Engineering from U-M. Dr. Finelli is responsible for advising the U-M College of Engineering on educational endeavors, conducting research in engineering education, planning and facilitating workshops for faculty and graduate student instructors, and generating a community of researchers in engineering education. She is also a member of the U-M Steering Committee for the President’s Ethics in Public Life Initiative and the College of Engineering’s Diversity and Outreach Council. Dr. Finelli is a member of the Executive Board of the ERM Division of ASEE and was program co-chair for the 33rd Frontiers in Education Conference and for the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. She participated
health program by promoting better health practices among the public.To help achieve the third one Uganda needs to provide more applied science personnel in thebiology area to interact with the general population.The solution to the problem of building the infrastructure in rural areas in the non-health sectorhas two components: • The first is to develop a sound plan (an engineering solution). • The second is to obtain government approval and find financial funding (grants, community input, and government input).To obtain the needed technical and labor personnel – engineers, technicians and skilled labor –one would select from the available pool (an educational matter). So the governmental sectormust provide support for educating
local, statewide, regional and national issues in transportation and information systems management related to policy analysis, management, planning, infrastructure development, safety and operations. Page 12.673.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Enhancing the Capstone Design Experience in Civil EngineeringAbstractThis paper documents efforts in and outcomes from a two-semester sequence senior designexperience to address some of the programmatic needs and accreditation criteria established byABET. The capstone design course sequence described herein was enhanced based on anevaluation by the
transportthe manufacturing equipment from the participating manufacturing companies to the CTConvention Center.The symposium had an extensive pre and post evaluation plan that was completed by over 1800students and their teachers. The results of these surveys will be presented and discussed as wellas a suggested operational plan for adapting and implementing a similar event in another regionor state.Introduction: The Connecticut College of Technology (COT) is a virtual college thatencompasses the entire state and includes the 12 community colleges that make up the publiccommunity college system, six private and public universities and secondary schools throughoutConnecticut. (see Diagram 1) The COT was created by the State legislature, Public Law 95
to invest in new technology.IntroductionThe Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of _______ has embarked on anambitious plan to remove all paper from its design stream and has attempted to use state of theart technology to achieve this goal. To illustrate how the paperless environment wasimplemented the Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Course was chosen as an illustrativeexample.Engineering at the University of _______ consists of a common first year with enrolmentnumbering about 1000 students after which the students choose a specialization subject to quotaswithin each department. As a result Mechanical Engineering receives 160 -180 students intosecond year. The program has been mirrored (each course each term to keep
activities in the course would have to supportone or more of the outcomes. Assessments done on the course would also be based upon theoutcomes. The ten outcomes are: 1. To be able to perform well in multidisciplinary, multi person, complex team projects. 2. To be able to apply the technical project design steps including library research, project planning and management to subsequent engineering projects. 3. To be able to apply problem solving steps when solving a mathematical, science or engineering problem. 4. To be able to use a CAD software to construct a 2d, three-view representation (i.e. front, top, side) of a 2d object, complete with dimensions, annotations, etc., as well as an isometric
Education, 2008 Integration of Computer-Based Problem Solving into Engineering CurriculaAbstractThe primary objectives of this engineering project are (1) to examine how to develop students’problem solving and computational skills early in their program of study and (2) to furtherenhance these skills by building upon critical computing concepts semester after semester. Theproject is a component of NC State University’s quality enhancement plan, which focuses on theuse of technology in enhancing student learning. The project stems from new introductorycomputer-based modeling courses that were created in two engineering departments, and hasexpanded to include other departments. We give an overview of the
collaborating withstudents on potential senior design projects. Excursions were organized as part of the trip toexpand students’ cultural awareness.Prior to their visit, the Civil Engineering Department and the Office of Institutional Research,Planning and Assessment (IRPA) of RHIT developed and administered three assessmentinstruments in order to collect data on the short term impact of international design projects onstudent experiences. These instruments included a pre-trip survey, a student focus group, anddaily student journals. This paper discusses the results of the data collected during thisassessment process, suggestions for future improvement of the experience, and the need to assessthe long-term benefits of student
most challenging academic and leadership experience I’ve had thus far. Not only is it extremely time-consuming and laborious, but it involves peer leadership which has been a very difficult task for me as team leader. 2 I’ve also garnered several lessons that will be highly relevant to my Leader Army experience; particularly in regards to group management, project planning and goal-execution. Despite the difficulty, the project was a rewarding experience, From this project, I will take the process of getting a problem that has limitations and find a way to solve it. As a lieutenant, it is my job to find solutions, to
-study. The plan wassimple: introduce the students to the professional topics and engineering constraints asearly as possible with additional opportunities to wrestle with the concepts prior toapplying them again in the senior design experience. The belief is that if students workwith these professional topics and engineering constraints throughout the curriculum,then they are better suited to consider most if not all engineering constraints within adesign process that also demonstrates accomplishment of professional outcomes. This Page 14.764.5appears to be a simple plan, but when added on top of the existing course content that
development.Palle Qvist, Aalborg University He is associate professor and lecturer in Technology, Humans and Society and in Cooperation, Learning and Project Planning. His interest fields are ICT and faculty development, organized learning, digitalised learning, PBL and the history of the problem. He is staff member at the UNESCO Chair in Problem Based Learning in Engineering Education.Juan Luis Cano, University of Zaragoza MSc and Doctor from the Engineering Faculty of Madrid Polytechnic University. He has held different positions at private companies (Mech. Engineer, consultant, project manager) until 1982 when he took up the chair of Project Engineering of University of Zaragoza. Since 1993 he
innovative productdevelop a work plan to manage your time and resources to successfully produce a prototypeof an innovative productpresent the results of assignments and projects using written and oral communicationData sources primarily include end-of-quarter surveys, and focus groups. The surveys aredesigned to include ratings on student confidence in a variety of areas, as well as frequency ofperformance of specific tasks. Data was collected to represent our previous curriculum to use asa comparison of the current curriculum. Items of interest for this paper show that students in thenew curriculum have confidence means that are significantly higher for some course objectivesas shown in Table 2; the confidence numbers in the table are based on a
2008 course developed a series of products, focusing onfive projects in teams of two each. They did an initial comparison of realities in two verydifferent regions, then selected projects, and did a Requirements Definition for their project.They then developed design analyses and presented them at the Institute’s UndergraduateResearch Opportunities Seminar midway through the semester. At the end of the semester, theysubmitted detailed reports as well as Business Plans for their projects. This exercise was repeatedin Fall 2008, with a graduate section of the course added to focus on the issues where Spacetechnology linked to renewable energy.The course lecture material, evaluation methods, and course assessment comments fromstudents, as well as
data critical to the assessment andevaluation of the RET program is collected in the afternoon of Day 1. On Day 2, teachers tourthe RET faculty research laboratories. Following the tours, teachers are matched withengineering faculty, REU students and laboratories, and paired with graduate students based onthe teachers’ research interests. In the afternoon of the second day, teachers go through a trainingcourse in laboratory safety. Besides working together in the labs, the teachers, REU students, andPh.D. students mentors meet regularly to review, network, compare experiences, and addressissues. The RET teachers also meet separately (weekly) to engage in collaborative lesson studyand curriculum planning. Weekly time is also be allotted for
competition requires the team to design and build a medium-sized robot to autonomously traverse an outdoor obstacle course. Obstacles normally consist of colored barrels, construction netting, white lines and trees. The team uses stereovision cameras as the primary obstacle detection sensor. The team is currently exploring several algorithms for path planning. Paul recently become a member of the UMR Applied Computational Intelligence Lab. He recently spent the summer developing adaptive user-interfaces as part of a research partnership with Boeing.Donald Wunsch, Missouri University of Science and Technology Donald C. Wunsch II (S’87–M’92–SM’94–F’05) received the B.S. degree
consensus, acquiring the required skills, providing incentivesand resources, and establishing a realistic action plan. This is best illustrated in Fig 2below. Having these components Results inVision Consensus Skills Incentives Resources Action plan Change Consensus Skills Incentives Resources Action plan ConfusionVision Skills Incentives Resources Action plan SabotageVision Consensus Incentives Resources Action plan AnxietyVision Consensus Skills Resources Action plan ResistanceVision Consensus Skills Incentives Action plan FrustrationVision
did not want to get anyone in atizzy unless it was a “sure” thing. However, in academia, where teaching schedules can bedrawn up a year in advance, this did cause some stress as the assignments had to be renegotiatedand rearranged among the faculty.Before arranging a meeting with your supervisor to negotiate the terms of your maternitypackage, develop a plan.7 Research and understand university and federal policies beforeentering into negotiations. Talk with other colleagues in the department, college, and universityto find out what they received and/or negotiated (make sure that they are discreet—you do notwant rumors to circulate before you have had a chance to share the news yourself). You may
Board, Educational Activities Board, Fellow Committee, EAB Accreditation Policy Committee, EAB Planning and Review Committee, Admission and Advancement Committee and Director of the IEEE-Monterrey Section. In 1998 he received the© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 IEEE-EAB Meritorious Achievement Award in Accreditation Activities “for leadership in establishment of the engineering accreditation system in Mexico” and in 1992 an ABET Award “in recognition of distinguished leadership in engineering education accreditation in Mexico”.Luiz Scavarda Do Carmo, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro LUIZ C. SCAVARDA DO CARMO is Vice Rector of the Pontifical Catholic
of the model, thetheoretical background, pictures and/or video of the set-up and use of the demonstration, a partslist (or order location), cost, and building plans, as well as that something extra about othercourses where the physical model can be used or how to insert greater insight or drama into theclassroom using the model or demonstration. Course assessment data will be provided todemonstrate the impact of physical models on student learning.The basic concepts in mechanics courses must be driven home if students are to comprehendtheir follow-on courses. For most students, particularly visual and sensory learners, classroomdemonstrations are essential to understanding these “abstract” concepts. Students crave concreteexperiences when
design project to formulate the thread ofdesign in the curriculum. Table 2 provides a listing of the different courses hosting the designproject as part of the CASCADE project. As shown by table 1, implementation of the CASCADE project started in the academicyear of 2012 – 2013 and continued through the following years [21]. Currently the project is stillongoing with minor changes of logistics and participating faculty depending on availability offaculty and the changes in their assignments. Nevertheless, the general plan and objectives arestill the same with activities and participation expanding every year. Two departments participatedin the project at its inception in 2013. In the following years, two additional departments joinedand
intended to capture students’ attitudes, behaviors, and beliefsrelated to planning their initial career steps, including (1) their current plan of study, (2)undergraduate experiences, (3) knowledge, beliefs, and influences, (4) career plans andexpectations, and (5) background characteristics. The “knowledge, beliefs, and influences”section includes questions in which students are asked to self-report their subjective task values(STV) related to finding a first position post-graduation.The research team developed items for the four dimensions of the STV construct – attainmentvalue, intrinsic value, utility value, and cost – in close consultation with published surveysutilizing EVT in education and engineering education17-19,24-25 to ensure that the
activity relates to engineering design. While there isliterature describing which brain regions support particular cognitive functions, far less is knownabout how these are developed through learning and how they support design thinking. Bymeasuring hemodynamic responses during brainstorming tasks with freshmen (n=14) and senior(n=9) engineering students we find a significant difference (p<0.001) in the cognitive activationrequired to generate solutions. Freshmen engineering students show 5 times greater activation inthe dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (known to involve working memory, cognitive flexibility,planning, inhibition, and abstract reasoning) compared to seniors. While seniors show an averageof 10 times increase in activation in the
his efforts to diffuse innovative teaching and learning practices in the school. These efforts derive directly from the outcomes assessment plan which he helped devise and implement as ABET Coordinator. Address: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Ana G Mendez - Gurabo Campus, PO Box 3030, Gurabo, Puerto Rico, 00778. Tel. 787-743-7979 x 4182 E-mail: jcmorales@suagm.edu c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Sizing the components of existing machinery to gradually develop machine design expertise Juan C. Morales, Ph.D., P.E. Universidad Ana G. Méndez – Gurabo Campus
as a team to accomplish a specific task or set of tasks within the team’s charter. Withinthe informal student-led design team, this function can pose both additional challenges andrewards, as students work through the inevitable issues and conflicts arising as they face thestresses of organizing the team, outlining a plan of attack to address the tasks before them, anddynamically reallocate resources/tasks based upon the schedule and each member’s time available,skill levels, and commitment to the overall effort. This function can be particularly challenging(and rewarding) within student groups where most have had little or no experience in organizingand leading peers.The leadership function also includes the vital task of planning for
, and students; surveying student attitudes andsatisfaction with existing facilities; and tracking student use. Data were used to inform anassessment plan for the future Innovation Center.This proactive framework includes the voices and experiences of students from across theinstitution including those of diverse backgrounds and disciplines. The process has allowed us toimprove our understanding of the role of making in the future of our university and of howregular feedback and collaboration with constituent groups helps us to create a more learner-friendly and equitable space. Furthermore, this effort to collect and analyze data in preparationfor a new makerspace has been beneficial as we develop curricular and co-curricular experiencesfor
contexts.This work is intended to help demonstrate to engineering education researchers how a case studymethod approach can be used to study complex phenomena with multiple variables of interest (inthis case, the process of using professional development to initiate a faculty change initiative).The paper also shares how a case study research design can benefit from utilization of atheoretical framework (e.g., the additive innovation cycle) and from the collection of multiplesources of evidence to help triangulate findings. We describe the set of decisions madethroughout the analysis planning stage to identify patterns of behavior among cases (facultymembers), including why decisions were made, how they were implemented, and to what ends.The process to
problem of high priority for the education agency thathas important implications for improving student education outcomes. These partnerships are tocarry out initial research and develop a plan for future research on that education issue,” asdefined by the National Center for Educational Research 15 .The goal was to value and foreground the teaching skills of in-service teachers in the partnerschools with the insights available to us as a Center working with CS researchers as well as withmultiple Boyle Heights schools within both LAUSD and the Los Angeles Archdiocese. TheCenter was also able to use the experience of university students who started learning CS inelementary school through the physical computing of robotics. Although inspired by the
demographic information for both the college and elementarywriting partners is listed in Table 1. No other engineering activities were explicitly planned bythe participating elementary school teachers. Table 1. Demographics for College and Elementary Student Participants College Elementary* Total Number of Students Surveyed 148 86 Sex Female 28% 49% Male 70% 41% Racial/Ethnic Identification American Indian or Alaska Native 1% 1
program team adapt the EDP course progression from the high school summerprogram into full engineering courses for implementation in high school classrooms. The coursesthat arise from Hk Maker Lab’s curriculum development efforts are to: 1. Enhance student interest in pursuing STEM education and career opportunities; 2. Enhance student STEM self-perception; 3. Develop student engineering design skills. This paper describes the structure and programmatic activities of the curriculum developmenteffort, as well as preliminary assessments and future plans for refinement.PROGRAM COMPONENTSProgram ParticipantsNew York City science, math, and engineering high school teachers are recruited to apply for theEDP curriculum development program
, distributed simulation, adaptive control systems, digital signal processing, and integrat- ing technology into engineering education. He has also been an industry consultant on modeling for strategic planning. Professor Elizandro received the University Distinguished Faculty Award, Texas A&M, Commerce and College of Engineering Brown-Henderson Award at Tennessee Tech University. He served as Governor’s Representative for Highway Safety in Arkansas and member of the National Highway Safety Advisory Commission during the Jimmy Carter presidency. He is also a member of Tau Beta Pi, Alpha Pi Mu, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon honor societies.Dr. David H. Huddleston, Tennessee Technological University David H. Huddleston is a