and creating a valid ship structural model, it ispossible to incorporate its use into general naval architecture courses without the requirement tobecome an expert in structural finite element analysis. The use of MAESTRO in the graduateprogram affords the students greater insight into ship structural response to load effects that arenot always accurately analyzed by current manual methods (simple prismatic beam analysis). Inthe undergraduate program, the students use MAESTRO to develop a structural model as part oftheir senior ship design project. There has been difficulty in the undergraduate program in thedevelopment of a whole ship model, but the software allows the mid-portion of the ship structureto be easily created. In both the
experienceswhere the adolescents had the opportunity to research, analyze, and/or design solutions toproblems affecting their community. The adolescents worked in teams of three or four membersover the course of one school year to develop a solution to the problem they selected. Pre andpost-interviews were conducted to determine the adolescents’ perceptions of engineering andtheir self-efficacy in engineering. Data revealed that the participants’ sense of engineering self-efficacy increased after participating in the project. In addition, the participants’ perceptions ofengineering changed over time. This exploratory study suggests that authentic engineeringexperiences, defined as experiences in which students identify real problems they want to solvefor
engineers but is notaddressed in studies focusing on math and science identity. This gap in the literaturepresents a unique opportunity to make an important contribution to the literature byexplicitly examining how students’ affect towards key elements of engineering practicepredict their engineering identities. The first step towards narrowing this gap isestablishing a measure of affect towards key elements of engineering practice. In abroader project, we seek to understand how an individual’s affect toward elements ofengineering practice, i.e., the extent to which one likes these elements, predicts theirattraction to and retention within engineering education and the engineering profession,via its effects on identification with the engineering
these spaces through a mixed-method study. A quantitative longitudinal studyof students in a mechanical engineering program collected data on design self-efficacy,makerspace involvement, and user demographics through surveys conducted on freshmen,sophomores, and seniors. In this paper, the student responses from three semesters of freshmenlevel design classes are evaluated for involvement and self-efficacy based on whether or not a 3Dmodeling project requires the use of makerspace equipment. The study finds that students requiredto use the makerspace for the project were significantly more likely to become involved in themakerspace.These results inspired us to integrate a qualitative approach to examine how student involvementand exposure to
his BS degree in electrical engineering (1975) from California State University, Sacramento, and his MS (1980) and DE (1983) degrees in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University. His educa- tion and research interests include project management, innovation and entrepreneurship, and embedded product/system development.Dr. Jay R. Porter, Texas A&M University Jay R. Porter joined the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University in 1998 and is currently the Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Studies. He re- ceived the BS degree in electrical engineering (1987), the MS degree in physics (1989), and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering (1993) from
the Microelectronics Journal on Quality Electronic Design, 2005. His research interests include VLSI circuit and system design, CAD methodology for VLSI design, and bioelectronics.Prof. Zinta S. Byrne, Colorado State University Zinta S. Byrne is a tenured full professor of psychology at Colorado State University. Her previous careers were as software design and development engineer, an R&D project manager and a program manager for Hewlett-Packard Company, and management consultant for Personnel Decisions International, before becoming a professor at CSU. She is author of ”Understanding Employee Engagement: Theory, Research, and Practice” and ”Organizational Psychology and Behavior: An Integrated Approach to
members. The research and education project described in thispaper has grown from these original student-driven efforts.Need for Earthquake-Resistant Residential StructuresWhile the news coverage in Western media often highlights the massive devastation caused byearthquakes in developing regions of the World for only a few weeks until other topics capturethe public’s attention, their effects are felt by the inhabitants of the affected regions for decades.Severe earthquakes of larger than a moment magnitude of approximately 6.5 may injure and killsthousands if not ten thousands of individuals and can cause billions of dollars of damages to thebuilt environment.The recent example of the Pakistan earthquake of 2005, which is only one among a long
AC 2007-947: METEORITICS AND MATERIALS IN AN ME LAB COURSEBrandon Hathaway, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Brandon Hathaway is a senior Mechanical Engineering student at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. After graduation in May 2007, Brandon continue his studies in graduate school.Ashley Bernal, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Ashley Bernal is a graduate of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Ms. Bernal is a Project Engineer with Boeing Aerospace in St. Louis.Cory Edds, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Cory Edds is a senior Mechanical Engineering student at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Cory will be employed as a Project Engineer
. Page 12.1183.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 PRIME Modules: Teaching Introduction to Materials Engineering in the Context of Modern TechnologiesAbstractThis paper discusses the progress of curriculum development under an NSF, CCLI-EMDsponsored work, “Development of Project-Based Introductory to Materials EngineeringModules” (DUE # #0341633). A multi-university team of faculty is developing five lecturemodules for use in Introductory to Materials courses. This course is required by mostengineering programs in the U.S., with an annual enrollment of 50,000 students. This freshman/sophomore class is an ideal place to excite students about their engineering majors and exposethem to real world
acrossscience and engineering by developing a first course that had minimal prerequisites in science(physics and chemistry), math, and engineering, (3) use the first course as the only prerequisitefor the remaining core courses, (4) develop course materials with the expectation that distance Page 11.923.3education with web-based dissemination would be a primary format, (5) serve undergraduate andgraduate students, as well as serve practicing professionals, (6) be available for students at allthree partnering universities (UM, MSU, MTU), (7) develop skills in critical assessment ofdiverse technologies and devices, (8) develop engineering project
modules located within the PLC chassis. Operator adjustment, mode selection,and patient monitoring are accomplished using a personal computer running a visual basicapplication designed specifically for this project. The operator interface mimics the look of atraditional ventilator control chassis. A serial data connection provides the communication pathbetween the PLC and the personal computer. Using a PLC and a computer interface (HMI) as therespirator control system has distinct advantages over traditional microprocessor control systems.These include: the operation and adjustment of the respirator can be accomplished at a locationother than the location of the respirator, alarm conditions can also be determined and evaluatedfrom a remote
more comfortable formatfor some students but less immersion in the culture.Partner Sub-contractThe home university partners with an abroad university and contracts for courses to be taught tostudents of the home university (usually in English). Students may live on-campus. Unlike anexchange program, parity of exchange does not have to be maintained.Project-based Learning/Service LearningStudents travel abroad and are immersed in another culture via a project that connects technologywith the abroad society. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is perhaps the leader in this typeof format. There has also been growing interest in programs such as Engineers Without Borders,which provide service learning via humanitarian projects.Research AbroadA
typically takenduring the junior year. This course is the only place in the curriculum where topics such asdesign of experiments, measurement of engineering quantities, data analysis and selection ofsensors are covered. Beginning in Fall 2011 this course underwent an extensive redesign tomove from demonstration lab experiments to hands on, open ended laboratory experienceswhich emphasized the students’ ability to design experiments, identify the variables to bemeasured, and select the best instrumentation for a given task. Previous research by one of theauthors demonstrated measureable gains in retention of course concepts and the application ofthose concepts during a ‘design your own measurement experiment’ term project. The purposeof the current
reach, the disciplines face new challenges. In Rwanda, onwhich this paper will focus, 40% of the federal budget comes from international aid anddevelopment projects depend on the state of foreign affairs. Under such precarity, designdisciplines often struggle to integrate local participants as primary project drivers. Design andconstruction knowledge, experience and jobs could leave with the foreigners who brought them.In these global projects, the West receives praise in case of success while risks befall on thelocals in case of failure. “Home” in this context is found in the West where designers manageprojects in the distant field of developing countries. The unique overlap between the home andthe field of design disciplines are undermined by
contemporary engineering education. Thus, gaining background in theory andpractice of constructive learning uniquely prepares engineering graduate students who planacademic careers. This presentation describes a novel approach in which engineering graduatestudents learned about learning theory through study, discussion, and practice in a constructivistenvironment.The approach was developed as a training program for engineering graduate studentsparticipating in the NSF-funded Research Communications Studio (RCS) Project at the Universityof South Carolina. These graduate students mentor small groups of engineering undergraduateresearchers who meet in weekly Studio sessions to develop their research and communicationsabilities. The graduate student
Operations Laboratory that has begun during the 2000-2001academic year. A newly created Endowed Chair, the Linus Pauling Engineer, was hired fromindustry to identify and incorporate the highest priority professional practices to senior lab. Sheserves as “project director” for this class to help new graduates become immediately prepared forindustrial practice. Thus the unit operations lab provides students with the array of skills theywill need to perform effectively in industry. The ChE Unit Operations Laboratory inMicroelectronics Processing is targeted at undergraduate students who are interested in careers asprocess engineers in microelectronics and related industries. The students will both develop anin-depth understanding of the underlying
students enter college with high levels of interestin science and engineering, their levels of preparation for college-level work, especially in mathand engineering, are so low that the majority of them drop out or change majors even beforetaking transfer-level courses. In 2008, Cañada College, a Hispanic-Serving community collegein Redwood City, CA, was awarded a Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program(MSEIP) grant by the US Department of Education to develop and implement a project that aimsto maximize the likelihood of success among underrepresented and educationally disadvantagedstudents interested in pursuing careers in STEM fields. The project, entitled Student On-rampLeading to Engineering and Sciences (SOLES), incorporates
on a project in a way that could be described asmultidisciplinary. “Interdisciplinarity is a means of solving problems and answering questionsthat cannot be satisfactorily addressed using single methods or approaches.”21Multidisciplinarity, on the other hand, is less integrative, and combines contributions frommultiple disciplines in a weaker and often temporary manner, with collaborators staying rootedin their own disciplines.22-25 Because most engineering design work at minimum requiresengineers to engage in multidisciplinary interactions,10, 11, 26, 27 knowledge of and attention toBNAs could benefit faculty and students in many teamwork settings, and not only those that areinterdisciplinary. Literature ReviewFrom Boundary Objects to
particular design solutions. Specifically, they struggle with creating,manipulating, and critiquing mathematical models to assist in the design of a product or process.The ultimate aim of our work is to improve students’ ability to use models in capstone designafter being exposed to instruction on mathematical modeling.This study was a continuation of an earlier project in which we explored how studentsdeveloped, used, and interpreted mathematical models. In the previous study, students weregiven instruction in the steps of mathematical modeling and a scenario in which they were askedto assist a hypothetical design team by creating a mathematical model that could be used inmaking decisions about the design. The instruction and the scenario broke
Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationwe redesigned the freshman course. The following sections discuss the specifics of the courseredesign and the challenges and rewards in adopting the new format.General - Syllabus - The class joint syllabus overviewed both the IE and ME components of theclass as well as ABET-required syllabus information for each of the two engineering disciplines.In detail, the syllabus described course credit awarded in an even mixture of engineering basicsand projects (60%), with the remaining 40% based on sign-in attendance plus the final exam.We viewed mandatory attendance as critical to our retention goals
sense of belonging [5]. This is reflectedlocally in a university-wide survey conducted at our university, where more than 80% of studentsfelt they needed more support from faculty and around 64% felt they needed more opportunitiesto participate in classes [4]. From the authors’ experience, the lack of opportunity for engineeringpractice has a clear and notably negative effect on undergraduate clubs, impacting students’ con-fidence and ability to materially contribute to applied projects and pursue other independent andextracurricular educational opportunities. We found that the time constraints of a third or fourthyear engineering student dissuade them from joining clubs, leaving the majority of new club mem-bers as first or second year. With
Graphics Course is designed to teach Engineering Students (Mechanical,Manufacturing, Civil) the basics of Engineering Drawings. This includes the use of CADsoftware as well as hand sketching. The use of CBI during this course is intended to enhance theEngineering Graphics Course and data taken from grades on homework assignments, quizzesand projects as well as attendance and participation will indicate if this is the case. The use ofCBI in STEM fields has proven to be effective in previous studies and will be the focus of thisdiscussion1-3.The lessons to be discussed are those in creating orthogonal multi-view sketches and drawings,isometric and oblique pictorial sketches, and two lessons in the creation of sub-assemblies usingCAD software. For
from several top US universities,but predominantly from business schools rather than engineering schools. Our niche was seen asbeing a team, which focused on their own technology development. The timetable for theproposal was discussed. The deadline right after Final Exams in December 1998 was realized tobe a common problem for all schools, and as such an advantage to a compact and well-organizedteam which was used to meeting project deadlines.c. Team formationThe other respondent from Georgia Tech was found to be lone first-quarter freshman, who waswelcomed into the team with NASA's approval. Announcements were sent out to facultycolleagues in the Dupree School of Management, and the School of Bioengineering seekinginterest and support, while
Green Belt. She has numerous publications and is a member of American Society for Quality (ASQ), American Statistical Association (ASA) and Project Management Institute (PMI) Page 15.455.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Employing Six Sigma as a Tool for Continuous Improvement in Engineering Technology EducationAbstractSeveral members of the College Assessment Committee interested in improving the collegeassessment plan for continuous improvement became interested in using Six Sigma methodologynot only for manufacturing processes but for learning processes in engineering
usinghydrogen fuel, quantifying the economic opportunities in the Carbon Market. Sophomores inresearch Special Problems were tasked with extending the freshman experience to supersonicairliners, as part of a team including senior students. These students explored radical concepts forsuch airliners. An upper level aerodynamics course was used to develop technical figures ofmerit for supersonic hydrogen airliners from basic aerodynamics knowledge. The processidentified numerous gaps in the comprehension of the students from their courses. Theintegration challenge of this project enabled iterative refinement of their understanding. Theconcepts and analysis approaches taught at each level are seen to have become useful only whensubjected to integrated use
Paper ID #7458Raising Students’ Cultural Awareness through Design ScenariosAndrea Mazzurco, Purdue University Andrea Mazzurco is a Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interests focus around global engineering education with an emphasis on cross-cultural education and assessment for engineers, and critical/liberatory/emancipatory pedagogies in engineering projects for sustainable com- munity development in ”less-developed” countries.James Huff, James L. Huff is a Ph.D. candidate in Engineering Education at Purdue University and the assistant edu- cation administrator for EPICS. He earned
, CA, was awarded a Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program(MSEIP) grant by the US Department of Education to develop and implement a project that aimsto maximize the likelihood of success among underrepresented and educationally disadvantagedstudents interested in pursuing careers in STEM fields. The project, entitled Student On-rampLeading to Engineering and Sciences (SOLES), incorporates strategies that address challengesand barriers to recruitment, retention and success of minority students. Among the strategiesdeveloped for this project are two summer programs that were implemented for the first time insummer 2009. The Summer Math Jam is a two-week intensive mathematics program designedto improve student preparation for
1 Agile Capstone Integration of Free, Disparate Cloud Services Produced a Prototype Application that Tracks Airborne Wildfire Firefighting Resources Bryan K. Allen and Gordon W. Romney School of Engineering and Computing National University, San Diego, CAAbstractA prototype application designed to leverage state-of-the art cloud computing technologies wasdeveloped as a capstone project for U.S. Defense Support to a Civilian Authority mission. Theoutcome of this paper demonstrates the Agile development and
Paper ID #35794An Effective Way of Teaching Electrical and Computer EngineeringCapstone Senior Design Courses for Underrepresented StudentsMr. Vewiser J Turner Jr P.E., Prairie View A&M University Summary I am a retired Executive from ExxonMobil with 35 years of service at this Corporation. Dur- ing my tenure with ExxonMobil, I have had a number of engineering, planning, business development, project, and operational assignments. I have extensive leadership experience, strategy development knowl- edge, and ability deliver superior results. I have been accountable for thousands of employees and millions of dollars as a
bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He is currently the Lab Manager for the Ashesi Resourceful Engineering Lab (AREL), where he super- vises and supports both educational and engineering-based research projects. As part of being the Lab Manager at AREL, Jeremiah has spearheaded unique projects to develop the fluids lab. He also plays a vital role as the mechanical designer for an emerging up-cycling and down-cycling textile firm. Jeremiah believes in diligence.Gordon Adomdza Dr. Gordon Kwesi Adomdza is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Ashesi Uni- versity. He teaches courses that use Design Thinking to develop innovative concepts for new ideas and business models. He is the faculty lead