engineering drawing, improve their threedimensional (3D) visualization skills, and to teach the fundamentals of a computer aided design.The students meet with the instructor twice a week in the laboratory during this three-credit-hoursemester-long course with each class lasting two hours long. Each class is scheduled to deliverthe lecture first after which the students are allowed to complete their assigned homework andask questions as needed. The students learn the principles of orthographic projections and applythe principles to multiple view drawings by hand during the first four weeks of a fourteen-weeksemester. A 3D computer aided parametric modeling tool, CATIA, is then introduced after handdrawing, followed by auxiliary and section views
included as an appendix. Learning to use the steam tables has traditionally been animportant component of success in entry level thermodynamics. Numerous alternatives havebecome available over the years and this study is an assessment of the continuing need forstudents to learn and use printed steam tables.Vapor tables are currently available in a web format and as stand alone programs for PCs andhandheld devices such as the Palm Pilot. The number of vapor tables available in electronicformat forces engineering professors to look at the usefulness of teaching students to use theprinted tables. A substantial number of faculty still feel that learning to use the printed tablesteaches a useful skill and continue to use it before or instead of
Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, with specialization in human factors engineering. Dr. Pennathur's interests are in the science of learning in engineering education. Dr. Pennathur has considerable expertise in human behavioral research methods. He has developed human behavior and performance models in personnel skills and training for advanced electromechanical troubleshooting and fault-finding tasks, disability models in older adults (work funded by NIH), and modeling physical and mental workload for soldier safety and performance (work funded by the US Army Research Laboratory jointly with Fort Bliss and William Beaumont Army Medical Center). These projects have all included extensive
Abstract DeVry University’s Electronics Engineering Technology/Computer EngineeringTechnology (EET/CET) program senior project is a two-semester course sequence in whichstudents synthesize knowledge and skills learned in the previous courses. In the first course(EET-400, Project management), students research, plan and develop a project proposal. And inthe second course (EET-410L, Senior Project Laboratory) students implement the project plan bybuilding and testing a prototype. A typical project involves a solution to a software/hardware-based engineering problem. The process of developing and implementing a solution to theproblem offers a learning opportunity for students to gain new insights and competencies as aresult of “constructivist
researcher at Sandia National Laboratory. He served as Department Chair from 2011-2019, and currently serves as the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for his department. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A DEI Task Force within a Mechanical Engineering DepartmentMotivation and BackgroundFaculty and staff can and do influence the climate of a department and achievement of students.Research shows the positive effects of choosing to implement evidence-based teaching practiceslike active learning and inclusive teaching [1], and having a growth mindset in relation to theabilities of students [2]. However, research also shows that the local
- F INBIBLIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION1. Gallow, De, “What is Problem Based Learning?” Instructional Resource Center, The William and Flora HewlettGrant.” http://www.pbl.uci.edu/whatispbl.html, 2006.2. Scardamalia, M., and Bereiter C. “Student communities for the advancement of knowledge,” Communicationsof the ACM Volume 39 No. 4 pp. 36 – 37, 19963. Mehta, Y. and Najafi, F “Teaching Methodology of Flexible Pavement Materials and Pavement Systems,”Journal of SMET Education, 2003a.4. Mehta, Y. A, Orlins, J. and Lubelski, D. “Innovative Teaching Methods for Surveying and EngineeringGraphics,” Proceedings of Mi-Atlantic Conference, Kean University, NJ 2003b.5. Mehta, Y. A. “Innovative Techniques To Teach Civil Engineering Materials Laboratory
observation from these responses is that while the students might have learned an adequate level of math and science at school they have not yet gathered enough insights and intuition into how they can apply their knowledge to solving real-world problems. This suggests that teaching the students very complex math and science concepts alone in an isolated framework does not appear to adequately promote their interests in math and science. Rather, it is the application of science in terms of interesting, problem-solving projects that captures the students’ interests in math and science. We believe that once we have captured their interests, the effect is perpetuating. In terms of teaching, the effectiveness of the
AC 2009-2524: IMPROVEMENT OF GRADUATE STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCEIN DESIGN, DISCOVERY, AND LEARNINGRobert Brooks, Temple University Dr. Brooks is an Associate Professor and the Undergraduate Director of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Temple University. He was voted the "Transportation engineer of the year" by the ASCE-Philadelphia Section. Dr.Brooks' expertise includes finite element methods, highway and runway design, innovative materials in transportation engineering. He won the Tempe University College of Engineering’s Teaching Award for the year 2008.Berk Ayranci, Temple University Prof. Berk Ayranci is an instructor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department
establishes basic requirements for each course but thelecturer is free on the way he teaches and other topics that could be included. This way new interesting topicsare continuously inserted in the curricula. This process is supervised and evaluated by a program coordinator inorder to control the overall quality of the engineering degree. 2) Hands-on experience: This is one of the main concerns of the engineering programs and is enforcedby means of laboratories, workshops, demonstrations, and work field experiences among others. The academicdepartments have operational and development plans to guarantee that the student obtains an experience thatwill be significant and useful when he/she works. 3) Lecturers evaluation: Students fill out
salaries and expenses of a system of “laboratcxy units” - each typically consisting of five persons: fullprofessor, associate professor, post-doe, secretary and technician. Also included am students (some onfellowships but most self-supporting): 2 Ph. D.’s, 5 MS, and 2-3 undergraduates (writing their final year thesis).Professors may not consult for private gain (bt5ng state employees) but may direct consulting fees to improve Page 1.249.3 ----- .-their laboratories and obtain support for travel, supplies, and graduate and undergraduate students. They do nothave=~n[” for research grants as in the USA. Teaching is not
experience in the minerals industry working in Africa and the UK, and teaching experience in the areas of rock mechanics, slope stability, environmental engineering and surveying. For a number of years he has been involved with coordinating and assessing the Part 4 research projects in the Department. His research interests are in the permeability of coal in relation to stress changes due to desorption, the spontaneous combustion of coal and related heating effects, stability issues related to mineral extraction sites mainly subsidence and slope stability. In the last 5 years he has published over 18 papers (5 in refereed journals) and 29 technical reports. He is also actively
another two years take the Sijil PelajaranMalaysia (SPM). The Malaysian Government has recently recognised that the country's economicsuccess is directly related to the capability of the population in foreign languages and technicalknowledge. English Language is being re-introduced as a medium of instruction for teaching ofscience and mathematics in both primary (grades K-7) and secondary (grades 8-11). English hasalways been one of the compulsory SPM subjects. Following SPM, students can then continue tostudy for two years to obtain their Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM). The STPM allowsstudents to matriculate for university entry.The first case study, between Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) and Tunku Abdul RahmanCollege (TARC) has
received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1998 and his B.S. from WPI in 1992. Among his areas of interest are use of computing and process simulation in the curriculum. He has received the 2005 Raymond W. Fahien Award, the 2003 Joseph J. Martin Award and the 2002 PIC-III Award from ASEE.Richard Zollars, Washington State University DICK ZOLLARS is a professor in, and director of, the School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at Washington State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. He has been teaching engineering for 27 years. His interests are colloidal/interfacial phenomena and reactor design
they should want to help serve theircommunities. The university at the highest levels, stresses the importance of teaching, learningand agility to adopt to new models. The president of the university, in his recent inauguraladdress said, “We also proclaim our foundational support for excellent teaching and learning andthe agility needed to adopt new models. We renew our commitment to teaching that engagesstudents and prepares them for servant-leadership roles.” [1]. The University’s IndustrialEngineering Technology (IET) program is one of only 11 Industrial Engineering Technologybachelor’s ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) accredited programs[2] This study attempts to identify the skills and abilities that
a master’s degree in engineering management at George Washington University in 2007. In 2016, he earned a Ph.D. in the Minority and Urban Education Unit of the Col- lege of Education at the University of Maryland. Bruk worked at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where he focused on nanotechnology, from 2003 to 2005. In 2005 he left JHU/APL for a fellowship with the National Academies where he conducted research on methods of increasing the number of women in engineering. After a brief stint teaching mathematics in Baltimore City following his departure from the National Academies, he began working for the Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering (CMSE) in the Clark School of
computational thinkingskills. This study first proposes a framework of computational thinking in the contextof engineering (CT-ENG), using qualitative content analysis on industry interviews.The authors then introduce the program of the Robotics Class of Zhejiang Universityin China, providing an integrative approach to teaching computational thinkingeffectively. The Robotics Class engages students in project-based computing-aidedengineering activities throughout the four-year bachelor’s program, and improvestheir computational thinking skills through engineering engagement. The findings inthis study could have some implications for non-CS engineering majors to promotecomputing education and equip students with computational thinking at digital era.Key
standardization in communal writing assessment,” Research in the Teaching of English, 35, 213-260.4. Shay, S. 2005. “The assessment of complex tasks: A double reading,” Studies in Higher Education 30, 663-679.5. Marzano, R. 2010, Formative assessment and standards-based grading, Marzano Research Laboratory, Bloomington, IN.6. Reeves, D. 2003. Making standards work: how to implement standards-based assessments in the classroom, school, and district, 3rd ed., Advanced Learning Press, Englewood, CO.7. Atwood, S., Siniawski, M., and Carberry, A. 2014 “Using standards-based grading in engineering project courses,” Proceedings of the 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN.8. Carberry, A., Siniawski, M
Engineering and is presently completing her M.S. in Aerospace Systems Engineering.Dr. Morgan M Hynes, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Morgan Hynes is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue Univer- sity and Director of the FACE Lab research group at Purdue. In his research, Hynes explores the use of engineering to integrate academic subjects in K-12 classrooms. Specific research interests include design metacognition among learners of all ages; the knowledge base for teaching K-12 STEM through engi- neering; the relationships among the attitudes, beliefs, motivation, cognitive skills, and engineering skills of K-16 engineering learners; and teaching engineering
. Thecurriculum then culminates in a twenty-nine hour focus area that customizes the degree plan for aparticular area of the job market. Currently, the degree has a single focus area in Mechatronics,preparing students for careers in the design, development, implementation and support ofelectromechanical systems that are controlled through embedded hardware and software. The MXET degree is now being expanded to include new additional focus areas. The firstone of these areas is STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) TeacherPreparation. In collaboration with the College of Education, a MXET focus area is beingcustomized to produce graduates who can sit for their Mathematics/Science/Engineeringcertification and who can teach at the
Paper ID #31187Integrating Professional Skills and Leadership into an UndergraduateEngineering ProgramDr. Harold Ackler, Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering, Boise State University Dr. Harold Ackler is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Micron School of Materials Science and En- gineering at Boise State University. He teaches advanced undergraduate laboratory courses and manages the senior capstone program in the Micron School. He received BS and MS degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and his PhD degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1997), all in Materials Science and
a specific laboratory environment.These later interventions do not help their understanding when they are initially taught theseconcepts. To address this, miniaturized hands-on modules have been developed to compelstudent engagement in sophomore and junior level engineering classes, specifically within theheat transfer and fluid mechanics classroom context. These highly visual low-cost desktoplearning modules (LC-DLMs) have been shown to improve student understanding compared topassive lectures, especially at higher Bloom’s levels such as evaluation and creation [4-5].Even with significant data to support the fact that active learning leads to more cognitive gainscompared to traditional lecture-based teaching, there are still perceived
real worldproblems through experimental activities in the lab. Students carried out experiments, calculatedmaterial properties, and applied them to a real-world mechanics problem. The project details arefurther described and show success in implementing problem-based learning into a lab format.Students have stated improved learning through the use of problem-based learning.IntroductionEngineering consists of taking abstract problems and developing scientific and creative solutionsto solve them. Therefore, improving critical thinking and problem solving skills are essential forpreparing engineering students for dealing with real world problems. In engineering coursework,traditionally taught courses sometimes lack teaching students how to solve
AC 2007-874: ASSESSMENT IN A PBL CONTEXT: TOWARDS VALIDITY ANDRELIABILITYCharles Mphande, Victoria UniversityPaul Bronson, Victoria UniversityRobert ives, Victoria UniversityJuan SHI, Victoria UniversityAlec Simcock, Victoria University Page 12.281.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007Assessment in a PBL Context: Towards Validity and ReliabilityAbstractIn 2006, Victoria University (VU) in Melbourne, Australia, started to teach its undergraduateengineering programs using Problem Based Learning (PBL). This was done in response toperceived inadequacies of the weaker graduates produced by a more traditional coursestructure. The introduction of PBL has allowed the
issues, it makes sense to provide them with a conceptual-basedtechnology education. This paper covers the major premise of our efforts, the way it is planned,the way we include all majors in the college, and the way we work together to make it happen.This is a collegewide effort that includes all levels from the dean and the dean’s office to theindividual departments, as well as some of our graduate and undergraduate students. The bigchallenge is how to teach the classes—i.e., who the audience is. This paper shows the detailedplanning, implementation, and early results and challenges of our first course developments andimplementations. The paper provides examples of classes, the material that we cover in the firstclass for non-majors, and the
. Thomas Marty Johnston received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Riverside working in atomic physics. After serving as a Post-Doctorial Researcher at the University of Nebraska he came to the University of St. Thomas in 1995 to initiate an undergraduate research program in physics. When he is not in the laboratory, Marty can be found teaching classical physics, electricity and magnetism, theoretical mechanics or experimental methods.Christopher Greene, University of St. Thomas Chris Greene received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and proceeded to a 25 year career in industry. At Honeywell, he did research on
2006-1822: FRESHMAN COURSE ON SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETYHilkat Soysal, Frostburg State University Hilkat S. Soysal received a law degree from University of Istanbul, Turkey. She practiced law in private companies and two state universities as a counselor. In 1993, she joined Istanbul University College of Engineering as a Lecturer. While teaching law courses for undergraduate engineering students, she did a graduate study in the Marine Engineering Program and received her M.Sc. degree in 1996. She continued to take graduate courses in marine engineering until she moved to the USA. Between 1997 and 2000, she took various courses in MBA and Computer Science, and engineering at
inengineering education by integrating instructional design techniques, transforming theclassroom into a cooperative learning environment, and incorporating the use ofinformation technology in the teaching/learning process. One of the major outcomes ofthat work is a conceptual framework for assisting faculty in transitioning from moretraditional instructional modes to more collaborative modes of instruction. Drawingheavily on a typical engineering process, this framework maps concepts readilyunderstood in the engineering design world to the development of instructionalexperiences. This paper outlines that framework and discusses our efforts to export thisframework to faculty beyond Bucknell through a pair of national workshops conductedlast summer
sections for the spring semester of 2003 is 432students. Enrollment in each section was limited to a maximum of 120 students with theintent of maintaining class interaction and class discussion. The methodology used forlearning and teaching is discussed later in the paper. Distribution data on the studentpopulation by major indicate that the course has been taken by students from 87 different Page 8.486.1“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference& Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”majors. Students emanate from the Colleges of Arts, Liberal Arts, Business Administration
acquisition.This paper presents a framework that is applicable in the laboratory development and approach.IntroductionThe challenge of teaching freshman engineering classes has always been one of the mostinteresting aspects of engineering education in the last decade1-6. Traditionally these classeshave been the way into engineering thinking and problem solving. The problems that theengineering education community is facing is how to make these classes more interesting,expand students’ thinking process, bring in a more systems level thinking, and help studentsappreciate what is engineering all at the same time. The above challenges together with thetypical characteristics, behavior, and attitudes of the new students actually increase theimportance of the
Manufacturing Engineering. This course series provided students with anopportunity to work on an open-ended design project that required skill sets spanning numerousdepartments rather than just a single department. The teaching staff consisted of three professorsfrom three separate engineering departments. For the 2008-2009 Academic year, the facultycame from the departments of Biomedical Engineering Materials Engineering, and MechanicalEngineering. The faculty considered the importance having an interdisciplinary set of instructorsas well as a team-teaching approach to best model to the students the strength inherent in theseapproaches. Page