Session 2647 Evaluation of an Industry Project in a Freshman Course Nancy L. Denton, Jan Lugowski, Jody Knoll Purdue University/Sun MicrostampingAbstractA unique opportunity for mechanical engineering technology students to create engineeringdrawings for an existing product for a manufacturer arose in spring of 1999. In keeping with theengineering technology philosophy that students learn more through practical application ofknowledge, the documentation project was undertaken.1, 2The paper describes the content of a freshman-level design documentation course and theindustry documentation
, American Society for Engineering Educationbusiness, and technology. The EET program has an approximate enrollment of sixty and is oneof five disciplines comprising the Department of Engineering Technology. The department alsohouses programs in Construction, Construction Management, Manufacturing, Mechanical,Plastics and a Graduate ET program making it one of the largest departments on campus withover 500 students and almost 30 faculty members.The rural somewhat isolated environment and absence of local high-tech industries presentsignificant funding and educational challenges for our EET program. Additionally, institutionalfunding support is sparse. The entire program is run on an annual operating budget of under$10,000, which includes
Session 2793 Applying Engineering Software Tools Throughout the Curriculum Garth E. Thomas Jr. Chemical Engineering Department West Virginia University Institute of Technology Montgomery, WV 25136AbstractThere is no aspect of modern engineering practice that does not make use of computer-basedtools. This has created an expectation that graduates from engineering programs will have strongcomputing skills. Graduates can be provided with these skills by integrating the application ofsoftware tools throughout the engineering
science. ElaineSeymour’s work on change in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)fields identifies the locus of change as critical to its success; that which emerges bothfrom top down and bottom up is the most lasting and effective. [1] Seymour and Hewittalso identify the need for change: without it, engineering and science programs may losesome of their best students to other fields. [2]At Colorado School of Mines (CSM), undergraduate curricular reform emerged fromfaculty committees and administrative imperatives to improve education, university-wide.Between 1997 and 2001, CSM disseminated faculty mini-grants to enhance classroominnovation and adaptation. Funded proposals focused on curricular reform, betterclassroom use of technology
Session: 2793 Impact of Multi-Cultural Dimensions on Multi-Modal Communication in Global Teamwork Renate Fruchter* and Alicia Townsend** *Director of Project Based Learning Laboratory (PBL Lab) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-4020 fruchter@ce.stanford.edu **Graduate Student, Learning Design and Technology Program, School of Education Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 lishat@stanford.eduIntroductionThis
Carnegie Mellon Engineering College.Rohit Kumar, Carnegie Mellon University Rohit Kumar is a PhD Candidate at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Masters in Language Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 and Bachelor in Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh in 2003. Rohit was a Research Scientist at Language Technologies Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad from 2003 to 2005. His research interests include Conversational Agents and their applications to variety of complex interactive situations.Carolyn Penstein Rose, Carnegie Mellon University Carolyn Rose is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment between the Language Technologies
ofremembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. [1]Among the foundational works which focused specifically on evaluation and assessment, thecontributions of Sanders [6] as chair of the Joint Committee on Standards for EducationalEvaluation, and Fox and Hackerman [5] for the Committee on Recognizing, Evaluating,Rewarding, and Developing Excellence in Teaching of Undergraduate Science, Mathematics,Engineering, and Technology of the National Research Council were especially important. Bothprovided valuable general and specific recommendations for evaluation and assessment.Sanders’ work also provided a set of usable standards including utility, feasibility, propriety, andaccuracy dimensions. Available guides that helped direct
Session 1392 The TEAMS Leadership Institute: Encouraging Women to Take the Road Less Traveled Susan Scachitti, Barbara Mania-Farnell, Leslie Dorworth Purdue University CalumetAbstractThe TEAMS Leadership Institute is a program at Purdue University Calumet (PUC) that wasdesigned to promote women into leadership roles in fields that are generally known to have anunderrepresented female population. The mission of the institute is to aid current and futureleaders in the fields of Technology, Engineering, Architecture/Construction, Mathematics andSciences in
personnel training is carried out insome engineering departments of our university. The training objective is decided accordingto the three categories. The first category is a program for Master of Engineering includingBachelor of Engineering, i.e. Bachelor and Master combined program, in which the trainingprocess will be optimized and the training of “the both ends will be intensified, and themiddle will be optimized”. One end refers to strengthening basic education on modernengineering technology and comprehensive personnel quality, and the other end is to enhancethe practical engineering training with a macro-concept, including engineering scientificresearch, comprehensive ability training in designing and the training of comprehensiveability
Use Technology) grant. He is currently the co-principle investigator on the NSF-funded UTeach Engineering grant (MSP), Beyond Blackboards grant (ITEST), and Group-Based Cloud Computing for STEM Education (ITEST). His research interests include engineering education and the development of expertise. While at The University of Texas at Austin, he helped establish the UTeach Natural Sciences Teacher Preparation Program. His research articles have appeared in the Journal of Science Education and Technology, The Journal of the Learning Sciences, Mathematical Thinking and Learning, the Journal of Engineering Education, and The American Educational Research Journal.Dr. Walter M Stroup, University of Massachusetts Co
Session 2253 Shock and Awe – Methodology for Recruiting Students. Andrew L. Gerhart Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI 48075AbstractOftentimes, a university is faced with a group of prospective engineering students, but only haslimited time to explain many different facets of engineering. Data exist showing that in today’s“digital/information age” high school students can process large amounts of information quicklyif their interest-level warrants. A methodology based on existing models has been developed andtested to show that students can be enticed and informed
throughout this study.References Page 10.408.10[1] The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (2000): Engineering Criteria 2000 Third Edition: Criteria for Accrediting programs in engineering in the United States, The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), Baltimore, Maryland.Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for EngineeringEducation Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education[2] Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan (IEET) http://www.ieet.com.tw/[3] McGourty, J. Departmental and Course Workbook: Defining Program and Course
Engenius Solutions: Creating an Entrepreneurial Revolution at RHITAndrew Batta, Aaron Capizzi, Jonathon Fruchte, Ron Zuckerman, and Dan Moore1 Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyUndergraduate engineering is changing at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology throughEngenius Solutions. Funded by a grant from the Lilly Foundation, Engenius Solutionsallocates financial and intellectual resources in an effort to help undergraduate engineersthink like entrepreneurs as well as engineers in their careers. Project ideas are solicitedfrom students, faculty, staff and the general public for evaluation by Engenius Solutions.Those ideas that meet the specific criteria establish by Engenius Solutions are
semester-long or year-long research projects led by anengineering professor. Most of these projects have been sponsored by regional industries.Student teams under the supervision of chemical engineering faculty have worked on emergingtopics including enhancing the compressive properties of Kevlar, examining the performance ofpolymer fiber-wrapped concrete systems, advanced vegetable processing technology, metalspurification, combustion, membrane separation processes and many other areas of interest. Everyengineering student participates in these projects and benefits from hands-on learning, exposure toemerging technologies, industrial contact, teamwork experience and technical communications.The difficulty arises in trying to assess student
Paper ID #17466Advancing Training Pathways for the Renewable Energy WorkforceMs. Jill Davishahl, Bellingham Technical College Jill Davishahl is a faculty member in the engineering department at Bellingham Technical College where she teaches courses ranging from Intro to Engineering Design to Engineering Statics. Outside of teaching, Jill is working on the development of a Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Technology (to be offered at BTC) and is currently PI on the NSF funded ATE project grant in renewable energy. She holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington.Prof
students majoring in STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields and consisted of a four-week term. Eachweekday had 6 hours containing a blend of lecture and laboratory activities. The activities weredivided into two tracks: technical and non-technical. The technical track consisted mainly ofSOE faculty members making presentations on either their research areas or areas of expertise.The non-technical track consisted of the skill/information building activities.The Diversity Programs and the Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering (EECE)Department in the School of Engineering were responsible for the Bridge Program. Chaouki T.Abdallah (Graduate Advisor for EECE) was responsible for obtaining the faculty and other
, Systems, and Manufacturing Students – ENGT 312, Applied Statics; ENGT 320; Applied Circuits; ENGT 348,Machine Elements; ENGT 354, Statistical Process Control; and ENGR 501, Engineer as Leader;and IME 767, Lean Manufacturing.References[1] Theobald, E. J., Hill, M. J., Tran, E., Agrawal, S., Arroyo, E. N., Behling, S., ... & Freeman, S. (2020).Active learning narrows achievement gaps for underrepresented students in undergraduate science,technology, engineering, and math. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(12), 6476-6483.[2] Vogler, J. S., Thompson, P., Davis, D. W., Mayfield, B. E., Finley, P. M., & Yasseri, D. (2018). The hardwork of soft skills: augmenting the project-based learning experience with
engineering programs in the country are re-examining the design content in theircurriculum. Engineering curricula is being modified to incorporate vertical integration of designthrough large projects between the first year and the last year of their programs. By interactingwith industry, the product design students become familiar with the steps in creative productdesign starting from the concepts to production and marketing. New approaches are provided toenable students to learn how to work smarter. In view of the recent development in leanmanufacturing and information technology, emphasis on value stream mapping and its influenceon product development is important. A good product design course should familiarize theproduct designers and students
, to a great extent, determines students’ performancein design and technical graphics courses. Prior research shows that 3-D visualization abilitygreatly influences students’ future career success in science, engineering, and technology(McKim, 1980; Norman, 1994; Pleck et al., 1990). Students without sufficient 3-D perceptionability may become frustrated and drop out of CAD programs, or may be advised to pursuestudies in areas that do not require CAD skills. However, if students could improve and gainconfidence in their 3-D visualization skills, they would enjoy CAD instruction more and becomemore engaged. Fortunately, prior research also shows that visualization is a skill that can belearned, developed, and improved with proper instruction
variety of research attempts to impart practical skills to students via the state of the artcomputer technologies. In Vernon College, Computer networking courses are taught via virtualmachine technology [3]. However, they do not put too much effort on remote technologies. Page 10.402.2Students are still taught through traditional face-to-face instruction. Other previous work for Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationnetwork education based on virtual networking lab components can be found in [4][5]. In
science camp in the local community. The undergraduate engineeringstudents also collaborate with educators to develop age-appropriate STEM learning. In this paperwe will describe the projects and the STEM activities we developed. We will discuss how weestablished a long-term partnership with a science camp and the interdisciplinary nature of thepartnership. We also show through data collected from engineering student interviews and surveyshow this partnership helps the engineering students understand and gather requirements for areal-world project and at the same time inspire the younger generation visiting the camp to usescience and technology for the common good. Results from a survey administered to middleschool students illustrates
Award for Women in Engineering, and the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award. She has served on the National Academy of Engineering’s Committee on Engineering Education and has participated in two NAE Frontiers of Research Symposia (2003 and 2008). She currently serves as co-Chair of the National Academies’ Chemical Sciences Roundtable and member of the National Academies’ Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology. Professor Curtis received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University (1983) and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University (1989). Prior to joining UC Davis in 2015, she was Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Associate Dean for Research at the University
education missions have been identified. Plans could be made toidentify contacts from ASEE to interface with these organizations and promote synergy.This document is offered as a living ‘corporate memory’ of the ASEE Materials Division. Thedivision leadership intends to use this information at their business meeting for planningpurposes and as an assessment tool of activities of the ASEE Materials Division.AcknowledgementsThanks to Central Washington University, it’s College of Education and Professional Studies,and it’s Department of Industrial & Engineering Technology for continued support of efforts inmaterials science and engineering education. Also, the support for materials science andengineering education from the Mechanical Engineering
approximate knowledge of the trail positionswere known. The clinic team performed an engineering survey of the trails and documented theresults on engineering drawings. The team also made recommendations for improving the trailsand designed an informative Recreation Center web site for the public.The second agency is the County of Gloucester, and the on-going project involves thetopographic survey of a Rail-To-Trail (RTT) conversion site. The proximity of the GloucesterCounty trails to Rowan University makes this project site ideal for the university and its students.A third partner is the engineering firm of Fralinger, who will provide oversight and coordinateseminar speakers on the topic of state-of-the-art surveying technologies. The partnership
been better prepared by theirundergraduate experience were: 1. Changes in content of engineering courses; e.g. more industry interaction, real-world context, and current technology and software 2. More involvement in professional organizations 3. Increased use of trade and professional publications in the curriculum 4. Increased focus on professional skill; e.g. communication, ethics, conflict resolution, teamwork and time management.By far the most significant response to barriers to staying current was “time”. Breaking downthe response further, it is apparent that significant elements dealt with balance of personal andprofessional time commitments and employer allocation of time and resources towardsprofessional
obtained a new Deanof Engineering and, with the new Dean, began constructing a new strategic initiative. Thisinitiative underwent many transformations and continues to evolve. The vision of the College ofEngineering is “to produce engineering graduates sought first by industry and investors forexcelling in a rapidly changing, technology-driven world both as problem-solving engineers andtechnology managers in existing companies and as leaders in starting new, technology-basedcompanies.” The plan to fulfill this vision includes three main areas: enhanced education, relevantresearch, and top students. Also, the plan must determine how it will assess when the vision hasbeen met or how close/far away the vision remains. A discussion of the plan took
© 2002, American Society for Engineering Ed ucationand in Bioinformatics arose in the 1990s, but these were established within campus-wideinterdisciplinary centers, with Engineering as one of many participants.Photonics, the science and technology of light, has been evolving as a distinct engineering areaover the last two decades. Photonics is a global industry with estimated annual volume exceeding$100B. Its companies usually provide enabling technology for other products and services,supporting the transmission of information, the processing of materials, the manufacturing ofmicroelectronics and nanotechnology, sensing, display, and scientific measurement. The industryhas a wide demand for technical graduates, from established large
for enhancingtheir problem solving skills and encourages them to pursue graduate studies.IntroductionThe College of Engineering at Rowan University was created through a $100 million gift fromHenry and Betty Rowan in 1992. The College of Engineering’s key features includecollaborative teamwork in inter- and multi- disciplinary laboratory and coursework and theincorporation of state of the art technologies and innovative teaching methodologies. Activitiesof the freshman and sophomore engineering clinic classes at Rowan have already receivednational recognition (1-8). The freshman clinic focuses on primary principles, measurements,and competitive assessment. The sophomore clinic focuses on formalized engineering designtechniques. The junior and
Paper ID #36334GIFTS: The secret is in the details. Improving oral presentation skillswith a peer and self-assessed feedback module.Ms. Sarah Lynn Benson, Northeastern University I am a third-year undergraduate student at Northeastern University working towards my degree in chemi- cal engineering. I am passionate about mentoring first-year engineering students.Dr. Leila Keyvani Someh, Northeastern University Dr. Keyvani is an Associate Teaching professor in the First year Engineering program at Northeaster University. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022
Paper ID #40421Teaching, service, and research–making the most of graduate positionsMs. Susie Huggins, West Virginia University Huggins currently works for the Fundamentals of Engineering program at West Virginia University. She is her PhD in Education a lifelong dream. Huggins is an advocate of STEM learning in the K-12 arena as well as a proponent of after school programing to help build the workforce of the Technological Revolu- tion. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Engendering Inclusion by Implementing an Interactive Theatre