offerings of the course.3. The placement of the matrices in the course should also be adjusted. The two matrix typeswere completed during the same design stage (during detailed design and build). Future studywill include sequencing these matrices earlier in the design process. The second matrix could beincorporated at the end of concept design and the third during embodiment design at the end ofthe first semester. This could be further evaluated to determine how this affects the developmentof the design and the students understanding of the connection of the voice of the customer to thecomplete design process.4. Engineering students need practice on how to apply engineering analysis to open-endedproblems before reaching the senior year. In their
Paper ID #33168Augmented Reality Computer-aided Design Education (ARCADE) Tool toImprove Student Motivation, Engagement, and Spatial CognitionDr. Ulan Dakeev, Sam Houston State University Dr. Ulan Dakeev is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Technology Department at Sam Houston State University. His areas of research include Virtual & Augmented Reality, renewable energy (wind energy), quality in higher education, motivation, and engagement of students.Dr. Reg Recayi Pecen, Sam Houston State University Dr. Reg Pecen is currently a Quanta Endowed Professor of the Department of Engineering Technology at Sam Houston
of the two-semesters of course work. Pre-to-post treatment group comparisons and control groupcomparisons were used in the assessment design, which also compared the rubric-basedassessment with content analysis of students’ written responses to assessment questions.Results indicated that the content analysis was more effective in capturing students’increased understanding of the design process, and the reasons for this are explored.Specific changes for improving the assessment process have been implemented for theproject in the 2005-06 academic year.I. IntroductionMany engineering programs incorporate a design course in the senior year as aculmination and refining process for the engineers they graduate [5-7]. Driven byindustry demands
must demonstrate that their students attain: a. an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering b. an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data c. 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 d. an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams e. an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems f. an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility g. an ability to communicate effectively h. the broad education necessary to understand the impact of
“experts” who impart “truth,”(Fritschner, 2000). Since that time, more research has been conducted and continues to show thatactive learning strategies produce better understanding of course content (Crouch & Mazur,2001; Klymkowsky, 2014 Lucas, et. al., 2013). Such research provides the basis for increasedadoption of active learning strategies in higher education.3-Research methodologyThe described active learning technique has been incorporated as a part of the CE2210 -Mechanics of Materials class for three semesters, beginning in the Spring semester of 2016 andcontinuing through Spring of 2017. Mechanics of Materials is a core engineering course that isoffered to students from various engineering disciplines including: Civil Engineering
students, teachers, and the rules of the FIRST competition. The capstoneengineering students were immediately placed in leadership positions and assigned the task ofguiding the robot redesign process. This required them to understand the engineering designprocess, to earn the trust of the 25 high-school students who were enrolled in the TEAM 401project, and to lead and mentor the students to success. In addition, this phase of the project alsosignificantly enhanced the high-school student’s prospects of designing and building acompetitive entry in the 2007 FIRST Robotics Competition.In Phase 2, the capstone engineering students apply the design process to the development of theireducational tool/device which will be their final product. In this
prevalent today. This fact must be considered when recruiting companies toparticipate in a senior design program. Expectations regarding sponsor involvement must becommunicated during the initial phase of the relationship, and both the University and thecorporate sponsor must understand the time commitment necessary for a successful project Page 13.1409.8outcome. 6Any decision to have the company participate in the senior design program was probably madeat a level of management well above the engineer listed as the point of contact for the students
Conference, Future-Focused Thinking, Brighton, UK.[11] R. Valkenburg and K. Dorst, "The reflective practice of design teams," Design Studies, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 249-271, 1998.[12] S. Ahmed, K. M. Wallace, and L. T. Blessing, "Understanding the differences between how novice and experienced designers approach design tasks," Research in Engineering Design, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 1-11, 2003.[13] M. Mehalik and C. Schunn, "What constitutes good design? A review of empirical studies of design processes," International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 22, no. 3, p. 519, 2007.[14] L. L. Bogusch, J. Turns, and C. J. Atman, "Engineering design factors: how broadly do students define problems?," in Frontiers in
course Project Management Mastery and the Stanford Advanced Project Management course Managing Without Authority for numer- ous fortune 500 companies throughout the world. He is a Certified Manufacturing Technologist (Society of Manufacturing Engineers) and is also certified in Planning and Managing Projects (BD University); Ethical Fitness (BD University); Lean Manufacturing (BD University); High Impact Facilitation (Lore International Institute); and Project Management (Saddle Island Institute).Robert H. Todd, Brigham Young University Robert H. Todd is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University and the found- ing director of BYU’s Capstone program, Integrated Product and Process Design. Dr
AC 2011-2315: TRANSFER FROM CAPSTONE DESIGN: A MODEL TOFACILITATE STUDENT REFLECTIONSusannah Howe, Smith College Susannah Howe is the Design Clinic Director in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College, where she coordinates and teaches the capstone engineering design course. Her current research focuses on innovations in engineering design education, particularly at the capstone level. She is also involved with efforts to foster design learning in middle school students and to support entrepreneurship at primarily undergraduate institutions. Her background is in civil engineering with a focus on structural materials; she holds a B.S.E. degree from Princeton, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell.Mary A
has an extensive record of research in magnetic materials with a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics and a M.Sc. (Eng.) degree in Engineering Physics from Uppsala University. Presently he is chairman of the SEFI Working Group on Engineering Education Research (WG-EER) and co-ordinator for the Nordic Network for Engineering Education Research (NNEER) funded by the Nordic Council. Page 22.973.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Investigating student learning in two active learning labs- Not all “active” learning laboratories result in conceptual understanding
Paper ID #21534Advanced Manufacturing Research Experiences for High School Teachers:Effects on Perception and Understanding of ManufacturingMr. Debapriyo Paul, Texas A&M University Debapriyo Paul is a graduate student at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. He is pursuing a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering with a focus in statistics and data sciences. He is currently working as a research assistant in the Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Department.Dr. Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University Dr. Bimal Nepal is an assistant professor in the Industrial Distribution Program at Texas
building the mechanical part ofthe vehicle, adding sensors and computing hardware, and developing movement algorithms.Specific educational outcomes of the vehicle design aspects of the project included (1)understanding pulse width modulated (PWM) motor controllers, (2) power considerations inmobile computing designs, (3) Linux device driver programming, and (4) RS232 hardwarecommunications design.This paper describes the experiences of the split-team project, including successes and failures.Also included are recommendations to senior design faculty on how to organize and mentor suchprojects.1. IntroductionThis project consisted of two groups of four undergraduate students in the Department ofElectrical and Computer Engineering at the University
Rehab Ideas, a start-up company that has commercialized three patented products developed at USF. Page 25.363.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Creativity – Garden Analogy: An Aid to Understanding and Teaching Creativity "Imagination is More Important than Knowledge" Albert EinsteinThe nature of engineering creativity is not well understood. In his book, Design Engineering:Inventiveness, Analysis, & Decision Making, John Dixon1 states, "Though a great deal is still to belearned about the question, present indications
manager (PM) in astudent group ensures that at least one student is practicing project management skills, while thegroup, and overall project, benefits from the actions of the PM. In practice, student teamstypically follow one of three PM models: choosing one designated PM, a PM role that switchesbetween team members, or no project management model at all [5]. Understanding how studentscome to choose a PM model can inform teaching practices that can improve student knowledgein project management and better ensure project success. The faculty of engineering at the University of Waterloo is the largest engineering schoolin Canada. All 15 engineering programs, as well as a handful of other programs outside thefaculty, culminate in a capstone
Paper ID #31355The Imminent Educational Paradigm Shift: How Artificial Intelligencewill Reframe how we educate the next generation of engineering designersMr. Cheng Chen, University of Georgia Cheng Chen is a first-year Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia supervised by Dr. Morkos. Cheng received his bachelor from Central College of BUPT in Beijing and a master’s degree from Florida Insti- tute of Technology. His doctoral research interest is in using heuristic methods to study and understand the evolution of requirement networks in industrial system design. He also studies the impact of AI on engineering design
thecourse of the project.The final, and potentially highest impact, change to how teams were organized came about as the Page 14.1224.8result of comments from the electrical engineering department’s external advisory board. Indiscussing changes to the capstone design course, the advisory board strongly supported teachingdesign processes and identified a lack of understanding by graduates on the importance ofprocess in engineering organizations. One member commented that the department could dotheir organization a real service by providing some, but not all, students experience in projectmanagement. To implement this suggestion team size was
distributed teams Case Study [40] Establishment of minor Education program at University of TN to address engineering communication, leadership and teamworkA survey instrument has been developed to investigate leadership and communication withinundergraduate design teams. The survey tool specifically identifies leadership styles within designteams and was intended primarily to be used with undergraduate design teams [34]. This surveyinstrument served as the basis of a preliminary case study to understand the leadership
objectives, and use a structured process to select one or two concepts for further testing. d. Test product concepts to further refine the concept selection, create a preliminary design of the concept in an assembly drawing, and establish final specifications. e. Select, build, and test physical and analytical prototypes to answer questions about the performance of the concept. f. Develop a work breakdown structure and a dependency chart for a design project. g. Justify a project financially using fundamental engineering economics principles and practices. 2. Demonstrate an understanding and ability to use effective team processes
University of Oklahoma. Her research interests include the neuroscience of creativity and design, and using these insights to develop a person’s creative and design ability.Tess Hartog, University of Oklahoma Tess Hartog is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Her inter- ests include creativity, engineering education, and neuroimaging. Her research focuses on understanding creativity and divergent thinking in engineering students via the use of electroencephalography (EEG).Dr. Rafal Jonczyk, (1) Adam Mickiewicz University; (2) Pennsylvania State University Rafał Jo´nczyk (PhD) is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Faculty of English of Adam Mick- iewicz University in Poland
theirapplications. “ The relationship between understanding engineering and technological literacy isof special urgency during the high school years, since “technologically literate people shouldalso know something about the engineering design process” 8. “Technology is the outcome ofengineering; it is rare that science translates directly into technology, just as it is not true thatengineering is just applied science” 9.Today, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education continues to be anational concern in the United States. Technology and engineering education (the ‘T’ and ‘E’ ofSTEM) have seen increased attention in recent years. The National Academy of Engineeringcommissioned a study titled “Engineering in K12 Education” which
with limited treatment of engineering content. Many engineering faculty assume that Page 15.1289.2students entering their courses are well prepared with respect to materials design and selection. Ifwe again consider atomic bonding for materials science courses, it can be seen that this is not thecase. Following a natural science course, some students may have never heard of van der Waalsbonding2. So when presented with concepts about the structure and properties of metals andpolymers, students may have conceptual barriers to learning. The challenge for introductoryengineering course instructors is to build on student understanding of
Beitz Checklist which is acommonly used engineering design method for generating and refining requirements [63]–[67].To provide a baseline understanding of what design requirements are for the participants, theinterventions consisted of a 15-minute video lecture on design requirements. This lecturedetailed what requirements are, how they are defined, and then detailed how to refine designrequirements based on information collected. The refining portion of the lecture varied for thecontrol and experimental group. The control group’s lecture detailed an approach to refinerequirements using Pahl & Beitz’s methods, the placebo design method. The experimentalgroup’s lecture detailed an approach to refine requirements using the CERA method
Paper ID #37111Finding a Place to Belong: Understanding the Role of Place inDeveloping Learner Identity Among Students Returning toIn-person LearningDiana G. De La Rosa-pohl (Instructional Associate Professor) Diana de la Rosa-Pohl is an Instructional Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Houston. She is also currently the Director of the Endeavour S-STEM Program. Her areas of interest are motivation and engagement and how they relate to the success of low-SES STEM students in higher ed. © American Society for Engineering Education
. Diarmaid Lane, University of Limerick Page 25.343.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Constructivist e-Portfolios: The use of media in the collecting and evidencing of student learningAbstractLewis argues that there are a variety of generative cognitive processes that are more likely tooccur in technology education than elsewhere in the curriculum1. Design based TechnologyEducation supports the development of higher cognitive thinking and problem solving skills,where students have the capacity to express their creativity and innovation through thecompletion of
engineering (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data (c) 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 (d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams (e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems (f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility (g) an ability to communicate effectively (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a
Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) A Deeper Understanding of Technology is Needed for Workforce Readiness – Playing Games, Texting, and Tweets Aren’t Enough to Make Students Tech-Savvy Teresa Piliouras, Raymond Yu, Kristin Villanueva, Yingxin Chen, Holly Robillard, and Michael Berson, Best We Can Be, Inc. Jeanne Lauer, Garret Sampel, Daniel Lapinski, and Maigh Attre, AITE High School countries around the world [1]-[12]. Abstract— Technology skills
AC 2008-66: UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECT OF RESIDUAL STRESSES ONSURFACE INTEGRITY AND HOW TO MEASURE THEM BY ANON-DESTRUCTIVE METHODDaniel Magda, Weber State University Page 13.1313.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Understanding the Effect of Residual Stresses on Surface Integrity and how to Measure them by a Non-Destructive MethodAbstractIn teaching the theory of solid mechanics of metallic materials there are basically two kinds ofstresses that a component can be subjected to. The first are the applied stresses generated from aloading condition that the component experiences in service. This load can be either a static ordynamic where the
AC 2009-426: A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN CAPSTONE DESIGN AND K-12OUTREACHCraig Somerton, Michigan State University Craig W. Somerton is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Undergraduate Program for Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University. He teaches in the area of thermal engineering including thermodynamics, heat transfer, and thermal design. He also teaches the capstone design course for the department. Dr. Somerton has research interests in computer design of thermal systems, transport phenomena in porous media, and application of continuous quality improvement principles to engineering education. He received his B.S. in 1976, his M.S. in 1979, and his Ph.D. in
integrated manners by simultaneously incorporating various tools, and to conduct design simulations with incremental change of the input variables to answer "What if…?" and "How can I…?" questions. Range simulations or sensitivity analysis can be done to get the mechanical response for a given range of a variable to understand the interactions between design variables (Fig.5). Figure 5 Range simulation of a concentric buckling problem for an interval of column length between 6 and 48 inches at intervals of 1 in. to the critical buckling load or stressd. Convenience: To generate an elegant engineering calculation report to validate various input parameters and intermediate results (Fig. 6