Diagnostic Problem-solving Approaches – Application to Thermal Comfort and Indoor Air Quality Ahmed Cherif Megri North Carolina A&T State University Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department Email: ac_megri@hotmail.comAbstract:The engineers are usually confronted to two types of problems: design or troubleshooting. Thedesign concerns the creation of a new product (in our case the product is a building, buildingcomponent, mechanical or electrical system) and the troubleshooting involves fixing an existingproduct using a sequential diagnostic.In this paper, we introduce how these two
specified in theschool district in fact had a broad STEM content, including covering many technology,modeling, and engineering design activities. It was also recognized that it would be important tonot only understand the curriculum as written, but also understand how teachers enacted thecurriculum in their classrooms. We had reason to believe that differences in teacher training, andexperience and attitudes towards STEM would result in differing approaches to instruction, andthat direct observation of classrooms would be the best way to understand and document theseinstructional strategies. In the first six months the research team spent time observing classroominstructional practice using a structured but flexible observation protocol (see
and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century,” National Academies Press, 2012.25. National Academy of Engineering. 2015. Educate to Innovate: Factors That Influence Innovation: Based on Input from Innovators and Stakeholders. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.26. Barry, Lynda. Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor, Drawn & Quarterly, USA, 2014, 2015, 2016.27. PechaKucha, https://www.pechakucha.com/ (Accessed: Dec 2024)28. Lupi, G, Posavec S, and Popova M, Dear Data: A Friendship in 52 Weeks of Postcards, Illustrated edition. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2016.29. Bode, CJ, ‘Make It Work’ With Tailor-Made Messages, Alan Alda Center for Communicating
©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Enhancing Student Engagement with Introductory Engineering Ethics Using a Blended Approach of Microlearning and Case StudiesABSRACTA new blended learning module was developed and delivered to all first-year engineeringstudents in an introductory engineering concepts course at the University of Guelph. In previousyears, engineering ethics was introduced to first year students in a traditional manner throughlectures and textbook readings. The new blended approach to engineering ethics included sixmicrolearning modules, an in-class case study seminar, and an evaluation of student learningthrough a ethics quiz. The microlearning component involved short online ethics videosfeaturing
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practitioners in theentrepreneurship and new venture fields. This prototype innovation canvas is presented to makethe tool available to a broader range of engineering educators as well as designers andpractitioners with the objective of encouraging use and seeking feedback on its utility.The canvas concept and associated tools represent an intriguing new approach for designeducation and for developing integrated product designs and business models. By integratingdesign and market content into a single canvas, the innovation canvas offers educators andpractitioners both structure and flexibility at the same time. While preliminary feedback on theutility of the canvas is positive, further testing, assessment, and refinement is needed to moreclearly
Annual Conference, June 2004.20 Kolb, D.A. (1984) Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development. 1984, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall Inc.21 Bloom, B, Mesia, B., and Krathwohl, D. (1964). Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. New York: David McKay.22 Vigilante, A., “Understanding active learning: bridging the gap between theory and practice, an exploratory study.” Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, May 2006.23 Smith, P., “Essential Aspects and Related Academic Concepts of an Engineering Design Curriculum in Secondary Technology Educations.” Dissertation, The University of Georgia at Athens. May 2006.24 Smith, P., and Ragan, T., “Instructional Design.” 1999
engineering is a methodical, disciplined approach for the design, realization, technicalmanagement, operations, and retirement of a system.The system engineering design concepts crucial for project success are: 1. Successfully understanding and defining the mission objectives and operational concepts are keys to capturing the stakeholder expectations, which will translate into quality requirements over the life cycle of the project. Page 22.1240.3 2. Complete and thorough requirements traceability is a critical factor in successful validation of requirements. 3. Clear and unambiguous requirements will help avoid
Engineer)Marjaneh Issapour (Professor) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Developing a Premier Wind Turbine Technology Program in the East Coast: A Novus Industry and Academia Collaborative Approach Dr. Khosro Shirvani; Professor Marjaneh Issapour; Conor Ricchetti Farmingdale State College/Renewable Energy and Sustainability Center at FSCAbstractThis Lessons Learned paper highlights the authors’ experience during a collaborative trainingprogram between academia and one of the leading manufacturers of wind turbine technology inthe United States. This program took
Paper ID #37040A PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING APPROACH TODEVELOP MINORITY STUDENTS’ SUSTAINABILITYKNOWLEDGE AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLSRubaya Rahat (Ms.) Rubaya Rahat grew up in Bangladesh, where she pursued her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). After graduating she worked for two years in a construction management company in Dhaka,Piyush Pradhananga Piyush Pradhananga is a Ph.D. Candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Florida International University (FIU). Piyush holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Tribhuwan University (TU
the real world of industry with hands on experience simultaneously with theeducation they receive at school.IntroductionCooperative education (co-op) has come a long way since its inception in 1906, but this journeyis far from over [1]. As our global market changes to more competitive state of affairs, theco-op educators need to encourage more employers to develop quality co-op programs. Thiscan be done successfully with some innovative approach among high schools, universities andindustries. The high school students or teachers can go for work-based learning experiences inindustry and get credit during the summer. This could be through an internship /apprenticeshipprogram at the universities or two-year colleges. This will help students make
became a business leader for specialty products (lube oils, asphalts, waxes, cokes) at Petroleos de Venezuela, PDVSA (1983-1998). He is a founding member of Universidad Monteavila (Caracas, Venezuela) (1998—2018) and became the Chancellor of this university (2005-2015), and the President of the Center for Higher Studies (2015-2018), including teaching in the Humanities. After rejoining the University of Pittsburgh, he has been teaching Pillar courses on Reactive Process Engineering, Process Control, Process Control Lab, and Process Design. In addition to technical courses, his service extends over curriculum development, outreach programs, alumni network, team and leadership skills development, global awareness
andcomputational burden that are typical of in-class, exam, or take-home problems in physics, cannow be effectively and quickly executed by computer software. This approach frees time forinstructors to emphasize concepts instead of procedures and helps students to master theunderlying science of their engineering disciplines with greater confidence and efficacy. Thispaper presents a comparative study between a traditional approach to teaching engineeringphysics, and an innovative approach that uses the computer software EES (acronym forEngineering Equation Solver), to convey concepts and principles of physics by minimizingmathematical manipulation and computational burden associated with the practice of problem-solving. This new approach and examples
analytics”; this data focus is the one chosen by Stevens.PopulationThe current article takes place at Stevens Institute of Technology, a small, private, urbancampus across the Hudson River from Manhattan in New Jersey. Approximately 3000undergraduate students are enrolled, of whom about 2000 are engineering students. TheEngineering Management Program is housed in the School of Systems and Enterprises atStevens and has been ABET accredited since the early 1990’s. It is this School ofSystems and Enterprises that has embarked upon the addition of a new undergraduateprogram in Industrial and Systems Engineering.Research and Results - Objectives and Curriculum of the New ISEProgramThe Stevens ISE program’s objective is to provide a rigorous general
Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities. Her research is in the areas of engineering education, including engineering case studies in undergraduate education.Dr. Peter Laursen Dr. Peter Laursen, P.E., is an Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering at the California Polytech- nic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) where he teaches courses on the analysis and design of structural systems including laboratory courses. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Adjusting to the New ABET Criteria 3 and 5: It’s Really Not Very HardAbstractABET has revised the criteria 3 (Student Outcomes) and 5 (Curriculum) of the generalcriteria. These changes have made it through
, Dr. Khnayzer has been recognized with several honors, including numerous Research Excellence Awards. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Engineering and Climate Change: A Liberal Education Approach to SustainabilityAbstractEngineering plays a crucial role in addressing climate change, necessitating a shift towardsinterdisciplinary, values-driven education. This paper examines the development andimplementation of a Liberal Arts and Sciences Curriculum (LASC) at a private university,addressing three core questions: WHY is such a curriculum necessary, WHAT are its keyelements, and HOW has it been structured and implemented. Aligned with the United
AC 2008-1097: INFLUENCE OF THE NEW CIVIL ENGINEERING BODY OFKNOWLEDGE ON ACCREDITATION CRITERIAStephen Ressler, United States Military Academy Colonel Stephen Ressler is Professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) at West Point. He earned a B.S. degree from USMA in 1979, a Master of Science in Civil Engineering degree from Lehigh University in 1989, and a Ph.D. from Lehigh in 1991. An active duty Army officer, he has served in a variety of military engineering assignments around the world. He has been a member of the USMA faculty for 16 years, teaching courses in engineering mechanics, structural engineering, construction, and
for improvement was that we introduce this topic earlier in the bioengineeringcurriculum. Students questioned why they were not exposed to universal design or accessibilitytopics until their senior year. Fortunately, the capstone instructor also teaches an introductorybioengineering course, so we had an obvious solution for introducing these topics earlier in thecurriculum. In the subsequent offering of Introduction to Bioengineering Problem Solving (thefirst course in the bioengineering curriculum), we added a new module on accessibility and UD.This a relatively large course, without technical pre-requisites. The course is open to students ofall majors (e.g., pre-engineering or pre-science), so we had the opportunity to teach a widevariety
Session 3448 DEVELOPMENT OF A COURSE IN FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIST Slade Gellin, Ph.D. Department of Technology Buffalo State College Buffalo, NY 14222AbstractAn elective, senior level course in finite element analysis is developed for incorporation into amechanical engineering technology program. The curriculum for the course is developed withthe varied roles of the mechanical engineering technologist in
principle of buoyancy. Fixed wing aircraft androtorcraft are based on airfoil lift. Rockets make use of mass expulsion to generate thrust andchange their momentum. We have developed a new approach for introducing sophomores tothese principles in Unified Engineering in the context of a CDIO (conceive-design-implement-operate) curriculum in Aeronautics and Astronautics. The active learning approach combinestraditional lectures with exposure to small hands-on experiments. The artifacts used toinvestigate these flight principles are helium balloons, balsa wood gliders and water rockets,respectively. The first learning objective is derived from a desire for knowledge integration oftraditional aerospace engineering disciplines: dynamics, fluid mechanics
training efficiency and competence/productivity justifies anyattempt to augment instructional training and engineering education. The shift frominstructor centred training to a paradigm of autonomous learning has become moreprevalent with each passing phase of educational research.This paper comparatively examines the performance of a control and experimental groupon a purpose designed knowledge comprehension assessment. The use of differingpedagogical approaches facilitated the study in examining the potential for an awarenessof learning style. Although taking cognizance of the heterogeneity of students,significant homogeneous patterns emerged following the administration of the Index ofLearning styles (ILS) questionnaire in relation to the
demonstratedappropriate levels of student achievement. Demonstration of design content in the vast majorityof civil engineering courses as part of Criterion 5 (Curriculum) also contributed to ourcompliance with this criterion. Explain basic concepts in management, business, public policy, and leadership.This requirement, largely based on the ASCE Body of Knowledge, presents new areas to becovered in civil engineering curricula. The requirements of this component are not included inthe ABET Criterion 3a-k, thus programs using the ABET Criterion 3a-k as their programoutcomes will be overlooking this requirement. An adjustment of the USMA civil engineeringprogram outcomes in 2006 in anticipation of the new civil engineering program criteria provedvery beneficial
exciting for the instructors and moreimportantly, they were even less interesting to the students. A simple need to brainstorm topicsfor new projects led to the exchange of many new ideas that would prove instrumental increating a team environment. This benefited all instructors greatly and ultimately changed theway the college would approach teaching its first-year engineers.This team approach is evident in the development of the Engineering Design course. As moreinstructors became involved, the course began to develop. AutoCAD was integrated into thecourse as a graphics communication tool, and the set of dedicated instructors (Gateway faculty)began their work on the team. The schedule and curriculum became more structured, yet stillallowed for
course in a new and growing School ofEngineering including the merging of two separate courses into one course with the learningoutcomes that serve the needs of students in four different engineering programs. There areother works published related to Fundamentals of Engineering course[18]-[21].This paper aims to describe and evaluate the success of a comprehensive introduction toengineering course incorporating a hands-on learning approach. Through hands-on learning, thecourse provides first-year engineering students with wide-ranging knowledge of the engineeringfield, fosters cohort comradery, and develops engineering skills in a fun, interesting, andchallenging manner. This paper will discuss several components of the course curriculum and
) Page 14.1290.3and faculty assistance. The learning objectives included developing problem solving techniques,improving communication, working in teams, understanding time management, understandingthe impact of problem resolution, understanding the relatedness of multiple engineeringdisciplines, and developing an appreciation of the courses in their engineering curriculum. Weused a multi-tiered undergraduate research approach which incorporated student advising andmentorship, weekly individual meetings (15-30 minutes), a group meeting (1 hour), reportwriting, and participation in national or local research conferences.The students were supervised by the CBE committee in conducting scientific research in theareas of biosensors and bioelectronics
©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Talking tech: how language variety in engineering curriculum instruction can ease delivery and engage studentsAbstractBackground: As accreditation bodies globally become more specific about faculty responsibilityconcerning creating inclusive environments, faculty need to understand and be supported in theirefforts to transform the landscape of educator approaches in engineering education. Soon, facultymust, “…demonstrate knowledge of appropriate institutional policies on diversity, equity, andinclusion, and demonstrate awareness appropriate to providing an equitable and inclusiveenvironment for its students that respects the institution’s mission.” [1, pg. 51]. This is
his research, he has devised a few teaching activities, including Lab-in-Class and Lab-in-a-Bag. He has received several teaching awards for his effort in developing the new activities. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Preparing Undergraduate Engineering Students for their Profession – A Novel Curricular Approach Joel R. Howell1, Christos S. Ferekides1, Wilfrido A. Moreno1, Thomas M. Weller2, Arash Takshi1 1 University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 2 Oregon State University, Corvallis, ORAbstractThis Work-In-Progress (WIP) paper describes a
school. Her research is focused on solving problems relating to educating and developing engi- neers, teachers, and the community at all levels (P12, undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate). A few of these key areas include engineering identity and mindsets, global competencies, failure culture, first year experiences in engineering, capstone design thinking, integrating service and authentic learning into the engineering classroom, implementing new instructional methodologies, and design optimization using traditional and non-traditional manufacturing. She seeks to identify best practices and develop assess- ments methods that assist in optimizing computing and engineering learning. Dr. Gurganus was one the inaugural
AC 2012-3285: ”GREEN PROJECTS TO PAVEMENTS”: A PROJECT-BASED LEARNING APPROACH TO INTRODUCING SUSTAINABILITYTO CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDENTSMr. Adam J. Kardos, University of Colorado, DenverDr. Stephan A. Durham, University of Colorado, Denver Stephan A. Durham is an Associate Professor in the faculty of engineering in the area of civil engineering at the University of Georgia. Durham teaches and performs research in the area of civil engineering materials, concrete materials and structures, and sustainability. Durham obtained his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Arkansas. He was an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado, Denver, prior to joining the University of Georgia in 2012
]. However, there are relatively few structured approaches to organizing,sequencing, and bounding such experimental prototyping. Given that prototyping is pervasive tothe design process through ideation, concept selection and design verification, it stands to reasonthat prototyping is a process worthy of scholarly attention. This research explores methodologiesto enhance prototyping during concept development, particularly engineering prototypes, i.e.those used to verify or improve the functionality, performance and operation of a novel device orsystem. Based on design context variables such as the total allotted time for the prototypingeffort, the methodologies introduced in this paper will provide practical planning for studentprototyping efforts