AC 2010-2109: THE IMPACT OF ACTIVE LEARNING AND SOCIALRELEVANCE ON PRODUCT DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING COURSESKingsley Reeves, University of South Florida Kingsley Reeves is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida in the Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Department. In addition to engineering education, his core research interest centers on the creation of value across the extended supply chain. His current research focus is on inter-organizational and intra-organizational collaboration within the healthcare supply chain.Susana Lai-Yuen, University of South Florida Susana K. Lai-Yuen is an Assistant Professor of Industrial & Management Systems Engineering
experience of one female postdoctoral fellow working forbenefits including exposure to team-oriented and collaborative Proton OnSite, located in Wallingford, CT. Proton OnSite isenvironments, access to industry contacts and resources, and the world leader in proton exchange membrane (PEM)-basedthe opportunity to gain managerial experience.2 In addition, electrolysis systems, and is well-established in theindustry postdoctoral positions come with financial benefits, marketplace for industrial applications. Postdoctoral activitiessometimes including bonuses and stock options. While many including research, mentoring, management, proposal writingof the above can also
The Virtual Ideation Platform 1 The Virtual Ideation Platform Robert Simoneau, Keene State CollegeDiane Dostie, Central Maine Community College The Virtual Ideation Platform 2Introduction The staff at Central Maine Community College, working with partners across New Englandand the United States, are developing a virtual ideation platform (VIP) which is being funded bythe National Science Foundation, DUE-ATE #0802414 award. The VIP is a consortium ofstakeholders from community colleges, universities and industry that include faculty members,administrators and industry personnel all committed to making the VIP a viable model. The VIP
their potential fortransformative innovation, these industries have been criticized for perpetuating genderdisparities, with limited efforts to create inclusive environments for women (Koning et al., 2021).C. Current State of Female Representation in STEM and PatentsDespite gradual progress, women remain significantly underrepresented in STEM fields andwithin patent-heavy industries. Women account for approximately 13% of inventors on U.S.patents, and 77% of all patents lack any female inventors. If the current rate of change persists,gender parity in patenting would not be achieved until 2092 (Subramani & Saksena, 2024).Additionally, even in collaborative settings, women tend to be credited less frequently than theirmale counterparts, a
-director of the Center for Sustainability in Engineering at Cal Poly. Her life’s work is focused on creating alternatives ways of learning, living and being to the industrial era solutions–alternatives that nourish ourselves, one another and the places in which we live.Prof. Roberta J Herter, California Polytechnic State UniversityDr. Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette Robin S. Adams is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research is concentrated in three interconnecting areas: cross-disciplinary thinking, acting, and be- ing; design cognition and learning; and theories of change in linking engineering education research and practice
cool.. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Scaffolding Strategies for Teaching ROS 2: An Approach Using JupyterLab and iRobot™ Education’s Create® 3 Robot I. IntroductionROS 2 is an open source software development kit for various robotics applications. ROS 2stretches across industries to provide assistance in research, prototyping, and development. It isan advanced computer science concept often discussed at the graduate level and above. Becauseit requires some background in either Python or C++, Linux, and understanding ofpublisher/subscriber messaging structure, it is not commonly taught in undergraduateclassrooms. However, it is often used in the robotics industry at the
with humans.In contrast, the United States has largely focused on robotics with an emphasis on practicality,efficiency, and utility 8,9 . American HRI tends to be more task-oriented, with robots designed toassist in industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, and defense 10,11 . The idea of robots ascompanions or social entities has been slower to gain traction in America 12 compared to Japan,where emotional connections with robots are often considered. However, the United States is stillat the forefront of developing advanced robotics technologies, particularly in AI, autonomoussystems, and human-machine collaboration for professional and industrial uses.This contrast in approaches highlights how cultural values, technological priorities
capstone experience, involvement of industry executives in the design and assessment of the project is paramount. This involvement provides a level of reliability and validity from industry in addition to faculty members. Akili suggests collaboration between engineering practitioners and faculty members can be of great importance [19]. The selection of 2-4 members for the steering committee in addition to the advisor is recommended. Typically, the student’s manager, other leaders serve on the committee. Occasionally, customers or suppliers are also invited based on the project need. The steering committee is tasked to advise the student, attend three required review meetings, help with data needs, and make connections for
Experiential Learning Components into Engineering CurriculaPanel AbstractMany engineering programs have recognized a need for discipline-specific writing instruction.Various methods have been targeted to provide students with opportunities to learn abouttechnical writing with professional practice as the context for the writing. Input from educatorsand industry professionals has helped to develop the writing instruction and assessment. Thesevaluable collaborations between industry and classroom instruction will help prepare engineeringstudents to write in a professional setting.Introduction & literature reviewThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) requires that studentsdemonstrate an ability to communicate
proceeded to score low when asked about the available energy sources inJordan. This lack of knowledge and awareness extends to economic factors like energyconsumption and impacts employability as there are low rates of satisfaction among managersin industry about capabilities and skills of fresh engineering graduates from local universities. It is evident that to produce quality power engineers, stakeholders in the energy sector needto be more aware of renewable engineering practices. At an institutional level, the industryneeds to actively collaborate with universities to produce well-developed resources foreducators to use. Educators also need to be well informed of the social benefits of incorporatingsustainable development in teaching
, Team 2 Emily, Isabella, Lucas, Alexander Team 3 Ava, Olivia, Michael, WilliamFigure 4: Optimized result when balancing teams by gender with two female students per team.As shown in Figure 4, the optimized team assignments resulted in 18 new potential connections.Again, it demonstrates that the model found a solution that maximizes the opportunity forstudents to meet students they had not previously known while balancing the teams to have twofemale students per team.IV. Forcing TeammatesIn some circumstances, two or more students must or want to work together on the same team.This can be due to the project's nature (e.g., industry collaboration, senior design project) or tounique student circumstances
allowing 4th through 12th grade teachers to rapidly advance their knowledge as well as receive professional development credit. Specifically, Schneider University now supports a professional development track designed specifically for this project that includes five online courses and that is accessible by the 4th through 12th grade educators involved in this project to facilitate learning about building automation and the careers available in this area. Texas Instruments - Another major industry collaborator is Texas Instruments. The research team chose the TI LaunchPad technology based on a number of reasons. First the LaunchPad product line offered by Texas Instruments is an economical and expandable development
research interests, in collaboration with the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), include developing clinical applications of functional mag- netic resonance imaging, including presurgical planning and evaluation of rehabilitative outcomes after injury or pathology. Ropella is co-director of the Functional Imaging Ph.D. program, jointly offered with MCW. Ropella has twice received the college’s Outstanding Teacher Award (1994 and 2002), the univer- sity Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence (2002) and was named the Wisconsin US Professor of the Year by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support for Education (2007). Among other honors, she was the recipient of the
Professors Council’s Ethics and Sustainability Toolkits.Mr. Steve Bertasso, New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering Steve Bertasso is an Associate Professor at NMITE with over 25 years of experience in the construction industry, spanning project management, sustainability, and consultancy. Diagnosed with Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia 15 years ago, his lived experience as a disabled professional informs his deep commitment to accessibility and inclusion in construction. Now an educator, Steve leads the Timber TED courses and teaches on NMITE’s BSc in Construction Management, bringing together industry expertise and inclusive pedagogy to shape a more equitable built environment
resources.Designing and implementing this plan poses challenges based on diligent assessment of students’academic requirements, prerequisite training, professional interests, and available resources at thetraining institution. Potential for collaboration at international levels exists at various companiesdue to the industrial practices toward globalization. These companies may include hospitals, OEMor device manufacturers, research institutions, regulatory agencies, device organization andconsultancies. Students must be carefully selected to meet the needs of the collaborators to ensurethe success, continuing relationships with such organizations. Page
. They can be found on land oroffshore and are constantly modified to keep up with new technologies[8] and the needs ofsustainability in industry[9]. Today, they are not only used to support a drill string drilling onfluid with oil or water-based mud as was ten years ago but also equipped to drill using air.Therefore, the design of oil derricks needs multidisciplinary collaboration between petroleumand natural gas engineering, civil engineering, environmental engineering, and mechanicalengineering, and outside of engineering for factors such as societal, global, and cultural.The objective of this research was to develop and incorporate multidisciplinary experiences intothis FYE course for educationally disadvantaged students and evaluate their
and ourpersonal experience of taking part in various international hackathons (BCG IdeaChallenge, Hult Prize, Cup Russia, Arctic Opportunity Explorers, AMC Makeathon) tomake the profound Ideathon Challenge. Various activities have been used to make theexperience more engaging and collaborative. • Online meetings with experts from world-leading universities; • Design Thinking workshops with industrial speakers, lectures from invited speakers from industry and academia; • Practical tasks with online innovation tools; • Pich-deck sessions; • Feedback minutes.The uniqueness of this hackathon lies in the fact that it was fully organized and carriedout during the pandemic. Ideathon Challenge
Page 26.749.9of 2014, industrial grade additive manufacturing equipment was relocated to a more publicfacility and one in which members of the community would have greater access to thetechnology—the campus library. In addition, personnel were trained on the equipment andtechnology. At the end of the semester, a one hour workshop was conducted to give other librarypersonnel an overview of 3D printing and the collaborative effort. The workshop participantswere administered a post-workshop survey to gage their satisfaction with the workshop. The datasuggest that the participants were satisfied with their workshop experience. Seven participantsindicated their interest in attending an advanced workshop, which the authors anticipate offeringduring
AC 2008-485: EMBEDDING BUSINESS STUDENTS INTO EET/TET E4 E-TEAMSJay Porter, Texas A&M University Jay R. Porter joined the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University in 1998 and is currently the Program Director for the Electronics and Telecommunications Programs. He received the BS degree in electrical engineering (1987), the MS degree in physics (1989), and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering (1993) from Texas A&M University.Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University Joseph A. Morgan has over 20 years of military and industry experience in electronics and telecommunications systems engineering. He joined the Engineering Technology
structuraldesign of such facilities has to be multidisciplinary and robust so that integration withadvanced technological developments can occur. To prepare the next generation of engineersso that they can meet these challenges, the School of Engineering and Computer Science atthe University of the Pacific has committed to build an innovative structural testing lab tosupport the civil and mechanical engineering programs.This paper addresses the development of a new lab that is to be used collaboratively bystudents, faculty, and industry. This lab is planned to support experiential learning andtraditional classroom pedagogy including lab instruction. Currently, the civil engineeringcurriculum covers four areas: construction, environmental, hydraulics, and
Session Number : 1520 Use of the 3D Par ametr ic Building Model in Civil and Envir onmental Engineer ing Under gr aduate Education at WPI Guiller mo F. Salazar , J oao C. Almeida Wor cester Polytechnic InstituteIntr oductionThe Architecture/Engineering/Construction (AEC) industry is highly fragmented. To deliver itsprojects, it depends on the knowledge, skills, and resources of many firms and professionals whoare mostly regionally distributed. This fragmentation demands a high level of coordinationamong the many participants to maintain continuity in the communication of the design as itevolves from a simple idea to a
demonstrated their notable innovative thinking and strong interests in theresearch. To support the students to further their research, two courses were created: CSCI 489-Independence Student: Cybersecurity (3 credits) and CSCI 491 Honor Thesis (3 credits) for them inFall 2023. Throughout the fall semester, the two faculty mentors, collaborated extensively with thestudents on two research projects extending the summer research projects: 1) CBTS-NG911: Next Generation 911 Cybersecurity Threat Modeling & Risk Assessment Deliverables: Research Paper, “Towards an Automated Cybersecurity Risk Assessment of Next Generation Emergency Communication Networks - NG911”. 2) CBTS-OT-ICS: Industrial OT ICS SCADA and IOT Security. Deliverables
Poly Pomona). He is a registered Professional Engineer (Civil - Construction) in Texas. He has worked in the industry for nine years as a project manager, a corporate quality manager, a field engineer, and a designer. Also, he conducted several research projects about construction labor productivity, construction safety, engineering design quality management, and con- struction sustainability. He earned a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) and a B.S. in Architectural Engineering from Hanyang University, ERICA. He is a Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI).Dr. Kenneth Lamb P.E., California
construction education.IntroductionIn a traditional classroom, the instructor controls the learning environment and students areconsidered passive learners into whom knowledge can be transferred. The instructor decideswhat students should know and what knowledge should be transmitted through a standardlecture. Nowadays, the construction industry requires critical thinking and problem-solvingskills of recent graduates. However, like many of other professional domains, CEM programshave had limited success producing graduates who possess problem-solving and critical thinkingskills. These skills become significant more and more due to the expanding body of knowledge.Consequently, the instructor is facing on the challenge to teach students how to think and
theoreticalfields tend to have more freedom when choosing the place, time and type of their work, and thereis little or no focus on manual techniques. These differences make collaborative research andeducational efforts between engineers and biologists a challenging task for faculty, students andadministrators. In addition to dealing with the academic demands, students interested in systemssafety will need to be able to move smoothly between multiple worlds and cultures.5. ConclusionAcademia and industry alike have started to respond to the challenges posed by nanotechnology.This perspective article has focused on the academic arena, where learning communities areforming to train a new breed of system safety researchers to work effectively
schedules. According to the American Institute of Architects (2007),“Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is a project delivery approach that integrates people, systems,business structures and practices into a process that collaboratively harnesses the talents andinsights of all participants to optimize project results, increase value to the owner, reduce waste,and maximize efficiency through all phases of design, fabrication, and construction” (p. 2). IPDintegrates project teams in order to take full advantage of the knowledge of all the project’s keystakeholders. In response to this trend the American Institute of Architects (AIA) released a newset of transitional documents in 2008 including A195, B195, and A295, which are gearedtowards integrated
Session 1520This paper describes how the Mechanical Engineering program introduces engineering studentsto high performance computing, and parallel computing in particular, without adding courses tothe curriculum. The Mechanical Engineering Department at Alabama A&M University hasundertaken the High Performance Computing Initiative to Enhance Engineering Education.Under this initiative we not only introduce undergraduate students to high performancecomputing but also make it an integral part of the undergraduate curriculum.Our high performance computing initiative was launched with funding from the Department ofEnergy (DOE) Alliance for Computational Science Collaboration (ACSC) project. A high-performance computing laboratory to support the
, crucially important on both national and global scales. China, in particular, hasrecognized the significance of the biotechnology industry, marking it as a top priority.Furthermore, students would benefit from a diverse faculty pool, comprising instructors fromboth UGA and BUCT, providing an international perspective essential for navigating the globalmarketplace. The program will also foster enhanced international exchanges and collaborations,thereby increasing student mobility and unlocking additional opportunities. Additionally,Chinese students gain the prestige of obtaining a graduate degree from a renowned USinstitution.The approval of the MBB-BUCT program signified a significant opportunity for UGA to gainpositive exposure in China. Through
. Students who are inculcated with such softwareengineering skills are more attractive to employers that just have software-coding abilities.This paper explains our experience and takeaways in immersing students in real-world softwareengineering practices using a year-long undergraduate research project development. That is,rather than simply coding the cybersecurity research projects, they engineered the cybersecurityproduct. Our process walked students through producing a working solution by having them usean agile process called Collaborative-Adversarial Pair (CAP) programming [12] that specificallyapplies cutting-edge software industry techniques at each point in the software lifecycle.2. Need for Light-Weight Software ProcessThere are several
] observed that “Hackathons in CS education were largely observed as an extracurricular activity… to reinforce students’ learning and provide them with a tangible project for resumes.” This situates hackathons squarely within the realm of experiential and applied learning. 2. Time and Effort: The intensive nature and condensed timeline of hackathons demand a significant investment of time and effort as “participants spend the weekend engaging with hosted events and resources, culminating in a final demonstration at the end of the event [1].” 3. Collaborative Work: Hackathons cultivate rich interactions between students, faculty, industry professionals, and mentors, creating opportunities for collaborative