assignments were focused on the individual to help each student identify his/her ownlearning objectives. The teams were core to developing an answer to the Question for theSemester (Q4S) and an important component of the end of semester deliverables. The details ofthe assignments are presented in the appendices. In addition to the team answer to the Q4S. at theend of the semester, each student submitted two reports, namely, an end of semester Assignment0 and a semester learning essay. For details see Appendix II.4 Research questions and design of studyIn Fall 2012, we received IRB approval to investigate the impact of individual mental modelson the shared (team) mental model (and vice versa), how individual mental models changeover the course of a
impact on the firstfall GPA1. Furthermore, entry-level calculus continues to be a challenge for many engineeringstudents 2-5. Nearly 30 years ago, Edge and Friedberg6 reported that an algebra pretest and highschool rank were the best combination of predictors of success in a first calculus course. Thisresearch coincides with the long held belief of the faculty in the Department of EngineeringFundamentals that weak algebra skills are a stumbling block for students entering the program.So strong has been this conviction, that in the first two weeks of Engineering Analysis I algebraconcepts and functions are reviewed rather than beginning immediately with calculus concepts. One remedy for entering freshman who struggle with Engineering
Task Model to Acceptable? Completed CUCWD Fig.4: Flow chart for CAD module creation processB. Online LearningThe instructional design model driving the online learning design of CA2VES strives to Page 23.796.8incorporate leading research outlining best practices in the implementation of online learningtools. One element of the CA2VES online learning tool design was a virtual reality component,contained within learning modules, providing students with an opportunity to engage inhigh-impact
probability of the engineered product’s impact to society, times the consequence ofthe product; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of the design; or to forecastthe behavior under specific operating conditions; with respect to its intended function, economicsof operation or safety to life and property, or other probability/statistical likelihood functions.Risk Engineering as a discipline acknowledges that uncertainty as a concept is unknowable andmore importantly for engineering, indeterminate. Risk Engineering replaces this indeterminacywith the twin concepts of process variability and data/knowledge gaps for internal project risksand shareholder risk for those external acts, inclusive of the environment, whoseactions/inactions
: creating general freshman courses to give early hands-on experience to the students,utilizing student feedback to design courses, and moving the ownership and maintenance oflaboratory equipment from the university to the students. In the fall semester of 2009, theElectrical Engineering program at The University of Texas at Tyler took the initiative of creatingand offering a first semester freshman experience course aimed at improving freshman retention.The rationale for creating this course was based on student and faculty feedback, and commentsprovided by graduating seniors during their senior exit interview. A number of students alsoexpressed their concern about how late the electrical engineering laboratory experience is in thecurriculum. Since
Paper ID #6048A Robotics Summer Camp for High School Students: Pipelines ActivitiesPromoting Careers in Engineering FieldsDr. Mehmet Ayar, TUBITAK Dr. Mehmet C. Ayar is a scientific programs expert in the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). He received his PhD. in Curriculum and Instruction with specialization in STEM education at Texas A&M University in 2012. His research is in ethnographic studies of science and engineering practice, curriculum development, design of learning environments and robotics activities. He offers a graduate course in METU on communities of practice. Dr. Ayar
conversion. Economic analysis.Comments: Beside the prerequisites issue, this course seems to be well designed and is offered byone the best faculty in mechanical engineering. This course is an ideal candidate for fulfilling theelective units required by the minor we are going to offer.MSE 415: Product Design (3 Units)Prerequisite: MSE 412/L or graduate status. Engineering principles and practices of productdesign. Applications of process design for manufacturing engineering. Approaches to design formanufacture (DFM) and design for assembly (DFA). (Design units: 2.0)Comments: One of the issues is the prerequisite course required for taking this course. Since theprerequisite is an MSE course not included in the certificate, this will add 3 hidden
Paper ID #7948The State of the Use of Standards in Engineering and Technology EducationDr. Ahmed S. Khan, DeVry University, Addison, IL Dr. Ahmed S. Khan is a Senior Professor in the College of Engineering and Information Sciences at DeVry University, Addison, Illinois. Dr. Khan has more than thirty years of experience in research, instruction, curricula design, development, evaluation, implementation and program accreditation, management and supervision. Dr. Khan received an MSEE from Michigan Technological University, an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management., and his Ph.D. from Colorado State University
questions, specific next steps in the project include: Analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of survey results via a project report (released in 2013) Development of outcome statements for each attributes, informed through the literature and best practices of CMC member organizations Validation of outcomes statement for attributes through focus group research, funded by a CMC partner organization, held in the U.S., Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East Pursuit of grant funding to develop and pilot test engineering-related curricular modules related to key attributesConclusionThe Attributes of a Global Engineer Project, initiated by the ASEE Corporate Member Council’sSpecial Interest Group for
, professional skills are tantamount.Leadership Engineering - Naming the Degree ProgramThe premise for typical “Engineering Leadership” programs is that you start with an engineerand then make a leader out of him or her. Thus Leadership training is the primary focus, withEngineering as the qualifier for the type of leaders being trained. The premise of our LeadershipEngineering program is that the profession will attract future leaders (as is the case of many otherprofessions that require post-graduate professional training, such as medicine and law), and theprogram is designed to produce engineers out of those future leaders. Thus it is a broad-based,liberal engineering program for future leaders in the public and private sectors.Therefore we have
academic unit focused on local and regional sustainability in support of WPI’s interdisciplinary degree requirement, the Interactive Qualifying Project. Rick also oversees WPI’s Global Perspective Program, a worldwide network of 35 Project Centers to which more than 700 students per year travel to address problems for local agencies and organizations under faculty supervision. Rick’s teaching and research interests include service and experiential learning, engineering design and appropriate technology, and internationalizing engineering education. He has developed and advised hundreds of student research projects in the Americas, Africa, Australia, Asia, and Europe. Rick has published over 55 peer-reviewed or
Paper ID #8249Exploring Engineering in China in a Global and Societal ContextProf. Keith W Buffinton, Bucknell University Keith W. Buffinton is Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Bucknell University. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford. Following his graduate studies, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Institute for Mechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. From 2001 through 2004 he served as co-director of Bucknell’s Institute for Leadership in Technology and Management and
practice, project and cooperative work experience will bring this into focus andthe faculty see this as a skill that needs growth or attention. Exactly how to achieveprofessionalism in our classes is a provocative discussion, though team projects, settingstandards for work and responsibility for quality and timeliness are part of the written andunwritten syllabus, in hopes to impact exactly these skills.Problem solving is on all lists and continues to be deemed important. It is more important to tiethis to societal context and real world problems, looking at hands-on and service-learning to helppractice this in impactful ways.Creativity! This was not high on the faculty list as lacking, but very high for the engineer of2020 and high on the student
Competency in Engineering, which led to the development of a range of learning resources targeting students’ development of intercultural competency (engineeringacrosscultures.org). Past projects also include: ALTC project A Pro-Active Approach to Addressing Student Learning Di- versity in Engineering Mechanics; A graduate attribute led curriculum review for UTEM, Chile; and the implementation of UoW’s University Learning and Teaching course at ImamU, Saudi Arabia. In 2009 he was awarded a vice-chancellors award for outstanding contribution to teaching and learning in the area of graduate attributes and has published numerous papers on engineering education research and practice
notbe required to taste anything prepared in or for class. Counsel also required that the classavoid working with raw meats. Students signing up for the course provided a signedrelease recognizing that they would be expected to handle and prepare food in this courseand to disclose any allergies or religious / cultural food prohibitions. In practice, this wasseldom a problem.Course Design and StructureThe complex nature of the subject matter combined with the relative ease of connectingthe material to ‘real world’ experiences and the instructor’s desire to makeexperimentation a significant portion of the course suggested a problem-based learningformat could be a successful pedagogical approach (26). The course is therefore brokeninto six
satisfaction and therefore, retention andpromotion. Program OverviewAs suggested by the initial faculty survey, the project has worked to adapt and implement best Page 23.257.4practices from NSF ADVANCE Programs designed to build a more supportive climate forwomen faculty in STEM departments. Specific programs have included engaging faculty andadministrators in reviews of social science research; an external lecture series; lunchtimeseminars for women faculty focused on professional development, leadership and genderissues; a faculty mentoring program; a new allies program for male faculty; and a worklifepolicies effort.While senior (male
graduate ofthe program who is actively working in the construction management professionBased on student response and reflection by the course instructor on his experience with thisrestructured course, the instructor has developed a strategy for course improvement as outlinedbelow. Add addition research questions to Assignment 1 - Construction Terminology and Accreditation. Develop two “hands-on” classroom projects (Assignments 2, 4, 7, and 8). The first would be a traditional bid-build project similar to the Tektōn Hotel Plaza project, although a bit more complex (especially the change order). The second would be a design-build project where students would have to design a structure and then build it according the
, designedtop-down, incorporates a number of best practices, including spiral curriculum, a unified set ofcore courses, multiple pathways, inclusion of social issues and entrepreneurship, an emphasis onprojects-based learning, and capstone design projects. This paper provides a brief synopsis,comparison with other approaches, and multi-year retrospective on the program. The curriculumhas evolved rapidly from the original to its current state, including changes in requirements,courses, hardware, software, labs, and projects. The guiding philosophy remains unchanged,however, providing continuity of purpose to the program. The program has been highlysuccessful in meeting its desired outcomes, including: quantity and quality of enrolled students,ABET EAC
area is rural,surrounding communities have few resources for improvement to their communities. The class,Introduction to Project Management, has been developed as a service learning course whichworks with area communities. Students learn basic best practices for project management aswell as basic tools for tracking and controlling projects. The course is a junior level courserequired in the Engineering Management curriculum and students are generally junior or seniorlevel engineering students. A majority of the students are Engineering Management majors, butthe course is growing in popularity with many students from other majors who are minoring inEngineering Management or just taking the class because of the perceived importance in
Paper ID #6814CCLI: Evaluation of a Cost Effective Program for Augmenting Calculus withEngineering ContentDr. Jeremiah J. Neubert, University of North Dakota Jeremiah Neubert is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of North Dakota. He conducted research and taught at Cambridge University. Prior to that Dr. Neubert attended the University of Wisconsin and obtained a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering as well as Masters of Science degrees in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering. During his time at the University of Wisconsin he served as a National Science GK12 fellow where he
military. He is a hands-on manufacturing expert who has worked in several areas of engineering, manufacturing, and technical management including research, design, and production of mechanical, electronic, and electromechanical systems. Recognized trainer and resource person in the fields of CAD/CAM/CIM, Robotics and Automation, Machine vision, ISO 9000 and Lean Six Sigma. He has published several papers, in these areas, in various national & international conferences and journals. He has won several teaching awards including the academic excellence award, NISOD 2008, from the University of Texas at Austin
Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell David Kazmer is a Professor of Plastics Engineering at UMass Lowell where he has previously served as Associate Dean. His academic work is motivated by industry experiences with teaching and research related to engineering education, design, manufacturing, and optimization.Dr. Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University OLGA PIERRAKOS is an associate professor and founding faculty member of the James Madison Uni- versity Department of Engineering, which graduated its inaugural class in May 2012. At JMU, Dr. Pier- rakos is the Director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education (CIEE) and Director of the Advanced Thermal Fluids Laboratory. Her interests in engineering
Paper ID #6250The Coach: a Web-based Resource for Improving the Writing Skills of Engi-neering StudentsDr. David M. Beams, University of Texas, Tyler David Beams earned the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1974 and 1977, respectively, and spent 16 years in industrial practice as a design engineer before returning to graduate study. He earned the Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in 1997 and joined the founding faculty of the School of Engineering of the University of Texas at Tyler. Dr. Beams has authored or co-authored a number of papers
of hands-on learningexperience and the high concentration of foundation courses in mathematics and physics 22. Theyare essentially detached for too long from what has brought them to engineering as a disciplineof building, designing, and optimizing systems. To improve student retention and engagement inengineering, RIT introduced 1-credit hour lab courses for freshmen students in electrical andmechanical engineering that are hands-on focused, but educationally comprehensive. Theobjective of these courses is to engage students from day one in the best practices of theengineering programs through learn-by-doing approach. They learn how to operate the labinstruments and the basic offerings of the CAD and engineering tools they will use
Model for Teaching Physics and Mathematics to Engineering Students Session topic: Innovation and best practices around the globeAbstractThis paper presents details of the implementation of an educational innovation in an internationalcontext. In Mexico, we designed a classroom that we call the ACE classroom. ACE comes fromthe Spanish acronym for “Aprendizaje Centrado en el Estudiante” (Student-Centered Learning);also, the pronunciation of the acronym in Spanish is identical to that of the verb “do”, and thusconveys the idea that students learn by doing in this classroom. The ACE classroom we designedis similar to the SCALE-UP (Student-Centered Active Learning Environment for UndergraduatePrograms) classroom
://www.sdsskateboards.com/stella.htm (1 pt) Any information that identified this site was most likely selling longboards and thus would have information on sizes and shapes, along with cost information. 2. For the citation given in the last question, state if you would use the resource in a research and design project, and explain why you would or would not use the information. (1 pt) Either yes or no was an acceptable answer, as long as the student could provide an acceptable justification. See a couple of examples below: No – the site is likely biased due to the .com address, and is trying to sell something so might not be the best source for documentation on longboards. Yes – as a
distancelearning is to provide training and support through a predefined course package. This approachhowever is not consistent with what are considered “best practices” of teacher professionaldevelopment17. Any professional development program is most effective when it relates to theparticipants’ professional activities. Teachers bring with them a diverse set of strategies forteaching and learning from their own professional experiences. A more interactive environmentthat provides teachers with opportunity for structured reflection and discussion with colleagues isneeded. A support-led rather than by package-led form of distance learning is necessary. TheVirtualMedibotics™ program has been designed to provide pre-defined web-based instructionwith
the Future in Wheeling, W.Va. She was on loan to the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory from 1989 to 1995, managing a project to transition advanced in- structional technologies to ten different middle schools located in five states. She is on the editorial board of three professional publications and has served as National Research Council Senior Fellow assigned to the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory. In her spare time, Pat enjoys reading and gardening.Mr. Ryan Smith, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Ryan Smith has served as webmaster and system administrator of the PRISM Project for the past ten years. He is a 2002 computer engineering graduate of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. As part of his
technologies. He has many publications in journals and conferences and 5 U.S. patents. He was a recipient of the 2008 SRC Page 23.980.1 Inventor Recognition Award, the 2006 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society VLSI Transactions Best Paper Award, 2005 SRC Technical Excellence Award, and the Best Paper Award of the 2004 International Con- ference on Computer Design. He is a technical program committee member of International Symposium on Low Power Electronics Design and International Symposium on Quality Electronics Design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013
Institute of Technology Michael Pennotti, Ph.D. is Director, Systems Programs and a Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Stevens in 2001, Mike spent twenty years in systems engineering practice and leadership at Bell Laboratories, primarily working on undersea surveillance systems for the Navy. He then spent ten years applying the same prin- ciples and practices to organizations and enterprises as a member of the senior leadership teams of three different AT&T businesses. Since joining Stevens in 2001, Mike has helped develop the SDOE Program into one of premier systems engineering graduate programs in the U.S. He has taught