currently does research at the Dynamical Systems Laboratory of NYU-Poly in the area of robotic fish controlled by iPhone/iPad devices.Dr. Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University Vikram Kapila is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU-Poly, where he directs an NSF funded Web-Enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Remote Laboratory, an NSF funded Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He has held visiting posi- tions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests are in K-12 STEM education, mechatronics, robotics, and linear/nonlinear control for diverse engineering applications. Un- der Research Experience
Paper ID #33351Engineering Curriculum Rooted in Active Learning: Does It PromoteEngagement and Persistence for Women?Leanne Kallemeyn, Loyola University Chicago Leanne Kallemeyn, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in Research Methodologies at Loyola University Chicago. She teaches graduate-level courses in program evaluation, qualitative research methods, and mixed methods. She has been the PI on seven major evaluation projects that ranged from one to five years in length. Her scholarship focuses on practitioners’ data use and evaluation capacity building within non-profits through coaching. She received a Bachelors in
Paper ID #21884What Does Hidden Curriculum in Engineering Look Like and How Can ItBe Explored?Dr. Idalis Villanueva, Utah State University Dr. Villanueva is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Education Department and an Adjunct Pro- fessor in the Bioengineering Department in Utah State University. Her multiple roles as an engineer, engineering educator, engineering educational researcher, and professional development mentor for un- derrepresented populations has aided her in the design and integration of educational and physiological technologies to research ’best practices’ for student professional development and
learned in offering the modules in a course is presented, and the paper ends with aconclusion section summarizing the project’s results.Curriculum Essentials and Topics SelectionSecurity of embedded systems as a subject of an undergraduate course has not been studied thatmuch in the literature, so there are no specific examples to follow. There are some bookpublications,2-4 but they address a different type of audience than college students, so bydefinition are not designed for instruction or teaching related courses. If there are any existingeducational publications, they are scarce and hard to find. With this in mind, designing a related curriculum constitutes a challenge. Specifically, sincecomputer security is such a broad area, involving a
; calculus-based physics; and general chemistry, (m) proficiency in a minimum of four major civil engineering areas, (n) the ability to conduct laboratory experiments and to critically analyze and interpret data in more than one of the recognized civil engineering areas, (o) the ability to perform civil engineering design by means of design experiences integrated throughout the professional component of the curriculum, and (p) an understanding of professional practice issues such as: procurement of work; bidding versus quality based selection processes; how the design professionals and construction professions interact to construct a project; and the importance of professional
our students to be ethical practicing engineers, and is the chair of the External Advisory Committee for the IDEA cen- ter, which promotes inclusion, diversity, excellence and advancement in engineering. She has conducted research in performance-based earthquake engineering and large-scale experimentation of reinforced con- crete, FRP composite, and hybrid bridges. Page 23.358.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Curriculum Exchange: “Make Your Own Earthquake”IntroductionThe George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) is an
. Page 24.229.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Biassociation for the Entrepreneurial Engineering CurriculumAbstractDespite the apparent benefits of fostering creativity, the question largely remains at how todevelop and deliver a curriculum that can stimulate such innovative thinking. Several modelshave developed on an attempt to ground creative thinking and its usage such as schema theoryfrom Bartlett, Johansson’s Medici Effect, Koestler’s biassociation or Tom Kelley’s faces ofinnovation. While the first three focused more on the structure and processes of innovation,Kelley’s work took a more personal approach, defining several characters that play differentroles in the creative process
these quickly developing requirements comes an expectation of employeeexperience and skill sets. For individuals seeking a career in mechanical engineering, movingforward with the tools necessary for success in this continuously evolving world begins withhigher education. This paper is the first of a three-part series to report on the progress of BoiseState University’s Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering Department’s mission to implementa revolutionized curriculum in their academic program. This paper will describe theestablishment of goals and processes used to design a curriculum that will provideundergraduates with an effective foundation for the future. Integrating a change of thismagnitude necessitated consideration of a multitude of
AC 2009-437: BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENTAND ASSESSMENTStacy Klein, Vanderbilt University Stacy Klein is the Associate Dean for Outreach and an Associate Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering in the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering.Rick Williams, East Carolina University Rick Williams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University.Stephanie Sullivan, East Carolina University Stephanie Sullivan is a Teaching Instructor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University.Loren Limberis, East Carolina University Loren Limberis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at East
Literacy Development in Undergraduate Education.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 32, no. 6: 573-82.3 McGuinness, 576-7.4 Franklin, 4.5 Buchanan, H., Webb, K. K., Harris Houk, A., and Tingelstad, C. (2015). “Curriculum Mapping in Academic Libraries.” New Review of Academic Librarianship 21, no. 1: 94–111. doi: 10.1080/13614533.2014.1001413.6 Brasley, S. S. (2008). “Effective Librarian and Discipline Faculty Collaboration Models for Integrating Information Literacy into the Fabric of an Academic Institution.” New Directions for Teaching and Learning, no. 114: 71-88. doi: 10.1002/tl.318.7 Bullard, K., and Holden, D. (2006). “Hitting a Moving Target: Curriculum Mapping, Information Literacy and Academe.” Paper presented
to old traditional pedagogy and methodologies thatwere aimed more at delivery than they were at learning. Another overarching goal was to create acoordinated curriculum that facilitated the success of our students rather impede their progresswith built-in snares that filtered out qualified students. After two years of meetings, seminars, andworkshops, forty faculty came to 93% consensus of a new curriculum that was focused on acoordinated curriculum, an integrated analog electronics course series utilizing helical or spiraleducation, innovative pedagogy to stimulate and excite the learner, and teaching techniques toengage the learner as an active learner. Helical or spiral education is an educational technique orcurriculum structure that
evaluations as challenges in the programming lab. • A weekly survey of an engineering major was added to the first-semester course curriculum. • The second- and third-semester engineering courses, also new, tied directly to the concurrent physics courses, Mechanics and Electricity-Magnetism, with a focus on connecting physical engineering lab work to conceptual physics classwork. • Physics coursework was reconstructed to become more engineering-centric. • Physics grading practices were adjusted to focus on providing student feedback based on well-communicated learning objectives. • Engineering Ethics was no longer a separate course as key engineering-centric case studies would be integrated into the
. Page 15.338.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Curriculum Sequences Construction in a Web-based van Hiele Tutor Using Bayesian NetworkAbstractEducational content on the Internet is rapidly increasing. Educational institutions and businessesare placing more course material online to supplement classroom and business training situations.Prior researchers have reported that this new web-based training technology has not integratedsound pedagogical practices into the authoring process when developing new tutorials. This paperformulates an alternative pedagogical approach that encompasses the van Hiele Model, cognitivemodel, and Bayesian network to design the curriculum content and sequence
Systems Engineering(GCSE), the Master of Science in Systems Engineering (MSSE), Master of Science in Industrial Page 22.166.9Engineering (MSIE), and a Master of Science in Manufacturing (MSMFG). RIMES alsosupports academic endeavors such as curriculum and course development at the graduate level.In this regard RIMES serves as an overarching structure to support not only research in SystemsEngineering but also to foster interdisciplinary research and academic programs.RIMES is organized into three main areas: SE Research, Technical Assistance, and ExtensionPrograms.• Research: o Methods Processes and Technologies for Integrated Development
a greater degree)incorporate knowledge and skills that go beyond established disciplinary territories. Theseideals were reflected in the number of mandatory credits needed to complete for graduation,which included humanities and social sciences as core engineering subjects. Employingproject- and problem-based learning, students were encouraged to integrate design-thinkingand an entrepreneurial mindset. As noticed and emphasized (Bashir, Hahn, and Makela 2019) in the US context, Iwould like to point out that it is too important to emphasize to have like-minded communitiesof practice that support faculty-driven innovative teaching methods. At the departmental level,all departmental members including teaching and research faculty
2006-2654: EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING FOR INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERINGCURRICULUMSandra Furterer, University of Central Florida Sandra L. Furterer, Ph.D. is the Assistant Department Chair in the Industrial Engineering and Management Systems department in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Furterer’s research and teaching interests are change management related to application of Lean Enterprise and Six Sigma, as well as engineering education.Jessica Jenness, University of Central Florida Jessica Jenness is an IEMS Masters student in Quality Engineering at the University of Central Florida. She has a Bachelor’s of Science in Statistics from UCF
step; the visualizationsdefined the pre-conditions before which a student can watch or run them, so that context is well-defined and not lost; and finally, the visualizations were organized to reflect the mentalorganization that the student is creating.The paper gives details about the visualization algorithms, the criteria for their selection andinclusion in the curriculum, the students’ immediate feedback, and survey results, taken by thestudents, that contrast the traditional ways of teaching CS and STEM concepts vs. the additionaluse of the developed visualizations. Our survey results shed light on whether visualizations makegood tools for teaching, and if they have an effect on the rate (how quickly) of learning.Conclusions and
students have learned in their first three years of undergraduate schoolingand provide excellent ways of building on and incorporating material from courses students takeconcurrently with the games courses (e.g., AI).Since GCC is a small comprehensive college (an engineering teaching institution), we hope todemonstrate that a gaming curriculum is accessible to a broad range of colleges and universities,both big and small. PC-based gaming classes require very little beyond what is needed to teachstandard programming classes. Console gaming requires more equipment and licensing, but is avery popular and interesting topic.References[1] Maxim, B. “Game development is more than programming,” In Proceedings of the 2006 American Society for
Experience AcceleratorAbstractThe systems engineering Experience Accelerator (ExpAcc) is a research project in the earlystages of definition and development that is focused on validating the feasibility of leveragingsimulation technology to create a series of experiences that will accelerate the maturity ofsystems engineers. This paper leverages the approach being defined for the research project asthe basis for a set of recommendations for developing systems engineering curriculum for thelive classroom. The focus of the research project is to create a computer-based simulatorprototype that provides an integrated, experience based learning environment intended toaccelerate the learning of critical systems engineering competencies. However, the goal
available to the students at Drexel wishing topursue the B.S. degree on a full- or part-time basis. Starting in the fall of 2006, the AET majorbecame available as a degree completion to New Jersey residents due to a new partnershipbetween Drexel University and Burlington County College (BCC) with both full- and part-timeenrollment options.The AET program’s content provides an integrated educational experience directed towarddeveloping the ability to apply the fundamental knowledge gained in the Drexel’s GoodwinCollege to the solution of practical problems in the engineering technology fields. The program’scurriculum, which is comprised of Electrical, Mechanical, and Industrial concentrations, placesemphasis on the application of theory rather than
lean phenomenon and summarize how it is similar to and differentfrom “traditional” IE. We then suggest how the essential elements of lean thinking can beintegrated throughout the core of an IE curriculum so that students are introduced to the essentiallean principles without the need for additional courses specifically devoted to lean. We alsosuggest how it may be possible for undergraduates enrolled in an IE program to obtain leancertification before graduation making them more desirable to companies who are pursuing leaninitiatives. Besides providing graduates with skills that are in high demand, certification canserve to emphasize the natural connection between industrial engineering and lean thinkingincreasing the awareness of the value of
objective of EMC2 was fluid - it was an effort to get conversations going, connectstudents with faculty members, and foster growth for students and professors alike. While EMC2began as a small group of students yearning for more depth in the engineering curriculum,through the Dean’s RJ Curriculum Challenge it evolved into an organized method of reachingout to faculty and encouraging real change in lesson plans.[1] Lucena, J. C., & Leydens, J. A. (2015), From Sacred Cow to Dairy Cow: Challenges andOpportunities in Integrating of Social Justice in Engineering Science Courses Paper presented at2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.24143
in their undergraduate curriculum. Initially the curricularredesign was done to reduce the number of credits students needed to take to graduate. As theprocess progressed it became apparent that substantial flexibility for the students could be builtinto the program while maintaining the integrity of the curriculum from an ABET viewpoint.Changes in the curriculum included revising the number of courses and order of courses forcovering traditional mechanical engineering technical topics and relaxing the requirements fortechnical elective credits. As a result, students now have the flexibility to take more coursesoutside of engineering that are of interest to them, potentially allowing them to minor in a non-engineering discipline or to take a
, and Lecturer in the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Changes to a Circuits Lab Sequence to Encourage Reflection and Integration of Experiences Across Related Courses to Explore New Solution Spaces to an Engineering ProblemAbstractEngineering design requires the evaluation of trade-offs within a solution space to fit theconstraints and demands of a specific application. An engineering curriculum provides itsstudents a tailored series of courses to meet this goal. Course instructors anticipate students toregularly make connections to materials of past courses, assimilate the new information of thecurrent course
or non-existent.This paper presents 1) how a basic introduction to engineering course designedfor general education and potential engineering majors was deliberately improvedusing the Parallel Curriculum Model (PCM) to align with eight ABET ProgramOutcomes found in Criterion 3; 2) how PCM was also used to carefully structurethe curriculum to meet the needs of multiple learners (general education students,pre-engineering students, elementary education students); 3) how we structuredthe learning activities and assignments to assess student competence, confidenceand comfort (“the 3C’s”) with engineering, and 4) how the team teaching modelthat includes an engineering and education faculty member provides enhancedopportunities to use innovative
address this need throughsignificant enhancements in the undergraduate communications curriculum offered by theElectrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE). The emphasis of these enhancementslies in the integration of hands-on experience in three typically, theory-based telecommunicationcourses and a separate laboratory course having a wireless communications focus. Theenhancements, enabled by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Course, Curriculum andLaboratory Improvement (CCLI) Adaptation and Implementation (A&I) Track award anduniversity support, features infrastructure development in terms of radio frequency (RF) anddigital communications test equipment. This paper describes the new communicationscurriculum at UVM, resources upon
Paper ID #22698Board 99 : Collaboratively Developing an Introductory InfrastructureSystems Curriculum: The One Water ModuleDr. Philip J. Parker P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville Philip Parker, Ph.D., P.E., is Program Coordinator for the Environmental Engineering program at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin-Platteville. He is co-author of the textbook ”Introduction to Infrastructure” published in 2012 by Wiley. He has helped lead the recent efforts by the UW-Platteville Civil and Environmental Engineering department to revitalize their curriculum by adding a sophomore-level infrastructure course and integrating
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. Active participation inthe ongoing development of this exemplar program will increasingly assure that CSULAwill provide an important cost-effective solution for each corporate partner/sponsor inachieving its recruiting goals.Executives in Residence: The Executives in Residence Program integrates professionalemployees and retirees from corporations and government into the curriculum at CSULA.Executives in Residence may work full-time or part-time teaching classes, conductingresearch, and mentoring students. Executives in Residence also mentor graduate andundergraduate Professional Practice projects.The knowledge executives have in their respective fields through their certificationprocess and their industry experiences, is an invaluable asset to
., McGlynn, B., Marshall, L., McHale, M., Meixner, T. and McGuire, K. 2007a. Taking the pulse of hydrology education. Hydrological Processes, 21, 1789-1792. 2. Wagener, T., Weiler, M., McGlynn, B., Marshall, L., McHale, M., Meixner, T. and McGuire, K. 2007b. Teaching hydrology – Are we providing an interdisciplinary education? IAHS Newsletter, 87, 10. 3. Bourget PG. 2006. Integrated water resources management curriculum in the United States: results of a recent survey. Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education 135: 107–114. 4. Bloeschl G. 2006. Hydrologic synthesis: across processes, places, and scales. Water Resources Research 42: W03S02 Doi:10·1029/2005WR-004319. 5. Kirchner JW. 2006. Getting