, fuel cells, plastics, and engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A New Way to Help Students Improve 3-D VisualizationAbstractThere is ample evidence that instruction in spatial visualization skills is effective in improvingoutcomes for engineering students. Research conducted since the early 1990’s has proven thatspatial visualization practice and training leads to better grades in engineering graphics and inmost other engineering coursework. Other studies demonstrate that improved 3D visualizationskills improve retention and graduation rates in general and, in particular, the retention andgraduation rates of underrepresented groups in the field of engineering.The
School Teachers in a Hispanic Serving InstitutionAbstractIn recent years, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi entered into a partnership with theNuclear Power Institute or NPI to attract students into careers in nuclear power and science. Thepartnership naturally involved both student recruitment and curriculum development efforts. As apart of this recruitment effort, a summer workshop was designed and implemented to train,prepare for research, and educate local area high school teachers for the careers in engineering,engineering technology and the nuclear power industry. First, an outreach effort to local areapublic, private high and junior high schools was organized to advertise and promote theworkshop. After a considerable
, Iran, in 1998 and the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 2000. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 2005. He is currently an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering in the School of Engineering at San Francisco State University. His research in- terests include low-power, reliable, and high-performance circuit design for nano-scale technologies. He has many publications in journals and conferences and 5 U.S. patents. He was a recipient of the 2008 SRC Inventor Recognition Award, the 2006 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society VLSI Transactions Best Paper Award, 2005 SRC
(TUM) Johann is currently finishing his Masters in Management & Technology at Technical University of Munich (TUM). During his studies he focused on Finance, Entrepreneurship and Mechanical Engineering. In 2018, Johann researched at the Designing Engineering Education (DEL) lab at Stanford University.Dr. Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on engineering education and work-practices, and applied finite element analysis. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie
engineering discipline [15]-[18]. To the best of our knowledge, noprevious research has examined the differences between faculty and students regarding teachingand learning perceptions in an engineering program at a liberal art college. Therefore, this pilotstudy sets out to explore the teacher and student perceptions of sources of motivation in anintroductory engineering design course in liberal arts settings. The sources of motivation anddemotivation are evaluated by students’ learning outcomes of the course. Learning outcomesindicate that what the instructor intends for the learning in a course and how the studentdemonstrates learning in the course [19]. They are directly linked to the design and content ofcourses.Engineering Design CourseThis
watershed-basedapproach integrates various disciplines such as chemical sciences, biological sciences,hydrological sciences, engineering, and ecology. It interfaces with various technologiessuch as field and laboratory instrumentation, geographic information systems andgeospatial analysis, remote sensing, computer engineering and electronics, and datatransfer and storage and management system. The site is expected to expand the potentialpool of future graduate researchers and professionals in watershed sciences andengineering. The interdisciplinary research activities at our site are designed to facilitatelifelong learning experiences, and nourish analytical skills and creativity of futureengineers and scientists in a diverse environment consistent
. Professional Practices in Adult Education and Human ResourceDevelopment Series. Krieger Publishing Company, Krieger Drive, Malabar, FL 32950, 2000.[13] Ziegenfuss, D.H. and Lawler, P.A. Collaborative course design: changing the process,acknowledging the context, and implications for academic development. International Journalfor Academic Development, 13(3), 151-160, 2008.[14] Ziegenfuss, D.H. A phenomenographic analysis of course design in the academy. Journal ofEthnographic & Qualitative Research, 2(1), 2007.[15] Ho, A., Watkins, D., and Kelly, M. The conceptual change approach to improving teachingand learning: An evaluation of a Hong Kong staff development programme. Higher Education,42(2), 143-169, 2001.[16] Michaelsen, L.K. and Sweet, M. Team
proceedings). Dr. Lin’s teaching interests lies in Mechanical Design, Solid Mechanics, and Dynamics. Currently, he is advising 4 Ph.D. students, 3 Master students, and 2 undergraduate students. Since 2011, 5 Master students graduated from his group. He was awarded the Best Paper at SAMPE 2008 fall technical conference, Honorable Mentioned Best Student Paper at SMASIS 2009 fall conference and ASME Best Paper in Materials of 2010 at SPIE Smart Materials/NDE 2011 conference. He is a member of ASME, SPIE, SAMPE and AIAA. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 EVALUATING INDIVIDUAL LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS ON PROJECT-BASED LEARNING METHODOLOGY BY COMPARING TEAM-BASED AND
Paper ID #23456Enhancing a Real-time Audio Laboratory Using the MATLAB Audio SystemToolboxMr. Kip D. Coonley, Duke University Kip D. Coonley received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, in 1999 and the B.S. degree in Physics from Bates College, Lewiston, ME, in 1997. Following graduation from Dartmouth, he developed electronically controlled dimmers for fluorescent and incan- descent lamps at Lutron Electronics, Coopersburg, PA. From 2001 to 2005, he was a Research Engineer at RTI International, where he designed high-efficiency thermoelectrics using epitaxially grown super
thethis initiative is to expand the UAHuntsville Integrated Product Team (IPT) program into areahigh schools in order to help them develop a better understanding of the purpose of science andmathematics education by providing the opportunity to design a payload for a spacecraftdesigned by the UAHuntsville senior design experience. This initiative exposes high schoolstudents to the systems engineering design and integration process over the course of theacademic year. This year over 250 high school and college students are involved in the IPTprogram. The overarching goal of the program is to provide a broad impact across the spectrumof the educational system by establishing the foundation for a highly integrated design programthat links
various issuesthat are prevalent in today’s world, mainly the application of sustainability. In the first iterationsof the service learning implementation, Habitat for Humanity, the project partner, challengedstudents to design an affordable green home. Sustainability and green engineering were theunderlying themes of this project Emphasis was placed on researching and proposing viablealternative energy sources, techniques for energy and water conservation, and architecturalconsiderations to increase the overall efficiency of the home.End-of semester student surveys indicated that the students desired a more refined project to helpfocus their efforts in a semester’s time. One of the energy saving proposals of the Habitat forHumanity project was
Practice Award. He was awarded the Achievement in Operations Research Medal from the Institute for Operation Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) and has been named an Edelman Laureate for twice having been a finalist in the prestigious Edelman Competition for the best Operations Research application in the world. He has over 100 scholarly publications and has been Principal or Co-Principal Investigator for grants and contracts in excess of $10 million.Dr. Odis Hayden Griffin Jr., East Carolina University Hayden Griffin is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Engineering at East Carolina Uni- versity and Professor Emeritus of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He holds BS and MS in
, Joshua Mitchener (the first author of this paper) participated in a ResearchExperiences for Undergraduates (REU) program sponsored by the National Science Foundationand directed by the Engineering Research Center for Power Optimization of Electro-ThermalSystems (POETS). POETS is a network that seeks to optimize the power-to-weight ratio in allcommon electrical and thermal systems, including on-and-off highway vehicles and generalelectronics. Over the past two months, visiting undergraduate students have worked at theUniversity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, alongside a team of graduate students on the PowerSynthtool.II. Overview of Power Module Design FlowPower modules have a variety of practical applications, from use in electric vehicles to
Paper ID #19379Incorporating Faculty Sense Making in the Implementation and Modificationof an Instrument to Measure Social and Cognitive EngagementMs. Allyson Jo Ironside, Oregon State University Ally Ironside is a recent graduate from LeTourneau University where she studied Water Resources in Civil Engineering. She is currently fusing her technical background with her passion for education in pursuing a doctoral degree in Civil Engineering while conducting research in Engineering Education at Oregon State University. Her research interests include the adoption of teaching best practices in engineering and the personal
. effort to maintain competitiveness in the global marketplace. Continual technological innovation in industry isrecognized worldwide as the principal driving force for competitiveness and economic prosperity. Withoutdiminishing the importance of scientific research, it is now evident that continual technological innovation isprimarily a needs-driven creative professional practice requiring engineering leadership.Following a review of graduate engineering education and needs assessment studies of graduate engineers inindustry, it is now clear that a transformation in graduate education is needed to improve U.S. technology innovationand competitiveness in the worldwide economy. As a national priority, the educational investment in the
answer these questions when she teaches some of these methods to engineering, design, business, and law students. Her courses use active storytelling and self-reflective observation as one form to help graduate students and leaders traverse across the iterative stages of a project- from the early, inspirational stages to prototyping, to prototyping some more - and to delivery. Barbara likes to paint pictures.Mr. Ville Mikael Taajamaa, University of Turku Ville M. Taajamaa, MSc (TECH) is in his fourth year of Ph.D studies focusing on engineering education reform. The main focus in the action based research is to create a new model for global interdisciplinary engineering education: O-CDIO where emphasis is more in the
prepared to not prepared at all. Survey responses will bemonitored over time to assess the impact of these changes and identify areas where furtherintervention may be needed. Survey feedback will be used to iteratively refine the modules andcourse learning outcomes.Appendix A: Seattle University ECE Themes of Professional Formation1. STEM Technical Skills (Scientific, Engineering, and Computational Skills) a. Design Skills i. Engineering Trade-offs and Design under Constraint 1. Global, Cultural, Social, Environmental, and Economic Constraints 2. Concern for Public Health, Safety, and Welfare ii. Sustainable and Ethical Design Practices 1. Design Informed by the Energy Budget and Carbon
research projects. He has collaborated extensively with colleagues across the University on the design, analysis, and presentation of data from both surveys and experiments. He is a co-author on peer-reviewed publications and a co-PI on funded research projects each year. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses in statistical methods, regression analysis, statistical research design, and data analysis. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Towards Creating Motivationally Supportive Course Structures for Introductory CalculusAbstractThis paper reports the qualitative phase of a sequential explanatory mixed
Education and co-director of the VT Engineering Communication Center (VTECC). She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and B.A. in English from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include interdis- ciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a National Science Foun- dation CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios for graduate students to promote professional identity and reflective practice. Her teaching emphasizes the
, in 2016, and the B.S. degree in intelligent transportation engineering from Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China, in 2014. He was Graduate Teaching Assistant for ECE1013 Foundations in ECE, ECE1022 Foundations in Design, ECE4713/6713 Computer Architecture, and ECE4753/6753 Introduction to Robotics at the undergraduate level and as a guest lecturer delivered graduate-level courses, ECE 8743 Advanced Robotics and ECE8833 Computational Intelligence. He received the ECE Best Graduate Researcher Award from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mississippi State University in 2023. He received the Research Travel Award from Bagley College of Engineering, Mississippi State University in 2023
the engine.While some of this work was conducted by M.S.-level graduate students, the majority of thework was performed by undergraduate Mechanical Engineering students. Over the years, 13undergraduate students worked on various parts of this project, while 2 graduate students workedon the project. Of those 2 graduate students, one began work on the project as an undergraduatestudent.The use of undergraduates in research is hardly a new concept. Many examples can be found inthe literature regarding research projects using undergraduates.2-4 Studies have been conductedconcerning the impacts of research experiences on undergraduates, with respect to learningenhancements and the potential for attracting students to graduate school.5-7 One
Laboratory (SBML) at the CBE. Ms. Walker holds B.S. degrees in both Biology and Bio-Resources Engineering and an M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering, all from Montana State University. In addition, Diane oversees and conducts testing projects for industry and provides quality assurance for a federally-funded contract held by the SBML.Alfred Cunningham, Montana State University Dr. Cunningham is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Montana State University. He is a founding member of the Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE) and coordinates CBE’s industrial research and education programs as part of the Center’s 23 member Industrial Associates Program. Integration of graduate and undergraduate
easier reference in what follows: (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs (d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams (e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems (f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility (g) an ability to communicate effectively (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context (i) a recognition of the need for, and an
undergraduate students in her technical research spanning validation of CFD models for aerospace and renewable energy applications as well as optimizing efficiency of thermal-fluid systems. In her free time, she is likely out sailing!Ismail I Orabi (Professor) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Unified approach to teaching uncertainty across a three-course mechanical engineering laboratory sequence Abstract The ability to analyze and make sense of large volumes of experimental data is critical to prepare engineering graduates for the modern workplace. While
differing perspectives based on thedocumented experiences of women along the Oregon and similar Overland Trails in the late1840s and early 1850s. Games were implemented using the Inform programming language,characterized by coding statements taking the form of complete sentences. This approachprovided a natural language syntax environment, making it inclusive for individuals outsidetraditional programming disciplines. To assess the course's effectiveness, pre- and post-activitysurveys with a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) focus were designed and administered. Thesubsequent statistical analysis revealed a significant positive impact, with a large effect sizedemonstrated in raising students' awareness of gender representation
warranted emphasis. Undergraduate research integrationinto curriculum promises benefits: student engagement and development of employer-desiredskills such as communication, teamwork, analytical reasoning, and the application of knowledgeto real-world settings. This paper details the FLC’s efforts to incorporate more research intoseven undergraduate classes by using discovery learning pedagogies and to begin compiling alist of best practices to share with others. The fact that these efforts span different undergraduategrade levels and disciplines offers key insights for any undergraduate program. Further,discussions about the formation and collaboration of the FLC at this university presents a guideto others for starting one of their
) Fellowship, Aggies Commit to Professional Student Educational Experiences, Graduate Teaching Lecturer Fellowship, and Climate Award. She was also the only academic recipient of the Texas and Louisiana Engineering News Record (ENR) Top Young Professional Award in 2017. Dr. Kermanshachi is currently directing a very vibrant construction engineering and education research group and advising several Ph.D. and Master’s students c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Analysis and Assessment of Graduate Students’ Perception and Academic Performance Using Open Educational Resource (OER) Course MaterialsMs. Thahomina Jahan Nipa, University of Texas at Arlington Ph.D. Student, Department of Civil
focustoward designers, rather than programmers being more immersed in the industry.xxxiiThe client base for engineering design graphics industry players is expanding. The market isgrowing much wider. More than Fortune 1000 companies with large/deep pockets are leveragingthese tools to optimize business practices or even market products. More than just CADengineers are able to apply software tools to different areas of a company to leverage thecompany's digital assets. This interactive product content management (IPCM) is expanding toall sizes of businesses.32OutsourcingTechnology changes our society, our lives, and has a profound impact on our economy. Theeconomic health of the United States is dependent on technologically-competent workers.xxxiii
AC 2012-3698: PROTOTYPING STRATEGIES: LITERATURE REVIEWAND IDENTIFICATION OF CRITICAL VARIABLESMr. Edward James ChristieDr. Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy Dan Jensen is a professor of engineering mechanics at the U.S. Air Force Academy where he has been since 1997. He received his B.S. (mechanical engineering), M.S. (applied mechanics), and Ph.D. (aerospace engineering science) from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has worked for Texas Instruments, Lockheed Martin, NASA, University of the Pacific, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and MSC Software Corp. His research includes design of micro air vehicles, development of innovative design methodolo- gies, and enhancement of engineering education. Jensen
unique perspectives that each author brings, in terms ofethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, and class [13], [14] also helps ensure that the datawas cross-checked amongst the team for rigor and trustworthiness of the findings.MethodsA qualitative case study design was used to explore the experiences and understanding of ethicalmentoring principles for eight graduate students and four faculty within science and engineeringusing research mentoring relationships as a developmental factor [15]. The ethical mentoringprinciples were used to inform selection of vignettes or ‘case studies’ from Johnson’s mentoringguide for higher education faculty [3]. This vignette technique was selected because it allowsparticipants explore the attitudes