for large classrooms and developing K-16 curriculum in earthquake engineering and spatial visualization.Prof. Nathan Delson, University of California at San Diego Nathan Delson is a Teaching Professor at the University of California at San Diego. His research inter- ests include robotics, biomedical devices, and engineering education. He teaches introductory design, mechanics, mechatronics, capstone design, medical devices, and product design & entrepreneurship. His interests in design education include increasing student motivation, teamwork, hands-on projects, and integration of theory into design projects. In 1999 he co-founded Coactive Drive Corporation (currently General Vibration), a company that provides
as a project management consultant. Her research contributes to the advancement of labor and personnel issues in engineering broadly and specifically in the construction industry through two research areas: untangling the complex relationship between activities people become involved in — operationalized as engagement — and the technical and professional out- comes gained — operationalized as competencies. The broader impact of this work lies in achieving and sustaining productive, diverse and inclusive project organizations composed of engaged, competent peo- ple. Dr. Simmons’ research is supported by awards from NSF, including a CAREER award. She oversees the Simmons Research Lab (www.denisersimmons.com), which
Society.20 Unlike the first two books, this was written for senior engineeringstudents in a capstone course. While including some of the same topics, such as energy andsustainability, the focus of this text is on engineering practice. This is beneficial for atechnological literacy course. The text is useful both for new engineers confronting issues in thepolitical and business arenas and for non-engineers needing to understand engineering.The author wanted material in the readings that would serve as case studies in engineering andtechnology, and used other books to supplement standard textbooks. Some books written forfirst year engineering students, such as Adams, Flying Buttresses, Entropy, and O-Rings: theWorld of an Engineer,21 and Billington
Page 13.427.2industrial internship, a senior capstone design project, and passing the National Council ofEngineering Examiners (NCEES) Fundamentals of Engineering Exam (FE). The 128 semestercredit hours derive from general education (50 hours), engineering core (51 hours), andengineering concentration (27 hours) requirements. The engineering concentration requirement isunique for each discipline. Thus, the courses that make up this requirement identify the disciplineof the degree candidate.Civil Discipline ConcentrationThe engineering core courses are listed in Table 1. Note the very first course in the list, ENGR101 Engineering Graphics. Historically, this course was the place where manual drafting, ormechanical drawing, was introduced
-organizer of Virginia Tech’s Research in Engineering Studies (RES) group.Miguel Hurtado, Purdue University Miguel Hurtado is Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He holds a B.S. in EE from Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, M.S. in Signal-Image Processing from ENST - Télécom Paris, M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics and M.S. in Management, both from MIT. His research is focused on statistical methods for sensor fusion in automotive applications (Fisherian and Bayesian approaches), project management, and lean enterprise. He is also interested in engineering education perspectives in social and global context
2006-258: LEARNING/ASSESSMENT: A TOOL FOR ASSESSING LIBERATIVEPEDAGOGIES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONDonna Riley, Smith College Donna Riley is Assistant Professor in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. Her work focuses on implementing liberative pedagogies in engineering education.Lionel Claris, Smith College Lionel Claris holds a master's degree in education from Smith College and currently teaches Spanish and French to elementary school students in Springfield, MA. He is a passionate advocate for new ways of thinking about learning, involved locally in the Holistic School Project of Amherst and the Re-radicalization of Hampshire College.Nora Paul-Schultz, Smith College Nora
results in recent DBF efforts,and the positive organizational impacts resulting from participation. It also highlights lessonslearned and future efforts to be tackled, including insights from the perspective of students leadingthe team.Motivation.The desire for educational programs within the field of aerospace engineering continues to bepopular, both due to the increasing availability of technology and stable job opportunities withinthe aerospace engineering career field. According to the Department of Labor’s Bureau of LaborStatistics (April 2018), “Employment of aerospace engineers is projected to grow 6 percent from2016 to 2026, about as fast as the average for all occupations.” Rationale for this growth isattributed to several factors
traditional engineering courses as part of their planof study, including thermodynamics and fluid mechanics [25]. Purdue University offered itsgraduates the opportunity to take the FAA Airframe and Powerplant Certification exam at theend of its four-year degree plan. Purdue was one of two schools to be both Part 147 certified aswell as ABET-ETAC accredited, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and technology is the other,and as such, offered its graduates courses covering advanced composite structure assembly andrepair as well as requiring a two-semester capstone project as part of its graduation criteria [25],[26].The final and most known group were the classical aeronautical engineers. The category wasincluded here for completeness of discussion, despite
, research and presentations, and a final project, students learnedabout, explored, and sought to discern the ethical implications of cybersecurity within thecontext of society, especially as it pertains to military and law enforcement. Student feedbackvalidated that the course challenged them, offered them an opportunity to present their views,and extended what they had learned in their classic ethics class into the cyber domain. Basedupon lessons learned, adjustments are being made for the second offering of this course in orderto improve the flow and delivery of the class and the evaluation criteria. Changes are also beingmade to account for the increased class size from single to double digits.1. IntroductionAs engineering and technology become
simulation of materials. He participate in multiple projects, including the Development of a Model for The Metal Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing Process. Dr. Ahmed Cherif Megri is currently the chair of the NCAT CAM’s Education subcommittee. He contributed to the outreach CAM since 2015.Mr. Ismail Megri Is a rising junior at Northwest Middle in Greensboro, has begun taking 3D printing and design courses at North Carolina A&T State University. He participated to 2017 Appalachian Energy Summit Poster Competition.Dr. Sameer Hamoush P.E., North Carolina A&T State University Professor and Chair of Civil and Architectural Engineering DepartmentDr. Taher M. Abu-Lebdeh c
Technology program. B´arbara is a proud graduate of NMSU, she earned a Bachelor of Science in Elec- tronics and Computer Engineering Technology and a Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering with an emphasis on Engineering Management. Prior to serving NMSU, B´arbara served as a Software Engineer at one of NASA’s Tracking and Data Satellite System Ground Terminals where she provided real-time support, lead projects, and managed software deliveries. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 An Automated Entrepreneurial Team Selection Tool College of Engineering, New Mexico State University Dr. Rolfe J. Sassenfeld, Luke M. Nogales, and Barbara A
Activities in the Front-End andDevelopment Phases of the Innovation Process,” Licentiate thesis, Aalto University, Department of IndustrialEngineering and Management, 2013.31. Schön D.A. “The Reflective Practitioner – How Professionals Think in Action,” Aldershot AshgatePublishing Ltd., 1991.32. Taajamaa V. et al. Interdisciplinary Capstone Project, 41th SEFI Conference, Leuven, Belgium, 2013.33. Taajamaa, V. et al. “Dancing with Ambiguity – Design Thinking in Interdisciplinary EngineeringEducation,” Design Thinking conference, Shenzhen, China, 201334. Wesner J.W. and Dym C.L. “What We Have Learned at Mudd Design Workshop VI, Design andEngineering Education in a Flat World,” Int. J. Eng Ed., 24: 443-448, 2008
chairing ten or more graduate student culminating projects, theses, or dissertations, in 2011 and 2005. He was also nominated for 2004 UNI Book and Supply Outstanding Teaching Award, March 2004, and nominated for 2006, and 2007 Russ Nielson Service Awards, UNI. Dr. Pecen is an Engineering Tech- nology Editor of American Journal of Undergraduate Research (AJUR). He has been serving as a re- viewer on the IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing since 2001. Dr. Pecen has served on ASEE Engineering Technology Division (ETD) in Annual ASEE Conferences as a reviewer, session moderator, and co-moderator since 2002. He served as a Chair-Elect on ASEE ECC Division in 2011. He also served as a program chair
Mechanical and Civil capstone and thesis courses. Norma is on a research leave this year.Dr. Anne E. Parker, University of Manitoba Anne Parker is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Engineering Professional Practice & Engineering Education, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, and has taught engineering communication in the faculty for over 30 years. Her earlier research has focused on collaborative projects in engineering and problem-solving in communication and design. More recently, she participated in a national study of writing assignments in undergraduate classes, including engineering, and a study of engineering students’ levels of confidence in their communication and lifelong learning skills. The
supportingdevelopment of teaching self-efficacy. Secondary school students visit university facilities intheir class cohorts, accompanied by their teachers, to execute project-based learning. A selectedoverarching global research topic is sub-divided into subject-specific research questions (i.e.,Biology, Chemistry, and Physics) that students work in small groups to address, iteratively on-campus and in-class, during a term-long project (Figure 1A). The Discovery framework providessecondary school students the experience of an engineering capstone design project (including amotivating scientific problem, a discipline-specific research question, and systematicdetermination of a professional recommendation addressing the needs of the problem posed)meanwhile
Instructional Systems at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include the design of online learning and how learning occurs in those environments. Address: 201 Hammond Building, University Park, PA 16802. Telephone: 814-865-4017, FAX: 814-865-4021, email: rtoto@psu.eduMark Wharton, Pennsylvania State University Mark J. Wharton is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State. He teaches undergraduate courses in Electronics (Electronics I, II, and III) and Senior Project Design, the EE capstone design course. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State and his M.S. from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Prior to working at Penn State, Mark spent
Machine Design II ME 481 – Senior Capstone Design Design Project Documentation: Problem Definition, Progress report, Formal Design Reports Project Report (1 @ 35- 200 pages) Detailed description of design approach, results, and conclusions, with supporting documentation Teamwork 3-5 Students/Team Multiple industry interactions, small group
the labs and hands-onexperiences.This paper focuses on the new sophomore level design course which has been piloted as anabbreviated ten-week quarter long version in Autumn 2011 and Winter 2012. The sophomorecourse fills, in part, the major gap in design education that exists between the fundamentals ofengineering course sequence (and its honors equivalent, both of which serve as a prerequisite tothe major) and the senior-year capstone design course. And while the first year course sequencesinclude a design-build project, there exists a wide variance in the machine skills and experienceof entry-level Mechanical Engineering students. This new sophomore course attempts to level-set the practical knowledge of machining among students in addition
measured the impact that professionaldevelopment training for pre-college engineering had on these beliefs. We examined this in thecontext of a specific, well-regarded, pre-college engineering program, Project Lead the Way(PLTW). We measured teachers’ views before and after training and teaching their first PLTWcourse, as compared to changes observed with a control group of STEM teachers. Some pre-existing differences reached statistical significance: Prospective PLTW teachers were morelikely than control teachers to identify sources of support for engineering in their schools, reportthat science and math concepts were integrated with engineering instruction; and to supportgreater access to engineering. Over time, teachers from both groups were
third of the programs reported thatmeasuring achievement of general education goals is attempted as part of the assessment activity.The kinds of assessment methods included a wide variety of student, alumni and employersurveys and interviews, and to a lesser extent, portfolios, capstone projects and practica, andstandardized testing. The survey also found substantial variability in the extent to which Page 10.193.2program outcomes were mapped to course goals and outcomes. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for
. Page 10.1305.2 meet regularly to discuss, evaluate, revise, and reimplement our collaborative project. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ASEE 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Session 1661Review of literatureInformation literacy can be defined as a set of capabilities; however, it is also an instructionaland intellectual movement13, similar to cross-curricular writing programs that emerged in thelate 1960s with the writing-process movement. Instruction in IL is now viewed as an array ofactivities in an institutional, collaborative
used concepts such as productdefinition, prototyping) intended to meet a user’s needs (e.g., noted client needs,scientific needs). Our findings also showed that experts tended to situate the designprocess in a social context, often mentioning issues related to ethics, marketing andinterpersonal skills required for success in the workplace.Study 2Student participantsAs part of their course requirements, 51 students enrolled in a capstone design course atVanderbilt University were asked to construct concept maps. Students were given thesame focus question that was presented to experts (i.e., “What is your current conceptualunderstanding of what is involved in the BME design process?”). Maps were given ashomework assignments at three time points
for engineering capstone design projects.2.3. Industrial Innovation Sciences Course Teaching Method and Pedagogies:Industrial Innovation Science was a survey and analysis course that aimed to develop anunderstanding of the basic elements of innovation, processes, and models for innovating,managing innovation, and how organizations innovate, all important considerations for designingfuture organizations and how work might be embodied in future organizations while stillretaining innovation goals. In particular, artificial intelligence is already upending the creativityskill requirements in workplaces further emphasizing the need for students to strengthen theirinnovation skills and perhaps co-innovate with technologies of the future, and co
class. The Senior Capstone class was chosen based on their availability and their priorexperience with the engineering problem solving process and a few different problem-solvingmethods. The second session was with a group of 13 practicing engineers from a medium-sizedmanufacturing company in Hillsboro, OR. This group of engineers was chosen based onavailability and professional experience with problem solving in engineering applications. Thepresentation was part of a monthly meeting traditionally used to discuss new research related tothe company.Experimental Methods The data for this project was collected over the course of two different workshop sessionsfollowing procedures approved by the University of Portland institutional review
inform developers of teamdesign thinking measurements. Curricular and pedagogical efforts are currently in place to develop an understanding ofengineering design among high school students through formal and informal experiences.Engineering in K-12 Education 5 presented discussion of a variety of curricular efforts. Includedin these are The Academy of Engineering, Engineering: An Introduction for High School,Engineering by Design, Engineering Your Future: A Project-Based Introduction to Engineering,Engineers of the Future, The Infinity Project, INSPIRES, Learning by Design, Principles ofEngineering, TeachEngineering.org, TECH-Know, A World in Motion, Engineering the Future
selected the NanoJapan: International Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NanoJapanIREU) and the RQI Research Experiences for Undergraduates (RQI REU) programs for comparisonbecause both programs are funded by the NSF, headquartered at Rice University, recruit participantsfrom universities nationwide via a competitive selection process, enable students to participate incutting-edge research in fields related to nanoscale and atomic-scale systems, phenomena, anddevices, and require participants to present topical research posters on their summer projects at asummer research colloquium as a capstone experience. Page 20.42.4The NanoJapan
in engineering requires that students understand their professional and ethicalresponsibilities. ABET also asks programs to ensure that students integrate ethicalconsiderations into a "major design project." Even a quick look at these ethics requirementsmakes it clear that the ethical component of this new engineering curriculum cannot becompletely delegated to the ethics expert, for example, a philosopher who would teach afreestanding course in engineering ethics required of all engineering students. For reasons thatwe will discuss below, the freestanding course, while an essential part of a successfulengineering program, does not by itself achieve the integration of ethics into the engineeringcurriculum that ABET requires.One of the
environments.Prof. John Raiti, University of Washington Prof. John Raiti is an Associate Teaching Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, and is the Technical Programs Advisor at the Global Innovation Exchange (GIX) where he teaches in the Interdisciplinary UW Master of Science in Technology Innovation degree program. He teaches UW graduate level courses in Sensors & Circuits, IoT and Connected Devices, Capstone-style Launch Projects, and Robotics (Mobility, Navigation, and Manipulation) with a focus on Human Robot Interaction (HRI). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Physical Robots for Teaching Mobility & Manipulation using
-, and transdisciplinary ways, cyberlearning and cyber-environments, service and experien- tial learning, teaming and collaborative learning.Dr. Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Sarah Zappe is Research Associate and Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State. She holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology emphasizing applied measurement and testing. In her position, Sarah is responsible for developing instructional support programs for faculty, providing evaluation support for educational proposals and projects, and working with faculty to publish educational research. Her research interests
. IntroductionEngineering curriculum frequently focuses on technical, analytical, and decision makingknowledge and skills, evident by the common focus of courses on math and physics principles[1]–[3]. Course problem sets and projects routinely focus on determining variables and solvingequations where there is one “right” answer [4]. However, engineering work is inherently bothtechnical and social [5], [6]. To address major problems of today’s world, engineering studentsneed to develop contextual and cultural competencies, ethical responsibility, and socialengagement knowledge and skills, as well as the ability to work across disciplinary boundaries[7]–[10]. Engagement in these skills, which we collectively call “comprehensive engineeringknowledge and skills”, are