the French International Engineering Program and Professor of French at the University of Rhode Island. His research focuses on scientific and professional literature of eighteenth- century France. In addition, he has published on the teaching of French and on the role of experiential education in the language curriculum. His work has appeared in journals including French Review, Aus- tralian Journal of French Studies, Online Journal of Global Engineering Education, and Symposium. His current project is a textbook on French for engineering.Ms. Silke A. ScholzAnette Geithner Page 19.20.1
Ü Source Coding Ü Channel Coding Ü Modulation, Demodulation Ü Matched Filtering Ü Monte Carlo Techniques Ü GSM Fig. 2. Digital communications algorithms associated with the proposed CRCD modules. A planned CRCD research experiences includes capstone UG projects that will use a comprehensive MATLAB implementation of this system. The CRCD model in Fig. 1 presents an approach where SP-COM research is
Epsilon). His research interests involve first year engineering course analysis, authentic projects and assessments, and K-12 engineering. Page 26.1280.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Providing Authentic Experiences in the First Year: Designing Educational Software in Support of Service Learning ActivitiesIntroductionEducators have often sought to incorporate experiential learning into the curriculum through theuse of authentic, reality-based projects. One mode that has been successfully employed is servicelearning, where classroom instruction is combined with
engage in high-effortassignments. As such, the course was designed not to be a rigorous academic course, but insteadfocused on providing experiences of the manufacturing processes. Students were givenparticipation credit for finishing fabrication lab activities, attending field trips, and completingin-class worksheets. As a result, the course grades were generally high. Recent changes to thecurriculum shifted the course to the fall semester of junior year. A new grading system wasdesired to put a greater emphasis on more involved assignments while still providing credit forexperiential components. Recently, specifications grading systems have been presented for firstyear engineering, statistics, and capstone courses [13]. Specifications grading
Paper ID #34275Supporting Equitable Team Experiences Using Tandem, an Online Assess-mentand Learning ToolDr. Robin Fowler, University of Michigan Robin Fowler is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She enjoys serving as a ”communication coach” to students throughout the curriculum, and she’s especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions involved in describing the products of open-ended design scenarios. She is one of the faculty co-innovators behind Tandem.Dr
class time, there are active discussions andhands-on learning related to the learned course content. The design thinking course has threeprojects- the first two projects are small projects aimed to help students learn the designthinking process. The third project is a larger course capstone project where students apply thedesign process to solve a real time problem and come up with functional prototypes as a projectoutcome. All the projects are group-based projects and the final project groups are selected bystudents themselves based on their interest area for the project. To understand the context ofthis study, the next section describes a typical class meeting.Daily Routine- Design Thinking Course Students read and complete the
University, Beijing, China, 1999. WORKING EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Cal Poly Pomona, 2016 – present. • Teach Process Design and Process Control for senior students. Process/Project Engineer, Wahlco Inc, Santa Ana, CA, 2014-2016. • Lead Urea to Ammonia process development. • Responsible for marketing research review. • Conduct internal and customer factory acceptance test. • Design process control system with PLC/DCS implementation. Project Manager/Senior Engineer, ClearWaterBay Technology Inc. Pomona, CA, 2007-2014. • Managed a Large-scale Refinery Energy Optimization Project, 2012-2014. • Major project in process design: 30+ units and 2 utility systems, with
project- based learning objectives that introduce 3D modeling anddigital design. A 9-12th grade curriculum has been developed and pilot recently starting inSeptember 2019. Currently there are 45 students enrolled and this is expected to grow to 85 bynext fall as the greater maritime career curriculum is expanded. This course work project basedand is centered on 3D modeling and use of digital tools in the marine environment. In addition,digital shipbuilding curriculum fundamentals have been integrated into many existing coursesfrom K-16. Some of this integration includes capstone projects in high school level physicscourses, 8-12th grade drafting and technology elective courses, shipyard and industry pre-hireprograms, Apprentice School technology
surveys were administered prior to and after this one semester course and focused on: (1)a priori knowledge and experience of the other group’s subject area; (2) effect ofinterdisciplinary project on interest in other group’s subject area; and (3) perceptions of othergroup’s profession and/or their skills. Survey results showed that neither ME nor ECE students had a prior exposure to theother discipline. After completing the course, ME students perceived that they knew more aboutchild development, play, and the design of children’s toys, and ECE students reported they betterunderstood the types of engineering disciplines. Interesting, ECE students less positively ratedtheir ME counterparts post versus pre-course in the following areas
Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET), and an evaluator for several NSF projects. His first research strand concentrates on the relationship between educational policy and STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co- developer of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 1800 times and his publications have been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Lydia Ross, Arizona State University Lydia Ross is a doctoral student and graduate research assistant at
of Engineering at Peking University, College of Engineering and Science atHuazhong University of Science and Technology, College of Modern Engineering andApplied Science at Nanjing University and so on. These engineering schools providemulti-faceted and multi-channeled funds for undergraduate engineering students totake international project internships, short-term international exchange programs, andfinish their capstone design projects overseas. Moreover, a number of engineeringschools in China adopt a “3+2” or “3+1+1” [12] dual-degree/joint degree collaborativeeducation to cultivate engineering talents by cooperating with overseas universities,providing opportunities for engineering students to study at home and then abroadduring their
ofthe ABET a-k outcomes. We frame developing the required engineering skills from thefoundation of their individual strengths. Our “One-Minute Engineer” assignment requiresstudents to describe why they are pursuing engineering as a career path. Again, the frameworkof StrengthsFinder helps students clearly express their motivations.Team projects form the framework for ItE course sequence. We sort students into teams withdiverse Strengths [2]. Students utilize team contracts in which they develop team roles based onindividual Strengths [3]. A team mapping exercise reveals that our engineering students tend tooverpopulate the executing and strategic thinking domains of Strengths. Less stereotypicalengineering students with Strengths in
University of Tennessee,Knoxville. Cornell Engineering offers a more in-depth program starting with an Introduction toEntrepreneurship for Engineers course at the sophomore level. The minor requires 18 credits andincludes courses on Ethics, History of Capitalism and Technology, Accounting and Finance,Ideation and Design Thinking and a capstone entrepreneurship project. An experiential learningexperience through a summer internship or coop program is encouraged but not required.The engineering entrepreneurship minor at the University of Virginia is comprised of threerequired courses and one elective. The three required courses are Business Fundamentals,Engineers as Entrepreneurs, and Entrepreneurial Finance. An elective course is also requiredwhich
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 has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for introductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conduct- ing research on a large scale NSF faculty development project. His team is studying how workshops on strategies of engagement and feedback with support from internet tools and resources affect faculty be- liefs, classroom practice, and
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Building the Design Competence in Industrial Engineering Junior Students through realistic constraints of the Operations and Logistics LaboratoryAbstractThis paper provides a laboratory development experience through a product design projectwith junior students of the Industrial Engineering (IE) program in Universidad del Norte,Barranquilla, Colombia. In the course “Productive Systems Design” (PSD) the students hadthe opportunity to develop their final project according to the needs of the Operations andLogistics lab, which serves around 6 courses of the IE department. Students wereintroduced to a challenge: to design a product with its manufacturing process
George W McNelly Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, In- diana, USA. He received a Ph.d. from Purdue University in 1995. He is the founder and director of two industry sponsored applied research labs: Power Electronics Development and Applications Lab (PEDAL) and Smart Meter Integration Lab (SMIL). He is the Principal Investigator of one of 10 Global Innovation projects funded by the US department of State, Rapid, Smart Grid Impact RSGI), partnering with DeMontfort University in Leicester, UK, and UNESP in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has been a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) since 1998.Mr. Naveen Kumar Koyi, Purdue University, West Lafayette Naveen Kumar was
program which may make the sample less comparable toother engineering students at similar points in their academic career. As such, we delve deeperinto the context of the study. The study happened in an upper division project-based engineeringprogram which is part of the extended campus of a medium size public university in theMidwest. The course had a total of 28 students and 17 of the 28 fully participated and consentedto the research. Each semester the students in the program are placed on vertically integratedteams, meaning first and second semester juniors (J1s and J2s) are working with seniors (S1s andS2s), and assigned a project of the scope and scale of a typical capstone project. Students earnsix credits for completing this project
virtual design space and test them against the force of gravity. The purpose of theSodaConstructor computational environment is to emulate one particular aspect of engineeringdesign, the design-build-test (DBT) cycle[10]. DBT is an iterative process through whichengineers develop and evaluate design alternatives[11]. In each iteration of the cycle, engineersdesign a solution to a specified problem, build a prototype of the proposed design, and then test Page 13.499.3the prototype to determine its potential effectiveness. The DBT concept has been used inundergraduate engineering laboratories and in capstone senior design projects [12, 13]. Based
the virtual ruler in Total QualityManagement: A Multi-media Learning Environment. Remote students typically use the virtualruler, and must improvise (recruit family members or friends) in order to complete theassignment with the required team approach.EMgt-376/475: Quality Engineering: Quality Engineering is offered in two versions, onedesigned as a capstone design experience for undergraduate quality majors in the department(EMgt-376), and a more advance version designed primarily for MS and Ph.D. students in Page 8.1016.4Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, and Engineering Management. The advanced version Proceedings
learning effectiveness. The first step requiresrestructuring the current courses IE 4352 Digital System Simulation. The second step willinvolve the development of one new Internet based manufacturing technology course: IE/ME4395 Design for Manufacturability. The third step will involve developing one restructuredcourse ME 4390 Rapid Manufacturing Systems. These courses, of interdisciplinary nature andtheir associated hands-on laboratory experience will become capstone courses, which willinclude CBRM practice, operating on hardware, virtual facility embedded tutor systems and termprojects. Moreover, the proposed activities also include project competition in IE/ME 4395. Twostudents who perform excellent in the semester project from each department
to use wire for the frame and RP for the other parts. Figure 5 – Prototype of Baja Car4.1 The USAFA classesThe two courses where we have primarily used the RPT are our sophomore-levelIntroduction to Design course and our Senior-level Intercollegiate Competition Designcourse. The Introduction to Design class exposes students to a suite of design toolsincluding: customer needs analysis, brainstorming techniques, functional modeling, QFD,decision making tools for embodiment options, design for manufacturing, design forassembly, design of experiments and, of course, prototyping). The course includes threedesign projects. The first project is merely a check of cadets’ abilities at prototyping andis assigned at the
student mentors in developing STEM Tech Clubs. The clubs will service girls from underserved school districts. Each club will use service-learning to exam and come up with a design for an environmental issue. The designs will be built using the engineering design model and presented at a capstone event. She served on the Connect To Tech Advisory Board as a member on this network of school personnel, industry leaders, and community members, whose goal is to further the education of students on Long Island in STEM areas. She has been a Long Island Regional Service Learning Network, Advisory Board member. Members provide curriculum and technical assistance to school districts that are interested in developing a service
AC 2012-4526: A WORKSHOP TO IMPROVE COMMUNICATION SKILLSFOR TEACHING ASSISTANTSDr. Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology Elizabeth A. DeBartolo is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She earned her B.S.E. at Duke University in 1994 and her Ph.D. at Purdue University in 2000. She works with students on assistive device design and determining mechani- cal properties of materials. DeBartolo serves on her college’s leadership teams for both multi-disciplinary capstone design and outreach program development.Prof. Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology Margaret B. Bailey, P.E., is a professor of mechanical engineering
theoretical and practical. In many cases, the laboratory component of courses will be significantly strengthened with the semester transition due to the additional five weeks allocated. Within the new curriculum plan, there are extensive opportunities for long-term projects, existing both early in the programs, and as part of capstone sequences. Additionally, a course entitled Design and Innovation has been added in the third year to provide students with a significant long-term project experience prior to their first co-operative educational experience. Perhaps the most significant impact of the semester conversion deals with student
AC 2010-851: DEVELOPING AN ENERGY LITERACY CURRICULUM FORINCOMING FRESHMEN AT BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: LESSONS LEARNEDKenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University Dr. Van Treuren is a professor on the faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Baylor University. He teaches the capstone Mechanical Engineering Laboratory course as well as courses in heat transfer, aerospace engineering, gas turbines, fluid mechanics, and wind power. His research interests include energy education and gas turbine heat transfer. He can be contacted at Kenneth_Van_Treuren@baylor.edu.Ian Gravagne, Baylor University Dr. Gravagne is an assistant professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at
infrastructure related systems for important tasks such astraffic management (smart signals) and power distribution (smart grids). As a result, theimportance of teaching IoT related concepts and technology to students in computer science,electrical engineering, computer engineering and other relevant STEM education programscontinues to increase. As graduates from these programs enter the workforce they will requireknowledge of sensing devices, communication technologies, and control techniques tosuccessfully meet an ever-increasing demand for the design and support of IoT related systems[1, 4, 15].An ongoing project at Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Texas A&M University-CorpusChristi, both Hispanic Serving Institutions, has focused on
tostudents when they work later on capstone projects where they may be required to identify asuitable battery for their senior design course. Simultaneously, it opens an opportunity to discussbriefly on the materials used in batteries and their potential harm to the environment [4]depending on how they are disposed.Based on these discussions an assignment is given to students. While the points assigned to theproject are only three percent of the total grade, the goal of the assignment is to encourageresearching sources and reading materials relevant to appropriate disposal of different types ofbatteries that can harm environment. Further, students gathered information related toresponsible behavior and examined how different individuals practice the
two campuses to ensure that students have the pre-requisite knowledge to succeed in either program.Table 1 shows the core courses students from Kelowna take on the Vancouver campus whenthey follow the mobility path. In addition to these core courses, these students would take threetechnical electives. As one can observe from the course titles, the focus is on productionmanagement.Table 1: Core courses in fourth year curriculum on the Kelowna campus for Vancouver students Course: Title: MANF 370 Production Management II ENGR 413 Law and Ethics for Engineers MANF 430 Manufacturing Capstone Design Project
. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Qualitative Analysis of Lab Skills in CHE LabAbstractTo better understand the change in student perception and abilities in a CHE laboratory course, amulti-dimensional survey was administered to two different student cohorts: one with atraditional lab structure and one with a revised lab structure. While quantitative data from theself-assessment and lab skills test has been analyzed [1], this work presents analysis of one of theopen-ended responses questions on the lab skills test. This study was motivated by the desire tounderstand the impact curriculum revisions have on student experience and abilities. The data setfor this project
that advance learning and teaching in engineering. He is also working on National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects exploring engineering design thinking. His areas of research include engineering design thinking, adult learning cognition, engineering education professional development and technical training. He has extensive international experience working on technical training and engineering educaton projects funded by the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, and U.S. Department of Labor, USAID. Countries where he has worked include Armenia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, and Thailand. In addition, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses for the Department of Engineering