careers in science and engineering unless majorchanges are seen. These individuals present a strong, albeit largely untapped, resource forbuilding the nation’s scientific workforce.5African Americans and Hispanics-Latinos compromised only six percent of the science andengineering labor force in 1993. From 1995 to 2005, non-Hispanic minorities showed noincreases in proportion to undergraduate engineering enrollment and Hispanics made minimalgains from seven percent to nine percent.4 With these demographic trends in mind, the National Page 14.624.2Science Foundation (NSF) stated that more efforts are needed to attract minorities
AC 2009-82: WEST AFRICAN TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION, ANDRECIPROCITY IMPLEMENTATION IN BENINBradley Striebig, James Madison University Dr. Bradley A. Striebig is an associate professor of Engineering at James Madison University. He has a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Penn State University, where he was the head of the Environmental Technology Group at the Applied research Laboratory. Prior to accepting a position to develop the engineering program at James Madison University, Brad was a faculty member in the Civil Engineering department at Gonzaga University. He has worked on various water projects throughout the US and in Benin and Rwanda.Susan Norwood, Gonzaga University Susan
the mind. All five dimensions were addressedin unison. Classes were held in a wireless mobile classroom and students were providednotebook computers with the Discourse software to create an interactive learning environment.Though it is not the focus of this paper, it should be noted that approaches not focusing solely onmathematics to retain freshman engineering students appear in the research literature. Forexample, the previously mentioned integrated curricula, computer programming, and learningcommunities are strategies in and of themselves. Examples of other approaches involve designefforts, projects, and teams17; time management and study skills18; hands-on laboratoryactivities19; robotics20; collaboration with senior-level engineering
2006-180: ENHANCING A REINFORCED CONCRETE DESIGN COURSE BYLINKING THEORY AND PHYSICAL TESTINGDouglas Cleary, Rowan University Douglas Cleary is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engingeering at Rowan University. He is a registered professional engineering and serves on two committees withing the American Concrete Institute including E802-Teaching Methods and Education Materials. He received his BSCE, MSCE, and Ph.D degrees from Purdue Univeristy in 1987, 1988, and 1992, respectively. Page 11.582.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Enhancing a Reinforced
engineering curriculum.” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2004, p 14165-14179. 5. Vygotsky, L.S. Mind in Society: The development of higher psychological processes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978. 6. Bandura, A. Social Foundations of Thought and Action. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986. 7. Riley, D., Claris, L., Paul-Schultz, N. and Ngambeki, I. Learning/Assessment: A tool for assessing liberative pedagogies in engineering education. ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2006 (in press). 8. Harris, C. E., Pritchard, M.S. and Rabins, M.J. Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases Stamford, CT: Thomson Wadsworth, 2005
2006-368: ASSESSING GROUP LEARNING USING WIKIS: AN APPLICATION TOCAPSTONE DESIGNKelley Racicot, Washington State UniversityCharles Pezeshki, Washington State University Page 11.237.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Assessing Group Learning Using Wikis: An Application to Capstone DesignAbstractIn this paper, we discuss the use of a wiki for documenting social knowledge in thecontext of an industrially-based capstone design course and for assessing group learning.Students create a knowledge management (KM) tool for the explicit purposes of sharinglessons learned with wider audiences and engaging in active group assessment, wherestudents actively develop
Trinidad. Page 11.976.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Our First Experience with International Senior Design Projects – Lessons LearnedAbstractThe advantages of international experiences for engineering students are well documented. Withthis in mind, we decided to take our 18-year-old, client-based, senior design class “on the road.”This foray into the realm of international projects did not come without some anxieties: • Could we properly manage such a long-distance project? • How much of a sacrifice would it be to forego a site visit? • Would codes and regulations be nonexistent
Engineering Education, Salt Lake City, UT7. Douglas J, Iversen E, and Kalyandurg C, “Engineering in the K-12 Classroom: An Analysis of Current Practices & Guidelines for the Future,” ASEE Engineering K12 Center, November 2004.8. Kolb DA. “Experiential learning: experience as the source of learning and development.” Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1984. Page 11.828.149. Honey P and Mumford A, “The Manual of Learning Styles” Maidenhead: Homey, 1986. 1310. Bransford J, Brown A. and Cooking R. “How people learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School.” National Academy Press, Washington DC
.” • An accounting student: “The engineering and electronics students won’t give me any numbers.” • A business student: “The electronics and CAD students had their minds already made up about what they’re going to do. They wouldn’t listen to us.” • An engineering student: “Those business students are hard to work with. Marketing students said we’d never be able to sell it. Two days later our instructor found something like it selling for 40 bucks. The accountants said our idea was no good – too complicated. We worked okay with the electronics guys.” • An electronics student: “I kind of understand the CAD students, but I don’t know what those business students are thinking with. Instead of
Relevant Curriculum, Balanced Assessment, and Engaging Instruction. Charlottesville, VA.3. Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning. (2006). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (Expanded Edition). National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.4. Felder, R., and Silverman, L. (1988). Learning and teaching styles in engineering education, Engineering Education, 78(7), 674–681.5. Coffield, F., Moseley, D., Hall, E., and Ecclestone, K. (2004). Should we be using learning styles? What research has to say to practice. Learning and Skills Research Centre, Cromwell Press, Trowbridge, Wiltshire.6. Scott, C. (2010). The enduring appeal of ‘learning styles’. Australian Journal of Education, 54(1), 5–15.7. Meriam-Webster
Paper ID #18864Problem-based Learning Module for Teaching Thermodynamic Cycle Anal-ysis using PYroMatDr. Christopher Reed Martin, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Martin received his PhD in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech, where his research focused on reduced order modelling of combustion instabilities. He worked for ESAB Welding and Cutting in plasma torch research and development, and has taught at four drastically dissimilar universities over ten years. His primary area of research is in the area of research is thermal fluid control.Dr. Joseph Ranalli, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton Campus Dr
Paper ID #19234Developing Machine-Assisted Analysis of Engineering Students’ Ethics CourseAssignmentsDr. Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University Roman Taraban is Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Texas Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. His interests are in how undergraduate students learn, and especially, in critical thinking and how students draw meaningful con- nections in traditional college content materials.Mr. Mark Stephen LaCour Jr., Texas Tech University Mark is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Texas
entrepreneurially minded learning were conducted by EASE faculty for other faculty in the college. • Several EASE faculty participated twice to submit proposals to NSF’s Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) solicitation. While unsuccessful in securing a grant, the faculty were gratified to receive very positive feedback from external reviewers providing validation of their work.Potential Impact on Underrepresented Students and Faculty The shared department should be effective in addressing several issues that have beenidentified as barriers to participation of women and minorities in engineering fields. In particular,women and minorities have been deterred from entering engineering because of the relativelyfew
Paper ID #18300Five-Minute Demonstrations:MinimalFaculty InvestmentforMaximumLearn-ing ImpactDr. Pamela L Dickrell, University of Florida Dr. Pamela Dickrell is the Associate Director of the Institute for Excellence in Engineering Education (IE3) at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida. She designs and teaches large enrollment service courses, and researches innovative educational methods for the delivery of curriculum to students across multiple engineering majors. Her prior appointment at UF was director of the engineering distance learning program, UF EDGE (Electronic Delivery of
Paper ID #19158Helping Engineering and Computer Science Students Find Joy in Their WorkDr. Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University Ken Van Treuren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at Baylor University. He received his B. S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado and his M. S. in Engineering from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. After serving as USAF pilot in KC-135 and KC-10 aircraft, he completed his DPhil in Engineering Sciences at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom and returned to the USAF Academy to teach heat transfer and propulsion
Paper ID #26977Small Mentoring Efforts that Make a Big Difference for RetentionDr. Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel Robert Rabb is an associate professor and the Mechanical Engineering Program Director at The Citadel. He previously taught mechanical engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Military Academy and his M.S.E. and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching interests are in mechatronics, regenerative power, and multidisciplinary engineering.Dr. Ronald W. Welch P.E
Paper ID #26193Teaching Thermodynamic Properties of Water Without TearsDr. Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University Dr. Smitesh Bakrania is an associate professor in Mechanical Engineering at Rowan University. He re- ceived his Ph.D. from University of Michigan in 2008 and his B.S. from Union College in 2003. His research interests include combustion synthesis of nanoparticles and combustion catalysis using nanopar- ticles. He is also involved in developing educational apps for instructional and research purposes.Dr. Francis (Mac) Haas, Rowan University Mac Haas, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rowan University
Paper ID #27004The Relationship Between Spatial Skills and Solving Problems in ChemicalEngineeringDr. Norman W. Loney, University of Cincinnati Norman Loney received his undergraduate and graduate chemical engineering and mathematics degrees from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He has authored or coauthored more than 64 publications and presentations relating to the use of applied mathematics in chemical engineering since joining the Chemical Engineering department at NJIT in 1991. His most noteworthy publication is the textbook: ”Applied Mathematical Methods for Chemical Engineers” 2nd Ed. published by
and structural designer, he has worked on a range of projects that included houses, hospitals, recreation centers, institutional buildings, and conservation of historic buildings/monuments. Professor Sudarshan serves on the Working Group-6: Tensile and Membrane Structures of the Inter- national Association of Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS), the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) Aerospace Division’s Space Engineering and Construction Technical Committee, and the ASCE/ACI- 421 Technical Committee on the Design of Reinforced Concrete Slabs. He is the Program Chair of the Architectural Engineering Division of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). He is also a member of the Structural
Paper ID #26585Know Your Role! Defining Faculty and External Stakeholder Roles in a Mul-tidisciplinary Capstone CourseDr. David Paul Harvie, United States Military Academy David Harvie is an active duty Army officer and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the United States Military Academy. David has a Ph.D. in Com- puter Science from the University of Kansas, a M.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University, and a B.S. in Computer Science from the United States Military Academy.Dr. Tanya Thais Estes, United States Military Academy Tanya Estes has a Ph.D
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, a Designer, and a tenure track Assistant Professor at Mississippi State Uni- versity. She believes that well-designed digital experiences and technology can improve the quality of human living, and her goal is to design, make, and create things that have an impact on society. Having this personal mission statement in mind, her design and research have been focusing on human-centered design for the greater good. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Measuring Individuals’ Systems Thinking Skills through the Development of an Immersive Virtual Reality Complex System ScenariosAbstractThe proposed virtual reality (VR) gaming scenario provides a virtual profile that assesses
students to establishsuch a mental model using solid mechanics concepts is a reasonable approach, which may benefitstudents in their entire engineering career. As shown in Figure 6, fundamental concepts inmechanics can be completely separate in students’ mind before they have a firm understanding oftheir meaning. The M3E approach is expected to help students connect these abstract concepts anddevelop their mental model to represent a network of such complex concepts. A well-developedconcept map, externalization of the mental representation, will show the fundamentalunderstanding of these concepts. Once students have such capability, they can easily adapt it forother engineering applications. The effectiveness of the proposed M3E approach will be
Paper ID #28818Actively engaging project based learning through a Mini Maker Faire inan Engineering Technology ProgramDr. Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University Dr. Wei Zhan is an Associate Professor of Electronics Engineering Technology at Texas A&M University. Dr. Zhan earned his D.Sc. in Systems Science from Washington University in St. Louis in 1991. From 1991 to 1995, he worked at University of California, San Diego and Wayne State University. From 1995 to 2006, he worked in the automotive industry as a system engineer. In 2006 he joined the Electronics Engineering Technology faculty at Texas A&M. His research
Paper ID #28295An Educational Module to Increase Engineering Students Knowledge ofWork Zone Safety in Highway ConstructionDr. Didier M Valdes, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez Dr. Didier Valdes is a professor at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. With more than 30 years of experience in engineering education, research, and administration, Dr. Valdes brings the combination of professional and practical experience to all his endeavors.Dr. Carla Lopez del Puerto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Carla L´opez del Puerto, Ph.D. is a Professor of Construction Engineering and Management in the Depart
Paper ID #29916An IMU for You and IDr. Andrew R. Sloboda, Bucknell University Andrew Sloboda is an Assistant Professor at Bucknell University where he teaches a variety of mechanics- based courses, including statics, solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, dynamics, system dynamics, and vi- bration. His research interests lie primarily in the fields of nonlinear dynamics and vibration. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 An IMU for You and IAbstractAnalyzing dynamics in three dimensions is challenging for students. This is because certainconcepts become more
Paper ID #31429Appropriate and Ethical Finite Element Analysis in MechanicalEngineering: Learning Best Practices through SimulationDr. Benjamin B Wheatley, Bucknell University Benjamin Wheatley was awarded a B.Sc. degree in Engineering from Trinity College (Hartford, CT, USA) in 2011 and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO, USA) in 2017. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA, USA). His pedagogical areas of interest include active learning ap- proaches, ethics, and best practices as they relate to
-Authorized construction safety trainer since 2019.Dr. Sharareh Kermanshachi, University of Texas, Arlington Dr. Sharareh (Sherri) Kermanshachi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Kermanshachi has received her Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineer- ing from Texas A&M University. She also holds a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from Mississippi State University and an MBA from Eastern Mediterranean University in Famagusta, Cyprus. Her areas of expertise are performance-based modeling, project delivery methods, communication networks, and uncertainty and risk analysis in design and construction of transportation projects. She also has industrial
Paper ID #21211Advancing Critical Building Code Education through Modularized LecturesDr. Ryan L. Solonsky P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park Ryan Solnosky is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Architectural Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University at University Park. Dr. Solnosky started at Penn State in July of 2013 and has taught courses for Architectural Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Pre-Major Freshman in Engineering. He received his integrated Professional Bachelor of Architectural Engineering/Master of Architectural Engineering (BAE/MAE) degrees in architectural
Paper ID #21646An Institutional Excellence in Teaching Workshop Adapted from the Ex-CEEd ModelDr. Charles Riley P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology Dr. Riley has been teaching mechanics concepts for over 10 years and has been honored with both the ASCE ExCEEd New Faculty Excellence in Civil Engineering Education Award (2012) and the Beer and Johnston Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award (2013). While he teaches freshman to graduate- level courses across the civil engineering curriculum, his focus is on engineering mechanics. He im- plements classroom demonstrations at every opportunity as part of a complete