AC 2012-4445: ANSWERING THE CALL FOR INNOVATION: THREEFACULTY DEVELOPMENT MODELS TO ENHANCE INNOVATION ANDENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IN ENGINEERINGDr. Angela M. Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) Angela Shartrand oversees NCIIA’s internal and external research and evaluation initiatives as the Re- search and Evaluation Manager at the NCIIA. She leads research and evaluation projects in areas closely aligned with NCIIA’s mission, developing research collaborations with faculty instructors, researchers, and program directors who are actively engaged in technology entrepreneurship and innovation. She re- cently joined the Epicenter Research and Evaluation team and is in the process
compete with their built project vehicles. Examples of CDS are:Aero Design, Baja SAE, Clean Snowmobile Challenge, Formula SAE, and Super Mileage. Thesafety requirements and design standards are structured to challenge the students’ knowledge,creativity, and imagination. In addition to providing a meaningful, significant engineeringactivity, CDS creates the opportunity to begin building a sense of expectation and understandingof the professional engineering workforce – specifically fostering communication skills,promoting teamwork needed to solve complex problems, and increasing engineering self-confidence. Additional skills and benefits students gain are: (a) developing engineering self-confidence, (b) fostering a positive attitude about
AC 2012-3327: THE RAISE THE BAR EFFORT: CHARTING THE FU-TURE BY UNDERSTANDING THE PATH TO THE PRESENT - THE BOKAND LESSONS LEARNEDDr. Stuart G. Walesh P.E., S. G. Walesh Consulting Stuart G. Walesh, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, D.WRE, and F.NSPE, is an independent consultant provid- ing management, engineering, education/training, and marketing services. Prior to beginning his consul- tancy, he worked in the public, private, and academic sectors serving as a Project Engineer and Manager, Department Head, Discipline Manager, marketer, legal expert, professor, and Dean of an engineering college. Walesh authored or co-authored six books and many engineering and education publications and presentations. His most recent
foundations of education and a Graduate Research Assistant in engineering education.Ms. Kelly J. Cross, Virginia Tech Kelly Cross earned her bachelor’s of science in chemical engineering from the Purdue University in 2007. She earned her master’s of science in materials science and engineering from the University of Cincinnati under the direction of Dale W. Schaefer, Ph.D. Cross is currently in the second year of the engineering education Ph.D. program at Virginia Tech and currently involved with multiple educational research projects with faculty at Virginia Tech. Page 25.1394.1 c
a residential camp for middle school students; Liaison, StepUP Imitative, coordinate Northeast- ern University’s involvement with the StepUP initiative, a partnership effort between five universities and eleven Boston Public Schools; Project Director, IMPACT New England: A Regional Curriculum Imple- mentation Effort, coordinated program development and implementation; Seminar Leader, Northeastern University School of Education, facilitated a group of students participating in the Introduction to Educa- tion course; Project Support Liaison, Teacher Innovation program, provided support to teachers/schools in the development and implementation of Teacher Innovation Programs (TIP), provided technical assistance to
practices asfundamental to their fulfillment of design challenges.BackgroundIn the past two-decades, engineering educators have used lessons learned in science educationand the learning sciences to improve engineering courses at both the collegiate7, 15 and pre-collegiate 13 levels. Engineering modules that emerge out of this work typically employ a versionof project-based learning 9 in which students are posed problems or challenges that motivateexploration of the desired engineering science content. In engineering education, this is typicallycalled Challenge-Based instruction (CBI). Across this work we see three different sorts ofchallenges: Problem, Design, and STEM-Design.In CBI that focuses on challenging problems students are given large
understanding of business and lean manufacturing. Based upon nearly 100 intern visits to companies, bachelor degree students need four things: first-technical skills; second-lean manufacturing; third-interpersonal (communications) skills; and fourth-leadership skill to get things done (accomplish projects) with minimal supervision.”Resulting Curriculum AdjustmentsIn response to the priorities reflected in this and the referenced prior surveys several topicspreviously included in my manufacturing management, quality assurance, work measurement,and digital manufacturing courses have been eliminated or reduced in emphasis. Some havegotten increased emphasis. The reductions are largely in response to course consolidationsduring
technological risks and benefits.In the area of capabilities, majors are expected to reach a much higher level. Majors areexpected to be able to be useful members of project teams which will design, build, and managecomplex technological systems. The curriculum and the related program learning objectives inan engineering or engineering technology degree program can be linked to a specific list ofcapabilities.With experience, our graduates are expected to be able to lead project teams and manage large,complex engineering projects. To do this, they need the capabilities associated with their major.They also need attributes listed here in the areas of knowledge and ways of thinking and acting.Expectations for majors will be different, at least for some
development of empirical testing methods using similitude-based approaches. This approach provides significant potential for increasing the efficiency of the design process through a reduction in required full-scale testing and an expansion of the projected performance profiles using empirically-based prediction techniques. Wood’s research also includes the development of robotic ground and air vehicle systems using innovative conceptual design techniques for current technology implementations, as well as futuristic projections, applied in the framework of a senior capstone design course. Page 25.752.2
AC 2012-4880: MEASURING ENGINEERING STUDENTS’ CONTEXTUALCOMPETENCEDr. Hyun Kyoung Ro, Carnegie Mellon University Hyun Kyoung Ro is a Research Designer and Analyst in the Institutional Research and Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University.Dr. Lisa R. Lattuca, University of MichiganDr. Dan Merson, Pennsylvania State University Dan Merson is a Postdoctoral Fellow for the Center for the Study of Higher Education and the College Student Affairs program at Penn State. He received his Ph.D. in higher education from Penn State in the summer of 2011. While at Penn State, he primarily worked on the NCAA-funded Student-Athlete Climate Study (SACS), a nation-wide project to assess student-athlete’s perceptions and experiences
and manufacturing. In subsequent summers, two of thepartner universities will host summer enrichment opportunities in Boston and St. Louis.Throughout the week, the camp participants explored the core competencies of creativity andinnovation through activities and games. In addition, the students studied and implementedvarious methodologies of creative problem solving through teamwork on various problems andproduct development projects/tasks. To further emphasize innovation as it relates to Americanhistory, two of the five days were spent visiting The Henry Ford which includes the Henry FordMuseum, Greenfield Village, a Ford F-150 truck assembly plant, and the Benson Ford ResearchCenter where they participated in a pilot version of the new
] 250 10 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 Torque [N-m] Figure 1. 100% biodiesel generator Figure 2. Generator results investigating unique oil integrated in a 1974 VW Super Beetle. feedstocks for efficiency and reduced emissions. Upon starting the EcoHawks in Fall 2008, the faculty mentor (fourth author) met withinterested students and defined a sustainable architecture as the approach to projects within theprogram. The student’s definition of
2000 from the University of London (UK) where he was deputy head of the Lifelong Learning Group now the School for Lifelong Education and International Development - at the Institute of Education. He has taught post- graduate courses in higher and professional education and consulted across the higher and professional education sector in the UK the USA and Canada. His research and scholarship focuses on the theory and practice of learning and teaching in higher and professional education. Recent projects and publications have focused on student learning and the professional development of teaching in higher education
AC 2012-3644: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GENDER DIVERSITY,IDENTITY, AND EWB-USADr. Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado, Boulder Amy Javernick-Will is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder in the Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering Department. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and has focused her research efforts on knowledge transfer in global organizations, global projects, and increasing the number of underrepresented minorities in engineering.Jessica Kaminsky, University of Colorado, BoulderCathy Leslie, Engineers Without Borders - USAKaitlin Litchfield, University of Colorado, Boulder Kaitlin Litchfield is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of
regarding global health issues, 2) increasestudent interest in global health as an area for future study or careers, and 3) increase studentinterest in traveling abroad and learning a foreign language.Course BackgroundThe new Global Health & Technology course was developed and implemented for the first timein Spring 2011. The course was co-instructed by two faculty members from the College ofEngineering, including one biomedical engineer and one electrical engineer (EE). Bothinstructors had prior experience with global health, including research projects involving medicaldevices and prior course-based trips to developing countries. Since one of the goals of thecourse was to create a multidisciplinary learning environment, the course was made
contributions to society shown or hinted?The process of film content analysis is usually based on the intersection of two analyticalapproaches: the content analysis and the discourse analysis. The traditional content analysismethodologies, which is a study of recorded human communications, have been in use inhumanities and social sciences for over three decades23 and are well developed and documented.Their use, however, in this project has to be adjusted to take into account the visual nature of theresearched materials. Recent advances in visual communication analysis24 offer some guidanceon how these approaches can be used in analysis of a dynamic medium, such as film.While the traditional content analysis provides a summarizing, quantitative
. . Page 25.603.5 3. STEM Magnet Lab School Parent and District Handbook. December 11, 2011 . 4. Stats and Test Results – Tennyson Knolls Elementary School. Great Schoools.org, December 14, 2011. 5. NEED National Energy Education Development Project. December 15, 2011. .6. Energy Kids. U.S. Energy Information Administration, December 15, 2011. .7. PECO Energizing Education Program, December 15, 2011. .8. Educational Resources. National Renewable Energy Lab. Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC, August 29, 2011. .9. Renewable Energy Lesson Plans - Infinite Power.org, Texas State Energy Conservation Office, 2005. < http://www.infinitepower.org/lessonplans.htm>
students’ learning experiences in the next section.2.2 Engineering Students’ Learning ExperiencesOne of the major research projects regarding engineering students’ experiences is the AcademicPathways Study (APS) conducted by the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education(CAEE). APS consists a series of longitudinal and multi-institutional studies on undergraduateengineering students’ learning experiences and their transition to work. It involved over 5,400students across the country. The research team included over 130 faculty, research scientists,graduate and undergraduate research assistants, and staff representing 12 universities and sixnational organizations. They used various research methods including surveys, structuredinterviews
AC 2012-3822: GENERATING INTEREST IN TECHNOLOGY AND MED-ICAL DEVICES THROUGH AN INTERACTIVE EDUCATIONAL GAMEMr. Devin R. Berg, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Devin R. Berg is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Through his work at the Medical Devices Center, he has been involved with a number of engineering outreach activities targeted at K-12 students and has mentored numerous undergraduate and graduate students through their product design and research projects in the area of medical device engi- neering. His research interests are in the area of design as applied to the health care field with a focus on mechatronics and biomimicry, and he is pursuing
Page 25.683.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Great Expectations: Engineering Kansas ScholarsAbstractThe GEEKS Program (Great Expectations: Engineering Kansas Scholars) is a National ScienceFoundation (NSF) Scholarships for STEM students (S-STEM) project that awards scholarshipsof $5,000 per year for 2 years to academically talented low-income, full-time students (in threeseparate cohorts) to obtain degrees in engineering at Wichita State University (WSU). Therecruitment efforts specifically target low-income students in three populations: women,minorities, and students from underserved urban schools. The objectives are: to increase thegraduation success among low-income
that inform and influence those feelings and discusses ways to beginto change those attitudes within the student bodies.IntroductionIt has been observed that students taking similar classes in college often project a wide range ofacademic skills, interest in the subject matter, and personal justifications for class attendance,among other things. Since people are inherently different, there is no shock or surprise generatedby these observations; merely academic curiosity and fodder for research by those so inclined.Academic research can take many forms. It can be highly rigorous, purely anecdotal, primarilyliterature-based, or empirical, based on personal experimentation or observation. The dataprovided in this report are based solely on direct
left to students to determine. From the yearlong project thatinvolved seven classes, the most load that was supported by four index cards four inches fromthe ground was 166 lb. This was more than the group had predicted. Its initial prediction was 80lb because during the individual loading one card had held 20 lb.Details of Outreach for the Pennsylvania Summer Camp Activities: Computer-AidedEngineering in a SnapshotPennsylvania secondary school students attending Robert Morris University Summer Camps andtheir teacher chaperons were exposed to the role of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) andEngineering (CAE) in product design and development process. The main goal of the campswere designing and developing animated toys, Figure 4. However, the
may direct their area of study after theirsophomore year in one of four focus areas – robotics, mechanical engineering systems, electricalengineering systems, and civil engineering (land development). Every student, regardless offocus area, must complete a project-based course each semester of his or her degree. The cohortof students was mostly male (91%) with a high percentage of non-traditional students (28%)returning to school.For the study, students were asked during their required engineering project course, to representtheir understanding of how the DC voltage measurement function (Figure 1) works in amultimeter that they assembled. Students were first asked to submit for homework their responseto the following question: Q1
Corporation. She teaches undergraduate courses in engineering economics, engineering management, and probability and statistics in industrial engineering as well as engineering computing in the freshman engineering program. Bursic has done research and published work in the areas of engineering and project management and en- gineering education. She is a member of IIE and ASEE and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Pennsylvania.Dr. Natasa S. Vidic, University of PittsburghMs. Nora Siewiorek, University of Pittsburgh Nora Siewiorek is a graduate student in the Administrative and Policy Studies Department in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh where she also received her M.S. in
students, alumni, facultyand industry representatives. To connect students to the hands-on nature of the EMET program,students in action—senior design projects, individual laboratories—are prominent. The peer-to-peer connection aids in information credibility.The EMET program coordinator meets with all sections of EDSGN 100—typically 10 in the falland 1 in the spring. The 40 minute presentation begins with a showing of the DVD. A brieflecture/question-answer follows that covers the two programs’ similarities and differences suchas academic content, types and range of jobs, salaries, job advancement, hiring prospects or marketability, companies that have hired our graduates, and
identifying the strategic core, we discussed what topics and activities students couldchoose. The negotiable elements reinforce the strategic core, but give students autonomy topursue personal purposes and competencies. For example, students could choose to take thehour exams or they could choose to create design projects or education resources. Page 25.357.93.3.3 Create course structures To present the strategic core and the negotiable elements in a way that supportedstudents’ sense of competence, we required students to create three learning agreements thatwould replace the normal course syllabus. These learning agreements would be
(UK), she is the Staff Adviser for the recently re-started Engineers Without Borders chapter, a group that plans, designs, and implements public service engineering projects, mostly in developing nations. In 2006, Balk also helped establish the German and Engineering program in the college, through which students can work, study, or conduct research in Germany. Under her direction, the College has established an exchange program with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. She is also leading a group of freshmen students on a five-week tour to Germany every summer. Before coming to Lexington in 2004, Balk served as a political consultant to candidates and campaigns in the Washington, D.C., area and for
AC 2012-5108: DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS MODELING OF A HEATTUNNELDr. Lash B. Mapa, Purdue University, Calumet Lash Mapa is a professor in industrial/mechanical engineering technology at Purdue University, Calumet (PUC). His undergraduate and graduate degrees are in chemical engineering. He has several years’ ex- perience as a Chemical Engineer, Process, and Project Manager with European and U.S. manufacturing organizations. Currently, he is involved in the M.S. Technology program at PUC and has managed more than 30 Lean Six Sigma projects with manufacturing, service industry, and educational institutions.Mr. Avanish Reddy Vancha, Purdue University, Calumet Avanish Reddy Vancha is a master’s student in industrial
categories: (1) service consumers, (2) serviceproducers, and (2) service managers. Service consumers utilize the services offered by theCBDM. Service consumers include, for example, students participating in distributed design andmanufacturing projects, researchers/engineers investigating a new design prototypes, orcompanies with geographically distributed manufacturing shops that need to manufacture thecomponents of a new product. Service producers provide human resources in term of intellectualcapital and labor that result in provisioning of useful services. For example, a laboratory assistantor production manager could be a service producer who installs a new set of devices andequipment into the CBDM and integrates these components to form a new