technology, and readings in diverse canonical and non-canonical works of sciencefiction. This humanistic course concluded with a summative group project, which requiredstudents to draw upon all aspects of the diverse curriculum in order to fulfill assignment goals.The project, which was designed to activate both creative and critical thinking abilities, directedstudents to create utopian societies. In order to imagine visionary alternative societies, studentsemployed ethical principles, invoked themes and ideas from literature, and utilized new and evenspeculative technologies. In designing planned "perfect" communities, the students examined ourmost pressing social, scientific, and cultural challenges, responding to these problems byenvisioning new
years, while other variables have been collected for decades. With the data, we cananswer historical questions such as “how did the Great Recession affect college attendance andmajors?” and student advising questions such as “given my interests and abilities, would anEngineering Technology degree be a good choice if I want to pay back my student loans by age30?”In addition, NCES publishes projected statistics for the next decade. Projections indicate a 13%increase in college enrollment in the next 11 years, with the highest growth rates amongstwomen, people of color, Hispanics, Asians, and students over 35. Professors and administratorsin higher education can use this information for academic advising, for requesting resources, andfor
, 2018 A Review of Electronic Engineering Logbooks Throughout the Electrical Engineering Curriculum Abstract Successful engineers must be well versed in communication skills, particularly with respect to written documentation in engineering logbooks. Such logs provide technical records that facilitate the day-to-day work of individual engineers, as well as enable continuity when projects are transferred to other engineers. Due to changes in technology and patent law, as well as the promise of simple archiving and sharing of technical work, many practicing engineers have moved away from traditional bound paper engineering notebooks and
opportunities for students to learn prototyping and design-thinking tocomplement the more formal, in class engineering education. Student led workshops arepresented as the start of a systemic series of extracurricular design learning experiences.IntroductionThe number of academic makerspaces has grown rapidly in the last five years. Many of thesespaces focus on developing engineering design skills and nurturing a design thinking mindset byproviding students with space, resources, and training. Extracurricular activities have beenshown to play an important role in design and innovation learning, particularly in makerspaces[1]. Moreover, peer-to-peer learning in classroom and project-based courses like senior capstonedesign have been found to play a
Paper ID #22004Conceptual Framework for Integrating a Wireless Sensor and Control Net-work into a Robotics Course for Senior Students of Mechanical EngineeringTechnologyDr. Zhou Zhang, New York City College of Technology Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology, CUNY New York City College of Technology, 186 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Email: ZhZhang@citytech.cuny.eduDr. Andy S. Zhang, New York City College of Technology Dr. Andy S. Zhang received his Ph.D. from the City University of New York in 1995. He is currently the program director of a mechatronics project in the New York City College of
wasconducted on a six-year cycle, in which both direct and indirect measures were used by the CETprogram. Direct measures included Performance Indicators (PIs) that are drawn from both thesenior project and the coursework. Indirect measures included senior exit surveys, alumnisurveys, and industry advisory council surveys. The framework presented enabled the CETprogram to implement continuous improvement measures into the program, and thus, could beimplemented by other construction engineering programs nationwide, both as a generalassessment tool and/or to achieve ABET accreditation.IntroductionWith today’s competitive educational environment, assessment has become one of the maindrivers of excellence for most educational institutions [1], giving
, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and the Environment and Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board. Dr. Bhavsar was pre- viously a postdoctoral fellow in a connected vehicle research program in the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering at Clemson University, where he worked on several connected vehicle technology research projects. Dr. Bhavsar received his Ph.D. degree in 2013 and his M.S. degree in 2006 from Clemson University. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on development of an evaluation framework for connected vehicle technology supported alternative fuel vehicles. Dr. Bhavsar also has three years of experience in the private sector in developing transportation engineering and
-based sensors for determining the concen- tration, composition, and spatial distribution of atmospheric aerosols. In August 2015, Cathy completed a nineteen-month Congressional Fellowship with the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Re- sources and returned to UAF to join ACUASI’s leadership team.Dr. John Monahan, University of Alaska, Fairbanks John Monahan is currently the Director of University of Alaska Fairbanks, Upward Bound and Princi- pal Investigator of the National Science Foundations EPSCoR Track 3 ”Modern Blanket Toss” project investigating the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in K12 classrooms. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Low-Cost Fixed
compares an innovative approach to teaching an introductory C programming course to atraditional C programming course for electrical engineering students. Students who pass eithercourse must subsequently take a traditional intermediate C programming course. The novel courseutilizes hardware-based projects to motivate students to master language syntax and implement keyprogramming concepts and best practices. In addition to comparing the attitudes and self-perceptions of the students in each of the introductory courses, we also look at success rates foreach cohort in the intermediate programming class as well as their progress toward their degrees.The electrical engineering students who took either introductory class on average had identicalGPAs
project began in 2012 with a single email from a professor asking if the Librarywould be open to checking out tools. The professor had tools to loan to students but no systemfor tracking the items. The Library was eager to add this new service and set up procedures anda loan policy. (Full policy and procedures can be found at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/eng/tool-library/.)The Tool Library started out with thirty-eight items available for checkout and items have beenadded ever since. News of the new Tool Library spread by word of mouth, triggering severaldifferent groups to donate tools.At the beginning of 2016, it became apparent there was a need for items more geared towardcreating and hands-on learning with a strong emphasis on technology. It also
test to assess if ethicstraining had a significant impact on the ethical perspectives of the engineering students.IntroductionThe large amounts of capital and stakeholders involved in each stage of a construction projecthave made the industry vulnerable to unethical practices and have made the construction industryone of the most fraudulent industries in the world (Transparency International, 2005). Unethicalpractices such as bribery, bid-rigging, tender-manipulation, and conflicts of interest areincreasingly prevalent in the construction industry (Adnan et al., 2012). Unethical practices leadto a waste of economic resources, missed opportunities for other businesses, and poor quality ofcompleted projects (Rahman et al., 2007). Despite the
post-doctoral fellowship at Lawrence National Laboratory focusing on developing a modern computational framework for the nonlinear seismic analysis of Department of Energy nuclear facilities and systems. This work seeks to expand the under- standing of soil structure interaction for these structures and the means of modeling this behavior both theoretically and experimentally. In addition to her research experience, Dr. Wong also has worked for the public and private engineering sectors in the areas of water infrastructure, transportation, data systems, and project management. She joined San Francisco State University in 2014 as lecturer and is currently an assistant professor of Civil Engineering in the School of
teamsatisfaction and student assessments of team contributions. In first year team-based studentdesign courses, instructors use student self- and peer-assessment information to gauge teamfunctioning and even to affect student project scores. However, students’ identity characteristics,such as their gender and race, may impact the scores they receive from others as well as thescores they assign. The poster will also describe the creation of and results from a learning-analytics style investigation of the researcher’s own student team assessment data, and the posterpresentation will allow others to query the data set with their own questions. The final data setincludes assessment information from 620 first-year engineering students working in 132 teamsof 4
Paper ID #16513An Overview and Preliminary Assessment of a Summer Transportation En-gineering Education Program (STEEP) for Ninth GradersDr. Shashi S. Nambisan P.E., University of Tennessee - Knoxville Shashi Nambisan is a Professor of Civil Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT). Since 1989, he has led efforts on more than 165 research, education, and outreach projects that have addressed local, statewide, regional and national issues in transportation and infrastructure systems management related to policy, planning, operations, safety, and risk analysis. He has authored or co-authored more than 125 peer
Computer Integrated Manufacturing System project coordinator for RIT’s integrated circuit factory. He is a senior member of IIE and SME, and a member of ASEE, Alpha Pi Mu and Tau Beta Pi. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016A holistic student-centered approach to retaining and graduating engineers at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Ma Zenia Agustin1, Marcus Agustin1, George Pelekanos1, Cem Karacal2 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL 1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics 2 School of EngineeringAbstractThis work in progress describes a
engineering curricula is often hindered a perceived lack of expertise in ethics by engineeringfaculty. Further, many engineering faculty feel they lack sufficient time to assemble ethicsteaching materials. The goal of this work was to develop tools for engineering professors toefficiently and effectively integrate ethics modules into their engineering courses in partnershipwith experts in teaching ethics. Two student groups developed resources for incorporating ethicsteachings into engineering curriculum and evaluated student response throughout various classes. Phase one of the project aimed to create a guide to allow engineering educators to assembleethics assignments based on case studies. Two assignments assembled by the student group
Paper ID #12252Developing a Toolkit and Online Community of Practice to Support Imple-mentation of Engineering in PreK-12 Education (Other)Dr. Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering Dr. Elizabeth Cady is a Program Officer at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) working on en- gineering education topics such as building skills in project management and change leadership, diversity, and developing communities of practice. She also staffs the Frontiers of Engineering Education sympo- sium, which recognizes and supports innovative engineering faculty members. She co-edited a resource collection translating
profile are in general satisfied, including the 30 %studying abroad. Many of the bachelor projects carried out abroad are located in emergingcountries which highlights the competence deficiency in countries outside the industrialized partsof the world.IntroductionThe general trend in society is towards increasing sustainability, including economic, social andenvironmental aspects. Sustainability is also related to corporate social responsibility (CSR),which can be referred to as the industry equivalent for businesses that intend to prosper in thelong run1,2, and is highly reflected also in engineering education3.There is an increasing demand on education in energy engineering in a broad sense, includinge.g. environmental technology and energy
near industrial technology laboratory building at Sam Houston StateUniversity were the vibration source. The building used for this project is a combined laboratory Page 26.599.4and shop and classroom facility with two condenser units–one single fan and one twin fan. Theinitial study employs the twin fan unit. Initially, the AC condenser unit was studied, and potentialpaths of the study were generated.Figure 3. R-410A XP series 6-1/2 ton 60Hz AC Condenser UnitFigure 4. Pictorial of AC condenser unit showing waste energy sources for energy harvestingViewing the unit from above, the rotation of both fans is clockwise. The fan blade length
Paper ID #11099Sabbatical Leaves with Industry–Three ExperiencesDr. Robert G. Batson P.E., University of Alabama Bob Batson is a professor of construction engineering at The University of Alabama. His Ph.D. training was in operations research, and he has developed expertise in applied statistics over the past thirty years. He currently teaches the required courses in project management, safety engineering, engineering man- agement, and engineering statistics within the undergraduate programs of the Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department, and graduate courses in operations research and supply chain
within the constructionism approach that underlies thepedagogical philosophy of this study. The project to develop the CooL:SLiCE cyberlearningplatform and planned evaluations within this cyber environment are next discussed.CooL:SLiCE Cyberlearning Environment The CooL:SLiCE project supports sustainable engineering education by leveragingcyber-technology’s role in learning environmentally responsible lifecycle engineering. A multi-institutional team of researchers from Wayne State, Penn State, and Oregon State universities arecollaboratively developing the innovative distributed cyberlearning platform to facilitate students’consideration of the range of human controlled and initiated impacts products have on the naturalenvironment. The
Paper ID #15424Time and Cost Analysis of Implementing a Mechatronic Experience in an En-gineering Technology CourseMr. John R Haughery, Iowa State University John Haughery is currently a graduate fellow in the department of Agriculture and Biosystems Engineer- ing at Iowa State University, where he is pursuing a PhD in Industrial and Agricultural Technology. His technical experience and interests include electrical energy systems, industrial controls, and mechatron- ics. Currently he is researching the integration of mechatronic-based projects into freshman engineering and technology curricula with the intent of
to the incorporation ofengineering in mathematics and science classes, standalone pre-college engineering classes suchas those developed by Project Lead The Way (PLTW), the International Technology andEngineering Education Association (ITEEA) and others have also seen tremendous growth thathas resulted in more opportunities for students to study engineering and do design projects at themiddle and high school4,5. These initiatives reach even the youngest students, with curricula andprofessional development programs like Engineering is Elementary (EiE) working to increasethe presence of engineering in the elementary classroom6. As a result of these initiatives, studentsare much more likely to encounter engineering as part of their pre-college
, Sustainable Energy in Buildings and Roads and Construction Project Management. Currently, he is teaching Civil and Construction Engineering at Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.Dr. Fazil T. Najafi, University of Florida Dr. Fazil T. Najafi For more than forty years, Dr. Fazil T. Najafi has worked in government, industry and education. He earned a BSCE in 1963 from the American College of Engineering, in his place of birth, Kabul, Afghanistan, and since then came to the United States with a Fulbright scholarship earning his MS in civil engineering in 1972 and a Ph.D. degree in transportation in 1977. His experience in industry includes work as a highway, structural, mechanical, and
statistical signal processing for wireless sensor network applications and secure communications in wireless networks.Prof. Todd D. Morton, Western Washington University Todd Morton has been teaching the upper level embedded systems and senior project courses for Western Washington University’s Electronics Engineering Technology(EET) program for 25 years. He has been the EET program coordinator since 2005 and also served as department chair from 2008-2012. He is the author of the text ’Embedded Microcontrollers’, which covers assembly and C programming in small real-time embedded systems and has worked as a design engineer at Physio Control Corporation and at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an ASEE-NASA Summer Faculty
Medical Center, and Columbia Technology Ventures that facilitates commercialization of clinical solutions driven by teams of engineers, clinicians, scientists, students and others, with the end goal of moving promising biomedical technologies to clinical application and market-based healthcare solutions.Ms. Lorna Helen Begg, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Ms. Lorna Begg is a MPH student at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She works part-time as a Project Coordinator at the Columbia-Coulter Translational Research Partnership.John D. O’Neill, Columbia University, Department of Biomedical EngineeringAhmet-Hamdi Cavusoglu, Columbia University Ahmet-Hamdi Cavusoglu is a Chemical
Consultant for the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT). His past experiences include having been a middle school science teacher, Director of Academic and Instructional Support for the Arizona Department of Education, a research scientist for the Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET), and an evaluator for several NSF projects. His first research strand concentrates on the relationship between educational policy and STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co- developer of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work
include having been a middle school science teacher, Director of Academic and Instructional Support for the Arizona Department of Education, a research scientist for the Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET), and an evaluator for several NSF projects. His first research strand concentrates on the relationship between educational policy and STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co- developer of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 2200 times and he has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such
theirinspiration for a design project. We created a case study for each scenario, where we tried to set-up the situation and teach students the correct or Instructor-expected response. We created threeethics related assignments.2.1 Assignment 1 and Quiz 1In the first assignment, the students were asked to read the Academic Integrity Policy for ouruniversity. The policy is available in the ATU Student Handbook and we created a link to it inBlackboard for the students. The policy lists types of academic integrity violations and includesdefinitions and examples for cheating, plagiarism, collusion, impersonation, fabrication, andforgery. The students were asked to read the policy and then answer 5 questions. The completeassignment is given in figure 1
disciplines, the structure and coursework of the classallow students to explore varied perspectives and approaches to addressing global problems.This paper argues that engineering students need to engage with the SDGs in the context ofengineering problems to equip them as innovative problem solvers. Further, evaluatingengineering projects and processes simultaneously through social, political, and environmentallenses expands the context and considerations taken in the problem-solving process.The proposed course will be piloted through the Civil and Environmental EngineeringDepartment at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly). Toencourage collaboration between students from diverse disciplines, the course will be offered