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project preparation course, and a capstone course in quality. The results also havemajor implications for lifelong learning for engineers and are compatible with the teachings ofothers such as Taylor, Deming, Senge, and a study by Ernst & Young.The objectives of this paper are to:1. Share executive survey results and findings2. Demonstrate that the spectrum of leadership can be modeled by Hayes’ ―Six Stages of Quality System Implementation‖ and parallel versions of it3. Demonstrate how the Six Stages of Quality System Implementation were used to redesign courses in the industrial and manufacturing engineering curriculum to strategically integrate lean, six sigma, statistical quality control, and quality tools.4. Show that there is
capstone design project in the Spring 2013 andconducted surveys in two upper-division courses to determine areas that have contributed indelaying student graduation. Analysis of Student Academic RecordThe mechanical engineering program at UTSA requires 128 SCH of course work in order for astudent to receive a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) degree. The degreerequirement includes 42 SCH of the University Core Curriculum. Courses in general chemistry,engineering physics, and calculus are parts of both the University Core Curriculum andmechanical engineering degree requirements. In examining the academic records of 60 studentswho are completing their senior design project in spring 2013 we made several
Department of History at the Rochester Institute of Technology and has taught at RIT for 15 years. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024WIP: Navigating Epistemological Borders: Considerations for Team Teaching at the Intersection of Humanities and STEM This paper is a part of a larger project designed to better equip engineering students withempathetic attitudes. While our larger project focuses on the student experience and measuringempathy levels, this paper focuses on the teaching of such a course. Specifically, this paperexamines what we are terming two humanities-driven STEM (HDSTEM) courses taught at twodifferent institutions (Texas Tech University and Rochester Institute of
Paper ID #36476Creating a collaborative cross-institutional culture to supportSTEM women of color and women with familyresponsibilities at four midwestern research institutionsCinzia Cervato Dr. Cinzia Cervato is the lead PI of the NSF-funded ADVANCE Midwest Partnership project and Morrill Professor of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences. She has served as faculty fellow for early career and term faculty in the Office of the Provost and faculty fellow for strategic planning in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. She earned a doctor of geology degree from the University of Padova (Italy), and a Doctor of
Dr.Hanan Anis, P.Eng., as the Chairholder. As part of its commitment to CEED1, uOttawaEngineering created two new regular faculty positions, one in the area of engineering design andthe other in technological entrepreneurship (re. Section 2.2). CEED1 focuses on five keyobjectives: To facilitate access to, and provide training with rapid prototyping equipment and facilities. To establish a Master’s in Entrepreneurial Design graduate program of studies. To facilitate a student internship program. To create a multidisciplinary capstone project stream at the undergraduate level. To implement curriculum enhancements targeted at strengthening linkages between design engineering, business, and entrepreneurship.2.5.2 CEED2The development of the
disparate projects, in order tofrom a social support network. A capstone social activity again was provided by SOCHE in theform of a group kayak trip along the Mad River, ending in downtown Dayton (26.5%participation rate).Continuation of Component #3: Weekly Seminar Meeting with Outside Presentations ofGeneral InterestIn 2014, we planned an activity at least once per week. The activities began with a jointorientation from Component #1 and concluded with the poster session from Component #4; andin the interim, we again alternated between social gatherings and professional developmentactivities.The 2014 full schedule of activities across all components was: • Week 1: Joint orientation, with pizza lunch (Component #1) • Week 2: Social lunch
-EWB participants. A higherpercentage of those with internship experiences rated teamwork in the top five importantoutcomes, and a lower percentage rated attitudes among the five least important outcomes. Thosewith future career interests in construction engineering rated project management in the top fiveimportant outcomes with higher frequency; students with structures career interests believeddesign to be more important; fewer students with water and/or environmental career aspirationsrated globalization among the least important outcomes. Content analysis of an open-endeddiscussion of the BOK2 found that the majority of students (93%) had overall positivestatements. Some promoted the inclusion of creativity and innovation as a new outcome
management, contracting business, or thesis (capstone).Table 4. provides further details on student respondents.Table 3.Faculty Respondent Data Program A Program B Program C Program D Program E Respondent 1 2 3 1 1 1 1 2 # Taught full No No No No No No No No course on ethics Taught Yes, Yes Yes, Yes, Introduction to Yes, Professional & Yes Yes, Yes, Project course(s) that Construction
of a technology. Several institutions in the United States are leveraging biomedical engineeringto impact global health through using human-centered design (Richards-Kortum, Gray, and Oden 2012;Oden et al. 2010; Malkin 2007). While interdisciplinary programs in global health have the potential to yield innovative solutionsfor the SDGs, the learners of engineering design comprise a relatively small pool of students. En-gineering design curricula have traditionally been taught in a capstone course in the final year ofcollege to engineering students (Todd et al. 1995; Zhan et al. 2018), the majority of whom are male(men received approximately 80% of all undergraduate engineering degrees awarded in the US in2
the student, since fluid mechanics student outcomes are necessary for subsequentcoursework (e.g., heat transfer), laboratory work, and capstone projects.3. Actual Course Content ComparisonThermodynamicsThree sections of three-credit hour thermodynamics were taught at LTU during the Fall 2007semester by three separate instructors. One section of four-credit hour thermodynamics wastaught at UE during the Fall 2007 semester.For each of the four thermodynamics sections, the course content and number of classroom hoursspent on each broad topic are shown in Table 1. Nearly all the same material is coveredregardless of the number of classroom hours allotted for the course. LTU Section 1 barelycovered two-phase flow, LTU Section 2 did not cover two
], theauthors presented the development of an introductory mechatronics course for the students whohad completed their second year at the community college and planned on pursuing a bachelor’sdegree in an engineering discipline. In [23], the authors investigated the application ofagile methods enhancing mechatronics education through the experiences from a capstone course.In [24], Consi proposed a versatile platform for teaching mechatronics that considered a middle-ground approach seeking a compromise between free-form and set-piece projects that maximizedexposure to core mechatronics concepts while minimizing peripheral tasks, and importantly,preserving a good measure of creativity, and so forth.3.3 DBR ApplicationsResearch on DBR with applications
final project. Although we have yet not performed formal assessment measuring howmuch students re-use their work in our capstone course, anecdotal evidence suggests that ourjunior and senior Clinic students have increased their skills and familiarity in the selection anduse of sensors, and in acquiring data using PC-based DAQ systems. The custom data logger ismore representative of data acquisition systems that are used in Clinic (and industry), and modelcalibration using multiple channels of experimental data is a common task in our capstonecourse. Regarding Warren’s observation that students did not necessarily use time outside of labto build and test, our structure of E80 was designed such that students felt restricted from doing alot of
creation of a “CreativityMinor”. A cross-college committee was formed and the focus changed from creativity andinnovation to leadership, specifically leadership for engineers. The minor would help studentsdevelop the essential leadership skills necessary in engineering, including project management,working in teams, communication skills, global awareness, green engineering, and professionalethics.11 In 1995 the Plan was crystallized by the proposal for an Engineering LeadershipDevelopment Minor (ELDM) consisting of courses in leadership, organizational and businessskills, entrepreneurship, and a capstone course in science, technology and public policy.12Creativity and innovation, although the original focus of the proposed Minor and
development of empirical testing methods using similitude-based approaches. This approach provides significant potential for increasing the efficiency of the design process through a reduction in required full-scale testing and an expansion of the projected performance profiles using empirically-based prediction techniques. Wood’s research also includes the development of robotic ground and air vehicle systems using innovative conceptual design techniques for current technology implementations, as well as futuristic projections, applied in the framework of a senior capstone design course. Page 25.752.2
AC 2012-4880: MEASURING ENGINEERING STUDENTS’ CONTEXTUALCOMPETENCEDr. Hyun Kyoung Ro, Carnegie Mellon University Hyun Kyoung Ro is a Research Designer and Analyst in the Institutional Research and Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University.Dr. Lisa R. Lattuca, University of MichiganDr. Dan Merson, Pennsylvania State University Dan Merson is a Postdoctoral Fellow for the Center for the Study of Higher Education and the College Student Affairs program at Penn State. He received his Ph.D. in higher education from Penn State in the summer of 2011. While at Penn State, he primarily worked on the NCAA-funded Student-Athlete Climate Study (SACS), a nation-wide project to assess student-athlete’s perceptions and experiences
the fourth day, the studentswatched an ABC News Nightline program titled “Deep Dive.”29 A “think-tank” company,IDEO, was asked by the ABC program‟s producers to develop a new design for a shopping cartwithin one week – an extraordinarily tight timeline. In camp, a team assignment was givenwherein each student identified the core competencies used by IDEO, the methodology followedby IDEO, and potential problems with the final cart design (likely due to the short timeline). Theproblems identified by each team were collected, and using the list, a capstone team project wasassigned wherein the students had to re-design IDEO‟s new shopping cart while using the entirecreative problem solving method. The students were given 24 hours to complete the
that our perceptions of reality are socially constructed andthat by focusing on positive stories and experiences, particularly from people whose identitiesare marginalized, we can create a more positive reality in work and learning environments [4].Despite its prominence for over two decades, it is unknown to what extent APPI has been used inengineering education research. Further, there is limited to no evidence of utilizing APPI as aneducational intervention.1.1. APPI as a Research Methodology vs InterventionAs a part of an early-stage research project on evaluating the impact of asset-based practices inundergraduate engineering courses, we employed appreciative interviewing to elicit studentexperiences in applying their assets to projects
preparation for capstone experiences, like internships and senior-design projects. The shift toward explicit training in ethics, sometimes referred to as “ethics andresponsible conduct” (ERC) training, has been driven by a range of factors including high-profileethical transgressions, increased public scrutiny, mandates from funding agencies, and newaccreditation standards.The landscape of disciplinary ethics frameworks, or the value content and structured experiencesthat shape professional development and disciplinary enculturation, reaches wide across thecurriculum and deep into the discipline [10], [11], [12]. This landscape might includeframeworks ranging from accrediting bodies and institutional compliance structures to state and
technicalengineer has also evolved into a “team-player entrepreneur” [3, pp. 2], someone who can provideengineering solutions in a much broader context.Another important facet of educating the modern engineer is exposure to interdisciplinaryexperiences and projects. Like EM, the term interdisciplinary has many varied definitions [9].One common definition of interdisciplinary competency is “a process of answering a question,solving a problem, or addressing a topic that is too broad or complex to be dealt with adequatelyby a single discipline or profession” [4, pp. 3]. Other descriptions state that “interdisciplinarityhas often been characterized – and implicitly defined – as borrowing; researchers or instructorsborrow concepts, theories, or methods from one
Conference Paper submitted to the 127th Annual ASEE Conference & Exposition, July 2021, Long Beach, CA.engineering schools with leadership programs in attendance [15]. Below is a summary ofkey take-aways on best practices from this study: • The whole spectrum of program maturity was represented, from mature programs with over 10 years of successful practice to future programs in development. • Undergraduate engineering leadership curricula placement varied. Examples of placements include Major, Minor, Certificate, course electives, integrating leadership fundamentals into required freshman seminar, in-class lectures, and capstone projects. • Leadership curricula consisted of four themes of leadership influence
Students’ Interest in Their CoursesIn addition to the potential benefits in terms of student engagement, there is also a correspondingbenefit for the department’s industry partners. The department’s current industry engagementefforts focus on design project sponsorship, large-scale events, and opportunities for one-on-onementorship. Those efforts provide a broad range of opportunities for industry to engage with thedepartment, while also providing some insight into the kinds of opportunities that could bevaluable and that are not included in the current model. The push to increase the use ofindustry-based examples across the curriculum is unique in that it focuses specifically on classesthat haven’t traditionally been highly industry-based, and in
fromeach faculty member to use the materials they had submitted as part of the study.Courses included in the review process are listed below in Table 1. The review process includedonly undergraduate core (i.e. required for all students) courses with an MCEN prefix and did notinclude the department’s sophomore seminar or senior design capstone course. Non-MCEN corecourses were excluded because they are managed by other departments and are therefore largelyoutside the current initiative’s realm of influence. The sophomore seminar and senior capstonewere excluded because they are already highly industry focused, with nearly 100% of the coursecontent centering specifically on exposing students to processes, projects, and contacts within thenetwork
, andwelfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors. Thisimplies that they all need to be explicitly considered.This should be approached systematically; otherwise, one of these factors will be missed.The consideration of public health, safety and welfare are covered for most civilengineering design projects through the use of codes that govern a design. Codes andstandards were developed solely for that purpose.The most straight-forward approach is to require students to separately describe theglobal, cultural, social, environmental and economic considerations as a graded part oftheir design submission. It might be helpful for the instructor to preface the assignmentwith some examples of these considerations on a
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makerspaces (aswell as academic makerspaces), has been previously reviewed and documented.1,2,3The rapid growth of makerspaces within higher education is significant. While originating inengineering programs, often as extensions of the infrastructure needed to support open-ended problemsolving in keystone and capstone courses, higher education makerspaces are also being created tosupport student learning in other disciplines.4 The concept of learning by creating in the physical anddigital space has also been adopted by liberal arts programs to promote critical and innovative thinking.5In a related development, the American Library Association identified makerspaces as an importanttrend in the evolution of libraries, including university libraries, as
-controlled Unit Operations experiments, and incorporating Design throughout the Chemical Engineering curricu- lum. She currently works as a freelance Engineering Education Consultant and Chemical Engineer. She is the Project Manager for NSF grant #1623105, IUSE/PFE:RED: FACETS: Formation of Accomplished Chemical Engineers for Transforming Society, for which she is advising and coordinating assessment.Dr. Abhaya K. Datye, University of New Mexico Abhaya Datye has been on the faculty at the University of New Mexico after receiving his PhD in Chem- ical Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1984. He is presently Chair of the department and Distinguished Regents Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering. From
AC 2008-259: DEVELOPMENT OF A TEAM INTERACTION OBSERVATIONPROTOCOL AND A SELF-EFFICACY SURVEY USING SOCIAL COGNITIVETHEORY AS A FRAMEWORKSenay Yasar Purzer, Arizona State University Senay Yasar-Purzer is a Ph.D. candidate in Science Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Arizona State University (ASU). She currently works as a graduate research associate in the Communication in Science Inquiry Project, an NSF-funded teacher professional development program. She earned her master’s degree in Science Education at ASU. She has a BS degree in Physics Education and is currently pursuing another B.S.E degree with a concentration in mechanical systems. In 2007, she received the Dean’s