solutions andtheories are non-existent. Hence, it was not surprising to find that over 1/3 of the literature in thereview highlighted the importance of these types of experiences. As a result, learning by doing,especially in a group, is broadly recommended by the literature [e.g., 6, 26, 79]. Some note itsvalue to developing interest, some to demonstrating expertise, and some to enjoying meaningfulwork. Moreover, providing a safe environment for trialing various leadership behaviors alsoprovides a learning opportunity for all [11, 26, 27, 66]. However, group work is not a silverbullet; Rosch’s [28, 29] research found that group environments (such as are experienced in classor upper-division capstone projects) without mentoring, scaffolding, and
science, novel methods for environmental re- mediation, and microelectronics including surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices. In addition to teaching in the field of electrical engineering, he coordinates the senior engineering capstone program which is a multidisciplinary, two-semester course sequence with projects sponsored by industrial partners. Within this role, he focuses on industrial outreach and the teaching and assessment of professional skills. He received his Ph.D. and S.M. degrees from MIT in 2007 and 1999, respectively, and a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Virginia in 1997.Dr. Hayrettin B. Karayaka, Western Carolina University Bora Karayaka is an Associate Professor at the College of Engineering and
served more than 2000students since its inception.Dr. Wickliff is blessed to work daily in the area of her passion – developing young professionals – in herrole at Texas A&M University. She is the Director of the College of Engineering’s, Zachry LeadershipProgram and a Professor of Engineering Practice. At Texas A&M University, she has taught Capstone Se-nior Design and Foundations of Engineering courses, but now teaches Engineering Leadership Develop-ment courses. She has also taught Project Management and Risk Management courses for the Universityof Phoenix.Dr. Wickliff has been honored with University of Houston’s Distinguished Young Engineering AlumniAward, the Black Engineer of the Year Career Achievement Award for New Emerging
existing UW study abroad infrastructure.Learning TheoryEngineering Rome incorporates project-based experiential learning, which has shown to be atype of active learning that is crucial for the development of an appreciation for lifelong learning.Lenschow14 explains that: “Project-based learning (PBL) is winning ground in industry and at a slower rate in universities and colleges. PBL is pedagogically based on constructivist learning in a setting represented by Kolb’s learning cycle. Kolb observed that students learn in four different ways: Kolb’s idea is that the cycle shall be repeated. The cycle is best started with concrete experience, proceeding to abstraction.”14The basic classroom premise of the course involves
societal challenges; and 4)perform data collection, analysis and presentation in order to answer research questions andshare research results with a professional audience. The course also emphasized critical thinking,multidisciplinary perspectives, leadership and team-based problem solving. To achieve thecourse learning objectives, the course focused on problems associated with an aging sewersystem, generally, and the lack of local sewer infrastructure data, specifically. This course wasexperimental in that it introduced design thinking through an experiential learning project earlyin engineering students’ academic careers. Traditionally, design capstone courses are offeredtoward the end of students’ course of study after core courses and textbook
penetration in the workplace of our graduates. In a biennialsurvey of recent engineering graduates from Penn State reported below, we have found distinctlymodest levels of importance in the respondents’ work assigned to “Importance of Working on anInternational Project.” Although this importance rating has been creeping up since the firstsurvey of 1993 graduates, it is still below a 3 on a 5 point scale. Conversely, the respondentsrated study abroad experiences highly (3.5 to 4.5) even if they did not have one, and most didnot. So those surveyed have very positive attitudes towards engagement with the rest of theworld, but they are not yet rating its significance to their work very highly. Both these findingswould seem to challenge the view that our
her college’s leadership teams for both multi-disciplinary capstone design and outreach program development.Dr. Jacqueline R. Mozrall, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Jacqueline Reynolds Mozrall, Ph.D. is a Professor and Associate Dean in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at RIT, previously serving as Department Head in Industrial and Systems Engineering. She performed ergonomic training, job/workplace design, and product development functions in manufac- turing and office environments for several years. Most recently, she has been engaged in research and activities related to the recruitment and advancement of women students and faculty in STEM-related areas. She has a keen interest in undergraduate
effectiveness of interdisciplinary instructional designpractices.IntroductionEngineers bear the professional responsibility to ensure that a given project benefits society bytaking into account the impact of human and social factors when making engineering decisionsand communicating technical expertise. Given the importance of such considerations [1], ABETaccreditation criteria explicitly target them as expectations for professional readiness. Inengineering and engineering technology curricula, project-based learning from freshman projectsto senior capstones and human-centered design [2] are highly effective pedagogies that areintegral to the curricula for all the students in the programs. To address societal factors inengineering design, an
inequities in student success; and (c) cultivate more ethical future scientists and engineers by blending social, political and technological spheres. She prioritizes working on projects that seek to share power with students and orient to stu- dents as partners in educational transformation. She pursues projects that aim to advance social justice in undergraduate STEM programs and she makes these struggles for change a direct focus of her research.Dr. David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park David is the director of the Science, Technology and Society program at the University of Maryland, Col- lege Park. He works with STEM majors on the ethical and social dimensions of science and technology. David also does
engineering courses, communication skills are not taught explicitly;however, students are expected and held accountable for being able to speak and write well.Consequently, there is a need to change university engineering programs in order to provideopportunities for students to develop communication skills (Pet-Armacost, & Armacost, 2003).The importance and need for oral and written communication skills in engineering has beenclearly recognized. Engineering students who have good communication skills are more likelyto succeed and advance in the professional world than those who don’t.Team-Working Skills in EngineeringIn today’s work environment, project tasks generally involve the establishment of teams formedby people from different functional
.” These terms describe the relative degree to which a given course contributes to an outcome based upon the breadth and depth of relevant subjects covered in the course. The following guidelines are used in determining the ratings.∀ ≠ minor: The topic is introduced in course lectures, laboratories, homework assignments, Page 15.653.4 projects, etc. Lecture time devoted to the topic is on the order of one week during the 3 semester. The topic is covered on tests and exams, but
and learning process. The goal of this project is to explore the educational philosophiesenacted in the most impactful undergraduate classrooms, according to graduate students’perceptions, in order to give the new educator a foundation for their own course design process.Previous ResearchWhy Examine Students’ Perceptions of Learning Environments?At the start of the new semester, students enter a classroom not as “blank slates,” but withparticular conceptions about teaching and learning based on their prior experiences5. As a result,the effects of learning activities and perceptions of classroom interactions among the instructorand the students may differ by student5,8. Further, research has also shown that students’conceptions about teaching
, theSBP objectives were to (1) increase motivation for engineering academic study, (2) reinforcepersonal commitment among students early in their engineering academic career to aid retention,(3) increase skill in areas with relevance to the study of Engineering, and (4) ensure effectivenessof programming to achieve these objectives amongst a primarily Hispanic/Latinx studentpopulation. In order to achieve these objectives, the program then selected the followingelements for implementation in the SBP:1) Introduce key skills necessary for engineering academic study.2) Introduce engineering design activities/skills, and a guided experience in a group design project as a precursor to student’s future capstone engineering design
. Therefore, in an upper-division setting, it might be most appropriate in a project-based or capstone course. However, it could also be used in other upper-level technical coursesif students were encouraged to leverage the teachings in other project-based courses.Furthermore, this research took great efforts to create a model that could be widely applied. Itsmodular nature enables it to be easily integrated in existing courses, with required instructionalresources available in the Appendices. This facility also supports scaling the activities across abroad range of institutional settings. Finally, its use of identity as a core guiding framework maygive the instruction flexibility in being effective in a variety of settings. This is becauseregardless
third-year architecture studio and the creation of some electives. A numberof support courses could not be fully replicated in the semester curriculum. Courses such asdynamics, engineering economics, surveying, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, electricalcircuits, were listed in the three Fundamental Engineering (FE) elective courses where studentscan choose which they wish to take from a prescribed list. The is also an ARCE TechnicalElective which has a much larger list of courses from which a student can choose.The ARCE quarter program had four culminating experiences to include the three design labsand a separate senior project. The concrete/masonry lab becomes the senior capstone project andthe independent senior project is now an elective
Paper ID #20271Engineering Technology Education in the United States: Findings and Rec-ommendations from an NAE StudyMr. Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering Greg Pearson is a Scholar with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in Washington, D.C. Greg currently serves as the responsible staff officer for the NSF-funded project ”The Status, Role, and Needs of Engineering Technology Education in the United States.” He is also study director for the Chevron-funded project, Guiding Implementation of K-12 Engineering in the United States. He was the study director for the NAE and National Research Council project
new ways of educating the engineers of thefuture for engineering education to be in tune with demands of the emerging engineeringenterprise. The new ways include common first-year curricula with design experiences andmulti-disciplinary capstone design courses as well as alternative delivery approaches andcollaborative partnerships,Alternative delivery approaches: Alternative delivery approaches will not only change the modeof operation and organization of higher education but also provide access to education, animportant element of quality education. The American Council on Education22 says, All members of society have the right to access learning opportunities that provide the means for effective participation in society (p.11).But
has taught undergraduate courses in thermodynamics, heat transfer, combustion, air-conditioning, dynamics, and senior capstone design.Prof. Jiancheng Liu, University of the Pacific Dr. Jiancheng Liu is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of the Pacific. Dr. Liu’s research experience and teaching interest have been in the areas of machine design and manu- facturing engineering, with specific focuses on CNC machine tool design, mechanical micro machining, cutting process, flexible manufacturing system automation, sensing and control technology, and intelligent CAM technology. With his many years’ experience in industry and universities, Dr. Liu has published over 80 technical
multi-media, group exercises,Internet exercises, and group lab projects to enhance and support direct instruction. Educatorscan enhance student learning by conducting lectures in a friendly manner, so that nobody feelsstress or is afraid to ask a question. No learning can take place in a tense environment.IV. Technology, Society and Culture Objectives and MethodologiesStudents at DeVry University are given the challenge and opportunity to guide and direct theirtechnological knowledge into responsible awareness and choices for local/global solutions ofproblems and 21st Century urgent issues. All DeVry students must pass a senior-level inter-disciplinary capstone Humanities course entitled “Technology, Society and Culture”. Thiscourse challenges
and, further, that communication skills are very important in theworkplace.Mastery. Participants describe the various communication activities that they have engaged in,and some describe the particular competencies that they have mastered, as illustrated in thefollowing excerpts from portfolios and survey responses.In this first example, the participant describes in her experiences communicating in differentmodes and media and the importance of that communication to her groups’ work. A game capstone project "Paint bomber" is a good example of how exchanging thoughts and ideas with others was crucial to the game design process and very beneficial. I had to explain and describe our ideas to the rest of our classmates visually
different ways and levels of understanding a givenphenomenon (i.e., the tensions encountered) and a level of awareness (Åkerlind, 2008). Theemphasis is on understanding and describing not only the commonalities, but more so thevariation in the individuals’ ways of seeing and experiencing the phenomenon (Marton & Tsui,2004).The target population for this study was US engineering educators who implemented PBL in theearly years of an undergraduate engineering program – Year 1 and/or Year 2. The rationale forthis choice of context was that PBL has less of a presence in the early years of the engineeringprogram than in later years, when project-based capstone courses are widely adopted. Despiteadvocacy for learner-centered pedagogies like PBL in
training at the National Collegiate Inventors and In- novators Alliance (NCIIA). Babs is a serial entrepreneur and active in multiple entrepreneurial activities. She blogs about entrepreneurship on New Venturist. Babs taught entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for 15 years, where she maintains an adjunct position. Formerly, Babs was embedded entrepreneur for CMU’s Project Olympus and innovation advisor for CMU’s Institute for Social Innova- tion. For seven years at the University of Pittsburgh, Babs taught the Benchtop to Bedside new technology commercialization course. Babs is President of Carryer Consulting and co-founder of LaunchCyte, which has a portfolio of five companies. Babs has a Masters in
Program, Airframe and Powerplant Maintenance, and Technology Management). Develop means to evaluate the effect of the Inservice visits/faculty-library collaboration.Long-term goals: Identify barriers to this work, either in the opinions of faculty, administration, or library staff. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section Conference Recruit specific faculty teaching key, capstone courses for the purpose of planning assessment measures in coordination with college-wide assessment plans: o Engineering: First year seminar o Engineering: Senior project o Construction Technology (Associates) research
better because I know a lot of the capstone classes aim to try to help students develop their own project from scratch and go through that whole, entire design development phase. I think a lot of the stuff I learned during internships, or even in outside classes and stuff… is not really touched upon in classes.” “When I went to my internship after sophomore year it was very—like I’m mechanical, and it was also very electrical-focused because I think these days a lot of things encompass electrical engineering as well. I was like, “Wow. I just don’t know anything at all. Like any of this.”Curricular constraints and workload were the primary
engagement with coding and robotics, and early childhood preservice teacher learning.Nidaa Makki Nidaa Makki is a Professor in the LeBron James Family Foundation School of Education at the University of Akron, with expertise in STEM Education. She has served as co-PI on several NSF projects, investigating STEM education interventions at the K-12 and undergraduate levels. She also has expertise as program evaluator for various STEM education programs, and has led teacher professional development in Physics Modeling, Engineering Education, and Problem Based Learning. Her research interests include teacher learning and practices in science education, engineering education, and student learning and motivation for STEM
laboratoriesrequired hands-on experiments which were difficult to execute in a remote setting. Educatorsadopted several simulation tools to replace the hands-on experiments to a certain extent. Many ofthe project-based laboratory courses suffered due to a lack of research capabilities. In addition,projects demand social interaction as students work in groups, brainstorm ideas, utilizelaboratory equipment, and closely interact with the instructors.This paper presents some of the challenges faced by the instructors and students in Electrical andComputer Engineering courses offered at one of the regional campuses of The Ohio StateUniversity. Even though some researchers have conducted studies in 2020 to investigate theeffect of the pandemic on teaching and
bothengineering design researchers and educators.References[1] C. A. Pradilla, J. B. da Silva, and J. Reinecke, "Wicked Problems and New Ways of Organizing: How Fey Alegria Confronted Changing Manifestations of Poverty," in Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges, vol. 79, A. A. Gümüsay, E. Marti, H. Trittin- Ulbrich, and C. Wickert Eds., (Research in the Sociology of Organizations: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022, pp. 93-114.[2] W. Mokhtar, "Capstone Senior Project Mentoring And Student Creativity," ed. Atlanta: American Society for Engineering Education-ASEE, 2010, pp. 15.259.1-15.259.16.[3] A. Gerhart and D. Carpenter, "Creative Problem Solving Course – Student Perceptions Of Creativity And Comparisons Of
University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). His research interests include robotic manipulation, computer vision and motion capture, applications of and extensions to additive manufacturing, mechanism design and characterization, continuum manipulators, redundant mechanisms, and modular systems.Dr. John S DonnalDr. Carl E. Wick Sr., United States Naval Academy Dr. Carl Wick is currently a Professional Lecturer with the Biomedical Engineering Department of the George Washington University where he provides technical assistance and advice to capstone project students. Previously he was associated with the U.S. Na ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 The ScorBot
purpose of elevating the understanding of all parties; this is anexample of both the challenge and the reward for teaching science diplomacy. And yetengineers are not entirely excluded from practicing a form of subterfuge in negotiation asexemplified through the process of entering a low bid to win a construction project andrelying upon cost overruns to turn a profit [3]. It is within this dynamic tension, betweenpractices shared by engineers and diplomats and practices shared by engineers andscientists, where a pilot course entitled, “Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, andMath (STEAM) Diplomacy” was initially proposed in 2017 [4].As defined in 2010, in a report co-published by the Royal Society and the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement
homework, in class exercises and discussions,quizzes and exams. The EML was infused into the course by revising one of the homeworkassignments and turning another one into a class project. The two assignments combined targetthe entire course learning outcomes listed above.Implementation and RelevanceThe EML assignments were composed of an in-class activity and a follow up report, andreplaced the traditional homework assignments targeting the same course learning outcomes. Thefirst assignment was executed early in the semester in week 3; the second assignment wasscheduled towards the end of the semester, in week 11.Assignment 1:This assignment was designed to help students learn the fundamentals of descriptive statisticsand how to characterize a