software product is likethat used to specify any other type of software product. However, unlike most software products,games have an entertainment dimension. People play computer games because games are fun[6].The authors believe that the capstone design course should not be the only opportunity forstudents to manage complex software development projects. This suggests the use of othercourses in the curriculum such as a game design course as a means of providing additionalsoftware engineering experiences. This paper describes the authors’ experiences revising andemploying active learning materials to teach software engineering content in a sequence of twogame design courses offered in both face-to-face and asynchronous online modalities during
Paper ID #34832How Well Can Makerspaces Build an Entrepreneurial Mindset?Dr. Stephanie M. Gillespie, University of New Haven Stephanie Gillespie is the Associate Dean of the Tagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven. She previously specialized in service learning while teaching at the Arizona State University in the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program. Her current teaching and research interests are in developing study skills and identity in first-year engineering students and improving re- tention rates. She acts as a faculty liaison for the University of New Haven Makerspace
. Once a community project and partner have beenprudently chosen, Sutton suggests the following transformative strategies to utilize in servicelearning pedagogy: “cumulative exposures, comprehensive experiences, capstone experiences,immersion experiences, interdisciplinary experiences, community participation, youthparticipation, reflective practice, long term participation, and institutional participation” (Sutton2012). While this is a lengthy list of strategies, not all of these concepts can be applied to asingle course, as several are realized over the duration of one’s academic career. The strategiesmost applicable to this paper are immersion experiences and reflective practice, due to theduration of this particular community engaged
-scale interventions and chose to approach changes cautiously byconducting a small pilot study involving the courses in the professional “core.”Three course were selected (CVEEN 1000, 3100, and 4910) as appropriate candidates. Thesecourses represent students from across the program and constitute the core of the department’sprofessional skills-related offerings. Practical issues caused the co-authors to implement theinfrastructure theme in only two courses: CVEEN 1000 and 3100. The capstone course (CVEEN4910) was already overloaded with a focus on development and execution of design projects; aswell, many aspects of an infrastructure perspective were already embedded in the course from theoutset of this study.4 Rubric DevelopmentThe initial
UIC1 include i) Multi-university and Multi-company Collaborations, ii)Single-university and Multi-company Collaborations, iii) Multi-university and Single-companyCollaborations, and iv) Single-university and Single-company Collaborations. Although eachform serves a different purpose and requires a different scale of supporting infrastructure,collaborations on all levels of education and research are beneficial for the ecosystem.Traditionally, U-I partnerships include the following activities: • Classroom Activities: guest lectures by industry representatives, industry supported class projects and capstone projects; • Seminars: joint seminars for faculty, students, industry professionals and leaderships; • Field Visits: tours
. C. (2014) ‘Curriculum Design in the Middle Years’, in Johri, A. and Olds, B. M.(eds) Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,pp. 181–200. doi: DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139013451.014.Nasir, M., Kleinke, D. K. and McClelland, M. (2016) ‘Multidisciplinary patient-centered capstone seniordesign projects’, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. New Orleans,Louisiana: ASEE Conferences. doi: 10.18260/p.25764.Nezafati, M., Chua, M. and LeDoux, J. M. (2020) ‘Work in progress: A case study of integrating inclusiveengineering skills into a middle-years biomedical engineering course via model-based reasoning’, ASEEAnnual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. Virtual On
Paper ID #17396Approaches to Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development at an Engi-neering UniversityMrs. Galina Burylina, Kazan National Research Technological UniversityDr. Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University - West Lafayette Dr. Sanger is a professor in the School of Engineering Technology in the College of Technology of Purdue University. His focus and passion is real world, industry based, senior capstone experiences both domes- tically and internationally. He has successfully developed this area at Purdue and at Western Carolina University. Prior to his career in academia, Dr. Sanger had a successful 30 year
it is used, a total of70 individuals (61 ED and 9 ETDC) provided open-ended responses. Of these respondents,approximately two-thirds of ED and all ETDC shared that their makerspaces serve primarilyeducational objectives. Respondents shared a variety of educational uses for these spaces; someare used to support classes and individual student projects (including capstone projects andindependent study projects), while others are used as a direct supplement to curricula (onerespondent noted that their makerspace is used for a required course for all introductoryengineering students).Aside from a solely educational focus (in that the makerspaces uses and activities primarilysupport curricular activities), a significant number of university
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Required CE Courses 9 Project Management 10 Engineering Economics 11 Risk and Uncertainty Probability and Statistics 12 Breadth in Civil Engineering Areas Technical Four CE Areas Required 13 Design Capstone Design Course 14 Technical Depth Technical Electives 15 Sustainability Required CE Courses 16 Communication Capstone Design Course 17 Teamwork and Leadership Capstone Design Course 18 Lifelong Learning CE
, families, and students from underrepresented communities. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Early Internships for Engineering Technology Student Retention: A Pilot StudyAbstractResearch in engineering technology major retention suggests that early internships present anoutstanding opportunity for freshman and sophomore students to engage, socialize, and learn incommunities of practice and to “discover” the link between theory and practice early in theiracademic tenure, leading to a consequent improvement in retention rates. At Texas StateUniversity, the traditional senior-level capstone internship program was reengineered andconverted into a sophomore level
PN DN [4] Timothy J. Kriewall and Kristen Mekemson, "Instilling the Entrepreneurial Mindset into Engineering Undergraduates", J. T-4 Environmental 19 22 27 20 8 Engineering Entrepreneurship, vol. 1, no. 1 (July 2010), pp. 5-19. S-3 Environmental 5 10 26 36 17 Online: http://www.jeenonline.com/Vol1/Num1/Vol1No1P1.pdf [5] John K. Estell, Kenneth J. Reid and Jed Marquart, “Addressing Third-These results indicate that many students are able to World Poverty in First-Year Capstone Projects,” American
abroad, service-learning, entrepreneurship programs, interdisciplinary courses) do E/CS students engage / not engage in? 2. How do the HIEP participation rates in E / CS students vary as E/CS students’ progress in their programs?To create a historical picture of the E/CS participation, we gathered and analyzed existing NSSEsurvey data to investigate the possible relationships between student demographics, andparticipation in HIEP.Data Analysis / ResultsThe main objective of this study is to examine the extent to which E/CS students participate inHIEP. The NSSE survey results indicate that the E/CS students engage in culminating seniorexperiences such as capstone courses and senior projects and internships or co-op programs
A web-based survey collaborative deployed near the end of the information behavior of academic year following a undergraduateSaleh [18] 2011 Canada 42 n/a project that took 8 months engineering students project for a final year working on a course- capstone design course. based engineering project
. Knowing that 20% of engineering school graduates arewomen, yet women make up only 11% of practicing engineers is a concern for the fieldof engineering and for the future of female engineers in the engineering profession [1].We are looking to quantify what we are seeing and develop strategies for eradicating itfrom our engineering environment.Current efforts are underway in our capstone design course (CED) – a course mandatedfor all seniors at our institution. In CED, students work in teams of 3 to 5 to accomplishtheir capstone project over the course of the Spring Semester. In these teams, we continuetheir leadership education using the LEAD model. Students have Learned the leadershiptheory in previous course work and we build on that theory
preserved in thescaled IST. The core region, heat transfer, flow patterns, and coolant inventory in the downcomer, coreand the riser above the core were all kept in similitude with an actual reactor. The steam generatorpreserved the heat transfer and boiling effects and the condensation with and without non-condensablegases [2]. Outside of these, the design of the IST included features to support its adaptation for otherdesign or research missions. While testing in support of the mPower SMR ended in 2014, the facility has been maintained tosupport other projects. The facility is still in use by several companies and Liberty University for thepurposes of furthering nuclear engineering research on multiple fronts.Description of Thermal Hydraulic
mechanical engineering capstone projects, introducing non-profit partnerships related to designs for persons with disabilities, and founding the Social/Environmental Design Impact Award. He manages several outreach and diversity efforts including the large-scale Get Out And Learn (GOAL) engineering kit program that reaches thousands of local K-12 students.Jennifer Bishop, University of Maryland, College Park Jen Bishop is the Assistant Director - Outreach and Recruitment for the Women in Engineering Program at the University of Maryland, A. James Clark School of Engineering, where she draws upon her 10+ years of STEM and Maker education experience to inspire future engineers. Jen has a Bachelor’s degree in
a two-semester capstone Senior Project course. However, particularly motivated students canpursue additional design and research experiences by seeking out a faculty member andproposing a project, which may consist of either a novel, student-generated concept or a furtherdevelopment of a pre-existing project. These directed research experiences can take place at anypoint during the student’s four years, whether during the academic year or the summer.In this case, the experience itself took place in a seven-week span during the summer between thesophomore and junior year. Funding for the experience was available through the college’ssummer Scholarship and Creative Arts Research Program (SCARP). As mentioned in theIntroduction, both the
where she was responsible for the structural and thermal analysis of payloads. She served as Director of the Space Engi- neering Institute and in 2010 she accepted a position with the Academic Affairs office of the Dwight Look College of Engineering where she oversaw outreach, recruiting, retention and enrichment programs for the college. Since 2013, she serves as the Executive Director for Industry and Nonprofit Partnerships with responsibilities to increase opportunities for undergraduates engineering students to engage in experiential learning multidisciplinary team projects. These include promoting capstone design projects sponsored by industry, developing and teaching the Engineering Projects in Community
focused on engineering courses, a controlscourse that applied to both engineering and engineering technology, and a lab course inpharmacy. A work in progress conference paper was found with results of self-directed learningoutcomes for an engineering capstone design project course [4]. A study of learning objectivesand concepts in control systems laboratory courses contained engineering and engineeringtechnology programs in its sample, but resulted in a consensus mapping that did not mapCriterion 3(i) to the course laboratory learning objectives [5]. Sample instructional methods for3(i) and other parts of Criterion 3 for ABET EAC programs emphasized that course designshould connect the learning objectives, assessment, and instruction [6
(2nd ed.). Oxford Press. 4. Leidig, P. A. & Oakes, W. C. (2021-a). Model for Project-Based Community Engagement. International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship, 16(2), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.24908/ijsle.v16i2.14809 5. Howe, S., and J. Goldberg. (2019). Engineering capstone design education: Current practices, emerging trends, and success strategies. In Design education today: Technical contexts, programs and best practices, edited by D. Schaefer, G. Coates, and C. Eckert. Springer.6. Leidig, P. A., Khalifah, S. M. & Oakes, W. C. (2023). Capstone design in engineering community engagement course. Journal of Civil Engineering
anexample conversation loosely synthesized from an engineering senior capstone project (detailschanged) follow: Person A: We're falling behind on our capstone project. I really don't think the software platform we're designing is appropriate for the high school students we are supposedly making it for, and want to switch to a more beginner-friendly programming language for them, but we're already two weeks behind and my teammates just want to keep going... (continues describing the issue, then steps back for B and C to discuss) Person B: It sounds like A feels like she should be working extra hours outside of class to prototype the project in a different language so she can show her team it works
first program was an optional senior capstone project taking place with a community inCentral or South America, including two weeks of field work abroad. The second program was agraduate research program with a local service component developing sustainable developmentteaching materials with K-12 teachers based on the graduate student’s research. The thirdprogram involved short-term (three months) of field research in East Africa embedded within atwelve-month long research program on small-scale infrastructure research. The fourth programwas the Engineers Without Borders chapter at MPuT. The last student program was a graduateprogram comprised of one year of campus course work, followed by two years of field researchin a community partnering
, positive reinforcement, and additional help on project tasks,which may be construed as transformational in nature. When compared to more tangible rewardofferings in a professional setting such as promotions, bonuses, and additional vacation time, thefact that contingent reward behaviors load quite strongly with the MLQ’s transformationalbehaviors is not surprising. This conceptual understanding of the leadership phenomenon,corroborated by early works in the theory indicate that this scale may be measuring leadershipbehaviors consistent with the experiences of student mechanical engineers in a capstone setting.Next, the passive-avoidant/laissez-faire scale developed departs from the current construct of theMLQ Form 5X but is consistent with
integrating industrial platforms for educationalpurposes is widely spread among engineering institutions – colleges and universities. Forinstance, students of engineering programs are required to undergo an internship at industrialenterprises of the region and perform a capstone project to demonstrate the new competenciesthey have obtained within the internship period. While regional academic-industrialcooperation through cluster partnership demonstrates positive results for training highlyqualified specialists at present, it should involve international experience in order to remainup-to-date in the forthcoming years.However, the idea of expanding clustering to an international level brings up the series ofpotential issues that arise from the
capstone design course about theirdesign decisions. From the interviews, the authors analyzed the students’ interactions withstakeholders and their perception of the interaction. They found that in order for students toconsider a stakeholder interaction as “useful,” the students would either predefine clear goals forthe interaction, only interact with stakeholders whose expertise closely-aligned to their project, orgive control of the decisions to the stakeholder entirely. Information variability and interpretationand application of that information are a key part of engaging stakeholders that is avoided by thesestrategies. Expanding engineering students understanding of the value and purpose of stakeholders isincreasing in engineering
used in allcore course in the non-traditional degree plan.Some flexibility is also provided in the traditional program to allow students to customize theirdegree based on their interests. In doing so, nine semester credit hours are available as electives.However, these electives must come from a predetermined list. Project-based learning is alsoimplemented later in the upper-level course of the degree plan in capstone style courses.Recognition – To build a sense of relatedness and recognition as an engineer for students, thenon-traditional department intentionally seeks to create a sense of community within thedepartment and help students see a connection between their engineering education and theworld around them. Projects and course work
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grow.The certification framework is still being developed as the research team continues to identifythe specific ways that students may obtain the required professional and technical skills throughtheir formal academic curriculum, internships, capstone projects, research, and other co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. Discovering the relevant and accessible options foracquiring each level of the certification framework is in process and will be completed in thecoming year through the research team’s work with the assistance of subject matter experts.3.3 Professional SkillsThe workforce needs assessment findings informed the professional skills used for thecertification project. The full list of professional skills is shown in Table 3
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to social responsibility, but theydon’t examine how faculty or departments believe that they are influencing such views. At the17 institutions surveyed, it would be beneficial for departments to see where their students saidthey were influenced and compare that to where they thought they were affecting student views.Departments could assess if the first-year or capstone projects were influencing the ethicaldevelopment that they expect. Possible single time interventions on ethical or professionalresponsibility are not enough to provide lasting impressions on students such that they wouldhighlight that course years later. This could be an impetus to change such approaches to ethicseducation. More broadly, this work provides a useful approach