a Professor-Educator in the Chemical Engineering program at the University of Cincinnati (UC). He received his BS in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech, and his MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His past research has focused on membrane science, adsorption, and ion exchange. He currently serves as the Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Program Director at UC and teaches the capstone process design sequence. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 How We Teach: Chemical Engineering ElectivesAbstractThe AIChE Education Division’s Survey Committee covered elective
place” in the curriculum to do the assessment. Forexample, in support of assessing program outcome 5.1 “Design and conduct systems experiments,including collecting, analyzing and interpreting data, “ one of the performance criteria we defined is “Useappropriate data analysis techniques including appropriate software data analysis tools to analyze theresults of a systems experiment.” Our assessment plan dictates that our students will be assessed againstthis criterion in the completion of a design project in the Statistics for Engineers course they take as partof the curriculum. Given that data analysis is a major topic in this course and the design project requiresthe students to do this type of analysis, this seemed like the “right place” to
place” in the curriculum to do the assessment. Forexample, in support of assessing program outcome 5.1 “Design and conduct systems experiments,including collecting, analyzing and interpreting data, “ one of the performance criteria we defined is “Useappropriate data analysis techniques including appropriate software data analysis tools to analyze theresults of a systems experiment.” Our assessment plan dictates that our students will be assessed againstthis criterion in the completion of a design project in the Statistics for Engineers course they take as partof the curriculum. Given that data analysis is a major topic in this course and the design project requiresthe students to do this type of analysis, this seemed like the “right place” to
autoethnographic, ethnographic, and qualitative interview projects on a wide- range of topics, has taught research methods at the introductory, advanced, and graduate levels, and has trained research assistants in diverse forms of data collection and analysis.Robert L. Nagel © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Student competency, autonomy, and relatedness in a practice-oriented engineering program: An application of self-determination theoryAbstractFor engineering students, how might three basic needs—competency, autonomy, andrelatedness—promote intrinsic motivation among students? In this
engineering design projects26. The rubric iscurrently used as the end-of-course assessment for the capstone Engineering Design andDevelopment (EDD) course from Project Lead the Way27. Additional details about the history ofthe original EDPPSR instrument are provided by Goldberg28.The EDPPSR was revised in order to obtain an instrument that is aligned with the AMP-IT-UPhigh school curriculum and is appropriate for describing student achievement at the high schoollevel. Whereas the original EDPPSR included 14 individual scoring elements, the rubric for theEDP log includes eight elements that correspond to the stages of the design process used in thecourse: A) Identify the Problem; B) Understand; C) Ideate; D) Evaluate; E) Prototype and Test; F
Paper ID #36655Work-in-Progress: The Transformative Cauldron,Development of the Optimal Space-in-BetweenCraig SilvernagelTodd Letcher Todd Letcher, Ph.D, is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at South Dakota State University where he teaches a sophomore design course and the senior capstone course sequence.Kay Cutler Kay Cutler, Ph.D., is a Professor in Early Childhood Education in the School of Education, Counseling, and Human Development at South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota. A member of the Rich Normality Design Collaborative. © American Society
,understanding other’s perspectives, and matching other’s emotions. Hess et al. [3] offerednaming conventions for each of Batson’s empathy concepts, including: (1) empathic accuracy ortheory of mind; (2) motor mimicry; (3) emotional contagion; (4) projection: imagine-self withinanother’s position; (5) perspective-taking – imagine other; (6) perspective-taking; imagine-self-as-if-self was the other; (7) empathic distress; and (8) empathic concern or sympathy.While complex, Batson’s [5] list is not comprehensive. For example, Cuff et al. [6] identified 43distinct definitions of empathy. They suggested that definitions of empathy vary by eight themes,including whether empathy is cognitive or affective, a congruent or incongruent feeling, a trait ora state
. E. Cardella, W. C. Oakes, and C. B. Zoltowski, "Development of a design task to assess students' understanding of human-centered design," in 2012 Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, 2012: IEEE, pp. 1-6.[14] R. Loweth, S. Daly, K. Sienko, A. Hortop, and E. Strehl, "Student designers’ interactions with users in capstone design projects: A comparison across teams," in ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2019.[15] S. Jordan and M. Lande, "Practicing needs-based, human-centered design for electrical engineering project course innovation," in 119th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2012: American Society for Engineering Education.[16] A. E. Coso, "The development of a rubric to
peerinteractions as well as interactions with faculty members, and these interactions could encouragemore effective understanding of materials and exploration of topics. Second, liberal artseducation focuses on cultivating adaptive problem-solving skills based on critical thinking,collaboration, and effective communication. These skills make students valuable collaborators inengineering projects and afford them a smooth transition into professional life [3]. That means aliberal arts education can potentially lead to a successful engineering career.In the meantime, the integration of engineering education into liberal arts universities posesseveral challenges to the engineering faculty members. For instance, faculty members may lackthe knowledge needed to
are attained. These attainments may not be directly related to a specific technical area,but do associate with skills essential for students to become engineers.5,6Over several years, Cal Poly Pomona’s civil engineering program has focused student learningassessment on Graduation Writing Test (GWT), capstone/senior projects and the Fundamentalsof Engineering (FE) exam. GWT, is a required graduation requirement where all students areassessed individually on their written communication skills. Senior projects assess students as ateam, not as individuals, while the FE exam is a multiple-choice test. All of the ABET studentoutcomes are clearly articulated and assessed through these summative measures. However, attimes it is difficult to identify
apartproject-based learning courses such as cornerstone and capstone experiences. In discussing themotivation for building connections between students and the hands-on situated learningenvironment, they discuss emphasizing “engagement of individuals with the functions and goalsof the community, including interpersonal commitments and ways in which individuals’identities are enhanced or diminished by their participation.” [2] Tonso examines the situatedapproach and its impacts specifically on engineering students and their sense of identity asbelonging within community. “Engineers’ identification with their profession can be critical for persistence, both as a student and then as a professional []. Studies show that a lack of
grasping of the young, well-educated, andflexible engineering students of both genders. Since “business as usual” doesn’t work anymore,the curricula are kept current and up-to-date. Topics such as mechatronics, bioinformatics arecovered to meet the competition and challenges posed by outsourcing and globalization. Theimportance of soft skills, such as project management skills, IT, and good communication skillsin addition to the basic sciences, engineering sciences and in-depth skills in a specificengineering discipline has been realized and implemented in the curricula. In this paper, thecontemporary curricula in EE at Indian Universities will be investigated and compared to pre-outsourcing curricula. The merits of these curricula and areas for
desired outcomes. These include using service learning with a connection tointernational, capstone projects, elective courses, and research opportunities. Given the widearray of experience that can be achieved from global programs, institutions are seeking to selectappropriate programs to match their global learning outcomes. For instance in 2015, the facultyof the University of Portland introduced three sets of outcomes related to global engineering.5Institutions remain in search of methods to determine if global learning programs are helpingstudents to develop attributes that meet program objectives, accreditation requirements, and theneeds and desires of prospective employers.6 Studies have investigated the effectiveness of arange of
,engineering educators have been modifying engineering curricula by initiating coursesand projects that foster in their students advanced thinking skills and an understanding ofthe creative process. The educational modes in these "new engineering classrooms" areboth diverse and experimental, crossing disciplines, and involving processes oncereserved for artists and writers. The topography of progressive engineering programsvaries dramatically from university to university, as professors draw inspiration fromnon-traditional sources including the social sciences, philosophy, business, architecture,and art. The future of engineering education and practice is now largely the responsibilityof university programs that must respond flexibly to market
and provides performancesimilar to traditional small microcontrollers such as the Motorola/Freescale 68HC11 [16, 17].Smith at the University of St. Thomas has developed a spreadsheet CPU that simulates theoperation of a central processing unit for teaching purposes [18]. Most recently Hayne at theCitadel has developed VHDL homework exercises and a capstone design project to providehands-on application of computer architecture course concepts [19]. We hold this entire body of Page 15.639.5related efforts in the highest regard. However, we needed a Verilog HDL based architecture todirectly support the architecture described in Mano and Kime [2
Paper ID #9063Developing engineers who lead: Are student, faculty and administrator per-spectives aligned?Lt. Col. Brian J Novoselich P.E., Virginia Tech Brian Novoselich is an active duty Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army and currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. His is a former assistant professor at the United States Military Academy. His dissertation research interest is undergraduate student leadership development in capstone design teams.Dr. David B Knight, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education David Knight is an Assistant Professor in the
AC 2012-3519: STRATEGIES AND TOOLS FOR ENGAGING AND AS-SESSING STUDENTS WITH CYBER LEARNING BY INTERACTIVE FRE-QUENT FORMATIVE FEEDBACK (CLIFF) IN CORE MATERIALS CLASSESProf. Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University Stephen J. Krause is professor in the School of Materials in the Fulton School of Engineering at Ari- zona State University. He teaches in the areas of bridging engineering and education, capstone design, and introductory materials engineering. His research interests include evaluating conceptual knowledge, misconceptions and their repair, and conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept In- ventory for assessing conceptual knowledge of students in introductory materials engineering classes
contained both performance- and learning-oriented students.In experimental courses, Internet and multimedia technology become a natural asset in findingknowledge across disciplines and levels, as well as presenting experimental results. Technologyfacilitates group projects, enabling people with different schedules and other constraints to shareinformation and work as effective teams.From these classroom experiences, it is evident that technology can be utilized to enhance theclassroom experience for the students, as well as to satisfy the new ABET 2000 outcome criteria.This experience need not be relegated only to the Capstone Senior Design classes, but with somethought can be incorporated into other classes as well. In our school, the process now
company andembracing change would be seen as positive attributes. Being flexible and ready for changewould help with career progression. At Baylor University, business models have beenincorporated into capstone design projects and elective projects involving teams [26]. Operatingteams as companies and exposing students to industry procedures gives them a setting in whichto experience the work environment before graduation. Wisler of GE Aircraft Enginesrecognized this weakness and wrote about it in a paper “Engineering – What You Don’tNecessarily Learn in School [27].” He has 12 suggestions to be a successful engineer whichincludes business understanding as number one: 1. Learn to be business oriented 2. Expect
in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University. She joined the University of Houston in 1993 where she is a full Professor of Engineering Technology and Electrical and Computer Engineering. She is an IEEE Senior member and is actively involved in teaching, research and consulting in the area of power electronics, motor drives, power quality and clean power utility interface issues.Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston Dr. Attarzadeh is an associate professor of Engineering Technology. He teaches software programming, digital logic, and is in charge of the senior project course in the Compute Engineering Technology Program. He is a member of ASEE and serves as Associated Editor for
assistant professor of mechanical engineering, was promoted to associate professor in 1983, and to full professor in 1990. He founded and directed the computer-aided design labs in the mechanical engineering and mechanics department from 1980 to 2001. From 1996 to the present, he has directed the university’s Integrated Product Development (IPD) capstone program (www.lehigh.edu/ipd). The IPD and TE program bring together students from all three undergraduate colleges to work in multidisciplinary teams on industry-sponsored product development projects and student–led start-ups. In 2006, Prof. Ochs received the Olympus Innovation Award for his work in technical entrepreneurship through the IPD pro- gram. In 2012, the
, engineeringdesign, senior capstone projects, and STEP administrative and evaluation updates. Participants Page 22.1111.13were also given the opportunity to tour research laboratories and to interact with UNL facultyand staff. The SLI participants were asked to complete end-of-session evaluation forms at the endof both SLIs. The results from the nine 2007 participant respondents and the six 2009 participantrespondents are presented in Table 2 and reveal ratings increased dramatically from 2007 to2009. Ratings were highest in 2009 for overall clarity of the information presented and thelargest increase occurred for the item usefulness of information
coverage is included in programs’ cores, how is the learning operationalized toreinforce it as being integral to engineering leadership practice? Proposals for embedding ethicsinstruction more integrally within engineering coursework have included increasing the emphasison human-centric approaches to design on engineering team projects [10, 17], mitigating orreducing the isolation of ethics instruction from other aspects of courses and projects [8, 13], andincreasing the use of experiential learning approaches for ethics instruction [12, 17 - 20], among 18 19others. As this paper’s central focus, we illustrate how an ethical reasoning challenge can
a leader in internation- alization of Engineering at NAU since arriving in 1999, expanding this initiative to the Natural Sciences starting in 2005. Significant milestones in this area include the development of an effective model of re- ciprocal ”exploratory trips” to motivate international study in engineering; the International Engineering and Natural Sciences certificate program; and the Global Engineering College project, an NSF-funded exploration of a comprehensively internationalized curricular model for engineering education. These efforts culminated in 2010 with the creation of the Global Science and Engineering Program (GSEP), an innovative initiative to establish a comprehensive framework for
relationship to get work done efficiently with excellent research and analytical capability. • Strong ability to work across multiethnic environment and global technological collaboration across disciplines. • Transferable high level expertise in process engineering, project development, and innovative research from industrial setting to academia. QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University, 1989 M.S. Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University, 1986 B.Sc. Chemical Engineering, University of Ife, Nigeria, 1980 TEACHING EXPERIENCE: PRAIRIE VIEW A &M UNIVERSITY, Prairie View, TX , USA 2012 - Present Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering 2018 - Present Adjunct Faculty Position, De
gives us a snapshot of the diversity of thecurrent student body prior to fully implementing programmatic changes that are planned as part of theRED project. We plan to collect data each year to assess how well our goals of increasing diversity,creating a culture of inclusivity, and increasing the persistence of diverse types of students in the programare being met. This information will inform the design of other activities such as a mentoring program,capstone design, and supporting mid-year content courses and sophomore “springer” courses. Insightsrevealed in interviews have identified evaluation components for these courses, addressing specific issuesof bias, faculty feedback, inclusive teamwork practices and professional skills. Future work
the Institute for Tool Machinesand continued working for the company’s parent in Wolfach, Germany. When those studentsreturned to URI for their 5th year of studies, they often participated in a capstone design projectwhich was also sponsored by the same company for which they had interned both locally andglobally. Several of them were hired upon graduation by those companies if they did not decideto pursue a master’s degree elsewhere. Again, tying together experiential learning through ameaningful sequence of research and internships during study abroad gives the student acompetitive advantage on the job market.24Undergraduate Research Linked to a Greater CauseIt can also happen that a student’s international research project is part of a
applicable principles and potentially similar motivations. Forexample, Muhammad Yunus started Grameen, the microfinance banking. The Peace Corps, as agovernment-sponsored program, provides opportunities for recent college graduates to engage insocial entrepreneurship projects on the ground level in many developing countries. Similarly, Page 22.1390.4non-governmental organizations (NGO's) are also developing creative and innovative solutionsto economic, health, housing and food issues in the United States and in many countries –solutions such as treadle pumps9 or an Engineers Without Borders water filter project10. Green11provides a helpful overview
emerging state-of-the-art geospatial technology and 3D data analytics.Evolving geospatial industry labor markets are challenging the traditional skillsets developed atconventional S/G programs at colleges. Yet, higher education graduates may still lack decisionmaking and project application skills, and most importantly, the ability to apply the body ofknowledge from their academic training in college courses to solve real-world problems andmeet the skill challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).To bridge the gap between theory and application of these relevant technologies for industry-ready graduates, hands-on exercises are developed and will be incorporated in a 300-levelphotogrammetry course for SET and Civil Engineering majors
note that thetime spent on the class assignment should vary considerably based on the type of contextual activity usedin each course for integration of the module content with the course content. For instance, for theLearning from Failure (LFF) module, the contextual activity spans the whole semester with a teamproject done in a first-year course, yet we do not see students reporting an increased number of hoursrelated to that. Similarly, the Elevator Pitch (EP) module is overlayed on a required component forseniors in their 2nd semester of a year-long Capstone Project. We see in the data that over 60% of thestudents report spending less than 2hrs, and fewer than 15% report spending more than 5hrs on theassignment. 100 80 60 40 20 0