Energy infrastructure will require a considerable expansion of thenation’s human capital, which will only be developed through intense collaboration amongmultiple players. However, the scale and intensity of current energy education efforts in theUnited States remain inadequate to produce the needed technological progress and human capital Page 25.73.2development[3]. This paper introduces the BGREEN (BuildinG a Regional Energy and EducationalNetwork) project. BGREEN is an integrated research and educational project supported byUSDA by a multi-million dollar grant. The project promotes collaboration among differentuniversities, colleges
the Capstone requirement, a culminating field experiencedesigned to immerse the student into a practitioner role inside and organization or group thatconnects to their respective discipline, area of interest, or career goals. A minimum of 30 credithours is required for the Saint Louis University’s Master of Sustainability. Continuousassessment is an integral part of the program to ensure its quality and continued updates.Introduction:In 2008 the International Commission on Education1 for Sustainable Development identified aneed in the marketplace for practitioners in sustainable development, with core competencies innatural sciences, engineering, social sciences, and management. Within higher education,sustainability related curriculum was
AC 2012-5046: DEFINING THE CORE BODY OF KNOWLEDGE (COR-BOK) FOR A GRADUATE PROGRAM IN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING: AWORK IN PROGRESSDr. Alice F. Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology Alice Squires is Manager of Systems Engineering at Aurora Flight Sciences and an adjunct systems engi- neering faculty for the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. She is one of many authors on the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (http://www.sebokwiki.org/) and the Graduate Curriculum for Systems Engineering (http://bkcase.org/grcse-05). She was previously a Senior Researcher for the Systems Engineering University Affiliated Research Center (SE UARC) and Online Technical Director for the School of
-experiment so students understand the need for flexibility and the ability to adaptto rapid, continuous or major changes. These materials are now beingincorporated into the curricula and are providing our undergraduate engineeringand technology students with the professional skills demanded of today’s “GlobalEngineer”Quanser Commitments • Quanser has provided NYIT with the specific pre-requisite skills needed by students participating in the pilot study. • Quanser has lent NYIT Quanser Turnkey Laboratories (QTLs) including hardware, software and curriculum for the duration of the pilot study. • Quanser’s engineers have worked with NYIT instructors to integrate the QTLs with NYIT’s existing equipment and licenses to ensure a
in addition to inherent challenges related to working in the cleanroom and the diversified background needed to be covered before even starting this process. Theinvolvement of undergraduate students into the development of processing procedures allows thestudents to gain a deeper level of understanding and experience in focused areas of study. It also Page 25.1067.2allows the instructor to assess the experience and produce a frame of reference when attemptingto integrate the fabrication part into an undergraduate curriculum. A well-defined processingsequence is crucial for the successful, and reproducible, fabrication of small scale devices
. Aspart of a European Union funded SOCRATES project, different universities have developed aJoint European Master Program in Remote Engineering (MARE) which includes a course of“Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems” in its curriculum, designed by the TechnicalUniversity Ilmenau, Germany. Implementing the laboratory part of this course as an OnlineLab turned out to be a good solution to obtain better learning outcomes. The overalldevelopment and evaluation of the online solution was realized at Carinthia University ofApplied Sciences, Villach Austria.IntroductionActive learning or working by means of online laboratories is especially valuable for distanceworking or education. Users in the workplace can access remote laboratories without havingto
curriculums,Microsoft Office6 had made keen advances in word processing and presentation software, andthe Acrobat Reader7 made reading documents accessible free-of-charge and on multipleplatforms. All these advances were incorporated in the revised proposal. Again, the proposalwas rejected but mainly for the lack of an assessment expert from the education field.In April 2001, MIT announced 8 its open courseware initiative9 where they would publish onlinecourse materials such as course syllabus, lecture notes, digital audiovisual lectures, assignmentsand examinations. In 2002, they published their first set of 50 courses. More than 2,000 courseshave since been published. Combined with the acceptance of such ideas of open courseware andteaming with the
describes the initial stages of a longitudinal project to design, implement, and assess an ePortfolio curriculum that supports graduate engineering students in developing professional identities both as educators and as engineers. It is part of an NSF-‐funded research study that addresses the major task, articulated in Jamieson & Lohmann’s 2009 report Creating a Culture for Scholarly and Systematic Innovation in Engineering Education1, of institutionally prioritizing connections between engineering education research and practice. The purpose of this project is to use electronic portfolios (ePortfolios) to help engineering graduate students achieve the
TUES program solicitation explicitlysupports such aims.The purpose of this analysis is to study NSF’s Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM(TUES) program to understand the engineering education community’s views on transformationand change. TUES and its predecessor, Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement(CCLI), have been an influential and substantial source of funding for U.S. undergraduate STEMeducation change since 199015. For example, CCLI’s emphasis on project evaluation, coupledwith outcomes-based assessment driven by ABET’s EC2000 criteria, is a strong example of howpolicy can influence practice in engineering higher education. This paper also informsprospective PIs of program expectations, provides baseline data for
AC 2012-3730: CREATING LOW-COST INTRINSIC MOTIVATION COURSECONVERSIONS IN A LARGE REQUIRED ENGINEERING COURSEDr. Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Geoffrey L. Herman earned his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illi- nois, Urbana-Champaign as a Mavis Future Faculty Fellow. He is currently a Postdoctoral rRsearcher for the Illinois Foundry for Engineering Education. His research interests include conceptual change and development in engineering students, promoting intrinsic motivation in the classroom, blended learning (integrating online teaching tools into the classroom), and intelligent tutoring systems. He is a recipient of the 2011 American Society for
AC 2012-3560: FROM DEFENSE TO DEGREE: INTEGRATING MILI-TARY VETERANS INTO ENGINEERING PROGRAMSDr. David L. Soldan, Kansas State UniversityDr. Noel N. Schulz, Kansas State UniversityDr. Don Gruenbacher, Kansas State UniversityMrs. Rekha Natarajan, Kansas State University Rekha Natarajan is an instructor in the Mathematics Department at Kansas State University, coordinating college algebra. She received her B.S. and M.A. in mathematics from Arizona State University, B.S. in secondary education from Kansas State University, and is currently a doctoral student in the Mathematics Department at KSU. Her research area is undergraduate mathematics education.Mrs. Blythe Marlow Vogt, Kansas State University Blythe Vogt joined the
development company.Ms. JoAnn M. Marshall, Cyber Innovation Center Page 25.867.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Junior Cyber Discovery: Creating a Vertically Integrated Middle School Cyber CampAbstractThis paper describes an innovative partnership that was developed between high schools andtheir feeder middle schools in an effort to foster collaboration and mentoring among facultywhile immersing rising 7th grade students in a week-long, project-driven day camp to developinterest and skills in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Themiddle school teachers received
knowledge of particle measurement techniques to plan and conduct an ambient aerosol measurement campaign near the University. The students analyzed their data and compared it to measurements from nearby monitors and related the data to national standards.As the next step, the course material is being prepared for online posting and adapted for integration with the theoretical modules described earlier.COURSE WEB EFFECTIVENESS:The effectiveness of the course website was assessed in two ways:1. Usability tests were conducted on an early version of the site and conducted again onthe revised version of the site. In both tests, participants were given tasks to find coursematerial and use the calculation model available on the site. The purpose
providing an introductory course in the microprocessoror microcontroller in Engineering and Engineering Technology type curriculums has longbeen over due. The subject matter covered in System Design has matured to the extent that ithas been the subject of curriculum content in the form of two or more courses in most of theuniversities1. The subject course which is the subject of this paper is a 400 level course in the Page 25.961.2Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department. This is preceded by twocourses: 1) a C or C++, programming course, that covers the C or C++ language constructswith emphases on bit manipulation, 2) an introductory
AC 2012-5489: CORE CONCEPTS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES IN ANINTRODUCTORY TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING COURSE: AN EVAL-UATION OF PILOT IMPLEMENTATIONSDr. Rhonda K. Young, University of WyomingDr. Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette CollegeDr. Shashi S. Nambisan P.E., Iowa State University Since 2007, Shashi Nambisan has been the Director, Institute for Transportation (InTrans) and a professor of civil engineering at Iowa State University (ISU) in Ames, Iowa. He previously served on the faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for more than 17 years. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Nevada. One of Nambisan’s passions is the development of the future transportation work- force. He enjoys working
freeways, and higher efficiency standards2. This increase in rawcomputing power coupled with higher levels of software based logic abstraction is movingvehicle borne computer systems into the realm of software engineering. Software engineering inthe automotive industry provides a strong platform for student exploration.One key hurdle for integration of automobiles into a software engineering curriculum is that ofaccess. Vehicles based on classic internal combustion (IC) engine power sources require speciallaboratory space, have harmful emissions to deal with and are hard to keep clean. In addition tospace issues, it is difficult to build bench test systems if the power plant is an internal combustionengine. Electric vehicles (EVs), on the other
. Christopher S. Greene, University of Saint Thomas Christopher Greene got his B.S. degree in electrical engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and then did his master’s and Ph.D. at MIT, where he studied control theory. Following a 23-year career at Honeywell and another industrial company, he joined the University of St. Thomas School of Engineering. He is currently the Director of the Electrical Engineering program at St. Thomas and does research on the applications of control theory.Mr. Scott Edward MorganDr. Miguel Angelo Rodrigues Silvestre, University of Beira Interior Miguel Angelo Rodrigues Silvestre is an Assistant Professor at University of Beira Interior (UBI) in Portugal and an Integrated Researcher
. 93.10. A New Theory for the Assignment of Members to Engineering Design Teams. Chambers, Terrence ,Manning , Alan and Theriot, Lovonia . Las Cruces, NM : ASEE, 2000.11. Capstone Course in an Integrated Engineering Curriculum. Jenkins, Rod, et al., et al. 2, s.l. : Journal ofProfessional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 2002, Vol. 128.12. Report: A Capstone Project Involving a Hundred Students, for an Industrial Partner. Stearns, Daniel,et al., et al. Valencia, Spain : International Conference on Engineering Education, 2003.13. An Optimization Routine for Assigning Students to Capstone Project Groups. Schmidt, Peter, et al., etal. Vancouver, BC : ASEE, 2011.14. Academic and Industrial Perspectives on Capstone Course Content and the
. Page 25.412.4These objectives facilitated the team’s development of an interdisciplinary, collaborative groupproject in which students created a working video game by the end of the semester. The coursestructure is described in more detail below starting with the course project which drove thedesign of the course. Appendix A contains a detailed listing of the topics taught in the lecture andlab section each week.The Course Project: OverviewTo assess students’ mastery of the course learning objectives, student teams were required tosubmit a working video game at the end of the semester. The curriculum development teamdebated whether to provide students with a detailed design specification for the game or to givethem more design freedom by
each year to meet global collaborators, competitors, and leaders through an intensely immersive learning experience that goes beyond classroom studies. Other programs reflecting Wei’s international reach include the college’s Poverty Alleviation/Service-Learning program and Engineers Without Borders. This global perspective is rooted in a vision of SJSU as a preeminent producer of forward-thinking problem-solvers. With this goal in mind, Wei has established the Silicon Valley Engineering Scholarship, a program that provides $5,000 of annual support for high-achieving students to pursue engineering careers. Wei is also a Principal Contributor to CSU (California State University) Engineering Academies, a statewide
in the curriculum typically involve an internal client (such asfaculty). Those later in the curriculum introduce external competition-based projects. The projects bringreal world considerations into the mix, such as design constraints, scheduling, logistics, financing andvarious other project management concerns.The design curriculum culminates in a two-semester capstone design project that encompasses the fullscope of engineering design and standard program outcomes [2]. The capstone design projects areintended to be a design/build/test project for an external audience. Students are assessed for the technicalwork and independent learning necessary in the design phase, the ability to assemble the overallprototype, and the quality of testing
were glad they had something to give back to the college, andthe college benefitted from their volunteer work and increased giving. One engineering alumni,who is a retired vehicle dynamics engineer from Ford, offered our students free training on somebasic vehicle dynamics terminology and concepts. He also critiqued the students‟ initial designthis year. The engineering department organized an industry advisory focus group meeting in fallof 2010. Many of the advisors that attended the meeting came through our connections to thelocal SAE community. They offered valuable advice on curriculum improvement and a range ofother things to enhance our engineering program.Fundraising and budgetingStudents must function as a team to not only design
concepts that underpin thedesign challenge.The WISEngineering team has been engaged in preliminary work to study the feasibility of usinginformed engineering design to improve mathematics learning. A team of teachers, Page 25.881.4administrators, engineers, and educational researchers, have implemented an instructional unittermed the Skyline Design Challenge (Figure 1). The unit focused on the sixth- and seventh-grademathematics curriculum using informed engineering design and digital fabrication. The unit wasa paper- and-pencil prototype for the web-based WISEngineering project. The developmentprocess included math teachers to ensure the content
world. Page 25.3.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012AbstractThe primary goal of this newly developed certificate program is to address the need for“green” workforce development related to education, training, and public informationdissemination of renewable energy and sustainability. The certificate programincorporates the significant research and teaching experience of faculty members at theCollege of Engineering and Computer Science in Florida Atlantic University (FAU) toaddress the industrial needs in this field. An innovative curriculum is designed thatincludes exposure to all
the Certified Aging in Place (CAPS) and the Certified Green Professional (CGP) curriculum and professional designation, not previously provided at the university level, has many challenges, not the least of which are anticipation of the career aspirations of the students enrolled and the expected educational outcomes by the industry. The addition of the NAHB courses and professional designation into construction technology education, the contractual relationship between the university and NAHB, the requirements of the educators delivering the courses, and the integration and administration of NAHB industry curriculum into an undergraduate residential construction management specialization program are discussed. The CGP Designation from the
AC 2012-5087: ARTICULATION OF CURRICULUM ACROSS UNIVER-SITIES, COMMUNITY COLLEGES, AND ADULT AND CAREER CEN-TERS TO MEET THE EMERGING INDUSTRY REQUIREMENTS IN CLEANAND ALTERNATIVE ENERGYMs. Margaret Anna Traband, University of Toledo Margaret Anna Traband, M.B.A., is the Grant Director for the National Science Foundation Partnership for Innovation grant entitled An Innovative Model for a New Advanced Energy Workforce. Traband earned a bachelor’s of arts from Bowling Green State University and her master’s of business adminis- tration in entrepreneurship and technology commercialization from the University of Toledo. Previously, Traband worked as the Program Manager for the University Clean Energy Alliance of Ohio (UCEAO
manipulatives and technology, and inthe integration of reading instruction in mathematics and science content delivery (see:http://mcs.mines.edu/Research/bechtel/new). This is being accomplished by offering cohorts of K-5teachers two, two-week summer workshops on a college campus, over successive summers, inmathematics and science with an energy and renewable energy emphasis. Each cohort consists of ateaching team representing all grade levels, K-5, within a given elementary school. These workshopsare taught by university professors and researchers from a national laboratory. Implementation of workshop activities in the elementary classroom during the academic year isnot left to chance; rather, graduate students directly assist the participating
sciences (economics, policy, and management) to ensure successfulcareer opportunities and growth within energy-related industries, government agencies, andacademia. The courses are structured to enable students to understand engineering fundamentals andapply the knowledge to solve problems in the production, processing, storage, distribution, andutilization of energy using multiple techniques as synthesis, analysis, design and case studies.Inquiry-based teaching methods and lab experiences are emphasized. The faculty research andscholarly activities are integrated into the curriculum. The program is designed to train studentsto be lifelong learners, problem solvers, and energy industry leaders. The educationalopportunities are sufficiently
require a significant amount of design practice, along with proper reinforcement – onesuggestion is that several simple design problems precede the larger capstone design project [7].In addition, design and other engineering subjects are best learnt through hands on activelearning, e.g. project based learning [6, 8]. Therefore, the integration of impromptu designexercises into all aspects of the curriculum is motivated by the above research findings.In addition, the authors have found that these projects have a number of other advantagesincluding: • Using these hands-on activities give students concrete examples of the issues being discussed in class – e.g. students go through an impromptu design exercise (where they design and
learn how the graphicallibrary was implemented, not just how to use it. This observation triggered a sequence ofi iMPaCT is an approximate acronym for Media Propelled Computational Thinking. The learning modules (LMs) Page 25.315.2developed for integration within high school math courses are collectively referred to as iMPaCT-Math (IM).refinements that eventually resulted in a new course that uses the programming of simplemathematical algorithms that render graphics and simulate kinematics. These tiny programsfocus student attention on exploring principles underlying (and building “gut level” intuitionsrelated to) the content of high