without the traditionalproblems associated with transferring to new programs and institutions. This program adoptedthe philosophy of providing an integrated experience for the student from the commencement ofstudy.As the concept of a degree-completion program developed, we realized students would normallynot begin taking courses at The University of Toledo until the coursework in the associate degreeprogram was nearly complete. In this situation, students enrolled in the Degree CompletionProgram would not have contact with the University until the third year of study. Withoutperiodic contact, students and the program would be at risk. As a result, students are duallyadmitted to the Community College and the University. This provides a method of
AC 2010-296: PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS LEARNING OUTCOMES OFUNDERSERVED AND UNDERREPRESENTED DREAM MENTEES AT THREEURBAN HIGH SCHOOLSAndres Goza, Rice UniversityDavid Garland, Rice UniversityBrent Houchens, Rice University Page 15.953.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Physics and Mathematics Learning Outcomes of Underserved and Underrepresented DREAM Mentees at Three Urban High SchoolsAbstractThe DREAM Program (Designing with Rice Engineers – Achievement through Mentorship) wascreated in 2007 to encourage underrepresented and underprivileged high school students(mentees) toward a college education with an emphasis in STEM fields. This goal is
the University of Texas at Austin for her Ph.D. work in Higher Educational Administration; Northern Arizona University for her M.A. in Curriculum and Assessment and Arizona State University for her B.A. in Secondary Education: Communications.Alan Jacobs, Quanser As a member of ASEE since 1994, Alan Jacobs has served the Society in numerous leadership roles. He founded the ASEE Corporate Member Council (CMC) Special Interest Group on International Engineer- ing Education and currently serves as co-chair of that SIG. Alan is presently serving his second terms on the ASEE CMC Executive Committee and the ASEE Projects Board. He also serves on the ASEE Journal of Engineering Education Advisory Board and was a
power control or fan speed control is required. Students in an instrumentation or controlscourse could use the USB interface to the Arduino to collect data and/or reprogram the Arduino toperform feedback control.Six of the devices with varying sized heat sinks were used in a trial homework assignment in anundergraduate heat transfer course with 75 students in Spring 2015 and in another section of thesame course with 57 students in Winter 2016. At this point, we have no quantitative assessmentdata.OverviewThough laboratory exercises are a standard part of an engineering curriculum, there are a widevariety of ways that labs can be implemented. In recent years a number of simple experimentshave been developed that help to make laboratory
Paper ID #41210Data-Science Perceptions: A Textual Analysis of Reddit Posts from Non-ComputingEngineersMr. Nicolas Leger, Florida International University Nicolas L´eger is currently an engineering and computing education Ph.D. student in the School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education (SUCCEED) at Florida International University. He earned a B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park in May 2021 and began his Ph.D. studies the following fall semester. His research interests center on numerical and computational methods in STEM education and in
boundaries of traditional classroom-basedapproaches to project- concept- and team-based, and skill- and knowledge-integrated approachesusing real world situations. This new teaching approach can improve the effectiveness ofengineering education. Introducing new teaching approaches is always a challenging task andhas been explored using various tactics, and the detailed work is published in the peer reviewedjournals and proceedings8-13. For experiential energy innovation team project, we selectedmagnetism and its application to generate electricity via an innovative approach. Magnetic 1induction was discovered by Michael Faraday in the mid-19th century14
-making process that aids the engineer in generating andevaluating characteristics of an entity (physical or process) whose structure, function, andoperation achieve specified objectives and constraints. The program describes the process as theapplication of the solid foundation of the basic sciences, mathematics, and engineering sciencesto the abstractness, complexity, and solving of real world problems.The elements of the design process are emphasized throughout the program’s curriculum,beginning with the freshmen year. At the freshman year the Introduction to Engineering Design(IED) course uses project-based learning to address (1) problem definition, (2) attributegeneration, (3) function, constraint and objective identification, (4) idea
buildings and LEED, building inspection and monitoring, and building repair,renovation and reuse. A well-organized survey course, perhaps taught by a local structuralengineer with extensive experience in project and office management, addressing many of themanagement and professional topics could be very effective in building on the undergraduateslimited abilities in these areas to reach the expected proficiency levels. Structural engineeringdesign software may be best taught as an integral tool in a building design project classemphasizing one or more structural materials. Ethics, a critical topic not specifically addressedin the questionnaire, leadership skills, management topics, and construction/architecturalconcerns may be best addressed by
engineering student performance and retention, and how to best teach work skills throughout the engineering curriculum.Dr. Patricia A Ralston, University of Louisville Dr. Patricia A. S. Ralston is Chair of the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at the University of Louisville. She also has an associate appointment in Chemical Engineering. Dr. Ralston teaches under- graduate engineering mathematics and is currently involved in educational research on the effective use of Tablet PCs in engineering education, the incorporation of critical thinking in undergraduate engineer- ing education, and retention of engineering students. Her fields of technical expertise include process modeling, simulation, and process
WorldHealth Organization, drowning has been overlooked by governments and research bodies as apublic health issue [4]. One in five drowning victims is a child under fourteen [5]. Over 50% ofAmericans do not know how to swim and 61% of American children cannot swim [6, 7].Improving and further integrating swimming safety with education is thus of vital importance.With the rising popularity of water resistant smartwatches, we hope to explore ways to improveswimming techniques and reduce the impact of poor swimming skills on drowning.Water competency is difficult to define, and its very definition has changed in recent years. Thismeans that creating a more unified curriculum for swimming education, particularly in children,has long been a complex
educationBethany Jean Klemetsrud Beth grew up in Devils Lake and on the White Earth Nation. Klemetsrud, who teaches unit operations, ethics, and lab classes, conducts research in renewable energy, broadening participation, and sustainability assessment. She is currently an assistant professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of North DakotaJulie Robinson (Professor)Emine Ozturk © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Using Engineering Design Tasks to Create Indigenous Cultural and Community Connections with the Classroom for Elementary and Middle School Students (WIP, Diversity)BackgroundThis work
) enay Purzer is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education. She is the recipient of a 2012 NSF CAREER award, which examines how engineering students approach innovation. She serves on the editorial boards of Science Education and the Journal of Pre-College Engineering Educa- tion (JPEER). She received a B.S.E with distinction in Engineering in 2009 and a B.S. degree in Physics Education in 1999. Her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees are in Science Education from Arizona State University earned in 2002 and 2008, respectively. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Exploring Connections between Engineering Projects, Student Characteristics, and the Ways Engineering Students
curriculum.To understand why it is so important, consider the characteristics of typical undergraduate courses. Mostcourses, by necessity, focus on a narrow technical subject (e.g., electronics, electromagnetic,communications). Homework assignments generally ask specific technical questions, which have one solution,and which only take from a few minutes to an hour to solve. If students are not able to answer a problem in thatlength of time, they move on to other problems, since they usually have many problems to solve. They neverget a chance to learn that some problems take weeks to solve, and they never develop the confidence that if theyspend the time, they can solve the problem. Any term projects which are given in typical classes are usuallyvery
Texas, she has worked with the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Biomedical Engineering on under- graduate student education initiatives. She draws on her experiences in technical recruiting and mathe- matics education to influence her research. Stephanie holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a master’s in educational psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Targeted Recruitment of Biomedical Engineering Graduate Students: The Influence of Recruitment Event ChangesAbstractThis paper presents progress on an ongoing study of the effectiveness of the
Frazier [17], there are five pedagogical areas that can beintegrated into the classroom with relative ease: 1. Integrate Active, Collaborative, and Problem-Based Learning – ACL and PBL techniques are well known and have been shown to assist in developing creativity and engagement in students [30]. 2. Help Students Extract Answers from an Ocean of Information – While most iGen students are adept at finding answers to surface questions through technology, many are poor at finding information that is harder to find. Students should be encouraged to seek the assistance of technical librarians in finding credible, peer-reviewed research. 3. Assess Often and Provide Feedback – iGen students are characterized
delivery methods (lecture,laboratory, face-to-face discussion) to include educational options ranging from web-basedcourse supplement to the complete delivery of courses online4,5. The choices that faculty mayconsider range from simply posting a syllabus to creating web-based content to enhanceclassroom instruction to exclusive online delivery.While the primary focus of web-based delivery has been in the development of standalone web-based distance education courses, more faculty members are beginning to use the web tosupplement and enhance classroom instruction, creating “hybrid courses”1,4,6. The author haschosen to supplement a traditional face-to-face on-campus CAD (Computer Aided Design)course with an online supplement using WebCT. These
” degree• Earn the primary degree and secondary/dual requirements degree concurrentlyILEE Curriculum• Entrepreneurship-related courses to give students the skills to become successful entrepreneurs• 20 courses offered in fall and spring• Taught by a variety of entrepreneurial faculty and industry leaders• Offered to students across campus with an interest in technology entrepreneurshipLearn more at tec.illinois.edu/academicsUNDERGRADUATE • Innovation Certificate • Innovation, Leadership and Engineering Entrepreneurship (ILEE) – for non-engineers • Technology Commercialization (TC)GRADUATE • Business Management for Engineers (BME) • Strategic Technology Management (STM)Learn more at tec.illinois.edu/academics
Paper ID #9577Agile Development Process of a Web-Based Application to Improve Retentionof Hispanic STEM StudentsDr. Pablo Biswas, Texas A&M International University Dr. Pablo Biswas received Ph.D. and M.S. in in Industrial Engineering from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX. Dr. Biswas’s research interest is in supply chain management, inventory control, lean production systems, and information
capabilities in first yearengineering students.IntroductionFor decades, the engineering education community has researched factors contributing to theretention and attrition of engineering majors. Studies have consistently shown that a large Page 24.829.2fraction of students leave undergraduate engineering programs before the second year ofenrollment. Several factors have proven to be strong predictors of engineering student retentionand success; some are pre-college attributes or measures, while others are observed during thefirst year of enrollment in an engineering program. Key pre-college indicators are related toquantitative ability, namely
code allows one to analyze the synthesized linkage to assess its kinematicsperformance. This is an important step because mathematical solutions do not guarantee thatthe synthesized mechanism can traverse the positions in the desired order or it does not sufferfrom branching defects. The simulation option in SoftLink allows the designer to check finedetails in the kinematics before moving to the kinetics design and analysis.Matlab/Simulink is the platform of choice for several reasons: (1) It is a code familiar tostudents and faculty as it is already available and used in many courses in a curriculum tosolve a wide range of engineering problems including control, communications, DSP,optimization, etc.; (2) It has a vast library of functions
of engineers from relevant industries to provideadvice and help guide their programs. At the University of Colorado at Boulder, for example, ourIndustrial Advisory Committee (IAC) meets semiannually. At a recent IAC meeting, theimportance of including GD&T in the ME curriculum was reiterated.Companies typically send design engineers to intense courses to learn GD&T, often as long as 40hours, which is approximately as many contact hours as a typical three credit-hour universitysemester course. Such a course is typically supported by a comprehensive reference text such asFoster.1 On-line GD&T courses are also available.2A logical place to introduce GD&T is in a first-year design graphics course. However, with thesignificant
Graduate Research Assistant and Graduate Teaching Associate, primarily teaching first-year engineering and engineering mathematics. She also has both a B.S. and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Wright State, where she also worked as a Graduate Teaching Associate for an engineering mathematics course.Dr. Michelle Soledad, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Michelle Soledad, Ph.D. is a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Her research and service interests include teaching and learning experiences in fundamental engineering courses, faculty development and support initiatives – including programs for the future engineering professoriate, and
years the company performed many private and government projects. Dr. Fathizadeh has published numerous journal, conference and technical articles. He has been instrumental figure in establishing mechatronic engineering technology at Purdue University Calumet. His areas of interests are, control systems, power systems, power electronics, energy, and system integration. Dr. Fathizadeh is a registered professional engineer in the State of Illinois. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Experiential Learning through Industry PartnershipAbstractExperiential learning gives students the abilities they need for actual-global achievement.Students as well as their parents are
AC 2011-2785: APPLICATION OF PARAMETRIC SOLID MODELINGFOR ORTHOPEDIC STUDIES OF THE HUMAN SPINEJorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University Jorge Rodriguez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineer- ing, and Co-Director of the Center for Integrated Design (CID) at Western Michigan University. He re- ceived his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison, received an M.B.A. from Rutgers University in Piscataway, NJ., and a B.S.E. in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from ITESM - Monterrey Campus in Monterrey, Mexico. Dr. Rodriguez teaches courses in Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing, Mechanical Design, PDM/PLM, and Biomechanics and Finite
alternatives, an increasing amount of interest is being given to UNIX on thePC desktop. We offer some of our observations on the suitability of freely-available UNIX (andUNIX-like) systems for a variety of activities commonly associated with the personal computerdomain, with particular emphasis on inter-operability across various system platforms. Includedin our discussion are the increasingly-popular Linux, which can be used on many different typesof computer hardware, FreeBSD, and Sun Microsystems’ Solaris. In addition, we discussAT&T’s U/WIN system, which provides robust traditional UNIX services, and facilitates the useof many so-called open-source applications, on personal computers running Microsoft Windows.IntroductionOur goal for this
Low Cost Collaborative & Portable Electronics Lab Kit Garth V. Crosby Department of Technology, College of Engineering, Southern Illinois University CarbondaleAbstractThe current growth in online program is exponential. However, undergraduate programs inengineering and engineering technology has not benefited from this growth as otherprograms. One of the main factors that encourage this disparity is the difficulty andinfeasibility of incorporating the required laboratory experiences into an online/distanceeducation program. In this paper, an attempt is made to provide a potential solution for
AC 2007-1277: GEEKS ARE CHIC: CULTURAL IDENTITY AND ENGINEERINGSTUDENTS’ PATHWAYS TO THE PROFESSIONHeidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines Heidi G. Loshbaugh, Ph.D., is an Assistant Research Professor in the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education at Colorado School of Mines. She is also the Associate Director for CSM's Center for Engineering Education. Within the CAEE, Dr. Loshbaugh has been responsible for developing and maintaining the CSM cohort of students, and collaborating on development of protocols and/or instruments in ethnography, the survey, and structured interviews. She has conducted ethnographic interviews, directly observed students, and collaborated in the
," J. of Engineering Education, ASEE, Vol. 87. NO.2, 1998.4. Shaeiwitz, " Classroom Assessment," ," J. of Engineering Education, ASEE, Vol. 87. NO.2, 1998.5. McKenna and Agogino, " Integrating Design, Analysis, and Problem Solving in an Introduction to Engineering Curriculum " ASEE proceedings, 19986. West Point Bridge Designer, Dept. of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, USMA, West Point, NY 10996Biographical InformationISMAIL I. ORABI, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of New Haven. He received his Ph.D. fromClarkson University, and his MS degree from the State University of New York and B.S. from Cairo Institute ofTechnology, all in Mechanical Engineering. In the past 10 years, He has established three
African American and women's communities within theR&D organization. Since the numbers of under-represented minority and women studentsgraduating with Ph.D.s in disciplines relevant to the work of the Labs was very small, theLabs leadership realized that they would have to take an active role in identifying,encouraging, and supporting students in these groups to pursue studies in mathematics andengineering. This paper summarizes the common histories and goals of the programs,their launch and operation, their use of internships and mentors and the results of thecombined AT&T and Lucent programs over the 30 year period of their operation.IntroductionDoctoral fellowship and grant programs were launched at AT&T's Bell Laboratories
difficulties or who lackinitiative in consulting library resources. Students whose programs do not require technicalwriting courses or technical courses with a significant writing component may also benefit from amodeling approach.With well articulated goals and criteria, class communication should improve, resulting in anenhanced learning atmosphere and more positive attitudes for both students and instructors.TimeAttending to departmental, institutional, and professional obligations on top of a full teachingload is an interesting and complex juggling act. Adding the products of a writing-intensivecourse may require some creative scheduling.However, is a lack of time really the problem? According to survey responses, most instructorsspend about one