does not decide on a particular component unless they have done a prototype test to it. (Tech Rep)Part of the contextualization work [4] that the designers conduct also includes the broader markettrends, and long-term strategies for business growth. Yeah, so okay. If you look at the history of this company, um, the origins were in a relatively narrow but important field within mechanical and electrical engineering. It's called control systems. Control systems in an academic sense has a very narrowly defined, uh, context and it's defined by mathematics somewhat by computing and some experimentation and so on and so forth. What this company was strong at, and it in fact dominated the field
Paper ID #32786An Examination of Professor-Student Interactions, Stem LearningChallenges, and Student Adaptation Decisions During Covid-19 PandemicMs. Mercy Folashade Fash, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Mercy Fash is an enthusiastic and determined researcher. She is currently a graduate student at North Carolina A&T State University with the Applied Science and Technology Program. With a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, a master’s in Technology management and currently attaining a PhD in Applied Science and Technology, Mercy is a passionate STEM student who is purposeful about the
Paper ID #33644Building a Sense of Community in a Multidisciplinary, Split-level OnlineProject-based Innovation Design CourseDr. Melissa Mae White, University of Florida Dr. Melissa Mae White develops and instructs course curriculum in Engineering Innovation and Engi- neering Entrepreneurship to the students in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida. She works with faculty and students to build an ecosystem focusing on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship across campus and in the community. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering with a minor in
by managing uncertainty and complexity. The key question he is investigating is what are the principles underlying rapid and robust concept exploration when the analysis models are incomplete and possibly inaccurate? His quest for answers to the key question are anchored in three projects, namely, Integrated Realization of Robust, Resilient and Flexible Networks Integrated Realization of Engineered Materials and Products Managing Organized and Disorganized Complexity: Exploration of the Solution Space His current education focus is on creating and implementing, in partnership with industry, a curriculum for educating strategic engineers—those who have developed the competencies to create value through the
Robust, Resilient and Flexible Networks Integrated Realization of Engineered Materials and Products Managing Organized and Disorganized Complexity: Exploration of the Solution Space His current education focus is on creating and implementing, in partnership with industry, a curriculum for educating strategic engineers—those who have developed the competencies to create value through the realization of complex engineered systems. Email URL http://www.ou.edu/content/coe/ame/people/amefaculty/mistree.html LinkedIN http://www.linkedin.com/pub/farrokh-mistree/9/838/8ba c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Work in Progress - A Strategy for Assessing Learning through
different ways.1 Realizing this, effective instructorsprovide course content using a variety of methods to appeal to different learning styles and assiststudents in developing their ability to learn in styles other than their preferred.2-4 In-class andout-of-class content delivery methods often include: lecture, small-group discussion, problem-solving sessions, demonstrations, hands-on experiences such as laboratory experiments, textbookreadings, slide shows, movie clips, computer simulations or short instructional videos.5 Eachoption is created or chosen by the instructor and used by the students. Perhaps a student’spreferred content delivery method was not provided, rendering it unavailable unless they create itthemselves as a study aid during
Paper ID #26427 Bryan Hill earned a B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Univer- sity of Arkansas. Currently, Bryan is the Associate Dean for Student Success at the University of Arkansas College of Engineering. He is also director of UAteach, a secondary math, science and computer science teacher education program. Bryan has more than 15 years of experience in engineering student recruit- ment, retention, diversity initiatives, and K-12 outreach programs. Bryan is PI on STEM educational and outreach grants totaling $6.6m.Dr. Paul D. Adams, University of Arkansas c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress: A Path to
, and applied ethics journals. Herkert previously served as Editor of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine and an Associate Editor of Engineering Studies. He is or has been an active leader in many professional or- ganizations including the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, the Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the National Insti- tute for Engineering Ethics, and the Engineering Ethics and Liberal Education/Engineering and Society (LEES) Divisions of the American Society for Engineering Education. In 2005 Herkert received the Ster- ling Olmsted Award, the highest honor bestowed by LEES, for ”making significant contributions in
(examples: computer skills, laboratory skills, data reduction skills, presentation skills) should be willing to pass it on, and/or share it with their group members. Collaborative Skills- Groups cannot function effectively if members do not have (be willing to learn) or use some needed social skills. These skills include: leadership, decision making, trust building, and conflict management. Monitoring Progress- Groups need to discuss amongst themselves whether they are achieving their set goals; they also need to prioritize the scheduled activities, introduce changes if need be, solicit advice and assistance with the consent of the instructor, and maintain effective
four industry related MCpositions: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering; Architectural Engineering, Civil Engineering,Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering, and Environmental Engineering; ComputerEngineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Software Engineering; General,Biomedical, Industrial, Manufacturing, and Materials Engineering. Each MC is responsible fororganizing industry tours for their majors, communicating SWE opportunities (events,scholarships, etc.) and encouraging students from each major to join and participate in SWE.There is both a Resident Advisor from the engineering residence hall and a freshman residentwho serve as SWE officers and representatives on their hall council. They inform theirrespective
. Cain Center for Scientific, Technological, Engineering and Mathematical Literacy. She is responsible for developing and implementing continuing education programs for K-12 science teachers. Dr. Nixon has been teaching for over 20 years and currently works in the redesigned high school teacher preparation program. Dr. Nixon has Master and Doctorate of Philosophy in Curriculum and Instruction in Science Based courses.Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University Warren N. Waggenspack, Jr. is currently the Associate Dean for Engineering Undergraduates and holder of the Ned Adler Professorship in Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana State University. He obtained both his
AC 2008-1264: TEACHING CONCEPT GENERATION METHODOLOGIES INPRODUCT DEVELOPMENT COURSES AND SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTSKarim Muci-Küchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Karim Muci-Küchler is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Before joining SDSM&T, he was an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Iowa State University in 1992. His main interest areas include Computational Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, and Product Design and Development. He has taught several different courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, has over 30 technical
students in teamwork. Evaluating students’ ability to function onmultidisciplinary teams is a required element of ABET accreditation 1. Design experiences inwhich students work on teams are common at many schools, particularly in capstone designcourses. In fact capstone courses are the primary mechanism used by many universities forintegrating teamwork into the engineering curriculum. In a 2005 survey 64% of capstonecourses included teamwork 2. The importance of teamwork in the development of engineeringstudents is echoed by engineering employers. A recent survey asked employers of newengineering graduates to rate desirable characteristics; the three questions on teamwork wererated among the most important student attributes 3.Another reason there
student to the academic experience. An environmental factorthat Astin identifies as being highly influential is the student’s major. He concludes (page 371)that “Engineering produces more significant effects on student outcomes than any other majorfield.” Majoring in engineering was positively correlated with the development of strong analyticskills (page 237) and job-related skills (page 240); it was negatively correlated with overallsatisfaction with the college experience, satisfaction with curriculum and instruction, anddeveloping a diversity orientation (page 306). Astin’s findings led APS researchers to design astudy that examines the effect of an engineering major over time, looks at engineering studentsrelative to others, and considers a
specifically at the transformation of engineering educationto address these needs5,6.Engineering capstone design courses play an integral role in this effort. As a culminatingexperience for graduates, students apply their newly acquired knowledge and abilities topractical engineering problems. This experience allows them to make valuable connectionsbetween theory and practice, and serves as an excellent opportunity to develop criticalprofessional skills7,8. The value and significance of this course is highlighted by the inclusion ofCriterion 4, the professional component in ABET’s accreditation requirements, which states that“students must be prepared for engineering practice through the curriculum culminating in amajor design experience based on the
instructorsadded to laboratory sections as needed. Around ten years ago, it was decided to split the coursein two, with half being oriented to mechanical engineering and the other half to electricalengineering. This made sense since the Department of Engineering offered majors inmechanical, electrical and computer engineering, and student surveys indicated a desire for anelectrical component in the course. In recent years, the single Department has been divided intoa Department of Mechanical Engineering and a Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering. Therefore, it was decided to team teach the course using instructors from the Page
bring them into the service of man ... To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality.3This idea was echoed recently by Domenico Grasso, the Dean of Engineering and MathematicalSciences at the University of Vermont, in an article entitled “Is It Time to Shut DownEngineering Colleges?” Consider the following exert. …engineers need to grow beyond their traditional roles as problem-solvers to become problem-definers. To catalyze this shift, our engineering curriculum, now packed with technical courses, needs a fresh
. Sharing known skills- Students who possess certain knowledge or skills (examples: computer skills, laboratory skills, data reduction skills, presentation skills) should be willing to pass it on, and/or share it with their group members. Collaborative Skills- Groups cannot function effectively if members do not have (be willing to learn) or use some needed social skills. These skills include leadership, decision making, trust building, and conflict management. Monitoring Progress- Groups need to discuss amongst themselves whether they are achieving their set goals; they also need to prioritize the scheduled activities, introduce changes if need be, solicit advice and
need in the undergraduate curriculum. The problem stated at the beginning of thecourse included that a final deliverable, in addition to an experimental setup, would be areview-ready manuscript for submission to an ASEE conference.In this course, the three students (co-authors) formed a team to design and research the conceptof racecar traction limits and suspension forces through the design, fabrication, andimplementation of an onboard measurement and data acquisition system. This work gives anoverview of the project from the course perspective and details the results of the technicalportion of the project as well as those of assessment linked to course ABET outcomes for theentire class. The main purpose of this publication is to disseminate
, adaptive control, neural network control, networked control system, and optimal control.Dr. Aaron Alexander, Oklahoma State University Aaron Alexander is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Oklahoma State University. He received his BSE from Messiah College, his MSME from Purdue University, and his PhD from Oklahoma State University. Before entering academia he spent eleven years as an Acoustical/Noise Control Engineer in industry and still continues to consult in that field. His research interests are fluid flow, wind turbines, noise control, and computational fluid dynamics.Dr. Jeeyeon Hahn, Oklahoma State University Jeeyeon Hahn is an adjunct assistant professor in the
possible to pass the class.” -BobZ: Students’ perception of Linda’s ability to relate to the students and their needs creates arelational field of trust that balances students’ individuality, authenticity, and autonomy with thecourse needs. For example, Jacob shares the ways in which Linda becomes “more relatable” tohim through the specific interactions created in and outside of the classroom: “[S]he was very friendly outside of class. Like if I wanted to talk [about] something slightly outside the curriculum, she'd just let it go, like make that connection with me. I think that helped. It was like she was much more relatable than any of the other ISIM professors.”-JacobZ: Pat further ascribes the sense of personal “connected[ness] to the
computer code could fill,” “The stress was too much and the people annoyed him,” “Then as an entry level engineer he got fired due to budget cuts,” “Despite his initial success, the tedious process began to wear on Peter, and he decided to move to a new endeavor where he could be part of an engineering team again.” Male to Female Cue “Jessica started stealing from the company and not paying the em- ployees,” “She found the people tough to work with and couldn’t take it anymore,” “Jes- sica was overwhelmed with her situation, wasn’t ready for the responsibility and left,” “One day Jessica was working on a large project and she realized she had no idea what she was doing, her education didn’t prepare her,” “She was burned
interested readers will find a fascinating account in the review paper byNorton. 11What concerns us as educators is the dilemma of which approach to take when introducingstudents to tensors for the first time. Granted, the point is moot when it comes to scalars (tensorsof rank zero), since in that case the two approaches are identical. In a strange twist, however,while the geometric approach appears to be favored for vectors (tensors of rank one), 12–14 it is thecomponent approach that is conventionally employed for higher-rank tensors like stress, strain,and moment of inertia. 6–8 This transition between the two approaches mid-curriculum maycontribute to the confusion surrounding tensors. And the problem can be further exacerbated bythe added
Paper ID #19573Conversation and Participation Architectures: Practices for Creating Dia-logic Spaces with Engineering StudentsMel Chua, Olin College Mel is an engineering education researcher who works with postmodern qualitative methodologies, cur- ricular cultures within and inspired by hacker/maker communities, and engineering faculty formation. She is also an electrical and computer engineer and auditory low-pass filter who occasionally draws research cartoons.Ms. Tess Edmonds, Olin College Tess Edmonds teaches and researches sustainable and human-centered design. She has facilitated design and creative practices in
graduate studentsenrolled in mathematics and computer science were international students [1]. Moreover, thenumber of international students, both at graduate and undergraduate levels, has been increasingannually since 1950 with few exceptions [2]. Besides contributing to the ongoing research and development work at the universities,adding to the cultural diversity on campuses, and contributing to university’s finances throughtuition and other fees, international graduate students play an important role in the undergraduateeducation at US universities by serving as teaching assistants (TAs), especially in STEMdisciplines [3]. These international teaching assistants (ITAs) serve as laboratory assistants,graders for assignments, and
the South- ern Alberta Institute of Technology in 2012. He has been a sessional instructor at the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary, where he completed his MSc. in engineering researching engineering education. His roots in industry aided him in the development of curriculum for 3 new courses by aligning industry’s desired competencies for new grads with accreditation criteria and facility constraints. The result was applied education: practical learning activities and hands-on labs that prepared students for the real world and accelerated their time-to-competency once on the job. Connect with Brendon on LinkedIn to start a conversation. c American Society
University of Washington. His research interests include design education and Human-Computer Interaction.Kathryn Elizabeth Shroyer, University of Washington c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Design Intentions: Engineering students looking ahead to their future design behaviorAbstractIn this paper, we present findings of what students declare as their intention to engage in a designbehavior after they have participated in a classroom exercise. Specifically, we analyzed datafrom 73 students from two different classes in a college of engineering in a large public research-intensive university who participated in a classroom activity that took approximately 50
provides funding 1 for between 12 and 16 students to conduct intensive casestudy research in the Netherlands. Between 2016 and 2018, 42 U.S.- based students participated in theProgram. Each year, 12 to 16 graduate and undergraduate students from participating U.S. campusesare chosen from a diverse applicant pool. Students backgrounds cover a variety of disciplines, includingengineering, planning, economics, hydrology, biology, architecture, and computational hydraulics.Participating students are placed in interdisciplinary research teams composed of 5-6 students: 1-2 PhD,2-3 Masters, and 2-3 undergraduate students, guided by project faculty from both U.S. and the Dutchpartner institutions. Each research team is focused on once case study, which