Paper ID #25104Strategies to Improve Engineers’ Writing of Executive SummariesDr. Cara N. Morton P.E, Washington State University Cara is professional engineer and has three years of structural engineering design experience from the design of marine structures in the Gulf of Mexico to the design of shear walls in seven story concrete buildings governed by seismic loads in Seattle, WA. She currently serves as Clinical Professor at Wash- ington State University teaching the Integrated Civil Engineering Design class where a broad knowledge base from stormwater management to traffic engineering is required. Regarding
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implements the combination of two best practices: 1) scaffold learning [8-11] and2) hands-on learning [12-13] via ‘making’ assignments of increasing complexity. The aim was toextract the impact that these ‘making’ assignments have on developing students’ EM.MethodsTeaching methodsHere we provide a brief description of the course used for the 3Cs assessment. The course,known as Mechatronics, is a required component of our Mechanical Engineering curriculum.The course content inherently requires students to make connections and integrate knowledgeacross the realms of mechanical, electrical, and computer science disciplines. Our version isconsidered unique within the curriculum in that it has each student purchase a ‘making’ kit inlieu of a textbook, as
integration is not suitable for processes that do notrequire high temperatures for a reaction step, or (2) students encounter a lack of available timenear project completion because too much time is spent early in the project on correctimplementation of reaction kinetics. In the 2016 offering of Design III, 4 out of 6 groupssuccessfully incorporated heat integration in their process (see Figure 1). In the spring 2017offering of Design III, 7 out of 11 groups successfully incorporated heat integration in theirprocess, while in the summer 2017 offering of Design III, only 1 out of 4 groups successfullyincorporated heat integration in their process. Table 2 below presents an overview of the utilitycost benefit for the 12 senior design groups that chose
canlearn, apply, assess and create their own VR setups to understand working of solar power indifferent settings. In development of new engineering resources for energy, solar power is the mostreliable source. Hence learning how to manage this power efficiently and effectively is necessaryin various hypothetical scenarios under effect of natural factors such as shadow, wind, etc.The learning experience for an undergraduate student in simulating solar panel working intechnical curriculum for renewable energy course is as shown in Figure 1. As shown in the blockdiagram, first type of installation is selected. There are three main types of installations out there– residential solar panel installation, commercial and industrial solar panel
only subject matter covered in class but in the practical lab, the final examination will cover all aspects of the course. • Consistent Laboratory Experience • Higher Level Learning • Course / Curriculum Integration • Active LearningAll of the above could be considered new.Prior to approving the pilot course, recognizing that this was an internal experiment, thefollowing key questions to be answered as a result of this internal experiment were identified andare listed below.1) Can the "new" subject matter be effectively learned by freshmen?2) Can the subject matter related to manufacturing processes be effectively learned with areduced exposure to materials science concepts?3) Are the students better prepared for
curriculum road mapping workshops where all relevant stakeholders cantogether explore and chart us how to respond to the changing industrial landscape. Drawing fromtheses workshop outcomes, curricula will be developed in collaboration with all stakeholders tocreate a course material and hands-on labs that allow for manufacturing technology students togain an appropriate level of understanding of the essentials of each other’s programs. Theinfluence that industry 4.0 has on the industrial sector has been projected to the topic ofengineering education. Sakhapov et al, state that industry 4.0 has already started due to industrialchanges in IoT, integration of cyber physical systems (CPS) in manufacturing processes andapplication of neural networks. For
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM ) among the incomingfreshmen so that they will be encouraged to pursue a degree in Engineering, Physics, orcomputer science. The duration of this research activity was four weeks, during which time thesestudents become familiar with research, teamwork, problem based learning, and the proceduresinvolved in engineering design and building. The first phase of the activity, lasting for one week,involved an introduction to basic theory focusing on electronics, mechanics, programming, andengineering design processes. The second phase of the activity, lasting the remaining threeweeks, involved researching, designing, and building a conceptual model and prototype of aminesweeper robot. With the
Table 1. Professional Development Seminars for teachers and graduate fellows One of the underlying themes of the GK12 project is to transform the university’sculture to view outreach to public schools as an integral part of graduate education, andas a necessary step in ensuring that the nation produces a well-trained and educatedpopulation for excellence in science, engineering and mathematics innovation.9Consequently, in developing the teacher-graduate fellow professional developmentseminars, a multi-disciplinary faculty team of faculty PIs were selected from at least onedepartment in four of the University’s colleges including Business, Education,Engineering and Science. The goal was to broaden faculty participation as much aspossible
” [1].It is up to individual programs how they implement and assess ABET criteria, and manyprograms meet the non-technical criteria through service courses taught by other departments,such as a technical communication course taught by the English department or by specialized butseparate courses such as an engineering-oriented ethics class. However, there has also beenextensive work on integrating communication skills throughout the engineering curriculum andcourses, and that is the focus of this work [6]–[8]. Engineering faculty generally value written communication skills and recognize that theyhave a role in helping students to develop those skills. Many see their role as that of providingopportunities for students to write in their
Engineering Education*." Journal of Engineering Education 90, no. 1 (2001): 33-41.8. Ambrose, Susan A., and Cristina H. Amon. "Systematic Design of a First‐Year Mechanical Engineering Course at Carnegie Mellon University." Journal of Engineering Education 86, no. 2 (1997): 173-181.9. Felder, Richard M., Robert J. Beichner, L. Bernold, E. Burniston, Philip Dail, and Hugh Fuller. "Update on IMPEC: An integrated first-year engineering curriculum at NC State University." In 1997 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings. 1997.10. Kilgore, Deborah, Cynthia J. Atman, Ken Yasuhara, Theresa J. Barker, and Andrew Morozov. "Considering Context: A Study of First‐Year Engineering Students." Journal of Engineering Education 96, no
father of the Mu Chapter of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity.Emilie Condon, Githens Middle School Emilie Condon, MA, MAT-ESOL is in her 7th year as an English as a Second Language public school teacher, currently at Sherwood Githens Middle School in Durham, North Carolina. Her classroom’s second language acquisition has had two foci: hands-on science curriculum and literacy—with an emphasis on photography and reading. The former has been a remarkable collaboration with Gary Ybarra, Ph. D. and Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, and the latter with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.Gary Ybarra, Duke University Gary A. Ybarra, Ph.D. is a Professor and Director of
Journal of Engineering Education. Dr. Rover was Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs in the College of Engineering from 2004-2010. Prior to that, she served as associate chair for undergraduate education in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2003-2004. She began her academic career at Michigan State University. She received the B.S. in computer science in 1984, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in computer engineering in 1986 and 1989, respectively, from Iowa State University. Her teaching and research has focused on embedded computer systems, reconfigurable hardware, integrated program development and performance environments for parallel and distributed systems, visualization, performance
University of the West Indies in his native Barbados, W.I. A member of the FIU-SCIS faculty for more than 30 years, Mr. Pestaina has taught at all levels of the curriculum, receiving awards for excellence in teaching on five occasions. He served the School as an Undergraduate Advisor for 15 of those years, and has served continuously as a member of the School’s Curriculum/Undergraduate Committees. Mr. Pestaina was a principal architect of the School’s program assessment processes, and the SCIS undergraduate program Assessment Coordinator from 2006 through 2013, leading successful re-accreditation of the BS in Computer Science program in 2004, and 2010. Mr. Pestaina has been a Reader and Question Leader of the College
States Commission on Higher Education(MSCHE)9, assessment is not an “event but a process that is an integral part of the life of theinstitution.” In other words, assessment for learning is an on-going process where institutionuses the assessment results to improve instructional effectiveness which consequently improvesstudent learning.The department faculty identified an assessment cycle that did not require the assessment ofevery program outcome, every year, in order to remain sustainable over time. The assessmentcycle developed by the CET department faculty is presented in Table 1. Page 22.1614.3The CET department accreditation coordinator was
accepted academic definition is from Bringle & Hatcher [8, p. 112]: “Course-based, credit bearing educational experience in which students participate in an organized serviceactivity that meets identified community needs, and reflect on the service activity in such a wayas to gain further understanding of course content, a broader appreciation of the discipline, andan enhanced sense of civic responsibility”. In 1995, the Engineering Projects in CommunityService Program (EPICS) became the first service-learning program integrated intoan engineering curriculum, which provided an innovative educational experiencefor engineering undergraduates at Purdue University [9]. Service-learning has since stronglyemerged as an important complement to
ASEE.Ms. Elizabeth A Parry, North Carolina State University Elizabeth (Liz) Parry Elizabeth Parry is an engineer and consultant in K-12 Integrated STEM through Engineering Curriculum, Coaching and Professional Development and a Coordinator and Instructor of Introduction to Engineer- ing at the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. For the past sixteen years, she has worked extensively with students from kindergarten to graduate school, parents, preservice and in- ser- vice teachers to both educate and excite them about engineering. As the Co-PI and project director of a National Science Foundation GK-12 grant, Parry developed a highly effective tiered mentoring model for graduate and
more upfront planning than does the average lecture-based course. If you are new toPBL design, consider finding someone in your department who has more experience to helporient you to the process. Otherwise, consider seeking assistance from the instructional supportteams offered at your institution or find researchers on your campus who may be involved inPBL research. Timing is important to the success of any PBL experience. It is important to startdeveloping early. Your environments may need at least a semester of planning before they areready to be implemented. Making an effort to streamline the design process can be beneficial asyou seek to add PBL opportunities throughout your course or across the curriculum. Templatescan be an
Perspectives on a Freshman Treatment of Electronic SystemsAbstract.The conventional approach to curriculum design is that students start with the basics of scienceand math and gradually progress towards a realistic integration of all their engineering skills in asenior capstone project. That approach is now challenged by changes in the assumed boundaryconditions. Students no longer progress through the program in lock-step. Electronicsapplications have evolved far beyond the components level and many cross-disciplinary skillsare needed. Finally, all students require a level of communications, team-working, trouble-shooting and representational skills that take a long time to mature so it is too late to wait till thesenior year to introduce them. The
engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. Prior to coming to the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, she was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida, USA. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 ‘It gives me a bit of anxiety’: Civil and Architectural Engineering Students’ Emotions Related to Their Future Responsibility as EngineersEmotion is an integral part of teaching and learning, intertwined with students’ responses totopics, reactions to experiences in the classroom, and interactions with peers and facultymembers. However, emotion is under-researched in the context of engineering education. Thisresearch paper
experience in curriculum development.Ms. Dunia Tania Periverzov Page 25.120.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 A Wireless Sensor Node Powered by Solar Harvester for Marine Environment Monitoring as a Senior Design Project AbstractImproving the design component in undergraduate engineering education has been an immediateand pressing concern for educators, professional societies, industrial employers and agenciesconcerned with national productivity and competitiveness. The projects are a valuablecomponent of the science and engineering education. The design experience
one hundred scientific publications, as well as numerous free documents and free software packages in the fields of operating systems, distributed systems and multi- core systems, in particular in the area of tracing and monitoring Linux systems for performance analysis. In 1995-1996, during a leave of absence, he was the director of software development at Positron Indus- tries and chief architect for the Power911, object oriented, distributed, fault-tolerant, call management system with integrated telephony and databases. In 2001-2002 he spent a sabbatical leave at Ericsson Research Canada, working on the Linux Trace Toolkit, an open source tracing tool for Carrier Grade Linux. The Linux Trace Toolkit next
focus our work and guide the research. The model of adaptive expertise hasbeen presented as a way of thinking about how to prepare learners to flexibly respond to newlearning situations, which is precisely what students are expected to do in the context ofdeveloping design solutions. We focus on “computational adaptive expertise,” which weabbreviate CADEX, since a major portion of an engineering curriculum focuses on developinganalytical and computational knowledge. Yet, students often struggle with applying ortransferring computational knowledge in the context of design. The current paper presents anoverview of adaptive expertise and relates this concept specifically to engineering designeducation. In addition, the paper presents an overview
session 2 and the other half would rotate to session 3. This method would allow students to get to know more of their classmates. We liked this idea and will implement it next year.General It was suggested that we make more of an attempt to integrate studentComments personal computers into the sessions rather than rely on classroom machines.SummaryThis paper presents one organizational structure for introducing freshmen to the closely relateddisciplines of electrical and computer engineering and to computer science. Our assessment dataindicates that the course was well received. We have been measuring freshman to sophomoreretention in electrical and computer
in ICT related projects. However, the first national conference which was organised by the ministry of communications and United National development Program (UNDP) was held in Kabul in 2006 [4]. It is unfortunate that the Afghan government has not considered integrating ICT within the mainstream education system in the country. ICT can provide unique opportunity for both academics and students to have access to a rich library of information, free of charge via the internet. An integrated approach is needed by the Afghan government and international community to introduce computers and internet access into the learning environment in Afghanistan, such
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_robot#History_and_Development18. Congressional Robotics Caucus. (n.d.) Retrieved from http://www.roboticscaucus.org/19. Muse, C. T. (2010, August). Manufacturing and Robotic Technicians, Electronic Technology and Electro-Mechanical Systems Specialist Surveys, SME Panels, and Curriculum Development Results and the EducationImplications for AUVSI. Proceedings of the North American Conference of the Association of Unmanned VehicleSystems International, [AUVSI].20. AVUSI. (2010, September). Unmanned Aircraft System Integration into the United States National AirspaceSystem: An Assessment of the Impact on Job Creation in the U.S. Aerospace Industry. Unmanned SystemsMagazine, 28(9), 12.21. Allen, I.E, and Seaman, J. (2010, January
skill. Unfortunately, as with most engineering Page 14.880.2technology curriculum, there is often little opportunity to add an additional course dedicated tosimulation to an already full program of study. For this reason, Purdue University Calumet(PUC) faculty initiated steps to introduce their undergraduate students to simulation during arequired course that already existed in the IET curriculum, IET 310 Plant Layout and MaterialHandling.Simulation use and benefit in education and industryThe uses of simulation are extensive in both education and industry as it is a flexible and easy touse tool. Its use is not just limited to one particular
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with students to better understand how the seminar influenced theirperceptions and what other activities or experiences also contribute to those changes as well.References[1] S. Condoor, "Importance of teaching the history of technology," IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, vol. 1, pp. T2G7-T2G-10, 2004.[2] K. C. D'Alessandro, M. K. Swenty and W. N. Collins, "Integrating History into Engineering Curriculum," American Society for Engineering Education - Southeast Section, pp. 1-7, 2014.[3] N. Dabbagh and D. A. Menascé, "Student perceptions of engineering entrepreneurship: An exploratory study," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 95, no. 2, pp. 153-164, 2006.[4] M. Davis, "Defining “Engineer:" How To Do It and Why It Matters
and curriculum and instruction in the College of Education. He is an Fellow of the ASEE and NSPE. He was the first engineer to win the Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service- learning. He was a co-recipient of the 2005 National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education for his work in EPICS. Page 25.130.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Adapting Curricular Models for Local Service-Learning to International CommunitiesIntroduction:In recent years, respected voices in