reasons.At Baylor University, the spiritual dimension to a students’ formation is extremely important andprovides the foundation upon which to build one’s life. The spiritual dimension is supported inthe university, school, and department’s mission statements: University: The mission of Baylor University is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and Christian commitment within a caring community. School: The mission of the School of Engineering and Computer Science is to provide a superior education through instruction, scholarship, and service that prepares graduates for professional practice and responsible leadership with a Christian worldview
institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean as part of his effort to contribute to the formation of world class engineers for the Americas. He is actively involved in the International Division of the American Society for Engineering Education and in the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institution (LACCEI).Prof. Jared Roberto Ocampo, Universidad Tecnol´ogica Centroamericana (UNITEC) Jared R. Ocampo is currently a researcher of the Faculty of Engineering at Universidad Tecnol´ogica Centroamericana (UNITEC) campus of San Pedro Sula and previously worked as Academic Head of Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering Coordinator and as an undergraduate and graduate professor. He also works as a private
corresponding learningand change requirements for ETL professionals. Indeed, a transformed approach to ETL graduateprofessional requires a transformed approach to thinking about our roles and responsibilities inhigher education, especially in the implied social covenant related to engagement, as expressedby the integrated pursuit of research, teaching and service for the greater social good.What we have been discussing regarding the future of ETL graduate professional is, if notrevolutionary, certainly transformational in nature. Creating a future involves a baseline on avery different set institutional practices and assumptions than have been pursued over the lasthalf century in American higher education. It involves change, and change
styles, as well as modes oflearning assessment.Third, at a time when institutions are asked to be more accountable, they most are alsoincreasingly being asked to do more with less. Resource constraints are a reality on campuses –public and private – and such constraints often limit what individual faculty can realisticallyinitiate to improve their instructional practices in the classroom. In many universities, theexpectation that faculty will secure funding from outside sources is a given. Most externalfunding, however, is generally earmarked for and designed to further specific modes of research– and it is rare that such funding opportunities center on pedagogic improvements to the teachingand learning process in higher education. The challenge
clearly. Senior researchers oftenfind that their reviewing skills improve and develop over time, but variations in reviewer startingpoints can have a negative impact on the value of reviews for their intended audiences ofprogram officers, who make funding recommendations, and principal investigators, who drivethe research or want to improve their proposals. Building on the journal review component of theEngineering Education Research Peer Review Training (EER PERT) project, which is designedto develop EER scholars’ peer review skills through mentored reviewing experiences, this paperdescribes a program designed to provide professional development for proposal reviewing andprovides initial evaluation results.Key words: Peer review, professional
, photovoice, weexamined the experiences of four sophomore students enrolled in gateway engineering coursesthat have had historically low pass rates. The guiding research questions for this in-progressproject were: 1) Using photovoice, how do sophomore-level engineering students describe theirexperiences as they progress through their sophomore-level courses? 2) How do theseexperiences impact their engineering identities?Our literature review which focused on engineering identity and the ways it has been measured,especially through role identity constructs [3] influenced the study’s inception, design, andanalyses. We found a dearth of literature that focused on engineering identity under variouscontexts. For example, while previous research has
faculty member, he has spent multiple summers and a sabbatical working as a temporary senior staff electrical engineer at A-Dec Corporation in Newberg, OR. During this time, he developed infrastructure, drivers, and various applications on ARM microprocessor systems. His current research interests are microprocessors and embedded systems for rapid prototyping. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Implementing Human-Centered Design into an Engineering Service Course: Development and EvaluationAbstractSince 2010, George Fox University has required all engineering program graduates to complete aservice-learning course. Initially, projects were identified by key
faculty) can provide specific details about classdynamics and instructional practices that student feedback is unable to provide. Peerobservations can be used both formatively and summatively; peer observations can provideformative feedback to improve teaching prior to more formal, summative reviews that aredocumented in personnel files, which allows for opportunities for improvement [7].This Toolkit is designed for instructors, researchers, support staff, or administrators who areinterested in doing systematic classroom observations but have limited experience withqualitative coding and observational research, to teach these methods to themselves and theirresearch assistants. This paper serves as an introduction and a user manual for the Toolkit
gage how students felt the targeted skillswere enhanced through course activities. This helps to engage students as partners indevelopment of these skills and as this strategy is advanced, it provides valuable feedback to theprogram as to whether the skill set being used is the most appropriate. The impact on faculty asthey shape course experiences to integrate in awareness of the use of these skills will also bediscussed.IntroductionThe question of “What is a Workplace Skill?” and how engineering curriculums are designed todevelop these is one of great importance. The expectation by employers is that graduates willhave acquired broad exposure and significant practice of these before entering the workforce.But there is always some fluidity in
concrete, Egg ProtectionDevice, Prototyping, Civil engineering education.IntroductionSenior design and integrative design courses often represent the culmination of coursework for astudent in an engineering program. While these courses may range in methodology or scope, thecommon goal is for students to apply a range of skills to develop a design project that spans theirengineering discipline. In civil engineering programs, these projects may come directly fromprofessional practice or include experiential components to develop a preliminary design [1].With other engineering disciplines, such as mechanical or electrical, there may be requirementsto develop prototypes to iterate on their designs. The prototyping and iterations provide tangiblepoints
thatengineering graduates should be able to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, andengineering; design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data; identify,formulate, and solve engineering problems; understand professional and ethical responsibility;communicate effectively; develop a knowledge of contemporary issues; and use the techniques,skills, and modern engineering tools necessary of engineering practice (ABET, 1997; ABET20012-13; Felder, 2003). Page 25.1105.2We added an overarching “bigger idea” across the thirteen objectives: relevance. We designedour lab curriculum to have relevance to biomedical engineers around the
Paper ID #19811Effective Approaches for Teaching STEM-literacy for All Majors: The Ex-ample of ResonanceDr. Maria E. Garlock, Princeton University Maria Garlock is an Associate Professor at Princeton University in the Department of Civil and Envi- ronmental Engineering where she is the Director of the Architecture and Engineering Program. Her scholarship is in resilient building design and in studies of the best examples of structural designs of the present and past. She has co-authored the book Felix Candela: Engineer, Builder, Structural Artist and has recently launched a MOOC titled ”The Art of Structural Engineering
, in part, by the US-based National Academy ofEngineering publication, The Engineer of 2020 [10]—engineering educators have begun todevelop and evaluate formal leadership learning opportunities available to undergraduate andgraduate engineering students. Most of this research involves program directors describing andassessing best practices in the context of their programs [11-20], with some taking a multi- 1institutional approach [21-25]. A smaller, but growing community of researchers has surveyedindustry leaders about the skills and traits necessary to become an effective leader, oftenconcluding their studies with recommendations for
informed design decisions. As anapplication of collecting human-centered information, students learn about community needsassessments and evaluate the culture and community-focused content of the assessmentchecklists provided in the Sphere Handbook for humanitarian response [16]. As a follow-upassignment, students are asked to create and complete a community needs assessment on theirown, either for a location in which they live or, as best as they are able, for an internationalcommunity that is significantly different from their own.Discipline-Specific Communication & Teamwork ModulesCommunication and teamwork are acknowledged by the EOP framework to be necessary skillsfor designers to be effective advocates for sustainable practices. Students
fully operational UGV that provided multi- terrain surveillance. Our project presentation garnered a great deal of interest from industrial partners at our Open House. The following year, I secured a fully funded MS position in the graduate Mechanical Engineering pro- gram at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China. As a Research Assistant in the Robotics and Automation Lab under Professor Zhanhua Xiong, I discovered an aptitude for mechanical design. I uti- lized this newfound talent to build a one-handed, 6-axical robot joystick controller and validated its design through 3-D printing. I presented my novel design at the IEEE/ASME Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics 2018 Conference in Auckland, New
include future aspects of Lean Production Systems and Lean Management.Dr. Craig G Downing, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Craig G. Downing is Department Head and Associate Professor of Engineering Management at Rose- Hulman Institute of Technology. His teaching responsibilities are focused on delivering graduate-level instruction related to Operations and Quality Systems. His interests are rooted in Academic-Industrial partnerships, Process Improvement, and Action Research in Engineering Management. Further, serves as one of the champions for leading the campus entrepreneurial initiatives. He is a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. c American Society for Engineering Education
: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2005.tb00832.x.[2] “Graduate Attributes,” Engineers Canada. https://engineerscanada.ca/sites/default/files/Graduate-Attributes.pdf (accessed Mar. 10, 2020).[3] “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2019 – 2020 | ABET.” https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria-for-accrediting-engineering- programs-2019-2020/ (accessed Mar. 10, 2020).[4] B. Frank, D. Strong, and R. Sellens, “The professional spine: Creation of a four-year engineering design and practice sequence,” Proc. Can. Eng. Educ. Assoc., 2011.[5] W. Clark, D. DiBiasio, and A. Dixon, “A project-based, spiral curriculum for introductory courses in ChE: Part 1. curriculum design,” Chem. Eng. Educ., vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 222
low cost and exceptionally high value. They consume a polymer filament,typically polylactic acid (PLA) or acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), converting itinto a physical object by depositing it in thin, sequential layers. The entire technology,both hardware and software, is open-source and freely available.University students, faculty and research staff at the Michigan Tech Open SustainabilityTechnology (MOST) laboratory have been researching, designing, building, testing anddocumenting versions of RepRap printers since 2010. Nearly everyone taking part in theresearch became caught up in the process of designing, printing, evaluating andmodifying parts that were used for a variety of different purposes. Researchers working
module to introduce the nanoscale to students, targeting high schooljuniors/seniors and their teachers. We mention teachers explicitly because in almost all cases, wesuspect that these materials must be educative for them. This is the responsibility of anymaterials that introduce new content.Our primary mission is to engage all students in the classroom with materials consisting of asound selection of content and best-practices. Reflecting the reasons stated above for introducingnanoscale learning, we want to motivate interest in science, and we want to contribute to theachievement of several learning goals.The module is designed to take about 2 weeks. This is a significant chunk of curriculum time,but the learning goals and tasks are not add-on
(PEC). The slot consists of a quarter-wave slot length that connects to an exponentially tapered opening of maximum width ( 𝑊𝑚𝑎𝑥 ). The slot is fed directly by a microstrip transmission line at the bottom of the substrate, which excites the slot through the dielectric medium. The slot can also be a different shape such as a square or circle and still be excited by a microstrip line. The Microstrip to Slot line (M/S) transition is critical to an antenna’s gain and BW performance; if the transition is not properly designed, then mismatch losses will exist. The best design practice for the M/S transition is to have the microstrip extend about one-quarter of a wavelength beyond the slot and correspondingly, the slot extends about one-quarter
be assessed upon completion of the design course sequence in May 2019. References[1] ABET, Criteria for Accrediting Engineering programs, 2016-2017., General Criterion 5: Curriculum., Retrieved from http://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria- for-accrediting-engineering-programs-2016-2017/#curriculum.[2] C. Dym, A. Agogino, O. Eris, D. Frey, and L. Leifer, “Engineering design thinking, teaching and learning,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 86, pp. 103-120, 2005.[3] R. Allen, S. Acharya, C. Jancuk and A. Shoukas, “Sharing best practices in teaching biomedical engineering design,” Annals of Biomed. Eng., vol. 41, pp. 1869-1879, 2013.[4] R. Mertz, “A capstone design course [electrical engineering],” IEEE Trans. Educ
2006-324: A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF AN MSC.ADAMS CONTROLDESIGN PROJECT IN UNDERGRADUATE MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGLouis Everett, University of Texas-El Paso Louis J. Everett is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas El Paso. Dr. Everett is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas and has research interests in the use of technology in the classroom. His technical research interests include robotics, machine design, dynamics and control systems. leverett@utep.edu http://research.utep.edu/pacelab Page 11.95.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006A
dedication to student suc- cess, her innovative approach to program design, and her collaborative spirit, Sahar Mari is a true asset to the field of student support services.Ms. Sara AlBanna, SLB Sara AlBanna is a recent graduate from Texas A&M University at Qatar with a degree in petroleum engi- neering. She currently works as an field engineer at SLB. As a dedicated engineer, she is passionate about creating positive change in the industry. Her diverse undergraduate research projects, ranging from the impacts of migration on education to the development of multilateral wells, reflect her interests in multi- disciplinary pursuits. AlBanna is a multifaceted individual, identifying as an author, artist, and petroleum
. This program is designed to provide engineering students andresearchers with tools and opportunities for entrepreneurial success, establish deeper and moremeaningful community ties, and facilitate the incubation of technology-based start-ups.Packaging the “incubator concept” into a series of graduate, undergraduate and continuingeducation short courses is a unique aspect of UCF’s entrepreneurship program. This program hasreceived very favorable reviews from local, state and national organizations. Theentrepreneurship initiatives at UCF have had a positive impact on other universities and inmaking the Central Florida area a hub of high tech entrepreneurial activity.IntroductionEngineers are excellent sources of high growth potential
programmes at UK universities. Before joining the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield, I worked as an educational consultant in China. Alongside research, I worked as a graduate teaching assistant (GTA) in multiple labs in the Faculty of Engineering and joined a research group of inclusive research culture in the Department of Electronic and Electric Engineering.Dr. Mohammad Zandi P.E., University of Sheffield ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work-in-Progress: Designing Inclusive Teamwork Activities to Improve International Master's Students’ Teamwork Skills in Chemical Engineering
AC 2010-33: A STRATEGY FOR INCORPORATING ADVANCEDMANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES INTO UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATIONDavid Wells, North Dakota State University David L. Wells has been Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at North Dakota State University since January 2000. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in process engineering and production engineering systems design and in product innovation and entrepreneurialism. His instruction is characterized by heavy reliance upon project-based, design-centric learning. Course projects are drawn from real industrial applications with real industrial constraints, often interactive with a corporate sponsor. Students are challenged to
materialssuch as concrete masonry units or fabricated structural steel are linked to particular installationswithin the BIM. This allows for the possibility of integrated engineering design such as finiteelement analysis. Consequently, as BIM technology progresses and improves, it has importantimplications for the practical and educational aspects of construction engineering.This paper explores the link between BIM implementation and onsite construction activity asexperienced in a classroom setting. Starting with the design of a 36-unit multifamily residentialproject, students used BIM software to avoid conflict and enhance coordination ahead of actualconstruction. Live cost data were used to guide and inform the design process. This allowedstudents to
development of the 2000’s aligned with meeting the call of theEngineer 2020 and developing a graduate that truly obtained the ABET Learning Outcomes.Hallmark strategies of this decade were: • Comprehensive regional recruiting model • A best practice living and learning community • Curricular focus on the three-legged stool (technical, professional, and design domains) for the body of knowledge addition in lower division. • A student learning process that was increasingly incorporating an iterative process and that reflected, what was described by Sheppard [14] as, the “ideal learning trajectory is a spiral, with all components revisited at increasing levels of sophistication and interconnection. In this
Paper ID #32159Implementing Professional Skills Training in STEM: A Review of theLiteratureDr. Ann M Gansemer-Topf, Iowa State University Ann Gansemer-Topf is an Associate Professor in Higher Education and Student Affairs and Faculty Fel- low for the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Iowa State University. She teaches courses in program evaluation and assessment, student affairs and higher education. Her research interests focus on examining the micro (student) and macro (institutional, state, federal) factors that impact student suc- cess and student learning. She has presented at several regional and
Paper ID #16670Using the Engineering Design Process to Complement the Teaching and Learn-ing of MathematicsDr. Aaron Brakoniecki, Boston University Dr. Aaron Brakoniecki is a Lecturer at Boston University. His research focuses on preservice teachers’ uses of technology (specifically, the Internet) to support their learning of mathematics. He is also involved with the Noyce BEST project at BU, which focuses on training engineers to become mathematics teachers in high needs classrooms.Mr. Michael Ward, Boston University Michael Ward is currently entering his senior year of Mechanical Engineering while simultaneously earn