offer and apply for the UniversityStatus. In this manner began the undergraduate programs in Industrial Engineering (1997);Industrial Design, Economics, Telematics Engineering (1998); Law (1999) and Accounting(2000).The University has a philosophy of keeping a core group of classes common to most of themajors. All the liberal arts classes, mathematics, basic sciences and humanities are common tomost of the undergrads. It is our belief that in this fashion they will benefit from the interactionwith different minded students, with a different set of goals and interests, and that this also willbenefit them in the future, enhancing their ability to interact within a company with manydifferent professionals speaking different “languages”.In this
next year.10) Overall, I benefited from being in a major-specific section of ASC 1000.11) I would recommend the General Engineering program to a new, incoming student.12) I would recommend the General Engineering program to a new, incoming student because of the collaboration between EGN 1000 and ASC 1000.13) What, if any, benefits do you feel you received from being enrolled in ASC 1000 with fellow General Engineering majors?14) What topics, if any, do you feel were covered in both EGN 1000 and EGN 1000? (Coverage of topics did not have to occur simultaneously.)15) Keeping the collaboration in mind, what would have been cool to see/do in either class?Questions 4-12 used a 5-point Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree to
for actuallyimplementing “kit” aircraft into existing aerospace engineering curricula. In a humble spirit,the purpose of this document is to provide a few of these guideposts.Course ObjectivesIt has been important from the outset that a laboratory course involving aircraft constructionbe more than one that merely turning students into “kit builders,” though that may certainly beone of the outcomes. The official course objectives of Aero 572, “Aircraft Manufacturingand Fabrication,” were specifically developed with this in mind. The course is offered twoquarters of every academic year, and the specific objectives as taken from the study guide arelisted and discussed below.13 The course objectives are to provide a hands-on demonstration and
in doing so, learn eachstep incrementally as developed in both Otto3 and Ingle4 . Again according to Woods, et al1 ,instructors familiar with this system state that using reverse engineering “eases the transitionfrom the analytical courses students have taken previously to the open-ended nature of the designcourses they are currently taking”.With these pedagogical ideas in mind, we elected to proceed with a combination of reverse-engineering design examples as a background for a student-based design assignment.Curricular Re-Design to Integrate Design with ContentThe scope of the design would be limited by the work that the students had done previously in
Session 3230 From the Trenches: Killing Three Birds with One Rather Large Stone Dr. Robin H. Lovgren, Dr. Michael J. Racer, Anna Phillips Industrial and Systems Engineering/ Counseling, Educational Research, and Psychology University of Memphis Memphis, TN 38152AbstractThe ABET2000 criteria call attention to the need for engineering faculty to take a broadenedapproach to engineering instruction. Lurking behind this are two other factors that we mustconsider as we review our own
integrate evolving team fundamentals and project management skills. Journal of Information Systems Education, 19(1).Taylor, S. S. (2011). “I really don’t know what he meant by that”: How well do engineering students understand teachers’ comments on their writing? Technical Communication Quarterly 20(2), 139–166. doi: 10.1080/10572252.2011.548762Trevelyan, J. P. (2010). Mind the gaps: Engineering education and practice. Paper presented at the 21st Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Sydney, Australia. Retrieved from http://aaee.com.au/conferences/AAEE2010/PDF/ AUTHOR/AE100035.PDFWendler, C., Bridgeman, B., Cline, F., Millett, C., Rock, J., Bell, N., & McAllister, P
of view to the course with three objectives in mind. The first isto improve students’ awareness of the advanced MBD methodology. The second is for studentsto develop an appreciation for the MBD that will contribute to the efficient and cost-effectiveapplication development. The third is to give students the opportunity to learn modernprogramming tools enabling MBD. The following subsections present the three MBD topicsadded to the PT course, with the emphasis on the teaching approach and lab assignment design.Model-based Design ConceptWe introduced key MBD concepts that are important for an engineering practitioner to ourstudents during the first week. Five basic steps in MBD approach from requirement analysis,system design, implementation
AC 2009-1695: CLOSING THE LOOP ON ASSESSMENTDale Buechler, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Associate Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin-Platteville, Department of Electrical Engineering, Collaborative Electrical Engineering Program at Rock County, Electrical Engineering Assessment Chair 2008 - Present, Wisconsin Teaching Fellow 2009 - 2010, ASEE Mathematics Division Chair 2006-2007, ASEE Mathematics Division Program Chair 2005-2006Phillip Sealy, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Associate Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin-Platteville, Chair Department of Electrical Engineering, Previous Electrical Engineering Assessment ChairDavid Drury, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Professor
a necessity for the today’sundergraduate mechanical engineering programs. At Grand Valley State University (GVSU), westrive to keep our curriculum up to date, reflecting the demands of industry. We have thereforebegun the process of integrating the use of FEA tools throughout the curriculum, instead ofdelaying it until the senior year either for senior design or elective courses. This paper describesthe introduction of FEA to students in the first course of Statics and Solid Mechanics. The firstpriority of this course is to build the foundation for Mechanics. The challenge therefore was todetermine the content without compromising the priority. Keeping this in mind, 1-D Barelements and 2-D Truss elements are introduced in the course. These
Session 3286 Graphic Claymation – Visualization Through Sight And Touch Kathryn Holliday-Darr, Michael Lobaugh Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeIntroduction:“Introduction to Graphics and Solids Modeling” (METBD 110) is a first semester freshmen classfor all students enrolled in the Plastics Engineering Technology (PLET) and MechanicalEngineering Technology (MET) programs in both the associate and bachelors programs offeredat Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. This class is a three-credit course, which meets fivehours per week for 14 weeks in a supervised lab setting. Since it is a
., & Hackerman, N. (Eds.). (2002). Evaluating and improving undergraduate teaching in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Retrieved October 3, 2003, from http://www.nap.edu/openbook/0309072778/html/.[6] Sanders, J. R. (Ed.). (1994). The program evaluation standards: How to assess evolution of education Programs (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.[7] Bransford, J., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R., (Eds.). (2000). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Retrieved September 18, 2003 from http://www.nap.edu/htm/howpeople1/ch10.html.[8] Frechtling, J., Stevens, F., Lawrenz, F., & Sharp, L. (1993). User-friendly handbook
? How many people are there in the United States? Page 9.891.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3464 How many rolls of toilet paper would we consume per year based on the number of rolls/week each person uses in your family?Mind Trap® - Mind Trap® is a game by Pressman® that asks questions or presentsscenarios that try to make you think “outside the box.” There is always some catch ortrick or even
of I vs. V and P vs. V are then constructed (by hand!).Experiment 5 - Electricity on Campus – A Walking Tour of Watt’s UpObjective: To become familiar with electrical distribution systems. Equipment: Feet (1 or 2), eyes,pencil or pen, pad or clipboard to write on, a curious mind. Description: The path taken by electrical Page 6.159.5energy, from the point where 3-phase power at 23 kV enters the campus, is then stepped down to 4.8 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationkV by a 5,000 kVA
, and the few that I had spoken with were very experienced surgeons. They’re brilliant, but extremely stubborn… it’s very difficult to change their way of thinking. I was interning at a medical device company and that was what was more concerning, was trying to get them to agree, or we would show them statistics and they would say ‘I don’t think so’. Working with doctors, or future doctors, they haven’t yet been locked down in their way of thinking. They still had their non-engineering mind providing ideas, but they were open to other ideas. That was really refreshing. Not all doctors think they’re the smartest ones in the room. It changed my perspective of doctors.”Similarly, students also provided
, plusmembers of the public sector interested in thermodynamic principles.This project is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) TransformingUndergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (TUES)program.ReferencesBaser, Mustafa (2006), 'Promoting conceptual change through active learning using open source software for physics simulations', Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 22 (3), 336- 54.Bo-Kristensen, Mads, et al. (2009), 'Mobile City and Language Guides - New Links Between Formal and Informal Learning Environments', Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 7 (2), 85-92.Bransford, J., A. Brown, and R. Cocking (2000), How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School, (Washington
topics such as production design and, mechanics,engineering material, finite element analysis, mold design, enterprise CAD managementand others.As one example, first-semester students initially learn CAD techniques in a basic servicecourse taught by the Computer Graphics department. They subsequently migrate toProduction Design and Specifications where they polish 3D skills as they learn about fits,tolerances and other aspects of design for manufacturing and design for assembly.In Applied Strength of Materials and Experimental Mechanics, students utilize the sameCAD application to initially construct 3D models and then analyze those models using avariety of analytical techniques.Similar to capstone experience, students later in CAD in the
the course was very successful in increasing students’understanding of and commitment to the engineering andtechnology profession. During the focus group, studentshighlighted both the conventional aspects of ENGR1500 withcomments like “I’m a procrastinator. ENGR1500 really Figure 5. ROV competitionhelped me with time management skills” and “I thought Iwould just come to class and start out slowly. Then they[Career Development Center guest speakers and ENGR1500 faculty] told us that you have tostart thinking about finding mentors and internships and creating a resume….. from the verybeginning”, and the new aspects of the course, “I realized that doing the physical work ofengineering opens the mind,” one student commented. One of his classmates
Paper ID #25455Impact of a Modeling Intervention in an Introductory Programming CourseDr. Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach Kelsey Rodgers is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Fundamentals Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. She teaches a MATLAB programming course to mostly first-year engineering students. She primarily investigates how students develop mathematical models and computational mod- els. She also conducts research around effective feedback and nanotechnology education. She graduated from the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University with
& Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationsays founder Johnny Deep. Moreover, AOL does not seem to mind that the fledgling effort is soblatantly dependent on its AIM technology. Barry Schuler, chairman of AOL Time Warner'sonline unit, says of Aimster, "They're not doing anything illegal, and so we'll see where it goes."The structural and institutional barriers which hinder educators from catering to the differentlearning styles of students are falling very fast. Some of theindividual students really enjoy hearing exactly and only music oftheir choosing as they study and work. It is easy for the author tomake music available to them through tapes, compact discs, MP3files, and online
Session 2602 Experiential Learning in Aircraft Structures Masoud Rais-Rohani Mississippi State UniversityAbstractA design-build-test project is used as means of providing an academic-based, industry-focusedexperiential learning opportunity for students in a senior-level aircraft structures course taught inthe Department of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University. Initiated as a paperdesign project in 1998, the project has rapidly evolved into a comprehensive learning experiencewith prototype development and testing as its two major elements
Session 3425 Invention and Creative Design: Getting from Thought to Thing Kathryn W. Jablokow The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a course entitled Invention and Creative Design that is currently taught aspart of the Systems and Software Engineering programs at Penn State University’s School forGraduate Professional Studies. The course was designed to support several modules in theseprograms, including a core skill-based module and a module focused on innovation. This paperwill provide an overview of the objectives and the content of this
Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX Copyright 2024, American Society for Engineering Education 3 4 Simple to operate 4 5 Engaging to students 4The students then utilized various concept generation and refinement techniques such as the 6-3-5and mind map methods to develop preliminary ideas for the exhibit, keeping in mind their researchon visits to local STEM museums. Of these, the 6-3-5 method proved most effective 3. From thismethod, the team narrowed down to a shortlist of ideas
communications will be delivered on a “just in time” basis. As material is coveredby the major technical courses, the supporting material will be introduced and developed withinthe mathematics or science course, timed to be introduced to students as needed.The general approach in the ongoing development of this program was to create a list oftechnician competencies upon which the actual courses would be developed. The essentials ofthis list were provided by our industrial partners. These include: AT&T Corp., Siemens Rolm,York Engineering, Visual Media Group, Madge Networks, Inc., Lucent, and Eastern Datacom.The entrance requirements to this program are one year of high school algebra and one year oflaboratory science. The program is being designed
DIAGRAMS TO EXPLAIN THE OPERATION OF AM AND FM TRANSMITTERS AND RECEIVERS Professor Lance Breger Professor Kenneth Markowitz lancebreger@hotmail.com kmarkowitz@citytech.cuny.edu New York City College of Technology 300 Jay Street Brooklyn, NY 11201ABSTRACT At New York City College of Technology, many students in electrical engineering technology are mathematically challenged. By this we mean that they are unable to relate complex formulas to a physical electrical system. To reach these students, mathematical
Page 13.128.7than rules. Our goal in the REU was to help students become aware of key communicationconcepts that experts have internalized, such as the following: ‚ Technical communication is multifaceted – combining writing, speaking, figures, and numbers. ‚ Technical communication takes place through different “channels” and uses different technologies: face-to-face meetings and teleconferences, slide presentations and reports ‚ Communication is a problem-solving process, and one’s final products are improved by reflection, feedback, revision, and editing ‚ Good engineering communicators: o Have a clear purpose in mind and tailor their communication to their audience o Master a number of
quantities to be representable by a single number (i.e., E =29,000 KSI). This nearly ubiquitous mind set has generally prevented engineers from viewing andevaluating their projects as systems of interrelated random variables. Additionally, the “factor ofsafety” approach to managing the variability inherent in all physical quantities and propertiesprecludes quantitative estimates of the chances of “failure.” Page 1.309.1 ?@X&) 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,+,yyy%.~ . The “Monte Carlo Simulation
approach requiresstudents to build a case as a result of solving the problem. Barrows argues that this approach is Page 8.287.1much more in keeping with the way real problems are addressed in the world outside of school 1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineer Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”As a result of Barrow’s influence the development team from NSTCC in cooperation withresearchers from Vanderbilt designed a framework for thinking through the process of developingand delivering a case. The Case Files Learning Cycle, shown in
Session 2453 Assessing Innovative, Project- Based Learning In Drexel’s Freshman Core Curriculum Aly Valentine, Valarie M. Arms, J. Richard Weggel Drexel UniversityIntroductionAlthough ABET and ASEE have cited the importance of innovation in engineering curriculumdevelopment, one of the enduring challenges is their assessment. In fact, ABET’s EC2000criteria reflect the program goals initiated by Drexel’s E4 (An Enhanced Engineering Educationfor Engineers), a program initially funded by the National Science Foundation. That programwon ABET’s
ETD 345 Examining the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on S-STEM Financially Supported Students’ Change-Readiness and Self-Efficacy Sarah (Yin Yin) Tan and John L. Irwin Michigan Technological University1. IntroductionS-STEM financially supported students: ETS-IMPRESS (The Engineering Technology Scholars –IMProving REtention and Student Success) participate in the Honors College Pathway Program(HCPP), where they write reflections frequently. All reflections are written and follow a “What/SoWhat/Now What” format that instructors also describe as “Present, Analyze
. Introductory courses provide important opportunities for encouraging this diverse group of students to pursue further studies in engineering. I was taught during the ETPP program, that the main goal is to ensure that students develop a solid knowledge base of fundamental engineering topics and mathematical methods.Keeping in mind that the diversity statement had been developed as part of an engineeringteaching portfolio, we can conclude that it has be used for its purpose by all the program’sparticipants who are presently teaching or are still interested in an engineering faculty career.This conclusion is moderated by the small number of respondents to the survey and needs to beintegrated in a larger survey for all ETPP