design of several pedestrian bridges and ASCE Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge teams. Dr. McDonald is an alumnus of the 2011 ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Work- shop at the United States Military Academy and seeks to integrate active learning methods, hatchets, and chainsaws into his lectures whenever he can.Dr. Greg Nordstrom, Lipscomb University Dr. Nordstrom holds a BSEE from Arizona State University, a Master of Science in ECE from the Uni- versity of Tennessee, and a Ph.D. in ECE from Vanderbilt University. He joined the Lipscomb faculty in 2006, doing robotics research and teaching classes across the ECE curriculum. Previously he has held faculty positions at Vanderbilt University and the United States Air Force
thinking outside of the box and being like maybe well what if like even like having those crazy ideas, even if they don’t work out. But just having them, I think was, is a great learning experience right now and I have more to learn. So that’s how I thought of [the design class] [Student Interview, SP1]Research suggests that seeing oneself and being seen as a member of a group (in this case, Page 26.1425.8engineers) is influenced by the degree to which one perceives congruence between their ownvalues, goals, and attitudes and those of the group. 24 Thus by engaging in the cognitiveprocesses that engineers enact during design and
AC 2012-3761: CAPSTONE DESIGN FACULTY MOTIVATION: MOTIVA-TIONAL FACTORS FOR TEACHING THE CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSEAND MOTIVATIONAL INFLUENCES ON TEACHING APPROACHESCory A. Hixson, Virginia Tech Cory A. Hixson is a graduate student in engineering education at Virginia Tech. Previous experience is in audio/visual engineering and K-12 math/science education. His research interests are in faculty motiva- tion, entrepreneurship, design education, K-12 engineering/STEM education, and research to practice in engineering educationDr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of engineering education at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center
AC 2011-2315: TRANSFER FROM CAPSTONE DESIGN: A MODEL TOFACILITATE STUDENT REFLECTIONSusannah Howe, Smith College Susannah Howe is the Design Clinic Director in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College, where she coordinates and teaches the capstone engineering design course. Her current research focuses on innovations in engineering design education, particularly at the capstone level. She is also involved with efforts to foster design learning in middle school students and to support entrepreneurship at primarily undergraduate institutions. Her background is in civil engineering with a focus on structural materials; she holds a B.S.E. degree from Princeton, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell.Mary A
directs the STRIDE Lab (SysTems Research on Intelligent De- sign and Engineering). His engineering design research focuses on developing computational represen- tation and reasoning support for managing complex system design. The goal of Dr. Morkos’ research is to fundamentally reframe our understanding and utilization of system representations and computational reasoning capabilities to support the development of system models which help engineers and project planners intelligently make informed decisions at earlier stages of engineering design. On the engineer- ing education front, Dr. Morkos’ research explores means to integrate innovation and entrepreneurship in engineering education through entrepreneurially
Paper ID #16011The Prototype for X (PFX) Framework: Assessing Its Impact on Students’Prototyping AwarenessMs. Jessica Menold, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Jessica Menold is a third-year graduate student interested in entrepreneurship and the design process. She is currently conducting her graduate research with Dr. Kathryn Jablokow and Dr. Timothy Simpson on a project devoted to understanding how prototyping processes affect product design. Jessica is interested in exploring how a structured prototyping methodology, Prototype for X, could increase the end design’s desirability, feasibility, and
STEM courses involves creating environments in which students can interact with one another, engage in collaborative problem solving, and articulate and defend their ideas. To accomplish this, undergraduate peer educators or Learning Assistants (LAs) are hired to facilitate small-group interactions in these LA-supported courses. As such, LAs are critical to beginning and sustaining course transformation efforts.16,20 As part of the LA experience, LAs participate in three coordinated activities: (1) Practice - LAs facilitate in-class discussion amongst students while students work through group-worthy activities, (2) Content - LAs have regular instructional team meetings with the STEM faculty teaching LA-supported
AC 2012-3885: STUDENT LEARNING IN MULTIPLE PROTOTYPE CY-CLESDr. Steven C. Zemke, Gonzaga University Steven Zemke is the Director of the Center for Engineering Design and Entrepreneurship at Gonzaga University. This center is chartered to enhance the design courses throughout the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Zemke teaches the mechanical design courses at Gonzaga. His area of research is the pedagogy of design with an emphasis on practically improving student learning. Page 25.1185.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Student Learning in
Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on engineering education and work-practices, and applied finite element analysis. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading the Foundation’s engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field). In addition, in 2011 Dr. Sheppard was named as co-PI of a national NSF innovation center (Epicenter), and leads an NSF program at Stanford on summer research experiences for high school
. His interests include technology transfer, product development, design education, DFx, and entrepreneurship. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Florida and is a member of the American Soci- ety of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Engineering Education, the Institute for Industrial Engineers, the UF Faculty Senate, the UF Sustainability Committee, and the UF College of Engineering Faculty Council. He is the faculty advisor for the UF Men’s Soccer Club and for the Engineering Lead- ership Circle. He has served on the organizing committee for the 2007, 2010, 2012 and 2014 Capstone Design Conference. He volunteers his time as a judge in the Alachua Region Science and
hypotheses rather than conclusions. First, PIsexpect undergraduate lab workers to express “interest” and “excitement” about research. Weworry that assessing students according to how a professor perceives their “enthusiasm” canunintentionally exclude students who differ from the professor, such as by gender, race, class, orculture. Second, members of the two labs tell stories about failure to undergraduates in differentways, which serve as powerful modes of socialization. Discourse styles as reflected incommunities’ storytelling may influence undergraduates’ sense of belonging. Third, we tried anew methodology of inviting students to discuss their different kinds and levels of expertise withregards to the concept of T-shaped expertise, i.e., having
which can be reframed as interest [12]. Along with the work directlylinking sense of belonging to persistence in engineering [7], [10], this suggests that sense ofbelonging will impact intent to remain in the field of engineering and long-term retention.Sense of belonging will be measured using an adapted version of the Four Measures ofBelonging in Higher Education [55]. The two measures of “belonging to class” and “belongingto major” will be used; they will be reframed as “belonging to team” and “belonging toengineering.” We anticipate that sense of belonging will be highest for teams in the improvtraining condition, and that sense of belonging will be similar in the education and controlconditions.3.3.3 Expectations of successWe anticipate
participated in hands-on workshops, class workand independent projects since its inception.In conjunction with establishing the PIDS, the required first-year drawing course was modified toinclude design projects scoped at a district hospital. The projects selected were a traction systemfor femoral fractures and a manual cast-cutting device. With the curricular modifications, allfirst-year students completed several steps in the engineering design process and createddimensioned drawings as well as low-fidelity prototypes of their design solutions in the PIDS.The final-year capstone design courses in mechanical and electrical engineering have also beentransformed to emphasize prototyping. Final-year students with access to the PIDS completedmore steps
thepractical engineering design process even as they are immersed in fundamental math and sciencecourses, (b) encourage students to experience how knowledge from these fundamental coursescould be put to practical use, and (c) encourage retention in engineering.In ENGI 120, students learn the engineering design process and use it to solve meaningfulproblems drawn from local hospitals, local community partners, international communities, andaround the Rice University campus. Each freshman design team is coached by an “ApprenticeLeader,” an upper-class student who is taking a course in engineering leadership sponsored byRCEL. Freshman design teams directly interview clients, complete a design context review,develop design criteria, and brainstorm and
, Northwestern University Trevor is an undergraduate psychology major with a minor in business institutions and a certificate in marketing. Over the course of his Northwestern career he has conducted research for and served as a coauthor on numerous psychology and other social science studies.Dr. Penny L. Hirsch, Northwestern University Penny L. Hirsch, Professor of Instruction and Associate Director of the Cook Family Writing Program at Northwestern University, teaches classes in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the Mc- Cormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. She was Northwestern’s first Charles Deering McCormick University Distinguished Lecturer and played a key role in developing Design Thinking and
2006-1781: 2005 NATIONAL SURVEY OF ENGINEERING CAPSTONE DESIGNCOURSESSusannah Howe, Smith College Susannah Howe is the Design Clinic Director in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. She coordinates and teaches the capstone engineering design course and serves as co-faculty advisor for entrepreneurial activity at Smith. Her interests include innovations in engineering design education, entrepreneurship education across disciplines at the undergraduate level, and durability and structural performance of cementitious and natural building materials.Jessica Wilbarger, Smith College Jessica Wilbarger is an engineering student at Smith College. Her research experiences include
underdevelopedcommunity outside the U.S.Although PBSL opportunities are expanding at educational institutions nationwide, much of thefindings on their impacts are anecdotal.10-11 Some faculty have begun to assess PBSL programsand have found that PBSL does, in fact, cultivate stronger learning outcomes, entrepreneurship,cultural awareness, and community-mindedness. However, comprehensive and rigorousassessment methods have not yet been implemented.10 Also, given that the number of studentsparticipating in PBSL activities may be small or unrepresentative of the undergraduateengineering student population at large, it is difficult to draw conclusions that can be generalizedabout this promising instructional strategy.One of the main differences between PBSL and
that each group is not comprised of students with the same emphasis or class level. This isunique to IRE and allows each project to be worked on from many different perspectives. In eachof the projects there are up to eighteen design components to be completed. At the end of astudent’s IRE experience, the student must have completed all eighteen design components.After completing the IRE curriculum of 60 credits, a student will graduate with a Bachelor ofScience degree in general engineering and possibly an emphasis in their area of study fromMinnesota State University, Mankato. The emphasis for each student is different depending onthe type of technical competencies complete. A student must complete 12 credits of their elective
College in Dublin, Ireland, in 2003 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006 and 2010. He has been the recipient of over a dozen invention, entrepreneurship, and student mentoring awards including the MIT $100K business plan competition, Whitaker Health Sciences Fund Fellowship, and the MIT Graduate Student Mentor of the Year.Prof. Gareth J. Bennett, Trinity College Dublin Dr. Gareth J. Bennett, B.A., B.A.I., M.Sc., Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechan- ical and Manufacturing Engineering in Trinity College Dublin and has recently returned from Stanford University where he was a Visiting Scholar in the School of Engineering and the
, and avariety of personalities. Nonetheless, multidisciplinary work is greatly needed in the increasinglyglobal society. Therefore, learning how to collaborate across disciplines should be taught ineducational institutions.Student and Faculty NeedsFaculty and students have a need to innovate and design using contemporary ideas andtechnology. Many faculty members teach a variety of different classes and need some commonteaching tools that will enable them to inspire innovation in many different classes. Studentsneed to see how classroom topics can be applied and create value through the design of aninnovative product or service. Both faculty and students need topics in the classroom that arerelevant and applicable in the modern world. Students
AC 2008-691: SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES: THE SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERINGDESIGN CURRICULUM AT JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITYEric Pappas, Dr. Eric Pappas is Associate Professor of Integrated Science and Technology at James Madison University. He developed, and was director of, the Advanced Engineering Writing and Communications Program in the College of Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) from 1993-2003. Dr. Pappas was on the faculty of Virginia Tech from 1987-2003 and taught classes in technical writing, creative writing, American literature, interpersonal communications and public speaking, creative thinking, leadership, engineering design
concepts.In this paper, we report the outcomes of a Design Heuristic implementation study in anintroductory engineering course. In one section, students were instructed on the use of DesignHeuristics as a means of generating new ideas for an unfamiliar design task. In a different secondsection, students were asked to use Design Heuristics as concept modifiers with their existingideas for a class project. Our goal was to observe the ways students used Design Heuristics inthese two different scenarios. In this paper, we present five case studies from each scenario,showing ideation outcomes as a result of working with the heuristics, and discuss successes andobstacles involved in the implementation of Design Heuristics in the engineering classroom. The
design courses.These new courses were topic-focused (such as medical device design, musical instrumentdesign, sustainable design, and entrepreneurship). As electives, the courses were open to as manystudents as possible with a diversity of academic ages and disciplines (provided that individualstudents had skills/abilities that contributed to the design explorations). The addition of thesemid-level design courses created a design continuum for students, thereby enabling a largernumber of students to gain further design skills and experience.Teaching Design Courses in a Higher Education Makerspace: ExamplesExamples of three design courses taught in the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation andDesign are presented in this section. The courses
inanalytical and problem-solving skills, but those positive findings do not offset the missedopportunities for broad student growth and higher levels of overall satisfaction that lead to agrowing number of citizen engineers prepared for our newly global, age of information.Terenzini and Reason built upon the observations of Astin and found that the peer environmentplays a deeply influential role in the learning and development of college students. 7Furthermore, out-of-class experiences can have substantial impacts on student outcomes. Straussand Terenzini were able to show that graduating engineering students made gains in analyticalskills and groups skills through out-of-class experiences. 8 Yu and Simmons review of therelevant literature found that
clinical outcomes driven research.Dr. Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Amit Jariwala is the Director of Design & Innovation for the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in Production Engineering from the Univer- sity of Mumbai, India, with honors in 2005. He received a Master of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2007 from IIT Bombay, India. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2013, with minors in Entrepreneurship. At Georgia Tech, he is responsible for enhancing corporate support for design courses, managing design and fabrication/prototyping facilities, coordinating the design
environment encouragesdeeper thinking and creativity by providing an open, thought provoking space with rightequipment for innovation (Kurti et al., 2014). Such equipment promotes individualized problemsolving rather than the didactic method that many schools implement today, and this helps tofoster a engaged approach to problem solving within students that also allows them to utilizewhat they learn in class in a practical setting (Burke, 2015; Loertscher, 2012). Makerspaces canteach students an open-ended, more innovative way of thinking making them more capable ofproducing creative solutions (Bowler, 2014).2.3 Experiential Learning, Situated Learning, and Communities of PracticeHaving the potential to support creativity, independence, and autonomy
is present. In addition tothe infrastructure, the CEID hosts design-centered classes, offers workshops, supports studentorganizations, and provides consulting assistance to its members. CEID members are allowed touse the facility for course, club, research, and personal projects, with an expectation that theyshare their work with others.21,22 Figure 9. Yale University: Center for Engineering Innovation and DesignThe university-wide access structure is a unique attribute of this facility. Undergraduate studentsfrom all disciplines and graduate students from the majority of Yale’s professional schools aremembers of the CEID. The design courses taught in the CEID encourage university-wideparticipation and include classes on social
, design strategies, design ethnography, creativity instruction, and engineering practitioners who return to graduate school. She teaches design and entrepreneurship courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her work is often cross-disciplinary, collaborating with colleagues from engineering, education, psychology, and industrial design.Dr. Seda Yilmaz, Iowa State University Dr. Yilmaz is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Design who teaches design studios and lecture courses on developing creativity and research skills. For her research, she investigates design approaches and ideation, ethnography in design, foundations of innovation, creative processes, and cross-disciplinary design team dynamics. She is the
learning in middle and high school students and to support entrepreneurship at primarily undergraduate institutions. Her background is in civil engineering with a focus on structural materials. She holds a B.S.E. degree from Princeton, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell.Ms. Laura Mae Rosenbauer, Smith College Laura Rosenbauer is an engineering major and landscape studies minor at Smith College. She is a research assistant on the national and international capstone survey efforts and the development of CDHub 2.0. She is also assisting with a new research collaboration to study the transition from capstone design to work. She was a summer intern at the Urban Water Innovation Network, where she studied the
Dr. Morkos’ research is to fundamentally reframe our understanding and utilization of system representations and computational reasoning capabilities to support the development of system models which help engineers and project planners intelligently make informed decisions at earlier stages of engineering design. On the engineer- ing education front, Dr. Morkos’ research explores means to integrate innovation and entrepreneurship in engineering education through entrepreneurially-minded learning, improve persistence in engineering, address challenges in senior design education, and promote engineering education in international teams and settings. Dr. Morkos’ research is currently supported by the National Science