developed byLouisiana Tech University. The course consists of discussion sessions, hands on labs,cryptographic problems, film sessions, and a final cyber challenge each of which integrate thehistory, ethical issues, applications, and theory behind cyberspace, security, and cryptography.Developing a cyber curriculum that is truly interdisciplinary in focus – cutting across both thesciences and the liberal arts – demonstrates a national model for implementing similar programsat other institutions. This integrated approach to teaching strives to educate new scholars whounderstand not only the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics but also the political,social, historical, ethical, and legal aspects of this evolving discipline.Results of
engineering curriculum.The solid modeling courses provide a unique opportunity to work with many of the corecomponents of the engineering design process much earlier in the curriculum. For instance, thedevelopment of a solid model of a complex part requires identifying criteria (such as necessarydimensions), brainstorming, generating ideas, developing a plan to produce the solid model in anefficient manner, and actually constructing the solid model. Additionally, there can be someiterations in the plan as the designer attempts to develop a creation path and runs into an obstacleand has to revise the plan.Unlike full-scale engineering design, Mathematics and Physics are not obstacles in the designprocess involved with the creation of 3D solid models
) and a Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction from Penn State University (2010). He is course coordinator for the Senior Capstone Design program. He has directed project-based programs for undergraduates with an interest in space-related fields as well as service-learning programs for those interested in community service.Ms. Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Page 23.540.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Enhancing the quality of senior design projects: The introduction of a coordinated sequence of design courses to
a whole and the value of participating in each phase of an integrated engineering designproject. While many of the student designs were not developed in depth, introducing students toa complete design experience early on in their design curriculum allowed the students to betterunderstand the need for a clear problem definition, quality requirements, rigorous decisionmaking, and clear communication. As student buy-in at various stages was highly affected by thetype of product they were working on, changing the product types at each stage ensured that nostudent was forced to work in an area they did not enjoy for the entirety of the project. Studentperformance at all stages of the activity was not hindered by the timeline. Average student
process in the freshman year through theENGR 101 (Introduction to Engineering) and ENGR 102 (Engineering Design Practice) courses.A design experience is integrated into many sophomore, junior, and senior engineering scienceclasses and engineering design is an essential component in the senior capstone courses.The Introduction to Engineering (ENGR 101) course consists of two hours of lecture and twohours of laboratory meetings per week. An honors section of the course (ENGR 101H) meets foran additional hour each week. The course is part of the University of San Diego’s PreceptorialProgram and it combines a regular course with topics intended to ease the students’ transitioninto the college environment. Preceptorial courses are taught by
Paper ID #7975Designing an Introductory Entrepreneurial Thinking CourseMr. Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Daniel M. Ferguson is a graduate student in the Engineering Education Program at Purdue University and the recipient of NSF awards for research in engineering education. Prior to coming to Purdue he was Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ohio Northern University. Before assuming that position he was Associate Director of the Inter-professional Studies Program and Senior Lecturer at Illinois Institute of Technology and involved in research in service learning, assessment processes
it is more than just an engineeringexperience.Core curriculumApplicants can choose from twenty possible disciplines. The disciplines range from astronomy toarchitecture and from engineering to environmental issues to name some. All the twentydisciplines have similar curriculum structure but different approaches in delivering the same. Thecore curriculum for the governor’s scholars programs is threefold: Focus Area: a “major” subject of study, assigned according to scholar preference as indicated on the application. General Studies: an area of study assigned by staff to challenge the scholars. Courses frequently include service-learning components in the community. Seminar: a discussion-based small group session
interests include product family and product platform design, trade space exploration and multi-dimensional data visualization, and multidisciplinary design optimization, and he has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers to date. He is the recipient of the 2011 ASEE Fred Merryfield Design Award and has received numerous awards for outstanding teaching and research, including the 2007 Penn State University President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Integration. He is a Fellow in ASME and an Associate Fellow in AIAA. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech, and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University.Mr. Marcus Shaffer, Penn State
. Page 23.776.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Integrating Liberal Studies at the Assignment Level – A Case StudyAbstract:The definition of liberal arts has evolved from its Roman origins, and its renaissance expansion.While there are many modern interpretations of what constitutes a liberal arts curriculum, onedistinction has remained throughout; a focus on and value of intellectual rather than vocationalskills. This paper demonstrates an approach to integrating those intellectual skills to enhancevocational ones.As a result of industry feedback, a community college adopted four Workforce Skills to beintegrated into the entire curriculum
Paper ID #8374AAEE Plenary - Engineering Education: A National Integrated ApproachMs. Lyn Brodie, University of Southern Queensland Lyn Brodie is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Surveying at the University of Southern Queensland. Her research interests include engineering education, Problem Based Learning, assessment and the first year experience. She is a board and founding member of the USQ Teaching Academy and Director of the Faculty Engineering Education Research Group. Lyn was the academic team leader for the teaching team which successfully designed a strand of PBL courses for the faculty
Information Security Program and affiliated with The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Chaminade University of Honolulu. His research areas include global policy, ethics, information security and assurance, technology adoption, biometrics, education, pharmaceutical supply chain, and energy. Page 23.205.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Approaches to Integrating Public Policy into Engineering EducationAbstractPolicy education has been deemed an important
). Page 23.784.8 Figure 8: Identification of matching front viewFinally, a small group of students was asked to try the AR integrated CAD system at the end ofthe semester. After they successfully completed the activities, their feedback was very positive.Most of the students found AR interesting, easy and enjoyable (see Figure 9). The only negativecomment was that the students were confused by the mirrored images on the screen, but afterpractice they were getting used to that feeling. Figure 9: Students trying AR integrated CAD system5. ConclusionsThis paper examined the potential of an augmented reality system as an educational tool in anengineering graphics course. The students of that course were
present in textbooks.11 Page 23.780.2The current investigation has aimed to integrate some aspects of research into a geotechnicalengineering laboratory course with limited impact on the existing content of the course (i.e.,maintaining emphasis on conventional geotechnical engineering testing). This experience is notintended to be production-level research, but instead an introduction to research methodologyand perspective for undergraduate students. Various teaching methodologies have beenincorporated to the introductory geotechnical engineering laboratory at California PolytechnicState University, a primarily undergraduate institution. The
convinced,from the start of our research, that such a course must also be tangible to students. We feel thatin such an introductory course, students must be aware that they are dealing with real circuitsand that logic signals are represented with physically measurable quantities. We found that inusing a CPLD with a breadboard, the CPLD is identifiable to students, and that with modestwiring they constructed demonstrative circuits that they felt were satisfying and engaging.This paper outlines our more recent experience to further integrate our use of the CPLD in ourintroductory course. Given the potentially wide reaching impact on the curriculum, we aretaking incremental steps, each with measurable goals. In the Fall 2012 semester, new
, TLC is closest to Udacity and edX,except these other systems do not provide individualized content.5, 6TLC is similar to Udacity and edX in that each provides the means to integrate variedtypes of content together for a sequential presentation to the user. For example, lecturecontent can be interspersed with active learning exercises. Homework style questions canfollow lecture, and be automatically graded. Hence these systems are quite different thana Content Management System such as Moodle17 because the varied types of content arenot presented in a sequential fashion. As an analogy this would be the difference betweena standard book versus one in which the pages are cut out a spread across a table. Withloose pages there is no control over
teachers are excited and engaged in the data analysis process. Others strugglewith quantitative skills, leading to the presentation of some of the modules as a recipe fordownloading and graphing data rather than an inquiry into climate change problems or solutions.Similar wide ranges of quantitative skills have been observed in our undergraduate students.19These observations point to the need for students at any level to have strong fundamental STEMskills in order to approach engineering analysis projects. At the same time, our design of suchexperiences must recognize the breadth of capabilities with built in alternative approaches forteachers to integrate real-world earth and energy system projects in their class rooms in a waythat they are
engineering curriculum of an engineering department (Biological Systems Engineering) using Jerome Bruner’s spiral curriculum theory. Currently, Dr. Lohani leads an NSF/REU site on ”interdisciplinary water sciences and engineering” which has already graduated 45 undergraduate researchers since 2007. He also leads an NSF/TUES type I project in which a real-time environmental monitoring lab is being integrated into a freshman engineering course, a senior-level Hydrology course at Virginia Tech, and a couple of courses at Virginia Western Community College, Roanoke for enhancing water sustainability education. He is a member of ASCE and ASEE and has published 65+ refereed publications.Mr. Daniel S Brogan, Virginia Polytechnic
(2012) hands-on approach and last year’s (2011) lecture-based approach.Conclusions A hands-on, project-based approach to teaching introductory Mechatronics to undergraduatestudents in a Mechanical Engineering curriculum was shown. This course is mainly structuredaround a multi-stage team project which is mostly mechanical in nature but requires enoughelectro-mechanical integration to effectively introduce the scope, reach and potential ofMechatronics. Every student obtained their own Arduino Uno microcontroller and a set of basicelectro-mechanical components, which greatly facilitated hands-on learning at an individuallevel. A particular emphasis was placed on a group design process similar to that in a small-company, where
Association ofPhysics Teacher’s “Statement on Computational Physics” says, “Computational physics hasbecome a third way of doing physics and complements traditional modes of theoretical andexperimental physics.” 1 Computation should be an important component in the physicsundergraduate curriculum, and ideally it should merge seamlessly with the rest of the curriculum.Throughout the past 15 years, the University of St. Thomas physics department has beenimplementing an integrated physics curriculum where students gain the theoretical, experimental,computational, and communication skills they will need to succeed in their careers. Thecomputational work in our department began with an NSF-sponsored effort (DUE-0311432) todevelop computational modules in
simulators with graphical user interfaces were introduced: Aspen/SPwith its SPEXPERT system (JSD Simulations, Inc.), Aspen Plus (Aspen Technology), andProSim/ProVision (Simulation Sciences, Inc.). As these tools became available to those in theacademic community, the question arose as to how best to educate students in the use of thesevery powerful tools. Various approaches of incorporating the design experience across thecurriculum have been reported in the literature.1,2,3 Many of these articles address the need forintroducing design at earlier stages in the curriculum and describe how to best integrate theseexperiences across the curriculum. The use of process simulators in select courses todemonstrate concepts and reinforce fundamental
well.I. IntroductionIn our 2007 paper1 we reported on an assessment study we had conducted that resulted in asignificant change and reorientation with the curriculum and subsequent course progression ofour physics program. At that time, our physics program was integrated with a single departmentalong with two other disciplines in the department of Computer Science, Audio Technology, andPhysics (CAP). Shortly after our study was conducted, each of these programs separated and 3independent departments were created.As part of our study, we looked at comparative data from 22 national undergraduate programsfocusing on those that were in universities without graduate programs in physics as well as thosein liberal arts colleges. The results of our
. These are: (d) an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams (f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility (g) an ability to communicate effectively (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context (i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning (j) a knowledge of contemporary issues2.This paper will focus on the use of failure case studies to address the professional component ofthe curriculum. This is because while assessing the degree of attainment of the technicalcomponent is relatively easy to assess through fundamentals of engineering exam results
Paper ID #6659The Arrows in Our Backs: Lessons Learned Trying to Change the Engineer-ing CurriculumDr. Steven W Villachica, Boise State University Dr. Steven Villachica is an associate professor of Instructional and Performance Technology (IPT) at Boise State University. His research interests focus on leveraging expertise in the workplace in ways that meet organizational missions and business goals. He is currently working on an NSF grant to increase engineering faculty adoption of evidence-based instructional practices [NSF #1037808: Engineering Ed- ucation Research to Practice (E2R2P)]. A frequent author and
Paper ID #6995Team-Based Learning and Screencasts in the Undergraduate Thermal-FluidSciences CurriculumDr. Georg Pingen, Union University Georg Pingen is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Department at Union University in Jackson, TN. He teaches courses across the Mechanical Engineering curriculum with a focus on thermal-fluid- sciences. His research interests are in the areas of computational fluid dynamics, topology optimization, and engineering education. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in aerospace engineer- ing sciences
encouraged to participate and engage inthe innovation lab to expand their learning experiences from the first semester to senior year. Asstudents move through an innovation and entrepreneurship environment they can increase theirresponsibilities by moving from team member to managing small project teams. Thus, the Centeris designed to foster interdisciplinary, project based, and collaborative activities with internaland/or external constituencies which can bring together cross-curricular interests and projectsthat may occur in three different formats: (1) integral part of the curriculum, (2) extra-curricularprojects among departments and/or subject matter areas, (3) projects focusing on outside
Paper ID #7027Information Literacy Instruction Assignment In An Online ModuleProf. John B. Napp, University of Toledo John Napp is Associate Professor and Engineering Librarian at the University of Toledo. He has been with the University since 2001. Previously he was Librarian for an environmental engineering firm. His main research interests are information literacy and engineering librarianship.Ms. Phoebe Jane Ballard, The University of Toledo Phoebe Ballard is senior instructional designer with The University of Toledo’s Learning Ventures and possesses an M.Ed. in Educational Technology as well as B.A. in Art. She has
equipped to teach systems engineering, and that students should enter the workforce assoon as possible in order to learn to become good systems engineers. [3,4] One of the citedbenefits of the Air Force-sponsored University Nanosat spacecraft competition is that it givesstudents the chance to “fail” on their own, student-built satellites, and thus spare their futureemployers from having them learn the lesson on the job. [1] We applaud the University NanosatProgram’s approach; we want to formally integrate it into the curriculum at our university.We believe that hands-on, student-led projects provide a unique opportunity to provide relevanttraining in systems engineering, project management and related disciplines. The use ofengineering failures as
importance of entrepreneurship toengineers, which is why entrepreneurship is increasingly being taught as a part ofengineering programs. However, the method of conveying the entrepreneurshipeducation has been writing a traditional business plan. In this paper, the coauthors willdiscuss an innovative approach to educating engineers in entrepreneurship. This wouldinclude implementing in the curriculum new online tools for creating a business planwhich have the mobility and convenience that today’s generation of engineers havegrown to know and expect. This revision of the entrepreneurship curriculum would beparticularly important for engineering managers to understand and would thus be avalued contribution for engineering management programs across the
students build communicationskills within the K-12 classroom9.Symbiotic partnerships among K-12, university, and industry professionals benefit the entire K-16 community, however, such professional connections can be difficult to make8. Factors such ascommunication, support, and timing are key to forming successful partnerships5. Therefore, K-12 teachers, university, and members of industry need opportunities such as professionalnetworking that combine such factors for connections to be made.Teaching STEM in the K-12 ClassroomsTo be effective STEM must be introduced as early as possible in the K-12 curriculum. Today,STEM integration in the classroom has become nationwide. Engineering skills and knowledgecan now be found in the educational
Paper ID #6242Works in Progress: Development of Integrated Computer Simulations andLaboratory Exercises for Teaching Human PhysiologyDr. Bradley P. Sutton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Sutton joined the Bioengineering Department at the University of Illinois in 2006 and is currently an associate professor. He received his B.S. in General Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned master’s degrees in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2003. He has affiliations with the Beckman Institute, Electrical and