very well despite using different technologies.However, many of the other design decisions (for example, what battery or motor to use) weremade simply by duplicating what the previous class had done. Because of this concern, majorchanges are underway.The two universities are moving forward with a competition this year in which each school willfield a full team. While that is just starting at this point, results can be presented at theconference. Both teams include a minimal number of students (roughly one per robot instead ofa team for each robot). It is hoped that long-term, this competition will continue as a studentactivity, rather than as part of the senior design sequence.The originators of this event would like it to continue long-term
Paper ID #36779WIP: A visual and intuitive approach to teaching first ordersystems to Mechanical Engineering studentsDaniel Raviv (Professor) Daniel Raviv received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Technion, and his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a professor at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) where he is the Director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab. In the past he served as the assistant provost for innovation. Dr. Raviv taught at Johns Hopkins University, the Technion, and the University of Maryland, and was a visiting researcher at the National Institute of
reports, and patents. Erin’s research interests include the role of librarians in engineering education, entrepreneurship, and the role of technical industry standards in academic libraries. She holds the Master of Library Science from the University at Buffalo and a B.A. degree in Communication from SUNY Geneseo.Dr. Lauren Kuryloski, University at Buffalo Lauren Kuryloski is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Engineering Education Department, where she teaches technical communication at the undergraduate and graduate level.Dr. Kristen Moore, University at Buffalo Kristen R. Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at University at Buffalo. Her research focuses primarily on
included. Even within existing courses, notnecessarily those with a EA or HE focus, participants struggled with finding time to include EAcontent.Table 11: Responses to the prompt “What are the barriers preventing you from teaching en-ergy/electricity access or teaching it more” grouped by thematic area Theme Responses Examples Curriculum 13 time in class, space in curriculum Funding/Resources 8 university investment in EA Student interest 6 need to demonstrate sustained enrollment Experience/Training 6 EA not within area of expertise Department negative perception of
, emails and class announcements.The reason for these different categories was to gain different perspectives of EngineeringManagement. Not much emphasis was given on equalizing the male to female ratio for thisstudy as in general the male to female ratio is 3 to 1 at the University of Missouri – Rolla (4). Anattempt was made to keep the class ratio even, but more importance was given to “randomness”for the fairness of the sample. Interviews were conducted to collect data to see if commonresponse patterns existed, to help understand the discipline from the students’ perspective, aswell as aid in efforts to potentially develop focused marketing and recruitment materials.Hour long interviews were conducted to find a set of questions that would allow
technology as a means of connection, notcompetition. They want to bridge gaps and work as a team. IP courses are utilizing multimedia in the classroom as a means of connecting with the students.Smartboards® with internet connectivity are used during lessons to explore the lives of scientists,engineers and architects; search for images skyscrapers and bridges to help students brainstormsolutions; and teams can present their work electronically to the class. Students will use palm-size digitalvideo cameras to document learning and teamwork instead of a written journal in the second and thirdyears. The video gathered is planned to be used in the digital media course that the students also take aspart of the CityPoly curriculum.3. COURSE ASSESSMENT
Chief Technology Officer in the private sector and currently a partner in a small start-up venture. He received his BS degree in electrical engineering (1975) from California State University, Sacramento, and his MS (1980) and DE (1983) degrees in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University. His educa- tion and research interests include project management, innovation and entrepreneurship, and embedded product/system development.Mr. Hassanein Jaleel Radhi, California State University, Fullerton Page 26.533.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Development of
Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationCase III—Reforming an Existing CourseEngineering students at a prestigious national research university consistently give low ratings toa core course. The professors who teach subsequent courses in the curriculum agree, saying thatthe students seem unable to apply what they learned in their classes. A young professor decidesto improve this situation by incorporating active learning principles into the course. Rather thansimply lecturing, he frames the course as if the students worked in a custom chip manufacturingplant. The professor invested many hours in learning to
Deployment and Analyses We distributed a Qualtrics survey to senior undergraduate engineering students list-serve(n=165) using an anonymous link at one Midwestern university in the spring semester of 2020.We obtained the list of senior students through and with permission of the Engineering StudentCouncil. The Qualtrics survey captured demographics information, including age, gender, sex, 5race, political view, class standing, majors, and family income. Relevant to this study, the surveyfocused on membership in student organizations and a modified standardized Defining IssueTest-2 (DIT-2) (see appendix for survey information). We selected only
, as well as ethics. Peter has regularly attended the CIE College Teaching Workshops to get new ideas for teaching. He won the Ruth and Joel Spira Award in 2000 for his teaching efforts.Michael Harris, Purdue University Michael T. Harris is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and Professor of Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering at Purdue University. He is co-chair of the Purdue's Engineer of 2020 committee. Dr. Harris earned a B.S. degree from Mississippi State University and M.S.and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has focused on teaching undergraduate engineering fluid mechanics, statistics and particulate systems classes. His
services ● introducing contactless delivery of library resources ● establishing remote and hybrid work agreements ● providing reference consultations online ● teaching online library classes and workshops ● attending webinars, professional conferences, and other professional development via Zoom and other video conferencing platformsPrior to the pandemic, the library was engaged in a series of organizational structure changes,coming together as a new entity, bridging the disciplinary areas of Health Sciences and Science,Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics, called HS-STEM, within the new Research Division.The new Research Division further aligns the disciplinary areas of Arts and Humanities andSocial Sciences, along
a collaborative educational pathway for the technology leadersof tomorrow.IntroductionOver the last few years, there have been several reports documenting the need for improvingSTEM education and advancing a national innovation strategy. In 2009, the National EconomicCouncil published a report entitled A Strategy for American Innovation: Driving TowardsSustainable Growth and Quality Report that outlined three broad-based strategies: (a) investmentin the building blocks of American innovation; (b) promotion of competitive markets that spurproductive entrepreneurship; and (c) catalyzing breakthroughs for national priorities. One of thebuilding blocks specified in the report is educating the next generation with 21st centuryknowledge and
often high, despite high levels of personal interest.First- and second-year students often find it difficult to navigate the research world on theircampuses and identify suitable research opportunities, and faculty members often select juniorsand seniors for undergraduate research positions because they have additional courseworkexperience. Additionally, most engineering curricula, especially during the first and second yearare packed with core math and science classes and foundational engineering classes [10], leavinglittle room for technical electives or other hands-on engineering opportunities until the junior orsenior years. To address this challenge, the Freshman Introduction to Research in Engineering (FIRE)program in the Mechanical
primarily undergraduate universities, has been addressed in several papers. 2 3 4 5Our 2012-2013 Senior Capstone class helped create the dual-cube nano-satellite, TSAT, withspace weather instrumentation. TSAT was launched on a Space-X rocket from the KennedySpace Flight Center to the International Space Station (ISS) on April 18, 2014 and released as anautonomous satellite at 325 km altitude. The class structure, pedagogy, assessments, andoutcomes indicate the effectiveness of advanced student challenges that inspire students but dorequire significant support from faculty and staff.The 2014-2015 Capstone class is completing (with Air Force funding) a novel 6-cube satellite toinvestigate the Extremely-Low-Earth-Orbit (ELEO) region using an
semester. Inspecting the values revealed that 4 resultshad a p-value below the 0.05 threshold as shown in Table 5. The one new statement is “Interest inwriting an algorithm that uses asymmetric encryption to authenticate a user.”Summary and Future WorkWe have developed a survey instrument that focuses on student interest and self-efficacy inrelation to jobs, classes and/or research involving cybersecurity. This survey was piloted duringthe Spring 2014 and Fall 2014 semesters. Pre-course survey results show that student interest wasgenerally higher than confidence. These differences were reduced, and in some cases reversed, inthe post-course survey data. Further analysis of the individual course results showed that there isa noticeable difference
education faculty, leaders and facilitators of professional development opportunities, and peer mentors who help practitioners improve teaching and learning [9].Again, it is possible for a single individual to hold one, two, or all three of these roles.Often, a single individual holds one or multiple roles in the Engineering Education disciplinewhile holding one or multiple roles in an additional discipline. A frequent example of thisintersection of disciplines is the faculty member who is teaching classes in one discipline, suchas civil engineering, who is also using the knowledge base and outputs of researchers in theengineering education discipline. As shown in Figure 2, this individual is simultaneously‘wearing’ the trainer hat
; Pedagogical strategies for first-year learning objectives, ABET accreditation Assessment requirements, assessment; Curriculum Design, reform, evaluation, and classification of first-year engineering curriculum; Integrated experiential learning curricula & global/societal problems including service, Experiential research, and entrepreneurship for the first year; Projects Project-based, activity-based, and hands-on learning in the first year; Design Teaching and practicing the engineering design process in the first year; Creative, open-ended problem-solving courses and/or related teaching activities in first
on more technical skills and includes courses such as basic Numerical Control Programming, Reverse Engineering, and Supply Chain Management. The Manufacturing Innovation program provides an introduction to manufacturing and is more business focused with courses such as new product development and entrepreneurship. Both certificate programs were designed to provide technical and business skill sets in addition to the liberal arts education and previous experiences that the students already possess. To ensure that students are prepared to seek a job or an internship, they are required to take a one‐credit Career Readiness and e‐Portfolio course in the first semester of the program. In this course, students develop a resume, a professional
AC 2009-395: GREENING THE CAPSTONESharon deMonsabert, George Mason University Dr. deMonsabert is an Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering. She has over 15 years of academic experience. She researches and teaches courses related to Sustainable Development, Environmental Systems and Engineering, and Technical Entrepreneurship. Dr. deMonsabert was recently appointed to the position of Fellow for Academic Curricula at George Mason University.Laura Miller , George Mason University Ms. Miller is an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University. She instructs the land development and senior capstone courses in the Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure
adifficult task- especially in large classes such as Introduction to Mechanical Engineering.Project management is also a difficult challenge for both the instructors and the students-again even more so since we are dealing with first-year students. This paper presents amethodology for addressing both of these challenges in one cohesive project managementeffort. The result has been increased team productivity, a better experience for thestudents, increased student retention, and valuable data for the instructor that enables theassessment of the performance of individual team members within the context of largeengineering design project teams.Course OverviewIn 1997 a major overhaul of the introductory experience to Mechanical Engineering atFlorida
Session 2330 Enabling and Sustaining Educational Innovation M. Kathleen Silva, Sheri D. Sheppard The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching/ The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Stanford UniversityAbstractThis paper reviews the responses to questions regarding innovation in engineering educationposed to a nine-person panel assembled for The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement ofTeaching’s pre-conference workshop at the Frontiers in Education (FIE) 2000 in Kansas City.Questions were focused on the
Page 25.1164.1 in complex environments, such as healthcare and military populations. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012Mr. Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Daniel M. Ferguson is a Graduate Student in the Engineering Education program at Purdue University. He received his B.A. in pre-engineering in a five-year BA/BS program at the University of Notre Dame and a M.B.A. and M.S.I.E. from Stanford University. Prior to coming to Purdue, he was Assistant Pro- fessor of entrepreneurship at Ohio Northern University. Before assuming that position, he was Associate Director of the Inter-professional Studies program and Senior Lecturer at Illinois Institute of
and Technology-Based Entrepreneurship(3-credits each). In addition, students must choose another 6 credits from the following fourcourses: Leadership in Organizations, International Leadership of Engineering and Development,Project Management for Professionals, or an independent study which could take the form of aninternational project, a coaching course, or an honors thesis). The final requirement includes anadditional 6 credits which are selected from an approved elective list. The curriculumemphasizes the development of leadership potential within each student, a multiculturalawareness, and opportunities to exercise their skills through hands-on, leadership challenges.Survey InstrumentAn alumni survey was developed to align with the
critical role in the education strategydeveloped in the CDIO project (Berggren et al.2; CDIO Initiative Homepage3), an internationalinitiative that aims to develop a new model for engineering education, characterized by using theprocess of conceiving-designing-implementing-operating, i.e. the product lifecycle, as theeducational context. A prominent attribute of the CDIO initiative has been the design andimplementation of a new class of student workspaces (design studios, classrooms, study areas,laboratories) that enable student teams to design, build and test in project-based courses. This isin contrast to traditional student labs that are heavily oriented towards demonstrations(Gunnarsson et al.4; Wallin & Östlund5). The proper set-up
, MA from Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, and BA from Fordham University.Dr. Scott Streiner, University of Pittsburgh Scott Streiner is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department, teaches in the First-Year Engineering Program and works in the Engineering Education Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Scott has received funding through NSF to conduct research on the impact of game-based learning on the development of first-year students’ ethical reason- ing, as well as research on the development of culturally responsive ethics education in global contexts. He is an active member of the Kern Engineering Entrepreneurship Network (KEEN
from the University of South Carolina. Currently, she works as the Learning, Teaching, and Instructional Design Librarian at the University of Waterloo Library in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Her research interests include co-teaching, information literacy perceptions and behaviors of students across disciplines, academic integrity, professional development education for librarians, and censorship.Mrs. Rachel Figueiredo, University of Waterloo Rachel Figueiredo holds a BA from the University of Waterloo and an MLIS from Western University. She is currently the liaison librarian for Engineering and Entrepreneurship at Waterloo. Rachel’s research in- terests include core competencies for entrepreneurship librarians
engineering classes I was teaching).Colleagues from history, philosophy, computer science, anthropology, entrepreneurship,business, art, physics, medicine, ethics, etc. I also started inviting practicing engineers to ourmeetings and all the classes I taught. Me modeling these cross-disciplinary invitations was toencourage engineering faculty to see the value of bringing diverse perspectives to theengineering classroom.When students arrived in the first class, we asked them why they came to WFU and why WFUengineering. We invited them to share what a liberal arts engineer means to them and what theirhopes and dreams were. This fierce commitment to the student perspective and shared visioningcontinued to guide us and drive us in building the
, Department of Education, Sloan Foundation, Engineering Information Founda- tion, and NCIIA. Besterfield-Sacre’s current research focuses on three distinct but highly correlated areas: innovative design, entrepreneurship, and modeling. She also serves as an Associate Editor for the AEE Journal.Dr. Karen M. Bursic, University of Pittsburgh Karen M. Bursic is an Assistant Professor and the Undergraduate Program Director for Industrial En- gineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in industrial engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining the department, she worked as a Senior Consultant for Ernst and Young and as an Industrial Engineer for General Motors
students, however, faculty and programsdisagree on the best method for implementation 15-17 or ignore its development.7 A small numberof colleges and universities have developed programs that include leadership in their curriculume.g. 11; 14; 18; in their comparison of the Robe Leadership Institute Model to other leadershipprogram models, Bayless, Mitchell, & Robe 19 identified seven other programs that did so. Theseexamples are only a small fraction of the 300-plus ABET accredited engineering colleges anduniversities across the United States. Small sample qualitative studies of faculty have shownthat faculty perceive leadership development as a by-product of student in-class teamingexperiences, co-curricular activities e.g. 15; 16 or deferred
research focuses on the development of sociotechnical thinking and lifelong learning skills in engineering.Mr. Amin Azad, University of Toronto Amin is a doctoral student at the University of Toronto’s Department of Chemical Engineering, pursuing a collaborative specialization in Engineering Education. Amin focuses on applying Systems Thinking Principles to Engineering Education and assessing its learning outcomes when solving wicked problems, especially in the field of Entrepreneurship. Amin obtained his MASc. and BASc from the University of Toronto, both in Industrial Engineering, and has worked as a consultant and researcher in tech companies. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024