these databases allow recruitment effortsto continue year-round. In addition, past participants, faculty acquaintances, and collaborators onother projects, have been valuable source of quality applicants.The applicant pool tended to range between 30 – 60 individuals who were selected based on theiracademic record, a narrative essay about their motivation and goals, and on a letter ofrecommendation. The applicants were first arranged into two groups, target and non-targetapplicants. Each pool was then ranked against others in that pool. It has been found that GPA is akey predictor of success and benefits of undergraduate research, but this factor has a much higherimpact for students at the junior or senior level.8 Thus, a holistic approach was
hope is to bringalong the technological innovation to the region and create additional jobs and economicdevelopment for the region.Having these centers owned and controlled by the university, like teaching hospitals that areoperated by medical schools, provides a great opportunity for advancing engineering education.Consequently, it is no surprise that some (though not as many as there should be) colleges ofengineering have taken advantage of this opportunity. These colleges have established aninternal internship program through which engineering students are hired as part-time interns andwork as a full fledged engineers on projects contracted with the industry. Although theadvantages of operating these centers in terms of the quality of
involving specific technical areas. In addition to these design experiences, which aresimilar in form to those in many engineering undergraduate programs, Baylor undergraduateengineering students take a required first-semester junior course in design, EGR 3380 –Engineering Design I, commonly known as Junior Design.Our objectives in placing a comprehensive design course at the midpoint of the curriculum are:to provide students with a motivating and peer-bonding experience; to reinforce the importanceand application of the fundamental concepts they have been, are currently, and will be learning;to develop and promote a professional attitude among students toward engineering; and, todevelop students’ teamwork, communication, project management, and
development of an understanding of the problem from the client’s perspective as wellas an analysis of solution alternatives.Unfortunately, in many cases, the software engineering course is offered late in thecurriculum, typically at the senior level. This makes it difficult for students to apply theknowledge that they have learned effectively on capstone and other academic projects.Students often comment that it would have been “nice to know this” before making thewrong decisions on their capstone projects. Thus, to be successful, components of softwareengineering need to be taught earlier in the undergraduate curriculum. This shifting to anearlier level, however, poses pedagogical issues.This paper describes the metamorphosis of an undergraduate
generallydo not gain experience in open-ended design or entrepreneurial innovation – skills which may behighly valued by future employers or graduate schools, and even in upper-level project-basedcourses such as capstone design.Biofabrication Lab is an upper-level elective laboratory course offering students hands-onexperience in advanced cell culture, computer aided design, additive manufacturing, andprototyping related to translational bioengineering. Quantitative Physiology Lab is a requiredlaboratory course in which third-year bioengineering students conduct experiments to measureand model human physiological systems, while gaining experience in data analysis andpresentation. To expand the breadth of knowledge and experience gained by students, a
2006-1481: ASSESSING STUDENT KNOWLEDGE OF THE LEARNINGOBJECTIVESJoanne Mathews, Illinois Institute of TechnologyDaniel Ferguson, Illinois Institute of Technology Senior Lecturer, Interprofessional Studies Program (IPRO), Il Institute of TechnologyMargaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of TechnologyAbhinav Pamulaparthy, Illinois Institute of Technology IPRO Team Project Manager; major in MMAE Page 11.240.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Assessing Student Acquisition of Knowledge of Learning Objectives for an Interprofessional Projects ProgramAbstractThe Interprofessional Projects Program
Paper ID #7102Developing Interdisciplinary Research Partners: The Learning by InnovativeNeuro Collaborations Research UREDr. Barbara Burks Fasse PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology Barbara Burks Fasse is the Director of Learning Sciences Innovation and Research in the Coulter De- partment of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Georgia Tech. Dr. Fasse studies the efficacy and value of student-centered learning initiatives and reform pedagogy, specifically Problem-Based and Project-Based Learning, in classrooms, instructional labs, capstone design, and undergraduate research experiences. She joined the BME faculty in 2007
Carolina Agricultural &Technical State University. She mentored Departmental sponsored projects such as UNCC Parking team, IEEE Hardware competition teams, indus- try sponsored projects from Microsoft, NASA teams and special Innovation and Entrepreneurship teams. She published and presented papers in ASEE conferences in June 2009, 2010, and 2011. Prior to her current position at UNC- Charlotte, Nan worked for IBM (15 years) and Solectron (8 years) in the area of test development and management.Dr. James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte James M. Conrad received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and his master’s and doctorate degrees in computer
Engineering at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU). She joined PVAMU right after she obtained her Ph.D. degree in Com- puter Engineering from Mississippi State University in 2003. Her research interests include image and video processing, data compression, wavelets, computer vision, remote sensing, and computing educa- tion. Her projects are currently funded by NSF, United States Department of Agriculture, and Department of Education.Dr. Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University Bugrahan Yalvac is an associate professor of science and engineering education in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture at Texas A&M University, College Station. He received his Ph.D. in science education at the Pennsylvania
worked as the Education Project Manager for the NSF-funded JTFD Engineering faculty development program, as a high school math and science teacher, and as an Assistant Principal and Instructional & Curriculum Coach.Dr. Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University Ann F. McKenna is the Vice Dean of Strategic Advancement for the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, and is a professor of engineering in the Polytechnic School, one of the seven Fulton Schools. Prior to joining ASU, she served as a program director at the National Science Founda- tion in the Division of Undergraduate Education, and was the director of education improvement in the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern
of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. He is a fellow of ASEE and NSPE.Paul Leidig Paul A. Leidig is a PhD candidate in Engineering Education and a member of the instructional team for the Engineering Projects In Community Service (EPICS) program at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He received his Bachelors of Science in Architectural Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and Masters of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mr. Leidig is licensed as a Professional Engineer in the state of Colorado and has six years of structural engineering consulting experience
semester, nine students were recruited to participate in a UAS cybersecurity-focused undergraduate research experience. Three faculty members each identified a small topicarea for undergraduate students to pursue. The three areas are: 1. Small UAS (sUAS) Vulnerability and Threat Assessment and Mitigation 2. Effects of Cyber Attacks on Communication in UAS Swarms with Distributed Swarm Control 3. Enhancing Security of Cloud-Connected UAS ServicesStudents were placed onto teams based on their prior course experiences and the projectrequirements. Common resources were provided for all students to train them in conductingresearch. Teams were then tasked with developing a more comprehensive research plan for theirspecific project and
utilizecompetencies developed in the first three years of the curriculum in the solution of a complexdesign problem.Educational excellence requires exposing students to the current edge of research. To ensure thatstudent projects are along the same trajectory that the industry is moving, educators mustcontinually introduce emerging techniques, practices, and applications into the curriculum. Thefields of Internet of Things (IoT) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are growing rapidly, andthere is increasing interest in providing undergraduate students with a foundation in these areas.This paper presents IoT and WSN projects that our undergraduate computer and electricalengineering students have done in their senior capstone course in wildfire
, built, tested, and documented by each student atthe end of the semester. For the past decade this experience has enriched and prepared thestudents to embark in more challenging projects at the senior capstone design experience.
Dayton, Ohio, he is a Dayton Public Schools and West District Science Fair Judge for the Montgomery County and the Miami Valley of Ohio. He has had significant and dynamic involvement with numerous research and/or engineering projects ex- ecuted for over thirty (30) organizations over a span of thirty-seven (37) years, including General Electric, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Great Lakes Center for Truck Transportation Research (GLCTTR), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), The Boeing Co., McDonnell Douglas Cor- poration, the US Army Tank-automotive Command (TACOM), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), etc. Through these research and project interactions, he has served
research interests are in multiscale modeling of crystalline material defects such as the interaction of dislocations and grain boundaries with application to enhanced material design for thin film semiconductor devices.Dr. Robert Hart P.E., University of Texas at Dallas Robert Hart is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Uni- versity of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He teaches the capstone design course sequence and serves as a Director for the UTDesign program, which facilitates corporate sponsorship of capstone projects and promotes re- source sharing and cross-disciplinary collaboration among engineering departments. His professional interests are in the areas of engineering
Empowering Undergraduates to Design and Conduct Experiments and Attain Outcome 3b of the ABET Engineering Criteria Beckry Abdel-Magid Department of Composite Materials Engineering, Winona State University, Winona, MN 55987. Beckry@winona.eduAbstractTwo approaches of incorporating design of experiments in an undergraduate laboratory courseare presented in this paper. The first approach consisted of a semi-structured design ofexperiment project with prescribed experimental procedure, and the second approach consistedof an open-ended design project where students had to develop, justify and execute anexperimental program. Comparison and contrast
-efficacy through building Secondary independence and confidence. ● Build enthusiasm in the possibility of pursuing a Goals career in engineering. Secondary Goals of M-Power Tools: ● Provide mentorship and role models to middle school-aged participants. ● Teach girls to safely and effectively use power tools to accomplish project goals and demystify the process of building and fabrication (male dominated fields of engineering). ● Strengthen teamwork skills. ● Illustrate that engineers are vital contributors to the betterment of
, demonstrate keystoneconcepts of electronics, including single stage amplifier design, multistage amplifier design,clipping, biasing, and variable parameter control. In addition, the implementation of theseamplifiers in a small package size (within a metal enclosure) provides an excellent avenue forexposing students to printed circuit board (PCB) layout and prototyping. One benefit of thesecircuits is that they can be used with an input device (guitar) and an output device (audio amplifier)and students can physically observe (and hear) the results of their design. One particular benefit ofthis approach is a greater understanding of frequency response characteristics, as students are ableto hear the results.In this work, several lab projects were
adjunct instructors from the construction industry. They usually are current construction engineers or managers who have many years of construction experience and are rich of professional skills. Then these instructors teamed up with full-time faculty to co-teach courses. This approach combines the high quality of engineering theory with valuable professional skills to provide students with an excellent learning opportunity. • Professional development in the industry – faculty members were encouraged to obtain summer internships in the local construction firms to develop professional skills such as surveying, project control, field management, etc.The implementation of these approaches makes sure that
support STEM education in developing nations, thus, open source applications would be the solution to this dilemma. Open source software technology depends on collaborative work among people from all over the world, therefore, students in developing nations can gain their experiences while they are contributing to open source projects and earn their degrees while they are at their home county and no need to travel to study abroad. Schools can utilize STEM open source for teaching that leads to build robust education for students and help build their future and move out of poverty.In this paper we discuss Open source as tools and applications to enhance students learning inSTEM education. Examples of open sources, Oracle VM
Accelerating the Pace…Jim TungMathWorks Fellowjim@mathworks.com © 2012 The MathWorks, Inc.1Accelerating the Pace ofEngineering and Science 2Accelerating the Pace ofDiscovery, Innovation,Development, and Learning inEngineering and Science 3MathWorks Product Familiesfor technical computingfor simulation andModel-Based Design 4MathWorks at a Glance Earth’s topography on a Miller cylindrical projection, created
Paper ID #23052Work in Progress: Exploring the STEM Education and Learning Impactsof Socially-relevant Making through the Challenge Problem of Making Pros-thetics for KidsMr. Jeffrey Craig Powell, UNC Charlotte Jeff Powell is a graduate student at UNC-Charlotte studying Biological Sciences. He is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Biomedical Engineering program. As a student at UNC-CH, Jeff started The Helping Hand Project, a 501c3 non-profit and student volunteer group which supports children with upper limb differences. This includes using 3D-printers to create prosthetic devices for children. The non-profit includes chapters
has been one of the most rapidlygrowing disciplines and been widely used both in industry and daily lives. As a result, wirelesscommunications courses are becoming increasingly popular as an important part of engineeringeducation in various universities and educational institutions. However, in many universities,there are still not sufficient or efficient laboratory contents to effectively enhance the students’learning with hands-on experiences. This paper reports progress and results of the developmentof a Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) system for undergraduate laboratory experimentsas a graduate student project. Improvements of teaching quality and effectiveness for both thegraduate and undergraduate students in wireless
integrating innovative technology to better reach his students, from streaming video and electronic writing tables for distance learning to using wireless mesh-networking devices in undergraduate research projects. His academic awards include C.W. Heaps Prize in Physics and Phi Beta Kappa from Rice University, Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Harvard University, and Carnegie Foundation Massachusetts Professor of the Year in 2005. Page 13.1369.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Using Wireless Sensor Network as an Educational Tool for Learning Science ConceptsAbstractWireless
) which include non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, polymer processing, laminar mixing theory,polymer characterization, polymer blends, etc. The topics are introduced in logical order as they areneeded for the project and as they are brought up by the students in response to their needs for makingprogress on the project. The course combines work in the classroom, at the industrial manufacturing site and in on-campus laboratories. The classroom time is spent developing the basic background needed tocommunicate on the topics, anchor teaching of key concepts, formulating the project and presentationsby guest lecturers (largely from industry).Introduction One of the most common complaints heard from engineering students, particularly at the
Department of Education. The goal of this project is to improve technology education. The mechanism is to developinteresting, team-based, hands-on educational modules that can be incorporated into existing courses. Thefocus is on associate degree programs in Engineering Technology, but a major thrust also goes towardsecondary school programs that might lead into associate degrees, and many of the modules could apply aswell to four-year engineering and technology programs. Four independent teams began late in 1994 to develop the modules that were the de] iverable itemsfor this grant. Theoretically, each team could have representation from seven different viewpoints: bothfaculty and students from the university, the high school and the
Career (Master of Engineering degree), Mid Career (Doctor ofEngineering degree), and Senior Career (Engineering Fellow degree). The centerpiece of this model is itsfocus on technology development projects. These are projects of significance to the engineer’s companyand are expected to be either part of or an extension of his or her assigned tasks. This paper will discussthe way these projects foster a synergism between innovative technology development and theprofessional growth of the practicing professional engineer in this educational model and how they mightvary with the educational level / professional development of the practicing professional engineer.2. Innovative Technology Development and Engineering PracticeThe professional engineer
2006-424: CHALLENGES/ISSUES IN A INDUSTRY-ACADEMICCOLLABORATIONJayathi Raghavan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Jayathi Raghavan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 2000 and MS in Computer Science in 1998 from Washington State University. Dr. Raghavan has taught a variety of mathematics courses, programming and database systems courses for the past six years. Her current area of interests are, Computational Mathematics, Database Systems and Software Engineering. She has worked on industry and government funded projects in the area of database systems and mathematics
Paper ID #20501It’s Elementary: Promoting the Construction Industry to ChildrenMs. Jennifer A. Warrner, Ball State University Jennifer Warrner is an instructor and internship coordinator in the Department of Technology at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.Dr. James W. Jones, Ball State University Dr. James W. Jones is the Construction Management Program Director and an Associate Professor in Ball State University’s Department of Technology. He has taught in the areas of leadership and construction management for more than 14 years and has more than a decade of experience managing construction projects in both