those disciplines that requireacquisition and analysis of data from distributed sources. We anticipate an even more increasedinterest in embedded security because of the impact of embedded systems in several fields. Thecentral objective of this project is to devise teaching and research infrastructures, which will enablea successful design of an undergraduate curriculum on security concepts in early phases ofembedded systems design. Figure 2 illustrates the design strategies of secure embedded systems.We propose the following design strategies to be implemented during the curriculum design: • Identify Security Challenges in Embedded Systems: The long-term goal of the curriculum on security concepts in early phases of embedded
Paper ID #34322Single-class Infusions to Integrate the Entrepreneurial Mindset intoFirst-year ExperiencesDr. Stephanie M. Gillespie, University of New Haven Stephanie Gillespie is the Associate Dean at the Tagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven. She has specialized in facilitating service learning while teaching at the Arizona State Uni- versity in the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program. Her current teaching and research interests are in exploring skillset and identity development in first-year engineering students and improving retention rates. She acts as a faculty
].Unified voice refers to a team’s shared commitment and sense of purpose and direction for theirproject [9], [14], [16]. One of the first steps of a change team is to establish a unified voice fortheir projects, as it is integral to every step of the change process that follows [2]. As Katzenbachand Smith [9] argue, teams need to then translate their unified voice into specific and measurable 1performance goals and develop methods to assess their progress in order to achieve impactfuloutcomes. Clear goals facilitate communication and constructive conflict, where team memberscan focus on how to achieve (or change) their goals and focus on getting
well as Europe, and spent time as a researcher in the software industry. His research inter- ests include knowledge management, software engineering, mobile computing platforms, and computer science education. Dr. Hicks received his B.S. degree in computer science from Angelo State University, and his MCS and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Texas A&M University.Dr. Michael Preuss, Exquiri Consulting, LLC Michael Preuss, EdD, is the Co-founder and Lead Consultant for Exquiri Consulting, LLC. His primary focus is providing assistance to grant project teams in planning and development, through external eval- uation, and as publication support. Most of his work is on STEM education and advancement projects
Paper ID #33469Anytime-anywhere Engineering ExperimentationProf. John M. Sullivan Jr, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Professor John Sullivan joined WPI in 1987. He has had continuous external research funding from 1988 thru 2013. He has graduated (and supported) more than 75 MS and PhD graduate students. He has served as the ME Department Head and in 2012 was elected Secretary of the Faculty through 2015. Prof. Sullivan has always maintained a full teaching load. He strongly supports the WPI project-based undergraduate philosophy.Prof. Ahmet Can Sabuncu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Dr. Sabuncu holds a Ph. D. in
first and second year university engineering students at Universityof California, San Diego. In addition to lectures, which provide content addressing a range ofengineering design and analysis topics, the in-person course consisted of two hands-on projects.The first project was completed individually and was designed to introduce students to the mainengineering skills – including basic CAD, shop tools, and analysis techniques – that they wouldneed for the rest of the course. The end-of-quarter robot design project was completed in teamsand was designed to test the students’ learned ability in design, manufacturing, and engineeringanalysis. Students were provided with various building materials, as well as with access to adesign studio with
, and Lifestyle”: Engineering Students’ Perceptions of Homelessness and Implications for Social Justice EducationAbstractThis paper describes how engineering students in a lower division user-centered design courseframed issues of homelessness within an engineering context. We focused on the issue ofhomelessness as the context for the course’s design project because it is one of the largestsocial justice issues impacting the area where the University of the Borderland (pseudonym) islocated. The goal was to determine how the project influenced students’ perceptions ofhomelessness and the role of engineers in this social justice issue. Results indicated thatstudents tend to frame issues of homelessness in simplistic terms aligned
is taught in a senior design class for upperclassmenand new graduate students. In order to encourage critical analysis of design standards, especiallyhuman-related factors, a new design project was implemented that incorporates Autonomous Vehi-cles (AVs). Working in multi-disciplinary teams, students were required to develop new geometricdesign standards for fully autonomous AVs together with human cyclists on a principal arterial inPuerto Rico. The class was given an introductory lecture on AVs, after which they were requiredto review the literature, modify existing standards, and implement the findings into their roadwaydesigns. The teams evaluated the human-related aspects of design by re-considering multiple ge-ometric design parameters
senior design teams have been able to work with NASA engineers on projects that are relevant to NASA’s mission. In April 2011, Dr. Carmen was selected as a Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award recipient.Ms. Deborah Lynn Fraley, Women in Defense, TN Valley Chapter Deborah Fraley is an Aerospace Engineer from Auburn University with 38 years experience as a defense contractor. She is employed as the Business Development Manager for Quantum Research International, Inc., a small company headquartered in Huntsville, AL. She is also the STEM Director for the TN Valley Chapter (TVC) of Women In Defense (WID), a national security organization dedicated to the advance- ment of women in
mindset. After introducing the overall etc.) through the course content. As the semester progresses,course structure, contents, topics, and the corresponding the students are asked to participate in a team project thatactivities, this paper presents the survey analysis results includes both individual and team responsibilities.that show how the freshman engineering students build During the second semester, the students study andtheir engineering entrepreneurial mindset during their experience the following three topics: Engineeringfirst year of college. Computing, Introduction to Disruptive Technology with Products
order to introduce freshmen students toBioengineering. BENG 1, Introduction to Bioengineering, is designed to introduce students tobioengineering as a discipline and also to introduce them to the research activities in thedepartment in a large lecture-style course format. Bioengineering faculty members speak abouttheir research during the class sessions and teams of students explore a design project of theirchoice. BENG 87, Freshmen Seminars in Bioengineering, is offered to introduce students toaspects of bioengineering in a small interactive group setting with faculty. Faculty members offerseminars each quarter on topics of their choice, usually related to their research interests.Students select seminars on a topic of interest and are
multidisciplinary team LCA project. The learning objectives, gradingmetrics, and syllabus for the class are included for reference in the appendix. Since no textbook Page 12.263.3was found to cover the course material appropriately across the disciplines, a wide variety ofmaterials (book chapters, journal and newspaper articles, corporate product information, webdatabases, and software manuals) were provided to the students to complement the lectures. Theclass was taught by faculty with disciplinary backgrounds in materials science and chemicalengineering. The primary instructor also has several years of experience in Design forEnvironment (DfE) and Life
businessand takes advantage of the expertise of each faculty member. The interdisciplinary nature of thecourse is beneficial to the students because they begin to see the necessity of coordinating theworld of design (process design and product design) and process problem solving.Our Lean course attracts student enrollment from five departments in the College of Engineeringand the College of Business. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, we have designed andimplemented two pedagogical approaches: a Lean Lego Simulation (LLS) and student-companyteam projects via close collaboration with the local companies. This paper introduces in detailhow the two pedagogical approaches are performed and their impact on student learning withdiversified background
Education, 2008 Integration of Computer-Based Problem Solving into Engineering CurriculaAbstractThe primary objectives of this engineering project are (1) to examine how to develop students’problem solving and computational skills early in their program of study and (2) to furtherenhance these skills by building upon critical computing concepts semester after semester. Theproject is a component of NC State University’s quality enhancement plan, which focuses on theuse of technology in enhancing student learning. The project stems from new introductorycomputer-based modeling courses that were created in two engineering departments, and hasexpanded to include other departments. We give an overview of the
the students was thelead systems engineer for the in-house satellite build project, called Texas2Step, sponsored bythe Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). An added bonus to the pilot class was theparticipation of the capstone design professor, as well as a graduate teaching assistant with aMaster’s degree in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech with an emphasis on SystemDesign and Optimization. The participation of all these many perspectives provided continuousimprovement on the course content and delivery. {Note that current offerings of the SE Courseare available to all students in the space track of the aerospace engineering degree program.}The SE Course content is based on numerous systems engineering handbooks and primers fromNASA1
systemslevel and a component level are needed for the U.S. to remain competitive. Most engineeringschools fail to meet the growing need for engineers skilled in multiscale design: they educateengineers to handle systems issues or component issues, but not both. Furthermore, engineeringeducation focuses on designing static, “point” solutions, not agile solutions that can adapt tochange. Specifically, this project proposes the development of Technology Leaders, atransportable interdisciplinary program that will prepare engineers and technicians to lead teamsin the designing and building of multiscale agile systems.Building on prior work at the University of ___A___, ___B___ Community College, and theLearning Factory at Penn State, the Technology Leaders
is substantially different from that portrayed by U.S. science policy of 1945.In today’s innovation-driven economy, the vast majority of engineering innovations are needs-driven and market-focused, requiring deliberate engineering problem-solving and responsibleengineering leadership. Today the practice of engineering for creative technology developmentand innovation is a purposeful and systematic practice. It is not a linear or sequential processfollowing basic research as portrayed in the aforementioned science policy of 1945 (SeeAppendix A). Rather, engineering projects frequently drive the need for directed strategicresearch efforts at universities when necessary or anticipated to better understand the phenomenainvolved.The reform of
2006-982: FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW FORMAT FOR FRESHMANENGINEERING COURSE AT VIRGINIA TECHJenny Lo, Virginia Tech Jenny Lo is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She is the co-coordinator of the first semester engineering course and has been involved with educational projects related to freshmen programs, engineering ethics, and undergraduate research.Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech Vinod Lohani is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He is the co-coordinator of the first semester engineering course and has been involved in many educational research projects including a departmental level reform
thecomplicated technical principles of engineering, it is less common for these institutions toinclude team communication or team training as part of the undergraduate curriculum.Instructors often give team projects in an effort to help students learn effective teamwork skills,but this practice alone does not teach team dynamics3. The fundamentals of how people workand interact is a skill; like calculus or circuits, it must be taught, practiced and evaluated3,4. Quality decision-making can be enhanced when members of a team develop high degreesof openness and interdependence. When members of a team regulate or ignore certaininformation, the quality of the decision is diminished5. From the Argyris and Schön “Theory ofAction” perspective, “the
from brainstorming to designing, building, and testing.For the 2005 YESS program the over-arching project, performed in teams, was to design amousetrap vehicle which had to meet various design criteria, which include maximizing distancetraveled, pulling capability, speed over a specified distance, and stopping ability at a specifieddistance. The YESS program is a miniature version of the Introduction to Engineering course atthe University of Maryland, Baltimore County. At each seminar the high school students learnengineering fundamentals that relate to their design project, followed by hands-on mini designchallenges. The presentations given by technical experts include: Who Wants to be anEngineer?, Introduction to Engineering Design: Project
Paper ID #18987Development and Implementation of an Introduction to Research Winter In-ternship Program for Underrepresented Community College StudentsProf. Nicholas Patrick Langhoff, Skyline College Nicholas Langhoff is an associate professor of engineering and computer science at Skyline College in San Bruno, California. He is also a co-investigator for multiple grant projects at Ca˜nada College in Redwood City, California. He received his M.S. degree from San Francisco State University in embedded electri- cal engineering and computer systems. His educational research interests include technology-enhanced instruction
Describe assemblies rules and behaviors that Create proper patterns contribute to engineering drawings effective to communicate a teamwork design Identify the “Explode” an relevance of assembly and to professional animate the explosion ethics in to show the intended project work
prior research experience. In total 20 students(ten per year) participated in the program and worked on individual project topics under theguidance of faculty and graduate student mentors. Unlike a typical REU program, theCybermanufacturing REU involved a few unique activities, such as a 48-hour intense design andprototype build experience (also known as Aggies Invent), industry seminars, and industry visits.Overall, the REU students demonstrated significant gains in all of the twelve research-relatedcompetencies that were assessed as a part of formative and summative evaluation process. Whilealmost all of them wanted to pursue a career in advanced manufacturing, includingCybermanufacturing, the majority of the participants preferred industry
University of DenverAbstractTo broaden participation of Latinx in engineering, we conducted the largest scale, longitudinalretention study of an underrepresented minority group in engineering to date. Here, we presentquantitative and qualitative findings of the first 3 years of this 5-year project, which investigatedthe temporal effects of social cognitive, personal, and contextual factors on engineering students’persistence decisions as posited by Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) [1, 2]. We presentthemes that emerged from individual interviews with 32 Latinx and White engineering students[3]. Using a large sample of over 800 Latinx engineering students from 6 Hispanic ServingInstitutions and 5 Predominantly White Institutions, we found that
engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Equity in Collaboration: My Ideas Matter, Too! K-12 Students’ Negotiation of Social Status in Collaborative Engineering Team (Fundamental Research)AbstractWithin pre-college (K-12) engineering education, the curriculum design integrates studentsworking with partners or teams on projects as standard practice in the curriculum design.However, with a need to increase participation in engineering and other STEM career pathways,introducing engineering in pre-college settings has become a central avenue for access to STEMcareer pathways for many students. Pre-college learning experiences are opportunities to developstudents’ interests further and
Paper ID #19040Career Navigation Initiatives for Women STEM Faculty in Support of Insti-tutional TransformationProf. Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Professor Dell is an associate professor in the Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering Technology department at RIT. She serves as the Faculty Associate to the Provost for Women Faculty and is co-PI for RIT’s NSF ADVANCE project. Her research interests include: characterization of biodegradable plastics and environmental consideration in materials selection for production design, the impact of technology paired with active learning pedagogies on
Eva Schiorring has almost two decades of experience in research and evaluation and special knowledge about STEM education in community colleges and four-year institutions. Ms. Schiorring presently serves as the external evaluator for three NSF-funded projects that range in scope and focus from leadership de- velopment to service learning and experimentation with alternative delivery, including online lab courses. Ms. Schiorring is also evaluating a project that is part of the California State University system’s new ini- tiative to increase first year persistence in STEM. In 2014, Ms. Schiorring was one of the first participants in the NSF’s Innovation-CORPS (I-CORPS), a two-month intensive training that uses an
systems, but he has ongoing projects in the area of hospital patient health monitoring. He is actively engaged in K-12 outreach through several venues including Summer Ventures, high school STEM day, the NC Science Olympiad, a Math Science Partnership grant, volunteer work with a local literacy camp, Boy Scouts Robotics Merit Badge counseling, and teaching the science portion of VBS and children’s Sunday School at his local church.Dr. Zhen Zhu, East Carolina University Zhen Zhu is an assistant professor at East Carolina University. From 2010 to 2013 he was a senior research engineer and a principal investigator with the Navigation Systems Division and the Advanced Concepts and Technologies Division in Northrop Grumman
problem-based learning and service learning alsobecame popular approaches to connect course material with field applications, often using client-driven scenarios and open-ended challenges.5,6 This attention to increasing student engagementwas in part prompted by an increased awareness of the value of active learning and team-basedproblem solving.These initiatives manifested themselves in a variety of fashions, including improving studentexperiences using cornerstone and capstone design projects as well as the creation of U.S.Government sponsored initiatives. For example, the grant-funded “Learning Factory” projectwas developed to simultaneously create a practice-based curriculum and the supporting physicalfacilities required to design/fabricate
, and mathematics(STEM). Toward that end many summer informal STEM education experiences have beenestablished for middle school students. While these experiences can be very fun and engaging forstudents, they often consist of prescribed experiments, projects, and investigations. Here wepresent a novel summer enrichment program, Everyday Engineering, which consists of both theprescribed experiments/activities and also a design project based investigation which allows thestudents to explore their imaginative side in the design and prototyping of an invention of theirown creation.The Everyday Engineering program, designed for middle school students, was a one week allday (8:15 am – 5:00 pm) summer camp on the campus of a Virginia Commonwealth