Engineering and Construction Management. In an attempt to better integratethe Engineering students and Management degree students as well as to seek newefficiency in teaching, the Construction Management students were required to take a 4credit course that was previously required only of the Engineering students. The courseon “Civil Engineering Materials” includes a significant laboratory component and was tobecome the only laboratory course taken by the Construction Management students intheir 4-year curriculum. Starting Fall 2006, the prerequisites and course content werechanged to accommodate the new clientele. The integration proved to be challengingpartly due to the diverse academic background of the two cohorts of students(management and
and economically motivated projects [9]. • Freshman programs model ways to satisfy Engineering Curriculum 2000 (EC 2000) criteria in an engineering educational project [3]. Not only are these programs ways to introduce communication, teamwork and planning skills in an engineering context, these programs set the expectation of students for this integrated approach in the remainder of their engineering education. They create a generation of students who associate such problem-solving strategies as inherent to what engineering is.The early introduction of engineering and the balance of technical and professional skills also benefit thefemale engineering population [2] which often magnifies problems
knowledge of particle measurement techniques to plan and conduct an ambient aerosol measurement campaign near the University. The students analyzed their data and compared it to measurements from nearby monitors and related the data to national standards.As the next step, the course material is being prepared for online posting and adapted for integration with the theoretical modules described earlier.COURSE WEB EFFECTIVENESS:The effectiveness of the course website was assessed in two ways:1. Usability tests were conducted on an early version of the site and conducted again onthe revised version of the site. In both tests, participants were given tasks to find coursematerial and use the calculation model available on the site. The purpose
in different context and at different levels. As aresult some of the acquired knowledge may be forgotten by the time student graduates or it maynot be placed in the context of the overall program outcomes, thus material presented may notseem to have relevance to student’s career. An effective method to address this issue is arequired capstone course that combines a number of different disciplines into a singlecomprehensive experience. In addition to required capstone experience, authors havecollaborated in development of an elective course on modeling and simulation of mechatronicsystems. The course introduces modern computer tools and techniques which integrates numberof different areas including statics, strength of materials, dynamics
Paper ID #28778Reimagining Energy Year 2: Integrating CSPs into Course DevelopmentProf. Gordon D Hoople, University of San Diego Dr. Gordon D. Hoople is an assistant professor and one of the founding faculty members of integrated engineering at the University of San Diego. He is passionate about creating engaging experiences for his students. His work is primarily focused on two areas: engineering education and design. Professor Hoople’s engineering education research examines the ways in which novel approaches can lead to better student outcomes. He is the principal investigator on the National Science Foundation Grant
Team Teaching Technical Topics: An Innovative Approach to Instruction in an Introductory Civil Engineering Course (ID 473) Anna Phillips, Paul Palazolo, and Charles Camp The University of MemphisIntroductionThis research presents findings from a pilot study involving a multi-disciplinary team-teachinginstructional approach in an introductory civil engineering course. The study evolved from aradical redesign of the introductory course sequence in civil engineering in 1994, and theobjectives of the pilot study focus an integrated approach to teaching communication skills,advanced critical thinking skills
universities. The NSBE Jr. programs at the three highschools addressed in this paper are part of this effort, and are a joint project of the Georgia TechSociety of Black Engineers (GTSBE), and the NSF-supported GK-12 STEP program5.The Student and Teacher Enhancement Partnership (STEP) ProgramIn 1999, the National Science Foundation initiated a new type of graduate student supportthrough the NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) program. Studentsreceiving GK-12 fellowships are required to interact directly with K-12 teachers in an attempt to Page 8.1276.2improve both K-12 education and the pedagogical and communication skills of the
state’sgateway to the rest of the world and the world’s gateway to Virginia.’ In an effort to consolidateand expand the University’s emerging reputation as a globally focused institution, the Universitywill continue to build and refine its internationally oriented curriculum across all of its colleges.The institution will continue to provide opportunities and support for all faculty to develop theinternational dimension of the curriculum; to diversify the student body, fully integratinginternational students into the academic and social life of the university community; to provide a Page 6.523.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for
; Environmental Engineering. Previously she worked as the head of the Physical Sciences Library and as an associate in the Government Documents department. She is a past president of the Patent & Trademark Resource Center Association. She holds a M.L.I.S. from the University of South Carolina, a M.A. from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. from Calvin College. Page 26.998.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Integration of Information Literacy to Mechanical Engineering Capstone Projects 1. Abstract Searching for
materials, the computer tools were directly integrated intothe existing course. In particular, the students used Microsoft Excel to graph, numericallyintegrate, and perform composite moment of inertia calculations. In the dynamics class, thecomputer-tool integration was accomplished through an additional honors section. In this case,students studied numerical approaches to differentiation, integration, and differential equationsolution, and wrote their own programs to perform these operations. It was found that thestudents used computer tools, even when it was optional. The students are much more likely touse the computer tools when they understood two important facts. Namely, that the toolsprovide a release from tedious repetitive tasks and the
Engineering Technology School of Technology and Professional Studies Goodwin College Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 19104AbstractEngineering Technology (ET) is an undergraduate degree program at Drexel University(DU). Several innovative laboratory components are integrated in MET 205 Robotics andMechatronics (a 10-week upper-level undergraduate course) to achieve maximumeffectiveness in teaching multi-disciplinary concepts in emerging fields. The primaryeducational objective of the course is to introduce students to the multidisciplinary theoryand practice of robotics science and technology, integrating the fields
/. Page 26.988.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Integrating Systems Engineering Concepts in all Design Oriented Courses in the Engineering Curriculum University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock, AR 72204Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how to designand manage complex engineering systems over their life cycles. This study makes a case forintroducing core systems engineering concepts in undergraduate courses across engineeringdisciplines. We argue that rapid advances in technology, increasing complexity of engineeringprojects, lack of protection in a globalized world, and the pressures of
-Learning at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Integration of Critical Reflection Methodologies into Engineering Service- Learning Projects: A Case-StudyAbstractThis paper focuses on a case study utilizing critical reflection methodologies in an engineering,service-learning course at a small, liberal arts college. The college started the engineeringdepartment in 2009. As a new program, the department has been working to accredit programsin four disciplines: chemical, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering. The department isdesigning the degree programs to take advantage of the Catholic, liberal arts mission of thecollege. The
Paper ID #30296Repurposing of a Nuclear Integrated System Test Facility forEngineering EducationDr. Hector E. Medina, Liberty University Dr. Medina is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Liberty University (Lynchburg, Va.). He obtained a B.Sc. in Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, and both an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechani- cal and Nuclear Engineering from the Virginia Commonwealth University. Prior to graduate school, he worked in the oil industry and 7-12 education, in his native Venezuela and Aruba. Since 2012, he has published and presented about forty articles in peer-review journals and conference
Session 2426 CRCD: Low-Power Wireless Communications for Virtual Environments-Course Integration Julie A. Dickerson, Diane T. Rover, Carolina Cruz-Neira, Robert J. Weber, Eric Eekhoff, Bernard Lwakabamba, Feng Chen, and Zheng Min Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011I. Project OverviewThis project combines research from the areas of wireless communications, low-power embeddedsystems, virtual environments, and human factors in an interdisciplinary program. Education in thehardware and software of virtual reality (VR) systems serves
Kettering University chapter of the Society for the Advancement ofMaterials and Process Engineering (SAMPE), an officer of the Materials Division ASEE, and is active in SPE,SWE, and SME. The Principle Investigator in two NSF ILI Grants, her efforts in modernizing the polymerprocessing curriculum have been published and presented nationally.GWAN –YWAN LAIGwan –Ywan Lai, Ph. D. is an active member of the ASME, ASM, SME, and SPE. He has taught seminars inInjection Molding, and has consulted in the area of polymer processing for 3M, DOW Chemical Company, andDynisco. Professor Lai is the Principle Investigator in a National Science Foundation Laboratory ImprovementGrant, a Brown & Sharpe Equipment Grant, and an internal Kettering Research Initiation
" Session 3453 Service-learning, which integrates community service with academic learning, has thepotential to integrate many of these aspects in the curriculum. The pedagogy is consistent withthe literature on recruitment and retention of women in science and engineering with its socialcontext; emphasis on general educational goals including communication; employment ofcooperative and interdisciplinary approaches; and problems with a “holistic, global scope”(Noddings, 1992; Rosser, 1990; Rosser, 1995). Matyas and Malcolm (1991) and Oakes,Gamoran, and Page (1992) suggest that many of the same factors are relevant for attracting andretaining minorities. In a UCLA study of retention of engineers in general, it is suggested thatone factor
Paper ID #43941Engineering Design Integrated Tissue Engineering Course Module: ScleraxisTendon Bioreactor ProjectDr. Tugba Ozdemir, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr Ozdemir is an Assistant professor in Biomedical Engineering Department at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. SHe completed her PhD in 2013 at The Pennsylvania State University Biomedical Engineering Department. She completed postdoctoral research in University of Delaware Materials Science and Engineering Department and University of Pennsylvania Clinical Studies and Advanced Medicine Department respectively. Her research interest
Consortium for Product Development Leadership in the 21stCentury (PD21), customizes course materials and elective courses to meet the needs of theirrespective constituency. The program balances technical and business perspectives in an effortto provide technical leaders with the skills and knowledge to create best-in-class productportfolios.The program at RIT, known as the Masters in Product Development (MPD), is a joint effortbetween the College of Business and the Kate Gleason College of Engineering. In addition to acourse in Leadership in Product Development, the core of the curriculum consists of threesystems design and management courses: Systems Engineering (SE), Systems Architecture (SA),and Systems and Project Management. Students are also
(Sowa, 1994; Hilaly and Sikdar, 1996). One of the main results of this line of workis the WAR algorithm developed by the United States EPA Risk Reduction EngineeringLaboratory. However, for many processes the reduction of the generation of pollutants isnot possible. The petroleum processing industry is such an example. The major pollutants inrefinery wastewater are part of the crude and are not generated in the plant. Many otherpollutants are by-products that are difficult to reduce.There have been traditionally two approaches used to obtain good designs of thesesystems: - Conceptual Approach - Mathematical Programming
Obispo and is the Director of the HVAC&R Program. His research interest are HVAC&R applications. Dr. Peuker’s educational research focuses on increasing student retention and success in engineering. He has given talks and workshops nationally on the subject and facilitates faculty learning communities and is the co-author of ”Studying Engineering – A Road Map to a Rewarding Career”. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Integrating Ethics into Engineering Education: A Case-Based Learning ApproachAbstract:This paper introduces an innovative method for infusing ethics into senior design capstonecourses within engineering education
comparable multi-disciplinaryexperiments, (3) provide experiments that have relevance to real-world engineering issues, and(4) incorporate sustainable engineering topics into the curriculum while instilling a sense ofglobal responsibility in first-year engineers.Bibliography1. ASEE, http://www.asee.org/about/Sustainable_Development.cfm2. Woodruff, P. (2006). Educating Engineers to Create a Sustainable Future. Journal of Environmental Engineering,132 (4).3. Sukumaran, B., K. Jahan, D. Dorland, J. Everett, J. Kadlowec, Z. Gephardt, and S. Chin (2006). EngineeringClinics: An Integration of Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum. Council on Undergraduate ResearchQuarterly, 26(3), p.115-121.4. Thames & Kosmos, http://www.thamesandkosmos.com
real-world engineering issues, and(4) incorporate sustainable engineering topics into the curriculum while instilling a sense ofglobal responsibility in first-year engineers.Bibliography1. ASEE, http://www.asee.org/about/Sustainable_Development.cfm2. Woodruff, P. (2006). Educating Engineers to Create a Sustainable Future. Journal of Environmental Engineering,132 (4).3. Sukumaran, B., K. Jahan, D. Dorland, J. Everett, J. Kadlowec, Z. Gephardt, and S. Chin (2006). EngineeringClinics: An Integration of Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum. Council on Undergraduate ResearchQuarterly, 26(3), p.115-121.4. Thames & Kosmos, http://www.thamesandkosmos.com/products/wp/wp.html5. Bakrania, S., K. Bhatia, W. Riddell, L. Weiss. (2009). Wind
Create, Innovate, and Educate: Integrating Sustainability into Engineering Education Patricia L. Fox, D. Jan Cowan, Stephen P. Hundley Purdue School of Engineering and Technology Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)AbstractThis paper highlights an international, interdisciplinary course that seeks to integratesustainability into the engineering education curriculum through a course entitled GO GREEN(Green Organizations: Global Responsibility for Environmental and Economic Necessity). Thiscourse helps to create new knowledge for students by stressing the interconnected aspects offinancial, social, and environmental
Paper ID #16749Towards a Scholarship of Integration: Lessons from Four CasesDr. Freddy Solis, Purdue University, West Lafayette Freddy Solis is a postdoctoral researcher in the College of Engineering at Purdue University. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with an emphasis on innovation management and engineering education, an MBA, a Master’s in Civil Engineering from Purdue University, and a Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Mexico. His research focuses on all aspects of innovation, drawing from multiple schools of thought, with a special emphasis on typologies such as enabling
, entitled“Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) for Metals” (ME8990). This course isalso deployed for online learning in a virtual classroom. The course was taught for the first timeduring the Fall 2012 semester and is being taught for the second time during the Fall 2013semester. The course design is based on blended learning approach3 to facilitate integration ofadvanced technological resources (ICME Cyberinfrastructure) with traditional pedagogicalpractices (textbook, Mark F. Horstemeyer, “ICME for Metals” 4).The interdisciplinary course curriculum is fragmented into independent learning modules witheach module focusing on teaching different material length scales with its respectivecollaborative student group assignments and
computer-based imaging or imageprocessing aspects were used on as-needed basis for senior capstone projects.With the approval of the curriculum committee, an undergraduate course with thetitle “Applied Computer Vision for Sensing and Automation” was approved to beoffered as an experimental course at 4xxx (senior) level. The course was designedas a three-credit hour course in a sixteen–week semester based system. Thecourse consisted of two lecture classes (each for 50 minutes) and one two-hourlaboratory component. This course initially required prior experience withcomputer programming and prerequisite of a sophomore level mathematics class.This course was offered as a technical elective.This course was initially offered in Fall 2014. It has been
, wind, and hydrogen fuel cells asenergy sources and a writing across the curriculum assignment on global warming.The paper includes the revised structure of the lectures and labs, how the video is integrated, andthe response of the students through their writing across the curriculum assignment. Details onthe pre and post perception survey has been submitted as a separate paper.IntroductionThe emphasis for this effort came about because the common freshman book chosen at ouruniversity for the 2007-2008 academic year had its focus on global warming. This was formerVice President Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”. [1] The book has a compelling presentationof data related to the causes and effects of global warming. There is also a companion DVD
Paper ID #18404Developing Integrated Standards for Systematic Civil Engineering CourseDesignProf. Jim Morgan, Charles Sturt University Jim Morgan is the father of two daughters and the spouse of an engineer. Before joining Charles Sturt University as Professor of Engineering and Inaugural Course Director in 2015, he was on the faculty in civil engineering at Texas A&M for over 30 years. Jim was active in the freshman engineering program at A&M for nearly 20 years; was an active participant in the NSF Foundation Coalition from 1993 to 2003; also has received funding for his engineering education research from the
, in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego, in 2000. Hao Jiang has been with San Francisco State University since August 2007 as an assistant professor in electrical engineering. Prior joining SFSU, he worked for Broadcom Corporation, Jazz Semiconductor and Conexant Systems Inc. His research interests are in the general area of analog integrated circuits, particularly in ultra-low-power circuits for biomedical applications.Dr. Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State Society c American University for Engineering Education, 2018 Kwok Siong Teh received his B.S., M.S., Ph.D. degrees in