multipledimensions. The three faculty members involved judged the presentations at semester end, toprovide relative rankings for grading purposes.Once the infrastructure is developed, it is our intention to utilize it to enhance retention ofwomen and underrepresented minority students in engineering and to encourage moreengineering students to undertake such transdisciplinary projects for their capstone designproject in their senior year. Research studies will be set up to pursue these studies. Anothersimilar study, documented at this conference, provides more details on this future researchendeavor (Shankar et al., 2017b).Rationale - A Health Sector Perspective:Health care cost has skyrocketed to 17% of the US GDP. Americans are not living longer
), 3) choosing a mentor, 4) choosing a potential employer, 5) developing critical skills listed in company job postings, 6) planning for a career fair, 7) writing a 1-3 minute career fair plea/pitch for potential employers, 8) preparing for paid internships, 9) preparing for a full time job, 10) preparing for interviews, 11) preparing for a paid project (e.g. University Undergraduate Research Initiative (UURI), Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities (WAESO); see [33] summarizing 14 such projects), 12) preparing for a senior design capstone project, 13) preparing for an honor’s thesis, 14) preparing for graduate school, 15) preparing a statement of purpose, 16) preparing for graduate work (e.g. thesis), 17) preparing for
like those listed in [5] such as a lack ofreliable technology for Audio-Video link, inconsistent Wi-Fi, and use of WhatsApp applicationrather than email to name a few. I also served as an examiner to evaluate final projects for MS inComputer Science program. I also evaluated project reports for these projects and suggestedchanges to projects and reports to improve their quality. I also conducted student advising that wasboth formal and informal. This advising was sometimes as faculty teaching courses and at timesas examiner of the capstone projects. During my Fulbright grant at the host institution, because of my vast academic experience, Iwas asked to provide my services on committees at various levels. At the college level, I servedon
include primingstudents for subsequent ‘design spine’ courses and their final-year BME capstone experience, anddeveloping interactive project-based teaching at scale. The two faculty who teach this course(Frow, Smith) have co-developed the content over the past two years; we also meet biweeklyduring the academic year with faculty members teaching the other BME ‘design spine’ courses, tocoordinate program content and learning outcomes across courses.Our semester-long course focuses on global healthcare markets and device design for low-resourcesettings. The course revolves around an open-ended, team-based design project (Smith et al. 2005).A core aim is to foster curiosity and creativity1 in students’ first formal experience of engineeringdesign
engineers who can design”[11]. Considering that design is widely regarded as the main activity in engineering, it has neverbeen more urgent for students to gain design experience from their education. However, whileevery ABET accredited engineering program is required to have a capstone or similarly namedproject, most universities only provide such an experience in the senior year of the degree [6].There are two primary solutions to the given issue: offer a curriculum with a rich-project baseand/or promote co-curricular activities. This type of curriculum would entail, say, yearly designprojects, while the extra-curricular activities would include both service-learning tasks as well aslarge cross-disciplinary programs such as the Baja SAE events or
Callihan Linnes is the Marta E. Gross Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the College of Engineering Honors Program at Purdue University. Her work advances pa- per microfluidics, molecular biosensors, and human-centered instrumentation design for translation into point-of-care diagnostics for global health and health disparities research. She teaches undergraduate design courses for first year engineering honors and capstone design, graduate level instrumentation mea- surement and point-of-care diagnostics, and human-centered design workshops to practitioners around the world. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 A systematic review of pedagogical
andcomplex problems,” can be achieved through educational practices, such as first-year seminars,learning communities, E-Portfolios, service learning courses, internships and capstone projects(7). Barriers that exist for integrative learning in higher education today often point to afragmented undergraduate curriculum (collections of independent classes in general education,specialized study, and electives) and the organization of knowledge into distinct and separatecolleges and departments, “even though scholarship, learning, and life have no such artificialboundaries” (p. 16) (7). Learning communities, capstone experiences, and service learningprojects can transcend these barriers by organizing around interdisciplinary themes, linkingcross
professional development skillsgoing forward.” In this module, students had the opportunity to investigate their own interests, todevelop their CVs, and to prototype a Compelling Academic Problem plan (which describes theirproposed major courses and a capstone project), as well as ample time for reflection.Finally, module 5, following spring break, provided space (across several two-week segments)for faculty and students to prototype new courses, to test existing ideas, and to get to know eachother in reading groups. Faculty used this time as an opportunity to work with students, forinstance, to develop the transition to major experience, to co-design a new arts core course and arevision to the Logic & Limitations core course, as well as to run
World Prosthetics, dedicated to creating low-cost prostheticand assistive devices [14]. It is an integral component of the recently implementeddevelopment engineering doctoral courses at UC-Berkeley [15]. Finally, the capstone course ofthe software engineering program at Lappeenranta University in Finland incorporates thedesign process structure [16]. In all cases, use of the design process has resulted in increasedstudent engagement. However, a closer look at these examples and others suggests that thedesign process is most commonly found in advanced undergraduate or graduate courses with asmall enrollment. Given this, we wondered to what extent the design process is transferable tointroductory courses that enroll close to two hundred students
the STEM workforce.Next, we will briefly outline the future success stories of the high school, undergraduate, andgraduate scholars who participated in this program. These success stories show the potential forthese programs to generate new streams of students and researchers for universities, which caneventually grow and diversify the STEM workforce.• Two patent applications. Two journal publications• One Barry Goldwater Recipient, Two Barry Goldwater Honorable Mentions• One DoD SMART Scholarship Recipient• One National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow• Eighteen students continued these projects in Senior Capstone.• Seven Honors Theses at the University of Mississippi.• Two successful grants with NASA and C Spire
. They are capstone projects and collaborative1 This paper is a high level discussion of a portion of the findings from the first author's dissertation which isavailable upon request.projects that could be contextualized to work-based experiential learning. This is also discussedby Kuh, who, in addition to internships, presents community service and capstone projects asHIPs that enhance students’ employability [12].Another relevant study explored the development of T-shaped or holistic problem solving skillsand their application to solve real world problems by undergraduates in technology degreeprograms. This study found that holistic problem solving skills were very important for getting afirst job and technical depth was not as important [13
Technological University After an 18 year career in the automotive industry, Dr. De Clerck joined the Michigan Tech Department of Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Mechanics in August 2009. His areas of expertise include noise and vibration, structural dynamics, design, modal analysis, model validation, inverse methods applied to design, and advanced measurement techniques.Dr. Michele Miller, Michigan Technological University Dr. Michele Miller is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological University. She teaches classes on manufacturing and does research in engineering education with particular interest in hands-on ability, lifelong learning, and project-based learning.Dr. Ibrahim Miskioglu, Michigan
apprenticeships, capstone design projects, andinternships, are offered as part of the ADVANCE model. The ultimate goal of the degreepathway model that ADVANCE offers is to ensure that students are prepared for post-baccalaureate employment and success in the workplace. ADVANCE seeks to ensure that whatstudents learn and experience in their educational journey reflects workforce realities. Mappeddegree pathways that integrate industry-defined credentials and standards will leave noambiguity for students regarding desired workforce competencies. By building in immersiveexperiential learning opportunities, students will better understand workplace expectations andprepare to transition successfully upon graduation.As ADVANCE students progress through their
regular NAU graduate programs in EE or CS. For the remainder ofthe students, some of them were accepted to graduated programs from other U.S. universities, orthey decided to return to China to pursue career or graduate school there. In addition to highGPA, these students were evaluated highly among NAU faculties, including those courseinstructors and Capstone project mentors. In particular, a group of the 3+1 students developed aninstrumented bike and cell phone applet for their Capstone project. This work was thensubmitted as a conference paper and received the Best Student Paper Award in the smart sensorsection at the 2018 International Symposium in Sensing and Instrumentation in IoT Era (ISSI) inShanghai, China9.Comparison of teaching
(Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teaching Award) and state (TIP award) levels. Scott also was a co-PI for a Helios-funded Middle School Residency Program for Science and Math (for which he taught the capstone course) and is on the leadership committee for an NSF IUSE grant to transform STEM Education at USF. His research is in the areas of solution thermodynamics and environmental monitoring and modeling. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Systemic Transformation of Education Through Evidence-based Reform (STEER): Results and Lessons LearnedAbstractWe report here on the implementation over five years of a comprehensive project to
survey periods. Asummary of universities sampled and the survey response rates associated with each is providedin Table 1. Senior capstone class representation directly corresponds with total graduating classrepresentation in all cases except one: at Penn State University, senior year mechanicalengineering students are given the opportunity to pursue interdisciplinary capstone projectshoused in a differing department (e.g., other than mechanical engineering) and about half do so.The students sampled from Penn State are those mechanical engineering seniors completing theircapstone project in their home department.The choice to sample entirely mechanical engineering students during their senior year wasdriven primarily by the larger study that
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B and 6 from Univ C; 15 African Americans, 15 Hispanic Americans; 21 males and 9 females). They have participated in various variety activities, including senior design projects, Engineering Design Day, undergraduate and graduate research assistantships, NASA and BP-AE summer internships, and other program events. • Capstone design projects: The program has coordinated and completed 9 NASA-centric senior design projects with 10 more ongoing projects (7 sponsored by NASA MSFC, 7 by FSGC, 2 by JPL Psyche, and others). 87 graduating seniors participate in these projects as they work on real-world, practice-oriented engineering design topics with supervision by NASA engineers and professional practitioners over two
# 1914869) for an associated research study. She is, and has been, principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on multiple NSF grants related to computer science and STEM education. She integrates multidisci- plinary collaborative projects in her courses, to create immersive learning experiences that deeply engage students with a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. Students in her research lab are researching and implementing machine learning and collective intelligence algorithms, that harness the cognitive abilities of large numbers of human users to solve complex problems.Prof. Kim E. Pearson, The College of New Jersey Kim Pearson is professor of journalism at The College of New Jersey who teaches a range of courses
. He aims to help students improve intercultural competency and teamwork competency by interventions, counseling, pedagogy, and tool selection to promote DEI. In addition, he also works on many research-to-practice projects to enhance educational technology usage in engineering classrooms and educational research. Siqing also works as the technical development and support manager at the CATME research group.Amirreza Mehrabi, Purdue University I am Amirreza Mehrabi, a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Purdue University, West Lafayette. Now I am working in computer adaptive testing (CAT) enhancement with AI and analyzing big data with machine learning (ML) under Prof. J. W. Morphew at the ENE department. My
students on their course projects. He was given an Outstanding Advising Award by USF and has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards at the department, college, university (Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teaching Award) and state (TIP award) levels. Scott is also a member of the executive com- mittee of a Helios-funded Middle School Residency Program for Science and Math (for which he taught the capstone course in spring 2014) and is on the planning committee for a new NSF IUSE grant to trans- form STEM Education at USF. His research is in the areas of solution thermodynamics and environmental monitoring and modeling.Dr. Sylvia W. Thomas, University of South Florida Dr. Sylvia Wilson Thomas is currently an
Paper ID #31465Outcomes and Assessment of Three Years of an REU Site in Multi-ScaleSystems BioengineeringDr. Timothy E. Allen, University of Virginia Dr. Timothy E. Allen is an Associate Professor in the Department 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 California, San Diego. Dr. Allen’s teaching activities include coordinating the core undergraduate teaching labs and the Capstone Design sequence in the BME department at the University of Virginia, and his research interests
countries’ higher education intra-period digital pedagogy responses,” J. Appl. Learn., vol. 3, no. 1, 2020, doi: 10.37074/jalt.2020.3.1.7.[10] A. Friesel, “Proposal for accreditation procedure to support the development of skills and competencies in globalized engineering world,” Jun. 2014, doi: 10.18260/1-2--17196.[11] P. Caratozzolo and A. Alvarez, “A new transdisciplinary approach to foster soft skills in engineering : Using critical reading micro-workshops,” 2019, doi: 10.1109/WEEF-GEDC.2018.8629775.[12] P. A. Sanger, A. Friesel, H. Geraedts, L. E. Quineche Orellana, R. Canahuire, and F. Berry, “International Capstone Student Projects Giving Real World, Global Team Experiences,” Nov. 2018, doi: 10.1109/EAEEIE
engineeringprograms should make efforts to integrate the best researchers in the bachelor level education.Project based learning, industrial internships, capstone projects and the elaboration of bachelorthesis have proven to be successful strategies that we strongly recommend. The main differences Page 26.574.11that we identified in Mexican and ABET international process were the criteria related toProgram Educational Objectives, Student Outcomes and Continuous Improvement aspects, whichare not explicitly included in the Mexican criteria. The quality systems that are beingimplemented in higher education can be of help to establish successful continuous
students eachyear, introducing entrepreneurship, business model canvas, and lean start-up principles to thestudents with a focus on medical device customer discovery and technology commercialization.At the beginning of the semester, teams are able to choose their product from a list of previoussenior capstone projects, or they can develop a new product idea. Throughout the semester,students work in teams to perform customer discovery and product-market fit experimentsthrough customer interviews to test their business model hypotheses. Students submit weeklyupdates on their progress through the Launchpad Central software, a widely used tool tomaximize innovation management. Students also complete assignments to analyze teamworkeffectiveness, create
meaningful to students.Curriculum Overview. The SCoPE engineering curriculum engages middle school students in athree-week capstone project focusing on managing nutrient pollution in their local watershed.Students engage with the problem through local news articles and images of algae covered lakeswhich drives the investigation into the detrimental processes caused by excess nutrients fromsources such as fertilizer and wastewater entering bodies of water. Students apply ideas learnedpreviously in science class to help define the problem, which deepens their understanding of thescience content and emphasizes the role of science in solving problems with engineering. Theyresearch the sources of nutrient pollution and potential strategies for managing
color in the field of cybersecurity.Dr. Sharon Zelmanowitz P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy Dr. Zelmanowitz is Dean of Engineering at the United States Coast Guard Academy and Professor of Civil Engineering. As an institutional change agent, she has catalyzed the formation of a USCGA di- versity initiative inspired by the ASEE Engineering Deans Diversity Initiative and has brought faculty and stakeholders together to employ best practices to meet the the Coast Guard’s urgent need for more engineers prepared for 21st century technical challenges. Her teaching, research, and capstone projects span a wide array of environmental issues including storm sewer and sanitary sewer redesign, shipboard wastewater treatment
Page 26.1658.13 entrepreneurship education and capstone projects while exceeding ABET requirements. In American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. Chicago, IL.Ohland, M. W., Frillman, S. A., Zhang, G., Brawner, C. E., & Miller, T. K. (2004). The effect of an entrepreneurship program on GPA and retention. Journal of Engineering Education, 93(4), 293–301.Petersen, O. G., Jordan, W. M., & Radharamanan, R. (2012). Proposed KEEN initiative framework for entrepreneurial mindedness in engineering education. In ASEE Annual Conference. San Antonio, TX.Rideout, E. C., & Gray, D. O. (2013). Does entrepreneurship education really work? A review and methodological critique of the empirical literature on
Paper ID #34275Supporting Equitable Team Experiences Using Tandem, an Online Assess-mentand Learning ToolDr. Robin Fowler, University of Michigan Robin Fowler is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She enjoys serving as a ”communication coach” to students throughout the curriculum, and she’s especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions involved in describing the products of open-ended design scenarios. She is one of the faculty co-innovators behind Tandem.Dr
project- based learning objectives that introduce 3D modeling anddigital design. A 9-12th grade curriculum has been developed and pilot recently starting inSeptember 2019. Currently there are 45 students enrolled and this is expected to grow to 85 bynext fall as the greater maritime career curriculum is expanded. This course work project basedand is centered on 3D modeling and use of digital tools in the marine environment. In addition,digital shipbuilding curriculum fundamentals have been integrated into many existing coursesfrom K-16. Some of this integration includes capstone projects in high school level physicscourses, 8-12th grade drafting and technology elective courses, shipyard and industry pre-hireprograms, Apprentice School technology