the Earth, thatIndigenous peoples have. The scientist felt a rush of a positive spirit that impacted his physicaloutlook towards a better future for himself emulating the long-term impacts a design has onothers and his community when he takes his piece home [37]. This can be translated toengineering design or technology as designs and inventions continue to affect people and havethe spirit of their designers kept within them.Another example that builds upon how technology and designs can be holder of knowledge isBang et al. [39] demonstrating how fire technology is living. Bang et al. [39] used community-based design research to teach Urban Indigenous youth and their families about fire astechnology that was used by Native Americans as a
; Measures impact and outcomes (good intentions are not enough) > Identifies areas for improvement (formative evaluation) > Helps you tell your story to stakeholders > Helps you make a logic model for your project There are lots of different ways to work with an evaluator.Evaluators are not really meant to grade you or to fill out a checklist. An evaluator’s role isto holistically measure your impact, identify areas of improvement, and gather data to helpyou tell your story. 18 Examples of Various Logic Models The best ones are somewhere between very simple to very complex There is
the curriculum, computer engineering-related electives, and senior design, his focus in the classroom is to ignite passion in his students for engineering and design through his own enthusiasm, open-ended student-selected projects, and connecting engineering to the world around them. He spends a great deal of time looking for ways to break out of the traditional engineering mold and to make engineering more broadly accessible to students. His research interest is the application of mobile computing to interesting, human-focused problems. He holds three degrees in computer engineering including graduate degrees from Virginia Tech and an undergraduate degree from NC State University. c
testing solar ovens. In lieu of a non-S-L assignment, 13 UML studentsfrom the Introduction to Engineering II (Mech. Eng.) class volunteered to plan and teachthese modules in 45 min. class periods.Learning objectives met by the S-L project were for UML students to: Function effectively in groups Participate in the design process within given constraints Present technical information to diverse groups using Microsoft PowerPoint Page 12.1274.15 Practice MatLab code input Use instruments and gages in a laboratory environment Graph data appropriately using Microsoft Excel and import into a Microsoft Word document
by supporting the creation ofprograms that develop technical leaders with strong skills and an entrepreneurial mindset inundergraduate engineering programs at select private U.S. colleges and universities. KEENschools cooperatively identify best practices in entrepreneurship education at the undergraduatelevel and share these practices among institutions.The long-term goal is for these new KEEN engineers to catalyze a transformation in theworkforce and to build economic and technical commerce in their communities.2.4 – Launching the Kern Entrepreneurship Education NetworkTwenty-four universities were invited to the KEEN inaugural meeting on October 7, 2005 inIndianapolis, Indiana. Eligible institutions consisted of private Midwestern
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methodology is the future potential for external auditorassessment and comparing to best practices of other institutions.Total Quality Management (TQM) - In 1992 the IME Department used a combinations ofseveral of the tools to develop a new manufacturing engineering curriculum. “Voice of thecustomer” from QFD, affinity diagrams, and interrelationship charts were used with excellentresults2. Kaufman also proposes a more comprehensive approach to TQM for educationalplanners called QM+1.Quality Function Deployment (QFD) – QFD is an excellent, efficient approach for identifyingthe “voice of the customer” and designing an efficient system around their requirements. QFDhas been widely adapted ever since for use in government, education, and the non-profit
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University (Tech.) Dr. Radian Belu is Assistant Professor within the Engineering Technology (ET) program - Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA. Before joining to the Drexel University Dr. Belu hold faculty and research positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada and United States. He also worked for several years in industry as a project manager and senior consultant. He has taught and developed undergraduate and graduate courses in electronics, power systems, communication, control and power electronics, electric machines, instrumentation, radar and remote sensing, numerical methods and data analysis, space and atmosphere physics, and physics. His research interests included power system
. Emily holds a master’s degree in higher education and student development. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 What is engineering leadership? A proposed definition.AbstractIn response to the demand for engineering graduates with stronger leadership skills, manyengineering leadership development programs have been established around the world. Many ofthe best practices in such programs are similar to those in general leadership programs, and thereseems to be a lack of understanding of how to define engineering leadership, and explain how itdiffers from general leadership. To address this issue, a survey was distributed to 163participants (87% students, 13% alumni from a Canadian
teaching Engineering Mechanics: Statics, Steel I, Steel II, and the beginning Architecture Design Studio.Prof. John J Phillips P.E., Oklahoma State University JOHN PHILLIPS, a registered engineer and Professor of Architectural Engineering, practiced as a structural engineer for nine years before returning to his alma mater to teach at Oklahoma State University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in building structures.Alan Kirkpatrick ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Evaluation of Current Generative Artificial Intelligence Chatbots for Their Use in Structural Engineering Related FieldsAbstractThe structural engineering community is currently
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at Virginia Tech, his research focused on understanding engineering career choice in the Appalachian region of the United States. Matthew is currently employed as an engineer at Bledsoe Telephone Cooperative, a rural telecommunications service provider in Pikeville Tennessee.Dr. Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech Dr. Matusovich is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Programs in Vir- ginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 8 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech
Paper ID #44758Embedding Teamwork Skills in Mechanical Engineering CurriculumDr. Shadi Balawi, Texas A&M University Dr. Balawi is an Instructional Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at Texas A&M. He teaches in the areas of materials, manufacturing, and design. His interests are in the areas of Engineering Design for Disciplinary STEM Educational Research, Team Formation and Team Skill Education. Dr. Balawi earned his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from University of Cincinnati with research focus on experimental design and testing of solids for honeycomb core materials.Jonathan Weaver
thissoftware in real engineering companies. The students were immersed in construction companies,as interns on construction sites. Our research goals were to study the students’ learning and anyimpacts on the companies’ practices; in particular, how new communication skills, tools,symbols, concepts, and procedures disseminated in both directions. Open-ended surveyresponses from the years 2017, 2018, and 2019 were analyzed using the constant comparisonmethod to allow themes to emerge from the data. The analysis of these data shows 1) Throughthe design and prior training of workers, it generated a psychologically safe learningenvironment for students in companies. 2) students recognize they establish a clear connectionbetween the objectives of the
-year engineering students. Andrew has had the opportunity to support the General Engineering Learning Community (GELC) and the Boyd Scholar program in University Suc- cess Skills course. His doctoral degree is in Civil Engineering with research interests in Optimization of Porous Pavements based on Aggregate Structure. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Peer Sharing Presentations in a First-Year Engineering Learning Strategies CourseAbstractThis Complete Evidence-Based Practice paper details the use of peer sharing presentations in alearning strategies course designed for first-year engineering students. The learning strategiescourse is a component of
acceptable 3 44 Overall Quality Rating 3.6 2.4DiscussionWe investigated student progress on educational outcomes related to LLL that most collegesagree are essential for their graduates. The success of traditional and nontraditional curricula indelivering these outcomes, however, is only indirectly measurable because they relatefundamentally to future behavior: the life-long and self-directed learning activities of students.Thus, as we noted earlier, research about how to meet and measure these important educationalgoals remains incomplete, and there continues to be a need for critical testing of both educationalapproaches and outcomes assessment
take on a leadership role in an organization, develop studygroups with other members, connect with industry professionals, and participate on adesign team. Most student organizations are typically led by the top students within anengineering program. Typically, there is a president, vice president, secretary, andtreasurer for each of these student groups. The responsibilities for each of these positionsprovide students with leadership skills that will later be used in engineering practice upongraduation. Other valuable aspects of these organizations are the projects that areperformed within each. For example, many organizations participate in regional andnational design competitions, such as the ASCE Concrete Canoe and Steel
, equity and inclusion (DEI). Simple exposure to adiverse environment in the classroom does not fully prepare students to succeed in a similar real-world environment.In order to best prepare students for post-graduation roles, we must incorporate DEI into ourcurriculum. Education in these issues promotes their awareness of the topic and allows them toexplore their own implicit bias in a safe environment. Practicing our teaching with similarthought, we must assess the student outcomes in a manner which is reflective of our ownunderstanding of these issues and aims to minimize performance gaps due to disparities betweenstudents.Systems Engineering is an ideal platform to promote student awareness of global inequities inthe world as well as explore
socialsupport to my students, as well as enrichment and research or practical experienceopportunities. I have been the PI and Co-PI for grants received from NSF, NASA and theDepartment of Education amounting to over $5 million to develop the engineeringprogram and award CSEMS/S- STEM (Science, Technology Engineering and Math)scholarships to students at San Antonio College. An NSF discretionary grant from EngineeringEducation I obtained in 2003 allowed me to initiate the EDGE (Early Development ofGeneral Engineering) 13 a summer program, designed to attract and retain high schoolstudents into the engineering field. The program continued through 2015 with help fromDepartment of Education MSEIP funding. A majority of my mentees have participated in
].Other competencies include ethics, professional judgement, and an understanding of practicalityand constructability, all of which have a critical impact on real-world engineering design. Mostimportantly, students must understand how these competencies fit into the complex nature ofdesign and the difficult choices that often must be made to satisfy design criteria and developsolutions in realistic conditions. Thus, to best prepare graduates for work, engineering educationprograms must incorporate authentic design experiences into their curricula, providing studentswith opportunities to think through real-world scenarios using a holistic set of competencies thatgo beyond technical knowledge alone.The purpose of this study was to understand how
Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationspecialized case studies. These cases use the norm of best engineering practice to encourage theengineer to generalize and discriminate his or her behavior and to act on this knowledge. Thefocus of this paper is on how you teach ethical behavior, given a reasonable standard of whatethical behavior is. With the renewed interest in ethics shown by ABET and the assumption thatethical engineers are what ABET wants, the responsible professor, chairman, and dean isobligated to develop sound strategies based on theory to teach it.2. Developing ethical engineersDesigning a strategy to produce more ethical engineers is no different from designing a bridge.The engineering method applies to both. A
Paper ID #28509Student Construction Sustainability Evaluations: A LEED Lab Case StudyDr. Jeyoung Woo P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Jeyoung Woo is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). He is a registered Professional Engineer (Civil - Construction) in Texas. He has worked in the industry for nine years as a project manager, a corporate quality manager, a field engineer, and a designer. Also, he conducted several research projects about construction labor productivity, construction safety, engineering
what bases to hit, and what points I should be making in those things to underscore the end all, be all of it.”She researched common situational questions asked in interviews and best practices forresponses to difficult questions (such as ‘What is your greatest weakness?’). She found questionbanks online and looked at recruiting websites for advice. She also practiced interview questionsout loud and recorded herself responding to the questions. Emily realized that she was relyingheavily on examples from classes and that she could use examples from her internships in certainresponses. In addition, she began to have a mindset shift when she started interviews, makingjokes, which she found both put her and the interviewers in a better
based on one of the term projects of a mezzanine levelmechanical engineering (ME) elective course on Lightweighting and Joining of Structures. The11-week duration class (including the final exam week) at Kettering University consisted of bothsenior undergraduate and graduate ME students. The prerequisites for the course includemechanics, CAE, design, material science and finite element analysis (FEA). For the analysiscarried in this paper, the currently used all-steel railcar truck stand has been redesigned andmodeled as a simplified 3D space frame using standard tubular (pipe section) members.Although the simplified model does not represent in any way the actual stand used in the railcarindustry, it is anticipated to serve the same purpose as
need to be defined in order to build the theoretical basis of the field.Fundamental to systems engineering is system design (SD). SD impacts the engineering of a system fromearly on in its life cycle. Stevens (Jain) is undertaking research that focuses on defining SD concepts.Beyond identifying the core concepts in SD, it is also necessary to explore the variety of conceptions,correct or incorrect, that students hold about SD concepts. The majority of SE programs focus on thegraduate-level and emphasize practical aspects of the field. As a result, some basic concept definitions areoften overlooked. Students have their own beliefs or perceived meaning of SE concepts that may notcorrespond to accepted views in the field.A necessary step in the
need to be defined in order to build the theoretical basis of the field.Fundamental to systems engineering is system design (SD). SD impacts the engineering of a system fromearly on in its life cycle. Stevens (Jain) is undertaking research that focuses on defining SD concepts.Beyond identifying the core concepts in SD, it is also necessary to explore the variety of conceptions,correct or incorrect, that students hold about SD concepts. The majority of SE programs focus on thegraduate-level and emphasize practical aspects of the field. As a result, some basic concept definitions areoften overlooked. Students have their own beliefs or perceived meaning of SE concepts that may notcorrespond to accepted views in the field.A necessary step in the
College Collaborative. Supporting Engineering programsacross multiple rural colleges, sharing resources, faculty, perhaps including a mobile lab anddeveloping an Introduction to Engineering Project between colleges could potentially lead tonew ways of delivering Engineering education in rural Arizona. Using remote access labs,sharing key faculty/lab resources, and employing on-line web delivery of programs are examplesof this model.Sharing of Ideas and Best PracticesThe colleges’ sharing of ideas, resources, and even faculty through the Network has strengthenedthe community and yielded collective impact as follows: • Shared experiences and best practices led to an appreciation for high quality work being accomplished on each campus
both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University,she conducts research on engineering education and work-practices, and applied finite element analysis.From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement ofTeaching, leading the Foundation’s engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers: Designingfor the Future of the Field). In addition, in 2011 Dr. Sheppard was named as co-PI of a national NSFinnovation center (Epicenter), and leads an NSF program at Stanford on summer research experiences forhigh school teachers. Her industry experiences includes engineering positions at Detroit’s ”Big Three:”Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, and