of teaching methods; utilizing acombination of simple strategies, with the goals of re-emphasizing the communicationsaspect of engineering graphics, giving students improved tools and techniques fordrawing, modeling, and analysis, and increasing learning and retention of thosetechniques. The individual methods used in combination include: extending the graphicsexposure throughout the first three years of the curriculum, making the courses designproject centered - with the integrated physical production of the projects as an essentialpart of the learning process, adopting a “corporate work environment” in some portionsof the classes, emphasizing the use of reference materials in the design and drawingprocess so that students will learn to be
quantitative measurements in living systems; 4. The ability to use modeling techniques as a tool for integrating knowledge; 5. The ability to formulate and solve problems with medical relevance, including the design of devices, systems, and processes to improve human health.This curriculum philosophy captures an important component of bioengineering that isdemanded by industry: the ability to apply an ‘engineering mindset,’ including quantitative andanalytic tools, to biological problems. But there is also an increasing appreciation of the role ofthe so-called ‘soft skills’ in engineering, including teamwork and communication, as well as thevalue of design and problem-solving skills. For example, the National Academy of
) developing interlinkedcurriculum components (web-based teaching and learning modules) to organize and reinforcecore ideas in chemical engineering curricular; (3) creating an integrated assessment plan that isbeing used to analyze the learning and development of chemical engineering students withrespect to forward-looking set of learning outcomes, and (4) using service learning in requiredchemical engineering courses.Course StringsThe first key strategy for curriculum reform and development involves organizing undergraduatechemical engineering courses into four course strings: thermodynamics and kinetics; emergingfundamentals and applications; transport phenomena; and systems design. Course string facultycommittees were developed to address the
://www.arduino.cc/) that are programmed with the Arduino IDE(Integrated Design Environment) for user-friendly interfaces. Commonly these boards are usedwith conductive paint that is applied with a brush to create an artistic drawing resulting in acircuit that reacts to human touch to trigger a user-specified sound or other actions. The team hascreated a sample design and used it at outreach activities, demonstrating that the Touch Boardswill be manageable for new learners under our students’ mentoring. The authors met with theFSF clients in Summer 2018 and have hosted the clients on campus to work with our studentsthree times in Spring 2019, with a few more meetings scheduled. The project will provide novelavenues of expression for the autistic clients and
Paper ID #22872Usability of a Mobile Augmented Reality Application to Teach StructuralAnalysisDr. Aliye Karabulut Ilgu, Iowa State University Dr. Aliye Karabulut-Ilgu is a lecturer in the department of Civil, Construction and Environmental En- gineering at Iowa State University. Her background is in Curriculum and Instruction, and her research interests include online learning, hybrid learning, and technology integration in higher education.Elizabeth MillerMs. Suhan Yao, Iowa State University Suhan Yao is a graduating master student in the Curriculum and Instructional Technology program at Iowa State University. She
AC 2008-2289: INCORPORATING ENERGY ISSUES INTO ENVIRONMENTALENGINEERINGAngela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado at Boulder Page 13.729.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Incorporating Energy Issues into Environmental EngineeringAbstractNo single engineering discipline has integrated renewable and sustainable energy topics intotheir core curriculum. Environmental engineering programs may benefit from includingsustainable energy in their curriculum. Many students in a freshman-level introductoryEnvironmental Engineering (EVEN) course viewed EVEN as a potential major to studyrenewable energy, but many have since indicated that they plan to switch into
verysimple once the initial course curriculum is laid out. Moodle was chosen because of itssustainability and modularity. However, the software that we chose may not scale well to largercourses.22 Our current setup can handle less than 1000 students. An issue that may be of concernis when ten large classes try to submit a quiz all at once. In our implementation, Moodle andBigBlueButton
) Senior (B, C)Teamwork - - Junior (A, C)(Interpersonal) Senior (B)Ethics (Personal) Sophomore (A, B, C, D) Sophomore (A, B, C, D) Junior (A, C) Junior (A, B, D) Junior (B) Senior (B)Self-learning - Sophomore (B, C, D) -Total N sessions 7 18 7 B. Integrating Ways of Thinking into NEET Projects Since teaching all the Ways of Thinking in every stage of the project is an impossibility in terms of time, instructor expertise
), 19-21.7. http://www.careerclusters.org/clusters/sre.htm8. Wiebe, E. N., Clark, A. C., Ferzli, M., & McBroom, R. (2003). The VisTE Project: Visualization for Improved Technological and Scientific Literacy. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, session 2438.9. Noble, J. S. (1998). An Approach for Engineering Curriculum Integration in Capstone Design Courses. International Journal of Engineering Education, 14(3), 197-203.10. Clark, A. (2001). Technical Data Presentation: A New Course Offering for Engineering Graphics Programs. Proceedings of the Southeast Section of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Gainsville, FL.11. de
AC 2007-39: MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION FORMICROELECTRONICS AND NANOTECHNOLOGYSantosh Kurinec, Rochester Institute of Technology Santosh Kurinec is a professor and the department head of Microelectronic Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology. She has an extensive experience on integration of electronic materials in modern devices. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in microelectronics processing, electronic materials and solid state quantum mechanics.Surendra Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology “Vinnie” Gupta is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, and the recipient of the 2000 Eisenhart Award for Excellence in
forsimultaneous, bi-directional control of two small motors. The L293D comes in a standard 16-pin,dual-in line integrated circuit package, with built in fly back diodes to minimize inductivevoltage spikes. The L293 is limited to 600 mA, but in reality can only handle much smallcurrents about 200mA. It works on the principle of H-Bridge.H-BridgeH-Bridges allow forward and reverse motor control. To get a motor to turn in one direction,simply close an opposing pair of switches. For instance, as shown in Figure 4 by closing theswitches A and D motor turn in one direction and the B and C switch close with A and D open,then the motor turns to the opposite direction. To exhibit this action it has to control the switches.In some cases, 4 transistors will work
paper, the author will introduce a new approach to administer programming practices of the students. The benefits and implementation steps of this new paradigm will also be discussed. Keywords: Computer Education; Computer Programming; Engineering Education; Professional Development; Software Development Cycle.1. IntroductionComputer programming is an essential and integral part of any engineering program 1.Engineering students must be able to use a variety of rapidly changing computing systems andtools to solve an ever-expanding range of problems across disciplines 2. Engineering schoolsoffer the computer programming course in freshmen or semaphore year in engineering orengineering technology program 3,4.In our
ranked academic unit at Wake Forest University. Olga is a national thought leader in higher education and engineering education. She is a biomedical and mechanical engineer as well as an STEM education researcher.Dr. Melissa C Kenny, Wake Forest University Dr. Melissa C Kenny is an assistant teaching professor in the department of Engineering at Wake Forest University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Transforming Engineering Education Through an Integrated Academic and Career Advising Model: A Theory-Informed Model for Educating the Whole Engineer at Wake Forest EngineeringABSTRACT - Higher education faces mounting criticism regarding cost, job preparation,curriculum
’ leadership forums during 2008 and 2009. The paper will conclude with an outline of one possible step towards incorporating advanced manufacturing technologies into an undergraduate curriculum, without displacing instruction on timeless fundamentals.Historical Perspective for Introduction of New Technologies: For at least the past threedecades, the face of manufacturing has been in flux. The workplace in 2010 looks very muchdifferent than its counterpart in 1980. Tools and practices have evolved enormously. Inresponse, so has been the need for definition of manufacturing engineering education1 and thedesign of both undergraduate and graduate curricula. 74
,’ ASQ Higher Education Brief, 2(4), August 20094. Reichner, R., Bernold, L., Burniston, E., Dail, P., Felder, R., Gastineau, J., Gjertsen, M., Risley, J., ‘Case Study of the Physics Component of an Integrated Curriculum,’ Physics Education Journal, 67 (7), July 19995. Prince, M., ‘Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research,’ Journal of Engineering Education, 93(3), 223-231 (2004)6. Prince, M. J., Felder, R. M., ‘Inductive Teaching and Learning Methods: Definitions, Comparisons, and Research Bases,’ Journal of Engineering Education, 95(2), 123-138 (2006)7. Novak, G. M., Patterson, E. T., Gavrin, A. D., Christian, W., ‘Just in Time Teaching,’ American Journal of Physics, October 1999, Volume 67, Issue 10, pp. 9378
revise and coordinate the curriculum for ESD.00 in order to provide awell integrated learning experience to our students.Our long-term goal is to make valuable and essential additions to an engineering curriculum,including the possibility of a minor in engineering systems, for undergraduate students of a newgeneration – a generation that becomes well prepared for successfully meeting the grandchallenges of its times.References1 Vest, C.M., “Context and Challenge for Twenty-First Century Engineering Education,” SpecialGuest Editorial, Journal of Engineering Education, July 2008, pp. 235-236.2 National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, And Institute of Medicineof The National Academies. Rising Above the Gathering Storm
. Page 11.1433.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Virtual Prototyping: A Bridge between Design and ManufacturingAbstractThis paper intends to study integration of design curriculum and manufacturing curriculum viavirtual prototyping. Design and manufacturing are two important subject areas in mostengineering schools. Various courses are offered in these two areas. However under the currentcurriculum setting, the design program and manufacturing program have been developeddiscretely without regard to the potential benefits provided by the integration of both of them dueto lack of a curricular bridge to properly link them together.Virtual prototyping, which is also called dynamic
. In order to evaluate if curriculum help develop these skills in students, anassessment instrument is needed. A wide variety of such surveys have been developed andvalidated, although generally for settings outside engineering academia. In this research, theMiville-Guzman Universality-Diversity Scale short form (MGUDS-S) was used. It is a written15 question survey with responses on a 6-point Likert scale. It evaluates universal-diverseorientation (UDO) and has been most widely used in medical school settings. The overall UDOscore is composed of three subscales: diversity of contact, relativistic appreciation, anddiscomfort with differences. The author also added four of the Pittsburgh Freshman EngineeringAttitudes Survey (PFEAS) questions and
student thus far haveseemed out-of-proportion to our application needs. An example is for the mechanical detailingcourse. Tooling U provides modules on GD&T which would make sense with this class. In thesesituations, we can point out the modules as a resource available to those who have thesubscription, but the lack of affordable availability to all students forces us to look elsewhere fora resource available to all students.Implementation IssuesCourse implementation issues for the instructor included: • Identification of modules and Knowledge Edge Library resources (such as videos, support text, etc.) to best support the curriculum. • Integration of Tooling U and Knowledge Edge assignments into the course activity
of this paper isto provide an approach in using term projects and case studies to offer engineering/engineeringmanagement students the knowledge and awareness of the global market issues and constraintson various engineering/business operations, so they would take more comprehensive evaluationof all factors while making engineering decisions.The ultimate purpose of this paper is to discuss the ways to educate and trainengineering/engineering management students with less required resource or change in theexisting curriculum to sharpen their abilities in making good decisions and creating a globalvision in a competitive environment.The result of this paper provides a brief discussion of the influence of implementing this type ofassignments in
have been allocated for the lab (iii) our choice of projects (iv) ourexpectation of students’ or any combination of these. We have presented the current state ofaffairs in an effort to share our experiences, successes and challenges with other SE educators.We hope that they will do the same and many collaborative opportunities will arise as a result.6. References [1] CMMI Product Development Team, “CMMISM for Systems Engineering/Software Engineering/Integrated Product and Process Development, Version .02: Continuous Representation”, Technical Report CMU/SEI- 2000-TR-031, Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2000. [2] Groth, P. G. and Robertson, E.L., “It’s All About Process: Project-Oriented Teaching of
(NSF BRIGE grant), advancing problem-based learning methodologies (NSF CCLI grant), assessing student learning, and un- derstanding and integrating complex problem solving in undergraduate engineering education (NSF CA- REER grant). Her other research interests lie in cardiovascular fluid mechanics, sustainability, and K-12 engineering outreach.Anna ZilberbergDr. Christopher W. Swan, Tufts University Chris Swan is an Associate Professor of civil and environmental engineering with additional appointments in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and the Center for Engineering Edu- cation and Outreach at Tufts University. He has served as Chair of Tufts CEE Department (2002-2007) and has
. For the teaching of wireless communication systems, SDRhas been the key enabling technology for a wider adoption of PBL pedagogies. SDR’s use ofprogrammable software frameworks and general-purpose hardware lowers the barrier-to-entryfor students to model, implement, debug, and verify real-world communication systems. As withany example of PBL, when using SDR to meet intended learning goals it is important to give dueconsideration to key subject design characteristics such as project complexity and open-endedness.The subject reported in this paper exists as an opportunity for students to integrate priorknowledge from overlapping areas in communication systems, signal processing, and embeddedsystems. As is common in the literature, for the
Paper ID #43157Using Oral Assessments to Improve Student Learning GainsDr. Saharnaz Baghdadchi, University of California, San Diego Saharnaz Baghdadchi is an Associate Teaching Professor at UC San Diego. She is interested in scholarly teaching and employs active learning techniques to empower students to attain an expert level of critical thinking. Her expertise facilitates students’ journey towards connecting facts with practical knowledge to tackle intricate engineering challenges. She excels in crafting innovative assessments and explores their impact on enhancing students’ learning outcomes and fostering an inclusive
Technology (CGT). The CGT program atPUC was created in 2000 and has grown from 18 students to approximately 200 in 2005. Whilemanaging such growth has presented challenging issues for CGT faculty, the faculty have alwaysperformed program development with an eye towards future Technology AccreditationCommission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering Technology (TAC/ABET) accreditationin mind. Hence, in creating the associates and bachelor’s degrees, and the various programoptions, the faculty at PUC have planned for future accreditation and job success of the graduatesby including technical courses along with many courses in the degrees which emphasize the “softskills” of engineering technology, such as communication, teamwork, and appreciation
associated with the Climate Control System could not tolerateleaks that would deplete the vacuum level, pv, in the reservoir from 27 in Hg down to 2.0 Hg inless than 20.0 minutes at standard atmospheric conditions (29.92 in Hg and 59oF). This becomesa quality control specification on the integrity of the vacuum system.Now, the testing must be done at a typical assembly line workstation that is 60 seconds duration.Allowing 20 seconds for hook-ups, system evacuation, and disconnect, the test itself must becompleted in 40 seconds or less.Design SpecificationsDesign and develop a testing scheme that in 40 seconds will tell whether or not the vacuumsystem will meet the engineering quality control specifications stated above. Figure 1
our alumni, Robert Stieglitz, provided fundingfor the “Stieglitz Physics Entrepreneurship Lecture Series”. As part of this series, webrought a series of physicists-turned-entrepreneurs to campus as part of the regularcolloquium series, scheduled intensive meetings with both faculty and students, andsolicited their advice as to how to structure an academic program in PhysicsEntrepreneurship.As a result of these discussions, it soon became clear that the program should be at theMaster’s level (an undergraduate degree does not appear to provide sufficient disciplinarybase, while a PhD has very long time scale compared to typical entrepreneurial activity)and housed in the Physics Department (thus insuring the integrity of the technicalcomponent
Session 1654 The Engineering Entrepreneurs Program at NC State University Thomas K. (Tom) Miller III, Stephen J. Walsh, and James J. Brickley, Jr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering North Carolina State UniversityThe Engineering Entrepreneurs Program (EEP) was established in 1993 in the Department ofElectrical and Computer Engineering at NC State University with support from the NationalScience Foundation as a part of the SUCCEED (Southern University and College Coalition forEngineering Education) “Curriculum 21” initiative. The objectives of the EEP includedretention
problem solving.Curricular breadth is provided through study in Strategic Sectors that reflect national criticaltechnologies; these include Biotechnology, Energy, Engineering and Manufacturing,Environment, Information and Knowledge Management, Health Systems, andTelecommunications. Depth is provided through studies in an area of concentration and througha capstone senior project. Permeating the entire curriculum are information technology, thesystems approach and laboratory experiences. The course sequence blends theory with hands-onpractice in such areas as electron microscopy, computer-integrated manufacturing, multimediaproduction, lasers and optics, and environmental field studies.The structure of the program is shown on Figure 1. The ISAT
Organizing Physics Education Research Council (PERLOC) in the period 2015-2018. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Exploration elective: Students from all Disciplines Explore Engineering and SciencesAbstractUniversities face the challenges of an integrated, globalized world and new competenciesrequired in the job market. In recent years, our institution, a large private multi-campus Mexicanuniversity, has been preparing for these new challenges by migrating its educational model froma traditional lecture modality to challenge-based learning, emphasizing competencies instead ofeducational objectives. Students take the