AC 2008-1050: DEVELOPMENT OF AN INSTRUCTIONAL TUTORIAL FORTEACHING FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS USING ANSYS WORKBENCHJohn Zecher, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis Page 13.419.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Development of an Instructional Tutorial for teaching Finite Element Analysis using ANSYS® Workbench™ AbstractDuring the past several years, use of finite element analysis (FEA) in industry has transitionedfrom a specialized tool, used primarily by full-time analysts, to one that is used by productengineers as an integral part of the design process. A major reason for
Aerospace Engineering from Sharif University of Technology and MSc and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University. Before joining Iowa State University, she was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University in Michigan. Sheidaei’s main research area is ”multiscale characterization and computational modeling of advanced material systems such as polymer reinforced composites”. During her graduate study at MSU (2007-2015), she worked at Composite Vehicle Research Center (CVRC) where she worked on numerous research and industrial projects. Those span over the areas of structural integrity of composites, develop- ment of constitutive models and computational tools to
concepts and analytical methods taught at theintroductory level. As a result, it has been agreed that student performance in introductorycourses should be based on individual assessments. Group exercises and team learningenvironments are integrated in the EET curriculum at the senior level to assist in the successfultransition of the student into his or her profession.The faculty within the department has traditionally used a weighted average comprised of gradedhomework assignments, quizzes, tests, and a final exam to determine an overall grade. Theeffect of graded versus non-graded homework in an introductory undergraduate engineeringcourse has been investigated [1], and previous research has illustrated the effectiveness ofhomework assignments
Engineering students traditionally take a subset of courses required for the EE and CSdegrees, along with specialized CE courses in architecture, microcontrollers and digital designand integrated circuit design. From an EE view, they have too little hardware experience touseful interfacing and according to CS, programming embedded microcontrollers in assembly orC is insufficient. This would probably be satisfactory if most CE graduates went to work in hightechnology companies like microelectronic industry, but this simply not the case. A number ofCE students wind up being employed as more traditional engineering doing software design.Many will have careers in digital communications and data acquisition, where signalconditioning, digital signal
for engineeringstudents. At our university, undergraduate students at all levels have been and will continue tobe involved in water resources projects throughout their undergraduate careers. While our areais well suited for providing these projects, the approach can be emulated in many otheruniversities. The integration of projects across the curriculum provides a better studentexperience and understanding of civil engineering practice. Projects in the classroom should behandled like projects in professional practice with students taking responsibility for planning andexecuting the projects. Experience with freshmen students in these projects was particularly positive. Theelevation certificate survey provides an excellent elementary
effectiveness of the communication integration initiative.Preliminary data from these assessment tools will also be reported.Current Status of Communication Initiatives in EngineeringSeveral initiatives have been made possible through cooperative efforts with a campus-wideCommunication across the Curriculum (CxC) program. The CxC program was established in2003 through the generosity of a now-deceased engineering alumnus who wished to establish auniversity-wide program that would focus on improving students’ communication skills.Because he was an engineer, his primary interest was to accomplish this task in engineeringclasses first, but from the beginning, he envisioned this program as a means of addressingstudent needs across all curricula. The
Press, Washington, DC. (2004)3. Welch, W. W., Klopfer, L. E., Aikenhead, G. S., & Robinson, J. T.: The role of inquiry in science education: Analysis and recommendations. Science Education 65, 33—50 (1981)4. Bloom, L. Z. & White, E. M.: Inquiry: a cross-curricular reader. Englewood Cliffs (ed), Prentice-Hall, Inc. NJ. (1993).5. Tsankova, J. and Dobrynina G.: Developing curious students. Integrating Inquiry across the Curriculum, 85—109, Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, CA. (2005)6. LaPlaca, M. C., Newstetter, W. C., Yognathan, A. P.: Problem-based learning in biomedical engineering curricula, In Proceedings Frontiers in Education Conference 2, F3E-16-21. (2001)7. Froyd, J. E. Ohland, M. W
from The Alcal´a de Henares University (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.Prof. GABRIEL DIAZ ORUETA, UNED Gabriel D´ıaz Orueta has a doctoral degree in Physics from the Sciences Faculty of Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. He worked for 10 years for different ICT companies as DEC or Cisco. He has several different industry certifications, as those of Cisco, HP, Microsoft and ITIL or ISO 20000. He currently works, as an Associate Professor, for UNED
critical of thefirst. Finally, elements of the curriculum that are essentially 100% engineering or 100% businesswere designed by one professor from the appropriate discipline and are taught by that oneprofessor, since an integrated learning experience was unnecessary. For the technologyentrepreneurship track that is the focus of this paper, 30 of the 42 required credits for the degreeare of the integrated design type, reinforcing the close relationship that engineers and managershave in companies.The program accepted its first group of students in the summer of 2001, and offered only thetechnology entrepreneurship track to the first entering class. It was open to all engineeringdisciplines. The course described in this paper is a part of the
mathematics faculty are combined to form animplicit mathematics curriculum, which lists the mathematical skills relevant to core engineeringclasses along with the flow of learning and utilization. Several problematic areas are identified,including the concept of a function, linearization, and vector calculus. Interview results show thatmany engineering faculty have an inadequate knowledge of mathematics class syllabi, and oftendo not know where or how the skills they require are taught, while mathematics instructors oftenhave a limited understanding of how mathematical concepts are applied in downstreamengineering classes. A number of recommendations are made, including increasedcommunication between mathematics and engineering faculty, development
articulation agreements with Nanjing University andShanghai Normal University for Law, Engineering, and Engineering Technology.1 One of thesearticulation agreements involves accepting mainland Chinese students as transfer students intoManufacturing and Electronic Engineering Technology programs and integrating them intoJunior/Senior level classes. University of Dayton faculties have been teaching classes both in the USand in China. The University of Dayton currently has Chinese undergraduate students in theirprogram currently experiencing their senior year in technical classes. The students also participated Page 12.916.3in an English
Marietta Energy Systems, and later GE Superabrasives. Cindy is active in assessment and accreditation activities at MSOE and has been exploring ways to include on-line education in her classes.Mr. James R. Kieselburg II, Grohmann Museum at Milwaukee School of Engineering Director and Curator, Grohmann Museum at Milwaukee School of Engineering Adjunct Professor, Visual Design, Milwaukee School of Engineering Page 24.784.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Integration of Art and Engineering: Creating Connections between Engineering Curricula and an Art
State University, The Behrend College, Erie, PA. He has worked in the foundry industry for 20 years as a toolmaker, and has managed several departments including the tool shop, R&D, production, product, quality and sales. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Integrating Industry Projects into a Manufacturing Systems CourseAbstractIn order to fill the existing skills gap in U.S. manufacturing, effective teaching techniques ofmanufacturing courses should be considered by academic institutions. Hands-on experiments andreal life projects can be incorporated into the curriculums in order to produce new graduates withadequate knowledge of manufacturing skills. In this paper, we discuss
hop-inspired pedagogics and its intersection with design thinking, computational media- making, and integrative curriculum design.Sabrina Grossman, Georgia Institute of Technology I am currently a Program Director in Science Education at Georgia Tech’s Center for Education Integrat- ing Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC), which is a K-12 STEM outreach center for the university. I am working on several exciting projects inc ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Music, Coding, and Equity: An exploration of student and teacher experiences in decoding messaging and discussing equity with the Your Voice is Power curriculum
understanding of aparticular system. We developed a new medical imaging curriculum by associating a series ofcourses with 1) on-site lecturing in research and clinical laboratories and 2) a set of Internetaccessible imaging simulation tutorial programs, and formed an integrated teaching program.This program provides students with medical imaging knowledge in live, effective andinteractive formats.Introduction Biomedical engineering has been emerging as a multi-disciplinary engineering area sincethe end of last century. As a key component in this field, medical imaging education, combiningphysics, mathematics, electrical engineering and computer engineering together, providesstudents with a broad view of information technologies applied to
Engineering education. Resource. July (pp. 13-15).4. Wells, J.H. and Taylor, T.A. (1996). First principles in Biological Engineering education. Resource. April (pp. 12, 22).5. Lauffenburger, D.A. (2003). Biological Engineering, The New Fusion of Biology and Engineering at MIT. http://web.mit.edu/be/about.html.6 . Gharib, M. (2003). Personal Communication.7. Ornstein A. C and Hunkins, F.P. (1988) Curriculum--foundations, principles, and issues. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall.8. Anderson, J. A. (1998). Learning and Memory: An Integrated Approach. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.9. National Academy of Engineering. Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century. National Academy of Sciences, 2005. http
programs with partnerinstitutions. It is common for engineering and pre-engineering programs at HBCUs to beembedded in an integrated department or school of science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM). Having an administrative unit focused on STEM can further facilitateinterdisciplinary research experiences for its undergraduate students.The goal of this paper is to assess the impacts of a summer research experience oninterdisciplinary student teams at Benedict College, which is a recognized HBCU and classifiedas Baccalaureate Colleges – Diverse Fields. Like other interdisciplinary student experiences, thissummer program combines two signature high-impact practices, undergraduate research andcollaborative assignments and projects. High
Paper ID #21404A Curriculum Innovation Framework to Integrate Manufacturing-relatedMaterials and Quality Control Standards into Different Level EngineeringEducationDr. Hua Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville Dr. Hua Li, an Associate Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M University- Kingsville, is interested in sustainable manufacturing, renewable energy, sustainability assessment, and engineering education. Dr. Li has served as P.I. and Co-P.I. in different projects funded by NSF, DOEd, DHS, and HP, totaling more than 2.5 million dollars.Prof. Kai Jin, Texas A&M University, Kingsville
existing language arts curriculum where teachers choose books that work best in their classrooms. • It is an exciting and different way to practice literacy and students who struggle with language arts have a new way to demonstrate comprehension. • It enhances the comprehension of text as students try to find details to predict characters’ choices. Students relate to the characters as they work to create solutions for them. • It introduces students to rich, realistic engineering problems. • It provides synergistic integration of different disciplines. st • It emphasizes problem-solving, teamwork skills and
Session 2563 Creating an Industrial Setting in an Engineering Lab Jim Devaprasad, Ray Adams, Paul Duesing, David McDonald, Morrie Walworth Lake Superior State University AbstractEngineering schools across the nation have worked diligently to develop capstone courses toprovide undergraduate senior students a smooth transition from university to industry. Inaddition to this capstone experience, engineering students could be introduced to the expectationsof industry earlier in their curriculum. An understanding of the
the end of the Spring semester, just in timeto present a better report to the conference. 2. IITS: Intelligent Interactive Tutoring System ShellFor the sake of completeness of presentation, we first give a brief summary of the IITSarchitecture. The IITS shell is an integration of various mathematical tools and an expert-system-type logical analysis/synthesis tools in a web-based environment. The IITS consists ofsix primary modules: 1) Domain knowledge module 2) Student model module 3) Student interface module 4) Instructor interface module 5) Student log module 6) Mathematical tools moduleThe IITS system is written in web programming language Java, and uses the MySQL
AC 2008-1354: CREATING AN ENTREPRENEURIAL CULTURE IN ANENGINEERING UNIVERSITYPaul A. Nelson, Michigan Technological University Dr. Paul A. Nelson is Associate Professor of Economics and Engineering Management in the School of Business at Michigan Technological University, with a PhD in Industrial Organization Economics from the University of Wisconsin. In the 1970s and 1980, he was the Director of a graduate program in Business Administration designed for engineering students. Also, he administered a one-year second undergraduate degree program in Engineering Management for engineering students. He supervised many Master of Science projects which dealt with starting businesses and
curriculumhave integrated lab experiments that use equipment from well-known academic and industrialuse [16,17]. One of the main objectives of this project was to choose community colleges thathave an AS degree in a closely related curriculum to the Robotics area so that the developedcurriculum can easily be integrated. Based on these reasons, John Tylor and South Side Virginiacommunity colleges were chosen for this project [18,19].Project Approach and MethodologyA multifaceted approach was designed to develop a relevant education and workforcedevelopment program. final curriculum was developed based on inputs from industrypartnership, industry survey, and curricular survey. These activities were the most relevant sinceit informed the curricular
strategies for effectivelyincorporate writing and speaking into engineering courses1-41. The approaches include writing-to-learn exercises to enhance students’ mastery of technical concepts, individual courses thataddress specific types of documents and presentations (e.g., the design report, the laboratoryreport), and integrated curricula that support students throughout a curriculum. What all of theseapproaches share is a commitment to helping students learn to use writing productively in theirengineering careers. Whether it be an emphasis on writing to learn, where students come to seewriting as a tool for thinking, or introducing students to the types of genres common in aparticular discipline, engineering faculty are seeking ways to support
Page 12.529.2be prohibitive, it was decided to propose to the National Science Foundation Course,Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program to adapt and implement acourse and laboratory on Intelligent Systems.Such a proposal was clearly in keeping with the strategic plan of the College ofEngineering at ONU1. Particular strategic plan actions that related to this proposalinclude: • “Regularly reassess the curriculum, and make comparisons to curriculums of other institutions. Changes to the ONU curriculum may be made to keep pace with industry and other leading-edge institutions. • The integration of engineering courses with mathematics, physics, and chemistry courses as well as integration within each
learning through experimentationenabled the course material to be better understood, and also better appreciated. We believe thatfeedback about our course will help to continue to refine our pedagogical strategy, and willenhance the way in which challenging and advanced science can be taught to young persons.With the emergence of fields that integrate engineering with other disciplines, it is becomingincreasingly important for the engineering education community to develop multidisciplinarycourses. The curriculum we presented provides an example of the role of
Mar P´erez-Sanagust´ın is a researcher and Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department of the Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile and the Director of the Engineering Education Division at the same university. Her research interests are technology-enhanced learning, engineering education, MOOCs and b-learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018A Methodology to Involve Students in the Evaluation of an EngineeringCurriculum in Design, Entrepreneurship and InnovationA Methodology to Involve Students in the Evaluation of an Engineering Curriculum inDesign, Entrepreneurship and InnovationAbstract Engineering schools have created courses and concentrations to train students
Air Force Institute of TechnologyAbstract -- The dawning of the information age with its diversity of communications and computer systemsposes a formidable challenge to the graduate student of “communications engineering”. To keep pace with thisexpanding field graduate communications engineering students at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) advance through an integrated curriculum that weaves a web of connections between traditional analog/digitalcommunication theory, discrete signal processing, communications/computer networks, spread spectrumtechniques, and coherent applications sequences of courses in military communications, radar, stealth, andantenna engineering. The approach is to teach broad system level concepts and
Paper ID #19671Examining student attitudes to improve an undergraduate online engineeringcourseMr. Devayan Debashis Bir, Iowa State UniversityDr. Benjamin Ahn, Iowa State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Examining student attitudes to improve an undergraduate online engineering courseAbstractDue to the advent of technology and the world wide web, online engineering courses have gainedprominence and have become a popular way to learn new content. Universities around thecountry, in addition to traditional face-to-face courses, are taking advantage of technology andthe web to
and skills to allow them to operate as a competent practitionerwithin the field of Aerospace Engineering. Students develop not only technical know-how but alsoa practical and analytical approach to problem-solving that allows them to address a range ofAerospace Engineering and related challenges.This program gives an integrated knowledge of engineering that is currently appreciated by mostengineering employers. Core modules provide students with a thorough understanding of many ofthe most important and central subjects in Aerospace Engineering today, from computer modelingto engineering materials. There is considerable focus on gaining practical experience, and lecturesby visiting practicing engineers and laboratories. This ensures that