University (WSU) faculty for 36 years and for the past 27 years has focused on innovative pedagogy research and technical research in biotechnology. His 2007-2008 Fulbright exchange to Nigeria set the stage for him to receive the Marian Smith Award given annually to the most innovative teacher at WSU. He was also the recent recipient of the inaugural 2016 Innovation in Teaching Award given to one WSU faculty member per year.Dr. Olusola Olalekan Adesope, Washington State University Dr. Olusola O. Adesope is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and a Boeing Distinguished Professor of STEM Education at Washington State University, Pullman. His research is at the intersection of educational psychology
for the students to develop with.Within each team, tasks were divided among those on the team. This approach of allowingstudents to specialize and own different parts of the projects was also fairly new to the students.During the first demonstration milestone it was clear that they did not quite grasp how individualtheir work needed to be and how to clearly denote task boundaries. Their approach resulted inlots of duplicated effort. During the demonstrations, students realized the inefficiencies of theirapproach. The faculty and L&IT staff also pointed out how this could be improved and thestudents were sent back to adjust and demonstrate again later; essentially, all of the studentsfailed that particular milestone. They did learn from
teaching and research interests in earthquake engineering and timber buildings. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Development and Implementation of a Final Year Civil Engineering Capstone Project – Successes, Lessons Learned, and Path Forward1 Introduction and Overview of the Capstone ProjectThis paper covers the development and implementation of a final year Civil Engineering CapstoneProject at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The Capstone project is based on a CivilEngineering design office experience, and allows students to experience authentic involvementwith a real-world, open-ended project. Students integrate their technical knowledge by workingin teams to deliver an
B.S. (1978) in Mechanical En- gineering from the University of Illinois and an M.S. (1984) and Ph.D. (1986) in Food and Biochemical Engineering/Agricultural Engineering from Purdue University. He worked as a project and process engi- neer with General Foods in California, Delaware, and Indiana from 1978-82. He has been a member of the faculty at Illinois since 1986.Dr. Judith A Sunderman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Judith Sunderman focuses on program and curriculum development, research, and evaluation in education. Her research focus and area of expertise is the development of sustainable transformative learning environments and curricular change. She has worked with program development in
information such as the courseguidelines and calendar. The site also informs students of many of the resources available tothem including equipment and parts. Most of these static informational pages were adapted fromthe old course Web site3. Currently, project ideas from faculty and TAs are posted onto thediscussion board to help students quickly identify a project that interests them. In the future, thediscussion board will also have project ideas that come directly from companies and havefinancial support.2.1.1 Past projects Thedatabase of pastprojects (Figure2.2) archivesprojects and marksthe award winners(Figure 2.3). Itgives new studentsa library of practicalknowledge that willhelp them to figure Figure 2.3: Award
University) is an instructor in the Technical Commu- nication Program in MSU’s Bagley College of Engineering. She teaches Technical Writing, a junior-level writing course required of all undergraduate engineering students. She focuses on implementing writing- to-learn strategies in engineering courses to keep students engaged and improve critical thinking skills. She has presented on writing-to-learn topics at the ASEE Southeastern Section Conference and led writing workshops for faculty who are interested in adding writing assignments to their courses.Kelly Agee, Mississippi State University Kelly Agee serves as an instructor in the Shackouls Technical Communication Program in the James Worth Bagley College of
problems. In this scenario “weak” teams can lesson theeffectiveness of the integration task. Levi and Clem1 show that effective and successfulteams generally benefit from a number of factors including organization support, goodtechnical and social (including interpersonal and teaming) skills of the group membersand team relations with the organization in which they operate. In the context of a 10week course in mechanical design it is easy to provide the organizational support Page 10.1420.1necessary for team success; however there is often little time for educating team membersin teaming skills, leaving faculty the task of forming student teams
for faculty, instructional, and organizational development, vol. 21, pp. 59-78, 2003.[21] J. Clauss, and K. Geedey, “Knowledge surveys: Students ability to self-assess.” Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 14-24, 2010.[22] B. S. Bloom, M. D. Englehart, E. J. Furst, W. H. Hill and D. R. Krathwohl, “Taxonomy of educational objectives: The classification of educational goals,” Handbook I: Cognitive domain. New York: David McKay Company, 1956.[23] S. Wu, S. Zha, Shenghua, and S. Mattson, “Integrating team-based learning modules to improve civil engineering students’ technical writing skills,” J. Civ. Eng. Educ., vol. 146, no. 3, 2020.[24] C. Troy, B. K. Jesiek, J. Boyd, N. T. Buswell
allengineering majors; chemical, civil, electrical, industrial, and mechanical engineering here atYSU. Courses were given up by all the majors in order to get the required space in thecurriculum. Three courses were developed, one for each quarter, and each course was worth 3quarter hours and included a laboratory component. The courses were designed to incorporatefeatures that would maintain students’ interest in engineering and develop useful skills for laterparts of the engineering curriculum. Faculty resources would need to be about the same asrequired for the courses replaced so that the program could be instituted without requiring theaddition of new faculty.The factors determined as fundamental to a successful freshman engineering program
as new knowledge gained specifically from this project through individual research and working directly with their teammates across disciplines. All of these efforts helped to reinforce this prior and new knowledge. Page 26.110.25ConclusionsThe Perseus II project proved to be a success with respect to the project sponsor, the students,their faculty advisor, and Stevens. The sponsor received valuable information and insights onpossible solutions to the underwater UXO problem. Explosives Ordnance Division experts whoattended the demonstration were interested in several student concepts and were clearly engagedand pleased with the real time
Bioengineering from Clemson University in December 2006. He has worked for over 25 years as a biomechanical research engineer, and has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed conference or journal publications in the areas of biomechanics, biomaterials tribology, engineering education, biomed- ical design and mechanical testing. He directs the Laboratory of Orthopaedic Design and Engineering on the main campus of Clemson University, and in his 7 years since joining the bioengineering faculty, he has graduated 4 PhD students and 15 MS students, and has led or has been a co-PI on numerous multi-disciplinary research teams funded through NASA, DoT, DoD, NIH, NSF, the Gates Foundation, biomedical industry and other regional non-profit
. EML-based project and module designhas achieved many successes in improving critical thinking skills and developing entrepreneurialskills in undergraduate courses [5], [6], [7]. While a net positive response is generated fromstudents, distinguishing outstandingly successful programs from those that provide minor benefitsremains difficult [8]. An additional issue for EML design is preconceived notions ofentrepreneurship leading to defeatist or indifferent mindsets. Representation among entrepreneursis heavily biased toward White or Asian males, indicating a concerning lack of reach. Further,there is a common misconception that entrepreneurship is primarily a function of an individual’spersonality rather than a set of skills and training that
author in multiple ASEE divisions at both national and sectional levels since joining the society. His awards include two Best Session awards at the Confer- ence on Industry Education Collaboration in 2008 and 2013, respectively. In 2009, he served as the Chair of the Southeastern Section annual conference.Dr. Melvin L. Roberts P.E., Camden County College Melvin L. Roberts is a full Professor of Engineering and the Interim Dean of the Division of Business, Computer and Technical Studies at Camden County College (CCC) in Blackwood, New Jersey. He for- merly held the Deans position from 2007 through 2014 after which he returned to the faculty ranks un- til August 2016. He has also held the post of Dean of Occupational
. Ongoingwork will refine the existing activities, as well as test the effectiveness of new activities for Page 11.1390.2thermodynamics courses designed to reduce misconceptions about entropy.IntroductionRecent research emphasizes the critical importance of conceptual learning. Indeed, of three keyfindings in the National Research Council’s study on how people learn [1], the first finding is theneed to draw out and engage student preconceptions and the second finding highlights the needfor students to understand facts and ideas in the context of a conceptual framework. In short,meaningful learning in science and engineering requires that students master
Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. Her educational interests include the incorporation of experiential learning throughout the ChE curriculum and the development of academe-industry-government collaboration. She is the recipient of the National Outstanding Teaching Award (2004) and the Robert G. Quinn Award (2006), and she currently serves on the ASEE Board of Directors as Zone I Chair.Mariano J. Savelski, Rowan UniversityC. Stewart Slater, Rowan University C. Stewart Slater is professor of chemical engineering and founding chair of the Chemical Engineering Department at Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey. His research and teaching background is in separation process
AC 2011-1570: PROJECT-BASED LEARNING AND DESIGN EXPERIENCESIN INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING COURSES ASSESSING AN IN-CREMENTAL INTRODUCTION OF ENGINEERING SKILLSAndrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University Andrew Gerhart, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. He is actively involved in ASEE, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Engineering Society of Detroit. He serves as Faculty Advisor for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Student Chapter at LTU, chair for the LTU Leadership Curriculum Committee, director of the LTU Thermal Science Laboratory, coordinator of the Certificate in Energy & Environmental Man
1990s, therefore much of the increase in the percentage ofwomen was actually due to many thousands of men leaving the field. Secondly, when the data isdisaggregated by discipline, greater disparities are found. For example, Chemical Engineeringincreased their percentage of women graduates from 21.7% in 1986 to 35.4% in 2000; however,Electrical Engineering (the largest discipline) only increased their percentage from 12.4% to13.3% in the same time span (which was not statistically different from no increase at all). My analysis of this graduation data, my experiences as an engineering student andprofessor, and my involvement with the American Society of Engineering Education leads me tobelieve that a new phase of research on equity in
first of a three-year research seminar on “Critical Transitions: Writing and theQuestion of Transfer.” This seminar brought together researchers from numerous institutionsrepresenting several countries and led to a special 2012 issue of Composition Forum on writingtransfer18, the Elon Statement on Writing Transfer19, and 17.Most of the existing writing transfer research has dealt with the transfer from first-yearcomposition to Writing in the Disciplines (WID) or from undergraduate writing to writing in theworkplace.20,21 Much of that research has shown that relatively little transfer takes place in eithercontext22, which is one reason why engineering employers often bemoan the writing ability oftheir new hires. Studies in which engineering
. This was an intentional selectionof the research team as the greater work involves Community Based Participatory Research (Bush, 2019).In efforts to position Black students as the experts of their own experiences and needs, we havethoughtfully framed this work to honor their voices. In these approaches the concerns of a specific groupare addressed as they become co-creators of knowledge with the potential for change resulting fromresearch findings, which fosters cultural sensitivity and responsive research practices. Recruitment Community Members were recruited from an existing research pool via email with a Google formquestionnaire. This research is part of a national study funded by
behavior in a Colpitts oscillator, the faculty note that without software “we havechosen to stay away from circuits that require a degree of mathematical sophistication beyond theundergraduate level” [8].A new class project was introduced in the course to expose students to a variety of analysisplatforms and to determine if a more familiar platform would yield similar or better results.Students were given the option to choose from a variety of software platforms including Excel,LabView, MatLab, SciLab, Javascript Web Pages, and C++. Students formed small groups of nomore than four to five students per group and selected a platform to use for the project. Thirteenprojects were developed by the 66 students in the course that represented all the
Paper ID #12185Comparing Engineering and Non-Engineering International Programs to De-termine Value and Future DirectionsDr. Holt Zaugg, Brigham Young University Holt Zaugg is the Assessment Librarian at the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. His research interests focus on assessments and evaluations that improve student learning and integrate library services with other faculty courses.Dr. Spencer P. Magleby, Brigham Young University Dr. Magleby is a professor in Mechanical Engineering and is the associate dean of the College of Engi- neering and Technology at BYU where he oversees international program
universities need to provide their undergraduate students with“a research experience that is genuine and meaningful.” 13 However, the difficulty is to putengineering students, “as much as possible, in the shoes of the engineer,” 14 when the technologyis as new as the need to teach it, and there is a short supply of both engineers and engineeringtools in the new technology. Page 9.119.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringTo address this concern, laboratory space and equipment are available to allow a
Session 3220 Expanding the Undergraduate Laboratory Experience Using Web Technology Sven K. Esche, Dennis J. Hromin Stevens Institute of TechnologyAbstractStevens Institute of Technology is currently implementing a new undergraduate engineeringcurriculum. This curriculum reflects the recent nationwide trend towards enhancement oftraditional lecture-based courses with a design spine and a laboratory experience that propagatesthrough the entire educational program. In the course of the curriculum development, it wasrecognized that the
presented here canbenefit any organization considering the purchase of a new LMS, or other instructionaltechnology. It is because the process the team followed in identifying their needs can serve as astarting point for others in articulating their requirements based on their learners’ needs and thelearning opportunities (e.g., degree programs, non-credit certificates) they aim to offer.It is necessary to understand the domain and level of the program for which this LMS needsanalysis was conducted, as this context drove the direction of the work. As part of a multi-institution, multi-phased initiative with a mandate to deliver effective professional developmentcovering highly specialized STEM topics to adult learners employed primarily in the
- funded STEM education research projects.Dr. Cristina Poleacovschi, Iowa State University of Science and Technology Dr. Poleacovschi is an Assistant Professor at Iowa State University. She researches issues of diversity and focuses on intersectional aspects of microaggressions.Dr. Scott Grant Feinstein Dr. Scott Feinstein is an expert in research design and comparative and identity politics.Dr. Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Dr. Stephanie Luster-Teasley is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Departments of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, and Chemical, Biological, and Bioengineering. Over the last ten years, Dr. Luster-Teasley has
Opportunities for Interdisciplinary TransferRepresenting Science on Stage, a theatre elective for engineers at the University of Torontointroduces students to theatre and performance by analyzing and performing selected playsabout science. The intersection of engineer and performer has long been a part of the courseexperience and of particular interest to the course coordinators, who observe their studentspulling from both these spheres as they develop new and innovative ways to tackle the challengeof theatrical development and performance. To engage this relationship more explicitly, thePerforming Engineer assignment asks students to consider the ways that they are bringingtogether and transferring skills between these two disciplines. Student
, 2019. [3] L. Darling-Hammond, “New standards and old inequalities: School reform and the education of african american students,” in Black Education, Routledge, 2006, pp. 227–254. [4] M. Syed, M. Azmitia, and C. R. Cooper, “Identity and Academic Success among Underrepresented Ethnic Minorities: An Interdisciplinary Review and Integration: Identity and Academic Success,” en, Journal of Social Issues, vol. 67, pp. 442–468, Sep. 2011, ISSN : 00224537. DOI : 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2011.01709.x. [Online]. Available: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540- 4560.2011.01709.x (visited on 02/09/2022). [5] H. Lowe and A. Cook, “Mind the gap: Are students prepared for higher education?” Journal of further and
senior/graduate level course ME363 “Principles and Practices of Computer-Aided Design” atMS&T. Both courses were offered in Mechanical Engineering. The instructors from twouniversities designed three pre-defined topics, including backhoe, tandem bicycle, and foldingbicycle. MS&T and PVAMU students were required to team up as groups and complete aconceptual design of a new product. In addition, the students were requested to address materialselection, manufacturing concern, and cost analysis of the product.There were 22 students enrolled in ME363 at MS&T and 14 students enrolled in MCEG1213 atPVAMU respectively. Each group consisted of four students. Students had six weeks tocomplete the project. Each team was required to submit a
interact in), 2) Social Learning 16–19(i.e., the ability of co-learningsystems to continuously learn about human behavior and their surrounding environment), 3)Sustainability 20,21 (i.e., the ability of co-learning systems to remain relevant to the interests of theirhuman counterparts by either updating their behavior or functionality), 4) Affect and Social SignalAwareness 22–24 (i.e., the ability of co-learning systems to infer meaning from human facial, bodymovement, etc. expressions), 5) Social Norms 25–28 (i.e., the ability of co-learning systems to abideby the constraints of society and minimize deviations from them) and 6) Societal Issues 29–33 (i.e.,the ability of co-learning systems to mitigate the societal concerns such as sensor data
sum of fixedcost, variable cost, and transportation cost (if applicable).We now proceed to present the coordination issue of the global partners as follows.Part II International Consortium PlanCoordinating among partners for higher profits and expanding markets where applicablewere the motivation for the consortium. There were six possible local markets in theconsortium: Scotland, India, USE, USM, USW, and Australia. Since the demand inAustralia was assumed to be small, the consortium decided not to build any plant inAustralia. Therefore, there were only five possible production facility locations: Scotland,India, USE, USM, and USW. And as in Part I, the new supply chain problem was alsosubject to the cultural, regulatory, and dietary