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
Journal 2: Personal reflection technology 4 Implicit bias, barriers Project 1: Women in engineering profile 5 Imposter Syndrome, engineering Journal 3: Barriers and solutions identity 6 Strategies for students in engineering Journal 4: Pay gap and technology 7 Network, mentors, and sponsors Project 2: Structural and cultural barriers 8 Gendered communication, engineering Journal 5: Elevator speech communication 9 Work-life balance, family support, time Journal 6: Family-work policies management 10 Job-hunting and gender Project 3: Job Search 11 Career path and progress
into their courses. Additionally, these extended student outcomes have been mappedto ABET outcomes. To date, project-based learning (PBL) activities have been implemented orare planned in most of the second and third year Bioengineering integrated core classes, as well asseveral of the track-specific courses and upper level elective courses. As we move forward,establishing an effective assessment mechanism to measure student outcomes will be a keycomponent of our continuous curriculum improvement plan.Introduction:The concept of “Vertically Integrated Projects” and “Connected Curriculum” in university settingsis not new. The concepts were originally conceived at Georgia Institute of Technology and theUniversity College of London, respectively
presented tome orally by one of the three team members each week. Each team member presented threetimes during the semester. The premise was that the team supervisor (me) had requested somework and the team was updating me on what they had found. Each assignment had fewerproblems than a typical homework assignment but focused on exploring a topic in more depth. Icalled the assignments mini-projects. The presentations were informal in that the students couldscan their handwritten notes and share them during our virtual meeting instead of creating aPowerpoint presentation. The person presenting was required to be on camera (and I was, too).One weekly meeting time for the 4-credit hour course was dedicated to these presentations, butanother hour
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learning through real life projects. This paperexplains how, and through which channels the faculty and the department have worked withcompanies in different industries. Furthermore, the mutual benefits of these collaborations tostudents, faculty, academic programs, and industry are discussed.Academia collaborations with Industry has a long standing history. However, unlike somecollaborations that were initiated by academia through certification programs or industry inputfor academic curriculums, this paper is about industry projects done by faculty and students andcustomized training for industry. In particular, three different types of collaborations arediscussed: 1) a long term collaboration with a large regional industry and how it has helped
less compartmentalization of knowledge,greater student enthusiasm, and deeper learning of concepts. Integration of MENG 351 occursacross a number of courses, including Systems Laboratory, Mechanics of Materials, MachineDesign, Thermodynamics, and others.Projects were carefully chosen to achieve the learning objectives of MENG 351 and to interfacewith future courses in the inductive learning process. The shop portion of MENG 351 is aimedat developing skills in woodworking, manual machining, and sheetmetal fabrication. In a latercourse (Manufacturing Processes), students develop CNC and welding skills. Students workedin teams of 2 for almost all projects. In the shop, this buddy-system arrangement helped ensurestudents were attentive to each
holds a Ph.D. in English from Ball State University. Page 14.294.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Building an Engineering Technology Workforce: A Plan for Reaching Young People, Adults and Women“Building an Engineering Technology Workforce: A Plan for Reaching Young People,Adults and Women” is a comprehensive recruiting project to increase the number ofpeople who prepare to enter engineering and engineering technology careers. Withsupport from an Advanced Technological Education grant from the National ScienceFoundation and guided by research in career selection, the project addresses the barriersthat
Education: PhD. Major: Mechanical Engineering, Minor: Applied Mathematics Profes- sional Engineer License Certifications: Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Current Position: Associate Chair Engineering Technology and Mechanical Engineering Technology Program Director Industrial Experience Over 20 years of industrial experience initially as a Royal Naval Dockyard indentured craftsman machinist and Design Draftsman and project manager on Leander class Steam Turbine Naval frigates and diesel electric submarines. Most recently includes 12 years in Research and Development and Lean Six Sigma process improvement experience troubleshooting process issues in the Paper, Chemical, and Converting Industries
tips if something goes wrong. Using Arduino as our building platform, our curriculum walks students through 16 individual experiments. In the first experiment, students start off with a simple circuit using a single LED and one I/O pin on the Arduino. Students learn to program and manipulate three different commands / functions in Arduino pinMode(), delay() and digitalWrite(). With these three commands, students can design and create unique blinking LED patterns from a beating heart to morse code. The second experiment has students look at reading an INPUT. In this project, students read the voltage of a simple turn potentiometer. We use the potentiometer’s reading with the blink example from the first experiment to manipulate the delay
Community Model addressing High Altitude Water Shortage Issues in Peru.AbstractIn July 2018, a team of 8 students, a faculty member and a staff member from the University ofLouisville left for Calca, Peru to meet with indigenous, marginalized communities to support andassist them in their efforts to address water access issues and concerns.This project developed out a need to increase global opportunities at a four-year, mandatory co-op engineering program that offered few opportunities for global exposure. The result was thedevelopment of a semester-long annual course which culminates in a 16 day in-countryexperience. This program utilizes three partners: the indigenous communities, a local non-profitorganization called Andean Alliance (that
sub-disciplines (Intradisciplinary) as well as with professionals from other fields(Interdisciplinary). One of the learning outcomes of the two-course capstone design sequence atWentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts is an intradisciplinary team designexperience.In the first course of the capstone design sequence (CIVE4000), teams of five students developand initiate the design of their original project with each project covering five different civilengineering sub-disciplines. Each student on the team is responsible for one of the technicalareas of their project. During the laboratory sessions, the students must work together with thedifferent civil engineering disciplines on their team as well as meeting with the
A Hands-on Approach To Teaching CAD/CAM for Manufacturing and Rapid Prototyping ApplicationsAbstractThis paper describes an integrated laboratory-oriented course IT445 in computer-aideddesign/manufacturing and computer numerical control. Teaching this subject in an 11-week ofacademic quarter is a challenging task requiring a combination of instructional delivery methods.We used a hands-on learning approach involving in-class computer-based exercises and team-based laboratory projects. The course content is designed around four major subjects: softwarefamiliarization, hardware familiarization, design and manufacturing integration, and industrialapplications. The author will share his observations and experience with
. Page 12.650.2Student Intellectual Development StrategiesHands-on team-based projects in the curriculum have been reported in the literature to enhanceengineering student intellectual development and retention1,2. At BCU, a project of the typedescribed below are assigned in the microprocessor and embedded systems course.The project, assigned to a group of 2 to 3 students may be stated as follows: “design, developand implement a microcontroller-based system on a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) to measure thetemperature of a specified location and transmit the measurement by wireless means to a givenserver”. In this assignment, the students will have to obtain on their own all the informationneeded to do the project. The instructor provides the
State University Vancouver. His research interests are robotics, automation, fuzzy logic, technology assisted distance delivery of laboratory courses and haptic interfaces for virtual reality. Page 12.464.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Design Panel: A Tool for Assessment in Design CoursesAbstract - In this paper, we first present the fundamental framework of our ABETassessment plan for our program and explain how an assessment tool called Design Panelfits. The Design Panel tool is used to assess courses with substantial project components.Then, we explain the details of organizing and managing
hydraulic components with PLC programs.To let students have hands-on applications in this course, a two-hour/week lab is alsooffered to train the students to integrate mechanical, pneumatic, and electricalcomponents with ladder diagrams or PLC programs. The lab basically includes threemain sessions: (1) four weeks of pneumatic applications, (2) four weeks of pneumaticcomponents, electrical sensors, and ladder diagrams, and (3) five weeks of PLCprogramming using IDEC3 and TRiLOGI4 PLCs. In addition, the simulation software ofAutomation Studio5 is used in each project so that students can check their designs beforeimplementing their projects. Depending on the number of students enrolled in each lab,several small groups are formed so that they
engineeringtechnology versus engineering, and the confusion that seems to be present in both industry andacademia. A new model was needed in order to define an ET education that attracts studentswhile meeting the needs of those businesses and industries that hire ET graduates. After ourstudents, graduates, and the Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MET) Industry AdvisoryCommittee were surveyed, a new model was developed. Without going into details of thismodel (a topic for another paper), its key elements provide the following intents for ourgraduates: 1. Fast track to technical project management. 2. High-value specialty knowledge positions (not design engineering positions).Each relevant ET course is being evaluated to see what is needed to
SESSION 2253 A Novel Course To Provide Electrical Engineering Experience To Freshmen Students Hirak C. Patangia University of Arkansas at Little Rock hcpatangia@ualr.eduAbstractAn experiential learning course centered around an intellectually inquisitive project has beendesigned to introduce freshmen students to the field of elect rical engineering, and also to providethe students with a head start for the beginning engineering courses they will take later in
. Because of Rapid Application Development toolsthat have emerged for the software industry, students can develop and deliver an industrial-strength prototype in a short period of time. There are other project-based courses available, buttheir emphasis is traditionally placed on delivering a hardware solution—an approach that forcesstudents to focus on time-consuming hardware development activities.Software projects are different. To be successful, they require a team effort because the overalltask is too large for a single student to complete. But modular software development techniquesallow student teams to create and manage a series of cooperating tasks that must be managed tobe successful. As a result of this requirement, it becomes easy to
Young UniversityGregg M. Warnick, Brigham Young University Gregg M. Warnick is the External Relations and Intern Coordinator for the Mechanical Engineering de- partment in the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology at BYU. He works directly with industry each year to recruit more than 30 funded Capstone projects and provides project management, team development, and coaching support to each of these project teams and faculty coaches. In ad- dition, he continues to focus on increasing international project opportunities for students and faculty. His research and teaching interests include globalization, project management, leadership, ethics, and manufacturing processes. Prior to joining BYU, Gregg worked
Session 3553 LEGO 101: A Multidisciplinary Freshman Team Experience Dick K. Blandford, Deborah J. Hwang, Anthony Richardson University of EvansvilleAbstractSome have indicated that it is not possible to do an multidisciplinary team project with freshmanin engineering and computer science that meets the specifications set out by ABET formultidisciplinary teams. This paper presents a course whose goal is to do just that. We define amultidisciplinary team as one in which each team member brings to the team unique skills andinterests that are essential to solving a problem. ENGR/CS 101 has a
Institute are described by Ercolano2. Some of these courses are focused on projects(design or research) done by teams, and others educate students in interdisciplinary topics withno formal teamwork involved.The development of our MBL course was motivated specifically by the increasing relevance ofbiotechnology research and production to the chemical industry3. This need was underscored bya panel of distinguished research chemists assembled by Chemical and Engineering News. Themajority of the panel believed that chemistry applied to biology is one of the most intellectuallystimulating of today’s research frontiers4. Storck5 also cites the importance of biotechnology for
environmental ethic that will lead to sustainability for humans and theecological systems that support us. An essential part of the class is a design project in which thestudents design a “Center for Sustainable Education”. The facility must utilize sustainabletechnologies for power, heating, cooling, and water supply. The students must demonstratefinancial feasibility of their project through the development of a business plan that provides adetailed analysis of construction costs, operating expenses and revenues. The cost of renewableresources must be compared to conventional resources. The students are given an initial “startupgrant” of 1.5 million dollars and are expected to leverage this money through innovative strategiesto cover the cost of
Session 2522 Capstone Design via Distance Education A DESIGN Partnership Including Industry and Higher Education Arnold F. Johnson University of North DakotaAbstractA unique capstone design course was offered by the University of North Dakota (UND) to distanceeducation students at their industry work sites using company based projects and industry mentors for thefirst time in the fall of 1996; the course was offered again in the fall of 1997. The structure of thecapstone design course, the university-industry partnership, the selection and
Massachusetts Boston investigating successful scaling strategies for innovations in technological education. Page 22.228.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Art2STEM: Building a STEM Workforce at the Middle School Level1. IntroductionArt2STEM is an Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) -Strategy Project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and it is currently in itssecond year. Project partners are Alignment Nashville, PENCIL Foundation, MetropolitanNashville Public Schools (MNPS), Adventure Science Center, Tennessee Tech University, andEdvantia
GC 2012-5653: STUDENT DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE UTM-DTUINTERNATIONAL SUMMER COURSE ON SUSTAINABLE CONSUMP-TION AND PRODUCTIONDr. Zainura Zainoon Noor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Dr Zainura Zainon Noor is a senior lecturer at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). She has experiences in green design and processes, life cycle assessment, cost benefit analysis, carbon footprint, greenhouse gas inventory and projection as well as sustainable de- velopment policy implementation, and is currently leading the Green Technology Research Group at the Institute of Water and Environmental Management. Since 2010, she has been coordinating UTM DTU International Summer Course on Sustainable
project is to provide students with an education that stresses engineeringfundamentals set in the context of Conceiving-Designing-Implementing-Operating (CDIO)real-world systems and products Page 7.732.1The project strategy to implement CDIO has four themes: Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education 1. curriculum reform to ensure that students have opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to conceive and design complex systems and products 2. improved teaching and learning
Session 2793 Creating an Engineering Enterprise Team Based on the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge Scott A. Miers, Carl L. Anderson, Paula F. Zenner Michigan Technological UniversityIntroductionThe Enterprise Program at Michigan Technological University was implemented in the fallsemester 2000 as a response to the NSF sponsored Action Agenda Program encouragingengineering education reform. The following goals of the MTU Enterprise Program are addressedthrough both course work and project work: • promotion of student based and life-long learning
high schools. Lack of student interest in technical careers can also beattributed to a lack of an integrated approach in teaching math, science, and technicaleducation. Lack of a strong foundation in math and science at the school level has led to large-scale flight and attrition from STEM-based career tracks in higher education. Engineering andengineering technology programs throughout the nation have observed declining graduationrates and quality of incoming students. To engage students’ interest in a technical career path,students must establish a link between the theoretical knowledge and its application to solvereal-life problems early in their learning experience. Project-based activities have a provenrecord as an instructional tool. The
Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder, where she teaches Senior Design and thermo-fluids courses. Her teaching philosophy focuses on student preparation for engineering practice – incorporating industry and alumni interactions into curricular and co-curricular activities. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Managers and Engineers: Impact of Defined Roles on Shared Leadership in Capstone DesignAbstractThe aim of this study is to learn how the assignment of project roles in engineering capstonedesign teams influences leadership skills such as accountability, communicating a vision,teamwork, role identity, and management, along with a measure of