Education. He was named NETI Faculty Fellow for 2013-2014, and the Herbert F. Alter Chair of Engineering (Ohio Northern University) in 2010. His research interests include success in first-year engineering, engineering in K-12, introducing entrepreneur- ship into engineering, and international service and engineering. He has written texts in design, general engineering and digital electronics, including the text used by Project Lead the Way. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Gaining Industry Experience Exposure During a Pandemic Introducing Engineering Students to IndustryIntroductionThere is a growing need for engineering
, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity.Dr. Chris Swan, Tufts University Chris Swan is Dean of Undergraduate Education for the School of Engineering and an associate pro- fessor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Tufts University. He has additional appointments in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on community engage- ment, service-based projects and examining whether an entrepreneurial mindset can be used to further engineering education innovations. He also does research on the development of sustainable materials management (SMM) strategies.Dr. Daniel
intoan analysis step. While this analysis is not the topic of the paper, a logical next step is to take thedata, move it to a cloud service and use techniques of the various software vendors for analysis.Siemens has MindSphere as a software platform for this step.The lab experiences outlined are able to be used in a number of courses. The goal is that they beable to be quickly stored and retrieved so that one lab is not tied to one course indefinitely andthat they are less expensive and can be used by multiple groups in a lab setting.These lab experiences try to accomplish these objectives. Some are more successful. They haveall been a joy to design and build or watch others do the same. Some originally were the productof capstone groups. Some
controls, and engineering design. Joe’s scholarship interests are in the areas of engineering education and neuromuscular biomechanics. Specifically, Joe’s engineering education activities include student-centric course and curricular development; assessment of student learning and engagement; and innovation in approaches to enhance student learning. In neuromuscular biomechanics, Joe’s interests are in restoration of human movement following neuromuscular injury.Mr. Jeff Wood, Stanford University Goal: Make a difference in the world, through development and training of engineers to solve the most pressing problems facing the world today. ME Capstone Course and Lab Project Development Director Jeff is the ME Capstone
different engineering disciplines to helpstudents decide on an engineering major. A one credit course is offered to students in theirsecond semester that requires students to work on at least four interdisciplinary projects puttogether by faculty from the degree granting departments. But until they reach their senior yearand work on their senior design capstone projects, there is little scope of ‘innovation’ and broadexposure to open-ended design problems.The GE Program is designed to prepare students for admission into one of seven professionalengineering programs available in the college. All new freshman engineering students andtransfer students who do not immediately qualify for a professional program must begin theirstudies in the GE
valuable in [2]. In designingtheir courses on embedded systems, they stressed critical thinking about the system design ratherthan the embedded system specifications. They also structured the material so that a sequence ofexercises would culminate in a design-focused capstone project. We modeled this approach veryclosely in designing our lab and final project structure.In [3], El-Abd conducts a survey of courses utilizing Arduino-based embedded systems. Thesurvey highlights that excellent assessment methods for such experiential courses tend to besome combination of presentations with associated demonstrations. Our course follows thismodality, where student grades are largely based upon their project presentations anddemonstration of their
prototyping process. Such an approach has been conducted by other engineeringprograms, including those in the NSF-sponsored Pathways to Innovation Program, tosuccessfully cultivate student readiness for careers in innovation and entrepreneurship. JamesMadison University restructured their engineering program by putting greater agency with thestudent in defining their curriculum and creating two-year capstone projects, as well as wideningstudent access to entrepreneurship training and engagement in real-world projects [6]. Anotherexample is from University of Pittsburg’s Swanson School of Engineering, which overhauledtheir program, policies, and physical spaces to enable student-directed innovation andentrepreneurship [7]. The co-curricular component
for 15th Annual SymposiumConclusionsWhen designing projects to engage clients and to aid students in building confidence in the engineeringskills they have developed as educators we often think of capstone design and courses aimed atteaching design through the curriculum. Many of our institutions have such educational opportunitiesbuilt into our curriculum. This pilot program demonstrated that many important real-world experiencescan be learned with much lower stakes projects. In our pilot, while most of these projects were about aforty (40) hour commitment on the part of the student consultant, many (over 1/3rd) were only twenty(20) hour engagements. Even in this short period of hands-on, mind-on application of undergraduateskills, the
board for SGA. Nur aspires to pursue PhD and work in research, eventually becominga professor so she can inspire the young minds of tomorrow.Kabilan AsokanKabilan Asokan is a fresh graduate from Southeast Missouri State University with a bachelor’s inElectrical Engineering. Kabilan is an international transfer student from Malaysia. While takingclasses, Kabilan has worked at the University Center as an Event Services Manager. Currently,Kabilan is doing his OPT (Optional Practical Training) and would like to further his studies inCanada. Kabilan has been working on the “Auto Garden” capstone project since Fall 2020. He wasinspired to work on this project due to his interest in gardening. Moreover, this project unites hislove for farming and
Paper ID #32977Integration of Ethics-Focused Modules into the Steps of the EngineeringDesign ProcessMs. Jessica R. Edelson, Duke University Jessica is senior Robertson Scholar at Duke University pursuing a double major in Political Science and Visual and Media Studies, with a certificate in Information Science.Micalyn Struble, Duke University Micalyn is a third-year student at Duke University, majoring in Public Policy and minoring in Computer Science. She views this project as a chance to ingrain ethical thinking into engineering, in the hopes that many ethical dilemmas of the past can be confidently handled in the
non-profit organization called Christ Church Camp (CCC)that served as the primary client for design. The project was to design a neighborhood for those transitioningout of homelessness and into greater self-sufficiency. The design had to fit within a budget determined bygrant money sought by CCC. There were engineering challenges concerning how to build sustainable tinyhomes and use rainwater harvesting to support an urban garden. Student designers also had to learn thebasics of social work and poverty alleviation so that they could design a neighborhood that would buildconfidence and community for homeless individuals. Frequently, the homeless we served were coming outof addictions and had deficient relational skills.We conducted the class
first year, a course in the second year focusing on measurement andfabrication, a course in the third year to frame technical problems in societal challenges, andculminates with our two-semester, client-driven fourth-year capstone design sequence.The impetus to create a design thread arose from preparation for an ABET visit where weidentified a need for more “systems thinking” within the curriculum. Here systems thinkingrefers to understanding abstraction and its relation to system decomposition and modularity;students having difficulty making engineering evaluations of systems based on data; andstudents’ difficulty transferring skills in testing, measurement, and evaluation from in-class labscenarios to more independent work on projects. We
civil structures [1,11, 12]; (2) increasing engagement with core topics by moving from abstract to interactivelearning [7, 11, 13]; (3) introducing the engineering design process in a quick, easy, andvisible way [14, 15]; (4) bridging the physical and digital model within the classroom [7]; (5)integrating hands-on experience with digital work in a creative capstone project [7]. Thispaper aims to evaluate the feasibility of integrating laser scanning technology in theconstruction engineering management curriculum. The study conducted a thorough literaturereview to assess how laser scanning technology can improve SLOs required by ACCE. Thecontributions of the study involve (1) helping educators in construction engineering andmanagement programs
continues into the second year.These positive results indicate that it would likely be advantageous to transition this program to amulti-university project to more effectively demonstrate the robustness of the process for RisingScholar students.I. Background and structure of the Rising Scholars ProgramThe project, NSF S-STEM 1644143: Rising Scholars: Web of Support used as an Indicator ofSuccess in Engineering, is a research/scholarship program that was initiated in September 2016at Purdue University. The research portion of the program was designed to determine whetherhaving a strong support network could outweigh high school grades and test scores in predictingsuccess in STEM majors, particularly engineering. ‘Rising Scholars’ (RS) is the
, and problem solving discourse among students, faculty, and practitioners. Dr. Olewnik is also the Director of Experiential Learning for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and associate professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information and Learning Sciences program and in the Chemical and Biological En- gineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutionizing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Educa
Paper ID #32395Lessons Learned Developing and Running a Virtual, Faculty-Led,International Program on Sustainable Energy in BrazilDr. Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University Dr. Courtney Pfluger an Associate Teaching Professor at Northeastern University in the College of Engi- neering. In 2011, she joined Northeastern as a teaching professor in the First Year Engineering program. As part of the First Year Engineering faculty she focusing on curriculum innovations and implementing educational lessons and engineering design projects on sustainability. In 2017, she moved full time into the Chemical Engineering department
, helping students to make connections, and ultimatelyfinding ways to create value through engineering. Multiple attempts at infusing EM have beenexplored and developed throughout recent years, including into first year engineering programs,capstone courses, elective courses, and other core technical courses. However, much of theshared faculty-examples of the new EM-infused content involves adding or revising an existingterm project, or revision of an entire course completely. These large time-investments in EM canbe effective, but faculty may be hesitant to alter their courses so substantially. By identifyingsingle-class opportunities to integrate pedagogically-sound practices that meet both EM andABET outcomes, faculty can excite their students
-AnywhereLaboratories – where students choose when they will perform their physical hardwareexperiments and where they wish to conduct these experiments. For this study students canperform all the physical experiments within their home environment using a variety of locallyavailable resources coupled with a box of sensors and controllers as part of an otherwise virtualor online course. Our idea of an online experimentation course was proposed in 2017. The initialexploration was the focus of a senior capstone project at the institution, where the idea andpotential implementations were tested.[6] The students performed a trade-space analysis ofavailable sensors, controllers and microcontrollers and selected a set that was roughly equivalentto the cost of
addition, the department implemented changes inexisting courses by adding industry driven design projects [3], [4]. All these changes reliedheavily on group projects, hands-on labs, and in-person meetings with industry representatives.In the spring of 2020, a pandemic forced the program to offer all its courses remotely andchallenged the department to rethink how it could continue its strong hands-on, industry-focusedprogram while fostering a sense of belonging in students. While changes occurred throughout thecurriculum to support remote learning, these changes were exemplified in three coursesequences: integrated design, circuits and instrumentation, and the year-long capstone design.The remainder of this paper describes these three course
ProblemDefinition-HCPD; 2) rapidly construct and test concepts to foster a strong feedback loopbetween students and NGO partners in the course Projects for People-PfP; and 3) developdesign solutions that can be implemented by NGOs in the communities where they workthrough the Engineering for Community Development Capstone Design course.5.1.1 Human-Centred Problem Definition (HCPD)HCPD equips students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to identify, define, and beginsolving real problems, for real people, within the socio-technical ambiguity that surrounds allengineering problems. By the end of the course, students are able to recognize designproblems around them, determine whether they are worth solving, and employ design tools tocreate multiple
Austin. His past research has focused on membrane science, adsorption, and ion exchange. He currently serves as the Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Program Director at UC and currently teaches the capstone process design sequence. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio.Dr. Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University Kevin Dahm is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He earned his BS from Worces- ter Polytechnic Institute (92) and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (98). He has pub- lished two books, ”Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics” and ”Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance.” He has also published papers on effective use of simulation in
has been achieved in successfully chairing ten or more graduate student culminating projects, theses, or dissertations, in 2011 and 2005. He was also nominated for 2004 UNI Book and Supply Outstanding Teaching Award, March 2004, and nominated for 2006, and 2007 Russ Nielson Service Awards, UNI. Dr. Pecen is an Engineering Tech- nology Editor of American Journal of Undergraduate Research (AJUR). He has been serving as a re- viewer on the IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing since 2001. Dr. Pecen has served on ASEE Engineering Technology Division (ETD) in Annual ASEE Conferences as a reviewer, session moderator, and co-moderator since 2002. He served as a Chair-Elect on ASEE ECC Division in
in capstone-style projects. These projects are performed in teaching lab spaces oncampus under the mentorship of undergraduate and graduate students [17]-[20]. Graduatestudents develop and deliver projects motivated by current challenges in biomedical engineering.Curriculum is designed in collaboration with classroom teachers to meet Ontario STEM learningoutcomes while promoting the global competencies of scientific investigation and careerexploration skills. Discovery deliverables are assessed by teachers and comprise 10-15% of therespective final course grade. To date, student grade data and survey responses support thebenefits of Discovery participation to student engagement and interest in STEM [17]. RemoteDiscovery programming is unique
Paper ID #34832How Well Can Makerspaces Build an Entrepreneurial Mindset?Dr. Stephanie M. Gillespie, University of New Haven Stephanie Gillespie is the Associate Dean of the Tagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven. She previously specialized in service learning while teaching at the Arizona State University in the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program. Her current teaching and research interests are in developing study skills and identity in first-year engineering students and improving re- tention rates. She acts as a faculty liaison for the University of New Haven Makerspace
. 1, pp. 87–96, Feb. 2011.24. H. Jackson, K. Tarhini, B. Maggi and N. Rumsey, “Improving Students Understanding of Engineering ConceptsThrough Projects Based Learning,” IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, pp. 1-6, 2012. 25. R. Belu, “Renewable Energy Based Capstone Senior Design Projects for an Undergraduate EngineeringTechnology Curriculum”, 2011 ASEEE Conference & Exposition, June 26 - 29, Vancouver, BC, Canada (CD).26. G. Verbic, C. Keerthisighe, and A.C. Chapman, “A Project-based Cooperative Approach to TeachingSustainable Energy Systems”, IEEE Trans. Educ., Vol. 60(3), pp. 221-228, 2017.27. A.P.S. Meliopoulos, and G.J. Cokkinides, "Role of laboratory education in power engineering: is the virtuallaboratory feasible? III. Virtual
. C. (2014) ‘Curriculum Design in the Middle Years’, in Johri, A. and Olds, B. M.(eds) Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,pp. 181–200. doi: DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139013451.014.Nasir, M., Kleinke, D. K. and McClelland, M. (2016) ‘Multidisciplinary patient-centered capstone seniordesign projects’, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. New Orleans,Louisiana: ASEE Conferences. doi: 10.18260/p.25764.Nezafati, M., Chua, M. and LeDoux, J. M. (2020) ‘Work in progress: A case study of integrating inclusiveengineering skills into a middle-years biomedical engineering course via model-based reasoning’, ASEEAnnual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. Virtual On
Paper ID #34926Design and Manufacturability of Medical Ventilators from the Perspectiveof a Global Automotive FootprintDr. H. Bryan Riley, Clemson University H. Bryan Riley Ph.D., joined Clemson University in July 2019 and currently teaches controls and man- ufacturing processes courses. He has taught courses in signal processing, electrical communication sys- tems, EE capstone design, electric machines, adaptive signal processing, and hybrid and electric vehicles. Riley, who spent his early career in the automotive industry, has managed multi-disciplined and global en- gineering teams responsible for introducing advanced
graduate level, has over 50 publications, is co-author of one book, and has done consulting for industry in Mexico and the US. He can be reached at Karim.Muci@sdsmt.edu.Dr. Laura Ochs Pottmeyer, Carnegie Mellon University Laura Pottmeyer is a Data Science Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation. She consults with faculty members and graduate students on implementing educational research projects. She assists with study design, data collection, and data analysis. Laura’s training includes a Ph.D. in Science Education and M.Ed. in Educational Psychology from the University of Virginia, where she studied the impact of engineering design integrated
abroad, service-learning, entrepreneurship programs, interdisciplinary courses) do E/CS students engage / not engage in? 2. How do the HIEP participation rates in E / CS students vary as E/CS students’ progress in their programs?To create a historical picture of the E/CS participation, we gathered and analyzed existing NSSEsurvey data to investigate the possible relationships between student demographics, andparticipation in HIEP.Data Analysis / ResultsThe main objective of this study is to examine the extent to which E/CS students participate inHIEP. The NSSE survey results indicate that the E/CS students engage in culminating seniorexperiences such as capstone courses and senior projects and internships or co-op programs
design [3], it is difficult to realizewithout adding another year to the existing, rigid course load requirements. Implementing theStrand Model and Freshman Seminars at The Citadel represents an effort to acknowledgedifferent interests.The entire General Education curriculum begins with a Freshman Seminar and correspondingFreshman Writing course. During the student’s senior year, the General Education curriculumculminates in a Capstone project that should be in the student’s major. Between the FreshmanSeminar and Writing Courses, all six outcomes are assessed. Again in the senior year capstone,all six outcomes are assessed. Throughout the General Education curriculum, specific outcomesare assessed in certain courses for depth and reinforcement