students. Apartnership built through the use COINS seeks to educate civil and construction engineeringstudents at the lower division and to introduce students to core engineering fundamentals thatform a basis for the knowledge on which they can build in upper division courses and at the sametime increase interest and excitement about engineering by incorporating project-based learningearly in the curriculum. The benefits for students include better preparation of students, asdemonstrated by increasing deeper understanding of project controls and constructability issues,for upper division coursework by implementing project planning and control systemsengineering design and implementation, realize an increase of 25% in the retention of studentswho
students and facultyagree on levels of creativity when they see it, regardless of a set definition and without facultystating their opinions during the design and critique process. Students were asked to apply anumber of architectural design concepts to a simple one-day design problem. They thencomparatively analyzed and critiqued the projects in group discussion that was moderated by thefaculty. Students were also asked to privately journal their observations and select withoutdiscussion a set number of the most successful projects in the class. Successful projects weredefined as ones that applied these concepts in a creative way to produce a solution. Theproblems were purposely left somewhat ill-defined with few constraints that allowed for a
hundred undergraduate and graduate students each year with the opportunity towork on real-world, design-build-test space systems projects. Such opportunities include themicrogravity flight experience available through NASA’s Reduced Gravity Student FlightOpportunities Program. By having a proposal accepted through a competitive evaluation process,students can design and fabricate an experimental payload that flies onboard a C-9 plane whoseparabolic flight trajectories permit short periods of microgravity test conditions.During August 2006, S3FL flew a C-9 microgravity test payload in support of the lab’s TetheredSATellite Testbed (TSATT) project, now known as the Tethered Satellite Ionospheric eXplorer(TSIX) satellite. In accordance with the 2004
, self-taught “device descriptions” and “quick lessons”, students submit project proposals and developan IoT-based project. Student projects include a Google calendar-based alarm clock where theuser must solve a challenge before silencing the alarm. Other projects included smart parking,home security, plant care, and a web-based automated brewing system. At the end of the semester,students showcase their projects to faculty, staff, and other students.The IoT lab module was created to improve interest, motivation, diversity, and retention of stu-dents in ECE. Interest and motivation are tracked by University-wide Student Rating of Teaching(SRT) surveys. The results show a greater than one standard deviation improvement in studentsurvey scores
development, not only of the students enrolled in classes, but of the unit’s teachingassistants (TAs). These undergraduate and graduate students serve in the classroom, gradeassignments, support open lab hours, and attend trainings. Additionally, some TAs choose tospend extra hours developing the spring semester robot design project offered to first-yearengineering students. Participating in this curriculum development project not only directlyimpacts the first-year students’ design experience but also gives the TAs a unique opportunity forprofessional development. They are responsible for all aspects of project development andcreation, including designing the competition scenario, constructing the physical course therobots compete upon, and
Development of a Five kW Solar Furnace for Solar Thermal Chemistry ResearchAbstractNumerous publications have described positive student outcomes when undergraduateengineering students participate in meaningful, real-world projects. Moreover, even students notdirectly involved in the real-world projects benefit through formal classroom interactions andinformal social interactions with those students that are participating in the projects. Recently,students at Valparaiso University completed a massive, interdisciplinary project to design,manufacture, assemble, and test a half-million dollar, five kW solar furnace. Because of thescope of the project, 50 students spanning seven years of graduating classes and two
for Engineering Education, 2013 How Important is the WOW Factor in First Year Engineering Courses?AbstractThis paper discusses the effectiveness of using projects with a “wow factor,” that is, engagingand challenging hands-on projects, in a freshman engineering course to excite students aboutengineering and to motivate student retention and persistence. The course, offered at San JoséState University, enrolls approximately 700 students per year in a lecture/laboratory format.Projects include a solar cell evaluation, and the design, construction and testing of a scaled windturbine and an autonomous robot. Impact of the course content on students’ knowledge andattitudes about engineering is
AC 2011-314: ENGINEERING SUSTAINABLE CIVIL ENGINEERSMelanie L. Sattler, University of Texas, Arlington Dr. Melanie Sattler is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. In her 7 years at UT Arlington, she has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator for 21 projects involving emissions measurement, air quality modeling, or air pollution control technologies. She teaches 5 graduate courses in air pollution, and is a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas.Yvette Pearson Weatherton, University of Texas, Arlington Dr. Yvette Pearson Weatherton received her Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science (Environmental Engineering) from the
and service-learning (S-L) in particular are more attractive to those from underrepresented groups inengineering than to their counterparts. Courses with service-learning projects have beenintegrated into existing required courses in engineering over the past six years in fivedepartments at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Entering engineering students have beensampled every fall with a “pre” survey, and then all students are surveyed “post” at the end of thespring semester. Evidence continues to mount of the significant difference in responses inattitudes toward community service and S-L in engineering with women especially and to alesser extent other minorities in engineering. Voluntary participation in S-L projects involvingwork
chapter atUND.Kiley House, University of North Dakota Kiley House is a first-year student in the Biomedical Engineering B.S. program at UND.She is also pursuing a minor in chemical engineering.Mckenna Matt, University of North Dakota Mckenna Matt is a second-year student in the Chemical Engineering B.S. program atUND and is also pursuing a minor in biomedical engineering. She is a member of the Society ofWomen Engineers and the Chemical Engineering Chapter at UND.Abstract: Innovation-based learning (IBL) is a classroom structure that lets undergraduate studentschoose their own focus in projects while relating it to the core principles of the course. It takes ahands-on approach, allowing students to work on projects that have an
students apply design methods, they rarely practice needs finding.All Canadian undergraduate engineering students participate in a capstone project in their fourthyear. Engineering instructors at the University of Waterloo have identified a lack of opportunitiesfor students to practice their need finding skills prior to fourth year. As a result, a set of needfinding instructional activities were conducted in-class for one term. The objective of thisresearch is to conduct evidence-based program improvement by identifying the teachingpractices that improve need finding competencies in engineering graduates. More specifically, inthis ongoing study, the authors explore how students identify, select, and justify their capstoneproject problem; and
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Why don’t commuter-school students pursue startups? AbstractThis paper reports the results of an empirical study of why student teams at commuter schools,particularly with underrepresented populations, do not pursue their course projects as startups.The study was conducted at a large public university at which 98% of undergraduate studentscommute to school, 84% are employed, and 80% are Hispanic-American. Interviews wereconducted with 16 students in an engineering major, a participation rate of 47% of the subjectpool. The interviews covered the students’ reasons for pursuing or not pursuing their courseproject after the conclusion of
on bioprocess engineering.The protein production project was developed and implemented during the fall 2006 semesterand repeated during the fall 2007 semester. A key element of the protein production project wasthe competition between student groups. Group performance was rated using a productionrubric, and the team with the highest score was guaranteed an “A” on the project. The rubricincluded equipment rental costs and production bonuses for producing large quantities of proteinof high purity. The equipment rental costs were carefully determined to encourage continuedstudent experimentation in the laboratory. The competitive nature of the project capturesstudents driven by achievement or instrumental types of motivation, which are not
project teams with a total of 112 students. The teamsrange from triples of computing majors to over a dozen students from six different majors andfour different departments. Reflection periods occur several times throughout the academic year,not just at the end. Some reflection consists of periods of silence spent individually. Otherreflection takes place in the context of lively group discussions. These techniques were developedby the authors, a team of three faculty who have co-taught this course for several years and whowanted our students to pursue deeper, more creative solutions to problems, to form more cohesiveteams, to be more deliberate in their decision-making and to avoid the last-minute rush tocompletion right before the final
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Enhancing Mechanical Engineering Education with Integrated 3D Printing ApproachAbstractRecent advances in additive manufacturing have allowed the integration of multiple mechanicalengineering fields including design, materials, mechanics, and manufacturing, for enhancedexperiential learning and education. This paper reports the education projects and programsbeing developed at the University of Oklahoma to improve undergraduate mechanicalengineering education using 3D printing technologies and systems, emphasizing three coretopics: design, solid mechanics, and manufacturing. The interaction of design, materials, solidmechanics, and manufacturing is carried
active and cooperativelearning could better motivate the students and help to transform them from passive recipients ofother people's knowledge into active constructors of their own and others' knowledge. Twoeffective methods of student-centered teaching include active/collaborative learning andinductive teaching and learning (ITL). Based on my experience of supervising 16 undergraduateson a collaborative biomedical research project over the past four years, a research-based learning(RBL) model has been developed that makes important addition to current ITL methods.The proposed RBL model shares some of the common features of ITL in that it is a student-centered and process-centered inductive approach. It also has the following features
Communities. He was the technical program co-chair of the 2012 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference. Since 2011, he has been the IEEE PES Vice President of Membership & Image. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE on the topics of energy poverty and remote community microgrids.Mr. Steve Szablya, Seattle University Steve Szablya received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University in 1983 and an MBA degree from Washington State University in 1985 and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Washington. He is an adjunct professor at Seattle University for the Electrical and Computer Engineering department advising senior design projects, including humanitarian projects for
Education, 2016 Effective building and development of student teamwork using personality types in engineering coursesAbstractEngineers have a high calling of contributing to the betterment of humanity. Engineering projectshave become more complicated in recent years. One solution to solving complex problems andworking on engineering projects is team building. Competent and effective team buildingrequires time and effort in the workplace or school. To best prepare students to meet theengineering profession’s demands and the needs of experienced professionals, teamwork andteam building need to be taught in the educational system. Teamwork is also a necessarycomponent of an engineering education. This paper presents
the PI on an NSF INCLUDES (Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Dis- coverers in Engineering and Science) project/Symposium for ADVANCING STEM Latinas in Academic Careers. Prior to his Dean position, Dr. Qubbaj served as Senior Associate Vice President/Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs & Diversity at UTRGV. He is also a full professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Qubbaj received his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma with specialization in combustion and energy system. His research has been sponsored by NSF, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense.Dr. Emmett Tomai, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley Emmett Tomai is an
with applications to mechatronics and aerospace systems. Andrew worked as a post- doctoral researcher at the Centre for Mechatronics and Hybrid Technology (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada). He also worked as a Project Manager in the pharmaceutical industry (Apotex Inc.) for about three years. Before joining the University of Guelph in 2016, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Andrew worked with a num- ber of colleagues in NASA, the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), US Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE). He is an elected Fellow of
work efficiently in a team.Over the past ten years, integrating design courses into engineering programs from the first to thelast year of the curriculum has attracted much attention6-22. Although there were concerns that thetechnical knowledge of new students might be insufficient to undertake a course in design,experience now shows that these courses can be successfully integrated into engineeringprograms as early as the first year7-12.Because design is a skill or behavior that is acquired with experience23 but also based ontechniques and tools10, it is advisable to offer students the opportunity to gain various experiencesthroughout their education from courses in engineering science and also from project-orientedcourses that specifically
University Eric A. Holt is a Graduate Instructor at Purdue University in the Building Construction Management Department. Holt earned a B.S. in building construction technology and spent 19 years in the residential construction industry. His career includes construction material sales and marketing, building inspection, customer home project management, and architectural design for homes and remodel projects. He earned a M.S. in technology from Purdue University, in construction management. He is currently working on his Ph.D. in construction management, focusing on experiential learning within construction education. He is a certified instructor for the National Association of Home Builders and teaches the Certified
competitions for multilateral exchange program grants. These come under the NorthAmerican Mobility in Higher Education program, and the European Community/U.S.A. JointConsortia for Cooperation in Higher & Vocational Education. There seems to be increased interestin international student and faculty exchange at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Oneexample is NSF support for the GE3 Program of the Institute of International Education (IIE), aprogram of academic exchanges and internships among some 40 U.S., Austrian, French, andGerman institutions. FIPSE also funds a faculty exchange program that directly complements GE3.This paper is based on the author’s experiences in evaluating several FIPSE and NSF-fundedexchange projects, reviewing
Paper ID #9848Research Experience for Teachers Site: A Work-in Progress ReportDr. Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University VIKRAM KAPILA is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. His research interests are in control system technology, mechatronics, and K-12 STEM education. He directs an NSF funded Web-Enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Remote Laboratory, an NSF funded Research Experience for Teachers Site, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He received NYU-Poly’s 2002, 2008, and 2011 Jacobs Excellence in Education Award
dynamics.The importance of teamwork is undeniable in industries relating to new product development,and engineering professionals almost always collaborate in project teams composed of peoplefrom various, complementary engineering backgrounds [1-3]. As directed by the projectmanagers or leaders, these project teams are responsible for completing various time-sensitivetasks and producing long lists of deliverables. Professionals from different engineering fieldsmust therefore learn how to effectively collaborate on development projects to produce a productof the highest quality, with the highest efficiency, and ideally at the lowest cost. However,teaching engineering students (especially freshmen) team dynamics [4] and effective strategiesfor handling
pervasiveness of computers throughout society, thereis a growing demand for diligent computer science education to satisfy the growing needs of amultiplicity of enterprises. This paper describes one approach to teaching computer science whilerequiring students to develop systems for various community, school, and university organizations. Thebenefits derived by the students and the clients receiving their services are many. A survey ofundergraduate students involved in community based projects provides a good summary of the impactof this type of education. There is a wide range of opportunities for civic engagement through project-oriented computer science courses that serve community needs. The results of the survey indicate thatthis type of education
(Graduate Apprentice) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com S-STEM First Year Progress: Baylor Engineering and Computer Science Scholar's ProgramThe major goal of the project is to contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists,mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Baylor University. Over itsfive-year duration, this project will fund four-year scholarships to 22 students who are pursuingBachelor of Science degrees in Engineering, Electrical and Computer
capstone course and provide engineering design and mathe-matic problem-solving experiences so that students are able to identify potential project topicsand create client contacts earlier in the process as well as connect additional course content di-rectly to the projects. Since the new capstone sequence was approved by both departments onlyrecently, it will be a few years before the implementation of the sequence, which allows us tocollect and analyze more qualitative data in the current capstone courses before finalizing thejoint capstone sequence. In the future, qualitative data will be collected from the joint capstonesequence to compare students’ experiences in the classroom as well as their career preparation.IntroductionA capstone course
use team-based learning are familiar with its great advantages and its pitfalls.There is a significant difference in how college course teams function as opposed to those inindustry. The method described here makes an attempt to simulate industry methods in theclassroom. Since engineers in industry apply for jobs, team leaders were asked to apply for therole, and team members were selected by team leaders based on an abbreviated application.The course that used this method was junior level Industrial Engineering Introduction to SystemsEngineering, taught by one instructor for three consecutive fall semesters. The project wasdesigned to require sub-teams with some specialization in different disciplines includingelectronics, mechatronics
American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Engineering Education, and Society of Women Engineers. Nazli has several active research projects on engineering education, wind energy, agricultural drainage and runoff treatment, stormwater pond assessment. For her research projects, she works with groups of undergraduate researchers. She has also been advising several student groups for their self-lead research projects. Many of these groups presented at National Conference in Undergraduate Research (NCUR). Nazli is also the proud faculty adviser of Society of Women Engineers MSU, Mankato Student Chapter and Engineers without Borders MSU, Mankato Student Chapter.Stephen J Druschel (Professor) (Minnesota State