geometric shapes,multi-material, and multi-functional parts can be additively manufactured in a single operationwhich is a significant advantage over conventional manufacturing processes. Over the past twodecades, the intensive research carried out on AM technologies has yielded tremendous progressin the development and commercialization of new and innovative AM processes, such as FusedDeposition Modeling (FDM), selective laser sintering, and other rapid prototyping methods, aswell as numerous practical applications in aerospace, automotive, biomedical, civil, energy andother industries [1]. Many manufacturing industries have realized the benefits of AM technologyand started utilizing it as an integral part of their processes [2]–[4]. Some
strategies theycan use in the classroom and advocating for their use. Developing reflective teachers centers onencouraging and supporting educators as they develop new teaching concepts, action research,and curriculum development in the second quadrant. The third quadrant focuses on enactingpolicy changes and strategic planning which usually occurs at an administrative level rather thanat the educator level. The final quadrant is focused on developing a shared vision among andempowering stakeholders to create an environment that fosters new teaching concepts andpractices [9]. The research tasks for this work can largely be grouped into these quadrants fromdeveloping the inclusive classroom strategies menu which aligns with the curriculum andpedagogy
simulation modelsof actual manufacturing operations. Each student team prepares PowerPoint materials which arepresented to representatives of the company. Recent projects included work with majorautomotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers, along with a major defenseindustry company. This paper and presentation includes examples of simulations and the resultsof the students’ analysis of the operations.The simulation applications used in these industrial projects include robotic workcell processing,ergonomics analysis, and discrete event materials/process flow studies. This curriculum has alsoprovided an opportunity for integration of several technologies and manufacturing managementaspects into application-based environments
acrylicenclosure. Figure 3. System integration of the RPi compute module 3 cluster. The enclosure and the assembled RPi compute module 3+ cluster are shown in Figure 4. Onthe left side, it shows the acrylic section. The enclosure was designed using Fusion 360 [17]. The © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Expositionacrylic materials were cut by a laser cutting machine. The top plate holds an interface board, andthe bottom plate holds a network switchboard. As shown in the figure, the openings for theethernet cables and power cables were properly designed. The image on the right side shows thefan location and the opening for the airflow
results. In theory, one can model a curriculum withdata on documentation and retention of instruction at the course. An analogue of thermodynamictemperature appears to measure the importance of the respective course compartments. These correlateroughly to the numbers of connections associated with various course compartments. The temperaturevalues seemed not to be overly sensitive to the beta values used. We present an intense strategy todevelop documentation needed to model a given curriculum. The time-honored concept of cycling in acurriculum, of conceptual revisits, stands validated by the analysis. The Finn Cycling index describescycling system wide. The indirect/direct effects ratio describes how compartments other than adjacentcompartments
over the course offive semesters. The research is designed to test two hypotheses: 1. A long-term design project that integrates knowledge from multiple courses strengthens student knowledge retention. 2. A large-scale design project requiring tools from many courses improves student problem-solving and design skills.By integrating five semesters of the mechanical engineering curriculum into a cohesive whole,this project has the potential to transform the way undergraduate education is delivered. Beforeand after testing is being conducted to assess: a) Change in retention between courses and b)Change in student problem-solving and design skills.The centerpiece of the hybrid powertrain is the planetary gearset, which combines
. LCD” lab with reasonable confidence that it will be effective Senior year—upgrade the junior design so as to make an across the full ECE curriculum by forming part of the auto-ranging capability for the “DMM”; and possibly “cohesive framework” that connects and integrates individual also add the ability to measure negative voltages, as well courses. as the original positive voltages. OPTIONAL SOLDERING TUTORIALThis voltmeter project was first used this academic
after hiring.Specifically, the skills and competencies supporting the Advanced Manufacturing sector havebeen shown to be in high demand and are the focus of the current project under National ScienceFoundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grant No.1601487.The goals and objectives of the NSF grant project are listed in Table I. Table I. Goals of the Project GOAL 1 To strengthen an Engineering Technology program serving the southern New Jersey region. Objective 1.1 Highlight technical and non-technical (soft) skills across the curriculum; align with industry needs, including student work-based learning opportunities such as undergraduate
Paper ID #10169Identifying and Cultivating Diverse STEM Talent through Creative RoboticsJennifer Cross, Carnegie Mellon University Jennifer Cross graduated from the F. W. Olin College of Engineering with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering and is now working toward her doctorate degree in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. A fellow of both the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Program and the Institute of Education Sciences’ Program for Interdisciplinary Educational Research at Carnegie Mellon, Jennifer’s research focuses on the impacts of integrating creative robotics into cross-curricular
Page 12.1112.2Cincinnati we are integrating state-of-the-art research in microfluidics within our undergraduateand graduate electrical engineering curricula via a laboratory course “ECES678: Micro/NanoFluidic Biochip Laboratory.”A unique aspect of the course is that we focus on an extended problem-based learning exampleof a microfluidic mixer that underlines all course activities. Mixing is of considerableimportance in microfluidics and LOC systems because bio/chemical reactions carried out in suchdevices require on-chip mixing of samples and reagents. A good example is an immunoassaywhere miniaturization can lead to reduced reagent consumption, faster reactions, fewerbyproducts and higher throughput.3-5 Fully-integrated microfluidic chips
and Social Policy. Her research interest lies in the design of curriculum and learning environments for STEM that support deep understanding, transfer, and collaborative learning. Before arriving at North- western, she graduated from Smith College with a B.A degree in Engineering and Learning Sciences. At Smith, she worked with Dr. Glen Ellis on knowledge building research as wells as design of instruc- tions and assessment for an engineering course. She received the highest honor in Engineering Art with her honor thesis titled ”Understanding Knowledge Building in Undergraduate Engineering Education” in which Dr. Glen Ellis was her advisor.Ms. Yezhezi Zhang, Smith College Yezhezi Zhang is a student at Smith College
. It is difficult to have anynanotechnology fabrications without access to expensive fabrication and analytical equipment.Although some institutions have integrated nanotechnology undergraduate education with theirintensive research graduate programs, nevertheless this usually is overlooked by graduatestudents who are busy preparing to defend their thesis or dissertations and present and publishtheir work. Having an exclusive undergraduate laboratory is important because the instructioncan adjusted to their level of understandings without any comparison with their graduatecounterpart. In the year 2000, President Clinton unveiled the creation of the NationalNanotechnology Initiatives with an initial budget of $464 million for Fiscal Year 2001
Paper ID #36673Development of a biomedical engineering course for high school studentsusing a framework of student-centered pedagogyDr. Marjorie Letitia Hubbard, North Carolina School of Science and Math Dr. Marjorie Letitia Hubbard is a member of the engineering and research faculty at the North Carolina School of Science and Math (NCSSM) in Durham, North Carolina. As an engineering instructor at NCSSM, Dr. Hubbard has taught a variety of residential and online biomedical engineering courses, and she is also engaged in developing and implementing curriculum to prepare students for success in the research environment. For the
2000” (EC2000, now called the Engineering Criteria) was implemented inthe later 1990s. Many aspects of the new criteria required a new mind-set and were quitedifferent from the Traditional Criteria, which had significant elements of “bean counting.”EC2000 at its heart was to allow greater freedom in how an engineering program defined itselfvia its intent, its constituencies’ needs, and its curriculum [1][2][3]. But, along with freedom tochoose comes the need to properly understand the new criteria and its implications.One item of lingering confusion relates to the program educational objectives and programoutcomes. Even now significant difficulties appear to exist in understanding the meaning of
of Philosophy) in Electrical Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 2019. He is cur- rently a Ph.D. student in the Energy Systems, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW. His research interests include power engineering education, curriculum design and development, and condition monitoring of power system equipment.Dr. Jayashri Ravishankar, University of New South Wales A/Prof Jayashri Ravishankar is a Scientia Education Fellow and Associate Dean (Education) in the Fac- ulty of Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney. Her teaching and research interests include power system modelling, analysis and control, renewable energy integration, smart
required such that the students canappreciate its application.Schmahl et al. 5 recently published a study in which they examined end-of-chapter problems ofthree leading textbooks for undergraduate Engineering Economy. The results showed that unlessauthors “make an effort to increase emphasis on engineering applications through problemselection, students completing engineering economy courses will still lack the skills they need toapply economic principles to many engineering decisions.”To partially address this issue, we report on an idea that is commonplace in many business and/orfinance curriculums in higher education: using The Wall Street Journal to enhance teaching acourse. This is not to say that we advocate utilizing the Journal in the same
approaches for data-guided decision-making in theirexisting business operations; a recent survey indicates that the majority (~85%) of large businessesare in the midst of AI implementation plans [20].Given the greater focus on AI to support decision making, there is a need for industrial engineeringstudents to be prepared to understand and use AI tools in a business context. Yet, at this stage,there is a dearth of educational resources on AI or related technologies that are tailored for thisstudent population [21]. Emerging programs to integrate AI education into industrial engineeringcurriculum include the development of Industry 4.0 themed labs, both physical [22, 23] and virtual[24]. To date, these efforts tend to be technology-focused with an
Devin Berg is an Associate Professor and Program Director of the B.S. Mechanical Engineering program in the Engineering and Technology Department at the University of Wisconsin - Stout. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Global Engineering Projects from the Young African Leaders Initiative Thomas Lacksonen, Devin Berg, Scott Springer, University of Wisconsin-StoutKeywords: global design project, domestic internationalization, humanitarian engineeringAbstractIn this paper several projects that integrate globalization issues into undergraduate engineeringand technology coursework are discussed.The Mandela
wasdesigned to support the Water Quality Engineering course. Students are taught various analyticalmethods used in assessing the quality of a water sample. Review of the environmentalengineering curriculum showed that the courses were not well integrated. In summer 2001,shared activities were developed to improve the integration of the courses.This paper describes how externally sponsored water research projects and the integration of theWater Chemistry Laboratory and Water Quality Engineering courses has strengthened theenvironmental program. Student surveys, sponsor feedback, and comments from independentreviewers have been used to continually improve the program.II. Environmental Research ProjectsWith funding from the National Science Foundation
preparedness of software engineers. In Proceedings of the 2006 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition (Chicago, IL, June 18-21, 2006). 9. Ghosh, R. A. 2005. Cooking-pot markets and balanced value flows. In CODE: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy, 153-168. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 10. Hartness, K. T. N. 2006. Eclipse and CVS for group projects. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 21, 4 (Apr), 217-222. 11. Horstmann, C. 2009. Challenges and opportunities in an open source software development course. Integrating FOSS into the Undergraduate Computing Curriculum, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Symposium (Chattanooga, TN, Mar 4
andvia an external assessor to the overall 14-school program, to determine the progress in meetingthe institutional and consortium educational goals.The Stevens project has involved working with various stakeholders, within and associated withthe Department of Defense, to address a need for an expeditionary housing system for themilitary, with a major focus on integrated alternate energy sources and associated micro-grid.This has application to both forward operational units and for disaster relief missions.This paper reports on the implementation of the project and preliminary findings.Project BackgroundThe project described in this paper provides an opportunity to leverage the significant graduate-level Systems Engineering (SE) education
has been incorporated into the MET curriculum via a seniorelective titled Computer Integrated Manufacturing (MET-445). Approximately 20% ofcourse deals with Lean manufacturing. Lean coverage starts with lecture on Leanprinciples followed by the training program in ship repair and associated simulationactivity. The goal of this course is to provide the students with competency-based, hands-on learning that supports a systems approach about Lean philosophy and itsimplementation. Prerequisites for the course include general knowledge aboutmanufacturing systems and sophomore level course in materials processes andmanufacturing. Student responses have been collected and evaluated via an attitudinalsurvey. Student comments indicate positive
curriculum leader was able to use the collaboration time to help teachers envision how sciencecould be integrated with other aspects of the curriculum such as reading and writing. Four of theprincipals described their role as a facilitator or encouraging force in terms of professional development.For example, Principal 2 (P2) indicated, “I am more of a facilitator (guide on the side) than the person Page 24.1376.7doing the staff development.” Money and time were mentioned as issues by half of the principals; theprofessional development days in this district were at an all-time low as a result of budget cuts. Twoprincipals expressed a need for
course would only be sustained if we couldsuccessfully recruit new faculty for the course, who may or may not be interested. Broad-scaleresearch on faculty incorporation of diversity-oriented activities into the curriculum has foundthat even when faculty believe that diversity in a classroom leads to better learning outcomes,belief doesn’t necessarily translate into teaching practices that include diversity-orientedmaterials [4]. However, departmental support is important in integrating diversity into thecurriculum, as faculty who believed their departments emphasized the importance of diversity intheir field and supported the integration of diversity-related content into their courses were morelikely to do so [4], and were more likely to be
AC 2012-5378: PHILOSOPHY AND UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING ANDLEARNING: THOUGHTS AND PERSPECTIVES FOR ENGINEERINGEDUCATIONDr. John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin John Heywood is Professorial Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College, Dublin, and formerly professor and Di- rector of teacher education in the university. He has a background in engineering and is a Fellow of ASEE and an SMIEEE. His book on Engineering Education: Research and Development in Curriculum and Instruction received an award from the American Educational Research Association. He has contributed several papers on philosophy and the design of the curriculum at ASEE and FIE, and is particularly inter- ested in the design of trans-disciplinary courses
Engineering management skills are so important and diverse that someuniversities offer accredited degrees that instill these skills in their students throughout theirfour-year undergraduate career. Although these programs vary in their areas of emphasis, all aredesigned to be practical degrees that prepare their graduates to become leaders in engineeringorganizations.6-10Many undergraduate programs integrate engineering management skills into their senior designsequence.11-13 Frequently, this is done in an effort to commercialize the senior projectsthemselves, but it is also done in an effort to instill an entrepreneurial spirit in the engineeringstudents as they are on the verge of graduation. Similar benefits have been observed whenapplying the
all aspects of design such as conceptual, preliminary and detaileddesigns, configuration layouts, loads, stability, performance and cost analyses. Projectplanning is an integral aspect of this process which the student is expected to address.Effective communication of ideas and dissemination of technical information viacomprehensive technical reports are also addressed.The present paper describes one such capstone project undertaken by the students in theMechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MMET) department of ArizonaState University (ASU) Polytechnic in which the major disciplines such as mechanical,aeronautical and manufacturing engineering technology are addressed. The MMETdepartment offers two ABET accredited degrees at
and in manufacturing processeswithin a design context. This is possible because of the skills of the undergraduates who spendtheir first two years within the Foundation Coalition curriculum.1ProcessThe College of Engineering at A&M has undergone an extensive restructuring of the freshmenand sophomore years during the past 6 years.1, 2, 3 These changes have improved the skill base ofthe juniors. The most recent NSF program at Texas A&M University, Foundation Coalition,provided a substantial change in the way faculty teach. Instead of lecturing at students for a classperiod, the faculty use collaborative learning. The classrooms are places where the students are
launch decision. In the case of Bhopal, utilitarian principles (or lack thereof) areevident.Methodology Faculty who integrate ethics into technical courses need not be philosophers nor intimatelyfamiliar with a variety of ethical theories. A modicum of training, however, is desirable, andparticipants can develop various methodologies during their training.Training Oregon Institute of Technology has developed a workable and relatively painless plan fororienting technical instructors in “ethics across the curriculum” (EAC). Similar to writing acrossthe curriculum, EAC attempts to integrate ethics into technical classes without disrupting ordisplacing technical content. For the past three years, OIT faculty have had the opportunity to
novel topics such as AI and IoT related to AM. Second, manyunderserved students are not aware of the opportunities, benefits, and job security related to theAM field. Providing underserved students with access to relevant resources and activities maybenefit them in fostering awareness of AM jobs and developing career interests in pursuing an AMcareer at their early ages.MethodologyNeeds assessmentTo identify the specific gap in what needs to be taught and what has been taught in the currentmanufacturing curriculum, our team reviewed the curriculum for the cluster of manufacturing inlocal schools and school districts, Project Lead the Way (PLTW) courses on manufacturing (e.g.,Principles of Engineering for Grades 11-12, Digital Electronics for