Paper ID #36640A game-based approach to teach delegation and organizational structureto engineering studentsDr. Nahid Vesali, The Citadel Dr. Nahid Vesali is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Leadership and Program Management (ELPM) in the School of Engineering (SOE) at The Citadel. She joined the program in Aug 2020. She teaches project management, technical planningDr. Mostafa Batouli, The Citadel Dr. Mostafa Batouli is an Assistant Professor of Construction Engineering in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Citadel. Dr. Batouli received his PhD in Civil Engineering from
, students were able to recall activities and projects from the other departmentalmodules.Background on the problem being addressed - The first-year experience for our engineeringprogram is a 3-credit course in the Fall of the first year called Introduction to Engineering inaddition to the common physics, math, and chemistry courses. The Introduction to Engineeringcourse is broken into three 14-session modules. Each department offers one to three differentsections of a departmental themed focused module. Themes vary from year to year. A glimpse ofthe theme offered can be seen in the table below. The orange highlighted box is the coursesection for this paper.Table 1. Departmental themed sections of Introduction to Engineering Department
2006. Her most recent teaching position was in the First Year Engineering Program at Northeastern for 10 years, where she helped to establish the First Year Engineering Learning & Innovation Center makerspace and their new ”Cornerstone” integrated project-based learning curricula.Mrs. Claire Jean Duggan, Northeastern University Claire Duggan is the Executive Director of The Center for STEM Education at Northeastern University. She has led and/or collaborated on multiple educational initiatives impacting the science and engineering landscape.Dr. Jacqueline A. Isaacs, Northeastern University Dr. Jacqueline Isaacs joined Northeastern in 1995 and has focused her research pursuits on assessment of the regulatory
constructs of design activity engagement [4]–[7],motivation [8]–[10] and situated cognition [11]–[14]. Design activity engagement frames thesocial context of our investigation [4] and describes the complex cognitive [7], [15], [16] andsocial processes [2], [17] involved in the design process within a capstone course. Theseprocesses are a result from the structure of capstone courses, within which students engage incomplex open-ended projects and collaborate with student peers as well as professionalengineers sponsors. We further study student’s motivation to engage in design behaviors asrelated to their identity construction [8]–[10]. Finally, we connect students’ understanding ofdesign activity engagement to literature in situated cognition [12
industry demands and enhancing their careers. This approach is alsobeneficial for multidisciplinary project-based learning courses throughout the engineeringprogram. Although a formal assessment of the approach's effectiveness is yet to be conducted,anecdotal evidence suggests positive outcomes. Overall, this paper demonstrates the value ofusing free software and low-cost hardware in teaching PLC concepts, paving the way for moreaccessible and cost-effective education in this crucial area of engineering.IntroductionIndustrial control systems are heavily reliant on Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). Thesecontrollers are specialized computer systems with inputs and outputs designed for high voltagesand currents. Moreover, they utilize
portable and userfriendly. Once the units are set up and functioning properly, operation is simple. Theunits are relatively inexpensive. The units can also accept inputs from almost any IEEEapproved measurement device and send data to a base station [2]. For this project, one ofthese devices was used to simulate a real world situation. Data was transmitted from onelocation to another where it was recorded and analyzed. The Engineering TechnologyDepartment here at Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi has in its possession morethan one set of these units which were used for the project. A J-type thermocouple and aset of testing leads that are accepted by this unit to measure temperature and voltage wereused in addition; fortunately the Hydra
design projects and their design review presentations.Thus the students leave their final semester with two things. They have a betterunderstanding of the inter-related nature of the various topics they have studied for fouryears, and how these topics fit into the overall design effort of a new project. They alsohave exposure to a new concept which is gaining popularity in the industrialenvironment, thus making them more marketable upon graduation. Implementation StrategiesRegardless of school or curriculum, TRM can be integrated easily into any CapstoneDesign Course. The TRM process consists of four phases, Risk Identification, RiskAssessment, Risk Mitigation, and Risk Management. The Risk Identification phase
, George had a distinguished 31-year career at Ford Motor Company, where he held numerous positions as Chief Engineer of multiple vehicle lines (Expedi- tion/Navigator, Crown Victoria, Grand Marquis, Town Car, and Ranger), several engineering leadership positions in automotive interiors and exteriors, and possesses operational experience in product design, manufacturing, and business & technology strategy. George has also been a very active mentor and coach, both in industry (serving on multiple personnel development committees and special projects to enhance organizational competency) and in academia (serving as the Ford Executive Champion for University of Michigan Student Teams, and Ford lead re- cruiter for
for research projects conducted byengineering faculty new to the field of engineering education research (EER) who are trained ineducation methods by an experienced mentor. Since 2016, the RIEF program has supported morethan 45 projects across over 45 institutions. The project seeks to understand best practices ofmentor-mentee relationships between engineering education researchers and engineering facultyentering the engineering education research field. This exploratory, phenomenologicallyinformed [1], qualitative study was guided by the Cognitive Apprentice Model (CAM)framework [2]. Participating in the RIEF program raised questions for the authors and identifiedadditional opportunities to help integrate and support participants in EER. Our
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 districts across Ohio preparing students for STEM career and college endeavors. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Virtual Online Tensile Testing
forthe format of the course and allowed all four versions to run in the Spring 2019 semester. Thisdecision created a fruitful context for a comparative case study across different instructionalapproaches. Two of the professors are using a lecture and lab based instructional model, wherestudents attend two, 75-minute lectures each week and learn about computational concepts usingMATLAB. Students then practice these concepts during one 75-minute lab section each weekrun by a teaching assistant (TA), and they also complete weekly homework assignments usingMATLAB. The course culminates in a final project of students’ own choosing to demonstratetheir knowledge of both MATLAB as a tool and computational thinking concepts moregenerally. Each of these
already overcrowded curriculum. This paper presents thegoals, design approach, implementation, and selected outcomes of one integrated project-basedcourse (using Paul Revere and other case studies to integrate materials science with the history oftechnology) and uses it to discuss the advantages of disciplinary integration, particularly withrespect to improved student self-direction and contextual understanding. Assessmentsadministered during and after class suggest that this integrated course successfully engenderedhigh student motivation along with an increase in student aptitudes over the course of thesemester without a corresponding loss of discipline-specific knowledge. The implementation ofthis integrated course and the evaluation of its
. A project in progress,this paper reports on initial observations. Page 13.873.2 Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering EducationMatriculation - Progress towards Degree Nuclear Engineering enrollment figures have increased over an eight year periodby 74% (Figure 1), and the number of un-matriculated students (students showing anintent to major in nuclear engineering) has increased 55% from 15 to 52 (Figure 2). Overthis same period, the portion of the entire undergraduate student body these numbersrepresent
sourcecode or using the solutions posted by the author.The first phase was not due until the fifth week of class and was preceded by lectures fromStroustrup’s C++ book3 and by supplementary lectures on using threads in a Microsoft Windowssetting, as well as by problem-solving activities which exercised their skills at analysis, design,and coding. To complete Project 1 the students were given a very simple thread function andtold to tabulate and graph the time consumed while doing the equivalent amount of work withone, two, four, five, eight, ten, and sixteen threads. Students who did not own a multiprocessorlaptop were told to use a lab machine. Linear speedups were observed and noted by the students,and all were surprised to see that the overhead
content-based instruction to project-based knowledge construction. Thepractical steps are detailed for a full-year design course at the sophomore level.1. IntroductionDesign has changed status from a formal course to a flagship stream. There has been a cleartransition in the engineering curricula from the traditional approach to the alternative paradigm.The former viewed design as a byproduct of engineering education that cannot occur without thesolid formation of engineering sciences1, whereas the latter argues that analytical knowledge isnot adequate for tackling real-life engineering problems, and that design can be viewed as ameans of learning engineering not a result of it. Capstone design courses are fruits of formerapproach. They have
---- Session 2220 An AI Repository as a Course Development Resource Ingrid Russell, Bill Manaris University of Hartford/University of Southwestern LouisianaABSTRACT This paper presents preliminary results on an on-going project with AAAI (American Association ofArtificial Intelligence) to develop a repository of pedagogic resources for the Introduction to ArtificialIntelligence course. This repository is intended to assist educators by providing a variety of resources that maybe utilized in the classroom to facilitate learning of various
success to be enjoyed by that product 1over its marketable life time. In this paper, we discuss the development and delivery of a graduate course that examines many of themanagement, teaming, technology and economic challenges that must be addressed by firms that wish to remaincompetitive. The course focuses on the methodologies, tools, and structures needed for successful new productdevelopment efforts with a combination of lecture, student team product development projects and businesscommunity participation.Integrated Product Development Manufacturers have begun to realize that the product development strategies and organizationalstructures that have worked so well since the 1940s, are no longer
Foundation through a grant to develop high school science and math curriculum content. He is currently working with D. L. Jamerson Elementary School to develop curriculum content for its Center for Math and Engineering. Dr. Gilbert has over 20 patents for biomedical equipment and protocols.Eric Roe, Hillsborough Community College ERIC A. ROE is the Director of FLATE, an NSF Regional Center of Excellence in Manufacturing Education. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Florida (USF). During his time at USF, he has researched fluidized bed drying, been a consultant to the Citrus Industry, worked on Florida Department of Citrus research projects, and
in this rapidly evolving area hinges critically on the availability of well-educatedengineers able to bridge the architectural and physical gaps in SoC design. This work is an ambitiouscollaborative effort by the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at RowanUniversity and the Engineering Science (ES) department at Camden County College (CCC) to integrate System-on-Chip (SoC) concepts across the curricula. More specifically, a curricular prototype is under developmentthat cuts across the artificial course boundaries and introduces SoC knowledge through vertically-integrated and problem-oriented laboratory experiments. Beginning with basic concepts, this approachimmerses students in actual system-design projects
environmental challenges in the context Page 11.1400.2of sustainable development. Because phosphorus is a growth limiting nutrient required forintensive agriculture, and because discharge of excess phosphorus stimulate severeenvironmental degradation the problem fits within the mandate of the P3 program to tackle asignificant, complex environmental challenge. Furthermore, to select a program of study thatwould most significantly address the issue of global sustainability, the project team elected to usea scalable approach (e.g., with a range of scales of technology from individual approaches toapproaches suitable for large municipalities) to recover
at a variety of modeling software are used in estimating, material takeoffs, and marketingvisualizations,3 while others have studied the shortcomings of 2D vs. 3D representations whenevaluating construction document building assemblies.5 In addition, virtual reality (VR) and 4DCAD modeling have been studied to allow students the opportunity of interactively generating aconstruction project process activity.4Many of these projects required the learning of advanced CAD packages beyond those normallyassociated with current programs in construction management. Because of ACCE minimumrequirements and university imposed minimum General Requirements at the author’s university,advanced courses are not implemented, outside of independent study
participate, the outcome is more drastic.”13 According to a representative fromthe Ames Home School Network, “home school students participate in the TWT programbecause many do not receive a rich technology experience at home and TWT provides achallenging but non-threatening environment to do so. TWT also provides a chance for studentsto work with their peers and collaborate in a group they may not have access to at home.”13During the fall, 2005 semester twenty home school students met on the Iowa State Universitycampus once a week for twelve weeks. Three ISU pre-service teachers and one parent volunteermet with the students as support. Students were given a variety of projects to work on including;basic LEGO car programming, building and testing a
the collection of 2D images that are then translated to 3D byexternal reconstruction software.As with many computer engineering programs, students of the computer engineering program atUtah Valley University (UVU) conclude their degree programs with a semester capstone designexperience. The intent is for students to utilize competencies developed in the first three years ofthe curriculum in the solution of an embedded design problem. This paper summarizes theresult of an undergraduate capstone experience where the feasibility of utilizing ubiquitoustechnology (2D ultrasound) to mimic the functionality of enhanced but expensive 3D ultrasoundmachines is assessed.Capstone Projects at UVUThe goal of projects in our Capstone Design course is to
engineeringprograms, especially between the freshman and sophomore levels. A semester-long research anddevelopment experience can aid undergraduate mechanical engineering students in gaining andreinforcing skills critical to success in their programs. The research opportunity presented to twofirst-year mechanical engineering students at the University of Wyoming introduced them toengineering concepts such as coding, and project management as well as reinforcing conceptslike physical production. The student-researchers were given firm deadlines to design andproduce a wearable badge for a “GenCyber” summer camp sponsored by the NSA. The badgeneeded to harbor a programmable micro-controller in the form of a Microbit, an exchangeablenametag, and a functioning
consultant/ project manager of the Business Waste Reduction Assistance Program (BWRAP), a partnership between EPA, University of Toledo and Lucas County in Ohio from 2012-2016. She is a professional and an active member of the Society of Women Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and Institute of Industrial and System Engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Implementation of a Learning Assessment: Case study of Applied Statistics Course in Industrial EngineeringAbstractAssessment of student learning is an indispensable factor in determining whether students meetthe desired standards of course content. This research focuses on researching the
sectionsof foundational courses each semester. Although having faculty whose sole role is to providequality teaching is an asset, benefits would likely be maximized when such faculty have clearmetrics for paths to promotion, some autonomy and ownership regarding the curriculum, andoverall job satisfaction. However, literature suggests that faculty, like students, note ill effectsfrom large classes, such as challenges connecting and building rapport with students and havingtime to offer individualized feedback to students (Mulryan-Kyne, 2010).This Institutional Transformation NSF IUSE project focuses on instructors of large foundationalengineering students with the belief that by better understanding the educational environmentfrom their perspectives
first year engineering experience, authentic projects and assessments, and P-12 engineering.Heather Sapp, Ohio Northern University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Curiosity, Connection, Creating Value: Improving Service Learning by Applying the Entrepreneurial MindsetIntroductionProviding students with meaningful learning experiences can be challenging. One approach is touse authentic learning, where knowledge is applied in real world contexts. Through contentanalysis of relevant journal articles from different disciplines, Rule outlined four characteristicsof authentic learning.1 First, the problem at hand is rooted in the
Enrichment Program for incoming engineering freshmen and, in the past, the HEARD (Higher Education Awareness Response in Delaware) Project, a college awareness program, funded by the Department of Education through Philadelphia GEAR UP for College Network. Globally in the College, he manages academic programs and policies that impact the careers of all engineering students at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Dean Vaughan is focused on enhancing the College’s student/faculty interface by fostering c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Paper ID #16743 successful academic and
improve learning1,2 the process ofencouraging changes in teaching from lecture-driven courses to student-centered instructionremains a challenge. Drawing on results from K-12 teaching development that indicate the needfor ongoing instructional development and the need to support faculty as they make pedagogicalchanges, we implemented a small group teaching development model. In a three-year project, weincluded two phases of teaching development groups. The teaching development model focusedon increasing knowledge about research-based practices, particularly those focused on studentengagement, combined with instructors’ design and testing of interactive teaching strategies intheir own classrooms. In the grant proposal, we asked the following
articial intelligence, information processing, and engineering education. He is the author of numerous research and pedagogical articles in his areas of expertise and currently the principal inves- tigator for a US NRC funded project entitled: Establishing a Nuclear Science and Engineering Minor at Fort Valley State University.Prof. Sanjeev Arora, Fort Valley State University Dr. Arora holds a B.Sc. (Honors) and M.Sc. degree in Physics from University of Delhi, India, and a M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Physics from University of Delaware. Dr. Arora’s research interest is experimental atomic physics and he is well-versed in the use of the van de Graaff accelerator, scalars, MCAs, and other physics instrumentation. He has