programming assignments, although there were issues early on.7. Student’s performance in the initial course offering and in the course of capstone projects was exceptionally high. This result was due to a biased sampling; the four juniors taking the special topic course initiated the effort, and the sophomores that attended regularly were invited by the instructor. We hope to see better understanding of basic principles and excellent performance in the future versions of the course.ConclusionsStatistics Literacy and critical thinking is necessary in today’s world that is fascinated withnumbers and data. Even if one is not responsible for conducting Monte Carlo simulations, oneneeds the basic understanding to properly use the information
, where she directs the Vir- ginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication, effective teaching practices in design education, the effects of differing design pedagogies on retention and motivation, the
Engineering, both from University of Maine.Dr. Taufik Taufik, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Dr. Taufik received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering with minor in Computer Science from Northern Ari- zona University in 1993, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois, Chicago in 1995, and Doctor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Cleveland State University in 1999. He joined the Electrical Engineering department at Cal Poly State University in 1999 where he is currently a Full Pro- fessor. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and he has done work for several companies including Capstone Microturbine, Rockwell Automation, Picker International, San Diego Gas and Electric, Sempra
Paper ID #22311A Doctoral Teaching Program in EngineeringDr. Donald P. Visco Jr., University of Akron Donald P. Visco, Jr. is the Dean of the College of Engineering at The University of Akron and Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering.Nidaa Makki Dr. Nidaa Makki is an Associate Professor in the LeBron James Family Foundation College of Education at The University of Akron, in the department in Curricular and Instructional Studies. Her work focuses on STEM curriculum integration and science inquiry practices in middle and high school. She is a co-PI on an NSF funded project to investigate the impact of
Richard Huston, University of Cincinnati Dr. Thomas Huston is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Materials Engineering (MME) De- partment within the College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Huston has been a member of the engineering faculty at the University of Cincinnati since 1985. He is the Director of the Design Clinic for MME and oversees the capstone design projects for the Senior Me- chanical Engineering students. Dr. Huston also serves as the Deputy Director of the Occupational Safety and Health Engineering program of the NIOSH Education and Research Center (ERC) at the University of Cincinnati. An alumnus of the University of Cincinnati, he completed his
effects of systems modeling paradigms with respect to design outcomes and systems thinking and understanding. While at UofL, Bohm was primarily responsible for overseeing the Mechanical Engineering Department’s capstone design program. Prior to his position at UofL, Bohm was a visiting researcher at Oregon State University (OSU) after completing his PhD at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (S&T) in 2009. While at S&T, Bohm was also a Lecturer for the Department of Interdisciplinary Engineering and was responsible for coordinating and teaching design and mechanics related courses.Mrs. Hannah Ingram, Florida Polytechnic UniversityDr. Julie S Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Julie S
courses. Other applications have included constructing structuralmodels for structural design and capstone courses. This paper takes this use of classroomtechnology even further by demonstrating how K’nex pieces can be used effectively in an upper-division, highly technical structural dynamics / seismic design course.K’nex pieces consist of various rods and connectors as shown in Figure 1. The rods areingeniously sized such that right triangles are naturally formed. While one size of rod forms thesides of a triangle, the next size up forms the hypotenuse. The pattern continues as the rodschange colors and triangles get progressively larger. The connectors allow rods to be joined at45 and 90 degree angles in various configurations. Some connectors
Initiatives,” includedspeakers from The Gatsby Charitable Trust and The Kavli Foundation, both private foundationssupporting neuroscience research, as well as researchers from the United States and Japan whodescribed their contributions toward the BRAIN Initiative and the Brain/MINDS project,respectively. The panelists described funding priorities and international efforts to understandthe fundamental mechanisms of the brain.STEM Policy ActivitiesAlthough my sabbatical goal included attendance at meetings and workshops related tobiomedical engineering policy, the opportunity arose to participate in activities related toScience, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) policy issues.I served as the AIMBE representative for a workshop held by the
, subject to areview of academic progress and financial eligibility. Some students were offered less than twoyears of support due to limited availability of project funds near the end of a grant period, and asmall number of students left the program.Activities. All S-STEM program activities were run or coordinated through the CoE’s EventsOffice with assistance from the Diversity Programs Office (DPO). The mission of the DPO is toprovide academic and non-academic support to increase enrollment, retention, and graduationamong under-represented minorities and women, but DPO services are available to all CoEstudents. The DPO collaborates with the university’s Learning Resource Center (LRC) toprovide academic support services and essay writing support
engagement strategies in flipped and traditional biomedical engineering courses. She aspires to understand and improve student attitude, achievement, and persistence in student-centered courses.Prof. Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause is professor in the Materials Science Program in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of introductory materials engineering, polymers and composites, and capstone design. His research interests include evaluating conceptual knowledge, mis- conceptions and technologies to promote conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and
Transportation Research Center. Dr. Kondyli has worked on research projects funded by Kansas DOT, Florida DOT, USDOT, and by the National Coop- erative Highway Research Program (NCHRP). She has authored and co-authored more than fifty publi- cations, presentations and reports related to traffic operations, simulation, highway capacity, safety, and driver behavior. Dr. Kondyli is currently the Chair of the Freeways/Multilane Highways of the Highway Capacity and Quality of Service Committee (AHB40) of the Transportation Research Board. She also has consulting experience in the fields of traffic operations, geometric design and roadway safety. Dr. Kondyli received her Graduate Diploma in Rural and Surveying Engineering, (five
work of Robert Irish [18], data and analyses of style and verb use, voice and pronoun use, anddevelopment via use of extended prose or visuals show significant variation in “technical writing.” Thefindings can support faculty in identifying nuances of expression, articulating expectations in writingassignments and assessments, and guiding upper-class undergraduates to develop professional-levelexpression.The goal of the current project is to better identify the codes and dialects among engineering disciplines:specifically, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering. Research questions guiding this work are:In what ways can using a rhetorical language to analyze the professional writing of engineers revealdiscipline-specific codes and
is well-established that students have difficulty transferring knowledge and skills betweencourses in their undergraduate curriculum. At the same time, many college-level courses onlyconcern material relating to the course itself and do not cover how this material might be usedelsewhere. It is unsurprising, then, that students are unable to transfer and integrate knowledgefrom multiple areas into new problems as part of capstone design courses for example, or in theircareers. More work is required to better enable students to transfer knowledge between theircourses, learn skills and theory more deeply, and to form engineers who are better able to adaptto new situations and solve “systems-level” problems. In this investigation, students in
functionalrequirements of the system.(3) They have appreciated the importance of the proper documentation of the code in terms ofdescriptive comments and meaningful wire names to help them track any errors.One of the main ideas that have been raised by faculty members was that when students workwith the full evaluation board, such as the one shown in figure 2, they think that this is how itwould be integrated in any system. With the bulky form, they don’t tend to think of it as acontroller option for their capstone projects for example. They tend to prefer to work withmore compact microprocessor boards such as Arduino.Fig. 2 Intel-Altera DE1-SoC board, one of the commonly used evaluation boards for digital design courses.It offers multiple applications with
Chemical Education, 79, 8: 965-967. 2002.[7] Sawyer, C., P. McCarty, and G. Parkin, Chemistry for Environmental Engineering andScience, 5th Edition, McGraw-Hill, Boston, 2003.[8] Driscoll, S.A., and C.E. Garcia. Preferred Learning Styles for Engineering Students.Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education 2000 Annual Conference, St.Louis, MO, 18-21 June 2000.[9] Jamali, A.R., and M.M. Mohamad. Dimensions of Learning Styles among EngineeringStudents. Proceedings of the 2017 International PostGraduate Conference on Applied Science &Physics, Johor, Malaysia, 7 December 2017.[10] Kolmos, A., and J. E. Holgaard. Learning Styles of Science and Engineering Students inProblem and Project Based Education. Book of Abstracts. Brill
overall score may not be the best indicator, we decided to focus on thisarea for improvement during this cycle.Established in Cycle: 2015-2016 Implementation Status: Planned Priority: HighRelationships (Measure | Outcome/Objective):Measure: Course Objectives Assessment | Outcome/Objective: Effective Written and OralCommunicationsMeasure: IAC Capstone Evaluation | Outcome/Objective: Effective Written and OralCommunicationsMeasure: Senior Exit Survey | Outcome/Objective: Effective Written and Oral Communications Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Organized by The University of Texas at Dallas Copyright © 2017, American Society for
creativeexpression. “Perhaps the most important feature of a creative act is that it comesfrom within ourselves, rather than being a routine response to something in theoutside world.” 5 Thus the type of drawing the engineering students are attemptingcan be taught with rudimentary drawing skills in order to help them to thinkvisually and communicate visual ideas. The Process The drawing exercises were generally undertaken during our capstone aircraftdesign course. This two-semester sequence is taken by seniors, who have thechoice of an aircraft or a spacecraft design sequence. Students are initially askedto sketch any aircraft of their choosing. This drawing provides a baseline for boththem and the professor. Next the
memoranda during thecourse. Each of these is associated with a problem set and uses a format provided in the writingguide. A couple of these memos are simply summaries of the results of the work in the attachedproblem set – a cover page of sorts. Others are recommendation memorandums based on theirwork on a specific problem or series of problems. For example, in a problem set about beamdesign, students are given cost data for two types of steel with different strengths and are askedto design the most cost effective beam cross-section and write a recommendation memo thatclearly states the most effective beam designed and its associated cost and briefly describes otheroptions considered. Also, after watching a presentation of a senior capstone
experience in research, engineering, marketing and sales management with several high technology corporations.Howard Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology HOWARD KIMMEL is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Executive Director of the Center for Pre-College Programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has spent the past thirty years designing and implementing professional development programs and curricula for K-12 teachers in science and technology. At the college level, he collaborates on projects exploring teaching methodologies and assessment strategies in first-year college courses in the sciences, engineering, and computer science.John Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of
technical classroom knowledge to the next level of expertise.With respect to Bloom’s Taxonomy, 5 students appear to engage at higher learning levels, fromBloom’s level 1-5 knowledge of a good quality engineering education program to Bloom’s level4- 6, since co op students in a corporate environment learn through integrating Bloom’scategories of Level 4: Analysis, Level 5: Synthesis and Level 6: Evaluation. Co op students learncommunication, team collaboration, program and project management, leadership ofimplementation, and achieving through consequences, accountability and evaluation, as well asmany other skills.In order to be able to document these educational advantages, one must have a vision of thedesired result. Only then can a methodology be
anongoing basis. Course content is developed based upon the following essential rubrics: Page 12.889.4 - more - • The course-design approach is competency-/outcome-based • Classroom instruction is for clarification • The laboratory is to expand on classroom instruction • A final capstone project course integrates all the components Many sources for initiation ESD Curriculum-Change Process of change, 2+ faculty
Sciences - Physics, Chemistry, etc. 6-18 Management - Total Quality Management, Quality Control, Production Planning and Control, Industrial Supervision, Industrial Finance and Accounting, Industrial Safety Management, Facilities Layout and Materials Handling, Industrial Ergonomics and Time 12-24 Study, Industrial Communications, Business Law, Marketing, Leadership, Project Management, International Business, and Teaming, etc. Technical - Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Computer Aided Design, Electronics, Materials Testing, Computer Technology, Packaging, Construction, Manufacturing 24-36 Processes, etc. Electives
autonomous ground vehicle. II. INTRODUCTIONWith the development of readily available inertial measurement units (IMUs) board such as the ArduPilot® formobile applications, measurement of states such as position, heading, roll, pitch, and yaw is greatly simplified. As aresult, developing control students need only to focus on the design and implementation of the digital controlalgorithm that utilizes the sensor measurements to calculate the proper actuator commands. However from review offinal capstone reports and presentations over the years, students expressed continued difficulties when implementingeven simple PID based control algorithms on digital processor. This difficulty in C based
AC 2012-4060: IDENTIFICATION WITH ACADEMICS AND MULTIPLEIDENTITIES: COMBINING THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS TO BET-TER UNDERSTAND THE EXPERIENCES OF MINORITY ENGINEER-ING STUDENTSMs. Kelly J. Cross, Virginia Tech Kelly earned her bachelor’s of science in chemical engineering from Purdue University in 2007. She earned her master’s of Science in materials science and engineering from the University of Cincinnati. Cross is currently in the second year of the engineering education Ph.D. program at Virginia Tech and is currently involved with multiple educational research projects with faculty at Virginia Tech.Dr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of engineering education at Virginia Tech
hasutilized and assessed the five features in his Senior Design Capstone Course. He also presentsanalyses of the feedback data he obtained and suggests guidelines for further improvement.IntroductionOne has to appreciate the fact that students need motivation to become lifelong learners.Thereore it is the responsibility of the instructors in higher education to develop, generate, createand establish an environment in which students not only obtain necessary backgroundknowledge, but also become enthusiastic in becoming lifelong learners (Deemer, 2003).Educational psychologists have argued that one may want to focus on solving certain specificproblems in a particular type of classroom so that teaching is less emphasized compared to aproductive learning
• active learning techniques • academic dishonesty • ABET accreditation • electronic portfolios • capstone design projects • competencies • advisingThe response by faculty, staff and graduate students to the ABE Learning Circle has been good.There is a core group of eight to ten faculty members that regularly attend. Many others haveindicated that they would like to attend, but schedule conflicts don’t allow them. And of course,having donuts available never hurts attendance.The ABE Learning Circle allows us to foster an interest in the scholarship of teaching within ourfaculty. It gives us an informal and non-threatening venue to explore new ideas and to
against the uncertainty of these assumptions.Milestone PlanThe remainder of DDP consists of establishing milestones and a plan forhow to reach them.Each milestone tests one or more of the key assumptions. DDP is a learning approach to newventures or projects so there is a studied re-planning based on the knowledge gain/uncertainlyreduction at each milestone. Careful design of the milestone program will permit minimum risk Page 15.58.7to be taken prior to commencing with final implementation of the Blue Ocean opportunity.7. DiscussionOur process has been unique in two dimensions. These tools are traditionally applied in industrycontexts, not academic
core knowledge did not differ between the instructionaltechniques, but students in the inquiry-based course demonstrated significant improvement in“innovative thinking abilities.” These observations were corroborated by Leon-Rovira et al.9; theauthors also found that student creativity was enhanced as a result of integration ofactive/inquiry-based techniques. Problem-based learning approaches have also been employedand resulted in positive student feedback.6 Some curricula are integrating entire courses(predominantly upper level design courses) based on such techniques. Quinn and Albano4 reporton a problem-based learning course (i.e., senior year project) in structural engineering in whichstudent feedback is positive. A problem-based capstone
orientation of (a) technical specialization mustbe shown to be integrated into the curriculum through business and industry guidance”(p. 1)41. A widely adopted approach to reach this accreditation target has been theinclusion of industry advisory boards (IABs) in the academic work of engineeringeducation departments. IABs are “voluntary boards composed primarily of industrypractitioners who give aid and advice” (p.169)42. IABs can be involved in coursedevelopment, evaluation (including the evaluation of capstone design courses),accreditation, and fundraising. A survey of IAB participants suggests that IAB membersgenerally expect to give broad feedback about course planning and curriculum43 althoughthis varies by institution. Smaller institutions
individuals.● A student in Dr. May’s online course just complained to her that it was not fair that other students are texting each other for help during their online quizzes.● The student Dr. Lin is advising for the senior capstone project provided some new sourcecode that seems impossible to have been completed since their code review last week.● Dr. West, a newly hired assistant professor had a male student who was openly defiant and disrespectful to her in class. Another student comes to her defense and a scuffle ensues.● A student in Mr. Singh’s course just posted in the online discussion a response to another student that included threats of violence. Additionally, some portions of the post appeared to be unrelated.● A student comes to