curricula along with undergraduate and graduateprogram minors which add value to students’ major fields of study. There is no questionthat the future of human societies on the planet demands a dedication to sustainablepractices like never before. To the extent that university academic programs cancontribute to these present and future oriented activities, a course on industrial ecology isan important addition to a university curriculum.1. Bruntland, G., et al., World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future,Oxford University Press, Oxford, 400 pp. (1987) Page 14.732.52. Hardin, G. “Tragedy of the Commons.” Science, 162, 1243-1248 (1968
Unit Operations for Bioprocess Engineers Chenming (Mike) Zhang Department of Biological Systems Engineering Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA 24061Abstract Unit Operations in Biological Systems Engineering was introduced into thecurriculum at Virginia Tech in 2000. It is a lecture and laboratory combined course. Thelectures and experiments covered in the course had a narrow focus before the author tookover in 2002. To broaden the education for students selecting the BioprocessEngineering option within the curriculum, the author has revised the content of the courseto give the
on eitherissue. And there is yet another salient point. In many engineering curricula, adding courseworkin global studies is difficult because of ―the highly sequenced and content-demanding nature ofthe curriculum‖ [3]. This is also a factor frequently cited as to why more technical writingcoursework is not part of an engineering/technology curriculum. Professional or technical writing and communication, along with global competence, is aso called ‗soft skill‘ that both practitioners and scholars have deemed important to the success ofstudents. The discussion on this issue has been going on for decades. In the October-December2011 issue of Technical Communication Quarterly, Wright et al examines the history oftechnical writing via an
and Research at Texas State University. She is very passionate about helping students matriculate through the STEM pipeline and enjoys developing programs that help students build their self-efficacy in STEM. Her areas of specialization are: teacher and student professional development, engineering education, project management, K-12 and university collaborator, workforce readiness, and STEM engagement/preparation. Vemitra is a member of the Columbus Lowndes County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the recent award recipient of the 2019 Zacharias Distinguished Staff Award , the 2019 Bagley Col- lege of Engineering Service Award, and a newly elected executive committee member of the Pre-College
potentiometer • Actuators – proportional hydraulic fluid power valve, mass flow controller • Instrumentation – multimeter, function generator, oscilloscope, bridge shunt calibrator5 Evaluation/Project ResultsMEL was introduced to the curriculum gradually and carefully by first offering a pilot course ofMEL I, evaluating it and making modifications before obtaining approval to replace a traditionallaboratory course. A similar process was followed later for MEL II, and finally MEL III. Wetaught a pilot course during the same semester as a traditional course that was ultimatelyreplaced by MEL.The ABET EC 2000 requires a process of evaluating performance. We conducted severalassessments during the development of the MEL sequence. King
currently facilitates an interdisciplinary project entitled ”Developing Reflective Engineers through Artful Methods.” His scholarly interests include both teaching and research in engineering education, art in engineering, social justice in engineering, care ethics in engineering, humanitarian engineering, engineering ethics, and computer modeling of electric power and renewable energy systems.Ms. Ngan T.T. Nguyen, Texas Tech University Ngan Nguyen is a research assistant and doctoral student in the Department of Curriculum and Instruc- tion at Texas Tech University. Her research is focused on fostering the learning experiences of Asian international graduate students in higher education.Dr. Roman Taraban, Texas Tech
Paper ID #27338Instructional Use of Computers in a Hands-on Programming Course for First-Year Engineering StudentsDr. Janet K. Lumpp, University of Kentucky Dr. Janet Lumpp is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Kentucky and Director of the First-Year Engineering Program in the UK College of Engineering.Dr. Jennifer Lovely, University of Kentucky Dr. Jennifer Lovely is a Lecturer for the First Year Engineering Program at the University of Kentucky from the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering. She has two undergraduate degrees: Span- ish and Biosystems &
theEngineering Accreditation Commission of ABET as well as with the 17 United NationsSustainable Development Goals [1]. The framework is supported by ASEE and has beengrowing in popularity recently.While the framework itself includes a wealth of information through the assembly of the ideasand opinions of many different experienced professionals, it also includes an overwhelmingamount of information and outcomes if the intent is for it to be integrated into an existingengineering curriculum. There are also some unique challenges that accompany efforts tointegrate the framework into an engineering curriculum at a Christian institution, such as the oneat which the authors teach. This paper explores the development of a heavy adaptation of theEOP framework
additional relevance to the learning when students generally take a set of courses that contain important concepts (e.g., math, science) early in their career, but without the engineering motivation and context? → What can be done about the experience of heavy workloads in a competitive environment that leads to high stress for many students? → What is the impact of most complex design projects and team experiences coming late in the curriculum? → How can universities and engineering colleges and departments address the peripheral factors that students face that are separate from the challenges of navigating the engineering curriculum (e.g., admission to the major of their choice, keeping grades high
forentrepreneurial courses and to study its effect in depth.Relation to previous workIn today’s competitive world, engineering firms have become leaner than ever. Besides technicalroles, engineers now have to fulfill project management and team leadership roles to complywith the now complex and multidisciplinary culture in the workplace. Engineering education hasevolved in the last decades with the intent of fulfilling this demand of teamwork skills ingraduates. Among the five major breakthroughs in engineering education discussed by Froyd et [1]al. are the outcomes-based accreditation guidelines introduced by ABET (Accreditation Boardof Engineering and Technology)in the late 1990s, a major emphasis on design, a greaterapplication of education, learning
that they can use again and again on future projects. She also helps students answer these questions when she teaches some of these methods to engineering, design, business, and law students. Her courses use active storytelling and self-reflective observation as one form to help graduate students and leaders traverse across the iterative stages of a project- from the early, inspirational stages to prototyping, to prototyping some more - and to delivery. Barbara likes to paint pictures.Mr. Ateeq Junaid Suria, Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Ateeq Suria is currently a fifth year Ph.D. candidate in the Mechanical Engineering program at Stanford University located in Stanford, CA. He is
Page 23.1057.16system integration, networking, and security that can be extremely valuable in this domain. ITprofessionals will need to interact with computer science and electrical engineering, as well asconsider market sector issues and user issues, and then design a security solution that considersall stakeholders.5.0 ConclusionThe importance of CPS to computing in general is growing exponentially. Rajkumar et al.26suggest that computing and communication will soon be embedded in all types of objects andelements in the physical environment. It is important that we consider the security needs due tothe critical nature of operations of these devices.As discussed above much of the research and development in this field has come from
Paper ID #28478A New Change Model for Recruitment and Retention of UnderrepresentedGroups in STEMDr. Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University Dr. Laura Bottomley, Teaching Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Elementary Education, is also the Director of Women in Engineering and The Engineering Place at NC State University. She has been working in the field of engineering education for over 20 years. She is dedicated to conveying the joint messages that engineering is a set of fields that can use all types of minds and every person needs to be literate in engineering and technology. She is an ASEE
Division, and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). She is also a past Editor of the Journal of Engineering Technology.Barbara Stewart, University of Houston Barbara L. Stewart is Professor of Human Development and Consumer Sciences at the University of Houston where she coordinates the Consumer Science program. She earned a BA degree from Brigham Young University, a MS in Consumer and Home Economics Education from Utah State University, and an EdD in Curriculum and Instruction from Brigham Young University.Marcella Norwood, University of Houston Marcella Norwood is Professor of Human Development and Consumer Sciences in the College of Technology at the University of Houston. She
engineering education research and practice. Page 22.1537.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Towards More Effective Teaching Strategies of Iteration and Systems Management in Spacecraft Design ABSTRACT We propose effective teaching strategies to help teams of students in spacecraft design projects in the first or second semester in the sophomore year in the aerospace engineering curriculum move from being “beginning designers” to being “informed designers.” The focus here is on one dimension in the
, several UAH MAE senior design teams have been able to work with NASA engineers on projects that are relevant to NASA’s mission. In April 2011, Dr. Carmen was selected as a Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award recipient.Mr. Ben Groenewald, Cape Peninsula University of Technology Ben Groenewald is Head of the EECE Dept. at CPUT in South Africa. He holds a Master of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Cape Town and is currently studying towards his PhD. He is a panel member of the organizing and editorial committee of the Domestic Use of Energy and the Industrial and Commercial Use of Energy conferences. He is a reviewer for both of these conferences
and assessing graduate attributes at the department to target areas for improvement in the curriculum. This resulted in several publications in this educational research areas. Dr. Al-Hammoud won the ”Ameet and Meena Chakma award for exceptional teaching by a student” in 2014 and the ”Engineering Society Teaching Award” in 2016 from University of Waterloo. Her students regard her as an innovative teacher who continuously introduces new ideas to the classroom that increases their engagement.Dr. Arshia Khan, University of Minnesota, Duluth Arshia A. Khan, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, earned a Bachelor of Engi- neering in Computer-Engineering, M.S. in Computer Science and Ph.D in
can apply for money to purchase upto several hundred dollars in materials they need to realize a project. Applications are vetted by a facultypanel, and purchases are reimbursed or made through the Dean’s Office. This fund is in its secondacademic year of operation, and has supported projects ranging from drone construction to a robotic hand.Skills WorkshopsThese one-evening workshops are held in a makerspace or dorm and are aimed at cultivating basiccompetency in maker-related skills such as soldering. The goal is to enable students to work on personalor class projects using skills that are either outside of the undergraduate engineering curriculum or outsideit for most majors. For example, the soldering workshop ran for two hours and
fitsextremelywell with thetwo semestersenior designengineering Figure 4. The founding partners of the Collaborative represent the principal stakeholders in the healthcare and aging sector of Western North Carolina.project inengineeringandengineering technology curricula. These capstone projects are accomplished by engineeringteams. The constitution of these teams is now being expanded to be multidisciplinary includingentrepreneurship, marketing and health scientists. The curriculum allows for enriched activitiessuch as attendance in a full day Boot Camp for Entrepreneurs seminar provided by Blue RidgeEntrepreneurial Council, one of the Collaborative partners. This building of a businessopportunity from an idea may require one or
AC 2010-479: TEACHING DECISION-MAKING IN ENGINEERING: A REVIEWOF TEXTBOOKS AND TEACHING APPROACHESSenay Purzer, Purdue University Senay Purzer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is also the Co-Director of Assessment Research for the Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning (INSPIRE). She received a Ph.D. and a M.A in Science Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction from Arizona State University. Her creative research focuses on collaborative learning, design & decision-making, and the role of engineering self-efficacy on student achievement.Jing Chen, Purdue University Jing Chen is a graduate student in the
-orderrotary spring-mass-damper system onto a single board to reduce cost. Closed-loop controlcapability will be added.AcknowledgementThis project is supported by the National Science Foundation under the Course, Curriculum &Laboratory Improvement Program of the Division of Undergraduate Education, Grant # DUE-0231121.References1. NSF (1992), America's Academic Future, JR Lohmann and AM Stacy Eds, National Science Foundation Report NSF91150, Jan. 1, 1992.2. ABET (2002), 2002-2003 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, ABET, Baltimore. (Available on-line at www.abet.org/)3. P Antsaklis et al (1999), Report on the NSF/CSS workshop on new directions in control engineering education, IEEE Cont Sys Mag, 19(5):53-58.4. DS
Civil Engineering from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, in 2003, 2005, and 2008 respectively. He is currently with Computer Science, Physics, and Engineering Department, Benedict College, Columbia, SC. He is interested in exploring different approaches for engineering education and research to reach students more efficiently. He has collaborated with researchers and students in NSF HBCU UP targeted infusion, broadening participation and excellence in research projects. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Assessing Student Impacts from an Interdisciplinary Summer Research Program
, andthe application of knowledge and skills to problems that are representative of those faced bypracticing engineers” (p. 124) [8]. As such, learning effectiveness is first and foremostunderstood as relating to certain outcomes.However, measures of learning effectiveness go well beyond learning outcomes. Other measurescan be attitudes such as motivation [9, 10], satisfaction [9, 11], and initiative [7]. Some studiesmeasured learning effectiveness based on resources, teaching activities, and services provided[12], or instruction, curriculum management, and technological media [2]. As these measuresbetter reflect aspects of teaching practices, they may better represent teaching effectiveness thanlearning effectiveness. Notably, learning
Shiloh James Howland is a doctoral candidate at Brigham Young University in Educational Inquiry, Mea- surement, and Evaluation. She received a master’s degree in instructional psychology and technology as well as a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in geology. Her current research interests are in educa- tional assessment and measurement.Prof. Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is an Associate Professor in the Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He also leads the Global Engineering Education Collabora- tory (GEEC) research group, and is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award to study boundary-spanning roles and
Freshmen withEngineering through Hands-on Projects,” American Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 2,no. 2, pp. 31-41, 2011.Appendix Lab Report TemplateLast Name: _________________________________ First Name: _______________________________Date: ________________________Circle Equipment Investigated:carburetor compressor engine printer vacuum cleanerBackground Information -write a brief description of the purpose of this equipment (e.g., the purpose of a hairdryer is to dry hair). Use the internet as appropriate – make sure to reference your sources if you use any (1 pt).Safety PrecautionsIf the device is electrical, it should not be
—students wearconcert t-shirts showcasing their favorite music artists, instructors play music during class topromote a particular learning environment, groups of students listen to music as they worktogether on a project or as they attempt to solve a homework question. Previous research haslinked musical preference to personality and values, both of which correlate to social identity,and to a lesser extent, academic study habits. Pierre Bourdieu's landmark text La Distinction alsoasserts that social class influences judgments of taste and choices in cultural activities.Researchers have also used markers such as genre taste as a cultural indicator, focusing on"high" arts, such as classical music, ballet, and art museums as measures of culture.1
University of Texas at Tyler Department of Civil Engineering is a relatively new CEprogram; graduating its first class in 2008 and achieving its first ABET accreditation in2009 (retroactive to 2008). The senior design experience was conceived as one thattouches seven sub-disciplines of civil engineering – hydrology, structures, transportation,environmental, geotechnical, construction management, and surveying, and is organizedaround a major project design (building and site development, bridge and roadway design,etc.) from initial needs gathering in client interviews through completion of the 100%design activities. The Civil Engineering program took the position that all of the programoutcomes could be assessed during the two-semester senior design
frequency. Interactions also show a significanteffect on the quality of the data matrix.IntroductionWestern Carolina University (WCU) is a comprehensive state university situated in themountains of western North Carolina with approximately 8,900 graduate and undergraduatestudents. WCU serves a region that continues to employ heavily in the manufacturing sector,which ranks number one with 19.3% of all jobs in western North Carolina1, which is why theEngineering Technology (ET) program continues to prepare its graduates through both its on-campus and distance education degree programs. The ET program exposes its students to amultitude of industry-related courses, including CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design &Manufacturing), polymers, rapid
the University of Texas at Austin for her Ph.D. work in Higher Educational Administration; Northern Arizona University for her M.A. in Curriculum and Assessment and Arizona State University for her B.A. in Secondary Education: Communications.Alan Jacobs, Quanser As a member of ASEE since 1994, Alan Jacobs has served the Society in numerous leadership roles. He founded the ASEE Corporate Member Council (CMC) Special Interest Group on International Engineer- ing Education and currently serves as co-chair of that SIG. Alan is presently serving his second terms on the ASEE CMC Executive Committee and the ASEE Projects Board. He also serves on the ASEE Journal of Engineering Education Advisory Board and was a
] include: “using ratings systemssuch as Greenroads, ENVISION, and/or LEED to introduce students to metrics related to societalwell-being”, and case studies of past CE projects that “failed to address the needs of anunderserved community (e.g., the 2014 Flint, Michigan, water supply crisis)” [11, 12]. There arean increasing number of examples of efforts to introduce issues of equity in concert withinfrastructure in the literature. Sanford et al. conducted a systematic review of literaturedescribing interventions that have been implemented in practice [13]. Examples include Casperet al.’s efforts to integrate social justice into first and third year civil engineering courses [14],case studies developed by Judge [15], and Castaneda et al.’s