learning within the scope of integrated manufacturing concept and theirlaboratory requirements are discussed. A sample project is described in order to highlight theoverall approach.IntroductionThe rapid growth of information technologies that has provided public access to a vast assemblyof educational resources and learning opportunities has transformed the capacity of highereducation to deliver educational and training programs to learners of different age groups. Page 9.56.1Increased enrollment of adult learners who demand an education using these new information “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education
school and at DC Prep, a high-performing urban public charter school. After completing her graduate work at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, Kay Sigler be- came involved in teacher support and training, working as a mentor teacher to new and veteran educators and developing a Resident Teacher program at DC Prep, and through the New Teacher Project and Mercy College in New York City, where she helped develop a residency-based master’s in education program for New York City Teaching Fellows. Kay Sigler’s work at Brown has focused on preparing secondary history/social studies teachers for urban classrooms. Kay Sigler currently works with schools to evaluate the way in which they are implementing best
for girls. The classoffered entry-level and sophomore students a head start in team collaboration under the directionof advanced undergraduate female students in a project management environment.Course PurposeThe course had a multi-purpose agenda – addressing both retention of women engineers in theschool and offering the students basic engineering skills while raising awareness on the need torecruit girls into engineering. Tasked with designing a recruitment video, the students weredirected to: 1) address issues of female pre-college attrition in the math and science realm; 2)portray challenges and opportunities for women at the university level and in the work world;and 3) create a strategy (story) that would encourage young girls to view
of teamwork is not new in engineering education, but generally team-work is localized to a classroom, a design project, or a single endeavor. In TQE, the idea isto straddle the curriculum with heterogeneous teams of students and faculty charged withthe important mission of achieving a quality education for team members. More will be saidabout this mission in a moment, but rst we examine a key element of reform that is ignoredin many proposals.2.2 Current Reform Proposals Too CostlyThere have been a number of high pro le e orts directed at designing the engineering curricu- Page 3.541.2lum of the next millennium|for example, the various NSF
, information issent out to the students upon selection. A total of 30 students, representing schools from acrossQatar, across multiple age range were selected to participate in each program which was held atTexas A&M University at Qatar’s STEM Hub.As for the programs’ structure, each course consisted of daily sessions from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00p.m. that ran over the course of five days. Lessons were then organized into daily modules,incorporating mini projects to reinforce learning and assess comprehension of the theoreticallessons. By the end of the program, a final project is announced that has students combine all thecovered material throughout the week into a tangible product with a specified competition thatserves as a motivator. Moreover, the
Timothy Bretl is an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his B.S. in Engineering and B.A. in Mathematics from Swarthmore College in 1999, and his M.S. in 2000 and Ph.D. in 2005 both inDr. Elle Wroblewski, University of Illinois at Urbana - ChampaignMichael Lembeck, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 WIP: Using a Human-Centered Engineering Design Framework to Develop Learning Progressions in an Aerospace Engineering ProgramIntroductionHuman-centered design (HCD) [1], which offers a promising approach to promote situatedlearning in engineering design projects, and to facilitate
’ perceptions of these notebooks.Types of engineering notebooksA brief review of the literature reveals that engineering notebooks can take many formsand be used for many purposes. For example, Tillema and Smith (2000)24 identified threedistinct types: 1. A dossier is a notebook or portfolio that is completed at the end of a project or course to “collect mandated documentation on performance. In this case, the portfolio construction is not necessarily based on a learning orientation” (p. 194)24. 2. A learning portfolio is a living document used to evaluate learning over the course of the project or semester. 3. A reflective portfolio is also a living document, in which the author records his or her
-basedrobotic/mechatronic design projects. We expect that the integrated laboratory experiences in ourfirst-year mechanical engineering classes will improve the students’ understanding and retentionof fundamental engineering principles through the coupling of hands-on laboratory learning withdesign-based learning. We will assess this outcome by comparing final exam scores acrosssemesters (i.e., before and after the curricular changes). We also anticipate increased studentretention, which will be assessed by tracking which students eventually register for theMechatronics course in the junior year of the program.1. IntroductionOur overall curriculum has a very strong “hands-on” component at all levels with semester-longdesign projects in both semesters
and telematics applicationsUNESCO ClubsUNESCO clubs 3 are groups of people of all ages and social and professional backgrounds whoshare UNESCO’s ideal and endeavor to make it known and associate themselves with its workby undertaking activities directly inspired by those of the organization.The UNESCO Associated Schools ProjectThis project was launched in November 1953 to promote education in schools for internationalunderstanding and cooperation. The main purpose is to encourage educational institutions atall levels to organize special programmes designed to increase knowledge of world problemsand develop international understanding of other peoples and cultures, and to strengthenunderstanding and observance of the principles of human
to the most important skillswere significantly different, with the exception of the relative importance of design and math. Inaddition, five senior civil engineering students mapped their personal course experiences to theBOK2. One student noted that the capstone design course alone covered 21 of the 24 BOK2outcomes, indicating that a single course can achieve a wide range of objectives and one neednot view the BOK2 outcomes as “course-by-course” requirements. However, the outcomes inthe senior design course were somewhat dependent on the specific project and the individualstudents’ role on the project. For example, a service learning project for a developingcommunity achieved to some extent the globalization outcome that other students
engineering can be applied to a variety ofindustries, including defense, aerospace, and medicine. In the modern healthcare industry, forinstance, biomedical engineers working with a multidisciplinary team can provide solutions tophysicians to aid in disease diagnosis. In a situation such as flu pandemic it may be desirable todo rapid screening for fever detection. In an academic setting, fever screening can help inseparating normal healthy students from those with suspected fever. This is the motivation todesign and develop an easy-to-use low cost temperature measurement device. The objective ofthis multidisciplinary project is to design a low-cost, scalable, rapid, and effective device forfever screening that can be applied to a wide variety of
those courses, but also for courses of study related to the Design Process, such as asenior-level Capstone Design Project. The creation of a reference Design Process Rubric wouldbegin to lay the foundation to address some of the barriers to both an advance placement and / orfor a dual-enrollment course (secondary and undergraduate credit).IntroductionThe work reported in this paper began with the Strategies for Engineering Education K – 16(SEEK-16) Summit held on February 21 and 22nd, 2005 at the National Academy ofEngineering. As a direct result of SEEK-16: (1) funding was provided by several NationalScience Foundation (NSF) awards; (2) a research program was conducted to study the rationale
-leads the ”ADVANCE His- panic Women in STEM” project in Puerto Rico, and the Latin and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions’ (LACCEI) ”Women in STEM” forum. Tull is a Tau Beta Pi ”Eminent Engineer.”Dr. Maria Nandadevi Cortes-Rodriguez, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute Center for Conservationand Evolutionary Genetics National Zoological Park PhD in Biological Sciences Page 19.30.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Starting Points for Involving Underrepresented Graduate Students in International Engagement: A Case Study on the Collaborations
partner university. An important side benefit in this age of dwindlingeducational resources is that students will have access to the full array of specialized electivetopics, laboratory equipment and practical experiences available at any partner university.From a practical perspective, the Global Engineering College (GEC) model consists of four keyelements that interact in complementary fashion to provide a wide range of internationalexperience and training opportunities: Curriculum Internationalization. International perspectives can be integrated into existing engineering course curricula by replacing generic, context-free assignments and projects with “scenario-based” challenges, in which the same pedagogic exercises are situated
offering.Specifically how the course was intentionally developed to include practical applications ofindustry-standard writing and to center student learning with regular feedback and practice. Next,we break down the core concepts for autonomous vehicle engineering across engineering andcomputer science disciplines. We address the issue of prerequisites and how the class conceptswere ultimately organized and how existing university research and computer labs were utilized.Lastly, we also discuss group dynamics and techniques for ensuring course project teams havediverse majors. Our results section is primarily composed of survey results from our third courseoffering. We show the evolution of skills from the mechanical engineering students and thecomputer
plotting.An overarching idea behind the SLC is to help students realize that the topics of Calculus I,Physics I, and Programming are most effective when used together in engineering. Theseconcepts in engineering applications are not siloed and nor should the coursework be. Thereforeto address this conceptual misalignment, all three faculty developed mini-projects, or specificassignments incorporating concepts from each of the three disciplines. All three facultycollaboratively developed the real-world application problems that required leveragingknowledge horizontally across all three courses.The bold faced common themes were then mapped to provide a framework in the developmentof the interdisciplinary mini-projects. It was critical to ensure the
students. Dr. Cadwell currently consults on a $1.2 million NSF grant that she procured in partnership with the Univer- sity of Idaho faculty in Curriculum and Instruction, UI Extension, and two local Native American Indian Tribes: the Coeur d’Alene (CdAT) and Spokane (ST) tribes. The grant, ITEST, Strategies Project—Back to the Earth (BTTE), is addressing a national call to increase the STEM workforce pipeline by supporting and improving the STEM educational experiences for Native American students. Dr. Cadwell is a member of the grant leadership team with expertise in STEM content, curriculum development, and technology ed- ucation. The team is using an interdisciplinary framework to reach under-served populations. The
, Fairfax, VA, USA. He studies the use of informa- tion and communication technologies (ICT) for engineering learning and knowledge sharing, with a focus on cognition in informal environments. He is a co-editor of the Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Ed- ucation Research (CHEER), Cambridge University Press (2014). He can be reached at ajohri3@gmu.edu. More information about him is available at: http://mason.gmu.edu/˜ajohri3Prof. akshay sharma, Virginia Tech, Industrial Design Akshay Sharma, an Associate Professor, is passionate about creating thin interfaces in analogue as well as digital media and about using design as a catalyst for the empowerment of women. Currently he is working on projects related to: micro
engineering. A National ScienceFoundation supported project at Tufts University’s Center for Engineering Education andOutreach aims to provide this support to elementary teachers as they learn to develop andimplement integrated engineering and literacy (IEL) activities in their classrooms. As part of theongoing professional development (PD) for this project, participating teachers discussinstructional practices for creating and implementing literature-based engineering activities intheir classrooms. These instructional practices involve attending to student reasoning andfostering student engagement in engineering areas of problem scoping, conceptual planning, andrealizing and testing design ideas.This qualitative research study focuses on elementary
Education at Purdue University. In 2011, she received a NSF CAREER award, which examines how engineering students approach innovation. She is also a NAE/CASEE New Faculty Fellow. Purzer conducts research on aspects of design education such as innovativeness and information literacy. Page 24.1155.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014Teachers’ Attempts Assessing Middle SchoolEngineering Design WorkAbstractEngineering has made its way into many K-12 classrooms over the past ten years. Teachers areasked to teach engineering through engaging engineering design projects with little
technicalcomponent (e.g. engine design). For many students, this course is their first opportunity toexperience design. While courses vary from program to program, these design experiencesgenerally include a large-scale team project accompanied by instruction on the overall aerospacedesign process. The most variability among courses and programs lies between the required textsand the requirements of the large-scale project. The subsequent sections describe three commonaspects found in a review of publicly-available aerospace engineering senior design coursesyllabi from several universities, including MIT, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, University ofTexas-Austin, Iowa State University, and Purdue University, and published works fromaerospace and engineering
Astronautical Engineering from The Ohio State University, M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Arkansas. He holds a Professional Engineer certification and worked as an Engineer and Engineering Manger in industry for 20 years before teaching. His interests include project management, robotics /automation and air pollution dispersion modeling. Page 23.1335.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Using Scale Models to Promote Technological LiteracyAbstractThe use of technologies by humans is nothing new. In actuality, humans have utilizedtechnologies of
“greenshoots of recovery” in the UK. In the longer term, engineering companies are projected tohave 2.74 million job openings between 2010 and 2020, across a diverse range of disciplines[3]. This represents 19.8% of all job openings across all industries. Two thirds of these jobopenings, 1.86 million jobs, will be for workers needing engineering skills of varying levels.Just less than half of these openings (865,100) will be for people with level 4+ engineeringqualifications (level 4 is first year undergraduate level). These figures predict a demand foraround 86,500 recruits pa with level 4+ engineering skills. Unfortunately, only around46,000 people qualify at this level each year [3].Hence, with a rough doubling of candidates qualified to level 4
science doctoral students? 2) Specifically, how do such interactions predict skill development (associated with primary funding mechanism) for the following career-related skills: a) research, b) teamwork and project management, c) peer training and mentoring, and d) communication?We administered the Graduate Student Funding Survey to engineering and physical sciencedoctoral programs in the United States, with focused sampling of institutions that produce a highnumber of doctorates and that have highly ranked programs. We developed the survey, includingsurvey items on demographics, funding mechanism, skill development, and climate (i.e.,interactions with others). Data collection occurred in Fall 2019 (n = 615). We did not
projects, reflect on their social identities, and consider the broader societal contexts of their engineering work. The goals of his research are 1) to develop tools and pedagogies that support engineers in achieving the positive societal changes that they envision and 2) to address systems of oppression that exist within and are reproduced by engineering education and work environments. He earned his B.S. in Engineering Sciences from Yale University, with a double major in East Asian Studies, and earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He also holds a Graduate Certificate in Chinese and American Studies, jointly awarded by Johns Hopkins University and Nanjing University in China.Prof
Campus.AARON ABUGABER is a Mechanical Engineering Senior at Johns Hopkins University. He is the senior moststudent Research Assistant member of the HOAD project, having worked on it since his freshman year. He iscurrently working on the CAD designs for the active device and is an integral part of the development and design ofthese components.ROHIT DAYAL is a Senior in Biomedical Engineering & Applied Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University. Hehas devoted his time to determining the necessary steps required for the devices to meet FDA approval.Additionally, he developed an external Portfolio for HOAD that provides an overview to the general public whichcomplements the two (2) US and two (2) foreign Patent Applications that were filed on July 7th
undergraduate research and service learning. Brief highlights of bothof these two techniques are provided next. This paper later describes involving undergraduatestudents in a project in a highway engineering course using a combination of both undergraduateresearch and service learning. It will present some findings and provide some recommendations.Importance of Engaging Undergraduate Students in Research Projects:Engaging undergraduate students in research activities has long been proven to be an effectivemeans of learning. Although this movement started in scientific academic programs [1] likeengineering, it quickly expanded to include other disciplines as well like arts and humanities.The literature is saturated with articles which are testifying to
Paper ID #37134Training Construction Management Students about Sustainable andEquitable Infrastructure through Leveraging an Envision-Rating System ina Hispanic-Serving InstitutionMiss Rubaya Rahat, Florida International University Rubaya Rahat grew up in Bangladesh, where she pursued her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). After graduating she worked for two years in a construction management company in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She was involved in various residential and infrastructure projects. Rubaya now is a Ph.D. student at Department of Civil and Environ
Research, Teaching, and Learning) at the University of Pittsburgh. April studied at Winthrop University, earning a BS degree in Chemistry and BA degree in Psychology in 2000. She then completed her PhD in 2007 at the University of Pittsburgh, studying oxidative stress in in vitro models of Parkinson’s disease. During her prior graduate and postdoctoral work in neurodegeneration, April mentored several undergraduate, graduate, and clinical researchers and developed new methods for imaging and tracking mitochondria from living zebrafish neurons. In her work for the EERC and Pitt-CIRTL, April Dukes collaborates on educational research projects and facilitates professional development (PD) on instructional and mentoring
Paper ID #38323Integrating Equity in the Systems Engineering Curriculum: A Pilot StudyDr. Julie Drzymalski, Temple University Julie Drzymalski is a Professor of Instruction and Director of the Industrial and Systems Engineering program. Her teaching interests lie in the areas of operations research and systems modeling. Current re- search pursuits are in the application of complex adaptive systems modeling to areas such as supply chains and human centered systems. Previously held industrial positions include various quality engineering, project and program management positions in the construction industries of the greater