Process Design IIand Design III course sequence at our minority-serving institution (MSI), Texas A&MUniversity-Kingsville (TAMUK). In this two-semester course sequence, students are introducedto sustainability concepts during instruction in chemical process formulation and processsimulation (Design II). Subsequently, students are further instructed on this topic during theirsemester-long senior design project (Design III) course. For the senior design experience,students are required to form into groups of four and complete a senior design project thatinvolves process simulation, using Aspen Plus software, and cost estimation of a chosenchemical process. The author has been the primary course instructor for this two-coursesequence for only
Paper ID #20473Green Infrastructure Training for VeteransMs. Carol L. Considine, Old Dominion University Carol Considine is the Assistant Dean of Outreach for the Batten College of Engineering and Technology at Old Dominion University (ODU) and an Associate Professor of Engineering Technology. She has a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from University of California, Berkeley. She has fifteen years of industrial experience as an estimator and project manager and is a LEED AP BD+C. She is a member of the NIST Community Resilience Panel, Building
Professor and also former Dean of Professional Programs and Academic Computing. She currently acts as co-PI for the CREATE NSF ATE Renewable Energy Support Center and as PI of a NSF ATE grant writing workshop project and co-PI of two ATE projects in energy storage and SCADA. Dr. Alfano served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation and co-lead of the ATE program in 2007-2008. Dr Alfano also was the only community college representative on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Workforce Trends in the U.S. Energy and Mining Industries which released their report in March 2013. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020A Successful Mentoring Approach for Encouraging
projects. Now in its third year of continued refinement and analysis, theUniversity is offering 5 sections of the 8 credit hour course (Full Cornerstone) and 20 sections ofa version with 2 separate 4 credit hour courses (Split Cornerstone) that run over the fall andspring semester. Each section is populated with approximately 30 first-year students from a totalfirst-year class size exceeding 700 students.With two versions implemented over the past two years, there has been enough redesign towarrant more discussion. The course redesign has been driven by feedback and evidence,fundamentally following the design process we teach in the course. The data used to drive thisredesign has come from four sources: 1) a survey of students in both the
are unaware ofthe benefits of integrated STEM learning, which involves learning STEM content while alsoaddressing authentic problems. One particularly effective strategy for employing integratedSTEM learning is through Project-Base Learning (PBL), in which students gain real worldexperience in designing and leading their own STEM-focused projects.PBL is a pedagogical teaching approach that places students at the center of learning. The role ofthe teacher is to help facilitate learning by guiding students to essential understandings. Duringeffective PBL experiences, teachers set up rules and parameters that encourage students tocomplete a project within a specified time frame by working cooperatively with peers [2].Students are provided ample
, among others. Several examples are deviceimplants, optical devices, micro and nanomachining, embedded systems and integratednano sensor systems. The recent Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) andMechanical Engineering (ME) curricula lacked inclusion of these elements within theirprograms. Close scrutiny to the need of local industry from engineering graduates hasemphasized the motivation to develop these materials into the engineering curricula.Within the ECE curriculum, a new senior course was developed to cover MEMS/NEMSdevices as well as wearable and IoT devices with Bluetooth and wireless features. TheMEMS/NEMS module of the new course integrates software CAD tools and hardwareimplementations. It is a project-based course where
Paper ID #12970Maker: Candy Crane RobotDr. Andy Zhang, New York City College of Technology Dr. Andy S. Zhang received his PH.D. from the City University of New York in 1995. He is currently the program director of a Mechatronics Project in the New York City College of Technology/CUNY. For the past 10 years, Dr. Zhang has been working on bringing mechatronics technology to the undergraduate en- gineering technology curricula and on helping high school students to learn mechatronics through FIRST Robotic Competition events.angran xiao, New York City College of Technology, City University of New York Angran Xiao is an
the Freshman Engineering Program, in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Min- eral Resources at West Virginia University (WVU). She graduated Summa cum Laude with a BSME in 2006, earned a MSME in 2008, and completed her doctorate in mechanical engineering in 2011, all from WVU. At WVU, she has previously served as the Undergraduate and Outreach Advisor for the Mechani- cal and Aerospace Engineering department and the Assistant Director of the Center for Building Energy Efficiency. She has previously taught courses such as Thermodynamics, Thermal Fluids Laboratory, and Guided Missiles Systems, as well as serving as a Senior Design Project Advisor for Mechanical Engineer- ing Students. Her research
decade will require STEM skills. Yet only a quarter of womenare currently represented in these fields.While at the 2015 Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium (FEES) at the NationalBeckman Center in Irvine, CA, the authors came to understand the differences in thinking anddoing things for middle and high school age students, where males tend to dominate femaleswhen working collaboratively on projects and how this reinforces preconceived negativestereotypes. The authors have combined the USDC employment predictions in science,technology and engineering with the FEES calls by integrating research-based high-impactpractices into a novel two-week long Increasing Diversity in Engineering and Labor-force(IDEAL) summer outreach workshop designed
have focused on learning and discovery in areas related to HVAC, indoor air quality, human thermal comfort, and energy conservation. While working in industry, he oversaw maintenance and management programs for various facilities including industrial plants, high rise residential and commercial buildings, energy audits and condition surveys for various mechanical and electrical and systems. He has conducted several projects to reduce CO2 fingerprint of buildings by evaluating and improving the energy practices through the integration of sustainable systems with existing systems. Professor Shehadi also has an interest in air pollution reduction and in providing healthier environment by analyzing the various
Collaborative Programs, Northeastern University. She is also a member of the Leadership team for the Engineering PLUS Alliance. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 20241Author slideClaire Duggan, Jennifer Love & Elizabeth BlumeThe NSF INCLUDES Engineering PLUS Alliance has 5 Principal Investigators & co-PIs.Engineering PLUS stands for “Partnerships Launching Underrepresented Students”and is the only INCLUDES Alliance that focuses solely on engineering.https://engplusalliance.northeastern.edu/This is our presentation outline for a NSF-funded project that is now in its 3rd year.First, we will address the purpose of this presentation at CoNECD. Then we willbriefly review stEm PEER Academy’s background
investigates the adaption of the Competing Values Framework (CVF) for use instudying behavioral complexity and leadership in engineering students working in project teams.Based on a foundation of other studies that leverage the CVF in an engineering educationcontext, the CVF survey was slightly modified to be appropriate. Data were collected fromstudents working on projects both in curricular and co-curricular settings. The data demonstrateslevels of complexity among example student profiles and draws comparisons between curricularand co-curricular settings as well as between genders. Results show that while there are genderdifferences in the curricular setting, there are no significant differences in leadership rolesbetween genders in the co
having taught at in the departments of chemical engineering, Iowa State University, Ames Iowa, depart- ment of food technology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria and conducted research at Institute Nationale Polytechnique de Lorraine in Nancy, France, at Gesselschaft Biotechnologie Forschung in Braunschweig, Germany and Industrial Biotechnology Center, University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Canada. He currently teaches Environmental Engineering, Water and Wastewater treatment, Environmental Impact and Risk Assessment and Project Management and Sustainable energy development courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Morgan State University. His research areas are application of biological systems in the solution and
Paper ID #13710Incremental Self-Assessment Rubrics for Capstone Design CoursesProf. James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia Professor James Trevelyan works part-time as a Winthrop Professor in the Mechanical and Chemical En- gineering School at The University of Western Australia, Fellow of Engineers Australia, and also practices as a mechanical and mechatronics engineer developing new air conditioning technology. His main area of research is on engineering practice, and he teaches design, sustainability, engineering practice and project management. He is well known internationally for pioneering research that
including the different areas in ECE, faculty, undergraduate and graduate programs, class sizes, and salaries of graduates. Dr. Smith also answered the girls’ questions such as application requirements and curriculum design. 2 ECE-GIRLS 2014 Activity Dec. 8, 2014, Monday 4:15 pm Orientation (Long-Sleeve Shirt and Flash Driver Pick-up) 4:30 pm – 5 pm Meeting Department Chair Dr. Scott C. Smith 5 pm – 5: 40 pm Meeting Female Professors in Engineering 5:40 pm – 6:45 pm Demonstration and Discussion of Senior Design Project by Dr. Mark Schroeder
in the School of Applied Engineering and Technology at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas - Austin, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and a BS in Electronics and Communication Engineering from India. Dr. Shekhar also holds a Graduate Certificate in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Prior to his current appointment, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan. He is the recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher Award at the University of Michigan; and serves as a PI/Co-PI on multiple projects funded by the National
groups and providing learning opportunities to those whomay otherwise be overlooked.Although we have been working toward these goals for some time, our department has beenparticularly active in these endeavors over the last year. We are currently participating in aNational Science Foundation funded program titled Transforming Engineering Culture toAdvance Inclusion and Diversity (TECAID), to implement and investigate culturaltransformation projects in mechanical engineering departments. We believe our faculty, staff,and students can benefit from increased awareness of and empathy for others, and we believethat participating in this program will help us achieve our desired atmosphere of inclusion. In thispaper, we will present our efforts in
has been achieved in successfully chairing ten or more graduate student culminating projects, theses, or dissertations, in 2011 and 2005. He was also nominated for 2004 UNI Book and Supply Outstanding Teaching Award, March 2004, and nominated for 2006, and 2007 Russ Nielson Service Awards, UNI. Dr. Pecen is an Engineering Tech- nology Editor of American Journal of Undergraduate Research (AJUR). He has been serving as a re- viewer on the IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing since 2001. Dr. Pecen has served on ASEE Engineering Technology Division (ETD) in Annual ASEE Conferences as a reviewer, session moderator, and co-moderator since 2002. He served as a Chair-Elect on ASEE ECC Division in
Environment and Sustainability. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Engineering Together Sustainable Communities: Sustainability Engineering in ActionAbstractIn the summer of 2015, a group of students and faculty from the University of Texas at El Pasoand Carnegie Mellon University travelled to the city of Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, tojoin a group of students and faculty from CETYS Universidad, a local prominent university inMexico. The objective of the combined group was to learn about Sustainability Engineering andapply this knowledge to local community based projects. This paper is a recount of theexperiences from this faculty-led study abroad
engineeringcurriculum. The six-week program consisted of four stages, introduction to Roboticsengineering, hardware design, robotics programming, and project development. The applicationof this courseware proved to be an effective way for students to realize their academiccapabilities and engage themselves in group projects. The course was held at Vaughn College ofAeronautics and Technology in Queens, New York. Based on the planned course layout the courseware has been developed as follows: (1)Introduction to Robotics engineering, such as engineering design steps and industrialapplications. The robot design implemented by college students who won the World Roboticscompetition has been utilized as an example in the class lecture; (2) Hardware design with
Paper ID #12608Students Writing for Professional Practice: A Model for Collaboration amongFaculty, Practitioners and Writing SpecialistsProf. Susan Conrad, Portland State University Susan Conrad, Ph.D., is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and head of the Civil Engineering Writing Project. She has written numerous articles and books about English grammar, discourse, and corpus linguistics.Dr. William A Kitch P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Kitch is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona. Before starting his academic career he spent 24 years as a practicing engineer in both the
teaching strategies of engineering project course. Students participated inlearning activities following the instructor's planning and guidance and their learningbehaviors to use a learning system were recorded in the database. Those attributes, such asfrequency, sequence, and association of learning behavior were identified through astructured arrangement and statistical analysis. In addition, those key learning activities thatinspire the students' creativity along with the creativity assessment results were discovered.According to our findings, high creativity students proceeded with active exploration duringlearning more frequently compared to low creativity students. The data analysis also showedmore instances of independent thinking created
rates.To tackle this challenge, a team of STEM faculty members at Alabama A&M University(AAMU), a land-granted HBCU, has redesigned the gateway courses in computer science,mechanical engineering and construction management by replacing the lecture-dominatedpractices with evidence-based teaching pedagogies. In this study, two evidence-basedpedagogies, problem-based learning and project-based learning have been implemented andtested in different levels of STEM gateway courses in the last three years. An assessmentframework has been established to analyze the effect of the implemented pedagogies.Continuous assessment data have been collected and compared with the baseline data collectedin the lecture-dominated same courses. Student surveys have
the School of Engineeringoffice of Student Resources and Services. The Career Launch utilized a matching algorithm that matchedstudent’s interest with the host preferences/job description. Students were matched and were very diversewith majors in Liberal Arts and Sciences, Communications/Journalism, Computer Science, Forensic Science,Computer Information Systems, Computer Science and Engineering and Digital Media. Students selectedfrom the FWS program had no such algorithm for matching (all majors were accepted) and consisted of aninterview followed by a selection by the host office. The assignments were guided by the student’s major andinterest. The paper will present the recruitment, selection, project operation, timeline, management
: Theyparticipants are likely to face in their professional careers, thus explore IBM Cloud Services [2] . Programming interfaces:enhancing their experience and skills in a practical, hands-on They work with Node-RED [3]. Artificial intelligence: Theymanner. engage with IBM’s AI Watson. The Hack-a-Thon not only focuses on technical skills devel-opment but also emphasizes the cultivation of soft skills such ascommunication, teamwork, and time management. By the end ofthe event, participants are expected to present their projects toa panel of industry experts and faculty, demonstrating not onlytheir technical prowess but also their ability to communicatetheir ideas effectively. This
opportunities and challenges. deployment of AI.Our camp developed a custom curriculum to give the participants a learningexperience that is often curated toward college students and early careerprofessionals.We partnered with highly regarded faculty (and their graduates students) tointroduce the history of AI, how it has developed and some of the dangers ofthe increased reliance on technologyFaculty from our partner institution led workshops and discussions onunderstanding and forming ethical and moral positions.The students worked in groups to develop projects and complete assignmentsthroughout the week, with assistance of academic and industry leaders toreinforce their
Paper ID #36784The Role of K-12 Teachers as Agents for Change (RTP)Mrs. Christina Anlynette Alston, Rice University Christina works as the Associate Director for Equitable Research, Evaluation, and Grant Development at the Rice Office of STEM Engagement (R-STEM) to broaden the aim of Rice University K-12 programs to promote asset-based equitable settings for underrepresented and marginalized populations within STEM and to educate Houston-area secondary science teachers in the use of inquiry- and project-based ways for teaching science and engineering ideas. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Texas A&M
Paper ID #28820Understanding students’ experiences with teamwork in the AustraliancontextMr. Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury is a PhD student at Virginia Tech in the department of Engineering Edu- cation. Tahsin holds a bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and has worked as a manufacturing professional at a Fortune 500 company. As an Engineering Education researcher, he is interested in enhancing professional competencies for engineering workforce development in academia and beyond. He is actively engaged in different projects at the
Paper ID #30745Integrating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and theEnvision Rating System to Assess Sustainability in Civil EngineeringCapstone DesignDr. Leslie R Brunell P.E., Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science) Leslie Brunell, PhD, PE is a Teaching Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. She coordinates both the civil and multidisciplinary engineering senior design projects. These projects are the culmination of the undergraduate engineering experience. Students design an innovative solution to a complex problem. She has recruited professional sponsors who mentor the
©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Broadening Participation in Computing & Artificial Intelligence at a Hispanic-serving Community CollegeThe rapid pace with which advances in computing are being made in recent years has resulted inan increasing need for a competent computing workforce. Yet, the rate at which postsecondarystudents are choosing to pursue computing disciplines is lagging, creating a deficit of computingprofessionals. This project, funded by the NSF DUE/HSI Program, is focused on developingartificial intelligence (AI) courses and an interdisciplinary certificate that will expose all collegestudents to AI while building capacity for the development of a four-year degree in applied