g)• Learn independently using a variety of commonly available resources (ABET i)• Use common engineering tools and software to solve engineering problems. (ABET k)In order to achieve those objectives, each instructor addressed the following course topicsthrough readings from a common textbook, homework exercises, and project application: Madison Engineering Succeeding in the Classroom Problem Solving Visualization and Graphics Computer Tools Engineering Ethics Units & Conversions Mathematics Engineering Fundamentals.An interactive lecture format with application sessions was the predominant structure for eachsection, although teaching style and specific content varied at the
, primarily-undergraduate institution. These changes were made with the goal of improving alignmentbetween in-class assessment practices and ABET assessment requirements. The first majorchange involves reviewing and revising the Performance Indicators for all Student LearningOutcomes. Specifically, the PI’s were rephrased for strong alignment with the revised Bloom’sTaxonomy, with a focus on higher order learning. The second major change is the developmentof descriptive rubrics for several major assessment tools. Two rubrics will be examined asexamples: one for peer assessment of team members’ contributions in the program’s capstonedesign project and the second for a position paper on contemporary issues related tothermodynamics. Initial results from
Scott Stephens, University of Delaware Trevor is a Mechanical Engineering senior at University of Delaware, graduating in 2018. He is the CTO of Sage Smart Garden, LLC, a tech startup dedicated to bringing the smart home to your backyard. He has participated in several entrepreneurship programs, including UD’s VentureOn, VentureWell, and NSF I-Corps sites. He has extensive experience working on interdisciplinary team projects, ranging from commercial toy design to design and construction of a payload-delivering RC airplane. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Lessons learned in the labyrinth: Navigating campus resources to bring a student & faculty smart gardening
Outstanding Teaching, RIT’s premiere teach- ing award at RIT. Dr. Kim has directed numerous undergraduate research projects and several students won the first place in the undergraduate and graduate research competitions at the 2012 and 2013 GPEC (Global Plastics Environment Conference; Division of Society of Plastics Engineers). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 m-POGIL (modified-Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning) based Plastics LaboratoryIntroductionThe higher education has strived towards reforming the undergraduate STEM education, so thattraditional lecture-based instructions and laboratory exercises shift to more student-centered,active learning methods
jack Ports 4× USB 2.0, Ethernet Figure 4: Raspberry Pi Camera Camera Serial Interface (CSI) Module V2-8 Display Serial Interface (DSI)The Raspberry Pi Camera Module V2-8 is displayed in Figure 4. It’s the second generation ofRaspberry Pi Camera Module with fixed focus lens. It has 3280 (H) x 2464 (V) active pixelcounts and maximum of 1080P30 and 8MP stills in Raspberry Pi board.Raspberry Pi 3 with Pi Camera was programmed under Debian, a distribution of LinuxOperating System, which is composed entirely of free software and packaged by a group ofparticipating in the Debian Project. The detailed information for Debian can
University of New York and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was a Chancellor’s Fellow (City University of New York) and a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow (Weill Cornell Medical College-Division of Molecular Medicine). As the Executive Director of the LSAMP, he was responsible for the day-to-day operation of the NYC Louis Stokes Al- liance program across the 18 member campuses of City University of New York. Claude also served as the Co-Director of the Black Studies Program at the City College and the Project Director of the City College Black Male Leadership and Mentoring Program. The Black Male Leadership and Mentoring Project (BMLMP) at the City College of New York
and engineering pedagogy. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #26636Dr. Leonard A Perry, University of San Diego Dr. Leonard Perry (ISE) has research interests in the area of system improvement via quality improvement methods especially in the area of applied statistics, statistical process control, and design of experiments. Dr. Perry consults, instructs, and collaborates on quality improvement projects with representatives from biotech, health care, defense, and traditional manufacturing institutions. He has been an instructor for the Six Sigma Black belt training at
STEM, and particularly on assessment and metacognition, which can help support students who come from diverse intellectual and social backgrounds. She has current funding related to projects that seek to use metacognitive approaches to increase retention of underrepresented STEM students, including an NSF-sponsored project for which she developed and team-taught a course on metacognition for first generation and deaf/hard-of-hearing first year students. As part of an HHMI Inclusive Excellence project, she is also developing workshops to facilitate other faculty members using metacognitive modules in their courses.Dr. Scott Franklin, Rochester Institute of Technology Scott Franklin is a Professor in the School of
teaching and learning strategies, reading apprenticeship in STEM, and the development of novel instructional equipment and curricula for enhancing academic suc- cess in science and engineering.Dr. Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University Zhaoshuo Jiang graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering. Before joining San Francisco State University as an assistant professor, he worked as a structural engi- neering professional at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) LLP. As a licensed professional engineer in the states of Connecticut and California, Dr. Jiang has been involved in the design of a variety of low- rise and high-rise projects. His current research interests
Paper ID #27802Research Experience for Community College Students: Design and Opti-mization of Non-Volatile Latch using Anti-Fuse Memory TechnologyMr. Michael Gee, Canada College I’m a third year Mechanical Engineer major at Canada Community College and I plan to transfer to a CSU or UC in the Fall of 2019.Anthony Akash LalAlex E HerculesTyler Sheaves, San Francisco State University A graduate researcher at San Francisco State University’s Nano Electronics and Computing Research Lab (NeCRL). He has assisted in multiple projects involving hardware and IP security, typically focus- ing research efforts on development and
connection between the technical materialtraditionally taught in engineering classes and the ethical implications of design.In addition to where ethics is taught in the civil engineering curriculum, the way ethics is taughtand how students are assessed impact the quality of their ethics education. Case studies, class orgroup discussion, inclusion of ethics in design projects, theoretical grounding, and servicelearning have all been identified as effective modes of disseminating ethics1,2,7,10. Assessmenthas also been identified as an important facet of ethics education, particularly formativeassessment that occurs in the classroom12. Many of these methods can be categorized as activelearning, which has been shown to increase conceptual understanding
forEnhancement (G-RATE) assessment of the classroom observations. We mapped the findings tothe KEEN Framework and the Longitudinal Model of Motivation and Identity (LMMI), whichcombines self-determination theory with possible-selves theory. The results were used to developa set of best practices that may be incorporated into EML projects and courses such as allowingstudents some type of choice in their project, whether it is open-ended or highly bounded. Thesebest practices were leveraged during the curriculum development in subsequent phases of thepilot to encourage autonomous motivation and identity development of first-year engineeringstudents.IntroductionEngineering educators have recognized the importance of creativity and entrepreneurship in
Paper ID #29390Integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Aerial Photogrammetry into aCivil Engineering Course to Enhance Technology CompetencyMary Kay Camarillo P.E., University of the Pacific Mary Kay Camarillo is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of the Pacific in Stockton. She specializes in water treatment and in domestic and industrial waste treatment. Dr. Camar- illo’s research includes development of biomass energy projects for agricultural wastes and treatability assessments for oilfield produced water. She focuses on environmental problems in California. Dr. Ca- marillo earned her
often attempted in upper-level engineering classes associatedwith a design project or other commercialization activity. An often cited impediment to insertingEM into the course content of lower level classes are that essential course content must besupplanted and that students are not yet at the knowledge level to have the technical maturity tobe meaningfully involved in value creation projects. Others have pointed to the contrasting viewthat although with less depth, exposure to innovation and creativity processes allows beginningengineering students to more easily implement them in upper-level projects and classes.4 Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Organized by
used to encourage brainstorming and help enhance creativity. This iswhy innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership are critical skills for engineering students.Keywords – Projects, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, LeadershipIntroductionPractical innovative projects help students develop their portable skills. Portable skills are skills that cantransfer from one occupation to another, and from school to work. Both soft skills and hard skills helpencourage mobility of employees. This paper outlines the process for teaching these critical skills in ourclass “Introduction to Engineering.” The steps are idea generation, market research including stakeholderanalysis, evaluation, product design and development, product protection, and
engineers provide the essentialunderpinnings of design and project oversight, produces hundreds of thousands of jobs anddrives community development. From the functional and beautiful Golden Gate Bridge in theU.S., Petronas Towers in Malaysia, and Pont du Gard in France to the largely hidden watersupply and sanitary sewer systems, civil engineers have made their mark, day in and day out, inmany aspects of the daily life of essentially everyone around the globe.Civil engineers know they cannot rest on their laurels. An ever-increasing global population thatcontinues to shift to urban areas will require widespread adoption of sustainability. Demands forenergy, drinking water, clean air, safe waste disposal, and transportation will driveenvironmental
-styletheaters. This is done to increase the interest in the technologies and to attract additional funding.This type of center has minimal impact on academic programs other than as a passive technologyintroduction. The visualization tool-user model. This model stresses using visualization tools to solvediscipline-specific problems. In this case, the technology needs to be relatively transparent,meaning that a significant technical staff is required to insulate faculty and students from thenuances and vagaries of the tools. This model is characterized by faculty and staff usingvisualization tools in research, projects, and classroom activities and can have a significantimpact on curricula and programs. A by-product of the tool-user model is that the
whether or not changes to the classroom environment have any impact on studentlearning due to a lack of validated instruments. Therefore, the overall purpose of this project isthe development of a stable instrument designed to measure the impact of pedagogic changes andsupporting classroom materials on student learning. This paper documents the rationale fordeveloping a new instrument and describes its development process.IntroductionAssessment of students’ engineering design knowledge at various points during their engineeringcurriculum is very critical. This assessment might have many purposes including gaining anunderstanding on: 1) are most students able to meet the intended objectives for the course? 2) isthe information retained after a
AC 2007-2291: DEVELOPING CURRICULUM ON RESEARCH ETHICS FORENGINEERS: GATHERING THE DATAHillary Hart, University of Texas-Austin Hillary Hart teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Technical Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. An Associate Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication, she is the Academic Liaison officer for STC. She is a co-director of the PRiME project at the UT College of EngineeringChristy Moore, University of Texas-Austin Page 12.493.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Developing Curriculum on Research Ethics for Graduate Engineers
creating a supportive and cohesiveenvironment for the Hypatia women. The women are block scheduled for their first semester atVirginia Tech, meaning that they will be among at least ten other Hypatia students in all of theirengineering, science and math related classes (chemistry and chemistry laboratory, calculus,engineering education, and linear algebra). Placing the students in classes together, creates amore comfortable environment by reducing the sense of isolation for the women and naturallyfacilitates the formation of study groups and collaboration on group projects and reports.Another feature of the program that helps to create a supportive environment along withproviding personal and professional development for the students is team
this specification, the project technician set aboutmaking a prototype tool from drill rod stock. The result is seen in Figure 5, with an end flat ofabout 200 microns produced with a 5 degree relief angle. Figure 5: In-house-produced tapered one-flute end mill [scale divisions are 1/100” (~250 microns)] Page 12.1063.7 In the process of testing this hypothesis, a very steep learning curve led, rather naturally, tothe perception of a rich opportunity to explore micro-machining in the context of a course in theManufacturing Engineering major. It was concluded that the pre-requisite knowledge
three steps used were to perform SIPOC (supplier, inputs,process, outputs, and customers) to flow chart the process, generate data on the output of theprocess and quality problems, and analyze the data and provide quality improvementrecommendations.The objective of the project on the University Enterprise Partnership for Total QualityManagement (UE-TQM-P)7 was to fill the gap between the demands of business and theknowledge, skills and attitudes about TQM being provided to students by institutes of highereducation. The study identified eight important quality concepts and skill categories: customerorientation; practical knowledge and application of TQM tools; fact based decision making; anunderstanding of work as a process; team orientation
AC 2007-257: A WEB-BASED COMPLEMENT TO TEACHING CONSERVATIONOF MASS IN A CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUMLale Yurttas, Texas A&M University Lale Yurttas is a Senior Lecturer and Assistant Department Head in Chemical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. She chairs Departmental ABET Committee. She also participates in Engineers Without Borders-USA, especially in TAMU Chapter and coordinates service learning activities for the current NSF project. She has 10 years of experience in engineering education and curriculum development.Zachry Kraus, Texas A&M University Zachary Kraus is a Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University in the Department of Chemical Engineering
, includinginstructors from Communication, Writing and Engineering in order to accomplish them byfollowing the collaboration in one department-required technical communication course overfour semesters.The BOK and Traditional Engineering FacultyThe idea that multi-disciplinary collaborations might infuse engineering classrooms withmultiple perspectives and expertise is not new. However, the implementation of such multi-disciplinarity in required Civil Engineering courses has largely been confined to multipleengineering disciplines, e.g. geotechnical, structural, and water resource engineers comingtogether to complete a project. These multi-disciplinary experiences help students demonstrate“an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams,” satisfying one of
National Academy ofEngineering projects that, because of growing political and economic ties among nations,engineers will discover that their designs have much broader and more significant impacts thanthey once did. As a result, engineering practice will be driven by attention not only to thefamiliar topics of intellectual property, project management and cost-benefit constraints, as wellas multilingual influences, cultural diversity, moral/religious repercussions, global/internationalimpacts, and national security.1In 2000, Smerdon noted that, “Perhaps there is no single factor of greater importance in its effecton engineering education than the internationalization of engineering practice.”2 A recurringtheme Smerdon recognized is that engineers
project, and core values. These three disciplines represent the variedrequirements of engineering industry. ProjectThe project presents the teams with a broad contemporary issue to address—past years haveincluded Climate Change, Transportation science, Biomedical Engineering and FoodContamination—the 2012 season’s theme was Senior Solutions; teaming up with a senior partnerand develop a solution for a common problem encountered in the elderly community. Byresearching, prototyping, and analyzing, each team creates a presentation to perform beforecompetition judges. This project is an opportunity to thoroughly investigate how the world isdealing with a current issue, and to create a unique solution to the problem. With this open-endedprompt
. Page 23.786.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 INTEGRATION OF GREEN CONCEPTS INTO TECHNOLOGY CURRICULUM FOR WORK FORCE DEVELOPMENT IN THE RENEWABLE ENERGY INDUSTRIESAbstractWith green industries poised for rapid growth, universities and workforce development centersare striving to develop a workforce that is well trained in renewable energy technologies. Thispaper describes the latest advances in an educational project, sponsored by the Texas WorkforceCommission, to integrate renewable energy technology principles into the technical curriculum.This project has engaged faculty from technology programs in the College of
the capability to lead teams in efficiently andeffectively delivering projects and products for their stakeholders. Yet a significant gap existsbetween this need and the output of the traditional engineering education system. This results ina lack of competitiveness for commercial entities, causes failed projects and failed companiesand prevents technologies and innovations from transitioning from the laboratory to customersand society.To bridge this gap innovative integrated approaches that develop not only the technical depth butalso the interpersonal agility essential to successfully lead engineering teams are neededi.The purpose of this paper is to examine a pedagogical technique employed in developingengineering leaders: the use of self
theconcept of Prevention though Design (PtD) to be “addressing occupational safety and healthneeds in the design process to prevent or minimize the work-related hazards and risks associatedwith the construction, manufacture, use, maintenance, and disposal of facilities, materials, andequipment.” The recently-created Master of Engineering: Advanced Safety Engineering andManagement degree at the University of Alabama at Birmingham uses PtD as the unifyingconcept for its curriculum. The application of PtD to construction has come to be known asDesign for Construction Safety (DfCS), the process of addressing construction site safety andhealth during the design of the project. A synonym for DfCS one sometimes encounters is SafetyConstructability. An
engineering course instructors implemented thegrading rubric in all technical reports required.This paper presents the learning objectives and grading rubrics and describes the contentmodules developed through this project. The results of the assessment of student learning and ofthe development process are presented as well. Recommendations are made for additionalmodifications to more effectively prepare students to search and use information correctly andappropriately, giving them skills needed to succeed as a student and as an engineering Page 25.534.2professional.2.0 Integrating Information Literacy into the Freshman Engineering CourseThe targeted