principles.Keywords: Backward Design Process, Course Design, Outcome Based Learning, Statics.I. INTRODUCTIONA. Setting for the Curriculum ProjectThe specific setting for this curriculum project is outlined as follow:1. Salient characteristics of the institution or sponsoring organizationAs described by Anand (2005), " Engineering Mechanics - Statics is a core course in most of theengineering disciplines, and is generally taught by a civil and/or a mechanical engineeringfaculty at the nations' ABET accredited colleges and universities" (p.1). The institutional settingfor this course is also considered an ABET accredited engineering college that offersundergraduate degree programs for civil engineering and/or mechanical engineering students.This course is not
funded research in Engineering Projects in Community Service at Purdue University. She is a recipient of the Purdue Research Foundation dissertation grant and co-wrote a National Science Foundation grant for her dissertation and postdoctoral work in Organizational Communication at Purdue. Her primary research in- terests include collaboration and innovation; negotiations of expertise in team-based organizational work; team processes and decision-making; ethical reasoning, constitution, and processes; engineering design; technology and its impacts on organizational and personal life; network analysis; as well as organizational identity, identification, and culture.Prof. Patrice Marie Buzzanell, University of South
Page 24.193.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Archi-Gaming: Finding the Overlap Jeff Chastine, Rich Cole, Chris Welty Southern Polytechnic State University Marietta, GA USAAbstract In academic settings, students and researchers are often encouraged to participate in inter-disciplinary collaboration. In practice, one of the challenges that these groups face is the osten-sibly disparate set of expectations of project goals and outcomes. To be successful, collaboratorsmust be both aware and sensitive to these needs of those outside their discipline. One exampleof
, he has written a number of peer reviewed journal articles and conference papers, as well as co-authored a book chapter and a technical guidance manual.Dr. David A. Veshosky, Lafayette College David Veshosky has a bachelor’s of civil engineering degree from Catholic University; a master’s in sci- ence, technology, and public policy from George Washington University; and a Ph.D. in business and economics from Lehigh University. He teaches courses in engineering economics and project manage- ment at Lafayette College. His current research interests involve sustainable development. Page 25.7.1
Bridges to Engineering: Success for TransfersAbstractThe Grove School of Engineering (GSOE) of the City College of New York partnered with twocommunity colleges to improve the transfer and success of students moving into a bachelor’sprogram in engineering. A broader goal of the project was to increase the success of all studentsenrolling in the Grove School of Engineering.The project took place from fall 2005 through spring 2012. Its three main components were: 1)Introducing lower level undergraduate students to research, 2) A summer research course forcommunity college students considering the GSOE, and 3) Harmonization of science, math andsome entry level engineering science courses across the participating schools. We trackedenrollment
of Education, is leading a guest“lecture” on her particular view on innovation. With her are two students who worked withProfessor Henry to found a student-run non-profit organization they call the Poolpass Project.Also with her are the inspiration for the project, Mr. Rotolo and his minister. Professor Henrytells the story of how she was inspired to start this venture after reading in the newspaper abouttwo elementary school children who drowned in the nearby Susquehanna River one summerafternoon. Despite a newly remodeled and improved public swimming complex in town, thechildren were swimming in the dangerous river because they could not afford the $4 fee to go tothe pool. One child drowned when trapped by submerged rocks in the river and
Paper ID #376133D-Printed Piezoelectric Acoustic Energy HarvesterMichael A. PalmateerJacob PlesumsRyan SantiagoMr. Austin MillerDr. Reza Rashidi, SUNY University at Buffalo Dr. Reza Rashidi is an Associate Professor at SUNY University at Buffalo. He was an Associate Professor at SUNY Alfred State when he supervised the project presented in this paper. He received his Ph.D degree in Mechanical Engineering (MEMS development) from the University of British Columbia in 2010 and completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship in Development of Biomedical Sensing Devices in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
, planning, scheduling, budgeting), critical thinking, self-drive andmotivation, cultural awareness in a broad sense (nationality, ethnicity, linguistic, sexualorientation) and high ethical standards, integrity, and global, social, intellectual andtechnological responsibility [3]. The focus of this paper is on some of those professional skills.Below are some examples of things that many employers look for in new engineering graduates: Leadership examples in school, at home, at work, in outside organizations, etc. Previous relevant work experience, preferably internships, co-ops, and research projects with professors. Can cogently discuss major projects, especially their capstone. Passion / interest in the company and
challenges of creating resilient food, energy, and water (FEW) systems in ruralcommunities. Resilience/sustainability problems are complex and often require professionals withdifferent expertise and backgrounds to work as a team to generate an emergent solution; thus, aninterdisciplinary curriculum provides students with the skills needed to work in an interdisciplinaryenvironment.The NRT Capstone Course is a project-based, cross-listed course that has been developed and co-taught by faculty from the Colleges of Engineering, Agriculture, and Arts and Sciences at ouruniversity. The NRT Capstone curriculum builds on knowledge students gained from aprerequisite interdisciplinary course about system thinking, called Integrated FEW Systems. In
an introduction to engineering designcourse during the fall semester. This course consists of a twice-weekly, one-hour lecture and atwo-hour laboratory. The lecture on Monday mainly focuses on engineering topics related totwo interactive team projects. Guest lectures are presented on Wednesday. These lecturesrepresent the various engineering majors offered at Binghamton University. The laboratories aretaught by engineering instructors and graduate engineering students. Students are also requiredto take a weekly two-hour course with a focus on writing and oral presentations. The courseprovides instruction to students on how to write reports and present oral presentations regardingtheir projects. Both courses utilize undergraduate course
qualitatively analyzed open-ended response questions. Our findings suggest theextended engagement in outreach positively influenced participants’ perception of engineeringand enjoyment of STEM, with mixed results on STEM confidence. Perception of engineeringwere generally more positive for participants who completed all three engineering modulesversus those who completed only one module. Further, the open-ended responses highlight theimportance of repeated exposure, as participants indicated they felt safer and more comfortablewith the project team over time. Our results highlight the importance of continued engagementwith students in outreach and forming partnerships with classrooms, where students can getrepeated exposure to engineering and build
typesetting. All this requires the collaboration ofindividuals from interdisciplinary backgrounds. Considering all this, the development of OERcan be a time-consuming process, particularly for faculty who have dual responsibilities, such asteaching and research. In addition, the effective organization of both OER projects and thenumerous individuals involved to ensure timely completion of objectives requires projectmanagement skills. Lastly, since many faculty are unaware of OER, ensuring that OER are usedby teachers and students requires marketing and effective metadata and curation of OERmaterials so that they can be discovered online and utilized.One way to alleviate concerns about time, project management, and content creation, as well asto shift
positions notspecific to science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) instruction within theirschools. As an Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) project,this research-practice partnership (RPP) in advanced manufacturing engineering is designed toprovide community-based engineering design experiences for underserved middle school students(grades 6-8) from rural NC. While one of the goals of this project is to improve non-cognitiveoutcomes (i.e., interest, self-efficacy, and STEM identity) and increase participation in engineeringfor students, a significant byproduct is the development of engineering identity of the middleschool teachers.Rural schools face distinctive challenges in teacher recruitment and
; less than 28% of the total IT workforceand only 12% of engineers are female [2]. By the time students reach college, 1 in 5 young menplan on majoring in engineering or computing while only 1 in 17 young women declare the same[3]. Since 1990, the percentage of female computing professionals dropped from 35% to about24% today, and if that trend continues, the share of women in the nation’s computing workforcewill decline to 22% by 2025 according to Girls Who Code [4]. These statistics provide themotivation for a program called Project-based Work Studio (PWS) developed at a mid-sizedAppalachian primarily undergraduate university supported by an NSF S-STEM grant to build amore proportionate female workforce in computer science, engineering, and
sustainable design approximately three-quarters of the waythrough their semester-long design project. At the end of the semester, students were asked toreflect on the utility of the workshop towards both, empathizing with the user, and designingsustainable solutions, in their semester-long projects. From our results, we see an increase instudents’ attitudes and intentions towards sustainability from before the workshop to the end ofthe semester. On the other hand, we see no differences in students’ trait empathy. A qualitativeanalysis of students’ reflections showed that students had a positive experience with thesustainability workshop and that they were more inclined to incorporate sustainable designpractices into their project after participating
- ing. Dr. Konak has published papers in journals such as IIE Transactions, Operations Research Letters, Informs Journal on Computing, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, International Journal of Production Re- search, and Production Economics. He has been a principal investigator in sponsored projects from the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Labor, and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. Dr. Konak currently teaches courses on Database Management Systems, Information Security, and Technology-based Entrepreneurship. He is a member of IEEE and INFORMS.Dr. Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus Sadan KulturelKonak is a professor of Management Information
for feedback and advocacy [26].Q3(C). Do your interns have well-defined projects when they work for you?Q3(I). Did you have well-defined projects when you worked for this company?Rationale: Q3 explores the structure of the projects given to the intern. Some companies reportedhaving highly specific projects for their interns with goals, while others preferred to let the internfind a project of interest to them.Q4(C). Are interns engaged in hands-on work on the shop floor?Q4(I). Were you engaged in hands-on work on the shop floor?Rationale: Q4 aims to determine the level of physical engagement of the intern throughout theirday-to-day work. Many manufacturing internships provide hands-on opportunities not availableto students in the traditional
Bridges NSF IUSE project (Amy Freeman, PI). Previously, she was the project coordinator the the Toys’n MORE NSF STEP project (Renata Engel, PI). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 1Promising Practices for The Expansion and Sustainability of Summer Bridge Programs for Underrepresented Engineering Students at The Pennsylvania State University Catherine Cohan The Pennsylvania State University Paper submitted for the 2018 CoNECD Conference 2
). She particularly enjoys coaching students through the difficult rhetorical situations of open-ended design projects. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Assessment of Peer Mentoring of Teams in a First Year Design-Build-Test-Communicate ClassAbstractPeer mentoring has been associated with beneficial outcomes in higher education, from increasedretention of minority students[1] and women[2] to learning gains for both mentors and mentees[3].Most of the peer mentoring relationships investigated in the literature are of mentors not tied to aspecific course [e.g.,2]. This paper reports on how one section of a first year, intensive, project-based learning class uses peer mentors to guide student teams
female, 6.6% were African-American, and 8.4% Hispanic, which are below the 2001populations levels for 18-24 years old (14.0% African-American and 17.4% Hispanic). By 2050,the percentage of Americans between 18-24 years old is expected to remain at 14% for African-Americans, but the percentage of Hispanics is expected to increase to 30%. These demographicfigures and projections suggest that this demand for engineers can be met by a using acomprehensive strategy that increases the number of engineers coming from three large,historically underrepresented groups: females, African-Americans, and Hispanics5. Page 12.78.2The level of science and
ofMississippi State University President Robert H. “Doc” Foglesong is the development ofleadership in young people through the Appalachian Leadership Honors Program. Dr. CadeSmith, director of the program, led the project session focusing on development of leadershipskills.MSTI opened with an orientation session for students and parents that introduced the MDOT andMSTI personnel, provided details of the program and its three weeks of activities, and outlinedoperating rules and conduct regulations. The closing ceremony included recognition of sponsors,a recap of the program with a slide presentation, and recognition for students.Participant Recruitment and SelectionRising 10th, 11th and 12th graders for school year 2006-2007 were recruited for the MSTI
infusing engineering concepts into technology education is just a fad that willpass, especially since the field of technology education has existed on its own since the early1800’s.Currently there exists at least three camps of thought regarding the infusion of engineeringrelated concepts into technology education: 1. Technology education should switch its entire focus to that of preparing a citizenry that is educated in a pre-engineering program similar to Project Lead the Way or a vocational- specific track for engineering; 2. Technology education should infuse engineering-related concepts into the existing technology education curriculum and courses as part of the general education of all citizens
on developing unmanned aircraft-based sensors for determining the concen- tration, composition, and spatial distribution of atmospheric aerosols. In August 2015, Cathy completed a nineteen-month Congressional Fellowship with the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Re- sources and returned to UAF to join ACUASI’s leadership team.Dr. John Monahan, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Upward Bound John Monahan is currently the Director of University of Alaska Fairbanks, Upward Bound and Principal Investigator of the National Science Foundations NSF EPSCoR Track 3 ”Modern Blanket Toss” project investigating the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in K12 classrooms. c American Society for
development activities reported. This means that little is known abouthow students progress from concept generation to a fully developed simulation or how to designsimulation development activities that promote active learning.Since 2010, students in a first-year engineering (FYE) course have engaged in a MATLAB-based graphical user-interface design project with a variety of contexts (e.g. games, K-12engineering education tools, course performance monitoring systems).7 More recent projectshave evolved from industry and research center partnerships; these partners have required thedevelopment of simulations backed by mathematical models. Rodgers, Diefes-Dux, Kong, andMadhavan (2015) found that students confuse general user-interactivity (e.g. button
class. Students experienced working and listening to engineering concepts in English and hadopportunities to apply what they learned from the non-technical activities. The full description ofeach engineering activity can be found in Appendix A. • Technical Engineering Activities o Introduction to Engineering Design: 3D Design-Build-Test Project of structural component: Structural analysis, Testing, and Designing of a Gear and Axle assembly using a 3D printer. o Introduction to Design of Lean Assembly Lines: Concepts for designing lean assembly lines, including 5S, single-piece flow, and kanban systems. o Introduction to Product Life Management and Industry 4.0: Topics and
undergraduate students through research projects and honor thesis, the majority in the areas of mobile computing and mHealth. Her efforts over the last several years have led to several papers published in top ACM and IEEE conferences with undergraduate co-authors. Her field of interest encompasses Security, Trust and Privacy in Pervasive Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile Computing, CS education, and Mobile Healthcare Privacy. She has ben very active in broadening participation of women and underrepresented minority in computer science. She has also been working as an active member of various international conference technical program and journal review boards. She Additionally, she has served as Co Chair of IEEE
Mechatronics. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 An Arduino-Based Hardware Platform for a Mechanical Engineering Sophomore Design CourseIntroductionMany institutions offer a freshman or sophomore level design class in mechanical engineeringthat focuses on the product development process. While nearly all modern products containsensors, actuators, and control algorithms, the projects featured in these early design coursestypically focus on simple mechanical parts. A substantial limiting factor is the students’ lack ofexposure to fundamental electronics principles, which makes integrating basic sensors andactuators difficult. This paper describes an approach to integrating
ofthe case projects. Relevant concepts from behavioral decision science were identified whileinterviewing the engineering design teams. The developed modules were tested with over 280undergraduate engineering students. Methods to evaluate learning include pre and post-modulesurveys and free-response questions. After the module, students were more likely to mention andarticulate the role that humans’ mental barriers, like choice overload, bounded rationality, andsatisficing play in decision making for sustainability. They also recognized how tools likeEnvision can help reduce these cognitive biases. In addition to integrating diverse topics anddisciplines into a unified and relevant teaching module, the intention is that other faculty can
Education, 2017 Bringing Experiential Learning into the Online Classroom: A Mechanics of Materials Course Case StudyAbstractAn online Mechanics of Materials course offered in the summer of 2016 by LeTourneauUniversity was designed to include several unique components intended to facilitate experientiallearning in a manner more typically found in some traditional classroom-delivery courses. Inaddition to video lecture and example materials, course innovations aimed at achieving theseoutcomes included: a small project involving students' evaluation of mechanics principles intheir surroundings with a peer review, an analysis of a case of historical importance in which afailure related to mechanics of materials occurred
Engineering Technology, Prairie View A&M University. His research interests include digital signal processing, image and video coding, and wavelets.Dr. Suxia Cui, Prairie View A&M University Suxia Cui is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU). She joined PVAMU right after she obtained her Ph.D. degree in Com- puter Engineering from Mississippi State University in 2003. Her research interests include image and video processing, data compression, wavelets, computer vision, remote sensing, and computing educa- tion. Her projects are currently funded by NSF, United States Department of Agriculture, and Department of Education