twofold: to discuss the challenges ofadopting XR technologies and to share practices, strategies, and mindsets for faculty-led projectsin STEM education, emphasizing a bottom-up rather than a top-down organizational approach.The implication of this ongoing project is to utilize an approach by which all faculty, staff,students, and administrators collaborate to understand more about all stakeholders’ needs beforeadopting technologies for teaching and learning. The paper outlines a framework for requirementgathering in the adoption of technologies such as XR applications for teaching and learning inSTEM fields. This framework aims to assist faculty members interested in either leading orcontributing to technology adoption initiatives at their
workday, travel to theuniversity, attend the presentation, provide feedback to the presenter, and engage with students.While it is feasible on occasion, maintaining this regularly also poses challenges. Figure 2 – A mentee discussing his project with his peers and an industry mentorDuring the spring symposium, students highlight their projects, such as their capstone,internship, or class projects. This event also serves as a platform for students to make a positiveimpression on industry professionals, potentially leading to securing internships for theupcoming summer. The interactions during the symposium are often fantastic, but the follow-upengagement outside the event could be improved. Figure 3 – A mentor industry giving
(ACC) has primary responsibility for reporting to theRBE Faculty. Senior Capstone projects (MQPs) are reviewed by every program every two yearsand those results are likewise reported. Page 15.1046.5 RBEFigure 3. Continuous improvement process flow.All assessment is performed relative to overall program objectives and specific educationaloutcomes.3.2. ObjectivesThe objectives of the Robotics Engineering Program are to educate men and women to • Have a basic understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
samesemester. A second digital course was also added to the curriculum to address what we felt wasa deficiency in the curriculum.A two semester required senior project design course sequence was added to the final twosemesters. This was a significant departure from the previous curriculum where we had a onesemester, optional senior project course. Our reasoning for this addition was that it wouldprovide a capstone experience for all students, and we could incorporate topics on projectmanagement and teamwork. We also felt that two semesters would provide students greater timeto plan and execute a design project. Most of the debate centered around the number of creditsand laboratory time for the course. By structuring the course with both theory and
“Bridging the Information Gap in the Comprehensive Design Studio” John J Phillips, PE Oklahoma State UniversityAbstract:The culmination of a students design education at Oklahoma State University’s School ofArchitecture is experienced in the nine credit hour comprehensive design studio. The approachused in teaching this studio is a team concept, with four different faculty members specializing inarchitectural design, mechanical systems design, and structural systems design. Additionally,separate courses in project management and environmental controls design (as elective courses)are closely linked in the same semester. The scope of the comprehensive design
engineering experience.II. Electrical and Computer Engineering CurriculaThe curriculum in Electrical or Computer Engineering at most colleges and universities satisfiesABET accreditation requirements2, 7 by means of four-year programs that generally begin with aFirst-Year introductory design experience, followed by a thorough exposure to analyticalfundamentals, core courses in the engineering major, and finishing with a capstone designexperience in the last year. There are generally no requirements, either within accreditationguidelines or within institution-specific curricula, pointing to educational goals that address theworldwide nature of their engineering field, or the momentum of the trend toward globalization.At Lafayette College1, the program
Improvement • Electronic Commerce • Entrepreneurship & New Venture Creation • Finance & Accounting for Managers • Environmental & Energy Management • Health Care Management & Administration • Leadership, Teams and Managing Change • Information Technology Management • Global Program and Project Management • Manufacturing Management • New Product Development & Commercialization • Business Policy and Strategy – Capstone and/or • Program
engineering experience.II. Electrical and Computer Engineering CurriculaThe curriculum in Electrical or Computer Engineering at most colleges and universities satisfiesABET accreditation requirements2, 7 by means of four-year programs that generally begin with aFirst-Year introductory design experience, followed by a thorough exposure to analyticalfundamentals, core courses in the engineering major, and finishing with a capstone designexperience in the last year. There are generally no requirements, either within accreditationguidelines or within institution-specific curricula, pointing to educational goals that address theworldwide nature of their engineering field, or the momentum of the trend toward globalization.At Lafayette College1, the program
Improvement • Electronic Commerce • Entrepreneurship & New Venture Creation • Finance & Accounting for Managers • Environmental & Energy Management • Health Care Management & Administration • Leadership, Teams and Managing Change • Information Technology Management • Global Program and Project Management • Manufacturing Management • New Product Development & Commercialization • Business Policy and Strategy – Capstone and/or • Program
Project Management and diversity, and ethics. EconomicsGiven the importance of humanistic content in achieving most of the current ABET outcomesand the rigor of the accreditation process, it seems inevitable that all accredited institutionswould provide evidence of student achievement in those areas and cover some humanisticcontent in capstone design and introduction to engineering courses. Inclusion does not, however,guarantee either the depth or degree of integration that would reliably achieve the aspirations ofThe Engineer of 2020 or EC2000 (Gravander, 2004). ABET evaluators, who are all fromengineering professional societies, are unlikely to have expertise in the humanistic aspects
multipledimensions. The three faculty members involved judged the presentations at semester end, toprovide relative rankings for grading purposes.Once the infrastructure is developed, it is our intention to utilize it to enhance retention ofwomen and underrepresented minority students in engineering and to encourage moreengineering students to undertake such transdisciplinary projects for their capstone designproject in their senior year. Research studies will be set up to pursue these studies. Anothersimilar study, documented at this conference, provides more details on this future researchendeavor (Shankar et al., 2017b).Rationale - A Health Sector Perspective:Health care cost has skyrocketed to 17% of the US GDP. Americans are not living longer
Approach to affective, Orientation-Reflective Value Awareness Empathetic Electrical Engineering Courses [31] behavioral Being- Whole Profession Empathic approaches in engineering capstone Skill- Perspective Taking, Mode Switching cognitive, design projects: student beliefs and reported Orientation-Epistemological Openness, Reflective Value Awareness, Commitment to behavioral behavior [32] Values Pluralism Empathy and ethical becoming in biomedical
), 3) choosing a mentor, 4) choosing a potential employer, 5) developing critical skills listed in company job postings, 6) planning for a career fair, 7) writing a 1-3 minute career fair plea/pitch for potential employers, 8) preparing for paid internships, 9) preparing for a full time job, 10) preparing for interviews, 11) preparing for a paid project (e.g. University Undergraduate Research Initiative (UURI), Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities (WAESO); see [33] summarizing 14 such projects), 12) preparing for a senior design capstone project, 13) preparing for an honor’s thesis, 14) preparing for graduate school, 15) preparing a statement of purpose, 16) preparing for graduate work (e.g. thesis), 17) preparing for
curricula. To observe potential effects ofdesign education, students from two curricula at a large research-intensive state university arebeing studied. The control group is a major focused on engineering mechanics, which has atheoretical orientation that focuses on mathematical modeling based on first principles and haslittle formal design education prior to the capstone experience. The experimental group is amechanical engineering major that uses design as a context for its curriculum. In order to providea uniform basis for comparing students across projects and years, the authors use a task-independent protocol analysis method grounded in the Function-Behavior-Structure (FBS)design ontology. This paper presents results from the first-year of the
Technology, and her B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Missouri- Rolla (same school, different name). At Rose-Hulman, Michelle is co-leading a project to infuse an entrepreneurial-mindset in undergraduate students’ learning, and a project to improve teaming by teaching psychological safety in engineering education curricula. Michelle also mentors undergraduate researchers to investigate the removal of stormwater pollutants in engineered wetlands. Michelle was a 2018 ExCEEd Fellow, and was recognized as the 2019 ASCE Daniel V. Terrell Awardee.Dr. Liping Liu, Lawrence Technological University Liping Liu is an associate professor in the A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical Engineering at Lawrence
like those listed in [5] such as a lack ofreliable technology for Audio-Video link, inconsistent Wi-Fi, and use of WhatsApp applicationrather than email to name a few. I also served as an examiner to evaluate final projects for MS inComputer Science program. I also evaluated project reports for these projects and suggestedchanges to projects and reports to improve their quality. I also conducted student advising that wasboth formal and informal. This advising was sometimes as faculty teaching courses and at timesas examiner of the capstone projects. During my Fulbright grant at the host institution, because of my vast academic experience, Iwas asked to provide my services on committees at various levels. At the college level, I servedon
Paper ID #38006Software Engineering and Security: Lessons LearnedCreating a New Course in Security from a SoftwareEngineering PerspectiveKevin A Gary (Associate Professor) Kevin Gary is an Associate Professor of Software Engineering in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI) at Arizona State University. He is a founding member of ASU's Software Engineering program, former Program Chair, and current ABET Coordinator of the program. At ASU he has led multiple curricular development efforts in software engineering notably security and agile methods. He is the creator of the Software Enterprise project
positively impact their individual gradecould counter this, since the quality of their evaluations is the variable portion of their grade.Additionally, emphasizing the value that peer evaluations could bring to their learning andcourse experience could motivate students to do them. This could result in better learningexperiences for both students involved as they can critique in detail and truly learn from eachother’s work.References[1] M. C. I. Pérez, J. Vidal-Puga and M. R. P. Juste, "The role of self and peer assessment in Higher Education," Studies in Higher Education, 2020.[2] W. A. Friess and A. J. Goupee, "Using Continuous Peer Evaluation in Team-Based Engineering Capstone Projects: A Case Study," IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 63
Perspectives on a Freshman Treatment of Electronic SystemsAbstract.The conventional approach to curriculum design is that students start with the basics of scienceand math and gradually progress towards a realistic integration of all their engineering skills in asenior capstone project. That approach is now challenged by changes in the assumed boundaryconditions. Students no longer progress through the program in lock-step. Electronicsapplications have evolved far beyond the components level and many cross-disciplinary skillsare needed. Finally, all students require a level of communications, team-working, trouble-shooting and representational skills that take a long time to mature so it is too late to wait till thesenior year to introduce them. The
include primingstudents for subsequent ‘design spine’ courses and their final-year BME capstone experience, anddeveloping interactive project-based teaching at scale. The two faculty who teach this course(Frow, Smith) have co-developed the content over the past two years; we also meet biweeklyduring the academic year with faculty members teaching the other BME ‘design spine’ courses, tocoordinate program content and learning outcomes across courses.Our semester-long course focuses on global healthcare markets and device design for low-resourcesettings. The course revolves around an open-ended, team-based design project (Smith et al. 2005).A core aim is to foster curiosity and creativity1 in students’ first formal experience of engineeringdesign
Ibrahim is a civil engineer who is passionate about the sustainability of global cities. She is a triple graduate of the University of Toronto, and holds a BASc (2000), MASc (2003), and PhD (2015) in Civil Engineering, and a Certificate of Preventive Engineering and Social Development. Nadine has leveraged her industry experience to expand her inquiry into cities through urban and environmental projects in Canada and abroad. In 2010, she received the Early Career Award, awarded by the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at U of T to one alumnus, in celebration of 10 years of achievements. From undergrad research in structural engineering, into sustainable infrastructure in grad school, her vision is to connect
innovative solutions require theintegration of introductory computer programming and microcontroller functions with electricaland mechanical engineering applications. Students mention the open ended, hands-on activitiesin the course feedback as relevant applications that helped them improve their understanding andappreciation for the theory learned in the classroom. Additionally, students have learned toincorporate some of the lab requirements into their senior capstone projects. Working throughthe labs provides an excellent vehicle for deeper understanding and solving open-ended problemswhile contributing to a number of ABET student outcomes.IntroductionIndustry has recognized the need for engineers with a multidisciplinary background
engineers who can design”[11]. Considering that design is widely regarded as the main activity in engineering, it has neverbeen more urgent for students to gain design experience from their education. However, whileevery ABET accredited engineering program is required to have a capstone or similarly namedproject, most universities only provide such an experience in the senior year of the degree [6].There are two primary solutions to the given issue: offer a curriculum with a rich-project baseand/or promote co-curricular activities. This type of curriculum would entail, say, yearly designprojects, while the extra-curricular activities would include both service-learning tasks as well aslarge cross-disciplinary programs such as the Baja SAE events or
achievement of the programeducational outcomes. These outcomes are further connected to standardized assessment criteria Page 13.326.2provided by accreditation boards. A case study will be presented for the B.S. in ComputerEngineering Technology (CET) at Eastern Washington University (EWU). Expected benefits ofthe application of the proposed method are threefold: 1. Increased student ownership of learning objectives. 2. More cohesive and relevant set of class activities (i.e. tests, homework, laboratory experiments, projects, etc.). 3. A uniform program-wide way of assessing program outcomes against a set of accreditation criteria
-level courses and the capstone senior project course had greatlyincreased their usage of both C programming and programming in more specialized languagessuch as MATLAB and LabWindows. Whereas in the past any student work requiringprogramming in anything but assembly language would have required significant just-in-timeinstruction, the solid foundation in C provided by EGR226 enabled upper level courses to expectprogramming proficiency. Page 10.1265.6 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe
, Boca Raton, FL 33431 E-mails: ravivd@fau.edu and aradzins@fau.eduAbstract This paper describes an undergraduate-level problem-based design project that relates toeasing a real annoying experience for most drivers: the speed bump. It focuses on an engaging,mentoring-based learning process from inception to prototyping, while bearing in mind aspectsof commercialization. The process starts with observation – an essential first step in problem solving – of whatwe take for granted, in this case, the solid, static, annoying speed bump. The next step isdiscussing and thinking critically, identifying pros and cons of existing solutions. It is followedby a more broad definition of the problem as a “vehicular speed
paper.SERVICE LEARNING IN ENGINEERINGThe aim of this section is to answer four basic questions regarding service learning:1. What is it?2. Why is it necessary?3. How can it be incorporated?4. How can it be assessed?Although concise definitions of the term ―service learning‖ vary in presentation, there are somedefinitive attributes associated with the term. Service learning is ―experiential education‖12 or―hands-on learning‖13 in which students learn academic objectives by completing a project thataddresses human and community needs12, 13, 14. Factors that differentiate service learning from Page 23.215.3community service are the credit
- Page 9.528.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationrate planting, and yield mapping. For these applications, fast computation speed is always acentral issue and is an excellent application of our research on hardware/software tradeoffs. Figure 1. Redroot pigweed at different density levels.For example, one capstone project focuses on agricultural applications involving variable-ratetechnology (VRT). Infrared sensors are used to collect information (Figure 1). Then, distributedcontrollers evaluate the input and generate variable-rate application recommendations in real-time
convince me that theyhave a workable concept, that they have done the analyses necessary to prove concept feasibility,and that their concept is the one that I should chose and why. I do not require that any equipmentbe built, as that is one of the key elements of RIT’s Capstone Design Course. In addition, timeconstraints require that I limit the scope of the project work required, so I do not require furtherdetailed analysis or design. [See also my comments in the Closure section.] On the other hand, Ido require that they address operator controls and interface, and make that a part of theirproposal.One of the real problems with requiring a project in this course is one of timing. Much of thematerial on sensors and controls is very new to the
and not necessary for inclusion in an introductory course onVLSI. The capstone exercise of the course was a team-based design project which will bediscussed in a later section of this paper.III. Laboratory ExercisesDuring the first three weeks of lab, students were given a tutorial describing how to use MentorGraphics' Design Architect (DA) for schematic entry, Quicksim for functional simulation, andAccusim for electrical simulation of a 2-input NAND gate. They were then asked to design a 3-input NOR gate by themselves and to simulate the design. This presented little problems for themajority of students since they were familiar with DA, Quicksim, and Accusim from previouscourses and only had to deal with the fact that they were now working