Paper ID #15535Analysis of Student Preconceptions Related to Telecommunications and Qual-ity of ServiceProf. Mark J. Indelicato, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST) Mark J. Indelicato is an associate professor in the College of Applied Science and Technology (CAST) in the department of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology since 1990. Previously, he was a Large Business Systems Communications En- gineer for NEC America, specializing in large scale deployment of voice and data network switching equipment. He teaches in the Master of Science
Paper ID #14497Competencies Related to Marine Mechatronics EducationDr. Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University Dr. Jovanovic received her dipl.ing and M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering - Robotics, Mechatronics and Automation from University of Novi Sad, Serbia. She received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering Tech- nology at Purdue University, while working as a PhD student in Center for Advanced Manufacturing, Product Lifecycle Management Center of Excellence. Dr. Jovanovic is currently serving as Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology, Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology at ODU. She is
successfully performed two improvement points regardingABET accreditation. The first improvement is regarding the student outcomes and the secondimprovement is related to the ABET program criteria. The goal of this paper is to share theimprovement to avoid having weaknesses in computer engineering technology programs. ABETevaluators look for these points and emphasis the importance of an efficient assessment process.One main goal of the paper is to propose five rubrics that can be used to assess the ABETprogram criteria (a-e) for any computer engineering technology program.1. IntroductionThe computer engineering technology program at SUNY Poly developed eight student outcomesthat are mapped to both ABET student outcomes (a-k) and the ABET program
Paper ID #15836Software Defined Radio for Digital Signal Processing Related CoursesMr. Patrick Cutno, Miami University Currently a graduate student at Miami University’s electrical and computer engineering department. My research is in automatic modulation detection. Given a carrier frequency, determine the unknown modula- tion scheme used to transmit information at that frequency. I also work on creating instructional labs that use LabVIEW and software defined radios such as the NI-USRP 2920 to accompany Miami University’s ”Digital Signal Processing” and ”Signals and Systems” courses. These courses are very math and
Paper ID #15489ATMAE to ABET Accreditation: An Assessment Transition in an Electronicsand Computer Engineering Technology ProgramDr. Sri R. Kolla, Bowling Green State University Sri R. Kolla has been a faculty in the Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology program at the Bowling Green State University, Ohio, since 1993 in various positions and currently a Professor. He worked as a Guest Researcher at the Intelligent Systems Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 2000-’01. During 2008-09, he was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the Electrical Engineering Department, Indian
Paper ID #15236Exploring Interdisciplinary Design in Relation to Workplace Success andCampus CommunityDr. Lisa M. Del Torto, Northwestern University Lisa Del Torto is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Bobbie & Stanton Cook Family Writing Program at Northwestern University. She teaches and coordinates Northwestern’s first-year design course, Design Thinking & Communication, a collaboration between the Cook Family Writing Program and the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. Del Torto completed her PhD and MA in Linguistics at the University of Michigan and her BA in Linguistics and Spanish
Paper ID #15955Spatial Visualization Ability and Learning Style Preference Assessment AmongConstruction Related Undergraduate Engineering and Technology StudentsRichelle Fosu, Purdue University, West Lafayette Richelle Fosu is a PhD Fellow/Candidate in the Computer Graphics Technology department at Purdue University. Her specialization is in Building Information Modeling. Richelle Fosu has a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Jacobs University, Bremen Germany; and a MS in Computer Graphics Technology from Purdue University. Her research interests include Building Information Mod- eling, Spatial
Paper ID #14416How are Social Media, Engineering and Leadership Related to One Anotherfrom a Student Perspective?Dr. Jed S. Lyons, University of South Carolina Dr. Jed Lyons is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering and Computing at the University of South Carolina. His passion is developing authentic engineering learning experiences for students from grades K through Ph.D. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 How are Social Media, Engineering and Leadership Related to One Another
Paper ID #16125Relating Student Participation in University Maker Spaces to their Engineer-ing Design Self-EfficacyMr. Ricardo Jose Morocz Ricardo graduated with honors from the University of Florida with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in May of 2014. He started his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Geor- gia Institute of Technology in Fall of 2014. He joined the Innovation, Design Reasoning, Engineering Education, and Methods (IDREEM) Lab. Ricardo is currently working on measuring the impact of uni- versity maker spaces like the Invention Studio on students’ retention in STEM related field
Dr. Manuel Figueroa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Technological Studies at The College of New Jersey. His research involves the development of nanoparticle coatings for various applications, including surface enhanced Raman scattering and anti-fouling surfaces. He is also committed to develop- ing nanotechnology based lessons that integrate the STEM disciplines. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Identification of misconceptions related to size and scale through a nanotechnology based K-12 activityAbstractNanoscale science activities are filtering into K-12 classrooms in part due to moderntechnological advances in the areas of healthcare
modeled as capacitors, resistors, andelectrical elements. The applications of electronics in packaging integrate much of thermalsciences with electronics. The electrical power and thermal energy are always related tothe conservation of energy, which is the first law of thermodynamics. Behaviors ofchemical battery systems such as charging and discharging, heating issues, etc., can be alsomodeled with circuit parameters, and can be part of this section of the course.II.2 Engineering ApplicationsIn this update, students are required to find engineering applications, where electricalcircuit parameters can model mechanical parameters. Students are guided in their searchvia applications of thermodynamics within a battery system. Exercises using
Paper ID #14394Applied ABET Student Outcome Continuous Improvement ProcessProf. Byron G. Garry, South Dakota State University BYRON GARRY is an Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Construction & Operations Management in the College of Engineering at South Dakota State University. He has been a member of ASEE since 1998. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Applied ABET Student Outcome Continuous Improvement ProcessAbstractA sustainable continuous improvement process was desired for use in the ABET
Successful Use of Performance Indicators to Assess Student OutcomesIntroductionWell-written Student Outcomes (SOs) are a vital part of a successful improvement process.However, the SOs are relatively broad statements on what students are expected to know.Performance Indicators (PIs) provide more specific actions that may be used for directmeasurement of SOs, and they are useful tools for assessing the degree to which studentssuccessfully achieve subsets of each SO. During a recent reaccreditation by ETAC/ABET,several engineering technology programs demonstrated successful use of PIs for outcomesassessment and improvement processes.Rubrics have been developed as tools to provide direct measurement of student performance ineach of the SOs. The rubrics
were implemented to support women faculty inengineering. In addition, this study provided recommendations based on the research findings that addressbest practices related to family-friendly policies, combating “flexibility stigma,” leadership development,and novel strategies related improving the effectiveness of informal and formal mentoring. Introduction This paper discusses the ways in which lives of tenured female faculty in engineering areinfluenced both negatively and positively by the policies and programs various universities haveimplemented to retain and promote women. While all three institutions in this study offer“family-friendly” policies, interviewees described important differences in how policies arecommunicated and
controls, the ability to program the microcontroller, and theability for the microcontroller to communicate results.This was the impetus behind the creation of a class for non-engineers: “Microcontrollers forEveryone,” taking advantage of a “learn by doing” approach, and spoon-feeding the participantsin each of the areas above. The pedagogical method used was to relate the problem at hand totheir own fields, starting with very simple small projects, and ending with a project that related totheir field. One of the tasks involved is teaching the principles and methods of coding to thosewith absolutely no programming experience, a task that has successfully been carried out with K-12 students13,14 and now is also being promoted in recent initiatives
All the ME Courses in the EE Curriculum?AbstractAn unfortunate premise is that undergraduate Electrical Engineering (EE) programs seem to beunable to accommodate within their curricula substantive Mechanical Engineering (ME) courses.Alternatively, a single course obliquely called ME for EEs, a counter to the EE for MEs courseusually required in the ME program, may be necessary. This requisite course has been vettedover three semesters, directly assessed by Course Learning Outcomes (CLO) mapped to StudentOutcomes (SO) and indirectly assessed by a course survey. The impact of the course on theinterdisciplinary capstone design was notable and indirectly assessed by surveys and interviews.The inclusion of such a requisite ME for EEs course in the
Technology with a research background in software architecture design, requirements engineering, and application of data mining in software engineering. Previously, he worked as a software architect on large data-intensive software sys- tems in the banking, meteorological and health care domains. He has served on the Program Committees for several conferences and as Guest Editor for a special edition of IEEE Software on the Twin Peaks of Requirements and Architecture. Dr. Mirakhorli has received two ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards at the International Conference on Software Engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Multidisciplinary Approaches and Challenges in
train talents equipped with a practical engineeringknowledge and skills to integrate theory with practice 2. Therefore, the curriculum ofengineering education must match the needs to resolve real-world sophisticated and authenticproblems. Moreover, the curriculum of engineering education needs to cultivate students’capability not only of deep perspective to a particular problem but also divergent thinking.This view is supported by the theory of Conceptual Learning and Development (CLD), whichsuggests that taught theoretical concepts should be linked to related engineering problems 2.With the rapid change in the structure of the competitive market, those talents who arecapable of embarking on independent design and skillful in innovation
exploits the power of on-line technologies to enable engineering –more generally, STEM– students to develop thoroughunderstanding of technical topics through collaborative learning. Our approach, as we show, has anumber of important advantages over most approaches to face-to-face collaborative learning. Wehave implemented a prototype web app, CONSIDER, based on our approach and used it in twoComputer Science and Engineering courses: a graduate level theory of programming languagescourse, and an undergrad principles of programming languages course. It was very well received,with 15 out of 22 students in the grad course, and 13 out of 21 students in the undergrad courseindicating, in a post-discussion survey, that the approach provided them a better
Paper ID #16666Predictive Data Analytic Approaches for Characterizing Design Behaviors inDesign-Build-Fly Aerospace and Aeronautical Capstone Design CoursesDr. Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University - West Lafayette Dr. Krishna Madhavan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue Univer- sity. He is Co-PI and Education Director of the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology (nanoHUB.org which serves over 330,000 global researchers and learners annually). Dr. Madhavan was the Chair of the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing Education Program 2006. In January 2008, he was awarded the US National
, University of California - Riverside Frank Vahid is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Univ. of California, Riverside. His research interests include embedded systems design, and engineering education. He is a co-founder of zyBooks.com. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Will Students Earnestly Attempt Learning Questions if Answers are Viewable? Joshua Yuen, Computer Science & Engin., Univ. of California, Riverside (also with zyBooks) Alex Edgcomb, zyBooks, Los Gatos, California (also with UC Riverside) Frank Vahid, Computer Science & Engin., Univ. of California, Riverside (also with
Paper ID #15069Video Instruction to Complement All Learning Styles in a First-Year Intro-duction to Engineering CourseDr. Jack Bringardner, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Jack Bringardner is an Assistant Professor in the First-Year Engineering Program at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He studied civil engineering and received his B.S. from the Ohio State University and his M.S and Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary focus is developing curriculum and pedagogical techniques for engineering education, particularly in the Introduction to Engineering and Design course at NYU. He has a background in
realm of anecdote and assumption to empirical data and reasonedanalysis. Leaders of programs already in operation might use this information for benchmarking theirown activities in relation to generally adopted norms. People starting new programs might take guidancefrom the distilled experiences of others in the field to initiate more reliably effective programs. Finally,aggregated data drawn from across a wide spectrum of outreach programs allow us to conceptualizeoutreach as a field in its own right. It can be seen and thought about as a set of activities with relatedmotives and practices, rather than just ad hoc activities conducted among a sphere of local actorstowards idiosyncratic ends.IntroductionThe “image” problem of engineering is
website lists fourteendegree programs at US schools related to nanotechnology: four minor programs innanotechnology, six degrees that include a specialization or concentration in nanotechnology,and four B.S. degree programs in nanoscience or nanoengineering.7 A review of nanotechnologyprograms by Minaie et al. categorized current initiatives into nine models of integratingnanotechnology into engineering curricula.8 Of the universities included in their review, TexasState was the only school categorized as integrating nanotechnology into existing courses. Themajority of nanotechnology education efforts focusing on teaching nanotechnology as a separatesubject or in addition to traditional topics in the curriculum is incongruous with the
engineering education (e.g., eTextbooks with embedded simulations) and the complex correlation between instructional material and student de- velopment. Dr. Richard is involved in many outreach activities: e.g., tutoring, mentoring, directing related grants (for example, a grant for an NSF REU site). Dr, Richard is active in professional societies (Amer- ican Physical Society (APS), American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), etc.), ASEE, ASME. Dr. Richard has authored or co-authored about 25 technical articles (21 of which are refereed pub- lications). Dr. Richard teaches courses ranging from first-year introductory engineering project design, fluid mechanics, to space plasma propulsion.Dr. Noemi V
. Factors not related to college retention, but instead related to college major and careerchoice, have also been investigated in studies of engineering retention. Some studies havefocused on why students made the decision to study engineering17,18,19, while others have focusedon students’ decisions to leave engineering20,21. Collectively, these studies investigated factorssuch as the importance of available jobs, good pay, interest in the field, and perceived ability toperform. Other factors related to social and psychological factors have also been investigated withrespect to retention in engineering or other majors. These factors include things such as briefs oneffort and intelligence 22,23, feeling of belonging 24 and grit25. Thus
rigor of an engineering education at theuniversity level. First-year introductory engineering courses have been utilized by universities tohelp support students who may have otherwise been ill-prepared to succeed in a rigorousengineering program, help to develop rudimentary skills, help to foster collaborativeenvironments, and help to build confidence.First-year programs have been shown to be effective in retaining students6,7,8, increasing GPA9,and providing a broader understanding of the engineering discipline10. Duncan et al.11 reportedthat a zero credit integrated seminar course benefited students in several ways, including in theiracademic major selection. Budny12 reported a successful first year engineering seminar thatutilized peer
2001, she joined the Spacecraft Technology Center as an Assistant Director where she was responsible for the structural and thermal analysis of pay- loads. She served as Director of the Space Engineering Institute and in 2010 she accepted a position with the Academic Affairs office of the Dwight Look College of Engineering where she oversaw outreach, recruiting, retention and enrichment programs for the college. Since 2013, she serves as the Executive Director for Industry and Nonprofit Partnerships with responsibilities to increase opportunities for under- graduates engineering students to engage in experiential learning multidisciplinary team projects. These include promoting capstone design projects sponsored by
computer engineering at Rowan University. I am very interested in wearable devices, sensors, app development, and writing code to integrate software and hardware. In terms of ASEE, I had the unique experience of helping develop the platform that would be presented to freshmen engineers, in order to see how a complete drastic change in homework would affect student’s motivation and desire to complete the work.Dr. Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University Cheryl A. Bodnar, Ph.D., CTDP is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. Dr. Bodnar’s research interests relate to the incorporation of active learning techniques in undergraduate classes as well as integration of innovation and
Paper ID #17462Teaching Chemical Engineering Courses in a Biomolecular Engineering Pro-gramProf. Faisal Shaikh, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Faisal Shaikh joined MSOE about 6 years ago in a unique interdisciplinary engineering program called BioMolecular engineering. The program was a combination of molecular biology and chemical engineering and is unique in the nation. Being the lone chemical engineering faculty member in the pro- gram, he was tasked of developing a significant number of the core chemical engineering courses, albeit with a focus on biology. The program recently successfully went through the