. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020IMPACT OF NANOSCALE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING COURSE ON THE UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING EDUCATIONABSTRACTNanoscience and nanotechnology play a significant role in every field of our society.Nanotechnology is the backbone of high-tech industries and widely used in consumer productsand industrial applications. Therefore, it is essential to highlight the importance of nanoscienceand nanotechnology to undergraduate students and explain the science behind it. For this purpose,an upper-level elective Mechanical Engineering course, Nanoscale Science and Engineering, isdesigned and added to the Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering curriculum. This courseintroduces students to the
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strong evidence and discussions about the need to redesign engineering curriculum inmany countries throughout the world. For example, Landis[l] suggests a fbture in which most engineering taskswill involve the development and use of automated design tools, by both engineers and technologists. Hill[z]argues that the current system of engineering education was established with “old-era” industrialization as the ‘framework for engineering and manufacturing, and that to meet the needs of the new era, a transformation of thecurriculum is needed. As recognized by several authors (e.g., Kulacki and Vlachos[3] ), the coming of the post-industrkd society will fi.uther increase the demands for a flexible curriculum capable of adapting to quicklychanging
products.AcknowledgementsThanks go to the entire SEBoK and GRCSE author and core team. This team has made itpossible for us to have these type of discussions thanks to the extensive progress made in the first15 months of the project in putting a structure in place and developing an extensive amount ofinitial content. Page 22.461.12References:1. K. L. Alford, C. A. Carver, E. K. Ressler, C. W. Reynolds. “A curriculum framework for evolving an information technology program.” In 34th Annual Frontiers in education, FIE 2004.2. M. A. Austin, J. S. Baras, and N. I. Kositsyna. "Combined Research and Curriculum Development in Information-Centric Systems Engineering." In
Session 3151 THE IMPLEMENTATION OF LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS TOOLS IN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Samir B. Billatos, Nadia A. Basaly The University of Texas at Brownsville Department of Engineering Technology Brownsville, TX 78520ABSTRACT Post manufacturing life cycle analysis, e.g. design for serviceability and design forretirement, are surfacing in very structured methodologies and tools, primarily software. Thesemethodologies and tools not only impact environmental friendliness, but also impact oureconomical
2003-1978University of Toronto’s Staff of Applied Science and Engineering, this paper examinesseveral aspects of this important issue. More importantly, I hope that the work presentedin this paper begins a useful dialogue concerning both the challenges and potentialsolutions to help resolve the challenges by suggesting some training and professionaldevelopment to help both our own instructors and those in similar situations. Specificcases from our group are used throughout the paper to demonstrate its central points.BACKGROUNDUniversity of Toronto’s Language Across the Curriculum (LAC)Structure and MissionThe University of Toronto’s LAC mission is to provide engineering students with thewritten and oral skills necessary to effectively
Science and Mathematics, Engineering, and Technical EducationAbstractSTEM students face general education requirements in humanities as a part of theirdegree programs. Many students believe these courses are of little value to theireducation and career goals. Policy discussions at all levels of government has politicizedhistory education. History curriculum focusing on societal and political developmentsseems obscure to the high school or undergraduate STEM student. STEMstory focuses onengaging STEM students by examining history general education courses through thelens of history of technology. The study proposes curriculum for a U.S. history surveycourse focusing on progress in science and technology incorporating best practices
have involvedU.S. students. One of the impediments to recruitment has been a lack of timely, consistent, anduseful information on programs.The author obtained a FIPSE/USDE grant to develop a guide, consisting of institutional andprogram profiles, curriculum tables, and selected course descriptions. French and Spanish materialswere translated and converted to a standard format. The resulting Guide contains examples of over100 Canadian and Mexican engineering programs across seven disciplines. The observations in thispaper are based primarily upon information from the RAMP institutions.Engineering Education in North AmericaI wanted to determine how a U.S. engineering student could benefit from studies in Canada orMexico. Was there a professional
McKennaLauren Harter Lauren Harter is a Senior Educational Developer at VEX Robotics and has a wide range of experience in education. From teaching in the high school setting to developing materials that teachers use in numerous countries, Lauren’s experiences have shaped her contributions to the educational community. Lauren received a double bachelors in Mathematics and Secondary Mathematics Education from Duquesne University in 2016. Shortly after, she began teaching high school mathematics at Serra Catholic High. For two years, she taught 9-12th grade Algebra I, Algebra II, Trigonometry, and Calculus to a wide range of students. Lauren is nearing the end of her Doctoral studies and is conducting research in teaching
, UND is incorporating fuel cell education into itsengineering curriculum. Funds from the DOE award allowed UND to acquire several fuel cellsystems, including a 50 W proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell and a 600 W PEM fuelcell. This equipment is being used to facilitate teaching of basic fuel cell characteristics andoperation.Initial experiments are performed using a hydro-geniuses laboratory experimental setup. Thisequipment contains a solar cell, a single cell PEM electrolyzer, two single cell PEM fuel cells,and a small resistive load. Students generate I-V characteristic curves of the fuel cell and theelectrolyzer and analyze system efficiencies. In this lab, the students are given a memo fromtheir “boss” asking them to design a system
, it isproposed that similar energy savings are possible in a wide variety of industries for which certaincriteria are met. Criteria for successful implementation are proposed, includingrecommendations for changes to both industrial and educational paradigms that perpetuate sub-optimal system designs and implementations. Possible changes to existing curricular structuresare explored, and recommendations for an integrated, multidisciplinary curriculum are proposed.IntroductionOne of the most significant challenges facing humankind today is that of energy. Engineers andscientists of every stripe have been challenged to address the world's energy needs. Thoughthere is a great deal of excitement and public attention focused on alternative energies
life-long engineering learners capable of understanding the complex logistics ofsustainable manufacturing processes and communicating effectively with global colleagues.During the first year of the partnership, opportunities for global learning5, 6 by future engineeringmanagers were infused through the integration of common themes of global sustainability andscalability in existing courses7. A new course on sustainability management was introduced toexplore supply chains as a sustainable sociotechnical system and evaluate effective managementstrategies.A table of equivalent courses for partner schools is presented in Table 1. This table identifiesrelevant topics needed for the integrated curriculum and coordinates the topic with
. Kiefer and S. Kiefer, “Machining Experience in a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum.”[3] “Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) Machines: Definition, Types, Limitations, Benefits, and How They Work | Xometry.” https://www.xometry.com/resources/3d-printing/powder-bed- fusion-pbf-machines/ (accessed Aug. 24, 2023).[4] M. Hernández-de-Menéndez, A. Vallejo Guevara, J. C. Tudón Martínez, D. Hernández Alcántara, and R. Morales-Menendez, “Active learning in engineering education. A review of fundamentals, best practices and experiences,” International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 909–922, Sep. 2019, doi: 10.1007/s12008-019-00557-8.[5] R. G. Ryan and S. P. Prince, “Development of
and has been CAEE interim department head and longtime director of the Architectural Engineering program. He was educated at Harvard (BA, and MS in Fluid Mechanics) and UPenn (MArch). His professional interests are in teaching design, the use of information technology in education, and education generally. . c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Work in Progress: Curriculum Revision to Support Blended Project- Based Learning in First-Year General Engineering Laboratory CoursesAbstractThis work-in-progress report details the restructuring of a three-quarter first-year generalengineering laboratory course sequence ending in a term-long
Education Commission. Accessed on 15 November 2006. Available at http://www.tec.govt.nz/funding/strategic/growthpilot/growth_pilot.htm4. De Graaff E., Kolmos A. (2003). Characteristics of problem-based learning. International Journal of Engineering Education, 19(5), 657-6625. Seidel R., Xu X., McCarthy M., 2002, Making Design the Focus of the Engineering Curriculum, Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education – Leadership in Learning, Canberra, Australia, 30 September – 2 October 2002, 361-3676. McCarthy M., Seidel R., Tedford D., 2004, Developments in Project and Multimedia Based Learning in Manufacturing Systems Engineering, International Journal of
paper. However, it can be summarized that the process started in 2017 when the Vice Chairfor undergraduate education promoted the implementation of student outcomes 1-7 in thecurriculum to update our ABET accreditation standards. It started with a few professors exploringinitiatives to introduce in their courses. The implementation gained momentum with our practiceof providing direct assessments for every course and every year. This continuous improvementstrategy allowed for disseminating successful experiences and prompting faculty teaching othercourses to develop their own. Faculty voted to distribute the seven outcomes in the core coursesof the curriculum, guaranteeing that every outcome was included at least once in the sophomore,junior
teamworkability and innovation awareness of new engineering talents. At present, China has made a lot of efforts in promoting the digitaltransformation of engineering education, focusing on the training of talents in variousmanufacturing professions, but there is still a big gap between the needs of promotingthe transformation of digital manufacturing. In the future, China will continue toadjust and optimize the professional curriculum of higher education in a timelymanner according to the changes in the demand for vocational skills due to the digitaltransformation of the manufacturing industry, and promote the digital transformationof engineering education by appropriately extending the academic system, setting updual-major bachelor's degrees, and
critical challenges society faces. In the ever-advancing engineeringindustry, how would our Materials Engineering education system adequately prepare ourstudents with the essential knowledge and skills necessary to adapt and excel in their career?What are the learning outcomes that are required to support such excellence?To design these learning outcomes in our curriculum, gathering and analysing relevantstakeholders’ input is crucial. This paper presents our endeavour in partnering thestakeholders (students, educators/faculty, alumni and employers) to understand the gaps andneeds of Materials Engineering education. Consultations with the stakeholders were designedto rally around three main focus areas namely (i) to evaluate the existing
ObjectivesProgram educational objectives need to be developed that are consistent with the mission of theinstitution16. Rogers defines objectives as “the broad statements that describe the career andprofessional accomplishments that the program is preparing graduates to achieve”17. Other termsthat are sometimes used in place of the word objectives are goals or standards18. Whendeveloping program educational objectives the emphasis is placed on what the graduates of theprogram will be doing three to five years after graduation. Careful assessment needs to be madeof what the curriculum and program prepares the students achieve in the early stages of theircareer.The Engineering Technology faculty at MU developed their educational objectives to align withthe
semester of the ET Core are expected to routinelyuse their communications skills.The SC ATE ET Core curriculum has been the subject of two national peer reviews by a team ofnationally-recognized experts in discipline content areas, industry standards, and curriculumdevelopment.ii One of the reviewers, Dr. Arnold Packer of Johns Hopkins University andformer Chair of the SCANS Commission, said, "The SC ATE approach will, I hope, be thefuture of ET education."iii In fall 2003, the SC ATE ET Core curriculum was identified as oneof the top four curriculum products produced by the National Science Foundation AdvancedTechnological Education program. In an independent study, Western Michigan University ratedcurriculum products in the categories of
manufacturing activities, the testing activities, the prediction software and theprogram successes.Introduction Engineering summer camps are gaining in popularity across the nation as a means to getyounger students interested in pursuing engineering careers [see, for example, 2-7]. The Societyof Manufacturing Engineers Education Foundation sponsored Bradley’s adaptation of STEPS forGirls (Summer Technology and Engineering Preview at Stout for Girls), a University ofWisconsin – Stout camp [7]. Bradley’s adaptation, BEST/STEPS (Building Engineering Studentsfor Tomorrow/STEPS), changed the intended audience (previously 6th and 7th grade girls) andthe curriculum (previously R/C airplanes) from the Stout camp. This paper reports on theBEST/STEPS
Curriculum: a Vertical and Horizontally Integrated Laboratory/Lecture ApproachBackground The field of Electrical and Computer Engineering is expanding at an exponentially increasingpace. In every aspect of modern life, the work of this profession is evident and even essential;areas as diverse as transportation, infrastructure, entertainment, health care, and energy are allfundamentally dependent on this foundational discipline, yet the basics of a typical curricularapproach have changed very little in the past decades. If we are to educate engineers for thecoming technical challenges as well as the capacity to work effectively in multidisciplinaryteams, new educational approaches must be considered1. The engineer of the
nest,the question is what did we prepared them to do? Where might they go and what do wehope/expect them to do? Hence, the sequential process of program development is: • ABET Program Educational Objectives (PEOs) are broad statements that describe the expected career and professional accomplishments of the first several years following graduation that the program prepared the graduates for. • Student Outcomes (SOs) constitute the body of knowledge of what students are expected to know and attributes they will have developed by the time of graduation such that they will have the capability to successfully fulfill the program objectives. • Program Curriculum is the last piece of the process and is developed to
Mechanical 8.5 15.1 8.3 9.0[1.0] (VUT) * In these cases the social science and the humanities subjects are selected as electives from a range of subjects that include areas such as science, engineering science and management. The figures therefore shown represent the maximum Page 10.707.5 proportion that is allocated to humanities and social sciences.“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education AnnualConference & Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for EngineeringEducation” The manufacturing engineering course had the highest allocation, inAustralia, of engineering curriculum to management
M. Atwater, P. Ferreira Center for Nanoscale Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Illinois Urbana, IL 61801AbstractNanoscience and engineering principles are being incorporated into the existing curriculum andinto new courses at North Carolina A&T State University (A&T). This is been done in aninterdisciplinary manner, in several departments across two colleges on this campus. Thisbootstrapping effort has been invigorated by a recently initiated research and educationalpartnership with the University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in an NSF NanoscaleScience and
methodology for model-based definition and the model-based enterprise, geometry automation, and data interoperability and re-use. He currently teaches courses in 3D modeling, virtual collaboration, 3D data interoperability, and graphics standards and data exchange. Professor Hartman also leads a team in the development and delivery of the online Purdue PLM Certificate Program and in the development of the next-generation manufacturing curriculum at Purdue focusing on manufacturing systems and the holistic product lifecycle. Page 24.264.1 c American Society for Engineering Education
courses at WVU. He has several publications in journals, conferences, and book chapters. He is an active member of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Society of Auto- motive Engineering (SAE) International, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM), and WVU IE Leaders.Thomas Guy Azinger, West Virginia University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 20242024 ASEE North Central Section Conference Strategies for Improving the Quality and Effectiveness of Education Courses Omar Al-Shebeeb
in the curriculum in particular thosethat teach CAM for machining.References1. Wu, D., Rosen, D.W., Wang, L. and Schaefer, D., 2015. Cloud-based design and manufacturing: A new paradigm in digital manufacturing and design innovation. Computer- Aided Design, 59, pp.1-14.2. Vila, C., Ugarte, D., Ríos, J. and Abellán, J.V., 2017. Project-based collaborative engineering learning to develop Industry 4.0 skills within a PLM framework. Procedia Manufacturing, 13, pp.1269-1276.3. Barrie, J., 2016. Applications for cloud-based CAD in design education and collaboration. In DS 83: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE16), Design Education: Collaboration and Cross
Paper ID #41663Exploring K-12 Teachers’ Confidence in Using Machine Learning EmergingTechnologies through Co-design Workshop (RTP)Geling Xu, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach Geling (Jazz) Xu is a Ph.D. student in STEM Education at Tufts University and a research assistant at Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. She is interested in K-12 STEM education, makerspace, how kids use technology to solve real-world problem, AI education, robotics education, playful learning, and course design.Milan Dahal, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach I am a graduate student in Mechanical
this statement with the program outcomes for ABET Criteria 3 which includethe following3: 3c) An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability and sustainability; 3f) An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility; and 3h) The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context.Thus, integrating the theory and practice of sustainability into a curriculum is a critical issue forengineering educators to address. We seek to examine how best to insert these criteria ofsustainability into our