professionaland ethical responsibilities; (h) appreciating the impact of engineering solutions in a global andsocietal context; (i) engaging in life-long learning; and (j) understanding contemporary issues.These criteria, particularly 3h and 3j, were selected because of evidence from the Michigan Tech2006 graduating civil and environmental engineering student exit interviews that “ISD studentknowledge and recognition of these issues [Criteria 3h and 3j] far out-paced those of their peersin conventional senior design courses.” 9This paper only provides information on the first phase of the assessment program. Morerigorous assessment will begin in summer 2008. Survey data will be organized and analyzedusing SPSS, a statistical analysis and data management
Education, 2011 A Preliminary Study of Conducting Semi-Structured Interview as Metacognitive Assessment in Engineering Design: Issues and Challenges AbstractExploring metacognitive skills in students' engineering design activities has merit for betterunderstanding how the students deal with problem solving. This understanding will benefit thestudents, engineering educators, and curriculum developers. Researchers realize thatmetacognitive assessment is a complex endeavor that suggests the need of using datatriangulation protocols. A mixed-methods approach to research is also needed to gathercomprehensive and valid information about student metacognition. Among many other datacollection methods, the
industrial designers are free to explore.Developing design skills in professional engineering programs allows students to learn viaactive engagement and group project work. Green and Bonollo3 describe designmethodology as a process that includes the “study, principles, practices and procedures ofdesign”, with a focus on the understanding of the design process. It could be argued thatwhat is truly being taught is design methods, design processes and design methodology.Such content is not appropriate for a first year design unit where potential engineers should Page 9.415.1be introduced to generic design that spans disciplines and encourages
AC 2010-884: TEACHING CONTROL CHARTS FOR VARIABLES USING THEMOUSE FACTORYDouglas Timmer, University of Texas, Pan AmericanMiguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan AmericanConnie Borror, Arizona State UniverstiyDouglas Montgomery, Arizona State UniversityCarmen Pena, University of Texas, Pan American Page 15.1169.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Teaching Control Charts for Variables using the Mouse FactoryIntroductionThe American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM)1 defines engineering managementas “the art and science of planning, organizing, allocating resources, and directing andcontrolling activities which have a technical component.” Quality
Paper ID #15104How Students Create Verbal Descriptions of Physical PartsDr. Steven C. Zemke, Gonzaga University Steven Zemke, Ph.D., has been involved in engineering design and teamwork for over 35 years as a professional engineer, university professor, and researcher. He is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., and teaches engineering design and teamwork courses. His two research foci are how students learn design and teamwork and how understanding of learning can be used to create more effective pedagogy. Prior to teaching, Dr. Zemke was a professional product designer for
understanding commonalities acrosscapstone experiences and help lay the foundation for training future design educators. This paperpresents the descriptive statistical results from the survey, examines national trends in capstonepedagogy, and addresses the implications of the findings for design education.IntroductionCapstone design experiences represent a critical transition between the academic classroom andthe contemporary workplace, and as such have become both important sites for industrypartnerships and essential components of programmatic assessment and accreditation.1 Capstoneprojects typically require students to move beyond rote knowledge and apply life-long learning,engineering judgment, analytical decision-making, and critical thinking to
3 years to address these challenges. The FCmodel, where material is delivered online allowing face-to-face interactions to be grounded inauthentic disciplinary practices, aligned with the need for scale-up. Integrating theory withpractice in this way is necessary to drive deeper conceptual understanding of engineeringfundamentals2, 9. This paper will elaborate on the curriculum design rationale for this course,its implementation, and the results of the extensive and ongoing evaluation. The methods andprocess detailed in the paper can be used to aid similar processes.IntroductionDespite decades of debate and effort towards achieving an acceptable balance of theory andpractice within engineering curricula, educational programs still
innovative design solutions. This paper outlines the experiencesgained using the USPTO patent library to develop design solutions in the Introduction toEngineering Design with CAD course project. In this course, freshman and sophomoreengineering students use the patent library to develop an understanding of engineering conceptsand then apply these concepts to develop an integrated set of design components. Use of thepatent library allows students to make significant and rapid progress in understanding anddeveloping an integrated solution without having to have had all of the advanced engineeringcourses necessary to develop the components.Intr oductionOver 7.4 million U.S. patents have been issued since the first U.S. patent was issued on July
in the current coursecurriculum and anticipated learning outcomes are evaluated in several ways:Students’ PerformanceThe anticipated outcomes of the proposed modifications are assessed through evaluation of aseries of student presentations and report writings. Students prepared a total of 5presentations, four item based reports and a final report – each chronologically depicts searchfor an engineering problem in their country of interest, understanding of various dimensionsof international arena, conceptual design focusing on local preferences, a business plan,prototype design, manufacturing process and the final product development. A pre and a postsurvey were conducted to assess effectiveness of learning outcomes.The pre survey assessed
Session 3425 Building a Process for Establishing an Interdisciplinary Design and Manufacturing Freshman Course Lucy Siu-Bik King, Ph.D., William Riffe, Ph.D., B. Lee Tuttle, Ph.D., Henry Kowalski, Ph.D., Brenda Lemke, M.S., Jacqueline El-Sayed, Ph.D., Douglas Melton, Ph.D., Laura Rust, Ph.D., Mark Thompson, Ph.D. Kettering University, 1700 West Third Ave, Flint, MI 48504-4898 (810) 762-9500AbstractCollege freshmen, though they may be registered in the engineering programs, do not alwaysknow what discipline best suits their
AC 2012-4553: ON A CLIENT-CENTERED, SOPHOMORE DESIGN COURSESEQUENCEDr. Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University Robert Nagel is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at James Madison University. Nagel joined the University after completing his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Oregon State University. He has a B.S. from Trine University and a M.S. from Missouri University of Science and Technology, both in mechanical engineering. Nagel has performed research with the U.S. Army Chemical Corps, General Motors Research and Development Center, and the U.S. Air Force Academy. His research interests in- clude understanding customer needs, functional and process modeling, design for sustainability, design
different perspectives allows the design team to understand aproblem to the fullest extent, then craft a solution that skillfully responds to the unique needs of auser” [1]. Interestingly, the professional body for industrial design, Industrial Design Society ofAmerica (IDSA), does not call out engineering as a discipline that designers would interact with.It could be argued that “manufacturers” would encompass this discipline, but it does notadequately describe the rich skillsets of the engineering professions and their role in productdevelopment.Despite of the same goal of creating a new product, the relationship between engineers andindustrial designers can sometimes be problematic. Ulrich and Eppinger describe how to managethe industrial design
numerically controlled, such as additivemanufacturing machines, rapid prototyping machines and multi-axis CNC machines. The mainpurpose for integrating a mechatronics themed activity into a computer-modeling course is toengage students in project-based learning through hands-on activities related to modeling amechatronic device. Students learn the basics of electromechanical systems, the integration ofmachine elements (gear reducer) and the basics of actuators (electrical motor), all of which arefundamental to understanding mechatronic systems through activities related to the mechatronicdesign principles. Hence, engineering design for mechanical engineers and mechanicalengineering technologists have to involve embedded multi-disciplinary knowledge
used(please see Appendix A for details).The following section discusses the details of each module: i. Introduction to Product Lifecycle Management The prize challenges require students to go through the key stages of the entire product lifecycle, which begins at conceptual design and culminates in a fully operational product. Before students participate in the challenge, it is important that they understand the various stages of the product development lifecycle. To facilitate this, video tutorials on product lifecycle management (PLM) are provided to help students acquire the basic understanding of the principles of product design. ii. Introduction to Systems Engineering Principles using
. Page 14.397.7 Figure 4: Curtain wall mock-upConclusionsBuilding curtain walls need to have structural integrity, hence a good design is very significant.A course on curtain wall design in the civil engineering curriculum will be beneficial to thestudents. Civil engineering students who take the course will then have the understanding of thefundamental building physics principles applied in a manner that enables the buildingenvironmental system and the curtain wall to be designed as an integrated, synergetic systemrather than individual components, allowing inhabitants and users to live in a comfortableenergy-efficient indoor space. As a result, this will encourage students to specialize in the fieldof curtain
involved in providing engineeringservices to communities who are in needs. Firstly, the benefit is for the community that is servedby students, and secondly, students are encouraged to connect and reflect how their educationconnects to their professional career. Through the experience students feel better about theiractions and understand the need and therefore the impact engineers have on a community. Thisencourages them to learn more about their chosen profession, and feel more confident about theirachievements. Also, students have a chance to practice and apply what they learn in class in areal project where they are exposed to the results of their design. The positive side of the servicelearning is at the end, the students are giving back to
effectiveness for educators. Assessments can also help students think about coursematerial in a different way (1). However, assessments require time on the part of students and theeducator. This paper examines the use of probabilistic multiple choice assessments in CE404:Design of Steel and Wood Structures, a required course for civil engineering majors at theUnited States Military Academy (USMA). CE404 builds on students’ understanding of statics,mechanics, and structural analysis to design tension, compression, bending, and beam-columnstructural members. Students complete seven homework assignments, two mid-term exams, oneEngineering Design Problem (EDP), and a final exam during the course. Until 2015, thestudent’s homework assignments consisted
pedagogical approach to introducing parts of engineering design in such away that students can experience it in a manageable, introductory fashion. In many designcourses, students may experience design activities such as “Customer Needs Analysis,”“Functional Decomposition,” “Concept Generation,” “Concept Selection” and “PrototypePlanning” for the first time. One approach to increasing design experience to aid understandingof these activities is to use the designette exercise to provide the students with a framework ofthe design process. They can then rely this framework for their longer capstone projects. Thedesignette is highly tailorable and an understanding of the appropriate factors related to itssuccessful implementation is desired. We have used
AC 2010-2016: THE VALUE OF INQUIRY IN TEACHING LEAN PROCESSDESIGNSharon Johnson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Sharon A. Johnson is an associate professor of operations and industrial engineering in the Department of Management at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She teaches courses in process management, facility layout and design, and operations management. Dr. Johnson received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering in 1989. Dr. Johnson’s research interests include lean manufacturing and operations design, process modeling, and improving health care delivery processes. Her work has appeared in Operations Research, the Business Process
on concept generation and design-by-analogy. Her research seeks to understand designers’ cognitive processes with the goal of creating better tools and approaches to enhance engineering design. She has authored over 150 technical publications including over forty journal papers, and ten book chapters. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Comparison of Student Learning in Two Makerspace CommunitiesAbstractThe Maker Movement has led to a boom in academic makerspace development over the past 15years. Academic makerspaces—which are those located on community college and universitycampuses—enable students to engage in solving challenges that are
such, the qualifications for the criteria on which to define and judge standards ofsuccess are of key importance to the logical foundations and methodology of the study. In orderto move forward to the second question (the question with most practical implications), theconcept of transformative learning as a measure for success must be established. “Success” forthe purpose of this study is defined as documented transformative learning as represented inMezirow’s theory of transformative learning [3][4] along with course completion.The second question further clarifies the practical implications of the investigation. To answerthis question, researchers have first sought to understand what makes engineering design coursestruly “transformative” for
. (2004) created aninterdisciplinary design experience for undergraduate engineering students, finding thattheir fire-fighting robot project promoted ABET educational objectives andinterdisciplinary team-based education7. Other examples include Daems et al. (2003),which focused on early interdisciplinary education for electrical engineers intended tolink subjects in a project-based design course in order to promote skills of synthesis8; andHokanson et al. (2007) to instill global understandings in sustainability projects9. Thepaucity of this kind of research may be indicative of the rarity of truly interdisciplinarycurricula in engineering undergraduate programs, which highlights the issues ofovercoming institutional barriers, a topic not within
mistakes due to end of the term/Assign projects early and have them work regularly and report their progress every week3. Understand the need for proper Projects; Read and Articles Engineering case studies and current articles design actions via discussions report articles, case 85% (Fair from technical magazines (Mechanical Eng, of current, news worthy, studies Weighted Ave grade) SAE, etc) were briefly discussed and design-related incidents [POs: > 80
Engineering Computing so far, what scripting/programming features would you expect to see in the codes that control the operation of the space suits?Moreover, this would better prepare students for the ethics lecture, which was geared towardshow engineers could design well. Questions about engineering computing ethics and ethics ingeneral were excluded from the list of guided questions to avoid priming the students aboutethics. As a result, students only came to the lecture with their prior understanding about ethics.Currently, there is no required ethics course in the engineering curriculum. Students learnengineering ethics in Statics, which is also a sophomore level course; so students may have someexposure to engineering ethics prior to
continuousbasis, and some of the lessons that have been learned along the way.BackgroundDuring the mid-1980s, there arose an increased concern with the marketability of engineeringgraduates. In concert with a very competitive job market, industry recruiters began to seekgraduates who were not only technically capable, but who were also proficient in “people skills”and “communication skills.” At the same time, engineering programs began to expand andenhance design education experiences, including significant opportunities for team-basedactivities. Success in these depended strongly on productive interpersonal relationships amongteam members as well as clear understanding of customer needs and communication. Otherfactors that have influenced the need for
labs that develop an understanding of methods to solve problems related tosustainability. We will discuss the concepts of this course as well as discuss course assessments.IntroductionThe Design for the Environment (DfE) course has been incorporated into the undergraduate andgraduate engineering curriculum within the Swanson School of Engineering (SOE). DfE wasfunded by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) whose focus is onencouraging the incorporation of sustainability and product innovation into curricula. Thelearning objective of the DfE course is for students to understand the social, economic, andenvironmental impacts between product and process design decisions. Since green technology isemerging as the most
emerging technology integration in design.Mr. Efe Kutuk, Kean University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 A SURVEY ABOUT INTERNET of THINGS (IoT): WHAT DOES IoT MEAN to INDUSTRIAL DESIGN STUDENTS Prof. Bekir Kelceoglu, Syracuse University Prof. Efecem Kutuk, Kean UniversityAbstractThe concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) is not new. The first “traceable” practical applicationof the IoT technology was a vending machine, which reports the condition of the beveragesinside, developed by Carnegie Mellon University in 1982 [1]. It was a simple system withsimple sensors, compared to today’s extremely sophisticated IoT applications
in cooking could be a potential solution to theseproblems.For approximately five years, a non-profit organization, Solar Circle, has been working todevelop solar cooking as a feasible alternative to word-burning cooking in SouthernTanzania. The mechanical engineering capstone design class at XXX University wasapproached to provide technical assistance in this development. Two design teams, onefrom the fall semester and one from the spring semester took on the challenge ofdesigning a solar oven for Tanzania that could be built with materials and techniquesavailable in Africa. As part of this experience the teams spent two weeks in Tanzaniabuilding an understanding of the culture and people, as well as building and testing fourprototype
Paper ID #42270Designing with AI: Integrating Image-Generative AI into Conceptual Designin a CAD ClassDr. Wangda Zhu, University of Florida Wangda Zhu is a Post-doc Associate in School of Teaching and Learning at University of Florida. He got his PhD in Human Behavior and Design from Cornell University, focusing on educational technology, and a Bachelor of Engineering from Zhejiang University, China. His research interests include AI in STEM education, learning communities, and learning analytics. His previous work has been published in British Journal of Educational Technology, Interactive Learning Environments
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