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AC 2012-5262: REFLECTIONS ON TEACHING A CONSOLIDATED CAP-STONE DESIGN COURSE TO A MIXED STUDENT BODYDr. Jian Peng, Southeast Missouri State University Jian Peng is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics at Southeast Missouri State University. He received his B.E. degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1992, his M.S. degree from Hangzhou Institute of Electronic Engineering, Hangzhou, China in 1995, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Vanderbilt University in 2004. His research focuses on intelligent robotics, computer vision, and characterization of nano-material. He is a member of ASEE and IEEE.Prof. Santaneel Ghosh, Southeast Missouri
AC 2009-1468: MANAGING COURSE OFFERING RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS INNEWER GRADUATE PROGRAMS THROUGH SPECIAL TOPICS COURSESBimal Nepal, Texas A&M UniversityPaul Lin, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne Page 14.858.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Managing course offering resource constraints in newer graduate programs through special topics coursesIntroductionMost new graduate programs face many challenges including lower initial enrollments, limitededucational resources such as laboratory equipment, faculty lines, and under developed or“work-in-process” curriculum. While the institution has its resource constraints, the studentsmay
management students. Generally, these students donot relate well to seemingly purely engineering topics, and this attitude interferes with theirability to adequately learn the material. This obviously places an added burden on the facultywho must exert an effort to motivate the students, in addition to teaching the material to them. Asearch by the author for publications dealing with structural design instruction in CM programsdid not produce any relevant publications, but there seems to have been an effort to address theissue of integrating the instruction of structural design in architectural curricula, where it seemsmuch easier to motivate architectural students to learn about structural design concepts. This isbecause famous architects, such as
has, up to that point, been foreign to them.“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”One of these experimental interventions was initiated at a 99% African American high school inDeKalb County as part of Georgia Tech’s Student and Teacher Enhancement Partnership (STEP)NSF GK-12 program, and consisted of involving high school students in a sophomore-levelmechatronics course.This paper will address the details of the program, how it aligns with the high school curriculum,and the many lessons learned regarding university/K-12 partnerships. The remainder of thepaper is organized as follows. Section 2 provides an overview of
their Dynamics curriculum, they encountered similardifficulties in translating research to practice10. These faculty members wanted to create a newresource- and technology-rich learning environment. However, while each component of theproposed classroom had its own robust body of literature, there was little existing research tohelp integrate these diverse methods into a single course. Thus, these instructors relied on their extensive past experience as educationalpractitioners to guide an initial course redesign. The resulting curriculum, now referred to as theFreeform learning environment, was successful by many metrics. For example, grades inDynamics improved as the percentage of students earning D, F, or W (withdrawal) grades
high school student group, providingfeedback and additional scaffolding.Research or No Research Around December 30th - January 2nd, I realized my winter quarter was already full. Iwasn't progressing on my dissertation proposal as I was still researching diary study structuresand question types for participants. I was interested in exploring settler colonial practices,reading relevant scholarship, and considering how to integrate this into diary studies withoutoverwhelming participants. As the quarter approached, I recognized that I was preparing for the high school projectwhere I would be an engineering instructor. I had also joined a DRG on "AI, Reflection, andResearch through Design." The first session of this DRG solidified my
proposed for Mauna Kea, a technology related totheir science curriculum on the earth-moon-sun system. In the other class, at a different school,students viewed a video about a proposal for an agricultural dam in the Amazon rainforest. Thistechnology was related to their social studies curriculum on the features of different societies.After learning about the proposed designs, the students responded synchronously on acollaborative virtual whiteboard (a Jamboard; see Figure 1) to specific prompts related to theoverarching question of whether the technology should be constructed. In the Mauna Keatelescope design talk, the prompt was, “If this is a story, who are the characters? Make a list ofwho or what is being impacted by the building of the new
technologies influence theireducational experience and learning. Yet their attitudes and perceptions must be considered in Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2008 American Society for Engineering Educationthe use of instructional technology if the end result is to have the technology enhance theirlearning. In order to investigate student perceptions in these areas: general attitudes aboutlearning; reactions to their experiences with technologies in the classroom; and faculty use oftechnology, an online survey was administered to the students.2. MethodsThese courses integrate instructional technologies across the curriculum and we used
BHEL) in India, • opportunities for U.S. academics to collaborate with academic and industrial researchers in India, • opportunities for the researchers to integrate their findings into education through the development of new instructional materials, and • the excitement of discovery to undergraduate students when they use the resulting instructional materials in their classrooms.Description of the intellectual collaboration with foreign collaborators The projects focused on research connected with acoustics and non-destructiveevaluation, areas in which Auburn’s Dr. Raju, is an expert. Dr. A. Ramachandriah of the Dept. ofCivil Engineering at IIT Madras was his counter-part on
, John Jonides, and Biren A. Nagda. “Undergraduate Student-Faculty Research Partnerships Affect Student Retention.” The Review of Higher Education, 22(1), 1998, pp. 55-72.7. Mahbub Uddin and A. Raj Chowdhury. “Integration of Nanotechnology into the Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum.” International Conference on Engineering Education, August 6-10, 2001, Oslo Norway, Session 8B2.8. Beena Sukumaran, Kauser Jahan, Dianne Dorland, Jess Everett, Jennifer Kadlowec, Zenaida Gephardt and Steven Chin. “Engineering Clinics: An Integration of Research into the Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum Rowan University.” Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, March 2006, 26(3), pp. 115-121.9. Cristina Gonzalez
Teaching Microcontroller Applications Using Laptop ComputersAbstractThis paper presents an inexpensive technique of teaching an introductory microcontrollerapplications course to technology students in a laptop-based curriculum. The focus of the courseis learning to apply microcontrollers in various control applications. Related topics covered inthe course include assembly language programming and computer architecture. Students in thecourse are each equipped with a laptop computer. The microcontroller platform used in thiscourse is the Microchip PICKit1 development board. This development board features 8- and 14-pin microcontrollers with a 35 word instruction set. This is an ideal platform because the deviceshave enough resources to develop
(Madrid). She got a grant in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of UNED in 2005 and since December 2010 she is an assistant professor. Her research interest is the integration of different biometric techniques in educational environment by providing them with security and access control.Alberto Pesquera, UNED Computer Science Engineer by Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED). He was a collabora- tor member of Telematic Laboratory of UNED (Telelab) in systems of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Nowdays is working for Innovation and Technological Development Centre of UNED (CiNDETEC). He is an expert in Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Web development appli- cations. Currently
an ability tocommunicate effectively [ABET 2016]. Engineers need to document and report their technicalideas, designs, and solutions in a clear and succinct manner and to a variety of audiences. Oneway for students to gain and practice documentation and technical communication skills in apractical setting is through the experiential courses throughout the curriculum (i.e. laboratorycourses).Given the increasing presence of social media as well as other methods of electroniccommunication, computer mediated activities provide an opportunity to educate students in afamiliar setting. Electronic documentation is also gaining popularity in research laboratories andindustries, as well as in the medical and other professional fields, all in which
. Briedis has been involved in several areas of education research including student retention, curriculum redesign, and the use of technology in the classroom. She is a co- PI on two NSF grants in the areas of integration of computation in engineering curricula and in developing comprehensive strategies to retain early engineering students. She is active nationally and internationally in engineering accreditation and is a Fellow of ABET.Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University Dr. Neeraj Buch is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan State University. He is also the Director of Cornerstone Engineering and Residential Experience program at
algebra and complex numbers,differential equations and convergence criteria for sequences and series. The curriculum studentsexperience is not always what they find most interesting, and motivation plays an important role intheir ability to follow the syllabus.During the last ten years, there has been growing interest in integrating pure mathematical topicsinto the specialized courses attended by the students. Students often ask teachers: “Why are welearning this?”; “What significance does it have to my study program?”; “Will I ever use thisknowledge as a practicing engineer?” Questions like this can be hard to answer concretely andhonestly. There are good reasons for the students to question the relevance of X in their studyprogram, but the
provides a means for creative students to express lesson content creatively;however, assessment bias, selection bias, and the inherent difficulty in assessing creativity doesnot allow us to draw conclusions about the creativity of engineering students in any absolutesense from the collected data; (2) incorporating an emphasis on freehand sketching into theengineering curriculum could have positive effects toward developing creativity and pictorialcommunication skills; (3) there was evidence in the data suggesting that the sample populationsexamined in the study are experiencing degradation in creativity between sophomore and seniorlevel coursework, which was an idea expressed in the literature; (4) the sketch creativity scoresare higher when it is
some of the desired changesto the schedule and curriculum lagged, such as the integration of multiple disciplines into thiscommon first-year plan, they did introduce methods of grouping students together to allow themto familiarize themselves with their peers and build relationships [3]. An example is the conceptof block scheduling, where students would register for defined set of classes, meaning theywould consistently be surrounded by their peers taking the same courses. While they did alsoprovide non-blocked schedule options for non-traditional students, the focus on building peer-to-peer relationships was more heavily emphasized on the block-scheduled courses [3]. Studentscould be introduced to topics in a more comfortable and familiar
nature• It is a team presentation, rather than a seminar given by an individual• The “audience” participates actively throughout rather than waiting passively until the endDevelopment of Design Skills: Another recent trend in engineering education is the integrationof design experiences into the lower levels of the curriculum, in addition to the traditional seniorcapstone design course.1,3,8-12 Such integration is desirable because it provides more time forthese crucial skills to develop, and because it provides a practical context that helps studentsappreciate the significance and interrelationships of the many topics covered in their technicaleducation.This project is not at all technically esoteric; it is readily understandable and
deeper overall educationaloutcomes within the engineering curriculum. A professors understanding of the outcomesof engagement shows a more broad perspective on how students participation inengagement leads to deeper development of social skillset:“Increasing [engagement] would give our students social development that they are currently not receiving here. A peripheral development that includes the virtues of social responsibility, an environmental awareness.”And lastly, an excerpt from an interview with university leadership shows theengagement outcomes on a societal scale at large: “[A shift in culture towards engagement] is positive not just for USP but for society at large because it
with minor modifications. This analogy illustrates that isotopes are essentiallythe same atom, possessing an identical number of protons and electrons but differingin the number of neutrons, akin to cars with minor changes (e.g., color). Severalcalculus textbooks incorporate visual explanations, as exemplified by references [2–11]. Notably, the work of Apostol and Mamikon from Caltech [11] is particularlyintriguing, as they successfully explained the integration of certain functions withoutrelying on mathematical formulas. Other books, such as [12, 13], have contributedto the understanding of concepts in “Control Systems” and the fundamentals of“Newton’s Laws of Motion.” Other successful attempts to teach basic understanding using
importantly, it can be assumed that there will be an expectationamong AEC professionals that construction curriculums will be integrating BIM skilldevelopment so that graduates will have developed competencies with BIM technology.However, in order to establish strategies for BIM skill development, documentation of the waysconstruction professionals are utilizing BIM could provide critical guidance for AEC educators.Purpose of the studySpecific skills can be associated with the level of BIM use. For example, small BIM skill setswould emphasize skill in generating accurate 3D that fully document a building or structure.Expertise with generating and storing information with a specific application such as Revit orArchiCad would have priority. In contrast
implementation of an Information Engineering Technology (IET)program at Northern New Mexico College (NNMC) that borrows from traditional engineeringprograms to build student foundations and at the same time prepares industry-readyprofessionals. The paper describes the building blocks of the program, focusing on curriculumand student outcomes. The IET curriculum is based on a learning-by-doing approach andincludes intensive hands-on activities. By partnering with the industry, students are exposedsince their freshman year to real industrial tools, hands-on activities and simple engineeringdesign, which helps in engaging and motivating them to persist in the program. Student outcomesare analyzed according to specific knowledge, technique and skills
providing leadership education concurrent to real-worldexperiences is effective.IntroductionDeveloping leadership skills is accepted by industry, faculty, and students as an important part ofthe engineering curriculum for engineers starting their careers [1] - [3]. However, it is widelyperceived that undergraduate engineering students lack leadership skills necessary for theircareers [2], [4], [5]. The importance of learning teamwork and leadership while in school isreflected in the ABET General Criteria for engineering programs [6]. Integrating leadershiptrainings specifically into senior capstone courses is often used by academia to educate studentson leadership, given it is the culminating curriculum work and they typically work in teams [7
the students to express their findings more creatively, with fewerboundaries and more opportunity to use multiple types of media.Background – the radio labThe RF Systems Laboratory is a required 1 credit hour junior-level course for the ElectricalEngineering program at Auburn University [1]. Students simulate, breadboard, and measure theperformance of a variety of AM radio building blocks (various amplifiers, detectors, etc.) ontheir way towards building a functional radio. The course has a common Monday lecturefollowed by a 2-hour lab section meeting later in the week. It is not tied to a specific class; itdraws from and integrates concepts from several electrical engineering courses. An advantage tothis approach is that students can more
Technology Page 22.1428.2 The Academic Effects of Cooperative Education Experiences: Does Co-op Make a Difference in Engineering Coursework?IntroductionCooperative education opportunities have been a staple of engineering training for over 100years. An idea conceived at Lehigh University and first implemented at the University ofCincinnati, in the early 21st century over 150 engineering and engineering technology programsincorporate cooperative education opportunities into their curriculum. Cooperative education isa unique form of experiential education, and is traditionally delivered through either analternating model, whereby student alternate work experience and academic
changing the status quo of higher education.Project-Based Learning (PBL) offers promise for providing engineering students an avenue forbridging this “disconnect” by providing practice solving complex, open-ended problems withsocio-technical contexts. PBL is a pedagogy that centers curriculum around projects that involvestudents in design, problem solving, decision making, and other investigative activities. Studentsengaged in PBL typically work autonomously over extended periods of time to create realisticproducts or presentations4. These assignments provide opportunities for students to solvecomplex, open-ended, socio-technical problems, and to practice serving specific groups ofpeople in our society3-6. In addition, PBL enriches students
Paper ID #26480Delivering Multidisciplinary Experiences in Education: A Study of Construc-tion Program Practices to Meet Accreditation RequirementsDr. Tom Michael Leathem, Auburn University Tom Leathem is an Assistant Professor in the McWhorter School of Building Science at Auburn Univer- sity where he teaches courses in Estimating, Construction Documents, Scheduling, and Project Delivery. He has 11 years industry experience in commercial construction management, holds a Ph.D. in Educa- tion, an M.S. in Integrated Design & Construction, and a B.S. in Construction Management. His areas of research include construction
] states, the continuous improvement process is integral to theaccreditation and evaluation of the engineering technology curriculum at NKU. The mixedmethods of experiential learning and co-op work examines these practices using co-op industrycompetency assessment feedback in the continuous improvement process.This paper examines how assessment rankings of the co-op experiences by students andemployers has strengthened and supported competency achievement related to the ETAC-ABET[8] Criterion 3 (a,b,c,f,g,h,i,j) outcomes across the stated timeline of January to December 2015.Also demonstrated is the method by which acquired competencies are used to support continuousimprovement of Engineering Technology programs curricula at NKU.EGT 301 findings
Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Introduction of Sustainability to Civil/ Construction Engineering StudentsAbstract:Recently, numerous civil engineering articles involve the concept of going green and sustainabledevelopment. Various papers related to sustainable development have been written but few relateto how civil engineering students can apply these innovations in their academic curriculum andassist them in discovering green technologies and their applications during a professional career.This paper is an effort to highlight the importance of knowledge regarding sustainability in theacademic curriculum. Education now-a-days is not just about knowing conventionaltechnologies, but also to