Paper ID #11317Finite Element Analysis Active Learning Modules Embedded Throughout ACurriculum: Implementation and Assessment of Results Based on StudentGPAProf. Kyle A. Watson, University of the Pacific Kyle Watson earned his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Villanova University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University. He has been a faculty member at the University of the Pacific since 2003 and has taught undergraduate courses in thermodynamics, heat transfer, combustion, air-conditioning, dynamics, and senior capstone design.Dr. Ashland O. Brown, University of the Pacific
Page 26.238.2for water demand worldwide present challenges to scientists and engineers to attain sustainablemanagement of water resources. A recent United Nations report projects that virtually everynation will face a water supply problem within the next 8 years; currently more than a billionpeople have little access to clean drinking water, and 2 billion live in conditions of waterscarcity2. To address these critical issues, the NAE’s “The Engineer of 2020” highlights the needfor implementing ecologically sustainable practices to preserve the environment for futuregenerations. Further, the report emphasizes that water supplies will affect the future of theworld’s economy and stability3. As a result, the NAE warns that unless better ways to
Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET), and an evaluator for several NSF projects. His first research strand concentrates on the relationship between educational policy and STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co- developer of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 1800 times and his publications have been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Lydia Ross, Arizona State University Lydia Ross is a doctoral student and graduate research
collaborative learning is not directly relevant to our approach since thekinds of activities considered in much of that work, e.g., team projects in capstone design coursesas well as in several of the systems listed above do not, for the most part, involve students in ateam trying to resolve cognitive conflicts. Indeed, students in such teams often go out of their wayto not criticize the ideas offered by other members of the team for fear of offending them. Morerelevant for us is the work on the role of argumentation in learning. But, as Driver et al. [8] putit, “[although] argument is a central feature of the resolution of scientific controversies, scienceteaching has paid . . . little attention to [this] practice . . . It is our contention that
results and confounded datain the studies referenced above.The First-year Engineering ProgramThe Northeastern University College of Engineering, following a successful pilot in 2014,decided to adopt a “Cornerstone to Capstone” curriculum design for all incoming first-yearengineering students. The Cornerstone course incorporates hands-on, project-baseddesign work with computer programming. Previously taught in two separate first-yearcourses, the new Cornerstone course model blends programming and design in a way thatdemonstrates the intertwined nature of the two skills. The project-based Cornerstoneincludes occasional incongruent learning of course content. By highlighting the fact thatproblem-solving in engineering brings together groups of
main components: a) thestudent’s computing-related major program; b) the entrepreneurship minor; and c) the culminatingentrepreneurship practicum. The requirements of the student’s major program, of course, varydepending on the particular major. For example, the CSE major consists of required and electivecourses in a range of topics from software design principles and practices to algorithms, fromcomputer systems and architectures to computer networking, from AI to computer graphics andvideo game design; and a culminating capstone project course which may, for example, consist ofdesigning and implementing a set of web services to meet the requirements of a real client.The entrepreneurship minor, offered in the business school, specialized for
., performing mechanical testing and evaluation of scanners and other mobile devices in Holtsville, N.Y. His largely experimental research is focused on parametric studies of novel lightweight composites and simulations of functionally graded materials under load.Dr. Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University Vikram Kapila is a professor of mechanical engineering at NYU-Poly, where he directs an NSF funded Web-Enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Remote Laboratory, an NSF funded Research Experi- ence for Teachers Site in Mechatronics, and an NSF-funded GK-12 Fellows project. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, Ohio. His research interests are in cooper
. National Science Foundation-sponsored SUCCEED Coalition. He has also been active in promoting qualitative research methods in engineering education through workshops presented as part of an NSF project. He has received several awards for his work, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the Ralph Teetor Education Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers, being named a University of Florida Distinguished Teaching Scholar, and being named the University of Florida Teacher of the Year for 2003-04. He is a member of the American Society for Engi- neering Education and the American Educational Research Association and is currently Editor-in-Chief of Polymer Reviews.Dr. Mirka
bestatistically valid and resulting data provide a groundbreaking view of mechanical engineeringeducation.In a broad-brush summary of the Vision 2030 survey data, the industry supervisors’ four greatestperceptions of weakness are worth highlighting. These four were focused on engineeringpractice—how devices are made and how they work, communication within diverse engineeringteams and with stakeholders in the organization, engineering codes and standards, and a systemsperspective. Notably, early career engineers judged their greatest weaknesses as practicalexperience, project management, knowledge of business processes and engineering codes andstandards.2 Many of these perceptions of weakness point unmistakably to a lack of emphasis ontranslating
streamlined andredesigned, it was desirable for each required course to “pull more weight” by delivering morevalue to students. Second, we wanted to “set the stage” for what was to come: both to providefoundational technical preparation in CAD, design, and analysis, and to establish studentexpectations of engineering as a socio-technical enterprise. Third, as capstone and other designprojects became increasingly multidisciplinary, we hoped to develop a common foundation inthe design process, with students from all engineering majors (and any non-engineering studentswho choose to enroll in Introduction to Engineering) learning a common, shared language ofdesign.The redesigned course model for our institution’s Introduction to Engineering consists of
support of the US Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA), a Green Engineering Project has fostered efforts to incorporate green engineeringinto the chemical engineering curriculum. This paper focuses on the integration of greenengineering concepts into the courses in the chemical engineering curriculum that coverseparation processes (distillation, extraction, absorption, membranes, etc). The paper describeshow the green engineering topics are “mapped” into a separations course and presents a sampleof the novel types of problems that were developed for instructor use. Green engineering is defined as the design, commercialization and use of processes andproducts that are feasible and economical while minimizing: generation of pollution at
, - Projects, ME Program Committee Select Student Work to represent Outcomes - Laboratory, etc. proposes changes to - Courses or Program, - Program Outcomes, or - Assessment Process Students Complete Course Survey via the Compile Information into Web SPAD Form
conclusion ofthe laboratory period, students completed a survey instrument to provide feedback about theirsources of intellectual contributions to their design.It was theorized by the authors that presenting an exemplar prior to setting the students onto adesign project could alter, if not hinder, the number and type of creative solutions generated bythe students. Of particular interest is whether the presence of a prototype exemplar contaminatesthe design process for novice designers. That is, does the prototype exemplar cause novicedesigners to fixate on particular design features thereby limiting creativity or does it help them toexplore a greater variety of design possibilities?The concept of designers fixating on particular design features is
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unused orunanalyzed, except perhaps in the most basic way. Dark data is distinguished from “tangibledata,” the data of which researchers are aware and are able to use [1]. This study attempts toconvert a small amount of the information collected by an academic library from dark data totangible date.Arizona State University (ASU) provides an Ask a Librarian service through which students,faculty, researchers, and the public may interact with a library personnel, both librarians andparaprofessionals, through live chat to answer questions ranging from the simple (when is thelibrary open?) to complex (I would like to perform a literature review about the use of electronicresearch notebooks in engineering capstone courses). While simpler questions
had trouble incorporating GL andstandards effectively into their senior capstone projects benefited greatly from a particularpedagogical intervention in their library instruction session [6]. A common theme from thesearticles is that students find it tricky to identify and access GL, and they are eager to learn theseskills. Librarians need to be equipped to help our patrons and therefore need to be well-versed inhow to find and access these resources as well.In 2001, at a moment when the internet was drastically revolutionizing how people produced anddisseminated GL materials, Thompson provided a set of key strategies for finding a number ofdifferent formats of commonly used GL, such as technical reports, standards, militaryspecifications and
[11, 12] introduced knowledge surveys (KS) to develop self-assessment skills instudents. Rather than requiring students to provide answers to learning prompts, KS requirestudents to rate their ability to perform the specified skill tied to a learning objective. Pre-courseor pre-unit of instruction KS allow faculty to discern prior knowledge students may bring to thecourse while serving as a cognitive “heads up” for students of learning objectives and material tocome [10]. KS completed in close proximity to an assessment event (e.g., exam, design project,or writing assignment) allow faculty to compare students’ self-assessments of learning with theirown assessments of student learning (i.e., the grade on the assignment). Such comparisons
course mission [1]. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2023 American Society for Engineering Education ETD 435Improving academic engagement is a top priority for many researchers [2]. Universities and theiracademic units tackle the issue in a variety of ways ranging from social events on campus,student organizations activities, and spirit-building via sports, to providing a freshman-yearexperience, study abroad opportunities usually in the junior year, undergraduate research duringthe summer, or a Senior Capstone integrative course particularly in engineering and
practicedthroughout the engineering curriculum culminating in the capstone design course. During secondand third year courses, the engineering curriculum focuses on analytical concepts and techniquesultimately intended to support design analysis ability. Given the overcrowded traditionalengineering curriculum, it is not surprising that students do not improve their creative processingskills. The proliferation of assistive software for design has an impact on student training as well.For example, sketching was a critical skill in traditional engineering design but the practice hasbecome less important to students as computer-aided drawing tools have become available tothem.Industrial and academic leaders long expressed concerns about the impact of
that this discipline has gained its rightful place in the company ofengineering and engineering technology. This new level of partnership and collaboration betweenengineering and technology programs promises to be a step in the right direction for society at large.Engineering and technology majors both supplement and complement each other’s knowledge andskills and it is crucial for educators to build bridges of active interaction. This paper takes aim atone specific as well as basic need in teamwork and interdisciplinary projects – ethics and itsimplications for professional practice. The primary focus here is to promote ethics education amonga wider audience that includes industrial technologists.A preliminary study suggests that students
mathematics instructors, I wastold that “our courses are taught entirely from a mathematical perspective, without anyapplications being demonstrated”. Is it then surprising that students are unable to transfer andintegrate knowledge from multiple areas into new problems as part of capstone design courses,for example, or in their careers? This ability to transfer knowledge between courses in the undergraduate curriculum, andthen into one’s career, is an important skill that we should be imparting in our students - bothABET, the National Academy of Engineers, and ASEE have written about this need and thedesire for graduating engineers to be “T-shaped” professionals (Moghaddam et al. 2018) whohave a deep subject knowledge - the vertical of the “T
the Voiland School of School of Chemical Engineering and Bio-engineering at WSU. He is married with three children.509-338-5724.Mr. Derek Allen ClineAshley Ater Kranov, Washington State University Dr. Ater Kranov is Director of Educational Innovation and Assessment for the College of Engineering and Architecture at Washington State University, USA. She is affiliated assistant professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science where she co-teaches the 2-semester senior design capstone sequence. The paper describing her collaborative work with faculty in the WSU College of Engineering and Ar- chitecture, ”A Direct Method for Teaching and Assessing the ABET Professional Skills in Engineering
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that two other units have recently been introduced with the expectation of thecurriculum being expanded even further.Biliograhy1. Computing Curricula. A survey of the ACM/IEEE - CS Joint Curriculum Task Force Report.Communications of the Acm June Vol 54, No 6. acm Press. (1999).2. S. P. Maj, G. Robbins, D. Shaw, and K. W. Duley, Computer and Network Installation, Maintenance andManagement - A Proposed New Curriculum for Undergraduates and Postgraduates, The Australian ComputerJournal, vol. 30, pp. 111-119, (1996).3. E. T. Workforce, Educating the workforce for the new millenium, in Campus Review, (1996).4. D. J. Ewing, Microcomputers systems 1: a computer science and engineering capstone course, ACMSIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 25, 155-159, (1993).5
between student action less time for analysis of student learning. Faculty are oftenand focused feedback, students often make the same type of absorbed checking student data and have little time to add newerrors week after week. Additionally, engineering laboratories student experiences that might be important and relevant todo not typically use efficacious forms of teaching, such as industrial practice. This problem is shared by most science anddiscovery-methods or project-based learning [1]. technology curricula and delays integration of new topics andUnderstanding how people think and learn has forced a
-ended questions, the first of which asked for a brief description ofany current coverage of DEI topics in the program. The goal of asking this question was to gatherexamples that may be helpful to other programs. Thirty responses were provided and includedsome common ways of addressing DEI topics, including the following: ● In required courses, e.g., capstone, a first year course, engineering ethics course, professional practice course ● In general education courses or other courses required by the university ● Distributed throughout the curriculum where relevant ● Case studies in subject-matter courses (e.g., transportation access in a transportation course, urban infrastructure placement in an infrastructure course
Ohio Northern University, where he currently teaches first-year programming, user interface design, and capstone design preparation courses. Much of his research involves design education pedagogy, including formative assessment of client-student interactions, modeling sources of engineering design constraints, and applying the entrepreneurial mindset through student engagement in educational software development. Estell earned his BS in Computer Science and Engineering degree from The University of Toledo and both his MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Dr. DeAnna Lynn Leitzke PE, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. DeAnna Leitzke serves as chair of the Civil
; application is about the practice of conceptslearned in class; and feedback in active learning focuses on how feedback to student learninghappens frequently [22], [35] - [38].MethodsResearch DesignThis study is part of a larger project investigating the propagation of the CW in undergraduateengineering courses at diverse two- and four-year institutions. Here, we ask instructors toimplement the CW in their classes in any manner they choose (e.g., in-class clicker, homework,quiz, etc.), followed up by three short-answer follow-ups that ask students to 1) justify theiranswer choice, 2) Likert-scale rating of confidence, and 3) provide comments on theeffectiveness of the question, as shown in Fig. 1. Student data is anonymized to protect privacy.Fig. 1
sustainability offers the only viable path to human safety, equity, health, andprogress” [21, p. 6]. There are strong synergies between ideas of generational equity andsustainable development, for example [22], [23]. Within civil engineering, the infrastructuresustainability rating system Envision [24] is commonly used. Envision has been integrated intoengineering education as a method to educate students about sustainability [25], [26], [27]. DEIissues are included within the Envision credits including the following examples: • QL1.2 Enhance Public Health and Safety [24, p. 32] • “Measures taken to increase safety and provide health benefits on the project site, surrounding sites, and the broader community in a just and equitable
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