, andpromote critical thinking [2]. In the learning context of PBL, students develop authenticquestions for problems that are situated within real-world practices [3], which leads tomeaningful learning experiences [4].Competences, such as critical thinking and communication skills promoted by PBLmethodologies, are increasingly important for engineering practice. In the labor market it isexpected that engineers not only work in technical contexts, developing solutions that meetclients’ needs, but also perform their work through effective collaboration with others [5]. Inengineering schools, these competencies are usually taught in the design courses at the finalstages of the career (Capstone Course), which use project-based learning
of an undergraduate curriculum in mechatronics systems engineering. Journal of Engineering Education, 88(2), 173-179. 4. Hargrove, J. B. (2002). Curriculum, equipment and student project outcomes for mechatronics education in the core mechanical engineering program at Kettering University. Mechatronics, 12(2), 343-356. 5. Mariappan, J., & Flint, M. I. (1997). A laboratory for mechatronics courses. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. 6. Bishop, W., Nespoli, O., & Parker, W., (2012). Rubrics for accreditation and outcomes assessment in engineering capstone projects. Proceeding of Canadian Engineering Education Association Conference. APPENDIX
had to design the experiment for, amount of work involved, ease ofplaying the role of a teacher, whether they became aware of the their own learning process,whether the new awareness would help in learning other materials, advantages/disadvantages andlevel of enjoyment and time spent on the project. The survey results were analyzed and haveshowed positive advantages of this learning experience in the areas mentioned above. Page 12.1321.21. IntroductionTraditionally, engineering undergraduate students are provided with some design experiences inthe capstone design course, and as part of some other engineering courses, which include design-type
Environmental Engineering Design Course ExperienceCourse Motivation and ObjectiveEvery year, the instructors of the senior design course for Civil and Environmental Engineeringdevelop course materials and projects to illustrate the various professional life aspects ofpracticing engineers, including successful project proposal writing, development of statusreports, and final project delivery, analysis of ethics issues, and economics. The students areexpected to work in multi-disciplinary teams to successfully complete a civil/environmentalproject need. Defining the technology opportunity space, a compelling practical need, and aproject that capitalizes on the backgrounds of students in structures and materials, construction
ofmeasurement and instrumentation, and also knowledge of data analysis and processing,introduction to basic transducers and sensors, and basic circuits, etc.; 2) Advancedexercises - which present examples of experimentation techniques and procedures invarious fields of mechanical, electrical engineering, etc.; and 3) Computer-basedmeasurement problems- related to the automation of measurements, virtual instrumentsand applications, basic interface standards, used in measuring systems, softwareapplications, etc. The multi-function distributed laboratory for teaching instrumentationand measurement systems that is proposed to provide training in measuring systemdesign, will also be used for student senior capstone design projects or Masters Degreeprojects2
, Texas A&M University Isaac Sabat’s program of research broadly focuses on understanding and improving the working lives of stigmatized employees. He is particularly interested in examining strategies in which these employees can engage, such as disclosing or acknowledging their identities, to effectively remediate the workplace obstacles that they face. He has conducted various interrelated projects that examine how the effectiveness of expressing one’s identity is impacted by the extent to which stigmas are previously known, visible, or discovered by others over time. This is a novel area, given that disclosures have previously been conceptualized as a dichotomous, all-or-nothing phenomenon. This work has been
Paper ID #24631Construction Engineering Students Cognitive Apprenticeship ApproachMr. Brandon M. Fulk P.E., Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Mr. Fulk is the Director of Internship for the Division of Construction Engineering and Management (CEM) at Purdue University. His responsibilities not only include the internship program for the Division but in addition he is the academic advisor and lecturer for a host of core CEM courses including Capstone. He received his Bachelor of Science in Construction Engineering in 1998, Professional Engineering Li- cense in 2003, and is currently
– engineering situation. Some decisions are Design a pumping system to fill a rooftop Sophomore, Fall required to develop the model or use the water storage tank, optimizing pipe size model to optimize a design. with economic constraints. ELEC 3371: Computer 2 project reports documenting project Interface microcontrollers for serial Engineering Lab work done in course. Projects involve communication and interrupt based timer. Course – Junior Year, microcontroller interfacing. Fall ELEC 4497: Capstone Collaboratively authored engineering Design audio amplifier, quad-copter, Design Course – Senior design proposal in the fall. wireless power
.ABSTRACTConstruction courses in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at thePennsylvania State University focus on the subjects of planning, organization, monitoring andcontrol of the construction projects. There is currently a scarcity of information relating to ethicalconduct in these courses. Government regulations, environmental permits, and other bureaucraticcontrols continue to grow. Projects also continue to get larger and more technical, requiring morespecialized people, high-tech equipment, and better project control systems. This trend requiresthat project managers have technical, business, organizational, ethical, and leadership savvy.Many new regulations and specifications (for example, those of OSHA and ACI) requireconstruction
project in each course. Therefore, students develop designportfolios from the freshman year. This portfolio continues through their capstone designcourse. The projects assigned to students are part of on-going faculty research that is supportedby industry and government agencies. This aspect of the program keeps the students in touchwith leading-edge technology and current research activities in the real world.b) Cross communication: The faculty keeps constant communication with each other anddiscuss the topics taught in different courses. This allows the faculty to synchronize the syllabiso that material learned in one courses can be reinforced and applied in another course. Forexample, material taught in the numerical method course such as
Session 3230 Getting a Grip on Groups Marilyn A. Dyrud Oregon Institute of TechnologyIntroductionTeamwork: industry wants it and ABET 2000 requires it. But effectively implementing andmanaging student groups for class projects, lab work, and presentations is a complex affair, onethat requires organization, understanding, and tact. This paper offers a general overview of thecurrent state of group work in technical classes by examining ASEE literature for the past threeyears and comparing that information with the results of a survey of Oregon Institute
Multiplayer Online Game”, Advances in Engineering Education, vol. 8, no. 4, 2020.[18] V. M. Ray, B. Sorge, K. R. Hughes, K. Rose, and C. Rownd, “Post-Pandemic Faculty Motivation: Causes for Burnout Offset by Motivation or Hygiene Factors”, 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2023.[19] C. Fleaher, G. Kirk, P. Pisacane, D. Suwanakeree, B. McCoy, and A. Hill, “Project-based Learning in a Persistent COVID-19 Environment Project Based Learning in a COVID Environment: A New Normal in Engineering Education”, 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, July 2021.[20] J. Tsenn, “The Effects of COVID-19 on Mechanical Engineering Senior Capstone Design Student Self-efficacy and Projects”, 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, July
mixed up for each new project. As the numbers were uneventhere was the occasional architect-architect pairing (interestingly, we found this often resulted inthe least interesting design work). Further when we gave the students one opportunity to picktheir own partner (inside or outside their discipline), three quarters of the class chose to form aninterdisciplinary team.The course is an elective in both schools, but we hope that once the curriculum has been testedand refined that we will ultimately apply what we have learned to capstone design in engineeringand design studio in architecture. By quirk of scheduling and other core requirements all of theengineering students in the course so far have been third year students. These students are
June edition of the Tri-City Newspaper(http://www.tricityvoice.com/displayPages.php?issue=2014-06-24&page=5)Implementing the RET UC Berkeley Experience in the Introduction Engineering Course atOhlone CollegeThe RET experience was an invaluable experience that supported the pedagogical methodologiesof humanitarian Engineering and Context Based Learning. Community College Faculty engagedin research on Sustainable Manufacturing which was easily embedded in the Introduction toEngineering Course as a topic under Engineering Ethics and Engineering Design. Students had toinclude different aspects of sustainability in their Capstone Projects which was underlined byhumanitarian engineering theme. The research experience at UC Berkeley provided
the future we will be developing, piloting, and implementing our 4th and final module onSoftware Engineering and Games. This module carries 3 main themes across its learning activitiesincluding software engineering processes (prototyping, testing, teamwork), human computerinteraction (HCI) (usability), and ethics (accessibility, security, etc). To situate this this lesson in ameaningful and engaging context, we explore both casual, collaborative games as well as seriousgames, or games with a purpose. These lessons will build on each other and students will end themodule with a final capstone project that incorporates many of the learning objectives they’veexperienced earlier in the course. This unit also capitalizes on videos and guest
engineering in theintroduction lecture, such as resources and materials, safety, and scheduling. Additionally theauthors intend to incorporate a specific design task for the civil engineering majors, and an actualconstruction task for the construction engineering majors.This research is being implemented at the inception of a construction engineering degreeprogram with strong ties to a long-standing successful civil engineering degree program. Theseprograms combine the first 2 years of the degrees, and then bring the student back together for afinal semester culminating event that ties the programs together through a capstone project. Thestudents who participated in the original iteration of the module and game in 2018 are currentlyjuniors, and the
studies investigated curriculum integration where softskills teaching is included in most of the academic program courses.27,28,29 Integrated Teaching FrameworkCurriculum integration was practiced and proven as an effective approach to teachinginterdisciplinary skills.27,28,29 The integration was considered as a common theme in a set ofcourses, or as an application of knowledge from one course to teach another course in anacademic program, or as an industry based projects such as internship or capstone projects. Theapplication of industry teaching approaches used to train employees versus teaching in anacademic setting was also described in the literature.30,31 In this research we propose an integration as a
course focuses primarily on the planning, execution, management, documentation,and presentation of an engineering design/build project.The ENG H193 design project is a focal point for the FEH program. In many respects, thisfreshman design project course is comparable to a junior level or senior "capstone" design coursein which a student might participate as part of the requirements for his chosen engineeringdiscipline. A major difference is that the first-year ENG H193 course teaches the variousplanning, management, 4 documentation, 5 and presentation aspects of a design project, whereasmany senior level design projects focus on the specific design problem alone, assuming someprior instruction in or knowledge of what is needed for a complete and
written in the tactile and kinesthetic language of manipulation, and was compared with information coming from the visual system, as part of a process through which the brain creates visuospatial images.”17This suggests a strong correlation between the manipulation of objects by hand and physicalunderstanding of objects and materials. Wilson further indicates that intelligence is bestcultivated using methods which employ both mind and body.Why do we need to do it?Over the last 10-20 years, senior capstone projects that often include a hands-on component havebecome popular in engineering curricula. More recently, a significant number of engineeringeducators have begun to include hands-on work at the freshman level as well. As an
. Incertain departments, such as the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, students canalso elect to take EPICS for capstone design if they are working on a project related to thatengineering discipline (e.g., electrical engineering students designing a robotic arm). Page 24.916.6Currently, there are around 30 teams in EPICS, each having a different theme. Within each teamthere might also be multiple projects, and each project is assigned one project partner from theorganization. Sometimes a single individual is the primary point of contact for all projects, whilein other instances there are multiple contacts. Students work on the projects
success of the classtransformation, there has been indication of utilizing the industry projects to create a template forothers to use in their classes. More research is being conducted to create a structure for otheracademic institutions to use this methodology. IntroductionThe Construction Contracts Administration (CCA) class is a capstone class in constructionmanagement programs approved by the American Council of Construction Education (ACCE)accreditation. Construction contracts are the mechanism whereby construction contractors,owners who buy construction services, and suppliers of materials interface. The lack ofunderstanding a construction contract can be detrimental in the field, so this class is
community vision with Pitt’s core compe- tencies of research and education, Sanchez has built up Pitt Hydroponics in Homewood, founded Con- stellation Energy Inventor labs for K-12 students, and re-created the Mascaro Center’s Teach the Teacher sustainability program for science educators in the region. As a teacher he designed and created the Sustainability capstone course which has annually partnered with community stakeholders to address sustainability challenges at all scales. Past projects have in- cluded evaluating composting stations in Wilkinsburg, studying infrastructure resilience in Homewood, enabling community solar in PA, improving energy efficiency in McCandless Township, and improving water quality in
,advanced R&D testing and troubleshooting, and automation and controls. This work-in-progressdetails the development of the SkyBayTech Electronics Technician program at SkylineCommunity College, a small Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) in the San Francisco Bay Area.Funded by the National Science Foundation’s Advancing Technological Education (ATE)program, the SkyBayTech program is designed to meet current local workforce needs throughhands-on and project-based learning experiences for students to gain the knowledge, skills, andcompetencies needed within the local technician workforce. The paper and poster detail: (1)needs assessment within the local workforce, (2) newly developed curriculum and stackablecertificates in electronics technology
Paper ID #36428Using Topology Optimization in an UndergraduateClassroom SettingSubodh Subedi Subodh C. Subedi is a PhD candidate at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently working towards his PhD on design for metal additive manufacturing. During his graduate studies, he has worked as a Teaching Assistant (TA) for courses such as Machine Component design, Computer Aided Engineering, and Design Optimization. He is passionate about teaching and has been mentoring undergraduate students in Capstone projects. Apart from graduate studies, he has been actively involved
to measure the effectiveness of “generic” writing center tutors on the technicalwriting skills of senior-level Mechanical Engineering Technology students. A set of nineteenstudent analysis reports selected from a capstone design course were used as the source of thedata. The reports were assessed both before and after a tutoring session using a version of theAAC&U VALUE rubric and a voice-development-style-diction method developed by theauthors. By both methods, the improvements in student writing from before the tutoring sessionto afterwards were marginal at best, with some measures even showing a decrease inperformance. The sole exception was that a significant increase in hedging, boosting, andattitude words appeared in the students
-readers. He holds 30 patents related to semiconductor devices and microfabrication and has published in IEEE and AIP journals and conferences. His current research interests include instrumentation for combustion science, novel methods for environmental re- mediation, and microelectronics including surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices. In addition to teaching in the field of electrical engineering, he coordinates the senior engineering capstone program which is a multidisciplinary, two-semester course sequence with projects sponsored by industrial partners. Within this role, he focuses on industrial outreach and the teaching and assessment of professional skills. He received his Ph.D. and S.M. degrees from MIT in 2007
, attrition rates in engineering remain at 57% [9]despite investments in student retention research and translation of findings. High impact practices that promote student engagement among undergraduate studentsacross the country in all disciplines have been examined [1]. Such high impact practices includedfirst-year seminars, learning communities, writing-intensive courses, collaborative projects andassignments, service learning, internships, capstone courses and projects, and undergraduateresearch. This work examines the role of HIEP on student outcomes specifically in engineeringand computer science programs at two western, rural, land-grant universities. This study will address the following research questions: 1. To what extent do
aspect to the successful performance of student teams is communication. Student teamsnegotiate many aspects of collaboration, including deadlines, meeting times, and expectations.Previous works have found that the different meanings which people place on commonly usedwords or phrases often lead to miscommunications in the professional workplace. It is unknown,however, how this situation translates to the collegiate setting, specifically on team-basedprojects, the manners that this could potentially affect the progress of the students, and if thereare any differences in interpretation of these phrases that are along demographic lines. In thisstudent-directed project, participants (n=119) of varying technical backgrounds were surveyed asto their
collection. These interactions are less often for assessmentpurposes. This project describes the development of a tool that can be used in formal andinformal spaces which capitalizes on behaviors students already do to capture data that mightotherwise be overlooked in engineering K-12 environments. For the purposes of less obtrusivepeer assessment (LOPA), students record themselves (or others) during class presentations orstudio critiques and assess each other after having been trained to identify elements of a K-12engineering epistemic frame (EEFK12).IntroductionEngineering design is a process and interpretive practice[1], and traditional assessments oftenfail to assess higher order thinking skills[2]. STEM content knowledge is assessed more often
Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Copyright © 2020, American Society for Engineering Education 2Outstanding Team Member, Outstanding Oral Presentation, and Outstanding Writing badges areearned by faculty review and evaluation of student work (including current and prior CATME peerevaluation). A panel of three faculty evaluate the Teamwork, Oral Presentation, and Writingperformance of current seniors across the previous three years of their academic career. Badges areawarded based on outstanding performance according to course and project rubrics which identifyexceptional skills in