disciplines, their interdependencies, and the various career opportunities forengineering graduates. In the past, VUSE has done little beyond standard coursework to activelyengage students in self-discovery of their own talents and how they mesh with a specificengineering discipline. What was needed was an intense, interactive program that allowsstudents to educate themselves with what the various fields of engineering are, their similaritiesand differences, and which of those areas are more closely aligned with their own interests. Theintroductory engineering course was selected as an ideal forum to implement this program.In 1989, VUSE launched an innovative introductory course that focused on exposing students tocomputing tools that many had never
, student advisory boards, exposure toundergraduate research, career fairs, informal talks with other students, research into howcompanies define IEs, talks with recruiters, speakers who come to classes, observations of seniorprojects, emails that describe jobs, postings outside of the IE office. The graduating studentmentions that some outside speakers are invited to classes, such as in the professional practiceand the user interface design courses, and that this is a good way to gain an understanding of thebroad nature of the discipline.At this point, the interview student does not know much about the options available to IEs. Thisstudent says that because IEs do not learn to design but rather they learn the tools they can use todesign, keeping
the necessary fundamentals, and laboratory and work- etc. attributes to succeed in their based experiences to formulate and solve chosen career. engineering problems. B. Graduates will be encouraged II. Graduates will have proficiency in 2. Communication MAE 1050, to pursue advanced degrees in computer-based engineering, including MAE 3050, engineering or other fields and modern numerical methods, software design etc. they will have the necessary and development, and the use of attributes to succeed. computational tools
naturally toanybody that is seeking a career in engineering. I think we could learn a lot more if we focused more on theconcepts and how they apply in every-day situations.And from another — I went to a talk about fractals recently, and the visual representations of them--forexample, Koch's snowflake and the Maltese Cross. I think it would be interesting to show an example of this to theengineers in [our class]. It's confusing to explain, but I imagine programming a computer to draw fractals is veryinvolved and applicable to our class--I'm sure there are for and do while loops, or such involved. Also, the finalresults are more interesting than a computer printout of the estimated values of sine between 0 and 90 degrees (nooffense!). Why don't we
world; how to give good presentations; and about the dynamics of human resource management.” · “Not only did I learn a lot of information about a wide variety of subjects, but I learned how to solve problems critically and completely.”The impact of the ILTM program on our students while they are at Bucknell is exceptional. Wehope that it is at least equally relevant to their future careers, preparing them to become leadersof institutions that can take advantage of the unprecedented technological, information, andenvironmental changes occurring in the world today, and that also understand the need to actethically and responsibly to sustain a healthy balance between man and his technologies and theglobal environment
science tests6.Other programs have adopted similar approaches of creating kinesthetic learning programswithin the context of preexisting curricula. The Secondary Schools and Queensland Universityof Technology Engineering Activity Kits (SQUEAK) program was implemented in Australia toattract students of secondary schools to engineering careers. Like Project Lead the Way, theSQUEAK program designed hands-on projects to match to students’ coursework7. The VirginiaMiddle Schools Engineering Education Initiative (VMSEEI) created engineering testing kits(ETKs) to facilitate engineering instruction within science and mathematics courses and has built Page
encouraged by awarding two $125scholarships at the end of the semester, chosen randomly from the students who attended eachseminar and completed pre- and post-seminar administrations of the PSVT:R.Course StructureThe spatial visualization workshop consisted of a series of five interactive seminars, deliveredas a subset of the parent WEP FIG courses. All students in the WEP FIGs met weekly, insections of 20 to 25 students, for one hour seminars on topics such as study habits andengineering careers. The subset of FIG students who enrolled in the spatial visualizationworkshop replaced five of their weekly seminars with spatial visualization topics, for whichthey met as a separate group in a dedicated classroom. The spatial visualization workshop
. Dannels16 draws parallels to the field ofcommunication, asserting that speaking is a contextually-motivated, cultural event. Withprofessional communication instruction becoming increasingly focused on cases and client-basedprojects, and with technology driving changes in workplace writing, writing curriculum ismoving away from formulaic responses to rhetorical situations in favor of providing studentswith some theoretical background in writing and rhetoric.17 Understanding students’ prior genreknowledge is believed to be helpful for designing educational experiences that assist students asthey acquire genre knowledge that will in turn give them strategies they can transfer to newcontexts, which will help them in their engineering careers.12, 18
from Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. His Ph.D was earned in 2004 from Northwestern University in the field of electric field guided assembly of carbon nanotubes. He has received awards including, the McMinn Endowed Professorship, an NSF Career Award, and a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Award.Jiangyu Li, University of WashingtonAmy Shen, University of Washington Professor Amy Shen is an Associate Professor at Mechanical Engineering department from University of Washington. She earned her Ph.D in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University and an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis from
Paper ID #8159”Doing Engineering in the School of Letters & Science: Adding a Manufac-turing Line Design Project to a Writing Program Class for Engineers”Mr. Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California, Davis Brad Henderson is a faculty in writing for the University Writing Program (UWP) at University of Cali- fornia, Davis. Henderson holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Cal Poly State University SLO and a Masters in Professional Writing (MPW) from USC. Currently focusing his career on engineer- ing writing and soft-skill education, he has worked as an engineer and engineering educator for Parker
discipline of engineering education research.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.#7164397 (NSF CAREER). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe National Science Foundation. Page 25.298.14Bibliography1. Sochacka, N., et al., Confronting the Methodological Challenges of Engineering Practice Research: A Three-Tiered Model of Reflexivity, in Research in Engineering Education Symposium2009: Palm Cove.2. Borrego, M. and L.K. Newswander, Definitions of
improve the understanding of the learning and teaching of high school students and teachers as they apply engineering design processes to technological problems. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Influence of MESA Activities on Underrepresented Students, a program funded by the DRK-12 program at NSF. This exploratory study examines the influences that those MESA activities have on students’ perception of engineering and their self-efficacy and interest in engineering and their subsequent decisions to pursue careers in engineering. Page 25.330.1 c American Society for
Academy and is ABET accredited. The mission of the Department of Civil and MechanicalEngineering parallels the Academy’s mission, while focusing on educating and inspiring studentsin the fields of civil and mechanical engineering19:To educate students in civil and mechanical engineering, such that each graduate is acommissioned leader of character who can understand, implement, and manage technology;and to inspire students to a career in the United States Army and a lifetime of personal growthand service.The Civil Engineer program recognizes the technology element of the Department’s missionstatement and established a specific ABET program outcome, “Use modern engineering tools tosolve problems.” The program assesses the outcome through a variety
Spatial Logical Intuitive Linear HolisticWhy Creativity and Innovation and Why Now?From the beginning of recorded history and all over the earth, individuals we would nowlabel engineers have met the basic needs of communal society.12,13,14,15 While that rolewill remain essentially the same, the stage on which that role is played will changedramatically. The following sections explore that new stage with the hope that we willleverage the education and early career experience of tomorrow’s engineers so that theycan fulfill their role on that new stage. The Grand Challenges for EngineeringThe National Academy of Engineering (NAE
a career choice.Observation #6, Vision: My eyesight has changed! It’s a different experience, wearingreaders in class. My vision has always been exceptional. This changed for me recently,and I now use fairly weak readers – but they make a crucial difference. I made twomistakes on the exam – and one was a transcription error, I didn’t see one of the numbers.With about 14 million Americans aged 12 years and older having self-reported visualimpairment6, I see no reason not to use a 14 point font on exams and homeworkassignments.Observation #7, Distractions: Students text in class. I couldn’t believe my eyes; onestudent sitting next to me was routinely texting in class. I happen to know that myprofessor is one of the best math instructors we
development context. Undergraduate students that joinVIP teams earn academic credit for their participation in design efforts that assist faculty and graduatestudents with research and development issues in their areas of technical expertise. The teams are: Page 25.1345.5multidisciplinary - drawing students from across engineering and around campus; vertically-integrated -maintaining a mix of sophomores through PhD students each semester; and long-term - each&"#"! " # $ "%undergraduate student may participate in a project for up to three years and each graduate student mayparticipate for the duration of their graduate career. As shown in
Jeff Nason is an Assistant Professor of environmental engineering at Oregon State University. His re- search interests are in the area of physical/chemical treatment of water, with a focus on particle removal processes. He is also interested in developing effective techniques for implementing active learning activ- ities in high-enrollment engineering courses.Prof. Goran Jovanovic Ph.D.Dr. Chih-hung Chang, Oregon State University Chih-hung (Alex) Chang is a professor of chemical engineering at Oregon State University. He is a SHARP Labs of America Scholar, and a recipient of Intel Faculty Fellowship, AVS Graduate Research award, National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, and awardee of W.M. Keck Foundation. His
Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.246.1 Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationI. IntroductionDuring the authors’ extended industrial careers they gained a detailed view of what specific skillsengineers need. Repeatedly they saw that graduate mechanical engineers did not understand howthe most common stock material was manufactured and specified, nor how the productionmethod and specification greatly affected the finished raw material’s strength, appearance,tolerances, availability, etc.. For example, a majority of recent graduates could not even tell thedifference
will be: • Knowledgeable engineers, who are able to remain current during their professional careers; • Problem-solvers, who are able to obtain needed information and identify, formulate, and solve problems; • Well-rounded engineers, who understand professional, ethical, and global issues and are able to work in multidisciplinary and diverse groups; and • Communicators, who are able to disseminate information to professional and lay audiences.In some cases, two similar ABET objectives were combined in our assessment system. For thisreason, we use a numbering system to describe CEE objectives (ABET objects are identified by aletter). A summarized list of the ABET Objectives is given below, for the readers
science, math, and engineering courses do not adequately address the rapidchanges that these students face in their industrial careers. Specifically in engineering, theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)— which is the only agencyresponsible for accreditation of education programs leading to degrees in engineering — hasrecently published new standards which increases the focus on students’ ability to perform real-world job tasks (PRISM, 1997).Augustine (Augustine, 1997) tells us that ABET is correctly responding to fundamental changesin the engineering profession that push us to accredit programs on more than simplyprofieciencies in traditional engineering skills. Because of these changes, todays engineer mustbe able to
. My education and career inengineering took place in predominantly white, male settings. Because of the privilege Iexperience as a white person and the sheltering of experiences that my privilege offers, I haveundergone a massive amount of learning to identify systems of oppression embedded in theculture that may limit others in the profession. My goal with my research is to explore norms inengineering to understand and identify systems of oppression embedded in the culture that maylimit marginalized communities in the profession.Author 2: I am a queer, white woman raised by upper middle-class parents in a suburb to a midsized Southeastern city. I attended a mid-size public high school that was mildly diverse in termsof race and socio
with respect to the pervasive hegemonic and meritocratic ideologiesaccompanied by an intense commitment, workload and limited participation by women that arecharacteristic of the engineering profession. Women in engineering are often faced with difficultchoices with respect to their legitimate desire to have and raise a family, a choice that has nottypically impacted a man’s career or ability to work fulltime [19]. Additionally, work-lifebalance can be a challenge with respect to workload in engineering studies and professionalpractice.Engineering practice is regulated by self-governing professional bodies while engineeringeducation is regulated by academic missions and institutional quality assurance frameworks andevaluated for “foundational
theengineering design process [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26]. However, for students to reap the fullbenefits of BID integration in pre-college, it is important first to prepare teachers who are willing andwell-prepared to teach BID in pre-college engineering [11], [27]. Therefore, exploring teachers’understanding and perception of BID integration in engineering is essential for BID to become anintegral part of the pre-college curricula.Teacher PerceptionsTeachers significantly influence student learning in the classroom since they play a vital role in students'achievement, subject selection, and future career choices. Teachers’ perceptions and understanding ofcurricula influence how they teach. Studies have shown that teachers’ beliefs and
the subject and facilitates faculty learning communities and is the co-author of ”Studying Engineering – A Road Map to a Rewarding Career”. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Evaluation of the Utilization of Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools among First-Year Mechanical Engineering StudentsAbstractGenerative artificial intelligence tools, such as ChatGPT, are freely available to anyone,including college students. Some perceive these tools as a game changer for higher educationbecause they can enhance student learning experiences in various ways. The integration ofgenerative AI tools in higher education has the potential to revolutionize teaching and learning
– Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program.Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University Catherine G.P. Berdanier is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. She earned her B.S. in Chemistry from The University of South Dakota, her M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and her PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research expertise lies in characterizing graduate-level attrition, persistence, and career trajectories; engineering writing and communication; and methodological development. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Exploring Engineering Graduate Students’ Perceptions of