requirements. The environmentaleducation process includes engineering design projects, group projects, major researchpapers, and individual presentations. Complementing the experience are field trips toenvironmental facilities (water treatment, wastewater treatment, landfill, etc.) and,in many cases, participation in the Individual Advanced Development (AIAD)program in which a cadet spends three to four weeks working for a research oranalysis agency in the federal government or military affiliated civilian entity. Forthose cadets who desire, they may be able to complete a major research project under theauspices of an individual study course (XX489).Content of Cadet ExperiencesThe key to the Environmental Security program is that it is
standard layup techniques with processing in autoclave and thermalforming. The session on additive manufacturing included key elements of developing a 3Dprinted structures and how to tailor the fabrication conditions for better mechanical performance.Students also learned about technical writing and presentation skills organized by the WritingCenter on campus at ODU. This session allowed students to discuss and practice the keyelements of technical and research writing. The future seminars during the second year of theprogram will involve technical proposal writing sessions to offer support in achieving the know-how for various external opportunities for financial supports and fellowships, includingopportunities for post-graduation employment in
offervaluable insight into potential best practices for teacher training programs. Other studies focus specifically on technology, as technology integration courses inelementary education curricula are not uncommon. In one course, project-based learning (PBL)was used to teach pre-service teachers engineering design and fabrication. Such project-basedapproaches allow pre-service teachers to personally engage with project-based learning, a pre-requisite for its use in their future classrooms [5]. Furthermore, the use of hands-on activities canpromote learning and a positive attitude toward the subject [5]. When using a closed-loop PBLmodel for an engineering design activity that also incorporated fabrication technology, it wasfound that
” while solving CTSS problems similar to thosepresented in textbooks. At present, only preliminary interviews have been conducted in order toevaluate the interview protocol. The results from these preliminary interviews do support ourhypothesis, and we hope to present more sophisticated results in the near future.The analysis presented in this paper showed that many of the students in the CTSS course areperforming below their usual performance level as indicated by their cumulative GPA. Thisresult suggests that it may be possible for carefully designed pedagogy and curricula to have asignificant impact. In light of our hypotheses, the goal of designing pedagogy should be toencourage students to take a deeper approach to learning in order to
support their students for future success byincluding communication skills learning objectives in all years of undergraduate coursework.This paper discusses a writing assignment used in 2020 and 2021 in an upper-level StructuralEngineering class at Case Western Reserve University. The assignment follows a lesson plandeveloped by RePicture and the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC).The assignment was designed to help students in several ways, including: • Practice writing skills • Engage with technical concepts and relate what they are learning to actual projects • Better understand the breadth of their engineering career options • Create online material that they can include on their resumeThe structural engineering
Paper ID #11233Running the Academy as a BusinessDr. Mitchell L Springer PMP, SPHR, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Springer currently serves as the Executive Director for Purdue University’s College of Technology located in West Lafayette, Indiana. He possesses over 35 years of theoretical and industry-based practical experience from four disciplines: Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Program Management and Human Resources. Dr. Springer possesses a significant strength in pattern recognition, analyzing and improving organizational systems. He is internationally recognized, has contributed to scholarship more
robots. Students apply computer-controlled robots in manufacturing and programmable automation. CSC455, CSC655: Computer-aided Design and Drafting - Three hours lecture and lab; 3 credits. Introducing the concepts, principles and applications of CAD. A CAD software system, Pro/Engineer, is used to support laboratory experiences and the projects. Graduate students prepare a research paper for presentation to the class. CSC475: Computer Integrated Manufacturing - Three hours lecture and lab; 3 credits. Introducing the use of CIM systems to improve productivity, information flow and management of resources. Students design and operate a pilot-scale flexible manufacturing system. Emphasis is on hardware
. Marks, P. and Riley, K., Aligning Technology for Best Business Results, Peter Marks, Design Insight, Kathleen Riley, 1995, p. i.2. Carelli, W. A., et al, “I-DEAS Master Series 5”, SDRC Working Ideas, Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, 1997 No. 1, p. 1, 4.3. “Toward Design Without Boundaries: A Vision for Autodesk” Autodesk Technology Vision, Autodesk, Inc., 1997, p. 2.4. Interview with Rob Quinn, Parametric Technologies Corporation, February 1998.5. Anderl, R. and Mendgen, R., Parametric Design and Its Impact on Solid Modeling Applications, Presented at Solid Modeling ’95, Salt Lake City, Utah, ACM, 1995, p. 12.6. McMahon, C. and Browne, J., CADCAM, From Principles to Practice, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
Educational Resources (OER). The ACE curriculum includes anintroduction to accessibility, best practices for designing various types of resources, and learningactivities that help participants begin using their new skills. As a STEM institution, the courseheavily focuses on accessibility related issues in STEM disciplines, such as mathematicalequations, tables, graphs, and diagrams. This paper discusses the development of the ACE coursecurriculum and lessons learned while supporting accessible OER development in STEMdisciplines. The paper concludes with areas for future development of the course, includingexpansion of STEM related content and incorporation of participant feedback to continueimproving the course.IntroductionMines has been funded by
various locations near Utrecht, where the studentsstayed while in the Netherlands. The next day was a travel day from Utrecht to Freiburg,Germany, and the final three days were held in Freiburg.The course was targeted to upper level undergraduate students and graduate students due to thespecialized nature of the material. In particular, the course was designed for civil engineeringstudents; however, the course was also open to those studying urban planning, policy, and health Page 26.152.3sciences. A total of five students participated in the pilot program, the majority of which werecivil engineering majors. Students were graded based on their
individually, in-class active andcollaborative learning (ACL) exercises, and problem-based learning (PBL) team projects withentrepreneurially minded learning (EML) components. However, all modules are intended tofoster a better student understanding of the theory, practices, and career opportunities associatedwithin the fluid power industry.Starting in the Fall of 2016, the authors developed the modules and implemented them inmultiple sections (taught by different instructors) of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanicscourses in three consecutive semesters (Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017). Pre and post surveyswere conducted to gage the impact on student learning on the fluid power content before andafter the designed activities. Both direct and indirect
US citizens or permanent residents2. They had to be taking full academic loads towards an approved CSEMS degree3. They should be aiming for technical careers in these disciplines4. The scholarship was intended to relieve students of the financial burden of seeking outside jobs, thus allowing them to focus on their academic programs.5. The program was prohibited from requiring research or other productive activities.Program Objectives & Elements Page 13.962.2The objectives of our program are to enable access to a top-quality education to the mostdeserving students and to ensure the best guidance for their success
developments in the field, new regulations specific to this area of research are expectedto be necessary.23. Current Biotechnology Research and Bioethical IssuesOver one hundred billion U.S. dollars are spent each year on biomedical research as shown inTable 1. Some research is funded by industry and some through government sources.Biotechnology is expected to produce novel answers to societal needs. Biotechnology canincrease the food supply by designing disease resistant strains of crops. It can provide newsources of energy, new medications, and treatments for disease.22, 23 It is also a potential sourceof disaster, either accidentally or purposefully by terrorists, from the development of anorganism deadly to the environment, animals, and
traditional “eggdrop” and “marshmallow tower” activities, and moving toward integrating current fields of studyanchored in current research topics and cutting-edge technology. This model is unique in the factthat it incorporates design activities directly related to current research, while providingmentoring and skills needed for the transition to college. Here, we explore best practices inimplementing programs like this summer experience and includes suggestions for sustaining and Page 26.1192.2replicating this model in other institutions and settings. Preliminary survey data suggest that this summer experience meets the goals of the model and
Review, Summer 2006.10 Entrepreneurship in American Education, Kaufman Foundation, 2006. Available from: http://entrepreneurship.asu.edu/files/entrep_high_ed_report.pdf11 M. Nakkula, C. Pineda and Amy Dray, “Expanded Explorations into the Psychology of Entrepreneurship” Harvard Graduate School of Education,September 2003.12 W. J. Baurol, R. E. Litan, and C. J. Schramm, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism. Yale University Press, 2007.13 I. Shidhu, B. Tenderich, and S. Broadrick, Engineering Entrepreneurship Education: Best Practices and Next Steps, University of California, Berkeley, Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, 2010.14 Advancing Entrepreneurship Education: A Report of the Youth Entrepreneurship
and Scandinavian Consortium for Organisational Research as a Fulbright Finland - Technology Industries of Finland Centennial Foundation and Tutkijat Maailmalle - KAUTE Foundation grantee.Dr. Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on engineering education and work-practices, and applied finite element analysis. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading the Foundation’s engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers
the traditional library tour and basicinstruction [5]. What, however, would be the impact on student learning and teaching strategiesif all of these pieces were brought together and a new program for teaching information literacywas undertaken at the upper-undergraduate and graduate level in industrial engineering? A grant from the Engineering Information Foundation enabled Professors Smith andWhitman to formally assess the effectiveness of teaching using Tegrity lectures throughout fall2002. The research was designed to answer several questions about this format of instruction.How effective is this form of instruction for teaching software tools? How effective is this formof instruction for teaching the critical thinking skills
Page 24.892.2groups, and direct methods of observation of skills demonstrated during design competition.Results related to this research will share the best practices identified and resources that can helpeducators in teaching innovation, while at the same time encouraging success among engineeringundergraduates. This paper reports on the assessment efforts linked to two weekend designcompetitions that were offered to program participants. Using different topics, the competitionshave provided students with problem-based learning opportunities and the chance to designsolutions through hands-on applications and resources provided to students.Innovation ChallengesTo promote innovation, the living-learning program provides Innovation Challenges in
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationpages/Home/Departments/Civil_Environmental /International_Service_LearningUniversity of Massachusetts, Lowell. Seeks to improve energy efficiency in end-use sectors andSolar Energy Engineering; increase the diversity of energy resources consistent withCenter for Sustainable Energy an economically and environmentally sustainable future.energy.caeds.eng.uml.edu/ Combines undergraduate and graduate education, research, public service, service-learning, and public education.Massachusetts Institute of Technology. D-Lab is a full year course including a January field trip toDept. Civil
andteaching to better prepare engineers for the global economy. The planning phase involvedalmost 200 academic and business leaders from both countries and resulted in raising close toUS$1M to fund the first Summer Faculty Leadership Institute. The Institute was designed as aseries of 23 one-week Train-the-Trainer workshops taught by US faculty members and corporaterepresentatives known for their pedagogical skills. The topics covered general effective teachingtechniques as well as best practices teaching in specific engineering disciplines. The workshopswere held during a six week period during the Summer 2008 at the InfoSys Technologies’Global Education Center in Mysore India. The 585 Indian faculty participants were selected froma pool of 1400
Paper ID #33483Work in Progress: Synergy of Visualization and Experiment inUndergraduate Engineering Electromagnetics CourseDr. Yang Victoria Shao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Yang V. Shao is a teaching assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering department at Uni- versity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She earned her Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Dr. She has worked with University of New Mexico before joining UIUC where she developed some graduate courses on Electromagnetics. Dr. Shao has research interests in curriculum development
USA.2. Jamieson, L. and J. Lohman, Innovation with Impact: Creating a Culture for Scholarly and Systematic Innovation in Engineering Education, ASEE, Editor. 2012: Washington, DC.3. Loshbaugh, H. and B. Claar. Geeks are chic: Cultural identity and engineering students’ pathways to the profession. in Proc. ASEE. 2007.4. Lord, S. and J. Chen, Curriculum Design in the Middle Years, in Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research, A. Johri and B.M. Olds, Editors. 2014, Cambridge University Press: New York, NY, USA.5. National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice., et al., How people learn : bridging research and practice. 1999, Washington, DC: National
graduation rates.We use the data collected on a survey of students enrolled in the capstone senior design classes,placement data from the internship program and academic performance data to form a fairlycomplete map of the work-study question. We document that the majority of student jobplacements do not directly involve the university services dedicated to support such activitiesand that holds even if we only consider placements that are related to Engineering andComputing. The senior design survey gathered work histories of about 80% of the enrollment inthese classes which we contrast with academic performance.We consider issues arising from attempting to actively manage the total workload for students.We look at the role of industry who desires
of the practice of professionalengineering (where a PE license is required), but they all generally conform to the definitionincluded in the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) ModelLaw (4) as follows: “The term “Practice of Engineering”, as used in this Act, shall mean anyservice or creative work requiring engineering education, training and experience in theapplication of engineering principles and the interpretation of engineering data to engineeringactivities that potentially impact the health, safety, and welfare of the public. The services mayinclude, but are not limited to, providing planning, studies, design, design coordination,drawings, specifications, and other technical submissions…”As the world
studies stress the importance of first-year college experience, andindicate the first-year GPA as the best predictor of attrition. The adoption of an activelearning format whereby student participation is highly encouraged has the strongestimpact on students’ academic performance and their attitudes towards engineeringprofession4.Despite of the fact that many students may have been academically prepared andmotivated to study engineering, 50% of students who enter engineering programs asfreshman do not earn an engineering degree2, 3. The gap between engineers neededannually and the number of graduates available to fill positions is wide. Some expertsplace the need as high as 117,000 a year, while U.S. colleges produce about 65,000 to70,000
curricula. Students completebasic mathematics, science, and general engineering courses in the first two years followed bycivil and environmental engineering courses in the remainder of their studies. The CEE pro-gram includes a significant laboratory component and practical design projects in the upperlevel classes. The program culminates in a capstone design class that is taken in the last se-mester in school. Projects for this class are often solicited from communities and non-profitorganizations, and typically incorporate a service learning component.In reviewing the existing UWP CEE curriculum for this curriculum development project, itbecame clear that the curriculum had not changed significantly in over 20 years. To illustratethis, the
versionsof the distance learning courses. Page 8.444.8“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Biographies Dr. GRAHAM WALKER is a member of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Manhattan College. His field of interest is systems engineering. His research has included work in instrumentation and biomechanics. He also teaches courses in design and manufacturing. Dr. PAUL MARNELL is a member of the Chemical Engineering Department at Manhattan College. His field of
University in 1987 and a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1997.Dr. Pamalee A. Brady, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Pamalee Brady is a Professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She teaches courses in structural systems, concrete, steel and wood design as well as structural engineering courses for architecture and construction management students. Prior to joining the faculty at Cal Poly she worked in applied research at the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, Illinois. She is a member of the Education Committee of the ASCE Forensic Engineering Division and an Asso- ciate Editor of the ASCE
department heads actively into the developmental process. ITOW is designed as a workshop that changes as it is delivered, drawing on the expertise and experiences of the participants as well as the research and literature on the learning environment and the experiences of women and men of color in engineering classrooms.(UM) Go for 1.5 hours of time; try and hook the activity to a time when faculty are already available (e.g., faculty meetings); get more buy-in from the top; do more consistent follow-up; perhaps offer the workshop annually to new, incoming faculty who are more suggestible in the beginning (especially assistant professors); try and bring students if you can…they are the best sources of
theireducation. Although the cohort model serves as an effective social support for traditionallymarginalized students in this study, high impact practices (HIPS) such as these serve to put aband-aid on a leaky pipeline, ignoring the underlying systemic barriers in place.AcknowledgementsThis work was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, S-STEM grant#1356753. All opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of theNational Science Foundation.References[1] Yosso, T.J., “Whose Culture Has Capital? A Critical Race Theory Discussion of CommunityCultural Wealth,” Race Ethnicity and Education, 8(1): 69-91, 2005. [2] Jones, S.A. and Were, M. “Impact of the POSSE Program on the Academic Integration ofMinority