AC 2007-2641: ENHANCING THE LEARNING OF ENGINEERING ECONOMYWITH INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY AND TEACHINGKailash Bafna, Western Michigan University KAILASH M. BAFNA is Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Western Michigan University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and a registered Professional Engineer. He teaches Engineering Economics, Facilities Design and Materials Handling, and Quality Control. His current research interests are in the areas of incorporating technology in education and developing methodology to enhance web-based learning.Betsy Aller, Western Michigan University Betsy M. Aller is Assistant Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing
AC 2007-539: ASEE’S NEW ROLE AS THE LEAD SOCIETY FOR ABETACCREDITATION REVIEW OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERINGPROGRAMS: AN UPDATE AND A LOOK AHEADJames Farison, Baylor University Dr. Jim Farison is currently professor and chair of the ECE Department at Baylor University, and is also administratively responsible for Baylor's B.S. in Engineering program. He currently serves as chair of ASEE's Multidisciplinary Engineering Division, and is a member of the ASEE Accreditation Activities Committee. He received his B.S.E.E. from The University of Toledo and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, before returning to serve on the faculty at UT in the EE and then the Bioengineering departments, and
instructors to grade than traditional reports.Recommendations for Future ResearchBased on the findings of these studies, recommendations for future research studies include: • Repeat this study to verify or refute these findings by using synopsis lab reports in other content areas and curricula (e.g. engineering); at other universities; and with a larger sample size to increase the power of the statistical analyses and reduce the spread of the confidence intervals. • Investigate whether the synopsis lab report format encourages students to develop abilities at higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy than the traditional format. Hypothetically, the synopsis format requires readers to
Paper ID #35685Enhancing Math and Stat Courses with Surveying Engineering ProblemsMr. Daniel Blessner, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus I’m a faculty member at the Penn State Wilkes Barre campus. I’m a civil and chemical engineer.Dr. Dimitrios Bolkas, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus Dimitrios Bolkas, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Surveying Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus. He has a diverse geodetic and geoscientific experience that includes terrestrial, mobile, and airborne laser scanning, digital elevation models, unmanned aerial systems, GNSS
itsniche will be in relation to sustainable energy topics, and train students in this important area.BackgroundEnergy-related issues are important to the sustainability of the planet, due to links with globalclimate change which has been associated with the combustion of fossil fuels. Energy issues arecurrently receiving a lot of news coverage. This is exciting many students about the possibilitiesof working in a career that would develop sustainable energy sources with fewer pollutioneffects. Meeting this challenge will require the efforts of scientists, engineers, and policymakers. Students with an interest in this field are currently struggling to determine the bestmajor to pursue in college to enable them to pursue a career in this
course led to theextension of KSB usage to the ENGG 170 laboratory course.The ENGG 170 laboratory course is taken by mechanical engineering seniors. Therewere twelve (12) students in the Spring 2008 offering of the course. This paper describesthe course and the use of KSBs in detail. It includes one of the KSB documentsdeveloped for the course. It also discusses the students' responses to the use of KSBs andoutlines planned future work.BackgroundKnowledge and Skill Builders (KSBs) were originally developed for middle schoolstudents. They are a progression of short, focused activities by which students increasetheir knowledge and skill base before addressing a specific design problem. The KSBsare an integral part of the "informed" design process
Review Manuals21,22, andnewspaper articles. Additional case studies were developed from the author's 30 years ofengineering and engineering management experience detailing actual cases encountered duringthe practice of engineering. The engineering ethics case studies for the essay and examinationwere obtained from the library of cases compiled by the National Society of ProfessionalEngineers Board of Ethical Review available from the National Institute for Engineering Ethics24(NIEE) website. These selections were made after an extensive review process, by a group ofengineering and engineering technology faculty members, and judged to be suitable,representative, and appropriate.The next phase involved class discussions of real world case studies
developing world. Entrepreneurial education is not solely the domain of business schools. Increasingly,there is interest in innovation and new ventures in technical disciplines such as engineering andscience. A study among Canadian universities10 shows support (although not always throughformal courses) among deans in science, medicine and engineering. Organizations such as theNCIIA (National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance) have sparked interest inentrepreneurship among science and engineering students through a variety of programs.Notably, the recent NCIIA conferences in Portland (2006), Tampa (2007) and Dallas (2008)included significant numbers of non-business school researchers and practitioners. Theconference schedules for
that discipline,[3] and that suchparticipation results in the development of a variety of skills related to communication,[4]leadership and ethical development,[5] and design and teamwork.[6] Such increases also havevarious professional benefits. For example, students who participate in these activities get jobsafter graduation at higher rates than those who do not.[7]But the engineering curriculum is very dense, making participation in out-of-classroom and co-curricular activities challenging. Brint and co-workers [8] found that there are two separateacademic cultures of engagement, where the arts, humanities, and social sciences focus on the“interaction, participation, and interest in ideas,” and science and engineering disciplines focuson
’ development, achievement, and persistence through encouraging the integration of social and academic lives within a college or university and its programs, and through quality interaction with peers, faculty members, and the campus environment5. (pp. 49–50)Learning communities help students to make friends right away so that they can then settle inand focus on academics. Johnson et al8, wrote about how using cooperative learning in learningteam environments helps to reduce anxiety, helps to increase motivation, and promotesemotional bonding. In the learning teams, the first year seminar course, and the academicstrategies course students are asked to reflect and write about their experiences. Research asshown the importance of
Paper ID #19033How Engineers Negotiate Domain Boundaries in a Complex, InterdisciplinaryEngineering ProjectGrace Panther, Oregon State University Grace Panther is a doctoral student conducting research in engineering education. She has experience conducting workshops at engineering education conferences and is currently a guest editor for a special issue of European Journal of Engineering Education on inclusive learning environments. Her research includes material development, faculty discourses on gender, and defining knowledge domains of students and engineers.Dr. Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University Dr. Montfort is
activities; • formative communication with academic staff; • involvement in enriching educational experiences; • feeling legitimated and supported by university learning communities.These five facets form the basis of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), theannual survey conducted among public and private higher education institutions in the US andCanada.One of the main challenges both faculty and students encounter in online courses, unlike manyface to face courses, is a general feeling of isolation. Online students are physically separated.This can result in a decrease of opportunities for academic and social integration which areknown predictors of student success for those who take traditional classes. Likewise, instructorswho
learning in engineering education.Mohan Wang, University of PittsburghMr. Mohamed A. S. Zaghloul, University of Pittsburgh Mohamed A. S. Zaghloul was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1987. He received his B.E. degree in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering in 2009, and his M.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics in 2012, both from the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University. In 2014, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Pittsburgh, as a graduate research and teaching fellow, since then he has been working under professor Kevin P. Chen towards a Ph.D. in developing optical fiber sensors for monitoring harsh environments. Zaghloul is a recipient of multiple research and
Paper ID #29456A simple and efficient markup tool to generate drawing-based onlineassessmentsNicolas Nytko, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Nicolas Nytko is a M.S. student in the department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current research interests are in computer science education and scientific computing.Prof. Matthew West, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Matthew West is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining Illinois he was on the faculties of
Paper ID #31380An Integrated Mixed-signal Circuit Design Course ProjectDr. 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, signas and systems, and upper-division digital Signal Processing courses. Her research areas focus on statistical
P.Eng., University of Waterloo Dr. Al-Hammoud is a Faculty lecturer (Graduate Attributes) in the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Al-Hammoud has a passion for teaching where she con- tinuously seeks new technologies to involve students in their learning process. She is actively involved in the Ideas Clinic, a major experiential learning initiative at the University of Waterloo. She is also re- sponsible for developing a process and assessing graduate attributes at the department to target areas for improvement in the curriculum. This resulted in several publications in this educational research areas. Dr. Al-Hammoud won the ”Ameet and Meena Chakma award for
included. In the instance of students with a doublemajor, they were retained if one major was CE, ME, or BME. The final data set was 66%male and 34% female. Based on first semester of enrollment, 27.5% were freshmen,28.1% were sophomores, 22.0% were juniors, and 22.4% were seniors. The racial/ethniccomposition of the sample was 40.5% White; 31.0% Hispanic; 19.8% Asian; 4.7% OtherInternational/Foreign; 2.8% American Indian, Native Hawaiian, or two or more races;and 1.2% Black. All demographic data was gathered from institutional records.Instrument Development We created the domain area PCIR scales from items used in previous surveystudies of identity (Prybutok, Patrick, Borrego, Seepersad, & Kirisits, 2016). To createour independent
embedded systems, runtime optimization, non-intrusive system observation methods, data-adaptable systems, and embedded system security. He has recently coauthored multiple textbooks, published by zyBooks, that utilize a web-native, interactive, and animated approach, which has been shown to increase student learning and achievements.Dr. Susan Lysecky, zyBooks Susan received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Riverside in 2006. She served as a faculty member at the University of Arizona from 2006-2014. She has a background in design automation and optimization for embedded systems, as well as experience in the development of accessi- ble engineering curricula and learning technologies. She is
Paper ID #21291Bottlenecks and Muddiest Points in a Freshman Circuits CourseDr. Cynthia Furse, University of Utah Dr. Cynthia Furse (PhD ’94) is the Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Utah and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Furse teaches / has taught electromagnetics, wireless communication, computational electromagnetics, microwave engineering, circuits, and antenna design. She is a leader and early developer of the flipped classroom, and began flipping her classes in 2007. She is now regularly engaged helping other faculty flip their classes (see Teach
president of the Southwest Educational Research Association. He is the author or c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #25558co-author of three books, several book chapters and more than 100 articles on mathematics education,quantitative research methods, and teacher education published in such venues as Journal of MathematicsEducation, International Journal for Studies in Mathematics Education, Journal of STEM Education: In-novations and Research, International Journal of University Teaching and Faculty Development, LEARN-ing Landscapes, Special Issue: Mind, Brain and Education, Journal of Mathematical
changed within individual students over thecourse of one semester using the makerspace. By surveying this broad pool of students andexploring the ways in which students’ attitudes change after completing a makerspace project,we can better understand how incorporating these assignments into a class impacts students’affect towards engineering and perception of their engineering efficacy.IntroductionA Review of MakerspacesCelebrated as cradles of innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship, makerspaces are among themost compelling engineering facilities, highly desired by both faculty and students. Thesespaces, driven by the maker movement and dedicated to the process of making, are becomingincreasingly popular as their potential is unveiled.While
52% Figure 9: Time allocation for the various components of the class.Lessons Learned and Future PlansThis course adhered to Graham, Allen & Ure (2004) [9] findings that most people chose blendedlearning for three reasons: (1) improved pedagogy, (2) increased access/flexibility, and (3)increased cost effectiveness. In the development of the course, Utah State University looked toimprove pedagogy by giving students assignments related to their engineering discipline,increased student access/flexibility by offering various instructional components to meet theirindividual learning needs and increased cost effectiveness by enabling larger numbers of studentsto take the course without increasing faculty teaching time.In the
assistant in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University. She received a bachelor of electrical engineering degree in December 2015 and is currently pursuing a master of science in electrical engineering. Her research interests include electromagnetics and microelectronics.Dr. Lesley Erin Bartlett, Auburn University Lesley Erin Bartlett is Assistant Director of University Writing for the ePortfolio Project at Auburn Uni- versity, where she works with faculty and students from across disciplines. She completed her PhD in Composition and Rhetoric with a graduate specialization in Women’s and Gender Studies at the Univer- sity of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2014. She has developed and taught courses
conductivity characterization of supported and suspended graphene while publishing in such journals as Nano Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Heat Transfer, Physical Review B, and Science. As a Thermal Ad- visory Engineer for IBM’s Systems & Technology Group from 2011 to 2013 he designed and developed electronics thermal management solutions from the die level up to full server systems. Dr. Moore joined the mechanical engineering faculty at Louisiana Tech in September of 2013. He holds a joint appointment with the Institute for Micromanufacturing (IfM) where he works on advanced materials and devices for energy applications with an emphasis on nanoscale thermal energy transport. His graduate school focus
groupinterviews. Analysis of the results indicated students benefited from the flipped classroomapproach although it entailed some challenges for both faculty and students. Conclusions aredrawn and recommendations are made for engineering education researchers and practitioners.IntroductionFlipped learning, also referred to as inverted learning, has gained increasing popularity in highereducation, particularly in STEM fields. This pedagogical approach extends the typical three-hourlearning period beyond the confines of classroom time through the use of online platforms bydelivering part or all of direct instruction through videos and other media. The in-class time isinstead used for engaging students in collaborative, hands-on activities1. The roles of
Paper ID #15975Pros and Cons of Laboratory Methods Used in Engineering EducationDr. Mohammad Habibi P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville Mohammad Habibi is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin- Platteville. He received his undergraduate degree from Iran University of Science & Technology in 1994, his master’s from Isfahan University of Technology in 2000, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2010. Following his postdoctoral appointments at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he joined the faculty at Minnesota State
Paper ID #11723Implementing Team Based Learning in a First Year Introduction to Engi-neering CourseDr. Chao Wang, Arizona State University Chao Wang received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is currently a lecturer in Ira. A Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University.Dr. Jennifer Mott, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo Jennifer Mott is faculty in Mechanical Engineering at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Her research interests include using Team Based Learning in engineering courses and first year engineering programs
Paper ID #12337A flipped course in modern energy systems: preparation, delivery, and post-mortemDr. Matthew Turner, Purdue University (Statewide Technology) Dr. Matthew Turner is an Assistant Professor of ECET at Purdue University New Albany where he teaches courses in power systems and controls. Prior to joining the faculty at Purdue, Professor Turner worked as a researcher at the Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research in the area of power and energy systems, with a focus on smart grid implementation and computer modeling. Dr. Turner’s current research concentrates on demand response technologies and the application of
Paper ID #11911Achieving High Functioning Teams Using Team Based Learning in FlippedClassroomsDr. Jennifer Mott, California Polytechnic State University Jennifer Mott is faculty in Mechanical Engineering at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Her research interests include using Team Based Learning in engineering courses and first year engineering programs.Dr. Steffen Peuker, California Polytechnic State University Dr. Steffen Peuker holds the James L. Bartlett, Jr. Assistant Professor position in the Mechanical Engi- neering Department at the California State University in San Luis Obispo. He is teaching courses, includ- ing
Paper ID #12077Realizing Proof of Concept in Machine Design with 3D PrintingDr. Ananda Mani Paudel, Colorado State University, Pueblo Ananda Mani Paudel is Assistant Professor of Engineering at Colorado State University, Pueblo. He was formerly on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. He has a B.S in mechanical engineer- ing from Tribhuvan University, Nepal, a M.S. in Mechatronics from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Western Michigan University