AC 2008-1519: MITIGATION OF BARRIERS TO COMMERCIALIZATION OFNANOTECHNOLOGY: AN OVERVIEW OF TWO SUCCESSFULUNIVERSITY-BASED INITIATIVESHarpal Dhillon, Excelsior College Dr.Harpal Dhillon is currently the Dean of the School of Business and Technology at Excelsior College. In the past, he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Information Systems, Software Engineering, and Project Management at University of Maryland, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, and George Washington University. Dr.Dhillon worked as owner/senior executive in three systems engineering companies over a period of 20 years. His research interests are in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Quality Assurance, and
of Marburg and Bielefeld (Germany). Since 2013 she has been a lecturer at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Department of Social Sciences. Her research topics are gender studies and the impact of information technology on society. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025Evaluation of an AI-based medical application using AI-generated methods: student experiences with a case studyon “patient preference predictors”Bernd Steffensen 1,2, Bettina von Römer 1,21 Department of Social Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt2 European University of Technology, European Union1. IntroductionEngineering students are often unfamiliar with ethical issues. In their actual field of
. degree in chemical engineering from Rice University in 1978 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1981 and 1984, respectively. His research interests include genetic and metabolic engineering of microbial and plant cells, and modeling and optimization of bioreactors.Larry McIntire, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. McIntire is Professor and Chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. McIntire received his B.Ch.E. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering from Cornell University in 1966 and his Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University in 1970. Dr. McIntire has edited
AC 2009-2034: AN INTERACTIVE PANEL SESSION ON MEASURING THEIMPACTS OF PROJECT-BASED SERVICE LEARNING ON ENGINEERINGEDUCATIONKurt Paterson, Michigan Technological UniversityAngela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, BoulderChris Swan, Tufts University Page 14.202.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009Interactive Panel Session on Measuring the Impacts of Project-Based Service Learning onEngineering EducationABSTRACTThrough both planned and organic developments, project-based service learning (PBSL) hasemerged as a powerful force in engineering education over the past decade. This paper highlightsefforts to provide much needed clarity to the design, implementation, and
importance. Journal of Educational Psychology, 101(4), 817-835. DOI:10.1037/a001612717. Smith, I. M. (1964). Spatial ability - Its educational and social significance. London: University of London.18. Hull, Darrell M., Glover, Rebecca J., & Bolen, Judy A. (2012). Indivudal Differences in Technological Proficiency: Project Findings.19. Casey, M.B., Pezaris, E., & Nuttall, R.L. (1992). Spatial ability as a predictor of math achievement: the importance of sex and handedness patterns, Neuropsychologia, 30, 35- 40.20. Halpern, D., (2000). Sex differences in cognitive abilities, Third Edition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.21. Linn, M. & Peterson, A. (1985). Emergence and characteristics of sex differences in
Beta Pi and is a Fellow of the ASEE and IEEE.Richard . Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Richard Layton is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech- nology. He received a B.S. from California State University, Northridge, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His areas of scholarship include student teaming, longitudinal studies of engi- neering undergraduates, and data visualization. His teaching practice includes formal cooperative learning and integrating communications, ethics, and teaming across the curriculum. He is a founding developer of the CATME system, a free, web-based system that helps faculty assign students to teams, conduct self
, Figure 1. Lo-fi prototypes to besuccessful, in this sense, should evoke scenarios of the future, telling stories and communicatingfuture visions.Consider, for example, the impact of the automobile in rural America [34]. Significant studieshave focused on the impact that the automobile had had on technology, business and society,ever since Henry Ford introduced his Model T in 1908. However, less obvious are the differentinterpretations that users gave to this technology, Figure 2. In this sense, technology becomessocially constructed [35]. A market started to emerge offering home auto kit that allowed users tomodify the Model T for specific needs. In response, the Ford Company started in 1916 deliveringa complete line of cars, trucks and tractors
Mitchell and Marisa Porzig, “Finding Business “Idols”: A New Model to Accelerate Start- Ups,” Kauffman Foundation Report, 4, 2007.Smilor et al. (p. 204) [26] summarized the findings of the benefits associated with engagedresearch universities: Other studies have shown that if a research university is not in place, a technology center is not likely to develop. Smilor, Kozmetsky, and Gibson (1988) identified three main factors necessary for the development of a technology center and in which the university plays an important role: (a) the achievement of scientific excellence, (b) the development and maintenance of new technologies for emerging industries, and (c) the attraction of major technology companies
AC 2009-2309: TELLING DESIGN STORIES FOR ENGINEERING DESIGNENTREPRENEURSHIPBarbara Karanian, Wentworth Institute of Technology Barbara A. Karanian, Ph.D. is a visiting Professor and Lecturer in residence in Mechanical Engineering Design at the Center for Design Research at Stanford University. From Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, she specializes in industrial-organizational psychology and engineering design entrepreneuring.Gregory Kress, Stanford University Greg Kress is a poetic and energetic Course Assistant in ME 310 innovation at Stanford University.Joel Sadler, Stanford University Joel Sadler surprises and short cycle protoypes extensively at the Stanford University D
has presented her research at national and international conferences and has published articles in numerous mathematics education and education journals.Diana Samaroo Diana Samaroo is a Professor in the Chemistry Department at NYC College of Technology in Brooklyn, New York. She has experience in curricular and program development, as well as administration as the Chairperson of the Chemistry Department for numerous years. She has mentored undergraduates under the support of Emerging and Honors Scholars program, CUNY Service Corps, Louis-Stokes for Alliance Minority Participation (LS-AMP) and the Black Male Initiative programs. She serves as co-PI on several federal grants, which include NSF S-STEM and NSF HSI-IUSE
Sessions on Communication at the 2015 Annual Conference 1. Chemical Engineering 2. Civil Engineering 3. Computing & Information Technology 4. Continuing Professional Development 5. Educational Research & Methods 6. Engineering
spacecraft were researched regarding mission duration, mass andmission categories, with information derived from published reports and projectwebsites as indicated. A T-class (technology) mission flight-tests a component orsubsystem that is new to the satellite industry (not just new to the university). AnS–class (science) mission creates science data relevant to that particular field ofstudy (including remote sensing). A C-class (communications) mission providescommunications services to some part of the world (often in the Amateur radioservice). While every university-class mission is by definition educational,those spacecraft listed as E-class (education) missions lack any of the otherpayloads and serve mainly to train students and improve the
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) to design alearning module for students to conduct individualized, value-based, career exploration as theyapproach graduation. The learning module was implemented as part of Engineering inBiomedicine, a required weekly one-hour seminar course for senior students in BME, with 37students enrolled in the Summer of 23 semester.The course exposes BME students to the challenges, opportunities, and trends encountered byBME professionals, and practitioners in the “real world.” The course addresses current topics,emerging technologies, and careers in the biomedical engineering field through lectures andworkshops given by practicing professionals from medical device, research and developmentorganizations, hospitals and
reflective of the overarching disciplines listed above. The skill balance within thismix taught in these programs is usually driven by the major industry sector the college serves.This localized delivery strategy may be essential to satisfy targeted region needs but not a goodpolicy if, as is the case today, the new wave of technology spans all the region’s industry sectors.Since it is never a good idea to “through the baby out with the bath water” the challenge is torevise and update engineering technology two-year programs with the adjustments required tomeet industries’ new Future of Work-related technical demands.This presentation will explore the emerging changes in engineering technology (ET) content andeducation practices to bring new
Paper ID #19152Work in Progress: A Delphi Study to Investigate the Value of Board Gamesto Teach Teamwork SkillsDr. Kevin Ray Hadley, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Hadley received his BS in Chemical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines and his PhD in Chemical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt, he also completed their teaching certificate program and was the first participant to publish the results of his project in a national peer-reviewed journal, Chemical Engineering Education. Afterwards, Dr. Hadley completed a postdoctoral study at NASA. IN 2012, he joined the faculty at South
AC 2011-454: EXCHANGE THE NNIN OUTREACH DEMONSTRATIONGUIDE: A SET OF NANOTECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATIONS FOR UP-PER ELEMENTARY THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL.Nancy Healy, Georgia Institute of Technology Nancy Healy is the Education and Outreach Coordinator for the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN). NNIN is an NSF-funded user support network of 14 universities which also provides nano-education outreach activities and programs. NNIN provides informal and formal activities to a K-gray age span. Her office is located at Georgia Institute of Technology, Nanotechnology Research Center. Prior to joining the NNIN in 2004, she was a program manager at the S.C. Commission on Higher Education. At SCCHE she was active in
. Continued monitoringof small incremental changes, as well as the proposed significant imbedded active learningadditions, will inform future direction of course design and research.References 1. Cernusca, D. & Ionas, I.G. (2014). Design-Based Research as a Form of Action Research. In: J. W. Willis & C. Edwards (Eds.), Action Research. Models, Methods, and Examples (pp.195-220). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc. 2. Jonassen, D. H., Cernusca, D., & Ionas, G. I. (2007). Constructivism and Instructional Design: The Emergence of the Learning Sciences and Design Research. In R. A. Reiser & J. A. Dempsey (Eds.), Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology (2nd ed
Natural Sciences and Doctor of Science (Habilitation) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. Her geoscience research focused on geochemistry and sedimentology. She led the CHRONOS project, a collaborative NSF-funded geoinformatics project to connect stratigraphic, sedimentological, and geochemical data. A Fellow of the Geological Society of America, she has led numerous projects funded by NSF focused on reforming science education especially in large enrollment introductory courses and labs. She was coPI of two Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s awards to transform math and science courses and embed research projects in introductory labs.Canan Bilen-Green (Vice Provost for Faculty and
, Hamburg University of Technology Christian H. Kautz has a Diplom degree in Physics from University of Hamburg and a Ph.D. in Physics (for work in Physics Education Research) from the University of Washington. Currently, he leads the Engineering Education Research Group at Hamburg University of Technology. Page 26.1782.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 “Conceptual Change” as a guiding principle for the professional development of teaching staffAbstractThis paper describes an attempt to use a conceptual change approach for the
Engi- neering and ICT, having co-developed the draft Australian national academic standards for the discipline. He is a passionate advocate of national and international cooperation in engineering education, particu- larly the sharing of best-practice learning materials.Prof. David Lowe, The University of Sydney Professor David Lowe is Associate Dean (Education) and Professor of Software Engineering in the Fac- ulty of Engineering and Information Technologies at The University of Sydney. He has active research interests in real-time control in the web environment and remote laboratories. He has published widely including over 150 papers and three books (most recently Web Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach
: • Computer Savvy Students: When the concept of Studio was originally implemented, it dramatically reduced the number of in-class demonstrations which previously were hallmarks of the introductory courses at Rensselaer—predominantly due to space limitations. These were replaced, in part, by computer simulations that were innovative at the time and used an emerging technology which captured student’s interest; but today’s student has grown up with computers. Demonstrations and laboratories performed on computers fail to capture the students’ interest as they once did. We hypothesize that because students spend so much of their time playing with computers as children, today’s students are very savvy with software, but
: • Computer Savvy Students: When the concept of Studio was originally implemented, it dramatically reduced the number of in-class demonstrations which previously were hallmarks of the introductory courses at Rensselaer—predominantly due to space limitations. These were replaced, in part, by computer simulations that were innovative at the time and used an emerging technology which captured student’s interest; but today’s student has grown up with computers. Demonstrations and laboratories performed on computers fail to capture the students’ interest as they once did. We hypothesize that because students spend so much of their time playing with computers as children, today’s students are very savvy with software, but
Paper ID #45368Pandemic Transformation in a Field Study Design Course: Insights Before,During, and After the CrisisDr. Todd Nicewonger, Virginia Tech Todd E. Nicewonger has a Ph.D. in Applied Anthropology and his work focuses on the ethnographic study of engineers and designers.Shea Fitzgerald Hagy, Chalmers University of Technology ¨Catarina Ostlund ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Pandemic Transformation in a Field Study Design Course: Insights Before, During, and After the CrisisIn early spring of 2020, a group of engineering and architectural graduate students
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
Paper ID #32842Undergraduate Student Learning of Market-Driven Design Topics in aThird-Year Design CourseDr. Steven Hoffenson, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Systems & Enterprises) Steven Hoffenson is an Assistant Professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he directs the Design of Sustainable Products Across Complex Environments (Design SPACE) Laboratory. His research focuses on design education and training, design for market systems, multi-disciplinary design optimization, and policy modeling and analysis. Dr. Hoffenson holds a B.S. in Mechanical
AC 2008-1613: ENHANCING DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING EDUCATIONWITH AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING AND MUSIC SYNTHESISEd Doering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Edward Doering received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Iowa State University in 1992, and has been a member the ECE faculty at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology since 1994. He teaches courses in digital systems, circuits, image processing, and electronic music synthesis, and his research interests include technology-enabled education, image processing, and FPGA-based signal processing.Sam Shearman, National Instruments Sam Shearman is a Senior Product Manager for Signal Processing and Communications at National Instruments
. Shaykhian is a professional member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).Dr. Jinan Ziade, Jinan Ziade, PhD, holds a doctorate of management in Organizational Leadership and information sys- tems technologies from the University of Phoenix (UOPX), also A Graduate Executive Certificate in Strategic Diversity & Inclusion Management from Georgetown University Institute for Transformational Leadership. Dr. Ziade is an Assistant Professor and a member of the Diversity and Inclusion committee at Westcliff University. She provides innovative strategies to promote accountability and awareness around diversity and inclusion, drive employee engagement, and lead organizational change. Additionally, Dr
inmedical product development, from product design to sales and support. They play a critical rolein ensuring that new products meet the demands of medical practice.Rehabilitation engineering is the application of science and technology to improve the quality oflife for people with disabilities. This includes the design of augmentative and alternativecommunication systems, increasing computer accessibility for people with disabilities anddeveloping new materials and designs for assistive devices.In both of these areas, patient interaction can yield important information that directly impactsthe design and capabilities of medical products. Therefore it is important for BME students toengage with the users to understand the problems, develop need
Paper ID #35549Need for Change: How Interview Preparation and the Hiring Process inComputing Can Be Made More EquitableDr. Stephanie Jill Lunn, Georgia Institute of Technology Stephanie Lunn is presently a postdoctoral fellow in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. She recently completed her Ph.D. from the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International Uni- versity (FIU). Her research interests span the fields of Computing and Engineering Education, Human Computer Interaction, Data Science, and Machine
theNational Science Foundation (NSF), the Accreditation Board for Engineering and TechnologyEducation (ABET), the changing expectations of employers, emerging knowledge in cognitivetheory and educational pedagogy, improvements in information and instructional technologies,and many other forces, the approach to engineering education is shifting dramatically. The newapproach assumes that every student can learn with the assistance of effective new strategies andpractices that increase learning. Instructors are expected to build upon students’ priorexperiences, promote high expectations within a supportive climate, and encourage inquiry andthe excitement of discovery, in addition to embedding communication and teamwork, criticalthinking, and life-long