accreditationrequirements reflect the dynamics of the job market, with the purpose of satisfyingemerging personnel needs of the industry, as well as the career goals and interests ofengineering students. Although the ABET evaluation process is centered on the educationof students who are enrolled already in an undergraduate program, many of its elementscan benefit also the process of recruiting new engineering freshmen. The College ofEngineering and Mineral Resources (CEMR) at West Virginia University (WVU) hasinitiated a formal, sustained and comprehensive effort to integrate within its recruitmentefforts selected ABET principles, guidelines, and practices. A framework of "TotalQuality Management" (TQM) is thus established for engineering recruitment
was the enhancement of the sense of achievement; the disadvantage wasthe effect of the effectiveness of work; 3) the learning engineering could cultivate systematicthinking, problem-solving ability; 4) mathematics is an indispensable tool in daily life andteachers have played an important role in mathematics learning. Therefore, the researchproposed that school should create more successful learning opportunities as well as providethe models of successful women; schools and businesses should encourage women to grasplearning and working opportunities in STEM field; teachers should strengthen integratedprofessional knowledge about STEM through special topic production curriculum, strengthenstudents’ integrated knowledge about STEM.Keywords
Integration (CMMI) is the culmination of an effort to define thestages that software organizations pass through as they gain better and better control overtheir processes. The effort was kicked off by the US Department of Defense and undertakenby the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University. The originalproduct that most software developers are familiar with is CMM and it was designed tomeasure the process maturity of a software development organization.In the 1990’s, a veritable galaxy of quality frameworks emerged and CMM was divided intoversions for software development (SW-CMM) and versions for software engineering(SECM) and product development (IPD-CMM). Later in the decade, SEI began an effort tointegrate all of the
practiced and developed throughout the curriculum. There are some methods reported in the literature that illustrate effective integration ofprofessional skills in technical courses. However, more study is necessary to evaluate instructiontechniques for professional skills in technical courses. Much of the evidence on effectiveness issecondary evidence. Active learning techniques is one instructional method that shows promise as an excellentmeans for professional skill instruction. More effort is necessary to fully develop this methodand integrate it in the engineering curriculum. In addition, for effective instruction, engineering faculty should receive additional trainingin professional skills, or efforts should be made to
through smartdevices, users are increasingly exposed to cyber-crimes. Due to the limited training oncybersecurity and cyber-safe practices, young adults are especially an easy target for thesecybercrimes. It is also well-known that there is a need to enhance organizations’ cybersecuritycapabilities while spreading cybersecurity awareness among the masses. To the former cause,degree programs have been established throughout the US to train the workforce; however, theyhave proved insufficient. Therefore, we propose developing and integrating plug-and-playmodules for CS/CSE undergraduate courses at various levels to develop a security mindset amongthese students and inculcate interest in a cybersecurity career. Irrespective of what domain ofCS/CSE
Michigan State University. Dr. Briedis has been involved in several areas of education research includ- ing student retention, curriculum redesign, and the use of technology in the classroom. She is a co-PI on two NSF grants in the areas of integration of computation in engineering curricula and in developing comprehensive strategies to retain early engineering students. She is active nationally and internationally in engineering accreditation and is a Fellow of ABET.Dr. Neeraj Buch, Michigan State UniversityThomas F. Wolff, Michigan State University Dr. Thomas F. Wolff is Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Studies at Michigan State University. In this capacity, he is responsible for all activities related to
ENGR 111 provides a context andpotential for addressing motivational barriers, such as interest in engineering, in a manner thattraditional classrooms cannot do. Likewise, ENGR 111 provides students the situational meansto experience problem solving in a way that wouldn’t be possible in a traditional coursestructure. While research in college retention has focused on integration into the university,research in engineering retention has focused more on integration into the engineering culture;thereby making ENGR 111 an ideal mechanism for addressing the first-year interest barrier. Thisstudy employed a post measure of students, asking about their individual interest in engineeringand how impactful their ENGR 111 course experience was on their
covered in the course by integrating experiencesusing a FE analysis program, b) provide students with a basic understanding of FE theory, c)provide students with the skill set needed to model and analyze combined load problems using aFE analysis program; and d) provide students with an understanding of how element type, meshsize, support conditions, and other modeling decisions may impact FE analysis results.Previous studies have sought to incorporate FE modeling and analysis content as early as thefreshman year into the engineering curriculum. However, implementing these approaches inStrength of Materials courses often requires students to spend considerable time learning FEtheory before being able to use commercial FEA programs. A few studies
Paper ID #24424Workshop: Taking it to the Next Level...Game-Based Learning in Engineer-ing EducationDr. Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University Cheryl A. Bodnar, Ph.D., CTDP is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University. Dr. Bodnar’s research interests relate to the incorporation of active learn- ing techniques in undergraduate classes as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into the engineering curriculum. In particular, she is interested in the impact that these tools can have on student perception of the classroom environment, motivation and learning
programs span five academic years and include an average of six co-opquarters for a typical baccalaureate degree and our graduates are highly sought by employers.However, both the American Society of Civil Engineering and the National Academy ofEngineering have advocated a Master’s degree as the first professional degree for practicingengineers. With this in mind, in 2002-2003 the Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering at the University of Cincinnati initiated a combined five-year BS and MS degreeprogram in Environmental Engineering (the Accelerated Engineering Degree (ACCEND)Program) with cooperative and research experiences integrated with the education. The BScomponent of the degree will be in Civil Engineering, and the MS component
networking event hosted at Elevate Rapid City on September 15th, 2022.The mission of Elevate Rapid City is to promote economic development for Rapid City and theBlack Hills region. The mixer created an opportunity to inform stakeholders what the A+Eprogram has accomplished, solicit input on programmatic elements going forward and to discusspotential collaborative opportunities. The mixer was also a celebration and a chance for interestedparties to network in Elevate’s new facility. The keynote speaker of the evening was artist andProfessor Quintin Owens, a well-known local artist and academic (Black Hills State University)who integrates Computer Aided Design, Clay 3D printing, and art in his courses. Owens’ keynote,titled Science + Art + Technology
project.Heat and mass integration help the students better understand the systems level interactions in aprocess as well as providing a framework for analyzing and improving processes. Students areexpected to apply these tools in their project work as appropriate. Finally, a module on batchdesign process addresses challenge 3 and lays the groundwork for interested students to furtherpursue a grassroots project in this area.Concurrently, the students are working on a large, open-ended process improvement project. Theproject begins as an exercise to review capital costing methods from the previous course andintegrate that with economic analysis. The students are then informed that based on theirrecommendation, the plant has been built, and they should
changes in those courses can impact student learning and retention. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Advancing computational knowledge and skill through computing projects in sophomore-level mechanics coursesAbstractThe desire to graduate students with more advanced computational knowledge has become a hot topic incurriculum design. One route to do that is through integration of computing in the foundational mechanicscourses (statics, dynamics, and solid mechanics). The implementation of computing projects in thesesophomore-level courses has resulted in computing becoming an integral part of those courses at
monitoring.Major Internship Goals1. Provide the opportunity to integrate and apply the knowledge, skills and attitudes developed in the college or university curriculum.2. Provide the opportunity to work within an on-going business enterprise, meeting the performance standards set for regular employees and management, as well as completing the learning experiences that are integrated into the daily work routines of the organization.3. Refine planning, communication, and technical abilities in real world situations while establishing resume-worthy experience for future reference. Page 15.989.44. To demonstrate
knowledge and attitude components, and submitted the planto College of Engineering. This plan was instrumental in designing the software “ProgramAssessment Tool: PAT”Table 1 shows the complete list of these sub-outcomes associated with A-K and Table 2 includesthe matrix association with relevant courses. Assessment matrices are constructed by mappingoutcomes to courses and this process is commonly called curriculum mapping9.Table 1: Listing of sub-outcomesa) An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering a-1 Explain basics concepts of systems and cellular biology. a-2 Discuss the problems associated with the interactions between living and non-living materials and systems. a-3 Critically evaluate and analyze
Collaborative Teaching Model: Synergy of Teaching Assistants in a First-yearEngineering Course During the PandemicDr. Gerald TembrevillaGerald Tembrevilla obtained his PhD in science (physics) education at the University of BritishColumbia. He served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Engineering at McMasterUniversity. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax,Canada and teaching and researching on the integration of learning technologies to improvehands-on science, scientific argumentation skills, and examination of the complicated impacts oflearning technologies and design on K-12 STEM curriculum, pedagogy, and institutional policiesin the Philippines and Canada.Dr. André PhillionAndré
Xanga to createtheir own blog. Then they join a blog ring that the instructor sets up for a particular‘controversial’ current issue. Each student posts commentary to their own blog and reacts topostings made by other students. This activity is information sharing, but it is not collaborationthat is directed toward the achievement of a goal.As early adopters of an emerging technology, the Tablet PC (TPC), Information SystemsTechnology faculty began to integrate Tablet PCs into the undergraduate curriculum as early asFall 2003. The College supported the establishment of the mLearning Lab, a powered carthousing 30 Toshiba Tablet PCs. In the freshman information literacy course, the mLearning Labis used to help students develop skills required of
used towards this effort.The common curriculum approaches include offering business-oriented courses and/or offering aminor in entrepreneurship. However, the engineering programs at our university are already verypacked and there are limited elective credits available for courses in entrepreneurship.Furthermore, being a small private university, it is also a challenge to find faculty members withrequisite expertise in entrepreneurship. To overcome these constraints, we employ an innovativecurricular model that is based on integrating short e-learning modules into existing engineeringcourses. Content experts around the country were invited to develop these modules. As a result,the curricular approach we have adopted involves the following
dynamics. He currently teaches a wide array of courses that includes statics, reinforced concrete design, structural analysis, and materials engineering. Dr. Brake actively integrates project based and peer assisted learning pedagogies into his curriculum. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A pre-capstone junior-level structural and materials design project for civil engineering students: glue laminated timber designAbstractSenior level civil engineering students in our department often struggle in the early stages oftheir capstone senior design project because of their unfamiliarity with building codes and designphilosophies, and often lack an ability to solve open-ended design problems
courses, and helped to develop aPOGIL community. The IntroCS-POGIL project is a larger-scale study of how facultyimplement POGIL in introductory CS courses and the factors that affect faculty implementationand student outcomes. Together, these projects are working to expand the set of POGIL activitiesfor CS, the community of CS teachers who use POGIL, and the evidence of effectiveness.These projects also explore some promising future directions: Tools for activity authors, including a Design Canvas to help sketch key activity elements, and an add-on for Google Docs to generate student and teacher versions of an activity from a single master copy. Integrating technology into activities, using a learning management system or
Paper ID #43392Board 425: Work in Progress: Initiating a Research Experience for TeachersCentered on ManufacturingProf. Marian Kennedy, Clemson University Marian Kennedy is an Associate Professor within the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Clemson University. Her research group focused on the mechanical and tribological characterization of thin films. She also contributes to engineering education with a focus on developing early career researchers and faculty.Dr. Kristin Kelly Frady, Clemson University Kristin Frady is an Assistant Professor and Founding Program Director of the Human Capital Education
pureProduct (1a) and Equipment/Machine Design (1d) are possibilities, projects often focus onProcess Design (1b) which in recent years has increasingly involved use of Robotics andAutomation (1e), and Manufacturing Systems Integration (1f). Design of Tooling is alsocommon (1c). “Improvement” is the bread-and-butter design modality for a manufacturingengineer as opposed to novel product or machine design. As such, the design activity is typicallyhighly constrained by an existing process. The design problem is often framed as improvementto a process through changes such as better tooling, incorporation of robotics and automation,improved layouts and workflow, more efficient resource utilization, enhanced workerergonomics and safety, and better
Paper ID #44710The Impacts of Reflective Writing on Peer Evaluations in EngineeringDesign CoursesMr. Adam Weaver, Baylor University Mr. Adam Weaver joined the Baylor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with over 15 years of experience in industry and government service. He served in the Active Duty Air Force as an engineer for over eight years, specializing in test and evaluation of avionics, guidance/navigation, and space systems. After his time in the military, he worked as a Propulsion Test and Integration Engineer with Space Exploration Technologies as well as multiple positions with L3Harris
) Page 24.637.14 Develop Faculty Expertise Develop materials that explain benefits of learning through multiple methods (i.e., traditional lectures combined with games). Demonstrate materials and teaching methods at workshops to help instructors use multiple teaching methods. Establish an online distribution site that includes a discussion forum for sharing classroom experiences.Implement Educational Innovations Integrate online games into traditional instruction in Transportation Engineering courses at home institution. Work with high school teachers to include course module in driver’s education courses. Digitally disseminate game, course module, and assessment tools that Transportation
the course, the goals wereto help retain students, provide for close industrial participation, and to provide an integrativevehicle at a critical stage in the student’s educational career.Rapid Prototyping Technology as an Integrative SolutionWhereas textbooks have traditionally defined the boundaries between engineering disciplines,engineering education reform will require packages that integrate diverse concepts –“containers” providing the resources for student-initiated, hands-on, problem-based learning.These containers must be constructed around a topic that captures the imagination of studentsand encourages them to view technology with a holistic perspective. They must show theinterrelationships between engineering disciplines and link
enrolled in talent developmentprogram5, using web-based instructional materials to learn with Rube Goldberg projects in K-12classrooms6, using Rube Goldberg projects as a design based learning tool for freshmenengineering students7, providing early experience in multidisciplinary teaming and an earlyexposure to ethics in an interdisciplinary freshmen course8, integrating design andexperimentation to freshmen students with an electromechanical Rube Goldberg design project9,introducing design early in the curriculum to improve motivation and increase retention10,assessing engineering students’ understanding of design after a short workshop given precedingthe beginning of their first semester11.Besides K-12 and freshmen level, RGMs were also used in
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Student Chapter at LTU, chair of the First Year Engineering Experience committee, chair for the LTU KEEN Course Modification Team, chair for the LTU Leadership Curriculum Committee, supervisor of the LTU Thermo-Fluids Laboratory, coordinator of the Certificate/Minor in Aeronautical Engineering, and faculty advisor of the LTU SAE Aero Design Team. Dr. Gerhart conducts workshops on active, collaborative, and problem-based learning, entrepreneurial mindset education, creative problem solving, and innovation. He is an author of a fluid mechanics textbook. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Assessment of Fluid Power Modules
yearundergraduates enrolled in EE courses; the unique audience represents students enrolled inHBCU colleges. In this paper, the authors discuss how integration of the innovative MobileStudio concept was used to increase the amount of student-centered learning and document itsimpact on student outcomes. The authors begin with an overview of theories that inspired thedesign of the project and of technology supported learning. Descriptive narrative explains thereal-time usability of the ADB that was developed. Results focus on the impact of experimentalcentric instruction on students’ immediate learning and their affect toward learning. The findingsalso discuss facilitators and barriers to implementation and potential needs for sustainability.KeywordsCircuits
become a permanent part of the engineering curriculum. Before offering the ELC in thefall of 2017, several improvements were made to the program. One of the major improvementswas to include a Precalculus course in addition to Calculus I, and a core composition Englishcourse. The added option of taking either Calculus I or Precalculus allowed all of the students inthe learning community to be enrolled in an ELC math course. The improved fall 2017 ELC alsoincluded courses for the students to take in their second semester including a second semesterEnglish course, a second semester math course and a Solidworks design course. Having linkedclasses through the entire first year allowed the students to stay with the same group of peers insmaller class
integrate sociotechnical dimensions into engineering solutions throughspecific and intentional design practices.In the same ways that ignoring cost throughout the design processes will not result in an outcomewith no monetary impact, ignoring sociotechnical considerations throughout design will not resultin an outcome devoid of social, political, economic, etc. impact. Indeed, overlooking these 1dimensions can result in real and imagined design solutions that harm the environment, reinforcesystemic inequity and injustice, and/or lead to designs for which there might be “unintendedconsequences” [1]-[3].And while studies from engineering practice