-based learning. Her research interests lie upon the intricacies amongst the design of learning environments, human-computer interaction, online learning.Dr. Mathew Hagge, Iowa State University Matt Hagge is a Senior Lecturer at Iowa State University. He has spent his career talking to students to figure out how students think and learn. The result of these talks has been the development of a course-wide decision framework for a thermodynamics course that allows students to solve previously unseen problems while building their expertise. This pedagogy is called Decision Based Learning, and has received tremendous student feedback and results. Students are able to solve complex problems through understanding rather
recent years. They need to “understand andcontribute in the context of market and business pressures.”4 Furthermore, entrepreneurshipskills are relevant for career success; students with these skills are expected to be better preparedto support their employers as innovators, act as managers and competent team workers4. Thisraises three essential questions: 1. What is and what means creativity and entrepreneurship in engineering contexts? 2. What are the implications for engineering education? 3. Are creativity and entrepreneurial thinking competences which can be learned by students, or are they a result of a life-long socializing process that cannot be influenced, at least not in the small period of an engineering
to inspire, motivate, and train the next generation STEM workforce that will be able todesign, build, and install new solar energy facilities. The goal of the VEC is to educate highschool students regarding solar energy and to inspire them to pursue careers in STEM.David Thibodeaux STEM Magnet Academy (DTSMA) in Lafayette, Louisiana has identified“problem-based learning” as a much needed high-impact educational practice based onadministrative observations of classrooms, analysis of student performance on standardized tests,and faculty input based on STEM training classes [2]. The VEC allows teams of high-schoolstudents to follow the problem-based learning paradigm to learn about solar energy. Initially thestudents are presented with a
continuously attends and presents refereed papers at international, national, and local professional meetings and conferences. Lastly, Najafi attends courses, seminars and workshops, and has developed courses, videos and software packages during his career. His areas of specialization in- clude transportation planning and management, legal aspects, construction contract administration, public works and renewable energy.Ms. Emily Rivera P.E., University of Florida Emily Rivera is a Civil Engineer with the US Army Corps of Engineers at the Washington Aqueduct in Washington, DC. She holds a BS Degree from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus and is pursuing a Master’s Degree in Water Resources Planning and
that better prepare them for their post-graduationplans.The student evaluation of their perceived effect of the program directly after the program’sconclusion was timed such that an immediate interpretation of the future effects on career goalscould be captured. It is also intended to capture the students’ responses following their fullparticipation in the associated senior design course.IV. Expected Results DiscussionWe hypothesize that the students that participated in the DeFINE program will possess a greaterreadiness for the workplace if their intention post-graduation is to move into the clinical orindustry environment. All are expected to graduate with a greater understanding of how toobserve needs and then further evaluate the
student across all of the courses. This meantthat data was available for the class as a whole and on the individual level, so changes in astudent’s attendance pattern throughout their college experience can also be evaluated. Thecourses were selected to give a representation of courses with different modes of instruction andincluded lecture, lecture/lab, and lecture/demonstration. The project was also conducted usingmultiple instructors who agreed to participate in the project research. The use of more than asingle instructor is an attempt to enable a more representative sample of the type of instructionthat students experience during their academic career at the university. This use of multipleinstructors also helped minimize the effect of a
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projects have been shownto be a both fun and educational way to motivate students and to help students learn/reinforceengineering design, as well as other topics. Overall, students in all three courses felt verypositively about the project and in particular senior students felt that more hands-on designexperiences should be provided throughout the curriculum to better prepare students for theirfuture career. In the future, budget, logistics, and course workload issues will be addressed inorder to implement these projects again. In addition, more open-ended hands-on design projectswill be implemented in other core and elective mechanical engineering courses to providestudents with a consistent experience throughout their four years of
appear to be a similar situation in the graduate-levelliterature. Thus, for the three contexts discussed, there exists no structured follow-up todetermine whether the students continued to improve in their oral presentations skills in thefuture. Given the logistics with several thousand graduate students, it is difficult to envision alarge-scale way to gather longitudinal data on the improvement of students’ oral communicationskills. However, graduate students in engineering are expected to take responsibility for theirown professional development. They know, or are learning, that making excellent oralpresentations is essential for their career success. Thus, constructive, actionable comments arelikely to be of some value even without follow-up
being exposed to substantial professional technicalities. Keystone coursescombine theory with hands-on design project courses. Capstone courses aim to allow studentsto integrate professional knowledge in design practices, assessing students’ overall learningresults across their college career. Futures thinking can be integrated in all three clusters ofcourses, though the levels of futures thinking ought to be adjusted according to students’maturity and levels of professional knowledge in civil engineering. By introducingfundamental concepts and methods in Futures Studies, the curricular experiment aims to helpstudents develop comprehensive and long-term thinking skills while being first exposed tothe civil engineering curriculum. To begin
numerical modeling with applications ranging from Biomedical Engineering to Materials Engineering. I have supervised a total of 10 MSc and PhD students throughout my career. My publication record consists of over 45 peer –reviewed journal publications in leading in- ternational journals with over 950 citations and an h-index of 15. I have made significant contributions in the area of composite mechanics research. Les has served on numerous University, National and Inter- national committees. He has served on the Schulich School of Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship Committee, member of the Schulich School of Engineering Undergraduate Committee, Schulich School of Engineering Post Graduate Committee and many others. He
. The author would arguethat most careers in computer science go beyond simply sitting around programming and requiremany other skills. The activities outlined below provide an introduction to some of these otherrequired skills. Additionally, all activities are either programming language independent orcould be tailored to whatever specific programming language you wish (or be done using genericpseudo-code).Two of the activities presented here, the Binary, Octal, and Hexadecimal Initial Keychains andBasic Networking, Message Passing, and Security with Party Hats and Candy, were inspired bythe Computer Science (CS) Unplugged website 1, 2. CS Unplugged 1, 2 provided videos,worksheets, and teaching guides to a variety of computer science
Education Collaborative.10. Caprari, F., & Palmisano, R. (2011). Multidisciplinary collaboration for sustainable innovation. Medical News Today. Retrieved from http:// www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/227404.php11. Designing a Career in Biomedical Engineering, Engineering in Medicine & Biology. (n.d.). Retrieved January 27, 2016, from http://www.embs.org/docs/careerguide.pdf12. McClelland, M. & Kleinke, D. (2013). Improving lives using multidisciplinary education; Partnering to benefit community, innovation, health & technology. Journal of Nursing Education; 52(7): 406-9. doi:10.3928/01484834-2013. PMID 2375594013. McClelland, M. & Kleinke, D. (2011). Innovative Educational Collaboration between
from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining Drexel, he was a research scientist at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University, from 2003-2004. Prof. Kandasamy is a recipient of the 2007 National Science Foundation Early Faculty (CAREER) Award and best student paper awards at the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing in 2006 and 2008, and the IEEE Pacific Rim Dependability Conference in 2012. He is a senior member of the IEEE.Dr. Thomas T. Hewett, Drexel University Tom Hewett is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and of Computer Science at Drexel University. His teaching included courses on Cognitive Psychology, Problem Solving and Creativity, the Psychology of Human
juniors. All class sections met for 27 minutes on Mondays; two sections met for 100 minutes on each of Tuesday and Thursday; two section met for 100 minutes on each of Wednesday and Friday. A PBL challenge to design and construct a Rube Goldberg machine was presented as a vehicle for incorporating engineering. The study was initiated in the fall semester of the high school academic year following a physics unit on motion, forces and energy. The driving question motivating the project was “How can we inspire school students (K6) to pursue STEM career pathways by using engineering practices and the physics of motion and energy?” The machines were to be the central feature of a STEM carnival for K6 students. This project facilitates a
sustainability.Jason D. Millar, Oregon Institute of Technology Jason Millar is a graduate student in the civil engineering program at Oregon Tech. With a background and emphasis in structural engineering, Jason is conducting a research study regarding the use of technology to enhance the education and application of non-destructive structural health monitoring. In his fourth year at Oregon Tech, Jason has enjoyed the opportunity to attend multiple national engineering conventions, hold leadership positions in several extracurricular clubs, and excel in a broad range of civil engineering and related projects. The ultimate career goal for Jason is to own a private consulting firm specializing in sustainable structural
, students in theexperimental groups completed the screencast exercises more than once.Study Context The project was implemented in a freshman "Mechanical Engineering Drawing" course thatwas offered in Mechanical Engineering Department. The course has been designed to teachstudents CAD modeling skills using Siemens NX and prepare them for their future career indesign and manufacturing. Students and instructors met for three hours every week for thiscourse. The present project was launched in Fall 2014 and it has been implemented since then(i.e., Fall 2014, Spring 2015, and Fall 2015). Students in the control groups received thetraditional instruction where the instructor made the screencast tutorials. Students in theexperimental groups were
Paper ID #14839Utilization of an Engineering Peer Tutoring Center for Undergraduate Stu-dentsDr. Ben Pelleg, Drexel University Dr. Ben Pelleg is an Assistant Teaching professor for the engineering core curriculum department at Drexel University. He earned a B.S. degree in applied and engineering physics from Cornell University in 2008 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University in 2014.Miss Kristin Imhoff, Drexel University Kristin Imhoff graduated from Drexel University with her Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering in 2009. She began her career at Drexel in 2009 as an academic advisor for the Mechanical
user community.This paper introduces this project, describes the academia-industry partnership, and provides anin-depth description of the project’s execution and outcomes.2 Project PartnersAcademia-industry partnership is the key to achievement of the project outcomes. From theconceptual stage, it was believed that by working hand in hand with the industry, both theacademia and industry would benefit. Students would gain knowledge that is currently practicedin the industry and which they would likely use in their professional career, and industry wouldbe able to train/retrain their personnel using a tested delivery strategy.2.1 Industry Partners – Formation and RoleUnderstanding project requirements, studying possible partnerships, and
industry.More importantly, any “recognition” is largely based on the equivalence of tertiary educationprograms. Engineering practice, the examination of ethics, engineering law, and engineeringpractices are often not covered in the engineering curricula in developing countries and the so-called equivalency of some courses may be little more than political education and deception.The curriculum reform will prepare students a good preparation when they graduate and for theirfuture career. It will impact construction management programs in the US and internationally,and indirectly over more than 25,000 corporate members of the Associated General Contractorsof America. It will provide a solid platform for long-term ethics training with a
, and validation lifecycle.III. program launchThe Capstone Experience was originally designed as a 5 credit-hour, one-quarter-long projectcourse. Projects were solicited from internal faculty and from local industry, tapping into thecontacts of members of the EE Advisory Board. A faculty member (the author) was the facultyadvisor and, in lieu of charging companies to participate in the Capstone program as someschools do, each company was asked only to provide material support, such as the cost offabricating a printed circuit board, and provide an engineering mentor for the team. The mentor2 The author is quite knowledgeable about the technology lifecycle, having come late to teaching after spending themajority of his professional career as an
modern technological systems by people who have not received specific training about thesesystems as part of a job or career. Learning outcomes have been widely studied for thoseobtaining accredited engineering degrees under the current ABET accreditation criteria. Thisproject reported here addresses primarily undergraduate students in US colleges and universities.The goal is to create an assessment method suitable for use by faculty teaching general educationcourses on engineering and technological topics.Determination of the engineering literacy of the general population encounters several specificchallenges. Engineering consists of multiple subdisciplines such as civil, chemical, electrical,and mechanical engineering, each with a particular
of college are compared toupperclassmen to investigate shifts of these perceptions as the students progress through theircollege careers. As a supplement to the items that gauge the perception of these academicintegrity behaviors, the study also polls student respondents to self-report the number of timesthey have cheated. The ongoing work intends to administer the same instrument annually andreport on changes over time as well as comparison between programs.IntroductionThis paper first presents a brief review of prior work related to the current aims in Section 1. Thestudy design, the survey instrument, and a brief description of the institutions participating in thestudy are included in Section 2. Results and observations are in Section 3
integral windup. The student writes theProportional Integral Derivative (PID) control algorithm such that auto/manual transitions andgain changes are bumpless.The addition of the control system experiment cost less than $5.00 per student, but provides thestudent with a realistic control system problem complete with all of the vagaries of an in-plantcontrol system commissioning.IntroductionEngineering Technology and Management (ETM) students fill many roles in the work force.ETM students are generalist and most will become involved with control systems at some timeduring their career. The control system experiment described here is designed to give thestudents a working understanding of a control system so they are prepared for positions
, 2017)In the years since its inception, the MPD program has enriched its subject matter to better serveits students (typically mid-career engineers at Detroit automotive OEMs). The curriculumcurrently includes the following courses:Required courses: MPD 5050 Systems Architecture MPD 5100 Systems Engineering MPD 5200 System and Project Management MPD 5300 System Optimization MPD 5350 Organizational Processes MPD 5400 Finance and Managerial Accounting MPD 5450 Marketing Management MPD 5500 Operations Management MPD 5600 Product Planning & Development MPD
in professional matters for each employer or client as faithful agents or trustees, and shall avoid conflicts of interest. 5. Engineers shall build their professional reputation on the merit of their services and shall not compete unfairly with others. 6. Engineers shall act in such a manner as to uphold and enhance the honor, integrity and dignity of the profession. 7. Engineers shall continue their professional development throughout their careers and shall provide opportunities for the professional development of those engineers under their supervision. Figure 2: Fundamental Canons as found in the ABET Code of Ethics Codes of ethics like the ABET code are more than just a written version of
Vehicle Technology Directorate from West Point he has continued his research on unmanned systems under ARL’s Campaign for Maneuver as the Associate Director of Special Programs. Throughout his career he has continued to teach at a variety of colleges and universities. For the last 4 years he has been a part time instructor and collaborator with researchers at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (http://me.umbc.edu/directory/). He is currently an Assistant Professor at York College PA.Dr. Jason Forsyth, York College of Pennsylvania Jason Forsyth is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at York College of Penn- sylvania. He received his PhD from Virginia Tech in May 2015. His major research
teaching, research, and service. he now serves as the Director of Undergraduate Programs for his Department.Dr. Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama Kenneth J. Fridley is the Senior Associate Dean for the College of Engineering at The University of Alabama. Prior to his current appointment, Fridley served as Professor and Head of the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alabama. Dr. Fridley has been recognized as a dedicated educator throughout his career and has received several awards for his teaching efforts, including the ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education) Leadership Award in 2010. At the University of Alabama, Fridley has led efforts to establish