engineering at Michigan State University. She teaches a range of courses from the introduction to engineering course to the upperclass courses on water/wastewater treatment, air pollution engineering and science, and capstone design . She was recently involved in the development of a B.S. program in environmental engineering Dr. Masten’s research involves the use of chemical oxidants for the remediation of soils, water, and leachates contaminated with hazardous organic chemicals. Dr. Masten has been working etensively to develop water treatment technologies that are more effective and suitable for use in decentralized water treatment systems. Over the last year, she has also begun to evaluate water treatment technologies
Paper ID #6035Using Leadership Education Practices to Enhance Freshmen EngineeringStudent Interviewing SkillsDr. David Bayless, Ohio University Dr. Bayless is the Loehr professor of Mechanical Engineering and the director of Ohio University’s Center of Excellence in Energy and the Environment. He is also the director of the Robe Leadership Institute, director of the Center for Algal Engineering Research and Commercialization (an Ohio Third Frontier Wright Project), and director of the Ohio Coal Research Center at Ohio University, where he is engaged in the development of energy and environmental technology, such as
-Based Enterprise”, and “6: MBSE Capstone Project”. These aredesigned to provide students with enough knowledge and practice to enable them to startapplying MBSE in their professional environments.The interview protocol was constructed to understand instructor experiences using the modules,the scaffoldings they provided to learners, and the effectiveness of the modules as perceived bythem. All the participants in this WIP were involved in the module design process as contentselectors or as content producers. Content selectors were responsible for content selection andestablishing main course goals in the modules while collaborating with instructional designers onthe pedagogical approach. Content producers were in charge of transferring the
uses steady-state analysis to create a temperature profileacross the sample and subsequently calculate the thermal resistance and conductivity. This setupcan greatly assist students with thermal characterization requirements for testing materials in-house and reduce development time in capstone projects and research while allowing them tounderstand the fundamentals of heat transfer through practical applications. It is also a goodalternative for organizations looking into building their thermal characterization facilities.Keywords: Thermal Conductivity, Heat Conduction, Experimental Facility, UndergraduateStudent PosterNomenclature:k = Thermal ConductivityR = Thermal ResistanceT = Temperaturet = Timeq = Heat Flow
; Exposition, 2009, p. 14.223. 1- 14.223. 18.[5] S. D. Hart, “Applying the ExCEEd Teaching Model in a Flipped Classroom Environment,” in 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2016.[6] J. Q. Retherford and J. K. Amoah, “Incorporating ASCE’s ExCEEd Principles in Capstone Project and Other Active Learning Courses,” in Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education Southeast Section Conference, 2014.[7] R. W. Welch and C. B. Farnsworth, “Using the ExCEEd Model for Distance Education,” in 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2011, p. 22.1645. 1-22.1645. 22.
Paper ID #39357Work-in-Progress: Hands-on group activities for large fluid mechanicsclasses in a traditional lecture hall settingDr. Fiona C. Levey, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Dr. Fiona Levey is an Associate Teaching Professor the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engi- neering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She teaches materials science and thermal fluids classes and advises capstone design projects. She employs active learning and project-based learning in her curricu- lum, using varied approaches for different levels, and correlating course design and teaching techniques to learning outcomes. Dr. Levey
necessary prerequisite courses and student confidence in their ownunderstanding, we feel it safe to assume that students have already been exposed to two-dimensional heat transfer and have a reasonable understanding of the material.Questions three, four, and eight focus on whether the lab provided students with an increasedunderstanding of two-dimensional heat transfer and a greater ability to visualize the process.Students generally agreed with this notion, especially in terms of visualization. Additionally, inquestion five, students generally agree that participating in a numerical and experimental heattransfer project was more instructional than a similar project performed on paper. Questions 6and 7 indicate that the lab setting not only helped
engineering disciplines, it is not part of a capstone project andstudents have little or no formal experience in business or training in teamwork. AnotherProceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Educationimportant consideration is the difference between the experience of undergraduate students andthe experience of those for whom most leadership development programs are targeted. Table 4highlights some of the differences between industry and university students of leadership.Table 4 Situational comparison of Leadership Development environment for industry anduniversity participants. Professionals StudentsIdentified by others as having
of computerscience, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. This paper discusseslaboratory development and the hands-on learning experience within the context of thiscapstone course on robotics and mechatronics. Topics covered include the innovation ofteaching industrial robotics to undergraduate students working on solving real-worldproblems, particularly as it applies to multidisciplinary fields such as bionics and solarenergy.IntroductionThis paper presents the establishment of a robotics and mechatronics laboratory forteaching and research integrated with the emerging fields of bionics and solar energythrough an NSF project involving undergraduate and graduate students, and faculty atGoodwin College of Drexel University
the desire outcome. 2learning journals and application to engineering 149 The teaching technique I selected is learning journals, where students write weekly journal entries(100-300 words per entry) discussing pertinent class topics and relating them to explicitly stated coursethemes. If desired, the instructor can provide leading questions or specific issues to be addressed inrelation to the overall weekly topic. The project will culminate in a significantly longer entry (minimum1000 words) tying weekly topics together by highlighting the common threads—the stated coursethemes—and using reason to make conclusions. Students
nanotechnology andallowing the students to develop substantive capstone research projects. The undergraduate andgraduate curricula couples the intellectual and technological resources of CNSE's NanoTech 6 Proceedings of 2015 St. Lawrence Section of the American Society for Engineering EducationComplex. CNSE is pioneering an institutional model that integrates closely the educationalactivity of the students with the academic and industrial research. This concept offers multipleadvantages. Among them it provides access to state-of-the-art technologies, equipment, andprocesses, expanding the range of research that can be undertaken along the educationalinstruction. In return, the industrial
enhancing our student’s skills in SolidWorks. We expect ourseniors to use SolidWorks extensively in our capstone senior design, but our students learnSolidWorks formally only in their first semester. By the fourth semester Dynamics course theyhave already become a little rusty. If we do not require students to use SolidWorks as an integralpart of their intermediate coursework; we should show little surprise when they proclaim as seniorsthat they have forgotten it all.Results The four benefits described above are simply conjectured by the author. A survey wasadministered to students having just completed the Dynamics course in the spring of 2013 and 6
US industrial PhD track v. Block grants to universities to educate STEM doctoral students beyond technical expertise vi. Celebrate alumni outside academia who are making a difference in the world vii. Centers of excellence for engaging studentsviii. Support networks for underrepresented students ix. Doctoral analog to undergraduate capstone collaboration to solve current problems x. Co-advisors / mentors from industry xi. Industry involvement in developing classes, programs xii. Refer undergraduate interns in industry to relevant graduate programs depending on their interests and skillsxiii. Engage industry researchers to teach the skillsets needed, and to establish robust mentoringxiv. Engage
Champaign Alison Kerr received a doctoral degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from The University of Tulsa. Her research interests include training development and evaluation as explored across a variety of academic disciplines and organizational settings. She is currently assisting on a number of training projects aimed at developing engineering students on relevant non-technical professional skills including ethical practice and presentation. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Chemical Engineers’ Experiences of Ethics in the Health Products IndustryAbstractWhile ethics education for chemical engineers has been emphasized, potential
, engineeringdesign, and project management(f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility: understand professional and ethicalresponsibilities as they apply to both particular engineering projects and to the engineering profession as a whole(g) an ability to communicate effectively with both expert and non-expert audiences(h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global andsocietal context: understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and social context and use thatunderstanding in the formulation of engineering problems, solutions, and designs(i) a recognition of the need for, and ability to engage in, lifelong learning: the development of the researchand analytical skills
Operations experiments, and incorporating Design throughout the Chemical Engineering curricu- lum. She currently works as a freelance Engineering Education Consultant and Chemical Engineer. She is the Project Manager for NSF grant #1623105, IUSE/PFE:RED: FACETS: Formation of Accomplished Chemical Engineers for Transforming Society, for which she is advising and coordinating assessment.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and associate professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information & Learning Sciences program and in the Chemical & Biological Engineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is
was chosen to allow experiential learning within thethermal fluid laboratory course for both face-to-face and remote access by students. The heatexchanger system was funded and supported by the Department of Mechanical Engineering at TheUniversity of Texas at Tyler (UT-Tyler) where groups of students designed and built the system inphases. A team of seniors started the first phase of the project by designing and simulating a heatexchanger system as part of their capstone design course. The results of this phase helped start thesecond phase where multiple groups of the following class of seniors worked on the seconditeration of the heat exchanger design and successfully constructed subsystems as prototypes overthe past three years. The final
approach between instructorsand teaching assistants is crucial.There are numerous successful collaborative models for teaching. While the majority of researchon collaborative teaching involve faculty to faculty collaborations [3-5], there are teachingcollaborations that exist between faculty and undergraduate students [6, 7] or faculty andgraduate students (in their PhD programs) [8]. However, there is only limited research examiningteaching collaborations that involve among undergraduate and graduate students in a course.In this study, we examine the complementarity of roles between IAIs and TAs in the remoteteaching and learning in the Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University’s first-year coursetitled Integrated Cornerstone Design Projects
, quiet environment and then 5 min afterwards to write down theirreflections. During the session, some students shared their experiences with the visualizationand described their inner mentor.Session 2: Fear and Unhooking from Praise and CriticismThis session began with a discussion on distinctions of fear brought forward in the book.Pachad is defined as the fear of projected or imagined things. Yirah is a different fear thatcomes forward when connected to a calling or life’s dream. This inspired space brings outfeelings of expansiveness, exhilaration, or awe. In the session there was time to journal aboutexperiences with both fears. Then if there were willing participants, they shared experiences ofyirah with the group.The second part of the
for engineering educators by providing atransferable, easy-to-implement reflection activity that can be implemented in any engineeringcourse that includes a presentation assignment.Reflection to Enhance Learning and AssessmentReflection as a teaching approach is becoming increasingly recognized in engineering education[1, 2], where it is often used to promote cognitive development and can help students learn morefrom projects, internships, and other educational experiences [3-7]. For example, a common in-class reflective activity is the “exam wrapper”: shortly after an exam, students articulate whatthey did that helped them do well on the exam and what they could do differently to improvetheir performance on a future exam.Recently, reflection
which they respondedpreviously. The same pre- and post-activities were used for each iteration of the course. Foriteration six, only data from the pre-activity are included in this study. Table III. Examples of Coded Design Elements from Participants Code Definition Examples Business Procurement and production costs, How many laborers will be involved in the project; target market segments, external find a way to expand outside North America; look at stakeholders, and training for testing and competitors; find a knowledgeable team. manufacturing Customer Target users’ experience and needs
a combination ofengineering, science, computer science, information systems, project management,telecommunications, electronics, and quality assurance topics. Every degree program requires acourse in Integrated Technology Assessment, which is equivalent to a “CAPSTONE” course.Where necessary, students are provided access to a “Virtual Laboratory” for gaining laboratoryexperience.Anwar et.al.3 provided an overview of the engineering technology programs at EC, in a paperpresented at the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. Anwar4 presents details of theBEET program at EC in an article to be published in the Journal of Pennsylvania Academy ofScience.2.2 Characteristics of EC Students As stated in Section 1.0, Excelsior College
articles, and 81 conference papers. He has mentored 67 high school students, 38 high school teachers, 10 undergraduate summer interns, and seven undergraduate capstone-design teams. In addition, he has supervised three M.S. projects, two M.S. thesis, and three Ph.D. dissertations.Hong Wong, Polytechnic University HONG WONG was born in Hong Kong, China. In June of 2000 and 2002, he received the B.S. and M.S. degrees, respectively, in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY. He is a member of Pi Tau Sigma and Tau Beta Pi. He worked for the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH, during the summers of 2000 and 2001. He is currently a doctoral student at Polytechnic
13.1.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 “…A Good Imagination and a Pile of Junk”AbstractThe engineering workplace is placing more emphasis on teamwork in interdisciplinaryenvironments, out-of-the-box thinking, creative engineering, and brainstorming. These skills aretaught to varying degrees in standard engineering curriculums, and often the most fruitfulopportunities exist for students to learn in venues outside of the classroom.This paper will show how building Rube Goldberg machines is a fantastic way for learners fromvarious disciplines to get hands-on project experience in a team environment. Intensebrainstorming and work sessions result in inventive and unique machines that are fascinating forboth
to outreach activities,we also use these real-time DSP tools in several of our regular ECE courses.In the capstone design course ECE 468, “Computers in Control and Instrumentation,” winDSK6is used as an example of an appropriate student project outcome. The student projects must uti-lize the DSK6713 which includes the HPI daughtercard. The winDSK6 program is also used todemonstrate some of the DSP software that the students need to write for their projects. The audioeffects, FIR and IIR filter routines, and the scope/spectrum analyzer are used as a reference for thefunctionality of the project code. The audible effects of aliasing and quantization noise are alsodemonstrated in class using winDSK6.In ECE 330, the first signals and systems
Based UnitsIntel Education informs that:Authentic project work puts students in the driver's seat of their own learning. Itis important that instructors take advantage of curriculum developed by teachersin a large collection of Unit Plans that integrate technology. Models ofmeaningful classroom projects that integrate instruction in thinking skills alongwith tools and strategies for developing one’s own exemplary technology-supported learning are always encouraged. They focus on three areas:1. It is important to learn how project-based units can effectively engage students in meaningful work and promote higher-order thinking.2. It is necessary to see how questions and ongoing assessment keep project work focused on important learning goals
addition to engineering education, his research interests include simulation and software engineering.Christa Chewar, United States Military Academy Dr. Christa Chewar is an Army Major and an Assistant Professor in the computer science program of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the United States Military Academy, currently serving as an engineer on a major software project in Virginia. Her research interests include human-computer interfaces in addition to engineering and computer science education.Jean Blair, United States Military Academy Dr. Jean Blair is a Professor of Computer Science and director of the computer science program of the Department
: Wastewater Engineering Suggested Courses: Transportation DesignLevel: 4 Level: 34. “Contract, Contract, Who Gets the Contract?” 8. “The Sinking Tower”Charles White Borns, Fletcher, & VeshoskySuggested Courses: Construction Methods Management Suggested Courses: Soils, Capstone DesignLevel: 3, 4 Level: 3, 4 Page 1.77.3 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings
. 1999. Refinement of a Community Service Attitude Scale. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest Educational Research Association. 35 pp.18. Wilde, Douglass J. 2004. Team Creativity. Education that Works: The NCIIA 8th Annual Meeting. March 18- 20. p. 77-80.19. Wilde, Douglass J. 2007. Team Dynamics Panel, Handouts. National Capstone Design Course Conference. June 13-15, Boulder, CO.20. Bielefeldt, A.R. 2007. Community Service Attitudes of First-Year Students and Senior Students Working on Service Learning Design Projects. Association for Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Biennial Conference - Interactions at the Interface: Making the Connections Between Environments, Disciplines and
lead “device dissection” labs of one type or another. Easilythe most populous of these three categories is the cadre of design instructors, as“capstone design” is virtually universal among engineering schools, whereas first yearinstruction is highly variable in coverage and level of effort, and even device dissectionlabs are not present in the majority of engineering departments. The materials needed for instruction in technological literacy courses (TLCs) aresubstantial and varied. Materials available to address this need include an increasingnumber of books by engineering and science authors such as Billington 5, Bloomfield 6,Florman 7 , Lienhard 8 , and Petroski 9. Radio programs featuring engineers are written