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
Capstone project involve computational systems modeling and/or analysis? Rate your answer on a scale of 1-5 (5 being extensive, 1 being none). 16. How do you feel that your ability to build and/or validate computational models has changed since last August? Rate your answer on a scale of 1-5 (5 being greatly improved, 1 being gotten much worse).For the results presented questions 10-14, 125 corresponds to “very low preference” to “veryhigh preference” for a job involving the skill in question. (All other scores are as indicated onthe survey questions.) Table 1 below summarizes the weighted averages of the scores for all 14questions in Round 1 and all 16 questions in Round 2 of the survey. In both surveys, the resultswere split
-, 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
different situatedlearning experiences can influence lifelong learning orientations (attitudes and values related tolifelong learning). There is wide awareness that the engineering profession has a role to play inaddressing global socio-technical problems such as climate change and digital misinformation[1]. At the same time, rapid technological change and other shifts in the labour system mean thatengineers’ workplace responsibilities and career paths are prone to uncertainty and precarity [2].As will be discussed, lifelong learning competencies can enable individuals to navigate thesechanges and challenges in their individual career trajectories and to make innovativetechnological contributions. As part of a curriculum realignment project in the
doable through problem-based learning that occurs in an interactivelearning environment. Boundary crossing is an important aspect in engineering pedagogy inorder the development of inter-, multi- and cross-disciplinary competence in engineeringstudents as they prepare to be productive in the 4IR workforce.We investigated the merits of developing cross-disciplinary competence in a capstone course onland development of a 4-yr university engineering technology program. Students were tasked topropose a subdivision design of an 80-acre site located in a rural community. The cross-disciplinary project involved design thinking, established in engineering literacy, creativethinking to include diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) principles in land
of Me- chanical & Aerospace Engineering. Abell received her BS in Mechanical Engineering from Valparaiso University and a MFA in Design Research & Development from The Ohio State University with an em- phasis on Industrial Design. She teaches project-based, product design courses to senior-level and grad- uate engineering students, team-based capstone design courses for mechanical engineering students, as well as an interdisciplinary product development course for entrepreneurship students who come from across OSU. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Characterizations and Portrayals of Intuition in Decision-Making: A Systematic Review of
combined course and a design course (Engineering Design 2). Statics &Dynamics introduces applied mechanics from an engineering standpoint and is the first of fiverequired "engineering science" courses in the curriculum. The statics and dynamics course hasthree class meetings each week and one lab meeting each week. Course labs have been designedto pair with course classroom content and involve activities such as learning to take forcemeasurements with load cells. Engineering Design 2 is the second design course in a two coursesequence (Engineering Design 1 and Engineering Design 2) and introduces students to process-based design in preparation for their capstone sequence.6-10 For the past five years and for theforeseeable future, Engineering
Washington Rachel completed her Bachelor’s degree at the University of Wyoming in International Studies and Span- ish, spending a semester in Guatemala interviewing business owners and local residents in Antigua as part of a project to understand conflicts over the growing ecotourism industry. She has worked with the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington on projects focusing on social ac- ceptability of biofuels, engaging stakeholders in forest management issues, and surveys on public values of cultural ecosystem services.Dr. Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington Dr. Allendoerfer is a Research Scientist in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington.Ms. Mee Joo
an engineering student, inpart due to the perceived widening of cultural differences. She felt as if she had two losingchoices – to come out to her engineering peers, or to remain closeted: The fact of the matter is that I was not willing to live another year closeted but I didn’t have the ability to live as a woman yet. This meant that I would have to come out to my project group without actually living it. Given what I’ve already seen of the culture of the students in the college of engineering, I was legitimately concerned that I would be able to complete capstone without making enemies of my own group. I was scared. I was feeling physically ill at the thought of taking capstone. (Document 4, paragraph 9)Naya
process, and then create a representationof their personal design process (an activity called Design Brief 2, or DB2). Finally, at the end ofa quarter that included the above tasks plus tasks to consider additional design issues such ascontext and perspective, students were asked to create a “memory aid” to capture importantaspects of the design process that they wish to take with them to their future design experiences.In this paper, we present the work that the students turned in for the design projects. We alsopresent a mapping of the students’ work to the elements of the design process presented to themin the design timelines to provide insights on the impact of the use of the timelines to teachdesign.Introduction*Extensive research in the
) core courses were primarily taught by aBiostatistics & Bioinformatics faculty member along with integration of the Seminar SpeakerSeries taught by a range of faculty and partners from the private sector and other universities.Topics covered a breadth of research relevant to trainees’ projects and beyond. Each yeartrainees were assigned to work in teams assembled in such a way that one trainee from eachresearch core area (Biological Sciences, Engineering and Biostatistics & Bioinformatics) wasrepresented. Each program year from three to five interdisciplinary research teams were formedto conduct capstone microbiome research projects as part of this CSPII course. CSP practicawere cross listed between Duke and N.C. A&T as for-credit
ofexperience or too little experience. [Some of them] were beneath my degree … There wasnothing…. tailored at the entry-level. It took a while to find something.” The handful of applicationshe submitted through online job boards were all unsuccessful. Yet his social connections helped tooffset his inexperience. He eventually secured a job offer through a family friend who providedinformation on a company and manager recruiting for a position.Milan also credited landing a job to his involvement in extra-curricular activities: “I would say themost valuable things were the extracurricular, [and] my summer co-op. I did put some courses, my[capstone] project because it showed that I managed a project, went through the entire designprocess. I don’t think
AC 2012-5438: ETHICAL ISSUES AWARENESS FOR ENGINEERS INPRACTICEDr. A. Dean Fontenot, Texas Tech University A. Dean Fontenot directs a professional development center for K-12 teachers as part of the Texas STEM (T-STEM) initiative in order to bring about educational reform in secondary schools. The Texas Tech T-STEM Center focuses on project-based learning with the integration of the engineering design process. As Senior Director, she has brought together three Texas Tech professional development centers that have a history of training teachers, and built partnerships with five Educational Service centers as well as other organizational and industry partners who help implement the professional development training
AC 2012-4849: HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT ENGINEERING DESIGN THINK-ING AND PERFORMANCEProf. Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University Kurt Becker, Ph.D., is a professor and the Department Head of Engineering and Technology Education. He is the Co-principal Investigator for the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded National Center for Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE). His areas of research include adult learning cognition, engineering education professional development, and technical training. He has extensive international experience working on technical training projects funded by the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, and U.S. Department of Labor, USAID. Countries where he has worked include Bangladesh
use the popularHandyboard robotic platform developed by Martin [10]. Some courses take the form ofmini-capstone courses, requiring several pre-requisite courses in electronics and/orprogramming [5]. Other courses are purely introductory, requiring no pre-requisites.Especially at liberal arts institutions, most of these courses have used the roboticplatforms as means to introduce the “big ideas” of engineering: iterative design, idealversus real world designs, design tradeoffs, and handling complexity [4].However, while students leaving these courses have had a broad exposure to bothhardware and software as well as a hands on introductions to some of the “big ideas”,they still lack certain engineering strategies and intuitions. Our experience
object, such as a hair dryer, and predict the internal mechanisms of the machine. 3. Robotics Design Challenge: Design and build a robot to detect objects and transport them to a goal area. 4. Final Design Challenge: Develop and collaborate on a design project in groups (similar to a capstone design experience). Page 22.1612.3Using a within-subjects pre-post design, we tested the following hypotheses: 1. Does DBI improve teachers’ innovation and efficiency in engineering? 2. Does DBI increase teachers’ adaptive beliefs about engineering and learning?ExpertiseWhile research shows that content specificity is important to expertise
traditional and emergent engineering systems.” Since theBOK2 outcomes explicitly ties sustainability to design, sustainability was formally integratedwith the program’s design outcome by stating the design must be conducted “includingsustainability and within realistic constraints….” The premise is that sustainability isspecific design criteria that must be considered. Sustainability concepts are covered as anintegrative component within many introductory and design courses. Critical to thisapproach, sustainability is a required design criterion in the program’s capstone designcourse, CE 401 Civil Engineering Design Project. Design professionals who specialize insustainability (e.g., design engineers who are LEED AP) work closely with the students
criteria require students to apply principles of project management. The proposed requirement is a higher level of attainment in a narrower area. The most important rationale is that BOK2 recommends that undergraduate students develop solutions to well-defined project management problems. Some examples of project management opportunities in the undergraduate program include design teams for course assignments, capstone design projects, and undergraduate research. These opportunities exist in all of the sub- disciplines of civil engineering. As such, the CEPC does not imply that a specific sub- discipline (e.g., construction management) must be covered. • Ethics: The proposed CEPC requires
, Eugene, OR, 2003. 8. Krajcik, J. et al. Teaching Science: A Project-Based Approach, McGraw-Hill College, New York, 1999. 9. Jung, S. Effects of basic thinking skills and project method on creativity and project performance ability of elementary school children (dissertation), Kyungsung University Press, 2001. 10. Criteria for accrediting engineering programs, 2016-2017. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. Accessed at on 16 March, 2017. 11. Dunlab, J. C. Problem-based learning and self-efficacy: How a capstone course prepares students for a profession. Educational Technology Research and Development, 53:65-83, 2005. 12. Hsieh, P., et al. Undergraduate engineering students
related to the lack of good engineering practice and experience regardless of nationality.College-company interpersonal connection: bridging the cultural differencesA meaningful and valuable strategic connection was made between Gulfstream and EmbryRiddle stemming from very serendipitous beginnings. A student-teacher connection formedduring a capstone design course in 1986 led to a professional relationship maturing over theensuing years through intermittent but substantive communications. After 13 years in theprofession the alum, Mr. Tim Farley, was working as director project engineering for Gulfstreamwhen he approached his former professor, Prof. Jim Ladesic, with the notion of cultivating arelationship between Gulfstream and ERAU. Like most
project where student groups present their analysis process. Students areallowed to choose the topic for their final project with guidance from the instructor. Often theseprojects pertain to their capstone design courses or student clubs such as SAE formula hybrid. MATLAB Grader was first introduced in Fall 2020 to the “Introduction to Finite ElementMethods” course primarily for the purpose of simplifying the linear algebra computationspreviously performed on hand-written assignments so that students could more easily focus onthe conceptual process therein [13] [14]. While this could have been done simply within thedesktop version of MATLAB or another coding language, there is a danger that errors would betoo difficult to diagnose by the
Junior year because of my interest in water resourceengineering and sustainability, things I was not exposed to in my required coursework until theend of my junior year. On the team we worked together to help design improvements to anirrigation reservoir, which to me was a much more interesting project than the one I have todesign for my capstone course.Nonetheless, not all of my experiences with my peers have been positive. On design teams that Ijoined I sometimes felt as though some of the men on the team never seemed to listen to me.Working on a team where I did not feel valued was extremely frustrating. In classes, I almostnever ask my male friends for help or support if I can avoid it. If I do ask for help, they tend notto understand my
formally taught to engineering students since thelatter half of the last century, either as engineering design or a discipline-specific version of it,e.g., mechanical engineering design, chemical engineering design. The inclusion of design asa core graduate attribute in engineering accreditation requirements [6] and the prevalence ofdesign courses (cornerstone, capstone, industry-sponsored projects) in engineering curriculaworldwide is a testament to the importance afforded to it by engineering educators. This isnatural, as design has always been the distinguishing feature of engineering practice [7, 8].Then, why is there a need for these courses on DT? It should be noted here that the term “DesignThinking” will only refer to formalized DT
coreofferings, followed by analytical courses, followed by capstone/internship/project/thesis, followedby statistics/probability/math, followed by programming, followed by businessintelligence/NLP/Machine learning. Least on the list is communication /privacy /professionalism/ethics. In an earlier study [7], content analysis of a total of 59 ALA-accredited Library Master’sprograms in North America listed on the ALA website (www.ala.org/accreditedprograms/directory)in December 2015 were evaluated. Each institution’s course offering documentation on theirwebsites, such as the current course catalog and course description database, were reviewed toidentify data-related programs and courses. The goal of the research was to identify current trendsin
C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she directs the Vir- ginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication, effective teaching practices in design education, the
achieve the highest profit and to achieve thelowest environmental detriment. A new interdisciplinary project funded by NSF has extendedthe development of the board game to create and assess a networked computer game.The game is played using stakeholders in the manufacturing supply chain in the automotiveindustry. In its current non-networked version, six students create a team of three suppliers:materials, parts, and cars. Within this team, two students take on roles for each of the threecompanies in the supply chain. During each round in the game, each company within the supplychain takes its turn to invest and select among different technologies in three areas for eachcompany: production, storage and waste disposal. There are tradeoffs in
Paper ID #27353Retrospective Multi-year Analysis of Team Composition Dynamics and Per-formance within a Yearlong Integrative BME Laboratory SequenceDr. Timothy E. Allen, University of Virginia Dr. Timothy E. Allen is an Associate Professor and Interim Undergraduate Program Director in the De- partment of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia. He received a B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Bioengineering at the University of Cal- ifornia, San Diego. Dr. Allen’s teaching activities include coordinating the core undergraduate teaching labs and the Capstone Design