housing for the duration of the three-weekprogram. The main goal of the FYSE program is to strengthen engineering-related mathematicsskills, with particular focus on pre-calculus and the application of engineering problem solving.Each day during the week, the students participate in several classroom and laboratory hours ofmath-intensive curriculum aligned with practicing and strengthening engineering problem-solving skills (see Appendix A for sample syllabus from 2017). From 2012, the coursework has 5been taught by three university faculty members and instructors and assisted by a graduateassistant and undergraduate teaching assistants. In
; Urban Analysis from Appalachian State University. Her focus includes taking a holistic approach to inte- grating sustainability and waste reduction systematically across the campus community. It is a dynamic goal that includes utilizing campus as a living learning laboratory for student engagement, research, and high impact learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Overcoming the Challenges to Launch a Successful Initiative of an Engineering Faculty-led Travel Course While Boosting Interdisciplinary CollaborationsAbstractThe benefits to students in achieving learning outcomes through faculty-led travel courses havebeen studied in the
interests include electrokinetics, predominantly dielectrophoretic characterizations of cells, and the devel- opment of biomedical microdevices. Research within her Medical micro-Device Engineering Research Laboratory (M.D. – ERL) also inspires the development of Desktop Experiment Modules (DEMos) for use in chemical engineering classrooms or as outreach activities in area schools (see www.mderl.org). Adrienne is past Chair of ASEE’s Diversity Committee and past PIC I Chair; she has previously served on WIED, ChED, and NEE leadership teams and has contributed to over 40 ASEE conference proceedings articles.Dr. Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University Dr. Carpenter is Founding Dean of Engineering at Campbell University
accreditation requirements.8 Critical aspects of our plan include:definition of program objectives; the method used to define student outcomes and competencies;definition of mastery levels that reflect the relative importance of individual competencies;definition of a core set of competencies targeted for mastery by all of our students; feedbackfrom our constituencies; a variety of assessment tools including both direct and indirectinstruments; and methods for continuous evaluation and improvement of our curriculum,teaching pedagogy, and the assessment plan itself. Assessment of student proficiency isperformed at the competency level in order to provide detailed feedback necessary to facilitateevaluation and improvement of student learning.We have
Engineering Exploration (EngE1024).Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech JENNY L. LO is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. She received her Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon and her B.S. in chemical engineering at Tulane University.Odis Griffin, Virginia Tech HAYDEN GRIFFIN is currently professor and head of the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He holds BSME and MSME degrees from Texas Tech University and a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from VPI&SU. He had 13 years of experience in industry and government laboratories prior to joining Virginia Tech in 1985
AC 2007-484: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENERGY POLICIES BYUNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENTSJohn Reisel, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee John R. Reisel is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM.) He serves as Director of the Combustion Diagnostics Lab, Associate Director of the Center for Alternative Fuels, and co-Director of the Energy Conversion Efficiency Lab. His research efforts focus on combustion and energy utilization. Dr. Reisel was a 2005 recipient of the UWM Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, the 2000 UWM-College of Engineering and Applied Science Outstanding Teaching Award, and a 1998 recipient of the SAE Ralph R
front of an audience. One factorthat affects many performers is the anxiety that results from the risk of not just doing a jobpoorly, but with doing so in front of others. We encounter this same challenge when lecturing.Our students have their eyes and attention fixed on us. They expect to be both informed and, in away, entertained. Also, just as in the case of the audiences for other performers, while studentswill scrutinize our performance in detail and criticize our failures, most of them are hoping thatwe will do our job well and provide them with a positive performance.Based on the many parallels between teaching and performing in the more traditional venues, wetheorize that there may be value in identifying what other performers do to
whole family could successfullyengineer. Many chose to become members because of the program and others indicated theirdesire to continue similar activities at home. Visitors did perceive the activities as related toengineering, most commonly indicating building, making, designing, problem-solving, refining,technical concepts, selecting materials, testing, and iterating. In conclusion, the populartinkering engineering activities do have educational merit, and can teach aspects of the nature ofengineering and influence parents to further these experiences. Page 23.752.14Design guidelines resulting from this research include: 1. Allow for
AC 2010-1419: SERVICE LEARNING IN THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING ATVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYJames O'Brien, Villanova University Professor Jim O’Brien is a tenured Faculty member in the College of Engineering of Villanova University. At Villanova he has won numerous awards for teaching including the Lindback Award, the Farrell Award, and the Engineering Teacher of the Year Award. He has served as the Director of the Computer Aided Engineering Center, Director of Villanova PRIME Program (engineering community outreach), and Chairman of many department and college committees. His areas of specialization are in Hydraulics and Hydrology, Water Resources Management, Computer Aided Design, Engineering
successful outreach program which was originally designed to target girls, buthas been expanded to include all high school students. This is just a sampling of the largenumber of colleges and universities who are actively engaged in these kinds of outreachactivities.In addition to college and university initiatives there are a wide range of private efforts focusedon improving STEM education in K-12 schools. Project Lead The Way partners with industry,universities and public schools to promote engineering in middle and high schools6. IEEE hasrecognized the importance of motivating the teachers to improve STEM education, so theyconduct seminars nationally to teach the teachers to use a wide range of hands on activities theyhave developed7. Many others
. Facultycoordinators and teams have identified outcomes that are assessed in their courses. Everyterm the course is taught, each professor teaching the course is asked to assess to whatdegree the outcome is treated in the course. A rating of “high,” “medium” or “low”indicates that the outcome is assessed for all students at that level; “some” indicates thatsome students (but not necessarily all) are assessed for that outcome; “none” indicatesthat the outcome was indicated for the course but not assessed or addressed in theparticular offering of the course.As an example, consider the Computer Engineering program curriculum. Approximately60% of the Computer Engineering required courses have “high” or “medium” treatmentof outcome (c), whereas only 8% of the
improvements made such as new text books, rewritten syllabi with student objectives or assessment measures, laboratory improvements or advances, grants or other evidence of continuous improvement. If no form is turned in, it is assumed the faculty member has coasted in that course that semester. The course assessment forms produced by an individual are also attached to his or her annual report. 3. Outcomes Assessment Each faculty member also does a Course Learning Outcomes assessment for each of their courses at the end of each semester that shows program educational objectives, student learning objectives in support, assessment measures to evaluate student outcomes and analysis/further actions. Student survey data
projects; and (e) recent trends in robothardware and software for education.IntroductionA robot is a mechatronic system that can be programmed to perform a range of mechanical andelectrical functions and that responds to sensory input under automatic control. Robots canperform tasks normally ascribed to humans or animals, to imitate them and interact with them, orto act autonomously in various physical environments. Robotics is an interdisciplinary area thatdraws from such fields as engineering, physiology, and behavioral science. Robotic systems canbe related to many physical processes and human practices in their interactions with theenvironment. The potential for using robots as educational tools for teaching and learningvarious subjects in
, view the Computer Science and Engineering laboratories, and meet the science and engineering faculty / staff. Studies have shown that there is a high probability that the United States will have asignificant shortage of scientists and engineers within the next ten years and beyond. In the state Page 9.1029.1of Utah, Governor Leavitt has declared an Engineering Initiative whereby a goal was established Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationto double the number of engineering
this commentary which states “students should understand the fundamentals of several recognized major civil engineering areas” differs from ABET Program Criteria for Civil and Similarly Named Engineering Programs6 which calls for “proficiency in a minimum of four recognized major civil engineering areas.”2. an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as analyze and interpret data. (ABET b) Commentary: Civil engineers frequently design and conduct field and laboratory studies, gather data, create numerical and other models, and then analyze and interpret the results. Licensed civil engineers should be able to do this in at least one
successful. Onemechanism used in the large (1400 students) first semester computer course is a mid-semesterevaluation. The students are asked to evaluate their graduate and undergraduate teachingassistants, the course coordination, and the effectiveness of the student teaming experience.Results are returned to the Director of Laboratory Instruction. In this way, teaching assistantsissues are dealt with in a timely manner and corrected mid-semester.Another mechanism that has proven effective in the large-classes is the use of class-representatives. One student is chosen from each recitation or lab division. The representativesmeet with the lecture instructor once a week to provide feedback from the lab section on the
channel it toward the beneficial side of the ethics equation.At our university (UPRM) we empower students through what we teach them. Many willbecome leaders in Puerto Rico; yet we have not taken any formal measures to ensure that thispower will be exercised beneficially.Another sense of empowerment can be gleaned from case #3. We will call this agent-empowerment, since the principal in the agent-principal relation creates this form ofempowerment. The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics8 provides a usefuland provocative definition of agent-empowerment: [Common to definitions of empowerment] is the idea of providing people the "power" necessary to fulfill their job responsibilities without having to secure approval
.[3] Brackin, P., and Gibson, J.D., “Techniques for Assessing Industrial Projects in Engineering Design Courses”,Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 2001.[4] Walvoord, B., “Helping Students Write Well: A Guide for Teachers in All Disciplines”, The Modern LanguageAssociation of America, New York, 1986.[5] Process Education Teaching Institute Handbook, Pacific Crest, Corvalis, 1999.[6] Gibson, J.D. and Brackin, M.P., “Techniques for the Implementation and Administration of Industrial DesignProjects for Engineering Design Courses”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, 1999.[7] Brackin, P., and Williams, J., “Teaching and Assessing Team Skills in a Senior Level Design Course”, Proceedingsof the ASEE
students attend pre-engineering. (1) The effectiveness of pre-engineering units in preparing students has been underscrutiny. The consensus is that radical changes are required and steps should be taken to modifycurrent programs, teaching methods, and students’ assessment schemes.Although English is unanimously agreed upon as the language of instruction, there aredifferences of opinion on how much English is necessary. One view is that English should bephased in gradually, thus allowing for Arabic to be used simultaneously with English. Thecounter view, held by most, is that English proficiency should be acquired and exhibited at thestart.While English is used for engineering subjects by all eight colleges to varying degrees, Arabic isused almost
others? How does the team undertake thecollective gate keeping surrounding inclusion artifacts? These are a few of the questions thatexplorations of inclusion artifacts may begin to provide answers to.Furthermore, in teaching teamwork practices, faculty could use the concept of BNAs to teachcommunication skills by demonstrating how inclusion artifacts can help them explain their ideasto other team members and other relevant stakeholders. Prototypes, sketches, and CADdrawings—all of which could be boundary negotiating artifacts—are significant parts ofengineering work, and their importance should not be downplayed. When such objects areassignments for interdisciplinary teams, they can be conceptualized as BNAs and used to callstudents’ attention
AC 2011-2746: THE 2010 HAITI EARTHQUAKE: REAL-TIME DISAS-TER INQUIRY IN THE CLASSROOMKeith E. Hedges, Drury University Keith Hedges is an Assistant Professor at Drury University. His research interests involve the disciplinary knowledge gap between architecture and engineering students in higher education. Keith’s teaching reper- toire includes seventeen total courses of engineering topics at NAAB (architecture) and architecture top- ics at ABET (engineering) accredited institutions. He has presented educational themed papers in seven countries. Page 22.1425.1 c American Society
, results of which have been published in over 100 articles in journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Nemes has also held a number of positions in industry and government, including posts at the Kennedy Space Center and at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC.Kirsten S. Hochstedt, Penn State University Kirsten S. Hochstedt is a Graduate Assistant at the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education. She has received her Masters degree in Educational Psychology, with an emphasis in educa- tional and psychological measurement, at Penn State and is a doctoral candidate in the same program. The primary focus of her research concerns assessing the response structure of test scores using item
AC 2012-4481: EDUCATION APPROACH IN JAPAN FOR MANAGEMENTAND ENGINEERING OF SYSTEMSProf. David S. Cochran, Southern Methodist University and Meijo University David Cochran is a professor of industrial and systems engineering management. He is Founder and Prin- cipal of System Design, LLC, Visiting Professor with the School of Business, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan and faculty of systems engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Cochran devel- oped the Manufacturing System Design Decomposition (MSDD) to determine the underlying design of the Toyota Production System (and ”lean”) from a systems engineering viewpoint and was Founder and Director of the Production System Design Laboratory in the
“catch up” to the competition. Investing in the future has always been a challenge we have faced and conquered in the United States as we continuously move forward with innovative ways to teach math and science such that young students will embrace the excitement of laboratory and other hand-on teaching methods in math and science; leading to their interest and pursuit of engineering as a career in the future. This paper will not discuss STEM Education or the many efforts being invested in to grow our engineers and scientist base of the future; rather it will present a solution to how one company manages to provide a cohesive and inclusive “development programs” structure including opportunities available during the engineering student’s
AC 2012-2984: ANALYSIS OF MATH COURSE PLACEMENT IMPROVE-MENT AND SUSTAINABILITY ACHIEVED THROUGH A SUMMER BRIDGEPROGRAMDr. John R. Reisel, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee John R. Reisel is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Mil- waukee (UWM.) He serves as Associate Director of the Center for Alternative Fuels, and Co-director of the Energy Conversion Efficiency Lab. In addition to research into engineering education, his research ef- forts focus on combustion and energy utilization. Reisel was a 2005 recipient of the UWM Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, the 2000 UWM-College of Engineering and Applied Science Outstand- ing Teaching Award, and a 1998
to persist within a given major or switch to anotherare complex. The factors that affect student decisions can be broadly classified into three groupsas (a) academic resources, (b) internalization and perceptions of the major and career, and (c)climate and experiential effects. The academic resources include lectures, recitations, andlaboratories; faculty and teaching assistants; university services such as advisors and careerplacement; and academic services such as study centers and academic progress monitoring.Internalization refers to perceptions of the self including confidence, self-efficacy, anddetermination to succeed. Perceptions of the major and career include students’ interest inchoosing and retaining engineering as a major and a
. Viviana Cesani is a professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM). She completed her Ph.D. degree in Manufacturing and Production Systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998. Her areas of interest in teaching and research include production plan- ning and control, supply chain management, engineering economy, project management, and engineering education. She is currently the department head of the IE department at UPRM. Dr. Cesani is a senior member of IIE, President of the UPRM-Delta Chapter of the International Organization for Women Ed- ucators, and member of the Professional College for Engineers and Land Surveyors of Puerto Rico. She was recognized as UPRM
their time and expertise. This ensured that all partieswere satisfied. Also, it is noteworthy that the NSBE team collaborated on aspects of the projectduring years 1 and 2. This was important for our collaborative ethics since the universityresearchers worked directly with data and impact relative to NSBE (non-profit organization).Please see the NSBE Team overview earlier in the paper for more information.Community EngagementBringle and Hatcher (2002, p. 5) define community engagement as “the partnership of college anduniversity knowledge and resources with those of the public and private sectors to enrichscholarship, research, and creative activity; enhance curriculum, teaching, and learning; prepareeducated, engaged citizens; strengthen
. Between her graduate degrees, she worked as a loop transmission systems engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories. She then spent 13 years in the medical device industry conducting medical device research and managing research and product development at five companies. In her last industry position, Dr. Baura was Vice President, Research and Chief Scientist at CardioDynamics. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).Prof. Matt Miller, Loyola University, Chicago Matt Miller is Professor of Counseling Psychology at Loyola University Chicago where he directs the Race, Culture, and Health Equity Lab. His scholarship represents the intersection of multicultural and social
then test their proposed experiment in a wet-chemistry laboratory, record dataon findings, and have an opportunity to iterate on their materials list and try the experimentagain. Outside of the lab, students research a community in New Mexico that could be impactedby AMD and apply empathy perspectives to consider all stakeholders who may be involved(community members, farmers, government employees, etc.). The final proposed solution fortreatment integrates both the lab experiment and the community stakeholder needs assessment.Design Challenge 2: Concrete CanoeThe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) holds an annual concrete canoe competitionwhere student groups from universities across the U.S. design, build and race a canoe made