projects, it was found that 75% ofthe students who elected to participate were women, and 50% were members of an ethnicminority underrepresented in engineering. This was a disproportionately large percentage of eachgroup, as the engineering enrollments at the time were only 23% female and 15%underrepresented minorities. Our program ensures our students the opportunity to participate in interdisciplinaryprojects for the benefit of a local community, strengthening their commitment to engineering.This focus on real-world projects helps our graduates meet the industry’s need for more practicalexperience. In addition, the decline in interest in engineering among K-12 students prompted usto ensure that our program includes the development of a
labsequence offers projects of three different scopes to progressively build up the students’ designand implementation skills. Small scope projects can be incorporated into lectures to expose thestudents to basic design and simulation process. The knowledge and skills acquired throughsmall scope projects allow the students to work collaboratively on median scope projects afterclass remotely. The large scope projects require the students to apply what they have learned tosolve some open-ended problems. The developed projects cover all five layers in TCP/IP modelto reinforce the students’ understanding of various protocols. Furthermore, the current effort torevise the computer networking curriculum using collaborative project-based and inquiry
modeling software program, to perform thepreliminary design7. HOMER allowed the students to simulate the system and choose the most cost-effective combination of station batteries, PV panels, converters, and wind turbines. Studentsdesigning a similar system in, for example, the U.S. would likely be able to find reliable solar andwind resource data from a nearby weather station to input into the simulation. Measuredmeteorological data from rural Kenya is scarce. The students performed several sensitivity studies toarrive at a conservative design that should be suitable even with large variations in wind speed andirradiance from the estimated values.The preliminary design suggested approximately 70 12 Ah, 12 VDC PBKs and a continuous 100 W,240 VAC
Paper ID #12932Redesign of a Sustainability Experiential Learning Module for Transferabil-ity and PortabilityClaire Louise Antaya Dancz, Arizona State University Ph.D. Candidate in Sustainable Engineering at Arizona State UniversityKevin J. KetchmanDr. Melissa M. Bilec, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Bilec is an associate professor in the Swanson School of Engineering’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Bilec’s research program focuses on the built environment, life cycle assessment, sustainable healthcare, and energy impacts. She is interested in improving system-level en- vironmental performance of
benefitsafforded an engineering student participating in some out-of-class work experience, be it acooperative education program [5,6], internship [4,7], or advanced undergraduate research inengineering [8,9]. Some utilize the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) Student Outcomes to assess performance of individuals during internships [10,11] whileothers use interviews to gather perceptions of a sample of students’ experience with internships[12]. This paper attempts to identify the keys to a successful externship experience and how tobest match the right student with the right externship. Survey data was gathered from fourdifferent ABET accredited engineering programs (one aerospace, one electrical and twomechanical) from three
enough to handle locally by professionals. This represents a large percentage of ordnance found in small makeshift storage sites in post-conflict nations as well as dropped aircraft bombs. This has been successfully deployed to Vietnam, Cambodia, the Solomon Islands and the Marshall Islands, facilitating the disposal of ordnance that was previously unmanageable. 3) Detection Technologies: GWHF researchers continue to push the boundaries with systems that have increased the efficacy of Battle Area Clearance (BAC) operations, garnering great interest from numerous organizations and governments worldwide and sparking changes in the detection industry. This includes work that lead to a more comprehensive
Paper ID #16437Instilling an Entrepreneurial Mindset through IDEAS Studio CoursesProf. Charles Kim, Bucknell University Charles Kim is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Bucknell University. He received Ph.D. and M.S.E. degrees from the University of Michigan and B.S. from Caltech. Prof. Kim teaches courses in design and innovation and is currently director of the Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship, Applications, and Systems program at Bucknell.Dr. R. Alan Cheville, Bucknell University Alan Cheville studied optoelectronics and ultrafast optics at Rice University, followed by 14 years as a faculty
in their self-assessment of the strategies they use. Smith et al.(2014) argue that these findings should be used to guide professional development teaching programs. Stains and colleagues (2018) expanded on how data emerging from peer-observations with COPUS canenhance faculty’s understanding of the overall instructional techniques they use in their classrooms. Theyobserved over 2000 STEM class sessions covering seven STEM disciplines. These courses were taught by548 faculty members across 24 doctorate-granting universities. On average, each faculty member wasobserved 3.2 times. These researchers recognized that in order to determine what strategies wereimplemented in conjunction with or as a replacement of one another, they could not
intention of engineering learning laboratories is to relate theoryand practice, motivate students, and provide a practical experience in a largely theoreticaleducation [3]. The end-of-course surveys indicate that laboratories in the course under questionfail to provide this connection to the theory covered in lecture and indicate a general lack ofstudent motivation regarding the laboratories, while the calls from industry, the local government,and University of Calgary administration for more industry-relevant experiential learning inundergraduate education indicates that the practical experience provided by the laboratories isinsufficient in meeting students’ educational needs in a professional program. Therefore, a needexists to incorporate
withoutchallenges. The percentage of students participating relative to the total engineering studentbody is typically small and this population is self-selecting for their interested in globalexperiences. Both options can be costly, but EWB programs usually offer shorter timelines.Longer study abroad programs also result in opportunity costs of lost income for students frominternships or coops and extend graduation time.Research on whether these programs actually increase cultural competency are mixed. Patersonet.al, found no significant changes in cultural competency as measured using the InterculturalDevelopment Inventory (IDI) for engineering students who participated in communityengagement programs [9]. These programs varied in length from 2 weeks of
adding IoT security education in our program by: • Inserting IoT security exercises in existing courses and tailor the assignments to the specific scope of those courses • Leverage the existing, campus wide IoT infrastructure, ESDN, that is used for both research and education in a concept we call Campus as a Lab.Assignments were developed for two classes with the specific goals to assess the capabilities ofthe ESDN platform in supporting IOT security education, understand student perception of usingthe platform and learning the best mechanisms for developing IOT related content.3.1. ESDN IoT InfrastructureThe ESDN 5,6 is an infrastructure developed and managed by the Center for IOT Engineering andInnovation (CIEI) 7 within
at a higher education institution, this certainly holds true as teachers interact with students via learning activities such as courses, tutorials, assessment, and other feedback mechanisms. Beyond the teacher/student interaction, students communicate with other students or academic staff on various occasions and in a number of different ways. b) Non-Linear Interaction The interaction of elements of complex systems is generally non-linear. This means that small influences can have large effects in the system and conversely, that large influences can have small effects. In the educational context, this can be verified for example by looking at the process of formal teaching: Generally the same
, Alabama A&M University Prof. Barnes has performed a variety of technical projects including: Providing system specifications, hardware/software compatibility assessments, software design, software development and integration ex- pertise for an assortment of systems; Developing goals and objectives for business process management and technology integration; Ensuring reliable software integration across multiple platforms for various programs; and Architecture development for an assortment of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Application systems. His research interests are in the areas of Mobile Device Development, Software Engineering, Software Project Management, and Information Systems Analysis
for small and large scale changes in its content, the curriculum,and the participation of different faculty and invited scholars from different disciplines and institutions.This particular feature of the program will lead to a change in the university academic culture, i.e., it willencourage the faculty to take calculated risks, be more innovative and to experiment with differentteaching methods, allowing for amplification of knowledge and techniques into other, more traditionalprograms, thereby having a long-term effect on students and society.Related work This proposed program assumes a general understanding of the term innovation, like the definitionby the 3M Company “new ideas plus action or implementation which results in an
-engineers who participated in one iteration (Steps 1through 5) of the design process. Assessments of the participants’ initial knowledge wereperformed and surveys were given both before and after performing the original experiment andthe new outreach experiment. Feedback was also obtained through one-on-one interviewsbetween the two non-engineers and the faculty after the completion of both the originalexperiment and the new outreach experiment. Although statistically significant claims cannot bemade due to the small number of participants, the preliminary results of this small sample grouphave shown several main achievements. In particular, the following features were increased ineach participant: - confidence in electrical engineering and
large focus on workforce development incybersecurity in an effort to educate and train workers and professionals to either skill up fromanother field or begin the path to being a cybersecurity professional.Academia has a significant role to play in educating and training the next and current generationof cybersecurity professionals. There are now numerous cybersecurity academic programofferings ranging from certificates, diplomas, undergraduate majors, undergraduate degrees, andgraduate degrees focusing on cybersecurity [6]. Historically the educational programs focused onthe graduate level for cybersecurity education, but currently, there is a demand by governmentand industry for cybersecurity undergraduate programs. The demand for undergrad
1science and more on the application of such work to a specific domain. “Informatics, in general,studies the intersection of people, information, and technology systems.”[2]These three factors are critical to defining informatics. We start by noting that the emphasis is oninformation, not data. Colloquially, we may think of these as synonyms, but there are importantdifferences. [3] A number on a page is an example of data. It is a symbol that represents aquantity, but a quantity of what? And is it a large quantity or a small quantity? Without context,we cannot answer these questions. Information, on the other hand, is data in context. Thecontext might be the rate of temperature increase in a particular reactor or the number oftouchdown passes
interface. Each course holds weekly synchronous “live” sessions hostedthrough either the eCollege ClassLivePro or independent use of AdobeConnect. Either way, the studentsare expected to congregate and attend the live sessions traditionally held late in the evenings. For theircapstone experience two months are devoted to MUL 420 and students are held to a rigorous program ofweekly portfolio and thesis milestones. The task of aggregating the best of their 3-4 years’ worth ofwork to a web site, assessing which pieces both represent their skills and could look attractive toemployers while simultaneously generating 4,000+ words per week on their thesis is daunting. Outsidefeedback is essential for the optimal production of marketable work and so ensure
the program and what they would change ifthey could “change one thing” about the program. Our research questions were: 1. What aspects of the program climate were salient as attractors and detractors to students with different social identities? 2. How does the role of peer relations manifest in the open-ended responses from students with different social identities?MethodsThis analysis draws from data from an undergraduate climate survey (n=277) implemented at amultidisciplinary engineering department within a large public university on the West Coast.Undergraduate students from the engineering department were invited to participateanonymously in an online survey during spring quarter in 2017 that investigated
, but they are not allowed totouch it within 18 inches of the cup. It is to be built from simple materials that are provided.The teams are only allowed to use materials that are listed on table 1. Figure 1 shows some ofthe materials that students are allowed to select from for making the robot arm. Notice that theyalso have access to a limited number of tools to use in the construction phase. The parts for thewind power project (project 3) are very similar. Materials Maximum allowed Unit cost Binder clips – large 4 $0.35 Binder clips – medium 4 0.11 Binder clips – small
addressthis issue, RAMP-UP offers Family STEM events at both the elementary and middle schoollevel, including STEM activities to do together combined with parent workshops. These are verywell attended, averaging 200+ people per event. By engaging parents at these levels, particularlyat elementary schools where students are learning engineering principles through EiE, oursurveys show we have had the opportunity to positively impact parent attitudes and expectationsabout their children’s potential ability in STEM. A large scale study is needed to ensuredefinitive results in this area, but our initial feedback is promising.ConclusionBy leveraging a relatively small investment through key partnerships and sustained practice, ouruniversity has been able
to teach the course during a semester. Notre Damerequires all engineering intents to take the EG 111/112 course sequence.Although the format was revised for Spring 2004, the format of the course from conceptionthrough Fall 2003 involved large lectures, individual learning sections, and recitations. Lectureswere given in a large lecture hall with 3 lectures given to the group in every two-week period ofthe semester. Individual sections met in the Engineering Learning Center(www.nd.edu/~englearn) each week for a series of individual or small group activities thatenhanced or supplemented the large lectures. Every other week, each section also met in aclassroom setting for a recitation where the students could ask questions, review
become problematic when they are used to promote safety ratings inmarketing, overlooking the actual meaning they convey and overlooking parameters theyrepresent. For example, aside from testing using dummies, women's normal seated position isdifferent from the standard seating position: “Occupants of small stature or large girth sittingclose to the steering wheel are at greater risk of internal injuries particularly during frontalcollisions with airbag deployment” [12, p. 11]. Although testing programs, using simulations anddummies, have advanced our understanding of crash and enhanced the design for safety,uncertainty in statistical analysis, testing protocols and testing parameters should be bothcommunicated to the public and continued to be
Continuous Quality Improvement Coordinator at Pontificia Universidad Catolica ´ de Chile (PUC-Chile) at the Engineering School in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (PUC-Chile). Carolina received an MA in Social Sciences from the Universidad de Chile.Mrs. Ximena Hidalgo Psychologist, faculty development coordinator, Division of Engineering Education. School of engineering ˜ of Pontificia Universidad CatA³lica de Chile.Miss Isabel Hilliger, Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile Isabel Hilliger is Assistant Professor of Practice and Associate Director for Assessment and Evaluation at the Engineering Education Unit in Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile (PUC-Chile). Isabel
student leaders in the School of Engineeringwho help ease the transition of freshmen from high school to college [8]. Overall, the team iscomprised of student Ambassadors and student Peer Advisors. The FELT Ambassadors helpacquaint prospective students with Pitt's Swanson School of Engineering by giving campus toursand by assisting with various recruitment and admissions programs. The FELT Peer Advisorsassist current freshmen with registration, are available for consultation daily, and offer a varietyof ongoing workshops that help students master time management, study skills, and testpreparation strategies. These students also manage the ENGR0081 small seminar sections duringthe fall and assist the freshman students with their first semester
certificate program in Systems Engineering Entrepreneurship. The SystemsEngineering Entrepreneurship course which has received excellent reviews from students, isbeing taught for a second successive semester at Florida Tech. This course is uniquely designedto leverage proven Systems Engineering principles, tools and practices that parallelentrepreneurship concepts and steps for high tech entrepreneurial success such as RequirementsEngineering, Competitive Analysis, Systems Modeling and Simulation, Product DevelopmentProcess Engineering, Project Engineering, Decision and Risk Analysis, Systems Integration,Performance Assessment, System Launch Considerations, System Life-Cycle Costing, QualityEngineering, etc.As part of the course and program
theydo not understand something.If the course content is difficult and presents many situations where students may get lostor not understand, it may be necessary to teach them the steps to take, the questions toask, and the resources to use that can lead to understanding. This situation is common inmath, the sciences, and other numbers-based courses such as economics and statistics.Question #6 - Study Skills: What study skills do my students need to be successful in mycourse? Will they need to organize large amounts of information, summarize information,use rote memory techniques, or prepare for essay exams?Application of the Theory:Assisting students in developing study strategies which fit the type of testing (or otherforms of assessment) used
curriculum and their students. Through useof the “Design Loop,” middle school teachers are taught how to design their own active learningengineering and science activities at a two-week Summer Institute at the University of Arkansas’College of Engineering. This paper details techniques used in year 2 of the Summer Institute andthe program evaluation survey results.At the Summer Institute, teachers were first introduced to the “Design Loop,” and the similaritiesand differences of problem solving in science, engineering and engineering technology. Theywere then given several hands-on open-ended problems to solve in small teams. Early in theworkshop, teachers typically solved the problems using a trial-and-error approach. However, asthe workshop
SME’s Manufacturing Education Plan: Phase I Report. TheDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering offered an ABET accreditedManufacturing Engineering program, but did not grant a degree in Manufacturing Engineering.Direct presentations by national SME officers to the Governor of Utah, near the beginning of thegrant period, increased statewide awareness of the manufacturing program at USU. The 14competency gaps were addressed as part of an extensive curriculum reformation. Six newmanufacturing courses were developed and taught. Manufacturing applications were developedand initiated in several core mechanical engineering courses. A unique and comprehensivecurriculum assessment process was developed and implemented. Industrial and student
design course for written report assessment during Spring 2018-19 AY.In Engineering Technology program, we encourage our teams to participate at national and localcompetitions, they traditionally participate at industry sponsored events, presenting their projects torelevant industry experts. The PBISIS senior design project team participated at Drexel University’s Week ofUndergraduate Excellence and Lebow College of Business's Botstiber Competition. This competition is runby the Close School of Entrepreneurship in coordination with the College of Engineering during Fall quarter.The purpose of the competition is to educate students on certain principles of entrepreneurship as well asprovide student teams with