development. He currently is working with Dr. Kirti M. Yenkie to explore different teaching methodologies to strengthen the understanding of theoretical concepts for undergraduate students.Miss Swapana Subbarao Jerpoth, Rowan University Swapana S. Jerpoth received her B.Tech degree in Chemical Engineering from Priyadarshini Institute of Engineering and Technology, India in 2017, and her M.Tech degree in Petrochemical Engineering from Laxminarayan Institute of Technology, India in 2019. She joined as a Ph.D. student in the Chemical Engineering Department, Rowan University in 2019 and is currently working under the supervision of Dr. Kirti M. Yenkie. Swapana’s current research interests include sustainable process design and
vital to the engineering process that it should betaught and used as an essential part of engineering education and professional practice”. [3]The human mind is a complex system closed to typical forms of experimental observation of itsoperations. Documenting and analyzing its internal workings during design may seem to be animpossible task. However, researchers have found that sketches and design journals can providemuch insight into the student’s cognitive processes during design. [4-6] Research methods arerequired that can be applied to individual student design assignments to determine their level ofdesign process understanding. Page
application oriented environment.Gene Dixon [2] described how to formulate capstone project problem statements, and how toassess and evaluate them. Formulating a problem statement in any engineering project seemschallenging for senior capstone students. Gene described the findings from a qualitativeexploration of problem statements and problem statement assessments and evaluation directed at Page 23.730.2determining what characteristics are valued in developing a problem statement. The explorationwas undertaken in an effort to align faculty and students in understanding the value and contentof a quality design problem statement for use in a two-semester
AC 2012-3497: INTERDISCIPLINARY CAPSTONE DESIGN: ARCHITECTS,STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS, AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGERSMr. James B Guthrie P.E., California Polytechnic State University Jim Guthrie is an Assistant Professor for the Architectural Engineering Department at California Poly- technic State University at San Luis Obispo. Professor Guthrie came to Cal Poly with over 30 years of structural engineering experience and is a registered Professional and Structural Engineer in the state of California. Jim Guthrie received a B.S. degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Califor- nia at Davis in 1972 and an M.S. degree in Structural Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1973.Dr. Allen
Paper ID #22073Customer Review-driven Function Formulation for Design EducationDr. Ang Liu, University of New South Wales Dr. Ang Liu is a senior lecturer at the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales, AustraliaMr. Yuchen Wang, University of New South Wales Yuchen Wang is an undergraduate Aerospace Engineering student in University of New South Wales,Australia. He assists in engineering design education, meanwhile, his student off-class research focuses on space theme projects such as sun sensor and thermal controller.Dr. Yun Dai, University of Southern California Dr. Yun Dai is a
of increasing complexity. The teamsdevelop models, test their models with laboratory experiments, and validate their models withexperimental data. At the conclusion of the course, freshmen gain an appreciation for the powerof modeling physiological systems and can propose their own hypothesis, which they can thentest in lab. With practice, freshmen become more comfortable with the modeling process [3].They understand the value of solving challenging, open-ended problems with multiple potentialsolutions. Engineering students must learn to creatively ideate and assess numerous approaches,often with conflicting outcomes, starting their freshmen year. Modeling and design team-basedprojects engross students in learning beyond lectures and
Academy of Education / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in engineering education research. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions; this includes a two-strand research program fo- cused on (1) authentic assessment, often aided by interactive technology, and (2) design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.Luke Kachelmeier, University of New Mexico Luke Kachelmeier finished his bachelor’s degree from the University of New Mexico in May 2019. He completed a double major degree in applied math and psychology. His interests are in human factors
State University, Dr. Austin Talley worked as a manufacturing quality engineer for a test and measurement company, National Instruments, in Austin, TX. Dr. Austin Talley is a licensed by state of Texas as a Professional Engineer. Both of Dr. Austin Talley’s graduate degrees, a doctorate and masters in Mechanical Engineering, manufacturing and design area, are from the Univer- sity of Texas at Austin. Additionally, Dr. Austin Talley holds an undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University in Mechanical Engineering. His research is in engineering design theory and engineering ed- ucation. He has published over 30 papers in engineering education journals and conference proceedings. He has worked to implement
approach proved to be very challenging for various reasons, including the following: (1) thecoordinating faculty did not necessarily have the required expertise in all the areas covered byselected student projects; (2) having only four months to complete the senior design project,from idea to product, was not sufficient for students to produce a quality work, prepare therequired documentations, and demonstrate their understanding of engineering knowledge andapply it to practical problems; (3) in many cases, due to lack of time the students had to choose aproject from the existing project pool rather than generating an innovative project idea of theirown.As the result, the Department decided to change the capstone course structure and split it
. This paper shares an exploratory study ofelementary school girls who engaged in a design activity using computational papercrafts in thecontext of a “STEAM” summer camp. Drawing from qualitative analysis of student interviews,classroom observations, and student-designed artifacts, we aim to better understand and supportiteration for learning in computational papercrafting. We show where participants engaged intesting and refinement and how this benefitted the participants’ projects and their learning. Theresources and practices described here are especially relevant within making-orientedengineering education and other settings working to broaden participation in engineering.Iteration in engineering educationIteration is central to engineering
2002 ABET findings were aclear indicator that change was needed. In retrospect if a more traditional capstone design coursewere not developed and offered in the new curriculum, a deficiency was likely during the 2008ABET visit. While the motivation to initiate change may have been fear of ABET it has clearlybeen beneficial for the EM undergraduate studentsConclusions and RecommendatonsAs Engineering Management faculty, we teach the importance of continuous improvement andmaking managerial decisions based on data. Still it is difficult to implement change in anacademic department. Those who work in academic departments understand that personality,ego, and tradition are but a few of the factors (yet significant) that can impede change.Moreover
students. The new Engineering Plus degree has a core setof required foundational courses in engineering, a multi-year design sequence, and allows forself-defined pathways. The new curriculum also offers three defined degree pathways that havebeen chosen based on an examination of student “fate” data: secondary education, pre-medical,and environmental studies, with additional pathways planned for the near future. The fateanalysis examined the paths of students who were enrolled in an engineering or STEM major inone year and samples their major choice in the following year. This analysis maps the flow ofstudents into and out of the major with demographic slicers to more closely understand these in-migration and out-migration choices.This paper will
manned exploration of the red planet and subsequent colonization efforts byboth public and private entities [5] NASA’s journey into air and space has not only deepenedhumankind’s understanding of the universe but it has also inspired and motivated millions ofstudents to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Since1994, NASA has sponsored an annual competition for high school and college students to design,build, and race human-powered mars rovers. These collapsible vehicles must navigate simulatedouter space terrain, engaging students and providing valuable experiences in the technologies andconcepts that will be needed in future exploration missions [6] In April 2018, the team from theUniversity of the
0.000 0.73 Innovation Orientation 0.83 1-5 3.34 3.69 0.000 0.46 Affect Towards Design 0.85 1-5 4.21 4.39 0.006 0.28 Design Self-Efficacy 0.82 1-5 3.31 4.02 0.000 0.81 Innovation Self-Efficacy 0.77 1-5 3.63 3.94 0.005 0.38 Belonging to Makerspace 0.96 0-10 4.53 6.05 0.000 0.53ConclusionsIn a short period of time, makerspace use impacts students’ affect towards engineering andperception of their own engineering efficacy. As makerspaces become standard facilities inengineering institutions, it is important to understand what
teacher!” Recognizing that one’s degree of knowledge of a subject has no relationship to their understanding of pedagogy or their ability to apply it, over the past 12 years, Dr. Shull has maintained an active focus on sound pedagogy as related to engineering education. These efforts have been divided into understanding pedagogical theory and the pragmatic application into the classroom. His primary areas of focus are the ethics of caring, self- determination, and the connection of life skills to improved student learning. He has authored numerous publications in the field of pedagogy and the technical area of NDE including the popular textbook entitled Nondestructive Evaluation: Theory, Technique, and Applications
) software package. At the senior level, the course “Solid Modeling andDesign” uses the software package Creo Elements/Pro (formerly Pro/E). The catalog descriptionof these two classes is given in Appendix A. Solid modeling work is evaluated on efficient use ofthe software, expression of correct geometry, and capturing design intent.Several tools have been used to assess the attainment of student learning outcomes3-7; theseinclude rubrics to evaluate projects, surveys to analyze students’ understanding andimplementation of the engineering design methodology, and ability to work and make decisionson their own.Direct Assessment and Evaluation using Performance IndicatorsFollowing our first accreditation visit by ABET, a weakness in measurement of
) for all incoming engineering students presented an opportunity to strengthenstudents’ ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities and to make informedjudgments.EGR 101 is a project-based design course in which student teams are matched with clients in thecommunity to solve an identified problem. Through the work of creating the solutions to theseproblems, the teams learn about and apply the engineering design process. The design processconsists of seven steps: clarifying the team assignment, understanding the problem, definingdesign criteria, brainstorming solutions, evaluating solutions, prototyping, and testing. Steps inthe design process are taught using a flipped classroom method, in which students watch videosdetailing
c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Structural System Selection for a Building Design based on Energy ImpactABSTRACTA building structure’s ecological impact due to the embodied carbon in the building materials chosen hasbecome an increasingly prominent factor in the selection of building structural systems. Understanding therelative embodied carbon of different structural systems allows students to make informed decisions in thedesign process that better achieve the increasingly demanding goal of producing sustainable architecture. Theinclusion of this topic in academia has the benefit of giving students experience with energy assessment toolsthat could be utilized in the profession upon their graduation.This paper presents
and structural designer, he has worked on a range of projects that included houses, hospitals, recreation centers, institutional buildings, and conservation of historic buildings/monuments. Professor Sudarshan serves on the Working Group-6: Tensile and Membrane Structures of the Inter- national Association of Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS), the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) Aerospace Division’s Space Engineering and Construction Technical Committee, and the ASCE/ACI- 421 Technical Committee on the Design of Reinforced Concrete Slabs. He is the Program Chair of the Architectural Engineering Division of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). He is also a member of the Structural
Paper ID #14954Design and Development of Online Applied Thermo-Fluid Science CoursesDr. Gonca Altuger-Genc, State University of New York, Farmingdale Dr. Gonca Altuger-Genc is an Assistant Professor at State University of New York - Farmingdale State College in the Mechanical Engineering Technology Department. She is serving as the K-12 STEM Out- reach Research and Training Coordinator at Renewable Energy and Sustainability Center at Farmingdale State College. Her research interests are engineering education, self-directed lifelong learning, virtual laboratories, and decision-making framework development for design and
that are not readily available in textbooksor even on-line sources. Secondly, many design problems require the use of moderncomputational tools such as commercial or other software programs. Having been introduced tothe use of these particularly for solving heat transfer problems prepares them better for theirfuture career as practicing engineers. The modeling and simulation part of the project instills abetter understanding of how one implements the boundary conditions to the numerical solutionof a heat transfer problem as opposed to how boundary conditions are applied in the theoretical/analytical solution of the governing equation for simple problems that can be solved that way.This particular project also forced students to consider
Disagree Agree 1 2 3 4 5 6 mean1 The course was appropriate with sufficient preparation from pre- 1 5 15 5 1 1 2.9 requisites2 The course provided guidance on how to formulate an 1 2 2 10 8 5 4.0 engineering design problem3 The lab complemented my understanding of the lectures 2 6 10 5 5 3.94 The course helped me make progress in Solid works and 3D
Course has to be measured for the mapped criteria. Table 1. ABET Criteria (a-k) and additional ME Program Criteria (l-s). a An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering. b An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data. c An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. d An ability to function in multidisciplinary teams. e An ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems. f An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. g An ability to communicate effectively. h The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and
. Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference. June.4. Borrego, M., Froyd, J.E., and Hall, T.S. (2010). Diffusion of Engineering Education Innovations: A Survey of Awareness and Adoption Rates in U.S. Engineering Departments. Journal of Engineering Education. July.5. Wiggins, G., and McTighe, J. (1999). Understanding by Design. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.6. Rogers, E.M. (2003). Diffusion of Innovations. 5th ed.: Free Press.7. Godfrey, E. A. (2003). Theoretical Model of the Engineering Education Culture: A Tool for Change. Proceedings, 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, June.8. Hall, G. and Hord, S. (2006). The Concerns Based Adoption Model: A developmental conceptualization of the
AC 2008-1888: ACHIEVING TEAM WORK IN DESIGN PROJECTS:DEVELOPMENT AND RESULTS OF A SPREADSHEET TOOLRudolph Eggert, Boise State University RUDY J. EGGERT is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at Boise State University. His research interests include Engineering Design, Optimization, Design Theory and Methodology, Vehicle Design, Machine Design, and Probabilistic Analysis. In addition to conference papers and journal articles he authored Engineering Design, published by Prentice Hall in 2004. Page 13.141.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008
,” which they built and tested, to understand howsimple mechanisms could be used to create biomimetic motion. Students were then instructed tostudy biological means of movement through water, and to create a watercraft that could travelthrough water. This successful project resulted in many different designs, illustrating a variety ofbiological solutions. This paper will discuss a bio-inspired design methodology illustrated withstudent designs and will discuss lessons learned.Figure 1 Biomimicry Taxonomy, Biomimicry Institute CC BY-NC 3.02.0 The ProjectBiomimicry can be a useful design approach for engineers, following nature’s evolution to adaptlife to its environment. It can be a challenge for engineering students (and other non-biologists)to
criteria beforegraduation: the Graduate Learning Outcomes (standards for the university), the AustralianQualifications Framework (AQF) Criteria (standards for the level of the degree), and theEngineers Australia (EA) competencies (national accreditation standards for the professionalengineer). In addition to meeting these required standards for graduating as a professionalengineer, the CSU Engineering degree at the Masters level also pushes its students towards thecompetencies for Chartered Engineer status; this adds an additional standard to beincorporated into the curriculum design and supported by the program while not explicitlyneeding to be completely satisfied by any of the graduating students. Further, the programoffers exit awards for
the overlap-add algorithm works. This is the lab that students typicallyidentify as the most challenging for them.Student LearningDigital signal processing theory can be difficult for engineering technology students to grasp, butit is essential that students understand principles of sampling, aliasing, filter design, etc. beforemoving on to hardware-based design projects. Hands on experimentation usingMATLAB/Simulink enables them to visualize the concepts without becoming lost in themathematics or in hardware related issues. Including practical applications with music, sound, orpictures definitely sparks interest.In the wordlength effects lab, students are often surprised by the number of bits required for astable filter and the effect that
working with the EET/TET faculty developed andtested a new toolkit for LabVIEW that would meet the requirements of the digital logic designcourse and provide a better basis of understanding for the students as they moved into themicrocontroller architectures course.This paper presents the toolkit developed by students and faculty at Texas A&M University andrecommendations for integrating the toolkit into the digital design sequence of engineering andengineering technology programs. As a result of this development project, the EET/TETPrograms are now able to introduce both FPGA technology and the LabVIEW programmingenvironment to its sophomore-level students. Through the innovative use of VHDL to build theiconic digital gates and devices, the
AC 2009-263: EXPERIENCES IN TRANSFORMING AN ENGINEERINGTECHNOLOGY CAPSTONE SENIOR DESIGN COURSEFernando Rios-Gutierrez, Georgia Southern University Fernando Rios-Gutierrez was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He graduated with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Communications from the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, in 1978. He continued his graduated studies at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Puebla, Mexico, were he received the M.S. degree in Electronic Instrumentation in 1980. After graduating, he worked as a product designer engineer for the National Cash Register Company (NCR) Mexico, where he participated in the design of High-Frequency