Paper ID #34035Team Formation and Function Decisions and Student Roles on DiverseEngineering Design TeamsDr. David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine David A. Copp received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Teaching at the University of California, Irvine in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Prior to joining UCI, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories and an adjunct
; engineering design decisions are consequential for the design and how it performsupon implementation. To use a spoon, the person may need to like the color; and the material ofthe blade must be strong enough for an endurance task. Because design decisions areconsequential, undergraduate engineering programs have a responsibility to prepare students asdecision makers.Capstone design courses allow undergraduate engineering students to experience open-endeddesign projects before starting their professional careers. As such, capstone serves as anopportunity to develop students’ ability to make decisions in an ill-structured setting. Typically,explicit instruction related to decision making includes an introduction to rationalistic tools, suchas decision
past few decades, there has been a push for engineering curriculum to better engagewith the global, ethical, and societal impacts of the field and to prepare students to engage in amulticultural and diverse workspace and world. In an effort to introduce diversity in design andto troubleshoot the concept of the universal user, we adapted the display compatibilityquestionnaire from Smith’s study of display-control stereotype designs, and presented the samedesign questions to 21st century first-year engineering students, non-engineering students, andnon-engineering professionals. This work explores current societal impacts such as gender, age,and occupation on the user expectation of a control’s display and user-interface design.Additionally, the
9PERFORMANCE REVIEW #2: PEER (360) AND SELF-ASSESSMENTContext: Students have engaged in a team-based project through nearly half of its duration, after having set performance goals weeks ago. This provides an opportunity for obtaining both peer and self- assessment data with regard to important knowledge, skills, and abilities being used in the project.Assignment: For each of three areas – Project development, Teamwork development, and Personal development: (a) Rate each team member (including yourself) on his or her personal demonstrations of the knowledge, skill, or ability listed. Insert team member names at the top of each column and fill all unshaded rows of those columns
, Community College of the Air Force Stephen Harris is an adjunct faculty member at the Pennsylvania State University’s Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies. He served in the USAF as an Electronic Warfare Officer and completed both a military and a civil service career with a total of 42 years of Federal service. In his final civil service position he served as the Dean of the Community college of the Air Force. His research and teaching interests include problem solving science and leadership with a focus on the impact of cognitive style based upon Adaption Innovation theory. Dr. Harris received his Ed.D. in Career Technology from Auburn University. c American Society for
Aerospace Engineering from MIT and her M.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. Her research interests include engineering design education (especially in regards to the design of complex systems), student preparation for post-graduation careers, approaches for supporting education research-to-practice. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 An Exploratory Study of Power Dynamics and Feedback in Design ReviewsAbstractA key event in many engineering and design learning environments is the design review, inwhich students present project work to solicit feedback from reviewers like instructors, peers,and outside visitors. Previous
delivery – makingsure students learn statics or thermodynamics or transport phenomena – has only an indirectrelationship to professional practices; that is, the mastery of the content is somewhat removedfrom the ability to apply that content within professional work, and not all technical content(even “core” content) is relevant to all positions students may take upon graduation. The utilityvalue these capstone faculty address, however, is linked directly to job experiences andexpectations that most (if not all) students will encounter in post-graduation work.It is important to note that other utility factors also played into faculty decisions, includingmeeting goals set by outside companies, being fair to students/team members, studentinterest
. Engineering graduates are expected to contributeeffectively as members of multidisciplinary engineering design teams. Enabling this successrequires that engineering design educators develop an understanding of the diverse disciplinaryperspectives on engineering design and of the evolving perspectives of their students.This paper first describes the disciplinary perspectives that emerged as a result of somepreliminary research on engineering design education, and then describes the development of aninstrument for evaluating individual understandings of engineering design. Disciplinaryperspectives were explored through interviewing the instructors of four capstone design coursesin different engineering disciplines within a large engineering Faculty
andpractitioners,3 there has been less definitive progress on integrating ethics into pedagogy andpractice.13,14 We adopt the “everyday ethics” view from science and technology studies (STS)14,15that views ethics as inherently interwoven throughout the design process and manifest in themicro-decisions and practices of design work. As a step toward developing more effectiveintegration of technical and ethical considerations in student design work, this study explores howthese two design considerations emerge as relational components of team-based design work.That is, we probe how perceptions of team members’ technical and ethical competence mayimpact the social environment in which design work is achieved. We specifically considered thecommunicative
the work habits and personalities of theirstudents (48%) and put a lot of effort to get to know their students personally (59%). Within theworkplace environment, Kram noted that young managers that had been supported by mentorsthrough friendship frequently had informal exchanges with their mentors. Similarly, relatedresults from this capstone survey 12 have shown that the interactions between capstone facultyand their students are frequent and often times occur outside of the classroom. This indicates thatwithin the capstone course faculty go beyond the simple lecturer role and actively seek to buildrelationships with their students in an effort to advance their career and psychosocialdevelopment. One area that was not as well described by
described in [11] is a single semester course with two main phases. The firstphase consists of defining the project and selecting a few possible design concepts, while thesecond phase is for students to build and test prototypes to meet the project requirements. Thereis only one design review, which takes place in between these design phases. The review is heldbetween the team, an advisory committee (consisting of two faculty members, a non-facultymember, and possibly a graduate student), and the client. Details of this review were notelaborated upon, but it was noted that there were weekly meetings with the advisory committeeto discuss progress and deliver feedback. Similarly, a two-semester, industry-sponsoredmechanical engineering capstone
in machine element design and introduction to design and graduate courses in product design and dynamics. Dr. McAdams' research interests are in the area of design theory and methodology, concept generation, product architecture, design for manufacturing, tolerance design, and modeling for design, with specific emphasis and applications in product design. Page 11.1138.1Matthew Campbell, University of Texas-Austin MATTHEW CAMPBELL is a faculty member of the Manufacturing & Design program of the Mechanical Engineering Department. He has served on the College of Engineering faculty since
Paper ID #33371Work in Progress: A Framework for an Improv Intervention to IncreasePsychological Safety and Sense of Belonging on Student EngineeringDesign TeamsJenn Campbell, University of Virginia Jenn Campbell is a Ph.D. Fellow in the Behavioral Science for Sustainable Systems program at the Con- vergent Behavioral Science Initiative at the University of Virginia. Jenn spent 9 years working in a variety of roles in engineering and marketing before beginning her doctoral program, and her time in industry spurred her interest in behavioral science and how we can help people make better decisions. Her re- search
. Despite this, the nation still struggles to produce the ENG talent it needs. Given this, programs to increase the number of ENGs that graduate have been promoted across the nation [1]-[3]. Such programs focus on recruitment [4], retention principles [5], persistence [6], as well as practices that help students with critical thinking [7]-[8], academics [9]-[10] and professional development [11]-[12]. The latter includes mentoring by faculty [13]-[14], peer mentoring [15], project-based learning [16]- [26], research experiences for undergraduates (REUs) [27]-[28], internships [29], preparing for graduate school [30], career planning [31], etc. We at Arizona State University’s (ASU’s) Fulton Schools of Engineering, have
Paper ID #8004Development of an Open-Source Concurrent Enrollment Course that Intro-duces Students to the Engineering Design and Documentation ProcessProf. Richard Cozzens, Utah Educational Network This paper will be presented by four of the TICE Grant Curriculum Development Team members: Richard Cozzens Professor at Southern Utah University Jeremy Farner Professor at Weber State University Thomas Paskett PhD Isabella Borisova Professor at Southern Utah UniversityMr. Jeremy Ray Farner, Weber State University Assistant Professor Design Engineering Technology Weber State University, Ogden Utah Bachelors in Design
shaping and supportingstudents’ group-learning experiences.6 While faculty practices are important in all group-learningapproaches, they can be particularly important for supporting under-represented students, whooften experience marginalization in such settings. Both faculty and peers can marginalizeindividual students in a variety of ways, including through assignment of work tasks, validationof work tasks, validation of ideas or perspectives, and the nature of the group task itself.First, at the onset of an activity, task assignment biases can often result from unconsciousexpectations about who may be more (or less) suited to certain tasks.7, 8 While each team isdifferent, with a different set of identities and personalities, there is also
, 2015 An Approach to Teaching People Skills in Senior Design Project Courses Introduction The premise of this paper is that most engineering students are ill-prepared for the demands their careers will place on them to interact with other people one-on-one, within teams, and within organizations—organizations that are often global in character. The senior design project provides an opportunity (literally a last chance) for graduating seniors to recognize and develop people skills needed for success. Because the project is intended to simulate real engineering practice, the faculty member can observe each student’s people skill level in project context and at a minimum provide insights and coaching to each student in order to improve those
the design team as if they are graduates employed by myfirm.” (R79)A similar number of respondents (n=47) addressed real-world projects, clients, and applications: “Iattempt to use the capstone design project to illustrate a microcosm of the real world, giving students asclose an experience to what they will encounter in design assignments.” (R53) Table 2 - Categories and Content Themes Regarding Teaching/Coordinating Strengths in Capstone Design Category # Resp. Content Themes (n=361) (in descending order of frequency) industry involvement; mentoring/advising/nurturing students; faculty
. Acceptance/ Aid in the development of a student’s self-efficacy and identity as a practicing Confirmation engineer.DevelopmentPsychosocial Counseling Guide teams and students through difficult interpersonal and personal problems Rapport Develop interpersonal relationships with students that establish an environment in which students feel comfortable approaching the faculty.Based on a model of mentoring drawn from industry practices11 and adapted to education bymultiple researchers, these practices are divided into career development and psychosocialdevelopment functions. That is, not only do
pedagogy. In practice, there is a dearth in theliterature, but the few papers focusing on design in K-12 engineering seem to show itseffectiveness. Cunningham and Lachapelle20 summarize the results from six years ofEngineering is Elementary, an engineering design curriculum for elementary schools, and findthat it has improved interest, engagement, and performance in both students and teachers. Sadleret al.21 show that after engaging in design challenges, middle school students’ science skillsincreased, though they evaluated solely the ability to design science experiments. Kolodner22finds that students participating in Learning By Design engaged in collaboration,communication, decision-making, and design of investigations much more like experts
Paper ID #21092Increasing Student Empathy Through Immersive User Empathy Experiencesin First-Year Design EducationLexie Mitchell, Colorado School of Mines Lexie Mitchell is the Assistant Director for both the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation and the Cornerstone Design@Mines Program at the Colorado School of Mines. She also serves as the manager for media personality and professional golfer Paige Spiranac. Lexie graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Communication (Media Studies), as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a winner of the Stanford Award of Excellence. While at Stanford, she focused her
opportunities. 1. Inventors referred by the Small Business Technical Development Center (SBTDC) that is located on campus. 2. Local companies seeking to explore new markets or new technology with little investment or risk. 3. Students enrolled in the entrepreneurship minor on campus. 4. Faculty from other disciplines who have ideas for new products. 5. Engineering faculty and students.An example of a product idea that was selected for development is the concept of a coffeemachine that would roast, grind and brew green coffee beans. The idea originated with a studentin the entrepreneurship minor. Later a business faculty member who had just returned fromNicaragua embellished the idea by suggesting that the coffee machine could be
been assigned specific roles or functions to perform and who have a limited life span of membership [1]. Over the past few years, at the University of Oklahoma, a graduate course titled AME5740 Designing for Open Innovation has been designed, course content and assignments developed and a learner centric paradigm instantiated. Different facets of this course have been described in several publications – most recently in [2], [3]. In these papers, the authors explore the key question: How can we foster learning how to learn and develop competencies? In this paper we document our initial findings as to how far we have succeeded in facilitating students learning how to learn and develop competencies within this course
its applied nature has aninherent and specific focus on problem solving. Engineers need to be/are educated to transferlearned principles into practice by way of designing solutions for various practical problems. It isthe centrality of problem-solving that inspired us to design our DBT course AME4163 – Principlesof Engineering Design with an explicit anchoring in multiple theoretical constructs that provide animmersive and authentic learning experience to our students while enriching their learnedoutcomes. Accordingly, the course is designed to embody the following essential components: 1. Internalizing the principles of engineering design and learning how to identify and develop career sustaining competencies. 2
Moonbuggy Race. In 2012, the UAH Moonbuggy team won 1st place in the Moonbuggy race. Dr. Carmen is the UAH ASME student chapter faculty advisor as well as a Director of the North Alabama ASME section. Dr. Carmen has served as a National Science Foundation scholarship panelist, Department of Defense SMART scholarship panelist and as a delegate to the ASME Leadership Training conference. In 2010 and 2013, Dr. Carmen was named the Outstanding Mechanical Engineer in North Alabama by ASME. In 2010 she was awarded a NASA Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) faculty fellowship – one of 5 senior design class instructors selected from around the country to participate in the program. As a result of the fellowship
afford, which is nice. A lot was just making it up, trying it out, and seeing what worked and what did not work.” (Hayley)Richard and Hayley’s ability to engage led them to learn new ideas and perspectives on how todesign.Invested & CommittedOur framework also highlights invested and committed student designers. In the context of ourframework, this category captures personal commitment to social justice and the sustainability ofthe design and processes. At the novice sophistication level, a student approaches design as asingular task without intention to apply what has been learned to a new situation. An awarestudent has a developing sense of social responsibility and ethics. They begin to explore theimpact of the design in the social
peerinteractions as well as interactions with faculty members, and these interactions could encouragemore effective understanding of materials and exploration of topics. Second, liberal artseducation focuses on cultivating adaptive problem-solving skills based on critical thinking,collaboration, and effective communication. These skills make students valuable collaborators inengineering projects and afford them a smooth transition into professional life [3]. That means aliberal arts education can potentially lead to a successful engineering career.In the meantime, the integration of engineering education into liberal arts universities posesseveral challenges to the engineering faculty members. For instance, faculty members may lackthe knowledge needed to
-of-the-art technologies in theirrespective research areas. This includes appropriate literature reviews, advanced analysistechniques, numerical simulations, and experimental investigations, where appropriate.Ideally, the graduate students working on Imation-supported projects will also conductresearch and development at the Imation facility for a minimum of three months per calendaryear. This is an excellent workforce development model to produce the next generation ofhighly-qualified scientists and engineers, in which graduate education and the ability to workboth independently and as a member of multidisciplinary teams are required. Ultimately, oneof the long-term goals of this partnership is to further promote graduate-level education
Mechanical Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the impact of motivation on performance and persistence in mechanical engineering design courses under the guidance of Dr. Beshoy Morkos. She also serves as a graduate student advisor to senior design teams within the mechanical engineering department. Elisabeth is a member of ASME, ASEE, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society and Pi Tau Sigma International Mechanical Engineering Honor Society.Miss McKenzie Carol Clark, Florida Institute of TechnologyDr. Beshoy Morkos, Florida Institute of Technology Beshoy Morkos is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at the Florida Institute of Technology where he
Virginia. Her research interests include engineering design education (especially in regards to the design of complex systems), student preparation for post-graduation careers, approaches for supporting education research-to-practice. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Preparing Students for a Collaborative Engineering Design Work Environment: A Study of Practicing EngineersAbstractRecent studies within design and engineering education have focused on better preparingengineering graduates to function within an industry design environment. Increased emphasis inthis area is motivated by a growing concern that graduates are entering industry with littleexperience engaging