carry out thevisionsofengineeringtowardsfuture,remarkablemilestonesincludeclarifyingaccreditationcriteriaofengineering programs (ABET,1996), identifying attributes of engineers in 2020 (NAE,2004), as well asconceptualizingandinstitutionalizingEngineeringEducationResearch(EER)toinformpractices(Jesieket al., 2009). Regarding engineering curricula, previous attempts have been largely concentrated oncoursework or project-based efforts (Maciejewski et al., 2016), with increasing interests on capstonedesigncourses/projectssincetheadoptionofEC2000,(McKenzieetal.,2004;Wilbarger&Howe,2006).Theseeffortsaimatpreparingengineeringstudentsforfutureneedswithreal-worldproblems,tohelpstudentsgainnotonlytechnicalskillsbutalsonon
(Jordan, 2015). A design-based researchapproach (Design-Based Research Collective, 2003) is being used to develop curriculum andinstruments, test curriculum, analyze data, and modify curriculum, repeating the process severaltimes for continuous improvement.Pilot 1: 2017 School YearAn initial curriculum pilot was conducted in 2017, where four curriculum modules were tested:(1) Introduction to Engineering Design, (2) Solution Dissection, (3) Distance Between the SacredMountains: A Lesson in Scale and Proportion, and (4) The Great Animal Escape: PortableLivestock Corral Design Project. Descriptions of these curriculum modules are in (Jordan et al.,2017). The curriculum was piloted with 59 students and two teachers across two middle schoolson the
, gender disparities persist across many engineeringdisciplines and are particularly high in mechanical engineering and electrical engineering, with less than20% of undergraduate degrees being awarded to women (ASEE By the Numbers 2021). K12 roboticsprograms have shown potential in increasing a student’s likelihood of enrolling in a mechanical orelectrical majors. By broadening the applications of robotics to human-centered designs and highlightingsoft and biomaterials used in building robots, the field of soft robotics may be a platform to engage adiversity of students in K12 robotics and later, engineering majors. This paper presents a pilot studyaimed at answering the research question: Can a soft robotics curriculum impact high school
. McFarland, University of Virginia Page 25.487.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 ECE/SYS Integration: A Strategy for Evaluating Graduates from a Multi-year Curriculum focused on Technology Systems IntegrationAbstractIn 2009, a group of seventeen students majoring in electrical, computer, or systems engineeringbecame the first class of Leaders in Engineering Program (LEP) students at East Central StateUniversity1. The LEP is an undergraduate curriculum focused on developing knowledge andskills that address both component-level design
AC 2008-1523: DEVELOPMENT OF AN AD-HOC CURRICULUM ADVISINGTOOL TO IMPROVE STUDENT PROGRESS USING CPM AND PERT ANALYSISVirgilio Gonzalez, University of Texas-El Paso Page 13.416.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Development of an Ad-hoc Curriculum Advising Tool to Improve Student Progress Using CPM and PERT AnalysisAbstractThe paper demonstrates the application of two project management tools designed to help thestudents complete their curriculum sooner. The first tool provides a visualization map of coursesequences, customized for each student, making advising adjustments that will optimize the timeto obtain the degree under a constrained
Paper ID #42858Board 422: What Does It Take to Implement a Semiconductor Curriculumin High School? True Challenges and The Teachers’ PerspectivesAndrew J. Ash, Oklahoma State University Andrew J. Ash is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering in the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering at OSU and he is a research assistant in Dr. John Hu’s Analog VLSI Laboratory. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma Christian University. Andrew’s research interests include hardware security of data converters and engineering curriculum development.James E Stine, Oklahoma State University I am a Professor
to the voice of the customer to address marketing issues: Page 24.109.6Listening to the voice of the customers is one of the best practices that proved successful in ourapplied research. Since numerous six sigma projects have been discussed in the literature, thistechnique could be implemented in the Engineering Management curriculum at both theundergraduate and graduate levels. One caveat is important. General Electric and others thathave embraced six sigma projects have found the revolutionary changes leading to productinnovations diminish over time. Perhaps a systems approach works best by strategicallyseparating innovations into two
Paper ID #40360Emerging Innovations and Global Challenges on Curriculum Design: CaseStudy of Teaching Security in Embedded System DesignDr. Mohammed Ferdjallah, Marshall University Dr. Mohammed Ferdjallah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering at Marshall University. Dr. Mohammed Ferdjallah received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer and MS degree in Biomedical Engineering from The University of Texas Austin. He also received his MD degree from the International University of the Health Sciences. He has a multidisci- plinary expertise in image & signal
College (PHCC). The funding for the initialstarting two years came from the externally funded project from U.S. Department of VeteranAffairs.The curriculum being developed for the MFET program involves the creation of new courses andthe establishment of a state-of-the-art smart manufacturing laboratory. Existing and newly hiredfaculty members will be involved in the development of these new courses. The smartmanufacturing laboratory will be equipped with cutting-edge manufacturing equipment to offerstudents a realistic and hands-on manufacturing experience. The equipment encompassesmetrology, assembly, processing, robotics, additive manufacturing, and programmable logiccontrol equipment. This diverse range of equipment will enable the inclusion
development of additionallearning activities as the need arises. A detailed curriculum map using Bloom’s taxonomy for thecognitive domain is presented for both the classroom and lab environment. This curriculum mapis linked to learning outcomes for the course.IntroductionThe impetus for this research came from papers by Behrens et al. [1], [2] which suggested thatLEGO® Mindstorms robots coupled with the MATLAB programming language could be used inundergraduate courses in electrical engineering to motivate students using “practical situations”driven by “active learning” activities. The activities proposed by those authors were disciplinespecific to electrical engineering and design, but their results motivated us to consider a similaridea for a more
Engineering Disciplines? A Critical Analysis of ABET’s Software Engineering Curriculum GuidelinesAbstractSince the 1968 NATO Conference which coined the term “software engineering”, softwarepractitioners and educators alike have been fighting an uphill battle over the right to be viewed asengineers. The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical andElectronic Engineers Computer Society (IEEE-CS) joined forces to try and come to terms withthe question of what exactly is software engineering? From the initial work done by theSoftware Engineering Education Project (SWEEP) that developed draft accreditation criteria forundergraduate degrees in software engineering (SWE) in 1998, to the
, and the newly forming hydrates can rapidly fill and seal cracks11.Based on the above rationale, authors had proposed an educational project for integratingnanotechnology for civil infrastructures into engineering undergraduate curriculum throughmulti-disciplinary collaborations among educational institutions and industries. The paradigmdevelopment mainly focuses on enhancing undergraduate engineering educational outcomesspecified by ABET and fostering innovative problem-solving skills exemplified bynanotechnology. The proposed project was implemented in 2007 under the support fromNanotechnology Undergraduate Education Program in National Science Foundation.Strategies for Integration of Nanotechnology into Civil Engineering CurriculumThe
University-Erie, University of Maryland, Indian Institute of Science,University of Toronto and Ecole Centrale Paris to name a few. Often the instruction is acrossless than four lectures, which reduces the burden of integration into existing courses. Theseinstitutions also require engineering students to complete assignments or a project involving bio-inspired design to practice the technique and demonstrate its value. Integration occurs at thefreshman through senior levels, in a variety of departments, and depends primarily on whenengineering design is offered in the curriculum. Consequently, varying levels of instruction andsupport are provided to the students, and many rely on the resources provided by the BiomimicryInstitute, such as the database
,” Proc. IDC 2015 14th Int. Conf. Interact. Des. Child., pp. 347–350, 2015, doi: 10.1145/2771839.2771913.[7] M. Hlubinka et al., “Makerspace Playbook,” p. 78, 2013.[8] C. McKay, T. D. Banks, and S. Wallace, “Makerspace Classrooms: Where Technology Intersects With Problem, Project, and Place-Based Design in Classroom Curriculum,” Int. J. Des. Learn., vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 11–16, 2016, doi: 10.14434/ijdl.v7i2.20267.[9] S. Freeman et al., “Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics.,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., vol. 111, no. 23, pp. 8410–5, 2014, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1319030111.[10] R. Beichner, “The SCALE-UP Project: A Student-Centered Active learning Environment
Engineer of 2020,13 we are developing a new BS degree program that includes a broad-based curriculum of engineering design, project management, and innovation, along with business, communication, ethics, and social sciences.14 For optimal preparation for professional engineering practice, it is recommended that this foundation be followed by post-graduate study, via a professional Master’s degree program, in a specific discipline or concentration. Our first professional Master’s degree program is in Systems Engineering. Incorporation of Clinical Experiences into Program Learning Outcomes The Systems Engineering program requires a 3 credit hour mandatory practicum in which students are hired full-time by partner
2017 Pacific Southwest SectionMeeting: Tempe, Arizona Apr 20 Paper ID #20688Where Resources End and Teaching Begins: Experience with Students withAutism Spectrum Disorders in the Freshman Engineering CurriculumDeana R. Delp, Arizona State University Deana R. Delp has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Arizona State University. She is currently a lecturer at Arizona State University for Engineering Academic and Student Affairs in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. She has previous industry experience as a systems engineer for General Dynam- ics Mission Systems, and as a research
, 2017 Teams and Team Building at Baylor University: Why Should We Do This and Where Should This Occur in the Curriculum?AbstractExperience with teams is a desirable outcome with employers. Academic programs often havestudent teams accomplish course, design, and lab projects starting with the freshmen introductorycourses and culminating with capstone senior design. Where do students learn about teams in thecurriculum? How do they learn to be good team members? It seems the most pervasive approachto teams in higher education is a “sink or swim” attitude where teams are allowed to form on theirown and work out any issues that arise. Little, if any, formal instruction on being a team memberis given throughout the curriculum. Even less
reflect the changing needs of industry. This can happen only if the faculty are aware of the currenttrends in industry and are actively involved with industry and research projects. ASEE/NASA FacultyFellowship program offers opportunities for professional development for Engineering Technologyfaculty. A parametric study of water jet cutting (WJC) process was done under the ASEE / NASAfaculty fellowship program at NASA Langley Research Center. This research experience has been usedto enhance undergraduate curriculum in Mechanical Engineering Technology at Old Dominion University(ODU).I Introduction Success of engineering technology programs depends upon the effectiveness with which thecurriculum addresses needs of industry, the primary
ensured that students would have twocommunity-engaged experiences throughout their minor curriculum. Students can pick fromseveral pre-existing HE courses to complete the minor coursework requirements. This creates amore scaffolded structure for students entering the HE space. Students can take the introductorycourse to gain theoretical skills, empathy, and frameworks. The skills acquired from theintroductory course prepared students for projects with long-term partner organizations in theU.S., Honduras, Tanzania, Guatemala, Guyana, and Ghana. This is supplemented by coursescovering content in human centered design, technology applications for low-resource settings,sustainable infrastructure courses, and global phenomena. Global Capstone allows
AC 2012-4357: PROGRAM OFFERINGS AND CURRICULUM CONVER-GENCE BETWEEN THE DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (DIT)AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY (UMBC)Dr. Brian E. Reed, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Brian E. Reed is a Fulbright Scholar, Dublin Institute of Technology, an educator in the Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering, UMBC.Dr. Julia M. Ross, University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyDr. Brian Bowe, Dublin Institute of TechnologyMr. Gavin Duffy, Dublin Institute of Technology Gavin Duffy is a lecturer in the School of Electrical Engineering Systems in the Dublin Institute of Tech- nology since 2002. Before that, he worked in industry as a Chemical Engineer and Control
career interests.MethodsInterventionPreviously, we implemented soft robotics curricula in a variety of K12 contexts [9], [10], [11],[12], [13], [14]. After a small pilot study, we updated a four-day version of the curriculum andresearch study [15], [16]. Additionally, to increase utility of the classroom modules for teachers,we aligned the curriculum activities with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) ,shown in Table 1. As part of Aim 1 of our NSF RIEF project, we updated our curriculum torepresent a broad range of identities of scientists, roboticists, and engineers working in softrobotics with the goal of students being able to see themselves represented in the field. Inaddition to working with classroom science teachers, we worked
, applicable, andengaging activities that are linked directly to current research at Duke University; discovercurrent research at Duke University by visiting research labs and engaging in real time datacollection and analysis; define and analyze engineering ethics; improve technical communicationskills; learn about college and career opportunities in engineering; and apply acquired contentknowledge in math and science to define, analyze, and solve a problem that will help society in acapstone project. Additionally, this experience is designed to provide students with mentorshipand exposure to novel engineering curriculum developed and delivered by current undergraduateand graduate students. This model focuses on a coordinated effort between Duke
projects have included the study of heuristics as education tools, and academic makerspaces as opportunities to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in engineering. *Both authors contributed equally to this work as co-first authors.August Kohls, Carnegie Mellon University August Kohls is pursuing his PhD in Electrical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned his MS in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2022 and his BS in Electrical Engineer- ing from the University of Cincinnati in 2020. His academic research focuses on fabricating novel nano- material integrated microdevices for cancer and viral diagnostics. His other personal research projects include investigating methods
wasenthusiastically received (Shumway et al., 2010).TEE students and faculty from Brigham Young University returned summer 2010 to the DominicanRepublic to continue their work with the MACILE group. This collaboration took the form of an officialstudy abroad program where students developed curriculum, conducted research, taught, and receivedcredit for participation. Eight BYU students and 3 faculty members participated in the program. Thestudents spent five weeks during the summer of 2010 in the Dominican Republic teaching 6th -12th gradestudents. Content areas included: energy; chemistry; bridges; rocketry; and robotics. The DR students 1
ruralingenuity and resourcefulness, in order to address the community’s need to bolster the engineeringworkforce to prevent rural flight.The Role of the Industry Partners: School-University-Community Collaboration (SUCC)DevelopmentDuring the development of DeSIRE, one objective was to leverage existing community partnerships –what Crumb et al. refers to as “school-community-university collaborations”, or SUCCs – to bolsterefforts in building STEM workforce capacity in two neighboring rural counties [14, p. 8]. In theinitial stages of project development, school district-level administrators connected us with a localcommunity organization, which we will call Connect (pseudonym), whose mission is to improveeducational opportunities for students in the
Development of a Course Curriculum in Advanced Wireline Communications Systems and Interlinking Them for Cost and Performance Optimization. Dr. Rafiqul Islam Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology Northwestern State University Natchitoches, LA 71497. Tel: 318-357-5352 (O) Fax: 318-357-6145 Email: islamr@nsula.eduAbstractAdvanced wireline communications systems appears to be a technology that will revolutionizethe internet (LANs and WANs) in the
Lawrence Tech is characterized as theInterdisciplinary Design & Entrepreneurial Application Sequence, or IDEAS. Individualengineering programs were given the option to incorporate all or portions of IDEAS into theircurriculum based on their current curriculum content. IDEAS is further defined below relative toclass and participating engineering programs.Freshman Year – Aiming to instill the EM, our undergraduate engineering curricula engagesstudents in a first-year course that embeds entrepreneurial skills with design and project work.Architectural, biomedical, civil, computer, electrical, embedded software, industrial, mechanicaland robotics engineering students participate in the first year course, EGE 1001: Fundamentals ofEngineering Design
data.Carolyn Ahern, Ahern and Associates Dr. Carolyn Ahern, Assessment Coordinator, earned her B.A. in English from Ohio Wesleyan and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Cornell University. She also holds an M.B.A. from the University of Oklahoma. For the last 20 years, she has specialized in the design, implementation, and assessment of educational materials. Most recently, she has been the coordinator of assessment for two NSF grants at the University of Oklahoma: Sooner City (Civil and Environmental Engineering) and the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Project (the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the School of Meteorology
Paper ID #20567Setting the Foundations for International and Cross-disciplinary Innovation:The U.S.-Denmark Summer School ”Renewable Energy: In Practice”Dr. Tela Favaloro, University of California, Santa Cruz Tela Favaloro received a B.S. degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Univer- sity of California, Santa Cruz. She is currently working to further the development and dissemination of alternative energy technology; as project manager of a green building design initiative and researcher with the Center for Sustainable Engineering and Power Systems. Her background is in the development of
Paper ID #26469Board 44: WIP: Integrating Writing into Engineering Labs: Developing Cur-riculum and Creating a Writing Fellows ProgramDr. Raenita A. Fenner, Loyola University Maryland Dr. Raenita Fenner is an Associate Professor of Engineering in the Department of Engineering at Loyola University Maryland. Her area of expertise is electrical engineering where her research interests are in applied in electromagnetic theory. She received her BSEE from Morgan State University in 2005 and her MSEE and Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 2007 and 2011 respectively. She was a Clare Luce Boothe professor from 2011-2016. She has