understanding, success skills development and the project itself”, and “G. Motivating further development of the project to go beyond classroom but into real products for public”. Meanwhile, everyone rated either “quite a bit” or “very much” regarding the level of the capstone experience contributed to their development in the following areas: “C. Thinking critically and analytically”, “E. Acquiring job- or work-related knowledge and skills”, “F. Working effectively with others”, “G. Developing or clarifying a personal code of values and ethics”, “H. Understanding people of other backgrounds (economic, racial/ethnic, political, religious, nationality, etc.)”, “I. Solving complex real-world problems”, and “J. Being an
collaborative learning with peers and others through one or more of the following: working cooperatively with other students in class, observing and participating in the contemporary ramifications of various types of civic life or civic discourse, or working with civic organizations beyond the walls of the University.At most universities, the path to meet the civic engagement requirement is often found inservice-learning or community service programs organized in the social science or humanitiesdepartments. However, as a profession, engineering has incredible potential to promote andimprove the quality of life for both individuals and communities. Further, engineering projectsare required to meet codes, standards, and
Model of Empathy in Engineering as a Core Skill, Practice Orientation, and Professional Way of Being,” J. Eng. Educ., 2017.[11] C. B. Zoltowski, W. C. Oakes, and A. E. Cardella, “Students’ ways of experiencing human-centered design,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 101, no. 1, pp. 28–59, 2012.[12] K. E. Gerdes, E. A. Segal, and C. A. Lietz, “Conceptualising and measuring empathy,” Br. J. Soc. Work, 2010.[13] J. Walther, S. E. Miller, and N. N. Kellam, “Exploring the role of empathy in engineering communication through a transdisciplinary dialogue,” in ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2012.[14] B. P. Self and J. Widmann, “Access for all: Promoting universal design thinking in a rehabilitation engineering
aim is to help students and their instructors make more effective use of thedesign techniques available through a new cognition-based classification scheme based onwell-established cognitive constructs from the literature (e.g., Guilford5, Kirton11, andSternberg22). The proposed classification scheme is based on four components that are linkedto the design process and the cognitive diversity of the individual designer; we will describethese components further below. Specifically, in Section 2, we begin with a basic descriptionof Cognition-Based Design (CBD), a new theoretical framework under development by theauthors that integrates fundamental principles of design with well-established findings aboutcognition (including constructs from
, teaching entrepreneurship offersadvantage of avoiding those errors and misjudgments made by individuals who venturedbefore.19The academic propositions in teaching business to young people also apply in the teaching ofentrepreneurship. The number of businesses created and the economic impact ofentrepreneurship courses and programs at Stanford, MIT, University of Texas-Austin and otherleading universities is testimony to the fact that entrepreneurship skills and know-how can betaught and entrepreneurs can be nurtured through supporting programs in university-basedincubators, entrepreneur associations and local business networks.15, 16, 17, 18Important Factors Impacting New Venture CreationBenjamin Mokry20 suggests that in order to create a more
courses fornon-electrical engineering students [6], but dynamic systems modeling courses tend to focus onmore traditional approaches [7].The sequence of the laboratories basically begins with a review of C programming, analog inputs,Pulse Width Modulated (PWM) outputs and interrupt driven subroutines. Through the following Page 9.68.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationlaboratories students create and analyze a variety of velocity and position control systems. Thelaboratory exercise
. European Journal of Engineering Education, 31(01), 35–42.12. Geisinger, B. N., & Raman, D. R. (2013). Why they leave: Understanding student attrition from engineering majors. International Journal of Engineering Education, 29(4), 914.13. Godwin, A., & Potvin, G. (2015). Fostering female belongingness in engineering through the lens of critical engineering agency. International Journal of Engineering Education, 31(4), 938-952.14. Pierrakos, O., Beam, T. K., Constantz, J., Johri, A., & Anderson, R. (2009, October). On the development of a professional identity: Engineering persisters vs engineering switchers. In Frontiers in Education Conference, 2009. FIE'09. 39th IEEE (pp. 1-6). IEEE.15. Seymour, E. H., &
,. Building Wireless Sensor Networks: With Zigbee, Xbee, Arduino, and Processing, O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2010.[9] Wikipedia website. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-232[10] B. Phillips, C. Stewart, B. Hardy, and K. Marsicano, Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 2nd edition, 2015.[11] D. Wolber at. al., App Inventor 2, 2nd edition, O'Reilly Media, Inc, 2014.[12] MIT App Inventor website. http://explore.appinventor.mit.edu[13] J. N. Robbins, Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, CSS, Graphics, and Beyond. O'Reilly Media, Inc, 2012.[14] S. R. Madden et. al., “TinyDB: an Acquisitional Query Processing System for Sensor Networks,” ACM Trans. Database System, March 2005.
connected bodies are particularly important. This class ofproblems, which takes students significantly beyond what they learn in physics, offersexperience that is most relevant to applying Statics to practical engineering systems. Recentwork by the author1 has set out to identify and organize the conceptual content of Statics,with particular focus on those concepts that underlie multi-body Statics problems. Fourclusters of concepts were proposed, along with a set of skills for implementing thoseconcepts. While mathematical skills, (e.g., resolving and combining forces and computingmoments due to forces), are needed for Statics, for our purposes here they are not a part of theconceptual content of Statics. The concepts and skills were then mapped to
(CEEGR 100) during Fall Quarter 2001.The course was partly modeled as a freshman seminar, since it focused on the use of guestspeakers and active learning tools to illustrate the practical aspects of c ivil engineering and howit affects the daily lives of all people in the form of water conveyance, structures, transportationand beyond. Another purpose of this course was to introduce each member of the faculty byproviding at least one lecture in their field of expertise. The ultimate objective was to providethe student with a real sense of why they will be taught some of the topics during their first twoyears that may otherwise seem to be esoteric in nature. In other words, the course was intendedto demonstrate all of the interesting things that
. The valuableaccess to our industrial partners through digital network will keep our curriculum within the context of oursociety’s needs.AcknowledgmentsThis project is funded by AT&T Foundation and Penn State Center for Academic Computing, withadditional supported provided by National Science Foundation sponsored Engineering Education CoalitionECSEL. Page 1.23.6 1996 ASEE Annual Conference ProceedingsReferences1. Koen, V. (1994). Toward a Strategy for Teaching Engineering Design. Journal of Engineering Education, v.83, n.3, pp. 193-201.2. King, J. A., and Evans, K. M. (1991). Can
Columbia. Her research attempts to merge the fields of engineering and psychology - focusing specifically on engineering education. Her passion for the human psycho extends far beyond psychology and she is proud to bring her unique perspectives into engineering education research.Yves Pauchard, University of CalgaryDr. Mohammad Moshirpour, University of Calgary Dr. Mohammad Moshirpour is an instructor of Software Engineering at the Schulich School of Engineer, University of Calgary. His research interests are the area of software architecture, software requirements engineering, design, implementation and analysi ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Developing a Process for Software
appropriate sustainability content into those mid-level courses.Our larger project includes five major areas of work, some of which have been publishedpreviously. This paper will focus on the fifth area, where we discuss with sustainabilityeducation experts what they think should be in our assessment framework through a professionalconference, online conversations, and a workshop, and we introduce the framework itself.First, however, in the interest of providing context, here are summaries of all five studies:(1) To develop this framework, we began by doing a content analysis of existing literature published on sustainability in engineering education.7 We found ecofeminist theory8–10 and polarity management tools11 useful for understanding why
of creating an impact in the world, specificallythrough business. (so, it’s a step beyond just innovation)”. Another student expressed, “Findingways to make you/others’ lives better through a product/service/or idea”. As a result, there arestudents who believe creating an impact in the community or in their field is a greater aspect ofentrepreneurship.Self-perceptions of being entrepreneurialWhen engineering students were asked to reflect on their self-perception of entrepreneurship,students’ responses are focused on the general “yes” or “no” question, “Do you see yourself asentrepreneurial? If you answered YES, please indicate why? If you answered NO, please indicatewhy?” Out of the total number of respondents (n=194), 62% (N=121) of the
argument for using photo elicitation is that the form used forrepresenting ideas can influence what people are able to say about an idea. Images, havingaffordances distinct from text or text-based language, enable people to talk about different kindsof things in different ways.25 For example, photos are a way to access participants’ tacitknowledge or what they might be hesitant to share. Further, photos help participants explaintheir experiences in terms of metaphors; individuals who “know it when they see it” can use animage to explain their thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Lived experience can be difficult toarticulate because it can be an unconscious process. Photos help to draw these ideas out into theopen and get beyond the limitations of
, PhD, is a post-doctoral research associate in the General Engineering department in the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, where she innovatively integrates social justice, humanitarian advancement, and peace into the traditional engineering canon. Before joining USD in August 2017, Bre spent 9 years at Clemson University, where she was a three-time graduate of the bioengineering program (BS, MS, and PhD), founder of The Design & Entrepreneurship Network (DEN), and Division I rower. In her spare time, Bre teaches design thinking workshops for higher education faculty/administrators at the Stanford d.School as a University Innovation Fellow, coaches a global community of learners through IDEO U, and fails
and robotic systems for diverse applications. Page 23.1049.5 Have the imagination to see how robotics can be used to improve society and the entrepreneurial background and spirit to make their ideas become reality. Demonstrate the ethical behavior and standards expected of responsible professionals functioning in a diverse society.2.3. OUTCOMESAlthough Robotics Engineering is not recognized as a distinct engineering field by ABET, theprogram was designed to be accreditable under the “General Engineering” criteria, thus, thegroup adopted the standard ABET program outcomes (a-k) [1]. As applied to RoboticsEngineering
toABET accreditation. Several aspects of the program are discussed, including the need for it, thecomposition of the curriculum, preparation for the ABET visit, the competency and success ofthe first graduates, and how the program is viewed by the students, the local and regionalindustry, and the community.I. IntroductionOver the past few years, engineering education has been the focus of numerous studies anddiscussions1-8. What sparked renewed interest in this issue is the need to enhance the first-yearexperience of engineering students and to address the growing demand for engineers andscientists capable of thinking and functioning across disciplines and beyond, in a workplace anda society that are rapidly changing due to the emergence of new
developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 A Graduate Student Pedagogy Seminar in Chemical EngineeringIntroductionTeaching is an important but often challenging activity for graduate students. In the role ofgraduate teaching assistants (GTA), they impact the learning experience of undergraduatestudents, but they also gain a set of knowledge and skills beyond what they learn in class orthrough research. Typical duties for GTAs vary and can range from conducting
training for fortune 500 companies throughout the world. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Establishing Global Programs Across A College of Engineering and Technology: A Dean’s Perspective1.0 AbstractFor the past ten years the college leadership in the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering andTechnology at Brigham Young University has placed an emphasis on developing globalprograms. We started with almost nothing in place. Through steady effort on the part ofdedicated faculty, staff, and donors, we have gradually implemented a suite of programs aroundthe world that now involves more than 150 students per year. In this paper we
is Head of Research Services and a STEM librarian at the Colorado School of Mines. With a master's degree in geology, she earned an MLS focused on science librarianship. Dunn worked at the Montana College of Mineral Science & Engineering before coming to the Colorado School of Mines in 1991. Her interests include science and engineering librarianship, scholarly communication in the geosciences, evolution of reference services, and STEM archives management.Seth Vuletich (Visiting Scholarly Communications Librarian) Seth Vuletich is the Visiting Scholarly Communications Librarian the Colorado School of Mines. Seth provides specialized support to graduate students through all stages of the research lifecycle. Prior
digitizeddata, and plan the flow of information through newly designed systems. This paper providesdetails on course content division, textbook selection, lecture and lab adjustments, studentreaction and other lessons learned, for the benefit of those who wish to try this approach.I. IntroductionA course on electric circuits has long been one of the core courses in a traditional engineeringcurriculum, providing a basic foundation for students specializing in a variety of disciplines. Atypical first semester engineering course on electric circuits such as Circuit Analysis emphasizeslinear, discrete elements such as the voltage and/or current source, resistor (R), capacitor (C) andinductor (L), focusing on how to find simplified equivalent circuit
program, the most common answer isthe projects. They wanted a “hands-on” aspect to their education. The next mostcommon answer has to do with the focus on the individual and the comparative size ofthe campus. Some students also like the ability to delay any choice of specialization untilthey are juniors. While we do find some students who are attracted by the flexibility ofthe program, this factor is not mentioned by most students.Development of the Perspective OutcomeThe general process by which we developed the program has been described earlier7. We Page 15.421.6started with the 11 ABET outcomes, the set a through k. Then we added in twoadditional
Engineering Education. In Ollis, Neeley, and Luegenbiehl, eds. Liberal Education in Twenty-First Century Engineering: Responses to ABET/EC 2000 Criteria. New York: Peter Lang, pp. xiii-xvii.Downey, G.L. & and Lucena, J. (1999). “Engineering Cultures: Engineering Problem Solving Through Humanistic And Global Perspectives,” in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education,1999.Secules, S. (2017). “Putting Diversity in Perspective: A Critical Cultural Historical Context for Representation in Engineering,” in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, 2017. 10 C. D. Wylie, K. A
. 19, pp. 1109–1114, 2015, doi: 10.1016/j.protcy.2015.02.158.[14] K. Wright, P. E. Slaboch, and R. Jamshidi, “Technical writing improvements through engineering lab courses,” Int. J. Mech. Eng. Educ., vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 120–134, 2022, doi: 10.1177/0306419020939621.[15] E. Wheeler and R. L. McDonald, “Writing in engineering courses,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 89, no. 4, pp. 481–486, 2000, doi: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2000.tb00555.x.[16] D. Kolb, Experiential Learning: Experience As The Source Of Learning And Development, vol. 1. 1984.[17] D. Kim, A. Majdara, and W. Olson, “A Pilot Study Inquiring into the Impact of ChatGPT on Lab Report Writing in Introductory Engineering Labs,” Int. J. Technol. Educ., vol. 7, no. 2, pp
% ofstudents attended regularly. The rate of D’s, F’s, Q drops and withdraws (DFWQ rates) for SIstudents was 2.8% in fall 2020, compared to a 9.1% DFWQ rate for SI students in fall 2019. SIstudents who had less programming experience (potentially through systemic educationalinequities) than their advantaged counterparts, also had statistically significant higher courseGPAs when compared to non-SI students who had the same prior experience. The teamdetermined several emerging themes from the survey and interview responses, such as aburgeoning sense of community, comfort with peers over time, accountability and structure, andan awareness of SI session activities as diverse and different than other learning experiences. Wehypothesize these all had strong
,’ ‘reference framedynamics,’ ‘observers,’ ‘winding functions,’ ‘switching functions,’ etc. to construct their know-ledge in the field of electric drive systems. 8) HistoryThe consortium is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2006 with approximately 550 members for-ming the WEMPEC family consisting of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and visitors. Membersof the family constantly celebrate the shared history through narrations during variousinteractions at various informal meeting places and professional conferences. 9) Sustenance and renewal of membershipWith a humble beginning of two faculty members in 1980, the group presently has a thrivingmembership well beyond the critical mass to represent a true community. The numbers offaculty, students
AC 2009-971: A PROJECT-ORIENTED, TEAM-BASED LEARNING APPROACHEdgar An, Florida Atlantic UniversityManhar Dhanak, Florida Atlantic University Page 14.93.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009A Project-Oriented, Team-Based Learning Approach Edgar An, Manhar Dhanak Ocean Engineering, Florida Atlantic University Abstract – This paper presents our outreach efforts in the Department of Ocean Engineering at Florida Atlantic University. The main theme of the outreach effort is “project-oriented, team-based” learning philosophy, which goes beyond the typical “cookie-cutter hands-on” ideas in that there is an overall
Paper ID #19005Choosing Between Graduate Program Offers: A Practical GuideDr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Director for Graduate Initiatives at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engi- neering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational technology and enhancing undergraduate education through hands
) Design – leading to a clear description of the future system, based on the iterative design of the system architecture with its elements and interfaces, the evaluation through successive prototyping of its likely behaviour, and a plan for its delivery; (iii) Deliver – leading to the successful deployment of the new system with the levels of measurement necessary to evidence its success, and acceptance that it achieves appropriate value for its stakeholders; (iv) Sustain – leading to the continued operational success of the new system along with consideration2420 Ibid. 1421 Ibid. 1622 Ibid. 1723 Ibid. 18.24 Ibid. 19