,students are taught modern making skills to enable them to create proof-of-concept prototypes oftheir engineering designs. Historically, mechanical engineering students across the US, as wellas many globally, develop functional prototypes for their senior capstone project. At CarnegieMellon University, students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering conduct prototypingin at least one core course each year of their undergraduate career.The safe and correct use of rapid fabrication equipment is taught individually through hands-ontraining in class and directed practice outside of class. Students were surveyed before and aftercompletion of the course to self-assess their ability to apply modern making skills in the areas ofCAD software, 3D
theMechanical Design Project module taught to chemical engineering students at ImperialCollege London (ICL).The MEng Chemical Engineering programme at ICL is currently undergoing a review of itscurriculum and we believe that this study and its results would be valuable to inform anddirect future module design within the programme in which many modules are team-based.This could involve and lead to the introduction of new- and the strengthening of existing peerlearning opportunities which could transform the way we teach and learn in our department.The role of academic self-efficacy, peer learning and team efficacy within PBLThe use of PBL in engineering education is widespread [7, 8, 12 - 15]. In PBL, real-lifeproblems are presented as the stimuli to
Paper ID #21713Assessing and Enhancing Standards Education for Environmental Manage-ment and SustainabilityDr. Deanna H. Matthews, Carnegie Mellon University Dr. Deanna H. Matthews is Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Affairs and Associate Teach- ing Professor in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. She serves as the academic advisor to undergraduate students in the department and teaches introductory and capstone courses for engineering students to understand the complex nature of technology solutions in society. Her research interests include developing student meta-cognition and
Engineers. 2. AmericanSociety for Engineering Education 3. Society of Automotive EngineeringPROPFESSIONAL SERVICE ABET Program Evaluator Member, Board of Advisors, Prince George’sPublic Schools Project Lead the Way U.S. Representative for IJSO (International Junior Science Olympiads) c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Changing Mindsets, Transforming Learning Environments: A Collaborative Approach to Innovation and EntrepreneurshipIntroductionThe national government of the United Arab Emirates has set transitioning to a knowledge-basedeconomy, including the promotion of innovation and entrepreneurship, as a key pillar of itsVision 2021 National Agenda [1]. With this initiative, the country
Paper ID #26017Board 72: Why Engineering Ethics? How Do Educators and AdministratorsJustify Teaching Engineering Ethics?Dr. Soheil Fatehiboroujeni, Indiana-Purdue University Soheil FatehiBoroujeni received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Merced in 2018. As a postdoctoral researcher at Purdue University, School of Engineering Education, Soheil is working on a multi-institutional project characterizing governance processes related to change in engineering education, and pursuing other research interests in epistemology and design, among other philosophical topics in engineering
corporatesponsor and was heavily tied to real industry needs. By working with corporate mentors studentsbecame better acclimated to the engineering profession through the use of engineering acumen,and problem solving techniques. This opportunity allowed students meaningful early exposure tothe engineering discipline and helped to shape their understanding of the field. This engagementprovided a basis for future skills needed for project based learning such as capstone coursework[7].Among the major University partners for the Summer Bridge Program are the Math and ChemistryDepartments, the Learning Center, University Library, Career Services and the Writing Center.Each of these provide unique services that benefit the program. For instance, the Math
a. Custom resin formulations 5. Industrial Quality Assurance a. Control charting of results from testing i. Cpk studies ii. Measurement Systems Analysis 6. Capstone Projects a. Senior projects i. Resin formulating ii. Process ImprovementsAs a hands-on development tool for students through use in demonstrations or labs, studentscould experience a process not used by many at an undergraduate or even graduate level.9. SummaryThe research team was able to successfully automate the lab scale prepreg treater into acontinuous system within the prescribed budget. The treater was qualified through a processingrun that produced 23 feet of prepreg which
students, alumni, and practicing engineers. She also conducts studies of new engineering pedagogy that help to improve student engagement and understanding.Dr. Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech Dr. Matusovich is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Programs in Vir- ginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 8 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using motivation and related
for Social Scienceswithin the university core. This required the course to conduct some surveys and analyze the datain a meaningful way, and this activity had to be a reasonable percentage of the course content.Fortunately the four-credit course structure permits this to happen and still retain sufficient classtime and activities to explore project management, the functions of an engineering team within thecontext of a business operation, and aspects of entrepreneurship. The course allows the engineeringstudents to have a basic understanding of business principles and terminology.3.2 ABET AssessmentWhile much of the liberal arts core does not directly contribute to ABET assessment, the courseon Engineering and Technology Ethics will be used
Continuing Professional Development Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. Dr. Springer received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University, his MBA and Doctorate in Adult and Community Education with a Cognate in Executive Development from Ball State University. He is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP), Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR & SHRM-SCP), in Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR), and, in civil and domestic mediation. Dr. Springer is a State of Indiana Registered domestic mediator.Dr. Kathryne Newton, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Dr. Kathy Newton is an Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Faculty Success for the Purdue Poly- technic
1999 Mary Catherine Ellwein Outstanding Dissertation Award (Qualitative Research Methodology) and the 1998 Selma Greenberg Distinguished Dissertation Award (Research on Women and Education) from the American Educational Research Association. She received the 2006 Distinguished Paper Award for her article “Engineer Identity” from Cultural Studies of Education. She is currently the PI of ESCALATE: Engineering & Science Careers in Academia, Learning from ADVANCE and Translating Effectively, an NSF ADVANCE-PAID Project. Address: #319 Education, 5425 Gullen Mall, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, 313-577-1764 (v), 313-577-5235 (f), ag7246@wayne.edu
describe their experience with engineering design, juniorengineering students often refer to their cornerstone design course but not to their second andthird year coursework. This means that students do not recognize their analytical training as anecessary part of their design preparation. Despite this disconnect, these students are expected topull their analysis training together with their first year design experience to successfullycomplete a capstone design project in their senior year. Based on this, we assert that designlearning needs to be enhanced to integrate seemingly disparate pieces of design knowledge andskills. Empirical evidence supports this assertion.2A proven way to enhance learning is to engage students in their own learning
Session 24685. Design. With a strategy incorporating a computer equation solver with the ‘raw’ fundamental symbolic equations, design and redesign activities can be naturally introduced in the first mechanics of materials course. The authors’ aim in this introductory course is to introduce design through short, simple and well-defined projects. As the student progresses to more advanced courses, i.e., machine design, structural design, etc., projects become lengthier, open-ended and difficult, leading to the capstone design experience. The implementation of this approach carries with it the following significant challenges:1. Symbolic Equations. The difficulty in requiring a symbolic approach with sophomore and junior engineering
Automation 14.3% 14.3% 35.7% 35.7% 13. Computer Integrated manufacturing 23.1% 15.4% 38.5% 23.1% 14. Project and Organizational Management 16.7% 25.0% 50.0% 33.3% 15. Capstone Projects in manufacturing / Senior 21.4% 14.3% 50.4% 21.4% Design Projects 16. Sustainable manufacturing 22.2% 33.3% 11.1% 44.4% Table 5: The manufacturing engineering technology contents covered by the participating faculty B.S. in
are required to develop an electronic portfolio that includessamples of their most important learning experiences, which may be projects, term papers,extracurricular experiences, and internship reports. The electronic portfolio is reviewed andassessed by faculty members on a regular basis to monitor student progress. During their finalsemester, students finalize their electronic portfolio and present their achievements to a facultypanel. The electronic portfolios allow students to document and reflect on their learningexperiences. Integrating learning outcomes into the curriculum provides a mean for faculty toassess the effectiveness of the academic programs.1. IntroductionUniversities in the USA and worldwide are taking a critical look at
beginning learner is at the periphery of the knowledge base, and theresearcher/expert is at the center, delving ever deeper into the veins of knowledge. In mostengineering curricula, synthesis is left to the "senior capstone design course". Various "freshmenexperiences" try to provide perspective and enable synthesis, but cross-disciplinary thinkingoften stalls there. A primary obstacle is that undergraduates are the only people who are expectedto integrate knowledge and have perspective; professors and graduate students are "specialists".ADL inverts this model, as seen in Figure 2. A design-centered introduction (DCI)7, is the centralgateway, set at the freshman level. Immersed in the design process unique to the school, thelearner visits each of
. 11, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/story-driven-learning-in-biomedical-engineering-quantifying-empathy-in-the- context-of-prompts-and-perceptions[14] K. L. Morgan, C. L. Bell-Huff, J. Shaffer, and J. M. LeDoux, “Story-Driven Learning: A Pedagogical Approach for Promoting Students’ Self-Awareness and Empathy for Others,” presented at the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Jul. 2021. Accessed: Oct. 19, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/story-driven-learning-a-pedagogical-approach-for- promoting-students-self-awareness-and-empathy-for-others[15] G. Guanes, L. Wang, D. A. Delaine, and E. Dringenberg, “Empathic approaches in engineering capstone design projects: student
Engineering Education Midwest Section Conference to more advanced courses, i.e., machine design, structural design, etc., projects become lengthier, open-ended and difficult, leading to the capstone design experience. The implementation of this approach carries with it the following significant challenges:1. Symbolic Equations. The difficulty in requiring a symbolic approach with sophomore and junior engineering students is motivating them to write a complete set of governing equations in symbolic form before substituting numerical values. They just are not familiar with formulating problems this way. Their training in high school and college has primarily involved sequential solutions of the applicable formulas. The good news is that
Page 20.12.3including biomedical electronics, biomechanics and biomaterials, BME capstone projects, design,and BME elective courses as well as courses in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Mechanical Engineering, Math and Physical and Life Sciences. These are often complimented byan array of courses in Humanities and Social Sciences.Students may be offered a choice of tracks, depending on the emphasis to be placed in the BMEprogram. These tracks include biomechanics, bioelectronics, biomaterials, etc. The selectedspecialization will determine which courses are appropriate for students to gain relevant expertise.In order to ensure a well-rounded training, related programs have generally begun to increase thelaboratory, design, and
industry can provide substantial direct experience in the types of work that mightbe assigned. A prominent example would be serving on selection committees, where theindustry experienced faculty member has likely screened, interviewed, and hired morecandidates than most departments might work with in a decade or longer. Additionally, it isimportant that industry experience candidates look for ways to leverage service into the otheraspects of their appointment. For example serving on an internal research grant or NSF selectionreview panel can provide insight into how decisions are made to fund proposals, while servingon a group to solicit industry capstone projects can potentially lead to research activities andfuture publications.26 Finally
Paper ID #6759Negotiating Masculine Spaces: Attitudes and Strategies of First-Year Womenin EngineeringDr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communica- tion and teamwork in engineering, design education, and engineering identity. She was awarded a CA- REER grant from NSF to study expert teaching practices in capstone design courses nationwide, and is co-PI on NSF . Her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication
for faculty development,” in Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2024.18. L. Al-Zube, and S. Dorris, “Board 13: Work in progress: Clinical immersion model for biomedical engineering undergraduate students with experienced nurses,” in Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2023.19. D.B. Oerther, “Leveraging the NAM’s ‘getting nurses on boards coalition’ to promote NAE’s ‘changing the conversation’ campaign,” in ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018. [Online] Available: https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--30771.20. A. Zahraee, “Preparing successful professionals through an applied interdisciplinary capstone project between engineering technology and nursing,” in
AC 2007-1342: BUILDING AS A POWER PLANT: MODELING AND SELECTIONOF A COMBINED HEAT AND POWER SYSTEM FOR AN ADVANCEDCOMMERCIAL BUILDINGBrendan Egan, Milwaukee School of EngineeringStephen Dechant, Milwaukee School of EngineeringChristopher Damm, Milwaukee School of Engineering Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Page 12.330.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Building as a Power Plant: Modeling and Selection of a Combined Heat and Power System for an Advanced Commercial BuildingAbstractIn this Mechanical Engineering senior project, combined heat and power (CHP) systems wereevaluated based on their effectiveness in supplying the
research includes in-depth case studies of three programs that seek to educateengineers as liberal learners: the engineering program at Harvey Mudd College (“HMC” Page 24.1374.2hereafter), a liberal arts college for engineers, scientists, and mathematicians; the PickerEngineering Program (“Picker” hereafter) at Smith College, the only ABET accreditedengineering program in a women’s liberal arts college; and the program of Design, Innovation,and Society (“DIS” hereafter) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a program that blendsengineering, arts, and critical social studies in design learning.Data for the dissertation research project was collected
regards to the Tampa Bay Interstate Express project andelements of equitable transportation. Her narrative provided concrete examples of elements fromthe ASCE Code of Ethics Canon 1 and Canon 8. Students’ written comments provided evidenceof effectiveness and impact. In a senior professional issues course, shorter clips from multiplemembers of the ASEE community panel were shown during class as part of both the ethicsmodule and sustainability module. However, it was unclear that the seniors gained any insightsor abilities from these activities. In an elective/graduate level course focused on site remediation,clips from Sydney Brown discussing Tonawanda Coke and from a community meetingdiscussing a proposed remedy at a Superfund site were
second year of the program, students enroll in STS ‘practicum’ courses that are designedto provide students with service-learning and field experiences focused on communityengagement. The STS program experience concludes with a capstone course where studentssynthesize their STS learning to pursue sustainability projects with global partners. See [1] formore information about key foothold ideas that students are introduced to in this program and theorganizing principles behind this program. The STS program, through its directors, instructors,and other support partners, embodies certain values, goals, practices, and knowledge bases thatlaid the foundation for our study and for the collaborative work we sought to accomplish in ourresearch
is required to tackle the engineering grand challenges that ourworld faces. They must complete a Capstone experience and utilize one or more of the followingopportunities provided by our institution: 1. Engage in undergraduate research experience in an approved team or individual research or design project with a university faculty member, focusing on one of the fourteen NAE grand challenges. 2. Complete an Entrepreneurial Initiative project approved by the instructor and the scholar’s grand challenges mentor, focusing on one of the grand challenges. 3. Complete an approved independent study project focusing on one of the four grand challenges’ themes (sustainability, security, health, and joy of living).As
Page 26.422.3introduce techniques for learning innovation piecemeal over multiple courses. Consequently,teaching the processes of creative problem solving and innovation becomes disjointed amongmultiple courses. Alternately, the content could be integrated into an existing course (e.g.,capstone/senior project). Unfortunately with this approach, the students will all be from thesame institution and potentially all from the same major. A multi-institution, multi-disciplinaryexperience is highly conducive to learning creativity and innovation. More details are availablein reference 9, but in particular, one camp student noted, “Having all of us work as groups fromdifferent schools made it so that we were able to solve the problems given to us
of Cincinnati (UC). He received his BS in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech, and his MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His past research has focused on membrane science, adsorption, and ion exchange. He currently serves as the Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Program Director at UC and teaches the capstone process design sequence. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio.Dr. Troy J. Vogel, University of Notre Dame ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Paper ID #47605 Troy Vogel is the Assistant Chair, the
comprehend. This paper provides suggestions regarding the use of graphical design inspiredmethods for communicating these and similar ideas.As suggested in [4] a central theme can be used to "glue together" disparate topics as part of alarger puzzle in an advanced networking course. In a similar vein, as part of the Solution-BasedLearning (SBL) framework proposed by [5], students are encouraged to develop expandingfunctionality diagrams for their advanced capstone projects. Students provide a "back-of-the-napkin" sketch as part of the initial project proposal, depicting the proposed specifications whichconstitute the core and extension phases of their project. The development of theserepresentations require opportunity for practice across multiple