Paper ID #5697Learning Outcomes from an Art-Engineering Co-curricular CourseProf. John J. Marshall PhD, University of Michigan John Marshall’s research focuses on: design methods; tangible interaction; and cross-disciplinary collabo- ration. He has a collaborative approach to designing, making and teaching that recognizes the boundaries of the problem being addressed, not the artificial boundaries of traditionally-defined disciplinary practice. Marshall is an Assistant Professor at the Stamps School of Art & Design and an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
of Powertrain Planning and then Product Development Operations for all Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mazda and Volvo brands globally. Prior to joining Northeastern, Pitts served as director of the Ford-MIT Research Alliance.Steve McGonagle,Mr. Steven W Klosterman, Northeastern University Director of Engineering Leadership Steven Klosterman works in the Gordon Engineering Leadership Pro- gram. Klosterman is also a professor of the practice in Engineering Leadership at Northeastern University. Klosterman teaches leadership, product development and systems engineering. He has over 25 years of experience in the high technology and renewable energy industries. Following roles in computer archi- tecture and design at the
), (2008-2011) and (2011-2014), Member of Strategic Planning Committee of Education Society of the In- stitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc (IEEE-EdSoc), Board Member of ”Global Council on Manufacturing and Management” (GCMM) and Director of Brazilian Network of Engineering (RBE). He was President of Brazilian Chapter of Education Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc (IEEE-EdSoc), Regional Secretary of SBPC - Brazilian Association for the Advancement of Science, Adviser for International Subjects of the Presidency of Brazilian Society for Engineering Education (ABENGE), Dean of International Relations of SENAC School of Engineering and Technol- ogy, Member of Executive
. This project introduces hands-on, biomedically-relatedexperiments and course materials into the engineering curriculum, with a focus on artificial organs. Sev-eral modules are being developed and integrated throughout Rowan’s engineering curriculum, into themultidisciplinary freshman engineering course, core engineering courses, and senior electives. The mod-ules will be highly transferrable to other traditional engineering programs such as chemical, mechanicaland electrical as well as biomedical engineering programs. Our evaluation plan will examine specificlearning outcomes in core engineering areas as well as effect on retention, student attitudes, and careerchoices.INTRODUCTION The relatively new discipline of biomedical engineering
as adirect consequence, interest them in opportunities available through graduate study. Students inthe program receive subsidized on-campus housing for the duration of the program, a meal plan,a $600 travel allowance, and full access to institutional facilities, including computer accounts,health care, recreational facilities, and the library. In addition, the participants are awarded a$5,000 stipend. The financial incentives offered by SURE are designed to enable the recruitmentof some of the best available students, many of whom choose to participate despite lucrativesummer employment opportunities in industry.SURE has assembled a dedicated and supportive cadre of faculty advisors who regularly involveundergraduate students in their
,thereby decreasing or even removing their attention to your lecture. This is especiallyproblematic in large lectures since students are able to “hide”. This type of student behavior wasconsistently observed during multiple courses with multiple instructors. One way to combat thisissue is to save announcements for the end of lecture, but this requires strong time managementskills and lesson planning. Another way to combat this issue is to make general announcementsand then immediately follow the announcements with an active learning activity to reengage thestudents.To illustrate the problem and solution, we present the case of an instructor who asked students tosubmit a survey during the middle of class. Figure 1 is a graph of the percentage of
is responsible for specifying the experiment to be performed including all details. The course instructor acts only as an advisor for these labs.The intention of this methodology is to move the students from participating in the experimentspurely at a “technician” level; following provided procedures, taking specified number and typeof data, to a more involved “engineer” level in which they participate in the experiment planning,study the background theory, and have input into the conduct of the experiment. When carriedout in this manner, there would seem to be little question that this lab course was giving students“the ability to design and conduct experiments”. In order to successfully achieve the goals of
design.INTRODUCTIONThe Fountain Wars Design Team from Kansas State University utilized the experience gainedfrom previous competitions, particularly from the 2012 campaign, and applied that to this year’stasks. However, especially the aesthetics display, the team planned to introduce a new set ofideas that will keep the competition as exciting as ever. This year, the Kansas State team choseto work with a unique theme in hopes to set them apart from the rest: “Pirates of the Prairie.”DESIGN OBJECTIVESThroughout the design process, the team has invested a significant amount of time planning thedesign, especially the pair of technical tasks. While there were several minor design objectives,the major goals were to make the design efficient to build, technical tasks
the student chapters of SME, SWE and AFS.Wayne W. Wheatley Engineering Director at Applied MaterialsMs. Valerie Ann Little Ms. Little currently holds the position of Industrial Engineering Manager for Applied Materials with responsibility for manufacturing and logistics space planning, tooling development and factory layout and design. She received a BS in Chemistry and a BS in Engineering from the University of Texas – Permian Basin. She is currently working towards Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification through Purdue University Engineering Professional Development programs. Page 23.593.1
graduation. Many of these students who completedinternships have been hired in the respective industry and business. Kaminski2 provided anassessment plan for the MS in Engineering Technology program at Central WashingtonUniversity that includes an internal assessment of the program in terms of attrition and also timeto degree completion. PUC tracks such data for the overall assessment of the program. A reporton the assessment of a cohort-based Master’s degree program in technology, the authors of thereport had indicated that the required directed project work enhanced students’ knowledge andskills at their workplace and also 30% of surveyed students indicated that they had career growthafter graduation3. At PUC, graduates of the Master’s degree
application, whichwas achieved through student group projects. Although the emphasis was on the applicability ofthe group projects in the course, there is no guarantee that students can find such projects by theirown and therefore, they may be forced to work on topics with little to no real world application.Consequently, students may not be able to see how the theory covered in the lectures can beimplemented to solve industrial problems (e.g., using exponential distribution to model new jobsinterarrival time, challenges in formulating the problem, data gathering, to name a few). Definingsuch projects with local industries would also promote the university’s strategic plan forfaculty/student and community/industry engagement.Therefore, with the help
theCivil Engineering Department, Electrical Engineering Department, and Mechanical EngineeringDepartment. In the year 1968, the Department of Architecture was established which laterbecame a college in 1984 under the name of College of Architecture and Planning. In 1974, twonew departments were established, namely the Chemical Engineering Department and PetroleumEngineering Department. In 1988, surveying engineering was established as a program in theCivil Engineering Department. In 1982, an industrial engineering program was established in theMechanical Engineering Department. Later on, the program became the Industrial EngineeringDepartment in 2002. Accordingly, there are currently six departments offering Bachelor ofScience Degree in the
Paper ID #7950Community-driven, Competency-based Certificate Programs for ProfessionalDevelopmentMs. Kim A. Scalzo, State University of New York, HQ Kim Scalzo is Director of the SUNY Center for Professional Development (CPD). The SUNY CPD provides professional development and training opportunities for faculty and staff across SUNY’s 64- campus system. CPD programs and services are targeted toward campus administration and leadership, faculty and instructional support staff, and IT staff. As Director, Kim provides overall leadership for the center, including strategic planning, new program development, campus
formal documentation. The topics and structure of theclass are arranged in a manner to support the progress of the reverse engineering project.Successful execution of the class as an instructor requires detailed planning for the activities ofeach class period with consideration of the learning period for the acquisition of the skills andknowledge required to successfully complete the project. Some of the educational principlesutilized in the course are constructionism, spiraling, and immediate use of learning. The course istaken both by freshmen students as part of their first year experience and by transfer students.The purpose of this presentation is to outline how the course is structured to enable students tocreate an assembly of
of design projects in first-year engineering courses, little research to dateexamines the effect of such courses on student motivation. Broad studies of retention inengineering education show promising results for women and other under-represented studentsin project-based courses2; however, engineering educators need a richer understanding of howspecific project-oriented pedagogies affect students’, and in particular women’s, motivations forengineering and their intended career plans. This study focuses on women because of theircontinued underrepresentation in engineering3, 4 and the need to ensure effective retention effortsin the midst of a movement to enact large-scale curricular transformation in engineering.To address this need, this
disasters, and globalization.The Educational Guiding Principles of EAFIT University’s Institutional Educational Project [2]has recognized that human-centered education requires a curricular perspective that offers moreflexible programs that allow students, according to their preferences and skills, to choose betweenvocational training, human sciences, or culture and art. In tandem, from the pedagogical point ofview, it makes learning --as opposed to teaching-- the core of its educational processes switchingthe focus of attention from instructors to students. These guiding principles are supported bythree main objectives stated in EAFIT’s Development Plan 2012 - 2018 [3]: (a) preservation ofacademic excellence, (b) research supported teaching, and
students to pursue engineering as a career.1 Many efforts havefocused on developing improved curricular materials for K-12 engineering education,2, 3 andsome of these studies have specifically looked at systems engineering and systems thinking inthe K-12 classroom.4, 5 Many K-12 educators encourage certain students to pursue engineeringdegrees, but do not necessarily incorporate engineering concepts into their normal classroomlessons and do not always include different types of engineering, such as industrial and systemsengineering.A two-day workshop was planned, including a plant trip and several activities that explained anddemonstrated systems engineering. The funding was provided through a grant from NASA, sothroughout the workshop the
b.1 Observe good laboratory safety procedures have an ability to b.2 Formulates an experimental plan of data gathering conduct experiments, as b.3 Carefully documents data collected well as to analyze and b.4 Develops and implements logical experimental procedures3b interpret data related to b.5 Selects appropriate equipment and instruments to perform manufacturing the experiment processes, materials b.6 Is able to operate instrumentation and process equipment evaluation, and manufacturing systems.2. Why do engineers need education in statistics?Study of statistics creates in an engineer the ability for
. Page 23.969.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 BT-ATE Pipeline for Progress: A Multi-Level Educational Plan for an Emerging IndustryAbstract: A dynamic and innovative Biosystems Technology (BT) curriculum was developed atthe secondary, technical college and university levels. The curriculum includes core concepts inlife science, engineering, technology and mathematics focused on applications in biologicalsystems that transition student learning and depth of understanding from one level to the next.The program was successful in educating students with increased STEM knowledge, with anemphasis on engineering content, to prepare them for the technical workforce in
ofundergraduates enrolled in ECE was 399, as shown in Figure 1. 261 of these students weremajoring in Electrical Engineering and 138 were majoring in Computer Engineering. Thesecond plot on figure 1 is the ASEE national ECE undergraduate enrollment data between 2004and 2011. 2012 data was not available at the time of publishing this paper. Corrective Action Plan InitiatedFigure 1: ECE undergraduate enrollment over the last nine reporting periods.When analyzing the enrollment increases for OU-ECE, the ECE enrollment numbers from theASEE data is used as a baseline. The ASEE data shows that national ECE undergraduateenrollment declined from 102,012 to 81,501 between 2004 and 2008. This 20.1% decrease waslower
geographical area. The work presented here is a good indicator that thestrategy does work on a group with these characteristics.III. Strategies and ImplementationThe summer accelerator program has evolved over the three years in the number of hoursallocated to math activities. However, the three camps have in common the following strategies:a) Recruitment of students giving priority to students with low grades in previous math classes;b) Pre-test used to categorize students according to their level of math and to arrange studentgroups that are at a similar level;c) Individualized study plans for each participant and usage of a problem-generator software thatincludes video and tutoring capabilities;d) Low student/instructor ratio per class;e) Freedom
and investigate what others have done.(2) Imagine: students brainstorm possible solutions and choose the best one.(3) Plan: students draw diagrams and make a list of materials needed.(4) Create: students follow their plan and create a model that can be tested.(5) Improve: students recognize what works and what does not, as well as come up with different options to improve their design. Through the Fellow-teacher collaboration in four classrooms of second, third, and fourthgrades, 60 students were introduced to the field of soil mechanics and conducted theaforementioned three activities. Each activity required 90 to 135 minutes, divided into two orthree 45-minute class periods, on consecutive weeks. During the
We have implementeda similar multi-year plan known as the Integrated Projects Curriculum (IPC), thatfunctions effectively for our smaller engineering program at Messiah College.Evaluating multi-year project work in various phases of development entails uniquechallenges as compared to the traditional capstone approach, but using a portfolio toassess the ongoing project work serves as a practical and effective tool, with sufficientflexibility. The portfolio for engineering assessment has been described by Williams.2 Inrecent years, a number of authors have identified various uses3 of the portfolio for thepurposes of engineering education; this paper focuses on our experience of portfolio usefor multi-year projects, in a progressive development
Paper ID #5673Enhancing Student Learning Through a Real-World Project in a RenewableEnergy Courses CourseDr. Oxana S Pantchenko, University of California at Santa CruzMs. Tiffany Wise-West P.E., University of California Santa Cruz My civil engineering background is in utility infrastructure planning, design and project management, specializing in urban water and energy systems. Broadly, I am interested in the sociocultural and political economic dimensions of community-based natural resource management. My current research work is focused on sustainable municipal infrastructure projects, ranging from renewable energy to
and freehand sketching skills that were traditional taught to engineering students. Prof. Marklin developed a short course to teach engineering students how to express their ideas and con- cepts with quick freehand sketches that require only a pencil (no instruments such as rulers or compasses are required). This course does NOT require visual art talent. He taught the 5-week course twice in Mil- waukee (University of WI-Milwaukee and Marquette University) and is teaching the course at the U. of Costa Rica during Jan. and Feb. 2013. He plans to make a commercial grade video of the course and distribute it on YouTube. In addition, he will continue to teach the course at Marquette University because the course is
2011, and from 2011 to 2014; member of the Strategic Planning Com- mittee of Education Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc (IEEE-EdSoc); board member of ”Global Council on Manufacturing and Management” (GCMM); and director of Brazil- ian Network of Engineering (RBE). He was president of Brazilian Chapter of Education Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc (IEEE-EdSoc); regional secretary of SBPC - Brazil- ian Association for the Advancement of Science; adviser for International Subjects of the Presidency of Brazilian Society for Engineering Education (ABENGE); dean of International Relations of SENAC School of Engineering and Technology; member of
Management • project life cycle • types of projects • project stakeholders • project planning process – project charter, work breakdown structureModules are designed to be relatively brief, focused packets of information that could bereviewed within a 30-60 minute timeframe. The modules are delivered via Blackboard, theuniversity-wide, web-based course management software, and consisted of various mediaincluding written materials, papers, videos, websites, podcasts, etc. Each module has anassociated, short test or quiz that is automatically graded in Blackboard. Students have six toeight modules to complete in a given co-op semester, which is almost equivalent of one lecture-course
disparities between the world’s rich and poor nations,including international trade, international organizations, national and local governance, and thecultural imperatives that guide a society’s actions.Following a look at the societal context in which development takes place, students begin tothink critically about the development process itself, and the role of the development workerwithin a community. They look at various approaches to development work and the stepsnecessary for successful project planning and implementation. Students are challenged todevelop a community assessment survey that could be used to gather the information necessary
discuss artificial intelligence through computer science usingheuristics. Additionally, the students debate the ethics associated with artificial intelligence andwhen legal rights should apply to artificial beings.Teachers attend a week-long, immersive professional development workshop for Cyber Sciencethe summer prior to teaching the course6. Following the professional development workshopteachers gain access to all curriculum materials including lesson plans, master notes, andsupplemental documents which are found on NICERC’s website. Communication is maintainedthroughout the school year via the website allowing for any questions, concerns, or issues ateacher may experience when teaching the material.Narrative #1 – High School Teachers
inexperienced students are the mainworkforce of the project. A successful project will have demonstrated the students’ technicaldevelopment, but just as importantly, will have enlightened them to the importance of the projectmanagement tenets that are needed to plan, manage, and report on a project.Many educators have discussed the methods of teaching project management effectively at thecollege level10,14. Due to its importance in the real-world, many training programs target theworkforce in the public and/or private sectors for improvement in their knowledge andapplication of project management23,24. However, only a limited amount of literature can befound in teaching project management in high schools2. Byrne listed twenty-one unique issuesrelated