: MICROELECTRONICS AND NANOFABRICATION MINOR CURRICULUM Level Courses Freshmen Level Intro to Micro/NanoLlithography Sophomore Level IC Technology Senior Level Thin Film Processes Two Electives Nanocharacterization CMOS Processing Lab Process and Device Modeling Nanoscale CMOS and Beyond Other Disacipline Specific Nano CoursesConcentration in NanotechnologyA long-term perspective suggests a tighter linkage between electronics technology and molecularbiology. Our focus is on integration of nanotechnology with
Engineering.” NSF Award Number 0127422, NSF Project Report, June 3, 2003. https://www.ehr.nsf.gov/pirs_prs_web/search/RetrieveRecord.asp?Awd_Id=012742214. Pomalaza-Ráez, C. and Groff, B.H., “Retention 101: Where Robots Go . . . Students Follow.” Journal of Engineering Education, January 2003, pages 85-90.15. Verner, I.M. and Ahlgren, 2004, “Conceptualising Educational Approaches in Introductory Robotics.” Page 13.855.18 International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education, 41 (3), July 2004, 183-201.16. Nelson, J. and Napper, S., “Ramping Up to an Integrated Curriculum to Full Implementation.” Frontiers in Education
established the following wish list for the graduates of the TM program to be able toaccomplish once they were in the workforce: • Identify and evaluate the impact of relevant changing technology and managing those changes effectively in organizations. • Develop strategies and plans to identify, develop and implement innovative technological based solutions. • Manage the effective planning and execution of those technology based initiatives and the integration of their results into the mainstream of an enterprises’ strategy, processes and operations. • The application of technology to create wealth as in successful entrepreneurship and/or intrapreneurship initiatives. • Develop future leader
established the following wish list for the graduates of the TM program to be able toaccomplish once they were in the workforce: • Identify and evaluate the impact of relevant changing technology and managing those changes effectively in organizations. • Develop strategies and plans to identify, develop and implement innovative technological based solutions. • Manage the effective planning and execution of those technology based initiatives and the integration of their results into the mainstream of an enterprises’ strategy, processes and operations. • The application of technology to create wealth as in successful entrepreneurship and/or intrapreneurship initiatives. • Develop future leader
enhance the curriculum of a graduate-level engineering ethics course, Engineering Ethics and the Public, at Virginia Tech, a large land-grant, Research 1 university. The course is a three-credit elective course offered annually to engineering students. The overall course itself was originally co-conceived and co-developed by an engineer, one of the authors of this paper, and a medical ethnographer, with the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF) [1]. The learning objectives, topics, and assignments are presented in Table 1. The course aims to address relationships between engineering, science, and society by incorporating listening exercises, personal reflections, individual
opportunity by adapting Louisiana Tech’sclasslab concept (integrating class and lab facilities at scale) and large portions of theirinnovative, NSF-funded LivingWithTheLab (LWTL) curriculum. The LWTL curriculumemploys hands-on, project-based instruction for first-year engineering design and demandsavailability of classrooms featuring equipment often restricted from wide student use byavailability and safety concerns. This adaptation included developing an updated interpretationof the classlab concept (where traditional lecture and laboratory activities are seamlesslyinterwoven into the same course, taught in two-hour blocks) and adding new supporting spacesdedicated to collaboration and access to equipment outside of class hours. As the
engineering education research aims to understand more about the gap in student preparedness for the engineering workplace. He has worked closely with engineering practitioners, faculty, and students to understand more about their problem-solving behavior, beliefs around engineering knowledge, and learning more about what it means to be an engineer. Sean enjoys being active outdoors with his family and friends while climbing, mountain biking, and camping.Dr. Matthew Stephen Barner, University of Portland Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at University of Portland Research interests include: curriculum and faculty developmentRhianna FitzgeraldJordan Farina, University of Portland ©American
school, this means building engineering into biology, chemistry, and physicsunits. This paper describes an in-progress curriculum design effort funded by the NationalScience Foundation with the goal of building an interdisciplinary, NGSS-aligned unit for highschool physics that features engineering design as one of its fundamental components. Workingaround the phenomenon of space weather affecting satellite function, our collaboration hascreated a new storyline unit that is currently being piloted in 9th grade physics courses. Wedescribe our ongoing partnership, our design commitments that are informing our work, and thedesign of the unit. We then pose questions for discussion and feedback
University. He received his B.S. (2005), M.S. (2008), and Ph.D. (2012) from Michigan State University. His area of expertise is in cementitious composites which includes: fracture and fatigue mechanics of quasi-brittle materials, recycled concrete, conductive concrete, reinforced concrete, pervious concrete, geopolymer, and structural dynamics. He currently teaches a wide array of courses that includes statics, reinforced concrete design, structural analysis, and materials engineering. Dr. Brake actively integrates project based and peer assisted learning pedagogies into his curriculum.Dr. Xianchang Li, Lamar University Dr. Li received his Ph.D. degree from Clemson University in 1999 and now serves as an associate profes
towards this goal.This paper outlines the goals and technology elements of the INFINITY Project, a joint effortbetween university educators, K-12 teachers, and industrial partners to introduce an engineeringand technology curriculum at the high school level. The partner institute and companies are:Southern Methodist University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, George Mason University,University of Illinois, Santa Clara University, Texas Instruments, Hyperception, Inc., AppliedSignal Technology, the National Science Foundation, and regional school districts across thecountry.Issues addressed within this paper are: • The goals and description of the curriculum; • Technology used in the curriculum; • Teacher training; • The pilot
AC 2008-531: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF FAILURE CASE STUDIES ON THECIVIL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MECHANICS CURRICULUM:PHASE IINorb Delatte, Cleveland State UniversityPaul Bosela, Cleveland State UniversityRosemary Sutton, Cleveland State UniversityJoshua Bagaka's, Cleveland State UniversityWilliam Beasley, Cleveland State University Page 13.232.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Assessing the Impact of Failure Case Studies on the Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Curriculum: Phase IIAbstract This paper is the second in a series documenting work to assess the impact of theintroduction of failure case studies into
Page 12.1189.11strongly agreed with the questions asked for each Mission to Mars activity (Figure 4s 4 and 5).Teachers seemed to feel that each activity was grade appropriate and would be feasible to use intheir classrooms.All of these activities were originally written to accompany 5th-6th grade science curriculums andthey had gone through extensive piloting and revision. To some degree, engineering thinking oran engineering design element was incorporated into these activities. Cleaning Water is a goodexample of an activity where engineering design was easily integrated into the original scienceactivity. However, teachers were less interested in and comfortable with this more engineeringproblem
# 1914869) for an associated research study. She is, and has been, principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on multiple NSF grants related to computer science and STEM education. She integrates multidisci- plinary collaborative projects in her courses, to create immersive learning experiences that deeply engage students with a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. Students in her research lab are researching and implementing machine learning and collective intelligence algorithms, that harness the cognitive abilities of large numbers of human users to solve complex problems.Prof. Kim E. Pearson, The College of New Jersey Kim Pearson is professor of journalism at The College of New Jersey who teaches a range of courses
Massachusetts-Amherst. Dr. Downey focuses on critical qualitative inquiry with a discerning eye toward humanizing and culturally sustaining pedagogies.Idalis Villanueva Alarc´on, University of Florida Dr. Villanueva Alarc´on is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Education Department at the Uni- versity of Florida. Her multiple roles as an engineer, engineering educator, engineering educational re- searcher, and professional development mentor for underrepresented populations has aided her in the design and integration of educational and physiological technologies to research ’best practices’ for stu- dent professional development and training. In addition, she has developed methodologies around hidden
definable steps in the design process to structuredteam-based learning activities.I. IntroductionA coalition of two & four year universities and industry collaborated, with NSF funding,to develop meaningful curriculum and assess its’ effectiveness. Different schools use thematerial to fit their individual needs. The curriculum and assessments are easy to use, Page 6.26.1reliable and are a proven set of materials that provide a structure that develops clearlydefined outcomes and assesses how well course objects have been achieved.TIDEE’s (Transferable Integrated Design Engineering Education) curriculum model useshighly structured activities, which can be
wasenthusiastically received (Shumway et al., 2010).TEE students and faculty from Brigham Young University returned summer 2010 to the DominicanRepublic to continue their work with the MACILE group. This collaboration took the form of an officialstudy abroad program where students developed curriculum, conducted research, taught, and receivedcredit for participation. Eight BYU students and 3 faculty members participated in the program. Thestudents spent five weeks during the summer of 2010 in the Dominican Republic teaching 6th -12th gradestudents. Content areas included: energy; chemistry; bridges; rocketry; and robotics. The DR students 1
engineering (CVEN) program recently underwent acomprehensive Program (Re)Design (PRD) process in order to align the program with bothASCE’s second edition Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge (BOK2) and ABET learningoutcome criteria. The integrated PRD process is detailed in an earlier paper (Brumbelow, Fowler,Morgan, & Anthony, 2014). The current paper illustrates the significance of the PRD systemapproach to inspire transformative change. Faculty who participate in the PRD process, as part ofthe program’s Curriculum Transformation Team (CTT), experience a major shift in perspectivefrom apprehension of the scope and need for the change to seeing the curriculum asinterconnected and an iterative process to enhance student learning. In addition
23campuses of the California State University System. Cal Poly is primarily an undergraduateinstitution with approximately 18,500 enrolled undergraduates and 1180 faculty. 5000 studentsare enrolled in the College of Engineering which is comprised of nine departments. The largestdepartment, Mechanical Engineering, has approximately 1000 undergraduates, 60 MastersStudents and 28 full time tenure and tenure track faculty. The department awards about 200undergraduate degrees each year.Curriculum OverviewCal Poly’s Mechanical Engineering program is anchored by a comprehensive curriculum thatemphasizes fundamentals of engineering, laboratory “hands on” experiences and engineeringdesign throughout the four year program. Students are admitted into the
2006-203: A HANDS-ON, INTERDISCIPLINARY LABORATORY PROGRAM ANDEDUCATIONAL MODEL TO STRENGTHEN A RADAR CURRICULUM FORBROAD DISTRIBUTIONMark Yeary, University of Oklahoma Dr. Mark Yeary is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He has many years of experience as a teaching assistant, lecturer, and assistant professor. Since January of 1993, he has taught many students in various laboratories and lecture courses, culminating in approximately 11 years of teaching experience. For the 1999-00 academic year, he received the Outstanding Professor Award, given by the Texas A&M student chapters of IEEE and Eta Kappa Nu, and IBM in Austin
Paper ID #33775How Students Search Video Captions to Learn: An Analysis of Search Termsand Behavioral Timing DataMr. Zhilin Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Zhilin Zhang is a 5-year BS-MS student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (UIUC), co-advised by Professor Lawrence Angrave and Professor Karrie Karahalios. His research interests are in Human-Computer Interaction and Learning Sciences. He studies, designs, and builds intelligent systems to support scalable and accessible teaching and learning through a computa- tional lens.Ms. Bhavya Bhavya, University of Illinois at
Paper ID #29337Soft Skills Curriculum on a Budget: Tackling the STEM skills gap withlimited resources using online videoMelissa Gavin, University of Wisconsin, Platteville After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Gavin worked for a government research nonprofit and since obtaining her master’s degree has worked for a variety of nonprofits in various roles. Currently, she is the Program Manager for Graduate and Collaborative Programs at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Gavin also teaches MEDIA 3010/5010 Business Communication and APC 3300 Technical and Professional Communication.Randy
Paper ID #6746A Large-scale Survey of K-12 Students about STEM: Implications for Engi-neering Curriculum Development and Outreach Efforts (Research to Prac-tice)Dr. Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University Dr. Wiebe is a professor in the Department of STEM Education at NC State University and Senior Research Fellow at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation. A focus of his research and outreach work has been the integration of multimedia and multimodal teaching and learning approaches in STEM instruction. He has also worked on research and evaluation of technology integration in instructional settings in
. Page 25.451.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Development of a Dynamic Curriculum for Wireless Communications: Addressing the Required Workforce for Wireless Industry and Academia Seyed A. Zekavat1,2, Cheryl Li2, Saurav Pathak1 1 University of New Haven, 2Michigan Technological UniversityAbstract – There are emerging applications for wireless communication systems. Newtechnologies are developed in this field in a rapid pace, and industry is in an increasing need ofwell trained and skilled graduates. They need these graduates to get integrated with their alreadyexisting employees without any further training or with minimal
Paper ID #35042A Case Study on How Teachers’ Knowledge and Beliefs Influence TheirEnactment of the Project Lead The Way Curriculum (Evaluation)Dr. Mary K. Nyaema, The University of Illinois at Chicago Mary Nyaema is an educational consultant with the University of Illinois at Chicago. She earned a doc- toral education degree from University of Iowa. She has two years post doctoral experience in discipline based educational research and has taught high school science and mathematics. Her research interests include STEM Education, active learning, evidence based strategies and problem based learning.Dr. David G. Rethwisch, The
section. New faculty members shadowed a course with the recitation lab aspart of the training. The peer leaders had to meet the eligibility criteria identified by theinvestigative team prior to selection and employment. The recitation leaders participated in twoprofessional development courses and an online training on incorporating active-learningactivities and project-based scenarios to enhance curriculum; learning styles, teachingtechniques, working with students from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, improvelistening, question and study skills. The recitation leaders were also informed on the purpose ofthe PLTL exercises in relation to STEM and the broader goals of the NSF ImprovingUndergraduate STEM Education project. For example, the
). Thesecourses complement the rich curriculum presently offered in the Department of ElectricalEngineering at PVAMU. A new high-speed (broadband) access technologies laboratory has alsobeen developed to support both instruction and research. This helps to create an academicinstructional and research infrastructure for broadband communication systems-based projects,testing and research.1. IntroductionPrairie View A & M University (PVAMU) attaches much importance to the training of studentslike many other universities to meet the needs of future technology trends. As a result of thetechnology growth shown in the area of broadband communications, PVAMU ElectricalEngineering Department has placed much emphasis on trying to develop curriculum and
Technology Students Kevin Zender, Corey Blankenship, Tyson Bethke, Nathir Rawashdeh Department of Applied Computing, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MIAbstractThis paper details the design of a levitating ball portable training system for in-depth learning ofProportional Integral Derivative (PID) control theory. This system can be incorporated into theElectrical Engineering Technology bachelor degree curriculum laboratories at our university.Based on the prevalence of PID control applications in industry, and it being a relativelyadvanced concept in traditional, theory heavy, control system courses, it is important to addressthis topic with a practical system. This has inspired the idea of designing a PID training labcourse
of students in these courses. The curriculum is divided into two strata (Taylor,Foster, & Ratcliff, 2006)—foundation courses (Introduction to Engineering Design andPrinciples of Engineering) and specialization courses (Aerospace Engineering; BiotechnicalEngineering; Civil Engineering and Architecture; Computer Integrated Manufacturing; andDigital Electronics). The sequence of courses ends with a capstone course (Engineering Designand Development) that requires students to take their own idea from design through development.In addition, Gateway to Technology is offered in middle school in selected school districts and isintended to maintain and increase middle students’ interest in STEM fields and to encourage thestudents to take the high
Paper ID #10239Graduate students help to create a discovery-based and cooperative learningexperience about clean energy for high school students (curriculum exchange)Mr. Justin Michael Hutchison, University of Illinois Justin Hutchison, M.S., is currently a doctoral student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Uni- versity of Illinois. He is treasurer of the local student chapter of American Society for Engineering Edu- cation (ASEE) and a coordinator for graduate student outreach in the Civil and Environmental Graduate Student Professional Development Program. Mr. Hutchison is a National Science Foundation Graduate
Paper ID #38671Numerical Problem Solving across the Curriculum with Python and MAT-LABUsing Interactive Coding Templates: A Workshop for Chemical EngineeringFacultyAustin N. Johns, The State University of New York, Buffalo Austin N. Johns is an active-duty captain and developmental engineer in the United States Air Force. In 2017, he earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Oklahoma State University. In 2023, he earned a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. His graduate research focused on developing computational educational resources for use in the chemical