; and two three-hour ‘Engineering Practice I and II’offerings. In order to keep our curriculum to the desirable 128 hours, only ‘Engineering PracticeI’ was added while the ‘Engineering Practice II’ material will be covered in the capstone designcourses, which will include projects proposed and sponsored by industry.Requirement #5: Return Old Engineering Core Courses to SchoolsIn a long standing agreement between the various CoE Schools, certain engineering core courseshad been taught by faculty members from given Schools for all CoE students that required thematerial. Since more and more Schools left this agreement to substitute their own specializedcourses, the core courses will now revert back to the respective Schools. This means that
’ instructions, examples andassessment tools.Our approach which encompasses process, methods and tools improves resource efficiencywithin and across departments. For high level materials, a consistent format is essential forstrategic plans, continuous improvement, educational objectives, program outcomes andassessment plans. Additional leverage is gained by standardizing documentation of courseimprovements, capstone projects and faculty development. Common materials that describe co-curricular multidisciplinary activities and shared facilities are prepared and disseminated at theCollege level. The purpose of this paper is to present the specifics of our approach and lessonslearned from the latest general visit along with recommendations for future
(especially in spreadsheet form)for easy compilation of performance on specific outcomes. Quadrato and Welch3 furtherapplied grade sheet concepts to the evaluation of a civil engineering capstone design project andnoted the same three results: (1) improved student performance (largely attributed to improvedcommunication of expectations), (2) more equitable evaluation of student work, and (3)improved ability to assess student performance of program outcomes.More recent attention has emphasized the application and creation of rubrics to assess studentwork, typically breaking down expectations into component categories for hard-to-assessprojects and problems and clarifying different levels of accomplishment for each category.Rubrics, in the context of
they worked. Objective 2 was thecause for concern. Program assessment led to the observations that the student skills were weakand that the program was not exposing students to emerging technologies and important moderntools of the discipline. These observations came from the program industry advisory committee,students, and program faculty.The MET industry advisory committee, the primary tool used to get industry constituent input,participated in the assessment of the program by reviewing „capstone‟ project presentations.Drawings presented were unclear and incomplete; members of the committee identified thebaseline program content weakness stating other, newer software is being widely used inindustry. Many committee members felt students
our future sustainability, while discussing the role of technology inaddressing these issues. The final core class is a capstone class in which expert speakersare invited from the campus community and the Pittsburgh region to address topicsfollowing a particular alternative energy course theme. The students are required tocomplete an undergraduate research project that is related to this theme.The remaining 6 credits that students are required to complete as part of the minor arechosen from a number of upper-level courses focusing on specific areas of expertise in bothscience and business disciplines. This increases the accessibility of the minor to the widerRMU community and introduces alternative energy and sustainability to non
ease the transition into the senior capstone design project and enableprofessors to easily achieve program educational objectives by fostering long-term retention ofmaterial through hands-on exposure.Through the incorporation of cost-effective robotics kits into theory-based courses, this paperintends to promote group learning to refine essential scientific and social skills through efficientand structured collaboration. Students who engage in a design-centered approach to engineeringeducation tend to correlate activities and project outcomes with core course knowledge tostrengthen concept retention. By facilitating continual exposure to design principles throughoutthe undergraduate curriculum, this paper is expected to familiarize students
growing body of work is focused on training students to practice EM [12]–[16].A few authors have focused on specific faculty development workshops or programs, as shown in Table1. Of these prior works, our project is the only one focused on student research structures and EM.Table 1. Summary of prior literature focused on faculty development programs and EM. Author Date Group Trained Training Focus Jordan et al. [17] 2016 Engineering Faculty Workshop and grant program for EM Mayled et al. [18] 2019 Engineering Capstone Workshops, coaching and EM Instructors Dillon et al. [19] 2020 Engineering Faculty Coaching structures for
laboratory reports written by individualsor small teams. The work evaluated was thus principally the work of the EWI cohort. Thewriting samples evaluated in 2007-2008, however, consisted of senior capstone project reportsfrom seven design teams whose total membership was thirty students (seven from electricalengineering and 23 from mechanical engineering). Each team produced a preliminary designreport (known as a Primary Design Document, or PDD) at the end of the first semester ofcapstone design and a Final Design Report (FDR) at the end of the second semester. Thecurricula of electrical and mechanical engineering in the senior year at the University of Texas atTyler have few writing assignments outside of these capstone reports; it thus was not
engineering education research interests focus on learning through service-based projects and using an entrepreneurial mindset to further engineering education innovations. He also researches the development of reuse strategies for waste materials. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Incorporation of Ethics and Societal Impact Issues into First Year Engineering Courses: Results of a National SurveyAbstractThis paper summarizes the results of a national study that asked engineering and computingfaculty to report the types of courses where they incorporated ethics and/or societal impacttopics. An online survey was conducted in spring 2016, with 1216 responses from
, she has been involved in research projects to develop, refine, and apply innovative assessment tools for characterizing student knowledge of sustainability. Her ultimate goal is to use this assessment data to guide the design and evaluation of educational interventions to improve undergraduate sustainability education. In the area of bioprocessing, Dr. Watson has experience using bacteria and algae to convert waste materials into high-value products, such as biofuels.Joshua Pelkey, AirWatch Joshua Pelkey is currently a product manager at AirWatch in Atlanta, GA. He completed his MS in Elec- trical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech and his BS in Computer Engineering from Clemson University. He has
develop student global competence as partof their International Plan. The program requires students to engage in at least 26 weeks ofinternational experience that is related to their discipline. In addition, students take internationalcoursework including international relations, global economy, and one course that providesfamiliarity with an area of the world or a country that allows them to make systematiccomparisons with their own society and culture. Students are also required to develop secondlanguage proficiency equivalent to at least the second year of study demonstrated through aproficiency exam. In addition, each student’s capstone design experience must meet certaininternational requirements and it is preferable that the project include
peer institution (who took circuitsas a service course from their EE department) via anonymous surveys administered to bothgroups (in both cases, 6 to 12 months after completion of the course). In addition, through aninternal end-of-semester assessment tool, we compare our students’ perception of their ability toachieve each course objective to embedded indicators based on performance in selected courseassessments. Finally, evidence of proficiency in circuit design and implementation is manifestedin students’ subsequent senior capstone projects, in which some groups have designed and builtPCBs to power and embody the main electronic components in their designed systems.`IntroductionIn the fall of 2012, QU held its first freshman engineering
/feb6910923f5ff7251b20a678e50db33e7f6.pdf.[17] Y. Doppelt, “Implementation and assessment of project-based learning in a flexible environment,” Int. J. Technol. Des. Educ., vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 255–272, 2003.[18] A. Ayob, R. A. Majid, A. Hussain, and M. M. Mustaffa, “Creativity enhancement through experiential learning,” Adv. Nat. Appl. Sci., vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 94–99, 2012.[19] N. Hotaling, B. B. Fasse, L. F. Bost, C. D. Hermann, and C. R. Forest, “A Quantitative Analysis of the Effects of a Multidisciplinary Engineering Capstone Design Course,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 101, no. 4, pp. 630–656, 2012.[20] K. Evans and F. Reeder, A Human Capital Crisis in Cybersecurity: Technical Proficiency Matters. Washington, DC: Center for Strategic &
entrepreneurial mindset by internationaldevelopment project”, in American Society of Engineering Education Conference, proceedingsof, Seattle, WA, 2015.[9] Gerhart, A. L., and Carpenter, D. D., “Campus-wide course modification program toimplement active & collaborative learning and problem-based learning to address theentrepreneurial mindset”, in American Society of Engineering Education Conference,proceedings of, Atlanta, GA, 2013.[10] Boulanger,B.O., and Tranquillo, J., “Blending entrepreneurship and design in an immersiveenvironment”, in American Society of Engineering Education Conference, proceedings of,Seattle, WA, 2015.[11] Brouwer, R., Sykes, A., VanderLeest, S. H., “Entrepreneurial mindset development in asenior design/capstone course”, in
Paper ID #22005A Multidisciplinary Professional Development Program that Shifts FacultyAttitudes and Practice Toward Evidence-Based Instructional Strategies (EBIS)for Teaching and LearningProf. Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause is professor in the Materials Science Program in the Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of introductory materials engineering, polymers and composites, and capstone design. His research interests include faculty development, evaluating con- ceptual knowledge change, misconceptions, and technologies to promote conceptual change. He
considered. Potential topics for future investigation are also identified.2. BackgroundThis section provides background on prior work in three relevant areas. First, REU sites aredescribed. Next, prior work on experiential education, project-based learning and theirassessment is reviewed. Finally, prior research on cohort-creation and team bonding for college-age students is presented.2.1. REU sitesThe National Science Foundation REU program brings together cohorts of undergraduatestudents to study topics within NSF supported disciplines. Many REU sites have an overarchingtheme to them that relates to a sub-discipline or interdisciplinary collaboration.REU sites inherently vary from institution to institution, as each institution proposes
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Incorporating Active Learning into a Thermal System Design LectureAbstractMany mechanical engineering departments offer a thermal system design (or similar) course forsenior students. Some courses have a laboratory component, but many are a lecture only format.This paper demonstrates how active learning—through virtual labs, a semester long project, andin-class assignments—was incorporated into the lecture portion of a thermal system design courseto enhance learning and provide the students a laboratory experience without a physical laboratory.These active learning ideas can also supplement the learning during lecture for those courses
mathematics in an NSF-funded Math-Science Partnership grant; serving as Director of the Master of Natural Science (Physics) program at ASU, including ASU’s Modeling Workshops and other summer courses; and leading a new summer research experience for forty math and science teachers project, funded by Science Foundation Arizona. He is also actively involved in a pilot project to provide a compact path to teaching certification for mainstream math and science majors. He has directed an NSF REU program in condensed matter physics, and he is actively involved in undergraduate education, including the teaching of the introductory courses for majors. His experience in teaching and expertise in physical
) monitorchanges in mental models of SETS as students transition from college to industry. To accomplishthese objectives, the research study will take place in three phases. Phase 1 is focused ondeveloping an instrument that measures engineering students’ mental models of SETS and howthese models relate to their design decisions. Phase 2 is not presented here but will involvesurveying a national sample of fourth-year civil and chemical engineering students about theirmental models of SETS when designing their senior capstone projects. The final phase willfollow students from Phase 2 as they transition into the engineering industry to investigate howtheir mental models change during the first six months of employment.This paper is a part of the project’s
quiet room forlast-minute recording, and used the lab computers only for MATLAB.D. Class Project: MATLAB-Based Speech Recognition System for a Two-Word VocabularyThe project is a capstone activity that serves to join together the “blocks” of knowledge just ob-tained. Here the students work in teams, exercise the engineering design cycle, grapple with themessiness of a real-world implementation, and have some fun. It requires each group to producea limited-vocabulary, speaker-independent, post-processed speech recognition software system.That is, the program may assume that the input word is one selected from a strictly limited vo-cabulary, in this case just two words. It must, however, be able to cope with words spoken by avariety of
the development of 3D Modeling self-efficacy suggestsCAD courses may benefit from including more project-based work. Therefore, instructors couldconsider approaching engineering design or CAD courses through a Project-Based Learning(PBL) setting in the early undergraduate years [20]. Students can apply their CAD skills bycompleting an individual or team-based project (similar to Capstone Design) with only guidanceprovided by the course instructor rather than traditional instruction [20]. As the criteria of PBL isthat the projects be student-driven and realistic, this environment can assist in fostering criticalthinking [20] and provide students with the experiential and practical learning opportunities theydesire [9] for the development of
, and use engineering judgment todraw conclusions. The breadth of this requirement may be achieved by wide varieties of pedagogicalapproaches. Regardless, the core challenges facing students are: recognizing the actual problem, developingpotential solutions, applying experimental methods, understanding the significance of appropriate datacollection, and ability to execute engineering judgement. These outcomes is often realized in labs and upperlevel courses once technical knowledge is solidly mastered. Mapping learning outcomes in the architecturalengineering program, we recognized the need to institute a disciplined inquisitive mindset early on,therefore, establishing the foundation for future advanced coursework. The resulting project known
assignment required a full documentation of the final project describedabove. Analyzing the design journals from this capstone project should provide an indication ofthe students’ design thinking mindset after the course instruction. A sample of 92 artifacts wascollected from students enrolled in the Design Thinking course during the same Fall 2016semester. The sample size of 92 was chosen to demonstrate the research method and validate itseffectiveness. Sampling of the artifacts yielded a data set with 44 design journals from theintegrated sections and 48 from the non-integrated sections. All artifacts were sampled from thefinal design project and evaluated with the Engineering Design Process Portfolio Scoring Rubric(see Appendix A). This rubric
course) or to fulfill an Honors contract through a required major course in order tocomplete the 24 credit hours required to receive the Honors Diploma [3]. With engineeringcurriculum requiring 17-18 credit hours per semester, engineering students have little to nocapacity for completing the Honors Path through extra course work and typically couple Honorscontract projects with their engineering courses. Honors contract projects are mentored bysponsoring faculty mentors and are closely related to the faculty members’ engineering practiceand/or research efforts. The Honors contract projects are often (although optionally) presentedorally to the entire class, which is not only beneficial to the students who conduct them, but alsoinspirational for
Using EvaluateUR-CURE and Evaluate-Compete to Provide Student Feedback While Documenting Student Learning Gains Defined by ABET EAC and ETAC Performance IndicatorsAbstractEvaluate-Compete (E-Compete) is a new variant of the EvaluateUR method specificallydesigned for teams of students preparing to participate in engineering/design competitions as partof a capstone course or as an extracurricular activity. In addition to a set of general outcomessuch as communication, problem solving, ability to overcome obstacles, and teamwork,competition-specific outcomes are included based on competition guidelines and rubrics used bycompetition judges. The E-Compete general and competition-specific outcome categories anddefining
curricula and published a number of works in engineering education, including a Statics workbook for undergraduate engineering students. She is the Director of Innovation Programs and Operations for the non-profit research collaborative, Ad- vancing Engineering Excellence in P-12 Engineering Education. Dr. Gurganus teaches several first and second year Mechanical Engineering classes along with the Mechanical Engineering Senior Capstone design course for UMBC.Anita H. KomlodiDr. Neha B. Raikar, University of Maryland Baltimore CountyDr. Maria C. Sanchez, University of Maryland Baltimore County Dr. Maria C. Sanchez is currently serving as the Director of Education and Outreach for the College of Engineering and Information
German speaking students – utilize “Rollercoasters” as the medium to learn German technical engineering terms • German 3221 (spring) - Introduction to Science terms in German including Engineering, Math, Physics and Chemistry and also develop a German Resume • German 3222 (fall) – Fields of Technology – special topics in engineering sometimes includes nanotechnology, energy, infrastructure, etc.• German Capstone course • Polish German Language skills • Mentorship of younger Eurotech students • Final Project related to Co-op Experience in Germany Proceedings of the 2018 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2018
expect that they will remember, integrate, synthesize andassimilate topics that have been ‘poured into their heads’ over the prior 3-4 years as they take ona capstone design project. Faculty teaching capstone design may introduce or reinforce a varietyof topics, such as engineering economy, that will support the design process and other learningobjectives that have not been covered earlier in the curriculum. The review of topics inpreparation for the FE exam may also be a priority in the senior year.While there are a number of excellent textbooks1-5 on engineering economy, and authors makeevery effort to improve these textbooks over time with added examples and exercises and newways of conveying concepts, these updates come every few years and
equipment. Traditional undergraduate coursework and standardcapstone design courses do not normally provide student experiences with these types ofproblems. In the two-semester, capstone design course in chemical engineering at West VirginiaUniversity, a three-part case study is used to develop skills in solving process performanceproblems leading up to the typical process design problem. The production of ally1 chloridediscussed here is an example of such a case study. In the first step, the production in a portion ofthe process must be increased. In the second step, a process retrofit based upon the result ofdebottlenecking is implemented. Finally, in the third step, a new process design is required. Inother case studies, the first step
Paper ID #27515Board 9: Introducing Bioengineering Approaches through Healthcare GrandChallengesDr. Marcia Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Marcia Pool is a Teaching Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs in the Depart- ment of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She has been active in improving undergraduate education including developing laboratories to enhance experimental design skills and mentoring and guiding student teams through the capstone design and a translational course following capstone design. In her Director role, she works closely