. Joshua L. Hertz, Northeastern University Dr. Hertz earned a B.S. in Ceramic Engineering from Alfred University in 1999 and then a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006. Following this, he worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware as an Assistant Professor in September 2008, leading a lab that researched the effects of composition and nanostructure on ionic conduction and surface exchange in ceramic materials. In 2014, he moved to Northeastern University to focus on teaching and developing curriculum in the
. The goal is to provide insights that will help framefuture studies of students who do not value engaging with or belonging in their engineeringprograms to the detriment of their professional formation as engineers.Literature ReviewSense of Belonging and Persistence At a fundamental level, humans have the desire to belong. The desire for interpersonalrelationships has an additive effect on that desire. Previous research on students’ academicsuccess has primarily focused on the interaction between students’ sense of belonging,motivation, self-efficacy, and perception of curriculum [1], [2]. On the college campus andwithin STEM classrooms, several characteristics are known to commonly exhibit a positiveeffect on students’ sense of belonging
and outreach program, which seeks to extend engineering designeducation into high schools and eventually middle and elementary schools. The goal of the Page 25.716.3ENGINEER program is the development of the engineering supply chain by strengthening therelationship between the university and area K-12 schools. ENGINEER is currently composedof two projects: The Integrated Product Teams (IPT) course and the Innovative Student Projectfor the Increased Recruitment of Engineering and Science Students.10 Over the last severalyears, engineering colleges throughout the country have developed cornerstone(freshmen/sophomore) design classes in an effort
curriculum offered by programs across the U.S. This is one of few studies thatinvestigate the impact of doing so. Given the inherent characteristics of an EM and the engineering design process, thispaper starts by describing the overlap between the two and reveals how they complement oneanother; then goes into a thematic analysis of the mindsets of twenty-seven students who had justcompleted a design activity accompanied by EM interventions in a first-year engineering course.The purpose of the study is to explore how their mindsets were revealed in their writtenreflections on: the attitudes and behaviors they perceive were necessary for successfullycompleting the design activity; the specified attitudes and behaviors they feel they possess
program, whichoffers virtual synchronous sections of the courses at home tuition prices.VisionThe vision for a state-wide ecosystem for data science was motivated by taking advantage of thelack of formal data science degree programs at the undergraduate level in the state (though theUCA had data science track in their computer science and mathematics degree programs). Thisblank slate provided an opportunity for the post-secondary institutions to collaborate to create ahigh-quality, consistent, data science curriculum throughout the state. We started with fourconsiderations: 1. We are a small enough state that we could all work together if we chose to. 2. We are a small enough state that we cannot afford to not work together. 3. We will
Mechanical Engineering, MPH in Public Health Education, and BS in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include broadening participation in engineering, the integration of engineering education and international development, and building capacity in low and middle income countries through inclusive technical education.Mr. Christopher Kappes, Virginia Tech c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 International Humanitarian Capstone Design Project Option: A Model for SuccessIntroductionCapstone engineering design is intended to prepare students for new challenges beyond theiracademic curriculum, with a focus on balancing engineering
energyefficiency. These incredible solutions and many others were discovered by observing the naturalenvironment all around us. Biomimicry is an invaluable tool that can be employed by engineers tocontinue to improve the lives of people and advance humanitarian efforts.The Biomimicry course taught in Villanova University’s Sustainable Engineering programprovides students the opportunity to assess current engineering solutions in areas they are mostconcerned. These topics have ranged from issues associated with current approaches to energysystems, building practices, and agricultural landscape. The course structure allows students tounderstand the benefits and issues associated with their chosen topic, observe and analyze naturefor examples of relevant and
physicsdepartment and other participating institutions are serving as comparison and control groups dueto similarities in incoming student characteristics and/or learning environment.In this study, the MEA-integrated curriculum is an independent variable (or intervention);students’ critical thinking ability is a dependent variable. The entire first year student body (approximately 650 students) participated in an MEA-integrated curriculum, and were invited to participate in the broad study, which allowed theresearchers to use the scores from their MEAs and critical thinking tests. Stratified sampling wasused to assign various pre and post instruments. These assessments were part of the courserequirements, so the participation rate was close to 100
parameters. The interdisciplinary and intercultural team is more representative ofindustrial design teams, particularly from global companies.Due to the nature and scope required to design an entire chemical process in an intensive three-week period, this course is taught as a more structured design with some room for variation andcreativity in the plant design. The entire design is broken into major tasks, e.g., mass balance,kinetics and reactor design, separation, safety, and economics. The tutors develop specific tasksand goals (daily and overall) corresponding to these major tasks that the teams must meet.Additionally, during the second week, certain teams may be asked for more advanced designs, forexample, incorporating heat integration
that students benefit fromusing CPI. Not only are students exposed to developmentally appropriate and personally salientcomputer science-related content aligned with educational standards, but they also experience asignificant increase in their attitudes towards computer science activities, particularly thoseinvolving computer programming and computational thinking. In this way, CPI is highly scalable,having the potential to reach a broad audience of learners by curating content from an integratedset of educational resources and thus also orienting a future generation of students towards careersin computer science and related fields. The strengths of this approach, as well as opportunities forfuture platform, content, and curriculum
. 11[9] Martin, F., Ritzhaupt, A., Kumar, S., Budhrani, Kiran., “Award-Winning Faculty Online TeachingPractices: Course Design, Assessment and Evaluation, and Facilitation”, The Internet and HigherEducation 42:34–43, 2019.[10] Darby, F., Lang, J., “Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Sciences in Online Classes”, SanFrancisco: Jossey-Bass, 2019.[11] Park, M., Park, J. J., Jackson, K., & Vanhoy, G., “Online Engineering Education Under COVID-19Pandemic Environment”, International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education,5(1), 160–166, 2021.[12] Potato Power, Teaching Engineering STEM Curriculum for K-12, Integrated teaching and learningprogram, college of engineering, University of Colorado
of any other mechanical engineering course in the undergraduate curriculum. Thus, thisrepresented the identification of the first quantitative criterion used to assess the “health” of thecourse design: the non-completion rate. A discussion amongst department faculty members wassubsequently initiated for redesigning the course with an aim to improve the non-completionrate. This discussion led us to identify a second concern, which was that the statics knowledgeand skills of students who passed the course could not meet faculty expectations in downstreamcourses within the program. We, therefore, identified a second evaluation criterion regarding thequality of the course: the mastery level of specific knowledge and skills of students passing
bedside.As such, the Bioinnovation Program requires that fellows not only become well-versed in humanphysiology and science and engineering fundamentals, they must also develop an understandingof the business, regulatory and administrative hurtles they will face in today’s rapidly evolvinghealthcare industry. To this end, business and law classes have been integrated into theBioinnovation curriculum to supplement a rigorous science and engineering course load, andfellows regularly participate in entrepreneurship-focused seminars, conferences andcompetitions. One additional critical component of their training is a 12-week summer internshipat the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Silver Spring, MD in the Division ofPostmarket Surveillance
Vice Chancellor. As a program chair and dean, Mr. Sikoski was involved in developing several technology and engineering programs, including the Energy Technology and Pre-Engineering Program. Developing programs to meet industry workforce needs and student’s successes are his priorities. He served as an educational co-chair and chair of the curriculum committee of the Indiana Energy Consortium. He is a member of the Executive Board of Association of Technology Management and Applied Science and a visiting team member. Additionally, he serves on the advisory boards for College of Technology at Purdue University Calumet, Purdue University North Central and the Porter County Career Center.Mr. Steven Wendel, Sinclair
of 2005, it is a corecourse on a new Nanoscience and Microsystems Curriculum, and attracts students from both theSchool of Engineering and the College of Arts and Science.B. GoalsThis course is designed to help students to develop an awareness of the multiple issues they will Page 11.48.2meet in their careers, and a capacity for critical analysis of ethical and societal dilemmas. Itshould prepare them to exercise the flexibility and insight that are necessary to take an ethicallyresponsible position when faced with unprecedented circumstances. Finally, they should acquirean understanding of the scientist’s responsibility toward and
Department and the Secretary of the committee Ronald H. Robnett, professor of Engineering and Business Administration and a fiscal officer in the DIC (MIT’s sponsored research office) C. Richard Soderberg, a theoretically oriented mechanical engineer and head of that department Julius Stratton, physicist and director of Research Laboratory for Electronics, the postwar incarnation of the Radiation Lab Page 25.1322.3Among the other items the committee discussed was an unsolicited letter from the head of thePhysics Department, John Slater, expressing his unabashed preference for a curriculum moresolidly
fallsophomore course presents Rowan engineering students with their first exposure to open-endeddesign problems in a team setting. The current course features a four-week introductory projecton bottle rocket design, completed in teams of 3-4, and a 10-week main project on crane design,completed in teams of 4-5. The teaming aspect of the course is a challenge to engineeringstudents, particularly in that many of them are naturally pre-disposed to prefer working alone.The Let Me Learn (LML) Process is an integrated approach to teaching and learning that startswith administration of the Learning Connections Inventory (LCI), a survey instrument thatassesses individual learning patterns. All Rowan Students now take the LCI as enteringfreshmen. In this study
still relatively new EngineeringCriteria 2000 (EC 2000). While no one suggests that the criteria are perfect, we have found thatthey do indeed allow flexibility to “focus on what is learned rather than what is taught,” asABET asserts in its organizational history.1 The use of current events in the engineeringeconomy course has been one of our direct attempts to encourage student learning, but wereadily admit that using current events is not a particularly novel idea. In fact, others haveintroduced more formalized methods of integrating current events throughout the engineeringeconomy course.2 The main contribution of this paper is to demonstrate how this common-senseelement of teaching engineering economy can be implemented, measured, and
equipment.From the start, all projects done by the students would in one way or another become a part oftheir regular curriculum. In our program of study, students must do a total of five industryprojects. Projects done under the auspices of the A.R.I.S.E. are considered as projects for one ortwo of the required courses. The contents of the project are assessed to make a match to one offive courses: Work Design, Human Factors, Project Management, Facilities Planning andMaterial Handling, and Senior Design. In cases were the project falls outside the scope of thesecourses, a consideration is given as to whether it may be counted as an elective independentstudy, with additional requirements. Students are paired in teams of two to work on selectedprojects
design process evolvesthroughout a student engineer’s educational experience.10,11 For example, senior engineering studentsgenerally have more breadth in how they approach design problems.13 When compared to expertdesigners, students spend less time on problem scoping and also gather less and less diverse informationto solve the design problem.11 Thus, there is a need for the creation of a model that helps scaffold noviceengineers’ design knowledge management and problem-solving strategies. Educational approaches toengineering design can be improved by integrating a coordination lens. This paper describes designknowledge coordination and validates this model using an authoritative model of aerospace engineeringdesign
. SICE Systems Integration Conference, Kobe, Japan, pp. 359 - 360 (in Japanese).18. E.J. Coyle, L.H. Jamieson, and L.S. Sommers, 1997, “EPICS: A model for integrating service-learninginto the engineering curriculum”, Michigan J. of Community Service Learning, 4, pp. 81 – 89.SHUNMUGHAM R. PANDIANDr. Raj Pandian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and ComputerScience at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from theIndian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His fields of research interest include control, robotics, andmechatronics, as well their applications to renewable energy, environmental monitoring, and rehabilitation. Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE
Education Initiative (SJEI),launched fall 2016. The Search Advocate program enhances equity, validity, and diversity inuniversity hiring. Search advocates are OSU faculty, staff, and students who are trained as searchand selection process advisors. Their preparation includes a two-part (10-hour) workshop seriesaddressing current research about implicit bias, diversity, the changing legal landscape in hiring,inclusive employment principles, practical strategies for each stage of the search process, andeffective ways to be an advocate on a search committee. The OSU search advocate directorycurrently lists nearly 600 trained search advocates on OSU’s Corvallis and affiliated campuses.The SJEI consists of two 4-hour workshops with curriculum that
in this paper. Theseinclude Drag Forces, Constrained Optimization, Mass Transport, and the MechanicalOscillations subgroup.I. IntroductionProject Links is a five-year, NSF supported undertaking to develop web-based interactivemodules that integrate mathematical concepts with contemporary topics in science andengineering. The project is based at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with collaboration fromthe University of Delaware, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Hudson Valley Community College,and Siena College.1These modules are to be used in a studio setting, with an instructor present, and with studentaccess to the Internet. The modules are topic-specific, intended for use over one to three days inthe normal course of the term. They rely
regularly identify this course as one of the strengths of theEngineering Physics curriculum. Their comments indicate that the goals of the course are beingmet. These goals include: • Learning about a variety of common sensors and their implementation, including sensor terminology. • Developing an electronics skill set to pull information from the sensors; • Developing laboratory skills, such as experiment design and implementation, troubleshooting, and reporting; • Learning and applying a new programming language (VB6) to communicate with external equipment (the DAQ), interpret sensor signals, and “make decisions” based on the sensor output.Programming Languages in Sensor LabThe Sensor Lab has used VB6 since its inception in
authors were not able to make any conclusions forOutcome h, noting the need for “further analysis” of this outcome [8]. Briedis [9] notes that theassessment of Outcome h was “less straightforward” than the other professional outcomes, and anew course had to be developed to address this outcome directly. However, most departmentsdo not have the flexibility or room to develop a new course specifically to address any singleABET outcome, much less Outcome h. In an already packed engineering curriculum, then, mostdepartments ascribe the development of contextual expertise to an early cornerstone or latercapstone design experience, or, alternatively, relegate the task to humanities and social scienceelectives that rarely are integrated with the
considerably.Such kind of education prepares the students for the effective professional practice in a moresolid way, coherent with the complex demand of present world.Bibliography1. Lusiada, F: “Centro de Estudos Superiores da Fundação Lusiada”, Santos: UNILUS. 1994.2. Brito, C. da R. “La Formación del Profesional de Ingeniería y los desafíos de la Nueva Realidad Mundial”, In:Reunión Nacional de Facultades de Ingeniería, 19., Cartagena de Indias, 1999. 1999 Ingeniería, Calidad yDesarrollo. Cartagena de Indias: ACOFI, 1999. p. 341-346.3. Brito, C. da R.; Ciampi, M. M. "The Impact of Globalization in Project of Curriculum of an EngineeringProgram". In: Internationalen Symposiums “Ingenieurpädagogik´2000”, 29., Biel, 2000. Unique and
consist of professional development opportunities to improve teachers’ engineeringawareness and ability to teach engineering related content [11, 21]. The goal of such programs isto integrate engineering content in math and science classes to improve student performance,while simultaneously increasing student interest and engineering awareness [9, 21, 22].However, most approaches focus on teaching the engineering design process in math and scienceclasses (mostly science) [11, 12, 18, 23, 24], rather than teaching math and science in the contextof engineering. Large-scale curriculum programs, such as Project Lead the Way and The InfinityProject, mainly include stand-alone pre-engineering courses. While such programs complementexisting math and
project. Figure 5. Gantt Chart (Integration and documentation sections) for Fall 2021Educational value and Observation This capstone project has been used as a tool to educate engineering students about theengineering skills as well as the science and public health related to vector-borne diseases.Moreover, students have been learning about the water properties. Typically, these are not the scopetaught in an engineering technology curriculum. Students have been expanding their horizon inlearning many skills and obtaining knowledge for this project. Based on the student’s statements, students have learned the importance of teamwork andplanning as well as the division of the tasks. And, some of them stated that it could serve as
-hour period.Exposure to industrial level process systems is important in a controls laboratory, but controlsexercises should start on smaller process control systems. To satisfy this training need, an NSFILI grant was used to develop a low cost process control trainer for temperature.Trainer Design CriteriaThe design criteria for the temperature trainer included the ability to reach the desired steadystate temperature in a reasonable amount of time; to provide relatively quick response to changesin the set point or system disturbances; to use off-the-shelf industrial components; to interfaceeasily to a variety of control systems; to fit easily on a bench top; and to cost less than $500.System ComponentsThe heart of the temperature trainer is a
’ persistence [12]. Introductionto civil engineering classes are an opportunity to provide this information and the RePicture Appcan be a tool for this.RePicture App Objectives and DevelopmentThe RePicture App objective is to increase interest and diversity in engineering. Our goal is totest the App’s use in civil engineering curriculum and then expand to other engineering andSTEM fields. The RePicture App helps students repicture the world around them and viewengineering as a career that is shaping the future.RePicture is a free tool to bring the engineering community together, including high schoolstudents, engineering students, professional engineers, and engineering organizations. It wasdeveloped based on our review of research and discussions with