Page 23.1205.2with Professor X. Such positive impressions can aid promotion and tenure as well as increasingsuch faculty members’ influence on decisions of which classes they teach.This paper reviews the literature about student response units’ use and discusses prior researchinto their benefits. While this will touch on some best practices for using clickers, the focus isnot upon convincing instructors how to adopt or improve clicker usage. Much of the authors’prior experience with clickers has been in courses with a large quantitative component. Thispaper discusses the authors’ findings from their first application of clickers in a mainlyqualitative course. The results are consistent with previous results indicating that clickers are
Systems Engineering Research and the Fulbright International Science and Technology Award. Dr. Salado holds a BSc/MSc in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University of Valencia, an MSc in project management and a MSc in electronics engineering from Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the SpaceTech MEng in space systems engineering from Delft University of Technology, and a PhD in systems engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology. He is a member of INCOSE and a senior member of IEEE and IIE.Mr. John Ray Morelock, Virginia Tech John Morelock is a doctoral candidate at Virginia Tech. His research interests include student motivation, game-based learning, and gamified classrooms. He received the NSF
, inductive teaching and learning, and development of students’ professional skills.Dr. Anna Sadovnikova, Monmouth University Anna Sadovnikova is an Assistant Professor of Marketing, Leon Hess Business School. Monmouth Uni- versity. Her research interests are in innovation and new product development, technology commercial- ization and management, engineering education, and developing student professional skills. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Transforming Curriculum to Improve STEM Learning and Advance Career Readiness Abstract The paper describes the second stage of a cross-disciplinary study
AC 2012-5046: DEFINING THE CORE BODY OF KNOWLEDGE (COR-BOK) FOR A GRADUATE PROGRAM IN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING: AWORK IN PROGRESSDr. Alice F. Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology Alice Squires is Manager of Systems Engineering at Aurora Flight Sciences and an adjunct systems engi- neering faculty for the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. She is one of many authors on the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (http://www.sebokwiki.org/) and the Graduate Curriculum for Systems Engineering (http://bkcase.org/grcse-05). She was previously a Senior Researcher for the Systems Engineering University Affiliated Research Center (SE UARC) and Online Technical Director for the School of
2004-2008, and a Research Associate in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology during 2003-2004. Dr. Fu is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Control Science and Engineering, and has been served as the International Program Committee Member and Organizer of several international conferences and workshops. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Trifecta of Engagement in an Online Engineering Management CourseAbstractThis paper focuses on how to engage students in an online environment. The Trifecta ofEngagement framework is introduced. In order for students to be fully engaged in
graduate students in Spring 2017 and piloted again in Spring 2018 with 14students, 3 undergraduates and 11 graduate students. Assessment of student learning wasevaluated through the university’s student evaluation of teaching (SET) surveys, through twoquiz questions, and through an instructor provided single question survey, asking the students,“How did this course change your life?” Some key findings from the student survey included:“This course creates a vision of our personal growth. It is a complete overall course on life, itscharacteristics, other managerial skills and last but not the least it encourages you to be a goodleader. The most beneficial part that I learned from this course is that I understand how toorganize my life and how to
– both in the classroom and online. This delivery method istypically termed Hy-Flex and is an instructional approach very familiar to one of the authors.The course was assigned a classroom with a standard capacity of 100 students, but distancingrestrictions in place for the semester required that no more than 25 students participate in thephysical classroom at one time. Therefore, if students were scheduled to attend alternately inperson, each student would be able to attend one in-person class session every two weeks(equating to approximately seven total per semester). Further, all students and faculty enteringthe classroom were required to always wear masks and maintain a distance of at least six feetfrom one another.Given the classroom
industry where he held leadership positions focused on process improvement and organizational development. Page 26.1557.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 The Management Tree of Life - An Aid for Undergraduate Engineers to Structure Management ThinkingAbstractBoth members of industry and expert panels continue to call loudly for increasing the ability ofengineering undergraduates to effectively lead and work within diverse teams. Yet fewengineering programs have a formal approach to providing students with the knowledge ofmanagement, human motivation, and
instrument to understand the impact of the project in studentlearning, and gain insights from their personal and professional experience, as a post-projectreflection activity. The discussion questions were written in English and translated to Spanish,giving students the opportunity to respond in either language. The closed survey questions,related to skills and relevance of the experience, included statements for students to agree ordisagree, using a 5-point Likert Scale. Students had to submit their responses to the questionsusing an online course management system as an appendix to the course project. Thereflection was a requirement of the course project and was graded upon delivery, not content.Similar approaches, incorporating reflections or
education. Salah Al Omari taught a large number of engineering courses both at the undergraduate and the graduate levels. He served as well as committee head for international (ABET) and national accreditation of the ME program at UAEU, for a number of consecutive accreditation cycles.Mrs. Aysha Al Ameri P.E., United Arab Emirates University Mrs. Aysha Abboud Shaikh Alameri graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the United Arab Emirates University in January 2013. Soon afterwards she joined Strata Manufacturing PJSC in Al Ain, UAE as an aerospace composites design engineer. Aysha worked in several different projects for Boeing and Airbus parts. She was an active member in the A350 project team to establish a process
assignments to apply these new skills withintheir teams at both Tufts and in their workplace.Modules from various courses are taught throughout the program. This reinforces the learningachieved early in the program as students proceed through the course of study. As an example,the Project and Operations Management course includes 2 modules taught in the first semester, 1in the second semester, and 1 in the fourth semester. Although different instructors may teachmodules in a particular course, the faculty enforces quality control; each course has a singular“course director”. Each semester, faculty members meet to discuss common projects, integration,and overlap of modules
].Viewing Engineering Education Through Our LensesIn order to demonstrate how each of the four lenses applies to engineering education, we haveselected the example scenario where practicing faculty within an engineering program are notadopting new educational change provided by theoretical research [5, 9, 24]. The contextualinterplay in which we apply our theoretical lenses is directly related to types of practice andinnovation to emerge [25, 26]. Further, integrating our context of practice and theoretical basis atthe outset supports the decision-making processes of individuals working in the field [5, 26].Thus, this section begins by illustrating the use of each of our four lenses in the context ofengineering education. This is followed by
second research questionFor the second research question, faculty and industry acceptance of smaller lathes as viablealternatives to their industrial size cousins was explored. The ability of the smaller bench-toplathes to perform accurate work was explored in the pilot study. It would appear, based on theresults from this limited pilot study, that both the bench-top and the industrial lathes are capableof producing test bushings within the specified .005” tolerance range. It should be noted,however, that this pilot study was the result of tests done by only two graduate students, and anexpanded study utilizing a much larger cross section of technology students would be necessaryto determine whether the initial findings could be replicated
are Sudan, Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, Turks and Caicos, Qatar, Puerto Rico, and Sweden.Old Dominion University’s Engineering Management ProgramThe Engineering Management and Systems Engineering (EMSE) Department at Old DominionUniversity (ODU) offers a Master of Engineering Management (MEM), EngineeringManagement certificate, and an Engineering Management minor option for its Bachelorprograms in engineering. The MEM program is directed at working professionals as well astraditional full-time students seeking technical graduate degrees. The engineering managementminor and certificate programs allow students to supplement their more traditional engineeringdegrees with management and project-based decision making tools.Program mobility at ODU uses
otherschools which offered degrees in Engineering Management.*Employer SurveyKey customers for our engineering management program are the industrial and commercialemployers of our graduates. Their input for our decision was solicited via an e-mail survey. Thesurvey questions were e-mailed to members of UE’s Business and Engineering AdvisoryCouncil, among whose members are several potential employers of our students such asWhirlpool Corporation (manufacturing), Vectren (energy utilities), TJ Maxx (distribution andsales), and ALCOA (primary production). These companies have regional operations, and mostof our engineering graduates are hired by regional companies. While the number of companiessurveyed was small (only 7 responses were received), they
, India. She obtained her M.S. in Systems Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. She is a member of INCOSE. Page 12.468.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Designing a course on Business Process Reengineering (BPR): Bridging the Gap between Business Operations and Engineering of SystemsAbstract:Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is a systematic approach to helping an organizationanalyze and improve its processes. All systems are designed, developed and engineered tosupport business processes. Therefore, an understanding of the business
management systems. She was a faculty researcher on a Business and International Education Grant funded by the Department of Education, completing projects on multimodal transport networks and international and global supply chain curriculum development. She completed preliminary work on global, multi-institutional collaborative student teams referenced in this proposal as part of the BIE grant award. Dr. Long is currently a co-investigator on a related Missouri DOT project and is an investigator on a sustainable waste water treatment project in EPA Region 7 funded by Missouri S&T’s Energy Research Development Center. Dr. Long has over twenty five conference and journal publications, is a
and decisions impact (Meiksins, 1988; Rulifson, 2019).Further, the organizational structure and culture of an entity may not support thisobligation, if the collective assumptions, beliefs, and values are inconsistent withengineering ethics.Engineering graduates must be better prepared to negotiate this complex organizationallandscape while supporting sustainable development, as their responsibility to the publicdemands it. Sustainability encompasses technical feasibility supported by economic,environmental, and safety objectives, regulations, and risk management. “Sustainabledevelopment ... meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of futuregenerations to meet their own needs,” Brundtland Commission (Andrews, 2009, p
sharing experiences,knowledge and insight (Crawford, 1998; DeLisle, 2000; Illinois Leadership; Petcher, 1997). AsCrawford (1998) states: We are now recognizing that leadership can and does occur at all levels of organizations and in all kinds of settings. Leadership is increasingly being recognized as an interactive process that takes place between members of an organization. It is not simply a skill employed by a person in a position of power within an organization. (p. 2)Therefore, it is important that engineering students are presented with opportunities to developleadership skills that will allow them to successfully work collaboratively with other people tochange organizations, lead and/or participate in
ABET defines Program Educational Objectives as “broad statements that describe whatgraduates are expected to attain within a few years of graduation; program educational objectivesare based on the needs of the program’s constituents.” The program constituents are interestedparties, person or groups having an interest in the performance or success of the program.Strictly using this definition, constituents of an engineering education program, may includealumni, employers, local industry, faculty and students. However, faculty and students areinternal to the program and may have limited perspective of what graduates are expected toattain a few years after graduation, with the exception of faculty in a program with a highpercentage of its
Management DirectionsCertification Requirements: The lack of consistency in EM programs, combined with growingEM popularity, motivated ASEM to focus on defining the discipline. ASEM has takensignificant ownership for the future direction of EM through a certification process thatstandardizes a quality EM program. Currently, the purpose is different from an undergraduateABET accreditation in that this certification intends to direct the development of new andexisting programs, in addition to recognizing quality programs. The certification processconsists of four requirement areas: faculty, curriculum, student admission and support, andadministrative support.Of the four areas, only the curriculum requirements are reviewed here because we are
: Page 11.300.2‘...increasingly flexible and truncated careers. Hence graduates have to be more ‘flexible’ intheir attitudes towards work and more ‘adaptive’ in their behaviour in the labour market.They require a broader portfolio of technical, social and personal skills than...wereemphasised in the past.’ 3Therefore, the type of graduates we need to produce are those that are business-aware as wellas possessing the traditional engineering skills. However, the lack of fully efficient linksbetween university and industry means that we don’t always produce the type of graduatesthat industry really requires. And, in fact, we have been slow to respond to its changingrequirements.In many universities, course planning is largely an internally driven
world, making decisions, or communicating views. • Plug & Chug Paradigm - Represents a traditional engineering teaching model in which students Plug a value into an equation and Chug out an answer for solving classical boundary condition problems. • Design-Build-Test-Fix Paradigm – An ad hoc, iterative process traceable to scientific inquiry that lacks an insightful methodology in which engineers: 1) design an entity, 2) build it in the lab, 3) test it, and 4) fix, rework, or patch the design or its physical implementation in a seemingly endless loop until convergence at a final solution is achieved or schedule and cost resources are depleted