team. By capturing theseinner layers of the trajectory, even closer comparisons can be made between different design Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 230trajectories for engineers. An analysis of the differences in the design trajectories can be viewedin the Overall Findings section. Figure. 1. Design team trajectory where the more obvious (outer) and less obvious (inner) parts of project #1 directly impacts a person’s trajectory to project #2.Research SettingThis exploratory study took place in
technology; and teacher education and professional development. Due to her interest and background in teacher education, Dr. Yang designed, developed and coordinated the K-12 Online Teaching Endorsement Program at Boise State. Dr. Yang was a featured researcher of the Association for Educational Commu- nications and Technology (AECT) International Convention and the Young Researcher Award recipient from the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Recently she also received the Effective Practice Award (in online and eLearning) from the Sloan-Consortium. Page 24.1237.2 c
Paper ID #9336S-STEM: ENG2 Scholars for Success 2007-2013Ms. Sarah Cooley Jones, Louisiana State University Sarah Cooley Jones is an Associate Director, College of Engineering at Louisiana State University. Ms. Jones develops and manages student programs for undergraduate and graduate engineering students in- cluding programs focused on underrepresented student populations. These programs encompass scholar- ships, fellowships, and seminars/workshops that develop students academically and professionally. She joined LSU in 1992 as a College of Engineering research associate in the area of environmental analyses and worked
Marymount University Dr. Matthew T. Siniawski is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. He teaches the senior capstone design project courses and has recently begun mentoring students on the design of assistive devices for children with disabilities. One of his research interests lies in understanding how these Learning Through Service projects impact participating engineering students and community partners. He is also interested in researching classroom-based peda- gogies of engagement and developing a standards-based grading system for engineering project courses.Dr. Adam R Carberry, Arizona State University Adam R. Carberry, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor
learning techniques, the first year chemical engineering students have a uniqueopportunity to see their STEM topics come to life in an active learning environment withpractical engineering applications.The use of project-based learning and the closely associated problem-based learning as vehiclesfor improving learning across a spectrum of learning styles has a long and well-documentedhistory in both K-121-3 and in higher education4-7. While there are distinct differences associatedwith these instructional approaches, a blending of these two pedagogies best describes theevolution of the Analysis learning environment.Project-based learning opportunities include: Students engaging in research, design and development activities directed toward
directs the KSU Medical Component Design Laboratory, a facility partially funded by the National Science Foundation that provides resources for the research and development of distributed medical monitoring technologies and learning tools that support biomedical contexts. His research focuses on (1) plug-and-play, point-of- care medical monitoring systems that utilize interoperability standards, (2) wearable sensors and signal processing techniques for the determination of human and animal physiological status, and (3) educational tools and techniques that maximize learning and student interest. Dr. Warren is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Environments and Experiences) Research Group. Her research focuses on the development of engineering thinking skills (primarily operationalized as design thinking and mathematical thinking) amongst students as young as 4-years-old, college students, as well as practicing professionals.Dr. William Travis Horton, Purdue University Page 24.782.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Integration of a First-Year Learning Community with a Vertically-Integrated Design ProgramIntroductionGetting students to experience the excitement of engineering has been a
Paper ID #10364An Assessment Tool for Using Videos and Rich Media in Construction Man-agement Curriculum - A Case StudyMrs. Kristen Caroline Hurtado, Arizona State University Kristen is a current PhD candidate in Construction Management at Arizona State University in the School of Sustainable Engineering in the Built Environment. She is also pursuing a Graduate Certificate in In- structional Design and Performance Improvement in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Kristen has experience teaching applied statics and estimating at the undergraduate level. She also instructs profes- sionals in her work and research in value
American Evaluation Association affiliate organization and is a member of the Amer- ican Educational Research Association and American Evaluation Association, in addition to ASEE. Dr. Brawner is also an Extension Services Consultant for the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT) and, in that role, advises computer science departments on diversifying their under- graduate student population. Dr. Brawner previously served as principal evaluator of the NSF-sponsored SUCCEED Coalition. She remains an active researcher with MIDFIELD, studying gender issues, trans- fers, and matriculation models in engineering.Dr. Marisa Kikendall Orr, Louisiana Tech UniversityDr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University and
. S&T INDICATORSeducation and the value of S&T are the ones playing a leading Indicators represent in a quantitative way S&Trole in global development. These countries have been achievement levels and trends, and also evaluate the impact ofinvesting important economic resources for becoming active resources as these apply to our research efforts [11]. It is ofparticipants in the new “Knowledge Age.” This Age is course essential for every country to measure itsessentially characterized by an intensive use of knowledge as innovativeness precisely, in order to have sufficient validwell as trade in goods, processes, and services of high added information for appropriate
whether they primarily have a teaching orengineering background, can benefit from increased levels of self-efficacy to introduce K12students to engineering.Translating Engineering Research to K8 Students (TEK8) is a university-school partnership thathas been designed and implemented as part of an outreach collaboration between the Colleges ofEngineering and Education at The Ohio State University. The program aims to advance thebroader impacts of federally funded engineering research while increasing urban middle schoolstudents’ interest in engineering and preparing practicing teachers and engineering students tointroduce middle school students to the engineering design process.This paper describes the TEK8 university-school partnership and
University. His research in- terests include low-power, reliable, and high-performance circuit design for nano-scale technologies. He has many publications in journals and conferences and 5 U.S. patents. He was a recipient of the 2008 SRC Inventor Recognition Award, the 2006 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society VLSI Transactions Best Paper Award, 2005 SRC Technical Excellence Award, and the Best Paper Award of the 2004 International Con- ference on Computer Design. He is a technical program committee member of International Symposium on Low Power Electronics Design and International Symposium on Quality Electronics Design.Dr. Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University Hao Jiang received the B.S. degree in materials sciences
adiscussion of best practices for NTT faculty career development and promotion in Fall2011. Promotional policies that have already been adopted at the University level will bediscussed, including those related to letters of support, expectations for national and internationalvisibility, and department voting. Future work at NCSU will focus on NTT faculty careerenrichment in addition to the development of more standard procedures for recognizing andevaluating the external impact of research, teaching, and outreach efforts of NTT faculty.Experiences of Women Faculty in STEMThere has been a renewed focus on exploring gender differences in academia. While increases infemale graduate students have occurred at the doctorate level, this has not translated
466 individualstudents attending the clubs at least once over the course of the grant period.Club structureRRRC clubs meet once per week for approximately one hour. During this time, the followingformat and structure is implemented: 1) Club meetings begin with an introduction to the main concept underlying the day’s lesson and activity. This introduction includes probing questions designed to gauge student comprehension and promote lesson engagement. 2) A multimedia presentation follows, delivered by engineering graduate and undergraduate student mentors. The presentation further elaborates on concepts from the STEM lesson and the relationship of these
Paper ID #9927Developing and Teaching a Multidisciplinary Course in Systems Thinking forSustainability: Lessons Learned through Two IterationsDr. Fazleena Badurdeen, University of Kentucky Fazleena Badurdeen is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and also affiliated to the In- stitute for Sustainable Manufacturing at University of Kentucky where she leads the Sustainable Manu- facturing Systems and Supply Chains Research Group. She is also the Director for Graduate Studies in Manufacturing Systems Engineering, a multidisciplinary program in the College of Engineering. With backgrounds in Engineering and
improvement efforts. The SEET’s multifaceted initiatives for improvingretention include several best-practice components, namely: 1) exposure to engineering practice through two new courses employing multidisciplinary projects8, presentations by practicing engineers, presentations by students involved in co- op education, and presentations by senior capstone design project students; 2) the development of the faculty mentoring program for first-year students; 3) the development of a peer mentoring program for first-year students; 4) the development of an industrial mentoring program for first-year students.We are implementing all four initiatives, and this paper focuses on initiative #3, peer mentoring
unstructuredintegrated projects in the core and elective courses of the ECE curriculum. Page 24.503.12Comprehensive curriculum integration will create and strengthen undergraduate engineeringeducation as follows: (a) Establish the laboratory facilities to deliver integrated skills (b) Adopt integrated projects across the ECE curriculum to enhance student learningAlthough research has shown the advantages of incorporating integrated projects into an ECEcurriculum, it is not yet widely accepted or practiced. The implementation of this curriculummodel and the careful assessment of its effectiveness will serve to guide others in best practicesthrough the
empirically tested in classrooms andwith practicing engineers [17, 19-21, 39-41]. These studies confirmed that the Design Heuristicswere useful in guiding engineering and design students and experts to develop less obvious andmore creative solutions, identify new design opportunities, and transform ideas into moreoriginal ones. Additionally, the studies provide support that this approach to helping studentssystematically approach idea generation is successful with students from introductory coursesthrough capstone course and graduate design courses [17, 39-40]. Based on the existing research,this tool was chosen to incorporate into a full-year capstone course, where students wereconstrained by industry-sponsored project descriptions and deliverables
Associate Dean of the Graduate College of Education. She teaches social science research courses and serves on the Executive Committee for the in the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership Program. She has researched the social functions of vernacular literacies and languages in a variety of multicultural contexts, such as the Eastern Caribbean, Navajo Nation, and the Southwest United States. Page 24.247.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Building technical capital in community college technology educationAbstract In spite of targeted efforts
all children, including those who are not minorities or children of poverty. Theimplementation of sound, research-based strategies that recognize the benefits ofdiversity can build a better future for all of us. Engineering curriculum and instruction inthe kindergarten to the twelfth grade classroom (K-12 engineering education) can serveas a vehicle to teach other content areas in a cross-curricular fashion.8 Additionally,certain engineering curricula have been found to impact learning in the specific contentareas of mathematics and science. 23 The Next Generation Science Standards 9 calls for a Page 24.36.4learning environment that is student
programs, andoutlines the current research on how design thinking processes could be taught and learned. Itexplores also the currently most-favored pedagogical model for teaching design, namely:Project-Based Learning (PBL). The paper identifies several contexts for PBL along with someavailable data on it success. Finally, the paper raises some of the questions that should beanswered to identify the most effective pedagogical practices of improving design learning.IntroductionDesign is widely considered to be the most distinguishing activity of engineering. It has also longbeen understood that engineering institutions should graduate engineers who could designeffectively to meet societal needs. Historically, engineering curricula have been based
materials, production process design of a new range of products for certain enterprise (forexample, students works from the "Start" enterprise named after Procenko M.V.), etc.Participation in the implementation of vocational training programs for engineering staff in theframework of the general educational university programs contributes to the professionaldevelopment of teachers, allows them to study best practices in the world's leading research andeducational centers, at the leading industry enterprises, and improve educational technologies.University teachers developed lectures and workshops prepared for the Program participants basedon the updated teaching methods with a variety of distance-learning technologies.However, the experience of
design, facilitation and evaluation. Dr. Bodnar’s research interests relate to the incorporation of active learning techniques in undergraduate classes (problem based learning, games and simulations, etc.) as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering as well as broader engineering curricu- lum. In addition, she is actively engaged in the development of a variety of informal science education approaches with the goal of exciting and teaching K-12 students about regenerative medicine and its potential.Dr. Renee M Clark, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Renee Clark serves as the Director of Assessment for the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of
solve engineering problems.f. Understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.g. Ability to communicate effectively.h. The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context.i. Recognition of the need for and an ability to engage in life-long learning.j. Knowledge of contemporary issues.k. Ability to use the techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice. Page 24.567.8Table 4. Student and Municipality Partner Survey Questions Student Survey1. What do you like best about this course?2. What do you like
Paper ID #9947The Innovation Competencies - Implications for Educating the Engineer ofthe FutureProf. William A. Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Bill Kline is Dean of Innovation and Engagement and Professor of Engineering Management at Rose- Hulman. He joined Rose-Hulman in 2001 and his teaching and professional interests include systems engineering, design, quality, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Prior to joining Rose-Hulman, his industry experience includes roles as cofounder and Chief Operating Officer at Montronix and development manager at Kennametal. Bill is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Illinois
, University of Limerick Diarmaid is a Lecturer in Technology Teacher Education at the University of Limerick. His research interests are in the areas of freehand sketching, cognition and spatial visualization. He is currently Director of Membership of the Engineering Design Graphics Division (EDGD).Dr. Aaron C. Clark, North Carolina State University Aaron C. Clark is a Professor of Technology, Design, and Engineering Education within the College of Education and is the Director of Graduate Programs and Associate Department Head for the Depart- ment of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education. He has worked in both industry and education. Dr. Clark’s teaching specialties are in visual theory, 3-D modeling
. The effects were observed in Page 24.468.5low earth orbit satellite constellations, automotive manufacturing plants, military equipment inIraq, and fashion and customer products.Despite the undergoing researches and their importance in industries, the concept of uncertaintyis not well known among engineering graduates. This is not because theories of uncertainty arenot numerically represented but because they are not usually included in a typical engineeringcurriculum7. For the special issue of the ASME Transaction: Journal of Mechanical Designdedicated to the topic of Design Under Uncertainty (DUU) 13, the editors indicated that no
technology graduate students to think morecreatively in a visual analytics system-design competition by collaborating with designers. In thesummer of 2013, two faculty members led a team organized by technology and design graduatestudents to work on a visual analytics system design and won the only two awards of“Outstanding Creative Design.” To investigate and learn from this interdisciplinary collaborationexperience, we purposely tracked and collected the design process information such as meetingminutes, white-board discussion photos, and development files at different stages from the verybeginning of the collaboration for analysis and review. The paper reviews this 7-week designprocess and specifically focuses on observing how the technology
decreasing rampup time. Proprietary research. Consulting services for universities providing information about the job readiness of their engineering graduates. Consulting services for industry providing assistance in improving their onboarding practices. Grant monies investigating new areas of interest.This business plan describes the initial set up and operation of the proposed coalition, whichwould occur over a time frame of 1 – 1.5 years.1 The authors are actively seeking other colleges of engineering who want to collaborate with Boise State University to set up the proposed coalition
engineering topics (ET) and 32 hours of math and basicscience (M&BS); a program that requires 120 credit hours for graduation must offer only 45hours of ET and 30 hours of M&BS; a program that required only 100 hours to graduate couldoffer only 37.5 hours of ET and 25 hours of M&BS without violating the EAC Criteria.The ASCE task committee opposed the continued use of this definition for three reasons: • Logically, the minimum required math, science, and engineering content of a baccalaureate-level engineering curriculum should be absolute, given that the graduates of all programs are being prepared to enter the same profession. It seems illogical that, to enter engineering practice, the graduate of a 100-hour program