criterion map was devised by the instructor and teaching assistantfor the course, and included 17 concepts to be linked by 4 relationships. Students were given atutorial on the mapping exercise, then asked to perform the exercise prior to the start of the ISISproject, and again after the completion of the 5-week project. The class completed both thepretest and posttest mapping exercises in a controlled environment. A list of all student mappropositions (192 of a possible 1088) was compiled and each was assigned a score by theinstructor (illogical/impossible = 0; pragmatic understanding = 1; scientific understanding = 2;highly principled, scientific understanding = 3). Student maps were scored in terms ofproposition quality. Overall, the results
practical application to power generation, thermal and air pollution, refrigeration, airconditioning, automotive and aircraft engines, and combustion. Laboratory exercises areintegrated into classroom work.d. ME401, Introduction to Design, shows an iterative decision making process to include needsanalysis, creativity in alternatives, feasibility and merit analysis, optimization in designpresentation. A wide variety of mathematics, science, and engineering fundamentals is appliedto the synthesis, analysis, and evaluation of mechanical components. Special emphasis is placed Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition
Session 2425 Learning Project Implementation and Management Skills in the Culminating Design Experience Pamela J. Neal, Kenneth J. Soda, Erlind G. Royer Department of Electrical Engineering United States Air Force Academy, CO1. IntroductionThe contemporary undergraduate curriculum of an Electrical Engineering program is packedwith required courses, making it a challenge to complete in four years. By necessity, nearly allof this work is theoretical, supported by laboratory work that is too often limited in scope. Themore practical aspects of
simulation throughout the curriculum so that when startingsenior design, they have a good understanding of the benefits, limitations, and generalfunctionality of the process simulator. In practice, most students arrive in their senior designclasses without knowing how to use a simulator to help solve open-ended problems. In general,their experience has been with small, well-defined problems. To help alleviate this problem, ashort-term design project has been developed to teach the basics of process simulation within thecontext of analyzing an existing plant and suggesting process improvements. Specific goals ofthis project include (1) learn how to simulate a wide variety of unit operations, (2) learn benefitsand limitations of different
. Thomas after having served as the Founding Dean. He holds a Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering and an M.B.A. With a background of more than 20 years in industry, Bennett teaches and publishes on diverse topics including materials engineering, technical innovation, technology transfer, manufacturing, leadership, and engineering education. He is an EAC of ABET Commissioner for SME and leads the SME Center for Education.Dr. Hugh Jack P.Eng., Grand Valley State University Hugh Jack is a professor of product design and manufacturing engineering at Grand Valley State Univer- sity in Grand Rapids, Mich. His specialties include automation, design projects, and internet application development.Steve Wendel, Sinclair Community
that presents eight steps in developing an assessment plan4. But regardless ofhow the assessment plan is developed, an effective plan must start with the identification ofspecific goals and objectives, definition of performance criteria, followed by the data collection1 Penn State University, University of Washington, and the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez in collaboration with SandiaNational Laboratories. Project sponsored by the Technology Reinvestment Project. (TRP Project #3018, NSF Award #DMI- Page 3.500.19413880)2 John S. Lamancusa, Jens E. Jorgensen, and José L. Zayas, The Learning Factory – A New
that presents eight steps in developing an assessment plan4. But regardless ofhow the assessment plan is developed, an effective plan must start with the identification ofspecific goals and objectives, definition of performance criteria, followed by the data collection1 Penn State University, University of Washington, and the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez in collaboration with SandiaNational Laboratories. Project sponsored by the Technology Reinvestment Project. (TRP Project #3018, NSF Award #DMI- Page 3.501.19413880)2 John S. Lamancusa, Jens E. Jorgensen, and José L. Zayas, The Learning Factory – A New
on land that formerly belonged to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), home ofthe U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and five directorates. Technology companiessurround the university and base, creating a vibrant innovation hub. To this day, electricalengineering continues to play a large role in the workforce and in opportunity afforded thecitizenry, university and prospective and current students of all ages.In a proactive move to provide students more flexibility, electrical engineering faculty membersat Wright State University conducted an in-depth review of all course pre-requisites tostreamline the Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) program and make it moreadaptable for students with diverse experiences to
Provost. She is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and enjoys teaching thermo/fluids/energy and design related courses. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work In Progress: Addressing the Great Debate on Best Control Platforms in Mechanical EngineeringAbstractControlling and monitoring mechatronic systems has become increasingly important inmechanical engineering and, therefore, needs to be addressed in the mechanical engineeringcurriculum. The rise of open-source compact platforms such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi hasled to easier access and potential confusion on when to use which system. Arguments canfrequently be heard in faculty meetings: "Arduino is
course sequence thatwas introduced in the 2009-10 year.3. Course DevelopmentHistorically, the EAS 101 syllabus followed a traditional set of topics, such as problem solvingand data presentation. Rudimentary coverage of mechanical systems, electric circuits, fluidmechanics, thermodynamics, and statistics was provided. Other subjects included someprinciples of design, engineering economics, ethics, and a very short MATLAB tutorial. The CSprogramming course was devoted exclusively to teaching the fundamentals of computerprogramming, with UNIX serving as the development environment. These courses exhibited anumber of deficiencies for prospective ECE students: ● For those who were still undecided about engineering as a career path, the EAS and CS
Session 1655 Cooperative Learning of Neutron Diffusion and Transport Theories Michael A. Robinson Bechtel Bettis, Inc. Bettis Atomic Power LaboratoryAbstractA cooperative group instructional strategy is being used to teach a unit on neutron transport anddiffusion theory in a first-year-graduate level, Reactor Theory course that was formerlypresented in the traditional lecture/discussion style. Students are divided into groups of two orthree for the duration of the unit. Class meetings are divided into traditional lecture/discussionsegments punctuated
5-week, held consecutively, Saturday morning program, designedby the Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management faculty and some key JCPS highschool teachers for prospective Industrial Engineering students, with an emphasis onunderrepresented minority students. The program was designed to promote engineering andscience interests in African American students very early in their high school study of math andscience. In addition, the program, consisting of a combination of short course instructionalsegments, hands-on laboratory experiences and motivational and self-assessments, provides thestudents with a “taste” of the industrial engineering discipline.The Department of Industrial of Engineering at the University of Louisville offers a
AC 2010-413: DESIGNING AND LAUNCHING THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP ANDINNOVATION LIVING-LEARNING PROGRAM FOR FRESHMEN ANDSOPHOMORESJames Green, University of Maryland Dr. James V. Green leads the education activities of Mtech as the Director of Entrepreneurship Education with responsibilities for the Hinman CEOs Program, the Hillman Entrepreneurs Program, and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program. As a Senior Lecturer and Associate Director with Mtech, Dr. Green designs and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in entrepreneurship and technology commercialization. He is Co-Director of the Certificate in Innovation Management Program for executives, and Co-Director of the Graduate Certificate in
easy to construct by hand,however computer-based aids are available11.The potential of concept maps in engineering education has been explored by several groups.Concept maps have been applied to improve teaching and evaluation in biomedical engineering12 ; to connect existing memories to new concepts13; to represent knowledge across disciplinaryboundaries in a first year mechatronics course 14; to improve student’s ability to applyknowledge across a range of situations15; and as a means of helping engineering students toperceive major ideas and improve knowledge transfer16. These examples are suggestive of howconcepts maps can be applied to help students learn engineering.The idea behind concept mapping is to convey the relationships that
conceptualquestions. Data analysis is provided to begin to evaluate the effectiveness of this method,and future work collecting more detailed data and combining concept inventories withlecture sessions is discussed.Course-Specific Background and MotivationTable 1 outlines the topics included in University of Southern California (USC) MASC110, Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering. Unlike many introductorymaterials science courses, this course includes significant chemistry content andsubstitutes for the first-semester chemistry requirement for aerospace, mechanical,electrical and industrial engineering majors. A chemistry textbook is used9, and materialsscience concepts are introduced through laboratory activities and lectures later in
worldwide. To determine if the implementation of these initiatives is having a positiveimpact on engineering students’ performance in a first-year programming course, a correlationalresearch study at a mid-size Michigan public university was completed over a three-semesterperiod beginning in 2022. Students were surveyed regarding their prior experience with computerscience at the beginning of the semester, and student scores on the first laboratory practicum andfinal course grade were recorded. The data demonstrates that nearly sixty percent of students hadno prior experience with computer science and withdrew from the course at nearly double the rateas students with AP experience. For those that did complete the course, a Welch’s t
Paper ID #10040UnLecture: Bridging the Gap between Computing Education and SoftwareEngineering PracticeVignesh Subbian, University of Cincinnati Vignesh Subbian is an instructor/teaching assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Com- puting Systems at the University of Cincinnati. His research interests include embedded computing sys- tems, medical device design and development, point-of-care technologies for neurological care, and engi- neering education.Dr. Carla C. Purdy, University of Cincinnati Carla Purdy is an associate professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing Systems
advection flows induced by surface waves or bed forms M.S. Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2004 M.S.S. Software Engineering, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, 2003 B.S. Hydrogeology & Engineering Geology, Nanjing University, China, 1994 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE • Assistant Professor, (06/2008 – Current), Lamar University, Civil Engineering, Beaumont, TX • Research Associate (01/2008 – 05/2008), University of Minnesota, Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL) • Civil Engineer (08/2007 – 01/2008), HZ United, LLC, Plymouth, MN • Research/Teaching Assistant (01/2003 – 01/2008), University of Minnesota, Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL), Department of Civil Engineering • Lab Assistant (02
Engineering, KLE Technological University, India. He is a certified IUCEE International Engineering Educator. He was awarded the ’Ing.Paed.IGIP’ title at ICTIEE, 2018.Mr. Tahzinul Islam, York University Tahzinul Islam obtained his B.Eng (Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering) from Universiti Putra Malaysia, a research-intensive public university in Malaysia. He completed his year-long Bachelors’ re- search project on his own topic of ’Virtual Reality App to teach Psychomotor Skills to Engineering Design students’. He went on to pursue his M.Eng (Innovation & Engineering Design) at the same university, with the dissertation title of ’Innovative Concept Design of a waterjet propelled Flood Rescue Boat’. Currently
combinatorial optimization, graph theory, and integer programming with applications in big data, imaging, social networks, and logistics. Illya is the recipient of the 2005 Optimization Prize for Young Researchers from the Optimization Society of INFORMS and the 2010 Forum Moving Spirit Award from INFORMS for his work with the Minority Issues Forum of INFORMS. Illya was also recently named an INFORMS Fellow.Dr. Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute Comas Lamar Haynes is a Principal Research Engineer / faculty member of the Georgia Tech Research In- stitute and Joint Faculty Appointee at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research includes modeling steady state and transient behavior of advanced
Illinois.Dr. Betul Bilgin, The University of Illinois at Chicago Betul Bilgin is Clinical Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering (CHE) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and has been teaching the Senior Design I and II courses for 6 years and Introduction to Thermodynamics for two years. Since her appointment in 2014 she has been exploring active learning, peer instruction, team-based, hands-on, application-based techniques in her classes to fully engage her students. She was selected as a UIC Teaching Scholar for Spring 2017, named as an American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) ”35 under 35” winner in the education category for 2017 and named as American Society for Engineering Education
tests be mapped directly to those used on later assessments; rather,the benefit of testing some concepts from a set of material enables retention of related concepts inthe same material [4].Direct BenefitsDetermining direct benefits of testing in improving long-term retention is the primary focus ofmost “testing effect” empirical research. Namely, how is student retention, when represented asperformance on assessments, effected by the use of testing as a teaching tool? Many studies arenaturally composed of a control group that is solely reliant on initial study and subsequentre-study of material while the experimental group is subject to testing with multiple factors ofsome variable. Roediger and Karpicke looked at laboratory and classroom
Paper ID #32840”I Wish I Would Have Known. . . ”: Characterizing Engineering Students’Reflections on Their Graduate ExperiencesMr. Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Pennsylvania State University I am a second-year doctoral candidate at Pennsylvania State University in the mechanical engineering department. Member of the Engineering Cognitive Research Laboratory (ECRL). Current research topics include graduate school attrition and student well-being.Miss Megan ElleryGabriella M. Sallai, Pennsylvania State University Gaby Sallai is currently a graduate student in the mechanical engineering department at Penn State. She is working under
AC 2008-1467: PHYSIOLOGY CONCEPTS AND PHYSIOLOGY PROBLEMS FORBIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTSRobert Linsenmeier, Northwestern University Robert A. Linsenmeier has a joint appointment in Biomedical Engineering in the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and in Neurobiology and Physiology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. His primary teaching is in human and animal physiology. He is the Associate Director of the VaNTH Engineering Research Center in Bioengineering Educational Technologies, former chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department at Northwestern, and a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and the
Paper ID #20044The Use of Narrative in Undergraduate Engineering EducationDr. Gary P. Halada, Stony Brook University Dr. Halada, Associate Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at Stony Brook University, directs an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program in Engineering Science. He designs educational ma- terials focused on nanotechnology, advanced manufacturing, and how engineers learn from engineering disasters and how failure and risk analysis can be used to teach about ethics and societal implications of emerging technologies. Halada also coordinates the Long Island Alternative Energy Consortium, a
AC 2012-3739: GRAND CHALLENGES DELI (DISCOVER, EXPLORE,LEARN, IMAGINE) PROJECTDr. Jane Hunter, University of Arizona Jane Hunter received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona Center for the Study of Higher Education. She holds an M.S. degree in engineering management and a B.S. degree with distinction in mechanical engineering. She is the Associate Director of the Engineering Management program at the University of Arizona and is a PMI-certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Her areas of interest include engineering education, teaching strategies, assessment and evaluation of program objectives and learning outcomes, student teamwork and group dynamics, business and technology management, strategic and
topics for all theprograms. In fact, each program was very niche and covered different objectives along with havingdifferent justifications for its implementation. The variety of topics covered by each industryworkforce development program are shown in Appendix A. Figure 5: Targeted population of workforce development programs.RQ2: What workforce readiness skills do these training programs have for engineeringgraduates?Utilizing the Virginia Workplace Readiness skills framework and applying it graduate engineeringprograms in the United States, the workforce readiness skills programs are teaching students,academic faculty, and industry professionals (Table 2).Table 2: Skills identified from the workplace development programs
wind energy, particularly in the characterization of fatigue and ultimate loads for floating offshore wind turbine concepts.Dr. Maija A. Benitz, Roger Williams University Dr. Maija Benitz is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Roger Williams University, where she has taught since 2017. Prior to joining RWU, she taught at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, after completing her doctoral work jointly in the Multiphase Flow Laboratory and the Wind Energy Center at UMass Amherst.Dr. Lillian Clark Jeznach, Roger Williams University Dr. Lillian Jeznach is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Roger Williams University. She teaches the first year curriculum as well as upper-level courses related to
would consistently come home from work covered in grease and grime after climbing bodily into machines to fix them. He shares a promise with his grandfather, now departed, that he will continue to innovate, contribute, and revolutionize industry through engineering and teaching. His world view that can be summed up in two statements: ”Just because it works, doesn’t mean in can’t be better.” – Shuri, Black Panther and ”First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.” – Walt Disney. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering from North Carolina State University while a part of the Accelerated Bachelors-Master’s program. He proceeded to finish his master’s at North Carolina
Paper ID #38090In Their Own Words: The Community College Experience toward anEngineering Baccalaureate DegreeDr. Joan Z. Carter, Inver Hills Community College Joan currently teaches Engineering Fundamentals – the first two years of a bachelor’s degree in engineer- ing – at Inver Hills Community College in Minnesota. In 2022, Joan was honored by the Minnesota State Board of Trustees as an Outstanding Educator. A licensed professional engineer in California, Iowa, and Minnesota, Joan helps students understand complex concepts while giving them a sense of belonging in the classroom. She has developed courses that easily