. The UC PFF program consists ofthree one-hour courses and a mentored teaching component. The first course, in the WinterQuarter, provides information on basic effective teaching techniques for engineering, includingKolb learning styles, and how to organize a course. In addition, cultural differences anddiversity are discussed in the context of science and engineering classes. The advanced teachingclass in Spring Quarter emphasizes advanced pedagogical techniques including Bloom'staxonomy, concept maps, project and team management for developing leadership skills,teaching evaluations, proposal writing, and mentoring and being mentored. ABET engineeringcriteria a-k are applied to syllabus development, and students hold a mock NSF review
universities are doing enough proactively to teach studentswhat they need to know to operate in a future environment is an open question11. Clearly, engineersmust complement their technical and analytical capabilities with a broad understanding of so-called“soft” issues that are non-technical. Experience has shown that social, environmental, economic,cultural, and ethical aspects of a project are often more important than the technical aspects but are Page 11.566.3not often emphasized in conventional engineering education.An issue of equal importance is the education of engineers interested in addressing problems specificto developing
”1 state: “It is said that there is nothing so practical as goodtheory. It may also be said that there’s nothing so theoretically interesting as goodpractice.” Marquardt2 in his “Harnessing the Power of Action Learning” states “...allforms of action learning share the elements of real people resolving and taking action onreal problems in real time and learning while doing so.” This is what our educational approach to engineering technology education has been allabout. To address these issues, we create laboratory problems, institute engineering coopprograms, and do capstone projects, all to get students exposed to “real world problems”.These are all excellent approaches and should be applied wherever practical. There areproblems associated
, Austin Mr. Enrique Dominguez is the Director of the Equal Opportunity in Engineering Program at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been Director for over 4 years and is currently the Region D Chair for the National Association for Multicultural Engineering Program Advo- cates (NAMEPA). Enrique graduated from the Cockrell School of Engineering with a Civil Engineering degree and pursued industry experience for seven years where he held positions such as Project Engineer, Lead University Recruiter, Logistics Engineer, Cost Engineer and Project Manager. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Six-Day
NSF Advance-PLAN projectdesigned to address gender equity through policy change on a statewide level. The project isbased on the model of change that identifies effective change as a top-down policy drivenapproach through a central authority, in this case, a statewide board of regents that oversees allpublic universities. The model for top-down change is particularly suited to a small, rural statewhere a) n-values for gender related statistics at any institution may not be statisticallysignificant b) institutional relations allow for cross-state cooperation and c) size of theinstitutions allows for timely implementation and assessment of policies. In addition,intercollegiate cooperation allows for provosts of all six institutions to serve as
support students in their STEM education and career pathways pursuits. Ms. VanIngen-Dunn served as President of CVID Consulting, building on years of experience as engineer and project manager in human crashworthiness and safety design, development and testing, working for contractors in commuter rail, aerospace and defense industries. VanIngen-Dunn has an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a BSE degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Iowa. She serves on the University of Iowa’s College of Engineering Advisory Board, the Arizona Career and Technical Education Quality Skills Commission, and on the YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix Board of Directors whose mission it is to
industry-sponsored projects. Leadership behaviors were reported by students usingthe Competing Values Framework which focuses on student behaviors in four orientations:Collaborate, Create, Control, and Compete. The results show that there were some significantdifferences among self-perceptions at the beginning, middle, and end of the class, especially inthe Create, Control, and Compete leadership orientations. Differences in self-perception amongmen and women were more prominent in the Create orientation at the beginning of the coursewith women starting lower but nearly matching men at the end of the course. Implications of thisstudy generate insights into a potential method of assessing leadership development through thelength of a
Courtney Lavadia obtained her master’s degree from the College of Education and Human Develop- ment, Texas A&M University in 2016. She is currently a Ph.D. student studying school psychology. Her research is centered around how practitioners can utilize individual child strengths for assessment and intervention in hospital settings. Other projects include studying resilience in children, and adult learning theory.Dr. Douglas Allaire, Texas A&M University Dr. Douglas Allaire is currently an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. He has held that position since January 2014. His current research focuses on the de- velopment of computational methods for the
” and shares progress in the four essential areas needed todevelop a culture of doing engineering. It also provides insights on lessons learned.IntroductionIn 2017, the Mechanical Engineering Department at Seattle University was awarded a NationalScience Foundation grant to revolutionize the department. The department’s proposal centers oncreating a program where students can develop a strong identity with their chosen profession.The project leverages the department’s small size and close ties with industry to create a cultureof “Engineering with Engineers.” The first two sections of this paper provide an overview of theproject. This overview is taken from the NSF Grantees Poster paper presented at the 2018 ASEEAnnual Conference [1]. The
Paper ID #16880Baton Rouge Community College/Louisiana State University: A Partnershipfor STEM Student SuccessMs. Adrienne Steele, Louisiana State University Adrienne Steele has over 15 years experience in STEM education. Currently, Adrienne works at Louisiana State University in the College of Engineering, managing all aspects of the STEP project that consists of a large-scale peer mentoring program. Previously, she coordinated the Scope-On-A-Rope Outreach Program (SOAR) in the Department of Biological Sciences for 10 years with funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In this position, she led over 175
in education, as a function of accountability.This last point falls under the umbrella of the phrase culture of evidence, which is currentlypopular among policy and assessment experts. It captures the belief that colleges can enhancestudent learning and success if they systematically collect and examine data8. Suskie9 states thatfor good assessment to happen, the instructor at the start needs to “develop clearly articulatedwritten statements of expected learning outcomes”, that is, what the students know and will beable to do by the end of the course. Ewell5 calls this the “Improvement Paradigm”, which canembrace many kinds of evidence-gathering, including standardized and faculty-designedexaminations, capstone projects, demonstrations
and a director of SageFox Consulting Group. She has spent the last 10 years evaluating projects supporting young adults moving through the STEM pipeline and workforce development projects. Rebecca’s work often involves evaluations of innovative approaches to STEM education, typically at community colleges and graduate school programs. Rebecca received her MBA in non-profit management at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management and her M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Dr. Alan R. Peterfreund, SageFox Consulting Group Alan Peterfreund is Executive Director of SageFox Consulting Group, an education research, evaluation located in Amherst Massachusetts. Alan has a Ph.D. in Geology from
; Liaison, StepUP Imitative, coordinate Northeast- ern University’s involvement with the StepUP initiative, a partnership effort between five universities and eleven Boston Public Schools; Project Director, IMPACT New England: A Regional Curriculum Imple- mentation Effort, coordinated program development and implementation; Seminar Leader, Northeastern University School of Education, facilitated a group of students participating in the Introduction to Educa- tion course; Project Support Liaison, Teacher Innovation program, provided support to teachers/schools in the development and implementation of Teacher Innovation Programs (TIP), provided technical assistance to teachers through the proposal process, conducted
-based instruction design in STEM education. She is also interested in Software Engineering Education research that focuses on experimenting various delivery models in project-centric courses. She designed and developed a Web service description language called USDL (Universal Service-Semantics Description Language). She is the principal investigator of the Instructional Module Development System (IMODS) that is currently under development and funded by National Science Foundation.Dr. Odesma Onika Dalrymple, University of San Diego Dr. Odesma Dalrymple is an Assistant Professor in the Shiley Marcos School of Engineering at University of San Diego. She conducts research on tools and techniques that can be readily
Paper ID #12669Influence of Integrating GPS and Civil 3D in Engineering Technology CoursesDr. Maher M Murad, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown Dr. Maher Murad is a faculty member in the Civil Engineering Technology department at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. Dr. Murad served as a visiting professor at Bucknell University. He also has overseas teaching and professional experience. He worked as a technical manager at Modern Contracting and as a highway project manager at Acer Freeman Fox International. He is a licensed professional engineer (P.E.) in the state of Ohio. Dr. Murad received a Masters degree in
need for time consuming andexpensive manual balancing procedures and equipment. Therm-Omega-Tech is a majorsupporter for Sam Houston State University (SHSU) whose goal is to extend academic studiesfor future engineering technology students. A group of engineering technology students andresidence life office staff have been challenged with a multi-year instrumentation project. Thestudy started in May 2012 and continues to challenge young minds after multiple phases of theproject have been completed. Students were given multiple tasks to install circuit solver TRVvalves in university dorms to test the valves. The first task was to work with an engineering firmto learn the required design work. After approval of the design work, students worked
, Assistance to theHandicapped, Entertainment, Education, Safety, and much more. A wide spectrum ofapplications of robot manipulators is shown in Figure 1.Robotics, Mechatronics and Automation Curriculum at Mechanical EngineeringTechnology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan The main role of the funding sought for this project, funded by Wayne State University’sIntramural Fund Support, was to purchase a Robotics Education Training Package to developadditional courses that would use that equipment. The main objective of this project is to educatestudents in the area of emergent technology of machinery automation, which includeskinematics, dynamics, control, modeling, design, build, simulation, programming, andautomation. The Robotics
Bucknell University. Her research has focused on meaningful learning in science and engineering education, approached from the perspec- tive of Human Constructivism. She has authored several publications and given numerous presentations on the generation of analogies, misconceptions, and facilitating learning in science and engineering educa- tion. She has been involved in collaborative research projects focused on conceptual learning in chemistry, chemical engineering, seismology, and astronomy.Dr. Nathan P. Siegel P.E., Bucknell UniversityDr. Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University Margot Vigeant is a professor of chemical engineering and an associate dean of engineering at Bucknell University. She earned her B.S. in
Jack, Western Carolina University Dr. Jack is Department Head and Distinguished Professor of the Department of Engineering and Tech- nology at Western Carolina University. His interests include robotics, automation, controls, and project management.Dr. Jeffrey L. Ray, Western Carolina University Jeffrey Ray is Dean of the Kimmel School of Construction Management, Engineering, and Technology at Western Carolina University (WCU) and Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Prior to joining WCU, Ray was Dean of the School of Engineering Technology and Management and Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU) in Marietta, Georgia for seven years. Before his tenure at
productive and student-centered peer-to-peer interactions, and (3) advance student abilities in the analysis, design, and testing of electronic circuits. This paper discusses the implementation of the pedagogy with examples of specific projects, faculty experiences and challenges, and student feedback with the new approach.I. Introduction Benjamin Franklin once said [1], “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” As instructors, in addition to providing the technical knowledge, it is our responsibility to foster independent, critical, and creative thinking as well as encourage effective collaboration among students. To this end, we are presenting an updated pedagogy for the two- course electronics sequence at
., M.S.E.E., and B.E.E. degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Ga. His memberships include ASEE and IEEE (Senior Member).Dr. Michael Kuhl, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Michael E. Kuhl, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology. He earned his PhD in Industrial Engineering in 1997 from North Carolina State University. His research and teaching interests are in simulation, operations research, and decision anal- ysis with a wide range of application areas including intelligent material handling systems, healthcare systems, project management, cyber security, and supply chain systems.Prof. Daniel P. Johnson, Rochester Institute
Course Objective Bloom’s Taxonomy 1. Explain lifelong learning skills needed for successful engineering 3-Application careers. 2. Apply key aspects of project management, and scheduling within an 3-Application engineering context. 3. Demonstrate the ability of multidisciplinary teams to effectively 3-Application examine engineering solutions. 4. Use key business concepts to illustrate effective approaches to 4-Analysis business development, project relationships, proposal submittal, and consultant selection. 5. Relate characteristics of effective communication to project design, 4-Analysis alternatives evaluation, and recommended solutions. 6. Recognize
Senior Transportation Modeler and Project Manager for South- ern California Association of Governments (SCAG); Prior to that, he was a Senior Transportation Analyst for Wilbur Smith Associates in Chicago from 2007 to 2009.Dr. Ghada M. Gad, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Ghada Gad is an Assistant Professor in Construction Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona. She received her PhD in Civil Engineering (Construction emphasis), from Iowa State University. Her main areas of research is in construction management focusing on contracts, procurement, project delivery methods, estimating, and risk management, in addition to the cultural aspects of construction projects. She is also an ExCEED fellow; her teaching
Paper ID #28512Enhancing graduate education by fully integrating research andprofessional skill development within a diverse, inclusive andsupportive academyDr. Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez, University of Kentucky Dr. Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez is co-PI and project coordinator of a National Science Foundation Re- search Traineeship (NRT) program designed to enhance graduate education by fully integrating research and professional skill development within a diverse, inclusive and supportive academy. Originally from Mexico, Dr. Santillan-Jimenez joined the University of Kentucky (UK) first as an undergraduate research intern
reconstruction segments of the construction industry. These research projects willhelp the industry overcome challenges, will provide faculty with field experience that can beshared in the classroom and, through publication, will help to build a body of knowledge for thedemolition and reconstruction segments of the construction industry.This paper will be of significance to those interested in demolition and reconstruction educationin addition to those seeking to develop new curricula, particularly specializations. Specifically,this paper will detail the process from engaging an industry segment or segments to developingthe actual courses in the newly developed specialization.BackgroundConstruction is central to the basic human needs of “food, shelter
, University Park, PA 16802. Telephone: 814-865-4015, FAX: 814-865-4021, email: TALME@engr.psu.eduWesley Donahue, Pennsylvania State University Wesley Donahue is an Associate Professor affiliated with both The Smeal College of Business Administration and the College of Education, and he is the Director of Management Development. Dr. Donahue brings over 25 years of manufacturing, sales and organization development experience to his position at Penn State. Formerly, he worked with the Fortune 500 company Brockway Inc., now Owens-Brockway, where he began as a project engineer and rose to manager of technology for the corporation’s international division. Subsequently, he co-founded and served as
variation, and eliminate waste. It hasbeen used successfully in the automotive, chemical, healthcare, high-tech, financial and retailindustries. The Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Department at the University ofCentral Florida has incorporated service experiential learning opportunities into the curriculumwithin a Total Quality Improvement course. This course teaches the Six Sigma body ofknowledge together with Lean Principles and provides hands-on Six Sigma project experience.This paper describes how a team of faculty and students used the Lean Six Sigma Technology todocument and improve the pre-application process used by the College of Engineering andComputer Science at the University of Central Florida.1. IntroductionIn the Fall
, Inc., a San Luis Obispo-based biotechnology startup company. He has also served as an Assistant Professor at Milwaukee School of Engineering and was employed by McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company, where he was a lead engineer and Principal Investigator on projects to develop technology evolution plans for the Space Station. Page 11.362.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 COSMM: An Undergraduate Laboratory for Engineering and Manufacturing Complex, Organic Shapes Using Nature as a TemplateIntroductionThe COSMM (Complex/Organic Shapes and Multiple
purpose of a software engineering class at our institutions is to teach students how towork in teams to develop a secure software project from specification through delivery. The soft-ware engineering class has prerequisite classes in programming, but has no security prerequisites.Therefore all security concepts necessary for our secure software development processes must beintroduced in the software engineering class. As a single semester doesn’t offer the necessary time to broadly cover information securityin addition to software engineering, the class focuses on security topics that fit directly into thesoftware development lifecycle. For example, the course teaches students how to securely usecryptographic APIs in their projects but
data also reveal the positive impact of theseinstructional modes compared to those utilized in traditional engineering coursework. This paperpresents these new delivery approaches and the sample research projects included within thenewly introduced nanotechnology courses.1. IntroductionNanotechnology is a rapidly advancing field that shows promise in solving current science andtechnology challenges through the innovative materials, processes/devices, and theirapplications. Nanomanufacturing including self-assembly has become an important tool indeveloping nanoscale devices applicable in medicine, electronics, and energy. Nanomaterialssuch as carbon nanotubes, graphene, quantum dots, and nanoparticles are of particular interest insensor