enhancing undergraduate education through hands- on learning. Luchini-Colbry is also the Director of the Engineering Futures Program of Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society, which provides interactive seminars on interpersonal communications and problem solving skills for engineering students across the U.S.Dr. John R Luchini Dr. John R. Luchini (1949-2013) earned his Bachelor, Master, and PhD degrees in engineering from the University of Michigan. In 2011, John retired as Senior Research Scientist and Engineer after a 34 year career with the Cooper Tire and Rubber Company in Findlay, Ohio. He was a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio; and
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, understanding gifted and talented student experiences in talent development programs in and out of school, and conceptual and measurement issues in the identification of gifted and talented populations.Dr. Jeffrey David Tew Ph.D.Mr. Devaatta Nadgukar KulkaerniProf. Karthik Ramani Karthik Ramani is a Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. He earned his B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in 1985, an MS from Ohio State University, in 1987, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1991, all in Mechanical Engineering. Among his many awards he received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Initiation Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Ralph Teetor Educational Award from the
Western Australia. His research is in the field of scientific computing and numerical analysis, where he works on computational algorithms for simulating complex stochastic systems such as atmospheric aerosols and feedback control. Prof. West is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award and is a University of Illinois Distinguished Teacher-Scholar and College of Engineering Education Innovation Fellow.Dr. Geoffrey L Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Geoffrey L. Herman is a visiting assistant professor with the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in En- gineering Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a research assistant professor with the Department of Curriculum & Instruction. He
? Yes 49 92% No 4 8% Table 8. Results from post development question 2 Spring 2016. Question 3 of the post iAdvise usage survey focuses on ease of access to information.Due to inaccessibility, information that could be gathered by the agent is seldom sought out.Even if the agents understand the notion of “the more credits that I enroll in and pass the faster Igraduate”, it is not often that agents actually take the time to calculate their time to graduation.According to Landis, an expert in the field of engineering education, the more time and effort astudent devotes to planning their career
the University of Michigan to incorporate the constraints of global health technologies within engineering design at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is the recipient of a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, a Teaching Innovation Prize from the UM Provost, and a UM Undergraduate Teaching Award. While at MIT, she was a winner of the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition.Dr. Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan Shanna Daly is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton (2003) and a Ph.D. in Engineering Edu- cation from Purdue University (2008). Her research focuses on strategies for
Paper ID #15611Teaching Work-Holding in Undergraduate ClassesDr. Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan, United Arab Emirates University Dr Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan – Siva is a Srilankan by birth and a citizen of the United Kingdom. His experience in Sri-lanka started with an year’s post-graduate apprenticeship in the manufacturing shops of the Government Railway and nine years in the Cement Industry. He graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from University of Srilanka, and obtained his Masters from the University of Aston and PhD from City University of London, both in the UK. He started his career in the UK as the Senior
thedevelopment goals. Also, the need to support multiple platforms (iOS, Android, web) is a realisticchallenge that exposes students to tradeoff decisions that they will face in their future careers assoftware engineers. Close interaction with the transit system helped the students see how thesoftware is used and helped us better define the SPL assets as they were developed.4.2 Product ArchitectureThe product we developed for the transit systemconsists of several components and is designed tobe easy to update for the transit system. Riders ofthe busses can use the Transit Application (TA)with or without an internet connection. The TA isdeployed natively for Android and iOS and includesdatabase on the mobile device for offlinefunctionality. A screenshot
to bring more faculty andstudents together to develop novel therapeutics that can be translated to the clinic. To trainstudents on current methods and research in drug delivery for academic or industrial careers, wehave developed a new course on drug delivery systems (DDS) for juniors, seniors and graduatestudents at the University of Pennsylvania.The course is taught by engineering and medical school faculty for students in engineering,chemistry, pharmacology and other biomedical science programs. The students enrolled in theclass reflect the range of expertise of engineers and scientists working on drug delivery projectsin academia and industry. Faculty and industrial speakers involved in drug delivery researchpresent lectures in their
higher-level tasks earlier intheir careers, necessitating the development of this judgment in undergraduates. This clearly hasbecome a priority for many programs, as evidenced by the growth of project-based learning.Developing this type of judgment and creativity is challenging, but inquiry-based learning willplay an important role and well-tested tools for inspiring new types of knowledge acquisitionmethods in our students are needed.This paper describes hands-on, inquiry-based learning activities that were recently designed andimplemented in the first mechanics course taken by students in the Department of Civil andMechanical Engineering at the US Military Academy in part to help accelerate the developmentof students’ engineering judgment
financial aid granted to students may inform theinstitutions they choose to attend as well as the majors they pursue after matriculation (Kim,2004; Stater, 2011). Notably, Stater’s (2011) study found that higher net costs of attendancedecreased the probability that students would choose a major in STEM.Additionally, after matriculation, a host of institutional factors may support, or impede, studentsuccess in STEM. For example, research indicates that institutional practices, such as career andacademic advising, play a critical role in facilitating retention, persistence, and degree attainmentin college (Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005). A number of studies have demonstrated that students’perceptions of, and experiences with, academic advising may
. degrees in Civil Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology.Dr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University Shane Brown is an associate professor and Associate School Head in the School of Civil and Environmen- tal Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include conceptual change and situated cognition. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2010 and is working on a study to characterize prac- ticing engineers’ understandings of core engineering concepts. He is a Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of Engineering Education.Dr. Olusola Adesope, Washington State University Dr. Olusola O. Adesope is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and a Boeing Distinguished
middle school student attitudes towards robotics and focused on gender differences. She is a member of the National Science Teachers Association, Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O) and American Society for Engineering Edu- cation. Her interest lies in the K-12 pathway to engineering and ways to bring young people, particularly under represented populations, into STEM careers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018NeuroBytes: Development of Integrative Educational module across Neurophysiology and EngineeringAbstractNeuroBytes, electronic neuron simulators developed by NeuroTinker were originally designed toteach students more about neuroscience through the use of hands
number of experimental pedagogical interventions toteach the kinds of teamwork that could become interdisciplinary, involving writing and dramaticperformance [12], research experience [13], and workshops on crucial team work skills [14].Thecourse we describe here is part of a robust movement in the field that seeks to help preparestudents for their careers as holistic engineers, with interest in the socio-technical context of theirknowledge.MethodsStudent PopulationDr. Gordon Hoople, an Assistant Professor in the General Engineering Department of Universityof San Diego’s Shiley Marcos School of Engineering partnered with Dr. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick,an Assistant Professor in the Kroc School of Peace Studies and an Associate Professor at
, as well as the integration of major renewable energy sources such as solarand wind energy systems to the existing grid [18, 20-25].Program InformationThe Electrical/Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) Program is a four-yearundergraduate program leading to a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree at Sam Houston StateUniversity (SHSU). The program benefits from the strong support it receives from a partnershipbetween a major energy services industry and employers of the ECET program graduates. TheECET major prepares students for application-oriented engineering technology careers in circuits,conventional and renewable electrical power, analog and digital electronics, industrial controls,microcomputer, telecommunications
completed.Specifications grading provides the means for controlling the process parameters. Each time thestudent completes work that is within the process parameters, credit is given and the studentadvances toward fulfilling the course performance requirements.If we are going to help students engage in effective learning processes, then a natural place tostart is with courses that are early in the student’s career. From an engineering perspective, thisimplies the “gateway” courses that students first encounter in their engineering studies. Of these,the courses in Engineering Mechanics (Statics, Dynamics) provide an essential foundation forseveral engineering disciplines which makes them logical candidates for the implementation ofeffective learning
Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Her research interests include: Teamwork, International Collaborations, Faculty Development, Quality Control/Management and Broadening Participation. She is an honor graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, where she earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering, in 1988. In 1991 she was awarded the Master of Engineering degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. She received her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1998. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious, Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering
were often ignored, and the team wasdominated by men.In the second paper, Berenson et al. [21] investigated the impression of female students insoftware engineering about doing projects as a team instead of working alone. These studentsused pair-programming and solo group modes of collaboration on projects in this class. Inthis study, the authors interviewed with three female students to understand their opinionsabout collaborating in teams. According to this paper, all three females had positive viewsabout this collaboration. Face-to-face meeting increased the satisfaction among femalestudents, collaboration increased the quality of females’ work, increased their confidence, andthey became more interested to work on career related to their
of the instructional design process vs. a short-termlaboratory design task), number of participants (31 vs. 9), and other factors. Thus, whileheuristics within a domain may be robust, means of data collection can influence the details andnuances identified. Selection of such methods and participants should be well-informed andsuited to the purpose of the study.Exploring Heuristics and Related Approaches in Engineering Course DesignCourse design in higher education can be a complex task for which engineering faculty are oftenill-prepared [26,27]. Ambrose and Norman, for example, note that many early-career facultydesign courses based on ways they were taught, colleague’s courses, or from lists of importanttopics, rather than through
curricula, but few institutions offer an integratedhands-on design course sequence for all four undergraduate years. This paper is a case studyof the development of a four-year integrated hands-on design curriculum to motivate, retain,and prepare mechanical engineering students for success in their capstone (senior) designcourse and future careers. Over a period of ten years, a team of faculty members haveincorporated hands-on design components into a sequence of five mechanical design courses,as well as an introductory fluid mechanics laboratory course. Courses in all four years ofinstruction (Freshman: Computer-Aided Design; Sophomore: Design for Manufacturability;Junior: Mechanical Design I and Mechanical Design II, Fundamentals of Fluid
that predict student success, including academic preparedness [25],[26] and the psychological factors of motivation, self-efficacy, and attitude [27]–[30]. Ouruniversity’s school of engineering mirrors that of many engineering schools across the country asefforts of research to improve teaching and learning are made in hopes of retaining engineeringstudents into engineering careers. The longitudinal interdisciplinary research group, GEARS,that initially assembled around the research goal of focusing on first-year engineering studentretention and academic achievement has sustained in their efforts, while expanding theirexploration of first-year student retention through innovative, interdisciplinary viewpoints. Ourgroup is now poised to look at
course in their careers, what they hope to base their finalproject or paper around, etc. This helps turn some of the discussion that ensues back toward thecourse. It is good practice to instruct students to make an initial timely post of their introductionand then return to the Introduce Yourself discussion sometime prior to the end of the first unit ormodule to reply to a couple of their classmates. Although some of this information may be thesame for some working professionals from one course to the next while pursuing a graduatedegree or certificate, it is strongly suggested that each course begin like this to encouragestudents to engage with the instructor and each other and reduce feelings of isolation right fromthe start. Doing so has been
the Microelectronics Journal on Quality Electronic Design, 2005. His research interests include VLSI circuit and system design, CAD methodology for VLSI design, and bioelectronics.Prof. Zinta S. Byrne, Colorado State University Zinta S. Byrne is a tenured full professor of psychology at Colorado State University. Her previous careers were as software design and development engineer, an R&D project manager and a program manager for Hewlett-Packard Company, and management consultant for Personnel Decisions International, before becoming a professor at CSU. She is author of ”Understanding Employee Engagement: Theory, Research, and Practice” and ”Organizational Psychology and Behavior: An Integrated Approach to
at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering students’ identity devel- opment. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering
the responsibilities that come with that role. One way to address this apparent shortcoming is to continue to refine the design of the stand-alone course, finding a better balance between the design task and the ethical considerations thatweave through it. We noted above that we placed a great deal of trust in the structure of the workin the course, and in the scaffolding we provided, to prompt students to connect design decisionswith ethical values. The self-reported data suggest this trust was not altogether misplaced, but thatwe may need to do more to foster an understanding of role responsibility and its importance in ourstudents’ future careers. It is also possible that the mixed results reflect a more general problem with stand
Carlisle, Oregon State University, School of Chemical Biological and Environmental Engineer-ingDr. Natasha Mallette P.E., Oregon State University Dr. Mallette worked as a design, process and research engineer before obtaining her PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering. She uses her engineering experience to enrich undergraduate education and has chosen to focus on teamwork as a research area. Natasha experienced the successes and failures that go along with functional and dysfunctional teaming, so hopes to help students learn skills to function effec- tively on multi-disciplinary and cross-departmental teams during their careers. She started her teaching career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was lucky
strategies. She co-designed the environmental engineering synthesis and design studios and the design spine for the mechanical engineering program at UGA. She is engaged in mentoring early career faculty at her univer- sity and within the PEER National Collaborative. In 2013 she was selected to be a National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education Faculty Member. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Understanding international engineering doctoral students’ sense of belonging through their interpersonal interactions in the academic communityIntroduction and Background This study explores the ‘sense of belonging’ from the
design in their technical products in various ways (software interface, web pages, product design, etc) to enhance the user experience. As such, students with a combination of technical skills and design skills can pursue careers at companies focused on media (television, film and games) as well as at more traditional software companies. Example positions include: user experience/user interface (UX/UI) designers , concept artists, game designers, software engineer, effects artists, technical directors on full‑length feature films, digital production artists, designers for a software engineering project (including web pages, user interfaces, etc.), for public art
regular NAU graduate programs in EE or CS. For the remainder ofthe students, some of them were accepted to graduated programs from other U.S. universities, orthey decided to return to China to pursue career or graduate school there. In addition to highGPA, these students were evaluated highly among NAU faculties, including those courseinstructors and Capstone project mentors. In particular, a group of the 3+1 students developed aninstrumented bike and cell phone applet for their Capstone project. This work was thensubmitted as a conference paper and received the Best Student Paper Award in the smart sensorsection at the 2018 International Symposium in Sensing and Instrumentation in IoT Era (ISSI) inShanghai, China9.Comparison of teaching
addition. In 2015, CAN bus functionality was added to the2014 specification. The CAN bus is a robust but complex network protocol, and student-reporteddevelopment peaked. Apart from the heavy workload, students reported satisfaction with theexperience as they found the CAN bus interesting and saw the utility of having experience with itfor future courses and their careers. The 2016 design was fundamentally identical to the 2015variation but with the introduction of gap learning. A clear reduction in LoC reported is seen.The 2017 offering was nearly identical to the 2016 version and reported LoC was almostunchanged. The effort in 2019 to reduce student workload by providing more of a completedesign framework and limiting student requirements is