fixture with installed strain gage.The second project uses condition monitoring applied to bearing vibration as a means forexposing students to data acquisition and accelerometers. Students develop a simple LabView VIto collect data with an NI myRIO. Next, students implement a more complex VI that is providedby the instructor. The students calibrate the accelerometer and collect data from a bearing blockwhile the motor spins. Students use FFT to make a judgement as to whether or not the bearing isdamaged.Self-Directed Team ProjectThis self-directed team project is structured to assist students with problem formulation. Theproject plan is as follows: individual curiosity identification, individual curiosities shared withteam, team project proposal
east)Figure 1: Pictures of the bridge.Figure 2 shows the schematic of the bridge presenting the plan view, elevation, and a typicalcross section of the superstructure. The bridge has three continuous spans, 67-ft at both endspans, and 112-ft at central span. The transversal section shows five steel beams receiving a 7.5-in slab with a sidewalk at the east side and safety rails at each edge.Figure 3 shows the elevation of the steel beam and details of the splice, studs, and supports. Thebeams are continuous with variable cross section and symmetric with respect to the bridgecenterline. Close to the ends, the section is W36x135; at the supports the section is W36x230with a cover plate of 10”x7/8” welded at top and bottom flanges; the central
slightlymore value in the synchronous class meeting (81.8% rated it extremely or very valuable) than inthe asynchronous module (72.8% extremely or very valuable). Students also made suggestionsfor improvements, such as providing more time for in-class assessment items to provide morehands-on search practice, which they found engaging, and to account for technical issues thatslowed them down, such as Internet lag and navigating multiple windows.Other lessons learned include planning for the significant time and effort it takes to redesign aworkshop for a new delivery mode, to simplify implementation wherever possible, and thatengagement needs to be much more intentional in the online environment. Overall, given thelimited timeframe in which to redesign
Male Total Interested in STEM Career/Future Plans 27 39 66 27 40 67 Fun/Enjoyable 16 11 27 10 8 18 STEM Subjects 16 23 39 9 7 16 Engaging/Hands-on 6 9 15 8 5 13 Activities Ability 4 1 5 1 2 3 Camps 0 2 2 5 4 9Table 6: Subcategory Data Results Undecided Pre Post
will learn the relevant questions to ask in class.Afterward, they have a very real feeling about various aircraft components such as flaps, elevator, stick,pitot-static system, and center of gravity. They comprehend why safety planning is a crucial part of anyflight and appreciate why instructors are critical about planning and briefing. Also, the graduates shouldhave a greater range of job opportunities.4. UAV-Related CoursesIn the SNHU aeronautical engineering major, four concentrations have been developed, one of which is theUAV. For this concentration, three UAV courses have been developed: 1. EG 360 Fundamentals ofUnmanned Aerial Systems, 2. EG 430 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Analysis/Design, and 3. EG450Conceptual Design of Unmanned Aerial
research area of transportation planning and evaluation of transportation systems. She started working in the area of engineering education at Purdue University when she taught Introduction to Transportation Engineering in spring 2016. She currently explores top- ics related to undergraduate STEM education improvement, including holistic engineering; connecting teaching, research, and practice; student retention in engineering; and recruitment and retention of under- represented students in engineering. Dr. Pyrialakou also teaches courses on transportation engineering, transportation/urban planning, and civil engineering/transportation data analysis.Dr. Kakan C Dey P.E., West Virginia University Dr. Kakan Dey is an
Presentation: You Belong Here: A Collaborative Recruitment Initiative for Future Engineers is a presentation that showcases a strategy used by our engineering college’s diversity programs in an effort to increase the matriculation of high school admitted students from underrepresented backgrounds into the engineering college. The presentation will explore the initiative’s evolution, provide an overview of the programming and impact. We will also cover lessons learned and future plans. What we really hope is that attendees will be able to walk away with some actionable items and ideas that they could implement at their institutions as well as a reference when working to engage all members of the engineering community to show the value and preliminary
provide a sufficient instructional forethought and planning,as well as raising doubt about satisfying the university experience in which students would liketo enjoy each other’s company [22].The study in [23] pointed out the lack of student interaction in distance learning and indicatedthat distance learning proposed the negative effects of passive non-participatory learning.Distance education also presents difficulties for academic integrity, especially assessments. Saadet al. [24] suggested that assessments for distance learning need to be as rigorous as thetraditional learning, and Lee-Post et al. [25] suggested that it should have authenticationsolutions to prevent cheating without compromising online flexibility.This paper discusses our
breakout into individual project teams. The general assembly session provides the structure for academicelements of the course with weekly assignments and lecture topics that include subjects related to workingwith humanitarian organizations in a developing community. Subjects within the general assembly includethe role of external support, sustainable development, practical skills related to fieldwork, project planning,data management, reporting and project presentations. The general assembly session is also used to addressadministrative aspects of travel related to logistics and risk management, as well as professionalism as itrelates to working in other countries such as social awareness, culture, history, gender dynamics,relationship building
REU has had the added importance of being a research“eye-opener” experience. Often an unstated factor is the benefit for graduate students togain research project management (including research project planning with timelinesand budgets, personnel supervision, technical assessment and leadership, and mentoring).WIMS LSAMP REU Primary Component --- Research Projects with MentoringThe WIMS LSAMP REU is structured with the primary goal of a research projectexperience. Each student has a research project with a strong involvement with one of theresearch thrust teams, working directly with an advanced graduate student or post-doc orsystem integrator (usually in meaningful daily contacts) under the direction of a WIMSfaculty member. Each REU
video) in order to put them in a more‘readable’ format, but the outcomes were essentially the same. For instance, the answer to onequestion regarding assumptions for an air tank purging question was: “Assumptions: Shape of tank, Location of valves: hot air input top right, cold air output left bottom. It has quantitative temperatures. We have five temperature measuring devices throughout the tank. One at input, output, and three inside. Plan: Create a flow control valve on input and output. Use the flow control valves to regulate input and output volume. We have reached our equilibrium when the output temperature is the same as the input temperature
AC 2008-2064: AN INTERNATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHEXPERIENCE IN SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERINGCurtis Larimer, University of Pittsburgh Curtis James Larimer is a senior undergraduate majoring in Engineering Physics in The University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering. He expects to graduate in the spring of 2008 and plans to go on to pursue a graduate engineering degree.Michaelangelo Tabone, University of Pittsburgh Michaelangelo Tabone is a junior at the University of Pittsburgh majoring in Chemical Engineering. While in school, he works as resident assistant in on-campus housing, volunteers as a teaching assistant of Organic Chemistry, and has served as a paper reviewer for the
building.B) The Hazelwood Initiative (HI) is an organization whose Mission and Goal is dedicated to the betterment of the Hazelwood neighborhood. HI was the driving force that lead to the development of the "Master Development Planning in Hazelwood and Junction Hollow" document which set forth a plan to work towards their goal. It's office is located at 5125 Second Avenue in Hazelwood. The project was to help design a system to make the Hazelwood Post Office handicap accessible.C) Hill House Association. The Hill House Association is located in the Hill District of Pittsburgh and provides a comprehensive array of services to the surrounding neighborhoods. The Hill House Association is currently working with Denys Candy, the managing
signed thelegislation authorizing the new university. In 1992, the Board of Regents selected a 760-acre sitein Lee County (between Naples and Ft. Myers) that had been donated by Alico, Inc.(www.alicoinc.com). FGCU opened its doors in August 1997 with 2,584 students (1602undergraduate, 295 graduate, and 687 non-degree seeking) and grew to a total of 7,223 students(5,972 undergraduate, 763 graduate, and 488 non-degree seeking) in fall 2005.From its beginning, long-range plans for FGCU included a School of Engineering to complementareas of specialization within the university. A 2000 Area Educational Program NeedsAssessment Report conducted by MGT of America (Tallahassee, FL) stated that there waswidespread interest throughout SW Florida for civil
. These testimonials are anonymous to faculty mentors.Industry mentoring is the last component of our mentoring plan. The objective of the PSH’sIndustry Mentoring Program is to create a mutually beneficial connection between industrymentors and current STEM students at PSH1, especially with students near graduation. Typically,industry mentors present mentees with a range of options in terms of networking, jobopportunities, and professional development. Most the industry mentors were invited to NSFSTEM meeting sessions, where they gave short presentations, followed by engaging studentsthrough a dialogue and networking opportunities. The benefits of this type of mentoring werealso expressed through scholars’ journals.Finally, one of the other big
teaching modulesWe have previously described the first two developed modules (Hurst et al., 2016); since then,we have further refined those modules and piloted and implemented two more (Al-Hammoud etal., 2017), and are well on our way to producing all six planned modules in the series. Thepurpose of this paper, however, is not to outline those modules in detail; rather, we aim to reflecton the inner workings of our team, as experienced by us as team members. More generally, thisis a case study on the processes of a multi-disciplinary team, presented in the context of recentand influential literature on teams and team performance.We recognize that our team is unconventional: it was created from a group of self-selectedvolunteers who believed in a
, which focuses ondifferent tools and techniques commonly used in project management. The instructor observedthat a disconnect exists in his course between learning about the various project managementtools and techniques and how these are applied in engineering technology professions underconstraints such as cost, quality, safety, etc. Although the students learn how to create schedules,budgets, and risk management plans, they never learn if these management plans work becausethey don't get the opportunity to implement them. This type of exercise could be described ashalf learning. In order to close this gap, an innovative instructional module based on ProjectBased Virtual Simulation Tool was developed and implemented. It was anticipated that
complex problems.Moreover, metacognition increases individual and team performance and can lead to more originalideas. This study discusses the assessment of metacognitive skills in engineering students byhaving the students participate in hands-on and virtual reality activities related to design andmanufacturing. The study is guided by two research questions: (1) do the proposed activities affectstudents’ metacognition in terms of monitoring, awareness, planning, self-checking, or strategyselection, and (2) are there other components of metacognition that are affected by the design andmanufacturing activities? The hypothesis is that the participation in the proposed activities willimprove problem-solving skills and metacognitive awareness of the
-based wearable computing. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Curricular Complexity as a Metric to Forecast Issues with Transferring into a Redesigned Engineering Curriculum AbstractThis paper details quantifying the interconnectedness of a curriculum. We draw from Heileman’sCurricular Analytics tool and the curricular complexity metric. We extend this metric tohighlight how it can be used to forecast issues in transfer student experiences in redesignedcurricula. We focus on structural complexity in this paper by consolidating transfer studentpathways using plans of study from the Department of Electrical and Computer
make a specific step-by-step plan to achieve my goals. I used tothink I could never be a leader. I am not afraid to think about myself as a leader, I started toimagine that I could be a leader now.” The value of the course is to develop leaders to excel in adiverse workforce. It provides students with an awareness of the barriers, biases and challengesto diversity in engineering, and provides strategies that can be used to improve satisfaction in theengineering workplace and in academia.Keywords: Engineering management, engineering education, leadership, diversityIntroduction:Last Spring semester, 2017, an Associate Professor in the Department of EngineeringManagement, Systems and Technology (EMST), and five engineering students piloted a
ChallengeAbstractASCE’s Grand Challenge to civil engineers is to significantly enhance the performance andvalue of infrastructure project over their lifecycles. [1] ASCE wants to drive transformationalchange in infrastructure projects from planning to design to project delivery. How does ASCEmove from the strategic vision to the detailed implementation? The paper’s objective is toanswer that question in part by highlighting the role played by proposed changes to the civilengineering knowledge framework, specifically, ASCE’s Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge(BOK) as it undergoes revision for a Third Edition.Knowledge may be the most strategically significant resource the profession can possess. Thetraditional view of civil engineering has always been about the
Paper ID #27613Capstone Prepares Engineers for the Real World, Right? ABET Outcomesand Student PerceptionsDr. Kris Jaeger-Helton, Northeastern University Professor Beverly Kris Jaeger-Helton, Ph.D. is on the full-time faculty in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University (NU) teaching Simulation Modeling and Analy- sis, Human-Machine Systems, and Facilities Planning. She is the Director of the Galante Engineering Business Program as well as Coordinator of Senior Capstone Design in Industrial Engineering at NU. Dr. Jaeger-Helton has also been an active member of Northeastern’s Gateway
, international relations in the sphere of transport communications, iternational logistics and supply chain management, sustainable development and ecology.Mrs. Karalyn Clouser, Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University Karalyn Clouser is a GIS and planning specialist with the Western Transportation Institute. She has expe- rience editing and managing spatial data to support transportation planning and implementation projects, and offers skills with numerous GIS tools and platforms. At WTI, she has provided GIS and planning support to the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks Technical Assistance Center, which assists with the de- velopment of alternative transportation on federal lands. Her experience includes
learning in a senior/graduate mechatronics course. In [19], theauthors showed how virtual software and hardware environment can provide enhanced learningopportunities for mechatronics engineering technology majors. The project-based approach ofteaching mechatronics was presented in [20]. Development of a senior mechatronics course formechanical engineering students was described in [21]. In [22], the authors presented thedevelopment of an introductory mechatronics course for the students who had completed theirsecond year at the community college and planned on pursuing a bachelor’s degree in anengineering field. In [23], the authors investigated the use of agile methods enhancingmechatronics education through the experiences from a capstone
teaching plan to incorporate what they learned into their own teaching. Atthe end of the academic year, faculty participants are tasked with completing a final reflection. Inthis paper, we will report the content of the workshops as related to the overarching goals of theISE-2 program, along with how the coffee conversation topics complemented the workshopmaterial. Lastly, we will explore the role of the teaching plans and final reflections in changinginstructional practices.IntroductionImproving Student Experiences to Increase Student Engagement (ISE-2) focuses on a facultydevelopment program designed to reduce implicit bias and increase active learning in order toincrease underrepresented minority (URM), women, and first-generation students
, safety and quality management. His academic research and writings have been on concrete repairs, structural plastics and flash track project management were funded by the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Construction Industry Institute. Dr. Austin’s teaching and research interests cross the spectrum of the construction management, with a current focus on project management, construction equipment, planning and scheduling and research and teaching methodologies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #22689Tailoring Construction Management Instruction to the Emerging
planning and execution of the faculty development program.Dr. Louis A Martin-Vega, North Carolina State University Dr. Martin-Vega joined NC State University as its Dean of Engineering in 2006. He has also served as Dean of Engineering at USF in Tampa, Florida, as Chair of the Department of Industrial & Mfg Systems Engineering at Lehigh University, as the Lockheed Professor at Florida Institute of Technology, and as a tenured faculty member at the University of Florida and the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. He has also held various positions at the National Science Foundation including Acting Head of its Engineer- ing Directorate. He is currently President-Elect of ASEE and his research and teaching interests
projectbooklet. Page 26.727.7Figure 4 Engineering Activity RubricCATEGORY 4 3 2 1 ScoreConstruction Project plan and Project plan is neat Project plan is not Project plan andManagement: structure is neat and and orderly, but the neat and orderly, but structure are notDesign orderly. structure is not. the structure is. neat and orderly.Construction Building is complete Building is Building is Building isManagement: and per architectural
stateand the region will have a significant economic impact.This paper presents: • An overview of the online MFS program, including the curriculum, enrollment requirements, and graduation requirements. Also discussed is some historical background on face-to-face MFS education at the university. • A faculty training program offered by the university for online delivery of courses. • A discussion of hybrid, or blended, course delivery of two of the program’s courses in Fall 2014 as part of the process of converting them to an online format. • Assessment data from the course blended course delivery in Fall 2014, and assessment plans for future fully online courses
Nephrotex, we developed a coding schemebased on Safoutin and colleagues’ (2000) design attribute framework, which stems from ABETstudent outcome criterion 3c. Their original coding scheme consisted of fourteen elements: needrecognition, problem definition, planning, management, information gathering, idea generation,modeling, feasibility analysis, evaluation, selection/decision, implementation, communication,documentation, and iteration. We selected and modified 7 of the 14 codes that were applicable toNephrotex (Figure 5). We removed need recognition and modeling because students are giventhe needs statement and the modeling tools within the internship program. We removed ideageneration and implementation because students do not create a novel