2006-1722: HOLD PARAMOUNT: DESIGNING AN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONTO OPEN MINDS AND SERVE THE PUBLIC GOODCarole Womeldorf, Ohio University-Athens Carole Womeldorf is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio University. Her areas of technical expertise and interests include distributed energy generation, combustion, heat transfer and fluid dynamics. She worked in the Fire Sciences Division of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology from 1993 to 2000. Dr. Womeldorf earned her Sc.B. et A.B. in Mechanical Engineering and English and American Literature from Brown University, her Masters of Science in Oceanographic Engineering from
andethnicities. It may behoove schools to tap into the momentum of increased service learning inconjunction with humanitarian engineering education to engage diverse students. Understandingthat the grand challenges and applying them as frameworks for curriculum development is a keyway to integrate disciplines and enrich STEM literacy skills. Curriculum development under theframework of these grand challenges provides opportunities for students to engage in long-termprojects across disciplines and also provides a university-wide forum for professors tocollaborate on projects. Engineering educators must listen to the call of students who now morethan ever engage in service-learning activities and have a heightened awareness of a globalissues directly
engineers and theirservices they provide across borders. New scientific and engineering discovery are pushingthe boundary of engineering applications, particularly in complex systems andinterdisciplinary engineered solutions. This scenario presents many new challenges forengineering organizations in that one project for new autonomous gold mine may start withpreliminary design in London (UK) with German-trained engineers, then developed furtherwith detailed design in Houston (Texas) with a mix of US and Brazilian-trained engineers,and followed by design validation and verification in Singapore with a mix of British andAsian-trained engineers, and project managed by Australasian-trained engineers during theconstruction phases in Laos, all within
Engineering Technology program as themodel example.Significance of a Proactive RelationshipOccena et. al. projected that most school students map out their career paths by the time theyenter their final year in high school2. The increased emphasis on formal education by employerscoupled with the simultaneous drop in demand for unskilled labor in the United States continuesto motivate high school graduates to pursue a college education, two -year or four year. It is truethat things do not always proceed as planned and a large number of students switch career plans,and hence their majors during their college years. However, professional bodies such as theAmerican Society for Engineering Education and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers haveembarked
book is very differentfrom solving problems with the objective of making something work. In the two differentperspectives, knowledge is valued quite differently. The latter is more aligned with howengineers think and know.Recognizing the disconnect between these two different epistemologies, and arguing for the needto introduce design thinking and inductive thinking earlier into the curriculum, Sheppard et al.2have made a powerful argument, firmly grounded in cognitive science, for balancing textbook-type problems with less structured, more open-ended assignments. Of course, the challenge ofdesigning effective open-ended learning experiences is far from trivial. Sheppard et al.2 observethat novice students, who are capable of solving highly
Angeles.Dr. Jianyu ”Jane” Dong, California State University, Los Angeles Jianyu Dong is a professor in electrical and computer engineering and currently serves as the Associate Dean for the College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology at Cal State LA. Her area of expertise is video compression/communication, multimedia networks, QoS, etc. With a strong passion in Engineering Education, she has been engaged in multiple funded projects and initiatives to increase the participation and success of students from undeserved, low-income communities in engineering areas.Ni Li, California State University, Los Angeles Ni Li, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at California State
, where he coordinates an inter-disciplinary, college-wide capstone design program. He received a Ph.D. in from Washington State University, MS from Dartmouth College, and BS from University of Massachusetts. His research interests include engine testing, alternative fuel combustion, design pedagogy, and assessment of professional skills in project environments.Andrea Bill, University of Wisconsin ANDREA BILL is a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison pursuing a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, with an emphasis in traffic engineering and safety. Her research incorporates aspects from each of these disciplines, with a specific emphasis on discovering new and innovative ways to
they have, among other things, conflicting goals, various solutions, and different types of constraints; they then pointed out that solving workplace problems requires comprehensive collaboration and teamwork4. By interviewing 17 newly hired engineers, Korte, Sheppard and Jordan (2008) identified four subthemes describing the problem solving process in engineering workplace: “organize, define, and understand a problem; gather, analyze, and interpret data; document and present the results; and project-manage the overall problem- solving process”6(p. 6). Buckingham Shum, MacLean, Bellotti and Hammond (1997) listed some important features of wicked problems, noting that they: Cannot be easily defined so that all stakeholders agree on the
engineers still remains at 25% (NationalScience Foundation 1999). The percentages of engineering practitioners without an engineeringdegree varies significantly according to occupation: 7% in civil engineering, 11% in mechanicalengineering, 13% in electrical engineering, 25% in biomedical engineering, 40% in computerhardware engineering, and 60% in software engineering. (Burton and Parker 1998).The NSF reports from where this data was taken provide no plausible reasons for the presence ofnon-engineers in engineering practice. One can begin to look at examples where non-engineers arebeing hired into engineering practice to get a sense for the reasons behind this phenomenon. Forexample, in response to the deficiencies in management education and
workplace communication as well as medical humanities.Dr. Scott Kirkpatrick, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Scott Kirkpatrick is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Optical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He teaches physics, semiconductor processes, and micro electrical and mechanical sys- tems (MEMS). His research interests include heat engines, magnetron sputtering, and nanomaterial self assembly. His masters thesis work at the University of Nebraska Lincoln focused on reactive sputtering process control. His doctoral dissertation at the University of Nebraska Lincoln investigated High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering.Dr. Ashley Bernal, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Ashley Bernal is
2006-2085: A CASE-BASED APPROACH TO SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE ANDENGINEERING EDUCATIONJonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy JONATHAN M. WEAVER, PH.D. is an Associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM). He received his BSME from Virginia Tech in 1986, his MSME and PhD in ME from RPI in 1990 and 1993, respectively. He has several years of industry experience and regularly consults with an automaker on projects related to CAD, DOE, and product development. He can be reached at weaverjm@udmercy.edu.Michael Vinarcik, University of Detroit Mercy MICHAEL J. VINARCIK, P.E. is an Interior Trim Engineer with Ford Motor Company and an adjunct faculty
. Ethical issues have beeninfused into the engineering curriculum, graduation projects, holiday practice, and productionpractice, thereby forming a system of engineering ethics education." The author goes on torecommend that both countries could learn from each other in terms of incorporating ethics inthe engineering curricula.Institutional profileIn Fall 2015, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), had a student population ofapproximately 25,000 undergraduate students and 4,000 graduate students. UNLV isdesignated as a Minority-Serving Institution and an emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution.This diversity is reflected in the graduate students of UNLV's Howard R. Hughes College ofEngineering, see Table 1. The College of Engineering offers M.S
Paper ID #18833Community Health Innovation through an Interprofessional CourseDr. Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University Dr. Jacquelyn K. Nagel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison Uni- versity. She has eight years of diversified engineering design experience, both in academia and industry, and has experienced engineering design in a range of contexts, including product design, bio-inspired de- sign, electrical and control system design, manufacturing system design, and design for the factory floor. Dr. Nagel earned her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Oregon State
AC 2008-1891: INTEGRATING TECHNICAL, SOCIAL, AND AESTHETICANALYSIS IN THE PRODUCT DESIGN STUDIO: A CASE STUDY AND MODELFOR A NEW LIBERAL EDUCATION FOR ENGINEERSDean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dean Nieusma’s research and teaching focus on interdisciplinary design collaboration and the expertise that enables it. With a BS in mechanical engineering and another in general studies and a PhD in interdisciplinary social sciences, Dean has worked as a member of design teams in contexts as diverse as the U.S. and European automotive industries; Sri Lanka’s renewable energy sector; and STS, engineering, and design curriculum planning. He teaches across Rensselaer’s Product Design and
traditional delivery with online delivery. At the freshmen level, Carr, et al. from DrexelUniversity have implemented remote web-based experiments, augmenting a traditionalintroductory laboratory [2]. These two examples illustrate the range of applications that exist.In freshmen engineering program at Western New England College, we are taking a pragmaticapproach to online interaction. Rather than offer online courses as defined above, we offer web-enhanced courses in which we keep the rich interaction of a dynamic classroom environmentwhile significantly increasing communication among instructors and students.At the University of California at Berkeley, Li, et al. developed a pilot web-basedcommunication tool to support engineering design teams [3
. This yields a Phase 1 minority engineering graduationrate of 78.9%, which far exceeds the overall LSU engineering six year graduation rate of 39.3%.Of the Phase 2 scholars, 92.8% have been retained in the engineering curriculum, and they had a Page 22.802.2mean cumulative GPA of 3.171(s.d. = 0.407) at the mid-point of the program.IntroductionThere is an increasing need for college graduates in science, engineering and technology as acritical element in maintaining the United States’ progress and leadership in a competive,technology driven world economy1. This is the result of several factors including the first waveof engineers from the baby boom
AC 2007-735: SPEAKING TECH TO POWERDavid Bodde, Clemson University Dr. David L. Bodde Dr. Bodde is a professor of engineering and business at Clemson University and a Senior Fellow at Clemson’s Spiro Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. Dr. Bodde serves on the Board of Directors of a variety of companies: Great Plains Energy (a diversified energy company and electric utility), the Commerce Funds (a mutual fund), and several privately held ventures. His past experience includes Vice President of the Midwest Research Institute, Assistant Director of the U. S. Congressional Budget Office, and Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Department of Energy. He recently
at Hilo.Christine Andrews, Maui Eco Dev Board Page 12.193.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Aligning Indigenous Culture with ScienceAbstract“Excite Camp” now in its sixth year is premised upon the engaging curriculum marriage ofculture and science. The program creates interest in Native Hawaiian girls for math and sciencejust prior to entering high school, by exposing them to math and science applications in theircommunity―in tandem with the sophisticated science of their native culture and history.Program development for Excite Camp is provided by the Women in Technology Project (WIT)of the Maui
(advanced global imaging techniques). Areas of applications include flow-induced vibrations, flow around bluff bodies, airfoils, perforated plates, cavity configurations, and biomedical devices.Dr. Inci Ruzybayev, York College of Pennsylvania Inci Ruzybayev is Assistant Professor in Engineering Physics at the York College of Pennsylvania. She received her Ph. D. in Physics from University of Delaware and her M. S. and B. S. in Physics Education from M.E.T.U. in Turkey. Her technical research interests are in structural and characterization of TiO2 thin films and magnetic nanoparticles along with pedagogical research interests in improving engineering physics curriculum and seeking solutions to gender bias
Thermodynamics CourseAbstractCan online labs improve student learning in comparison to hands-on labs? Do they have space inour curriculum for online and in-person lab offerings? Can some of the lessons learned apply toin-person lab offerings? Can online labs improve the sense of inclusion and belonging?These questions are addressed in the paper. The paper describes the five labs conducted 100%online in a 3rd-year Introduction to Thermodynamics course in a mid-size comprehensiveuniversity’s mechanical engineering program. The course comprises 200 minutes of lectures and125 minutes of labs per week in a 10-week term. The lectures are offered in a flipped format;lectures are pre-recorded, and class periods are used for problem-solving and
described to them. This is anopportunity for educators to bring more social relevance into their core courses, such asVanasupa et al. were able to achieve in their materials engineering courses42. Further, this socialrelevance may help in the retention of women and underrepresented minorities as they seem toplace more value on the social impact of their work43. Showing the potential impact ofengineering works throughout the curriculum can be very important for social responsibilitydevelopment in conjunction with engineering knowledge acquisition.On the other hand, the students who have thought little about SR are very influenced by in-classactivities and modules. What is taught really is powerful, and educators can build a student’s SRright there
in engineering courses is not new. 2D drivingsimulators are commonly utilized in vehicle dynamics courses for motion simulation. Likewise,flight simulators are favorably used in most aerodynamics courses. Advances in technology haveempowered pilot test program producers to create effective and real-time simulation based FlightTraining Devices (FTDs) [6]. Flight simulators draw attention as a training resource in aerospaceengineering curriculum. Several studies have been conducted on finding the most effective way ofexploiting flight simulators in courses. Meta-analysis was investigated to find effectivenesscharacteristics of flight simulators [7]. Huet et al. studied the performance of feedback in a fixed-base flight simulator [8,9]. In a
students’ non-technical skills by developing faculty’sunderstanding and implementation of instructional approaches. For example, the School ofEngineering of the Polytechnic of Porto reported on their efforts to boost students’ non-technicalskills through the implementation of active learning [6]. One study reviewed the promotion andteaching of non-technical skills in higher education across five European countries [7]. Theresearchers grouped skills that engineering students need into five categories: Technical,Metacognitive, Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Problem solving. They then presented groupingsof best pedagogical practices that may be integrated into the curriculum, such as problem-basedlearning, project-based learning, game-based
Paper ID #9951Faculty Awards at a Large Private Institution: An Indicator of Evolving Uni-versity Values?Prof. Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology Professor Sharon Mason is an Associate Professor in the Department of Networking, Security and Systems Administration at RIT where she has served on the faculty since 1997. Sharon has been involved in computing security education at RIT since its inception. She is the PI of for the Department of Defense (DoD) Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) awards to RIT.Professor Mason has been responsible for developing much of the security curriculum
conducted at a university that offers many different types of engineeringdegrees, and other liberal arts and professional degrees, since selecting and changing degreeswithin the university is possible and occurs with minimal cost.UNH is a private university in Connecticut that has a total undergraduate population of 4,693 andan undergraduate engineering student population of 460. A survey was conducted of 97voluntary participants from eight undergraduate programs within the College of Engineering.Participants included students studying chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, civilengineering, system engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, generalengineering, and computer science. This study builds upon existing studies that
-organizer of Virginia Tech’s Research in Engineering Studies (RES) group.Miguel Hurtado, Purdue University Miguel Hurtado is Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He holds a B.S. in EE from Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, M.S. in Signal-Image Processing from ENST - Télécom Paris, M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics and M.S. in Management, both from MIT. His research is focused on statistical methods for sensor fusion in automotive applications (Fisherian and Bayesian approaches), project management, and lean enterprise. He is also interested in engineering education perspectives in social and global context
engaged or wouldhave a limited exposure to STEM fields. Moreover, outreach activities have been used as onesolution to the current US shortage of professionals in engineering and science10.According to the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), service learninghas been identified as one of the high-impact teaching and learning practices11. Programs, likeEngineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS), have been created to include servicelearning activities into the engineering curriculum. Service learning is a well-known andeffective pedagogical method that engages learners of diverse backgrounds, especially those ofunderrepresented backgrounds12-14.The project described in this paper combined the service learning pedagogy
doing. ‚ From the earliest days of engineering education, laboratories have been an essential part of any engineering curriculum. Prior to the emphasis on engineering science in the early Page 13.380.2 seventies most engineering instruction took place in the laboratory. ‚ While engineering programs became more theoretical in the seventies, industry continued to require individuals who possessed more practical skills. Many institutions developed programs in engineering technology. ‚ Around 1980, ABET became the organization responsible for engineering and technology accreditation. With clearly defined
changes to requirements of accreditation [19] andprofessional formation development [20].Giacomin [16] citing Von Hippel [21], discusses the economic benefits of human-centreddesigning, however, Niles et al. [22], [23], have found that engineering students seem tostruggle with and resist social context and engagement with public welfare concerns andsocial consciousness in engineering– which are factors relevant to their engagement withhuman-centred designing.This paper stands with these ongoing calls for the engagement and integration of such notionsin a civil engineering curriculum, and so we propose a psychology-informed approach. Thisis to facilitate these integrations, but with the intention of bypassing the possible resistance –by
someone who has been a part of MDE, you could be the one to connect the nurse to the electrical engineer and be able to understand what they're both saying." - AJ Being an Organizational and/or Team Leader "I think also leadership, there are a lot of leadership opportunities if you are committed and if you're willing to devote your time and energy." - Al Working in a Team "I wanted to get the experience of working on a team and really bonding with that team on a single project over the course of several years and not in sort of a competition style where you build the robot..." - Ernest Designing in a BME Context "I think that MDE has shown me what engineering design really is, and what kind of a process it can be." - Timmy Networking with