industrial practice to slow down the depletion of energy resources and subsequentenvironmental impacts. Achieving these goals would be a complex gradual process and requires aparadigm shift in product and process design. In the academia, this awareness underscores need forreforming curriculum so that graduates of programs are ready to lead these changes in real life practices.National Science Foundation funds projects to update engineering curriculum for comprehensive teachingof energy utilization in different undergraduate programs. Among them, the process intensification project[3] integrated energy efficiency and safety in several engineering courses. US Department of Energypromotes best practices in energy efficiency, reusable energy, waste
4.324.2emphasize an analytical approach.5 The underlying assumption seems to be that students wouldlearn the necessary thinking skills for creativity, teamwork, and communication if they participatein a semester- or year-long design project or if the curriculum contained a certain number of hoursof design content. The end result is that industry has been spending millions of dollars teachingtheir employees the foundational skills (such as creative thinking and teaming) needed for innova-tive conceptual design and problem solving in a global context.Our vision was to address this need by teaching these skills explicitly and then integrating themexplicitly into the design process. Our aim was to demonstrate how creative problem solving,teamwork, and
the students with a final larger project to apply the skills – technical and professional –they have learned throughout their curriculum. Besides the obvious technical challenges thestudents usually face team issues as they are commonly forced to work in teams, as well as issuesrelated to project management, written and oral communication and others. At some engineeringschools like Olin College1 the curriculum is designed to train the students from the beginning inteam oriented project work whereas at other schools like the University of Kentucky, where theauthor teaches, the curriculum is more traditionally formed and most of the courses are taught inpure lecture style with individual well defined assignments like homework, quizzes, and
for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. 9. Oblinger, D. and Oblinger, J. “Educating the Net Generation.” Boulder, CO: Educause, 2005. 10. Skokan, C. and Gosink, J. “Gender Participation in Humanitarian vs. Traditional Multidisciplinary Senior Design Projects,” Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. 11. Anderson, R., Anderson, R., Borriello, G., and Pal, J., “An Approach to Integrating ICTD Projects into an Undergraduate Curriculum,” SIGCSE 2010. 12. Brewer, E. et al., “The Case for Technology in Developing Regions,” IEEE Computer, 38(6), June 2005, pp. 25-38. 13. Dias, M. and Brewer, E., “How Computer Science Serves
, Suffolk University and the Museum ofScience had tables where attendees (students, siblings, parents, et al) could participate in hands-on activities.Figure 1 June 2015 Robotics Competition and Science Fair: the robotics competitionFigure 2 June 2015 Robotics Competition and Science Fair: the science fairPlease see a short video of the event: https://vimeo.com/134637558 .Participation of Suffolk University’s NSF S-STEM Electrical Engineering ScholarsA new feature of the 2015 Robotics Competition and Science Fair was the participation ofSuffolk University’s NSF S-STEM Electrical Engineering Scholars1, who come from Boston, andwho had studied at several of the same elementary and middle schools as the participants.Moreover, they are almost all
programs are required to take the Physics II unit. Thisunit syllabus covers topics such as simple harmonic motion, electric fields, magnetic fields,Maxwell's equations, and electromagnetism. The primary teaching objective of Physics II is todevelop student's skills in creating, validating and applying models that describe physicalphenomena.In the final quarter of the unit, students work in groups to complete a final project that involvesconducting an experiment in the Physics laboratories. Each group selects one experiment from aset of five options, all of which are based on concepts covered in the theoretical classes. Guidedby a script, students see in practice what they studied in the traditional classroom. The script alsoincludes a scientific
examined the workplace transitionexperiences of undergraduate queer engineering students and revealed a notable gap in the literatureconcerning transition experiences of these students. To address this gap, we have developed a new researchagenda that specifically investigates the school-to-work transition (STW) of undergraduate engineeringstudents. The aim of this project is to analyze and map the existing literature on this topic through a scopingreview (ScLR). A scoping review is a type of literature review designed to systematically explore and map thebreadth of available evidence on a specific topic (Samnani et al., 2017). It identifies key concepts, researchgaps, and the variety of study designs within a field (Grant & Booth, 2009). For
andEngineering Technology (CSET) and Information Technology (IT). The IT program is offered inpartnership with the College of Business Administration (COBA).The CSE program grew out of the EE curriculum and resides in our Electrical Engineering andComputer Science (EECS) department. Thus, it draws from the tradition of EE and EAC/ABETaccredited programs. Our CSE program has been EAC accredited since 1988 and CACaccredited since 1991. The CSET program grew out of the ET curriculum and resides in ourEngineering Technology (ET) department. It draws on the tradition of ET and TAC/ABETaccredited programs. The CSET program has been TAC accredited since 2000 and CACaccredited since 2006
Paper ID #20034Engagement in Practice: Outreach Program to Introduce Computer Scienceto Middle School StudentsMr. Sifat Islam, Florida Atlantic University Sifat Islam is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, FL. He earned his MS degree in computer engineering from FAU. He has over 10 years of experience on variety of software projects starting from requirement gathering to post implementation. His current research interests include Educational Data Mining and Semantic Web.Dr. Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic
Technology/Engineering Standards (seeappendix).The units of EiE selected as most appropriate to each school district's science curriculum,the grade in which the unit will be used and the field of engineering on which the unitfocuses are shown in Table I. Each unit of EiE is also adjustable to different ability levelswithin a grade or a classroom. Table I: Units of Engineering is Elementary by School System District Grade Engineering is Elementary Unit Title Engineering Field Billerica 4 An Alarming Idea: Designing Alarm Circuits Electrical Billerica 5 Marvelous Machines: Making Work Easier Industrial Chelmsford 4 Marvelous Machines: Making Work Easier Industrial
]. Hsu et al. developed an Arduino-based glucose sensor for educational use [2].Olansen et al pioneered one of the first remote bioinstrumentation labs in 2000, highlighting earlyefforts to expand access to hands-on learning[40]. Adorno et al. explored inquiry-based learningfor electroretinography (ERG) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) [41]. Franz etal. conducted a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and electromyography (EMG)lab, where 95.8% of students (n = 24 third-year biomedical engineering students) demonstratedimproved learning outcomes [42]. Finally, Montesinos et al. investigated the use of wearabledevices in the classroom, finding that student interest and motivation were identical between thecontrol and
-arts-educational-information/medical-device-tear-down-seven-tips/4. Dempsey, Paul. "Reviews consumer technology; The Teardown right to repair," Engineering & Technology, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 68-69, April 2022, doi: 10.1049/et.2022.0324.5. Gallagher, Keith, Cem Caner and Jenifer Deignan, "The Law and Reverse Engineering," 2012 19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Kingston, ON, Canada, 2012, pp. 3- 4, doi: 10.1109/WCRE.2012.66.6. ISO 80601-2-61:2017. Medical electrical equipment — Part 2-61: Particular requirements for basic safety and essential performance of pulse oximeter equipment, https://www.iso.org/standard/67963.html.7. Exemptions (2018 Requirements). Subpart A. Basic HHS Policy for Protection of Human Research
design courses deserve a renewed sense of importance as students strive to concludethe academic experience and prepare themselves for transition to professional practice [10, 20,28]. It is an ABET accreditation requirement within AE Programs that graduates have a synthesislevel of knowledge in one of the four traditional AE disciplines (HVAC, Lighting/electrical,Construction, or Structural), with appropriate levels of application and comprehension of the otherthree disciplines [30]. Capstones provide excellent mechanisms for developing new leadersamongst the cohort of graduating students in these areas [26,30].Many researchers such as Dutson et al. [12]; Labossière and Roy [21]; and Todd et al. [32] haverevealed that there is significant
Accreditation Commission, ABET, Inc.; M/S – Mathematics andScience; ET – Engineering Topics** CE: EAC – ABET Civil Engineering Program CriteriaBecause of the diversity in program offerings, curriculum data from the 2017 study were used asa starting point to develop a three-year civil engineering program. Table 1 outlines the results ofthe 2017 study and a proposed three-year curriculum that meets EAC-ABET Criterion 5 and theEAC-ABET civil engineering program criteria. A close examination of both the EAC-ABETgeneral criteria and the civil engineering program criteria reveals that there are no minimum timerequirements for students to complete an accredited civil engineering degree.The course topics in column one are courses that are currently required in
averages than those of MET or EET. These data suggesta distinct difference between the number of women in engineering versus an ET program, butcould also reflect interest or familiarity with the CE field. A potential clearly exists to increasethe female population in MET and EET, with a goal of approaching the school average of 8 -11% female students seemingly a realistic target for the future. National percentages inmechanical and electrical engineering are between 12 - 15%, further affirming this goal.III. Pre-College Recruiting Strategies at Oregon TechIn order to provide career guidance and engineering educational programs for junior high and
Overview The course invited students to explore the usage of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) tools and LargeLanguage Models (LLMs) in the User-Centered Design (UCD) process, as they considered the various advantagesand limitations they bring. It was established that interested students would need to have completed the departmentalIntroduction to UCD course (or equivalent) as a prerequisite for enrolling in this class. The course was set up as a mixture between a seminar-style and project-based structure, with daily readingsbeing due before the start of the class followed by in-class discussions and a short section of class periods beingdedicated to group work. The learning goals for the course were as follows: 1
clearly a need for students in control systems course in electrical engineering tobe exposed to these new technologies and systems. According to a report from the CoordinatedScience Laboratory at University of Illinois [5], "there is a strong need for curriculum reform inundergraduate systems and control engineering education. Moreover, it is the responsibility of theentire control engineering community to undertake this reform and to develop curricular materialsto support it." The reason for the need is that "most engineering curricular provide opportunity forundergraduates to be exposed to control engineering through only a single course… with a focusprimarily on analysis and design of linear time-invariant systems. This course often does
the VIP team allowed them to start the project up and getinitial data and results prior to the grants. Faculty from across campus repeatedly tell the leads ofthe program that VIP allows them to do things that the standard curriculum doesn’t permit - itencourages them to be innovative and inclusive in the ways that they engage undergraduatestudents with their scholarship.1.2 Credit Use Policies: Faculty Roles and Policy Impacts Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia USA Contributors: Julie Sonnenberg-Klein, Edward CoyleBackgroundProgram Operations: Funded by the College of Engineering Housed in the School of Electrical and Computer EngineeringStage of Establishment: InstitutionalizedThe driving force
University-Kingsville Dr. Abdelrahman is currently the Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies and a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University Kingsville. Dr. Abdelrahman has a diverse educational and research background. His research expertise is in the design of intelligent measurement systems, sensor fusion and control systems. He has been active in research with over 80 papers published in refereed journals and conferences. He has been the principal investigator on several major research projects on industrial applications of sensing and Control with focus on Energy Efficiency. He is a senior member of IEEE, ISA, and a member of ASEE.Dr. David Ramirez, Texas A&M University
clinics. Industrial affiliates of the College of Engineering aresponsors of the curriculum and bring exciting real world engineering design challenges toour students. The result: industry sponsors education and students provide expertise torenewable energy companies who can benefit from their scientific and thorough electricalengineering approach. This paper highlights one project and an optimization analysis thatwas completed by engineering students participating in the Rowan Junior/SeniorEngineering Clinic sponsored by SunTechnics, a world leader in photovoltaic (PV)system installation. During this project they learned many aspects of sustainability whilealso applying their electrical engineering knowledge and engineering economics skills
Objectives(Letters indicate the TAC of ABET TC2K a-k requirements addressed) 1. Graduates are prepared with an understanding of fundamental technical sciences that are integrated with the applied technical specialty, such as engineering materials, electrical circuits, and computer-aided engineering graphics, developing analytical techniques and problem solving skills necessary to adapt to technological changes, and for a career in computer engineering technology.(a,b,f) 2. Graduates acquire industry relevant experience within the academic environment through laboratory projects, experimentation, classroom lecture and demonstrations, and acquire in-depth technical knowledge in areas such as
management. The solarcar design project gives the students a practical example to illustrate the principles behindmultidisciplinary design.7Robots have been used in many microcontroller courses to enhance student learning andillustrate design problems. 8-12 Manseur’s paper discusses the details of an undergraduate coursein robotics. 8 The class content included kinematics, path planning, sensors, and concluded with arobot competition. On the other hand, Bishop et. al. discuss a robotics course for senior studentsin which they develop using Lego Mindstorms13 their own open ended mobile robot project.10 Inaddition, Weis discusses a course in which the students design the controls for the LynxmotionCarpet Rover14 in order to navigate a closed course.11
multidisciplinary which includes using distinctexpertise from multiple disciplines to address a singular facet of a shared issue [6], [7]. Bruceet al. [8] emphasized that in multidisciplinary collaborations, research from individualdisciplines operate independently. Multidisciplinary work in engineering usually consists ofmembers from different engineering disciplines working on the same project [9], [10].Indeed, multidisciplinary work in engineering involves and integrates principles from variousengineering disciplines, such as mechanical, civil, and electrical, but the scope is still withinthe engineering field.InterdisciplinarityInterdisciplinary work entails the examination of an issue from multiple disciplinaryperspectives, which are then integrated
conducting this project was course scheduling. Students intheir third and fourth years in an engineering curriculum, particularly at a small institution, areoften scheduled together with their cohort. All mechanical engineering students often take thesame classes, and conversely, all electrical engineering students often take the same classes.When allowing for work, research projects, and extracurricular activities, these classes may notbe scheduled in a way that allows students to easily work together on their capstone projects. Ifmulti-disciplinary collaboration is desired, departments must be flexible and communicate withone another to ensure that classes are scheduled accordingly.V. CONCLUSIONS This paper presented the results of a Xerox
after a course or a project although this has mostly been donethrough indirect assessments such as self-report surveys [5, 9, 11-15]. There are a variety ofdifferent surveys that have been shown to address EM in undergraduate students, one of which iscalled the Engineering Student Entrepreneurial Mindset Assessment (ESEMA) [16], which hasbeen shown to have both validity and reliability [17].Due to the nature of most EM studies, survey data is often only gathered for one class level suchas during the first year or senior year [4, 6, 8, 18-20]. Various studies have led to the inferencethat EM in students grows throughout their college curriculum [9, 13, 18, 21-22], though veryfew studies have been done that actually measure longitudinal
, Quality Measures LLC Dr. Gwen Lee-Thomas is the CEO of Quality Measures, LLC, a Virginia-based consulting firm special- izing in program and project evaluation, accreditation preparation, and capacity building. With over 22 years of experience in project evaluation and implementation of educational activities for over $100M in federal and state funded projects, Gwen consistently works collaboratively with her clients to maximize evaluation outcomes. As an external evaluator, Gwen has conducted over 70 evaluations in various areas with an emphasis in STEM-H related curriculum experiences at various colleges and universities across the U.S. Gwen’s work with NSF, USDOE, DOE, DOD, HRSA, and DOJ helps in providing the
Professional Skills Interview Skills Service Learning Real world project using service learning ( Engineering Projects in Community Service -EPICS) Plumblee Ii, et al. 19 Professional Skills Globalization Service Learning The article develops student organization. The experience help in fostering globalization through projects done in developing countries. Other competencies such as teamwork, communication and leadership will be also fostered along with
to add thecomposite material manufacturing into an engineering curriculum were shown by Zhang et. al. in2011 [9] and Sengupta et. al. in 2016 [10]. Hence, the engineering faculty of Univalle requestedthe aid of the Fulbright commission through its Specialist program as an initial approximation toa hands-on approach for the improvement of the manufacturing techniques in fiber reinforcedcomposite materials.The main objectives of the composite materials training at Universidad del Valle were: toimprove the education of Colombian mechanical/aeronautical engineers based upon theprinciple of applying theoretical knowledge into practice. The focus of the training was oncomposite aerospace structures. Secondly, establishing a lasting relationship
. Wiley Online Library.[5] J. Collofello, et al. (2021), “Dissemination and adaptation of the EPICS (EngineeringProjects in Community Service) model,” Advances in Engineering Education, 9, 3.[6] S. Bechara. “Engineering with purpose: The impact of community service-based seniordesign projects,” ISEE Pulse, December 16, 2024. [Online]. Available:https://www.embs.org/pulse/articles/engineering-with-purpose-the-impact-of-community-service-based-senior-design-projects/[7] D. Staudacher. “ECE students use senior design projects to help community organizations,”Electrical and Computer Engineer, University of Illinois – Chicago, January 25, 2018. [Online].Available: https://ece.uic.edu/news-stories/ece-students-use-senior-design-projects-to-help
“design” during the 4th year of the curriculum16, 29. Often, in the firstsemester of the design course sequence students form groups, select a project, learn the designprocess and generate a project proposal. Then in the final semester of the curriculum studentscomplete the project and defend it in both written and oral form.In 1994 and again in 2005 ABET-accredited engineering programs were surveyed to gatherinformation on their capstone design courses and the results were published at conferences of theAmerican Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) and the Institute for Electrical andElectronics Engineers (IEEE) 6, 29. A number of interesting observations from the survey resultswere made. Dealing with the way the courses should be presented