impose any special hardware requirement on the external system. This setting can be used in experiments and projects in hardware related courses, such asdigital systems, embedded systems, microcontroller, capstone design, etc. It complements thenormal I/O devices and introduces the concept of IoT (internet of things).7. Acknowledgments This material is based upon work partially supported by the Cleveland State UniversityUndergraduate Summer Research Award Program.Bibliography[1] CNET website. http://www.cnet.com/news/android-shipments-exceed-1-billion-for-first-time-in-2014.[2] H. Abelson and M. Friedman, “App Inventor – A view into learning about computers through building mobile applications,” Proceedings of the 2010 SIGCSE
offered CENG 4097 Civil Engineering Research credit (3 semestercredits for each student), counting as one of their three required Civil Engineering electives. Thismodel proved successful and has been used ever since. That is, students are incentivized withacademic credit for their work and they are mentored by an engineering faculty member. Thisresulted in a publication presented at the Frontiers in Education Conference in 2013 which is co-sponsored by IEEE and ASEE. This project also led to LEED becoming a permanent part of theCENG 4380/EVEG 4380 (Civil and Environmental Engineering Senior Design Capstone) courseever since, emphasizing the ABET requirement for sustainability in both of these engineeringmajors.Also, approximately 50 civil
and instructors withdiverse teaching backgrounds. The program curriculum combined conceptual and technicalinstruction in AI, emphasizing experiential learning through project-based activities andreal-world applications. Spanning 4.5 weeks, the program utilized a structured schedule oflectures, workshops, and team-based projects, culminating in a capstone presentation.Research DesignThis study is an iteration of formative assessment in a more extensive design-based research anddevelopment project. In this iteration, we explore instructors' experiences within this uniqueeducational context during the first year of implementation. This design suits the researchquestions, allowing in-depth exploration of complex, real-world phenomena in a
assembly/Test-stand/Dynamometer/Production control & Quality engineering) Education: BASc. Mechanical Engineering (Oct 2016) Capstone: SAE BAJA (front suspension) PhD. Candidate (2018-current) Research: Automotive composites/Neural networks Associations: PEO/SAE/OSPE/ASME/CSMEMs. Giselle St Louis, University of Windsor I act as the clinical therapist for students in the engineering department.Dr. Jennifer L Johrendt, University of Windsor Dr. Johrendt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Automotive, and Materials Engineering and the Assistant Dean - Student Affairs at the University of Windsor. She holds degrees in Mathematics and Engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston (B.Sc
. Dally, J. W., & Zhang, G. M. (1993). A freshman engineering A4 120 design course. Journal of Engineering Education, 82(2), 83-91. Miller, R. L., & Olds, B. M. (1994). A model curriculum for a A5 capstone course in multidisciplinary engineering design. Journal of 113 Engineering Education, 83(4), 311-316.FindingsIn line with discourse analysis methods, the findings are presented through quotes and passagesfrom the five papers reviewed. It is important to note some of these quotes are paraphrased in thearticles, based off engineering design work done by others. We have not included these citations,as we
Paper ID #43309Board 181: Work in Progress: Language-based Dual Degree EngineeringProgram: Increasing Women in Engineering?Dr. Jorge Ivan Rodriguez-Devora, University of Georgia Dr. Rodriguez serves as the industry capstone project coordinator for the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia. He is a faculty member of the School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering.David Emory Stooksbury, University of Georgia I am an atmospheric scientist with a background in agriculture, astrophysics, and applied statistics that turned up in an engineering program. My major engineering education
localcompany which presents them a technical data driven problem. Students, working in ateam, investigate the problem, collect and analyze data using statistical tools andtechniques, and devise a solution, which they present to the company. ENTC 5800 whichis a required course for non-thesis track students, serves as the capstone project course forgraduate students. The Industry Advisory Committee is very active in providing studentsvarious real-life working opportunities, such as course projects and internships. Mostgraduate faculty members also bring guest speakers from various industries who discussapplications of class learning to real life. Graduate students are also encouraged to internduring the summer months.MS in Engineering Technology
nano educational labs, as well as mentoring students in their senior capstone projects. His current projects include indus- try integration in the curriculum, undergraduate professional development, and entrepreneurial minded learning in the classroom.Amena Shermadou, Ohio State University Amena Shermadou is an Engineering Education graduate student at The Ohio State University. She received her Bachelors and Masters in Biomedical Engineering from Wright State University, in Day- ton, Ohio. Her experience with teaching first-year engineering students has led to research interests in curriculum development, student empowerment and the development of holistic engineers through the collaboration with engineering
approaches to teaching ethics. For many years, these programshave included an engineering ethics course as part of the first-year general education curriculum.Typically, the course covers normative ethical theories, a code of ethics, and three famous casestudies: The Challenger Disaster, SDI: A Violation of Professional Responsibility, and GilbaneGold. Students are assessed based on their report-writing skills, a method that can disadvantageinternational students. Additionally, senior students are expected to evaluate the ethical issues intheir capstone project designs. However, the generic approach to teaching ethics often results inless student engagement and superficial learning [11]. Graduating students are expected topossess in-depth knowledge
toengage with their data or design artifacts using the reasoning questions. These interactionsinvolving peers or mentors (including graduate students, post-docs, and faculty) prompt thenecessary reasoning and offer guidance on additional aspects the team should consider duringtheir design process. Therefore, the framework's strength lies in its pedagogical value ofempowering students to think holistically about their designs and engage in meaningfuldiscussions with their peers.In a formal setting, final design presentations, demos, capstone projects, or posters can beevaluated using tools derived from the framework such as the Design review conversation &coaching tool shown in Appendix A. Alongside guidance from mentors to introduce
-related service and leadership. Avis is a student member of the Tufts School of Engineering DEI committee and serves as an alumni committee member of the Anti-racism and Equity Action Team (ACT) at the University of Connecticut. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 An Investigation of Black Students' Experiences in Engineering TeamworkIntroductionTeam-based, project-based learning has become an integral part of engineering education. Overthe past two decades, first-year cornerstone courses, co-curricular design activities, andculminating capstone courses have proliferated in engineering education due, in part, to thebelief that such experiences are necessary for preparing students for
, show significant growth of cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural, and cross-boundary work needs. Some cross-disciplinary areas withparticular demand, now and for the future, are found at the intersection between engineering andthe life sciences. Engineers increasingly need competencies in life science areas that intersectwith their engineering disciplines. Engineers also must meet high-tech industry requirements ofworking cross-culturally, communicating effectively with all teams across the enterprise, andeffectively using time and project management skills. For STEM-specific roles, young engineersare required to have data science understanding, statistics knowledge, and computationalcapability especially if working with big data. In response
experience conducting evaluation and design-based research studies in complex settings including and community- based settings. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Material Agency with Summer STEM Youth Designing with Micro:bitsIntroduction and Research PurposeIn this poster, we report results related to an NSF EEC CAREER project that characterizesframing agency, defined as making decisions and learning in the process of framing designproblems. Our past studies of framing agency have relied on discourse analysis to characterizeagency in talk [1-3]. However, this analytical approach, with its focus on talk, misses muchabout the materials in the design process, and given that design is commonly cast as
resiliency, transportation facility planning and design, high- way safety, and active living by design. He teaches courses in capstone engineering design, engineering management, transportation engineering, geographic information systems, and land surveying. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Advancing Diversity Initiatives in the Civil Engineering Profession: Outcomes of an NSF S-STEM Grant at a Regional Undergraduate Teaching InstitutionA student scholarship and enrichment program was established in 2012 to help address thepersistent problem of underrepresented minority, female and socioeconomically disadvantagedstudents enrolled in civil engineering
Engineering Education at Virginia Tech with Affiliate Faculty status in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics and the Learning Sciences and Technologies at Virginia Tech. He holds degrees in Engineering Mechanics (BS, MS) and in Educational Psychology (MAEd, PhD).Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she directs the Vir- ginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design
Capstone project in the junior and senior years. EPIC Scholars also were offered study group sessions run nightly by upper year EPIC scholars, right in their living-learning community. • Focused Mentoring: All EPIC scholars were assigned either one of the PIs or another women faculty as their academic advisor and informal faculty mentor. • Community Building: EPIC scholars were part of a college club and Society of Women Engineers Interest Group that provided mentorship, socializing, programming, and leadership opportunities. EPIC scholars were frequently (if not always) the club officers. Under goal (3), transition students into the workforce, the following activities were carried out: • Professional
. As a capstone, teachers developed research projects synthesizing this interdisciplinarycontent with their own interests and background. As a result, the teachers have submitted severalposters with abstracts to the 2024 ACM SIGCSE and IEEE ISEC conferences and will bedelivering grant-related lessons in their classes during the current academic year.1 Introduction and MotivationDeveloping and understanding data fluency is increasingly important given the rapid changesrelated to living, learning, and working in the knowledge society of the 21st century. Meeting thiscommitment requires well-prepared teachers with proper support, including tools and resources,and yet, professional development and teacher preparation around data fluency is spotty
industry working towards sustainability. 7. Institutions develop long-term vision on sustainability-related investments and supporting systems. 8. Development of national inter-collegiate collaborations and competitions. 9. Institutions develop a cross-campus, multidisciplinary university-based committee to promote sustainability. 10. Engineering faculty use a student- centered approach to match students’ needs/demands for sustainability with opportunities to practice via internships, capstones, or special projects. 11. Engineering departments and faculty have early required coursework in sustainability. 12. Creation of new courses and modification of existing courses to include sustainability-focused competencies (vertical and horizontal
) Program: Reimagining STEM Doctoral ProgramsAbstractThis Work in Progress paper describes the development and implementation of a new pathway fordoctoral candidates in STEM programs to satisfy their capstone degree requirements that has thepotential to modernize the STEM Ph.D. The model, Pathways to Entrepreneurship, aims to bringgreater alignment between doctoral degrees and the rapidly changing employment landscape.Programmatic and curricular innovations to the current Ph.D. model are described along with therationale. Project goals are to develop an alternative roadmap for STEM doctoral students, that isscalable, and to investigate pedagogical implications of these innovations, for doctoral educationand for broadening
modules were developed and used in classes at allundergraduate levels from introductory courses to senior capstone design and in undergraduateresearch projects such as REU and RET programs.The project successfully demonstrated that an experimental centric pedagogy combined withhands-on educational technology stimulates student interest in the STEM area, promotes contentacquisition, and problem solving, and retention. Hands-on activities were shown to be successfulacross a variety of instructional settings and EE topics. The momentum that the project has isremarkable. By the end of the project practically all the minority students at the 13 institutions(which represent over 35% of the entire population of the African-Americans in engineering inthe
. in civil engineering from VT. His research interests are in the areas of computer-supported research and learning systems, hydrol- ogy, engineering education, and international collaboration. He has led several interdisciplinary research and curriculum reform projects, funded by the National Science Foundation, and has participated in re- search and curriculum development projects with $4.5 million funding from external sources. He has been directing/co-directing an NSF/Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site on interdisciplinary water sciences and engineering at VT since 2007. This site has 66 alumni to date. Dr. Lohani collab- orated with his colleagues to implement a study abroad project (2007-12
support the development ofinterdisciplinary curricula at the undergraduate level and encourage faculty and studentengagement in interdisciplinary projects that could be later presented at the university, regional,national and international levels. SEMS-ROC demonstrates diversity in research backgroundsof the faculty and includes interdisciplinary interests of all three departments in the school.Research activities tend to cluster around several broad topic areas involving faculty from acrossSEMS disciplines as well as in some cases, from other Schools at the institution along with otherinstitutions around the country.One of the initiatives undertaken at SEMS-ROC to break down the departmental-level andschool-level silos and encourage to nurture
courseof study) (at least 8 units at the 300- or 400-level); 24 units of additional coursework in a liberalarts specialization; and at least 4 upper-level LSE courses: two on project-based learning, asenior project course, and a capstone. Students must also either study or intern abroad, orcomplete 2 additional upper-level courses in global studies.As of Fall 2014, 55 students have graduated with a B.A. in LSE at CPSU, and 55 additionalstudents are currently active in the program (48 as LAES majors and 7 currently on a one- ortwo-quarter individualized change of major agreement). (Two other students were denied theirdegree in Spring 2012, 3 students discontinued the program, and 1 student has completed all of
the classroom, and creates a working prototype thatcreates value for these customers. This real customer interaction fosters empathetic design whileproviding a more meaningful classroom experience as students are able to see directly theimpact their designs have in creating real value – value as it is defined, not by the student orinstructor, but by their customer. In the junior year, engineering students are typically engaged in much of theirdiscipline-specific engineering coursework. Thus, this thread of entrepreneurially mindedlearning is extended by means of discipline-specific applications through projects deployed inmultiple junior-level courses. Finally, the senior capstone experience brings together students’engineering
incorporated theories on social cognitive career choices and student attrition mitigation to investigate the effectiveness of institutional interventions in increasing the retention and academic success of talented engineering students from economically disadvantaged families. She’s also involved in a project that explores the relationship between the institutional policies at UPRM and faculty and graduate students’ motivation to create good relationships between advisors and advisees.Dr. Nayda G. Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Nayda G. Santiago is professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) where she teaches the Capstone Course in
developed Bio Manufacturing Readiness Levels (BioMRLs) [42]. This laterconcentration meshes well with ETSU’s mechatronics engineering degree program. Studentsfrom both concentrations will be expected to complete an interdisciplinary capstone designproject. We intend for students to be able to compete in the International Genetically EngineeredMachine (iGEM) competition as a part of their capstone, a model developed with the advice offaculty at U.C. Santa Cruz, where it has been implemented for over a decade.ConclusionThe national bioeconomy is projected to see record growth and a potential renaissance over thecoming decade. While previously, the economic benefits of such growth have been limited tometropolitan areas, we are poised to translate
develop proficiency thinking as competencies in these concepts part of across fields. and skills. capstone projects System Re-building Design thinking is Institution- Comprehensive Stimulates Approach Strategy adopted at an wide adoption curriculum overhaul; innovation in institutional level as of a design Interdisciplinary teaching and a core component thinking emphasis; System-wide learning of the
(CINQ) which are multi-year, global projects based on the desire to make a difference right from the beginning but requires significant amount of thinking and creativity; There is the Summer Mountaintop Experience Project that promotes student innovation and self- driven projects. The university has systems in place to get tracking on projects including the Capstones. This shares similarity with the nanotechnology fellows program at GW [24], [25].These programs led to the elimination of “teaching in silos,” and the assessment of success was based onfeedback from the industry on student impact. Figure 2 shows the answers to the thematic questions. [VIP] Who manages the creative •This is
, from first-year students in engineering projects courses tothird-, fourth-, and fifth-year students enrolled in the program’s core engineering courses (statics,circuits, materials) or senior capstone design. Classes range from engineering projects courses tocore engineering courses (statics, circuits, materials) to senior capstone design.SettingLaunched in 2014, the University of Colorado Boulder’s ABET-accredited Integrated DesignEngineering program allows undergraduate engineering students to select from among one of sixengineering areas of study (aerospace, architectural, civil, electrical, environmental, mechanical;called an emphasis) and combine that with an additional area of study outside of engineering(called a concentration). In the
-world problemsolving (Figure 7). Figure 7. College Credit Certificate in Cloud ComputingThe majority of the students enroll in this certificate in conjunction with their associate orbachelor’s program in the computing/IT field. Although the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted forsome of them their learning, so far 10 out of 15 dual enrollees registered in cloud infrastructurecourse earned their AWS Solutions Architect – Associate certification and 15 enrollees completedtheir enterprise cloud capstone projects followed by a summer internship. This initiative hasproduced some of the first, and youngest, certified solutions architects in the country.Based on the pilot success, AWS Academy has extended an invitation to a handful of