their courses. Second, administrative processes atuniversities make adding new courses and/or updating current offerings to incorporate socially engaged designcontent a long, difficult process that requires significant investment from faculty members. Third, non-traditionalengineering skills may not fit sequentially into engineering curricula. Students are typically most motivated toacquire these skills when confronted with the challenges of specific design projects, which they may encounterthrough both traditional coursework and co-curricular opportunities. Because of these factors, educationalprograms related to socially engaged design need not only to be accessible to faculty for incorporation into theirexisting courses, but also accessible
invent effective strategies and representations for solving math problems, and these methods can serve as bridges for instruction. He is also exploring the embodied nature of students’ knowledge, as exhibited by gestures, and the mediating effects of action on conceptual knowledge. His studies of teachers' beliefs about the development of students' mathematical reasoning showed that content experts can show evidence of expert blind spot, which influences teachers’ expectations of what makes things difficult for their students. He is currently co-principal investigator for the AWAKEN Project (funded by NSF-EEP), which examines the nature of high school pre-engineering
structural engineering courses, en- joys working with the students on undergraduate research projects, and has research interests in concrete bridges, materials, and engineering education.Dr. Kacie Caple D’Alessandro, Washington & Lee University Kacie Caple D’Alessandro obtained her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering at Clemson University before obtaining her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech. Kacie is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering at Washington and Lee University. She teaches engineering mechanics, engineering design, and materials science courses at W&L, and her research interests include ultra-high performance concrete, concrete structures, and
by the individual, nor is it imposed from the outside, ‘it is constituted as an internal relation between them. There is only one world, but it is a world we experience, a world in which we live, a world that is ours’. The seminal research that developed phenomenography as a research methodology, forexample, investigated students’ understanding of velocity in a physics class[9]. Velocity was theconcept or “the thing”, but the researchers were actually interested in how students understoodvelocity, which is “the thing as it appeared”. It was the students’ understanding that was thephenomenon of research interest. In aerospace engineering, Subject Matter Experts are important assets to projects, andSMEs have deep
school visits, theAmbassadors present in pairs on topics chosen by the hosting teachers. Typically two to fourpairs of Ambassadors present on a given day for the entire school day. This allows theAmbassadors to give classroom presentations to most students at the targeted grade level.Oftentimes Ambassadors are invited to present on “What is Engineering” and “My CollegeExperience” in an auditorium setting to allow a second touch point for all students in the school.Additionally, the group selects two to four schools each semester to partner with on long-termprojects, which are modeled after UConn’s Capstone Senior Design projects. Typically, theEngineering Ambassadors present a project kick off, maintain communications with teams atlocal schools
his co-op experience, Spencer researched whether projects weretechnologically “feasible,” economically “doable,” and could be completed in a timely fashion. After completing her internship, Jill realized how her first-year student design projectsucceeded technically, but failed to consider contextual factors such as costs, and manpower. The [Unmanned Aerial Vehicle] system that we came up with, that we thought would be the best to use, realistically, it looked good on paper. It would have done exactly what it needed to be done, and we ended up getting an A on the project. However, realistically, it would have been very difficult to implement. With the price of materials always going up and down, it
AC 2012-3360: A HALF BRAIN IS GOOD: A WHOLE BRAIN IS MUCHBETTERDr. Stuart G. Walesh P.E., S. G. Walesh Consulting Stuart G. Walesh, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, D.WRE, and F.NSPE, is an independent consultant provid- ing management, engineering, education/training, and marketing services. Prior to beginning his consul- tancy, he worked in the public, private, and academic sectors serving as a Project Engineer and Manager, Department Head, Discipline Manager, marketer, legal expert, professor, and Dean of an engineering college. Walesh authored or co-authored six books and many engineering and education publications and presentations. His most recent book is Engineering Your Future: The Professional Practice of En
computer.FindingsThree engineering associate teaching professors agreed to participate in the semi-structuredinterview and focus group pilot study. These participants will be referenced by the followinginitials: AB, CD, and EF. These participants are all at the same rank and in the mechanicalengineering department. They all have similar teaching experience and have taught designcourses and capstone design. This information is summarized in Table I below: TABLE I PARTICIPANT OVERVIEW Participant 1 Participant 2 Participant 3 Pseudonym AB CD EF Scheduled Date and
both from Michigan Tech. Her research program involves using complementary methods (e.g., statistical modeling and analytics, psychological assessment) to evaluate how individual differences are important and impact behaviors at a cultural, social, and behavioral level. She has served as a project evaluator in the multiple NSF funded projects. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 S-STEM Student Reflections and IDP ProcessIntroductionStudent reflections and using individual development plans (IDPs) for mentoring have been anintegral part of an NSF S-STEM project focusing on students pursuing baccalaureate degrees inEngineering
14 ● George Floyd—Asked 92 students about what engineering faculty should do in a Google form; 87 said engineering faculty should discuss it in the classroom. Used the data to teach qualitative data coding. ● Juneteenth—Read the statement by the university president about Texas’s history and what our state was now doing, put students in random breakout rooms for 5 minutes. Students said it was “cathartic.” ● Protests—Students brainstormed a potential capstone project to aid the protesters. 10 students listed that as their preferred project. The project was eventually not chosen, as students worried about potential privacy implications. ● Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death—Asked students to discuss how her
data collection are useful and valid, they also constrain participants’ responses to fixedoptions in the case of Likert-type scales and multiple-choice questions, and to verbal expressionsin the case of open-ended prompts. Few examples of other types of reflection activities (e.g.,graphing, sketching) have been presented or studied in the engineering education literature. In this project, which is part of a larger investigation into high performance design teams, weexplored the use of graphing and other visual techniques for recording designers’ perceptions oftheir design processes and products. Our primary aim was to introduce greater richness into theevaluation of designers’ behaviors and outcomes as we posed research questions about
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationEngineering Seniors Survey: A survey is conducted every semester in the capstone designcourse to assess the opinions of graduating seniors on their success in achieving programoutcomes and on their attitudes toward the department. The results of the surveys are reviewedand summarized by the Chair and senior faculty and presented to the entire faculty at thedepartmental meetings.Student Exit Interview: The department chair interviews a diverse pool of graduating studentseach semester. Students provide feedback on their educational achievements, quality ofinstruction, facilities, laboratory equipment, and future plans. They also make suggestions onhow to improve the
University; Epistemologies and Discourse Analysis Noa Bruhis, Arizona State University; for Transdisciplinary Capstone Projects in Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State a Digital Media Program University; Suren Jayasuriya, Arizona State University5 2018 Understanding the Experience of Women Jessica Ohanian Perez, California State in Undergraduate Engineering Programs Polytechnic University, Pomona at Public Universities6 2021 "She's More Like a Guy"•: The Legacy Jeanne Christman
, Project Director, and a faculty member since 1997. He has served as the PI / Project Director for multiple agencies includ- ing NSF, DOL, DOD, and Perkin’s Grant. His research interests include Industrial Automation Systems, VLSI, ASIC, and FPGA. Other areas of interest are Higher Education Leadership and Accreditation in- cluding ABET. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Building a Rotary Wing Aviation Program to Facilitate Integration of Military Veterans and Service MembersAbstract: During the last decade, the commercial aviation industry has been increasingly affected bythe shortage of skilled pilots, both fixed-wing and rotary-wing (helicopter). In the
between entrepreneurship and strategicthinking." Neostrategic management: an international perspective on trends andchallenges (2016): 75-93[26] QS Ranking 2022 - Canada - Results | UniversityRankings.ch,https://www.universityrankings.ch/results/QS/2022?ranking=QS&year=2022®ion=&q=Canada, Accessed: 2023-02-13[27] Systems Innovation Capstone Project - Institute of Health Policy, Management andEvaluation, https://ihpme.utoronto.ca/course/had2040y/?highlight=systems%20thinking,Accessed: 2023-02-13[28] INFO 4620 - Systems Thinking and Changemaking Studio - Acalog ACMS™,https://catalog.mtroyal.ca/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=17&coid=30732, Accessed: 2023-02-13 © American Society for Engineering Education
receiving his degree in fire protection engineering from the University of Maryland in 2009, he joined the Nonreactor Nuclear Division (NNFD) at ORNL as a fire protection system engineer and designer. In this role, he developed his skills as a system engineer overseeing the design, installation and modification of unique FP systems protecting special nuclear materials. To better his understanding of the additional hazards and specialized operations of NNFD, Mr. Landmesser earned a master’s degree in nuclear engineering. For the past five years, he has served as a design engineer and project manager for the Laboratory Modernization Division (LMD) supporting new construction and modernization of existing infrastructure. In
developing as a CoP. While CS educationresearchers have shown concern that CoP was not a viable theory for discussing traditional formsof higher education [6] subcommunities such as those defined by specific courses in CS highereducation (e.g., capstone course development teams, service learning programs in computing)have been investigated using the CoP approach. In this study, the scholarship program serves asa sub-population of the department situated within the department and with access to nationaland local activity beyond the typical student experience.Utilizing this theory, the notions of identity and learning are intertwined—as Margulieux, Dornand Searle [7] put it, “learning is identity construction.” (p.216). In this case, the notion
Engineering Sciences. At present, his position is Director of the School of Engineering of the Andres Bello University, and responsible for the curricular innovation processes of the undergraduate programs of the Faculty of Engineering. His research area is Educational Management, undergraduate and graduate programs, using predictive models based on machine learning algorithms.Ing. Danilo Leal, Universidad Andres Bello Doctor (c) in Statistics, thesis in Spatio-temporal point processes on the sphere, Master in industrial en- gineering, Master in Management (minor in Finance) and Commercial Engineer, professional experience in evaluation projects, and management control focused on budget control and provides several types
, D.F., & Jolly, L. (2003). Dilemmas in Framing Research Studies in EngineeringEducation. ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings.Riley, D.M. (2012). Aiding and ABETing: The Bankruptcy of Outcomes-Based Education as aChange Strategy. ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings.Rottman, C., Reeve, D., Sacks, R., & Klassen, M. (2018). Where’s My Code? EngineersNavigating Ethical Issues on an Uneven Terrain. ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings.Rowe, J.W.K. (2005). Measure What You Value: Developing Detailed Assessment Criteria forEngineering Capstone Projects. ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings.Shepard, T., & Altobell, C.T. (2012). Engineering in Summer Camps: Tapping the Potential.ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings
settings [3]. The concerns about discrepancy between the industry expectations and graduate practice readiness has been alluded to for general engineering [6], studied within software engineering [11], civil engineering [10], and chemical engineering graduates [12]. Literature has shown that there are a number of approaches higher education institutions have taken to improve their graduates’ practice readiness, some of which have enhanced students’ employability through developing generic skills or holistic competencies [4]. Additionally, some institutions have implemented capstone design classes, in an effort to meet ABET criteria on student outcomes and address concerns regarding graduates ill-prepared for industrial
dimensions of curricular change.Ms. Kenyetta Anisah Rose Neal Akowa American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Before Engineering: How do students consider social and technical dimensions when solving complex problems early in their academic engineering career?Abstract. Engineering education has made strides towards integrating social context intoengineering problems. Real-world problems are one way educators have sought to contextualizetechnical problems; however, these problems are usually in capstone or design courses thatstudents take later in their engineering coursework. Instead, students learn technical skills asabstracted from
Siddique is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering of University of Oklahoma. His research interest include product family design, advanced material and engineering education. He is interested in motivation of engineering students, peer-to-peer learning, flat learning environments, technology assisted engineering education and experiential learning. He is the coordinator of the industry sponsored capstone from at his school and is the advisor of OU’s FSAE team. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020WIP: Using neuro-responses to understand creativity, the engineering design process
to reduce the weight and increase the efficiency of a weld gun for General Motors.Mr. Christian Tiong-Smith, Loyola Marymount University Christian Tiong-Smith is an undergraduate student at Loyola Marymount University (LMU), majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He is passionate about increasing STEM persistence for underrepresented minority students in order to promote a culture of inclusion and to diversify thinking within STEM fields. He is currently involved in restarting LMU’s National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) chapter, as well as in his senior capstone project that looks to take a creative approach towards traditional ASME challenges by constructing autonomous robots with particular objectives
, Washington State University Charles (Chuck) Pezeshki is the Director of the Industrial Design Clinic in the School of MME at Wash- ington State University. The Industrial Design Clinic is the primary capstone vehicle for the School and focuses on industrially sponsored projects with hard deliverables that students must complete for gradua- tion. His research area is in knowledge construction as a function of social/relational organization. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Measuring the Factors Associated with Student Persistence in the Washington State STARS ProgramAbstractAs the state of Washington continues to face a shortage of qualified workers needed to fill
engineering and education, design and selection of materials, general materials engineering, polymer science, and characterization of materials. His research interests are in innovative education in engineering and K-12 engineering outreach. He has been working on Project Pathways, an NSF supported Math Science Partnership, in developing modules for Page 14.436.1 Physics and Chemistry and also a course on Engineering Capstone Design. He has also co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory for assessing fundamental knowledge of students in introductory materials engineering classes.© American
them in half and placing the torntickets into a receiving basket. As David had very limited strength in his hands, the linesof people seeking admittance would soon back up. It was determined by both his Page 14.542.11employer and social worker a newly designed device that would help David’s pace wouldbe a great aid. A team of senior engineering capstone design students selected this projectand dedicated two semesters to the design, fabrication, testing evaluation and delivery ofthe final device.During the two terms, David made several visits to the campus and he and the studentsbecame quite close. Delivery day became a highly publicized event with
, engineeringethics, statistics, engineering economics and computational tools such as MATLAB. Othertopics that are touched on over the course of the semester include intellectual property, dataacquisition and engineering graphics. The course itself consists of two class meetings per weekwith one class meeting focused upon content reinforcement through active learning strategiessuch as think-pair-share, group discussions and case studies. The second class meeting isprimarily focused upon the design project and includes lab based experiments, data analysis andgroup discussions.Course grades for the Freshman Engineering course include a variety of lab based assignments inconjunction with the semester long design project (literature review, lab reports, final
because “everything's very tied together and it's better to have a wide base of knowledge.”Within engineering contexts, Caleb recognized reflection as necessary to making sure projectsteps were documented and that students were reflecting on how they have grown through aproject because it is one of the things he has been asked to do in his classes. When asked abouthis fellow students’ reactions to professors prompting students to reflect, he said, “when it comesto non-engineering things, I’ve certainly witnessed if not experienced it myself, why are wedoing this.” Caleb suggested students tend to focus on the end product rather than the means andprocesses of a project. He hypothesized this focus on the end product, could be related to someof the
of a group scientific research project [16]. The second course(EV350) focuses on the environmental engineering design solutions needed to address theseproblems in the developed world, which provides students with the framework to understand thedesign solutions for the third and fourth grand challenges while still considering the first twogrand challenges. They are introduced to these design problems through engaging classroomexperiences and in-class demonstrations, practice through working an individual engineeringdesign project, and solidify their understanding through group lab experiences and field trips toboth drinking water and wastewater treatment plants [17]. The third course (EV450) allows thestudents to employ innovative engineering
Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Florida Polytechnic University (Florida Poly). He joined the University in 2016 after spending 6-years as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical En- gineering at the University of Louisville (UofL). Bohm’s research examines the intersection of 3 distinct areas, engineering design, engineering education, and big data. Currently, Bohm has an active NSF grant under the Division of Undergraduate Education to examine the 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