Paper ID #24469Evaluating the Perceived Value of a First-Year Engineering ExperienceDr. Todd France, Ohio Northern University Todd France is the director of Ohio Northern University’s Engineering Education program, which strives to prepare engineering educators for the 7-12 grade levels. Dr. France is also heavily involved in de- veloping and facilitating the Introduction to Engineering course sequence at ONU. He earned his PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder where his research focused on pre-engineering education and project-based learning.Brittney Lynn Masters, Ohio Northern University Brittney Masters is
AC 2007-2391: A CASE STUDY ON THE USE OF SEMINARS IN ENGINEERINGCOURSES - A COMPARISON BETWEEN A GRADUATE AND ANUNDERGRADUATE COURSEJ. Cunha, University of Alberta Page 12.11.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A Case Study on the Use of Seminars in Engineering Courses A Comparison Between a Graduate and an Undergraduate CourseAbstractThis paper presents comparison of results obtained in two distinct courses, one graduate andone undergraduate, where engineering economy was one of the main components of thecourse.The graduate course is the advanced version of the undergraduate course. In both it was usedthe same methodology of assigning projects that
AC 2007-2802: STUDENT FEEDBACK AND LESSONS LEARNED FROM ADDINGLABORATORY EXPERIENCES TO THE REINFORCED CONCRETE DESIGNCOURSEMicah Hale, University of ArkansasSeamus Freyne, Manhattan CollegeStephan Durham, University of Colorado at Denver Page 12.1311.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Student Feedback and Lessons Learned from Adding Laboratory Experiences to the Reinforced Concrete Design CourseAbstractIn an effort to demonstrate lecture course material, a class project was added to the seniorlevel Reinforced Concrete Design course that incorporated beam testing. The concept ofbeam testing is not new. Many universities test reinforced concrete
years of teaching experience in the fields/subjects of photovoltaics, fuel cells and batteries with over 50 journal and conference publications/presentations. Page 13.220.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Arizona -Texas Consortium for Alternative and Renewable Energy TechnologiesAbstract The focus of the Arizona–Texas Consortium for Alternative and Renewable EnergyTechnologies is to meet the workforce needs of our national energy, transportation, andelectronic industries. The project intends to establish an educational consortium throughcollaboration between
engineering and advised capstone design projects within the robotics and automation option. He received his PhD and M.S. degrees from Purdue University, both in electrical engineering. He received his BS in electrical and electronics engineering from Middle East Technical University. Dr. Padir currently teaches undergraduate robotics engineering courses at WPI, advises student projects and participates in curriculum development activities for WPI's robotics engineering BS degree. Page 14.428.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Designing an Undergraduate Robotics Engineering
years of teaching experience in the fields/subjects of photovoltaics, fuel cells and batteries with over 50 journal and conference publications/presentations. Page 14.232.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Arizona -Texas Consortium for Alternative and Renewable Energy TechnologiesAbstract The focus of the Arizona–Texas Consortium for Alternative and Renewable EnergyTechnologies is to meet the workforce needs of our national energy, transportation, andelectronic industries. The project intends to establish an educational consortium throughcollaboration between
real world, the challenge of teamingmust be met in a highly cross-disciplinary environment. Problems that were discovered in introducing undergraduate engineering students to cross-disciplinaryteaming with students in business and industrial design programs are reported in this paper. The use of productdesign as a focus of team activity was believed initially to be a good vehicle for preparing students fromseveral different disciplines to perform on highly cross-disciplinary senior design project teams. The results of the initial offering of an introductory course are summarized and their implications forundergraduate engineering education are presented.Background The Thomas Walter Center for Technology Management was
AC 2009-169: THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ANEXPANDED CAPSTONE DESIGN EXPERIENCE BY REPLACING ANINTERNSHIP COURSEE. Delbert Horton, Texas A&M University, Commerce E.DELBERT HORTON, Ph.D., P.E., Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering. Dr. Horton teaches a variety of engineering courses, including: Industrial Operations Research courses, Industrial Capstone System Design, and a Project Management course. He has over 38 years experience in academia and in product development and manufacturing, and intelligence systems development and integration for U.S. Government agencies. His experience includes various engineering development and management, and consulting roles at
at Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractIn this paper we describe curriculum development in hydrogen and fuel cells at MichiganTechnological University. The cornerstone of the curriculum is the Alternative FuelsGroup Enterprise, in which students can enroll in project-based courses as electives ortowards the Enterprise Minor. In addition, we are developing additional materials toenhance the educational experience for chemical, mechanical, and electrical engineeringstudents. Features of this curriculum include: ≠ Development of courses specifically related to hydrogen technology for undergraduate and graduate students o Hydrogen as an Energy Carrier: This is an introductory course that overviews
Department. Ms. Miller is a PE and a LEED AP. Page 14.660.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Greening the CapstoneAbstractThe Senior Design Project course at George Mason University provides a capstone designexperience that integrates the fundamental knowledge employed by a contemporary civilengineering design team in areas such as land use planning, transportation design, water andsewerage management, grading and storm water design, site analyses and layout, and economic,environmental and regulatory restrictions. In response to the growing need for civil engineerswith a solid foundation in
demand. The most salient feature of PCM rests in the multiple curricular configurations that result from the use of four interrelated and parallel designs for organizing curriculum: Core, Practice, Connections, and Identity. The four parallels offer opportunities to optimize student learning through the creation of a curriculum that is more meaningful, powerful, and engaging in the education of confident and competent engineering professionals. Projects presented at past ASEE conferences are innovative because they address specific parallels, thus fleshing out a student’s overall education. The PCM not only offers a way to see education as a whole, so as to identify the gaps, but also a way to
. Page 11.476.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Development of Hands-on Experimentation Experience For Civil Engineering Design Courses At San Francisco State UniversityAbstractThis project will describe the revision of structural design courses, such as Reinforced ConcreteStructures and Steel Structures, at San Francisco State University’s School of Engineering, amajor undergraduate degree granting institution. Development of hands-on experience fordesign courses originated with and was supported by funding from the National ScienceFoundation to set up an integrated undergraduate structural engineering laboratory. It aims tohelp students maximizing learning through hands
. Page 11.558.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Engineering Effective Middle School Teacher Professional DevelopmentAbstractThe Math Science Technology Education Partnership (MSTP, 2003) is one of the NSF MSPtargeted projects that has as its primary mission the improvement of middle school mathematicsinstruction and student learning in mathematics, science, and technology education classes. It isthe only MSP project that uses engineering design as one of its key elements. The thesis of theproject was simple: with more instructional time devoted to mathematics, and with mathematicstaught with current pedagogical practice, student learning should improve. The MSTProfessional
and develop a project with real-world engineeringapplication. These projects were presented on the final day of the SEE program, and facultyevaluated the student performances according to specific learning outcomes. A rubric survey wasalso distributed to students in order to assess the program’s effectiveness. The implementationand assessment process of Vaughn’s SEE program based on both faculty and students’ surveyresults will be discussed in the ASEE Annual Conference.Keywords: Freshmen Students, MATLAB, C++, Robotics, Workshops.1. Introduction Many students today enter college lacking the foundation and preparation for academic leveleducation. This lack of college level preparation can have an adverse effect upon studentunderstanding and
methodical curriculum development and revision activities in thenew Mechanical Engineering Technology program at Missouri State University to incorporate acomprehensive engineering design content. A sequence of five courses in the curriculum arerestructured to emphasize different aspects and dimensions of engineering design. Incorporatedwith Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation requirements,courses are linked to emphasize different aspects of engineering design throughout the curriculum.Students complete integrative design projects in this sequence of courses and apply the theory inreal-world engineering problems. Enterprise skills, including teamwork, professionalism, andrecognizing ethical values are also
projects. His current research interests mainly focus on Smart Structures Technology, Structural Control and Health Monitoring and Innovative Engineering Education.Dr. Juan M Caicedo, University of South Carolina Dr. Caicedo is a professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Carolina. His research interests are in structural dynamics, model updating and engineering education. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the Universidad del Valle in Colombia, South America, and his M.Sc. and D.Sc. from Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Caicedo’s teaching interests include the development of critical thinking in undergraduate and graduate education. More information
experience of 25 years in all levels of colombian educational system has allowed her to work as a consultant in projects of innovation and technological research applied to the educational field.Ing. viviana Garzon, UNIMINUTO Engineer Control Electronic, STEM Robotics UNIMINUTO Program Director ´ DARIOIng. IVAN ´ GARCIA P.E., UNIVERSIDAD MINUTO DE DIOS Iv´an Dar´ıo Garc´ıa is a professional belonging to the Social Innovation Science Park of Minuto de Dios University Corporation as a researcher of STEM Robotics group. With more than 8 years of experience as Professor at the Engineering Faculty of the institution, he has worked as first semester and professional practices coordinator and academic secretary of
interest inresearch on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) technologies. Undergraduate students from 2- and4-year institutions are involved in a multidisciplinary research projects at the Cal Poly Pomona.The REU site supports 10 students for 10 weeks of summer research per year, with the projectsfocusing on research on the Dynamics and Control of UAVs, Obstacle & Collision AvoidanceSystem for UAVs, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, and Flight Testexperience. Another goal is to attract students from community colleges to STEM programs at 4-year institutions and encourage the participants to pursue their studies for graduate degrees.This paper presents an overview of student activities, lessons learned so far, and the
for IoT-trainedgraduates in the workforce, and as educators, we are tasked with bridging this skills-gap. This paper is the first of a sequence that will document the creation of an InnovationLaboratory at Seattle University, as part of a three-year project. This initiative aims to provide aplatform for a curriculum rich in IoT-related skills, and serve as a space that fosters innovationand creativity. The curriculum enhancement aspect of this project focuses on incorporating IoT-based hardware and software platforms in both core and elective undergraduate Electrical andComputer Engineering (ECE) courses. The research aspect aims to stimulate students’intellectual curiosity by engaging them in scientific inquiry and student-driven
acquired bystudents in the laboratory courses, and (2) thoughtfully incorporate developmental skills (softskills like teamwork, communication, etc.) that are important for engineers.The larger pedagogical project uses evidence based instructional methods with an emphasis onbackward design. The pedagogical methods are used to create new laboratory modules that usespecific learning objectives with open-ended laboratory methods to create experiences wherestudents “cook” without a recipe. The controls laboratory course described in this paper was partof the inspiration for this pedagogical effort with several open-ended laboratory modules that hadbeen developed over time. The prior efforts in the pedagogical project have been described inother papers
industry. However, traditional, humanities-based writing courses are often the soleformal writing preparation provided for engineering students. While the humanities offercourses that mandate expository, argumentative, and analytical writing, engineering studentsoften overlook similar reasoning styles between engineering and the humanities due to the starkdifference in content discussed. Additionally, technical writing within engineering, whichincludes published research, reports, presentations, among other knowledge products, isproduced and organized according to differing conventions than those followed in thehumanities. This paper discusses the design and implementation of a Technical Writing andCommunication course, anchored in Project-based
Paper ID #26083Developing a Framework for a New Technical Elective: Prototyping Multi-functional Urban Micro-farms as an Experiential Learning Strategy for Ar-chitecture and Construction Management StudentsMr. Eugene Kwak, Farmingdale State College, State University of New York Eugene Kwak is a licensed architect and an assistant professor in the Department of Architecture and Construction Management at Farmingdale State College, State University of New York. He has been running research and grant-based projects, including the George Washington Carver Community garden design in New Iberia, Louisiana. During his tenure in the
project and presenting that work and student chapter activities at annual conference. As a fac- ulty member, she regularly publishes and presents at the ASEE Annual Conference. Her interests are in design education and assessment in mechanical and biomedical engineering. She previously served ASEE in leadership roles in the ERM and Mechanics Divisions and as a PIC-III Chair. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Design and Prototyping of two different Mechanical Testing InstrumentsAbstractThe modern human society is largely being faced with complex engineering challenges that are not confined to anyparticular engineering or science discipline. These problems require innovative solutions with a
Benchtop Hybrid PowertrainAbstractConcept retention between courses is a recurring problem for engineering educators – one that isexacerbated by the disjointed nature of the engineering curriculum. One possible solution to theproblem, a multi-year design/build/test project, is currently being studied by the authors. Theproject, a bench-scale hybrid powertrain, is completed by our students over the course of fivesemesters. The focus of this paper is the set of electronic circuitry needed to sense and controlthe powertrain. This is the latest installment in a series of papers discussing the project; see [2-6]for a fuller description.The “prime mover” in the benchtop hybrid is a small engine powered by compressed air, whichis designed and fabricated
better place. It is expectedthat TTU engineers will go on to be industry leaders, innovative business owners, and successfulentrepreneurs.The goal of the project reported in this paper is to prepare engineering students in three keycomponents of the college strategic plan: 1) leadership in industry, 2) innovation in business, and3) entrepreneurial success in engineering. These components are all being implemented in ajunior level manufacturing course, CNC Machining Practices. This course is an industrialprogramming course for automated machining systems like milling and turning. Students learnand practice coding, simulating, and real machining of industrial parts and components. Thiscourse is a required curricular course for engineering
Society (ANS), and a student branch advisor for the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).Aviv Chetrit, Minnesota State University, Mankato Senior Mechanical Engineering student at Minnesota State University, Mankato.Mr. Luke Aleckson Page 26.446.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015Design and Construction of a Renewable and HVAC Technologies Testbed “Shack” AbstractIn 2012 the university received an ASHRAE Senior Project Grant to design and build a testbedstructure (i.e. “Shack”) for studying
that approve undergraduate curricula as theclients, since a defining characteristic of clients is that they can grant or withdrawapproval for a project and the details of its development. At a major state university,changes in the undergraduate curriculum undergo review and approval from committeesat the department, college and university level.Stakeholders are parties that “have something at stake.” They can either influence or canbe influenced by the solution being developed, but they are not direct users of theproduct/service, nor do they have the decision making prerogatives that clients do14. Inthis case, we identified two major groups of stakeholders: the first is external to theuniversity and comprises of potential employers who look
Aerospace Projects primarily at the Boeing Company. Career accomplishments include creating computerized sys- tems for electronic design and testing, rocket orbital placement of telecommunications satellites, and the design and building of multi-megawatt wind turbines. His career has progressed from technical design engineer to large-corporation executive manager. His labor relations experience includes Vice President of the United States’ largest professional/technical bargaining unit recognized by the Labor Relations Board. Don’s academic career involves educational assignments which include teaching and developing several engineering and business related courses as a University Adjunct Professor, an assignment as a
-level funding. This project has the potential to benefit not only the CREATEconsortium schools but could also serve as a model to the hundreds of other ATE projectsand Centers. The NSF ATE CREATE Center is in a unique position to develop a modelfor longitudinal data mining and analysis of ATE student technical programs due to itsover a decade of NSF funding, the range of the technical majors funded, the multiplelocales and the diversity of the student bodies of the colleges, high schools, anduniversities in the CREATE consortium, and the high level of expertise of the fourdoctorate-level researchers teaming to conduct this study. Measures of achievement to beused will include progress to degree and retention, certificate and degree attainment
in developing countries. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Incorporating Active Learning and Sustainable Engineering Concepts into a Required Materials ClassAbstractIn Baylor University’s Mechanical Engineering program we have a required materialsengineering course taken during the junior year. This paper describes two sustainable materialsengineering modules that were added to this. Active learning techniques were used to introducethese topics. This project focused on using an Entrepreneurial Minded Learning (EML)approach to the materials course.The first module was about how a material’s structure affects its properties. The class examinedthe materials used in baseball