top of anyone’s priority list. Also, weunderstand that not every faculty member is involved with the day-to-day mechanisms ofassessment. We needed to expose them to smaller pieces of the entire process, in a logicalmanner (we are engineers, after all), over a long period of time (years), in order to bringeveryone “up to speed.”With these two principles in mind (caution about additional workloads, and frequent but smallchunks of information), we’ve used a number of different methods to involve faculty in a mannerthat we believe are not threatening. These are: (1) Investing outcomes assessment in thecurriculum committee; (2) involving individual faculty as part of the courses they teach; (2) theABE Learning Circle; (3) faculty workshops; and (4
to use MDS asan assessment tool in their courses. Thus the MDS method may evolve into a kind ofclassroom assessment technique [6], a way of quickly gathering information aboutstudent progress which then can be used as a feedback mechanism to alter instruction andimprove student understanding. We plan to use the MDS tool in future offerings of thedesign course to monitor the impact of the course changes mentioned above on studentunderstanding of chemical engineering design strategies and techniques.References1. Wankat, P.C., “An Analysis of Articles in the Journal of Engineering Education,” Journal ofEngineering Education, vol. 88, 1999, pp. 37-42.2. Bransford, J.D., A.L. Brown, and R.R. Cocking, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience
located on the South Campus. And, recognizing that healthy minds need healthy food choices, the college has a food and resource bank for any student in need. Finally, to generate confidence in program completion and matriculation, the college offers an open laboratory every Friday where students utilize equipment, make up work, and formulate study groups. During the Introduction to Engineering course, faculty introduce students to the Project Graduation program where counselors and students work together to map their educational experience—from the first engineering course at San Jacinto College to the final class in completing a four-year engineering degree. 3. South Texas College, McAllen, TX for
1501 GLOBALIZATION EDUCATION DELIVERY SYSTEMS Dr. Paul E. Givens, Dr. Anita L. Callahan College of Engineering/Honors College University of South FloridaAbstractReal time capabilities for delivery of long-distance educational courses have never looked betterthan what is available today. The growth of the Internet I (and now the Internet II) capabilities isenhancing the delivering of courses (and yes even degrees) long-distance around the globe.Costs of delivery are certainly reasonable and with the advent of high-speed modems
and industry professionals to interact in an informalsetting1,30.With this interaction in mind, there are a few more issues to consider, first and foremost beingthe likelihood of academics to be a member of a professional society in the first place. Based onprior research currently in review, academics in engineering technology tend to have a largeamount of industry experience and potential for professional society membership and continuedinteraction with their peers. Further work in this area focuses on students and their affiliationswith professional societies31, and the subsequent effect of that affiliation on their identity withinthe engineering community.Ansmann et. al.32 mentions that membership in a professional society is a powerful
respect to addressing the increased headcount by 30%-40% and considering the futureattrition rates of EASi employees transitioning to the electric utility company, EASi’s talentacquisition team estimates that they will need to hire between 130 and 150 technical employees.In 2016 alone, they hired 100 technical employees to support the partnership.Finding and hiring 130 to 150 electric utility-minded employees is not going to be a simple task.EASi’s talent acquisition team acknowledges that interest level to pursue a career at an electricutility company is low among U.S. engineering students. A career in electric utilities is simplynot an obvious career option for many students. There is also a misconception that the industry isnot innovative or
studies before, during, and after each class.The content of the course was designed with engineering students in mind. Higher-level thinkingskills, such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation are required of engineers. Presentationsincorporate general engineering fundamentals such as process flow diagrams, process control,mass balances, etc. All presentations incorporate the unifying theme of the triple bottom line; thuseconomic, environmental, and societal considerations are used in each presentation. Most guestspeakers are practicing engineers who have faced challenges in sustainability in the course of theirday-to-day activities. This also provides several networking opportunities for both the studentsand the industrial
Session: 2147 Academic Quality Management C. R. Sekhar, O. Farook and Jai. P. Agrawal, E.Bouktache Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Purdue University CalumetAbstractThis Paper describes the implementation and outcome results of an Academic QualityManagement (AQM) program and one of the tools used in three of the courses taught in theElectrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) program at Purdue UniversityCalumet, Hammond, IN. A number of papers have been presented at the ASEE and otherprofessional society meetings on the subject of
positives.I suggest that ABET needs to review engineering programs with the following principles inplace:1. Examine programs in a minimally invasive manner.2. Determine whether the curriculum, as delivered, meets minimal standards for the degree awarded.3. Determine whether the faculty and facilities are sufficient to deliver the degree program.4. Investigate whether there is an active, periodic mechanism for program improvement that involves review by and input from external constituencies (alumni, employers, colleagues).Some might claim that this is exactly what ABET 2000 accomplishes, but many faculty woulddiffer. In their minds, how should ABET change? Here are several suggestions
typical industry engineers, technologists, and managers in mind. Tomaximize the number of returns, two key features considered in the design were accessibility ofthe survey and time required to complete the survey. Since most industry practitioners use e-mailas a standard form of communication, the survey was designed as a web page that could be sentto participants as a link within an e-mail announcement. The length of the survey was minimizedsuch that it would take most respondents less than five minutes to complete: eleven multiple-choice questions, a section for comments, and a place to provide contact information if desired.In addition, it was necessary to provide some means of ensuring only people with an appropriatebackground would complete
Session 2793 Using Professional Mentors for Capstone Design Projects at a Distance Donald Leone, James Long University of Hartford / Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas, Inc.AbstractFor over ten years, the University of Hartford’s Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering has used professional engineers from the local region as mentors for capstone designprojects. The mentor is asked to propose a candidate project, and if the project is selected by astudent group, to oversee its technical direction. The mentors become role models for thestudents, and by allowing students to visit their offices
359 An Assessment of ABET’s Assessment Process Sukhmander Singh Santa Clara UniversityAbstractIn the U.S.A., accreditation of engineering schools by ABET has for years been centered on theassessment of the program of the studies and the educational objectives. Much has been writtenon the methodology for assessment. The emphasis has been on what can be measured. However,some of the most important aspects of education for example, creativity and innovative thinking,which cannot be measured, have been ignored. Enormous amounts of effort in the
design and human attributes (students).“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Maddux, Johnson and Willis (1997) 3 stated, that like any other tool, a computer may bemisused. As of today, Web pages are developed by anyone who has the capability to do so. Thereare few standards or guidelines that must be followed to publish a page. This simply means that thereare a vast number of authors on the Internet. With this in mind, it becomes even more important toeducate Web publishers responsible for designing and ensure that they not only appeal to the user’sneeds but also to the user’s behavioral styles. According
Session 1420 Pocket PCs as Tools in Digital Circuit Laboratories Christopher R. Carroll Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Minnesota Duluth ccarroll@d.umn.eduAbstractDigital circuit laboratories are notoriously brimming with high-technology instrumentation and allsorts of gadgets that can boggle the mind of students entering any electrical or computerengineering program. These labs are generally the first electrical or computer
retrieval with various target audience in mind, especiallyfor students at the undergraduate level.1. IntroductionThe pervasive nature of World Wide Web (the web) and social networks such as Facebook andLinkedIn presents tremendous opportunity and challenge for general users who use these systemseveryday as well as scientists and engineers who design and build the infrastructures for thesesystems. One of the critical features of the web and social networks is text-based search, whetherdone explicitly by using search engines such as Google, or done implicitly by pressing a searchbutton on any of these sites. The core of text-based search is supported by the theories andpractices of an academic branch in computer science or information science called
with like-minded entrepreneurs—friends and apartment-mateswhom they have developed and grown a business with. Arkhon hopes to expand in 2005by adding its first full-time technical and sales staff, as the executive team prepares tograduate from the university.2.3. Low-Tech Service Model - Key Success Factors: Mentoring, Experience57th Avenue Advertising, LLC is a direct-mail-based advertising company operating inthe Greater Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. 57th Avenue serves theadvertising needs of restaurants in the city of College Park through MenuTeaser™, anexclusive advertising publication distributed to both College Park residents andUniversity of Maryland students. A Hinman CEOs electrical engineering student, BornaGhavam, working
from animaginative, creative mind-space, done outside the confines of established engineering educationcurricular activities.4-6 Making has a do-it-yourself ethos and is historically rooted in efforts likePopular Mechanics magazine who demystified everyday stuff for hobbyists and the Whole EarthCatalog: Access to Tools7 who surveyed everyday tools for the counterculture movement of the1960s. Additional real-world touchstones are the growth of Radio Shack stores and the 1980stelevision program MacGyver where the lead character would resolve each episode’spredicament by fashioning an escape plan out of found objects.8 Technology and sharing ofinformation via the Internet has greatly increased the ability for smaller communities with
THE WORLD, Rolla, MO • WATLOW INDUSTRIES, St. Louis, MO • META STABLE, St. Louis, MO • DESIGN OPTIMIZATION TECHNOLOGIES, St. Louis, MO • PRIER PRODUCTS Grandview, MO • MISSOURI ENTERPRISE, Rolla, MO These companies also invested their engineering time and other resources to the project. Students were given real-life projects based on manufacturing processes and were required to analyze unit steps and suggest possible innovations. Many industries have instituted worker incentive programs that seek suggestions for product and process improvement. We would like to introduce this concept in the classroom to train young minds to ‘think differently’ and implant the seeds
continuallyimproved by students as they construct knowledge. Process EducationTM incorporatescooperative learning, guided discovery activities, journal writing, and various assessment tools.Unlike a lecture based approach, a Process EducationTM class requires more active participationof both mentor and team members. Team members actively work through in-class tasks, whichinclude critical thinking, assessment, deadlines, and journal entries. With this approach theinstructor take on the nontraditional role of facilitator. This approach has shown significantimprovement in both student motivation and their retention of knowledge.IntroductionThe education of engineers has been a topic of concern and discussion for many years and willbe so into the foreseeable
, chemicals,pharmaceuticals, metals and mining, pulp and paper and other durable goods. In all of thecritical industries, there are initiatives under way to become more automated and connectedelectronically. The communication medium of choice (also called the information highway)is the Internet, which was not designed with security in mind. Critical enterprise data andoperations system control capabilities are accessible to individuals on enterprise local andexternal networks. Estimates of the worldwide economic impact of security attacks are inthe billions of dollars, and rising. The indication is that no industry is immune to computerattacks but it is prudent to take adequate measures to protect the most critical industries.The challenge of
Session 2793 Getting in the Groove: A Short Summer Research Experience Builds Skills and Belonging Stacie Swingle Nunes State University of New York at New PaltzBirth of the SUNY New Paltz Summer Session Research Program A program of academic support and enrichment was founded at SUNY New Paltz in themid 1980’s with the goal of increasing the retention of traditionally underrepresented andeconomically disadvantaged students with majors in the sciences, math and engineering. Theprogram is known now as AC2 in honor of the three programs that
framework is designed to be completed as part of a mentorship or curricularprogrammatic activity. As such, while students work to complete the framework, they alsoengage in a mentoring relationship with a faculty member. The mentoring relationship isdesigned to allow each student to receive guidance on both professional and technical skills andrelated activities while reflecting with a mentor who can provide additional perspective.This paper focuses on the professional skills within the framework, which are divided into thefollowing components: teamwork, communication, engineering habits of mind, solutions andimpact, professional ethics, lifelong learning, leadership, and diversity, equity, and inclusion(DEI). Importantly, the current work extends
: Implications for Engineering Education,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol 86, No. 2, 1997, pp. 133-138.10. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Development Initiative: Integrating the Product Realization Process (PRP) into the Undergraduate Curriculum, New York: ASME, pp. C2-C5, December 1995.11. McGraw, D. “Expanding the Mind,” ASEE Prism, Summer 2004, pp. 30-36.12. Lumsdaine, M. and Lumsdaine, E., “Thinking Preferences of Engineering Students: Implications for Curriculum Restructuring.” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 84, No. 2, 1995, pp. 194-204. Page 13.195.1313. Moore
Paper ID #34155Haptics in AviationDr. Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University Afsaneh Minaie is a Professor and Chair of Engineering Department at Utah Valley University. She re- ceived her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. all in Electrical Engineering from University of Oklahoma. Her research interests include gender issues in the academic sciences and engineering fields, Embedded Systems De- sign, Mobile Computing, Wireless Sensor Networks, Nanotechnology, Data Mining and Databases.Mr. Joshua D. Neeley, Utah Valley University Joshua Neeley is an Electronics Engineer working for the United States Air Force. He received his B.S. in
WORKING WORLD PROBLEMS AND COMMUNICATION FOR THE CLASS ROOM Larry L. White, Garry L. White, William W. Willette Dept. of Engineering Technology, Texas A&M- Corpus Christi/ Dept. of Computer Information Systems, Texas State University - San Marcos/ Dept. of Information Systems, University of Texas - ArlingtonAbstractEngineering problems in the working world can differ from what students encounter in theclassroom. The communication of the results also differs. For some engineering problems, e-mail has become the major method of communication.This paper discusses the differences between the classroom and the working world. The paperalso introduces a method
and Opportunities, Springer, 2013.15. Riley, Donna, Engineering and Social Justice, San Rafael, CA: Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2008.16. Bransford, John D., Brown, Ann L., and Cocking, Rodney R., (Editors), How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2000.17. Ambrose, Susan A., Bridges, Michael W., DiPietro, Michele, Lovett, Marsha C., Norman, Marie K., How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2010.
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Session ETD 415 Robotics Retrofit: Renovating Outdated Robotics Platforms to Meet Current Curriculum Requirements Driven by Industry Demand Gregory Lyman, Jeffery Wilcox, and Rowdy Sanford Department of Engineering Technologies, Safety, and Construction Electronics Engineering Technology Program Central Washington UniversityAbstractMany engineering technology programs are implementing robotics and automation platformsinto their undergraduate curriculum. Finding affordable solutions for these subjects can prove
andanalytical techniques that are not traditionally covered in chemical engineering and/or chemistrycurricula, but that are commonly encountered in industry. In this project we will develop novel hands-on chemical engineering experiments byexamining the manufacturing process steps. Each step will be a laboratory module. Thesemodules will be integrated throughout the chemical engineering curriculum. The manufacturingsteps range in complexity from fundamental engineering and science principles shown in gravitydecantation of immiscible liquids to more complex principles required to describe filtrationtheory and identification of compounds using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy.Introduction At Rowan, a hands-on minds-on approach to
12. High professional and ethical standards.professional and ethical 13. Mature, responsible and open minded with a positive attitude towards life.responsibility.7. Ability to communicate 14. Effective listening skills.effectively 15. Effective oral communication. 16. Effective writing skills.8. Broad education necessary 17. Appreciation and understanding of history, world affairs and cultures.to understand the impact of 18. Able to function in a multicultural and diverse work environment.engineering solutions in a Breath of engineering sciences (repeat of item 3).global and societal context.9. Recognition of the need for 19. Motivation and