increasingly acknowledging the importance of creativityin engineering design. All recognize that the shifting world presents challenges that requireinnovation, and as such, engineering education should concentrate on training engineers with thecapacity to innovate.The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Research Council (NRC) Centerfor Education established principles in 2006 to guide pre-college engineering education,including emphasizing engineering design and promoting an engineering mindset thatencourages creativity [8]. However, integrating engineering concepts into pre-college curricularemains difficult, particularly in STEM classrooms. Despite engineering occupying a significantplace in STEM, it is often seen as separate from
necessitates taking the contextsof action into account in instructional design. From the perspective of assessment, “ethics inaction” is problematic for instructors who encounter students only in the classroom context. It isnonetheless quite useful because it provides an integrative, non-hierarchical framework thatallows us to think about engineering ethics education on a larger scale than we ordinarily do. Italso opens up the possibility of recognizing the structural factors that have made it difficult tointegrate ethics into the engineering curriculum on a systematic basis.Despite an abundance of resources available to support engineering ethics instruction, includingcases provided through the Online Ethics Center (OEC), “the engineering literature
: • Public policy in student outcome guidance- Engineering education guidance programs can more explicitly target the concept of “public policy” as a part of required learning outcomes. • Public policy in the undergraduate curriculum- An effort to formalize the amount of public policy knowledge gained in the undergraduate level, versus leaving it for the graduate level, could be clearer across institutions throughout the country. • Undergraduate program guidance- Program guidance on how to integrate public policy at all four undergraduate levels is needed (from introductory courses to upper level required design courses
Paper ID #36688Development of an Online Phase-Field Theory Course for MechanicalEngineering Graduate StudentsDr. Yucheng Liu, South Dakota State University Dr. Yucheng Liu (PhD, PE, FASME, FSAE) currently serves as the Department Head of Mechanical Engineering (ME) Department at South Dakota State University (SDSU) and holds the Sander Professor of Entrepreneurial Engineering in the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering at SDSU. Prior to joining SDSU in the fall of 2021, Dr. Liu was an Associate/Full Professor in the ME Department at Mississippi State University (MSU) since the fall of 2014. In that department, he served as
learning andresearch. This can involve seeking out opportunities for independent study and project work, workingcollaboratively with peers and mentors, and taking advantage of professional development workshopsand training programs.Similarly, in upcoming years, the engineering workforce will require particular skill sets that involvethe combination of discipline-specific knowledge and technology to address complex problems with theinvolvement of diverse field experts. Thus, co-creation is being proposed as an alternative learning andteaching method. This refers to the joint and collaborative effort between educators and students to de-sign and implement curriculum components, pedagogical approaches, and other educational initiatives.This approach
which using thestand in stark contrast as follows [11]: agile approach continues to be an absorbing topic even to the Predictive: Low-risk tolerance, supports economies of converts. Consider what Canty [17] writes, "Many projects scale, less need for innovation, integrates well with the have achieved successful outcomes with agile hierarchical culture implementations. On the other hand, some organizations are very cautious about forging ahead with agile. This guarded Adaptive: Higher risk tolerance, need for innovation, approach is based upon the acknowledgment
, e4usa [7] found that administrators from a singleschool site reported a desire for a more holistic approach to adopting engineering at the highschool level than simply providing a curriculum. This included reporting a desire for professionaldevelopment for teachers, connections to larger curricular and standards movements, andconnections to industry or community. Several studies have also explored the role of administrators within STEM integrationand broader STEM initiatives in order to understand how administrators can facilitate or hinderthe success of such initiatives [8,9]. For instance, in an evaluation of a state-wide multi-yearinitiative to increase the use of STEM integration in high schools, Havice et al. (2019) found
Department of Architectural Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the Director of the Partnership for Achieving Construction Excellence (PACE) at Penn State. Rob is an invesDr. Ryan L. Solnosky P.E., Pennsylvania State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Contributions of interdisciplinary learning towards AE graduates’ success: and industry perspectiveAbstract Interdisciplinary learning plays an important role in the field of Architecture, Engineering andConstruction (AEC). However, ingraining interdisciplinary learning into a curriculum is both an importantand challenging need. Previous studies have found that
Hopkins. K. Hands-On Design Activities for Introduction to Engineering Courses to Accommodate Students of Varying Backgrounds; ASEE 2022 17. Aurand, J. and Adolson,D. “Ten Years and Ten Lessons Learned: Design of an Introduction to Engineering Course in a Nascent School of Engineering’ ASEE 2021. 18. Quallen, M., Crepeau, J., Will,B., Beyerlein,S. and J. Peterson “Transforming Introductory Engineering Courses to Match GenZ Learning Styles’ ; ASEE 2021. 19. McNeil, J. and Thompson, A. Enhancing Curriculum in a First-Year Introduction to Engineering Course to Assist Students in Choice of Major”, 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition; New Orleans, July 2016. 20. Birch,D.; Integrating MS Excel in Engineering Technology
Paper ID #38521The Evolution of an Interdisciplinary Case-Based Learning First-YearCourseDr. Rea Lavi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rea Lavi, PhD, is lecturer and a curriculum designer with the New Engineering Education Transformation program and with the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and with the, both in the School of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA. He also advises the MIT Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab on educational projects. Dr. Lavi teaches a case-based course open to all first-year students at MIT on approaches for tackling
in the Engineering Technology curriculum, there is an opportunity to expand knowledgeinvolving the integration of automation into a production system. In order to better prepare studentsfor this subject and the job market, an interdisciplinary senior design team is designing andconstructing a cobot system which will simulate a cobot assisting in CNC manufacturing (Figure9). This newly developed integrated cell will have a new co-robot with vision camera for therobotics lab and will be used as an educational module involving the integration of automatedmachinery. This module is still under development and will be integrated to this course in nextyear offering. Figure 9. Conceptual co-robot integrated cell and simulation with Robodk
in Singapore which will be discussed later in the paper.Thirdly, STEM Inc., an entity under the Science Centre Singapore, supports schoolsimplementing STEM-related curriculums. Similarly, the Multi-centric Education Research andIndustry STEM Centre at the National Institute of Education (meriSTEM@NIE Centre) alsoplayed a vital role in leading and facilitating STEM education development in Singapore. Lastlyare the ground-up efforts such as STEM co-curricular activities, competitions, research projects,and industrial visits. The current initiatives have demonstrated a relatively surface level of STEMand engineering integration. Many potentials can be seen, and gaps in the system await educatorsto address and further refine.Potentials and
,self-worth) [6].Sense of community is defined as “the perception of similarity to others, an acknowledgedinterdependence with others, a willingness to maintain this interdependence by giving to or doingfor others what one expects from them, and the feeling that one is part of a larger dependable andstable structure [7].” It is comprised of the following sub-factors [8], [9], [10]: 1. Membership: feeling that one has invested part of oneself. 2. Influence: sense of opportunity to affect outcomes. 3. Needs fulfillment: both individual and community needs are met reciprocally. 4. Emotional connection: shared history, personal investment, and quality interaction.Commuter students face additional challenges in integrating into
Michigan. Her educational research interests include conceptual understanding of electrical engineering concepts and assessing the impact of curriculum changes. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Incorporating Giving Voice to Values (GVV) into an Engineering Ethics CourseAbstractThe Department of Engineering and Society instructors at the University of Virginia recentlydeveloped a new course on Engineering Ethics aimed at second- and third-year students. Unlikeprevious courses in the department, the mid-level course emphasizes micro-ethics and employsthe Giving Voice to Values (GVV) framework. The emphasis on micro-ethics is timely andappropriate
integration at an early stage in the process. Integratingtechnical and non-technical subjects can be used to develop efficient integration, e.g., computer,industrial design, and marketing2; and also, for breaking down established approaches andprocesses to give a new outlook, e.g., the integration of the arts and STEM into STEAM.3 1 Proceedings of the 2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference Copyright © 2023, American Society for Engineering EducationOthers have focused explicitly on art and engineering design through integrated studios toincrease creativity.4 Here, we approach interdisciplinary design
applying much of thecourse content to calculate seepage, stress and the potential for liquefaction.As a discipline, geotechnical engineering is dynamic and deeply connected to the drama ofhuman fortunes and misfortunes. In didactic settings, however, mastering its concepts andtechniques can be experienced as complex, tedious, and disconnected from meaning. To supportstudents in achieving the intended learning outcomes, the instructors of this course have, overtime, come to incorporate both transmedia and IE elements, using an iterative process of design,testing, and adaptation to refine and optimize the curriculum and its components. Four types ofunderstanding — mythic, romantic, theoretic, and ironic — and their associated cognitive toolswere
SO4,7 SO2,3,4,5,6,7 Figure 2: Framework connecting character virtues to ethical decision-making in engineeringIII. Study ContextIn 2017, Wake Forest University (WFU) launched its newest undergraduate program, aDepartment of Engineering targeted at offering an interdisciplinary BS Engineering degree.Delivery of the curriculum was happening in the midst of developing the program and vision,and it became clear that this was an opportunity to reimagine and redefine engineering educationand engineering graduates. Virtues like empathy, courage, intellectual humility, integrity, self-awareness, justice, purpose, curiosity, creativity, compassion and authenticity were identified asbeing essential to the kind of engineering graduate
Paper ID #37528Board 151: An After-school STEM Program with a Novel Equitable andInclusive Structure (Work in Progress, Diversity)Dr. Matthew Aldeman, Illinois State University Matt Aldeman is an Associate Professor of Technology at Illinois State University, where he teaches in the Renewable Energy and Engineering Technology programs. Matt joined the Technology department faculty after working at the Illinois State University Center for Renewable Energy for over five years. Previously, he worked at General Electric as a wind site manager at the Grand Ridge and Rail Splitter wind projects. Matt’s experience also
wasobserved that students were unwilling to make rough estimates before and after performingFinite Element Analysis, often trusting the computer simulations without reservation [9].Furthermore, these deficiencies in estimation ability were observed from undergraduate fourth-year students [7] [9].Given the lack of emphasis on estimation in the curriculum and the observed shortcomings instudents' estimation ability, we sought to answer the question: How would a student select from arange of low complexity to high complexity methods if given the freedom to choose, and howwould this choice affect their problem solving outcome? In this paper, we address this questionin two ways. First, we conducted an experiment with student participants to give an
develop a better understanding of the technical content, societal andeconomic impact of the proposed solution, while supporting the students’ preparedness andreadiness for the workforce.IntroductionThere are numerous recent scholarly works examined the way in which the Kern EntrepreneurialEngineering Network (KEEN)’s mindset is enhancing the students’ engagement and skills invarious engineering courses, like Material Science [1], or Mechanical Design or StructuralAnalysis [2, 3, 4], or Fluid Mechanics [5, 6, 7, 8] or across engineering curriculum [9, 10, 11, 12,13].In all instances, the authors found that the inclusion of an entrepreneurship education, aspromoted by KEEN, and further support the engineering students’ readiness for the
challenges faced by students entering college [3]. The prerequisiteskills required in an engineering program leave students more likely to experience thesechallenges [2], [4]. First-year engineering students are often simultaneously enrolled in coremath, engineering, and science courses which require strong fundamentals and involvecomputationally intensive content [2], [5].Efforts have been made to better understand these transitional challenges for first-yearengineering students [6]. Tinto's Model of Integration emphasizes the importance of academicand social integration for first-year student success [7], which has been used as the foundationfor models related to engineering retention in engineering education [2], [8]. University ofMichigan
" instead of identifying tasks they can do. Also often at busy times, it's hard to prioritize what needs to be done first.And a third participant echoed that her biggest challenge in this phase had been “Becoming a tasklead for an intern, and two junior engineers. Delegating work, answering questions, checking workwhile managing my own workload.”While the particular focus of each phase of learning varied, what remained constant was thesalience of needing to learn how to establish, navigate, manage and overcome challenges relatedto new processes and relationships. This integrated relationship among processes, relationships,and outcomes is depicted in Figure 2. Outcomes
enabledthrough devices that feature integrated cameras or by use of projectors according toCarmigniani & Fuhrt (2011) [11] . MR is viewed to represent the merging of real-worldelements within virtual worlds. These 3 models fall into a blanket term known as extendedreality, yet each has their own specific means of engagement [10].VR is heavily reliant on computer-based technology which incorporates specialized input andoutput devices to allow the user to interact and experience these virtual environments. Thesedevices usually include an HMD (Head Mounted Display) accompanied by a physicalcomponent to which one would interact with in order to impact or navigate the digital worldand thus provides a link between the physical feeling of touch and the
structures that need be remedied. Ultimately, these findings illuminate and helpprioritize the human, financial, and physical resources dedicated towards supporting all transferstudents in engineering.Summary of Selected ResultsCultivating a cohort: Integrating community college students in pre-transfer programsAs we fully describe in Grote et al. [3], the VT-NETS program focused on a variety of pre-transfer supports to help improve the transfer pathway within engineering. Rather than waitingfor students to transfer to Virginia Tech, this program is an example of how a four-yearinstitution can actively participate in the education process during students’ time at a communitycollege. Pre-transfer support programs that we instituted included cohort
havestudents solve complex problems that mimic real-world situations [1]. PBL is shown to improveinnovation [2], meta-cognition [3], engagement and meaningfulness [4, 5]. It also promotes de-sign thinking [6] and curriculum integration [7, 8]. PBL encourages students to learn by doingrather than memorizing [9], and is recommended as an effective teaching and learning method incomputer science courses [10].The immersive simulation-based learning (ISBL) modules used in this paper combine the benefitsof PBL and immersive simulated environments. Simulated and immersive environments, such asvirtual reality (VR), immerse the user in a virtual world with which the user can interact [11]. Sev-eral studies have investigated the efficacy of immersive
participation in engineering byopening up more perspectives of what is engineering using diverse contexts.References[1] M. Knight and C. Cunningham, “Draw an Engineer Test (DAET): Development of a Tool to Investigate Students’ Ideas about Engineers and Engineering,” in Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, 2004.[2] L. Berthoud, S. Lancastle, M. A. Gilbertson, and M. Gilbertson, “Designing a resilient curriculum for a joint engineering first year,” in Annual Conference Proceedings for the 2021 European Society for Engineering Education, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361461385[3] J. R. Morelock, “A systematic
the United States. For instance, the PENG Instructional and Outreach Program (Pre-IOP) was developed to increase the number of skilled high-tech professionals, particularly among historically underrepresented groups (minorities and women). A thorough communication campaign promoting the benefits of careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) introduced a PENG curriculum in middle and high schools to achieve this goal [20]. The integrated Teaching and Learning (ITL) Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder created a PENG outreach program for K–12 instructors and students to inspire students about the benefits of PENG topics. Program effectiveness was evaluated based onparticipants' feedback, long-term
]. Available: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data[5] U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, “Employment Projections: Fastest growing occupations,” 2022. Accessed: Feb. 12, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables.htm[6] T. Simley et al., “Assessing the Efficacy of Integrating Computer Science, Math, and Science in a Middle School Sphero Robotics Summer Program,” in 2020 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology, RESPECT 2020 - Proceedings, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Mar. 2020. doi: 10.1109/RESPECT49803.2020.9272479.[7] A. Sullivan and M. U. Bers, “Robotics in the early childhood classroom: learning outcomes from an 8
the assessment process as a means ofaddressing academic integrity, along with communicating clearly during courses what theimplications of cheating and plagiarism are on the cheating process, thus that ultimately thestudent is the loser.BYOP has been successfully implemented in both in person and online courses (see Table 1) andthere is no element of the methodology that requires being in person to achieve quality results. Ido not have significant experience in online courses that do not have regular weekly “class”sessions so I cannot comment intelligently on how to implement BYOP in an asynchronousformat. The connection between instructor and student is vital for the success of this approach.For future work, the first thing to consider is
into the curriculum as an engaged learning activity, for which she was awarded an ASME Graduate Teacher Fellowship.Dr. Jae-Eun Russell, Dr. Russell serves as the Associate Director for the Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology at the University of Iowa. She completed her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Iowa. Her research examines instructional practices that support successful student learning. Her research also in- volves autonomous motivation, self-regulated learning, technology adoption, and learning analytics adop- tion. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Abstract:Current research documents the notable advantages active learning methods like