test apparatus for an engineering laboratory course.” Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 2024. DOI: 10.1002/cae.22773 12. M. Chen. “Facilitating aerospace engineering senior design: Integrating lab curriculum redesign with student project and new technologies.” Engineering Reports, 2024. DOI: 10.1002/eng2.12938AcknowledgementsThis material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation underGrant No. 2152218. Disclaimer: Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation.
contributes heavily to the inconsistent application of engineering at the K-12levels[3], [4]. A sampling of some options proposed by a researcher [5]are sequenced, parallel,partial, enhanced, and total approaches for STEM Integration that have demonstrated someeffects on science learning[6]. In all of these models, what has been accepted is the importanceof the design process in providing students with a meaningful context for identifying multiplesolutions to be applied to problems.[7], [8], [9], [10].Although there has not been an agreed way to do integrated engineering and science, there is,however, an accepted tool for measuring the effectiveness of integrated curriculums (STEM-Integration Curriculum Assessment)[1], based upon a STEM Integration
mathematics (STEM) educators in particular to engagetheir students in higher order modes of learning. The uneven rate at which writing and STEMreforms are implemented3,4 reinforces the need for a new approach to reform, one that isdiscipline specific and faculty-driven.The Writing-Enriched Curriculum (WEC) model is informed by shifts in the perception ofwriting itself. Since the mid-20th century, the traditional view of writing as a mode ofcommunication, has evolved. Guided by psycholinguistic research, the current, expanded view isthat writing is a mode of communication and learning. Writing is now recognized as an abilitythat students continue to develop throughout their academic education and later careers as theyengage with increasingly complex
practice and teach biomimetics.Jeffrey H Rosen (Program Director)Julia Varnedoe (Research Associate II) Julia Varnedoe is a Research Associate II for the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) at Georgia Tech. She works with the curriculum development team to create innovative programs that address the needs of students and teachers in the K-12 community. Current projects include the NSF funded BIRDEE (Biologically Inspired Design for Engineering Education) curriculum, STEM-ID, and K-12 InVenture Prize. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, she had a successful career in marketing communications for Delta Air Lines, and has spent the past 14 years as an educator. Varnedoe graduated with a B.S
and practices in a customer-drivenenvironment/market and are mindful of the ethical, environmental, and social dimensions ofengineering;• Participate in continuous self-improvement and life-long learning;• Have the ability to deal with open-ended problems;• Understand the integrated nature of engineering;• Be able to apply a systems engineering perspective in addressing engineering problems;• Have the skills to function in multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams;• Be at ease with operating in an increasingly diverse and global economy and society.In order for engineering students to develop the skills and attributes listed above, changes to thepresent engineering curriculum are needed. In particular, it is essential that engineering
vulnerabilities can be reduced or eliminated when developers use principles of secureprogramming. It is vital that future developers are taught principles of cybersecurity and secureprogramming. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) included the InformationAssurance and Security knowledge area in its Computer Science curriculum starting in 2008 [7]. The 2008 Computer Science curriculum included Foundational Concepts in Security (e.g.,security goals of confidentiality, integrity and availability) Secure Programming, and OperatingSystem Security. The 2013 Computer Science curriculum updated the knowledge area to alsoinclude Principles of Secure Design, Defensive Programming, Web Security, and SecureSoftware Engineering [8][9]. When determining
graduate students, but rather begins at the precollege level because“innovative methods to develop critical thinking, ethical sensitivity, and moral reasoning willprovide a strong foundation for students who might later pursue science as a profession, andbuild on that foundation for more experienced scientists” [1]. Although neuroethics is not a topicthat is regularly integrated into curriculum at the pre-college level, learning standards for scienceand technology education do provide an opportunity for these topics to be included in science,engineering, and technology classrooms.Ethics in the Next Generation Science Standards. Science teachers in the U.S. are directed byThe Framework for K-12 Science Education, the Next Generation Science
. Differences in institutional mission, culture, and student population preclude developing asingular approach to first-year integrated curricula, but most institutions can benefit from thecoordination and linkage of courses, topics and faculty. Al-Holou et al. (1999) reviewed a numberof first-year integrated curricula initiatives. • Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has offered an integrated, First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics (IFYCSEM) since 1990. Assessment data indicate Page 8.592.2 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition
Engineering at the University of Idaho with an emphasis in Stormwater Management and En- gineering Education. She received her bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering from Gonzaga University and a master of science in Civil Engineering from Washington State University. She is also an adjunct member of the Civil Engineering Faculty at Gonzaga University where she teaches Stormwater Management and Senior Design.Dr. Anne Liu Kern, University of Idaho, CDA Anne L. Kern is an associate professor in curriculum/instruction, science education at the University of Idaho. She researches methodologies in education, specifically in science teaching and learning, science teacher development, and science integration in STEM
participation involves significant commitment by industry, which may involvetraveling and one or two days away from work. Considering the number of campuses involved we mustestablish a very large resource of kind industrial partners. This is certainly not feasible at a time when theindustries are operating on lean budgets.Use of Multimedia Network In consideration of these challenges, an integrated system of networked technologies and digitalresources is under development to support the redesigned first-year engineering curriculum. Many leadersin higher education agree that the structure of information technology is centrally important to strategicchange, and that while there are many examples of high quality digital applications that improve
the grant were able to interact with over 60 secondary educators throughoutIndiana to better understand current gaps in curriculum, professional development and issuesexperienced in the classroom with current logistics and manufacturing curriculum. Theresearchers recorded the educators’ concerns and integrated these gaps and challenges forsubsequent training opportunities and supplemental curriculum components.Two major obstacles were identified through these interviews. The first was an issue ofsecondary educators having little knowledge or experience with current technological trends insupply chain management and logistics. The second concern was that many students who hadtaken previously-developed courses in logistics or manufacturing
tool for determining the key concepts that comprise an ideal core curriculum hasbeen the VaNTH Key Content Delphi Study. This study, conducted as a series of online surveys,has completed nearly two rounds, involving over 180 academic and industrial participants fromthe biomedical engineering community. The first round of the study was launched in 2004 andthe second round was launched in 2006. Whereas results of the first round have been presented atseveral engineering and educational conferences, this is the first presentation of the results fromthe second round.The purpose of this paper will be to summarize the key findings of the first two rounds of thisstudy and to outline how these findings can be used to improve undergraduate BME
completed an associate’s degree. The reason for thisextended time to degree completion is that each curriculum has one or two sophomore-levelengineering courses that are not usually available at the community colleges. Because thesegateway courses are pre-requisites for the third-year curricula which operate on an annualschedule, new transfer students were not ready to join the third-year cohort in the fall.A pathway to a bachelor’s degree through community college is an accessible opportunity forfinancially challenged students and is seen as a means of achieving a more diverse engineeringworkforce.[1] Reducing time to graduation is a common institutional objective in highereducation, but it has specific economic importance for low-income transfer
, organizational skills). With theKnowledge/Skills Method, a matrix for a given curriculum is generated to track student growthand development where the rows consist of the courses offered and the skills or knowledge areasare represented in the columns. These matrices are used to analyze a curriculum to determinehow requirements are being met, how the knowledge elements and skills are integrated, or howgroups of courses are “time-phased”. The second method of evaluating a department’s curriculum proposed by the SUCCEEDcoalition is the Augmented Syllabus Method5. The Augmented Syllabus Method addresses thecurriculum at the degree to which goals are being met at a course level. It focuses on topicalcoverage and maps the path to mastery of a student
. The Engineering Technology Department at Western Washington Uni-versity has changed its graphics focus from design communication to design develop-ment. Within the curriculum, topics covered include the design process, ideation sketch-ing, conceptual modeling, documentation drawing, parametric design, and tolerancespecification. This paper discusses these topics plus student outcomes and future devel-opments.IntroductionThe field of Engineering Graphics is in a state of change. Historically, in an engineeringgraphics course, students have been taught the principles of drafting. Recently, Com-puter-Aided Drafting/Design (CAD) applications have significantly changed the way thatgraphics has been taught. Today, it is common to find CAD as part
Benchmark acknowledged that the increasing pressure to embrace the needfor a general business and commercial foundation, yet at the same time include the coreengineering subject curriculum, meant that the typical three year Bachelors degree providedinsufficient study time. Consequently, both this national benchmark, and the latest version ofSARTOR recognised the preferred educational base for registration as a professionalengineer to be the completion of a four year Master of Engineering degree course. In suchcourses, an integrated programme embraced both a standard Bachelors curriculum, togetherwith a further year of post-graduate study. The national guidance also significantly reducedthe emphasis upon student professional and personal skills
cluster, and (3) in the 1992, 1993, or 1994 cohorts and recorded in the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education database (N=1614). ATE student data include all those who enrolled in EGR 181, the first semester of the ET core, in Fall semester 1998 as reported by faculty (N= 30).Colleges across South Carolina and in Texas, Kentucky, and North Carolina are implementingthe SC ATE curriculum or adaptations thereof. The cornerstone of SC ATE's successful strategyand nationally-acclaimed model for recruiting, retaining, and graduating more students inengineering technology programs is an integrated, problem-based curriculum, collaborativeteaching strategies, and extensive active learning techniques
engineeringmanagement course will be described in this paper. The future plan of utilizing SAP softwaremodules1 in the graduate level engineering management course and in the selected undergraduatelevel engineering courses will be described. This plan is based on collaboration between thecollege of engineering and the college of business at Southern University in association with theSAP university alliance program.I. IntroductionA desirable attribute of engineers is an understanding of business issues including management.The rapid changes in technology and globalization of trade require engineers to be astutemanagers. They must be able to integrate business knowledge into the engineering design-manufacturing process. College of engineering at SUBR is
institutional cultureat the school in regards to ESI education. The conversations illuminated a range of perspectivesregarding the most effective ways to educate engineering and computing students about ESI.Emergent, thematic coding of the interview data revealed diverging opinions on whether thetopics should be taught in curricular or co-curricular settings, in required or elective courses, byengineering or non-engineering faculty, and in standalone ethics courses, integrated intotechnical courses, or across the curriculum. The results highlight different approaches suggestingbest practices could be better clarified based on context and setting. Despite the varying opinionson settings and approaches, all of the interviewees expressed the importance of
this process is beingdone manually, we are currently improving the system to create these diagrams automaticallyfrom a database of students’ information.ResultsWe followed the path of students participating in CISTAR summer programs from the summerof 2018 until the summer of 2020, represented below in a Sankey diagram (Figure 1).Figure 1. Sankey diagram representing the path of summer program participants, starting in thesummer of 2018 until 2020. These paths include Young Scholars (YS), Research Experiences forUndergraduates (REU), Research Experience and Mentoring (REM), High School (HS),participants integrating an undergraduate program (Undergrad), participants integrating agraduate program (Grad), and participants working in industry
, andCircuits Lab. In developing the CALSTEP online laboratory courses, consideration was given tothe thirteen objectives for engineering educational laboratories defined by the ABET/SloanFoundation effort [8][9]. CALSTEP curriculum development also employs evidence-basedapproaches that maximize persistence and learning in a distance environment, including the useof inquiry and design-oriented activities that engage students in authentic engineeringexperiences. Content is delivered using a variety of formats similar to those used in manyexisting online and hybrid engineering courses [10-16].Introduction to EngineeringThe Introduction to Engineering course is an ideal forum to create opportunities for a rich,engaging, and empowering experience for
integrates multiple elements and services to foster a learning environment thatmotivates scholarship students to persist in their engineering studies; and 3) Foster an inclusivelearning environment by engaging all engineering students in diversity, equity, and inclusionexperiences and nurturing an equity mindset in student leaders through participation in trainingprograms.To accomplish these goals, we identified 10 low-income, academically talented students toreceive scholarships. We also identified 80 additional engineering students who wished toparticipate in the Engineering Living/Learning Community (ELC). The scholarship students andother interested students were placed in the ELC starting in Fall 2023, where they areexperiencing first year
of 0.726 problems to which DET can be appliedMy motivation for teaching science is to promote an understanding of 0.672 how DET affects societyI am interested in learning more about DET through in-service 0.665I would like to be able to teach students to understand the process of 0.659 communicating technical informationMy motivation for teaching science is to prepare young people for the 0.652 world of workMy motivation for teaching science is to promote an enjoyment of 0.599 learningI believe DET should be integrated into the K-12 curriculum 0.592I am interested in learning more about DET though workshops 0.591I am
manufacturingenvironment. Today, IE finds itself intimately involved with a wide range of industrialand non-industrial systems. These systems pertain to government, banking, medical,engineering, military sectors, etc.Nadirshaw Edulji Dinshaw (NED) University of Engineering and Technology is the onlyuniversity in Pakistan that offers an undergraduate degree in IE. The University ofFlorida (UF), on the other hand, is among the national leaders in IE education. IE at UF isknown for its cutting edge technology, innovative research and distinguished faculty andstudents.This paper compares the IE undergraduate curriculum at NED and UF with specialreference to the socioeconomic, national and industrial needs of both countries. The paperanalyzes current curriculum
Laboratoryfor the School Preview and Summer Program for High School Students. The equipment willbecome an important part of our outreach events and summer program for promising high schoolstudents from backgrounds underrepresented in the engineering profession.Reference:1. SFSU Civil Engineering Curriculum Mission Statements, Internal Report by School of Engineering, San Francisco State University (2003).2. Sabatini, D.A., Teaching and Research Synergism: the Undergraduate Research Experience, Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, Vol. 123, No.3, 98-102 (July 1997).3. Jenkins, S. R., Pocock, J.B., Zuraski, P.D., Meade, R.B., Mitchell, Z.W. and Farrington, J.J., Capstone Course in an Integrated
particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU.Dr. Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington Professor of Learning Sciences & Human DevelopmentDr. Christine Kelly, Oregon State University Dr. Kelly earned her BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona and her PhD in Chem- ical Engineering from the University of Tennessee. She served as an Assistant Professor for 6 years at Syracuse University, and has been an Associate
Foundation.REFERENCES[1]. Martin, G., “Industry needs and expectations of SoC design education,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education, pp. 146-147, June 1-2, 2003.[2]. Ying Tang, Linda M. Head, Ravi P. Ramachandran, and Lawrence M. Chatman, “INTEGRATING SYSTEMS-ON-CHIP IN AN UNDERGRADUATE ECE CURRICULUM,” Proceedings of ASEE annual conference, June 14-17, 2009, Austin, TX[3]. Besterfield-Sacre, M., Atman, C., & Shuman, L. (1997). Characteristics of freshman engineering students: Models for determining student attrition in engineering. Journal of Engineering Education, 4, 139-149.[4]. NSF Report “Agents of Change: Achieving Diversity of Electrical and Computer
comprehensive view of how these courses integrate sustainable design,systems thinking, and creativity to meet the objectives of senior design capstone project courses.The detailed curriculum and activities outlined for both courses underscore a pedagogicalapproach that prepares students for the multifaceted challenges they will face in their capstoneprojects. Here’s an integration of the revised information with the objectives of senior designcapstone project courses:Objective Alignment with Senior Design sequence1. Identify the Sources of an Engineering or Technical Problem • MET 300: Through system mapping and identification of potential problems, students learn to pinpoint problem sources, a skill critical for capstone projects. • MET
-with-transferring- into-a-redesigned-engineering-curriculum[12] A. Clear, J. Carter, G. Cross, A. Radenski, L. Tudor, and E. Tõnisson, “What’s in a Name? International Interpretations of Computing Education Terminology,” in Proceedings of the 2015 ITiCSE on Working Group Reports, 2015, pp. 173–186.[13] A. Queiruga-Dios et al., “Evaluating engineering competencies: A new paradigm,” in 2018 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), Apr. 2018, pp. 2052–2055. doi: 10.1109/EDUCON.2018.8363490.[14] F. Sánchez Carracedo et al., “Competency Maps: An Effective Model to Integrate Professional Competencies Across a STEM Curriculum,” J. Sci. Educ. Technol., vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 448–468, Oct. 2018, doi: 10.1007/s10956-018
. This paper is organized in the following manner. An example of an industry standard systeminterface is explained, followed by an example of how the same interface can be developed using a web-based Page 1.517.1 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedingsmodel. Finally, a brief discussion regarding curriculum development concerns and the current status of theproject is presented.Manufacturing System Integration Manufacturing system integration is a term that is used often but in broad context. To facilitate thediscussion, it is appropriate to describe this in terms of the curriculum that