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Paper ID #10709Insights and Challenges in Developing a Remote Real-Time Watershed Mon-itoring LabMr. Walter McDonald, Virginia Tech Walter McDonald is a PhD Student, jointly advised by Drs. Dymond and Lohani, in the CEE program at Virginia Tech with a focus in water resources engineering. He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Texas Tech University and a M.S. in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University. He has had extensive training in hydrology and currently works in the LEWAS lab where he conducts water sustainability research. He has also developed and implemented curricula for introducing the LEWAS into
Session 1125 Using Industry-Like Product Development Projects in Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design Courses Karim H. Muci-Küchler1 and Jonathan M. Weaver2 1 Mechanical Engineering Department South Dakota School of Mines and Technology 2 Mechanical Engineering Department University of Detroit Mercy Abstract A good engineering education involves more than preparing students that have soundtechnical knowledge in a
Session 3230 Preliminary Results from the Development of a Concept Inventory in Thermal and Transport Science Barbara M. Olds1, Ruth A. Streveler, Ronald L. Miller Colorado School of Mines Mary A. Nelson University of Colorado-BoulderAbstractThis paper reports on the progress made in the creation of a concept inventory in thermaland transport science. We discuss the steps taken to create questions for the conceptinventory and the results of the alpha testing of our inventory. Next steps in the process
engineering majors and the subsequent careerpathways of students after graduation has gained concern as studies reveal that many engineeringstudents do not continue into engineering careers, despite a global need for them. Decreasedengineering self-efficacy, lack of engineering identity, and low perceived levels of careerpreparedness have all been shown to play a major role in the loss of potential engineers. Topromote more confidence and improve students’ success in engineering careers, many degreeprograms have explored the incorporation of entrepreneurial engagement and the development ofstudents’ “entrepreneurial mindsets”. Entrepreneurship in engineering curriculum promotes thedevelopment of soft skills, business knowledge, and the ability to
Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Developing a Learning Innovation for an Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Course through Faculty, Engineer, and Student CollaborationAbstractEngineering education research is often motivated by closing the gap in students’ preparednessfor the engineering industry. One way to achieve this is by developing authentic learningcontexts, activities, and problems that are representative of the engineering workplace. Thisapproach is not novel in engineering education research or the engineering curriculum; however,only a limited number of studies have closely and collaboratively worked with students, faculty,and engineers to develop learning innovations (LI). This
Students Define and Develop Data Proficiency1. ABSTRACTThis paper examines how mechanical and aerospace engineering (MAE) students conceptualizeand develop data proficiency within their engineering curriculum. The growing importance of dataacross all engineering fields means students must master data skills – including advancedtechniques – to remain competitive. However, there's limited research on how non-computerscience majors understand data proficiency and seek opportunities for skill development. Weinvestigate the nature of data proficiency from the perspective of undergraduate MAE students,conducting 27 qualitative interviews at a research institution in the southeastern United States.Using the How People Learn framework
variety of disciplines. This course was developed as part ofan NSF CCLI (Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement) grant, and is offeredthrough the School of Engineering. A team of engineering faculty members, educationfaculty members, and a K-8 educator collaborated on the course.Course LogisticsThe catalog description for this course is as follows. This is a one-semester survey of engineering topics. Topics will span machine design, manufacturing, thermodynamics, electronics, computer programming, and chemical engineering. The course will have weekly lab sessions, which will allow students to apply what they are learning from lectures in a hands-on setting. Emphasis will be placed on how the material is used
Paper ID #10312Mobile App Development: A Cross-Discipline Team-Based Approach to Stu-dent and Faculty LearningDr. Sarvesh S Kulkarni, Villanova University Sarvesh Kulkarni received a B.E. in Computer Engineering from the University of Bombay in 1994, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Prior to 2002, he has worked in various industry positions in India and the US. He joined the ECE department at Villanova University in 2002, and is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering. His teaching and research interests are: adaptive
participate meaningfully in the course lab component of curriculum development"and Webster3 argues that "the student's interest is heightened by the design aspects".Although there is agreement that undergraduate students can be involved successfully in creatinglaboratory equipment, the question remains if this can be done for the equipment needed for athermal system design teaching laboratory which requires sophisticated equipment such as an airhandling unit simulator, a refrigeration simulator, or an air duct simulator.This paper presents an innovative approach of cooperation between industry and students tobuild equipment for a thermal system design teaching laboratory at a four year institution.Instead of buying higher educational laboratory test
pathway that is paved for advancing and creating responsible AI-drivenapplications. Developing robust ethical frameworks will be essential to ensure responsible AIintegration in education. Wilkinson [11] argues that understanding AI’s limitations is a criticalcomponent of graduate preparedness, emphasizing that higher education must incorporate AIliteracy training into its curriculum. Furthermore, AI’s role in supporting, rather than replacinghuman skills such as, creativity or critical thinking should be a central pedagogical consideration. Recent studies have also highlighted the need for reconceptualizing student roles in anAI-augmented learning environment. Huston and Plate [29] propose a shift toward metacognitivetraining, where
North Atlantic/Arctic countries. His most recent works involves connecting applied learning to economic development in both engineering curriculum and non-engineering curriculum.Dr. Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato Jennifer Karlin spent the first half of her career at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where she was a professor of industrial engineering and held the Pietz professorship for entrepreneurship and economic development. She is now a professor of integrated engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato with the Iron Range Engineering program. She joined IRE in 2019 as one of the founding faculty of the Bell engineering practice-embedded learning model.Zachary Reed
Paper ID #38404Evidence-based Opportunities for the Development ofEmpathy in Engineering through Community-basedLearningLinjue Wang (Graduate Research Associate) Linjue (Jade) Wang is currently a Ph.D. candidate and graduate research associate in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. She has been a leader within the Inclusive Community Based Learning (iCBL) Lab for four years and upon graduation is pursuing a variety of faculty roles where she can perform engaged scholarship. She received her B.E. in Built Environment & Equipment Engineering from Tsinghua University, China
journeys through undergraduateeducation, many using images of falling off cliffs or needing rescue helicopters to take themaway from their difficulties overcoming obstacles like calculus or physics to bring them to morestable ground in majors like communications or business. The related concept of a “failure resume,” in which a designer self-authors a list ofstruggles and failures to become more aware of the necessity of taking risks in the creativeprocess has been popularized through the design thinking curriculum at the Stanford d.school [4]and described in IDEO founder Dave Kelley’s book Creative Confidence [5]. The journey mapshares the idea of self-authorship and illustrating individual struggles and obstacles with a failureresume but
through the world.What Are Some Practical Ways to Move Beyond the Research in Order to Support Engineeringand Computing Identity Development for Latina Students?Chicana feminism invites us, as engineering education educators, to step into consciousness in order toserve students. This means promoting identity development within and outside of the classroom byinvestigating the teaching and curriculum as well as advising and support changes needed to supportLatina students in these fields. In addition, this means empowering college leaders to act as catalysts ofchange and community building in order facilitate a multi-prong approach to enhancing engineering andcomputing identity development for Latina students.To fully embody this vision will
seven Information Technology textbooks, over 100 peer reviewed journal articles and conference papers, and she gave numerous presen- tations at national and international professional events in USA, Canada, England, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Germany and Romania. She is the founder director of the Auburn University Educational and Assistive Technology Laboratory (LEAT), Co-PI of NSF EEC ”RFE Design and Development: Framing Engineering as Community Activism for Values-Driven Engineeringan”, Co-PI of NSF CISE ”EAGER: An Accessible Coding Curriculum for Engaging Underserved Students with Special Needs in Afterschool Programs”, institutional partner of AccessComputing (http://www.washington.edu/accesscomputing/), Ac
Paper ID #34063Work in Progress: Development of a Virtual Introduction to Machining andManufacturing for BME ApplicationsEmily Moreno, University of California, Davis Emily Moreno is currently a Biomedical Engineering (BME) M.S. student at the University of California, Davis. Her thesis work deals with understanding the mechanisms involved with atherogenesis. Emily has been a teaching assistant for the ”Introduction to Manufacturing” course for BME undergraduate seniors for two years; the last year being taught virtually. She received her B.S. in Bioengineering at UC San Diego and aims to go into the medical device
development occurs in engineers, highlightingthe role of extracurricular activities during college in this developmentThe extent of engineering ethical development for each student will vary based on their personalethical development and specific experiences. This includes the ethics content in requiredcourses which varies across institutions and by discipline [5, 25]. Even students who took thesame curriculum in required courses will evidence different levels of ethical reasoning [26]. Inaddition, students will take different elective courses, elect to participate in differentextracurricular activities, and participate in those activities in different ways (for example, sometake on leadership roles). Note that students may participate in a similar
Paper ID #35364Enhancing student experiential learning opportunities in materialsscience through the development of online virtual laboratoriesDr. Bosco Yu, McMaster University Dr Bosco Yu is an Assistant Professor (CLA) in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at McMaster University. Dr Yu’s teaching responsibility focuses on the development of a new first-year engineering curriculum as part of McMaster Engineering’s ’The Pivot’ transformation, teaching the new first-year course (1P13), and conducting pedagogy research. Dr Yu is a strong advocate for student-centred learning and project-based learning
all buildingsystems from planning to design and from construction to operations and deconstruction.The construction industry has recently realized the necessity of having their engineers toget acquainted with green building practices. In this paper, a project has been developedand is aimed at developing two pedagogical models within the curriculum; one is to coverthe theoretical and practice-oriented sustainability components, and the other is forimplementing applied research in the area of sustainability. Many students undertookboth models during their program of study and as a result reaped the benefits of theirdeveloped skills in a fairly new realm of engineering, i.e. sustainable engineering andgreen construction. The outcomes of
. Workshop 1 (week 3): National Science Education Standards and the Georgia State Quality Core Curriculum (QCC)7-10. Instructed by Dr. George Stickel (Science Coordinator, Cobb County School District). Workshop 2 (week 3): Overview and application of “best practice” research for improving student achievement and the use of science inquiry in developing hands-on physics lesson plans. Instructed by Michael Downing (Physics teacher, Fernbank Science Center). Workshop 3 (week 5): Part 1: Development and contents of lesson plans and engineering careers. Instructed by the authors. Every teacher received a copy of the “Engineering Careers” video to share with his/her students. Part 2: College admission process instructed by Georgia Tech
diagram, accuracy of the equations constructed, and correctness of thevalues obtained. In addition, we will review the recordings of students’ activities in orderto identify qualitatively any differences in the problem-solving processes promoted bythe two media. We hope that our results will shed light on the impact that the use of thesoftware has on the skill development in the students, ultimately providing an empiricalfoundation for an improved introductory chemical engineering curriculum that increases Page 13.382.8retention by addressing a problem that we have found to be troublesome for introductorystudents: that of translating a written problem
. Page 13.574.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Evaluating Development Boards for Laboratory Based Embedded Microcontroller Courses: A Formal Evaluation MatrixAbstract:With all the different development board options available for laboratory basedembedded microcontroller courses, how do you know that you have selected the bestoption? As part of the effort to improve the curriculum in the Electrical and ComputerEngineering Department at Purdue University, several different development boards wereevaluated. To assist in this process and make the “best” choice, a formal evaluationmatrix was developed to assess the various attributes of each option. The evaluationmatrix and rationale for the criteria are explained in
Semoh 3t&l The Role of Michael Faraday in the Development of Contemporary Chemical Engineering James W. Gentry Department of Chemical Engineering University of Maryland, College Park, MarylandThe origins of contemporary Chemical Engineering (i.e. transport phenomena, thermodynamics,kinetics . ..) lie in the first three quarters of the nineteenth century. Michael Faraday wasresponsible for more than a half-dozen historically significant studies which were subsequentlyincorporated into chemical engineering
connection totheir experiences outside of class. For some students, the frustrations with solvingproblems for which they do not connect to personal experiences may be enough to causethem to withdraw from the engineering major. Others might develop a disregard for thepersonal meanings and neglect associations between the assigned problems and thebroader concepts discussed in class. For traditional approaches to engineering education,the significance of these early connections are sometimes overlooked because deeperconnections are expected to occur later when knowledge of specific facts are blendedtogether within the curriculum to provide the foundation for life-long problem-solvingskills1. The culminating capstone course is usually the point
2006-707: DEVELOPMENT OF VISUALIZATION TOOLS FOR RESPONSE OF1ST AND 2ND ORDER DYNAMIC SYSTEMSPeter Avitabile, University of Massachusetts-Lowell Peter Avitabile is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Director of the Modal Analysis and Controls Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is a Registered Professional Engineer with a BS, MS and Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering and a member of ASEE, ASME and SEM.Jeffrey Hodgkins, University of Massachusetts-Lowell Jeff Hodgkins is a Graduate Student in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts. He is currently working on his Master’s Degree in the Modal Analysis
. Page 11.1064.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Real Time Systems Laboratory Development: Experiments Focusing on a Dual Core ProcessorAbstractThis paper presents the laboratory curriculum developed for a senior-level elective course inReal Time Systems. The labs developed for this semester long course are aimed at providing achallenging experience to electrical and computer engineering students and exposing them tostate-of-the-art tools from industry. The projects were developed on the OMAP 5912 starter kitmodule supplied by Texas Instruments (TI). The open multimedia architecture platform (OMAP)technology from TI consists mainly of dual-core processor chips. The OMAP 5912 chip has anARM
Paper ID #27751Development of an Undergraduate Course, ”Applied Computer Vision,” inan Electrical Engineering Technology ProgramDr. Suranjan Panigrahi, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dr. Panigrahi is a professor in the School of Engineering Technology at Purdue University, West Lafayette campus. He has 26 years of experience in teaching, research and administration. He has developed and taught courses in both engineering and engineering technology programs. Recently, he teaches courses related to applied computer vision and embedded systems in the Electrical and Computer Engineering
helped to develop and teach the six course engineering design sequence which represents the spine of the curriculum for the Department of Engineering. The research and teaching interests of Dr. Nagel tend to revolve around engineering design and engineering design education, and in particular, the design conceptualization phase of the design process. He has performed research with the US Army Chemical Corps, General Motors Research and Development Center, and the US Air Force Academy, and he has received grants from the NSF, the EPA, and General Motors Corporation.Dr. Robert J Prins, James Madison University Robert Prins received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2005; he is currently an
this project will inform the development of a modelof DLI in engineering that can be used by teachers and practitioners in both K-12 andundergraduate educational environments. This model will be translated into standards-alignedinstructional materials, including videos, lesson plans, and curricular units, and will be madewidely available to ensure that all students have access to high-quality, authentic engineeringcontent. For example, a K-12 science curriculum could be coupled with a model of DLI inengineering to encourage students to use authentic engineering literacy practices to solve grade-appropriate design problems. Similarly, for undergraduate engineering education, DLI couldsupport a problem-based learning (PBL) engineering pedagogy