deliver a world-class manufacturing education in spite of a growing number of challenges. 6. Strategically deploy existing and new resources into STEM and manufacturing education programs.The paper then goes on to present expanded information for each of the six (6) recommendationswithin their strategy. For example, related to recommendation 5 - To develop faculty that candeliver an excellent manufacturing education, the paper states that educators must: • Keep up to date on using new technologies. • Work with industry to understand current technical needs and update curriculum. • Collaborate with industry, professional organizations and government on projects such as design-and-build competitions and
in improving the quality of student knowledge, developing knowledge, andcreating a positive attitude toward learning [13-16].In this research, we introduce a framework in a computer engineering class that combines PBLand EM to promote critical thinking, creativity, interdisciplinary research, teamwork, andenhance communication skills. The framework utilizes PBL to provide students with hands-onentrepreneurial experience in the context of an Internet of Things design project. In [13], Arias etal. proposed integrating Entrepreneurship education in computer engineering master’s degreeprograms using a PBL approach. However, the method was applied to the master’s degreeprogram and was focused on a common project.Interdisciplinary research was
prototype was ready to undergo a market analysis. These steps wererepeated three times to generate simple, intermediate, and complex tail light prototype. Figure 1shows the final prototype of the intermediate design. Figure 1: Complete intermediate design.Throughout the design and fabrication process of the three prototypes, the students learned andimproved on many skills. The process allowed the students to utilize the concepts and theorylearned in previous classes. Furthermore, the students learned additional skills such as printedcircuit board design, layout, and fabrication; surface mount pick-and-place population; andmechanical CAD design and CNC fabrication. All of the previously mentioned skills will beused
throughout themodule. In the first class meeting, students first watched the 21-min 1999 Nightline episode,“Deep Dive” [3], where members of product design firm, IDEO, redesigned a traditionalshopping cart in five days. After watching the video, students discussed design strategies thatthey saw IDEO team members using, while also pointing to key elements of IDEO’s workplaceculture that help support and sustain high levels of innovation at IDEO. Creativity heuristics anddesign mindsets were also introduced that included lateral thinking [4], analogical reasoning andproductive thinking [5] as ways to stave off limits to creative thinking like idea fixation [6] [7]. During the first two class meetings, students working in teams of four were
usingpictures, videos, and numerical methods. Few universities utilize an active lab component formanufacturing courses leaving students with visual media for learning a traditionally hands-onprocess. To address this gap, we present an entrepreneurially minded manufacturing assessmentsurvey assignment where students research and select a product that is relevant to the materialcovered in class. The assignment is a formal manufacturing assessment survey that allowsstudents to investigate “real-world” components to explore how they were manufactured withjustification as to why the product was made using this specific process. Students produced amanufacturing assessment survey for each of the major manufacturing topics learned in the class.At completion
designed the workshop to follow the steps associated with a typical research project. In each section,we challenge participants to think about research as a way to enhance student mindset. We developedshort presentations that were then followed by active learning worksheets in a printed field guide. Most ofthe active learning worksheets were designed to be easily adapted for use with research students backhome.Module 1. Connecting Research to Your Career. In this module we encourage participants to thinkabout how they might connect research to other parts of their roles. In the activity, we ask participants tobuild a concept map that connects their research to service, classes, and other aspects of their work. Anexample of this type of concept map
engineering faculty’s lack offamiliarity with non-ABET professional skills, like entrepreneurial mindset and cultural agility,the difficulty of making changes in technical classes, and the limitations in assessing professionalskills. The researcher aims for the recommendations derived from this pilot study to raiseawareness of professional skill development within engineering curricula, fostering collaborationwith industry, and stimulating further research into enhancing the engineering curriculum with afocus on these essential skills.IntroductionTo succeed in the 21st-century workplace, engineering graduates need more than technical skillsor risk losing their jobs to automation [1, 2]. Professional skills complement a technicaleducation and are part
significantly improved)process” (Medina et al., 2005). Sometimes the concept of innovation in engineering seems to beused almost interchangeably with creativity and/or entrepreneurship. Knowledge aboutinnovation in industry has been embedded in higher education programs with the understandingthat engineering students need to be prepared to become the next generation of innovationleaders (Cropley, 2015; Law and Geng, 2019). Previous research found students’ self-rated skillsand abilities related to innovation were strongly correlated to creativity (0.816), moderatelycorrelated with product development (0.614), start-up processes (0.619), leadership (0.545), andfinancial value (0.517), and weakly correlated with risk (0.354) and teamwork (0.269
and events, we foster student participation and providethem different platforms to enhance their EM thinking and practice their EM skills. On thecurricular side, students mainly go through similar experiences. Short e-learning modules that areintegrated into courses are used to expose students to a wide range of entrepreneurial concepts.EML class activities and assignments that are associated with these modules further fosterdevelopment of an EM. The other two curricular components, the entrepreneurship course andthe entrepreneurial engineering certificate, are elective and customized to the student. Our efforts to foster an EM in students span back more than a decade. Most of the focusduring the initial years was on the program
Experiential Engineering Education Department at Rowan University. Her research interests relate to the incorporation of active learning techniques such as game- based learning in undergraduate classes as well as innovation and entrepreneurship.Dr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University Samantha Brunhaver, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor within The Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Her primary areas of research include engineering ca- reer pathways and decision-making, undergraduate student persistence, professional engineering practice, and faculty mentorship. Brunhaver graduated with her B.S. in mechanical engineering from Northeastern University and
, especially, the importance of communication and planning with my peers. The collaborationand participation among my group had to be structured, planned, and dynamic when we researched aboutbio-inspired professional reports. I learned the importance of proactive planning ahead of deadlines andconsistently communicating what my progress was on my research.”“Another skilled learned was teamwork. Teamwork in the project was needed to collaborate all of onesideas to make the best possible outcome. Overall this class taught us all the skills needed to perform bestas an engineer in the field.”“It helped me engage in critical thinking and learn more about how to effectively write summaries afterreading various articles. My approach to problems have changed
consistent with the idea that providingstudents the opportunity to apply their science and math knowledge and skills to use within theframework of interesting and engaging middle school engineering classes can have a significantpositive impact on both academic achievement and STEM engagement. Additionally, similarstudies highlight anxiety as a contributing factor to poor self-efficacy in math and science [5],[6]. Anxiety can affect children’s strategic behavior by discouraging them from choosingadvanced strategies and methods or even considering such options in the first place [6].Evaluation studies have reported significant short-term gains in creativity, problem-solving, andSTEM interest among children participating in Camp Invention [7], [8], [9
interests include investigating first-year engineering student experiences, faculty experiences, and the research to practice cycle within first-year engineering.Laine Rumreich, The Ohio State University Laine Rumreich is a PhD student studying Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University. She completed her undergraduate research thesis in the Department of Engineering Education and has been doing research in the department for six years. She has been a graduate teaching associate for two years and has taught first-year engineering and computer science courses. Her engineering education research interests are in computer science education, entrepreneurship, and first-year engineering.Ethan Cartwright, The
Engineering the work force has an important role in theaccomplishment of building a house or a skyscraper or any other engineering entrepreneurship inmodern cities. Added to this among the challenges to be faced today by the developing countriesare the changes in the extent of the production stimulated by new technologies and the impact ofsuch changes in the education field occupy the central point. It is in fact part of a huge researchin Civil Engineering in a very deep analysis of its history in the construction of a city in AtlanticForest Region. It is worth to stand out that the relationship among learning and the workers'education level of the building site in Praia Grande city is approached through informationpicked in the workers' speech
good in according to the evaluations made with the students and the teachers9. Ithelps the fostering of higher quality education to the students of engineering, technology andbusiness administration programs. It has been a very rewarding project once both sides gain withthe exchange of ideas and experiences that enrich the formation of future professionals. All thetechnical and social activities of the program were conceived in a way that the students are busyat least 60% of the day visiting different enterprises analyzing their activities, having lectures orwatching classes and developing small projects in the university. It is balanced in order to
people and nations; in thecourse of two generations the gap between the industrial and the developing regions narrowedsubstantially everywhere; the overall poverty, when defined by health of population and lifeexpectancy, as well as by income has diminished [06]. By the other hand the results ofglobalization have not been what was predicted when the attempt to increase free trade began,and many institutions involved in the system of globalization have not taken the interests ofpoorer nations, the working class, and the environment into account; developed countries are thelargest beneficiaries of this system and they are becoming richer while the developing countriesare becoming poorer.The discussions about Globalization in general show a bad
Paper ID #38548Design of Entrepreneurially Minded (EM) Effective Learning Strategiesfor Engineering Students: Course Structure, Grading Rubrics, SyllabusDesign, and In-Class Mini Labs for Student Motivation and LearningDr. Muzammil Arshad, Texas A&M University Dr. Muzammil Arshad earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology, and his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan.Dr. Rebecca R. Romatoski, St. Ambrose University Dr. Romatoski earned their PhD in Nuclear Science and Engineering
controls. To meet this challenge, the authors took a student centeredapproach to the course design as well as active learning pedagogy. From this approach the coursewas structured where students work through theory and hands-on labs each class period. Thisinfused basic electrical theory and instrumentation with Arduino-based sensors and controlalgorithms, and has allowed alignment of every day of the course with multiple student learningoutcomes. In this work the authors present student outcomes of the approach. These are informedby methods of formative and summative assessment as well as evidence of achievement throughregular informal student feedback, course evaluations, observations, and focus groups. The assessment strategy has included
in these IBLcourses. MOOCIBL is a custom-made learning management system (LMS) that facilitates thedocumentation of student's efforts in the form of blockchain learning tokens [8]. It storesevidence of learning from the mastery of core concepts and evidence of application from theprojects. Blockchain based tokens made in our custom-made LMS (MOOCIBL) link to videos,models, designs, and papers that the students create. Some examples of tokens includeengineering simulations, presentations on topics, documented engineering failures and the pivotsfrom those failures. After creation the tokens are made available to other students to view. Twostudents in the same class offer critical reviews of the token compared to their knowledge andmastery of
training at the National Collegiate Inventors and In- novators Alliance (NCIIA). Babs is a serial entrepreneur and active in multiple entrepreneurial activities. She blogs about entrepreneurship on New Venturist. Babs taught entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for 15 years, where she maintains an adjunct position. Formerly, Babs was embedded entrepreneur for CMU’s Project Olympus and innovation advisor for CMU’s Institute for Social Innova- tion. For seven years at the University of Pittsburgh, Babs taught the Benchtop to Bedside new technology commercialization course. Babs is President of Carryer Consulting and co-founder of LaunchCyte, which has a portfolio of five companies. Babs has a Masters in
; algorithm design and solution implementation. Digital Leadership: To initiate and guide computation-related innovation. In other words, those essential soft skills or ways of thinking for a digital age, including system thinking, interdisciplinary or integration skills, innovation and entrepreneurship, multi-cultural teamwork and collaboration skills. Figure 1. The Framework of CT-ENGIII. Case Study: The Robotics Class of Zhejiang University1. Research Design(1) Research MethodThis research adopts the single case study method. Case study research design is anin-depth practical investigation of a current event in the actual context (Yin, 2009).According to (Siggelkow,2007; Gaya H.J& Smith E.E.,2016), a
analysis (FEA): student engagement and final exam performance.research methods and proceduresThis paper describes efforts in the fall semester of 2023 to implement facets of EM into a finiteelement analysis course in the MET program at Montana State University.Reviewing the final exam from the previous fall semester, it was noted that the main problemfrom the exam could be introduced earlier in the semester, if not the very first class meeting,where it could be solved (though incompletely and incorrectly).The problem itself received positive feedback from the students; specifically, they enjoyed thefact it was a real-world engineering project with important ramifications.The inspiration for the problem had been a YouTube video [7] about the clever
Paper ID #38151Lessons Learned from Collaborative Initialization ofMachine Learning Class and STEM Contest with Universityand Industry PartnershipHoo Kim Hoo Kim, Ph.D., P.E., is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology at LeTourneau University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. His professional interests include teaching in the area of electromagnetics and RF, integration of faith and engineering, and entrepreneurship in engineering. © American Society for Engineering
for highschool students in rural areas of Sumapaz, Usme and Ciudad Bolivar [5], the last two areareas surrounding Sumapaz. Taking into account the characteristics of the Sumapaz region,the points of view of the people and the interests and possibilities of various faculties of theUniversidad Nacional de Colombia, five academic programs were chosen to be opened in thenew place in Sumapaz: Nursing, Agriculture Engineering, Agronomic Engineering,Zootechnics and Veterinary [6].The implementation of PEAMA Sumapaz program was made with a particular designcharacterized by some innovative elements for the institution: first, its interdisciplinary natureseeks to integrate students from five different programs who receive the same classes in thesame
innovation self-efficacy as it relates to competence inquestioning, observing, experimenting, idea networking, and associational thinking, hencepositively increasing interest in innovation and innovative careers.MethodsCurricular InterventionData were collected from two environmental engineering classes at the University of ColoradoBoulder in Fall 2021: Water Chemistry and Contaminant Fate & Transport. Water Chemistryconsisted of 63 students. Two students (3%) were in their sophomore or second year of theirundergraduate education, 33 students (52%) were in their junior or third year, 23 students (37%)were in their senior or fourth year, and 5 students (or 8%) were fifth-year seniors. ContaminantFate & Transport consisted of 28 students
Paper ID #44024Exploring Opportunities for Innovative Professional Impact: Implementationof a Multidisciplinary CourseDr. Keilin Jahnke, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Dr. Keilin Jahnke is a Teaching Assistant Professor in Innovation, Leadership, and Engineering Entrepreneurship in The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.Dr. Joe Bradley, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Joe Bradley is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Bioengineering in the Grainger College of Engineering, a Health Innovation Professor and the Director of Engineering Education and
-portfolio become the details that ground their storiesand help them connect with interviewers. By bringing the connection between e-portfolio and jobinterview success closer, the hope is that students will be more motivated to participate fully ingenerating and curating their e-portfolio, and consequently more engaged in achieving the class learningoutcomes and able to orient these to their own long-term goals over time.The need for educational reformThe United States continues to struggle with increasing the size and diversity of its Science, Technology,Engineering and Math (STEM) workforce. In the past few decades, educational researchers have taken acritical look at the ways in which traditional pedagogical methods in engineering education serve
Foundation have funded her research. Her research interests relate to the incorporation of active learning techniques such as game-based learning in undergraduate classes as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into the engineering curriculum. In particular, she is interested in the impact that these tools can have on student perception of the classroom environment, motivation, and learning outcomes. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comLongitudinal Assessment of Engineering Student EM Using the ESEMA Self- Report SurveyAbstractIn order to meet industry expectations of engineering
students.In this paper, we describe the storytelling opportunities we offer student engineers in both firstyear and upper-level classes and how students were supported to share their stories throughpodcasting. Using a pre- and post-survey we developed and a mixed-methods approach foranalysis, we describe how our initial cohort of students were motivated to share their stories andenjoyed the podcast medium because it afforded connection in a low-pressure format. Somestudents also indicated that the story creation and podcasting process helped them find theiridentity.MotivationOur work with story reflects current concerns in higher education. Modern college students areincreasingly perceiving stress and mental health as major concerns. Over 60% of
online modules deployed through the Learning Management System (LMS); typical modulerequires 4 – 8 hours of time and students complete this outside of class time. Students engage in in-classor online discussions promoting deeper learning of the module content. However, the key aspect of theintegrated e-learning modules is the reinforcement of the learning through a contextual activity. This linksthe course content with the module content and helps to connect the ideas for the students. Assessingstudent learning through an activity or exam question(s) completes the integration. Figure 1: Recommended Integration Strategy for e-Learning Modules supporting Entrepreneurial Minded LearningThe e-learning modules are openly accessible through the