design provided anopportunity to see the impact of a controlled intervention on students (in a typical largeuniversity environment) who have had three years of training predominantly under the deductivelearning model where emphasis is often not placed on the application of theory to real worldproblems.The Experiment In the live simulation, the students experienced being an aircraft design engineer for afictitious aircraft company called Ace Aero. The students used a combination of electronic toolsand real world role playing in order to simulate the aircraft designer experience. These realworld industry level design tools included the computer CAD tool CATIA by Dassault Systems,the synthesis tool ModelCenter® by Phoenix Integration, and
into the EE or EET curriculum. It is argued in this paper that it is best toteach EMC as an integrated element within almost all undergraduate courses because of itsgenerality. Any reluctance on the part of students to tackle additional electromagnetics is therebycountered while at the same time a wealth of practical examples exists to reinforce fundamentaltheory. While this paper advocates the needs to introduce EMC/EMI topics all over thecurriculum, through course assignments and projects, and in the same time argued on thenecessity of a future course on EMC at undergraduate level in any EE or EET programs. Inaddition, it discusses and outlines the essential contents of such a course, which can be taken byEE and EET students with very basic
takes excessive faculty members time to preparethe assessment. I think I think exam integrity is a big, big challenge, for engineering for the engineering curriculum. - PeterIn order to minimize cheating, some of the faculty members experimented using video proctoringduring assessment, either using software such as LockDown browser, ProctorU, Impendus ormonitoring students using synchronous Zoom meetings. In some cases, this has resulted instudents’ push back, with faculty members feeling under pressure about their assessmentstrategies. And they were saying like why I'm only using this because many other faculty are giving take home exam and I'm the only one who does like who tortures them…– HannaFaculty
Transactions on Engineering Management, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 71-86, Feb. 2011, doi: 10.1109/TEM.2010.2048914.[3] Hockey, R.G.J., "Compensatory control in the regulation of human performance under stress and high workload: A cognitive-energetical framework," Biological Psychology, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 73-93, 1997, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0301-0511(96)05223-4.[4] J. Dewey, How We Think. Boston, MA: Heath, 1910.[5] D. Schön, The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. New York: Basic Books, 1983.[6] D. A. Kolb, Experiential Learning: Experience as a Source of Learning and Development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1984.[7] L. Dee Fink, Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated
objectives that are unique and personalizedwhile also contributing to their team’s innovation project. With such diversity of student work,applying a single grading rubric is impractical. Another problem occurs in evaluating theinnovation itself. How can instructors consistently rank the novelty and value of such diversestudent work? To tackle these problems, a grading scheme that involves multiple expertassessments of both the value and the impact of a student’s innovation needed to be developed.This work presents and describes the development of the Innovative Impact Scale and how it hasbeen integrated alongside Webb’s Depth of Knowledge levels as metrics to assess the innovativelearning outcomes of students enrolled in an IBL course. Data on
and entrepreneurial activities in Europe, Asia and Africa. Dr. Friess’ research background includes fluid mechanics, composite materials, performance optimization, and global engineering education. Current research interests focus on engineering education, in particular curriculum integration and innovative pedagogical methods.Mr. Eric L. Martin, University of Maine Eric Martin earned his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maine in 1998 and 2010, respectively. For fourteen years he provided mechanical engineering services in the areas of vacuum science, electro-chemical sensors, and tribology. Some of his work includes designing and building a Sonde to measure green-house gases deep within
2012. His current research interests are metamaterials, microelectronics, microelectromechanical systems and nanotechnology.Mrs. Diana Lynn Cahill, SOCHE Diana Cahill, M.Ed., is currently Program Manager for Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education, SOCHE. Previously, Cahill was the Civilian Student Coordinator at the Air Force Institute of Technology, AFIT. She earned an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from Wright State University and a BA in English from Youngstown State University. Page 26.946.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015
lower cost, ease of modifica-tion and the broad availability of replacement parts. In addition, the machines themselves are rel-atively easy to operate and require minimal training.This paper presents the selection and integration of desktop-scale, hobbyist CNC machines tominimize risks in an educational laboratory environment, and the integration of modern digitalfabrication CNC technology in the undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum at the Uni-versity of Massachusetts Lowell. Through the use of lower-cost desktop CNC machines, studentsdirectly interface and interact with advanced machining technology and will be able to discoverthe rewards and challenges derived from translating a design to a functional prototype. Moreo-ver, through
Paper ID #18197WIP: An On-going Analysis of the Impact of Assigning Online Thermody-namic Homework in place of Traditional HomeworkDr. Louis Reis, Louisiana Tech University Dr. Louis Reis currently serves as a lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering department at Louisiana Tech University. He received his B.S. degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University along with his M.S. degree in Microsystems Engineering and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. He teaches a variety of courses at Louisiana Tech including: Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and the ”Living with the Lab” freshmen
Paper ID #38182Board 207: ACCESS in STEM: An S-STEM Project Supporting Economi-callyDisadvantaged STEM-Interested Students in Their First Two YearsErica ClineMenaka AbrahamSarah AlaeiDr. Heather Dillon, University of Washington, Tacoma Dr. Heather Dillon is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education. Before joining academia, she worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research engineer working on both energy efficiency and renewable
AC 2011-283: HERDING CATS: WEAVING COHERENT APPLICATIONTHREADS THROUGH A MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUMTO FACILITATE COURSE-TO-COURSE CONNECTIVITY AND IMPROVEMATERIAL RETENTIONDonald Wroblewski, Boston University Don Wroblewski is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Boston Univer- sity, and has been the Associate Chair of Undergraduate Aerospace Studies since 1998. He is a two-time winner of the department award for Excellence in Teaching and one of two inaugural winners of the College of Engineering’s Innovative Engineering Education Fellow award. He has been active in both curriculum and course innovations. He has developed 7 new courses including an on-line Mechanics course and
be asked in the post-survey to measure the gains.References[1] L. Watson. “Humans have shorter attention span than goldfish, thanks to smartphones”. (2015, May 15). The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11607315/Humans-have-shorter- attention-span-than-goldfish-thanks-to-smartphones.html.[2] Chi, M.T.H. “Self-Explaining: The dual processes of generating inference and repairing mental models”. In R. Glaser (Ed.), Advances in instructional psychology: Educational design and cognitive science, Vol. 5. Lawrence Eribaum Associates Publishers. 2000.[3] M.S. Kirkpatrick, M. Abdoutabl, D. Bernstein, S. Simmons. “Backward Design: An Integrated Approach to a Systems Curriculum”. ACM. SIGCSE ’15
AC 2011-958: DEVELOPING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING GRADUATE PRO-GRAMS ALIGNED TO THE BODY OF KNOWLEDGE AND CURRICU-LUM TO ADVANCE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (BKCASE(TM)) GUIDE-LINESAlice F Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology Alice Squires has nearly 30 years of professional experience and is an industry and research professor in Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in the School of Systems and Enterprises. She is a Primary Researcher for the Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering (BKCASE) and Systems Engineering Experience Accelerator projects. She has served as a Senior Sys- tems Engineer consultant to Lockheed Martin, IBM, and EDO Ceramics, for Advanced Systems Support- ability
context of electric powersystems. This work is a small portion of an NSF IUSE-funded project to improve the undergraduatepower and energy curriculum at two collaborating universities. The focus of this improvement isto incorporate developing topics in the field that are not currently integrated into the curriculum.New modules that utilize situative and active learning pedagogy have been developed. Therefore,the use of concept maps is being employed to enable students a way to provide a comprehensivepicture of how they visualize and draw connections in and across the concepts being learned. II. Methods In preparing for the incoming data that would be produced from the concept maps, the researchteam initially intended to rely on the
K-8 STEM education solution that is a teacher-administered, industryvolunteer-assisted program that brings science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)education to life in the classroom for students. Benchmarked to the national education standards,the AWIM program incorporates integrated STEM learning experiences through hands-onactivities that reinforce classroom STEM learning. The program serves K-8 schools, teachers,and students nationwide in STEM related classrooms. More than 75,000 curriculum/challengekits have been provided with over 5 million students and over 35,000 volunteers havingparticipated.Quality STEM learning incorporates facets from multiple disciplines. By design, AWIMintegrates STEM subjects through an approach
radically new applications, i.e., PV-on-everything.But getting there requires an educated citizenry empowered to utilize and create sustainableenergy solutions. To this end, QESST, an Engineering Research Center for Quantum Energyand Sustainable Solar Technologies sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the U.S.Department of Energy, program aims to advance PV science, technology and education througha Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program.The QESST RET program is focused on furthering innovations in solar energy engineering byadvancing PV science and technology. We are also committed to promoting solar energyeducation by (a) developing an extensive set of K-12 curriculum materials to promote solarenergy and PV engineering
holistically formulate solutions [4].This multidisciplinary approach is particularly useful to solve the multidimensionalchallenges of our planet which requires an integration of curricula from the Arts andHumanities with STEM as opposed to a general curriculum. Scholars argue that the presentplanetary grand challenges cut across various dimensions of human experience—social,economic, environmental, political as well as moral [5]. For instance, the shift to a lesscarbon-dependent economy in the face of climate change is as much a technological problemas it is a socio-economic one since rapid, dependable, and affordable access to energy hasbeen ingrained in social life's routines and conventions. If we try to solve these issues with anarrow conception
Integrity 6. Academic Integrity 3. Respect for the Law 7. Health and Safety 4. A Culture of Trust 8. Accurate RecordkeepingABET Ethics Example: The curriculum must include topics related toprofessional and ethical responsibilities, diversity and inclusionawareness, quality, and continuous improvement. ([…], 2024; ABET, 2024)Why Ethics Matters in an Education Setting• Within our STEM curricula, this means we teach to the professional codes of conduct, such as the IEEE and AMC Codes of Ethics, and facilitate discussions on how to apply and uphold these principles in decision- making and
Paper ID #39584Board 357: Pilot Study of the Impacts of a Robotics Curriculum onStudent’s Subject-Related Identities and Understanding of EngineeringProf. Holly M Golecki, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign Dr. Holly Golecki (she/her) is a Teaching Assistant Professor in Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an Associate in the John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. She holds an appointment at the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine in the Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences. She is also a core faculty member at the Institute for
the way in which industry andacademia perform various activities. More and more academic institutions are starting torecognize the vital link that the web provides between the faculty and the students. As the websavvy students demand specialized attention for customized curriculum and training, it becomesthe responsibility of the academia to provide new information technology based solutions, tosatisfy these needs. In this regard, an attempt has been made to develop an automated cellcapable of providing non-site based hands-on course in engineering and technology education.The main challenge in this effort is the remote programming and control of the robot and CNCmachine. Details pertaining to the intelligent control architecture, system
suggestions, the BEEd proposed integrating into the curriculum 1. “exposure to the concepts of business, economics, marketing and manufacturing and risk. 2. Sustainable development of the environment and 3. Engineering management, including effective interaction with shop-floor and technical support personnel.”They also recommended “ remove some material and some courses from the currentcurriculum. …Remove redundancies, for example the repetitious teaching of the sameprinciples of chemistry, physics and thermodynamics in different courses. Incorporatesome math and science “base” courses into engineering courses. Emphasize in-depth onearea of engineering practice in a discipline and provide
, and food processing.However, both the region and the broader state of Virginia are struggling with a skilled laborshortage that fails to meet the demands of these manufacturing enterprises. This paper aims toprovide insights into the recently established Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MFET)program at Old Dominion University, located in Norfolk, Virginia. The MFET program featuresa comprehensive curriculum, encompassing the development of new courses and theestablishment of a state-of-the-art smart manufacturing laboratory. This program has beeninitiated in collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research and Patrick &Henry Community College in Martinsville, VA, and a grant funded by the U.S. Department ofVeteran
enterprise management and business operations norms to societal,safety and environmental concerns in order to maximize the public welfare while minimizingpotential harm and damages as a result of ongoing construction activities or the future planning.Therefore, there exists a growing interest in incorporating a senior-level/graduate course thatfocuses on construction regulations and multiple aspects related to organizational managementand organizational behavior issues within an engineering enterprise. Therefore, a new courseentitled “Constructional Regulations and Organizational Management” is introduced into theCivil/Construction Engineering curriculum at Syracuse University in 2015 spring semester. Theobjective of this new course is to better
Paper ID #11691Multi-Course Problem-based Learning Module spanning across the Juniorand Senior Mechanical Engineering Curriculum: Mechatronics, Fluid Me-chanic, and Heat TransferDr. James A. Mynderse, Lawrence Technological University James A. Mynderse, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. His research interests include mechatronics, dynamic systems, and control with applications to piezoelectric actuators, hysteresis, and perception. He serves as the faculty advisor for the LTU Baja SAE team.Dr. Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological
AC 2008-699: MICROELECTRONIC ENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGYEDUCATION FOR UNDERGRADUATES AND PRE-COLLEGE STUDENTSTHROUGH CURRICULUM REFORM AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIESSantosh Kurinec, Rochester Institute of Technology Santosh K. Kurinec is Professor and the Department Head of Microelectronic Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology. She has led the effort on curriculum reform and is the Principle Investigator of this work. She teaches courses on microelectronic processing and electronic materials. She has extensive experience on materials integration in semiconductor devices.Michael Jackson, Rochester Institute of Technology Mike Jackson is an Associate Professor of Microelectronic
recommendations. Page 2.347.7The result of this review is an action plan entitled "Michigan Curriculum 2000" (4) whichincludes many of the recommendations originally put forward by MEAM. The reportdetails 21 specific recommendations which include• Introduction of a Freshmen Engineering class.• Restructuring of all departmental core sequences in the " 4 ⊗ 4 ⊗ 8 Model".• Integration of the required college level technical communications course into the core engineering curriculum of each department.The main purpose of the 4 ⊗ 4 ⊗ 8 Model is to make 16 credit hours the standard load formost students, resulting in graduation after eight terms (for students without
Paper ID #244072018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference: Washington, District ofColumbia Apr 6Setting a Course for Student Success: Standards-Based Curriculum and Capacity-Building across Risk Prevention Management System DomainsDr. Lisa L Greenwood, Rochester Institute of Technology Dr. Lisa Greenwood is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering Technology, Envi- ronmental Management and Safety at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Dr. Greenwood has been involved in national and international environmental standards development for over 15 years, and re- cently led the U.S. delegation on
Session No. 1333Dissemination of Introductory Energy Systems Course Material via the World Wide Web for a Changing Power Engineering Curriculum Badrul H. Chowdhury bchow@ece.umr.edu. Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept. University of Missouri-Rolla Rolla, MO 65409-0040 Tel: 573-341-6230; Fax: 573-341-6671Abstract Many topics in the electrical energy discipline are becoming important in light of powerindustry restructuring as well as an
packages are widely used in industry thereby making exposure to thistool an essential component of undergraduate engineering education. This paper discusses thedevelopment, implementation, and results of integrating active learning modules (ALM’s)throughout an engineering curriculum with the goal of providing an effective learning resourcethat reinforces fundamental, yet challenging, course concepts without requiring knowledge of therigorous mathematical theory underlying the finite element method. Fifteen ALM’s have beenimplemented into eight courses at six different universities; this paper focuses on four ALM’sthat have been implemented at the University of the Pacific for several years thereby providing asignificant amount of data. Assessment
AC 2009-224: ENGINEERING ETHICS CURRICULUM INCORPORATIONMETHODS AND RESULTS FROM A NATIONALLY ADMINISTEREDSTANDARDIZED EXAMINATION: BACKGROUND, LITERATURE, ANDRESEARCH METHODSBrock Barry, United States Military Academy Brock E. Barry is a post-doctoral research assistant in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Dr. Barry received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University and holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering Technology from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Barry has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor within the Department of Civil & Mechanical