demanding,continuous basis for the entire school year or semester. These job functions come with all theshortcomings and particular difficulties associated with those functions in the real world. Inorder to develop the interpersonal professional skills needed by industry, a methodologypresented in this paper is given which allows the student teams to evolve socially as departments,while supporting them with information such as Tuckman’s stages of group development,Myers-Briggs type indication, and recognition of the various personalities and issues arisingwhen working in a cross-functional, team based environment. The application of thismethodology and course set-up resulted in engineering graduates that were not surprised by thepotential
ApplicationProgramming Interfaces. As a result, complex embedded real-time applications can be efficientlybuilt to meet their real-time processing deadlines on top of FreeRTOS. In this course, FreeRTOSwas applied to conducting experiments with multitask scheduling algorithms and real-timeinterfacing with microcontrollers for all our lab sessions and course projects.This paper presents the primary experiences of teaching real-time embedded systems design toengineering students, with the emphasis of how we adopted FreeRTOS as a real-world RTOSexample in teaching to improve the teaching effectiveness. The description of this course is firstgiven, including course contents, learning outcomes and instruction approach. Next, a survey ofexisting real-time operating
the Secretary/Treasurer for ACMSigart. He is a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society, ACM, AAAI, and the Sigma Xi ResearchSociety. Page 24.28.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 A Collaborative K-12 STEM Education Framework Using Traffic Flow as a Real-world Challenge ProblemAbstractEffective science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education can be bettersupported by teaching tools that promote critical thinking and modalities that situate learning inthe context of real-world problems. This is emphasized in the next generation science standards
, 2014A New Educational Paradigm to Train Skilled Workers with Real World PracticeJuan Song1, Maurice Salazar2, Mary Batch2, Colin Nichols1 and Federico Zaragoza11. Corporate College, Alamo Community College, San Antonio TX 782112. Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas, Inc. San Antonio TX 78264AbstractSkilled labor is at crisis-level shortages both at home and abroad, with over 10 million skilledlabor jobs remaining vacant worldwide. This shortage is not likely to abate in the near term, butrather get significantly worse. A global study by McKinsey & Company predicts a need for 95million skilled workers by 2020. Currently, studies showed that more than 80% of manufacturersin the U.S. struggle to find qualified multi-skilled workers. Due to rapid
Paper ID #9639Rethinking Automotive Engineering Education – Deep Orange as a Collabo-rative Innovation Framework for Project-Based Learning Incorporating Real-World Case StudiesDr. Ala A. Qattawi, Automotive Engineering Department at Clemson University –International Center forAutomotive Research (CU-ICAR) Dr. Ala Qattawi, Clemson University Ala Qattawi is a post-doctoral fellow at Clemson University- International Center for Automotive Engineering (CU-ICAR). She received her PhD in automotive en- gineering from Clemson University in 2012 and became the first women in USA to earn a PhD degree in that field. Dr. Qattawi’s area
not just industrialengineering students but all STEM students are predominantly active, visual, and sensing learnertypes1-4. However, it is evident that most engineering undergraduate courses are generally taughttoward reflective, verbal, and intuitive learner types. This is in fact the exact opposite of thesuggestions made from multiple learning style studies1-4. Engineering teaching is more focusedon theory and mathematical proofs over practical, “real world” applications and experimentationfavored by sensing learners. Engineering instruction tends to be very verbal rather than visual,focusing on written explanations and mathematical formulas. In addition, the engineeringclassroom tends to rely heavily on lectures and reading assignments
materials and activities in achieving the courseobjectives?”, students ranked the project as the most helpful, scoring 4.73/5 in Fall 2011and 4.8/5 in Fall 2012. Specific comments regarding the project included: Page 24.198.5 “Very interesting and good practice for relating concepts learned in class to real world applications.” “The project required a good amount of research and creative thinking.” “Project was very interesting and increased my understanding of the subject.”Future assessment of the specific learning objectives will include pre- and post-testactivities, feedback from focus groups
top 25 US engineering schools run a team-based freshman design courseproviding students with real-world engineering opportunities.4, 7 These first-year experiencesprovide the greatest opportunity for students to acquire baseline proficiencies in the attributeslisted in the NAE “Educating the Engineer of 2020” report that can then be honed in theirsubsequent courses. First-year engineering experiences often focus on the key aspects of theengineering design process: research, ideation, and prototyping. Because of the central nature ofdesign in engineering practice, students across all engineering fields can participate inmultidisciplinary teams to solve authentic challenges.Much of the assessment work for first-year engineering design courses
ways that we were doing things. In addition tothe work experience that the faculty member would acquire through this co-op, providing themwith real-world accounts to take back to their classroom, we also offered a stipend intended tocover living expenses for the few months that we expected the position to last. We went aheadand posted the job, and circulated it through our local ASEE chapter. In the end, we had only asingle applicant, and that candidate’s background was a poor fit for the projects we were workingon. His areas of specialization and teaching / research interests were completely outside of anyof the type of work that we were involved with. The position went unfilled, and we did notattempt such a faculty co-op again.In hindsight
engineeringcompetencies. Figure 1 illustrates the problem under consideration and the target audience(organization’s leadership). The SCL represent leadership competencies of an organization’sleadership, and they are aimed at enabling leaders to deal with systemic challenges that arisefrom a target system of interest21. In such a way SCL competencies are differentiated from thetechnical systems competencies of the team members, which have been discussed in detail inSchindel et al.20. In order to put the need for such leadership skills into context, we briefly recalltwo real-world examples – one of which resulted in a costly failure, and the other of whichresulted in a success and therefore illustrated the benefit of systemic thinking at leadershiplevels
they occur during a typical classroom session. The system includes a mobiledevice application for the learner and a rich internet application for the teacher. The mobiledevice collects real-time feedback from students who use the mobile application to reportattainment of three learning metrics: comprehension, motivation, and interaction. Assessmentdata is pushed into a cloud repository where it can be analyzed and projected to the teacher innear real-time or archived for analysis after class. We share our experiences with lectureLess asemployed in two systems engineering courses taught by two different teachers. We includeaggregate trends in overall student reporting and discuss the viability of mobile devices for nearreal-time assessment. We
, renewable power supply, data collection hardware and dataprocessing software are integrated to provide real-time sustainable watershed data on anaccessible platform to many types of user groups. The LEWAS lab is being used for watershedsustainability research and hands-on classroom education. The lab has been used in a senior levelundergraduate Hydrology course in fall 2012 and spring 2014 by incorporating LEWAS-basedhands-on modules into the course. The lab has also been integrated into freshmen level courses atVirginia Western Community College in Roanoke, Virginia. These learning modules introducestudents to watershed sustainability concepts, a real world application of LabVIEW, and hands-on data collection and analysis projects. Effectiveness
platform was adopted, which allowed the lab tocommunicate with all the devices and stream the data from all the devices to the database whichcould be used for data mining. LabVIEW was the initial programming environment tocommunicate with the monitoring equipment and was chosen due to a variety of factors. It is asimple software development environment which uses a dataflow programming model and alsohas a LabVIEW web publishing tool which can be used to publish real-time data online. Inaddition, LabVIEW was also being used in the Engineering Exploration class that all engineeringfreshman on campus are required to take. This gave the students a real-world application ofLabVIEW being used for data acquisition and processing.In order to streamline
application to a diverse knowledge base. Engineering students benefit from practice, using their newly found skills to address real-world problems.4) Typical engineering problems are not solved with one area of knowledge; using teamwork is essential in engineering problem-solving.These listed principles presented a clear course objective of broadening participation andimproving student retention in engineering education through an integrated program of scientificresearch and education.Course Program The course was designed to enable students to understand and evaluate fuel cell systems andtechnologies and their environmental consequences. Many of the fifteen enrolled students variedin disciplines outside of Mechanical Engineering including
(CoE), Engineering Education Innovation Center (EEIC)at The Ohio State University has conducted an engineering service-learning program inHonduras. The program consists of three components: preparation, implementation, andevaluation. These components are aimed to introduce and teach students the concepts ofhumanitarian engineering through a practical, real-world, hands-on experience. During the firststage, the students assess needs in collaboration with in-country partners, and then research,design, develop, prototype, test and document their chosen projects. In the second stage, thestudents implement and execute these projects. Finally, the students evaluate their designs anddocument their results as well as make recommendations for future
, 2007.18. Sven G Bil´en, Luis P Bernal, Brian E Gilchrist, and Alec D Gallimore. The student space-systems fabrication laboratory: Enhancing engineering education through student-run, real-world projects. In ASEE-NCS 1999 Spring Conference, Pennsylvania State University Erie-Behrend, Erie, PA, pages 68–72, 1999.19. Xu Bing and Sun Haiquan. Construction and practice of t-cdio course system [j]. Research in Higher Education of Engineering, 2:008, 2009.20. Karen Swan, Philip Vahey, Mark van’t Hooft, Annette Kratcoski, Ken Rafanan, Tina Stanford, Louise Yarnall, and Dale Cook. Problem-based learning across the curriculum: Exploring the efficacy of a cross-curricular application of preparation for future learning. Interdisciplinary
participation on diverse teams as “real world” and therefore Page 24.1154.2beneficial13, their behaviors and experiences on diverse teams can be more problematic1,7. Forexample, students of different genders tend to take different roles on teams, with females morelikely to complete project planning and communication work and males more likely to dotechnical planning and hands-on building1,12. It is unclear in the research whether studentschoose to take on gender-specific tasks or are pushed by teammates into those roles.Team discussions tend to privilege some students at the expense of others. Women and under-represented minorities are more likely
FRAMEWORK & CONSTRUCT:Some authors suggest that the ideal means of teaching real world issues is through the application of casestudies in the classroom. Case studies offer facts, opinions, and prejudices of real world situations/issuesto students for “considered analysis, open discussion, and final discussion as to the type of action thatshould be taken.” 4 Industry-led case studies, those administered by members from a representativeindustry, arguably have an advantage, then, at elevating the reality of particular issues graduates may facein their job because their scenarios theoretically come from experience. Business schools often use casestudies and have found great success with their implementation. Inherently case studies move
Paper ID #8909Case Study Application of After Tax Analysis to a Renewable Energy ProjectMrs. Christina Jauregui Barboza, Stevens Institute of Technology (SSE) Christina Jauregui Barboza is an Engineering Management Doctoral Candidate in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. She received a Masters of Engineering Degree in Systems Engineering in 2008 and a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Engineering Management in 2006 both from Stevens Institute of Technology. She holds a teaching assistantship position for the Engineering Management program at Stevens Institute of Technology and has
Code of Ethics to class work (d, f).A few supplementary student learning outcomes are as follows:6. Identify and relate real-world/cooperative education experiences to coursework, and reflect on the connection between classroom learning and software engineering practice (i).7. Comprehend global software engineering concepts and challenges (a, h).Course DesignLectures: The course material primarily focuses on the first five Knowledge Areas (KAs) of theSoftware Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK)3: software requirements, design,construction, testing, and maintenance. While the remaining KAs are covered in a newlydeveloped upper-level course (CS 6028- Large Scale Software Engineering), a brief introductionis given to a few topics such as
” module, to provide students exposure to thisenvironment.While student responses were mildly positive, the feedback from alumni and employers (at EPprogram advisory board meetings) was very negative. We were strongly advised by ourconstituency that the “coding” aspect of the course was very valuable. They saw Sensor Lab asan EP major’s first – and sometimes only – “real application” of the programming skills learnedin the C++ prerequisite, and even though none were actually programming in C++ or VB6, theysaw the skills developed by using these languages as transferable and important for theprogramming that most of them were doing in their jobs. (LabVIEW, with its graphicalprogramming interface, was seen as powerful but expensive and lacking in
played by watching the results from the scope and spectrum analyzer orhearing from the speaker. In fact, more and more instructors are encouraged to offer students Page 24.1158.15real-world applications in our department.After learning DSP courses, the technology students were able to apply their newly gainedknowledge and skills to their senior projects and our real-time DSP labs served as goodpreparation and practice for senior projects. In our campus, senior students are required topresent and demonstrate their senior projects in the senior project fair, in which those projectswere evaluated by the engineering technology faculty members and
pursue. Further, real-world problems require real-world expertise, often in the form of professionals of various backgrounds. While some schoolsmay have expertise in specific areas, addressing a variety of problems may require expertise thatis not readily available at that university. Finding guest lecturers or mentors takes time, and maybe impossible if expertise is sought within an individual university on a very specific topic. Ifcollaboration across universities is made possible, seeking expertise theoretically becomes morefeasible due to the larger web of knowledge.Need for Multiple PerspectivesWicked problems are characterized as including multiple stakeholders, each with different sets of
school students to pursue degrees in STEM-based fields atuniversity levels. The authors tried to accomplish that by providing the students early knowledgeon subjects related to STEM and hence help them with admission into universities. Students inthis study were able to better understand the STEM concepts and use them in the projectactivities and students showed an ability to use STEM concepts to solve real world engineeringproblems.6Student-teachers reviewed a Clarkson University science and engineering camp with a goal of Page 24.1286.9creating a unique environment for students between the grades of 7 and 12 to provideopportunities for students
Paper ID #10227Redesigning the First Course of Thermodynamics to Improve Student Con-ceptualization and Application of Entropy and Second Law ConceptsDr. Timothy J. Jacobs, Texas A&M University Dr. Jacobs is associate professor and undergraduate program coordinator at Texas A&M University De- partment of Mechanical Engineering. His primary teaching interests are thermodynamics and internal combustion engines. Similarly, his research interests center on thermodynamics, performance, efficiency, and emissions of internal combustion engines. Dr. Jacobs received his Ph.D (2005), MS (2002), and BSE (1999) from
, and process real-world signalsprovides numerous benefits in classroom and laboratory settings. Furthermore, exposure to SDRis increasingly important for students wishing to pursue careers in the telecommunication,networking, and radar fields. An undergraduate laboratory can be outfitted with relatively high-performance SDRs at a reasonable cost.It was recently discovered that USB digital television tuners can be used as SDR receivers.Since this discovery, the tuners have been successfully used in a wide variety of applications. Ata cost less than $20 (USD), these so-called “RTL-SDR” devices set a new price point for SDRtechnology that is particularly attractive within an educational context.This paper presents the use of these low-cost SDRs
Throughout the course, students have opportunities to submit feedback comments and torespond to questionnaires specifically addressing the pedagogical value of the helicopter theme.In a voluntary survey of 75 students, 49 responded with significant input; 95% of these studentsendorsed the idea and offered positive comments about the use of helicopters as a theme in thecourse. Overall there was strong reception to the approach. Specific comments included:□ I definitely endorse the use of the helicopter components as a way to connect the things we are learning to real world applications.□ It is awesome being able to relate the things that I’ve learned not only in machine elements, but past classes like mechanics of materials, to helicopters. It all
, and enhancing virtual reality.1 These challenges are complex, multiplydetermined, and fraught with social and personal complications. As such, solving them willrequire engineers who combine both technical training and other skills (e.g., ability to work ingroups, communication, etc.).2 Such complementary skills are often difficult to develop in thecourse of traditional engineering education, which often presents technical problems in abstractand stylized form without connection to real-world applications. Such education works for manyengineers, but it risks missing those students who could be engaged by the opportunity to addressproblems of fundamental import.Here, we describe a framework for integrating the NAE GC program into engineering
computer scienceDr. Dan Lo, Southern Polytechnic State University Page 24.1397.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Work-in-Progress: Learning Embedded Smartphone Sensing technology On a Novel Strategy (LESSONS): A novel learning labware design, development and implementationI. MotivationThe exponentially evolved mobile devices and applications have played important roles in allaspects of our society1. In addition, the growth on hardware and software of embeddedtechnologies has demonstrated their capabilities to influence the physical world via theircomplex
university through a real world project. Studentsmaster the technical aspects and applications while completing various tasks. The concept of theNPR program is a valuable example that can be used by other construction programs as aframework to engage their own areas of expertise and specialties in the creation ofextracurricular activities. Potential collaboration among other universities, industry partners, andmunicipalities is entirely possible and may have a chance to expand the NPR network.4.0 Effectiveness of the ProgramsMeasuring the effectiveness of these programs at the student level is challenging as data aredifficult to retrieve. Potential metric targets could include job placement rates upon graduationand improved academic performance in