optimization, discrete-event simulation, and lean manufacturing. Dr. Cintron-Gonzalez has several publications in these fields and is committed to advancing knowledge especially in engineering education and workplace ergonomics. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Implementation of Multidisciplinary Senior Design Projects within Single-discipline Course Section FrameworkAbstractFrancis Marion University, a small primarily undergraduate university, is home to twoengineering programs in industrial and mechanical engineering. For the Spring 2024 semester,the instructors of the two senior design courses solicited, for the first time, multidisciplinarysenior design projects where some
departments at ABET creditedundergraduate universities. The Integrated Teaching and Learning Lab at the College ofEngineering and Applied Science in the University of Colorado at Boulder is probably a pioneerin formally practicing the method and publishing scientific educational reports on the results1-4.Other examples of the established programs over the past two decades are the InformationEngineering Technology (IET) program at the Northern New Mexico College, the University ofTexas at Austin Project Centered Education (PROCEED), and reflection-in-action softwareengineering courses at the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology4. ThePROCEED program of UT Austin for instance was initially started in the department of Proceedings
, and air conditioning (HVAC), parallel with the building design,can address energy efficiency and consequently carbon output. The world is moving away fromfossil fuel as an energy source. Solar energy will be one of the leading renewable options to meetenergy demand based on its abundant availability, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency compared toother renewable energy sources. Universities can be leaders in developing strategies andpreparing the next generation of professionals to think critically and creatively. A healthygraduation rate in the engineering fields promises that communities can lean on professionals toimplement progress.A. Renewable Energy Education in Engineering Schools:Unavailability of qualified professionals in the field
Manufacturing Engineering at University of Southern California. His current professional interests include design thinking, collaborative engineering, technological innovation, and education reform. He has over 330 ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 ChatGPT and Me: Collaborative Creativity in a Group Brainstorming with Generative AIIntroductionThe emergence of generative AI (genAI), exemplified by ChatGPT, offers unprecedentedopportunities to the education system. However, as this technological advancement gainsmomentum, concerns surrounding hallucination [1, 2] and academic integrity [3, 4] have beenraised, casting doubt on its applicability in educational
design sources. However, similarities can be seen between this ideation process andthe design-by-analogy process steps by Linsey et al. [24]. • Idea search is the act of identifying potential solutions to the current problem, usually by function-matching existing manufactured solutions to the problem. Depending on the complexity of the solution, potential solutions may be holistic solutions to the problem or solutions to subsystems or subfunctions that must be integrated later. • Design concept mechanism understanding analyzes the potential solutions to understand how the structures achieve this function; that is, what is the stepwise or scientific explanation for how this function is executed by the
-social dualism in engineering. Within this, technical skills andsocial skills are often in mutually exclusive silos with limited cross-integration, where technicalskills are valued over social competence (Leyva, Massa, & Battley, 2016). Specifically, Faulkner(2000) states that “at the core of engineers’ identities and engineering practice lies a sense of thetechnical which specifically excludes the social […and this] technical prowess is what definesthem as engineers and what makes them feel powerful” (p. 763). Explorations of this gendereddualism since Faulkner’s article in 2000 offers “insight into different strategies that marginalizedpopulations […] adopt in navigating the heteronormatively masculinized spaces of engineering”(Leyva et al
enhancing professional competencies for engineering workforce development in academia and beyond. He is trained in Industrial and Systems Engineering and has a combined 6 years experience spanning both academia as well as lean manufacturing at Fortune 500 com- panies. Tahsin’s long term goal is to bridge the engineering competency gap between industry demand and academic fulfillment. A global engineer and researcher, Tahsin is an advocate and ally for better inclusion in STEM and beyond.Dr. Juan David Ortega-Alvarez, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University / Universidad EAFIT Juan David Ortega Alvarez is a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Engineering Education Deaprtment at Virginia Tech and a Visiting
- ford University, where she completed her bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering. As an engineer, she is passionate about research and technical work related to climate change. She has previous work experience as an engineer in Motor Manufacturing at Telsa and a research assistant at Stanford University in the Soft Tissue Biomechanics lab. Christina is currently a Product Design Engineer at Apple, where she brings a sustainability perspective to product design.Dr. Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University 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
Design from Stanford University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Entrepreneurial Management. Prior to joining Mines she spent 20 years as a designer, project manager, and portfolio manager in Fortune 500 companies and smaller firms in the Silicon Valley and abroad. She is passionate about bringing the user-centered de- sign principles she learned at Stanford and in her career to Mines’ open-ended problem solving program, and is working with others on campus to establish a broader integrated context for innovation and design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Increasing Student Empathy Through Immersive Stakeholder
Paper ID #22024No-cost Implementation of Electronic Lab Notebooks in an Intro Engineer-ing Design CourseDr. Daisuke Aoyagi, California State University, Chico Daisuke Aoyagi received a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, and a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from University of California, Irvine. He worked as a research engineer at Los Amigos Research and Education Institute in Downey, Cali- fornia. He is an assistant professor in the department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing at California State University, Chico. His
other cases that do not belong tomainstream that are worth a remark since they can shed light on the recruitment strategies toattract the right talent and individuals to the program, and therefore to the industrial nationalworkforce.The >30 year-old (10.29% of the total enrolled candidates) and the >40 year-old (5.88%)students are already university graduates who, having spent some years in employment, werelooking to energize their professional careers, typically by specializing in an area of engineering(i.e., in any of the technical aspects of Embedded Intelligence: intelligent software, servicesystems, manufacturing solutions, design, packaging and interconnect, or any other digitaltechnologies to integrate intelligence into products
for numer- ous fortune 500 companies throughout the world. He is a Certified Manufacturing Technologist (Society of Manufacturing Engineers) and is also certified in Planning and Managing Projects (BD University); Ethical Fitness (BD University); Lean Manufacturing (BD University); High Impact Facilitation (Lore International Institute); and Project Management (Saddle Island Institute). Page 22.865.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011Industry Experience and Perspective: A Survey of Advice Brigham Young University Capstone Alumni Share with Incoming
, and manufacturing-oriented programs.This first-year seminar course has been offered in our School of Engineering and Technology atWestern Carolina University for decades, but it was the first time that it had been offered withteam-teaching in Fall 2020. In previous semesters this course was often “flavored” towardscertain disciplines as it was shaped by the instructor who taught it, although it did have a set ofcommon learning objectives for all sessions and shared teaching materials then. With team-teaching, we expect to see a higher degree of coherence between course topics and sessions, aswell as similar, if not better, attainment of student learning outcomes. Besides the benefits tostudents, the instructors also benefit from team-teaching
Paper ID #30352Making Improvements: Pedagogical Iterations of Designing a Class Projectin a MakerspaceMs. Roxana Maria Carbonell, University of Texas at Austin Roxana Carbonell is a current doctoral student in mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Her primary research interests are prosthetics, additive manufacturing, makerspaces, and engi- neering education.Dr. Audrey Boklage, University of Texas at Austin Audrey Boklage is research assistant and director of the curriculum lab at Texas Inventionworks in the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She is particularly
Dr. Jacquelyn K. Nagel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison University. Prior to JMU she worked as engineering contractor at Mission Critical Technologies working on the DARPA funded Meta-II Project. Dr. Nagel has seven years of diversified engineering design ex- perience, both in academia and industry, and has experienced engineering design in a range of contexts, including: product design, biomimetic design, electrical and control system design, manufacturing system design and design for the factory floor. She earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State University, and her M.S. and B.S. in Manufacturing Engineering and Electrical Engineering, respec- tively
inmechatronics and employed projects as a means for students to learn how to integrate thesetechnologies into discrete functioning systems to achieve operating design goals [37, 38].Additionally, to highlight the differences across these two courses, Global Design and SmartProduct Design, find listed below unique topics generated to deploy as part of a survey constructfor alumni to reflect their experiences. Table 3: Topics included in survey instrument to course alumni Global Design course topics surveyed Smart Product Design course topics surveyed Challenging Assumption Designing and building electronic circuits Building Quick Prototypes
Department at Seattle University. Dr. Cook received her doctorate in Social and Personality Psychology from the University of Washington, with a minor in quantitative methods and emphases in cognitive and educational psychology. Her research has included classroom learning, person perception, health perceptions, and jury decision making.Dr. Gregory Mason P.E., Seattle University Gregory S. Mason was born and raised in Spokane Washington. He received the B.S.M.E. degree from Gonzaga University in 1983, the M.S.M.E. degree in manufacturing automation from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1984 and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering, specializing in multi-rate digital controls, from the University of Washington in
, including human-autonomyand teaming; (6) physical and cognitive implications and ergonomics (fatigue, cognition, workdesign, knowledge work and cobots); (7) health and well-being (well-being, burnout, jobsatisfaction, boredom) and (8) a broad discussion of different industry sectors such as banking,dentistry, healthcare, tourism, farming and manufacturing that are being impacted by AI.Industry Case StudiesThe instructor selected relevant AI-related case studies from the Harvard Business Review [13]and assigned them to student teams, along with case discussion questions. The student teamspresented their analyses and the entire class discussed the case.Guest Speakers on Digital TransformationGuest speakers from industries were invited to speak about
University. He worked as a Research Assistant Professor at IIT in Chicago from 2011-2012. In 2012 he returned to Purdue to serve as an Assistant Professor at the Purdue Polytechnic Kokomo. Dr. Garcia-Bravo, joined the School of Engineering Technology at Purdue main campus in 2015, he is currently an Associate Professor for the Mechanical Engineering Technology program where he has a special focus on fluid power (hydraulic systems) research and instruction. Dr. Garcia-Bravo investigates how hydraulic systems can improve the performance and efficiency of heavy duty vehicles. He also researches techniques for the creation of flexible components with embedded sensors using additive manufacturing for robotics, rehabilitation and
Paper ID #25396A Specifications-Based Approach for the Design and Delivery of a Statics/DynamicsCourseDr. John A. Mirth, Saint Cloud State University John Mirth is an associate professor in the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department at the St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. Prior to this, he had positions at the University of Denver, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and the University of Iowa. He obtained his BSME degree from Ohio University and his MSME and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota. c American Society for
simultaneously accommodating the student’s ISP/equipment/learning styledifferences and limitations. The methodology enhances the individual modes as well as thevarious combinations of delivery modes.I. IntroductionThe goal of this paper is to present, assess, demonstrate, evaluate, and suggest methods toimprove the following distance education/multimedia practices and methods of presentation: • the traditional classroom presentation, • videotape presentation, streaming video presentation, • internet file download presentation, and • different combinations of these modes [7, 8].The test case for this paper is IEM 5303, Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM), a coursetaught by Associate Professor John Nazemetz. This course is offered annually
AC 2012-4772: REEL ENGINEERS: PORTRAYAL OF ENGINEERS ANDTHE ENGINEERING PROFESSION IN THE FEATURE FILMSDr. Zbigniew J. Pasek, University of Windsor Zbigniew J. Pasek is an Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at the University of Windsor. He holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan. His research interests include manufacturing systems automation, risk management, health care engineering, and informal engineering education. He is a member of IEEE, ASME, SME, and ASEE. Page 25.1107.1 c American Society for
that too many of the groups would not perform a goodanalysis of their designs before beginning manufacture. Many students wanted to rely on theirintuition, or apply trial and error methods in the shop rather than doing a correct analysis beforebeginning construction. They instinctively leaned toward tinkering. Most of the students whotried these methods learned that they could save themselves time and money, and come up with abetter prototype, by doing good design work first. However, there were a lot of bad practicesbeing implemented. In addition, some students would come up with a functional design afterseveral build iterations leaving them with the idea that this was an acceptable way to develop aproduct even though they had wasted a large
tools and con-cepts. For example, they may realize the power of leaving the decision path purposely unclear (e.g.Coke’s secrete receipe) to secure a long-term competitive advantage in the marketplace. Likewise,they may consider how new technologies might become powerful marketing tools (e.g. Snapchap,future iPad and SmartPhone Apps) or how to estimate the costs associated with changing suppliers,manufacturing practices or distribution.3.4 Annotated Slides Page 26.1565.6There are many formats that could be used to report out the findings of backward archaeologyand the proposals of forward archaeology. I have chosen annotated slides because
asintegration of BIM processes into existing workflows, innovative concepts such as integratedproject delivery, lean construction, BIM and sustainable construction, legal and insurance issuesarising from BIM use, and discussion of future trends.Concluding thoughts: Due to the cross-disciplinary nature of the construction industry, BIMtechnology should be integrated throughout the curriculum in industry specific classes. Emphasisshould not only be on BIM software but also discussions of the underlying concepts and theireffects on processes and Construction Management related workflows. The overall objectiveshould be to focus on coursework that requires the integration of BIM technology as a tool forconstruction management practices through the
CAD command knowledge with strategic and epistemic knowledgevia open-ended design prompts responded to by students in collaborative groups and overseen bya team of student-instructors. We assessed students’ CAD learning in conjunction with theirresponses to the design prompts. Our findings indicate students were, in fact, more engaged bythe epistemic emphasis of our educational experiments, and yet continual attention to commandknowledge was still required throughout all levels of CAD instruction. Consistent with Chester,these findings suggest that while command-centric learning should remain integral to CADinstruction, emphasizing higher-order design thinking in the context of CAD instruction canchange how students relate to the tool—and
Paper ID #16109Using Mentors as Live Case Studies for Teaching Topics in Supply ChainManagementAimee T. Ulstad, Ohio State University Aimee Ulstad, P.E is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Integrated Systems Engineering Department at The Ohio State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Ohio State, Aimee was an industry professional in various field in engineering for over 30 years. Aimee received her degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Masters in Business Administration from Ohio State. She began her career as a packaging equipment engineer at Procter and Gamble, then moved to Anheuser-Busch where she
technology. Driven by continuing market liberalization,the transition continues at an accelerating rate. The increasing competition betweencompanies forces routine manufacturing to be transferred to countries with low manpowercosts. It also forces companies to adopt modern ICT tools (Information and CommunicationsTechnology) for automating routine work. At the same time, the global development isprogressing towards the fulfillment of the basic human needs and, consequently, to theincreasing emphasis of higher individual needs.The new requirements produced by the increasing global competition and changes ofsocieties can no longer be met by sporadic development. The situation forces organizationsand people in the industrialized countries to make a
. The linkage of an equation to thephysics of a problem, however, occurs in engineering courses such as these.Both heat transfer and fluid mechanics also have the responsibility of covering problemsituations that are commonly encountered in practice. The number of textbook topics in eachcourse is too numerous for total coverage, and an instructor must be selective in deciding whichtopics are most important. Often, the order of the presentations can be altered because manytopics are independent of each other. For example, in heat transfer, instructors may change theorder of topic presentations, such as heat exchangers and radiation. In fluid mechanics, one maysubstitute channel flow for compressible flow if the undergraduate population leans
Paper ID #43131Board 390: Student-Led Collaboration for Data-Driven Decisions in Food,Energy, and Water SystemsDr. Sarah M. Ryan, Iowa State University Sarah M. Ryan is the C.G. ”Turk” and Joyce A. Therkildsen Department Chair and Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems at Iowa State University. She directs the DataFEWSion National Research Traineeship.Prof. Robert Brown Dr. Brown is Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering and Gary and Donna Hoover Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University (ISU). Dr. Brown is the founding director of the Bioeconomy Institute (BEI), which