abilities and enhance their ability to maximize the utility of existing campusoffices. All of the authors have experienced each of these benefits to a certain extent in the firstfew years of their faculty roles. Systematic research is needed to determine the generalizabilityof these outcomes.Maximizing Student Leadership Utility as Faculty PreparationGraduate students are subject to a great number of time constraints from taking (or teaching)classes and conducting research. Therefore, students and their advisors alike may eschew theaddition of a required student organizational leadership position. We do not suggest arequirement for all students. However, for those aspiring to faculty positions, leadership rolesshould be encouraged and recognized as
study asks, how are EWB-USA members similar to and different from engineersnot involved with such an organization? This research responds to calls by the NAE12,13 andothers3,11,14,15 to better understand ways in which engineering education can prepare engineerscapable of addressing the most globally pressing issues—engineers of the future.Points of DepartureProject-based service learning (PBSL) is defined as, “a form of active learning where studentswork on projects that benefit a real community or client while also providing a rich learningexperience”16. PBSL has been used within curricula, classes, and extracurricular activities, and ithas become a popular and influential pedagogical strategy for retaining engineers, increasing
producing world class engineers, is to broaden engineering Page 24.1362.8education so that it is comparable to other established professions like architecture and law.Moving forward there is a need to build a “guild culture” of professionals who identify morewith the profession itself than with their individual employers. This would require a moresystematic approach to education with greater emphasis on completing graduate-levelprofessional schools of engineering.However, an alternate but complementary future scenario could occur. In this future, theprofession of engineering relies more on technicians that take on many of the routine technicaltasks
not only the scientific and scholarly aspects of a PhD degree, but also Leadership & Entrepreneurship aspects via the Transition Zone™ [9]Other reasons mentioned include: continue a project that was started at Master’s level, continueworking with the same academic supervisor, being able to live in the UK (i.e., visa-holdingindividuals), blended learning approach to the training (i.e., a mixture of traditional class-basedteaching and experiential, on-the-job, interactions with co-workers), wanting to train in a newarea of digital technologies (e.g., data science).The main point of attraction for candidates wishing to enroll onto this degree program was toexpand knowledge in the area covered by the PhD topic advertised. As a
, minds-on”approach through in-class cooperative problem solving, experiments and demonstrations,computer exercises, and small-scale and semester-long projects.40 Also, Hamilton et al.describe the successes and challenges of starting an engineering college at the NationalMilitary Academy of Afghanistan.41 They highlight the use of face-to-face and distancementoring, cultural and ethical challenges, faculty development, providing resources andequipment, and ensuring the continuity and sustainability of programs. Finally, thereader may want to consult the article by Rugarcia et al. on methods to establish a culturefor a research university that maintains a strong engineering education emphasis. 42It must be noted that there are unique issues
Library and Information Services from the University of Michigan School of Information. She also has an MSc in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology also from the University of Michigan.Mr. Paul Grochowski, University of Michigan Paul Grochowski is an engineering librarian at the University of Michigan. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a MLIS degree from Wayne State University.Luesoni Kuck, University of Michigan Luesoni Kuck is the Biomedical Engineering Librarian at the University of Michigan and provides instructional and research support for the students, faculty, and staff within the areas of Biomedical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Center for Entrepreneurship
pervasiveness of capstoneprograms that partner with external sponsors to provide a “real-world” design experience tostudents. In this vein, the industry-sponsored Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship(ENGINE) capstone program was established at the Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering at a large research university in the US. ENGINE is designed to provide a holisticand professional engineering experience to students in an educational setting, where studentteams work on a six-month long project under the guidance of an industry and a faculty mentor.The program is overseen by a course instructor and teaching assistants who manage the coursestructure and expectations.This study compares student experiences in ENGINE during remote
Economy. Piyush is also a LEED Green Associate and ENV SP (i.e., Envision Certified Professional in Infrastructure Sustainability).Claudia Calle Müller Claudia Calle Müller is a Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Florida International University (FIU). She holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). Claudia has 4+ years’ experience in structural engineering designing reinforced concrete residential and commercial buildings in Peru; 2+ years’ experience in entrepreneurship building a successful health coaching and wellness business; and 4+ years teaching. Currently, Claudia is a Graduate Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant at the Moss School of
University of Pittsburgh. Her principal research is in engineering education assessment, which has been funded by the NSF, Department of Edu- cation, Sloan Foundation, Engineering Information Foundation, and the NCIIA. Mary’s current research focuses on three distinct but highly correlated areas innovative product design, entrepreneurship, and modeling. She has served as an associate editor for the JEE and is currently associate editor for the AEE Journal. Page 22.836.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Improving Student Attainment of ABET Outcomes Using Model
projects (Engineers without Borders, etc.) Non-engineering related community service or volunteer work Student design project(s)/competitions(s) beyond class requirementsA 1: Not active; 2: Slightly active (attend occasionally); 3: moderately active (attend regularly); 4: Highly active(participate in most activities); 5: extremely (hold a leadership post)Table 4. Curriculum emphases scales for students, faculty, and program chairs. The Cronbach’salpha indicates the internal consistency reliability. Values can range from .00 to 1.00–psychometricians consider scales greater than .70 to be acceptable. Students - Broad and Systems Perspectives (alpha=.84) Overall, how much have the courses you’ve taken in your engineering
research. In our classes,they learn how to apply the socially responsible engineering (SRE) framework, whichemphasizes “contextual listening” [63] and identification of opportunities to create value withstakeholders so they can empathically engage communities before, during and after their fieldresearch [64]. Through specific coursework assignments, they explore and reflect with otherson the reasons for being in HES and for wanting to do sustainable community development, toexplore the constraints, opportunities, and pathways placed in front of them by the histories oftheir families, of engineering, of development, and by the multiple dimensions of their identity(gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, etc.). Then
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 miserably at cooking.Dr. Chell A. Roberts, University of San Diego Chell A. Roberts is the founding dean of the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering at the University of San Diego. He assumed his duties in July of 2013. He was also recently appointed as the Associate Provost of Professional and Continuing Education. As an engineering dean at USD, Dr. Roberts has led the development of a new school of engineering
-industry cooperation for the training of engineering professionals, there are still challenges in theactual implementation of these efforts. For example, 2• Many industry experts have little teaching experience so have difficulty teaching traditional university classes,• Most Chinese industries haven’t set up standardized annual internship programs due to business competition pressures,• There are big differences between the industry’s technical training resources and the university’s classic curriculumAs a result, there is still a lack of resources for effective university-industry cooperation incolleges and universities throughout China. Most university students do not have access to
Page 26.101.2enable the users to express themselves creatively and to be innovative.11 As the price of thetechnology associated with “making,” such a the cost of 3D printers, declined,12 it allowed forgreater development of maker spaces, and the spaces began to spread into more locations. Makerspaces have begun to appear in public and academic libraries, and universities have started toturn toward maker spaces as a compliment to design courses already being offered. Maker spaceswithin the university are an attractive avenue for answering the need for more practice-basedengineering that compliments the theoretical class structure already in place. The benefits ofmaker spaces to its users, and in particular, to the engineering curriculum, can be
institutions if faculty truly believe that theyshould be providing this type of mentoring [28].2.4. Employability SkillsThe definition of employability skills is broad and includes communication, entrepreneurship,team work, problem solving, emotional intelligence, self-assessment, and analysis, among otherskills [24]. Postsecondary educators recognize employability skills as important competenciesneeded by students to attain employment upon graduation [29]. Educators use variousapproaches to assist their students in gaining these valuable skills, such as the use of STEMoutreach activities in informal learning environments [30], and collaborating with employers toprovide students with opportunities to attain these skills [31].The extent to which
program is through real-world employment opportunities. Studentinternships (i.e. employment during standard semesters for pay or credit) and Coop opportunities(i.e. student employment for pay during leaves from standard class time) can provide studentsand employers with confidence-building employment experiences. For students, an internship orCoop experience will serve as an opportunity to obtain resume-building experience while earningmoney at the same time. For employers, familiarity with a student and potential future full-timehire can be obtained, along with confidence in the ability of a particular institution to producegraduates with meaningful experience and value-adding potential.Another, and often ultimate, element of relevancy is the
isimportant to know how well the current curriculum is achieving these goals. Mena, Zappe, andLitzinger (2012) reported results from a survey assessing Pennsylvania State University alumniopinion of how well they were prepared in a variety of skills and attributes based on a universitygoal of educating World-Class Engineers. These skills and attributes were closely aligned withthose described in The Engineer of 2020. The survey also gaged alumni opinion of howimportant each was to their work as an engineer. Among the skills and attributes that weredeemed very important and the alumni felt prepared for were: (1) applying engineering skills, (2)writing effectively, (3) making effective oral presentations, (4) applying professional ethics, and(5
in real-life application [4]. Social entrepreneurship and social innovationeducation have been used to introduce DEI skills in the classroom. But critics of socialinnovation programs downplay its value because the focus is geared more on technical solutionsand the role of HEIs within ecosystems rather than addressing the underpinnings of systemicissues and student learning outcomes [4]. Furthermore, stand-alone courses provide only asnapshot of DEI consciousness whereas an entire program designed with DEI-focused outcomescan potentially effect a sustained transformation in thinking and doing. Such holistic approachescan equip students with the skills and mindsets needed to enact sustainable and just solutions tocomplex challenges despite
Session Entrepreneurship Using Intellectual Property to Enhance Engineering Education Kathleen M. Kaplan, D.Sc., Lt Col John J. Kaplan (Ph.D., J.D.) USAF Howard University/USAFAbstractIntellectual Property (IP) is oftentimes overlooked in engineering education, but should be centerstage. In performing any type of research, a student should access all intellectual property, notmerely cite copyrighted references. This includes patent and trademark searches, which can beeasily incorporated into any engineering assignment. Teaching and using IP in an undergraduateengineering curriculum does not need to replace any ABET (Accreditation Board
set by an upbringing on the family ranch near Joshua, Texas and 4 memorable years at Texas A and M where I met my wife, I led Bugle Rank #7 in the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band (Class of ’86 Whoop!), and dove into Telecom Engineering. Once in Telecom, my learning continued at MCI, Vartec, and Charter. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Using an Entrepreneurial Mindset and Biomimicry-Based Design to Better Engage First-Year Engineering StudentsAbstractThis is an evidence-based practice paper that examines the curriculum deployment that occurredin the second semester of the first-year engineering program. The curriculum introducedEntrepreneurial Mindset (EM) and biomimicry
Invention Bootcamp at Portland State University. Invention Bootcamp is a four-week summer camp designed to expose high school students to the invention process and thereby stimulate their interest in attending college to prepare for a career in STEM and entrepreneurship. The camp serves 25 students that are recruited with help from Oregon MESA, and actively seeks participants from populations traditionally underrepresented in STEM. Eight undergraduate engineering and computer science students are near-peer mentors and technical problem-solvers for the camp participants. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com
could prove useful given that most STEM faculty may not feel qualified to speak on everytopic the course covers and would allow for a diversified presentation of materials, and offered torecord guest lecturers to be shared for others to make use of in their own classes. Since we envisioned the course being adapted for different formats, levels of complexity,and engineering disciplines, we sought to develop a general course sketch outlining the overallobjectives and aims, suggested content, potential teaching strategies, and assessment methods,which could be adjusted as needed to meet the needs of instructors. Following the workshop, wealso pooled a range of teaching materials (assignment ideas, readings, videos, etc.) into arepository
who come from 2-year institutions may be accustomed toindividualized attention from faculty, due to smaller class sizes that are typically found at 2-yearcolleges. This allows students to form relationships with professors and boosts students’confidence [6]. Additionally, vertical transfer students may not be used to the type of instructioncommon at 4-year institutions. This can create a new challenge that vertical transfer students arenot used to experiencing [6, 8]. By contrast, lateral transfer students may fare better in theirtransition to another institution because they are more familiar with the way 4-year universitiesoperate [7]. When a student transfers from one 4-year institution to another, they are more likelythan their vertical
workshops are required to submit reflections and summariesof their activities on the general listserv. Discipline listservs were established at faculty requestto promote the sharing of ideas among faculty working in the same academic discipline at thedifferent colleges. Faculty appreciate having a forum for the free exchange of ideas, andmoderated listservs are serving this purpose well.The compressed video television network is used by participants both for ATE work and forteaching classes. ATE meetings are routinely held over the network with many being scheduledby ATE faculty. It is important that all faculty receive training on effectively using a compressedvideo network, and practice is necessary. Providing "how to" information is only a first
manufacturing businesses, and held a professional engineering license for 12 of those years. Her professional engineering experi- ence, combined with her education in industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, and her personal experience participating in multiple internships while an engineering student, including one international graduate-level internship, inform her work at the university in support of student engagement and success.Dr. Nikki James, Northeastern University Dr. Nikki James is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Department at D’Amore McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. Her portfolio includes the design and implementation of digital learning
combined course and a design course (Engineering Design 2). Statics &Dynamics introduces applied mechanics from an engineering standpoint and is the first of fiverequired "engineering science" courses in the curriculum. The statics and dynamics course hasthree class meetings each week and one lab meeting each week. Course labs have been designedto pair with course classroom content and involve activities such as learning to take forcemeasurements with load cells. Engineering Design 2 is the second design course in a two coursesequence (Engineering Design 1 and Engineering Design 2) and introduces students to process-based design in preparation for their capstone sequence.6-10 For the past five years and for theforeseeable future, Engineering
the right direction. Self-reflection I was very much aware of what I didn’t know, and I’ve learned a bit more! A lot of the projects that you get to work on in school, they’re all directed by a class. This was a chance to make it completely self- directed and self-motivated which was a huge driving factor for me. It just added a sense of ownership to the project that you wouldn’t get in a normal class, which I found really, really intriguing. If you have an ambition or a goal, and if you can back the ambition up with hard work, then you can succeed and I think that’s been the most meaningful thing
develop an understanding ofhow to profitably create, manage and grow a new product with resource constraints. The courseis designed to prepare business, engineering and entrepreneurship students to contribute to thedevelopment of strategies and tasks relevant to new product development. The skills developedenable students to analyze and develop product strategies regardless of their specific functionalrole. There are no prerequisites for the course.Before the redesign, the course was taught through a series of lectures, case studies, guestspeakers, and a final group project. The final group project required teams to identify a productthat had been introduced to the market within the last year. The students then had to analyze theproduct in terms
at the University of Illinois and served as the director of Curriculum and Service-Learning for the Social Entrepreneurship Institute in the College of Busi- ness. She has taught service-learning courses in various disciplines and has collaborated on, and traveled abroad with students participating in, international service-learning projects in engineering. Her profes- sional and research interests are in (international) service-learning, social entrepreneurship, humanitarian engineering, community-engaged scholarship, instructor training and professional development, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.Dr. Laura D Hahn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Laura Hahn holds a Ph.D. in
Paper ID #19700A Consulting Engineering Model for the EE Capstone ExperienceProf. Arnold Stanley Berger PhD, University of Washington, Bothell Arnold S. Berger is an Associate Professor and former Chair of the Division of Engineering and Math- ematics in the School of STEM at the University of Washington Bothell where he teaches classes in embedded systems, computer system design, digital and analog circuitry. He is also the program admin- istrator for the UWB Capstone program. Dr. Berger is the author of two books on the subjects of computer architecture and embedded systems. Before coming to UWB he was an engineer and