, Gabe has gained significant appreciation for the importance of clearly- defined, structured, and supported pathways for program participants. Gabe has a Bachelor’s degree from San Francisco State University in English; Creative Writing. He lives in the East Bay and enjoys exploring new rivers, lakes, and beaches in the area.Mr. David Gruber, Growth Sector American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Experiential Learning during COVID-19: A Systemic Approach for Increasing Diversity in Smart ManufacturingAbstractExperiential Learning is a key component in Engineering and Engineering TechnologyEducation. However, the current engineering an
the study of in-service teachers’ be- liefs and content knowledge and how it affects how they help their students’ develop problem solving strategies. Page 25.975.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 New Tools for Research: Using the Video Mosaic Collaborative Suzanna Schmeelk1 and Robert Sigley2Abstract – In this research paper, we present resources from a unique repository, the Video Mosaic Collaborative(VMC), developed by Rutgers Library in collaboration with the Robert B. Davis Institute for
, toassess results, and to communicate with others effectively. As an evidence, the reform result isvery encouraging. The score of the internal ABET course survey of the course has shown drasticimprovement.1. IntroductionThe study of System Dynamics and Control requires a genuine multi-disciplinary approach tointegrate principles in various engineering disciplines (mechanical, electrical, computer,information technology, etc.) to develop optimal strategy for solving a contemporary engineeringproblem. Many educators have developed various forms of pedagogy for the improvement ofteaching-and-learning of this important subject1-10. This paper presents part of results of therecent NSF-funded departmental-level undergraduate curriculum reform at the
in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning.Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria, Virginia.2. Tomlinson, C.A., (2001). How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms. Association forSupervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria, Virginia.3. Gardner, H. (1993). Frames of mind: The theory of multiple intelligences, New York, Basic Books.4. Spense, L. (2000). Maybe Teaching is a Bad Idea. On line: www.teachingexcellence.org downloaded October12, 2000.5. Felder, R., Active Learning with Dr. Richard Felder, downloaded on March 17, 2010 fromwww.youtube.com/watch?v=1J1URbdisYE.6. Dutch, B.J., and Allen, D.E., and White, H.B. (1998). Problem-based Learning: Preparing Students to Succeedin the
AC 2008-1789: INTRODUCING UNIVERSAL DESIGN CONCEPTS IN ANINTERDISCIPLINARY LABORATORY PROJECTJudy Cezeaux, Western New England College Judy Cezeaux is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts. She received a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1984 and a Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1989. Prior to her appointment at Western New England College, she was a Senior Staff Fellow at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Morgantown, West Virginia. Her research interests are engineering education, rehabilitation engineering
consisting of the department head and a select group of ASE facultymembers was formed to develop a plan to address such issues as curriculum modernization,computer application in teaching and learning, ABET 2000 criterion 3 goals (Table 1), and mostimportantly, attraction and retention of students. Three subcommittees were formed with eachgiven the task of revising courses in one of three major curriculum areas: flight mechanics,aerodynamics, and structures. A separate subcommittee was formed to develop the curriculumfor the three new "Intro-to-ASE" courses. Table 1. ABET 2000 Criterion 3 - Program Outcomes and Assessment(a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering.(b) an ability to design and conduct
. In response to the above, and as part of a revision to the core curriculum to provideamong other goals a more engaging and less onerous first year along with more choice, a newapproach has been taken that attempts to preserve those elements of the Engineering Seminarthat were valued by the students while offering a more flexible, engaging format. A two-semester sequence, E101-102 Engineering Experiences, has been introduced. The approach is tooffer students a variety of experiences and events scheduled throughout the freshman year.Coupled with this new two-semester course has been a change to the advising system wherebyan advisor is assigned to the incoming student based on his/her anticipated engineeringdiscipline. The official election of
practice. Anend of semester survey was given to students only taking the design class, taking the classsimultaneously with a capstone seminar course that included more traditional ethics curriculum,and only taking the capstone seminar course. Results indicate that integrating ethics assignmentsinto design courses can complement traditional ethics instruction. Students enrolled in bothclasses responded with more consistent ethical decision outcomes, where students acknowledgeother perspectives and were less likely to select decisions that avoid responsibility for theiractions. Student responses also indicated a positive experience with the new content deliverymethod.IntroductionEthics instruction in the engineering curriculum is fraught with
year which emphasizes project management with some rigor 2. Using the Scrum methodology for project management 3. Using upper-division students as Scrum Masters 4. Providing frequent feedback during all phases of the projectIn conclusion, we believe that our approach is effective in accomplishing our curricular andlearning goals, and can be replicated elsewhere.References[1] B. Pejcinovic, “Introducing Cornerstone Courses into Electrical and Computer Engineering Curriculum,” 42nd International Convention MIPRO, 2019, pp. 1427–1432, DOI: 10.23919/MIPRO.2019.8756847.[2] P. Wong, M. Holtzman, B. Pejcinovic, and M. Chrzanowska-Jeske, “Redesign of Freshman Electrical Engineering Courses for Improved Motivation and Early
nationally used test ofethical reasoning developed by the Office for the Study of Ethical Development at the Universityof Alabama) indicate that students in this course improved their ethical reasoning by 23% (N2scale) and by 18.8% (P scale).Engineering Ethics is a topic that is covered in the common First-Year Engineering courses atMichigan Tech. In the past, this topic has been approached through the analyses of case studiesusing prescribed strategies to solve an ethical dilemma. A new ethics module has beendeveloped that uses a modification of the phenomenological approach described above. A pilottest will be used to compare our current ethics analysis method and the phenomenologicalapproach. Both approaches will be evaluated using pre- and post
-focused positions and findings from other researchers and educators, we propose anasset-based approach to building faculty competencies for ethics instruction and describe threesets of faculty assets for practitioners to consider. Given that questions concerning the morepersonal, self-directing side of an educator’s professional growth have only been systematicallyexplored in literature outside engineering education, we hope that our examination of the roles offaculty and their assets may begin a similar dialogue in engineering education.IntroductionWith the growth of publications and shared resources coming to light for the engineeringeducation community, instructors are continually presented with new approaches and strategiesthey can apply in
Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering students’ identity devel- opment. She is the recipient of a 2014
research interests include Structural Health Monitoring of bridges using Non-Destructive Testing, and rehabilitation, retrofitting and strengthening of structures. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the states on New Jersey and Alabama, with six years of industrial experience.Dr. Namhun Lee, Central Connecticut State University Dr. Namhun Lee is an assistant professor in the department of Manufacturing and Construction Manage- ment at Central Connecticut State University, where he has been teaching Construction Graphics/Quantity Take-Off, CAD & BIM Tools for Construction, Building Construction Systems, Building Construction Estimating, Heavy/Highway Construction Estimating, Construction Planning, and
an interwoven fashion.These materials have been implemented in the Mechanical Engineering curriculum at UMASSLowell for the Mathematical Methods course, two Mechanical Engineering Laboratory coursesand a Dynamic Systems course. The materials have also been extended and implemented in boththe Mathematics Department and Chemical Engineering Department at UMASS Lowell. Also,the materials have been adapted and implemented in three courses at Michigan TechnologicalUniversity in the Mechanical Engineering Department. This paper highlights the overall conceptunderlying the new approach. A description of the project and modules (analytical andexperimental) under development is presented.Introduction (or Motivation)Many students do not understand the
., and Chandler, J. (2010). "Transdisciplinary Approaches for Teaching and Assessing Sustainable Design” International Journal of Engineering Education, 26 (2), 1-12. 10. Gutowski, T.G., M. S. Branham, J. B. Dahmus, A. J. Jones, A. Thiriez and D. Sekulic, “Thermodynamic Page 26.431.8 analysis of resources used in manufacturing processes”, Environmental Science and Technology, 43, January 29, 2009, pp 1584-90.11. Yuan, C. and Zhang, T. “Environmental Implications of Nano-scale Manufacturing,” book chapter in “Green Manufacturing: Fundamentals and Applications”, ed. by David Dornfeld, Springer, New York, in
Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 2005.[12] Streveler, R.A., Geist, M.R., Ammerman, R.F., Sulzbach, C.S., Miller, R.L., Olds, B.M., and Nelson, M.A, Identifying and Investigating Difficult Concepts in Engineering Mechanics and Electric Circuits, Accepted for Publication at the Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, Chicago, IL. June, 2006.[13] Ammerman, R.F.and Sen, P.K., “An Undergraduate Power Engineering Curriculum: A Unique and Practical Approach to Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry”, Accepted for Publication at the Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, Chicago, IL. June, 2006.[14] Floyd, H. L., II, Andrews, J. J
AC 2012-3099: A NOVEL APPROACH TO TEACHING TECHNICAL WRIT-INGDr. Chad A. B. Wilson, University of Houston Chad A. B. Wilson wrote his dissertation on hybridity and allegory in 19th-century British literature before transitioning to the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering, where he directs a technical communications program. He runs the technical communications course and helps other professors de- velop and assess communications assignments. Page 25.83.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 A Novel Approach to Teaching Technical
Engineering Education, 2019 Construction Management Curriculum for the Future: Changes and Challenges Dr. Ihab M. H. Saad, Ph.D., P.Eng., PMP Professor of Construction Management Northern Kentucky UniversityThe construction industry is witnessing major changes ranging from a leadership generationalchange to the emergence of new techniques, materials, methods, and contractual relationships, allcoinciding with domestic and international market instability. Construction academia is facingsimilar changes with a leadership change from seasoned faculty to a newer generation of juniorfaculty who recently completed their graduate studies, but in many cases lack the
AC 2009-2282: INTEGRATING REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE INTO A COLLEGECURRICULUM USING A MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN MINORJessica Brakora, University of MichiganBrian Gilchrist, University of MichiganJames Holloway, University of MichiganNilton Renno, University of MichiganSteven Skerlos, University of MichiganToby Teory, University of MichiganPeter Washabaugh, University of MichiganDaryl Weinert, University of Michigan Page 14.766.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Integrating Real-World Experience in to a College Curriculum Using a Multidisciplinary Design MinorAbstractThe real world offers tremendous challenges and numerous opportunities
only engineering and sciencestudents, but also engineering technology students in the general fields of computing,networking, communications and information technology.This paper describes an approach to teaching public-key cryptography to electrical and computerengineering technology students utilizing three computer projects designed to provide hands-onexperience with public-key cryptography. These projects introduce students JAVA BigIntegerclass and its built-in methods and open source cryptography libraries such as crypto++ allowingstudents develop public-key cryptographic applications. Instead of using a small modulus forsolely instructional demonstration, these projects allow student’s natural curiosity to bestimulated and result in a
Felder,R., Peretti,S., “A Learning Theory-Based Approach to the Undergraduate Laboratory”, ASEE Conference Proceedings, Session 2413 , June 19987 Pavelich,M.J., “Integrating Piaget’s Principles of Intellectual Growth into the Engineering Classroom”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, pp719-722, 1984, Wash, DC8 Dale,E., “Audio-Visual Methods in Teaching”, 3rd Edition, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 19699 Wolkson,A. “Employers Demand New Skills”, Machine Design, Sept 199210 Knight,C.V., McDonald,G.H., “Modernization of a Mechanical Engineering Laboratory using Data Acquisition with LABVIEW”, ASEE Session 226611 Onaral,B., “A Road Less Traveled”, ASEE Prism, September 199212 Wankat,P., Oreovicz,F., “Learning Outside
research makes the case that curriculum improvements andfirsthand learning in the classroom can raise retention rates [2].One of the core subjects in most scientific degrees and all electrical engineering programs is digitalelectronics [3]. Digital electronics forms the foundation of modern technology, enabling the designand function of computers, smartphones, and countless other devices. Issues arising from thecomplexity of concepts, teaching methods, and course structure contribute to challenges faced bystudents. Resources and approaches are available to ease learning in this area. The study of digitalelectronics involves electronic circuits used to process and control digital signals, with a focus onthe design process of combinational and
dedicated professionals and equippedwith specialized equipment, and other support mechanisms.Analysis has shown that the university’s investment in the various elements of our currentprogram compare quite favorably with the costs associated with the number of instructorspreviously used in teaching writing. Looking beyond the fiscal comparisons, it has beenobserved that a significant number of additional benefits accrued with this model integratingcommunication into designated engineering courses of each department. Whereas the previousmodel focused only on writing, this new approach takes a broader view of communicationincluding an oral and a visual element. Rather than being taught as a general education courseacross campus, the integrated format
Paper ID #32901Augmenting Traditional ME Curriculum with Digital Badge Microcreden-tialsDr. Andrea Gregg, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Gregg is the Director of Online Pedagogy and an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Penn State Me- chanical Engineering department. She facilitates faculty development to maximize teaching and learning efficacy throughout the ME curriculum, with a primary focus on online learning. She is also respon- sible for leading quality instructional design for residential and online offerings; facilitating an activity community of practice for Mechanical Engineering faculty dedicated to
engineerAbstractIn the fall of 2004 a college with five undergraduate academic programs decided to integrateservice-learning (S-L) projects into required engineering courses throughout the curriculum sothat students would be exposed to S-L in at least one course in each of eight semesters. Theultimate goal is to graduate better engineers and better citizens. Four of the degree programshave achieved on average one course each semester, with an actual coverage of 103 out of 128semester courses, or 80% coverage over the four years. Of the 32 required courses in theacademic year that had an average of 753 students each semester doing S-L projects related tothe subject matter of the course, 19 of the courses (60%) were considered engineering science,that is, not
AC 2010-525: A ROBOTICS ENGINEERING M.S. DEGREEMichael Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Prof. Michael A. Gennert is Department Head of the Computer Science Department and Director of the Robotics Engineering Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has worked at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA, the University of California/Riverside, General Electric Ordnance Systems, Pittsfield, MA and PAR Technology Corporation, New Hartford, NY. He received the S.B. in Computer Science, S.B. in Electrical Engineering, and S.M. in Electrical
, programs and analyses forthe benefit of the product, process, customer, and company. Unfortunately, the program name“Industrial Engineering” and “Industrial Engineering Technology” has been primarily tied tomanufacturing. Recently, much of the manufacturing base of the United States has movedoffshore. This leaves a considerable amount of the U.S. workforce focused on service-basedindustries. While Lean Six Sigma has matured in the manufacturing industries, its application inthe service areas is not as mature. This presents an exciting opportunity for IE/IET programs andcurricula to broaden their scopes, show that the tools developed for manufacturing haveapplications outside of manufacturing, and open new doors for students graduating from
is a graduate student in the Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering at Binghamton University, State University of New York at Binghamton. Currently, he is a research associate in the Industrial Engineering Department at Endicott Interconnect Technologies, Inc. (former IBM Microelectronics, Endicott). His email address is jsturek1@binghamton.edu.Sumit Parimoo, SUNY Binghamton Sumit Parimoo completed his Masters in Industrial Engineering from the Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering at Binghamton University, State University of New York at Binghamton. He is currently a Business Systems Analyst at Sanmina SCI, San Jose, CA.Krishnaswami Srihari
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work In Progress: Finding Correlation Between Multiple Math Placement Methods and Grades in First Math Courses for Freshmen Engineering Students in a New Engineering ProgramAbstract:This paper is a work in progress, evidence-based practice paper. The COVID-19 pandemicchanged the way a lot of universities operate, especially in the area of student admissions. Priorto the pandemic, some universities were moving to a test blind approach to admissions. Whenthe pandemic hit, many students were not able to take the ACT or SAT, and they were unable toprovide scores. As a response, Marian University was forced to go test blind on admissions, andthat policy was implemented permanently. At
challenges are not enough to worry about, someprograms are still working on how best to demonstrate within their curriculumprofessional practice issues facing current graduates. This paper will provide amethodology that one civil engineering program is using to address professional practiceissues within the curriculum.This paper will present the program’s current capstone course, the new senior levelcourse, and adjustments to other courses in the curriculum that provide coverage ofprofessional practice issues such as leadership, business practices, public policy andadministration, asset management, ethics, contemporary issues, constructability, andsolutions within a global and societal context. Through the sequencing of events andassessments of 10