transport science.Prof. Tamara J. Moore, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Tamara J. Moore is the Co-director of the University of Minnesota’s STEM Education Center and an Assistant Professor of mathematics and engineering education in the Department of Curriculum and In- struction. Her research is centered on the integration of STEM concepts in K-12 and higher education mathematics and engineering classrooms. Her research agenda focuses on models and modeling as a curricular approach and working with educators to shift their expectations and instructional practice to facilitate effective STEM integration
Education 2of engineering courses in our curriculum. These visits are planned by individual course instructorsfor the students in their specific class. This approach allows the instructor to tailor the content andobjectives of each visit so that it is most relevant to the course instructional material. To date, ourdepartment has integrated industry visits for all academic years except the junior level classes,although this is an important academic level to include, since students are subject to at least sixdiscipline-specific courses at this level. An industry site visit for a freshman level course serves tofamiliarize the students with the industries and processes where chemical engineers are
OutlineInstruction has four components: 1) a review of past transport principles (momentum, heat, andmass), 2) a demonstration of the power and effort necessary to solve problems numerically, 3)hands-on activities to learn how to use a commercial finite element package to solve biomedicaltransport problems, and 4) an overall understanding regarding the practical considerations in areal medical device company. These four distinct areas are not siloed, instead continually woventogether.There were four course learning goals. Students were told that by the end of this course theyshould be able to: 1. Understand and apply the steps required to attack a biomedical problem: formulation, software implementation, and accuracy checking. 2. Read the
can result in a lack ofreinforcement in learning and poor development of communication skills. Given the challengeshighlighted above, there exists a clear need for more curricular based, college-level STEAM-integrated coursework and interventions to expose engineering students to cross-disciplinaryproblems, further inculcating innovation and creativity development within the collegeexperience.1.3 Proposed SolutionHere, in this exploratory work, we examine the effect of an entrepreneurially mindset-focused,bioinspired STEAM-based intervention in a core curriculum, mid-level bioengineering course onphysiology. By targeting students in a mid-level course, we offer an opportunity for students toapply STEAM-based experiential learning in a
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disciplines. Prior to the 2000-2001 academic year,both the ME and ECE departments had an independent senior design sequence. In the summer of2001, these were merged by the ME and ECE departments, and this has continued to the present.The senior design curriculum change was motivated by a need to place additional emphasis ondeveloping student skills in product design and effective multidisciplinary teamwork. Muchcurriculum development at our university and others has focused on these skills since theintroduction of Engineering Criteria 2000 by the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology. Additionally, multidisciplinary design and teamwork have been active areas incurriculum development at other universities.Each team of four to six students
and virtual international project experiences.” Jour. of Int. Engineering Education, vol. 3, no. 1, article 5, 2021.[6] Reddy, E. A., Kleine, M. S., Parsons, M., Nieusma, D. (2023, June) Sociotechnical Integration: What is it? Why do we need it? How do we do it? In 2023 ASEE Conference & Exposition.[7] M. D. Patton, "Beyond WI: Building an Integrated Communication Curriculum in One Department of Civil Engineering," IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 313-327, 2008[8] J. L. Craig, N. Lerner, and M. Poe, "Innovation Across the Curriculum: Three Case Studies in Teaching Science and Engineering Communication," Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on
: Learning Assessment, Applied Statistics, ABET outcomes, Industrial EngineeringIntroductionIt is broadly recognized that the applied statistics course is one of the most important quantitativesubjects in the industrial engineering curriculum (Brown and Kass, 2009). Over the last decade,there has been raising attention given to the teaching and learning aspects of statistics course(Garfield and Ben-Zvi, 2008; Dinov and Christu, 2009; Bilgin, 2011; Harpe et al., 2012; Judi andSahari, 2013; GAISE Report, 2016)One of the essential components in the learning and teaching environment is an effectiveassessment that can promote learning as well as measure or certify outcomes (Garfield andFranklin, 2011; Clements and Cord 2013, Crisp et al. 2016
): p. 409-426. 4. Artemeva, N., S. Logie, and J. St-Martin, "From page to stage: How theories of genre and situated learning help introduce engineering students to discipline-specific communication". Technical Communication Quarterly, 1999. 8(3): p. 301-316. 5. Cross, K., M. Paretti, and H. Matusovich. "Student beliefs about learning communication skills", in 2013 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2013. 6. Ford, J.D. and L.A. Riley, "Integrating communication and engineering education: A look at curricula, courses, and support systems". Journal of Engineering Education, 2003. 92(4): p. 325-328. 7. Manuel-Dupont, S., "Writing-Across-the-Curriculum in an Engineering Program". Journal of
how to integrate and teach engineering in their classrooms. Weconjecture that this is due to engineering being viewed as more difficult to comprehend andintegrate than translanguaging practices.Preliminary ResultsThus far one of the teacher participants, Emma (a pseudonym), has taught two engineeringchallenges in her classroom. As she had an additional number of Spanish speaking students joinher class, she created a group with all the Spanish speaking students to work together andappointed the bilingual student as a leader and facilitator of the group. Emma designed a Spanishlanguage version of the English language brainstorming sheet used by the rest of the class(Figure 1). During testing, Emma also asked the students questions in Spanish
-2022, winning the Reid Miller Teaching Excellence Award in 2022.David Lin, Washington State University David Lin is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Voiland School of Chemical Engi- neering and Bioengineering and Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience at Washington State University, Pullman, WA. His teaching interests are in Bioinstrumentation, Biomechanics, Control Systems, and Physiology. His research interests are in the Biomechanics of the musculosketal systems and multi-scale physiology of muscle contraction. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: A Themed Problem-Learning Redesign of
engineering curriculum. Therefore, the introduction of divergent thinking canbe met with resistance, especially if it is not related to and integrated into the engineeringcurriculum. If it is perceived as a different field, then students may not understand that studyingtheir ethical decisions will relate directly to their careers. To combat this, some instructorsapproach ethics from a convergent (cognitive) perspective and/or engage students by grabbingtheir attention (heroic actions, catastrophic events, fictionalized scenarios) that may not be aseffective at changing behavior due to taking too large of an imaginative leap.Preparation for ethical conflicts makes one more likely to act ethically [23], but most ethicaldecisions engineers face in
undergraduate degree program in biomedical engineering at the University of Utahaccepted its first freshman class in fall 1999. An integral part of the curriculum is a sequence oftwo courses in the freshman year, Fundamentals of Bioengineering I and II, whose purpose is toexpose the students to the field of bioengineering as well as to introduce some importantscientific, engineering and physiological topics which help lay the foundation for later courses.Laboratory experiences in the form of a Major Project are included in each course. The firstsemester course covers biomechanical, bioelectrical, instrumentation and computer topics; thesecond semester covers biochemical, metabolic, cellular, and integrative (e.g., biosensors)subject material. We
AC 2007-219: A CASE STUDY OF COURSE CLUSTERING STRATEGY TOENHANCE RELATIONAL LEARNINGMing Huang, University of San Diego Ming Z. Huang is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of San Diego. Dr. Huang is a registered Professional Engineer and is actively involved in research focusing on integrating industry practices with engineering educations. Dr. Huang received his B.S. from the National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan in 1980, M.S. from the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, Rhode Island in 1984, and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio in 1988, all in Mechanical Engineering.James Kohl, University of San Diego James G. Kohl is an
university to enhance engineering students’ abilities to transfer and apply mathematicsto solve problems in engineering contexts. A recent curriculum innovation resulting from theseefforts involves the integration of collaborative, applied, problem-solving workshops into thefirst-semester engineering mathematics course. This paper will summarize the project team'swork to develop two instruments - one to gauge students’ abilities in using mathematics inengineering contexts; and the other to gauge students' self-efficacy perceptions related tostudying engineering and to learning and applying mathematics – that can be used to assess theeffects of this innovation and others like it. The paper will report on the processes being used todevelop and adapt
attract a more diverse student body. At present,engineering in Western countries is an overwhelmingly male-dominated field. GalvanizeU/UNHaims to help reverse this trend, as well as support a greater number of students from differentbackgrounds, by offering scholarships from partner organizations with similar goals. Another of GalvanizeU/UNH’s core goals is to create a new path for how data scienceeducation is perceived and taught. To train a new class of data scientists, educators mustemphasize problem solving and design thinking over tools and technology. Its curriculum modelfeatures needs/competency-based, learner-centric and project-based instructional strategies, andincludes opportunities for industry partnerships and continuous
learningwithout specifically requiring service learning activities in undergraduate curriculum. Focus onmulti-disciplinary team experience, formulation and solution of engineering problems, andeffective communication1 all comprise the easily achieved outcomes from service learningopportunities.While a single engineering department is capable of developing an experiential learningopportunity for undergraduate students, the development of a robust service-learning programcan be hindered by a lack of resources and inability to provide truly interdisciplinary projects forstudents. Faculty support, continued program maintenance, and overall program managementrequires resources not always available at a department or college level. A formal service-basedor
and internships. As we identified in the I-Corps curriculum, aminimum viable product of the Engineering Ambassadors Network is an advanced presentationstrategy that we teach to our Engineering Ambassadors: the assertion-evidence approach.8 Ourresearch has found that audiences of STEM presentations have a deeper understanding and betterrecall when the presenter follows the assertion-evidence approach, as opposed to the commonpractice of style of having a phrase headline supported by a bulleted list.9 Through the I-Corps curriculum, we realized that we could dramatically increase ourmarket size on communicating the minimum viable product by creating slightly altered versionsof the websites that we created for targeting the Engineering
, transportation, environmental, surveyingand project/construction management. While as many as one third of graduating civil engineersgo to work in the land development industry (University placement statistics, 2001-2005), fewcivil engineering programs in the country have any course or emphasis in land developmentwithin their curriculum. This paper describes an ongoing initiative that brings togetherundergraduate CEE students and faculty with industry professionals in an effort to improve landdevelopment design education.Prior to this initiative, the CEE Department had one course titled “Land Development Design”,taught once per year and it was available for more than 10 years. Historically, this course wasalways taught by an adjunct instructor, usually
) education and mentorship activities, in an effort to help students see therewards of careers in STEM and increase students’ interest in pursuing a career in these fields.Students who participate in the centers’ programs are better prepared to pursue and successfullygraduate in STEM majors, especially engineering. The Center also conducts training institutesthat provide teachers with pre-engineering curriculum to better prepare students to enterengineering degree programs. The curriculum focuses on pre-engineering skills and teachers aretrained to use instructional strategies that support connections between standards-based science,mathematics and real world engineering. The current paper describes 1) a new training programto introduce students and
through the integration of active learning and technology-enabled frequent feedback. Prior to her role and Director of Instructional Effectiveness, she worked as the Education Project Manager for the NSF-funded JTFD Engineering faculty development program, as a high school math and science teacher, and as an Assistant Principal and Instructional & Curriculum Coach.Dr. Eugene Judson, Arizona State University Eugene Judson is an Associate Professor of for the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. He also serves as an Extension Services Consultant for the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT). His past experiences include having been a middle school science teacher
multi-disciplinary in nature and integrates principles of many engineering disciplinesincluding, but not limited to, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and controlsengineering. These courses typically incorporate problem-based learning and project-basedpedagogy to effectively build the student’s knowledge and understanding. Old DominionUniversity’s Mechanical Engineering Technology (ODU MET) program offers undergraduatecourses related to Advanced Manufacturing including Robotics; Automation; LeanManufacturing; Computer Integrated Manufacturing; and Advanced Manufacturing Processes.Recently, two new courses related to mechatronics were added to the same focus area. In addition,ODU MET program has placed an increased emphasis on
studydemonstrated that students in the treatment group were engaged in active discussion and reflectionand showed higher scores for intercultural competence measured using Intercultural DevelopmentInventory (IDI). A similar study was conducted by Krishnan et al. [11] has also revealed theimportance of curriculum infusion and guided reflections in helping students develop interculturalcompetence. Both studies have emphasized that curriculum integration is an effective and moreeconomical method to impart intercultural learning. The prior studies [1], [4] conducted at theintersection of STEM and intercultural competence have revealed that infusing the concepts ofintercultural competence in pedagogy and allowing the students to reflect on their experiences
Paper ID #18137Comparison of Intrinsic Motivation of Freshmen Engineering Students asthey Participate in a Multinational Design ProjectDr. Jorge Rodriguez P.E., Western Michigan University Faculty member in the Department of Engineering Design, Manufacturing, and Management Systems (EDMMS) at Western Michigan University’s (WMU). Co-Director of the Center for Integrated Design (CID), and currently the college representative to the President’s University-wide Sustainability Com- mittee at WMU. Received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering-Design from University of Wisconsin- Madison and received an MBA from Rutgers
purpose of integrating theory with practice, students derivedmany other advantages3, 4, 12, 14, 15, 18, 25, 33, 37 from participating in cooperative educationprograms, which may be optional in some of the academic institutions where they are offered.Some of these advantages include the development of social skills, engagement in teamwork,improvement of communication skills, enhancement and greater clarity of future career goals,salary advantage, and the development of practical skills.An Interpretation of Work Based Learning in the Context of InterdisciplinarityA curriculum inclusive of a cooperative education strategy could be interpreted as aninterdisciplinary program5, 26, 31 where the work place learning experience is conceptually viewedas
, published in 2016 with SAGE. She has published numerous articles in journals including Journal of Curriculum Studies, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, and Educational Philosophy and Theory.Dr. Chongzheng Na, Texas Tech University Chongzheng Na is an associate professor at Texas Tech University. He graduated from Tsinghua Uni- versity (B.E.), Pennsylvania State University (M.S.), and University of Michigan (Ph.D.). Before joining Texas Tech, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and an assistant professor at University of Notre Dame. His research and teaching interests include developing innovative water treatment technolo- gies and incorporating knowledge related to such efforts in
all of it.” In managing technology, it is clear that the task ahead is not trivial.SummaryThe University of St. Thomas’s Technology Management Program is a new master’s degreeprogram offered by the Department of Manufacturing Systems and Engineering with courseofferings jointly by the Graduate Programs in Manufacturing Systems and Engineering, theGraduate School of Business and the Graduate Programs in Software.The importance of technology, both as an asset and as a determinant of success for the totalenterprise, is a core concept of the Master of Science in Technology Management Program. Theprogram is dedicated to the linkage of technical and business cultures as integrated functions ofthe technology-based organization and to the
used the research to refine the instrument in its 2nd and 3rd editions. They reduced the number of the basic scales from its original 14 to 10, eliminating overlapping categories. They also limited the number of questions to an efficient 60 items [10].II. Methodology: Implementation of LASSI in the department A. The decision: The Assessment Committee in the department of mechanical engineering oversees evaluating each ABET student outcome. The committee accomplishes this task by assigning one or more outcomes to its members who in turn devise appropriate evaluation methods, coordinate integration of the methods in the curriculum, analyze the data, and
, “Constructive Alignment of Interdisciplinary Graduate Curriculum in Engineering and Science: An Analysis of Successful IGERT Proposals,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 99, no. 4, pp. 355–369, doi: 10.1002/j.2168- 9830.2010.tb01068.x.AppendixE: Engineer of 2020Label CompetencyE1 Strong analytical skillsE2 Practical ingenuityE3 CreativityE4 CommunicationE5 Principles of business and managementE6 LeadershipE7 High ethical standardsE8 ProfessionalismE9 Dynamism, Agility, Resilience, and FlexibilityJ: Job PostingsLabel CompetencyJ1 Course content/knowledge of unit operations (e.g., as kinetics, separations, transport)J2 Specific skills/knowledge (catalyst
, College of the Canyons Kathleen Alfano is Director/Principal Investigator of the California Regional Consortium for Engineering Advances in Technological Education (CREATE), an NSF ATE Regional Center for Information and Manufacturing Technology. She graduated from Chestnut Hill College with a B.S. in Chemistry (1976), Purdue University with a M.S. in Education (1981), and the University of California, Los Angeles with a Ph.D. in Higher Education, Work and Adult Development (1993). Dr. Alfano has been on the faculty at College of the Canyons since 1996. Page 12.1392.1© American Society for