. Robin Fowler, University of Michigan Robin Fowler is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She enjoys serving as a ”communication coach” to students throughout the curriculum, and she’s especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions involved in describing the products of open-ended design scenarios.Mark Mills, UM, Center for Academic Innovation Mark Mills is a Data Scientist with the Center for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan. He is responsible for leading analysis across the Center in support of its mission to leverage data for shaping
department-wide changes in curriculum with emphasis on project- and lab-based instruction and learning. His research interests are in the areas of engineering education, semiconductor device characterization, design and simulation, signal integrity and THz sensors. He is a member of IEEE and ASEE. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Session W1A Work-in-Progress - An Introductory Course in Electrical Engineering: Lessons Learned and Continuing Challenges Melinda Holtzman and Branimir Pejcinovic
AC 2007-2017: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR ENGINEERINGMECHANICS AND DESIGNJames Klosky, U.S. Military AcademyDecker Hains, U.S. Military AcademyTimothy Johnson, Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, USMAJakob Bruhl, US Military Academy, Dept of Civil & Mechanical EngineeringJared B. Erickson, U.S. Military AcademyJohn Richards, D/CME, USMA Page 12.217.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 An Integrated Approach for Engineering Mechanics and DesignAbstractAs part of a major curriculum update undertaken over the last three years, the United StatesMilitary Academy at West Point has implemented a new course sequence in statics
last constraint is obvious and universal: the Accreditation Board of Engineering andTechnology (ABET) has several criteria that must be met by all accredited programs. Sinceaccreditation is essential, indeed vital, to all programs offered by public universities, fulfillmentof these criteria must be an integral part of all engineering curricula. B. Elements of the Mechanical and Energy Engineering curriculum:The curriculum of the Mechanical and Energy Engineering Department has been designed tosatisfy all the constraints of the previous subsection and four essential elements: • Mathematics and basic sciences courses: These courses offer the students a solid foundation in Mathematics and Natural Science as well as needed
signal pro- cessing for emerging cyber-physical systems.Stephen Sandelin c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 An Integrated Mixed-signal Circuit Design Course Project - A Novel Teaching Practice for an Analog Circuit Analysis CourseAbstractIn this paper, we present a novel teaching practice adopted in a sophomore-level circuit analysiscourse in the Electrical Engineering (EE) curriculum at Western Washington University. Inparticular, we have introduced a hands-on mixed-signal circuitry design project which integratesboth analog circuits and digital electronics together. The students are asked to implement anddemonstrate a pair of design goals that utilize knowledge and
AC 2009-2282: INTEGRATING REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE INTO A COLLEGECURRICULUM USING A MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN MINORJessica Brakora, University of MichiganBrian Gilchrist, University of MichiganJames Holloway, University of MichiganNilton Renno, University of MichiganSteven Skerlos, University of MichiganToby Teory, University of MichiganPeter Washabaugh, University of MichiganDaryl Weinert, University of Michigan Page 14.766.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Integrating Real-World Experience in to a College Curriculum Using a Multidisciplinary Design MinorAbstractThe real world offers tremendous challenges and numerous opportunities
collaborative instruction among faculty in ComputerScience and Philosophy [1], [2]. Due to challenges with implementing ethics as a stand alonecourse, recent efforts have focused on integrating ethical reasoning in existing courses asstudents are learning technical concepts, to instill that ethical reasoning is needed while writingcode and developing technology, instead of being an isolated activity [1], [3].In developing a model for embedding ethics in the computer science curriculum at HarvardUniversity, Grosz et al. [1] addressed ethics via software design and verification in introductoryundergraduate programming courses. However, introductory engineering computing coursesmay not have these emphases and focus on using basic concepts to solve
Learning and Engineering EducationIn most parts of the world, engineering education started and took roots in early to mid-nineteenth century. Itwent through, like other specialized streams, the changes with respect to liberal education. Only a few decadesago, it incorporated liberal education in its curricula. Today the engineering educators wholeheartedly agreewith statements such as ―humanities and social science courses are very important in preparing engineers‖ andthat the undergraduate engineering curriculum should ―prepare students to assume community leadershiproles.‖10. Cherrice and Klein 11 point out that many of the engineering ―grand challenges‖ require a multi-disciplinary approach and integration of engineering and liberal arts
Paper ID #13631DNA Extraction Using Engineering Design: A STEM Integration Unit (Cur-riculum Exchange)Corey A Mathis, Purdue University, West Lafayette Corey Mathis is a Ph.D student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received her B.S. in biology and her M.E.D. in secondary education from Northern Arizona University and is a former high school science and technology teacher. Her research interest includes improving students learning of science and engineering through integrated STEM curricula.Dr. Tamara J Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette Tamara J. Moore, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School
engineering concentrations. Strict avoidance ofpre-designed kits forced students to experience the frustrations and rewards of creating uniquedesign content. The project selected consisted of a magnetically levitated, wirelessly powereddesk lamp.A key initial assumption was that students enrolled in the class would have a wide range ofdifferent hardware and software skill sets. The assumption (which turned out to be correct)necessitated the selection of assemblies that could be integrated into a unique design withminimal prior knowledge or experience. This applied to both hardware and software tools. It alsomade the project choice more difficult, since there needed to be sufficient flexibility to giveadvanced students an interesting challenge while
Paper ID #5987Development and Assessment of an Innovative Program to Integrate Com-munication Skills into Engineering CurriculaDr. Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University Dr. Warren N. Waggenspack, Jr. is currently the associate dean for Academic Programs in the College of Engineering and holder of the Ned Adler Professorship in Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana State University. He obtained both his baccalaureate and master’s degrees from LSU ME and his doctorate from Purdue University’s School of Mechanical Engineering. He has been actively engaged in teaching, research and curricula development since
diverse student populations, as prior work has shown that low self-efficacyis often a contributor to attrition [5, 6].Within an undergraduate curriculum at a small, teaching-focused institution in the southeast, anintegrated student outcome thread focused on development of civil engineering design skills wasadopted and mapped by faculty across a series of 16 departmental courses. The design outcomethread encompasses instructional material from courses in 1) Introduction to Civil andEnvironmental Engineering, 2) Dynamics, 3) Geomatics Lab, 4) Highway Engineering, 5)Mechanics of Materials, 6) Hydrology and Hydraulics, 7) Asphalt and Concrete Laboratory, 8)Measurements, Analysis and Modeling of Civil Engineering Systems, 9) Reinforced ConcreteDesign
changes enabled the fulfillment of “a strong desire to movestudents straight into the engineering way of thinking”. The changes made were seen asmatching well with international calls for engineering education curriculum reform. This in-house program is very rare in an international landscape where the majority of first-yearengineering courses, are taught as service courses by faculty from mathematics and sciencedepartments with one or two design or hands-on introduction-to-engineering coursesproviding a taste of “real” engineering. This paper charts the evolution of that program, itsstrengths, challenges, weaknesses and ongoing evaluations with particular reference toinnovations in delivery and assessment in the context of an integrated
Session 3513 Integration of Statistics Throughout the Undergraduate Curriculum: Use of the Senior Chemical Engineering Unit Operations Laboratory as an End-of-Program Statistics Assessment Course Michael E. Prudich, Darin Ridgway, Valerie L. Young Department of Chemical Engineering Ohio UniversityAbstractGraduates of chemical engineering programs should have the ability to use basic statisticaltechniques to analyze and interpret process and experimental data. Chemical engineers shouldalso have the
new instructional methodologies to increase student learning,engagement, and persistence in technological fieldsReferences 1. Aglan, H., Ali, S., “Hands-On Experiences: An Integral Part of Engineering Curriculum Reform”, Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 327-330, 1996. 2. Bucciarelli, L., H.H. Einstein, P.T. Terenzini and A.D. Walser , “ECSEL/MIT Engineering Education Workshop ’99: A Report with Recommendations”, Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 141-150. 2000. Page 11.837.93. Hamlin, B., Hertel, J., “More than Mousetraps: Data Collection, Modeling, and Testing – A scalable and affordable solution for freshman
Document: 2005-940Division: Computers in Education Integration of Educational Methodologies in the C o m p u t e r S c i e n c e C u r r i c u l u m b a s e d o n t h e B e o wu l f Curriculum Enrichment Integrated Lab (B-CEIL) Dr. Juan R. Iglesias, Dr. Mahmoud K. Quweider, and Dr. Fitra Khan jriglesias@utb.edu; mkquweider@utb.edu; khan@utb.edu CS/CIS Department, University of Texas, Brownsville Eighty Fort Brown Brownsville, TX 78521 U.S.A. 1-956-574-6616Abstract Over the past two years, the Computer Science faculty have been hard at workimplementing BCEIL (the Beowulf based Curriculum
computational environments are replete with many“features” that can each be leveraged for a given class of problem. However, this “high power”comes at a high price: a steep learning curve for students. A typical engineering undergraduatehas a difficult time in applying the tools of a computational environment like MATLAB in otherthan cookbook fashion unless the student has systematically developed an understanding of thecomputational environment from an integrated viewpoint.The use of MATLAB through the entire undergraduate experience can be thought of as a verticalslice through an engineering curriculum. Ideally, this vertical slice would touch all individualcourses that a student would take. The development of such a vertical slice through
demonstration. The useof rubrics to focus the questions and assignments results in more focused student workthat more clearly demonstrates accomplishment of the outcome.Gloria Rogers, formerly of ABET, has always said that a program only needs todemonstrate an outcome only once, but the crafting of that assignment and thedemonstration by the students must hit the mark.12 However, to get to that point in thecurriculum where the demonstration occurs (senior year?), the students have to grow thecorrect skill set. The UT Tyler Department of Civil Engineering decided to haveembedded indicators collected throughout the curriculum to show the development of therequired skill set. If the development of the required skill set cannot be shown, then theprogram
paradigm in education through an NSF sponsored program. Long experience in curriculum development. Extensive knowledge in academic programs, professional development programs and on the job training plans. Motivated, fluent in English with multi-lingual capability, internationally educated professional, with work experience in different countries and international organizations. Highly diversified, person- able and outreaching communication skills. Winner of 2012 faculty of the year award at Lawrence Tech- nological University. Nominated for Teaching Excellence and Using Technology in Classroom Awards.Mr. Jerry Cuper, Lawrence Technological University Jerry Cuper is a professor and advisor in the Department of Engineering
Engineering Management from The University of Alabama Huntsville. Page 12.1273.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Service-Learning and Integrated, Collaborative Project ManagementAbstractThis paper describes the introduction of service-learning into an undergraduate course on projectmanagement. At ECU, engineering courses are taught in an integrated and collaborativeeducation environment. The core curriculum requires junior level students to complete a coursein project management as part of the program’s commitment to industry to supply immediatelyproductive, contributing new
theseinstitutions was charged with developing innovative curricula in an effort to enhance theexperiences of students at the freshman and sophomore levels in an attempt to increase students’interest in the science and engineering fields and improve retention beyond the sophomore year.One of the most reported curricular changes involves the careful integration of several courseswithin the discipline and across several disciplines. This was prompted mainly by the belief thatstudents’ understanding of the subject matters and their interest in engineering are greatlyimproved once they realize why the courses are important and how they are related to each other.The Integrated Engineering program introduced at Southern Utah University is based upon adifferent
. This important stipulation set the stage for theworkshop’s speakers.Diversity of the workforce has an important role in the way that transportation decisions are made(and will be made) in the twenty first century. Content and technical specifications are not enoughfor traditional operations. Innovations, changes in methodologies, and training programs willcontinue, but focused attention is needed on the context within which that transportation systemoperates. Former Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater captured the idea during the releaseof the Department of Transportation’s The Changing Face of Transportation. Secretary Slaterdescribed it as the four I’s. The transportation system in the twenty first century will be: • integrated in
Paper ID #26116An Approach to Integrating Learning and Engagement Strategies (LESs) intoCS Class ActivitiesDr. Peter J. Clarke, Florida International University Peter J. Clarke received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill) in 1987, M.S. degree from SUNY Binghamton University in 1996 and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Clemson University in 2003. His research interests are in the areas of software testing, software metrics, model-driven software development, domain-specific modeling languages, and computer science education. He is currently an associate
, functioning of an engineer is viewed in context ofinternational scientific and economic environment. Many examples of approaches that evaluatevalue of creativity, efficiency and overall output of engineering work are available from academicand business point of view 6 - 11 . Experimentation was frequently an integral part of some Page 7.572.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationinventive undertakings. Hands-on projects are believed to be one of the best avenues to teach theconcepts of the above
Paper ID #25732FOUNDATIONS – Integrating Evidence-based Teaching and Learning Prac-tices into the Core Engineering CurriculumDr. Gail P Baxter, Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education Gail P. Baxter is the Co-Director, Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) at Stevens Institute of Technology. Baxter leads CIESE research and evaluation efforts on several na- tional and statewide K-12 STEM curriculum development and teacher professional development pro- grams and she manages a program to support faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices in the core courses in the
, universities beganparticipating in academic initiatives permitting them to use enterprise software from leadingvendors (such as SAP and Oracle) in various courses. While ERP systems were recognized as ameans of curriculum integration in business schools, curriculum changes have primarilyaddressed the technology rather than the new opportunities for linking functional areas andprocesses6,11,15. The focus in IE on process13 and on identifying opportunities for improvementsuggests that IE graduates can play a key role in helping organizations to effectively use ERPdata and systems. The IE curriculum should offer opportunities to practice data-based decision-making with an enterprise focus. The framework we propose addresses this need, not just for IE
) Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madisonrequires all undergraduate students to take a design course every semester beginning in theirfirst-semester sophomore year for six sequential courses. The students work in a team on aclient-centered biomedical engineering design project to learn concept generation, productanalysis, specifications, evaluation, clinical trials, regulation, liability, and ethics. Thus thedesign course provides students an opportunity to learn about engineering design and the processof integrating engineering and life sciences to solve real-world biomedical engineering problems.It also teaches them how to function on diverse teams, develop leadership skills and to takeinitiative to communicate their ideas and thoughts
develop more innovative systems assoftware, hardware, and manufacturing technologies advance. For instance, cellular telephonesare readily available to and popular with consumers, as they have been integrated with otherdevices such as MP3 players, web browsers, calculators, calendars, digital cameras, voicerecorders, and alarm clocks. Therefore, they are ideal to be utilized as part of a wireless alarmmonitor for vehicles so that owners/operators have continual real time access to the status oftheir automobile’s security.Finally, the principal differences among the latest vehicle alarm systems are how the sensors areused and how the different devices are connected into the brain5. The main parts of an alarmsystem are shown in Figure 1
University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley Liyu Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He received his Ph. D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo in SeptembDr. Hansheng Lei ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Early Integrating of Industry Certification Objectives into Modern Cyber Security Degree CurriculumAbstractWe have recently created a new bachelor’s degree in cyber security (B.Sc. CS) [1] to address thenational and pressing needs for cybersecurity specialists, cyber-crime analysts, incident andintrusions analysts, IT
(written, oral, and graphical forms) (ABET SLO G, SLO K) 3. Function effectively on a team (ABET SLO E, SLO I)The Senior Design course draws upon all prior courses by exposing the student to an integrated,capstone design experience. The course is a critical component of the curriculum and providesthe student with a comprehensive opportunity to utilize the skills and abilities obtained throughthe MET program core material as well as the incorporated engineering design content. Inaddition, this course represents a major design experience and allows students to demonstratethat they have the ability to work in teams to design, develop, implement and improve integratedproducts and systems. Senior Design course is not a lecture-based course