, community engagementIntroductionThe benefits of community engagement for the education of engineering students are widelyknown and described [1-3]. Typically, universities offer academic spaces for community servicein the curriculum of certain programs. In the case of the Electronic Engineering (EE) major of thePontificia Universidad Javeriana University in Colombia, there is a course called University SocialProject (Proyecto Social Universitario, PSU). During more than 30 years of different iterationsand changes, this course has promoted the commitment and responsibility of EE students withvulnerable populations and institutions that the university has built a partnership with [4]. Its goalis to generate in students an attitude of reflection and
softwarepackages, such as Fluent, Star-CD, and Flow-3D, attests to the growing use of CFDin industry. This is in large part due to its usefulness in the design process. CFD analysiscan provide insight and foresight into the operation and design of fluid systems, whilereducing the “test-and-build” cycle by evaluating multiple designs cost-effectively. Inacademia, CFD methods have traditionally been taught at the graduate level. However,CFD computer programs and packages are also increasingly being integrated into theundergraduate curriculum, serving as “virtual fluids laboratories” to teach and reinforceconcepts from fluid mechanics and heat transfer 1, or incorporated into senior-levelengineering course electives 2, 3.With the prevailing perception of
for scientific research noris it simply an extension of content and method of pre-professional undergraduate education. Infact, it is different because the aims are different, as are the professional maturity factors,experiences, and objectives of graduate engineers. As Cranch has pointed out, everything can’tbe taught in the already saturated undergraduate engineering curriculum, nor have undergraduateengineering students reached the level of professional maturity to grasp certain professionalissues.10Because of the inexperience of undergraduates, and their stage of professional maturity, many ofthe professional dimensions cannot be developed until later years in graduate professionaleducation and after the graduate has gained an established
acrossPennsylvania. The key feature of the NMT Partnership that enables the communitycolleges to offer associate degree programs in nanofabrication is a suite of sixnanofabrication courses taught three times per year (fall and spring semesters andsummer session) at the Penn State Nanofabrication Facility. The NanofabricationFacility staff teaches these six nanofabrication courses, called the “capstone semester,”for the community colleges and other partner institutions. To date, 173 students from 16different institutions have completed the NMT capstone semester. In July 2001, the National Science Foundation designated the Pennsylvania NMTPartnership as an Advanced Technology Education (ATE) Center for NanofabricationManufacturing Education. This
is the process ofbuilding an integrated knowledge base that will ultimately prepare them for applying thatknowledge in their career.IntroductionThis paper presents a series of solid mechanics challenges that are being developed to reinforcesolid mechanics concepts and to illustrate the relationship between classical mechanics of solidsand finite element stress analysis while highly motivating students. The challenges are beingdeveloped through an interaction with VANTH, an NSF funded Engineering Research Center forBioengineering Educational Technologies, that introduced the authors to the How People Learn1(HPL) framework for the design of effective learning environments and challenge/problem basedinstruction. The challenges are based on the
agreement between the heat duty on the economizer, butwill not get an exact agreement with the simulated boiler heat duty. This descrepancy serves as acheck on the integrity of the student’s calculations.This exercise has the advantage of showing to the students the model equations employed by thecomputer simulation. The students now have the advantage of having seen a process familiar tothem (such as boiling water), performed a computer simulation and then conducted hand calcu-lations of the process.Second and Third Week ExperimentsIn the next two laboratory sessions four experiments are conducted in which the students useequipment similar to that observed in the cogeneration plant. The experiments performed are:x Flowrate Measurement: Rotameter
interplay between social and technical considerations(Leydens & Lucena, 2017), but they have few opportunities to develop these sociotechnical waysof thinking (i.e., values, attitudes, and skills that integrate the social and technical). Instead,students are left to infer engineering as technically neutral through the instructional decisionsthat make up an engineering curriculum (Cech, 2013; Trevelan, 2014).In this study, we focus on how students understand the role of sociotechnical thinking inengineering. Particularly, this study centers seven minoritized students in an introductoryengineering computation class who are pursuing an engineering degree. The study takes place ata medium private university in New England. These seven students are
research in open-ended domains such as engineering design and authentic scientific inquiry. With insights in learning sciences and a strong, computationally oriented mindset, she hopes to utilize learning analytics to investigate important questions with unprecedented granularity and generate actionable knowledge for the design of technology and curriculum. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Investigating Teacher’s Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge in a CAD-enabled Learning EnvironmentIntroduction There has been an increased emphasis on the integration of engineering design withscience learning across all grades in the K-12 school curriculum. A
the Course and Laboratory ChallengeThe University of San Diego (USD) is a Catholic, liberal arts institution of higher educationlocated in Southern California. The university offers three engineering majors: electricalengineering, industrial and systems engineering, as well as mechanical engineering. The threemajors share a common curriculum in the freshman and sophomore years. Students receive adual BS/BA degree in unique 4.5 year programs.Engineering design is incorporated into the curriculum of the three programs at all levels.Students are first exposed to engineering design in the freshman year through two courses:ENGR 101 (Introduction to Engineering) and ENGR 102 (Engineering Design Practice). Thedesign experience is integrated into
3 Iowa State University 4 University of San FranciscoAbstractThis work presents the results of an assessment instrument designed to assess the progressivelearning of ethics in the engineering curriculum at different stages known as acclimation,competency, and proficiency, and to determine the relation of the development stages with threecomponents that contribute to learning: interest, knowledge and strategic processing. Thequestions in the instrument were defined following the Model of Domain Learning (MDL) tocapture the level of ethics skill development. The questionnaire was administered to engineeringstudents of increasing class standing (i.e., freshmen to senior). The results show that the
has taught business and engineering ethics at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez for the last 19 years, currently in that university’s College of Business Administration. His areas of research include engineering ethics, moral psychology, computer ethics, as well as research and business ethics. He is currently a Co-PI on the GERESE project in research ethics and Co-PI on another NSF project devoted to developing an online toolkit of modules and cases for use in ethics across the curriculum initiatives . Page 14.307.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Case analysis: a
(from a school that scores poorly on theToronto District School Board’s learning opportunities index) to integrate IBBME teaching labfacilities into their biology, chemistry, and physics curriculum and have their grades 11 and 12students address biomedical engineering design challenges in this environment. Each graduatestudent project team was required to accomplish 4 tasks: 1) propose a theme related tobiomedical engineering based on a single thesis and 2, 3, 4) propose suitable activities that couldbe used in the Discovery program for biology, chemistry, and physics high school students. Graduate Course Discovery Program Knowledge translation Activities completed by
, monitor overall student progress and to plan and improve curriculum andteaching. As such, an educational assessment professional engages in the following tasks: 1. Working with subject matter experts in the area targeted for assessment to determine the goals, objectives and outcomes of the intervention that is to be assessed; 2. Develop valid assessment tools (whether traditional or rubrics) to measure desired outcomes; 3. Alternatively, helping to choose already-existing assessment instruments that are relevant to the intervention’s intended outcomes; 4. Implement finalized instruments for the desired program or intervention; 5. Report assessment data; and 6. Help to interpret
-ricula to enhance undergraduate and graduate education and research engagement in related en-gineering and science fields.2 Problem statement and objectives Page 26.1743.4There is a jumble of symbols, concepts, channels, systems and standards that make wirelesscommunications sound very abstract and incomprehensive. (This is true for other engineeringand science fields, too, but we focus on wireless here.) The question we raise is can we providebetter access and understanding of these concepts and introduce them into the undergraduate en-gineering curriculum?Rather than looking at equations and variables, our objective is providing an intuitive
course. We also describethe structure of the new course and the activities that course participants are expected tocomplete. In developing and implementing the new course, we relied extensively on supportprovided by local civil engineering professionals. The local professionals were recruited to assistwith the course so that (1) we could provide realistic design experiences for the students and(2) we could integrate professional practice issues directly into the course curriculum. In thepaper, we describe the specific roles that local professionals play on the instructional team.Both faculty members and local practitioners helped to assess course and program outcomes.We present course and program assessment data in the paper, along with a brief
inacademia.Table 3 Example of a multiple case study investigating interorganizational relationshipsfocused on middle school engineering education [27] Context: Partnerships among engineering industry, universities, and school systems to support learning appear promising, but there is still a gap in our understanding about how to establish these partnerships for mutual success. Research question: In a public–private partnership to integrate engineering into middle school science curriculum, how do stakeholder characterizations of the collaborative process align with existing frameworks of interorganizational collaboration? The case: The authors applied qualitative, embedded multiple case study to investigate the evolution of the first year of a multiyear
2002.[11] J. D. Ford, L. A. Riley, “Integrating Communication and Engineering Education: A Look at Curricula, Courses, and Support Systems”, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol 92(4), pp 325-328, October 2003.[12] D. C. Andrews, “An Interdisciplinary Course in Technical Communication”, Technical Communication, Vol 50 (4), pp. 446-451, November 2003. [13] S. Manuel-DuPont, “Writing-across-the-curriculum in an Engineering Program”, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol 85(1), pp. 35-40, January 1996.[14] J. D. Ford, L. A. Riley, 2003. “Integrating Communication and Engineering Education: A Look at
information technology, the negligible price of telecommunications, and historically low transportationcosts have resulted in shorter technology and methodology development cycles combined with ever increasingglobalization. In this scene of rapid advancement of the workplace, the interaction between academia and industryinherent in cooperative education forms an asset that has a strong influence on the competitiveness and wealth of acommunity. Conclusively a modern curriculum can only be planned with regards to its composition. The actualcontent, especially the focus on applications, should be executed as an interactive process between the universityand its stakeholders. With baccalaureate program through-put times at four to five years the work
times led tothe scheduling difficulty.Changes implemented. Due to the difficulty in the number of students on a team, team sizes forthe current competition have been reduced to six. Tasks are now defined throughout thesemester to help the teams find more time to integrate. The sophomore students have also beengiven greater responsibilities in the safety and environmental aspects of the competition.Assessment methods. Evaluations by the instructors with regards to teamwork during the posterpresentation and car competition will be the primary assessment tools. Each team member willalso provide an evaluation of his/her team members. In addition, judges of the postercompetition (other than the course instructors) will provide evaluations of the
Electromagnetics PreparationAbstractA new undergraduate elective course that develops a background in antennas for senior electricalengineering students is presented. The course is only three quarter-credits long, that is, twosemester-credits. An innovative aspect of this course is the modest prerequisite of only a Junior-level, four semester-credits (four lecture hours per week) electromagnetics course or equivalent.In our quarter-based system, four semester-credit lecture hours translates into two courses ofthree quarter-credits (three lecture hours per week) each. The prerequisite courses, required inour undergraduate electrical engineering curriculum, are modulated in depth and breadth oftopics, starting with vector algebra and coordinate systems and
curriculum improvement in higher education.MARIA Javiera de los RIOSGabriel AstudilloJorge Baier (Associate Dean of Engineering Education) (PontificiaUniversidad Catholica de Chile) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com WIP: Exploring differences in student sense of belonging inside and outside the engineering classroomIntroduction Sense of belonging has become an important factor for creating inclusive and equitablelearning environments in engineering education. By sense of belonging, Strayhorn [1] referred tothe feeling of mattering to a community in consequence of the received support and the socialties
Coursesmulti-disciplinary integration of their designs due to the isolated nature of topics in the classroom(Andersen et al. 2007; ASCE 2008). For students to become more multidisciplinary in nature, studentsneed to learn how real project teams interact and how they coordinate designs while maintainingtechnical execution. This combination of skills remains an area of study within engineering educationthat still is in need of further development and refinement for different majors (McNair et al. 2011).In looking at Tomek’s (2011) work, it was paramount to distill in the students the understanding ofroles, responsibilities, and the integration of the various disciplines. Yet, academically this remainsincreasingly difficult to develop within confined
). A neo-Kohlbergian approach: TheDIT and schema theory. Educational Psychology Review, 11(4), 291-324.[11] Zhu, Q., & Zoltowski, C. B., & Feister, M. K., & Buzzanell, P. M., & Oakes, W. C., & Mead,A. D. (2014, June), The Development of an Instrument for Assessing Individual Ethical DecisionMaking in Project-based Design Teams: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods. Paperpresented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana. 10.18260/1-2—23130[12] D. Burkey, R. Cimino, M. Young, K. Dahm, & S. Streiner (2022, October). It’s All Relative:Examining Student Ethical Decision Making in a Narrative Game-Based Ethical Intervention. In2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) (pp. 1
of a training course onefficient heating and cooking, so that the local people themselves understand the dangers of thecook stove and the benefits of more efficient technologies. To communicate knowledge aboutthe toxicity of fuel emissions, especially to the target group of younger children, the groupchose "fables" as an operator for the second step of their concept. As part of the EWBChallenge, the project group developed two fables with typical African characters. Themarketing concept presented in the students’ thesis involves cooperation with local teacherswho could integrate these fables into the curriculum of the primary school. The pupils can passon the orally told tales while eating together with their families and thus also encourage
). Integrating innovation and entrepreneurship principles into the civil engineering curriculum. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice. 141(3): 1-8.13. KEEN (Retrieved 2/9/2021). Engineering Unleashed. https://engineeringunleashed.com/mindset.14. Zappe, S. E. (2018). Avoiding construct confusion: An attribute-focused approach to assessing entrepreneurial mindset. Advances in Engineering Education, 7(1), 1-12.15. Zappe, S. E., Cutler, S. C., & Gase, L. (Submitted, 2021). A Systematic Review of the Impacts of Entrepreneurial Service Programs in STEM Fields. Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy.16. Rayess, N. E. (2016). Instilling an Entrepreneurial Engineering
activities are aligned with the early weeksof typical CS0 curriculums, and provide students with features and supports includingincremental instructions and adaptive supports tailored to the state of the student’s currentprogram. Facilitated by integration with LMS systems such as Canvas and Moodle, PRIME hasbeen used by over 600 students at NC State and Florida A&M University helping to refine thesystem for future iterations.As PRIME moves forward we will look to both expand the current set of activities, as well asmove forward in the development and integration of data-driven student models capable ofdriving adaptive scaffolding within the existing PRIME activities. Additionally, we willinvestigate alternative approaches to transition students
. Page 12.83.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A NOVEL LABWORK APPROACH FOR TEACHING A MECHATRONICS COURSE Abstract This paper presents a novel approach adopted to enhance the hands-on learning aspect ofa Mechatronics course for undergraduate mechanical engineering students. In addition totraditional homework, which is usually solved analytically and/or numerically and conventionallaboratory experiments, in which students follow certain pre-written, spoon-feeding proceduresto complete assignment, our approach designed a set of “labwork” as an integral part of thiscourse for students’ learning through their own “design of experiments” to solve engineeringproblems. To solve these
Virtual LearningPrevious research on project-based instruction shows that the ABET required competencies forengineering and engineering technology programs, are better implemented through project-basedinstruction [12]. The ABET Accreditation General Criteria under curriculum, states that“Baccalaureate degree curricula must provide a capstone or integrating experience that developsstudent competencies in applying both technical and non-technical skills in solving problems” [11].Other researchers have determined that project-based instruction is an extremely effective methodof learning the fundamentals and understanding how engineering principles are applied to solvedesign problems [14].The Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and the
Systems Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education. Dr. Allam’s interests are in spatial visual- ization, engineering design education, diffusion of evidence-based teaching practices, the use of learning management systems for large-sample educational research studies, curriculum development, and fulfill- ing the needs of an integrated, multi-disciplinary first-year engineering educational environment through the use of active and collaborative learning, real-world application and examples, problem-based and project-based learning, classroom interaction, and multiple representations of concepts. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 The Role of Instructional Coaching
-requisite for Calculus 1. Precalculus covers both topics in algebra and trigonometry; while planetrigonometry only covers basic topics in trigonometry including identities, formulas, and polarcoordinate system. Precalculus is recommended over Trigonometry for our engineeringstudents. Engineering applications of mathematics is an overview of the mathematics topicsheavily used in sophomore-level engineering courses. Topics include algebraic analysis,trigonometry, vectors and complex numbers, sinusoids and harmonic signals, systems ofequations and matrices, differentiation, integration, and differential equations. Hands-on labs areused to support mathematical concepts and application of these concepts to real-worldengineering problems [7].All eight