., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Dr. Claretha Hughes is Professor of Human Resource and Workforce Development at the University of Arkansas (UA. Her research interests include valuing people and technology in the workplace, tech- nology development, diversity intelligence, learning technologies, and ethical and legal issues. She has published numerous articles and chapters in peer-reviewed journals, books, and conferences and has 13 books. She serves as a book proposal reviewer for SAGE, Emerald, IGI Global, Palgrave Macmillan, and CyberTech Publishing. She is currently involved in a National Science Foundation Research in Formation of Engineers project as a Co-PI. She has served in manufacturing leadership roles for
activity. See full documentation for standards.In the ConnecTions in the Making project, researchers and school district partners work todevelop and study community-connected, integrated science and engineering curriculum unitsthat support diverse elementary students’ science and engineering ideas, practices, and attitudes.Students investigate, prototype, share, and revise functional solutions to an engineering designchallenge rooted in the students’ local community while scientifically exploring the phenomenaand mechanisms related to the challenge. This paper shares the “Accessible Playground Design”3rd-grade unit in which students explore the scientific concepts of force, motion and magnetismbased on the need to design a piece of accessible
due to recent financial cutbacks, and the fact that you are one of the highest paid employees in your division, in view of your knowledge and experience. Wayne Davidson’s You are a project manager in the Aerospace Division of Occidental Engineering. You have worked at this firm for 9 years and devotedSupervisor (Deborah) much of your time and energy to its success. Only a few people in the firm know that the idea to low-ball the bid for this project was yours. You assured those people that this was a golden opportunity for the company and that you would make sure that the project was successful
Paper ID #241222018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29Too Black to be Woman and Too Much Woman to be a Man: Black WomenAttempting to Reconcile Their Multiple Identities in Academic and Profes-sional Engineering SpacesDr. Stacie LeSure, American Society for Engineering Education Dr. LeSure is a Program Director and Senior Researcher in the College of Engineering at Howard Uni- versity. She manages various research projects focused on the academic perceptions and persistence of students in STEM, particularly those students who are traditionally
of access, purpose, andownership resemble those common in the cloisteredenvironments of early computer labs and many of today’sshops, where students are tasked with cookie cutter activitiesand trivial projects to complete.” (Crichton & Carter, 2015, p. 3). 11 12 What is available? (1)• Design software – Provides intuitive interfaces to perform design tasks that used to require topical expertise• Manufacturing tools• Integrated control systems – Hand Tools and Power Tools – 3D printers – Laser, water and
priorities Core business is customer sponsored projects > 500 projects / year Focus on technology development and insertion Strong industrial relationships: Advanced energy, automotive, aerospace, heavy manufacturing, defense, oil & gas, etc. Governmentfunded technology development: DOE, NASA, DOT, Navy, Army, Air Force, etc. EWI OverviewEWI Mission Advance Our Customers’ Manufacturing Competitiveness through Innovation in Joining and Allied Technologies Innovation is Our Product EWI Overview Translational R&D University EWI Industry Concept
The second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) was initiated by Congress inorder to find solutions to three national transportation challenges: (1) increase highway safety toachieve the target of zero fatality on US highways; (2) increase mobility and reduce trafficcongestion, and (3) how to maintain existing infrastructure through renewal and maintenance ofroads and bridges. Over the course of several years, SHRP 2 has funded more than 100 researchprojects. These projects were developed to address national level transportation challenges usingstate and/or local level case studies. SHRP 2 research results have been disseminated to thepublic through a series of solutions (in the form of guidance documents and/or online/offlinesoftware
Massive Online Circuits LabAbstractThis work describes the design and implementation of EE40LX: Electronic Interfaces, the firstlarge-scale analog circuits laboratory hosted offered by edX. EE40LX revolved aroundconstructing a robot, emphasizing hands-on circuit building over circuit analysis to keep thecourse broadly accessible. With over 80 thousand students from over 190 nations enrolled acrossone year, this course is the largest and most distributed open analog circuits laboratory of itskind. Its sheer scale necessitated careful design of the robot project and a robust rubric for peergrading. This paper presents a detailed description of the course and its instructional design. Intotal, 856 robots were built and over 2233 students earned a
priorities Core business is customer sponsored projects > 500 projects / year Focus on technology development and insertion Strong industrial relationships: Advanced energy, automotive, aerospace, heavy manufacturing, defense, oil & gas, etc. Governmentfunded technology development: DOE, NASA, DOT, Navy, Army, Air Force, etc. EWI OverviewEWI Mission Advance Our Customers’ Manufacturing Competitiveness through Innovation in Joining and Allied Technologies Innovation is Our Product EWI Overview Translational R&D University EWI Industry Concept
student learning and understanding. It should be better than a traditional lecture. 2. The new technology should be easy to use. Learning to use the technology should not create excessive work for the faculty member. Class preparation should take approximately the same amount of time as for a traditional lecture. 3. The new technology should be reliable and convenient. The author is currently using a technological method for teaching engineering mechanicscourses that meets the criteria listed above. A key component to the method is that the facultymember projects complex figures on the board and then uses chalk (or markers or a smart boardor a tablet) to modify the figures. This teaching method blends the traditional lecture
. Students who participate inthis advising program receive one-half course credit (pass/fail grade) for their efforts. The finaldeliverable is for the students to develop and present a poster at the WORS Spring symposium.As is the case for all first-year advising programs, students are assigned a new academic adviserwhen they must choose an engineering major at the end of their first year. They may keep theirfirst-year advisor if their current advisor advises students in their chosen major, but this is notautomatic and must be requested.In Fall 2004, another student cohort worked on various research efforts involving material reuse.None of the projects had been undertaken by the advisor prior to the student’s efforts. The fourefforts, performed by
in curriculum development with a focus on workforce development. She is also the 2007 recipient of the ASEE Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education. Page 13.598.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Exposing Chemical Engineering Students to Real World Problems: Heath Care and Renewable Energy SystemsAbstractHigh school and entry level engineering students seldom have a good understanding of the typesof problems that chemical engineers solve. Two design projects have been developed tointroduce high school and entry level engineering students to real world problems
developing a firm grasp of chemical engineering principles.1 Toensure that chemical engineering students are prepared to contribute to these expandingindustries, this project will incorporate hands-on and visually appealing experiments usingcolorful proteins to teach biochemical engineering and bioseparation principles.The project consists of eight modules that introduce students to multidisciplinary engineeringprinciples through the production and purification of colorful proteins. The project adaptsexperiments from the biochemistry and molecular biology education literature by expanding thescope from one colorful protein to many. Four colorful proteins with different physicalproperties will be mixed and separated using a variety of chromatography
assessment projects and provides faculty with professional development opportunities in the area of assessment. Page 13.601.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Extensive Use of Advanced FPGA Technology in Digital Design EducationAbstractThe design tools, methods, and technologies used in industry to design digital hardware evolvequickly and continuously. Since the inception of wide-spread CAD tool use to define digitalcircuits around 40 years ago, revolutionary tool changes have occurred every 5 to 10 years.Although many of the foundational concepts are relatively unchanged
electrical energy.Sources of ambient (environmental) energy were determined prior to design of the house in orderto construct a house of maximum efficiency from ambient energy sources as a purpose of thisresearch. This paper served to explain the first phase of the project which was to identify ambientenergy sources and group in specific categories. The sources identified and listed in the table wassupported by the literature review in academia and industry. The research works have beenconducted so far, support the idea of having specific energy sources to power the house. Theambient energy collected from different sources was characterized as high, medium, and lowpower sources. Energy generation from solar, wind, and hydroelectric power sources
video conferencing andasynchronous video communications were used between the partners. The conferencingactivities included guest lectures and exchange of assignments. New assignments developed inthe study included role-playing whereby one class acted as a client on a project that was orderinggeotechnical testing to be completed by the students at the other university acting as a consultingfirm. New assignments also included a practitioner from Japan and practical design problems.Students were required to complete assignments in unconventional formats that included videocomponents. The student video productions were created for universal accessibility (e.g.,captioning used for videos). Having students formulate practical design scenarios in
presentation of the report by theteam. The mechanism for feedback commonly consisted of written marks or grades on theassessments by the instructor or grader, all but for three exercises that generated peer reviewonly.Software or web-based tools to facilitate peer based writing have been initiated at universities(e.g. PRAZE at the University of Melbourne2) and for use within internet-based coursedevelopment packages (e.g. Waypoint Outcomes3 with Moodle4.) Other applications canautomate the grading of writing assignments for traits, spelling, and grammar based on aninstructor’s rubric without peer involvement (e.g. Intelligent Essay Assessor5). Through theMolecular Science Project supported by the National Science Foundation at the University
importance of robot-related projects inengineering curricula had already been well recognized by educationists2, especially as a tool inthe early stage of engineering programs to foster students’ motivation and provide engineeringdesign-oriented experience.Currently, complete robotics curricula are only available at a few US universities or instituteswith expertise in robotics research, such as University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), CarnegieMellon University (CMU) and so on. At UPenn or CMU, by taking robotics and robotics-relatedcourses, graduate students can fulfill the requirements on course hours towards their doctoraldegrees3,4. Most recently, UPenn announced a master’s degree in robotics5. However, in otherinstitutions, robotics courses and
2006-1046: PUBLIC POLICY AND ENGINEERING DESIGN: A CREATIVEPARTNERSHIP IN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONAlison Tramba, University of Virginia Alison Tramba is an undergraduate student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. She plans to graduate in May, 2007, with a double major in Systems Engineering and American Studies. An internship in Washington, DC, research at UVA, and participation in interdisciplinary projects with the School of Architecture have motivated her to pursue a career in policy regarding housing and infrastructure provisions. Alison is also a two-term representative to the university's Honor Committee.Edmund Russell, University of Virginia
in signal processing, this type of laboratory experience may notgenerate enthusiasm or spark curiosity in a younger student being introduced to DSP for the firsttime.This paper reports on a project in which application-driven laboratory exercises wereimplemented as part of a required sophomore/junior-level introductory signal processing course.Students entered the course with a solid foundation in MATLAB but with no experienceprogramming in C or Assembly languages. This constrained the choice of laboratory platform, inthat students were to spend their time developing, implementing, and testing signal processingalgorithms, not learning a new programming language. The Texas Instruments C6713 DSKplatform, which can be programmed using SIMULINK
2006-655: A SOLAR-POWERED DECORATIVE WATER FOUNTAIN HANDS-ONBUILD TO EXPOSE ENGINEERING CONCEPTS TO NON-MAJORSCamille George, University of St. Thomas Camille George is an assistant professor in mechanical engineering at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. She teaches thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and a fuel cell technology class. She is interested in technology literacy, engineering ethics and the internationalization of the engineering program. She has been instrumental in adding a humanitarian service-oriented engineering project option to the senior design curriculum and also in exploring ways of adding engineering content into classes for non-science and
Paper ID #35270Development of a Surgical Lamp for Ethiopia by Undergraduate Innovatorsfor Global HealthMr. Kyle P Fuller, Northeastern University Mr. Fuller earned a B.S. in Bioengineering from Northeastern University in December 2020, with a concentration in Biomedical Devices and a minor in Sustainable Energy Systems. He spent three years as a member of NU-IGH as part of the club’s design group. As Design Lead during the 2019-2020 school year, Mr. Fuller led the design, prototyping, and testing of the club’s surgical lamp project. His work at Northeastern and professionally involves the design of electromechanical systems
Virginia University, an MBA from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Kinesiology with a focus on Biomechanics from Penn State University. Dr. Lang’s previous professional experiences and research interests range from mechanical engineering facilities design to research that applied engineering and molecular biology approaches to the study of the skeletal response to mechanical loading. As a Mechanical Engineer, she worked on facil- ity design projects involving mechanical systems that included heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and energy conservation systems, as well as R&D of air conditioning equipment for Navy ships. Additional research interests have included the investigation of relationships among
Paper ID #18225Globally Competent Engineers - Do International Experiences Matter?Mr. Alistair Cook, Colorado State University PhD Student in Education Sciences specializing in global development engineering c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Globally competent engineers - do international experiences matter?AbstractIn a world of increasingly complex and trans-national issues, engineers have to become global citizens tomanage and understand the multiplicity of complications they face in their professional careers.Engineering design project classes are where engineering students can gain and
, theresearchers will explore how individual students learn and become self-employed, or learn to usetheir local knowledge assets on behalf of their employers; that is, do students see themselves as acontributor to a company and enjoying a career dedicated to helping a firm remain competitive ina global market.Research Questions and DesignThe overarching goal of this project is to improve rural manufacturing capacity by betterunderstanding the relationship between NW Florida employers, employees, and curriculum viathe following research questions:RQ1. How do the AM competencies graduates gain through Associate’s level AM programscompare to the needs of employers?RQ2. How do the AM competencies graduates gain through Associate’s level AM programscompare to
student at Oral Roberts University.Mr. Jordan David Reutter, Oral Roberts University Jordan is Mechanical Engineering Student at Oral Roberts University Graduating in May 2018. He’s been involved with many projects such as The Hyperloop Competition and is currently interning with The Boeing Company. He was primarily involved with the design and manufacturing of Team Soar’s flight simulator serving as a design engineer.Nathaniel Shay FraileyMatthew SamuelsonMr. David Ahrens, Oral Roberts University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Development of a Virtual Reality Flight Simulator to Assist in the Design of Original Aircraft (Work in Progress)ABSTRACTThe
data analysis (qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodological) for studies in developmental, educational, and counseling contexts. E-mail: Reagan.Curtis@mail.wvu.eduJohnna Bolyard, West Virginia University Johnna Bolyard is an Associate Professor of elementary and middle grades mathematics education in the College of Education and Human Services at West Virginia University. Her research interests focus on the development of mathematics teachers, particularly how K-8 teachers develop into mathematics teacher leaders.Dr. Darran Cairns, West Virginia University Darran is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at West Virginia University. He is also the Project Director for Project
digital natives (students), and incorporates: mind mapping (discoverybased learning), experts on call, gamification, all integrated through teacher views thatproduce dynamic project-based lesson plans. The system encourages an interdisciplinaryapproach that requires students to draw on multiple subject areas simultaneously to solvereal world problems. Previous research conducted by the authors has indicated that in thecontext of learning style models, the PLMS provides a balanced approach to learning andtherefore should be a very useful learning tool in the physics curriculum. This study willfirst present the results of attitudinal and learning style surveys that were conducted inlocal junior high schools that correlate learning style profiles
Kolb’s experientiallearning cycle/spiral [4-6] that is used as a powerfull pedagogical strategy in many engineeringprograms. Project-based learning (PBL) pedagogy is well accepted in education. It is alsoemphasized as one of the high priority education methods/pedagogies required in early engineeringeducation. This paper describes a successfull implementation of PBL in an introduction toengineering course. The practical experience described in this paper is realization centered.For several years, building of model rockets and analyzing various aspects of their operation wasused as a powerful motivational tool for students [7-16]. A model-rocket test stand is used in acalculus course [17]. A description of a test stand with a data acquisition
stratification in education and the workforce.Dr. Cara Margherio, University of Washington Cara Margherio is the Assistant Director of the UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE). Cara manages the evaluation of several NSF- and NIH-funded projects, primarily working with national professional development programs for early-career academics from groups underrepresented in STEM. Her research is grounded in critical race and feminist theories, and her research interests include community cultural wealth, counterspaces, intersectionality, and institutional change.Dr. Eva Andrijcic, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Eva Andrijcic serves as an Assistant Professor of Engineering Management at Rose-Hulman