Paper ID #13603Examining the use of engineering internship workplace competency assess-ments for continuous improvementDr. Mark A. Laingen, Illinois State University Mark is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology at Illinois State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Agricultural Technologies from Iowa State University. Mark currently sits on the board for the Illinois Drafting Educators Assocciation (IDEA), and the ISU Department of Technology Curriculum Committee. Mark’s research interests include 3-Dimensional Visualization & Solid Modeling, Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing, Additive
Manufacturing Engineers (SME), since 2016. Dr. Sirinterlikci was actively involved in SME serving in its Journals Committee, and Manufac- turing Education and Research (MER) Community Steering Committee. He also served as an officer of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Manufacturing Division between 2003-2011 including its Chair.Dr. Khalid H. Tantawi, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Dr. Khalid Tantawi is an Assistant Professor of Mechatronics at the University of Tennessee at Chat- tanooga . He holds a PhD and MSc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and a double MSc. in Aerospace Engineering from the Institut Superieur de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace and
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projects were assigned in a CS1 semester-long course. The research study Page 12.608.3results reported in this paper are based on two semesters of data. The assignments were firstpiloted in Autumn 2005. Survey responses were gathered from students completing the course inSpring 2006 and Autumn 2006. The CS1 course took place at a small university with a liberalarts core curriculum. The CS1 course typically attracts students majoring in computer science,electrical engineering, math, and the physical sciences. Table 1 describes each assignment, thetarget concepts, and the assignment characteristics regarding creativity. Some assignments hadmore room
betweenuniversities. While the capstone curriculum is typically a one or two semester sequence, someinstitutions feature a quarter semester sequence 15,16. Usually completed in teams, the studentsare expected to take a design challenge from a problem statement to a completed product. Theteam format allows students to simulate working in an industry environment with anaccompanying team of engineers 16, 17, 18. These challenges can include university assignedprojects, collegiate engineering design competition projects, or industry sponsored projects 17.An example of collegiate engineering design competitions include the Society of AutomotiveEngineers (SAE) Baja or Formula 16, 17, 19, 20. The industry sponsored projects are assigned byengineering companies
their colleagues [22].This present study provides a preliminary exploration of academic culture related to engineeringethics education. The findings point to the tension between the espoused value of ethics and itslimited visibility in the curriculum, the influence of the religious mission of a university, the wayin which the importance of ethics is communicated to students via academic integrity, and therole of formal leaders in supporting ethics educators. The next step in this project is expandingthe analysis to the full set of interviews based on the demonstrated utility of using the academicculture framework. Each transcript in the sub-set indicates different facets of academic culturethat were salient in their unique context; thus
machine shop training was valuable, the hands-on assembly of components wasenjoyable, and developing and running experiments was enjoyable. Nearly fifty percent of theclass experienced an increased interest in green energy generation. Over ninety percent of theteam-based respondents indicated that the opportunity to work on a team was valuable.IntroductionIn April 2014, graduating seniors at the University of Rochester requested a meeting with thechemical engineering department chair and professors, and the Dean and Asst. Dean of theHajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to review and critique the chemicalengineering curriculum. One of their requests was for the creation of a lab or hands-on project inthe freshman introductory chemical
Crushed Dreams: Faculty Perceptions of Discrepancies Between EngineeringAcademics and Students’ Future CareersAlexis CapitanoAlexis is a senior majoring in Electrical Engineering and pursuing a Masters of Science in STEMEducation with planned graduation in December 2024.John CookKathryn Johnson © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Crushed Dreams: Faculty Perceptions of Discrepancies Between Engineering Academics and Students’ Future CareersAbstract: This paper summarizes the findings from a qualitative analysis of how faculty view gapsbetween the curriculum in which they teach and the profession in which their students are likelyto be employed. The data – a set of transcribed, anonymized
study groups based on their semestercourse registrations. ENGR194 also included team-based entrepreneurial projects which promotedcommunication skills and a greater sense of belonging among their peers. Further, ENGR194 alsopaired students with a faculty member based on their major to provide individual mentorship,which has been identified to be critical for student success [24] and a best practice for retentionin engineering [23].Introductory Engineering Course (ENGR194) Framework and ModulesBransford et al. introduced a framework called “How People Learn” (HPL) to define an effectivelearning environment [25]. Their framework includes four main criteria: • Learner-centered- considers an environment with the focus on students’ prior skills
Boston Public Schools; Project Director, IMPACT New England: A Regional Curriculum ImplementationEffort, Coordinated program development and implementationEmanuel MasonBS Psychology, MS Educational Psychology, Ed.D. School and Educational Psychology. Professor of Counselingand Applied Educational Psychology. Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association forPsychological Science. Dr. Mason has authored books on methodology of research in educational settings andcomputers in school settings, and has co-edited a monograph series on recruiting and retaining diverse students inAmerican higher education. He also has published numerous articles on thinking and reasoning, testing in educationand other relate4d fields.Rachelle
publicpolicy, the source from which public policy emerges, and the policy making process and theneed for engineers to know how to write public policy. Because of the nature of the problem, thetype of literature review done for the project was thematic. In this review, the major ideas ofdifferent authors who have written about general curricular design, curricular design in publicpolicy for STEM programs, or that have published their course curriculums in public policy andtheir se students are categorized under the umbrella of STEM, were investigated andsummarized21.Definition of Public PolicyIn order to effectively engage in public policy, engineers must understand what public policy is.Tull & Jones 9 established that public policy is the “funding
questionnaire.Self-Rating of Engineering Leadership Skills. The second part of the survey included a skillsquestionnaire that was developed based on the survey instrument created by Ahn et al.3. Ahnet al.’s survey contained 45 items specifically designed to measure outcomes in engineeringundergraduate students related to leadership, adaptability to change, and synthesis abilities3.Twenty of these items, principally the ones directly related to leadership, were chosen for theskills questionnaire (e.g. I independently initiate new individual or team projects and Imanage and organize my time efficiently). The participants were asked to rank the extent towhich they embodied each statement on a scale of one to four (1=rarely, 2=sometimes,3=frequently and 4
Engineering Curriculum on Graduation Rates and Student Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Study. Journal of Engineering Education, 2004.2. Courter, S. S., S. B. Millar, et al. "From the Students' Point of View: Experiences in a Freshman Engineering Design Course." Journal of Engineering Education 87(3): 283-288, 1998.3. Puccinelli, J.P., Nimunkar, A.J.. “Experiences with Electronic Laboratory Notebooks in Real-World, Client- Based BME Design Courses.” In ASEE Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 2014.4. Cardenas, M. “Electronic Laboratory Notebooks versus Paper Laboratory Notebooks: A Comparison of Undergraduate Experimental Engineering Laboratory Submissions .” In ASEE Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 2014
). Brainstorming, a group ideation method first introduced in196322, is well described in engineering design textbooks2, 3, 14, 15. However, there are somefindings that invalidate the use of this approach. For example, McGrath23 claims that a group ofpeople working together on a problem would accomplish less (fewer and lower-quality concepts) Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 160 24than if they would to work independently. Also, Lewis et al. conclude that
manufacturingtechnology associate degrees to more integrated mechatronics programs. In [14], a modularcurriculum development project created by a four year university in the mechatronics engineeringtechnology field was described. In [15], the authors described the mechatronics curriculum of theiruniversity, the language-neutral teaching approach for mechatronics, and usage of low costtechnology demonstrator for studying the key elements of mechatronics including systemdynamics, sensors, actuators, and computer interfacing. In [16], the author presented the two-tieredapproach to teaching mechatronics. The student teams were first given small-scale projects thattargeted specific competencies required by the more involved actual class project which was thesecond
Paper ID #19771First-Year Engineering Students’ Perceptions of their Abilities to SucceedDr. Tanya Dugat Wickliff, Texas A&M University Delivering significant results in pivotal roles such as Sr. Consultant to high-profile clients, Sr. Project Manager directing teams, and Executive Leader of initiatives and programs that boost organizational effectiveness and optimize operations have been hallmarks of Dr. Wickliff’s career spanning more than 24 years with leaders in the oil & gas and semiconductor industries. As an expert in the areas of Executive Leadership and Team Development, Strategy Design & Execution
diversity (Bandura, 1977, 1982; Hutchinson et al., 2006). Since research hasshown that a person’s belief in their abilities is critical in translating their confidence intosuccessful actions, quantitative statistical analyses have been conducted to identify if there areany significant differences over time and between various demographic groups.This study is to further correlate the engineering enculturation factors to the curriculum modulestaught in their FYE foundation courses. This ongoing research has already informed practice atthis southwestern university as it traverses through a significant period of growth and expansion.The findings of this study are expected to help inform both the literature and practice andhopefully lead to discovery of
for Future and Current Female Engineering Students” Maria C. Sanchez, Nell Papavasilou, & Hernan Maldonado ...................................................................... 6“Use of Video in Casting Education”* Craig Johnson............................................................................................................................................ 18“Sustainable Design: Meeting the Thunder Beings of the West” John M. Murray, Roger A. Greener, Heong-seok Kim, & William T. Murray ........................................ 25Session EE: Electrical Engineering and Technology“Curricular Innovations for Real-Time Embedded Systems Course” Reza Raeisi & Sudhanshu Singh
, civil, and electrical engineering.Because students have indoctrinated to a program mission and served in cohorts over the courseof their tenure in the program and had the same instructor the entire time, this context isconsidered in a community of practice27.The class was constructed to mimic a reality television show where the class was a design firmand students were designers on teams. Though the lab classroom was not set up with overheadcameras or film crews capturing continuous surveillance, students were given digital camerasand access to video cameras to record work sessions, and the instructor recorded sessions aswell. This resulted in a dataset of 27 in situ video clips.Since the goal of this phase of the project is to develop a
the areas of reliability, product development, and advanced mechanical and electrical technology development. In these various roles, she established new business processes and an organizational culture that focused on developing innovative solutions from root cause understanding, improved pace of learning, and discipline in experimentation and configuration management. She was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for her leadership in the development of technologies to enable areal density and reliability increases in hard disk drives and was elected a National Academy of Inventors Fellow in 2018. Dr. Hipwell is currently the Oscar S. Wyatt, Jr. ’45 Chair II at Texas A&M University, where
efforts to initiate engineering at CSUB by offering computer, electrical, and engineering sciences bachelor’s degrees by Fall 2012. Under his leadership, the school has grown from 1,100 full-time equivalent students (FTES) to almost 2,000 this year. The number of majors in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) has doubled from 600 to near 1,200 currently. Blanco also co-chairs the CSUB graduation rate initiative, a CSU system project, part of a national effort to increase the number of students graduating within six years with a bachelor’s degree. Page 25.249.1 c
Innovative Engineering Education Using Programmable Lego Robotic VD Graaf Generators Dean M. Aslam, Zongliang Cao and Cyrous Rostamzadeh* Micro and Nano Technology Laboratory, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI 48824 * Robert Bosch LLC, EMC Department, Plymouth, MI 48170. aslam@msu.eduAbstract The Technology Assisted Science, Engineering and Mathematics (TASEM) learning, with majorfocus on innovations in the use of technology to explain new and complicated concepts rather than oneducation research, goes far beyond the
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. Bushan, “Organizing a K-12 AI Curriculum using Philosophy of the Mind,” Proc. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, 2005.[6]Jonathan Vos Post, Kirk L. Kroeker, “Writing the Future: Computers in Science Fiction,” Computer 33, 1, 2000, pp. 29-37.[7] Nathan Schurr, Pradeep Varakantham, Emma Bowring, Milind Tambe and Barbara Grosz, “Asimovian Multiagents: Applying Laws of Robotics to Teams of Humans and Agents,” Proc. 4 th International Conference on Programming Multi-agent Systems, 2007, pp. 41-55.[8] Nick Bostrom, “Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence,” Cognitive, Emotive and Ethical Aspects of Decision Making in Humans and in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2, ed. I. Smit et al
student creatingnovel speed bump alternatives, highlighting the multistep design process used and encouraginginnovation and creativity in the academic environment. Similarly, (Sawatzki, 2021) shares thebenefits of a hands-on engagement that comes with the inclusion of project based designcurriculum in the engineering classroom, with a focus on low-cost kit based projects. Like ourresearch, (Raviv and Radzins, 2014) describe the learning process and outcomes of anundergraduate research experience and (Sawatzki, 2021) shows the importance of designintegration into undergraduate curriculum. However, unlike the subjects in both studies, in thispaper the student tackles a highly technical problem and produces not only a single component,but a full
responsibility.Although this research focuses on an unwritten syllabus, some of these skills are listed in syllabithroughout engineering curriculum. For the most part, though, traditional engineering coursesfocus on learning objectives for the technical skills, with potentially only some of the soft skillsoutlined. The classic list of soft skills is found at careerbuilder.com (Lorenz3). This list startswith a strong work ethic and positive attitude, which are challenging to teach. The moreteachable skills include good communication skills, time management, problem solving skills,and teamwork skills. Shuman, et al8 have a long list of skills, but some of the top skills arelistening, decision making, problem solving, communication and time management
collaborative learning. We continue by describing in detail the methods used in thestudy, which is followed by a section on the results of the study. The final section includessome additional observations and conclusions and describes future work.Lite rature ReviewSeveral meta-analyses and reviews of the literature have been published that found significantempirical support for cooperative and collaborative learning. (There is some dispute as to thedefinitions of “cooperative” and “collaborative” in this context. We use both interchangeablyand in their broadest sense, to indicate an environment in which students work together in smallgroups.) Johnson et al.12 analyzed 168 studies comparing cooperative, competitive andindividualistic learning approaches
Overload “Curriculum overload” describes the stress and anxiety students experience from having to fulfill the number of course requirements for an engineering major. Both persisting and non- persisting students struggled with taking a large number of engineering classes, which required them to take engineering-related courses early on in their undergraduate careers. As a result, students may not be able to explore other majors because they fear they will not finish their requirements in four years. For example, a non-persisting student described his efforts to pursue two interests: electrical engineering and biology. Realizing that pursuing double majors would be too difficult, he attempted to commit to a minor in biology: …with much of the
analysis and decision support for design, opera- tion and transformation of enterprise systems. His work has spanned a number of industries, including aerospace and defense, automotive, electronics, energy, health care, paper and pulp, semiconductors and telecommunications. Dr. Bodner is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics En- gineers (IEEE) and the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), and a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Georgia.Dr. Richard Glenn Turner, Stevens Institute of Technology Dr. Richard Turner has forty years of