry, with a nearly exclusive emphasis on inventor/entrepreneur/CEOs inthat sector. Some committee members had work and/or life experience outside the United States,including in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, but all or nearly all had strong ties Page 22.1677.3to the United States. All were over 35 with impressive career records, including at least 12members of the National Academies. Data on race and ethnicity were not available.19Input was sought from the general public via the NAE website. The NAE boasts that over 1000people from over 40 countries submitted comments.20 However
AC 2011-693: TURNING LIMITED RESOURCES INTO INCREASED RE-CRUITMENT & RETENTION OF FEMALE STUDENTS IN TECHNOL-OGY PROGRAMSDonna Milgram, National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Sciences (IWITTS) Donna Milgram, the Executive Director of the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS), has dedicated her career to helping women succeed in fields that have been tradi- tionally dominated by men – from engineering and auto technology to law enforcement and computer networking. Initially, Ms. Milgram’s work focused on helping women ”survive” the workplace, but she quickly saw that institutional change was critical. She shifted to helping employers and the education and job
hard to design, especially instrumentation amplifier and LPF…” # 3 THE Network (RF) - “Can we have more lectures on wireless networking? I want to know more.” - “Multi-hop programming over TinyOS is very useful to my career, I believe.” … 6. Conclusions and Significance In this article we have systematically introduced our undergraduate lab development strategy ontele-healthcare engineering. The labs mainly include three parts: medical sensor design, medical signalprocessing, and medical networks. We have proposed a building block style to develop all class labs. Toencourage innovative learning, we have proposed a multi-dimensional pedagogy to link learning
AC 2011-1904: NSF CCLI: AN APPLIED QUANTUM MECHANICS COURSEALIGNED WITH THE ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGCURRICULUMStella A Quinones, University of Texas, El Paso Dr. Stella Quiones is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) where she has been a faculty member for the past 13 years. She is the Forest O. and Henrietta Lewis Professor in Electrical Engineering and is a 2010 UT Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award recipient. Dr. Quinones was also selected as an innovative early-career engineering faculty to participate in the Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) symposium in Dec. 2010. Her current research areas include planar and nano-scale
-teaching configuration is of demonstrable value to students in their academicand professional careers 3, alternative configurations have been introduced at this and other Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education 2 universities over the last several years. A second objective of this paper, then, is to argue themerits of this particular team-teaching configuration. Specifically, the critical role ofcommunication
programs.7,8In 2008, Cañada College, a Hispanic-Serving community college in Redwood City, CA, wasawarded a Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP) grant by the USDepartment of Education. The project, entitled Student On-ramp Leading to Engineering andSciences (SOLES), aims to increase the participation, retention, and success of underrepresentedand educationally disadvantaged students interested in pursuing careers in STEM fields. Amongthe strategies developed for this project is the Summer Math Jam – a two-week intensivemathematics program designed to improve students’ preparation for college-level math courses.This paper summarizes the results of the implementation of the Math Jam and its one-weekversion, the Mini-Math Jam
design techniques into mechanical engineeringcurricula, students could establish a solid working relationship both with the concepts of design andthe professionals in the field while still in college. This may result in engineers having a deeperunderstanding of design and its process, as well as being better prepared for their future career. Orput differently, the aforementioned call could be answered.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank the University of St. Thomas Young Scholars program forfunding this research.Bibliography[1] Neeley, W. Lawrence, Sheri Sheppard, Larry Leifer. “Design is Design is Design (Or is it?): What we say vs.What we do in Engineering Design Education”. Proc. of American Society for Engineering Education
- pare students for successful careers. Previously he was marketing manager for MathWorks’ Controls products and worked closely with customers in automotive and aerospace industries on modeling, simu- lation, and control design. Page 22.67.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 A Modern Educational Power Electronics Laboratory to Enhance Hands-on Active LearningAbstract – A new educational power electronics laboratory based on state-of-the-art tools andindustrial-grade platforms is presented in this paper. The developed laboratory, which is builtbased upon
stabil- ity, control and protection, renewable energy system analysis, assessment and design, power electronics and electric machines for wind energy conversion, radar and remote sensing, wave and turbulence simu- lation, measurement and modeling, numerical modeling, electromagnetic compatibility and engineering education. During his career Dr. Belu published several papers in referred journals and in conference pro- ceedings in his areas of the research interests. He has also been PI or co-PI for various research projects United States and abroad in power systems analysis and protection, load and energy demand forecasting and analysis, renewable energy analysis, assessment and design, turbulence and wave propagation
comments by a respondent with 20+ years of experience and employed by a multi-national corporation:“Language skill is a tremendous plus for any career but as long as the US market is one of thelargest then success can be achieved without it. However, the globe is a much more excitingand lucrative opportunity and language along with appreciation for cultural diversity istremendously important. Cultural appreciation is even more so. This appreciation can beachieved in many ways including but not limited to study abroad. These things only enhancepotential…”Another senior engineer respondent commented:“It would be an amazing coincidence if the foreign language an engineer knew happened to berelevant to any assignment offered.”During our research into
seem a little more prepared. I think in the beginning, when we asked the kids what their interest was in science or what they wanted to pursue, a couple of them said it really wasn’t a science career. But like you said, I think the kids were a little bit cooler. They put up a little bit of a wall, but as the week went on, they kind of dropped that wall. They believed in some of the things that we were doing and looked at it from a different standpoint. One of the girls said, “You know what, I never really like science, but this camp is making me think about it. I can’t really compare the two groups, but since I was a camper last year, I can agree with what they were saying about not being
Page 22.1290.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Significance Of Student-Built Spacecraft Design Programs – It’s Impact On Spacecraft Engineering Education Over Last Ten YearsAbstractFor nearly 30 years, student-built space missions have provided an uniqueopportunity to launch small spacecraft with a small budget. Among the technicaland educational merits of such projects, one significant outcome is the crossdisciplinary training for undergraduate science and engineering students thatprepares them for a future career in industry. The experience of many schools inthe U.S. and around the world indicates that hands-on, project-based education isvery effective for
creating opportunities to practice interdisciplinary reasoning andproblem solving with potential positive effects both during a college career and after graduation.The kinds of problems engineering students will face after graduation will undoubtedly demandmultidisciplinary expertise; the day of the sequestered engineer working alone on a problem islong gone, an artifact of the early 1990’s when businesses “re-engineered” their practices.Today’s areas for technological advancement can require electrical engineers to talk to chemicalengineers as well as biologists, public health officials and policy makers, so students need to beprepared for these multidisciplinary work practices and exchanges. The students themselves areanother reason to embrace
creativity in engineering curricula. The principal aim of the overall project is to findstrategies to foster and reward creativity in engineering students. The principal aim of the trans-disciplinary course under discussion here is to investigate the degree to which the integration ofarchitecture and engineering pedagogy is successful in producing desirable outcomes for eithergroup of students. Given their different but potentially complementary skill sets, engineering andarchitecture students are a natural fit for investigations into creative pedagogy. In fact, thepractices of both disciplines are intimately related and, yet, students whose careers may be soclosely linked, rarely have opportunities for cross-disciplinary interaction in their
, Engineering, or 3 7 6.56 0.75 Math as your career?Evaluation Questions and Findings1. How do students perceive the use of interactive simulations in their class?We measured students‟ perceptions about the task value of the simulation programs in terms ofinterest, importance, and utility. We adopted six questions used in the MSLQ‟s task value sectionby specifically referring to the use of simulations. The Cronbach‟s Alpha level representingreliability among the modified six questions was .948. As shown in Table 2, students‟ task valuescores were spread out through low, moderate, and high levels in a bell-curve shape. Overall,students perceived the value of the simulation programs to be a moderate level, M = 3.99. SeeTable 3
completing the hands-on activities and the value thatsuch activities have on the immediate learning and on their careers as electrical engineers formedthe basis for questions in Part 4. Students had the opportunity to enter comments on theadvantages and disadvantages of EM hands-on activities in Part 5. Ten of the fourteen students Page 22.1669.8enrolled in the course participated in both surveys.The analysis of the students’ answers in Parts 1-3 indicated that the students had extremelylimited or no prior experience in optics and the hardware and software tools that were mentionedin the survey questions. Their level of confidence to perform the
feel for what will be expected of them during their manylaboratory classes they will have to take.As part of the TAC-ABET accreditation requirements for engineering technology programsoutcome h calls for “an understanding of and a commitment to address professional and ethicalresponsibilities, including a respect for diversity”4. The topic of ethics in general is introduced inthis seminar course as part of the need to meet this TAC-ABET requirement. Students areintroduced to the differences between legal, moral, business and ethical decisions that they mayface in their careers. The final mini-project is a series of ethical decisions they must make aspart of a game. These will be described below.Project 1 – Scavenger HuntsThe students taking
strong team of engineers withexperience in robotic manufacturing and technician education is engaged in developing on-linecourses that support student success and prepare program completers for industry-recognizedcertification. RoboKnowledge represents a strong industry/government/education partnershipthat will help ensure alignment of content with industry needs and recognized skill standards.High school partnerships are advancing career awareness and building new educational pathways Page 22.1261.5for technician education.Inquiry-based, integrated, and hands-on learning is being infused into a sequence of on-lineinstructional modules to broaden