engineering programs, West Point offers a course on Energy Conversion Systems whichcovers conventional topics of fossil fuel utilization, combustion, advanced power andrefrigeration cycles, direct energy conversion, chemical equilibrium, and so on. However, thecourse has evolved to reflect current energy issues, by including lessons on national and globalenergy usage, climate change, nuclear power, hydrogen, and renewable and alternative energy.In addition to this course, there are senior capstone projects and cadet independent studies thatare connected to alternative energy research and development. The goals are to provide a broadoverview to the cadets, such that the cadets are excited to continue the pursuit of energyalternatives as graduates and
haveconsequences that the civil engineering profession may not have fully considered and addressed.One of the main topics raised in the comments is the potential impact that the additionaleducation requirement will have on the projected shortage of engineers. These commentspresent the thought that this change may exacerbate the issue by making a Civil Engineeringdegree less attractive to students. These comments also suggest that the proposed change couldlower the average salary of a Civil Engineering graduate, rather than raise it.The comments from academic leaders who responded to the survey include the followingthoughts related to recruiting and training future engineers (items in brackets were added): “In my capstone design class of >90
AC 2009-1673: PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION UNITS, USING COMMONCOMPONENTS, FOR AN INTRODUCTORY THERMODYNAMICS COURSEMichael Plumley, United States Coast Guard Academy LCDR Michael Plumley is an Assistant Professor, and 1998 graduate, of the Mechanical Engineering program at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. He has served as coordinator for a variety of courses, including Capstone Design, Machine Design, Mechanisms, Heat Transfer, and Modeling and Control of Dynamic Systems. He holds Master of Science degrees in both Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Connecticut
AC 2009-1685: HANDS-ON LAB DEMONSTRATION TO TEACH HOWMECHANICAL PROPERTIES CHANGE DUE TO COLD WORKING ANDRECRYSTALLIZATIONDaniel Magda, Weber State University Page 14.663.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Hands on Lab Demonstration to Teach how Mechanical Properties Change Due to Cold Working and RecrystallizationAbstractLaboratories that employ hands-on demonstration to change material properties play animportant role in understanding why materials are selected for different design specifications.Engineering students take courses in mechanics of material, machine design, finite elementanalysis and capstone senior projects. These courses require
catalog. 4. Course material must be directly related to technology driven organizations. 5. The curriculum must require each student to demonstrate a command of written and oral communication skills in English. 6. Courses must relate to knowledge workers in a global environment. 7. Each student is required to perform a capstone project or thesis using analysis and integration of Engineering Management concepts. 8. A minimum of one course in probability and statistics 9. A minimum of one course in engineering economy 10. Two courses in quantitative analysis courses are required. C. Students Admission Requirements 1. Two years of engineering experience in a company based in a
improvement plan. Itshould be noted that some assessment methods can only be used to assess certain specificoutcomes. Table 1 maps the assessment tools for assessing each of the a-k programoutcomes.Table -1 Assessment Tools for Outcomes for the Engineering Technology Programs Engineering Technology Program Outcomes Assessment Tools a b c d e f g h i j k Advisory Committee X X X X X X X X Feedback Used to assess program objectives Course Assessment X X X X X X X X X X X Alumni Surveys Used to assess program objectives Capstone/Senior X X X X X X X
commonalities, since they allclaim to be computing disciplines. Analysis of the formal curricula shows that all five programscover: Computer foundational topics Computer programming (including algorithms, implementation, and software quality) Capabilities and limitations of computers (including societal impact) Software lifecycle issues Processes, both computing and professional Advanced computing topics Professionalism (including interpersonal communications, teamwork, management, ethics, and legal constraints) Applications to join theory and skills (including labs, assignments, projects, etc.) Capstone projects
. She works with ASCE’s Committee on Education on issues of importance to the undergraduate and grad- uate level education of civil engineers.Dr. Brock E. Barry PE, U.S. Military Academy Dr. Brock E. Barry, P.E. is an Associate Professor and Mechanics Group Director in the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Dr. Barry holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, a Master of Science degree from University of Colorado at Boulder, and a PhD from Purdue University. Prior to pursuing a career in academics, Dr. Barry spent 10-years as a senior geotechnical engineer and project manager on projects throughout the United
Paper ID #27165Research Paper: Where Do We Meet? Understanding Conference Participa-tion in a Department of Engineering EducationMr. Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury, Virginia Tech Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury is a PhD student at Virginia Tech in the department of Engineering Edu- cation. Tahsin holds a BSc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from IUT, Dhaka and has worked as a manufacturing professional at a Fortune 500. He is actively engaged in different projects at the department involving teamwork, communication and capstone design with a focus on industrial engineering practice.Ms. Ashley R. Taylor, Virginia Tech
Paper ID #30242Algorithm for Consistent Grading in an Introduction to Engineering CourseProf. Joshua A Enszer, University of Delaware Joshua Enszer is an associate professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He has taught core and elective courses across the curriculum, from introduction to engineering science and material and energy balances to process control, capstone design, and mathematical modeling of chemical and environmental systems. His research interests include technology and learning in various incarnations: electronic portfolios as a means for assessment and professional
their senior capstone projects. His current projects include indus- try integration in the curriculum, undergraduate professional development, and entrepreneurial minded learning in the classroom.Dr. Nathan Hyungsok Choe, The Ohio State University Dr. Nathan (Hyungsok) Choe is a research assistant professor in department of engineering education at the Ohio State University. He obtained his PhD in STEM education at UT Austin. His research focuses on the development of engineering identity in graduate school and underrepresented group. Dr. Choe holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering from Illinois Tech. He also worked as an engineer at LG electronics mobile communication company.Amena Shermadou
the extent to which creative ideation may be modulated by prior knowledge and training.Ms. Yushuang Liu, The Pennsylvania State University Yushuang Liu is a graduate student in Psychology and Language Science at Penn State. She is generally interested in natural speech processing using electroencephalogram. She has been actively involved in creativity projects examining how to facilitate divergent thinking abilities in engineering students.Dr. Danielle S. Dickson, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Dickson received her a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016 with a dissertation examining the memory system’s representation of numerical information, using behavioral and electrophysiological
in the department of biomedical engineering at The Ohio State University. He holds a B.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Puerto Rico Mayag¨uez, and a M.S. and PhD in biomedical engineering from The Ohio State University. His current position entails teaching measurements and instrumentation courses, leading micro and nano educational labs, as well as mentoring students in their senior capstone projects. His current projects include indus- try integration in the curriculum, undergraduate professional development, and entrepreneurial minded learning in the classroom.Amena Shermadou, Ohio State University Amena Shermadou is an Engineering Education graduate student at The Ohio State University. She
Paper ID #23172Sketching, Assessment, and Persistence in Spatial Visualization Training Ona TouchscreenProf. Nathan Delson, University of California, San Diego Nathan Delson’s interests include mechatronics, biomedical devices, human-machine interfaces, and en- gineering education. He isCo-founder and Past President of Coactive Drive Corp., which develops novel actuators and control methods for use in force feedback human interfaces. Medical device projects include an instrumented mannequin and laryngoscope for expert skill acquisition and airway intubation training. He received his undergraduate degree in mechanical
± 0.78 learn. The class discussions helped me explore the class content. 4.29 ± 0.66 The Concept Questions and Practice Problems helped me learn. 4.49 ± 0.64 Homework problems and test questions helped me assess my progress learning 4.12 ± 0.62 the course content. The structure of this course encouraged me to explore outside resources to help 3.94 ± 1.07 me learn. I can relate what I learned in this course to other courses, my Capstone/Thesis 4.12 ± 0.88 project, and topics in the fields of biomedical engineering and medicine.Learning EnvironmentStudent perceptions of the learning environment were assessed using a series of seven Likert-type questions encoded on a
Internet of Things, it is vital, with respect to U.S. manufacturing, that we produce graduateswell prepared to fill the professional manufacturing jobs of the future.The multidisciplinary nature of the degree program is highlighted in the paper, as are the program’s corecompetencies and skill set development emphases. In addition, the various industry partnershipsformed to-date under the AMSI umbrella, with a view to supporting the degree program in a sustainablefashion, are highlighted.1. Introduction.As has been noted by various industry analysts, including Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute [1],more than 2 million manufacturing jobs are projected to go unfilled in the U.S. over the next decade.Only around 40% of a projected 3.5 million
Paper ID #14471Automated Grading of Excel Workbooks Using MatlabDr. Curtis Cohenour Ph.D., P. E., Ohio University Dr. Cohenour is an Assistant Professor in the Ohio University Engineering Technology and Management Department, in Athens, Ohio. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from West Virginia Institute of Technology in 1980, a Master of Science degree from Ohio University in 1988, and a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University in 2009. He is a registered professional engineer in West Virginia, and Ohio. Dr. Cohenour has worked in Industry as an electrical engineer and project manager. He joined Ohio
mechanical engineering students. In Concordia University, he has offered courses in Quality and Systems Engineer- ing for graduate students with different engineering backgrounds. In University of Calgary, Dr. Li is one instructor of the final-year design course and offers a new technical elective ”Design for Sustainabil- ity”. Currently, he is the capstone design instructor in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Assessing the Efficacy of Supplemental Online Lecture Modules in a Core Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate CourseAbstractIn this paper, we report on a study performed in a core, 2nd year mechanical
MaterialsIntroductionThe work reported in this paper begins with the end of a previous research project. Our earlierwork investigated student understanding of mechanics of materials1–3. After describing howstudents understand this topic, we wanted to move on to developing course materials to helpbuild on students’ existing understanding and address misconceptions. This is not an unusualprogression, and, indeed, our initial research in this area showed us that most course materialsthat are developed from research never achieve broad adoption4. Many engineering educatorsdevelop their own materials, duplicating researchers’ efforts and potentially denying students thebenefit of research-based materials with proven effectiveness. The lack of adoption is a
underdevelopment. Students are being encouraged to get involved with this work in the form ofindependent studies or senior capstone projects. Such a project would require the studentor team to develop a significant component in PowerX to include design, development, Page 26.1604.13testing and documentation of their work.ConclusionThis paper presented an overview of a software application called PowerX that initiallystarted out as a research tool and eventually made its way into the classroom to helpstudents get a better understanding of power systems problems and solutions to theseproblems. For the most part, student response has been very positive and assessment
is a multidisciplinary design intensive vertical curriculumsupported at the 200-level, 300-level, and capstone levels by three newly developed coursesfocused on engineering design. Grounded in human-centered design and design thinking, thesecourses will focus on developing the skills necessary to understand users’ experiences andidentify and develop appropriate solutions for design problems. The addition of these threedesign courses, along with engineering design activities in our established First-YearEngineering program, introduces a “design spine” in the curriculum that emphasizes problem-based learning across all four years of the engineering degree program. While this curriculumsupports contemporary students’ desire for flexibility and
must betaught in the core courses [8]. According to a Summer/Fall 2015 survey of chemical engineeringprograms, only 23% of the 148 programs required a chemical process safety course [10]. Morerecent ASEE course surveys of Material and Energy Balances, Kinetics and Process Controlcourses indicate that 60-80% of those courses include a safety topic in the course [11, 12, 13].Core capstone courses are a natural fit for safety outcomes, as are upper level courses such asUnit Operations (UO) laboratories [7]. UO laboratories, as a core course that has designexperience and/or experiments within it, is an optimal place for safety outcomes to be covered. It should be noted that the need for process safety education is not new; the challenge is
molecular biology. The secondpart of the day students explored nature’s pharmacy through a taste, touch, and feel experience.Computer Science -- Participants learned the basics of programming in Java, as they created botsthat played a video game. At the end of the session, students pitted their bots against each otherin a Bot!Battle! tournament. The Bot!Battle! system was developed by Computer Sciencestudents at Penn State University-Harrisburg as part of their Senior Capstone projects.Civil Engineering -- Past, present, and future of construction materials: Think the GeneralMotor’s commercial “It’s not your father’s Oldsmobile.” First, students learned how materialshave evolved. They explored materials used in today’s construction through hands-on
. Specifically, allnew faculty participate in a ~6 weeklong initial summer training workshop run at the departmentlevel. Here, new faculty are given the opportunity to develop relationships with their facultycohort as they explore foundational teaching skills. New faculty members also completenumerous events designed to indoctrinate them into our university’s community. Beyond initialsummer training, our university maintains the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE), whichprovides numerous faculty development opportunities throughout the academic year. The mostintensive CFE offering is the Master Teacher Program, which is a two-year program consistingof teaching-related classes and a required capstone project. To graduate, faculty members mustcomplete a
beginning were found to be Learning Styles andMotivation. Most end reflections focused on Time Management-Balance and Study Habits. Thisstudy helps elucidate what students think about when they reflect on themselves as learners andcould be used by faculty to increase student motivation or ease student concerns. Future studiescould investigate how student responses to these reflection prompts relate to their outcomes inthe course or try to better understand students’ reflections through interviews or focus groups.References[1] M. D. Marsolek and N. E. Canney, “Facilitating Habitual Reflection in Students - Application to an Engineering Capstone Project,” 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), E ire, PA, USA. 2016.[2] J.A
. students, four of them are taking undergraduate courses in the same semester thatthe student plans to defend his/her thesis. These courses range from the capstone IMSEundergraduate experience to Technical Writing and even some undergraduate general educationclasses. Page 12.397.77. Future of the ProgramOur program was the first of its kind in the K-State College of Engineering. It causedconsiderable debate among the engineering faculty during course and curriculum procedures.Most questions were challenging whether the program met university guidelines. Aftersuccessfully answering these questions, many engineering faculty member expressed support
Sciences.Effective delivery of professional service depends critically upon these connections.The formal education process sets the stage for individuals to become effective professionals. Inpractice, virtually all projects and design work involve varying degrees of integration of socialsciences knowledge, such as economic and socio-political aspects. Engineers must be able torecognize and incorporate these considerations into the development, delivery, and evaluation ofsolutions to engineering problems. Continued development of professional competence must Page 13.623.9come from life-long learning, mentorship from senior engineers, and practical experience
, otherdepartments have had the test set up as a demonstration during another lab. The lab is a resource for other student courses, particularly senior capstone projects. Themost commonly used apparatus is the hardness tester. This efficiency has its costs. Effective utilization of time means that more tests can beconducted in a lab session. For example, there is an annual consumption of 850 metal tensilespecimens. Individual departments surrender control of equipment and facilities.Evaluation The basis for student assessment of this instructional facility is challenging. It is difficult toisolate the lab facility itself from the course and the effectiveness of TAs. The best method hasbeen to set up focus group meetings at the end of the semester
Vehicle Dynamics 3 AE 477 High Performance Piston Engines 3 MET 435W Senior Capstone Project 3 ENMA 301 Engineering Management 3 ENMA 302 Engineering Economics 3 ENMA 401 Project Management 3 ENMA 420 Statistics 3 Total 45All of the courses listed above are currently being offered at the main campus. The MET coursesare also part of the MET program and
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