AC 2012-4249: E 4 E: ENGINEERING FOR EDUCATORSDr. Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College Dan G. Dimitriu has been practicing engineering since 1970 and taught engineering courses concurrently for more than 20 years. He has been the coordinator of the Engineering Program at San Antonio College since 2001. His research interests are: alternative fuels, fuel cells, plastics, and engineering education.Simona Dana Dimitriu, Pat Neff Middle School - Northside Independent School District (NISD) Simona D. Dimitriu practiced engineering since 1981 for 20 years and following a graduate degree in education started teaching science since 2007 and math since 2002. She has been involved in numerous initiatives to integrate
sustainable thinking is a challenge for education in engineering, but it is essential tothe personal and professional development of an engineer since the demand for labor requires Page 26.1125.2engineers with professional practice, knowledge, and ability to make decisions to meet every daychallenges in their work field. These decisions involve aspects of Sustainable Development (SD)1 like: “the development that satisfies the needs of the people today without compromising thefuture generations”2. The resulting situation at the universities today is that SD integration isoften limited to some specific courses (depending on the lecturers) and that
participate in this informal online educational at an historically black university. In the post-covidenrichment activity? These were some of the questions that the authors environment, instead of cancelling the event and knowing howconsidered when redesigning the Blockchain workshop. The important the knowledge and dispersion of this emergingworkshop redesign included three main design elements: a leadership technology is to minority communities, the authors made theteam; an immersive blockchain curriculum design, and fun and executive decision to host a completely virtual workshop event.engaging enrichment activities including online games and a The goals remained the same
School Teachers in a Hispanic Serving InstitutionAbstractIn recent years, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi entered into a partnership with theNuclear Power Institute or NPI to attract students into careers in nuclear power and science. Thepartnership naturally involved both student recruitment and curriculum development efforts. As apart of this recruitment effort, a summer workshop was designed and implemented to train,prepare for research, and educate local area high school teachers for the careers in engineering,engineering technology and the nuclear power industry. First, an outreach effort to local areapublic, private high and junior high schools was organized to advertise and promote theworkshop. After a considerable
positive impact based on regularassessment results, which include overwhelmingly positive student participant feedback.Changes to the program continue to be made based on student participant needs and interests,with the expectation that they will continue to enrich and enhance their academic andprofessional experience.The EFLC offers a unique college residential living experience through a holistic and integratedapproach to the freshmen experience, and is designed to facilitate students’ transition into theCollege and University communities. The program started in 2002 with 60 students, and quicklygrew to capacity at 220 students, or approximately one third of the entering COE class. TheEFLC is also an integral component of UNC Charlotte’s PFS
’ recognized by the employers. Graduates are expected to be technicalexperts as well as have high quality ‘professional skills’ [3], [4]. Sighting this demand,engineering educators around the world are now making efforts to change the curriculum byadding an EM based course or incorporating associated modules into their courses. Students canexplore EM concepts related to real-world social issues and expand ‘professional skills’ such asrecognizing opportunities, creativity, communication, leadership and adaptability throughexperiential learning modules. Such modules can be easily integrated into design-based coursesas well as laboratory courses to provide students with a hands-on experience and expose them toopen-ended questions. However, it is
:• Demonstrate expanded knowledge of the general practices of engineering through immersion in an engineering project environment of moderate to high complexity.• Demonstrate an ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team.• Demonstrate acquisition of new technology skills through use or development of appropriate computer hardware, software, and/or instrumentation.• Demonstrate effective use of project and personnel management techniques.• Integrate engineering professionalism and ethics in their work and as it relates to the context of engineering in society.• Demonstrate improved communication skills including written, oral, and multimedia.Two of the logistical challenges in the Junior/Senior Clinic are getting students
AC 2011-273: MEASURING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ROBOTICS AC-TIVITIES IN UNDERSERVED K-12 COMMUNITIES OUTSIDE THE CLASS-ROOMRayshun J Dorsey, WizKidz Science and Technology Centers, Inc. Rayshun Dorsey is currently the Founder and President of WizKidz Science and Technology Centers, an organization that works in conjunction with the Georgia Institute of Technology and currently offers an extensive in-formal education collaboration through various outreach projects to include AroPability, a federally funded initiative in conjunction with California Institute of Technology, Center for the Vi- sually Impaired, National Federation of the Blind and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite that seeks to stimulate STEM
activities forstudents to design and build their own soft gripper. This paper details the soft roboticscurriculum adapted for 6-8 year old children. These materials will allow other girl scout troopleaders to instruct similar lessons to earn these badges. We also present initial survey responsesfrom the girl scout participants. Surveys captured the students' drawings and perceptions ofrobotics and who builds robots. Survey responses will inform the use of soft robotics in grades asearly as elementary school. We aim to evaluate an alternative robotics curriculum that isspecifically designed to create inclusive robotics spaces for girls with the goal of reducing thegender disparity in STEM and traditional engineering majors.IntroductionDespite
development, as wellas a network simulator to provide students with a technology development environment fornetwork design, troubleshooting, and protocol modeling in a simulated environment. Followingthese considerations, this paper presents the way the Data Network Communications course wasupdated as part of an overall curriculum revision in an Electrical Engineering Technologyprogram. The paper discusses the course topics, the course objectives, and the software toolsintroduced to support the hands-on activities in the class, including the Wireshark software tool,for network troubleshooting, profiling network traffic and analyzing packets. The paper alsopresents the way the course was received by students, as well as lessons learned after the
University Keith D. Hjelmstad is Professor of Civil Engineering in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University.Mrs. Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University Lindy Hamilton Mayled is a PhD candidate at Grand Canyon University. She is pursuing her PhD in Psychology of Learning, Education, and Technology. Her background in in K-12 education where she has served as a high school science teacher, Instructional and Curriculum Coach, and Assistant Principal. Her research and areas of interest are in improving STEM educational outcomes for Low-SES students through the integration of active learning and technology-enabled frequent feedback. She currently works as the
progressive production of ajournal article, the focus of the Capstone Writing Course. Students must submit a credible articlefor possible publication to an industry periodical or academic journal to culminate their graduatestudies. Belcher’s Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks serves as the basis for thesecond year of resident writing instruction28. To complement this objective, the second yearwriting course also seeks improvement of student ability to condense information from a longerarticle and, then, to integrate and synthesize ideas for a paper from shorter but relatedpublications. The graduate faculty had noted that many students often summarized andsynthesized referenced concepts less adeptly than deemed necessary for their written
Cruz, CA. 6. C. Bacon, D. Mulvaney, T. Ball, E. M. DuPuis, S. Gliessman, R. Lipschutz, and A. Shakouri, “The creation of an integrated sustainability curriculum and student praxis projects.” International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 12(2), 193208, 2011. 7. E. M. Dupuis and T. Ball. “How Not What : Teaching Sustainability as Process.” Sustainability: Science, Practice & Policy 9 (1): 64–75, 2013. 8. B. Yalvac, H. Smith, J. Troy, and P. Hirsch, “Promoting Advanced Writing Skills in an UpperLevel Page 23.537.16 Engineering Class” Journal Of Engineering Education, 96
the humanities and social sciences, and, in particular, writing instruction forengineers. Employers consistently report that communication skills are among the mostvaluable assets for new employees coming out of college engineering programs. Just as withethics instruction, various institutions handle teaching writing and communication in differentways, from requiring stand-alone courses to integrating writing across the curriculum. Eventhough ABET requires proficiency in communication skills as an outcome, Reave found thatinstitutions’ methods of including writing in engineering curricula is scattered and exposure towriting practice is minimal [15]. Buswell et al. summarize important findings about engineeringcurricula and writing instruction
lastsummer, 70 high school students participated in the week-long cybersecurity summer campevent at North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota.The cybersecurity summer camp curriculum is facilitated by junior counselors (students whohave completed high school that have a strong interest in cybersecurity), counselors (collegestudents with cybersecurity experience), and university faculty & staff. This paper studies theimpact of having counselors and junior counselors integrated into the cybersecurity summercamp experience and evaluates the impact that being a counselor has on the students thatparticipate in that role. These impacts facilitate cybersecurity community engagement.1. IntroductionThe need for quality cybersecurity education
EducationThermodynamics (ME680) during their fourth or fifth years. Like their peer institutions, RIT hasthe desire and requirement to improve curriculum structure, integration, and assessment. ME413 and 680 form a progression in course work into the study of Thermodynamics and,therefore, the courses are carefully integrated. This integration is achieved through a courseassessment process conducted by the faculty leads from both courses.The goal of Thermodynamics is to provide studentswith practical and relevant engineering science Table 1. Summary of Topics Exploredbackground in thermodynamics. The course also in Thermodynamics (ME 413)provides the groundwork for subsequent courses in Topical Areas
paired with critical experiences with diverse students will supportthe development of these engineering students into engineers who are inclusive. Much workremains to be done.EpilogueWe made some changes in spring 2019 to the sequence of activities in the course described inthis study. The faculty implementing these activities are doing so because the activities havebeen integrated into the common curriculum for this course. After some discussions with thefaculty at the end of fall 2018, we moved the panel of engineers to the second course in this first-year engineering series. The faculty felt the content of this activity was a better fit with thecurriculum in the second class. Also, this second class only had three grant related activities
Justin Chau is a senior in the Cooperative Electrical Engineering Program between Missouri State Univer- sity and Missouri University of Science and Technology. Justin is interested in learning about computer engineering, electronics, and signal processing and likes to work on projects in these areas outside of class.Mr. Matthew Neal Mutarelli, Matthew Mutarelli, is a student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology and Missouri State University’s Cooperative Engineering Program. His research interests include Integrated Systems , Digital Logic, and Control systems.Dr. Rohit Dua, Missouri University of Science and Technology ROHIT DUA, Ph.D is an
faithfully follow the flow, conditionsthat are more easily met in water than air. This means that experiments on the same flowphenomenon can be performed more easily and inexpensively in a water tunnel than in a windtunnel. Still, the flow similarity between them means that the techniques used in each remain thesame.The senior capstone project discussed herein has two main goals: to provide a hands-on, design-based experience within fluid mechanics that integrates research into the classroom, and to createa functional water tunnel that can be used in both classroom demonstrations and in small-scaleresearch in an integrated way.Course StructureSenior design projects at The Citadel are created as part of a two-semester senior capstone coursesequence
Page 25.1251.2mechanism, four spring-type SMA actuators are required to have long stroke and a strongenough force to overcome resistance force due to deformation of small intestine. Thedeveloped actuator is integrated with clampers mimicking claws of insects and an earthworm-like locomotive mechanism is proposed. The SMA actuators can be controlled to contract andstretch by passing current through the wire. When all four SMA are actuated in the samerhythm, the capsule robot moves forward or backward. Turning capability can be achievedby actuating the left and right SMAs in the opposite rhythm. Based on the design of actuators,the capsule robot have the ability to move in 2-dimensional, moving forward and turning,which enables it to implement
Session 2526 Using Network Analysis Software To Teach the Internet Protocol Stack in the Laboratory Richard E. Pfile, William T. Lin Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IndianapolisAbstractThe stacked protocol concept is difficult to understand and to many students it’s an abstractnotion. Although students are masters at memorizing tasks the different protocol layers perform,they don’t grasp fundamental concepts of how the protocol stack functions in computercommunications. Message addresses reside at different layers in a stack, several stack
Financial decision making, First year engineering, Senior project, and Change management. Her research is in Engineering Education where she has received $9.8 million of funding from NSF as either PI or Co-PI. She researches equitable classroom practices, integrated learning, and institutional change. She spent the 2019-2020 academic year at Cal State LA where she taught and collaborated on research related to equity and social justice. With her colleagues at Cal State LA she recently received an NSF grant called Eco-STEM which aims to transform STEM education using an asset-based ecosystem model. She is also a Co-PI on an NSF S-STEM grant called ENGAGE which is working to make a more robust transfer pathway for local
Paper ID #31125Continuing to Promote Metacognitive Awareness in a First-Year LearningStrategies CourseDr. Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Clemson University Dr. Elizabeth Stephan is the Director of Academics for the General Engineering Program at Clemson University. She holds a B.S. and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Akron. Since 2002, she has taught, developed, and and now coordinates the first-year curriculum. As the lead author of the ”Thinking Like an Engineer” textbook, currently in its 4th edition, she has been the primary author team–member in charge of the development of the MyEngineeringLab
Technology at Purdue University Calumet, USA (from August, 2013 till present). His enthusiasm developed for learning Electrical controls, PLC Ladder logic (Allen Bradley), HMI design, Robot (Motoman) programming and Motion controls helped him to accomplish the integral part of his research projects. Moreover, he has been a dedicated Instructor for an undergraduate level course ’Electricity and Electronics fundamentals’ from January, 2014 to June, 2015 at Purdue University Calumet. At present, he is also working as an Electrical Engineer at Plastipak Packaging Inc. experi- encing different technologies like Injection Molders, Blow Molders, High Speed Vision System, Robotic palletizers in a packaging environment. His strong
. Encourage activities that integrates science and technology learning with other disciplines, Provide girls and young women with mentors form local campuses research facilities and corporations.2These recommendations fulfill the Hermanas conference objective of creating an encouragingstudent-centered learning environment, contextual curriculum that emphasizes exploration andcooperative learning.Belenky, Goldberger and Tarule in, Women’s Ways of Knowing, noted that women tend to beconnected knowers, where context is an important role and intuition, induction and creativity area part of the learning process. A contextual curriculum is a common theme for making thescience and engineering classroom more inclusive.7 This allows students
cooperative learning can be especially effective in a first-year engineering curriculum.Smith (1993) describes the development of an introductory engineering course that emphasizesactive and cooperative learning. The course is centered on model building as a process thatstudents can and should be actively engaged in. The course is supported by a text, Starfield et al.(1994), that emphasizes the active learning of modeling. LeBanc (1998) indicates that problemsolving is an acquired skill; the more students practice it, the better they get. A good alternativefor including problem-solving skills in the curriculum is to incorporate it in an introductoryengineering course for freshmen. References [2, 11, 15] all discuss the need for an
students conceptualize design and how that affects their designoutcomes, this project supports the design of future education programs that produce engineerswith a more balanced perspective on design that accounts for both technical feasibility and marketneeds.Research methodology overviewAligned with the constructivism framework, which asserts that learners construct theirunderstanding of the world through their experiences [18], this project is organized to firstunderstand how students conceive of design, then introduce market-driven design conceptsthrough an interactive course curriculum, and finally observe the ways in which these studentconceptions of design evolve or expand. This paper analyzes data collected from 130undergraduate students
12.1205.2IntroductionThis paper describes how a systematic effort is being carried out at the University of Missouri-Columbia, to promote student awareness of best practices in energy efficiency, reusable energy,waste reduction and productivity improvements. In particular, it illustrates how the activities of anewly established Missouri Industrial Assessment Center (U.S. Department of Energy, IACProgram) in the College of Engineering can be logically integrated with both graduate andundergraduate engineering education in this regard.Missouri Industrial Assessment CenterWith the backing of the U.S. Department of Energy, and in partnership with the Missouri StateDepartment of Natural Resources (MoDNR), the State Department of Economic Development,the University of
. Dr. Friess’ research background includes fluid mechanics, composite materials, performance optimization, and global engineering education. Cur- rent research interests focus on engineering education, in particular curriculum integration and innovative pedagogical methods. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Lighter than air vehicles as aerospace focused projects in a mechanical engineering capstone sequenceAbstractMechanical engineering Senior Design projects often extend to cover aerospace engineeringtopics. Due to strong student interest, unmanned flight vehicles in the form of the AIAA DFBcompetition were introduced into Senior Design at the University of
learning strategies, and positive habits of mind.Dr. Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Clemson University Dr. Elizabeth Stephan is the Director of Academics for the General Engineering Program at Clemson University. She holds a B.S. and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Akron. Since 2002, she has taught, developed, and and now coordinates the first-year curriculum. As the lead author of the ”Thinking Like an Engineer” textbook, currently in its 4th edition, she has been the primary author team–member in charge of the development of the MyEngineeringLab system.Matthew K. Miller, Clemson University Matt Miller is a Senior Lecturer in the General Engineering Program at Clemson University. His back- ground in