could continue to build upon these tools through our electronics careers. The challenges for me were interpreting the labs especially when a couple of them had unclear objectives of what we were meant to accomplish. There were also errors in the labs which suggest that they had not been tested. In our first lab the wires in the photos were in the incorrect positions of the board, yet if this lab had been constructed and tested… shouldn’t it have easily been identified that the wires were wrong before the photos were taken because the LEDs would have failed to light.”Table 6. Student feedback for 2016 Winter Quarterground (traditional face-to-face) class for
Virginia. Her research interests include engineering design education (especially in regards to the design of complex systems), student preparation for post-graduation careers, approaches for supporting education research-to-practice. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Preparing Students for a Collaborative Engineering Design Work Environment: A Study of Practicing EngineersAbstractRecent studies within design and engineering education have focused on better preparingengineering graduates to function within an industry design environment. Increased emphasis inthis area is motivated by a growing concern that graduates are entering industry with littleexperience engaging
Anne College (later Universityof Maryland Eastern Shore). As with most of the segregation schemes of the era, Princess Annewas poorly funded, never fully staffed with qualified personnel, and never had proper investmentin infrastructure. Parallel to the public education enterprise, the inequality of the system waspropagated by racist and intransigent stakeholders and justified through various legal loopholesand racist cultural assumptions.One particular aspect of inequality between the two systems was access to professional trainingin specific career paths. In the 1930s, this was brought to the fore by a legal challenge to theUMD law school in Baltimore. The result of this legal challenge was a new separate-but-(more)-equal law school at
another career; Interest is the enjoyment (or lack of) experienced in doingengineering activities; and Utility is the perceived usefulness (or lack of) of becoming anengineer and/or earning an engineering degree (Matusovich et al., 2010). The authors conductedlongitudinal semi-structured interviews of 11 participants (5 men and 6 women) during their fouryears of undergraduate engineering education. They found that all four Eccles’ value categoriesare present; that attainment value plays a prominent role, but not an exclusive role, inparticipant’s choice to earn an engineering degree; and that the four categories are not mutuallyexclusive. In summary, the researchers found that participants can be categorized with high orlow engineering-related
group presented their though on the activity. The activity also did a great job in teaching real-world situations. Interesting and provided needed perspectives It made me feel like I am in the industry. Also it opens my mind to imagine my future career. It was a good intro into real life application. This activity showed how little hiccups can turn into big problems. This was good instruction into the relationship between developers and customers after deployment. Great activity that made me look at different situations from real life
factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Educational Research and Methods Di- vision Apprentice Faculty Grant. She has also been recognized for the synergy of research and teaching as an invited participant of the 2016 National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Ed- ucation Symposium and 2016 New Faculty
expectation of the team for the cornerstone design project is to provide a technicalpresentation. Each team is responsible for preparing a ten minute presentation over their actionsfor the semester. The target is for students to present their decision making strategies, and howthose decisions impacted overall performance. The presentation is a great opportunity to discussfuture improvements or changes the team wishes they could have made, all the while presentingtheir successes for the semester.From an educational standpoint, the technical presentation simulates a task that is common toreal world engineering careers. Finding success in a technical field is dependent on the engineerclearly presenting his/her work to others. The technical presentation
the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). http://engineering.tufts.edu/me/people/wendell/Chelsea Joy Andrews, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach Chelsea Andrews is a Ph.D. candidate at Tufts University in STEM education. She received a B.S. from Texas A&M University in ocean engineering and an S.M. from MIT in civil and environmental engi- neering. Her current research includes investigating children’s engagement in engineering design through in-depth case study analysis. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Elementary student engagement with digital engineering notebook cards
the experience and expertise ofthe team members.Best Practices: Design in the ClassroomWhen engineering and design students graduate and leave the classroom, they will likely go out into theworld as professional problem solvers in their chosen disciple, where they will be confronted with open-ended, ambiguous, and downright messy challenges, thus experiential learning will be a key aspect toprepare them for their professional careers.16 In the classroom, students in all disciplines under theumbrellas of design and engineering will at some point complete ‘design projects’ as part of theircurriculum. It is the responsibility of the educator to expose students to exploratory projects that mimicreal-world design scenarios. The IDEO Field Guide To
’ race, gender,and major on their notecards, we would like to ask for their year in school. This would allow usto explore how students openness to diversity and cultural change efforts fluctuate from the timestudents begin their college career through graduation. For the group responses, we did not askstudents to record the gender, race, or major make-up of their small group. Going forward, wewould like to capture this information in order to see how the diversity of the small groupsimpacts the discussion. This would enable us to explore questions such as: Are white malesmore receptive to the case study when they are in a group with multiple women or people ofcolor? How do the experiences of women and people of color change when they are the
Education at Purdue University. He is a CAPES grantee and also professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Technology at the Instituto Federal de Educac¸a˜ o, Ciˆencia e Tecnologia da Bahia. He is a mechanical engineer and holds a Bachelor’s degree in law and a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering. He has been teaching at different levels, from the first year of technical high school to the final year of mechatronic engineering course, since 1995. He also has considerable experience in the design and implementation of mechatronic and production engineering courses. His non-academic career is centered on product development and manufacturing processes.Dr. Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University
withincredible speed.”71 One day, our students will complete their degrees, embark on careers, andfunction as designers of technological artifacts that will affect the rest of us. In many cases, thepredominant concern will be to develop an item that has a functional purpose: someone uses itfor a specific reason.But they may not understand that the design process also involves ethics, that technology notonly enhances our lives but directs our behavior, that technology reflects not only function butvalues as well. Quantification is just one part of the design process; ethics completes it.Recognizing the ethics inherent in technology helps that “tiny group of engineers” design for thegood of human experience, creating objects that reflect positive values
.14Integration of robotics for teaching science and math under the TPACK framework has thepotential to advance the technological components, yield rich pedagogical strategies, render noveland effective representations of disciplinary content, and thus produce a novel instantiation of theTPACK methodology.Application of robotics in middle school STEM education is appropriate because, in middle school,children begin to make decisions about courses that are of importance for their future careers, andyoung women and minorities begin to lose interest in STEM studies.15-19 Thus, it is critical thatmiddle school teachers effectively engage their students in STEM disciplines. With the recentproliferation of robotics in K-12 environment, implications of robotics
thermodynamic and hydrologic properties of pavements. She is interested in a career in civil engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Extending the 2015 Capstone Design Survey: Data from Australia and New ZealandAbstractCapstone design courses are common in engineering design programs, but they varysubstantially across institution and department. The goal of the decennial capstone design surveyinitiative has been to capture data from capstone design courses every ten years to identifycurrent practices and changes over time. The 1994, 2005, and 2015 surveys have focused almostexclusively on capstone programs within the United States. This paper documents an initialextension of the 2015 survey to
shown in the perception of makingand engineering, as participants in the making community were also found to relate their work tothe work engineers perform and found both fields to be admirable. This correlation may suggestthat there could be a smooth transfer of interest and a higher likelihood for students involved inmaking to self-identify as engineers, thereby building their tenacity in continuing to study theSTEM fields in their future educational and career endeavors.3. MethodsWe conducted a multisite case study which explored two underrepresented populations ofstudents and their engagement with 3D printing, a common digital fabrication tool that is widelypopular with the maker movement. We provided students at each site with access to 3D
Alabama. Dr. Burian’s professional career spans more than 20 years during which he has worked as a de- sign engineer, as a Visiting Professor at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as a Professor at the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah, and as the Chief Water Consultant of an international engineer- ing and sustainability consulting firm he co-founded. He served as the first co-Director of Sustainability Curriculum Development at the University of Utah where he created pan-campus degree programs and stimulated infusion of sustainability principles and practices in teaching and learning activities across campus. Dr. Burian currently is the Project Director of the USAID-funded U.S.-Pakistan Center for
July 1953. As another example, Crosland collaboratedwith W.H. Cady of U.S Finishing Company in Rhode Island to write Literature of Dyes,Mordants, and Bleaches, a 15 page chapter in volume 10 of Literature Resources for ChemicalProcess Industries, published by the American Chemical Society in 1954. Additionally, Croslandwas co-editor of the April 1954 issue of Library Trends (Box 1, Series 1).ConclusionCrosland devoted 46 years of her career to help establish and develop an outstanding library withan excellent science and technology collection, providing high quality service to Georgia Techstudents and faculty. In her final 1970-1971 annual report, Crosland stated “I leave behind twomagnificent buildings, one of the finest collections in
engineeringcapstone design, which is four credits over two quarters, integrates a range of pedagogicalapproaches to “probe deeply into [ethical] issues” and “fill in gaps” of skills that are notexplicitly technical but necessary for careers in engineering. As she explained, case studiesafford the opportunity to connect the material to professional practice and situations that mightbe encountered in industry, guided discussions help students make parallels to their personalexperiences, and role-playing activities allow the students to consider multiple perspectives andhow different stakeholders impact decision-making. The interviewee uses the combination ofteaching methods to “make sure students understand they are doing engineering in a socialcontext
honestly and fairly (Colby & Sullivan, 2008). As a result,multiple efforts in engineering education are geared towards incorporating ethics concepts inengineering curricula. Some of these efforts are described in the next section. In fact, someauthors suggest that ethics should be made a cornerstone element in engineering education(Moore, 2011). However, this has not been achieved yet and students lack the necessaryexposure during their education to navigate through the ethical conflicts they will face duringtheir careers (Herkert, 2002).This paper contributes to this body of work by blending ethics with traditional optimizationproblems in industrial engineering. The proposed approach enables incorporating ethics withoutincreasing or modifying
technological solutions that address pressing societal needs at the intersection of health care and engineering. Dr. Sienko is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award and several teaching awards including the ASME Engineering Education Donald N. Zwiep Innova- tion in Education Award, UM Teaching Innovation Prize, UM Undergraduate Teaching Award, and UM Distinguished Professor Award.Mrs. Amy Hortop, University of MichiganMs. Elizabeth Ann Strehl, University of Michigan Elizabeth is an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan studying Biomedical Engineering and Applied Mathematics. She has worked as a research assistant for Dr. Robin Fowler in the Technical Communication Department of the College of Engineering for
would be unbeneficial to compare the scoreswithout having a record of teaching methods and styles.The flipped course presented in this paper indicates that students’ interests can be retained withmore hands-on activities. This came into agreement with other studies such as [11], [12] and [13].Compared to conventional, instructor-centered based courses, PBL learning techniques offer abetter vehicle to retain concept, providing richer context in which a topic can be learned andpracticed at the same time. This not only retains students’ interests and helps them understand theconcept, but also helps prepare them succeed rapidly in their future careers as most companies relyon team work, critical-logical thinking, complex problem solving in their
Paper ID #25692The CEBOK3 and ABET Accreditation Criteria: A Gap AnalysisDr. 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
still do, that engineeringgraduates will have better career and advancement opportunities, but it is too early to confirmwhether that is indeed true or not. For the employers of our graduates, we believed that withengineering programs we would be able to provide them with better prepared graduates than wecould with the engineering technology programs. Part of this was due to aforementioned increasein foundational math and science courses, and the ability to achieve more depth in upper-divisioncourses as a result. In addition, we knew that we would be able to increase the number of creditsin the programs as we transitioned from engineering technology to engineering, so we felt that wecould add content without having to give up any content that
exclusively in those states that have adopted the Next Generation ScienceStandards, which include engineering performance expectations at all grades [1]. Aside from itsinclusion in the NGSS, there are many reasons for even the youngest K-12 students to learn toengineer. Engineering is motivating for students, engages their creativity, introduces them toengineering careers and helps to reinforce and apply scientific and mathematical knowledge [2-5]. Engineers and K-12 students alike use iterative engineering design processes to solveproblems [3, 6-8]. The designed solution to a problem is often an object (e.g., a bridge), but canalso be a system or process. In the early part of design processes, students: define the problem;consider relevant knowledge
students to learn more about STEM and possibly choose it as afuture career. While these hopes were future-oriented, they were also intentionally part of thelessons and activities. Jill explained her hope that students will take on STEM identities whileengaged in classroom work, I would love for them to start to be little engineers where they are keeping their own little engineering notebook and saying okay this is how I’m going to make a table, this is what the table is going to look like and then make the graph afterwards.By putting students in the position of STEM professionals in the classroom, Bob had similarhopes, “And so, hopefully, and maybe no one will from there, but I hope some of the kidsthere…maybe they will want to
], [6].Commercial success was based on Hyatt’s development of a technology for molding celluloid,and the use of the substance persisted until 1949, eventually replaced by newer, less flammableplastics. His machine has been hailed as a “direct forerunner” of modern injection molding [5].Hyatt’s invention foreshadowed a manufacturing revolution, starting with the successful launchof Bakelite in 1907, developed by Belgian-born scientist Leo Baekeland, who graduated from theUniversity of Ghent with a degree in chemistry and began work as an assistant professor. After ashort career of teaching pure chemistry, however, he discovered that he was more interested inapplications, and he and his new wife immigrated to the US in 1889, where he began work