successful in meeting thechallenges of the technological future and brave new world. This paper will also examine some of the ways this canbe achieved.INTRODUCTIONIt is hoped that work presented here will broaden and deepen awareness among faculty membersand administrators of the educational institutions and that it will motivate more educators toparticipate in and support this global understanding of this issue. This paper will also help infurther growing the body of knowledge about educating our future generations by initiating amore active, interdisciplinary, and international collaborations among educators, educationresearchers and curriculum designers. Faculty in the engineering programs have shown increasedinterest in reading the education
release after supervising eight capstone projectsThe last review and modification of our capstone project occurred in the spring of 2022. Based onthe feedback provided by faculty, the following recommendations were implemented: • Speed up the teaming and project selection process • Place more emphasis on the early definition of the acceptance test in the proposal • Add a “dry run presentation” before the final presentation that is open to the public • Require more involvement in intermediate presentations from the faculty • Expand offerings of seminars on practical aspects of engineering • Develop training materials for faculty, which is particularly important for new faculty3. Current Format of the Capstone Project3.1
Mol Biol Educ. 2021;49:9–14. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/bmb 5. ANDREWL. ZYDNEY. Department of Chemical Engineering University of Delaware JOANS. BENNETT AND ABDUSSHAHID Undergraduate Research Program University of Delaware KARENW. BAUER. Faculty Perspectives Regarding the Undergraduate Research Experience in Science and Engineering. July 2002 Journal of Engineering Education 6. Colin Koproske Integrating Academic and Career Development, Strategies to Scale Experiential Learning and Reflection Across the Curriculum The Education Advisory Board (EAB) is a division of The Advisory Board Company 7. Ives, J., & Castillo-Montoya, M. (2020). First-Generation College Students as Academic Learners: A
, national and internationalcompanies, non-profit organizations and government agencies under the guidance of facultyadvisors with experience in professional practice. Page 25.148.65. Engineering Outcomes and Assessment The new college and its interdisciplinary core curriculum is particularly important for theengineering programs within C-DEC. Engineering students gain important critical thinking,problem solving, collaboration and communication skills that are essential to their developmentas practicing engineers and leaders in their professions. Furthermore, as ABET
Page 13.951.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Ontologies and Web-Semantics for Improvement of Curriculum in Civil EngineeringAbstractThe National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE) recommended that engineering education becomes more responsive to continualchanges in society. We propose to address these challenges of improving engineering educationthrough the application of ontology and web semantics. These fields of information technologyallow computers to interpret the vast body of knowledge dispersed throughout the web. The longterm objective of our research is to develop an ontological approach for improving curriculum incivil engineering as
/engineering technique that boosts task-compliancewhile lowering performer stress. Community is expanded via a series of presentationsfrom students and faculty of the various programs. These emphasize the unique, butinterconnected, nature of the programs and reveal ways for new students to engage withstudent clubs and national student chapters.ContentThe primary content portions are related to engineering specifics, e.g., the distinguishingbackground of engineering thought and approaches. One week of ENGR 160 is devotedto “language” and another to “shibboleths”—two distinguishing features of engineersGreek letters and units or process and fundamental software. With the reduction in Greeklife on many campuses, student awareness of Greek letters has
Education in 2016. Dr. Davis received a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Loyola University, New Orleans in 1985 and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette in 1987 and 1990, respectively. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Ethics in Data Science EducationAbstractThere is a growing recognition of the importance of ethics education in data science programs.Recent news stories about data breaches and algorithmic biases indicate that big data projectsraise ethical concerns with the potential to inflict harm on a wide societal or global scale. In thispaper, we address three main research questions: (1) what curricular
AC 2009-511: HOW WELL DOES COLLABORATION WORK IN ENGINEERINGPROJECT CURRICULUM REDESIGN?Patsy Hulse, University of Auckland Patsy Hulse has been the Engineering Library Manager, The University of Auckland Library , Auckland, New Zealand for the past 18 years, and, in addition, since 2000, the Civil & Environmental Subject Librarian. Prior to this she was employed over many years in a variety of positions in the University of Auckland library system. She is a registered professional member of the New Zealand Library and Information Association, LIANZA. She has visited many engineering libraries worldwide during her many travels. There has been a particular emphasis on North America
Paper ID #6325A Model for Collaborative Curriculum Design in Transportation Engineer-ing EducationDr. Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College Dr. Kristen Sanford Bernhardt is chair of the Engineering Studies program and associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lafayette College. Her expertise is in sustainable civil infrastructure management and transportation systems. She teaches a variety of courses including sustainability of built systems, transportation systems, transportation planning, civil infrastructure management, and Lafayette’s introductory first year engineering course. Dr
the City College Black Male Leadership and Mentoring Program and has taught courses in Black Studies and Chemistry at the City College. At the NYC Alliance, he oversaw the day- to-day operation of the NYC Alliance programming across the 18 participating campuses at the City University of New York for 20 years. Dr. Brathwaite began his college education at Hostos Community College, received his BS in Chemistry from the City College of New York and his Ph.D. in Organic Chem- istry from the Graduate Center of CUNY. He served as a Chancellors Fellow, and conducted additional postdoctoral training at Weill Cornell in the Division of Molecular Medicine. ©American Society for Engineering Education
engineering teams include one non-engineering major among student members.IV. DiscussionWe incorporate the new Experiential Learning Initiative (ELI) requirement in our existingengineering curriculum differently than other departments do at our school. Our approach forengineering involves distributing the project experience across two or more credited courses, andresponsibility for evaluating student reflection by faculty who are not necessarily projectmentors. Despite the “moving parts” in this approach, we believe it will work successfully, dueto accessibility of documentation our Project 1-4 sequence already provides, and the availabilityof project mentors for consultation by Seminar 1-2 faculty, when needed. Our experience withthe pilot group
individual rights and societal interest is at the heart of all democracies, and is placed under a new strain by the advent of biometric technologies”11.The fourth, fifth and fourteen US constitutional amendments12 are the ones related with privacy,due process and security. The fourth amendment protects against unreasonable searches andseizures, the fifth and the fourteen amendments ensure the due process to protect citizens. Thelogic of due process is rooted in the notion that personal freedom in a constitutional democracycan only be preserved when there is some consistent way to check arbitrary and capriciousactions by the government13. There are two approaches in order to guarantee due process. The first approach, theintrinsic
in this very hegemonic process of not directly identifying power.My own biases as I was entering into this course are based on the premise that engineeringeducation is only now, in the past 5 years or so, beginning to turn a critical eye on the field forhow dominant ideologies structure much of the curriculum and pedagogy within highereducation spaces. Because these critical discourses are new to engineering education, myassumption was, they would not be as theoretically informed as they are in humanities-based oreducation-based fields. Not only is the pedagogy used within the course theoretically informed,but the ways in which the instructor selected reading materials, listened to how students weretaking up the materials, and facilitated
engineers are often tasked withbeing the connecting link in the medical device industry between clinicians, scientists, andpatients. Thus, the potential for EML to provide opportunities for BME students to makeconnections between physiological models (such as a disease state), technical concepts (devicesfor diagnosis/therapy), and markets are highly valuable.Activity DetailsThe newly developed EML module was implemented in a junior-level engineering physiologycourse at Western New England University (WNE), a small, private university in the Northeastregion of the U.S. The course title is Engineering Physiology II (BME 302), and it is a requiredcourse in the BME curriculum at WNE that is typically taken by third-year BME students. Themain course
at the associate (A.S.) degree level 1,3. Clearly, there is a real need for more BiomedicalEngineering Technology programs, particularly at the B.S. degree level. With this in mind, theECET faculty at SPSU set about examining the possibility of developing a new B.S. degreeprogram in Biomedical Engineering Technology (BSBMET).II. Motivation and BackgroundThe main motivation for developing the program came from solicitations from incoming andtransfer students who were interested in getting a degree in the Biomedical Engineering area.Many of these students had been made aware of the potential opportunities in the BiomedicalEngineering field prior to attending SPSU. Another source of motivation was the approach madeto the ECET department by a
Promoting Engineering Education as a Career: A Generational Approach James Morgan, Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory Beverly Davis, Purdue UniversityAbstractCurrently, there is a fundamental paradigm shift in society with regards to attitudestowards the sciences. In higher education, this shift is especially noticeable withinengineering programs. Many educators are encouraged to shift the traditional teachingfocus and concentrate on student learning. A disturbing trend finds many young peopleare unaware what a career in engineering entails, are unaware of the job opportunitiesafforded to them with an engineering degree, or for numerous reasons decide early on
activities and the term project, has filled a gap in thecurriculum.Also, many students were not able to apply the solid modeling techniques learned in thesophomore year to their study of later courses such as engineering dynamics and senior design.The new tool design course, with extensive CADD activities, substantially promotes students’abilities to apply CADD to design tasks. In this sense too, it has filled a gap in the curriculum. Page 11.1076.2Though this course had been offered in the past, it was substantially modified and enhanced thistime. The lecture part now, all delivered with Microsoft Powerpoint, included general tool design,jig and
, green building and life cycle analysis willcontinue to gain importance for practicing engineers and scientists. This sustainability-focusedcurriculum introduces a new approach to sustainability that includes foundational knowledge ofenvironmental impact assessment methods, life cycle analysis, and energy considerations that arebeing adopted in many accredited engineering and technology programs. The sustainability-focused curriculum is focused upon applying engineering principles to real-world design andproblem analysis. It includes specific step-by-step examples and case studies for solvingcomplex problems that appear throughout the two courses. Both courses conceptual and appliedproblems at various levels of difficulty. Both courses also
program management, security and safetymanagement, and supply chain and e-logistics management14.At the undergraduate level in technology and engineering departments supply chain managementis being included in the curriculum in a wide array of different formats. In some cases studentstake a production operations management course where they learn about supply chainmanagement and then apply it in another course in a technical department15. This approach is inkeeping with the tradition of having supply chain management content being taught in thebusiness schools. While it is still the trend there are more and more exceptions occurring to thispractice. Today it has become important for students in other disciplines, such as engineeringand
andanalysis rather than design. It takes an effective approach to learning new techniques by doingthem. We feel we have solved the dilemma in learning a laboratory-based topic like embedded Page 20.14.2systems where there is a tremendous volume of details that first must be learned before hardwareand software systems can be designed. The approach taken in this course is to learn by doing in abottom-up fashion. One of the advantages of a bottom-up approach to learning is that the studentbegins by mastering simple concepts. Once the student truly understands simple concepts, he orshe can then embark on the creative process of design, which involves
, contentdelivery began to shift in order to focus more on pure mathematical content for MPL preparation.While such a strategy may be suitable for improving achievement of the prior goal of the course, itignores the importance of the secondary goal. As EGR 1010 represents the immediate gateway toentering the engineering curriculum for students within this pathway, such an approach posessignificant risk of jeopardizing the success of these students.Over the past year, accelerated growth in the enrollment of internationally mobile undergraduate Page 20.11.6students has significantly expanded the number of enrollees entering the pathway at thepreparatory
components.Mechatronics is a newer branch of mechanical engineering that is a synergistic combination ofmechanical, electrical, electronics, computer science, control techniques, and informationsystems. Integrating mechatronics content in mechanical engineering curriculum has been achallenge since it has been viewed as a significant deviation from traditional courses. In the past,pedagogical approaches like semester-long, project-based classes, or linking mechatronics toother engineering disciplines, have been used to integrate mechatronics into the mechanicalengineering curriculum, with varying results. Furthermore, teaching an interdisciplinary class ofthis nature within a semester is a difficult pedagogical endeavor. To overcome these issues, thetopics and
present the basics of implementing a pillars-style curriculum and report on ourongoing assessment of student learning and knowledge integration using this framework. Theassessment is “ongoing”, in part, because the new curriculum has been evolving with time.Also, and more importantly, as this curriculum is one of the first of its kind, our somewhatunique assessment requirements necessitate development of new tools as we go. Specifically,it is critical that our curriculum be evaluated not only for its effectiveness in enhancing theability of students to engage in systems thinking (knowledge integration), but also to specifi-cally assess the impact of this type of curriculum on students’ performance in conceptualizing(chemical) engineering
multiple levels of the Mechanical Engineering curriculum. The preliminaryefforts have been very successful in both increasing student engagement and in achievingspecific learning objectives of the involved courses. The efforts described herein will becontinued in the future by refining the activities described, adding new activities, and continuingto coordinate across the different courses to ensure that the activities are leading to the goal ofcontinuing to introduce real-world problems and applications of sensor and mechatronic systemsthroughout the mechanical engineering curriculum. The methods proposed in Sec. 5 will be usedto assess the effectiveness of this endeavor as students proceed through the modified courses.AcknowledgementsThe authors
distributed manipulation, control applications in data storage, control applications in manufacturing, and STEM education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Using Benchmarking Methods to Inform Curriculum Changes in Mechanical Engineering ProgramsAbstractEngineering curriculum development often occurs in a single course or a series of courses, forinstance where new material or tools are implemented (e.g., the inclusion of CAD/CAE toolsthroughout design courses). However, the entire curriculum for a degree should be periodicallyreviewed to investigate holistic characteristics and inform broader curriculum changes. Thispaper seeks to
]. A case study of Heragu [24] presents anobjective function which is finding a new location and build a bigger facility. The group of studentsis encouraged to follow a five-step approach, which is based on the hybrid analysis. Another casestudy by Louwers [25] which focuses on facility location for storing and preprocessing the carpetsthat are disposed of and the allocation of disposed of carpet waste flows to these locations. Bruniet al., [26] case study as another example proposes a location model for the optimal organizationof the transplant system. 2.2.2. TransportationTransport is part of the economic activity [27], which is associated with moving goods vehicle ona particular technology in the supply chain engineering, including
AC 2011-2314: PREPARATION OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS IN THEMULTI-LEVEL CURRICULUM STRUCTUREPhD Valeriy Solomonov, Lomonosov Moscow State Academy of Fine Chemical Technology (MITHT)PhD Olga Belyaeva, Lomonosov Moscow State Academy of Fine Chemical Technology (MITHT)Prof. Alla Frolkova, Lomonosov Moscow State Academy of Fine Chemical Technology (MITHT) Page 22.1170.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Preparation of chemical engineers in the multi-level curriculum structureThe training of specialists in science-based technologies as the basis for stable
). Taught by engineeringfaculty, the course will include lecture, laboratory and recitation components. Using anapplication-oriented, hands-on approach, the course will address only the salient math topicsactually used in a variety of core engineering courses. These include the traditional physics,engineering mechanics, electric circuits and computer programming sequences. While the abovecore courses are traditionally reserved for the sophomore and junior years, it is proposed to movethem earlier in the curriculum, with EGR 101 as the only math prerequisite. It is finally proposedto develop a new Engineering Calculus sequence to be taught by the Math department later in thecurriculum, in concert with college and ABET requirements. By removing
AC 2008-898: CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTALENGINEERING CURRICULUM IN A CE ACCREDITED PROGRAMKevin Bower, The Citadel Dr. Bower is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Citadel in Charleston, SC. Prior to his employment at The Citadel, he worked as an environmental engineer in Akron, Ohio. He received a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from The University of Akron and specialized in modeling carcinogenic chemical production in the drinking water distribution system. Dr. Bower was the 2005 Most Outstanding New Faculty at the ASEE –SE Conference and a New Faculty Fellow at the 2004 Frontiers in Education Conference. Dr. Bower is
technology.Prof. Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West LafayetteProf. William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette William (Bill) Oakes is the director of the EPICS Program and one of the founding faculty members of the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has held courtesy appointments in Mechanical, Environmental and Ecological Engineering as well as Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education. He is a registered professional engineer and on the NSPE board for Professional Engineers in Higher Education. He has been active in ASEE serving in the FYP, CIP and ERM. He is the past chair of the IN/IL section. He is a fellow of the Teaching Academy and listed in the Book of Great