desired level of technical analysis required of this junior level course offering,numerous methods for extending learning beyond the classroom and encouraging studentengagement with the material have been explored. Over the past five years, active learninginstructional techniques inspired by the Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL)approach and project based laboratory learning have been intermixed with traditional lecturesand the flipped classroom method in an attempt to improve student learning.This paper reports on the variety of methods used, how each instructional method is integratedinto the classroom environment, the rationale behind implementing the various techniques, andthe observations and impacts on student outcomes
electrical engineering. In addition, eachfaculty member had some limited amount of experience overseas. The consulting engineer hadextensive experience with EWB teams and in developing engineering solutions worldwide.The concept of “Do No Harm” was woven throughout the course by exposing students tointernational case studies. One class per week was dedicated to considering success ofhumanitarian engineering projects and the unfortunate frequency of failed – though well-intended – projects. Assignments forced the students to reflect upon positives and negatives andincorporate the best in their plans. Additionally, the students were challenged to develop a designand prototype to transport water from a creek on campus considering appropriateness
him an important perspective and exposure to industry. He has been directly involved in at least 20 different engineering projects related to a wide range of industries from petroleum and nat- ural gas industry to brewing and newspaper industries. Dr. Ayala has provided service to professional organizations such as ASME. Since 2008 he has been a member of the Committee of Spanish Translation of ASME Codes and the ASME Subcommittee on Piping and Pipelines in Spanish. Under both member- ships the following Codes have been translated: ASME B31.3, ASME B31.8S, ASME B31Q and ASME BPV Sections I. While maintaining his industrial work active, his research activities have also been very active; Dr. Ayala has published
. He teaches undergraduate design, thermo- dynamics, and engineering experimentation and is the faculty adviser to both the Formula SAE Team (Cooper Motorsports) and Pi Tau Sigma Honor Society.Mr. Estuardo Rodas, Cooper Union Estuardo Rodas is Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Cooper Union for the Advance- ment of Science & Art where he is also Project Coordinator of the Mechanical Engineering Lab. He is adviser for Cooper’s Formula SAE team and a Lead Instructor for the summer STEM program for high school students. Among his other projects, Prof. Rodas designed the Ike Heller Center for Integrated Manufacturing and Robotics at Brooklyn Tech, collaborated in construction and design of the
seniordesign projects. Additionally, most industrial engineers have experience interacting with otherengineers earlier in their academic career through common engineering courses. However,interaction with business students rarely occurs before the senior year, if then. This deficiencyprevents the development of a key skill required for industrial engineering practice. This paper describes two innovative approaches to experientially teach multidisciplinaryproblem solving to teams of engineering and business students. Both approaches allow theinteractions to occur earlier in the curriculum. The first approach is through class partnering.Such partnering emulates more long term interdisciplinary efforts such as design teams andconfiguration
science from Wayne State University. He also has completed all computer science courses and passed the proficiency exam of the Ph.D. program at Wayne State University. In addition to his academic experience, El-Bathy has more than 25 years of experience in industry, working in areas including software develop- ment, database design, and computer networking design, implementing projects across many technology platforms, DBMS, network topologies, and programming languages. As a practitioner of information technology, he reached the pinnacle of his career and held a Vice President position of the Department of Information Services for a $1.6 billion financial institution, providing leadership in applying and aligning
course.They were split into four teams of two students each working on separate projects. The generaltopics were pulley systems, vibrations, alternative energy and thermoelectric devices. Some ofthe projects were more successful than others, as might be expected. The overall outcome was asuccess and resulted in several hands-on activities that have been used for students in grades 1-12.This paper begins with a brief overview of the outreach programs in the School of Engineering.The main topic of the paper is the independent study course. The course goals and generalproject requirements are included. Each of the four projects are discussed with an emphasis onthe project goals, activities that were developed, success levels, and ongoing efforts to
learningobjectives. The course is structured around the implementation of a visualization tool for use inexplaining and demonstrating fundamental concepts and classical results of graph theory. Possiblegraph theory topics to be included in the tool are search techniques, Euler circuits, and minimalcost spanning trees. Many of the decisions about the project’s design and the topics covered are de-pendent on the students. As a result, the resulting tool can appear quite different from one offeringto the next. The project is intended to be developed by one or more student groups with all groups usingthe same interface for the graphs and visualizations. Strict enforcement of interface usage allowsthe opportunity to teach many design patterns that will aid in
AC 2011-198: CREATING A CULTURE OF SUCCESS FOR WOMEN INSTEM - THE ADVANCEING FACULTY PROGRAM AT LOUISIANA TECHUNIVERSITYJenna P. Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University Dr. Jenna P. Carpenter is Associate Dean for Administration and Strategic Initiatives, Wayne and Juanita Spinks Professor of Mathematics, and Director of the Office for Women in Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University. She is also PI for Louisiana Tech’s NSF ADVANCE project. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Women in Engineering ProActive Network and was co-developer of the WEPAN Knowledge Center Project. She is the Chair of the Steering Committee for the National Academy of Engineering’s
technology Ph D M.E., 1956, Carnegie Institute of Technology Page 22.33.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Linking Cultures: An Industrial Project-Based Design Course for U.S. and Chinese Students in ChinaBackground Globalization of the engineering enterprise has not only impacted its practice but also theeducation of its practitioners in ways previously unimagined. Virtually every engineeringprogram in the country has implemented new activities and programmatic changes to assistgraduates develop the skills, knowledge and experience to function
Technology Doug Carroll is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Missouri S&T and is the Director for the Cooperative Engineering Program, a cooperative effort with Missouri S&T and Missouri State University. Dr. Carroll founded the student design center at Missouri S&T and served as its first director. He also served as the advisor for the solar car project for 12 years, including two national champion teams. He has worked with many students on design projects in his career. Page 24.964.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014
complex projects after their first year of work, • Ability of graduates later in their careers to take the lead role in directing design work, as well as manage project budgets and clients, and • Ability of graduates to assume similar responsibilities at similar points in their career, as well as possess the educational and design experience needed for licensure. Table 1 – Overview of Survey StatementsCategory: Preparedness and abilities of new graduates during first year of workStatements: • Have the necessary knowledge in fundamental engineering subjects (e.g. statics, strength of materials, etc.) to start career. • Have
stories about virtualcollaboration during classes with an entrepreneurial collaboration component. Using a novelcombination of validated projective story-cue methodology and a survey, participants wereprompted during both the pandemic restricted remote classes and in-person to imagine theirexpectations for collaborating in an entrepreneurial classroom by projecting two ways: as ifit was in an in-person setting or as if it was a virtual setting. A goal of the continued study isto extend the analysis to compare and contrast the original findings comparing Winter 2021student responses (during a virtual educational mode) to Fall 2021 (during an in-personeducational mode) using a cohort of engineering students at the same public university.Findings
engineering research practices, information-literacy skills, andcritical evaluation of information. Students undertook an iterative writing process and submittedfinal projects, recording their resource-selection process. These were evaluated to determine theimpact of the asynchronous learning module on students' information-seeking behavior. Finally,the results of this pedagogical reflection were compared to similar data recorded the previousyear following in-person instruction of the same material [8]. Our results demonstrate that theasynchronous learning module significantly enhanced the students’ critical evaluation of sources.These results have dramatic implications for how we understand students’ information-seekingbehaviors, pedagogical design
-serving engineering universities in the U.S. Dr. Traum coordinated MSOE’s first crowd-funded senior design project. He also co-founded with students EASENET, a start- up renewable energy company to commercialize waste-to-energy biomass processors. Dr. Traum began his academic career as a founding faculty member in the Mechanical & Energy Engineer- ing Department at the University of North Texas - Denton where he established a successful, externally- funded researcher incubator that trained undergraduates to perform experimental research and encouraged matriculation to graduate school. Traum received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he held a research
-based project. In many computing curricula, this is thefirst, and often only, coursework where students tackle a large team project. In the project work,students demonstrate their transference of knowledge of software engineering principles andpractices gained from lecture material and reading the textbook to actual project work.Our Experiences with the CourseOf all the courses in Rochester Institute of Technology software engineering curriculum, ourSWEN-261 Introduction to Software Engineering course is the one course that we never feel wehave done correctly. The students take the course in their second year after a first-year computerscience sequence. This is perhaps a bit earlier in our students' program than at other institutions.The course
strategy, leading large teams, and talent development. Nick has led and contributed to many critical projects including saving the mainframe business, taking AIX/Power to the #1 UNIX position, establishing Linux servers in the enterprise market, and was on the team that built the first Bladed architecture for the general purpose x86 market. Nick received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Vermont. Nick has been on the advisory boards of many engineering schools including Florida International Uni- versity, North Carolina State University, University
Using a Vertically Integrated Team Design Project to Promote Learning and an Engineering Community of Practice Sandra Spickard Prettyman, Helen Qammar and Edward Evans Department of Foundations and Leadership/Department of Chemical Engineering University of Akron, Akron OH 44325Recent curriculum reforms in engineering education have focused on implementing thescholarship on pedagogy into the engineering classroom experience. For example, the paradigmshifts toward learner-centered versus teacher-centered delivery modes have been well establishedin many departments. In addition, department level curriculum reforms have begun to designintegration of concepts and skills
AC 2011-2506: GIZMO FESTIVAL: K-8 OUTREACH AS A DESIGN/BUILDFOR ENGINEERING STUDENTSMargot A Vigeant, Bucknell University Margot is an associate professor of chemical engineering and associate dean of engineering at Bucknell University.Lori Smolleck, Bucknell University Page 22.746.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Gizmo Festival: K-8 Outreach as a Design/ Build for Engineering StudentsAbstractThe Gizmo Project is completed by first-year engineering students as the final exercise intheir introductory course: ENGR 100 – Exploring Engineering. The project also servesas a
increase thenumber and diversity of STEM students and improve STEM learning and teaching by bringingcoding and project-based learning to statistics students. Instead of Introduction to Statisticsbeing the last math class for students, it is serving as an onramp to data science, computerscience, engineering, and other STEM disciplines.2. Overview of Data Path ProgramIn Fall 2020, Skyline College was awarded an NSF IUSE grant to establish a new pathway intoSTEM through statistics and data science. The Data Path Program was initially launched inSpring 2021 with four math faculty members across five sections of Introduction to Statistics.The math department began paving the way for the Data Path in Spring 2019 by identifying localstate universities
performance using computational software.The first generation of CHRD has been designed, fabricated, and tested successfully. A small rocketmotor approximately two inches in diameter and ten inches long was fired multiple times during thespring of 2021, with preliminary results of rocket performance being documented. The current rocketprototype was the product of two consecutive academic years of senior capstone teams’ efforts. Thedesign, fabrication, and testing were supervised by a Mechanical Engineering faculty, who assumed therole of project manager and chief investigator.2 IntroductionNumerous examples of student projects focused on hybrid fuel rocket motors and hybrid rocket motorpowered flight vehicles are identified in the literature. The
-related Lab Experiments to Train Future K-12 Educators in Renewable Energy (Work in Progress)Abstract In an effort to motivate more youths from the USA to pursue a career in engineering,education accreditation agencies have recently emphasized the need to bring more engineering-related content into the K-12 classroom. The School of Engineering and the College ofEducation at Oral Roberts University are collaborating on a project to assist in meeting this goal.A general education course (taken by education majors) consisting of earth science laboratoryexperiments is being modified to include new experiments on how engineers attempt to makegood use of earth resources. Engineering students
narrowfocus causes students to miss out on how other facets of an engineering project influence their work,and vice versa. To provide a broader and more realistic engineering experience we defined this 3Dprinted waveguide project with the requirement of diverse development tasks integral to the projectthat had to be addressed early in the course. Two project teams of four students each were tasked withdesigning, producing, and characterizing a minimum of six 3D printed functional waveguide components(coax adapter, waveguide, horn antenna) with an overall cost no greater than 20% of an off the shelfcomponent. WR90 waveguides (8.2 – 12.4GHz) were selected because we had components on hand inour research labs for purposes of quantitative performance
DimensioningGeometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) is a powerful tool for designing andmanufacturing products. If used correctly, GD&T can streamline and optimize the manufacturingof products, saving companies a tremendous amount of time and money. In trade schools, GD&Tis traditionally taught in the machine shop in parallel to learning equipment in the machine shop.At the university level, traditional engineering curriculum conventionally teaches GD&T indesign courses, many times without the use of the machine shop or understanding of the machineshop equipment capabilities. Students at universities tend to struggle with grasping GD&Tconcepts if ‘hands-on’ assignments or projects are not designed to reinforce concepts learned inthe
experience courses for undergraduate students have long been associated withimproved retention and graduation rates in STEM fields [1],[2],[3]. Although examples of FYS existin specific engineering disciplines and combinations of engineering disciplines [4], [5], [6], there arerelatively few examples of first year, project-based courses that integrate engineering,mathematics, statistics, computer science, and physics majors [7]. The one-credit FYS describedin this study was developed in Fall 2020 as a required, common learning experience for first-time-first year (FTFY) students majoring in engineering (Civil, Environmental, Biomedical,Electrical, Mechanical, Engineering, and Engineering Management), Computer Science, DataScience, Statistics
, and problem solving discourse among students, faculty, and practitioners. Dr. Olewnik is also the Director of Experiential Learning for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.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 and Learning Sciences program and in the Chemical and Biological En- gineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutionizing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Educa
Engineering Design Pedagogy ResearchAbstractProject-based design classes are increasingly common in undergraduate engineeringprograms. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of guidelines to support the development,implementation and efficacy evaluation of such new courses. Engineering design projectsfrequently serve as experiential learning activities for students to appropriately apply amethodical design process to specific design contexts. However, it is challenging forinstructors to ensure that students achieve the intended learning objectives within project-based design classes. It is also difficult for researchers to directly compare design processesfollowed by students within different learning environments. These challenges are partly dueto
the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching in Engineering at U-M in 2003 and served as its Director for 12 years. Prior to joining U-M, Dr. Finelli was the Richard L. Terrell Professor of Excellence in Teaching, founding director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and associate professor of electrical engineering at Kettering University. Dr. Finelli’s current research interests include student resistance to active learning, faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices, the use of technology and innovative pedagogies on student learning and success, and the impact of a flexible classroom space on faculty teaching and student learning. She also led a project to develop a taxonomy
and it is project-based. At the University of Colorado, students have an opportunityto take a first-year 3-credit projects course5,6, although this course isn’t required across allmajors. In addition, students are often enrolled in project sections that are not at all related to themajor they are interested in, so keeping the 1-credit courses for major-specific information isimportant. Regardless of the form, first-year courses are generally found to be criticalopportunities to engage students and help retain them in engineering.In Fall 2006, the 1-credit Introduction to Environmental Engineering (EVEN) course wassignificantly revised. The goals were two-fold: (1) increase the ability of the course to recruitand retain students in the EVEN
AC 2008-1756: EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF RE-DEFINITION OF LEARNINGOBJECTIVES ON INTER-MEASURE CORRELATION AND VALIDITYDaniel Ferguson, Illinois Institute of Technology Daniel M. Ferguson, MBA, MSIE, is a Senior Lecturer in the IIT Stuart School of Business, and Associate Director for Research and Operations of the Interprofessional (IPRO) program. He was brought in specifically to focus on IPRO courses, and has led over 50 IPRO project teams in the past four years. He has an undergraduate degree in liberal arts and mechnical engineering, and graduate degrees in Business and Industrial Engineering. For over 20 years he led consulting businesses specializing in financial and information process