triangle approach includes in one integrated assessment model;the desired student outcomes (as captured by the Wiggins and McTighe framework), the studentlearning activities ( as designed by the Perkins’ approach to student learning activities) and thegeneration and analytic use of student performance or measurement data to assess studentlearning (which completes the Pelligrino assessment triangle). The assessment triangle approachas proposed by Pelligrino is illustrated for Principles for three enduring understandings: evaluatenew venture opportunities, exhibit presentation skills, and assess entrepreneurial competencies. Perkins identified seven types of learning experiences to incorporate into an overallintegrated and reinforced
).For the second project the students are asked to write a MATLAB program that will simulate theoperation of a turbomachine. The program requirements include the simple thermodynamiccalculations for an ideal or adiabatic turbomachine and the calculation of an actual efficiencybased on manufacturer’s operating data for the turbomachine. Additionally, the students areprovided with more advanced software that will enable them to explore design issues associatedwith the speed and diameter of the turbomachine and the selection of a turbomachine for aspecified flow system.Thermal environmental engineering design is the focus of the third project. Provided with in-house software, the students are asked to conduct a thermo-economic analysis for an
16,000 different line items under a'microcontroller' search.Selecting the ideal MCU and DT for a particular project could be a time-consuming and tedious Page 24.1012.2task for an undergraduate student or the course designer and faculty mentor3. This is aggravated bythe fact that students are usually only familiar with the MCU, DB and IDE they have used duringtheir undergraduate classroom and lab experience. The students are challenged not just by thedesign, but by the integration of these various types of technology.There are other challenges in the curriculum too. A student takes a digital circuits and systemscourse with its laboratory
Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education 2. Access to faculty expertise and problem-solving services, provided free-of-charge within the scope of the projects. 3. University infrastructure and resources, including machine shop and computer facilities, are made accessible for the purpose of the student projects. 4. The sponsor industry is given the opportunity to explore the different capabilities and services offered by the Faculty of Engineering Science. 5. Student performance can be observed over an extended period. The feedback provided by the companies is incorporated in the curriculum in the hope of
disconnected students would participate at much lower rates than before 2020.This concern generally came true for many student chapters based on discussions amongst theAmbassadors in the last two-plus years [26]. Thus, starting with the Ambassadors’ ambition toincrease student engagement in the student chapters, a goal-setting workshop built uponentrepreneurial mindset’s 3 C’s (Curiosity, Connections, and Creating value) was proposed anddeveloped.The connection between the entrepreneurial mindset framework and the goal-setting objective ofthe workshop merits further elucidation. First, the workshop’s activities followed the 3 Cs, whichis analogous to and loosely based upon the Integrating Curriculum with Entrepreneurial Mindset(ICE) workshops that has
Programs. His duties entailed working with prospective freshmen and transfer engineering students. In 2018, he transitioned to the role of Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the Clark School. His research interests transfer students who first enroll in community colleges, as well as developing broader and more nuanced engineering performance indicators.Ms. Shannon Hayes, University of Maryland, College Park Shannon Hayes currently serves as the Assistant Director of Transfer Student Advising & Admissions in the A. James Clark School of Engineering. Prior to working in the Clark School, Ms. Hayes served as an Academic Advisor in the College of Education at UMD, where she worked with
Many first- and second-yearengineering students have little to no experience in a professional environment and have hadvery little opportunity to read, let alone write, items of a technical nature. Therefore, to providethem with some guidelines about technical report writing and a topic about which to write canleave the students overwhelmed and unsure where to begin.Studies of technical communication instruction in engineering schools has focused on whichdepartment teaches the technical communication class, whether the classes are required orelectives, and how technical communication in integrated across the curriculum. 5 There is littleinformation about specific methods of teaching technical communication and the effectiveness ofvarious
: Manufacturing Industry; TravelIndustry; Aerospace; Printing Industry; Food Industry; Textile Industry; HospitalsFilm Industry; Corrugating; Plastics Industry; Agriculture; Foundry; and Leisure.1PLCs can be programmed with graphical ladder logic and are unlike a general-purposecomputer in that they are environmentally hardened to survive on a manufacturing plantfloor.2 Couple this with the ease of interface to hydraulic, pneumatic, and electronicpower systems make PLCs an essential skill for Engineering Technologist.To achieve this level of familiarization, PLCs can be a dedicated process control courseor integrated into an existing course such as fluid power or industrial automation.Budget is often a concern and some programs are choosing to purchase
classes met on Saturdays for 2 or 3 hours of instruction for 5 weeks over the wintersemester. The emphasis was on hands-on experiential learning in a fun and relaxing environment. Wedrew activities from the ANS ‘Navigating Nuclear” curriculum as well as other related STEAM sites suchas NASA and DOE. Students who successfully complete d the classes were awarded certificates ofcompletion (Fig. 16). Instructors for these classes came from our STEAM faculty at our campus plus ourcollaborating universities as well as the nuclear industry and our local K-12 teachers. As pertains to ourcollege students, we had them participating in the outreach (Fig. 7), conferences (Figs. 8 & 9) and hopingfor rigorous summer internships to be identified with the
).Campbell and Wilson [27]– agreeing with Lucena et al.’s [28] concept of humanitarianengineering as “an important dimension of engineering practice that deserves clearer ethicalarticulation and curriculum development” ([27, p.4], citing [28]) – discuss how humanitarianengineering is accentuated by particularly exercising engineering ethics, and how “care”maps onto humanitarian engineering. They even call it “Humanitarian Engineering as aMatrix of Care and Ethics” [27, p.5].We think that Human-Centred Designing is indeed a form of Prosocial Behaviour and that itis directly linked to exercising engineering ethics, and so, would therefore like to explicitlyaddress the link(s) between personal values and ethical practice and judgement in thefollowing
Al Ferri received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University in 1981 and his PhD degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 1985. Since 1985, he has been a faculty member in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, where he now serves as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies. His research areas are in the fields of dynamics, controls, vibrations, and acoustics. He is also active in course and curriculum development. He is a Fellow of the ASME. Page 24.1304.1 c American Society for Engineering Education
Project Ponderosa – Bridging Engineering Education to Vocational Training Dr. Scott Boskovich, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA 91768 and Dr. Chris Burns, Boys Republic, Chino Hills, CA 91709AbstractThe application of robotics and automation in industry continues to be an increasing area ofgrowth. Subsequently, this requires an increased demand for design engineering students as wellas knowledgeable users trained for equipment maintenance. However, this can becomeproblematic to adequately provide a realistic environment for both teaching design of roboticssystems as well as the maintenance. In recent years
, were it not for gender or cultural biasing, have the potential to become excellent engineers.Without intervention of the nature represented by the STEPS for Girls concept, most youngstudents make critical high school curriculum choices that limit their ability to follow, enter, andsucceed in an engineering program in college. Therefore it is essential to reach them early withsolid information about the excitement of an engineering career and what it takes to follow one.This program was designed to do that.As a result, the concept of a summer engineering and technology camp for girls entering theseventh grade was developed. An initial goal was that 50% of the campers would representminority populations. Only 30% minority was actually realized
, instructor-student face to face learning were adopted in the classroom activities. It is concluded that the activelearning should be the future trend in educating upper level students. The curriculum we should strivefor is an integration of knowledge learning and hands-on practicing. Through such a particular project,students should be better trained for energy manufacturing industry.IntroductionSemiconducting polymers have been extensively studied due to their unique properties and advantagesover other ceramics semiconducting materials such as light weight and easy to processing1,2. Polyaniline(PANi) is a typical semiconducting polymer with a conjugated structure. It has excellent stability in air.Polyaniline is stable at elevated temperatures. It
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Paper ID #41515Surveying the Landscape: Exploring STEM Instructors’ Selection Criteriafor Instructional MaterialsElizabeth Dawson, Northern Arizona University Elizabeth Dawson is earning her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at Northern Arizona University. Her research focuses on the intersection of Open Education and academic libraries. Her interests encompass instructional library resources with an emphasis on STEM, library identity and campus leadership, and student belonging in the library. She is the Technical Services Librarian at Arizona Western College.Ms. Susan Wainscott, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Susan
and through master’s programs may impact theextent to which those graduating with civil engineering master’s degrees meet the CEBOK3outcomes. For example, are students without BS degrees in civil engineering required tocomplete undergraduate level pre-requisite coursework that will fulfill CEBOK3 outcomes? Orare both undergraduate and graduate level CEBOK3 outcomes integrated into required graduatelevel courses and/or the thesis research experience? This paper explored these questions bycollecting curriculum information for 80 institutions from civil engineering program websitesand conducting a survey. The types of civil engineering degree programs (MS and MEng),pathways (e.g., thesis vs. coursework only), and specialty areas found at the 80
AC 2008-1040: RISK ASSESSMENT OF A MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGDEPARTMENTGreg Kremer, Ohio University-Athens Dr. Kremer is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Ohio University. He teaches in the Mechanical Design area and has primary responsibility for the Capstone Design Experience. His main research interests are Energy and the Environment, especially as related to vehicle systems, and engineering education, especially related to integrated learning and professional skills. Dr. Kremer received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1989, his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of
preference data and MBTI data in the surveys' conducted on these initial twelvelearning modules, but found that the sample size was in most instances too small to develop anystatistically meaningful analysis.In the Phase 2 work we expanded our FE learning modules to an additional three engineeringareas: (7) fatigue analysis, (8) manufacturing process analysis and (9) manufacturing forminganalysis. We continued to integrate these learning modules into existing courses in thecorresponding areas. Faculty and students were asked to evaluate the effectiveness of theseadditional sixteen new learning modules with web-based personality learning assessment surveysin addition to the demographic, and student profile surveys. Small sample sizes are still
involved in the development of agiven technology, like software, so they are able to make clearer judgments about thesubstance and not the glitz. What approaches are most successful in providing studentswith an understanding of that substance?Educational EnvironmentThe FundamentalsThe curriculum for K-12 students focuses upon three key areas: reading, writing, andarithmetic. In developing each of these skills, each student may be exposed to teachingtechniques like stimulus-response, emotional development, and finally, problem-solvingin the course of their learning. Each of these approaches is used in K-12 classrooms.In the stimulus-response approach, the student is taught to develop good habits in solvingproblems directed towards one solution
within civil engineering departments; in thiscase, additional instruction might be required by the faculty mentor or the program could be runasynchronously with an undergraduate dynamics course. Furthermore, due to the timecommitment (up to 10 hours per week), this program is organized as an extracurricular (i.e., “notfalling within the scope of a regular curriculum” [33]) activity for a select group of paid students;making this program compulsory or part of the curriculum would require additional resources(e.g., multiple 3D printers) and space within already over-scheduled undergraduate curricula dueto ABET requirements. It is therefore recommended to be employed as in this paper or through anelective or independent study; in fact, the latter
optimizing complex systems using hybrid approaches combining heuristic methods and exact techniques from probability and operations research. The primary application areas of her research include designing and redesigning facilities to provide significant economic benefits for the US industries. Dr. Kulturel is also interested in pedagogi- cal research regarding entrepreneurship/STEM fields, such as professional skill development, innovative thinking skills, and gender differences in learning styles. She served as the President of the INFORMS- Women in OR/MS (WORMS), the Chair of INFORMS- Facility Logistics Special Interest Group, and the Chair of the ASEE Middle Atlantic Section. She is currently an academic member of
students.Additionally, there is a growing consensus that entrepreneurial competencies should be an integralpart of the industrial engineering curriculum. This integration helps to balance the demandsbetween traditional employment and entrepreneurial activities, promoting entrepreneurship as aviable career option beyond the confines of business schools [16]. The influence of collaborativelearning on entrepreneurship in higher education has also been documented. A study shows apositive and significant impact of collaborative learning on students' engagement inentrepreneurial activities, with indirect effects mediated by entrepreneurial culture quantified at28.29% and 6.6% [17]. This underscores the importance of collaborative learning as a tool toenhance
, where the top of theboard has a ball grid array (BGA) component, the bottom side of the board may have acorresponding set of chip decoupling capacitors. The pattern of pads for a given component onthe circuit board is called that component’s “footprint”. The footprint can range from 2 pads for aresistor to in excess of 1000 pads for an ultra-large scale integrated circuit. Along with these design advantages, manufacturing is also easier and faster with the useof SMT. Compared to THT components, that require insertion machines to line up all thecomponent leads with all the corresponding holes in the PCB, SMT allows for much fasterplacement since placement is allowed that does not exactly line up component terminations andthe corresponding
Paper ID #36565Competency Assessment for Machine DesignDr. Sally J. Pardue, Tennessee Technological University Sally Pardue, Ph.D., is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Tennessee Tech University, and former director (2009 - 2018) of the Oakley Center for Excellence in the Teaching of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.Dr. Byron A Pardue, Tennessee Technological UniversityMrs. Taylor Chesson, Tennessee Technological University Taylor Chesson is an Online Instructional Design Specialist in the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning at Tennessee Technological University. She enjoys
AC 2011-1842: A LOW-COST LABORATORY EXPERIMENT TO GEN-ERATE THE I-V CHARACTERISTIC CURVES OF A SOLAR CELLErik A. Mayer, Pittsburg State University Erik Mayer received his Ph.D. in Engineering Science at the University of Toledo. His areas of focus are power electronics and embedded systems. He has a strong interest in renewable energy; he worked with the Electric Vehicle Institute and designed a course in renewable energy during his time at Bowling Green State University. In addition, he worked at Visteon designing components for hybrid vehicles. He became an Associate Professor at Pittsburg State University in 2010.Albert Leroy Powell, Bowling Green State University Albert Powell is a Sophomore Undergraduate
teaching these graduating, upper-division students, I concluded that, muchearlier in their University careers, students need exposure to the concepts taught in this seniorcourse. They need to develop these concepts into skills through extracurricular activities andelective courses, enhancing their prospects for career success as practicing engineers when theygraduate, and this takes time.As a consequence of my observations, I proposed a new, additional course which would informstudents, preferably freshmen, that an engineering career requires greater understanding of skillsthat are not part of their engineering curriculum. The intent was to provide them digestibleguidance that would help them to engage in activities providing them: 1
papers with undergraduate and graduate students.Dr. Kelly Black, University of Georgia Kelly Black is a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Georgia. His pri- mary interests are in student learning in the introductory mathematics curriculum as well as mathematical modeling in ecological systems.Dr. Michael W. Ramsdell, Clarkson University Michael Ramsdell is an Associate Professor of Physics and Director of First Year Physics at Clarkson University. He has over ten years of experience in the design, implementation, and assessment of lab- oratory curriculum within introductory physics courses. He has also developed, refined and taught a Pre-Freshman Physics course designed to assist
supporting non-dominant student populations. Her current research focuses on creating inclusive and equitable learning environments through the development and implementation of strategies geared towards increasing student sense of belonging.Joseph Arthur Brobst (Research Assistant Professor) Previously a high school science teacher, I am now an educational research and program evaluation specialist located in the The Center for Educational Partnerships at Old Dominion University. Though I have been involved in a wide variety of projects and initiatives, common threads throughout my work have included STEM teacher professional development and broadening participation in STEM among individuals ranging from elementary school