engineering science, design and project-management by executing a real-world project.The projects have been generated both in-house through the sponsorship of a BinghamtonUniversity faculty member and externally by an industrial client. Additionally amechanism was established wherein a team of students developed a project from theirown imagination with the requirement that an engineering faculty member serve as theadvisor. The course sequence has been offered for the past two years. Data gathered fromthe offering of the courses as well as assessment of the students’ experiences has shedlight on both the strengths and weaknesses of the existing engineering program.Introduction Each year, more than 100 students receive undergraduate degrees in
2004-1428 Technology-Based Business Incubators: Living Laboratories for Entrepreneurial Students W. Andrew Clark and Andrew J. Czuchry East Tennessee State University, Johnson CityAbstractThose teaching entrepreneurship to engineering and technology students are faced with thechallenge of converting theory into learning opportunities that provide real-world-practicalexperience. Although the literature stresses the need for experiential learning through group andfield projects and case studies, the potential of capitalizing on technology-based businessincubators as
knowledgeable about how to sustain energy efficiency through lighting. The LEED forHomes Rating System provides minimal description for achieving lighting credits towardcertification and little supplemental information about lighting to educate the homeowner orother lay person. As a result, homeowners are left to rely on their own consumer informationwith regard to maintaining an energy efficient lighting system and over time can become lesssatisfied with the aesthetic and functional results.This paper reviews and examines an educational experience across interior design andarchitectural technology disciplines to learn about energy efficient lighting and apply it in aconsumer education effort. Specifically, it describes the pedagogy of a design project
local manufacturers with the need for a ready supply of certaingoods in the event of an emergency, some financial incentive or leveraged assistance must beprovided to the companies. The incentive and the assistance can both come from universitystudents and teachers as a form of service learning. Service learning4,5 is a growing trend inuniversities in which students participate on an educational project that applies their knowledgewhile contributing meaningfully to their communities. Service learning engages students bygiving their work significant purpose and reinforces their commitment to their discipline byseeing it directly benefit humanity. This contribution to community welfare, even more so thancontributing to a company’s bottom line of
Professor and Director of Engineering program at Simpson University. His teaching interests are in statistical quality control, manufacturing processes, engineering/project management, engineering economy and production and operations analysis. His research interests are in sustainable manufacturing, entrepreneurially minded learning and project based learning approaches in educationDr. Lisa Bosman, Purdue University Dr. Bosman holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering. Her engineering education research interests include entrepreneurially minded learning, energy education, interdisciplinary education, and faculty professional development. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024
. Page 22.1031.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011Making a College-Level Multidisciplinary Design Program Effective and Understanding the Outcomes Page 22.1031.2abstractThe University of Michigan’s College of Engineering (CoE) has committed to a significantMultidisciplinary Design (MD) Program complementing the bachelor degree programs. Thisenables students from across degree programs and even outside of the CoE to collaborate onprojects. This is currently being done by flexibly addressing instructional and practicum needsthrough a series of short seminars, semester and multi-semester long project work, and a minor.Participation by
2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference A System Engineering Approach for Implementing An Electrical or Computer Engineering Master’s Capstone Course John M. Santiago, Jr., Ph.D. and Jing Guo, D.Eng. Colorado Technical University (CTU), College of Engineering Colorado Springs, COAbstractThe paper presents how an electrical or computer engineering Master’s capstone courseincorporates system engineering concepts. The project in the capstone course attempts toprovide a balance among technical merit, system-level thinking, and improved communicationskills. The student has an opportunity to integrate
applied to two case studies. In theeducationally-focused CE case study, a senior capstone design course in environmentalengineering worked on a project defined by a community partner. The rubric did a good jobrevealing where improvements in the project could have been realized and demonstrating that thenon-profit facilitator was instrumental in engaging the community. In the second case study, acommunity sub-contracted an academic partner to explore residential indoor air quality. Theproject was at a higher level of the rubric for most criteria compared to the educationally-focusedcase study. Use of the rubric at the start of a project will open important conversations, therebycontributing to the community and academic partners more fully meeting
Engineering Problem Solving I Richard Valentine,1 Keri Hornbuckle,1 James Stoner,1 and Julie Jessop21 Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2Chemical & Biochemical Engineering The University of Iowa valentin@engineering.uiowa.eduAbstractThis course introduces the student to a multifaceted engineering problem-solving and designparadigm. Lectures provide students with the opportunity to develop and demonstrate specificproblem-solving skills; faculty-directed project team sections provide an opportunity for thestudent to become familiar with open-ended engineering problems/design and their solutions.Course FormatThis 3-credit course consists both of a lecture and a
AC 2008-1253: A DECADE OF UNIVERSITY SPORTS FACILITY DESIGNCOURSESMichael Collins, J.P. Morgan Chase Michael G. Collins is a first-year analyst in J.P. Morgan Chase’s Management Services Program where he will rotate between 4 different branches of the bank. He is a January 2008 graduate of Lehigh University earning both a B.S. in the Integrated Business and Engineering Honors program as well as a B.S. in Industrial Engineering. Michael has participated in 3 different courses at Lehigh which utilized a project-based curriculum to partner students with outside clients. In the Integrated Business and Engineering Capstone Project he worked with Online Staffing Solutions of Allentown, PA
Paper ID #18607Embracing Ambiguity: A Framework for Promoting Iterative Design Think-ing Approaches in Engineering and Design CurriculaAnnie Abell, Ohio State University Annie Abell is an Assistant Professor of Practice at The Ohio State University in the Department of Me- chanical & Aerospace Engineering. Abell received her BS in Mechanical Engineering from Valparaiso University and a MFA in Design Research & Development from The Ohio State University with an em- phasis on Industrial Design. She teaches project-based, product design courses to senior-level and gradu- ate engineering students, as well as an
recognition, machine learning, and engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Scholarship Program Initiative via Recruitment, Innovation, and Transformation (SPIRIT): S-STEM Program Initiatives and Early ResultsThis paper describes the structure, project initiatives, and early results of the NSF S-STEMfunded SPIRIT: Scholarship Program Initiative via Recruitment, Innovation, and Transformationprogram at Western Carolina University (WCU). SPIRIT is a scholarship program focused onbuilding an interdisciplinary engineering learning community involved in extensive peer andfaculty mentoring, vertically-integrated Project Based Learning (PBL), and
Paper ID #18147Developing a Shared Vision for Change: New results from the Revolutioniz-ing Engineering Departments Participatory Action ResearchDr. Cara Margherio, University of Washington Cara Margherio is the Senior Research Associate at the UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE). Cara serves as project manager for program evaluation on several NSF- and NIH-funded projects. Her research interests include community cultural wealth, counterspaces, peer mentoring, and institutional change.Dr. Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth Litzler, Ph.D., is the director of the University of
of Arkansas. He received his BS and PhD in Mechan- ical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and National University of Singapore respectively. He has published more than 60 papers in refereed journals and international conferences and contributed to books, and been involved in several internal and external funded research projects in these areas. He has received numerous research awards including ’Best Paper Award - ICAMT 2016’, ’Best Paper Award - ATMAE 2014’, ’Outstanding Paper Award – NAMRC 2012,’ ’A.M. Stickland Best Paper Award – IMechE, 2010,’ and ’Most Downloaded Paper – Elsevier, 2010.’Ms. Shahnaz J. Aly, Western Kentucky University Shahnaz Aly, OAA, LEED AP, M. Arch, is a
College of EngineeringProf. Stephen Johnston, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Stephen P. Johnston is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plastics Engineering at the UMass Lowell. His research interests include process monitoring and control for injection molding, plastic prod- uct design, and injection mold design. He is an inventor on three patents and author of over thirty publi- cations.Dr. Sammy G. Shina, University of Massachusetts, LowellDr. David Joe Willis, University of Massachusetts, Lowell David Willis is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UMass Lowell. His interests are in aerodynamics and engineering education. He works on projects ranging from parachutes to bio-inspired flight
in 1993. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Integrated Engineering program at Minnesota State University, Mankato, home of the Iron Range and Twin Cities Engineering programs. She is also a program director at the National Science Foundation for TCUP and HBCU-UP in the Division of Human Resource Development. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Using Failure to Teach DesignAbstractLearning from failure during large ill-defined design projects provides students withopportunities to practice their abilities to explore other solutions, demonstrate that a requiredfeature may violate physics, and propose design changes. This learning requires
important. Additionally, the dynamism in finance created by its challenging problems andthe availability of sophisticated algorithms and cheap computing power has attractedprofessionals from computer science, engineering, physics, and mathematics resulting in thegrowth of many vibrant interdisciplinary fields involving finance. In spring 2005, we developedan entrepreneurial financial computing course with the objective that individual student teamswould design and develop a commercially viable financial software product to satisfy a marketneed. Five purposefully and two adhocly designed E-teams were formed with students majoringin computer science, finance, mathematics, and management science. Each E-team worked on adifferent project. The course
SL andNSL groups of students participated in collaborative project-based learning environments tocomplete given assignments, the types of collaborative learning differed in several ways: 1) TheSL students completed one comprehensive project for 7 ½ weeks, whereas the NSL studentscompleted a series of small scale problem-solving projects, 2) The SL students worked with thesame members of a team throughout the project, whereas the NSL students worked with differentteam members for each project (teams of four members worked on the SL project, and teams ofthree members completed the NSL projects), and 3) Each SL team worked with a client from thecommunity to solve a real problem (i.e., real-world learning experience), whereas NSL teamssolved a
Indies Cave Hill, Barbados. Abstract Sustainability is recognized as being critical for the framing of engineering research and education with unique opportunities for engineering student training through non-‐traditional university partnerships, including international ones. With limited natural resources, high vulnerability to catastrophic events, and isolated by the sea, Caribbean islands have been pushing for sustainable development and have championed adaptation as the main mechanism to deal with climate change. Actual demonstration projects or
whileconducting Project-based Learning in Engineering Design courses targeting lower classmen inengineering institutions in Japan. The Kanazawa Institute of Technology (henceforth, KIT) is a pioneering university thatbegan Engineering Design Education in 1996. Engineering Design courses are characterized byproject-based learning in groups. A group, consisting of 5 students, chooses an engineering topicrelating to daily life, defines its domain, and solves its problems that may have multiplesolutions. Although project-based group learning is an important instructional concept, students havenot experienced any type of project-based group learning in their pre-college education. In orderfor students to become used to such courses, our courses are
responsibilities as Di- rector, he also teaches machine design, and advises senior design capstone projects. His research interests include integration of industry and academia, and utilization of project based (experiential) learning to enhance the applicability of learning.Dr. Vukica Jovanovic, Old Dominion University Dr. Jovanovic is currently serving as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology De- partment, Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. Prior to joining ODU’s Engineering Technology Department Dr. Jovanovic was teaching at Trine Uni- versity, Angola, Indiana at Design Engineering Technology Department. Before Trine, she was working as an
focuseson content but also emphasizes the importance of developing communication and collaborativeskills24. Engineering organizations focus on teamwork because of its ability to help spark Page 13.1289.2innovative ideas and allow participants to produce higher quality projects 18, 23. As a result,interdisciplinary or cross-functional teams are a required part of an accredited undergraduateengineering curriculum. The teams are typically involved in a range of functions that includedesign, development and manufacturing. This move to a curriculum that includes teamworkskills is in response to the engineering industry need for engineers who are
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
Psychology at Howard University and her PhD in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy at the Georgia Institute of Tech- nology.Ari Turrentine, VentureWell Ari is in charge of survey administration for internal program evaluation on the research and evaluation team at VentureWell. Her duties also include survey creation, qualitative and quantitative data analysis, program logic model development, and evaluation coordination across various stakeholder groups. Most recently Ari held positions in Austin, Texas at OneStar Foundation as a Fellow on the Texas Connector project and at the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Lewis & Clark College in Psychology and a Master’s degree from
Paper ID #13095Comparing Organizational Structures: Two Case Studies of Engineering Com-paniesCarlye Anne Lauff, University of Colorado, Boulder Carlye is a 2nd year PhD student in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Design. She is originally from Pittsburgh, PA and received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. At the University of Colorado Boulder, she is advised by Dr. Mark Rentschler and co-advised by Dr. Daria Kotys-Schwartz. For the past two years, she has worked as a Graduate Research Assistant on the NSF-funded project entitled ”Cognitive Ethnographies of Engineering
needs, working to endpoverty, or providing students with cross-cultural design experience in preparation for careers ina globalized economy, numerous small-scale engineering projects have proliferated indeveloping countries, either driven by or with participation from U.S. engineers and engineeringstudents. Many different models have been employed to this end, curricular and co-curricular, incollaboration with foreign governments, educational institutions or non-governmentalorganizations, with entrepreneurial, sustainable, appropriate technology and/or community-basedapproaches to design.These engineering projects are occurring in the context of globalization and broader economicdevelopment efforts. It is important that we in the engineering
sits on many university and community boards and advisory committees. Dr. Springer is internationally recognized, has authored numerous books and articles, and lectured on software development methodologies, management prac- tices and program management. Dr. Springer received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University, his MBA and Doctorate in Adult and Community Education with a Cognate in Exec- utive Development from Ball State University. He is certified as both a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR).Mark T Schuver, Purdue University, College of Technology, West Lafayette, IN Mark Schuver is the Associate Director of the Center for
carry out thevisionsofengineeringtowardsfuture,remarkablemilestonesincludeclarifyingaccreditationcriteriaofengineering programs (ABET,1996), identifying attributes of engineers in 2020 (NAE,2004), as well asconceptualizingandinstitutionalizingEngineeringEducationResearch(EER)toinformpractices(Jesieket al., 2009). Regarding engineering curricula, previous attempts have been largely concentrated oncoursework or project-based efforts (Maciejewski et al., 2016), with increasing interests on capstonedesigncourses/projectssincetheadoptionofEC2000,(McKenzieetal.,2004;Wilbarger&Howe,2006).Theseeffortsaimatpreparingengineeringstudentsforfutureneedswithreal-worldproblems,tohelpstudentsgainnotonlytechnicalskillsbutalsonon
Engineering Technology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee. His education includes two Master of Science degrees in Electri- cal and Computer Engineering, and Electronics and Control Engineering. He has been actively involved in higher education leadership in various capacities as a Dean, Department Chair, PI, Project Director, and a faculty member since 1997. He has served as the PI / Project Director for multiple agencies includ- ing NSF, DOL, DOD and Perkin’s Grant. His research interests include Industrial Automation Systems, VLSI, ASIC, and FPGA. Other areas of interest are Higher Education Leadership and Accreditation in- cluding ABET. ©American Society for Engineering
helped to facilitate the introduction, and the student teammet with school staff to offer their services. The students helped the staff articulate and defineissues that they face in their job, issues that the staff sometimes “didn’t even realize had apossible solution.” 1From these discussions, the team defined three initial service projects that are highlighted in thepaper. One is a fine motor skills training toy, designed to develop the small-muscle coordinationof children with special needs. The second project is an adaptive table to help a wheelchair-bound student to reach kitchen tools in a kitchen-setting classroom. The third project is animproved cleaning/drying system for gastronomy tubes (“G-tubes”) used in the feeding of somestudents