contact hours)mini-design project based on a BME capstone senior design project in which each team workedto develop a “smart” gown which could replace traditional hospital gowns and measurephysiological signals (heart rate and respiration). Day 1 consisted of introducing participants toBME, brainstorming ideas for obtaining signals and implementing into a gown (sketchdocumented) and equipment overview. Day 2 involved building, design iteration, andverification testing; it also included gown assembly and planning for a scientific style poster.Day 3 began with an introduction to giving a professional presentation and continued withdeveloping the poster; the day concluded with participants presenting their posters and solutionsto their
undergraduate education that students should learn to merge and make connectionsbetween “previously separate disciplines to attack problems that have no recognizableboundaries” (p.17) [9]. Today’s engineers need strong analytical skills, the ability to demonstrateskills in planning and adapting (or “practical ingenuity,” p. 24 [2]); creativity, communication, as Page 26.1786.2well as business and management. But even more so, they need to be flexible, resilient, mobile,dynamic thinkers, change managers, and self-regulated lifelong learners, who can work in teamsand alone and use technology proactively [2, 6, 9, 10, 11]. While some of these competencies
data is preliminary, initial trendsin student attitudes are useful at this stage of course development. The paper will conclude withalterations that are currently being enacted upon in the current semester offering of the course(Spring 2015). Ultimately, a longitudinal study is being planned to assess if these methods havean impact on students’ skills moving forward from the introductory course.2. Course StructureThe Foundations of Engineering course (ENGR 1166) is offered only in the spring semester ofthe freshman year at the University of Connecticut. While the course is a general engineeringclass, each separate engineering department teaches one section of the course. The purpose ofthe course is to provide freshmen with general engineering
Electronics to Electrical Engineering StudentsAbstractWestern Carolina University is the only educational institution that offers engineering andtechnology degrees in the western part of the state which is home to major national andinternational engineering-related companies. As the power industry has a significant shareamong these companies and is becoming one of the major recruiters of our graduates in theDepartment of Engineering and Technology at Western Carolina University, developing anemphasis in electric power engineering plays a vital role in educating the next generation of theregion’s power industry workforce.To that end, a curriculum development effort was planned and is projected to train, prepare forresearch, and
” published in Spanish; he has published papers related to teaching strategies, supply chain frameworks and educational challenges in several conference and journals.Cesia de la Garza Garza Cesia L. De-La-Garza-Garza is Teaching Assistant in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey. She received her B. Sc. on Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Tecnologico de Monterrey (Monterrey, Mexico). She has participated as Junior Consultant in projects related to productivity, process modeling, lean manufacturing implementations and strategic planning. She has presented several works in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference related to
, and validation. The students’ ability to write technicaldocumentation is also further developed as they must create project timelines, test plans, usermanuals, etc., for their project. The project is more open-ended than the first year work.Students are given a set of constraints for the project (such as ‘must interact with theenvironment’ or ‘must be self-powered’) and a budget. The constraints are such that a typicalproject team will develop a robot, but non-robotic projects are encouraged if they still meet therequired number of project criteria. This course currently has 4 – 6 students each year.Students receive lectures on project development and other topics of interest such as basicsensors, soldering, and simple communication protocols
member’sresults for accuracy based on the established search criteria.Phase 2 – SortAfter this initial discovery phase, the schools on the discovery list were investigated further.Following the captured web links for each of the articles, maker spaces, and press releasesidentified in Phase 1, each college or university maker space was studied to determine the currentstatus, and if the school did not currently have a maker space (i.e., one was planned), the maker Page 26.101.5space was removed from the list. Only a few colleges and universities with positive hits in Phase1 did not actually have a space built yet, and overwhelmingly, these colleges and
Council (MTBC). After her time at Baylor University, Martin’s education career began in secondary ed- ucation. Since 2007, she has focused on the critical interface between higher education and secondary education. In 2011, she joined Collin College as the Career and Technical Education Coordinator specif- ically working with technical dual credit students. Recently, after working closely with the department, she joined the Engineering and Technology Department of Collin College assisting students on the high school level, on the college level, and in industry who plan to pursue STEM degrees. Further, through her work with industry on the MTBC STEM Advisory Board, she coordinates key industrial connections for the
, 3 coining the term Universal Design for Learning (UDL). The principles of UDL focuson creating barrier-free instructional materials, methods, and activities to make themaccessible to as many students as possible, across all levels of education, regardless ofdisability status.The notion of universal design specifically to higher education settings was introduced bySilver, Bourke, and Strehorn (1998). They advocated a model where universal design andaccessibility issues are in “integral component of all instructional planning” (p.47). Goffand Higbee’s (2008) Universal Instructional Design (UID) framework is based onChickering and Gamson’s (1987) principles for good practices in undergraduateeducation but modified to include elements of
going on, but like it’s not that I don’t really care about where it’s going or why it’s useful, it’s that like my mind – like two months ago I didn’t even know any of the words existed that I’m like, that I wrote my poster with so it’s just like I suppose if I was working on it longer then I would be able to like start to care about that, but it’s like my brain won’t hold any more information right now.” Walter, interview 3, explaining how critical thinking is involved in planning an experiment: “You’ve got to think about how exactly you’re going to test, test like each individual variable. And that’s kind of where the critical thinking comes in. You kind of, you’ve got to have a
joining Northeastern University in this role he most recently directed the Ford-MIT Research Alliance. As a senior executive with Ford Motor Company, he led cross-functional teams across three continents as director of global product development opera- tions for Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mazda, and Volvo. During his time with Ford, based in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, he led engineering and cross-functional teams as vehicle line director, director of manufacturing operations, director of powertrain strategy and planning, and chief en- gineer powertrain systems engineering. Educated at Loughborough University in England and INSEAD in France, he is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical
%) enjoyed collaborating with students from differentdisciplines, and wished there were more opportunities on campus to do so (93%). The eventsucceeded at attracting a wide variety of students. One of the goals of the event was to attractstudents who had not previously participated in a make-a-thon or hack-a-thon and were notinterested in starting a business and expose these students to design activities. I accomplishedthis goal: 87% of participants were attending this type of event for the first time, and only 10%of the participants planned to start a business after graduation. Most of the students attended theevent because they were interested in the topic (87%), wanted to practice design (57%), and/orwanted to collaborate with others (70
making based on initial problem articulation to address tradeoffs,performance, design requirements, and broader impacts. The challenges allow for peer teaching andclass discussions of what answers/decisions are justifiable, as well as an opportunity to clear up anymisconceptions. Table 2: Summary of In-class Activities Analysis Phase Multidisciplinary Systems for In-class PBL Activities Coffee maker, Vehicle suspension, Land use planning, Wyndor Glass Co. Define manufacturing, Radiation therapy treatment design Represent Stereo speaker, Vehicle suspension, Student motivation to study in college Stereo speaker
successfulleaders.Personal leadership traits were assessed through Kouzes and Posner’s Students LeadershipPractice Inventory (LPI) Self Paper Version, which quantifies an individual’s performance inFive Practices of Exemplary Student Leadership3. These practices are defined as Model the Way,Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act, and Encourage the Heart3.The LPI assessment indicates a high, moderate, or low score within each practice based onaccumulated research. Through this assessment, leaders were made aware of their leadershipstrengths and weaknesses from which personal goals were set and action plans created to achievethese goals in exemplifying quality leadership. A leader would set a goal to improve in poor-scoring practices
aspects ofunmanned systems are not or cannot usually be taught in classroom settings. Students and/orresearch projects are effective ways of exposing students to the state-of-the-art in unmannedvehicles technologies. Moreover, multidisciplinary projects provide students opportunities tolearn real-world problems in a team environment. The projects include many aspects ofunmanned vehicles technologies such as Sense & Avoid, Computer Vision, Path Planning,Autonomous Routing and Dynamic Rerouting, Geolocation Techniques, et cetera, and involvemore than 90 students from Aerospace, Electrical & Computer, Mechanical, and IndustrialEngineering, and Computer Science Departments. The projects have been found to effectivelyengage students in
contact information with the team leader toallow follow-up.After the training event, teams are effectively empowered and dispatched to plan and organizetheir ambassador event(s) with minimal assistance from the Office of K-12 Outreach. Teamleaders contact their team members, school liaison and alumni and meet again with their teams tofinalize the event date(s) and venue. This autonomy and empowerment of the teams allows themto design their event to meet the particular needs of their hometown high school and leveragetheir own skillsets and experiences in putting together an effective outreach event. It also keepsthe central management and maintenance of the program to one of supporting and answering thequestions of the team leaders, as opposed to
related topics have been taught both as core engineering andgeneral education2. In certain engineering disciplines, such as civil and environmentalengineering, more emphasis has been placed on sustainability than others since sustainability isconsidered as one of the most dominant course objectives3. Page 26.944.2The implementations of sustainability in academia are various, either strategically or throughmany ongoing academic activities. Typically, in an educational institution, it could beimplemented in four levels: university-level with a strategic plan, school- or college- levels,departmental-levels or individual-levels. Various pedagogies
17mathematics scores and high school grade point averages. The study also found that qualitative measures like selfreported mathematical ability (selfefficacy) and computer skills were also good indicators of those students who planned to major in STEM. Another key contextual variable is parental influence. About three quarters of the member engineers of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers surveyed in the “Why Engineering?” survey say most often a parent (46%) or a teacher (29%) influenced their 18childhood interest in engineering. Strutz (2008) also found that parents were major influencers for both college students studying engineering and engineers who had completed an
holisticallyunderstand the complexities inherent in planning, implementing, and managing, healthy andsustainable development projects. Programs such as Engineers without Borders (EWB) havealways had the objective of teaching systems thinking skills to address the complex systemiccommunity issues inherent in international infrastructure development; however, methodologiesused to foster systems thinking have historically remained implicit, and have primarily focusedon reductionist approaches to project assessment, design, and evaluation. Group Model Building(GMB) using System Dynamics modeling has been successfully used for years in multiple fieldsto foster and grow understanding on a complex topic using the combined insight from multiplestakeholders to build
. Page 26.1093.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Leveraging the ASEE Annual Conference Robot Competition to Increase ECE Recruiting and RetentionAbstract:In 2008 a corrective action plan was implemented at the University of Oklahoma to reversedrastic declines in ECE undergraduate enrollment. The ECE enrollment numbers in fall 2008were 246, but by fall 2014 they soared to 440. The research that went into the plan revealed thata freshman engineering course is a critical place to start. In response, multiple ECE led freshmanengineering orientation sections were created that were open to all engineering majors. Thesecourses were found to produce good results in retention and also
Arduino board to build a robot for less than $45. Plans are provided with detailsthat permit use in classroom projects and laboratory work. The 3D printer is used to make twowheels and a chassis. The chassis has features to support the RC servos, Arduino board, and a 9Vbattery. The first software example is suitable for K-12 outreach activities. More advancedexamples could include low cost light sensors for cat and mouse games. The presentation willinclude a live demonstration.IntroductionDesigning and building robots is a great source of entertainment for practicing and aspiringengineers. This paper describes a robot designed for fun, that could also be used to helpintroduce students to engineering and robotics topics. The robot design begins
a design project: 1. Conceptual design review; 2. Preliminarydesign review; 3. Evaluation and test review; 4. Critical design review.Success in system engineering derives from the realization that design activity requires a “team”approach. A general challenge in today’s environment pertains to implementing the overall systemdesign process rapidly, in a limited amount of time, and at a minimal cost. Multidisciplinary teams;experiential learning approaches, capstone design experiences, warnings on tort of negligence,feasibility studies, project planning, design requirements and constraints, trade-off analysistechniques, functional block diagram, design flowchart, design feedbacks, design management,work breakdown structure, design steps and
concepts by a hand on approach. Class attendees will berequired to write a small one-page paper with a background research for each differentexperiment cycle.. The first reduced scale model to be used will be the power house because it incorporatesmost of the renewable energy sources. The definition of a power house is a house that requireslittle to no electricity from outside companies, it can have multiple forms of renewable energy onit, which is why the class is going to start there. The students should be able to look at the bigpicture of when different renewable energy types are combined in one experiment as well as withcareful planning the house will be able to be self-sufficient. Based on the first experimentsstudents will have a
studentwork. Preliminary results show that four core “rules” (also known as emotional andcommunication messages for success) may in fact lead to misinterpretations and can sidetrackproductive engagement for creation and collaboration: a) Repeating for perfection: in fact,people report that they do not find flawless storytelling believable; b) Interacting one-on-onewithin a large audience: the opposite may be true when you apply a “planned spontaneous” andpersonally unique leadership approach in storytelling; c) Applying a template to tell andmemorize one story: in contrast, there are reasons to start in the middle of the story to find a newand powerful beginning; d) Describing a generic user story so as to only present a stereotype of apersona: both
Paper ID #13529Transformation of a large civil engineering department curriculum using theASCE BOK2Dr. Kelly Brumbelow, Texas A&M University Dr. Kelly Brumbelow is an Associate Professor and the Assistant Department Head for Undergraduate Programs in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University. He has been a faculty member at Texas A&M since 2002, where his technical specialty is water resources engineering, planning, and management. Prior to this position, he completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Georgia Tech, where he taught undergraduate courses for 7 years. His
a plan that wouldbegin with teaching an elective course to test the effectiveness of the webinar delivery method.If the webinar delivery format was deemed to provide a reasonably effective learning experiencefor students, we would then move on to a course that was required in some programs and electivein others. Finally, we would deliver a course that was required in all Physics programs, such asMechanics.Optics is a course that is not required in all Physics programs. The course has now been taughttwice using the webinar format to students at three institutions simultaneously. Students werepolled both times to obtain feedback on their learning experience compared to a traditionalclassroom delivery. This paper reports on the advantages and
engineering students can benefit from thismindset. In fact, everyone needs to think about becoming an entrepreneur.The module 1 lesson plan incorporates a case study while introducing several specificentrepreneurial skills that students can later apply to an ongoing project (Figure 1). The mindsetcharacteristics sought in the module are to instill a sense of “Brimming with Curiosity”,“Courting Serendipity” and “Cultivating Randomness” [2]. The module begins with anoverview of the entrepreneurial mindset followed by lessons on specific skills including clientpain points, the use of the 5 whys [3] and the P.O.V. mad-lib [4]. Following the presentation ofthese techniques a clip from the television show SharkTank is shown and students practice
Director of the Center for 3-D Visualization and Virtual Reality Applications, and Technical Director of the NASA funded MIST Space Vehicle Mission Planning Laboratory at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. In 2010, he joined Eastern Michigan University as an Associate Dean in the College of Technology and currently is a Professor in the School of Engineer- ing Technology. He has an extensive experience in curriculum and laboratory design and development. Dr. Eydgahi has served as a member of the Board of Directors for Tau Alpha Pi, as a member of Advi- sory and Editorial boards for many International Journals in Engineering and Technology, as a member of review panel for NASA and Department of Education, as a
management course, Construction Materials, Methods andEquipment (CON252) and an upper-division/graduate cross-disciplinary course between civilengineering course, sustainability, and planning, Urban Infrastructure Anatomy and SustainableDevelopment (CEE 598). CON252 focuses on the building design and construction process,ranging from excavation to material choice to various building systems. CEE 598 focuses oninfrastructure systems from the technical and environmental perspectives and examines theinterdependences between these infrastructures.This poster summarizes the progress and accomplishments of the project during years one andtwo. We review the development of final project assignments for the two courses involved in theproject and discuss how
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