can then build upon the designskills in the second semester capstone course via a real world engineering problem.Three-semester capstone experiences/courses, though uncommon in undergraduate programs,tend to be used when testing and prototyping are required. This approach is in place at the UnitedStates Military Academy (USMA) where the three-semester capstone model begins with a coursethat does not include an official senior capstone project.23 Instead, the course emphasizes the“soft” sciences, including “design process, methodology, project management, communications,economics and ethics.”23 Students are introduced to the engineering design process andmethodology, and they apply this knowledge to their junior projects before being immersed
Practicing Real World Design, Teamwork, and Communications through Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering Projects Richard R. Schultz and Arnold F. Johnson University of North Dakota Department of Electrical EngineeringAbstractStudents enrolled in the B.S.E.E. with an Aerospace Focus program at the University of NorthDakota (UND) receive a traditional electrical engineering degree, along with aviationcoursework and a private pilot’s license. Cross-campus collaborations with UND’s world-renowned aerospace program provide the students with many experiential learning opportunitiesthat satisfy EAC/ABET EC2000 design, multidisciplinary
interdisciplinary product development course for entrepreneurship students who come from across OSU.Kelly DeVore, Columbus College of Art and Design Kelly DeVore is an Assistant Professor and Chair of Interior Design at The Columbus College of Art and Design. DeVore received her Bachelors of Architecture from Iowa State University and a MFA Design Research & Development from The Ohio State University with an emphasis on Higher Education. DeVore currently teaches interior design senior capstone studios, has developed a course on design for social change, and mentors graduate students in the new MDes program in Integrative Design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017
outcomedid not improve very much. The instructor also did research on how other universities taught thesimilar course. It was found that some universities used animation, GUI design or computergames to stimulate students’ study interests 1,3, some integrated engineering projects (such asrobotics) into the teaching 4,5 and some used other programming languages (such as C and C++)or software packages (such as LabView) to teach the course 6-9. Even though all these previousresearch achievements are helpful, they are unable to answer the following questions: • Page 22.1378.3 What are the core programming skills that the engineering and
on a mechanical engineering program at asingle institution that has course-based design experiences during each of the four years of thedegree program. Data was collected through a survey given to 73 engineering students. Thequestions in this survey targeted student’s conceptualization and relationship with design, as wellas their demographics and course history. Open-ended questions focused on student responsesabout how they defined engineering design and what aspects of design they considered to bechallenging or straightforward. Closed-ended questions focused on how often they have hadopportunities to practice aspects of design, including working directly with a client and consideringsustainability in their solutions. The open-ended
degrees and academic careers in engineering; toaid graduate engineering students in preparing to seek employment in academia; and to increasepedagogical understanding and best practices in engineering education” [2]. The similaritiesbetween the missions of the Libraries and ASEE@SU, both of whom pledge to aid students inachieving success in their academic careers and beyond, and the desire to find the mostsuccessful avenues for connecting with graduate students helped to foster a mutually beneficialrelationship. ASEE@SU puts on programming throughout each academic year, mainly in theform of workshops and seminars designed to sharpen ECS graduate student’s soft skills. Theircore programming, however, is the annual Soft Skills Boot Camp, also known
AC 2007-2782: A WEB-BASED PROGRAM IN INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGYDarnell Austin, California State University-Fresno Page 12.155.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Developing a Distance Learning Program in Industrial TechnologyThe need for a distance learning program in Industrial Technology in California comes froma quirk in the state’s higher education system. This paper will look at this need, what it takesto set up such a program, including the transfer issues and discuss of the level of studentsacrifices necessary for their bachelor’s degree.Since the development of the Master Plan in the 1960’s, state supported higher education hasbeen within the reach of most
of script quality replace traditional marking and improve the validity of exam questions? Paper presented at the BERA Annual Conference, UMIST Manchester, England.Resnick, M., Maloney, J., Monroy-Hernández, A., Rusk, N., Eastmond, E., Brennan, K., ... & Kafai, Y. (2009). Scratch: Programming for all. Communications of the ACM, 52(11), 60- 67.Rowsome, P., Seery, N., Lane, D., & Gordon, S. (2013). The development of pre-service design educator’s capacity to make professional judgments on design capability using Adaptive Comparative Judgment. Proceedings of the 120th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition (23.1185.1-23.1185.10). Atlanta: American Society for Engineering Education.Schilling, K
, building performance modeling, is a new and constantly evolvingtechnology that changes the landscape of design on almost a quarterly basis. Themarriage of these two factors can empower design teams to make astute decisionsabout aesthetics and energy, while providing a framework upon which to manage anintegrated design team. The advancement of these two procedural improvements arefixed and typically segregated within academia, whose structure and programs often failto address the collaborative problems inherent within the professional practices of thebuilding industry. Like the way of other fragmented portions of the design process,building simulation can also be limited by its current siloed nature in the design andengineering disciplines. Further
BOK and corresponding ABET criteria. Our civil engineering faculty metrecently during a periodic assessment process to revise our program outcomes based on BOK-2. The revised Civil Engineering Program Outcomes for USMA are listed in Table 4. Table 4. USMA Civil Engineering Program Outcomes 1. Design civil engineering components and systems. 2. Demonstrate creativity, in the context of engineering problem-solving. 3. Solve problems in the structural, construction management, hydraulic, and geotechnical discipline areas of civil engineering. 4. Solve problems in math through differential equations, calculus-based physics, and general chemistry. 5
engineering mechanics. Before coming to academia, he was a Design Engineer, Maintenance Supervisor, and Plant Engineer. He is a registered Professional Engineer.Dr. Chell A. Roberts, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Chell Roberts is the Executive Dean and former Chair of Engineering for the College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University. As Executive Dean, he serves as the College’s Chief Operating Officer. As the Founding Chair of Engineering, Roberts led a clean slate design and development of a new engineering program created to be responsive to the latest knowledge on engineering education. He is currently leading the development of highly innovative programs at the intersection of traditional
professor at Virginia Tech with a joint appointment in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Education and is a faculty affiliate of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She is currently on assignment as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Di- vision of Undergraduate Education. Dr. Terpenny’s research is focused on engineering design and design education. She has been the principal or co-principal investigator on over $7 million of research funded by NSF and industry, and has published several book chapters, and over 130 peer reviewed publications. She is a Fellow in IIE, a member of ASME, and ASEE.Richard M. Goff, Virginia Tech Richard M. Goff is an Associate Professor
graduation rates.We use the data collected on a survey of students enrolled in the capstone senior design classes,placement data from the internship program and academic performance data to form a fairlycomplete map of the work-study question. We document that the majority of student jobplacements do not directly involve the university services dedicated to support such activitiesand that holds even if we only consider placements that are related to Engineering andComputing. The senior design survey gathered work histories of about 80% of the enrollment inthese classes which we contrast with academic performance.We consider issues arising from attempting to actively manage the total workload for students.We look at the role of industry who desires
models that supports students’ learning, classroom management techniques and best teaching practices.Dr. Jonathan Elliot Gaines, University of South Florida Jonathan E. Gaines is faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of South Florida. He is the Director of First Year Experiential Education and Learning. Through this position, he develops and implements the curriculum for USF’s Foundations of Engineering Lab course. He is also the Principle Investigator for Bulls Engineering Youth Experience (Bulls-EYE Mentoring) a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math based outreach program that uses undergraduate students to mentor middle school youth.Anna Maria Bateman, The University of South
AC 2012-3124: ONLINE DELIVERY OF A PROJECT-BASED INTRODUC-TORY ENGINEERING COURSEDr. Christa R. James-Byrnes, University of Wisconsin, Barron County Christa James-Byrnes is an Associate Professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Colleges. James-Byrnes is the Department Chair for the Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, and Astronomy Department for the UW, Colleges. James-Byrnes has worked in the road construction industry, taught at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich., in the Construction Management program, and has been with the UW, Colleges, for 12 years. She obtained her Ph.D. from Purdue University, her master’s from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and her bachelor’s from the
currently holds the title of Senior Lecturer and focuses on designing the curriculum and teaching in the freshman engineering program. She is also involved in the NAE Grand Challenge Scholars Program, the ASU ProMod project, the Engineering Projects in Community Service program, the Engineering Futures program, and the Global Freshman Academy. Dr. Zhu also designs and teaches courses in mechanical engineering at ASU, including Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Design, Mechanism Analysis and Design, Finite Element Analysis, etc. She was part of a team that designed a largely team and activ- ity based online Introduction to Engineering course, as well as a team that developed a unique MOOC introduction to engineering
consumer those devicesoffer customization to a level that was never seen before. However, such customizations requiredevelopment of computer programs to control the devices and data streams. When electrical andcomputer engineers are trained, it is becoming more imperative that nearly all acquire some level ofcomputer programming skills to effectively function as engineers in their careers. The nature of workperformed in industry changes as they progress in careers. Lack of programming ability andexperience may challenge their opportunities for technical and even managerial advancements. Forexample, a senior engineer without programming experience would not become a project manager ifthat project requires a significant amount of software to be
senior lecturer and director of ODU’s Motorsports Technology Program at Martinsville, VA.Anthony Dean, Old Dominion University Anthony W. Dean is Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology at Old Dominion University. He received a Ph.D. in Engineering Management and a B.S. in Engineering Technology from ODU. Additionally, Dr. Dean received an MBA from the College of William and Mary. Prior to his appointment, Dr. Dean was Director of Operations and Business Development for Clark-Smith Associates, P.C., and served as an Electrician in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS South Carolina and the USS Enterprise
AC 2009-25: AN ANALYSIS OF FIFTEEN YEARS OF THE NATIONALEFFECTIVE TEACHING INSTITUTERichard Felder, North Carolina State University Richard Felder is Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University. He is a Fellow Member of ASEE, a founding director of the ASEE National Effective Teaching Institute, and the recipient of the ASEE Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education and the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division Lifetime Achievement Award for Pedagogical Scholarship.Rebecca Brent, Education Designs Inc. Rebecca Brent is an education consultant and licensed program evaluator specializing in faculty development for
fundamental difference in how the programs managed security, which isrelatively new to the criterion, versus the other topics, which were generally present in previouscriterion.Figure 11 shows the high-level results of this study. Overall, for the verification and the design andconstruction topics, most programs have one or more courses that specifically target this aspect ofsoftware engineering. For the verification area, sample course titles included “Software Testing andQuality Assurance”, “Software Testing and Quality Engineering”, and “Software Verification, Validationand Testing”. In the design and construction area, sample course titles included “Software Engineering:Design and Process”, “Software Construction”, “Software Design and
Session 2125 The development of integrated professional skills in Aerospace Engineering through problem-based learning in design projects Gillian N. Saunders-Smits, Erik de Graaff Faculty of Aerospace Engineering/Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Delft University of Technology, Delft, The NetherlandsIntroductionAeroplanes and space missions have always had an enormous appeal to the imagination of thegeneral public. The desire of man to fly dates back to mythology in Ovid’s Daedalus and Icarusand many proud parents and
theydeveloped the survey [23]–[26] Table 2 presents an example of question (2) alongside the tenskillset areas students were asked to evaluate (1 corresponding to “not at all important,” 3corresponding to “very important”). Table 2 Survey Items Used as Variables in this Study Question: How important are the following skills for engineering design projects, in general?a Modeling and Simulation Programming Hands-on building Using Machine Shop Tools Written Communication Skills Oral Communication Skills Project Management Leadership Teamwork Skills Accounting/Conducting Cost Analysisa 1: least important; 2: somewhat important; 3: very important.Data Treatment and PreparationThe data
delivery during the pandemic.2. Online Course OrganizationThe online version of the introduction to mechanical engineering class is offered through theeLearning Black Board learning management system similarly to a previously designed onlinecomputer-aided design course [6]. The top of the course’s homepage, shown in Fig. 1, includes alink to the course syllabus. Immediately below that link is a schedule for the entire semester asalso shown in Fig. 1. The schedule is pasted directly on the homepage and “strikethrough” is usedfor the contents of the past weeks as a quick reference for students. The screen print, shown in Fig.1, indicates that it was taken during Week 9 because all entries in the schedule, up to Week 9 havethe “strikethrough
material, test-taking skills, and college survival skills. • Professional Success – career planning and effective presentations. • Engineering Information – career and advisement information and research presentations/laboratory tours. • Engineering Design and Problem Solving – creativity, effective teams, brainstorming, process design, and product design. • Societal Issues of Engineers – ethics, diversity/international issues, environmental issues/sustainability, medicine and bioengineering. • Personal Development – stress management and other wellness issues.This course is a particularly good class to do problem-based, cooperative activitiesbecause it addresses the goal of giving students engineering
Kris Jaeger, PhD has been a member of Northeastern University’s Gateway Team, a selected group of full-time faculty expressly devoted to the First-year Engineering Program at Northeastern Uni- versity. Recently, she has joined the expanding Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at NU to continue teaching Simulation, Facilities Planning, Human-Machine Systems, and Senior Capstone Design. Dr. Jaeger has been the recipient of several honors in engineering education for both teaching and mentoring and has been involved in several award-wining engineering educational research initiatives through ASEE and beyonDr. Richard Whalen, Northeastern University
the students to engineering design principles, teamwork, project management, andcommunication. Assessment of how well the program met the outcomes and specific learningobjectives was done in an electronic survey following the program and follow-up focus groupstowards the end of their first semester. Students indicate the program was successful in meetingall of the objectives, particularly familiarizing students with the University, building community,and introducing students to the design process through the service learning project. Revisions ofthe math, writing, and study skills components are planned for the second pilot program to moreclosely integrate them with the engineering projects. The overall goal of using the summertransition
Concrete – Growth of a Graduate ProgramAbstractStudents at The University of Oklahoma are offered an opportunity to participate in a locallyfunded undergrad research program, "Camp Concrete", which is loosely based on the NationalScience Foundations, Research Experience for Undergrad (REU) program. Forty seven studentshave been involved in this program during the last four summers. The research foci includestructural, and civil engineering materials. This successful summer research program involveslarge numbers of undergraduates in cutting edge, "pure" research.The organization and management of the undergrad research program is discussed. Challengesfor the faculty and staff include; locating funding support, quick implementation of the research
curriculum for their STEM program, he also has 14 years’ experience in the Civil Engineering Industry. John Ross has a BS in Civil Engineering, and a MA in Agriculture and Extension Education with an emphasis in technology, both from New Mexico State University.Ms. Elizabeth Ann Howard, New Mexico State University Elizabeth Howard serves as the Program Manager for the College of Engineering at New Mexico State University. Elizabeth is currently serving as the program coordinator for the Freshman Year Experience program at NMSU which includes hiring and managing the college mentors, and overall coordination of the program. Elizabeth has worked in the College of Engineering for the past 4 years in student affairs.Dr. Rolfe
generation, concept selection, preliminary design andproof-of-concept or prototype demonstration. In addition to lecture topics, which familiarize studentswith engineering and design, the essential tools needed to manage their time and projects effectivelyare also covered. Ancillary topics, such as technical drawing, materials and manufacturing, etc. maybe introduced, or substituted by other topics at the discretion of the instructor. Assignments followthe development of the EIC case problem and include both oral and written reports. A separate, butimportant, component is the ‘Way It Works’ team presentation, intended to cultivate lifelonglearning skills. Student teams identify and research a specific technology, and then educate theirpeers in a 20
as classroom management:Even in K-12 education, fewer than half of teacher preparation programs cover sufficientclassroom management practices [8]. Such student-oriented communication skills are alsoimportant for promoting equity in the classroom: Dewsbury [9] suggests that student-facultyinteractions may be the single greatest intervention available for addressing identitycontingencies—helping students deal with issues such as stereotype threat.Despite its importance, there is limited prior work on teachers developing these communicationskills in a studio context. Research on studio instruction often focuses on student experiencerather than instructor experience (e.g., [2], [10], [11]). Some of the prior work on instructors instudios comes