Session 2425 Learning Project Implementation and Management Skills in the Culminating Design Experience Pamela J. Neal, Kenneth J. Soda, Erlind G. Royer Department of Electrical Engineering United States Air Force Academy, CO1. IntroductionThe contemporary undergraduate curriculum of an Electrical Engineering program is packedwith required courses, making it a challenge to complete in four years. By necessity, nearly allof this work is theoretical, supported by laboratory work that is too often limited in scope. Themore practical aspects of
much easier to set up than performing successive calculations by hand. Once the program is Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityset up, the students can be challenged further by asking them to repeat their calculations fordifferent inlet temperatures or pipe dimensions (DP, LP).Figure 3 – Iterative process for determining the mass flow rate required to heat a fluid streamfrom a specified inlet temperature (Tin) to a desired outlet temperature (Tout) using a pipe with aconstant wall temperature (Twall). Additional variables and properties are inner pipe diameter(DP), length of pipe (LP), Prandtl number (Pr), thermal conductivity (k), and heat capacity (CP).All equations are adapted from the
…”1Both acquisition of technical knowledge for high professionalism and the development ofpersonal skills demand time and the obtaining of credit points during the programs. However, tothe students the two aspects appear completely separate. Disciplinary technical knowledge versussoft skills (communication with stakeholders, consideration about entering foreign markets, etc.)is often purely seen as the cause for the division of labor. “I will be an engineer! Communicationis the business of other departments!” The role-play exercise as an essential part of the seminarbrings these worlds together by demanding the use and application of strategic empathy.Empathy is a soft skill. Is it possible to teach them in a degree program? Basically, soft
discussion and audience member questions were audio (only)recorded via ZOOM; the panel members provided prior consent to having the discussionrecorded and using the recording as data for research. Additionally, the Institutional ReviewBoard of the first author’s university confirmed that an IRB protocol was not required becausethe panel was conducted as a public event and the panelists had no expectation for privacy. Thepanelists also agreed to co-authoring an ASEE conference panel paper based on the analysis ofthe panel discussion.3.3 Data PreparationTrint (www.trint.com), an artificial intelligence (AI) powered, cloud-based internet application,was used to generate an initial textual transcription of the panel discussion audio recording. Oncethe
processes were an explicit outcome.Further, faculty wanted to give students the chance to integrate what they had learnedthroughout their various seminars earlier in the course. The target educational goals ofthe project are shown in Table 1.Table 1: ENGR 100 project goals Educational Goal RationaleApply teamwork process Ability to function on a multidisciplinary team is explicit course goalApply engineering design process Application specified process is explicit course goalWork with a real customer Practice communication with a non
assignment or exam. The assessor asked students to walk the assessorthrough their thought process to solve the problem and answer follow-up questions that probe thedeeper concept behind a problem-solving procedure. In every class, students participated insolving practice problems and explaining their solutions and thought processes to theirclassmates. The oral exams contributed 15% (5% for each oral exam) toward the final coursegrade.ECE 144 - LabVIEW Programming Design and Applications is an upper division programmingcourse with hands-on applications. The class was offered remotely during the regular ten-weekquarter and 24 students were enrolled. The teaching team consisted of one instructor, one ten-hour IA, two ten-hour tutors, and one five-hour
because theclasses were in different departments and the module formats differed slightly. The purpose wasnot to combine the data but to show versatility in application to both engineering andconstruction programs, and with different amounts of class time.Student learning outcome confidence With the first section of the survey, “Skills,” the goal was to improve student’s self-reported confidence level with the student learning outcomes (SLOs) on a 5-point Likert scale,ranging from 1 (low confidence) to 5 (high confidence). These survey objectives, reproduced inthe tables below, were slightly adapted from the “lesson plan” learning outcomes listed in theObjectives section. It is acknowledged that this is a limited method, but our future
environmental engineering’ course often is called upon toaccomplish multiple objectives in a single offering, including: 1) serving as a ‘point of entry’ forstudents pursuing a baccalaureate course of study in a program of ‘environmental engineering’;2) serving as a ‘survey’ for students in another field of engineering (i.e., civil engineering,architectural engineering, chemical engineering, etc.); 3) serving as an ‘interdisciplinaryinterface’ for students in fields of science, health, or various aspects of sustainability (i.e.,environmental science, environmental health, or ‘sustainability science, technology, policy,communication, etc.’); or 4) serving as an ‘opportunity for engagement’ or an ‘opportunity forrecruitment’ for students early in their
both of these assessment procedures forteams at the US Air Force Academy are discussed in detail in section 4.2. Concept Generation TechniquesAs mentioned previously, CG techniques can be separated into directed and intuitive categories.The directed techniques rely heavily on the application of physical laws or other technicalinsights to the resolution of design conflicts. The intuitive techniques rely more on a divergentthought process to produce new ideas for the solution to a problem. Although the intuitiveprocesses are, in many cases, less structured than the directed processes, they are certainly notwithout a certain level of order. In fact, the challenge in development of innovative solutions todesign problems is, at least in part, in
articles, and 20 refereed pedagogical conference articles. As a PI or Co-PI, Traum has attracted over $841 K in funding for research, education, and entrepreneurial ventures from multiple sources including NSF, NASA, ASHRAE, AIAA, Sigma Xi, the Texas State Energy Conservation Office, and several industry sponsors including Toshiba and Oshkosh. Most recently as Associate Professor and Director of Engineering Programs at Philadelphia University, Dr. Traum led the Mechanical Engineering Program through a successful ABET interim visit resulting in no deficiencies, weaknesses, or concerns. Previously, Dr. Traum was an assistant professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), one of the top-ten undergraduate
courses. As a result, there has been increasing dependence onpart-time instructors to teach core engineering courses, and this has been a trend in manyengineering programs [1-2]. With an increased reliance on part-time faculty there have beenchallenges such as scheduling flexibility to accommodate travel schedules, increased coordinationbetween full and part-time instructors, unfamiliarity with university policies and procedures [3].As a result, most programs that rely on part-time instructors have developed a list of do’s anddon’ts for part-time instructors which cover a wide range of topics. These often boil-down toinstructions for how to navigate the university, scheduling and room assignments, on-line coursemanagement system, to name a few
Paper ID #41791Navigating Grief in Academia: Prioritizing Supports for Women Scholarsthrough Informed ApproachesMrs. Enas Aref, Western Michigan University Mrs. Enas Aref is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Industrial Engineering Program at Western Michigan University. Mrs. Aref is a certified Associate Ergonomist. She is also a researcher at the HPI and a doctoral Teaching Assistant in the Industrial and Entrepreneurial Engineering and Engineering Management Department at Western Michigan UniversityDina Idriss-Wheeler, University of OttawaJulia Hajjar, University of Ottawa ©American Society for Engineering
Latino adolescents use engineering design processes to solve community-based projects, and how their household bodies of knowledge and social practices with their peers may connect to these design processes. Alex is particularly interested in the use of comprehension strategy instruction in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms, physical and digital manipulatives and their application in engineering courses, and education and outreach for minorities in STEM.Dr. Amy Alexandra Wilson, Utah State University - College of Education Amy Alexandra Wilson is an assistant professor in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership at Utah State University. She studies disciplinary literacy instruction for adolescents in
Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State Abington. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Auburn University. He graduated from MISE program in Auburn University Industrial and Systems Engineering Department in 2012. He has a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering and a Double Major in Industrial Systems Engineering from Izmir University of Economics. He is a two times recipient of the Material Handling Education Foundation, Inc. Scholarship. His research has been awarded by National Science Foundation, Penn State Strategic Initiative Seed Grant, Penn State Social Science Research Institute, Penn State Justice Center for Research, and Penn State Abington Chancellor’s
learning and bridges classroom lessons to real-world experiences.4,5The United States’ investment made in future nanotechnology developments requires a reformededucational program for preparing students for engineering, science, and technology careers.6The incorporation of nanoscale concepts into middle- and high-school curricula can contribute tothese initiatives.Research has demonstrated that students of science may gain deeper conceptual understandingswhen they are able to build and manipulate models of science phenomena.7 In addition, there isa consensus among scientists, engineers, and science and engineering educators in the field ofnanoscale phenomena that education of nanoscale science, engineering, and technology conceptsrelies on models
. After research stays at the NASA Ames Research Center/ California and the Georgia Institute of Technology/Atlanta, she gained a doctorate on ”Mathematics in Virtual Knowledge Environments” in 2004. Following a junior professorship (2005-2007) at the TU Berlin with the construction and direction of its media center, she was head of the Institute of Information Technology Services (IITS) for electrical engineering at the University of Stuttgart from May 2007 to May 2009, where she was also the director of the Central Information Technology Services (RUS) at the same time. Some of the main areas of her research are complex IT-systems (e.g. cloud computing, Internet of Things, green IT & ET, semantic web services
results of collaborative efforts between the faculty of Virginia Techand KLE Technological University Hubli, India to develop and integrate a first-year engineering programat KLE Technological University. It is well known that the first two years in an engineering program arecrucial to student retention and success. As such, a first-year course was developed to provide studentswith active and collaborative hands-on learning experiences in order to improve student engagement andlearning during their first-year. Classroom modules included hands-on problem solving activities thatcovered methods and topics, such as mechatronics and watershed monitoring. The first-year course waspiloted in the Fall 2015 semester and Spring 2016 semester and is ongoing
. Ziade is a postdoc research fellow and a member of the Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Re- search at UOPX. Dr. Ziade has published a number of journal articles that were presented at conferences (ASEE and ISCB). Dr. Ziade’s research includes examination of cultural differences and leadership prac- tices within global organizations. She also co-authored papers exploring MENA business culture. Dr. Ziade is serving as a Parliamentary Chair, also served as Program Chair of Guild volunteer at St. Jude Medical Center. Dr. Ziade developed a leadership practices model that provides a suitable framework and salient business strategy component for corporations seeking to expand successfully.Dr. Mohd Abdelgadir Khairi
. Page 13.1037.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Research Collaboration between Korea University and Penn State for the Development of an Advanced Video CODEC Byoungkyu Dan1, Seungwon Jung1, Junhyung Kim1, Taeshick Wang1, Aldo Morales2 and Sung-Jea Ko1 1 2 Department of Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering Program, Korea University Pennsylvania State University Seoul, Korea Harrisburg, PennsylvaniaAbstractIn this work, we would like to highlight an international collaboration between KoreaUniversity, one of the premier
not pay much attention to liberal learning. Recent trends show that liberal learning is regaining itsimportance. Some leading institutes like Princeton, Yale, and CMU run programs for engineers to help themgain a clear appreciation of technology and the socio-political forces that shape it. The Indian engineeringeducation system has been slow in adopting this paradigm.We define liberal learning as ―self-learning in self-chosen liberal areas with self-defined scope‖. This covers avast knowledge space. To ensure that students do not get lost in the space, we developed a guiding framework.This framework consists of process and data. The process has four distinct and slightly overlapping elements.They are define, harvest, synthesize and share
Section 3430 On Teaching Engineering Ethics: A Challenge to the Engineering Professoriate Billy V. Koen Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas/Austin, USA koen@uts.cc.utexas.edu1. IntroductionWhen the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) established EvaluationCriterion 3: Outcome #f, it signaled a renewed interest in instruction in ethics at colleges ofengineering in the United States.[1] Outcome #f states that “Engineering programs mustdemonstrate that their graduates have an understanding
communities in the southeastern United States. School one reportedthat just over 50% of the students received free/reduced price lunches. The enrollment for theyear 2008 was 843 students in grades 9-12. The school received good and excellent ratings onthe state’s report card and has met Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) in 2005-2006 and 2006-2007,as defined by No Child Left Behind (NCLB). School two reported that 54% of students receivedfree/reduced price lunches. The enrollment in grades 9-12 for the year 2008 was 879 students.Beginning in the 2008-09 year, this school became a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineeringand Math) theme school. During the 2009-2010 school year the school added an aerospaceengineering program to its engineering academy. School
has unfolded in two phases. The first phase, M3 (Motivation,Mentoring, and Manipulatives) Hybrid-Electric Vehicle Educational Highway, wasfunded for four years. The ongoing second phase is commonly referred to as the NSFGREATT project, whose full title is, Track 2, NSF GK-12: Graduate Research and Page 10.310.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationEducation in Advanced Transportation Technology (GREATT). Both projects placeSTEM graduate students currently in Ph.D. and Masters programs involving research
Program Chair for her division in ASEE, VP of External Relations for INFORMS-ED, and Chair for Student Involvement for the 2012 Capstone Design Conference. She is working on a book called ”Oral Communication Excellence for Engineers: What the Workforce Demands” for John H. Wiley & Sons (due in 2013) and several articles, while continuing to teach capstone design communication instruction and a course on journal article writing for graduate students. Her current research focus includes evaluating the reliability of the scoring rubric she and Tristan Utschig developed from executive input and identifying the cognitive schema used by students to create graphs from raw data.Jeffrey S. Bryan, Georgia Institute of Technology
. Once scientific literacyincreases, it is assumed, a positive attitude toward science and technology will inevitablyfollow.4 However, these assumptions do not hold up when considered in light of studieschallenging the connection between “exposure to science in the media, level of knowledge, and afavorable attitude toward research and its applications” (p. 450).4 For instance, research hasshown that the most informed members of the public also have a “substantial degree ofskepticism and suspicion” toward biotechnologies (p. 450).4A second critique of the deficit model is that it disregards “lay” knowledge, or publics’knowledge about S&E in their lives. Expertise is conceptualized in narrow terms as somethingacquired only through formal
Page 23.1205.2with Professor X. Such positive impressions can aid promotion and tenure as well as increasingsuch faculty members’ influence on decisions of which classes they teach.This paper reviews the literature about student response units’ use and discusses prior researchinto their benefits. While this will touch on some best practices for using clickers, the focus isnot upon convincing instructors how to adopt or improve clicker usage. Much of the authors’prior experience with clickers has been in courses with a large quantitative component. Thispaper discusses the authors’ findings from their first application of clickers in a mainlyqualitative course. The results are consistent with previous results indicating that clickers are
Paper ID #41249Promoting Chemical Engineering Identity through Student Agency and ExperimentRelevanceDr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and associate professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information and Learning Sciences program and in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department.Madalyn Wilson-Fetrow, University of New MexicoProf. Stephanie G Wettstein, Montana State University, Bozeman Stephanie Wettstein is an Associate Professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering department at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. She has been
Education.Dr. Gaurav Nanda, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Dr. Gaurav Nanda is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Technology at Purdue University. His research focuses on machine learning and natural language processing applications for data analytics and decision support in areas of safety, education, healthcare, and supply chain. He completed his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and postdoc in Engineering Education from Purdue University. He earned his Masters and Bachelors degrees from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India and worked in the software industry for five years before moving to academia.Saloni Parkar ©American Society for Engineering
AC 2012-3917: IMPROVING ENGINEERING EDUCATION WITH EN-HANCED CALIBRATED PEER REVIEW ASSESSMENT OF A COLLAB-ORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTDr. Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patricia A. Carlson teaches at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She is the author of over seventy publications and presentation. She has used her experience in educational technology on two large-scale Lilly Endowment grants and on two National Science Foundation-funded research projects. In addition to teaching, she is the Director of the PRISM Project, an outreach program that helps Indiana teachers of middle school science, mathematics, and technology to integrate new information technology applications into their
Paper ID #43056Developing Engineers’ Critical Consciousness through Gender and EthnicStudies: Reframing STEM IdentityDr. Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College Jenn Stroud Rossmann is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lafayette College. She earned her BS in mechanical engineering and the PhD in applied physics from the University of California, Berkeley.Prof. Mary A. Armstrong, Lafayette College Mary A. Armstrong is Charles A. Dana Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and English at Lafayette College, where she also chairs the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. She earned her PhD in English and