not the scale orcost) that apply today. Is this not therefore an argument to retain teaching these basicprinciples? The answer would be affirmative if the principles were used in the same way.Unfortunately, the applications (and therefore the necessary skills) have changedradically.The inexorable increase in semiconductor packing density has several importantconsequences. The first is that the cost of a gate or a memory cell is now measured innano-$ 7. True, they come millions or even billions on a chip but these are today’sbuilding blocks. The second feature is that chip fabrication and the associated boardassembly process are sufficiently reliable to allow millions of samples to be made withvery few failures. In the language of statistical
AC 2008-1041: USING PERFORMANCE REVIEWS IN CAPSTONE DESIGNCOURSES FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF PROFESSIONALSKILLSGreg Kremer, Ohio University-Athens Dr. Kremer is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Ohio University. He teaches in the Mechanical Design area and has primary responsibility for the Capstone Design Experience. His main research interests are Energy and the Environment, especially as related to vehicle systems, and engineering education, especially related to integrated learning and professional skills. Dr. Kremer received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1989, his Ph.D. degree in
AC 2008-2278: COLLABORATIVE PRODUCT DESIGN AND REALIZATION INMECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CURRICULAVukica Jovanovic, Purdue University, West Lafayette Vukica Jovanovic began her academic career in 2001 when she graduated at University of Novi Sad, majoring in Industrial Engineering and Management, Minor in Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation. She was working as Graduate Research and Teaching assistant and lectured various courses at departments of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics from 2001 until 2006. She was an active member European organizing committee of student robotic contest Eurobot and chief of Eurobot organizing committee of Serbian student
that might help repair misconceptions, it may be insufficient to fully convince themthat their long-held mental model is incorrect. Because of this, we will further extend the MEAconstruct to incorporate physical demonstrations and laboratory experiences. Many of thethermal science misconceptions previously discussed can be effectively addressed via “hands-on” experiences.AcknowledgementsThe authors thank Frank Schreiber and Teresa Ogletree for the assistance with this effort.Financial support was provided by the National Science Foundation via Course, Curriculum, andLaboratory Improvement 070607: Collaborative Research: Improving Engineering Students’Learning Strategies Through Models and Modeling.References1. Miller, R.L., Streveler, R.A
Page 13.34.1 Larry Bernstein is the Distinguished Service Professor of Software Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ. He wrote “Trustworthy Systems Through Quantitative Software Engineering,” with C.M. Yuhas, Wiley, 2005, ISBN 0-471-69691-9. He had a 35-year executive career at Bell Laboratories managing huge software projects deployed worldwide. Mr.© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Bernstein is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery for innovative software leadership. He is on the Board of Center for National Software Studies and Director of the NJ Center for Software Engineering and is an active speaker on Trustworthy
, College of Engineering, Michigan State University. Dr. Sticklen also serves as the College Coordinator for engineering education research, and is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, MSU. Dr. Sticklen has lead a laboratory in knowledge-based systems focused on task specific approaches to problem solving. More recently, Dr. Sticklen has pursued engineering education research focused on early engineering; his current research is supported by NSF/DUE and NSF/ CISE.Daina Briedis, Michigan State University Daina Briedis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Michigan State University. Dr
point of emphasis that seems to fallsomewhere between plea and demand. “It is extremely important that you read the textbook”, henotes. “It is very difficult for you to understand the concepts and succeed in this class withoutreading the text and attending all lectures.”As he sets the syllabus aside, the instructor expresses his desire for the class to work hard andenjoy the semester of materials science. He then pauses for a moment. “But above all else,” henotes, “I would like you use this course to become a more creative, more innovative engineer.”BackgroundCollege instructors have been struggling with a lack of creative skill development in theirstudents for many decades. Creativity is by no means a new topic in teaching and learning, but
real world and that teaching mustincorporate practice and hands-on learning [4].” Both the IIT and MSOE program are excellentexamples of integrating hands-on learning into the curriculum.Entrepreneurial curriculums now include experiential learning as an integral part of exposing thestudent to the entrepreneurial mindset. At Lawrence Tech, we have created an entrepreneurialcurriculum that integrates experiential learning in our senior projects, community outreach, planttours, E-Teams and laboratory environments. Our students participate in activities that provideexperiential learning. We are now working on integrating entrepreneurial content into 30 existingcourses. This includes the opportunity to link “theory and practice” through the
-loop control of the system, as well as provide a user interface where key system parameters aredisplayed. As part of our integrated freshman curriculum, this project provides hands-onexperience to accompany traditional approaches to teaching science and engineeringfundamentals including conservation of mass and energy, basic salt-water chemistry and electriccircuitry. Assessment of the skills imparted through this project is provided using before andafter survey data measuring student confidence in designing, fabricating and testing a workingelectro-mechanically controlled system. Page 14.56.2Introduction Engineering educators who are
aninformation literacy quiz-tutorial online.10 The college is in the process of improving this aspectof the first-year information literacy program to ensure a larger number of students receive thispreliminary learning opportunity in information literacy. This paper focuses on the second-semester first year course that builds on these preliminary skills and provides a basis for moreadvanced learning within the major. Later courses address other aspects of information literacyin the context of laboratories, design, and engineering analysis in a variety of areas. Thecapstone design course utilizes information literacy skills on a real-world design project for a
Page 14.61.3research is then positioned for commercialization and put into practical use. Any efforts pushingtechnology commercialization at the university level must include a strict focus on developing aselect subset of faculty as entrepreneurs and applied researchers.Many critics of faculty and student led startup initiatives from research activities assume thatthere is a conflict of interest between university researchers and institutions that promoteentrepreneurial activities. They argue that faculty who pursue applied research for technologytransfer and commercialization purposes may neglect the university’s primary foci of teaching,service and academics. The enactment of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980, which gave USuniversities, small
”1 state: “It is said that there is nothing so practical as goodtheory. It may also be said that there’s nothing so theoretically interesting as goodpractice.” Marquardt2 in his “Harnessing the Power of Action Learning” states “...allforms of action learning share the elements of real people resolving and taking action onreal problems in real time and learning while doing so.” This is what our educational approach to engineering technology education has been allabout. To address these issues, we create laboratory problems, institute engineering coopprograms, and do capstone projects, all to get students exposed to “real world problems”.These are all excellent approaches and should be applied wherever practical. There areproblems associated
2003. 5 Funding was used to hire femaleadjunct faculty members teaching in the RIT ET programs to work two hours a weekfacilitating the formation of study groups. Funding is also available to hire peer tutors towork with these female students in the study groups, purchase laboratory kits for thestudents who participate in the study groups, and payment of their expenses to attend aregional conference of the Society of Women Engineers. The retention of womenstudents has improved some in the past three years and we found that students who leftET or RIT did so in the first two years of the program. 6Future DirectionsThe College of Applied Science and Technology (CAST) where the engineeringtechnology programs are housed has participated in all of
inputs,and receive from solution requirements an understanding that makes solution assets responsive tostakeholder needs. These four areas of design performance interact synergistically to provide arichness in engineering design performance that enhances development of both the learner andthe solution.Figure 1: Design conceptual model performance areas and interactions Page 11.34.7Capstone Design Course ModelCapstone engineering design courses are important laboratories for student learning of designand venues for the assessment of design achievement. Design projects serve as a catalyst forlearning in the course and as a source of evidence for a
implementeddigitally. Although the typical undergraduate curriculum is crowded enough as it is, and studentshave the ability to learn how to deal with these difficulties through elective courses and graduatestudy, it is important that the students come away knowing that these subtleties exist and thatthere are techniques out there for dealing with them. Much of the advancement taking place incontrols education seeks to address these deficiencies through laboratory work and project-basedlearning.1 2 A specific area of control system design and analysis that even many advanced graduatestudents are unaware of is that of discrete event system (DES) control. Discrete event control isoften confused with digital control. Whereas digital control systems
University, Germany. Antonie teaches courses on new product development, entrepreneurship, and technology marketing to graduate students in en- gineering. Her research interests are in new product development, managerial cognition, and decision making.Dr. Gerald W. Recktenwald, Portland State University Gerald Recktenwald is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Materials Engineering Department at Portland State University. His current research interests are in improving engineering education, and in the numerical simulation and measurement of fluid flow heat transfer in electronic equipment, energy efficient buildings, and other industrial applications. c American Society for
laboratory on campus.Miss Rachel Lauren Shapiro, Northeastern University Rachel Shapiro is a fifth year undergraduate student studying chemical engineering at Northeastern Uni- versity. She has been involved in the Connections Chemistry Review program for the past 3 years. Rachel works in a chemical engineering lab on campus, has held a co-op position at Davol, Inc., a co-op position at Entrega Biosciences, and ia currently completing her third co-op with McKinsey & Company.Dr. Paul DiMilla, Northeastern University Paul A. DiMilla is an Associate Teaching Professor in Chemistry & Chemical Biology and Chemical En- gineering at Northeastern University. During his academic career at Carnegie Mellon University, Boston
Paper ID #18622Integrating Humanitarian Engineering Design Projects to Increase Retentionof Underrepresented Minority Students and to Achieve Interpersonal Skill-Related Learning OutcomesDr. Elizabeth A. Adams, Chandler Gilbert Community College Dr. Adams joined Chandler-Gilbert Community College in 2014 as Residential Engineering Faculty.Mary Beth Burgoyne Mary Beth Burgoyne is Library Residential Faculty at Chandler - Gilbert Community College (CGCC)(Chandler, AZ). She teaches Information Studies courses and critical college research / information literacy as part- ner faculty within other disciplines. In addition to teaching
Paper ID #26091Intercultural and Interdisiplinary Communication Skills as a Component ofEngineering Education: International Design ProjectsProf. Anna Friesel, Technical University-Copenhagen Anna Friesel is Professor at the Center for Electro-technology, DTU Diplom - Technical University of Denmark, Campus Ballerup. She is also the president of the EAEEIE - European Association for Educa- tion in Electrical and Information Engineering, which is a European non-profit organization, with mem- bers from nearly seventy European Universities, most of them teaching in the area of Electrical and In- formation Engineering (EIE). Anna
Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He performed his graduate research on the transport limitations in engineered tissue constructs for orthopedic defects at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute. Following his graduate studies, Dr. Heylman was a George E. Hewitt Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. There, he worked as part of both the Edwards Lifesciences Center for Advanced Cardiac Technologies and the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics developing microphysiological systems (vascularized tissues and organs on a chip) for high throughput drug screen- ing. Prior to joining Cal Poly, Dr. Heylman founded and served as CEO of Velox Biosystems, a
B.S. in agricultural engineering and M.S. in biomedical engineering at OSU, and her Ph.D. in environmental engineering at Clemson University. She worked for an engineering consulting firm before entering academia and continues to collaborate with the consulting industry. She has taught courses in bioenergy, biological en- gineering, capstone design, HVAC, thermodynamics, waste management, professional development, and engineering teaching. Her research interests include energy, the environment, and engineering education. She is assistant dean for teaching and learning in the College of Engineering. She is a second-generation woman engineer. c American Society for Engineering Education
Paper ID #29299Educating the Workforce in Cyber & Smart Manufacturing for Industry 4.0Dr. Mathew Kuttolamadom, Texas A&M University Dr. Mathew Kuttolamadom is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology & In- dustrial Distribution and the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from Clemson University’s Int’l Center for Au- tomotive Research. His professional experience is in the automotive industry including at the Ford Motor Company. At TAMU, he teaches Mechanics, Manufacturing and
7 Career Development 6 Management and Service 6The average number of times our students involved within each component is 7. Thisrepresents approximately 56% of the students. 8 Under the research category, there were 10 times that students engaged in theactivities. Most the students were research assistants or teaching assistants. Independentstudies were also included in this component. Under, the communication section shows most that students engaged in presentationsthrough on-campus forums (i.e. undergraduate research) or presenting at a
Paso Mike Pitcher is the Director of Academic Technologies at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has had experience in learning in both a traditional university program as well as the new online learning model, which he utilizes in his current position consulting with faculty about the design of new learning experiences. His experience in technology and teaching started in 1993 as a student lab technician and has continued to expand and grow over the years, both technically as well as pedagogically. Currently he works in one of the most technically outstanding buildings in the region where he provides support to students, faculty, and staff in implementing technology inside and outside the classroom, researching
of the Army for Civil Works and is an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University teaching courses in engineering economics and water resources. Dr Manous is a former US Army Corps of Engineers officer, retiring from active duty in the grade of Colonel. His last active duty assignment was as Academy Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he taught courses in environmental engineering, water resources, and environmental security.Dr. Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama Kenneth J. Fridley is the Senior Associate Dean for the College of Engineering at The University of Alabama. Prior to his current appointment, Fridley served as Professor and Head of the Department of Civil
Paper ID #23003Development of a Virtual Reality Flight Simulator to Assist in the Design ofOriginal AircraftDr. Dominic M. Halsmer P.E., Oral Roberts University Dr. Dominic M. Halsmer is a Professor of Engineering and former Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Oral Roberts University. He has been teaching science and engineering courses there for 26 years, and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Oklahoma. He received BS and MS Degrees in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University in 1985 and 1986, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA in 1992. He received an MA
a Master’s of Science in Biomedical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Originally from Dudley, MA, she obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2015 from WPI. As a graduate student she has served as a Teaching As- sistant to undergraduate level biomedical engineering courses as well as pursued a research project in the Myocardial Regeneration Laboratory focusing on improving stem cell delivery methods into the heart following a myocardial infarction, or heart attack. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Canine hip forces: The ups and downs of project-based learning of static
and laboratories that willbe included as part of the academic preparation. The involved team is developing a targetedcurriculum to achieve these goals.To implement this initiative, the three university campuses established a collaborativeintercampus cooperation platform. This agreement will allow faculty from the campuses todevelop an integrated curriculum that will enhance the educational experience. Each of thesecampuses offers a different educational component relevant to the interaction required to trainstudents to provide integrated design solutions. One campus offers a bachelor’s degree onEnvironmental Design. Another one offers degrees in Civil, Electrical, and Materials Scienceand Engineering, among others. The third campus (the
children’seducations, before the child enters grade school [12]. This practice benefits upper-class andupper-middle class families, as they have the income to save, leading to a continuing cycle ofcollege attendance and social mobility [12].Pre-College EducationThe education and opportunities provided to students while in high school play a significant rolein their confidence and success in college as well as their selection of major [13, 14]. Hands-onwork such as laboratory experience, FIRST Robotics, Project Lead the Way (PLTW) and otherprograms encourage development of STEM skills before students enter college. The courseworkin the PLTW program features hands-on projects for high school and middle school students thataim to teach critical thinking and
Paper ID #17466Advancing Training Pathways for the Renewable Energy WorkforceMs. Jill Davishahl, Bellingham Technical College Jill Davishahl is a faculty member in the engineering department at Bellingham Technical College where she teaches courses ranging from Intro to Engineering Design to Engineering Statics. Outside of teaching, Jill is working on the development of a Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Technology (to be offered at BTC) and is currently PI on the NSF funded ATE project grant in renewable energy. She holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington.Prof