courses that build upon a core set of classes. Thesecourses may or may not be electives, but they are commonly taken in sequence. For instance, astudent may take a fluid mechanics course followed by hydraulics, water resources, andhydrology courses [13]. The goal would be for students to make connections across all of thesecourses because of their close connection and overlap in a design scenario. While combiningcourses may be effective, this is not always practical in curriculum development. The question iswhether introducing a common iterative design project longitudinally throughout the sequencewould help connect concepts across courses within the global curriculum.Research Questions The literature shows that a body of knowledge should
scale, disparate data. He is currently working on a project that ambition to design a system capable of providing students customized motivational stimuli and perfor- mance feedback based on their affective states.Dr. Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Tucker holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in Engineering Design and Industrial En- gineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He is also affiliate faculty in Computer Science and Engineering. He teaches Introduction to Engineering Design (EDSGN 100) at the undergraduate level and developed and taught a graduate-level course titled Data Mining–Driven Design (EDSGN 561). As part of the Engineering Design Program’s
pedagogical uses of digital systems. She also investigates fundamental questions critical to improving undergraduate engineering degree pathways. . She earned her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. In 2013, Dr. Mohammadi-Aragh was honored as a promising new engineering education researcher when she was selected as an ASEE Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Choice of Major and Career Aspirations of First-Year ECE StudentsINTRODUCTIONTypically, university engineering study is categorized into specialty areas, e.g. civil, chemical,computer, electrical, mechanical, etc. Engineering students are asked to select a
aimed at supporting underprepared students through theirprerequisites, both academically and emotionally. The program was designed afterinterviewing many students, both those who persisted and those who left engineering,researching programs at other schools, and building upon prior experience. The mainprogram goals include an increased retention rate in engineering amongstunderprepared students and the creation of meaningful relationships and networks forthese students within their engineering experience.Specific program goals: ● Support the development of meaningful relationships for underprepared first-year students within their engineering experience. A student survey about interpersonal experiences with peers as well as
Paper ID #16413Comparison of a Partially Flipped vs. Fully-Flipped Introductory Probabil-ity and Statistics Course for Engineers: Lessons LearnedDr. Natasa S. Vidic, University of Pittsburgh Natasa Vidic is an assistant professor in the department of industrial engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, where she received a Ph.D. in industrial engineering in 2008. She has an M.S. in operations research from the University of Delaware (1992) and a B.S. in civil/transportation engineering from the University of Belgrade in Serbia (1987). Before joining the faculty in 2010, Dr. Vidic was a visiting assistant professor. She
Paper ID #14866Engineering Major Selection: An Examination of Initial Choice and Switch-ing Throughout the First YearAndrew Theiss, The Ohio State University Andrew Theiss is a Ph.D. student in the biomedical engineering graduate program at The Ohio State University. Andrew received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering at The Ohio State University in 2009. He currently works as a graduate research associate in the Wexner Medical Center and is in his third year as a graduate teaching associate in the Engineering Education Innovation Center (EEIC). His engineering research interests are focused on the development of
/sampling frequency is being met!For other assessment schemes, such as projects and presentations, one may assign a weighting factorfor each of them, that depends on a number of factors that contribute to its approximation of a unitimpulse function (including level of difficulty, time duration, accessibility to resources, etc.), incomparison with a conventional one-or-two hour exam, as is done in [15].VII – Facts and Figures – A Data Snapshot from the International SceneIn 2013, a short engineering education survey was distributed to 233 engineering educatorsaffiliated with the engineering faculties of four leading universities in Lebanon (the Middle East).The survey included a number of questions on issues ranging from the number of
IntroductionTechnical writing is an important skill for students to develop by the time of graduation, andeffective communication is required of the ABET 2009-10 Criterion 3. In addition to ABETrequirement, the industry demand for skilled technical writers is increasing6 . However, for manyengineering students, the act of technical writing can be intimidating. This is especially true ifthe students are still learning about the topic in question6 . More exposure to the subject matter isuseful in making technical writing a less daunting task. Students need significant practice tobecome effective communicators upon completion of their degrees. Beginning this education intechnical writing early allows students maximizes time spent learning to
and II, Fluid Mechanics, and Heat and Mass Transfer, six credits of solid mechanics classes: Solid Mechanics and Machine Design, and seven credits of technical electives.While the credits seem to be heavily weighted toward the thermal-fluid sciences, it should benoted that all ME-concentration students are required to take mechanics of materials as a coreengineering course, but do not take the combined thermal-fluid class that is required for studentsin the other concentrations.In the early planning stages for the ME concentration, a course in kinematics was included. Indiscussions among the faculty, however, we concluded that this was one area where the use of
EngineeringAcademic Boot Camp (ABC) at Purdue University with a particular focus on using the Chi-Square and T-test statistical methods for retention and GPA comparisons respectively. As MEPstypically target small groups, the authors also explore the use of matched groups to drawadditional conclusions about the relative success of program activities in meeting desired MEPobjectives.Background A. Program OverviewRetention studies may have different or combined foci including academic and social integration,persistence and attrition, student support (peers, faculty, family, institutional), demographicinfluences, economic factors, cultural factors, and psychological factors.6,10–12 The influence ofdifferent characteristics on URM student success is of
Technology (DSST), where she also created and taught a year-long, design-based DSST engineering course for seniors. Before beginning her PhD work, Marissa returned to CU, where she supervised K-12 fellows and worked with educators engaged in the creation of K-12 engineering curriculum for the TeachEngineering digital library.Dr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She serves as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt is the faculty director of the Sustainable
Paper ID #12176Using Additive Manufacturing and Finite Element Analysis in a Design-Analyze-Build-Test ProjectDr. William E Howard, East Carolina University William E (Ed) Howard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. He was previously a faculty member at Milwaukee School of Engineering, following a 14- year career as a design and project engineer with Thiokol Corporation, Spaulding Composites Company, and Sta-Rite Industries.Dr. Rick Williams, Auburn University Rick Williams is currently a Visiting Associate Professor at Auburn University. His research interests include
a better fit.33-35 Universities now offer an array of activities, majors, andexperiences that are gender-typed, and therefore the possibility, and perhaps, now theexpectations are greater, that individuals will follow a gender normative path.34 Beliefsystems about gender combined with certain social contexts are important in shaping thepathways individuals take. Indeed, it is surprising to note, in many authoritarian and lesseconomically developed countries, women are actually more likely to enter a math andscience career than in the United States. It seems that the choices young people maketowards careers in the United States are in many ways the result of structural, cultural,and economic forces that celebrate gendered selves and allow
discussion and support from peers, which may not occur ina TC setting. Students may not have an easy way to communicate or develop strong relationshipswith their peers if they live off campus. Typically, there is minimal interaction during a lecture.However, in this specific FC method, students are encouraged to interact and discuss concepts.With respect to the 90% confidence level chosen, 10% of the significant variables may be subjectto a Type 1 error. In this study, 10% is approximately 2 of the 18 variables. In this case, 16variables would still be significant, which does not detract highly from the significance of thisstudy.Qualitative Survey ResultsThese quantitative results are further supported by the qualitative results. Of the 63
eight years. Dr. Troxell received his BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from CSU. He was a NATO Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He has been on the faculty in the Department of Mechan- ical Engineering since 1985. Dr. Troxell is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Dr. Troxell is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of intelligent robotics and intelligent control of distributed infrastructure systems. His smart grid research has focused on intelligent systems and the integration of the distributed energy resources (DER), including renewable energy and storage, into the electric power grid. He has conducted educational, research and outreach
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (UWM) in Electrical Engineering in 2012. She was an Assistant Professor at the Electrical and Instrumentation Department of Los Medanos College during 2016-2017 academic year. She was an Adjunct Faculty at San Francisco State University and Diablo Valley College during 2015-2016 academic year, and an instructor at UWM from January 2014 until May 2015. She has taught Control Systems Design course several times, and has adopted different methods of teaching in her classes. She is a member of IEEE, and has several publications in IEEE and peer reviewed journals. Her primary research interests include nonlinear control, adaptive control, and robust control, and simulation of linear and
necessarilyenjoyable, and students responded with interest and positive feedback. The challenge ofimagining a single image that conveys the central idea of each topic or expresses distinctionswithin concepts provided an opportunity for instructor creativity. With each new cartoon andnew challenge, the author grew more enthusiastic about the potential benefits of using cartoonsin these engineering courses.The purpose of this paper is to share the author’s experience using cartoons in engineeringclasses. Also presented here is the approach to developing the characters, examples ofinspiration for cartoons that capture topics, and the technique for turning pencil sketches intocolor cartoon images via free and common software. It is hoped that this information
the engineering curriculum. In particular, she is interested in the impact that these tools can have on stu- dent perception of the classroom environment, motivation and learning outcomes. She was selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontiers of Engineering Education Sympo- sium in 2013, awarded the American Society for Engineering Education Educational Research Methods Faculty Apprentice Award in 2014 and the Raymond W. Fahien Award for Outstanding Teaching Effec- tiveness and Educational Scholarship presented by American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Chemical Engineering Division in 2017. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020
by Marathon-Ashland Petroleum upon graduation.Neil Miller, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Neil Miller is a senior Mechanical Engineering student at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Neil will graduate with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in May 2007.Richard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Richard A. Layton is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His professional interests include system dynamics, curriculum and laboratory development, and project- and team-based learning. His interest in students' teaming experiences and the technical merit of team deliverables is founded on his years of experince in consulting
learningexperiences, why and how it enhances understanding, retention, and meaningful application. The goal of this study is to raise awareness of Breeze so that future researchers willsupport or contest these pedagogical hypotheses through follow up empirical analysis. This paperwill also present how this experiment was conducted, and what hypotheses were set up. Page 11.869.31. Introduction When first developing the IT 332 Distance course, we determined that a good start was toincorporate audio with the existing course PowerPoint slides. Purdue University has a licensefor Macromedia Breeze, and using it is fairly straightforward. Once the
1991. I did postdoctoral work at Princeton University from 1991 to 1995. I taught in the Biology Department of Vassar College from 1995-1996. I became an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Bucknell University in 1996 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2001.My primary research interests are the molecular biology of viruses that infect eukaryotes, specifically viruses that infect honeybees.Mr. Alexander P Thompson, Bucknell University I am a senior Electrical Engineering student at Bucknell University. I have been studying genomic signal processing for the last two years as part of a research project through the Bucknell Presidential Fellows program. My primary role in the development of the
student additional XP (effectively extra credit), butalso another resource, called Reputation. While reputation did not affect a student’s gradedirectly, by working collectively with other students in their guild, students could poolReputation to effectively ‘win’ the game. In this context, the guild with the most reputation at theend of the semester was allowed to choose from several rewards (dinner out with the faculty, theability to choose an experiment the following semester, a small boost to one of their best grades,etc.). Optional tasks were ones that the instructors thought would benefit the students, but inpractice, without incentivization, few students attempted. Examples include peer evaluation oftheir work, seeking out and using
designing experiments to demonstrate performance of adevice they designed or developed in order to prove a physical phenomenon. Hence, it comes asno surprise that ABET has embraced this criterion for close to a decade.Introduction to Thermodynamics requires that students learn basic, yet complicated concepts,such as determining properties of pure substances, calculating heat and work exchanged during aprocess, and the first and second law of thermodynamics, before they can tackle complexapplications, such as thermodynamic cycles or combustion systems. These basic concepts areconducive to simple, conceptually oriented laboratory assignments that parallel the classroominstruction. Those laboratory assignments are an ideal place to implement
Paper ID #10462Controlling Workers’ Compensation Costs In ConstructionProf. Neil Opfer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas UNLV Associate Professor Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & ConstructionDr. David R. Shields P.E., University of Nevada, Las Vegas David R. Shields, Ph.D., P.E. Dr. Shields is an Associate Professor in Department of Civil and Environ- mental Engineering and Construction in the Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has received two outstanding faculty awards and two service awards at UNLV. He has over 25 years of industry and government
Paper ID #10792Correlating Experience and Performance of On-Campus and On-Line Stu-dents Assisted by Computer Courseware: a Case StudyDr. Hong Man, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES) Dr. Hong Man joined the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens in January 2000. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in December 1999. Dr. Man is currently an associate professor in the department of ECE. He is serving as the director of the undergraduate Computer Engineering program, and the director of the Visual Information Envi- ronment Laboratory at Stevens
theknowledge and skills they derived from their MaFEL laboratory experience to solvepractical electromagnetic systems design , interference and shielding problems are discussedand future plans for the continued development of the MaFEL procedure are noted.I. Introduction The ability to visualize the low frequency AC magnetic field distributions thatoccur in the vicinity of 60 Hz AC electric power generation and transmission equipment ,such as transformers, rotational machines, switchgear and cable ; and to understand thephysical factors that determine these fields ; are very important skills for an electricalengineering technician ( EET ) to have. This understanding of AC magnetic field behaviorenables an EET to identify the most probable
AC 2012-4481: EDUCATION APPROACH IN JAPAN FOR MANAGEMENTAND ENGINEERING OF SYSTEMSProf. David S. Cochran, Southern Methodist University and Meijo University David Cochran is a professor of industrial and systems engineering management. He is Founder and Prin- cipal of System Design, LLC, Visiting Professor with the School of Business, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan and faculty of systems engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Cochran devel- oped the Manufacturing System Design Decomposition (MSDD) to determine the underlying design of the Toyota Production System (and ”lean”) from a systems engineering viewpoint and was Founder and Director of the Production System Design Laboratory in the
UniversitySystem of Georgia, with close to 5000 students enrolled. Many of the students arenontraditional. The school’s mission is to offer both traditional and nontraditional studentsbachelors and masters degrees and continuing professional development in the sciences,engineering, engineering technology, applied liberal arts, business, and professional programs.Despite the technical focus of the degrees at SPSU, typically around 40% of incoming studentsare placed into College Algebra by the university’s mathematics placement exam. Retainingthese underprepared students pursuing engineering or engineering technology degrees atinstitutions similar to this one and providing them with a strong mathematical background is anessential component of increasing
]. This number has plateaued for at least adecade. In contrast, the representation of women in other fields like law or medicine wasas bad as in engineering thirty years ago but has now almost reached parity. As a result,in the last decade a number of programs have been developed at institutions around the Page 25.1128.2country to identify the factors associated with this consistent under-representation ofwomen in engineering, and to help implement solutions, such as Women in Engineeringprograms.Factors contributing to the under-representation of women students in engineering mayinclude retention: are there significant numbers of students who start out
Society for the Study of Education, Toronto, ON, 2004.[17] Butler, D. and Winne, P., “Feedback and self-regulated learning: A theoretical synthesis,” Review of Educational Research, vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 245-281, 1995.[18] Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Engineering Accreditation Commission, Criteria for Accrediting, Effective for Evaluations During the 2010-2011 Accreditation Cycle, ABET, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland.[19] Jain, V. K. and Sobek, D. K. Process characteristics that lead to good design outcomes in engineering capstone projects, 2003. Retrieved July 31, 2005, from http://vmw.coe.montana.edu/IE/faculty/sobek/CAREER/VDOEjpaper.DOC[20] Dym, C. L., Agogino, A. M., Eris