workforce” and increase federal funding for research &development in this sector. This identified need is compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic and theweak bio-infrastructure [5] to support the production of mRNA vaccines, monoclonal antibodytherapies, and cellular testbeds for validating the activity of biologics. As careers in biotechnologyindustry and research increase in the past five years [6] with growing student interest, we addressthe need to improve the MCTE track within biomedical engineering education. The rapid technological advancements in the MCTE field require concomitant curricularchanges formed on a student-centered pedagogical approach that emphasizes hands-onengagement with research and deliberate practice in biological
Paper ID #37671Work in Progress: Broadening Participation in Engineering with the STEMExcellence in Engineering Equity (SEEE) ProjectTaryn Melkus Bayles, University of Pittsburgh Taryn Melkus Bayles is a Professor, Teaching Track, in the Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Depart- ment at the University of Pittsburgh, and serves as the Vice Chair of Undergraduate Education. She has spent part of her career working in industry with Exxon, Westinghouse, Phillips Petroleum and Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center (now NETL). Her industrial experience has included process engineering, computer modeling and control, process
Transdisciplinary Engineering Design Process: Tracing Design Similarities through Comparison of Design Stages across Engineering DisciplinesIntroduction The integration of technology into contemporary product development practices hastransformed the engineering design process from disciplinary [1-3] to transdisciplinary. Thisintegration requires discipline experts to share technologies and knowledge beyond theirtraditional boundaries to design and create an artifact, thus resulting in a transdisciplinary designprocess. A transdisciplinary design process is a problem-solving activity that brings together,scientific knowledge and problem-solving techniques from multiple disciplines to solve acomplex problem [4]. A significant number
, andnewspapers while engineers typically rely on sources including patents, standards, and reports.Key findings include an essential focus on the different types of technical literature, authority,and discoverability when teaching technical information to non-engineering students. Using theACRL framework as a guiding document for information enabled the incorporation of technicalliterature into the in-class assignments for non-engineers.IntroductionAs technological sophistication continues to increase at Washington State University there is anincreasing need to rely on interdisciplinary teams to solve increasingly systemic challenges.While the term interdisciplinary has been discussed since the 1920s [1], the use ofinterdisciplinary courses continues to
Paper ID #25604Board 79: Engineering Source: how robust is the coverage of the engineeringliterature?Prof. Amy S. Van Epps, Harvard University Amy S. Van Epps is Director of Sciences and Engineering Services in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Li- braries at Harvard University. She was recently an associate professor of Library Science and Engineering Librarian at Purdue University. She has extensive experience providing instruction for engineering and technology students, including Purdue’s first-year engineering program. Her research interests include finding effective methods for integrating information literacy
themselves to highethical standards of practice. Engineering students learn about professionalism through theiruniversity course work and from other engineers [2]. Students learn that an engineer’sprofessional responsibilities include protection of the public and the environment. Students needan understanding of the potential risks resulting from their work. Public safety andenvironmental protection must be at the forefront of their engineering work [3].The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET) is a non-governmentalorganization that accredits post-secondary education programs. ABET accreditation is proof thata collegiate program meets standards essential for producing graduates ready to enter theengineering workforce [4
theinstructors as an exciting and readily assessed multidisciplinary theme for ensuring that studentsin (and across) all of our three majors would be able to identify focused and interesting topics forinvestigation, and for showcasing their skills in design as well as in the use of Excel®,MATLAB®, and AutoCAD®.Project Assignment and Topics ChosenThe semester project assignment, in part, informed students that …many engineers consider “Smart Houses” to be the future of residential building, integrating designs and technologies that yield increased quality of life for the occupants. Bioengineers, civil engineers, and environmental engineers can all play roles in Smart House design. Smart House features can address for example
Paper ID #10509Learning about Learning and Engineering: Engineers, Students, and Educa-tors Co-Design Challenges for a Science CenterJennifer Wang, University of California, Berkeley Jennifer Wang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Group in Science and Mathematics Education, fo- cusing on Engineering Education at the University of California, Berkeley. She also obtained her B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Berkeley. Her primary interest is in informal learning environments and educational technologies. She currently conducts research with the Lawrence Hall of
as theyformulated plans for integrating ethics into their curricula, e.g., IIT 1, Towson State2 and OregonInstitute of Technology.3) It became clear that if departments were to be successful in integratingethics into engineering courses, some form of development would be required for most facultymembers.Shortly after the need for a faculty development activity became clear, the College of Engineeringand the College of the Liberal Arts received a gift from an Alumnus to start joint activitiesinvolving engineering and ethics. This gift explicitly linked the Douglas and Julie Rock EthicsInstitute in Liberal Arts and the Leonhard Center. When the Directors of the Institute and Centermet to discuss possible joint projects, they quickly decided
in EnvironmentalEngineering. This paper presents the general structure of this degree program, its curriculum,and marketing strategy. During the first academic year the degree program has been offered toincoming freshman as an option, whereas simultaneously a structured marketing strategy anddistance learning opportunities for students are being developed. The program will be fullylaunched for the academic year 2003-2004.I. Introduction While the baccalaureate degree may have sufficed for most practicing engineers, it isbecoming increasingly evident that current technological and societal needs demand a greaterlevel of preparation for the profession. In fact, engineering is the only profession where anundergraduate degree is a
way of engineering application.Inherent to many of these applications has been the harvesting of natural resources and thesubsequent discharge of by-products back to the environment. This cycling of natural resourcesresulted in the need for technology that would sustain the resources upon which society depends.The science of ecology has branched off from biology and is now an established field of its ownwith the ecosystem as its basic functional unit. While the physical, chemical and biologicalsciences have found their place in engineering design, ecology has yet to be embraced in such amanner.One basic principle of ecosystem function is their ability to self-design. With a myriad of bioticand abiotic compartments, nutrient and energy flows
AC 2011-1325: THE ENGINEERING ”PIPELINE” METAPHOR AND THECAREERS OF FEMALE DEANS OF ENGINEERINGPeggy Layne, Virginia Tech Peggy Layne, P.E., joined Virginia Tech in 2003 as director of the AdvanceVT program, a National Science Foundation sponsored program to increase the number and success of women faculty in science and engineering. Prior to accepting her current position, Ms. Layne worked as a diversity consultant for the American Association of Engineering Societies and as director of the program on diversity in the engineering workforce at the National Academy of Engineering. She also spent a year as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow in the office of Senator Bob Graham, where she was responsible
worked at McDonnell Aircraft Company for 10 years. Mr. Walden is currently the Program Manger of the International Council on Systems Engineering’s (INCOSE’s) Certification Program and also serves as the INCOSE liaison to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 Working Groups 10, 20, and 22. He holds the INCOSE Certified System Engineering Professional (CSEP) certification. He has an M.S. in Management of Technology (MOT) from the University of Minnesota, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Valparaiso University in Indiana
. (waiters, landscapers, doctors, and others) would be African American orHispanic. However, this is not the case for the engineering profession where AfricanAmerican and Hispanic Americans compose only 11.7% of engineering occupations(approximately 1 in 10). Many factors contribute to the underrepresentation of thesepopulations in technological fields.One primary variable determining access to the engineering profession is the attainmentof the bachelor of science degree in engineering. Over the past 30 years, successfulremedies have typically included race-based college admission selection processes andmath-intensive college retention programming7,9,13,15,21,27,28 . The result has increasedenrollments, but also raised legal questions regarding
assessment.IntroductionThe Chemical Engineering curriculum traditionally has been recognized for its breadth, partiallydue to the number of courses taken outside the discipline (e.g. chemistry, materials, circuits, etc.).More recently the multidisciplinary nature of the curriculum has increased due to theincorporation of examples of newer technologies such as semiconductor processing,biotechnology and environmental engineering into the majority of the required courses. Chemicalengineering students are exposed to a variety of new technologies. However, some of thosetechnologies are developing into official degree programs and concentrations in their own right.It is feasible that significant parts of the chemical engineering curriculum can form the foundationof these
. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.21483[13] Gandhi-Lee, E., Skaza, H., Marti, E., Schrader, P., & Orgill, M. (2015). Faculty perceptions of the factors influencing success in STEM fields. Journal of Research in STEM Education, 1(1), 30–44.[14] Creswell, J. W., & Plano Clark, V. L. (2018). Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research (2nd ed.). Sage.[15] Ivankova, N. V. (2015). Mixed Methods Applications in Action Research: From Methods to Community Action. Sage.[16] Schwab, J. J. (1973). The practical 3: Translation into curriculum. The school review, 81(4), 501-522.[17] J. Grannetino, “Eighth graders empowering others with engineering,” Technology and Engineering Teacher, vol. 80, no. 4, pp
2006-2015: ROBOTICS OLYMPIADS: A NEW MEANS TO INTEGRATE THEORYAND PRACTICE IN ROBOTICSDavid Ahlgren, Trinity College David J. Ahlgren is Karl W. Hallden Professor of Engineering at Trinity College and is Director and Host of the Trinity College Fire-Fighting Home Robot Contest. His scholarly interests lie in robotics, modeling and simulation, and broadband communications amplifiers. He received the B.S. in Engineering from Trinity College, the M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tulane University, and the Ph.D. in E.E. from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.Igor Verner, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Igor M. Verner is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Education in Technology &
engineering education. He has authored and co-authored various journal and conference publications. His research interests include: virtual reality, CAD/CAM, Multi-agent based manufacturing systems control and automation, robotics, holonic manufacturing systems, agile manufacturing and wireless sensor networks.Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Dirk Schaefer is an Assistant Professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Over the past ten years, Dr. Schaefer has been conducting research in the interface domain between Engineering, Computer Science, and Information Technology principles in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United
. He is the recipient of the 2012 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section’s Distinguished Teaching Award.Dr. Craig J. Scott, Morgan State UniversityProf. Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Kenneth Connor is a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, where he teaches courses on plasma physics, electromagnetics, electronics and instrumentation, electric power, and general engineering. His research involves plasma physics, electromagnetics, photonics, en- gineering education, diversity in the engineering workforce, and technology enhanced learning. Since joining the Rensselaer faculty in 1974, he has been continuously involved in research programs at such places as Oak Ridge National
AC 2008-1032: TECHNICAL VOCATIONAL AND ENGINEERING EDUCATIONIN AFGHANISTANZarjon Baha, Purdue University Zarjon Baha is currently professor of Building Construction Management at the College of Technology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Prof. Z. Baha received his BS degree from Kabul University and Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, MS degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, and Ph.D. from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. Prof. Z. Baha has been teaching at Purdue University since 1982. Prior to 1982 he was working at the Faculty of Engineering at Kabul University, Kabul, Afghanistan. He served as the head of
, and economy together withpossible positive as well as negative impacts on U.S.-based engineers. Thesecontemporary challenges require a systems perspective and a growing need to pursuecollaborations with multidisciplinary teams of technical experts. Important attributes forthese teams include excellence in communication (with technical and public audiences),an ability to communicate using technology, and an understanding of the complexitiesassociated with a global market and social contextii. In order to ensure that engineering students studying in any university in the USreceive an appropriate and useful education, ABET a-k criteria have been created. Thisstates that engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates attain
Michigan with approximately 300students in the engineering and engineering technology programs supported by 13 faculty. Theprograms with the significant enrollments are Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering,Computer Engineering, and Manufacturing Engineering Technology. A major mission of theseprograms is on preparing graduates to work in industry by providing a mix of theory andapplication with strong emphasis on applied engineering.LSSU is on a semester system that is 15 weeks long (14 weeks of study and one exam week).Most of the engineering and engineering technology courses at LSSU have lab sectionsassociated with them. A typical engineering course will consist of two to three lecture hours perweek with two to three lab hours. Upon
“the majortransdisciplinary index in the world’s engineering literature.” There are no doubts that thispublication has been used for the last 125 years by engineers and technical staff all over theworld, people that in one way or another have contributed to the development of today’s modernsociety. Therefore, Ei is an intrinsic part of the history of technology. The history of TheEngineering Index has been presented by several authors at different times. The most prominenthave been the works of Hannum2, Bissell3, Landau4, and Woods5 which combined cover detailsfrom 1884 to 1984. More recently, Youngman6 wrote about how the role of librarians haschanged as reflected by the changes in the The Engineering Index as occurred, and Lafferty
, Lawrence Professor Emeritus at Virginia Tech and Chairman, Academic Applications International, Inc.AbstractFrom its modest beginnings more than a half-century ago, Systems Engineering is now gaininginternational recognition as an effective technologically based interdisciplinary process forbringing human-made systems into being, and for improving systems already in being. Certaindesirable academic and professional attributes are coming into clear view. Others require furtherstudy, development, testing, and implementation.This paper summarizes the heritage from which Systems Engineering entered the 21st century.Several emerging attributes of Systems Engineering education and professional practice areaddressed. These include the
Paper ID #21722Design of a Modular Educational Robotics Platform for MultidisciplinaryEducationZhen Wei I am Zhen, I got both my Bachelor and Master degree from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering. I am focus on Robotics and Embedded System area.Dr. Carlotta A. Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Carlotta A. Berry is an associate professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She is the director of the multidisciplinary minor in robotics and co-director of the Rose building undergraduate diversity scholarship and professional
profession [16]. Rather than being primarily seen as somethingthat someone is (as is the case for most social identities), this definition sees engineering assomething that someone does [16], [17]. Thus, many studies show that undergraduateengineering students associate engineering with specific cognitive, affective, and performancevariables [16]. For example, research has found that professional identity was closely connectedto competence in technology adoption, scientific thinking, and professional knowledge, and thatstudents see engineering as a way of thinking about and using math, science, communication,and problem-solving [18], [19]. In this conception of engineering identity, competence stands outas a significant factor—it acts as a bridging
toexercise their leadership due to “the growing interdependence between technology and theeconomic and social foundations of modern society”16. ABET’s (2011) criteria for accreditingengineering programs for the United States in 2012–2013 include not only strong analyticalskills but also other skills indirectly related to leadership (e.g., the ability to communicateeffectively, to function in multidisciplinary teams, and to understand the impact of engineeringsolutions in global and societal contexts)17. Unfortunately, Vandeveer found that manyundergraduate students within engineering departments do not receive the leadership ormanagement skills that are needed for them to succeed as leaders within future engineeringpositions 18.Engineering
engineering student self-efficacy. Journal of Engineering Education, 98(1): 27-34.[8] Baker, D., Krause, S., Roberts, C. (2007). An intervention to address gender issuesin a course on design, engineering, and technology for science educators. Journal ofEngineering Education, 96(3): 213-226.[9] Grant, M. M. (2002). Getting a grip on project-based learning: Theory, cases andrecommendations. Meridian: A middle school computer technologies journal, 5(1),83.[10] Bell, S. (2010). Project-based learning for the 21st century: Skills for the future.The Clearing House. 83(2): 39-43.[11] Alfonseca, E., Carro, R. M., Martín, E., Ortigosa, A., & Paredes, P. (2006). Theimpact of learning styles on student grouping for collaborative learning: a case study.User
papers discussing resilience in civil engineeringfor civil infrastructure resilience to earthquakes.18,19 Besides the literature, world organizations are calling for resilience engineering. Forinstance, the call for resiliency in cities, building and technologies is on the rise. The UnitedNations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction has issued the ‘Making Cities Resilient’ report, whichcalls for more careful planning of cities and the inclusion of the most vulnerable individuals withincities in order to improve the ability of the city to recover from disaster.20 While much of the focusin developmental studies has been placed on collaboration, strategy and strong governance, therehas also been mention of technological innovations that will
teams(f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility(h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context(j) a knowledge of contemporary issuesThus our desired learning outcomes for the engineering senior design experience are extendedbeyond those that are required of the culminating design experience and are intended toencompass a broader range of expectations and engage the students in activities that are trulydirected towards development of an understanding that technology must serve humanity. Page 12.622.2Building on