. Page 13.1192.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Technology Skill Assessment of Construction Students and Professional WorkersAbstractIn recent years, technology has been introduced to the construction jobsites at an increasinglyrapid pace. As a result, there is a pressing need to increase the technology awareness and skilllevel of these practitioners and of those who are in academia. This new focus on technologyeducation has to be incorporated first of all in the general curriculum and specific pedagogy ofcivil engineering programs at the university level as these are the source of next generations ofleaders for the industry. In order to address this issue, we were awarded a NSF-funded
. Overall, both thestudents’ design work and skills have benefitted; students can develop design solutions,effectively communicate design, evaluate designs, and recognize changes needed for the solutionto work. Using the design review process has helped increase student learning and positivelyaffected their communication skills.1 IntroductionME 347 is a third-year undergraduate design course for mechanical engineers which incorporatestheory and design with CAD (SolidWorks). The course gives them the most significant designexperience so far in the curriculum (ME 347 is also a pre-requisite course for senior design).Additionally, students take an earlier course, ME 250-Intro to Engineering Design, whichintroduces the design process and the
Paper ID #33774Industry Driven Design and Manufacturing Course for Aerospace Engineer-ingDr. Zhenhua Wu, Virginia State University Dr. Zhenhua Wu, is currently an Associate Professor in Manufacturing Engineering at Virginia State University. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University. His cur- rent research interests focus on cybermanufacturing, friction stir welding, sustainable manufacturing, and adaptive machining.Mr. Lorin Scott Sodell, Virginia State University College of Engineering and Technology Mr. Lorin Sodell is the Director for External and Industry Engagement at Virginia State
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course, a part of the overall curriculum of their major. If you know it helps you for the other courses, then I think it’s more interesting and more motivational to do it. (BMT student) The reason that most students did not like this course, including me, was that the subject had to do very little with our bachelor program. Learning history should not be a part of an applied mathematics program. (AM student)According to students, USE Basic is a course very different from the other courses in theirmajor studies. As a result students are reluctant to engage in deep learning and invest less timeand effort in studying and participating in the course activities. Make it more technical. You are teaching this course
included tailoring the curricula to attract a more diverse group of students,integrating the curricula to present a unified rather than compartmentalized view of engineeringscience and practice, and broadening the curricula to include an emphasis on the additionalprofessional skills needed to practice engineering.4-5 One area in which these changes have beenimplemented is in the introduction of entry-level engineering courses. A wide variety of modelsexist, ranging from a one-credit, voluntary introduction to engineering course at the University ofFlorida6 to fully integrated first-year curricula such as the 12-credit IFYCSEM program at theRose-Hulman Institute of Technology.6First-Year Engineering Projects CourseCU’s College of Engineering and
” objects. Some metallic objects included an A) aluminumbracket (milling), B) steel square tubing (hot rolling, welding), and C) an elbow pipe fitting(casting, tapping). Example polymer objects include D) an eagle-shaped inset (injectionmolding), E) a section of PVC pipe (extrusion), and F) a disk mount (additive manufacturing:Fused Deposition Modeling).3. Final Presentation:Since it is not possible to cover all manufacturing-related topics in a 2-credit hour course, aresearch project was integrated into the 2016 version of the course. For this project, studentswere given the opportunity to research manufacturing topics of personal interest that were notaddressed in other course content. During the 2017 course, this final project was adapted into
knowledge. Individualstudents have team roles to help keep all team members engaged. Instructors act as facilitators,observing student teams and providing support where needed. POGIL originated in collegechemistry teaching [27,28] and has since spread across STEM disciplines with over 1,000implementers. POGIL has shown potential to improve learning, develop teamwork and keyprocess skills, and encourage individual responsibility and meta-cognition [4]. The guidedlearning applies a learning cycle of exploration, concept invention, and application. Thus,POGIL is an active, constructivist, collaborative, student-centered learning approach.The NSF TUES CS-POGIL Project applied POGIL to the CS curriculum, including topicsin data structures &
Paper ID #37542Board 168: Exploring K-12 S,T,E,M Teachers’ Views of Nature ofEngineering Knowledge (Work-in-Progress)Dr. Jeffrey D. Radloff, SUNY Cortland Dr. Jeffrey Radloff is an assistant professor in the Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department at SUNY Cortland, where he teaches elementary science methods, STEM foundations, and critical media literacy courses. He has a background in biology and pre-college engineering education, and he received his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Purdue University. Dr. Radloff’s interests are in understand- ing how to best support pre- and in-service teachers
Learning Stem Content to Economically Disadvantaged Learners: A Proof of Concept,” EDULEARN12 4th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies,Barcelona,Spain, Jul. 2012.[4] L. Burton, C. Hargrove, and C. BouSaba, “Mini-Clouds Enhance IT Education,” The Third International Conference on the Virtual Computing Initiative, ICVCI3, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, Oct. 2009.[5] R. Brown, “Integrate smart mobile devices into instruction.” [Online]. Available: http://it4educators.com/main/CoursesDetail.aspx?CourseId=1088. [Accessed: 28-Mar-2013].[6] M. Qusay, “IEEE Xplore - Integrating mobile devices into the computer science curriculum,” Frontiers in Education Conference, 2008. FIE 2008. 38th
summary, this multi-staged project forced students to rethink their designs many timesconsidering the security level of the system. It showed them the importance of building a securesystem at the design stage. IoT and computer security cannot be an afterthought, it must be thefoundation of design.Additional stages can be designed and integrated to the current project depending on the coursethe knowledge level of students in the class.Results and DiscussionTo use this Raspberry Pi kit in classes, instructors need to be aware of students’ knowledge levelon Python programming and using GPIOs in Raspberry Pi. It is noticed that CS students lack somehardware skills in general, while engineering students lack some Python programming knowledge.It is
Professional Engineer, former Vice President of Student Development for the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), current newsletter editor for ASEE’s Engineering Economy Division, and an active member of INFORMS, INCOSE, TRB, IEEE, and ASEM. Dr. Wilck’s research has been spon- sored by NSF, DOE, ORNL, NCDOT, and industrial partners. Dr. Wilck has held a faculty position at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Engineering at East Carolina University.Cynthia Bober, Penn State University Cynthia Bober is a senior at Penn State University pursuing an Integrated M.S./B.S. Degree in Industrial Engineering with a minor in Six Sigma Methodology. As a Schreyer Honors Collegr scholar
) thecommunity building practices and norms of the STS program and (ii) emergent ways thatstudents talk about STS curriculum and activities (including its service learning experiences).Four salient themes emerge from this study of students’ experiences in the first year of thetwo-year STS program: 1. examining things from multiple perspectives to make sense of issues/systems, 2. making the invisible visible, 3. empowering students to develop moral stances as citizens and scientists/engineers in society, and 4. prioritizing human wellbeing (an ethics of care).Not surprisingly, these four themes are highly interrelated and emerge in different ways and withdifferent degrees of salience for different students, which makes analyzing these themes
Conference; Exposition Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.18260/p.25820Salah, B., Khan, S., Ramadan, M., & Gjeldum, N. (2020). Integrating the concept of Industry 4.0 by teaching methodology in Industrial Engineering Curriculum. Processes. MDPI, 8(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/pr8091007Shamita, V., Yeter, I. H., & Fong, E. (2022, August). An initial investigation of funds of knowledge for first-generation and continuing-generation engineering students in Singapore. In 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.Shepard, Sheri D. (2003). Design as cornerstone and capstone. Mechanical Engineering Magazine.Shin, Y.-S., Lee, K.-W., Ahn, J.-S., & Jung, J.-W. (2013). Development of internship & capstone
Board (TRB) and other engineering journals and conferences across the United States.Ayodeji B. Wemida Ayodeji Wemida is a Master’s student at Morgan State University. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus on cybersecurity in 2018. As part of his commitment to learning and excellence, he has served as a tutor both on and off Morgan State’s campus and has also led class sessions as a Teaching Assistant in the school of engineering. He is currently working towards completing his Masters of Engineering degree while developing his analog and digital design skills.Dr. Steve Efe, Morgan State University Dr. Steve Efe is an Assistant Professor and the Assistant Director of the Center for
viaformation, nurturance and sustaining an important targeted school-university urban educationalpartnership. Our university has partnered with large urban school districts to plan, deliver andsustain a targeted inservice teacher professional development and a middle and high schoolSTEM curriculum intervention. The partnership goals are to assist inservice middle and highschool science teachers in: (1) designing and implementing integrated science and engineeringcurricula and (2) development of instructional methods and strategies that enable teachers toeffectively (a) teach challenging content and research skills in middle and high school asdemanded by state/national science standards; (b) generate knowledge and transform practice inhigh school STEM
the University of Rochester Center for Photo-Induced Charge Transfer. Since 2003, Dr. Walz has taught chemistry and engineering at Madi- son Area Technical College, where he also serves as the director of the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education (CREATE). Dr. Walz is also an adjunct professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wiscon- sin. He has served as teacher for the UW Delta Center for Integrating Research, Teaching and Learning, and has mentored several graduate students who completed teaching internships while creating new in- structional materials for renewable energy and chemical education. Dr. Walz is also an instructor with the Wisconsin K-12 Energy
has set four specific objectives. • O1: Designing and bringing curricular and pedagogical changes in the earliest computing courses that integrate considerations of social responsibility into computing assignments (i.e. CS 0, CS 1, CS 2). • O2: Introducing a new intervention in computing courses that focuses on creating a different kind of student experience focused on community driven computing projects. • O3: Building faculty learning communities to help train, orient and support instructors of this curriculum. • O4: Employing a cross site collaboration structure using a collective impact model, allowing variance for each site while working towards a common goal.Our alliance brings together six campuses
engage them in an advanced curriculum that makes them suitable to be hiredby the industry. The preliminary learning objectives for the introductory high school UAS lesson are to beable to: 1) Define a drone and types of drones; 2) Identify the major components of a drone and its function; 3) List the advantages of using drones in plants and animal agriculture; 4) List various sensors that can be used with a drone; 5) Define drone remote sensing; 6) Learn visual coding to control various drone operations; 7) Learn to integrate sensors with drones; and 8) Learn to collect data using drones. The course module will consist of
extensive research and curriculum development experience in STEM disciplines. His research includes the study of thinking processes, teaching methods, and activities that improve technological problem-solving performance and creativity. He has expertise in developing technology and engineering education curriculum that inte- grates science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) concepts. Dr. Deluca is Co-PI on NSF project Transforming Teaching through Implementing Inquiry (DRL 1118942). This project focuses on developing research-proven professional development resources that integrate teacher learning with as- sessment practice. The end product will constitute a professional development and research-proven
University during his employment with MIT. Dr. Reid served as NSBE’s highest-ranking officer, the national chair, in 1984–85.Dr. Morgan M Hynes, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) 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
the need to organize, store and retrieve printed patentdocuments efficiently and quickly. Even today in an era of massive online patent databases,integrated thesauri, and semantic search engines, patent classification is a useful tool for prior artsearching and patent analysis. Keyword searches in patent databases are problematic for severalreasons. First of all, keyword searches locate words, not ideas or concepts. It is very difficult toinclude in a search all the terms and synonyms that may represent a technological concept.3Language presents another major challenge to keyword searching. If you search an internationalpatent database such as Espacenet using only English keywords, you will miss non-Englishdocuments from China, Korea, Japan
concepts of stress/strain theory. 92% of our students overwhelminglyagreed that the virtual lab (FEA simulation) helped them to have a better understanding ofstress/strain theories. Also, 83.3 percent of students agreed that the virtual labs should becontinually included as a lab module in the “Mechanics of Materials” course.6. References[1] D. Rhymer, M. Bowe, and D. Jensen, (2001, June), “An Assessment of Visualization Modules for Learning Enhancement in Mechanics”, ASEE 2001Annual Conference, June 24-27, Albuquerque, New Mexico.[2] J. Zecher, “Development of Multimedia Instructional Tools for Strength of Materials”, ASEE 2005 Annual Conference, June 12-15, Portland, Oregon.[3] P. Schuster, “A Simple Lab Project Integrating Theoretical
Molecular Biophysics at the University of Vermont under David Warshaw. His research interests include novel assessments of educational efficacy, the molecular basis of cell movement, and the mitigation of infectious diseases.Miss Anna S. Blazier, University of VirginiaAlyssa B. Becker, University of Virginia c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Work in Progress: The Effect of Immersive Design-Build Experiences on Knowledge of the Engineering Design ProcessKnowledge of the engineering design process is integral to all engineering fields. Explicitdidactic approaches exist for instilling students with this knowledge (see an excellent review byDym, et al. 1), and project-based
stages; in the first stage, themapping of the curriculum to define the learning competences considered as core specific knowledgein each program was the target. These curriculum maps make the result of coordinators' developmentvisible, not only revealing their learnings in relation to the stages and characteristics of the process,but also making it evident that the process itself ended up being a locus for undergrad modernization,oriented by an authorial and innovative positioning of the University in relation to curriculummanagement processes. Thus, both the management of the learning process implemented, and its ownimplementation process triggered a series of transformations, from a curricular level to a universityeducational management
. Afterwards, the students were asked to blindpeer review and to grade all the designs except their own. The second exercise asked students todraft a paper about creativity in the HVAC industry, and a third exercise involved the design andanalysis of a class II pipeline system. The students were also asked to analyze the economicaland societal impact of their design based on the selection of three materials for their pipelinesystems.Preliminary assessment results support the continued use of these PBL and the integration ofentrepreneurial mindset learning content. The evidence shows students developed anunderstanding of technical content while developing an entrepreneurial mindset. These outcomessatisfy the latest ABET student learning outcomes and
Validity.Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University OLGA PIERRAKOS is an assistant professor in the new School of Engineering, which welcomed it inaugural class August 2008, at James Madison University. Dr. Pierrakos holds a B.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics, an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Her interests in engineering education research center around recruitment and retention, understanding engineering students through the lens of identity theory, advancing problem based learning methodologies, assessing student learning, as well as understanding and integrating complex problem solving in undergraduate engineering education
time the course is completed, therefore it is becoming imperative that we leverage the 0 This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2022299latest advances in neuroscience that highlight the need to focus on building new neuron inter-connects via experiential learning design to form an Integral Engineer[7].The educational sector is currently facing several significant challenges. These include : 1)the implementation of remote labs [1], 2) the need for skills specific to the semiconductorworkforce [9], and 3) the development of soft skills that are crucial for succeeding in today’sjob market [14][27].This paper sets out with a clear and focused objective: to use 21st-century tools such
we complete our study, we believe our findings will sketch the early stages of thisemerging paradigm shift in the assessment of undergraduate engineering education, offering anovel perspective on the discourse surrounding evaluation strategies in the field. These insightsare vital for stakeholders such as policymakers, educational leaders, and instructors, as they havesignificant ramifications for policy development, curriculum planning, and the broader dialogueon integrating GAI into educational evaluation.1. IntroductionThe advent of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has heralded a new era in higher education,prompting extensive research and discussions, particularly concerning its impact on traditionalassessment practices. Recent
of key terminologyused in ABET EAC SOs 1 – 7. The third is to provide a framework for mapping embeddedindicators within an environmental engineering curriculum to key words in SOs 1 – 7 forassessment and evaluation purposes. We hypothesize that some programs may overlook thesechanges and their assessment and evaluation of ABET EAC SOs 1 – 7 could be incomplete. Thispaper can be useful for programs who remain in a transition between ABET EAC SOs a – k andthe new SOs 1 – 7, or for programs who want to cross-check their approach with ours. Our hopeis that this study provides baseline definitions for key words in ABET EAC SOs 1 – 7 for thegreater engineering community.1. IntroductionWords have meaning. Individual words found in important guiding