, was a seven week long summerresearch experience designed for high school students entering 10-12 th grade. The main goal ofthe program was to provide young women and underrepresented minority high school studentswith a laboratory research experience and inspire them to enter college and pursue STEM degrees. Each summer, students from local high schools were selected to participate in laboratoryresearch as scholars under the supervision of a mentoring graduate student and faculty member.Each team composed of two YSs and their graduate mentor tackled problems innanomanufacturing and made significant contributions to ongoing research projects. At the endof the program, each high school student gave a final presentation of the results to
, personality, and assessment. He is director of the Individual and Team Performance Lab and the Virtual Team Performance, Innovation, and Collaboration Lab at the University of Calgary, which was built through a $500K Canada Foundation for Innovation Infrastructure Grant. He also holds operating grants of over $300K to conduct leading-edge research on virtual team effectiveness. Over the past 10 years Tom has worked with organizations in numerous industries includ- ing oil and gas, healthcare, technology, and venture capitals. He is currently engaged with the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary to train, develop, and cultivate soft-skill teamwork competencies in order to equip graduates with strong
exploring the current state of translational work and Page 24.313.3describing the rhetorical foundations for the procedure we developed.Translational workA main purpose of graduate education is to prepare scholars to be effective producers andconsumers of research. A significant component of this preparation is scaffolding graduatestudents as they learn to make and articulate connections from research to action. As called forby Nyquist and Woodford, graduate students must have the capacity to connect their research toother research as well as to practice: “Leaders in business and industry argue that Ph.Ds. lackcollaborative ways of thinking
, responsible conduct of research, and others. These sessions also serve to monitorstudent and team progress. Multiple assessment tools are used to evaluate student learning. Otherassessment tools, such as a Self-&-Peer evaluation and a Work Effort Certification are used toassess team work. This paper describes the individual topics of the course, the assessment toolsused, and the outcomes over the past 6 years.IntroductionEngineering design is a critical component of every undergraduate engineering program and isspecifically required by accreditation agencies, for example the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET). According to ABET, “Students must be prepared forengineering practice through a curriculum culminating in a major
technology resources.Factors Affecting Student PerformanceWhile the Satellite-University campus may feel like a scaled down version of the regular bigUniversity campus, in theory it is expected to provide the same resources for labs, funds forundergraduate research, same if not better-quality higher education, and similar studentopportunities for internships, projects, conferences, etc., in industry and academia. Studentsgraduating from satellite campuses should feel the same confidence in securing their dream job asa graduate from the big-University, based on the knowledge and skills they have acquired duringtheir years at the Satellite-University campus. The primary factors in a satellite campus, that canbe considered a testament to student
], theNational Collaborative Task Force concludes that one size or type of graduate education doesn’t fit all ─thus requiring two very different types of graduate education designed specifically to meet the differentmissions, purposes, and intents of each pursuit which necessitates major reform in engineering graduateeducation for professional practice. But the change that is required to yield a balanced emphasis inengineering graduate education, for both research and creative engineering practice, has been slow infruition ─ and the ‘disconnect’ in U.S. engineering graduate education continues to exist at too manyuniversities across the nation causing a long-term ‘gap’ in the further professional education of thenation’s engineers beyond entry-level in
AC 2010-118: SUPPORTS AND BARRIERS THAT RECENT ENGINEERINGGRADUATES EXPERIENCE IN THE WORKPLACESamantha Brunhaver, Stanford University Samantha Brunhaver is a second year graduate student at Stanford University. She is currently working on her Masters in Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests include engineering education and design for manufacturing. She earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering at Northeastern University in 2008.Russell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Russell Korte is an Assistant Professor of Human Resource Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently a Fellow with the iFoundry project in the College of Engineering at
AC 2007-892: EXPERIENCES OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AMONG PRACTICINGENGINEERS ? IMPLICATIONS FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATIONLlewellyn Mann, University of Queensland LLEWELLYN MANN is a PhD student in the School of Engineering at the University of Queensland and a member of the Catalyst Research Centre for Society and Technology. He has a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical & Space) and a Bachelor of Science (Physics) from UQ, as well as a Graduate Certificate of Education (Higher Education). Major research interests include; Engineering Education, Sustainability, Teaching and Learning, Engineering Design, Technology and Society.David Radcliffe, University of Queensland DAVID RADCLIFFE is the
Developed from a Research-Informed FrameworkI. IntroductionThis document describes an introductory helicopter aerodynamics and design engineering coursefor undergraduates in aeronautical or aerospace engineering. The three major sections of thisdocument are Content, Assessment, and Pedagogy. These sections have been developedaccording to Engineering Education research principles and findings, such that the three sectionsare aligned with one another. Each section presents at least one tool to guide coursedevelopment. The course’s foundation is to provide authentic practice for meaningful learning.The primary purposes of this paper are to present a unified strategy and a toolkit for developingengineering courses in Figure 1 and to use helicopter
AC 2009-1042: I’M GRADUATING THIS YEAR! SO WHAT IS AN ENGINEERANYWAY?Holly Matusovich, Virginia Tech Holly Matusovich is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education. Dr. Matusovich recently joined Virginia Tech after completing her doctoral degree in Engineering Education at Purdue University. She also has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and an M.S. in Materials Science with a concentration in Metallurgy. Additionally Dr. Matusovich has four years of experience as a consulting engineer and seven years of industrial experience in a variety of technical roles related to metallurgy and quality systems for an aerospace supplier. Dr. Matusovich’s research interests include
environmental impacts of electronics as a context for science helps enhance general societalknowledge and awareness. The inputs to the program include high school science teachers fromIndiana and Alabama, faculty and engineering graduate students at Purdue University andTuskegee University who served as research mentors, and an industrial advisory board,comprised of representatives from electronics companies. Recruiting participants for the RET began in the early winter, with admissions andmatching to research projects finalized by spring. During the spring, teacher participants woulddiscuss the research project with faculty mentors, and make tentative plants for the summer.Because the program included two universities, the kick-off and
needs of higher education graduates in Engineering, Informationand Communication Technologies (ICT) and Telecom services, since there is a need of newskills requirements of many jobs not only in terms of formal qualifications, but also in termsof detailed skills and competences. Identification of new demands for qualifications andqualifications profile development input the business and employment into curriculumdevelopment and course design, to answer to the need of practically oriented/occupationallyspecific and designed for participants to acquire the practical skills, and know-how needed foremployment in a particular occupation programs, which usually provides the participants witha labor-market relevant qualification. In the view of
Paper ID #8586Advanced Student-Centric Learning Practices in Applied Engineering Pro-gramsProf. Ben D Radhakrishnan, National University Prof. Ben Radhakrishnan is currently a full time Faculty in the School of Engineering, Technology and Media (SETM), National University, San Diego, California, USA. He is the Lead Faculty for MS Sus- tainability Management Program. He develops and teaches Engineering Management and Sustainability Management graduate level courses. Ben has taught Sustainability workshops in Los Angeles (Army) and San Diego (SDGE). His special interests and research include teaching methods (specifically
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findings at the end of the summer experience.Year 3The focus of the final year of the research methods course was the preparation of students for theculminating summer research experience with a STEM faculty mentor. Course activities weredesigned to allow students to gain a greater understanding of and practice in: 1) formulatingresearch questions, 2) developing experimental designs, 3) creating and testing researchhypotheses and 4) data collection and analysis. Students were tasked with integrating both thescientific method and engineering design process in the modeling, design and testing of amousetrap car. Students explored the effect of wheel size, type and number, center of gravity, massand friction on mousetrap car performance. Participants
and techniques ofvisualization should begin early; consequently, the idea for a summer research experience forundergraduates in visualization was born. The goal of the research site is consistent with the goalof the NSF-REU program: to provide promising undergraduate students with a complete,mentored research experience, to better prepare these students for graduate school orprofessional pursuits and encourage them to pursue a career in science [15]. The impact ofundergraduate research experiences have been well documented [16], [17], [18], [19]. Facultymembers generally agree that there are significant educational benefits to the undergraduateresearch experience [20], [21]. Students are thought to develop expertise in a specific area
provide students with a solid background in the newest engineering topics and tofamiliarize them with this increasingly relevant industry technology, tools, methods, practice,codes and standards. Another intended outcome is that the start-to-finish project design, meetingsystem performances and requirements are important issues for engineering graduates to learn.Coupled with the requirement that students work in teams, often multidisciplinary ones, thedesign experience aligns very well with the ABET outcomes. However, one particularlychallenging outcome is for the engineering students to demonstrate an understanding of howengineering and applied sciences relates to the broader contexts of society and the world. Forinstance, the new 4th ABET
communication instruction to students as they progress through the senior capstone project and develop relationships with project stakeholders in industry. She also supports engineering communication program development, research, and implementation. Her Ph.D. research interests include social justice pedagogies; promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education; service learning; program design and leadership; and qualitative research.Jacob Field, Oregon State UniversitySierra Kai Sverdrup, Oregon State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Report on a Student Community of Practice Program's Impact on Career Preparednessand Sense of Belonging Among Underserved
; materials, and concrete durability. His interests also include: contemporary issues of engineering education in general, and those of the Middle East and the Arab Gulf States in particular. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 How Engineering Design Learning May be Improved: Thoughts, Practices, and RecommendationsAbstract: Design is considered by most to be the central activity of engineering. Also, it isknown that engineering programs should graduate engineers who can design effectively to meetsocial and environmental needs. Though the role and perception of design across a wide range ofeducational institutions have improved markedly in recent years; however, both
higher education and improve learning outcomes. Her research to date has focused on educational designs that emphasize learner ini- tiative and agency through inquiry or problem-based learning in formal and informal learning contexts. She has published several papers on the characteristics of learning environments that support or constrain opportunities for any students (including those from non-dominant backgrounds) to participate in key science and engineering process skills such as scientific argumentation. Her work is largely informed by the principles and perspectives on human development and cognition articulated by Cultural Historical Activity Theory. Putting theory into practice, she teaches a service-learning
Paper ID #37319The Impact of Prototyping Strategies on Computer-Aided Design BehaviorDr. Alexander R. Murphy, University of Texas at Dallas Alexander R. Murphy is a Research Fellow in the mechanical engineering department at the University of Texas at Dallas. Alexander earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a focus on design theory and engineering education. Alexander was a re- cipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program fellowship during his graduate studies and is currently part of the inaugural cohort of ASEE eFellows with funding through NSF. His
Stephen Krause. Her research interests in STEM education include faculty development, best classroom practices, and improving undergraduate engineering student retention through understanding what makes students leave engineering. She will be pursuing her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering starting in 2016 at the University of California Berkeley.Prof. James A. Middleton, Arizona State University James A. Middleton is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Director of the Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology at Arizona State Univer- sity. For the last three years he also held the Elmhurst Energy Chair in STEM education at the University of Birmingham
Paper ID #27481Fostering a Relationship with a Corporate Sponsor to Grow an EngineeringLeadership Development ProgramDr. Elizabeth Michelle Melvin, Louisiana State University Elizabeth M. Melvin is currently the Director of Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She earned her BS in chemical engineering from The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH in 2002 and her MS and PhD in chemical engineering from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC in 2008 and 2011 respectively. While NC State, the focus of her research was to design microfluidic devices for the
Paper ID #10737Critical Thinking, Reflective Practice, and Adaptive Expertise in EngineeringNathan Hicks, University of Florida Current graduate student in materials science and engineering at the University of Florida. Spent three years teaching high school math and science before returning to graduate school for an advanced degree.Amy Elizabeth Bumbaco, University of FloridaDr. Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida Elliot P. Douglas is Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Dean’s Fellow for Engi- neering Education, and Distinguished Teaching Scholar at the University of Florida. He conducts research
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Embedding video-based learning modules for library research methods in an online graduate engineering degree programAbstractAt the University of California, Berkeley, the College of Engineering has launched a fully onlineMaster's degree program in integrated circuits. As part of this program, students are required tocomplete a comprehensive capstone project requiring access to the research literature andtraining on its use.The Library plays an important role in providing the information resources and instruction tohelp students succeed in their capstone. In response to student need, we designed an onlineinstruction environment that supports common information challenges, uses
Paper ID #8489Interdisciplinary Capstone ProjectsDr. Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University Arif Sirinterlikci is the Interim Department Head of Engineering for Robert Morris University, and a University Professor. He has been involved in ASEE and SME organizations in the fields of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. He has conducted research in Rapid Prototyping and Reverse Engineering, Biomedical Device Design and Manufacturing, Automation and Robotics, and CAE in Manufacturing. Page 24.799.1
is passionate about understanding and dismantling the systems in engineering that marginalize students.Elisa Koolman, University of Texas at Austin Elisa is a Ph. D. student at the University of Texas at Austin. They are currently researching interactions in makerspaces, efficacy of a teaching software in an engineering design course, and disability in STEM. Elisa is passionate about continuing efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Queer Ties: A Work in Progress LGBTQ+ Graduate Student Mentorship Program The purpose of this work in progress paper is to share preliminary results and lessonslearned from a pilot scale
regularlywith personnel for Let Me Learn. Professor Harvey has subsequently begun a 10-weekintensive course involving 28 hours of instruction on all aspects of the LCI.The LCI has been used in the engineering program at Rowan University to enhance theperformance of student teams [19]. In Sophomore Clinic I, a multidisciplinarysophomore design and composition course that is taught collaboratively by faculty fromengineering and composition and rhetoric, faculty used the results of the LCI to formteams with balanced components of each learning pattern, based on research suggestingthat successful learning in team environments occurs if team members havecomplementary learning patterns
valuable addition tothe electrical engineering curriculum.We argue that the reasons behind the technical choices, their impact on the resource consumptionand the performance versus flexibility tradeoffs are relevant for cellular communicationsstandards education. Moreover, project management, team work, development of realisticexpectations and practical solutions are skills that are much demanded by industry in addition todomain-specific technical specialization. We therefore propose a methodology for teachingstandards that creates favorable conditions for developing those skills.The combination of lecture-centered education [2] with laboratory-centered approaches [3], [4],has been adopted in the engineering curriculum when the Conceive, Design
-melt gluing technology, was to deposit a thinlayer of material onto a build table slowly constructing the desired component layer by layer.This paper is concerned with the design, manufacture, and testing of an open source FDMdesktop machine using a single thread of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) material.Commercially available FDM 3-D printers have a wider selection of print material, for examplepolycarbonate (PC), polylactic acid (PLA), high density polyethylene (HDPE),polyphenylsuffine (PPSU), and high impact polystyrene (HIPS) to list just a few . In addition,many commercial machines use a water soluble wax or a very brittle material such aspolyphenylsulfone (PPSF) as a substrate support in the building process.FDM modeling produces