Qualifying Project” (MQP), generally completed during astudent’s fourth year of study. The MQP is similar to senior design projects implemented at otheruniversities, focusing specifically on developing engineering solutions to technical problems; assuch, student teams are generally major-specific.The IQP is in many ways the cornerstone of the WPI Plan; whereas in 1970 there were otherschools that had capstone design and humanities projects as a part of their STEM curriculum, thefaculty observed a need for a project in which engineering skills would be built in a societalcontext. This was due primarily to the failure of post-war technological progress to deliver on theutopian promises of the 1950s: despite incredible scientific breakthroughs
. Page 23.708.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Implementing First-Year Design Projects with the Power of ChoiceAbstract: This paper presents the re-design of an introduction to engineering lab course at aprivate urban institution in the Midwest. In the lab portion of the course students were providedwith a menu of three design projects, asked to rate their interest in the three projects, and splitinto small teams according to these ratings. In a given semester the three projects centered on atheme such as water balloon launching technology or small vehicle technology. The averageinterest rating for all projects was rated as 3.58-3.65 on a 1-5 Likert scale while the averageinterest rating of
Page 25.391.2engineering to students.While electric machines have not changed much in their structures and materials, drivetechnologies for machines and instruments have made tremendous advances, which is whymany suggestions for improvement have focused on that part. However, given the fact thatthe machines, drives and instruments can be shared with the electric drives laboratory, theintroductory electric machine laboratory can be readily renovated at the same time with thedrives laboratory. It will be a legitimate opportunity to revamp the experiments for theintroductory machine laboratory using up-to-date technologies and to improve the cost-effectiveness of the program.The power and energy engineering program at the University of Colorado
Paper ID #18814Measuring Differences in Performance by Varying Formative Assessment Con-struction Guided by Learning Style PreferencesDr. Shanon Marie Reckinger, Montana State University Shanon Reckinger joined the department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Montana State Uni- versity in Fall 2015. She received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boul- der in August of 2011. Before her position at MSU, she was a Clare Boothe Luce Professor at Fairfield University in the department of Mechanical Engineering for four years. Her research interests include ocean modeling, computational
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. Eff. Interv., vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 141–147, Jun. 2010.[21] L. Angrave, K. Jensen, Z. Zhang, C. Mahipal, D. Mussulman, C. D. Schmitz, R. T. Baird, H. Liu, R. Sui, M. S. Wu, and R. Kooper, “Improving student accessibility, equity, course performance, and lab skills: How introduction of ClassTranscribe is changing engineering education at the University of Illinois,” presented at the ASEE, Virtual, 2020.[22] M. V. Izzo, A. Murray, S. Priest, and B. McArrell, “Using student learning communities to recruit STEM students with disabilities,” J. Postsecond. Educ. Disabil., vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 301–316, Dec. 2011.[23] M. P. Malcolm and M. C. Roll, “Self-reported assistive technology outcomes and personal characteristics in
, technologies andprogramming languages used for implementation. Software reuse in object-orientedmethodologies has proven their superiority over functional decompositions. This has ledto exponential growth in object-oriented market.This paper advocates the usage of object-oriented methodologies and design patterns as Page 10.721.1the centerpieces of software solution in implementing business policies. The combineusage of object-oriented methodologies and design pattern could facilitate business "Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for
. Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering Education References1. Engineering Accreditation Commission, Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), http://www.abet.org/, Baltimore, Maryland, 2012-2013 version.2. Petersen, O., Williams, S., and Durant, E.: Understanding ABET Objectives and Outcomes, Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, June 2007.3. Chambers T. and Simon W.: Closing the Loop: Demonstrating Positive Program Changes as
Paper ID #27692Integrating Active/Collaborative Learning in Computer-Centered Course Cur-riculumDr. Magesh Chandramouli, Purdue University Northwest Dr. Chandramouli is an Associate Professor of Computer Graphics Technology in Purdue University Northwest. Dr. Chandramouli has been invited to deliver keynote speeches and guest lectures in various countries around the world. Formerly a Frederick Andrews Fellow at Purdue University, West Lafayette, he completed his doctoral studies from the Department of Computer Graphics Technology. He completed Master of Engineering at the National University of Singapore and Master of
Paper ID #41962Board 413: Undergraduate Robotics Education with General Instructors Usinga Student-Centered Personalized Learning FrameworkDr. Rui Wu, East Carolina University Rui Wu received a Bachelor degree in Computer Science and Technology from Jilin University, China, in 2013. He then pursued his Master and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, completing them in 2015 and 2018, respectively. Currently, Rui works as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at East Carolina University, collaborating with geological and hydrological scientists to
job training and placement. Page 23.1089.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Strategy to incorporate BIM curriculum in Planning and Scheduling classesAbstractArchitect-Engineer-Construction (AEC) employers have begun expecting that constructionprogram graduates have a working knowledge of Building Information Modeling (BIM). Thispaper is an attempt to adopt this new skill-set in educational institutions along with thefundamental techniques of Planning and Scheduling already being taught. To incorporate theBIM curriculum pertaining to the
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Modelling and Designing a Mechatronics System for High Speed Packaging OperationsAbstract:Accomplishing a lean manufacturing standards and increasing rate of production are veryimportant for today’s industry. An automated system, like one that achieves packaging rates of upto 300 parts per minute, appears to be the answer. Industrial automation is an engineering marvel.Mechatronics is synergistic yet a multidisciplinary field of science which adopts and sharesplatform between interdisciplinary engineering technologies. The process of operation of a controlsystems (Mechatronics System) incorporates different modules in it, which does different
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Paper ID #21127Office Temperature Monitoring System: A Capstone ProjectDr. Maher Shehadi, Purdue University Dr. Shehadi is an Assistant Professor of MET in the School of Engineering Technology at Purdue Univer- sity. His academic experience have focused on learning and discovery in areas related to HVAC, indoor air quality, human thermal comfort, and energy conservation. While working in industry, he oversaw main- tenance and management programs for various facilities including industrial plants, high rise residential and commercial buildings, energy audits and condition surveys for various mechanical and electrical and
Courses for Non-Traditional Students,” Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June, 2008.3. Dale Buechler, Phil Sealy, John Goomey, and David Andersen, "Use of Technology to Assist and Assess Distance Students in Integrated Electrical Engineering Courses," Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, June, 2011.4. Dale N. Buechler, “Can Pen Tablets be used to improve the Performance of Place-Bound Engineering Students?,” Proceedings of the 2010 ASEE Annual Conference, Louisville, KY, June, 2010. Page 24.1262.195. Dale N. Buechler, Phil J. Sealy Jr., and John R. Goomey
authors didn’t answer the question on how to clearly define the termSoE and how to develop a measurement framework for its assessment.In this investigation, we define the term SoE and develop measurable SoE indicators. Theinvestigation addresses issues related to SoE in general and for the Sustainability of TechnicalEducation (SoTE) in Particular. Here, technical education is concerned with Engineering,Engineering Technology, Computing , and Applied Science.This paper is organized so that the next section defines SoE and SoTE. The following sectionexplains the measurement framework. A later section provides a general evaluation. The lastsection concludes the paper and sets the ground for future work. Proceedings of the Spring
an ethnographic study of the interplay between ethics and imagination in engineering research. As an extension of this work, I am closely collaborating with engineers and other technologists on issues related to the future of work and technology. In addition, I am a co-PI on an NSF-funded graduate research training program on robots in the future workplace, and a co-PI on an NSF-funded research project on platform design for nonprofits. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 ConGrad: A Graduate Education Framework for Convergence Research and Experiential Learning Tess B. Meier, Ceren Yilmaz-Akkaya, Yunus Do˘gan TellielAbstractGraduate STEM programs
Paper ID #38177Essential Experiences for Computer Science GraduatesReza Sanati-mehrizy (Professor)Afsaneh Minaie (Professor) Afsaneh Minaie is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Interim Dean of the College of Engineering and Technology at Utah Valley University. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. all in Electrical Engineering from University of Oklahoma. Her research interests include gender issues in the academic sciences and engineering fields, Embedded Systems Design, Mobile Computing, Wireless Sensor Networks, Nanotechnology, Data Mining, and Databases
Paper ID #34338Where’s My Whiteboard? The Challenge of Moving Active-learningMathematics Classes OnlineProf. Jill K. Nelson, George Mason University Jill Nelson is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University. She earned a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Economics from Rice Uni- versity in 1998. She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for graduate study, earning an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2001 and 2005, respectively. Dr. Nelson’s research focus is in statistical signal processing, specifically detection and
The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center7 February, 2012 Engineering Deans Conference, Washington DCJack M. Wilson,MGHPCC Founding Chair 2009-2011President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Higher Education, Emerging Technologies and InnovationThe University of MassachusettsVISIONWorld-class Green High Performance Computing Center (1stin the Northeast)First multi-university HPC facility of its kind in the nationPlatform for collaboration in R&D that will strengthen MassR&D leadership in computing applicationsCatalyst for economic & workforce development in the state,region and Holyoke (Innovation District)Most significant state/industry/university partnership in statehistory
Paper ID #17347Developing Master’s Program in Logistics & TransportationDr. MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi Dr. Sarder is an associate professor and graduate program coordinator of the Logistics, Trade and Trans- portation program at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM). He is also an assistant director of the center for logistics, trade and transportation. At the USM, he revamped his program by developing as many as fourteen new courses, implementing hands on experience in courses, and delivering online courses for distant students. Dr. Sarder is very active in engineering and technology
Innovation in Teaching with Technology, which I received in 2020 at Boston University. I received the International Wildcat Outstanding Faculty of 2022-23 at California State University, Chico for my teaching.Prof. Jaime Raigoza, California State University, Chico ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 An Experience Report on Teaching Quantum Key Distribution to Incoming College FreshmenAbstractQuantum information science and engineering (QISE) is rapidly emerging as a critical field,requiring scientists and engineers with specialized knowledge in quantum technologies. To helpaddress this need, we organized a three-week summer workshop for incoming college freshmen
quantum information science, photonic devices, micro and nano fabrication technologies, and MEMS technologies. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University.Gary Ybarra, Duke University GARY A. YBARRA, Ph.D., is a Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. His research interests include K-12 engineering outreach, engineering education, microwave imaging and electrical impedance tomography. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University.Leslie Collins, Duke University LESLIE M. COLLINS, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
source of knowledge. Our recitation leaders have begun to employ strategies that are more student-centered. The interviews we conducted with them showed their evolving perspectives of teaching and learning. The interviews portray a collaboration that faculty with similar intentions to encourage instruction emphasizing student centered pedagogy may find helpful.IntroductionEnergy sustainability is an important concept for human societies and must addresseconomic, environmental, and societal aspects. A long term goal to stimulate researchand technology development toward transformational energy solutions is best addressedthrough the efforts of all educated citizens, and not only by engineers and scientists. Forthis reason, professors from
Paper ID #10500Solar Cell Imaging: A Gateway to Stem DisciplinesDr. Michael G Mauk P.E., Drexel UniversityDr. Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng.)Mr. M. Eric Carr, Drexel University Mr. Eric Carr is a full-time Laboratory Manager and part-time adjunct instructor with Drexel Univer- sity’s Department of Engineering Technology. Eric assists faculty members with the development and implementation of various Engineering Technology courses. A graduate of Old Dominion University’s Computer Engineering Technology program and Drexel’s College of Engineering, Eric enjoys finding innovative ways to use microcontrollers and other
Paper ID #44348Using Generative AI for a Graduate Level Capstone Course Design—a CaseStudyDr. Wei Lu, Texas A&M University Dr. Wei Lu is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on Higher Education in Agriculture & Engineering, K-12 (STEM) Education, Communications, MarketingDr. Behbood ”Ben” Ben Zoghi P.E., Texas A&M University Ben Zoghi is the Victor H. Thompson endowed Chair Professor of electronics engineering at Texas A&M University, where he directs the College of Engineering RFID Oil & Gas
is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Technology at the Instituto Federal de Educac¸a˜ o, Ciˆencia e Tecnologia da Bahia. He is a mechanical engineer and holds Master’s degree in mechanical engineering, and a PhD in Engineering Education. He has been teaching at different levels, from the first year of technical high school to the final year of mechatronic engineering course, since 1995. He also has considerable experience in the design and implementation of mechatronic and production engineering courses. His non-academic career is centered on product development and manufacturing processes.Dr. Alberto W Mello, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Ph.D. in Aerospace from the
Paper ID #19865Implementation of a Common Content-Based Assessment for Experiment-Centric Pedagogy in Three HBCU ECE ProgramsProf. Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Kenneth Connor is a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE) where he teaches courses on electromagnetics, electronics and instrumentation, plasma physics, electric power, and general engineering. His research involves plasma physics, electromagnetics, photon- ics, biomedical sensors, engineering education, diversity in the engineering workforce, and technology enhanced learning. He learned problem
Paper ID #6169Correlation Analysis of Scaffolding Creative Problem Solving Through Ques-tion Prompts with Process and Outcomes of Project-Based Service LearningDr. Wei Zheng, Jackson State University Dr. Wei Zheng is an associate professor of Civil Engineering at Jackson State University. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001 and has over ten years of industrial experience. Since becoming a faculty member at JSU in 2005, he has made continuous efforts to integrate emerging technologies and cognitive skill development into engineering curriculum.Mr. Liusheng Wang, Jackson State
NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revo- lutionizing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Education / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in engineering education research. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions; this includes a two-strand research program fo- cused on (1) authentic assessment, often aided by interactive technology, and (2) design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.Dr. Susannah C. Davis, Oregon