conduct research projects within a thematic engineering or scienceresearch area. The faculty administrators for these sites are often responsible for recruitingparticipants, providing a high-quality research experience, and facilitating workshops to helpparticipants develop professional and research skills. When administering a REU program site, itmay also be suggested, or even required, that a plan be developed to evaluate the effectiveness ofthe site’s programming. Past and present REU administrators have used variety of routes fordeveloping their evaluation plans, including: using published engineering education articles todevelop an evaluation plan or integrating a social-science researcher who can advise onevaluation. The role of the social
, among others. Several examples are deviceimplants, optical devices, micro and nanomachining, embedded systems and integratednano sensor systems. The recent Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) andMechanical Engineering (ME) curricula lacked inclusion of these elements within theirprograms. Close scrutiny to the need of local industry from engineering graduates hasemphasized the motivation to develop these materials into the engineering curricula.Within the ECE curriculum, a new senior course was developed to cover MEMS/NEMSdevices as well as wearable and IoT devices with Bluetooth and wireless features. TheMEMS/NEMS module of the new course integrates software CAD tools and hardwareimplementations. It is a project-based course where
including healthcare systems, project management, cyber security, and supply chain systems.Prof. Daniel P. Johnson, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST) Daniel Johnson is a Professor Chair of the Department of Packaging Science in the School of Engineer- ing Technology at RIT. He teaches courses in production and supply chain management, manufacturing operations, automation, robotics, and operations strategy.Mr. Todd Dunn, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST) Todd Dunn, P.E., is an associate professor in Civil Engineering Technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology.Dr. James H. Lee, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST) James H. Lee is an Associate Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology
oil resources – for the benefits of short-term reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from power generation and transportation, nationalenergy independence, and national job growth – and minimizing damage to water and airresources and risks to human health.Sustainability Research Network development is part of a new program developed by theNational Science Foundation to build networks of multidisciplinary teams to address currentshortages of reliable information regarding fundamental challenges in sustainability. Byproviding a science-based framework for studying the environmental, economic, and socialtrade-offs associated with natural gas resource development and environmental protection, theSRN project aims to provide the basis for evidence
Paper ID #12970Maker: Candy Crane RobotDr. Andy Zhang, New York City College of Technology Dr. Andy S. Zhang received his PH.D. from the City University of New York in 1995. He is currently the program director of a Mechatronics Project in the New York City College of Technology/CUNY. For the past 10 years, Dr. Zhang has been working on bringing mechatronics technology to the undergraduate en- gineering technology curricula and on helping high school students to learn mechatronics through FIRST Robotic Competition events.angran xiao, New York City College of Technology, City University of New York Angran Xiao is an
student centeredenvironment.The objective of this project was to introduce a new module on electronics to students enrolled ina first year engineering program. The module was incorporated in an engineering problemsolving course and was designed to include reading material, practice problems, hands-onactivities, and a project. This paper describes the content of the module, how the module wasimplemented, and its impact in students’ perception of engineering.Methodology:Sample Size: 42 students enrolled in an engineering problem solving course participated in thisstudy. All students were enrolled in a first year engineering program at a land-grant institution inthe mid-Atlantic region; none of the students have been accepted in a major
workers in industrial automation andcontrol. In addition, it is necessary to invest in research to help maintain America’s leadership inthese areas. This paper describes a summer program designed to provide a research environmentfor undergraduate students to learn about mechatronics, robotics, and automated system design.The goal is to help participants to understand the research process, to acquire laboratory skills, toexpand their perspectives on science and engineering research, and to have a lasting influence ontheir career paths. Participants spent 10 weeks working on a research project with a mentor and agraduate student. Survey data suggests that students learned from the research experience andwill build on the experience in pursuing
Paper ID #16920Using Stickers and Copper Tape to Prototype and Explore Electrical Circuits(P12 Resource Exchange)Jana Sebestik, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Jana Sebestik received a B.S. in mathematics and M.Ed. Jana Sebestik is the Assistant Director of STEM Curriculum Design in the Office for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (MSTE) at the University of Illinois. Before coming to MSTE, Jana spent 34 years as a public school classroom teacher. She currently coordinates education and outreach for four NSF/DOE funded energy and cyber related projects. She helps engineers and research scientists
Innovations: Stanford School of Engineering Katharine KuOffice of Technology Licensing March 30, 2016Industry relations President VP, Development Provost SchoolIndustry Development Dean of ResearchRelations Officers OTL Industrial Sponsored Contracts office projects office Industrial AffiliatesHow we see the world……..(licensing and sponsored research) Physical Sciences
IPODIA: THE GLOBALCLASSROOMEDI Yannis C. Yortsos March 30, 2015 IPODIA: THE GLOBAL CLASSROOM• Class jointly offered synchronously to students of multiple universities worldwide.• One instructor. Flipped classroom model. Project based.• Class taken for credit in each university.• Tuition and fees as normally apply to each university.• Possible physical meeting of all students at end of semester. Peking University (PKU) Multiple Purposes 10:00am, Friday - China Tsinghua University (THU) 1. Global Context 10:00am, Friday - China 2. Peer Learning 3. Diversity 4
training in Molecular Biophysics at the University of Vermont under David Warshaw. His research interests include novel assessments of educational efficacy, the molecular basis of cell movement, and the mitigation of infectious diseases. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017A skills-focused approach to teaching design fundamentals to large numbers of studentsand its effect on engineering design self-efficacyDesign courses are often tasked with teaching all the steps of the engineering design process inthe span of a single semester. Project-based curricula are particularly useful in this regard,providing end-to-end exposure all the steps of the engineering design process, includingfabrication
Systems. Her current research interest includes Reliability and Fault Tolerance of Electronic Systems, Programmable Logic Devices and new educational methods emphasizing active learning and project-based-learning. She is member of IEEE and Chair of Women in Engineering Affinity Group for IEEE Long Island, New York. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Undergraduate Research Based Learning for Engineering Technology StudentsAbstractThis paper presents undergraduate research experience for Electrical and Computer EngineeringTechnology students mentored by the author of this paper. Research projects in the areas ofsmart house systems and fault tolerant
for Excellence in Research, and Outstand- ing Academic Achievement in Graduate Studies. He was recently named 40 Under 40: Class of 2019 by the Erie Reader. His projects and achievements have been recognized by U.S. Senators and Represen- tatives. Aqlan is a member of ASEE, ASQ, SME, and IEOM. He is also a senior member of IISE and has served as president of IISE Logistics and Supply Chain Division, co-founder of IISE Modeling and Simulation Division, director of IISE Young Professionals Group, founder and faculty advisor of IISE Behrend Chapter, faculty chair of IISE Northeast Conference, and track chair in IISE Annual Conference. He currently serves as IISE Vice President of Student Development and holds a seat
gaming in education. She is a Graduate Research Assistant for the TRESTLE project at UTSA.Dr. JoAnn Browning P.E., The University of Texas at San Antonio Dr. Browning was named Dean and David and Jennifer Spencer Distinguished Chair of the UTSA College of Engineering in August 2014. Previously she was a faculty member at the University of Kansas for 16 years, and served 2 years as Associate Dean of Administration. While at KU, Dr. Browning twice was awarded the Miller Award for Distinguished Professional Service (2004 and 2011) and was the 2012 recipient of the Henry E. Gould Award for Distinguished Service to Undergraduate Education. In 2015 she was name a Purdue Distinguished Woman Scholar. In 2016 INSIGHT into
projects. The Civil andEnvironmental Engineering (CEE) Department’s curriculum at The Citadel places a premium onpreparing graduates to serve as principle leaders through their service to society. In support ofthis vision, CEE Department faculty focus on implementing high-impact learning pedagogicaltechniques to prepare graduates for successful careers in the engineering profession. One high-impact method of instruction of specific interest focuses on service learning and communityengagement, resulting in creation of an enhanced student-learning environment.BackgroundService learning is an educational approach that balances formal instruction and the opportunityto serve in the community in order to provide a pragmatic and progressive learning
the Freshman Engineering Program, in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Min- eral Resources at West Virginia University (WVU). She graduated Summa cum Laude with a BSME in 2006, earned a MSME in 2008, and completed her doctorate in mechanical engineering in 2011, all from WVU. At WVU, she has previously served as the Undergraduate and Outreach Advisor for the Mechani- cal and Aerospace Engineering department and the Assistant Director of the Center for Building Energy Efficiency. She has previously taught courses such as Thermodynamics, Thermal Fluids Laboratory, and Guided Missiles Systems, as well as serving as a Senior Design Project Advisor for Mechanical Engineer- ing Students. Her research
Educationprinters, microcontrollers such as Arduino or Raspberry Pi are also fairly popular. As thecomplexity of projects increase, there may be a need for items like CNC machines and lasercutters that may not be available in all university makerspaces Such equipment may, however, beavailable within specialized laboratories and/or shops within the institution.BackgroundThe Aggie Innovation Space (AIS) is a college-based maker space facility at New Mexico StateUniversity originally established as a pathfinder project by engineering faculty participating inthe cohort-based Pathways to Innovation project led by Stanford University and VentureWelland funded by the National Science Foundation. Following several iterations of managementmodels, the AIS has
decade will require STEM skills. Yet only a quarter of womenare currently represented in these fields.While at the 2015 Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium (FEES) at the NationalBeckman Center in Irvine, CA, the authors came to understand the differences in thinking anddoing things for middle and high school age students, where males tend to dominate femaleswhen working collaboratively on projects and how this reinforces preconceived negativestereotypes. The authors have combined the USDC employment predictions in science,technology and engineering with the FEES calls by integrating research-based high-impactpractices into a novel two-week long Increasing Diversity in Engineering and Labor-force(IDEAL) summer outreach workshop designed
context, increase the non-technical aspect,develop soft and management skills, consider the international challenge, and use new learningstrategies to help engineers update their knowledge during their entire career (2). It was evidentthat a cultural change was necessary to switch from “sink or swim” culture to a less competitiveand collaboration-based environment. In fact, we need a change of paradigm from a teacher-centered to a student-centered pedagogy (4).StructureThe road to success for this project requires everyone’s contribution and involvement. Eachperson’s opinion and contribution must be requested and valued. What is especially important isto avoid giving people the impression that changes are imposed upon them. In the same way
: 1. To identify the phases of the engineering design process. 2. To design an engineering project and construct a physical model of the project. 3. To prepare a technical report for a design project and make an effective oral presentation that summarizes the project. 4. To recognize the importance of working in a design team. 5. To recognize the importance of the NSPE Code of Ethics and the responsibility of Professional Engineers.The textbook is Engineering by Design4 that is based on the five phases of the engineeringdesign process: 1. Needs Assessment 2. Problem Formulation 3. Abstraction and Synthesis 4. Analysis 5. ImplementationDescription of Hybrid CourseThe hybrid model consisted of distance
build an electrodynamic loudspeaker from simple components thatcan produce clear and loud sound. Other classroom-tested mechanical dissection andsimple construction projects will be explained and demonstrated. Workshop participantswill learn strategies and techniques for successful implementation of hands-on howthings work activities.Cost $40Limited to 20 participants Page 11.676.2
, scienceor engineering major. Those cadets take a three-course engineering sequence in thedepartment, the goal of which is to “enhance[e] their quantitative problem-solving skillsand … provid[e] introductory engineering design experiences.”1 The sequenceculminates with a capstone course in which the cadets work with a real client to solve aproblem for him or her. That course is SE450, Project Management and System Design.This paper focuses strictly on that course, which has been successful in achieving bothdepartment and Academy goals by aligning the course assignments to a decision makingprocess and incorporating a real-world client into the course.This paper will begin by comparing the findings of some of the relevant literatureregarding capstone
Maryland-College Park PAIGE E. SMITH, Ph.D., Director of the Women in Engineering Program, A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland. Dr. Smith is a co-PI of the CCLI grant. She provides leadership in recruiting and retaining female engineering students for the college. Her current research focuses on engineering design teams and project management. Page 11.269.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 20061526: BESTEAMS: A Curriculum for Engineering Student Team Training by Engineering FacultyEngineering instructors who have uttered the following sentence have
commonly used in project management practices) was found to be veryuseful in coordinating the clustered instructions of the two courses.To heighten the learning effect, it was decided that a common integrated project, similar to thatreported by Yoder5, should be used in place of the three individual projects originally required inthe three courses involved. One natural consequence and benefit of using a single cross-course Page 12.10.3project was that the scope of the combined project could have more depth and breadth (thus moremeaningful) than the single-course one.ImplementationThe foregoing curriculum experiment was implemented in the Spring
onecourse with S-L, with between 25 and 30 faculty practicing each year. Over 50 separate courseshave incorporated S-L, with 30 to 35 courses offered per year, providing 1,100 to 1,750 studentS-L experiences annually, for over 1,000 unduplicated students per year out of a totalundergraduate enrollment of over 1,700 students (2011.) Thirty-eight community basedorganizations (CBOs) and over 1,000 individuals with disabilities have been served from the cityof Lowell to Peru, with about 15 to 20 CBOs and 80 to 100 individuals reached any given year.MethodologyThe approach has been to expose College of Engineering students to S-L, primarily through theintegration of S-L engineering projects into core required courses. Students who wish to extenda
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 A Laboratory Based, Problem Solving Pedagogy Prepares Engineering Technology Graduates To Succeed on the JobAbstractOur advancing world of computer integration, process control, industrial automation,and telecommunications requires technical problem solvers and knowledgeabledecision makers. “The activities of problem solving and decision making are closelyintertwined”,1 and both skills can effective be learned through project based capstonecourses. The lab based problem solving environment is organized into clusters. Theseclusters are equipped with components such as computers, printers, programmablelogic controllers, sensors, pneumatic valves
Education, 2013 An Evolving Capstone Course used in ABET AssessmentAbstractThe Department of Engineering and Technology at Western Carolina University (WCU) hasdeveloped a capstone design course sequence that provides students with industry-relevantprojects, while generating an excellent opportunity to assess many of the ABET (AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology) student outcomes, commonly called “a through k.” Inits sixth year the two-semester course sequence sees a healthy list of projects that provide cross-functional opportunities for teams composed of undergraduate students in EngineeringTechnology (ET), Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET), and ElectricalEngineering (EE).Each of the capstone projects
3 President of Computer Graphics Center 4 President of Pedagogic Council of University of MinhoAbstractTechnical skill is associated with understanding and proficiency in a particular type of activity,especially those that are involved in methods, processes and procedures. As an example, one cantake the training of the engineer, who - mostly - is focused moreover, on calculations,simulations and projects, characterizing it as an individual, above all, objective. Since the humanability can be understood as the ability of individuals to interact with others to form similar onethat respects his fellow and nature this individual is aware of his/her own attitudes, opinions
Engineering Education, 2010 Undergraduate Engineering Design Course on Prospective of PhD Student AEZEDEN MOHAMED AND RON BRITTON Engineering and Information Technology Complex (EITC), 75A Chancellors Circle University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 5V6AbstractENG 1430, Design in Engineering, is a one term required course that forms part of the common first yearEngineering program at the University of Manitoba. It has been structured to assist students develop teamskills such as decision making, project management, communication and collaboration while experiencingthe use of fundamental engineering design skills. This paper describes the components and operation of
2004 - 631 Ethics in the Built Environment (EiBE) - A Challenge for European Universities - Prof. Dr. Carsten Ahrens Department of Civil Engineering and Geoinformation Fachhochschule Oldenburg/Ostfriesland/Wilhelmshaven (FH OOW) Oldenburg, Germany e-mail: carsten.ahrens@fh-oldenburg.deSummaryThe SOCRATES Intensive Project „Ethics in the Built Environment (EiBE) - A Challenge forEuropean Universities -“ should bring and mostly brought together students and teaching staffof 15 European universities from South (Porto, Portugal; Valencia, Spain