Paper ID #17446Work in Progress: Hands-On Practice of Implant Surgery Using ArtificialBone in Design CourseDr. Won Joo, Robert Morris University Won Joo is an Assistant Professor of engineering department at Robert Morris University, Pa. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, and joined RMU after 8 years of R&D experience in medical device industry. He has been teaching and developing course and research project on material and biological tissue biomechanics area. He is currently conducting applied research in computational biomechanics with hospitals and research institutes
Paper ID #30519Fostering Entrepreneurial Mindset and Innovation in a Cross-ListedScience and Engineering CourseDr. Bahram Roughani, Loyola University Maryland Professor of Physics and Associate Dean for the Natural and Applied Sciences at Loyola University Maryland. Experimental condensed matter physicist with emphasis on optical spectroscopy and Electron Microscopy of electronic materials. PI on the NSF-IUSE supported collaborative project, ”The PIPLINE Project”, a national effort in collaboration with American Physical Society (APS) aiming at enhancing Physics Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PIE) education
engineering.Students apply engineering design principles through completion of a team design project with Page 11.401.2realistic constraints. The course serves as the entry point for the four-quarter sequence in whichstudents undertake and complete their capstone design project.Principles of Biomedical Design is a two-credit, required course for all biomedical engineeringstudents in the spring quarter of their junior year. The course meets twice a week, with one 50-minute lecture session and one 160-minute laboratory session. A unique feature of this course isits overlap with the final quarter of the senior design sequence. Half of the laboratory exercisesin
23.835.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 It’s all about relationship – expanding relational learning opportunities in a community engagement project experienceIntroductionIt pays to think big for student project experiences - not in terms of project scope but in terms oflearning opportunities and overall impact. A diverse body of research, as well as 15 years ofpersonal experience with capstone projects and extracurricular student projects, has shown thatthe overall impact of a student project grows through the establishment of relationships thattranscend boundaries. In our ongoing program development, we have worked to create a rangeof relational learning opportunities for
. Page 25.887.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Learning to Lead in a Global CommunityAbstractIn response to a growing desire for students to possess leadership skills upon entering theworkforce, an undergraduate cross-cultural, technological leadership institute was formed in2005. Students in the Institute, many of whom are engineering majors, learn and develop theirleadership abilities through a 25-credit certificate program.The curriculum allows students to explore leadership through coursework, interaction withindustry leaders, development and implementation of projects, completion of a five-weekinternational experience, and mentoring other students in the institute
technology in a professional setting.Within engineering education, wikis have been used in several ways at several different levels.One example is the creation of ePortfolios in a freshman engineering design course8. Thestudents were given writing assignments in which they reflected on the human implications ofdesign. Another example can be found in a team-based capstone design project in which thewiki was used to document social knowledge and assess group performance9. A third example isa student-written online textbook5. In a senior level chemical engineering process controlscourse, an open-source text was written, edited, and reviewed by the students to allow them tolearn the course content though teaching it.This paper describes the use of a
cooperation of selected, personally committed people, who possess therequired knowledge and skills, outside information, tools, economic resources, and time.Development work requires continuous learning of new knowledge and skills. The work mustbe done on the different hierarchical levels of the target systems. It must also be done withinphysical, economical, environmental, legal, and ethical constraints.The forms of cooperation include close personal relations, teamwork in small groups (teams),teamwork in larger groups and project organizations, mentoring relationships, and personaland professional networking. The success of development work strongly depends on thepositive feelings of the people involved, such as enthusiasm, faith, joy of learning
Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Uncovering the Role of Emotion in Engineering Education within an Integrated Curricular ExperienceAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to uncover the role of emotion within an interdisciplinary, project-based design studio as implemented in 2009 and 2010. This qualitative research study involves anarrative analysis of data collected over two semesters of the design studios to identify the typesof emotions described, the change in these emotions over the semester, and the interaction ofthese emotions with learning. This analysis is conducted on students’ written reflections, as it isimportant to understand emotions from the perspective of the student and within the desiredcontext
, Rose-Hulman Ventures Brian Dougherty has spent the last 20 years working in various parts of the product development cy- cle. His early career focused on product design verification and manufacturing test engineering support for new products while the last 12 years has been focused on developing the new products themselves. Dougherty specializes in fast-paced development within the innovation space, and has documented how the project management practices within the innovation space should differ from classical techniques. As the Engineering Manager for Rose-Hulman Ventures, Dougherty fosters an environment where 60 engineers can develop functional proof of client concepts in a way that is more financially viable
Session 2220 Using Mobile Robots to Teach Artificial Intelligence Research Skills Daniel M. Gaines, Natasha Balac Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department Vanderbilt UniversityAbstractSuccessful Artificial Intelligence researchers must be able to think creatively and critically,communicate effectively and evaluate the results of their work. Therefore, it is importantthat we include courses in our curriculum that develop these skills. Since one usually learnsbest by doing, we believe a project-based course, in which students receive hands
students.TCC 101, Language Communication in the Technological Society, reflects the Division'slengthy experience in this area; for example, the course stresses speaking as well as writingskills, and teaches students how to adapt their messages to the specific audiences that theywill encounter in engineering organizations (including technical peers, technical managers,non-technical executives, and the general public). We chose this course to serve as thefoundation for an experiment in adapting the communications curriculum to the new needsof engineering organizations.The Engineering Career Orientation Project (ECOP), required of all students in ourexperimental sections, is based on the Research Interview Project (RIP), in which TCC 101students
, Mexico, challenging engineering students enrolled in the course Engineering and Sustainable Community DevelopmentAbstractOver the past ten years, engineers and engineering students and faculty have increasingly turnedtheir efforts toward “underserved” communities. Such efforts raise important questions. Is thereanything problematic with wanting to help a community? How do engineers listen to acommunity? If invited, how do engineers work with a community?Wondering about questions like these in relationship to engineering courses, design projects,volunteer activities, or international assignments motivated us to develop a project in criticalpedagogy entitled Engineering and
2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Constant Current Battery Load Discharger and Tester Benjamin Cuebas and Dr. Rohit DuaUndergraduate Student / Associate Teaching Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyAbstractThe goal of this research project was to gain knowledge and experience of electronic designthrough construction of a device at the component level. The Constant Current Battery LoadDischarger and Tester uses analog electronics to regulate the draining of a battery so the batteryvoltage and capacity characteristics can be analyzed. Current regulation is
Collaboration Software Steven Colgrove, Adam Svoboda: K-State SalinaThe Problem Currently there are several different collaboration tools available online. These tools canbe useful when working on group projects, but each come with its own unique set of strengthsand weaknesses. Generally, tools such as TeamViewer and Remote Desktop do a good job ofsharing a screen, but force the users to share a single mouse cursor, which can be frustrating.Additionally, they require the user to share an entire computer desktop instead of a singlewindow, which could be a major security issue.The Goal The goal of this project was to create a piece of software that would allows users to
relating theory topractice and of civic engagement (“public problem solving”). In the current effort, service-learning is being integrated into a broad array of courses so that students will be exposed to S-Lin every semester in the core curriculum in each of the five engineering departments atUniversity of Massachusetts Lowell. The focus here is on the learning of traditional engineeringcontent by engaging diverse learners in solving authentic problems in the community and in theprocess achieving ABET criteria and attracting underrepresented groups into engineering.Thirty-three faculty members out of 75 in the college integrated S-L into 52 different courses in2005-06. Readers will find a wide array of projects and examples that can be adapted to
-Linn, Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning, University of IllinoisDr. Robert Thomas Baird, As Senior Associate Director at the Center for Innovation in Teaching And Learning Robert leads the faculty development, emerging educational technologies, media, and online instructional design units. He has extensive experience in technology-enhanced classrooms, online teaching environments, and web- based student writing and multimedia projects. Robert teaches cinema, new media, and digital video courses. His 1995 dissertation used cognitive psychology to understand how filmgoers can be frightened and startled by film scenes they know are fictional. In the early 1980s he worked as an assistant film editor in
Alabama. Dr. Burian’s professional career spans more than 20 years during which he has worked as a de- sign engineer, as a Visiting Professor at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as a Professor at the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah, and as the Chief Water Consultant of an international engineer- ing and sustainability consulting firm he co-founded. He served as the first co-Director of Sustainability Curriculum Development at the University of Utah where he created pan-campus degree programs and stimulated infusion of sustainability principles and practices in teaching and learning activities across campus. Dr. Burian currently is the Project Director of the USAID-funded U.S.-Pakistan Center for
Session 1793 An Undergraduate Research Experience in New Developments for Aseismic Building Design Anant R. Kukreti University of CincinnatiAbstract This paper describes a two-month research experience for undergraduate engineeringstudents specifically designed to conduct three “pilot” projects investigating new strategies tomitigate earthquake damage. The project was part of a Research for Undergraduates (REU) Sitegrant sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and administered in the Department ofCivil and Environmental
GraphicsAbstractThis evidence-based practice describes the incorporation of an original design project coupledwith the use of a makerspace into the Engineering Design Graphics curriculum. This designproject has given students more of a connection to engineering work and provides a strongfoundation for developing an engineering identity. This is further enhanced through the use of amakerspace environment which enables students to fabricate, inspect, and iterate their designs.The measurable outcomes for the current project will focus on student engagement and perceivedlearning gains. The results of a survey measuring students’ perspectives on the value of thecourse project work on their learning will be presented. The objective of this paper is todisseminate
material on an interdisciplinary topic. The topic of cyber-physicalsystems engineering and product lifecycle management with application to structural healthmonitoring is considered in this co-creation project. This entails not only topics from differentdisciplines of civil, computer, electrical and environmental engineering, business, andinformation sciences, but also humanistic issues of sustainability, environment, ethical and legalconcerns in data-driven decision-making that support the control of cyber-physical systems.Aside from the objective of creating modules accessible to students with different levels ofdisciplinary knowledge, the goal of this research is to investigate if the co-creation process andthe resulting modules also promote
Engineering Education, 2019 Reflections on Eight Years of Undergraduate Research at Our Community CollegeAbstractSince 2010, San Antonio College (SAC) has been the center of a continuously increasing familyof undergraduate research projects hosted by Texas’ first Math, Engineering, and ScienceAchievement (MESA) Center. A paper presented at the 2012 ASEE Conference in San Antoniodescribed the start of this program at this community college. It has been widely reported thatundergraduate research programs at four-year institutions increase retention, improve students’success, and produce higher quality graduates. Results demonstrate that two-year institutions canalso initiate and maintain successful
how team dynamics affect undergraduate women’s confidence levels in engineering.Dr. Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder Malinda Zarske is a faculty member with the Engineering Plus program at the University of Colorado Boulder. She teaches undergraduate product design and core courses through Engineering Plus as well as STEM education courses for pre-service teachers through the CU Teach Engineering program. Her primary research interests include the impacts of project-based service-learning on student identity - es- pecially women and nontraditional demographic groups in engineering - as well as pathways and retention to and through K-12 and undergraduate engineering, teacher education, and
Montgomery County Exemplary Service Award, 2013). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Capstone Engineering Modeling Course for Developing Creative Problem-Solving A.L. Kinney1, M.E. Reissman1, K.P. Hallinan1 1University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.AbstractOver the past twenty years, nearly all job growth in the United States has emerged from new companiesand organizations with assumedly innovative products, services, and practices. Yet, the nurturing ofstudent creative thinking through truly open-ended problem solving is infrequent in engineeringeducation. Engineering design projects most often come with constraints and
Paper ID #27263An Integrated Four-year Hands-on Design Curriculum: A Case StudyDr. Emad W. Jassim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Emad W. Jassim is an Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to this position he was the Director of Under- graduate Programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering (MechSE) where he also served as Chief Advisor, Senior Design Project Coordinator, and lecturer of thermal/fluid science courses. He received his BS, MS, and PhD from the
projects, one in the fall and one in the spring. An example from the fall 2003 and2004 semesters was the Hoistinator project. Student teams of 4-5 were challenged to build acrane that could lift at least 420 pounds, using no more than 75 cubic inches of aluminum and 50cubic inches of plastic. Teams would receive a score that was directly proportional to theamount of weight lifted, and inversely proportional to the amount of material used. The projectwas successful in many respects but there was room for improvement in the student’s overallapproach to the design problem. Students were generally successful at using statics to predicttheir crane’s performance, but the cranes they designed and built were generally not welloptimized. Many student teams
of a “Rapid Design Challenge” in a Cross-Disciplinary Senior Capstone Course and Evaluation of Device Performance Abby M. Kelly, Austin Lammers, David D. Jones, Richard Stowell, Roger Hoy, Evan Curtis, Angela K. Pannier Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska-LincolnAbstractThe senior capstone experience within the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at theUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln is a two-semester, two-course sequence intended to give seniorstudents realistic design experience, working with real projects, real clients, faculty consultants,and teammates to produce a deliverable that meets the client’s needs. Students
that design projects must followto help students build tighter connections among the three subjects. A comprehensiveassessment and evaluation plan has also been designed and implemented. This paper willdescribe the integration mechanisms, project specifications, and systems to address study skills,as well as data that has been collected and analyzed to date. Future assessment plans andstrategies for expanding the program for more students and extending it to two additional first-year engineering tracks will also be described.IntroductionFirst-year engineering curricula have been identified as significant opportunities to improve four-year engineering curricula, and many institutions have addressed the opportunity in differentways. At Texas A
typically workclosely with faculty and other researchers on a specific research project, and in some cases aregranted stipends [6]. Studies have shown that students who participate in REUs show increasedinterest in pursuing degrees and careers in the STEM fields [3]. REUs provide students withopportunities to develop skills valued by both graduate schools and employers, such as workingon challenging problems, presenting research to an audience, and communicating findingsthrough technical writing [3].While REUs have the potential to positively influence persistence in STEM fields, there areinequities in who gets to participate in these experiences. Questions have been raised as to whysome REU programs receive very few applications from students in
Paper ID #35744Improving Minority Students’ Career Readiness Through Enhanced SeniorDesign ExperiencesDr. Hua Li, Texas A&M University - Kingsville Dr. Hua Li, a Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, is interested in sustainable manufacturing, renewable energy, sustainability assessment, and engineering education. Dr. Li has served as P.I. and Co-P.I. in different projects funded by NSF, DOEd, DHS, NASA, USDA, etc.Mr. Ricardo Miguel Garcia Pineda, Texas A&M University KingsvilleProf. Kai Jin, Texas A&M University - Kingsville Dr. Kai Jin is a Professor of
Tanvir Ahad, Wei Sun, Jiaze Gao, and Zahed Siddique School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Oklahoma Norman, OK, United StatesAbstractDesigning a senior-level course that involves problem-based learning, including projectcompletion task, is laborious and challenging. A well-designed project motivates the students tobe self-learners and prepares them for future industrial or academic endeavors. The COVID-19pandemic brought many challenges when instructions were forced to move either online or to aremote teaching/learning environment. Due to this rapid transition, delivery modes in teachingand learning modalities faced