ability to generate ideas, create prototypes, and market and sell solutions, skills that arebeneficial in any setting. Student exposure to repeated entrepreneurship practice involving real world situations isimportant (Marshall, 2009; Zoltowski, Oakes, & Cardella, 2012). Despite the benefits ofentrepreneurship exposure, many barriers remain for implementing interdisciplinary classes,including low enrollment, lack of administrative support, and inadequate curriculum (Goodman& Huckfeldt, 2013). To better prepare students to tackle society’s complex problems and beefficient members of today’s workforce, it is necessary for universities to overcome thesebarriers and develop opportunities for students to engage in interdisciplinary
Paper ID #16917Understanding How a Culture of Collaboration Develops Among STEM Fac-ultyDr. Kelly J. Cross, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Cross completed her doctoral program in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech in 2015 and is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is involved with multiple educational research projects with faculty and graduate students at UIUC. Her research interests include diversity and inclusion, teamwork skills, assessment, and identity construction.Dr. Natasha Aniceto Mamaril, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
solutions development tended to bedisconnected from later stages of the design process. While some programs have incorporatedclinical immersion into design curriculum [17, 19, 27, 28] or public-private models forlongitudinal development [29], it is known that the lifecycle of student work is generallyinconsistent with the timeline required to realize, verify, and validate a solution to an unmetclinical need.To address this limitation, we proposed a distributed and interdisciplinary pipeline forsustainable student-driven innovation that enables identification of clinical needs as well as thedevelopment of compelling solutions to meet them [30]. The primary goal of this pipeline is toenhance undergraduate BME student performance and learning outcomes
solutions, multiplestakeholders and no conclusive formulation) or the ability to communicate in a digital environment[1, 2]. Moreover, project-based learning (PBL) has been gaining more traction in engineeringprograms to facilitate student learning experience and professional development. Although designcourses including capstone design have PBL with components of EML, entrepreneurial mindsetbased PBL is quite uncommon in many engineering courses that are not design courses [3].Traditional engineering course projects involve a relatively close-ended problem whereinstructions and information about the project specifications are provided. This can be due toengineering instructors lack of access to curriculum that focuses on problem solving with
Paper ID #42981But wait! There’s more! Developing Students Through a First-Year CourseDr. Camilla M. Saviz P.E., University of the Pacific Camilla Saviz is Professor and Chair of Civil Engineering at the University of the Pacific. She received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Clarkson University, an M.B.A. from the New York Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Davis. She is a registered engineer in California.Dr. Luke S. Lee P.E., University of the Pacific Luke Lee is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of the
for courses inStatics and Dynamics. This effort is a component of a funded College Cost Reduction andAccess Act (CCRAA) grant from the Department of Education, and focuses on student retentionand development of adaptive expertise. Studies have shown that minority science, technology,engineering, and math (STEM) students leave STEM undergraduate fields in part due to lack ofreal world connections to their classroom learning experiences. Furthermore, in STEM fields theconventional approach is to teach for efficiency first and for innovation only in the latter years ofthe curriculum. This focus on efficiency first can actually stifle attempts at innovation in latercourses. Our response to these issues is to change the way we teach. CBI, a form
in the CAD/CAM curriculum taught in the junior year.Computer Aided Reverse Engineering of cork opener, gear puller, cell phone case, and cellphone cover were the selected course projects taken by students in the CAD/CAM course. Oneof the main objectives of the curse project was for the students to extend their knowledge indesign process and gain a hands-on experience in the field of solid modeling and productrealization. A caliper and a micrometer were used to measure the main dimensions of the parts,and a solid modeling program was used for creating the parts model and assembly as well. Thispaper describes hands-on solid modeling and prototyping experiences of manufacturingengineering students regarding product realization process at our
both of which areexpensive.Understanding the practical principles of measurement science using GD&T should be animportant part of engineering technology education which helps to impart the hands-on aspect ofthe subject area.There is a basic metrology course at the freshman/sophomore level that teaches principles ofhands-on measurements using common instruments such as vernier calipers, different types ofvernier micrometers, gage blocks, dial indicators, and CMMs (Coordinate Measuring Machines).It was decided to develop the new higher-level metrology course at the junior/senior level thatwould supplement the material covered in the basic course. Also, students learn the GD&Ttheory in their freshman/sophomore level from the point of view
indoorinsulated ceiling (IC) rated, air-tight recessed compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) downlight fixture.The distinct features of fixture include: compact and light weight, unique CFL lamp, built-in-modularity and high lumen output. This paper outlines the design and development of a recesseddownlight to address the early market acceptance of CFL fixtures and the replacement ofincandescent light sources.IntroductionUnited States Government agencies and electric utilities are actively promoting the markettransformation of energy efficient residential light fixtures. A major impediment to thesepromotions is the lack of performance and affordable price of these light fixtures. Given themarket size and the number of “off the shelf” technology solutions
subjectedto load, the experimenter was required to obtain null deflection on agalvanometer. In addition, when the beam was subjected to a load perpendicularto long axis of the beam, the galvanometer produces a reading. This reading isa measure of the beam deflection or bending moment developed inside the beam.There are plans to utilize an L.V.D.T. (Linear Variable Differential Transducer),also to measure the beam deflection. A portable strain-meter if available can beutilized to verify experimental data with theoretical calculations.Mechanical TransducersIt is highly likely that the most common type of industrial instrumentation wouldrequire the measurement of pressure. This is primarily because pressuremeasurement can cover
. Page 7.1170.1It is perhaps worth emphasizing several aspects of this program. “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering Education Section 1654First, the detailed course content has been developed to meet the specific needs that ourphysicist/entrepreneur advisors identified as being crucial, while preserving a degree offlexibility permitting students to target areas of individual interest.Second, the internship/Master’s thesis insures that the students will have real-worldexperience of technical innovation in an entrepreneurial
Technology Wade L. Robison is the Ezra A. Hale Professor of Applied Ethics at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a minor in law. He was President of the Hume Society for sixteen years and was the first President and co-founder of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum. He has published extensively in philosophy of law, David Hume, and practical and professional ethics. His book Decisions in Doubt: The Environment and Public Policy (University Press of New England, 1994) won the Nelson A. Rockefeller Prize in Social Science and Public Policy. His latest book is Ethics Within Engineering: An Introduction (Bloomsbury Academic
assessment projects and provides faculty with professional development opportunities in the area of assessment. Page 13.601.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Extensive Use of Advanced FPGA Technology in Digital Design EducationAbstractThe design tools, methods, and technologies used in industry to design digital hardware evolvequickly and continuously. Since the inception of wide-spread CAD tool use to define digitalcircuits around 40 years ago, revolutionary tool changes have occurred every 5 to 10 years.Although many of the foundational concepts are relatively unchanged
many electrical engineering students take is discrete mathematics,which helps to support many computer engineering courses, both hardware and softwarerelated. Required courses include: digital logic design, computer architecture, programminglanguages. The electrical engineering curriculum at The Cooper Union will includecommunication networks as a required course starting in the next academic year. This willserve to increase the relevance of the discrete mathematics course.A third elective course of particular relevance for electrical engineering is complex variables,which has strong linkages to the study of signals and systems. Specifically, transfer functions(Laplace and z-transforms) studied in courses such as digital signal processing and
that can beborrowed and applied to systems engineering. There have been numerous efforts in variousdisciplines where college and university professors have been challenged to develop instructionalmethods that transform students from passive listeners to active learners1. In the author’sexperience, introducing such techniques in a highly conceptual engineering class is ‘easier saidthan done.’Active learning is in short, anything that students do in a classroom other than merely passivelylistening to an instructor’s lecture. This includes everything from listening practices which helpthe students to absorb what they hear, to short writing exercises in which students react to lecturematerial, to complex group exercises in which students apply
shared 1) with CIRCUIT program office staff to refine the curriculum, and 2)Section Leads and TAs to track student performance and provide individualized support. 10We plan to implement a Brinkerhoff modeled assessment, soliciting the top and bottom quarterof students for feedback, utilizing their comments to refine project execution 41 . By evaluatingand interviewing successful teams, we can build their habits and methods into future requirementsfor projects. By interviewing poorer-performing teams, we can develop better scaffolding andimplementation methods so that similar issues do not arise for future teams.CIRCUIT Pillar 6: Diverse mentorshipCIRCUIT offers a structured opportunity for
adjust to the distance learning mode include: a) decomposition of the course context into three modules and clear specification of the corresponding learning objectives of each module; b) combination of different technologies to create friendly and inclusive learning environment; c) frequent assessment of students' performance via online quizzes/tests; and d) carefully- designed laboratory assignments via MATLAB simulations that are able to demonstrate the entire feedback control process. A comparison of students' performance under the traditional face-to-face learning mode and the new distance learning mode is conducted. Based on assessment results, we will evaluate the effectiveness of our current teaching methodology/plan developed
in communication systems requiring high capacity. It was only afterseveral decades of research, sprung from Claude Shannon’s seminal work on the mathematics ofcommunication theory, that a capacity approaching code was designed. Developing a capacityapproaching code requires the knowledge of a large variety of different error correctingapproaches, generally based on advanced mathematic skills. This knowledge typically is taughtin classes dealing with coding theory, error correction codes, or information theory etc. Hence,LDPC codes are seldom taught in an undergraduate curriculum, as they are combined in graduateprograms with other coding techniques. However, it has been recently found that LDPC code canbe understood from factor graphs, which
estimatesand plans. Furthermore, most of the courses require that students use version control.The department has tried different mechanisms and tools for time logging. Early on, studentswere allowed to submit their time logs in text documents. We then experimented with freewaretools and later used spreadsheets with various formats. One problem we noticed for allapproaches was that some students would fill in time sheets days after actually spending the timeand would guess the actual time spent. To attempt to force the students to provide more accuratetime logs, the department developed a spreadsheet version of a time log that had several areaslocked. The spreadsheet had a punch-in/punch-out feature that the students were required to use.Manual
students’ quickly learn that time management and recognizing the criticalpath for product development is the key to success in their project.Cost AnalysisThere are three components of cost to evaluate: product price (including cost of materials,cost of manufacture), testing price (including costs of development, prototyping, andtesting), and other costs to society (environmental and recycling costs) that are often notincluded in traditional engineering economics. Our goal is to make this project asaffordable as possible so that it is competitive with conventional standards. Looking atthese various elements of cost will help determine the design’s competitiveness.In both of our designs (for headlight circuits), we need 16 transmitter circuits
defined and developed. (6)Chryssolouris.G. et al., reviewed related publications and concluded that to effectively addressthe emerging challenges for manufacturing education and skills delivery, the educationalparadigm in manufacturing needs to be revised. Many educational institutions have tried to bringtheir educational practice closer to industry also with the concept of “Learning Factory”. Adrawback of this approach may be that the dedicated equipment, which is installed on theacademic settings, may at some point become obsolete. (7)With the advancement of manufacturing technologies adapted by industries, academicinstitutions are required to adapt those technologies in their curriculum to be in par. One suchlatest advancement in manufacturing
engineering curriculum?[C]. Proceedings of SEFI Annual Conference 2013[A],2013[18] Moses J. Engineering with a Big E: integrative education in engineering: long range plan for the School of Engineering, 1994-1998[M]. School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994[19] Peersman. Overview: Data collection and analysis methods in impact evaluation [EB/OL], http://www.unicef-irc.org/KM/IE/,2014[20] Repenning A, et al. Scalable game design and the development of a checklist for getting computational thinking into public schools[C].Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education [A]. ACM, 2010: 265-269[21] Shoop R, et al. Can computational thinking practices be
. Process map example In the Measure stage, a Matlab model was developed for data measurement. Baselineperformance was established using statistical analysis based on the simulation result. Inthe Analyze stage, a Cause-and-Effect diagram was used to find the potential causes formotor speed variation. Design of Experiment (DOE)2 was used to identify the maincontributing factor to the motor speed variation as shown in Figure 4. Page 13.1175.4 Pareto Chart of the Standardized Effects (response is average error (rpm), Alpha
modelling and the study of the properties of composites and foams. He has written and co-written leading textbooks in the field, as well as over 200 papers on mechanisms of plasticity and fracture, powder compaction, mechanisms of wear, methodologies for materials selection, and the modelling of material shaping processes, among other topics. He is also co-founder of Granta and directs development of Granta's CES EduPack. Page 11.1224.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Teaching Students About The Environmental Impact Of Material Choice In
Session 3460 An Innovative Co-op Program at WVU Tech M. Sathyamoorthy Office of the Dean of Engineering West Virginia University Institute of Technology Montgomery, WV 25136AbstractThe paper describes the development and proposed implementation of an industry-university collaboration in experiential learning. West Virginia University Institute ofTechnology (WVU Tech) and various industries in the Upper Kanawha Valley region havedesigned a co-op program for undergraduate students that will require them to spend aday every week of the spring and
of analysis of variance (ANOVA) calculations, including single-factor ANOVA and two-factor ANOVA. 10. Calculate the parameters of a simple linear regression, including inferences about whether or not the slope is zero. As these learning objectives demonstrate, this course provides thorough coverage of the topic with significant breadth in both probability and inferential statistics. In Spring 2004, the author was presented with the opportunity to teach this course for the first time after the retirement of a more senior colleague who had been teaching it for more than two decades. This was a very challenging assignment for at least three reasons: • The material in this course is conceptually difficult, and the course had developed a
provide students with adegree similar to the one that is being planned. To develop this new specialization, knowledge ofthe characteristics and concerns of the students with an interest in this type of degree isimportant. The students, as the customers of this degree, must be taken into consideration. Aprogram in any institution of higher education must also sell itself to potential customers. Toignore this aspect of creating a degree could doom the degree to failure. To obtain some of thisinformation, a descriptive study was conducted in the form of a survey given to students who arein the TED Non-Teaching Option majoring or minoring in GC. This paper will report on thefindings of this survey as well as discuss their implications for developing
Distinction in 2010. Dr. Natarajarathi- nam’s research interests include coordinated decision making in stochastic supply chains, handling supply chains during times of crisis and optimizing global supply chains. Her research articles have won best paper awards at Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators Conference and Society of Marketing Advances Conference. She currently serves on the Editorial advisory board for International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management. Dr. Natarajarathinam has worked on several research projects funded by government agencies and industry. She has a strong passion for student development. She is the founding faculty of the Society of Women in Industrial Distribution
Engineering Progresshave focused on applied statistics. Indeed, many chemical engineering programs haveincorporated statistics into their curriculum. This paper describes efforts to infuse statistics intothe curriculum at Oregon State University (OSU). The approach is primarily at two levels. Asophomore/junior level introductory statistics course, Chemical Process Statistics, has beendeveloped. Concepts are introduced through case studies using industrial data, wheneverpossible. Statistical analysis of the data is discussed in terms of the physical process. In this way,the statistics and the science are coupled. However, these concepts are best synthesized whenintegrated with hands-on application of these concepts. To this end, statistical concepts
problem solving, and developing models and methods for supporting those processes during learning, culminating in the book, Learning to Solve Problems: A Handbook for Designing Problem-Solving Learning Environments.Prof. Robert Andrew Winholtz Page 24.1220.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 The Goldilocks Continuum: Seeking an optimal balance of instructional scaffold in mechanical engineering collaborative learningIntroduction The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) mandatescollaborative competency as a learning outcome for mechanical