notes, software, materials for on-linetesting/assessment, and collaboration with industry through team projects. In addition, the paperexamines the role of the virtual classroom in today’s classroom and its potential for future use.Assessment results and discussion on key questions related to the efficacy of web-basedmaterials in education in general are also included.I. IntroductionThe application of computer based learning as a supplement to classroom instruction is still inmany ways in its infancy. Many key questions have yet to be answered; such as is computer-aided learning a replacement for some classroom time, does it favor one type of learning styleover another, and how do developers effectively display concepts and ideas in ways that
-facetedcollaboration to generate relevant, diverse, and cost effective experiences for faculty andstudents. And, while many opportunities exist for engineering students, only a few are currentlyavailable for technology students and faculty. We have built a collaboration that providesopportunities for both. Further, we will even report on a project that was both international andbetween engineering and technology students.Over the past five years, a collaboration has developed between the Penn State School ofEngineering Technology and Commonwealth Engineering (SETCE) and the Institut UniversitaireTechnologie (IUT) on the Béthune campus of the Université d’Artois in northern France. It nowincludes faculty exchanges, student exchanges, short term student
to enter and succeed intoday’s world, many leaders are turning to active learning and in particular to more experientiallearning [1]. Integrating experiences into the curriculum that have been traditionally outsidepresents many opportunities and challenges. Community engaged learning is a type ofexperiential learning that adds benefits of engaging students with underserved communitieslocally or globally. Within engineering, the engagement is typically through design projects [2].Community-engaged design experiences place students and universities or colleges inpartnerships with organizations that address needs of underserved people. These partners may bein the local community, within their region, or international. Together, they identify
whole. They consider the criteria andconstraints that were met by the design and formulate a description of the primary need the prod-uct addresses. Students discuss how the various engineering disciplines contributed to the over-all design and get a flavor for the collaborative nature of design. They also consider possibleuses for the product as well as how the product might be misused. In addition, students are askedto think about other ways the design could have been achieved. In some of the projects studentsare asked to design a test to discover how well the product performs its tasks. Both written andverbal communication are emphasized. Students are required to submit a formal written reportabout the product they studied. They also learn
the "international" learning [1]. Furthermore, project-based learning is alsodeployed in order to enable students from different countries and across diverse disciplines toengage in the interactive peer-to-peer learning within the same virtual learning environment inorder to develop their collaborative design skills that are otherwise difficult, if not impossible, toacquire in traditional engineering classes. Specifically, the class was equally divided into 16project teams, each was composed of 2 American, 1 Israelite, 2 Indian, 1 Chinese, and 1 Koreanstudents. These globally distributed teams were tasked a semester-long project to design “acollaborative learning space on university campus”. They went through four major milestones
University Dr. Daniels is a member of Uppsala Computing Education Research Group (UpCERG) at the department of Information Technology, Uppsala University. He is primarily interested in the areas ”Learning in international open ended group project settings” and ”How to promote and assess professional skills”. Mats is also Director of studies at the department. ˚ Sofia CajanderDr. Asa Page 20.24.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Integrating Global Systems Development Skills into the Engineering CurriculumAbstract Educating the ”global engineer” has been
Session 2364 Integrating Service-Learning in a Sophomore-level Materials, Manufacturing & Design Lab* Edmund Tsang College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Western Michigan UniversityAbstractService-learning was successfully integrated into a sophomore-level course to teach materials,manufacturing and engineering design to mechanical engineering students. The course met aprogram need for a sophomore course with substantial design content and the service-learningdesign projects carried out by the students met two needs of the K-16 community. Based on
order toaccomplish this, the following research questions were proposed: · Will drawing an object in 3-D and producing that part with a Rapid Prototyping system as part of an Industry initiated project improve student visualization skills? · Does industry and education see benefits in this type of partnership?To do this several courses and industrial projects were used and evaluated for visualization skillimprovement and perceived benefits to provide a more complete picture.NeedThe need is seen as twofold in nature. Industry needs both trained personnel and access tospecial services. Education needs to provide trained personnel and access to the latesttechnology possible. Graphics is one of the core areas and permeates most
scientific concepts and exciting them about the field. Students introduced to this projectwill be exposed to various topics of soft materials, magnetism, and parametric design that interplayin the design of soft robotic systems. This paper presents a “Wacky-Waving-Non-Inflatable-Arm-Flailing-Tube-Man” that undergraduate students can design, build, analyze, and test. The projectcan be tailored as a classroom activity, a laboratory exercise, or a group project. Students willdesign several tests to determine the best design to achieve a tailored flailing configuration. Thetwo major elements of their designs that students will be able to modify include: 1) a selectionamong a subset of provided silicone elastomers that they will select based on their
simulation tools, such as Aurora Solar, Open Distribution System Simulator,REopt, and System Advisor Model (SAM), to analyze system sizes and energy consumptiondata. Through comprehensive techno-economic analyses, the competition project team proposedfourteen solar PV systems with varying production capacities. In aggregate, photovoltaicinterconnection is anticipated to reduce the local utility company's demand by approximately10%. This case study equipped the strategic plan for the university with the solutions required torealize its aspiration of expanding its photovoltaic portfolio. The work performed by thecompetition team at Illinois State University placed second in their district in 2023. This was thethird year of Illinois State University's
entrepreneurial senior design projects were funded; 50 ormore students participated in the business plan/entrepreneurial senior design projectcompetitions; one of the projects received national and state recognition; five projects receivedregional/Mercer awards; more than 30 papers were presented in regional, national, andinternational conferences by faculty and students; students and faculty applied for 3 provisionalpatents and 1 utility patent; students and faculty are in the process of forming at least two startupcompanies focusing on low cost electromechanical and biomedical devices; and more than 20students are working as intrapreneurs in major industries/corporations in Georgia andneighboring states. Students and faculty team are preparing to
-funded projects. She has served as the Principal Investigator for National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education Projects continuously since 1994.Pamela J. Silvers, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College Pamela Silvers teaches in the Computer Technologies Department at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College. Currently she is Principal Investigator (PI) for an NSF ATE Grant entitled Skilled Workers Get Jobs 2.0: Appalachian Impact which includes ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 A Proven Strategy to Improve Funding Success Rates for Two-Year Colleges Seeking Grants from the National Science Foundation Advanced Technological
Paper ID #38410Making to the Future: An Innovative Approach toUndergraduate Science EducationS. Catherine S. Key Dr. S. Catherine Silver Key hails from the Midwest, having been born and raised in St. Louis, MO. She received the Muriel E. Babcock Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Biological Sciences upon graduating magna cum laude with her B.S. in 1988 from the University of Missouri at St. Louis. She worked for one year as a research technician at Washington University in St. Louis on the Human Genome Project before moving to North Carolina to pursue her Ph.D. in the Department of Microbiology and
Paper ID #34832How Well Can Makerspaces Build an Entrepreneurial Mindset?Dr. Stephanie M. Gillespie, University of New Haven Stephanie Gillespie is the Associate Dean of the Tagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven. She previously specialized in service learning while teaching at the Arizona State University in the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program. Her current teaching and research interests are in developing study skills and identity in first-year engineering students and improving re- tention rates. She acts as a faculty liaison for the University of New Haven Makerspace
Paper ID #34230An Undergraduate Course on Renewable Energy Systems with EnhancedMarineEnergy ContentDr. Radian G. Belu, Southern University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Dr. Radian Belu is Associate Professor within Electrical Engineering Department, Southern University, Baton, Rouge, USA. He is holding one PHD in power engineering and other one in physics. Before joining to Southern University Dr. Belu hold faculty, research and industry positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada and United States. He also worked for several years in indus- try as project manager, senior engineer
Paper ID #33109Building Research Skills through Being a Peer ReviewerDr. Lisa Benson, Clemson University Lisa Benson is a Professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University, and the Editor of the Journal of Engineering Education. Her research focuses on the interactions between student mo- tivation and their learning experiences. Her projects focus on student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, development of problem solving skills, self-regulated learn- ing, and epistemic beliefs. She earned a B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of Vermont, and M.S
Armageddon is upon us. Others hold that the recent risein energy prices is one of numerous transient oil price spikes2 driven by chance or evenmanipulation. Either way, the present situation is similar to the Sputnik launch in its potential toinspire concerted action towards the long-delayed dream of energy independence. Through mostof 2008 in US cities, the price of a gallon of unleaded gasoline3 exceeded the projected pumpprice of the energy equivalent in hydrogen.Coupled with growing fears of GlobalWarming4 and the reality of carbon penalties5and credits6, this poses an excellent opportunityto bring college students and faculty into aproject-based learning environment whereeveryone wants to participate in achieving realresults. The intellectual
division ismanaged by a faculty member who role plays as a division manager. This paper describes the piloted junior level Path to Synthesis course, called EGR386 Engineering Design III - The Methods, which is vertically integrated with thesophomore course, EGR 286 Engineering Design II - The Process. The junior courseemphasizes analytical engineering skills along with sophisticated project managementtechniques including subcontract management. Written and oral communication skillsand topics on professionalism and ethics are also addressed. Greater emphasis is placedon rigorous planning and scheduling, cost estimation and economics, and coordination ofefforts between: the Design II and III teams, the Design III students and the customer,and
Paper ID #30528Civil Engineering Capstone Inventory: Standards of Practice & The ASCEBody of KnowledgeDr. Jennifer Retherford P.E., The University of Tennessee at Knoxville Dr. Retherford is an alumna of the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and received her graduate degrees from Vanderbilt University. She currently teaches a variety of courses supporting the department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Tennessee. Among many structural engineer- ing courses, Dr. Retherford also manages the Senior Design Project course for all undergraduate civil & environmental engineering seniors.Dr
Paper ID #21485Fostering Civic Identity in Architectural Technology Students through theEvaluation of Critical Reflection in Service Learning CourseworkBeth Huffman, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Beth Huffman is a lecturer at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in the interior design department. She is a licensed architect with specialties in sustainability and construction. Beth’s classroom pedagogy is focused on the practices of design/ build. She often encourages students to build a portion of their projects at full scale, in order to understand construction connections and
service-learning continues to gain prominence in many engineering schools. At PurdueUniversity, for example, three main programs offer students global engineering projectexperience in the context of international development, namely Engineers Without Borders(EWB), Global Design Teams (GDTs), and Engineering Projects in Community Service(EPICS). Participating students work to create technical solutions to address community needs,either for academic credit or as an extracurricular activity. Students involved with such projectstypically have ready access to the technical resources and expertise needed to carry out theirwork, including support from participating faculty and staff. However, preparing students for thenon-technical aspects of their
programming, mobile robotics, controlling actuators, using sensors), Mechanical Design (design projects, load and failure analysis, manufacturing) and Software (computer simulation, Windows programming, serial and wireless communications). From 2007 to 2010, Dr Sam Cubero worked at the University of Southern Queensland, teaching subjects such as mechatronics, robotics and machine vision, PBL design projects, stress analysis (solid mechanics), engineering graphics, and supervising final year engineering projects. In 2010, Dr Sam Cubero moved to Abu Dhabi UAE (United Arab Emirates) and currently works there as an Assistant Professor in the General Studies Department, Arts and Sciences Program. He has lectured in areas such
A Middle School Program to Attract Native American Students to STEM Higher Education Wei Lin1, Luther Olson2, G. Padmanabhan1, and Carol Davis2 1 North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, USA 2 Turtle Mountain Community College, Belcourt, North Dakota, USA ABSTRACTA 3-year collaborative project between the Turtle Mountain Community College, NorthDakota and the Department of Civil Engineering and Construction, North Dakota StateUniversity, “A Reservation Collaboration Initiative for Pre-college Excellence inScience, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (RECIPE)” funded by NASAcompleted two years and is in
applications of the design process, curriculum development, and fulfilling the needs of an integrated, multi-disciplinary first-year engineering educational environment through the use of collaborative learn- ing, problem-based and project-based learning, classroom interaction, and multiple representations of concepts.Mr. Alexander Danial Manasseh, Prometheus Education, Inc Alexander Manasseh is a developer of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) les- son plans, presiding over the not-for-profit corporation Prometheus Education, Inc. Alexander develops STEM lesson plans, performs STEM pedagogy research, and tailors STEM technology to the K-16 class- room. Prometheus Education, Inc. facilitates efficacy
limitation of curriculum space.One solution to this limitation is to integrate complementary content to enhance the understandingof course concepts without excising existing course materials. We previously developed asemester-long EML project directing students on the process of product development in asophomore-level Biomechanics course. Using this project, we demonstrated in past studies thatthe inclusion of EML in a project can significantly enhance student self-evaluations for curiosity,connections, and value creation compared to a control group of students provided with the sameproject lacking explicit instructions to include EML concepts [5].The incorporation of entrepreneurship skills in biomedical engineering curricula is critical
Session XXXX Use of the Texas Instruments DSP Starter Kit (DSK) in Electrical Engineering Education Brian Nutter, Tanja Karp, Sunanda Mitra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas Tech University AbstractTexas Instruments produces a cost-efficient Digital Signal Processor (DSP) systempackaged as the DSP Starter Kit (DSK). This system provides all the hardware andsoftware necessary to develop and to test a wide variety of signal processing applications.Faculty members within TTU ECE regularly assign projects
industrial experience, primarily in the American automotive industry, Dr. Alsayyed has a passion for innovation in education, teaching, research, and training. Integration of academia and industry goals and activities are paramount to Dr. Alsayyed. Sensing the industry needs and preparing future engineers to meet those needs and challenges is an important dimension of Dr. Alsayyed’s ac- tivities. Dr. Alsayyed has published more than forty articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He has seven granted patents. Dr. Alsayyed’s research interests are in the areas of advanced manufacturing, additive manufacturing, design optimization, quality & reliability, engineering education, project management
of Engineering is aiming to tackle theseissues concurrently. In a first pilot run of a small slice of the new program, students developed aspace mission concept to change the power dynamics around water quality in northern Canada,giving communities direct control of data to measure their water quality and quantities. Thedesigned mission had to be implementable sustainably, with the community engaged at everystage. This concept is being developed into a full 4-year program, where students will choose amanaged path through project activities that give them all the core and complementary content ofa traditional space program. Students will design, build, launch and operate a CubeSat mission,with a community, every 4 years, to address a societal
problem development.ContextsThe three instructors on this project work in different contexts and covered different content todate. We include mechanics instructors for first-year at a transfer college (Douglas College, Site1B, particle dynamics questions), first-year at a mid-sized public research-intensive university(University of Saskatchewan, Site 2, statics questions), and second-year at a large publicresearch-intensive university (the University of British Columbia, Site 1A, rigid body dynamicsquestions) in two separate regions (1 and 2). The present collaboration began with projects thathad started at each site separately. Site 1A started a project to develop online homework andvideo worked problems for second-year mechanics. Site 1B
instructingthese principles, UGTAs provide hands-on support for students both during and outsideof class and contribute significantly to the operation and maintenance of the 3D printing lab. Nearthe beginning of the semester, in-class support is focused on helping students during lectures. Nearthe middle of the semester, their in-class focus becomes more of a project management role asclass activities transition to final project design and development. As project managers, eachUGTA is responsible for two or three teams and provides guidance with navigating throughengineering challenges that may arise. Outside of class, office hours are provided at least once perday by the UGTAs where students can receive help on assignments or other questions related