and provideexplanations of those results.Literature Review Various universities and institutions have posted model presentations by engineeringstudents as a means to accelerate the development of other engineering students as speakers. Thissection discusses those attempts with the following criteria in mind: (1) strengths of the models,(2) limitations of the models, and (3) quality of the films. Table 1 summarizes the student modelsin this review.Table 1: Summary of Relevant Literature on Student Model Presentations Source of Models Student Population Analysis of Models Affected British Columbia Speaking contest that + 40 students in initial contestant pool; question
. The most straightforward method that comes to mind is to provide thisstudent with the Discussion PowerPoint slides from the start of each lab sequence, givinghim/her ample time to thoroughly review the answers before the discussion portion of theclass. This also allows the instructor to explain how the Discussion answers wereestablished through using internet search engines and to track progress in this way so thestudent can be slowly transitioned from the Discussion PowerPoints to something closerto the Research PowerPoints once he/she better understands the self-discovery process.Due to a lack of survey data for both the old course structure and the new format, noquantitative comparisons can easily be made as to the course improvements
of leadership perceptions among faculty andadministrators, a by-discipline analysis was conducted. Table 5 shows the general lack ofconsensus as to the degree to which professional skills detract from technical content acrossengineering disciplines. Within this analysis, ANOVA indicated that Program Chairs andAssociate Deans showed no significant differences. Mechanical engineering faculty differedsignificantly from bioengineering/biomedical, civil, industrial, and electrical engineering at theα=0.05 level. The overall stronger agreement among mechanical engineers seems to suggest amore technically minded mechanical engineering discipline from other disciplines within thisstudy. If one considers the nature of bioengineering/biomedical, civil
Paper ID #9506I Did Not Anticipate This: Experiences from the Early YearsDr. Thomas Shepard, University of St. ThomasDr. Alison B. Hoxie, University of Minnesota Duluth Dr. Alison B. Hoxie is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Her education includes a B.A. in Natural Science from the College of Saint Benedict (1999), a B.S.M.E (2001) and a Ph.D. (2007) from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She has held positions as a consulting engineering in power and energy sector, and as an Instructor at the University of Utah. Her current
, industrialengineering, and aeronautic/aerospace engineering. The participants had taken an average of4.58 (S = 2.83) college level science courses and 4.42 (S = 2.40) college level mathematicscourses.MeasuresThe overarching question of our research was “why do students want to be engineers?” We Page 24.1379.5developed a brief demographics and engineering focused survey to gather information that wefelt was necessary to answer our research question. As a team we created an initial list of items,keeping in mind the desire for the survey to be completed in about 10 minutes. After severalrounds of item development, we vetted the survey with a dean and a coordinator
conventions (“Summa cans are not suitable forSVOCs, PAHs, PCBs, microbials, radon and particulates”), were addressed through additionalresearch and the addition of new material that was more specific both in method and goals. Itwas presented with a different audience in mind, a knowledgeable client who would make ajudgment on the quality of the content, the reliability and validity of the claims (including budgetnumbers) rather than just a display of knowledge.It is possible to see Téa in the interim proposal meeting putting on the role of professionalconsulting engineer, specifically the team role she identified for herself. She sits up straight, penin hand, eyes focused on the presenter and then the clients, making notes and nodding as shelistens
Paper ID #10995Cultural Accommodation in Virtual Engineering Academic TeamsMr. Andras Gordon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Andras Gordon is an Instructor of Engineering Design in the School of Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs, College of Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University.Dr. Richard J Schuhmann, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDr. Richard F. Devon, Pennsylvania State University, University ParkMr. Andrew Michael Erdman, The Pennsylvania State UniversityDr. Ahmad Atieh, Taibah Univeristy Ahmad Atieh had received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Ottawa
not change their minds, 3 of the 20 covered by this study did. Two who were initially intent on majoring in engineering decided not to pursue an engineering major while one who was initially not intent on majoring in engineering switched to engineering. This was not an entirely unexpected outcome as students gained greater understanding of what possibilities engineering provides and greater understanding of the level and nature of the effort required to succeed in the discipline. In an attempt to evaluate the efficacy of the ECIE approach, the 2012 students were asked the
students, especially those typically underrepresented inSTEM, to take the high school courses needed in preparation for 21st century workforce needs.Each EYE Module is designed such that students use engineering practices and apply requiredmathematics and science content to develop solutions to relevant problems facing humans today,fostering the development of engineering “habits of mind.”The set of eight EYE Modules are comprehensive and extensive instructional guides for middlegrades teachers to implement collaboratively in mathematics and science classes. The Modulesaddress standards-based STEM content and practices that fill gaps between state-mandated andtested content and what business and industry say they need, including innovative
-prospective-students-essay. (accessed October 1, 2013)13. Kaplan-Leiserson, E. 2008. Mind the Gap. National Society of Professional Engineers,http://www.nspe.org/PEmagazine/pe_0108_mind-the-gap.html (accessed September 30, 2013)14. Knowledge@Emory. 2010. Managing Millennials in the Workplace.http://knowledge.emory.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1351. (accessed October 1, 2013)15. Winograd, M, and M. Hais, 2011.Millennial Momentum: how a new generation is remaking America. NewBrunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.16. Burstein, D. 2013.Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation is Shaping Our World. Boston, MA: BeaconPress.17. Alsop, R. 2008.The Trophy Kids Grow Up. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.18. Abaffy, L. 2011. Millennials Bring New Attitudes
back to when we all started writing our first scene performances, everyone was stuck sitting in their groups and trying to systematically plan out the script and staging in their heads rather than getting up and trying it. It’s something that we aren’t taught a lot of in engineering. I can’t count how many times I’ve had a group report to write and we’ve sat there deliberating on how exactly we want to write it, when it would have been much easier to just start writing what ever comes to mind, and then editing later. I think that free “artistic” style of thinking (not saying that artists aren’t systematic in what they do) is something we can all learn from.6.2 Representations of Science and Technology in the Popular
or delivery, and identification ofnew market share. The culmination of the course is to present the groups’ business ideas toinvestors and judges (in a business pitch competition), and use feedback and knowledge gainedfrom these presentations to make a final report including an analysis of the businesses’ potentialfor success.The guiding principle in designing this course was that modeling the process of ideation, Page 24.624.7research, development and commercialization in a course environment would foster anentrepreneurial spirit in engineering undergraduates; making them less risk-averse and morecreative and open-minded in their approach to
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Exploring Entrepreneurial Characteristics and Experiences of Engineering AlumniAbstractIn recent years one of the goals of the National Science Foundation (NSF) has been to encouragenew generations of engineering students to become more entrepreneurially-minded and self-employed in the engineering field. Engineering schools in the United States have specificcurricular requirements that students must fulfill in order to graduate, and some of theserequirements may incorporate a component of entrepreneurship education. As part of theresearch reported here, data from a survey of recent engineering alumni were used to examineand determine which engineering
(feasibility) ofthese ideas is also addressed. In engineering education, a number of techniques are implementedto develop creativity and enhance ideation capabilities of students. These techniques includebrainstorming2, brainwriting3, collaborative sketching4, morphological analysis5, transformationaldesign using mind-mapping6, design by analogy7, principles of historical innovators8, and variouscombinations of the aforementioned techniques9. Developing an ability to innovate has beenapproached through improvisation10, the theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ)11-20, and theS-field (also referred as Su-field) theory21.One of the commonly used techniques in ideation is brainstorming (especially when solvinggeneric, non-engineering problems
educator needs to share ideas openly to discuss and frame a better future for our activities. Having the flexible and open-‐minded approaches and philosophical basis together with shared engineering values and concepts are essential for paving a better road to the future of engineering and engineering education. AcknowledgementThis work was supported by the National Science Foundation under awards: DUE 0837314 and DUE-‐0920164. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The author would like to thank
. Accelerometer and its application at floor/roof levels.Computer Modeling and SimulationWith respect to earthquake engineering subjects, a meaningful learning experience in computermodeling and simulation will only take place if students have mastered appropriate fundamentalbackground course materials. It is also important to consider the computational nature of thediscipline, especially keeping in mind that the analytical predictions will help studentsunderstand the structural behavior observed through laboratory experiments. As a result, a five- Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education
shedesigned advertisements for a local art school, edited a magazine to present scientific research topublic audience in more interactive styles, and co-founded the aeronautics club at Smith. Someof her classmates chose to expand their horizon by travelling to different parts of the world. P1spent a semester in an exchange program studying architecture in Denmark; she also made afield trip to Nepal with her teammates, gathering information for their Design Clinic project. P4pursued a minor in Portuguese. While she was studying in an exchange program in Brazil, anindependent study course attracted her to social sciences, after which she made her mind toswitch to engineering arts.When H4 first came to HMC, he didn’t have a good understanding of what a
characteristics of engineers that enable themto produce or inhibit them from producing the innovations that U.S. society so urgently desires.We define these characteristics of engineers that enable or inhibit them from creating innovationsas engineering innovativeness or non-innnovativeness.Study participants defined an innovation as: “Simply put, it’s a new way of doing things. It’s breaking tradition and taking a new approach to solving an old problem. I think an innovation is actually only truly innovative if it is delivered to the world and widely adopted, and enjoyably used.” Riley “In my mind innovation is recognizing a need, or a gap, or a circumstance that could be better and then bringing to bear new ways of
pursue a career in energy industry or to enroll ingraduate programs in the energy field. It is important to encourage students to learn to use suchkind of software packages that work with renewable energy systems. Because by taking theadvantage of such tools students can learn and adapt better solutions to fix the energy problemissues. It is is important to keep in mind that how we are using the energy today will shape theway how we live in the future.References1. Engineering Accreditation Commission, "Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs,"http://www.abet.org/criteria.html. (2002).2. Petty, I.: Vision 2020 - Education in the next Millennium. In: Hagström, A. (Ed.), Engineering Education:Rediscovering the Centre (Proc. SEFI Annual Conf
profession and its educationalinstitutions, along with the public, not mutually benefit from a view of the public that honored itsknowledge in regards to engineering?With the questions above in mind, I have written the following paper to challenge the dominantbelief in the engineering educational and professional community that the public’s view ofengineering is somehow deficient. I have termed this belief as “dominant,” not just because two ofthe most influential engineering-related agencies, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)and the National Science Foundation (NSF), have both claimed that the lack of publicunderstanding of engineering was having a negative effect on the engineering field and society ingeneral. 1 (p. 7) I have termed the
University. NSF and several private foundations fund his research. His research and teaching focuses on engineering as an innovation in P-12 education, policy of P-12 engineering, how to support teachers and students’ academic achievements through engineering, the measurement and support of the change of ’engineering habits of mind’ particularly empathy and the use of cyber-infrastructure to sensitively and resourcefully provide access to and support learning.Dr. Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette Monica E. Cardella is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and an Affiliate of the Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She is the Director of the MEDLEE
implications, these findings have important instructional implicationsfor both engineering curriculum design and teaching practices.BackgroundEngineering tasks are implemented with various objectives in mind, including improvedperformance in math or science and increasing the number and diversity of students interested inengineering7. Even so, classroom observations, descriptions from published research e.g., 2, as wellas curricula descriptions (e.g., Engineering is Elementary8, Learning by Design9, and others7),have revealed that the overarching organization of classroom design tasks are generally quite Page 24.981.2similar.In these classrooms, a
Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Web-based Personalized Laboratories for Engineering Students Enid K. Sichel, Member, IEEE , Beverly Park Woolf, Mark Floryan Abstract. We developed software that provides intelligenthands-on bench-top dynamic help to students as they study inlaboratories for introductory circuit analysis. Tutoring help is Theavailable at “teachable moments” as opposed to students waitingdays or weeks for traditional teacher-graded labs reports.Quantitative and qualitative studies show that using the softwareleads to improved learning, verbalization and
, and technology knowledge and skills; and 3) promote engineering habits of mind,including systems thinking, creativity, optimism, collaboration, communication, and attentionto ethical considerations.According to OECD31, differences in young people‟s career choice can be attributed totraditional perceptions of gender roles and identities as well as the wide acceptance ofcultural values associated with particular fields of education. Therefore, high school students‟attitudes to engineering may be an important predictor of not only being adequately preparedto engineering but its pursuit. If more high school students acquire positive attitudes towardsengineering, more of them will be motivated to choose engineering as a career.An attitude is a
for the entire first- yearengineering students. All engineering students are brought into the First-YearEngineering Program that is part of the Department of Engineering Education.They are required to complete a common first year core of classes matriculating to theirrespective engineering major (Jeremy, 2006). As the industries and societies that revolvearound faces mind-boggling challenges especially if one works with Informationtechnology, manufacturing, oil or gas. They need for engineers in this field are veryacute. Federal stimulus spending in such areas as energy technology and infrastructureshows an increase in demand. But there is still
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label of “Maker” is the source of pride.Discussing Overlapping IdeasDuring both approaches terms that overlapped in the descriptions of making and engineeringwere recorded. These terms were used to create a definition of the relationship between Makersand engineers.From the ad-hoc post-it approach several key concepts were seen in both responses to What isMaking to You? and What is Engineering to You? First is the use of ambiguous direct objectssuch as thing(s), something, and stuff when talking about accomplishing tasks. This suggests thatwhile engineers may be considered more specialized both groups accomplish some various task.Next is the use of action verbs making, building, creating, and make. What comes to mind whenMakers thing of
Paper ID #9049Predicting Entrepreneurial Intent among Entry-Level Engineering StudentsDr. Mark F Schar, Stanford University Dr. Schar works in the Center for Design Research - Designing Education Lab at Stanford University. He is also a member of the Symbiotic Project of Affective Neuroscience Lab at Stanford University and a Lecturer in the School of Engineering. Dr. Schar’s area of research is ”pivot thinking” which is the intersection of design thinking and the neuroscience of choice where he has several research projects underway. He has a 30 year career in industry as a Vice President with The Procter & Gamble
, Performance, I Choose (LPIC) combinations L P IC Example C* R “While rote learning may sometimes achieve the reward of better grades, it rarely rewards the students of a better understanding of the material. However, I believe that the way the school system is currently set up, rote learning is rewarded favorably over conceptual learning. While a conceptual learning style would be favorable on exams if the concepts were allowed to be solidified in students' minds, 10-week terms packed to the brim with engineering work does not allow time for some conceptual learners to attain confidence with the concepts. These students are then quickly
Paper ID #8857Developing Engineering Ethics through Expert Witness Role PlaysDr. Bradley J. Brummel, The University of Tulsa Bradley Brummel is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at The University of Tulsa. His research inter- ests include using role plays and other simulations to teach responsible conduct of research. He conducts interdisciplinary research with Mechanical Engineering, Neuroscience, and Computer Science. His work has appeared in journals such as Science and Engineering Ethics, Personnel Psychology, Human Rela- tions, and Journal of ManagementDr. Jeremy S. Daily P.E., The University of Tulsa