75 or more hours over the semester (inside and outside of the regular class time) designing, building, testing, and analyzing their vehicle and generating design reports and presentations. The hovercraft project was taught to all engineering majors during the academic years from Fall 2006 through Spring 2014. The hovercraft project was selected because it exhibited a number of essential features sought in a design project. First, the complexity of the project was deemed appropriate as preparation for the types of reallife, multidisciplinary design challenges students would face later in their careers. Next, the project was sufficiently complex to require student attention over an extended duration and substantive cognitive
in Electronic and Electrical Engineering (EEE) at the University of Glasgow occurred Page 26.109.2during the restructuring of all of the engineering programmes in 2012. This prompted a review ofthe instructional materials by the staff to ensure that topics relevant to the discipline-specificcourses taken later in the EEE students’ academic careers were introduced to students during thisYear 1 one-semester course without significantly decreasing the instruction on topics that areneeded by students in other engineering programmes. As a result of the review, the course wasrevised and additional lectures on the electrical, optical, and magnetic
providedthroughout the study. An initial questionnaire was provided as a baseline, and following theexperiment, there was a clear indication of a significant increase in SDLR among students usingthis hybrid curriculum. The results gathered also indicate that academic performance as thecurriculum and SDL progressed.Self-directed learning skills are needed for survival in college courses, and are also valuable inpreparation for professional careers. Fellows et al. (30) based their study on a model to increaseself-directed learning amongst freshman. The instruction was organized in a manner thatprovides intellectual challenge that is appropriate and relevant to the student’s life experiences inan effort to maintain their interest. Self-directed students will
Professor David Lowe is Associate Dean (Education) and Professor of Software Engineering in the Fac- ulty of Engineering and Information Technologies at The University of Sydney. Before this he was a Director of the Centre for Real-Time Information Networks (CRIN) - a designated research strength at the University of Technology, Sydney focused on blending embedded systems and telecommunications in addressing real-world problems. He is also the CEO of the not-for-profit organisation The LabShare Institute, and past President of the Global Online Laboratory Consortium. Professor Lowe has published widely during his more than 20 year teaching career, including three textbooks
Paper ID #13796Design of a Modular Cloud Storage Gaging System for Automotive Manufac-turingMr. Mark Jeffrey ZurSchmiede, Federal Screw Works I am a Computer Engineering Graduate Student at Grand Valley State University and a practicing software engineer at Federal Screw Works. I spent the first four years of my career designing embedded software for the Aerospace and Medical industries and took a new job at an Automotive manufacturing facility. This latest project seeks to merge the automotive manufacturing world with embedded systems world by designing custom gaging solutions for the companies automotive parts.Dr. Jeffrey
report that the potential benefits ofintroducing children to engineering can be grouped into five areas: • improved learning and achievement in science and mathematics; • increased awareness of engineering and the work of engineers; • understanding of and the ability to engage in engineering design; • interest in pursuing engineering as a career; and • increased technological literacy.2They also note that the impact in science and mathematics may be particularly significant forunderrepresented minorities. Finally, they indicate a belief that “engineering education mayeven act as a catalyst for a more interconnected and effective K–12 STEM education system inthe United States.” 2This paper reports on the development of an
. There are still disparities in academic achievement for minorities, but Math Jam ishelping to close the achievement gap.As more students choose to attend community colleges to ultimately pursue careers inengineering and other related STEM fields, more programs like Math Jam need to be developedto help produce the well-educated work force that is needed to retain and increase the economiccompetitiveness and innovation capacity of the United States.Bibliography1. Committee on STEM Education National Science and Technology Council. (2013). Federal Science, Technology,Engineering, And Mathematics (Stem) Education 5-Year Strategic Plan. Retrieved December 2014 from:http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-engage-to-excel
, we may be able to supplement our qualitativefindings with more quantitative data.Second, while we have in the past looked at what motivated competitors to participate,we would also like to investigate the effects of participation on competitors after theycompeted: until they graduated and through their careers. One case that seemsparticularly rich is that of the student who organized the Idol-preparation workshops forhis fellow Electrical and Computer Engineering students. Related to this is the questionof how to motivate other Idol participants and winners to become similar ambassadors forthe personal and professional benefits of participating in Idol.Third, we intend to investigate industry’s perception of Idol. This may include
provide advising and career guidance to the students throughout theirstudiesInternships as a strategy to gain professional experience and promote competency development:Since its creation, the program awards credits for a mandatory one-semester industrial internship.Students can apply when they have completed the fourth semester. Normally, our students passtheir industrial internships at companies in the fields of steelmaking and forming, aluminumfoundry, metal and polymer extrusion, ceramics products, among others. Exchange studentstypically go to Europe for an academic semester and an industrial semester which is also awardedcredits. Due to the strong collaboration with the industries through our graduates, companiesoften seek candidates
Paper ID #13880Effectiveness of Scaffolding in Simulated IT Training and EducationDr. Usman Ghani, DeVry University, Addison, Illinois Usman Ghani Senior Professor DeVry University, College of Engineering and Information Science Usman Ghani is a senior professor of Network and Communication Management in the College of En- gineering and Information Science at DeVry University, Addison, Illinois. Professor Ghani’s area of specialization is ’Network Infrastructure and Security’. Mr. Ghani began his career as an Electronics Engineer for Johnson Controls, Inc. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, developing machine code for high end in
years of academic experience. He taught courses in Engineering, Computer Science, and Networking. Presently he is teaching courses in Cisco, Microsoft, UNIX, Data Communi- cations, and Emerging Technologies. Dr. Taher began his career as a Project Engineer for Zenith Data Systems Company. He worked at Benton Harbor Plant in Michigan for 2 years. Professor Taher is a member of IEEE and ASEE.Dr. Ahmed S. Khan, DeVry University, Addison Dr. Ahmed S. Khan is a Senior Professor in the College of Engineering and Information Sciences at DeVry University, Addison, Illinois. Dr. Khan has more than thirty-two years of experience in research, instruction, curricula design and development, program evaluation and
-Gilbert Community College, the award is focusing on expanding outreach activities to increase the awareness of potential college students about career opportunities in electronics technologies. Page 26.583.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Effectiveness of Traditional, Blended and On-line Teaching of Electrical Machinery CourseAbstractWith an increasing emphasis on student learning outcomes and assessment, educators constantlyseek ways to effectively integrate theory and hands-on practices in inventive course designmethodologies. Critics of
project aims to improve the active learning and engagement of the students in theirSTEM foundational course, thereby pave the pathway for students to move toward their successin the future studies and careers. The rest of the paper is structured as follows: Section 2provides a brief introduction to the evidence-based teaching pedagogical methodologies thathave been utilized in this project. Section 3 describes the implementation approaches followedby the experimental results and discussion in Section 4. Section 5 presents the conclusions andfuture directions. Page 26.586.32. Review of evidence-based teaching methodologiesTeaching is an art of
Nature’s Designs,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Honolulu, HI, June 24-27, 2007.10. Petersen, O. G., Kent, R. D., Howe, C., and Vollaro, M. B., 2012, “General Education: Key for Success for an Entrepreneurial Engineering Career,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, San Antonio, TX, June 10-13, 2012.11. Norton, M. G., and Bahr, D. F., 2002, “An Upper Division General Education Course on Materials for Non- Engineering Students,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Montreal, Canada, June 16-19, 2002.12. Krupczak, J., Bair, N., Benson, P. B., Corlew, D., Lantz, K., Lappenga, D., Scholtens, M., and Woessner, D., 2005, “Hands-on Laboratory
accommodator. Kolb’sassertion that convergers are most suited for a profession like engineering and that divergers aremost attracted to careers in the arts is a significant one[7]. His description of the Converger readsin part: Page 26.609.2 Convergers’ dominant learning abilities are Abstract Conceptualization and Active Experimentation. Their greatest strength lies in the practical application of ideas…These persons organize knowledge in such a way that, through hypothetical deductive-reasoning, they can focus it on specific problems. 7]This description provides an obvious contrast to that of Divergers
phenomena. Implications for teaching were also providedto facilitate educators developing more efficient instructional design supported withsimulations or any visual representations.Reference:1. Cataloglu, E., & Robinett, R. W. (2002). Testing the development of student conceptual and visualization understanding in quantum mechanics through the undergraduate career. American Journal of Physics, 70(3), 238-251.2. Zollman, D. A., Rebello, N. S., & Hogg, K. (2002). Quantum mechanics for everyone: Hands-on activities integrated with technology. American Journal of Physics, 70(3), 252-259.3. Chi, M. T. H. (2005). Commonsense conceptions of emergent processes: Why some misconceptions are robust. The Journal of
underserved pop- ulations. He is active in partnering with the Valparaiso Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Chapter to mentor and provide visit days to middle-school girls. He has also worked with colleagues at Iowa State to develop the educational program ”Boomtown,” with the goal of interesting middle-school girls in com- puter programming. After working with the SWE chapter closely for the past ten years, Will was named advisor for the chapter in the fall of 2013. Will has been an active member of ASEE throughout his pro- fessional career, serving as an officer in his local section from 2002-2007 (Chair in 2005) and attending and publishing at national and sectional conferences
the region’s ethnic makeup. UTEP’sextraordinary success is validated by Washington Monthly magazine’s 2014 ranking of UTEP asone of the top 10 universities in the nation, with UTEP being ranked #1 for the third consecutiveyear among all U.S. universities in the social mobility category for its success in helping studentsachieve the American Dream. At the same time, this program is designed to attract students thatmight not normally consider engineering as a career by allowing them envision and experiencethe kind of impact they could have as engineering leaders.The program was initially housed directly under the Dean of the UTEP College of Engineering,but is now formally offered by the newly created Department of Engineering Education
students enterthe College of Engineering. With this mix of challenges, many students end up dropping out ofthis academic and career choice (4).Several active learning based programs attempt to alleviate these student difficulties and attritionby offering peer administered active learning sessions that help guide younger students to learnand to use skills necessary for success in STEM disciplines: Peer Led Team Learning (5, 6),Supplemental Instruction (8), and Learning Assistant recitation (7), etc.). Louisiana StateUniversity’s College of Engineering determined that its students needed additional support in the Page 26.645.2traditional gateway
research at our university. Thiscourse is intended to stimulate creative engineering thinking in students while leading themthrough the process of conceptualizing and performing hands-on engineering research in aclassroom setting. The course is open to all engineering undergraduate students and it is aimed atthe development of student research skills and student preparation to perform mentoredundergraduate research, therefore setting the stage for a more competitive and successful path topostgraduate studies or R&D industry career. In addition, this course helps close the gapbetween student demand for an undergraduate research experience and the often limited numberof faculty-mentored research projects available to undergraduate students in
process: the author must come upwith an idea, conduct experiments (depending on the field), sift through a small mountain ofinformation or data, develop a coherent plan, and, finally, write and revise until the author issatisfied that s/he has produced an original, perhaps even significant, contribution to the field.It is especially daunting for those who have spent their careers focusing on a narrow area. AsRosenweig and Schnitzer explain, “it takes creativity, time, and considerable effort to produceand publish a brand-new perspective,” especially when the author has already written about thetopic.46 It’s much easier to take something off the shelf, spruce it up a bit, and submit it to adifferent journal.But this smacks of “intellectual
on significant, open ended, team-based engineering design. The program’s educationalgoals are to produce students possessing deep technical skills and the ability to be systemsthinkers; (2) capable and skilled in bringing creativity and innovation to design and problem-solving; (3) who are independent learners, able to reinvest themselves throughout their careers;and (4) who are effective communicators and team players in their professional and personallives. The Multidisciplinary Design Program strives to bring multiple facets of professionalpractice into the academic setting engineering design instruction. A key message, and oneexplored further in this research, is that technical ability alone does not ensure success for
.” Proceedings of the 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Paper ID #9967.13. Mosborg, S., et al, “Conceptions of the engineering design process: an expert study of advanced practicing professionals,” Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2005.14. Landis, R. B., Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career, 4th ed., Discovery Press, pp. 38-39, 2013.15. Gagnon, B., Leduc, R. and Savard, L., “From a conventional to a sustainable engineering design process: different shades of sustainability,” Journal of Engineering Design, Vol. 23, No.1, pp 49-74, 2012.16. Zhang, H., and Haapala, K. R., “Integrating sustainable manufacturing assessment into decision making for a production work
is Page 26.996.13hard to communicate with them. Remembering our stakeholders by always trying to include them in design conversations is an important task to do so that they are always considered in the project.The social and personal impact is another shared value of EPICS and EWB-USA. Severalstudents commented on the impact that their work had on their view of their discipline,themselves and the integration for their careers. When I started the project, I did not understand the scope of it. I thought the objective was just to build a biogas digester that would help a school kitchen cook food and replace firewood and
Manufac- turing Process Specialist within the textile industry, which was part of an eleven-year career that spanned textile manufacturing to product development.Dr. Robert J Prins, James Madison University Robert Prins received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2005; he is currently an associate professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison University (JMU). Prior to joining JMU, Dr. Prins was a faculty member at Virginia State University. Dr. Prins’ industrial experience includes one year as a suspension engineer at Visteon, Inc. and five years as an engineer at Perceptron, Inc., a machine vision company
observe 100 mobilephone users, for example, large data sets are impractical for clinical care settings. Substantialsecondary research supplements the clinical interactions, and students are encouraged to reachout to personal contacts they may have with health care providers.V. CONCLUSIONIn the three years since it has been offered, this course has proven to be uniquely beneficial tostudents, particularly those who are interested in pursuing careers in medical devicedevelopment. Based on student course evaluations, participants reported the following in Table1 from Fall 2012 – Fall 2014 (five semesters). Students report great satisfaction with the course,and find it a challenging and valuable learning experience
informative qualitative diagrams and quantitative simulations. However,this tool has not been used in the context of engineering education, specifically focused onsustainable community development. This study proposes GMB as a tool for EWB studentsinterested in community development engineering to more aptly grapple with the complex issuesthey will invariably face in their projects abroad and in their careers. The aims of this study wereto introduce GMB to a group of EWB students and to explore how the exercise improved theirunderstanding of systemic interaction of factors that influence the sustainability of theirprojects. This paper discusses the process used to introduce GMB to the students and theirreactions throughout and after the process
the profession and for the behavior ofprofessionals in practice. How such standardization is achieved varies from country to country as does the status of theprofessional qualification. In both the United States and the United Kingdom a doctorate is the usual qualification forteaching engineering at the university level, not the Professional Engineer (USA) or the Chartered Engineer (UK)qualification. Thus many candidates for university teaching are newly qualified PhD’s without any experience ofengineering in the outside world. The PhD serves as a “standard” that qualifies a person to undertake research. Since aPhD is not a guarantee that a faculty member can teach or has been trained to teach, in one aspect of their careers manyengineering
The degree to which a member's values are congruent with theValue congruence community The degree to which a member feels a sense of belonging inSense of community the community The degree to which a member believes sharing theirCareer advancement knowledge will positively affect their career The degree to which a member believes that the community isCompetence-based trust knowledgeable and competent The degree to which a member believes the community willBenevolence-based trust
early in their academic careers, especially Page 26.1123.16at the first-year level.Analyzing the process of developing Wild Sound using both Herbert Simon’s theory ofdesign presented in the Sciences of the Artificial, as well as current theories of DesignThinking helped significantly in making sense of the highly complex and interdependentdesign process. In particular, applying Simon’s theories of the “environment as mold”for a design led to the discovery of “non-obvious” artifacts that were invented during thedesign process, namely a timeline management scheme and a system of MIDI tonepatches that greatly improved the overall organization and