regional specialization makes partnerships with industrysignificantly easier and more likely for guest lectures, student field trips, mid-term team projects,and Practicum/Capstone partnerships.Once we had the vision, mission, strategy, and model in place, it was time to focus oncollaborating to make this happen. We chose to do so through three workshops per year. Fall andWinter Workshops were where we share experiences and progress, and regular status meetingsand the Summer Workshop is focused on pedagogy. The workshops and meetings are our nexttopic.Education Theme Meetings & WorkshopsEach year, the education theme hosts various events to continue participation and engagementacross the theme. These events include: - Annual DART All Hands
problemsthrough human action. Proponents of this Current focus on citizenship at both the local andglobal level, and use strategies like community projects, debates and action plans that actuallyencourage students to stand up for what is just. Educators may have concerns about exposingtheir ideology and political leanings in the classroom, creating some tension with respect to thisCurrent.STSE-Relevant Practices in Engineering educationIn reflecting on the nature of STSE as described above, and considering the integration withengineering, we might start with exploring the nature of the engineering profession, and how thattranslates to the engineering education context. In a critique of engineering education, Pawley(2019) suggested that engineering
coverage of these important broader considerations, andthus to provide opportunities for broader ways of thinking in engineering education. Commonapproaches to teaching engineering design incorporate some of these ways through project-basedlearning, which finds instantiation in senior capstone design projects [6, 7], first-year cornerstonedesign projects [7], and service learning [7, 8]. Closely related, the Aalborg problem-based learning(PBL) model also focuses on contextualizing learning and problem-solving [9]. Litzinger et al.’s[10] discussion of expertise and engineering education emphasizes the importance of the “context-rich, multifaceted problems” commonly embedded in all of these approaches.Empirical research on engineering design
macro perspectives, providing faculty development that includes training in both STS and practical ethics; and revision of curriculum materials, including online resources.”16Putting primary focus on micro-ethics in the piloted engineering ethics course provides studentswith the self-awareness of their values and skills to be able to voice those values during theirsenior capstone experience two years later. It also gives students the foundation for weavingethics considerations into the deep dive of researching and writing their undergraduate theses.Course OverviewEngineering ethics courses share a common provocation: When confronted with an ethicallychallenging situation, how can engineers identify the choices and options that will
year. Once in the AE major, 2nd and 3rd year students continue to study math, physics, and engineeringmechanics concurrent with a series of introductory in-major courses prior committing to a specific AEoption area. Both the 2nd and 3rd years were developed for exploration of the specific disciplines whilebuilding foundational building related knowledge. Through these two years, students gain knowledge andconfidence to participate in and lead integrative design projects. Before entering the 4th year, studentschoose a sub-discipline. The 4th and 5th years are devoted to discipline-specific AE coursework and an 8-credit year-long capstone project tying everything together. Table 1: Breakdown of in-major and out-of-major courses
thermodynamics and fluid mechanics courses. Her research interests include the use of natural rubber in medical devices and engineering education.Dr. Ann D. Christy P.E., Ohio State University Ann D. Christy, PE, is a professor of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering and a professor of Engineering Education at the Ohio State University (OSU). She earned both her B.S. in agricultural engineering and M.S. in biomedical engineering at OSU, and her Ph.D. in environmental engineering at Clemson University. She worked for an engineering consulting firm before entering academia and continues to collaborate with the consulting industry. She has taught courses in bioenergy, biological en- gineering, capstone design, HVAC
or fail to become engineers. Her research interests include utilizing a discipline-based focus to explore the professional identity formation of undergraduate civil engineering students and the in- and out-of-class experiences that shape these identities. She is also interested in the application of Grounded Theory and other qualitative methods to gain a nuanced understanding of individual student experiences. Dr. McCall’s current work includes an NSF-funded project examining the professional identity formation of undergraduate students with disabilities.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she directs
together. Engineering students can be presented withtheory to prepare for analysis of systems constructed with the toolkit. These students maybenefit as the controller is programmed with the ‘C’ language, allowing the software andparameters to easily be changed. Students can next each be given an opportunity for designusing the toolkit. It is our hope that the toolkit be used in senior capstone type projects. Finally,the toolkit provides graduate students with opportunities for design and research.From a student’s point of view, being given a design opportunity such as the inverted pendulum Page 13.335.6can be overwhelming. How does one start
noticing a lack ofcontinuity and participation in our student organizations, since students are not physically here inthe department as in previous years. It is unclear still how these networks may be affected, and itmay take several more years to realize some of these unintended consequences of movingstudents away from specific disciplines in that first year.It is also important to ensure the FYE instructors understand the BAE discipline well enough sothat relevant examples and projects are incorporated into the FYE engineering courses. In orderfor this program to receive the college-wide support needed to be successful in its adoption, itwas imperative to assemble a core set of FYE instructors with the breadth necessary to representall
participate in the study aswell as their perception of the usefulness of the instrument.In a nationwide study of the adoption of engineering education innovations, Borrego, Froyd andHall [17] explored how seven engineering education innovations were used across the US. Theseven innovations were student-active pedagogies, artifact dissection, curriculum-basedengineering service-learning projects, interdisciplinary capstone design projects, summer bridge 3programs, learning communities or integrated curricula and design projects in the first-yearengineering courses. The purpose of this work was “to understand and make recommendations topromote adoption
[17]. Even when facing an industry-sponsored capstone project,they may treat the problem as having a single correct answer [18]. Research suggests that whenstudents are supported to make consequential decisions, they feel a greater sense of ownershipover their work [19, 20]. Framing agency, therefore, can serve as a lens into whether students arelearning to negotiate the process of framing design problems. In our past work, we found thatstudents’ talk in their design teams was indicative of whether they treated the problems asframed for them and not open to reframing, or as problems they themselves needed to frame [18,21].MethodsResearch designIn order to meet our research aims, we first conducted discourse analysis and then explored
ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, INFORMS Transactions on Education, and the International Journal of Engineering Ed- ucation, and others. She authored the book Oral Communication Excellence for Engineers and Scientists, published in summer 2013. Over the past 15 years Dr. Norback has given over 40 conference presen- tations and workshops at nation-wide conferences such as ASEE, where she has served as chair of the Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Division. She has been an officer for the Education Forum of INFORMS and has served as Associate Chair for the National Capstone Design Conference. Dr. Norback has a Bachelors’ degree from Cornell
Paper ID #30058Developing the ESLS - Engineering Students Learning Strategies instrumentDr. Sreyoshi Bhaduri, McGraw-Hill Sreyoshi Bhaduri leads Global People Analytics at McGraw Hill - where she works on projects leveraging employee data to generate data-driven insights for decisions impacting organizational Culture and Talent. Sreyoshi has an interdisciplinary expertise having earned her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and Masters degrees in Applied Statistics and Mechanical En- gineering. Her research interests include women in technology and industry, studying the impact
debt, experiences and perceptions of college worth. Retrieved from http://www.gallup.com/services/185924/gallup-purdue-index-2015-report.aspx23. Gibbs, G. (1992. “Control and independence”. In Teaching large classes in higher education: How to maintain quality with reduced resources, (Ed. G. Gibbs), London: Kogan Page, 37-59.24. Li, P., & Toderick, L. (2015, June), An Automatic Grading and Feedback System for E- Learning in Information Technology Education Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.2351825. Chang, M., & Downey, A. (2008, June), A Semi Automatic Approach For Project Assignment In A Capstone Course. Paper presented at 2008 Annual Conference &
outside theirmajors.One way to promote engineering and liberal arts is to use projects with an innovative andentrepreneurial emphasis.32 Students are challenged by big questions that are open ended andthat allows them to pursue creative solutions, typically in capstone projects. This helps studentsto see their engineering education in the global context.Another way to integrate engineering and liberal arts is to develop minors such as “TechnologyManagement and Policy” that is available at the University of Virginia.33 As an interdisciplinaryminor, it is open to all undergraduates. This program helped engineering students find relevantliberal arts courses that are a vital component of a professional study. If these courses areimportant for a minor
academics first and everything else last”), in addition to their courses having very little socialcontext. This may be indicative of a typical problem in engineering education – first-yearcourses are interesting and project-based, but then in the second year, all the intense prerequisitesmust be taken, which limits students’ abilities to engage with social issues within or outside theircourses. Additionally, some students chose to be more involved with sororities or sports teams Page 26.643.6rather than volunteer groups, and their schedules did not allow for both activities.Table 2: Demographics of Students Interviewed and EPRA Survey Results
education philosophy is founded on the Project Ori- ented Design Based Learning (PODBL) approach at Deakin University.Mr. Simon William Cavenett Simon Cavenett is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Professional Practice (Engineering) at the School of Engineering at Deakin University. Prior to joining Deakin University in 2007 his 20 year career was based in industry. His career includes a number of significant achievements both in Australia and inter- nationally, particularly involving the design and implementation of leading edge telecommunications and IT technologies. Simon has extensive experience internationally; having worked professionally based the United States for over 11 years prior to returning to Australia to
Paper ID #30624Leaving Civil Engineering: Examining the Intersections of Gender,Disability, and Professional IdentityDr. Cassandra J. McCall, Virginia Tech Dr. Cassandra McCall is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Engineering Education Vir- ginia Tech. Her primary research interests include professional identity formation in undergraduate civil engineering students, grounded theory methods, and theory development. Currently, she is principal in- vestigator on an NSF sponsored project exploring the professional identity formation of civil engineering students who experience disabilities. In particular, she is
this debate include the attractiveness of the career forprospective students, the retention of those students who enter the program, the diversity ofstudents in the program, and then the degree of fit between program outcomes and the needsof the workplace. Within this debate it is generally assumed that the curriculum is the arenain potential need of reform [3]–[5]. Curriculum reform deliberations tend to operate at arelatively high level, with a central tension between “theory” (engineering and basic sciencecontent) and “practice” (professional skills, often in project type context) [6].A relatively recent focus for global curriculum discussions has been the spread of outcomes-based criteria for accreditation through the mechanism of the
initiatives in southwest Virginia.Mr. Matthew Arnold Boynton PE, Virginia TechDr. Holly M Matusovich, Virginia TechDr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Dr. Marie C. Paretti is an associate professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com- munication and teamwork in engineering, design education, and engineering identity. She was awarded a CAREER grant from NSF to study expert teaching practices in capstone design courses nationwide, and is co-PI. Her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication, the effects of curriculum on design cognition, the effects of differing design pedagogies on
. Consequently, these industry projects can be considered as a part of capstone designcourses of the academic institutions.AcknowledgementsThis work was supported by the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) at MississippiState University and by the U.S Department of Energy, under contract DE-FC26-06NT42755and NSF Grant CBET074273008010004Bibliography1. National Research Council (U.S), “Integrated Computational Materials Engineering: A Transformational Discipline for Improved Competitiveness and National Security,” The National Academies Press, 2008.2. M.F. Horstemeyer, “Multiscale modeling: A review,” in Practical Aspects of Computational Chemistry, J. Leszczynski and M. K. Shukla, Eds. Springer Netherlands, 2010, pp. 87–135.3. C
distinction of being called one of the top 3% of our futureleaders.As of September 2012 and having evaluated over 600 participants as to their interest andinvolvement in the program, we realized there was a significant difference in levels ofengagement. It had become relatively academic to identify the top 3% through a set ofcommon characteristics and extreme performance.Identifiable Credentials of the Top 3% of LTPs 1. Have exemplary work performance and assumption of unassigned leadership roles 2. Are fully engaged in an introspective and heartfelt approach to the LTP experience 3. Previously led much of their University Honors Programs Capstone Team project 4. Served as volunteer lead for Community Service / Mentor programs 5. Assumed
different implications for the allocation ofpublic and private resources, a matter of concern in a world still characterized by scarcity inmeeting the basic needs of many. There may be widely held values concerning the environmentand sustainability that are separate from health and safety concerns. The twenty-first-centuryengineer must be aware of and competent to address these sorts of ethical and social issues—andthis imposes new demands on educational programs for engineers.11,12 As ABET recognizes incriterion 3(f), students must understand their “professional and ethical responsibility” [emphasisadded] and, in criterion 3(c), students must be able to design a project to meet “desired needswithin realistic constraints such as economic
supervision are, for many, their capstone experience. · Have a mentor. A ‘mentor’ experience; e.g., mentored internship not done for academic credit, in which students get to create their own project and then implement it under the supervision of a faculty member, provides an effective tool for learning. · Appreciate diversity. The impact of racial and ethnic diversity on their college experience has a highly positive effect; students learn from others who come from different backgrounds. · Manage time. Students who grow the most academically, and who are happiest, organize their time to include activities with faculty members, or with several other students, focused
Institute of Technology Chris Jurado is involved in the development of research activities such as collection and analysis of data and publications as part of the National Science Foundation’s Science Partnerships Program as well as in the implementation of capstone projects at the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Educa- tion (CIESE). Prior to joining CIESE he was a practicing chemical engineer on water treatments, envi- ronmental management systems and quality assurance. Chris received a BE in in Chemical Engineering from University of Guayaquil, an Environmental Technology Certificate from the Swedish International Development Agency, and a ME in Engineering Management from Stevens Institute of
Paper ID #41371Board 428: Work in Progress: An Open Educational Resource to ImproveArchitectural Engineering Students Conceptual Knowledge When Writing-to-Learn:Investigation 1Dr. Ryan Solnosky P.E., Pennsylvania State University Ryan Solnosky is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Architectural Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University at University Park. Dr. Solnosky has taught courses for Architectural Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Pre-Major Freshmen. He is the recipient of several teaching awards both within Penn State and Nationally. Ryan’s research centers on technology for teaching, capstones
to be more efficient in my time management. It reallyhelped that our advisor gave clear weekly targets and expectations.One such experience about time management sticks out above the rest: there was a week when Iwas waist-deep in work on my Capstone project. I was tasked with 3D modeling a motor box fora rotating wire system. Creating the 3D models for this design ate up most of my time that weekand I still needed to get my responsibilities done for the research. To help get my work done thatweek I had to create a schedule for myself on which times I would allocate solely for research.Creating this schedule helped me be more on track for the tasks I had been assigned that week aswell as a continued time frame that I would always put towards
biological materialsbecomes even more necessary.While the need to integrate design into the curriculum has been well recognized, efforts to injectit into the curriculum have been primarily made only at the freshman and senior levels, the latterwhere students work on capstone design projects. Sophomore and junior level courses often donot develop knowledge and abilities of students with respect to the engineering design process.However, the mechanics of materials course represents an excellent opportunity tosimultaneously develop abilities for analyzing material failure and abilities to connect failureanalysis to the engineering design process. Engineering design provides a cornerstone of theproposed approach to the redesign of the mechanics of
-coursesequence reinforcing the techniques of engineering design and project management. During thesenior year, students participate in two capstone experiences: a senior sequence of 2 or 3 coursesin their concentration area and a senior design project.We are currently collecting data on student and faculty characteristics with the intent ofcorrelating the following independent variables with the dependent variables of program (studentlearning) outcomes, specifically the achievement of the ABET established performance criteria.Independent VariablesIndependent variables are student and faculty characteristics that may affect learning outcomes.We use several well established and some newly researched instruments to identify the keycharacteristics that may
Paper ID #7130Muddiest Point Formative Feedback in Core Materials Classes with YouTube,Blackboard, Class Warm-ups and Word CloudsProf. Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University Stephen J. Krause is a professor in the School of Materials in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of bridging engineering and education, capstone design, and introductory materials engineering. His research interests are evaluating conceptual knowledge, miscon- ceptions and their repair, and conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge