. These experiential activitiesinclude the monthly “Engineering Entrepreneur in the Spotlight” seminar series – wherepromising engineers-turned- entrepreneurs visit Florida Tech and share their experiences;the judging of the Brevard School Science Fair Projects for their commercialization value;collaborating with the city, government and private organizations in the community tocommercialize innovative student-developed technologies; etc. Students work in E-Teamson their entrepreneurial class projects and write NCIIA/SBIR grant proposals forfunding and also present at the regional/state-level Business Plan Competitions. They arealso members of the Florida Tech Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Club and theyparticipate in local and national SIFE
female students participating in co-op experiences?Herein, we employed a survey instrument, National Engineering Students’ Learning OutcomesSurvey (NESLOS), derived from ABET criteria and extensive literature review, to assessstudents’ learning outcomes as a result of participating in a co-op experience. Survey itememphasis was placed on assessing knowledge and skills pertaining to but not limited to: (1)problem-solving, (2) writing and communication skills, (3) understanding and applyingknowledge, (4) teamwork, (5) confidence gains, (6) organization and management skills, and (7)interest and engagement of project. In this paper, we present key findings of what studentslearned and valued, insight into variations across female and male students
courses in engineering economics, technical and professionalwriting, professional speaking, entrepreneurship and global awareness into these degreeplans is shown to be insurmountable given the very scant elective space.A surprising and encouraging result, however, is that by combining topics into a verymulti-disciplinary, two-course sequence that substitutes for required, traditional coursesin economics and technical writing stand-alone courses, engineering students actuallyachieve higher performance in both economic analysis and in technical writing. Wehypothesize that this is because all their work is tied to relevant projects that bring in afull range of entrepreneurial, global issues to which they would otherwise have had noexposure, and
’ educational experience, broadened their perspectives, served as community outreachforums and integrated experiential learning with academic programs. Students work in E-teamsand write NCIIA proposals to commercialize innovative product or university/research labdeveloped technology.This paper describes a unique course series in Systems Engineering (SE) Entrepreneurship.Innovation in product/service design and commercialization that enables entrepreneurship can besuccessfully leveraged by applying SE principles/ techniques which parallel entrepreneurshipsteps such as Customer Requirements Engineering and opportunity recognition; Project/QualityEngineering, Decision/Risk Analysis, Systems Modeling, Engineering Economics and businessplanning, Systems
Engineering Systems at Florida Tech have greatly enriched thestudents’ educational experience, broadened their perspectives, served as community outreachforums and integrated experiential learning with academic programs. Students work in E-teamsand write NCIIA proposals to commercialize innovative product or university/research labdeveloped technology.This paper describes a unique course series in Systems Engineering (SE) Entrepreneurship.Innovation in product/service design and commercialization that enables entrepreneurship can besuccessfully leveraged by applying SE principles/ techniques which parallel entrepreneurshipsteps such as Customer Requirements Engineering and opportunity recognition; Project/QualityEngineering, Decision/Risk Analysis
your method o All sources must be peer-‐reviewed scientific publications. In-‐text citations and a list of references must be included in your write-‐up (any standard reference citation style may be used). • Next lab: You will synthesize PVA hydrogels using your proposed methodology and measure the mechanical properties of the hydrogels.
& Koca, 2013). The project illuminates CTcompetencies (e.g., pattern recognition, data collection, data analysis, simulations) thatpotentially may empower STEM teachers’ instructional practices and improve their students’understanding of CT. In addition, though the project includes students from the United States, its scope isinternational and numerous nationalities are represented. Students around the globe are requiredto observe the moon and by identifying patterns, as one of the CT competencies, to gain a deeperunderstanding of an integrated STEM modeling through observing the nature. Students write anessay about their daily observations and exchange with their peers anonymously from differentcountries in opposite (northern and
engineering graduate students on their needs for library instruction. Thesurvey differentiated between students who are writing theses and those who are not. By lookingat students who are doing research and those who are not as two separate populations, the surveymay identify needs for instruction that go beyond common library instruction topics such asliterature reviews and the library had not previously considered. This paper will summarize theresults of the survey and discuss plans for implementation of an instruction program ofinformation literacy topics.BackgroundIn fall semester 2017, a group of graduate students in the College of Engineering (CoE) at theUniversity of Michigan (U-M) were awarded a community grant from the U-M Rackhamgraduate
) Site on interdisciplinary water sciences and engineering at VT since 2007. This site has 95 alumni to date. He also leads an NSF/Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site on interdisciplinary water research and have 10 alumni. He also leads an NSF-funded cybersecurity education project and serves as a co-PI on two International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) projects funded by the NSF. He has published over 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Ethics Instruction and the Role of Liberatory Praxis and Theory1. IntroductionWithin the past few decades, engineering educators have placed increased emphasis on
subsequently apply this knowledge to write a detailed researchreport and create a business plan to commercialize their research. At the end of the summer, thestudents compete in the EngiPreneurship (engineering entrepreneurship) competition where theypresent their business plans to seasoned judges from JMI, the Office of Intellectual Property andCommercialization, Domi Station, and Tallahassee professionals. At the start and end of theprogram, students rank their ability and motivation to pursue careers in STEM disciplines andare ranked by their graduate student mentors. The combined foci of research, development, andentrepreneurship have shown to increase student engagement.IntroductionThe Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st
production, CO2 emissions, and the liquidwaste that the plant produces). This allows the students to have practical experience on sometopics such as thermodynamic cycles, measurements of composition at the site plant, knowingactual equipment of pumps, pipelines, and so on.The paper describes the innovative elements added to the PBL teaching strategy in order toconnect all these issues. It also presents some of the research results, such as the engagementthat is achieved by students, which lead them to the writing and publishing of papers with theirown ideas. We are dealing with a new generation of engineers who are used to seeing, touching,and having first-hand experience more than they did ten years ago. They are highly motivatedwith the things
): Preparing Junior ColleaguesAbstractDespite the importance of professional development, for most graduate students as up-and-coming faculty members professional development is informal at best. Graduate programs oftenemphasize gaining technical knowledge, skills, and abilities through courses and researchprojects, but provide less opportunity for future faculty members to gain experience withteaching, service, communication, assessment, proposal writing, etc. To provide this experience,we developed the Rising Engineering Education Faculty Experience (REEFE). Founded ontheoretical and practical models of graduate student development, REEFE is an innovativefaculty apprenticeship program for engineering education graduate students that places
ininstances where students were briefly asked to reflect, or where educators included opportunitiesfor reflection. For example, in a paper entitled, “Using Rapid Feedback To Enhance StudentLearning,” 17 reflection is casually referenced as, “Students are given time to reflect on thequestion posed, discuss it with their peers, and then must select from the possible solutions.”Whereas reflection is discussed as the main focus in a paper entitled, “A Personal Account onImplementing Reflective Practices,”18 and is referenced to throughout the text.Understanding the scope of reflection can lend insight into the type of attention that reflection isreceiving in scholarly work related to engineering education. The trends revealed in oursystematic review find
purchasing common household objects5.Additive Manufacturing Course (3-0-3)A new course on 3D Modeling and Rapid Prototyping has been developed and offered as asenior level elective course to all engineering students. The catalog description of the courseincludes the following:Product design, CAD and related software; basic principles, development,process chain of additive manufacturing; photopolymerization processes; powder based fusionprocesses; extrusion-based systems; printing processes; sheet lamination processes; beamdeposition processes; direct write technologies; design for additive manufacturing; guidelines forprocess selection; software issues and direct digital manufacturing; medical applications; postprocessing; use of multiple materials
successfully improved their ability to apply MATLAB analysis tools andsuccessfully applied and improved understanding of prerequisite material.IntroductionThe structure of the Biomedical Engineering program at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo mirrors thatof many peer institutions, with background coursework in chemistry, biology, math, and physicsoffered by other departments being taken before students engage in core BME courses at thejunior level. The first junior-level BMED course is BMED 310: Biomedical Measurement andAnalysis. After completing BMED 310, students continue to complete core and technical areaelectives. There are three concentration options: General (no concentration), Bioinstrumentation,and Mechanical Design. Overall, Biomedical Engineering
to achieve academic honesty among all students. She was the 2018-2019 Chancellor’s Scholar-in-Residence, responsible for organizing faculty development workshops and developing protocols to enhance teaching across disciplines, focusing in particular on the teaching of professional writing across disciplines and prevention of academic dishonesty.Dr. Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology Dr. Jaskirat Sodhi is interested in first-year engineering curriculum design and recruitment, retention and success of engineering students. He is the coordinator of ENGR101, an application-oriented course for engineering students placed in pre-calculus courses. He has also developed and co-teaches the Fundamen- tals of
is so great how come no one thought about it before”, to “I knew thatthis design will not work” (…no alternative suggested). When I told the idea to peers at FAU andbeyond the response was “Ha-ha, sounds like another cold fusion…”, “There is nothing newabout it”, and (semi-happily) “We heard that it failed”. The sponsor decided that it was going to work on a particular day, invited more than fiftypeople (too late for us to undo), and … nothing happened. This was the time when I felt thatmore motivation meetings were essential to keep the moral high. We came up with morealternative designs, but unfortunately none of them worked. By then the sponsor had investedmore than half of the project budget and had applied for multiple patents
open courseware site12 (http://ocw.mit.edu)and the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching site13(http://www.merlot.org).There are two example modules shown in the appendix at the end of this paper, for thematerial and energy balance course and for the transport phenomena course. Page 13.271.4Current modules are available for the courses, and topic areas as seen in table 2 below.These modules are currently under peer review from leading educators around the nationas well as industrial members of the CACHE Corporation.Chemical Engineering Core Course Module TitleMaterial and Energy Balances Application of
4 programming assignments where the students write a packet sniffer program. The first three programs build on each other and have the students decode the packets they get from an isolated network. The fourth program has the students writing code to send spam email. The figure below shows the test bed network used for CprE 530. 10/100 Hub Router 10/100 Hub Campus Network IDS Filter Spock Bones Scotty Borg (file server)CprE 530 Test bed Network. Page 11.757.62. CprE 431: Basics of Information System Security Textbook: Security
simulations, and realization using AFM. Dr. El-Mounayri has worked as consultant for and conducted R&D for a number of lo- cal companies in the areas of CAD/CAM, CNC machining, and process development/improvement. Dr. El-Mounayri is a member of ASME, ASEE, and SME. He has published over 60 technical papers in Page 23.691.1 renowned peer-reviewed journals and technical conferences in his field and gave presentations at various national and international conferences.Dr. Kody Varahramyan, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis c American Society for Engineering Education
to arise in the ICT sector with growth at 6.1%annually over the period of 2005-2010, translating into a net job creation of 11,000 over this fiveyear period.The output from undergraduate computing programmes is 754 in 2009 [9] and 959 in 2011. Thebulletin further notes that there is a particular difficulty in filling available positions in the ICTsector for software engineers and computer programmers. Our E&O programme specificallyaddresses this problem. In Ireland, there is no “computing/computer science” subject, officialcomputing curriculum or a US-like advanced placement programme at junior or senior level inhigh school. However, recently we have been commissioned by the National Centre forCurriculum and Assessment (NCCA) to write a
education pedagogy. Results of this research have been published in peer review journals on the followingtopics: 1) A comparison of student satisfaction of course delivery among online, blended, and regular students (Byrne and Tang 2006); 2) A gender study of the perception of the learning effectiveness of instructional tools used in online and blended learning (Byrne and Tang 2007); and 3) A study as to whether or not online students cheat more than regular students and a demographic profile of students who plagiarize or collaborate on exams (Tang, Byrne et al. 2007). One of the studies suggests that both students and faculty generally prefer face-to-facelecturing and individual tutoring (Byrne and
concepts of stress analysis (mechanics of deformable bodies). Students need to take advantage of the office hours and professor tutoring available in this course. It is also recommended to investigate increasing the time for each class via, possibly, problem solving lab sessions. 2. Make the course a project based course, with no final exam. The project would be an ongoing project involving all aspects of material covered during the term (fatigue, shaft design, springs, threaded fasteners, and gears.) Students would have to make a final presentation, during the final exam time-slot, with a written report. The report and presentations would be subject to peer review. Students have indicated the formal
(Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats)analysis of the undergraduate program. The analysis collected data from the following CoEVUconstituents: faculty, staff, administration (deans and chairmen), undergraduate students,graduate students that matriculated from VU, and other alumni. The SWOT also consideredinput from university faculty members and administrators outside of the CoEVU, advisoryboards, and peer schools. An outcome of this thorough analysis was that while the existing twocourse freshman engineering experience had improved in recent years there existed significantopportunities for improvement. Faculty and undergraduate students agreed that the currentformat and content should be improved.A committee was formed to investigate
of Technology, Kanpur in July 2001 and received his Master of Technology degree in May 2003. He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama from Fall 2008 to Spring 2012. He also got industrial experience in several multinational companies from 1999 to 2001. He is a senior member of AIAA and AAS and member of IEEE, ASME, ASEE, Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi. Including many peer reviewed conference proceedings, his selected publications are in IEEE, ASME, AAS and AIAA journals. His primary research interests include optimal control theory and estimation, nonlinear feedback methods, dynamic differential games, spacecraft/aircraft control, flight mechanics, mechatronics and nonlinear dynamical systems.Dr
) Experimental &Equipment Description, (C) Assumptions, (D) Results, (E) Figures, Plots, Tables, (F)Observations and Conclusions, (G) Sample Calculations, (H) Content and Appearance, (I) Style,(J) Organization, (K) Grammar, and (L) Analysis. The oral report rubric evaluated the categories(A) Introduction, (B) Transitions, (C) Handouts or Transparencies, (D) Voice, (E) Overall Style,and (F) Nonverbal Behavior. The laboratory notebooks evaluated the categories (A) Table ofContents, (B) Each Entry Signed, (C) Errors, (D) Notebook Storage, (E) Writing, and (F) EntryContent. Page 6.355.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering
challenging undertaking. The project team is writing the first of these, andthen invite authorities worldwide to provide further content. As ADL expands, CEs will providethe nucleus of a peer-reviewed, integrative, publication system, reversing the trend towardsfragmentation. The CEs will also tell instructors how their subject areas are evolving, and aboutother areas. This is the core of cross-disciplinary integration through the DL. This naturalsynthesis mechanism represents a potential risk, and the rationale, for ADL.An important curricular issue is how to go beyond today’s “web-based course” excitement anduse the true advantages of iterative learning to solve problems across disciplines: This isillustrated in Figure 4. The AE team is integrating
artsrequirements are described as follows: 1) all students follow basically the same curriculum,taking courses available for the honors program students only; 2) only “invited” faculty serve asinstructors, faculty recognized by their peers as excellent educators; 3) the faculty frequentlyassess the effectiveness and appropriateness of the curriculum; and 4) there is an effort to keepclass sizes small (ideally less than 20) in order to maximize teacher-student interactions. Totalcredit hours for either track are identical.Survey methodologyThis study was conducted over a two year period, surveying senior engineering students duringthe 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 academic years. A total of 180 students were surveyed, with theparticipants broken out as follows
AC 2011-2360: INSTRUCT INTEGRATING NASA SCIENCE, TECHNOL-OGY, AND RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM AND TRAIN-INGRam V. Mohan, North Carolina A&T State University (Eng) Dr. Ram Mohan is currently an Associate Professor with the interdisciplinary graduate program in com- putational science and engineering (CSE). He serves as the module content director for the INSTRUCT project. Dr. Mohan currently has more than 90 peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters and con- ference proceedings to his credit. He plays an active role in American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and serves as the chair of the ASME materials processing technical committee and a member of the ASME Nanoengineering Council Steering
results of such efforts in writing and orally. My ownexperience was very much this way when I entered industry after undergraduate school.Although I had completed degrees in physics and electrical engineering, I had done very littleexperimental design, I had never learned to solder, and I had done very little formally to developmy communication skills. This caused considerable stress during my first few months on thejob. When I began teaching and had the opportunity to participate in revising a two-coursesequence in advanced physics lab, I was eager to try to create a laboratory sequence thatprepared students more adequately for professional life after graduation than my ownundergraduate education had prepared me. The course sequence that was