from the National Science Foundation Hispanic ServingInstitution program in 2022. The project, called Project Achieve, aims to foster, engage, and retain underserved andunderrepresented undergraduate men and women, with particular emphasis on Hispanic students in engineering andcomputer science majors. As a part of the project, a multi-disciplinary effort among faculty in mechanical, electrical,computer engineering, and computer science designed an undergraduate course, Introduction to Scientific Research,based on the evidence-based Affinity Research Group model, one of the signature models in the Computing Allianceof Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI) Network. This 2-credit yearlong course offers undergraduate engineeringand computer
AC 2011-94: USING SOCIAL NETWORKING GAME TO TEACH OPER-ATIONS RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCE FUNDAMENTALCONCEPTSIvan G. Guardiola, Missouri S&TSusan L. Murray, Missouri University of Science & Technology Susan L. Murray is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Department at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Dr. Murray received her B.S. and Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University. Her M.S. is also in industrial engineering from the University of Texas-Arlington. She is a professional engineer in Texas. Her research and teaching inter- ests include human systems integration, productivity improvement, human performance, safety, project
to the workon instructional development, the degree of assessment has been sparse.11-13Our intent is to provide students a capstone experience in which they can apply experimentaldesign in a context similar to that of a practicing engineer in industry. The objectives of thisresearch are to explore the types of cognition and social interactions of student teams as theyengage in these virtual laboratories, to determine the role of instructional design in the responseof student teams, and to ascertain whether virtual laboratories can effectively promote types oflearning that are difficult or impossible to achieve from physical laboratories.Objectives The specific objectives of the NSF CCLI Phase 2 project are to: 1. Create the following
engineering students at Michigan Technological University studyengineering ethics. These same students complete some type of engineering design project. Whatwould happen if these students explored the ethical issues surrounding their design topic? Wouldtheir understanding and application of ethics improve? Would their ability to analyze ethical casestudies improve? Traditionally, students first learn about engineering ethics and ethical decisionmaking and then apply these concepts in analyzing typical introductory engineering ethics casestudies.At Michigan Technological University, the effect of integrating engineering ethics into thesemester-long design project was explored in four sections of a first-year engineering course.Within the four sections
of research grants.Dr. Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)Lt. Kyle Fitle, United States Air ForceDavid Carte, United States Air Force Page 23.1327.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Using Mini Design Competitions in Capstone Courses to Teach the Design ProcessAbstractFor many senior undergraduate engineering students, the capstone design project is their firstexperience implementing the design process. As a result many capstone teams do not grasp theimportance of the early stages of the design process. To help
on micro-ethics rather than systematic impact [7]. Nieusma [4]argues that it is important to frame engineering curricula with liberal education that scaffoldsstudents’ reflexive practices rather than augment by adding more liberal arts. Similarly,communication should be integrated throughout curricula with multiple opportunities to developskills through practice [8]. To encourage students to consider the sociotechnical aspects of engineering design, manyprograms implement a human-centered or user-centered design (UCD) pedagogy. User-centereddesign courses are strong examples of hands-on, project-based courses that offer students theopportunity to learn to incorporate stakeholder perspectives and iteratively design products fortheir
Paper ID #46613Overseas Team Building for Student Leaders in Academic MakerspacesDr. Chun Kit Chui, University of Hong Kong Dr. Chun Kit Chui serves as the Director of the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). The Innovation Wing aims to unleash students’ creativity by entrusting them to spearhead ambitious innovation and technology projects that will shape the future. This iconic facility is situated at the heart of the campus, offering 2400m2 of space with state-of-the-art resources and a supportive environment to enhance hands-on and experiential learning for
Paper ID #47974Using Tinkercad in introductory electrical and computer engineering coursesProf. Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University Branimir Pejcinovic received his Ph.D. degree from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a Professor and former Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education at Portland State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He has led department-wide changes in curriculum with emphasis on the project- and lab-based instruction and learning. He was awarded the best paper award by the ECE division of ASEE in 2017 for his work on freshman engineering course
featuringdifferent civil engineering disciplines and a semester-long design project. Through scaffoldingand repetition, students work through problem definition, criteria development and forming anevaluation matrix multiple times over the course of the semester. The second course is a capstonedesign course that is taken in the final semester. Students complete a project based on a real-world problem and are guided by the instructor and external mentors.We assessed students’ abilities to apply the engineering design process in both classes. In thesecond-year seminar lab, we examine students’ success over time with writing problemdescriptions and needs statements, generating design criteria, and recognizing design constraints.Through repeated practice
intersection of science and/or technology in society, and the theme for our work is “what is good engineering and science.”This is an excerpt from an email that two authors of this paper, Elizabeth Reddy and MarieStettler Kleine, sent out in the summer of 2022. We were excited for the opportunity to invite ourcolleagues to join us in the project of interdisciplinary engineering education, informed byScience and Technology Studies (or STS). This project was an opportunity to stage playfulworkshops and facilitate conversations we did not often get to have, all designed to stimulateinterdisciplinary reflections on what we do and why we do it. We were informed by theories of“trading zones” from STS and theories of the classroom drawn from
Professor at the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder where he teaches courses on humanitarian response and disaster management, international development project management, and field methods for development engineers. He has a BS in Industrial Engineering and a MS in Engineering Management from the University of Brescia, Italy, and a PhD in Geological Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology where he conducted research focused on household water treatment systems for underserved communities. Dr. Salvinelli spent six years working as a practitioner for international NGOs, especially in Central America, where he designed and implemented international
scaled to program size and needs. Using needs-based assessments andresearch-based approaches, this paper aims to improve communication and learning outcomes inengineering curricula. This paper also provides case studies for building an engineeringcommunications (EC) class or embedding assignments that are project-based, industry-informed,and produce measurable improvements in student communications competency if implementedearly in the curriculum. In this report, we examine several institutional examples involving theintegration of EC into existing engineering programs to support ABET and modern GeneralEducation learning outcomes, including modular, co-teaching, and entire courseimplementations. EC assessments can directly support: cultural
departments in theCollege: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and MechanicalEngineering. The course is centered around the activities of up to twenty-fivemultidisciplinary teams composed of four students each as described in two recentpapers6,7. Apart from the requirement for the completion of projects and the validation oftheir results, the main emphasis of the course is instruction in technical communicationsand project management. This paper will focus on the improvement achieved in theinstruction of technical communications and will describe the development of arelationship between the Cullen College of Engineering and the UH Writing Center8. TheWriting Center is involved in many activities including assessment
Education. He was named NETI Faculty Fellow for 2013-2014, and the Herbert F. Alter Chair of Engineering (Ohio Northern University) in 2010. His research interests include success in first-year engineering, engineering in K-12, introducing entrepreneur- ship into engineering, and international service and engineering. He has written texts in design, general engineering and digital electronics, including the text used by Project Lead the Way. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Gaining Industry Experience Exposure During a Pandemic Introducing Engineering Students to IndustryIntroductionThere is a growing need for engineering
widely-used technology. He has several projects that aim to improve the security of the Web public-key infrastructure (PKI) by building on existing technology, and he is currently studying and improving the economic incentives underlying cryptocurrency. He is also interested in computer science education, particularly in the field of security, and focuses on designing courses that build students’ (1) competence in technical fields, (2) confidence to tackle important and interesting problems, and (3) context in non-STEM fields. Before coming to Olin, Steve was a postdoctoral researcher in the Cybercrime group in the Institute for Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University, supervised by Nicolas Christin. He earned
active member of ASEE since 1998. She joined as a graduate student, after working on an engineering education project and presenting that work and student chapter activities at annual conference. As a faculty member, she regularly publishes and presents at the ASEE Annual Conference. Her interests are in design education and assessment in mechanical and biomedical engineering. She previously served ASEE in leadership roles in the ERM and Mechanics Divisions and as PIC-III Chair.Miss Alissa Papernik Undergraduate Student at Rowan University’s College of EngineeringAmanda Ferreira Dias-Liebold, Rowan University Undergraduate Student at Rowan University College of Engineering American
received all of his degrees from Purdue University, including his PhD in Engineering Education, Master of Science in Civil Engineering, and Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. Justin is the Program Chair-Elect of the American Society for Engineering Education’s Liberal Education/Engineering & Soci- ety Division and the vice chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Committee on Sustainability subcommittee on Formal Engineering Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 What Do Students Learn About Innovation?IntroductionInnovation is a complex construct. It spans a variety of processes and tasks [1,2], project andproduct outcomes [3,4], personal
2006-1119: DESIGNING A PROCESS FOR DEPARTMENT CURRICULARREFORMJefferey Froyd, Texas A&M University Jeff Froyd is a Research Professor in the Center for Teaching Excellence and Director of Academic Development at Texas A&M University. He was Project Director for the Foundation Coalition, one of the NSF Engineering Education Coalitions and now serves as Project Director for “Changing Faculty through Learning Communities,” a project sponsored by the NSF Research on Gender in Science and Engineering Program.Jean Layne, Texas A&M University Jean Layne works as a Program Coordinator and Instructional Consultant in the Center for Teaching Excellence and the Division of
as well as other outcomes that are more distantto the experiments themselves; e.g., teamwork, professionalism and ethics, life-long learning,and especially communications. This paper will describe the process of redesigning a junior-level mechanical engineering laboratory on measurements and instrumentation at Georgia Tech.Such classes are fairly standard in ME curricula, and they are often structured so that a newmeasurement technique, or new sensor/actuator is introduced in every lab. Such courses have theadvantage of introducing students to a wide variety of instruments and measurement techniques,but they do this at the risk of losing conceptual connections between the weekly projects. Thispotential problem was compounded by the original
found in current literature as to theessence of engineering leadership. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Programportrays engineering leadership as a process to promote teams to implement commongoals; it represents a series of capabilities and skills that help engineers to accomplisha multi-disciplinary project, which is often characterized as a team-working processinstead of individual efforts [10]. The National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)points out that leadership skills represent essential professional capabilities thatcontribute to public health, safety and welfare [11]. By an analysis of differentengineering leadership program outcomes, one can understand the varied emphases ofthese programs in their training. For example, the
and development of high-power rocketry systems providing the students with experientiallearning opportunities to develop critical skills and knowledge in designing, building, and testingrocket subsystems. Current projects include a modular solid propellant research engine, anintegrated flight tested solid propellant engine, design and analysis of rocket recovery systems,as well as several others. The student-led rocketry lab currently has nearly 50 students, andfaculty advisers not only from the undergraduate engineering programs, but also from four otherschools at the university. The lab has established partnerships with expert mentors from localRocketry Association and with the university’s chemistry department to permit the safe mixingof
Paper ID #26983Emerging Support Systems for Entrepreneurship Education in the Contextof an Ambitious National Reform in Chilean Engineering SchoolsMiss Macarena Ver´onica Zapata P.E., Universidad de Chile Macarena Zapata Pizarro received her Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering at Universidad de Chile and Master degree in Management and Public Policy at Universidad de Chile. She serves as coordinator of the Armonizaci´on Curricular Area in Ingenier´ıa 2030 project for the Facultad de Ciencias F´ısicas y Matem´aticas of the Universidad de Chile. Her research interests include entrepreneurship, innovation, technology
Impact of Peer-Generated Screencast Tutorials on Computer-Aided Design EducationAbstract This paper presents the design strategies of an engineering education research project fundedby the National Science Foundation (NSF) and discusses the preliminary findings. Studyparticipants were the students who enrolled in the "Mechanical Engineering Drawing" courseand learned about computer-aided design (CAD). We grouped students into two sections ascontrol section versus experimental section. Control group students received a traditional andteacher-centered instruction. The screencast tutorials were provided to them by their instructors.In the experimental section, students designed their own screencast tutorials. They shared
this qualitativecase study was to better understand engineering students’ learning experiences in a EWB project,looking specifically at how students participating on the project exhibit attributes of globalengineering competencies. The case study investigates an EWB project with the mission ofdesigning and implementing a solar-powered electricity system for a school in Uganda. Wefound that students do exhibit attributes of global engineering competencies, although attributesregarding engineering cultures and ethics were exhibited more strongly than attributes regardingglobal regulations and standards. We discuss implications of these findings for educationalpractice and future research.IntroductionProviding engineering students opportunities
has been designed to train theEngineer of 2020 [1,2]. Offering a single Bachelor of Science degree in engineering without discipline-specific majors or concentrations, the goal is to train and produce engineering versatilists, a termpopularized by Friedman [3], who can work in cross-disciplinary environments. At the heart of ourprogram is the six-course engineering design sequence that provides instruction on design theory(thinking, process, methods, tools, etc.), sustainability, ethics, team management, and technicalcommunication (both oral and written), while incorporating elements of engineering science andanalysis. Students apply design instruction in the context of two projects during the six-coursesequence—a cornerstone project spanning
Paper ID #11208Development of the Whole Student through an Engineering Abroad ServiceLearning Program: Rainwater Catchment/Filtration System in GuatemalaJo-Ann Panzardi PE, Cabrillo College Jo-Ann Panzardi is a Professor and Chair of the Engineering Department at Cabrillo College, Aptos, California since August 1995. She is also the Program Director of a USDE Title III STEM grant and Project Investigator of a NSF EAGER grant and NSF S-STEM grant. She received her BS in Civil Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York and her MSCE in Geotechnical Engineering from University of Maryland. She is a registered civil
, Purdue University Megan is a fourth year doctoral candidate in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue Uni- versity pursuing a PhD in Organizational Communication with a minor in mixed methods. Her research focuses on engineering education, design, organizational identity, identification and socialization, team communication, innovation, and technology. She is currently working on an NSF grant examining ethi- cal reasoning and decision-making in engineering project teams, and examining the relationship between teams and individuals in engineering design from a social constructionist and social network perspective.David Torres, Purdue University David is a first year doctoral student in the Brian Lamb School
Engineering riley@msoe.eduAbstractThe development of Software Product Lines (SPL) hold promise to improve the efficiency ofwriting and maintaining large software projects, but SPL engineering can be difficult to teach in asoftware engineering classroom for many reasons. The development of a non-trivial SPL typicallytakes longer than the time available in a typical semester, student interest in SPL engineering israrely inherent, and learning outcomes from different approaches to SPL engineering are notalways consistent or aligned with traditional software engineering learning goals. Further,applying SPL methods in an agile development environment can be challenging because agilemethods typically prioritize features and bug
- on projects. However, this newteaching tool is also well suited for use in other classrooms, such as introductory engineeringcourses. One issue within these courses is they lack an engaging biomedical engineering projectwhich is suitable for all the students. NeuroBytes are relatively easy to use and require little priorknowledge. This technology bridges the gap between technology and biology orneurophysiology in order to show students the basic principles of biomedical engineering. A totalof 15 students and two teachers in a dual credit engineering course, offered by the University ofArizona, participated in this evaluation of NeuroBytes. Teachers first completed a pre- labsurvey and then a post-lab survey to determine if there was a need
University. She teaches the Cornerstone of Engineering courses to first- year students as well as courses within the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. She is a recent recipient of the Outstanding Teacher of First-Year Students Award and is interested in research that compliments and informs her teaching. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Preparing First Year Engineering Students for a Career where Communication Skills MatterAbstractThis complete evidence-based practice paper describes the techniques used in the project basedfirst-year Cornerstone of Engineering courses at Northeastern University to address the need forbuilding communication