Engineering Technology at Western Carolina University. He has extensive experience in manufacturing. Page 13.493.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Engaging Engineering Technology Students using a Coordinate Measuring MachineAbstractWestern Carolina University’s Engineering Technology program prepares its students for avariety of industrial careers. Part of this preparation is based on the engage ment model that pairsstudents with real- life industrial projects, benefiting both the student and the industrial partner.Haldex Hydraulics Corporation is a company that makes internal
introduce high school and middle school math and science teachersto engineering design projects that can be readily used in the classroom was held at TCU in July2008. The goal of the staff development was to enrich teacher content knowledge ofengineering, physics, and mathematics concepts through discussion and activity. The participantsrepresented several local public and private schools. Projects included: the construction andlaunch of model rockets and prediction of their maximum height; building small electric motors;a brief discussion of internal combustion engines; team design, construction and testing of modeltrebuchets; a team heat transfer minimization design, construction and test exercise usingrecycled materials not specifically designed
constructionterminology, contracts, project delivery systems, cash flow, equipment ownership, equipmentproductivity, estimating, planning, scheduling, quality and safety. With this broad range oftopics it is difficult to cover things in depth. Therefore, it is important to illustrate topics in ameaningful manner.The author has taught the course 19 times and has tried to develop techniques that are not onlyinteresting to the student but keeps the instructor interested and excited about the material. Theexercise presented in this paper, an introduction to estimating and bidding is one of those.What is estimating and bidding?Those who have taught estimating or who have worked in the construction industry are able todescribe what estimating is. However, for 19 or 20
motivation for being a leader.Again, comparison yields a shift in perception. Upon completion of the course, the studentscompleted a course evaluation survey to aid the course developer in determining if the course ismeeting the university’s leadership education goals. In addition, the students completed a peerassessment of leadership skills and characteristics near the beginning and at the conclusion of thecourse. The peer assessment yields some shifts in leadership development. Finally, as a finalassessment at the conclusion of the final team course project, the students completed a peerperformance evaluation, and the results are reported.1. IntroductionEntrepreneurshipLawrence Technological University (LTU) has offered students entrepreneurial
solving, e.g. lateralthinking. The students would spend the next 20-30 minutes working on in-class exercisesusing that particular tool. More details on the guest speakers are presented below.One class was used for a field trip. The classes spanned the first eight weeks of thesemester. For the remainder of the semester the students worked on a term project.Details of the term project are presented below. The textbook used for the course was“The Art of Innovation” by Tom Kelley and students were assigned readings from thisbook as homework exercises.Creativity ToolsThe creativity tools taught in the course are well-established techniques such as“Brainstorming” and “Provocation”. DeBono’s “Six Thinking Hats” and “LateralThinking” were also described
. The subject of this paper, the Audio Test Bed, meets both of those requirements.The article describes how the project got started, how the parts were acquired, and pursuantinteraction with local industry donors. It then provides a technical description of what we callthe Audio Test Bed, plus how it was designed and constructed by the student. Next is adiscussion of the challenges encountered, how we overcame them, and lessons learned during thedevelopment and early usage of the Test Bed. Finally, we present a few ideas for possibleapplication of the Audio Test Bed in other courses, along with some correspondingmodifications.Project GenesisThe event that eventually led to this project was a local employer1 contacting me through one ofmy
globalizing profession, the challenges facingengineers in a developing country, the development of professional “soft skill” learningoutcomes not easily taught in traditional classrooms and to get first-hand experience inwhat engineering is ultimately about: building things that make people’s lives better.Components of the program include service learning project development, managementand installation and the development of leadership, teaming and communication skills setwithin a developing country - Peru. The service learning component was the installationof 18 solar panels in three remote Peruvian Amazon villages. The service part of thegraduate course, built upon previously established UA-Peru connections, involved theconception, planning and
requires the student to apply the knowledge of the three laboratory assignments to a realworld application. These applications include generating functional elements and libraries thatcan be used as building blocks in a larger VLSI implementation. The project is reviewed by thecourse instructor(s).Course 2 - Advanced VLSI DesignThe second course focuses on the “Early Design Planning” of complex SoC platforms andfeasibility analysis of critical circuits in the design. The students are required to do a class projectin lieu of individual lab assignments. The class project is designed to be as “real-world” aspossible utilizing a synthesizable open source Verilog model of a SoC as the design platform.The design platform undergoes detailed power and
, from a mistake,and move on with better planning. Page 2.403.2 All these items mentioned here cannot be present in the normal classlecture. Of course the instructor may provide examples of research projects,describe the process, the successes and the failures. But, we all know thatdescribing some activity is not the same as actually doing it.III. Connection between research and design Everybody in engineering is talking about design these days. Students, weare told, should be exposed to the design tasks from day one. Well, the researchexperience is a perfect conduit, a perfect bridge leading to design. Let meremind you of some the
-driven economy, the vast majority ofengineering innovations are needs-driven and market-focused, requiring deliberate engineeringproblem solving ability and responsible leadership. Engineering for creative technologydevelopment and innovation is a purposeful and systematic practice. It is not a linear orsequential process that follows basic research as portrayed by Vannevar Bush in 1945. 1Creative engineering projects in industry frequently drive the need for directed strategic researchefforts at universities, when necessary, or when anticipated, to gain a better understanding of thenatural phenomena involved.The need to prepare future leaders within the engineering profession has truly changed.Teaching them improved skill sets is becoming
value of outcomesproduced by their programs to the benefit of their organizations.In 2008, the Undergraduate Student Research Project, NASA’s largest agency-wide internshipprogram, revised its student and mentor evaluations, gathering new data on outcomes whosevalue had not previously been captured. This paper presents a preliminary discussion of the datacollected through these new survey instruments. It includes data connecting the learningproduced to many of the ABET a-k demonstrated abilities criteria as well as data on the changesin professional self-image, confidence, and commitment to career path. In addition, implicationsof the metrics which can be calculated from the raw data are discussed in regards to the valueplaced on that learning
17 %4. Project Related Courses 11% 11% 12% 14% 17% 0% 0-14 14 10% Yes A. Project Management %4. Project Related Courses 11% 11% 4% 4% 0% 17% 0-17 5% 7% Yes B. Capstone5. Functional Courses 11% 11% 24% 28% 0% 17% 0-22 15 16% Yes A. Functional Technical. %Totals % 100 100 100 100 100 100 10 100 0Note: Totals may not agree with individual
2006-222: THE ASSESSMENT WORKSHOP: A TOOL FOR PROMOTINGFACULTY INVOLVEMENTWilliam Howard, East Carolina University William E.(Ed) Howard is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at East Carolina University. Prior to joining ECU, he was a faculty member and program coordinator at Milwaukee School of Engineering. Howard has fourteen years of industrial experience in design and project engineering functions. He received BS and MS degrees from Virginia Tech, and his PhD from Marquette University. Howard is a registered Professional Engineer in Wisconsin.Joseph Musto, Milwaukee School of Engineering Joe Musto is an Associate Professor and Mechanical Engineering Program Director at Milwaukee
-LSMSAmakersclubrepresentsasuccessfulandatruemanifestationofSTEMeducationathighschoolincludingcollaborationwithhighereducationalinstitution.Introduction:Effortstoimprovescience,technology,engineering,andmathematics(STEM)educationingrades K–12 are not new. Since the 1960s there have been lots of efforts to developcurriculum projects for science and mathematics. As a matter of fact we currently evenhave national standards documents to implement such STEM education. Yet, despite theincreasedattentiontoSTEMinpolicyandfundingarenas,STEMeducationinsomestatesisstilllackingandrequiresaspecialattention.Enquiry-based learning and deeper understanding has gained significant attention lately[1,2].Duetoitsimportance,lotsofeffortsfocusedrecentlyontheK-12STEMeducation.Recentlymanyreformshaveappearedtoaddressthescientificreasoning,criticalthinking,andproblemsolvingapproaches.Oneofthewaystoaddresstheenquiry
—specifically its means for collecting dataon its activities. The data will be used to measure the affiliate’s outcomes or the effects of theaffiliate’s activities or its outputs. It will then attempt to hold static the effect of other influencersto draw conclusions about the affiliate’s impact.Background (including partnership development) and motivation for project. A smaller affiliateof a national non-profit engages volunteers, including students from a local 28,000 student bodyuniversity, to provide home repairs and modifications at no cost to low-income homeowners.Affiliates also complete community center rehabilitation projects, playground builds, and supportenergy efficiency, sustainable community garden, volunteer engagement, and
also includes leadership of STEM initiatives with Penn State and Virginia Tech. She earned her BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Northeastern University.Dr. Edward F. Morrison, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Ed Morrison is Director of the Agile Strategy Lab at Purdue University. Ed has been developing a new approach to developing strategies for complex collaboration in open, loosely connected networks. Called ”strategic doing”, this methodology emphasizes the strategic value of collaboration in today’s global econ- omy. For over twenty-five years, he conducted strategy projects throughout the U.S. His work won the first Arthur D. Little Award for excellence in economic
systems. Students will solve realistic, complex engineeringproblems (multi DOF vibrating systems) using modern analytical tools (MATLAB® andSimscape MultibodyTM [14]), including a special emphasis on appropriate approximationmethods (ABET 1). Students will design vibration isolators (ABET 2).Table 1: Course topics. Unit Topic Sessions Assessments 1 Lagrangian Mechanics 4 Exam I 2 1-DoF systems and Simscape 7 Exam II and Project 1 MultibodyTM 3 Multi-DoF Systems 8 Exam III and Project 2 + Simulation 4 Wave Equation
-shelf engineering ethics textbooks, produce a mix of factors thatmay result in the common finding that students often become measurably less ethical as theyprogress through their undergraduate career [9], [10].In response to this, the College of Engineering at Boise State University is taking advantage ofsystemic curricular change efforts made possible by an NSF sponsored RED grant(Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments) to its Department ofComputer Science [11]–[17], and adapting innovations from that project to other engineeringdepartments. This manuscript describes efforts in the Department of Mechanical and BiomedicalEngineering and Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering. These efforts
courses.Dr. Robin Fowler, University of Michigan Robin Fowler is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She enjoys serving as a ”communication coach” to students throughout the curriculum, and she’s especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions involved in describing the products of open-ended design scenarios. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Experimental evidence regarding gendered task allocation on teamsAbstractStudent teams negotiate many aspects of collaboration, including task division on teams. Somestudies
learning contexts. She is particularly interested in how students navigate communication challenges as they negotiate complex engineering design projects. Her scholarship is grounded in notions of learning as a social process, influenced by complexity theories, sociocultural theories, sociolinguistics, and the learning sciences. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 How Writing for the Public Provides Affordances and Constraints in Enacting Expert Identity for Undergraduate Engineering StudentsThe science communication field has recognized that the present media landscape is fracturedand segmented with social media and online communities making up important spaces whereaudiences
open-ended, multi-faceted, and exist within a societalcontext, requiring knowledge from multiple domains (technical, environmental, economic, andsocial) to be adequately addressed. Students gain knowledge in each of those domains from avariety of undergraduate classes (both engineering and non-engineering) and need guidance fordrawing on that knowledge and integrating it when they are faced with new, complex problems.Faculty often observe that students have difficulty connecting knowledge from across classes ordomains to fully analyze problems and evaluate trade-offs. The primary goal of this project is toimprove students’ abilities to apply sustainable engineering design concepts across differentproblems or design contexts and improve
-Busch. She earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University.Dr. Steven K Ayer, Arizona State University Steven Ayer runs the Emerging Technologies Building Information Modeling Lab at Arizona State Univer- sity. His research group explores new and emerging electronic technologies, including augmented reality, virtual reality, and other emerging tools. Ayer’s group aims to study how these tools may improve the way that building projects are delivered. This research group has an array of different projects and technolo- gies that it explores, but all studies revolve around the single motivation that technology should empower human users. Therefore
number of professional associations, and is a Consultant for Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology.Miss Paula Sanjuan Espejo, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach I am an UG Aerospace Engineering student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach. I am from Spain and I am currently working on the SLA-aBLE project, the Implementation and Evaluation of Second Language Acquisition applied to programming courses.Rachel Marie Cunningham, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Rachel is a Graduate Research Assistant at ERAU in the Game-based Education & Advanced Simulations Lab. She has been historian for the ERAU Student Chapter of Human Factors & Ergonomics Society and a Psi
performance levels on a scale of one tofour: 1 – Not acceptable, 2 – Below standards, 3 – Meets standards, 4- Exemplary.This simplified scale helped to maintain consistency among instructors, and it forced a decisionbetween acceptable (meets standards) and unacceptable (below standards) performance.Each performance level contained a brief, thorough description of the expectations, clarifying thedifferences between the levels. The intent was to provide enough detail to distinguish betweenlevels, while giving flexibility for use in evaluating student work in different projects andcourses. These descriptions were documented in the rubrics, each of which were intentionallyrestricted to a single page [4][5]. These references explain the processes used to
due to the instructor’s personal interest in the topic,but it was also due to a perceived need that innovative capabilities should be fostered amongEngineering Technology students. This perception was bolstered by published expressions ofthe same sentiment, for example as put forth by Duderstadt3 and by the Council onCompetitiveness4.Students were assigned a multi-phased project in which they developed design concepts, guidedby requirements provided to them in a given scenario, completing activities in parallel with thecourse’s progression. The course topic and the structure of its term project offered anopportunity to include some lesson units about innovation, and to incorporate related activitieswithin the project. The goal was to help
designed to require the use of interdisciplinary approaches to understand andsolve complex energy-related issues. Examples of case studies incorporated in the course includethe following: Energy use and global warming; Page 26.542.5 Renewable energy and sustainable development; Energy and pollution; and Renewable energy and environmental issues.For example, students read case studies about renewable energy and environmental issues for aspecific state, and then pursue sustainable energy projects that provide economic gain while alsoensuring that local communities and ecosystems aren’t harmed, but may
-class exercises and additional teamtime. Since the flipped classroom model shifts course content with low cognitive load to videos,students learn this material outside of the classroom. Now, students spend even more timeduring class applying the design process to their projects. For example, teams developappropriate design criteria, brainstorm and select a design solution, and build physical prototypesduring class.The first objective of this project is to create educational materials to flip the first-yearmultidisciplinary engineering design classroom. To date, we have completed a substantiallibrary of videos, associated quizzes, and in-class exercises. The second objective of this projectis to answer the engineering education research question
of increasingly complex questions. Students must have the ability to monitor informationgathered and assess for gaps or weaknesses. Students in lower level undergraduate engineeringcourses are usually unaware of techniques for monitoring information gathered and assessing forgaps in standalone research papers. Moreover, the management of literature research oftenbecomes overwhelming when engineering students encounter team-based design projects thatoccur over the course of an entire semester. To address this need, we have modified the QualityFunction Deployment (QFD) engineering design method to monitor and assess informationresources as a natural outcome of the design process. More specifically we have modified thematrix design method known
Paper ID #16793Using a PLC+Flowchart Programming to Engage STEM InterestProf. Alka R Harriger, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alka Harriger joined the faculty of the Computer and Information Technology Department (CIT) in 1982 and is currently a Professor of CIT. For the majority of that time, she has been actively involved in teaching software development courses. From 2008-2014, she led the NSF-ITEST funded SPIRIT (Surprising Possibilities Imagined and Realized through Information Technology) project. Since October 2013, she has been co-leading with Prof. Brad Harriger the NSF-ITEST funded TECHFIT (Teaching
Education. He served as 2004 chair of the ASEE ChE Division, has served as an ABET program evaluator and on the AIChE/ABET Education & Accreditation Committee. He has also served as Assessment Coordinator in WPI’s Interdis- ciplinary and Global Studies Division and as Director of WPI’s Washington DC Project Center. He was secretary/treasurer of the new Education Division of AIChE. In 2009 he was awarded the rank of Fellow in the ASEE, and in 2013 was awarded the rank of Fellow in AIChE.Kristin Boudreau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Kristin Boudreau is Paris Fletcher Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Worcester Polytechnic In- stitute, where she also serves as Head of the Department of Humanities and Arts