understand how this topic was integrated into thecurriculum. Some students commented it depended on the class. Other comments aboutadding more “real world” experiences were also given by the students. This is clearly anarea in which the curriculum can improve. EGO 10 covers a similar topic, contemporaryissues. The students commented that exposure to this topic should be increased in thecurriculum. They also said some professors are doing a better job than others. The sureycould identify an opportunity to learn from faculty that are already incorporatingcontemporary issues into their classes. EGOs 11 and 12 generally reflect the confidenceand exposure to situations that the students experienced. The comments centered onpossible software packages that
an architectural engineeringprogram in the Midwest with the intent of improving student retention and fostering feelings ofconnectedness. The program unites students across all years of the undergraduate program and5th year masters' students in groups mentored by professional engineers practicing in industry.The program was implemented within the curriculum of a required zero-credit hour seminarcourse and has expanded to include activities outside of class time. Prior retention theory andinterventions were considered to develop a robust assessment method with the goal of evaluatingthe impact of the mentoring program on student retention and connectedness in the classroom.Impact on retention was examined through term-to-term mentor group
, design, and distributed control. The built-in library of LabVIEW has a number of VIs that canbe used to design and develop any system. LabVIEW can be used to address the needs of various coursesin a technology and science curriculum 6, 7, 8, 9.LabVIEW Application AreasLabVIEW is extremely flexible and some of the application areas of LabVIEW are Simulation, DataAcquisition, and Data Processing. The Data Processing library includes signal generation, digital signalprocessing (DSP), measurement, filters, windows, curve fitting, probability and statistics, linear algebra,numerical methods, instrument control, program development, control systems, and fuzzy logic. Thesefeatures of LabVIEW will help provide an interdisciplinary, integrated teaching
atboth institutions in a cost-effective way by relying heavily on information technology. Only 8%of Penn State University 4-year students go abroad to study before graduation using a Penn Stateprogram, and the figure for engineering students is only about 3%. For many years, universitypolicy has included a goal of 20%, but no realistic way of achieving this has been found. Themodel deployed here has the potential for widespread impact on the curriculum. All the studentsin the courses at both institutions had an international experience as a result of the project. It wasmade especially relevant by offering travel scholarships to the members of the winning team.Friendships formed in the other teams allow the possibility for personal travel, also
landscape within which engineering education becomes an integral part of the National Curriculum. - Across the curriculum, relevant and empirical evaluation that supports needs to be conducted in such a way so as to provide evidence of what works, how and why. 4. Extra-Curricular Providers of engineering education initiatives need to undertake a full and in-depth evaluation of the value of their work, adopting a much more empirically grounded and pedagogically sound approach. - In particular the competition model needs to be properly studied and a wider range of options be developed that appeal to a wider range of children. A global study, perhaps in conjunction with the US and other EU countries, would provide a
add to the promise.The purpose of this paper is to introduce a multi-level, interdisciplinary education, outreachand training approach to integrating CIBRED (Cyber-Infrastructure into curriculum design,development, and delivery for Biological Researchers, Educators, and Developers) andcontribute to the preparation of future scientist and engineers in our global knowledgeeconomy. CIBRED’s mission is to empower current researchers and the future workforcewith specific CI tools and an interdisciplinary work environment that will enable them togenerate new knowledge with a focus on the problem that transcends the boundaries ofdifferent disciplines and technologies needed to achieve their scientific objectives. The basisfor the trans-disciplinary
integration of music into STEM than currently exists. Web-based applications can significantly contribute to this spread, as they allow easy access tointeractive hands-on experiences. 2LTW development went through three main stages. It started in a very small scale throughpersonal connections with teachers. Then, it moved to large public schools with heavy supportfrom LTW’s team. Finally, LTW created web-applications and curriculum to be used by teachersanywhere in the world with internet access. In this paper, I expand on the details of these stagesand offer general advice for developing impactful programs. To learn more about LTW, watchtutorials, and
(CEM) curriculum has remained11 fundamentally unchanged since its development in the late 1970s. There is a call to12 reform construction engineering education for students' future development before they13 enter the construction profession (Bernold, 2005). CEM will be positioned as a leader in14 the reform because of the resources accessible to the CEM program:15 • Academia - Purdue is home to the first School of Engineering Education (Purdue16 University, 2022).17 • Learners - students who must complete 36 weeks of experiential learning as part18 of the degree requirement.19 • Profession - industry relationships established with an active Industry Advisory20 Board (IAB) and industry
fundamentals. It offers design and hands-on laboratory courses. Designis integrated through the curriculum that includes a senior level capstone design sequence. Thedepartment has established a set of specific learning objectives to support the mission and thegoals of the department and meet the requirements of ABET accreditation under the EngineeringCriteria 2000 (EC-2000). The objectives have been reviewed and approved by the majorconstituencies of the department. A process for systematic evaluation and updating of thedepartment’s undergraduate educational objectives and outcome is in place. The faculty of theMechanical Engineering Department and the College Accreditation Committee conduct theseevaluations. The Accreditation Committee has developed
-informed reflective practice. Michelle's professional experience includes roles in industry and academia, having worked as a software engineer, project lead and manager for Accenture before serving as Assistant Professor and Department Chair for Electrical Engineering at the Ateneo de Davao University. She has also served in administrative and teaching faculty roles at Virginia Tech and The Ohio State University.Anthony Venditto (Bell Program Facilitator)Katherine Faye Ulseth I graduated from Minnesota State University - Mankato's Iron Range Engineering Program with a B.S. in Integrated Engineering in 2013. I worked as a mechanical engineer at Magnetation (an iron ore mine) where I led millwrights' daily activities
alarger project to integrate design concepts throughout the chemical engineering curriculum atSouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T).IntroductionTraditional undergraduate laboratories in chemical engineering provide students an exposure toconcepts of engineering science learned in the classroom, but do not provide open-ended, designexperiences similar to what graduates might face as chemical engineers in industrial positions.The traditional experiments in a unit operations laboratory tend to be created around fixed piecesof equipment. The procedures, data collection and analysis, and presentation of results tend to benearly identical for every team of students assigned to conduct a particular experiment, resultingin students
less than 0.5 °Cvariation under 15 W heat load from devices-under-test (DUTs). A hermetic DUT environmentwas designed using nitrogen purging and active humidity sensing to control relative humidity (RH)within the environment to beneath 5% RH. Undergraduate students gained experience designingfor manufacturability and machining with CAD tools not typically explored in typical electricalengineering design projects. An automated switch-matrix was designed and implemented toautomate testing and allow for programming of complex stress-measure-stress reliability testingprofiles. Control and automation were enabled using common Mbed processors used throughoutan undergraduate electrical engineering curriculum. To accomplish a unified design which
all stakeholders.Integrating social justice with engineering in the classroom is difficult, as most engineeringeducators do not possess the requisite social justice background. Some engineering facultymembers have successfully conducted this integration, whether for a thermodynamics [23] orcontrols [13, 24] course. It is incredibly challenging to attempt this integration within an entireengineering program [25].We propose an alternative integration. Rather than adding social justice directly into ourengineering courses, we rely on a social justice core curriculum to provide a thorough socialjustice foundation. Through this core curriculum, students learn how to critically analyze socialconditions. We then administer social justice case study
differentproblems and deploy different analytical tools and technologies. And industrial design addresses differentaspects of a product than the original engineering design.9 The energy devoted to design, and the commentary about it, increased in the 1980s due to pressures fromglobal competition.10 Some of this design energy has spilled over into engineering education where efforts toadd more (some) design to the curriculum have been in evidence since the late 1980s and are codified in thecurrent ABET requirements.11 This paper will adopt an approach to design that is less than a comprehensivestatement, but more, we hope, than two biographies. We will take design to be problem solving activities thatoccur where human needs meets technological
Session #2306 Innovative Instruction of Computer Graphics Katherine A. Liapi The University of Texas at AustinAbstractFor over 20 years fundamental and applied research from various disciplines has beeneffectively integrated into Computer Graphics resulting in developments that undoubtedlyhave had an important impact on the way Architectural Engineering is taught. Courses onComputer Graphics that have replaced the instruction of Descriptive Geometry in mostArchitectural Engineering curricula, are mainly focused on methods for the communicationof knowledge and information about the design
audiences, anABET learning outcome criterion. This collaboration was very valuable in bridging the gap in theengineering curriculums between the United States and Austria. IntroductionThe purpose of this pilot project was to increase undergraduate and graduate students’ interest atWest Texas A&M University (WTAMU) in research on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in areasof agricultural and surveying applications. This project provided the students with the opportunityto learn how to manage an international project and to work on a global team by collaborating withinternational students from another foreign institution. This pilot project was the start of Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). Summer 2011 Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) Instruments and Plate Tectonics (ECE) Earthquakes from plate tectonic movements threaten many major cities in the United States and worldwide. Various research methodologies for plate movements and earthquakes have led to efforts to forecasting these catastrophic events. Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) instruments are an integral component in the study of Earth movements and earthquakes. This summer experience engaged students in the interdisciplinary study of earthquake forecasting. Constructing an Earthquake Seismometer Earthquakes threaten several major population centers in the United
Environment at Arizona State University.Mrs. Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Paper ID #21161 Lindy Hamilton Mayled is a PhD candidate at Grand Canyon University. She is pursuing her PhD in Psychology of Learning, Education, and Technology. Her background in in K-12 education where she has served as a high school science teacher, Instructional and Curriculum Coach, and Assistant Principal. Her research and areas of interest are in improving STEM educational outcomes for Low-SES students through the integration of active learning and
-creditAdvanced Technology Manufacturing Academy (ATMA) as our core curriculum for this project.ATMA Robotics and IST Course OverviewIn this course, we applied an innovative Integrated Systems Training (IST) approach whichprovides instruction encompassing the entire integrated system in our curriculum core. Itincluded robotics, electrical and electronic, pneumatic, mechanical, PLC, and control systemsand devices. Students gained an understanding of how these components and subsystems workindependently and also how they interact with the other related sub-systems of an automatedmanufacturing system, including PLCs.In addition to providing this instruction and hands-on learning experience to the ATMA students,a web-accessible automated system was developed
design, strength of materials, etc.) it can bedifficult to demonstrate total system integration of multiple disciplines with diverse teams. Often,real world applications are limited by assumptions made to simplify problems so that the analysiscan be more easily performed in class. While many externships can add to the knowledge andskills of an engineering undergraduate, they may not be complementing the undergraduateprogram in order to fill student outcomes not met in the classroom.Survey of experiences During the fall semester, surveys were administered to students who had participated inexternships over the previous summer. Two programs administered the survey through an onlinesurvey program while the other two had participants fill out
the Scope of Mission EngineeringThe scope of mission engineering is analyzed from 1) the critical activities identified by missionengineers in interviews and 2) the critical systems engineering competencies they use.Fig. 9 shows the interview responses analysis on the critical activities in mission engineering,which can be summarized as: • Critical mission-focus activities begin first and foremost, with an understanding of the mission as the highest overall compared to other activities, indicated by the highest percentage of interview participants • Top technical activities include the architecture, analysis, requirements, modeling and simulation, capability development, integration and interoperability, testing and
turbulence.These results add to the growing body of evidence supporting alternative instructional techniquesas effective methods for teaching engineering. Future research will expand upon the findings of this pilot study. This study will berepeated with a larger group of engineering undergraduates. In addition, the order of instructionaltechniques will be switched with the lab demonstration presented prior to the lecture.AcknowledgementsFinancial support for this project has been provided by grant # 0126842 from the NationalScience Foundation’s Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program.Bibliography1. Reynolds, O. (1883) An Experimental Investigation of the Circumstances which Determine Whether the Motionof Water in Parallel
freshman engineeringcurriculum, enabling students in other engineering majors to take the course as well. A number of innovationshave been introduced in this course, including: Page 1.169.3 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings • Introductions to the product development process and engineering practice through course activities and real world design projects in the first course of the industrial engineering curriculum. • An early and continual focus on the customer and users of the product. • Integration of a variety of writing and speaking activities into the course to
communicating theoretical knowledge, successful engineering education programsequip prospective engineers with the strategies and methods to solve practical problemsencountered in the work place. In contrast to many of the limited-scope problems in textbooks,practical problems are open-ended, loosely structured, and complex. Engineering programs havelong recognized the need to convey both theoretical and practical knowledge by supplementingtextbooks and lectures with laboratory experiences and integrated design projects; however,many of the teaching methods employed in the traditional lecture hall are carried over to the labenvironment.In the fall 2014, we observed student difficulty in solving open-ended problems, leading to lowachievement outcomes
focused on issues that mightdifferentially impact marginalized communities.These studies demonstrate that there is a need to help engineering students better understand andappreciate the impact that their work has on society and develop skills needed to provideeffective and equitable solutions. This need is evident in developments in the criteria foraccrediting engineering programs. In October 2022, the ABET Engineering Area Delegationapproved an optional two-year pilot criteria that incorporates principles of diversity, equity andinclusion (DEI). One of the elements of these changes is that the curriculum must include“content that ensures awareness of diversity, equity, and inclusion for professional practiceconsistent with the institution’s
Economics,” Journal of SMET Education, 4, 3&4 (2003).Biographical InformationKevin Dahm in an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his B.S. fromWorcester Polytechnic Institute in 1992 and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998. Hiscurrent primary teaching interest is integrating process simulation throughout the chemical engineering curriculum,and he received the 2003 Joseph J. Martin Award for work in this area.Ravi P. Ramachandran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering atRowan University. He received his Ph.D. from McGill University in 1990 and has worked at AT&T BellLaboratories and Rutgers University prior to joining Rowan
the University of Virginia (UVA), a hybrid model was adopted. Students were giventhe option to take the class 100% remotely, or they could attend lab in person every other week.During the second week of the semester, entire sections met online for team forming. Thoughsome attempt was made to group in-person students in the same team, several teams had a mixof in-person and remote students. The curriculum was redesigned into two-week blocks. Duringthe ‘on’ week, students collected data from an experiment they performed in person or watchedvirtually. During the ‘off’ week, they worked in teams on various activities including report peerreview workshops, a team project, and post-processing of the previous week’s experiments. Thispaper will
forvarious fieldbus networks were identified. As an example of a fieldbus, an overview of CANwas given. CANoe, a CAN simulation software, was outlined, and simulation experiments thatare based on CANoe were outlined without much emphasis on hardware experiments in [3].There is significant literature available on fieldbus networks [1,4]. Hulsebos has beenmaintaining a comprehensive web site since 1999 that lists various fieldbus networks with linksto official web sites of each fieldbus organization [5]. Integration of fieldbus topics intoundergraduate curriculum is slowly taking places at various institutions. For example, Franz [6]reported the development of a National Center for Digital and Fieldbus Technology (NCDFT)under an NSF grant at Lee
. Page 22.1712.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Working Towards the Student Scrum - Developing Agile Android ApplicationsAbstractStudent project teams are an integral part of the software engineering curriculum. This paperreports on the classroom experiences of student teams developing Android applications usingScrum. The course in study is a software engineering undergraduate elective in Agile SoftwareDevelopment which used Android mobile phones donated by Google as the developmentenvironment for student teams to learn and practice Scrum. Scrum is an agile projectmanagement framework increasingly being adopted in the development of commercial
sustainability teaching efforts, which have beenadopted by the sustainability instructors in their respective institutions; 2) nurture a platform toguide interested instructors to adopt sustainability as well as Envision system within AEC andSTEM through proposing a matrix/framework to effectively integrate infrastructuresustainability into the existing engineering curriculum; and 3) discuss available means to pursuesustainability credentials, i.e., ENV SP during their courses. This study comprehends aqualitative approach to demonstrate best practices and effective methods for integratingsustainability concepts as well as sustainability credentialing in AEC curricula. The findings ofthis study guide to AEC faculty best practices when integrating