be necessary(either a Master’s degree or 30 credits of approved study), but the new ABET criteria appearslikely to require major changes in the form and content of under-graduate education for civilengineering. What will be the impacts of these changes for Civil Engineering Technologyeducation? As it has been known in recent years, CET in about 25 four-year institutions hasprovided a sound educational background to begin training for the practice of civil engineering.A CET graduate from many 4-year schools can calculate rebar sizing, runoff quantity, pavementthickness, BOD and COD treatment requirements, perhaps as well as a graduate from a civil
AC 2009-830: ENGAGING HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING,SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY USING VIRTUAL LABORATORIESMilo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. He currently has research activity in areas related to thin film materials processing and engineering education. He is interested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. Dr. Koretsky is a six-time Intel Faculty Fellow and has won awards for his work in engineering education at the university and national levels.Debra Gilbuena, Oregon State University
Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationadjunct faculty member at Jackson Community College and Lawrence Technological University.MICHELLE L. WESTMichelle West is currently an Environmental Engineering master’s student at the University of Michigan. She received aB.S. in both Civil and Environmental Engineering and Natural Resources and Environment from the University ofMichigan. As a graduate student, Michelle served as Graduate Student Instructor for Fluid Mechanics, the course in whichthe CEAL program was piloted. In addition to consulting, she is involved with a collaborative research project in remotesensing involving the Department of Electrical Engineering and the United States Forest Service in California. Outside ofthe
technology teacher, as well as several years of electrical and mechanical engineering design experience as a practicing engineer. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Swarthmore College, his Master’s of Education degree from the University of Massachusetts, and a Master’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Doctorate in Engineering Education from Purdue University.Timothy AndersenAmit Jain, Boise State University Amit Jain is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Computer Science Department in the College of Engineering at Boise State University. He is passionate about introducing computer science to students and has served as the coordinator for Computer Science I course. His research
including eleven years on the faculty at the United States Military Academy.Dr. Tara Hornor , The Citadel Dr. Tara Hornor currently serves as Associate Provost for Planning, Assessment and Evaluation & Dean of Enrollment Management at The Citadel, providing leadership for the institution’s strategic planning, ac- creditation, assessment, institutional research, admissions, financial aid, and graduate college offices. She holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Arizona and master’s degrees in counseling, instructional design, and human resource management.Dr. Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel Robert Rabb is an associate professor and the Mechanical Engineering Program Director at The Citadel
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constructionstudents organized by a student chapter in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), inwhich students attend a series of presentations by industry practitioners. Even though students donot get credits for these seminars, which are offered throughout eight semesters while they are atUNLV, they are required to attend the seminars and get exposed to industry practices. Thestudent chapter officers get to manage the seminar and help the program offer this opportunity totheir students,The close relationship between engineering programs and the industry, and its benefits, are alsodiscussed by Soltani et al. (2013)4. Having a degree is no longer the main condition necessary forrecent graduates to get a job. Recent graduates should be able to demonstrate
U.S. incubators and the first U.S. incubatorwholly sponsored and operated by a university (Retrieved September 12, 2004 fromhttp://www.rpi.edu/dept/incubator/homepage/ ). Its accomplishments include the following: • “Greater than 80% survival rate for participating companies. • Over 180 companies served since 1980. Most have remained in the capital region of New York State. • 43 current tenants; 230 jobs. • Occupancy in the Incubator typically exceeds 95%. • Over 2,000 jobs created. • Annual sales of Incubator “graduates” exceed $500 million. • Approximately 2/3 of participating companies have evolved from research at Rensselaer or have been started by Rensselaer Alumni. • Hundreds of RPI students have
, encompassing broadsurveys and deep interviews. These sources are triangulated via a “holistic description” design,coded around themes that emerge in the survey analysis, in order to reveal contexts andbackground that contribute to trends in quantitative data23. By showcasing the stories beneaththe survey, we provide images of possible student thoughts and reactions that may yieldtransferrable insights for educators. A schematic of the research is shown in Figure 1, and anexplanation of each component follows.Figure 1: A schematic of the research design.1. Student SurveysThe quantitative component of this research was collected via a survey administered to studentsonline, through their participating engineering writing class, near the beginning of the
technical communication and issues of equity, inclusion, and social justice. She is the author of Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn: Building Coalitions for Action (2019), in addition to a range of articles. She has received a number of awards for her research, including the Joenk Award for the best article in IEEE Transactions in Professional Communication, the Nell Ann Pickett Award for best article in Technical Communication Quarterly, and the NCTE Best Article in Theories of Technical Communication (in both 2015 and 2018). She is also the co-founder of Women in Technical Communication, a mentoring organization that received the 2015 Diana Award from ACM Special Interest Group in the Design of
Paper ID #36677Using Blackboard Quiz Pools and Other Automated Gradingin Mechanical Engineering CoursesKeith Hekman (Professor) Keith Hekman is a Professor at California Baptist University where he teaches courses on AutoCAD, Excel, SOLIDWORKS, LabVIEW, Machine Design, and Vibrations. His research has been on automated grading. Prior to teaching at CBU, he taught at Calvin College and the American University in Cairo. He received his PhD from the Georgia Institute of TechnologyZiliang Zhou © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by
National Research Council3 criticized undergraduate engineering curricula for notreflecting the shifting needs of the engineering profession by saying that these curricula are“lacking the essential interdisciplinary character of modern design practice” (p. 4). As a result,NRC claimed, engineering graduates are poorly prepared to utilize “scientific, mathematical, andanalytical knowledge in the design of high-quality components, processes, and systems”. TheABET Engineering Criteria (earlier called Engineering Criteria 2000) reinforce theseperspectives as has the National Science Foundation in the last decade.4Curricular reform efforts have focused on developing new paradigms for engineering education,including an emphasis on active student learning
changes in those courses can impact student learning and retention. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Advancing computational knowledge and skill through computing projects in sophomore-level mechanics coursesAbstractThe desire to graduate students with more advanced computational knowledge has become a hot topic incurriculum design. One route to do that is through integration of computing in the foundational mechanicscourses (statics, dynamics, and solid mechanics). The implementation of computing projects in thesesophomore-level courses has resulted in computing becoming an integral part of those courses at
Carlowicz Samantha Carlowicz is a Master of Science in Engineering student with an Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering concentration at Parks College of Engineering, Aviation, and Technology of Saint Louis University (SLU). She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from SLU. She is currently a Graduate Research Assistant developing a guided risk assessment for CubeSat deployable systems. Her research interests include improving the reliability of space systems, design of complex mechanical systems, and how to improve mission success rates for novice spacecraft developers. She will begin her career as an Electronics Packaging Design and Analysis Engineer for Boeing Satellite Systems.Justin Fantroy
, increased students’ participations in the teaching process are needed to improve theeffectiveness of students’ learning. This paper reports the experience and findings of a projectwhere videos of water treatment subjects were used and integrated in the instructional activitiesof these courses. The impacts of videos on students’ learning were assessed both qualitativelyand quantitatively. Bloom’s taxonomy on learning levels was used to design the assessmentquestions for each course. This project found that the use of appropriately selected videosimproved the learning environment, increased students interests in learning by promoting activestudents participation in the learning process, promoted high levels of learning and naturallybroke long class
. Adam Weaver, Baylor UniversityMr. James Carlton Bates, Baylor UniversityMr. Timothy Russell, Baylor University Timothy is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at Baylor University and a Teacher’s Aid for Se- nior Design. His research focus is on mechanical and thermal property prediction in large-area additive manufacturing and he has been published in the Journal of Composites Science. He has a B.S. in Mathe- matics from Ouachita Baptist University and a master’s in Mechanical Engineering from Baylor. Timothy sits on the Honor Council at Baylor and is the president of the student chapter of the Society of Plastics Engineers. American c Society for
Paper ID #17540Preparing globally competent and competitive STEM workforce of the 21stcentury in the Global STEM Classroom RDr. Vitaliy Popov, 1. University of San Diego. 2. The Global STEM Education Center Vitaliy Popov is a Post-Doctoral Research Scholar at the Mobile Technology Learning Center, University of San Diego, USA. In addition, Dr. Popov is a consultant at the Global STEM Education Center. For his PhD dissertation, he designed and implemented studies in which over 500 students from more than 55 countries worked together with the help of online collaborative technologies. As a postdoc he is currently conducting a
Academic Success, the 2016 Richard and Virginia Eisen- hart Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching from RIT, the 2017 Emerging Investigator designation from Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, the 2017 Henry C. McBay Outstanding Teacher Award from the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, and the 2018 Dr. Janice A. Lumpkin Educator of the Year Award from the National Society of Black Engineers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Work-in-Progress: Integrating Process Safety and Ethics in Classroom Discussion through SurveysAbstractProcess safety and ethics within Chemical
, slide calipers, and a toolmakers microscope in 1998. In addition, theteam proposed and received this NSF-ILI grant to enhance the CMM systems and integrateCMM metrology into manufacturing engineering laboratories and curriculum in 1998. The teamalso received a temperature/humidity monitor for the Metrology laboratory from the Society ofManufacturing Engineers.In addition to the aforementioned courses the project will also impact students enrolled in otherIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering courses such as Statistics I & II, Sheet Metal Forming,Quality Assurance, Design of Experiments, and Robotics by providing inspection services and/ordata for studies in machine capabilities, statistical analysis, gage repeatability &
received his Ph.D. degree from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Page 13.673.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 How to Help Senior Chemical Engineering Students Enhance and Develop Their Leadership CompetenceAbstractChemical engineering students at the University Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain) have theopportunity to enhance and develop their leadership competence by taking on a team leadershiprole in a first-year integrated design project. All fourth-year students enrolled for the ProjectManagement in Practice (PMP) course go through a comprehensive team leader selectionprocess
, Shaundra, Walcott, Aisha, Hampton, Mark, & Chandler, Lincoln, Chapman, Robbin, Brittain, Eric. "The Academy of Courageous Minority Engineers: A Model for Supporting Minority Graduate Students in the Completion of Science and Engineering Degrees". Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education. Honolulu, Hawaii. 2007. https://peer.asee.org/293010. Coston, Charisse T., Vivian B. Lord, and Jack S. Monell. “Improving the success of transfer students: Responding to risk factors.” Learning Communities Research and Practice 1.1 (2013): Article 11. http://washingtoncenter.evergreen.edu/lcrpjournal/vol1/iss1/1111. Litzler, Elizabeth, and Cate Samuelson. "Potential Strategies
Paper ID #15631 from Boise State University in 2013 and B.S in Electrical Engineering from Durango Institute of Tech- nology (Mexico) in 2010. He has been a graduate advisor for several senior design projects, including a construction of a power amplifier, a design of a solar PV plant to support voltage at the end of the feeder, and a development of algorithm to determine the hosting capacity of a distribution feeder. Currently, he is working as an engineering contractor for Idaho Power. His main work is to evaluate the impact of utility scale PV farms connected to the distribution system and create mitigation options. Previously, he was a field engineer for a private construction company in Mexico designing and
economical.Groundwork for Adopting the Course in BrazilIn 2000, ABE 430 Instrumentation and Data Acquisition had been taught for two years at PurdueUniversity, and had made a few impacts in industry and education, including some industrialapplication of the skills. A graduate from that course was awarded the highest scholarship fromthe Instrument Society of America (ISA) 14,15. One of the criteria for the scholarship waspotential to be a significant contributor to instrumentation engineering. In that year, the FederalUniversity of Viçosa (Universidade Federal de Viçosa, UFV) invited the instructor to teach thatcourse in Brazil.Before inviting Professor Sumali to teach the course at UFV, Professor Marçal-de-Queiroz hadobtained funding for the laboratory
learn about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering education include service- learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity.Dr. Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines Greg currently teaches in Humanitarian Engineering at CSM. Greg earned his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in Global Poverty and Practice from UC Berkeley where he acquired a passion for using engineering to facilitate developing communities’ capacity for success. He earned his master’s degree in Structural Engineering and Risk Analysis from Stanford University. His PhD work at CU Boulder focused on how student’s
programand, once created, are valuable in terms of sustainability of the assessment effort. In fact,the rubrics for oral presentations, lab reports, research reports, and integrated, capstoneprojects are now used in the grading of those activities, increasing consistency in gradingand facilitating assessments. The process has resulted in a number of specificinstructional delivery changes and appears to be serving the purpose of increasinglearning. The only substantial change in the assessment process thus far has been to cutback on the frequency with which OI data are collected and evaluated, since thisrepresents the primary ongoing effort. Surveys to examine the experiences of localemployers and past graduates will continue on a three-year cycle
Paper ID #16848Using Peer Mentoring to Enhance Transfer Student Experience and IncreaseStudent Success in Mechanical EngineeringMr. Nicolas N Brown, University of Utah Department of Mechanical Engineering Nicolas is a senior in the mechanical engineering department at the University of Utah. He is the peer mentoring coordinator for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, as well as an Undergraduate Re- search Assistant for the Ergonomics and Safety Lab. His current area of research involves designing and integrating control systems on recreational equipment for high-level spinal cord injury patients. Nicolas’ senior
participated in all components of the module and were assisted in compiling thepost-survey results.Two months during the summer were used to develop the module activities, and a per-hourundergraduate assistant in bioengineering was employed to assist in developing, troubleshooting Page 25.521.10and practicing the modules for clarity and impact. Module activities were largely distilled fromthe ongoing research projects of one of the authors within the bioengineering department, and assuch the hands-on nature of the activities was innately driven by the need to collect data thatwould be of relevance to the research question at hand. In addition
AC 2011-1627: MYSTERIES AND HEROES: USING IMAGINATIVE ED-UCATION TO ENGAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL LEARNERS IN ENGINEER-INGLucy McAuliffe, Smith College Lucy McAuliffe is the senior editor and an instructional designer for the Talk to Me Project. Lucy is currently a student at Smith College, majoring in American Studies and Environmental Science & Policy. She is a First Group Scholar, and recipient of awards including the Newton Arvin Prize in American Studies and a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She plans to enter the publishing industry upon her graduation in 2012.Glenn W Ellis, Smith College Glenn Ellis is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Smith College where he teaches courses in engi- neering
engineering problems. (5 respondents) ENGR 200 - Engineering Practices and Principles II Engineering practices and principles, teaming, project planning, written communications, and conceptual design processes will be introduced through lecture and project-based learning activities. 2 Lecture, 2 Lab. Prerequisites A grade of C or better in ENGR 199. (8 respondents) Declined to answer. The authors speculate that students wanted to ensure anonymity.Question 2 - Indicate if you find ChatGPT (or other chatbots) useful for the following tasks:Literature survey, Problem definition, Coding support, Debugging, Report/essay generation,Solving homework/test problems, Answering non
authors also suggest the use of active pedagogies(guided practice, learning by doing), and integration of ethics issues in design courses, whichinherently consider ethical tradeoffs presented by design problems [6].The importance of instruction in ethics and professionalism has been recognized generally by thebusiness and higher education communities. Consider, for example, Bryant University andBentley University – two business-oriented universities that showcase a focus on “ethicalreasoning” (an element of Bryant’s First-Year Gateway core curriculum), and a “commitment tobusiness ethics” where students learn about “management and moral behavior (highlightedthemes of Bentley’s general academic approach of integrating business studies with