seminaris similar to that described by Swamidass and Bryant1, except in addition to having studentswork on team-related activities, there are also guest speakers who present their entrepreneurialactivities, and the teams begin to concentrate on identifying a single product idea. For eachoffering, 3 teams of between 3-5 students were selected.Course outcomes include being able to: • Understand and experience selected elements of the product realization process. • Demonstrate that students can function effectively on multidisciplinary teams. • Develop a complete business plan for the introduction of a new product. • Have a demonstrated understanding of intellectual property and ethical issues associated with new product
helpful.Other units of material that we have included in the initial base set course material are as follows:11. Cost estimate at different level and stage.12. Ethics, product liability related to design practice.Developing Shared Design and Teaching ToolsTo use the base set of lecture materials and Capstone Design Manual, some web-based tools have beendeveloped. Others recognized as useful will be developed in the near future. The developed teaching anddesign tools include a design case library, a tolerance/fits specification tool, an optimization subroutinelibrary, a cam-follower modeling and dynamic simulation tool, and a tolerance stack analysis tool. Amore general purpose mechanism simulation program is currently being implemented. These tools
Engineering Department at Georgia Institute of Technology.Dr. McIntire received his B.Ch.E. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering from Cornell University in 1966 andhis Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University in 1970. Dr. McIntire has edited two texts:Biotechnology - Science, Engineering and Ethical Challenges for the Twenty-First Century [Joseph Henry Press(NAS), 1996] and Frontiers in Tissue Engineering [Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd., 1998]. Page 9.459.10 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American
years for research anddevelopment programs coordinated among several federal agencies. According to the bill, tenfederal agencies, such as the National Science Foundation, would award grants to sixnanoscience research centers established by the National Nanotechnology Initiative. It authorizespublic hearings and expert advisory panels, as well as the American NanotechnologyPreparedness Center to study the emerging technology's potential societal and ethical effects.3About 70 percent of the new nanotechnology funding will go to university research efforts,which will help meet the demand for workers with nanoscale science and engineering skills. Theinitiative will also fund the projects of several governmental agencies. Much of the research
final product is put to the test in anational competition involving the top universitiesacross the United States. However, crossing thefinish line is not the only goal of the students. Theymust also participate in the written and oral sections of the final competition, whichrequires the teams to defend their choices both on paper and on stage.One project: two solutionsOf course the first time an engineering department atany university embarks upon such a competition,there will naturally be issues to smooth out. ForMTSU, the problem initially was not how manystudents were available for the task, rather it was howto organize them into productive teams. There wereso many interested freshmen who possessed theenthusiasm and work ethic for such a
discussed during the presentation of final class projects projects,, so that green solutionsfrom the beginning of the project can be aachieved in the AEC industry. Also, guest lectures onsustainability, BIM technology, ethics, and green markets potential are delivered.Figure 2.. Schematic diagram for the proposed framework3Students in the proposed course are expected to gain (1) uunderstanding of green resources suchas building materials, building forms, and building systems, (2) hands hands-on on experience with BIM,especially 3D geometric models
6 Engineering Ethics 7 10 5 Graduate Studies Civil Engineering Community Engagement in Engineering Education 8 8 4 Multidisciplinary Engineering Two Year College Computers in Education 9 6 3 New Engineering Educators Environmental Engineering Mechanics Aerospace Mechanical Engineering 10 Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
directlymeasured. The aim for this unit of study is to raise awareness of the moral, ethical, social,economic, and environmental implications of using science and technology. Learning ObjectivesTo be able to fully answer the essential question and the address the project aim each student willneed to meet the three learning objectives listed below. 1. Describe the role of the data center in the functioning of the web 2. Identify inherent concerns in data center thermal management 3. Describe current and possible future strategies to address data center thermal management concerns. Foundational Learning ModulesThe Foundational Learning Modules drive the introduction of core content to meet the objectivesas well as promoting the
• Organization & Industry • Metacognition • Professional • Reflection and self-‐assessment • Ethical • Information and media literacy • Legal • Professional development • Security 10. INNOVATION / CREATIVE THINKING • Social • New and novel solutions to problems 5. PROBLEM SOLVING AND CRITICAL • Risk
constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability.This activity provides numerous constraints including component size, product rating, limitedproduct development time, limited manufacturing time, and fixed and variable costs associatedwith labor and materials. Assessment of this outcome can be based on whether or not teamswere able to make a profit on their design. (d) An ability to function on multidisciplinary teams.Multidisciplinary teams are formed out of the cohort of engineering physics and opticalengineering students in our class. Success in practice is only achieved through teamwork; byassigning a fixed cost per student for labor and keeping the
) (b.3) Analyze & interpret data from experiments (c) Design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs (e) Solve biomedical engineering problems (d) Function on multidisciplinary team (f) Ethical responsibility: Cite regulations and standards and credit work (g) Communicate effectively: written and
Paper ID #10226An inclusive process for developing a taxonomy of keywords for engineeringeducation researchDr. Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan Dr. Cynthia Finelli is Director of the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Engineering and research associate professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. She actively pursues research in engineering education and assists other faculty at U-M in their scholarly endeavors. Her current research interests include studying faculty motivation to change classroom practices, evalu- ating methods to improve teaching, and exploring ethical decision
. F., and Austin, S. “Adding Sustainability to the Engineer’s Toolbox: A Challenge for Educators.” Environmental Science and Technology, 2007: 4847-4850.4. Huntzinger, D. N., Hutchins, M. J., Gierke, J. S., and Sutherland, J. W. “Enabling Sustainable Thinking in Undergraduate Engineering Education.” International Journal of Engineering Education, 23(2) 2007: 218-230.5. Chau, K. W. “Incorporation of Sustainability Concepts into a Civil Engineering Curriculum.” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, ASCE, 2007: 188-191.6. El-Zein, A., Airey, D., Bowden, P., and Clarkeburn, H. “Development of a Course on Environmental Sustainability, Ethical Decision-making and Communication Skills in Engineering
Paper ID #9841Assessment of Students’ Changed Spatial Ability Using Two Different Cur-riculum Approaches; Technical Drawing Compared to Innovative ProductDesignDr. Mark E Snyder, Illinois Institute of Technology Architectural Engineering Faculty at IIT. Creating and testing innovative classroom pedagogy for the last 10 years. Evaluating the link between visualization and improved abstraction skills to specific classroom activities. Investigating the connection between ethical judgement and academic motivation to improve the learning environment.Prof. Matthew Spenko, Illinois Institute of Technology
grade has a lower impact on their future, and have more confidence in their choice ofmajor than females in low representation majors. Compared to top enrollment majors, BIOE’sfeel they are struggling more with their courses and have less faculty support. BIOE females feelthey have a greater understanding and ethical responsibility, and confidence in their choice ofmajor compared to top enrollment females. Due to the consistency of these results a predictivemodel of choice of long-term engineering goal was created. Students who score highly onknowing an engineer as a reason for selecting a major, wanting a good potential salary, designingand building things, and their perceptions of the present were likely to be traditional engineers.Students
aspects of the project as compared to the first and second generationprojects and other typical capstone projects. Page 24.287.5Senior Design ProjectsNearly all of the latest ABET accreditation student outcomes (Criterion 3) for engineeringprograms are related to senior design projects.28 These include: (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical
OutcomesUpon the completion of this project, students certainly gained some knowledge related to circuitdesign and collaborated with each other working toward a common goal. In addition, it can beclaimed that the project activity supports the following students outcomes set by ABET: (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering; (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data; (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability; (d) an ability to function on
, including environmental, ethical, cultural, social, political, and economical aspects”;(b) seeks simplicity (as opposed to what Langdon Winner terms manifest and latent complexity); (c) chooses decentralization over authoritarian centralization; (d) employs labor intensive as opposed to capital intensive strategies; and (e) addresses itself to the unique characteristics of the surrounding community. Working with the marginalized and the poor does not imply charity. Rather, a true partnership with the community that is being served must be forged through a model where the community is involved in decision-making and management of projects. We understand this to be true for our
consider first-hand experiences with students.Identify desired attributes of graduates (such as Survey industry partners and department faculty.critical thinker, ethical) and desiredknowledge/skills of graduates (such as finiteelement analysis and communication).Identify objectives and constraints. CRC compiles.Benchmark other curricula. Review literature, explore university web sites, and invite seminar speakers.Generate concepts for new curriculum. CRC and department faculty and staff brainstorm.Select concepts for new curriculum. Departmental faculty and staff provide
with the opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge that they have gained in previousprojects. Students learned about various aspects of renewable energy including problemidentification, technical, social and environmental constraints, multidisciplinary teammanagement, communications and documentation skills. These projects also provided thestudents with an opportunity to view their designs from an ethical and sustainability awarenessperspective, thus realizing a lifelong learning opportunity. Through practice, the students realizedthat the key success to a design project is team work, industry interaction, and collaborations.Two renewable energy-related courses were developed and are being offered in the department.One of the courses is a
(Outcome E). A bigportion of the project deliverables was four to five presentations made both to the client and otherpeers at the program, and the writing of several technical reports. After each presentation, the teamreceived feedback from the faculty and peers on the content and delivery of the presentation andtheir technical writing skills. Each section of the final technical report was reviewed and gradedby the team mentor (Outcome G). One of the deliverables was the contextualization documentthat reports what significance the final design might have on the environment, health and safetyconcerns, economics, ethics, etc. (Outcome H). Based on the technical evidence and submitteddocuments, these outcomes were evaluated, and the faculty mentor
building, testing, operating andmaintaining laser and electro-optical devices and systems.2. Demonstrate critical thinking skills in applying basic photonics technology principles to solve Page 24.385.4technical problems.3. Exhibit effective oral and written communication skills, team work, and ethical andprofessional behavior in the workplace.4. Continue professional training and adapt to changes in the workplace through additionalformal and informal education.”Achievement of the PEO’s is supported by the Program Outcomes (PO) which capture whatstudents should know and be able to do at the time of graduation. Both PEO’s and PO’s werediscussed with
by a team of 4-6 students.Seven credit hours incorporate fundamental, practical and computational principles ofnanotechnology into the curriculum. This will allow the TLC to build the following professionalattributes: • Ability to work productively in a collaborative setting. • Knowledge of successful careers in the nanotechnology area to fill the future needs of industry. Students pursuing this track are equipped with key elements needed in industry, including computer modeling and simulation, laboratory experience, and design methodologies. • Ability to do scientific research and engage in discovery and scholarship. • Develop strong professional attributes, including ethical behavior in the workplace
although not free of frustrations. Faculty also observed the pedagogicalvalue of collaborative projects but there was no consensus as to if or how much extra work isrequired to administer them.1- IntroductionCapstone design projects, being the culminating experience of a typical four year engineeringcurriculum, present an opportunity to reinforce a number of critical soft skills that are deemedimportant in professional engineering practice. Such soft skills are outlined by the EngineeringCriteria of ABET1 relating to communications, teamwork, ethical responsibilities, contextualunderstanding, among others. A more extensive list of student outcomes, presented by the KernEntrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN), is aimed at fostering an
Paper ID #10188Investigation of High School Pathways into Engineering (work in progress)Dr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette Carla B. Zoltowski, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the EPICS Program at Purdue University. She received her B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering and Ph.D. in engineering education, all from Purdue University. She has served as a lecturer in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Zoltowski’s academic and research interests include human-centered design learning and assessment, service-learning, ethical reasoning development and assessment, leadership, and
Processes b Once a Year Average/Good Laboratory 2117 Statics & e Dynamics Biennial Average/Good 3317 Computer f Graphics Once a Year Average/Good 1300 Manufacturing Processes Once a Year Average/Good Laboratory 2117 h Ethics in the Profession
) Quality Approaches in Higher Education International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Research in Engineering Design Education Research in Learning Technology (Formerly Alt‐J; International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Association for Learning Technology) Higher Education (IJTLHE) Research in Science & Technological Education Journal of Agricultural Education Research in Science Education Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension Science and Engineering Ethics Journal of Applications and Practices in Engineering Science Educator Education
Engineering Education(Control group) as their principal level of interest (Appendix 1). Because they were the best-represented minority groups, we sought balance in numbers between Latino/as and AsianAmericans/Pacific Islanders. Finally, we looked at the students’ interests for participating in thestudy.time marches onRecruitment and ethical-compliance issues devoured time, as did shepherding participantsthrough the expected research activities. Scheduling proved to be a significant challenge, and theresolution of time conflicts required flexibility from the participants and creativity from theresearch team. CSM’s semesters run from about August 20, to December 15, and January 5 toMay 5.Table 2: Sex & Ethnic Breakdown of APS Participants, Fall
entrepreneurship. Activities during the dayinclude an overview of the subject area, an introduction to the types of engineering majorsinvolved, a hands-on design project and a tour to a relevant company or University project. (7)All modules are led and developed by faculty, graduate women or Women in EngineeringProgram staff. For example, WEP associate director and ceramic engineer Cheryl Knobloch, aceramic engineer, engaged girls in ethics and socially conscious engineering, asking them todesign physical environments for the physically handicapped. In another example, twoarchitectural engineering graduate women, Amy Grommes and Priya Premchandran, designed aday module on Environmental Construction and Design based on their experience in developinghay
apply and be selected for research positions, learn about best researchpractices (including ethics in research), and perform a literature review on their intended researchtopic. The second part of the course, to be taught in the fall following the research experience, isto give students the time and instruction needed to properly communicate their summer researchin papers, presentations, and posters. At the end of the proposed fall course, the students are toparticipate in an open symposium. One of the purposes of the symposium is to attract other Page 10.1040.2undergraduates into pursuing research experiences, either on-campus in a research