provided greater connectivity with thelecture component of the course and included design components, thus shifting greater decisionmaking responsibility to the students than with traditional “recipe-labs”. An end-of-semester water treatment competition was used successfully. The competitionrequired students to integrate experience from previous laboratory sessions. Competitions arecommonplace in engineering departments, but are often connected with student groups (ASCE,SAE, etc.) and participation is voluntary. These types of activities bring a fun and creativecomponent to laboratory courses and are becoming more common in engineering curriculums8.Laboratory instruction is a very important component of engineering curriculums and this
reads: This course introduces the engineering sciences of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics in an integrated manner. A unified approach to energy transfer in thermal and mechanical systems is presented. The course covers basic properties of fluids, fluid statics, simplified analyses of fluid motion, the basic laws of thermodynamics, and the application of control volume techniques to engineering problems. Power systems are introduced through a study of the Rankine cycle. Format: Lecture 3 hours, lab/tutorial 3 hours.The course is a fairly typical one for introductory engineering, and a comparable coursecan be found in almost every engineering program in North America.The syllabus
Paper ID #10536Transfer effects of challenge-based lessons in an undergraduate dynamicscourseDr. Matthew D. Lovell, Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyDr. Sean P Brophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette Page 24.1273.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Transfer effects of challenge-based lessons in an undergraduate dynamics courseAbstractChallenge-based instruction, a method of instruction where course content is framed around anddriven by a complex problem or set of problems
State University’s Salina campus. A Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE) and a Certified Enterprise Integrator (CEI), she teaches lecture and laboratory courses in the areas of computer- aided design, manufacturing, and automation. Ms. Morse earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and an M.S. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Auburn University, where she also worked with Auburn Industrial Extension Service. Her work in industry in- cludes engineering experience in quality control, industrial engineering, and design and development functions for automotive parts manufacturers in North Carolina and Germany.Dr. Doug Carroll, Missouri University of Science and
traditional clicker system aswell. The pilot study results uncovered a number of supportive elements for usingPollEverywhere which will be investigated further in the next stage of the study.I. IntroductionOver the past several years, there has been a call in higher education to move from traditionallecturing to a more active classroom7-10. However, many faculty members face multiplechallenges when attempting to make a large lecture (over 100 students) an active learningenvironment1. Active learning can be defined as any teaching activity where students engage inthe learning process11. One way researchers have suggested for integrating active learning into alarge lecture classroom is through the use of classroom response systems, typically
educational practices and in promoting the use of higher-level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. His research interests particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU. Page 24.556.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Examining Diffusion Networks and Identifying Opinion
Paper ID #9271Integrating Freshmen into Exploring the Multi-faceted World of Engineeringand Sustainability through Biofuels Synthesis from Waste Cooking OilMs. Laura-Ann Shaa Ling Chin, Villanova University A Malaysian native, Laura-Ann Chin attended the University of Arizona where she completed her B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering. Throughout her undergraduate career, Laura has worked with numerous cut- ting edge projects including studying endocrine disrupting compounds in wastewater, researching genetic stability of E.Coli in a novel COSBIOS reactor (RWTH, Aachen Germany) and designing an automated zebrafish tracking
. Page 24.1050.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014Results from the AIChE Education Annual Survey: Chemical Engineering Electives Abstract The AIChE Education Division survey committee continues the tradition of an annual national survey to better understand the current state of a particular aspect of the chemical engineering curriculum. In 2013, the committee asked departments about chemical engineering electives. This paper summarizes the results from the multiple choice survey as well as from selected answers to a long-‐form follow up survey sent to volunteer departments. We defined “chemical engineering
and serve as a repository of submitted work, and aSchool-wide method to track the achievement of Student Outcomes using embedded assessmentsfrom all required courses within the curriculum. This systematic approach to preparing for anABET accreditation visit has improved the program's ability to address issues and manage theassessment process.IntroductionThe preparation of the ABET Self Study can be a daunting periodic process. The coordination ofall activities related to accreditation often falls to a single faculty member who not only mustbecome an expert at all aspects of accreditation, but also must instruct fellow faculty members oftheir roles and responsibilities in the accreditation preparation process. It is proposed, anddemonstrated
continuumabstraction is an important foundation upon which this paper is premised: although leadership andmanagement are two different systems, leadership and management are related; leadership andmanagement are not entirely mutually exclusive and instead exist on a continuum; opportunities exist tofind leadership in management curriculum just as opportunities exist to find management in leadershipcurriculum; opportunities exist to effectively incorporate elements of leadership into managementcurriculum just as opportunities exists to effectively incorporate elements of management into aleadership curriculum.There is interest within the engineering leadership academic community to identify opportunities withinthe engineering curriculum for the integration of
paper describes an undergraduate research project that has recently completed a two-yearcycle for design, testing, integration, and revision of a near-space ballooning payload. Referredto as the High-altitude Radiation Detector (HARD), the scientific objectives of the payload wereto measure the “east‐west” asymmetry in cosmic-ray arrival direction at varying altitudesbetween the Earth’s surface and near space, as well as to study how the intensity of cosmic rayschanges with altitude, including a high‐quality, long‐exposure measurement at balloon-floataltitudes. Correspondingly, the technical objectives were the implementation and successfuloperation of various electronic instruments to detect cosmic rays and collect data for thescientific
Department of Defense. A number of state governments, universities, non-profitorganizations, and for-profit institutions have also played an important role in enablingtechnology commercialization by offering guidance and assistance to entrepreneurs2. Theseefforts have helped many new technologies to come to fruition, including life-saving drugs andmedical devices, consumer products, communication devices, clean energy, and safe foodproducts3.In order to succeed, technology commercialization must involve properly trained scientists andengineers not only at the birth of a technology but also during the subsequent phases of itscommercialization. The importance of incorporating elements of entrepreneurship andtechnology commercialization in engineering
Paper ID #8713Partnering with Industry for Providing Experiential Learning in an Under-graduate Class in Industrial DistributionDr. Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University Dr. Bimal Nepal is an assistant professor in the Industrial Distribution Program at Texas A&M University. His research interests include integration of supply chain management with new product development decisions, distributor service portfolio optimization, pricing optimization, supply chain risk analysis, lean and six sigma, and large scale optimization. He has authored 30 refereed articles in leading supply chain and operations management
Page 24.1324.2the class an experiment that demonstrates the course capabilities. There is not a set of specificinstructions to follow that lead to a predicted result as with many laboratory courses. Rather eachstudent or student team must first determine what they would like to accomplish utilizing theexisting resources. The first opportunity for this in our curriculum is in our 3D ParametricModeling course where the students must develop a model for a complex part using the skillsthey have developed during the course. The next major opportunity is in the Robotics andAutomation class where they first determine the project goal, then determine the type/number ofsensors, the type of feeding system, and finally the end-of arm tooling needed to
graduate school’s professional development curriculum requiredsome investigation. Unlike having a program with courses within a department or college, TheGraduate School at UMBC wanted to develop seminars that would be in line with strategic Page 20.31.2directions of various STEM professional organizations. We know that globalization is not asingular concept, it involves economic integration, transmission of knowledge, cultural stability,the transference of policies across borders, among others. We decided that our programs shouldfocus on transmission and transfer of knowledge, and “transnational and transculturalintegration” of human activities
Paper ID #9937Leadership in Multidisciplinary Project Teams: Investigating the emergentnature of leadership in an engineering education contextMegan Kenny Feister, Purdue University Megan K. Feister is a doctoral candidate in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue Uni- versity. Her research focuses on organizational identity and socialization, team communication, ethical reasoning development and assessment, and innovation and design. Megan holds a B.A. in communica- tion from Saint Louis University and a M.A. in Organizational Communication from the University of Cincinnati.Dr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue
– Platteville where he teaches courses in structural design and structural mechanics. He earned his BS from North Carolina State University and his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Texas at Austin where he performed research on precast, segmental concrete bridge behavior and on anchorage of headed reinforcement. His current interests are in engineering education curriculum reform, learning analytics, and methods for improving student retention. Page 24.1393.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Work in Progress: Using Outcomes-Based Assessment in an
STEM teaching and learning with local STEM related resources guided thedesign of our week-long integrated STEM K-12 teacher professional development (PD) program,i-STEM. We have completed four years of our i-STEM PD program and have made place-basedSTEM a major emphasis of our curriculum. This report focuses on the data collected in thefourth year of our program. Our week-long i-STEM PD served over 425 educators last summer(2013), providing them with in depth theme-based integrated STEM short courses which werelimited to an average of 15 participants and whole group plenary sessions focused around placed-based integrated STEM, inquiry, engineering design, standards and practices of Common Coreand 21st Century skills. This state wide PD was
enjoyed the competitive aspect of the module, the robot kits did notallow for any significant hardware/software co-design or customization, which is integral tomodern EE systems and applications. In addition, the robot kit module was a standaloneexperience with no direct follow-up in our core EE curriculum until the senior year.In the new EE module, students prototype portions of a small satellite using an Arduinodevelopment board as an electronics platform. The Arduino Uno board and its associated shields(printed circuit boards that extend the capabilities of the Arduino) are well-suited to the sizeconstraints encountered in small satellite design. The extensibility of the platform and the well-supported development environment make a variety of
is to teach Fundamentals”. Motorola’s executive V.P. said, “You will be history, and to prove my point I am awarding $1 million to Purdue University to come out with an integrated curriculum, 6which will accomplish both”. I came overwhelmed with enthusiasm and shared this conversationwith our former Chancellor William T. Hogan who said, “This is our mission in the university”. I felt deeply relieved, that we were doing the right thing. The author involved leaders namelyRobert Meisenhelder and Mike Walsh from Analog Devices, George LeVan, Andy Hunt and JimOerth from Skyworks Solutions, John Beck and Rob Richardson from Intel. The issue ofintegrated
& MechanicalEngineering Technology curriculum and emphasizing the dichotomy which exists betweensustainable and economic-based decisions; (2) Embed decision-making approaches withinstudent-led team environment; (3) Enable students to make decisions under uncertainty withopen ended what if scenarios simulating a real-world situation – integrate sustainability withcreativity and innovation.The success of the curricula improvement in an education and research-oriented facility willadvance the state of art of engineering technology education, specifically in the areas ofmanufacturing material and process selection, sustainability and green design of products andproblem solving. (a
; eroberts@haverhill-ps.org kavitha_chandra@uml.edu Abstract—Computer programming with the R education since the 1980s [4]. In early studies, Wise [4] foundlanguage was integrated into the physics curriculum at that activities with computers improved student performance.Haverhill High School in Haverhill, MA. The goal of this For example, one study showed that using computers toinitiative was to improve students’ critical thinking skills visualize data enhanced the students ability to recognize trendsthrough the challenges of writing code. This paper and patterns in graphs. Wilson and Redish [5] acknowledgedprovides an overview of how the R language was
Paper ID #9523Expanding and Improving the Integration of Multidisciplinary Projects in aCapstone Senior Design Course: Experience Gained and Future PlansDr. Michael P. Frank, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Dr. Michael P. Frank has been coordinating the involvement of Electrical and Computer Engineering stu- dents in the Senior Design program at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering since 2011. He previously advised several individual senior design teams as an assistant professor in the ECE department during the period 2004-2007. Prior to that, he coached several industry-sponsored multidisciplinary senior design teams in
Page 24.458.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Effectively engaging engineers in ethical reasoning about emerging technologies: A cyber-enabled framework of scaffolded, integrated, and reflexive analysis of casesAbstract: Training future engineers to effectively handle ethical dilemmas they will encounterin developing and implementing new technology is a critical and relevant challenge for a nationthat is advancing science and engineering technologies at an ever increasing rate. Each yearthousands of new engineers join the workforce and face novel issues raised by radicaltechnological advances. Concurrently, changing societal responses to new technologies
Meet the Common Core Standards:Examples from a Workshop for Middle School STEMDr. Patricia A. Carlson, Professor and PRISM Director, Email: carlsonp@rose-hulman.edu Dr. Erin Phelps, Matt Davidson, Bob Jackson, and Ryan SmithWhat’s Available at the Station: This collaboration includes Vigo County School Corporation (Terre Haute, IN)and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s PRISM Project (http://rose-prism.org). A package of materials provides(1) an overview for the integrated curriculum approach, (2) synopses of the three workshops given by engineeringprofessors, and (3) examples of lessons – based on engineering concepts – developed by 6th – 8th grade teachers.Visitors to the exhibit table will be greeted by members of the PRISM team, a
andexperiment with real wireless waveforms and applications.In this paper, we report our experience on the development of an SDR laboratory course at theundergraduate level to enhance the Bachelor of Wireless Engineering (BWE) curriculum atAuburn University, an ABET-accredited program and first-of-its-kind in the US. With the 1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, 200 Broun Hall, AuburnUniversity, Auburn AL 36849-5201, smao@ieee.org 2 Network Appliance, 800 Cranberry Woods Drive Suite 400, Cranberry Township, PA 16066,yzh0002@tigermail.auburn.edu 3 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, 200 Broun Hall, Auburn
McDermott K.,“The Role of Industry-Inspired Projects in EngineeringEducation”, Proceedings of the 31st ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Reno, Nevada.[5] Gonzalez, J., “More Partnerships Between Colleges and Industry Could Produce a Better-PreparedWork Force”, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 Jul. 2011.Web.1 Oct. 2013.[6] Schoephoerster, R.T., Wicker, R., Pineda, R., Choudhuri, A. (2011), “Integrating Professional Practiceinto the Engineering Curriculum: A Proposed Model and Prototype Case with an Industry Partner”,Proceedings of the 2011 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition,Vancouver, CA.[7] Committee on Research Universities, Board on Higher Education and Workforce, Policy and GlobalAffairs
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 5500 Wabash Ave, Terre Haute, Indiana, 47803 1. Abstract Engineering Physics (EP), at its core, is a multidisciplinary approach to solving problemsthat require insights from various traditional disciplines. The EP curriculum at Rose-HulmanInstitute of Technology strives to foster this multidisciplinary approach by incorporating studentprojects that require integrating concepts and principles from various fields into a meaningfulapproach toward a realistic solution. These projects, ideally involve a design / problemstatement, a fabrication step, and a testing or characterization stage. As an example of such anapproach, a new lab is proposed to provide students with an
Page 24.356.8 7created piecemeal ad hoc. We are in the presence of immediate cognisance of fact, onlyintermittently subjecting fact to systematic dissection. Romantic emotion is essentially the Have been exposed to a broad, varied and integrated curriculum and have developed an informed sense of his/her own talents and preferences in general educational and vocational matters (transition skills) Have developed significantly the basic skills of literacy and numeracy and oracy. (It is assumed that most students will have developed these skills before the end of the junior cycle, but specific reinforcement for some will be needed through TYO) (literacy and
process, also known as Genchi Gembutsu (or “go and see”), is an integral part of the PDCA problem solving. It requires that the teams gather data at the source of the problem while brainstorming in a structured way such as using tools like fishbone diagrams, decision trees or the 5 Why’s. This module ends with the team debriefing to the rest of the class on their A3 document from problem definition up to their proposed countermeasure plan. Then the teams go through the activity again per their proposed countermeasure known as implementation plan (step 6) to confirm the result (step 7). If the result is a success, then the standardize/control concept (step 8) is briefly discussed. Module 3 (session C): During the third