CourseAbstractEffective teaching requires effective teaching tools. This pedagogical requirement is especiallyimportant for software engineering education, where graduates are expected to develop softwarethat meets rigorous quality standards in functional and application domains. To enhancestudents’ understanding of the needs of the professional software industry, lecture notes aresupplanted by additional pedagogical tools being developed at the author’s institution for asoftware verification and validation (V&V) course. These active learning teaching tools,consisting of class exercises, case studies, and case study videos, are being developed inpartnership with industry. The basic objective of the project is to improve software education sothat it is
collaborator in a teacher-fellow pair through National Science Foundation’s GK12 program, Stephanie challenged students to find solutions to the NAE Grand Challenges. Secondary students have built vertical gardens, designed water filters, and most recently engineered food snacks using molecular gastronomy techniques. Resources to the project can be found at: bit.ly/MGresourcesJessica S. Ward, Drexel University Jessica Ward serves as the Director of Operations for the DragonsTeach program. She previously worked in the College of Engineering at Drexel University for more than 8 years with a focus on recruitment, grant facilitation and STEM program management. During her tenure in the College of Engineering, Jessica
Paper ID #16200Virtual Online Tensile Strength Testing SimulationMr. Steven Wendel, Sinclair Community College Steve Wendel serves as Director of the National Center for Manufacturing Education (NCME), originally established as a National Science Foundation Center of Excellence in the NSF Advanced Technological Education Program, the NCME provides leadership development for deans, program chairs, faculty and other educational leaders in manufacturing and engineering technology. Steve is also the Director for the Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Affiliate in Ohio. PLTW-OH has grown to over 400 programs nearly 190 school
and learning of STEM courses at both K-12 and college. Specifically, examination of factors influencing student performance in STEM related courses and instructional pedagogies at the college level associated with success in STEM courses.Kathryn Ann Bartosik, Clarkson University Kathryn is senior chemical engineering major at Clarkson University with minors in business and com- munications. Kathryn worked on the NSF-funded Innovation Corps project in the summer of 2018, and she interned at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in the summer of 2019.Pankaj Sarin, Oklahoma State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Exposure of undergraduate research students to entrepreneurial
items not needed for the job. It isbelieved that such a work environment fosters higher employee morale, improves productivityand quality, and enhances safety.This paper reports the implementation of lean 6S technique in a Parker manufacturing plant inHouston, Texas. Parker corporate management believes that 6s establishes the foundation for allproductivity, quality, safety, and cost improvements of the future. The traditional 5S wasexpanded to 6S by adding safety awareness directly. The project involved several departments:maintenance, human resources, finance, janitorial, etc. In many of the departments prior to theimplementation of this project, disorder was evident in workflow and document processing hadhitches. After the implementation, we
recent experiences in designing and implementing a ResearchExperiences for Undergraduates (REU) site sponsored by the National Science Foundation(NSF). Faculty at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo recentlyestablished the Global Waste Research Institute (GWRI), which provides unique opportunitiesfor undergraduate students to participate in the advancement of fundamental engineering andscientific research. The GWRI provides the focal point of the REU program. The program,currently in its second year, supports ten students over a 10-week period during the summer.Faculty and graduate students serve as research mentors. The principal objectives of theprogram are: (1) to engage undergraduate participants on projects
Session 1653 2nd and 3rd Order Refinements/Improvements to an Experiential Design and Introduction to Engineering Course for First-Year Students Sandra Shaw Courter and Jay K. Martin University of Wisconsin-MadisonABSTRACT A three-credit course for first-year students with the objective of providing anauthentic engineering design experience and an introduction to engineering has been inplace at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1994. From the inception, the coursehas been centered on real projects the students carry out in collaboration with bona fideclients. During
AC 2012-4471: UTILIZING THE ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS TOCREATE A FRAMEWORK FOR CURRICULA DESIGNMs. Krystal S. Corbett, Louisiana Tech UniversityDr. Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech UniversityProf. Galen E. Turner III, Louisiana Tech UniversityDr. James D. Nelson, Louisiana Tech University Page 25.1454.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Utilizing the Engineering Design Process to Create a Framework for Curricula DesignAbstract Project-based…inquiry-driven…student-centered…all keywords found when reading literatureabout techniques used in the engineering classroom. It is clear there is
Biomedical Engineering EducationAbstract:In response to the evolving landscape of programming languages in the field of biomedicalengineering education, this abstract presents the outcomes of an innovative initiative aimed attransforming MATLAB-based classroom exercises, labs, and homework assignments into Pythonexercises. Spearheaded by a team of enthusiastic undergraduates and coordinated by adedicated faculty member over the summer, this conversion project was undertaken to ensurealignment with contemporary industry demands, curricular uniformity that will allow forknowledge to build semester-to-semester, and enhance the educational experience forbiomedical engineering students and provides a framework for others looking to performsimilar
methods to aid his teaching. He attained a PhD and an MEng in Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London. Fabian has also spent time working as a field engineer in Algeria, Abu Dhabi and Aberdeen, and as a strategy consultant in London.Idris Kevin MohammedKate IppolitoMarc Masen ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Design Week: A simulated exerciseAbstract“Design Week” is an assessed group-based project in the Department of MechanicalEngineering at Imperial College London. It is designed to enable second year students toexperience the entire design process in one week, and apply fundamental knowledge gainedfrom the first year and a half of their undergraduate (UG
Bridgeport received funding fromthe National Science Foundation Hispanic Serving Institution program in 2022. The project, calledProject Achieve, aimed to foster, engage, and retain underserved and underrepresentedundergraduate men and women, with particular emphasis on Hispanic students in engineering andcomputer science majors. As a part of the project, a multi-disciplinary effort among faculty inmechanical, electrical, computer engineering, and computer science designed an undergraduatecourse, Introduction to Scientific Research, based on the evidence-based Affinity Research Groupmodel, one of the signature models in the Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions(CAHSI) Network. This 2-credit yearlong course offered undergraduate
AC 2011-766: TRAINING CIVIL ENGINEERS TO COMMUNICATE EF-FECTIVELYMaria Dawn Blevins, University of Utah Department of Communication PhD Student CLEAR Consultant for University of Utah School of Engi- neering Page 22.1539.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Training Civil Engineers to Communicate Effectively in the Public Participation Processintroduction Civil engineers are responsible for designing many of the public works projectssponsored by local, state, and federal agencies. They make sure all technical requirementsof the project are
process, and supporting transfer students at theuniversity.Transfer students at the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State Universityare supported by a Motivated Engineering Transfer Student (METS) Center wherestudents can network, study, socialize, and receive informal mentoring. In addition,transfer students can enroll in an Academic Success Class for one credit and attendadditional workshops which are held in the Center. Scholarship for over 30 qualifiedtransfer students are provided each year through an NSF S-STEM Scholarship Program.An experimental scholarship program, for transfer students who do not qualify for NSFS-STEM scholarships, was also evaluated. An emphasis in this project was placed oninvolving women and
) of sustainability, and the well-being of communities and workers involved inagriculture. One important aspect of the experiential learning project was growing peanuts andhemp with FarmBots. Growing peanuts provided a unique opportunity to not only explore theagricultural contributions of George Washington Carver, an African American scientist in the early20th century, but also helped shedding light on his remarkable achievements in the context ofsocial justice. By integrating hemp cultivation on the FarmBot platform, the investigators createdan engaging space that highlighted the potential of this crop while addressing the historical andcontemporary social challenges faced by marginalized communities. The students honed theircontent on the
Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Building Sustainability into Control Systems: Preliminary Assessment of a New Facilities- Based and Hands-On Teaching Approach Melody Baglione, Member, ASEE, and Gerardo del Cerro, Member, ASEE by developing facilities-based undergraduate thermodynamics Abstract—This paper presents an overview and preliminary course materials and also reported positive results [5].assessment of an NSF TUES funded project, “Building The motivation for this NSF sponsored
3B+ for sensor data fusion, analysis, and presentation using an integratedApache web server. The processed IAQ data is displayed on a community website to inform thecurrent conditions of the indoor space with options of safe, unsafe, or should be visited with caution.The entire sensor and processing platform was subjected to a full cybersecurity system vulnerabilityassessment for risk mitigation to exploitation. This project provided the senior Engineering,Computer Information Systems and Cybersecurity students an invaluable opportunity to apply theirexisting technical knowledge, improve their time management, communication skills, and work as ateam on a real-world problem. IntroductionThe COVID-19
Paper ID #37512Board 133: The Design, Implementation, and Lessons Learned of anAtmospheric Water Generator DeviceDr. Karim Altaii, James Madison University Dr. Altaii holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, and received his doctorate from The City Univer- sity of New York. He is a professor in the College of Integrated Science and Engineering (CISE) at James Madison University. He is a registered Professional Engineer and holds five patents in solar energy applications and irrigation system. He is the director of CISE Energy and Environmental Projects- an international summer program in Costa Rica. He is the Director of
, and use engineering judgment todraw conclusions. The breadth of this requirement may be achieved by wide varieties of pedagogicalapproaches. Regardless, the core challenges facing students are: recognizing the actual problem, developingpotential solutions, applying experimental methods, understanding the significance of appropriate datacollection, and ability to execute engineering judgement. These outcomes is often realized in labs and upperlevel courses once technical knowledge is solidly mastered. Mapping learning outcomes in the architecturalengineering program, we recognized the need to institute a disciplined inquisitive mindset early on,therefore, establishing the foundation for future advanced coursework. The resulting project known
activitiesdeveloped for the pilot offering of a new first-year experience course for all engineering andcomputing majors in our college. The course is multi-disciplinary, with hands-on projects fromseveral different areas. The course introduces engineering and computing design principles andpractices, with a particular focus on an agile methodology. The first activity is part of the teambuilding phase of the course, and it is a kinesthetic activity where students develop a process thatsatisfies constraints and meets an objective. The activity involves several sprints wherein thestudents measure their results, reflect, and improve their processes. It is adapted from an industryactivity using balls; we use balloons because they are more cost effective and
them to begin Phase 2 with some educational researchfoundation already established.The results of the project evaluation show that the program has made a positive impact onincreasing education research skills and communication skills of the participating REU students.The participating REU students reported that the research projects they worked on increasedtheir motivation and confidence for continuing to engage in engineering education research. Fourparticipants (i.e., 36.4% of the total participants) suggested that, if available, they would preferface-to-face over a virtual REU program. Another four participants (i.e., 36.4%) felt that bothface-to-face and virtual would offer the same quality of research experiences, and 3 participants(i.e
high school biology teacher, he is now an educational research and program evaluation specialist with experience on a broad range of projects funded by NSF, US Department of Education, ONR, and NIH and with participants ranging from elementary school to higher education. Much of his work focuses on broadening participation in STEM.Dr. Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth Litzler, Ph.D., is the director of the University of Washington Center for Evaluation and Re- search for STEM Equity (UW CERSE) and an affiliate assistant professor of sociology. She has been at UW working on STEM Equity issues for more than 17 years. Dr. Litzler is a member of ASEE, 2020-2021 chair of the ASEE Commission on
institutions need to makesure their graduates stay up to date with the latest trends in computer science research, gainhands-on and teamwork experience, and be good problem solvers before graduation. In thispaper, we will elaborate the steps that should be taken by the institutions of higher education inorder to graduate students with these types of qualities and be more prepared for the job market.Hands-on ExercisesThe learning style for current generation has changed. Experience shows that many students donot spend very much of their time on reading textbooks. They do not enjoy reading the theory,but they really enjoy learning by doing. Working on homework and exercises is not appreciatedby them but they really like implementing the projects and
of engineering design constraints, and applying the entrepreneurial mindset to first-year programming projects through student engagement in educational software development. Estell earned his BS in Computer Science and Engineering degree from The University of Toledo and both his MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Work in Progress: Tackling DEI Issues in the Classroom Through Interactive Historical FictionIntroductionSince its release as a video game in the 1980s, The Oregon Trail has taught and inspired
• train a growing workforce spanning the full supply chain• De-risked technology development in a highly regulated industry that is facilitated by collective action and collaboration with NIST and FDA• Participate in collaborative projects. • For deployment of technology, scale-up and regulatory science • For applied RD&D to de-risk process development• Opportunity to share in IP addressing shared challenges.• Partnership to train a workforce for producing, testing, A M E R I C A N I N N O VAT I O N AT W O R K and regulating products at scale
Community-Based Learning: Student Outcomes Kurtis G. Paterson, Ph.D., P.E. Michigan Technological University Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringAbstractInitiated in Fall 2006 with the help of a NSF grant, this program engages engineeringstudent teams in community-based learning (CBL) outside La Paz, Bolivia. CBL isdefined as learning via working with and in a community in need of engineering (orother) services. This paper will present student participation, project results, and lessonslearned to date.The four main goals of this CBL experience are: (1) to produce engineers with a bettersense of the societal and global interconnections of
collaboration data mining project with Bristol Myers Squibb pharmaceutical company, Rowan University Seed grant for a study of statistical and data mining techniques in the field of network security and computer forensics, as well as College of Science and Mathematics grant for evaluation of data classification techniques. I also am performing Biomarker research aimed at optimizing and verifying c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Paper ID #17920the utility of autoantibody biomarkers for early diagnosis-Biomarker Discovery Center at Rowan SOM.Where I ensure that all of the data evaluation strategies and
” activities is an increased sense of agency – self confidence in theability to complete projects and make change in the world [3, 4]. While there is good evidencethat agency and self-efficacy are critical for student success [5], relatively little is known aboutwhat agency looks like in maker contexts, nor how it develops over time. In this paper, weinvestigate if and how student agency develops within a high school maker program.Theoretical FrameworkSelf-efficacy is an individual’s belief in their ability to complete tasks in a given domain [6]. Arobust body of literature has shown that individuals’ self-efficacy is an important predictor oftheir likelihood of engaging, persisting, and successfully participating in many academicdomains [7], and is
these camps, students are introduced to and work with Lego Robotics in addition topreparatory skills from science, technology, engineering, and math. The use of these programswill create more opportunities to educate students about the fundamentals of engineering usinginnovative, fun and exciting projects.1. HISTORICAL ENROLLMENT DATAElectrical engineering undergraduate program at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) hadan enrollment of over 500 students in 1991. In 2001, our enrollment had decreased to 250students. By 2004, our enrollment had increased to 307, however the next year we were able to Page 12.1229.2maintain above 300. The
other types of multimedia that augment learningwith content that is interactive, engaging, and readily available. Lectures, in-class demos, andlaboratory projects for the Rose-Hulman ECE481 music synthesis and audio signal processingcourse, have been deployed as a set of learning modules hosted on Connexions(http://www.cnx.org), encouraging free distribution, customization, and localization of thecontent. The course materials include “screencasts” – narrated videos of computer screenactivity. The screencasts embody the theoretical exposition with handwriting, diagrams, andanimations drawn on a tablet device, and also demonstrate LabVIEW programming techniquesto implement the concepts. In addition, downloadable LabVIEW simulations (VIs) offer
AC 2008-2277: NORTH TEXAS STEM CENTER: AN ENGINEERS PERSPECTIVEJames Morgan, Texas A&M UniversityLuciana Barroso, Texas A&M University Page 13.934.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 North Texas-STEM Center: An Engineer’s PerspectiveAbstractCan engineering professors really help high school teachers? We think YES – college freshmanare little different than high school seniors in terms of academic and social development. Theexperiences from National Science Foundation funded engineering coalitions, as well as otherengineering education projects over the past couple decades, can certainly apply to math andscience education at the high