significant challenge.This paper presents an approach to capstone course design that explores how Human-CenteredDesign (HCD) mindsets and practices can be foregrounded in a heavily technology-centriclearning experience. We developed a capstone course for undergraduate STEM students thatforegrounds human-centered mindsets in a technical project focused on 3D printing prostheticdevices for a participant with a limb difference.We analyzed data collected from the course to shed light on specific challenges in foregroundinga deep human-centered perspective in technical STEM courses, and we provide guidance foreducators who also seek a similar reorientation. Our analysis consisted of a thematic coding onwritten deliverables and instructor observations from
designed to developR&D-oriented skills through a multi-year learning trajectory [3]. They identified 14 key skillsneeded for research and development, with a strong emphasis on following the scientific method,including formulating research questions and hypotheses, designing experiments, collecting data,and drawing appropriate conclusions. They analyzed how each skill was taught through thecurriculum and concluded that project work and laboratories were especially important atreinforcing these skills. Finally, Gross et al. investigated a guided inquiry activity to preparestudents for careers in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, specifically focusing onhelping students relate their knowledge and experiences to business needs
whole is coordinated by the Integrated DesignEngineering Program, which supplies instructors for a number of the sections. In addition,majors that require the course for their students supply instructors for 1 to 5 sections of thecourse per year. Within each section of the course the enrollment typically ranges from 20 to 30students.In the FYED course, engineering students solve real engineering design problems utilizing theengineering design process. The course is interdisciplinary and focuses on the iterative designprocess, team dynamics and teamwork, testing and analysis, presentation skills and technicalwriting. All sections complete one to two introductory projects at the beginning of the semester,and then one “main” project. The course
towards STEAM and STEM fields by showcasing how those skills impact the current project in real-world ways that people can understand and be involved in. As part of a university that is focused on supporting the 21st century student demographic he continues to innovate and research on how we can design new methods of learning to educate both our students and communities on how STEM and STEAM make up a large part of that vision and our future.Mrs. Herminia Hemmitt, University of Texas, El Paso Mrs. Herminia Hemmitt is part of the Learning Environments team in Academic Technologies at The University of Texas at El Paso. She is responsible for coordinating classroom technology upgrades and implementations to ensure
uninteresting, dry, or even “soft”. The IoT, on theThe course’s second segment introduces software engineering other hand is tactile, hands-on by nature, seen as “hard”practices, again primarily via hands-on practical tutorials. In engineering, and engaging to today’s students because they canthe third segment of the course, the students conceive of, immediately relate to the applications they create.design, and implement a project that uses the technologies Our concern is that early
Faculty of Technology, Makerere University. He holds B.Sc. (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering, M.Sc. (Hons.) in Radio Engineering, PhD (Technical) in Electrical Communications Engineering. Presently he is the Deputy Dean (Finance & Administration), Head of Engineering Mathematics and a Member of the University Senate. He is the Principal Investigator on the iLabs (iLabs@Mak) Project, Faculty Mentor on the Vehicle Design Summit (VDS) Project, and Team Leader on the Academic Records Management System (ARMS) Project, all at Makerere University. His Research areas include Information Communications Technology (ICT), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Mathematical
concepts. This paper focuses on the fundamental purpose of thisprogram and the preparation to implement it. The Motivation section describes the objectives ofthis program. It details the different tasks initiated to achieve the objectives. It states the variousassessment activities developed and implemented to track the progress of the project. The sectiontwo “Assessment” analyses the results of the surveys. It explains how the students were assessedin order to understand their academic background, their goals, their expectations from the lab andtheir idea of an ideal mentor. Extensive surveys have proved to be an appropriate groundwork forimplementation of the pilot program launched in Fall 2008. It compares skills reported by thestudents at the
canprovide students with opportunities to develop a wider variety of desirable competencies2,3,4,while opening up pathways for engineering programs to positively impact communities inneed. Yet while there is broad consensus on the benefits of local community engagementprograms in engineering schools, scholars express contrasting views regarding activities andplacements of students in communities abroad5,6,7. Additionally, many humanitarian projectshave failed over the years because they do not properly involve community members and donot take into account the cultural, social, historical, and political realities where projects areundertaken.8 This can create tensions between the needs of university programs and theirpartner communities, which often
, Competencies, and Trust Measured in Student SurveysAbstractAerospace engineering students at the Florida Institute of Technology are required to complete a3-semester capstone design project. In their junior year students propose topics, form teams, andwrite a proposal for their senior project, then as seniors they complete preliminary and detaileddesign, then fabricate and test their system. Their efforts culminate in a Student DesignShowcase, where industry participants judge the final projects. Many students identify thecapstone design project as the most significant event in their academic career. In this paper wedescribe changes made in the aerospace engineering capstone curriculum during the 2016-2017season and
with the education of undergraduate engineers. In her courses, she employs active learning techniques and project-based learning. Her previous education research, also at Stanford, focused on the role of cultural capital in science education. Her current interests include engi- neering students’ development of social responsibility and the impact of students’ backgrounds in their formation as engineers.Dr. Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines Jessica M. Smith is Associate Professor in the Engineering, Design & Society Division at the Colorado School of Mines and Co-Director of Humanitarian Engineering. She is an anthropologist with two major research areas: 1) the sociocultural dynamics of extractive and
Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.Mr. Julius Omokiniovo Ejenavi, Morgan State University Julius Ejenavi Descriptive Bio: Julius Ejenavi is currently a full time graduate student at Morgan State University. Mr. Ejenavi is presently working on his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering specializing in wireless communications.He received his Undergraduate Degree with Honors in Engineering with an Electrical Engineering Specialization from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) in Decem- ber 2013. In his Senior Design Project,Mr. Ejenavi worked in a team to design a Data Acquisition System for Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) Setup.At Morgan State University, Mr. Ejenavi worked on
Techniques.Ms. Petra Nikol, Technische Universit¨at Berlin - Working at the Centre for Continuing Scientific Education and Cooperation at TU Berlin - since 2012: project coordinator of tu wimi plus (a program for the development of change agents to improve the quality of teaching and learning at TU Berlin) Page 26.402.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Continuing Education and Training of Academic (Teaching) Staff and (Teaching) Change Agents for Engineering Education: Concept and Program for
perspective of a given field by: introducingfundamental engineering theory, examining historical/innovative design examples, as well asengaging students in hands-on laboratory and project activities. Students can select from any ofthe ES 0093 offerings; however, many utilize this opportunity to sample their intended major, orfor those who are undecided, to investigate one of many potential engineering options at theuniversity.The initial offering of Design of the Built Environment (hereafter “DBE”) in Fall 2015 wasintended to fill a void in the first year curriculum, as there was no structural engineering ES 0093option provided in Fall 2014 and offerings in prior years emphasized specialized topic areas ofbridge engineering or structural art. The DBE
to BIM. This research aims to answer that question through theuse of a Delphi panel comprised of AEC professionals. The panel consists of members with thefollowing qualifications: a minimum of eight years industry or academic experience or acombination of the two, a minimum of three years BIM experience, and membership in anationally recognized professional organization.This paper presents findings from a research project based on BIM skills for the constructionmanager. This paper highlight the results of a three round Delphi study that identified skills andcompetencies in the following areas related to construction management: cost, scheduling andcontrol, project administration, contract documents, and other skills that were not in
to acurriculum that is already in place. Universities that are adding new traditional engineeringmajors to their undergraduate offerings do not face that difficulty since they have the flexibilityto design the curriculum in a way in which ST/SE education is built in rather than added on.In the case of mechanical engineering undergraduate programs, an existing course that focuseson the process followed to design and develop new products is a logical choice to includefundamental ST/SE concepts. Some of the authors of this paper were involved in a project aimedat incorporating selected ST/SE topics in sophomore-level product design and developmentcourse offered at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology [18-20]. While the overallresults
SERVICE LEARNING ORIENTED PRE-ENGINEERING PROGRAMS AND THEIR IMPACT ON NON-TRADITIONAL ENGINEERING STUDENTSAbstractThis paper describes and analyzes a new program implemented by Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB), JETS, Westlake High School (Atlanta, GA), and the Georgia Institute ofTechnology that introduces pre-college students to the field of engineering through the use ofEWB-focused service learning engineering activities. This initiative differs from other highschool engineering programs that emphasize competitions in that it highlights importantengineering design concepts by rooting the students’ motivation in the desire to help those inneed. This emphasis on engineering-themed service projects allows for real
AC 2012-3714: LESSONS LEARNED FROM STARTING AN SAE BAJAPROGRAM IN A SMALL LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGEDr. David Che, Geneva College David Che has been an Associate Professor of mechanical engineering at Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Penn., since 2008. He currently is also the Director of the Pinkerton Center for Technology Development at Geneva College. He received his B.S.E in precision engineering from Harbin Institute of Technol- ogy, P. R. China, his M.S in mechanical engineering from Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, and Ph.D in mechanical engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. He worked as a se- nior research/project engineer at General Motors Corporation from 1997-2005. He also served as
decision-making process that studentscan adapt and implementin their own projects. We have also created methods of assessment to determine how muchprogress students make in their moral decision-making abilities and in their ability to identify,characterize, and reflect on the specific ethical issues they encounter in their project work. Tothis end we have created reflection questions, lectures, workshops, and an assessment instrument. Page 15.763.3As with all curriculum development, these tools are continually updated as we learn more aboutthem, but our data so far suggest these tools have enabled us to be effective in our task ofteaching
seekingfunding for the project was to increase the number of underrepresented minority studentsin graduate school and to serve as a model for diversity within the University ofMichigan community and the nation as a whole.The ERC has been very successful in involving young and promising cadres ofunderrepresented minority undergraduate students in this summer research experience,introducing them to the rigors of graduate school, and later, watching their graduateschool applications arrive. The key elements to the success of the REU program in theERC/RMS are: a team research project in reconfigurable manufacturing, a series ofworkshops, and a graduate school/GRE preparation program.IntroductionThe National Science Foundation (NSF) funds a large number of
Document: 2004-1744 Writing Self-Assessment for First-Year Engineering Students: Initial Findings Chris Leslie, Elisa Linsky, Gunter Georgi Polytechnic UniversitySeeking to understand what and how students are learning about writing in its first-yearengineering course, we have implemented an assessment project for Polytechnic University’score engineering course. Building on an innovative Writing Consultant program that already wasimplemented for EG 1004, Introduction to Engineering and Design, the assessment project drawsseveral projects from English composition instruction to improve the
design courses. He has conducted research, with peer-reviewed publications, in biomedical engineering in the areas of biomechanics, bioelectricity, and biomedical imaging, since 1992. Other research interests include renewable energy, optical fiber communications, and project-based multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary education. Page 22.912.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Integrating Online Learning in Interdisciplinary Electromechanical and Electromechanical/Biomedical Design Courses AbstractThe following paper
Engineering Education, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, Engineering DesignThinking, Global Context, UAEAbstract:Engineers have the ability and responsibility to design and develop solutions that can improvepeople's lives, solve pressing problems, and make the world a better place. Real-world challengesare becoming increasingly complex and global, and engineering projects often requirecollaboration between people from different cultures.Global engineering is a general engineering course required by all engineering students. Thecourse focuses on designing and developing engineering solutions to real-world problems in aglobal context. In spring 2024, the course was offered in an innovative way, with a lecture-basedpart and a hands-on laboratory part. The
with little to noprior data science, computing, or math background. Courses use both synchronous andasynchronous delivery methods to maximize learner flexibility while providing opportunities toengage in real time with instructors and peers. All courses emphasize projects to provideopportunities for learners to apply courses concepts to real-world problems. A terminal 2-semester capstone course incorporates all three disciplines into a final culminating team project.This paper will focus on the conceptualization of the computer science (CS) portion of thecurriculum. As an applied master’s program, much of the CS curriculum takes inspiration fromindustry frameworks such as CRISP-DM and Agile project management to contextualizeconcepts. The
Education, 2024 Enabling K-14 Educators in Developing and Deploying Advanced Manufacturing CurriculaAbstractManufacturing is undergoing rapid changes due to the demands of product complexity and variety,and therefore factories are demanded to become smarter and more efficient. This transformationis known as advanced manufacturing and will require a new generation of skilled employees. Thereis a huge lack of qualified personnel in advanced manufacturing stemming from a lack of studentinterest compounded with a lack of experienced teachers who usually motivate students. Thispaper describes the findings of an NSF RET project at an US university that successfully addressesthe common need to produce STEM graduates in the
collaborating with the University of ColoradoDenver (UCD) and Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in the UrbanSTEM Collaboratory project since 2018. This NSF-funded project supports academically talentedstudents with demonstrated financial need from the colleges/schools of engineering at the threeinstitutions. The main goals of this project are increasing the recruitment, retention, success, andgraduation rates of students and implementing strategies contributing to student academic success,development of STEM identity, and workforce readiness.In this project, the UofM has supported more than 50 engineering and mathematics students sincethe academic year 2019-2020. This paper presents participation data, outcomes, and impacts
largepart, the story of failures, both imminent and actual, and of the changes to designs, standards andprocedures made as the result of timely interventions or forensic analyses. In addition totechnical issues, concepts such as professional and ethical responsibility are highlighted byfailure cases. Pilot studies have been carried out over several semesters to assess the use offailure case studies in civil engineering and engineering mechanics courses at Cleveland StateUniversity under an earlier NSF project. Student learning has been assessed through surveys aswell as focus groups, led by researchers from the Cleveland State University College ofEducation and Human Services. Students were asked specifically about the technical lessonslearned, as
Page 15.1299.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 UNIVERSITY AND URBAN HIGH SCHOOLS TEAM TO USE LEGO ROBOTS TO TEACH PHYSICSAbstractUnder a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Teachers1, project leadersa the University of Cincinnati, College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) recruited sixhigh school science and math teachers teaching in low income urban schools. The schools thatwere selected had less than $200 per school year for equipment and the classes were usually 26-30 students. Some of the goals of this RET effort were to provide a better understanding of therole of engineers in industry and society, expose teachers to university research and itsapplication in
Paper ID #10095Satellite Design for Undergraduate Senior CapstoneMr. Joseph Thomas Emison, Taylor University Joseph Emison is a Senior Engineering Physics Major at Taylor University. From spring 2013 to present he has served as the Project Engineer and VLF/E-Field Sensing Lead of the Taylor University ELEO-Sat nanosatellite in the Air Force Research Lab’s University Nanosatellite Program competition. Joseph will graduate in December 2014 and eager to continue doing research, whether in graduate school or industry.Miss Kate Yoshino, Taylor University Kate Yoshino is a junior at Taylor University studying Engineering
Paper ID #7162Spectra of Learning Through Service ProgramsDr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder Dr. Angela Bielefeldt, P.E., is a professor and associate chair for Undergraduate Education in the De- partment of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She began integrating service-learning projects into her senior capstone design course for environmental engineering in 2001.Prof. Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University Kurt Paterson is a associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, but also director of Michi- gan Tech’s
Paper ID #41460Promoting Diversity in Welding Engineering Technology through the Mediumof ArtDr. Mary Foss, Weber State University Dr. Mary Foss is an Associate Professor in the Department of Manufacturing Systems Engineering. With a background in industry, she saw a disconnect between classroom learning and the real-world experience she needed once joining the workforce in the Aerospace Engineering industry. As a result of her industry experience she incorporates project-based learning throughout her curriculum and service and scholarship interests as a means of developing skills in problem solving, engagement, and