surprising that the retention rate of undergraduateengineering programs can be adversely affected. As a result, a Statics instructor may facesubstantial pressure (whether real or perceived) to minimize the attrition rate yet still preparestudents for subsequent higher-level engineering coursework.Various pedagogical approaches to teaching mechanics have been attempted with the intent ofimproving student success. Some approaches include supplemental instruction [2], interactivetutoring [3], recitations [4], virtual laboratories [5], online courseware [6], and gaming [7]. It isimportant to concede that even the most well-intentioned and passionate instructors may nothave access to the resources to implement these unique approaches. Thus, traditional
Paper ID #22599Collaboration in Assessment and Individual Validation for the ’Digital Na-tive’Capt. Nathaniel P. Sheehan, United States Military Academy Nathaniel Sheehan is a Captain in the United States Army and an Instructor in the Department of Geog- raphy and Environmental Engineering at the United States Military Academy. He is a 2010 graduate of the United States Military Academy with a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and a 2013 Graduate from the University of Arkansas - Fayetteville with an M.S. in Engineering. He teaches Physical and Chemical Treatment, Environmental Science, and Environmental Engineering
Paper ID #22096Strategies for Flipping Geology for Engineers with Limited Time and Re-sourcesDr. Kristin M. Sample-Lord P.E., Villanova University Dr. Kristin Sample-Lord is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engi- neering at Villanova University, with expertise in geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering. Her research focuses on soil barrier systems for protection of human health and the environment and geotech- nical aspects of stormwater control measures. Dr. Sample-Lord teaches a number of undergraduate and graduate courses, including Geology for Engineers, Soil Mechanics and
Paper ID #25365Examining Beginning Designers’ Design Self-regulation through Linkogra-phyDr. Andrew Jackson, Yale University Andrew Jackson is currently a postdoctoral associate at Yale University, developing and assessing sec- ondary engineering curriculum with the aim to broaden participation in engineering. He received a PhD in Technology through Purdue’s Polytechnic Institute, with an emphasis on Engineering and Technology Teacher Education. His teaching and research interests are to support students’ development as designers and the day-to-day practices of technology and engineering educators. His contributions toward
Paper ID #11864 Laboratory for Innovation in Global Health Technology (LIGHT). SARL focuses on the design, develop- ment, and evaluation of medical devices, especially for balance-impaired populations such as individuals with vestibular loss or advanced age. LIGHT focuses on the co-creative design of frugal innovations to address healthcare challenges in resource-limited settings. Prof. Sienko has led efforts at the University of Michigan to incorporate the constraints of global health technologies within engineering design at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is the recipient of a CAREER Award from the National Sci- ence Foundation, a Teaching Innovation Prize from the UM Provost, and a UM Undergraduate
progress. Some suggest that requiring students to turn in memos reporting theirprogress can reduce the amount of work left until the deadline43. In addition, the mock clientmeetings reinforce the deadline expectations, provide an opportunity for students to present theirprogress, discuss key challenges, and receive instant feedback on their progress and plans.All of the faculty working with the students are licensed PE’s or SE’s and are able to help themwith some of the engineering questions that arise while they are away from their hostcompany’s/agency’s office. Also, the University has some resources that might not be readilyavailable in some office locations (e.g., research laboratories, instrumentation, and finite elementprograms) that can be
Paper ID #17316Freshman Residential Schools for Undergraduate On-Campus and OnlineEngineering StudentsDr. John Matthew Long, Deakin University Dr. John M. Long completed his undergraduate degree in physics at the University of Michigan (Flint) in 1987, while working as an analytical chemist at AC Spark Plug, General Motors Corporation. In 1995 he completed a PhD in physics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Since then he has worked in the School of Engineering at Deakin University, where he teaches physics, materials, and electronics. His research interests include materials-analysis techniques and engineering
Laboratory at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Fontecchio received his Ph.D. in Physics from Brown University in 2002. He has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed publications. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016The Recipe for a Gourmet Snack: NGSS, NAE, and STEaMAbstract At an urban high school in Philadelphia, a teacher-engineer team questioned if a project-based learning unit using Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), National Academy ofEngineering (NAE), and Understanding By Design (UBD) frameworks could be designed andexecuted to successfully teach students about macromolecules. Molecular gastronomy (MG) is abranch of food science that studies the physical and chemical
Paper ID #21547Time for Reflection: Development of Twenty Short Videos to Introduce NewTopics and Engage Students in Circuit TheoryDr. Benjamin David McPheron, Roger Williams University Benjamin D. McPheron, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Roger Williams University. Dr. McPheron received his B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering at Ohio Northern University in 2010, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University in 2014. Dr. McPheron teaches Freshman Engineering and various courses in Electrical Engineering including Circuit
tenet is achieved throughinterdisciplinary courses, technology development and community activities. In the end,engineering students can play the role of “product/service designer” and “technologypromoter” in inclusive innovation, and provide affordable products and service to poor areasthrough “knowledge creation” and “product innovation”.In conclusion, this paper offers suggestions for integrating inclusive innovation intoengineering ethics education in four aspects: (1) constructing the curriculum content systemsolving the poverty problem; (2) building a high-quality interdisciplinary teaching team; (3)using multi-functional collaborative external support network; and (4) innovative teachingmethods to expose engineering students to the “real
Paper ID #28572How Extra Credit Quizzes and Test Corrections Improve Student LearningWhile Reducing StressDr. Brian Scott Rice, Rochester Institute of Technology Dr. Brian S. Rice is an assistant professor in the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology Department at Rochester Institute of Technology since 2016. He joined the RIT faculty after spending over 25 years in applied research while working at University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Ener- getics, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and Eastman Kodak Company. Areas of applied research include system dynamics and controls, solid mechanics, heat transfer, and
, Centre County Chapter Board of Directors, President’s Club, Nittany Lion Club, ASEE, ASME, AIAA, AKC, GRCA. He has been honored with a LMC/KAPL Leadership Award, GE Phillippe Award, PSEAS Outstanding service award, Jaycee International Senatorship, and an ESM Centennial Fellowship. Mike Erdman and his wife, Donna, operate Nicker Barker Farm where they raise Golden Retrievers.Dr. Richard John Schuhmann, Gordon–MIT Engineering Leadership Program Dr. Rick Schuhmann is a senior lecturer/Short Subject program manager in the Gordon–MIT Engineer- ing Leadership Program and teaches and supervises research in civil and environmental engineering. Dr. Schuhmann joined MIT in September 2012 after fifteen years at Penn State
Paper ID #10340Influence of Integrated Academic and Co-Curricular Activities On First-YearStudent SuccessTimothy J Hinds, Michigan State University TIMOTHY J. HINDS is the Academic Director of the Michigan State University College of Engineering CoRe (Cornerstone Engineering and Residential) Experience and a Senior Academic Specialist in the De- partment of Engineering Undergraduate Studies. His current teaching and management responsibilities include development, delivery and administration of first-year courses in engineering design and model- ing. He has also taught courses in machine design, manufacturing processes
Session 3654 Turning Engineers into Entrepreneurs – And Transforming a Region Carmo D’Cruz, Tom O’Neal University of Central FloridaAbstractEngineers are excellent sources of high-growth potential entrepreneurial ventures with theircreative product and technology ideas, in various disciplines. However, academia in general hasnot effectively developed this resource.This paper reviews contemporary literature on teaching of entrepreneurship and describes aninnovative, holistic Engineering Entrepreneurship program backed by the resources and activitiesof a technology incubator
accreditation agenciesof which the main one for the METS department is ABET. Designing the tools with this aim hasallowed the METS department faculty to minimize paperwork and focus on actual continuousimprovement efforts rather than simply writing multiple reports to satisfy various constituentswho are essentially looking for the same information.The ten assessment tools developed by the METS faculty focus on assessing the following fivegeneral areas: 1) faculty, 2) student enrollment and professional activities, 3) facilities and equipment, 4) curriculum, and 5) teaching and learning.Throughout each academic year, different faculty are assigned the task of collecting andsummarizing the data for the various tools. A department assessment
professional experience has been in a University. Works in a department that is focus on teaching public policy to engineers. Currently this expert is head of an undergraduate engineering program.Expert 4 This engineer worked as a senator adviser for one State, has done research for a federal laboratory and has been the president of the ram of one professional association that is focus on Public Policy.Expert 5 This expert is currently a professor of science and society in a University located in the south West of the United States. The expert has worked as consultant in the house of representatives, has coordinated committees of science and policy
licensed engineer in Michigan and is currently Chair of Mechanical Engineeringat Lake Superior State University. Previous experience includes working at Procter and Gamble in processdevelopment and teaching at the USAF AcademyDAVID MCDONALD is a Professor in the School of Engineering and Technology at Lake Superior StateUniversity. He is Chair of the Department of General Engineering and Engineering Technology, and teaches coursesin Electrical Engineering and Engineering Technology. His primary interests are in control systems, dataacquisition, and modern instrumentation.MORRIE WALWORTH obtained his BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Michigan TechnologicalUniversity. He has worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Purdue
ofimportant behaviors. Recommendations include incorporating a professional spine in thecurriculum, whereby students may have an opportunity to integrate their knowledge in acontextual environment. A second recommendation outlines the need for students to makeconnections between theory and practice and to develop the thinking skills required forengineering practice. This requires an inductive, as opposed to a deductive, approach to teachingand learning.The integration of professional identity, knowledge and skills requires that students have anopportunity to experience engineering practice, through so-called approximations to practice.Often this means exposing students to laboratory or design project teaching methods (they aredifferent). A recent
AC 2011-1871: ENRICHING K-12 MATH EDUCATION USING LEGOSIrina Igel, NYU Poly IRINA IGEL received the B.S degree in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science from NYU-Poly, Brooklyn, NY, in 2009. Upon graduating she received an Adjunct Instructor position at the Department of Mathematics at NYU-Poly, teaching undergraduate math courses to incoming freshmen. She is currently serving as a teaching Fellow at the Bedford Academy HS under NYU-Poly’s GK-12 program funded by NSF and CBRI consortium of donors. She is perusing the M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering with emphasis on Control and Dynamical Systems. Her research interests include cooperative control of multi-agent systems, flocking and shoaling behavior
Session 3230 Causes for Cheating: Unclear Expectations in the Classroom Andy Ozment, Alison Smith, Wendy Newstetter Georgia Institute of Technology College of ComputingAbstractA survey was submitted to faculty, teaching assistants, and students as part of a larger study onundergraduate cheating in an introduction to computing course at Georgia Tech. This coursewas chosen because it is taught by a variety of professors and relies heavily on teachingassistants. The goal of this survey was to emulate earlier work done at M.I.T. and determinewhether these groups held similar beliefs about what actions constitute
) program at Tennessee TechUniversity during the summer of 2009. The program provided the teachers with the opportunityto experience the full cycle of research from formulating a research question and a research plan,to carrying out the research plan along side mentors who acted as consultants to the teachers.The two of the participants were a high school math teacher and a pre-service high schoolchemistry teacher. Although the two participants worked in the same fuel cell laboratory andshared to some extent the same mentor, the focus of their research and how they would take backtheir experience to class was completely different. The math teacher focused on research aimedat trying to identify patterns in the response of a PEM fuel cell under
Paper ID #8328Infusing Engineering Practice into the Core to Meet the Needs of a Knowledge-based EconomyDr. Brian Bielenberg, Petroleum Institute Dr. Brian Bielenberg holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Metallurgical Engineering, a Master’s in Materials Science, and a Ph.D. in Education. His research interests revolve around engineering education reform, content and language integrated learning, and academic language and literacy needs in design classrooms. He currently serves as Head of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching and Assistant Director of the Arts and Sciences Program at the Petroleum Institute in Abu
(composed of students from 20 disciplines), vertically integrated (freshman-senior), engineering-based series of design courses. Each EPICS project involves a team ofeight to twenty undergraduates, a not-for-profit community partner – for example, a community-service agency, museum or school, or government agency - and a faculty or industry advisor. Apool of graduate teaching assistants from seven departments provides technical guidance andadministrative assistance. Currently, the Purdue EPICS program has 29 teams (over one third ofwhich serve pre-college needs) with over 400 students participating during the 2004-2005academic year. EPICS teams work in four areas of the community, access and abilities,education/outreach, social services and the
engineeringprogram is not new1,2. Prince and Felder3 reviewed over a hundred studies addressing theassessment of various teaching strategies and concluded that “inquiry learning” and“problem-based learning” were generally more effective than others. The engineeringeducation literature provides many examples of this type of learning through “hands-on”or “learning-by-doing” projects. In fact many schools have introduced innovative“hands-on” activities and hardware into their freshman courses4-11, their sophomorecourses in mechanics12-20 and thermodynamics21-27 as well as in other engineeringcourses28-35, “non-majors” courses36, 37 and high school courses38-40.We introduced a sophomore design course, including a semester-long, team design, buildand test
contribute to environmental challenges.Fig. 6. Example of the progression of a STEELS T&E standard across grade bands.When examining the standards, the committees also placed an increased emphasis on safety inregard to engineering design considerations and laboratory practices. The committees believedthis was important due to the essential making and doing aspect of T&E education, the increasedpopularity of interdisciplinary makerspaces and Fab Labs in schools [17], and the rise in out ofcontent area educators being tasked with teaching engineering practices [18-20]. A contentanalysis by P-12 safety specialists determined the
physical manipulative tools in teaching/learning environmentsLaboratories and visual computer simulations have been found to be effective in helping studentsunderstand abstract concepts (Zacharia & Olympiou, 2011). However, it has been suggested thatvisual simulations alone may not be fully supportive for some students learning these concepts(Chi, 2008). In addition, most of the currently available simulations focus on the sense of sightand hearing, and very little on the sense of touch, which is one of the most common ways forpeople to interact with physical objects (Thurfjell, McLaughlin, Mattsson & Lammertse, 2002;Han & Black, 2011). Moreover, the availability of laboratories and equipment necessary to carryout physical experiments
have local impact and can be replicated. Joint collaboration between members is encouraged through the development of thematic areas. The knowledge, information, and applications generated from these thematic areas are shared to support the development and design of “off-the-shelf” solutions. The R&D Initiative has been Page 12.754.6 created to provide a vehicle for performing research and development in a variety of disciplines. The laboratory facilities not only are utilized for teaching, but also are used to enhance interaction between industries and universities to foster innovation and
, teamwork, and technicalcommunication]; and 5) be easy to implement [as measured by transferability, sustainability, andscalability]. DBT parallels the underlying pedagogy narrative of New Learning developed byKalantzis and Cope [9], and it overlaps with Energy Engineering Laboratory Module (EELM™)pedagogy [10], which posits that learning experiences must be hands-on, accessible, student-centered, economical, and “turn-key”. DBT and EELM™ project hardware must be affordablefor an institution with limited resources and be buildable and operable by a handy high schoolcourse instructor or technician without situated knowledge or access to specialized tools orequipment.Anecdotally, educators have been using model rocketry for decades in middle/high
Mechanical Engineering. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana State University in 1982, and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1985 and his Ph.D. in 1989, both from Purdue University. He teaches mechanical engineering design and geometry modeling for design. Dr. Crawford’s research interests span topics in computer-aided mechanical design and design theory and methodology. Dr. Crawford is co-founder of the DTEACh program, a ”Design Technology” program for K-12, and is active on the faculty of the UTeachEngineering program that seeks to educate teachers of high school engineering.Dr. Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy Dr. Dan Jensen is a professor of engineering mechanics at the U.S. Air
. Faculty members often expose students to standards in laboratory exercisesthroughout their college careers. These subtle opportunities are documented in the paper.ABET criterion and outcomes used to evaluate engineering and engineering technologyprograms now emphasize the use of standards, especially in the design process. This is a newchallenge for the engineering educator. Given that new engineering educators teach theirstudents about standards, it is necessary to become familiar with available information that mayhelp students as well as typical best practices for academic libraries. Acquiring access tostandards is the first step in using standards. The next step is to acquire skill and learn how tocritically read and apply them.The literature