the senior engineering capstone program which is a multidisciplinary, two-semester course sequence with projects sponsored by industrial partners. Within this role, he focuses on industrial outreach and the teaching and assessment of professional skills. Prior to joining WCU in 2018, he spent a decade in industry managing and developing innovative technologies across a broad spectrum of applications: SiC and GaN high voltage transistors for energy-efficient power conversion, radio frequency (RF) surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters for mobile phones, and flexible paper-like displays for e-readers. He holds 31 patents related to semiconductor devices and microfabrication and has published in IEEE and AIP journals and
technical and end-user specifications. DBT curricular experiences provide acontext for students to practice critical design skills and an opportunity for students to learn deeplessons about the nature of the engineering design process, including project and teammanagement [2, 4].Additive manufacturing (also referred to as 3D printing) has become an integral part ofengineering design and lab courses in K-12 and higher education. Low-cost and readily available3D printers allow prototype manufacturing and testing which is otherwise difficult to incorporateusing traditional, subtractive manufacturing methods in courses. 3D printers have great potentialbeyond simply serving as a prototyping tool.The objective of our work is to develop, implement, and
project would also increasethe course’s relevance to the students. The engineering design experiences would naturally providethe students with more opportunities for hands-on, interactive, and fun course activities beyondwhat the legacy course offered. Some of these engaging course activities would allow students totest their newly acquired innovation knowledge and skills by designing, building, and testingphysical prototypes, which was not part of the legacy course. Designing, building, and testingphysical prototypes are central to the new course, because it helps address these secondarymotivations by actively engaging students in engineering, while simultaneously satisfying thepreviously unmet institutional outcome.USAFA OutcomesThere are nine
high.Attendance at study sessions is high. As the semester progresses, the attendance of thementored students usually begins to drop, with spikes in attendance shortly before a test.As the response of the mentored students begins to decrease, the enthusiasm of thementors begins to decline. With reduced attendance of the mentored student, many of thementors begin to miss the study sessions.A Lab Course EnvironmentIn Engineering Technology Department, most of the classes have an associated one credit-hour lab component. For seniors, there is a three credit-hour independent design lab and athree credit-hour capstone lab project. The senior lab and capstone design project arestudent design and construction projects of increasing difficulty to test the
. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020The Status of University-Industry Collaboration Participating in thePeople-to-People and Cultural Exchanges in Engineering TechnologyAmong the Belt and Road Initiative ParticipantsABSTRACTPeople-to-people and cultural exchanges in engineering technology (PCEE) allow theexchange of thoughts and values. It is very suitable for the Belt and Road Initiative (B&R)Participants to accelerate mutual understanding between people from China and B&Rcountries to reduce or eliminate thought gaps between the countries and ensure the smoothimplementation of the engineering projects. Enterprises are the most important entities forpromoting the construction of B&R
. She is co-PI of NSF INCLUES and a PI of CAWIT (Center for Advancing Wamen in IT) PINC (Promoting Inclusivity in Computing) project. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Promoting Inclusivity in Computing (PINC) via Computing Application Minor Ilmi Yoon1, Pleuni Pennings2, Anagha Kulkarni1, Kaz Okada1, Carmen Domingo2 1Computer Science, San Francisco State University 2Biology, San Francisco State UniversityAbstract— We aimed to build a new educational pathway particularly acute in science, where big data has becomethat would provide basic
academiccareers and under "authentic engineering" conditions, to vital skills and practices used daily inindustry. A secondary goal was to give students product development and project executionexperience to relate to potential internship and professional employers.I. IntroductionAn Engineering & Visual Arts collaboration in Fall 2016 resulted in a unique IlluminatedUmbrella product where a transparent plastic umbrella, sequined with 200 LED lights along theumbrella ribs, illuminated when opened – but required no batteries. The Engineering StudentTeam consisted of four 2nd-year Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC) Engineeringstudents participating in an “Authentic Engineering Experience” course where they were taskedto design, prototype, build
Paper ID #16856Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Getting Engineering Majors to Work withStudents in Other Disciplines on Issues Impacting SocietyDr. Ricky T. Castles, East Carolina University Dr. Ricky Castles is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. He is primarily affiliated with the ECU Electrical Engineering concentration. His research work focuses on the use of wireless sensor networks, microcontrollers, and physiological data collection for a variety of applications. His primary interest is in the area of adaptive tutorial systems, but he has ongoing projects in the
,” Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS), for a feasibility study;3. develop intellectual and practical tools so students can “make themselves ready” for creativity, openness to new ideas, and working effectively without enough information; and4. develop teamwork and build a community of students who will share their experiences with others when they return.The results from the student feedback were overwhelmingly positive.Introduction“Solutions of societal problems require that these [safe, reliable, and innovative] technologiesbe applied in innovative ways with consideration of cultural differences, historical perspectives,and legal and economic constraints, among other issues. … We aspire to an engineeringprofession that will
programming. His research interests are in software engineering and software quality assurance and has authored more than 25 technical papers on the subject. As an independent consultant, he has worked with some of the largest software companies in the Central America region in establishing software quality management systems. In the last 12 years, he has taught several seminars on software quality assurance and software project management. Dr. Jenkins is an ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE) and a member of the ASQ Software Division. Page 12.711.1© American Society for Engineering Education
logictemperature and humidity control, human exercise machines and energy exchange,insect detection and counting with optical sensors, pH controllers, and water flowmeasurements from small to large scale. Some activities are web-based bringinglocal research projects and instrumentation to the classroom. Student teams alsodevelop semester projects starting at midterm. Those projects are presented aspapers and posters during an annual department open house. A summary ofselected student projects for the past four years and student assessments will bediscussed.Keywords: Courseware, biological systems, sensors, electronics, measurements, controls. Page 13.753.2Course
female students participating in co-op experiences?Herein, we employed a survey instrument, National Engineering Students’ Learning OutcomesSurvey (NESLOS), derived from ABET criteria and extensive literature review, to assessstudents’ learning outcomes as a result of participating in a co-op experience. Survey itememphasis was placed on assessing knowledge and skills pertaining to but not limited to: (1)problem-solving, (2) writing and communication skills, (3) understanding and applyingknowledge, (4) teamwork, (5) confidence gains, (6) organization and management skills, and (7)interest and engagement of project. In this paper, we present key findings of what studentslearned and valued, insight into variations across female and male students
AC 2009-941: EDUCATION FOR PRODUCT INNOVATION: A "GOODPRACTICES" REPORTMartin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology Page 14.512.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Education for Product Innovation – A ‘Good Practices’ ReportAbstractThis paper presents results from a study of good examples of education for product innovation. Aselection of exemplifying courses, modules, exercises and projects are presented. The selection ismade to show examples of good practices which could easily be integrated into existing coursesand programs.The Product Innovation Engineering program, PIEp, is the initiator of the study and the overallaim is to produce a state of the art
Science & Engineering at the University of South Carolina. He received his PhD from the University of Notre Dame. He is the recipient of an NSF Faculty Early Career Award. His research interests include real-time systems, embedded computing, power-/thermal-aware design, electronic design automation, advanced computer architecture, and reconfigurable computing. Page 14.194.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 An FPGA-Based Embedded System Design Laboratory for the Undergraduate Computer Engineering CurriculumAbstractThe primary focus of this project is the development of
engineering curriculum at a public university.Over the academic years 2004-2008, an average of 30 core required engineering courses havehad S-L projects each year. The hypothesis is that because the students would see with S-L moredirectly how engineering can improve the lives of those in the local and internationalcommunity, they would be more motivated to enter and stay in engineering and try to learn thesubject matter better. In terms of recruitment, S-L is advertized to prospective students as thenumber two reason to come to the college (number one is value). Twenty-two percent of firstyear students at the end of their first semester reported that S-L was one of the reasons forcoming to the college, roughly the same as the 24% in December 2007
mathematics education and educational research classes. He is a current co-investigator on two NSF funded educational robotics projects, funded within the ITEST and Discovery Research K12 programs. The NSF projects are associated with training teachers and developing a national curriculum related to educational robotics. Dr. Grandgenett is a review editor for new curriculum applications in the Mathematics and Computer Education (MACE) Journal, published internationally, which sometimes showcases educational innovations related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. His prior work on various interactive learning environments was awarded the NASA Mission Home Award in 1999
agency that provides energy and environmentalinformation and services, a mechanical engineering capstone design team has taken on thechallenge of designing and implementing a heating system for the worms. In keeping with thetheme of the worm composting, it was decided that this heating system must utilize renewableand sustainable energy sources. This paper will share the design process and the details of thefinal design implementation. The project was unique in that it involved considerable interactionamong the mechanical engineering students, the staff of the non-profit community agency, andthe staff and students of Woodcreek Elementary School. The paper will share the lessonslearned through such interactions and will provide some guidance to
, Germany, in 2001. From 2002 until now she works at the Didactic Center of Technische Universität Darmstadt. She is currently working on her doctorate which is part of a broad-based research project of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her interests involve the development, introduction and evaluation of innovative teaching and learning methods as well as quality assurance. She is particularly interested in project-based courses that support the acquirement of soft skills. Page 11.701.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 How to provide first-year students with a really good
Requirements and Interdisciplinary WorkAbstractThe author discusses an interdisciplinary approach to helping students learn to write a systemrequirements specification (SRS). This approach has been refined during use over the last threeyears and involves students in the first quarter of their junior year. Software engineeringstudents enrolled in a required requirements course act as the requirements team over an eight-week period while biomedical engineering students who are ready to begin the requirementsphase of their capstone design project act as clients. Each of the requirements and client teamsconsists of four to six members. The experience was documented in ASEE conference papers inOctober of 20041 and June of 20052.Benefits of the process and
techniques. The event took place over one day, andincluded a speaker at lunch, who provided the women with a female role model who was familiarwith manufacturing processes. Participants in this event were asked to fill out a short post-eventsurvey, in order to determine the program’s value and effectiveness and guide futureimprovements.In this paper, the program is described, and the evaluation data from the survey is presented. Thisdata shows that participants felt that the event was valuable. The description of the event, togetherwith the data on its effectiveness, can be used by other universities that wish to create similarprograms. With additional programs, it would be possible to further explore the role of individualhands-on projects in
experienced computer science lecturer, software engineer, mobile applications developer and re- searcher with a flair for creativity and visual design. At Western Carolina University I have taught a diverse range of topics under the umbrella of computer science and supervised undergraduate research projects (capstone). My current research interests revolve around computer science education, best prac- tices in team formation and assessment of work, the visualization of programming concepts, and mobile applications. I have been programming in the OO and imperative paradigms for over 15 years. Since 2006 I have been lecturing and tutoring computing subjects. In addition to my teaching record, I have also gained significant
further her knowledge in Energy Engineering to focus on methods to effectively increase efficiency and to use energy in cleaner ways. For her Senior Design Project, Ms. Stinnett Designed a Dome Test Setup for Sheet Metal Formability Characterization. During the summer of 2014, Ms. Stinnett had a Maryland Space Grant Consortium Summer Exchange Student Internship. She developed lab experiments that aid the learning of multiple manufacturing concepts through hands- on completion of the lab exercise. Integrating learning-based assessment tools into the designs of the experiments. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Learning Experience in Designing a Dome Test Setup for Sheet
Paper ID #31377Creating a Makerspace for Cross-disciplinary Teaching and Collaborationwith Limited FundingDr. David G Alexander, California State University, Chico Dr. Alexander’s research interests and areas of expertise are in teaching pedagogy, capstone design, renewable energy systems, thermal sciences, vehicle system modeling and simulation, heat transfer, new product development, entrepreneurship, and technology transfer. He is PI and adviser of the Department of Energy Collegiate Wind Competition 2016. He is also working on an undergraduate research project modeling solar cells using a thermodynamics approach and
Chancellor and Board of Trustees in 2007. The Chancellor’s Award is a prestigious award within the SUNY system and is awarded only to those candidates who have a record of consistently superior performance and a long commitment to the SUNY system. . She has also been a recipient of Rene Chasmen Affirmative action Award in 1994. She is a motivational speaker for women in Science and Engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Collaborated Efforts in TI ARM M4/32BIT Microcontroller Curricula Development and AssessmentIntroduction These collaborative efforts in curriculum development were an extension of several NSFfunded projects that focused on the
the way that goals are established andaddressed. Feisel and Rosa [12] identify a fundamental problem in that there appears to be nooverall agreement on the goals of engineering lab courses (p. 6), and they note that statedobjectives do not clearly translate into actions that can be taken and assessed in a class. Theirdiscussion also points out that the introduction of increasingly powerful computers andincreasingly complex lab equipment has introduced distractions, with the risk that projectinstructions and student attention may come to be dominated by the instrumentation rather thanby the system under study. Ernst’s classic article [1] speaks to a similar concern with projectgoals, pointing out that many instructional lab projects are
Paper ID #14848A Preliminary Study on Upper-Level Building Information Modeling Educa-tion for Construction Management StudentsDr. Namhun Lee, Central Connecticut State University Dr. Namhun Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Manufacturing and Construction Manage- ment at Central Connecticut State University, where he has been teaching Construction Graphics/Quantity Take-Off, CAD & BIM Tools for Construction, Building Construction Systems, Building Construction Estimating, Heavy/Highway Construction Estimating, Construction Planning, and Construction Project Management. Dr. Lee’s main research areas
Project courses for all majors. The importance of understanding risk andliability, of continuous professional development including licensure, and of ethics inengineering practice, all of which are relevant concepts for an entrepreneurial approach toengineering, have been stressed. Historically, senior projects that have led to longer-termstudent-private sector collaborations or even student-initiated business have been rare.Recently, entrepreneurship at Pitt-Johnstown has experienced a revitalization. A renewed pushto create an Entrepreneurial Studies program came from Pitt-Johnstown President Jem Spectar in2011. This led first to an agreement with Johnstown Area Regional Industries (JARI) to supportentrepreneurial internships for Pitt-Johnstown
reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS)11. Thisproduct family research project was a subset of a larger project that focused on the developmentof a RMS, which was named the Western Reconfigurable Manufacturing System, WeRMST12.This need to design the product family for the manufacturing system posed an additionalchallenge as manufacturing systems are typically built for product families, not the other wayaround. However, for this project, this was indeed the case.This project was a beneficial learning experience for the students in many regards. Not only didthe students involved in the project have to develop a design for a new product family, but theyalso had to learn the concepts of product family design and manufacturing system design on theirown
, DesignBuildTest spine of required classes. In each of these design courses, students are tasked with solving an openended problem using the appropriate engineering skills and tools. Laboratories and equipment are made available to students for fabrication and testing of their design concept, giving them realworld exposure to engineering. In an effort to continue to keep our students safe, we have implemented several safety procedures for all undergraduate students working on projects. In this paper we present the procedures that are currently used for promoting the safety of our undergraduate students while they are building and testing their projects for these classes. We aim to provide students with appropriate guidance regarding the use of the
Paper ID #11249Digital-Storytelling for Apprenticeships in Sustainability Science and Engi-neering DesignDr. Tamara Ball, UCSC Baskin School of Engineering Dr. Tamara Ball is a project-scientist working with the the Sustainable Engineering and Ecological De- sign (SEED) collaborative at UCSC. She is the program director for Impact Designs - Engineering and Sustainability through Student Service (IDEASS) and Apprenticeships in Sustainability Science and En- gineering Design (ASCEND). She is interested in understanding how extracurricular and co-curricular innovations can support meaningful campus-community connections in