describes thecircuit, lab exercise, in-class curriculum and assessment of this project and provides a detailedbill of materials. Alterations to the current circuit which would provide a deeper experience withcircuits and electronic components, such as amplifiers and RC filters, are also discussed anddemonstrate the potential for this project to be applied in a variety of courses. Page 24.48.2IntroductionFirst-year engineering curriculum can potentially cover an incredible array of topics. Inevitablyan instructor must prioritize the topics and depth of coverage as they best see fit. Thisprioritization becomes of increasing importance in classes
. Page 24.839.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Laboratory Development for Dynamic Systems Through the Use of Low Cost Materials and ToysAbstractIn an effort to provide students with a hands-on learning experience while demonstratingdynamics concepts, the authors have developed several laboratory activities. The goal of theselaboratories is to engage students in an active learning exercise that employs higher levelthinking skills to integrate multiple course concepts. The laboratories are focused on inducing theanalysis, synthesis and evaluation levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Each laboratory was designedwith low cost materials that are readily available at most hardware
with projectsadministered by the Collaboratory for Strategic Partnerships and Applied Research. TheCollaboratory, or Collab for short, is an interdisciplinary organization established by theengineering department at Messiah College in 2000. The Collab seeks to involve students andfaculty in service-oriented projects that encourage them to bring their talents and abilities tobear on real-world problems involving clients from around the globe.9 Not surprisingly, theunderlying purpose of the Integrated Projects Curriculum (IPC) and the mission of the Collabare very similar, as they both originated from people in the same department. While the two areclosely intertwined, some significant differences exist. Student participation in the Collab
role models14 in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields (19).1516 Hence, there are several demonstrated benefits in the literature from the fields of basic sciences17 for the undergraduate students as well as for the K-12 students. It should be noted, though, that18 science and mathematics are integral parts of the K-12 curriculum; outreach and educational19 activities are natural for these fields. The challenge for transportation engineering educators20 would be to carefully identify material from undergraduate classes in transportation engineering21 that uses high school physics and mathematics materials as pre-requisites. This prerequisite22 knowledge required at the undergraduate level could be
poor grade on an exam or essay does notsignificantly detract from an otherwise good performance.Class participation is encouraged and considered in the final grade where close decisions arerequired. Attendance is taken daily by using a sign in sheet with penalties imposed to discourageabsences. Anything discussed in class (including the content of videos) is fair game to beincluded on the exams.Lessons LearnedWhat began as a small project to introduce students to technological literacy in one college classhas become so successful that it is continually being expanded. Many lessons have been learnedwhile integrating recreated artifacts, collected retro technologies, graphic images, pictures, andvideos into the class sessions along with
connections as well.An equally important line of inquiry for the present study is the role of reflection in experientiallearning. The research context, Kettering University, a technically-focused university with asubstantial co-op requirement for graduation (six terms), offers an important experientiallearning component that can then be integrated with academics. But it is not enough for studentsto simply have experiences. Dewey, an important early proponent of experiential education,claimed, “We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience”6 andGibbs, in an oft-quoted passage, echoes: It is not sufficient simply to have an experience in order to learn. Without reflecting upon this experience it may quickly be
utilizedthe technology via a hybrid learning approach. For example, in a 2012 Vanderbilt Universitygraduate level course on machine learning, students signed-up for and attended a traditionalresidency-based course per usual, but the course also integrated all or parts of existing MOOCs.Students in the course participated in a MOOC from Stanford University on Machine Learningwhile concurrently engaging in discussions during regular class time throughout the semester onthe Vanderbilt campus10. Leveraging MOOCs in such a traditional-online learning hybrid maybe a way to push pedagogical boundaries and enhance learning via a flipped classroom format,which similarly is an instructional approach that is receiving a great deal of attention. In additionto
, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, linking other researchers andpractitioners (industry) to innovative research, and informing the public of research results andtheir impact on society. The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake EngineeringSimulation (NEES), an NSF-funded network of 14 large-scale experimental laboratoriesconnected by a robust cyberinfrastructure, completes its tenth year of operation in September2014. Its mission is to reduce the impact of earthquakes and tsunamis on society throughresearch, innovation, engineering, and education. Since the launch of NEES in 2003 the EOTprogram has grown from a federation of outreach activities run independently at the experimentallaboratories to an integrated network of
too far from being true in undergraduate education in the United States wherein students arememorizing their way through most of the curriculum. In an US News and World Reportarticle2, “High School Students Need to Think, Not Memorize”, an Advanced Placement biologyteacher is quoted “Students go through the motions of their lab assignments without graspingwhy, and ‘the exam is largely a vocabulary test’”.David Perkins3, co-director of Harvard Project Zero, a research center for cognitivedevelopment, and senior research associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, pointsout several observations in his article on “Teaching for Understanding”. (1) “The student mightsimply be parroting the test and following memorized routines for stock
Doctor of Management with George Fox University.Dr. Donald Ken Takehara, Taylor University Don Takehara was Director of the Center for Research & Innovation (CR&I) and Associate Professor at Taylor University for 9 years. With responsibility for leadership and overall success of the CR&I, Don developed/implemented an integrated program of research, entrepreneurship, and business assistance. During these years, research grant funding tripled, over 20 new companies were launched/assisted, and consultant services were provided to 100+ companies/organizations. Don also taught classes in engi- neering, physics, and chemistry and performed research in STEM Education (high altitude ballooning), biomass
motivation of career changers is a potential area for additional investigation.Once motivations are understood, it becomes important to understand the different types ofacademic positions and how they may or may not integrate with the motivations of a careerchanging engineer.Types of Academic PositionsConsidering the importance of personal motivation factors and the decision processes notedabove, it is critical to understand how motivations fit into the varied roles available within theacademy. This section provides an overview of the literature describing the potential options andrequirements for engineering related faculty positions. One of the first realizations in searching
programs and was instrumental in the breakthrough EDI/EFT payment system implemented by General Motors. Dr. Ferguson is a graduate of Notre Dame, Stanford and Purdue Universities and a member of Tau Beta Pi.Dr. Wendy C. Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr Wendy C. Newstetter is the Director of Educational Research and Innovation in the College of Engi- neering at Georgia Tech.Dr. Eden Fisher, Carnegie Mellon University Eden Fisher is the Director of the Masters Program in Engineering and Technology Innovation Man- agement (E&TIM) and Professor of the Practice at Carnegie Mellon University. She earned an AB in Chemistry from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Engineering & Public Policy from Carnegie
Page 24.1024.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Prototype Design of a Solar Greenhouse Incorporating Clean Energy Manufacturing Concept AbstractThis paper discusses an educational effort that incorporates green energy manufacturing conceptsfor the prototype design of a solar greenhouse in a senior design project. The goal of the seniordesign project was to provide the design of a greenhouse module integrated with renewableenergy as an initial stepping stone for the future construction of manufacturing plants in industry.The renewable energy integrator component in the project seeks to explore the technology ofrenewable and
engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field). In addition, in 2003 Dr. Sheppard was named co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to form the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE), along with faculty at the University of Washington, Colorado School of Mines, and Howard University. More recently (2011) she was named as co-PI of a national NSF innovation center (Epicenter), and leads an NSF program at Stanford on summer research experiences for high school teachers. Her industry experiences includes engineering positions at Detroit’s ”Big Three:” Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, and Chrysler Corporation. At
of governance and management arrangements, with ministry control of public higher education institutions to be replaced by a system of governance within which these institutions have legal autonomy and greater rights in relation to their training programs, research agendas, human resource management practices, and budget plans; The renewal, restructuring, and internationalization of the higher education curriculum. The development of a more internationally integrated higher education system, involving more international commitments and agreements and improvements in the teaching and learning of foreign languages (especially English).The reforms will have major implications both for the characteristics and for the size of thesystem
understandingthrough lab report scores as measured by teaching assistants. The results for the fluids and heattransfer laboratories showed that there was no significant difference in the learning of thestudents. Student perception of the remote lab experiences depended on the smooth running ofthe experiments. The pilot study suggests that some laboratory experiences can be successfullyported to a remote or online mode without sacrificing the student learning experience.IntroductionThe Mechanical Engineering (ME) program is the most popular major at Iowa State Universitywith a current enrollment of approximately 1800 students and about 240 BSMEs being awardedevery year. An integral part of the ME curriculum are core courses that have integratedlaboratories to
places as Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Universities of Texas and Wisconsin in the U.S., Kyoto and Nagoya Universities in Japan, the Ioffe Institute in Russia, and Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology in Ukraine. He was ECSE Department Head from 2001 to 2008 and served on the board of the ECE Department Heads Association from 2003 to 2008. He is presently the Education Director for the SMART LIGHTING NSF ERC.Dr. Dianna L. Newman, University at Albany/SUNY Dr. Dianna Newman is Research Professor and Director of the Evaluation Consortium at the University at Albany/SUNY. Her major areas of study are program evaluation with an emphasis in STEM related programs. She has numerous chapters, articles, and
document’s message with purpose, audience, and context. To measureassessment outcomes, the project uses Kirkpatrick Scale 1, 2, and 3 instruments—includingscaled, pre- and post-activity perceptual evaluations, “minute papers,” and analyses of samplepapers from the engineering design class.Background and ContextOver the years, there are two main ways in which writing education has been integrated intoengineering curricula—the traditional Letters and Sciences approach, in which an Englishprofessor instructs many students, some of which happen to be engineering students; or in newerand more concentrated cases, the engineering students participate in writing and communicationclasses designed specifically for technical writing in engineering
. Thework was supervised by manufacturing and computer faculty and implemented in Visual C++.The paper will demonstrate this approach where the students developed process visualizationtools as part of their manufacturing engineering curriculum.2. Ingot Casting SystemProduction planning is known to be an extremely difficult task due to rapidly changing marketneeds, a high degree of complex logistics involved, and therefore the use of the right tool willmake the job easier and may result in higher efficiency and higher profits [8]. The productionplanning problem of metal ingots casting is addressed in the system presented in the presentwork. The solution strategy is based on an analysis of the bottle neck of the assembly line [9],where the melting
American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Using a Journal Article with Sophomores to Increase Lifelong Learning ConfidenceIntroductionJournal articles are often used in upper-level engineering courses as reference material toencourage students to develop life-long learning skills. How early in the curriculum are journalarticles introduced? This paper presents the results of a study on using a journal article in asophomore-level class.Chemical Engineering Progress often includes articles appropriate for use in sophomore andjunior engineering science classes of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer 1-6.These articles use only the concepts covered in the course and include analytical results
responses, activity participation andconfidence in presenting designs. SIGT continues the encouragement of females to pursueSTEM related careers and provides a positive environment to expand their education.Worksheets of students enrolled in the female only session exhibited increased performanceobserved by the completeness and creative solutions recorded.International students: Brazilian students participating in the program are consideredacademically strong and are enrolled in an English high school curriculum. Students stated thatthe environmental engineering course was selected to expand their education and understandingof international issues. Brazil shares similar technologies and engineering design concepts withthe United States providing
0.015 0.02 0.025 0.03 0.035 0.04 0.045 0.05 Delay (sec) Figure 6b. Linear vs Non Linear.Integration with NASA CIPAIR Internship ProgramCañada College and San Francisco State University made joint efforts to install an internship inorder to intensify the minority interest in the STEM fields. Thus came about COMETS, CreatingOpportunities for Minorities in Engineering, Technology, and Science. This internship issponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s, NASA, CurriculumImprovement Partnership Award for the Integration of Research into the UndergraduateCurriculum (CIPAIR
teams. In order to assist withresolving these issues, an online portal was developed to support the implementation of multidisciplinary CapstoneDesign projects. Faculty and student feedback was solicited in order to conceptualize and develop the website tosupport the entire process of student team formation, sharing of multidisciplinary project ideas across schools andmaking student-team assignments. This paper presents the design of this web portal along with a discussion on thescope for further improvement.KeywordsMultidisciplinary, capstone design, senior design, online portalIntroductionCapstone Design Course is offered as a project based culminating course in many undergraduateengineering programs. It is an integrative course where senior
assessmentrubrics for a range of general education outcomes – the American Association of Colleges andUniversities’ (AACU) Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE)project20. Focused on outcomes generally associated with liberal education, the VALUE projectbrought together faculty from AACU member institutions to develop a common set of rubrics foroutcomes ranging from civic engagement to integrative learning to reading, including rubrics fororal communication, written communication, and teamwork. Each rubric provides an overalldefinition for the learning outcome and any key terms, and identifies benchmark, milestone, and Page
, there has been much discussion (see for example, [14], [1], [7], [9], [3] and [16]), about Page 24.813.2what a Systems Engineering curriculum should be. Particularly important is the question of howto introduce young or inexperienced students to Systems Engineering concepts (see for example[16], [8], [15], and [2]). The consensus appears to be to introduce students to these conceptsthrough hands-on experience, however, introducing students to these concepts and providinghands on experience in a first course is a tall order. In this paper, we present an overview of aneffort to do just that via the revamping of our Introduction to Systems
this concept in an easier way?”; etcall provide the teacher with an idea of how the class is receiving the material17.Not only is asking questions important, but it is also necessary to ask the correct questions. Onevery famous study that emphasized this were the Dr. Fox experiments conducted by Naftulin andcolleaugues18,19. In these experiments, Naftulin hired an actor to present a lecture to a group ofeducators. They named him Dr. Fox and mandated that he deliver the lecture in a highlyexpressive and entertaining manner. The lecture content had very little substantive content andhad a large number of logical confusions and repetitions. The experimenters also gave theeducators a fictitious Dr. Fox curriculum vita loaded with a number of
Paper ID #9967Assessing sustainability knowledge: a framework of conceptsDr. Alice L Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alice L. Pawley is an associate professor in the School of Engineering Education with affiliations with the Women’s Studies Program and Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She has a B.Eng. in chemical engineering (with distinction) from McGill University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering with a Ph.D. minor in women’s studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education
Paper ID #9520I Should Not be Expected to Teach English!...ButMr. Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University Craig Gunn is the Director of the Communication Program in the Department of Mechanical Engineer- ing at Michigan State University. He integrates communication skill activity into all courses within the mechanical Engineering program. He is editor of the CEED Newsbriefs and has co-authored numerous textbooks, including - Engineering Your Future.Mr. Pavel M. Polunin, Michigan State University Pavel Polunin is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering Department at Michigan State University. He obtained his M.S. in
cover antenna theory, RF signal propagation modeling, and communication systems which are fundamental in upper-division EE/EET curriculum. The system renders several promising features: portable, low-cost, simple, and compact in size, to name a few. In this paper, we first introduce the components and the mechanism of the RF measurement system. We then present a laboratory exercise that designed for an antenna radiation pattern study using the developed system. Detailed lab procedures and results collected from a recent upper-division communication systems course in an EET program are provided. The lab results demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed system. Additional assessment data from students’ feedback further
Paper ID #9235Development of a Systems Engineering Course for Multiple Delivery Meth-odsRichard Sugarman, United States Air Force Richard is an instructor of systems engineering and program risk management with the Air Force Insti- tute of Technology at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. Prior to becoming an instructor at AFIT, he was a systems engineer and program manager at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma. He is currently a visiting faculty member at the University of Dayton through the Air Force Education with Industry Program, where he is developing and teaching a graduate course in systems engineering. Richard holds a B.S