look for ways we mightimprove if desired. It was quickly established that it was not possible to simply add a course inpublic speaking to the curriculum. The program already had a large number of required credithours when compared to many of the programs that were reviewed. Additionally, there waslimited flexibility in the curriculum within the elective sets and each set of electives existed for aspecific reason. It was proposed that three specific required undergraduate courses (3014, 3214,and 4005/4006) be enhanced to include oral communication pedagogy as part of the course.Two of the courses that were selected already involved student presentation from time to time,but there was not a formal requirement in one and the level of emphasis was
that a large portion ofmanagers in engineering companies start their career as an engineer. According to the USBureau of Labor Statistics, over 80% of engineering manager positions required an engineeringdegree [8]. Therefore, it is necessary for managers in engineering companies to possess skillsand knowledge required for preparing for and responding to EDCs.Despite increasing risks of EDCs worldwide, educational efforts embodied in either curriculumof a college degree or related courses remain very limited. According to FEMA HigherEducation College List [20], of over 5,300 colleges and universities in the US, only 346 (6.5%)offer emergency management programs. It is worth noting that previous work [21], [22]attempted to fill this gap by
catenaries,concrete anchor bolts, timber connections, welding and testing steel, creating and testing trussesin the digital fabrication lab, drainage patterns, failure case studies, wiring electrical circuits, anda design-bid-build competition using K’nex toys.This paper describes the challenges and risks of conducting this course during a pandemic,covers the solutions implemented for all of the activities, and provides assessment data on whatworked and what can be improved in the future. With the reopening of college campuses justbeginning, other engineering programs with freshman experience courses would certainly benefitfrom these lessons learned.ARCE 106 Introduction to Building SystemsARCE 106 “Introduction to Building Systems” was taught for
. Javad Anjum, University of Mary Javad Anjum is an Assistant Professor at the University of Mary. He worked as a physician in India and pursued clinical research in Neurophysiology. He then completed a PhD in Speech-Language Science from the Ohio University with research foci in aphasia and psycholinguistics. Javad’s current research interests are in understanding the impaired and unimpaired cognitive-linguistic processes in aphasia and developing assessment methods for evaluating language performance in people with brain injuries. He also has research interests in interprofessional education (IPE) with health sciences and engineering dis- ciplines.Ms. Audra Anjum, Ohio University Audra Anjum is an instructional
ergonomic constraint factors. Thesefactors such as limited movement of the case subject’s wrists, digits, and thumbs suggested thatwe begin our design process by first accessing the usability of existing consumer input devices.Our assessment of input devices was based on the case subject’s limited wrist movement/rotation and the deformation /inflexibility of the thumbs and digits. The subject’s zero degreeback wrist movement disqualified rigid forms with raised surfaces as they strain wrist tendonswhich further constricts the digits and cause more pain. A limited fifteen degree wrist movementfurther tightens our subject’s physically taunt wrist tendons and in turn eliminated devicesrequiring wrist action such as the traditional mouse and large
“learning the software”to be synonymous with learning the course material! For that reason we used as thebasis of our teaching modules a collection of Fortran programs that the first author hadcreated over the years. These programs had been developed as student homeworkprojects and in-class demonstrations for a variety of courses, both graduate andundergraduate. The early incentive for their development was teaching in our televisedMaster of Engineering degree program. The format of courses taught through thisoutreach program is two live classes per week. Classes last the full 75 minutes; mostinstructors feel that making much small talk would be inappropriate. Much informationthat for a normal on-campus course would be conveyed orally is instead
in theprogram range from large multi-nationals such as Imperial Oil, DuPont, Stone and Webster andCelanese, to small and medium size enterprises, such as Hyprotech Ltd. and Beaver Dental.Client satisfaction can be gauged by the high rate of repeat client participation. (Nine of thetwenty one clients have come back for a second year or more.)In 1995 and 1996, TEAM ran six projects each year. In 1997, the number increased to thirteen.TEAM had nine projects in 1998, and there are eleven projects for 1999. The number ofstudents enrolled in any year limits the number of projects TEAM accepts.Queen’s University plans to continue the development of TEAM, in particular to expand the roleof the program in other engineering departments as well as in
2006-2218: TEACHING ETHICS SPECIFIC TO ENTREPRENEURSHIPJune Ferrill, Rice University June Ferrill, PhD, founder of ChangeMakers, Inc., developed an entrepreneurship program for undergraduates at Rice University that includes a course entitled "New Ventures Communications," an entrepreneurial club, and mentoring from Rice alumni and others. She teaches workshops on entrepreneurship as well as ethics within senior engineering design courses; in addition, in the Engineering School, she teaches “Ethical Decision-Making for Engineers.” She has provided consulting to Bank of America, Siemens, Ernst & Young and Texas Society of Professional Engineers, among others. Previously, she worked
many reports that grades are Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2009 American Society for Engineering Educationinflated ("an increase in grade point average without a concomitant increase in achievement"7).In a review of the literature on grade inflation, Boertz contends, “…the literature demonstratesthat the improvement is not incongruous with a rise in faculty development programs andincreased varieties of student support services.”8 Grades and students’ ability remain acontentious topic and not always seen as an accurate assessment of student performance. Grades,however, are one way to measure student learning.Classroom grades generally
/jee.20048.[5] O. Rompelman, “Assessment of student learning: Evolution of objectives in engineeringeducation and the consequences for assessment,” European Journal of Engineering Education,25(4), 2000, pp. 339-350.[6] R.M. Felder and B.A. Soloman, “Learning styles and strategies,” 2000[7] J. Ventura, “Applying EC 2000 criteria to engineering programs,” In 2003 AnnualConference, Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering EducationAnnual Conference & Exposition, June 2003, pp. 8-230.[8] T.M. Chowdhury, S. Bhaduri and H. Murzi, “Understanding the development of teamworkcompetency to comprehend the transformation in systems engineering discipline,” In 2021 ASEEVirtual Annual Conference Content Access. July 2021.[9] D.L. Evans
courses in biology, chemistry, calculus, electriccircuits, and computer programming.To date, 3 cohorts of students have engaged with this module. Each cohort is between 50 and 75students and composed of primarily third-year Biomedical Engineering students, with a smallfraction of Electrical Engineering students. The demographics reflect those of the BiomedicalEngineering program, with approximately 55% female students. Initial results indicate thatstudents develop significant ability to work with MATLAB as an engineering tool and enterfollowing coursework better prepared to apply prerequisite materials. In a qualitative self-assessment, participating students indicated that the activities could have better reinforced lecturecontent, but
AUniversity A is a large, Hispanic-Serving institution located in the Southwestern United States [8]with a relatively small to moderate proportion of students in engineering or engineering technologymajors. During preliminary data collection, the makerspace on this campus was a recent addition,which had less than a year of previous operating time. Students were not required to use themakerspace for class projects, so only the ‘No Involvement’ and ‘Voluntary Involvement’ groupswere possible here. A total of 205 students took the survey, 58 of which were not in engineeringor engineering technology majors.The survey was initially given to students when they visited the makerspace for the first time. Forsubsequent collections, participants were asked to
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 The Columbia City Trailhead: A Collaborative Construction Engineering Technology Capstone ExperienceAbstractIn 2010, a collaborative effort between a nonprofit trail advocacy organization, a small ruralIndiana city, trade unions, grantmaking organizations, materials suppliers, contractors, and theConstruction Engineering Technology program at Indiana University – Purdue University FortWayne (IPFW) led to the successful construction of a trailhead building in a city park.Multidisciplinary collaboration began with a design charrette in January, bringing togetherarchitects, brickmasons, carpenters, electricians, engineers, greenbuilding experts, landscapers,professors
primary focus of attention of engineers andtechnologists. Although probably hundreds of pages have been generated to describe whatinnovation is, for our purposes here, perhaps the one generated by O’Sullivan9 will work as wellas any: Innovation is the process of making changes, large and small, radical and incremental, to products, processes, and services that results in the introduction of something new for the organization that adds value to customers and contributes to the knowledge store of the organization. (p.5)Because the focus of this paper is on engineers and technologists, and because their primary roleis to design and work with technology, it follows that the central focus of this paper
engineering technology baccalaureate program to pursue design careers and professionalengineering licensure compared to their civil engineering counterparts. An assessment of thisissue is made by using a survey to obtain the impressions of employers/supervisors at local civilengineering design firms who have experience with both groups of graduates. The survey isdesigned to ascertain the employers/supervisors impressions of the differences between the civilengineering technology and civil engineering graduates in terms of their (1) positions andresponsibilities within the company, (2) technical skills and knowledge when they are first hired,(3) overall engineering design abilities, (4) ability to develop the skill sets needed to become aprofessional
, internshipsIntroductionThis study considers the intersectionality of students’ identities as underrepresented minorities(URMs) and women in evaluating the impacts of undergraduate research and internshipexperiences on engineering task self-efficacy (ETSE). This analysis is based on the firstEngineering Majors Survey (EMS), which provides a large dataset (Total N = 5,819; URMwomen N = 274; URM men N = 533) useful for statistically evaluating nuances of particularintersections of identities. This study focuses on intersections of gender and URM status forengineering students, the analysis of which has historically been limited due to small samplesizes. The EMS is part of a multi-year National Science Foundation (NSF) funded researchinitiative (Epicenter1) with a goal
amounts of “late stage” IP.However, much of this IP is shelved or underutilized; most corporations have patent utilizationrates of less than 10 percent. There are many reasons for this. For example, a particular idea ortechnology may not align with strategic goals, or be too small for a large company to pursue.Similarly, companies often focus their products and services on particular market niches.Technologies developed for these niches may be useful in other, noncompeting ways, but willnot be of interest to the patent holders. Page 14.739.2BackgroundUniversity technology transfer (UTT) can provide a variety of benefits4,8,9. Businesses
Education. He has more than 110 papers published in several congresses and he has organized more than 30 congresses around the world. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Science, Engineering and Technology Innovation for Global Human ChallengesAbstractThis paper describes the engineering program designed by COPEC – Science and EducationResearch Council’s education research team, in which the so called ‘Working with Communities’course is included. It provides 3rd year engineering students the chance to work as consultants tofoster an entrepreneurial community in the city. The idea is to create an Innovative Office, towhich local entrepreneurs can resort to in order
the design andmain results obtained after implementing a four-week "Entrepreneurial Vision" module withinthe curricular program of the School of Engineering bachelor's degrees of a large privateuniversity in Chile during the pandemic in the first semester of the academic year 2020.BackgroundThe Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (from now on, the Academy) is a program ofthe Faculty of Engineering of the Andres Bello University of Chile, responsible for leaving anentrepreneurial hallmark among all its graduates is an original model that adapts internationalexperiences and methodologies. The Academy develops experiences through training activitiesfor students in various engineering fields, the most prominent being the semester
-ChampaignMiss Taylor Tucker Parks, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Taylor Parks is a research fellow in engineering education at the Siebel Center for Design. She earned her bachelor’s in engineering mechanics and master’s in curriculum & instruction from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on promoting teamwork in complex engineering problem solving through collaborative task design. She currently co-leads the integration of human-centered design principles within select courses across the Grainger College of Engineering.Mr. Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign I am currently the Associate Director of Assessment and Research team at the Siebel Center for Design
on a mechanical engineering program at asingle institution that has course-based design experiences during each of the four years of thedegree program. Data was collected through a survey given to 73 engineering students. Thequestions in this survey targeted student’s conceptualization and relationship with design, as wellas their demographics and course history. Open-ended questions focused on student responsesabout how they defined engineering design and what aspects of design they considered to bechallenging or straightforward. Closed-ended questions focused on how often they have hadopportunities to practice aspects of design, including working directly with a client and consideringsustainability in their solutions. The open-ended
responsibility [23]. Thus, anexperimental learning framework is a great teaching method if educators could implement it usingVRT as a proxy. 2.2 Virtual reality in educationVirtual Reality technologies have already lent themselves to many implementations in K-12schools, tertiary education, research laboratories, and collaborative programs across academia. ForK12 education, VR tools are commonly used for visualizing geometry-shape in math class, solarsystem and planets in earth science, historical sites around the world in history and geographyclass, organs and animal habitats in biology, and molecular bonds in chemistry. It can help putclass materials into perspective, magnify small elements, and shrink large systems. Beyond the K12program, the
and narrowing the choices down by factors such as production cost or reliability, respectively Traits Openminded: open-mindedness to ideas and solutions [12], [14], [15] Innovative [12], [14] Broad and Specialized Knowledge: expertise in a certain [14], [15] discipline and general understanding of terms and concepts from other relevant disciplines Creative [12], [14], [15]When dealing with large scale complex systems, design is often accomplished by large teamsrather than an individual or small group of
for (a) a one-semester freshman course, (b) a one- ortwo-semester capstone design project, and (c) a vertically integrated, mutidisciplinary design course.Other course assignment sets may be created by selecting from the examples in Chapter 17—thedesign document “library” of the text. Auxiliary uses are in pre-college programs and teacherworkshops, as well as in undergraduate and graduate courses in engineering management, educa-tion, and communication.Looking at a broader context, just over this past year we have noticed a strong increase in interestin the teaching of creative thinking and innovation inside and outside of engineering. For example,Singapore has mandated the teaching of creativity, and the government is funding a large Innova
experience for problemsolving for a new first-semester general engineering course in an engineering transfer program ata community college in the eastern United States. We first consider the benefits of using casestudies for learning. We then provide an overview of the watershed monitoring system used tocollect the data and some of the previous educational settings its data has been used in.Subsequently, we summarize the particular event used in this crayfish case study and thedevelopment of some of the data analysis products that will be provided to students. Finally, wediscuss the planned implementation of this case study into the first-year general engineeringcourse and its assessment and future steps to continue this research.1
experienced project managerknows very well that the most challenging aspect of project management is dealing with people.It’s all about people! As in many pedagogical approaches, hands-on experience through real lifeprojects is invaluable to the learning process and this is most particularly true for conflictmanagement and negotiation. At Western Carolina University, a three hour course in projectmanagement covering all these topics is a requirement of graduation in the EngineeringTechnology program of the Kimmel School of Construction Management, Engineering andTechnology. In the past the curriculum has included the development of an individual project asthe culmination of the course. While this project could be real, it was more commonlyconceptual
engineering learning, and assistive devices for persons with disabilities. He coordinates ABET accreditation activities for LeTourneau University.Dr. Chad L File, LeTourneau University Chad File serves as ABET Program Chair for the Bachelor of Science in Engineering program and Asso- ciate Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology at LeTourneau University in Texas. He has taught a wide range of courses within the mechanical engineering curriculum and currently leads a team of students in High Power Rocketry competitions. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021
memberships include IEEE, IEEE-CS, ACM, SWE, ASEE.C. Richard Helps, Brigham Young University Richard Helps is the Program Chair of the Information Technology program at BYU and has been a faculty member in the School of Technology since 1986. His primary scholarly interests are in embedded and real-time computing and in technology education. He also has interests in human-computer interfacing. He has been involved in ABET accreditation for about 8 years and is a Commissioner of CAC-ABET and a CAC accreditation team chair. He spent ten years in industry designing industrial automation systems and in telecommunications. Professional memberships include IEEE, IEEE-CS, ACM, SIGITE, ASEE
Paper ID #9369A Personal Account on Implementing Reflective PracticesMr. Tiago R Forin, Purdue University, West Lafayette Tiago Forin is a PhD student in Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education. He is an active researcher in cross disciplinary practices in Dr. Robin Adams’ XRoads Research Group. He is also in charge of developing assessments for Purdue’s Global Engineering Program. His background is in Civil and Environmental Engineering where he received a BS from Florida State University and a MS from Purdue University
eco-friendly sources of electricity on a large scale. In addition to researching thesubject, a prototype of greenhouse has been built for future students to learn green energymanufacturing as part of engineering and technology programs. Through this project, studentslearned how to provide a green design method for evaluating the characteristics of clean energymanufacturing. The students incorporated real-world experience with innovative design with thereduction of energy waste and use of renewable energy, as well as incorporating greenmanufacturing. For the sake of comparisons for green energy manufacturing, experiments wereconducted, including sensor monitoring and process control. A concluding section discusses thestudent learning