period of time, after which thesystem will be transferred to the University. The project is structured using the EngineeringClinic program, which places students in interdisciplinary, creative teams. Students are expectedto individually own portions of the final product, while collaborating in a team environment.Progress through the milestones is monitored through weekly status meetings with a graduatestudent manager and with supervising faculty. Another important dimension of the project is therequirement for frequent interaction with external vendors in order to develop the most accuratecost model for the project design. One industry connection is to a manufacturer of a novelinverter technology, which we plan to incorporate into the design to
design course, CE1402 Civil Engineering Design (CED), was developed tomimic the civil engineering experiences students will face when they enter the engineeringworkforce after graduation. While this capstone course model continues to develop with eachsuccessive year, assessment data shows that course and program objectives of graduatingstudents who can “plan, design, execute, and manage a complex open-ended civil engineeringproject” are being met [4]. In accomplishing this goal, students produce engineering designdocuments, construction drawings, cost estimates, construction schedules, and any othernecessary project specific documents. In addition, students communicate the results of theirproject via a technical report and a formal presentation
coordinator works with the lab technician in developing new in-class models to demonstratesome of the principles covered in the course. A schematic of the planning process is shown inFigure 2. Planning Review Previous Coordinate Develop Course EOCR Resources Schedule Train New Instructors Figure 2: Planning PhaseThe next step is to plan the course lectures, meetings, exam dates and lab schedules. This step isdone to ensure the topics in the classroom and lab are coordinated to provide maximum topicreinforcement for students. Some planning
systems steadily increase in scope and complexity, it is imperiousthat academia and practice develop the means to evaluate the successfulness or effectiveness of asystem and understand the factors and circumstances to build and maintain a successful system.The objective of conducting empirical research on systems success is to gain insight into thedetails of the complex systems processes and features which can be translated into prescriptiveaction plans for implementation. A focus of this article is to discuss how potential “userperceptions” influence on the information system effectiveness. The DeLone model is used as abase model for the systematic study of the features, factors and delivered benefits. The articleemploys the survey as an
no access to this type of health care and risk losing their livelihood.We are currently in Phase 2 of our initiative and our first trip to Haiti with students is planned for the first week ofJune 2012. The goal of our June trip is to gather the necessary technical information so that our teams can achievethe specific aims of each project. We are currently preparing four students for this trip. Two civil engineering andtwo athletic training students were selected through an application and interview process. We meet with thesestudents once a month in a large group to coordinate fundraising and to prepare them for the challenges of workingin a developing country and for facing poverty. In addition, we meet once or twice a month in discipline
, goals, and student needs. Some ofthe advising models documented in the literature include the following: (a) learning-centeredadvising approach (focused on connecting purpose of education with curriculum and degree),(b) engagement approach (focused on relationship building between student and advisor), (c)developmental advising approach (focused on student development and growth), (d)prescriptive academic advising approach (focused on checklists towards degree completion), (e)proactive advising approach (focused on students initiating advising meetings and advisorstacking those identified as at academic risk), (f) appreciative advising approach (focused oncreating positive interactions to support growth and academic planning), (g) flipped
disciplines has been achallenge. The Closing the Gaps initiative in Texas was launched in October 2000. This planaimed to close educational gaps within Texas and between Texas and other states by focusing onstudent participation, success, excellence, and research. In this paper we explore a series ofinterventions in a range of engineering and computer science degrees at the University of NorthTexas. The University of North Texas College of Engineering supports admission of all studentsinto the degree of their choice. We explore the enrollment patterns from the pre-pandemic, post-pandemic, new HSI designation, a resulting NSF grant and planning for implementation of theTexas Senate Bill 17 in 2023. We employ an asset framework through creating a range
, and career traineeship inaerospace-centric fields. The streamlined process of recruitment and project-based learning incollaboration with NASA and other aerospace professionals has shown to be effective in trainingthe first cohort of undergraduate and graduate students during the first year of programimplementation.During the summer of 2022, 6 NASA interns and 6 summer Research Experiences forUndergraduate (REU) students participated in the 10-week summer program with professionaldevelopment (PD) program featuring project management, career planning, RCR training,self-reflection, and technical communication. Because research shows that STEM students citepositive mentoring experiences as the most crucial factor in their retention, we developed
starting salaries, these rarely come with defined benefit pension plans, but rather rely onemployees to navigate various investment plans for their retirement. At our school, civilengineering students take a senior seminar course that has a collection of topics to prepare themfor successful entry into and growth throughout their professional life. Among the topics in ourinitial offering of this seminar course was one seminar on the basics of financial literacy andmanagement, which proved to be very popular and highly rated as to its perceived usefulness bythe students. As a result of student feedback, the seminar was expanded to two seminar periods.This led the author to ask the questions: (1) is there a need for financial literacy education
Green [3]Balzer for the current and assessment interview process State University (BGSU) (USA)Melanie Dow 2009 Lean process review, which was led by the office of quality Carleton [3] initiative (OQI) to support the people in the campus University (USA) community by mainly focusing on five points, including discovering, planning, scoping, a sponsor, and team launchBrent Hurley 2009 Sustainable Future Initiative office provided training, Edinburgh Napier [3]and Steve consulting
the weaker response was due the content itself or studentpreference for learning face-to-face.Informal feedback provided through the students’ PTO reflections often showed the studentsmodifying their original plan due to the on-going impact of COVID-19 within the community, andseasonable change. In general, despite changes in specific individual activities, students maintaineddeliberate plans to keep in touch with friends and family, and indicated the framing of a plan, even ifnot followed precisely, brought comfort during times of challenge.This paper discusses the COVID-19 adaptions made within the first-year engineering designcurriculum, and reflects on their impact fulfilling the required learning outcomes, mitigating studentmental health
-stage formation of osteoarthritis, causing severe damage to the knee joint. Dr. Fizz decided that the best plan of action was a total knee replacement.2.2 Biomechanical Engineering ProjectThe semester-long project consisted of three modules. The experimental version was integratedwith additional entrepreneurial components. The proposed modules are defined below.Part 1: Module 1- Treatment Plan Research PaperUsing their assigned patient profiles, student teams were asked to survey the available treatmentoptions, including details about two options, and then choose one treatment option over the otherwhile providing a rationale for their choice. Those in the experimental version were givenadditional information in the format of
graduate degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech (PhD) and Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia (UVa). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 From website to work environment: Exploring minority undergraduate engineering students’ conceptualizations of engineering careers at national laboratoriesAbstract Within engineering education, there have been rising calls for more research on thetransitional period students face leading up to graduation (e.g., post-graduation planning) andmoving into the next phase of their career. This study seeks to complement existing research byexploring the experience of students as they seek to make sense of engineering career
execution [17].The main characteristic of this stage is that the team develops the working mechanism toeffectively guide their collaborative work with strategies and plans. Continued collaboration thenleads to the fourth stage, Performing. At this stage, all members understand the expertise,position, working style, and personality of everyone to a certain degree. In addition, the teamcould prevent or even harvest from potential conflicts with constructive conversations.Adjourning is the last stage and refers to the period of time when the team disbands or finishesthe project [11-12]. After successful team experiences, teammates share feelings of sadness,express a willingness to work more in the future, recognize and appreciate the importance ofeach
anundergraduate-only, project-focused curriculum. Students are given instruction and mustdemonstrate their abilities to execute team-based design and to build projects in all of their fouryears of study. The pedagogical basis for their required design classes is governed by aProfessional Plan, assuring that by graduation all ME students experience key areas of theengineering profession and show the ability to perform at an acceptable professional level.The authors of this paper have delivered the freshman and sophomore design classes at WKU formore than a decade. The courses are stable; student performance in all aspects of design havebeen consistently assessed and deemed successful. The stability of this aspect of the curriculumwas thrown into
. Likewise, efforts mostly but not entirely led by the abovementionedfaculty commission, such as the annual offering of a teaching workshop and teaching conference,as well as new faculty training, a variety of seminars and teaching chats, and voluntary peerobservation all work to reinforce a university culture that is focused on quality teaching andpedagogical development.According to our university’s mission, we provide “a hands-on, project-based learningenvironment” and we aspire to be on the leading edge of “innovative teaching.”Indeed, this phrase appears in a recently released strategic plan, which further emphasizesexcellence and the guiding value of “embracing and celebrating the highest quality standards inteaching.”Though our university is
a new approach, inwhich laboratory activities based on 21st-century engineering problems are used to enhancestudents' higher-order thinking skills and reinforce fundamental knowledge. Topics of thelaboratory activities included Sustainability, Machine Learning, Additive Manufacturing,Autonomy and Robotics, and Energy. In this course, students apply their prior knowledge in HeatTransfer, Fluid Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, Materials, and Chemistry and integrating with newmaterial to solve complex engineering problems involved multiples principles. To graduallyimprove student's critical thinking ability, we structured this course into six levels, following theRevised Bloom's taxonomy. Students use their cognitive skills to plan and conduct
1 Integrating SAP into an Online Engineering Technology Class: Issues and Outcomes Jeff Cunion Engineering Technology Department Tarleton State University Brigitte Barbier Engineering Technology Department Tarleton State University AbstractSAP’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is considered a standard among thousands ofcompanies around the globe. Since employers are interested in hiring SAP trained collegegraduates, hundreds of
UTEP in 2001. He received the UT System Board of Regents Outstanding Teaching Award in 2012. From 1996 to 2001 he was the Technology Planning manager for AT&T-Alestra in Mexico; and before that was the Telecommunica- tions Director for ITESM in Mexico. His research areas are in Communications Networks, Fiber Optics, Wireless Sensors, Process Automation, and Engineering Education.Mr. Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso Mike Pitcher is the Director of Academic Technologies at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has had experience in learning in both a traditional university program as well as the new online learning model, which he utilizes in his current position consulting with faculty about the
are: “1) Collaboration between and among highereducation institution partners, education service cooperatives, schools, and communitiesparticipating in the education renewal zone, including within the academic departments withinthe higher education institution partners; and 2) A comprehensive program of professionaldevelopment to assure the practical knowledge base of pre-service and in service teachers …..”4 The ideas behind the UASPP fit these requirements very well. The frequent contact byNWA-ERZ staff with the participating public schools has resulted in the kind of workingrelationship that generally takes time to develop. This established network provided Engineeringan ideal mechanism to plan the logistics of the UASPP
, laboratories, and the bulk of the academic staff were provided by USSR as partof technical assistance. This program, too, had an organized plan to train Afghan faculty tocarry the academic operation of that institute in the future. The curriculum of Polytechnicwas devoted to the Civil Engineering, Mining, and Geology fields. The curriculum in eacharea was much more specialized at the undergraduate level than the typical undergraduateprogram in the US institutions of higher learning. The Polytechnic curriculum was a five-year BS program with six months practical. Most of the teaching materials were translatedinto the local languages, Pashto and Dari. In some cases, students in the last few semesterscould use Russian textbooks in their courses.Both male
societies and industry leadershighlighting initiatives. The initiatives were grouped under an area of focus in the IFEESStrategic Plan: Infrastructure and Accreditation; Research, Development and Entrepreneurship;Student Success; and Lifelong Learning. This paper presents an analysis and summary of theoutcomes of the Summit.IntroductionThe International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES)1 was created on the 9thof October 2006 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Within days IFEES joined the Organization ofAmerican States (OAS), the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), Engineeringfor the Americas (EftA), the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of EngineeringInstitutions (LACCEI), the Asociación Iberoamericana de
) MEdepartments can better focus on advanced/graduate level education with better utilization ofprofessorial staff.This article examines a 2-year common curriculum template for ME and MET programs basedon CDIO, and summarizes preliminary assessment results of the proposed educational modelcollected from industry participants. The template assumes a full-time course of study in 4semesters after which the student selects to either complete a BS in Engineering Technology in 2additional years, or transfer to an ME degree plan which may be 2-, 3-, or 4-years long. Bothplans are assumed to be constructed so as to be ABET Accredited by the appropriateCommission. An Electrical/Computer Engineering and Electrical/Computer ET 2-yearcurriculum template is being
George Westinghouse Award (1980), Rocky Mountain Division Outstanding Teaching Award (1998), and the Chemical Engineering Division Lectureship Award (2003). Page 14.1041.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Sabbatical and Academic Leaves – An Investment in Your Future!AbstractTaking a sabbatical or academic leave is becoming less popular owing to the problems associatedwith dual income families and the need to keep research programs running. This paper advancesstrong arguments for fitting well-timed leaves into one’s long-range academic plans. The authorhas taken
has authored and co-authored several journal and conference publications in topics related to engineering education and course man- agement, design coordination, change management, site layout planning, constructability, claims and disputes, and simulation of design and construction operations.Miss Sarah Samir Sedra, United Arab Emirates university Sarah S. Sedra, a telecommunication engineer currently working at Etisalat UAE as mobile access plan- ning engineer. Worked previously for two years as an low voltage electrical engineer in AECOM middle east. Graduated in 2013 from Communication & electronics department in faculty of engineering Cairo university. After working for almost 4 years now I just started
universities and colleges that couldfoster student interaction. This information can provide a basic panorama of cross disciplinaryAEC education in the United States.MethodologyGiven this scenario, this study analyzes the core curricula of CM programs affiliated with theAssociated Schools of Construction (ASC) in an effort to determine overlaps and potentialoverlaps between required courses in the plans of study of CM and other AEC disciplines. Thisresearch involves curriculum analysis of construction management, architecture, and civilengineering programs of American universities that have CM affiliated programs. Researchersfocus only on bachelor’s degrees within those academic institutions.In order to provide a survey of the current state of cross
State University’s 2000-2005 Strategic Plan, which reflected an expanded mission with a focus on research. From itsinitial founding, the ECE department had significant collaborations with local industry and inparticular from two major technology corporations that surrounded it. As the program grew andexpanded, the need for a doctoral program was seen as a natural next step in the progress of theuniversity and critical to serving the needs of local industry.Since this would be the first doctoral program in engineering and only the third at the university,several challenges existed. The first was the high cost associated with such a program, thesecond was resistance to the university in moving from a comprehensive institution to a
techniciansprograms [1]–[3].In its five-year history, KS has also provided technical assistance for developing and submittingproposals to NSF but has engaged 2-year HSIs exclusively. Prior to proposal development, KSfacilitates a STEM self-assessment and strengths/gap heatmap discussion with a cross-departmental STEM team at each participating college [4] [5]. KS then facilitates the 2-year HSISTEM team in developing a STEM plan and prioritized research concepts that align with theCollege Strategy, leverage STEM strengths, and address STEM gaps. This approach by KS hasgenerated a portfolio of potential research funding opportunities for STEM improvements at each2-year HSI prior to proposal development.The approach for the HSI ATE Hub is a 2-step intervention
- tical, access and data products developed by Fujitsu. Rodney was Chairman of the T1X1 Technical Sub-Committee (the organization responsible for SONET standardization) from 1990 through 1994. He has been active in SONET’s National and International Standardization since 1985. In addition, Rodney has published numerous papers and presentations on SONET. Rodney began his career with Fujitsu Network Communications in 1989 as the Director of Strategic Plan- ning. He also held the positions of Director of Transport Product Planning, Vice President of Business Management, Senior Vice President of Sales Management, Senior Vice President of Manufacturing, and c American Society for Engineering
. Most recently, he worked at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on the MAPI contract. He worked on the Lunar Gateway concept planning team, as well as the ISS’s requirements assurance team.Mr. James M. Thom, Purdue University J. Mark Thom is an Associate Professor at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He teaches courses in the Aeronautical Engineering Technology program, as well as courses in design analysis. He is a co- director in Purdue’s National Test Facility for fuels and propulsion, and has been a PI on work related to the FAA’s Piston Aviation Alternative Fuel development program. He has maintained research interests in propulsion systems and in fuels testing, in areas related to the recruitment of