school and college as well as preparing students for the rigors of mathematics. His research interests include engineering education, excellence in instruction, water and wastewater treatment, civil engineering infrastructure, and transportation engineering.Dr. Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology Dr. Jaskirat Sodhi is a University Lecturer in the department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineer- ing at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is interested in first-year engineering curriculum design and recruitment, retention and success of engineering students. He is the coordinator of ENGR101, an application-oriented engineering math course for students placed in pre-calculus courses. He has also
education and communi- cation, and minoring in higher education administration. Her research focuses on stakeholder (employers and students) evaluation for curriculum development and revision. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WORK IN PROGRESS FROM FACE-TO-FACE TO ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: A Transition to a Learner-Centered ApproachAbstractHaving students in an online environment, either partially or fully, requires the instructor to learnnew knowledge and skills that are crucial to succeed in creating high quality online learningenvironments. In this paper, we (an engineering instructor who is learning how to teach in onlineenvironments and an
Paper ID #27193An Online Approach to the Analog Electronics LaboratoryMr. Kenneth Ray Hite, West Virginia University Kenneth Hite is a Graduate Student and Lab Manager/Instructor in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. His BS is in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Electronics. He has worked as Graduate Assistant for two Solar Decathlon competitions and several undergraduate senior design groups. He has been instructing labs and summer courses since 2012, covering much of the un- dergraduate core Electrical Engineering curriculum. The past several years he has also served as the Lab
hurdles, including curriculum development, selection of textbooks, the development ofonline labs, and novel approaches to linking program content to courses. Informal feedback fromindustry indicates students know what they need to know to be successful. The adaptation of theUbD pedagogy was crucial to the development of the program and we believe it could be usedsuccessfully by others.IntroductionAn interdisciplinary group of university faculty worked together in a Faculty LearningCommunity to study a pedagogy called Understanding by Design (UbD). We then implementedit in our university courses. Results were reported in [1].Just as we were completing this study, I was tasked with developing a new program inManufacturing Engineering Technology
and OEP instructional approaches in various classes (Table 1) to varying degrees. Allstudents take a freshman design class in the spring term of their freshman year, and a year-longcapstone design course in their senior year. Otherwise, students take classes that may or may notinclude projects, which are more or less open-ended, depending on the instructor and the year.Table 1: Courses with projects currently in the civil and environmental engineering curriculum Academic Level Course Name Brief Description of Course Project Introduction to Freshman Students design a site layout. Design Mechanics of Students
againstpotential re-identification within the data, moves away from dismissing small samples as ananomaly, and refrains from essentializing diverse groups of individuals. This methodologicalapproach to understand diversity in engineering education is not a panacea for all methodologicalissues. Rather, this approach provides a new way of examining multiple affective and cognitivedimensions at once to understand how an individual experiences engineering.How TDA Has Been Used in Prior LiteratureTDA is an advanced statistical clustering technique that examines the topology, or the landscape,of the data to find common, dense areas in the dataset. TDA arose from a field of statistical theoryconcerned with “shapes” within data (i.e., topology); one of the most
Engineering at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, and pursuing a minor in Aerospace Engineering. Victoria has had a successful rocket launch for collection of atmospheric data, and has worked with the Electrical Engineering depart- ment at New Mexico Tech to launch a weather balloon for data collection purposes. Her passion for rocketry has allowed for a successful implementation of curriculum and for her to be a relevant resource for the students.Dr. Curtis John O’Malley, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Assistant Prof at NM Tech since 2016. Teach junior/senior design clinic as well as 1st semester intro- duction to mechanical engineering design. As part of these courses I work closely with
Paper ID #25222A Writing in the Disciplines Approach to Technical Report Writing in Chem-ical Engineering Laboratory CoursesMs. Catherine Anne Hubka, University of New Mexico Catherine (Cat) Hubka, MFA, holds dual appointments at the University of New Mexico in the Depart- ments of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) and Department of English. For CBE, she is em- bedded in the 300 and 400 labs where she supports curriculum redesign focused on incorporating content- based writing approaches. In the Department of English, Cat teaches in the Core Writing Program where her pedagogy incorporates creative writing
Engineering Curriculum: Troublesome Knowledge in Expected Outcomes,” in Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Indianapolis, IN, USA, October 18-21, 2017.[5] D. Reeping, L. McNair, L. Baum, M. Wisnioski, A. Patrick, T. Martin, L. Lester, B. Knapp, and S. Harrison, (2018). “ We’ve Always Done it that Way, An Exploration of Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Curricular Decisions,” in Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), San Jose, CA, USA, October 3-6, 2018.[6] J.H.F. Meyer and R. Land, Eds., Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge, London and New York: Routledge, 2006.[7] C.L. Dym, S.D. Sheppard and J.W. Wesner, “A Report on Mudd Design Workshop II: Designing Design
Paper ID #26128A New Approach in Abolishing Poverty: A Case Study and ConstructionStrategy for Integrating Inclusive Innovation into Engineering Ethics Educa-tionMr. Heng Li, Zhejiang University Mr. Heng Li, Zhejiang University Ph.D. candidate in School of Public Affairs in Zhejiang University.He is engaged in the research of engineering ethics and engineering ethics education in the School of Hu- manities of Zhejiang University. Meanwhile, he is also the director of Priority Project of Engineering Education(2016) of China Association of Higher Education. Research direction: Engineering ethics edu- cation, Philosophy.Miss
to Integrate the Industrial Engineering CurriculumAbstractThis work introduces a new approach called Connected Learning and Integrated CourseKnowledge (CLICK). CLICK is intended to provide an integrative learning experience byleveraging Virtual Reality (VR) technology to help provide a theme to connect and transfer theknowledge of engendering concepts. Integrative learning is described as the process of creatingconnections between concepts (i.e., skill and knowledge) from different resources andexperiences, linking theory and practice, and using a variation of platforms to help students’understanding. In the CLICK approach, the integration is achieved by VR learning modules thatserve as a platform for a common theme and include
. Rebecca A. Zulli, Cynosure Consulting c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 AN ASSET APPROACH TO BROADENING P A R T I C I P AT I O N TIP S A ND T OOLS FOR STRATEGIC P L A NNINGA D R I E N N E S M I T H & R E B E C C A Z U L L I L OW EINTRODUCTION• All too often when thinking about recruiting, supporting, and retaining diverse students in our STEM majors and programs, the situation is approached from a deficit mindset; that is, one that focuses on what students or environments lack that must be remedied.• In our work supporting STEM departments with their broadening participation efforts, we focus on fostering an asset-minded approach to strategic planning.• This approach is grounded
Paper ID #25928A New Curriculum to Teach System-Level Understanding to Sophomore Elec-trical Engineering Students using a Music-Following RobotMr. Son Nguyen, University of California, Davis Son Nguyen received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam, in 2012, and his M.S. degree in micro and nano systems technology from University of South-Eastern Norway, in 2014. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Micropower Circuits and Systems Group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California
discussion will hopefully lead to theformation of “the ideal teaming experience”. This ties in with the shared vision approach toencourage faculty buy-in and to make sustainable changes to the curriculum. After this futuremeeting, the co-operation thread committee plans to draft the ideal teaming experience map andpresent it faculty in a departmental meeting that follows.References[1] A. International. (2013). Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Technology Programs, 2018 – 2019. Available: https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria- for-accrediting-engineering-technology-programs-2018-2019/[2] U. National Academy of Engineering, The engineer of 2020: Visions of engineering in the new century. National
Paper ID #25272Critical Approaches to CSR as a Strategy to Broaden Engineering Students’Views of StakeholdersDr. Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines Jessica M. Smith is Associate Professor in the Engineering, Design & Society Division at the Colorado School of Mines and Co-Director of Humanitarian Engineering. She is an anthropologist with two major research areas: 1) the sociocultural dynamics of extractive and energy industries, with a focus on corpo- rate social responsibility, social justice, labor, and gender and 2) engineering education, with a focus on socioeconomic class and social responsibility
, while meeting and/orexceeding the expectations of the student. The course curriculum herein provides anopportunity to lead by example as well as provide a model for training instructors incontent delivery – promote enduring outcome by using application based delivery.The course proposed by this paper is being developed for the Division ofConstruction Engineering and Management at Purdue University. Motivation is foundin many different forms but unified by the desire of the instructor to create studentsuccess in the construction industry. The course seeks to implement a cognitiveapprenticeship approach as the foundational learning method along with additionalmethods which are implemented on case by case bases. Utilization of the principlesfound
sanitation, as well as sustainability solutions, through interdisciplinary approaches. Since joining the Olin College faculty she has also dived into the field of engineering education with an emphasis on integration of arts, humanities, and STEM. Her love of learning was first fostered by an unusual elementary school education that was deeply inter- disciplinary with a substantial arts curriculum. After graduating from Harvard University with a B.A. in Dramatic Literature, she worked professionally in theater and wrote and recorded two musical albums. She then returned to school to study engineering, earning a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Rutgers Uni- versity in 2011. While completing her degree at Rutgers, she wrote
Paper ID #25096Work in Progress: Students’ Informal Reasoning when Approaching Classroom-based Scenarios Involving Diversity and Inclusion IssuesDarby Rose Riley, Rowan University Darby Riley is a student of mechanical engineering at Rowan University. She has a special interest in education, as well as issues of diversity and inclusion, both of which have pushed her to seek leadership positions wherever possible. She is a founding member of Rowan University’s oSTEM chapter, and working to make Rowan’s campus a safe and welcoming place for all students. Darby hopes to pursue a graduate’s degree in engineering education
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Improving creative thinking in engineering students through art appreciationAbstractCreativity thinking is a metacognitive process that allows not only complex problem solving butalso a high degree of innovation that future engineers would need to perform disruptive taskssuccessfully. Given the difficulty that comes with the enhancement of a creative perspectiveusing logical-scientific modality of thought, a need arises to consider disruptive innovations inteaching-learning approaches for new engineering programs. In this study, engineering studentswere given necessary trainings in creative thinking techniques in order for them to comply with:(i
ofengineering is tasked with maintaining its innovativeness by promoting and nurturing creativitywithin the profession, without having the appropriate tools to do so [19-21]. Despite theseunfortunate circumstances, recent studies have demonstrated that when creativity ismethodologically inserted in the engineering curriculum or other skill-based training programs,students are able to apply it immediately and in the long-term.[9] For instance, within thecorporate world, the idea of creativity training has gained recent significant attention due to itsability to enhance worker performance in organizations [32] and impact economic developmentin cities [33, 34]. For example, the integration of creativity-based approaches into systematicprocesses resulted
Computer Security in Undergraduate Curriculum M. Nazrul Islam, Joseph Abel and Qinghai Gao Security Systems & Law Enforcement Technology Farmingdale State College, State University of New York Email: islamn@farmingdale.edu ABSTRACTDigital information and infrastructure are crucial components in every aspect of today’s world.There is a huge need for security professionals with expertise to analyze the security threats, designand develop security tools, and manage and update security architecture. A computer securitytechnology program is developed for undergraduate curriculum following the industry
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results, indicating that the realisticpreview of a career in academia actually pushed students away and/or the students were notdeveloping skills required to confidently approach academia as a potential career.Recognizing that many current UGTA programs are falling short of empowering their UGTAs torecognize the impact being made in the classroom, the new UGTA program at the Ira A. FultonSchools of Engineering at Arizona State University is determined to make the experiencemotivational for the UGTA. One of the common pitfalls seen throughout these studies is thelack of opportunity for the UGTA to be creative in their role in the classroom. UGTAs are mostlikely to instruct and try to help students in a manner in which they were instructed and
education, a variety of pedagogical considerations have beenimplemented and experimented, such as inquiry-based learning (Behrouzi and Kuchma, 2016),project-based learning (Khorbotly, 2015; Wang et. al., 2017; Zhao et. al., 2017; Luo, 2015),cooperative learning (Akili, 2012), active learning (Luo, 2015; Akili, 2014; Oliveira, 2015),divide-and-conquer learning (Kos and Miller, 2017; Sullivan-Green, et. al., 2017), student-centered learning (Grigg and Stephan, 2018), and problem-based method (Oliveira, 2015), etc.The project-based learning approach is one of the innovative methods promoted in engineeringeducation. Khorbotly developed and taught a computer vision curriculum in the undergraduateelectrical and computer engineering program using a
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to groups underrepresented in STEMfields. This distinctive curriculum was developed and refined through a multi-stage process: (i)involving PD facilitator training; (ii) three dimensional NGSS curriculum development by teachersand facilitators; and (iii) teacher participants’ support of other teachers. The study participantsincluded six science and math teachers from New York City (NYC) middle schools who hadpreviously undergone LEGO robotics PD at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering but lackedformal NGSS-plus-5E lesson development experience. This was done purposefully to focus oncurriculum development for the new national standards. A qualitative case study [10] is used as amethodology for analysis. A sociocultural theoretical framework
include distance educa- tion, cyber-learning, and videogames in education. He has proposed innovative and futuristic educational applications.Prof. Edward L. Jones, Florida A&M University/Florida State University Edward L. Jones is Professor and Interim Chairman of the CIS Department at Florida A&M University (FAMU) in Tallahassee, Florida. He joined the faculty after 13 years as a software engineer at Harris Corporation. His SIGCSE 2001 paper, ”Integrating testing into the curriculum - arsenic in small doses,” proposed a vision for incorporating testing into the CS curriculum. He founded the FAMU Software TestLab, funded by federal and corporate grants for training software testing practitioners and
in this very hegemonic process of not directly identifying power.My own biases as I was entering into this course are based on the premise that engineeringeducation is only now, in the past 5 years or so, beginning to turn a critical eye on the field forhow dominant ideologies structure much of the curriculum and pedagogy within highereducation spaces. Because these critical discourses are new to engineering education, myassumption was, they would not be as theoretically informed as they are in humanities-based oreducation-based fields. Not only is the pedagogy used within the course theoretically informed,but the ways in which the instructor selected reading materials, listened to how students weretaking up the materials, and facilitated
multiple levels of the Mechanical Engineering curriculum. The preliminaryefforts have been very successful in both increasing student engagement and in achievingspecific learning objectives of the involved courses. The efforts described herein will becontinued in the future by refining the activities described, adding new activities, and continuingto coordinate across the different courses to ensure that the activities are leading to the goal ofcontinuing to introduce real-world problems and applications of sensor and mechatronic systemsthroughout the mechanical engineering curriculum. The methods proposed in Sec. 5 will be usedto assess the effectiveness of this endeavor as students proceed through the modified courses.AcknowledgementsThe authors
]. A case study of Heragu [24] presents anobjective function which is finding a new location and build a bigger facility. The group of studentsis encouraged to follow a five-step approach, which is based on the hybrid analysis. Another casestudy by Louwers [25] which focuses on facility location for storing and preprocessing the carpetsthat are disposed of and the allocation of disposed of carpet waste flows to these locations. Bruniet al., [26] case study as another example proposes a location model for the optimal organizationof the transplant system. 2.2.2. TransportationTransport is part of the economic activity [27], which is associated with moving goods vehicle ona particular technology in the supply chain engineering, including