expansion. In addition to meeting ABET's major design experiencerequirement, this design experience also achieves the following:• The major design experience is integrated throughout the program with minimal interruption to the more traditional curriculum.• Students can gain a perspective of how different levels of their learning and knowledge contribute to a real-world civil engineering project.• Students develop a good rapport with peers in their class and other classes and foster a mentoring relationship.• The project forges more (perhaps better) interaction and communication among engineers, faculty, and students.As the civil engineering program matures and the class size increases, we plan to require theproject team to
exhibits and short summer introduction to engineering courses or camps.In developing the curriculum, the need for certain physical models and tests was brought intofocus. An existing product was modified by adding data acquisition, concrete testing, andbuilding load apparatus. The result is a compact, self-contained, tabletop unit that is flexibleenough to be used in several different courses at varying levels of engineering education. Thispaper describes how this system can be effectively used in a civil engineering curriculum.I. IntroductionThe Design of Structures system is designed for use in a number of civil engineering and civilengineering technology-related courses including statics, introduction to civil engineering,freshman engineering
undergraduate curriculum. Two specific criteria of the Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology (ABET) such as the ability to formulate problems, andknowledge of contemporary issues, rely on a student’s ability to locate and synthesizeinformation in its various formats. Developing information literacy skills will allowstudents to exert more control over the structuring of their own learning within andbeyond the classroom. This discourse begins by examining some of the tangible and marketable benefitsof information literate engineering students. This is followed by an examination of asuccessful collaboration between an engineering faculty and a librarian in the instructionof undergraduate and graduate students in becoming more
education is engineering. While close to 320 engineeringschools in the USA have received accreditation from the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET) for their undergraduate programs, only a handful of those offerengineering programs that are completely online at the graduate and/or undergraduate level. Thetrend has started to change lately, and every year more and more engineering programs areadding an online component to their regular curriculum. The main obstacle is the fact that mostengineering curriculums require a very intensive hands-on laboratory component that is veryhard to implement and deliver completely online because of the cost involved in setting uplaboratory equipment for each online student. Currently, only a
education is engineering. While close to 320 engineeringschools in the USA have received accreditation from the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET) for their undergraduate programs, only a handful of those offerengineering programs that are completely online at the graduate and/or undergraduate level. Thetrend has started to change lately, and every year more and more engineering programs areadding an online component to their regular curriculum. The main obstacle is the fact that mostengineering curriculums require a very intensive hands-on laboratory component that is veryhard to implement and deliver completely online because of the cost involved in setting uplaboratory equipment for each online student. Currently, only a
Paper ID #46925Biomimicry as an Authentic Anchor (Resource Exchange)Ms. Tyrine Jamella Pangan, Tufts University Tyrine Jamella Pangan is a STEM Education PhD student at Tufts University and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO). She is interested in integrating social and emotional learning (SEL) in engineering, specifically within the elementary school context. Tyrine hopes to explore how Transformative SEL can be implemented to cultivate socially responsible engineers.Dr. Kristen B Wendell, Tufts University Kristen Wendell is Associate Professor of
Paper ID #36576An Adaptive Learning Engineering Mechanics CurricularSequenceKatherine Saul Dr. Saul is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC, having joined NCSU in 2013. The research performed in her Movement Biomechanics Laboratory aims to improve treatment for upper limb neuromusculoskeletal conditions by providing biomechanical insight to clinicians regarding the effects of neuromuscular and orthopaedic injury, predicting outcomes of surgical interventions, and understanding healthy and impaired motor control. Dr. Saul has served as an 2019-2021
Paper ID #22716Algae City - An Interactive Serious GameDr. Ying Tang, Rowan University Ying Tang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Northeastern University, P. R. China, in 1996 and 1998, respectively, and Ph.D degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in 2001. She is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Rowan University, Glass- boro, NJ. Her research interests include virtual reality and augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and modeling and scheduling of computer-integrated systems. Dr. Tang is very active in adapting and devel- oping pedagogical
Importantly, the U.S. is the only nation among the G7 to register a TEA score in the topten.Today, nearly 50 percent of the growth in the U.S. economy can be attributed to entrepreneurialactivity; much of this activity is in the technology sector. Since success in a technology venturerequires both technical feasibility and economic viability an engineering curriculum thatintegrates both aspects is of considerable value.2 Of the over 200 thousand graduates of collegeengineering and science programs each year in the U.S., a growing proportion seek employmentin entrepreneurial ventures or are starting their own ventures. This trend among engineering andscience graduates requires “a new type of engineer, an entrepreneurial engineer, who needs abroad
this they gained the ability of being mobile to work in the international civilengineering business environment.Development and Organization of the Program The common ECEM-program is a unique program; it is a rather short undergraduatebachelor curriculum, but nevertheless it - offers a variety of different host countries; - integrates 1 year of study abroad; - includes some practical experience abroad; - gives the possibility of double diploma certificates. When ECEM started in 1992, the students had to study three semesters abroad, one ofwhich was a complete practical placement semester. At that time Poland was not an EU-member. So, it was extremely difficult to get a work permit for each of the students. At thattime
systemic engineering education reforms and the realization of harmonized systems of quality assurance as a fundamental basis for both hemispheric progress and their own future business success. • Foster a broad dialogue on Innovation that addresses research as an integral part of quality education and facilitates an expanded capacity for inquiry, especially in the applied sciences, as an essential ingredient to improving university capabilities and expanding intellectual and economic opportunity throughout the region. • Engage faculty in curriculum reform, the creation of quality learning environments, and the shaping of policy and strategies aimed at creating the educational infrastructure
teaching and research interests in earthquake engineering and timber buildings. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Development and Implementation of a Final Year Civil Engineering Capstone Project – Successes, Lessons Learned, and Path Forward1 Introduction and Overview of the Capstone ProjectThis paper covers the development and implementation of a final year Civil Engineering CapstoneProject at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The Capstone project is based on a CivilEngineering design office experience, and allows students to experience authentic involvementwith a real-world, open-ended project. Students integrate their technical knowledge by workingin teams to deliver an
Equivalent Force System, Equilibrium of a Particle and Rigid Body, Structural Mechanics, and Friction has been developed. Laboratory equipment required for these exercises have been designed and fabricated. The reformed class was given for the first time in Spring 2004. The changes in the course are part of ongoing integration of various modes of learning in the Engineering Science curriculum at Borough of Manhattan Community College. Introduction Undergraduate engineering programs across the U.S. are modifying their curricula to incorporate active learning components. These modifications involve introducing lab components and computerized modeling and simulation into the syllabi. Other approaches incorporate
Ph.D. in Physics (1998) from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has been twice selected as a visiting ´ Chaire Joliot at the Ecole Sup´erieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles at Paris Tech and has orga- nized extended workshops on the physics of glasses and on friction, fracture and earthquakes at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. He has received several awards for his educational accomplishments, and in 2011 he received an award from the university’s Diversity Leadership Council for his work on LGBT inclusion. His education research focuses on integrating computation into the undergraduate core curriculum. Falk also serves as the lead investigator for STEM
. Page 14.692.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING EDUCATION CONSORTIUMAbstract:In recent years, the growing integration of economies and societies around the world hasrequired that graduates of all institutions and disciplines be prepared to work in an economy thatis now best seen as essentially international. Global markets are dictating the way that nationaleconomies around the world design, distribute, and consume goods and services. Engineers arein the midst of this dynamic development. Most large engineering projects currently requiremulti-national teams of multi-disciplinary professionals to work together and, therefore, a betterunderstanding of the
by an MIT “Handy Board,” with optical en-coders and IR sensors as inputs. Starting from a fixed position, the robot finds its way to a given destination coordi-nate while avoiding randomly placed obstacles along the path. The project is an excellent teaching and learning ex-perience due to the multiple disciplines involved: logic, electronics, control, programming and mechanics. In addi-tion, the project provides the students with a relatively realistic professional experience involving financial and timebudgeting, management, meeting of deadlines, making presentations and writing reports.IntroductionProbably due to the interdisciplinary nature of the program, design has been an integral part of the undergraduatecurriculum in Trinity’s
Science from the University of Illinois. She started at Michigan Technological University in the Fall of 2012 as an Instruction & Learning Librarian.Dr. Paul J. van Susante, Michigan Technological University Dr. van Susante received his BSc and MSc in Civil Engineering from Delft University of Technology. He was invited to do research at the Colorado School of Mines and received a MSc and PhD in Engineering Systems (Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering hybrid). He started at Michigan Technological University in Fall 2012 as a lecturer in Mechanical Engineering and has been focused on teaching junior and senior engineering design classes as well as educational and curriculum development. He is coordi- nator
A is area.If the density is assumed to be constant, which is the case for most problems encountered in afirst course in fluid mechanics then it can be brought outside the integral giving equation 2. m&= ρ ∫ V dA (Equation 2) AIf the function for the velocity profile V as a function of position is known, then it can be Page 12.1531.2evaluated at each cross-section.In most real applications the velocity profile is not a nice clean function that can be easilyintegrated. The velocity can vary seemingly randomly across the cross-section. An example ofthis
lessened awareness of engineering as it relates to one’sindividual study habits for each different learning style on his surroundings and to current world events. [11] For ourweb site. [8] Understanding one's individual learning style purposes, it was decided that each presentation shouldand adapting specific habits in regards to the process of incorporate an engineer (or working team of engineers)learning can optimize the time allotted to studying. Further, associated with the student's chosen topic into their project inrecognizing professors who teach using a different style will an effort to build the student's perception of the human factorhelp students to adjust their own efforts in understanding the integral
nature, engineering and teaching both require problem solving, and integrating the topicsand practice of engineering research with the extant curriculum in a STEM classroom also requirescreativity and innovation. One explanation for the benefit of cognitively-diverse teams oncomplex, creative tasks is the cognitive diversity hypothesis [13,18,19]. The cognitive diversityhypothesis posits that dissimilarity in team makeup (with regard to task-related attributes)discourages groupthink and encourages positive member disagreement, debate, and discussion, aswell as introducing differing attitudes, perspectives, and knowledge structures [18-23]. Similarly,the information processing perspective provides an additional framework to explain
that equipsengineering students with core concepts and methodological tools necessary to analyze the roleof engineering in society, using a Human Rights framework. This paper explores learningoutcomes in an existing course within this curriculum (i.e., “Engineering for Human Rights”)by analyzing original exit survey data from enrolled students. Our survey instrument integratedNew Ecological Paradigm (NEP) statements to assess variation in perceptions of the usefulnessof the course content as it relates to sustainability. The findings of this study have implicationsand suggestions for designing interdisciplinary curricula that integrate engineering,sustainability, and human rights in engineering education.Keywords – Human Rights framework
member schools. Meetings werefacilitated by the PD21 Director, whose position was funded by CIPD. Regular attendeesincluded program directors and at least one senior level administrator from each institution,industry representatives, and several CIPD staff members. Special topics meetings, such asthose associated with curriculum development or transfer, engaged faculty and others asappropriate. Every participant had an equal voice in setting the agenda and participating indiscussions. Meeting durations have ranged from one hour, to half-day or even full-daysessions.Meeting topics have ranged from a discussion of consortium operation, to curriculum, toindustrial input. For instance, the topics slated for discussion during 2000 included: 1
implementation of a new course in communications through thecreation of a computer-based laboratory for modeling and simulating communicationsystems. The lecture course in a typical Electrical Engineering (EE) curriculum, alongwith this laboratory, provide a totally integrated delivery system for teaching a widespectrum of topics ranging from transmission/reception concepts and applications toperformance analysis of fiber optic networks. The laboratory is easily implemented byconstructing a PC-based computer network supporting several simulation tools. Studentsare able to access a variety of software packages for analysis of different communicationsystems. The topics covered in the laboratory can be divided into three categories:communication signals
components by analyzingstudent survey results and compared the student performance by showing average student scoresin the “flipped-classroom” approach vs. in the traditional approach. In [7], Yildiz et al share thedetails (course curriculum, student body, projects, and components) of a project-basedmicrocontroller course and presents feedbacks freely written by students.Educational researchers have been exploring and studying the online teaching mode in CS, CpE,and EE courses. In a Database course [8], the t-tests indicate that face-to-face studentssignificantly outperformed online students when there were no significant differences inbackground characteristics. Whitney et al explored the impact of captions on learningperformance in an online Intro
accreditation cycle., accessedJanuary 5, 2005.2 Wankat, Phillip C., Oreovicz, Frank S., Delgass, W. Nicholas, “Integrating Soft Criteria into the ChECurriculum”, Proceedings of the 2000 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition, (2000)3 Felder, Richard M. and Rebecca Brent, “Designing and Teaching Courses to Satisfy the ABETEngineering Criteria”, J. Eng. Ed., 92(1), 7 (2003)4 Miller, R.L., and B.M. Olds, “A Model Curriculum for a Capstone Course in MultidisciplinaryEngineering Design,” J. Eng. Ed., 83(4), 1 (1994)5 Fornaro, R.J., M.R. Heil, and S.W. Peretti, “Enhancing Technical Communication Skills in EngineeringStudents: An Experiment in Multidisciplinary Design,” Proceedings of the 31st Annual ASEE/IEEEFrontiers in
Session 3425 Designing an Engineering Experience for Non-Engineers Major Robert J. Rabb, Colonel John S. Klegka United States Military AcademyAbstractThe United States Military Academy (USMA) has a balanced core curriculum to help promotethe ability of all graduates to be creative problem solvers. Part of the core curriculum provides abasic knowledge of physical systems for all graduates. All graduates receive a B.S. degree invarious disciplines, many in a non-engineering major or field of study. However, all graduatesare expected to be technically competent in their future
Page 23.642.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 GIS and Introductory Environmental Engineering: A Way to Fold GIS into An Already-Existing CourseThe use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) was implemented in the upper-divisionundergraduate technical elective Introduction to Environmental Engineering at Harvey MuddCollege. Students integrated technical engineering skills, newly-learned geographicalinformation system (GIS) skills, and the engineering design process, all in the context of thedesign of a debris flow barrier for a wilderness land parcel acquired by a local conservancygroup.Junior and senior general engineering students, the majority of whom had no experience
should weave through and integrate with the Design Sessions to teach itsapplication in a real-world setting.Next StepsWith the first iteration of the redesign course complete, the planning for the second iteration isunderway. Under consideration is the opportunity to integrate the engineering ethics session intothe design sessions in an authentic manner so it does not appear to be separate from or anafterthought to the engineering design process. Improved scaffolding and support for studentsadapting to the project-based and teamwork-intensive nature of the course will be a focus for thesecond iteration.With the initial focus and investment on the curricular design of the course, it is essential that thecoordination team consider a long-term plan
ability to apply previously learned theories to solve unanticipatedproblems14.Continuity is particularly important as it relates to engineering education. The National Academyof Engineering’s (NAE) recent report, The Engineer of 202015, suggests a necessary paradigmshift in engineering education, redirecting the focus to better prepare engineers for theanticipated challenges of the future; globalization, sustainability, complexity, and adaptability16.Incorporation of international service-learning projects into an engineering curriculum provides afeasible mechanism of accomplishing this goal. As a progressive form of experiential education,service-learning is based on Dewey’s model insofar as service-learning projects will inevitablytrigger new
Engineering Education: An Integrated Writing andCommunication Program for Materials Engineers.” Journal of Engineering Education, 85:4:343-352.LISA LEBDUSKA is Director of the Center for Communication Across the Curriculum and an adjunct assistantprofessor of writing at WPI. She received her PhD in English from the University of Rhode Island. Her most recentarticle, “Peer Writing Tutors,” will be appear in Student-Assisted Teaching by Anker Publishing, and reflects herresearch in peer tutor training, writing in the disciplines, and technologies of writing.DAVID DIBIASIO is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and assessment coordinator for theInterdisciplinary and Global Studies Division at WPI. He received his PhD in chemical engineering from