Paper ID #37891Board 321: Integrating Design Thinking and Digital Fabrication intoEngineering Technology Education through Interdisciplinary ProfessionalLearningDr. Christopher Russell, Northern Virginia Community College Christopher Russell is the Information and Engineering Technologies Project Manager at Northern Vir- ginia College. His research focuses on developing novel methods of integrating digital fabrication into formal and informal STEM instruction. Currently, he manages two NSF ATE awards - Makers By Design, a design thinking professional learning program for interdisciplinary groups of educators, and Product
four labs when revamping ICTN 4201 in 2014, as part of an exploratoryteaching grant project [6]. The grading scripts were used for 6 years until the Linux operatingsystems (CentOS 5 and CentOS 6) of the virtual machines reached their end of life. It was alsotime to update the labs again as some contents were getting old. For example, the NetworkIntrusion Detection System Bro was renamed to Zeek with major revisions in 2018. In 2021, westarted a project to redesign the labs and virtual lab environment in ICTN 4201.LAB REDESIGN PROJECT The development procedure of the project consisted of five steps: 1) the prerequisites andoutcomes of the labs were reevaluated and redefined if necessary. For instance, an outcome wasdefined as follows
identities and vocational path- ways. Dr. Lande received his B.S. in Engineering (Product Design), M.A. in Education (Learning, Design and Technology) and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Design Education) from Stanford University. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Learning Trajectories Through Learning Making and Engineering, and ImplicationsThis NSF EEC EAGER research project investigates how undergraduate STEM and engineeringstudents’ learning trajectories evolve over time, from 1st year to senior year, along a novice toexpert spectrum. We borrow the idea of “learning trajectories” from mathematics education
pathway. This new curriculumincludes pedagogical changes to utilize project-based learning by incorporating resources andlearning from multiple sources to best mimic real-world application, data, and design attributes. Inaddition to the associate degree, a college credit certificate in cloud computing was created tostrengthen (re-)entering students in the workforce and dual enrollment students with credentialsand employability skills by using high impact educational practices.Our cloud curriculum incorporates project-based learning approach, a real-world experienceusing the cloud technology. This poster shares strategies and pedagogical tools for teaching acloud-focused curriculum for broader impact and student success.IntroductionWith the
artsinstitution initiated a comprehensive feasibility report for a new and innovative biomedicalengineering program. The feasibility report included assessment of growth of the bioscienceindustry, cohesion with existing programs at the institution, potential students, and current trendsand future needs. Based on the outcomes of the report, a new undergraduate biomedicalengineering (BME) program was established with an innovative and unique curriculum. Theinnovative nature of the new program is demonstrated through the utilization of liberal artspedagogical practices and interventions, 4 credit hours courses, the background and training of theprograms 3 faculty members, a project-based curriculum, and the program emphases on analytics
, developedby our department in 2008, which is a highly interactive apprenticeship learning environment inwhich students work in a stable team of four for the entire semester. In this intervention, studentsare challenged to consider bias in engineering design and its impacts on others through a semester-long project composed of a series of individual and team exercises. This intervention is designedto raise students’ awareness of bias in biomedical engineering designs and processes and theimpacts they have on them and on others.Demand for inclusive design and responsible innovationEngineers’ works significantly affect the world, so they should be aware of assumptions they makewhen they create a new product. It means that consideration of inclusive
need to learn embeddeddevelopment comes up repeatedly in the context of our capstone senior design experience, and hasresulted in the individual instruction of many students at our institution, over many years, often in theform of guided tutorials. While effective enough to support the capstone course, this approach does notexpose every student that wants to acquire this skill set with the opportunity to do so; such instruction islimited to those students that need to learn the skills to support a project. It also lacks the efficiency of aclassroom approach.Microcontroller skills can be acquired today without formal instruction. Students can learn much of thismaterial on their own through the “Maker Movement” [2], in which makers learn through
co-decision makers, instead of beingtreated as commoditized instruments [7] of the business machinery.Simultaneously, we pay attention to the engineers’ privileged position – e.g. as experts and high-income earners, with greater proximity to large-scale project decisions – and its role in the unequalinfluence relations engineers have with other knowledge disciplines and/or communitystakeholders. Engineers can be important mediators or gatekeepers for the input of diversestakeholders on the technology development (e.g. machine learning bias). Therefore, our workingvision for engineering ethics education is two-fold: (1) to empower students as moral agents whoeffectively negotiate for social and ethical responsibility in the technology
appointment in the Department of Mathematics. Her past research accomplishments include the development of light-weight methods for language translation on mobile phones, food anal- ysis tools for the treatment of the inherited metabolic disease phenylketonuria, and improved document processing methods for the printing industry. Her current areas of research include signal processing, big data, and various applied mathematics problems motivated by engineering applications. In particular, she is interested in high-dimensional machine learning problems that stem from applications, including data analysis issues related to STEM education research. She created ”Project Rhea,” a student-driven online learning project at
advising, career guidance,and faculty support are frequently reported by students who leave an engineering program(Seymour et al., 1997, Meyer et al., 2014). Regardless of these challenges it is important forengineering programs to be aware of these realities when developing and implementing retentioninitiatives.Temple University’s Project SOARTraditionally, Temple University has responded to the issue of low rates of success and retentionin its engineering courses and programs by providing support interventions for strugglingstudents. In fact, at Temple we have robust student support services, including tutoring, examreview sessions for select courses, peer assisted study sessions, coaching on academic skillsdevelopment, a writing center, and
shouldbe given a comprehensive introduction to standards, gain familiarity with key standardsorganizations in their respective disciplines, study standards in the context of relevant casestudies, and graduate with the ability to identify and apply relevant standards in the engineeringdesign process [6]. These recommendations are consistent with those from a more recent paneldiscussion on standards education at the Capstone Design Conference in 2012, which furtherrecognized that, to help achieve the desired proficiency of students to apply standardsappropriately in their capstone design project, standards education should start earlier in thecurriculum [7].Several barriers to effective teaching of standards in engineering curricula have been cited
thediscussed changes related to these key engineering analysis topics averaged 40% and 52%, wellbelow the department target goal of a 70% or greater score on these problems. As a result ofthese observations, instructors from the freshmen course met with instructors of the subsequentStatics and Dynamics course to devise a method to illustrate these concepts using a project-basedexperiential methodology.Development of an integrated freshmen-engineering module to apply fundamental conceptsin engineering scienceA video-based module was used to introduce students to the relationships between gravimetricforces and mathematical analysis. The video used was from the MythbustersTM Bug Specialepisode that evaluated how many bees would be required to lift and
called Bob Brown, Boston University • Brown: You called the wrong guy! I am the only person in the world to fail twice at building a HPCC! Brown was the former Provost at MITCEO Joe Tucci, EMC and CEO John Chambers, CISCO agreed to helpAccenture provides project management guidanceNortheastern joins the group. Now the five largest research universitiesin Massachusetts are collaboratingMany other companies involved in the conversation– Akamai, Google, Microsoft, IBM, etc. 2MGHPCCFirst steps are fundraising and developing a detailed scope of the projectWe were working in secrecy.Governor Patrick, Joe Tucci, John Chambers, I, and others did trademission to
. 2018 FYEE Conference: Glassboro, New Jersey Jul 25 Work-in-Progress: Mapping Entrepreneurial Minded Learning with the Longitudinal Model of Motivation and Identity in First-Year Engineering CoursesIntroductionEngineering curriculum is evolving to incorporate more aspects of design and project-basedlearning as well as emphasizing the importance of creativity and entrepreneurship in engineeringdesign [1]–[4]. The Ohio State University is collaborating with KEEN [5], a network ofthousands of engineering faculty working to unleash undergraduate engineers so that they cancreate personal, economic, and societal value through the entrepreneurial mindset, to addmultiple entrepreneurial minded learning
Jed Lyons is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of South Carolina. His passion is engaging learners of all ages in the processes of inquiry and discovery through active engagement and problem-situation learning. Page 12.130.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A Study of the Effects of Timing on Engineering Students’ Abilities to Solve Open-ended Problems with ComputersAbstractThis paper presents the design and preliminary results of an exploratory research project todetermine the best ways to
AC 2008-1513: THE UBIQUITOUS MICROCONTROLLER IN MECHANICALENGINEERING: MEASUREMENT SYSTEMSMichael Holden, California Maritime Academy Michael Holden teaches in the department of Mechanical Engineering at the California State University Maritime Academy. Page 13.1275.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 The Ubiquitous Microcontroller in Mechanical Engineering: Measurement SystemsIntroductionThis paper will describe a project aimed at integrating microcontrollers in several classesthroughout the mechanical engineering curriculum at the California State University MaritimeAcademy (CMA). The goal is to give our
analytical modeling of semiconductor devices and sensors, and electronic instrumentation and measurement.Joshua Ward, Fairchild Semiconductor Josh Ward was a senior level Electrical Engineering student at the University of Southern Maine and was working as a Thin Films Process Technician at Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, S. Portland while working on this project. He will complete his coursework and graduate from U.S.M. with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in May 2008. Upon graduation he expects to be promoted to Process Engineer at Fairchild Semiconductor. Josh’s interests are semiconductor device fabrication, CMOS integrated circuit design and automated testing.Robert N
and drop’ and object(sprite) centered programming to create their own versions of the classic Pong game. At the endof the first three weeks students presented their programs to the group.In the second three weeks students were provided with Arduino Uno development kits(https://www.arduino.cc/). They were introduced to the hardware of the Arduino microcontrollerwhich included breadboarding with switches, resisters, potentiometers, LEDs, phototransisters,and an LCD screen. They completed or attempted eight different projects that were detailed in aprojects book that accompanied the kits. This reinforced their exposure to softwareenvironments and fundamentals of programming as well as introducing them to the frustrations,care and patience
Wireless Engineering, Network Engineering, Fiber Optic Communications, Technology and Society, and Project Management. He also advises students on their senior design projects. He is the author of “The Telecommunications Fact Book, 2E” and co-author of “Technology and Society: Crossroads to the 21st Century,” “Technology and Society: A Bridge to the 21st Century,” and “Technology and Society: Issues for the 21st Century and Beyond.” He is a member of ASEE, and a senior member of IEEE. Page 14.627.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Faculty Scholarship and Professional Currency: A Self
New England College in 1982 setup, as part of its Capstone Course, called Senior Design Projects, a cooperative utilizing the facilities of the school, industry, andhospital, the talents of professor, medical professional, industrial technologist, and student, and the base of ideas generated by allparties, including NASA’s Technology Utilization Services (as found in NASA Tech Briefs). The meetings of the parties involved,student, professor, medical professional, industrial advisor, and patient, was part of the structure which proceeded quite easily. Theorchestration of the effort was the only portion of the program remaining to be clarified. How would costs be shared? How wouldtime be allocated? Who would own the invention if one resulted
design team. Although initiated before therelease of a 1994 ASEE report 2, the new program parallels the recommendations contained in the report. 3 4Ideas fi-om Keen and a March 1995 workshop are being incorporated into a two-course freshmansequence initially offered in the 1995-96 academic year. These courses are the first of several that incorporatedesign projects, reports, and presentations in an effort to produce better prepared graduates. An oflen heard complaint fi-om fist and second year engineering students is “I’m studying all of thismath and science-when will I get to do some engineering?” ~s comment maybe a clue to the cause of thehigh attrition rate of entering engineering students
students and greater efficiency for instructors. In the past, the resourcesnecessary for CBI were in short supply, but now that many universities maintain powerful computingenvironments, questions about the effectiveness and efficiency of CBI arise. To investigate the effectiveness of CBI, the project team developed three CBI units--one each for design,analysis, and background information--for use in a junior-level transportation engineering class. The team thenconducted controlled experiments with the units. The team divided the participating class randomly in half. Anexam covering material other than that in the CBI units was used to ensure that neither group had superiorstudents. One group received traditional classroom instruction
ABSTRACT An interdisciplinary Master’s Program with a concentration in Optics and Photonics Technology hasbeen developed under the U.S. Manufacturing Education and Training Activity of the TechnologyReinvestment Project. This development has been a collaboration between the University of Alabama inHuntsville, Alabama A&M University, Northwest Shoals Community College, the NASA Marshall SpaceFlight Center, the U. S. Army Missile Command, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Advanced Optical SystemsInc., Dynetics, Inc., Hughes Danbury Optical Systems, Inc., Nichols Research and Speedring Inc. Theseorganizations as well as the National Institute for Standards and Technology and SCI, Inc. have beenparticipating fully in the design, development and
major obstacle to doctoral study for fblly employed post-Masters students in the US is the residency and candidacy requirements. The residency requirement provides the doctoral student with intensive study leading to candidacy examinations. The rationale varies from college to college, but has its reasoning based in the necessity for departmental academic interests to be understood and also as a preparation for the research project that the student selects. The candidacy examination gatekeeps the quality of preparation and facilitates the construction of a committee that will direct and monitor the project Page
principals, we employ the following assessment tools:Time Survey. This simple but effective tool documents the time spent by students in out-of-class preparation foreach lesson. It is administered at the start of every class attendance, in every course taught by the Department ofCivil and Mechanical Engineering. For the individual instructor, the time survey provides feedback on how muchtime students are spending on class preparation, homework, projects, and examinations. For the programdirector, the survey provides a reasonably accurate assessment of the relative academic rigor of the courseswhich constitute the program. More important, time survey data for successive offerings of the same courseclearly indicate an increase or decrease in academic
. Theadvantage of podcasts is that students can view the tutorials while their computers are runningthe oscilloscope program, enabling real-time instructional support as they work on their labswhile on or off campus. The podcasts are a mixture of still images and screen shots imported intoa Powerpoint presentation with an audio track added. Currently, tutorials are compatible withthree platforms: iPod nano, iPod Classic, and the iPod Touch. An explanation of the techniquesapplied during the development of the tutorials and a brief review of the current tutorials areprovided.IntroductionA project known as Lab-in-a-Box (LiaB) was developed at Virginia Tech as one of the outcomesof a department-level reform of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE
to teach specific relevant math and sciencecontent standards and objectives, and receive formative feedback and content knowledgecoaching as they implement, evaluate and refine those lessons.Project TESAL (Teachers Engaged in Science And Literacy) is a three-year professionaldevelopment program that includes annual two-week summer face-to-face intensive professionaldevelopment opportunities and four additional day-long experiences throughout the school year.In addition, project personnel observe participants’ classroom instruction, providing feedbackand support on implementation of Engineering Design-focused lessons. In this paper, wedescribe the program and evaluation findings from the first two years of implementation.Project TESAL
. Studentsurveys conducted at two different institutions show why students select to become engineers andtheir preference for the different course components.Introduction “Introduction to Engineering” is a core course given to freshmen students of all engineeringdisciplines. The course aims to familiarize students with the engineering profession, the differentengineering disciplines, the design process for exploratory projects, the work in interdisciplinaryteams, the ethics and professional behavior, the lifelong learning, the written and oral presentationof technical concepts, and problem solving. As curriculum often changes, an online research wasconducted on the most current catalogs (2018-2019) of 182 higher education institutions offeringdegrees in
involved in develop- ing and facilitating the first-year engineering program at ONU. He earned his PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder where his research focused on pre-engineering education and project-based learning.Mr. Bruce Wellman, Olathe Northwest High School Bruce Wellman is a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT, Chemistry) who teaches Engineering Chemistry as part of Engineering Academy at Olathe Northwest High School in Olathe, KS and serves as a Co-Principal Investigator on an NSF funded (DR K-12) research project entitled ”Building Informed Designers”. Wellman is a member of ASEE’s Board of Directors’ Committee on P-12 Engineering Educa- tion. Wellman completed his B.S. degree in general science
,and evaluate the effectiveness of a set of vertically integrated online modules that will employ aconvergent science approach along with innovative pedagogies to teach model-based systemsengineering (MBSE) to current and future practitioners. The team will collaborate with industrypartners, faculty at community colleges, and faculty at 4-year colleges to prepare online modulesfor three different audiences: practicing engineers, undergraduates at 4-year institutions, andstudents pursuing 2-year degrees. The project began on January 1, 2020. The team of systemsengineers, manufacturing engineers, instructional designers, computer graphics technologists,and engineering educators, some with expertise in learning assessment, will share the