and innovations to ourcurriculum. It is also important to note that with our new program and limited faculty, we aremotivated to be flexible and creative in our course design to integrate our curricula and satisfythe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) criteria as recommended byFelder and Brent6, Froyd and Ohland7 and Nair et al.8. These creative efforts enhance theintegration of student research in our curricula while helping to identify promising students to aidin faculty scholarship.Other ActivitiesAs time permitted, each author of the paper participated in other activities within and outside the Page
AC 2008-923: DIRECT ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES INPHYSICS FOR ENGINEERS COURSESAnca Sala, Baker College ANCA L. SALA, Assistant Professor, is Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Baker College. Dr. Sala coordinates several engineering and technology programs, is actively involved in teaching and developing engineering curriculum, and leads the ABET accreditation activities in the department. She is a member of ASEE, ASME, and OSA.Raghu Echempati, Kettering University RAGHU ECHEMPATI is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University (formerly GMI Engineering & Management Institute). He has over 20 years of teaching, research and consulting
the Department Chair, the Departmental Diversity Advisor, and the undergraduate and graduate program chairs. • Participating in a multi-departmental collaboration with the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) and NSF’s ENGAGE Engineering program to set and achieve goals related to recruiting and retaining undergraduate women • Analyzing recruitment, retention, attrition, and graduation rate data for students from underrepresented groups in MEAM • Securing SEAS funding to support masters students interested in research leading to matriculation in a PhD program (with emphasis on students from underrepresented groups) • Supporting the formation of “Women in MEAM”, a
curriculum development project, Technology for Science, and an NSF-funded teacher professional development project, Design in the Classroom. Dr. Crismond’s main research interests revolve around the issues of K-12 design cognition and pedagogy, and teacher professional development in science and pre-engineering. Page 13.1259.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Case Studies on the Role of Diagnostic Reasoning in Engineering DesignIntroduction Design activities have been used in K-12 classes to contextualize student learning of STEMideas, to raise interest in
AC 2009-828: INTEGRATING ENTREPRENEURSHIP THROUGHOUT ANELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING CURRICULUMEric Johnson, Valparaiso UniversityMark Budnik, Valparaiso UniversityDoug Tougaw, Valparaiso University Page 14.757.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Integrating Entrepreneurship Throughout an Electrical and Computer Engineering CurriculumAbstractMany engineering programs are attempting to emphasize the importance of entrepreneurship andan entrepreneurial mindset for all engineering students. Since many start-up companies arefounded on the basis of a newly developed technology, it is a natural progression for at leastsome engineering
for the Advancement of Engineering Education and focused on students’experiences as they move into, through, and beyond their undergraduate engineeringeducations.10 Data collection occurred during a four-year period at four U.S. institutions: a Page 14.360.3public institution specializing in teaching engineering and technology; a private, historicallyblack university in the mid-Atlantic; a large, public university in the Northwest; and a suburban,private university on the West Coast.Nominal, initial APS sample size was 160 students, approximately 40 at each institution, butexact sample size varied with year and data collection method. Although
. The asynchronous model has been well-received by students thus farfor its flexibility. The use of short video and audio clips rather than long recorded lectureshas also proven to be very popular, and the emphasis on student-student and student-facultyinteraction as well as timely feedback from instructors has also received positive studentevaluations.References1. Allen, I.E and J. Seamen, Staying the Course – Online Education in the United States, 2008, Sloan Consortium, Needham, MA, 2008.2. Fabrycky, W.J., ‘Understanding and Influencing Systems Engineering in Academia’, INCOSE Insight, 2007, 7-14.3. Shuver, M., et al., ‘Enabling the U.S. Engineering Work Force for Technological Innovation: The Role of Interactive Learning Among Working
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AC 2009-2253: PAIR PROGRAMMING IN A CAD-BASED ENGINEERINGGRAPHICS COURSERobert Leland, Oral Roberts University ROBERT LELAND received a S.B. in Computer Science from MIT in 1978, a M.S. in System Science from UCLA in 1982 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 1988. From 1989-1990 he was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Minnesota. From 1990-2005 he served on the faculty at the University of Alabama in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Since 2005 he has served on the faculty at Oral Roberts University in Engineering and Physics. His research interests include controls, MEMS, and engineering education
current microprocessor technology and moderndesign laboratory which has historically consisted of five ad digital instrumentation for data acquisition and controlhoc sections (instrumentation, electronics, robotics/control, purpows.power, and solar car), and provid= senior students with the 3. The prior senior design laboratory did not providelaboratory specialization of their choice. enough “hands-on” experience with machines and 1~ recent years, this senior laboratory has undergone drives, without which meaningful design projects aresignificant changes in the electrical engineering curriculum difficult to implement in areaa as diverse as power engi-basxl on accreditation
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET, 1995) hasprovided a set of abilities or characteristics that graduates should exhibit when they completeaccreditable engineering degrees. This list defines a direction for engineering curricula, but it isnot a set of outcomes that can be assessed easily.The following two sections present elements of a categories-and-levels structure for definingengineering design outcomes.Categories of Design CompetenciesEight categories of engineering design competencies are defined in Table 1. The first fiveidentify five major repeatedly-used steps employed in engineering design. The next three identifythree over-arching competencies required to manage and support the design process. Thesecategories, when
AC 2009-309: START EARLIER, PREPARE BETTER: AN ENGINEERINGSENIOR SEMINAR COURSEDing Yuan, Colorado State University, Pueblo Ding Yuan received the B.S. degree in industrial automation from Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning, China, in 1998 and the Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in 2006. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Colorado State University-PuebloNebojsa Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo NEBOJSA I. JAKSIC received the Dipl. Ing. degree in electrical engineering from Belgrade University in 1984, the M.S. in electrical engineering, M.S. in industrial engineering, and Ph.D. in
College Engineering (WECE) study. Cathy received her S.B. in cognitive science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her Ph.D. in educational psychology from Stanford University.Dr. Christine M. Cunningham, Museum of Science Dr. Christine Cunningham is an educational researcher who works to make engineering and science more relevant, accessible, and understandable, especially for underserved and underrepresented populations. A vice president at the Museum of Science, Boston since 2003, she founded and directs Engineering is ElementaryTM , a groundbreaking project that integrates engineering concepts into elementary curriculum and teacher professional development. As of September 2016, EiE has served 12.6
Department of Engineering Fundamentals at the University of Louisville. She received her B.S., MEng, and PhD degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Louisville. Dr. Ralston teaches undergraduate engineering mathematics and is currently involved in educational research on the effective use of technology in engineering education, the incorpo- ration of critical thinking in undergraduate engineering education, and retention of engineering students. She leads a research group whose goal is to foster active interdisciplinary research which investigates learning and motivation and whose findings will inform the development of evidence-based interventions to promote retention and student success in
&M University at Qatar Yasser Al-Hamidi is currently working as a Laboratory Manager in the Mechanical Engineering Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He is specialized in instrumentation, controls and automation. He worked as a Lab Engineer in the College of Engineering, University of Sharjah before joining TAMUQ. His other experiences include Laboratory Supervisor/Network Administrator at Ajman University of Sci- ence and Technology (Al Ain Campus), Maintenance Engineer at AGRINCO, Electrical Engineer at Min- istry of Culture (National Theater Project, Damascus). Yasser’s professional interests include precision mechatronics, real-time control systems design, networked control systems.Mr. Abdulla
, “Engineering Education Research in Practice:Evolving Use of Open Ended Group Projects as a Pedagogical Strategy for Developing Skills inGlobal Collaboration,” International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 1-12,2010.[4] S.E. Scherling, “Designing and Fostering Effective Online Group Projects,” Adult Learning, vol.22, issue 2, pp. 13-18, March 2011.[5] L. Johns-Boast, G. Patch, “A Win-Win Situation: Benefits of Industry-Based Group Projects,” inProceedings of the 2010 AaeE Conference, Sydney, Australia, January 2010, pp. 355-360.[6] Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Criteria for Accrediting EngineeringPrograms, 2017-2018, General Criterion 3: Student Outcomes. Available:https://www.abet.org/accreditation
Paper ID #21584Examining the Engineering Attitudes and Experiences of URM Summer CampParticipantsMiss Jessica Symone Whipple, Kennesaw State University Jessica Whipple is a student that majors in Industrial Engineering Technology at Kennesaw State Uni- versity. Her research focuses on examining STEM experiences in mentoring-intervention and academic- intervention programs from high school to higher education.Shelbie P. Prater, University of Michigan Undergraduate student studying Civil Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann ArborDr. Joi-Lynn Mondisa, University of Michigan Joi Mondisa is an Assistant Professor in the
2015Figure 2: A sample Reddit post as stored by the web-scraper bot.The scraped threads related to graduate attrition were gathered from the bot, which outputs as atext file that can then be analyzed through qualitative analysis techniques, such as content analysis.For our purposes, this initial corpus was then sorted by hand to remove any post not related tograduate student attrition, in case any keywords returned unrelated items.We then were able to analyze the resulting corpus through traditional qualitative and textualanalysis techniques. First, we sorted the corpus into posts related to engineering, STM (science,technology and mathematics) and non-STM. Of these, there were 28 discussions explicitly relatedto engineering graduate school
Paper ID #21244Case Study: Industry-sponsored Mechanical Engineering Capstone SeniorDesign ProjectsDr. Hosni I. Abu-Mulaweh, Purdue University, Fort Wayne Hosni I. Abu-Mulaweh received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from the Missouri-University of Science and Technology in 1984, 1987, and 1992, respectively. Currently, he is a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University Fort Wayne. He is also the mechanical engi- neering capstone senior design coordinator. His research interests include heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics.Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh, Purdue University, West
Catherine E. Brawner is President of Research Triangle Educational Consultants. She received her Ph.D.in Educational Resear ih and Policy Analysis from NC State University in 1996. She also has an MBA from Indiana University (Bloomington) and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University. She specializes in evaluation and research in engineering education, computer science education, teacher education, and technology education. Dr. Brawner is a founding member and former treasurer of Research Trian- gle Park Evaluators, an American Evaluation Association affiliate organization and is a member of the American Educational Research Association and American Evaluation Association, in addition to ASEE. Dr. Brawner is also an
creativity with implementationplatform for engineering education” (MOST 104-2511-S-036 -005 -MY3).References1. C. L. Dym, A. M. Agogino, O. Eris, D. D. Frey, L. J. Leifer 2005. Engineering Design Thinking,Teaching, and Learning. Journal of Engineering Education. 94(1), 104–120.2. M. Lammi and K. Becker 2013. Engineering Design Thinking,” Journal of Technology Education, 24(2): 55-77.3. I. Rauth, E. Köppen, B. Jobst, and C. Meinel 2010. Design Thinking: An Educational Model towards Creative Confidence. in Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2010), Kobe, Japan.4. Richard N. Savage 2006. The Role of Design in Materials Science and Engineering,” Int. J. Engng Ed., 22(5):917-924.5. M. Cardella, C. Atman
considerations in engineeringproblem-solving, what “real” engineering entails, and what tasks and areas of expertise are mostvaluable [10].The professional culture of engineering exists across the many sectors and industries in whichengineers are employed, but it is particularly potent within higher education. It is here where thenext generation of profession members—engineering students—are socialized into this cultureand learn to “become” engineers, “think like” engineers, and to problem solve in an “engineeringway” [11-12].At first blush, abstract beliefs within the professional culture may seem a degree removed fromthe day-to-day processes of inequality within engineering departments. Why would abstractbeliefs about technological objectivity or
students, exploratory factor analyses identified an underlying factor structure of thescale with 38 items loaded onto one of five factors (Leadership Opportunity, Team Motivation,Engineering Practice, Innovative Changes, and Ethical Actions and Integrity), along with goodreliability evidence.I. Introduction “Our aspiration is to shape the engineering curriculum for 2020 so as to be responsive to the disparate learning styles of different student populations and attractive for all those seeking a full and well-rounded education that prepares a person for a creative and productive life and positions of leadership” (p. 52)1.As we face rapid changes in technology, society, and the world, the National Academy ofEngineering
Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Dr. Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants Catherine E. Brawner is President of Research Triangle Educational Consultants. She received her Ph.D.in Educational Research and Policy Analysis from NC State University in 1996. She also has an MBA from Indiana University (Bloomington) and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University. She specializes in evaluation and research in engineering education, computer science education, teacher education, and technology
Paper ID #11860A Two Semester, Multi-Approach Instrumentation Project for MechanicalEngineering StudentsDr. Dale H. Litwhiler, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus DALE H. LITWHILER is an Associate Professor at Penn State, Berks Campus in Reading, PA. He re- ceived his B.S. from Penn State University, M.S. from Syracuse University, and Ph.D. from Lehigh Uni- versity all in electrical engineering. Prior to beginning his academic career, he worked with IBM Federal Systems and Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems as a hardware and software design engineer
National Science Foundation underGrant #DUE-1140852.Bibliography 1 The National Academy of Engineering, The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineeringin the New Century, The National Academics Press, 2004.2 J. Frolik, T. Weller, P. Flikkema, and C. Haden, “Implementing an Inverted ClassroomUsing Tablet PCs For Content Development”, in The Impact of Tablet PCs and Pen-Based Technology on Education: Going Mainstream, Robert H. Reed and Dave A.Berque, eds., Purdue University Press, 2010.3 P.G. Flikkema, J. Frolik, C. Haden, and T. Weller, “Experiential Learning of ComplexEngineered Systems in the Context of Wireless Sensor Networks
taught a wide variety of engineering courses in First Year Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Ohio State. She has received four teaching awards in the last three years at both the College and the Departmental level at OSU.Dr. Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University Dr. Sheryl Sorby is currently a Professor of STEM Education at The Ohio State University and was re- cently a Fulbright Scholar at the Dublin Institute of Technology in Dublin, Ireland. She is a professor emerita of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Technological University and the PI or coPI on more than $9M in grant funding, most for educational projects. She is the former As- sociate Dean for Academic Programs in the College
english professor. Students gained valuable transferable skills while workingon this project including creative thinking, audience awareness, teamwork, technical writing,visual design, and communication. The authors of this paper, who include the students thatworked on the project, aim to promote and encourage the idea of undergraduate students activelyengaging and creating STEM programs and initiatives for K-12.IntroductionThe idea of STEM education has been around since the early 1900’s. Originally called, SMET(science, mathematics, engineering, and technology), educators focused on instructing studentsin skills that would benefit their future societies[1]. The idea of enriching these fields by creatingstudents well versed in them quickly
Paper ID #18996Applying to Graduate School in Engineering: A Practical GuideDr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Director for Graduate Initiatives at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engi- neering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational technology and enhancing undergraduate education through hands
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