. Theprojects and the deep collaboration with the entrepreneurs make the experience authentic. Thestudents also see the relevance of their input towards their professional formation and the growthof the entrepreneurs and their startup companies. Another principle of experiential learning is thestudent’s ability to connect their experience to their professional formation through reflection [5,6].The students submit weekly reflection papers about what they have learned about innovation andentrepreneurship. They do this by reflecting on their interactions with industrial speakers andtheir experiences from their projects, as well as the book they read. The projects also makelearning active. This principle of experiential learning helps to “fully engage” [5
feedback from instructors, peers, and facilitated byWC tutors. In-class technical communication workshops were developed and given by WC staff,incorporation of in-class peer review and revision occurred, and undergraduate WC tutors weretrained and assigned specifically to students in these courses to review the students technicalwriting documents. Faculty feedback was that the student reports were improved over previousyears and that grading was more streamlined and uniform due to the improved rubrics.IntroductionProfessional skills, including problem-solving, project management, team management, andcommunication, are highly valued in industry[1-3] and yet difficult to incorporate effectivelyinto the curriculum. Skilled communication is tied to
we engagethem early and in innovative ways. This paper details the inception and construction ofEnGAGE, an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Engineering Design course, and theCivic and Community Engagement course. EnGAGE is a community garden/gateway that willserve the region as well as provide educational opportunities for our students in both civicengagement and engineering.In fall 2014, McKeesport, Pennsylvania was identified as a site for community renewal by alocal non-profit, GTECH Strategies. Two faculty from the Penn State Greater Alleghenycampus, located in McKeesport, were invited to participate as project ambassadors in the effort.Students had previously conceived the idea of a community garden during
Learning Object Exchange (CLOE), a collaborative project of several universities inOntario, establishing an infrastructure for joint development of multimedia-rich, interactivelearning resources. Since development of such resources is very time-consuming, one of theemerging trends in instructional technology is to focus on modular learning objects that can beshared among many users. Surveys of faculty confirm high interest in utilization of such objects.The module being developed by the authors consists of a series of interactive online tutorials. Itis designed using Flash and streaming video technology and provides graphics, video, andanimation to support the basic concepts. At any time the learner has access to several reviewquizzes, providing
is small. Gatewaysare increasingly looking at ways that they can collaborate with each other, with industry andother key stakeholders in order to ensure their longevity.7The second reason is technological change and the changing environment in which we operate.When gateways were first established in the mid to late1990’s, search engines were fairlyunsophisticated. The next generation of search engines such as Google and All The Web gobeyond indexing only HTML pages and can recover more of the “deep Web” (such as PDF andimage files) than was previously accessible. Their search algorithms also mean that more relevantsearch results are returned.In order to retain their role as a vital human intermediary, gateways have had to adapt and refinethe
Design and Development: Framing Engineering as Community Activism for Values-Driven Engineering”; Co-PI of NSF CISE ”EAGER: An Accessible Coding Curriculum for Engaging Underserved Students with Special Needs in Afterschool Programs”; co-PI of NSF INCLUDES: South East Alliance for Persons with Disabilities in STEM, Co-PI of NSF CE 21 Collaborative Research: Planning Grant: Computer Science for All (CS4ALL)). Dr. Marghitu was also PI of grants from Center for Woman in Information Technology, Daniel F. Breeden Endowment for Faculty Enhancement, AccessComputing Alliance, Computer Science Collaboration Project, Microsoft Fuse Research, Altova Co., and Pearson Education Publishing Co. Dr. Marghitu has mentored over one
Engineering Education, 2017 Introducing an Advanced Building Information Modeling Course in Construction Management ProgramsAbstractMany construction management (CM) programs in the U.S. have introduced BuildingInformation Modeling (BIM) in their curriculum due to the rapid adoption of BIM in thearchitecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. Previous research has revealed thatmost of the BIM courses offered in CM programs have mainly focused on 3D modeling skills aswell as BIM applications in 4D scheduling and 5D estimating. While these topics appear to beimportant to apply BIM technology, students will not be able to fully understand the BIMprocess in a construction project without knowing the fundamental workflow
designed. CAD, which is the use of a wide-range of computer-based tools fordesigning and developing products, is an important geometry-authoring tool for the productlifecycle management. It ranges from 2D vector-based drafting systems to 3D parametric surfaceand solid design modeling systems. In the product lifecycle a physical prototype can be producedfrom drawings or from a computer-aided manufacturing system (CAM). The prototype is thentested for design compliance and produced for mass production in the manufacturing division.When Internet technologies were adopted in the engineering design industry in the 1990's, workin engineering design was restructured. Collaboration is the trend of today in order to benefitboth higher education and
, wherestudent leadership sought industrial collaboration. While models for including industrial partnersin capstone projects are common, these models focus on faculty leadership in developingindustry partnerships. Conversely, the authors developed capstone projects that encouragedstudents, not faculty, leadership in engaging industry partners. Factors that influence successfulproject teaming of students and industry partners are identified and described using case studyexamples. Dave and Dong [6] at University of Cincinnati discussed one of the capstone design Page 23.730.3projects where students had to build a Basic Utility Vehicle (BUV). Students were
Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Combining Problem-Based Learning with the KEEN ‘s Framework for Entrepreneurially Minded Learning in a Fluid Mechanics Course: Pilot ImplementationAbstractThis paper describes the implementation and the results of problem-based learning (PBL)pedagogy infused with the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network’s 3C’s in a senior levelAdvanced Fluid Mechanics course within the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET)program. The work, a close collaboration between engineering and education faculty, aligns withthe New Research Areas (National Engineering Education Research Colloquies 2006), ABETCriteria for
district curriculum specialist in theWE2NG program was a huge asset to the other teachers participating that summer and played acritical role in vertical and horizontal collaboration efforts.Summer Program WE2NG summer trainings begin with an orientation session that includes an introduction to campusand the various research projects connected to the WE2NG program, as well as a laboratory safetytraining. In the weeks following orientation, teachers spent two and a half days per week immersed ina research project that best fit the needs of their classroom goals. They also spent one day per weekat a teacher-training workshop (various topics), one day per week on an industry field trip related towater and energy, and a half day focusing on
University, offers a “dedicated approach” toentrepreneurial engineering education. The residential, full-time, twelve-month program isgrounded in a dedicated curriculum, a dedicated space and a dedicated faculty. The dedicatedcurriculum is delivered through 12 courses in which only TE graduate students are able to enroll;11 of the 12 courses were designed specifically for the new master’s program. These coursestake place in a dedicated studio/classroom facility that is open 24 hours a day, seven days aweek, to which only program students and faculty have access. The TE program is also fortunateto have a dedicated faculty, who were hired specifically to create the collaborative space anddevelop and deliver the curriculum. The result of this dedicated
is theclose collaboration between academic research and industrial partners. The companiessupporting the activities include National Instruments, MathWorks, EMONA, Digilent,Keysight, etc. These companies are also members of GOLC. This year’s REV2016 conferencein Madrid, Spain, was again a very successful one, with more than 120 participants from 29countries. The next REV conference (REV2017) will be held in New York at ColumbiaUniversity (US).An important medium to disseminate the idea of online laboratories is the GOLC OnlineLaboratory Award. The award is presented for outstanding solutions for stable runninglaboratories in the categories: Visualized experiments, Simulated experiments, and Remotecontrolled experiments/laboratories
personal desire to broaden partici- pation of women and other underrepresented students, including students in rural areas and those who learn differently, in STEM education from pre-K through graduate studies. Her current work focuses on supporting and evaluating the construction of collaborative communities and building evaluation capacity within organizations and large-scale programs. In all efforts Adrienne works to (a) truly understand the purpose and needs for the evaluation or research undertaking, (b) develop feedback cycles that support continuous program improvement, (c) make implementation and impact data available and interpretable for program implementers, and (d) select the most rigorous, yet feasible
higher education, resulting in the creation ofinnovative, commercially viable, and socially beneficial businesses and employmentopportunities in the United States. The program was founded on the premise that invention,innovation, and entrepreneurship are essential components of the higher education curriculumand vital to the nation’s economic future. The NCIIA works with colleges and universities tobuild collaborative experiential learning programs that help nurture a new generation ofinnovators and entrepreneurs with strong technical and business skills and the tools and intentionto make the world a better place.The NCIIA achieves its goals by offering a collaborative faculty network in combination withgrants and resources provided through its
design projects andultimately as alumni. Is the introduction in second year working? Are our senior students andalumni using CAD/CAE intelligently or are they using it as a black box? We opted to use recentcapstone design projects to provide some initial feedback. These projects have been conducted Page 11.340.3by students who have experienced our second year courses.Capstone design projects at Guelph are identified and developed by the students and completedin a single semester. Teams are typically made up of 3-4 students. Actual product development,prototyping and industrial collaborations are encouraged. Each design team has a faculty
Session 2525 Spacecraft Instrumentation: Integrating Design across the Curriculum Michael Ruane Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston UniversityAbstractSpacecraft instrumentation presents challenging and engaging design problems forinterdisciplinary teams of students from electrical, computer systems, aerospace and mechanicalengineering. Recently, senior design teams and UROP students have collaborated withastronomy researchers to help design sounding rocket and satellite instrumentation payloads.The Spacecraft Teaching and Research for Students (STARS) Project is extending these
, videotape, groupware Real time video conferencing (text and image or video-on- Lectures delivered via video tape demand) Lectures delivered via digital means Class meetings in a physical location Recitation sessions Groupware, interaction on web Real time video conferencing Chatrooms for group interaction Groupware, web, list serve, Chatrooms for group interaction Interaction with peers electronic mail Collaborative student assignments
currently available Web technology while reinforcing the University's missionof “connected learning.” The course outcomes align to meet many of the department's goalsincluding developing scholarship and critical thinking skills, leadership and team building;problem solving and decision-making, professional ethics, and communication skills. Thisone-credit hour course contains exercises and discussion in professional ethics andintegrity, goal setting, effective learning, early career development, networking, Universitypolicies and procedures, and an introduction to engineering technology disciplines. Bykeeping the class size relatively small, these tools are presented in a collaborative mannerthat facilitates active learning and stresses critical
-Based Learning (PBL) approach has been widely embraced as a teaching method,fostering collaboration among students to achieve a shared goal, and gaining knowledge and skillsthrough the exploration of engaging and complex problems for a specific period. While extensivelystudied in various educational contexts, from elementary to higher education, there has beenlimited exploration of the use of a design-project approach within PBL to enhance students'learning experiences. This paper illustrates examples of incorporating a design-project approach into the kinematicscourse, a pivotal component of the mechanical engineering curriculum. The design-project methodintegrates PBL principles, requiring students to apply theoretical knowledge to create
2017 summer program at the University of Pittsburgh, and both a quantitativeand qualitative assessment of the program’s effectiveness as it was perceived by the attendingstudents.History of the FEEDER ConsotiumThe FEEDER Consortium is one of three national DTTCs (Distributed Technology TrainingCenters) funded by Department of Energy, and it consists of twelve universities, eighteenutilities, seventeen industry partners and two national labs. Its mission is to significantly advanceengineering capability to accelerate the deployment of distributed power systems technologiesthrough well-designed and complementary research, development, testing, analysis, andevaluation, supporting innovative and highly collaborative education of the current and
support aminimum of 50% female and 30% underrepresented populations in STEM in our endeavors. Ourcurrent student engagement (89 students) is 39% female and 20% Latinx, Black, Pacific Islander,and Native American. WARP-SPEED was designed as an introduction of interdisciplinary projectwork, engineering design process, and foundational technical skills in a co-curricular setting. Theprogram engages a cohort of interdisciplinary, diverse students with diverse staff and mentors in asupportive and collaborative environment throughout their first two semesters on campus.Scaffolding the student research experience in this way prepares students for more complexprojects and professional presentations in subsequent years, helping with student retention
publications • 76 patents issuedDMR Foundation Infrastructure Foundation Users of MRSEC Facilities > 2000/yr Academic Science > 550/yr Industry >100/yr National Labs Science Over 500 Publications annuallyNational Shared Facilities Workshop inNational 2011 • 77 Technical Staff in SEFs • 31 Other
constraints like feasibility, availability of resources and time constraints. Teamdynamics, collaboration and effective communication are also essential for best outcomes.The students are required to communicate with the developers and users of biomedicaltechnologies and use this interaction to assist them in forming ideas for all projects. Clientmeeting are a critical part of the process and are most effective in generating ideas for projects.Depending on students’ interests and professional goals, they may choose to meet and interviewresearchers (academic and industrial), clinicians, nurses and even patients. In order to help Page 26.1756.3students
2006-730: USING WIRELESS TABLET PERSONAL COMPUTERS TO EXTENDENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CLASSROOMS AND ENHANCE LEARNINGLisa Jones, Southwest Tennessee Community College Lisa G. Jones is currently Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering Technology at Southwest Tennessee Community College in Memphis, Tennessee. She joined Southwest in 2002 after 20 years of working as a design engineer and project manager in the electronics industry including Bell Labs, AT&T, Truevision, and Thomson Consumer Electronics. Ms. Jones earned her BSEE degree from Memphis State University in 1980 and her MSEE degree from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1981.James M. Northern, Southwest Tennessee Community
Committee Chairs) who are appointed by the Executive Board, allowing students with necessary and specialized skills to be placed in an optimal position. Each Team Lead reports to an Executive Officer and may lead a sub-team of students. Further, each sub-team has a mission- specific task, and will develop the solutions to overcome it, such as powering the rover, or funding the project. MRDT Accomplishments and Lessons Learned Since inception, the MRDT has learned how to effectively operate as a Design Team including incorporating aspects of publicity, recruitment, and collaboration with other University organizations. The MRDT strives to provide Missouri S&T students the opportunity to gain pertinent design experience and a
to the real chromatography system; 5. use the real BioLogic LP Chromatography System to purify proteins.At Montgomery County Community College, the Virtual Liquid Chromatography Laboratorywas used to teach student interns working on an industry- college collaboration project thatinvolved testing chromatography resins for their potential application in the biomanufacturingindustry. Prior to performing experiments students used the virtual learning module in all threemodes. First, they became familiar with the system components running the simulation in theequipment mode. The process mode was extremely helpful in teaching the students the correctorder of events for successfully performing the experiment and gave them confidence in theirability
Paper ID #49808GIFTS: Role-playing in Service of Developing Psychological Safety in TeamsProf. Mirna Mattjik, Colorado School of Mines Mirna Mattjik, is Director of the Mines Grand Challenges Scholars Program and Teaching Associate Professor in the Engineering, Design, and Society Department. She is also affiliated with the University Scholars and Honors Program and the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Department. Her educational background spans industrial technology, international political economy, project management, and leadership. Pursuing her doctorate, her research centers on educational equity in higher
Paper ID #47983BOARD # 454: S-STEM: Strengthening Education and Academic Developmentfor Transfer Undergraduate Rural/Nontraditional Students in the EngineeringFieldMrs. Maile Sinclair-Baxter, University of South Florida Assistant Director of Academic Advising. Graduated with a Bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering as well as a Master in Engineering Management from University of South Florida.Dr. Sanjukta Bhanja, University of South FloridaMr. Bernard L. Batson, University of South Florida ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 S-STEM: Strengthening Education and Academic Development for Transfer
assess the meritsof each model, a series of stakeholder surveys gathered input on benefits and potential changes. The focusin comparing the two models was to seek a balance in the desire for broadening the interdisciplinary andcollaborative skill development observed in the team model with the individual responsibility and inherentflexibility of the individual model. Following the resulting feedback, an emergent model is presented thatattempts to balance the best of both models.The importance of team settings in curricula Interdisciplinary education has attracted more attention as the AEC (Architecture EngineeringConstruction) industry has increased interdisciplinary needs. Industry experts must collaborate andcommunicate to effectively