Paper ID #9491A Systematic Approach to Prepare for ABET AccreditationDr. Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University Vincent Wilczynski is the Deputy Dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Yale Univer- sity. As the Deputy Dean, Dr. Wilczynski helps plan and implement all academic initiatives at the School. In addition, he manages the School’s teaching and research resources and facilities, including establishing the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation and Design. Previously Dr. Wilczynski served as the Dean of Engineering at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Dr. Wilczynski served in fellowships at the MIT
Spring 2006,with the first course to begin in August, 2006. The objectives of this program were to “1) delivera knowledge and performance-based course of study focused on the knowledge, skills, andabilities needed to manage and deliver technical projects, 2) provide advanced professionaldevelopment education and training opportunities for experienced professionals, and 3) supportother academic programs in the education and training of their students” [5]. Since Dr.Plemmons was the only faculty member qualified and available to teach the TPM courses, onlyone course was offered per semester for the next two years. The first TPM cohort graduated inMay of 2008 with 4 students.Classes and student growth continued, but progress was limited due to Dr
experience in construction, engineering, and research and eight years of academic experience. He was Co-Chair of the ASCE Civil Engineering in the Oceans V conference. He was the only manager in the 55-year history of the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory ever to win the Employee-of-the-Year Award. He has won numerous awards for project management. He has conducted research for the Construction Industry Institute, Center for Construction Industry Studies, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, OSHA and other organizations. He has published 45 journal and conference pa- pers. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and the M.S. and B.S. in Ocean Engineering from Texas A&M University
could be realised in practice by following the three stage philosophy of learning described byWhitehead. This model was based on experimental work in the teaching of engineering and technology that hadbeen completed in the post-primary system of education (high school) in Ireland. While the content and methodapplicable to each of the three stages of the Whitehead cycle was illustrated there was no in-depth discussion of thecomponents of each of these stages.The purpose of this paper is to consider in detail problems in the design of the first stage of the cycle called –“Romance”. The paper begins with a short introduction to Whitehead’s philosophy of rhythm in education.As conceived here the stage of romance for a program in engineering and
Leader Senior Design, High School Engineering Design ProjectsRusty Male Civil Engineering Technical Problem- Global Engineering, Senior Solver DesignStan Male Chemical Engineering Lab Specialist/Solo Laboratory Research, Senior Worker DesignZachery Male Aeronautical Engineering “Operations Guy” Internship, High School Competition
to sales, marketing and general management. He founded the School of Engineering at the University of St. Thomas, and teaches and publishes in the areas of materials engineering, innovation, strategy, technology transfer, leadership and engineering education. His current focus is on webinars and workshops on leader- ship for engineers in industry and academia. Bennett is a member of numerous scientific and professional societies, is an ABET program evaluator and commissioner. He has a wide variety of academic publica- tions, and is co-author with Elaine Millam of the 2012 McGraw-Hill book Leadership for Engineers: The Magic of Mindset.Mr. Mark J. Stratton, SME Mark Stratton is the Education Relations Manager
Paper ID #10565Multidisciplinary Construction Engineering Design ProjectsDr. Cameron J Turner P.E., Colorado School of Mines Dr. Cameron Turner is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering with a research interest in the foundations of design across multiple disciplines. Dr. Turner earned his Ph.D. at the University at Texas in 2005, focusing on Surrogate Model Optimization for Engineering Design. He also holds an MSE from the University of Texas at Austin, with a focus on robotics, and a BSME from the University of Wyoming. He has more than 13 years of experience at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and in 2009
workforce development initiative involving K12 schools and community colleges,and the evaluation of North Carolina’s Race to the Top initiative.Dr. Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University Dr. Wiebe is a Professor in the Department of STEM Education at NC State University and Senior Research Fellow at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation. A focus of his research and outreach work has been the integration of multimedia and multimodal teaching and learning approaches in STEM instruction. He has also worked on research and evaluation of technology integration in instructional settings in both secondary and post-secondary education. Dr. Wiebe has been a member of ASEE since 1989
now motivated to from other pursue PhD because of faculty) REU. 3 Behavior (+) Use various instruments No Confidence to Advisors very Positive (+) Dream job is to be a No and learned new subjects “self-teach” helpful in researcher or college prior learning process
make them transforming the transitional problems into reduced-specificitysuch. Context rich problems have real-world context settings. problems.To increase motivation, one can start problems with “Youare…/you have been…” and then describe situations in such IV. DESCRIPTION AND RESULTS OF THE STUDYcontexts that can motivate the solver to find an answer (e.g., Course Descriptionstart the problems with statements like: you have been hired as The General Physics I (PH-201) course at QCC is an… and your job is…; you are watching TV about… and algebra-based 3 class hours and 2 laboratory hours course (4wonder…; etc). More suggestions on making problems credits). It is a
Science and Engineering at the San Francisco State University. Dr. Ozer is an editorial board members of Journal of Solar Energy and Materials and American Journal of Engineering Education. She also serves as faculty advisor for the Collegiate chapters of Society of Hispanic professional Engineers (SHPE), National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and Society of Women Engineers (SWE). She has 25 years of teaching and research experience at different universities and research institutions in Europe and the United States. Dr. Ozer also worked as a consultant in science and engineering education for United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) from 1989 to 1993. Dr. Ozer’s research
“program evaluator competency model” to specify the competencies thatsuccessful program evaluators exhibit. This model includes six major categories: technicallycurrent, effective at communicating, interpersonally skilled, team-oriented, professional, andorganized.17In comparison, CEEAA accepted most of the same qualifications/competencies provided byABET, including six basic qualifications. For instance, similar to ABET, CEEAA requires“accreditation experts” to “know scientific, technological, and engineering advances in their ownfields”, “have abundant teaching, administrative, and working experience”, “have disciplinarybackground necessary for accreditation”, and “have strong working, organizational, andcommunicative competencies.”17 However
Paper ID #10253An Inventory to Assess Students’ Knowledge of Second Law ConceptsDr. Timothy J. Jacobs, Texas A&M University Dr. Timothy J. Jacobs is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. His research interests include thermodynamics, internal combustion engines, and ped- agogical improvements to content and integration of design in engineering science courses. His teaching interests include thermodynamics, internal combustion engines, and experimental design.Dr. Jerald A. Caton, Texas A&M University
. Toname but several: engineering design, economics, industrial psychology and sociology,manufacturing, and philosophy. The knowledge available to all these segments is large andlearning can be at various levels of depth which is determined to some extent by a person’sability and previous knowledge. When these knowledge dimensions are combined it is easyto imagine a substantive degree program in engineering/technological literacy. Equally it iseasy to perceive that the kind of teaching and learning necessary to bring about the outcomesof engineering/technological literacy would have to be very different to that undertaken in thesame courses when treated as separate entities within a traditional program. Both level andapproach would be different
, interior, or body structure). Figure 9. Major tasks within the Deep Orange product development process. Establishing the learning environment. The nature of designing activities requires an environment that is not of a traditional classroom nature. Deep Orange requires students to collaborate and interact with each other and with faculty on a regular basis in a permanent collaborative space (resembling a studio). The students work on workstations grouped by their team membership as well as team white boards in the Systems Integration Laboratory (SIL), which is divided into two sections; one is an office like area, and the second is a workshop to build and assemble the concept vehicle. The SIL is equipped with
). Papadopoulos has diverse research and teaching interests in structural mechanics, biomechanics, engineer- ing ethics, and engineering education. He is PI of two NSF sponsored research projects and is co-author of Lying by Approximation: The Truth about Finite Element Analysis. Papadopoulos is currently the Program Chair Elect of the ASEE Mechanics Division and serves on numerous committees at UPRM that relate to undergraduate and graduate education.Dr. William Joseph Frey, Univ. Puerto Rico - Mayaguez William J. Frey has taught research, business, engineering, and computer ethics at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez since 1990. He is a member and former director of that university’s Center for Ethics in the
range of new technologies and systems.Dr. Mar´ıa Helguera, Rochester Institute of Technology Mar´ıa Helguera was born in Mexico city where she got a BS in Physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She also holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester and a PhD in Imaging Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) . Dr. Helguera is the principal investigator in the Biomedical and Materials Multimodal Imaging Laboratory in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science (CIS), RIT. Dr. Helguera is also very interested in implementing novel pedagogies in science and technology and has been involved with the freshman imaging project since its inception
“The Engineer of 2020” in 2004. The focus is onunderstanding how engineering definitions change over time in the dialog of policy since policymakers play a large role in setting directions for engineering education. It is found that thedocuments contain both explicit and implicit definitions which provide insights into how andwhy engineering education is this way and not that. The definitions are also illuminate tensions,or misalignments, in how we currently teach engineering, the most glaring of these is a technical-social duality that increases in importance in over the 84 year span examined.Rationale & FrameworkThe broad engineering education question addressed in this paper is the interplay of engineeringeducation with the larger
Paper ID #10370A Case Study of Success: Mentoring and Supporting Underrepresented Trans-fer Students in a Mechanical Engineering ProgramDr. Robert G. Ryan, California State University, Northridge Dr. Ryan is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at California State University, Northridge, and is also currently seving as Special Assistant to the Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science. He is a long-time ASME Student Section Advisor, and has several years of experience teach- ing the ME capstone design course. His main technical areas of expertise are in heat transfer and fluid mechanics.Nathan
Paper ID #10108Assessing BS–CS Student Outcomes Using Senior ProjectMr. Norman Pestaina, Florida International University Mr. Norman Pestaina is a Senior Instructor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS) at Florida International University (FIU). Mr. Pestaina completed the B.Sc. in Mathematics (Special) at the University of the West Indies in 1972, and the MS in Computer Science at the Pennsylvania State University in 1979. He has been an Assistant Staff member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy’s Lincoln Laboratory, and Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at the Cave Hill campus of the
project. This CubeSat project is being performed in partnership with the JetPropulsion Laboratory (JPL), a local employer of CSUN graduates.Section II of this paper describes the CubeSat project. Section III describes the project team andthe challenges in running a large multidisciplinary project. Section IV describes the projectmanagement approach of the software team and the relationship between the project and thecomputer science curriculum. Section V includes some assessment of this approach. Section VIpresents the conclusions.II. Description of the CubeSat ProjectA CubeSat is a miniature satellite (20 x 10 x 10 cm) capable of carrying an onboard experimentinto space. CubeSats are launched free of charge as part of government and commercial
Paper ID #8559Microdynamics versus Macrodynamics – An Interdisciplinary Student ProjectDr. Gunter Bischof, Joanneum University of Applied SciencesMs. Annette Casey B.A., University of Applied Sciences FH JOANNEUM, Graz, Austria Annette Casey is a faculty member of the Institute of Automotive Engineering at the University of Ap- plied Sciences FH JOANNEUM, Graz, where she has been teaching undergraduate English for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses for the past fifteen years. After graduating from Dublin City University with a B.A. (Hons.) in Applied Languages, she taught at several schools in Austria, before taking up a three
disaster. In the Appendix, co-author Hansen20 giveshis comments on the books written about Challenger prior to that time, in particular noting theauthors of Power to Explore17 take a revisionist approach, attempting to exonerate MarshallSpace Flight Center from some of the blame for the Challenger launch decision.Bibliography1. Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) Report. (2003) Government Printing Office.http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/caib/html/start.html2. Brocato, J. (2009) Two Ways of Using Case Studies to Teach Ethics. Proceedings of the 2000 ASEEConference. AC 2009-1565.3. Evers, C.T. (2011) A Case Study-based Graduate Course in Engineering Ethics and Professional Responsibility.Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference. AC 2011
) theyare required courses and (2) they are upper-level courses typically taken in the Junior or Senioryears. The instructors of these courses are free to select an assessment instrument (e.g., examquestion, homework question, project report, laboratory report, or presentation) for eachPerformance Indicator associated with their assigned SO. Based on the assessment instrumentchosen, the instructor develops a rubric for each Performance Indicator and selects PerformanceCriteria that are used to evaluate the students’ ability to meet that Performance Indicator. Theinstructor’s rubric generally follows a three-tiered approach for assessing the students’performance: “Developing”, “Satisfactory” and “Proficient.” The instructor may select a
government experience in construction, engineering, and research and eight years of academic experience. He was Co-Chair of the ASCE Civil Engineering in the Oceans V conference. He was the only manager in the 55-year history of the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory ever to win the Employee-of-the-Year Award. He has won numerous awards for project management. He has conducted research for the Construction Industry Institute, Center for Construction Industry Studies, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, OSHA and other organizations. He has published 45 journal and conference pa- pers. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and the M.S. and B.S. in Ocean Engineering from Texas A&M University
across several majors within the college of engineering during Page 24.803.13the Fall 2010 semester at Michigan Technological University. These classes included but werenot limited to Calculus II, Engineering Economics, Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Circuits& Instrumentation, Introduction to Spatial Visualization, Chemical Engineering Fundamentals,Environmental Engineering Fundamentals and Introduction to Materials Science & Engineering.The number of survey respondents was 1101. In terms of gender, 74.1% of the participants weremale, and 25.9% of the participants were female. White respondents made up nearly half of theparticipants