forenvironmentally friendly cars has engineers searching for solutions to improve fuel economy anddevelop alternative fuels. Televisions are not only larger than they were 20 years ago but flatterand producing life-like images in an energy efficient fashion. People now communicate not onlyby talking through cell phones, but also through texting and sending pictures. Technologydevelops through engineers solving problems. As the United States evolved from an industrialized to a knowledge-based economy, the Page 15.545.2development of new technologies has become vital to its economic welfare. Accordingly ourgovernment is concerned not only with the
design thinking, and others. The goal of this work is to identify opportunities to supportundergraduate learning of early-phase design KSA through requirements development. In thisfirst Section, a short overview of requirements development in engineering design is provided. InSection 2, the role and importance of requirements are discussed by considering howrequirements are classified, created, and used throughout design. This includes a discussion ofthe influence of social dynamics on the design process and a brief overview of literature on theimpact of requirements development. Section 3 gives insights into how requirements are taughtin undergraduate engineering classes, and Section 4 provides a summary and overview of futurework.As stated
most STEM ethics initiatives) but also as an endeavor toengender more systematic, institutional-level transformations in the ethical climate in whichindividual scientists and engineers work. Moreover, the cultivation of an ethicalresearch/workplace culture is considered imperative for fostering sustainable ethicaltransformation at both the individual and organizational levels within the campus community.Based on our initial search, while there have been seven institutional transformation projectsfunded through NSF's CCE STEM or ER2 program, there has been a scarcity of research thatsystematically compares these funded projects and seeks to derive broader theoretical insightsregarding the institutional transformation approach to STEM ethics
-based pedagogies and teachingstrategies are shared among educators.Introduction:There has been a rapid increase in the sharing of information with the advancement of onlinetechnologies globally, which has led to various virtual communities of practice for differenttypes of professions. In the education and teaching community, these virtual communities havebeen utilized among individuals to improve interprofessional education and interinstitutionalcollaboration, and most communities that have been developed in the past have been traditionallyfor those in medical education [1 - 3]. By definition, virtual communities of practice are groupsof people who enrich their expertise through interactions with similar people in their field [4 - 6].In
. Prentice-Hall.12) Camburn, M. B. A., Dunlap, B. U., Viswanathan, V. K., Linsey, J. S., & Jensen, D. D. (2013). Connecting Design Problem Characteristics to Prototyping Choices to Form a Prototyping Strategy. age, 23, 1.13) Scott, J. B. (2008). The practice of usability: Teaching user engagement through service-learning. Technical Communication Quarterly, 17(4), 381-412.14) Mohedas, I., Daly, S.R., Sienko, K.H., “Student use of design ethnography techniques during front-end phases of design,” 121st ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Indianapolis, June 15-18, 2014. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (AC2014-10357). Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Education.15) Houde, S., & Hill
of 2020. In the book, the NAE states that“Engineering practices must incorporate attention to sustainable technology, andengineers need to be educated to consider issues of sustainability in all aspects of designand manufacturing.”1 Former Vice President Al Gore published an intensely compellingvideo titled “Inconvenient Truth” that tells the tale of global warming and the importanceof our renewed focus and commitment to the needs of the environment.2Industrial Engineers (IEs) are traditionally involved with improved productivity andquality control initiatives. According to the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), the IEprofessionals have the responsibility to “Make the world a better place through betterdesigned products.”3 In order to
involving students in curriculum development and teaching through Peer Designed Instruction.Prof. Debbie Chachra, Olin College of Engineering Debbie Chachra is a Professor of Engineering at Olin College of Engineering. Her education-related research interests include self-efficacy, design, intrinsic motivation, and gender. She speaks and consults on curricular design, student-centered learning, and gender and STEM.Dr. Kate Roach, UCLMrs. Emanuela Tilley, University College LondonDr. Kyle G. Gipson, James Madison University Dr. Kyle Gipson is an Associate Professor at James Madison University (United States) in the Department of Engineering (Madison Engineering) and the Director of the Madison Engineering Leadership Program
. A few have even implementedan interdisciplinary approach, by including several students from different majors on thedesign team. Of course, all of these enhancements are to better simulate the “real world”and thus, better prepare the students for the expectations of industry.After years of working through all the barriers, the Department of EngineeringTechnology at the University of Dayton currently requires a senior design experience thatencompasses all the mentioned enhancements. Teams of electronic, mechanical,manufacturing and industrial engineering technology students work with a company on areal project. The teams are given full responsibility from project definition and conceptgeneration to the fabrication and testing of a device
critical success factors’, The TQM Journal, Vol. 22 No. 2, pp. 188-208.5. Cole, R. C. (1941). Vocational guidance for boys: a program for schools and social agencies. New York, London: Harper & Brothers.6. dos Santos Matai, P. H. L., & Matai, S. (2009). Cooperative Education: Andragogy. Retrieved from International Social Science Council,ISSC, 1, rue Miollis, Paris Cedex 15, 75732, France website: http://www.iiis.org/CDs2009/CD2009SCI/ag2009/PapersPdf/A064IQ.pdf7. Dukovska-Popovska, I., Hove-Madsen, V., & Nielsen, K. B. (2008). Teaching lean thinking through game: Some challenges. 36th European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) on Quality Assessment, Employability & Innovation.8. Eckes, G. (2001) The Six
; IAP = Independent Activities Period, which is a one-month January semester at MITGoing beyond the limits of MIT: engineering leadership programs were comparatively unusualin 2008, but we identified MIT’s GEL program, together with engineering leadership programsat Penn State, Northeastern, Tufts, UCSD, the University of Toronto, and a number of otheruniversities, and assembled an organization called COMPLETE [Community of Practice forLeadership Education for Twenty-first Century Engineers] to compare and develop “bestpractices.” It is worth noting that COMPLETE played a significant role in the development ofthe ASEE LEAD division, and COMPLETE members held most of the early leadership positionsin LEAD. An important part of this effort was
, S. K., & Cross, B., & Morgan, S. M., & Welker, A. L. (2012, June), Survey of Civil Engineering Assessment Changes in Response to Revised ABET CE Program Criteria Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. https://peer.asee.org/21974[5] Dutson, A.J. robert h. Todd, spencer p. Magleby, carl d. Sorensen (1997). "A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Courses." Journal of Engineering Education, 1997. 86(1): p. 17-28.[6] Labossière, P. and Roy, N. (2015). “Original Concept for a Civil Engineering Capstone Project,” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 141(1), 05014001.[7] Todd, R. H., Magleby
perform key tasks, including defining problemstatements, identifying engineering and customer requirements, mastering presentationtechniques, forming successful teams, understanding project management, establishingmilestones, and learning about product qualification techniques.However, managing the capstone experience presents significant challenges, especially insmaller programs where a single faculty member may oversee multiple student teams. Facultymust balance guiding students through complex technological terminologies, assisting with ideadevelopment, identifying customers, designing effective customer survey questions, andformulating detailed marketing and engineering requirements. These responsibilities are oftentime-intensive, and the
computerengineering students in their third or fourth year of studies, and it covers layered networkarchitectures with an emphasis on the TCP/IP protocol suite. Since it is an upper-year course, allthe students who have taken it in the past two years have experienced at least one full year of in-person studies. Through a combination of quantitative survey data and written responses fromstudents, the main contribution of this work is to expand upon the findings of the community byanalyzing the costs and benefits students experienced for both online and (post-ERL) in-personlearning, the latter of which has been impossible to study until recently. We explore students’perspectives on both labs and lectures in detail, and provide insights into their attitudes
, evaluate sources, and provide a justification for theirwork. These processes are required because ill-structured problems are typically noted as having thefollowing characteristics: possess multiple solutions, do not present all problem elements, and requirelearners to make judgements about the problem by expressing personal opinions or beliefs about theproblem interpretation [3]. Through the experience of solving ill-structured problems students have theopportunity to develop skills and strategies that can be transferred to larger design experiences. Onechallenge with incorporating ill-structure problems in engineering education is providing students withthe support they need to develop the skills and strategies to solve these problems, which can
campusstudents. The remote candidates must, however, attend three weeklong residencies on campus tograduate.This paper will detail the types of activities that can promote the development of an engagingdistance learning community through an analysis of the four cohorts enrolled to date. Surveysdistributed to a representative sample of distance students will be used to examine theexperiences that were most effective in fostering connections with faculty, staff, and otherstudents. Focal areas for assessment will include: community membership, key activities forrelationship building, sources of program support, and communication channels.IntroductionDistance learning provides a powerful mechanism by which nontraditional students can pursuetheir academic
perceptions and usage of generative AI in second- year chemical engineering design exercisesIntroductionGenerative AI (Gen. AI) systems have recently become widely and easily accessible followingthe launch of systems such as ChatGPT in late 2022. One topic of interest is how students areusing these tools and the educational impacts of their use [1]. Researchers have sought tounderstand student use and perception of Gen. AI through a variety of means including surveysand case studies [2], [3], [4], [5]. Weber et al. surveyed 760 respondents at an R1 universityincluding students and faculty on their perception of Large Language Models (LLMs) [2].Students believed that LLMs would significantly impact their ability to quickly
to address the research questions through the current knowledge base. The reviewcentered on peer-reviewed journal articles from the last ten years (2012-2022) on the topic ofone-on-one or small-group faculty mentoring of undergraduate students.Faculty participants in mentorship programs typically consist of professors, research assistants,and other instructors in the university setting. The faculty are paired, either formally orinformally, with a student mentee or mentees who will be under their guidance for an amount oftime. A 2016 study conducted in Turkey found that mentoring may last beyond an assignedduration, with some relationships lasting for decades (Anafarta & Apaydin, p. 27). Mentors canbe generally described as falling under
project.Prior to Fall 2005, each semester had been structured around a single, semester-long designproject. During the Fall of 2005, two major changes were implemented in SophomoreEngineering Clinic I: A sequence of two projects was used: a four-week project intended to teach parametric design, followed by a more open-ended 10-week project. This allowed students to complete and write a final report on an engineering design project, receive feedback, and apply lessons learned through this process to the main design project. The Converging-Diverging Model for design1 was presented. Students were required in their reports to document evidence of both convergent and divergent activities, and show how final
literature suggests that FG students are not givenaccess to important social and institutional capital specific to engineering programs that allowthem to navigate their learning and working environments similarly to their non-FG peers. WhileMoll et al. [6] stress the importance that different funds of knowledge should be seen as assets,their different funds of knowledge are seen through a deficit lens rather than assets. Additionally,most FG students might not have obtained the institutional and social capital needed inengineering that could help them better process their emotional experience [7]. Non-first-generation students (non-FG) have a larger pool and/or community who are closer to the field ofengineering which might also include how one
enrolled in Machine Design, arequired major course that teaches fundamental design and analysis of mechanical components.PBL was an integral part of the course, with the final project comprising 40% of the students’ finalgrade. The project for the first cohort involved the design and fabrication of drill-powered vehicles.The project for the second cohort integrated a service-learning element, through which studentsdesigned adapted tricycles for children in the community with physical disabilities. The courseinstructor was the same for both cohorts.Table 1 shows the general demographic characteristics of the two cohorts; there were nostatistically significant differences between the cohorts in terms of demographic characteristics
again as different majors to form multidisciplinaryteams and work on industry-sponsored projects; the Global Multidisciplinary Design Project(GMDP) extends the boundaries of capstone design projects to involve internationalcollaborations; liberal arts courses broaden students’ horizon beyond engineering fields and helpstudents to think about engineering problems from different perspectives. The JI offers minors innon-engineering fields including entrepreneurship, data science, and computer science, toprovide concentrated studies in the non-engineering fields. Through the engineering curricula,our goal is to train effective engineers with interdisciplinary experience, technical knowledge,innovative minds, a deep understanding of professional
organizational change resulting in improved student data systems, relevant academic policies, outcomes based curricula, effective programmatic assessment and evaluation strategies, and national and state accreditation. Additionally, Dr. Krueger has owned three companies and currently guides other professionals pursuing entrepreneurship endeavors in both the private and public sectors via her current endeavor Pathways to Performance, Inc. Dr. Krueger’s research interests include educational and organizational assessment and evaluation, teaching and learning engineering within P/K-16 and its application to the college curricula and academic performance standards as a means for
Endeavour Program as well as its partner programs on campus. Ongoing research bythe authors seeks to determine if this financial assistance combined with the program activities andsupport can significantly reduce the negative impact of risk-factors for low-income students inSTEM.The Endeavour S-STEM ProgramThe UH Endeavour Program is a two-year STEM engagement program funded through an NSF S-STEM grant (NSF No. 1742579). Managed through the Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering, the program financially supports cohorts of 20 STEM students. Low-income studentswho demonstrate high academic potential in high school and on standardized tests are recruitedbefore their freshman year and selected based on need, previous academic achievement
Three Freshman Team Design Projects Teodora Rutar, Greg Mason Mechanical Engineering Department, Seattle UniversityAbstractThis paper contains a detailed description of three design team-projects developed for a freshmancourse in mechanical engineering. All projects include the research, design, prototyping, testing,and analysis phases of the design process, and can be completed within half of a two quarter-credit course. They are detailed and in-depth, spanning beyond the typical “hobby-shop”freshman projects.The three team-projects are the design and testing of a wind turbine, a door handle, and aflywheel. The description of each includes the list of project
Institute of Medicine National Research Council. Retrieved from https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10295204.[14] C. Romero and S. Ventura, “Educational data mining: a review of the state of the art,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C (applications and reviews), vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 601–618, 2010.[15] M. Bienkowski, M. Feng, and B. Means, “Enhancing teaching and learning through educational data mining and learning analytics: An issue brief.” Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education, 2012.[16] R. S. Baker, K. Yacef, et al., “The state of educational data mining in 2009: A review and future visions,” Journal of educational data mining, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 3–17, 2009.[17] Zwick, R. (2017
board member of the American Society of Engineering Education’s Precollege Engineering Education Division; as an advisor for Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab Satellite Network; as a committee member on the National Academy of Engineering project, Educator Capacity Building in PreK-12 Engineering Education; and advises the NSF funded INCLUDES project, STEM PUSH Network at the University of Pittsburgh.Dr. Malinda S Zarske, University of Colorado Boulder Malinda Zarske is the Associate Director with the Engineering Plus program at the University of Col- orado Boulder and Chair of ASEE’s Commission on P12 Engineering Education. She teaches undergrad- uate product design and core courses through Engineering Plus as
Informal Learning Experiences – informalscience.org.” Accessed: Dec. 05, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://informalscience.org/engaging-women-stem-through-informal-learning-experiences/[13] R. Kijima, M. Yang-Yoshihara, and M. S. Maekawa, “Using design thinking to cultivate the next generation of female STEAM thinkers,” International Journal of STEM Education, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 14, Mar. 2021, doi: 10.1186/s40594-021-00271-6.[14] J. de Melo Bezerra et al., “Fostering STEM Education Considering Female Participation Gap,” International Association for the Development of the Information Society, Oct. 2018. Accessed: Dec. 05, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED600804[15] A.-K. Winkens, C
ofEducation. This grant was focused in bringing the flipped classroom pedagogy to seven gatewaySTEM courses over three years, through a collaborative partnership across the three campuses.Recent research on flipped learning has suggested that its active use in STEM courses facilitatesstudent engagement and promotes student success (Hake, 1998; Deslauriers, Schelew, &Wieman, 2011). To this end, our approach was to implement this model into high-failuregateway courses across the campuses to evaluate the impact on student learning andachievement. In addition to using this active pedagogy, we also included a multi-disciplinary,cross-campus faculty learning community (FLC) that serves as an active learning model for ourfaculty as well as provides
; Practice I(ENGR 110), includes introduction and practice in skills fundamental to the engineeringprofession. The second course, Engineering Methods, Tools, & Practice II (ENGR 111), involvesinterdisciplinary student teams expanding on and applying these skills by means of a hands-onCornerstone project. ENGR 111 takes place in a 15,000 square foot makerspace and featurespedagogy in numerous institutionally-identified fundamental engineering skills.Each of these aforementioned skills are practiced in ENGR 111 through both discrete instructionas well as integration with a culminating Cornerstone project. For instance, early in the semester,students are exposed to the basics pertaining to 3D printing technology – in addition to training inhow to
areimpacted by having engaged with the intervention in their classroom and continued testing of theintervention and academic outcomes at a Hispanic Serving Institution.AcknowledgementsThis work was supported through funding by the National Science Foundation IUSE Grant No.2111114/2111513. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed inthis material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.References[1] K. R. Binning et al., “Changing social contexts to foster equity in college science courses: An ecological-belonging intervention,” Psychol Sci, vol. 31, no. 9, pp. 1059– 1070, Sep. 2020, doi: 10.1177/0956797620929984.[2] L. DeAngelo et al., “Course