waterfallmodel, design is done only once. This method cannot practically lead to an accurate design forcomplex systems, that too in current fluid market with demanding users and cut-throatcompetition. Most software projects using this methodology fail to meet their objectives. Inincremental models, the whole cycle of software activities is repeated in increments, which againbecomes restrictive. But in the iterative model, the design itself goes through several iterationsuntil it has reached a point of accuracy which satisfies the designers, reviewers, practitioners, andstakeholders. Incremental design is about adding new elements, which one can choose to doiteratively, while iterating is about reworking and refining16. In this paper, we start by
Tennessee-Knoxville. Dr. Affare served as a Project Engineer and Project Manager at Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) where she managed research and development projects for TVA’s Transmission Technologies and eventually became a Senior Compliance Analyst until retirement in July 2014. After retirement, Dr. Affare was a project management consultant in transportation and logistics for a few years until she began her second career in higher education. As an engineering professor, her research focuses on increasing the number of women in STEM with an emphasis in minorities in Engineering. Over the past 3 years at UTC, Dr. Affare has established the reputation as the go to person with respect to multidisciplinary and
ofappropriate topics, and development of realistic educational objectives to promote cooperation andintegration between students with various backgrounds.Aiming for such a goal, in the spring of 2013, a graduate level course on “pattern recognition” waspiloted in the Computer Engineering and Computer Science department of California State University,Long Beach. The course was offered under the name “CECS 590-Special Topics in Computer Science”and several graduate students from various backgrounds (Biology, Mathematics and Computer Science)were enrolled. Throughout the semester, students learned about different machine learning techniquesand algorithms, and implemented multidisciplinary projects which required the application of thosemethods in order to
freshman level course with no prerequisites. Itis a three-hour, one unit course that meets for 10 weeks and is taught in a lecture/activity format.The mission of the course is to teach engineering students about the wide array of processes thatcomprise the metal casting industry. This is done through a combination of traditional lecture,interactive computer tutorials/ case studies, traditional foundry lab experiences and the use ofCAD/CAM systems to produce CNC milled patterns and AM produced patterns and molds.Our engineering programs are hands-on. We firmly believe that the educational experiences aregreatly enhanced by projects and the making of things. In the evolution of the course it becameapparent that the need for careful planning to avoid
in STEM. In addition to research, Dr. Pan has successfully secured funding for educational and research initiatives, including the USDA REEU program, NSF REU program, and mini-grants from UTSA and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Pan’s research interests cover Sustainable Air-Ground IoT Systems, Tiny Machine Learning, Intelligent Sparse Sensing, Transient Computing and Communication, and Emerging Non-volatile Memory, contributing to advancements in IoT. His work has been widely published in leading conferences and journals. Dr. Pan’s projects are supported by esteemed agencies, such as NSF, USDA, NOAA, and TGLO, underscoring his dedication to impactful research and student success in engineering
networks, I observed that the front line personnel that I was hiring didn’t have what I considered to be skills that they should be bringing to the table. I began investigating why, and that led me to high school. Alas, I began my journey in Education in 2010 inhabiting the classrooms of Lovejoy High School, where my two daughters attended. I redubbed my PreCalculus course as Problem-Solving with Brooks and was also afforded the opportunity to lead an impactful Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Principles of Engineering (PoE) course, a project-based learning survey of the engineering discipline. Since the Summer of 2015 I have been privileged to work with the Texas A and M Sketch Recognition Lab (TAMU SRL) to evaluate
Paper ID #32863Systemic Transformation of Education Through Evidence-based Reform(STEER): Results and Lessons LearnedDr. Robert L. Potter, University of South Florida Robert Potter is Senior Associate Dean for Academics and Professor of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Florida (USF). He has been actively involved in promoting more effective STEM instruction K-16 for over 20 years. As such he led or co-led multiple collaborative Na- tional Science Foundation and Department of Education funded projects to improve student outcomes in STEM. The most recent being the NSF funded
Paper ID #32977Integration of Ethics-Focused Modules into the Steps of the EngineeringDesign ProcessMs. Jessica R. Edelson, Duke University Jessica is senior Robertson Scholar at Duke University pursuing a double major in Political Science and Visual and Media Studies, with a certificate in Information Science.Micalyn Struble, Duke University Micalyn is a third-year student at Duke University, majoring in Public Policy and minoring in Computer Science. She views this project as a chance to ingrain ethical thinking into engineering, in the hopes that many ethical dilemmas of the past can be confidently handled in the
ABEToutcomes and their KPIs along with the mapping of old to new outcomes is shown in Appendix A. Assessment of Learning OutcomesABET SOs (a) through (k) are assessed mainly through direct assessment methods such asassignments, exams, design projects, laboratory work, etc. A record of the assessment methods andstudent work samples for each course taught in a semester are maintained through course portfolios.The course portfolios also include a course assessment report (CAR) completed by courseinstructors who are required to self-evaluate the delivery of their courses and identify areas forimprovement with an action plan. Each course has a set of course learning outcomes (CLOs) definedin the course specifications document
NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revo- lutionizing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Education / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in engineering education research. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions; this includes a two-strand research program fo- cused on (1) authentic assessment, often aided by interactive technology, and (2) design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.Dr. Susannah C. Davis, Oregon
weeks of paddling Lake Erie, students portaged sixteen miles from Erieto Waterford, Pennsylvania (on French Creek), thereby passing from the Great Lakes to the OhioRiver basin. They were the first people in modern times to make this historic portage, which wasa key transportation link for the French colonial government and Native Americans in the region.The students then traveled down the Allegheny River to Pittsburgh, participating incommemorative events along the way.The purpose of this project was to provide students with a multi-faceted out-of-class educationalexperience to better prepare them to be lifelong learners, problem solvers, and more wellrounded citizens. From beginning to end, the students gained valuable life lessons and
- St. Louis Section. He has eight years of formal experience with K-12 engineering education.Dr. Shannon M. Sipes, Indiana University Shannon M. Sipes is an instructional consultant in the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning at IU. In this role she provides professional development and individual consultation services for faculty with questions regarding their own teaching and student learning. Prior to her current role, she has served as the director of assessment helping faculty members with SOTL projects and classroom assessment. Shannon holds B.S. and M.A. degrees in psychology and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction with a focus on higher education.Mr. Jacob W. Benton, Primoris Services Corporation
innovative freeform modeling capabilities.The multidisciplinary teams include students, mostly seniors, from systems engineering anddesign, mechanical engineering, bioengineering and industrial design. The design projectsconsist of biomedical products and devices, and each project includes a sponsor from thehealthcare industry. The instructors include faculty from systems engineering and design,industrial design, and bioengineering.Using this testbed, a graduate student conducted research on reflective practice, design thinking,and how students engage in and use digital tools for design and collaboration. The initialresearch was conducted in the fall of 2015. Project results include a five-minute video thatdescribes student impressions of their
design teams shape whetherand how students’ contributions to the design project are recognized.4 Given this, groupcomposition in design teams becomes an important instructional decision since access todisciplinary knowledge and identity can influence students’ future trajectories. However,mechanisms by which roles affect broader relationships to design are underexplored. Our aim isto understand students’ emergent roles in design teams, and how this may or may not interactwith their complex relationships (epistemological and affective) to computer programming anddesign. We unpack how pairing students of different levels of expertise influences students’access, their sense of whether or not they can participate in a discipline. We suggest that
(BOK 15). Effectivecommunication skills are inherent to all the skills in the professional domain (BOK 7, ABET g).These skills are commonly addressed in engineering programs in separate courses and/or an end-of-program team project design course, i.e., capstone course. However, simply having arequisite capstone course with these skills included does not guarantee successful developmentof these skills, and potentially a negative experience could be detrimental in an individual’sprofessional development. Many programs recognize this challenge and try to address thedevelopment of these skills through passive knowledge infusion within the capstone course.Several techniques commonly used to provide information to the students include lectures by
2006-1578: CONNECTING GRADUATE STUDENTS WITH SECONDARYTEACHERS TO INCREASE THE MATH AND SCIENCE LITERACY OFSECONDARY STUDENTS: IMPACT ON TEACHERS, FELLOWS AND STUDENTSSuzanne Soled, University of Cincinnati SUZANNE W. SOLED, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Educational Foundations, College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services (CECH), UC. Dr. Soled has taught courses in assessment and evaluation, and cognitive psychology for the past 22 years. Her research is focused in two areas: teaching and learning, and assessment and evaluation. She has won the Outstanding Teaching Award in the CECH. She serves as Co-PI and is responsible for the evaluation of Project STEP.Patricia McNerney
mentoringexperience.YOU’RE@CU, now entering its third year of operation at the University of Colorado Boulder,pairs graduate students with 1st or 2nd year undergraduate engineering students to conductresearch. The undergraduate mentees, or novices, benefit from exposure to a research communityand the process of doing real cutting-edge engineering research, while the graduate studentmentors benefit from the experience of being a mentor, defining a project and guiding a noviceengineer through the ups and downs of doing research.Participating undergraduates enroll in a one-credit course which includes a weekly seminar on Page 23.146.3the fundamentals of research, like
partnership included six urbandistricts in northern N.J., a science center, teacher education institution, and an engineering college.Teachers received 124 hours of continuous professional development including a two week summerinstitute, one hour monthly classroom support visits (coaching, modeling, curriculum alignment, andplanning), and three professional development days during the school year. The project is now in itsthird year.The partnership goals are to (1) increase teachers’ content knowledge in specific science topics andengineering, (2) improve the teachers’ notions of scientific inquiry, (3) increase participating teachers’preparedness in creating, adapting, and delivering inquiry-based science and engineering lessons, and(4) increase
. Moriarty, Smith College Mary A. Moriarty is an Assessment Researcher with the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College and serves as a private evaluation consultant. She has over 15 years of research, evaluation, and project man- agement experience. Her evaluation work has spanned the areas of science and engineering instruction, robotics, technology application, and disability in higher education. Her background includes serving as Principal Investigator and Project Director for several D.O.E. and NSF initiatives that focused on teaching and learning in higher education. She has a doctorate in Educational Policy, Research, and Administration from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.Apurva Errabelli
PhD from the University of Central Florida (UCF), USA. He also holds two MS degrees in mechanical engineering. He has taught at UCF, UNCC and at University of Jordan (UJ). Prior to coming to UNCC, he was an Assistant Professor and Research Associate at UCF. He also worked for several years as a mechanical engineer in various consulting, R&D and contracting firms on industrial, commercial and residential projects. His research interests include energy systems, fuel cells, thermal management and thermal transport phenomena, nanofluids, heat transfer and aerodynamics for gas turbines and other turbomachinery.Eileen Cashman, Humboldt State University Eileen Cashman is a professor of
) in places of power and male-dominated environments. She has experience in inclusive project management and in supporting organizations in implementing EDI practices.Prof. Nathalie Roy, Universit´e de Sherbrooke Pre Nathalie Roy obtained her PhD in 2006 and she is professor in the Department of Building and Civil Engineering at the Universit´e de Sherbrooke since 2009. She has been the Faculty advisor of the Cana- dian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) student chapter from 2009 to 2020. She is currently Deputy co-chair of the Engineering Mechanics and Material Division and a member of the regional committee – Quebec. It was a great honor for her to chair the Technical Program Committee of the CSCE annual
outcomes from this step strongly influence both the rest of thedevelopment effort and the ultimate success or failure of the product. When students work inteams in product development (PD) projects, they often tend to start generating solution conceptsright away without carefully identifying all the stakeholders that must be taken intoconsideration, determining all the customer needs, and establishing their relative importance. Thereason for this may be twofold. First, many engineering students believe that in their professionalcareer they will seldom be actively involved in the identification of the customer needs. Second,it is more appealing for engineering students to embark in the creative and open-ended process ofconcept generation than to
Session 1532 Integrating Formal Verification into an Advanced Computer Architecture Course Miroslav N. Velev mvelev@ece.gatech.edu School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, U.S.A. Abstract. The paper presents a sequence of three projects on design and formal verification of pipelined and superscalar processors. The projects were integrated—by means of lectures and pre- paratory homework exercises
discusses the lessons learned when operating in the hybrid mode and makesrecommendations for hybrid REU implementation, if needed in the future. Following the patternof prior analysis, a program model is also presented for potential use by other sites in the futurebefore concluding with a discussion of the broader impacts of REU site operations across thethree types of operation.2. BackgroundAn overview of prior work which lays the foundation for the analysis conducted herein ispresented in this section. Prior work related to project-based and experiential learning isreviewed as well as specific examples of prior work in cybersecurity.Undergraduate research programs are designed to immerse students in a research environment toallow them to see if
adaptability dimension, Dealing with Uncertain and UnpredictableSituations [15], due to the uncertainty managers described engineers feeling about the changingnature of their job role. However, each manager's recollections were associated with a differentcause (e.g., project cancellation, company merger, market change), resulted in a differentoutcome, and featured varying levels of detail. By choosing three situations from which to createa composite narrative, a complete story that succinctly touches on multiple challenges related toadaptability but is still grounded in the data could be told.Following the same methodology, I developed each composite narrative using two to fourexcerpts from the manager interviews. First, I categorized the critical
player in the future direction ofengineering education. HCD offers a promising approach to promote situated learning inengineering design projects, and to facilitate students’ learning of modern engineering skills.Many higher education institutions are seeking ways to integrate HCD into their engineeringprograms. This integration should be done in a way that supports and complements existinglearning objectives of established programs. However, doing so is challenging given that eachengineering course has its own unique opportunity areas and needs. Thus, there is a significantneed to develop tools and methods which support this endeavor. We have developed anevidence-based human-centered engineering design (HCED) framework to facilitate
our communities, orthe structure of our political and economic systems — tend to have the least influence on thosedecisions and how they are made. Design justice rethinks design processes, centers people whoare normally marginalized by design, and uses collaborative, creative practices to address thedeepest challenges our communities face.” [1]. Two core tenets of the Design Justice movementare that “absolutely anyone can participate meaningfully in design,” and “those who are directlyaffected by the issues a project aims to address must be at the center of the design process.” [4]Engineering education community and design researchers generally agree that pedagogicalinnovations are needed to ensure that current and future technologies are
sustainability. For example, Outcome 4 requires students tobe able to “consider… global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts.” VillanovaUniversity was awarded a grant to pilot the EOP framework. To integrate the EOP framework asrapidly as possible a faculty workshop was developed. This workshop has been delivered twiceto cohorts of eight faculty each during five half-day sessions. These faculty have addressedtwenty outcomes and assessed seven. At the time of writing, EOP outcomes have been includedand assessed in three courses: two required undergraduate courses and one graduate level course.Assignments, group projects, and exam questions were used to assess the achievement ofselected EOP outcomes.This paper will present an introduction to
infiltrates many areas of engineering andscience. Yet within engineering programs, students often have few opportunities to developexpertise in data science or even to explore how data science is relevant to their degreespecializations. This paper reports on an NSF-funded study of a program that prepares STEMstudents to engage with data science in coursework and then mentors them as they secureinternships and complete a capstone that demonstrates their application of data science expertise.Drawing on a mixed-methods study, including student reflections, capstone project assessment,and survey reporting, this paper suggests not only that students make deep connections betweentheir existing majors and data science but also that students trained in our
developing skills in leadership, collaboration, creativity, and innovativethinking (Paray and Kumar, 2020; Isabelle, 2020; and Rodriguez and Lieber, 2020). Rodriguezand Liber (2020), in particular, call out the goals, and potential benefits, of entrepreneurshipeducation. They highlight the ways that entrepreneurship education in high schools can, andshould, be linked to the development of skills linked to design-thinking, to thinking towardinnovative practices and processes, and the ways that entrepreneurship programs can be a‘gateway’ to actual entrepreneurship projects. As we examined curricula from several differenthigh school programs, we saw the connection of the assignments, readings, and projects to theskills-development listed above