2015.1,2 Research and development in nanotechnology is likely to changecompletely the design, analysis, and manufacturing for a wide range of engineering products.Nanotechnology, however, is still mostly a topic for graduate schools whereas undergraduateprograms that focus on nanotechnology remain sporadic.3 Our NSF-NUE award will builda multidisciplinary, cross-campus educational program that integrates nanotechnology to theundergraduate curricula in science and engineering. Our educational program in nanotechnologywill also reach out to high school (K9-K12) and graduate students.In the development of an educational program for introducing nanotechnology to undergraduate(UG) students majoring in STEM at the New Jersey Institute of Technology
, project management,interpersonal skills, leadership, marketing skills, and life-long learning skills. While teamworkhas long been considered an integral part of a design program, not all universities, includingours, offer multidisciplinary courses or courses that expose students to “concurrent design work”methodology.1 The practice of these more recently recognized methodologies trains students toperform parallel and integrated tasks in the design process and to practice importantinterpersonal communication with colleagues in other disciplines.The second-year multidisciplinary engineering design course described in this paper broughtmultidisciplinary design education back to a The Petroleum Institute of Abu Dhabi, UAE.Although the original model
into the curriculum, in essence attempting pragmatic definitions of Page 24.357.6engineering. There are tensions that the Mann report never fully resolves around the practical vs.theoretical or abstract vs. material elements of engineering. At the time more theoretical subjectswere covered in the first two years, while more technical subjects were taught in the latter two.This structure arose from the definition of engineering as an applied science: “The conceptionunderlying this and all later curricula is that engineering is applied science; and therefore, toteach engineering, it is necessary first to teach science and then to apply it…Only
focused on family learning. Ms. Wenger is deeply commitment to diversity issues and broadening access to science for underserved audiences. She is also passionate about professional development of youth and staff working in science centers and museums.Dr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa D. McNair is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Assistant Department Head of Graduate Programs and co-Director of the VT Engineering Com- munication Center (VTECC). She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in English from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include interdisciplinary collabora- tion, design education
Paper ID #9940Virtual Community of Practice: Electric CircuitsProf. Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDr. Lisa Huettel, Duke University Dr. Lisa G. Huettel is an associate professor of the practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University where she also serves as associate chair and director of Undergraduate Studies for the department. She received a B.S. in Engineering Science from Harvard University and earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Duke University. Her research interests are focused on engineering education, curriculum and laboratory
disciplines, as well as to teach themhow to use particular tools, employ some data techniques, and write technically.8 Content that iscommon between the two tracks include engineering graphics (both by hand and with a softwarepackage), MATLAB, design, and engineering ethics. They also address an array of professionalskills, including teamwork and oral reporting. The major additional content area for the honorsstudents is computer programming in C and C++. Further, with the additional contact time, thehonors students are able to engage in a more challenging and substantial design project.9 The honorsprogram reserves ten weeks at the end of the program almost exclusively for this project, while thestandard track integrates their design project with
award winning curriculum design and reform for secondary and post-secondary Career and Technical Education programs; and provides a variety of professional development for STEM and techni- cal educators focused on advanced technologies. She earned a B.A. in Chemistry at Agnes Scott College and both a B.S. in Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Environmental) from the Uni- versity of South Florida, where her research focused on membrane separation science and technologies for water purification. She has over 20 years of experience in developing curricula for engineering and engineering technology for elementary, middle, high school, and post secondary institutions, including colleges of engineering
Vice Chancellor. As a program chair and dean, Mr. Sikoski was involved in developing several technology and engineering programs, including the Energy Technology and Pre-Engineering Program. Developing programs to meet industry workforce needs and student’s successes are his priorities. He served as an educational co-chair and chair of the curriculum committee of the Indiana Energy Consortium. He is a member of the Executive Board of Association of Technology Management and Applied Science and a visiting team member. Additionally, he serves on the advisory boards for College of Technology at Purdue University Calumet, Purdue University North Central and the Porter County Career Center.Mr. Steven Wendel, Sinclair
regularly identify this course as one of the strengths of theEngineering Physics curriculum. Their comments indicate that the goals of the course are beingmet. These goals include: • Learning about a variety of common sensors and their implementation, including sensor terminology. • Developing an electronics skill set to pull information from the sensors; • Developing laboratory skills, such as experiment design and implementation, troubleshooting, and reporting; • Learning and applying a new programming language (VB6) to communicate with external equipment (the DAQ), interpret sensor signals, and “make decisions” based on the sensor output.Programming Languages in Sensor LabThe Sensor Lab has used VB6 since its inception in
university, their two engineering schools have a lot of common ground.Both are primarily undergraduate institutions, offering master’s programs, but no doctoraldegrees. Greater emphasis is given to teaching rather than to research. Each also emphasizespractical experience, with mandatory co-op job placements woven through the curriculum in a“one academic semester, one work semester” fashion. In both of these roles I taught manycomputer aided design and computer aided engineering courses (CAD/CAE), but thrown into themix were also classes in engineering graphics, design, solid mechanics, machine design, and thelike. By the time I left GVSU, I had become a permanent tenure track faculty member.Perceiving that an industrial job might offer me a better
Page 24.1248.2 mechanism to enhance a project.5. CCA senior level class was not motivating the students to fully utilize the associate faculty as industry legal experts.6. Senior students were not able to articulate construction contract issues and their solutions with the traditional lecture approach of the class.The class structure was not stimulating the students in an actionable way or preparing them forthe construction industry as project managers, contractor representatives, and owners. Thestudents needed a thirty thousand foot view of construction contracts, and needed to understandhow the construction contract administration concepts integrate with the other constructionmanagement skills. The students also needed a mechanism to
enhanced by mentoring and teamwork activities that are built in as integral elements of theprogram. At the University site, HERE partners with both the College of Engineering, ComputerScience and Technology, and the College of Health and Human Services. The HHS KinesiologyDepartment at CSULA is host of an innovative laboratory for rehabilitation exercises withsignificant outreach to the disabled community. HERE also collaborates with the highlysuccessful Math and Engineering Program (MEP). The MEP is based upon the principles ofcommunity building and collaborative learning. It fosters peer interaction between itsparticipants and provides enrichment opportunities so that the desire to learn and apply oneself isboth stimulated and nurtured through
Investigator and Director for the TIME Center (Technology & Innovation in Manufacturing & Engineering), an Advanced Technological Education Regional Center of Excellence funded by the National Science. Mr. Faber has extensive curriculum design experience in developing customized education, training and occupational certification programs. His leadership helped build the DACUM Resource Center into a respected state, regional and national curriculum and instructional design resource over its sixteen-year history, serving business, industry, labor, government and educational customers and training over 350 DACUM facilitators nationally. He continues to be ac- tively involved in a variety of educational and
established in the core K-12standards5. To address this challenge, the third model5 implemented a computer scienceendorsement program for secondary school teachers with focus on the national level modelcurriculum set by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)9 and Computer ScienceTeachers Association (CSTA)10. Following their successful experience, we designed ourworkshop to be closely aligned with the CSTA standards. The fourth model8 offered an onlineprofessional development workshop for high school teachers. Inspired by the fourth model,online forum and online technical support are integrated in our post-workshop activites. In Page 24.53.3summary
they progressthrough the engineering curriculum using a longitudinal study.BackgroundIt has been asserted that the current generation of incoming college students possesses a highdegree of civic responsibility. The Higher Education Research Institute has been studying civicresponsibility for over 40 years and reported that civic engagement has increased, evidenced bythe fact that 72% of first year college students in 2012 said that “help others in difficulty” was anobjective that was essential or very important,1 as compared to 58.7%, in 1987.2 The Associationof American Colleges and Universities (AACU) currently has an initiative to educate studentsfor personal and social responsibility, stating a goal that campuses should “prepare [students
. Cummings P.E., Purdue University Antonette Cummings is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.Dr. William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette William (Bill) Oakes is the Director of the EPICS Program and Professor at Purdue University. He is one of the founding faculty members in the School of Engineering Education with courtesy appointments in Mechanical, Environmental and Ecological Engineering as well as Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education. He has received numerous awards for his efforts at Purdue including being elected as a fellow of the Teaching Academy and listed in the Book of
metabolic reactions under controlled variables. TheMathWorks grant-funded project of systems biology and kinetic process modeling relied onfundamental knowledge in biology, chemistry, mathematics, statistics, kinetics, and chemicalprocess engineering, which was integrated into the curriculum for four major courses at WUSTLand MSU. 1. Metabolic engineering (ChE596) at WUSTL focuses on analysis of complex interactions in biological systems and introduction of metabolic changes to achieve desired cellular properties [1]. Currently, numerous chemical compounds, ranging from pharmaceuticals to biofuel, have been produced with the aid of biological tools. The ability to efficiently synthesize natural or synthetic products requires a
Leader for the Automotive Industry in the area of Embedded and Software Systems. She also worked as an Assistant to the Dean of the Graduate Studies of Engineering Division at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico in 1995 .In 2000 she was a grader at Texas A&M University. In 2001 she interned in the Preamp R&D SP Group at Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, and at Intersil Corporation, Dallas / Milpitas, as a Design Engineer, in the High Performance Analog Group in 2005. She worked at Intersil as a Senior Design Engineer in the Analog and Mixed Signal-Data Converters Group. In 2009 she joined Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York as an adjunct professor in ECT-ET Department. Currently
: A Four Course StudyAbstractOne measure of continuous improvement in the Electrical and Computer EngineeringDepartment (ECE) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is survey feedback fromalumni on their workplace readiness. In a recent survey, alumni highlighted oral communicationas an area of weakness in the curriculum. When a group of faculty teaching design courseslearned about the University’s Communication Across the Curriculum (CAC) program, theyformed a pilot team to focus on improving student oral presentation skills in the design courses.The CAC program focuses on the oral and written communication as playing an integral role inteaching students reasoning, critical thinking, and problem solving skills. And as
the platform of interactive information visualization on aircraft product development,” in System Science, Engineering Design and Manufacturing Informatization (ICSEM), 2012 3rd International Conference (IEEE), 2012, vol. 1, pp. 180-184.11. Y. Li, R. Yan, and J. Jian, “A semantics-based approach for collaborative aircraft tooling design. Advanced Engineering Informatics,” Advanced Engineering Informatics, vol.24, no. 2, pp. 149–158, 2010.12. M. R. Cutkosky, R. S. Engelmore, R. E. Fikes, M. R. Genesereth, T. R. Gruber, W. S. Mark, J. M. Tenenbaum, and J. C. Weber, “PACT: An experiment in integrating concurrent engineering systems,” Computer, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 28–37, 1993.13. P. Trott, Innovation management
Paper ID #9246The Accidental EngineerDr. Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants Catherine E. Brawner is President of Research Triangle Educational Consultants. She received her Ph.D.in Educational Research and Policy Analysis from NC State University in 1996. She also has an MBA from Indiana University (Bloomington) and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University. She specializes in evaluation and research in engineering education, computer science education, teacher education, and technology education. Dr. Brawner is a founding member and former treasurer of Research Triangle Park Evaluators, an
advocates flexible“By 2020, America will once again have the highest scheduling and online learning to provide continuous, on-proportion of college graduates in the world.” – President demand learning opportunities. Ultimately, the report poses aBarack Obama, Address to Congress, February 24, 2009 grand challenge to the fifty states and federal government to The first National Education Technology Plan (NETP) – work together to build an “integrated end-to-end real-timeGetting America’s Students Ready for the 21st Century: system
implementation of active learning environments in engineeringdegrees has been heterogeneous, opting in the vast majority of cases for a combination ofmethodologies. Mills y Treagust9 conclude in their study that an adequate solution is adoptinga mixed methodology which combines the use of conventional classroom teaching for theearlier courses and problem-based learning for the advanced ones. Heitmann10 goes evenfurther, considering that a curriculum set by projects and problem-based learning may satisfyany demand of knowledge, competence and attitudes required from engineering graduates.Therefore, the design of a suitable curriculum may not just get limited to the use of thesemethodologies but also can contemplate the use of any kind of active learning
Professional Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle University of Daytona Beach Florida. I am currently enrolled in the Technology Management PhD program at Indiana State University and expect to graduate in the fall of 2014.Dr. Leslie Pagliari, East Carolina University Dr. Leslie Pagliari serves as Associate Professor of Technology Systems and Associate Dean for Aca- demic Affairs in the College of Technology and Computer Science. Her research interests center on STEM initiatives, global supply chain issues, and new technologies in the distribution and logistics sec- tor. She was one of three professors in the United States recognized in an Inbound Logistics Article featuring leading professors in today’s supply chain curriculum
their careers Five critical components 1. Project or research activity engaging a Grand Challenge 2. Interdisciplinary curriculum 3. Entrepreneurship 4. Global dimension 5. Service learning Simon GC Scholar Maggie Hoff working on potable water project in Peru Courtesy Martha AbsherProject Example: Revenue-generating Public Toilets in TogoDuke Prof. Marc Deshusses, Gates Foundation Grand Challenge Scholar: Conner Cotton
. Steps such as thisappear to have an effect, particularly when used in conjunction with classroom discussions onacademic integrity. Kerkvliet and Sigmund12 report that harsh warnings against cheating givenright before a test reduce transgressions by 13%, including an additional proctor reducestransgressions by 11% and writing multiple versions of a test reduces transgressions by 25%.Harding suggests that cheating will be reduced for tests which are not convoluted, do notoverwhelm the students, don’t require memorization, allow reference sheets, address onlymaterial covered in class and can be finished in the allotted time30. Harding further suggestsallowing students 4 times the amount of time it takes the instructor to complete the
Paper ID #9860Measuring the Effects of Precollege Engineering EducationMr. Noah Salzman, Purdue University, West Lafayette Noah Salzman is a doctoral candidate in engineering education at Purdue University. He received his B.S. in engineering from Swarthmore College, his M.Ed. in secondary science education from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University. He has work experience as an engineer and taught science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at the high school level. His research focuses on the intersection of pre-college and undergraduate engineering
FormatVALUE Project BackgroundThe Association of American Colleges and Universities started the VALUE (Valid Assessmentof Learning in Undergraduate Education) project in 20072. This program was created in order tobetter show educational benefits, quality of learning, and retention and graduation rates. Sincethere are no standardized tests for the Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs), there was a need todevelop a way to document and assess student learning in undergraduate education.The VALUE project was driven by an advisory board made up of 12 people, national andinternational leaders. The main goal was to generate a way to evaluate student learning that wasbased on the work students produced through the curriculum across a set of Essential
integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher-level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. His research interests particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU.Dr. Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University Bill Brooks is a postdoctoral scholar in the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineer- ing at Oregon State University. His Ph.D used written explanations to
of tutorial dialogue.BEETLE II is another tutorial dialogue system, this time toteach circuit analysis, whose interface included an area todisplay reading material, a circuit simulator, and a dialoguehistory window [12]. All interactions with the system weretyped. Students read curriculum slides and carried out Figure 6. Conceptual questions for transient voltages in an RL Circuit.exercises that involved experiments with a circuit simulator This conceptual problem is from the conceptual inventory of Rancour andand explained the observed behavior. The system also asked Helgelard, UMass-Dartmouth, see www.foundationcoalition.org.high-level questions, designed to accept unrestricted language