faculty at multiple universities/colleges as well as academic conferences and events. Industry events, conferences and presentations: Participate in industry conferences, events and present the new TCMT program.AcademicsThe highly integrated curriculum is designed in close collaboration and involvement with ourindustry partners to keep the program relevant for workplace needs for technical talents withbusiness acumen. Our industry advisory boards’ input will continually help hone the curriculumto ensure that the program stays relevant, leading-edge, and develops professionals who can bedeveloped and grown into leadership positions.Course Work Prefix and Required Courses Number TCMT 601 Engineering
Paper ID #19632Contextualizing a New General Engineering Curriculum in the Liberal ArtsDr. Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego Dr. Diana A. Chen is an Assistant Professor of General Engineering at the University of San Diego. She joined the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering in 2016. Her research interests are in areas of sustainable design, including biomimicry and adaptability in structural, city, and regional applications. She earned her MS and PhD in Civil Engineering from Clemson University, and her BS in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College.Dr. Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego Dr. Gordon D. Hoople is
Paper ID #19528Evaluating a Flipped Lab Approach in a First-Year Engineering Design CourseDr. Jack Bringardner, New York University, 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 Transportation
approach we have taken has beencalled person-centered ethnography (Hollan and Wellenkamp, 1993; LeVine, 1982, Stevens,O’Connor, & Garrison, 2005). This term highlights both our interest in how people becomeengineers and that context shapes this becoming.Data from this work come from a large ethnographic study of the school-to-work transition ofearly career engineers. In total we observed and interviewed 20 new engineers (15 were bothobserved and interviewed and 5 were interviewed only) within their first two years in theworkforce (including both undergraduate co-ops/interns and newly graduated engineers) from 10engineering companies as they worked over several months. Data sources included: • Direct observations in the workplace, supported
; empowering faculty through educational collaborative action research. He holds a B.S.I.E. in Industrial Engineering and a M.Ed. specializing in mathematics education. Cole has worked as an engineer in the manufacturing industry, a pastor in full-time ministry, and a high school math teacher. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Approaches for coaching students in design reviewsAbstract: Design reviews offer a unique window into understanding how design teachers help their studentsdevelop as designers. They are a prevalent practice for helping students develop design thinking expertise,although their structure and content may vary across disciplines. Understanding the teaching
. TheMathematical Association of America has created a subcommittee on “Curriculum Renewalacross the First Two Years” (project CRAFTY) [1]. The MAA has also published a summary ofresults from the NSF-sponsored project [2] and two reports which focus on determining themathematical needs of partner disciplines [3]. Several new directions have emerged, and themost relevant ones can be grouped into three areas: Calculus re-sequencing [4] [5], activelearning methods [2] [6] [7] [8], and applications from engineering & sciences [9] [10] [11] [12].This paper discusses a calculus redesign project that is in progress in the School of Engineeringand Applied Sciences at the University of Virginia. It will focus on the following questions: 1. How did the
Engineering Education, 2017 UAS Curriculum for Students using an Active Learning ApproachAbstractUnmanned aircraft systems (UAS) offer an exciting opportunity to teach students about basicprinciples of aerospace engineering and instill valuable systems engineering design experience.The widespread popularity of UAS, an explosion of affordable and capable systems, and recentadvances in policy by the FAA have created a permissive climate where these may be effectivelyused by students as either a new means to conduct scientific research or as the primary focus of asystems engineering design project. Whether a means or an end, UAS-based projects and coursesprovide stimulating and relevant learning opportunities many students are seeking today.The
conducted throughout the duration of the ten-weekquarter, including weekly in-class discussions or activities and at least one SGMA-specificquestion on each weekly homework assignment. This curriculum has been used twice, duringFall quarter of 2015 and 2016, with an average class size each year of approximately 35 students.This senior-level class typically includes a mix of environmental engineering students and civilengineering students with an emphasis on water resources or geotechnical engineering.Course ImplementationThis section includes further details on development of specific activities for each level ofBloom’s Taxonomy. This discussion of activities and assignments is intended to provide insightfor new engineering educators in many
teachers do, rather than what students think. Instead, they reframe formative assessment asresponsive teaching, an instructional approach in which teachers elicit student thinking around aparticular topic, notice and interpret the disciplinary substance contained within students’thinking, and then respond in real-time in order to support students’ disciplinary behaviors.Responsive teaching has been studied for some time in K-12 mathematics and science education,and it has recently become a focus in K-12 engineering education. However, to our knowledgeno research has investigated responsive teaching in undergraduate engineering education. Weintend to begin a conversation about this important area of study through three specific aims ofthis paper: 1
Engineering Education, 93(3): 223-231.5. Dillenbourg P, 1999. What do you mean by ‘collaborative learning’? Collaborative-learning: Cognitive and computational approaches, 1: 1-15.6. McDonald, W. M., D. S. Brogan, V. K. Lohani, G. H. Joshi and A. S. Shettar. Developing a First-Year Engineering Course at a University in India: International Engineering Education Collaboration. 123rd ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, LA, USA, June 26-29, 2016.7. Brogan, D.S., McDonald, W.M., Lohani, V.K., and Dymond, R.L., 2016. A High-Frequency Real- Time System for Creating and Sharing Environmental Data. Advances in Engineering Education (AEE), 5 (2).8. McDonald WM, Brogan DS, Lohani VK, Dymond RL, and Clark RL, 2015
design and space systems engineering. Dr. Fowler’s has received over a dozen local, regional, and national teaching awards. He is a Fellow of both the ASEE and the AIAA. He is a member of the University of Texas Academyof Distinguished Teachers. He served as President of ASEE in 2000-2001. He was the recipient of the 1985 AIAA/ASEE John Leland Atwood Award and the 1994 ASEE Fred Merryfield Design Education Award. He currently directs the NASA Texas Space Grant Consortium. He has served as an ABET visitor for 24 programs. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Approaching ABET Preparations as a Design ExerciseAbstract Much of the preparation of the self-study
LearningAccreditationAlthough not a motivation, this approach does simplify ABET accreditation. Normally projectwork and professional skills are distributed through a TBL curriculum. This makes it verydifficult to isolate and assess these topics. A common approach is to create one course to carrymany of the topics, or heap most of the assessment categories into the capstone course. With aPBL core the assessment topics can be assessed at a natural pace in the spirit of continuousimprovement. For reference the ABET ETAC and EAC criteria are listed 7 . Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) Criteria: (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as
Paper ID #20149Scaffold Approach to Teaching ExperimentationDr. Megan Reissman, University of Dayton Dr. Reissman studied mechanical engineering at Cornell University (BS) and Northwestern University (PhD). She currently teaches engineering design, analysis, and experimentation courses in the mechanical engineering department of University of Dayton. She specializes in biomechanics and robotic systems.Dr. Timothy Reissman, University of Dayton Dr. Timothy Reissman is an Assistant Professor within the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Dayton. He teaches primarily courses related to
and environmental engineering. She is active in pre-college engi- neering outreach and improving non-motorized transportation infrastructure. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A New Framework for Teaching the Triple Bottom Line: The Sustainability Triangle and the Sustainability IndexIntroductionCivil engineers are integral to, and ethically bound to, advancing sustainable development(ASCE, 2004). In response to community and industry needs, as well as ABET accreditationrequirements, sustainability has been increasingly integrated into civil and environmentalengineering curricula (Allen et al., 2008). The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE
newManufacturing Engineering Technology program at Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne drew from pastexperience of offering manufacturing specific courses in the Mechanical EngineeringTechnology program16. Linn et al. presented their efforts in creating a new 4 year degree inprocess and system engineering technology (PSET)15. The creation of the new PSET programwas based on an existing Industrial Engineering Technology program with a different focus.Mullett17 presented a curriculum enhancement effort where the focus of the engineeringtechnology program was shifted from component-based to system-oriented. A similar change offocus and program name was made at Texas A&M University, where the Electronic EngineeringTechnology and Telecommunication Engineering
Paper ID #18757A Microcontroller-based DSP Laboratory CurriculumDr. Ying Lin, Western Washington University Ying Lin has been with the faculty of Engineering and Design Department at Western Washington Uni- versity since September 2010 after she taught for two years at SUNY, New Platz. She received her MS in Applied Statistics and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University, NY, respectively. Her teaching interests include first-year Intro to Electrical Engineering, circuit analysis sequence, and upper-division communication systems and digital Signal Processing courses. Her research areas focus on
Engineering Education, 2017 Engineering Empathy: A Multidisciplinary Approach Combining Engineering, Peace Studies, and New TechnologyAbstractAs educators we train our students to view the world using a particular disciplinary lens. Inengineering this means helping our students to “think” like engineers. We teach them tocategorize and solve problems using a technically focused mindset. For instance, they learn theimportance of using hard data to quantify success or failure. Other disciplines, especially in thesocial sciences, focus additional attention on normative and substantive issues. Students aretaught the importance of developing contextual understanding and of recognizing that livedexperiences generate different
moral character and ethical integrity. This professionalrequirement also calls on the engineering educators to develop the engineering curriculumenriched with ethics and professionalism.An engineering undergraduate can passively learn professionalism and ethics through seniorcapstone design, summer internships and undergraduate research. However, these opportunitieshave limitations. Hence, as the instructors in an engineering program, the authors felt more onthe formal teaching and practice on ethics and professional conduct needed to raise theawareness in accordance with ABET Student Outcomes-f and i, and the professional bodyexpectations. Environmental engineering curriculum in the authors’ institution introduces ethicsand professionalism to
require a collective effort by all involved in theprocess, namely: the institution, the faculty, and students.Engineering Education in the Arab Gulf States: An OverviewEngineering education in the Arab Middle East is relatively new, as organized educationalendeavors go. It had its early start shortly after World War I. Colleges of engineering (orschools of engineering as they were labeled) were founded then, in Cairo and Alexandria,Egypt, and also in Beirut, Lebanon. By the end of World War II, colleges of engineeringsprung out in Iraq and Syria. And two decades later, Jordan had its first college ofengineering in its capital, Amman. The colleges in Lebanon and Syria paralleled, by andlarge, the French schools of engineering, except for the
-only) to an active learning course inthe fall 2016 semester. The instructor was a new faculty member and had previously taught thecourse in a traditional, lecture-only manner. In our work, we provide an approach for coursetransformation that is simple and effective with highly positive results that new faculty can easilyadopt and replicate in their respective engineering courses.2. Literature ReviewWhen considering the use of active learning, faculty members commonly have concerns aboutstudent acceptance, content coverage, preparation time, and logistics, and research has shownthat the likelihood of adoption of new, research-based instructional approaches is directly relatedto the ease of implementation (Prince et al., 2013). This is
Paper ID #18314A Model Workshop for Helping New Faculty Engage Students in the STEMClassroomDr. Clifton B. Farnsworth, Brigham Young University Clifton Farnsworth received B.S. and M.S. degrees in civil engineering from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Utah. He worked as a geotechnical engineer for eight years with the Utah Department of Transportation, spent three years as an Assistant Professor of civil engineering at The University of Texas at Tyler, and has a current appointment as an Assistant Professor of construction and facilities management at Brigham Young
Center of the City University of New York in 1991. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Incorporating Quantum Technologies into Engineering CurriculumAbstract: This paper first reviews the present status of quantum technologies that are rapidlymaking inroads to various fields of science and engineering. The author then suggests, in light ofthese developments, how one may incorporate the key principles, ideas, and topics of newquantum technologies into undergraduate quantum mechanics courses and laboratories to prepareand equip future engineers. Concrete examples of curriculum changes in modern physics,quantum mechanics, and advanced quantum mechanics courses are presented based on threeyears of
design in both countries. Several other publications discuss singularengineering capstone programs in Australia and New Zealand.4,5 An additional report6 addressesassessment practices at engineering capstone design courses at many institutions in Australia,summarizing the results of a multi-year grant-funded research project.There seems to be a growing initiative in Australia to study capstone curriculum across a broadrange of disciplines and to connect the community of capstone educators nationally. The websitecapstonecurriulum.com.au provides resources, reports, and blog posts about capstone coursepedagogy, assessment, and structure.7 A recent paper8 on capstone curriculum provides rich dataacross multiple disciplines from several countries
(Atwater, Dionne, Avolio, Camobreco, & Lau,1999; Schell, 2010). Additionally, apprenticeships into mastery often begin with structuredlearning approaches designed to achieve basic proficiency in the profession, similar to formalleadership development training (Avolio & Bass, 1994; Van Velsor, McCauley, & Ruderman,2010). While some aspects of developing an engineering identity necessitate the cultivation ofleadership skills, there is little in the typical engineering identity, and even less in the typicalengineering curriculum, that includes seeing oneself as an engineering leader. This is animportant gap, since if novices are to eventually replace master practitioners within engineeringcommunities of practice, then these novices will
Paper ID #18442A Systems Approach to Analyzing Design-Based Research in Robotics-FocusedMiddle School STEM Lessons through Cognitive ApprenticeshipDr. S. M. Mizanoor Rahman, New York University Mizanoor Rahman received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Mie University at Tsu, Japan in 2011. He then worked as a research fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS), a researcher at Vrije University of Brussels (Belgium) and a postdoctoral associate at Clemson University, USA. He is currently working as a postdoctoral associate at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, NYU Tandon School of
courses focus on computer graphics and technologies, construction documentation, and both foundation and upper level urban design studios. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Cross-College Faculty Collaboration for the Development of a new Major in Design and Construction IntegrationIntroductionIn recent years, efforts to bring together architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) indesign and construction endeavors is becoming increasingly more common within industry.These collaborative efforts are important for the AEC industry and have been linked to increasedproject success.1,2 This collaboration of AEC disciplines is also linked to the rise of collaborativetechnologies
Outreach Librarian at Binghamton University. She serves as chair of the Libraries’ Instructional Services Coordinating Committee and is the liaison to the Educational Opportunity Program, Student Support Services, and the Office of New Student Programs. Julia has a B.A. in History from Ursinus College and an M.S. in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Information Literacy Portfolio for Curriculum MappingAbstractA portfolio of information literacy (IL) assignments was created for undergraduate engineeringstudents. The portfolio, which includes 29 assignments shaped by the ACRL Framework forInformation
engineering teams include one non-engineering major among student members.IV. DiscussionWe incorporate the new Experiential Learning Initiative (ELI) requirement in our existingengineering curriculum differently than other departments do at our school. Our approach forengineering involves distributing the project experience across two or more credited courses, andresponsibility for evaluating student reflection by faculty who are not necessarily projectmentors. Despite the “moving parts” in this approach, we believe it will work successfully, dueto accessibility of documentation our Project 1-4 sequence already provides, and the availabilityof project mentors for consultation by Seminar 1-2 faculty, when needed. Our experience withthe pilot group
pillars of sustainable design in theircurriculum to better equip civil engineering students in their decision making to considersustainability issues. The three pillars of sustainable development are social development,economic development and environmental restoration. A major challenge to this integration isadding to the workload of the existing curriculum. In some cases, introducing the new conceptsrequires the loss of essential course material. Consequently, many civil engineering departmentshave successfully integrated sustainable design principles through course modules, and projectbased learning3. A recent study by Litchfield and Javernick-Will compared the career interestsand experiences of students and practicing engineers who
- neering Program has seen considerable growth in student and faculty numbers. Her area of expertise is in micro-geomechanics and has published over 100 peer reviewed conference and journal papers including several papers on engineering education and the unique undergraduate curriculum at Rowan University, especially the Engineering Clinics. She has been involved in various outreach activities to recruit more women and minorities into engineering and is Program Chair Elect of the Women in Engineering Division of ASEE. She is the recipient of the 2011 New Jersey Section of ASCE Educator of the Year award as well as the 2013 Distinguished Engineering Award from the New Jersey Alliance for Action