Paper ID #15508Integration of a Short-term International Humanitarian Engineering Expe-rience into Engineering Undergraduate StudiesJeremy Smith, Australian National University Jeremy is a research engineer at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. He has worked on introducing a number of humanitarian engineering and service-learning projects into engineering un- dergraduate studies at the ANU, covering both international and domestic opportunities. Jeremy has also worked on a number of industry focused research projects in the automotive and aerospace industries.Ms. Jennifer Patricia Turner, Engineers Without
to collaborate with one another. Likewise the girls-only structurewas anticipated to reduce the effects of any unintentional negative gender bias in presentationsand activities. Also after attending the camp, the girls should also be able to counter engineeringstereotypes among their peers and should be more able to recognize the impact of engineering ona personal, social, and community level. Increasing the girl’s’ positive engineering interestthrough the Girlgeneering camp should result in increased recruitment to engineering, science,technology, and math classes and careers.The unique components of the Girlgeneering camp are described later in this paper and include atailored individual hands-on engineering project for the girls, a high
designed to assist students with self-efficacy beliefs and personal goals.At this University all engineering and computer science students take an introduction toengineering course that covers the engineering process, teamwork, communication skills, thedifferent branches of engineering, ethics, and co-curricular and extracurricular opportunities.Section sizes are ~30 students, so students can build community with peers and their professor.The professor of the Introduction to Engineering course is the academic advisor for his/her set ofstudents. Students declare or confirm their major by the end of the first semester. Resources tohelp students choose a major include laboratories, advisor meetings, student panels, a semester-long team project
Biomedical Engineering Design and Bioinstrumentation and has taken initiative to develop hands-on blended learning based courses on the same topics. His research interest is on global health and engineering and had worked on projects in Honduras, Ethiopia, India and Vietnam. He has received the Recognition Award for Achievement in Global Engaged Scholarship in 2013 through the Wisconsin Without Borders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Professor of the Year Award in 2012, through the Biomedical Engineering Society at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a number of teaching awards.Dr. John P. Puccinelli, University of Wisconsin, Madison Dr. Puccinelli is the Associate Chair of the Undergraduate Program in
Engineering Education, 2017 Introducing an Advanced Building Information Modeling Course in Construction Management ProgramsAbstractMany construction management (CM) programs in the U.S. have introduced BuildingInformation Modeling (BIM) in their curriculum due to the rapid adoption of BIM in thearchitecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. Previous research has revealed thatmost of the BIM courses offered in CM programs have mainly focused on 3D modeling skills aswell as BIM applications in 4D scheduling and 5D estimating. While these topics appear to beimportant to apply BIM technology, students will not be able to fully understand the BIMprocess in a construction project without knowing the fundamental workflow
in multiple projects, including the Development of a Model for The Metal Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing Process. Dr. Ahmed Cherif Megri was the chair of the NCAT CAM’s Education subcommittee. He contributed to the outreach CAM since 2015. He is currently, responsible for the outreach program for the STEAM’s research project.Dr. Sameer Hamoush P.E., North Carolina A&T State University Professor and Chair of Civil and Architectural Engineering DepartmentDr. Rachid Belmasrour, Southern University at New Orleans Dr. Belmasrour holds a Ph.D. from University of New Orleans in Mathematics, and he obtained his M.S degree in Mathematical Informatics from University of Versailles Saint Quentin, France
impractical for many engineeringand engineering technology programs. This paper proposes a portable engine-dynamometer testcell using a one-cylinder all-terrain vehicle (ATV) engine driving a set of high-currentalternators. Engine loading is to be accomplished with a set of electric resistance heaters and apower switching array.Although associated with a large university, this project is being undertaken by a satellitecampus with limited space and financial resources. The plan is to implement the Engine-DynoProject in phases over a period of years using primarily undergraduate students working ondirected projects. The planned phases at this time are as follows: 1. Build a sturdy but portable cart to hold the engine, load cell, accessories, and
Undergraduate Studies (2009- 2013) and Interim Dean (2015) in the College of Engineering. Dr. VanderGheynst’s research focuses on next generation biofuels and bioproducts and agricultural biotechnology. Current projects examine the management of microbial communities in applications including water treatment, food and energy production, and soil treatment for the control of pests and pathogens. More than $9 million of her ex- tramural funding at UC Davis has been in support of undergraduate and graduate student preparation in engineering. This includes a NSF GK-12 award to improve leadership, communication and collaboration skills, and teaching capabilities in engineering graduate students pursuing research in the
Paper ID #13322Exploring the Social Processes of Ethics in Student Engineering Design TeamsMegan Kenny Feister, Purdue University Megan is a fourth year doctoral candidate in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue Uni- versity pursuing a Ph.D. in Organizational Communication with a minor in mixed methods. Her research focuses on engineering education, design, organizational identity, identification and socialization, team communication, innovation, and technology. She is currently working on an NSF grant examining ethi- cal reasoning and decision-making in engineering project teams, and examining the relationship
holisticallyunderstand the complexities inherent in planning, implementing, and managing, healthy andsustainable development projects. Programs such as Engineers without Borders (EWB) havealways had the objective of teaching systems thinking skills to address the complex systemiccommunity issues inherent in international infrastructure development; however, methodologiesused to foster systems thinking have historically remained implicit, and have primarily focusedon reductionist approaches to project assessment, design, and evaluation. Group Model Building(GMB) using System Dynamics modeling has been successfully used for years in multiple fieldsto foster and grow understanding on a complex topic using the combined insight from multiplestakeholders to build
Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.Dr. Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University Dr. Nadia Kellam is Associate Professor in the Polytechnic Engineering Program at Arizona State Uni- versity. In her research, she is interested in understanding how engineering students develop their profes- sional identity, the role of emotion in student learning, and synergistic learning. A recent research project uncovers the narratives of exemplary engineering faculty who have successfully transitioned to student- centered teaching strategies. She co-designed the environmental engineering synthesis and design studios and the design spine for the mechanical engineering
International University Dr. Fletcher is currently an Assistant Professor at Florida International University. Her research focus includes people of color and women in STEM and quality in K-12 and higher education. Prior to FIU, Dr. Fletcher served as the Director of Pre-college Programs for NSBE. Additionally, she spent time in industry holding technical and operations-based roles and has experience with outreach projects focused on STEM education and mentoring.Dr. Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University Araceli Martinez Ortiz, PhD., is Research Associate Professor of Engineering Education in the College of Education at Texas State University. She leads a comprehensive research agenda related to issues of
teaching practice and scholarship across campus. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in research, leadership, and teaching. She is currently involved in several research studies on best practices in teaching in higher education, and is leading two groups of faculty scholars who are investigating research projects regarding teaching in their disciplines. Page 11.777.1Rohit Verma, University of Utah Rohit Verma joined the David Eccles School of Business in 2001 as an Associate Professor of Operations Management and is the School’s Thayne Robson Fellow. From 1995 to 2001 he was
(ECE) Department at the United States Air Force Academy created a breadth-first introductory course to give students this view as a starting point in their education. A thorough review of the curriculum revealed primary knowledge areas that the students need early in their education in order to better prepare them for the depth of a rigorous ECE curriculum. This knowledge includes, but is not limited to, Radio Frequency (RF) communications, RADAR and electronic warfare, analog circuits including power generation and distribution and digital circuits and systems. These topics were selected due to their extensive use in senior capstone projects and needs the industry of the program constituents? The solution proposed here is to
simulation skillsare covered. Emphasis is on the design and simulation of proportional, derivative, and integralcontrollers for improving the dynamic responses of feedback control systems.There is a laboratory component for this course. The lab experiments include characteristics ofDC motors, tachometers, brake loading, signal conditioning circuits, implementation ofproportional, integral, and derivative controllers as C programs running on microcontrollers withapplications to position and speed controls.The students are also required to complete embedded control projects in this course. The projectsgive the students the opportunities to solve practical control problems and to be creativeindependently
inmultidisciplinary engineering design problems. Modern-world engineering problems are oftendescribed as no longer solely within a single discipline. For example, traditional mechanicalengineering designs often now involve software, controls, electronics and perhaps biology, etc.One primary difficulty in posing multidisciplinary design problems in the undergraduatecurriculum is that within the student body of a course there is variety in the past courses andexperiences. An instructor can only expect students to have taken the pre-requisite courses,which thereby limits the range of multiple disciplines that a project can cover. Further,instructors from these other disciplines are typically not available during the course project forlearning and consulting on
Session 2793 A Curriculum Collaboration Model: Working with Upper Division Students to Improve a First-Year Program Blaine Lilly, John Merrill, Omer Masud, Stuart Brand, Michael Hoffmann, Anita Ahuja, Vamsi Ivaturi The Ohio State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents an overview of a quarter-long design-build project in the Fundamentals ofEngineering (FE) course sequence, which is part of the First-Year Engineering Program at TheOhio State University (OSU). The current design-build project is discussed
concerned with theirpersonal vocational interests and material goals and uncaring about society at large, particularlythe plight of the developing world.1,3,6-8 Arguably, the development of humanitarian engineeringprograms will enhance the role of the engineer in society, and, while not necessarily increaseoverall enrollments, will act as a magnet for excellent students, who might otherwise refrainfrom careers as engineers.In order to address these issues, a project has been initiated at CSM to develop a new cadre ofengineers, sensitive to social contexts, committed and qualified to serve humanity bycontributing to the solution of complex problems at regional, national, and international levelsand locations around the world in need of “smart
semester-long design projects. Once projects are awarded,freshmen enrolled in the “Introduction to Mechanical Engineering” course are assigned to workwith the senior design teams. The senior teams function like small consulting companies thatemploy co-operative education students; e.g., the freshmen.One of the objectives of building this collaboration is a desire to increase the retention rate of thefreshmen by involving them with the seniors in some interesting design work. Additionally, theseniors benefit by gaining team leadership experience, and by developing the ability tocommunicate their ideas to a non-technical audience as their design work progresses.This project began in Fall 2001, and at the conclusion of that semester, an assessment
semester-long design projects. Once projects are awarded,freshmen enrolled in the “Introduction to Mechanical Engineering” course are assigned to workwith the senior design teams. The senior teams function like small consulting companies thatemploy co-operative education students; e.g., the freshmen.One of the objectives of building this collaboration is a desire to increase the retention rate of thefreshmen by involving them with the seniors in some interesting design work. Additionally, theseniors benefit by gaining team leadership experience, and by developing the ability tocommunicate their ideas to a non-technical audience as their design work progresses.This project began in Fall 2001, and at the conclusion of that semester, an assessment
the UVAteam and of the other top teams in the competition depended upon attaining a successfulcollaboration among engineering, architecture, and construction. Teams in which one orthe other disciplines elected to undertake the project alone did not fare as well. Similarly,the educational value of the experience for the students was significantly enhanced by themultidisciplinary orientation of the team. The project integrated many of the ABETrequirements of Criteria 3 and 4, demonstrating both the value of these criteria and avehicle for achieving them. This student-built home will serve as a lab and communityresource for studying solar energy and sustainable design in residential applications
Engineering ABET accreditation in 2001 and 2007. In 2004-2005, McKnight served as Interim Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and in 2008-2009 served as Acting Vice Provost for Research.Prof. Michael E. Pelletier, Northern Essex Community CollegeDr. Paula G. Leventman, Northeastern University Paula Goldman Leventman has been Diversity Coordinator and Internal Evaluator for the NSF-funded Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) from 2000 to 2011. She was Assistant Dean of engineering for women’s projects at Northeastern University from 1982-2004. Leventman was Principal Investigator of the NSF-funded Multiple Pathways toward Gender Equity in the U.S. IT Work- force, 2001-2005
summer of 2001. The objective of this program was to expose a group ofhigh school students to a variety of academic experiences designed to motivate them towardprofessions in the field of transportation. High school students soon to enter their Junior Yearwere eligible to participate on our first Summer Transportation Institute in Puerto Rico. Theactivities were very diverse and included two trips to San Juan, the capital city of Puerto Rico,each time with an overnight stay. Besides these and other day-long field trips, our instituteprovided class sessions in transportation related topics, as well as participatory working sessionsfor the students to develop their projects. The participants also learned to write technical reportsand prepare
Engineering Design and Bioinstrumentation and has taken initiative to develop hands-on blended learning based courses on the same topics. His research interest is on global health and engineering and currently working on projects in Honduras, Ethiopia, India and Vietnam. He has received the Recognition Award for Achievement in Global Engaged Scholarship in 2013 through the Wisconsin Without Borders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Professor of the Year Award in 2012, through the Biomedical Engineering Society at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a number of teaching awards.Dr. John P Puccinelli, University of Wisconsin, Madison Dr. Puccinelli is an Associate Faculty Associate in the Department of
course sequence over the 2021-2022 and2022-2023 academic years to determine the effect of EM-focused instruction and first-yeardesign projects on EM growth. We analyzed responses in a pre/post manner within theseacademic years and holistically analyzed across academic years. We used the cross-year analysisto address the impact of curricular changes. Finally, we provide implications and pedagogicalapproaches that can support the development of an EM in the future.2. BackgroundThe Ohio State University (OSU) partnered with KEEN in 2017 and has since integrated EMLacross several courses in its engineering curriculum. This initiative first began with the redesignof the First Year Engineering Program (FYEP) standard course sequence. Alterations to
field: engineering education, interdisciplinary education ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Exploring an experiential learning project:A case study through Kolb’s Learning TheoryAbstract: China has advanced the reform plan of “Emerging Engineering Education” since 2017. 1457teaching reform projects involving over 300 universities under the “Emerging Engineering Education”initiative have been approved. In this context, the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)has actively participated in engineering education reform based on experiential learning model. This studyinvestigates the impact of experiential learning programs on the
sensors to data analysis and insight enabled by dashboards, [Midwestern]University designed and implemented a graduate course in partnership with local industries. Thiscourse has the dual purpose of training the next generation of manufacturing professionals and inthe process supporting regional companies in addressing problems that could be solved with IoTor AI innovations. The goal of this study is to describe how the course was organized anddelivered following design principles of Experiential Learning Theory, and as outcomes of theapproach, we provide a description of the projects the students implemented within the regionalmanufacturing companies.2. Pedagogical FrameworkKolb's Experiential Learning Theory (ELT) [4], [5] was used as an
is highly sought after. Currentwait lists reflect this backed-up demand.What Thoughts Were Given to Job Role Differentiation and Rewards?In business/industry titles and roles map to product life cycle phases. As a project evolves fromConcept Exploration to Operations and Support, different skill sets are required. In the earlyphases of the product life cycle, research and systems thinking/engineering are dominant. As theproduct life cycle moves to the right toward full scale development, systems operation andengineering gives way to product design, development, and systems integration. This left toright transition in the product life cycle requires a transitioning from a higher level of systemsunderstanding to a tactical level of team and
interests are in computer architecture, compiler, real-time computing, and hardware security. Dr. Zhang has led 9 NSF projects as the PI and has published 160+ papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He received the 2016 Engineer of the Year Award from the Richmond Joint Engineer Council, the 2009 SIUC Excellence through Commitment Outstanding Scholar Award for the College of Engineering, and the 2007 IBM Real-time Innovation Award. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Running a Virtual Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) Site in Computing SystemsAbstract:This paper
]that specifically engaged middle school students in learning about fossils and the science of paleontology,researchers from the University of Florida and St. Mary’s College of Maryland designed a year-long teacherPD experience. The Shark AI project leverages middle school students’ interest in fossil shark teeth toexplore ML concepts. Sharks captivate public interest, as evidenced by the popular Shark Weekprogramming on the Discovery Channel [3]. Fossil shark teeth also have a simplistic morphology that variesby species and dietary preference, providing the ideal basis for developing and testing ML models thatcategorize objects using 2-dimensional images.The state of Florida is known for the ability to easily find fossil shark teeth along