Framework for Sustainability Practices in Construction Education Curriculum using BIM Jin-Lee Kim, Ph.D., P.E., LEED AP BD+C Department of Civil Engineering & Construction Engineering Management, California State University Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840 - U.S.A Email: jinlee.kim@csulb.eduAbstractThis paper presents a framework to develop a unique and innovative virtual approach in order todeliver sustainability practices using Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology forundergraduate students and implement it as a new hands-on laboratory- and project-based coursein the
applications of fuel cellsand to stimulate enthusiasm for engineering and technology at a crucial stage in their education.Three high schools were selected and the project began in Fall 2003. The project wassuccessfully implemented during Fall 2003 at Central High School located in Little Rock.IntroductionThe EPA’s draft on Strategic Plan (2003-08) sets out five goals—Clean Air, Clean and SafeWater, Protect and Restore the Land, Health Communities and Ecosystems, and Compliance andEnvironmental Stewardship—and describes the work they plan to do over the next 5 yearstowards achieving the set goals [1]. Community awareness of environmental issues is vital to thesuccess of such a strategic plan, and this project, as small as it is, can make a
A Capstone Course Integrating Student Leadership Development and CommunityBased Service Learning Jeffrey Birou, Alistar EricksonLudwig, Mira Olson, Kevin Scoles, Drexel University The Paul Peck Scholars Program in Drexel University’s College of Engineering provides a curriculum framework that helps develop students’ skills in leadership, management, communication and mentorship. The capstone course of this threeyear sequence is an engineering servicelearning project, where students must address the needs of a community partner by dovetailing their engineering coursework and internship backgrounds with the skills gained through the Peck Scholars program, in
engineering workforce, most criticallyin training technical leaders capable of competently bringing a product to market. Thetraditional leadership path using apprenticeships, mentoring, and gradually increasingresponsibility in running progressively larger teams, is heavily dependent upon opportunity. Theperfect alignment of these opportunities to lead, and availability of talented engineers who areready to lead rarely occurs in today’s lean corporate environment. Hence in many cases, highpotential employees are put in positions to lead, beyond what their level of genuine experiencehas prepared them for. Engineering executives have estimated that when relatively unseasonedengineers are tasked to run their first team or project, nearly 80% fail in
virtual component and virtualassembly are introduced in this paper for effectively teaching engineering design for mechanicalmajor. In our class design projects, students were guided to use SolidWorks for creating virtualcomponents and further building virtual assemblies in the digital forms. The applications ofvirtual component and virtual assembly helped students to solve the problems mentioned above.From our direct observations on several classes, students through class design projects bycreating virtual component and virtual assembly had better understanding of engineering designand gained hands-on experiences which could be directly implemented in real industries.1. Introduction One of the main activities of engineers is to provide
mainly on student performance in tests, while setting a minimum composite score for non-test components of coursework (homework, lab, and project assignments, etc.) as a requirementfor passing the class.PrefaceThe author of this paper has been teaching Computer Science for over three decades: first fifteenyears in the USSR and remaining years in the United States. During her lengthy academic careershe attended many major conferences in CS education, interacted and collaborated with manycolleagues internationally, and published several papers related to the teaching of ComputerScience. Observations and statements made in this paper are a result of discussions with aboutseventy five individuals teaching introductory Computer Science Courses in
344 RFI DISCUSSION FORUM Elaine Gilbert1,21Former Graduate Student, Department of Civil, and Environmental Engineering, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA/ 2Civil Engineer, Fuscoe Engineering, San Diego, CAAbstractThe construction process involves many different professionals that are in charge of makingimportant project decisions in their own area of expertise. In many projects there will beunforeseen circumstances that arise that will require the contractor to request additionalinformation from the professional
of increasing the number of women in STEM and creating effective methods for introducing young children to CS concepts and topics. Dr. Coffman-Wolph’s research interests include: Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Logic, Software Engineering, STEM Education, and Diversity and Inclusion within STEM.Dax Amburgy, Ohio Northern University Dax is a Senior Computer Science Major with a Concentration in Cybersecurity. He has experience in many different programming languages including C++, Java/Kotlin, Python, and Powershell. Dax has worked in many different areas including data analysis, operating systems, task automation, networking/network security, and microcontrollers. His largest solo research project was Text To
the Rutgers School of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award, and is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021A Scaffolded, Semester-Long Design/Build/Fly Experience for the Mid-Career Aerospace Engineering StudentAbstract A mid-career Design/Build/Fly (DBF) project which is part of a larger Introduction toAerospace Engineering course is demonstrated to show student growth in a wide array of learningoutcomes. The DBF experience (rocket flight) is highly scaffolded, leveraging traditional systemsengineering and integrated vehicle design approaches detailed in lecture with hands-on laboratoryexperiences
Paper ID #16261A Civil Infrastructure System Perspective - Not Just the Built EnvironmentDr. Douglas Schmucker P.E., University of Utah Dr. Schmucker has 20 years experience in teaching and consulting. Focused on high quality teaching following the T4E, ExCEEd, and NETI teaching models, he currently is a full-time teaching professional with a focus on practice, project, and problem-based teaching methodologies.Dr. Joshua Lenart, University of Utah Dr. Joshua Lenart is an Associate Instructor with the Communication, Leadership, Ethics, and Research (CLEAR) Program at the University of Utah where he teaches technical
engineering through a two-week residential summer camp. The Summer Engineering Instituteprovides participants an insight into the engineering profession and the engineering educationalsystem through a combination of lectures, hands-on laboratory activities, field trips, workshops,panels, and projects. Among the strategies employed in developing the program are emphasizingall the major fields of engineering and the various paths to an engineering career, including therole of community colleges; targeting first generation students and underrepresented minorities;collaborating with high school faculty and staff through a nomination process to identify andselect potential students; collaboration among community college and university faculty indeveloping
in sustainable (bio-inspired) design helps them to understand the impacts oftheir decisions on the environment and natural resources and empowers them to make positivechanges. On the other hand, entrepreneurship enables students to learn how to spot, evaluate, andexplore opportunities, build a prototype, and test it to design a project that satisfies clients' needsand aesthetic preferences. Unfortunately, educational institutions and researchers lag, particularlywhen integrating an entrepreneurial mindset with green building. Thus, this study emerged toovercome this contemporary interdisciplinary challenge and prepare green entrepreneurs and T-shaped engineers.PURPOSE OR GOAL: This study aims to prepare future green entrepreneurs and T
Session 2253 A Multidisciplinary Course Sequence for First-Year Engineering Students Jay B. Brockman, Thomas E. Fuja, Stephen M. Batill University of Notre DameAbstractThe University of Notre Dame has developed a new first year engineering program, and centralto that program is a two-course sequence entitled “Introduction to Engineering Systems.” Thesecourses use a sequence of team-based, multidisciplinary projects to introduce students to theengineering profession and to assist them in developing fundamental problem-solving skillscommon to all engineering
Paper ID #37841Investigating the role of compassion in engineering service-learningNathan Howell I am an environmental engineer specializing in many aspects of water resources and environmental fate-and-transport. His initial training was in chemical engineering (BS) at the University of Texas. I worked in environmental consulting in groundwater remediation. After consulting, I spent time at the University of Houston earning an environmental engineering PhD. My research there was in water quality modeling of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and large-scale field sampling projects in the Houston Ship
@brunel.ac.uk Marco.B.Quadrelli@jpl.nasa.govAbstract: This paper addresses opportunities for linking research and teaching through service-learning as an experiential teaching method that combines community service with research andacademic instructions, particularly related to Mechatronics and Dynamic Systems areas. Theresearch component is complementary to the service-learning activity that applies the state-of-the-art technologies, and can potentially lead to scientific original work and world-class contributionsin technological advancements. Various advanced technologies related to mechatronic systemshave been developed by the authors and the students involved in such projects as part of theirUniversity
techniques, sustainability of the built environment and more specifically, Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows for enhanced quality control and labor time utilization for coordinated MEP and specialty trade equipment, from design-to-install, in retrofit environments. Before joining Wentworth, Dr. Cribbs served as a Principal at Green Ideas Building Science Consultants, based in Phoenix where he regularly engaged in BIM workflows for de- sign/constructability/operations analysis, reporting and review with the full spectrum of project stakehold- ers. He has also taught both undergraduate and graduate level courses in design, construction management and Building Information Modeling at Arizona State University and
federal government to support projects focused on technical skillsdevelopment. Significant emphasis is placed on academic transfer pathways and education-to-career pathways for students from K-12 to community college and beyond. Utilizing fundingfrom multiple sources, faculty have intertwined grant project activities to increase awareness ofcybersecurity careers and academic pathways, emphasizing digital forensics and incidentresponse. The two grant projects, Cyber Up! and GenCyber Girls, aimed to develop college-levelcurriculum and cybersecurity workshops for female high school students. Project activities weresynthesized to create a summer camp for high school students based on the curriculum developedfor the college programs in digital
work and have to be achieved in one shot after preparation, e.g.,interviews. In this course, one midterm examination was conducted, with an option to retake theexam once. One final examination was conducted with no retake opportunities. Study guideswere provided for each exam and a class lecture session was dedicated to reviewing materialsprior to the exams. The questions were designed such that 70% of the questions test corenetworking knowledge that anyone who passes the course should be able to answer, 15% of thequestions require proficiency in core topics, 10% of the questions require critical thinking, and thelast 5% of the questions show excellence.Project was a way for students to demonstrate deeper understanding of concepts. A project
potential for OER to improve student learning outcomes, informed our intention to bringstudents into designing OER.This paper describes the design and implementation of our model for the collaborativedevelopment of OER that intentionally integrates undergraduate student perspectives. Situated ina U.S. Department of Education grant-funded interdisciplinary, cross-college project creatingOER in the form of three robotics textbooks. We focus on the work of the Collaborative DesignTeam, composed of undergraduate students from project partner institutions, a graduate ResearchAssistant, and a faculty member from engineering education. Specifically, we share the processof elevating and incorporating undergraduate student voices into the design of OER
led a team of engineers in continuously improving and supporting the supply chain and process flow of pressure sensor manufacturing lines. At the University of St Thomas, she teaches Introduction to Engineering and Senior Design. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Enduring Pandemic Impacts on Capstone CourseAbstractThe capstone experience at the University of St Thomas (UST) is a two-semester courseintegrated across four disciplines: mechanical, electrical, computer, and civil engineering. Withinthe course students design, analyze, finalize, and verify a company sponsored project. The resultsof projects are
students as part of a sophomore-level systems analysis and design course. In this evidence-based practice paper, we report on students’ reflections regarding their perceptions of teamwork.This study approaches the following research questions: What are students' reflections about therole of communication while working in teams in a cooperative project-based learningenvironment?The guiding pedagogical framework for this course is cooperative learning. The course requiresthe students to work in teams in a semester-long software development project. To elicit reflectionon action about their teamwork experience. Specifically, we exposed students to concreteexperiences as part of their teamwork interactions, which became the basis for observations
, Lessons Learned from a PandemicAbstractThis evidence-based paper describes the process of implementing and evaluating a flippedclassroom approach, in conjunction with a project-based learning methodology, in a remoteCornerstone Engineering course and how it was kept in the face-to-face return. In the first year,cornerstone engineering courses are taught mainly using project-based learning. Thismethodology allows students to develop teamwork and communication skills and promotescritical thinking allowing students to solve real-world problems. Traditionally, project-basedlearning courses are taught face-to-face. Due to COVID-19, educational institutions were forcedto move from face-to-face teaching to remote teaching and learning. In this new
focus on the economic, environmental, and social impact ofadvanced materials and processes. In this course, groups of five students collaborate on amaterials-focused sustainability project addressing specific United Nations SustainableDevelopment Goals (UN SDG). The goal of the course is to provide a team environment inwhich each student can gain an understanding of key aspects of sustainability in materialsdevelopment and engineering design, and apply relevant analysis methodologies such as lifecycle assessments, techno-economic analysis, and eco-properties audits. Students use AnsysGranta Edupack to visualize and understand the economic and environmental impacts of theirproject to identify trade-offs in sustainable engineering decision-making
graduate TAs the why (i.e., theoreticalknowledge) and the how (i.e., actionable strategies and skills) of equitable pedagogy, such asdesigning learning objectives and rubrics or discussing critical pedagogy and culturallyresponsive teaching. See Appendix A1 for an overview of weekly topics and learning objectives.Final Project: A final project allowed course participants to tie their conceptual understandingto practice [1]. Each participant chose a personally meaningful pedagogical project, such asmentoring a summer undergraduate student or preparing to instruct a future class and designed aplan for effectively and equitably carrying out their role utilizing skills learned in the course. SeeAppendix A3 for more details about the final
course is centered onrealistic contractual conditions and project deliverables (i.e., medical ventilators) to a medicalsupplier, whereas the team is assumed to emulate a global automotive manufacturer. Theprojects are organized into student teams for realistic implementation and to meet a societalneed. The course underpins students with exposure to concepts of acquiring intellectualproperty, from the design of an embedded system including the human machine interface (HMI),to testing and validation. An in-depth study of assembly lines, lean manufacturing,determination of production capacity, sequential operations, and economic calculations arepresented. Students are presented with urgent societal needs and learn to address designrequirements and
, students in ECE 110 attend a weeklythree-hour lab session, where they work on a series of guided projects exploring topics they’relearning in lecture using components in a personal required lab kit. In past semesters, the finalproject of the course has been an open-ended design project where students are encouraged tocreate something using the concepts learned throughout the course. However, curricularlimitations as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have forced the final project to bemore narrow in scope the past two semesters. ECE 110 was selected for this study since it is oneof the only courses in the curriculum that (normally) contains an open-ended design project, andalso because a large portion of the students in the course are first
Undergraduate Students, Campus Engagement through Social Media, and Building Interest in STEMAbstractIn this paper, we describe the development of Herbie, a robot developed in our computer sciencedepartment. Herbie is an autonomous robot built using commercial off-the-shelf componentsthat navigates the halls of the computer science building using a camera-based approach. Therobot runs the ROS operating system and provides a good platform for robotics research. Herbietravels in our department to different waypoints in the building, stops for pedestrians, and drivesaround obstacles when necessary.In addition to using Herbie as a research platform, a growing part of the Herbie project hasbecome engagement of the campus community and
Northern University Ada, OH 45810 Ada, OH 45810 Ada, OH 45810 h-heinig.1@onu.edu k-hohman@onu.edu t-horne@onu.edu Derek Ritterbusch Stephany Coffman-Wolph Heath LeBlanc Computer Engineering ECCS Department ECCS Department Undergraduate Student Ohio Northern University Ohio Northern University Ohio Northern University Ada, OH 45810 Ada, OH 45810 Ada, OH 45810 s-coffman-wolph@onu.edu h-leblanc@onu.edu d-ritterbusch@onu.edu1. IntroductionThis paper will describe a senior capstone project to create a digital
of what • Projects linked to national objectivestype of organization to partner Contract Research Organiza- • Market connected projects, ones utilizing unique capabilitieswith depends on how well the tionscompany’s needs are aligned Intermediaries (AKA technology • Grand challenges and areas where totally different thinkingwith the skills and capabilities match makers) is neededthe organization provides. Some Consultants • Cases where confidentiality precludes use of intermediariesof these partner types and provi- • Market
from various nonprofit andgovernmental organizations including the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) are used. Various models used for environmental analysis and decision making areintroduced. The instructor’s knowledge gap is filled by inviting guest speakers to cover varioustopics. Students extensively use the Blackboard, a software system designed to facilitate themanagement of and access to educational information delivered via the Internet, for groupdiscussion and course materials transfer. A discussion forum is kept open on the courseBlackboard allowing students post course assessments anonymously as the course progresses.Student inputs are used to decide on the nature of assignments and projects. Two projects