ergonomics. Fraser’s 121 credit hour “generic”plan of study, which she feels describes most IE programs, includes two related courses: threecredit hours of “work methods” and three credit hours of “human factors.” Some portion of theseIE programs require only one three-credit-hour course that covers both work methods and humanfactors topics. IE programs may also offer advanced topics in ergonomics that are available aselectives to undergraduate students. There is also a subset of IE undergraduate programs thathave no required courses in these areas; Fraser’s numbers indicate that this is only about 10% ofABET accredited IE programs.Under the premise that ergonomics is an important subject in an undergraduate IE education, theinitial goal of this
remain as a life practice. It fits into the counties’ necessity to improvecompetitiveness in technology growth, which has implications in workforcedevelopment, as well as in science and technology development. The program’s maincharacteristic is the possibility to apply new and innovative approaches, which providestudents the ability to develop concepts and theories to solve and understand scientificand nonscientific problems and, consequently, find solutions for those problemsKeywords: K12, innovation, science, stem education, university access.IntroductionEducation is currently seen worldwide as the most desirable path for people to earn adecent living and to reach personal growth and happiness. It is generally agreed thateducated people not only
and non-business courses. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Generating Start-up Relevance in Capstone Projects1. IntroductionAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) requires students to complete acapstone design experience that prepares them for engineering practice through team-basedprojects incorporating the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work [1]- [4].While capstone course pedagogy differs widely from one program to another, in all cases,students are expected, through the process of completing the capstone project, to understanddesign constraints, such as economic factors, safety, reliability, ethics, and social impact. Inaddition, students are
. Graduate technically competent engineers who expect to engage in lifelong learning in the profession. To be competitive in the employment market, engineers must have a solid, fundamental technical education in their discipline which meets ABET general and program criteria; this cannot be accomplished with less than 96 units of technical content. However, to meet the level needed for an entry-level engineering professional, their programs need not be so specialized that they are unable to communicate with either the public or other technical professionals in different disciplines. 2. Keep the needs of pre-major students in mind. This includes community college
Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana in 2007 as an Associate Professor. She is a Co-PI on the FAA Center of Excellence for general aviation research known as PEGASAS and leads engineering efforts in the Air Transport Institute for Environmental Sustainability. Her research interests are aviation sustainability, data driven process improvement, aviation fuels, and engine exhaust emissions.Dr. Randy R. Rapp, School of Construction Management, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Assoc. Professor Dr. Randy R. Rapp, D.Mgt, PE, is the Graduate Program Chair of the School of Con- struction Management at Purdue University. Post-baccalaureate professional engineering and construction management education has been an interest
Paper ID #15175Learning to Conduct ”Team Science” through Interdisciplinary EngineeringResearchDr. Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Purdue University, West Lafayette Catherine G.P. Berdanier holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. She earned her B.S. in Chemistry from The University of South Dakota and her M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University. Her research interests include graduate-level engineering education, including engineering writing, inter- and multidisciplinary graduate education, innovative and novel grad- uate education experiences, global learning, and
design and implementation and connections to studentself-reported evidence may help individuals (e.g., graduate deans, faculty developmentprofessionals, and program evaluators) at other institutions design effective professionaldevelopment seminars to prepare future engineering faculty at their institution.Bibliography1. Austin, A. E. (2002). Preparing the next generation of faculty: Graduate school as socialization to the academiccareer. The Journal of Higher Education, 73(1), 94-122.2. Austin, A. E. (2010). Reform efforts in STEM doctoral education: Strengthening preparation for scholarly careers.In Higher education: Handbook of theory and research (pp. 91-128). Springer Netherlands.3. Arreola, R., Theall, M., & Aleamoni, L. M. (2003
expect an average 5-15% increase instarting salary. Furthermore, M.Eng. graduates are employed in the workforce earning a largesalary one to two years before their M.S. colleagues. Figure 3 show a rough financial comparisonof potential earnings for a B.S., M.Eng., M.S., and Ph.D. degree recipient over a 20 year period.This comparison was initially created to justify a graduate education in general. The dataassumes a 3% annual raise, with a periodic 10% increase in salary. While M.S. students may notacquire any additional debt to complete their degree, our analysis suggests that their earningpotential remains just below that of the M.Eng. graduates. A similar comparison appeared in anofficial engineering income and salary survey report conducted
40% of undergraduateswho enter college intending to receive a STEM degree graduate in a STEM field1. This issue willbe exacerbated as women, underrepresented minorities (URM), and first-generation collegestudents, who traditionally earn fewer STEM degrees than white men, continue to grow as themajority of collegians. A recent report by the President’s Council on Science and Technologyprojects the United States will need one million more engineers in the next decade than we areon track to produce. Increasing STEM graduation rates from 40% to 50% of interested studentswould create roughly 750,000 of the million-needed engineers.1The percent of underrepresented minorities in engineering and science has historically beendismally low. Based on a
University with a focus in child injury biomechanics. She loves working as a Graduate Teaching Associate for the First-Year Engineering Program in the Department of Engineering Education. In addition to teaching, she leads the Ohio State student chapter of American Society for Engineering Education as a Vice President. She will graduate in spring of 2016 and is excited to work in biotech industry afterwards. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Using Mentors as Live Case Studies for teaching topics in Supply Chain ManagementIntroduction:At The Ohio State University and many other universities across the country, the case studyapproach is used to teach
Engineering Edu- cation from Purdue University (2008). Her research focuses on strategies for design innovations through divergent and convergent thinking as well as through deep needs and community assessments using design ethnography, and translating those strategies to design tools and education. She teaches design and en- trepreneurship courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, focusing on front-end design processes. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Integrating Design Heuristics into Engineering ClassroomsAbstractWhile successful concept generation is essential for innovative solutions, engineering studentsoften receive limited instruction about how to accomplish
. ”Sustainable design based thinking, beyond the past environmental focus has unlimited potential in solving social, ethical and economic problems in society.” Dan is currently earning his PhD at Coventry University in the UK, through his research of his thesis entitled ”Differentiation by Design R . A native of Chicago, Dan attended St. Xavier University, earning a Bachelors Degree in Biology, with a minor in Chemistry. Upon graduating, Dan embarked on a career in the chemical and plastics industry where he applied his science education, and natural ability in engineering and leadership to a fast track business career. While serving in roles of increasing responsibility in the rapidly globalizing marketplace of the 1980
, inengineering education. We faculty are not, in general, explicitly trained to be experts on this sideof engineering. A strategic piece, which makes an idea creative, usually is analogic thinking --transferring from some other domain.18 Yet this process is a glimmer, always weaker than anymore specific problem solving process which is known to work. In school, we more often arerewarded for knowing or inventing a straight-line solution process. Analogic problem solving isalmost indistinguishable from "guessing," which tends not to be rewarded in engineering classes.In favor of slippery creativity stuff, we should point out that science does have two parts, thesystematic one where you rigorously test hypotheses, and the ill-defined one where you
Engineering/ Services 2005 Engineering/ Services/ 2008 Systems Systems 2011 Concentration Financial Eng. Concentration 2012 Data & Analytics 2015As mentioned above, times changed and in addition to curriculum change at Stevens,there was an update to the EMBoK in 2012 as well. The question begs to be asked if thedomain areas listed in Table 1 are enough in 2016? Do they convey the topics that arenecessary for today’s engineering manager to succeed? What about the education oftomorrow’s engineering manager? Will the EM graduates of 2020 succeed with thetopics being taught in the EM curriculum today?A few years ago, students, alumni and employers were
Paper ID #15839Improving Design Competency in Introductory Engineering Courses withina General Education RequirementDr. Christopher Lombardo, Harvard University Dr. Christopher Lombardo is an Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Dr. Lombardo received Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the University of Maryland at College Park and a Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Electrical Engineering from the The University of Texas at Austin. Outside of the classroom, Dr. Lombardo facilitates
assistance to the campus and community, and maintains the collec- tion in assigned subject areas. Her current research interests include information literacy instruction and assessment, the impact of student affect on learning, data literacy, and data management planning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Training Graduate Engineering Students in EthicsAbstractThe Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegasembarked on providing ethics instruction to incoming graduate students in the form of amandatory workshop. The College has a diverse graduate student population, including asizable international component, who are enrolled in several M.S. and
biomedical problems. During biomedical design, a range ofstrategies can be used to identify a problem and to generate and evaluate solutions. At ColumbiaUniversity, we have an established program for teaching biomedical design to undergraduateswhich culminates in our capstone ‘Senior Design’ course. However, no specified designexperience exists for terminal degree BME Master’s students. Design courses are traditionallytaught utilizing a textbook, lectures, and a team design project, with often limited time forinteractions between and among teams and instructors in the classroom. We also recognized thatthe background and educational and professional goals of undergraduates and graduate studentsare unique. Therefore, we saw a valuable opportunity to
Graduate student in Mechanical Engineering in PVAMU, in-class assistant in Mechanical Engineering Drawing. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Using Peer-Generated Screencast in Teaching Computer-Aided DesignAbstract This paper presents a new method of using peer-generated screencast in the computer-aideddesign (CAD) education. Instead of using instructor-made screencasts, students were asked tomake their own screencasts, review each others‟ screencasts, and provide feedback. To explorethe impact of student-made screencast exercises on students' learning outcomes, we conducted apretest posttest quasi-experimental research. A life-long learning survey, an engineering attitudesurvey, an exit
Green Fund committee. His research interests are in Systems Engineering & Architecture, Complex systems, Systems testing and Application of Entropy to Complex Systems. Email: sakundi@miners.utep.eduDr. Richard Chiou, Drexel University Dr. Richard Chiou is Associate Professor within the Engineering Technology Department at Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His educational background is in manufacturing with an emphasis on mechatronics. In addition to his many years of industrial experience, he has taught many different engineering and technology courses at undergraduate and graduate levels
Paper ID #15909The Application of Multi-dimensional Learning Portfolios for Exploring theCreativity Learning Behavior in Engineering EducationProf. Ting-Ting Wu, Graduate School of Technological and Vocational Education, National Yunlin Universityof Science and Technology Ting-Ting Wu is currently an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Technological and Vocational Education at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Engineering Science at National Cheng Kung University. She received the MS degree in Information and Learning Technology from
, American Studies, Folklore, Gender Studies, and Education when working with faculty, staff, and students on topics related to inclusivity, diversity, and social justice in the classroom and curriculum.Ms. Jaclyn Duerr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Jaclyn Duerr works as a Coordinator for the Multicultural Engineering Program at California Polytech- nic State University, San Luis Obispo. Teaching experience includes Engineering Student Success and Multicultural Counseling courses. Research interests encompass advocacy, recruitment, retention, and graduation for under-served students in STEM, with a special interest in first generation and transfer student experiences.Dylan Henson, California
$500K in research grants to The California State University, Northridge. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A Comprehensive Analysis of Current and Future Offerings of Risk Management Topics in the Engineering Management Curriculum AbstractThe dynamic society in which we live is full of uncertainties. The component of risk is present inall systems settings and it is becoming increasingly prevalent in this rapidly changing andinteractively complex society. As a result, risk management concepts and methods have become acritical topic to be understood by engineers and engineering managers.Historically, risk management was typically focused on
safety.Kwaku Frimpong Boakye, University of Tennessee - Knoxville Kwaku Frimpong Boakye is a graduate research assistant at the University of Tennessee pursuing a Ph.D. program in Transportation Engineering. His research area focuses on traffic and highway safety or risk analyses. He also has the passion of working with pre-collegiate students motivating them to consider careers in STEM programs in college. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 An Overview and Preliminary Assessment of a Summer Transportation Engineering Education Program (STEEP) for Ninth GradersAbstractA summer educational and experiential learning program for
host schools. Colleges and universities in the United States have become increasingly reliant on international students to fill Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)-related graduate programs and support their STEM-related research agendas and patent generation. Moreover, because demand among foreign students for a U.S. degree seems unlimited, many colleges and universities have seen them as a quick fix for offsetting lagging interest among domestic students in graduate education, especially in STEM fields. These international students represent real revenues and significant enrollments. According to the latest data from National Center for Educational Statistics
research to kids to inspire them to generally or specifically pursue technology—as an example, I could demonstrate how their headphones work through cancellation of sound waves.” (Participant 36).Higher Education Outcomes related to “Since so few opportunities exist for young engineers to work on undergraduate or graduate- cross-cultural topics, upon completion of my surveys, I plan to level education and work with local faculty to create a learning module for the involvement undergraduate “Water Resources Engineering” course about
and undergraduate surveys conducted at SaltLake Community College (SLCC) this paper suggests that exposing students early-on to researchof engineering and scientific topics will increase their interest in pursuing graduate degrees,future research or professional school.Introduction:“Undergraduate faculty-student interaction, which is often cited as the key to the involvement-integration outcomes of retention and academic achievement at the undergraduate level, appearsto encourage students to enroll in graduate and professional education as well” (Hathaway et. al,2002, p. 17). From the undergraduate author’s own experience, reading peer-reviewed journalarticles about current methods of Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) removal and disposal
, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Dr. Behjat was the recipient of 2015 Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) Women in Engineering Champion Award.Dr. Milana Trifkovic, University of Calgary Milana Trifkovic is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum engineering at University of Calgary. Her research interests include process and material design and hierarchical control of complex processes.Robyn Paul, University of Calgary Robyn is a Master’s student researching engineering leadership education at the University of Calgary. She graduated from Manufacturing Engineering in 2011 and worked in industry for a few years before returning to school.Karen Andrea
Paper ID #14692Alternate Assessments to Support Formative Evaluations in an AsynchronousOnline Computer Engineering Graduate CourseMs. Ritushree Chatterjee, Iowa State University Ritushree Chatterjee is an Instructional Development Specialist working at Engineering-LAS Online Learning at Iowa State University. She did her undergraduate in Chemistry from Delhi University, In- dia and subsequently received her MS in Environmental Chemistry from Iowa State University. She received her second MS in Education with specialization in Curriculum and Instructional Technology and her Instructional Design certificate from Iowa
strategies to design tools and education. She teaches design and en- trepreneurship courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, focusing on front-end design processes.Dr. Diane L. Peters, Kettering University Dr. Peters is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University.Dr. Steven J. Skerlos, University of Michigan Professor Steven J. Skerlos is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan. He is a tenured faculty member in Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering. He also serves as a UM Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Sustainability. He is Director of Sustainability Education Programs in the College of Engineering and Co-Director of the Engineering
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Staying in or Getting Out: The Relationship Between Undergraduate Work Exposure and Job Satisfaction after GraduationIntroductionPast research has focused on the ways engineering students talk about the work they hope to doas professional engineers after graduation, which the authors refer to as their ‘images of work.’1These authors found that students’ initial images of work were marked by hopefulness andaspiration; students wanted to design new technologies and engage in innovation. As the studentsmoved through their undergraduate education, however, their images of work became moremundane. Often this mundaneness emerged as a