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discuss how the course design fostered team development in the hybrid learning envi-ronment. Metrics from each mode of delivery: in-person and remote, are assessed. These willinclude performance on individual and team assignments, and team member peer evaluations viaComprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME) evaluations.IntroductionLab experiences are an essential part of any engineering curriculum. Expected outcomes for theseexperiences are clearly communicated through ABET Crtierion 3, Outcome 6, which states thatprogram graduates should have “an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation,analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions.[1].” Beyond skillin experimentation, however
Paper ID #13499Nanotechnology Courses for General EducationProf. James E Morris, Portland State University Jim is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Portland State University, Oregon, USA, with B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Physics from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He has served as Department Chair at both SUNY-Binghamton and PSU, and was the founding Director of Binghamton’s Institute for Research in Electronics Packaging. Jim has held multiple visiting faculty positions around the world, notably as a Royal
in thelectures.Our curriculum contains courses with laboratory components. The eLabBook project ismotivated by the need to deliver some of these courses as part of a distance learning opportunitywithin and beyond the WSU multi-campus system. Specifically, the eLabBook is beingdesigned to support three courses: ME 375 "Manufacturing Control Systems", ME 475"Manufacturing Automation" and ME 442 "Robotics". Page 6.398.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationIII. The eLabBookImplementation of the
a key- Page 6.202.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationring tool. Throughout the year student teams regularly interact with their graduate studentmentors on technical and team issues. This is facilitated by the layout of our new capstonedesign suite that includes a CNC equipped machine shop, assembly area, CAD laboratory,conference/study area, and graduate student offices. The team-focus and technical excellencepromoted by our program is illustrated in the video clip located athttp
Paper ID #26974Virtual Instrumentation for Study of a Fluid Power SystemDr. Alamgir A. Choudhury, Western Michigan University Alamgir A. Choudhury is an Associate Professor of Engineering Design, Manufacturing and Management Systems at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. His MS and PhD are in mechanical en- gineering from NMSU (Las Cruces) and BS in mechanical engineering from BUET (Dhaka). His interest includes computer applications in curriculum, MCAE, mechanics, fluid power, and instrumentation & control. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio and affiliated with ASME, ASEE
weaves all the curriculum threads together. The new technology demands a new wayof doing things. It is not enough to simply use the new technology on old problems. Instead, weneed to take advantage of the power of the simulators to enrich the learning environment of ourstudents.Some non-admirers of a too hasty adoption of the ‘technical fix’ will no doubt be thinking thatthis vision of enrichment is an admirable goal. However, in attempting to envision how thismore demanding course of study could be implemented, these instructors look at the makeup oftheir current classes, with the ever increasing range of learner abilities and preparedness for theactual grade level and despair. This problem has confronted all of us and has caused a great dealof
Badging System is to provide an open-source resourcefor other campus Makerspaces that may be interested in controlling access to some equipmentand logging equipment usage. A demonstration system will be available at the ASEE conferencewith functionality determined by successful completion of the project by the capstone designteam and the vagaries of internet access. The complete plans and code for the project will furtherbe made available on a public website at the conclusion of the project in early May 2016.1 Kotys-Schwartz, D., D. Knight, and G. Pawlas, First-Year and Capstone Design Projects: Is the Bookend Curriculum Approach Effective for Skill Gain, in American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition2010
and as Associate Director, Engineering Education Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh; Director of Research & Development for a multimedia company; and as founding Director of the Center for Integrating Research & Learning (CIRL) at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. His current efforts focus on innovation of teaching practices in STEM fields and systemic change within higher education.Megan Sanders (Senior Assessment Associate) Megan is the Senior Assessment Associate in the Trefny Innovative Instruction Center at Colorado School of Mines.Stephanie Cutler (Assessment and Instructional Support Specialist) Dr. Stephanie Cutler has degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial and Systems
academic landscape of highereducational institutions in the United States. Their diverse perspectives, cultural backgrounds,and expertise enrich the learning environment and contribute to the global reputation of theAmerican higher educational landscape. The landscape of U.S. higher education has experienceda notable transformation in recent years, marked by the increasing presence of internationalfaculty, especially in the fields of science and engineering[1]. This growth is evident in datahighlighting that the representation of foreign-born faculty easily surpasses that of domesticunderrepresented racial/ethnic groups. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) datarefers that out of 11,599 new tenure-track (assistant professor level
graduation, she spent five years as a Principal Scientist at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Schenectady, NY researching welding and the thermal stability of structural alloys. In 2013, she joined the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University and was recently promoted to Full Professor. Dr. Tucker served as the Materials Science Interdisciplinary Graduate Program Director for five years and recently became the Director for the Design for Social Impact Program. Her research focuses on degradation of materials in extreme environments using both modeling and experimental approaches to gain fundamental understanding of materials performance.Dr. Milo Koretsky, Tufts University
outcomes.Development and successful implementation of a versatile capstone course assessment andevaluation system is potentially useful. Lack of effective assessment and evaluation tools canlead to false or inaccurate conclusions about the goodness of design processes. Yet, consideringthe ubiquitous presence of capstone design courses in almost every engineering curriculum,outcomes assessment of these courses is perhaps among the most under-researched topics inengineering education.Cost, time and quality are the three basic performance measures attached to any process. In thecapstone design projects we studied, time can measured in terms of number of weeks of totaldesign time, e.g., one 15-week semester. The cost can be measured by the number of personhours
in post-requisite mathematics and engineering coursework.To explore the effects of the Calculus reform on retention we focused on whether or not studentsare retained at the university immediately subsequent to the year in which they encounterCalculus I. We divided 3002 student records into two groups: those who encountered the newversion of Calculus and those who had the traditional experience. We then compared retentionrates for the two groups. We found that the new Calculus course improved retention (relative tothe old) by 3.4 percentage points; a modest, but statistically significant (p = 0.020) result.University retention rates for women, under-represented minorities (URM), and Pell-eligiblestudents were also computed. All three
., Colbeck, C., Bigio, D., Smith, P. & Harper, L. 2003. Engineering students and training inteamwork: How effective? Proc. American Society for Engineering Education Conference.12 Smith, K.L., Sheppard, S.D., Johnson, D.W., & Johnson, R.T. 2005. Pedagogies of Engagement: Classroom BasedPractices, Journal of Engineering Education, 94 (1) 87-101.13 Bruner, J. 1985. Vygotsky’s theory and the activity-oriented approach in psychology. In Culture, Communication,and Cognition: Vygotskian Perspectives, J. V. Wertsch, ed. New York: Cambridge University Press.14 McDowell, C., Werner, L., Bullock, H., Fernald, J. 2002. The effects of pair-programming on performance in anintroductory programming course. ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science
in designing the carfrom higher-level students. Therefore, no single group had to do it all, and no one’sgrades depended on the success of the robotic car.Spring 2000One of the classes taught at USI in the Spring semester is Electrical ProjectConstruction (Project class). The students are allowed to start with a schematic, but theuse of pre-packaged kits is not allowed. The students are encouraged to choose a projectthat they will enjoy owning and using, thereby utilizing desire as a motivational tool. TheProject class is structured as a first-time co-op work session3, with the author as theEngineering Manager of the Southern Indiana Engineering Corporation (SIEC), afictional engineering company that has manufacturing and marketing arms
. 07/10/2010.[2] C. Chatmon, et al. (ed.), “Active learning approaches to teaching [10] P. Pheeney, “Hands on, minds on: Activities to engage our students,” information assurance,” In 2010 Information Security Curriculum Science Scope, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 30-33, 1997. Development, October 2010. [11] M. Esmaeili and A. Eydgahi, “By the Students for the Students: A[3] C. L. Habraken, “Integrating into chemistry teaching today's student's New Paradigm for Better Achieving the Learning Objectives”, visuospatial talents and skills, and the teaching of today's chemistry's Proceeding of ASEE, Atlanta, GA, Jun 23-26, 2013
is within the College of Engineering and NaturalSciences at The University of Tulsa, so my observations are relevant with respect to calculus forengineering students.Much has stayed the same, but the use of technology, student demographics, studentacademic/social support, the curriculum, and the way calculus is taught are some things that havechanged, comparing my calculus experiences from 1967 to those of my students in 2016. Not allthe changes appear to be for the better, and there are tradeoffs. The discussion focuses primarilyon anecdotal examples, although some statistical data are included.1. IntroductionThere are studies on the teaching of calculus at the university level that give detailed histories ofthe pedagogical changes over the
. The results of this assessment should be useful toany program that incorporates metal part fabrication techniques into an engineering course. Page 15.954.2 “Just as one cannot learn to drive without getting behind the wheel; or to swim without getting wet; entry into the profession of engineering, particularly in the area of design, requires far more than sitting in a lecture hall.”1IntroductionManufacturing processes are an important part of the curriculum for mechanical engineeringmajors. Industrial employers have long called for newly-graduated engineers to have bothknowledge and proficiency in manufacturing, and they
significant impact on competence/performance. This path is exciting asit is the strongest path in this model. In 2012, a study [32] indicated a lack of belonging had beenidentified as an essential reason for engineering dropouts. Tinto also mentioned that sense ofbelonging was one of the impactful factors on academic persistence [6], [7]. As an instance,when a student joins to a computing group/community, he/she may start communicating withpeers and friends, and realize that his/her own skills and struggles are comparable to others, thus,lending to his/her own competency beliefs. Besides, by participating in computing communitiesand clubs, not only can students learn new computing tools and methods, but he/she alsodevelops a feeling of support which
InformationThe two data sources below crosswalk SOC codes to CIP codes to program inventories. How could these datasources inform a program’s efforts to recruit high school students? Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education1. ABET. Criteria for accrediting computing programs. Computing accreditation commission. August 8, 2007, p.21-23. www.abet.org.2. Willis, C. and Mayo, N. Determining future job requirements by adapting strategic planning to curriculum revision. Journal of Studiesi in Technical Careers, v10, n3, Sum 1988, pp. 215-27.3. Barnes
meetings, written and oral communication skills, ethics and professionalism, completion of team project(s). • ECE 362 (Principles of Design): A junior-level course covering conceptual design, scheduling, project management, business plan, market survey, and budgeting that culminates in a written proposal and oral presentation requesting funds for development of a product.We report on the results of our using this method of giving student-generated feedback, whichhas been successfully used by hundreds of engineering students over the course of several yearsat RHIT. The paper and the poster examine CPR™’s approach to implementing peer review andhow these methods measure up to generalized expectations
and the Rose-Hulman Board of Trustee’s Outstanding Scholar Award in 2001. He was one of the developers of the Rose-Hulman Sophomore Engineering Curriculum, the Dynamics Concept Inven- tory, and he is a co-author of Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics, by Beer, Johnston, Cornwell, and Self. In 2019 Dr. Cornwell received the Archie Higdon Distinguished Educator Award from the Mechanics Division of ASEE.Matthew SnyderDr. Michael Anderson, P.E., United States Air Force Lt Col Mike Anderson is Associate Professor and Deputy Department Head of Engineering Mechanics, US Air Force Academy. He has been researching autonomous systems for fourteen years, authoring several papers relevant to the field including design of
the integration of project-based learning in undergraduate curriculum.The College of Technology at the University of Houston incorporates the framework ofproject-based learning into the undergraduate courses in order to dramatically improvethe quality of technology education.The College of Technology at the University of Houston approach to project-basedlearning in the telecommunications course involves a basic or fundamental overview and Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Educationtwo “Hands-On” phases as represented in Figure 1: “Basic” introduction
Thinking via Pictures: Getting Students Started through Graphing Stephen A. Dyer Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 USAAbstractVisual languages are among the most important to the STEM disciplines, but most students en-tering a STEM curriculum seem to have little ability to think or converse in any visual language.Further, there are few curricula that include a formal course in either basic graphics or the art ofapproximation. One foundational visual language is that of two-dimensional presentation of quan-titative information and mathematical relationships. This paper offers some topics to
2002.[5] Bilimoria D, Liang X. Gender equity in science and engineering: Advancing change in higher education. New York: Routledge; 2012.[6] Bilimoria D, Joy S, Liang X. Breaking barriers and creating inclusiveness: Lessons of organizational transformation to advance women faculty in academic science and engineering. Hum Resour Manage. 2008;47: 423-441.[7] Center for Health Leadership and Practice, “Mentoring Guide: A Guide for Mentors,” Public Health Institute, Oakland, CA., November 2003. Available online at https://www.rackham.umich.edu/downloads/more-mentoring-guide-for-mentors.pdf[8] S. Blake-Beard, “Mentoring: Creating Mutually Empowering Relationships,” Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership
SOCIETY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION, JUNE 2020 3Fig. 1. Our Community-Engaged Scholars outside the SF Exploratorium (left) and inside the AutoDesk Gallery (right).D. Engaging with the outside community In order to help students who were new to the USF community and the San Francisco area, we organized off-campus events(such as field trips) as well as on-campus events that informed them about ways in which they could be engaged in off-campuscommunity events. Mission Bit is one such local non-profit that trains software engineers to teach in the local schools andprovides them
M.S. in Chemistry from Southern University and A&M College and a Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science from the University of New Orleans. She is Associate Dean for Accreditation and Assessment in the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University, a Program Evaluator for the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, a reg- istered Professional Engineer in Louisiana, a former Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation, and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Dr. Pearson currently chairs ASCE’s Formal Engineering Education Committee, and is Vice Chair of ASCE’s Committee on Diversity and Inclusion.Logan C. Prickett
to fulfill our educational objectives, my personal opinion is thatour effort should be directed towards cultivating and increasing the ability ofstudents to think. That the ability to think is more important than the simpletransfer of knowledge is obvious: Even if a student learns everything by the timethe B.S. degree is awarded, a short time after graduation that engineeringprofessional (a) will have to obtain new knowledge, probably on their own (b) it is very probable that a few years after graduation, the young engineer will be the head of a group that involves persons from various disciplines; in that capacity simple, dry knowledge of facts will not be at all helpful; the ability to think, however, will be
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and conference papers in these and related areas. He has also published two books: Adaptive Nonlinear System Identification: Volterra and Wiener Model Approaches, published by Springer, 2007, and Princi- ples of Speech Coding, co-authored with Dr. Madihally (Sim) Narasimha and published by CRC Press, 2010. He is a Senior Member of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), a member of Sigma Xi (the Scientific Research Society), American Association for Engineering Education (ASEE), and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is on the edito- rial board of IEEE Signal Processing Letters and Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing. He is the Chair of the