Collaboration Software Steven Colgrove, Adam Svoboda: K-State SalinaThe Problem Currently there are several different collaboration tools available online. These tools canbe useful when working on group projects, but each come with its own unique set of strengthsand weaknesses. Generally, tools such as TeamViewer and Remote Desktop do a good job ofsharing a screen, but force the users to share a single mouse cursor, which can be frustrating.Additionally, they require the user to share an entire computer desktop instead of a singlewindow, which could be a major security issue.The Goal The goal of this project was to create a piece of software that would allows users to
relating theory topractice and of civic engagement (“public problem solving”). In the current effort, service-learning is being integrated into a broad array of courses so that students will be exposed to S-Lin every semester in the core curriculum in each of the five engineering departments atUniversity of Massachusetts Lowell. The focus here is on the learning of traditional engineeringcontent by engaging diverse learners in solving authentic problems in the community and in theprocess achieving ABET criteria and attracting underrepresented groups into engineering.Thirty-three faculty members out of 75 in the college integrated S-L into 52 different courses in2005-06. Readers will find a wide array of projects and examples that can be adapted to
-Linn, Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning, University of IllinoisDr. Robert Thomas Baird, As Senior Associate Director at the Center for Innovation in Teaching And Learning Robert leads the faculty development, emerging educational technologies, media, and online instructional design units. He has extensive experience in technology-enhanced classrooms, online teaching environments, and web- based student writing and multimedia projects. Robert teaches cinema, new media, and digital video courses. His 1995 dissertation used cognitive psychology to understand how filmgoers can be frightened and startled by film scenes they know are fictional. In the early 1980s he worked as an assistant film editor in
Alabama. Dr. Burian’s professional career spans more than 20 years during which he has worked as a de- sign engineer, as a Visiting Professor at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as a Professor at the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah, and as the Chief Water Consultant of an international engineer- ing and sustainability consulting firm he co-founded. He served as the first co-Director of Sustainability Curriculum Development at the University of Utah where he created pan-campus degree programs and stimulated infusion of sustainability principles and practices in teaching and learning activities across campus. Dr. Burian currently is the Project Director of the USAID-funded U.S.-Pakistan Center for
Session 1793 An Undergraduate Research Experience in New Developments for Aseismic Building Design Anant R. Kukreti University of CincinnatiAbstract This paper describes a two-month research experience for undergraduate engineeringstudents specifically designed to conduct three “pilot” projects investigating new strategies tomitigate earthquake damage. The project was part of a Research for Undergraduates (REU) Sitegrant sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and administered in the Department ofCivil and Environmental
GraphicsAbstractThis evidence-based practice describes the incorporation of an original design project coupledwith the use of a makerspace into the Engineering Design Graphics curriculum. This designproject has given students more of a connection to engineering work and provides a strongfoundation for developing an engineering identity. This is further enhanced through the use of amakerspace environment which enables students to fabricate, inspect, and iterate their designs.The measurable outcomes for the current project will focus on student engagement and perceivedlearning gains. The results of a survey measuring students’ perspectives on the value of thecourse project work on their learning will be presented. The objective of this paper is todisseminate
material on an interdisciplinary topic. The topic of cyber-physicalsystems engineering and product lifecycle management with application to structural healthmonitoring is considered in this co-creation project. This entails not only topics from differentdisciplines of civil, computer, electrical and environmental engineering, business, andinformation sciences, but also humanistic issues of sustainability, environment, ethical and legalconcerns in data-driven decision-making that support the control of cyber-physical systems.Aside from the objective of creating modules accessible to students with different levels ofdisciplinary knowledge, the goal of this research is to investigate if the co-creation process andthe resulting modules also promote
Engineering Education, 2019 Reflections on Eight Years of Undergraduate Research at Our Community CollegeAbstractSince 2010, San Antonio College (SAC) has been the center of a continuously increasing familyof undergraduate research projects hosted by Texas’ first Math, Engineering, and ScienceAchievement (MESA) Center. A paper presented at the 2012 ASEE Conference in San Antoniodescribed the start of this program at this community college. It has been widely reported thatundergraduate research programs at four-year institutions increase retention, improve students’success, and produce higher quality graduates. Results demonstrate that two-year institutions canalso initiate and maintain successful
how team dynamics affect undergraduate women’s confidence levels in engineering.Dr. Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder Malinda Zarske is a faculty member with the Engineering Plus program at the University of Colorado Boulder. She teaches undergraduate product design and core courses through Engineering Plus as well as STEM education courses for pre-service teachers through the CU Teach Engineering program. Her primary research interests include the impacts of project-based service-learning on student identity - es- pecially women and nontraditional demographic groups in engineering - as well as pathways and retention to and through K-12 and undergraduate engineering, teacher education, and
Montgomery County Exemplary Service Award, 2013). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Capstone Engineering Modeling Course for Developing Creative Problem-Solving A.L. Kinney1, M.E. Reissman1, K.P. Hallinan1 1University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.AbstractOver the past twenty years, nearly all job growth in the United States has emerged from new companiesand organizations with assumedly innovative products, services, and practices. Yet, the nurturing ofstudent creative thinking through truly open-ended problem solving is infrequent in engineeringeducation. Engineering design projects most often come with constraints and
Paper ID #27263An Integrated Four-year Hands-on Design Curriculum: A Case StudyDr. Emad W. Jassim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Emad W. Jassim is an Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to this position he was the Director of Under- graduate Programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering (MechSE) where he also served as Chief Advisor, Senior Design Project Coordinator, and lecturer of thermal/fluid science courses. He received his BS, MS, and PhD from the
projects, one in the fall and one in the spring. An example from the fall 2003 and2004 semesters was the Hoistinator project. Student teams of 4-5 were challenged to build acrane that could lift at least 420 pounds, using no more than 75 cubic inches of aluminum and 50cubic inches of plastic. Teams would receive a score that was directly proportional to theamount of weight lifted, and inversely proportional to the amount of material used. The projectwas successful in many respects but there was room for improvement in the student’s overallapproach to the design problem. Students were generally successful at using statics to predicttheir crane’s performance, but the cranes they designed and built were generally not welloptimized. Many student teams
of a “Rapid Design Challenge” in a Cross-Disciplinary Senior Capstone Course and Evaluation of Device Performance Abby M. Kelly, Austin Lammers, David D. Jones, Richard Stowell, Roger Hoy, Evan Curtis, Angela K. Pannier Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska-LincolnAbstractThe senior capstone experience within the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at theUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln is a two-semester, two-course sequence intended to give seniorstudents realistic design experience, working with real projects, real clients, faculty consultants,and teammates to produce a deliverable that meets the client’s needs. Students
that design projects must followto help students build tighter connections among the three subjects. A comprehensiveassessment and evaluation plan has also been designed and implemented. This paper willdescribe the integration mechanisms, project specifications, and systems to address study skills,as well as data that has been collected and analyzed to date. Future assessment plans andstrategies for expanding the program for more students and extending it to two additional first-year engineering tracks will also be described.IntroductionFirst-year engineering curricula have been identified as significant opportunities to improve four-year engineering curricula, and many institutions have addressed the opportunity in differentways. At Texas A
typically workclosely with faculty and other researchers on a specific research project, and in some cases aregranted stipends [6]. Studies have shown that students who participate in REUs show increasedinterest in pursuing degrees and careers in the STEM fields [3]. REUs provide students withopportunities to develop skills valued by both graduate schools and employers, such as workingon challenging problems, presenting research to an audience, and communicating findingsthrough technical writing [3].While REUs have the potential to positively influence persistence in STEM fields, there areinequities in who gets to participate in these experiences. Questions have been raised as to whysome REU programs receive very few applications from students in
Paper ID #35744Improving Minority Students’ Career Readiness Through Enhanced SeniorDesign ExperiencesDr. Hua Li, Texas A&M University - Kingsville Dr. Hua Li, a Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, is interested in sustainable manufacturing, renewable energy, sustainability assessment, and engineering education. Dr. Li has served as P.I. and Co-P.I. in different projects funded by NSF, DOEd, DHS, NASA, USDA, etc.Mr. Ricardo Miguel Garcia Pineda, Texas A&M University KingsvilleProf. Kai Jin, Texas A&M University - Kingsville Dr. Kai Jin is a Professor of
Tanvir Ahad, Wei Sun, Jiaze Gao, and Zahed Siddique School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Oklahoma Norman, OK, United StatesAbstractDesigning a senior-level course that involves problem-based learning, including projectcompletion task, is laborious and challenging. A well-designed project motivates the students tobe self-learners and prepares them for future industrial or academic endeavors. The COVID-19pandemic brought many challenges when instructions were forced to move either online or to aremote teaching/learning environment. Due to this rapid transition, delivery modes in teachingand learning modalities faced
Haykoupian © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comDescribing Students’ Approach to Design Thinking in Introductory Materials Engineering CoursesBackgroundIntroductory engineering courses are important because they serve as students’ first exposure towhat engineers do and the basics of their discipline. After a growing concern that engineeringcurricula had become too focused on mathematical modeling and theory, stakeholders called forthe incorporation of design thinking in the undergraduate engineering curricula. Design thinkingis typically incorporated into engineering curricula through capstone projects in the senior
allows cross-institution and interdisciplinarycollaboration on novel design projects and 2) to build students’ technical and collaboration skillsthat will be useful for careers at the intersection of cybersecurity and autonomous systems.Students learned core cybersecurity concepts using closed-ended assignments and expanded theirresearch and design skills with an open-ended design project. Throughout this process, theylearned how to collaborate with other teammates through modern collaboration tools, such asGithub, Google Drive, and Discord. Our student survey indicates that this pilot program achievedits goals and indicates that future iterations should refine the program’s structure and processes.Keywordsexperiential learning, capstone
Performance Evaluation of an Ongoing Integrated Program for Recruitment, Retention, and Graduation of High- Achieving, Low-income Engineering StudentsAbstractThe present paper reports an update on an NSF-funded S-STEM program currently in its lastyear at the University of Illinois Chicago. Lessons learned during the project implementation arealso listed in the paper. A summary of the paper materials will be presented at the ASEE 2023Annual Conference and Exposition as part of the NSF Grantees Poster Session.The project's objectives are 1) enhancing students' learning by providing access to extra and co-curricular experiences, 2) creating a positive student experience through mentorship, and 3)ensuring successful student placement in
Impact of Student Involvement in a Solar Wall Study for the State of Minnesota Joseph Dobmeier, Joseph Gehrke, Matthew Simones, Patrick Tebbe Mechanical & Civil Engineering Department Minnesota State University, MankatoI. INTRODUCTIONIn 2008 Minnesota State University, Mankato (MSU) received a grant from the MinnesotaDepartment of Commerce to study the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions achieved throughthe use of unglazed transpired solar collectors (UTCs), as requested by the MinnesotaDepartment of Energy Security. From beginning to end, student contributions were vital to thesuccess of the project. The UTC project was beneficial for
Paper ID #29986Sustainable Low-Cost Household Energy Systems: Solar Photovoltaic andShallow Geothermal SystemsDr. Michael F MacCarthy, Mercer University Michael MacCarthy is an Assistant Professor of Environmental and Civil Engineering at Mercer Univer- sity, where he directs the Engineering for Development program (e4d.mercer.edu). He has 20+ years of experience in water resources engineering, international development, and project management, including nearly a decade living and working in less-developed countries (as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon, an infrastructure and community development engineer in the
University of Texas at Austin AbstractThe ABET accreditation criterion 5 requires a "culminating major engineering design experience"in the curriculum1. This is commonly referred to as the senior capstone design course. Thefreshman engineering education experience is loaded with required science and mathematicscourses, and there is little room for an engineering experience. Nonetheless, most faculty want tohave some engineering course during the freshman year, and many ideas have been tried over theyears. Of these many ideas, the concept of a team design project with hands-on activities seems tobe the most popular and most beneficial. This paper reports on such a proposed freshmanengineering cornerstone
students of both regional leader institutions in higher education.With this undergraduate research in technology development and innovation, both institutionsstart the cooperative work, leading efforts towards effective and strong cross-bordercollaboration. The project was a great opportunity to coordinate future research, takingadvantage of our strategic geographic location and identify future research opportunities tocontribute to the economic development and social wellness, in both sides of the border, dueto its distinctive characteristics – economic development, culture, language, etc. In this paperwe include a description of the enrolled programs, the collaboration method, monitoring andevaluation, lessons learned, resultant outcomes
development ofcourse projects. The Launchpad includes a 32-bit ARM Cortex M4 microcontroller (MCU)integrated with 10/100 Ethernet MAC and PHY. TI’s Code Composer Studio (CCS) – anEclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and some open source software likethe lightweight TCP/IP stack called IwIP are used for software development. In this course, weintroduce students the TCP/IP protocols, and wireless communication technologies like WiFi andBluetooth. Through course projects, students study the implementation of TCP/IP protocols inpractice, and learn how to use drivers of Ethernet port and WiFi connection to developmicrocontroller-based networking applications. Our primary experiences indicate that TI’sconnected Launchpad with various
and light gauge steel design and construction. Page 13.1130.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Sustainable Research and Design in a Civil Engineering Senior Design CourseAbstractIn an effort to help students understand the broader impacts of land development, a significantsustainability component was added to a capstone senior design project course in a small civilengineering program. This year-long course traditionally involves students completingstraightforward designs in the areas of structural, transportation, geotechnical, and municipalenvironmental engineering. In a
courses teach students to work on well-defined andoversimplified problems. Average college students believe that the solution to all problemssimply implies finding the right formulas and plugging data into those formulas. Consequently,the learning of mathematics comes down to remembering formulas. Given application problemswhere the solutions are not based on formula association, most students do not know how to starttheir work. With the increasing complexity of postmodern technology, bridging the gap betweenreal-world problems and problems in textbooks becomes an increasingly critical pedagogicalissue. Berkey and Vernescu 1 presented an extensive survey about the curriculum reform effortof project-oriented education in 30 years. Many articles
acrossthese media. Environmental engineering practices to reduce these pollutant concentrations at thesource or in the environment are only introduced, and only to make students aware ofconventional means to mitigate environmental impact. Conventional methods of drinking water,waste water, and air pollution treatment are now the focus of attention in the revised EnvEcourse. The primary goals of the EIA course are to engage all CE students regardless of theirspecialization, and create an interdisciplinary forum to discuss and evaluate some of the social,economic, and environmental issues associated with CE projects. The secondary goals of thecourse are to prepare students for two higher level required courses, and promote the utility andimportance of
project sequence, the Electronics and Telecommunications EngineeringTechnology programs, through their faculty and student workforce, will be responsible for the“idea to prototype” phase of product/system development. The proof-of-concept prototype canthen be transferred to the private industry partner who will be responsible for the “prototype toprofit” phase. Because the partner is local, interested students can continue to participate in theprocess. Thus, students will be able to participate in all aspects of the “productization” cycle.The first phase of this project is complete and includes the conceptual design and planningactivities. This paper presents the work that has been accomplished and discusses ongoingactivities associated with E4
teach students the aesthetics and critical thinking with creativity. In thisstudy, we merged two design-based courses modules into the original course curriculum topromote the creativity of students in the field of material engineering. The course module (I)“User-Centered Design-Problem Definition” was offered based on the product and useroriented design aspects. The other course module “Experiential Manufacturing and MaterialAesthetics” was proceeded through project-based learning activities. The two course modules were combined into relevant course, Project Laboratory (1) &(2), on the spring semester (2016) as an elective course to undergraduate students. Studentsshould submit their research portfolios and final report of the program