Cullen note the need to incorporate more self-learning into thecurriculum 8. As part of an industry sponsored product lifecycle management course, Chang andMiller focus on problem solving, project management, communication, and teamwork 9. Earnestnotes that the efficacy of the educational program is dependent on curriculum development andhighlights the need to have clarity among stakeholders who include: curriculum developers,students, teachers, administrators, and industry 10. Gadalla also notes the need of curriculumdevelopers to consult industry 11. Kuo also recognizes the importance of relevance to industryand notes the need for continuous improvement in curricula 12. Again returning to the frameworkof Gannod et al., a curriculum can be
normally presented in the class and a written report is submitted.Students are required to summarize the procedure used to produce the product and represent theoutput. There are usually two projects given in the class. The first project is defined by theinstructor, which helps maintain a focus on course and curriculum objectives. In the secondproject, students are allowed to pick their own topic, which gives them the autonomy to choosetheir own project formulations and strategies, which in turn increases their motivation.Project based learning at the individual course level is familiar in engineering education. It isused almost universally in capstone design and laboratory courses. There has been growingfrequency of project based learning approach
Paper ID #42244Exploring Civil Engineering and Construction Management Students’ Perceptionsof Equity in Developing Infrastructure ResilienceMiss Rubaya Rahat, Florida International University Rubaya Rahat grew up in Bangladesh, where she pursued her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). After graduating she worked for two years in a construction management company in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She was involved in various residential and infrastructure construction projects. Rubaya now is a Ph.D. candidate at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
course is highly groupbased and has three projects throughout the semester. The first two projects are small in scopeand is focused to help students learn the design thinking process. The final capstone project is 8weeks long is where students work on solving an open-ended engineering grand challenge. Thefinal deliverable for the course includes a functional prototype for the problem space the studentsare working on, and a final presentation related to the same. There are multiple low stakeassignments in the form of quizzes, reflections and fieldworks embedded throughout the courseadding to their final grade. Since Spring 2020 with the onset of COVID-19, the course alsofollows a HyFlex modality where students are given the autonomy to attend
Activities, or MEA's, are an extension to inductive learning which add additionalguidance to help ensure that students learn not only skills in teamwork, project management andcommunication but also the technical competencies of engineering. Two MEA's developed foruse in a Senior level undergraduate mechanical engineering course are discussed herein. Thefirst MEA in this course on mechanical measurements involves the design of a strain gaugebased load cell transducer. The second MEA involves the use of an accelerometer to comparethe impact absorbing properties of packaging materials. Both MEA's were implemented in theWinter 2010 quarter; the effectiveness of the MEA's for student learning, student responses to theMEA's, and lessons learned are
in learning Page 22.694.3across disciplines. Beasley et al [10] considered detailed processes for curriculum design. Theylisted several integrative experiences that would bring together diverse parts of the curriculum inan engineering department. Carlson et al [11] viewed Design-Build-Test project cycles as anexcellent means of cross-disciplinary innovation and knowledge transfer. Kleppe [12] describes amultidisciplinary capstone design course for high school teachers, bringing together variousaspects of innovation and entrepreneurship. Kostoff [13] looked at developing processes forenhancing innovation, by transferring information and
The MS in Engineering Management at Milwaukee School of Engineering An Update Bruce R. Thompson Rader School of Business, Milwaukee School of Engineering Abstract: At the 1990 ASEE annual conference a paper titled “Evolution and Projections for the MS in Engineering Management” described the experience of the Master of Science in Engineering Management at Milwaukee School of Engineering, one of the oldest graduate engineering management programs in the United States. Since then, the program has faced a number of challenges, including the introduction of the MSEM at Milwaukee’s two largest
Simulation Skills and Printed Circuit Board Layout During the 7th academic semester, one new Capture related skill is taught. El Engr 463,Design Project Techniques was created to better arm our students for the hardware realization oftheir capstone design projects3. A key element of this course is instruction in computer aidedprinted circuit board ( PCB ) design. Here we take advantage of the schematic wiring skills ourcadets have developed over the two preceding academic years. Capture schematics can bemodified to carry component footprint as well as interconnection information to the companionCadence printed circuit design tool “Layout”. Layout merges the interconnections andcomponent package types defined through Capture with stored
, and runs the Industrial Design Clinic, where students work on real-world industry problems with specified deliverables for their capstone projects. He is also interested in global engineering and the evolution of engineering education. Page 24.1288.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Understanding Change and Development of Engineering Education in ChinaKey Words: Understanding; Change; Development; Engineering Education; ChinaIntroduction: It well known that Chinese economy is booming, with a dramatic increase in people’sstandard of living. For instance, in China, the
from the Software Engineering Master’s Program.Two distinctive aspects of the Stevens engineering curriculum are the traditional breadth ofengineering education (see Figure 1) and the integrative, eight-course Design Spine The DesignSpine is a fundamental component of the engineering curriculum that is required for all B.E.students, regardless of discipline. It consists of eight core design courses taken throughout alleight undergraduate semesters of study including a two-semester capstone senior design project,which introduces students to the underlying principles of engineering design through hands-onand project-based learning [7]. For the software engineering students, the senior design projectwill be a multi-disciplinary project focused on
engineering disciplines at PurdueUniversity, EPICS courses will satisfy at least a technical elective (some require students to havethird or fourth year standing) and capstone for four disciplines. The curricular structure allowsstudents to participate over multiple semesters or even years which supports long-term,reciprocal community partnerships. The long-term student participation allows for projectdevelopment over multiple semesters or years and allows projects in EPICS to address complexand compelling needs in the local or global community.EPICS teams, or course sections, consist of 8-25 students and are student led with a faculty orindustry mentor, called an advisor. Graduate student teaching assistants support the advisors andeach one supports
of mathematical models in design and analysis [3]. In professional practice, engineersneed to make numerous decisions in order to mathematize an object or system into a model andto evaluate their decisions or the model’s outputs. Research has shown expertise to be animportant component of engineering judgment [3], [4]. While this means that students cannotpossess complete engineering judgment by the end of their undergraduate education, we stillbelieve that students need to begin engaging in this kind of decision-making early in theireducation. This will allow students to better connect their engineering science courses with theiropen-ended capstone design projects, project teams, and their future engineering career.Our research team has
institutional structures todetermine how teaching can span across disciplines and minimize the silo effect of academicdepartments/individual courses.To address these concerns, a National Science Foundation Improving Undergraduate STEMEducation project team is working toward developing a transformed, authenticallytransdisciplinary, and scalable educational model [referred to as the Mission, Meaning, Making(M3) model] for undergraduate learning focused on democratizing the practice of innovation. Toachieve this task, the project team is testing and refining a model to guide the transformation oftraditional undergraduate learning experiences to span academics silos. This educational modelinvolves a) co-teaching and co-learning from faculty and students
and nature of asset-based practices both in theory and practice, andhelped identify a variety of practical asset-based pedagogical strategies from community-inspireddesign projects and asset-mapping to translanguaging and cross-institutional faculty professionaldevelopment initiatives. We believe that these findings will potentially motivate the engineeringeducation community to actively implement asset-based approaches in design instruction, andfurther develop and test more nuanced strategies that draw upon students’ funds of knowledgeand cultural wealth.IntroductionEngineering design is typically recognized and taught as a team activity, with cornerstone andcapstone project-based courses requiring students to work on teams and to navigate
at Purdue University.Leah Jamieson, Purdue University Dean Leah Jamieson is the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering/Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Jamieson earned a BS degree from MIT and MA, MSE and PhD degrees from Princeton. She is co-founder and past director of Purdue's Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program. Dr. Jamieson is the 2007 President and CEO of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineering and she is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Her research interests ;include engineering education,computer engineering and signal processing
preparation for [sic] engineering coursework at MIT or Olin College.”34 Unlike the “big ideas”approach used at Princeton, here the course covers themes such as mechanism design, feedbackand control, modeling, and a project-based design capstone. The emphasis on “rigor” is perhapsnot surprising given the potential of the course to serve as a prerequisite for other engineeringcoursework. As a women’s college, this emphasis on rigor may also be doing a certain kind ofwork at Wellesley in establishing qualifications for female students seeking to enter more male-focused environments.At Smith College, engineering fundamentals is cast to include hands-on work, design,experimentation, and exploration, taking more of an engineering-practices focus. Smith
freshman or capstone engineering classes that have a fairly broad scope of learningobjectives. This paper describes the design and assessment of a service-learning module in arequired junior-level course in probability and statistics for engineering students at a large publicuniversity, which typically enrolls 90-100 students. This course is ideal for service learningbecause students struggle with the material, complaining it is “too theoretical”, and can feelanonymous in a large lecture course. Yet, there are few examples of how to successfullyintegrate service-learning ideas, including reflection activities, into a high-enrollment course thattraditionally focuses heavily on quantitative fundamentals.This paper details the design, student work
Paper ID #11940Engaging Freshmen Women in Research – Feedback from Students and BestPractices for FacultyMs. Terri Christiansen Bateman , Brigham Young University Terri Bateman is adjunct faculty in the Brigham Young University College of Engineering and Technol- ogy where she has worked with Women in Engineering & Technology at BYU, numerous mechanical engineering capstone senior design teams, and the Compliant Mechanisms Research Group. She received her bachelors and masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering from BYU, and also worked at Ford Motor Company as a manufacturing and design engineer in Automatic
, culminated in Engineering Justice: Transforming Engineering Education and Practice (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2017).Dr. Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines Kathryn Johnson is an Associate Professor at the Colorado School of Mines in the Department of Electri- cal Engineering and is Jointly Appointed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s National Wind Technology Center. In 2011, she was a visiting researcher at Aalborg University in Denmark, where she collaborated on wind turbine control research and experienced Aalborg’s Problem-Based Learning method. She has researched wind turbine control systems since 2002, with numerous projects related to reducing turbine loads and increasing energy capture. She has applied
, while understanding correlating managementpractices. One project occupies the entire semester, which is divided into three phases: schematicdesign, design development, and design documentation. Although the AE students must continueto design the project’s architecture, the requirements for them begin to differ during designdevelopment, placing a focus on structural systems design and calculations. Formal juries ofprofessional architects and engineers mark the transitions from one phase to another, and thecalendar allows the rare opportunity for students to respond to jury comments through designrevisions. Handouts are distributed and seminars occur weekly to provide additional informationand requirements as the designs progress.Even after many
working on advanced or capstone projects, often with industrial sponsors. Sincethe implementation of EGR 100, selected first-year student teams (the number of first-year teamsprecludes us from having all of the teams participate) have also displayed their projects at DesignDay. Participation in Design Day is an opportunity for CoRe Experience students to demonstratetheir academic success in a setting that provides an opportunity to interact with industryprofessionals and members of the faculty. Preparing for this event is another opportunity forstudents to practice their oral and written technical communication. In some cases, the projectsdisplayed at Design Day are the results of a service learning project. In these cases, students getto share
process design engineer. Once these attributes or criteriahave been established, performance measurements or rubrics can be designed to guide or promptan assessor or evaluator to look for outcomes from a performance activity related to the desiredcriteria. A “performance activity” for the purposes of process design is defined as any activity byan individual, a group or team, or an individual within a group or team that is working towardsachieving the goals and learning outcomes of the design assignment or project. Examples ofperformance activities would include but are not limited to group meetings or work sessions, oralpresentations, meetings and interactions with the “customer” or “client” of the design project (suchas faculty, industrial
College of Engineering and Technology. Before coming to BYU, he worked in the military aircraft industry developing tools for advanced aircraft design and manufacture. He received a B.S. and M.S. from BYU and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He has pursued research in design tools and processes, team formation and management, design education, and commer- cialization of new mechanism technologies. Magleby teaches design at the graduate and undergraduate level and is interested in educational partnerships with industry. He has been involved with the capstone program at BYU since its inception, has worked with the Business School to establish special graduate programs in product development, and helped to
addressed.Course 5: Engineering Solutions to the Challenges of Energy and Global Change:This capstone course examines both the issues of energy production/consumption and globalclimate change from an engineering and innovation point of view. Using a case study approach,discussions focus on methods being investigated to move to a more sustainable world includingthe development of solar power, wind power and sustainable agriculture, as well as engineeringsolutions to reduce the effects of global climate change. Page 25.260.20Appendix C Energy Production and Consumption: Course 3 Project Presentation Page 25.260.21Appendix D
, American Society for Engineering Educationused to help underwrite the initial program costs during a three-year transition period. The NSFgrant includes funding for faculty training as well as for hiring support staff to assist faculty.The transition period promises to be gradual in that the three years of the NSF grant, whichbegan December 2000, follow a period of four years during which the microprocessor hasalready been an integral part of all mechanical-engineering Senior Design projects. The three-year period also follows by one year a coincidental move by the College to introducemicroprocessor programming into a 2-course First-Year sequence for all Engineering intents.Another key element is this program is the integration of industry and
challenges. Current thrusts focus on Smarter Riversheds, Microbial Fuel cells and advanced oxidation and separation processes. Focused on co-creating long term partnerships that synergize community vision with Pitt’s core compe- tencies of research and education, Sanchez has built up Pitt Hydroponics in Homewood, founded Con- stellation Energy Inventor labs for K-12 students, and re-created the Mascaro Center’s Teach the Teacher sustainability program for science educators in the region. As a teacher he designed and created the Sustainability capstone course which has annually partnered with community stakeholders to address sustainability challenges at all scales. Past projects have in- cluded evaluating composting
Engineering School, then as a Jefferson Science Fellow at the U.S. Department of State in 2019. Her research focuses on sensors, combining organic materials, including polymers and biological cells, with conventional devices.Dr. Vincent Nguyen, University of Maryland, College Park Vincent P. Nguyen is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a founding member of the Environmental and Socially Responsible Engineering (ESRE) group who work to integrate and track conscientious engineering aspects throughout the undergraduate educational experience across the college. His efforts include formally integrating sustainability design requirements into the mechanical engineering capstone projects
from this opportunity [1] and [2]. Our graduatecertificate fills this opportunity gap by leveraging students' unique backgrounds and experiencesto broaden the participation of computing professionals.The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has demonstrated a need for a larger U.S. workforce incomputer science. As a result, there has been a rise in coding bootcamps, MOOC certificates,and micro-credentials to gain access to computing. According to the U.S. Bureau of LaborStatistics (BLS) Occupational Outlook Handbook, employment in computer and informationtechnology occupations is projected to grow 11% by 2029, much faster than the average for alloccupations. Within computer and information technology occupations, the employment ofsoftware
curriculum is industry-valued, attainable by any highschool student and portable for virtual or off-campus learning opportunities. This work is fundedunder the Plant Priority Act (PPA) through the United States Department of Agriculture’s(USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).Curriculum Design Process a. Project Team and ExpertiseThe primary author of the paper, Iftekhar Ibne Basith has a Ph.D. in Electrical and ComputerEngineering. A major focus of this curriculum is developing visual learning modules toincorporate and feature within the lesson plans. He is supervising a senior undergraduate studentfrom Film and Animation department, Devyn Matthews, for the development of visual learningmodules. Richard Ford has an EdD in
engineering curriculum, including CAD, mechanics, and capstone design; and she is the Co-Director of the UD Mechanical Engineering MakerSpace, The Design Studio. She is the Co-Founder and President of The Perry Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to diversifying the pipeline in engineering and medicine through hands-on learning.Marcia Gail Headley (Data Scientist) Dr. Headley is a Data Scientist at the Center for Research in Education and Social Policy (CRESP) at the University of Delaware. She specializes in the development of mixed methods research designs and strategies for integrating quantitative and qualitative research approaches. Her work has been published in the Journal of Mixed Method Research. In